Arcane Tower

Characters should be 660xp, Rank 2, Tier 3

   You have taken an archeotech ship of the Avalon line called the Silver Knight to the Garden Helix in the Voidmire, the region up against the warp storms isolating the Gilead system. Magos Genator Wot, the strange techpriest in charge of the asteroid-station named the Garden Helix, is curious as to what you have. Your trip there seemed to include a bit of time travel, as you sped towards the Garden Helix for what seemed like seconds, but for which the Magos has told you had been over twenty minutes since radio reports started (although she only received them a couple minutes before you arrived). 

   Do you do anything before docking the ship? You only really have a few minutes to get ready, and you need food (probably some real medical attention), and some level of safety to relax from the ordeals of the space hulk. 

   To recap: You have a ship called the Silver Knight. It appears to be similar in design to other ships unique to the Gilead system, There are a half dozen ships present exactly like it, and several larger ships that are obviously of related designs. The ship contains an STC that is acting as the ship's machine spirit. It has apparently been stuck in the space hulk on low-power mode since the time of the Horus Heresy. You have added a plasma kick-starter to the engine, which just lets it spend fuel to start the plasma engine core quickly. You were low on fuel to begin with, but between using the kick starter, the weapon usage required for escaping the hulk and the speedy retreat to the Voidmire, you're again running on fumes, and if the engine goes out, you'll have to waste more fuel to get it started again. You don't know how difficult is would be to get refueled, but when fully refueled, the ship should be able to go years without needing engine fuel, just food and water replenishment for the crew. 

   Other notes on the Silver Knight: It still needs a ton of minor repairs, but shields, main weapons and engines are up. Its main weapons are six forward missile tubes, with a stock of extremely rare and dangerous void missiles and two forward lance weapons. The weapons alone would be valuable enough to trade for a life of luxury if you were stuck in the Gilead system. The STC is something that the local mechanicus would go to war over, including with each other. Inquisitors in the system might also get involved in fighting for it. The STC is obviously a "thinking" intelligence, also called an AI, or Abomitable Intelligence. There are 18 living, and two dead space marines in storage in the cargo hold. The Silver Knight can't tell if any have fallen to chaos, he isn't sure he believe any of your stories about fallen space marines being true.

// posted by S'Ren @ 12:11 AM