Chapter 1 ending SPOILERS DO NOT READ.

[WarMaster GoreHowl]

So I defeated Aurora and all the dropships are safe. Now I have all these options.

DO I save....
Nobles
Commoners
The Reactor
THEN blow it up or what?

[Mindmaker]

Originally posted by XartaX:

The fusion reactor basically gives you wealth. Not sure about what saving the rest does besides story stuff. The debuff is temporary afaik, but you need to progress through the story a bit before it goes away..

Hopefully. Would be nice if you got a special interaction on a heretic playthrough.

[Daliena]

Planet go boom, results unknown to me.

Save people, and you get a debuff for -5 WP, but it is not permanent-permanent. It goes away at some point, or at least did for my first post-release character (I've been maniacally rerolling a bit), somewhere between arriving on Footfall (and getting the debuff) and leaving Footfall and arriving on Janus.

oh and FYI regarding the options - if you save all the shuttles, you get two pick-ups. Reactor + the Electropriests, masses of commoners, or comparatively few nobles, each is one pick-up, so someone and/or something has to be left behind. There's no option to save everyone no matter what.

And if you try to save ANYone, then you lose the option to blow up the reactor.

[Cutlass Jack]

Odd I lost one shuttle and still got two pickups. So I was assuming if I didn't lose that one I could pick up all three. I ended up taking commoners+reactor.

[mayrc]

The game has consequences and basically it depends on what of the 3 convictions your play.
Dogmatic / iconoclast / Heretic

Choose your style and stay true to it. And the most important thing to realize is: THere is no Good and Evil in Warhammer. Your beeing the Good guy you get fu cked by Chaos. You are the bad guy you get fu cked by the Empire. You are neither, you get fu cked by Xenos

[Nick]

haha irreplaceable reactor go boom

[Mentally Unstable]

Purging with fire is the answer to everything in life, especially if in doubt.

[Daliena]

Originally posted by Mentally Unstable:

Purging with fire is the answer to everything in life, especially if in doubt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euCBOTdKHVs

[Kumitz]

Originally posted by XartaX:

The fusion reactor basically gives you wealth. Not sure about what saving the rest does besides story stuff. The debuff is temporary afaik, but you need to progress through the story a bit before it goes away..

I hoped and imagined something of the sort; thx, I'll be sleeping better tonight

[JimmysTheBestCop]

This is wh40k not some good doer high fantasy rpg.

For the emperor!

[brago90]

I let the planet become a daemon world, all in the hope that I could visit it again in the future.

Yep, I'm full heretic even if it's just out of curiosity to see to what extent everything goes to ♥♥♥♥.

[Khryst]

here's the thing,
Dogmatic...your going to blow it up because the Inquisitor said to.
Iconoclast...could make the attempt to save people, but depending on your background an arguement could be made that you'll blow it up too, because the Inquisitor said to do it. Even someone that isn't full on follower of the imperial dogma isn't necessarily going to openly defy or ignore an inquisitor when it comes to Daemon/Chaos things.
Heretic...could honestly go anyway you want.

[AdultishColombo]

Originally posted by wei270:

ok fact so far
as long as you didn't just run or blow it up, you get a -5 will, seems permanent so far.
as long as you try to save some body, any one group out of the 3, you get +15 to iconclass

rumors
if you save the reactor it can turn in to some profit factor later down the road.
if you save both the rich and poor you denied the chaos god a portion of its sacrifice. thus making it weaker than it would have been.

honest not enough people at this point has finish the game and those that did is not talking about it.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thank you. Mechanical solutions over here

[Madner Kami]

Originally posted by Kumitz:

I loaded up my save, you get a -5WP permanent debuff.
Now I'm going to bed pissed. Especially given the the debuff description:
"The Ruinous Powers remember those who witnessed the death of Rykad Minoris. Woe be to any who draws the eye of the Archenemy"

My character was on his ship, sending troops to retrieve the fusion reactor. He did not witness any more than any of the other characters.

Now I have to hope that it was worth it.

Really? You're playing a Warhammer 40k roleplaying game. WH40k is bleak. It is dark. There is no victory. You just go from one no-win-scenario to the next. This is what Warhammer is.

You're faced with an entire world falling into the hands of Chaos and you got a choice to make:
1) Save a few replaceable people whose survival makes no difference, not even for your concience, as billions more will die in horrible agony, eaten by Demons and being food for an entire Demon World, which will be a blight on the Sector for millenia to come. But you get the gratitude of a couple completely irrelevant people.
2) Save an irreplacable reactor and condemn a billion souls to be food for the Chaos Gods, leaving a meandering Demon World in your wake, which will result in the deaths of billions more in the coming millenia. But you get space rich.
3) Blow up an irreplacable artifact, loose an entire world and consign billions of souls to oblivion. But prevent the spawning of a Demon World and with a bit of luck, the souls of the doomed may escape eternal damnation.

None of these choices are good. None will leave your concience clean. But since billions die regardless, you can make a choice that results in the prevention of loss of even more souls... Within the setting, there is really only one choice.

We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge. In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the Imperial world of Rykad Minoris. I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire world, and consign a million souls to oblivion. May Imperial Justice account in all balance. The Emperor Protects.

[lyonesse2]

Let the Exterminatus begin! For the God-Emperor, may he watch over humanity for all eternity!

[XartaX]

Originally posted by Madner Kami:

Originally posted by Kumitz:

I loaded up my save, you get a -5WP permanent debuff.
Now I'm going to bed pissed. Especially given the the debuff description:
"The Ruinous Powers remember those who witnessed the death of Rykad Minoris. Woe be to any who draws the eye of the Archenemy"

My character was on his ship, sending troops to retrieve the fusion reactor. He did not witness any more than any of the other characters.

Now I have to hope that it was worth it.

Really? You're playing a Warhammer 40k roleplaying game. WH40k is bleak. It is dark. There is no victory. You just go from one no-win-scenario to the next. This is what Warhammer is.

You're faced with an entire world falling into the hands of Chaos and you got a choice to make:
1) Save a few replaceable people whose survival makes no difference, not even for your concience, as billions more will die in horrible agony, eaten by Demons and being food for an entire Demon World, which will be a blight on the Sector for millenia to come. But you get the gratitude of a couple completely irrelevant people.
2) Save an irreplacable reactor and condemn a billion souls to be food for the Chaos Gods, leaving a meandering Demon World in your wake, which will result in the deaths of billions more in the coming millenia. But you get space rich.
3) Blow up an irreplacable artifact, loose an entire world and consign billions of souls to oblivion. But prevent the spawning of a Demon World and with a bit of luck, the souls of the doomed may escape eternal damnation.

None of these choices are good. None will leave your concience clean. But since billions die regardless, you can make a choice that results in the prevention of loss of even more souls... Within the setting, there is really only one choice.

We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge. In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the Imperial world of Rykad Minoris. I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire world, and consign a million souls to oblivion. May Imperial Justice account in all balance. The Emperor Protects.

Yes, and that's to be space rich baby.

Also, you can save two things.