User blog comment:Jed Revenant man/Collaborative Article(s): "Da Plan"./@comment-1824611-20130917133211

Right then, I've gone off, had a think, and this is what I've come up with.

Firstly, I had an idea for the name of the world: Landes Prime - "Landes" comes from "clandestine", implying secrets. What do you guys think?

Secondly: I've been thinking about the collaborative Chapter we're creating. I definitely think having it be a Dark Angels successor created in a shroud of secrecy to guard an unknown relic stamped with a Dark Angels symbol from the pre-heresy era would be interesting. It gives a sort of ominous edge to it - is it an artefact the Fallen had? Is it something of the Primarch's? Or is it something the ancient Dark Angels found and contained, but that has terrible power all it's own...? We'd still need to think of the name/colours of the Chapter, of course.

Thirdly, there's the matter of the collaborative Chaos leader/faction: with the Dark Angels link in the Imperial faction, would it be too much to have the Chaos leader be a Fallen? Would that be a little too Dark Angel-y? Or would it add another cool layer to the thing?

If no one objects, we can create the bare bones article of "The War for Landes Prime" as a place to start collating our various ideas in written form, and use the talk page there to start really writing the thing. If we're agreed to follow the Sanctatum model, the bare bones of the article would look a little something like this - please do give input if you think anything can be done better. The various heading titles certainly might change.

Summary
Where we write about the war as a whole.

Landes Prime
A bit of background information about the Landes system, and obviously Landes Prime itself, possibly with various sub-headings about the cities we want etc.

Imperial Forces
Under which we have subheadings for every Imperial faction involved, including the collaboratively created Chapter at the top. Each force is introduced with a quite, since that gives it good atmosphere.

Chaos Forces
Under which we have subheadings for the Chaos factions, including the collaboratively created Warlord/Band at the top. Each force, again, introduced with a quote.

Other Forces
Under which forces that don't fit into either of those other headings get listed with their own subheadings. Again, introduce with a quote.

=The War=

A quote from someone - I think this will nicely round up pretty much everything.

Prelude
A little bit of background information leading to the events of the conflict: so this is where some information about the artefact might be put, and precisely what the main Chaos guy wants with it (individual Xenos, Imperial and other Chaos factions' interests go in their own subheadings above).

After that it's a bit of guesswork involving the following:

Major Event One
Landing of Chaos forces? Daemonic invasion? Under which any number of small stories might fit, though at this point the conflict is small, concerning the collaborative factions.

Influx of Factions
Obviously, the other factions would arrive during the course of the fighting: Imperial factions coming to help the embattled planet, Chaos forces joining the collab Chaos warlord - or even not doing - Xenos coming for their own purposes. Sub-headings are a good place for individual forces' arrival.

Conflict between X and X
Several sections like this, detailing various parts of the greater conflict. These can be people's own factions, or more than one person's, but I think such sections should have little impact on the final battle itself. The more of these we have the more the actual war seems big and detailed.

And after a few of these...

Final Act
This one comes down to a final conflict between the collaborative factions, the Chaos Warlord and the Space Marine Chapter. Part of me thinks that other forces should be present as well, but part of me isn't sure, so I'll leave that one as an open question for everyone to consider.

So in summary: 1: we have a possible name of the planet. If people don't like it, suggest alternatives, and we'll discuss it. 2: we have possible backgrounds for the Space Marine collab Chapter and the collab Warlord. We need a name and colour scheme for the former and possibly the latter, and if people don't like the concept now would be an excellent time to speak up. 3: we have a basic skeleton. If people could comment on anything they think might be missing etc, and once everyone's happy with it, I'll start the "The War for Landes Prime" (or whatever the final name of the planet is) article and we can start writing.