A perilous quest for forbidden artifacts

 

Among the stars lies riches and treasures sometimes beyond the imagination. Sometimes lost technology, sometimes valuable objects. But there are even rarer jewells.

The potential reward for a strange specimens lies out there. From the eggs of dangerous creatures to enslave or sell to the most brutal beastmasters of Cirece, Ghalmek or even Commorragh.

Sometimes it is a stash of rare weapons or archeotech, finely crafted to survive the millenia, and with enough power to be feared even by entire military organizations.

But the darkest secrets are seeked by individuals with psychic abilities and complete disregard for any moral or safety concern. Capable of sacrifice anyone around them for a grasp of power. They bet their lives for grabbing old artifacts or remmanants of the warp that use to increase their abilities. Associate with them is also a risk, as the gains may be enormous, but the artifacts infused by the warp attract sensible predators or critters from beyond the veil.

Another personality for TTRPG/Stargrave. A psionic alien that will lead a band of the worst scum in the galaxy. Also, a stash of grenades and a power cell or something warp-related.

I enjoyed a lot painting the coat in old leather mixing tones and doing a lot of dotting.

I also painted several random encounters based on warp-beasts from the old dark eldar range and a phase cat from Reaper Miniatures. For the cast I left the translucent platic still visible in most parts of the body except for the face and the paws.

The warp-beasts are painted in an unatural zombie-flesh colours mixed with the old-schooled red spines and the muscles for a bit of contrast.

Oh, and some alien eggs for the loot counters.

A bit of fun until I paint a larger project.

Adrian's out.

The insidious tyranids - A nidvember 2025 update

The tyranid menace has plagued the entire Eastern Fringe of the galactic plane for the last decades. These creatures prey the worlds in many insidious and unusual ways, effortlessly braking the defences of the colonies before they can even think about the shadow looming over their homes.

Even more ork raiders - Orktober 2025

 

In a time of misinformation and outright superstition about the ork xenos race, the fall of the Outpost 53 in one of the moons from Mufidah III and the sack of their stockpiles against several raiding parties is an exercise of how misshandling imperial knowledge about our enemies can be the cause of utter failures of any battle plans and costly causalties and lost of the resources of the Emperor [...]

Diggy diggy hole

Some of the deepest and most dangerous mining operations in Stavrakis are run by unrelenting squat prospectors.

Small team of MCRN security forces

 

The MCRN (Mawrth Congressional Republic Navy) troops are one of the most active security forces deployed in the mining outposts of twelve of the twenty nine systems, not counting on the Mawrth system.

They're skilled professional despite being raised as a levy or popular army. That's because Mawrth operations in deep space and vast navy of small vessels that aid the transport the main goods, supplies and minerals required for the worlds around the Gnana Route.

Many young mawrthians start working early in the many branchs of the navy. By the time they reach the age of serving in the mawrthian defence forces, they are skilled engineers, astronauts or valuable crew members. Accustomed to close quarters, hazardous environments and precision strikes in the void, where a mistake can take out the lives of an entire patrol.

 After the long waited peace treaty between the Mawrth ex-colony and Thorbjorn, and the recognition as a full, indpendant planet of the Imperium by the sub-sector authority, many of the navy personel started serving as military and security contractors sanctioned by Mawrth parliament.

A small batch of soldiers for random encounters or a Stargrave crew made from the first mercenary kit.

Until the next update