PRAISE THE GOD-CAPTAIN OF MANKIND!

The great ship, it's captain - the immortal god-emperor - and the newly clean fire alarm (France) await the future...

Posted this just b4 last thread ended, wanted some feedback.

Since humanity is gathered so close, the collected spiritual essence has changed something in the Emperor's physiology. The EKG is registering faint beats, barely more than artifacts, and through the impossibly weathered and thin skin, his blood is turning to the blue-white shade of the soul.

One day, a Custodes thinks he sees a twitch, but dismisses it while cleaning the holy fire alarm.

The Emperor bides his time as he always had, waiting for his body to adapt to the new source of life.


Basically, the Emperor's body is changing to run off of liquid soul, and sufficient human sacrifice will revive him entirely. He'll be a true God, feasting on souls to exist, but he'll still be human, giving him no end of moral dilemma.

good?

this is the single greatest thing /tg/ has ever attempted

Godspeed gentlemen

>>7765675

So he's not coming back as Lil' E?

Aww...

>>7765675
Sorry, but it really isn't.

This anon is stuck in the depths of Bilge deck 1673. Help?

The Ship is All.

does the Ship have any escort vessels or is Ship the only Ship of humanity

Okay, time for a RECAP

The Emperor briefly woke up sometime in the 42nd Millennium to issue one command: the building of the greatest ship ever to exist.

The Great Ship was to incorporate the entire material and human wealth of the Imperium into a single vessel of astronomic proportions.

The Ship took 9,000 years to build, during which time every Imperial world and holding was utterly strip-mined to provide the raw materials for what would become Mankind's greatest achievement.

>>7765728

It is the ONLY ship anon. All others that venture nearby crash into the ship due to GRIMDARK gravity well.

>>7765749

The Ship is over one AU in length: that's almost 100 million miles. It's powered by a dozen captive stars and generates a gravitational field rivaling that of a black hole.

The entire population of the Imperium of Man was indentured in the construction and crewing of the Great Ship. Upon its completion, the Imperium was no more: now, in its place, the ISS Imperium would sail the stars.

>>7765707

Which zone, section, network, and block of Bilge Deck 1673? Even with all that information present, it would still take years.

You are as good as dead, anon. May the Captain Emperor be with you.

>>7765775

The Emperor of Man, now re-crowned the God-Captain of the Great Ship Imperium, steers the Ship among the stars. Only He knows its final destination. Within its iron walls, planets thick and bristling with massive weapons like wheat upon a field, the innumerable Crew that is Mankind is born, lives, struggles, and dies.

>>7765775

Hang anon... if what you say is true... the ISS Imperium is nigh-invisible, right?

>>7765755

Try to find a loyalist tribe in that area, learn their language, marry, and have children. Tell them the stories of home.

The Ship is All
The Ship moves.

It wouldn't really matter. There isn't much left in the galaxy to see it.

>>7765801

*sniff* But there's things down here. I can hear them...

>>7765806

Well, given the speed its traveling at, it is there before you see it.

>>7765806

It's probably not that much more massive than Anatres.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares

And light can escape it's gravitational field just fine.

It's when you compact all that mass to an infinitely small point that wierd shit starts go go down.

>>7765853
Yes, and they hear you very clearly. Can you clarify exactly what you are hearing?

If its a danger to the rest of the Ship, we will surely have to purge the entire network. A task force would be due in around eighteen years if so.

50k anon here. I'm gonna go grab a bite to eat down at Nutrition Port 889241-78 Iota. I hope to see lots more ideas, speculation, writefaggotry etc in this thread when I come back!

+++The Captain knows. The Captain is steering.+++

This is one of the times where I wish I could use italics on this board, because if I could, I'd put the last word of the following sentence in italics, because it should warrant its own font to signify the weight of the word.

The orks would get fucking huge. . .

>>7765854

I meant the ship being as heavy as a singularity thus no light escapes, truly grimdark. To an outside observer at least. Hey-ho, your point totally valid too. ;)

The Ship is All.
The Ship moves.

>>7765924

In one of the threads an ork used a tank door as a knife.

Yeah.

>>7765942

No light would reach outside observors, but they would all notice the absolutely massive wake left in the Warp by the ship.

It'd be like seeing the Shadow in the Warp, only there are no signs of what's causing it until your planet gets ripped in half by gravitational forces.

Hey guys, OP of the first thread here (7723751). I would just like to say...thanks. You took an idiot DM's crazy idea and turned it into something wonderful. Something we can all be proud of even as we build it. And just so nobody claims it later, let alone tries to sell it: I'm never going to identify myself. Anon made the Great Ship, and the anon that did will never be anything else. So if anyone tries to come out of the woodwork saying they're me...they aren't.

Just wanted to say: great job, /tg/, and...is there room on the ship for me? I'd rather like to come along for the ride...

>>7765775
One AU is too small

make it 82 AUs (the size of the Sol System)

>>7765924
The hell are you talking about? This is old, old news.

I mean its common knowledge that Agri-caverns AR27665-C through BE73475-Y are made almost entirely out of orkbone. not to mention their accompanying hives built directly into the ribs.

So what are the largest threads to the Ship?
It seems like we've decided on Necrons, Orks and Nids, in that order-- all of them are inside the Ship and thus capable of doing massive damage. Since they've infiltrated the AdMech, the Necrons are the most sinister of all three races.
Chaos has been reduced to a nightmare that swarms outside the Ship, but remains pretty much kept at bay by the power of the Emperor's light. Heretics and Chaos Space Marines are more of a disturbance than an actual life-threatening terror.
Dark/Neo-Eldar pirates continue to harass the Crew, as do renegade humans, rogue mutants (there would be a LOT), and traitorous Eldar, Tau, Kroot and other beneficiaries of the Captain's hospitality.

Can we think of any other major threats to the Great Voyage?

>>7765707

We, the Ship's Eyes, see you, child. We, the Ship's ears, hear your plea. Our network, our machine spirits, are one with the God-Captain... his wisdom guides all.

You are chosen. Your quest is as follows.

1. Blown by the unceasing wind of Ventilator 423957 XA, sail thou across the bilge-sea for a year and a day, ever into the west, and the blue light of plasmalamp Delta Porphyrion. Fear not thirst and starvation, for the bilge-nomads will aid you.

2. Trek thou northwest across the rust-flake desert until you reach the oasis Mallan. It's people have for generations forgotten the Truth. Tell them of the God-Captain, the Ship, and the Voyage. There is in their neglected temple a sealed chest. Recite the Litany of the Task, and it will open. Retrieve the holy Fuse.

3. Venture North. The years will age you. Be stalwart in your duty, bear your holy task and burden. Through the passage of Samphael you will go, to the Dark Lands.

4. For two centuries, since their Lamp failed them, the Dark Lands have languished, the people starving and blind. They feed on fungus, and the refuse that washes from the worlddecks above. They click, with their tongues, and by the echoes know their surroundings. They fight the greenskins, armed only with spears and knives. There in the dark, they make beautiful sculptures, and they sing hymns in praise of the God-Captian, who will bring them Light. They no longer know what light is.

5. Lead them in crusade against the greenskins. Seize the holy maintenance-temple of Sigma-Sigma-Epsilon from their heathen clutches. Install thou, in the hollow beneath the altar, the holy Fuse. Repair the plasma-lamp. Bring the faithful the God-Captain's light.

6. Receive canonization. Await further instructions.

>>7765889

Hearing, sir? Scratching, some mewls and a very large fart, sir. I'm in... *looks at door markings, in fifty metre high lettering* Aft zone, Command section, 43b network, and block A26 of Bilge Deck 1673. Will you send your men soon, sir?

>>7766017

The hive fleet. The WHOLE hive fleet.

All of it.

The very size of the ship could be humanities downfall. It is Mankinds duty to assure that no sacred component or crew member is lost in it's massive holds, otherwise it will be gone forever.

>>7766029

Let me see..

oh.

Well, i have good news, and bad news. Which would you like first?

>>7765990
Sure, just give us your name and identification number...

>>7765990

Very glad to hear from you again OP. Your post was a kernel of gold, and now look at the masterpiece that's grown from it. We couldn't have done it without you.

>>7765991
you are daft, aren't you?

1 AU of ship weighs more than a thousand of our solar systems, and they would all fit into it, with tons of room to spare.

>>7766026

I would give a limb to play this quest. Seriously.

>>7766026

Er... can you write that down? I won't remember it all, kind servitor, er, thing.

>>7766055

Constructor Anoni Muss, authorization number 7723571.

>>7766031

Speed up and turn the warpshield wipers on. It'd be like driving through a cloud of mosquitoes.

That's a FUCKTON of scurvy, bro.

>>7766049

Good please, sir.

>>7766130

"We pump syenthetic vitamin D into the water supply."

>>7766141
Well the good news is that whatever you are hearing isn't a danger to the rest of the ship in any way.

>>7766031

Easy shit. We get near them, and they splatter against our windshield. Or, more likely, get sucked into the matter ports and get turned into usable biomass for cloning/food. And on the topic of added mass:

>>7766037

The ship is constantly being repaired and over-repaired by the tech-priests. They order too much stuff, as they traditionally do- and sometimes more than enough arrives. . . Techpriests with a surplus of materials, folks. That's a truly horrifying thought.

And the ship? The ship is alive, being linked to the God-Emperor of Mankind directly. He IS the ship, and is both the Omnissiah-literally- and the master of the Void Dragon. The ship builds itself. Where humans haven't been in centuries, where life hasn't ever existed, perhaps- the ship grows. . .

The Ship is All.
The Ship Moves.

>>7766167

Ok. And the bad? *cringes*

>>7766148

But scurvy is a Vitamin C deficiency.

>>7766187
My guess is it's still a very pressing concern for you, bro. Best hurry on up with that quest. Don't worry, just ask the walls next time you can't remember. They'll tell you.

>>7766183
> "master" of the Void Dragon

Muahahaha, just keep thinking that...

>>7766121

The Servitor hangs uspide-down from its armature, the long, jointed, cabled metal arm that reaches down from the distant ceiling-sky. It descended toward you from the heavenly vault above, a machine-divine visitation, and now a scroll of paper is unfurling in its dessicated chest cavity. Pale hands withdraw the holy Work Order and reach out towards you, bestowing your sacred Task upon you.

>>7766183

...

The Ship has a giant gravitational ramscoop up front that gathers all the mass in The Ship's path and feeds it to a fusion reactor.

A fusion reactor larger than most stars, but this one doesn't create energy. It's far more complex and subtle. It's purpose is to transmute the stream of particles sucked through the fire at the maw of the scoop into all the raw elements needed by the ship.

>>7766221

I was thinking of rickets, that the low light one.

Maybe it's a citrus fungus?

Haven't been following the thread, but presuming this massive ship is leaving the galaxy (exodus) I think the reason people don't like doing so is because the run out of warp to sail through (no people, no warp)

If this is large enough to create it's own warp presence, then it will be large enough to create it's own warp to move through.

I think it would be cool if the Ship had moons with outer colonies on them, and weapons batteries designed to blast incoming space debris such as large asteroids or other planets into small chunks so that they couldn't damage the ISS Imperium.

>>7766026

>Replace a burned-out light fixture. This will take 50 years and you will become a saint in the process.

Fuck yeah I love this setting.

>>7766026
Aye, it will be done.
For the God-Captain my quest will see it's completion!

>>7766223

Right.
*gulp*
*looks at the giant fanblades of Ventilator 423957 XA*
Sail. Okay.
*gets on handy nearby bilge-boat*
*chug chug chug*
Oh, this is gunna take a while...
*KRUNK!*
BROKEN!?

>>7766187

The bad news is that that entire Section of Bilge Deck 1643 was jettisoned into space twelve years ago, due to a nearly complete infestation of fork-tongued bloodworms.

The only reason we can communicate at all is that even after all this time, that Section still hasn't cleared the length of the Ship. We estimate that it will go beyond sensor range in approximately twenty eight more years.

Its not terribly surprising you didn't know, there were several hives within that never received word.

Death by bloodworms is not pretty. I suggest facing them head on if you see them first. That way you die a nearly painless death.

Well, that's a lie. But you will die sooner.

This is Communion relay DU5573-A, signing out. May the Captain be with you.

>>7766268

Taking out stray asteroids and planets is not a problem for the ISS Imperium. The ship's surface is literally bristling in the most insanely heavy weaponry ever built-- see the OP's pic but imagine that scaled up 100,000,000 times.

We're talking cannons that shoot flak rounds the size of Hive Cities... all over the ship's surface.

I can see this actually happening, which is the funny part.

This is like a "Final Solution" to the chaos problem, and it's like an awesome concept.The Emperor awoke, and with his guidance, mankind became a Type 2+ on the Kardashev scale and decided...

Let's go through SPAAAACE....


I mean, with the Emperor at the helm, and with his massive intellect and willpower and the amount of wards he personally wrote in the ship, and the ones his servant put in...it makes sense that chaos is like an insect problem, rather than the horrific shit it is in 40k.

I like the concept.It's an elegant concept for a civilization....although the scale of cannibalizing the resources of untold planets to build this monstrousity alone, ...

It staggers the mind.

>>7766311
Why shoot what you can eat?

>>7766309

Th-th-the Ship has not let go.
The Ship is the God-Captain.
The God-Captain looks after the crew.
The Ship looks after the crew.

The Ship has not let go.

The Ship is All.
The Ship Moves.

A note to all Anons reading this thread subsection.
Additional material on a setting VERY like this one may be found in the manga "BLAME!".

>>7766331

The light weapons are just for breaking up things like planets or stars that might cause problems for the mass scoop.

There are heavy weapons. They've so far not been needed.

>>7766296

*despairing*
*holds up jacket*
*boat bobs along*

>>7766315

Yeah, this solution has pretty much taken out Chaos as an enemy of the Imperium. Chaos Space Marines are now separated from their dark gods, mutations are natural (even if just as naturally fucked up), and psykers are starting to draw their powers from the strongest and most accessible warp-god in the vicinity. . .

The Captain.

>>7766349
Holy shit, that's a good Prayer of the Lost if I've ever heard one.

>>7766402

Agreed. Standard prayer, okay anon?

>>7766380

FUCK YES FINALLY, SAINTS OF THE GOD-EMPEROR ARMY.

CANONIZED BADASSES BECOMING "DAEMON" PRINCES OF THE GOD-CAPTAIN.

THEY LIVE ETERNALLY AND ETERNALLY SERVE.

And really, if there was ever a place where you could make use out of spontaneously grow a higher S, T, regenerating wounds, causing pants-shitting terror, boiling your enemies blood in their bodies, shifting time, and DEAR GOD TELEPORTING, THIS IS THE PLACE.

>>7766455
NO

There is no 'basic' shape. You miss the point entirely. If you give it a shape, you bind it in some way.

The ship is immeasurably huge. And unknowingly shaped. There is a lot of credence to the idea that this Grans Schematic does not, and has never existed.

>>7766455

If those are supergiant stars at the engine there, then I think we're in business.

>>7766371

*beard has grown*
*anon is filthy*
*anon stumbles ashore and lays on the dirt flecked deck*
*laughs*

rolled 6, 1, 3 = 10

>>7766485
It's not immeasurably huge, it's 1 AU long.

>>7766489
Yes. There are six on each side.

Imperium made craft worlds could be like frigates serving as an auxiliary fleet, docking with the ship once every 50-100 years in order to recharge from the ship's dyson spheres.

I think there should be a HUGE number of ships in the surrounding fleet, serving innumerable purposes. Whole planets were used in construction for the fleet as well. Even with this, the grand armada is >>.1% the size of the great ship.

This also gives an excuse to throw in some tau/eldar/whatever else we can't find a place for in the ship.

>>7766495

*anon grasps the vox-horn*
Hello?

>>7766455

O fragile Human. Even as you try to grasp the totality of the Ship, you reveal the great weakness of that poor flesh cogiator you call a mind.

The Ship has no shape that is knowable to even the most learned of the wise. Its limits and its form are beyond knowing, beyond seeing, beyond computation.

It is His Will.
It is All.

>>7766497
You are a moron. there is a number yes, but you can't visualize it. You can't really give that number any real value.

Oh yes it takes a year for light to reach the other end.

SO WHAT.

That is not comprehend-able. That is not something you can turn into a picture. Get fucked, namefag.

>>7766513

They would all crash into the ship anon, I thought this was already covered?

rolled 6, 4, 6 = 16

>>7766527
If you wanted "unknowable," you should have built a ship larger than the universe out of the component parts of the universe. As it stands, what you've got here is cosmic bigness.

>>7766517

A nervous looking figure dressed scraps and rags walks up drops a small package wrapped in battered looking plastic sheeting in front of anon, then runs quickly away.

Opening it you find a sharp knife, a scratched plastic canteen full of water, some condensed ration bars and a note on the same paper as the scroll.

"You are of The Ship now. The Ship has not let go. Keep the faith. The Ship is all. The Ship moves."

>>7766497

Not that guy who posted, but you're missing the point.

This is more than just a fucking badass ship. It's a fucking badass CONCEPT, an IDEA, and one that is so vast and ever-changing that you should not attempt to define it in any other way other than the sheer scale of it. It is not to be defined, but to be capable of striking awe in the hearts of nerds everywhere. Giving it a solid shape would take from that.

rolled 2, 5, 2 = 9

>>7766530
It takes eight minutes. It's as comprehendable as the distance from New York to Beijing.

>>7766455

That's a good concept drawing. It's still just really hard for me to even picture the scale of this thing.

A million earths.

A million fucking earths.

>>7766485
This. One hundred percent this. It may not be immeasurably huge, but to draw it is to destroy the wonder of this whole idea.

>>7766513
Yes, I like this a lot.

Uh, guys? Imagine the Sisters of Battle. Within 1 AU of the Emperor, their faith powers must be off the wall. And their Saints? Forgetaboutit, they're walking demigods.

As for keeping chaos OUT and the Emps power AMPED?

1) The Emps is inside hooked up to the ship. The Emps is his own Astronomicon, Gellar Field, calms the warp, and gives powers to his faithful like he's a chaos god- which he now is.
2) Emps made the Void-Dragon his bitch and harnessed his power. Again.
3) There are necrons welded into the hull. Lulz anti-warp technology.
4) The Deceiver is tooling around somewhere inside the ship- and completely fucking chaos over wherever he goes, being a C'tan and chaos hates C'tan and Necrons and stuff. Just as Planned on the part of Emps? Maybe.
5) All of humanity- ALL OF IT- all 2.5 octillion of them if I recall correctly, are on that ship, boosting the Emps power nigh-infinitely over and over again, because of their renewed faith in being both so close to him and seeing what his will can do.

Chaos can't do shit, folks. The only thing doling out warp powers inside that ship is the Big E.

>>7766550
Yes, YES!

That is what I was trying to say.

>>7766542

I'll bet you cut down a tree to count the rings, dick.

rolled 2, 2, 1 = 5

>>7766550
>>7766566
As you wish.

>>7766539
The gravity control allows for regions where they can stay. This ship isn't a black hole, though it is massive, it is not a singularity, it's not dense enough. Light can escape from it. Also, all this handwavium anti gravity helps a shit ton.

Ships are needed for repair and growth of the outer hull, there is no other way to function.

However, any ship that gets too close without the will of the god captain, is doomed with but a thought.

>>7766566

Personally, I'm still not a fan of "other ships".

This thing is ONE AU LONG. It has no need of support vessels. The Ship IS the very existence of humanity.

>>7766568

That sounds pretty nice.

Except when you realize that the C'tan are just as ready to fuck up mankind as they are Chaos. Especially now that mankind is the new hyper-psychic power in the galaxy.

>>7766600

Sections are often drifting off and crashing back down all the time, so what constitutes 'The Ship' at all is questionable.

>>7766600
The Inquisition greatly exaggerates their dogma in comparison to reality.

A while back, I listened to an old sci-fi audiobook from way back, and it was all about these people that live in a giant ship, believing that it was the whole universe. Heretics who believed otherwise were killed or fled to the upper decks, which is also where the crew that had mutated lived. Heretics, criminals and the dead were fed into the furnace, where their souls would be recycled.

The main character murdered some wise-woman/fortune teller for a reason I forget, and had to flee to the upper decks, where he was almost killed by a mutant (Who hate the pure-bloods with a passion) but the mutant's leader takes him in, and opens the bridge viewport to reveal the space outside. Turns out he's researching the books up in the upper decks and trying to build a crew to pilot the deck. In the end, the pure-bloods mount an expedition to kill muties/kill him and they murder the leader, the only man with the knowledge on how to pilot the ship and read the books.

I can't remember too much offhand, but take any campaign inspiration from that as you will.

>>7766534

Anon looks through the hatch where the wretch has run under. Rust dunes. Anon sighs and eats the first ration bar.
*scratches beard*
Anon looks at the pitiful bilge-boat as another wretch attempts to drag it away. Anon ducks under the hatch and begins the long, hard trudge.

>>7766600

Is it the ship that's one AU long?
The original thread established that just the KEEL was one AU.

>>7766547

The note continues on the back:

You are one month fifteen days seven hours two minutes nineteen seconds behind schedule.

Twenty four point three kilometers northwest through the rust dunes, there lies an oasis, with fresh water and fruiting trees.

Oasis Mallan is nine hundred seventeen kilometers beyond.

Proceed with your task.

>>7766600

I see the "other ships" as more of a cloud of dust that swirls around the ship, hardly visible, some wisps drifting off into space, some brushing against the hull only to rejoin it.

>>7766629

That whole story and its entire cosmos could have taken place inside the Ship.

The Ship contains the same amount of incredible diversity, complexity, and variance as the Imperium of old. From feral tribesmen hooting in their caves, to shining white cities of luxury, to massive hives crawling with pollution and filth... the Ship has it all.

Thought for the day:
+++Even a man who has nothing can still have faith. For the Captain is with him always.+++

>>7766629
Also reminds me of Druuna, and The City.
A vast ark ship who's AI went insane and concocted a horrific virus that mutated and killed so many of the crew the ship entered a dark age filled with endless half-assed exposition and much Bbbbbbooty.

This ship must be going somewhere. The Emperor, in his sleep, must have seen something so terrifying, so big, so dire, that he ordered all of the Imperium to uproot and move. The grand ship now hurtles towards it are immeasurable speed, accelerating faster and faster through the warp with each year. Halfway through the unfathomable reaches of space, the ship will shift and begin to decelerate. This day is known to the faithful as "demi-itineris," and it shall signify the coming of the end.

>>7766517
Where the hell did you end up any writing nearby to give a clue. Uh any lightsorce on that hand?

I have a Theta-Epsilon-421 in need of vox repairs and someone send help up to D block containment we seem to have conflicting reports of a "dying star?" Someone is saying something about a Force or something like that, coupled with farm kids blowing up exhaust ports.

>>7766663

God-Captain, that's a haunting and beautiful image. Fleets of craftworld-sized vessels trailing in the wake of the Great Ship like a swarm of gnats or a cloud of dust.

>>7766455

Fuckugly, it just looks like a massive Emperor Class.

>>7766617

I'm having fun seeing the back and forth between the necrons and Emps powering up yet more.

The Deceiver's inside, tooling about, fucking with the AdMech because it's fun. In my mind, the Emps may have very well manipulated him into coming here because all the life energy in the galaxy is now HERE- and yet its presence further denies chaos entry. What a web we weave, Emps. Replacing the evil of the warp with the C'tan. . .

Oh, and I laughed for a minute straight the first time I imagined an AdMech bent over a reading, his oculars bugging out over a console that says necron-sized holes in the armor, plating, floors, walls, and ceilings of the ship. Like cutouts, really. And mass is increasing too rapidly in certain areas, before teleporting off to other areas. . . And techpriests, touched by the Deceiver, have somehow managed to smuggle onto the ship Tomb World reconstruction chambers, which heal the necron bodies. And there's outrageous numbers of necrons on the ship now-

Only the ship's so big, and there's so many humans, a human can go their entire life without hearing even a single tale of a man made of metal.

>>7766710

Heretic! You claim to know the God-Captain's will?!
HE steers us. HE guides us. It is HIM who navigates towards the Destination, unknown and sacred mystery that it is.
I have heard of these so-called "Cults of Knowing," in which blasphemous cultists seek to chart the course of the Ship and guess at the will of the God-Captain. Sinful wretch! Have you no faith? Your assumptions are as ashes scattering in the great storm that is HIS will.

>>7766732
>a human can go their entire life without hearing even a single tale of a man made of metal

For now.
However, the numbers grow, and sections have been overrun.
Legion upon legion of troops have been sent, but so far with only minimal effect.
Perhaps it is time to consider a more... severe response.

>>7766642

Reading the note again Anon looks over his shoulder for dust-raiders. It seems to be the forty-seventh day of his time in the rust-dunes but Anon isn't sure anymore. The few people he had met were either indifferent to him or were raiders. The wound in Anons shoulder was beginning to fester and his binded, dislocated fingers throbbed. The lone raider Anon had killed for water had been tough, but a plastic shard into the neck had eventually slain the raider.
Anon sat down hard as a wave of nausea and giddiness swept over him. His vision swam. How far was it to Mallan now?

The God Emperor dies. He is resurrected as this man.

Let us ponder the Mysteries.

What is the God-Captain?
What is the Omnissiah?
What is the Imperium?
What are we, the people?
What is the Ship?

The God-Captain is neurally networked to the trillion trillion cogitators and servitors that permeate the length and breadth of the ship. One with the machine spirits, He is the Omnissiah. They are the mind and soul, and the body is the very decking beneath our feet. He is the Ship.

We, the masses of humanity, souls more numerous than the fabled stars, are the Imperium. And the Imperium is the Ship.

And so, the God-Captain, the Omnissiah, the people, and the Imperium are one, and are the Ship.

The Ship is all.

The ship moves.

>>7766801
Chaos weeps.

>>7766732

An anon in the previous thread was talking about how the AdMech might be split into two factions. One was the good Admech, relentlessly fighting to preserve the structural integrity of the Captain-Omnissiah and His mastery of the Ship, and the other was the necron-ized evil Admech, fighting to subtly overrule the God-Captain's control and to claim the ship for themselves.

>>7766761
Indeed, brother. I only speak of the prophesy given during the awakening of the emperor before the Age of Construction.

Of course no mortal could hope to comprehend the will of the Emperor.
Perhaps you should study your religious texts more before shouting heresy, unless of course, you believe that you have the ability to decide what is for or against the will of the God Emperor(/Captain/Admiral).

>>7766801
Not likely. The Emperor would probably be resurrected as Will Turner.

The Imperium must have a Captain, after all...

>>7766861
The most epic Flying Dutchman ever conceived.

>>7766861
But.. he's just a blacksmith...
No. He's a warp god.

>>7766820

It is as you say, Anon.
Glory to the God-Captain, Who steers us onward.
Glory to His Machine-Spirit, Who is the soul of the world.
Glory to the Imperium, which is our home.
Glory to the Ship.
We sail forevermore.

>>7766871
Jesus Christ was a Carpenter.

>>7766834

I like this, but I think the evil AdMech shouldn't be so LOL EVIL BADDIES. It would be cooler if they still recognized the God Emperor of the Ship as such, but they held the Machine Spirit God or whatever on an equal level, and recognized it as a distinct entity. So it would be more that they are torn between the two, rather than actively trying to kill the emperor and take over the ship. Of course, this is still heresy.

>>7766801
>>7766861
>>7766870
>>7766871
ENOUGH OF THIS HERESY!
YOU WILL ALL BURN IN THE REACTORS FOR THIS

>>7766800

For a moment Anon gazes up toward the ceiling, knowing he cannot see it. A convulsion doubles Anon over, grazing his face on the sharp rust that made the dunes.
A cowled face appears in Anons sight before all is black.

>>7766886
'Fraid it'll take more than that to kill me, mate.

>>7766878
Make it like this: Emps has actually died after the ship left port. All hope was lost, but at the same time a young psyker rose from among the populace, and started preaching novel ideas, about progress and peace. Persecution follows, and he's caught and sacrificed to the corpse of Emps in a horribly gruesome way. It turns out he was emprah incarnate, trying to steer his people back into the light. So they killed him and imprisoned him again in his carcass to steer the Ship.

>>7766880

They could see things that way I guess... but they'd be wrong, according to established 50k canon.

Every meter of ship is filled with vast databanks, cogiators, and servitors, all of which are linked directly to the Emperor's psychic will-- that's how He steers the ship. Therefore, the Emperor is in fact the literal Machine-Spirit/Omnissiah of the ISS Imperium: He is the "spirit" of the ship, its central processing unit or mainframe, so to speak.
So a tech-faction that tried to maintain the old separation of Emperor and Omnissiah would be not only heretical but also very misled.

>>7766899
UTINNI

I been doin' the servitors and >>7766820 and such, but if the other anon wants to DM Maintenance Quest, go for it... as long as the holy task is done!

>>7766945

No.

>>7766886
And who's going to burn them there? You do you know how far from the reactors you are? Or if they'll be there still by the time you round up your band of heretical miscreants?

>>7766957
Sir there are billions of reactors of varying sized dotted all over this place.

>>7766899

Am I the only one writefagging this subthread here? I know I'm the Lost Anon but more input would surely please thread 2s OP... Y'know, interaction? At one point I was trying to keep up with two different anons.

>>7766800
You notice a shadow over top you. Rapidly growing darker and smaller, it plummets through the sky, then, with a small "ting!" something bounces off your head. It is a servo-skull. With a note and a full canister of water, four times the size of the skull, which struggles to hover next to you. The note reads:

"Five days. Do not despair. The Ship has not abandoned you.

The Ship is All.
The Ship Moves."


A new shadow grows, darkens, and you look up. A flock of Servo-skulls flutter about above you, providing shade in the heat of the blistering plasma-nova above. It is a shifting cloud, one or two occassionally darting down to fly off miles away. After a brief flash of las-light or two, sometimes return to the swarm- if not, larger packs fly off, and more flashes are seen. These skulls do return. After you sit briefly, your personal servo-skull nudges you, and you look at it, which flies upward, drawing your attention to the cloud. It's in the shape of an arrow pointing towards an edge of the horizon.

>>7766957
Space them. It's a short walk to the airlock, and you can watch them die.

>>7766953

Wish I could help out Anon... but I'm pretty tired after two whole threads of this stuff and I think it's bed time.

Amazing word everyone. This is some of the best stuff I've ever seen /tg/ come up with. Never change.

>>7766951
Great, now we've got an infestation of fucking Jawas to deal with.

>>7766970
>>7766968

THE SHIP KNOWS YOUR THOUGHTS AND HEARS YOUR PLEA.

THE SHIP IS ALL.
THE SHIP MOVES.

I say we call space the Void now. Its more mysterious, because, remember, very few people have actually seen the stars, much less hard vacuum.

>>7766973
>implying there is anything outside of the ship
SPACE HERESY

>>7766948

Indeed, the ancient fracture is healed. The Emperor is no longer an aspect of the Omnissiah... he is the Omnissiah, whole and physical! He is the machine spirit of the Ship, and the Ship is the entire MASS of the Imperium converted into technology.

Meditate upon the Mysteries, and you will understand.
>>7766820

>>7766948

Ok yeah, good point. Either way, I think the idea of the AdMech being completely evil is unrealistic, as they would probably be rooted out quite quickly. Unless the AdMech actually split into two distinct factions, like Eldar and dark Eldar, rather than it just being a Puritan vs. Radical type deal.

>>7766968

Disregard that please anon. Others have now posted.

>>7766992
>>7766995
>implying that there is such a thing as "Space" Heresy
VOID HERESY

>>7766973
SHORT?!?!?!?!?
IT COULD BE UP TO HALF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE SUN AND HOLY TERRA

awesome, this needs to be finished as a setting.

>>7767013
Ok, true.
Fuck it, let's melta crack in the hull and hold them there 'til they "fit" through.
We'll weld some plate on afterwards.

>>7767028
I actually think it might work better if it was not WH40K, just it's own thing

>>7767033
But then it would just be Walpocalypse.

>>7766981
First vox problems and "Deadly Stars?" And Agri kids destroying exhaust ports, Now Jawas? When does it end?

>>7766973
The fuck is an airlock?

>>7767050
inb4 Gungans

>>7766899

Voices half heard as you drift in and out of consciousness.

"...not a raider, not a bilge person, dying though..."

"...crazy man dying in the dunes has a note, it means nothing..."

"...somehow he'll live ask him tomorrow..."

When you awaken weakly you are in a rusy iron shack with three armed people looking at you. They are wearing the same dark, rust stained hoods you saw before you blacked out. One of them steps forward and speaks.

"Why are you here stranger?"

>>7767032
And if that hole leads somewhere unexpected? Like not outside the ship? IE a magazine for one of the fuckton huge guns?

Heretical fools! There is nothing "outside" the ship, any more than there is anything "outside" the sight and power of the God-Captain!

The Ship has no exterior! Lo, the holy scripture says that the Ship is ALL, there is NOTHING ELSE! In the darkness, before the age of Construction, true, there was void, there were portions of creation not shaped by and for men... but the Construction abolished all of that! PRAISE the GOD-CAPTAIN!

Seize the voidists! Strike them with wrenches, smite them with clubs! Tear them with your very fingers if you must, but SILENCE their LIES!

THE SHIP IS ALL!

THE SHIP MOVES!

Thread archived at http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7765640/

You know what to do anons

Thanks for all your participation and work. I'm proud to have been a part of creating this awesome setting with all of you.

>>7767096
We chain the heretic to a shell, and call it a day?
Hey mate, this is your symbolically important execution. I just need your signature showing you approve of the motherfucker's death, and then I can move on to mopping up zero-G Grox puke.
Big scaly bastards can't take even a moment of weightlessness.
The Ship is All.
The Ship Moves.

>>7767102

But... if the ship moves, what is it moving in? Doesn't there have to be some sort of existence for it to pass through?

>>7767102

Now there's a Puritan if i've ever seen one...

Give me a Radical 50k Inquisitor who dabbles with necrons and the warp-field outside the Ship, fuck yeah!

>>7767059
That is the LAST STRAW!
I'd quit my job if I could find my way out of this communications hub.

>>7767158
Thats Void Heresy thinking.

>>7767158

>>7766970

"Thank the God-Captain..." Anon mutters. His voice cracks before any more can be said.
*takes a swig of tinny water*
*trudges under the arrow shaped cloud*
As Anon walks bodies of raiders become apparent through the blistering haze. Odd little piles off bone and scrap indicate the demise of a skull. Anon wonders for the umpteenth time to himself why he hasn't given up yet. As a child he had been a weak stripling, as an adolescent he had been meek and cowardly. This was by far the most desolate place he had been and yet still he walked. The pain barely registered above the lethargy he now felt. But he had faith. Faith that the Ship would not abandon him, faith that the fate awaiting him could not be worse than starving in a bilge-deck control room.

>>7767069

Glances back at the shack. "I am on a holy mission."

>>7767158

The Motion of the Ship is a theological concept far beyond your simple understanding.

Do not question. Do not think. Only toil, and maintain, and believe.

The Ship is all.

>>7767158

Dear child, what stops the ship from moving through nothingness?

>>7767158

That is a good question, my child.

A very, very good question.

The answer, you'll find, is something the Imperial Priests never wanted to you to know.

I alone can offer you that knowledge...... But are you strong enough to seize it? For knowledge is power....

>>7767158
They move through and are fueled by heresy.

>>7767325
We need more thrust! Blaspheme harder, you scurvy altar boys!

>>7767192

Writing via my console controller is a real bitch (NO I am not saying which one - we are not going to have THAT discussion here).

>>7767353
So... there's a bunch of guys bolted to the deck, singing heretical hymns and uttering blasphemy, that are repelled by God-Captain, providing thrust? kek.

>>7767353
Don't forget the daemonette whores.

This is starting to get dumb.

It's been awesome guys, let's leave it at that before the stupidity starts.

The oupost of Mallan looms out of the dust. Anon gazes upon dwellings held together with little more than twine and crossed fingers. Several dozen people inhabit the place but most appear to be despondent and aimless. Folk merely sit outside their dwellings as if awaiting doom itself.

/tg/ 50k:
A custom setting, leaving the canon behind and spanning pages 1-10 of 4chans' waning neckbeard. Within the myriad threads, the Great Exodus sets course and begins its launch, traversing the dark Warp of "thin your paint" spamming and 4e trolling.

At the helm, humanity looks to the spirit of /tg/, ever dormant but in one brief spark--which briefly wrested itself to consciousness from it's aged throne amid half-sentient namefags. The words were thus:

We shall move.

Entire boards were stripped of writefags, toiling ceaselessly for an internet millenia, building a new vessel which would fulfill the newly-conscripted /tg/'s great, barren neck. The manufactoriums of suptg and 1d4chan providing the framework, our efforts began to embody the greatest work of an era's decline.
From the twilight embers of the fantastic, the steampunk, and the far-flung future, a swath of homebrew creations were harnessed, distilled, and now light the unyielding drives of myriad engines. To where they launch the immense colony-ship, only the immortal spirit of /tg/ knows.

As /v/irgins pressed from all sides, summoning heresy and abomination from the psychic link shared by glorious traditional gaming and the heretical insurgence of videogames, still we built humanity's vessel. 'Ere the coming death of our beloved solidarity as the /b/ horde redoubled their insatiable warlust, we finished the flagship of our Exodus.

The Eye of /v/ knows only the wake of our derailment threads--their denizens turning against fellow rivals in failed DoW2 trolling and WoW stat queries. We tend the machine of our devices, as the ever-thrumming glow of engines press our remaining populace into the dark night. Where it leads, only the God-Emperor knows.

And thus we sail
fa/tg/uys and ca/tg/irls
amongst the stars.

As Lost Anon, I urge anon to ARCHIVE this thread. Myself and the valiant writefag anons have toiled but alas, our strength is spent. I bow to the OP's and the /tg/ anons who have contributed.

ARCHIVE this thread for immortality, anon.

>>7767507

There's .... there's something in my eye....

>>7767592

Valiant anon, your sacrifice was not without purpose.
Ever shall your noble words be enshrined in the hallowed Great Scriptorium of the suptg archive.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7765640/
Let many a vote be cast this day, and let many anons sleep well tonight, knowing their work has not been in vain.
We have done a great thing here, my brothers.
Now let us sail on forevermore.

The Ship is all.
The Ship moves.

Bump for justice!

Bump.

I think all the 50k anons have gone to bed by now.

One last little bump to thank everyone who participated in this awesome project.

I've lost all hope in GW if they don't pick up on this. It would be amazing to see the Great Exodus hinted at in future fluff - maybe as an obscure AdMech prophecy or something.

Bamp

>>7768174
>It would be amazing to see the Great Exodus hinted at in future fluff - maybe as an obscure AdMech prophecy or something.
Transmit code 5up/tg/SUPERGREEN/

Acolytes,

There's this strange talk of a prophecy in an admech cult, something about a giant ship made up of the Imperium.

Sounds silly, but just to be safe kill them all.

Inquisitor out.

The Ship is eternal.

"Admiral! We detected a BUMP of some variety!"

Haven't read through all of this...but I imagine that Chaos would be nil outside of the ship. Slaanesh would be the unmistaking dominant Chaos entity, and the other three would do what they can to overthrow it at whatever means necessary.

Maybe a few Eldar refugees on board, or xenos hiding. A couple of genestealer cults.

Also, wouldn't there be a fuckton of rural areas?

There'd definitely be some action outside of the ship. Maybe a reverse Eldar thing where you have a few outcast human ships or fringeworld planets and rogue traders still.

So...Tau and minor races are second class citizens, maybe some autonomy in some fringe areas. Eldar are kinda fucking stuck here, considering that Slaanesh is now much bigger and would rape any Eldar that dare leave the ship,

In before Games Workshop takes this idea and does it, only they make it 2 AUs in length and take all the credit.

>>7766951
P.S. it's spelled Ootini, fagget

Can I join this ship? No? Ok.

>>7769757

You are on the ship by existing.

>>7769733

If this happened, I would shit myself with fiery rage.

>>7769855
Okay, now it's going to happen.

Wait, how will archaeotech be handled here?

>>7766353
Okay, I thought that was just me...

Then again, /tg/ does love Blame!

>>7772278
It's grimdark.