Invest money into infiltrating whatever construction yards MNU is building their ships in. Invest more money in untraceable plans to cripple those ships whenever they near completion.

Those fuckers are going to default on their shit, the UN will smite them using OUR shit, and we'll sweep up.

Well, I guess its better than it could of been.

Can we negotiate with the UN on using some of the ships they're taking from us to to avenge our colonists in Tau Ceti after we release their poor final cry?

Give the nerds 15 billion to beef up our security.

Start using dummy fronts to buy stock in rival corporations. Focus on RDA or whatever the one that is getting Pandorium.

Send as many colonists to Ares as we can. We need to establish our presence there without question. OP, don't forget about the colonists already there having kids.

Build a defensive fortress on Ares as a fallback. Expand from it, build factories for ground based weaponry. Tanks and artillery.

We need to get out from under the yolk of the UN.

>Every decade, Sleipnir Interstellar must produce at least $200b worth of combat starships for the UN.
>Every decade, MNU must produce at least $150b worth of combat starships for the UN.

So, why the fuck are we getting bigger restrictions when MNU is the culprit? Also, does that mean we have to pay from our pockets? Fuck.

Well, I guess everything went better than expected anyway.

Also
>>10394727
>>10394750
>>10394732
>>10394662

Sure, we'll build their ships for them, but remember to implement plenty of networked computer controlled stuff in their workings to provide infrastructure for an AI to take over. Leave backdoors and failsafes so only we can exploit this.

>>10394797
FANTASTIC PLAN. If we can keep MNU from producing their starships, then they're fucked. Give the nerds like, 50 billion to do magic.

>>10394813
>We need to get out from under the yolk of the UN.

This. We are going to make our own Nation. Fuck Earth, backstabbing assholes.


Also, Chiron. Don't forget that.

Also:
>>10392263
Energy transferral portal would allow for large quantities of energy - more than just light - to be transferred between portals. This potentials means that a machine on the moon could be powered by a generator on Earth.
Portal edges? You can't be too sure. It could be completely useless, or you could discover submolecular edges that could revolutionize industry.

I saw we research Biology to discover how to reproduce the neural networks of Chiron and Pandora. I also vote for researching nanotechnology, and further AI development.

>>10394828
Include backdoors for us to monitor the systems and if needed control them.

>>10394798
Scratch that, not Tau Ceti, but Epsilon Erdani.

>Sleipnir Interstellar must produce at least $200b worth of combat starships for the UN.
Well that's about one years income for us so it ain't to bad. Might have to produce a few more construction yards, just in case.
>MNU must produce at least $150b worth of combat starships for the UN.
Oh that's meticulous, have they pay less than we do. Throw a total bitch fit at the UN until they tell us to piss off or agree to a change.
>Any combat-worthy starship entering solar space will be boarded and dismantled by the UN
Define 'combat-worth', we're not going to have to worry about normal freighters/cryo-ships getting raped are we?
>Any non-UN combat capable starship constructed in the Solar System must serve in the UN Fleet
Out source more construction to Alpha Centurie, immediately.
>The Zorg Corporation
Suck it.
>"Lone Gunmen"
Give them money.

AND FOR FUCKS SAKE. GIVE STFU THEIR MONEY. PLEASE!

> The wreckage mainframe of the Zorg Corporation is arranged in a pattern on the Saharra Desert that spells "FUCK YOU." Experts are boggled at how it could've gotten there.

I wonder how that happened...

Anyways, our next move should be to start testing Portal Shielding, Hermesium Orbital Drops, and amassing a fleet to investigate what happened with our cryo-ship heading to Epsilon Eridani. Did we tell the UN about that?

>>10394864
This before we forget.

>>10394846
SOLAR FUCKING PANELS. By the Sun. Portal direct to Earth. Energy crisis No More.

>>10394744
Haha! We're one of the few megacorps that actually built shipyards in another star system!
Expand our construction yards in Alpha Centuari. Since we have to build so many ships for the UN, consider most of our Earth CY's to be "lost" (dedicated to producing the ships required of us).

Give STFU 500 billion. That should satisfy them for a while.

>>10394845
>>yoke. The word is yoke. Goddamn, why can't you guys spell?

Anyway, STFU is our overlord, and Earth-based, so we need to stay around Earth. I vote that we embrace our connection to the UN and try to expand our role as the right arm of humankind's space force.

>>10394846
Fund the fuck out of both of those.

>>10394865
These are all pointless until we can create discrete shipyards in another solar system. If we can negotiate well with the folk on Ares, maybe they can help us.

>>10394864
It shall be done.

>>10394892
So what?

Who says we can't detach from them in time?

>>10394901

We have two on Hermes, remember?

>>10394863
>>meticulous
I do not think that this word means what you think it means.

>>ALPHA. CENTAURI.

>>10394892
Our forces on Earth need to be the dogs of the UN.

Our forces elsewhere need to build and expand exponentially.

>>10394898
2nd

Looks like we could get loads of money

Make sure to find out what is Solar Space and not.

Still, Expand Hermes. Build another freighter and load it up. We need to start shipping people and parts to Alpha Centauri en masse.

If we haven't already

OFFICIALLY CLAIM HERMES AND ARES.

>>10394901
Have we started offically backing the Technocrat Aresians? How's that going?

>>10394846
Alright, thanks for the clarification.

For research how does everyone feel about this:
Portal Hangers (currently under way)
Improved portal deflective shileds
Energy transfer portals*
Umbra/Pandora/Chiron

*I think this will be useful, the moon probably has a lot of mining for things like Uranium/Helium-3. If we can supply these facilities with power we could rake in quite a bit.

>>10394882
OH MY GOD.

WE WILL BE THE SOLE FUCKING SUPPLIER OF ENERGY.

RESEARCH ASAP!!!

>>10394882
>>10394962
FUCKING MARVELOUS

Of course, this would require solar fields miles long and miles high.

Large portals to send the energy.

This is also assuming no rivals tamper with our shit, moving our portal too close to the sun, and sending 3000 degree heat out onto Earth.

>>10394959

Is that Portal Hangars (with fighters/drones/missiles) or Portal Hangers (an efficent storage system that lets you multiply the number of suits in a small closet by loads)?

Because I want both.

Put Deidre on Umbra research or Chiron research, I don't care. Have her do something.

>>10394923
I meant to say ridiculous, but got a little mixed up.

>>10394990
If she can split her time, do both. Otherwise, prioritize on Umbra research.

>>10394980

Well, we will first send it to a converter station on the backside of the moon from where we driect the energy to the whole planet.

>>10394901
You have actually built four shipyards on Hermes.
You are constructing two more to send there.

>>10394990
Let's have her research the organic networks of Pandora and Chiron.

>>10394980
>This is also assuming no rivals tamper with our shit

Yeah.

We must beef up our security to level 12 (out of 10)
Fuck. Alway back up everything. Hire superhackers. Spend additional funding. Ask Lone Gunmen what else there can be done.

>>10394950
I'd go with not "claiming" Ares as such, but having sole rights to contact with the people and the planet's natural resources.

Here is an idea. That 200billion we need to spend on for a UN ship?
How about we build a station ship?
Make it large. Real large. Allow it to carry a large amount of personnel and cargo. Give it minimal weapons needed to make it a "combat" ship.

Also we make it look good. We could do an unveiling to the public for a boost to PR.

...
I don't know, whatever we can do possibly give us some gain from this.

>>10394989
Portal Hangers, obviously, why would we waste our time researching weaponry when we could be FABULOUS!

Why do people always stereotype space Vikings?

NOTE:

Our shipyards on Earth will construct no COMBAT VESSELS except for those required in the 200b per decade. The Earth shipyards will only be used for NON-COMBAT SHIPS to be sent off world.

The shipyards on our other planets will of course, build whatever the fuck we can.

>you could discover submolecular edges that could revolutionize industry.

Also this.

Lets shuffle our R&D queue. Put portal energy transfer first and portal blades second.

I sort of find it amusing that people always cry out for a non-solar shipyard when we have had one for some ten years.

>>10395056
A veritable space station. No ability to leave the solar system. "You're the UN. Why would you need to leave Earth's space?"

Perfect.

Four eh?

Suggestion!

Research Portal Shielding a bit more, until we achieve Version 2.0. At that time, announce the discovery of Portal Shielding. Utilize Version 1.0 or a modified 1.5 version in our ships used by the UN, as to not cause suspicion. Ships built off Earth will utilize the most advanced version. If any breakthroughs occur, have Earth's portal shielding tech one advancement behind our off world.

Also Hermesium Orbital Bombardment, energy crisis, increase security, etc.

>Any non-UN combat capable starship constructed in the Solar System must serve in the UN Fleet for 6 years before it can be used by the constructing corporation.

>>10395066
Can't we circumvent this?

Construct the ships on Earth but not fully. Construct them in parts. Then send them to Hermes and assemble them there.
Can this work?

>>10395081
"The Ultimate Defense-System of Earth"

I like it...

What's the deal with Mars?

>>10395056
Good idea, don't make the ships deliberately defective or broken but turn them into glass canon.

>>10395101
mmm... Let's make two ships, 150 billion each.

We'll go above and beyond what's called for. And, if someone pulls shit on one of the pair, we're still pretty close to the quota.

>>10395091
No. Don't announce any of our weaponry to anyone.

As for our required UN ship per decade, I say we go with 1 ship total per decade. With the space station style suggested already. Unable to leave the solar system. Low class weapons. Like, some lasers around it.

How about we make ships crewed my Aresian techncrats loyal to us, with built-in manual override, that are completely fuckin' awesome along with being incapable of leaving the solar system.

>>10395109
No, we want the exact opposite of that. We want it to be as harmless and as durable as possible while still being a combat ship to ensure it survives its tour of duty with the UN.

>>10395125
Nah.

>>10395091

Nonononono!

They get NONE of that fancy shit. It is ours and ours alone and by the time it is made public we should have a fleet ready to beat any little fucker, who wants to take it, to a pulp!

Modular fucking technology. We build large ships with low-yield emplacements for ca 200bil. Then we send them to Hermes where they are refitted with powerful weaponry.

>>10395066
They will construct more than the $200b battleships, but the excess will not be assembled. only energy sys, propulsion hull, shilding and basic sensors. the rest is shipped to be assembled out system.

We cannot relocate entire production facilities,
But blind an teethles ships are not combatworthy
mwhaaahhaahahaha

>>10395134
I think we're talking about the $200 billion worth of starships produced every decade for the UN.


Also, is that like a one time thing, or is it every decade forever.

>>10395165

Or we build non-combat ships, then add weapon systems on Hermes... hmm someone else suggested this already, right? Then Second.

Super beef the security. No more sabotages and shit. Fuck. Put 5bil dedicated funds annually towards security

>>10395186
This is why I keep suggesting researching organic networks.

You ever heard of a plant getting hacked?

>>10395165
We don't need to build any ships like that on Earth. Trying to circumvent the rules that like will get the UN on our asses.

Just focus on colony ships, and freighters on Earth.

Warships can be built elsewhere.

Better to make the UN ships effective but leave the AI infrastructure and backdoors in them so we essentially get a fleet for free. Or well, not for free but so we can take back what is ours.

So:
- Using Earth's factories, build two additional heavy freighters to send to Hermes with factory parts.
- Send the seven stationary freighters on Earth (including the ones you were prepping portal gun modules for) to Hermes with factory parts.
- Send cryo-ship to Ares
- Add "Energy Transfer Portal" to No. 1 on list.
- Make "Portal Edge" No. 2
- Make "Portal Hangar" No. 3

Go to Year 2154?

(Those people who know Avatar well should have shit-eating grins on the faces right now)

Build the UN the ship's they need, perhaps block their targeting systems from ever Targeting one of our ships, make out transponders (or whatever is new tech equivalent) not show up when they go to lock on.

>>10395219

This. Giant Space Station armed with the "best weapons" we have with a "helpful" AI built in.

- Add organic network to list as No. 3.
- Get rid of Portal Hangar for now.

We should gather info on what umbrella corp is doing, before they kill us all.

>>10395221
Add fucking with MNU and starship design for the UN to that list.

>>10395232

Name it Ozymandius....

>>10395221
SEND SHIPS FULL OF SOLDIERS AND SHIT TO ARES AT ALPHA CENTAURI. IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN ON PANDORA, THEN THEY'LL LUCKILY ALREADY BE THERE.

Put billions and billions into security.

>>10395221
Just got one. Anyone else get a feeling we might send an envoy with Deridre to Pandora soon?

I'm not sure about this whole building ships sol side and then shipping them out, the UN will probably catch onto that shit pretty quickly and then they may or may not emplace heavier restrictions.

I think it's a safer bet to move our construction extra solar and then, if we really need to produce more warships, we can make the parts here and assemble them elsewhere. For now though, I think it's best to not provoke them, as to weather or not one can build ships, store weapons on them, and then retrofit them out of system has been left as a grey area, and I think we should keep it that way.

>>10395240
Yeah, they have been quite now.
Also we never revealed how dangerous Umbra actually is. They earn shitloads money on that.

>>10395256

Yeah. I just got that feeling. This shall be awesome.

>>10395263
Or we can just use the ships on Earth to build the non-combat ships, while we use our out of system base to build our warships.

I mean, we are still going to need new freighters and transports.

>>10395238
If we drop portal hangers can we take it up some other time.

I'm not that enthusiastic about it but I don't want the research we've done already to go to waste.

>>10395263
>I'm not sure about this whole building ships sol side and then shipping them out, the UN will probably catch onto that shit pretty quickly and then they may or may not emplace heavier restrictions.

I am sure there is a law or something that prevents us from being judged again for the same crime. Even if the do get the hang of that... so what? we aren't breaking any restrictions.

I had my ability to hate surgically replaced with a linkage to a servo-skull, and you guys are still starting to get on my nerves.

>>10395244
His name was Ozymandias.

>>10395263
>>as to WHETHER or not one can build

USE OUR SHIPS ON EARTH TO MAKE A MASSIVE COLONY SHIP. I'M TALKING LIKE, 10,000 PEOPLE, TO SETTLE ON ARES.

>>10395281
That's pretty much what I mean, but I'm just worried about us building the frame for a warship, without any weapons, and then sending it off to get weapons.

>>10395310
*SHIPYARDS

We never revealed that we found pretty advanced sentient life on Ares to anyone, did we?

Alright, timeskip, I guess.

Also, info on Chiron. Did the colony ship reach it yet?

>>10395298

As long as we adhere to the letter of the law, and do not build complete ships on Earth, the UN can do nothing

Let's do the time warp again.

Expand our security forces, while maintaining frighteningly exacting requirements regarding training and quality. We have the money for it; we should make a military formation the SAS would envy.

For now, they can be used fighting natives as necessary. In the future, we might need portal commandos.

>>10395306
It's 2 o'clock in the morning over here.

Cut me some slake, man.

>>10395387
THE ORDO GRAMMATICUS KNOWS NOT MERCY, ONLY PRECISION, AND A COMMAND OF THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

We should also look into portal driven particle accelerators. Like, a big one, as the main gun on a ship

>>10395384
Well, we did say that we would expand and improve our security.

Given the restrictions, I don't see as much risk of history repeating itself in sol. But we still want to keep secrets from others, so lets spend something to stop this from happening again.

Also, Plasma, what did STFU say when we paid them? And when is our next payment due?

>>10395425
good idea...


Heh...

I like how we always think with portals. Big time.

But remember, no matter how many backdoors and AIs we put in their ships we do NOT give the UN our portal weapons and defences.

Year 2154:
Battleship 1 has been constructed on Ares.
MNU facilities in the Solar System have been infiltrated by the Lone Gunmen quite happily. They will report any anomalies to you.
You will be able to construct a single combat space station once per decade. This means that one Earth facility will be in constant use from now on and shall be removed from the list.
You have sent $500b to your parent company. They're damned chuffed with you lads.
Apparently RDA has withdrawn itself from Pandora and is refusing to issue any statements regarding it at this moment in time. Footage has been released on the internet, as recorded by a tech-savvy Na'vi native, of a heated battle between his people and RDA employed mercenaries.

Balance: $47b
Income: $217b

Construction Yard 1 (Hermes): Inactive
Construction Yard 2 (Hermes): Military Goods
Construction Yard 3 (Hermes): Military Goods
Construction Yard 4 (Hermes): Military Goods
Morgan Industries is ferrying military equipment from Hermes to Chiron whenever they need it.

Idle ships:
Cryo-Freighter 6 (Alpha Centauri) (Ferrying, Hermes-Chiron)
Cryo-Freighter 7 (Alpha Centauri) (Ferrying, Hermes-Chiron)

RESEARCH QUEUE:
Energy Transfer Portals (Due Date: 2160)
Portal Edges (Due Date: 2170)
Neural Network (Due Date: 2176)

>>10395452
Battleship 1 has been constructed on HERMES, I mean.

FUCK.

>>10395452
Send a fucking shuttle to fucking Pandora. Open diplomatic relations with the Na'vi. For fuck's sake, let's be the good guys AND profit from it handsomely.

Fuck.

>>10395452

Kick start the idle production facility on Hermes to working on weapons, just weapons. No other military goods. Just big SMASHY FUCKING WEAPONS

>>10395452
Sounds like its time to send that bio-bitch Diedre to Pandora. Once she's researched everything to the point that we can exploit it easily, we drop hermesium on the planet.

SEND PROBES TO EPSILON ERIDANI, MAXIMUM SPEED

OBSERVE FROM OUTSIDE SYSTEM ONLY, AT A DISTANCE OF SEVERAL AU

>>10395511

Not having followed this since the beginning, I am assuming Hermesium is bad

>>10395425
Well I don't know about particle accelerators, but we could do that with conventional mass accelerators, though we'd have the same constraints regarding heat and ware.

There was an idea earlier about making shorter particle accelerators which travelled in a straight line and then had portals at either end which essentially made them infinitely long, you could do a bunch of experiments with that.

>>10395528
When exposed to oxygen, it explodes.

For 16 hours straight.

>>10395503
Okay then. Missile modules.

Twenty missiles modules will do.

>>10395535

Drop it on the UN.......

>>10395452
>Apparently RDA has withdrawn itself from Pandora and is refusing to issue any statements regarding it at this moment in time

Ha, now we can move in and take over the operation. Jake Sully we are coming for you, you damned asshole.

Send Deidre with our expedition. She will make good use of that neural network, maybe even put mother tree in our use. Imagine, how Navi will feel when their beloved mother has been hacked and used against them. No amount of Turuk Makdors will help them....... However, the bitch a damn hippie, if we mine Pandorium, she'll be angry... Maybe we can mine it .. eco-friendly?

>>10395491
Oh, we need to christen our first ship. Battleshp 1 just wont do

>>10395558
Sign a deal with the Na'vi. A few pounds of Pandorium annually, and we keep all the other Megacorps out of their hair. The alternative is a global firestorm.

>>10395528
Hermesium burns for 16 hours in oxygen, which I thought was severely lacking on Pandora?

Regardless, this is what we should do. Take Chiron mind fungus, drop on remote part of Pandora. Sit back with a flagon of ale and watch the battle of the planet minds. Or just exterminatus it with asteroids.

Which ever gets the job done.

It's fairly simple( comparatively ), build a particle accelerator in a straight line with the portals, simple turn off the portal in front of the gun barrel, so that we now have an Orbital Bombardment Device

>>10395558
There are more valuable things on Pandora to exploit than minerals. We will do so.

>>10395452
Can we get a full list of our current assets and where they are? I'm losing track.

>>10395578

In keeping with the Viking theme... Mjöllnir.

Then we can build Gungnir as the second ship.

>>10395578
Gungnir, spear of Odin?

>>10395579
What kind of ridiculous deal is that?

>>10395578
I'll wait for a name then.

What shall you call "Battleship 1"?

Also, you have no Cryo-freighter to send with Deidre to Pandora.

>>10395596
Man, I've been advocating the use of these fuckin' mindworms but it never happens. Mindworms are a valuable resource people! Lets exploit them!

>>10395603
>>10395602

Hope we keep Jörmungandr on the list as well.

>>10395607

Since my ranting about the Particle Accelerator Weapon is done......I also agree with Gungnir

>>10395578
Mjölnir? Tyr?

>>10395579
Something along these lines, although slightly more nicely worded and that we are interested in their eco-system.

>>10395606
The kind that undermines RDA, breaks the hold of Pandorium-powered devices on the market, and keeps Deidre on our staff.

>>10395607

Again, casting a vote for Mjöllnir, Hammer of Storms.

Then casting a vote for Gungnir, Spear of the Stars as the second battleship.

>>10395607
She'll have to analyze data on Earth. Perhaps send her later (better if we send specimen to her, though).

Lets pump out a quick one-way vessel for her. Hell, we'll even name it after her just for kicks.

>>10395640
I don't think we can keep out RDA. They do have sole rights on Pandorium.

What we can do, is defame them. Let the world know the "atrocities" they committed on Pandora. Use the footages from the base, interview Navi and humans who are left on Pandora, etc...

>>10395674
Even a quick vessel would need a few years to get there.

>>10395558
I want to keep Deidre at arms length for this, she's useful but will walk off in a huff if we start stamping on daisies.

As for Pandora, now is our chance, RDA is going to try and retake the planet at all costs, they know this, we know this. We have a lot of resources in Alpha centauri, if we want to take the world alive (read, without exterminatus) then our security teams alone aren't enough, though.

What about a weaponized AI? Kind of like a Super Hacking Tool, we orbit a planet our competitors are on, open a channel of communication, unleash the AI, and then go from there.

>>10395691
Does RDA have fuckoff huge battleships? I think we can do many many things.

Can someone provide with simple star-map where all interesting stuff is denoted please?

>>10395697

We sign an "alliance" with the Na'Vi... Since we have a battleship in the system when the RDA shows up we just tell them to fuck off in the name of the sentient species of the planet.

Really, here are your immediate reactions as I see them:

1) Use your cryo-ships in Alpha Centauri to ship troops on to Pandora for negotiations. Risk the wrath of RDA by invading a world officially owned by them.
2) Firestorm the entire fucking place with sixteen hermesium missiles launched from the hot-from-the-factories Gungnir.

Or:

3) Wait to do something else.

>>10395719
Nope! Plasma doesn't seem to be a cartographer, and no drawfags have stepped up so far.

>>10395691
>Let the world know the "atrocities" they committed on Pandora. Use the footages from the base, interview Navi and humans who are left on Pandora, etc...

Also worth while, just to mess with them.

But hold on. Didn't we send a ship to Pandora, like, years and years ago?

>>10395732

...... We... We become space viking hippies then?

Eco friendly often = out of sight. Would it be possible to build a base on Pandora that is inside a mountain or underground? That way its also easily defensible and we can build tunnels to any mineral deposits we want.

>>10395736

If we were to Firestorm the place, would we be able to mine Pandorium?

>>10395739
I, the MSPaint shipmaker, volunteer for this. I can't guarantee quality, though.

>>10395736
No army, just negotiation. Claim that the RDA only have right on Pandorium, not contact with the Na'Vi.

>>10395763
Probably. The only issue I see with the Firestorm is if RDA finds out we did it. They'll be wanting answer as to how in the fuck we did it.

>>10395763
Possibly. This would be your first large scale field test of Hermesium.

Results could lean in any direction.

On the topic of names, I found a looooong list of names of things in Nordic mythology on wikipedia, unfortunately it's in Swedish. Though if you find a cool name just click the link and hope there is an English version of the page in the sidebar.

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_%C3%B6ver_gestalter_i_nordisk_mytologi

>>10395747

Well, we do have Deidre on our team...

>>10395786

If we were to use the aforementioned AI to hack them....force the ship down after teleporting missiles onto it, then it looks like RDA fucked up and lost control

>>10395736
>2) Firestorm the entire fucking place with sixteen hermesium missiles launched from the hot-from-the-factories Gungnir.

Man, are you people fucking insane? Can you imagine the outrage if this happens? We will be deemed war-criminals if we do this. Fucks sake, people have Pandora-depressions in real life, what would happen if Pandora actually existed and then someone decided to burn it to the ground along with one of the few sentient species in the galaxy?

Jeez, use you monkey brains before suggesting something like that.

And also, with some research on the Mother Tree and with access to mind-worms... well it opens up a whole world of possibilites.

>>10395719
http://www.solstation.com/map27ly.htm

Here, the above map shows every system within 27 light years of Sol.

You can manipulate it by holding down the right mouse button and then moving said mouse. It isn't the best map ever but it gives you all the details you need to know about systems and such.

Planets are a different matter.

>>10395777

Please do. Your ships are awesome. I am sure you map will be also awesome. At least it will provide visual guide. Do not forget to point out what each system has (corp presence, facilities, planets, etc)

>>10395837

Yeah. Second thought, no Firestorm. Attempt peaceful interaction with them. TRY and get into their good books.

There's too much possible bio-tech advancement on that planet to burn it to the ground.

>>10395817

Pussy

>>10395844
Okay then. It'll be 2D, but this quest isn't the real hard-science type, so I doubt anyone's going to miss the extra dimension. I can have it by next session, easy.

>>10395719
I can try it over the week - but my space cartography is weak, I hope you understand.

So, the general vote seems to be for negotiation.

Using your cryo-freighters, you ship over scientists and workers from Hermes and Ares to handle the situation. The mighty Gungnir hovers in orbit, although the natives are unaware.

The natives are on the verge of hostility, ready to attack at any sudden movements or offending remarks.

How do you wish to negotiate?

>>10395855

What do we have that would entice them to side with us?

Na'vi snacks?

>>10395817
We'll just say a meteor 'accidentally' hit Pandora.

In all seriousness, though, weaponizing mind worms and seeding them in Pandora would be best. It's deniable and no one could trace it back to us.

For now at lest.

It also has another benefit, if RDA came back to Pandora and found mind worms everywhere, they'd be fucked. We, however, have access to the personal and data needed to develop tech to repel or neutralize mind worms, so we could safely mine Pandorium.

>>10395874
No. Yo are just too trigger happy.
I am all for burning the planet and reaping max profits but, realistically, it will not happen. We would have destroyed ENTIRE sentient species, ENTIRE eco-system with billions upon billions of new species and plants. I think the world will devise a special kind of punishment for us (keeping us in perpetual agony for centuries before finally executing us) for this kind of crime. Texas incident, Neptune hostage situation, sabotages, terrorist funding will be NOTHING to what you are suggesting.

>>10395923
We come in peace? Hell, we need to get the humans at Hell's Gate on our side. Explain to them that we have the capability to stop RDA from ever returning by discrediting them back on Earth.

>>10395927

I'm strangely okay with the mindworm idea

>>10395923

Cautiously. We inform them that we do not represent the corporation (RDA) that attacked you before. We wish to learn about the biology on the planet.

Please by Odin's mercy tell me Deidre is on her way.

>>10395923
Lets speak with Jake Sully, we know you are here. Come out!

>>10395923
Be frank and to the point with them, but don't do anything like 'give a demonstration of our power', they'll never work with us if we blow up a bit of their planet.

Tell them that RDA (or sky people, whatever) will come back for the pandorium, and this time they won't take any chances what so ever, but we can fight them, as long as the work with us, we'll protect them.

>>10395925
No. The chance to transfer the planetary mind into our computer banks, giving it the opportunity to spread beyond this system. In exchange, we get its old stomping grounds.

Why talk with the monkeys when you can deal with the organ grinder instead?

>>10396009
It has a non-human thought process. I don't want it anywhere near our systems until we understand it better.

>>10396009
I don't really see that working. I vote for the "We're peaceful and can fuck up RDA."

>>10395923

They have won a battle, but not a war. The RDA will return. Jake Sully and any humans should know this. The only thing that can keep them at bay are another human Corporation. Us.
It is undeniable that there is minerals worth billions under the surface of the planet, but what RDA has ignored is the wealth of the Na'vi and their ecosystem. We wish to study and learn from it so that we can make Earth a better place. We do want the Pandorium, but the mining should be done on their terms. Also, suggest they make a solid government so that we can open offical relations.

>>10396031
The best way to understand it better is to have it in our systems, where we can copy and analyze bits of it at our leisure.

>>10396041
Think of it this way: things went a lot better for you in Alpha Centauri if you tried to talk with Planet itself, rather than putzing around with the mind worms.

Talking to Sully and the humans would be our best bet. They understand what RDA would do if they come back, and they know they can do shit all about it. They need friends.

>>10395982
She isn't on her way. It's impossible for her to arrive in less than twelve years.

>>10396076
Also, IIRC the entire system is lousy with Pandorium. The only reason they were mining the inhabited planet-moon in the movie is because Cameron needed to maximize the amount of derp.

You guys understand that we are threading on other corps turf? .... the turf that is legally theirs? No way that this will not bite us in the ass again. Unless we work to have those right revoked, like defaming them.

>>10395923

Gather, all the footage, info, evidence of RDAs atrocities. Interview the Natives. Take a footage of their destroyed home tree.

The send it to UN or whatever. If our "intelligence" department deems that this maybe be risky then instead of openly giving the info "leak" it to public.

>>10396106
In this setting it is ONLY on Pandora IIRC.

>>10396103
Dammit, we really need some interstellar FTL portals...

>>10396106
Seriously?

Plasma, can you confirm this?

>>10395996
I'm have to say, I am not looking forward to having to deal with RDA. They have a fuck ton of ships, and I doubt they're the negotiating type.

If we're going to fight them, then we warships there. Now. So production of dedicated warships has to begin immediately. Like, yesterday.

We're got 2 construction yards there already, haven't we? And there's 2 more on the way. One of those is building a battleship, we'll we might want to halt it and get straight to work on on a better warship, maybe even one with portal shields. Same for the other one.

>>10396140
yeah... in half a century maybe.

>>10396152
They have ships. But not single warship as far as I know. the fight would be like a horde of ants ... against a flamethrower.

Okay, Plasma, have our Lone Gunmen search if RDA has combat vessels.

>>10396151
In this case, no. It's incorrect in my universe.

Speaking of which...

LET'S END THIS ON A CLIFF HANGER GAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH.

I've had enough for tonight, sorry lads.

Hope you've enjoyed it so far.

I'll see if I can get a map made.

>>10396193
Argh dammit.

Listen Plasma, can you do this more often that once a week? That is just not enough

>>10396152
See, now the thing is that the new laws in the Solar System will bite RDA in the ass. Hard. Because they can't build armed ships in the Solar System. We can build them on the spot. They don't have a battle fleet.

And IIRC they have only invested in Alpha Centauri and Pandora. If they have any armed ships it should already be here to guard their wealth. If they have a construction yard outside of Sol it is either here (which it is not) or really fucking far away (wich is unlikely)

>>10396216
What makes you think we're the only people with a shipyard outside of the solar system?

>>10396193
Shit was cool, Plasma, looking forward to next week.

Look out, though, there was a whole thread by sagefags, for sagefags, and devoted to hating quests earlier. They had three or four whole participants.

>>10396216
>>WHICH is unlikely.

>>10396235
I don't, but why would RDA have one wich is not in Sol or AC? They obviously don't have one in AC...

>>10396257

Fuck, I was sure I got the h there.

And to join with the others. Awesome thread Plasma. I'm sure as hell going to try to be here next week.

Also, Twilight Imperium gamean in a couple of hours. Gonna be epic. I'll be spouting Viking stuff all game.

We should start investigating to see what other Corp are doing. We have infiltrated RDA already, so that is good ... what are we going to do there? Sabotage ship construction just before it is finished?

Anyone archived this?

Quest archived.

Thanks again Plasma, it's always a pleasure.

>>10396115
Don't worry. Step 0.9 getting RDA's rights to Pandora revoked by discrediting them and showing what they did on Pandora Then we're mining and SCIENCE!ing the hell out of Pandora. But there ain't any rule that says we can't talk to the na'vi. Get their testimony, and RDA is in for a world of hurt.

>>10396311
>RDA

I meant MNU.. damn

>>10396360
Also, when RDA obviously can't deliver the Pandorium. Well, they can hardly keep the monopoly then. We can take over pretty soon, they'll need at least years.

>>10396385
Hmm... That is true.

The world will not sit and wait for 12 or more years while RDA gets their shit together.

>>10396427
And we, on the other hand, can step in almost immediately. If we can start shipping soon enough, there won't even be any disruptions in the supply of Pandorium.

Plasma, do another one tomorrow... please? Pretty please with strawberry on top?

>>10396632
Shit! No, not tomorrow! Tomorrow was designated girlfriend hangout time! Dammit...

But we need moar megacorp!

>>10396520
This is true. We already have a few heavy freighters in the system right now. So we could keep the supply of Pandorium uninterrupted.
However, we need to negotiate with the Pandora Overmind first. Jake and that scientist chick have already interfaced with it, so it knows that RDA will be back. Or at least, if it doesn't then Jake is more stupid than I thought. We need to negotiate a peaceful trade treaty with the Na'vi/Eyhwa while at the same time acquiring evidence of the incompetence and atrocities committed by RDA Security forces on Pandora to discredit them back on Earth.

Also, we DONT have to disrupt the natives. In Avatar they attacked their home tree because, like anon said, Cameron needed retarded amount of derp. We could search of other (smaller maybe) deposits on different side of the planet. Or, how about those flying rocks? They should be full of Pandorium.

What I'm saying, we can mine less but safe from natives while researching the neural network.
When we gain access to neural network we can slowly start to brainwash Navis, like giving them suggestions and such. Maybe we'll even mold them into a nice, convenient consumerist society and have another product market away from Sol.

>>10396658
I don't care when but more often than once a week! Dammit Plasma, can't you hear our plight?

>>10396707
I don't think Eihwa is THAT sentient that we can go and talk to it. I think it resides more in subconsciousness.


Also... Can't we make Pandora a tourist destination? I am sure there would be thousands of people willing to pay millions so that they can be on Pandora for few months.

>>10396720
You mean..hack, the planet-mind?
Why do I have the mental image of a gruff, business-suited viking chasing Eywa through the darkened corridors of the planetary neural network, catching it in a corner, and raping the everliving shit out it?

>>10396734
Agreed. Damn the sagefags, damn the trolls, damn them all. We need more than Wednesday. We CRAVE it.

>>10396772
Actually, we had a tourism business way back, but that pretty much dried up when the drama of space travel waned and it became just another job and work environment.

Shut the fuck up, NO.

Too many quests are cancer and while I am an avid fan of, for example, Blood Quest, one of its gigantic flaws is day after day after day of it. It's grating. It's irritating.

It's more polite, civil and to be honest, entertaining to have it once a week.

The longer the wait, the higher the hype, the more fun you try to squeeze out of it and get out of it. The higher the "fuck yeah" factor.

>>10396777
..Maybe because it's hot?

>>10396817
At least twice a week, dammit!

.. .Eh, anyway, you're the boss. Do what you deem is best.

>>10396817
To be honest I prefer to have it one a week, not out of lack of love, but more our of lack of time.

I can't afford to stay up till 4 or 5 in the mourning every day, dammit.

>>10396817
I see your point, but I am saddened by it.

>>10396866
That and I don't want you to over work yourself, if you had to constantly think of new things on the fly it might risk getting too complicated or convoluted, and it's nicer when you put the time in to plan it and all.

>>10396817
You are the GM, so the schedule is yours to create.
It's just that, and I don't mean to sound ungrateful but, if you're going to only run it once a week, please no delays when you are running it. Waiting for OP and slamming the F5 key is excruciating.

>>10396981
Half of the stuff is me thinking on the spot. My imagination isn't that active that ideas just jump into my head. A lot of this isn't pre-prepared so many of the paragraphs I post haven't been written down or even been thought of before, so each post goes through editting as new ideas pop in and old ideas are considered shit.

So, yeah. Posting time is my flaw.

>>10397101
Damn, I barely crused in here for the last 5 seconds of the last thread.

Anyways, awesome quest and I would totally support you expanding your play time. Monday, maybe?

>>10397143
No.
Wednesdays and only wednesdays.

>>10397290
>>10397101
I understand that it is difficult to prepare things in advance, especially for a collective game such as this where the players will not necessarily act in the same manner from week to week.
From the MNU-Zorg pirate operation, it does sound like you prepared that in advance. Perhaps more such events could be readied?
>You may already do this; if so, please ignore my post.
Such as what SLINT will find at Tau Ceti? Or maybe branching event trees for events that are likely to occur (Pandora: 1. what do if SLINT pisses off Na'vi 2. what do if SLINT able to befriend Na'vi; then factor in the defamation campaign against RDA)?

>>10397290
I just want to say that I love you