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By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


HAte , hate will guard us against the alien.
Love of the golden throne to lead us into light.
And Creed to protect our souls from the whispers of chaos.

:smugissar:

I like the potential for insane zealotry

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By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
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tarbrush posted:

A

Go big or go home.

+1:gifttank:

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

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Seems to me that the Mechanicus might be a good option if we can ditch/corrupt the escort.

Quick rundown:

A. The Merchant Guilds
High cost, low risk

B. Merchant Guilder ship +escort?
Extremely high cost, High risk?

C. The Ordo Xenos
Low cost, High risk of meddling + Mindfuck

D. Enlisting another Dynasty
High cost in political status , !Unknown risk!

E. The Adeptus Mechanicus
Low cost, High risk of meddling + "Archeotech? Give me that!"

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
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While picking a magos to ask for help, we should get an eccentric one that likes experimenting.
That kind are much more receptive to secret dealing in restricted tech.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
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Specially look for a Malatek, they are the 'untouchables' of the mechanicum and will gladly join a rogue trader.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
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One step at a time.:commissar:

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Jul 17, 2007

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Answer politely.

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Jul 17, 2007

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Callously disregard the immediate danger, that's the way.

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FireSight posted:

D The very fact that you were able to dock and board the ship without being noticed, and doing so UNINTENTIONALLY, shows a serious flaw in the Explorators systems. He just lost a lot of his bargaining power with you, because it's shown that his setup has been incompetent. That said, we are willing, out of our respect to him and his brethren, to allow the Magos the honor of watching the ship being raised... if they can provide us with the required fuel.

+1 Now that's thinking like a politically immune conquistador!

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Jul 17, 2007

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Kai Tave posted:

I prefer to think of it as Pride = Audacity myself. It's a fine line between that and stupidity admittedly, but this is the 40K universe so seeking refuge in audacity isn't always a terrible plan.

I'm voting B, but do so by suggesting that since Crispy was the one to slight us that we should be the ones to determine the appropriate "disciplinary measures." We don't need to keep playing hardball now that we've said our piece and laid out the terms of our proposal, doing so over a rogue servoskull is just going to make us seem churlish.

+1 I'm curious to see where this path leads us.

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Jul 17, 2007

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FireSight posted:

Arrange for a Footfall gang to start a gang war with the backing of mercenaries, paid through uncertain sources, with the goal of having the gang make people dissapear and later appear as servitors. Nobody will notice a few thousand people vanishing in the chaos.

*edit* At the same time, we volunteer to take prisoners off the hands of the local non-inquisitorial authorities in order to reduce the strain the gang war is causing on their facilities.

So. E

+1 Dealing with the unwashed masses is best left to a subcontractor. :agesilaus:

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
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All the more reason to forcibly impress them, it's our duty to deny chaos reenforcements.
Free will is a small price to pay for salvation.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
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Avarice would be best served now in silence.

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Jul 17, 2007

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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

If you don't vote C you are a callow disgrace

Authority means a hell of a lot more when there's an armed ship to back it.
Learn patience, young grasshopper.

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Jul 17, 2007

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Declare war, show them the prosper legacy is alive an kicking rear end.

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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

Troops through the plume, everyone else through the asteroid.


+1 and I'm voting to Aquire combat drugs for the Augmented.:black101:

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

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Prosper's praetors, BeGin!

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Holy throne on Terra, some men are an
Acceptable loss

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Jul 17, 2007

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C- as B but not giving up the praetorian bodies.
If there will be a small shortage we will buy prisoners.

Lanky Coconut Tree posted:

The faster the augmented replenish their ranks the faster they start making even more money for us

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Jul 17, 2007

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LowellDND posted:


“You took a big whiff of that hallucinogen grenade. What you seeing?”

“Um… nothing important.”

:captainpop:

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Jul 17, 2007

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JT Jag posted:

That we know this is all that I need to know for my answer.

E: "The Warp is poison. To think otherwise is foolishness. But it is not the Warp's nature to be poison. It is simply a reflection of the will of the universe, a universe that is now full of rage, of disease, of schemes, of decadence. And so the Warp has been twisted. Perhaps once it was not like this. Perhaps it could change, far far into the future, when the changes in the nature of man and xeno are reflected in it.

(pause for effect)

But none of that is relevant to us. As of right now, the Warp is the greatest threat to humanity, and unfortunately, the greatest tool as well."


Sure
As one of the imperium's highly privileged citizens we actually get to have an opinion rather than a swift execution.

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By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

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Contain the invasion.
Time to be a hero.

By popular demand fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Mar 26, 2015

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