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sullat
Jan 9, 2012

paragon1 posted:

Get the biggest, meanest, nastiest, shootiest, glowingest, downright deadliest guns that Luna can make, and then attach 8 of them to the bow mouth of the dragon.

And any necessary powerplant upgrades to fire them I guess.


Ftfy.

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Waci
May 30, 2011

A boy and his dog.
If we get all of the Beast's reactors working, we wont need power plant upgrades.

paragon1
Nov 22, 2010

FULL COMMUNISM NOW

It's the same thing hth.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:
Might be easier to skin the dragon and stuff the beast inside it.

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

Let's go to the Luna, ah
Let's go get away
They say, what they gonna say?
Have a drink, clink, found the star light
Bad bitches like me, is hard to come by
The Fabiyon on, let's go get it on
The zone on, yes, I'm in the zone
Is it two, three? Leave a good tip
I'mma blow off my money and don't give two shits

I'm on Lunar floor, floor
I love to dance
So give me more more, till I can't stand
Get out the door, door
Like it's your last chance
If you want more, more
Then here I am

Space Hulks were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Can't stop, 'cause we're so high
Let's do this one more time

Space Hulks were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Let's do this one last time
Can't stop..

Jump in my shippy shoopty shoop
I own that
And I ain't paying Abrogates dis month
I owe that
But gently caress who you want, and gently caress who you like
Dance our life, there's no end in sight
Twinkle, twinkle, little star

Now everybody let me hear you say Wrent Wrent Wrent
Amacita's poo poo 'cause they bent bent bent
And if you're a G, you a G, G,G!
My name is Ohone, you can call me 01 Icky

Ships out the door, door
Like it's your last chance
If you want more, more
Then here I am

Space Hulks were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Can't stop, 'cause we're so high
Let's do this one more time

Space Hulks were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Let's do this one last time
Can't stop..

Space Hulks were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Can't stop, 'cause we're so high
Let's do this one more time

Space Hulks were meant to fly
Hands up, and touch the sky
Let's do this one last time
Can't stop..

sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013

LowellDND posted:

Outside in

Leaving the atmosphere, if it could be called that - millennia of chemicals and waste filled the skies, all the way to low orbit - you observe the slowly approaching Beast of TrallTraal. Your birth place, and the home of your Family. Their place of power in these turbulent times, in the 40th Millenium.


Finally fix that drat lettering :colbert:

Swedish Thaumocracy
Jul 11, 2006

Strength of >800 Men
Honor of 0
Grimey Drawer
For me, the cool part about The Beast has always been it's unknowable depths, it's insane layout and inefficient design.
Thus it saddens me that there are plans to gut it and move everything around to turn it into Generic Sci Fi Super-Capitol Ship #5673681.
What happened to the crazy rouge-trader plans of strapping half a hive city to the top to make a new crew quarters?

The Cult of Abrogates already destroyed anything that was interesting about the people on-board, lets not make that same mistake again!

No, my plan is far bolder. I say we purchase every single derelict and unfinished repair job in all of luna drydocks junkyard and then run through the valley-gauntlet like a crazed, souped-up-katamari, absorbing the detritus of millennia from the richest, most advanced shipforges in the Empire.

Then we strap the dragon to the front of the ship and put as many guns as humanly possible in it's mouth. At least one of every kind in the galaxy. And we link them all to a single, red button called DRAGONFIRE and then link that o the vox-system to play ancient human war-hymns whenever we push it.


Plan Katamari Supremacy


Secondly, I propose we sell of the Abrogates.
Thirdly, I propose we also sell of Amacita as their leader.

I'm sure someone would appreciate their warp-calming effect.

Waci
May 30, 2011

A boy and his dog.

Swedish Thaumocracy posted:

Thus it saddens me that there are plans to gut it and move everything around to turn it into Generic Sci Fi Super-Capitol Ship #5673681.
Who said we should make it generic when we rebuild it?

Swedish Thaumocracy posted:

What happened to the crazy rouge-trader plans of strapping half a hive city to the top to make a new crew quarters?
Nothing. The dragon is still going to be the figurehead, even if I get my way.

Swedish Thaumocracy
Jul 11, 2006

Strength of >800 Men
Honor of 0
Grimey Drawer

Waci posted:

Who said we should make it generic when we rebuild it?

Nothing. The dragon is still going to be the figurehead, even if I get my way.

I don't see how removing the In Between and aligning all the ships properly could do any different, but I am glad we are all united behind the Cool Dragon Figurehead though!

Waci
May 30, 2011

A boy and his dog.

Swedish Thaumocracy posted:

I don't see how removing the In Between and aligning all the ships properly could do any different, but I am glad we are all united behind the Cool Dragon Figurehead though!

You can't think of anything else than jumbled non-functioning mess and generic scifi ship number whatever? Seriously?

Swedish Thaumocracy
Jul 11, 2006

Strength of >800 Men
Honor of 0
Grimey Drawer
I may be exaggerating a bit for effect, I just want our ship to be a Cool Space Hulk is all.

Oasx
Oct 11, 2006

Freshly Squeezed

Swedish Thaumocracy posted:


Plan Katamari Supremacy


Secondly, I propose we sell of the Abrogates.
Thirdly, I propose we also sell of Amacita as their leader.

I'm sure someone would appreciate their warp-calming effect.

Amen brother!

Zybourne Clock
Oct 25, 2011

Poke me.
Wish list:

- New deck that is an onboard casino with luxury amneties. (Hotels, holocinemas, restaurants, etc). Every ship in the empire is going to be at Golgotha and entertainment is going to be lacking. Which is something the Beast's yooge and luxurious casino can provide. Ohone is still a rogue trader and profit matters.

- Some pretty decals to spruce up the exterior. Perhaps pictures of Ohone's biggest achievements.

- Enough decks to house and feed the 2.1 million Krieg soldiers we're entitled to.

- The biggest baddest planetbusting weapon we can fit inside the dragon's maw.

- If we don't have enough reactors to keep all of these things going, buy a few new ones.

reignonyourparade
Nov 15, 2012

Swedish Thaumocracy posted:

Secondly, I propose we sell of the Abrogates.
Thirdly, I propose we also sell of Amacita as their leader.

I'm sure someone would appreciate their warp-calming effect.

And of course there are bound to be plenty of pilgrims stranded on earth with the ships they were expecting to leave on heading for Golgotha. We can probably sell the abrogates, and then sell off the freed up space to stranded pilgrims too.

And there's surely to be a relatively capable administrator we can snipe from the shipyards, get married into the family and have take over the duties Amacita was doing.

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN
We already have the Orky version of a loving Nova Cannon coming out the nose, do they even make them bigger than that? It's a gun that takes a piece of space then implodes it and fires the energy created from the collapse out in a ball of pure gently caress you that can crush planets.

I only just realized we already have a weapon capable of destroying planets.

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER
Step 1: Space Amacita. You promised we could vote on this, remember?
Step 2: Ask Athena for an appropriate capital ship design. Use that as a blueprint.
Step 3: Get all the upgrades. All of 'em. We're a Rogue Trader Inquisitor Magos, and our ship should reflect that by being just as over-full.

Haystack
Jan 23, 2005





VanSandman posted:

Step 2: Ask Athena for an appropriate capital ship design. Use that as a blueprint.

Alternative Plan: Ask Athena to help integrate all the parts from Plan Katamari

edit: look, she even sent plans for a helper servitor!

Haystack fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Nov 6, 2015

Loel
Jun 4, 2012

"For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.



Day 6
Current: 7903
Total Goal: 10k

Mm…. tasty dethklok to start the morning

Crush the Industry

The platform was large enough for a parade, bridging from the lunar cliffs to the Alpha Deck. Great vents were set above it, feeding waste heat onto the lanes, keeping it tolerable. Below you, you could see the dozens - hundreds - of other bridges and grafts being set up, awaiting for the design orders that you would grant them.

You gathered yourself, power armor and mechadendrites, and strode out as befit a Magi of your stature. You were expecting polite deference at the very least, accept… all the Sages were already gathered around emissaries. A quick glance, you could see the Colonel from Agatha’s World, Hierophant Isaac, Colonel Astri, Explorer Luckas… and Amacita. She turned to look at you, her tone icy, even through the oxygen mask everyone was wearing.

“Magos. How good of you to join us.” Without acknowledging you further, she turned back to the Sages. “What proposals are we looking at? I see you have a standard Destroyer build, an attempt at the old Space Hulk design… what else?”

Loel
Jun 4, 2012

"For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.



JT Jag posted:

Slice of Life: The Littlesire's Bargain

Fredrik di Muzio II sat morosely towards the rear of Sarge's, reading a pulp serial as he pondered. "Distasteful", that's the word that was circling around his head. He found it distasteful to be forced into positions like this. It was one thing if it was the Iron Maiden. She was the dynastic owner of this ship, and she was powerful. Most importantly, she was still alive. It behooved him to be loyal to her. But now Amacita was making some half-assed power play, and she had come to him, requested his... support. As if he didn't know what that meant. What could he do BUT accept?

If he declined, she'd bring her Abrogates and come down on him and his 'hive of innovators and troublemakers' like a Thunder Hammer. That would be a messy battle with a lot of casualties, one she'd pay for, but there was no doubt: he wouldn't be on the winning side. The Littlesire wasn't in the business of making suicidal moral stands. No, he was in the business of business, and dying was definitely bad for business. And that meant he had to play along.

That didn't mean he had to eagerly collaborate, though. Amacita didn't seem to know about the extensive intelligence dossiers he held on half the ship. Well, to clarify, she knew about them, she just didn't know how extensive they were. So he'd drip feed her, give her the tidbits of information she asked for without going above and beyond. And, of course, he had to prepare for when things would come back on her, and make sure he was in the clear when that happened.

The updated dossier he had on Amacita, and the things she was up to around the ship as of late, would definitely be of interest to the Iron Maiden, he was confident about that.

Lest we forget

wiegieman
Apr 22, 2010

Royalty is a continuous cutting motion


You know, Amacita is a good administrator, but she's not Lord-sire, Magos, or Inquisitor. We are. She should probably know that, as emphatically as necessary.

Sorry I'm late, I had to fight a guardian monster older than the loving Imperium.

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER

LowellDND posted:

Lest we forget

SPACE THE BITCH NOW! Vader style. Lift her up and throw her. After mentally checking her file and seeing all the heretical stuff she's been up too while we were doing important poo poo.

Oasx
Oct 11, 2006

Freshly Squeezed
I say we make Amacita into a servitor.

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

wiegieman posted:

You know, Amacita is a good administrator, but she's not Lord-sire, Magos, or Inquisitor. We are. She should probably know that, as emphatically as necessary.

Sorry I'm late, I had to fight a guardian monster older than the loving Imperium.

Amacita, what are you doing here? Your shift in the kitchens isn't over for another two hours.

Zybourne Clock
Oct 25, 2011

Poke me.
*Baleful eye sets Amacita on fire*

"Oops. drat thing malfunctioned again. For some reason it always does that whenever I frown."

Loel
Jun 4, 2012

"For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.



No votes to talk to our dear cousin I see :v: Ill start sketching.

B.B. Rodriguez
Aug 8, 2005

Bender: "I was God once." God: "Yes, I saw. You were doing well until everyone died."

LowellDND posted:

No votes to talk to our dear cousin I see :v: Ill start sketching.

Wait, wait, wait. We need to scold the poo poo out of her for her loving tone. I'm talking full on parent and petulant child. She don't get to make eyes like that at me!

Arkanomen
May 6, 2007

All he wants is a hug
Walk right past the group, open the door and seal it behind us. Have some servitors or loyal Abrogrates round them up and have the group readied for brain-boxing.

Loel
Jun 4, 2012

"For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.



Day 6
Current: 8079
Total Goal: 10k

Soroicide

This kind of public power play - assuming the duties of the Lord-Sire in public like this - required immediate your response. Effortlessly, a super-heated plasma beam burst from your eye, leaping towards your cousin. As if he had been waiting for it, one of them - Oxenforth? From the bar? pushed someone in the way. Your beam removed their head and most of their chest.

Amacita looked at the scorched remains with distaste. “If you’ll excuse me. Magos, if you would.” She began walking to you calmly, gesturing as to speak with you privately.

Your sensors were going wild, searching everything about you. Had she trapped the bridge? The hull behind you? Were her other guards going to pull out hellguns? Had she co-opted the Iron Hands? You had clearly been out of the picture for too long, and were incredibly unsure of what she might have done to the power structure.

Was she expecting you to say yes? Or was she expecting you to attack again?

… No, she was expecting you to be impulsive, to be the violent and erratic Magos. Time to talk. And it would be easier to kill if you got her alone. .. Unless that’s what she wanted you to think.

It was enough to make you think she worked for the Architect.

You nodded, began walking back into the ship, keeping an eye and half your weapons on her at all times. Your servo-skulls were swarming at top speed, trying to find out where the trap was, and how it would fall.

The hull door closed behind you, and Amacita stood on a nearby crate to be at eye-level.

She met your gaze evenly. “I see I needed those guards after all.”
“I see you didn’t bring them in here.”
“Yes, I thought we might talk like sane individuals.”
“Usurping my position is not the act of a sane woman.”
Her tone went icy. “Ah. Yes. Your position. The one you have worked so hard on these last few years. The one that requires you to serve the Dynasty and ensure we thrive and make money. That one.”
“I’ve done more for this ship than anyone in our history.”
“No, you haven’t.” Her tone was flat.
“Finding an STC? Ring a bell?”
“Yes, good job, everyone is happy. How does that benefit the Family? How are we making money off of it?”
“There is a war on, you know. Golgotha? Everyone in the galaxy is going?”
“There is always a war. How are you making money?”
Before you could reply, she cut you off. “We are transiting armies of pilgrims there. Stores of ammunition, torpedoes, shells. We are selling ‘relics’ of your husband. We’re exporting our cult to other chapels. The converts are lining up to pay us. You have done none of that. You are using the ship as your personal yacht, going on unexplained missions that usually end in a dead Magos. Golgotha? Dead magos. Civil war here? Dead Magos. Mars? Dead lizard and probably Magos. That’s great for the Mechanicus, that’s poo poo for the Family. If you want to be Lord-Sire, loving do your job, or let someone else who will.”

You narrowed your eyes. “And the fact that this looks like a coup doesn’t mean anything at all.”
“Ohone, you think everything is a coup. Probably because all your actions are working to that end.”
“You dare…”
“Yes, yes, you are going to rip off my arms or space me or full-process me or any of the other horrible things you’ve done. Everyone in the Imperium knows what a monster you can be, and they love you for it. I’ve seen to that. Your ‘authentic biography’ sells on ten thousand worlds, you have action figures on ten thousand more. Mind you, it would have been helpful if you showed up to any of our ‘interviews.’ We had to fake them with old footage. We even licensed a truly terrible romance series.
“But you are so paranoid that you ignore your responsibilities, take the ship on unexplained and unprofitable missions, and kill everyone who might look like they might become competent.”
She held your gaze, crossed her arms. Leaned back against the wall. “Well, cousin? Is this where you kill me?”

Loel fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Nov 6, 2015

Toughy
Nov 29, 2004

KAVODEL! KAVODEL!

Yes, Limosa can do better! Zap!!

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.
Nope, she's absolutely right. We should thank her for her job well done.

Toughy
Nov 29, 2004

KAVODEL! KAVODEL!

dog kisser posted:

Nope, she's absolutely right. We should thank her for her job well done.

Doesn't call for the public display, we delegated those duties as a lord sire does, just because she does them doesn't make her lord sire OR give her the authority to assume control, she's getting too big for britches.
We and Fabiyan are the reason we're making money she's a manager acting like she's the main talent. Kill her now

Wentley
Feb 7, 2012
"The fact you did this first, and are now attempting to justify it makes this a power play. Who saved you? Who saved you time after time? How difficult would it have been to package up this nice little speech in a video file and zap it over to me? For you, five minutes? Instead, you go around behind my back and build a power base. This justification is excellent. If you had asked, I would have been fine with this, given official sanction. If you asked."

Strip her of power, add her to a Krieg battalion. If she survives, well and good. The problem is not with the actions. The problem is how the actions were done.

Arkanomen
May 6, 2007

All he wants is a hug
"Thank you Amacita, but your services are no longer required. The Beast and the Family are taking a new direction." Then execute everyone outside the doors and put the ship under lockdown until we cleanse this mutiny, saving Amacita for last.


What Amacita doesn't realize is that the Family is no longer needed. Profit factor is not longer needed. Amacita's world is no longer needed. We have become more than a lord sire and when we are done rebuilding the ship it will run itself and we will trade in Galactic power. I'm tempted to SLUDGE the whole ship and begin cloning new Kreig. The Beast is dead, Long Live Ohone.

Loel
Jun 4, 2012

"For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.



Arkanomen posted:

"Thank you Amacita, but your services are no longer required. The Beast and the Family are taking a new direction." Then execute everyone outside the doors and put the ship under lockdown until we cleanse this mutiny, saving Amacita for last.


What Amacita doesn't realize is that the Family is no longer needed. Profit factor is not longer needed. Amacita's world is no longer needed. We have become more than a lord sire and when we are done rebuilding the ship it will run itself and we will trade in Galactic power. I'm tempted to SLUDGE the whole ship and begin cloning new Kreig. The Beast is dead, Long Live Ohone.

Arkanomen
May 6, 2007

All he wants is a hug
It might be fun to activate all the defenses we put on the ship and have these little mutineers literally run for their lives. Whoever can make it across the ship and back alive gets to live! Anyone who helps them gets to go on the Dethrun as well!


E: Honestly it would have been perfectly fine to let her have her little imagined kingdom, playing lordsire and having her little Cabal if she simply bowed to us but this, this was just dumb. I wonder if this Amacita is a clone or she has something planned for all this, but then again making this power play is literally the dumbest move she could make. Amacita are you loving with us?

Arkanomen fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Nov 6, 2015

Oasx
Oct 11, 2006

Freshly Squeezed

Wentley posted:

"The fact you did this first, and are now attempting to justify it makes this a power play. Who saved you? Who saved you time after time? How difficult would it have been to package up this nice little speech in a video file and zap it over to me? For you, five minutes? Instead, you go around behind my back and build a power base. This justification is excellent. If you had asked, I would have been fine with this, given official sanction. If you asked."

Arkanomen posted:

What Amacita doesn't realize is that the Family is no longer needed. Profit factor is not longer needed. Amacita's world is no longer needed. We have become more than a lord sire and when we are done rebuilding the ship it will run itself and we will trade in Galactic power. I'm tempted to SLUDGE the whole ship and begin cloning new Kreig. The Beast is dead, Long Live Ohone.

poor life choice
Jul 21, 2006

:lol: How long have you been sitting on that one? How deep is the PC_is_the_monster folder on your desktop?

Loel
Jun 4, 2012

"For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.



Arkanomen posted:

It might be fun to activate all the defenses we put on the ship and have these little mutineers literally run for their lives. Whoever can make it across the ship and back alive gets to live! Anyone who helps them gets to go on the Dethrun as well!

I thought we weren't insane anymore :v:

Zybourne Clock
Oct 25, 2011

Poke me.
Smile at her, apologize for trying to melt her face off, say we're sorry for neglicting to rake in profits. Lean in for a hug.

Then when she's in our arms and has nowhere else to run, tell her the God-Emperor's needs go before the needs of the family, declare her a traitor, and melt her face off.

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poor life choice
Jul 21, 2006

Wentley posted:

"The fact you did this first, and are now attempting to justify it makes this a power play. Who saved you? Who saved you time after time? How difficult would it have been to package up this nice little speech in a video file and zap it over to me? For you, five minutes? Instead, you go around behind my back and build a power base. This justification is excellent. If you had asked, I would have been fine with this, given official sanction. If you asked."

Strip her of power, add her to a Krieg battalion. If she survives, well and good. The problem is not with the actions. The problem is how the actions were done.

I like the bold part but not the rest.

Let's just start bringing the council to us and get involved in SOME decision-making on board. Delegate, approve, some level of leadership. It wouldn't be hard to wring profit out of this. Keep up the charade until we hit that sweet technological singularity.

She's right and was driven to a do-or-die gamble. It literally doesn't matter if she's Chaos-aligned, the trains arrive on time.

We should actually be a big picture executive on the ship as opposed to a whirlwind of murder-tantrums. The last time we even met with ranking officials on the ship was before Agatha's World. That was subjectively like a decade ago.

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