Part I- The happenings of 2 Months ago till Last month.
About 2 months ago we were playing DH with 6 people (I know, alot) and then the GM decided our group had no subtlety and switched over to Rogue Trader. More than half the guys choose to keep their characters from DH. Our gm gave the DH characters +4500 xp to compensate, and we had a pair of Assassins, Mr. S (Sniper-man abusing aim, accurate weapons and multiple D10s of extra damage), and Mr. A (My guy, melee assassin), a Imperial Psyker (Broken as hell in combat) a Arbitrator (doesn't make too much sense fluff-wise), an Explorator/Magos, and the Rogue Trader.
We would use DH rules where they conflicted with RT rules, any RT abilities would be manifested the Rogue Trader way while any DH abilities would be manifested the DH way. No, our Imperial Psyker would have to wait for Primaris (at 13K XP) for Fetter/Push.
With the ways DH characters were modified (We still had divination and some background packages, had to delete some DH stuff) I was allowed to add the RT tree. I then asked M (our former GM) if the expansions were allowed. He allowedme to stack ITS background packages over the RT packages.
I decided to try to break the game as much as I could.
I reread Inquisitor's Handbook, Ascension, RT, DH, Disciples, ITS, Battlefleet Koronus. After about a week, I had an vision of my character- and began to work on a plausible storyline.
Stax Atriedes, an descendant of a fallen noble line, hails from an Imperial World. His world was very toxic and his family was already full of witches. He lived an incredibly decadent life to try to forget things. He went on an Crusade after realizing his decadent lifestyle wasn't making him feel any better, and found his calling as an hand to hand warrior. The Inquisition took note of his impressive determination to carry on in the battlefield, and his impressive displays of willpower, and thus inducted him as an Acolyte.
However, after witnessing the Crow Father's reemergence and helping banish him (DH core book mission), the Inquisition decided it was better he stay away from the Imperium, and a Rogue Trader they just happened to owe a minor favor to had a burning need for some expert assassins in his retinue.
While our psyker could do thousands of damage with a force barrage if we reached Ascension, I could waltz into a firestorm and slaughter everything in my way with Storm Of Blows and multiple channel Force Weapon effects. By wearing warded power armor and with a force shield, Blessed by the Emperor (RT), unnatural speed, Unnatural toughness, and assorted Very Unfair Agility/Dodge Bonus/Other Bonus. I could probably kill a greater daemon in a single turn. I even had plans for an Chem gland loaded with White Void, Onslaught, and maybe detox. Which wouldn't be very hard, given the stupid amounts of wealth an RT retinue has access to.
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Divination "There is no substitute for zeal" (+2 Toughness & Willpower)
One of the first Tyrant Class Cruisers, she was named after a Legendary Adept Astartes, Lucian Ventris who fell in battle defending the Ultramarine's
homeworld against the Tyranids of Hive Fleet Behemoth.
Upon her commissioning, the Ultramarines donated a set of [three Star-Flare Lances] which they had recovered from cleaning out a Space Hulk to the Mars
forge building her, having heard of the honor bestowed upon this ship.
The Adept Mechanicus decided to match the gift with an [Archaeotech plasma drive*], [Castillan pattern void shield array*], a [Energistic Conversion
Matrix], [Autostabilized Logis-Targeter], [bridge of Antiquity], and even a [Teleportarium]. It was also given an experimental [*Micro Laser Defense
Grid], reverse engineered from captured Xenos technologies.
Unfortunately, 3 weeks into its first patrol, the Legacy of Lucian and escorts encountered Dark Eldar Raiders. Outnumbered, surrounded, and strangely
becalmed by Warp activities, the Legacy of Lucian fought a courageous action, using its massive firepower to screen its escorts and decimate the raiders,
then utilising its powerful point defenses in a trap to obliterate incoming Dark Eldar boarding craft.
Enraged, the Dark Eldar fleet only pushed its assault even harder, and as her escorts fell one by one, Lucian's crew began to despair of the inevitable
torture and soul-drinking which the Dark Eldar are known for. The fought a courageous running action, utilizing her manouverability and powerful drive
array to inflict maximum casualties. Yet the as the end seemed near-
Lord-Admiral Xandos and his Lord-Captain Touyun had one last ace up their sleeves- Lord Admiral Xandos was very fond of Atomic devices, and even though
they were not part of the standard munitions loadout, he had half a dozen old (poor quality) warheads secreted away in the Supply Vaults. Captain Touyun
reprogrammed a squad of Murder-Servitors, and began to use the ship's Teleportarium to deliver special packages to the Dark Eldar cruisers.
Soon, the battleground was awash in the brilliant blossoms of nuclear fire as a dozen Dark Eldar cruisers, which had crowded together in an attempt to
board and overwhelm the Legacy of Lucian, exploded in a chain of sympathetic reactions.
The ensuing cataclysm caused a massive warp rift as warp engines in recently hulked Imperial ships imploded, sucking in the damaged Legacy of Lucian, her shattered escorts, and the remaining Dark Eldar Flotilla.
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Dynasty Story Pre-Campaign
Over 3 millenia and change later, a massive space hulk formed from many wrecked ships entangled together exited Warp over Yomuu IV in the Gothic Sector,
and crashed on the palace of House Peterson, an Rogue Trader dynasty extending to the Dawn of the Imperium itself- Indeed, the Peterson Warrant of Trade
was signed by the God-Emperor himself! The family moved operations to Segmentum Obscura, secured the Segmentum, and helped the Adeptus Mechanicus find
ArcheoTech, as the Warrant dictated. The House quickly generated enormous profits through activities both legal and illegal, through influence, force, and
use of their Warrant-privleges, means mundane and through exciting ways.
By M35 the Dynasty's merchant fleet had over 100 merchantmen, a dozen Star-Clippers, 22 Q-Ships, a dozen Frigates, a light cruiser, 3 score raiders, and
even a pair of Lunar-Class cruisers- given from the Imperial Navy, fully fitted out, for services performed in the Angevin Crusade.
Nowadays, after a century of misfortunes, in which generation after generation squandered wealth of millenia, where the House fleet was slowly demolished
in pointless endeavours, expeditions, and outright war with other Trader Houses, the House was left under 20 merchantmen, a pair of q ships, half a dozen
raiders, a pair of star clippers, and half a dozen frigates, along with a Lunar class and a Dauntless class light cruiser, both of which had recieved some
damage.
Flak's grandfather and father both seeked the House's salvation in the Koronus expanse- and dissapeared, with 2 frigates, and both cruisers. The Dynasty's
enemies laughed- they believed House Tortorelli was finished. And so did many members of the Tortorelli family, until the day a giant space hulk crashed
on their domains.
After the space hulk crashed, it was taken as a good sign for the Dynasty, for their mansion was nearly empty due to Guiding Council meeting where all the
figures of even minor importance attended with their retinues. Although half the continent and over 1.2 million people were obliterated from the impact,
the House rejoiced; after a basic examination of the hulk, it was clear it had enormous salvage potential.
The Heir to the Warrant, Flak Peterson swiftly mobilized all the family's resources and favours owed, and managed to secure a Writ of Salvage. The clan
even grounded part of its remaining merchant fleet to provide the skilled manpower required to work on the space hulk.