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Potateyo wrote: I5-2500k wrote,

Episode 1

The Space MarinesVague are travelling on a battle barge,'''Only their battle barge? there has to be some form of escort, perhaps a strike cruiser, at least a cobra destroyer when suddenly their void shields fail,There's geller fields to prevent just that but instead of being slaughtered by Chaos demons, they all tumble out into the Warp How have they survived the fall of several thousand feet? also, when your void shields fall, unless there is outside intervention, you will be obliterated by the entropy of the warp.''', where they are somehow transported some couple thousand feet above the continent/s of Survival 303. The Chapter's weapons have come with the Marines, although their vehicles have fallen out and crashed into populated areas around the Continent.

'''They're just generic space marines. I should have specified Ultramarines, perhaps. '''

Usually they would travel in groups of ships, but I prefer Efficient Marines which use only one ship to transport their entire chapter, instead of many ships to transport the chapter.

'''Ehh... void shields in 40K still do fail occasionally.'''

'''I thought they could survive re-entering the atmosphere from space and landing on the planet? Let's just say that these marines were lucky and this area of the warp was calmer.'''

The Marines decide to set up a tower,(How? with what?) so they can see the entire country, so they pile houses in a tower and attempt to climb up the houses, although the Marines are too heavy and the tower falls down along with the Marines. Next, they attempt to recover some of their vehicles, although they soon realize that their technology is being held by some primitive men, so they quickly retreat.'''Space marines already know of feral worlds, and they know that feral men with their primitive bows and arrows cannot seek purchase upon the thick ceramite plates of their power armor. I was frankly quite shocked when they ran away from them like orks who have lost their warboss.'''

'''The marines decided to set up a tower, and they did so by piling wooden huts onto more wooden huts. This worked for some time, although the wooden huts fell to pieces when they were built too high.'''

'''Well.. what if the primitve men believed that their weapons could penetrate the space marine's armour? What if they had hundreds of thousands of people that also believed this? This would make that a fact, and they would take casulties just like they take casulties from orks.'''

However, after retreating, they realize they could have probably easily forcibly taken their own technology back, so they attempt to invade the house with their technology inside, however there are 20 tribesmen blocking the way, so a single Marine throws a coin at them to distract the men, while the other Marines try to get inside.

The door is locked, so the Marines spit acid at the door, but it doesn't work. (Space marine acid can melt a hole in plasteel. I'd like to know what material the door was made of.)The Marines instead literally eat a hole in the roof and climb through, but the interior of the hut is dark, so one of them runs back to grab a flashlight. (Pretty sure a flashlight is implanted within their helmet)However, while running, the Marine trips over a fallen tree log, and falls over with enough force to crack the surrounding earth,

'''The door was made of standard generic wood, nothing special. Let's just say that the acid missed and the space marine didn't notice. Or it did eat a hole through the door, but only through the body of the door, which was still locked.'''

Maybe, but that flashlight doesn't let them examine everything in high detail as a real flashlight would.

The natives hear this sound from many miles away, so they send a hunting team of 30 men to investigate, so the Marines hide in bushes(That does not sound like typical space marine.) so that the men pass them by, although one man notices that there are giant blue robot men inside the bushes, so he pokes it with a stick.

'''Why not? They are using good military tactics here by hiding from a nurmerically superior force.'''

The Marine yells and leaps out of the bush and climbs up a tree(You can't climb a tree, let alone jump in power armor. It's simply too heavy, even for the oldest of astartes), but his sheer weight knocks the tree down, so the Marine leaps from one tree to the other, running very quickly. The tribesmen, however, know the land much better, and use their air gliders to fly from one branch to the other, somehow getting faster and faster.

'''I'm pretty sure you can jump in power armour, and can't space wolves swim in power armour? If space wolves can swim in power armour, than generic space marines should be able to climb trees in power armour.'''

Finally, the natives catch up with the Marine, but the Marine is stronger, so he scares them off by plucking a tree out of the ground and throwing it at them. The natives make shrieking noises and quickly walk away,(I doubt if you will be able to be quiet while shrieking. Also, how can you quitely walk away when someone throws a tree at you?) and the Marine, named EPAR(One does not simply name a space marine EPAR. It has to be something grand, like Matoras or Juandus to be remembered and strikes fear into the hearts of the enemies of man.), activates his jetpack (So he's a assult marine? why didn't he use it to outrun the natives then?)and flies to his camp. EPAR grabs a bag of flashlights and flies back to the hut, when he learns that the Marines there have just activated their night vision in order to see the hut. EPAR feels somewhat 'down' after this event, and asks his CO, named REPA, if he can sit down and do nothing. REPA then explains that procrastinating is not part of the way of the Ultramarines, which is his Space Marines unit, and begins pointing to the sky and yelling about the God Emperor.

'''Umm. I actually said they quickly walked away, not quietly walked away.'''

'''The tree missed them and only scared them. They simply ran away.'''

'''I decided upon a "code name" which was easy to remember and named him EPAR. That is not the space marine's real name, which may or may not be revealed later if I continue the story.'''

EPAR didn't use his jetpack at first because he wanted to save the fuel for later on or something like that.

EPAR is not in the mood for this, so he ignores REPA and walks away,(It's not a space marine's method to walk away and disobey their superiors. In fact I think it's been suppressed) to REPA's shock. REPA begins to quietly shout(Oh the oxymorons) at EPAR, but he ignores REPA(Space marines will rather kill themselves than become a heretic, but this one did it willingly) and continues walking. REPA turns to to his brothers and brands EPAR a heretic for walking away, and orders his men to hunt down EPAR. EPAR, however, is not bothered by his CO's fuss, and walks into a native village and demands some corn to eat. The natives instead throw many spears at EPAR, which luckily('Luckily'' bounces off his massively thick astartes power armor with polarizion nodes at full charge) bounce off his armor, so EPAR raises his bolter(Since he's an assult marine, standard issue is a bolt pistol and chainsword. He's not strong enough to carry a full bolter and chainsword) and massacres the village's natives. One native comes out with a steam gun and fires many rounds in rapid succession, but the bullets bounce off EPAR's thick ceramic (ceramite)armor.''

Plenty of space marines disobey their superior's orders all the time.

'''There are also plenty of space marines which ascend to chaos all the time. Why else would there be thousands of chaos marines?'''

'''If the natives throughly believed their arrows would be effective, then they would have torn EPAR in half. However, they did not fully believe they would work, so they didn't.'''

'''Ehhh... they are strong enough, since some assault marines are recruited from being devastator marines which operate far heavier weapons than bolters.'''

EPAR roars loudly(Roars? Marines rarely roar, and certainly not in such a small skirmish) and fires his bolter at the native, who is the chief, and kills him instantly. Suddenly, there is a chopping noise in the air, and a strange and unwieldy-looking flying machine hovers over the trees. The flying machine has a bit of metal which seems to spin around, which seemed unsafe for any warriors near the machine. There is a hissing noise from the machine, and white fog is rising out of something on the machine's wings. EPAR sees something coming towards him at high speeds, and quickly ducks out of the way, yet the metal things follow him and there is an explosion.

'''This one is an exception and enjoys roaring. He roars often, because he thinks it makes him less likely to fall on the battlefield.'''

EPAR stands up and dusts off himself, while cackling loudly. EPAR's armor was designed to survive direct hits from MBTs(Pretty sure a suit of armor for normal astartes is unable to survive a direct hit from a leman russ's battle cannon), so a few bits of metal from a primitive aircraft won't even scratch him. EPAR raises his bolter and fires five times, yet he does not fire five times, since there are no bolts in his bolter.

'''Meh. If the space marine is a named character and also the book's main focus, he might be able to survive a few shots.'''

Nay, instead, EPAR's bolter producing a loud clicking noise, so EPAR puts it in his backpack and takes out his chainsword instead. Now, the aircraft is flying in circles around EPAR, firing some sort of automatic rifle(Space marines don't have the word rifle in their dictionary, apparently) at him. It was almost like an autogun, yet slightly weaker. EPAR leaped into the air, and raised his chainsword, ready to bring down the wrath of a true Astartes onto this puny craft assaulting him with bits of metal.

Pulse rifle.

EPAR's chainsword misses by only a few meters in the air, and EPAR lands heavily on his feet. EPAR stumbles slightly, falls over, and now the aircraft is firing two metal things at him. EPAR for some reason cannot move, and the metal things are far larger than the first metal things. EPAR removes his bolter(A true astartes, or anyone with any form of memory would know that his bolter has ran out of ammunation) and fires at the aircraft, watching in grim satisfaction as the bolt rounds shear the gunship in two.

'''EPAR forgot because he's not a true astartes. '''

However, none of this actually happens, as EPAR's bolter has no ammunition inside it. Even as EPAR moves his hands to his backpack, he can see the metal things coming ever so slightly closer. EPAR is just reloading his bolter when he realizes that the metal things are literally less than a meter away, and coming every so slightly closer.(EPAR jerks his armor to use the shoulder pauldron to block the attack. almost half a meter of adamantium coated ceramite would probably block any attack. Unfortunately EPAR has the tactical judgement to reload WHEN he sees projectiles coming towards him.)

'''So, it would even block direct hits from Leman Russes? Lance cannons? Nova cannons?'''

EPAR reloaded when he saw the projectiles coming towards him because he wanted to shoot them before they hit him.

End of Episode 1 EDIT: also, I noticed that EPAR is *ahem* spelled backwards e.e