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The planet Tannerith is one of three planets in the Chicarkis system in the galactic south, at the furthest of the Imperium's boundry of known and controlled space. Tannerith is a remote world, with a limited population of thirty-six million. It is self sustaining, and it produces everything it needs. Compared to most of the worlds in the Imperium's iron grip, it is a paradise, although it is little in comparison to the garden and paradise worlds. While it hasn't paid it's annual tithes for more than three decades, this has gone overlooked in the beauracratic nightmare that is the administratum. Its surface is mostly desert, and geysers are abundant in the more southern regions of the planet. On the northen area of the planet, there are large deposits of minerals, rocks, and mountains. There are many strange gases in the atmosphere that are high in the sky, that the people harness for power and other reasons. City's are scattered around the planet, and it has nothing in the way of "proper" defenses, but at the edge of the galaxy, the planet has been attacked many times, and the populace have had to look out for themselves. Their military force, which takes up only several thousand of their populace, mostly uses weaponry such as autoweapons, and while they have very few of the specialised weapons such as powerfists and power weapons, the blades cut from the unique minerals in the north are as sharp and strong as any other in the Imperium. The planet's craftsmen, builders and architects have created their own baracades and defenses from which to repell alien invaders, and the city's are heavily defended. The populace is stubbornly resiliant and independant, and most are highly skilled in their own profession. Most jobs stay the same within a family, the offspring of a family being apprenticed in the work of their parents in most cases. The planets population live in relitive prosperity, and while not particularly devout in the teachings and ways of the Ecclesiarchy, they still believe the Emperor is "God" in the loosest term, and often look to him for spiritual and social guidance. The people are usually a happy folk, and the amazingly beautiful blue rings around their planet make for the biggest attraction for systems all around. One of the other planets is a feral world, ruled over by nomadic warrior tribes, and it is a cold, white world of snow, ice and mountains, with truly epic creatures competing for survival and dominance with each other and the humans. The other world is highly secretive, and while the people of Tannerith have space capabilities, they have no reasons to use them; they have no wish to disturb the anarchic ice world, content to let its inhabitants' civilisation develop naturally, and the other planet appears to be military ruled, and any attempts to enter the planets atmosphere has resulted in the destruction of all craft by the planets' three massive space stations.

All three planets are independant of each other, but against the coming darkness, will they have to unite?



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Right, this takes place on Tannerith. I won't reveal the plot yet. If you want to join in in an adventure for survival, then fill out a character sheet below:

Character name:
Character age:
Character profession:
Character personality:
Character appearance:
Character height:
Character equipment:
Character bio/background story:



If you want to make this more random and easier/interesting for yourself, use the link below to get information for a character and then fill out the form above.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/dhadvanced.html (please pick "Imperial World" when working out the character, and ignore the career options, and if you use the random background generator, please change the career choices to something else, and feel free to change the names if you see it fit.)


I shall be the DM in this, and hopefully we'll all have some fun.

EDIT: if you can find some sort of picture that you want your character to look like, then please, feel free to post it. BUT don't do it if you're gonna make a blacksmith look like He'stan.

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These are the only weapons and vehicles (and the number) the military can use:

Units:
Chimera x43 (utilizes acidic gas spewer, and autocannon)
Bane Wolf x27
Hydra Flak tank x10
Valkyrie x16
Leman Russ Exterminator x4
Leman Russ Punisher x8
Sentinals x17
Rough Rider units x3
Veteran units x67
Heavy weapons squads - too many to put a number on it!
Infantry squads - too many to put a number on it!
Platoon command squads - too many to put a number on it!
Special weapons squads - too many to put a number on it!
Company command squads - too many to put a number on it!
'Ecclesiarchal' Priests - x26

Weapons:
any weapon that utilizes bullets; autoweapons, machine guns, etc etc
Tannerithian blades - made by the best craftsmen on the planet with the strongest and sharpest resources on the planet, very reliable and cuts through most materials. Only gifted to the very best sword wielders. Two handed swords/axes are basically Relic Blades from the SM codex, minus the power weapon bit.
Normal blades - Swords/knives/daggers/combat blades all made from standard metals, such as steel.
Other weapons - Warhammers, two-handed swords, axes, spears - anything with a blade. Many take a great pride in their martial ability, but it is deemed unskilled and pathetic to use such weapons like knuckledusters etc.
Missile Launchers
Frag grenades
Gas grenades, various types.
Bolt weapons (function using powerful toxins and gases inside standard bolt shell unlike boltguns in the rest of the imperium, but no less potent. Hellfire rounds are extremely common, and veteran units regularly have boltgun wielders amongst their ranks)
Gas/toxin/acid spewers


ARMOUR TYPES/game equivelant save:
Leather/--
Mesh/6+
Flak/5+
Carapace/4+
Tannerite/3+ (made from aforementioned uber rocks . Only about a dozen in existance, and don't let that 3+ game equivelant fool you, it's nowhere near as good as power armour! Best protection someone on the planet could get though..)


Players/characters involved currently:

Cadet_Commissar_Ludd ~ Niall Seregath

Scrazza ~ Tor Virgil

gutseren ~ Gutseren Killith (DECEASED)

Ghosty ~ Castella

Asherian Command ~ Roger Huston

This is my first time doing anything like this so feel free to correct me if I get anything wrong, by the way, Dark I love your fluff!!!(main reason I joined this crazy game )

Character name: Niall Seregath

Character age: early 24

Character job: junior officer in planetary defence force

Character personality: traditional officer, does everything 'by the book' in his younger brother's words: "a right old starch ar*e"

Character appearance: quite short black hair, dark green eyes, long face, commissar like great coat in a dark green to match his eyes

Character height: 6 foot 4 inches (1.9 metres)

Character equipment: Specialist 'Kraken' gas pistol, short combat knife, snub nosed auto-pistol, lighter and notebook and pen
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Character bio/background story:
Niall was his parent's first child, his mother Caon worked in the administratum and his father Aeln was a revered tech-worker, having been trained by a tech-adept of the mechanicum during an earlier excursion into the nearby system, in one of the many armoury manafactorums in the hive. Then, Caon to her second son Jorgan. Jorgan, from the age of four was extremely tender to his "mama" but would go into great rages at his father, older brother and just about anyone else.
Unfortunately, when Jorgan was nine, Caon was killed by a heretic who had stolen a pistol from Aeln's armoury and forced his way into the adminiatratum building killing half a dozen people before being taken down. Aeln thought of himself as personally responsible for Caon's death, after this, Aeln went into a depressive spiral often destructive and very rarely sober in it's path. So a thirteen year old Niall was forced to bring up the troublesome Jorgan whilst trying to avoid his father's deadly temper. Over this period, Niall built up strict regimes and schedules to try and escape the terrible rage of his father and his brother's mood swings. Four years past, Niall was seventeen and Jorgan was thirteen, looking for strict order, discipline and a way to escape the hell that was his home, he signed up to the planetary defence force. On the day of his recruitment, Aeln came over to his oldest son and gave him a small package, looking inside, Niall saw a exquisitely crafted pistol. "One of my best" were his father's gruff words as he limped out of the room.
Two years later, and Niall had risen to Junior officer, his strict attitude to discipline and astounding marksmanship earning him a special place among the officer cadre. Four days after his promotion, he received an urgent message from his father explaining that Jorgan, who had threatened it several times had run away from home. As Niall stared down with blank disinterest at the poor quality paper in his hand, he took out his lighter and lit the transcript, letting it burn to ash...
EDIT-I removed the lucky scarf, didn't seem very likely that my character would believe in luck.

Thank you .

For Niall's age.. might I suggest you give an actual number? About 24 at the minimum.. I mean, you're a conscript at the age of 12-18 or something like that.. so you'd have risen pretty quickly, even though there are regular Pirate and alien attacks.

I take it you used the generator to some extent then?

Also, I'm a bit dubious about that Plasma pistol.. as I said, they don't have las weapons and stuff like that.. I mean, obviously, it's possible for a weapon like that to get into the system, just incrediably unlikely..

I think you should change the special plasma pistol to a special autopistol.

Also, on the note of plasma stuff, as stated in my OP, the inhabitants of the planet use gases in the atmosphere unique to the planet (possibly..) as energy to power their cities, and use it as propellant and energy for their weapons. Their grenades, for example, explode outwards in a "wave" of pressurised gas or something like that, doing the same thing frag nades do in the 40k game. They do also have frags . Other gas nades are actually used to gas enemies.

But other than that, their auto weapons are powered or whatever the term is (I'm no gun expert) to fire. Also, if this gas is released from a weapon, it just goes back into the atmosphere. Super natural recycling ftw!

So, basically, these weapons are no-no's:
Plasma
Laser (They could quite easily produce these types of weapons, and they use lasers for other things like surgery, but it is the preferance of the military to use autoweapons)
Flamethrowers (the equivelants instead fire poisonous/toxic/acidic etc gas)
Chain weapons
Power weapons, Power fists, Lightning claws etc etc


That's all I can be bothered to think of for now..

Thanks Dark, no I did not use the generator at all for this bit of fluff, will edit my original post as per suggestions to make this RP work.
I'm thinking for the 'kraken' pistol, maybe like a sort of variant splinter pistol, any ideas on that?

Cadet_Commissar_Ludd wrote:Thanks Dark, no I did not use the generator at all for this bit of fluff, will edit my original post as per your requirements.

O.O

"Requirements" - more along the lines of suggestions to make this RP work.. buuut..

Check out the generator anyway, it's pretty awesome!

Name: Tor Virgil
Age: 22
Job: Veteran trooper in the PDF. regiment: 17th Infantry regiment.
Personality: Young and with fire in his belly, Virgil always wants to prove hiself to the rest of his squad. Especially to his sergeant. Most of the time Virgil is a quite young man, having accepted that he would probably never leave the planet, and that he always will be PDF. In his time off, Virgil likes to read books or go to the local pub for some "amusement".
Appearance: see picture. as seen fit for a PDF guardsman.
Height: 1.85 meters
equipment: Flak armour, autogun, long crafted combat knife,frag grenades.
Bio/Background: Tor is the son of Keri his mother and Mirt his father. His Father died when Tor was 15 years old and was a junior officer in the pdf. His mother was a factory worker. she had an accident and got killed working in the factory when Tor was 19. following the tradition of the planet, Tor joined the pdf. when he was 16. his drill-sergeant noticed the talent in the kid. After 4 years Virgil finished his training and got his private stripes at the age of 22.

generator does look pretty sweet, but as this is my first character, I wanted to make it all up myself.

THIS IS WIN:




Anyway, thanks for joining Scrazza! But, this planet doesn't have stormtroopers nor hellguns I'm afraid, sorry to reign on your parade there.


WILL POST MORE TOMORROW!

well then, I'll edit it then. Let's see......

edited: is it better?

oh I also found an awesome site. It contains 86 pages of 40k related artwork both by fans and rulebook art. Some of these artworks are quite qood for you appearance picture. mine came from this site too.

http://www.google.be/imgres?imgurl=http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/1686757/images/1210261074977.jpg&imgrefurl=http://fok.dow-mods.com/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D115%26p%3D68574&usg=__ZtpJ2CABOOXke16aXDEMTrTrzaE=&h=921&w=697&sz=455&hl=nl&start=447&itbs=1&tbnid=gvARsXaVDzHr5M:&tbnh=147&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dimperial%2Bguard%2B40k%2Bartwork%26start%3D440%26hl%3Dnl%26sa%3DN%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26tbs%3Disch:1

Character name: Gutseren (Iron Hands) Killith
Character age: 35
Character job: Blacksmith/Weapons maker
Character personality: A humorous man that can make a joke out of anything. Also a bit of a famous marksman in his city
Character appearance: Relatively long blond hair. Green eyes. A very muscular fit man
Character height: 6' 3"
Character equipment: Specially crafted One-handed sword, along with a High powered gas pistol. He also crafted a suit of armor strong enough to withstand some of the galaxies strongest weapons, yet light enough that he loses very little mobility
Character bio/background story: Gutseren really had no troubles throughout his life, had a fun younger brother and a cool best friend that both enlisted in the guard, he ;however, took up his father's job as a blacksmith and surpassed even the greatest on the planet Tannerith. Never finding a lack of pay thanks to the guard he is a wealthy man who loves his city and planet.

Cadet_Commissar_Ludd wrote:generator does look pretty sweet, but as this is my first character, I wanted to make it all up myself.

Thata boy! Never use a internet generator for a character...its best if they come from the generator that is the mind!



And Dark....If my character Nikev joins....he's going to have a weapons that you would not want on here....him and his small band of troopers.

Scrazza wrote:oh I also found an awesome site. It contains 86 pages of 40k related artwork both by fans and rulebook art. Some of these artworks are quite qood for you appearance picture. mine came from this site too.

http://www.google.be/imgres?imgurl=http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/1686757/images/1210261074977.jpg&imgrefurl=http://fok.dow-mods.com/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D115%26p%3D68574&usg=__ZtpJ2CABOOXke16aXDEMTrTrzaE=&h=921&w=697&sz=455&hl=nl&start=447&itbs=1&tbnid=gvARsXaVDzHr5M:&tbnh=147&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dimperial%2Bguard%2B40k%2Bartwork%26start%3D440%26hl%3Dnl%26sa%3DN%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26tbs%3Disch:1

that is fulll of win...

even more win than dark's picture!

Tra laa, thanks for that website Scrazza

you welcome! good choice!

Im in.



Character name: Castella
Character age: 29
Character job: Sergeant of the local Arbites(or whatever substitutes for arbits on this world)
Character personality: Castella is a B*tch. She made her way to Sergeant through backstabbing, and cruelty. She is mean, and will do anything to get the job done. Anything.
Character appearance: Like picture, but with a shotgun instead of lasgun. She has tanned skin, and her eyes are grey. She has hair dyed bright red. She has lots of tattoos, like in picture
Character Background: Castella's mum and dad both served as Arbitrators in her home city. They worked hard, and tried to uphold the law justly. Castella however, was a bit of a pyromaniac in her youth, and enjoyed to set things alight, just to see them wilt and die. Her parents were initially concerned, but put it down to her just learning the ways of the world. When Castella made her choice, and said she wanted to join up, her parents were proud of her. However, she got turfed to another city, and without her parents guiding light, she quickly fell into dark ways, and became the twisted scourge of friends and foe alike she is today. She was accused of setting a suspect on fire in his own hab, but it was never proved. Because of this, she gained the name 'blazing B*tch' by her work colleagues.
Character Equipment: Shotgun, 12 shells (manstopper) Knife x2, stub pistol (prone to jam) ID, Dogtags (stolen from a PDF) a pack of matches, and a home made tear gas grenade.

Character height: 5'10

glad you joined. and glad that site helped lol!

love it ghosty, absolutely inspired

Why thankyou I predict many a thing will be burned. And that stub gun WILL jam. 'nuff said.

Scratch that.

This website is awesome! Thanks, Scrazza!



PLANETARY OFFICIALS (GOVERNOR IS THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE):




MAN IN CHARGE OF THE MILITARY (Dekko Gunner):





NOW these are the only weapons and vehicles (and the number) the military can use:

Units:
Chimera x43 (utilizes acidic gas spewer, and autocannon)
Bane Wolf x27
Hydra Flak tank x10
Valkyrie x16
Leman Russ Exterminator x4
Leman Russ Punisher x8
Sentinals x17
Rough Rider units x3
Veteran units x67
Heavy weapons squads - too many to put a number on it!
Infantry squads - too many to put a number on it!
Platoon command squads - too many to put a number on it!
Special weapons squads - too many to put a number on it!
Company command squads - too many to put a number on it!
'Ecclesiarchy' Priests - x26

Weapons:
any weapon that utilizes bullets; autoweapons, machine guns, etc etc
Tannerithian blades - made by the best craftsmen on the planet with the strongest and sharpest resources on the planet, very reliable and cuts through most materials. Only gifted to the very best sword wielders. Two handed swords/axes are basically Relic Blades from the SM codex, minus the power weapon bit.
Normal blades - Swords/knives/daggers/combat blades all made from standard metals, such as steel.
Other weapons - Warhammers, two-handed swords, axes, spears - anything with a blade. Many take a great pride in their martial ability, but it is deemed unskilled and pathetic to use such weapons like knuckledusters etc.
Missile Launchers
Frag grenades
Gas grenades, various types.
Bolt weapons (function using powerful toxins and gases inside standard bolt shell unlike boltguns in the rest of the imperium, but no less potent. Hellfire rounds are extremely common, and veteran units regularly have boltgun wielders amongst their ranks)
Gas/toxin/acid spewers


Anyway, anything else is . NIkev, I know you're obsessed with Commissar Nikev and his nucians, but I'm afraid if you want to join this RP, you're going to have to just make up a new character.


Also, the PDF is split up into "cells". Each major city will have a garrison of roughly 500 + vehicles. Places such as farmland outposts, manufactorums, gas collection points, water collection/filtration sites, and the great mining facility's in the north are all also guarded quite heavily, especially with built-in anti-air/land turrets and gun points, with each of them being a small fortress like site; with steep high walls, gates and whatnot. They will have a garrison of about 25-50, with one or two vehicles for transportation/combat etc.

Me wants more plot!!!!

Cadet_Commissar_Ludd wrote:Me wants more plot!!!!

You've had breakfast, wait for lunch.
^ not literally



Hmm.. I think I'll start the RP tonight or tomorrow. If I do more tonight, it'll be at about 7:30 pm onwards.

cool.... will definitely be online 7pm onwards
Ludd out

Little extra:


ARMOUR TYPES/game equivelant save:
Leather/--
Mesh/6+
Flak/5+
Carapace/4+
Tannerite/3+ (made from aforementioned uber rocks . Only about a dozen in existance, and don't let that 3+ game equivelant fool you, it's nowhere near as good as power armour! Best protection someone on the planet could get though..)



EDIT:

More extra:

Players/characters involved currently:

Cadet_Commissar_Ludd ~ Niall Seregath
Scrazza ~ Tor Virgil
gutseren ~ Gutseren Killith
Ghosty ~ Castella



Anyway, the RP HAS NOT started yet, this is just a lil' taster for you:

They'd been allowed to land without a problem inside one of the major cities! What luck! Karl thought, Their AA must be all bust. He smiled, and looked around the corner - Two dozen PDF's were holding position behind cover. Karl looked back around to his men. "Ready?" he asked.
"Check."
"All lights are green, boss."
"Wait, argh.. my stubber's jammed.. just got..to.. there we go. Let's do this boss!"
Karl looked back around. There was a tall man, with a flowing cloak, long hair and a sword that looked roughly a metre long at his side. The man's voice boomed out, "Pirate! I have a proposition for you! You have no other choice, either way, you're surrounded by snipers already."
Karl cursed as he saw red crosshairs appear on all of his men, and himself.
"What is it that you propose?" he shouted back angrily.
"Fight me, in one-on-one combat. If you kill me, you may leave the planet. If I win, you will all die."
Karl stepped out. Gratifyingly, non of the PDFs opened fire. Karl drew his power sword - an antique weapon he'd stolen from a reliquary a few systems away. It crackled with powerful energy. The pirate roared and ran at his opponant. The Imperial brought his sword up in a wide arc, crashing into Karl's sword with unexpected force. What was even more unexpected was, that his opponants' weapon was not cleaved in two by the powersword, and that his blade was sent flying from his hand, and embedded in the ground several metres away. Catching him while he was off balance, the man kicked him in the stomach, sending him to the ground.

"No! Please! I'll do anything, no! No!" The pirate begged and whimpered at Dekko's feet, groveling on his knees. Dekko mearly spat in his face and denounced him as a traitor, before decapitating in one smooth swing of his Tannerithian sword. The corpse fell over. Four other pirates broke cover, yelling profanities at Dekko as they ran towards him. They were all dead before they'd taken three steps in his direction. The Supreme Commander merely smiled as four snipers displaced themselves from the shadows.

Cool, I'm liking it so far, good fluff.

nice fluff already.
O_O do I see helguns and powerswords on those planetary officials?

I see you included veteran units, Dark. Could you be so kind to come up with names for those veteran units? If my character can't be a stormtrooper, I sure want him to be part of another veteran unit.

OK, as this is my first RPG, I've got a few questions:
1. Am I based in Tannerith? I'm assuming I am.
2. Are there any rules once the RP gets under way?
3. Should I do my posts in first person or third person
i.e I loaded my pistol and fired it. or Niall loaded his pistol and fired it.