Of course there is MEGACORP.

Renraku can serve any need you require...

I was also wondering this.

Come on man. 00:10 AM over here, I've got to sleep and shit, let me do something for Megacorp quest!

>>10232272
YOU THINK THAT'S BAD
IT'S 3 AM NOW
FOR FUCKS SAKE, I SLEPT DURING THE DAY FOR THIS
BEEN WAITING FOR 3 HOURS NOW
FINALLY DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE BY DOING SOME UNI WORK INSTEAD OF F5 /tg/

>>10232200
GO AWAY RENRAKU
YOU DO NOT EVEN HAVE SPACEVESSELS, NOT TO SAY COLONIES IN OTHER SYSTEMS

>>10232348
DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT DOING WORK YOU CUNT, I SHOULD BE FILING MY KIDS CHILD SUPPORT 6 HOURS AGO!

>>10232200
As long as it doesn't involve AI's or arcologies, you mean.

>>10232458

SCREW YOUR KIDS
I HAVE MISSED THE DEADLINE FOR OVER A WEEK NOW
TOMORROW I HAVE A TEST AND AND NEED TO PREPARE ANOTHER REPORT

>>10232484
Renraku cannot into AI.

>>10232504
FUCK YOUR TEST AND REPORT, MY CHILDREN ARE STARVING TO DEATH BECAUSE OF THEIR DEAD BEAT WHORE OF A MOTHER

Dammit Plasma, where are you?

Gib explanation now!

We needz Megacorps!

Plasma! Come back! We were abusive last session! We're sorry! We won't hurt you like we did last time! We'll stop arguing and get shit done!

Please come back Plasma! We need our Megacorp!

>>10232541
SHOULD HAVE THOUGH BEFORE STICKING YOUR WRINKLED WEINER IN HER

>>10232615
>We were abusive last session!

You were?
Dammit Plasma, grow a spine! You're on the internet, for fucks sake!

>>10232713

CHOKE ON IT, COCKSUCKER

I DON'T ABOUT SHIT, BUT IF I HAD KNOW IT WOULD MAKE ME MISS VALUABLE QUEST TIME I WOULD OF CUT MY DICK OFF, HAPPY NOW?

>>10232814
SHIT, I FORGOT TO WRITE THINK IT THAT SENTENCE ABOUT THINKING

MEGACORP! PLEASE COME BACK!

I had some stuff I'd been thinking about posting before hand and everything...

>>10232933
Fuck
Same here

Some guy named Cypher kept posting the same stupid thread of ideas, and Plasma just seemed irritated the whole time. We only did like one time lapse.

>>10232933
Oh? Do tell. I'll go first:
With the sensor equipment that was part of the space station building supplies, can we build a set of telescopes and sensors on Alfheimr Station to point towards Pandora and spy on RDA's progress with the natives. This will give us a better idea of when we'll need to send a warship there to take it over, and without hacking into RDA's networks.

>>10233019
Yeah, I learned my lesson from that. Wont do it again, I promise.

Next week, dickhead.

Takin' a break.

:( Well, that sucks. Oh well.

I was thinking about getting into it with the other megacorps to do a joint anti-RDA action, just as they did against us... only we would succeed because we're better than them.

Also, while RDA would have monopoly on the Unobtainium I would go for pushing that denying access to a sentient race should not be allowed, thus leading to a way to fund native guerrillas.

>>10233071

Dammit, oh well, guess I'll have to live with that.

>>10233071
OH DAMMIT

However, if the following really is big enough, I'll go ahead and start the quest in this thread.

Not planning on sleeping in the next eighteen hours, so yeah.

>>10233121

I missed my train home so I'm gonna stay awake for at least the next three or four hours...

>>10233071
Wednesday again? Maybe earlier?

Well, how much of a following do you need? Looks like you have about 6-7 people here.

>>10233148
Six, seven people over an entire hour.

Currently, there seems to be, what, three, so should I go ahead with this? Didn't know people were so expectant.

>>10233121
Shiiiit

I am in, man.
I AM IN, MAN!

>>10233038
You want to hear? Well, I was thinking about how to fuck over RDA as well, as it happens.
Basically, we'd stock a ship full of Hermesiumand then crash it into earth, like they did to our space station a while back, the ship would have new pandorium engines and fitted we'd blame the catastrophic events which would follow on some unknown or unexplained effects of pandorium.

Obviously, before the crash we'd make it look like we'd tried everything to avert the disaster, but destroying it in orbit would swamp Earths orbit with debris which would prove problematic, so the best we could do was slow it down and get it to crash on the most remote region possible, say, the Himalayas, for sake of example. Of course, it would be no bad thing that people around the world would have the image of an entire mountain range cast into flames for 16 hours burned into their minds.

No one but us knows about Hermesium, and as long as we make the crash look authentic the best explanation for such an effect would be pandorium, since it's such an exotic material.

>>10233181
>>10233191

FUUUUUUUUU-

My studies start in like 3 hours.... Fuck it, I'll skip sleeping and the first class.

Also, I think it would be better to start new thread, I'll delete this one once everyone moves. It would be better for archives, but that's my opinion.

>>10233181
You have no idea.
I love quests.
I salivate at the very prospect of megacorporate negotiations. My heart has palpitations at the idea of statblocks and minutae.
Gentlemen, I love Megacorp Quest.

>>10233218
Jeeez, I dunno man. We would kill millions of people, man. And don't underestimate the investigation prowess of other companies and earth governments

>>10233250

On point 2 I have to agree.

Point 1... so?

>>10233226
Fuck off, crackhead. It's an important part of the year for anyone still in education and I dropped out a week ago. I don't want to cause anyone else to do the same thing.

Ironically, it was a maths degree I dropped out of.

Anyway, give me some time. Need to prepare some shit.

>>10233218
This idea has merit, but I can already see how RDA would respond.
They would fund studies and experiments showing that under the conditions of the crash, which would be well documented (when you have a large ship about to crash into your homeworld, it'll get recorded), that Pandorium couldn't have caused the fires.
They'll do what we did, which is dump money into an investigation; and they have more money that we do.

>>10233229
Me too.

Fuck, I loved Corp quest. I didn't even participate. I read it like 2 weeks ago.

Dammit, plasma, you should resume it at one time or another for proper conclusion. I even prepared a big rant about that expecting to find MegaCorp quest few hours before, but it seems like you aren't in best of the moods so I'll withhold it for another time.

>>10233038
I had a few other ideas as well:
-I was thinking of seeding Pandora with the sentient fungus from Chiron, seeing what abominations would result from a mixture of mind worms and Na'vi.

-I was hoping we could try our hand at getting into steller mining, using large, kilometer wide portals to move asteroids to mining bases in orbit (or even planet side) and mining them there. Rather than moving the base to the asteroid, why not move the asteroid to the mining base?
-And finally, portals could be useful in construction, particularly in air conditioning, a large part of the costs of running skyscrpaers, is moving sewage and air about, all of this could be made much easier with portals. Though it would depend on how much power they consumer.

>>10233278
Rant away.

Still need time, btw.

>>10233294
I like this idea, and it definitely seems more cost effective than running ships from the earth over to the asteroids and back.

>>10233262
Hey, if you need some time off, take it.
I was expecting the quest as much as the next guy, but I'd rather have you be in good shape for a better overall quest, than to be running you ragged.

>>10233262

(Don't worry, I am not in a country with very serious education system like in US or any western civilized country. I'll do fine. Besides tomorrow I have English, I am the best in it. Also, I don't have math... THANK GOD)

>>10233302

Is that still need time as in an hour or two or next week?

I mean, it would be neat if we got some corp-quest today, but I can wait for something good.

>>10233356
>Serious education system
>USA

>>10233267
>They'll do what we did, which is dump money into an investigation; and they have more money that we do.

Even if they spend hundreds of billions on demonstrating that pandorium wasn't responsible, it will still shake public faith in them, and it doesn't take a lot to discredit scientific reports, remember, it only took one doctor to start off that whole MMR bullshit ages ago. As long as we can make ourselves look clean (not hard if we make the circumstances around the crash look legitimate, of course assuming ever trace of Hermesium should burn away before anyone can identify it).

We'd have the high ground, and unless RDA sends a mission to Hermes and finds our mining operation and links the whole thing to us we won't be screwed, besides, we can always blame it on terrorists later.

But I agree, it is risky.

>>10233302
"DAMN YOU PLASMA! When reading your the first MC thread I noticed several people mentioning Corp quest, now this was not the first time I heard amiable things about it (I've seen people refer to it in other quests like Iron Quest) so I decided to check it out. As soon as I started I was in love. I literally spent 2 full days reading it anticipating some glorious end. I never read description on archived quests as they can spoil things but I noticed the very last thread had word "aftermath" in, so I deduced it was some kind of epilogue and was happily reading and anticipating it, unfortunately I didn't read "GET" part.
Seriously, man, why did you stop updating AT THE VERY BEST PART OF THE GAME? Yes, the last thread was ruined by some Goddamn retards (/tg/ I am dissapoint, I expected better of you) but that was not a reason to end it so abruptly. Even if you had some work to do at the time, you could have notified and went on a month hiatus. I'm sure there quest would have been still popular after that."

Though on the other hand, we could see MegaQuest like some kind of prequel.

Anyway now that I got that of my chest I'll post pre-made suggestion next.

>>10233383
Sooner or later Hermisium will become known and people will start questioning. Even if that happens decades from the incident, the precautions will be grave indeed.

At least RDA had South-American backing (iirc), we don't

Or we could hire a couple of Terrorist groups to steal a freighter with a special Pandorian ore, that burns for 16 hours in the Himelaya's?

A special freighter with extra security on it.

And why are we even unloading freighters via docking anymore? shouldn't we just be portal-ing everything in from the edge of the system?

Anyway, now I want to give my input on one matter that I wanted since the 1st thread but I never could participate.

You have said that military doesn't use Portals since they see no applications for it .... I can think of dozens of absolutely amazing uses that would change the tide of war and how it is waged fundamentally. You should know that mobility is one of (if not the most) important thing for the army. With Portal technology, army could be deployed instantaneously at any part of the world at any time.
Now, I suppose that in future (like in modern times) there are US/Ally military bases all over the world, in different countries. These bases must be huge, manned by tens of thousands of troops and US has to pay enormous amounts of money to keep them there. Now, if we implement Portal tech, and reduce the bases to massive portal facility and small defending forces, it would help MASSIVELY in war effort.
If all bases have Portals, there's no need constantly keep soldiers there. All of US army could stay home and be swiftly deployed in any part of the world while at the same time could protect US since most of the army stays there. There would be no need for huge army (much smaller army but much much higher quality), and massive bases in foreign countries. The amount of stress soldiers endure would be drastically reduced as they could spend time home while still being in army/at war. Basically, army becomes some kind of communal work, go to war at day, be back by supper to eat with your beloved family or have 1 week off each 5 weeks or something.

>>10233539
<cont>
Now, another implications spring to mind.
With portal tech, army could easily pass fortified defenses and immediately appear behind enemy lines. Now, how to do it?
Several options:
- Have a special infiltration squad drop off in enemy territory and set up a portal with portal gun through which the rest of the forces come in
- Develop small mobile portal facility which is capable of being lifted by a helicopter or develop a new heavy helicopter that is basically a portal facility. Have them land somewhere behind the lines and start the porting process. Would help if all of known stealth technology is implemented.
- Develop land based mobile portal facility.

Another idea:
Aircraft carriers which are basically portals on a boat. Plane sets of in Nevada, goes in portal, appears in Venezuela. This can save military enormous amounts of money as they don't have to haul around giant ships which are also one of the most easy targets at the sea (it's true)

I am sure our PR department will come up with more great ideas, smooth the ideas I have. I am saying that Portals have MASSIVE use in army.

Have our PR devision lobby these ideas, ask them how much money they need, double that for increased success and better contracts.

>>10233539
>>10233551

What do you guys think? Is this feasible? We could get lots of delicious moneys from US and allies

>>10233594
Why sell it just to the US? sell it to all the major powers. That brings in more money for us.

>>10233455
Oh, and I didn't stop updating.

That was the actual end.

By that point, you were reading to get off-planet and the gameplan would've changed entirely.

It was supposed to end on a bit of a cliff-hanger, for if I ever wanted to pick it up again.

As for when I going to pick up and continue this, give me a few more minutes, I am sorry for the delay. Should be ready before 21:00 4chan tiem.

>>10233632
Oh, ok.
Though I would have preferred some epilogue or something. I though they were going to carve their own empire... anyway.

No need to rush, take your time.

>>10233594
While you can have portal guns that create a portal between given locations, most if not all portals today go through gates and such, so while we could still decrease supply issues we can't make an army appear anywhere on the Earth, though I agree with the part about aircraft carriers, but it's just getting the army to agree to it that's the real problem.

>>10233631

Because when US wins, we will still be in their good sides and get more contracts in future... probably. Fuck, we could ask them to stop dealing with RDA (know terrorists who support South-America) and revoke their exclusive rights to deal Pandorium... though this maybe a long stretch

Still, sneaking a single man in with a portal gun is easier than sneaking in an entire strike-team.

Also, that means we can make big money on the fields that deactivate any portal connections and "portal-proof" wall-coating.

>>10233700
build a single prototype at our own cost, then give it to the US military, and if they want to buy more they can. Use it to showcase how this power could be expanded into greater combat capabilities

So, here's the situation.

You are SLEIPNIR INTERSTELLAR (also known as S.L.I.N.T.), a SUBSIDIARY of the MEGACORPORATION known as SOLUTIONS TACTICAL FINANCE UNLIMITED (also known as S.T.F.U.). You are VIKINGS IN SUITS. Another SUBSIDIARY of S.T.F.U. is APERTURE APPLIED INDUSTRIES (also known as APERTURE). They make up your AWESOME R&D DEPARTMENT.

You are participating in a space race against many infamous rivals taken from many different fictional universes. From RDA to Weyland-Yutani to the Tyrell Corporation to Pentex.

The year was 2145 when we left off last.

The year is now 2147.

I shall post updates. This'll take time because, not prewritten. I had to handle most of the background paperwork first.

>>10233700
>but it's just getting the army to agree to it that's the real problem.
That's why we have to spend billions$ on lobbying. I am sure our PR-devision will come up with something spectacular.

And on the other matter. Who says there has to be only 1 portal open? Dozens of portal guns behind enemy lines, 1 hour give or take and there's a huge army force.

Same in military bases. Several HUGE portals will allow quick relocation of great deal of troops and machinery

Oh, and if America does not want it, we could subtly hint that it could /somehow/ get in hands of their enemies. They wouldn't want that, would they?

>>10233813
Another suggestion I had in mind:

Can we expand our R&D department?

Sure it's awesome, but we wouldn't want others to catch up with us.

>>10233755
First give portals to everyone. Make trillions. No ones privacy is safe anymore.
Then start cheap-ish selling portal-proof wall-coating. Everyone wants it. Make trillions again. Every new building will have this implemented from now on, steady money forever.
Rub mustache.

>>10233922
I was thinking of something along these lines as well, at the least if would be nice to reward them a little for being awesome: I'm thinking gold plated microscopes, silk lab coats, ect...

Increasing their size and buying them better laboratories would also be nice.

Oh, on that note, I was thing about portals... portals and particle accelerators, lets go to one of those big research institutes, CERN, Fermilab, whatever it doesn't matter.

Other to co fund a project for an EVEN larger particle accelerator, which is only a few hundred feel long and uses portals to allow continual acceleration. Afterwards, we have as useful friend for a R&D department to work with. If they ever need any help, that is.

>>10234079
>Other to co fund
>Offer to co-fund

Damit, I need more drink.

>>10234079
Smart. Lets see if that can be done.

>>10233813
Year 2146:
There are three remaining key members of the original colony ship that went to Chiron. They are at war with one another and each one wants to be the only one off of the planet - no negotiation. Several years have led to bitter rivalries. In an almost feudal fashion, they are willing to assist your corporation if you just get them off with what they consider valuable. The surviving key leaders - or "factions" on Chiron include:
Corazón Santiago, Security Officer, excellent combatant.
Deirdre Skye, Hydroponics Expert, will assist with biological research.
Sheng-Ji Yang, Executive Officer, excellent colony leadership, despite what happened on Chiron.
Choose one and one only.
In other news, your company proposed military applications for portals. Not willing to invest in such technology for such delicate matters after the 2130 Texas Impact, most nations refuse. Except for the USA. Income boost.

Year 2147:
Many crawlers are sent out into space, leaving all constructive facilities free.
Umbral research is complete. R&D apologizes for delay. If you wish to read what they've discovered, say so.
Cryo-Freighter 6 has arrived on Ares with passengers. This is a world in the Alpha Centauri system containing advanced life. Say if you want more information.
Three heavy freighters have arrived on Hermes with construction yard parts. They already have one. There will be 2 by 2149, 3 by 2151 and 4 by 2153.
A space station is launched into space via the portal station on Hermes.
Like you, no corporation has done anything exceptional in the past few years.

Balance: $381b
Income: $148b

Next post will contain ship information.
One after that will contain misc. information.

Feel free to offer suggestions.

>>10234141
CURRENT SHIPS:
Crawler Probe 1 (Tau Ceti)
Crawler Probe 2 (Exploration, Destination: Delta Pavonis, 2179)
Crawler Probe 3 (Exploration, Destination: Gamma Leporis, 2184)
Crawler Probe 4 (Exploration, Destination: Gliese 876, 2170)
Crawler Probe 5 (Exploration, Destination: 40 Eridian, 2171)
Crawler Probe 6 (Exploration, Destination: Eta Cassiopeiae, 2175)
Crawler Probe 7 (Exploration, Destination: Beta Hydri, 2182)
Crawler Probe 8 (Exploration, Destination: Pi Orionis, 2184)
Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Returning with Cargo, Destination: Earth, 2151)
Freighter 2 (Alpha Centauri) (Leased to RDA) (Returning with Cargo, Destination: Earth, 2151)
Freighter 4 (Gliese 876) (Delivering Cargo, Destination: Gliese 876, 2167)
Freighter 3 (Gliese 876) (Delivering Cargo, Destination: Gliese 876, 2167)
Heavy Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Earth)
Heavy Freighter 2 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Cargo, Destination: Earth, 2152)
Heavy Freighter 3 (Tau Ceti) (Delivering Cargo, Destination: Tau Ceti, 2156)
Heavy Freighter 4 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Hermes)
Heavy Freighter 5 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Hermes)
Heavy Freighter 6 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Hermes)
Cryo-Freighter 1 (Gliese 876) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Gliese 876, 2167)
Cryo-Freighter 2 (Gliese 876) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Gliese 876, 2167)
Cryo-Freighter 3 (Alpha Centauri) (Delivering Chiron Personnel, Destination: Earth, 2152)
Cryo-Freighter 4 (Epsilon Eridani) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Epsilon Eridani, 2151)
Cryo-Freighter 5 (Tau Ceti) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Tau Ceti, 2156)
Cryo-Freighter 6 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Ares)
Cryo-Freighter 7 (Alpha Centauri) (Colony Vessel, Destination: Ares, 2149)

>>10234155
CONSTRUCTING:
Construction Yard 1 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 2 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 3 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 4 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 5 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 6 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 7 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 8 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 1 (Hermes): Inactive

COLONIES:
Hermes, Alpha Centauri A: 550 workers, 50 scientists, researching and mining
Ares, Alpha Centauri A: 250 workers, 30 scientists, 20 military, exploration

RESEARCH QUEUE:
Space Combat (Due Date: 2151)

Balance: $381b
Income: $148b

>>10234167
Go.

>>10234176
Let's get that info on Umbra from our R&D guys first, we've been waiting for that for a while. Then lets hear about this life, hostile, intelligent, ect.

>Deirdre Skye, Hydroponics Expert, will assist with biological research.
I am inclined to go with that person, as they offer future research.

And can we get more info as to what our R and D department cooked up?

>>10234141
>Umbral research is complete. R&D apologizes for delay. If you wish to read what they've discovered, say so.

Of course, tell us!

>Except for the USA. Income boost.
How much is the boost?
I hope as they see how effective Portals are, we'll get better and better deals.

>Choose one and one only.
Ridiculous! Why only one?
And where is that Russian technology guy.


Also, are we getting income from our shares from Morgan Ind already?

>>10234167
What the shit? When did we decide to research something as inane as space combat? Fuck that, we need to progress up our own tech trees.

Start research on mindworms from Chiron and their possible uses. Specifically for release in the Umbral Habs that have become increasingly popular on earth.

>>10234248
Same here, while Santiago might be nice I think we could use some biology research.

With that in mind, what about constructing dedicated research locales in Alpha Centauri with the Hermes Yard?

>>10234293
I would propose interstellar Portal/Umbra tech. Lots of delicious moneys that way.

>>10234248
Seconded for Dierdre.
>>10234268
Yeah, more information about that would be nice. But if we can't find the crazy russian, Dierdre the hippy will be fine.

How is the US utilizing our technology?

>>10234293
I think Cypher wanted that.

>>10234293

People were voting for that, also, intel shows that others started with it before us... we might see a war in space soon...

A war in space that could perhaps be dominated by portal-boarding teams... Throw that ball by the R&D and see what they say.

>>10234245
>>10234248
The Umbra is a bizarre alternate dimension that is certainly habitable. If it is habitable for us, it is habitable for other things and indeed it has its own ecology. The life that exists in the Umbra mostly appears to be sapient and it appears to reflect aspects of our own civilization. For every tiniest fragment of our society, there is a species of creatures in the Umbra that appears to represent it, as bizarre as it seems. From tests and observations, these creatures seem either terrified of or in league with Pentex, working with them or even for them.

As for the technology that allows an individual to enter the Umbra, it does not appear to be entirely technological - there is definitely a biological aspect to it. Instead of circuits, Umbral gates appear to have a nervous system of sorts that belongs to an unidentified species of non-Umbral origin, most likely something native to Earth.

The R&D team have successfully created several Umbral gates - although they had to use parts from deconstructed Pentex gates - most notably, every biotechnological component. They can't be replicated with our knowledge of the technology.

>>10234268
>And where is that Russian technology guy.
Dead, presumably, I'm betting he either died due to all his cities revolting or mind worms.

That's what fucked me over when I played Zarkov, damn my moral inability to oppres people, but my lvoe for SCIENCE!

>Ridiculous! Why only one?
If they found out we took one of their enemies then both would probably hate us, then again, if we bring one away, and then send another vessel to pick another one (assuming their both alive), then we might be able to have two, but if they found out about each other then we'd be fucked.

Since they'd hate us, and probably sue us for something. Assholes.

>>10234330
There's no reason for us to put ALL our researching efforts into "space combat". We need to study new life and materials that we've discovered and how we can best exploit it, not pew pew in space.

If a shooting war DOES erupt, don't we own a good deal of the shipping and deep-space ships? We haven't actively been screwing with people, so there's no real reason for ship-to-ship combat to erupt.

>>10234378

...

Fuck.

Is this shit public? Prolly not since our Research teams figured it out... If we start sneaking out shit like that people will prolly be shit-scared of the Umbra.

>>10234378
Relay this knowledge to STFU. This may be something they'd be interested in. We can always use it for corporate warfare, just like everything else.

>>10234378
Ha, now we defiantly need Deidre!
Get her to work on Umbra.

>>10234405
I would suggest leaving it up there, but having it as something that ins't a priority.
That way we don't get caught with our pants around our ankle's.

>>10234405

Yeah, I agree with you. We're Vikings in suits. If anything we should be boarding them (using portals) armed with axes.

>>10234378
This is perfect. Let's lift Deidre off Chiron and have her study Umbra biotech.

>>10234293
Without research into space combat, space combat is impossible. Still, adding mind worms to the list.
>>10234330
Adding space combat: portals to the research list.
>>10234268
Only one because they hate each other to pieces would likely strip your entire shuttle for parts for their war before they would dare.to go home with one another.

Plasma, can we spend like 100 bil$ to expand our R&D department?

>>10234453
We have multiple craft in Alpha C, and presumably multiple shuttles as well. Lift em' up one at a time, shove them into deep freeze, and continue. Then, once the ship gets back, defrost them one at a time and boot them.

>>10234447

>>10234378
Oh fuck, I... I... ssshhhiiitttt.

This whole time, I was thinking warp, oh if only it had been the fucking warp. No, this is worse, much, much worse.

Two words: Half-Life. Or is that one word? Fuck it, we're screwed either way.

OK, here's an important questing, can we create Umbra gates on our ships, and use this for transport purposes instead of just building holds?

If so, then lets do that for our heavy transports, save space and weight, hell, we could even have the crew station in the Umbra so the ship could travel faster than 1 g without everyone going splat.

Which brings me to my next point, if we want to explore and work with the Umbra, we might want to go with Corazón Santiago, who better to survive and fight in this new hostile terrain? Oh sure, we could be pacifists and go with Dierdre, but we're space Vikings for Odins sake.

>>10234141
>Corazón Santiago, Security Officer, excellent combatant.
>Deirdre Skye, Hydroponics Expert, will assist with biological research.
>Sheng-Ji Yang, Executive Officer, excellent colony leadership, despite what happened on Chiron.

Are those three the only factions left? If so we need to >>10234486 and quickly establish our own colony there and get them to salvage any tech the other had worked on.

Deidre will be assisting your R&D department once the ship arrives in 2152.
>>10234486
No. They're aware you took one of their hated enemies off planet and they refuse to let you take them. They already discussed terms and they will not willingly work for you.

>>10234524
Or the the biology expert who can help us develop everything we need about utilizing the Umbra.
If you wanted a security expert, just hire one from Earth.

At this point in time, Mind-worms are much more valuable.

>>10234524
Deidre is an awesome researcher on biology. Umbra tech is half biological. We need her more.

We can always hire hot-blooded grunts but genius scientist are fucking rare

We should establish colony on Chiron. But much more well funded than any other factions.

Send HF-1 to Tau Ceti with colony hardware.
See if RDA wants to lease our Alpha Centauri HFs.
Build two more Cryo-Freighters for dispatch to Alpha Centauri.

>>10234378

I still have hard time understanding Umbra

IDLE SHIPS:

Heavy Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Earth)
Heavy Freighter 4 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Hermes)
Heavy Freighter 5 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Hermes)
Heavy Freighter 6 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Hermes)
Cryo-Freighter 6 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Ares)

What do you wanna do with them?

Also, do you wish for information on your colony on Ares, or are you happy just letting the colony do its own thing there?

>>10234559
Even if they won't come off, we might still be able to barter with them. Is there anything they need? Perhaps portal facilities to link them into the Alpha Centauri network?

>>10234454
Seconding expanding our R&D.

Oh, and can we try to incorporate that particle accelerator idea?

>>10234652
That seems like a bad idea. They might try to invade through the portals and capture our colonies.

>>10234634
Given the fuckload of money they earn on the cargo and the small fee we get (5 bil) I vote no for leasing.

>>10234641

I'm getting a "spirit realm" vibe of it.

Can we fill our construction slots with Heavy freighters and Cryo freighters.

>>10234645
Send CF-6 back with samples of Ares life for R&D.

Please give us information on the colony there, since you offered.

>>10234692
This, on Tau-Ceti and/or further systems range. We'll need those too.

>>10234645
Are there like, any other minerals we could mine on Hermes?

More info on Ares, please.

>>10234691

Maybe we should just crash the freighters into Pandora and be like "whoops, Texas again, huh?"

>>10234634
No.
RDA apparently has much ships available these days, thanks to their glorious Pandorium.
>>10234641
The Umbra is an alternate dimension that reflects the state of the real world. The beings that dwell there do as well. Areas of a particular state are connected to areas of the same state.

To put it simply, say if you're in an area of the Umbra that is polluted in real life. The Umbra will be all nasty and black and be filled with creatures that revolve around pollution. You can wander deeper and deeper into the concept of pollution and if you know enough about how to navigate the Umbra, you might come out in another area of the Umbra that is also defined by its pollution, defying space and time as we know it.
As bullshitty as it sounds, the Umbra is just as philosophical as it is scientific.

>>10234559
In that case, we might want to put glassing them somewhere on some list of things to do.

>>10234576
>>10234580
OK, point taken, I take we've basically told Sheng-Ji Yang to go fuck himself, never like the Hive that much anyway.

Ok, if the faction leaders don't want to be extracted all together. Could we do that one by one? Send another ship to them, maybe?

>>10234752
so if we were to enter into a point of Umbra say, in the middle of space where nothing exists, what might we find in the Umbra?

>>10234752
Have are R&D guys see how portals hold up in tje Umbra. No need for extensive testing, just a little experiment.

>>10234752

I...

Only I who want to combine mindworms and Umbra to make instant-travel between systems. I mean, mindworm colony gotta be a very defining trait in the Umbra...

Would it be possible to have R&D set "FTL Travel" as their target?

>>10234800
not yet guys...
FTL is something to work on at a later point in time.

>>10234712
Hermes has approximately the same composition as Mars. So, no, it isn't pure Hermesium. However, currently construction yards are being built there.
>>10234763
Simply put, they're aware if you extract one, and if you extract one, they want nothing to do with you.

There's no way that you can get every advantage out of it.
>>10234730
Will give details in next post.

>>10234752
Is Umnba a planet? Same size as Earth?

We should build a research station there to search for more secrets. Maybe we'll find a way to travel time. Search a place reflecting ancient worlds (Byzantine, Maya, Rome, etc) and make a portal there, going back to that time but in "real" world.

>>10234763
Nah, I think that all hate each other so much that any one who tries to help their enemies is marked for death.

The allies of my enemy are my enemy, even if they're only tried to be nice, and want to help me as well, and aren't being selective or anything like that.

Do we even want more than one of these people alive?

Ask Deidre to take all of the research they did on planet with her.

>>10234856
Well, we already got Morgan out.

>>10234873
include it as part of the price for her escaping.

Do our portals work interplanetary yet?

>>10234789
Probably emptiness, almost everywhere in space. So, theoretically, you could probably dig deeper into the concept of emptiness, then emerge from that concept in a completely different area of space in the Umbra.
Not only FTL, but practically teleportation. We're talking about the Solar System to Alpha Centauri in minutes.

However, there seems to be some technical problem that Pentex knows about that we don't that prevents such long-distance travel using the Umbra.

Of course, there's also the problem that when you think about it philosophically, a creature definied by space would be a personification of emptiness. Emptiness equals hunger. Basically, Umbral space just might be full of big fucking space whales, but there's no way to prove it at this stage.

>>10234928
Yes.

>>10234898
Maybe he was really nice to everyone, and tried to sell them stuff while they killed each other.

Which reminds me, ask for a list of atrocities he committed (if any) and then, if we ever need a favour from Morgan Industries and he's reluctant to agree, then we've got something to hold over him.

But only as a last resort.

The Umbra is a philosophically-determined realm. It is incredibly dangerous, maybe infinitely huge, and impossible to purge at our current tech level. It is a box of horrors, gentlemen.

>>10234940
Did we set up network through all colonized worlds in our system?

>>10234982
Its Pandora's box.
But we are a corporation, lets figure out what we can do with it.

>>10234929
Speaking of teleportation, given the philosophical nature of the Umbra, do conventional portals work in the Umbra?

>>10234982
Yeah, Pretex and we are dabbling in some crazy shit.

>>10234929
>Emptiness equals hunger
I... what? No, it doesn't. Hunger requires there to be something to be hungering. Emptiness equals.... nothing. Peace, stillness, void. The biggest danger traveling through that philosophical concept should be going too far in and getting lost due to lack of reference points.

>>10235004
Well, it might be possible to call some of the less-friendly Umbra creatures out, to use as a weapon against Pentex or others, but I don't know if we can defend against beings made of concepts. Think happy thoughts, maybe?

>>10234997

Didn't we actually think about a PR campaign against Umbra that pretty much was based on this whole idea?

>>10235004
It's Pandorabox.... let's open it, if it does not open use a crowbar.

>>10234997
Portals are exclusively used for system wide travel, that's between and sometimes on Earth, Mars, the moon, Europa, anywhere remote that wants to be connected uses portals.

>>10235023
The Umbra is what you think and feel. If the void creeps you out, then the Umbra will contain creepy shit. If it makes you feel a sort of reverence, then it will contain soft music and angels that speak in the voice of Sagan. If you feel nothing, the Umbra will be empty.

State of mind, man.

>>10235070
>Take LSD
>Enter Umbra
> Mindfuck*10^100

Ares:
High gravity planet.
Lower oxygen content than Earth. Air is thinner and more difficult to breath, like standing on top of a mountain.
Tectonically active, appears to be suffering a constant volcanic winter.
Very little axial tilt, making the concepts of summer and winter meaningless.
Colony built in the Northern hemisphere, approximately five hundred miles North of the tropics. Standard temperature is eleven degrees centigrade. Colony has been built on rocky, grassy steppes.
Chemically, the planet is almost identical to Earth, if you swap around how common magnesium and silicon are. Igneous rocks present on the planet even appear to have magnesium as a pure element present in their centres.
So far, no unique life forms have been spotted on the steppes. Grasses, shrubs and several different species of grazer and pack hunter.
No contact with intelligent life yet, although artificial structures exist in the lateral ivy forests to the West and North-West. Similar forests exist to the East, there are mountains to the North and North-East and most of the South appears to be swampland.
What course of action would you like the Ares colony to take?

>>10235106
Don't even. That's like a philosophical apocalypse. The bleedthrough could destroy the galactic core.

>>10235138
>like standing on top of a mountain
It's planet Colorado.

Explore the artificial structures from a distance. Continue to expand the colony.

>>10235138
Fortify, Expand

Explore the artificial structures

I suppose we're all agreed on building more cryos and freighters, then? Some to Alpha, some to Tau?

>>10235206
begin building satellite network above for real time imaging 24/7.

Then watch, and wait.

someone remember to archive this.

So, what you want to do this year:
- Spend fuckloads of expanding Aperture.
- Add Chiron Biology and Portals in Space Combat to the research list.
- Remind Morgan of your deal so you can cash in.
- Recall all idle ships to Earth so something can be decided when they arrive.
- Test portals in the Umbra.

Anything else?

>>10235138
Explore those structures, be prepared for anything.

Send maybe 10 soldiers and a few scientists for documenting them.

This is probably going to be a massive clusterfuck, but oh well. Colonists are replaceable.

>>10235232
Train squads of badass security personnel so that when something goes horribly wrong, it won't be Black Mesa all over again.

Send only people with massively stable psyche into the Umbra. Make sure that each person is frequently tested for any imbalance in their minds.

We dont want crazy people in their.

Also, send with them a single young child.
^ Lets exploit imagination for once.

>>10235232
I really don't know what we can do with idle ships, yeah call them back.

I propose to switch research. Plasma, how long would it take to make interstellar Portal/Umbra technology? Is it feasible at this time?

>>10235232
Build more ships; expand colonies in Tau Ceti and Alpha Centauri. Explore the Umbra.

Timeskip.

>>10235240

Oh, and be fucking careful. Take it easy, no need to force ourselves onto them, I assume we have anthropologists with us.

>>10235023
You're talking to Aperture scientists. Do you expect them to be good philosophers?

Under no circumstances are we to attempt to combine Umbra and portal's. Not until we know everything about both of them, and there are no surprises at all.

>>10235291
You have the barest understand of the Umbra and how to navigate it over small distances without falling into concepts or offending a native species and getting butchered.

>>10235260

this.

Hire many bald spees mahrines who had troubled past / lost family / have trouble with state (being betrayed by state) etc... basically, hire soldiers with identity, they seem to last longer than faceless happy grunts. )))

>>10235232
>Spend fuckloads of expanding Aperture
Seconding
>Add Chiron Biology and Portals in Space Combat to the research list.
No opinion.
>Remind Morgan of your deal so you can cash in.
I say not yet.
>Recall all idle ships to Earth so something can be decided when they arrive.
Have Heavy Freighters 4, 5, and 6 transport more Hermesium back to Earth, I mean, they might as well do something.

Keep the Aries Cryo ship in orbit, in case shit hits the fan and we need to pull our people out.
>Test portals in the Umbra.
Yes.

Anything else?
A few quick questions: Is there a limit on how large portals can be? How efficient are portals, i.e. do they cost a lot of energy to operate? And could we try that thing mentioned earlier about Particle accelerators? I just thing some better ties with the scientific community could be useful for us and our R&D department.

>>10235330

That feels pretty much like the faceless grunt to me...

>>10235321
Oh, then we should research that shit even more.
Or can we make research interstellar Portal tech?

>>10235298
If they're not, establish a new "Applied Philosophy" division. Hire personnel as necessary.

>>10235369
That research costs trillions of dollars. So no, not right now.

>>10235360
re-direct all of our idle outstanding freighters to go and pick up more loads of Hermesium on their return trip, unless they are in the opposite direction, or have to pass earth to do so.

>>10235260
- Train specialist security for all important Solar facilities.
- Expand Ares colony.
- Build additional cryo-ships to Tau Ceti and Alpha Centauri, build additional heavy freighters to Alpha Centauri.

Oh, and keep lobbying the military applications of Portal tech. Maybe some US allies will also agree

Fission reactors.

Can we research that?

Unlimited energy... imagine that. We would make so much money.

>>10235442

Fission is the type we already have...

>>10235442
You mean Fusion? We kind of already have Fission.

>>10235407
Awesome! Skip at your leisure

>>10235407
Second on skip...

Lets do something stupid with the Umbra and create a horrible hell dimension.

That'll put a dampener on our competition, and give more focus to portal transit.

We already have Fission.
Fusion is what we lack.

>>10235466
Yes, I think I meant that... Fusion energy.

you know, like those generators we had in Corp quest

>>10235480
Agreed

>>10235489
NO! Umbra can be potentially exploited later, so why ruin a very, very good thing?

>>10235398
To be honest there's not a lot of use for Heremsium on Earth, I just don't want those Freighters doing nothing.

There are no other ideal ships near Herems anyway, though, there's a list of ideal ships here >>10234645

>>10235512

Because right now people are /living/ in Umbra, not knowing that there are things just outside their houses.

The Umbra we use is of course used with all the necessary precautions and secure shit.

>>10235567
Screw necessary, lets be downright Paranoid about it.

Absolutely nothing can come from the Umbra without our letting it do so.

We should market Portals for use in prisons. Worried about prisoners escaping? No problem! Just take the door with you when you go out.

>>10235567
Let's organize field trips and expeditions to Umbra! We'll earn money and people will be reluctant to get Umbra habitats.

>>10235613

Yeah, just sponsoring public university excursions into it... With almost no strings attached. I mean, would be nice if we got to use some of the data they got back, but mostly it's "free" anti-PR.

>>10235610
Ha, just like in Portal at the very beginning, right?
I second that motion

Let's attempt contact with the Umbra beings. If they're sapient, we could work out some kind of deal where they help us move things faster and hinder our competition.

>>10235661
>access Umbra from SLINT conference room
>Viking spirits

>>10235678
This. Is. Win.
Do it now.

Year 2148:
Nothing additional is built. Nothing additional is constructed.
You cash in on that 8% from Morgan Industries.
As a stockholder, your opinion here is valid. What percentage of Morgan Industries' second colony vessel to Chiron should be military? 10%, 25% or 40%?
The prison concept is accepted.
Portal in Umbra experiments conducted. Portals can only exist in the Umbra when created on real surfaces. They cannot exist on Umbral surfaces. Experiment ended prematurely due to incursion of Umbral natives.
All contact with Neptune and its satellites has ceased. Entire space stations are being ransomed. Military vessels are destroyed en route to the planet by other starships.
Casualties on Ares. New discoveries on Ares. Contact with intelligent natives. More details available and course of action requested.

Balance: $49b
Income: $226b

>>10235820

Is that Neptune going independent? Cool. Open trade contacts.

Also, info on Ares get.

>>10235820
>Nothing additional is built. Nothing additional is constructed

Did you forget the ships?

Make the Chiron ship 40% military. More information on Neptune, please. I recommend shutting down all portal service to Neptune, at least.

>>10235820
40%
Fuck, send two vessels.

Beef up security in Umbra.

Did we expand our R&D?

Request info on Ares.

I guess Neptune is seceding?

Thread archived.
>>10235820
>All contact with Neptune lost.
Nuke the site from orbit, I don't even like Neptune.
>More details available and course of action requested.
I FUCKING CALLED IT!

Requesting further details.

On a side note, how's our Science department after the investment?

>>10235820
What percentage does Morgan want?
I am inclined to go with his plan for this.

Requesting more data on both Neptune and Ares.

>>10235924
>I recommend shutting down all portal service to Neptune, at least.

Or we could offer to evacuate as many people as possible before shutting down.

>>10235924
Never mind, the ships are probably in progress. D'oh.

Oh, yeah, remember that the Hive and the Spartans are still active on Chiron. So I go with 40% as well.

>>10235960
Wait... Neptune is a great place to test Umbra beings in realspace...
Viking, Umbra beings.

>>10235960
There could be rebels or terrorists mixed in. If our Neptune portal stations are under their control already, I don't want any others being taken or blown up.

>>10236004

Wait... I smell a megacorp. I dunno who else would have access to ship-to-ship weapons.

>>10235971
Agreed, we don't need a huge science team to gather preliminary samples and perform basic testing.

That said, we could always just strap a few missiles onto our ships and then turn them into relativistic kill vehicles to get rid of the Spartans or Hivers.

>>10236039
It's not that hard to build a missile or a gun. All you have to contend with is anti-debris countermeasures, in the case of freighters. For them to destroy dedicated military vessels, they might be packing serious shit, though.

Maybe they're using portal guns? D:

>>10236063
Yeah.

Let's outfit one of the ships with orbital bombardment capacity. If anyone attacks us, then they are gone.

>>10236102

I think Orbital Bombardment weapons was something we needed research for.

>>10236121
But it's so simple. Open cargo bay doors, drop rocks.

>>10236151
Fly shuttle, and crashland with Hermesium.
Into the largest possible populated area, of course.

>>10236151
Well... that's hardly accurate, and then we have all matter of re-entry troubles.

>>10236004
We only have one Heavy Freighter ideal in Sol anyway, it's not like there's much else we can do.

Offer it for use in a military operation, maybe we could retrofit it with mass drivers and use it for basic combat, or we could cover it in portals and use them as basic shields.

Other than that, it's not our concern.

Hey. Remember all that stuff about flame guns being really useful against mind worms?

Sell the Spartans Hermesium.

>>10235875
You recieve no contact.

As for Ares:
2 Workers and 1 Scientist have been killed during the year by steppes pack hunters that represent large canines with skin similar to that of a seal rather than fur. Abnormally large nostrils, eyelids similar to those of an alligator and no ears or tails.
2 Workers and 2 Scientist and 1 Military have been killed by forest hunters. They appear to be a reptile that looks more like an extremely large flightless bird, closely resembling a heron except with wings replaced with practically redundant claws, similar to those of a raptor and mostly possessing scales, rather than feathers.

Travelling through the forests is difficult. Personnel on foot easily get their feet stuck in the many layers of lateral ivy and vines and brambles, leaving them ensnared. This is when they have been picked off by the forest hunters. Of course, the forests could be raised, but this would likely upset the ecosystem - proceed, or find an alternate method?

Have not directly interacted with native. Have been spotted by them, however. We have also spotted them. Four limbed humanoid. Smaller torso than humans but longer limbs. Arms have two additional joints - one between wrist and elbow, one between shoulder and elbow. Legs have two additional joints - one between ankle and knee, one between hip and knee. Have hands instead of feet. Hands are composed of three equally spaced fingers more akin to tentacles, with eighteen joints in each. Large nostrils. Alligator eyelids. Long muscular tongue. Seal skin.
They appear to be living in a society equivilant to 900 AD. Iron age. Have developed using magnesium as a source of fire instead of wood. Live in large, squat stone structures and complex burrows. How should we react to them?

>>10236176
Portal shields!

We have to research that shit some time.
Imagine, someone shoots us, we open a portal where the shot is going to land and open exit portal so the the shot goes back to adversary

>>10236175
Anyone with a basic knowledge of Newtonian physics and a chalk board could do something like that, besides, we're talking about a missile strike with megajoules of momentum, it's basically an asteroid, it doesn't need to be accurate.

>>10236176
Lost profits are always our concern. If the Neptunians are holding our stations, I want to know about it.

>>10235924
Building takes time.

Going with 40% on the military deal.

>>10236238
Ask them what kind of additional supplies and personnel they need.

As how to react on natives... I dunno really, they seem to be pretty damn dangerous.

>>10236176
To make space combat feasible, research is required. Will be completed soon, too.
>>10236254
They are not. They're holding STFU stations, but not SLINT. You've only got a presence on and around Earth, Luna and Titan.

>>10236238
Construct defensive measures to deal with the pack hunters. I'm thinking mines and gun turrets.

Stay out of the forests, or travel in groups. Attempt to communicate with the natives. Give them a tiny, tiny bit of Hermesium.

>>10236273
>>10236238

Did we expand R&D yet? Or is it ongoing process. What are the results? (I expect the research time will be lowered)

>>10236238

Leave screwing up the eco-system. Try to take contact with natives, peacefully.

We should get some vehicles to this colony with our next ship. Or build on Hermes alongside shuttles capable of interplanetary flight.

Hmm... Can we introduce Hermesium as a new "miracle" fuel on the planet, given its similarity with Magnesium?

>>10236327
Well, talk to STFU then. See if we can get any information on Neptune's troubles.

>>10236344
We have to be very careful about this. No sense in burning down the whole forest by accident.

Do the aliens appear to have some form of language, written or otherwise? We might be able to translate it.

>>10236362
R&D has been expanded.
Predictions:
RESEARCH QUEUE:
Space Combat (Due Date: 2149)
Space Combat: Portals (Due Date: 2151)
Chiron Biology (Obtain from Deidre, 2151)

>>10236238
Damn xenos. Fortify any property we have there.

>>10236327
What's the word at STFU HQ? Also, doesn't Neptune have a portal station?

>>10236344

Mines and gun-turrets for predators? Fences, motion detectors and armed guards should be enough

>>10236460
Didn't you see Jurassic Park? Fuck fences, fuck guards. Explosives and robot sentry guns.

>>10236382
>>10236421
STFU is pissed and going to try and handle it somehow, although seeing as you're participating in the space program for them, they can't do anything physical.
The portal station is shut down.
From what STFU knows, it doesn't look like Neptune is seceding.
More like piracy, really.

>>10236491
Robot LASER sentry guns. That way they can keep shooting as long as they generators hold out.

>>10236421
Yeah, pretty much wait for them to sort themselves out.

We have one ship we could retrofit with weapons, and construction yards to build warships if necessary, maybe send word send words asking if they need anything.

Then again, this could be a good opportunity to test out those mind worms...

>>10236516
Fuckers are going to steal our portal tech. Increase training of security teams in preparation for combat operations.

>>10236415
Sweet.


Guys, what do you think spending 10% of our income every year to continually expand R&D? This can mean any number of things: new scientists, new equipment, more research stations, etc

MEGACORP HIRED ME DAWGS

IMMA COME AND BUST YO SHIT UP

>>10236516
Talk to the U.S. government, then. We're tight, aren't we? I'd expect the Americans of all people to be fielding space battleships and orbital marines.

>>10236552
I will respond with yes.

>>10236460
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Munitions_System
It is something the military is using to replace mines. Can be turned off when neccesary.

>>10236552

What about doing something similar towards paying back STFU? We have a 250 bil due date in 11-12 years.

>>10236573
That's probably what they'll end up doing, hire some mercenaries and fuck. Shit. Up.

Megacorp style.

Just out of interest, how much are these pirates asking for the Neptune stations?

>>10236639
we could pay that fee right now if need be.

>>10236617
Basically IFF-capable mines. After more than a century of progress, the standard mine probably comes with a plasma tv screen and a tachyon connection.

>>10236573
oh fuck yes raptor

>>10236649

No, we have 49 and a projected income of 229, add our "normal" spending to that...

>>10236683
We have that from this years income... wasn't our current total at something like 600?

>>10236592
The U.S.A. has already sent two vessels to try and sort out the situation. Wiped out. Corporations do all of the R&D and since they cut off all contact with the Zorg Corporation in 2131, they've been struggling to get anything at all out of the other weapons development megacorp, MNU. Militarily, the U.S.A. has been stagnant for the last eighteen years. Space combat is currently beyond them.

We must find more income sources.


Have other nations become more inclined to use Portals as military applications. Speaking of which, are Portals of any success for US military?

>>10236727
How about we build secondary R&D solely focused on military development?

Give me a few minutes and I should be able to advance ya to the next year. I seem to have gathered all of the information needed.

Well, our space combat tech will be ready next year, but that doesn't help now. Can we let those faggot Neptunians hold the stations until we finally get around to building warships? I don't think so.

>>10236727
Wiped out by what? Lasers? Missiles? Bullets?

>>10236794
Don't forget to devote 10% of income for expansion of R&D

>>10236813

At the very least we should be able to storm and destroy the portal facility.

>>10236775
and give the US military a chance to offer support, through the supplementation of our 2nd R&D.

>>10236844
Also, another 10% from this point on to be set aside for paying off our debt.

>>10236858
>>10236872
2nd

>>10236872
Seconding this.

Oh, yeah, Plasma, just a question. How are USA vs Europe (EU as a single state by now?) relations?

I imagine this being the sound you hear within the Umbra of the void.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uICX8c-QVB0

>>10236918
What is the whole world situation as it stands?

Year 2149:
Space combat research has been completed. You are now capable of giving ships AI systems capable of space combat. You can create and install laser point defense modules, mass driver modules or missile modules.
Cryo-Freighter 7 has reached Ares. Colony size increased.
It appears that Neptune has been quarantined by an organization of space pirates utilizing jury-rigged probes and other space-worthy machines. The entire planet is being held for ransom and slowly, the billions are pouring out of the pockets of entire nations to reclaim hostages, space stations and resources.
There's an update on the Ares situation, with three casualties taken. Say if you'd like to read.

Balance: $278b
Income: $229b

IDLE VESSELS:
Heavy Freighter 1 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Earth)
Cryo-Freighter 6 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Ares)
Cryo-Freighter 7 (Alpha Centauri) (Idle, Ares)

>>10236844
That sounds good.

How is the US economy? If its good, we might be able to bolster their military significantly, while making a shitton of money on it too.

>>10236979
I'd like to read.

Aquire info on Ares.

Also, add 50 bil to payoff fund. (Remember, we may get goodies if we pay early or extra much)

Begin refitting of our Heavy Freighter for combat.

Begin construction of 7 armed spacecraft.

>>10236979

We got AI's out of the deal too? Nice.


Outfit our freighter in the area with mass drivers and go to Neptune to sort things out. Begin research on devoted military vessels (So no jurryrigging). Also research portal armor and build another freighter.

>>10236979
Yes, let's read the Ares report.
Also, I'm torn between doing Chiron mindworm-Umbra technology interface research, and researching small autonomous space weapon drones to simply spam the pirates into submission.

>>10237054
I like the drones, for now.
Add both, with priority on the drones.

HF-1 to be loaded up with weapons and military vehicles (both ground, ground-effect, air, VTOL, and any experimental Portal vehicles).
Let's send it to Ares, help reinforce them. If there's any left over, we could send it over to Chiron and help Morgan pacify the remaining dissident factions.
Also, did we ever find Zakharov? Was he on the Unity, or is he still in Russia somewhere?

World powers:
U.S.A.
E.U.
Islamic Union (I.U.)
South American Alliance (S.A.A.)
Russia
India
China

The United States and the European Union have that same old special relationship.
The United States is at open war with the South American Alliance.
Currently, there is a bit of cold war between Russia and the combined forces the Islamic Union and India.
There are also minor trade disputs between India and China.
China is also apparently lending financial aid to the S.A.A. in the war, which gets a lot of ire from the U.S.A.

>>10236979
>The entire planet is being held for ransom and slowly, the billions are pouring out of the pockets of entire nations to reclaim hostages, space stations and resources.

Fucking space pirates, OK. Space travel is our business, and this is seriously bad for business.

Give me some scope of the situation, so are there a number of colonies on Neptune? Obviously there are several stations in orbit, and numerous craft no doubt, do we have any coherent numbers or statistics? We can guess that the pirates will start executing people if they see they've got no other options so getting in there will be a difficult.

>>10237126
Where is Cuba in this? Also, how much goddamn aid did China send to the SAA to make it able to stand up against the US?

>>10236979
Plasma, is it possible to research Fusion energy at this point?

How is the US economy ingame?

>>10237156
It's been over a century, you know. Things probably aren't the same dirtside, especially economically.

>>10237177
And how is the Chinese economy?

I would like to know how portal military application is doing.
>>10237123
2nd

>>10237185
I understand. But that's still a pretty big reversal from Second and Third world to standing up to the US.

>>10237142
142 space stations, split between nations and corporations. STFU has ownership of 2. Primarily used for harvesting Helium-3 and housing. There's approximately six hundred million people split between those satellites.

>>10237246
Can you give us the economic conditions of the superpowers dirtside?

>>10237142
If we pour money into the drone idea, here's what we could do:
The drones are essentially designed as long-range space superiority fighters. This won't be cheap, but we don't have the time to research both space fighters and space carriers. For every 10-20 drones, we have a human-piloted space fighter. The human will be the colloidal sentient intelligence needed to give a final go-nogo command right before combat (we don't want our AI's to be too free just yet).
Once we have a sizable fleet of mass-manufactured fighter drones, we make sure that their stealth systems are active and then we send them on a ballistic trajectory towards Neptune in radio silence. At a pre-determined point, the humans will come out of cryostasis and evaluate the situation. They will then choose targets, and rip the pirates to shreds.
Time will be of the essence here; we can't allow the pirates a chance to start killing hostages.
It may be prudent to try to reactivate some of our portal facilites for this assault.
Either that, or maybe a stealth portable portal ship?

>>10237246
And numbers on the pirates? Observatories on Earth alone must have seen a few in the initial combat between them and the USA.

>>10237260
drones are expensive, no?

>>10237176
Already known and already used.
>>10237177
>>10237186
China is generally considered the most powerful nation economically. The U.S.A. is growing less with each boom and falling harder with every bust. People wonder if it's about to leave the world stage.
Also, yes, S.A.A. is pretty new to the playing field of the world.

Going on to Ares events next.

We also need to know any and all combat capabilities of the pirates. How did they capture over half a billion people without anyone knowing about this or seeing the pirate fleet coming?

>>10237330
By all means, lets start talking with the Chinese.
Or we might see about bailing the US out.
I leave it up to the other Anon's.

>>10237357
We're Vikings. We should be free to deal with whomever we wish. We should establish our own nation. In space.

>>10237260
I've got a possible idea.

What if we send a few rickety ships, maybe even a retrofitted version of our Heavy Freighter, but, inside of it is actually a portal, or even several, at the last moment we blow the freighter and activate the portals, then we send in our Thorgar model pirate violating planet molester class battleships, armed to the teeth with laser point defence modules, and missiles. The pirates in orbit will be dead before they even know what raped them.

The station side pirates will be more tricky, have to use humans to go in there and flush them out. Portals will be useful here.

>>10237357
That sounds like something we should leave up to STFU. They might have plans of their own, and the last thing we want to do is step on our boss' toes.

GUYS

GUYS

WE SHOULD RESEARCH VIKING POWER ARMOR/SPACE GIANT ROBOTS. SO WE CAN BE VIKING GUNDAMNS IN SPACE!

>>10237403
Space combat portals are due 2151.

>>10237403
That sounds like what I had in mind for the stealth portable portal ship.
The only difference I would make, would be to actually make it a warship, with heavy point-defense batteries and missiles in order to protect the portal as it disgorges our forces. Also, stealth systems of some kind, such as RAM (radar absorbent material), electromagnetic shielding, and maybe adaptive thermoptic camouflage. Also unmanned, to save on space.

>>10237438
Oddly enough, I am perfectly fine with that.

>>10237310
Not that expensive.
>>10237271
Thirty-seven drones have been identified and classified as terrorist vessels.

As for Ares:
One worker was slain by pack hunters during the installation of defenses.
One worker and one scientist were slain by forest hunters during exploration scouting.
Samples of the natives' heiroglyphics are being collected daily and examined. After examining the corpses of the natives, it is definite that we will not be able to naturally speak the same language as they and vice versa, due to radicalyl different vocal chords. However, research on their language has begun.
The standard response of the natives appears to be retreat.
Perhaps their technology was under-estimated. Closer examination of abandoned settlements and battlefields reveals they are closer to 1400AD and have in fact developed firearms.

>>10236979

Get CF 6 back to Earth.

>>10237507

900 AD is Iron Age? But anyways, we should continue to try to communicate with them. They could be useful. Also, begin research in Space Mechs

>>10237403
>inside of it is actually a portal, or even several, at the last moment we blow the freighter and activate the portals

Maybe I didn't communicate that part effectively enough, sorry if it caused any misunderstanding.

The basic idea is that we'd have a fleet stationed in Earth orbit, the Pirates would know about this but we'd send the HF to give them one last chance, if they surrender hurray, if not I don't care. Anyway, we wheel out some portals in front of our ships and, assuming everything goes like clockwork when we open the holds our our HF and revealed the portals, then let lose several warships the Pirates would be slightly taken by surprise.

It could give us a tiny advantage, though the exit of the portals would be risky.

>>10237507
Translator modules!

>>10237507
Cease scouting. Maintain a perimeter around the colony and do not stray from it.

>>10237565
Change scouting from human scouting to Unmanned craft, or Remote-controlled craft.

>>10237544
Well, we're researching their language now. We'll have to build a translation device, since neither of us can speak the other's language (a biological limitation, not a linguistic or cultural one).
I'd rather devote more research to combat portalling and stealth portal ships than space mechs. We need a way to get weapons to where we need them first.

>>10237550
Why don't we just fire through the portals, and avoid exposing our warships to fire?

Why don't we avoid putting guns on our ships altogether, and simply use weapons emplacements on stations/planets that fire through portals?

Might as well post this as well:

CONSTRUCTING:
Construction Yard 1 (Earth): CF 8, 2153
Construction Yard 2 (Earth): CF 9, 2153
Construction Yard 3 (Earth): HF 7, 2150
Construction Yard 4 (Earth): HF 8, 2150
Construction Yard 5 (Earth): HF 9, 2150
Construction Yard 6 (Earth): HF 10, 2150
Construction Yard 7 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 8 (Earth): Inactive
Construction Yard 1 (Hermes): Inactive

So, what do you want to do this year?

>>10237553
Space Viking Mechs. Duh.

>>10237596
What do you do when the portals are knocked offline? Also, portals work both ways; if you can shoot them, they can shoot you.

Do we know how many pirates there are on the stations, if any? If we know the stations are clear, I suggest using stealth drones to do kamikaze runs on the pirate ships with large bombs.

>>10237507
Maybe we should withhold doing any more expeditions till we supply them with more personnel/arms/ vehicles and other shit like >>10237123 said?

>>10237612
OH WAIT.
Something I forgot.
Second Hermesian construction yard built in 2149.

>>10237497
Alright then, I just thought it would be a pleasant surprise for them to expect an easy victory and then suddenly get zerg rushed.

Though, that brings me to my next issue. We don't have anything to zerg rush them with, I suggest we crunch out basic warships, armed mostly with point defences and missiles, now and retrofit them wit anything useful from space portal weapons tech.

Only problem is, we have to pay STFU.

If we go to them, ask for a ten year lease and promise to solve this Neptune thing for them now then maybe we could do it quickly. Otherwise, I think we'd have to wait to rebuild our funds and then start construction.

So I say it's time to talk to STFU. And hope that they don't tell us to STFU and GTFO.

>>10237612
Begin construction of Portal Carriers?
Carriers that link to factories that disgorge drones as they are built, or disgorging them from storage.

Why are we bothering with pirates?

Construct secondary R&D solely for military purposes (I'd like to think we get boost in weapon research and penalty in any other if we make it with this specification in mind).

>>10237672
We have to pay them in 2160. It was pushed back ten years due to the Texas incident of 2130.

>>10237123
Zakharov is likely dead on the surface of Chiron.
>>10237638
No idea. Since all ships have been forced by the pirates to be docked at the stations, there's no way of telling which belongs to a pirate or who is a pirate on the stations.

Could be a few hundred, could be close to a million.

>>10237612
Can we put down the keels for our warships in Yards 7 and 8? We'll decide if they'll be conventional, or employ our experimental combat portalling idea later.
As for Hermes Yard 1, how about having it build a warship at AC? It'll give us orbital survey capability for Ares, and orbital strike capability for Chiron. We'll have to deal with Yang and Santiago eventually, and this will give us a great advantage.

Plasma, how pheasable are space mechs?

>>10237649
How much money do we have in our current funds?

>>10237649
Quick question, is Hermes, and by proxy it's construction yards, closer to Aries than Sol?

>>10237696
I just realized that this means we'll have built Protoss carriers.

>>10237738
They're in the same system, around the same star...

I think we hit autosage

>>10237738
They're in the same system!
Alpha Centauri!

>>10237762
start new thread?

>>10237725
Balance: $278b
Income: $229b
>>10237721
No.
>>10237711
Sure.
How would you like your warships made?
Combat capability: +$10b to the price.
Any weapon module: +$5b each.

Current available weapon modules:
Point Defense: Lasers that target missiles.
Mass Drivers: Rapidfire projectiles used to puncture hulls.
Missiles: Causes devastating damage, can be targetted by point defense.

The more modules of one type you have, the more effective it is, really.

>>10237750
Haha, sweet. We need to finish our portal space combat tech first though.


Plasma, can we research portal shields? The basis is, that each ship has super advanced computer on it (well, I guess all of the have since we developed AI), it calculates in the span of 1/10 of nanosecond where the projectile will land on the ship, then it opens a portal on that place and simultaneously opens another one aimed so that the projectile goes back to assaulter .

>>10237819
Maximum. Everything possible, spare no expense for them.

And we really need to start a new thread.
Also? Archived at this point.

>>10237700
Oh shit really? Fuck, I though we were going to have to be tight.

Well, in that case I say we sink 4 or 5bil into getting the best warship design.

We know we need it to be able to get to Neptune, and destroy at least 37 vessels, we'll have 6 construction yards free by 2150. that's about 6 each, in that case we'd want to make each capable of taking on 7 or 8 enemy drones.

Alternatively, we can focus on out producing them, spam drones, preferably better drones than they have. Though we still have to recapture those stations. We might need the support of a superpower to get the troops needed.

>>10237819
>Lasers, Mass Drivers, Missiles
Sure smells like Galactic Civilizations in here

>>10237819
Is there a limit to the number of modules we can have? Also, I'm not sure if this would have to be researched, or if we could buy/license it from somebody else, but an integrated fire-control and target acquisition system, possibly with a master-slave circuit. I'm thinking of the way that Aegis-class destroyers and aircraft carriers can provide centralized targeting for their task forces to improve their accuracy and efficiency.

>>10237760
OK, I wasn't to sure where they were in relation to
each other that's all.

>>10237859
Already on sup/tg/.

>>10237819
>Combat capability: +$10b to the price.
>Any weapon module: +$5b each.

You mean retrofitting our freighters, right?
combat capability + point defense + missiles + kinetic weapons.

How much would it cost to build a small combat probe? Or a new design completely: autonomous small vessel with combat capability + PD laser + missile + kinetic ?

>>10237921

Due to Autosaging, new thread has been made by an anon.
This thread is archived

>>10237872
Following up on the boarding of space stations part:
PlasmaDM, does STFU have any Tactical Response divisions? In essence, corporations that specialize in mercenaries? We might be able to get them at a discount.

New thread here >>>10237921

New thread: >>10238033

>>10236645
>>10236666

Hey, Megacorp is awesome.

As a kid, I thought I was fighting Megacorp. Then I reread and saw FUCK YEAH IM BLOWING THEIR COMPETITORS AWAY