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	{{npcref\|Teodor Ziel}} tells Marneus that he sent for {{ship\|STV Wandering		{{npcref\|Teodor Ziel}} tells Marneus that he sent for {{ship\|STV Wandering Minstrel}} to help with repairs and logistics in the system. Marneus
	Minstrel}} to help with repairs and logistics in the system. Marneus
	also borrows Ziel's Navigator, who is about seven and a half feet		also borrows Ziel's Navigator, who is about seven and a half feet
	tall, incredibly thin, and generally weird looking. She also moves		tall, incredibly thin, and generally weird looking. She also moves

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|Session Date=2011/04/28
|Campaign=YuriRT1
|Author=Jason
|Session Title=The Plot Thickens
}}
[[Marneus Machariel|Marneus]] asks {{npcref|Brother-Captain Foo}} for
more time to ponder the question of how the Imperial Fists can help
him. Bartel happily obliges and asks for any information we can
provide about the planet below. Bartel indicates that the Fists will
be in-system and would no objection to killing some greenskins, should
such appear.

Outside the meeting room, [[Roe Van der Weyden]] spots a dreadnought
clanking around, complaining to itself. He decides to follow it and
thus ends up in the hangar bay, watching {{npcref|Brother Lysander}}
board the Space Marine Thunderhawk.

Marneus decides that he wants a much more intensive survey of
[[YuriRT1/Haldr|Haldr]],
and possibly also of the fifth planet in the system. In fact, he
decides that a full survey of all planets in the system makes sense.
Our appetite for resources will be vast enough to justify a thorough
search.

{{npcref|Teodor Ziel}} tells Marneus that he sent for {{ship|STV Wandering
Minstrel}} to help with repairs and logistics in the system. Marneus
also borrows Ziel's Navigator, who is about seven and a half feet
tall, incredibly thin, and generally weird looking. She also moves
oddly. Now that we have the essentials for safe Warp flight, Marneus
orders the crew back to the ship and prepares to get underway.

He orders Ziel to see to the survey work, using the station as a base,
while we go to SR-651. Thanks to our less than brilliant interim
Navigator, Warp Storms blow us way off course, and it takes us 24 days
to make the not-actually-all-that-long passage to SR-651. Marneus
tells the Navigator to start making charts, so that we'll have less
difficulty along this route. During the voyage, Inquisitor Drax
asks a good many members of the crew whether they've had any
experience with missing time. Luckily [[Anastasia Xanatov]] has lots of
experience recovering from lousy Warp exits and gets
{{ship|Solo Drakban}} onto a safe heading before we hit anything.

We dock and Marneus puts a retinue together to go aboard. He starts
with Roe, whom he briefs on our experiences to date in SR-651. Most of
the other senior officers horn in on this action, since a) Marneus
needs help staying out of trouble, and b) we all like to get off ship
periodically, even if it's just to smell the product of a different
atmosphere processor.

We first stop at the docking office to get our papers in order, and
ask them if they can recommend merchants who deal in the things we
need. Turns out the station just got a couple prizes brought in for
salvage, and the dockmaster gives us the broker's address. As we're
walking out, a stranger walks in, and Roe notices that the stranger
seems to be giving him a little extra attention. After a moments'
thought, Roe realizes the stranger was a Voidmaster he knew once. The
new NPC slips him a card with a number on it. Roe ducks off and dials
in, and after exchanging sinister underworld recognition signals, asks
his contacts if they can procure munitions. Turns out they can, and
Roe informs Marneus that he can get the hookup.

Marneus decides to go the above-board route first and talks to the
aforementioned salvage broker. Turns out the "prizes" look more like
hulks, but we're not buying hulls, so we don't care. Sadly the ships
did not mount macromissile batteries, so the broker can't help us.
Marneus asks if they might have any other interesting hardware
available, but it's no dice.

Marneus, Roe, and [[Livienne Corvus]] then go to meet with Roe's shady
friends, who seem to have lots of munitions to sell, so long as you
can overlook the Aquila on the packaging. After a bit of dickering, we
give them a lot of cash in exchange for a lot of missiles, which they
shall undertake to deliver to ''Drakban''.

Drax takes a quick look around the breaker yard for ships in the range
of eight to nine millenia old. He spots something that might have been
a Hellion-class planetary assault ship back in the day, but it's hard
to be sure. He decides to procure the use of a shuttle and check more
closely.

The salvager whose hulks failed to interest us calls and invites
Marneus onto the bridge of one of the demi-hulks. Turns out the ship
had a warp sextant, and he's taking offers. That works out nicely,
since Marneus feels like making offers... and unlike the salvage
broker, Marneus has an idea what a warp sextant goes for. He gets it
for a very nice price, and now [[Opiter Castus]] has something to do
this session. He manages to get it moved to ''Solo'' without
difficulty. Marneus then orders 12 hours shore leave.

Anastasia goes out drinking with Roe, hoping to learn more about the
new guy. Roe loves talking about Roe, and now he's met someone who
shares this interest. Turns out lots of people want to go out and have
a little fun. Roe tries to get Anastasia drunk, but she demonstrates
amazing fortitude and self-control. He drinks with both fists and
tells stories of honor and violence. Jotham tries to save some souls
but hits an overly pious note for the rough and tumble crowd on
SR-651. [[Lucius Holt|Lucius]] also manages to find himself some bar
fun. A bunch of senior voidmen are winding a rookie up about Orks, and
he can't hardly pass up that conversation. Except that in this case
one of them was there to witness a deal between an Ork and a
well-dressed woman with obvious augmentation. Lucius uses his
technically non-heretical brain powers to read the voidman's memories,
and confirs that this is the same deal we've been hoping to find proof
of. Oh yeah, and he describes one of the other Orks present for the
deal... and it's clearly the Mekboy from the station.

Drax finds himself his ancient hull, and finds that it's not a
Hellion. It looks like the escort ship based on similar designs. He
does psychometry on it, gaining a point of corruption in the process.
Oh yeah, and when he activates his powers, his face temporarily
appears demonic, which causes his companion/pilot to flee in terror.
In the shuttle that brought him here. Drax gets to hang out in his
void suit for a while and then calls for help. On the plus side, he
finds that this ship saw action with Battlefleet Obscuris, and was
once boarded by Iron Warriors. She "remembers" having once encountered
the same detachment of Iconoclasts in Segmentum Obscuris and then,
long after being sold out of the service, meeting one of those same
ships near Iniquity in the Koronus Expanse and being wrecked by her.
By that time it was friendly fire. Drax makes mental note of all this
and then calls for a ride back to ''Draban''.

On our way back to [[YuriRT1/Vanir|Vanir]], we experience lost time (twice) along with
warp storms and a Gellar Field fluctuation that makes the bridge walls
bleed for five minutes. Drax finds this fascinating and freaks the
navigator out with his intense scrutiny. We're thirty-two days getting
back.

Drax grabs Marneus and Jotham and lays out his agenda for us. His
order seeks an artifact which they believe still lies in the Expanse,
an artifact called Heimdal's Armillary, but which fell into the hands
of Chaos and became known as the Chronophage. He hopes that by
charting the locations where ships lost time in the warp, he can
triangulate the location of the Chronophage and get to it before the
Ruinous Powers. If we can help locate it, the Ordo Malleus will think
very highly of us.

Lucius reports his encounter back to the Captain. This gives us two
data points indicating Marneus' sister's seneschal in this plot.
Something Must Be Done.

Anyway, turns out our trip took about four and a half months all told.
The Space Marine Strike Cruiser is still in system. Captain Ziel
reports that he's spent the time charting the area, and found possible
trading partners in the area. The Space Marines spent almost all the
time on Haldr, and found signs that an STC had been there. They also
confirmed that the Haldr colony predates the Heresy, and the fighting
on the planet would have been one of the last major events in the
sector before the storms cut it off. Something under 8km of water on
Haldr is sending a smuggler's ship beacon out. Upon hearing that the
Space Marines have accessed all those logs, Drax immediately asks to
review them and seek signs of the Chronophage.

While Drax busies himself with Haldr's database, Marneus gets the rest
of the senior staff together and makes sure we're all aware of the
various facts recorded in the log. The meeting breaks up when Ziel
gets a all informing him that the Space Marines are leaving. Marneus
bids them a farewell and promises to keep in touch.

Anastasia uses the local Choir to ask her family what they know about
the situation inside the Machariel clan, and suggesting that they side
with Marneus in the upcoming struggle.

Surveyors on the planet report finding some shelters where bones seem
to have been... arranged. Jotham studied such matters in seminary, and
determines that the arrangements do not reflect any common heresy. The
Imperial Aquila made out of femurs certainly reflects a rather
unorthodox view of the Creed, but as long as it's not a Chaos plot,
it's not something to get too worried about.

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