Solomon - Belly of the Beast - OOC thread
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				Title: <strong>Solomon - Belly of the Beast - OOC thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>01-10-2017, 22:01:33</strong>
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				Solomon (http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Solomon) <em>is a densely populated and heavily industrialised Hive World of the Imperium of Man located within the Markayn Marches Sub-sector of the Calixis Sector. <br><br>Solomon is a blighted, slowly dying, and heavily industrialised Hive World where rebellion, superstition, and hate fester in the shadowed canyons of rockcrete and steel. Its hives are pollution-shrouded places plagued by suspicion, greed, and unrest. Between the towering monolithic citadels of Solomon's hive metropolises, thousands of square kilometres of rusting pipelines, thundering processing vats, and fire-belching pyro-towers cover the landscape and darken the skies with a thick haze of black smog. In the lightless spaces of these Interior Industrial Zones, or simply the "Interior" as the Solomonites call them, many terrors are said to haunt unseen. <br><br>Of these tales, the dark legend of the so-called "Curse of Solomon" or "Beast of Solomon" is perhaps one of the oldest, most consistent, and most widely recounted. It is passed from generation to generation among the unfortunates forced to dwell in the work-houses and labour in the depths of Solomon's Interior. It is a myth of some monstrous alien thing that stalks the darkness seeking only to kill, a shadow within shadows, and of good men taken without warning to gristly deaths with only bloody shreds left to mark their passing.<br><br>A web of conspiracy exists in the underhives of Solomon that has resisted attempts to dig it out from its roots for more than a millennium. The Sleepers -- to give them their popular name -- have long lived in local legend as the face of the night's terrors on Solomon, and their existence has become a part of the fearful landscape of this blighted Hive World, a tale to frighten children that is both disturbing and very real. <br><br>The alley depths clear by night, even though night is barely distinguishable from day. Hereditary lumen bearers retreat to caves carved from the crush and communal rooms that were once generatoria. Doors and shutters close, bolts are thrown, and Aquila charms hung and blessed. The blackness is absolute. Nightwalkers and thieves upon lumen-lit boardways and cable-bridges half a league above look down and make the sign of the Aquila as a ward against the depths. In the blackest depths lies the crush fundament, an alley floor made of ruins of the ancient hive pressed flat by the weight of years. <br><br>There on the boundary, outcasts, Sanctioned Thieves, and hopeless, excess workers of the Waiting Guilds tell their tales. These least-citizens believe in ghosts of the old hive, long-dead servants of daemons defeated by the God-Emperor and driven below. Dreams are a gate: dreamers must be protected by prayers and Aquila charms, lest murderous ghosts rise from the crush and wear their bodies. The lowhivers believe that Servitors and the recently dead are those who dream most deeply. Crushtop District mortuaries are shrines to the God-Emperor, and any appearance of labour-Servitors in the alleys is cause for disturbance and rumour.<br><br>The eyes of a possessed Servitor are glowing pools steaming with Warp-light, its churning dreams filled with murderous desire. Makeshift knife gripped in metal fingers, facial actuators clicking and twisting in ways beyond their design, the Servitor hunts its lone victims through the night alley depths, feeding upon the terror of their final moments. In the alley depths, many mornings see ritually dismembered bodies discovered at the crush boundary. The low-hivers make the sign of the Aquila and hurry to raise the remains to their shrine-mortuaries.<br><br>To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. This is the tale of these times. It is a universe you can live today if you dare - for this is a dark and terrible era where you will find little confort or hope. If you want to take part in the adventure then prepare yourself now. Forget the power of technology, science and common humanity. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for there is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods. <br><br>But the universe is a big place and, whatever happens, you will not be missed.</em>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Solomon - Belly of the Beast - OOC thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>01-10-2017, 22:01:56</strong>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Solomon - Belly of the Beast - OOC thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>01-10-2017, 22:02:10</strong>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Solomon - Belly of the Beast - OOC thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>01-10-2017, 22:39:48</strong>
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				So, since everyone will be getting involved in what goes on in this sector, I thought it might be fun to offer an opportunity to flesh it out. Every setting needs colour .. people, places and things to bring it to life. For this sector, here's the sort of thing I'd like suggestions for:<br><br>People - The great, the good, the powerful, and those who are worth knowing, or being afraid of. Gang leaders. Guildsmen. Adepts.<br>Places - Drinking holes. Sites of notorious events. Entrances to the underhive proper. Guild halls. Scholams. Chapels to the Emperor. Ruins.<br>Rumours / Threats - What do people whisper about at night?<br>Factions - Guilds. Cults. Gangs. Mutie bands and ratskins. The legal and illegal alike.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Solomon - Belly of the Beast - OOC thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Urbanzorro</strong> on <strong>02-10-2017, 15:52:42</strong>
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				Cooked up a quick PDF regiment for possible interactions/use as the story needs.<br>&nbsp;<div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">54th Solomon Dragoons</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/4f/fb/1e/4ffb1e03e19dfcd1aa7182ca4cbd95c8--warhammer--the-emperor.jpg)</div><strong>Designation:</strong><span class="bbc_u">54th Solomon Dragoons</span><br><strong>Status:</strong> <span class="bbc_u">Active</span><br><strong>Deployment:</strong> <span class="bbc_u">Solomon Primus</span><br><strong>Mission:</strong> <span class="bbc_u">Guard Duty</span><br><strong>History:</strong> The 54th has the somewhat dubious distinction of being one of the few Solomonite PDF regiments to have never been deployed off planet. Every time the children of Solomon have been mustered for war the 54th has, for one reason or another, always found itself off the list of units sequestered by the Imperial Guard. That the unit's officer corps is made up almost entirely by the children of the family and close allies of the Imperial Governor is obviously little more than happenstance. The 54th's presence is most heavily concentrated within Solomon Primus; where the regiment's forces can be seen guarding supply depots, generatoriums, anti-orbital defenses, and anything else deemed too important to trust to local law enforcement or guild forces. The 54th's continual presence on planet has led to many unforeseen side effects. Perhaps the most amusing of which is the regiment's reputation amongst Solomon's other PDF forces as a 'dumping ground' unit good only for warehousing those members of the PDF who are deemed unfit for true combat and suited only to babysitting the children of the nobility. Hence their commonly used sobriquet of the 54th 'Homebounders'. Less amusing is the reputation the regiment has slowly gained for corruption. Rumors abound that the easiest way to get one's hands on military grade hardware in Solomon Primus is to simply walk up to a soldier of the 54th and ask how much he wants for it!<br><strong>Tactica:</strong> The combat tactics of the 54th focus on rapid reaction and maneuver in response to enemy action. As such the regiment is primarily composed of armored fist squads supported by sentinel walker teams. The average guardman is relatively well equipped. Issued the standard flak vest and fatigues in urban camouflage, as well as being armed with a lasgun, combat blade, grenades, and often a laspistol as a sidearm. Despite the regiment's reputation, their equipment and training means it would be a mistake for anything short of actual military forces, or the arbites, to think themselves likely of defeating the 54th in open combat.</div></div><br>Also, because I have the time, here is a basic stat line for my character. <br><div class="floatleft">(http://www.willbeck.com/artblog/wp-content/gallery/games/necromunda-orlock.jpg)</div> Quinlan Voss<br>Attune - 0<br>Command - 0<br>Consort - 0<br>Finesse - 0<br>Hunt - 2<br>Prowl - 1<br>Skirmish - 2<br>Study - 0<br>Survey - 0<br>Sway - 0<br>Tinker - 1<br>Wreck - 2<br>Ambusher: Gains a bonus when attacking while hidden. <br>I'm seeing him as an ambushed/saboteur type. The sort of guy who's best suited to sneaking around, laying an unexpected trap and viciously springing it when the moment is best. Basically an ork kommando... but sadly less green.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Solomon - Belly of the Beast - OOC thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>04-10-2017, 03:41:12</strong>
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				Cool. From what I remember, PDF regiments generally wouldn't deploy off planet, unless they were mustered in the IG itself. I get the impression they're more like part time soldiers. <br><br>So how did he find himself out of the PDF and in the gang life?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Solomon - Belly of the Beast - OOC thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Urbanzorro</strong> on <strong>04-10-2017, 15:32:04</strong>
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				Basically PDFs(unless they have changed the fluff, which they may have because GW is GW after all) are the standing army that each planet is expected to maintain. Whenever the Imperium calls for new IG regiments from a planet those regiments are usually selected from the planet's PDF forces. Unless more regiments are requested then there are PDF troops, then the Imperial Govenor just picks more people from the population however he/she sees fit.<br><br>I didn't intend for my character to have been in the PDF though, still working on his backstory, just wanted to help add to the setting XD<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Solomon - Belly of the Beast - OOC thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>04-10-2017, 16:23:26</strong>
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				Ah, my bad, sorry.
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