User blog comment:Jed Revenant man/Collaborative Article(s): "Da Plan"./@comment-1824611-20130913081126

Ok.

Been considering the various ideas floating around, and had a couple of my own.

First off, I think that the location should definitely be a civilised world, since civilised worlds provide a large variety of locations for all kinds of bloodshed. For some reason I think the word "Prime" should be in the name as well. No idea why, I just like the idea of making a place called "Something Prime".

Next, the Imperial collaborative faction. The more I think about it, the more I think the collaborative Space Marine Chapter should know the relic/artefact is on the planet, even if they don't know where. To that end, I think maybe having it be a casket (definitely using the word "casket" in the title) from the dawn of the Imperium, sort of Great Crusade era (though no one knows what's inside the casket, of course) would be interesting: I had a thought that maybe, although the artefact is of unknown origin/purpose, it was stamped with the seal of the Dark Angels and thus the Dark Angels made a successor Chapter (which they do sometimes) to hard it - and their myriad secrets. That's one thought.

As for the Chaos collaborative faction/leader, I'm wavering between a prince of daemons and a non-daemon warlord. In either case, the individual in question will probably have been tasked by the Chaos Gods - indirectly - to retrieve the casket. Probably knows what planet it's on, but (despite torturing some members of he Chapter that lives there), doesn't know where it is precisely.

Also having a definite idea about the skeleton of a structure for the article: probably again something similar to The War for Sanctatum, in that it'd feature a list of forces, each introduced by a quote from a character then a paragraph detailing their forces and participation in the conflict.

I was interested by Forge-Lord Steve Miner's suggestion of randomising the result of the conflict based on a dice roll, and was wondering what others thought of the suggestion. I think it could work.

That's some of my trouts after everyone's comments. Glad to see so many people are wanting to get involved, should make for a grand story of conflict. :-)