Warmasters' Triumvirate XIX

What about Astral Serpents?

Perhaps "Sons of the Deep" or something to that effect

Hmm. Well, that's a perspective I hadn't really considered.

Damn, I really don't know what direction to take things now.

Pacha actually was a planet
(Pun)

I'm going to stick a LED to this, so when a joke is told, it turns on.

Interstellar reference, anyone?

Yeah man, you can't just run off and become a Daemon Primarch. You's a PARENT now. You's got RESPONISBILITIES an' shit.

But it all seriousness, take it whatever direction you want. Piter and Gyahdred have bitten the bullet and become stay at home moms, so you're free to gallivant and achieve apotheosis as often as you please while they take care of the Separatist's baby.

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Okay people, stop fucking up the OP. I went to the "previous thread", and it was XVII, not XVIII.

Did you even archive the previous thread?

I direct your attention to camera three

I like the Mercury in there for the symbolism. Perhaps something with Cinnibar or Vermilion?
I'll look at some alchemical stuff later.

Sky Serpents!

Let's see if I can get this typed up before I have to go...
So what I'm picturing for the seps is this:
A rather tight, pretty efficient state built around a strong central government. They've got the Soul Wires for regular, efficient communication across the domain, they also help transit, like a hybrid telegraph/railway. They can expand it, too, but it takes time and effort and if there's a break in the system, the trains get derailed. Still, throughout the East, you can generally get where you want to go and send messages. It's as close to a Galactic Empire as you'll get in 40k.
With this, though, it's an intricate machine and doing something like mobilizing for war impacts the entire system. It's a massive bureacracy, less that it's horrifically innefficient than the system is so big that it takes work to divert the needed resources.
You'll get what you need, and it will be good quality. Eventually. But trains. And switching trains.

To sort of parallel this, I'm thinking if the Nids show up, the Dusk Phantoms see it, hold the line for a while, take massive losses, Piter does a huge defense in depth kind of a deal. It's to buy time for the network to divert the resources and bring the bug killing toys out of cold storage. But when the counter comes, the hive fleets are totally wrecked. They've been lured deeper into a transit system they can't use and are surrounded by a sectors wide industrial system. It's like they ran into the great crusade.

But they can't do that with the Western Imperium or Chaos. They'd need to lay track and wire and defend the switch points. And that takes time. It takes years to build a rail depot. And, infuriatingly, the West is wholly compartmentalized. Even if they lose a sector, the system as a whole keeps chugging along.

BTW, did Rokuten commission that image, or did you?