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I guess the fish thread...

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Was a red herring.

I am facepalming and rofl'ing simultaneously.

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I'm always fond of this one

Part 13: Mostly Filler, Sorry

Welcome back! Last time, Yuri and friends arrived in Central Elgava, delivered Zakhar safely to the hospital, and got a bunch of new ship blueprints. Let's continue...


Cutting it short today. At least, I call it "short", but I spent more time on this update than the last two combined. I hope y'all are happy.

Ok folks, choices! First, where shall our new "friend" Ian go? Please try to put aside your perfectly rational dislike of him and place him somewhere useful. Or not, up to you

Second, shall we explore some new planets first? Or shall we go on a long and arduous journey, picking through the billions upon billions of people in the Lutsk Sector to find some random old guy?

New video this week! Featuring:

• Fencing with one-handed swords
• Rabbits getting sliced up mafia-style by knives
• Embedded weapons affecting how a rabbit's ragdoll moves (throw a sword in someone's chest, and they won't simply lie flat on their stomach)

Also, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, at 1:00 in you can see a broadsword embedding itself into the ground after flying through the air. Awesome.

Had a decently-designed base, with sniper holes and bunkers guarding the entrance, and flak cannons outside for shooting down dropships.

The first dropship exploded, and debris flew through a window and crushed one of my snipers. It went downhill from there.

++Commissarial Log, Entry 1++
It has been two months since I first arrived on this primitive planet. I do not know how a simple warp storm threw me here, but clearly the hand of the Emperor is guiding me. This is the first opportunity I've had to record my thoughts, and they are many.

This world is strange. The people are clearly humans, yet they seem to know nothing of the Imperium. It's not that they are heretics, really; there's no chaos worship that I can see, and they're clearly opposed to the xenos threat like all loyal citizens. It's just that they're so backwards. They have only recently advanced from slug-throwing weaponry into proper lasguns, and rely on fixed-wing aircraft to get around. Such technological regressions are hardly uncommon in this galaxy, but there's no sign that this world was once a thriving colony. Will have to look into matters more thoroughly.

Anyway, I've managed to attach myself to a branch of the local PDF. The head officer, a "Commander Irony", looked a bit skeptical about my commisarial credentials. Indeed, he assigned me the rank of "rookie" and asked me not to execute traitors! Though my ego was tempted to have him shot for insubordination, two things stayed my hand. First, I'm trapped on a planet without proper law. Commissars are supposed to be outside the chain of command, willing to follow the orders of military leaders without being subservient to them. Here though, my rank and cap count for nothing. Surely I would face a court martial, at the very least!

Second, and more importantly, Irony has a knack for commanding his troops. His unit, "Ex-Comm", has suffered far fewer casualties than I would have expected of PDF, even if the ratio of deaths is roughly the same. The truly astonishing thing is that I haven't had to execute a single traitor or coward so far. Not even discipline them through scourging or being converted into servitors. I was worried that the unit would fall apart after the field commander was slain, but they seem to have rallied in a most gratifying manner.

In any case, I just returned from my most recent mission. Ex-Comm's tech-priests had just finished a run of carapace armor, and it felt good to have some protection, however slight, against the xenos plasma weaponry. Sadly, the mission was a technical failure, as we didn't capture a single alien alive for the Inquisition to interrogate (not for lack of trying!). That reminds me, do they have a branch of the Inquisition here? Unlikely. Perhaps I should volunteer to conduct interrogations? One of the troopers, Euchre, also seems to be looking forward to the process.

I have rambled enough. These records will be sealed until either I return to the Imperium, or in the event of my death. Until next time, this is Bane, signing off.

I know Evangelion is old news, but I just watched my first episode/movie. I saw bizarre Christian symbolism, office buildings that spat out guns, and quite a bit of angst, not to mention the most insane, gruesome, and high-octane mech combat in existence.

I loved every second of it