lore question for a planetary empires based campaign.

[flyingwhippet]

My friends and I are starting a four player campaign. We are trying to come up with an interesting lore idea for why Purge CSM, vior'la tau, saurtek dynasty necrons and a splinter of leviathan would all be in the same region of space and interested in the same world. Any thoughts? Love to hear from you!

[tylertt]

Tons and tons of options there! I'll toss a few broad ones out for you, and you can modify them to fit your group/armies personal fluff.

- The Tau could have landed on a planet to continue to grow their empire. They accidentally awaken the Necrons deep below, when suddenly a warp storm brings a CSM ship into orbit. To top it all off, the Tyranids arrive undetected from coming up under the planet.

- The Tau could have landed on a planet to continue to grow their empire, and just after landing a splinter fleet arrives out of no where. While the Tau wait for reinforcements they try and hide underground, and awaken the slumbering Necrons. As the Tau reinforcements arrive, they are ambushed by the CSM who chase the Tau onto the planet.

- The Tau could have landed on a planet to continue to grow their empire, and while settling in, they unknowinly come across a Chaos artifact and activate it, opening a Chaos warp gate, from which the Chaos Space Marines begin their invasion. This sudden surge of psychic activity draws the attention of a splinter fleet, who then arrive on the planet. As this war breaks out, the Necrons...you guessed it...awaken from their slumber .


If slumbering Necrons does not fit their personal fluff, you could always have the Tau activate a Necron artifact, which draws the Necrons to the planet even.

[flyingwhippet]

Thanks for the ideas! I didn't know that much about the chaos lore or that warp storms be used as conduits for chaos ships to emerge.

[Silegy]

Hell yeah! Forging some of that pesky narrative.



Once upon a time, there was a nice, peaceful planet named XYZ where Necrons of the Saurtek dynasty... were doing their Saurtek things.
One of these things were Tyranid farms, where they were breeding Tyranids for meat (which they were exporting to Dark Eldar), their carapaces or even as domestic pets.

Once upon a time, there was a Chaos Space Marine Lord (a warp dust addict, I should mention) who lost his beloved pocket watch. After nearly 10,000 years of searching all across the galaxy, he realised the only planet where he had not searched yet is XYZ. The Saurteks, battle brothers of the Blood Angels Space Marine chapter, were not too happy about the arrival of the Chaos guys, but they did let them do their thing.

Once upon a time, there was a great world partially colonised by the Vior'la Sept. The reason for this colonisation was that huge amounts of warp dust were leaking into the space nearby and so they decided to gather it and make business with it.



The poor Chaos Lord did not manage to find his pocket watch and so he decided to ask the Necrons. After some time it came up that a nearby farmer re-fused it into a finger as one of his Tyranids bit it off. Wrath of the Lord was horrifying, but before he started decapitating all the Necrons, a Tau ship landed nearby. Both Necrons and Chaosguys were interested what Tau might want here. Well, the Tau came with an offer of very cheap warp dust. Both Necrons and Chaosguys were amused by the price and quantity and so they bought everything the Tau had. However, as they decided to snort their first lines, the Chaos Lord, big warp dust epicure, noticed that somthing is off. Yes, my friends, the warp dust was mixed with washing powder! Now the Chaos Lord got double angry and even the Necrons got angry. A battle was inevitable.



Once upon a time, there was a nice little Leviathan splinter fleet hanging around, looking for some worlds to completely devour, just like they like to do. When they stumbled upon XYZ, they noticed huge amounts of biomass being present, so the Hive Mind decided to take a closer look. The Hive Mind was horrified when it witnessed the sight of cruel Tyranid farms that did not by any means fulfil the rules of minimum space per bred animals. The Tyranid invasion has begun!

[flyingwhippet]

Love the idea of Splinter Fleet: Greenpeace. Going around liberating all the poor factory farmed tyranids and showing them the grass, the sky and the taste of maaaaanfleeesh!

[Deleted]

Tau could have already occupied a planet for some time, some rare artifact draws an aspiring chaos lord or something. Necrons do their pissed off you woke us up wayyyyy too early thing, and tyranids come to save the day. I like to base things like this around a relic or artifact of interest- personal preference.