Age: 59 Terran standard Rank: Inquisitor Profile: An inquisitor of some notoriety, Lucullis is known to be cold and enigmatic but also scrupulously fair. He was one of the three inquisitors called upon to judge the rogue agents who fought against a daemon and a C’tan shard at the Saros Station incident, right on the doorstep of Holy Terra. He has a gift for detecting lies, causing some to whisper that he is a hidden psyker. After thwarting a daemon manifestation on Vaxanide, a victory that came at great cost to his retinue, he received inquisitor Machairi’s report on the Nebula conspiracy and immediately set out to rendezvous with her.
Spoiler: Interrogator Erdene
"Dream well, Zur Gadi. You'll be running with the clouds soon enough."
Age: 55 Atillan, 39 Terran standard Rank: Interrogator Profile: Lucullis' current interrogator, Erdene somewhat reflects her mentor with her reserved and businesslike manner. She has been entrusted with command of several of Lucullis' past investigations, and is also an excellent pilot. She has a private nickname for each of Lucullis' flyers and shuttles, most of them drawn from legendary Atillan steeds. She was injured during the Vaxanide investigation, when the agents she was sent down to retrieve unexpectedly went rogue. She still dreams of bringing Stan Burakgazi and the others to justice.
Age: 43 Terran standard Rank: Inquisitor Profile: Until recently, Alia was a rising star of the ordos, with a close-knit retinue, a talent for diplomacy, and contacts across the Calixis and Ixaniad sectors. This changed when her former mentor Sidonis was revealed as a daemonhost, and she inherited the poisoned chalice of the Saros Incident survivors who had previously served in his personnel. While spending significant political capital to keep various imperial institutions off her wards’ backs, Alia leveraged all of her assets to bring the heretic DeRei to ground, culminating in a battle aboard Cocordia orbital and the unmasking of the Adrantis conspiracy. Although their actions forced the Adrantean Patriots to act months before they were ready, they could not stop the rebellion from going ahead, and Alia herself had her neck broken by a daemon in thrall to the traitor Alicia Tarran. She is now confined to a hospital bed, protected by her few remaining allies.
Age: 8 Solomon years, 32 Terran standard Rank: Former inquisitorial agent (investigator) Profile: Like the rest of the Saros survivors, Marc was assigned the penance of hunting down the heretic Arcolin DeRei by the Terran tribunal. Although ostensibly absolved by Machairi’s confessor Bellanor, he remains under judgement as far as the wider inquisition is concerned. That said, he requires little encouragement, having a long and bitter history with DeRei. After losing an eye fighting DeRei and the Nebula Corps on Concordia orbital, he has recovered and returned to active duty, though at a more lasting cost. Having burned bridges with almost all of his friends, including his sister Kelly, he has become a private, cold and ruthless individual.
Spoiler: Penitent Kelly Black
“We can all sink really, really low. But we have to believe that we can bring each other back.”
Age: 7 Solomon years, 31 Terran standard Rank: Former inquisitorial agent (verispex) Profile: Kelly has been through hell in the last year, suffering judgement from the ordos and losing a number of friends to death and betrayal - even her brother Marc, whose blind wrath she can no longer tolerate. The greatest toll on her physically has been the brief possession by the DeRei daemon on Baraspine, for which she still bears a protective (and accusatory) pentagrammic ward. However, she still possesses her skills and her logical mind, and perhaps more importantly her empathy. She has used the latter to support the broken psyker Gavin Jenkins, as well as her friends Kally and Sapphira who are some of the few remaining survivors of recent events.
Spoiler: Sister Kiana
“Amazing what the Navy will do to get the church’s blessing.”
Age: 43 Coseflame years, 55 Terran standard Rank: Canoness Profile: Sister Kiana is the dry-witted canoness of the Order of the Silent Vigil, a sororitas order based on the feudal planet of Coseflame. Founded based on Tarot readings of a grave future threat to the sector, it was quickly realised that maintaining a full order under arms without a concrete opponent to face was not strategically or economically viable. The Vigil therefore adapted and began to operate as a highly-efficient spy network throughout the Adrantis sub, watching and waiting for the prophesied threat. Kiana has assisted inquisitor Machairi on several occasions, and mobilised all of her combat-trained sisters for Machairi’s endgame on Concordia orbital. When the Adrantis revolution began, the Vigil’s convent was destroyed by a treacherous orbital strike, killing all of the order’s novices and incinerating their main communications hub. However, the Vigil’s agents and astropaths remain in the field, and a thousand battle sisters stand ready to exact revenge.
Spoiler: Ocularis Raechel Kuscelian
“Hostile crane neutralised. There goes a sentence I am unlikely to speak again.”
Age: 15 Vostian years, 30 Terran standard Rank: Lords Dragon Ocularis Profile: A pious, but personable (and occasionally even playful) tech priestess, Raechel worked in a manufactorum on Vost before getting roped into an inquisition investigation which ended with her being forced to kill her corrupted former overseer, magos Sollisto. Raechel went through a phase of unhealthy paranoia following these events, even going so far as to keep forbidden inquisition access codes. Following events on the cursed forgeworld of Anatolia, she was inducted into the Lords Dragon - the shadowy mechanicus secret police whom most in the Imperium believe to be just a myth. She focuses on MIU linking to physical assets, be that commandeering machinery or providing the muscle for an operation through a retinue of servitors. She and her partner Nikolai Oppen were dispatched to investigate the legality of the Adrantis Nebula programme - an objective that initially put them at odds with inquisitor Machairi's team, but they found common ground in the threat posed by Arcolin DeRei. When the Adrantis conspiracy was uncovered on Concordia orbital, Nikolai was killed protecting Raechel and several of Machairi’s agents from a data-daemon. Raechel remains with the surviving agents, determined to assist them in taking down the Nebula hereteks as the reclamation crusade mobilises.
Spoiler: Lady Avani Kol
"All dreams are possible. You just need time, money, and the right framing narrative."
Age: 50 Terran standard (juvenat assisted - the Kols are notorious for their love of early juvenat treatments) Rank: Director (retired) Profile: A small but formidable woman, Avani headed the Kols' news distribution enterprises before handing over the directorship in 608.M41, so as to handle a new client's business contacts in the Ixaniad sector. The new client was none other than inquisitor Alia Machairi, and the two women have maintained a close quid-pro-quo business relationship since. Avani is sister to Abhinav Kol, the agri minister of Sarus, though she is of the opinion that he wasted his time there courting the wrong people. Her son Jagdesh works as head political correspondent on Tephaine, the capital of the Adrantis subsector - an unfortunate position to be in when the revolution happened. Between that and the loss of Kol holdings on the agri worlds of Siculi and Tephaine Minor, Avani has spent a lot of the recent months running damage control.
Spoiler: Inquisitor Alexis Yannick
"So our options are for you to submit to a complete mind scan, or I barge my way in anyway and leave you a vegetable, or worse."
Age: 88 Terran standard (juvenat assisted) Rank: Inquisitor Profile: Yannick is everything you might expect from an inquisitor - cunning, politically savvy, and relentless in the pursuit of heretics. He has made enemies in the mechanicus through numerous incidents of meddling in their affairs, and has recently begun to establish a similar reputation with the Telepathica through his relentless pursuit of the Ampoliros incident. The involvement of major Martin Crenshaw in the incident inevitably led him towards conflict with the major’s patron, inquisitor Alia Machairi.
Age: 26 Terran standard Rank: Interrogator Profile: Borden is very adept at affecting a friendly and garrulous personality, but under it all she is as cold as her master, if not colder. Having undergone extensive (and expensive) reconstructive surgery after her close call with an arco-flagellant on Anatolia, she has been working tirelessly with inquisitor Yannick to bring down his enemies.
Age: 30 Cantus years, 46 Terran standard Rank: Inquisitor Profile: An inquisitor originally based in the Markayn Marches of Calixis, DeShilo investigated the cult uprising on Solomon and, later, the well-publicised Pembroke Incident, although during the latter he was forced to withdraw by the superior authority of lord inquisitor Sidonis. After the incident concluded with Sidonis burning Makita Hive with over a billion souls still inside, DeShilo developed a deep suspicion of the inquisitor lord. After his duty securing the Makita quarantine site was discharged, DeShilo made it his personal mission to oppose any Imperial operative who sought to accumulate Sidonis' kind of overreaching power.
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: Magos Terminius Delzharian
“Such primitive weaponry.”
Age: 275 Perinetus years, 212 Terran standard Rank: Tech priest magos Profile: Formerly third in line to the archmagos’ throne on Perinetus, Delzharian now leads the mechanicus faction sympathetic to the Adrantean cause. He has always had an aesthetic mind, preferring to grace machine spirits with elegant bodies that sometimes seem at odds with the solid power of most mechanicus designs. He gained fame for his work on MIU technology (including a neurofeedback generator that he used to devastating effect on the first day of the Adrantis uprising), although his greatest work is no doubt the implants used by the vaunted Nebula Corps. Constructed in necessary secrecy with the help of shady characters such as the now-dead rogue trader Nibenay, he combined power armour interfaces, communal datafeed links and combat drug injectors to create what he hoped would be the ultimate soldier. Delzharian has extensive frontline experience as an enginseer, although nowadays he prefers to protect his vastly expanded Knowledge by being where the Titans aren’t. He is meticulously careful, and some say that he transferred his human brain into his combat servitor bodyguards several years ago, and now uses his own original body as a decoy.
Age: 10 Solomon years, 41 Terran standard Rank: Executor to the Subsector Governor Profile: Once a loyal arbitrator, Arcolin’s mind snapped when he was forced to purge his own heretic family. The only survivor was his sister Ailil, who he would not see again until many years later, living under the name of Alicia Tarran. Falling in with a Tzeentchian cult, Arcolin committed many terrible deeds: being involved in two uprisings on Solomon, assisting in another on Marioch, and acting as a hired gun for the possessed rogue trader Emerald. He planned to throw the entire Adrantis subsector into civil war, only to pull back from the brink when the daemon Táin engineered a revelation, at the expense of his old foes Marcus and Kelly Black. Something of his old honour seemingly resurrected, Arcolin sought to salvage what he could and turn the now-inevitable Adrantis uprising into a force for positive change. While attempting to convince his former enemies of his motives, he was struck with a poisoned needle and left in a critical condition. He remains on life support on the Adrantian capital of Tephaine.
Age: 34 Marioch, 35 Terran standard Rank: Captain Profile: Alicia grew up on Marioch and served in the newly-formed Adrantis Nebula Corps, rising to interplanetary prominence after she took command and extricated the Nebulas from a deadly ambush, rescuing the captured governor Tierce in the process. Unfortunately, fame drove a wedge between her and her former comrades, and she retired back to Marioch - only to be caught up in a heretic uprising. Making a dark pact to destroy her enemies, Alicia barely survived and was hauled in by the inquisition for monitoring. She served with them until the Saros Station incident, after which she disappeared and took up the disguise of a rogue trader, searching for a new cause she could truly believe in. After being reunited with her former colleagues, she discovered that the erstwhile cultist Arcolin DeRei was her brother, and the daemon she had allowed to possess her was a long-standing ally of the DeRei family. Caught between Arcolin and Tarquinius’ seemingly sincere desire for a better, freer Adrantis on one hand, and the unyielding hatred of her former colleagues on the other, she allowed the daemon to possess her a second time and defected to the Adrantean cause.
Spoiler: Astropath Ella Seren
Alicia: “Did you see it in your cards?” Ella: “No. I see you.”
Age: 23 Terran standard Rank: Astropath Profile: Ella was originally intended to be just another astropath, slowly wearing herself out in the messenger eyries of Aurelias Prime. Instead, she found herself caught up in a pirate raid en route to her posting, and together with the hospitaller sisters Rose and Jennifen she succeeded in sending the distress signal that brought the inquisition to their rescue. Impressed by her tenacity, inquisitor Suffolk immediately snapped her up for his retinue, but after his unfortunate death she found herself instead working with the agents of inquisitor lord Sidonis. As well as the typical astropath skills of signalling and scrying the future, she demonstrated unexpected skills such as offensive telepathy and the ability to control her former inquisitor’s force sword. She served with her friends through every trial until Concordia orbital, where, tortured by her recent Tarot readings, she made the fateful decision to join Alicia Tarran in defecting. Although she is unflinchingly hard-working, Ella’s greatest strength and her biggest flaw is how much she cares. She kept secrets for her friends that ultimately did more harm than good, and many of her former allies believe that it was caring too much for Alicia Tarran that led her to abandon them for the Adrantean cause.
Spoiler: Tech-assassin Kiran Sova (KIA)
"Form and function, united under the Deus' will. My function is to destroy."
Age: 68 Perinetus years, 53 Terran standard Rank: Secutor Profile: Secutor Sova does not concern himself with the politics of greater wars. He merely acts to eliminate his masters' foes in the most efficient manner possible. It so happened that his masters were part of Delzharian's secessionist movement, and the changing of targets from hereteks to Imperial loyalists made little difference to him. Sova is not without intelligence and creativity, and some among the Patriot mechanicus consider it a waste that he stubbornly separates himself from the greater theological conflict beyond the war. Sova himself however prefers the simpler binary logic of targets still alive and targets dead.
Spoiler: Adept Jesska Freylis
”Behold! My fu-cking battle beast!”
Age: 39 Perinetus years, 30 Terran Standard Rank: Adept artifex Profile: The mechanicus attracts its fair share of oddballs, and Delzharian’s cabal more than most. Jess is one of Delzharian’s research assistants who cut her teeth on the borderline-heretical Nebula project, and was primarily responsible for developing the motive systems for the corps’ power armour. She takes to any military project with enthusiasm, and even more so to the chance to test it out personally.
Spoiler: Nara Tumasian
"Oh, I've always got something going on. It goes with the gig."
Age: Unknown, underhive census incomplete Rank: Vaxan delegate, Malfi subsector trade mission Profile: A former enforcer in the trafficking ring known as the Refuge, Nara always had ambitions beyond the underhive, but didn't expect to see them realised by an electro-priest gone rogue from the Imperial inquisition. Stan challenged her to be better than her former self, and she has (sort of...), spending some time helping him locate and rescue the Refuge's former victims before being swept up by the Malfi Cartel. She is surprisingly sanguine about her (technical) abduction, as it bought security for her family and even offered the chance to swan around the spire-tops of a subsector governor.
Age: Unknown, underhive census incomplete Rank: Bodyguard Profile: Ani clawed her way up from the gutter, but she isn't arrogant enough to believe that she got there without help. After her first mentor, the Slaaneshi cultist Petrosyan, was killed, she fell almost by accident under the wing of Stan Burakgazi. She idolises the former electro-priest, and would have followed him to Tephaine even if they had had any choice in the matter. Unlike Nara, Ani has never tried to reject her underhive roots, and remains keenly uncomfortable in her new surroundings. The irony of being forcibly emigrated offworld after a lifetime of despising refugees isn't lost on her either.
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Appearance: A tall (6’4’’), larger set (230 lbs.) man with broad shoulders. He has brown hair, brown eyes, and usually keeps stubble.
Personality:
• Ambitious
• Hard-working
• Fairly bright
• Positive
• Willing to do anything for the Imperium
Weapons: Chain sword, Lasgun, Combat Knife
Other Equipment: Flak Armor, Vox-caster, Medi-kit
Background: Born on Luna, Meston grew up living a normal life. Throughout his childhood, he looked up to the soldiers of the Imperial Guard, to the point that he joined the force as soon as he could. From there, his ambitions grew, hoping to get promoted up to an officer. That was, until he learned of the Inquisition. Now, he works his hardest so that he, too, may one day join their ranks as an Inquisitor.
Ah, smart muscle. Inquisitor Lucullis likes smart muscle. Although he probably won’t waste many words telling Meston what his chances of actually reaching inquisitorial rank are.
Question, if it's all guardsmen, Could I make a Kill team instead? The concept is a forward operator unit akin to Paratroopers with a bit of engineering and EOD built in. The idea is they get sent to hit the Hives and other important locations to cause mass disruption and havoc then work their way back to prep a route for the main assault to follow. It's also the only time you will ever see a Taroux ejected from a spacecraft then landed with scraped together Jump Packs and a really big Parachute.
"Life before death,
Strength before weakness,
Journey before destination."
-The First Ideal
It's also the only time you will ever see a Taroux ejected from a spacecraft then landed with scraped together Jump Packs and a really big Parachute.
How very Fast and Furious 7.
To answer your question, this storyline won't be about Guardsmen - it'll be following the inquisition (and corresponding Patriot irregular forces). The best place for a kill team would be as a sub-part of the battles in the Ground storyline. Just let me know in advance if you'd like to focus on the kill team instead of the standard company (for a whole battle or just for a specific objective)
- Cold, but not unfeeling
-Stern and serious, but capable of humor (his sense of humor usually deals with death)
-Seemingly fearless in the face of adversity, but merely was trained to onquer his fear.
-Hardworking and industrious
-Pious, believe he is doing the God-Emperor's work with every life taken
-Intelligent, but does not question the will or word of the Emperor.
Other: Hololithic armor, Combat Drugs, Medkit, smoke grenades, Catachan devil poison (used to poison the needles, mono-knife, and lifedrinkers)
Background: Born on Iga, a Feudal world in Sub-Sector Yamato, his early childhood was that of a peasant. However, as happened with many boys, he was kidnapped by one of several monastic orders living in the vast mountain ranges. There, he was taught to be a black hand of the Shogun (subsector Leader), and also to revere the Emperor.
He aught the eye of the Inquisition by aiding an inquisitor during an investigation into a possible cult brewing on the sub-sector capitol world, Sekai. He was able to wipe out the cult leadership along with 3 of his brother monks in a bloody night of retribution.
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Spoiler: Things I like
Spoiler: Quotes
I would rather have a russet coated Captain who knows what he fights for and loves what he knows, than he who calls himself a gentleman and is but little else
-Oliver Cromwell
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
-John Stuart Mill
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
-Sun Tzu
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
-Euripides
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
-Fred Woodworth
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
-Thomas Jefferson
If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo down through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy.
-Fabius Bile
Spoiler: Thoughts of the day
A broad mind lacks focus.
A questioning servant is more dangerous than an ignorant heretic
A small mind is easily filled with faith.
A warrior's faith in his commander is his best armour and his strongest weapon.
Adamantium walls and plasteel bulkheads may seem formidable, but an unshakable faith in the Immortal Emperor of Man can overcome any barriers.
An Empty Mind Is A Loyal Mind
An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded.
Better crippled in body than corrupt in mind.
Consider the Predator. Let your soul be armoured with Faith, driven on the tracks of Obedience which overcome all obstacles, and armed with the three great guns of Zeal, Duty and Purity.
Facts are chains that bind perception and fetter truth. For a man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind.
Faith without deeds is worthless.
Happiness is a delusion of the weak
Forgiveness is a sign of weakness.
He who lives for nothing is nothing. He who dies for the Emperor is a hero.
If a man dies that another should live, that man's spirit shall eat at the Emperor's table
Innocence proves nothing
It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself.
Leniency is a sign of weakness!
Mercy is a sign of weakness.
No man that died in the Emperor's service died in vain.
Nobody is innocent, there are merely varying levels of guilt.
Only in death does duty end.
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane.
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair an illusion of the mind
Purge those who are unclean.
Sometimes the good must perish so that the rest survive. The lot of courage is to be sacrificed upon the altar of battle.
Survival is no birthright, but a prize wrested from an uncaring galaxy by forgotten heroes.
The common man is like a worm in the gut of a corpse, trapped inside a prison of cold flesh, helpless and uncaring, unaware even of the inevitability of its own doom.
The Emperor will not judge you by your medals and diplomas but by your scars.
Though silver in your palms weighs light
Compared to death by blast and sword,
Do not shy the hopeless fight,
For endeavour is its own reward.
Name: Enki Volkner
Position/Rank: Magos Reductor
Appearance: He is a massive man standing at seven feet tall with all his augments and quite broad to boot. The only thing human about his appearance is his shape and his face a spiked mask of cybernetics. All that remains of his human form is his brain and part of his spinal cord well-protected by his mechanical form.
Personality: Cold and ruthless and also highly devout. Highly intelligent and logical yet his thoughts are often undermined by his intense devotion to the Omnissiah and the Mechanicus, though he believes the wider Imperium has strayed from the Machine God’s light. He is also prone to waxing religious in the performance of his work.
Weapons: Power axe, a small case of melta bombs, three phospex grenades, meltagun, two weapon mounts on his back one containing a rad-cleanser and the other a graviton gun
Other equipment: A suite of high-grade Mechanicus augments befitting a Magos including his armored chassis and his neural implants for advanced targeting and predictions as well as mapping structural weaknesses.
Background: At one time he was a distinguished Magos, but Enki has experienced a falling from grace despite his centuries of work. He made an art of explosions and the patterns he created with blasts and ruined buildings were created with mathematic precision to please the aesthetics of the Machine God. There is much speculation as to why he was sent far away to Adrantis and much of his lands on his continuingly extreme views on the use of force in the Omnissiah’s name. While he retains his rank and all the power and respect that he had earned, his resources have become vastly limited from what he once enjoyed. His disgruntled attitude toward the profound disrespect shown to him by his peers in sending him to Adrantis, Enki joined Delzaharian after exactly five seconds of consideration.
Name: Omikron Zahir
Position/Rank: Electro Priest
Appearance: Standing at a solid six feet and five inches and nicely broad with the electric-blue skin typical of serving as a conduit for the Omnissiah’s wrath. A strong jaw and the melted remains of his eyes decorate his face as notable features.
Personality: When not whipped into a manic religious frenzy, he is somewhat contained and calculating. He worries about little beyond what his master wishes and what light needs be darkened in the Omnissiah’s name.
Weapons: Electroleech Staff
Other equipment: electoos and various religious iconography
Background: Zahir has served as Volkner’s faithful adjunct for several decades. The Magos’s will is his own so it was no surprise he followed in his footsteps to Adrantis. Zahir is a seasoned warrior of the battlefield who came up on some Mechanicus frontier world with a long designation number and not a name. Indoctrinated in the Mechanicus young and given to the Fulgerites after his formative religious training, he has known violence and violent ends for much of his life. Yet lately he has felt the strain of his superior’s religious fervor and quietly worries for his Lord’s stability.
Oh hey look its AD going out in a limb again with an idea
Covert War - recruitment and OOC
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