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	Marneus discovers that he father has sent help. Among other Machariel		Marneus discovers that he father has sent help. Among other Machariel
	personnel comes some tall, blond, fancy-looking dude. He identifies		personnel comes some tall, blond, fancy-looking dude. He identifies
	himself as [[Roe Van der Weyden]] and explains that {{npcref\|Talfore		himself as [[Roe Van der Weyden]] and explains that {{npcref\|Talfore Machariel}} sent him. Marneus, grown somewhat suspicious, goes to look
	Machariel}} sent him. Marneus, grown somewhat suspicious, goes to look
	for the data packet confirming the provenance of this recruit. He		for the data packet confirming the provenance of this recruit. He
	finds such but also reads that Roe has killed an awful lot of people,		finds such but also reads that Roe has killed an awful lot of people,

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	Anyway, back in the present, we once again arrive at {{ship\|Machariel Station}}, notice a bunch of Ork wreckage including a cruiser hulk,		Anyway, back in the present, we once again arrive at {{ship\|Machariel Station}}, notice a bunch of Ork wreckage including a cruiser hulk,
	and that the station has her guns run out. It has many guns. Many,		and that the station has her guns run out. It has many guns. Many,
	many guns. They hail us, we answer, and Captain {{npcref\|Teodor		many guns. They hail us, we answer, and Captain {{npcref\|Teodor Ziel}}, formerly of {{ship\|STV Mendicant}} explains that his old ship
	Ziel}}, formerly of {{ship\|STV Mendicant}} explains that his old ship
	is a mess that will take a month to get operational, the other ships		is a mess that will take a month to get operational, the other ships
	are in disrepair, and the station has some damage. We repair aboard		are in disrepair, and the station has some damage. We repair aboard

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	utility shuttle. Opiter, not to be outdone, buys himself a powerfist.		utility shuttle. Opiter, not to be outdone, buys himself a powerfist.

	Anyway, back in the present, we once again arrive at {{ship\|Machariel		Anyway, back in the present, we once again arrive at {{ship\|Machariel Station}}, notice a bunch of Ork wreckage including a cruiser hulk,
	Station}}, notice a bunch of Ork wreckage including a cruiser hulk,
	and that the station has her guns run out. It has many guns. Many,		and that the station has her guns run out. It has many guns. Many,
	many guns. They hail us, we answer, and Captain {{npcref\|Teodor		many guns. They hail us, we answer, and Captain {{npcref\|Teodor

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{{Gamelog
|Session Date=2011/04/14
|Campaign=YuriRT1
|Author=Jason
|Session Title=Duty Beyond Death
}}
A quick backtrack: back at Port Wander, while {{ship|Solo Drakban}} is
fitting out, [[Bors Tovon]] comes to [[Marneus Machariel]] and
explains that he needs leave right away, and isn't sure when he can
return. Marneus encourages him to return someday, to which Bors
agrees. There's just some trouble on his home planet that needs to be
cleaned up. Well, we were recruiting anyway.

Our new Inquisitor inserts himself into the recruiting process,
endeavoring to keep the corruption on the ship down to a managable
level.

Marneus discovers that he father has sent help. Among other Machariel
personnel comes some tall, blond, fancy-looking dude. He identifies
himself as [[Roe Van der Weyden]] and explains that {{npcref|Talfore
Machariel}} sent him. Marneus, grown somewhat suspicious, goes to look
for the data packet confirming the provenance of this recruit. He
finds such but also reads that Roe has killed an awful lot of people,
and has demonstrated skill with both blade and gun. Marneus shows the
file to [[Livienne Corvus|Livienne]] and asks her to bug the
newcomer's room. Talfore's message also indicates that the old man's
health is getting worse.

[[Opiter Castus]] corners Livienne and discusses the possibility of
using servitors instead of crew. Intriguing! The savings in good costs
alone have the Seneschal's balances tingling. She ponders inviting the
Mechanicus aboard in an attempt to sway them with our hospitality, but
the Mechanicus have a reputation for not caring, and our ship has so
recently been... under some stress... that perhaps it would be best
to transact business elsewhere.

They fly to the Forge and meet with {{npcref|Magos Septimus
Pollux}}. Opiter quickly explains our needs to the Magos, who responds
that he's open to the idea, but they do not have sufficient quantity
on hand to meet our need. They have about 3,000 now, where we need
10,000. They also decline to be hurried on the subject. The Magos then
cuts the meeting short and hovers off. On the way back, Marneus buys a
utility shuttle. Opiter, not to be outdone, buys himself a powerfist.

Anyway, back in the present, we once again arrive at {{ship|Machariel
Station}}, notice a bunch of Ork wreckage including a cruiser hulk,
and that the station has her guns run out. It has many guns. Many,
many guns. They hail us, we answer, and Captain {{npcref|Teodor
Ziel}}, formerly of {{ship|STV Mendicant}} explains that his old ship
is a mess that will take a month to get operational, the other ships
are in disrepair, and the station has some damage. We repair aboard
the station and see that the Machariel crews have done a lot of work.
Poor Zeal has been seriously burned and now looks even more alarming
than he did before. The Orks showed up a couple weeks ago and none
escaped, but now the station is out of ammo.

Marneus asks [[Jotham Lentillus|Jotham]] to show Roe and the new
Inquisitor around the station. Solid. Jotham likes Inquisitors! We
meet a nice petty officer who gives Jotham a map of the station, which
makes the tour go rather smoother. The PO's data dump reveals that the
station has a previously-unknown launch bay. Ooooh. Fancy! Roe worsens
the mood by asking the Inquisitor, straight out, why he's there.
Unruffled, Inquisitor Drax explains that he's present to observe and
advise.

Opiter busies himself unloading servitors. Magos Yorke, leader of the
contingent from {{ship|MMV Foresight}}, explains about how what had
been a relic is now a fully and operational battlestation, plus or
minus a few cubic kilometers of ammunition.

Marneus meets with the other captains and sees that they're all pretty
banged up. There were Ork boarding actions and other forms of mayhem.
Ziel has set up operations around a large holotable. He shows what
happened, and reveals that the Orks came out of the Warp right onto
the station. How'd they know right where it was? Anyway, the fighting
went on for two days, but the human forces eventually prevailed. Ziel
sent men to board the hulk of the Ork cruiser and salvaged pieces of
the Ork Boss's log. One of the surviving men could sort of read Ork (I
sense heresy) and discovered that some human sent them here and told
them they could loot the station if they kicked the Machariels out.
The culprit had to be someone who knew where the station is, and we
agree that the Mechanicus had no reason to do it, the Space Marines
wouldn't have done it, we know we didn't do it... so maybe
{{npcref|Lyssa Machariel}}, Marneus' sister?

Anyway, clearly we need to move the station before the Orks return,
but we also need to keep an eye on the planet. That puts us in a tough
spot. Marneus orders the station moved within the system and mines
placed within the existing debris cloud. He also orders the ammunition
that ''Drakban'' brought over distributed amongst the fleet. The
station turns out to be armed with missile batteries and mega-melters,
which means we can't rearm it. The camoflaged battery worked against
us this time.

Ziel reports that the Augur captured several anomalous readings around
the planet, which sound like recurrences of the ghost ship we
previously encountered. He sounds oddly reassured when Marneus tells
him it's just a ghost. Marneus them promotes/reassigns Ziel to command
of the station and allows him to promote one of his former officers to
command of ''Mendicant''.

The Inquisitor asks whether we might have picked up some sort of Chaos
device or token in realspace. Jotham tells him we've seen many signs
of Orks and also some Traitor Legion armor on the planet. Oooooh, the
mention of the Chaos Marines has Drax positively salivating.

[[Lucius Holt]] uses his brain powers to survey the station. He finds
some sort of non-human psyker power around the center and gets
permission from the Captain to grab a mess o' armsmen and investigate.
He closes in, moving laterally to try to fix it, and fixes its exact
location and a general sense that it's not human and not actively
using psyker powers. Lucius tells the Sergeant of the Armsmen where
they're going, and the Sergeant comes up with a plan for approaching
it. Unfortunately, when they ask Lucius to point it out on the station
map, he points to... the reactor core. They move toward it and begin
to see graffiti on the walls. Then they find a nest. It's not clear
what sort of nest, but it sure does look like a nest, made out of
random crap you find on a station. It's large, like something bigger
than man-size is hanging out there. There are also metal chunks that
look like ship hull plating, and beneath that, a rolled up burlap
something. Lucius orders one of the Armsmen to open up the roll, and
it's full of oversize tools that look like they were made by a four
year old. One of the squad leaders uses his microbead to summon Lucius
over, and explains that there may be a situation. Lucius decides that
now would be a good time to report this to command, who escalates it
up to Ziel, who summons Marneus, who sends reinforcements.

The reinforcements go past Jotham, Drax, and Roe, who decide to try to
get in on this. Jotham immediately joins up with the troops, while
Drax uses psynicience to find out what the thing is. It's not human!

Lucius and co hear banging noises, then swearing sounds in some filthy
heretical xeno tongue. Eventually they see that it's a really big Ork
in a work coverall, wielding a massive spanner-tech axe-thing, poking
around in a disturbingly Orky way. As the troops try to sneak up on
it, it spots them, and all hell errupts. The troops cut loose with
their auto shotguns and fill the compartment with lead, but can't hit
the Ork, which flees. From some compartment deeper in the reactor
core, they hear it bellow, "It wadn't me! I didn't do it!" Lucius
orders his men to close in. The Ork asks for parley in Low Gothic,
then tries to wave a white flag to surrender. It keeps asking to speak
to the Captain. Lucius prefers not to waver in his pursuit of the
Xenos. Then the Ork threatens him with a Big Red Button, which, when
uttered by a Mekboy in a reactor core, has a certain sense of
finality to it. Then he starts talking through the station PA. Lucius,
disgusted, uses a Psychic Scream to stun the Mekboy so the armsmen can
close in again. There's a loud "beep" and then the armsmen close in,
delivering massive shotgun execution. Turns out the Big Red Button
was not, in fact, the station self-destruct. The Inquisitor arrives
and uses Psychometry to discover that the "Off" button was supposed to
disable everything on the station and open all the doors, including
venting the place to vacuum. He was part of the boarding party, got
lost, and followed his instincts. He had been the head Mekboy for the
cruiser, and was with the boss when the boss took the contract for the
raid. He took that contract from a fancy lady. Lucius then summons
Opiter to investigate this technomological mayhem. Opiter immediately
asks about possible Orky traps, and is not pleased to hear that not
only was there one, and not only did the Ork already try to use it,
but the Inquisitor already has it. Oh well, time for the Mechanicus to
take over.

Meanwhile, up in station traffic control, a ship just dropped out of
warp on the other side of the system. She's actively searching for
something. Marneus sends ''Drakban'' and {{ship|STV Calamity}} to
investigate. Marneus orders the fleet to battlestations, but orders no
active augury. Our pickets get out there in a big hurry, and as they
close in, they discover that it's {{ship|AAV Stalwart}}, a humble
little Space Marine Strike Cruiser, looking for Marneus Machariel -
and that AAV stands for Adeptus Astartes Vessel, like in Space
Marines. Acting Captain [[Anastasia Xanatov]] offers them all possible
cooperation. The Space Marine Captain actually smiles. He seems happy
to see her. This does not match up with our expectations of Space
Marine behavior. He introduces himself as {{npcref|Brother-Captain
Bartel}} of the Imperial Fists. Turns out that Bartel likes to meet
new people and converse socially. Most humans find this both awesome
and disturbing.

Inquisitor Drax hands Marneus the Big Red Button. He also reports the
results of the Psychometry. Marneus ain't no chump- he recognizes the
lady as his sister's Seneschal. He tries to feign ignorance of her
identity, but the Inquisitor realizes he's not being truthful.

Since the incoming ship is friendly, the station stands down. Ziel
effects disbelief when he hears the news, then informs Marneus that
the Imperial Fists would like to talk to him. When ''Calamity'' gets
close enough, they politely request permission to dock, instead of
demanding. This Bartel guy kind of wigs everyone out with his
politeness and respect for us lowly humans. Pretty much everyone of
rank joins the welcoming party. Bartel boards in uniform, not armor,
with an escort of a half-dozen Marine Scouts, a fully armored
Librarian named Alexander, and {{npcref|Brother Lysander}}, our
favorite Dreadnought. Marneus asks how we can assist the Iron Fists,
and Bartel says "that's not the right question to ask."
Unsurprisingly, the rest of the Imperial Fists seem a lot less social
than Bartel. The Brother-Captain asks to speak with Marneus in
private, although he clarifies that Marneus' officers are welcome as
well. Marneus leads us all in, but when I say "all", I mean not Roe.
Marneus comes right out and tells Roe he doesn't trust him. Whuff! Roe
doesn't feel the love, but accepts the Lord Captain's decision with
good graces.

Once we're all in private, Bartel tells us that the Imperial Fists
consider Marneus to have returned Lysander from death, and they want
to know how they can be of service to us.

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