Chojin Patriarch
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Ah, P'ol of the Tau Empire. Currently in a committed relationship with a... Water Caste diplomat? And it seems a cult of the brood-children has gone hot in this system. That doesn't bode well, as that sort of thing typically precedes a Hive-Fleet's approach.
Of course not, they're nominally enemies of Mankind. Enemies of moderate priority, especially compared to Tyranids, but still enemies.
So only, maybe, a mile in length or so. Quite petite by Imperial standards. Still quite useful, and basically her main ride. But sometimes you need to slum it to ensure the foe doesn't see you coming. Edit: Okay, her main personal ride. She does have the ability to requisition any Imperial vessel as needed...
That would be tech-heresy, after all. Can you imagine the binaric screeching of the techpriests?
Imperials do love to build them big. Mostly because their tech is so old and shit it's often necessary.
Naturally, an out-of-context problem like a Lantern is capable of facerolling these guys. But he is one man, and not a combat-focused build.
So it's coasting purely on inertia for the most part. No doubt there's screaming amongst its command crew right now, and possibly executions. Edit: Well, there would be if they weren't telepathically interlinked by Genestealer brood telepathy...
They've met him before, if I remember right? During a different sort of cult outbreak. Edit: Right, Cain, not her. But since she's associated with Cain, she probably got her hands on his reports pronto.
No doubt a moment to allow the Lady Inquisitor to stifle the swearing she no doubt broke into when she heard that.
Such is the nature of working off the same techbase as your traitorous enemy. Void shields, for reference, are heavy enough that it takes a minimum of anti-tank weaponry to disable a single layer of dozens.
Good to see the Tau worlds he associates with aren't quite so naive at this stage... I assume the attention he attracts are daemons, and things like Gellar Fields make his trips a lot easier.
Good, they're not being obnoxious about things today.
Once again: Imperial scale is wacky.
Of course there are guns in the airlock.
Voidsmen-at-arms, for reference. Famously made their modern debut in the Kill-team game, and basically not-Guardsmen in space. The shotguns are probably the safest weapon aboard ship, with minimal risk of damaging the systems with pellets.
Hope he patched those holes behind him, I doubt they appreciate him leaving pinprick gaps in their bulkheads.
Ah, Imperial holography. The finest monochome graphics the Eighties could provide.
A question asked by many people who encounter P'ol or his alternate selves.
Often with a little frustration.Well, it is tech, and he is a techpriest. While the Mechanicum might not like the idea of it, Tau tech is a little more advanced in some areas over Imperial, and though a hardliner might dismiss it as anathema, he'll still study it.
Ah, I see he and his lady formalised matters. Good for them, even if she might have been a little bemused by the whole exercise.
Now I wonder what else he found aboard it. A repository of what Imperials call Archeotech is a big thing, and Mechanicum priests would give their left nut (organic or cybernetic, natch) to get a sniff of it.
Before anyone asks, he means that by some background material, the light of the Astronomican, Humanity's beacon in the Warp (and basically fuelled by the
A rare occasion of the Tau's somewhat totalitarian government coming in useful. Imminent disaster tends to make a good knife for cutting through red tape.
And so she can finish swearing about him in relative privacy, too?
A return to the Warhammer 40,000 Paul alternate, and a fun sequence of showing just how tricky he can be. And a fun contrast to the events of the paragon OL plot. It'll be interesting to see what he's got lined up to share with Vail this time, besides the historical data, and what complications will arise to interfere with existing plans.
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