"I certain hope you mean to not let it touch my skin?" The Shroud asked confused but nodded. "I shall see it to good use, Doctor Toxin, faithful warrior of science in His name!" Everyone eventually would get a 'hero' nickname, it was just a matter of time until the Silver Shroud would have assembled The Unstoppables.
Pierce had taken his own spot in the Valkyrie near the door way of the ship, A strategics position that would allow him to quickly ready and fire out of the Valkyrie if needed to quickly or if given the order to take a shot on a target that was on the ground while he was in the air. He kept a hand on top of one of the Valkyries straps for soldiers to hold onto when entering atmosphere while sitting down. He sat waiting for the mission to begin.
"So what's our code word for everything has gone tits flyin' an we need to set off the charges and make for the van m'am? " Boris spoke up as he swung into the Valkyrie's transport cage with his usual gusto, planting himself down on narrow space between seats with a brilliant flash of whitened teeth beneath a rather generic scar mold applied over his left eye, a special lens making it look entirely white to further the illusion.Vaulting Ogedei's legs which were bulkier for the space than initially intended he took a seat next to the Inquisitor, a brief glint of a thin metal container visible down the back of his collar; just the right size to hold a syringe of Frenzon.
@Colapse "So then why are you wearing bright white?", the blank asked in return, inclining her head. "That is a beautiful colour, especially with that red lightning bolt, but it's not too camou... camouflaging, was it? I thought you thought it was pretty, too." While talking, Astra never stopped beaming at the Astartes, as if resolving not to let him ruin her childhood. "And Remus Ventanus isn't a story! He's a hero. He was the leader of a whole army of azure-clad knights, every child on Remus knows his story."
<Pre-deployment> Nodding to various comments of praise,Adept Zoran kept his counsel,impassively,his mind on the task ahead,despite the too-friendly noble smiling in his face. Nodding to the Inquisitor,Zoran put off the box,giving it to one of his dendrites.Fixing the position of his glasses with his finger,young Adept avoided a direct eye-contact with the Tech-Guard,unassure was he sent to watch over the young Magos Errant...or to watch over the Inquisitor. The later,would suffice if only he was left alone to his work.Emotional attachment was never wise and familiarty a hindrance in best of cases.Despite Adept`s lack of...gifts...the wisdom behind the augmentation was still there.Until he heard a wheeze of a servo-motors,seeing Sister Miria passing him by,rather perplexed with him. Adept paid her no mind...but whenever he looked upon her from the day one...there was a funny feeling to it.As if he met her somewhere before,her pale-brown hair more then familiar to him,but young Adept couldn't fanthom from where he knew her,since her service records place her far from Metallica.From her behavior,she seemed to be similar if not same. A query worthy of seeking out later. <After deployment> OOC:I am under impression that my char. was not designated to be on the surface.Am I wrong? :3 Easing up behind a cogitator bank,Adept Zeth slaved one of Obsidian Wrath`s augur towers to his will,at the behest of the Inquisitor.With a layered engine-singing and minotor before him he fashioned this deep-scanner into a data-tether,tapping into the planetary vox-network. One of his dendrites with a electro-graft wormed its way into the port-socket on the back of the logi-unit.The moment the mechanical connection was established,Zoran`s eyes glassed out,as if he could see something before yet his view,absent. He could hear voices in his mind,millions of vox-communications established and terminated at once.His fingers quickly worked over the console,pressing control keys with astounding speed,filtering various channels at a whimp,lest he maddens himself. Isolating the majority of them,he focused on vox-relays around the planetary palace.There was a side effect to this,that he had not hoped for till this moment. He could hear the retinue speaking.
"Well, I'm wearing this color scheme because it's the color of my Chapter and the old Legion. Emperor himself dubbed it so ten thousand years ago, so who am I to argue?" Ogedei explained, "I agree, it's not too camouflaging but Space Marines rarely go into battle hiding especially when in full power armor like myself. In case our objective requires us to do some sabotage or infiltration work, we have specialized teams in our Chapter equipped just for that and I'm not one of them." "It's the same with the other Chapters. You have great variety of colors from red, yellow, black, blue and so on, but rarely are the colors mixed up like in your case. You don't see me wearing white, black, purple and pink at the same time, or whatever other combination you might think of, that's just drawing unnecessary attention. But don't worry about it, it was just a friendly question." "As for your sir Remus, if you say so then alright, who am I to argue with you anyway," the Khan smiled, somehow liking this strange girl already despite her gifts which some of his brethren might find dangerous.
"Maybe human just weak." K'tikathat responses. No advanced tech? That's why Kroot are strong. Certain Shaper once said that stagnation and superstition will lead to doom, only adaption and change will ensure survival. Race against universe, evolve to meet it's challenges. Don't rely on technology, building machines to decline nature. From what K'tikathat has heard, humans have stood still for thousands of years, even regressed. There is nothing but certain defeat awaiting them, if they do not change.
"Maybe I'm not one of those blanks that are equipped for sabotage or infiltration work, either!" It was hard to tell wether Astra was joking or dead serious, but at the very least one could tell that she was enjoying herself with the Astartes. Demonstratively, she moved her palla in a wavy motion, letting it shimmer in all the colours of the rainbow. "I like being colourful, good Sir superhuman knight! And curiosity is good! It's curiosity how we get ot know each other. At first, I thought you were a scary man. But now I know you're nice. Because you asked a question! So everything is fine. I'm just surprised people talk to me at all."
"On my world, brightly colorful creatures either are poisonous or pretend to be poisonous. You learn to pick them apart from each other at young age or you don't live long enough to become old." K'tikathat comments, figuring this small talk is something humans do to feel some coherency to other strangers when working as group.
Sedric was kinda interested in what the kroot had told him when thinking about the ogryns and other "flawed" sub humans "hmmmm..... you may be right about the evolution part but we humans may seem soft but because of our knowledge we can do so many things and become stronger.... i may not know poisones plants or things like that but life on my planet was much easier we all cherished the emperor and all his deeds for mankind and we have a strong enough planetary defense force to make sure we can sleep soundly instead of being worried about battles" Sedric takes another puff of his cigar letting out a big plume of smoke "the people i know who live sort of like you live on catachan and boy anyone leaving their are some of the strongest men ive seen they can track almost perfectly and can point out certain deadly bugs or vegitation"
