#soturit

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Where No Imperial Has Gone Before.

"How did this ship even make it through the Veil? Every Imperial Ship who has tried prio-"

"I know Medic Jonatan, I know. I paid attention in Høgstadiet for one,, and have seen some of the ships in question. The fact that even a few decks still hold atmo is a miracle in and of itself,, now, how far to the life sign?"

The young combat medic gave a short glare at her superior before checking the info on her data pad strapped to her forearm, the faint blue glow coloring the hoarfrosted corridor. The 25 man team of Soturit, clad fully in their Fenrir Carapace kit, environmental masks secured tightly even if there is a thin atmosphere in this section of the ship.

This transport vessel, some sort of Imperial Class Clipper or other, turned up near the outskirts of the Kingdom's outermost reaches. Hemvaktet, the military forces tasked with securing matters within the borders, were quick to move in and investigate the scene. It's hull broken, leaking plasma and atmo into the void, and only faint life signs onboard. A seek and destroy, turned search and rescue.

Sergeant Gunnar and his team were closing in whatever was still left alive, already having found the crew and many other passengers,, dead.

"In here it looks like,, seems to be some sort of cargo bay, maybe transporting the goods and food stuff? Ship manifest?" The young medic turned again to her officer who only shook his head.

"Data was corrupted, what Magos Theta could extract is garbled and,, tainted was her description. Still up in the bridge and rooting around, left her to her own devices. Let's see if we have any better luck here. Soturit, i position, brott, sök och rensa."

The fire team quickly stack around the cargo bay doors, ballistic weapons at the ready, while the team's techie gets the doors to open up on emergency hydraulics.

(For @some-old-psyker to get to see a new world beyond Imperial borders once more, and find more human contacts, maybe even allies for future adventures)

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Mun has made acquisition, from the distant Forgeworld Robyn, part of the Kingdom of Midgård.

(For real though, it's a 3D Print for a Main battle tank that's similar to the Abrams from the Americans. But now, 40k-ied! With a Volkite main gun! And a Tank Commander (which @ask-a-tempestus-scion (in the shape of Commander Saheen) might recognize)

I will need to prime it and start getting base coating on it to make it look less,, block of plastic.

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Once more, through the breach.

The Chaos forces fought with tooth and claw, their ships launching barrages of torpedoes and lances of burning red energy. These Astartes of brown livery had a fierce fire in them, their ships covering flanks, strike craft diving in and between the chaos vessels, calculated volleys of macro cannon shells.

Jerril Silonius, an Alpha Legionnarie who was acting Commander for this fleet, his critical sharp mind could tell something was off. These Loyalists, they did not fight with the same fervor of the other Legions or chapters. The intercepted comms used a language that was similar to any known Imperial war-cant, it sounded something akin to the Space Wolves language but when translated, came back as jarbled words with no structure.

The ships across the field of battle have barely made an advance since this conflict started, as if they were trying to hold their position. But there is nothing there to guard,, would these Astartes be stalling? For what? Reinforcements? But the fleets are more or less evenly matched,,

"My lord! Warp signatures appearing behind the Loyalist fleet! Warp translation signatures."

"let's see what they believe will give them a advantage in this fight,," Silonius hums as shs looks across the gap to witness as the jagged tears of the Warp give, and let out the vessels from within.

Two Capital class void-craft, Battleships, bearing the colors of these curious Loyalists. "Khorne's teeth,, what are these Astartes thinking? Comms officer, spread out the fleet, get them to move and keep a wary eye on the new come-"

"My lord! Massive energy build up in the primary Battleship, and the enemy vessels have ceased firing." one of the officers exclaims suddenly, interrupting Silonius' orders. The Legionnarie blinks in surprise, snapping his head back to the battle view holotank. There were no powered up armaments on the opposing fleet, void shields on full power, and holding position while the two Battleships advance at,, all-ahead-full?

"What in the name of the Gods are these warriors doing..? Can we determine the energy pattern?"

"It does not match anything the Loyalists have ever used before,, but it has similarities to the Night Lords or Emperor's Children power signals when they are about to make a planet wide broadcast,,"

Silonius is already strapping on his helmet, clicking it into place and setting the dampners to block out noise, right when the Battleship unleashes the build up energy. The other crew are lost in translation before the entire vessel hums and vibrates to the blast of infra-sound that races through the corrupted ship.

A discord that rattled and tore the ship for almost a full minute, a singular blaring synthetic horn cry, cascading waves of infra-sound that dug into the minds of the mortal crew, reaching deep to grasp at something primal in all man. Fear.

The Traitor Astartes could feel the vibrations in their armor, trying to reach into them, but would not succeed. The shriek dissapates, but the damage is done. The Chaos fleet's mortal crew have been broken, the few lucky ones barely amount to a skeleton crew for even a single vessel.

Silonius could hear in the background of that blare, a phrase, that he could separate out from the multitude of tracks. In simple Gothic, with the voice of a thousand warriors.

"He was made to rule the waves across the endless seas, to lead the warmachine! To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine, the terror of the seas! The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine!"

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What's this? OwO

Breaking out the rubber bands to keep this fracking bird in one piece while the glue knits the pieces together.

@tempestor-prime-baran

@warp-hath-no-fury

Aerial support and meme-ship inbound.

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Gauli Pattern Autocannon Ukkonen-Railo. and Jotunheim Pattern Recoilless Rifle Ukkonen-Karjaisu.

These two Soturit support weapons cover two criteria the soldiers desire when fighting in either larger engagement, or required some anti-armor and anti-vehicle weaponry. 

The Thunder-Crack Autocannon is a heavy calibre man portable tank gun, firing 40 x 250mm (800 gram / 12k grain)  high-explosive shells with a impact fuse. The UK has a slow but heavy striking rate of fire, 160 rounds per minute with an accompanying 850 m/s muzzle velocity. The shells fired are designated at HEDP, High-Explosive Dual-Purpose, allowing the operator to use the weapon to easily target armored targets like vehicles and walkers, or take on infantry with the flakk like properties the shell has.

The Autocannon comes with an inbuilt bipod, folding heavy duty carrying handle, a 35 shell magazine and a pop up iron sights. There are options to allow for holo sights, and replacing the 2 meter barrel with a more durable and accurate 2.6m barrel with a tighter screw bore.

The Thunder-Roar Recoilless Rifle or shoulder mounted rocket-propelled grenade launcher, is a purely Anti-tank weapon system, firing shaped HEAT(High-Explosive Anti-Tank) warheads. The wide bore launcher contains the blast and projectile stored within the warhead tube, the warhead being almost 66mm at the widest point. The warhead has a small logic processor and receiver built within, which is linked to the laser pointer array bolted onto the launcher, and when the warhead is in flight, the operator can paint their target with the lasers. The warhead will steer itself with its rapidly spinning fins to bear down onto the designated target.

The launcher comes with shoulder rest, foregrip, laser guidance system and viewer, and flip-up iron sights. The laser system can be upgraded with night vision capabilities, and the warheads can either be HEAT, HEDP, or an unguided APDS (Armor-piercing Discarding-Sabot) which is a solid Tungsten Carbide spear, used to crack through heavier armor or penetrate into the engine blocks of Heavies and Super-heavies.

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Muspelheim Pattern Autogun MK IV BR

The Autogun is a valued weapon among the armed forces in the Kingdom of Midgård, mirroring the rugged and reliable nature of its people and steadfast beliefs. The MK IV BR is the standard battle rifle for the Soturit armed forces, carrying a 36 round curved magazine.

The BR comes out of the forges of Muspelheim, but newer factories in the Gauli sub-sector are now also producing it. 

The BR uses 8.25 x 64mm rimless cartridges (10grams / 160grain) with either a Full Metal Jacket coating, or Jacketed Hollow Point bullet depending on the engagement. This ammunition has a muzzle velocity of ~910 m/s (~3,100 ft/s) with an effective firing range of ~400-650 m (with sight adjustments) while the maximum range was closer to 4,000 m. It is a slow rate of fire, only 450rpm, however there are some ‘field modified’ rifles where the users have jury rigged their armament to increase their rate of fire, at the greater risk of jamming, reportedly reaching ~620rpm.

They are more than capable of punching through light infantry armor. (Tested against Imperial Flak armor, Imperial Light Carapace armor, Imperial standard Carapace armor) but when dealing with more rugged armor (Storm Trooper Carapace, Void Hardened armor, and Light Power Armor), the rifle will need to fire ~2-4 magazines to cause an significant damage.

The BR can attach on its rails an ACOG scope for longer medium to long engagements, Holo Sights for medium to close encounters, the angled foregrip can be swapped out for a vertical grip, while the Magazine can be downgraded to a straight 25 round magazine, or upgraded to a 72 detachable box magazine.

(trying something different for my Guardians of Asgård army, this time giving my humans some love. I cannot replicate a Bolter in this program, so I am sticking with the Soturit for now.)

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Close up on my test models for the Soturit

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Comparing the Fire Rate between two distinct Autoguns (courtesy of Destiny 2 and their various auto-rifle archetypes.)

The first rifle, is 450 Rounds per Minute. Which I feel is a good rate of fire for the Battle Rifle the Soturit use as their standard service rifle.

The second rifle, is a staggering 720 Rounds per Minute. This would be perhaps the rate of fire for the MMG thet Soturit uses as their support fire. 

I might later hop onto Destiny 1, and try out some of the different Machine Guns they have and see what RPMs might suite the feel of the m/55. (Machine Guns have yet to come back to D2, but there is a clear message that in the Christmas season, they will make a return.)