Cost of Loyalty and Independence

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-20, 23:21

OOC 1)...high calibre laser?
2) well there's the rotor cannon or assault cannon i suppose

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-20, 23:22

OOC: You can have lascannon or a multilaser

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-20, 23:23

OOC multilaser makes most sense if you want a rapid fire anti infantry weapon
not as good as the assault cannon but a million times more common

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-20, 23:29

OOC: Then be it assault cannon!

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-20, 23:30

*The tech priests mount a meltagun and assault cannon, along with a pair of hunter killer missiles, creating a well rounded vehicle, now, the question remains, who will pilot this first prototype?*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-20, 23:32

Spoiler:

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-20, 23:34

OOC: NONE OF YOUR (Surprisingly good) HALO ANIME SPIN OFFS!

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-20, 23:36

+The vessel is ready. Send in the agents.+

+Understood+

*About a couple of hours later, five agents of Khase arrives in a Mazet'u pattern shuttle, disembarking to a port nearby the hidden lab, they go through alleys and tunnels, reaching the hidden lab, to test the prototype*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-20, 23:38

*The prototype stands ready, recognisable as tau technology to those who've seen it before, but to those who've never seen tau tech... it could be passed off as a new imperial development.*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-20, 23:42

*Techpriests do prayers as the test pilot gets into the seat*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-20, 23:49

*All systems are green, the machine spirit appears to disdain this new non STC creation though, and may take some coaxing.*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 00:05

*One of the agents hand a box to the techpriests, one of them opens it and takes whatever's inside, it is a rusty qama, a dagger from the M2's Terra*

*He dips it into holy oil while saying prayers, then takes it out and applies the oil with the blade*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 13:09

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 14:02

*The machine is anointed, ready for use, but its machine spirit still lies restless.*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 14:16

*Pilot begins testing the manuverability, while Techpriests do prayers to comfort the machine spirit*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 14:33

*Its as you would expect, not bad, but its a first prototype, it needs improvement, the software and hardware don't quite jell properly, and the pilot can just about make the thing walk straight, it'll take a lot of refinement, and a lot of training to make it effective.*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 16:58

*They work on it, whatever's necessary*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 17:30

*They determine the process of testing and development should take about a month, until the design is ready for deployment, and the training regimen to learn to pilot one should take about the same.*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 18:03

*They begin working on it*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 18:11

meanwhile the investigation proves true, that the suspects are all confirmed long dead. Corpses are even identified.

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 18:22

*They look for someone still alive, who's related to at least two people on the list*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 18:22

*none*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-21, 18:27

*They look for common places they have visited*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 01:24

they find several, now abandoned, imperial churches

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 01:26

*Captain takes a couple of agents with him to look for any clues in any of the churches*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 01:40

the churches they find are at this point, ruins, and have been for several months at least

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 01:53

*They look for the activity lof of the churches for the past 20 years, and filter anything unusual*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 01:54

*seems these are the places the suspects were killed by local military, after being caught planning terrorist actions*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 12:55

*They access the interrogation database*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 15:43

they were killed in combat with the military forces, there was no interrogation

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 15:48

*They access the mission reports, and the list of commanders who were in the lead*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 15:52

*you fill that bit in, they're your guys*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 17:13

*Captain leaves the urban area with his two associates, and rides into the rural, to contact one of the Princes that he had relations with*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 18:02

*not sure what to do here*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 18:33

*The three begins chatting on the road*

C: "The Inquisitors... We surely hate them, and don't want them here, not just because their methods are far too oppressive and violent, they are also abusing their authorization."

"Where is this leading to, captain?"

C: "Despite what they have done here so far, they have been sent here for a reason. Count them."

"Use of Xeno technology and unauthorized consortion with Xenos."

"There is one more charge."

"Chaos corruption. But that's very unlikely, this is not like the rest of the imperium."

C: "Is it?"

"Well, before the imperial assimilation, there were no prostitution, jails nor gambling and things like that, but the rural areas are pretty much the same."

C: "Exactly, what did we say when we started this?"

"This must have been cultivated in the cities, rurals should not have anything to do with this."

C: "Meaning?"

"Inquisition might be right about its charges."

"And that's terrifying."

C: "That's why we are trying to figure this out."

"What do you think, should we cooperate with the Inquisition?"

C: "No. They don't seem to care about why they were originally here before."

"Bastards are too afraid to step out of the urbans. Princes or Abrecs would most likely get them if they do."

"I hope it will be an Abrec, they would torture them to death."

"Why haven't we took care of them yet?"

C: "Because dead Inquisitors means more attraction form the Inquisition, and that means more Inquisitors, and more oppression. There are enough dead ones already."

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-22, 19:01

"Is not it foolish of these guys to set up terrorist actions instead of informing the Inquisitors?"

"Indeed it is. I have a bad feeling about this."

C: "We have been looking for the wrong place and wrong people. The Xeno consortion, use of Xeno tech, those were us... But Chaos corrupton?"

"We have been misleaded."

"We have. Now, we need to dive into the underground society. And to find out what we are exactly looking for, we need to list some possibilities."

"Yeah?"

C: "Khorne. Nurgle. Slaneesh. Tzeentch."

"Nurgle worshippers sounds unlikely. There are no signs of unusual sicknesses on the planet."

C: "Yet. We need to consider every possibility there is."

"I'm afraid he's right about that."

"Now what do we need?"

C: "We need to get ourselves an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor..."

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-23, 01:39

*They return to the HQ, display a list of the nearby Ordo Malleus Inquisitors*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-24, 23:19

one name stands out
Lady Freide

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-24, 23:26

"Let's see... Lady Freide."

"Hmmm. What do we know about her? Access the intellegence data. Actions, motives, surveys."

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-24, 23:28

Actions: Her forces took part in putting down the pro imperial fanatics, other than that mostly unknown
Motives: seemingly keeping the rise of fanatics down, for unknown reasons

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-24, 23:38

"Daily schedule? Things that she ordinarily does everyday as much as we could keep the track of it?"

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-24, 23:55

unknown, she tries to keep to herself, her activities secret

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-24, 23:56

"Locate her."

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-25, 00:02

She has her own private compound outside the cities

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-25, 00:07

"Display the schematics of her compound."

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-25, 00:17

*unknown. she keeps such things very very secret*

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-25, 00:21

"Monitor the visual of her compound."

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-25, 00:25

not sure what to say here
heavily defended but relatively small military compound

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-25, 00:30

"Alright. What can we do? Let's go and knock the door. Kazbeg, Janset; with me."
*They travel to the compound in the old-fashioned way, on horseback, they halt when they are close enough to the gate*

OOC: Janset is a girl name

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-25, 00:39

When they reach it they see the guards. There are a lot. Tempestus scions, in very different carapace armour to normal, white with blue stripes, with full helmets with a T shaped visor, the number 501 emblazoned on their shoulder-pads.
The two at the gate approach the riders.
Trooper: Halt.

Subject: Re: Cost of Loyalty and Independence 2016-12-25, 00:48

"We are here to see Lady Freide."
*As he speaks, he lifts the skirt of his uniform, revealing a silver emblem, and the trooper surely knows that silver means serious business*

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