Greetings, one and all.
I have been toying with the idea of a larger scale 40K RP, set in the most current time period of the 40K setting, and pretty much just came up with this.
It is the early years of the 42nd millenia, the Tau are planning expansion, the Necrons are awakening, and the God-Emperor is secretly fading away as his Golden Throne begins to fail.
Nevertheless, within the Imperium it is business as usual!
The Governor of the Gol'Kut system - named after the capital planet - has been lacking in his tithes to the Imperium for some time, and in a rash and perhaps foolish move has fully renounced his loyalty to the Emperor and all who serve him. Those planets closest to him, crushed as they were by overbearing Imperial tithes themselves, were more than ready to take up the cause of their more powerful neighbour, and so the Gol'Kut Consortium was formed as a mutual and defensive organisation against the expected backlash which the Impierum was certain to send.
This backlash, when it came, was somewhat weaker than first anticipated - a few hundred regiments of the Guard, a small Adeptus Soritas stike force, and an Imperial delegation - a classic underestimation of ones enemy.
The entire force was wiped out in a matter of weeks, few living to limp back into Imperial space and tell their tales to any who would listen.
Now a larger, better equipped and superior force, is being assembled to take a crusade headlong into the jaws of the enemy, and with it to re-establish control of the system or cleanse it utterly.
As players, you will be in command of the crusading forces, getting a choice ranging from an entire Guard regiment to a smaller but more formidable Astartes strike force detatched from their mother Chapter(s).
Know this though, that the enemy is not some crazed Chaos worshipping group of warbands, but a well armed and well organised - previously Imperial - collection of planets in a rather extensive system on the Imperium's fringe.
So, who shall take up the call, who shall join the Emperor's holy crusade?
I have been toying with the idea of a larger scale 40K RP, set in the most current time period of the 40K setting, and pretty much just came up with this.
It is the early years of the 42nd millenia, the Tau are planning expansion, the Necrons are awakening, and the God-Emperor is secretly fading away as his Golden Throne begins to fail.
Nevertheless, within the Imperium it is business as usual!
The Governor of the Gol'Kut system - named after the capital planet - has been lacking in his tithes to the Imperium for some time, and in a rash and perhaps foolish move has fully renounced his loyalty to the Emperor and all who serve him. Those planets closest to him, crushed as they were by overbearing Imperial tithes themselves, were more than ready to take up the cause of their more powerful neighbour, and so the Gol'Kut Consortium was formed as a mutual and defensive organisation against the expected backlash which the Impierum was certain to send.
This backlash, when it came, was somewhat weaker than first anticipated - a few hundred regiments of the Guard, a small Adeptus Soritas stike force, and an Imperial delegation - a classic underestimation of ones enemy.
The entire force was wiped out in a matter of weeks, few living to limp back into Imperial space and tell their tales to any who would listen.
Now a larger, better equipped and superior force, is being assembled to take a crusade headlong into the jaws of the enemy, and with it to re-establish control of the system or cleanse it utterly.
As players, you will be in command of the crusading forces, getting a choice ranging from an entire Guard regiment to a smaller but more formidable Astartes strike force detatched from their mother Chapter(s).
Know this though, that the enemy is not some crazed Chaos worshipping group of warbands, but a well armed and well organised - previously Imperial - collection of planets in a rather extensive system on the Imperium's fringe.
So, who shall take up the call, who shall join the Emperor's holy crusade?
