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OK so ive just finished Commisar and it has inspired me to start a new IG regiment (not based on the 77th vostroyan)

Been thinking that the home world is somewhat odd... it doesnt conform to the majority of imperial words. its an Agriworld with a vast population (must be something in the water) and they have a fierce military tradition. This is because they were not brought into compliance until late into the 38th millenia due to a massive warp storm that hadnt abated for thousands of years making travel impossible. up until compliance the planet was split into countries much like earth now and were constantly at war with each other. however the inhabitants have a respect for nature and do their very best to live along side it which granted them the reletive safety of being designated an agriworld.

The planets vastly millitarial nature meant that although they were in effect demilitarised and brought under the aquilla they also demanded they be included into the tithe and be allowed to supply their troops to the imperium. Howver being a DA fan i needed to put a bit of a twist in it somehwere. the mechanicum have searched and search for any sign of an STC Machine on the planets surface for over 300 years and found nothing however it was obvious one had been used due to the standard design of the buildings and the various pieces of machinery being in line with other examples that had been found from the begining of the great crusade. the STC machines are hidden in bunkers deep into the planets crust. three of them in total. the reasons they are locked away are known only to a handful of the planets inhabitants. the machines are closely guarder by a secretive sect called the Fugurami who have watched over the planet since the first colonists had walked the soil.

The mechanicum only managed to get wind of a rumour due to the fact that the constructs seemed to all come from an STC... however the Fugurami has managed to make people dissapear and played behind the scenes to create a whole fictional past in which the designs were brought from Architects off planet from thousands of years ago. This means that the mechanicum only had a half hearted approach to finding them (as half hearted as the admech can be) after 300 years they gave in and decided, much to their disapointmesnt, that what they had been hearing about the designs being brought from off world had to be true.


The Fugurami is embedded within the general populace and the higher echelons of the planet and have always influenced its peoples decisions from behind the scenes. not much is known about them only that they were brought to the planet on the "Sky Bridge" and were around for only 378 rotations (roughly 3 years terran standard).

the system is made up of 12 planets. 2 share the same orbit and bother are inhabited one the fiercely militarial agriworld the other a peaceful industialised civilisation (now classed as a forge world) the other 10 are uninhabited due to the extremes in weather temperature and atmosphere. the farthes planet Kelt. is an ice world with an avergae temperature of -172 Celcius. there is one installation here which monitors the systems traffic as well as a space port for stopping ships.

The regiment is the 1st from the planet and is supplied by its industrious neighbour. it is made up of roughly 6,000 infantrymen from various countries or "Delges" as they are known and due to this inter regimental competition ins rife (nothing fatal but the potential is there) which causes the regiment to sometimes disobey orders Each "Delge" has different specialities depending on their homes speciality. this means that they are a highly diverse and "all in one" unit consisting of everything from drop troops to armoured companies. The commanding officer Colonel Ruiken has recetly been informed that a regimental commissar has been appointed along with his 2 juniors, Commissar Hansen Stark, Jr Commissar Ingreld Lopov and Jr Commissar Reld Locke. The staff have been appointed to ensure that regimental rivalries do not effect the Regiments battlfield capabilities.

Naturaly Colonel Ruiken has vowed he will not let his home planet down and ensure no shame is brought down on the 1st.

So... thoughts?

If anyone fancies helping i need names for the 2 planets as well as any suggestions/alterations to the fluff. i also need a name for the regiment. and names for the main delges and what one the colonel is from.. is he bias towards that delge?

also if anyone wishes to progress the storyline then feel free. can the commissars reign in the various delges? will colonel Ruiken get a searing lance of white hot plasma to the head?

If the Mechanicum suspects there is an intact, functional STC on the planet, they will strip it to the bedrock looking for it. The acquisition of such a thing renders all other concerns moot. If necessary, they will virus-bomb the world and land billions of Skitarri legionnaires with Titan support to take it.

True, the finding of one stc database, intact would be a monumental advance, one planet is nothing vs the value of a intact database.

well this planet has 3.. Addition to plug the gap!!

The only problem is that the mechanicum only managed to get wind of a rumour due to the fact that the constructs seemed to all come from an STC... however the Fugurami has managed to make people dissapear and played behind the scenes to create a whole fictional past in which the designs were brought from Architects off planet from thousands of years ago.

this means that the mechanicum only had a half hearted approach to finding them (as half hearted as the admech can be) after 300 years they gave in and decided, much to their diaapointmesnt, that what they had been hearing about the designs being brought from off world had to be true.

Plugged!!

Maybe they keep a small presence on planet, not huge but to investigate anything of the stc era and potential information to which world they where sent to, as well as anything potentially left behind, stc, maybe archeo tech or other items of interest.

Like having a local office.

even just a rumor about a STC will attract a dozen inquisitors, a hundred of Magos, and about ten thousands relic hunters, i think you should insert a conspirational plot by some of those factions to SECRETELY obtain all the STCs while keeping the Adeptus Mechanicus obscure about the situation untill they get all of them, The inquisitors could seek forbidden knowledges, ancient archeotechs or just a MASSIVE leverage on Mars, the Magos could be part of a minor sect in the adeptus mechanicus trying to gain influence (delivering not one but 3 working STC would bring the WHOLE mechanicus to them), and about the hunters... well.. if they're working under a charismatic leader.......did you hear that thousands of years ago some Sewer Wardens found a broken STC in a collapsed section of their underhive? i think they got a planet each as reward, talk about motivation

so what do you suggest for building the plot. im actually pretty tempted to write a bit of fanfic to go with this...

anyway i like the idea of like a local detachment but i also like the think that the locals despise the admech because of how they just obliterate nature which makes it neigh on impossible for the mech to breach the administrative barriers put in place.

A dozen inquisitor would be iresting to say the least, 12 ultimately powerful individuals vieing for power, rescorces and competing to be the one to get the prize and maybe promotion to a inquisitor lord if they can get such a leverage over the ad mech.


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Maybe a old experienced veteran, been there and seen it all, a radical, a young newly promoted with a huge desire to prove ones self and others or even a former respected one, who fell out of favor now seeing this as a way to gain redemption for a past mistake.

Such a rumur might even draw in a rouge trader, or naviager house. Well more accurately agents in the employ of said entity but all those powerful figures on one planetbwpuld certainly be interesting and a bit voletile and agents seek to undo the other with sabotage, infiltration or fales leads and rumours to draw them off the rivals path.

 MrBlackledge wrote:

The regiment is the 1st from the planet and is supplied by its industrious neighbour. it is made up of roughly 6,000 infantrymen from various countries or "Delges" as they are known and due to this inter regimental competition ins rife (nothing fatal but the potential is there) which causes the regiment to sometimes disobey orders Each "Delge" has different specialities depending on their homes speciality. this means that they are a highly diverse and "all in one" unit consisting of everything from drop troops to armoured companies. The commanding officer Colonel Ruiken has recetly been informed that a regimental commissar has been appointed along with his 2 juniors, Commissar Hansen Stark, Jr Commissar Ingreld Lopov and Jr Commissar Reld Locke. The staff have been appointed to ensure that regimental rivalries do not effect the Regiments battlfield capabilities.

wait i just reread, 6k infantry for a first foundation? the imperium delegates would feel insulted, more like 60k for a heavly mechanized one, heck some imperial ships crew surpass 3k! they would never allow a thite to be payed with that few soldiers, they're not SM

think about legendary regiments, like the Tanith First, it's called like that because only about 1/3 survived the foundation (about 3-4k survivors), and Tanith was a scarcely populated backwater planet!

Well... 300 years is nothing to a Tech-Priest. They can digitize their minds and have them installed into entirely-mechanical bodies, and be functionally immortal.

And if the suspicion that a functional STC was on the planet, there would be no "half hearted" search. The AdMech would call in the Inquisition, who would use a legion of Telepaths to mind-rape every man, woman and child on the planet to find the information they were after.

I am not sure you understand exactly how valuable a complete, intact, functioning STC is. Such a device would catapult the Imperium back to its Dark Age of Technology heights, when it rivaled the Eldar of ancient times on a technological level. Such a find is game-ending for the setting, as the Imperium at this level would be virtually unstoppable.

If there is a functional STC to be found anywhere, not to mention 3, the Mechanicus will do everything short of cracking the planet to locate it/them.

IIRC, they gave two entire worlds to two people who discovered an STC printout for a combat knife.


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Having 3 functional STCs on a planet would be like having 3 Holy Grails, except that King Arthur's knights are commanding space battlefleets, legions of the most advanced war-machines mankind has ever known, and have a transhuman, almost robotic drive to get the Grails.

Perhaps you should just hand them over to the Mechanicus, but your planet gains access to the special manufacturing rights or whatever while Mars tries to figure out WTF to do with them.

Well one working stc at mars delivered and working, mankind's armies would go from weak hoards to having the forces equipped with some of best weapons.

A baneblade was a medium battle tank......
300 ton medium tank.....

jhe90 wrote:
Well one working stc at mars delivered and working, mankind's armies would go from weak hoards to having the forces equipped with some of best weapons.

A baneblade was a medium battle tank......
300 ton medium tank.....

Right, that's why the official fluff has them all destroyed/damaged and the only remains are a few mem-crystals or some printouts, so that humanity doesn't WTFPWN the galaxy again.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:

jhe90 wrote:
Well one working stc at mars delivered and working, mankind's armies would go from weak hoards to having the forces equipped with some of best weapons.

A baneblade was a medium battle tank......
300 ton medium tank.....

Right, that's why the official fluff has them all destroyed/damaged and the only remains are a few mem-crystals or some printouts, so that humanity doesn't WTFPWN the galaxy again.

Also the phalanx, a flying almost city the size only the dark age of tech could build, yeah, with a full stc they could stomp the orks with ease

so appreciate the feedback STC's as a dumb idea...

just for your info the reason they were locked away was because they were each corrupted with scrap code. when the planet first tried to use them they got completely screwed which is why they are an agri world. the machines were locked away and they made do with what they had.

Also bear in mind that although that is a small tithe to pay they are volunteers willingly contributing to the imperium. and the tanith first was 1 regiment that escaped out of 3 regiments. regiments arnt 60k strong i read somewhere they are between 3-12k


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so i just found this in lexicanum

"The size and composition of Imperial Guard regiments is not standardised across the Imperium; the number of individual Guardsmen alone can vary enormously between regiments, with some only a few hundred strong at founding-strength, whilst others possess tens of thousands of fighting troops."