semajnollissor wrote: Stone Crab, eh? I dunno, maybe Terrapin might be better? Or, to stay with silly College mascots for $200, Alex, what is a Thundering Herd?
Stonecrab the name of a good restaurant/pizza place in Xlendi*, Gozo   If I paint their telephone number and address large enough to be legible on the Stonecrabs I might get a sponsorship in the shape of pizza. 
*Another good name for an alien world.....the 'x' is pronounced 'sh' in Maltese.
Bit more fluff: the Nemusa craftworld first got blockaded by an Imperial fleet - ineffectively, thanks to the webway portals; preparing to resist invasion, the Eldar were surprised when the Imperials dispersed without attacking. Trouble is, they had been recalled to fight off a new Tyranid splinter fleet which coincidentally slammed right into Nemusa. Thanks to the aborted Imperial invasion the Nemusae were luckier than their Iyanden cousins, and although they suffered massive damage to their Craftworld, the bulk of the population survived, thanks to judicious use of Webway portals and the increased military standing triggered by the Imperials. It's an ill wind...
Trouble is that seeing the Craftworld weakened by the failed Tyranid invasion, the Dark Eldar decided to launch their own massive raid. The Nemusae, by now severely - ah - annoyed by the repeated targeting of their home by different races in turn, survived again.
A solitary Ork hulk appeared next, and this was taken care of by opening a portal within the hulk and landing the only remaining force that could seriously tie up the Orks, who are crazy, but not as insane as the Nemusae who placed 1 Warlock, 2 Phantom and 6 Revenant titans on the Hulk's upper surface! The larger titans scrapped the Hulk surface whilst the Revenants blasted their way inwards to locate and destroy the craft's engines. They were successful, but disaster struck when the surviving titans attempted to return to Nemusa - as soon as the lead Warlock emerged at Nemusa, the gateway flickered, turned black and disappeared. The other Titans were lost, destroyed by the explosion or transported to some remote place in the Universe and cut off from their Craftworld.
The Craftworld titan forces, already severely depleted by the previous wars, were now down to a mere two Warlocks, the sole survivor of the Hulk battle and a second Warlock which had been too badly damaged by massed Dark Eldar lancefire to take part in this battle.
The Nemusae, still strong in numer but lacking resources, resorted to using obsolete or specialist vehicles alongside surviving armour until their forces were rebuilt. In bad need of replenishment of resources, and in search of the legendary Xlendi Tree (there, I've used Xlendi  ), the Eldar deployed their entire fleet to propel their entire Craftworld using tractor beams. This of course meant that the fleet could not afford to support land battles, and use of orbital ships was consequently dropped from the list. The Nemusa incursion was on, and a very angry army are about to get painted.
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