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**thenoobbomb**

Vehicle drop inbound! *quad lands in front of Verviedi*

**Verviedi**

Interesting. It appears that this quad is defined as the nearest Webway-capable vehicle. *Hooks up Matthew to the trailer*.

I will interface with the quad's systems to determine why this is capable of realspace/Webway penetration.

*Links mechandendrite to port in vehicle*

**Buttery Commissar**

Verviedi wrote:
Buttery Commissar wrote:
[Raises eyebrow at Verviedi] I'm going to assume I misheard due to how obscenely early it is, because that sounded almost heretical.
I'd hate to actually have to put some effort into enforcing the Emperor's fury.

Stay safe, Kaptin. Let us know you're okay after. Even if you are an Ork and therefore despicable scum.

So the Xenotech and open battle with other Imperial forces was fine, then?

I have a limited resource of feths to give at any given time. I'll level with you, sometimes the basket is just empty that day.

Also limited attention span and easily distracted by

**Co'tor Shas**

Verviedi wrote:
Interesting. It appears that this quad is defined as the nearest Webway-capable vehicle. *Hooks up Matthew to the trailer*.

I will interface with the quad's systems to determine why this is capable of realspace/Webway penetration.

*Links mechandendrite to port in vehicle*

*consults datapad*
From my scans it appears to a a fossil fuel powered mechanicaly driven machine. Quite low tech. Not even capable of basic anti-grav.

**Verviedi**

All I can hear from my interface is.... nothing... It appears that-

*Co'Tor, Matthew, the quad, the gear, and I are displaced into a Webway tunnel*

Oh for Cog's sake. We're all rational beings here. Why in the Omnissiah's name couldn't we pick up any ability for the quad to do that?

**Co'tor Shas**

Well then! That's interesting...

**thenoobbomb**

Vehicles always find their way, noob.

**Verviedi**

We appear to be... upside down. That's honestly par for the course here. Everything is in the quad. Activating engine.

OOC: Hey! My quick reply is back!

**thenoobbomb**

Mate, just drive forward. Go! We have kills to get!

**Verviedi**

We are not here to kill Eldar. We are here to obtain grav-tech and buy a hat.
Although the Webway is lousy with Dark Kin and Necrons...

**Co'tor Shas**

Dark eldar! Feth dark eldar!

**Verviedi**

Agreed. I'm pretty sure I have some in sensory deprivation chambers. I tried to make one into a Servitor once. Don't do that. They like that gak.

**CREEEEEEEEED**

Hey, you left without me!

**Co'tor Shas**

Hmm that's an issue. You have any teleportation-able equipment verveidi? I never could get anything like that to work.

**Trondheim**

Vi etterlater aldri en man i fiendens hender!
* Gestures to CREEEED to climb onto the waiting tank

**Verviedi**

CREEEED... I'm going to need you to put on one of my spare robes. I'm going to need someone else to point a gun at him. Make sure this spot in the Webway is the statistically nearest and safest place to be.
When you're ready, tuck your entire body into the robe, and you should appear here.

Please don't ask how I engineered that. Two entire teams of researchers went insane figuring it out.

Co'Tor-
The tech necessary to teleport using the methods we use requires opening a tunnel through the Warp. That requires circuitry that taps into the latent psychic abilities of those nearby. That is most likely why you can't get a teleporter working, as Tau are not a psychic race. You would most likely have to ask the Nicassar how to set up the system.

I could never get the hang of directed pulse weapons, honestly. No matter how many I took apart, I could never fabricate new ones. The focussing crystals are just too precisely machined to mass-produce using my methods. I can't produce half of the things I use on a regular basis.

**Co'tor Shas**

Ah, the warp, such a mysterious place. The most we've been able to do is make short jumps through it. And even then, the basis of that technology is not tau-made. Daisy-chaining jumps combined with NLS engines can get some considerable speed, but nothing to match imperial vessels. It's the area in which we are most lacking.

**Buttery Commissar**

Hooray for today! Bank holidays rock!
Pretty quiet around here for once though. [looks around room] [Sits cross-legged on the sofa and does colouring-in]

Co'tor Shas wrote:
Dark eldar! Feth dark eldar!

[Sigh] If I must... [Puts on hat and gloves] [Steps out of room]

**Verviedi**

Is the problem navigation through the warp? I can see how that would be a massive pain for you. We rely on psychic-sensitive humans, which are incredibly unreliable. The EWO systems on your battlesuits are capable of predicting when and where warp-based teleporters will show up, is scaling that up and modifying it to read warp currents while in-warp feasible? It would take massive computation time, but it should be possible. You could probably reverse-engineer a Geller Field emitter and low-yield warp engine from any warp-capable Imperial starship, and run some trials, like navigating from Sept to Sept entirely in-warp.

Buttery Commissar wrote:
Hooray for today! Bank holidays rock!
Pretty quiet around here for once though. [looks around room] [Sits cross-legged on the sofa and does colouring-in]

Co'tor Shas wrote:
Dark eldar! Feth dark eldar!
[Sigh] If I must... [Puts on hat and gloves] [Steps out of room]

Oh Omnissiah no. Do I have to remind you of the last time one of you Commissars got their hands on an Eldar's pointy-eared head before they were transferred to my order's custody? Well, it did reveal some useful data, but....

No.

**JamesGang**

An incursion to battle for knowledge? And you left your emperor on the shores? Sacre bleu!

Heads will roll for this mon ami!

**Verviedi**

*Sigh*

What are you looking for from the Eldar...?

I'll buy you a hat or something while we're there. I really don't want to leave you alone with my wardrobe.

**Buttery Commissar**

[Strolls back in] Well that was very certainly a thing. ...Afternoon!
[Drops back onto sofa] [Lounges under "no smoking" sign and ignores it totally] Aw, someone finished my colouring book!
You got any idea how hard it is to find The Little Book of Sanctioned Colouring-in these days?

Verviedi wrote:
Oh Omnissiah no. Do I have to remind you of the last time one of you Commissars got their hands on an Eldar's pointy-eared head before they were transferred to my order's custody? Well, it did reveal some useful data, but....

[Filthy chuckle] Not just their-
Wait. Data?
[Straightens hat] I'll uh, be right back... [Runs back out]

**Verviedi**

I swear... When I get back from my errand you're either getting promoted for useful research or shot.

**CREEEEEEEEED**

I'm afraid he's allowed to shoot you, not the other way around.

**Verviedi**

Does the Commissariat have jurisdiction over the Mechanicus?

*Opens Principia Mechanicus and begins reading while driving*

Doesn't say anything in here... Does it say anything in your rulebook about that?

**thenoobbomb**

No. It does tell me about knife bipods and jeep stuff, though.

**Verviedi**

You mean fyceline-putty explosives?

*To passengers*

I see movement ahead. Slowing down to analyze.

**Matthew**

Oh no. Movement.

**thenoobbomb**

Enemy soldier, spotted. *opens fire*

**Verviedi**

That's a human! Stop!

....Oh.

Hello, James. I'm afraid we don't have any seats left.

Do you have a drone large enough to sit on and not fall? All my drones are prone to malfunctions due to their modifications.