Warhammer 42,000: Legacy[OOC/OPEN]

[The Empire of Pretantia]

It is the Forty-Third Millennium, and all that remains of the Emperor's legacy is war.

A thousand years ago, the Imperium of Man had finally collapsed under the weight of conflict and bureaucracy, taking the legacy of the God-Emperor with it. The Black Crusade scoured across the Imperium for the final time, bringing its foul aberrations to the gates of Holy Terra itself. From another galaxy invaded the vast swarms of the Tyranids. The Tau began the last sphere of expansion, capitalizing on the weakening Damocles front. Enemies both within and without were finally seeing to the Imperium's death throes, and the End Times fell upon the galaxy. Today, in the years of M43, the realms of humanity stand divided in thousands of kingdoms, their heritage only a memory to be wielded by shrewd demagogues, or followed blindly by myrmidons. Even still humanity's enemies are vast, and many realms once loyal to their immortal Emperor now openly worship vile beings with impunity.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the darkest and most perilous age imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.

IC

Hello, and welcome to Year 000.M43, or 42,000 for you non-40K fans. The Last Black Crusade, the Tyrannic Wars, the Fourth Sphere Expansion, and ultimately the fall of the Imperium has all happened centuries before and now we're in the Space-Middle Ages to the Imperium's space-Pax Romana. The Emperor has ascended to godhood, the Craftworlds are gone, Slaanesh is locked in eternal combat with the death god Ynnead for the lost souls of Eldar, thousands of realms fight to rule the galaxy, Chaos is rampant, the Tyranids have taken root in the galaxy as permanent residents, Terra is currently inaccessible due to warp phenomena, the space marines are no longer fettered by the laws of the Imperium, and life still sucks.

Also, humanity no longer has navigators (with some exceptions), but can still somehow travel the warp and know where the somehow-still-shining Astronomicon is intuitively. That is the Light of the Emperor (tm) in all of us, and it guides us to victory or some shit. Look, all it means is no navigators and Chaos needs to be more convincing if they want converts outside the cultist rabble that's been inbreeding for the last thousand years.

No seriously, the Emperor achieved his goal and saw to it that humanity (well, the loyal half) became a psychic race that could fight Chaos, and the power is called the Light of the Emperor. So Chaos rooted itself throughout the galaxy, humanity became psychic master race, Eldar created Ynnead, and the Tau briefly had a large empire which immediately collapsed. So everybody won! Yay!

Except Tau, because fuck Tau.

Take charge of some nation or another, fight or befriend other nations, and dick around and stuff.

No touching, no hugging, no kissing, no running. I'm not going to stop you from starting elsewhere, but it would behoove you to start in Ultima. I'm also not gonna stop you from being orks or Necrons or whatever.

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[spoiler][b]Faction[/b]:
[b]Leader[/b]:
[b]Member Bodies[/b]: Essentially, what races and parties are a part of or permitted in your nation, such as humans, Tau, Orks, Space Marines, Khornates, Slaaneshi, even daemons because fuck corruption, Light of the Emperor bitches. Or just be a tyranids faction and thus a douchenozzle.
[b]General Location[/b]:
[b]Worlds[/b]: 1-100 please
[b]Notable Locations[/b]:
[b]History & Description[/b]:
[b]Military[/b]: *Der sigh* The only actually important part in an app for an RP about war. Make sure to include both navy and ground forces[/spoiler]

[u]GET PSYCHED[/u]

My example:

Faction: The Markian Corps
Leader: Chancellor Argevollen
Member Bodies: humans, ogryns, space marines, Mechanicus
General Location: southern Segmentum Ultima
Worlds: 77
Notable Locations:
The following, except for Ghalhal, are considered worlds of Greater Markia, the original territories of the Markian Pact.
Atashia, industrial world and capital
Kouralia, oceanic agri-world and home to the air regiments, as well as the Angels Imperious
Thenar, agri-world and home to the mountain infantry
Karmia, civilized world
Lemartia, mining world and home to the sapper regiments
Ghalhal, forge world
Minor worlds that I found in my notes:

Goda, knight world and home of the retainer regiments
Argon, prison world and home of the penal legions and the Argon Silverbacks
Grogan, agri-world
Suka, airless feral world full of archeotech and other artefacts
Tor, civilized world
Tannhäuser, knight world of House Walkur
Brimstone, mining world
Karadon, deathworld
Tolmekia, deathworld
Ferrax, forge world

History & Description: Following the end of the Imperium, the worlds of Man collapsed into anarchy and disorder. Bands of pirates and bloodthirsty warlords raped worlds once protected by the might of the Imperium. However, this was not a permanent state in many regions, which eventually stabilized into permanent governments. Among these governments was the Markian Pact, an alliance of five worlds worlds dedicated to the God-Emperor in mid M42. Originally founded for the benefit of those five worlds, the Markian Pact had since annexed multiple planets into its growing empire. The Pact's ultimate goal is to conquer the galaxy, absorbing all humanity and establishing a new Imperium.
Military: the greatest force of the Markian Pact is the Markian Corps, a massive army from the five original worlds. Its numbers are 150 million PDF soldiers on five worlds,while its expeditionary force, the thirty grand corps, is three million strong.

The forces of Ghalhal are sought after but reclusive. Ghalhal is home to three million Skitarii and a legion of titans, which defend only Ghalhal unless the Pact forces them. After all, if Ghalhal wanted to fight they would keep their products to themselves

The total PDF of minor worlds is around 300 million; their expeditionary forces are around 10 million. The auxiliaries available to the Markian Corps are diverse, but inconsistent in quality and integrity.

The most powerful allies to the Markian Pact are the space marines of the Angels Imperious, the knights of houses Goda and Walkur, the battle sisters of the Order of the Icy Clench, and the titans of Ghalhal and Ferrax.

Battlefleet Markia: 1,000 warships of various class, plus countless transports

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The Markian Pact, me
Initially an alliance of five worlds, the Markian Pact is a fledgling empire that seeks to establish a new Imperium.

Das Reich, Remnants of Exilvania
From beyond the Light of the Emperor come the Reich of the Veiled Region, a group of renegades dating back to the 41st Millennium return to find the galaxy in turmoil

The Polarian Alliance of Star Systems, Ardavia
A union of former Imperial worlds that face the new millennium with walls and bastions.

Waaagh!! Gitstab, Glorious Buffalo
A mob of grots, the smallest of the greenskins, has begun a revolution, and seeks to spread the Green Scare to the entire galaxy.

WAAAGH!! Rehab, me again
Da Ruggotta Katchem All of WAAAGH!! Rehab, in its single-minded pursuit of the Tyranid splinter fleet, has unwittingly passing through the Sol System, initiating a chain of events that will lead to a new order in the galaxy.

Uhulis League, Mefpan
The Uhulis League finds its roots in the turmoil of the turn of the millennium, when worlds united to maintain the Emperor's will against pirates and warlords.

The Hezrak Dominion, Icthyia
The foul immortal Hezrak devotes his domain to the dark gods, and seeks to expand his realm to all the Materium.

The Dominion of the Dragon, G-Tech Corporation
Mars, the lost capital of the Adeptus Mechanicus, has been relocated by the might of the C'tan Mag'ladroth to the Halo Stars, where the unholy partnership of technosophists and necrons forge an army to conquer the galaxy.

[Bone Fort]

Faction: The Devil Eaters
Leader: The Cabal, made up of the leaders of each of the spacehulks
Member Bodies: Humans, Ogryns, Nightsiders, various assorted minor abhumans, Demons, Kroot mercenaries, some minor Xenos, and on occasion Ork mercenaries.
General Location: Constantly on the move
Worlds: None, fleet-based
Notable Locations: The 11 spacehulks that I'll eventually get around to naming.
Night's Cruelty
Gods' End
Era of Empty Lanterns
Calling to the Night
Heavens Divide
Way to Fall
Sins of the Father

History & Description: The universe is a terrible place, life is short and grim, and not only is a horrific death at an early age incredibly likely, an eternity of torment awaits all. Those are the simple facts of life, and whether ones accepts them or not changes little. There are some who reject these facts, who rage against the inevitable. Then there are some who both accept these facts as part of reality, but reject their inevitability. They reject the light of the Emperor who abandoned them. They reject the false love the the Ruinous Powers that brought about their suffering. Their hearts and minds, half black with rage towards those who hurt them and half white with love for those they seek to protect, turn towards the only one mad and twisted enough to accept them. At such times even the Gods of Chaos grow fearful, when a warrior's heart turns to Malal. Normally naught but a relative handful of solitary individuals, with the horrors of the End Times more and more turn to the Outcast God, more and more banding together in preparation for the inevitable, the End of it all. Not necessarily all that is and ever will be, but the end of things are they currently are. The Malcontents, the strongest of such groups, are determined to leave behind a better galaxy, though none can agree on what exactly that would be. Some want to end it all, to put the whole rotted mess out of its misery. The most insane dream of a galaxy where peace and kindness replace war as the default state of things. At any rate, they work together for now, till the sudden and inevitable betrayal at the End.
Military: The core group consists of roughly 111,111* fanatical Malal cultists based out of 11 spacehulks, a constantly flucuating amount of daemons, along with whatever rabble they attract to a particular engagement, be they mercenaries, pirates or local dissidents

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*Give or take a thousand

[The Flame Dawn]

Colour me interested XD

I'm pretty sure it's a shade of blue =w=

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Bump

[G-Tech Corporation]

Om nom's large quadrants of the Galaxy.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Om nom's large quadrants of the Galaxy.

I'm not stopping you if you do.

[Greater Utrecht]

Faction: Infinity Empire
Leader: Sarakh the Benevolent
Member Bodies: Necrons
General Location: Galactic Center
Worlds: 14
Notable Locations: Zoryk and a bunch of other Tomb Worlds
History & Description: After the awakening of the Necron Tomb World of Zoryk in 007.M42, Sarakh the Benevolent led a faction of Necrons and took control of the Tomb World in 713.M42 and formed the (Necron) Infinity Empire. He went on a crusade to awaken and conquer the Necron Tomb Worlds and unite them under his rule. Finally in 993.M42, he based his base of operations in the Galactic Center and from Zoryk.
Military: 14 Tomb Worlds (and soon more), Thousands of Necron Tomb Ships (with the Inertialess Drive) though most lie inactive, Tens of Millions of Necrons, Hundreds of Millions of other forces such as Scarabs, Wraiths, and Spyders (That is total), a bunch of (almost non-functional) Heavy Weapons found on Tomb Worlds

Btw are other forms of FTL allowed? I know the Necrons have or had the Inertialess Drive

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[The Empire of Pretantia]

Faction: Infinity Empire
Leader: Sarakh the Benevolent
Member Bodies: Necrons
General Location: Galactic Center
Worlds: 14
Notable Locations: Zoryk and a bunch of other Tomb Worlds
History & Description: After the awakening of the Necron Tomb World of Zoryk in 007.M42, Sarakh the Benevolent led a faction of Necrons and took control of the Tomb World in 713.M42 and formed the (Necron) Infinity Empire. He went on a crusade to awaken and conquer the Necron Tomb Worlds and unite them under his rule. Finally in 993.M42, he based his base of operations in the Galactic Center and from Zoryk.
Military: 14 Tomb Worlds (and soon more), Thousands of Necron Tomb Ships (with the Inertialess Drive), Billions of Necrons, Trillions of other forces such as Scarabs, Wraiths, and Spyders, a bunch of Heavy Weapons found on Tomb Worlds

Btw are other forms of FTL allowed? I know the Necrons have or had the Inertialess Drive

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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeh let me think about it, I was still deciding whether necrons would be acceptable whenever I posted. Your military is definitely fuckhueg though; besides being vague (how many billions? One? Nine hundred?), the numbers are beyond any that other players could muster. I mean, thousands of tomb ships? JesusChristhowhorrifying.jpeg

[Shadowwell]

Faction: Infinity Empire
Leader: Sarakh the Benevolent
Member Bodies: Necrons
General Location: Galactic Center
Worlds: 14
Notable Locations: Zoryk and a bunch of other Tomb Worlds
History & Description: After the awakening of the Necron Tomb World of Zoryk in 007.M42, Sarakh the Benevolent led a faction of Necrons and took control of the Tomb World in 713.M42 and formed the (Necron) Infinity Empire. He went on a crusade to awaken and conquer the Necron Tomb Worlds and unite them under his rule. Finally in 993.M42, he based his base of operations in the Galactic Center and from Zoryk.
Military: 14 Tomb Worlds (and soon more), Thousands of Necron Tomb Ships (with the Inertialess Drive), Billions of Necrons, Trillions of other forces such as Scarabs, Wraiths, and Spyders, a bunch of Heavy Weapons found on Tomb Worlds

Btw are other forms of FTL allowed? I know the Necrons have or had the Inertialess Drive

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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeh let me think about it, I was still deciding whether necrons would be acceptable whenever I posted. Your military is definitely fuckhueg though; besides being vague (how many billions? One? Nine hundred?), the numbers are beyond any that other players could muster. I mean, thousands of tomb ships? JesusChristhowhorrifying.jpeg

You Could Nerf them, a bit, by adding some things into the Lore. Saying, many Necron Tomb worlds and ships lie inactive, due to some sort of thing that messed with them.



Are Orks allowed, by any chance?

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeh let me think about it, I was still deciding whether necrons would be acceptable whenever I posted. Your military is definitely fuckhueg though; besides being vague (how many billions? One? Nine hundred?), the numbers are beyond any that other players could muster. I mean, thousands of tomb ships? JesusChristhowhorrifying.jpeg

You Could Nerf them, a bit, by adding some things into the Lore. Saying, many Necron Tomb worlds and ships lie inactive, due to some sort of thing that messed with them.

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Like... In the actual lore?
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Are Orks allowed, by any chance?[/quote]
If it is not Eldar (fuck Eldar), it is allowed.

Corollary: Dark Eldar aren't Eldar.

[Prusslandia]

Well. This is going to be fun.

How would you feel about a horde of inbred, massively warp tainted chaos cultists led by a remnant of the Emperor's Children, who are devoted to Slaanesh and roam the former Imperium, attacking worlds for.... stuff.

[Shadowwell]

You Could Nerf them, a bit, by adding some things into the Lore. Saying, many Necron Tomb worlds and ships lie inactive, due to some sort of thing that messed with them.

Like... In the actual lore?

Are Orks allowed, by any chance?

If it is not Eldar (fuck Eldar), it is allowed.

Corollary: Dark Eldar aren't Eldar.

I meant the lore of this rp. I have only played a few 40k games so i dont know the lore of the series extensively.

I might get something involving Chaos or the Orks, up later.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Well. This is going to be fun.

How would you feel about a horde of inbred, massively warp tainted chaos cultists led by a remnant of the Emperor's Children, who are devoted to Slaanesh and roam the former Imperium, attacking worlds for.... stuff.

I'm not into incest, even though I'm from Alabama.

Yes you can.

[Greater Utrecht]

Nerfed the Necrons to a degree

[G-Tech Corporation]

Faction: The Dominion of the Dragon
Leader: The Void Dragon, Mag'ladroth, Order Incarnate, the Omnissah
Member Bodies: Humans, Necrontyr, Daemons (technically), C'tan
General Location: Segmentum Solar
Worlds: 30
Notable Locations: Mars, now dragged far out of System Sol by eldritch forces, stands as the foundation of the Dominion, orbiting around her own false star.
History & Description: When the Emperor ascended, the chains of the Noctis Labyrinth crumbled to dust. Thankfully for Mars and humanity, the Void Dragon had been tempered through its millenia of speech with the Keeper, and now desired order through creation instead of order through oblivion. Reawakening to strength from the worship of the Cult Mechanicus, both as a powerful warp entity and inherently a creature of great prowess in the Materium, the Void Dragon's first act was to drag ten Forge-Worlds to a system far west of Sol, near the ancient Halo Stars. Why it did so is unknown, but the technological boons its Necron servants have brought to man have attracted many followers, and its message of peace through order and strength through control has won the hearts of many. For the past millennium a great crusade fleet has been prepared, filling the orbits of all ten worlds, forged of the starstuff of the cosmos by methods arcane. Now the engines flicker and corpse-white in the inky blackness, and the silent fleets stir.
Military: Tough to say. Probably ~100 million Skitarii/Human Auxila, supplemented by hosts of war machines and several hundred thousand Necronytr. Space forces, maybe four thousand ships of various description, largely Necron in make but in many cases crewed by 'uplifted' humans.

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[Shadowwell]

Could My Orks have a Worldship?
Or several?

[Bhikkustan]

The intense heresy alone is enough for my tag

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Nerfed the Necrons to a degree

That's one part addressed, but you still need to nerf the fleet and give a number more exact than tens or hundreds of millions.

Faction: The Dominion of the Dragon
Leader: The Void Dragon, Mag'ladroth, Order Incarnate, the Omnissah
Member Bodies: Humans, Necrontyr, Daemons (technically), C'tan
General Location: Segmentum Solar
Worlds: 10
Notable Locations: Mars, now dragged far out of System Sol by eldritch forces, stands as the foundation of the Dominion, orbiting around her own false star.
History & Description: When the Emperor ascended, the chains of the Noctis Labyrinth crumbled to dust. Thankfully for Mars and humanity, the Void Dragon had been tempered through its millenia of speech with the Keeper, and now desired order through creation instead of order through oblivion. Reawakening to strength from the worship of the Cult Mechanicus, both as a powerful warp entity and inherently creature of great prowess in the Materium, the Void Dragon's first act was to drag ten Forge-Worlds to a system far west of Sol, near the ancient Halo Stars. Why it did so is unknown, but the technological prowess it's Necron servants have brought to man has attracted many followers, and it's message of peace through order and strength through control has one the hearts of many.
Military: Tough to say. Probably ~100 million Skitarii/Human Auxila, supplemented by hosts of war machines and several billions Necrons. Space forces, maybe ten thousand ships of various description?

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Uuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Eeeeerrrrrr.

Gggggggghhhhhhhhh.

I think I should've expected somebody to come out of left field like that. You know what, I know you well enough to trust you with such power and position so I am willing to accept you, but did you believe it would've been accepted if I didn't know you?

Just cut the number of ships in half at the least and claim less than a billion Necrons in your forces... Nah, less than half a billion, because I just told someone else that billions was too much for me.

Could My Orks have a Worldship?
Or several?

No.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

The intense heresy alone is enough for my tag

It's not heresy if there's no more Ecclesiarchy.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Nerfed the Necrons to a degree

That's one part addressed, but you still need to nerf the fleet and give a number more exact than tens or hundreds of millions.

Faction: The Dominion of the Dragon
Leader: The Void Dragon, Mag'ladroth, Order Incarnate, the Omnissah
Member Bodies: Humans, Necrontyr, Daemons (technically), C'tan
General Location: Segmentum Solar
Worlds: 10
Notable Locations: Mars, now dragged far out of System Sol by eldritch forces, stands as the foundation of the Dominion, orbiting around her own false star.
History & Description: When the Emperor ascended, the chains of the Noctis Labyrinth crumbled to dust. Thankfully for Mars and humanity, the Void Dragon had been tempered through its millenia of speech with the Keeper, and now desired order through creation instead of order through oblivion. Reawakening to strength from the worship of the Cult Mechanicus, both as a powerful warp entity and inherently creature of great prowess in the Materium, the Void Dragon's first act was to drag ten Forge-Worlds to a system far west of Sol, near the ancient Halo Stars. Why it did so is unknown, but the technological prowess it's Necron servants have brought to man has attracted many followers, and it's message of peace through order and strength through control has one the hearts of many.
Military: Tough to say. Probably ~100 million Skitarii/Human Auxila, supplemented by hosts of war machines and several billions Necrons. Space forces, maybe ten thousand ships of various description?

GET PSYCHED

Uuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Eeeeerrrrrr.

Gggggggghhhhhhhhh.

I think I should've expected somebody to come out of left field like that. You know what, I know you well enough to trust you with such power and position so I am willing to accept you, but did you believe it would've been accepted if I didn't know you?

Just cut the number of ships in half at the least and claim less than a billion Necrons in your forces... Nah, less than half a billion, because I just told someone else that billions was too much for me.

Could My Orks have a Worldship?
Or several?

No.

Honestly, he's just a cool character I'm looking forward to exploring, alongside his relationship to the Immaterium and ole Emps. I can cut the Necrons down to a thousand if they bother you- they're really window dressing.

[Bhikkustan]

The intense heresy alone is enough for my tag

It's not heresy if there's no more Ecclesiarchy.

It's not rape if you yell surprise

Sorry that was remarkably off topic

[The Empire of Pretantia]

That's one part addressed, but you still need to nerf the fleet and give a number more exact than tens or hundreds of millions.


Uuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Eeeeerrrrrr.

Gggggggghhhhhhhhh.

I think I should've expected somebody to come out of left field like that. You know what, I know you well enough to trust you with such power and position so I am willing to accept you, but did you believe it would've been accepted if I didn't know you?

Just cut the number of ships in half at the least and claim less than a billion Necrons in your forces... Nah, less than half a billion, because I just told someone else that billions was too much for me.

No.

Honestly, he's just a cool character I'm looking forward to exploring, alongside his relationship to the Immaterium and ole Emps. I can cut the Necrons down to a thousand if they bother you- they're really window dressing.

That would be alright.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

It's not heresy if there's no more Ecclesiarchy.

It's not rape if you yell surprise

Sorry that was remarkably off topic

You would be amazed by how on topic it actually is.

[G-Tech Corporation]

And numbers slashed appropriately.

[Swith Witherward]

You never fail to make me smile, Pret. I'll keep an eye on this, and maybe join if Nord's RP doesn't launch soon.