Anyhow off we go.
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Implies Space wolves gain half a metre in height over normal people. Whether tis is average or compared to the tallest, we don't know.Besides their stature, standing half a metre taller than any man, the most outwardly visible sign was their extended canines.
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Night Lord bolter headsploding Space Wolf.A bolter shell tore through the Blood Claw's head, spreading fragments of his skull in front of his body.
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Night Lord plasma pistol. given 100-200 kg and made of iron.. we're talking hundreds of MJ at least. if silicon and 200+ kg we're talking closer to a GJ or more. Also purely thermal plasma weapons (eg inefficient kill mechanism.)With a war cry akin to the howl of a banshee, he raised a writhing metal gun, and fired a burst of blue-white plasma, not at Tor, but at a cluster of Grey Hunters, engulfing two, and leaving them melted piles of flesh and ceramite.
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One Grey Hunter has his armour pierced, other survives.A Grey Hunter twisted to the ground as a bolter round tore through his armour and his intestines. Tor felt the bolter rounds crunch on his armour, each a hammer-blow.
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Assuming boiling point or thereabouts for flesh and a 10 kg breastplate (assume somewhere between silicon and iron) we're talking several tens of MJ perhaps. still a ppurely thermal weapon.Tor gritted his teeth and fired his plasma pistol, all the while trying to keep his eyes off the enemy's armour. The plasma enveloped the chest plate of the Night Lord, burning its way through the ancient ceramite. The intense heat melted everything it came in contact with including the chest of the Marine encased within. Liquid remains oozed out of the opening as he collapsed to the ground.
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Lasgun vaporises night Lord. Again hundreds of MJ for armour alone, possibly gigajoules. IF we take vaporization literally. If not, then its more like single digit MJ or so (grenade if we're talking really efficient, maybe up to 8-10 MJ for 400 j per sq cm flash burn flaying.)Behind Ragnar, the world exploded in a bright fireball. Then, a second blast erupted, and a third. The Night Lord holding the icon fell as a lascannon shot instantly vaporised him.
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If its near Space wolf Territory we're probably talking thousands of LY away (ten thousand LY maybe)Hyades was a lush planet, many sectors from the Imperial capital of Holy Terra on the fringes of Space Wolf territory.
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Property ownership is a sideline compare to trade and navigation. Note that short rang warp travel without Navigators is possible.Without Navigators to guide them safely through the immaterium, Imperial spaceships could never travel long distances between the stars. Even the custody of a planet was a side business interest compared to the House's true asset of Navigation. Promethium production was one of House
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Thats different from the 'space oil' fossil fuel perspective in other sources (like FFG) - its just for flamers and its rare naturally. It must be for a particular kind.Promethium production was one of House Belisarius's many benefits to the Imperium. Promethium, the white-hot fuel used in Imperial flame weapons, was found naturally in only a few places, including Hyades.
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Armour tracking systems - they seem to be able to tell location and relative distances. and direction.The team couldn't be more than a few kilometres from the city itself, although Ragnar had lost exact track of their exact location. He suspected that his armour's locators needed some recalibration.
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Chimeras can accept terrain modifications of some kind.The Chimera was a versatile vehicle, but even with terrain modifications, Ragnar found it surprising that one would force its way here to the temple.
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Space wolves can run faster than 'normal man' - assuming 5 m.s we're talking 15-20 kph maybe.With their enhanced muscles, each Space Wolf moved faster than an ordinary man despite their armour.
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heavy bolter fire penetrates Space wolf armour.Ragnar heard the retort of the turrets from the wall. Heavy bolter shells pounded Magni. Dirt sprayed into the air as the blasts gouged holes in the earth. The large shells knocked Magni from his feet, cracking his power armour.
Magni twisted backwards as another blast threw him into the air, instinctively seeking the shelter of the jungle. He came to rest at Ragnar's feet in a broken heap of blue-grey armour.
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Bolter fire bounces off Sentinel hull.One of them fired a bolter at the Sentinel, but the rounds bounced off its armour.
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Ragnar thinks his armour might stand up to at least (limited) heavy bolter fire.The heavy bolters on the walls opened fire immediately, ripping gouts of soil from the earth. He changed direction, evading the shells, uttering a swift prayer to the Emperor that his armour would hold.
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Seemed to take heavy injury from the heavy bolter fireAlthough he was a Space Marine, Magni had suffered serious injuries and had lost consciousness.
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Imperial standards for medical tech.The lab was up to Imperial standards with prosthetics, augmetics and surgical tables.
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Curious that Gabriella, as a Navigator has some telepathic gifts.Would you prefer we talk like this? Gabriella's voice echoed in Ragnar's mind.
The Space Wolf shuddered. He trusted Gabriella, indeed he was pledged to her protection and service, but there was something that bothered him about her psyker abilities. Although the Rune Priests of the Space Wolves had similar gifts, Ragnar still kept something of the superstitious warrior in his heart, and he clung to his old instincts.
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Cadmus. Note these details they become important later.Ragnar met Commander Cadmus's gaze. Something was missing. When Ragnar looked upon most men, he saw fear, no matter how well they hid it, but Cadmus showed no such emotion.
The commander was a massive man, although not quite the size of the towering Space Wolves.
PAge 75
Orbital (merchant) traffic in scope and numbers. I'd guess more than 'dzoens' - clsoer to hundreds if one ship can get lost in the crowd. Also light cruisers (and similar) seem to be a fairly standard cargo transport hull. Which kind of 'light cruiser' (the Rennie era 2 km ones, or the 4.5 RT era ones) we dont know.High above the planet of Hyades dozens of transports, cargo barges and cruisers of various designs and sizes were going about their business, transporting supplies and promethium to and from the planet. The amount of activity within the orbital corridors above Hyades made it easy for a light cruiser to enter into high orbit without attracting any attention.
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To standard scans the ship's configuration was that of a light cruiser, no different from any other used by merchants to transport goods and cargo.
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Constraints on teleport insertons. They're not very stealthy without obscuring cover. Also, the Dark Angels apparently have a merchant-grade light cruiser with a teleporter dedicated to stealth insertions. Given the role of the Deathwing and its covert duties, this is not really surprising.At night a flash of this nature would be visible several kilometres away, however Hyades's thick jungle canopy restricted the flash's visibility considerably.
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multi-spectral auto-senses scan. Can be jammed."Spectral rotation scan." Jeremiah sub-vocalised this command.
The optics in his helmet responded, switching through each wavelength of the light spectrum, giving Jeremiah a clear picture of what was on the street. However, Jeremiah was also aware that whatever the divine technology of the Emperor would allow him to see could also be thwarted by the insidious technologies of the Emperor's enemies.
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Auspex has map plans loaded into it.Elijah silently activated the auspex and uploaded the city maps to the display. Even though the interference had played havoc with its sensors, it could still display the city maps they had acquired.
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Again multi-spectral optical scanning in the helmet, and again it can be blocked."Full spectrum scan," Elijah sub-vocalised the command. The optics within his helmet began to cycle through the visual spectrum.
To his surprise the visual sensors were unable to penetrate the glass of the atrium.
"The atrium is shielded from my optical scan, my lord."
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Arm armour stops bolt round.As he and Ragnar stepped out onto the walkway, the side of the palace wall exploded as bolter rounds peppered the corner. Torin took a hit to his arm, which spun him around and back.
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"Armour stopped it cold, just caught me off guard."
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One of those rare, in-fluff Plasma weapon overloads.The Dark Angel raised the plasma gun for a second shot. Suddenly the plasma gun began to glow first red and then white hot. Waves of electrical energy danced across the surface of the weapon and up the arms of the Marine, who began to convulse from the sudden surge of energy that the plasma weapon was discharging.
The technology behind plasma weapons was ancient and their devastating power made them highly effective in combat. However, that effectiveness came at a price. Sometimes the massive energy was too much for the weapon to contain, and it would short circuit, overheat and then explode, sometimes taking the wielder with it.
This was not one of those times. The weapon exploded, engulfing its wielder in the blue-green flame of plasma fire and throwing him back and to the ground. His armour was scorched and melted in spots, but it was intact.
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Blind grenade. Or rathre a varient that is more flashbang/photon flare rather than smoke with fancy EM effects.Blind grenades exploded with a blinding visible white flash. While the explosion did no physical damage, the bright burst of light could cause momentary or even permanent blindness to the unprotected eye. However, they also emitted an electronic pulse, designed to disrupt electrical and even neurological systems. This would cause even the optic in an Astartes helmet to temporarily cease to function.
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Explanation for a hole. I assume similar would have been krak grenades and like.There was a two metre-wide hole in the ground where the Dark Angels had been standing.
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"I would imagine that some sort of directional explosive, possibly a melta-bomb charge was placed on the ground, it burnt through the dirt and bedrock until it reached the abandoned mine, igniting the promethium fumes"
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A rather peculiar and non-flashy realspace entry.The bow launch bay of the starship entered normal space first. A robed winged figure thrusting a sword upwards stood above the bay opening, challenging all that lay in her path. With a ripple, the remainder of the Space Marine battle-barge cleared the tear and completed its entry into real space. The hole of light shuddered to a close in the vessel's wake.
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They emerged a brief time ago from the warp, and they're 25 million km or so out from the planet, so they emerged well within an AU of the planet (tens of millions of km, rather than hundreds of millions or even billions.) In warp entry terms this is damned close, although not the closest (2 million km for specialised inquisitorial ships, or under a light second for Orks or Chaos cultists willing to take losses.)Vargas turned, walking the length of the bridge until he stood just behind the helm station. The adept quickly glanced towards the interrogator-chaplain in an effort to acknowledge his presence before turning his attention back to guiding the Redemptor.
"Distance to Hyades?" the interrogator-chaplain asked. His raspy voice had a metallic quality to it.
"Approximately twenty-five million kilometres, lord-chaplain," replied the helmsmen.
Vargas nodded. "Comms, contact our kill team on Hyades. See if they respond."
Vargas strode over to the comms console. "We have high levels of interference, lord-chaplain, but I think, yes, we have a signal" the relieved communications officer stated.
Vargas took the main comm. "Captain Jeremiah, this is Interrogator-Chaplain Vargas aboard the Vinco Redemptor. Respond."
Vargas paused for a moment.
"Captain Jeremiah Gieyus of Interrogator Kill Team Lion's Pride, respond." Vargas's impatience was apparent through his metallic tones.
Static answered him.
"Comms, are you certain we have enough signal strength to get through?" asked Vargas.
"Yes, lord-chaplain we—" He was cut short by the response of the kill team.
This also seems to suggest near-realtime communications between the Dark Angels team on the planet and the ship. How they manage this is.. interesting given they're millions of km away. Note that even if it were some sort of FTL signal that doesnt mean its automatically a replacement for astropaths for galactic communication - for all we know the speed is slow (single or double digit c) and it only needs to be that here to be 'realtime.'
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This would again imply near-realtime communications if the distance held open. (which is likely, since this is s upposed to be a stealth mission to a world in Space Wolf territory under the control of House Belisarius, one of their allies.)"My lord chap—" Jeremiah's reply was cut short as a high pitched whine broke through the comms, forcing several adepts to quickly cup their hands over their ears.
"Things are dramatically different with the Sons of the Lion than I remember." The strange augmented voice burst through. "In my day failure such as this would not have been tolerated."
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Defense platform torpedoes launched against the Dark Angels ship. Possibly the lasers having similar range but we really dont know. This probably suggests the battle barge has similar range.Suddenly defensive alarms sounded throughout the ship drowning out the hideous laughter. Vargas quickly turned to the tactical screen. Adepts and servitors reacted furiously to identify the new threat.
"Lord-chaplain, several orbital defence platforms just went active. I'm detecting laser batteries and torpedo bays." The adept was shouting to overcome the alarm sirens.
"Lord-chaplain, I'm detecting launch. We have an inbound torpedo salvo!"
Range isn't stated, but they haven't been indicated to have moved either from their 25 million km mark earlier, so it would stand to reason they have the same range. Then again the short propogation range would suggest much closer (within a few light seconds of the planet - although that's still a pretty damn long range.) On the other hand they're on a stealth mission as previously stated, and getting closer means using their plasma drives, which means announcing their presence. Unless they started out travelling at a substantial fraction of lightspeed.
It is possible they emerged from the warp some 25 million km away and are making a slow approach hundreds of km/s perhaps. All this is taking place at less than a day (12 hours or less)
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Again implies very near-realtime communications speed, the importance of this as a stealth mission, and 'move into assault range' at last inidcating they are moving towards the planet.It was time to bring this to an end, to bring it to an end his way. He turned to give his instructions when a single voice came from the comm. It was the voice of Jeremiah Gieyus.
"Lord Vargas—" Vargas cut off Jeremiah in mid sentence.
"The target must be located, captured and brought to justice, captain. All other concerns are secondary. Do what you must to secure him. The threat of contamination is too great, and the time for covert operations is over. I will be sorting this my way."
Vargas gestured to the communications officer to close the channel.
"Guidance, bring us within assault range. Activate shields and all weapons batteries," his metallic voice commanded.
Weapon and defensive system adepts repeated Vargas's words back to him as they accomplished each command with lightning precision.
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Preparations for drop pod assault. Again implies a very close distance and a very short approach. It bears noting that while drop pods are used from orbit, it would be quite possible to use thunderhawks from even a few LS away probably (many novels have them space capable and insystem-travel capable like many fighters) so this might be a strong indicator they are closer to 25 million km away. Assuming a 500 km/s closing speed for the battle barge it might cross 21 million km or so in 12 hours, and it would still make 4 million km torpedo range. Combined closing speed for both torpedoes and battle barge across 25 million km would be ~578 km/s, so it could be juggled a bit one way or another. It still seems reasonable to assume though that torpedoes can have a range of millions of km."Forward launch bay prepare and launch Thunderhawk Squad Alpha for defensive cover. Drop-pods prepare for immediate launch."
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They're well beyond visual range. That would fit with being 25 million km away, although quite possibly also just a few LS away.The planet Hyades was at the centre. Several ships floated at various orbits above the planet. The orbiters were mostly transports and cargo vessels in standard docking orbits. These ships posed no threat to the Vinco Redemptor. The defence platforms however were another matter.
"How is it you missed the platforms on your initial scans?" Vargas demanded, clenching his gauntleted hands.
"Their power grids must have been down as we approached, Lord Vargas, and we were too far away for visual confirmation," the tactical officer replied, failing to hide the stress in his voice.
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The torpedoes attack. The exhaust is visible but they aren't, which suggests they're peraps tens or hundreds of km away. Assuming between 20-200 km/s velocity for torpedoes (Based on other sources) and 20 seconds we're tlaking 400-4000 km range for point defense. If we use the 578 km/s closing speed its a bit over 20,000 km. If we use the 1000 km point defense range from Execution Hour torpedo speed is 50 km/s.The Dark Angels commander looked out from the pulpit on the observation deck as the battle-barge closed on Hyades. Small pinholes of light flashed through space towards the great vessel. The incoming torpedo salvo was almost upon them.
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"Lord-chaplain, impact with inbound torpedo salvo in twenty seconds." the tactical adept declared.
Twenty-four torpedoes cut across the void on a collision course with the Redemptor. The civilian transports and cargo ships between the torpedoes and their target banked and turned, making dramatic course changes and showing manoeuvring abilities more akin to warships in avoiding the oncoming wall of destruction. Weapons turrets aboard the battle-barge vomited a hail of defensive fire against the unexpected onslaught. Several torpedoes unable to alter course exploded while others fell horribly off course as they passed through the Redemptor's defensive salvo. Four passed through the hail of defensive fire unscathed. Onboard klaxons trumpeted the impending collision.
"Four torpedoes remain inbound." the adept shouted, attempting to be heard over the alarm klaxons.
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Damage of 4 torpedo impacts. Note that they aren't MIRVs and they don't seem to 'penetrate before impact' but they also don't just ignore shields either. This might suggest their velocities were far higher than the tens/hundreds of km/s speed I mentioned (threshold for such from other sources), or it may indicate that these shields are capable of deflecting torpedoes/missiles regardless of velocity (as hinted at in other sources, like Sabbat Martyr, Gray Knights, etc.)The first of the torpedoes struck amidships. Ripples of blue energy radiated in waves out from the point of impact as the Redemptor's defensive shielding absorbed most of the weapons' energy. The next two torpedoes sent waves of blue energy rippling across the ship as they also wasted themselves on the defensive shielding. The fourth torpedo struck home just outside the forward launch bay. The defensive shield, already strained by the previous strikes, was not able to withstand another direct hit.
The explosion ripped through the weaker sections of the armoured hull and flames engulfed the launch bay. Shards of metal, fragments of ceramite plating and other debris ripped through crewmen manning the launch craft. Secondary explosions from ammo lifts and fuel carriers enhanced the destruction.
Also note that battle barges (and other ships) have variable levels of armor protection, which isnt surprising given bays, windows, gunports, etc.
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Shortly after comms cease. Implies 'minutes' instead of hours for invasion to occur. This actually makes sense given all that is going on. However, unless they ARE only a few LS away its debatable the bAttel barge crossed the distance in a few minutes. 5 minutes of accel/decel would be tens of thousands of gees accel which is.. debatable. 15 minutes would be some 6000 gees 700-1000 gess would be an hour or less. Indeed getting closer to 5-10 gees out of this again gets back to that "12 hour or less' stuff."My brothers, you are all aware of what's about to happen. Chaplain Vargas will be launching the assault force in a matter of minutes. Our target has infiltrated the Hyades defence forces."
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Kamikaze transport loaded with 'fuel cells' detonates. Interesting that promethium can be used in fuel cells, which is a tad different than simply using a combustion engine I believe. We've heard of chimeras and such running on fuel cells so this might be it."What caused that explosion? It was too big to be a reactor overload."
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"Lord-chaplain, I've conducted a focused scan of the remaining transports. Most of them are empty, but four of them are loaded top to bottom with promethium fuel cells."
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"Reports are coming in now, sir. We've lost our port weapons batteries, gravity generators on decks twelve through fifteen port side are down, and the port shields have been depleted to thirty per cent,"
The interesting thing to speculate is on how promethium being able to be used in fuel cells as well as ICEs works. hydrogen is fairly common as a fuel cell (and its been suggested promethium is hydrogen.) but it is possible (I think) for hydrocarbons to be used in fuel cells, so that would ta leas tsuggest promethium is a kind of hydrocarbon. Of course we also know of promethium is used in reactors (even for starships) which suggests it can be used in other reactions (especially the nick-kyme style magic fusion reactors like from the Tome of Fire trilogy) If Promethium has a hydrogen element to it (And depending on how magical we want to get power generation technologies) it might actually be used in all the above applications (perhaps refined or altered to suit purposes) - its not the first time there's been some magical holy grail material crop up like this ...
The more obivous answer of course is Promethium is a category of fuels, which can run from space oil to hydrogen of various kinds (for use in fuel cells, reactors, etc.) Part of me is simply tempted to still call it a form of hydrogen because diesel we know exists in 40K distinct from promethium.
In any event we don't know masses and quite what form it took when it exploded (or the kind of explosion) but the kamikaze ship does do some damage at a distance (unkonwn distance, size/mass, and the like.) And as noted before the ship had already taken damage from torpedoes. That said it probably is suggestive and makes it a bit unlikely 40K starships routinely chuck around many many teratons/petatons of energy for hours on end.
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As I already outlined, 'minutes' seems a bit unlikely for crossing 25 million km unless they're pulling some insanely high (and unrealistic) accelerations or started approaching at a substantial fraction of lightspeed from the warp, Of course 'engaged' is up for debate - does that mean when the Hyades platforms detected and fired, or does it mean when the battle barge fired back?"My Wolfblade, a Space Marine battle-barge has engaged Hyades's orbital defence forces. Report to me immediately at the governor's command centre."
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Their encounter with a squad of Dark Angels in the capital was strange enough, but now a battle-barge had not only entered the system, but had actually begun an assault of the orbital defences.
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It took the four Space Wolves several minutes to reach the command centre, but upon their arrival they found themselves in the middle of a torrent of activity.
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They're also concerned about weapons fire setting it off so, we're probably not talking about anything more exotic than chemical reactions. IT doesn't tell us much more than it is volatile and probably combustible. Hydrogen and space gasoline can combust after all.As the Wolfblade moved through the darkened - tunnels and refinery that still existed beneath the city, he had a new appreciation of how tenuous human existence was o n this planet. All around him, promethium flowed through cooled pipes to keep it from exploding in the hot air of Hyades.
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Keeping the oxygen content of this complex low probably made the promethium safer, Ragnar thought.
The temperature thing is interesting. It implies that the temperature belowground is the same aboveground, but we know humans can get around there. It could mean 'flash' point or ignition point (ignore 'explode' - gasoline only explodes like a bomb under precise circumstances.) Autoignition would seem to be suggested (which is around 400-500 F for gasoline or diesel) but that is rather high, and could only be possible if the belowground temps are different than aboveground (which they may well be, its not definite that above and belowground are thes ame or that all temps are identifcal everywhere.)
Flash point is another possible one, although if it does it probably isn't gasoline like (gasoline is -45F or thereabouts, while diesel and jet fuel are (100-150F). Despite my teasing about space oil, I don't really recall much about Promethium behavng like gasoline.
Of course this assumes Promethium is anything like the above, and its flashpoint/autoignition temp might be different, and as I said it might be an entire category of things so its all conjectural to begin with.
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Carapace and rebreathers belowground. Probably due to the fumes, but it may also be due to the temperatures as well (we know carapace can have cooling systems like the navsec armour from Xenos, and it would be useful here.) What temp it is useful at in this context isnt' known (as per above) but I'd bet on 100-150F, although 400-500F might be possible.The members of Markham's team were from Hyades, wearing carapace armour and rebreathers. They were some of the bestarmed and armoured troops Ragnar had seen, virtually the equal of elite Imperial Guard storm troopers in regard to their equipment
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Bolt rounds bouncing off Wolf armour again.From Torin's fight, Ragnar heard the distinctive clatter of bolter rounds ricocheting off ceramite.
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Elijah caught Torin with his bolt pistol, but the shells bounced off the Wolfblade's chest plate.
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Ogryn strength and durability.The ogryns were huge mutants, one of the few altered humans allowed in Imperial forces. Imposing figures, they dwarfed the Space Marines, standing a full head higher than even Haegr. Ragnar had heard stories of ogryns strong enough to lift tanks.
The massive creatures were pure muscle and stupid as rocks, with no mind except for killing. Unfortunately, that meant that their brains took longer to realise when they were wounded or even dead. Ragnar had once seen an ogryn fighting with a large hole in his chest, until a medic had pointed the wound out to him and he fell over.
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Plasma pistol fire. Engulfing the head in 3rd-4th degree flash burns would be easily double or triple digit kj, although 'blue green fire' tends to suggest its an odd, non thermal effect. Or magic plasma.A blue-green fireball engulfed the governor's head, killing him instantly. His second shot took Magni in the knee, burning straight through the Space Wolfs power armour and dissolving the knee, severing his left leg.
PAge 200
More magic plasma burning astartes hand.Cadmus spun without warning, placing a perfect shot with his plasma pistol. The Space Wolfs hand was consumed instantly in blue-green fire.
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Implies the wolves will arrive over the planet in hours, (from the warp, probably includes warp travel though) and that Hyades is perhaps in the same region/setor as Fenris.. not more than a few hundred LY away tops, perhaps."I recognised the warp signs. The Space Wolves' patrol of the sector must have just arrived. Within hours, you won't have to worry about Dark Angels. The Great Wolf has an alliance with Belisarius."
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Rather useful sensors."Begin system scan. Comms, announce our presence and extend my compliments to Governor Pelias. Let's see if they have some hospitality to offer."
"Wolf Lord!" said Hroth. "Scans show a battle-barge in low orbit over the planet. Civilian ships are scattered throughout the system, fleeing the planet. There's an orbital defence platform in a decaying orbit, and I think she's scrap. I'm also reading weapons fire on the surface. It appears that the capital city of Lethe is under attack."
PAge 208-209
They haven't been in realspace long, but the guns are already tracking to fire on them. This would suggest they're at least millions of km away from the planet, but it really can't be sure just yet. They're at least outside the orbital range (tens or hundreds of thousands of km) although it would be unheard of for ships to routinely emerge from space that close (and 2 million km or so, as per Savage Scars, is on the high end perfromance for warp emergences. 120,000 km is suicidally close as per Rynn's wrodl."Do not approach or attempt to enter orbit."
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"Wolf Lord, their weapons are tracking us"
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That's a rather interesting insight, given the IA books pretaining to the Badab war.The Imperium would not take kindly to a conflict between two of their own Chapters, and although both organisations were formidable, neither could hold out against the fury of the Imperium. The endless numbers of Imperial Guard, coupled with dozens of Chapters of Space Marines, could spell the end for the Dark Angels or the Space Wolves.
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The Dark Angels Battlebarge and space wolf starship exchange fire. Again this is just shortly (subjectively) after emerging from the warp, but in context the range does not really seem to be many millions of km away.. maybe a few light seconds tops given the implied delay of laser fire. It might have reduced due to the Space Wolf ship approaching (no mention was made of moving towards the planet initially, but its clear that some poitn after emerging from the warp they were heading in-system, maybe that's part of standard procedure for their patrols.)"Their weapons are still tracking us, Lord Berek."
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"They wouldn't dare fire on us, warning shots or not."
A barrage of shots came from the Vinco Redemptor towards the Fist of Russ, missing high. The Space Wolf ship continued to approach Hyades, undeterred.
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"We will fire another barrage. This will be your last warning."
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"Hroth, fire a volley at them. Make sure you come close. "
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"Ready, fire," ordered Hroth, but just then, another barrage erupted from the Vinco Redemptor. The laser batteries struck the Fist of Russ. Just as the Space Wolf vessel fired her guns, a Dark Angels torpedo salvo was detected.
The explosion shook the vessel. "We've been hit, Wolf Lord," cried Hroth.
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The Vinco Redemptor began rising from low orbit. "You will suffer from our next volley."
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"My lord, the battle-barge is departing orbit, moving to engage, weapon batteries are charging."
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An interesting comment about weapons engagement ranges. 'opposite hemisphere suggets it might be on the opposite side of the planet form the battle barge (in low orbit) possibly out of line of sight, but it also might suggest that lances have shorter ranges than the laser batteries (for some reason..) and that the bombardment cannons ranges are evne shorter (smaller than the diameter of the planet, approximately - no more than a few tens of thousands of km range, tops.)"Helmsman, bring us within lance battery range."
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The Fist of Russ was smaller than the Dark Angels battle-barge. Berek knew that in a close range ship-to-ship engagement, the Dark Angels had the advantage. Their bombardment cannons would rip the Space Wolves to shreds. The Fist of Russ, however, was not without teeth. Her lance batteries had much greater range than the bombardment cannons. Using the longer range, Berek would bring the Fist of Russ close enough to launch his Thunderhawks and drop-pods, and carefully deploy his smaller ships.
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The Fist of Russ moved into position, entering Hyades space above the opposite hemisphere to the Dark Angels ship. Berek moved his ship into a low orbit to deploy the Thunderhawks.
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Berek would need to risk a quick pass of the Vinco Redemptor, bringing the Fist of Russ within range of the bombardment cannons.
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That would suggest in excess of 10+ gees, probably many tens of gees, endured on the part of Astartes, and the Thunderhawks can generate them. And no AG to compensate (unlike Eldar craft.)..the second flight of Thunderhawks dived hard, entering the atmosphere at such an angle that friction fire blazed across the leading edges of their noses and wings. If the crews had not been Space Marines, their bodies would have been turned to bloody pulp by the forces involved.
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The Dark Angels Battle Barge has 4 bombardment cannon, and is able to bring all four to bear front or broadside, it seems.Two of the four [bombardment] cannons were unable to bring themselves to bear upon the smaller cruiser. The Space Wolf vessel shuddered from the salvo of the remaining two as wide holes appeared in the cruiser's hull.
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Missile warning, and antimissile countermeasure.s Whether that means ECM, flares/chaff, or both we don't know.Alarm sirens blared in the cockpit as anti-air defence missiles leapt into the sky, vectoring towards the Thunderhawk. Sigurd's hands darted across the panels, tapping activation runes for defensive system counter measures.
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Magni's injuries from CAdmus' plasma pistol. Rather odd the hand cauterized but the leg didn't (despite armor melting around it) Given an inch or so of armor thickness and a 15-20cm diameter leg, we might figure at least a few MJ to melt through just the armor.. but no burning the leg? That seems odd. I'd assume armor stopped the bulk of the damage perhaps, but plasma weapons don't quite work that way and it severed the leg. The fact the wound isnt self healing also suggests Magni was still pretty damn weak from the heavy bolter abuse he took earlier, which makes you wonder why he's up and fighting at all.Magni was clutching the burnt, curled remnants of his right hand to his chest. The plasma fire had cauterised the wound, slowing his blood loss. The stump that was now his left leg was an entirely different matter. Plasma had burned completely through his leg melting away power armour, flesh and bone. Severed arteries, strips of muscle and tendons hung from where the knee and lower half of Magni's leg were once attached. Blood had pooled around him where he rested.
Assuming the hand is 15x10cm surface area (both sides) and 200-1000 j per square cm 60-300 kj. That should at least allow for possible cauterization. A few hundred kj for the hand mass at least to be cauterized as well (up to 800 or so if the entire volume was boiled and weighed a few kg)
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Again commentary on why Magni is bleeding out. I suppose it works - its not the first time an ASartes' physiology took such abuse that the larraman cells fail to work properly but it seems odd.His body was failing. Space Marine bodies were designed to withstand almost any injury, to survive poisons and toxins, and they were immune to virtually any disease. Their respiratory systems allowed them to survive without oxygen for extended periods of time. Special organs were implanted to change the composition of their blood. This normally enabled their blood to coagulate almost instantly. Even with all these genetic manipulations Space Marines were not indestructible. Sometimes, in cases like Magni's, without immediate medical treatment, the enhancements weren't enough.
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The sublight journeys of the Battle Barge and the Space Wolf ship could not have been more than 'a few days' tops, and far less than that really given everything that happened in between,"Yes! She anived only a few days ago with a contingent of Wolfblade from Holy Terra."
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Cadmus is a renegade Space Marine. Yet another case of a Space MArine walking amongst people and imitating a regular human. Says something about 40K potential hieghts.Madox looked directly at Cadmus. "Now, Fallen, as you said, it is time."
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"Cadmus, you are not worthy of honour. In that way, you are the same as your former Chapter"
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"By Luther's blade," cursed Cadmus.
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Modified russ.A Leman Russ tank, reinforced with siege armour, drove down a side street. It paused to fire its massive battle cannon at a target that Markham couldn't see. Although the Leman Russ was the main battle tank of the Imperial Guard on countless worlds, the planetary defence force kept few of them on Hyades.
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Dead (human?) troopre had a vox unit that can be salvaged. Probably not astartes since they are either implants or built into the helmet, usually.Markham had a vox that he had scavenged from a dead soldier so he could to stay in touch with the Space Wolves.
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Space Marine supplies are so rare and specialised it cannot be counted on for a world - even one under their protection - to neccesarily have the equipment.Upon their arrival several stowage crates had been offloaded. The Wolfblade were always on the move, supporting and protecting House Belisarius's interests. Since supplies for a contingent of Space Marines were hard to come by on most worlds, the Wolfblade always brought their own.
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This is one of several quotes made about promethium intefering (somehow) with auspex. It seems that its unrelated from the heat or energy too, given the comment."It must be the heat or the promethium still causing interference."
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Cadmus' 'storm troopers' gunfire manages to penetrate a specific place in Space Marine armour.A red cloud rose just above Elijah's left shoulder, drizzling red mist on his armour's shoulder pad and the side of his face. The shot spun him around, causing him to lose his footing and fall.
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The round had managed to penetrate the armour at the lower rear section of the shoulder pad, grazing the upper arm. The wound was minor and Elijah was already climbing to his feet.
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Members of Cadmus's elite unit of storm troopers poured from the cover of the jungle onto the Space Marines.
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Some still carried these weapons but they were now merged with their wielder in an unholy union of flesh and metal.
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Chimera passes through a 'wall of fire' of unspecified size created by the underground promethium being ignited.. Loses a track, but the interior compartment stays relatively safe."We're heading through a wall of fire."
Everything became extremely hot and there was a loud bang. The Chimera lurched to the right, sending Haegr flying across into Ragnar.
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He slammed a repto with the front of his bolt pistol and then fired. The round ripped through the first creature and blew a hole outof the back of the second.
Bolt pistol round penetrates through two bodies.
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A rather peculiar state for power generation onboard a starship. It implies they have a finite endurance with the reactors before replenishing from some other stock. That could mean capacitors (except its hard to treat capacitors and generators as the same) or it could mean reactors (in which case it might be fuel, which is also odd because.. why do they have an interrupt with the fuel supply?) My bet is on capacitors for stuff."My lord, the battle has drained many of the ship's spirits. The strength of the generators is spent. The proper rites and rituals are replenishing their energy, but for now, providing shields and engines is the extent of their ability. To restore them would take time."
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Nova cannon firing. rather than a projectile type its a beam type. Implied to be as powerful as all the Volcano's on Fenris, which might be anywhere from megaton to teraton (Depending on the kinds of volcanos and numbers.) but that's a 'point of view' thing too so.. *shrugs*Berek knew if he could fire the Nova cannon without completely draining the ship, the Fist of Russ had a chance. If they could take out one cruiser with a single shot, and that's all that they'd have, then they could board the other while the Iron Priests strengthened the ship's spirits.
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"The Iron Priest reports that we have enough power for the Nova cannon, my lord."
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"We'll only have time for one shot with it before they close."
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The Fist of Russ shuddered as the spirits of the Nova cannon drew all available power.
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The beam exploded out from the prow of the Fist of Russ. It felt as if the legendary Firewolf itself had opened its maw and unleashed the fury of every volcano on Fenris as one.
"'Lord Berek, the spirits of the Nova cannon have drawn too much power in their zeal."
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The beam struck home against the Chaos cruiser, spearing it through and erupting from the other side to continue tearing through space. The holographic display showed the blast continuing unabated, glancing another distant cruiser, but all eyes on the bridge focused on the main target. The enemy ship shivered, and was replaced for an instant by a new sun in the Hyades system. As the light faded, there was nothing left.
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"Berek Thunderfist and his fleet have returned battleworn from Hyades, but the astropaths have reported attacks on many worlds. The Thousand Sons have launched an offensive, unforeseen in recent centuries against planets protected by our Chapter."
Considering that the Wolfblade just arrived not long ago itself, this implies perhaps hours to travel from Hyades to Fenris (wherever it is.)
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The Wolves seem to be responsible for an entire Sector of space. 5th edition mentions that they watch over a 'hundred worlds' beside Fenris."The Thousand Sons have attacked across the sector. Some of the Wolf Lords got hit hard."
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Point blank bolt round blows Night Lords hand off.The Night Lord writhed, but reached for the grenades on his belt.
Ragnar saw the move and pinned his foe's wrist to the ground with the barrel of his bolter and then pulled the trigger, blowing his foe's hand off.
Or maybe the shell is mass lightened 
