This could be considered my first proper game, I had just moved to a new city and managed to get ahold of a new group to play with. So we rolled up some characters and got ready to play.
The group had from what I remember:
- a NPC lord captain by the name of Tristan
(later to become one of my favourite characters and has quite an insane amout of history, but at this time, he was just a NPC i made within a few seconds to fill a role)
- a Astropath (stayed for half a session)
- a Rogue Trader by the name of Stark
- a Female Seneschal by the name of Crimson
- a void-master
- a Navigator
- a Arch-militant (a quite insane one.. as we would learn)
- then another character which i forgot what was, maybe a tech-priest
The game starts out with Lord Captain telling the new officers that their first job is to transport a regiment of imperial guardsmen to a war-world, and help them out whereever they need some assistance, but leave the direct fighting to the IG.
with the exception of shenanigans, the trip was quite uneventful, at the war-world however, they transported tropps to the ground and scanned the world for activiy. Most of the civilian population have been sendt back to 2 cities to avoid the heaviest fighting against the ork invasion that the IG was fighting against.
The RT group figured they might pay the civilians a visit, but a sandstorm sent them crashin to the ground. They made their way to town, found a few guardsmen, sent them back to repair the dropship while they looked around town, however...
Both witnessing and the report from the guardsmen was that the town was empty, there was supposed to be filled with refugees, but there was none to be seen.
After having searched the entire town, only 1 location was left, it was the mines in the outskirts of the town.
There were proof of people there, but aside from a small ambull ambush, they saw nothing untill they reached a central chamber with the refugees, they were all messing around in the hall as a wave of people.
The insane arch-militant and the Crimson the seneschal waved in between them while the others tried to see if there was anything out of order.
While 2 PCs were in amongst these refugees, Stark the Rogue trader saw that one of the refugees had a third arm and were moving towards the 2 other PCs.... and came to the realisation that they were in the middle of a Genestealer infestated population.
Some burning, some exploding, some fatepoint-burning and some cave-ins later, they discovered that Tyranidds arrived in the solar system and is about to attack the planet. but they had time.
Between the orks and the tyranidds, the imperial guard had no chance. So the task at hand was to get the guardsmen off-world and let these two forces fight eachother, so that they could return later to mop up the victor.
The other city was not infestated, at least showed no proof of it, but the main focus was the IG HQ, taking control and making everyone retreat. easier said than done and it ended up with RT Stark taking control and making sure that everyone retreated, but at a 50% casualty against the orks. They escaped in time to avoid the tyranidds... but only just.
Retreating from the war-world and making their way back to port wander filled with a somber mood, and when they arrived, RT Stark was scorted away by high-ranking members of the Imperial Guard, not to be seen again for some time (player wanted to switch to a Tech-priest, so this is how he retreated his character)
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