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After awakening in a strange universe the 34 brothers of the Viridian Blades chapter of the Adeptus Astartes quickly moved to secure themselves from the Xenos that had attempted to scrutinize them as well as transportation and spaceborn weapons. They also secured another relic brought along by whatever event had thrown them beyond time and space, an Imperial Guard cargo carrier that had also been whisked away in the evacuation event that they had been involved in. Inside which, fifty two people existed in suspended animation of one sort or another, though their significance early on was limited to the services of the five tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechancius to keep their commandeered Vor'cha class ship operational and two Adepts of the Administratum keeping track of inventory. They probed about gaining intelligence on their surroundings as they worked out their long term plan. Then they gathered resources and personnel from the non-Imperial humans of the so-called "United Federation of Planets". After a miscalculation at the battle of Patel's World cost them more than a fifth of their number the Viridian Blades reckoned that they had enough captives and local human technology to facilitate their basic needs and pushed off with some 676 UFP humans in their ship's hold, flying off in search of a haven and making preparations.

For Starfleet, the departure of the ED Warriors was considered a loose end. On the one hand a group of renegade exceedingly deadly warriors flying about in a stolen Klingon Battle-cruiser with kidnapped Federation citizens was big issue. On the other hand their numbers were small and space is a big place. A Klingon Warship could not remain active indefinitely without yard work, especially with a small crew not trained in it's operation. Either it would fail leaving it stranded in interstellar space or it would sooner or land somewhere. After loosing it's trail priority gradually fell, especially as other matters closer to home became more pressing. After a year of flight, the Viridian Blades found a suitable world and named it Nuclenium. For even cast away in another universe beyond the Light of the Astronomicon their loyalty held true and if they could not reach their Imperium, they would grow an new one.

In 2398, a Klingon Scout vessel found the Vor'cha class cruiser orbiting an M-class planet and moved to investigate. It was destroyed on the outskirts of the system, but managed a long range transmission back to the Empire of their findings. Both Starfleet and the KDF readied expeditions. The KDF launched and arrived first, force of a battlecruiser, three escorting Warbirds and a fleet train of six troopships carrying 20,000 Warriors. Many of them were armed with twenty kilo heavy disruptor rifles* for ground operations against the planetside base that was detected. When they arrived, they faced stiffer resistance than they anticipated. A set of orbital platforms built into towed asteroids inflicted considerable damage to the fleet and while the troopships were able to deploy much of their forces to Nuclenium's surface they faced far more than just a couple dozen Astartes that they expected. Part of the reason why was because there was a race of herbivorous blue horned humanoids at an iron age level of technological development that could be exploited as an underclass. But more than that was that there was over a hundred and sixty two thousand humans.

Part of the reason why the Viridian Blades captured humans was as a source of manpower for their planned projects and to help them operate machinery which might not have been sanctified by the Omnissiah, but was still of Human origin. They (as well as salvaged body parts taken from battlefields) provided tissue samples to the Magos Genetor for work in their grand plan. Systems were set up which resembled large bags of cultured organic tissues fed synthetic nutrients and monitored by cogitators which were hooked up to the brains of the 34 of the 37 Guardsmen which had been frozen in the shuttle. The first of these mechanisms were built en-route and were decanted a few months after arrival, providing 208 men and women that had been flash grown to adolescence (with another 32 failing to develop properly) and after six to eight months of therapy and training under the supervision of the three Commissars and two of the Astartes the fragments of memories that had been instilled into them clicked into place and they could function in this role (though another 22 of them ended up developing intense psychosis during said period and ended up converted into servitors). The system was based on the Vitae Womb employed by the Death Korps of Krieg. It was a method which was not wildly used for a variety of practical (failure rate, physical and mental health issues normally set in after a couple decades, gaps in knowledge base, mental inflexibility, technological intensity, risk of warp tainted templates corrupting batches, surplus of warm bodies on hive worlds, etc), religious and moral reasons. But in this situation where additional loyal humans were needed in bulk quickly and with Federation technology which streamlined some of the processes it was deemed to be necessary for the development of Nuclenium. They served as soldiers, spacers, guards, overseers of native laborers and federal humans and workers and more. Some received more technical, religious or administrative training and those that passed served performed adequately in that role. In addition to the decanting of adults, more conventional exowombs were set up to provide infants for the Imperial Guard as well as more natural means as the artificially produced adults were ordered to pair off.

By 2438, Nuclenium had grown into what the official Starfleet report described as "a Dystopian hellhole", though one that was heavily defended. Teams of warriors were transported on the forested island chain where the Imperium-In-Exile had set up their main cluster of settlements with shuttles prepared to target ED Warriors. What they faced instead was the First Nuclenian Regiment of the Imperial Guard (pictured, a member of the 12th Company). Eight thousand men and Women**, both vat grown and naturally born armed with a variety of equipment from Lasguns to Hydra turrets to a squadron of six Leman Russ main battle tanks. Shuttles were shot down while the battle on the ground while combat on the ground became a nightmare. In spite of their heavy small arms, the KDF faced a well trained force with the home field advantage and superior arms and tactics. Heavy Disruptors were powerful, but unwieldly and purely line of sight. Mortar shells rained upon their formations, snipers picked off Klingon officers, Klingon Squad marched into kill zones to be chewed apart by heavy bolter positions and those unfortunate to come across tanks were cut down by the score. The main course of the ground battle lasted around six hours, though pockets of Klingon Forces did withdraw into the forests which would hold out for some time to come.

The Battle in Space was less one sided, with a fair number of defensive stations destroyed and the Vor'cha class ship badly damaged even though the Klingons were forced to withdraw. The Starfleet expeditionary force arrived a week latter (with a complement of 500 Exosuit equipped MACOs and Security Forces) and was in a strong enough position to force even the Astartes to concede a tactical defeat and to try their hand at the negotiating table. In short, the terms laid out before them was as such...

Cessation of all hostilities against the Federation and the Klingon Empire
Repatriation of all Federation Citizens and the withdrawl of all Klingon Forces
Relocation of all Imperial humans from Nuclenium to an uninhabited habitable world five light years away over a period of Five Years both by Starfleet Logistics and whatever transport craft they had.
Demolition of all equipment on Nuclenium after the relocation.
Accept a Starfleet Starship to act as an observer for the next 20 years and a UFP embassy.

Begrudgingly the Ad-Hoc government of the Imperium-In-Exile agreed to the terms and the evacuation to what would be called Neo-Nuclenium was facilitated. The transition was a hard one and forced a considerable demobilization of military assets and that plans for population expansion be scaled back. Never the less, the Imperials did not abandon their dreams of conquest.

*Much to the chagrin of the Klingon Empire, the Federation was unwilling to provide them with Combat Exosuits due to the Prime Directive.

**Disproportionately the latter.

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Description

After awakening in a strange universe the 34 brothers of the Viridian Blades chapter of the Adeptus Astartes quickly moved to secure themselves from the Xenos that had attempted to scrutinize them as well as transportation and spaceborn weapons. They also secured another relic brought along by whatever event had thrown them beyond time and space, an Imperial Guard cargo carrier that had also been whisked away in the evacuation event that they had been involved in. Inside which, fifty two people existed in suspended animation of one sort or another, though their significance early on was limited to the services of the five tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechancius to keep their commandeered Vor'cha class ship operational and two Adepts of the Administratum keeping track of inventory. They probed about gaining intelligence on their surroundings as they worked out their long term plan. Then they gathered resources and personnel from the non-Imperial humans of the so-called "United Federation of Planets". After a miscalculation at the battle of Patel's World cost them more than a fifth of their number the Viridian Blades reckoned that they had enough captives and local human technology to facilitate their basic needs and pushed off with some 676 UFP humans in their ship's hold, flying off in search of a haven and making preparations.

For Starfleet, the departure of the ED Warriors was considered a loose end. On the one hand a group of renegade exceedingly deadly warriors flying about in a stolen Klingon Battle-cruiser with kidnapped Federation citizens was big issue. On the other hand their numbers were small and space is a big place. A Klingon Warship could not remain active indefinitely without yard work, especially with a small crew not trained in it's operation. Either it would fail leaving it stranded in interstellar space or it would sooner or land somewhere. After loosing it's trail priority gradually fell, especially as other matters closer to home became more pressing. After a year of flight, the Viridian Blades found a suitable world and named it Nuclenium. For even cast away in another universe beyond the Light of the Astronomicon their loyalty held true and if they could not reach their Imperium, they would grow an new one.

In 2398, a Klingon Scout vessel found the Vor'cha class cruiser orbiting an M-class planet and moved to investigate. It was destroyed on the outskirts of the system, but managed a long range transmission back to the Empire of their findings. Both Starfleet and the KDF readied expeditions. The KDF launched and arrived first, force of a battlecruiser, three escorting Warbirds and a fleet train of six troopships carrying 20,000 Warriors. Many of them were armed with twenty kilo heavy disruptor rifles* for ground operations against the planetside base that was detected. When they arrived, they faced stiffer resistance than they anticipated. A set of orbital platforms built into towed asteroids inflicted considerable damage to the fleet and while the troopships were able to deploy much of their forces to Nuclenium's surface they faced far more than just a couple dozen Astartes that they expected. Part of the reason why was because there was a race of herbivorous blue horned humanoids at an iron age level of technological development that could be exploited as an underclass. But more than that was that there was over a hundred and sixty two thousand humans.

Part of the reason why the Viridian Blades captured humans was as a source of manpower for their planned projects and to help them operate machinery which might not have been sanctified by the Omnissiah, but was still of Human origin. They (as well as salvaged body parts taken from battlefields) provided tissue samples to the Magos Genetor for work in their grand plan. Systems were set up which resembled large bags of cultured organic tissues fed synthetic nutrients and monitored by cogitators which were hooked up to the brains of the 34 of the 37 Guardsmen which had been frozen in the shuttle. The first of these mechanisms were built en-route and were decanted a few months after arrival, providing 208 men and women that had been flash grown to adolescence (with another 32 failing to develop properly) and after six to eight months of therapy and training under the supervision of the three Commissars and two of the Astartes the fragments of memories that had been instilled into them clicked into place and they could function in this role (though another 22 of them ended up developing intense psychosis during said period and ended up converted into servitors). The system was based on the Vitae Womb employed by the Death Korps of Krieg. It was a method which was not wildly used for a variety of practical (failure rate, physical and mental health issues normally set in after a couple decades, gaps in knowledge base, mental inflexibility, technological intensity, risk of warp tainted templates corrupting batches, surplus of warm bodies on hive worlds, etc), religious and moral reasons. But in this situation where additional loyal humans were needed in bulk quickly and with Federation technology which streamlined some of the processes it was deemed to be necessary for the development of Nuclenium. They served as soldiers, spacers, guards, overseers of native laborers and federal humans and workers and more. Some received more technical, religious or administrative training and those that passed served performed adequately in that role. In addition to the decanting of adults, more conventional exowombs were set up to provide infants for the Imperial Guard as well as more natural means as the artificially produced adults were ordered to pair off.

By 2438, Nuclenium had grown into what the official Starfleet report described as "a Dystopian hellhole", though one that was heavily defended. Teams of warriors were transported on the forested island chain where the Imperium-In-Exile had set up their main cluster of settlements with shuttles prepared to target ED Warriors. What they faced instead was the First Nuclenian Regiment of the Imperial Guard (pictured, a member of the 12th Company). Eight thousand men and Women**, both vat grown and naturally born armed with a variety of equipment from Lasguns to Hydra turrets to a squadron of six Leman Russ main battle tanks. Shuttles were shot down while the battle on the ground while combat on the ground became a nightmare. In spite of their heavy small arms, the KDF faced a well trained force with the home field advantage and superior arms and tactics. Heavy Disruptors were powerful, but unwieldly and purely line of sight. Mortar shells rained upon their formations, snipers picked off Klingon officers, Klingon Squad marched into kill zones to be chewed apart by heavy bolter positions and those unfortunate to come across tanks were cut down by the score. The main course of the ground battle lasted around six hours, though pockets of Klingon Forces did withdraw into the forests which would hold out for some time to come.

The Battle in Space was less one sided, with a fair number of defensive stations destroyed and the Vor'cha class ship badly damaged even though the Klingons were forced to withdraw. The Starfleet expeditionary force arrived a week latter (with a complement of 500 Exosuit equipped MACOs and Security Forces) and was in a strong enough position to force even the Astartes to concede a tactical defeat and to try their hand at the negotiating table. In short, the terms laid out before them was as such...

Cessation of all hostilities against the Federation and the Klingon Empire
Repatriation of all Federation Citizens and the withdrawl of all Klingon Forces
Relocation of all Imperial humans from Nuclenium to an uninhabited habitable world five light years away over a period of Five Years both by Starfleet Logistics and whatever transport craft they had.
Demolition of all equipment on Nuclenium after the relocation.
Accept a Starfleet Starship to act as an observer for the next 20 years and a UFP embassy.

Begrudgingly the Ad-Hoc government of the Imperium-In-Exile agreed to the terms and the evacuation to what would be called Neo-Nuclenium was facilitated. The transition was a hard one and forced a considerable demobilization of military assets and that plans for population expansion be scaled back. Never the less, the Imperials did not abandon their dreams of conquest.

*Much to the chagrin of the Klingon Empire, the Federation was unwilling to provide them with Combat Exosuits due to the Prime Directive.

**Disproportionately the latter.

Star Trek belongs to Paramount

Warhammer 40,000 belongs to Games Workshop