Quote:So, let's say I was interested in hiring a Gruppe for a job. How would I go about doing that? What're the general price ranges, is there a set rate or does it vary depending on the job? Are there moral lines beyond the usual things? And would I have to provide transportation?
We generally just handle secure courier and cargo transport security. Rate varies depending on distance, time, how many of us are needed to take the job, and the value of the cargo and the perceived threat. It's a flat rate for the entire mission, provided the mission doesn't go outside agreed bounds. We don't usually do offensive missions on other people's credits however. Rescue missions are best officially handled by Great Justice or the Patrol.
We can only officially take offensive missions with prior authorisation from either the Patrol or GJ. Which usually means that we've received those missions from the Patrol or GJ or one of the bigger factions. We're forbidden from doing it by the same agreement that lets us work with GJ or the Patrol. Nobody wants us to go the way our namesakes did in Gunnm.
That has to be the official policy. Otherwise we could get into real trouble.
Transport. Generally, we ride along on the employer's transport. Expenses involved in getting to and from the job are part of the fee. Despite being able to move through space under our own power, it's nice to have somewhere nearby where we can store our gear or fall back to if we get shot up. The amount of times I went blue in the face arguing this with desk-droids on Arisia.... Be nice. Give us somewhere to rest.
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Quote:If the "techpriests at Syrinx" are that important to the PK (I assume they are W40k Fen), might it be worth expanding a bit on how many of them there are, what sorts of specific things they do apart from make PK swords and other things with similar fancy metal?
Do you think any Boskone would be stupid enough to raid them for their tech? Do Boskone run to things like Chaos Marines? Or, I guess there is always Cultist-chan (what sort of biomod would that be?).
For real fun, to front an assault, have Boskone 'borrow' something from Monster Asteroid, 'wave it up with quite a few tons of stolen meat products... Zombie Godzilla or something...
Please. Don't give the Boskone ideas. They come up with enough horrors on their own.
They had Marine power armour, after hitting the hab on Titan that produced it, stealing the plans then blowing it sky high. A lot of them bought into the Chaos Marine image, solely for the intimidation value. If they could intimidate a rock into not fighting back, that made life so much easier for them.
First I'd say, never call an enemy action stupid until after you're certain you've foiled their plans. The Boskone were not stupid. The priests at Syrinx are concerned enough that they might be raided that they pay us to provide protection (It helps that we're less than fifty kilometres way), in the form of the Panzer Blades. Considering they're beavering away there trying to rediscover the lost technology of the far future, I think they're right to be worried, especially after the theft of the Power Armour plans.
They'll happily sell you a working .75 Calibre boltgun. But they're still stuck trying to figure out how to make the depleted deuterium inside the ammunition work, so it's really just a fancy ornament unless you can make something yourself. They stick religiously close to their source material, to the point of being hidebound by it to the point of ridiculousness. Oh, and they have chainswords. Chainswords are awesome fun. Bloody useless, inelegant and totally fun. They use similar steel to our blades. Knives and swords they make use lower-grade, low-maintenance Martian Steel.
One thing I will say. Everything they make is precision hand made to fit exactly. It's expensive, but it's a work of artisans. Every single piece is a customised Book of Kells moulded from Steel.
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