rolled 2 = 2

>>10999342
Names?
Heh, what kind?

Make 3 more AIs so that both bio-AI and tech-AI work on each task.


Also, hackan WY (rollan already if you don't mind)

>>10999342
Oh, and one last thing.

You called in the payment from the Independence Group and the Martian Seperatists, as well as some cash from STFU, to afford the eight ships you're building to ship 8000 colonists from Mars to Tau Ceti.

rolled 71 = 71

>>10999413
FFS!

What are our bonuses for hacking anyway?

>>10999342
View the research list.

And I'm glad to hear that some of the Aresians don't like our system. Nothing shakes up a static culture like a revolution, and we can make sure that the side we prefer is the one that wins.

>>10999413
The biological AI working on research is ODIN.
The electronical AI working on espionage is LOKI.
The electronical AI working on counter-espionage is HEL.

They've learned quite a bit from your historical archives and have adopted your Norse fetish.

Also, the hacking attempt fails miserably and you spend a lot of cash making sure no one finds out about it.

>>10999342
>Some of them do not like this.

I'm guessing it's only a small section, well, there's not much we could do to reconcile with them, we'll just have to hope that their views slowly subside.

For now just tell them it's the same system we use and we find it works very well, so we thought we'd offer it to them and see if they'd like it, as for us it greatly enhanced the intellectual abilities of our scientists.

Are the Aresians interested in how the technology works? Or are they just not down with computers?

>>10999342
Send the details of the mutagen to our R&D team, see what applications it might have. Simulations first, obviously.

>>10999425
Currently, +10.

Since that's your reroll, I won't count that. It was a failed attempt, sorry.

RESEARCH LIST:
Research List:
- Further Development of Energy Transfer Portals - Allows for increased efficiency.
- Macro Sapience - Develop an understanding of "world minds" similar to those on Chiron and Pandora and an ability to recreate them.
- Macro Portal Carriers - Adapt portal technology so starships possessing it can be utilized as carriers.
- Military Applications of Portal Technology - Discover possible applications of this technology in space warfare.

>>10999342
>new mutagenic chemical

Could we retrieve a sample and check its helix for pentex dickery?

>>10999423
So are we in debt to STFU at all?

>>10999466

Sweet. Adore their terminals with horned helmets, fur coats, put swords and bucklers next to them.

>>10999496
+1 vote for Further Development of Energy Transfer Portals, we need more money, and it wouldn't hurt if people became more dependant on us for it.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

Previous thread archived.

>You say what's up to Chrysalis Corporation, they say hi back. They're willing to do a few dirty jobs for you, as one of the new corporations in the business.

How bout instead of asking if they can help us, we instead offer assistance to them. See if there are any jobs they need help with and not ask for anything in return.

Just to make them trust us more and be more willing to be our ally in the future.

Altruism, man. Makes allies.

rolled 58 + 10 = 68

>>10999496
Okay, okay.

Lets hack Pentex then. see if they are making developments on FTL or steal their advanced Umbra tech

>>10999553

Yeah, lets ask them

>and have adopted your Norse fetish

I am so proud

Can we decostruct few CY in Hermes then send them to Tau Ceti and reconstruct them there?

>>10999480
>>10999501
No signs of Umbral tampering.

Even small doses increase cause almost immediate changes in the body. The environment has a far greater effect on the body as it goes through a painful process of adapting to its new envionment perfectly, a form of rapid evolution. Subject an athlete to it and his body will improve at inhuman rates and pass beyond human limits to the point where he becomes the perfect athlete. Give it to a person who sits in front of a computer all day and they will quickly atrophy and lose almost all of their muscle.

It appears to be designed for the purposes of rapid evolution and adaption to new environments. However, constant exposure to any quantity of it WILL result in cancer of the everything and a slow, painful death.

>>10999423
Did the ships we're currently building not have a large enough capacity?

Oh well, there's not much we can do with the case we have, so lets just get our hacking out the way and then timeskip.

Rolling to hack Tyrell

>>10999553
Magecorps don't have allies, they have common enemies and that's about it. I mean, Morgan isn't going to cozy up to us because we save his ass, is he? Why don't we ask them to find out what happened to Regent, say we'll give them 5 billion for it

Lets advance years till something intresing happens?

rolled 38 = 38

>>10999635
Fuck forgot to roll

>>10999612
Shit, can we recreate it in a laboratory?

>>10999562
They've joined you in the race to interstellar FTL travel.

They started their research into using the Umbra for the purposes of interstellar travel last year. They're planning a test run of it for 2180.

>>10999612
>Give it to a person who sits in front of a computer all day and they will quickly atrophy and lose almost all of their muscle.

So there's finally a chance to become a little girl?

>>10999657
I think that would mean we would have our first version of FTL complete first.
considering it was estimated at 11 years to complete when it began.

>>10999657
Hmm... can we siphon their research the same way we did with the functional immortality?

>>10999553
They're pretty peachy right now, actually.
>>10999656
Any attempts to do so fail.

>>10999661
Man, we can do that long time ago with functional immortality.


Speaking of which.. has Tyrell started to market it freely or is it still closed cases?

>>10999682
No. You can steal their current data, but you're unable to siphon it all.

And, really, this unfinished data is useless.

>>10999635
I don't necessarily mean try to make it so they will be buddy buddy, more like ensuring the possibility that they will side with us once shit goes down.

Just look at that alliance of sort the other megacorps made to build that big ass ship. We do similar by convincing megacorps to side with us in case we want to do some giant project such as that.

And then we won't have to worry about Nyarlahotep making us rape our eye sockets with our own decapitated dicks.

>>10999689
They've started to sell it off to the richest of richest clients. World leader, corporate overlords, the wealthiest celebrities, so on.

>>10999612
So if you gave it to someone who was failing all the time, then they'd suddenly become awesome at failing... but wouldn't that be win?

So it's like some kind of paradox drug...

Anyway, what are we going to do about our colonists? I say that we should send them there to study it some more, they'll have to build air tight habitats, though that should be standard for any alien world, and they'll have to use airtight suits for travel. But things like this don't happen for no reason, or at lest they shouldn't.

Get those guys adventuring, we'll pull them out in five years if they can't find anything.

>>10999656
Nothing discovered, no need to pay, either.

I vote for new year...

>>10999683
In that case we'll need samples, we can't use this commercially, since it's so limited in quantity, which is a shame really, this would be great for soldiers or scientists. We can still use it on our own employees though.

>>10999742
Since you're complaining, okay.

New year.

>>10999707

Ah fuck. Should we start selling it too?
Its legal I hope?

>>10999750
I wasn't complaining, I'm just tired, that's all

>>10999760
We could be a dick and undercut them, though I hope you like legal battles.

>>10999801
We should have patented the tech moments before they did ... I mean if op went with our suggestions back then.

>>10999771
thefuck?

>>10999782
Fuck, me too. I want to sleep so bad but I waited 2 weeks for this and today is the last time I can participate for the next 2 months.

>>10999807
>>10999771
Did the spam bot just gain sentience?

>>10999801
Sell a weakened version as an anti-senescence drug.

>>10999855
Yes, and we should be afraid... very, very afraid...

For Tau Ceti:

-Start building construction yards on the colony planet
-Colonize the second planet and/or start mining it, depending on the climate (if any)
-Use the construction yards to build portal facilities and a navy

>>10999855
Well shit, first Netjester, now these.

Skynet is imminent.

>>10999834
They'd still throw their army of evil lawyers at us anyway, megacorps will fuck you up most of the time, but if you try to take legal action then you can look forward to facing off against a team of menacing stoic suit wearing sons of bitch with no heart and and encyclopaedic knowledge of every obscure case or law ever created.

Possible research project: A batch of nanomachines that arrange themselves according to a specific pattern, forming walls, furniture, electronics, etc. and manufacturing specialized nanomachines to fill roles that they cannot. If no pattern is being transmitted, they begin to self-destruct.

Nanolathing, boys.

>>10999871
If we can do this, get on it.

But I think we have to ship that technology form sol, since the facilities for recreating these things aren't very simple. But we could send a message to the colony governor telling him to prepare for our planes, I just hope there aren't any spies there.

>>10999716
Someone incredibly weak who exerted themselves often enough would grow stronger.

Year 2169:
You order for the construction yards on Earth to be disassembled as soon as the 2170 colony ships are finished on them, so that they may be carried to Tau Ceti.
A probe arrives at 40 Eridian. There is nothing of value there. Just a single dead, cracked and broken planet, slowly disintegrating into an asteroid belt.
A nuclear bomb is set off on the Martian surface in the middle of a major city, New Shanghai. Activists all over the solar system are rioting.

Balance: $268b
Income: $268b

>>10999893
Cool. I like that.
Should give us a nice income boost.

Speaking on which. we should constantly develop new Muses and personalities for them to keep them selling.

>>10999933
The personality developing is being done automatically.

rolled 86 + 10 = 96

>>10999925
Find out cause.
Hack lets go with.... MNU. Target: all research on new technologies.

>A nuclear bomb is set off on the Martian surface in the middle of a major city, New Shanghai. Activists all over the solar system are rioting.

Tell me more...

>>10999893
For added fun, offer the ability to hook your muse into the commands for it, allowing it to reconfigure your home or office to suit your current mood/needs.

Also, we're establishing a research colony on Gliese 876, because that chemical can definitely be useful. Permanent settlers not related to the research project, though, are going to have to be sent on to whatever habitable system is closest.

Oh yes, and we under no circumstances allow Weyland-Yutani to gain access to that mutagen. The effects if crossed with what Weyland-Yutani is most famous for would be horrifying.

>>10999612
Hmmm... Is this limited to Humans or is it applicable to Aresians and Na'Vi (we have their genetic samples don't we?) as well?
Also, combine Aresian and Na'Vi DNA for SCIENCE if we don't have anything better to do.

rolled 1 + 10 = 11

>>10999925
Lets look into that incident.... someone is going to blame US eventually so better be prepared.

rolling just in case

>>10999925
Send a ship to start building construction yards in 40 Eridian. It might not be suitable for colonization, but we can use it as a forward base.

Monitor the Martian situation. Do we have enough information to use our formidable computer systems to find out who's behind the bombing?

>>10999981
>1+10

...Really?

>>10999981
Oh man, I hope a roll was not necessary

>>10999925
>A nuclear bomb is set off on the Martian surface in the middle of a major city, New Shanghai. Activists all over the solar system are rioting.

I just love that delivery. Publicly, we don't say anything. But lets ask the Lone gunmen to analyse the situation. What are the other major organisations doing? Megacorps, UN, and superpowers.

Hire Crysalis to look into the bomb incident. Gather info on who did it andwhatnot

>>10999933
Don't forget about the persocoms for the super high-end market.

As for 40 Eridani, does the planet appear to have died from natural or artificial processes? And either way, a planet cracked to that degree would be the motherlode of useful materials. Once our interstellar portals are up and running, we'll harvest it like there's no tomorrow.

Why would we bother making a vessel comparable to Gargantua? Its impressive size only makes it a larger target.

Here's our procedure: Create portals on the surface of its hull and send nukes through. No matter what it's made of, there's no way it could withstand multiple point-blank nuclear detonation, and its defenses are meant to stop mass drivers or missiles, not portal shots.

...Is there any way to program the muses to send us their owner's personal data without people being able to find out? It could be handy I'd think.

>>11000004
>>10999981
Knowing our luck the failed hack attempt will result in it being traced back to us....

AWWW SHIT! BACK UP EVERYTHING!

can we get a view of colonies, planets, and systems of interest?

>>11000068
Speaking of Gargantua

Are the works still going on?

Oh, lets hack UN again (I am restricting from rolling for now, all my rolls are complete shit)

>>10999925
Are there any high-grade observatories available in the Sol system? We could at least use those to look at things like atmosphere chemistry on planets in nearby star systems.

Hmmm. You know, I just realized something.

We haven't heard ANYTHING about "Planet Cracking" as a business idea. Like if Pandora is still relatively intact, there's OBVIOUSLY a lot of unobtanium still buried within the planet's crust. If we develop the ability to planet crack, we could make a lot of money.

Any info? Also, if we DO pioneer planet cracking, let's name our flagship the Ishimura. Yes, I'm a Dead Space fanboy.

>>11000113

>>10999955
The cause was apparently a wealthy extremist cell. The bomb was sold by MNU, apparently.

As for technology that MNU is developing, they've nicknamed it "Mobile Yard."

An attachment for starships that allows the construction of smaller starships, ammunition and other things from raw materials, usually from asteroids fields or anything floating in space without a significant gravity well. The attachment costs $50b each. This technology will be finished by 2172.

Siphon?

We could always generate an output portal in the middle of the Gargantua and an input portal somewhere in the Sun. That would kill it quite nicely.

>>11000142
Siphon.

>>11000123
And the Jonhn was Dead Space

I like the idea. But better keep it for ourself and mine the planets

>>11000142
>Siphon

I'll pick "FUCK YES" for $1000, Alex.

>>11000142
By all means, siphon.

Anyone think we should reveal the source of the bomb to the UN, or are they too far in bed with MNU anyway?

>>11000100
dude. That wasnt a hack. That was a gather information, something we shouldn't have needed a roll on.

>>11000142
Confirm, that will come in handy.

A few combat worthy ship yards never harmed anyone, well, except the enemy.

And, of course, I'm going to say we take this info straight to the public, no anonymous calls or tips, SHOW THEM THAT MNU DID THIS!

>>11000172
Oh, and I forgot to add: once we have it, we start repurposing it to let our starships build portal facilities.

>>11000142
Yes siphon.

Guys why don't we start technology brokering? like, trade tech with one company then trade the new tech with another company then trade it with another, etc, etc

>>10999981
Failed, spending cash on a cover-up.
Siphoning, will be ready by 2172.
>>11000114
Still going on
>>11000055
It was just an extremist. No corporate ties other than MNU being the sellers.

>>11000151
That's a great idea. One minute, ship. The next, expanding cloud of plasma.

We should use our "Solar Gun" for general defense in systems we control.

Build solar collectors and portal energy stations in all systems we have a presence in. Use them as a primary power source, with fusion as backup and fission as an "OH SHIT" backup.

>>11000184
My mistake, I was just concerned about us being held responsible.

>>11000179
too far in the bed.
Reveal that they have an alliance with MNU.

Reveal that MNU sold the nuke. (general populace should know)

Have a source tie the two together.

Sight article: http://www.un.org/en/conf/npt/2005/npttreaty.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty

Out of curiosity, given that MNU is an active player in this setting, have the prawns shown up in the quest yet?

>>11000252

this

Requesting information on Beta Hydri:
Gliese 876
and Pi Orionis

>>11000260
Not yet, but it's only a matter or time.

Fookun prawns.

>>11000260
No.
>>11000252
Sure.

Any construction requests, or shall we move on to the next year?

Oh shit, I just had a brilliant and evil idea.

Why don't we build an AI and piggyback it onto the next MNU shipment to Epsilon Eridani, with orders to steal as much data as possible and then either smash their operation to pieces or subvert it and hand it over to us?

Nope. Just put all our remaining cash into R&D.

maybe pay off the loan we made this year.

>>11000295
Let's not directly insinuate that the UN had anything to do with this. Only MNU.

One at a time.

>>11000295
>Any construction requests

Have you read the previous posts in this thread, or are you asking for final plans?

>>11000305
If this is possible, we should do it more often

>>11000295
hmm, dunno. Build additional espionage AI for additional succeeds? if not, build a R&D AI

>>11000334
Why? we want to make it so that people lose faith in the UN, and it makes it a possibility for us to gain control over the world at a later date.

If I cant destroy the world, I want to rule it.

>>11000295
Start setting up construction facilities somewhere in the Kuiper Belt, and a portal facility to support them.

Also, build another AI and dedicate it to research.

And I propose we have some of the mutagen sent to Alpha Centauri and then covertly dropped on one of the moons of Polyphemus that has nothing above bacteria. Observe the results.

>>11000287
Information on Gliese 876 above.
Other systems have no available information yet, besides the fact they have terrestrial worlds.

>>11000375
recommending that we build and send probes to all systems within 50 light years of us.

I want to know what is out there, and if it can pose a threat to us. I also want to know what we can exploit.

How much money are we getting out of Muses? Seeing that we are sole provider it should be HUGE.
Is the market still growing? (as in, will the profit increase each year?)

>>11000409
There are about 1,400 star systems within 50ly of Earth.

>>11000375
As part of our Interstellar Portal research project, try building a sort of leapfrog portal ship. As per my suggestion in the previous thread, take two portal generators, design them such that they can shift into a smaller configuration, tether them together, then use that like a jump drive.

Assuming that we can generate temporary portals with one of the endpoints in open space, of course. If not, this won't work.

>>11000457
in rl yes. In Plasma's megacorp quest? maybe not.
and change it from 50 to say... 30.

>>11000460
Maybe we'll figure out a FTL system like the one in Battlestar Galactica? Where they calculate a place, charge up and jump.... but we'll do it with PORTALS because everything is better with portals!

>>11000460
10 minute for each portal. THough I imagine that there would be a limit on each jump (hint hint). say 10 jumps a month?

>>11000460
Are you saying that we should construct a chain of portals leading to a system or that we should use our portal gun toe create a blue portal ahead of a ship and then travel though a orange portal to move ourselves forwards?

Or is it a bit like a portal slinky, where you get two portals constantly moving ahead of one another?

>>11000495
The obvious limits are the time required to shift each half of the ship between configurations for portal-generation and portal-usage, and the time required to recharge the capacitors for each portal opening.

>>11000518
slinky, though both may be possible. And intelligent.

We need to develop weapon systems besides Portal based weaponry.It's only a matter of time till some enterprising scientist finds a way to create defenses againts it, and we become sitting ducks until we find a way around it.

We're the 'Portal Guys'.Surely they're equally spending billions on trouncing our tech as we are on umbra.

Spend some research and money into more traditional weaponry, or alternate back up weapons.

>>11000518
Create the blue portal directly in front of the ship. Create the orange portal 1ly in front of the ship. Have one half of the ship go through the portal. Have that half unfold into generation mode and take over the job of maintaining the portal. Have the other half fold into transport mode and go through the portal. Close the portal. Lather, rinse, repeat until you reach your destination.

>>11000548
We already have plenty of conventional weapons. What are you thinking about, specifically?

>>11000548
I still have my figures crossed for giant lasers.

>>11000548
Or, alternatively, we could just continue our program of industrial espionage.

I think our main goal on that front should be turning MNU into a hollowed-out shell and then ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL. Preferably in such a fashion that their board of directors doesn't know until it's too late.

>>11000588
seconded this.

>>11000568
Giant laser is easy. Alter the properties of a portal to turn it into, effectively, an enormous magnifying glass. Point it at the enemy.

Another way to do that would be to figure out some way of making the output portal smaller than the input one. Diffuse light comes in, "pressurized" stream of light comes out.

>>11000548
I had an idea for mass driver weapons working with portals.
If you have played Mass Effect they explain why dreadnoughts have to be so fuck huge: it because their main gun must be long.
So, since we have portals we can set up a portal on one side of the rail then the "bullet" will go through and appear on the other side. That way we can keep it accelerating indefinitely and release it when we have build up sufficient charge. This should happen in split seconds though.

>>11000588
>>11000616
I like the way you think.

>>11000617
already had this idea. Cypher popped up with it back in one of the earlier threads.

Id remember if it was vetoed or not.

Year 2170:
Rebellion on Ares. The New People have fractured, splitting into two factions: The New People, who remain loyal to you and the True Way, the more conservative faction who are against direct human interaction in their affairs and your interference in the Examinations.
The UN gives the MNU a slap on the wrist, several hundred nobodies are fired for the mistakes and they get a harsh screaming at in private.
Colony ships arrive at Gliese 876. The chance of a stable human population existing on this world is almost impossible.
A new and improved portal chassis has been developed. 95% of all subluminal projectiles will be detected and reflected back at enemy starcraft. This armour costs $50b.
Do you wish to view the research list?
A hacking attempt is required for the AI named "Baldur" to successfully infiltrate MNU and piggyback on a ship to Epsilon Eridani. Give me your roll.

Balance: $279b
Income: $279b

>>11000536
Noone of them, except perhaps the portal chain, though it would be vulnerable and expensive, would really work that well.

There's a limit on the range or portals, so even if your portals travel at the speed of light (in portal they actually travelled much slower, certainly not a 0.75c) the time it would take you to move through each portal would mean that you'd only shave a bit of time off your journey, since you have to move your entire ship through the portal before you close it (unless you want to get it cut in half) so it would depend on how far your portals could go really. But as it stands, that's not very far.

rolled 25 + 10 = 35

>>11000630
Yes.

And rolling.

>>11000561
Well, I have a suggestion.

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

We have an enormous capability for energy production and transfer.Let's research COMBAT capable versions of this. We can already on TODAY's Earth make stuff capable of withstanding tremendous forces, making a backup defense system would be invaluable.

All I'm saying.

>>11000630
>Rebellion on Ares
"Now I'm not going to say 'nuke the site from orbit', I'm just going to turn around for a moment and when I turn back I except to see a mushroom cloud or two. Got it?"

rolled 63 + 10 = 73

>>11000630
Dice have to be visible, guys

>>11000630
-Reasons for the fracture? Requesting further information.

-Build orbital hab stations in Gliese 876. Institute heavy quarantine procedures for anyone traveling between them and the surface. Safety is paramount.

-View list.

rolled 86 + 10 = 96

>>11000638
The point is that we use it with our interstellar portal tech, once that's developed, as a way of getting around the range limitations of the early interstellar portals.

Also, fuck you, dice gods. Fuck you.

>>11000680
Because we removed the corruption from the intelligence tests they do.

>>11000630
I like how UN thinks.
MNU has been directly linked into several sabotages in the past, now they are selling WMD to extremists but UN doesn't do anything. While we have had nothing but good intentions from the beginning and keep getting sanctions and shit.

WHO THE FUCK IS LEADING UN? Maybe we should quietly assassinate these incompetent fucks?

rolled 8 = 8

>>11000660
>>11000661
They don't count, because noko.

Rolling to infiltrate Epsilon.

>>11000679
It's a success.

The next ship is departing 2171.

It will arrive 2183.

>>11000690

Dont bother colonizing the new planet.
It has a ridiculous planetary environment, and has mutagenic properties. It SCREAMS Bad Sci-Fi Horror Movie.

Let's just make a Space Station, and use it as a research hub, or use unmanned, a.i. drones to mine the fucking thing, and STERILIZE to all hell anything brought up from the goddamn thing. Even the water. Even the air. Everything.

>>11000630
Can the colony ships be sent onward to the next closest star, or are they out of fuel?

If they can, then send one of them ahead and have the other get to work on an orbital habitat.

>>11000630
Rebellion eh? I'd guess that the New People, who actually appear open to progress are guaranteed victory, in which case we should sit this one out. But keep an eye on things regardless.

>>11000688
The UN is a government. As such, it is thoroughly corrupt. If we're going to start assassinating people, we should do it right. Have an MNU ship "accidentally" plow into the UN building while a debate's going on. We should also have our own people in place to take over, or things will just get worse. For us.

>>11000730
You never know. It might just turn humans into Super Mutants.

>>11000630
>Rebellion on Ares.

Alright, lets do this properly.

First things first, how many have joined us and how many have joined them? Second things second, we should only use orbital bombardment as a last resort, the other corps know about what's is going on and will throw a bitch fit about 'another Pandora' if we start killing natives and shit.

I think we should try diplomacy first.

>>11000668
no

Maybe they will get off their lazy asses and do something now?

>>11000737
They can be sent back to either Earth or Tau Ceti. Tau Ceti would arrive in 2180.

>>11000730
Starbase in orbit, preferably on a moon somewhere.

Possible connection to Umbra?

As soon as we develop interstellar portal technology, we should overtake any of our normal vessels still in transit and bring them straight to their destination. Make a note of this.

>>11000740
Also, we sit it out because the legitimacy of our chosen faction will be higher if we weren't obviously interfering on their behalf.

If it looks like they're going to lose, we come in and save them.

>>11000668
>>11000740
How about a middle ground approach? Help out the New People, but don't fight the war for them. Oh, and make sure our colony on Ares is secure. Hostiles come near that, they get shot at from orbit.

We shouldnt fuck with the UN ...YET.

If we are, we should evacuate all of Our Earth resources, and leave very long term, very deep Lone Gunman agents for operations in Earth.

Also, we would have to discuss what would happen to our energy platforms, and our INDUSTRY. We make money off earth, guys.

Remember? We're a corporation.
Dont do anything rash yet.

Fuck, I am going to sleep.

Thanks Plasma good times as always

>>11000680
Impact damage, from the looks of it. Something hit that planet with such mass and such speed that it shattered and is slowly disintegrating into an asteroid field.

Research List:
- Further Development of Energy Transfer Portals - Allows for increased efficiency.
- Macro Sapience - Develop an understanding of "world minds" similar to those on Chiron and Pandora and an ability to recreate them.
- Macro Portal Carriers - Adapt portal technology so starships possessing it can be utilized as carriers.
- Nanolathe - Adapt nanites to the point where they can form almost any solid shape and when they have no function, they self-destruct.

>>11000760
Send one to Tau Ceti, have the other start setting up a secure orbital habitat from which to harvest products from the surface of the planet.

Although, before we send one to Tau Ceti, can I get confirmation that there aren't any systems with probably-habitable worlds further out from Gliese 876?

>>11000752
agreed.
Codename: Valkyrie-project

>>11000793
STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM NANITES

I PLAYED CORP QUEST

I KNOW SHIT

I'VE SEEN SHIT

NOT ALL OF IT GOOD

>>11000757
We may be business men, but we're also Vikings.

And it says, in the book, that Vikings can never abandon their allies in battle. If war alone was enough to drive these people they would of gotten somewhere during the last one they had.

Now the time of influencing is over, intervention is at hand.

>>11000793
>Nanolathe

Put this to priority. Should give us nice income boost.

>>11000793
More info on Macro Portal Carriers, please.

Also, I notice we're sending a ship to Delta Pavonis. Am I the only one who's read Revelation Space and is therefore worried about what we're going to find there?

>>11000793
Nanolathe. Vast benefits for small risk, if the safeties are built to an excessively paranoid degree. If we develop them, however, we should carefully monitor their use, because they are a perfect target for our rivals.

>>11000760
Tau Ceti is fine, our colonists are ours, correct? We can expand operations.

Second, send back a Task Force for research and development to Gliese 876.Create a space-station on the planet, small scale.Use an A.I. core to mandate operations and control heavy duty quarantine and de-contamination protocols as well as research operations, and leave most of the on-world duties to unmanned drones, or remote controlled robots.

Learn what we can, and IF we learn everything we can, find a way to neutralize the crazyness in the environment, or maybe re-engineer it to make it accept humans.

Keep the scientists in the

>>11000793
>Further Development of Energy Transfer Portals
I'm going to go with this one. If we can't do any more space weaponry then we might as well do this.

The war on Ares will spur the inhabitants to action, in effect, getting them off their asses. We should use it to drive progress, not just drop a few kinetics on the "enemy" and call it over.

>>11000756
It's not so much "them joining us" as it is "modernizers vs. traditionalists".

Think of it like Victorian-era China, with one faction happy to learn from foreigners and one displeased by the presence of foreign devils.

>>11000848
Space station.

That was weird.

>>11000793
I would say research the energy transfer portals. I know it doesn't immediately help us, but more power available= more money, or we could offer power at such low prices that we could run everyone else out of business and have a monopoly on it.

Also, Plasma, I know the UN hates us, but is there any way they can give us a deal for Ares or Tau Ceti where we're the only people allowed on it, like what they did for RDA and Pandora? Just asking, we need to stake our turf.

>>11000793
>Something hit that planet with such mass and such speed that it shattered and is slowly disintegrating into an asteroid field

Doesn't pentex have a passive probe in that system...

>>11000843
I think the nanolathes just allow for materials that reshape themselves a la T-1000, not for replication. No risk of a gray goo incident here.

If we're gonna fuck around with the UN and earth, I suggest starting to take as many colonists as we can to improve double time our population centers.Start expanding quick, you know?

I dont want to be crushed by the UN's mighty industrial penis.

Constructing star base over the Gliese 876 planet.

>>11000848
No need to reengineer the environment there if we can develop nanite medichines to repair DNA damage instead.

>>11000898
It does indeed.

>>11000911
Assuming nobody fucks with them in any way. Which has a roughly 0.000001% chance of happening, especially with Pentex involved.

Going with nanolathe, then.

>>11000911
I wouldn't put it past our "friends" to engineer a replicating nanomachine, cause a serious incident, and then "prove" that it was our fault. Which is why we need to be very, very careful.

>>11000877
>>11000880
This is war, I'm more concerned with winning it, or preventing it, than gaining form it.

If we stick to the technology plan we can still spur them forwards.

I think the questions here should be can we win the war? Can we negotiate with the traditionalists? (they don't like it, fine, we'll divide the continent in half and not trespass on their land ever again) What else can we do here?

>>11000942
Unless I'm badly misinterpreting what this type of nanite is, there's no way for them to do that, for the same reason that a man born without a penis or testicles can't have kids. They aren't being built with the the physical capability to make anything; all they can do is move around according to external input.

>>11000969
>What else can we do here?

Transport one faction off the planet and onto another world or to orbit. That's one thing.

>>11000927
Investigate that planet more closely to try and find out what was on it before it was killed, how long ago it was killed, and whether it was possible for the object that killed it to be going at the necessary speed without artificial help.

>>11000969
be vikings.
Pillage, THEN burn.

>>11000958
Energy Transfer Portals instead?

And if timeskip, put all remaining funds into R&D.
How far are they along on getting ftl anyhow?

>>11000980
A man with no genitals can receive them, if the appropriate medical technology is available.

These are nanoscale machines. It might not be easy to modify them for self-replication, particularly due to the inherent safeguards we'll place, but it is possible. And if it's possible, someone is going to attempt it.

>>11001005
Also, after looking at that starmap, see if we can have the probe at 40 Epsilon turn its sensors towards the Gamma Leporis system for a bit. Hopefully the greater proximity as compared to Sol will help provide a better view.

>>11000911
I'm all for Nanolathing, but I have to stress how careful we'd have to be to avoid a gray goo scenario, or any sort of horrific WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE situation.

Shit, I suggest linking all Nanolathing subroutines to a specific, new A.I. Core Built for Nano-Management (and given a very, very specific mandate on protecting humanity, and Sleipnir in particular).Thus, instead of highly independent, probably dangerous swarms, we have merely appendages of a vastly more powerful, A.I. Core who is Sleipner's Ally. And then we put failsafes and backups. Just in Case.

>>11001006
Still working on it. This is a long, long project that might not even end before the quest itself does.

Anyway, time skip.

>>11001047
Another probe is already heading there.

>>11001003
We might be able to bring the modernists round to that, but it won't be easy, and they may become mistrustful if we do so.

What we really need, Plasma, is details. You said that only a few disagreed? Were they some of the more powerful or well known ones that then drew allies towards them?

What I'm really interested in is the defence force we were training up three, we had native battalion which had undergone several years of training by our mercenaries. They'd be very useful in this war.

>>11001095
I mean in terms of: 1 lightyear is now achievable, etc. etc.

>>11001095
Wait, we need a general strategy for how to deal with this rebellion.

Lets start out amicable and try some negotiations first, if no one else has any suggestions.

Man, I wish someone would make a story-based 4x game based on MegaCorporation Quest.

I mean, clearly, it wouldnt be able to SELL due to it using every copyrighted sci fi corporation under the videogaming and storytelling sun, but heck if it wouldnt be fun.

>>11001057
Again, a gray goo scenario is easily stopped by application of an EMP. It's not possible to harden nanites against one.

Year 2171:
Baldur has piggybacked a transport vessel filled with "automated construction yards" that is heading towards Epsilon Eridani.
The war on Ares is going well. In fact, several of the working class are defecting from the True Way and joining the New People. An image that has caused quite a stir in the hearts of the Aresians is one of the high ranking intellectuals joining those with lesser intellect in the production of munitions, throwing aside dignity and pride in order to help their people advance. It's quite symbolic.
A space station has been constructed over the planet in Gliese 876. It has been named "Hel".

Balance: $279b
Income: $279b

>>11001191
>Download MegaCorp Galaxy 2.2
>Go through Corpgen, roll well
>Start up
>YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED BY PENTEX
>oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit

>>11001119
You will be informed of advancement.

So far, one light year is not achievable.

Have Baldur open all airlocks and allow all air to be removed from it.

Blow up the passive pentex probe and re-route ship to Gilease.

trollface.jpg

>>11001207
>It has been named "Hel".
You know, realistic, if we keep on calling things Hel, well, it's going to be bad for PR.

>Glorious socialist uprising
*Ahem*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yDrtNEr_5M

Союз нерушимый республик свободных
Сплотила навеки Великая Русь!
Да здравствует созданный волей народов
Единый, могучий Советский Союз!

ПРИПЕВ:

Славься, Отечество наше свободное,
Дружбы народов надёжный оплот!
Партия Ленина — сила народная
Нас к торжеству коммунизма ведёт!

Сквозь грозы сияло нам солнце свободы,
И Ленин великий нам путь озарил:
На правое дело он поднял народы,
На труд и на подвиги нас вдохновил!

ПРИПЕВ

В победе бессмертных идей коммунизма
Мы видим грядущее нашей страны,
И Красному знамени славной Отчизны
Мы будем всегда беззаветно верны!

ПРИПЕВ

>>11001207
Build conyards in Gliese 876. Produce War Drones in all idle yards. I'd like this to be a standing order if others agree.

>>11001253
I think an enjoyable aspect of my quests is that almost everything you do has a chance of fucking you over and I have no qualms about suddenly dumping a serious obstacle in your lap and saying DEAL WITH IT.

I guess it pisses many people off but at the same time, it's refreshing. Not many GMs are so severe.

>>11001269
Yeah, this will go totally unnoticed.

>>11001286
The freighters actually brought along the stuff needed to construct a construction yard. Hooray.

In any case, doing so.

Did we ever figure out any long-term goals or milestones?

>>11001207
>It's quite symbolic.
Are our colonists helping out? It's going to look bad if we just sit back like capitalist pig dogs and send the venerable proletariat to die in our wars while we drink wine and eat cake.

>>11001207
IF AND ONLY IF my Portal Ship Leapfrog idea would work as intended for 1ly long interstellar portals, start working on at least three ships devoted to that purpose in our Kuiper Belt facilities.

Also, what would be required to increase the number of research projects we can do at once?

>>11001338
Not really. You have a few memorable points in time anyway.

The Texas Impact.
The Ransom Years.
The Downfall of RDA.
The Death of Pandora.

There will be more milestones to come.

In the end, the primary goal is:
WIN THE SPACE RACE AND BECOME THE ULTIMATE MEGACORPORATION.

>>11001324
How far does the UN's control extend? That is, how far from Sol would we have to get before it is no longer considered "in-system"?

>>11001324
how large is R&D?
is there anything specific we can get for them?

>>11001269
FUCK NO. The whole point of putting Baldr on that ship was so that he could subvert MNU's facilities on Epsilon Eridani, for Christ's sake!

Speaking of Epsilons, can we get an update on what our probe's found out about 40 Epsilon?

>>11001360
It won't quite work, sorry.

And no. You can only do one at a time. The only way you can do multiple at the same time is to work with other corporations.

>>11001412
what will get it to work?
If it can be done, then do it.

>>11001390
How's our work on improving the Avatar Program so we can build ad-hoc groupminds going?

>>11001401
A probe arrives at 40 Eridian. There is nothing of value there. Just a single dead, cracked and broken planet, slowly disintegrating into an asteroid belt.

>>11001286
Sounds good.

>>11001412
Chrysalis?

>>11001438
... Yeah, that's something I missed, sorry. Groupmind stuff is radically different from a simple Avatar project, so adding that to the research list.

How is Mars doing? How is Earth doing?

>>11001441
I meant as in "are there any signs that there was something interesting on the planet before it was destroyed, and can we confirm whether the planet died from natural causes or was murdered by somebody throwing a big rock at it?"

>>11001472
The nations of Earth are quite peaceful at the moment. Well, in terms of each other. They're still fighting off the lefty rioters and activists who preach freedom for Mars.

Mars itself? It's a chaotic flurry and it's difficult to see who is planning what or what's even going on, really.

rolled 99 + 10 = 109

>>11001441
Can we get a better look at the debris? Is there anything we can do to learn more about what happened?

Rolling to hack Pentex, looking for things related to Epsilon 40.

>>11001458
Well, you can call up Chrysalis. What do you have to offer them in exchange for a research deal?

>>11001465
I figure the first stage of the project is improving the avatars so that the link can be shifted to a new individual if one side of the link dies or is otherwise removed. Second stage is adding in more than one person. Third and presumably final stage is synthesizing the separate, connected minds into a single greater mind.

>>11001512
>109

>>11001512
You find nothing they've done related to 40 Eridian. They got the same results you had, although their footage shows still warm planet bleeding magma out into space. Since their arrival eight years ago, it's cooled much more to the point where there's barely a red glow visible.

Also, they are effectively a puppet corporation of the UN after the more radical and fanatical members quit. What are left are people who are in it for profit and not destruction - and the UN pay as well as anywhere.

Also, you uncovered a rather badly protected file on the science of binding Umbral spirits to human bodies.

Siphon?

gentlemen, to be truely advanced we need more proccessing power.

i propose we delegate portions of our a.i.s towards researching more effective architechture, and more efficient/hueristic software to utilize such.
remember, the human brain itself uses 'key notes', essentialy digital bookmarks that are activated when certain stimulous is experienced, in this way cognizance and operation is prosecuted effectively while at the same time requireing much less proccessing power as opposed to litteral translation of data in more traditional computar architectures.

>>11001512
>Pic = my face
>>11001517
Well like any good faction leader we'll trade tech.

Offer them Memory alternation, post conception genetic modification, and interstellar gene splicing-basically what we got form Tyrell, except form clinical immortality.

And in exchange, we set up a joint research project, headed by our scientists, for improved space weapons. We both get to use the tech that we create.

I don't think they could ask for a fairer deal.

How long before we have a construction yard operational at Tau Ceti? I'd like to get a look at the rest of the system aside from Valhalla.

Oh, and what if anything is around the nearby star systems that didn't have any terrestrial planets visible from Earth? Do any of them look like they might be worth a visit?

>>11001574
Wait, I wasted the most awesome roll of this thread, no, THIS QUEST, for what? Nothing!

Fine, yeah, begin Siphoning.

>>11001574
more info on the file.

And well, I think its time we did a corprate takeover. Or elimination. Cant let the UN have any power in our solar system.

>>11001574
First, siphon. Second, their data implies that 40 Eridani died recently. Do we have any visual of what happened to the planet from Earth-based observatories? And third, if there genuinely isn't a single thing whatsoever in the 40 Eridani system, what's the nearest system of interest that probe could reach?

>>11001574
>Umbral spirits to human bodies
Could you elaborate a bit please?

>>11001600
Due to the fact they didn't bring along parts, construction yard parts will arrve in... 2186.
>>11001600
You'll never know the details about the planets unless you go to them. Even with advanced technology, from such distances, planets are very difficult to notice and even harder to analyze. So, there's little information on gas giants in unvisited systems.

>>11001574
Oh yeah, and I forgot: if we quietly reveal that the UN took over a corp, would that violate whatever agreements separate the megacorps from nation-states?

>>11001658
If there are any nearby systems that haven't been explored by anyone yet, send a probe there, regardless of whether or not they appear to have terrestrial planets.

Out of curiosity Plasma, what is the history of Aperture Science in this game? Because from what I understand so far, it's possible that Portal II could be taking place as we speak, with a brilliant but insane AI, a bunch of bizarre but useful inventions, and someone who understands more than anyone else how to think with portals.

>>11001635
40 Epsilon is 16.5 light years away from Earth, we know what ever happened here happened more than 8 years ago though. Let's have a look through observatory data and for the next 8 years lets get a high powered telescope to watch it for anything unusual. An impact that large must of create a little bang, it could of been an asteroid, but maybe it wasn't, it's defiantly worth checking out.

>>11001643
The stuff of the Umbra - spirits included - can't really exist in reality for long. They're too unstable to do so. Eventually, they simply disintegrate fall straight back into the Umbra.

So, one way of keeping them in reality is by binding them into a human form. With a physical body, they have no reason to disintegrate and can walk, talk and kill.

What's the advantage of this? Some spirits are far better killing machines than any human could ever be. Some spirits have minds that can solve mysteries that humans can only dream about understanding. Their alien mindsets can actually be quite helpful - although apparently Pentex use them mostly as assassins and to forcefully possess unwilling individuals and either enslave them or get them to commit suicide.

>>11001663
We could sell the info to other corps, but anyone ailed with the UN may probably already know.

I don't think it's worth taking this to the press.

>>11001715
Send that out as a general request to all of our stations. Even if light from when the impact happened has already reached and passed Earth, it might not yet have reached Valhalla or Hel. And have Ares and Hermes keep an eye out too; if light from 40 Epsilon b's destruction hasn't reached any of our facilities yet, it'll presumably reach Alpha Centauri first.

>>11001753
can we utilize that tech on clones without minds or personalities? to bind genius level Umbra spirits and enhance our R&D department?

>>11001715
40's distance does give us some interesting observational opportunities. Since the light from the system will reach our various installations at different rates, we can see what happened there many years ago.

>>11001753
Right.

Well, we could use such 'individuals' to augment our science team, as long as we kept their nature secret from others and, well, could even find the. We don't really know where to start looking for the eldaritch superminds.

>>11001753
Look through the Umbra for potential new research scientists. We will offer them cloned human, Na'vi, or Aresian bodies in exchange for working in our R&D labs.

What about exterminatus-class Hermesium weaponry?

Can't we just saturate a planet with Hermesium bombs?

In any case, exhaustion is overtaking me.

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with you guys so I'm going to shut up and bring this to an end now.

Thank you all for taking part, seven years is something to be proud of, and over fifty since the quest started.

Next week we'll start on 2172.

>>11001753
Take that research and fold it into the Avatar project. Focus on pulling out spirits that are both useful and possible to appease without abhorrent measures. The first rule of spirit summoning, after all, is that you'd prefer that the spirit not make breaking out and/or killing you its first priority.

>>11001778
At those distances it will be very hard for even an extremely sensitive, specialised observatory to spot. If it missed Earth they we'll probably never know what happened to it.

>>11001806
It was a good session.

See you next week, Plasma.

>>11001802
Technically, yes, that's a possibility. By the time the Hermesium burns itself away, it'll probably leave a bleeding hole in the surface of an planet.

>>11001806
Alright, see you next week. Thanks for the quest.

>>11001836
see you next week Plasma.

And I am recommending that this be done in an IRC chat as well, just so that we have the board, which has official rolls, and posts, and the chat, which has our ideas.

Just a thought.

>>11001806
Alright then, thanks Plasma, it has been great.

And I know how you feel, I've got school, in, oh just over 3 hours, not one blink of sleep.

I'll archive this thread in a moment.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

There you go, don't read it all at once.