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Dramatis Personae:

Inquisitor Vidal Torquemada: Your boss.

Norgrim Zuriel: Tech-adept at the station. Only mildly augmented with bionics. Head of security and personnel.

Magos Artelinus Tilaris: Magos. Top-dog at the research station.




Rooms:

3: supply cloests
4: communications room with vox bank
5: Mess hall
6: astropathic chambers
Topmost 10: your quarters
Other 10s: slaves/tech adepts quarters
11: servitor charge station
12-13: research laboratories. off limits.
14: restroom
16: shrine to the omnissiah
17: fuel storage
18: auto part storage
19: a garage with 2 snowcrawlers.
20: workshop
23: power station
24: furnace room
25: fenced off highvoltage area
29: armory
30: office for magos

everything else is what it says on the map or something unimportant

Landing pad is not attached to the station. It is a quarter mile or half a kilometer away from the station.

EDIT: Objectives:


- Find out what is happening on this moon.

- Eliminate anything heretical, demonic, or xenos-affiliated.

- Report back to Inquisitor Torquemada.

Coordinates of dig site 82.8628°S, 135.7352E. given by Nogrim.

Local dangers: Avalanches, snow drifts, etc... dangerous ambush Animals, no visual data obtained. Multiple limbs

Mechanicus base:
Armed with Las & stubbers (have not confirmed)
14 individuals on staff, and 5 servitors (Not confirmed)
Snow crawlers (unknown number) 60 mile range, although mecahnicus allegedly haven't used past 25 miles.

Leads:
Miniaturised cogitator carried by snow crawler. Possible archeotech, xenotech or here-tech. Would like Felyx to examine

Weird things:
Base is poorly maintained, dirty etc...
Members of base are weird.

Cover Story:

[Planetary Scan]:
- Research Station itself with a landing pad (with Mechanicus void-capable vessel capable of transporting 40 crew) and storage facility. Landing pad roughly 20-30 min. walk froms tation.
- Secondary structure (unidentified) long and narrow, 2 miles away from Station, partially buried in snow
- Dig site, cave, 1 mile away from Station (opposite direction).

[Audio Recording/Vox Transmission]: Everything is fucked. "Headaches//Visions//Pure Madness"; "Mechanicum fanatics"; "Under 1/2 strength"; "Send the guard in... kill us all."; Loud crash followed by silence. Coupled with the Magos' clipped speaking manner and violent shivers, Felyx is under the impression that a purge will be more than likely necessary.

[From Shrine Room Communion]:
- The Machine Spirit runs white hot with passion and is full of zeal - almost to a fault - while also disappointed with the crew on site. Feelings of appreciation, admiration, frustration, and disappointment. There is a great work underway that could potentially uncover millennia-old secrets. Further Communion will be necessary to better understand what the machine knows.

[Living Beings]:
- Norgrim: Head of security, jack of all trades seemingly. Seems over worked and stressed out. Armed (las pistol)
- Magos: Head of the facility/highest ranking Mech member encountered. Felyx noticed that he exhibits odd/not standard speech patterns. Furthermore, his body is rhythmically racked with shivers and tremors - highly unusual. Something is definitely wrong. Armed (mastercrafted plasma pistol)

A couple things:

2 snow crawlers in the garage.

The landing pad is NOT attached to the station. I initially said it's a 20-30 minute walk between the two - I imagine that's about a half mile through deep snow.

Sent from Topic'it App

"attached" like a mother-in-law's quarters would be.

- Pre-Imperial Human group that attempted to settle this moon roughly 17,000 standard years ago - M23.
- Apparent breakaway group fleeing strife on Terra to start anew. Golden Age of Terra is coming to its bloody conclusion around this time (OOC information)
- The ship Euphrates crash landed between the mechanicus (heretek) base and dig site; encountered at least two mutants.
- Hezekiah Briar; Leader (though not supreme leader/figurehead)/Renaissance Man.

Information Gained from Archeotech:

green - slave with a frag grenade

Red: slaves and tech adepts with lasguns.

Yellow: servitor drones page 396

Pink: repair servitor page 396

Purple: combat servitor page 397

Basic Lono Geography

Underhive - The nastiest, grimiest part of the hive. The denizens of the underhive have never seen the light of day and are cut off from all but the most bare semblance of civilization. There are no basic services such as electricity or running water here, and there is certainly no law enforcement. Nonetheless, millions or perhaps billions of lowlives, mutants, insane individuals and wanted criminals call this place home. Might makes right as violent, half-mad gangs wander among the cramped tunnels, passageways and bare foundations of the massive hive. Many sections of the underhive will be periodically submerged with the tides and Tangaroa's regular violent storms, but somehow, the strange occupants here have managed to adapt.

Lower Hive - Directly above the underhive is the lower hive. Picture a massive, labyrinth of favela-like slums. Although it could hardly be described as a safe or pleasant place to live, it is head and shoulders better than the underhive. Electricity, running water, and law enforcement are all readily available - although you can expect the corrupt arbites to shake you down just as fast as they might help you. On the outskirts of the lower hive sit sprawling docks where shipping barges and fishing vessels enter port through horizontally-moving doors in the sea wall. Currently, there is a lot of unrest in the lower hive on account of labor disputes. Massive strikes and protests are led by the Seafarers Union, who are inevitably met with violent force by the well-armed arbites. In addition to fishing, all sorts of industries rely on mass, cheap labor in the lower hive, including manufacturing and prometheium processing. Organized crime and gangs rule over most of this part of the city, with shoot-outs and lockdowns a regular occurrence as the background gang skirmishes erupt into all-out war.

Upper Hive - There are two kinds of people in Hive Lono (and on Tangaroa in general). The haves and the have nots. This is where the haves live. The upper hive is where the wealthy reside in sizable mansions, enjoying a relatively peaceful and pleasant lives, thanks to the toiling masses below them. This is also where almost all of the administrative buildings and organizations reside. People who live here include well-to-do merchants, bureaucrats, nobles, famous ship captains, shipping barons, many ranking members of the PDF, and those who simply inherited a good deal of money. One benefit of the upper hive is that it is far enough above the sea that they enjoy sunshine and fresh air regardless of all but the nastiest storms, as the sea wall rarely has to rise this far to protect them from the ocean.

The Spires - This is where the filthy rich reside. A miniscule sliver of Hive Lono's largest population lives in these ridiculously opulent narrow spires that tower over the hive and the writhing seas. Reinforced with high-grade plasteel and designed to be greatly aerodynamic, these towers have no trouble weathering the typhoons that rage across the Hive Lono intermittently. Here lives the richest of the rich and the true owners and rulers of Tangaroa. The planetary governor, the lord general of the PDF, and other shadowy nobles of great power all can be found here...if you can get access to their spires.

I imagine this world as a bit of a backwoods world - not so much inaccessible as a dirty grimy misfit world in the greater sector. Sort of looked down upon as strange and not worth visiting aside from profitable endeavors. Certainly not a place that nobles would travel to if they could avoid it...a sentiment that Tangaroa's nobles are aware of and detest!

From Ewald, Inquisitor Torquemada's contact planetside:

Vonreuter
- Arbitrator, female. Investigating corruption within the Adeptus Arbites. Deceased. Likely an inside job to protect the guilty's identity(ies).

Magos Axiarch Quegox
- Tech Priest Genetor, specializing in flora and fauna, male. Investigating/Researching xenos. Deceaed. Possibly at the hands of zealous Eccesiarchal agents.
- Genetor/Magos Biologis. Best known for research on the aquatic organisms in the seas of Tangaroa, although he also researched a broad variety of natural sciences on Tangaroa such as oceanography and climatology. His latest, unfinished research projects included mapping the sea floor and assembling a complete catalog of the organisms found in Tangaroan seas.

A Vogelist, Magos Quegox drew no small amount of scorn from the Ecclesiarchy for his beliefs that humanity needed to be biologically augmented to reach its peak physical form. On more than one occasion, Ministorum Priestess Marie Vulcanis of Hive Lono threatened Mechanicus priests that he be silenced or face the wrath of the Ecclesiarchy. Quegox's superiors defended his research and moved his lab to a more discrete location that he could continue his work in peace.

He also had a reputation as a radical figure due to his open admiration of the biological adaptations of alien creatures to the ever-increasing acidity of the Tangaroan ocean. The official story is that Quegox was murdered by some common criminals in his laboratory. - something Felyx immediately identifies as suspect given that there probably wasn't much of value in your standard laboratory to common hive gangers. No clear motive there.

Lower Hive Laboratory coordinates known.

Lord General
- No further data given.