Team Dynamite is just the term I use on my group of players since they love blowing up things...
For the moment there are four characters:
Emma Vorgen, arch-militant.
Brandis, arch-militant.
Kara Mordred, explorator.
??, void-master (he is either pondering about a name still or haven't yet told me what it is).
Kara Mordred has travelled all the way from Ryza because of her (insane) vision that out there, out in the Koronus expanse, there are the key to unlocking unknown power and bring peace to humanity! She is a tad mad, but she also cares for both people and machines.
The three others have a similar story which starts with an rumour that goes like this:
High Admiral of the Calixis sector was out "sailing" with his battlecruiser when some ork-pirates attacked him. They almost made a dent in one of the admiral's ships before the orks were blown asunder, but it made the admiral annoyed. He pulled in some favours and made the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Guard assault 'Undred 'Undred Teef with several hundred thousand men!
The result however was lots of fat orks and several hundred thousand dead men. Emma and Brandis served together, but got separeted in the chaos. Emma used a nearby Vox-caster to call for help, if anyone would help her. She had hid and most everyone around her was splattered. Brandis ran over to the landing area and hid there, with the hope he could get a lift out. So did many others, which attracted lots of orks. A captain aboard a smaller Imperial vessel got cold feet, and something cold and hard against his head, as his press-ganged crew mutinied and took charge of the ship. They made a heroic rescue of as many guardsmen they could before taking off, warping away ASAP. They argued about where to go, but it ended up with being Footfall where much of the crew and the wounded jumped ship. The rest took off in the stolen ship and wanted to live fat as pirates, until some navy vessels found them shortly after and blasted them to bits. The void-master was one of the mutinies, and most of his gear is loot from imperial navy officers.
A little problem: Emma's transmission was picked up by several ships, including the imperial navy... She is considered a deserter, a traitor and a criminal! The others will surely be considered the same if officials understand what they were involved in.
On Footfall, there was a Seneschal named Macharius that was looking for new spectacular shipmembers. The hulking brute Brandis (he is a mutant) seemed like an interesting choice, as Brandis is about 2 to 3 times stronger than the average man. Macharius met with Brandis, which eventually led him to the other player-characters, and soon understood that these guys could really help his branch of the Dynasty prosper and that they were more or less on the run. He offered them a chance to get away under the protection of his Dynasty and join him in a voyage beyond the Imperium.
Kara was met with The Black Brotherhood soon after her arrival at Footfall, demanding that she paid tribute for walking on their turf. She didn't comply and was shortly after rescued by Brandis that had just bought himself a chainaxe and found this an opportunity to test it. After a conversation, Kara asked where she could find a ship's captain. "Why don't you just come with me?" Brandis said, maybe because Kara was a) female and b) rather merciless with the aforementioned bandits. Unfortunately The Liege of Footfall's security force apprehended both Kara and Brandis, while they were standing over the bandit corpses, talking. Long story short, they got out of trouble after agreeing to a "trade" with Vladaym Tocara, promising to bring him a cargo of xeno artefacts within 6 months or Footfall would become hostile to them should they ever come back.
More follow shortly!