Hi guys, ive been running the premade scenarios for RT. We just finished them when my players announced they wanted to upskill their mooks. So they got to a warworld and where told if they could help out assassinating a chaos cult that their mooks would get trained for free.

So far ive decided not to use some of the cooler cults like logicans and genestealers. The mission takes place in an outer hab. BUT this is my first attempt at making my own scenario and im kinda wondering where to start. So basically im looking for any help i can get.

Our party is rank 2 made up of the following

A Rogue trader

An Archmilitant with man portable lascannon

Astropath

and a (very) Mutated navigator.

so um any help would be great thanks.

Well, I was toying with the idea: Planetary Governor has problems with the Rebels. (Chaos may or may not be involved. I may save Chaos for later and just have them be rebel scum/idealistic revolutionaries.)

Ok, so the RT has something that the Planetary Governor doesn't have access to, like say...enough flyers. or a Teleportarium. It's been a long civil war and resources are depleted on both sides and they've been in a stalemate for the last 10 years. The Governor sees his chance to end it.

He wants the Rogue Trader to lead a Strike Team and take out the Rebel leadership compound/fortress/hovel/whatever. He'd do it himself, but as I said, he can't get to it and doesn't have much in the way of more powerful munitions. The trick is to make some excuse to why the PC's can't just bomb the place from orbit.

Ok, so the PC's get to wage a ground battle (of whatever size you deem fun) and in return the grunts/mooks/goonsquad gets some valuable EXP, and the Rogue Trader gets exclusive contracts to re-arm the PDF, equipment sales, export rights etc. worth X amount of Profit Factor.

Simple, fun and you can dress it up a million ways to make it challenging/unique.

Just the PC's or do they have bodyguard/house troops they want to EXP up with a lil' gratuitous violence?

not sure if it is just them or them and the mooks....

have contimplated using the pilgrims of hayte with an Alpha Legion marine as their leader.

That could lead into a really drawn out storyline. Not that it's bad, but Alpha Legion tend to be deep conspirators with complex machinations. If you use one, I'd drag it out for at least three adventures.

I was thinking more along the lines of a one-off gratuitous violence scenario where I (the GM) don't need a complex plot (lazy Gm) but the players would be satisfied and entertained.

Alpha Legion huh? I might just use that...

im just going to use the profile for the alpha legion space marine on dark reign, though i might unnatural toughness as that might make him a lil too tough for my players