Re: Black Crusade
Testing the waters to see if anyone would be interested in playing a game of "Black Crusade" focused on the former Imperial Hive World Agrellan, currently Mu'gulath Bay, shortly after it's conquest by the Tau Empire? I've had an idea for a Tau "centric" 40k game in my mind for a couple years now and seeing a certain lack of the blue xenos presence in other games I decided to take it upon myself to bring them to the forefront for once, be it as friends or foes.
So far I've received some feed back stating a desire to play loyalist guerrillas, but I am more than willing to GM two opposed teams of guerrillas and Gue'vesa in the same game, if there's any desire to play them that is. Currently I'm only looking at human characters, but if there's enough interest I may be willing to let people play as Kroot and Tau if that's what they really want.
Here's the concept:
The Tau had never seen anything like it before, over a hundred billion humans living on a single planet, sheltering within titanic super structures they called "Hives" with thousands of them covering the surface of the world they called Agrellan. Most Tau had disregarded such fanciful tales as preposterous over exaggeration of their "Human Helpers" or as down right impossible lies told to them by their many defeated foes, but here before them they saw the true power of humanity, overwhelming numerical superiority.
There were more Gue'la on this single world then there were Tau throughout their entire Empire. They should have been terrified, they should have retreated before the mass of Humanity and prayed to their Tau'va that the Imperium never unleashed their full might upon their speck of an empire, but they didn't, they invaded, and worse still they won a crushing victory over the world's massive Planetary Defense Forces right outside Agrellan's capital hive. They managed this through the use of their overwhelming technological superiority in the form of their new XV104 Heavy Battlesuits affectionately named "Riptides" after their most famous of Shas'o, the latest prototype created by the Fio or "Earth" caste.
Those that survived the massacre either fled into the capital or were taken prisoner by the victorious Tau, but unlike the Imperium's "Arch Nemesis" the Tau were not interested in wanton bloodshed. They realized they had accomplished the impossible and that at any second it could all come crashing down around them if they didn't maintain the status quot. So under the guidance of Aun'Va and O'Shaserra the Planetary Governor of Agrellan was made to swear allegiance to the Tau Empire, while the system's Agro world was swiftly conquered to maintain order by ensuring a steady flow of food and water to the renamed world of "Mu'gulath Bay".
Most hive dwellers were content with the change of allegiance so long as the food and water continued to flow, but for a few it was either everything they could have hoped for or everything they feared. Those of the former persuasion were quick to vow allegiance go the Tau Empire and to take on the title of "Gue'vesa", while those of the latter slipped into the shadows of the underhive to plot their insurgency against these xenos invaders and the traitors that worshiped them, they would become "Guerrillas".
But the question remained... How far would they go to fulfill their goals?
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So any interested parties?