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Designation: Theta Pi-66
Rank: Skitarii Trooper
Location: Unknown World assigning designation: VP- 23336789432 Mechanicus Surface Base Camp 1-A
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The original landing sight of the expedition was full of activity. The sky’s above darkened with the trails of arvis lighters and bulk landers disgorging crates of: Skitarii warriors, dune crawlers, skorpii, and prefab plates, along with both battle and industrial servitors. In the beginning the camp set up had been modest. A few tents for Skitarii and servitors and a flattened area of ground for the landers. Now they no longer had to hide in the shadows of the Forest of Horrors, they could begin to show their devotion to the Omnissiah the only way they knew how. Through industry.
The canvas tents were replaced with honest steel and rockcreat barracks and bunkers. Lumbering servitors cut down the surrounding trees or burned away brush, these workers were in turn protected by their much smarter cousins in the legions. Progressively bigger and bigger machines were deposited for the specific purpose of bulldozing away any imperfections in the land. Holes were dug and foundation lay in what would soon become a vast slab of concrete to bring in air support. Eventually a single landing pad would become a massive landing strip, and the big guns could be deployed.
Pi-55 watched all this from his post at what used to be the front gate, now it was just part of a layer of defense. Dutifully keeping his hands clutched on the very weapon that was slowly but surely sapping away his life. He knew he didn’t have much longer left, however he still felt an incredible sense of pride. This was what he was chosen to fight for.
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Designation: Deccius Thrane
Rank: Sub Dominus
Location: Byzantium Meeting Center 077786 “The War Room”
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Many levels below the Round Table was the War Room. In contrast to the tightly packed space and circular table of their superiors. The war room boasted an impressive scale and was dominated primarily by a rectangular mass produced hololithic table which currently projected a wire frame outline of the surface of VP- 23336789432, mainly centered around the capital, with red markers for forces of the Omnissiah currently on the planet and white markers for the estimated location of the xenos and their forces. Much of the map was incomplete, with some buildings only existing as box objects outside of the main settlement the tech priests had visited.
Around the table sat five dominii or sub dominii. Each one commanding roughly 1,000- 5,000 Skitarii or similar units.
Cog wise around was: Sub Dominus Attalade. Renowned for her skills of infiltration and assassination, it was no wonder she had the largest amount of sicarian infiltrators out of all of them put together. Her augments focused on efficiency and subtlety, broadly speaking she looked like an arachnid stretched out into a marionette, Thrane had once seen her put on a human skin suit for an assassination, her spinally body perfectly folded inside.
Sub Dominus Kars preferred a more head on and brutal approach, fielding mostly Skorpii and Dune Crawlers, along with slow battle servitors. Unsurprisingly him and Attalade got along the least. Contrasting her subtly, Kars had replaced his legs with treads, and much of his body was covered in plated, with large mechadendrites coming off his back, Thrane even heard a rumor once that his head was nothing more than a puppet for communication, and his true mind lay in his chest under several layers of steel. At one short end of table was none other than Sub Primus Dominus Deccius Thrane, he preferred a balanced approach to war on most occasions, taking what he thought would mirror the enemies tactics rather than counter them, his strategies had a fifty fifty success rate, however he did recognize when a battle was lost and to pull back.
Unlike Dominus Xeth on his left, Thrane had suspicions that in another life he was some form of Eversor assassin, always charging blindly into combat damn the consequences, his strategies favored striking hard and fast before the enemy had time to react, then occasionally pulling back so the enemy could have a momentary breadth before attacking again, was it any surprise his preferences lay in the Ruststalkers and Pteraxii? He even modeled himself on the areal troops, sporting a large set of wings and jet pack along with talons and a bird like face with goggles like ancient doctors wore.
Then their was Fash Mu-8887, what to say about Fash? For one his body had been altered so much he barely retained human shape, if he even really was a he. The voice used by Fash was always monotone. Thrane wasn’t sure what tactics he preferred on the battlefield, just that Fash had been a Dominus under Catherine for longer than any of them. And that large amounts of xeno tech tended to go missing whenever Fash was involved. He rarely spoke preferring instead to observe and record other people, unless it was to make fun of Xeth. One seat was still empty, at the end opposite Thrane was the spot Catherine would sit, she was the unquestioned leader of their little order, able to determine which was the best strategy of the five they presented, or formulate her own. At the moment they were arguing over who should take her place just as much as what strategy to use. They each didn’t stand a chance against Thrane’s strategy.
“We should form a spear head and cut off the head’s of all their leaders.” Argued Attalade her mechedendrites practically shaking with the thought of execution.
“Then who would defend them from a side attack.” Kars retorted. “Your ‘plan’ leaves too much of your flanks exposed. We should fortify every base we capture.”
“Take too long.” Xeth injected like a poisonous stinger.
“I agree with Xeth.” Said Attalade, “By the time we finish one base, they will have amassed a larger force and be ready for another attack.“
“Xeth thinks we keep moving.” Said the Dominus know by that name “Xeth thinks we never stop until all is dead. Xeth plan best.”
Fash chuckled to himself, the effect was ominous as with each breath a chilling fog left his lips.
“Of course you simpletons can only think of attacking and not the vast array of resources at our disposal.”
Xeth slammed one of his upper talons on the table making it flicker.
“Xeth not simple.” He squawked “Xeth complex.”
“Suuuuuuuure you are.” Dominus Fash pressed.
Xeth began scraping his lower talons on the floor. A tick he knew annoyed the other dominii, he didn’t care. In fact he was trying to get them to attack him first just so we could have the excuse.
“We make our way straight to their capital and capture it and the gems underneath.” Dominus Attalade continued to lay out her plan moving her forces along the map.
Kars face palmed.
“You are clearly delusional, there is no way to deploy on the mountain with nearly enough effective troops.” He used his own data spike to delete several companies of Attalade’s icons to illustrate the point. “Along with that, they have several confirmed aerial assets.” Kars added some white icons hovering above Attalade’s army and subtly deleted a few more icons.
“How will you deal with that?” His voice oozed smugness.
“Xeth will help pretty lady!” Xeth interrupted Kars dumping icons of his own forces above in an attack pattern that made no sense, it was basically amounted to a bunch of scribbles crossing out the hovering pony icons. Fash once again chucked to himself turning to Xeth.
“Don’t tell me that mess is meant to be yo—“
Xeth scratched his claw across the table.
“Fash, I swear to the Omnissiah if —”
“Alright if everyone is done acting painfully stupid, we can start this operation.” Thrane had enough of their pointless bickering and inserted his own spike uploading his plan and pushing aside everyone else’s.
“Here is my plan.” Thrane made a ring of troops around the first xeno settlement they visited. “We attack in a omega formation with cavalry at the edges; two lines of Vanguard, three of Rangers, slowly moving in.” He added some boxy icons at the opening of the omega.
“Kars can attack from here any that try and retreat across the river. Attalade, you command this side,” he added Attalade’s symbol to one side of the omega, “Fash, this side.” He mirrored the action. “Me right here.” Thrane inserted his own icon at the bottom of the omega.
“Once the village is ours we hold it hostage till they surrender, if they don’t...” Thrane shrugged, “use your imagination.” The organic half of Thrane’s face smiled. “Use your imagination, any questions?”
Xeth raised his hand, Thrane sighed.
“Yes, you can fly around up top and take shots at the ‘groundies’ and kill any aerials trying to escape.” Begrudgingly Thrane added a few icons for Xeth and his men. Xeth brought down his fist hissing a: ‘yes’.
They would work out the finer details over the next few hours but for now they at least had a plan that satisfied most of them and gave them tasks to work on.
The next local day, their attack would begin.
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this make soo much senc, yet at the sametime no sence, for mechnicus to behave like this when discussing operations tactics.
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what do you mean?. the mechnicus will not just forces like the guard do, they will only send the needed amount to the situation at hand.
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I ment the discussion itself. They are beeing caotic and emotional yet pefectly logical.
Kinda of a odd plan from mechanicus because they do not consider their areas of superiority. As a example, fleet + uncontested = orbital bombardment. They could literally flatten all their cities and all of their armies and it would require no actual losses from direct battle.
They could just do what Americans did not Japan in WW2. Destroy a industrial military target and then demand surrender, if they refuse then repeat until they do. Saves lives, resources and time. And its not like mechanicus would have let thous cities stand anyway after war.
Also, mechanicus does use militarums arsenal as well. They have used bombards ,earthshakers and mortars used by ordo reductor. And what is whit these ranks? Sub dominus is not something i have heard been a thing in a battlefield. I have heard sub alphas, alpha primus, princeps and Dominus, but not sub Dominus.
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ah well they normally are like that but they all ways talk in binary
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but its not a fleet just one ark ship. plus they have no reason to destroy them waste of resources
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I've been playing mechanicus, and there is a character named Sub-Domina Khepra, commanding the skitarii forces on the planet below while the Magos, the Tech Acquisitor and other personell stay in orbit.
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How can a lance battery from a battleship be more resource costing than sending forces to take it manually? It is not like they have not done it before like in skitarius book where alpha primus asked a orbital bombardment to a forge temple because it was too heavily fortified. And if you mean that lance battery would destroy something important then what is it? Some random stone? Wood? What could possibly be in such scarcity and of such importance that they would not risk it?
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But not in actual books then? Because it hardly would make it cannon. Its like saying that space marine game is cannon even thou 2 company captain is Sicarius not Titus. Even then there is a passage in the mechanicus codex. "Each sub-division withing every facet of the order is split into dozens of ranks. To avoid confusion during war, the most senior of the tech priests adopt the title of tech-priest Dominus to lead the effort."
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ok but why to use an orbital bombardment on a race that have 0% chance to even show any form of resistance
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because Sub-Domina Khepra is a skitarii commander not a tech priest or a Magos
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Exactly, if they just want to ponies to submit, then just show that "Hey look at that small town, oops its gone. Now about that peace negotiations." If they just show that kind of fire power then ponies would understand that resistance is futile and would only lead to needles death.
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because believe it or not the imperium of man will not just destroy every xeno race they find. they have ambassadors for a reason.
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Yes adeptus terra is bureaucratic organisation that does diplomacy and did made a lose peace with tau during damocles gulf crusade because of the tyrannids. But imperium has not made peace with xenos because imperium wants peace. I will quote from the imperial infantryman's uplifting primer." Suffice to say that all aliens are unclean, untrustworthy, faithless heretics, weak in mind and body, lacking is spirit ( for the immortal emperor does not shine for them! His guiding light is only for man!) and deserving of nothing more than slavery and death. Be assured, men of the imperium, the alien is not worth of your mercy. Whatever their shape, demeanour or behavior, wipe them from the immortal emperor's sight."
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tell that to roboute guilliman and yvraine
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That even is not a alliance, it was nonaggression pact, Yvraines faction does not attack imperials and imperials do not attack them and that's it. Not full on peace with eldar everywhere, and it was only done because galaxy was split in two and Yvraine said that eldars and humans fate is linked. But it is only temporary just like every other similar deal made within 40k. Just like what Dante and silent king did, right after tyrannids were beaten back. Dante wanted to kill silent kill even thou he promised him not to. But necrons had already left before he could do it. Or in the book "enemy of my enemy". Where orks and imperial made a alliance because of tyrannids was invading their warfront. Right after that orks betrayed imperials and ork warboss said that he knows what imperials do to thous that negotiate with xenos, which imperial general admitted that yes he was right about to do it but orks beated him in it.
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you have the imperial deal with the dark eldar, the orks blood axses and many more xenos i can think of so long as they are Sanctioned you don't need a full alliance.
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There are no sanctioned xenos in the imperium that are recognized by law. If some random rogue trader or radical inquisitor does hire xenos to be part of their retinue. It does not mean that imperium allows it and is okay with it. In horusian war book, radical inquisitor can be judged if enough of inquisitors vote it to be so.
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Ok so I’m going to step into this debate for no reason really and address a few things in no particular order.
1: Despite the memes the imperium does NOT go around exterminautusing EVERY SINGLE xeno they see on sight. If they find a planet of space cows and Ewok types praying to a pile of rocks, they’ll just ignore it most of the time and move on to real threats. If that pile of rocks looks like Slaanesh that’s another story. If they find an alien empire in command of a few planets that seam reasonable to talk to, they may trade a few things and send ambassadors, unless a fanatical xeno inquisitor is making contact. Even during the Great Crusade the Emperor himself was totally fine with having around reasonable aliens. Just not the insane ones that worshiped chaos or the orks. Also there are sanctioned xenos. Just off the top of my head, the grox. Not a perfect example since they’re just space cows but their are probably more somewhere.
EDIT: The Imperium even sometimes hires ork bounty hunters, so even they have deals on occasion.
2: Yes the Mechanicus could totally just delete whatever settlements they wanted with an orbital strike but Cassius is their for knowledge. It’s a bit harder read a pile of ashes than a blood stained book. If you want that story here you go, just pretend it’s set before this chapter.
3: Do you even have any idea how few Warhammer stories would even happen if they just destroyed everything from orbit? Why even have Space Marines, Guard, or the Sisters of Battle if the Imperial Navy could do everything?
3: I just like writing arguments and it would be really boring if they were just all logically deconstructing everyone’s plans.
Did I miss anything?
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Do you have references about peaceful contacts with xenos? Because i have not find any, not even in Horus heresy books. Horus did once negotiate with human empire that had xenos in it but it was only for humans. And i most certainly have not heard that emperor had negotiated with xenos, and legionaries constantly talk in thous books about how wile xenos are and that soon there is nothing to kill anymore. Even Vulkan hated xenos sou much that he burned eldar child alive that made even Curze proud. If there was xenos race under imperiums protection then it would be common knowledge. But there is none.
And what comes to orbital bombardment. It has been used to destroy titans, and even massive bunkers during invasion. Like they did in shadowsword book. But there are counters, if a fleet is contested then they cannot provide such support.Void shields are used to counter them and anti orbital weapons. And if there are their own troops then they cannot risk it. There was one short story about tempestus skions that had planted a beacon to a hat of a commisar that ork warboss had taken, and then they just orbital bombarded that area. Orks had dropped roks in hive hades in helsreach book. And Siege of terra books are filled with orbital bombardments. So there are explanations to why they have and could not.
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I don’t really have a source for my info, it mainly comes from a combination of common sense and passing references in various books. Logically speaking which seams like the bigger threat? A race of dogs in command of two planets in their own solar system? Or the orks? Also again Cassius wants to preserve as much knowledge as possible, he knows Twilight’s library has a bunch of rare books their since he spent a few days their with her.
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Its not about how innocent or weak xeno is, imperium was expanding very quickly. Crusades just took on every and everything that they came across. There were nomad fleet of humans and xenos, sou iron hands hunted them down. A planet of humans were constantly raided by dark eldars and after space wolves came and send dark eldar packing they turned on the humans because they thought that they could be free and govern themselves. A race of xenos were harvested to extinction because of their blood had healing effect on human bodies.
White scars complained that there were not enough orks to kill. Hruds were almost destroyed by Perturabo and he was angry because they managed to get away. Vulkan literally killed surrendered eldars by burning them to death while Curze was watching and later commented that "we are not sou different you and i."
And if Cassius wants to acquire knowledge then that's fine reason not to bombard them. It just odd that he first decides to threaten with occupation if he only wanted knowledge and data.
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I just realized something, I’m arguing the accuracy of lore in a MLP Warhammer crossover. No offense.
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1. I’m not going to kill main characters just nameless side characters.
2. I like many of the characters of the show, why do you think I’m trying my best to keep their personalities consistent rather than just killing everyone immediately without even giving a second thought?
3. I was an MLP fan many years before I even heard 40k existed.
4. No one is forcing anything.
5. Again haven’t killed anyone yet. Aside from one of my own characters.
6. Don’t ask me why that is.
7. Maybe, probably.
That everything?
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[Loads 1980 computer virus]
Take that foul xenos!