This is instalment #1 for the Catrian Prime campaign Steve is doing. It is in 2 parts but only covers up to the first battle. I "stole" the info on the planet from Steve and is the Commissars description of the moon.
Catrian Prime
The LT paced back and forth contemplating the orders. After a long silence he looked up and finally spoke, all humor gone from his normally cheery face.
“SGT Boffin, SGT Mungo, I needs yous ta assembuls da guys together.”
The 2 Vets moved out quickly as they knew something was going on. Something big. Two Hours later, in the grand hall, the entire Platoon B was together wondering what was going on.
“OK whats I has hear iz a orda frum da Capin. Hes told us ta go ta dis place called Catrian Prime.” The LT stated.
“Nows I am gonna taks sums of ya wiff me and sums are gonna stays hear. I wants Sqwads Wun and Tews ta go down on da moon wiff me and we gonna sees whats goin on dere. Da rests of yas iz gonna listin to LT. Whitfurrows tills I gets bak. Any questins bout it?” “Yea, I has wun. Why I gots ta listin tad at CHERRY Lt? He caint evin cook hardbreads yet!” Sgt Deepdelver from 4th squad asked.
“cause I sais so! Now No Moor uf ya Lips! Roger?” Lt Romulas replied
A grumble was heard all around and all the Sgts knew it was going to be real crazy for the next few days, as the New LT Whitfurrows had no time as an actual Platoon leader. New or “Cherry” officers usually have the troops doing silly details and things instead of making side bets on the races. They don’t really know what to do yet and they must teach them not to listen to the Sgts at the officer schools on Ornsworld.
“SGTs have yor mens ready in 30 mins foar a breaf. We gots to lern bout dis place frum a team sent by da Big Guy himself!” LT stated.
After 30 mins Both squads were in the galley, along with the vet command squad of Lt Romulas. Not long after the soup was served Lt Romulas and 2 other figures walked in. One was a Ratling, as you could tell by his feet and short stature only, due to the fact he was in heavy robes, and one was An Imperial Commissar, gruff and tall even for a tally with a stone cold gaze. Not a Ratling dare spoke a word as Commissars are known to hate Ratling because as they say they are “undisciplined”. The Lt walked to the front of the room with the others in tow and demanded everyone’s attention.
“Ornswurl’s Fursts, Dis iz Commissar Haas, of the sintrul moonbais dafinse an Falco Peatfingers, from Commandur Muckfoots persunal grup. Day ar hear ta tellz us bout da moon Catrian Prime.”
The tall Commisar looked across the assembled Ratlings with grey cold eyes and twisted his scarred face down into a scowl of disapproval. He regained his professionalism and then pulled the corners of his black greatcoat back to reveal a very ornate boltpistol and placed his hands on his hips as he began to speak.
“Catrian Prime is an odd system located on the outer rim of Imperial Space in the Ultima Segmentum. It is a Single Star with a Single Gas Giant that orbits it. The Gas giant is roughly 4 times the size of jupiter and has a gravitational force that makes life un-sustainable on it's very dense core. However the planet labeled as XYN-4567 is orbited by 2 moons: Catrian Prime and Catrian Secundus.Catrian Secundus is small and was rendered un-inhabitable almost 300 years ago when an Imperator Titan's Reactor went critical and destroyed most of the moon in the process. Catrian Prime is about 1/2 the mass of Earth and has little to no differences ecology wise from earth. What makes Catrian Prime special is not the moon itself, but the fact that XYN-4567 is thought to be in the process of gathering enough energy in itself to become a newborn star. And the energy-siphoning from XYN-4567 has the potential to make whoever holds Catrian Prime enough Energy to power untold machines and create pieces of technology unheard of since the Dark Age of Technology. And so the races of mortals have decended upon the small moon in an attempt to claim it for the Imperium. As the first few weeks passed on the moon of Catrian prime, it has seen many a bloody encounter as the orks have rampaged to an almost unstoppable WAAAAGH! and have even enountered other orks in their wake. This information is all that we have at the moment and is from a data slate sent to me by a confirmed source. He is a High Lord of Terra, and is responsible for this campaign. ”