Space War - recruitment and OOC

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READ THE INTRO AND RULES FIRST!

Recruitment and OOC thread for the War in the Void campaign. Submit your ships and characters for review here!

Major NPCs are detailed in the next post, and will be added to as the campaign progresses.

ICs are live! Click here for the Imperials and here for the Patriots.

Spoiler: Accepted Ships and Characters 

IMPERIAL CRUSADERS

Epithemius transport Shepherd of Light (Dakkagor)

• Captain Jeanette Chao

Falchion heavy escort HDMS Pillar of Intent (Jarms48)

• Captain Harold Aeneas

Agripinaa escort carrier HDMS Resurgent (Derpnaster)

• Captain TBA

Mechanicus light cruiser Triumphant Rationality (PaintSerf)

• Magos-domina Mariyana Veiss
• Shipmaster Arkadi Ramius
• Adept Evgeni Veiss

ADRANTEAN PATRIOTS

Mechanicus light cruiser Stella Rosa (Atrum Daemon)

• Captain Raynar Thane

Cobra destroyer Eudaimonia (Dakkagor)

• Captain Alyss Reavensmore (MIA)
• Acting captain Iric Frostulf

Endeavour light cruiser Imperialist (PaintSerf)

• Captain Giselle de Havilland

Link to the General Discussion thread

Submit characters for the Ground War here

Submit characters for the Covert War here

Click here for news on Imperial progress throughout the war

Click here for news of Patriot progress throughout the war

Click here for the Home Front IC thread (all non-combat storylines)

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MAJOR NPCs

Spoiler: The Imperial Crusade 

Spoiler: Admiral Jamis Bravick 

"Deploy for broadside firepower. Equal speed turn, two points sunward, maintain cloud formation."



Age: 82 Ichabarr years, 58 Terran standard
Rank: Crusade fleet commander
Profile: A veteran of nearly 40 years in the Navy, Bravick has risen to command through a critical eye, a firm hand and the right political backing. He is viewed as a cautious and by-the-book commander, perhaps overly so by more aggressively-minded void admirals. However, his conservative command style stems from a belief that the Navy is the only branch of the Imperial war machine that can doom the entire course of a war in a single day. He leads the crusade fleet from the Dictator-class battle carrier Damnatus.

Spoiler: Commodore Nazim Tehrani 

"Well, you know what it says on our christening plaque, gentlemen - qui tangit frangitur. Let 'em come."



Age: 55 Ichabarr years, 39 Terran standard
Rank: Commander, 5th cruiser squadron
Profile: Serving in battlefleet Ixaniad's RRF before being promoted in the wake of the Coreltis crusade, Tehrani is diplomatic about the sometimes heated rivalry between Guard and Navy. In combat she is an aggressive and decisive commander, eager to exploit opportunities and take the fight to the enemy.

Spoiler: Captain Elspeth Von Scharn 

Thurlow: “So what’s the plan, Eppie?”
Von Scharn: “To win, naturally.”



Also featured in: Hearts of Darkness, Penitence

Age: 57 Ichabarr years, 40 Terran standard
Rank: Captain, HDMS Impiger
Profile: Eppie von Scharn commands with a carefully affected air of indifference, no matter how dire the situation; an attitude perhaps best evoked by her signature 'victory lho'. Formerly the commander of the 5th cruiser squadron, she was demoted and replaced by commodore Tehrani following the debacle of the Coreltis crusade - a debacle which she lays squarely on the shoulders of the deceased inquisitor Drake. She does not make a secret of her continuing animosity towards the inquisition, although whatever views she holds of her own situation are kept carefully private.

Spoiler: Commander Banastre Thurlow 

"Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to represent the entire Imperial Navy at the buffet."



Also featured in: Penitence

Age: 29 Axinite years, 35 Terran standard
Rank: Executive officer, HDMS Impiger
Profile: Born on the pleasure world of Axinite and with the somewhat carefree attitude and flamboyant mannerisms of such people, Thurlow is an easy man to underestimate. However, he has proved both talented and enthusiastic in a command role, and has turned the Impiger's marine complement in particular into a ruthless, well-drilled force.

Spoiler: Lakshmi Kol 

"Do you have any idea who I am!?"



Age: 14 Terran standard
Rank: N/A
Profile: Lucky enough to be born into an influential trader house, Lakshmi is the secondborn child of noted PR specialist Avani Kol. With a mother who has plied her trade with every powerful organisation in the Imperium, an uncle at the head of a colony development empire, and an elder brother working as an offworld journalist (though the Patriot capital of Tephaine was perhaps an unfortunate posting), Lakshmi is yet to make her mark and is keenly aware of it. She eventually begged, bargained and bullied her mother into giving her nominal command of the Ayanaant, a house Kol trade ship, and the first shipment of supplies to newly liberated Baraspine. What she was expecting was a propaganda coup for the Kols, and by extension herself. What she got was...rather different.

Spoiler: The Adrantean Patriots 

Spoiler: Subsector governor Thomas Tierce 

“They have defined us as traitors and heretics. We must conquer or we must die.”


Also featured in: Penitence

Age: 59 Baraspine years, 65 Terran standard
Rank: Governor of the Adrantis Nebula subsector
Profile: Although he rules from the subsector capital of Tephaine, Tierce grew up on its rival hive world Baraspine. Born to midhiver parents, he found himself press-ganged into the Imperial Navy, but was saved from a deck-slave’s life by his parents, who sold everything to buy him a midshipman’s commission. Tierce proved talented, eventually rising to command and winning several high profile naval battles. This earned him a high position when he retired from the Navy to enter politics, setting the stage for his eventual governorship. His leadership was marked by many drives towards greater efficiency and self-sufficiency among the Adrantean institutions. A compassionate man, he believed in the Adrantean people above all and became increasingly disillusioned with the demands of the wider imperium, a disillusionment which became complete with his attempted kidnapping by the rogue inquisitor Nalaran. Several years later, his plans for independence were forced forward by the meddling of another inquisitor, Alia Machairi.

Spoiler: Commodore Maximilian Thark 

“The holy fleet always did have a problem with complacency. Too much washed teak and gleaming brass; not enough speed, modernity and professionalism.”

Age: 49 Tephaine years, 45 Terran standard
Rank: Commodore, HDMS Mors Indecepta
Profile: A veteran voidsman with a distinguished service history in battlefleet Adrantis, Thark is a dyed-in-the-wool Navy officer; born in the spires of Tephaine and with the easy confidence that comes from such a background. Before the revolution he served as executive officer aboard the flag cruiser Mors Indecepta, and chafed somewhat under a captain he disliked. Although he is an ambitious man, it was not just ambition that led him to join the Patriot cause, but a genuine belief in governor Tierce’s vision. Mors proved to be one of the higher-profile prizes of the revolution, and after taking command Thark was promoted to leadership of one of the Patriot fleet’s ad-hoc cruiser squadrons. Thark’s combat doctrine is shaped by the nova-armed cruiser he commands, and he prefers long range engagements to close, chaotic melees.

[Atrum Daemon]

Ship Name: Stella Rosa
Ship Class: Adeptus Mechanicus Light Cruiser
Allegiance: Patriots

Trademarks: The cog of the Mechanicus is displayed proudly along with the the words "Illuminating the Hearts of Man" stenciled in High Gothic with no deviations from the standard design. The ship itself is a deep crimson with streaks of black and gold and the crew serving aboard are faithful servants of the Omnissiah.

Captain: Reynar Thane has sat the command throne of the vessel for several decades. Liked and respected by his men, his augments have suppressed his emotional response but not quite dulled his wit or tongue. He stands tall and rather lean with a youthful, well-formed face and respectable amount of cybernetics for a young tech-priest taking well to his first leadership position. His mind is sharp and his quick tongue can rub others the wrong way at times. He has the experience of several void encounters under his belt and understands the quirks of his vessel's machine spirit well but can still be surprised at time thanks to how old and cranky the girl is.

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We have our first naval asset!

[dakkagor]

The Eudaimonia

Date/Location of Commission: M39 Armageddon System

Class: Cobra Class Destroyer (Modified M40 House Krast)

Current Status: Moral Threat Diabolicus, terminate with extreme prejudice. Associated with Patriots (see ref 36658:AdrantisSecCrisis)

History: Commissioned as part of a squadron of six, the Cobra destroyer 'Red 6' was part of a general reinforcement of Battlefleet Solars fleet patrol elements in a time of increasing Xenos activity. Its served ably as part of Patrol Squadron Castros in the Armageddon sector for 3 centuries, before the entire patrol group, consisting of 2 Dauntless light cruisers and five other Cobras, where lost with all hands in a sudden warp squall.

The entire squadron would be found drifting near the Koronus Passage by House Krast, a Rogue Trader house of minor standing. Aboard, minutes had passed, with food cooling on tables and shipboard cogitators counting out mere seconds since the vessels had translated to the warp. However, not a single living creature was found aboard any of the ships, the crews having vanished. Realising this was a profitable find, the Rogue Trader House turned the squadron back over to the Imperial Navy, and as reward where given the lead Dauntless of the Squadron, Highest Repute, and Red 6, to operate as their own. Alongside their trader barque, this gave House Krast a flexible squadron. It was not to last. Drawn into the brutal fighting against the Chaos Armies of Darza in the Girza Sector, House Krast worked to profit from the failing war. Blood had flowed like wine for ten years of grinding conflict, and there was profit to be made in evacuating VIP's from worlds about to fall, running supplies to beleaguered defenders, or raiding Chaos ships for materiel, all of which the rebuilt Cobra was well suited too.

It was on one of these raids that Red Six, recommissioned as The Honourable Traveller, attacked an enemy held transport that was carrying a deadly cargo. A regiment of rogue guardsmen, led by a deadly psyker, stormed aboard in a counter boarding operation that seized the vessel. Under its new commander, the ship fled the system, and then the Girza sector entirely, heading to the galactic north, passing through the Calixis and Ixaniad sectors before finally joining the fighting in the Andrantean War as a privateer and mercenary, under the command of its unsteady tripartite of renegades, scum, and witches. Renamed the The Eudaimonia, and under the command of the notorious Black Witch of Gallowglas, it is a threat to all Imperial Shipping, and regularly deploys ground forces to key theatres. Due to its crew, it is considered a Diabolicus level Moral Threat and should be purged with all haste.

Capabilities: House Krast spent considerable time and thrones turning the Honourable Traveller into a capable blockade runner. The massive torpedo tubes and magazines have been replaced with cargo space, heat baffles and pict scrambler systems. The entire hull is shrouded, reducing its signature to sensor systems. Up armoured, it also possesses a more formidable battery of lasers than the cobra, making it a dangerous in-fighter, though it is best suited to running, hiding, and sneaking. The interior hull has also been extensively remodelled, with internal spaces heavily reconfigured. The outer decks are well set up for a collapsing defence, with firing slits, deployable barricades and lasline triggered traps. The inner decks are orientated for comfort, with its reduced crew compliment making it more suited for longer journeys thanks to improved legroom and airy internal spaces once used to impress visiting dignitaries and trading partners, a stark contrast to its navy days.
The Eudaimonia is weakened by a key, missing component: the lack of a Navigator. While the Black Witch can fill in to a limited degree, the ship is still limited to relatively short jumps. Without a Navigator or Alyss, the ship can only make the standard 4 light year calculated jump, which means it could be easily overhauled by a Imperial ship with a navigator in interstellar space.

[Azazeal849]

Ah, there she is.

[dakkagor]

Shipmaster Jeanette Chao
"The bellicose spirits of Titans and Voidships require different flavours of people to master. I remember this when I am tempted to flush a preening Princeps out the nearest Voidgate."

Spoiler: Jeanette Chao 

Veteran Shipmaster of the Legio Sirena, Chao has been shipping engines and Skitarii through the warp for over a hundred years, and has excelled at this task like no other, including the breaking of the Siege of Gnosis and the blockade run over Tycho Prime. However, she has never been popular with Legio Command due to her 'attitude problem'. What makes her such a fearsome Shipmaster is her towering confidence and knowledge in all aspects of void warfare. Currently in command of the Mechanicum Cruiser Shepherd of Light, she has found an equal in Princeps Primaris Zoerrin, who appreciates her sublime skill and straight talking attitude. Aboard the Shepherd, she is the direct avatar of the Deus, and no one is allowed to forget it.

Shepherd of Light

Spoiler: Shepherd 

Allegiance: Imperial Loyalists

Date/Location of Commission: M29 Mars

Class: Mechanicum Epithemeus Class Titan Tender

Capabilities: This ancient and storied warship has travelled the length and breadth of the galaxy, including the first seedings of Mechanicus worlds during the Age of Strife, The all consuming fires of the Heresy, the cleansing of the Scouring, the wrath of the Beast and the fratricide of the Apostasy. It has survived it all. In terms of firepower it is equipped with batteries of mars-forged macrocannon and plasma accelerators, in broadsides, though its central mass is taken up with Titan deployment bays, Knight Halls and Skitarii barracks and drop harnesses. Its nose mounts a pair of mag-accelerator bombardment cannon for accurate ground attack, and it is defended by thick armour, void shields and a massive web of laser point defences.
In terms of overall firepower, the Epithemeus has less punch than a mainline Imperial Cruiser, comparable to a Dictator without the benefit of its launch bays. It is well designed for muscling through defensive fire and delivering its deadly cargo, being tougher with more void shield generators and point defences, and in desperation can even configure its "smaller" passengers for boarding assaults and defence, making it truly deadly at short range.
Its only weakness is that it has a fairly standard acceleration curve and manoeuvre profile, meaning it should only be committed to an engagement with some escorts to watch its back, or better, as part of a large, set piece landing operation.

[Azazeal849]

Ooh, I don’t remember seeing that one before.

[dakkagor]

I wanted something smaller than an Ark, and bigger than a frigate, something designed to deploy a combined arms force of skitarii, knights and titans.

Ofcourse, it didn't exist, so I made it up :shrug:

[Azazeal849]

Just a note, Chao may occasionally get called away for other duties and leaving the Sirenia to their own devices for a while - big guns are just too handy (and in short supply). The same may occasionally be true for Alyss and the Eudaimonia.