A sudden burst of lighting erupts in the orbit of an unnamed planet on the fringe of the Segmentum Obscurous. The mighty prow of the Crusier Omnisah's Thunder bursts out of the warp with it's two supporting Light Cruisers the Bronze Expance and Steel of Invention come out to it's left and right. Seconds later the rest of it's supporting fleet with the escorts in a spherical formation around the vulnerable transports burst out from the warp. An aging Archmagos by the name of Julius Carstantius would rise from his command chair his massive amount of bionics assisting the aging man along with a cane being held by what remains of his right arm. He addressees the bridge crew "We have arrived at the coordinates endicated by the rumors. If there is some truth to these words upon this lowly rock will be a vault of artifacts dating back to possibly even before the Dark age of technology and a map leading to an undamaged STC. By the Omnisah's will we shall find this vault and crush anything that dares to stand our way on this most holy of quests!" He looks to one of the communications officers "Instruct the escorts to break formation and to begin mapping out the surface of the planet and instruct the transports to ready drop-ships to land on the surface and begin to send out survey teams." "Yes lord!" The communications officer salutes and instructs the vox operators to send the orders to the ships. The transports of the fleet each ready a Devourer dropship for landing equipping them with long range scanning equipment and loading building supplies into them so permanent outposts can be made after the initial landing. The majority of their passengers are aspiring Tech priests that volunteered to take part in the expedition though some skitarii Rangers ,Ordo Reductor Thallax and battle servitors are also being sent down to protect the outposts and the would be explorers during their expeditions into the alien wilds. The inquisitorial representative and his routine are also being sent down at their own request. The personel being sent down have been assembled in the main bay of the transport for a quick briefing before launch. The ships captain would walk up to a raised platform in front of the assembled passengers. "Your dropship has been assigned to land near a large purple gash in the north west side of the planet. Orbital imaging has suggested this is some kind of sea though the reason to it's strange coloration is currently unknown." An image would be brought up on a large screen that was moved there for the briefing. Spoiler if you know what planet this is without cheating 50 science fiction points to you! "To be precise the landing point will be here in the large plain that separates this sea from the planet's North Pole. Our main objective will be to track down the whereabouts of the vault containing the artifacts through any means nessisary. If studying either the North Pole or the sea could lead to finding the vault you may do so and remember any and all Xenos must be catalogued but you have full authorization to exterminate anything if they pose a threat to the operation. Are there any questions before you are sent off?" Spoiler before someone asks yes you are all in the same room right now and will be sent down in the same ship.
Sir Law snaps to attention and salutes. "Mi'lord. Do we have intel on hostiles at this point?" He is dressed in his best uniform. His combat gear waiting for him in his rooms. His bulk of augmentation standing out under his uniform. He has medals adoring it from across serveral sectors and his visable augmentation shows that he has had the hand of many masters improve him. These and his lack of control tether to a tech priest set him appart. His allegience to the Crimson Guard sets him as the best of the best for Skitarii.
"Initial scans and orbital imaging have found several signs of large flora and fauna but have found no signs of advanced civilization either they are underground or life on this planet hasn't evolved to that point. As always caution is advised even the most simple of creatures can kill a man and if scans are correct this planet is in no short supply of beasts. Are there any other questions?"
"Sir, well uhm... I am just a simple Techpriest who fixes and constructs vox-towers, shall I assume to catalogue ideal spots for those while being the main junction in means of communication between ground and orbit, given my standard-issue Vox-caster? At least until outposts are constructed? Also.... Well...." He goes with a hand through his short blonde hair. Removing the looks the combing did before, messing it a bit up which Erin tries to fix immediately only to make it worse. Eventually he remembered he was still in the middle of a sentence and embarrassed re-focused. "Who is in charge once we touch ground.... Exactly?"
"Good question once on the ground the dropship's vox equipment will be used to maintain contact with the fleet initially. However towers will need to be constructed along with the base to free up the dropship to be able to move between the fleet and outposts to move supplies and man power as needed and given your specialty you will play a part in their placement and construction. As for your other question upon landing you will receive orders directly from the fleet once the outpost is complete a leader can either be elected or a magos can be sent down to act as the outpost's leader."
unit 76 rolled up on his tracks and turned his head slightly "i have no enquieries at this moment" as it spoke it rotated on its tracks and looked at the others "i am here to folow orders"
Sir Law was an Alpha, now Crimson Guard. He started looking closely at the data, letting the pic-recorder in his eyes make detail pictures, for him to recall later. " What are the numbers of troops and personnel being senht down and in what waves? Also what do we have defensive emplacements for our use, to free up troops for escort and guard duties for ground expeditions?"
Having listened to the briefing, the Thallax with the designation of TA-251 soon turned to survey those that it would have to work with: A Myrmidon, a Transmechanic, an Electro-Priest and one that looks like one he hailed from the Corpuscarii sect as well, and a Kataphron servitor, Breacher variant. To compound the problem of the group's numbers, there was also a Crimson Guard Alpha, an Observer from the Inquisition, and finally, a Magos Explorator. With the Crimson Guard asking about matters that best suited his domain of warfare, TA-251 remained silent for the moment, given that any questions it had would likely be raised by everyone else before long, as well as TA-251's view that the more time that was spent on a Q&A session was simply put, time that could have been better spent searching for the vault.
Ohm Coul, the electro-priest TA-251 spotted, stands on edge of the room in attention, hands clenched in fists along side his legs. Heavy duty boots peeking under the robes, cloth being red to regular eye but augmented lens of Adept can distinguish the hue from different servants of Omnissiah. After all, authority is important even to Children of Mars. Robes ending to wide belt on waist, wrought with Cog symbol of Machine God. Bluish tint cover his naked upper body, electoos lighting up across it as static charge moves between the coils. The main coil on his back, almost like snails conch, whirs idly, its sound drowning into the background noise. Electro-HUD covering his eyes, spreading from ear to ear under the headset, fills him with binary. Motive Force is still for now, but soon Omnissiah Light shall spread further in the darkness of universe, banishing shadow everywhere it touches.
"The first wave which is what you will be apart of is composed of forces from all around the mechanicus and rounds up to 120,000 men and 1200 vehicles and enough supplies to create an outpost large enough to hold 10,000 men of course the heavy lifting and construction will be done by servitors but it will be the Skitarii's job to guard them as they build the outpost walls. Once the walls are done they will be outfitted with gun servitors carrying a mixture of las weaponry and heavy bolters. The second and third waves will be sent down when needed and their numbers will fluctuate depending on what they are being sent down for. Preferably there will not be a reason to send down more men." Spoiler just wanted to make this clear you are in a room with 10,000 other people in it and for rp reasons you are not the only ones asking questions it's just that since you all will be in the same survey team you are standing near eachother which is why you can hear everything so clearly also tags for those who haven't posted yet @Jorimel @High_Adept_Zeth @Vulpas
