Imperial Mega Voidship

Unlike most of the crew you wake up in small cramped quarters of your own. The main living space in your cube is barely 4 meters cube (13 feet) with a combined shower and fresher taking up barely 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) of that for any of you who are more than 1.8 meters (6 feet) tall, when you sit down you have to leave the door open to do your business. The water pressure, of course, is almost always barely a trickle and it never actually gets beyond slightly warm and quickly becomes very cold.

The reason you wake is that the line connected comm device in your room is broadcasting a simple repeating message. "Scout and Protection detail report to bridge. This message repeats!" It continues until you hit the recognition button. After that you get ready and go through the communal area where the scent of unwashed creatures of various species sleeping and rutting in close quarters assaults your nose. Once you make your way through that mess you head down the hallway to the elevator and there you press your personal voxx to the floor buttons and are laboriously lifted up to the command deck.

The Command Deck on the Scrap Hogg is possibly the most well cared for place on the small voidship. There is a bit of rust creeping in here and there but, mostly it is well polished and kept shiny. The various officers work at their stations and in the center of it all is the small throne where Captain sits staring greedily at an immense Imperial Voidship.



The ugly, corpulent, balding man stares at you with his beady eyes when you arrive. "Ahh my valuable Scout and Protection detail. Please look at the screen, that right there is real treasure! I can hardly believe the map I bought was real but, here she is, the Ancient Relic, the lost ship known only as The Eye of Ra."

He grins at the image staring at the ship on screen, as he fiddles with some knobs at his chair. The image turns and you see battle damage, shattered steel, and an opening more than big enough to fit the Scrapp Hogg. "We will dock there, set up our hauling nets and begin the process of pulling everything of value off her to sell. You, will clear the landing area and ensure it is safe before scouting the ship and ensuring the crew’s safety. As usual, any archeotech you can carry is yours to keep and any you tag will net you 2 percent of the profit from sales."

The Viewscreen shows the interior of the Eye of Ra and you realize you are not entering through a rent in her armor, this is an actual docking bay. A haphazard shield glitters as your ship passes into the bay area puffs of atmosphere escaping as you enter into a truly immense dock yard within this Mega Voidship. It is big enough to easily hold other smaller ships like Scrap Hogg and there are numerous other berths most empty but a choice few of them already contain vessels in various states of dis-repair.

A corsair class Aeldari ship has had its engines removed and floats randomly around the bay. A Drukhari Torture Class Cruiser sits at a dock; the very front of the ship looks as if acid has eaten it away and some remnants of its crew float listlessly nearby. The remnants of a Space Marine cruiser is smashed into a wall at what must have been nearly full speed. A Chaos Marine Light Cruiser sits with just the front half at another bay with a red Paint Scrawled on the side "Solja Boys!". Another cruiser class Imperial vessel that looks very similar to the Scrap Hogg sits rusting on its own. Finally, Razick recognizes the Tau light research vessel sitting daintily at a dock, the only vessel that looks as if something is actually working.

The Space Hogg grinds against the dock as it slowly settles in, and you head down the elevator and then into the immense bay. The air is thin but breathable and you notice quite a few barricades set up within the docking bay itself. There are hastily cobbled together barricades all over the docking bay and most of the small exits into the mega ship have had steel welded to them. There is only one path left open into the ship a huge dark hallway and right next to it is a dead Imperial Guardsman and a message scrabbled onto the wall. "The eye doesn't see. The eye doesn't know. It sits in the darkness watching without vision. A blank empty socket staring into the dark and screaming."

Aeldari symbols on the wall opposite have been drawn with painstaking care. "Flee this wretched place before it is too late." Added on by other hands, not quite as elegant and certainly drawn in blood is, "Return to Comorrogh."

Tau symbols are written on the wall as well, "There is no Greater Good here."

Orcs have attempted to draw pictures near the opening here as well a huge red circle with an orc face in the center and then crossed out. Beyond that are more scribbles in blood, in marker, in any fluid that was at hand, most of them are raving madness but the others all have the same simple warning for anyone coming that it is best to leave.

You move forward past the bones of the dead, long gone and unknown. Then the floor seems to be covered with a number of fleshy sacks, at first the sacks are motionless but as you move forward you notice that they are moving slowly. If you stop to observe one you note that there is something alive inside it. If you continue too much down the hallway you will surround yourself with these things.