<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm not 100% on what all that is, but no objection to Tristan having another sibling who got assigned to Mechanicus.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Reliquary of Mars is our Ship Background - the<em>Pride of Phobos</em>is a relic of the Dark Ages, with priceless archaeotech onboard that the Adeptus Mechanicus take great interest in. So, being the Enginseer in charge of such a ship would be a great honor. But my idea is that in the AM's version of internal politics, the<em>Pride</em>'s fortunes are linked to Tristan Sr. - his joining the AM being the generational price for their family being allowed to keep the relic (so Tristan would also have an uncle who had gone to become a tech-priest). So as a slight against Magos Tristan Sr., his rivals in the AM arranged to have Malakai - a mutant abhuman, and probably very low on the hierarchy - posted to the ship as a slap in the face.<br/><br/>Does that make more sense? It's not something any of our characters would know or understand, probably not even Malakai, but as a element of entertwined backstories.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">My understanding of Slaanesh is that they're six-armed hermaphroditic lust beings.  I'm imagining that some of the crew mutated and his sister succumbed.  Honestly, Tristan might well have succumbed also if not for just having finished up having sex, but he'll never admit to that.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Slaaneshi servants come in all sorts of sizes and shapes. The Daemonettes are Hir mid-grade warriors, but a big thing with demons is that they're infinitely variable. Based on the story-bit, I'd presume the Gellar Field failed mid-Warp travel. The ship got dumped into Realspace by the automatic safety systems, but not before a bunch of the crew became possessed by demons and went on a muderous killy rampage. Doesn't even have to be Slaaneshi-aligned demons, that's the sort of thing all demons do.