Well i got a few hours to spare, so i will give this a bump.

>>5913791
Well, thank you very much.

We'll see if anyone has any interest in this today, though, or if they'll continue to rage in Flarethreads.

>>5913829
I'm in

>>5913843
That's a two.

Anyone else or shall we wait for them to join later, when we're actually dong shit?

>>5913906

Perhaps wait a few minutes to see if we can snag one or two more subcontractors.

>>5913930
I'll give it until 23:10, then.

Or, 18:10 4chan time.

>>5913976
A fellow UKfag?

>>5913987
There's more than two Britfags here, chucklefuck.

>>5913995
It was just a question, dickbutt

>>5913987
Correct. Which can be a bit of the problem, as this quest can last up to 8AM in the morning before I run out of steam.

Unfortunately, my typing ability using runs out of steam before I do, hence the one thousand typing errors.

count me in

So then there are three, four of us?

Helus reporting.

>>5914012
I managed to stay until 6am in one of the earlier threads, but I woke up around 3 the following day, shit sucked.

Hell, that's enough. Let me inform you in more detail of the situation you are in.

As well as launching the virus destroying missle, you have launched other missles as decoys. These missles include:

50 EMP Missles
30 Decontaminant Missles
15 Herbicide Missles
15 HE Missiles
15 Napalm Missiles
15 Pulse Missles
15 Thermobaric Missiles

Remember that the virus will attempt the intercept these missles, infect them and disarm them, rendering them useless. If they disarm the virus killer, all of this will be in vain.
The only decoy missles that are remotely effective against the virus at this stage are the decontamination missles - which also do not harm your missles whatsoever.

Currently, all missles are timed to land on the island in a time window approximately 30 seconds before the virus killer and 30 seconds after the virus killer. They're arranged randomly.

You have approximately ten minutes before the missles are in range of being shot down. Would you like to change their arrangement in any form? You can slow them or cause them to accelerate as you wish.

>>5914091
maybe we should speed one of the missiles up to see what kind of anti-air defenses we're facing here. Speed up one EMP rocket. We have the most of those.

>>5914091
Contact all of the other factions on the planet and ask them to send any available missiles to the same location, tell them to send duds, or ones without a payload, or decontamination missiles.

It might be good to accelerate all missiles as they approach the Virus exclusion zone to minimize intercept time.

Would there be any particular disadvantages to this approach?

>>5914144

A sacrificial guinea pig missle would be good.

>>5914161
Maximum speed already obtained.
At this rate, missles can only be deccelerated.
>>5914145
AR: "We need as many missles as we have to defend ourselves at this rate!"
LP: "Busy defending AlphaRange territory - if it gets past their territory, it gets to ours."
NEM: "Too busy, too busy!"
MSM: "Fuck off! We need radio silence if I'm going to hide from the world traitors effectively..."
UP: "... Missles? What missles?"

You are unable to contact the other factions.
>>5914144
You can deccelerate all but that one EMP so they arrive in 20 minutes instead of in 10 minutes.

>>5913575
Tried Wikipedia?
> Save the English language on the Internet: http://www.anonta[removethis]lk.com/ICARE

>>5914221

Probably best to slow down the missiles then, of course we should get them to top speed again before we enter the exclusion zone.

>>5914221
Tell AlphaRange and Lexington that they wont need to defend their respective territories if this missile strike works, but to make sure it does, we will need their help.

I would say threaten to contact the martians and tell them about MSM, but i'm not that ruthless.

>>5914268
Unless anyone disagrees, I will slow down all missles excluding the scout to half speed, while the scout maintains full speed towards the exclusion zone.
>>5914282
AR & LP: "And if it doesn't work?"

>>5914351
Agreed

"We better fucking hope that it does, otherwise there is no stopping this thing"

>>5914282

It might be hard to convince the others if they got their backs to the walls, desperation is hard to argue with.

But if EMP have just been rendered useless by the newest generation of the Virus we can ask them to launch all EMP missiles as those will not help them anyways.

Do we by the way have any drones, avaible near the virus? if we can make them selfdestruct fast enough we could use some of those as distraction too.

>>5914376
>>5914370
Accelerating missle.

Ahead is an island absolutely infested with the virus. It can't even be described an island anymore - it's a living, breathing, thing. An ugly, pulsating black heart lying on the ocean, choking out the virus and hurling it into the air.

However, as the scout missle approaches, it ceases hurling the large clumps of infected material - instead, a thousand pores open up on the blackened soil and from each pore emerges a thousand crows, black avians built completely from the nanovirus, flying straight towards the missle, slamming into it one after another.

6% Infection.
14% Infection.
29% Infection - serious communication problems, the camera ceases functioning properly.
42% Infection.
57% Infection.
74% Infection - the missle has successfully been disarmed by the virus.
91% Infection - the virus has triggered the self-destruct mechanism and it explodes harmlessly.

No further contact.
>>5914408
No - you've decided primarily on missles - and missles do move much faster than any method of transportation on your drones. At this rate, they wouldn't be able to catch up.

>>5914446
ho shit. I think we might need more missiles.

>>5914376
AR: "... Fuck it, fine. Our forward silos are launching the last of our fully functioning EMP warheads. That's 67 of them. They can arrive in twenty-nine minutes at the earlier."

>>5914446

How much time elapsed before the missile got shot down?

Also ask AR & LP to contribute with their now useless EMP missiles.

>>5914468
Also, that's supposed to read "earliest".

Fuck, my typing's going already.

>>5914468
if we set all our rockets to slowest possible option, should their rockets manage to catch up to us?

>>5914468
Can we slow ours down to come more in line with their estimated time of arrival? Check with them to make sure their missiles are going at full speed.

>>5914468

Ah, ok i guess we better put our missiles in a loiter pattern and synchronise our attack with AR`s attack then.

>>5914485
7 seconds between entry of the exclusion zone and first impact.
8 seconds between first impact and self-destruction.

The missle self-destructed approximately 92 seconds away from optimal target.

>>5914516
>>5914530
>>5914539
You can slow them to...

15% of maximum speed and still have them remain airborne.

That gives you 33.3 minutes.

They cannot go any slower than that at this rate.

Is there any particular way you'd like to arrange your missles?

>>5914541
...ho shit. Okay. Okay! I don't suppose sir-brain-in-a-television knows how to make more of those virus killing bombs then?

>>5914541

Not good, i guess we will have to concentrate our missiles in as small an area as possible to reduce the amount AA that can be directed against them, of course the missiles must be spread out enough to reduce the risk of succumbing to area damage.

Just what the optimal flight pattern is i will leave to sounder tactical minds.

>>5914594
Could we blow the Decontaminator missiles early to provide a covering screen of plague stuff?

>>5914625
fuck it, ask Samson 70 what we can do so the virus killer missile can survive this. I honestly think we're kind of screwed.

>>5914625
"Smoke screen" isn't so accurate. It's less of a gas and more of a liquid, so any smoke screen would remain for only a fraction of second.
However, premature detonation of the decontaminant missles would eliminate any trace of the virus in the immediate area.

>>5914635
"There's a chance that the decontaminant might slow the rate of infection - and since your missles are not biological, they shouldn't suffer any negative effect. I can't make promises, however. I haven't dealt with a threat like this before."

Just how large is the Area of effect on the Viral Countermeasure?

I guess we should airburst it if possible, and detonate as soon as we get the node well into the area of effect, Thus maximizing the cleared area and perhaps cutting the flighttime down with a few seconds.

Why don't we split the missles into two separate groups: a diversion group and a protection group (including the nano-virus killer nuke)

The Diversionary group come in at an perpendicular angle to the ground. We should place some effective missiles in this group so the nanovirus believes we're being sincere.

The Protection group comes in from a low angle, with loads of missles under the virus killer to protect it and loads of missiles around it to protect it.

Sound good?

>>5914655
Good, good. Perhaps Samson 70 can make so they explode in the right time measurement so the damn missile can hit its target.

>>5914679

Problem is that if we do that we have the same number of missiles contending with twice as much AA, taking into account how fast our missile went down that is not good.

Can we have the missles fly up and try to come down over the island?

Like when we used the naplam in that manor. Use the decom missiles this way and have it rain the decom chems down on the island.

>>5914676
Within 20 seconds of hitting optimal target, detonation is capable of removing the virus from a large area of the island, including the location of the brain bunker.
Within 10 seconds of hitting the optimal target, the virus is cleansed from the island but there's a chance that within the hour, reinfection of the island could commence.

Hitting the optimal target would eliminate a portion of the virus on the mainland as well - practically eliminating any chance of reinfection for at least a day, giving you all the time in the world to get the job done.

>>5914736
One, you're underestimating the range of the virus.
Two, it's not chemical, it's sonic. It releases a blastwave of a certain frequency that causes the fragile machinery in the nanovirus to completely disintegrate

>>5914680
"I would be able to do that - if I was in your facility and could alter such thing. I'm not. I'm on the transport with Joanna and half of your contractors at the moment, flying to the island.
"I'm afraid I'm unable to help you at this moment in time. You're going to have to rely on your own grey matter."

>>5914756
I don't understand how cruise missiles, travelling as slow as 500 miles / 800 km/h, could be easily intercepted by something like a crow...

>>5914741
Why dont we aim to detonate at the 10 second mark, or whenever a missile gets 25% infection, whatever comes first. This would be done on a missile by missile basis of course.

>>5914822
it isn't a single crow. It's thousands of crows, millions of thousands of nanite virus crows, flying out in a single black chattering wall of death, created and bred with only purpose in mind: stopping those damn missiles.

Sup.

If the decontaminant missiles are going to be slightly effective, how about we have them staggered throughout the missile group?
And lets put the sonic missile near the rear of the group.

You know what? Fuck it. We won't be able to hit the optimal target.

But we'll get damn close to it, at least.

Have the rest of the missles protect the decontaminant and the virus killer. Virus killer's surrounded by decontaminants. As soon as the decontaminants begin to be infected, begin self-destruction, once every two seconds. From most infected to least infected. This should keep the virus killer protected.

If virus killer gets over 50% between zero and twenty seconds to optimal target, premature detonation. It should have some effect, anyway.

This is the best idea I could come up with.

>>5914797

Hmm... inconvenient, well then here is my proposal, we join up all the missiles accelerate them to top speed, if the missiles are capable of such they perform evasive manuvers as they head toward the target, the Missile flight will be close but spaced apart widely enough to avoid the selfdestruct of another missile, the Viral counter measure will be placed slightl back and high up i n the swar allowing for other missiles to function as ablative armor for it.

We detonate decontamination missiles at opportunity targets like AA or sensor clusters or when they are likely to blow up.

How long will it takes us to land on the island and try to rush the core?

>>5914822
Crows being spat out of the earth at the same speed as a railgun projectile.
>>5914831
Who agrees with this?
>>5914846
Who agrees with this?
>>5914865
Who agrees with this?

Lots of suggestions, but what's the best?

>>5914863
I'm like this idea personally. Try and put the decontaniments and the virus killer in the back, where the crows would hopefully have to go through the most missiles.

>>5914885
You're about an hour and a half behind the missle barrage.

If you prematurely detonate the virus killer more than ten seconds before impact, you'll have to uncover the bunker with your gamma guns before you can access it. There's a high risk of getting infected - but the virus will no longer be harmful if the brain is killed.
If you prematurely detonate the virus killer between zero and ten seconds before impact, there will be virus on the island - but you probably won't be infected.
If it impacts, you won't be infected and the operation will be virus-free.

I'm cool with detonating the missiles pre-maturely if they get infected.

>>5914927
I don't suppose we could speed up?

>>5914936
You're belting it across the ocean, you can't go any faster.

>>5914927

We should go for the zero-ten seconds estimate then. otherwise follow this plan >>5914865.

Idea: Have the missiles go up and up until they are almost out of fuel but can practically fall in a ballistic arc toward the optimum target. Also disable their self-destruct systems if you can.

The virus can't alter their trajectory if the missiles are out of fuel and they can't blow them up if the self-destruct is out.

>>5914972

No but they can subvert them and take them over and with disabled selfdestruct it would be impossible for us to resist this.

Essentialy we would hand our missile flight over to the Virus.

>>5914972
They can still disable the warheads.

You know what? Let's just fastfoward to when the missles actually meet up.

That blackened, pulsating island is in sight of your missles now. The AlphaRange warheads have met up with yours and they're speeding towards the island.

These are the missles you currently have at your disposal:
117 EMP Missles
30 Decontaminant Missles
15 Herbicide Missles
15 HE Missiles
15 Napalm Missiles
15 Pulse Missles
15 Thermobaric Missiles
1 Virus Killer

Or, as you've classified them:

192 Distractions
30 Decontaminant Missles
1 Virus Killer

So!
Starting formation?

All right, got here before an entire thread had finished this time.

I'm for having the EMP missiles cover decontam missiles, have the decontam clear an area, and direct the frequency missile to that spot.

I'd space out the Decontaminant missiles around the Virus killer, and have each one self destruct in turn when crows are aimed at the virus killer. All others I'd place in a large "sphere" formation around the 30 decomtamination and the virus killer, and make sure the high explosive ones and thermobaric one are on outside of the sphere, so if they detonate they won't take out essential missiles around them.

>>5914993
Who cares if they subvert the now useless distractions? The point is that we keep the crows from hitting the virus missile.

>>5915012
Is it possible to do my ballistic arc idea, Plasma?

>>5915012

Tight formation, Virus Countermeasure hanging back and somewhat high in the flight, top speed, evasive manuvers if possible, decontamination missiles seek out opportunity targets, all missiles set to detonate if infected, Countermeasure goes as close as possible but also detonates if infected.

>>5915047
See, then you turn "distractions" into "shields," and the virus brain will know to aim for the Virus Killer specifically. I'm all for having some missiles in the way to block for it, but you can't have it be obvious.

>>5915049
Majority don't seem to be in favour of it, so I am afraid it doesn't look like it. I go with ideas that more than one person agrees on.
>>5915040
>>5915047
Who's in favour?
>>5915066
Even if they're the slightest bit decontaminated? As in, 1%?

>>5915084
I'm assuming the virus can't tell the missiles apart, so its going to just be shooting at the clump.

I'd just like to note that Agnus Dei (Homeworld, when you return to your home planet) is surprisingly fitting for our current situation. Atleast, I find it fitting.

Just want to throw that out there.

>>5915084
Have some of the missles hang back. We can try to trick the brain into thinking that the missles in the way back are what we are protecting.

>>5915099
1% is way to wasteful. Maybe, around 70%.

>>5915099
Go to 20%, we had communication difficulties at 27%, and factoring in a safety barrier I think 20% is reasonable

>>5915012
A very elongated sphere?

>>5915099

Have them detonate as soon as the missiles performance get significantly impaired, control, speed, telemetry and so on.

>>5915099
Ah well, I'm in favor. have the missiles spread out just enough to avoid extreme fratricide and set the contamination destruct levels to 40%.

The virus has overpowering anti air- its gonna shoot everything. Hanging back won't help - get htere as fast as possible before we loose too many shield missles.

I'm for picking one and seeing the results. And then proceeding to the kicking of ass when we land.

>>5915040
>>5915084
>>5915113
>>And other posts.

The impression I am getting is a tightly packed arrowhead, the surface of the arrow covered in distractions with the decontaminants beneath guarding the killer. However, the distractions also trail back behind the bulk of the force, in order to try and 'trick' the virus into thinking they're meant to be protected.

Yesno?

>>5915182
Yes. Though make sure when we have a missile self-destruct that it peels off from the main group in order to detonate off to the side and not kill any other missiles.

>>5915182
Good enough for government work.

>>5915182

Sounds good, also we must play "Ride of the Valkyries"

>>5915233
I support this motion

>>5915233
No, that's for when we roll up ourselves with the massive fleet of drones.

God damn I am always late to this. But yeah, I've been here since the start, just always catching up late.

The missles pass into the exclusion zone. This time, the virus seems slightly better prepared, pores already formed and million of crows being spat out. This time, it's five seconds between entry and first impact.

One by one, the warheads begin to blacken, their cameras fading into static as the virus takes over. As you request, they peel away one by one by one to detonate, slowly exposing the shield of decontaminants. By the time twenty seconds have passed since first impact, dozens of the distraction warheads have been taken out and the decontaminators are slowly being contaminated. One or two crows have even passed through to hit the virus killer purely by chance.

137 Distractions
30 Decontaminant Missles
1 Virus Killer - 2% Infection

82 Seconds Remaining

Any change in tactics?

>>5915285
Use some of the thermobaric missiles to blow holes in the crows for the other missiles to go through. They might be resistant to heat, but not enough to survive.

>>5915285
Have the distractions concentrate in front, a shield in front of the shield.

And detonate a decontam in the middle so that it clears the other decontams and the virus killer.

>>5915285

Is it possible to detonate a decontamination missle in front of the Virus Countermeasure to kill the infection? We will probably have to detonate a few missiles to confuse the Virus regarding our our purpose but it should allow the Countermeasure to survive.

>>5915302
While it may temporarily knock them out of action and send them spiralling away, it isn't devastatingly effective. It's a parlour trick, really.

Still, in order to do this and get your TBs to the front, it'll require a little bit of a delay on the behalf of your other missles.

>>5915322
>>5915334
Theoretically, this should work.

Initiate?

>>5915349
I don't think we can spare the time. We're trying to get down there as fast as possible.

>>5915349
Damnation. Abort that idea then. Other than keep charging full bore, I don't have any other ideas for this bit.

>>5915363
Do it. Have it zip ahead a bit if needed to maximize decontam spread.

>>5915349
It doesn't matter which missiles we have in the front.

Whichever missile is heading the charge, the detonation will be enough to make a small little window. Even if only for a few seconds.

A few of those little minor windows can be that edge that's needed to push the anti viral all the way through.

How far away are WE from the island? Before we get there we need to enable our cloaking tech.

Also, let's just imagine I'm one of the power armored contractors on the shuttle here?

>>5915363
How long a window does each decontamination missile give?

>>5915363

Yes, we need that missile alive.

Plasma, in regards to 70 not being able to guide the missile from the base:

We've copied his AI a few times. Couldn't we activate one of them back at the HQ, giving us two Samson?

>>5915389
You're an hour and a half from it. You can't even see it on the horizon.

In order to open a window, your missles at the front detonate, one by one, the blast knocking back dozens of crows - out of the endless millions. The murder of avians becomes thicker and thicker as more of the swarm over your missles.

Suddenly, like a pair of pincers, a group of crows suddenly curve around the main bulk, smashing into the missles at the back - the ones you were meant to be protecting, according the virus.

The decontaminants begin to peel off and detonate, showering the rest with the corrosive material to try and eliminate the virus. Still after twenty seconds, there has been nothing but an increase of the presence of the virus on the virus killer. You're doing your best - but the countermeasure can only be so well protected.

72 Distractions
24 Decontaminant Missles
1 Virus Killer - 11% Infected

62 Seconds Remaining

Any change in tactics?

>>5915462
Bear in mind that the Samson you are talking about would have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

But, so far, Samson has made three copies of himself, so you have four Samsons that you can use, all in different condition, some of them months out of date.

>>5915481
Short of getting outside to push, no.

Also you lost your name/trip.

Fuck, we need a new plan.

>>5915508
Surely we would be able to communicate the situation with him.

>>5915513
Oh, thanks.

>>5915543
In under a minute?

Nothing we can do can improve the situation.

Continue as planned.

What's Samson think the chances of our current attack succeeding enough for us to get into the bunker without infecting ourselves?

>>5915549
Get sampson to binary it up

>>5915618
And on top of that, what will happen if one of us gets infected during the mission? Shoot them before they're taken over? Hope we can shut down the main AI before he/she is taken over?

And for that matter, what would happen to a person taken over after the AI is destroyed?

I'm getting ahead of myself.

>>5915618
>>What's Samson think the chances of our current attack succeeding enough for us to get into the bunker without infecting ourselves?

If I may:

"Casualties many; Percentage of infected not known; Combat efficiency: we are winning!"

>>5915618
"We've got to do this."

"We have to do this."

Your missles continue to speed towards the destination - practically all of the precious shield of distractions is eliminated, with only a few dozen remaining, waiting to be picked off. Every two seconds, as you detailed, the most infected decontaminant warhead explodes, delivering its payload all over the writhing black murder of crows, causing them to disintegrate. It's certain effective - but it's not enough to permanantly hold them off.

42 Distractions
17 Decontaminant Missles
1 Virus Killer - 24% Infected

42 Seconds Remaining

At your base, you finally load up Samson 70's latest update. "What? What's happened? Did we fail? Have I died?"

>>5915671
Lost your name and trip again, good sir.

>>5915639
We all volunteered for this. You knew the risks. Immediate bombardment by gamma is what will happen.

I'd expect any one of you to do the same for me.

>>5915671
Now we cluster everything tightly around the virus killer's front. Begin detonating decontam every second. We have to beat back the infection on the virus killer as much as possible before the final push.

>>5915671
Your trip seems to dislike you tonight.

And hey, if things go at this rate then the missile should be able to reach the target before being completely infected. Cool.

Remind us again Plasma, how many seconds away is the bare minimum the missile has to be for the island to be clear enough for us to enter without incident, and how many seconds for us to be able to enter with minor difficulty?

>>5915703
That's too often. In 17 seconds all the decon missiles will be gone.

We need to make them work for us for as long as possible.

>>5915671
42 seconds left. The virus killer has to survive at least 22 seconds left. The virus killer can still work as long as it's not infected to 74%.

Let's rock.

>>5915639
It took over ten days after minor infection for Prospector 137 to show serious signs of infection.

If you're hit by one crow, you've got about an hour as the virus begins to multiply.

The bad part is when you're hit by more than one crow - when you're hit by dozens. Then the transformation is almost immediate.

Also - theoretically - when the brain dies, the virus dies. If the brain dies before you're completely taken over, you should be okay.

Theoretically.

if i remember correctly 20 seconds - was a partial success? 10- was good and impact was perfect.

Is this correct ?

>>5915725
The rate of one every two seconds is allowing the missile to be consumed as it is.

I'm also for having the missiles do a quick 1 second dodge downwards before continuing.

Have Samson take over at base if we can. He should be better at this then us.

Fuck it.

Let's blow this bitch away.

>>5915754
Suppliment that with a Left-Up-Left-Down-Down jig and we should lose a few more crows.

>>5915797
We also lose more time that way though.

If there's a combo we should be trying anyways, it should be Up+Up+Down+Down+Left+Right+A+B+A

>>5915712
>>5915752
20s: The bunker will probably be contaminated again. You'll need to uncover it and venture inside. Contamination risks - high.
10s: The bunker will probably not be contaminated. Contamination risks - low.
0s: Perfect score. Zero contamination risk.
>>5915769
"I'll try my best."

The copy of Samson 70 tries to take over, trying to follow orders and control the situation as best as possible, yet it seems hopeless - you definitely have no chance of getting it to the optimal target. The camera of the virus killer fades into static, a sign of infection. The nanovirus has begun seeping beneath the plating, to protect itself from the majority of the decontaminant. But then...

"Twenty seconds. Shall I detonate it? Nineteen seconds."

21 Distractions
9 Decontaminant Missles
1 Virus Killer - 49% Infected

19 Seconds Remaining

>>5915841
try and get it down to 10 if you can. Please, try to get it down to get it to 10 if you can. But... but... if the infection reaches 65, blow it. Blow it all to hell.

>>5915841
Go for 10 seconds. Let's risk it.

Blow all of the decontaminant missiles now. Keep going.

>>5915841
Let it go until it gets to 60% infection. Then blow it.

Fuck, I'm so late.

Anyways, yeah wait try for 10. 65% seems a little low, I'd wait for 70% or so.

>>5915877
70 is too close to it being disarmed.

Do like the other contractor said. Blow ALL decon and then the anti viral once it gets to 60/65

>>5915841
Bunch all of the remaining missiles around the virus killer, blow one decontaminant for good measure then proceed to blow more decontaminants every 2 seconds.

>>5915841

Detonate the missile as soon as it seems likely to cease functioning, if that is now, so be it but if possible hang on a few more seconds.

Afterwards plaster the target area with any remaining decontamination missiles.

>>5915877
I don't know how long it would take for the bomb to explode, and at 70 it would only need to infect it four more percent. At 65 it at least has to go a further nine percent.

>>5915888
I support this.

Also, Samson still has the frequency stored, right?

Once we land, he could use that to help form a clearing if it's needed.

>Once we land, he could use that to help form a clearing if it's needed.
I don't think we brought any sonic guns.

>>5915891
We've been doing that already. 1 every 2 seconds isn't fast enough.

>>5915900
>>5915900
74 was when the other one was disarmed. It isn't necessarily a set time frame.

I still say we detonate ALL the decon missiles and then go for 60%, 65% at the latest.

The decontamination warheads detonate as rapidly as they can, trying to keep contamination levels down but there's too many crows - too much infection. Samson 70 speaks.
"I don't know if we can make it - should we risk it?"

At this rate, none of the cameras are functioning. Infection levels are too high.

12 Distractions
2 Decontaminant Missles
1 Virus Killer - 62% Infected

14 Seconds Remaining

>>5915927
He's a robot. He has his own emitter for noise. It's like a human yelling.

>>5915927
70 can yell at it with the pattern in binary. I am sure it will work!

>>5915941
BLOW EVERYTHING!

>"I don't know if we can make it - should we risk it?"
NO! Blow it, and we'll risk dying of infection later!

>>5915941

blow it.

>>5915941
...we won't be able to make it. Go as far as you can before you reach 65, then blow it.

>>5915941

Fire Countermeasure, use the remaining two Decontamination missiles to take out the largest remaining Viral clusters in the target area.

>>5915941
Blow it the second the last two decontamination missiles are gone, so long as its below 65%.

Assuming it goes off at 13 seconds, that will give us a low medium level of risk of infection.

Get the gamma ready.

Blow it at 12 seconds, spending the last 2 decontam each second prior.

You flick the switch to detonate the virus killer. This is the moment you've all been waiting for.

Click.

...

Click.

Clickclickclickclickclick.

"It's not responding."

Infection levels are still increasing, and the virus killer refuses to respond to your demands for detonation.

7 Distractions
1 Decontamination Missle
1 Virus Killer - 67% Infected

12 Seconds Remaining

Blow it at 10 seconds, give us the best chance possible!

Also, uh, I might be retarded for having missed this in one of the earlier threads, but who are the other forces on the planet?

There's us, Alpha, Lemmington, Uni-Peace, the Martians, and some kind of Earth missionaries. But who were the other two up in the North East?

>>5916006
Use the 7 Distractions to set off the virus killer.

Detonate the distractions around the virus killer to force it to self detonate.

>>5916006
Blow. Fucking. Everything.

>>5916006
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WORK DAMN YOU! WORK! GOD DAMN IT! YOU ARE OUR LAST CHANCE! WORK! GOD DAMN! SOMEONE GET ME THAT LOONY SCIENTIST IN THE TV SCREEN! I'M GOING TO BUST HIS HEAD OPEN!

>>5916006
>>5916006

>>5916006
The virus has self-destructed every single missile it's gotten control of, right? I guess we can let it commit suicide.

>>5916006

Well then we are truly fucked, unless of course the AI mindstate of the countermeasures inventor and Samson can manage to do something in a few seconds.

>>5916040
If the missile just explodes it won't emit the frequency, and we'll be fucked.

The virus killer uses sonic! That means there is something in there that causes noise! If we blow it up, it won't do anything! KEEP HITTING THE DAMN BUTTON!

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>>5916006
FUCK. WORK YOU PIECE OF SHIT.

CHECK THE BATTERIES ON THE DETONATOR!

Actually, try transmitting the anti-virus frequency at the missile.

>>5916006
Have the last Decontamination Missle go of right near the VK missle to try to get the % down enough to set it off.

GOD DAMN ARCHEOTECH! IT NEVER WORKS RIGHT! WORK! WORK! I COMMAND YOU TO WORRRRRRRRRRRK!
CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK
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WE'RE SCREWED.

Build 500 Gamma Missiles, and 500 thermobaric. We'll take a ship off planet, and Gamma the whole damn thing, then we'll launch every thermobaric missile at that goddamn island. Then we pray that it's enough to take out that god damn core.

>>5916069
This too. We still have some kind of contact with it. Tell Kenneth the frequency.

Kenneth = The missile

>>5916021
"Roger, sir."

The single remaining decontaminant falls back, deccelerating as the virus killer speeds towards it.

The seven remaining distraction all suddenly close in around the virus killer.

All nine warheads meet at a sudden point, with a million crows closing in on all directions.

Click.

There's absolutely zero response from any of your missles.

You have no idea if it was a success or a failure.

All you can see are two last figures - the level of infection of the virus killer before you lost all contact and the remaining time you had.

69%.
10 seconds.

>>5916081
Can't we mount Heat Lasers on either Ships or Weapons Platform Satellites and bombard from orbit?

>>5916092
Well then. It's time to meet our destiny.

>>5916092
Send in light drones first to check the place out.

>>5916092
"...praying wouldn't be a bad idea at this point."

>>5916092

>All you can see are two last figures - the level of infection of the virus killer before you lost all contact and the remaining time you had.
Well, looks like those of us on the copter are going in. If we all die, the rest of you spend a day or two building a completely badass spaceship and get offplanet.

>>5916092
Head towards the island. It... it might have worked. We have to make sure whether or not it worked. And if it didn't...

We charge the core anyway. We don't have any other choice. We either kill the core, or die trying. The rest can escape aboard one of the pirate ships. Liberate Te Ex Infernis.

>>5916107
Do we have any drones on our transport?

If not, there's not enough time.

If it worked, it worked at 10 seconds, which means there will still be actives virus nanites at the site. Taking time to get drones out there will only make our entrance the more difficult.

We need to get there and see for ourselves.

Plasma, fast forward until we arrive. Cloaked, of course.

>>5916092

Continue our flight toward the island. We won't be stopped by this. Maintain speed with our carrier.

Move our attack satellites over the island.

"I'm ready to die if you are..."

Let's do it.

>>5916117
Helus, it's been a pleasure and honor to work along side you.

Let's show this robot bastard how we do things.

And let it be known, if we do this, the Alpha Range boys had better get us the best fucking booze in the universe.

Gentlemen, it's time to play the most dangerous game. Let's roll.

By the way I've got a plan to maybe survive this without TradeStar on our asses. Of course it's highly dependent on the nanovirus not winning, otherwise running is our bet option

A plan for surviving after this ends.

This relies on several things;
1) The Ability to buy clones of ourselves from Lemmington
2) The Ability to buy new identities from some other faction (My preference is the Martian Navy, but Uni-Peace might go for it (We have Joanna))
3) Blowing up all our facilities in a single gigantic explosion when the Head of Hajjar affairs comes to collect the core
4) Getting said Head actually into a facility
5) Getting the fuck off this rock

Now, the plan is as follows: We buy clones of ourselves, get some new identities, wait for the Head of Hajjar affairs to get here,then get him down to one of our facilities. After that, we need to remotely detonate all our shit in a pattern that looks enough like a concentrated attack, our clones in the base gives enough evidence that we died too. Then, we get Uni-Peace to take the credit.

>>5916168
That's fucking genius, man.

>>5916168
Can't we just reverse engineer hyperdrive tech from the pirate ships, sink all our ore and fuel into a giant ass spaceship, and blast our way off this rock?

>>5916138
The honor has been all mine.

Alright guys, listen up. We've been warned that there might still be Tradstar droids in the bunker with the core- droids we don't control, and more importantly, droids that would be mechanical and as such won't be effected by our gamma guns. But if I remember correctly, we do have lasers built into our suits, so if we're lucky, we might be able to take them out with those. Now let's do this. For Alpharange. For Lemmington. For Uni-peace, and everyother faction on this damned planet, and yes, even those damn monkeys. Lets do this for every slant eyed motherfucker who ever tried to make a buck in this galaxy and winded up in much deeper shit then they ever thought possible.

Let's just fucking DO this.

>>5916168
Then we all become dashing space rogues, questing for danger and profit, i'm in.

What day is it for that matter.

How long until the TradeStar ships arrive to collect their metal?

We may have enough time to get things in order for our great escape.

>>5916187
Yeah, but TradeStar is going to think that we took their shit and ran. Then they're going to come the fuck after us. I do not want that.

>>5916187
TradeStar will still be on our asses for busting their nano horde to hell.

Also for squelching on our mining contract, but big deal.

>>5916193
"So does this mean we can que up Ride of the Valkyries now?"

An hour and a half later, you arrive.

The sight is incredible. A serene, completely still landscape, not a single living thing in sight, virus or otherwise. The island is pitch black. Everything is covered in a layer of the finest black sand imaginable, as smooth as silk and completely, unutterably dead.

Small flakes of the virus rain from the heavens in the billions, dead and inanimate, unable to do any harm at all. Amidst the cold, still sandscape, you can see a shape, an unnaturally shape. A concrete bunker, the roof carrying the faded insignia of TradeStar. Your destination. The virus was never able to enter the bunker - but who knows what hidden TradeStar secrets remain.

You had enough time during your brief stop at your base to gather anyone else who wants to come and any weapons you wanted.

Currently, you have:
18 Stealth Drones with Lasers and Gamma
1 Samson 70 with Laser and Gamma in a stealth drone.
1 Joanna with Laser and Gamma in a stealth suit.
1 Irony with Laser and Gamma in a stealth suit.
1 Ayebohr with Laser and Gamma in a stealth suit.
1 Dirk with Laser and Gamma in a stealth suit.
1 Sangeyla with Laser and Gamma in a stealth suit.
1 Thatcher with Laser and Gamma in a stealth suit.

I'll say it again.

WE GO IN CLOAKED UP MORE THAN RICK JAMES!

>>5916193
>>But if I remember correctly, we do have lasers built into our suits, so if we're lucky, we might be able to take them out with those.

We have a CARRIER with us. With 1/3 of its drones--laser, gamma, lightning gun, and other assorted types. And ALL of its 40 helicopter heat drones.

>>5916193
Fuck everyone on this planet. This is for the goddamn good of the fucking galaxy. This thing cannot get off the planet.

>>5916216
Come on Plasma, add me on in that group. I've been in this since the beginning. I just wasn't in the other thread on account of it happening a day earlier than you'd said.

But come on man, I've gotta be in on this.

>>5916216
Stealth up. Drones go first, we follow after.

Breach the bunker and start shooting, everything inside it.

We should have made fucking grenades.

>>5916210
YES
>>5916216
I thought I was on the- oh, wait, yeah. I had to go to bed for work. I don't suppose you would mine throwing me in saying I was silent up until now, huh?

I'm quite content overseeing the base with some booze.

>>5916221
>>5916216
>>You had enough time during your brief stop at your base to gather anyone else who wants to come and any weapons you wanted.

In that case, I would have loaded up every available lethal ground drone we had into the carrier. Priority on heat drones.

>>5916235
You're in.

What weapons do you lads want?

>>5916235
>You had enough time during your brief stop at your base to gather anyone else who wants to come and any weapons you wanted

I think you're in, man.

Also: "Drones in first to scout shit out, then we can follow. Or Samson might have a better idea."

>>5916258
This, also, I've replace my Gamma Gun with a Heat Gun if I can.

>>5916259
Ooo! Ooo! Gamma and EMP for me! Laser takes too long to do damage in my opinion.

>You had enough time during your brief stop at your base to gather anyone else who wants to come and any weapons you wanted.
Make sure that we've got the appropriate materials for carefully penetrating armored bunker walls and/or doors. It would be exceptionally embarrassing to be stymied by a bulkhead after getting past a killer nanoplague.

>>5916223

Isn't the virus dead?

EMP guns.

Our stealth suits.

Any kind of small explosives. Artillery shells we can throw and shoot, dynamite even. Anything!

But mostly EMP.

>>5916216
I'll go if thats cool, what weapons are available?

>>5916259
The people in the group were armed with gamma rays and lasers because they were originally just supposed to be going in to sneak into the Iron Seal. But if I can join in, I wouldn't mind replacing my gamma ray gun with a lightning gun.

>>5916006
Either blow that shit up with a secondary explosion, or we're gonna have to haul our asses in there, find the bomb, and detonate it manually.

>>5916272
Gamma isn't any use against against machines.

>>5916276
Only the nanites on the island were destroyed.

All the rest are still out there, and most likely coming back at us.

The core CPU that controls them is inside this bunker.

Radio Alpha. What's going on there? Is the nanovirus doing anything? Retreating?

>>5916266
Heat Ray's a superweapon. Seriously, it's the size of a fucking tank gun.

Does anyone want to form a firing team with Sangeyla for the heat ray?

ALSO:
There's not enough room for a hundred humanoid drones, let alone the several thousand you possess, all built in tank format.

Bringing along everything would be a pointless exercise.

>>5916274
Oh, and also, if feasible I would like to bring a pair of kinetic shields along with our entry team. Relying on stealth alone for protection would be careless.

>>5916299
Also, does AlphaRange have the frequency? If not, now would be the time to give it to them.

>>5916299
"Retreating en masse. It's even ripping itself off the ground it attached itself to - it's fucking disturbing, it's like a damn fucking tidal wave!"

"What the fuck did you guys do to piss it off?"

>>5916302
This is a smart idea! If I could come, I would!

>>5916302
I'd like to be outfitted with a lightning gun and flamerthrower.

>>5916290
Gamma just in case there's still virus. EMP for machines. The drones with their laser weapons can fulfill the 'Generic Infantry' role.

>>5916302
Wow, I completely forgot that. If no one wants to form a firing team, just give me an EMP Gun.

>"What the fuck did you guys do to piss it off?"
"We used a sonic disruption device to eliminate most of its presence on the southwestern island. Transmitting the frequency now; enjoy."

Transmit the frequency to them so that they can use it in their sonics.

>>5916315
"We're about to blow this motherfucker away. If we survive, you owe us something to drink.

If we don't . . . Get off this rock. And don't ever look back."

>>5916309

Yeah, if we have not given it to them, they should get it, they helped us a lot with those extra EMP missiles.

>>5916302
I'll take an EMP gun and some sort of machine gun if one is available, otherwise i'll have a flamethrower

>>5916302
Not in a superheavy VTOL drone, but in the Colossus carrier that we specified earlier was coming with us? Whose choppers were overhead and light VTOLs accompanied us to the entrance when we went to the Iron Seal?

The same carrier that has 2/3 of all its drones but heat with carrier 2 at the moment. Surely it can carry some ground based drones.

Plasma, what kind of explosives do we have?

I'm pretty sure nothing specially made for humans, since we never planned on going into combat ourselves.

But artillery shells and dynamite. Anything.

>>5916325

i'll team

Samson have any ideas on how to charge in? He's the combat guy and can have control over the infantry drones.

Give me a lightning gun and a laser. You know what- how many men do we need to form that firing squad?

>>5916356
You have grenades in the same way you have artillery.
I forgot the mention that.

Order your stuff in this thread - I'll note all this shit down and in the next thread, we'll start this riot.

>>5916320
You can!

>>5916359
Sweet! We can probably use the Heat Gun to bore into the bunker.

Guys, I'm pretty sure Plasma isn't going to let us bring our combat drones in.

Only us and our humanoid drones.

It's time to do what we have to.

Official list for me.

My stealth suit with Lightning gun and flamethrower. Some grenades. Hopefully some kind of satchel explosives.

>>5916375
Very well - in case we need more than 2 people, I'll team with you two. If not, I need something to bore through heavy metal and the like - I'll take thermobaric grenades if possible and a laser gun.

>>5916374
Can we get a list of what stuff we can take, im guessing we are all in stealth suits though?

>>5916375
How about the -40- heat 'copter drones that are coming with us do that.

>>5916375

Is there a way we can carry a different weapon as a back up if one of us gets nailed - any circumstance the survivor will only need one

>>5916374
Give me some HE gernades as well then. I can wear them around my belt, which I totally wear.

Also, am I the only one who as always imagined us wearing some kind of Dead Space esquire armor suit?

>>5916375
Do we want to bore into it? If we make a massive hole going in, the plague can follow right through.

First we should try to hack in. If not possible, then we break our way through.

Nothing stops us this time. Nothing.

>>5916405
There seems to be no infection left - lets bore a hole.

>>5916374
My loadout:
EMP gun
Gamma rifle
2 Frag grenades
2 Decontaminate grenades

I'll only have the decontaminate grenades if it's assured we're safe in our armor, that is.

>>5916420
If we can't get in another way.

>>5916376
Into the bunker, probably not. But outside of it? We've got things covered. The carrier's drones can handle pretty much any exterior defenses.

I desire 14 High-explosive packs, and a Laser rifle.

>>5916405
Samson can always try to hack in, don't worry.

Make sure to bring EMP weaponry.

Who knows what kind of drones TS has down there. A super secret weapon's facility? That is gonna have top of the line shit.

>>5916405
that just means the plauge goes back to it's own brain though, right? Wait, that's still a problem - fucking nanites.

>>5916423
I'll follow your example. My load out:
Lightning Gun
Laser (did we ever buy pulse lasers from trade star? What do they do?)
2 HE
2 Thermobaric.

>>5916424
>>5916420
>>5916405
>>5916375

>>Forgetting we have a colossus carrier with us to do that

Yeah, make sure to have the drones we've got guard the bunker entrance the best they can.

Most effective weaponry they've got.

Also, guys. We've got a pretty varied array of high tech. Once we get off this planet, we can set up a very prestigious business of our own.

>>5916446
I'm not sure our carriers can have weapons equipped to them.

Give me some EMP grenades, too.

I'd like some thermobaric grenades.

(are we in autosage yet?)

Are we autosagin' yet?

>Order your stuff in this thread - I'll note all this shit down and in the next thread, we'll start this riot.
My desired loadout:
-Kinetic Shield
-Shockwave Gun
-Medical Kit

Prime grenade
Throw rookie

>>5916457
facepalm.jpg

Our carrier drones have THOUSANDS of flying combat drones on board. YES, THEY HAVE WEAPONS. Including -40- Superheavy Heat drones.

What should we arm the droids with? Maybe we should have them form a weapon team for us.

>>5916473
Yeah, let's do this.

I'd like to keep the Heat Gun, even if we can get in without it, there might be some heavy shit or extra doors inside and the Heat Gun out to make short work of them.

I'll take whatever sidearm I can get if the heatgunner goes - wait is the heat gun 2 to crew, one to fire or two to crew and fire

>>5916374
Kinetic armor
Laser Rifle
AS MANY HIGH EXPLOSIVE PACKS AS I CAN CARRY.

>>5916497
I think we've got a two man crew to take in a heat gun.

It's time boys.

I'll take a Lasgun, Flamethrower, 3 decontamination grenades and 3 HE grenades.

After seeing what other people have taken...

Gravity Gun
Lightning Gun
High powered radio

>>5916482
Oh, and as I note that a kinetic shield is a superweapon, and thus larger than a single person can likely use on their own, I would like one or two of the humanoid stealth drones assigned to help me with it, or to have it mounted on a small vehicle, or similar. If this is terribly infeasible, that's unfortunate and it can be dropped.

>>5916527
I'm glad someone picked the grav.

Damn, I've missed a lot.

Kinetic shields, lightning gun, EMP grenades for me, please.

New Thread:
>>5916545

>>5916545
New thread

>>5916533
>>5916509
>>5916518

If it's a tank-sized weapon, we're gonna need like 10. I'm in the military--it's 3 people just for a mortar, 4 person team for a machine gun.