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Yuri at 13:44, 16 April 2011

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	Space Marines lie on top of sarcophagi with their bolters, with a		Space Marines lie on top of sarcophagi with their bolters, with a
	dreadnought watching over them. The Dreadnought shows Iron First		dreadnought watching over them. The Dreadnought shows Iron First
	regalia and carries ~~a multi-melta~~, dreadnought ~~claw~~, and some sort of		regalia and carries an assault cannon, dreadnought-scale power fist, and some sort of
	large bore cannon. One of the Marines has a chapter banner. Lucius		large bore cannon. One of the Marines has a chapter banner. Lucius
	discovers that one of the Marines is a Librarian. We call for help		discovers that one of the Marines is a Librarian. We call for help

Jason at 03:02, 15 April 2011

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	slouched posture to being fully upright, makes a brief burst of white		slouched posture to being fully upright, makes a brief burst of white
	noise from its speakers, then scans the room. He introduces himself as		noise from its speakers, then scans the room. He introduces himself as
	Brother Lysander and accuses us of being late. We tell him what year		{{npcref\|Brother Lysander}} and accuses us of being late. We tell him what year
	it is. He can't believe that, since they were deployed in M47. He		it is. He can't believe that, since they were deployed in M47. He
	explains that the five of them are all that remains of the loyal		explains that the five of them are all that remains of the loyal

Jason at 19:27, 26 January 2011

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	[[Victrus Karellius]] tries to ~~log~~ on to the bogey, and can't. It		[[Victrus Karellius]] tries to lock on to the bogey, and can't. It
	ignores hails. It closes the planet and flank speed, then turns		ignores hails. It closes the planet and flank speed, then turns
	broadside to the ship. As it does, there's a screaming sound in all		broadside to the ship. As it does, there's a screaming sound in all
	our frequencies, and Livienne realizes she can see through it.		our frequencies, and Livienne realizes she can see right through the unidentified ship.
	[[Jahazer Simoom]] confirms that the warp has not intruded into real		[[Jahazer Simoom]] confirms that the warp has not intruded into real
	space, meaning the ghost ship must be an apparition, not an actual		space, meaning the ghost ship must be an apparition, not an actual

Jason at 19:26, 26 January 2011

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	[[Victrus ~~Karrellius~~]] tries to log on to the bogey, and can't. It		[[Victrus Karellius]] tries to log on to the bogey, and can't. It
	ignores hails. It closes the planet and flank speed, then turns		ignores hails. It closes the planet and flank speed, then turns
	broadside to the ship. As it does, there's a screaming sound in all		broadside to the ship. As it does, there's a screaming sound in all

Jason at 20:08, 10 December 2010

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Jason: changed Iron Fists to Imperial Fists

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	We find the museum with a pile of Space Marine corpses in front of it.		We find the museum with a pile of Space Marine corpses in front of it.
	A group of ~~Iron~~ Fists apparently defended it to the death, and		A group of Imperial Fists apparently defended it to the death, and
	succeeded - the museum appears unbreached. We order our armsmen to		succeeded - the museum appears unbreached. We order our armsmen to
	start moving the bodies, both to open up a way in, and to search for		start moving the bodies, both to open up a way in, and to search for
	any records. Sure enough, they find an Adeptus Astartes dataslate. The		any records. Sure enough, they find an Adeptus Astartes dataslate. The
	planet was called Haldr. The ~~Iron~~ Fists were contacted by another		planet was called Haldr. The Imperial Fists were contacted by another
	chapter because the loyalists knew the Iron Warriors would be there. A		chapter because the loyalists knew the Iron Warriors would be there. A
	Chaos cult had grown on the planet, and they eventually invited the		Chaos cult had grown on the planet, and they eventually invited the

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|Author=Jason
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Lord Captain Machariel comes down with a sudden, inexplicable, and
hideously acute case of space dysentery.

Anyway, the crew of the {{ship|Solo Drakban}} have towed their newly
partially salvaged ancient space station out to the edge of the
system. To improve our sense of security in the system, we attempt to
more thoroughly scout the ruined world in the system. Our augur arrays
suggest it's a ruined Hive World. We now get into a low orbit and
begin intensively scanning. [[Anastasia Xanatov]] gets us nice and low
while [[Opiter Castus]] aids the Machine Spirit to get the most of our
sensors, and our systems reward their hard work with a bounty of data.
Roughly half the surface of the planet shows signs of development,
focused around three hive cities, now fallen in. We feel certain this
was an Imperial colony before something bad happened to it, centuries
ago. Opiter identifies a Mechanicus shrine of unfamiliar type (which
he unsurprisingly expresses a wish to visit). [[Bors Tovon]],
examining the damage, opines that it looks like the result of a full
scale planetary war. We try to identify signs of Orks on the planet
and don't see any. Maybe there aren't any. We laugh at our foolish
optimism.

Seneschal [[Livienne Corvus]], acting in the Lord Captain's stead
during his illness, receives preliminary scan reports from the ship's
shuttle pilots (in triplicate), who have been investigating the
wreckage in space. Aside from the expected debris, they found hull
plates from Imperial Navy ships. Analyzing the aggregated set of all
the scans of the planet and the debris from the void, she begins to
pick out ships with something wrong about them - one immediately
suspects Chaos. Wreckage on the planet includes normal looking Space
Marine Drop Pods and wrong-looking ones. Yep. Chaos. She can't keep us
from going planetside, so she puts a team on standby to recover our bodies.

Opiter retrieves his servo-skull from the bridge. Who knew he had one
hidden there? Well, all of us know now. He gets in the shuttle along
with Bors, Jotham, Lucius, and a company or so of Armsmen. Anastasia
pilots our shuttle, of course, and gets us safely to the planet.
During her approach, our ship gets sensor painted a couple times.
Either the survivors have kept some technology, or some automatic
defenses still work. She decides to land anyway, and puts us down in a
decent spot with nic balmy weather. We open the hatches, and as soon
as the shuttle engines shut down, the silence becomes palpable. The
wide open sky begins to really bother poor Lucius, who comes from a
hive. From the ground, the scale of the hives becomes really apparent.
The mind can scarcely visualize the sort of carnage required to do so
much damage to a Hive. We immediately see dead Space Marines and Chaos
Space Marines. We wipe down some shoulder pads and see Iron Warriors
and Thousand Sons Chaos Marines. The loyal Marine uniforms suggest
they might have been Sons of Orion and Flame Wardens, Blood Angel and
Salamander successor chapters respectively. Lucius' psychic powers
still detect a faint whiff of Chaos.

We head inside thought the nearest bay door, or rather gaping hole
where the bay doors were smashed in. Opiter sends his servo skull
ahead to scout, keeping it just a hundred meters or so in front of us.
The defenders had tried to fortify the inside of the hive, so the
skull finds much evidence of interior fortification, and lots of
remains.

Back on the ''Solo'' 's bridge, the PO in charge of an Auspex station
reports company in the system. The bogey appears to be a warship,
perhaps cruiser sized. inbound to the planet. Livienne orders the
landing party recalled to the ship, and the landing party makes no
argument. Opiter grabs a shoulder pad from one of the loyalists on his
way out.

[[Victrus Karrellius]] tries to log on to the bogey, and can't. It
ignores hails. It closes the planet and flank speed, then turns
broadside to the ship. As it does, there's a screaming sound in all
our frequencies, and Livienne realizes she can see through it.
[[Jahazer Simoom]] confirms that the warp has not intruded into real
space, meaning the ghost ship must be an apparition, not an actual
warship. He also identifies it as a ''Hellion''-class heavy cruiser,
configured be a carrier for Stormtroopers. The Navy sold the last
''Hellion'' 4500 years ago. Jahazer manages to decode the ship's
transmission and determines that it contains the coordinates of the
planet. The landing party desires to land again, now that we know it's
a ghost threat, but Seneschal Mom wants us to be very safe. Lucius
hears whispers of Traitor Legions and heretical forces, couched in
language that suggests he's overhearing Imperial Navy orders. Once
Anastasia turns our shuttle around and gets us back into atmo, Lucius
stops hearing the whispers. About an hour later, the ghost ship fades
out.

On our second approach, we get pinged again, and this time we try to
triangulate the source, but we can't isolate it down to any fine
point. We go back to where we started and begin looking around the
Mechanicus facility. Eventually we find a terminal, which Opiter
begins to interface with, hoping to mine vast tracts of data from it.
First he'll need to get it working, which he does, and gets to watch a
millania-old system boot screen. Once he gets in, he finds that,
shockingly, many systems remain offline. To really mine this place,
we'll have to go around restoring many other systems. He can, however,
score a map of the public spaces, such as the chapel and museum.
Lucius reminds us that the facility is haunted. Opiter reminds him
that we live on a haunted ship, so same-same, right? As we mock the
psyker for his fear, the servo-skull finds something, chitters, and
begins to investigate a junk pile. It gievs bump to some trash and
uncovers a genuine robot, complete with apparently-fatal battle
damage. It mounts a massive assault cannon, which has Bors panting,
though the lack of ammunition somewhat damps his spirits. We head for
the museum. As we go deeper into the facility, we stop seeing Iron
Warriors armor - apparently they didn't make it this far.

We find the museum with a pile of Space Marine corpses in front of it.
A group of Iron Fists apparently defended it to the death, and
succeeded - the museum appears unbreached. We order our armsmen to
start moving the bodies, both to open up a way in, and to search for
any records. Sure enough, they find an Adeptus Astartes dataslate. The
planet was called Haldr. The Iron Fists were contacted by another
chapter because the loyalists knew the Iron Warriors would be there. A
Chaos cult had grown on the planet, and they eventually invited the
Traitor Legions in.

Eventually Opiter opens the museum door. As soon as he opens it, the
lights come on - whoah. Life-size dioramas of Mechanicus history and
their work on Haldr fill the room. We also find a medical bay. Opiter
and Bors then search for access to the lower, more secure levels of
the museum, and eventually find one. It contains workshops, and Lucius
finds a computer terminal there. Sadly it has no power, so we're going
to need to get a generator powered up somehow- but Opiter knows how to
get that done. Throughout all this, Lucius has been hearing psychic
screams, but they grow muffled when we go downstairs.

The generator appears to provide power for the whole building - our
armsmen throughout the facility report that the lights just came on.
The system reports that a state of emergency remains in effect for the
entire facility. Then the system begins bring up the automated defense
and targeting systems, which briefly scare the willies out of everyone
before Opiter shuts them down.

Back in the ship, Anastasia gets a request for landing coordinates for
her position. She asks them to authenticate. She also detects
encrypted transmissions sent her way, which she relays back to the
ship. Her radio tech calculates that the transmission is coming from
roughly the same place where the pinging of the ship originated. She
flies off to investigate without bothering to inform the party inside
the Mechanicus facility. (It's funnier that way!) Flying a search
pattern, Anastasia figures out that the pings only happen when she's
over a specific area, which they quickly triangulate down to about a
square half-kilometer. She also relays the signal up to the ''Drakban''.
Eventually one of the shuttle crew spies movement on the ground inside
their search perimeter. Anastasia tries to fly even lower to
investigate. A close look at a topo map of the ruins convinces the
shuttle crew that there are life forms and power sources, based on
moving heat signatures, EM radiation, etc. Anastasia reluctantly
reports her findings to Seneschal Wet Blanket. The Seneschal responds
by telling her that according to the ship's Cogitators, the signals
sent to the shuttle carry Adeptus Astartes encryption. She orders the
''Drakban'' to reply with her formal Imperial credentials, including
her registry, Warrant, etc.

The exploration party in the museum decide to run a cable from the
surface to the terminal and rig a transmitter to let us upload the
contents of the museum data core to the ''Drakban''. Bors, Lucius, and
Jotham decide to lead the search party to the presumed Space Marine
site. We discover the source of the transmission is underground,
requiring us to dig. After much digging, we find a bunker, complete
with airlock-style door and entry keypad. We knock and get no
response, and we don't know the keycode, so we summon a salvage team
with a torch to cut it open. Interior overpressure pops the door out
like a cork, and we send a couple armsmen down the ladder. They
immediately call for us to join them. At the bottom of the hatch, four
Space Marines lie on top of sarcophagi with their bolters, with a
dreadnought watching over them. The Dreadnought shows Iron First
regalia and carries a multi-melta, dreadnought claw, and some sort of
large bore cannon. One of the Marines has a chapter banner. Lucius
discovers that one of the Marines is a Librarian. We call for help
from ''Drakban'', which sends us a bunch of medical staff and more
armsmen.

Meanwhile, Lucius tries to thought-send to the Dreadnought. Nothing
happens... until a few minutes later, when a blinking red light on its
readout panel suddenly stops blinking and turns green. Lucius
announces that it might be waking up and then mutters that it might
have heard his thought sending. Sure enough, it transitions from its
slouched posture to being fully upright, makes a brief burst of white
noise from its speakers, then scans the room. He introduces himself as
Brother Lysander and accuses us of being late. We tell him what year
it is. He can't believe that, since they were deployed in M47. He
explains that the five of them are all that remains of the loyal
Marine presence. He asks about the situation, inquires as to whether
we all speak Low Gothic, and identifies Opiter as a member of the
Mechanicus. Lysander says that "they didn't find it while they were
here, so it must still be here... if it was ever here at all." He's
concerned that we haven't found it... although it may be just as well,
since we don't know what it is.