Friday, January 31, 2025

40K System - Eytry

Forgeworld suffering from low materials and morale


Though Eytry is the star, the focus of the system is on Subprodey (Sub-Sector Production Eytry), the sole Forgeworld in the subsector.


Due to the chaos caused by Waagh!! Gazmaxx, two mining worlds have been cut off and a major local export centre on Kastor's Folly will take centuries to rebuild. The reduction in material has been noticeable, with varying levels of downtime reported in many factory-cities. This is seen as a deep moral threat by the ruling Techpriests, as they believe menials not working means they will inevitably slacken and turn to evil things without holy toil.

So, they have instituted compulsory make-work programs, having items be tediously assembled and disassembled to keep the population occupied for the usual, beyond human hours they work. This has only highlighted to the menials that they are not engaged in holy toil and instead are being pointlessly driven to exhaustion when they do not need to be.


Labour movements are not a thing that comes to the minds of those who live in the techno-theocracies, but Omnissiah cults are. And so a new sect is spreading, one which proclaims that the human body is an imperfect machine (hence cybernetics) but like all machines it needs maintenance and wears out with use. The Biological Machine Movement demands an end to the make-work and possibly increased extended downtime to rebuild and hone the bodies of the workers until production can return to normal. This obviously is being treated as a form of tech-heresy, but far too many people now have precious free time their parents or grandparents could not have imagine.

This moral and production crisis the greatest challenge faced since the possibility that Waagh!! Gazmaxx might have diverted to Eytry and the planetary leadership needs someone to blame. The members of the Magos Biologis are being held for a lot of things now. Their report on Bawahayat was destabilising, their need for mutagens from Nazgool is a crime (despite centuries of approval) and now the Flesh-Heresy has emerged on the Machine God's holy world.

This is an attempt by the meat-dabblers to seize control of the heart of the subsector. The Magos/Arch-Magos/Forge Masters are about to declare a synod, in order to properly chastise the Genators.


The "meat-dabblers" are divided on how to respond to this. The Biomachinists uphold the only way to beat the accusations is to take them on in the synod. Decry those who do not know their place and present with the weight of evidence and oratory behind them that they do long accepted holy work. The Neogenesis Movement, who are the ones who work most closely with the mutagens in an attempt to produce more useful and pliable life. Their opinion is that the synod will be rigged, and so it is best to flee to some remote monastery for a generation or two, until normal production renders the problem moot. The Flesh-Radicals only have some Magos Biologis leadership, they recruit from the lower ranks of the tech-priests. They see this as an opportunity to usurp control for a new generation of leadership, ones under 200 years old. They have a rough thesis of grievances and are willing to let the menials have their time for now. So long as they occupy the attention of their Forge Masters unaware of their retirement to various remote monasteries.


Also consuming the efforts of the ruling authourities is fending off repeated calls from Vito and Chiron about the Skitarii. Such levies would be very useful in pushing the Orks off Warworld Ajax and it would free up production to resume.But the Skitarii are needed to keep a lid on the Biological Machine Movement, particularly when it’s suspected they could erupt into rebellion as the synod approaches. Maybe a few could be spared, but the so-called “Unenlighted” (not to their faces) demand many more than Subprodey is comfortable to send. Currently Subprodey is sending stockpiles of older exports and equipment from more volatile complexes, in case the stockpiles fall into heretic hands. But they are also using those to meet quotas, as there is a fear they will be found unworthy if the wider Adeptus Mechanicus find out how badly they have botched the Credo Ominssaih.


In an attempt to bolster incoming material, the older system mines that were abandoned for falling below yield are to be reopened. The only issue with that is the workforce to squeeze the last dregs out of the planetoids. Vac-Scavs have lived on the periphery for thousands of years as mining complexes become abandoned and crews disappear to live on scrap and low-grade ore. They resist the Skitarii attempting to force them back into labour and have the heretical knowledge to use and maintain their equipment, becoming another drain on Subprodey’s attention.

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