Great conversation. Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader [Part 2 – Raicad Minoris. The cult of the last sunrise. Triumph and defeat]
From now on, we are a free merchant, or a lord captain, as we are called according to the ship charter, crew members. We conquered the ship, but its condition remains in a distress – at least without a navigator we will never reach the worlds of the Dynasty von Valances. There was a great success that in the Raikad system, where we were conducting the emperor after the misfortunes experienced, the powerful fortress serves in the void, serving the residence of the house of Orselio – the Imperium navigators clan. “We fly there immediately,” the Lord Captain commands.
Post Scriptum: Ship incidents
In parallel, there are several incidents on the ship, which the lord captain can both ignore and take the most lively participation in them. As mentioned earlier, these are completely non -functional from the point of view of the gameplay of the event, but they most productively affect both the perception of the game and the narrative around the personality of a free merchant.
The following happens: firstly, one of the bridge officers, the navigator Ravor, dared to openly neglect the person of the venerable free merchant, for which he could immediately pay his head. My reasonable decree, the officer was pardoned, for we are mortals, and even at the old hollow wolf can pass the nerves after the hardened hardships. I don’t know who the game would suggest in return for him, I would not have to regret it, but I didn’t have to regret it: Ravor is a glorious man, too simple for vocabulary and manners for a high -ranking officer, but active and smart enough, so as not to allow himself to be unreasonable exits. In the process of working relations with the helmsman, I was able to find out that a certain implant in his head frees an officer from such a browned need as a dream, which, however, does not greatly affect the psychoemotional state of the sailor.
Argent’s sister asked our audience-the girl wants the Lord Captain to meet with orphans whose parents fell in battle with heretics, defending the clan von valances. Since the given event will also not at all affect our subsequent life path, the choice of possible actions by the Lord Capital here is especially great-you can make a solemn speech about the importance of the feat and bitterness of loss, you can silently wave your hand and pay off the unfortunate children with treats, or you can disperse the kids by force. More than others, a gloomy boy suggested that this was openly accusing us of the fact that his family fell for the interests of his indifferent gentlemen, on which he would be destined to hill until the end of the days. I could order the boy to pour the lashes for the impudence, or pretend that nothing happened, continuing to weave his cloth speeches, but I preferred to address him personally and from a position of equal to explain that I, in fact, also participated in that battle and did everything that was possible. It seems the kid heard me.
There was also a situation when one of the officers, young and impulsive, got the courage to turn directly to the Lord Capital bypassing the direct leadership. Holding up a trembling in front of my face, the girl complained that Mr. Abular brutally treated the ship’s crew. The Abular indignantly remarks that such issues are not worthy of the attention of a free merchant, but the young officer was eranding for commoners, and I decided to descend to the deck of the mob.
The ship of Imperium is not only a pompous flying cathedral, it is also a miniature state, inhabited by tens of thousands of people that live here their lives without seeing the sun without touching the earth with their feet. These are called hollow -born – generations of stay in space deform the appearance of these sailors, and probably also the psyche. For such a ship, this is a whole world and they do not know the other, and do not seek to find out. For negotiations with one of the clans of such renegades, I as part of the retinue and went. Those, as soon as they move away from righteous trepidation before my majesty, began to complain about the ferocious appeal to them by the ship police, which in itself is not surprising – we recently experienced a heretical uprising. However, the sailors assure that they are not involved in heresy, all the rebels themselves will be given the first cases, but their law enforcement officers are painfully tormented. I promised that the repressions would be discontinued, however, contrary to the expected admiration for my generosity, one of the elders of this garbage clan took the floor – she demanded to give her weapons to the clan so that they themselves supposedly put orders in their ranks, without attracting the police.
What I want to say is that if my belief did not take action on other leaders of this tribe, and they, in turn, would not force the unceremonious grandmother to make the requirements, then I would. I had to open fire. Of course, I am the ruler of peaceful and humane, but in no form I can not afford to make a gear of geeks establish its own orders in my possessions.
As they said, such incidents and decisions made by the Lord Capital will not respond in any way in the game in the future, but the very fact that it is in the game is extremely beneficial for immersion in the realities described by Rogue Trader. Ten hours after the game, after Argent, imbued with my society, will recall the shown kindness in relation to those orphans, and that I was an example for them, and it is precisely such people, in her opinion, Imperium are needed today. These two short episodes make the world Warhammer 40.000 live and believable than some individual books. This is a purely narrative tool that directly affects the player and achieves success in the goal. And it is unfortunate that the game is generous with such techniques only at first.
Some of the remarks that are not related to the philosophical paths of the dogmatic, schismatics and heretic are required to test the characteristics of the protagonist and his detachment – if you give a simple example, I could not convince the hollowers to abandon my absurd demand, but, for their happiness, they heeded my words. However, such a test system is arranged quite strange. Rather stupid. What is proposed as a complex and multidisciplinary choice of the development of the hero, stumbles about the simple idea that each character will pump his own side skill participating in the checks. So my character actively developed the intellect parameter, Argent possessed the skill of “explosives”, the Abular was the best in the parameter of “Athletics” and so on. This did not guarantee absolute success, and sometimes I failed the checks, and the desired character may not be elementary to be a participant in a situation in a situation where his skills would be very in demand, however, there is no reason to improve the same skill of the two permanent members of the detachment, because their significance did not add up, and therefore this system came out and not too meaningful and not too meaningful.
The ship of the free merchant moved to the hollow station of the Orselio House. It was not possible to get in touch with the owners of the bastion or one of their servants, because the Lord Captain makes a handful decision to step under the arches of the weightless palace without solemn invitations. Only the mess and the limp of the dead of the dead will meet us – as it will soon become known, the Orselio navigatorial house is in a state of local civil war, the reason for which lies in fear of the future mistress of the Great House – Lady Cassius Orselio. And if the previous episodes involving the active participation of the free merchant in their permission were obviously influenced by the further plot, then at the moment, Rogue Trader shows the true illusoryness of all variability, which does not allow the game itself, the most equal way to resolve the conflict.
Even making an obviously incorrect, from the point of view of the design of the developer, the choice and supporting the rebels, having made a massacre among the loyal cassia of forces, already ready to transfer the girl into the hands of the traitors – because at that time I calculated this for the good – I ran into a very rude chopped plot wall. Well, the navigator-attendant, to whom I had just served, can’t “let me go after what happened”, thereby forcing me to join him and kill him. Well, the Cassia, whose close ones I just interrupted and which I gave into the hands of her enemies, says that, in principle, I am grateful to me and do not mind leaving this golden place, where there were no more soul left with my efforts. Here is so awkwardly the first official adventure on the post of free merchant meets me.
Yes, I had some influence on the situation – from the very beginning I could replace the traitor, could change the side in the process, in the end I could choose the girl to kill, but the truth is that, no matter what I decide, any option of action of the player comes down to the fact that Cassia becomes a member of his detachment. If, of course, it is not to be killed or driven out after such an initiation. And this naturally upset, especially since this is the very beginning of the journey, and you still believe that the game is honest in the choice proposed by it. Unfortunately, no.
Post Scriptum: Lady Cassia Orselio
Lady Cassia is another example of wonderful work with characters in Rogue Trader. This is a princess who grew up in a golden cage all his life, tirelessly prepared for a high fate to become an innovator – ruler of the navigator.
Imperium hates mutants. Mutants are a perversion of the human plan – their very existence is heresy. But the truth is that the Imperium cannot exist without mutants – psikers and navigators. If the former breed uncontrolled themselves, then navigators are ancient families that carefully transmit their genetic gift from generation to generation. A gift that has been serving humanity for thousands of years, for only navigators, dressing out his third eye in a specially designated hall of the Hollow ship, ways to see the path through the violent trends of the warp and lay routes to the destination to the place of purpose.
I will immediately reveal what the freestyle merchant https://tropicslotscasino.co.uk/ has to recognize only by the end of the game – the cassius that looked bizarre and frightening even in comparison with typical mutations of navigators, this is a genetic experiment, an artificially grown creature that was supposed to become a container of the former innovator of the house of Orselio, Tisiphones. Even during the life of Tisiphon, she chose the house of Orselio with chains of fear, for she created a special artifact – the so -called atlas, with the help of which she received great power, as well as the opportunity to kill any member of her family with only the power of thought. After the death of the Tisiphons, the Atlas implanted Cassia, with the idea that the former mistress of the dynasty would someday return in a new guise and continue her nightmare rule. Some navigators of Orselio raise the uprising against this, wanting to end the Tisiphona and lime of the cassion, in general, a timid, vulnerable girl with a huge craving for cognition, which should not be responsible for the sins of her predecessors.
Cassia is a soft, helpless and at the same time incredibly dangerous creature. The girl was brought up in an aristocratic environment and sincerely does not understand why the Lord Captain practices respect for low classes, but there is no snobbery and noble arrogance-she is obligated by her own origin and a great mission waiting for her far away. After spending all her life in closed walls behind scientific studies, the girl is freely communicating about the works of the researchers and thinkers of the Imperium, is interested in the opinion of the Lord Capital about the issues of the burden of power, and in every possible way shows curiosity for the world for the first time.
The world of Cassia, by the way, sees in a very special way-for it it is full of all kinds of colors and shades, and each person, depending on what he thinks about and what lies in his soul, in the eyes of the lady-navigator in a special color, inherent only to him. Very often, Cassia sets out its intentions just like that – noble intentions are painted with dazzling sunny colors, while the vile thoughts of heretics are oozed with dirty overflows of black, brown, poisonous green.
Cassia still poorly controls its abilities and often her emotions break out of the girl’s heart and amaze everyone who was nearby – the entire officers of the bridge can suddenly feel jubilant joy, alluring curiosity or deep, frosty fear because Lady Navigator’s feelings again prevailed over her will.
Having gone a long and dangerous way hand in hand with a free merchant, learning his wisdom, endurance and art of battle, Lady Cassius will gain sufficient self-confidence in order to confront the Tisiphon’s greedy spirit at the moment when he finally appears for his promised vessel. The cassius will also direct the gained wisdom to put an end to the strife tormenting her surname, giving forgiveness to the rebels, wishing to abandon the relics of the Atlas – for, as it became known in the process of wanderings, Cleaned by Tisiphona, this artifact is a xenoret, a shame for the faithful servants of the emperor.
Lady Cassia, with all her royal charm, is also an indispensable companion of any of my wanderings, and although the navigator in Rogue Trader also addresses the power of Warp, he surpasses the psiker in all categories, inflicting tremendous damage to her in the battle and increasing the combat effectiveness of the detachment given to her. The case when I, as a free merchant, was ready for any compromise, if only the clan Orselio did not receive his precious heiress back – not that they did not try. Although, we already understood everything about the hidden linearity of the video game in question.
However, the strict Rogue Trader storyline does not mean at all that the history of Cassia and its family could not end differently – I just can’t know that. In my endless generosity, I spared the rebellious members of her family, and even agreed with Xenos about how we solve disagreement with the world. There are probably other outcomes of the fate of this fragile, but terrible princess’s anger – at least death or coercion on one of these steps.
Having gained a navigator in the person of Lady Cassia, I turned my ship towards Planetata, serving as a prison world. Here I will clarify in a timely manner that 160 hours for one passage is a very long period, and I am not protected from the assumption of some inaccuracies in the retelling details. However, if I am not mistaken, the distress signal brought me to the prison world. Probably so, for there is a riot, and the newly made by chaos worshipers. Here we first learn about the cult of the last sunrise – a large sect of the ministers of the destructive forces, which overwhelmed the expanse of the coronus, trying to get an imperial power from the region. Actually, the members of this sect committed a sabotage against Theodora. And here it is necessary to make a remark: if only the face of the level of a free merchant had the right to speak with the navigators of Orselio, then there was no reason to get into the brawls with his lordship of his reason, at least a pure game convention, and in our case, the player himself wants to bear the omper’s justice with his own hands, even if the common sense and the disposition of the world suggest remaining an respectful worlddistance.
However, not everything is so unambiguous. Struck by the cursed weapon, a free merchant now and then pursue the votes of creatures behind the line. There was a case when a protagonist who worked in his office suddenly visited a fairly frightening vision-the spirits of all those whom he had ever lost his life lined up in front of him. Unpitable souls surrounded the table of a free merchant who could not resist their unknown will, differently like a scream that breaks into the screech – and then the space was lit by a new picture, his lordship with a demonic sword in his hands, and the ghosts in front of him fell to his knees. The creature from the bowels of the demonic blade was a promise of power and power, but my character with the last forces found the will to refuse, and drove off the witchcraft obsession.
The only imperial planet in the Raicad system is the Raicad Minoris. We are heading there with the aim of replenishing the ship’s command, bloodless by the uprising of Kunrad. On the approach to the surface of the shuttle of the free merchant, it almost turned out to be shot down – on Raikad Minoris, who would have thought, there is an uprising. The cult of the last sunrise is squeezing the forces of the planetary governor, although he does not consider it a big problem, refusing to believe that a heretical rabble can pose a real threat to his power. Nevertheless, while the rebellion is not suppressed, the governor refuses to help us in pressing affairs. Here, a lonely Magos Adeptus Mechanicus, a high -ranking member of the religious cult of vehicles of vehicles, joins the Society of the Protagonist. His name is Pascal Heinemann, and this is by no means an ordinary servant of Omnissia.
Post Scriptum: Pascal Heinemann
It will probably be the most difficult to talk about this character. The developers of Rogue Trader managed to rightly make a mechanicus, an extremely alien to the layman with culture, which is expressed both in the manner of communication of ministers in red robes and in the ideas moving them. And Pascal, or rather even its origin, this is a mystery that only the cold mind of the mechanicus could produce.
The adeptus mechanicus is a religious cult, torn by an internal contradiction-on the one hand, the Technograms are the warriors of cognition, striving to comprehend the universe, for gaining knowledge is a way of comprehending the Omnissia-God-mechanism. On the other hand, knowledge is dangerous, it is able to corrupt the minds of its carriers, turning them into a savage mockery of the creations of the machine deity, therefore mechanicus brutally limit their ways to comprehend knowledge, adhering to strict rituals of handling technology, not allowing deviations from the “catechism of operation and maintenance”, pursuing all deviations from these dogmas as techno -rustles as a techno -rustle as a techno.
Pascal was a kind of response to this contradiction. Throughout the game, he is looking for the mysterious “Messiah of the Board of the Cycle”, a certain Amarnat. What is really such an “interruption of the cycle”, my limited human intelligence could not fully realize, but, as you might think, this knowledge that can “take life” of mechanisms, kill the machine spirits resting in them. Perhaps, behind this action, which certainly ends all the worldview norms of the cult of the Techno -Graly, a certain special philosophy of pure cognition, not burdened with the severity of the sacred rituals, lurks. In fact, to answer the question of what exactly the Amarnat and his associates achieved, it is not easy even for the machine servants themselves. Be that as it may, the teachings of this Messiah brought turmoil into the ranks of mechanicus, mastering the expanse of the coronus, dividing them into supporters and opponents of the postulates “interruption of the cycle”.
As a result, it turns out that the Amarnat never existed as an independent unit. Amarnat is a team of minds, before which the question of the admissibility of the “interruption of the cycle” was raised, and Pascal is one of these minds. The end of this story is no less confused than its beginning. And, as always, it does not leave much choice to a free merchant. Everyone who was the “Amarnat team”, except for Pascal, is dead, and he, intending to “interrupt the cycle”, will collect near himself a new community of reason, for new obscure goals. In any case, on the interests of the free merchant, these intricacies of soulless cyborgs, like the civil war in the ranks of the mechanicum, do not affect – therefore they are in the warp.
Pascal, in general, a nice guy. For the Technogram. Although in my detachment he always stayed on the last role, often resting in an unconscious state – Magos, not too strong, did not hold well that a firearm hit that a direct blow. However, his combat versatility, as well as a high threshold of the “technique” skill, to which Pascal has a fair predisposition, encouraged me not to refuse the most part of the game. In addition, Pascal class in the game “Specialist”, and there are no specialists in Rogue Trader.
The free merchant bypassing the indifferent governor manages to find out that the monastery of the electric shutters will be the next possible attack of heretics – this is a certain branch of mechanicus, which glorifies Omnissia in a hypostasis of pure energy, a life -giving spark. This monastery is interesting in that in its bowels the grandiose sparking reactor rests in its bowels, the overload of which can lead to the death of the entire planet. So we hasten there. Indeed, the cultists of the last sunrise are already besieging the monastery along with their leader – a kind.
Here we meet Acolite – or a student – a certain Inquisitor Calcasar, Heinrix, who chose the best place and time to conduct his investigation.
Post Scriptum: Heinrix van Kalks
I can say a little about Heinricks, this character is little interesting in itself. The Inquisition has tremendous power over the minds and fate of the people of the Imperium, and even free merchants, with all their influence, is not in the right to resist the orders of these lords. Entering a little forward, the Inquisitor Xavier Kalkasar is a secret initiator of very unkind events, the consequences of which will have to face a free merchant. Heinrix, on the same time, his direct prostege, which the Lord-INCVISITER managed to impose on the theodore, and the subordination of which we enter the time of the mission to Raicad Minoris.
Heinrix is a kind of positive example of a young inquisitor who, on the one hand, is calm and adamant in matters of eradication of heresy and other threats to the Imperium, on the other, prefers to politely ask and negotiate, instead of demanding and threatening. However, his constant presence in the retinue of a free merchant is more likely to be perplexed, because the noble inquisitor prefers not to notice too much – if my character swore allegiance to chaos, I can’t even imagine how it could look like.
Heinrick in a battle is a cross between Abelara and Idira, that is, a psiker focused on close combat, which, in fact, makes it equally mediocre in both of these iterations. I did not appreciate Hinrick’s talents, and therefore he appeared in my adventures only when the plot demanded this.
And Hiriks is one of, if I am not mistaken, two characters with which the player may have love sympathy. I did not want to at all, but I regarded the proposal to talk at Rogue Trader for lunch as the beginning of a romantic relationship. It all ended that much later, exhausted by hard work and for a moment lost control of himself, Heinrix dug his lips into my character, who, I will clarify once again, a woman. I had to slap a slap in the face and bring the high minister of the emperor into feelings. Rogue Trader is generally the first RPG in my memory, where the player does not need to do anything to seduce their Sopartians – they themselves will fall at his feet, over time.
The detachment of a free merchant has time in time, overcoming the dawn and its cultists before the irreparable. When the venerable Inquisitor turned away, I managed to throw a fragment of a defiled weapon into the pole of the reactor, thereby finishing the voices and visions that all this time pursued my hero. I would like to know how much much could change in the game if I had a fragment, or completely succumbed to the temptation of a demon locked in it. However, as he said, the game is a line – I already know what will happen next, and at the same time I understand that the plot route would not have changed in any way. It will not go to Rogue Trader to join the destructive forces of Chaos, become a demonic puppet, burn the worlds of Imperium, cut his subjects. Because even this unfortunate demon himself, under the temptation and threats of which the player’s hero almost bent at the beginning of the game, we safely kill in the future. We expel to the warp, more precisely. But more on that later.
The dawn is defeated, and the heretical resistance is suppressed. Grateful Governor Raikad Minoris provides our disposal to the necessary number of sailors and officers, and also announces a festival in honor of the free merchant – a parade in which he will participate. Next occurs an event, both very spectacular and unintelligible. In the midst of the procession of a free -fired merchant in an area filled with jubilant citizens, among the latter there are followers of the not -free cult of the last sunrise, proclaiming the long -awaited death of the planet and opening random fire.
And it would be okay only that-something breaks the fabric of reality, the warp-storm collapses into the Ulya city, bringing the nightmarish creatures of the ocean of shower to the tangible reality. In a hurry, the retinue of a free merchant retreats to the shuttle through the absorbed trends of the Immaterium streets, to the docks, among which he meets him.
Cosmessor of chaos from the treacherous legion of the treacherous legion who bears the word. This monstrous creature can alone restraint a whole platoon of mortal soldiers. And we have to defeat him if we want to escape from the doomed planet.
And this is really a difficult fight. A heavy bolter in the hands of a traitor-Astartes collects a bloody harvest, killing one, or even two of my people at once for the allotted move. This is the first enemy in the game, embodying enormous power in himself alone. And the main thing is how reliably this event is beaten – let the warriors of the free merchant ultimately defeated the monstrous enemy, but they have been shocked for a long time from the fact that they managed to survive this meeting.
Why I especially want to praise Rogue Trader is for the landing of the first chapters of the game, and for how chaos is presented here. Many works, in particular, video games, represent the creatures of Varp very flat-here, they say, demons, some devils, take and shoot them. However, chaos is much more than several freaks with red skin. Chaos is a sworn enemy of the Empire and the terrible scourge of all sorts of reasonable races, for its touches carry with them only lies and melting, madness and agony, extermination and enslavement. Chaos is living shadows pulling on the outskirts of the gaze, it is a witching flame that changes the flesh and burn the soul, it is an aria of the voices screaming in the head, and you do not know whose one of them belongs to you.
I respect Rogue Trader, in particular, for demonstrating the forces of chaos from just that angle. There is a lot in the game there is evidence of how immensely sophisticated and dangerous this enemy is, whether it is a ghost ship that emerges from a warp and picking up the souls of those who dare to rise to him, or a techno-wreck, whose flesh and implants have grinned with a damned coogiter, powerless to distinguish the truth and fiction that poisons his soul. Chaos is omnipresent and sneak up quietly, applying non -healing scars to the Imperium of mankind, and Rogue Trader is better than any other games tells about this.
Overdating the apostate-Astartes, a free merchant leaves the Raikad Minoris, devoured by anarchy and Varp bites. And even if it was a very impressive and exciting event, but having gone through the game, I realized with sadness that the causes of what had happened were hidden. Which led to the situation, because of which the whole planet was tightened by the fring of the warp? Especially at the time of the imaginary triumph above heretics? We will never know. Isn’t it a cheap plot move? As if in confirmation of these words at this very moment the luminary of the Raicad systems is stealing xenos – dark Eldar. And no, this act is likely to be affordable, but why was it to burden such a short time period with such a number of ups and downs that they would not come together together? Moreover, nothing more like this will happen in the game, even though dark Eldars will cause us a lot of pain. Completely excessive plot paths, which did not receive intelligible development in the subsequent.
Raikad Minoris fell and, on the advice of Heinricks, I ordered to bomb the same monastery of the electrician, that we recently stormed, so that the force of the released flame of the reactor to burn out all life on the surface of the planet. Another insignificant for gameplay, but authentic choice for the game. I might not have done this, and then Raikad Minoris would probably have turned into a demonic world – Chaos Bastion in real space. The only thing that embarrassed was Pascal’s complete silence that by his standards should be genuine sacrilege.
With a heavy feeling, a free merchant orders to enter the warp, forever leaving behind the Raicad system.