I'd like to turn in MSM.

>>5918789
Send Alpha Range our pirate captives.

Begin reverse engineering the pirate ship FTL drives.

Also investigate those ships to see if they have anything interesting. Use some of the humanoid drones.

Send our slavers down to the city of Gurruk and begin the anti-diaspora.

Erm, maybe build another lab or so to research more tech at once, start moving into that giant empty area where the plague used to be? Tell the martians about their rebels?

>>5918806
Okay, we better settle this, you're right.

What does the majority agree on? Hand them in or hide them?

>>5918806
This too.

>>5918823
Hand them in.

>>5918813

Seconded. Also, retrieve any intact advanced sensors from the brain bunker and reverse engineer. We can't be the only ones with cloaking tech out there.

>>5918806
Make a defence line, THEN hand them in.

>>5918823
Hand them in. Provide video of their location like Archer suggested earlier.

>>5918823
Hand them in after we have military drones along the border. And begin research into combining energy and kinetic shielding technology.

>Hand them in or hide them?
I am inclined to hide them, if only because I'm pretty sure that the Martian military will never do anything good for us and the MSN are too weak to hurt us. That said, I'm not willing to push the issue.

>>5918823

Reinforce eastern border then hand them in.

Things I want to do:

Build at least 15 each of colossus harvesters and haulers, same specs as before, send to Mothership.
Examine pirate ships for things of interest.
Get details about building Assassin drones.
Slavers to Guruuk.
Produce fusion batteries.
Build 10 HCFs.
Build 10 Heavy Tech. labs.

Ok, so build up our military forces in that area ( keep them away from their prying eyes though, so they don't guess what we're doing), then turn them in.

>>5918813
The new technology their ships have are:
Superweapon Lasers
Some sort of gravity harpoon.
Ionic Space Engine (locomotion method)
Inertialess Propulsion engine (FTL method)

Oooh! Also, let's send some stealth drones to go into the TradeStar ship we found Father Albert in and explore it for any nice tech.

And, start developing brain burners from the one we found Albert in.

>>5918886
All of that is so useful and we can just examine it instead of researching it, which is great. But

>>Some sort of gravity harpoon

AWESOME.

>>5918886
Fuck yes. Que all of that to be reverse engineered. Maybe build a couple more research labs to do so.

>>5918901
While we're at it, once we nab all the natives let's repair that ship and add it to the fleet.

>>5918886

Don't we already have Ion engines? I thought we purchased the schematics from TradeStar.

Speaking of which, what technologies do TradeStar have to offer us? Presumably we'll be abandoning them before they come by to collect the metal, so let's rip them off for everything they have.

>>5918868
Assassin Drones:
The better the cloaking, the better.
The better the sensors, the better.
Humanoid drone.
Replace limbs with power blades.
Must be light.

The result is a fast moving, incredibly agile and incredibly stealthy drone that is lethal in close quarters. It can't stand to being hit, however.

Also, from the research facility:
You gain plasma gun schematics.
You gain improved sensor schematics.

>>5918912
More constructors!
... With constructors, make more labs!
... And more bot facilities to make even more constructors!
... And fusion battery production plants! ALL OF THEM! We're gonna want to fusion up all our Big stuff.

>>5918886
Remember folks, we need alot of Locomotion units and only 1 FTL drive slot. Locomotion = speed, FLT we only need 1 of.

>You gain improved sensor schematics.
Can we use the information gained from the improved sensor schematics to improve our cloaking technology? If so, do it.

>>5918923
No.

Also, while fusion batteries provide energy almost freely, they require huge amounts of energy to start up. While the material cost is practically minimal, each one requires 500 units.

How many you'd like to make?

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:
IR Sensor Schematics - 5000 TONS
Supermassive Drone Schematics - 10000 TONS
Tech. Lab Schematics - 10000 TONS
Gargantua Schematics - 15000 TONS
Ion Space Engine Schematics - 20000 TONS
Attack Platform Schematics - 20000 TONS

>>5918962
Details on attack platform please.

>>5918947
Always useful to more than one method of FTL though.

>>5918962
What's the Tech. Lab do again? I thought that was for coming up with new technology and that we already have it.

>>5918969
Unmanned space-based drone.

Same costs as a colossal drone.

It's got one slot for locomotion and one slot for a weapon.

They can be deployed from a ship's cargo bay.

>>5918962
Buy IR sensors and Supermassive Drone Schematics.

>>5918989
Sorry - you already have it.

Anyway, that raises your debt up to...

73500 TONS.

Build 4 assassin drones for each base. 8 for the main base. They are to be upgraded with stealth/sensors whenever available upgrades are gained. They are to stay stealthed constantly. Two are to be in each conference room and at each spaceport, 4 at each spot for the main base.

Also, build 2 more spaceports for the shuttle at our main base.

So can we talk with the other factions now? I want the booze from AR and to see the expression on that Martian colonel's face when we tell him about the rebels. Also how's Joanna and what do she and Samson think of our plans to either escape or take over the planet?

>>5918993
We don't need supermassive drones. Attack platforms are very useful though (future ship fighters, or planet defense). And we can probably get IR from the bunker.

Build a ton of Heavy Artillery Drones up at base 3, say 150? Also, build shells of all types (Except for gamma) for the artillery, say 200 each.

>>5919041
Yes, you can.

Your 'copter with several crates of good liquor is about to arrive soon.

Joanna's recovering quite well, but is irritated by her new arm.

You're not talking to the commodore - just the young man who is your correspondant. So, if you want to say something about the rebels, say it to him.

This was sooo awesome tonight, but its time to sleep. Cheers.

>>5919041
If you're escaping, Samson wants to leave a copy of himself behind to run operations here.

Joanna's not too sure about either choice really - but she wants to stick with you. It just seems like the right thing to do to her.

Hey can we talk to New Earth, tell them we have a member of theirs.

Okay, so I want to increase metal and gas harvesting to maximum levels. We have very little left in the way of planetary opponents that can seriously threaten us, so focusing on production should be acceptable now.

And here's what I want to build for our flagship. Pic related, it's the Mothership from Homeworld. The tech we really want for it is the instantaneous construction yards, but having shipboard harvesting and construction facilities would work.

>>5919134
Albert Sharev speaks up. "I wasn't a member of the Missions - I don't think what they're doing is right. The church and the missionaries are two different things, you know."

>>5919095
I think almost all of us are good for turning the MSM in, so let's call up the ensign and tell him we've got news on those rebels.

We also reactivated an old copy of Samson during the missile spam, so we can leave that one if he wants. And we can ask Lemington if they can clone a new arm for Joanna if she'd rather have a biological than cybernetic one.

>>5919150
"Oh. Is there ANYTHING you'd like to do, in particular? I mean, we kind of owe you one. I guess."

>>5919150
"Oh, ok."

>>5919161
Do this, as soon as we've built up some defensive forces at Base 3.

>>5919161
MN: "Have you found the supremacists? If so, we would appreciate the knowledge of their location."

LP: "I know you've done a lot - but I am sorry. I cannot provide such a bitch with something she so desires."

>>5919095
>>Joanna's recovering quite well, but is irritated by her new arm.

I ask her if she'd like to get a replacement arm from LP instead. If so, I'll call them up.

Of course, THIS arm could have an internal laser.

>>5919146
We would just probably have to research our current robotic construction methods till we can produce them at that rate. But we may also have to improve our metal smelting rates to keep up with the faster consumption rates. But I am against using the Pride of Higara. Too large a profile, but then again I thought the Prawn mothership is a good idea to base the spaceship we are designing.

>>5919202
Yet again, I am stymied by this wonky connection.

>LP: "I know you've done a lot - but I am sorry. I cannot provide such a bitch with something she so desires."
"Oh. Well, that's fine. Have you any technologies which you might be willing to trade for? Now that the nanoplague seems to be defeated, we're thinking of expanding our knowledge base again."

>>5919197
(Plasma, our defences ARE in place, right?)

"Yes, we've found some structures marked with the symbol you showed us the other day. They seem to be masked from orbital scans, somehow."

I vote that if any martians land, we take them hostage and get tech from the MSM *and* the Martian Navy.

>>5919197
To MSM: "Ayup. Here's the coordinates and we've got a video clip of some of our drones running into them."

To LGT: "She seems to have dropped the Uni-Peace banner, you know. Didn't even complained when we vaped some gorillas. But I guess she'll have to cope. Thanks anyway."

>>5919238
LP: "... Well, since she lost it in the arm to save the world and since she renounces her alliegence to Uni-Peace, I suppose it's possible."

Your defenses are in place.

MN: "What..? But we... Oh, cloaking technology. Right. They stole more than we thought then. Thank you very much for this information. Hopefully, we won't have to communicate after this." Click and offline.

>>5918813
>>5918820
>>5918868

Seconding all of these.

>MN: "What..? But we... Oh, cloaking technology. Right. They stole more than we thought then. Thank you very much for this information. Hopefully, we won't have to communicate after this." Click and offline.
I weep for the fact that we won't be able to kill the MSMs ourselves and loot their tech. You all must know that the Martian Navy won't let us reverse-engineer squat. There go our orbital cloaking shields and horizon drives.

Plasma, I would request a list of all currently active research projects and their expected dates of completion, please.

Deploy all of the in-carrier drones that have stealth. I don't want anything taking out a quarter of our airforce with one lucky hit. Also, keep the carriers patrolling.

>>5919263
To LP: "Hey, thanks a lot. And tell her it was Dirk's idea. Poor guy's been drooling over her."

"...and fuck you too, Martian Navy."

Well then, I'm all out of ideas for today. Chalk my vote up for a time skip to the next day and some delicious Martian on Martian carnage.

>>5919295
>>To LP: "Hey, thanks a lot. And tell her it was Dirk's idea. Poor guy's been drooling over her."

As any red-blooded contractor on this sausagefest operation should be!

Hey, Plasma, aside from the Gamma deathbeams, is any of the rest of our tech or current projects illegal?

>>5919287
Gamma Superweapon
Lightning Hyperweapon
Improved Cloaking
Improved Kinetic Shield

All by the 14th.

I'm set for a day progression.

>>5919330
Most chemical weaponry is looked down upon so your decontaminants are not illegal but extremely restricted - technically you shouldn't have.

The Terilian Sovereignty is often accused on using chemical weapon that all the nations have sworn to sanction against and seeing as the main arms provider of the Terilian Sovereignty is Lemmington Pharmaceuticals... Well, most of the LP weaponry's rather illegal.

>>5919337
Appreciated. Please construct new labs and add the projects listed at >>5918749, if possible.

Fucking IE eating my god damned posts!

>>5919287
Send a lightning raiding group at the MSM camp and see how much shit we can steal. We might get something, we'll probably get nothing, but the attempt is worth it.

>>5919307
I keep my drooling to a safer, less obvious distance.

>>5919287
>>I weep for the fact that we won't be able to kill the MSMs ourselves and loot their tech.

Oh really? We could either blitz their operations and nab what we can--maybe with the slavers, just pick it up and run.

Or, the Martian Navy doesn't have THAT much in the way of forces here...

>>5919413
let's end the day and see what happens.

Day 13, Month 3

150189.9 tons
72072 fuel

+19020 tons/day
+315 fuel/day

Active Mines: 54 + Mothership

Active Pockets: 60

Available Mines: 214

Available Gas Pockets: 127

2 Additional Tech Labs created.
Personal Kinetic Shield - Day 17
Pulse Laser Superweapon - Day 17

Your troops are at the border.

You have recieved your liquor and your recently slaves are being taken away too. Such a process is now automated - the native's are too primitive to fight back remotely effectively.

Joanna's bionic arm has been replaced with a vat-grown one. She seems much happier.

The Commodore of this Martian Navy patrol has a message for you - all night a furious, blazing battle has been taking place, to the East.
"Move your satellite into position above the former MSM territory. I want to show you what we do to criminals."

>>5919458
We move the satellite.

We ARE building more colossi harvester/haulers as stated, right?

>>5919458
"Will do, Leftenant!"

MOVE ZE SATELLITES. PREPARE TO CRY AT LACK OF SALVAGEABLE TECH!

>>5919458
>"Move your satellite into position above the former MSM territory. I want to show you what we do to criminals."

I would have had the satelite already there so I could watch the MSM get creamed. With some popcorn and soda, too.

>>5919477
You building 15 harvesters and 15 haulers for the Mothership crash site?

That'll raise your metal production by...
... +75000.

>>5919458
We need to start expanding into the weast side of the now clear areas. Also can we scout the islands to east?

We should build a base in the water half way between our lands and the pirate island.

>That'll raise your metal production by... ... +75000.
It occurs to me that perhaps we can successfully complete our contract with TradeStar after all, as long as we can convince the bastard running things for this planet that we shouldn't be killed.

Not that we shouldn't still plan on making an awesome spaceship and leaving, of course.

>>5919477
>>5919478
>>5919480
"If you ever hear from me again, it will be from behind the bars of a cell. Farewell."

Something twists and swirls. A gigantic vortex, a wormhole is being created. Million of tons of land are swallowed up, just like that, sucked into the vortex. An entire facility filled with precious technology, suddenly destroyed. With a sudden burst of movement, the Martian fleet plunges into the wormhole and it closes, allowing the ocean to pour into the gigantic crater that remains.

You are no longer able to contact either the MSM or the MN.

>>5919506
i honestly don't know if you mean east or west, but i agree with either case. we should do both.

>>5919523
...............THAT HORRENDOUS DOUCHEBAG.

>>5919523
I weep at the loss of potential advanced technology. Damn it all!

And the Martian Navy are still goddamn pricks.

>>5919511
Well, we have our entire debt for this month paid off with a day's production.

I think we should move all non-colossus mining drones to gas production. We're going to need lots of gas if we want huge amounts of fusion batteries.

Also, if we end up assassinating our boss with the assassin drones we built for our bases, and then have his shuttle self-destruct on its way skyward, we may not have quite the problem that we did before.

>>5919523
Explore the remaining land as there may be survivors or bases hidden that could be scavenged for tech. There should be mines and what not lying around that didn't get hit my the wormhole.
And did we destroy the base on the former virus island because it could either be used or dismantlement for later use. Another fusion battery plant already made sounds good to me.

>>5919523
Well, at any rate, i'm glad we didn't piss HIM off. Shall we send in the drones to check if there's *anything* left?

Also, more bases!

>>5919523

...when we are far better off than we used to be, we are going to make these jerks pay.

Anyway, I'm out guys. It was fun. I'll hopefully be around next time.

REMEMBER THE ROOKIE.

>Well, at any rate, i'm glad we didn't piss HIM off. Shall we send in the drones to check if there's *anything* left?
Yes. There's the small chance that their cloaking system depended upon relays or something. Unlikely, but...

Anyway, we need to start building underwater harvesting sites. Construct and deploy several dozen light sampler-submersibles immediately.

here, too :D

>>5919599
Agreed.

>>I think we should move all non-colossus mining drones to gas production. We're going to need lots of gas if we want huge amounts of fusion batteries.

I concur. The approximately 4000 TONS they provide each day would serve us better as fuel.

>>5919635
Thirding, especially for the bunker.

FUCK YES I AM BACK IN ACTION!

I was also thinking of writing up some fiction based on this.

200 years in the future? Archer is still alive thanks to increased longevity and cloned body replacements, along with bionics. Starts with someone, a son maybe, admonishing him. Then Archer just smacks him down with knowledge. "You think me a wicked man? An evil man? I have done evil. But all in the name of good. Slavery, murder, genocide even. Yes, I have done these things. To prevent fates far worse.

I lost my left lung when I was a young man. You've seen what a plague nanites are. Imagine if they'd been unleashed a hundred years earlier, before they were manageable. You're welcome. I lost my arm not much longer. Fighting for the independence and freedom you've come to expect." etc.

>>5919696
Welcome back. I'm afraid Plasma may have fallen asleep.

>>5919599
We should use cloaking tech on that base. If TradeStar sees that we're operating at their TOP SECRET HQ when they come to collect their metal, shit can hit the fan way earlier than we expect.

>>5919707
It's only been 20 minutes.

Either way, we've accomplished a lot this session. TONS.

God damn, we're awesome.

Fuck, ALSO!

Our buddies contracting for AlphaRange should get all the tech they can from AR before they finish their contract and join us.

GOD DAMN GOD DAMN, AGAIN! I keep forgetting all the things I want to say.

We should look into making an EMP hyperweapon. Disabling an entire spaceship ends a fight pretty fucking quick.

Day 14, Month 3

240189.9 tons
80917 fuel

+90000 tons/day
+8845 fuel/day

Active Mines: Mothership

Active Pockets: 114

Available Mines: 216

Available Gas Pockets: 129

Improved Kinetic Shield developed.
Supreme Cloaking developed.
Gamma Superweapon developed. Needs name.
Lightning Hyperweapon developed. Needs name.

AlphaRange message:
"We've just discovered something. The infected natives that the nanovirus was using - everything that it infected, it still carries the taint of the nanovirus but it's no longer controlled. The only thing that has changed in the appearance really. So, this is really fucking ace because we've just discovered a starving army of ten of thousands of apes and chimps! Keep up your work and in a few days, we should meet our slave quota then we can pair up."

>>5919768
Gamma weapon is called Janitorial Schematics. A boring name will make no one look at it, since it's illegal.

The lighting should be called the Zeus Cannon.

Tell AlphaRange to get all the tech they can before they jump ship.

Lightning Supercannon: Tesla Cannon.

Keep shipping AR slaves, and can we please talk to any of the three new factions?

>>5919793

I vote for Tesla Cannon.

>>5919793
Who first?

>>5919793
>>5919807
Fuck yes, Tesla Cannon.

And yeah, let's talk to those guys.

>>5919785
>>Tell AlphaRange to get all the tech they can before they jump ship.

We should make requests for what they get from their parent corp. We are bringing them a major portion of their slaves and are pretty much THE reason their operation is succeeding.

>>5919816
Agreed.

There's no point in them getting shit we won't need.

Also, for our research, start it on the FTL travel, any other ship tech needed that we don't have, and then start researching EMP weaponry until it gets to hyper levels.

>Gamma Superweapon developed. Needs name.
Name: Gamma Stream.
New project: Develop Gamma hyperweapon, "Gamma Cascade".

>Lightning Hyperweapon developed. Needs name.
Name: Lightning Mauler.

Oh, and start getting our carriers supreme cloaking.

So, should we try to set a trap for TradeStar's vice director of douchebaggery? If so, we should probably tell him we need to meet with him again, too hush-hush for this channel, etc, and then call tradestar again once we know he's gone and on the ship to try to rat him out.

(also, firefox spellcheck recognizes the word "Kamehameha", which amuses me greatly.)

>>5919811
New earth mission, why not.

>>5919807
Tesla Cannon works for me. And begin research into pulse laser technology. It would be quite effective an anti-missile/projectile interception tasks. And have we decided on what spaceship design we are going to use?

>>5919816

Ask AR what techs their employers are offering them.

>>5919831
I don't think we shouldn't highlight our Gamma weaponry with such an obvious name. You know, illegal and all of that.

>>5919840
No, I don't think we should do that yet.

For all he knows, the nanite brain is still active. As long as he thinks that, and as long as we're bringing in the metal, we won't get much trouble.

Let's hold our hand until we've got a royal flush.

>>5919840
I'd say it's probably a safer move to eliminate him than to report him and hope TradeStar isn't in on it.

Let's talk to the brown faction.

LP mentioned in the past that they can create habitats. Would this be desirable in a spaceship, Plasma?

>I don't think we shouldn't highlight our Gamma weaponry with such an obvious name. You know, illegal and all of that.
Look, this is for our internal referencing. Besides, it's not like we're putting it in a sales brochure- no one else even knows we've got it. If someone else is in our computer cores, we have bigger things to be concerned with than if they know we've got a few questionable technical designs.

>And begin research into pulse laser technology.
We have pulse lasers. We're even superweaponizing them.

>>5919896
We should super and hyperize our EMP beams.

>>5919878
I think he's going to notice pretty quick when the TradeStar delivery ship flies in and the quarter-continent of black goop is GONE. I figure he'll get that report around day 4, month 4, if the ship really takes 3 days to go each way...

ALSO, We should develop some EMP shielding.

>>5919910
The nanites are still there. They're just not active. It's like having a desert of black sand.

>>5919914

That falls under energy shielding, I think. We should look into integrating kinetic and energy shielding.

>>5919910
Blame it on the Martians. They made a hole in the continent, they killed the virus, they ran over our dog...

>>5919931

This is feasible.

>>5919931
That does sound like an excuse we can use if it comes up. Kinda flimsy, but better than nothing.

But even then, they might still kill us.

I dunno. It's just a good thing we've got those clones brewing as backup.

>>5919927
Didn't I ask that before? Anyway seconding this. Also begin to expand from Base 7 to the west.

>>5919855
You've already got pulse laser technology. Would you like to research a superweapon instead, seeing as you have four free research slots now?
>>5919857
"Let's see... Thermal lances, depleted uranium ammunition and tipped warheads, homing warheads, cloaking warheads and various other missle upgrades."

>>5919952
And those Assassin Drones (which also need their stealth tech upped) at our bases.

Let's establish contact with the brown guys to the east. If I remember correctly, they're a mining company, so there'll be plenty to discuss.

>>5919965
Can we get some descriptions on some of those?

Also, the gravity harpoons or whatever it was the pirates had.

Just start researching everything, god damn.

>>5919965
Can we get super plasma?

What exactly does plasma do? And can we get brief specs on the new AR stuff?

>>5919965
Yeah sorry that's what I meant, begin research into super weapon version of pulse lasers.

>>5919965

Holy shat.

Tell them to prioritize homing missiles and thermal lances, if they work in space. Let's also start researching missile pod emplacements as hyperweapons.

>>5919850
"What is it? Unless you have natives that we can enlighten then please take your business elsewhere. We're busy recovering from recently losses."
>>5919885
"Eh...? Who's this? This is representitive of Core Minin' Inc. speakin'."
The voice is unnaturally deep and bass a gutteral grumbling.

>>5920002
"This is Contractor Archer of Plasma Ltd. What are your parameters for working on this planet?"

>>5920002
Well then, let's at least find out who green is.

"We may have some natives for you, in fact. Interested in striking a deal?"

NEM -> "We're the ones who *stopped* your recent losses. Just chatting up the neighborhood. Also, how much would enlighten-able natives be worth to you?"

DCM -> "Plasma Ltd. Contractors/Prospectors, a fellow mining suit. What be up, homie?"

>>5919991
Thermal lance - basically superheated metal rods. They can be used in close combat or incorporated into ranged weapons.
Depleted uranium ammunition allows for any of your physical ammunition to become armour-piercing.
Homing warheads allows warheads to home in on a target.
Cloaking warheads allows warheads to cloak.
Oh, and you also request for improved warheads, with almost double payload.

>>5920033
YES TO ALL. GODDAMN.

Right, I'm heading out.

Was fun, nice working with you all.

>>5920033
Nice. Try to get as much as they can. Homing is a definite must have. Cloaked missiles I have a feeling we could develop ourselves.

So what was that gravity harpoon the pirates had?

>>5920017
"Hello, this is Tanya speaking for Nebula Estates, how may I help you?"
>>5920024
NEM: "I'm sure we could pay you in cash in exchange for natives."
CMI: "Eh, nothin' much. Listen, if you're 'ere for minin', just stay off our land and we'll stay off yours. We can respect each other that way, aye?"

>So what was that gravity harpoon the pirates had?
And how is it different from our current tractor-beam style Freeman Gun?

This has certainly come a long way. It was pretty dull number-crunching game in the beginning, but the intrigue started with the purchase of the translator.

Hey Plasma, since you listed ship details for bigger ships, how about something like this for fighter style ships.

Each fighter ship starts with:
5 TONS Cargo Space.
50 UNITS Fuel Tank.
1 Persons Living Space.
1 Synth Space.
2 Locomotion Slots.
2 Weapon slots.
FTL not possible.

Just maybe as a standard?

>>5920078
The gravity gun just pulls on any object.

The gravity harpoon is shot at something, hits something, and draws it towards the projectile launcher

>>5920077
>>"Hello, this is Tanya speaking for Nebula Estates, how may I help you?"

So help me, I can't stop laughing from this. Particularly since that was my job for a year and half.

They are going to be so pissed about the virus. ALL THEIR BEACHFRONT WAS DESTROYED.

>>5920077

NE -> "Plasma Ltd Contractors/Prospectors. We solved a bit of a bug problem recently, and we're asking around, seeing if anyone needs it, just trying to be neighborly."

NEM -> (plasma, can we *use* cash for anything?)
We see the occasional Primate around here, they stumble into our operations sometimes. We'll see about sending them your way.

DCM -> "Sounds fair to me. Call us if you need anything, we've a bit of talent outside of mining."

>>5920104
That seems more like a scout, or forward observer. Wouldn't you want drones pulling the tiny ship fighting duty while you stayed safe in a heavily armored ship?

>>5920124
They'll be more pissed when we claim this planet and their plans to build BEACH FRONT PROPERTY is out the window.

Especially when we back up our claim with several MASSIVE capital ships and hundreds of fighters.

>>5920139
(the 'it' in my speech at NE being "Help", were i capable of typing properly.)

>>5920147
Well I was thinking that as a bare minimum. Addons could be handled at like, 1/10 of the cost for regular ships.

But there would be a limit, obviously.

We couldn't be making fighter ships with 10 weapons. For something like that, we'd need like, 4 crew, and it would be more of a mid class cruiser or something.

>>5920139
Let's make AR's quotas first along with the debt they will have when we have them purchase the weapons schematics.
And fighters are a waste of resources in space combat. It's easier to put on a point defense system or a larger weapon that take out enemy ships.

>>5920139
Out on the frontier, using cash instead of trading with raw resources or technology is generally a poor tactic because there's little that can actually be done with cash on the frontier.

NE: "I see. Well, I am afraid that we do not need any assistance at the moment although if you wish to purchase some property, feel free to call at any time! Thank you for your call."

NEM: "Thank you very much."

CMI: "Got it. See you later."

>>5920178
Yeah. But if small fast ships come a calling, we don't want to have enormous beasts chasing after them.

Fighters would mostly be about speed, mobility, and numbers.

>>5920182
What do we know about these factions? In the galactic scheme of things.

>>5920104
A fighter is generally:

1 Weapon Slot
1 Locomotion Slot

>>5920206
Haha. Much simpler.

Let's send something invisible and hover-y to the pirate's islands. I could use the lols of watching them recover from their pwn.

>>5920192
No that's what point defense guns are for. Not only would we most likely our range fighter based guns but we would have better defenses. Metal for metal larger ships are better than small fighters in space combat.

>>5920216
We might as well have some fighters around as precautions.

>Metal for metal larger ships are better than small fighters in space combat.
That's entirely dependent upon the specifics of the setting. If weaponry and engines are small and powerful relative to defensive assets available, there's no reason to bring large, valuable ships anywhere near the enemy when you can throw tiny, cheap fighters at them instead and still have the firepower to deal damage.

Plasma, have we begun to aggressively mine the ocean floor? If not, please order the construction of the necessary harvesters, haulers, and samplers and make it so.

>>5920261
We definitely need to find some more gas pockets.

Plasma, let's advance the days.

>>5920199
New Earth Missions is another employment agency just like AlphaRange that also invests in pharmaceuticals. It works very closely with the New Earth Republic, offering re-education drugs, pacification equipment, mind-altering technology and other fun things. However, it also offers millions of dedicated employees.

Nebula Estates also works closely with the New Earth Republic, building new housing and living space on the frontier and on various planets, looking to claim land and convert it into living space. It also has a rather large robotics department that creates automatons as 'living aids'. These synthetics are as close to human as can possibly be, both physically and mentally, designed to look identical to you and I. They make drones look like piles of scrap in terms of technological prowess.

Core Mining Inc. is a long standing industrial company that deals in industrial equipment and raw goods and is a major rival of TradeStar. While it's based in the Core Systems Alliance, it has no loyalty to any particular nation, although it does often make business deals with other CSA corporations. Core Mining Inc. mostly relies on gravitational, magnetic and sonic technology, with each workman in his exosuit being able to do a hell of a lot of work.

>These synthetics are as close to human as can possibly be, both physically and mentally, designed to look identical to you and I. They make drones look like piles of scrap in terms of technological prowess.
>delicious technology we must have
The only question in my mind is, trade or raid?

>>5920305
Maybe Samson would like a body more human in appearance?

>>5920305
Also, if we buy, we could try and reverse engineer.

>>5920318
"No. This humanoid structure's enough for me at the moment. I like the shape, just not the gooey, fleshy parts."

>>5920318
Hey, what's the spare S70 been doing? did we just re-coma him?

>>5920336
He should respecialize and head the R&D department of Plasma Ltd.

>>5920336
He went out of sight and out of sound.

Bad things happen when two copies of the same synthetic meet. It confuses them and prolonged exposure can end in rampancy.

OH NOES. IF ONLY YooU"D TOLD USSsSssSsss SOONERrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. *system shutdown.*

Day 15, Month 3

330189.9 tons
89762 fuel

+90000 tons/day
+8845 fuel/day

Active Mines: Mothership

Active Pockets: 114

Available Mines: 218

Available Gas Pockets: 130

Really, you're just... chilling after a long, hard three month's work. Everything's running itself really and you've got absolutely nothing to worry about.

Although, what were those four things that you decided to begin researching yesterday?

>>5920379
I thought they were Super weapon versions of EMP. pulse lasers for 2 of them.

>>5920379
Uh, FTL.

Plasma weaponry, upgrading continuously until it's a hyperweapon.

Uh, I don't remember what else.

>>5920391
>>5920392
Yeah!

FTL, and then continuous upgrading of Plasma, Pulse lasers, and EMP until they're all at hyperweapon capabiltiy.

Also, these are the various different specializations that the primary corporations have.

And, of course, the primary corporations:

Arms Manufacture:
AlphaRange (CSA)
Centauri Synthetics (USSM)
Hightail Industries (NER)
Lemmington Pharmaceuticals (TS)
Mal'chik (US)
MMiliTech (USSM)

Employment Agency:
AlphaRange (CSA)
Blue Sky Enterprise (NER)
Calchester citizen Levy (TS)
Hai'took (US)
Jeronium Starships (TS)
MMineTech (USSM)
New Earth Missions (NER)

Industrial Equipment:
Core Mining Inc. (CSA)
Calchester citizen Levy (TS)
GravTech (CSA)
MMechaniTech (USSM)
Sai'rik (US)
TradeStar (NER)

Land Acquisition:
Hightail Industries (NER)
Kil'thweq (US)
Mal'chik (US)
MMechaniTech (USSM)
Nebula Estates (NER)
Nocturn Hives (CSA)
Sharrington TerraTech (TS)

Pharmaceuticals:
Lemmington Pharmaceuticals (TS)
MMediTech (USSM)
NanoMedical (CSA)
New Earth Missions (NER)
Sai'rik (US)
Sharrington TerraTech (TS)

Raw Resources:
Core Mining Inc. (CSA)
MMineTech (USSM)
Morringshire Trade & Supply (TS)
Nocturn Hives (CSA)
TradeStar (NER)
Zin'kik (US)

Robotics:
Centauri Synthetics (USSM)
MMediTech (USSM)
Morringshire Trade & Supply (TS)
NanoMedical (CSA)
Nebula Estates (NER)
Zin'kik (US)

Starship Manufacture:
Blue Sky Enterprise (NER)
GravTech (CSA)
Hai'took (US)
Jeronium Starships (TS)
Kil'thweq (US)
MMiliTech (USSM)

>Although, what were those four things that you decided to begin researching yesterday?
Gamma Hyperweapon
Pulse Laser Superweapon
EMP Beam Superweapon
Plasma Gun Superweapon

...if I recall correctly.

Also, build an underground construction facility on a small coastal island to build fusion batteries. Camouflaged, of course.

>>5920403
Man, Plasma, how much stuff have you written out in advance for this?

>>5920401
Got it. That'll be ready on the 19th.
On the 17th, you'll get personal kinetic shields and pulse laser superweapon researched.

>>5920418
In advance? None. Most of this shit is written up during the sessions.

>Uh, FTL.
>FTL, ...
I was sure that we started researching intertialess drives prior to yesterday. Didn't we?

>>5920414
And also well defended.

Whew.

Plasma, what were the effects of the plasma weaponry on a hyperweapon starship scale?

>>5920429
Oh, yeah, that should be ready tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrows... I think this has been a decent run for today or yesterday/today.

>>5920403
You *have* been planning this out.

Anyway, Let's dispatch Carriers and constructors to to set up bases in these two locations, Send a carrier, 4 freeman colossi, and 200 nonlethal combat haulers to the pirates island (all with cloaking, if possible).

and... ooh, let's have a chat with Joanna, and open up a line to Uni-peace (at different times of day.)

>>5920448
How about we advance it ONE more day before calling it.

>>5920442
Punching a gigantic hole in the side of a ship, really.

ALSO, build some nice recreational facilities. Swimming pools, all that.

And some kind of outpost on those small islands on the far Eastern edge of the map.

>>5920456
I like doing things. We have two weeks until our boss shows up with an ion cannon to melt our faces.

>>5920457
I swear. We're like the America of the future. Taking the best shit from everyone else and combining it into deadly deadly tools of domination.

>>5920474
I don't remember if he said he was coming back in the next month. Maybe he won't return until we make some kind of announcement in regards to the nanobots.

>>5920468
that far eastern island was where the pirates were based until we enslaved a bunch of them and stole their ships.

I'd like to check it out with overwhelming firepower before we just plop down a base.

>>5920519
>>5920519
Hrmm. Good thinking.

Then we should definitely make ourselves a presence in the islands south of the two newest factions.

>>5920449
>>4 freeman colossi

We have 2, we don't really need more.

Let's get converting fuel into fusion batteries. I'd say an initial batch of 25 should do without hurting our fuel supply.

>>5920563
Yeah. Plus if we'll be building starships, we'll need a good supply of fusion cells.

Like I said. Isolated area in case of an accident. Underground. Camouflaged entrance. VERY WELL DEFENDED.

Day 20, Month 3

780189.9 tons
133987 fuel

+90000 tons/day
+8845 fuel/day

Active Mines: Mothership

Active Pockets: 114

Available Mines: 227

Available Gas Pockets: 135

You now can construct inertialess propulsion engines.
You now can construct EMP Superweapons. Name required.
You now can construct Plasma Superweapons.
Name required.
You now can construct Pulse Laser Superweapons. Name required.
You can now construct personal kinetic shields.

Finally, after your slaver colossi have gone back and forth, ferrying around thousands of monkeys, you've got a message from AlphaRange.
"Quota's been met. We've got a bunch of tech' to offer."

Can we ask AR for railguns/gauss cannons? And will uranium tipped railgun rounds still get stopped by a ship's kinetic shield (I'm assuming these are standard if someone is going to the expense of making a ship).

>>5920563
Oh. i thought we had more. Well, send both then. If there's anything left to grab, we'll grab it, otherwise, base time.

Let's build a personal shield for every contractor and notable close ally. I don't know that our humanoid combat drones really warrant them.

>>5920582
"Forget abou' it. It's time for our firms to merge. Welcome to the team."

You now can construct EMP Superweapons. Name required: Blackout Beams
You now can construct Plasma Superweapons.
Name required: Plasma Cannons
You now can construct Pulse Laser Superweapons. Name required: Pulse Array?

>>5920597
Definitely shields for US.

Maybe for our humanoid droids. FYI, those should stay with the contractors (us) as bodyguards.

ALSO! Don't give TradeStar all the metal we have when they come. Only enough to cover our costs. 70k or whatever it was. We want to stockpile as much as we can for ourselves.

Plasma Superweapons: Fusion Ball Launcher
Pulse Laser Superweapon: Pulsar.

can we talk to Joanna, or are we done for today?

Plasma Superweapon: Sublimators

>>5920617
Pulsar is a great name.

And I think Blackout Beam is a better name for the Hyper variant of the EMP.

>>5920582
>You now can construct Plasma Superweapons.
>Name required.
Starburst Cannon
Can we begin research on the combination of kinetic and energy shielding.

When we make our flagship, we should give it multiple methods of propulsion.

Unless it's so big that it can't even enter atmosphere.

>>5920584
"That sort of thing is Martian territory and let me tell you, they don't really hire outsiders. They're only a few steps away from the supremacists they hunt.
"As for what we're bringing with us for our merger, we've got thermal lances, homing technology and increased payloads. Our employees are leaving this world - so our territory's left unguarded. Which leaves the new territory rather vulnerable."

>>5920563
Seconded but make it 50.

So, now use three of our research spots for maxing those to Hyper.

And uh, can we increase our cloaking or sensor systems any more? If we can, improve them. If not, improve something else. I dunno.

>>5920661
Expand into the territory. The outer reaches at first. A garrison wall as it were.

So now let's see. Could we make a MASSIVE! Hyper EMP homing missile?

>>5920661
"Don't worry, we'll have forces move into the area before your employees' departure."

"What specialties will you be covering in Plasma, Lmt.?"

And would LP's habitat making be nice to have in a massive flagship?

>>5920675
We have 4 carriers, still, yes? Let's deploy 2 to guard AR's turf. We'll let Lemmy take a bit if they want, they've been pals.

>>5920664
Let's make 200.

>>5920695
We have 2, each with thousands of drones. We also have a lot of ground forces. Honestly, LP shouldn't be snatching our turf, it's the religious fellows who might be troublesome.

>>5920700
Seconded.

We'll have to watch out for the red fraction now since we will have a border to them. And have we even decided on what our spaceship's design is going to be.

I want to research space construction yards. And one of those super-elevators that can send large payloads into space.

So how does something like this look like for our first Capital Ship.

1,000,000 TONS Cargo Space
250,000 UNITS Fuel Tank
300 Persons Living Space
300 Synth Space
10 Onboard Construction Facilities
100 Locomotion Slots
100 Weapon Slots
2 Examination Facilities
10 Hyperweapon Slots
2 Onboard Tech. Labs
2 Onboard Heavy Construction Facilities
5x Reinforced Plating (also with kinetic and energy shields when we have them, as well as radiation shielding, which we NEED to develop. Also, cloaking technology.)
4 FTL Engine Slot

>>5918789
Could you give more information?
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>>5920742
Also like, enough hangers for around 5,000 fighters.

Day 21, Month 3

870189.9 tons
40832 fuel

+90000 tons/day
+8845 fuel/day


Active Mines: Mothership

Active Pockets: 114

Available Mines: 313

Available Gas Pockets: 191

You're now researching:
Plasma Hyperweapon
EMP Hyperweapon
Pulse Laser Hyperweapon
Improved Sensors
Starship

I guess you're now free to discuss the structure of the starship.

You also built 100 fusion batteries.

As for me, I really need to get away from this machine now.

>>5920742
I would think half the cargo space would be better but otherwise it looks fine to me.

>>5920779
good night!

>>5920781
Well we've already got almost a million units of metal already. If we want a fortress, we want a lot of capacity.

Also, it will store the majority of our drones, probably.

ALSO, I think it would need a lot more locomotion if we don't want it to float around. So probably something like:

1,000,000 TONS Cargo Space
300,000 UNITS Fuel Tank
300 Persons Living Space
300 Synth Space
However many hangars.
10 Onboard Construction Facilities
500 Locomotion Slots
100 Weapon Slots
2 Examination Facilities
10 Hyperweapon Slots
2 Onboard Tech. Labs
2 Onboard Heavy Construction Facilities
5x Reinforced Plating (also with kinetic and energy shields when we have them, as well as radiation shielding, which we NEED to develop. Also, cloaking technology.)
4 FTL Engine Slot

And if we can, we should build some space stations/defence platforms. Massive ones with multiple missiles and hyperweapons.

>>Well we've already got almost a million units of metal...
you know, our original goal was to get 600K for TradeStar... we could totally go retire if it weren't for our boss.

>>5920888
Yeah, but that's also boring.

>>5920827
we also have to pay our debt at the end of the month. Always factor that in sir ~