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[Stirk]

Real quick, what kinda chairs are in this confrence room? Are they ornate full-backed things, rolly chairs, barstools?

I imagine this takes place in the bridge. In which case the chairs would likely be office style swivels, but bolted to the ground like a bar stool. Subject to RT taste.

[Caellath]

Yep, that's about correct.

Marco is on the vessel's command throne and while the bridge's seats don't look fancy they're comfortable enough and have neck and head support since you're expected to spend hours on them. Whether they were originally comfortable or they're so ancient that generations of butts have made them softer is up to debate. The chairs are also bolted to the floor and designed to hold the body well, so as to avoid too much tossing in case of turbulence or if the ship takes a hit, though I assume at least some seats might move around on predetermined floor rails in case higher officers need to check on different stations.

[Lenglon]

Cool, wanted to verify part of the reason Indaria is standing instead of sitting. thank you.

[Caellath]

Whew, I was worried whether those were time-sensitive. I guess we can take the easier one to start with then. Build our forces, prepare for the harder ones.

[Lenglon]

Whew, I was worried whether those were time-sensitive. I guess we can take the easier one to start with then. Build our forces, prepare for the harder ones.

I feel like this is a discussion for us to have in-character, but I agree.

[Caellath]

It's good to mention those things OOC as not everyone feels like their character would vote IC but their opinion should still hold weight anyway.

[Caellath]

It's kinda wild to be playing in a campaign after the Great Rift has opened. The consequences of the current timeline keep slipping my mind.

[Sirus]

I'm afraid I'm not entirely up on "current" lore. I know Rowboat's back in action, that he's working with the Eldar, that CADIA BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD DID, but other than that can anyone toss me a quick synopsis of what else is going on?

[Lenglon]

I'm very much out of touch with current lore, my last info is from the tabletop codexes of 3rd tabletop edition, the tau were some weird previously unknown stuff, the biggest chaos thing was the Eye of Terror, and so on.

However, at the time I played Eldar, and as a result I'm 98% certain I know what the harlequin wants those spirit stones for.

Oh, and there's a serious argument that the Chaos Marines were actually the good guys.

[Caellath]

A quick summary is that with Cadia literally destroyed the Eye of Terror was torn open into the Great Rift/Cicatrix Maledictum that basically cut off half of the Imperium from the Astronomican and Chaos followed (both meanings). Roboute was resurrected from his stasis-coma, a faction of Elfdar helped do it and are trying to give birth to and grow a God of Death using the soulstones of their deceased brethren as they believe the new deity will punch Slaanesh in its many genitals.

The other figure responsible for bringing Roboute back was Belisarius Cawl, a super old fogey Mechanicus who's been around since the Great Crusade era and helped create Marines But Better (the Primaris Marines), plus he's introduced a lot of new tech.

Also I feel slightly sympathetic for Guilliman. After seeing the sorta fanatical, super-stratified, bizarre thing the Imperium became he's been recorded as asking why the hell he'd been brought back and saying it'd have been better had Horus won so the Imperium wouldn't have survived as a decayed shadow of its former self. He did have A Talk with the Emperor and decided to get stuff done and keep the Imperium's rotting carcass limping nonetheless, starting off by going on a huge crusade to defend many, many worlds from the plentiful and constant attacks by chaos as well as spread the word that the Imperium hasn't fallen yet and he's back in town. This link can help with more info.

[Lenglon]

...
I *might* finally stop hating the imperium if he succeeds. the grimdark and fanaticism and hate for the sake of grimdark and fanaticism and hate gets really old really fast.

[Lenglon]

So we get to have a Death Jester on our ship. Oh that couldn't POSSIBLY end badly at all!

although I don't think they're actually a Death Jester, I think they're a Troupe Master, and to have played all roles.

hey cael, do Death Jesters still have multiattack missile launchers for their weapon?

[Stirk]

We never figured out what your assault ship distribution was did we?

[Lenglon]

we did not.

I would like at least one squadron of every kind, and I think we should go heavy on bombers.
Also, the NUMBER of strike craft we have is up to the GM, so if you want us to have a stronger or weaker starting ship you can adjust the number of strike craft squadrons we have. By default we would have 8 squadrons, our maximum number is 24 squadrons, our minimum is 0 squadrons.

[Caellath]

With limited assault craft I think we should stick with fighters and bombers only at the moment. Fighters because they're useful both at screening and protecting the ship, bombers as our main attack punch. Both of these are also pretty deadly in ground wars.

Assault boats can be good for boarding but imo we'd have to pick between them or the bombers as an attack choice and due to the extra rolls we'd be better off acquiring a Teleportarium, or at least finding someone who'd be good at leading the Hit-and-Run themselves. Aeronautica are more limited as well, so while deploying droves of angry ground-attack aircraft from orbit would be cool we should focus on void combat atm.