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HOUSE WINDSOR CAMPAIGN LOG - - SECOND PAGE

WEEK THIRTY-ONE - To Infinity and Beyond.M42

The Captain and the Archmilitant were on board the 4 vessels of the task force, And they conquered the Insectoids of Endoria. The Rest of the PCs went back in time with the Eldar on the webway, but physically nearby in the Far Halo, here they captured 5 worlds. One was a maiden world, and they returned it to the care of the Eldar. On one world they found the Gr-Grandfather's ship, the Crimson Conquistador, and used it to subdue some aliens and establish a base, which was found in the future by the Windsor Armada. And so the gr-grandchildren of the PCs were able to rejoin the fleet.

The Windsors were supposed to have:

• Driven off the squatting minions of House Yandrick
• Exterminated the hated Slann from their refuge world
• Headed the Rak-gol Invasion off at the pass.

INDIVIDUAL FEATS in the FUTURE after the Tabletop Campaign:

Tech-Priest Vael

Founded a Windsor Forge World in the Far Halo, producing macro-cannon versions of Predators, Cyclops, Thunderhawks, and Star-Furies.

Sister Diana

Established the Coterie farthest from Old Terra. The Sisters of the Shining Frontier

Navigator Sujauki

Slowly Mastered the Rifts of Hecaton, and taught generations of students the tricks for traversing them.

Well trying to avoid black holes, eye of terror :( and have better luck!

Missionary Malaki

"Clear for emergency traffic. Code Zeta, respond immediately. Arbites suggests concern regarding possible attempted Sale or Gift of Firearm to Heretic in progress, location to follow. Gunfire reported. Please Respond with all due diligence."

Astropath Jace

Serving House Windsor, the best employers for many a sector. Still exploring the universe and eventually going back to Terra on a sabbatical to teach the future generation of Astropaths.

Brother Space Wolf

Eventually the Death-Watch sent a recuse squad to retrieve him, and find out what alien threats resided in the Far Halo. Their exploits are recorded elsewhere.No Higher Calling can be found Killing aliens in the Name of the Most High Emperor.....

Participated in the Cleansing of Gamma Vespasia in the Jericho Sector.

Navigator Alistaire

Stayed on as Master-Nav of the Crimson Conquistador, travleing to all 4 corners of the Far Halo, but He will become captain of his own ship and acquire a small fleet, go to the "Processional of the Damned", loot like crazy, became insanely wealthy with what he finds there, and become the leader of his own Navigator House.

Enginseer Sergei

Greed eventually overcame his common sense, and his technology was deemed quasi-heretical. He was confined to the Mergon Asteroids, where he carried out researched financed by the cold trade. Continuing to explore the outer rim, augmenting himself with various machinery as he goes along slowly becoming more machine than man. Honestly he'd probably eventually succumb to Chaos in his endeavors to gain fame by building or finding some sort of fantastic tech. If not Chaos, then he'd eventually run out of biological bits to replace and just be a brain inside a machine, still endeavoring to build or find something fantastic.

Psyker Blanch

Faced down the psychic beast on Kappa Stegon, and slew it, but lost his hair and was confined to a hover chair the rest of his life. As a blooded Windsor, he and his heirs were the governors of the 5 worlds.

Inquisitor Krella

It was freezing. She nearly slipped on the ice outside the airlock. She had just cruised into the Rusty Rhino and ordered something to ease her mind. So in strolls Inquisitor MacElfrish - looking for her as usual. Turns out Agent Percival got axed. Seems a large-caliber bolter was involved. The murder happened not more than an hour ago. "Ruthless animals," she thought out loud, loading her twin links ;

It was another one of those days. Sister Monica waltzed through her door like daddy's girl coming home for Christmas — a redhead wench with a temper to match, with eager eyelashes. No junior sister could afford a necklace icon like that, but the interesting part was what she was packin' a chainsword beneath her coat. She had bad news written on her like the Koronus Tribune. The girl was all business - before Krella could offer her a chair she goes and tells us that Arbitrator McMichael has also been smoked.

Remembering it like it was yesterday, Krella didn't have much to go off of this time... but the new kid did hit a possible lead. A late-night stakeout, in a hab block where long-simmering resentments finally flare. Oh, and the 2nd victim - occurred within the past 36 hours. Krella briefly glanced out the vid-screen , and then loaded her flame pack as well. The gas canister found its way home with a satisfying click.

It was what normal folks call the dead of winter. The dirt had mixed with the ice and snow until the alleys were plastered in a crunchy, gritty brown. Krella had just wandered into the Ecclesiarchy. As soon as she sat down with the email another text from Investigator Monica Turns out the Arbitrage is trying to claim jurisdiction on these murders, even when they're obviously in the church district. Apparently, this claim went down based on events earlier that week. "Just great," she muttered to herself.

When Krella got to the Arbites office. It was raining; the kind of rain that you'd hope would just clean the filth right off the streets. "Is the warrant a forgery...?" they asked timidly. "Sure, that's a great theory. Just kidding. No. Absolutely not. Definitely not a forgery," She muttered under her breath, visibly angered at the new kid. "Look," she said, "How about I just handle this one myself and you head down to The Rhino and grab a glass or two of stay-the-hell-outta-my-way."

ROGUE TRADER WINDSOR:

Initiated a secret war (posing as pirates) against the house Yandrick poaching our sector, coupled with a social war against them with our public face(being very helpful in a way that implies they weren't able to deal with the problem, costing them face and Profit). Building up our fortress watching "the Roller coaster", keeping us safe (er) and working up to good reputation with the Imperial Navy and the Marines, maybe even the TechPriests. Actually have an heir now that I don't have to roll play said creation.

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WEEK THIRTY - Terra Time at Start: Sept. 17th-016.M42

The way of the Eldar rises complex as the colors of the sunset, and descends swiftly, as the swooping of the falcon.

The Slann that had attempted trickery assaulted the party later on down the hall of the webway.

The party defeated them with some difficulty, and looted their power swords.

then they finally found the transport their guides has hidden, and they all went to Kaelor Craftworld.

There they met with Eldar diplomats who had studied House Windsor, and they offered the PCs four options:

• Cheap Way: the characters simply hitch a ride back to Koronus on the next available trade ship.
• Past Paths: The Eldar will help the Windsors deal with a difficulty that affected their warrant long ago.
• Present Times: They help the Windsors with a current affair.
• Future Doors: Eldar help them head off an oncoming problem.

Without much questioning or negotiation, the players voted on the past option.

WEEK TWENTY-NINE - Terra Time at Start: Sept. 14th-016.M42

Bay of Pigs, Part Deux: The Windsors press further into the insectoid base. They slay almost all of them but the important bugs, keeping a few for questioning. They do not set their nuke device to blow, seeing that the stations own reactor will go down, and will render the place unusable, even if the reactor does not explode. This was due to random havoc caused by the mole-mortar last week. After the fight, they tore the base apart, looking for clues about the bugs, their prisoners, their studies into warp drive and any useful mil.intel. While this was going, the bug fleets and armies responded. By the time the Windsor party called for recall from the fleet, the asteroid landing zone was too hot. The PCs took their stolen shuttle, and in a scene right of star wars, dove further into the asteroid field, and looked for a cave in which to hole up. They hid for a while, but the insects stepped up patrols in the area. Later, the starships attempted a rescue run, risking the gauntlet of bug ship to rendezvous with the PCs in the shuttle. The bugs did well on defense, and groups boats broke morale and the shuttle tried to speed away. A bug cruiser got a tractor beam latched onto the shuttle, and (again like star wars) starts bringing the small ship into the gigantic receiving bay of the huge cruiser.. This is certain doom: the PCs and about 80 men are going to face an entire starship crew of at least 3000, maybe more. The Sisters and Missionaries begin singing songs and preaching to the men, steeling them for the worst. Remember the Windsor motto: For each of us who must face the Emperor today, at least 7 of them shall go to hell! And so the fateful moment of the bay door opening came, and about 7 things happened at once. The expected hails of fire, of course. But on either side of the alien boarding ramp, hanging in open space, were two more boarding ramps of alien design. On the left ramp were 3 Ultramarines, beckoning the crew to safety, and on the right ramp were 3 Eldar, asking You Mon Keigh, do you want to live forever ? The marines did not seem right to the Space Wolf, and the Eldar appearance was too strange, but all decisions must be made quickly in the midst of a firefight. The tech people set the timer on the Nuke. So the four options were:

• Go with the Ultramarines (but why were they on this side of the galaxy?)
• Go with the Eldar (treacherous tricksters)
• Fight the Insects to the Death (a certainty, and if captured what tortures await?)
• Surrender to the Insects (selling them the secret of warp drive, which was their goal)

Much argument took place in the next 10 seconds. Finally the PCs began leaping on the Eldar boarding ramp. And then running running running They were now on the Webway, and running for their lives, dragging the wounded. Later up the conduit, they were accosted from a fork in the road by some power armored Slann, but here closer up they could see through the disguise, these Slann were the Ultramarines from before, so had they gone that way, a sticky trap...

WEEK TWENTY-NINE - Terra Time at Start: Sept. 12th-016.M42

WEEK TWENTY-EIGHT - Terra Time at Start: Sept. 2nd-016.M42

Stuck in Endor System. Takes 3 weeks to repair warp engines, power systems, maneuver engines, and machine spirits. The captured alien shuttle is fitted

out for a commando mission. The Insectoids have lobbed many ICBMs at the Windsors, some of them Nuclear. The Windsors have debriefed Nancy Kerrogun,

the human female who had been reprogrammed by the bugs to serve as their guide. Now the PCs will use her in reverse role, to guide them in on a mission

to infiltrate Commando Base Delta, the bug port from which the mission was launched at them. It is divined that the human ship orbiting the first planet came

from Sarvus Trask, and that the several thousand human crew from it have been enslaved by the bugs into various roles, including cannon fodder, and spy types

such as Nancy. The bugs have fought humans before, and will be ready, and they are not shy about using NBC warfare. The Windsors have prepared mole mortars,

concussion grenades, poison flamers, good berries, mercenaries, and a proto-type strobe gun. They have pried a ton of info out of Nancy, hopefully it will pan out

into a successful mission. Technician Vael is almost done with the Macro-Battery module.

WEEK TWENTY-SEVEN - Terra Time at Start: July 31-016.M42

Proceeding south on the map, the Windsor flotilla explored three more star systems in the Warrant area.Praesepe: large Necron presence. Probably the evil androids have a large base there. More activity they've seen before.Shaw system was a big bust, worthless planets and not much else to look at.

Adviel did not yield much adventure either, but at New Georgia they looted an Eldar pirate clipper, rescuing a battle sister.

However at the Endor system the scanners and augurs went wild with activity. They revealed 3 Class M worlds, a large space-faring civilization,

and many asteroids in 2 vast belts. As the Specter tried to navigate the outer belt, the locals sprang a trap, and riddled the Windsor ship with

torpedos, about half of which were boarding. The PC party went below decks to fight off these aliens, which turned about to be Insectoid in nature.

The bug leaders had heavy blasters, and one of the bugs was a mutant psyker who shot an eyebeam, and one of their combat commandoes

had superior powers, like a martial artist. The astropath Jace, the navigator Sujauki, the psyker Blanche, and the RT Windsor. Fought off waves of

bug hordes. One of the "bugs" was a humanoid woman, who apparently was genetically modified to be a liaison or spy of some sort. She could

read gothic and directed the bugs around the ship. After winning, the PCs found a bug shuttle that was tranformable and multi-modal (air, sea, space, walk)

WEEK TWENTY-SIX - Terra Time at Start: June 15-016.M42

WEEK TWENTY-Five - Terra Time at Start: Apr 03-016.M42

Further exploration of the Far Halo, aka The Back-ass of Beyond. They went to Disney World, and Kobol. NEW MAP

Disney World had little useless planets, and had a Chaos ship hanging derelict in a strange orbit.

The cargo hold held 108 large matching containers, that contained the parts to a vast machine.

If they had assembled the machine, they would have summoned a greater daemon, but the tech-priest

tried to put it together virtually by sorting out 3-D x-ray scans in memory. Which was fine, but would have then

let the daemon into the memory stacks of the machine spirit. Finally the others threatened the Tech-priest, and the

Sister had some servitors toss the boxes into the sun. A ship was despatched to tow the derelict.

Kobol had a class-M moon of a gas giant, that held rich life, esp. food plants, and a xeno-form called Monthropods,

which are strange stubborn humanoids barely worth conquering. Another ship despatched to tow another derelict for parts.

Also the Rogue Trader has acquired a cloud of 100 servo-skulls that can follow him around, assist with certain tasks, and do various tricks.

All but one of the ships has arrived at Atlantia to form the task force, and they lay down their cargos brought to establish the colony.

Visitors from Calixis have arrived as well.

WEEK TWENTY-FOUR - Terra Time at Start: Mar 10-016.M42

Finding a pirated Hazeroth Raider in orbit of the fourth planet of the Baseball system, the Windsors decided to "liberate the shiny" as they say in the underdecks.The team split in two, with the Marine and the Missionary leading an overly loud (distraction) towards the front end of the ship. The main group took a cutter and sneaked under the shipto cut a way in near the aft engineering section. Since the sip was overrun with Hrud, they took along the nerve gas found previously to flood the ventilation, and cleanse the ship the "easy way"

boarding action: hot and heavy. The Hrud (both the skavenoids and the vat-brutes) had heavy weapons, and caused much injury to the party.

WEEK TWENTY-THREE - Terra Time at Start: Jan 03-016.M42

Sorrow and gloom dogged the Windsor House this week. They are "wasting time" out in the Far Halo, scouting out worlds while the fleet deploys from Koronus out to them. As the Seneschal put it: We are looking for things to hit while the hammer gets assembled. Planets explored:Shwarts: Nothing useful, more shipwreck survivors too corrupt to rehabilitate.Baseball: No useful planets, but a semi-derelict transport full of xenos. (Next weeks battle)New Cappone: Reasonably useful world, with a little too much tectonics and volcanos. Able to loot items from a downed slaving ship.

Delta Delta Delta: This turned out to be the Ghypsoidal's homeworld. Remember the Cat-people from last month.

Planet-X: on an ice-ball, there seemed to be Eldar wreckage strewn around. The Psyker sensed danger, and they sent in a probe to investigate. When the probe touched the jeweled glove, the probe and glove it held vanished, with what seemed to be a chrono caused warp signature. Spooky, probably related to Last weeks Eldar fight..

Tera-9: this was the worst planet they had ever seen. On a hot venusian world, they found the wreckage of a Space Marine Barge. It was smeared over a 15 kilometer spread, but had signs of being picked through. In fact there were "streets" and "town squares" set up, where some savages had eked out an existence living in the remains, salvaging parts to make their space suits and hovels. The Barge seemed to belong to the Golden Legion, but no space marine suits or items were found. The wretched beings that lived there were descendants or heretek enginseers, who graftwd bionics on all, to survive the harsh land, and they fed from the one working food synthesizer. The crew killed them all, cleaned up and prayed over the wreckage, and salvaged usable items for the nearby Atlantia colony.

On a good note, survey teams find Atlantia to be very useful world; and if a way can be found to pay the tithes early on Svard, this will "force" the Administratum to recognize the world earlier. Which brings in more protection, and settles the area down a little, and brings Koronus on the way from being a frontier expanse to becoming an Imperial sector.

WEEK TWENTY-TWO - Terra Time at Start: Nov 01-015.M42

WEEK TWENTY-ONE - Terra Time at Start: Aug 21-015.M42

WEEK TWENTY - Terra Time at Start: June 15-015.M42

WEEK NINETEEN - Terra Time at Start: May 10-015.M42

(1mo. elapse) On the shakedown cruise of the Crimson Specter, the Windsors get almost all hands on deck for a mission of xeno-destruction:

Engineer Sergei, Techpriest Vael, RT Windsor, Sister Krella, Navigator Sujaukie, Missionary Mallaki, Navigator Alistaire, Space Wolf Skold, Only the Astropath and the Arch-Militant stayed back on the ship.

To Zayth they travelled, in search of rank capitalistic profit. They had heard of a manufacturer of fine macro-cannons in one of the mega-ctities of Zayth. (Which are named after old Terra places, since the local language is a real jaw-cracker) Pictured, the elegant domed city of Rhaetia City, up on tracks as it rolls across Zayth) The Windsors already had a deal with the Pannonia Cartel. and carried their merc outfits all over the sector. House Saul also dealt with the Lugdunio and Rhaetia Cartels. From these they had heard the Cilicia Cartel sought a brave trader to carry their wares. Others had tried before, and either failed due to cartel infighting, orkish terrorism, or lack of sinew and honor. So the Cilician city listened to what the Windsors had to offer, rejected the initial idea of extra promethium, and basically laid it out thus: You Windsors did okay killing Orks out in our asteroid belt, but we were hoping you could do some housekeeping here at home. To wit some Orks have either co-opted, infiltrated, or displaced the rulers of the Mauretania Cartel, and it would be a gigantic help for everyone if these local Orks would just go away. House Saul agreed to do support, like in the last fight here, but the bulk of the fighting would fall to the Windsor boys. Initial bombardment softened up the Mauretania, and they landed troops. A malfunction on the orkish tellyporta landed the kommandoes INSIDE the aft engine, rather than IN the aft engine room, and a large explosion caused much damage, but still hurt the ship less than an ork boarding squad. The PCs found the main control plaza, and went into sort out the Nobs, who were supported by heretical men, many snotlings and a wyrd-boy. Finally they bested the men, boyz, snots and even the lightning bolt-throwing wyrd boy.

The Boss Nob threw himself at the nearest enemy (the missionary) and pulled all the pins off his grenade belt.Yet the missionary managed to live. Next week they sort out the rest of the city...

WEEK EIGHTEEN - Terra Time at Start: Feb 5-015.M42

(3 mo.elapse) Shipless, the gang awaits the arrival of their new cruiser, a haunted Dauntless called the CRIMSON SPECTER.

Gone is the weekly music traditions of the Venerator, now comes the saturday night servitor battles between machines built or sponsored by the various deck crews, voidsmen guilds, or gun sections. Also the PCs have gained a new Explorator, presumably coming in to replace experience losses with the vanishing of the Venerator. Now the Windsors were able to horse around and delay the departure of the Ad-Mechs with old ship, and were able to finagle some of their xeno tech off it for the Specter.

Also the PCs had to go to moon Darcont and kick off some spies, which turned out to be sleepers planted by House Yandrick to keep tabs on the Windsors. Also they were able to do some more trades with other RT houses before they left the festival. They acquired the looms (probably STC) from House Trask, the finest lawyer, and the IQ ship, Bishop Claymore.

WEEK SEVENTEEN - Terra Time at Start: Jan 16-015.M42

(2 wks.elapse) Finally at long last, the festival. Like a World's Fair, the massive party hosted by the Windsors got under way.

Frankly it started 3 weeks before the PCs arrived, but nothing major was ruined.

There were many guests, who stayed with local noble families. The VIP guests paid extra and got

to see the main auction item in a personal preview. The bids were for an archaeotech anti-matter tank,

which was not only ancient but chock full of stored anti-matter energy. This device could power several cities,

or a battleship, or any number of a things, or be used as a truly huge bomb.

The Stryxis, it was assumed, would have a sales booth like any other trade cartel, but instead they bogarted

the entire central square of Capitol City. Adjustments were made, and a crisis avoided. Also Svard security

managed to keep the Eldar and them separated. The Gold Legion were none too pleased at finding aliens at

this Imperial world, and they let Windsor know that IF hostilities broke out, the Legion would join in, and not

stop until all traces of heresy were gone from this place.

Security worked hard, and nothing worse than a bar fight happened anywhere.

News coverage was positive, many deals were made, new customers found, and good times.

The Windsors took the Balaclava as the winning bid, with an eye to making it a defence monitor for Svard.

Also they made side deals for the School and the Rak-gol secret.

Winterscale and Chorda were quite interested in someone firing up a new fuel source in Koronus;

and all marveled in wonderment at someone who had gotten Umboldt to actually leave Port Wander.

Quite peculiar was the overwhelming presence of the Ad-Mech, the place was fairly crawling with

Explorators, from several different sects, ships and planets.

Pictures Here

Guest list: (these sent Seneschals or minor officials to trade)