Hi.

Im planning on using Lucien's breath i my campaign.(the mining planet Winterscale and Chorda is fighting for.) and i would love if someone could give me some ideas to why it is so important.

my own first thought is that it has (insert important and old tech here). would be awesome if some of you could throw some ideas out there

i can read from edge of the abyss that there was a now dead xeno race here. would it be stupid to think it is the necron tyr? could it could sound like them.

Isn't the planet covered in some sort of pure promethium?

Otherwise if you want to use it as part of a campaign you can put anything there really.

Are the players looking for some legendary Archaotech? Put it in some ancient ruins hidden on the planet.

Are they chasing an old enemy? He fled to Lucin's Breath.

I think the xenos ruins on Lucins Breath was some crystal like constructions build around the pools of promethium "thing". I dont think is traditional Necron style constructions, but i dont see why i couldn't be some mad Necron clan that build it like this because it was easier/better to do so with the resources available.

The Nephium found abundantly on Lucin's Breath seems to be a force multiplier for promethium. If you mix in some of it, promethium will burn hotter and longer. So controlling these wells/mines/whatever is like a licence to make money.

Additionally there seems to be a living Xeno species there (not sure if intelligent or dumb beast) that is enslaved for working there.

There's a full write up on Lucin's Breath in Edge of the Abyss.

The main loot to be had is the vast amount of staggeringly pure nephium. Besides it's huge flammability, nephium reacts strongly with organic tissue - the raw stuff is toxic and a mutagen to boot. It sells for great sums if you can get it to the Calixis sector. Of course, there's the small matter that the two most powerful traders in the Expanse, Chorda and Winterscale, are currently fighting over the world. There's also the fact that some of the buyers may not be on the up-and-up. As I recall, the heretek followers of Umbra Malygris used nephium in their blasphemous bio-forging rites to twist the sacred human form.

Cheers,

- V.

Ideas for Lucien's Breath.

1) PC's get hired by another faction (could be Winterscale, Chorda, the Kasballica, etc) to raid a minor mining site and claim ownership of it. Information provided is the location, number of people living there, security and who owns it (though they could be lying….). What they want in return is a cut of the profit and help later when they ask for it. This could be a trap (like the PC's attack it get left out on the wind , could be a stepping stone to a large military action, or maybe just a revenge strike to show power to weaker Houses.

2) PC's get hired by another faction (use a minor House this time, maybe one that has been friendly to the PC's House) to investigate why two of their mining sites and a ship sent to Lucien's Breath having made contact with them in over 6 months. They are running low on funds and are desperate for the players assistance. They offer one of their mining sites as a reward and assistance whenever the PC's need it. Could be another House raiding their sites and cargo ship, aliens like Eldar or orks could also the culprits, or maybe the creatures/daemons on the planet are making their move and decided to hitch a ride in a transport ship and cause some mayhem.

3) A dear friend of the PC's (or business partner, ex lover, uncle, etc) has went to Lucien's Breath to check up on reports of late shipments and hasn't returned. What happened to him/her?

4) PC's have a contract to take supplies to and from Lucien's Breath. While in orbit, they receive an encrypted message from the rebels on the planet asking for assistance. The rebels could be asking for medical supplies, weapons, or components to make a small outpost on the planet. They could be offering to sell something, even their services, to the PC's. They might even ask the PC's to sabotage a rival mining site (or sabotage the job they have). A reason why sabotaging their own mission would be interesting could be that the PC's were secretly hired by the Kasballica to transport this shipment to an out of the way asteroid facility owned by Pirates/Heritics. And just to spice things up, the rebels know the Pirates/Heritics almost always raid ships that get sent to them. Maybe this is why the PC's were promised extra payment if they did get attacked……

5) Or a combination of the above listed idea's or with other people's suggestions (Like Vandegraffe's, which I really like). GM discretion is advised.

Somebody the PCs don't like ended up sold into slavery to Chorda or Winterscale, and dumped on Lucin's Breath. Normally, the PCs would raise a toast to their rivals and happily toddle off to their next fortune, but they need this one alive - perhaps his has information they urgently need, or his gene-print to open a datavault they want to loot.

So they're going to have to go after him. And neither Chorda nor Winterscaleare going to happy about that, especially if he's been sent off across the surface in one of the skirmishing units the two RTs are sending against each other's mines, in direct contravention of the treaty.