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You can have any of the planets from Aurelia subsector you please...

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A. No one can lay claim to any single race and then tell anyone else they can't play them...so yes

B. Is it in Segmentum Ultima? If not, you're going to have to have permission from Omega

C. No

D. Oh yes...they are easily some of the biggest ships in 40k

E. Not much further...

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So I can still have the Imperator?

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Hmm, that Imperator I am questionable on since in Titanicus a single Imperator went toe to toe with an entire legion at point blank range and almost won. I am fine with pretty much an entire titan legion but that monster is a bit too much firepower on a single platform with nearly impenetrable shields. An Imperator has survived an escort landing on it.

Alright, I wasn't sure how strong such things were, so if things are too overpowered I'm really sorry! I'm not trying to be broken, some of this I don't have any concept of how powerful it is

I'll modify

EDIT: Fixed

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Name of Faction: Night Lords
Species: Adeptus Astartes

Leadership

Decimus, Prophet of the Eighth Legion

Bearing the Gene-seed of the Soul Hunter, as named by his father Konrad Curze, who bore the same powers as his Primarch, the curse of foreknowledge, the gift was imperfect in the Apothecary of 10th Company, but in the one gifted his gene-seed, it was not, thus rose Decimus, Prophet of the Eighth Legion.

The first member of the Night Lords to unite the disparate warbands since their splintering millenia ago, his gift of foresight allowed him to match wills with the Eldar of Craftworld Ulthwe, having foreseen their interference with the upcoming 13th Black Crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler. The losses the Eldar sustained that day crippled any possibility of them aiding the Imperium against Chaos, and the Eighth Legion gloried at the sweet taste of revenge against the Eldar's many actions against their Legion.

Most importantly, he reclaimed the Corona Nox, one of the artifacts of their Primarch, an object that carried his essence within itself, using the knowledge within, and the status the artifact imparted, Decimus wielded both his foresight and cunning to finally at last unite the Eighth Legion, purging all corruption from their ranks in a long campaign, supported by many who wanted the old ways back.

The Night Lords were pure again, all taint of Chaos removed at long last, many warbands had in the past, viewed those who allowed themselves to become corrupted with contempt and barely tolerated them, viewing those that embraced the Ruinous Powers with open arms as traitors to the way their Primarch led their legion in the past.

Decimus having foreseen most importantly, the climatic and cataclysmic events that led to the current state of the galaxy, led the Legion to the far fringes, hiding in the darkness between stars to await for the storm to blow over, as it did so the sons of Nostromo waited and watched patiently.

Now they come forth from the darkness, to claim worlds of their own, and to prey upon the weakened remnants of the hated Imperium...

Planets

Varsarvia

- Type: Death world, formerly the homeworld of the Silver Skulls, a chapter founded by the Ultramarines, so it was because of this the Night Lords descended on this planet to destroy some of their hated enemies with great glee, eager to gain vengeance against one of the chapters that had driven them from Tsagualsa long ago, outnumbered by the huge forces of the now united Eighth Legion, the Silver Skulls were utterly obliterated, though they fought hard and made their ancient foe pay for it, nonetheless...

The Night Lords were victorious, and laid claim to the world as their own, originally a hostile planet, full of volcanic activity, the Eighth Legion had the expertise of Dark Mechanicus adepts to set charges in many of the volcanoes, increasing the volatile nature of the fire spewing mountains, turning the planet into a death world.

Ash chokes the skies, shrouding the planet in never ending darkness, a state the Night Lords find to their liking, though they are not necessarily pleased with the climate, they hope to find a more suitable world in the future.

All about the surface of the planet, are mortals, who fight with one another for survival, Chaos Marines watch from enormous stations that hang in the atmosphere, orbiting the planet and look for those individuals who show the most promise for becoming new Night Lords, picking only the most violent and skilled mortals.
- Population of 50'000, the nature of the death world(and the predations of human on human) ensure it does not grow too high.
- Industry: Neophytes for the Eighth Legion, the volcanic activity also provides many raw materials for the forge world under the Night Lords control
- PDF: Living in the hostile conditions of the planet, and having been conditioned by the Eighth Legion, the entire population will aggresively attack invaders, most importantly it has many ground-side anti-ship batteries
- Garrison: 20'000 Human Soldiers, 50 Astartes, 100 Neophytes, five Predator tanks, one Land Raider Phobos, and five Rhino APCs
- Orbital Defenses: The Shroud of Midnight, a Ramilles Class Star-fort hovers over the planet, formerly it belonged to a loyalist Chapter, who lost it in a warp storm that shrouded their planet, eventually through the foresight of Decimus, the Eighth Legion found it after the Ruinous Powers left, and have claimed it for their own use.

It is armed to the teeth and bristling with weapons batteries, high powered lances and extremely powerful void-shields, any attacker who wishes to take this planet from the Night Lords will have to match blades with this mighty battle-station.

Around the planet are also at least four other orbital defense platforms, forming a grid of defense to prevent invader's from merely going around the Shroud of Midnight

Pax Argentius

- Type: Forge World
-Population of fifty million
-This is the world that is the military heart of the Legion now, captures and the populace initially intimidated into serving the Eighth Legion, now they have become indoctrinated, while the fear of retribution should they rebel or fail in their duty remains, they have, like every other populace of mortals under the Night Lords command come to understand that as long as they obey and are useful, they shall be treated relatively well, even by some of the former Imperium's standards.

This world produces all the many weapons of war the Night Lords desire for their campaign of piracy, conquest and terror, for the first time in millenia the Eighth Legion enjoys what many loyalist chapters have, plenty of ammunition, fuel, and mechanicus produced weaponry. For indeed many Dark Mechanicus as well as former loyalist tech priests have flocked to this location, as the Eighth Legion has promised them to create, and innovate as they desire without any restrictions whatsoever, so long as they are overseen by Legionaries to ensure nothing gets out of hand.
-PDF: 200'000 troops
-Garrison: 50'000 Skitarii, 50 Astartes, a Titan Legion, and many mechanized armor units.
-Orbital Defeses: A singular orbital defense platform hovers in orbit, protecting a very large, and completely unarmed space station that functions as a shipyard, around this flies in synchronous orbit six Gladius class frigates, and a single strike cruiser protect this location

Valhalla

-Type: Civilized world
-Population: Five Million
-Industry: Produces food and troops
-PDF: 600'000
-Garrison: 10 Astartes, 30'000 soldiers
-Orbital Defenses: The planet is largely defended by anti-ship batteries on the ground, camouflaged by the weather and ice.

Fleet
-Flagships
- Echo of Damnation, Battle Barge
-Umbrea Insidior, Battle Barge
-Shadow of Oblivion, Emperor-Class Battleship
-Cruisers
-Infinitus Nocturna, Strike Cruiser
-Four Repulsive-Class Grand Cruisers
-Six Murder-Class Cruisers
-Four Styx-Class Heavy cruisers
-Escorts
-50 Iconoclast Destroyers
Army
- Numbers: 2000 Traitor Marines, ten regiments of trained human soldiers, each regiment numbering around 50'000, 15 Raptor Divisions, each one numbering at least 15 raptors, 1 Titan Legion, 8000 serfs used to crew various vehicles and aircraft, as well as for the maintenance of Legion wargear
- Hardware
- 60 Predator Tanks
- 25 Land Raiders, classes of Phobos, Crusader, and Redeemer
- 10 Whirlwind Artillery armed with bombs that unleash a new creation inspired by Dark Eldar weaponry, known as fear gas
- 30 Rhino APC's
- 5 Chaos Dreadnoughts
Due to the fact the Eighth Legion has disavowed any further alliance with the Ruinous Powers, they have no demon engines of any kind, including Defilers and what not
- Titan Legion includes...
- 1 Imperator Titan, the Soul Render
- 2 Chaos Reaver Titans
- 4 Warlord Class Titans

Background: Included with the background of Decimus

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I'm new a bit at this, so if you see problems please let me know

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Well thanks, but don't hesitate to go without me

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I don't really know what kinds of ships there are for Astartes outside of a Battle Barge, nor do I know what most vessels produced by the Imperium(and used by traitors) wield as weaponry, nor do I know the names of what kind of ground based defenses most planets can have(like Eisenhorn made mention of several different kinds I've never heard of)

The weapons for ships is crucial, as the wiki's tend to just gloss over them...

And my god it is hard to find decent artwork for Night Lords, why does the Eighth Legion get so little love?!

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Still working on my post, don't see why you can't go

Though I may just give up, as I'm not really cut out for this, having a hard time figuring out some stuff you die hard 40k fans seem to know as easy as breathing

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caliban22 said
Question. How many people here play the tabletop?

I would if it didn't cost so damn much

Dark Souls, Anyone?

Another idea though, perhaps we could do an alternate ending of Dark Souls 1? From the events of Dark Souls 2, it pretty much makes it known that the Chosen Undead kindled the first flame, but what if he didn't? I'm not an expert in Dark Souls lore, but what do you all think about this? Perhaps the first flame went out, and the world was thrust into the Age of Dark. The Age of Dark setting in would cause abyss to spread across the world, and possibly all humans to become undead, though I'm not sure how that works exactly. I was thinking that maybe the only sources of hope left would be the lord souls/soul shards, the ones from Gwyn, The Witch of Izalith, Gravelord Nito, and the Furtive Pygmy. This would only be a legend to the remnants of the living humans/undeads, but I was thinking that our characters would be attempting to find these souls.

Then there would be an Age of Dark that would eventually end, we already know this from Dark Souls 2

Remember the dull ember from DS2?

It pretty much implies there can never be true dark, because the flame will always eventually reignite

One thing. I feel like its a huge waste to include stuff like history and personality. This is Dark osuls right? All of that should come from item discriptions. I plan to have that for everything I use, magic included.

Your character's personalities and histories are not told via descriptions in items that's absurd, this is a roleplay not a video game

There's no reason you can't have either in your CS, just because we the players know the history and personality of a character doesn't mean other characters do

There's a big difference between OOC and IC