A Meeting in Darkness Attn:New Zepuha

[Apoctis]

Daen prepared the meeting room in his hollow castle, silent as it was he was very anxious to meet these representatives from another state and see what they had to say. Daen had everything laid out including a summarized revised edition of Apoctis' fact book. He then walked to the main doors and opened them to the clearing where the ship would be landing and he waited for them to arrive.

He did not know anything about this nation other than that it opposed chaos, and he was fine with that, he merely wanted to pry the minds of these visitors and see what they knew and what they wanted to know. He did not agree with them on everything, but stranger alliances had been formed between further apart idealistically nations. SO now he looked up at the sky. The planet of Apoctis was a corrupted world of civil war and choas with only two areas where there was not war and blood being shed, one of them was his castle and the other... Daen hoped that they did not try to dimensional travel like the last ambassador who did and found himself in the warp, which was a nasty circumstance that he did not want to deal with again. the warp had an opening on his planet somewhere but it was lost in the chaos. He continued to watch staring.

[New Zepuha]

Klaus von Hinterlaus, Supreme Chancellor of New Zepuha, now close to death as it will ever be. Soon his child would continue on the dynasty in the Emperors name. In transit accomodations were wonderful. Klaus had just sat down to enjoy his meal when they exited the warp far enough away from Apoctis to avoid entering an un marked entrance. Klaus didn't want another incident of the flying kitchen appliances. The warp does maddening things, then silly thing you laugh at, then scream dying a horrible death by your toaster. "20 minutes my lord." spoke a commisar over the comms.

The Grand board of Commisars had come along with him, being the only other heads of govermnt there. Councilors would be able to maintain order if they all died. The commisriat honor guard of 6 imperial guardsmen, white flak armour with bright gold trim, stood all at attention waiting for the board and Klaus to board the Aquila lander. Klaus took a final look at the sailors hustling back and forth up on the catwalks, men prepping for a launch. "Well Lord Hood, its been a while hasn't it, diplomacy and what not?" Klaus spoke with one of the Lord Commissars on the board as he plopped in his grav seat his medal jingling. The Commissar smiled and rubbed his tired old face. "Getting to be a toruble for and old sod like me, eh?" he said smiling. Both of them laughed together as the lander took off from the landing bay. Klaus was now 134 years old, he didnt want to live any longer than that, his successor about ready to secede him anyways. the Commissar hood, was a an old Schola friend, at 135, he was the elder. "i see you have graced us with your presence Ayanti." he said nodding at the Aanti Priest, that sat on the board. At 256 he was the oldest, the only man seconding him was Parese, at 187. Old men, all old men, on a diplomatic mission for the Imperium. "Omnissiah be with us." the Lord Commisar-Enginseer cursed more like it, through his vox grill as the lander entered the atmosphere. The sudden blare of engines meant they were landing.

[Apoctis]

Daen saw the large vessel entering the atmosphere over the huge clearing "there they are" he thought. he wondered if they were disgusted at the sight of the world engulfed on chaos. they had traveled through another form of the warp that Daen was not familiar with, but he would ask them about it. The warp that opened on Apoctis was impossible to travel through unless you were one of chaos . Daen liked it this way and it was efficient the way of travel compared to other forms. He watched the craft descend thinking to himself his black armour creaked in the wind. He shifted slightly the increasing wind velocity of the ship landing did not seem to bother him and he wondered if they brought body guards, Daen never had the need for guards as simply put he could not be killed, but in certain circumstances the chosen would protect him, yet he usually met diplomats alone. He was prepared for anything and wanted to see what exactly these diplomats looked like and what they wanted and thought.


Daen at this meeting
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[New Zepuha]

Klaus was the first down the ramp with the board trailing on. The honor guard had been ordered to stay, as to not threaten the local populace. Which, Klaus wasnt sure was possible as they are always fighting. "I supose you must be dean?" said Klaus looking at the mans armour. He seemed so tall in it, even Klaus felt dwarfed, at 7'2. "I am Klaus von Hinterlaus, Grand Chancellor of the Imperium of New Zepuha, and these men make up the Grand Board of Commisars." he said nodding towards the commisars and the priest. "I would like to inform you that our representitves from the three ordos of the inquistion cannot make it at the moment." he said rubbing his beard. His beard was a full beard reaching down to just above the nipple line, white as was his hair.

[Apoctis]

Daen looked at the mortal and shook his hand "very well" the complete lack of noise and other signs of life left an uneasy few second. Daen Looked at the man and ask in a dark tone, that would send shivers down spines "why not come in, I have a place we can meet all set up." Daen turned around and proceeded through the double doors of the large castle, there was nothing left but silence outside, except the win and the sound of fluttering from the chaos bats flying around the castle.

[New Zepuha]

Klaus nodded and shifted in his jack boots and followed Daen. It was such a quiet place, compared to Sinro city, tis was amazing. Yet chaos taint had most likely raped the land of natural beauty, though if an army could organize itself in time of defence or war, it did not matter. The board was trodding right along looking about seeing as they were on a completly different world from theirs. Alreck was a lush green planet, with two large oceans and rolling hills and mountains. Also compare that to the other worlds around it in the terminus system. Though Gallon was a barren planet of miner communities.

[Apoctis]

Daen led the group into a grand stone room with a small meeting room, this round table was simple and the chairs looked comfortable enough to carry out business. Daen pulled up the head table chair and sat down his armour creaked. A metronome was beside Daen, Daen touched it and it started to tick. "So gentlemen, what is it exactly you wish out of this relationship for I already am well aware of my demands,and if you intend on meeting any of our gods, I must inform you that it would be near impossible. Also if you wish to visit any specific places while you are here I will take us there, unless I do not think you will survive. It is only this quiet around my castle as the laws of the gods declared it to be that way. I would like to hear your side before I state mine because my side greatly depends on what you are after" Daen stopped and sat back, these mortals and their diplomacy, he loved playing the game, it was fun, he did it very well and knew all the ropes. He watched the faces of the men waiting for a response.

[New Zepuha]

The man who met Daen's eyes was more of a machine in all. The Enginseer-Commissar had a completly augmented face. His red opticus nerves glowed bright as he spoke. " Well, on part we would like to have rights to move through your space, but thats just on a hunch." he stopped getting a look from Hekrald. Every man in the room besides the female commissar was completly placid. Klaus looked at Dean in a ll seriousness. "I don't beleive I'd like to meet your gods, and I don't beleive you'd like to meet ours." he said shifting postion. "So buisness, we would like to strike an alliance with you, therefore granting you the right to move through our space and us through yours, aswell as acsess to shipping lanes." with a practiced ease he lit an I-ho stick and stuck it in his mouth. "That would also mean a non-agression pact." and with that he closed his side. General-Commissar Tonya Criid slid out a dataslate out of her coat pocket. "These are the locations of space ports and shiping lanes, as a show of good faith." she said sliding it at Daen.

[Apoctis]

Daen took the primitive form of recording and laughed at the machine. Maybe this is the mans child he thought of the half robotic mortal. He knew that these peoples gods were false and had little power, even compared to the mere Daemons of his world but he said nothing. Simply taking the sheet of which he was already aware of the contents he smiled and said "Thank you, yes you can pass through our space freely and a non-aggression pact sounds reasonable, I am also sure my crusade will need to pass through your space as well in the future so this works." Mortals displeased him so much, these simpletons could not see that they had no choice to meet his Gods and he recognized the drug one of them was taking through a I-ho stick. That drug would kill a man and not be enough to do anything to his men, let alone how little it would affect worshippers of Slaanesh. So primitive in their ways, but they could prove useful. He said "I believe that is all then?' as he waited for a response.

[New Zepuha]

"You beleive us to be simpletons.." chuckled a commissar with three studs in his forehead. "You didn't think we'd leave home without a pysker did you?" with that a few glances shot to Wellzby. Klaus shifted his gaze to Wellzby. "Do you have something to say commissar?" Klaus spoke a trace of political boredom on his tounge. Wellzby nodded waving his hand around the whole of the room. "You see, we are on a tainted world, he thinks nothing of us, he beleives our gods to be false, while he spits heresy in his mind you are unaware, you did wrong to leave those troopers back onboard the ship." he finished and leaned back. Klaus nodded his head lightly and shifted his old gaze to Daen. "Well, I have already broken my own rules and pissed off the entire population to talk to a chaos tainted warp spawn, but no grox-frotter is going to think us simpletons." he said surprised at himself for such a slew of words. Tonya gave him sa stunned look and nodded. "I think we shall adjurn to our ship." Klaus said standing and leaving with his cohorts.

[Apoctis]

A pysker laughed Dean in his head well the Daemons would enjoy that feast. He said nothing at the simple mortals words of hurt feelings, he was surprised at how easily they could be offended. He no longer cared where this went it was over time for him to focus on more important things. These humans acted like they knew much but know very little. They were primitive in every way and believing that real Gods was heresy was another good laugh. So blind and so far from the true path of power. He said one last thing to them " Well good bye mortals" and then turned back and strode deeper inside his castle.