These are the events of our Dark heresy Game with three players - Ravia (Assassin, House Tarsis Noble, youngest daughter of LORD Tarsis, killing ability of 2 players), Nihlis (Psycher/Juvenile Navigator, paranoia enough for 3 players) & Myself (Giaus Novis Khan, Noble Scum, Charm & Decieve enough for 2 players!)
• Tasked with investigating an error in the Citizen’s uplifting primer & discovered that it due to a servitor stopping itself from inserting a chaos crystal into the book! Elevated the Servitor to Servo-skull for service to the Imperium. Demoted the owner of the manufactorium to a servitor.
• Investigating the crystal took us to Ambulon where we rerouted Ambulon to House Tarsis benefit, decimated mutant population on Ambulon as well as shutting down illegal crystal & drug manufacture on Ambulon
• Convinced Lord Tarsis to Raise the 1st Tarsis Army to be sent away to protect house Tarsis from extinction (it was being too successful for the other houses)
• Discovered Malfiian link to citizens uplifting primer crystal desecration.
• Destroyed Mutant Army at Hive Tenebrae with a people’s Crusade of 50,000 souls from Hive Scintilla.
• To mask preparations to take out Malfi, Got Inquisitorial Decree to raise the Tarsis 2nd to 4th Army to ‘settle’ Settlement 228
• Two more armies were diverted to Lord Tarsis Control (Cadian 189th & 207th) to arrive in 5 years.
• Built many Penitent Engines & Archo-Flagellants on the Mercator’s Marque
• Purged the Mercator’s Marque of Several Heretical Cults – destroyed the last of the Malfian witches who started the crystal desecration.
Flashback - was hurled into the bodies of the heroes of the Sector when first taking it! took out a Daemon in the past – won the great battle of Machebeius Quintus – Set up the Balasko Deathworks (Malphi) & Seedworld 218 as Hidden Navigator World.
• Purged Settlement 228 of Crystal infection
• Joined ‘Night Watchmen’ Cult on Mercator’s Marque who used heretical tech to fix the Geller fields.
• Replaced Settlement 228’s Tithe with heavy tanks. Moved 2nd ,3rd & 4th Tarsis armies as well as all manufactorums onto settlement 228. Mission: Create Fortress world with own food capabilities (Kram Beans)
• Retained 20,000 troops (Air Cav & fighter wings – House Khan) as protection for House Tarsis. Recruited 10,000 elite stormtroopers from Settlement 228.
• Renamed settlement 228 – ‘Tarsis Minor’
• Sped up the Tithe to the Lathes by 6 months
• Sent Confessor & Scribe to investigate origins of Mercator’s Marque – suspected Cruiser Chasis!
• Investigated errant mechanicus ship & was taken to Mechanicus Inquisitors strong hold (Pan Opticon).
• Destroyed Kavyaan War Machine
• Var Thek launched attack on the Lathes
• Following him we accidentally invented increase in system travel speed through use of Null fields (tech Heresy to be concealed).
• Var Thek destroyed a mining planet & Lady Tasis was captured.
• Destroyed renegade Mechanicus Var Thek’s ship (and his two stolen items)
• Negotiated with Mechanicus on Opus Mecharius to send build teams to Settlement 228 to add space & ground fortifications to secure the lathes. Servitor workforce to be gathered from land-under.
• On Piety lodged a legal claim to: 1. Keep control of Hive Tarsis Starport (Injunction), 2. Rename Settlement 288 ‘Tarsis Minor’, 3. Case for the marriage of House Tarsis to House Malfi (elevation to Major status) & 4. Efficiency challenge against House Malfi & petition to run Malfian starport)
• Made contact with the Logicians (heretical tech cult) & offered to undercut Var Thek...
Flashback - met the Rogue Trader ‘Harlock’ who founded the sector & introduced himself as our Nemesis. He instructed us to build a Resurrection Chair... which after debate we set about the process & Set up 13 ‘knight’ families.
1. Machebeius Quintus (Building the Resurrection Chair)
2. Scintilla
3. Hunter House (Roaming)
4. Quaddis (Pleasure)
5. Cyprus Vulpa (Ag)
6. Orbell Quin (Ag)
7. Seedworld 218 – 4 families (Navigator World)
8. Drusus
9. Dusk
• Trying to rescue Lady Tarsis, Khan made contact with the Beasthouse & convinced them that the Arbitors were going to attack them – they released the beasts on the city. Khan also maintained his future cover with the Beasthouse & some beasties even attacked House Malfi as an added bonus. As per plan = Turned Piety into something productive for the Imperium, is now a martial planet! Khan & Nilhus were declared ‘Traitoris’.
• Khan, Gaius & Zealot become separate entities.
• All escaped & intercepted a message from the Logicians. Tracked back to Shrine World of Machebeius Quintus.
• Discovered Resurrection Chair on Machebeius Quintus (Shrine World - Looked after by Knight family created by our previous incarnations)
• The fort got taken by the logicians which we fought off & brought back Adjastamer who told us our Inquisitor was Asthini who had been working over 500 years to bring us back.
• The fort got taken back by the logicians who brought back the Rogue trader ‘Harlock’ who had declared ourselves his enemy. We took down the logicians & took him captive, but after a Mexican standoff had to let him go. He declared himself wholly against our ‘meddling’ interference with the sector.
• Rid of ‘Harlock’ we settled on the one constant thread throughout our experiences being the link to House Malfi & set about rising up the crusade against them
• Went to Opus mecharius & gained their support against Malfi to take out the heretecks linked to Malfi.
• We went to seed-wrld 218 where Nilis had secreted Navigator House Banatek centuries before & found the Tyrant star, a giant mechanism designed to save the imperium by boosting the signal of the astronomicon (for the price of wiping out all life in the following systems:
Worlds within Event Radius
Estimated casualties = 105 Billion (Hive Worlds & Forge Worlds only)
1. Malfi (Hive, 25 Billion)
2. Vaxanide (Hive, estimated 25 Billion)
3. Zwehan's World (Hive, estimated 25 Billion)
4. Sepheris Secundus (Mining, 12 Billion)
5. Landunder (Hive, 8 Billion)
6. Lathes (Forge, 5 Billion)
7. Synford II (Forge, estimated 5 Billion)
8. Port Wrath (Navy)
9. Cyprus Vulpa (Ag)
10. Orbel Quill (Ag)
11. Quaddis (Pleasure)
12. Festus (Feudal)
13. Strank (Feral)
14. Dusk (Feral)
• We discovered that the crystals that we had been tracking from the beginning were a way to block the signal (so their origin Malfi must be destroyed).
• We then went to the Marque & found that the Rogue Trader ‘Harlock’ had beaten us & trashed the ship (killing Lord Tarsis & remaining troops!) Nihlis was reunited with Asthini (Lady Rathbane!), we gathered our allies and sent the Marque to Opus Mecharius.
• We went to Malfi to make sure the signal was not blocked when the whole planet rebelled. Sent astropathic messages across the sector (ensuring some things of importance were moved out of the event radius, ‘Knight Families’ , Fleets, Troops, Tithe, Stuff for Tarsis Domination, etc).
• Lady Tarsis awoke the Belasko Deathworks (her secret organisation) and coordinated the assault on Malfi & dropped the cities onto the planet & destroying their anti-Tyrant Star array. The Crusade arrived and mopped up.
• Minonette & Sister Plantagea went with Imperial Malfian Loyalists (Belasko deathworks) and the Crusade to Tarsis Minor.
• Alicia Mercer was sent to Scintilla as Tarsis emissary to oversee Tarsis control of the golden hand.
• Philemon Hax went to Scintilla to report to her Inquisitor Astrid Skene
• After many Trials & Travails in the Warp, Asthini & Adjastimer went back in time to destroy Hive tenebrae... we got to the Tyrant Star & Nihlus startcd playing his opera (the final code) – the Imperium was saved. The event reconstructed the characters & the Emperor’s spark departed.
• Lady Ravia Tarsis ensured the succession of House Tarsis to Essus Odei Tarsis on Tarsis Minor
• Lady Minionette Malphi married Lord Tarsis to secure alliance between the houses and secure the Belasko Deathworks on Tarsis minor.
• House Tarsis began the process of cleaning out and resettling the Malfian sub-sector
We were 'rewarded' by being given the refitted Mercator's Marque and a Warrent of Trade so we'd get the hell out of the sector!!