THe smuggled smiled an amusing smile. "We'll try and find thick ones. But you're friends. I wouldn't expect them to be having children anytime soon..."! After that he leaves you at the table - a semi mechanical female servitor serving you drinks as arrangements are made.

2 standard Sol hours later he returns throwing a sleection of dirty coveralls your way. All 3 marked with "Aquatic system scivener 3rd class." A lowly position but enough to allow you access to the tertiary water reprocessing area. The way down through the bowels of the Castellan Class station is some distance. A snaking network of ducts, cramped wet and rust streaked corrdiors and heavy manual bulkheads. Eventually you arrive in one of the tank refilling areas. A large cavernous structure with a massive airlock at one side of if where the water tanks from the void craft are docked linked to a 15m diameter water pipe. The man leading you- a rough looking maintenance technician with a set of savage radiation scars down one side of his face gestures out of the window as a small lighter manuevres a dull grey and red rusted water tank through the void towards the airlock. The tank is big - some 80m long and 40m in diameter and one of 4 being ferried over from the Last Hope of the Dammned. You watch as the tank slowly inches forward before connecting with the sterilisation collar with a dull "clank". Immediatly the rad scrubbers activate and through the tinted porthole you can see the faint hints of the strong gamma pulse searing the water tank and sterilising prior to the fill. The man glances at you. "If you have bio in there its going to be coming out hot.... can't be doing having water getting contaminated. OUr water supply team get hauled up by the Inquisition themselves for that crime!"

The scrubbing takes 10 minutes before the faint gurgle of water flowing occus as your guide throws a large switch releasing the millions of litres from the stations vast resevoirs fed by servitor slaved water reclaimation vessels that harvested the local comets. 20 minutes of high flowing water passed before your guiide walked over the relief valve and spun the heavy wheels. THe metre wide hatchway opening with a dull hiss and a splash of pure crystal clear water. Looking down he has time to say "By the Emperor - what are you doing" before Vul's horned head breaks the surface!

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Aboard the Captain Yang's ships the time passes slowly for the Astartes and the other heavily armoured members of the party. With infinte patience they all wait until the micro beads chirp and explain their method of entry. Hidden inside empty watre supply tanks and then - once filled with water they will be met at the relief water inlet valve...

The journey inside the sealed metal container is dull and loud. A jostle and bang as the cargo lifter attaches and then the loss of gravity as the empty tank is towed across the short void hop from ship to station. Unpowered the grav plating deactivates leaving a pair of terminators and a marine free floating in a clumsy manner...

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If you don't have magnetic boots then please make easy (+20) acrobatic checks to find a safe place to anchor yourself.

Otherwise you'll be falling 1d5+2m when the tank reaches the station and grav plating becomes powered again.


As the grav plating activates with a warning siren the systems glow sadly red warning anything within that a rad sweep is about to begin as the water tank meets the docking collar of the station. Within the unlit pitch darkness you can see a faint warping in the air as the flickering rad sweep slowly begins to sweep the length of the water vessel.

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Everyon takes a (2d10+6)[15] PEN 8 hit
If you take damage make a T (+0) test or suffer a level of fatigue that will need medical attention to remove.


When the sweep finishes the lights flicker on and the gates at the far side open and verititable wall of water pours in sweepinga round the sealed armour of the heretek and the Astartes. 20 inutes later the filling is complete but the astartes are no longer within. All 3 waiting in a small relief vavle chamber some 3m across - its a tight fit.

A bang on the large valve above followed by a circle of light forming marks the hatch opening above you and the way into the station becoming clear...