Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4948356-20130516175846/@comment-24.177.35.35-20130913033105

I am Dinias Vilius, and i am a rogue trader. My rag-tag fleet and army control a small fiefdom, and i was born on the world of Balecaster. I was recruited into the imperial guard when a small ork WAAAGH! invaded a nearby forge world of the Adeptus Mechanicus. i was never told the planets name, but i was lucky enough to survive the experience. After "proving my honor" in what was actually an insane fit of luck, i discovered a small subteranean cavern, where I and a small squad held on for days without reinforcements (mainly because few orks actually found us, but we ommited that part in our report) Our chimera had been stuffed with supplies, so we had plenty of food, water, and ammunition as well as a potent anti-infrantry weapon. The regimental commisar personally commended us (probably thinking we had slowed the entire ork WAAAGH!) I was then offered a repost as the commander of a PDF post on the planet of Cardrim. Little did i know, it was a Necron tomb world, awakening right beneath our feet. When the first necrons appeared, the PDF was overrun, i led a series of counterattacks, trieing to retake our well-defended static positions when 3 drop pods fell from the sky, smashing the necrons, seizing the advantage i charged the remaing Guardsmen and retook my positions. By the time i got there, the Space Marines had all but obliterated every vestige of the necrons, and my guardsmen settled into their positions, awaiting the next wave. The space marines were of the Salamanders Chapter. The commander approached me, he carried a thunder hammer and a holstered bolt pistol. His voice was gruff. "Report." he asked me, i was barely tall enough to look him in the chest, let alone the eyes, but i reported the situation. We had no contact with the rest of the imperial guard on Cardrim, and our last remaining Leman Russ tank was destroyed by a necron gauss weapon of some sort. We did however, posses 6 chimeras, and an equal numbers of basilisk cannons. As well as 3 valkyie support fliers. The space marine asked me of the civilian population, frankly, i was surpirsed he even cared. I told him i had had as many evacuated with the chimeras and Valkyries as i could, while my men held the line. We lost over half our men, and the guardsmen still resent me for it. The way i see it, the imperial guard exists to guard the imperium, and the blood of the imperium is its citizens. Several weeks later, we had driven the necrons back, unfortunately the planet was declared Exterminatus, there simply was no way to contain the infinite number of necrons. I was reassinged with a Lord-General as his personal bodyguard. I travelled all over the Imperium, fighting with all different kinds of xenos, and finally word of my deeds had spread long enough that i was given a small ship (Dauntless-Class) and a detachment of imperial guard, servitors, and skitarii and sent to explore uncharted territory. I joined with a Mechanicus Exploratory fleet, but we encountered a Stronghold class ship, the xenos tried to escape but the fast mechanicum vessels caught up easily. The massive vessel turned, and fired. Several mechanicum ships went down in flames. I knew we had no chance of beating the large vessel in open combat, so i pulled my Dauntless back, eventually the last mechanicum vessel was destroyed. I told my Atropaths "Get us out of here!" and we ascended into the warp. Eventually we arrived at an unexplored world, two of my 5 astropaths were killed or corrupted by chaos during the month-long journey, and when we emerged we all had a collective sigh of relief. I prepared my Valkyrie, and descended to the surface. It was surprisingly temperate, and comforable to walk even in heavy carapace armour. There were forests, and even a large ocean and rivers. I knew this would be my new home. I had my servitors set to making a foundation, as my guard and skitarri went to gather materials. After a year of building, my dream fortess was done. It had 100 foot high towers, with interlocking fields of fire, as well as 2 decoy gates, witch were infact thicker then the walls. The only way to access the fortess is though a tunnel, witch can be collasped in sieges. I decided to leave my guardsmen to defend the fort, and went out. This is when my carrier as a rogue trader really began. I began exploring the subsector, encounting a xenos vessel known as a Bastion, were i made my first contact with the short stocky demiurg. They turned out to be rather amiable, ounce we had translation figured out. And i began trading with them. I found a second planet, witch i promply named Demyurg, after our new allies. As i descended on the planet i knew instinctively a battle had been fought here long ago. Ruined fortresses dotted the landscape, and i descended on a field. Several companies of space marines had clearly made their stand here, there were hastily erected trenches and other fortifications. I found the color scheme in my databanks. They were the Chorus of Eltain. Labelled Martyr Extremis. I had no idea how they had gotten from the Eye of terror to the Outskirts of the Imperium, just shy of the Halo stars, but the warp works in mysterious ways. It looked like the 1st company, 3rd company and most of the 4th company were dead on the field. whatever killed them had long ago decomposed, but not the space marines. I found many suits of terminator armour, as well as long lost relics, there was no chapter for them to return to, but all terminator suits are valuable. I gambled with my life, cruiser, and men to return the imperium. I found my way to the salamander homeworld on Nocturne, and presented them with the relics. The full list of the relics includes:

56 suits of terminator armour.

160 suits of power armour.

34 storm bolters.

122 bolters.

16 thunder hammers.

13 storm shields.

26 power weapons (swords, axes ect)

47 chainswords.

1 heavily damaged dreadnought.

17 heavy bolters.

31 plasma weapons (pistols, guns, cannons.)

2 heavily damaged predator tanks.

17 missile launchers

13 flamers

9 shotguns

4 sniper rifles

3 teleporters.

1 iron halo.

The salamanders thanked me, and asked why they had given the relics to them. I asswered because of the single space marines question on Cardrim "what of the civilians" i believed a chapter that believed in the defense of the imperiums civilians should be strongest. In response, they gifted me 3 mighty strike cruisers, 15 thunderhawks,  and a retinue of 5 first company sternguard marines, as well as promising to come to my aid if i ever come under siege. The smiths of nocturne also fashioned me a suit of baseline power armour, and over several years i received basic genetic enhancement allowing me to wear it without my bones being crushed. They granted me a mighty relic power axe, to smite my foes, and 2 legendary Fast attack cruisers. With 5 new ships, and 5 new space marines i departed from nocturne and returned to my temperate fortress world. When i arrived, the planet was under attack from dark eldar raiders. I dispatched my Strike cruisers to deal with the 2 dark eldar ships as i and my forces descended on the eldar in thunderhawks. The imperial guard had done well, barricading most of the civilians in the fortress and collapsing the tunnel. The Dark eldar decided that they could overwhelm the few imperial guardsmen, but the fortification proved too strong, and then we arrived. Trapped between the fortress anvil, and the thunder hawk hammer, the dark eldar were wiped out to the last. Over the next century, i expanded my small fiefdom, creating a fortress on every planet for the civilians to retreat to if they ever come under attack, however i incorporated a secret entrance to every fortress, if one were ever occupied by say, the forces of chaos, the entire fortress would be plunged into a massive hole dug underground by my hundreds of servivtors. The creation of the holes was tricky, but not impossible, and under the guidance of my sternguard marines (the only people i told of this failsafe mechanism) we made it work. We even tested it on an unnocupied planet. My fleet of six vessels had swelled to over 40, incorporating every wreck, and even trading for 2 demiurg bastion class cruisers, formidable vessels in their own right. We used the bastions to mine the dense asteroid fields in some of the star sytstems in my domain, Freshly chrisened Vinilia. The population of my sector also swelled to over 500,000,000, over 60 planets. I paid the required tithes to the imperium, plus a little extra to keep them off my affairs with xenos.

Wargear:

Custom made Power Armour (basically buffed carapace armour)

Custom power axe Talon of Nocturne (i wield it two handed because im only a regular human, not a space marine)

Retinue:

5 Salamanders Sternguard marines.

25 hand picked imperial guardsmen, veterans of my initial expedition.

5 demiurg warriors, pledged to Dinias

1 Fenrisian Wolf, acquired during Dinias' numerous exploits as an imperial guardsmen, he got it as a puppy and hid it until he left the guard. It is now his constant companion, and he rides him into battle.

Fleet:

Over 40 vessels

3 Strike Cruisers

2 Fast attack cruisers

12 Light Cruisers (mainly salavaged together, roughly analagous of a dauntless light crusier)

3 Cruisers (also mainly salvaged)

2 bastion class mining cruisers

My Flagship Ark a cobbled together ship, roughly the size of a battleship. Notable Armament includes 6 heavy lances, 4 lighter lances, 60 macro-cannons, and 5 torpedo launchers.

7 battle cruisers These ships and Ark are my personal fleet, the fleet i always have with me.

20+ escorts, picket ships, and patrol craft.

Army

20,000,000 constant imperial guardsmen known as "fortress guard" they are well versed in the defense of my planetary fortresses, and can hold out a long time outnumbered, swelled with the numbers of the imperial guard from the planets population.

400 Skitarii the mechanicum legions from the initial expedition

15 Leman Russ tanks (gifted by the imperial guard)

200 "escalators" massive self propelled artillery pieces mounting the leftover macro-cannons from the starships. stationed in special hold inside the fortress, and deadly accurate, they can lay down a torrent of death on any attacking foe. They double as heavy anti-aircraft guns when stationary.

Fortresses.

The fortresses are made on every planet, and have sturdy towers 100 feet tall with interlocking fields of fire. these towers mount lascannons, heavy bolters, and battle cannons to destroy the enemy. Also, each decoy gate has many tiny holes, witch are actually flamers. When an enemy approaches, toast. also along the walls are stationary macro cannons from destroyed imperial ships, those not mounted on "escalators" are put on spinning circles embedded in the wall, so they can target the large courtyard if the enemy somehow breaks though the gate, also they can take out low-flying starships and descending dropships.

Conbat Doctrine:

Let the enemy lay siege to the fortresses, then strike from the sky. The fortress will have to hold out for a long time, while the fleet arrives, and if well supplied to do so. Around all fortresses are open plains, witch makes it so there is no cover there is also a clear landing zone for drop pods and thunderhawk runs.

Personality

Lead from orbit. In mighty Ark, Dinias can oversee the enitire battle, and redirect tactical forces as necessary. if he notices a strong spot in enemy defences, he can order a drop pod to be dropped in its midst, scattering them and opening them up for charge from the outside. Dinias is fiercely protective of the people of his fiefdom, and will sacrifice hundreds of imperial guards to rescue beleagured civilians.