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If you go with my Ultramarines you may get a nice bit of archeo-tech, you never know what we have in the armory....

Anyone else getting the feeling that we're trying to convince BC who is worth more time in the eyes of a Rogue Trader?

The New Order is definitely worth more time. By far.

Well that is how Rogue Traders work.
Though really the Seneschal controls the treasury.

Yep. The negotiations have begun.

Yeah, sold to highest bidder.

... The hyper heretic with the Sentient Lictor is telling me my lord makes no sence? Sounds like... Heresy

In all seriousness, stolen DE tech helps break what is normally possible TS

Well... it's mostly that it's basically a requirement that Astartes recruits have to be younger in age, to reduce the chance that the organs reject the aspirant, so your entire chapter being former Guardsmen makes very little sense. Only a certain genetic code can accept the changes that makes one an Astartes, so just saying "my entire chapter is guardsmen!" is very, very, unlikely. Granted, the 40k universe allows for many things, but that isn't one of them. Plus, I highly doubt there is DE tech that would allow this (and I say this as a DE player)

Well, I've written up my intro, but it doesn't really state the punching power of the ships, is that necessary for the start, or something I can drop in later?

It's probably fine unless you start getting into naval combat. Maybe a general description of what the ship looks like (in case others want to include them in their fluff blurbs), but not saying their hitting power should be fine (it's a surprise for his enemies!). Check with Smudge though, just in case.

 War Kitten wrote:
Well... it's mostly that it's basically a requirement that Astartes recruits have to be younger in age, to reduce the chance that the organs reject the aspirant, so your entire chapter being former Guardsmen makes very little sense. Only a certain genetic code can accept the changes that makes one an Astartes, so just saying "my entire chapter is guardsmen!" is very, very, unlikely. Granted, the 40k universe allows for many things, but that isn't one of them. Plus, I highly doubt there is DE tech that would allow this (and I say this as a DE player)

Just had this pointed out to me at my FLGS, and its the only thing I cant really answer. The idea is that the geneseed is mutated somewhat heavily compared to others because of the events that founded the chapter, so the geneseed never takes perfectly to begin with, for example causing them to be unable to wear termie armor because of thr large number of Polarization Matrixes they have. They use DE tech to help insert the geneseed safely, which cuts down on the accidents.

Eh, still doesn't sit right with me, but at the end of the day it's your chapter, and I'm a fan of homebrew stuff (not rules mind you, but custom characters/chapters/whatever the heck else)

Safety and Dark Eldar do not belong in the same sentence.

Astartes babies and guardsmen marines? I best call in the genetors because this sounds way better and more interesting than Xenos tech.

 War Kitten wrote:
It's probably fine unless you start getting into naval combat. Maybe a general description of what the ship looks like (in case others want to include them in their fluff blurbs), but not saying their hitting power should be fine (it's a surprise for his enemies!). Check with Smudge though, just in case.

Well my intro is "hey, we found a thing, let's go look" and literally gives me 2-3 days to cone up with the next section including ship dimensions.
I'm just stuck for names.

The smallest ship is the Found Guinea, and the middle is the Lucky Farthing, so I guess my big shop should have a coin name too.
The Seneschal is Edward, and a few of the guard have names but I'm stuck for the Lord Captain. I suck at names,

Try a name generator?

That's how I ended up with a double-surname commissar in my fluff write up (Ramirez Yorke), I'd rather try and pick something myself. It's just tricky because I think of people who had that name and realise they're influencing the way I write.

Have you thought about trying to use something like Warhammer Fantasy for inspiration? To me Rogue Traders would have fanciful names, and things like the names of Empire Officials in Fantasy might fit that

Did someone say heresy?

I posted BTw

Yep. Definitely Heresy.

 War Kitten wrote:
Yep. Definitely Heresy.

Such beautiful heresy

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
It's probably fine unless you start getting into naval combat. Maybe a general description of what the ship looks like (in case others want to include them in their fluff blurbs), but not saying their hitting power should be fine (it's a surprise for his enemies!). Check with Smudge though, just in case.

Well my intro is "hey, we found a thing, let's go look" and literally gives me 2-3 days to cone up with the next section including ship dimensions.
I'm just stuck for names.

The smallest ship is the Found Guinea, and the middle is the Lucky Farthing, so I guess my big shop should have a coin name too.
The Seneschal is Edward, and a few of the guard have names but I'm stuck for the Lord Captain. I suck at names,

Maybe a ship named after a sovereign, golden, or somthing like the impiral sovereign, golden sestertius, (Roman coin names go so well with 40k)

and on my ships there may be emperors day cake, Choclate, not Vanilla because

and il honestly admit, im suprised this thread of ours has been so successful, we have one of the most viewed and longest on the dakka fiction page

Nothing to say about my post? Anyone?

was not sure how to respond, the new order is turning more and more to be a sub section of the radical sect of Inquisition....

 jhe90 wrote:
was not sure how to respond, the new order is turning more and more to be a sub section of the radical sect of Inquisition....

Glad you noticed

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:
was not sure how to respond, the new order is turning more and more to be a sub section of the radical sect of Inquisition....

Glad you noticed

i may not always post but i do notice things

though does fit as your inquisitor has some rather radical tedenices, retinue and ideas like having the eldar alliance. its not standard imperial practice

First section of the meeting is up, working on the other now.

I can already tell this meting will be interesting..... You know, I don't know if I ever wrote up Julius' reaction to Aurelius being alive and well.

i did not send shepard lol

this is., Interesting.

I like how we have the most passive agressive bunch of "alllies" ever