A squad of space marines cruising along space manages to find a planet that used to be a logistics facility during the Great Crusade. Due to Imperial shits and the Horus heresy, the planet was abandoned and everyone forgot about it.
Thousands of unissued Mk2 armor sets complete with weapons and in pristine condition because stasis fields. Enough to equip several thousand marines and then some more.
How would the marines handle this find?
More reasonably - the planet lost contact with their designated command, so they went on following the last order issue - to fabricate more power armors, so they have been cranking them since Heresy.
>Brother, would you like to relive the glory days of the Great Crusade?
>Yes Brother Sergent I would...wait what holy terra is that?
>Captain's orders. Everyone gets a suit.
>Everyone?
>Yes brother, everyone. Have a brand new Phobos patter bolter.
Issue to anyone in need and break down for spares as needed, hand some suits over to friendly chapters in need.
Mk2 is acceptable Power Arnour but not as good as Mk7.
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Call forge master. He calls Chapter Master. He keeps a share of the suits and gifts the rest within allied/same geneseed chapters.
So a forgeworld cut off from the Imperium that solely makes Great Crusade era equipment?
10,000 years worth of equipment. The entire system must be stripped of minerals.
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>The entire system must be stripped of minerals.
if it had an asteroid belt like our system and/or some inhospitable planets it could have mined them for quite a surprising time.
The last orders of a Forge World are as follows:
>Produce Armor.
>Produce Ammunition.
>Produce Weapons.
>Store all output.
>Outfit all Loyal Space Marines that request refitting.
And as loyal followers of the Mechanicus, they obeyed.
For the last 10,000 Terran years, they have built, and they have sequestered what they have built.
When projections declared that the system would become uninhabitable due to the actions of strip-mining everything, even the moons, plans were made.
Masses of drone-ships, piloted by savant minds wired to wipe themselves upon capture, were sent out into the dead space between systems and within systems. Their objective to return resource-rich rocks to an artificial asteroid belt around the Forge World.
And so whole worlds have been hollowed out, their tectonics arrested as their cores were cooled over thousands of years, readied for when Legions worth of arms and armor would be stored within.
it was a discovery that would have turned the course of human history...
...had the administratum not spent so long deciding what to do with such a bounty...
Not a 40k user here.
Whats the diference betwen that armor and the modern ones? What about the rest of the equipment°
On the table. .
But in the lore, MKII was just heavily armored MKI armor for fighting squats. It lacks a lot of the modern interface features the modern armors have.
oh, ok.
Thanks!
MK2 and MK3 suits were the primary equipment used for the majority of the great crusade. Mk2 was the general issue suit, mk3 was specialist issue
In the waning years of the M41, a squad of space marine, blown off course by warp shittery, finds a bastion of light in a sea of shit. They are taken to Magos of the forgeworld who proclaim the marines a sign that their ten thousand year task is about to be over and proudly gifts them complete sets of Mk2 armor.
You're thinking of Mk.III for the "heavily armoured suit meant for fighting Squats"
Mk.II was a huge leap forward and basically made the Great Crusade possible because it contained all the sealed life-support and efficient power generation that the Mk.I suit lacked, along with shit like HUDs and mass production.
To answer this user's question , Mk.II suits rate pretty favourably for protection and great for mobility compared to more modern suits. The areas they lacked in were logistical efficiency (they sucked to repair), and while their electronics suite was passable, it was blown out of the water by the Mk.IV, and even the downgraded Mk.VII still beats it in that regard.
>by our calculation the equipment stored in facility Kappa Gamma 19 will allow a single Space Marine chapter to fight continiously for 30 standard years.
>We also have a very large selection of approved web gear to attach to your armors.
>Replacement parts are in facility Delta Alpha 71.
Depends. A chapter like the ultramarines or Blood Angels would probably share it amoung their successor chapters. A chapter like the minotaurs would hoard it all for themselves.
>Yes we were given plans for MKIV plate but our orders did not specify to switch production.
>Perhaps now contact with the Imperium has been reestablished, should I request for new orders on production line items?
Thunder. Mk I. Basically an armoured and powered exoskeleton used during the Unification Wars by the Thunder Warriors and Astartes.
Crusade. Mk II. Environmentally sealed, among other things. Allowed the Lunar and Solar System campaigns to begin. Used by Legions who are too far out for resupply or prefer the mobility compared to Mk III and couldn't acquire Mk IV (White Scars, Raven Guard, etc.).
Iron. Mk III. Uparmoured Mk II that trades speed and flexibility for durability. Favoured by breacher teams and other marines regularly going into the worst battlezones. Almost every Legion fielded this mark during the Heresy but some like the Imperial Fists, Death Guard, Iron Warriors, and so on preferred it.
Maximus. Mk IV. Improved sensors, power systems, and better coverage of cables and other armour. Basically an all around upgrade to Mk II, not as well armoured as Mk III. Horus restricted which Legions had easy access to this mark in order to keep the ones that would go traitor best supplied. It was still in active production throughout the Heresy. As the blockade of Mars begins, Sigismund extracts several hundred Mk IV suits (and loyalist Mechanicum) from Mars.
Heresy. Mk V. This 'mark' covers all the hodge-podge hacks and rebuilds and rearmours that artificers needed to do to keep the Legions' operating. Lots of what would be considered tech-heresy in the modern 40k setting. Lots of building suits from pieces of various other marks and hacking them together in order to make the power couplings and HUDs work.
Corvus. Mk VI. In small-run prototyping as the Heresy broke out. Great sensors (that's what's in the beak!) and stealthiest of all the marks. Further hiding and streamlining of power cables and important bits.
Aquilia. Mk VII. First constructed on Terra by loyalist Mechanicum prior to the Siege of Terra. First used during the Siege by the three loyalist legions. Rapidly spread throughout the Chapters post-Heresy and became the mainstay.
What was the mark and name of the bat-eared one?
>Yes this facility has been geared to produce Mk II and III armor plate.
>The millennium since the days of Horus' betrayal has seen us perfect manufacturing techniques along with the proper rites.
>This automated assembly line allows our tech priests to bless each part individually while maintaining speed and quality.
>Who are the Blood Ravens and why are you insisting we don't blindly invite other Chapters to resupply?
Mark X? The only other bat eared ones are Night Lords but they use mostly modified MKIV
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In reterospect, it should have been obvious that it was the Mark VIII, Errant pattern, since Primaris wear X and everyone's wondering what the hell happened to IX.
Even worse, they've known about it for at least a century but due to the bureaucratic hell that is the Administratum it was filed away and forgotten again. Later a cleric finds it and assumes it must've just been an error and throws it out, starting the cycle again...
Above the forge world the various space stations and orbital forges keep a steady pace of production. Hundreds of suits, thousands of bolters, millions of ammunition are made, lovingly crafted by artisans of a long isolated Forge world.
Each year they toil, crafting high quality armor, weaponry and equipment fit for an Space Marine Legion. The finished goods are then crated up and sent to statis storage facilities where they will slumber until called to war.
To an outsider, it is museum of relics from a bygone age that only the Emperor have seen. For the space marines who accidentally rediscovered it, it was living proof of the glory days of the great crusade. For the techpriests, it was just the result of their great craft.
When the adept assigned to catalogue the forgeworld, he was initially skeptical at the accounts. Further examination raised extreme doubts. The magos on Mars also came to the same conclusion and dismissed it as nothing more as a hoax. The report was summarily filed away, never to be seen again.
For the space marines and the subsequent chapters that visited the isolated forge world, it was a different story.
That's MkIV for the most part. Little bits of others mixed in (n.b. the Backpacks, helmets, and legs)
Aye. But these museum pieces lack the wards and seals and wards against Chaos. Disturbing rumours have surfaced of deviant Mechanicum on the planet, pursuing experiments on A.I. due to being separated from the main Mechanicus orthodoxy. It is only a matter of time.
NO. The discovery is made after Bobby G has come back and taken over. He'll know exactly what to do.
>Errant
Goddamit, 8th edition Primaris should've had Mark 8 armor
>He'll know exactly what to do.
After bashing his head at the wall for approximately five hours, then massaging his forehead for 4.2 hours, and then mumbling "These fucking idiots I fucking swear motherfucking fuckhead fuckwits..fuck..fuck..fuck" for an additional 2 hours.
Mk2 is good for CQC but not for moving quickly, so I guess the first part of the answer is who finds it?
Imperial Fists? I think they'd keep it and maybe distribute some.
White Scars? I think they'd spread it around a lot more.
Basically though, I think whoever finds it is going to share it with brother/allied chapters, because thousands of pristine suits regardless of role they're best at is a helluva find.
No, not really.
We don't know what's used in the production of even the most (likely) common material of power armour, plasteel, but there's no reason to assume that any given system would be able to both mine the necessary resources (or else fabricate them from another resource) after stockpiles of production-grade materiel were run down and continue to do so uninterrupted for 10,000 years.
Remember that millions of suits of power armour were made during the Great Crusade, which lasted just a few centuries; most of these were made initially on Terra, then Mars, then shifted to other Forge Worlds as necessary for local supply chains, but Terra and Mars were at the centre of ever-expanding supply webs to the point that entire titan legions could go missing - for the Terran psi-titans - and the Imperium as a whole at that time, and Mars (from where these massive concentrations of resources were taken) barely missed them other than as a point of pride.
A single world or system operating entirely in isolation would struggle to produce power armour on anything like the same scale. Different Forge Worlds specialise in different things, and though Mars is a jack of all trades, it sits at the centre of this network and so its economics are rather like those of the capital of a large autocratic empire, rather than those of an island nation trading for what it needs. As an island, no forge could long survive because few forges can produce everything they require. The production of plasteel ingots (which we assume is done in one place before they are sent to be turned into whatever shapes are required) aside, if a power armour control system requires for example high purity rare earths (which is quite likely) there may not be sufficient within an entire star system to make even a few thousand suits, depending on how much is needed.
All of which ignores the internal social questions of order and economics inherent to such a mining pursuit.
It depends on the Chapter.
Since even liveried suits are the rightful property of the Adeptus Mechanicus where no Chapter exists to return them to, you would hope most Chapters were honest enough to notify the relevant authority.
If the commanders weren't... their Techmarines might be.
Since few Chapters would break with the Codex anyway, there's no real question of most of them keeping such a find - they'd probably report it and expect a share of the find (or a reasonable alternative supplied direct by whichever Forge World ended up taking charge of the equipment).
I imagine finds like these are relatively common on drifting space hulks. It's probably why they are investigated so thoroughly.
What's equally possible is a planet that has been producing titans since the great crusade and hasn't ceased. Even with a meager production output, there could be hundreds sitting around on the planet collecting dust.
A faoege world feared to producing space marine armor, weapons and support equipment. I think it be a wonderous sight for many chapters who run down there equipment frequently.
>we have been visited by four major units of Astartes since the restablishment of contact.
> no we have not yet been visted by a chapter called the blood ravens yet.
We thank the Forge World for this most generous gift.
thats pretty cool, what about the marks VIII and IX?
"Did someone say precious relics? We came as fast as we could."
Where did you find this pic user? Is someone working on mk2 blender models? I'd be interested in them, to mearn how they did it.
Mk7 is superior to mk4 in just about everything though.
>Mk.II suits rate pretty favourably for protection and great for mobility compared to more modern suits.
No they don't. They're still good, but there's no denying the suits got better overall as time went on.
III has better durability, but was slower and more power-hungry.
IV has marginally less flexible joints but far higher logistical benefits, could actually move the helmet, better protection, lighter weight and was just overall seen as the superior suit.
V was a weird hodge-podge of random things banged together and featured high adaptability, but was still inferior to IV overall.
VI was basically just IV with better power and sensory systems, stealth, lighter weight, and better inter-Mark comparability.
VII is basically just VI with some better armor and a redesigned helmet.
Other than the III, which was more of a situational alternative, all the later marks are pretty much just better than the Mark II overall. Calling them downgrades is pretty wrong. VIII and onwards are obviously better too. The value of Mark II is generally sentimental and it's nature as a relic, rather than it's actual abilities.
Google Mk2 Crusade Armor and you will find it.
needs more crusading
VIII is the armor pictured in ,
and has an armored neck collar and additional armor plates put on to increase protection and cover up the cables that were still visible. It's basically a slightly upgraded version of Mark VII that mostly sees service among more veteran marines as a sign of rank.
No one knows anything about MK IX.
I'm convinced it's a Windows joke.
>they ran out of asteroids to strip mine
>they turned the miners on the planets
>they ran out of planets to mine
>they broke down the assemby lines to hand craft the last few suits
>the arch magos sacrificed the last of the tech priests to make the final suit
>all that's left is the most basic space station ever, essentially just a box with a solar stasis generator
>inside the door of the vault lies the dead arch magos, holding a dataslate
>we're sorry, there was no more minerals
>SING THE MINING SONG
>"DIGGY DIGGY HOLE"
>"IM DIGGING A HOLE"