Guiding Light - A Great Crusade Adventure Series

[thefaithfulguardsman]

So, an idea of mine is slowly coming to fruition: inspired a little by Star Trek, adventures based around the adventures of a Great Crusade exploration expedition.

A brief overview of stuff:

• Captain Tal Basilon leads the crew of Guiding Light in their mission of exploration; rather than seeking out the lost fragments of humanity, their duty is to recover technology and artefacts for the Emperor’s archives.
• Diverse group of weapons specialists, historians and archaeologists, medics and psykers. Around 250, including menial crew.
• Soldiers are armed with a special pattern of lasgun and powered carapace armour - the Ikh-12 Lasgun and Alain Pattern armour, respectively.
• Emphasis on hope and exploration, though with flashes of darkness (especially in regard to news of the genocide of alien races).

Main characters are:

• Tal Basilon, a veteran of the Unification Wars and one of the Imperial Army’s finest soldiers. A superb soldier, though not inclined towards diplomatic affairs and suffers from PTSD from the UW. (Heteromantic asexual.)
• Arnegundis, weapons specialist. Armed with a heavy archaeotech heavy autogun and an excellent shot. Tal’s right hand and loved by the crew. (She is transgender and bisexual).
• Mary Louisa Bell Taramina Duvon. Disgraced noblewoman given a chance at redemption, has a wealthy array of gear and is very highly strung. Not popular with a lot of the troops. (Bisexual, cisgender.)
• Garaint, heavy weapons expert. Can blow up anything, with anything. Also a veteran of the UW and has experience fighting psychic foes. (Straight and cisgender.)

Possible adventures:

 

• Discovery of a shattered Eldar Maiden World. The crew discover several hundred intact Soulstones and take them, thinking they’re jewelry. Then the local Eldar find out and a tense situation develops since the Eldar could easily slaughter the entire crew of Guiding Light.
• A long distance warp journey. Potential for romance and/or NSFW affairs. Who knows? There’s also the risk of pirates.
• The discovery of a seemingly uncorrupted STC for the Men of Iron in a ruined human colony. Greed drives some crewmembers to create a batch of robots, ending in a bloody battle between the less greedy crew and the Men of Iron in the ruins. 
• Something to do with the Custodians.

If anyone would ever be interested in doing crossovers or writing about the crew then I'm more than happy to join forces and create evil wonders.

Comments

[little_clever_cat]

That reminds me that I need to transfer my Dramatis Personae section to DW (and it will be more accessible than on Tumblr).

Btw, this plot abstract is quite good, would you mind if I write mine in a similar style?

[thefaithfulguardsman]

Oh, thank you! Go ahead, I'm glad you like it.