TEXT: Through the icy darkness of the void, the rock hurtled towards
  the ocean blue planet below, trailing all manner of dust, a tail
  of water and gas being left in its wake. Orbital satellites had
  tracked it from its initial entry into the star system, and now
  mapped its trajectory as it began its final descent into the
  atmosphere.  The meteor began to glow red-hot as hit the upper
  atmosphere, and the thin layer of gases surrounding it were
  burned off in an instant.  With a fiery trail behind it, it hurtled
  through the skies, losing altitude at a phenomenal rate.  The
  inconceivably vast oceans beneath it reflected the red glare as
  the rock grew closer and closer to sea level, until the projectile
  was scant metres above the surface. 
  Huge volumes of superheated steam were launched into the
  atmosphere as the boulder punched through the water and
  continued to descend.  Had there been any ocean life nearby,
  the shockwave of impact would have left them dead.  Though
  still travelling quickly, the water robbed the meteorite of the
  majority of its speed. While huge tidal waves swept over the
  water surface above it, the meteor approached its final resting
  place in a more stately fashion.  The sea bed rushed to meet it,
  and the body of cosmic rock embedded itself in the bedrock of
  the ocean world. 
  A few of the huge ocean-dwelling flatworms slowly approached
  the foreign intruder into their realm, inspecting it with an
  animal curiosity.  Hovering above the scene, a small metallic
  probe observed the final resting place of the meteorite, before
  turning on its axis and heading the few short kilometres back
  to the huge looming shape on the horizon.
  The gargantuan underwater city and mining complex of Cirian
  Auxilla. 
  INTRODUCTION
  Gift of the Heavens is an Inquisitor Campaign set in the Cirian
  Adventurescape.  Before embarking on the scenarios presented
  here, it is strongly advised the gamesmaster familiarises himself
  with the events of portrayed in the Inquisitor: Conspiracies
  supplement, The Cirian Legacy.  The format used in that book is
  the same as that presented here, so the players should be familiar
  with the layout and workings of the Inquisitor: Conspiracies
  series.  It is assumed that players have a copy of The Cirian
  Legacy before they play Gift of the Heavens, so that they may use
  the profiles provided within for the NPCs in the scenarios.
  Gift of the Heavens comprises three campaigns, and a total of 14
  scenarios, as well as the attendant narrative chapters. It is initially
  designed for a Gamesmaster and one or two players, but with a
  little thought and interpretation can be used adapted for more. 
  As with all Inquisitor material, players and gamesmasters should
  view what is written here as a framework and/or inspiration only.
  Feel free to modify Gift of the Heavens as you see fit, and lift the
  bits you like for use in your own campaigns.  Cirian Auxilla is
  your playground – have fun!
  RECENT HISTORY OF CIRIAN AUXILLA
  In the aftermath of the departure of the renegade Inquisitor
  Scarn, the factory-city of Cirian Auxilla was thrown into chaos.
  The twisted schemes of Scarn, and the deluded work of the
  Magos Biologis Sorgan Vorg, had caused the attention of the
  Imperial Inquisition to fall upon Cirian Auxilla, but as is often the
  way when Inquisitors are forced to hunt one of their own, the
  situation they left behind was highly unstable.
  The Conclave of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the ruling body of
  Cirian Auxilla, was thrown into chaos with the discovery of the
  body of Arch-Magos Dargon Autilous.  The corpse of the Arch-
  Magos was found by maintenance servitors in darkened and
  disused service passages near the Council chambers of the
  Conclave, three weeks after the departure of the Inquisition.
  Cirian Auxilla had been under an enforced martial law since that
  time regardless – the Skitarii had brutally suppressed uprising by
  the indentured workers in the aftermath of the Affair of the
  Winged.  These rebellions appeared to be organised by elements
  of the Miners’ Guild, but with the disappearance of Gorrin
  Moore, they were poorly led and badly organised.  The Skitarii
  killed several hundred traitors and stamped order back down on
  the ghettos of Cirian Auxilla, and maintained an atmosphere of
  near-normality in the Flayed Deviant District, allowing business
  to continue as usual.
  However, the confirmation of the death of Autilous sparked off a
  new and more dangerous threat, as the differing factions of the
  Adeptus Mechanicus began to compete within themselves for
  control of the Conclave.  While the   Tech-Priests engaged in
  these combats on a political and intellectual level, their followers
  and attendant Skitarii fought on a more physical level.  Now
  engaged in battles against one another, the Skitarii were unable
  to police the resentful workers, and civil unrest began to reign
  once more.   
  Two months after the discovery of the body of Autilous, a meteor
  was tracked streaking through the atmosphere of Cirian V, and its
  trajectory was calculated as coming to land within a few
  kilometres of Cirian Auxilla itself.  As a result of the civil problems
  wracking the installation, little attention was paid to this
  astronomical event after it was determined that there would be
  no significant danger to Cirian Auxilla – there were more
  pressing matters at hand for the warring Tech-Priests.  However,
  one of them did take notice – a fairly minor player on the
  Adeptus Mechanicus Conclave by the name of Magos Kirov
  Vostok.  Holding control as he did of a substantial portion of the
  oceanic research facilities of Auxilla, Vostok dispatched a probe
  to examine the resting site of the meteor and take samples from
  the surrounding area to assess the impact of the area.  The results
  came back indicating that the impact damage from the meteors
  descent had caused some most interesting transformations in the
  surrounding mineral beds that were a huge source of Organan
  for the Conclave.  The core samples were initially analysed under
  the supervision of Lexmechanic Prime Gregor Yurinovich, and it
  was at his urging that Magos Vostok began to use all of his
  resources to obtain the Organan around the impact site.
  The withdrawal of Vostok’s forces was largely ignored by the
  other members of the Conclave – if a player wanted to apparently
  capitulate the majority of their territory and drill around a
  worthless crash site then they would happily carve up what he
  had just abandoned.  However, the intelligence of this decision
  was questioned when the Organan mined by Vostok’s operation
  turned out to be even more highly addictive then the usual form
  of the mineral.  Thanks to a highly efficient distribution network
  set-up by Lexmechanic Yurinovich, Magos Vostok soon had
  thousands of Organan-dependant soldiers and workers in his
  forces, and with these he began to make a move to push for
  control of the Conclave, and become ruler of Cirian Auxilla.  This
  was to prove highly successful, and eventually several of the
  other Magi had to unite their forces to prevent Vostok’s forces
  over-running their own.  A futile effort was made to attack the
  drilling site where the Organan was being produced, but it was
  The Gift of the Heavens
  The Gift of the Heavens
  Campaign Introduction
  By Derek Gillespie
  
  too well defended.  After a month of political and military
  stalemate, the members of the Conclave came to an agreement.
  The Conclave would be run as a collective organisation in the
  interim, with no leading figure.  This situation would be allowed
  to continue for three months, in which time the production of
  the facility could hopefully return to normal now that workers
  and Skitarii would be able to resume normal duties.  Whichever
  Magos controlled the most productive facilities at the end of this
  time period would be elected to lead the Conclave. 
  Although few wanted to admit it, Vostok’s commanding position
  and numerous affiliated minor members of the Conclave put him
  in a strong position to most satisfactorily fulfil these criteria, and
  so he heartily agreed to the Conclave’s terms.     
  IMPORTANT PERSONALITIES
  Outlined below is a selection of the most important personalities
  encountered during the Gift of the Heavens campaign.  The GM
  should peruse the following descriptions in conjunction with
  reading the scenarios that follow and assess just what and what
  not to tell his or her players.
  Arch-Magos Kirov Vostok
  During the immeasurably long reign of Dargon Autilous, Kirov
  Vostok remained little more than bit-player in the affairs of the
  Adeptus Mechanicus on Cirian V.  The Conclave acknowledged
  his expertise in the field of mining technologies, but never
  allowed him to build up a substantial power base, meaning that
  Magos Vostok survived the political games of the Conclave by
  throwing his lot in with whichever political alliance was currently
  the closest to the favour of Autilous.  It was this minor standing
  which likely saved him after the death of Autilous, as he withdrew
  his forces from the main areas of combat which sprang up
  throughout Cirian Auxilla and concentrated on defending his
  installations as opposed to gaining territory.  Once the dust had
  settled, Vostok could ally himself with the victor, and the status
  quo would be resumed. 
  The planetfall of the meteor brought about a reversal of Vostok’s
  fortunes – after securing the area around the impact site and
  beginning mining the vast quantities of altered Organan, Vostok
  quickly began to rise to power as his forces swelled with those
  addicted to his potent new drug.  Relishing the new power,
  Vostok began to take revenge upon those who had persecuted
  him in the past, and soon other tech-priests were throwing their
  lot in with him, recognising the new power at his command.
  Vostok has accepted the Conclave’s decision on the future
  rulership of Cirian Auxilla, and is confident of victory in the game
  they are playing, but is still more than willing to do what is
  necessary to make sure it finally comes his way.
  Lexmechanic Prime Gregor Yurinovich
  Gregor Yurinovich has been a long-time servant of the soon-to-be
  Arch Magos, Kirov Vostok, providing vital logistical and technical
  support to the Magos during the vital drilling operations which
  often formed the only reason the other Magi did not eliminate
  Vostok during Autilous’ reign.  It was Yurinovich who was
  assigned by Vostok to lead the expedition that secured the
  meteor impact site, and it was he would made the first analyses
  on the core samples obtained.  As a direct result of his
  observations and computations, Kirov Vostok ordered the
  mining of the Organan seam affected by the crash, and so
  Yurinovich 
  cemented 
  his 
  power-base 
  within 
  Vostok’s
  organisation.
  It is he how fully understands the properties of the mineral in its
  new state, and he who oversees the supply to other factions.  It
  is even rumoured that his understanding of the Organan is so
  great that he has begun work on effecting the same alterations on
  Organan samples originating from other sources other than the
  meteor impact site, so supply can continue indefinitely.  How
  these transformations are carried out is a secret known only to
  Yurinovich and, most likely, Vostok himself.  Yurinovich now acts
  as the public face of the Vostok cartel, and is rarely encountered
  without an attendant Skitarii bodyguard.    
  Gorrin Moore, Leader of the Miners’ Union
  After the traumatic experiences thrust upon him by the renegade
  Inquisitor Scarn during the Affair of the Winged, Gorrin Moore
  withdrew the Miners’ Union from the public eye, which the
  Adeptus Mechanicus hailed as a great success, despite the fact
  they had had little to do with the crushing of the group.
  Disillusioned with their leader, many sections of the Miners’
  Union formed splinter factions that continued to trouble the
  tech-priests, but lacking in any central organisation these were
  never going to truly worry the Conclave.
  In truth, the psychic manipulations of Inquisitor Scarn have
  instilled in Moore a deep paranoia, and he is now highly
  reluctant to appear in front of public gatherings or to admit
  strangers into his inner circle.  He does, however, still possess
  control over a large fraction of the Miners’ Union, which he
  directs from his hide-away deep in the ghettos of Cirian Auxilla.
  At the present time, much of Moore’s activity centres round
  attempting to keep the Miners’ Union away from the largest
  conflicts in the inter-Conclave firefights, and chipping away at the
  power base of the weaker Mechanicus factions.  This somewhat
  passive strategy is held up by his opponents as a prime example
  that their leader has lost the singular driving force which brought
  him to power, and Moore’s leadership of the Miners’ Union is
  now under greater threat than ever.
  Brother Thomas, Ward of the Chapel of St. Lucius
  Brother Thomas is an aged Ministorum clergyman, preaching to
  the poor masses in the ghettos of Cirian Auxilla.  As a younger
  man, Thomas was a pious follower of the Faith of the Martyred
  Saint – the Ecclesiarchy cathedral of which gives its name to the
  Martyred Saint district of the Mechanicus complex.  Saint Lucius,
  the Martyred Saint in question, was a Ministorum preacher who
  preached against the growth of the Cult of the Winged, and was
  killed in the Scarla sector wars which followed.  He was
  posthumously beatified by the Ministorum after his death as a
  symbol of strength of belief in the Emperor in the face of false
  religious belief.
  As Brother Thomas grew old, he became increasingly
  disillusioned with concessions made by the Ecclesiarchy towards
  the Adeptus Mechanicus, seeing such capitulation before the
  religion of the Machine as being contrary to the teachings of St.
  Lucius.  His outspoken criticism of such reforms saw him
  banished to form a small mission in the ghettos, the Chapel of St,
  Lucius.  His dislike and distrust of the Adeptus Mechanicus has
  seen him become confessor and friend to many within the
  Miners’ Union, who rely upon his words and wisdom to soothe
  them through these difficult times. 
  
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