StarDestroyer.Net BBS

Basically the entire 40K universe is way too huge to play around with, even as the doctor. Unless we all make characters that happen to be in the same place we won't ever interact with one another. And that's boring. So what if instead we localize it to something that whilst still massive is actually far more contained. And that would be an Imperator class Battleship.

Imagine the following situation. You have an ancient Imperator class Battleship that last saw battle two generations ago. Since than, the starship has been slowly floating through the warp toward its next destination. And nobody on board sees anything strange or wrong with that. Well, actually they might well. But we can't know because as these ships go this one is about average. What this means is that its millions of crew members are born, live and die in wast complexes attached to the section of their ship they work for. In the case of my character this would be the main lance battery.

The sections of course are perfectly isolated from one another with the only contact being the massive power conduits that lead to the ships generators. The sections grow their own food, produce their own air and of course have command positions taken up by an on board hereditary nobility. And their only contact with the outside world are servitor telex devices that only work one way. As in, from the bridge to them. And there is no talking back to orders. Of course, since all the ships systems are super advanced and ancient they only need maintenance once in a lifetime. So once every generation a massive set of doors open and a convoy of admech from the on board factorium come to do a general overhaul before leaving. The last time this has happened was 2 generations ago as well. And it's beginning to show.

Now obviously the ship was not always this way. It does have a whole array of tunnels and corridors which once, long ago served to transport men and supplies through. But by now those would not have been in use for 1000 years and are thus decrepit and infested with pretty much everything you as the GM can think up. Our characters would be drawn from the various sections of the ship and would be collected as the doctor comes across them in hopes to help discern the mystery of the ship flying nowhere.