Day 11, Month 2

16172.2 tons
12,671 fuel

+1395 tons/day
+852 fuel/day

The following drones are active:
360 Heavy Harvester Drones
93 Light Combat Drones (armed with flamers)
80 Light Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
52 Light Construction Drones
36 Superheavy Hauler Drones
2 Superheavy Constructor Drones

The following drones are not active:
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with thermobaric and napalm artillery)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with fragmentation artillery)
57 Medium Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
46 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
30 Light Sampler Drones
2 Heavy Sampler Drones

You owe TradeStar the following figure by the end of the month:
13500 TONS

You have completed construction of HQ3 in the Newland - 2 construction facilities, 1 storage facility and 1 refinery. This means you currently have three HQs:
HQ1: Landing Site
HQ2: Kil'thweq Peninsula, Mothership
HQ3: Newland Frontier

The list of available items from TradeStar has been updated.

You have been invited to an on-screen business conference with the AlphaRange and Lemmington Pharmaceutical representatives.

So, subcontractors - what is your next action today?

Oh, and one last things.

In case the names for locations confuse you, here's a factionless map with tiny text to label the locations.

If you think about it, our superiors are dicks, they leave us with the bare minimum to survive and make us pay for upgrading it. Pay them with rescources we earned through time, sweat and blood. I say that at a certain point we become our own colony.

>>5831394
Officially, TradeStar doubts the planet's worth the investment. You're sent there with so little technology and so few resources that if you fail and they leave on the planet to rot, there's absolutely no loss.
However, if the planet turns out to be a gold mine, their profit is massive.

tl;dr - yes, they are dicks.

>>5831417
i actually don't care so much about them being dicks. This is an awsome quest and i think that we need to keep it from dying.

POST THE FUCKING SHOPPING LIST.

>>5831449
Seconded. I want to see the goods.

>>5831394
>>5831449
>>5831466
These products arrive at the end of the month:
One month's supplies, five people - 1 TON
Five units of fuel - 1 TON
Fusion Battery - 500 TONS
Engineer - 1000 TONS
Scientist - 2000 TONS
Satellite - 5000 TONS

These products arrive immediately:
Transport Drone Schematics - 1000 TONS
VTOL Schematics - 5000 TONS
Pulse Laser Schematics - 10000 TONS
Supermassive Drone Schematics - 10000 TONS
Tech. Lab Schematics - 10000 TONS
Gargantua Schematics - 15000 TONS
Heavy Construction Facility Schematics - 15000 TONS
Satellite Schematics - 15000 TONS
Colossus Schematics - 20000 TONS
Ion Space Engine Schematics - 20000 TONS

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>>5831488
Please explain in detail: Gargantua, Heavy Construction Facility, Colossus, Ion Space Engine.

>You have been invited to an on-screen business conference with the AlphaRange and Lemmington Pharmaceutical representatives.
We choose to attend. Motion that at least two subcontractors must agree on any given statement before it is transmitted to avoid certain stupidities, please.

>>5831488
lots of questions coming but...
what does an engineer do?
and a scientist?
what about supermassive drones, gargantua and colossi?
and what is so special about the heavy construction facility?
pulse lasers?

way too much new information.

Fuck yes I love Corp Quest. Plasma you are the best. I had to sleep and missed the last two, so I had to read up. Fucking black ooze.

Let's order a satellite.

I hope Plasma is just busily writing up stuff and not gone.

>>5831525
>>5831527
Gargantua: It's a variant of drone even larger that the supermassive drone variant. It's approximately the size of a large tank. Weighs approximately 100 tons and consumes 250 units of fuel a day. Can only be a combat, hauler or transport drone.
Heavy Construction Facility: Used to construct anything space-capable and used to launch anything space-capable into space. Also required to build any drone larger than supermassive.
Colossus: Largest possible drone variant. Only capable of combat, hauling and transport. Weighs approximately 250 tons and consumes 1000 units of fuel per day.
Ion Space Engines: Slow but fuel-efficient method of space travel.

>>5831601
I assume this video conference has to do with this black nanite goo.

>>5831579
Let's not order a satellite. It costs a third as much to order one as it does to buy the tech outright, so we might as well hold off for that.

Admittedly, we'd need a heavy construction facility as well, but there's really no rush on this so far as I'm aware.

>>5831654
Oh damn, I didn't even see the satellite schematics for purchase.

We'll need to hire a few scientists and engineers.

>>5831608
Mhm.

All of your screen flash on, with dozens of different faces of various employees and subcontractors as you host a meeting.

AR: "Folks, we have a problem here. Recently, we just came under heavy attack by hundreds of synthetics."
LP: "As have we. Hundreds of synthetic lifeforms have attacked us, corrupted by some sort of nanite."
AR: "Flamers are good for getting rid of it."
LP: "Yes, but the flamers also melt the nanites, making them impossible for effective study. Unfortunately, we lack devices to subdue the nanites."
AR: "We won't be meeting our slave quota any time soon for EMP devices, so that's out of the window."
LP: "So, the only thing we can do is burn away the nano-corruption before it adapts and uses more heat-resistant metals. Then, we've only got one problem left."
AR: "How to split Centauri Synthetic territory between ourselves - who gets what."
LP: "Exactly. That's why we've invited you here - since you border Centauri Synthetics, I trust you've been attacked too, TradeStar?"

>>5831675
Engineers: Brings the construction rate of construction facility up by 50% (in your case, from 150% to 200% - double the original construction rate)
Scientists: Reduce research time in examination facilities and tech. labs by 5.

>>5831693
What's there to split..?

>>5831693
"We have, and we too have learned that fire is an effective means to destroy it.

Studying the nanites does not seem a prudent idea. 137, the former Centauri leader here had attempted to analyze theses nanites, and we've clearly seen how that turned out.

Lemmington, you may see this as a possibility to make leaps and bounds in medicine, but the risk is not worth it. Imagine you're experimenting and something goes awry? Your entire presence here could be compromised. And even worse, what if you manage to duplicate these nanites and mass produce them? What if they spread across the galaxy, the universe even. And then what if this happens again? All of a sudden, mass contamination of hundreds of worlds. It would be the end of life as it is known.

Now, AlpahRange, hearing that may seem like Christmas to you. But as a weapon, it's too uncontrollable. It can destroy your enemies, yes. But once it's done that, what's to stop it from swarming you? What will your money do when you're dead.

No. Total destruction. It's a plague. We must destroy it. I suggest we continue firebombing the Centauri territory. Burn it to the ground. It's a wasteland. No entry. If someone does decide to test fate and enter into the zone, there will be no exit. Any life form within the area should be destroyed immediately to prevent any possible spread. We could possibly develop EMP weaponry to combat these if it gets out of hand, but it will take time.

Thoughts?"

>>5831753
Daaaaaaamn.

Centauri is in open war with us now? This is why we should never have helped them out.

>>5831794
Centaui was infected by a nanite that was attached to the Kil'thweq ship. It made them completely hostile and they attack all the corps here.

We massively destroyed their forces with our weaponry, but this nanite plague is still kicking around.

>>5831753
I vote for thsi being our answer

>>5831818
hence why we should have left them to be totally eradicated several threads ago.
How does this quest manage to go so quickly anyway? Didn't it start only a week ago?

>>5831748
Immediately, they begin to post information about what they've discovered:

AR:
2743.2 tons of heavy metal
12428 units of fuel
1 deposit with approximately 1500 tons
2 deposits with approximately 1000 tons
2 gas pockets with approximately 3500 units
1 gas pocket with approximately 3000 units
3 gas pockets with approximately 2500 units

LP:
4754.4 tons of heavy metal
9581 units of fuel
2 deposit with approximately 2000 tons
3 deposits with approximately 1500 tons
1 deposit with approximately 1000 tons
1 gas pocket with approximately 3000 units
1 gas pockets with approximately 2500 units
3 gas pockets with approximately 2000 units

You have come across:
3542.8 tons of heavy metal
11235 units of fuel
2 deposits with approximately 1500 tons
3 deposits with approximately 1000 tons
3 deposits with approximately 500 tons
1 gas pocket with approximately 3500 units
3 gas pockets with approximately 3000 units
2 gas pockets with approximately 2500 units
1 gas pocket with approximately 2000 units
1 gas pocket with approximately 1500 units

You can change the figures before you show them to the other corporations. You can cheat by saying you have more than you actually have or less than you actually have. Remember, however, they might call you out on this and they might also have changed the figures.
So, what figures do you want to show them?

>>5831853
Show them that we have less than we really have.

Also, reinforce the motion that we close off the former Centauri zone as a wasteland that is constantly monitored.

There is much much more land to use.

>>5831753
AR: "We're not stupid enough to use this as a weapon - we know that stuff like this is way too unreliable to be used."
LP: "Also, I'm quite offended. You mistake us for being just as stupid of the synthetics? Their over-curiosity and their love for other artificial intelligence is a flaw that led to their demise on this world. We do not share this - we will be able to research the nanite with ease."
AR: "Somehow I doubt that - anyway, we can't just bomb the area. There are too many resources! Think of what we'll be able to do with all of this fucking stuff."
FP: "He's right. If we cleanse the Synth Flats as violently as you would have us do, we'll destroy many of the natural resources. While I agree we should remove the contamination, what you say is far too zealous."

>>5831897
LP: "If we close it off, we won't be able to use any of the natural deposits and gas pockets!"
AR: "Listen - two against one here. There's a lot to be gained from the Synth Flats and we're not just about to abandon it. We'll burn out the bug and then we'll start mining and drilling. No need to be as cautious as you're being. You can back out of the deal if you like - but we're certainly not."
FP: "Indeed!"

Also, how much of the resources you've located do you want to hide?

>>5831913
"Are you hearing yourselves? This is a small area on the surface of the planet. Not to mention the underwater resources that could be exploited.

Yes, Lemmington, exploited. That's all we're doing here. There are men like us on hundreds of planets, scattered around all out there.

The only difference between them and us is that they aren't talking about something that could destroy every man. Every. Man."

>>5831938
Let's just say 10% less than what we've got.

>>5831957
Since you appear not to want to carry about the natural deposits and gas pockets, these are the figures you post for the already obtained:
3192.8 tons of heavy metal
10135 units of fuel

So you're concealing:
350 TONS
1100 UNITS

Also, do you want to try and claim that any of the other corporations are cheating?
>>5831942
LP: "Don't be so melodramatic. You're being a bore. If you don't want any of the gas pockets or deposits, just say so and we'll claim all of the territory while you take your slice of the refined resources."

>>5832029
"Go ahead and do whatever you want. Just make sure to stay clear of our border. We won't be so lax in our security from now on. If this starts spreading again, we will not hesitate in destroying it."

We need to have some kind of escape ship ready to launch in case shit goes awry.

What does Samson think of the situation?

>>5832083
S70: "They're being idiots - thinking about profit first. At least 137 was thinking of 'liberating' or 'enlightening' them, with profit as a secondary goal. These biologicals are just exceptionally greedy."

Here's what you'll get out of the deal. You haven't been accused of cheating:
3 913.5 TONS
11815 UNITS

Do you agree to accept this?

>>5832150
We don't want anything out of Centauri territory.

>>5832166
Not even fuel or metal?

We'll need an agreement on this.

>>5832199
We can only be so cautious, right?
We'll filter out the metal and the fuel, destroy any trace of nanites and then we'll keep the stuff that's pure.

We're a company, we can't let these other guys suddenly get a massive advantage over us. Besides, this doubles the amount of fuel we have at the moment. 11k.

You're being too careful, guys. At least accept this.

>>5832166
>>5832245
Okay, one vote for getting the fuel and metal, one vote against it.

Come on, guys - the number crunching is over at the moment. You can come out and discuss this without any numbers.

Should you bring in the refined resources with a possible risk of contamination, or should you deny anything from the Synth Flats?

I vote for the fuel and metal. But we should keep it contained, away from our base until we can absolutely confirm it is free of the nanites. AR and LP may be stupid, but we shouldn't give them more of this stuff to play with.

Did we ever start working on that directional EMP gun?

>>5832652
Two votes for, one against.

As for the directional EMP gun, that requires the Tech. Lab schematics to be bought and a lab to be built.

It would take 30 days to research a directional EMP gun, -5 days for each scientist working on the project and -10 days if you have the lightning gun technology reverse-engineered and -10 days if you have the shockwave gun reverse-engineered.

>>5832784
If we take the resources, we can buy the tech lab and make up for our debt darn fast

>>5832929
I'll second this shit.

Is Plasma still here?

Reverse engineer both of the Prawn guns. Order the tech lab. Order some scientists.

>>5833049
>>5832929
>>5833006
Since this question is currently too inactive for anyone to argue again this, I say sure.
You order the schematics for the Tech. Lab. They'll arrive tomorrow.

Also, you're moving the fuel and the metal into your territory for examination and decontamination. The decontamination will finish tomorow and clean materials will be added to the stock while contaminated material will be burned.

This raises your debt up to 23500. You'll have to pay your debt in 19 days or suffer the consequences.

How many scientists do you want to order?
You're already reverse-engineering the heat turret and the gravity gun. You'll be able to produce them respectively on the 14th and the 15th.

>>5833141
Gonna name it up?

2 scientists.

Once the heat and grav are done get to work on the shockwave and lightning.

>>5833202
You can build two new examination facilities for the cost of 100 tons.
That means you'll be able to research 4 pieces of looted technology at a time.

Also, check check and triple check everything.

Check the drones that come in from Centauri areas, check the drones that check the metal and fuel supplies, check the drones that check the drones.

>>5833247
Do it.

>>5833247
Is it possible to speed up research by assigning multiple examination facilities?

>>5833269
You can build a heavy examination facility - which is basically four examination facilities built in unison. Cost is 200 tons, examination time is halved to 5. Scientists are not able to reduce time taken in heavy examination facilities.

You can also designate heavy tech. labs, but scientists are able to work at those.
>>5833249
Activating samplers.
>>5833256
Presenting you with new choices in this post.

>>5833318
Build two heavy engineering labs and a heavy tech lab at our main HQ. Within the superwall.

In fact, build them underground. Subterranean, reinforced walls. High security style.

>>5833347
Heavy examination will be complete by tomorrow if you construct 6 additional SHConstructors - you currently only have 2.
20 SHConstructors are required to build a heavy tech. in one day.

Also, in exchange for two scientists, your debt is raised to 27500. The scientists will arrive at the end of the month.
Tech. Lab schematics will arrive tomorrow.

Let's hold off on buy anything else right now. We're almost at 30,000.

>>5833458
Agreed.

Build with what we've got.

Advance to the next day please.

Day 12, Month 2

21455.7 tons
22,606 fuel

+1395 tons/day
+472 fuel/day

You have constructed two heavy examination facilities that have immediately begun work on the lightning gun and the shockwave gun. This work will be complete on Day 16.
Your heavy tech. lab will be constructed by Day 15.
All three facilities are and will be subterranean.

Clean resources have been added to the storage stockpiles.
Contaminated resources have been burned.
37 of your 93 light flamer drones are contaminated. Initiate self-destruct sequence?

>>5833549
Self immolation.

>>5833549
Don't just self-destruct; have them self-destruct and then have the remains immolated by other flamer drones. Can't be too careful.

Build replacement drones for all losses.

>>5833602
>>5833649
The drones self-destruct, and the other drones immolate the remains.
You build 46 drones to replace them, bringing them up to the full 100 again.

>>5833711
Let's just keep advancing day by day until something interesting happens.

>>5833727
Well... can we get a summary of all idle drones? If there's nothing terribly important that we can come up for them to do, we'll deactivate them and then end the day.

Also, I'd like a description of exactly what's going on with our combat drones in former Centauri Synthetics territory.

>>5833727
>>5833772
We've still got Uni-Peace to deal with...

>>5833772
Your drones are banned from the Synth Flats because it's split between AlphaRange and Lemmington Pharmaceuticals these days.

De-activating the idle 30 Samplers and 6 SHConstructors.

Day 17, Month 2

27426.1 tons
28,092 fuel

+1395 tons/day
+606 fuel/day

You've developed the heat ray.
You've developed the gravity gun.
You've developed the lightning gun.
You've developed the shockwave gun.

The powered armour will be developed in 4 days.
The propulsion thruster will be developed in 4 days.

You are creating a hybrid of the shockwave gun and the lightning gun, creating some sort of EMP gun. You need to name it. It will be developed in 4 days.

One of your haulers in the South has identified a problem. The undergrowth appears to have grown significantly - there is practically a wall of massively overgrown jungle to the South, slowly crawling North.

>>5833903
>One of your haulers in the South has identified a problem. The undergrowth appears to have grown significantly - there is practically a wall of massively overgrown jungle to the South, slowly crawling North.
If it passes the line of destroyed drones, burn it back. Fucking bioweapons.

Can any of our new developments be equipped as auxiliary weapons, or are they usable in primary weapon slots only? Also, do any of them have associated missile or artillery shell applications?

Also, let's continue expanding to the east.

>>5834026
>Also, let's continue expanding to the east.
Seconded. We should expand eastward aggressively, creating new mines, storage sites, and heavy harvester/hauler drones as necessary to maximize extraction efficiency.

>>5834026
You want to produce more samplers? Or activate the old and send them out there to drill for new deposits and pockets?
>>5834002
Heat Rays can only be put on superheavy drones and larger.
They disable use of auxiliary slots and take up three primary slots each.
Gravity guns are auxiliary slotters.
Lightning and Shockwave guns are primary slotters.
You can now develop pulse shells and pulse missles - they shatter fragile materials and throw back objects that aren't shattered.

>>5833845
We should send some scouts to check out the small islands that haven't been checked near our current areas.

>>5834069
agreed

>>5834130
>You want to produce more samplers? Or activate the old and send them out there to drill for new deposits and pockets?
Activate our old samplers, if we're not using them for anything.

Order construction of the following combat drones:
-6 superheavy [heat ray]
-10 superheavy [laser/lightning/shockwave/gravity/flamer]
-20 light [gravity]
-20 light [lightning]

Keep all of them deactivated but safely behind base defenses until called upon for combat operations.

Rebuild our missile stockpiles up to 20 napalm, 20 thermobaric, 10 HE, and 5 pulse if they are not that high in any of those categories.

Maintain patrols of light drones on the former Centauri Synthetics border in case the nanoshit gets out of hand again. Also, maintain patrols along the Lemington border and behind the line with Uni-Peace, too.

>>5834069
You can mass-produce enough haulers and harvesters for 13 mines or gas pockets.
There are 10 available gas pockets, so you can fill them up.

>>5834187
How many amphibious samplers you want to produce?

>>5834201
Good idea. Having a good mix of drone weapon types is always good.

Thoughts: Last time we checked, the nanovirus came from the xeno mothership we shot down right?

And we found the nanovirus slowly attempting to infect the peninsula we shot down their ship right? The ship we've been scrapping for metal right? The metal that could be potentially infected?

So... how much metal have we got from that thing again? And how is Lemmington?

>>5834222
20 should be good for now.

>>5831328
>And how is Lemmington?

They seemed to excited to allow the nanovirus into their area. I am wondering what is going on with them as well.

>>5834228
You make a good point.

Initiate periodic scanning of ALL bases, mines, stockpiles, and drones for infection. Once every day or three ought to do it without impacting efficiency too much.

>>5834228
All of the infected metal was stolen by 137.

Lemmington's currently busy trying to gather resources from the stolen territory.
>>5834258
30 Light Samplers going to Newland to look for new resources.
20 Light Samplers going to East Coast Islands to look for new resources.
How many samplers would you like to produce for this?

>>5834298
>How many samplers would you like to produce for this?
However many are necessary to maintain a pace of one reasonably detailed scan on all possessions every three days.

>>5834257
They're exploting the resources and burning away the nanovirus when they come across it - they're not being as cautious as you, but they still have precautions.

>>5834298
I was actually wondering what Lemmington was doing that involved Uni-Peace. When he found out we had met them and some asshole gave them his location for free, he appeared to be ready to go on a rampage. Darkening out the skies, making the seas run with blood, making the land pestilent with plagues, you know how it is.

>>5834325
Let's make that 200.

>>5834298
>All of the infected metal was stolen by 137.

What about the harvesters and such? They were the ones actually coming into contact with it.

>>5834329
Mysteriously, no forces have entered your area yet.

>>5834351
These are people that, from what we've seen, specialize in bio-weapons and cloning.

That really isn't the most comforting thing to hear.

>>5833903
the undergrowth- is that in the land of apes, or Uni-Peace?

Either way, we can't really have a clear idea who did that. It could be either Lemmington making his move or Uni-Peace attempting to fortify their position. I don't suppose Lemmington would be willing to tell us if he could do that, would he?

>>5834404
It's coming from Uni-Peace - directly from the South.

Lemmington hasn't moved through your territory yet.

>>5834424
Lemmington was to happy to give us tech for being allowed into our lands. I think Lemmington is plotting to attack us when we start the fight with Uni-Peace. Lemmington may or may not be working with Uni-Peace but they could be using it as a way to take our lands and then take Uni-Peace.


If we start taking over Uni-Peace we should have Lemmington move his forces into place first so that we can keep an eye on them or build another army and have it guard the north during the fight.

>>5834424
We should take our Napalm missles to 40 in stock to help with forest clearing / the Uni-peace fight.

>>5834424
Hm. Do we have enough info on it to estimate on how fast it's moving? It could really be anything from them attempting to fortify the south to them trying to overrun our facility with plant life.

Either way, we have herbicide right? If it starts getting to place, get a couple droids ready to launch a couple rounds full of herbicide at it. In fact, send a single 'warning' shot full of herbicide at the wall of plants just to make sure it works. That is, if my fellow subcontractors agree with me, of course.

Day 18, Month 2

28994.1 tons
28,948 fuel

+1395 tons/day
+1836 fuel/day

You've discovered:
Two gas deposits with approximately 4000 units.
One gas deposit with approximately 3500 units
One gas deposit with approximately 3000 units.
Three gas deposits with approximately 2500 units.
One metal deposit with approximately 2500 tons.
One metal deposit with approximately 2000 tons.

You'll be building the military units today.

One of your harvesters on the Mothership, has fallen through the hull into what appears to be a command centre of the ship. The harvester is mostly unharmed.

>>5834525
>One of your harvesters on the Mothership, has fallen through the hull into what appears to be a command centre of the ship. The harvester is mostly unharmed.
Run analysis on the command center's controls and whatnot. See if there's more technology that we can reverse engineer here.

>>5834523
>Either way, we have herbicide right? If it starts getting to place, get a couple droids ready to launch a couple rounds full of herbicide at it. In fact, send a single 'warning' shot full of herbicide at the wall of plants just to make sure it works. That is, if my fellow subcontractors agree with me, of course.
I am inclined to use fire and hold our herbicide in reserve, so that they will be caught off guard when we finally cut loose and blanket them with it in our assault.

>>5834568
Put a priority on identifying undamaged computers/memory storage devices.

>>5834568
You have nothing with herbicide at the moment.
>>5834523
It's been approximately fifteen days since the drones were destroyed and you were ordered not to cross it.
The jungle-wall extends just over a mile North of the barrier.

>>5834615
There are dozens of dead prawns. The entire place is a wrecked shit hole.
There's a few functional computers though - not central controls or anything.

>>5834622
that's breaking their own preset border then. I say we force it back behind the ruined droids then. Do my fellow subcontractor's agree with me on this?

>>5834634
Salvage whatever we can and bring it back to our nearest examination facility.

>>5834622
Burn it back to the line.

>>5834703
>>5834697
Watch it though- that's what they could be expecting, and could be hiding bushwackers inside the plant wall to jump out at us when we go to push it back. Have some laser support watch over our flame droids.

>>5834703
Basic examination just reveals a handful of useless navigation computers and a recording machine, containing details of the Mothership's travels.

>>5834734
bring it back for further analysis anyway. It could give us more information on the nanoplague.

>>5834734
Bring it back.

>>5834622
We need to make 10 herbicide missles. We also should make some herbicide shells for our art.

>>5834748
The log starts with some scans of the planet, dated approximately a year back.
There was no trace of any of the corporations. They planned to claim the planet Hajjar for their own.
They were intending to land in the centre of the island, approximately where you landed. At a point of their descent, however, something hit the hull - and they were forced to crash-land further from the intended site. The location where the hull was struck is recorded and the presence of a nanovirus is recorded, slowly eating away the ship. Approximately two, the ship is mostly repaired - excluding some exceptionally damaged parts, like the communications and encryption array - and they think they got rid of the nanovirus. They attempt communication with their homeworld, only to be informed that they're still thought of as "contaminated" - they go back, they get killed. They have to stay on the planet, in exile.

No other events are recorded after that - last recording was approximately three weeks before you arrived.

>>5834852
well, that explains a lot. Where did the nanovirus come from though? Uni-Peace? The ape men? This shall need further investigation.

So, a question regarding out gravity guns. Can we use them to catch incoming missiles? If not, why not, and how difficult would it be to research a modification of the design which could overcome this limitation?

>>5834907
It would take 20 days in a tech. lab or 10 days in a heavy tech. to design a missle-catcher - it would be as heavy as a heat ray.

The impact site, where the Mothership was hit, is in the image.

>>5834932
Hm. We have droids that can go underwater, right? Send a single light class scout over there to see what the situation is.

Also, how is Samson 70 doing? I don't think we've heard much from him lately.

>>5834932
Fellow, subcontractors, I'm inclined to attempt this line of research as soon as practical, if only because AlphaRange might get infected and go berserk, then cut loose with all their nasty weapons. Thoughts?


Anyway, end the day if nothing else is going on. We gave our orders- fire on the growth, herbicide missiles, tear out mothership computers, and we're still building combat drones from the last batch of orders.

>>5834952
>Hm. We have droids that can go underwater, right? Send a single light class scout over there to see what the situation is.
Let's not. That would probably result in it being infected/taken over, and our flamers won't work out there. Then it would have an amphibious scout drone and start spreading elsewhere.

Let's explore that area with something that can fly, or satellite imagery, or similar. Hell, maybe TradeStar would give us a picture of the place from orbit for cheap (VERY cheap, or those bastards are just robbing us for kicks) when they drive by next.

>>5834952
Amphibious drones cannot go such a massive distance over such large spans of water.

It's like going across the Atlantic in an amphibious APC.

As for S70, he's been brooding and mulling over the death of his people. Bein' a bit emo.

>>5834972
Next day, coming up.

>>5835030
Day 19, Month 2

30089.1 tons
24,754 fuel

+1395 tons/day
+1836 fuel/day

Your light flamer drones are roasting away the jungle.

The following drones are not active:
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with thermobaric and napalm artillery)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with fragmentation artillery)
60 Medium Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
20 Heavy Combat Drones (with tear-gas and stun guns)
20 Heavy Haulers
20 Light Combat Drones (Gravity)
20 Light Combat Drones (Lightning)
10 Superheavy Combat Drone (High Tech.)
6 Superheavy Combat Dones (Heat-Ray)

These are the available missles:
5 Pulse Missles
10 HE Missiles
10 Herbicide Missles
20 Napalm Missiles
20 Thermobaric Missiles

You have an incoming message from Lemmington Pharmaceuticals.

I am in full support of getting a satellite or the schematics for building them. We need to have up-to-date information on planetside activities.

Also, how well did our group of aquatic slaver bots fare with their capture mission?

>>5835064

Do you even need to wait for it? Give us the message, posthaste. Might want to consider including the message immediately after status reports automatically, hereafter.

>>5835064
Take the message.

Also produce some heavy combat drones with herbicide artillery shells.

>Also, how well did our group of aquatic slaver bots fare with their capture mission?
We postponed it, since we were going to war against Centauri Synthetics at the time. It's probably a good move to resume scouting operations/feasibility analysis for slaving along these lines, though.

Fellow contractors, I believe we should use the tech lab to research liquid nitrogen throwing weapons in the near future. If the virus adapts to fire, we should be ready with another countermeasure.

>>5835030
70 is being a bit emo huh? Well, that's to be expected. Maybe we can synthesize a few drones to keep him company. You know, give him a bit of hope. A kind of 'we have the technology, we can rebuild their society' type thing.

>>5835123
Nah, we said for it to go ahead once the war began. Or at least as soon as it finished.

>>5835077
Once we have the money (for sure) I'd like to purchase Heavy Construction Facility Schematics and then buy the Satellite Schematics.

>>5835064
>The following drones are not active:
If any of them are outside the range of constant monitoring/active scanning and defenses, get them inside such immediately. Just in case you're assuming that we're idiots unless otherwise proven.

Also, we have amphibious technology; does this include the ability to mine minerals and gas off the sea floor?

>>5835088
"I want to do this as soon as possible - Uni-Peace needs to leave this world.
"Be prepared in four days time - that's when we're going to strike. Build up your force. I hope to have hundreds of drones alongside our thousands of clones."

>>5835137

Actually I am going to propose that we adapt the EMP instead.

Change it to emit to the right frequency to destroy complex molecules. No organic thing will be reproducing if we break up their genes. UV bath for sterilization, if you will. We might even be able to save structures.

>>5835164
Amphibious just means it can go from water to land, I don't think our drones are built for the kinds of pressures you find on the sea floor.

I wonder if LP has any sort of toxic-cleanup bacteria. It would help get rid of all that black sludge left over in 137's turf, and might deny the virus more material to grow with.

Assuming said bacteria wasn't easily corrupted itself.

>>5835182
Whoa really?

Well then disregard >>5835187.

Let's get 10 scouter drones refitted for amphibious activities then, and send them searching the seabed.

>>5835194
... Nah.
I was having second thoughts and I have finally confirmed them.

For that, you'll need submersible technology. 10000 TONS from TS.

>>5835219
Yeah, that makes sense.

Seems like a good investment to me.

>>5835189
"From what little study we've done on it, we're not quite sure what it is. It's some sort of biomechanical nanite. Biological yet mechanical, synthetic yet truly alive. This is true synthetic life. It's amazing - and it's potential unstoppable. The wind will blow away the dead virus in time."

>>5835233
Your current debt is at 37500.

>>5835233
Agreed it's probably a good investment, but there are a lot of good investments on the table. Let's win the next war, then do our next wave of economic expansion.

We need to buy VTOL. It's only 5000 TONS, and then we can flame the virus from the security of altitude without our drones getting infected. Also it could give us a nice advantage against the hippies.

>>5835250
Damn. That's a lot. We'll still be able to pay it off fairly easily this month, but let's tone down the purchases a bit, eh? We may still want to get some end of the month purchases, or get a bunch of spare fuel.

>>5835255
We need to hold off on buy anything t the moment. We're already shit deep in debt.

>>5835250
27500.

>>5835276
I mean, 27500.
It would rise to 37500.

What are the "High Tech" SH Combat drones, exactly?

Inform Lemmington that we shall march by their side as best as we can. Also ask if there are any particualer weapon of theirs that we should watch out for to avoid friendly fire, or any weapons they know that Uni-Peace might have.

>>5835280
It's only debt if we can't repay it, and we already can.

Assuming we don't spend a boatload of metal in this next war.

Seconding the herbicide artillery drones. 5 SH, 10 H.

Tell LP to make sure their clones have gas masks, because we'll have some drones firing Agent Amber and tear gas.

>Seconding the herbicide artillery drones. 5 SH, 10 H.
Are you implying that we should build more artillery specifically for herbicide? Why not just build a bunch of shells and throw them into a hauler drone near the front lines?

Build orders for the day: Whatever we need to support the continued expansion of mining operations eastward.

>>5835318
also, inform Samson 70 of Lemmington's plans, and whether or not he would be ready to lead our forces. If he wants to stay behind and continue grieving, that's okay. He did just kind of had to exterminate his own race, and that could take some time to get over. Also, ask him if it would help we synthesized some other droids to help him. That is, if my fellow subcontractor's would agree to the synthesizing of some additional droids.

>>5835362
If we do this, let us not make many of them.
We need to be efficient. Having a few employees happy works, having a bunch of sentient beings with benefits working for us not so much.

>>5835352
Fine, we can do that too. I just want to be able to massively bombard that plant growth back without having to spend expensive missiles to do it.

So just have the shells ready to load onto our previous artillery drones then.

And make 10 more heat beam SH drones.

>>5835289
Laser, Lightning, Shockwave in the primary slots.
Gravity and Flamer is the auxiliary slots.
>>5835318
"Our troops are mostly closed range - and our weapons are mostly biological, or dedicated to harming biologicals. You don't have much to worry about."

>>5835362
I'd sooner just buy a proper synth humanoid body for him from Centauri's home corp. Have TradeStar bring it in at the end of the month.

>>5835383
>>Laser, Lightning, Shockwave in the primary slots.
>>Gravity and Flamer is the auxiliary slots.

Niiiice. Build another 10 of those.

>>5835403
>I'd sooner just buy a proper synth humanoid body for him from Centauri's home corp. Have TradeStar bring it in at the end of the month.
>Centauri's home corp
Aw, hell. They're going to come by and notice that their dude is gone and everyone else has moved in on his land. That might be a problem.

>>5835415
>>5835382

Wouldn't it be better to just redistribute the weapons currently equipped to each SH drone, so that they all have a diversified array of weapons?

>>5835362
"Give me a superheavy drone. Two lightning guns, one artillery gun with thermobaric shells. and two gravity guns in the auxiliary slots. As for Lemmington, if he was planning something against you, I doubt he'd announce the date beforehand. Still, guard the route. Just in case."

>>5835383
Very well. By the way, you appear to have had more run ins with Uni-Peace then we have. All we really know is that they are a collation of races, and may have some kind of ranged explosive weapon. Anything you might be able to tell us would help us support your forces more effectively.

>>5835435
>Wouldn't it be better to just redistribute the weapons currently equipped to each SH drone, so that they all have a diversified array of weapons?
Heat rays can't be redistributed- they take up three weapon slots. And artillery have such a different role in battle that it's probably best to leave them with dedicated drones. All our other stuff basically comes down to some form of close/midrange combat monster.

>>5835446
Build 70 his requested drone. Synch him with his backup two days before the scheduled op.

>>5835446
Very well then. Give the good man his body.

>>5835461
I'm thinking every SH should have at least one gravity gun in an auxiliary spot for self defense. Whether they have two or get a flamer for the other spot depends on the drone, but having one of each is probably the best SOP.

My biggest worry are those strictly laser SH drones.

>>5835468
>>Sych him with his backup.

Actually, give him a new backup file.

>>5835504
Unless synching him with the old backup takes far less time than two days, I think this might be smart. We then have a non-emo version of Sampson 70 if that's ever required.

>>5835491
We did build a bunch of gravity-only light drones with the implicit purpose of acting as speedy defense platforms, but I see your point. A single gravity gun in the auxiliary slot isn't going to hurt our superheavies; they don't really need two flamers anyway.

>>5835451
"Technology they purchase from AlphaRange, explosive bolts. They adapt it for bows so that it's silent - so they can strike from stealth. They're technology thieves. They stole stealth technology from Centauri Synthetics while they were still developing in, they stole our terraforming technology just when we were about to market it, they stole the NEM's combat drugs and leadership pheromones, Kil'thweq power armour... They rely completely on stealth and mobility, sneaking about in the shadows and immobilizing troops, putting them in the worst possible position. They've got growth mines, that entangle feet and tracks in vines when activated, they've got terraforming machines that create massive walls of forest out of nowhere, they've got a handful of cloaking power armour suits, they're probably dosing up the natives with combat drugs right now to fight for them... Ugh."

>>5835491
Well the weapons that take all 3 slots also disable aux slots.

>>5835574
>cloaking
Samson 70! What the hell do we do about cloaking?

>>5835559
>>5835491

Swap out SH drones so that all have at least one gravity gun. There, now it's official.

And make sure we have at least 20 heat ray SH drones.

>>5835574
we have lots of artillery and missiles. What us to try and do a heavy bombing campaign before we both go in with our infantry? We'd have to ask our military expert for how effective that would be first of course, but it could help.

also, to my fellow subcontractors: When they ruined our droids to form that line, did they take anything? Because they may have our laser, artillery, and flame technology now...

>>5835574
>>terraforming tech

Sounds like we really want some flight capability here.

>>forests
Massive deforestation should be SOP.

>>combat drugged natives
Still should get taken out by darts. Again, what happened to that amphibious slave group? Did we just bring them back?

>>5835627
S70:
"They rely on tunnel systems, artillery strikes probably won't hit many of them. Unless..."
Samson gives a dark, devious chuckle.
"Pulse shells, pulse missles, pulse anything. Perfect. I change my demands. Not thermobaric, pulse artillery for my drone, please."

>>5835651
we might need a lot of darts then. Combat drugs can be pretty brutal, as far as we know we might be fighting eversor-style berserker apes.

>>5835667
do we have pulse tech?

I think we've been taking Uni-Peace too lightly. If we roll in like they're a bunch of hippies ready for a stomping, they're going to horribly surprise us.

I think we should get either a satellite or VTOL so that we have real-time intel of Uni-Peace's activities. Also, I'm worried that the monkey island might try to attack our main holdings once we send our forces south.

>>5835667
Done.

Build order: 20 additional pulse missiles. A hauler or two's worth of pulse artillery shells.

Tentative battle plan: Begin with three artillery barrages. First, herbicide. Second, napalm. Third, pulse. Then wait for the napalm to burn down a little, and advance. Repeat when we reach the edge of the devastated area.

Objections?

>>5835688
Yes.
>>5835594
"Cloaking can be shorted out with an EMP blast - or your drones could use infrared sensors instead of visible light sensors.
"... But, your employers appear to have only given you schematics for visible light sensors."

>>5835667

Can we build some hauler drones with big tanks of tear gas and hoses/pipes from our current tech? Tunnels are begging to be filled with gas.

Alternatively, build 50 light flamer combat drones. Flamethrowers smoked out the Japanese from their tunnels in WW2 with extreme effectiveness.

>>5835713
Samson says:
"Why not herbicide, pulse, napalm? That way, we catch any survivors trying to leave the collapsing tunnels with napalm."

Do NOT resynch S70.
We don't want him figuring out what is going on and being emo during the battle.

>"Cloaking can be shorted out with an EMP blast - or your drones could use infrared sensors instead of visible light sensors. "... But, your employers appear to have only given you schematics for visible light sensors."
Okay, then, we'll have to throw together a bunch of light drones with EMPs as soon as that tech is done and assign them as escorts, I think.

>>5835713
Might as well throw in a couple thermobaric missiles in there as well.

>>5835757
as in, he has dealt with it already, don't make him deal with it again, just leave it be

>>5835667
Why pulse, Sampson? Will it go right through tunnels?

>>5835720
How much are various sensors? Infrared, low-light (I'm assuming we have this already), x-ray? Also, how about sonar, for easy detection of tunnels?

>>5835738
Doesn't work like that.
You can make your flamethrowers expel gas instead of fire, if you like.
Your slavers - which are being activated and are looking for slaves and you'll recieve information from by tomorrow from - are equipped with such.

We cant overload ourselves with pulse technology, we need stuff to take down those natives aswell.

>>5835766
"Pulse sends out massive waves of vibrations. These vibrations pass through the earth and into the fragile tunnel supports, as well as shaking up the earth. It should collapse any nearby tunnels. Normally shockwave and pulse technology is used for area denial, but this works too."

>>5835748
That works, too.

I think we're done issuing orders, so move to the next day, please.

Also:
Giving the herbicide artillery some pulse artillery, since that's probably what you'd want.

>>5835807
Thank you.

I'm good for a timeskip, unless anyone else is up for buying a satellite or VTOL.

>>5835824
A satellite would have to be delivered, so unless we want to spend a ton to make our own, no.

VTOL... can we have VTOL and tracks on the same drone? So normally it drives around, until we decide to make it airborne?

Do we already have orders in to make more drones? I mean, more drones is never bad.

Okay, we're bogging down. Let's advance the day.

>>5835886
We've got orders for some missiles, some artillery drones, and standing orders for rapid expansion westward- presumably surveying and exploitation of new mine sites is ongoing.

>>5835886
A simple defensive group back at our home base wouldn't be that bad either, in case they try to attack us with cloaked units while our main forces engage them at the front.

Day 20, Month 2

31284.1 tons
26,615 fuel

+1395 tons/day
+2361 fuel/day

You have discovered new gas pockets and deposits.

The following drones are not active:
60 Medium Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with thermobaric and napalm artillery and grav and flamer)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with fragmentation artillery and grav and flamer)
50 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers and grav and flamer)
20 Light Combat Drones (armed with gravity guns)
20 Light Combat Drones (armed with lightning guns)
20 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers, lightning, shockwave, grav and flamer)
10 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)
6 Superheavy Combat Doness (armed with heat ray)
5 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)
1 Superheavy Combat Drone (armed with lightning guns, pulse artillery and grav)

Your slaver unit has arrived at the East Coast. There are still endless swarms of refugees pole-vaulting and paddling on their tiny boats towards the City of Gurruk. They have not been spotted yet.

16 Light Samplers in Newland have been explosively deactivated. You have 14 left in Newland.

You have no messages.

>>5835905
This is true. I think we should just send everything built already south, then keep building and keep that at home to guard it.

>>5835919
Great. Uni-Peace is in the Newlands, apparently. Wonderful. Should we warn Lemmington?

>>5835919
>16 Light Samplers in Newland have been explosively deactivated. You have 14 left in Newland.
Construct additional light samplers.

Ensure that the base in that region is equipped with ten superheavy turrets for defensive and monitoring purposes.

The target of the slavers was described as a bridge of boats, before; have the slavers cut off the bridge near the far side and then work their way back towards our end, incapacitating and retrieving apes as they go.

>>5835919
Begin capture mission. Go for tear gas bombardment then roll in with darts. If there is significant threat to drones, withdraw with as many captives as possible.

If monkeys attack, flame them off, allowing adjacent combat drones to hose them off if necessary.

>>5835939
Incorrect.

Viewing camera footage from a particular drone.

The drone appears to be in the close proximity of a large, steel wall, with several large automated turrets mounted on the top of it. The sampler does not react to the situation. It continues to move about and sample. It moves within close range of the wall, one of the automated turrets targets it and shoots several metal slugs at your drone at high velocity. Camera is cracked, footage ends.

Plasma, I'm curious if you have a spare email account you'd share so that I could discuss some ideas about GMing with you.

>>5835961
Natives:
94 Apes
147 Chimps

TradeStar:
20 Slaver HCDs

Please confirm that you wish to begin this fight.

>>5836014
>Please confirm that you wish to begin this fight.
Hrm. Could we perhaps move a few (~30) nonlethally-equipped artillery into position to provide support, then start the fight? We have some of those lying around, right?

>>5836041
Those are the drones we have. They have nonlethal artillery and stun darts.

Confirm battle. Shell them from maximum distance until they are knocked out, fled, or a third option. Dart any that attack unless destruction of a drone is likely, in which case flame them.

>>5836060
Won't they drown if we render them unconscious while our drones are way far off for artillery shelling?

>>5836041
The closest thing you have to nonlethal outside the slaver force are twenty light gravity gunners.

Also, email is there.

>>5836060
Oh, wait - they have tear-gas artillery, not tear-gas flamers. I forgot. Thanks for the reminder.

In any case, is everyone agreed on this?

>>5836089
>In any case, is everyone agreed on this?
No, actually. Upon review of our actual slaving capabilities, I think that we're half-assing this and should put together a larger collection of drones today and do the job tomorrow.

>>5836089
Go for it. I want to at least see the effectiveness of the tear gas before we use it in open war.

>>5836089
do we have anything within range that can possibly help them? Anything at all with nonlethal or at least mostly-nonlethal artillery, or tear gas?

>>5836126
Closest to nonlethal are the gravity gun LCDs.

>>5836107
Yes, we are. This is a minor slave grab, and test of tear gas on the natives.

It was also ordered up when we didn't know how long the boat migration would last and needed to strike quickly.

>>5836140
...what, are going to grab them and beat them into the ground until they pass out?

Actually, that could work.

>>5836152
Yeah, but these are our only amphibious combat drones. Let's roll.

Okay, how about this. We construct twenty amphibious medium combat drones with gravity guns and stun darts. We construct forty amphibious light drones with stun darts. Then tomorrow, when those are done, we bring them and our current slaving unit and do this op right.

>>5836181
Can't we do that when we're actually warring?

Or, get a very sizeable slaver force, and send them against the monkey island while we tie up Uni-Peace in the south with conventional warfare.

>>5836181
I thought we were making all our combat droids amphibious now. You know, since we'd need to cross water to get to Uni-Peace.

Can I have the cost and timeframe for putting a Heat ray/Missile armed satellite into orbit? Would it be cheaper to produce ourselves?

>>5836221
Please also calculate cost for a "Rods from God/Project Thor" setup. Essentially, dropping a tungsten rod from orbit, which acts as a small nuke without the radiation. And does an amazing job of bunker busting. They would sit on board the satellite until released.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Thor

Ask Lemmington about the area that our probes got destroyed in.

>>5836218
I thought amphibious meant they were no longer ground-setup.

Also, does VTOL mean that the drones will no longer have tracked capabilities?

>>5836221
Wait and see.
Heh.

In any case, you begin the shelling. Clouds of tear gas cover and enshroud the natives, who begin screeching and groaning and cry - several splashes can be heard as they begin to fall into the water in their writhing struggle. Luckily, your HHaulers come with nets!

Your have hindered your sight of the natives with the mist from your tear gas artillery.

What is your next action?

>>5836248
I can tell you that. It's directly west of us, an area of land seperated from us by some water. Check the map near the start of the thread to get a look at it. It's called 'The Newlands'

>>5836254
Yes, although you can tech. lab up a hybrid.

>>5836268
Wait for the gas to disperse, roll in.

>>Luckily, your HHaulers come with nets!
I'm still laughing over this.

>>5836281
I know where it is, I'm just wondering what Lemmington knows about what happened to our drones.

>>5836268
Move in with the stun darts. If we can fire more tear gas while moving in, then do so.

>>5836299
This. Keep shelling, go in, grab natives, stun as needed.

>>5836296
"No idea, haven't been there yet. We do most of our exploring by sending lobotomized clones into the wild with a three-day death timer. We locate the corpses and if they're fresh, we can scan the brains. Really, it covers so much ground.
"In any case, some of our lobotomies happen to have seen a big old steel wall to the Southeast of our Eastern border. Might investigate it soon. Why, are they hostile?"

>>5836268
don't send in any harvesters yet, keep shelling and firing into the fog. They know we're here now, they're probably trying to go in for the attack or are scrambling away. Wait for the fog to lift before we try to collect anything.

>>5836333
Just tell them we've observed it from the distance but haven't really investigated.

>>5836333
>>"No idea, haven't been there yet. We do most of our exploring by sending lobotomized clones into the wild with a three-day death timer. We locate the corpses and if they're fresh, we can scan the brains. Really, it covers so much ground.

This is a really cool idea. Especially if you're an evil soul-sucking corp.

>>5836299
>>5836310
You move in, shelling, shelling, shelling away as you do so.
The ocean is filled with writhing natives, all of them struggling and clawing blindly at everything, half of them drowning. Some of the cling to blind sides of your drones without knowing what they are, desperately holding on for dear life. They're confused and unable to fight back - but your precious cargo is also drowning.

>>5836353
"Understood. Signing out."

>>5836404
well, shit. Better send in some harvesters after all. Have the droids ready to repel hostiles though.

>>5836404
...did we bring those drones with gravity guns to yank 'em out?

If not, well, nothing we can really do at this point but grab as many as we can with the haulers. If they're inclined to grab onto our combat drones, then the combat drones could also allow themselves to be used to ferry the primitives to a more secure location on land where they can be stunned for retrieval.

>>5836404
Good, the gas works very well. Move in with the harvesters... and harvest.

Combat drones pull back. Dart anything that appears threatening to the harvesters.

I have an idea.
1. Next time we buy tech from AR, buy the combat-hauler hybrid
2. use the tech lab to make a gravity gun hybrid, dedicated to pulling objects towards it at high velocity.
3. create dedicated drones for sucking up apes
4. ???
5. profit!

>>5836469

Can we name them Orcas?

>>5836453
>Combat drones pull back. Dart anything that appears threatening to the harvesters.
We need the combat drones in the front to dart anything that appears threatening to the harvesters. There's a massive fog of tear gas.

>>5836469
I like your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Let's not focus too much on slaving, it's not really that profitable for us.

>>5836499
Some of the tech we've gotten from slaving has proven exceedingly helpful to our cause. Missiles, for instance, and thermobaric weapons.

>>5836499
1. it's fun
2. we get technology from it
3. we can do it at the same time as we conquer places

Speaking of which, is Alpharange after any Uni-Peacers?

>>5836499
We get AlphaRange weapons tech in return for some monkeys. I think that's a fairly good profit.

>>5836534
>Speaking of which, is Alpharange after any Uni-Peacers?
They said that they were at peace with them. That said, I imagine that if they were captured AlphaRange would have no objections to...

...hey, we were planning on herbicide/pulse/napalm missiles, right? What if we used herbicide/pulse/tear gas instead? We could potentially capture a massive pile of Uni-Peace personnel! If AlphaRange doesn't want them, we can always set off some napalm in their holding cells or something.

Let's get this thread into autosage so I can start another one, in which I will update the slavery operation.

>>5836564
You might want to build a few more habitats to contain them in, in that case.
Your constructors can build six more in one day, if you'd like.

Okay, so preautosage, can we get info on the satellite being used as a weapon? Can we give it a heat beam and/or kinetic bombardment capabilities? Plus a laser/lightning/gravity gun for defense against missiles?

Giving it cruise missiles seems a bit pointless though.

>>5836589
Would it be fatal if we just left them locked in hauler drones for a couple days?

>>5836596
Standard TS Satellite comes with anti-missle flares. That's it. No weaponry, it's just for observation.

>>5836589
>>5836564

Build another 6 habitats, then.

If AR doesn't want the personnel, I'd bet LP would appreciate them.

Also, I'm highly in favor of the "gravity suckup" combat/hauler drones.

>>5836604
Yes. Starting new thread.

>>5836596
I suggested arming it with missiles because napalm/herbicide from the sky along with kinetic damage is pretty demoralizing. But I'm starting to think that Heat ray only might be a better idea, given that it doesn't have a limited number of shots.

I think buying the submersible tech is a great idea. We should be able to greatly expand our operations and increasing our haul. The sooner we do it, the faster we'll be hauling in the profits.

New thread:
>>5836630