Commorargh
19-08-2004, 12:52
In addition to the regular forces of the Titan Legions, the Tech Guard and the Explorators, there is another irregular force of the Adeptus Mechanicus, in some ways more terrible than all the rest. These are the giant and unusual war machines of the Ordinatus.
These huge engines of destruction are not attached to any specific force. Instead, all of the Ordinatus war machines are under the direct control of the Centurio Ordinatus. It is the Centurio Ordinatus who decide if these highly specialized machines are to be made available, since many of them are ancient indeed and require a large amount of devotion, preparation and maintenance to ready them for war.
The Ordinatus themselves are amongst the strangest machines ever to be constructed by the Adeptus Mechanicus. Almost all of them were originally ddesigned and built for a particular battle, campaign or purpose, and some have never been powered up for conflict since. One example of this is Ordinatus Priam. This huge tunneling machine was assembled during the siege of Priam, a city overrun by the traitor forces in the Horus Heresy. The immense creation was designed to tunnel through the planet’s crust and then navigate through the white-hot mantle underneath. This rendered it undetectable to Priam’s defenses and allowed four companies of elite Imperial Guard troops to storm the city’s Generatum Vulcanis, breaking the siege. However, the Ordinatus Priam was irrevocably damaged in the attack as parts of its shielding gave way to the heat of the molten rock.
Other Ordinatus have weapons and capabilities which see more general use, and demand for them is high. Only in the most important battles or campaigns are the Ordinatus sent to war, and even than only for specific operartions. Amongst the enemies of the Imperium, the names of the Ordinatus are spoken with reverent fear, their devastating capabilities displayed on thousands of battlefields since the Emperor’s ascension to the Golden Throne.
The Cult Mechanicus revere the Ordinatus as avatars of the Machine God, creations of such cunning and power that they could never be improved or outdated. Thus they have been carefully maintained, and when sent to war they are inscribed with sacred runes, anointed with the most precious oils and unguents, and blessed by the Lord of the Centurio Ordinatus. Their crews are the most highly trained of the Skitarii, warriors who fight with the zealous fanaticism of those who serve a living god.
The Ordinatus are renowned for their relentless advance towards the enemy, trailing havoc and destruction in their wake, shrugging off blows mighty enough to incapacitate a Titan. Ordinatus are powered by immense plasma generators which drive their propulsion systems, energize their weapons systems, and activate their shields and defense systems. Such grat power is packed into a relatively small space, and if the Ordinatus is destroyed, it destruction in a vast ball of roiling plasma may yet accomplish its objective.
Ordinatus of the Adeptus Mechanicus are protected by a massive force wall known as a dispersion field. Projectiles and energy bolts deflect harmlessly away from the crackling shell of power leaving the Ordinatus unscathed. Unfortunately the immense power needed for the dispersion filed will eventually overload the generators. This means that what starts out as a near impenetrable force field gradually weakens as the battle progresses, letting more and more enemy fire through. The force wall also extends into warp space and provides the Ordinatus with some psychic protection in much the same was as a void shield.
Some examples of Ordinatus and their use in battle include Ordinatus Golgotha, Ordinatus Mars and Ordinatus Armageddon. Ordinatus Golgotha was developed after Commissar Yarrick had defeated Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka on the hive world of Armageddon and tracked him down on the Squat world of Golgotha. Despite the assistance of Yarrick, the Squats were defeated by Ghazghkull’s horde and Yarrick was captured. In an attempt to humiliate his arch foe, Yarrick was not killed immediately, but instead imprisoned and displayed.
However, the resourceful Yarrick managed to escape and return to Golgotha with a punitive force of Titans and Tech Guard. The early battles went badly for the Imperium as the sheer size of the Ork horde overwhelmed them time and time again. In an attempt to smash the Orks once and for all, Ordinatus Golgotha was constructed in the recaptured strongholds of the Squats. Golgotha’s terrifying Hellfire missiles devastated the Orks, slaying tens of thousands over the course of a week. The Orks were routed from the Squat world and since then Ordinatus Golgotha has always been in the forefront of any battle against enemies who have strong numerical advantage.
During the Horus Heresy, Mars itself, homeworld of the Adeptus Mechanicus was riven by civil war. The traitor armies, lead by Magos Solomon Abbadon, turned against the Emperor and attempted to overthrow the rulers of Mars. From his mountain citadel of Jericho, Abbadon sent forth his rebel forces to attack the factories and installations of those who remained loyal to the Emperor. Inevitably, the Imperium retaliated and an armada was sent to annihilate Abbadon’s foul minions and bring Imperial justice to the rebel lord. This proved to be impossible though, since the fortress of Jericho was protected by an ancient alien device discovered during the Great Crusade. The Vortex field generator, thought to be an artifact of the enigmatic C’tan, rendered any attack from orbit impossible. Any vessel which approached too close was torn apart or displaced into the warp. Eventually an army fought its way to the foothills of the mountains a few kilometers from Jericho where it was discovered that the Vortex field did not cover the planet’s surface.
Castellum Jericho, as the citadel was known, boasted force field reinforced walls half a mile thick, and which soared into the sky. The central bastion was constructed of the hardest materials known to humanity and further reinforced by an incursion of the warp itself. This bastion could withstand any amount of pounding by the Imperium. Another solution was needed and the Adeptus Mechanicus provided the answer. Ordinatus Mars utilized unique technology to produce a sound wave which resonated across the battlefield. When this sonic wall hit Jericho the power was amplified by both the Vortex field and the natural energy drain from the warp, and the entire citadel crumbled to dust as the walls shook themselves apart. The infamous Tower of Steel rang like the greatest gong in the universe and then bent and crumpled like foil filling the air with the tortured shriek of twisting metal. Solomon Abbadon and his few surviving followers were summarily executed for their treacherous crimes.
Ordinatus Armageddon first shed blood during the massive Ork invasion of the planet of the same name. The Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka were rampaging across the planed, supported by numerous fighting machines, Ork Gargants. The Titan Legio Metalica was ordered to its destruction, and was unable to stem the tide. A genius of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Geronimus Undersen, devised Ordinatus Armageddon as a defense against the marauding Ork war machines. Undersen mounted a massive starship weapon, due for installation in an Imperial battlecruiser, onto a land bound chassis, giving the Imperial forces an immense machine powerful enough to destroy even the largest and most heavily armored foes beyond their effective range.
This idea was by no means original and followed the concept behind the famous Squat Titan Killer, the Cyclops. In the battle for Tartarus hive, Ordinatus Armageddon destroyed no less than ten Ork gargants, and two detachments of supporting tanks and battlewagons. Their own support gone, the Ork attacks broke upon the mile-high walls, like the tide upon the rocks. Ordinatus Armageddon is still on that planet and has taken part in all three campaigns there against the Orks.
The weapons of these examples of the Ordinatus bears some examination. Hellfire is the common term for a potent acidic/viral compound developed by the Adeptus Mechanicus. It burns through armor and sears flesh, eventually leaving the few who survive hideously scarred and crippled. It is a matter of opinion whether or not it is better to die from a Hellfire attack or to survive!. Golgotha carries six Hellfire missiles and can only fire one or two per hour. Each missile has multiple warheads capable of scouring almost two kilometers square of lightly protected troops. It will also sterilize the very ground to a depth of over one meter, especially valuable when fighting Orks. In addition, the extensive scanning equipment aboard Ordinatus Golgotha allows it to fire its heavily shielded missiles with unerring accuracy, even to points out of sight by friendly troops. Enemy units attacked by this horrendous weapon may be panicked by the agonized screams of their comrades as their flesh burns, and their bones melt.
The Sonic Disrupter of Ordinatus Mars affects not only buildings, bones shatter, organs burst and electronic equipment explodes as the wall of sonic energy passes over them. The frequency of the Sonic Disrupter ravages those who fall victim to it, from a subsonic rumbling that tears buildings apart to a supersonic squeal that blasts the eardrums and flays flesh from bones. Hiding in cover is no use since woods and rubble are just blown apart and walls simply amplify the sonic wave if they are not shattered. Event the weighty armor of the Titan or the reinforced buttresses of a stronghold provide little protection against the wrath of Ordinatus Mars.
The Nova Cannon fitted to Ordinatus Armageddon is similar to the Plasma Annihilator of an Imperator Titan, but rather than releasing a burst of raw plasma, the Nova Cannon can focus and control the potent energies with greater precision. This allows the crew to control the nature of the plasma discharges, producing a flood of small pulses to saturate an area, a series of powerful but rapid pulses designed to batter through the energy shields fitted to capital ships in space, and one massive discharge designed to overwhelm any known energy shield in an earth shattering blast of energy.
Ordinatus Mars
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Ordinatus Golgotha
http://home2.inet.tele.dk/json/pics/golgotha.gif
Ordinatus Armaggedon
http://home2.inet.tele.dk/json/pics/armageddon.gif
Height: 678.093 Metres
Length: 482.980 Metres
Chassis: Rubicon, A Flex
Crew: 500 men or 250 men and 3 Slave-Rigged Machines
Weight: 1945.6735 Tons
Each Ordinatus battery on it's own costs £500,000,000,000. Choose one of the three Ordinatus above for the template for your Ordinatus. Secondly, choose some weapons for your Ordinatus. Some weapons are more suited to some Ordinatus than others.
Nova Cannon = £5,000,000,000
Sound Resonator = £60,000,000,000
Tunneling Capabilities = £250,000,000,000
Void Shields = £50,000,000,000 [5]
Scanning Systems = £60,000,000,000
Hellfire Missile System = £80,000,000,000
Starship Weapon = £250,000,000,000
Lascannon Emplacments = £20,000,000 [50]
Heavy Bolter Emplacements = £20,000,000 [50]
Detonator Mines = £30,000,000
Jamming Capabilities = £80,000,000
Cathedral mounted on Back = £10,000,000 [decoration]
Total Profits
£6,700,000,100,000
OOC:
Look, lots of people will argue about the price and sheer power of this thing. If you think this is a godmod then keep your comments to yourselves. Constructive critisism is fine. I will decide whether you could afford a Ordinatus.
These huge engines of destruction are not attached to any specific force. Instead, all of the Ordinatus war machines are under the direct control of the Centurio Ordinatus. It is the Centurio Ordinatus who decide if these highly specialized machines are to be made available, since many of them are ancient indeed and require a large amount of devotion, preparation and maintenance to ready them for war.
The Ordinatus themselves are amongst the strangest machines ever to be constructed by the Adeptus Mechanicus. Almost all of them were originally ddesigned and built for a particular battle, campaign or purpose, and some have never been powered up for conflict since. One example of this is Ordinatus Priam. This huge tunneling machine was assembled during the siege of Priam, a city overrun by the traitor forces in the Horus Heresy. The immense creation was designed to tunnel through the planet’s crust and then navigate through the white-hot mantle underneath. This rendered it undetectable to Priam’s defenses and allowed four companies of elite Imperial Guard troops to storm the city’s Generatum Vulcanis, breaking the siege. However, the Ordinatus Priam was irrevocably damaged in the attack as parts of its shielding gave way to the heat of the molten rock.
Other Ordinatus have weapons and capabilities which see more general use, and demand for them is high. Only in the most important battles or campaigns are the Ordinatus sent to war, and even than only for specific operartions. Amongst the enemies of the Imperium, the names of the Ordinatus are spoken with reverent fear, their devastating capabilities displayed on thousands of battlefields since the Emperor’s ascension to the Golden Throne.
The Cult Mechanicus revere the Ordinatus as avatars of the Machine God, creations of such cunning and power that they could never be improved or outdated. Thus they have been carefully maintained, and when sent to war they are inscribed with sacred runes, anointed with the most precious oils and unguents, and blessed by the Lord of the Centurio Ordinatus. Their crews are the most highly trained of the Skitarii, warriors who fight with the zealous fanaticism of those who serve a living god.
The Ordinatus are renowned for their relentless advance towards the enemy, trailing havoc and destruction in their wake, shrugging off blows mighty enough to incapacitate a Titan. Ordinatus are powered by immense plasma generators which drive their propulsion systems, energize their weapons systems, and activate their shields and defense systems. Such grat power is packed into a relatively small space, and if the Ordinatus is destroyed, it destruction in a vast ball of roiling plasma may yet accomplish its objective.
Ordinatus of the Adeptus Mechanicus are protected by a massive force wall known as a dispersion field. Projectiles and energy bolts deflect harmlessly away from the crackling shell of power leaving the Ordinatus unscathed. Unfortunately the immense power needed for the dispersion filed will eventually overload the generators. This means that what starts out as a near impenetrable force field gradually weakens as the battle progresses, letting more and more enemy fire through. The force wall also extends into warp space and provides the Ordinatus with some psychic protection in much the same was as a void shield.
Some examples of Ordinatus and their use in battle include Ordinatus Golgotha, Ordinatus Mars and Ordinatus Armageddon. Ordinatus Golgotha was developed after Commissar Yarrick had defeated Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka on the hive world of Armageddon and tracked him down on the Squat world of Golgotha. Despite the assistance of Yarrick, the Squats were defeated by Ghazghkull’s horde and Yarrick was captured. In an attempt to humiliate his arch foe, Yarrick was not killed immediately, but instead imprisoned and displayed.
However, the resourceful Yarrick managed to escape and return to Golgotha with a punitive force of Titans and Tech Guard. The early battles went badly for the Imperium as the sheer size of the Ork horde overwhelmed them time and time again. In an attempt to smash the Orks once and for all, Ordinatus Golgotha was constructed in the recaptured strongholds of the Squats. Golgotha’s terrifying Hellfire missiles devastated the Orks, slaying tens of thousands over the course of a week. The Orks were routed from the Squat world and since then Ordinatus Golgotha has always been in the forefront of any battle against enemies who have strong numerical advantage.
During the Horus Heresy, Mars itself, homeworld of the Adeptus Mechanicus was riven by civil war. The traitor armies, lead by Magos Solomon Abbadon, turned against the Emperor and attempted to overthrow the rulers of Mars. From his mountain citadel of Jericho, Abbadon sent forth his rebel forces to attack the factories and installations of those who remained loyal to the Emperor. Inevitably, the Imperium retaliated and an armada was sent to annihilate Abbadon’s foul minions and bring Imperial justice to the rebel lord. This proved to be impossible though, since the fortress of Jericho was protected by an ancient alien device discovered during the Great Crusade. The Vortex field generator, thought to be an artifact of the enigmatic C’tan, rendered any attack from orbit impossible. Any vessel which approached too close was torn apart or displaced into the warp. Eventually an army fought its way to the foothills of the mountains a few kilometers from Jericho where it was discovered that the Vortex field did not cover the planet’s surface.
Castellum Jericho, as the citadel was known, boasted force field reinforced walls half a mile thick, and which soared into the sky. The central bastion was constructed of the hardest materials known to humanity and further reinforced by an incursion of the warp itself. This bastion could withstand any amount of pounding by the Imperium. Another solution was needed and the Adeptus Mechanicus provided the answer. Ordinatus Mars utilized unique technology to produce a sound wave which resonated across the battlefield. When this sonic wall hit Jericho the power was amplified by both the Vortex field and the natural energy drain from the warp, and the entire citadel crumbled to dust as the walls shook themselves apart. The infamous Tower of Steel rang like the greatest gong in the universe and then bent and crumpled like foil filling the air with the tortured shriek of twisting metal. Solomon Abbadon and his few surviving followers were summarily executed for their treacherous crimes.
Ordinatus Armageddon first shed blood during the massive Ork invasion of the planet of the same name. The Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka were rampaging across the planed, supported by numerous fighting machines, Ork Gargants. The Titan Legio Metalica was ordered to its destruction, and was unable to stem the tide. A genius of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Geronimus Undersen, devised Ordinatus Armageddon as a defense against the marauding Ork war machines. Undersen mounted a massive starship weapon, due for installation in an Imperial battlecruiser, onto a land bound chassis, giving the Imperial forces an immense machine powerful enough to destroy even the largest and most heavily armored foes beyond their effective range.
This idea was by no means original and followed the concept behind the famous Squat Titan Killer, the Cyclops. In the battle for Tartarus hive, Ordinatus Armageddon destroyed no less than ten Ork gargants, and two detachments of supporting tanks and battlewagons. Their own support gone, the Ork attacks broke upon the mile-high walls, like the tide upon the rocks. Ordinatus Armageddon is still on that planet and has taken part in all three campaigns there against the Orks.
The weapons of these examples of the Ordinatus bears some examination. Hellfire is the common term for a potent acidic/viral compound developed by the Adeptus Mechanicus. It burns through armor and sears flesh, eventually leaving the few who survive hideously scarred and crippled. It is a matter of opinion whether or not it is better to die from a Hellfire attack or to survive!. Golgotha carries six Hellfire missiles and can only fire one or two per hour. Each missile has multiple warheads capable of scouring almost two kilometers square of lightly protected troops. It will also sterilize the very ground to a depth of over one meter, especially valuable when fighting Orks. In addition, the extensive scanning equipment aboard Ordinatus Golgotha allows it to fire its heavily shielded missiles with unerring accuracy, even to points out of sight by friendly troops. Enemy units attacked by this horrendous weapon may be panicked by the agonized screams of their comrades as their flesh burns, and their bones melt.
The Sonic Disrupter of Ordinatus Mars affects not only buildings, bones shatter, organs burst and electronic equipment explodes as the wall of sonic energy passes over them. The frequency of the Sonic Disrupter ravages those who fall victim to it, from a subsonic rumbling that tears buildings apart to a supersonic squeal that blasts the eardrums and flays flesh from bones. Hiding in cover is no use since woods and rubble are just blown apart and walls simply amplify the sonic wave if they are not shattered. Event the weighty armor of the Titan or the reinforced buttresses of a stronghold provide little protection against the wrath of Ordinatus Mars.
The Nova Cannon fitted to Ordinatus Armageddon is similar to the Plasma Annihilator of an Imperator Titan, but rather than releasing a burst of raw plasma, the Nova Cannon can focus and control the potent energies with greater precision. This allows the crew to control the nature of the plasma discharges, producing a flood of small pulses to saturate an area, a series of powerful but rapid pulses designed to batter through the energy shields fitted to capital ships in space, and one massive discharge designed to overwhelm any known energy shield in an earth shattering blast of energy.
Ordinatus Mars
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://home2.inet.tele.dk/json/pics/mars.gif&imgrefurl=http://home2.inet.tele.dk/json/additional.html&h=152&w=164&sz=7&tbnid=wF870mtHiasJ:&tbnh=86&tbnw=92&start=4&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dordinatus%2B%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8
Ordinatus Golgotha
http://home2.inet.tele.dk/json/pics/golgotha.gif
Ordinatus Armaggedon
http://home2.inet.tele.dk/json/pics/armageddon.gif
Height: 678.093 Metres
Length: 482.980 Metres
Chassis: Rubicon, A Flex
Crew: 500 men or 250 men and 3 Slave-Rigged Machines
Weight: 1945.6735 Tons
Each Ordinatus battery on it's own costs £500,000,000,000. Choose one of the three Ordinatus above for the template for your Ordinatus. Secondly, choose some weapons for your Ordinatus. Some weapons are more suited to some Ordinatus than others.
Nova Cannon = £5,000,000,000
Sound Resonator = £60,000,000,000
Tunneling Capabilities = £250,000,000,000
Void Shields = £50,000,000,000 [5]
Scanning Systems = £60,000,000,000
Hellfire Missile System = £80,000,000,000
Starship Weapon = £250,000,000,000
Lascannon Emplacments = £20,000,000 [50]
Heavy Bolter Emplacements = £20,000,000 [50]
Detonator Mines = £30,000,000
Jamming Capabilities = £80,000,000
Cathedral mounted on Back = £10,000,000 [decoration]
Total Profits
£6,700,000,100,000
OOC:
Look, lots of people will argue about the price and sheer power of this thing. If you think this is a godmod then keep your comments to yourselves. Constructive critisism is fine. I will decide whether you could afford a Ordinatus.