WH40K: Rogue Trade Chapter 2, To make our fate Options

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“Be happy for periods of great activity for through your attentiveness you emulate the god emperor.” - The sayings of Saint Drusus

It has been a busy few months since you re-established your authority on the Divine Inspiration. Clean up efforts started almost immediately and the ship's unique capabilities have made the work easier going then it might have been. Unfortunately all the extra time must be devoted with dealing withy our wayward underlings. Omoi's evidence that Calan de Croix the house Vorhees administrator assigned to the station was secretly colluding with the house's enemies amongst the Stewart clan required independent verification. You snuck onto port wander with his aide and his information was borne out. From that point on it was a matter of taking Sgt Granx and a small contingent of thousand blades and forcibly seizing the Vorhees compound in the dead of night from the traitors. Secret passages and genecoded locks reserved for expressly this sort of situation as well as most of the Vorhees personnel being unaware of the treachery aided this endeavor. Unfortunately Calan must have been pre-warned as word soon reached you that he had fled the station out into the maw a few days before your arrival. However his flight was so quick that he left vital clues to his destination, a small star system containing habitable planets claimed by house stewart for colonization but not yet ratified by the administratum. If they were funded with Vorhees gelt they would be yours by right of law, but you will still need force of arms to sieze them.

Additionally there is the matter of the Valliant Sword a troop ship that Omoi has received hints of. The ship was originally cataloged by explorator fleets floating adrift in space many years ago. Subsequent recovery operations have failed with no sign of the ship being found and many have written the ship sighting off as a trick of the sensors on the automated explorator craft. However Omoi has heard rumors of a small almost feral colony of humans on a nearby planet that he is convinced are descendants of the ships crew. He believes the ship might be planet bound and with proper skill and resources it could be raised to add to your naval might.

These two targets are displayed on the projection tank in the captain's quarters. With Augustian remaining behind on port wander to act as the stations administrator and keeping Synthia and Ysabell with him as he is unsure who of the remaining personnel are loyal your internal council consists of the four of you plus Sgt Granx and Von Mekkan. Omoi would normally be in attendance however he assisting the elder Dray in overseeing the final outfitting of the ship. In their stead the ship itself is taking part of the discussion.

“My captain, I estimate that within the next two terran standard days we will have completed final restockign of supplies. Magos Hakkonen has made excellent time leading his underpriests in repairing my systems and I feel fully operational. As soon as you decided on a course friend Mordechai can begin calculating it through the warp and we can be off. I fairly quiver in an anticipation.”