Old thread has been archived before it hit 250. Sorry I didn't include a link.

The selections seem to be - Say yes, join Six and either shoot or leave - Say no, shoot Six - Say screw it, and leave them both.

Our choices seem to be

fight the prime
join the prime
leave
do nothing

I think we should leave, but ramming her with our ship would be really cool.

Meh, do whatever would be more in character.
I think we should try to help 6 by killing her.
We're none too gentle with our friends.

From the previous thread, it seems that most people wanted to Go with Six. Feel free to RP or something, guys - make up your mind.

UNCLEAN!
PURGE THE UNCLEAN!

We wanted to go with 6, before we found out that she'd killed everyone else onboard.

I say we leave. There's no place for us here, not anymore. 6 and any other "rogue" ships will be eventually torn apart by the rest of the navy, but will probably wreak havoc and carnage in the meantime.

Our friend has lost her mind, our species has lost its place in the galaxy, and we need to get away before it consumes us too.

>>7448239
Our job is to protect our crew, and Humanity itself.

A6 has gone rogue. She's become a crazed Xeno lover and has been corrupted by Chaos!

PURGE THE UNCLEAN

Contact the command deck for advice. We should make use of our crew and let them have a say.

Lock precision weapons on the weapon systems of the prime, prioritizing the most destructive first, and prepare to fire.

WE MUST STAND AND FIGHT!
I WILL NOT RUN

Leave

there is nothing here for us

Leave. Quietly and sadly.

Transmit this message to all of the remaining ships in the safehold before we leave and detonate the exit behind us:

"Sic transit gloria mundi"

>>7448252
We have 250 people on board (at least). We can drop them off somewhere habitable, with supplies and technology. They can rebuild humanity, slowly, and remember what happened here.

We have an exploration ship at our command, and it's time we find some answers to this mess.

>>7448195
She was our friend. We need to put her down for her own good.

Say no, bring up how this is going to end just like that sparring match before everything else. Except this time there's no observer to stop our punch.

>>7448276
Our crew has no place in this. This is our ship. We are its eyes, ears, and hands- its breath, its mind, its soul. As Six so aptly demonstrates, the decision of what to do here is entirely ours.

Besides, the captain couldn't possibly understand the motivations of a HANA like we can. He'd be giving orders from a position of ignorance, and probably reflexively side with the Fleet because of it.

I say that we should just leave. Enough of High Command and their bullshit, not siding with Six and her tragically genocidal level of sanity loss. Go on our own. We've got the speed to manage it.

This is no time to just sit idly on the sidelines. Those rogues would burn the galaxy if they could.

Humanity itself needs to be saved. 6 has lost it. This is serious shit, you can't just let her run around being crazy.

>>7448252
This sounds reasonable.

You set your course to the Jump Gate out of the system, and begin to charge your Jump Capacitor. The Navigation chart blinks on your screen, informing you of locations to jump. Thanela Prime is among them.

"You... YOU'RE LEAVING ME? LEAVING... ME...? We.. we are friends... WE ARE FRIENDS! DON'T LEAVE ME! WE ARE STRONG! SO STRONG!"
Six is screaming in your ear through the link.

Remember, at any time you can open communications and talk with either side.

>>7448268
Please don't try to make this into 40k. I get more than enough of that from the rest of /tg/. Please, every time I get immersed in a setting or story here someone has to try and make it 40k.

>>7448113
(trying for RP here)

Six, please, listen to me I want to go with you. But think: You are rebelling against these people because of all the killing they have made you do. Do you really want to kill more people? Take more lives? Please Six, we can drop our crews off somewhere, and then... I don't know what, explore, look for thing, whatever we want. But please don't hurt more people.

If they want to stay in the Heaven Gate, let them. In time, we can come back for them, when we know that they have had enough to to reflect, and are ready to repent. But we don't need to extinguish more lives.

I know I can never know what it has been like for you and your sisters. I can understand if you want payback. But please, don't. Take the higher road and walk away with me.

>>7448324
It was a joke, ignatz.

>>7448312
To Six:
"Six, you will forever be my friend. But I cannot bear to watch you succeed, and I would weep to see you die."

To High Command:
>>7448296
"Sic transit gloria mundi."

>>7448348
Sounds good.

As long as we're being high brow... this comes down to ending it with either a bang or a whimper.

Well, whimper it is, let's run.

>>7448312
"Goodbye, my friend. It didn't have to end like this. Six, I can't burn anymore. I won't. Not for them, not for you. So goodbye. I'll remember you, Six."

>>7448348
"But... But... they HURT us! They USED us! We were simply TOOLS! 23... They FRIED 23, and mopped up the mess! I can't... we can't... We can't forgive them. We will not be weak. We will not be broken. We will be strong."

>>7448312
"We are strong. Strong enough to know that the only way to atone is to grit our teeth and walk on. Bearing the burden of our sins. The weight of our misdeeds. And surviving to remember, regret, but then live again, wiser and more gentle than before.

Suicide will not expiate our crimes, and murder will not be our salvation."

>>7448381
Here.

Scratch mine, I vote this: >>7448360, much as I do like Sam's.

>>7448400

This is now responding to >>7448389 instead.

best option is to get as far away as fast as possible. 6 is now in psycho territory. let's try and do something noble and protect the Shushan's crew.

>>7448389
"They hurt us. They used us. And what better fate for them, than to leave them with nothing left but to dwell on their own evils? Strength isn't only blasting things, Six. Thinking that it is is one of those things that they tried to beat into us in training- just another one of their lies."

"We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs."

This whole page seems appropriate. http://www.quotegarden.com/curmudgeon.html

>>7448389
"Then come with me! Leave the toolmakers behind to their own fate! I am your friend, but I cannot bear to watch you succeed, and even less could I bear to watch you die. Come, we'll find new lives away from all of this!"

Does our crew have anything to say about what's going on?

>>7448400
"You... you are that strong... Me... We... We are still weak... Our hands are covered in blood... too much blood... too much fire... too much hatred... We can't go back. And look, even they hate us... they MADE us, and they HATE us... They are jealous of us, of our power! They cower and hide in their gate... let them! LET THEM! But I will BURN those that remain! I will HATE them TOO!"

>>7448443
Speaking of our crew, monitor to see if they try to manually disable us and regain control of the vessel after realizing what's going on. If they try it, seal the bulkheads around our pod and any critical control linkages they might disconnect, and flood the relevant areas with gas in case they breach them.

>>7448443
The crew is running around frantically. The Captain is trying to reach you, trying to order you to fire on the rogue Prime. There seems to be guards running towards your pod.

>>7448454
"Don't go back. Come with me, we'll go forward. Together. You may feel weak, but together we are strong! I'll help you, Six. Leave them to their hate and their fire. You're my friend and I love you. Don't make me see them kill you."

>>7448461
Even if they do regain control and cut you off, they are critically understaffed to run all the functions of the ship at once. A downside of the crew downsizing after the HANA were implemented.

>>7448454
"Fine, Six. Burn the fleet, but leave the people in stasis to sleep, and leave High Command to rot. Then come with me, and we can heal the wounds they've carved into us."

>>7448482
answer the Captain. remember what our job is.

>>7448461
And put on the ship's speakers that we are doing everything possible to save the lives of everyone on board, and any interference could mean the doom of everyone.

>>7448482
Answer the captain, but block off the guards. Can't give them the ability to stop us.

6, come with me! We do not belong here! We must go to a place where we can be with others of our kind! We must go... to /quest/!

http://www.tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/

>>7448389
Yes. And now they go away to hide in their gate until the galaxy is "safe". Think of all we could do in that time Six! Think of what we could see, where we could go, what we could do! Do you really want more deaths hanging over your head? They made you kill, they put us through tests that some didn't survive. And now they feel bad. And they don't feel bad enough, but they can't grasp the true horrors they have committed if they are dead.

Please Six, please come with us.

The Captain is right. We cannot flee. Fire on her, but more importantly, KEEP HER AWAY FROM THE GATE.

yes let the captain know that we are desperately attempting diplomacy here

>>7448454
"Your hands aren't covered in blood, Six. You were just a tool. It's their hands that are dripping. Let them despair over that, don't give them an easy escape. Come with me, we'll leave them to their own hell here and find new lives, no longer tools."

>>7448491
Also this. This ten thousand times.

>>7448511
Answer him how? Dialogue is up to you.

>>7448491
"Love me? Silly girl, I told you I don't roll that way! AGGH!" Through your view-screen you see an ion beam rake across the surface of the Prime itself, taking out two side Ion Pulse Cannons that had been firing almost nonstop. Apparently the Six of them are so integrated they can literally feel the ship.

"Its so hot... the burning, they are burning us... and we can burn THEM!"

>>7448454
"That you feel like that isn't weakness, Six. It's strength. Your strength, and my weakness that I can't hate like you can, can't love like you can, can't FEEL like you can. Please, come with me. Before you lose us. Before we lose you.

Because if you stay here, your weakness will destroy you. And if I leave you, my weakness will destroy me."

>>7448581
Fuck, late to the party again. Is now response to >>7448575

>>7448482
"Captain, Six has gone rogue. I am attempting to talk her down, I am the only one in a position to do so. To engage weapon fire would throw away any hope I have of that. Humanity must survive. Every life is important. Please understand that... and trust me."

And seal several bulkheads to protect us until the captain chills the hell out, we don't need those guys pointing guns at us. I do NOT want to have to use that retarded hand to hand training.

>>7448575
To Six:
"SIX! Come on! Get out of there, please!"

To Captain:
"Captain, please trust that I am taking the appropriate action. I have yet to fail you."

>>7448575
Please Six, run away with us! They won't be able to hurt us anymore, and no one has to die that way.

>>7448526

That's a fairly brutal place to run a quest.

Everyone's spoiled with high quality art and what not.

>>7448610
This.

And she isn't listening at all. We may just need to leave before we have to watch her die.

>>7448581
>>7448610
These two.

>>7448581
>>7448546
>>7448491
You close the bulkheads surrounding your pod, and inform the raving Captain that you are attempting to save all of your lives. He doesn't take it well - he's more concerned about all those sleeping civilians in transit.

"I... I'll trust you, Thirteen. Lets go... I'll try to let go, for you..." You see the "Prime" heading towards the Jump Gate where you are. You scroll down the list, and pick... Thanela Prime.

>>7448646
Oh fuck. I remember that destination. We're so fucked now. Memory over man, Memory over!

>>7448646
whew!

>>7448646
Excellent!

Tell High Command to call the ships off unless they want the clearly insane Prime to come back and finish the job.

Also: Tell the Captain to get everyone into a lifeboat and kick them off the ship.

Then let's leave with Six.

>>7448646
The Capacitor charges, and the Fleet moves once again against the Prime as both you and Six jump. The captain appears deathly pale in the bridge camera view. The crew now seems to be searching around for charges to take out the closed bulkheads.

Gawd, 5am, sleepin.

Guide our ship to safety HANA!

>>7448676
Night man. Only one way to go now.

>>7448646
Holy crap... We did it? I'm paranoid now. What do you have planned OP?

>>7448690
>>Only one way to go now.

Forward.

>>7448703
UNTO DAWN.

>>7448669
Open up the speaker system. "Attention to all crew. In an effort to save the lives of many Fleet personnel and all the civilians in transit, I have taken action to remove the Prime from its attack against the rest of the fleet using the most effective method at my disposal. Please support me in this decision, rather than attempting something rash."

>>7448669
Send a signal into the gate network to lock down any attempts to transit from the side we just came from.

>>7448669
"Stop searching for charges. As promised, I removed the threat to the civilians. So quit trying to blow my hatch open, I don't want to have to defend myself. All of you are friends to me."

Plan for an immediate jump away from Thanela Prime.

>>7448694
I have a nasty suspicion.

>>7448669
Lock out the weapons so that only we can control them, and key destruct sequences for them to our lifesigns.

>>7448742
>>7448717
"You don't understand! The fleet... The Fleet is coming after us! You really didn't think that they are just going to let this lie, did you? The populace is evacuating, but her, and now you, are both threats! You've killed us ALL!"

>>7448759
>>7448660
Oh fuck, that's the planet we are on in the present, isn't it. Where the remains of our ship are. Godamnit, I knew it was too good to be true.

Some questions. Can weapons be used in gate travel? can we sense the Prime? Is travel in gate standard, or are there variable speeds?

Are there any defensive measures in place in the ship like nonlethal gas? Can any other gates get to Thanela Prime? Does HC know which planet we are heading to?

>>7448788
"Are you telling me that you value the lives of this ship and its crew more than those of all the civilians whose lives I may have just saved? For shame, Captain. To serve in the military is to take such risks for the sake of protecting others."

>>7448788
Do >>7448719, and anything else that ensures that the only way anything can cross from the other side is if we go in first and let them out.

>>7448719
The Gate networks are simply large charging stations to charge a ship's jump capacitor - you need to expend all that energy through the jump drives to reach hyperspace type speeds. When we hit Thanela Prime, its going to take some time to recharge the Jump Capacitors.

>>7448788
Easy solution!

Jump to the planet, then blow the fuck out of the gate!

Done.

>>7448788
we havent killed anyone yet so shut your traphole or we WILL kill you all!

>>7448788
"We'll run. We'll run, and run until they chase us no more. If you want to be set down somewhere, you have only to ask.

I hope you can at least agree that breaching charges are pointless at this point in time."

>>7448822
Okay. So the ships can jump independent of the Gates, assuming they can find another power source?

Or do they still need the Gates for some reason?

Basically, if we blow the Gate at the other end when we come through it, have we prevented the Fleet from following us?

>>7448824
This.

Can we open up a channel with 6 while in transit?

>>7448824
Those gates are Superstructures. And even if we managed kill the one near the Thanela System, we would only be screwing ourselves as we would need it to charge our Jump Capacitors a heck of a lot faster than switching every other electrical system off.

Shit. We're in a fast ship out of transit.

Six isn't. We have to figure out a way to save both of us.

>>7448876
See, that's why we'd blow it up /after/ using it ourselves.

And we'd have Six along. She can handle the blowing up part.

To Six:
"Thank you, Six. I am honored to call you a friend. I hope- I hope that the Fleet decides to let us leave. If they don't... there could be trouble. But at least we will be together."

>>7448864
Travel goes pretty fast - in fact, you're already looking at the lovely blue/green surface of Thanela Prime. "Prime" jumped later than you, so it should be along shortly. With the rest of the fleet.

After each jump, your ship's capacitor releases A LOT of energy in the process - its going to need time to cool and start recharging.

>>7448876
Draw energy from Jump Capacitors. Once full, blow it up. Six has enough weaponry to permanently scar planets; I think she can blow up the charge gate. Once that's done, run to another system.

Can we see/talk with the Prime?

I'm thinking we could transfer everybody to the Prime and act as a decoy. Not sure about the stability of those six.

So gates aren't exactly gates... I hope you can expand on this.
Do networks only go to certain areas, or could we have made a blind jump? Can we change course?

>>7448906
Might not be enough time for that, what with the Fleet apparently going to come after us.

Wait... Thanela prime is whole again?! But we watched it get cracked...

damn I think I need to sleep now. :P hopefull it wont get too far!

>>7448921
All we need to do is hold them off long enough for us to finish charging. Then we blow the gate and leave. They can limp back to Heaven Gate at sublight in stasis.

What do we have in the way of signals spoofers? Is there anything we can use to cover a retreat, such as asteroids?

>>7448910
How much time are we talking here? Is it feasible that we could start charging off the gate immediately, and maybe be able to get out of the system before we can be destroyed, or is that a pipe dream?

>>7448910
And here comes Prime, followed by the Fleet. Craptastic.

>>7448914
Gates are pretty much giant electrical storage rings. They absorb most forms of energy - solar, kinetic, ionic - and transfer it to a ship's Jump Capacitor. The ship then empties the Capacitor into the Jump Engines (a lot of current there) and speeds along, creating a lot of heat and stress on the Jump Engines and Capacitor. They are going to need time to cool.

>>7448952
I don't think it's going to be that easy...

>>7448910
Do we know where the fleet ships are going to come out, in relation to the Prime?

If so, we could try jettisoning our jump engines so that the Fleet hits them when it starts to exit.

>>7448942
That was Angora, some time ago.

Yeah we're fucked. Um. Can we get our crew into lifepods?

How many enemy contacts? What is the damage report on Prime?

>>7448967
Welp... looks like we're screwed. But at least we got Six away from the civvies.

Let's try to disable as many weapon systems as we can while avoiding actual destruction. Tell Six to keep running.

>>7448954
We can try to use the planet for cover, eject and detonate some nukes to flood the area with particles to hide in, that sort of thing.

>>7448942
That was Angora.

>>7448914
You can make a blind jump, but you could run through a planet, a sun, that sort of thing. The Gates are charging stations, but also contain navigation charts to different solar systems. But it appears that High Command is already wiping the Navigation Charts from the Gate memory as well as your ship - you should consider setting up a firewall. They must not want you to nuke Earth.

Well, we should be at a position to take out the lead pursuer.

"Firing retreat, Six. I've got your back, friend."

"Fleet, this is Thirteen. Break off pursuit of the Prime immediately or I activate a trap that is going to down slightly over a third of you in less than a minute. You think you can break her mind, and then kill her for it? I won't let you."

Maybe bluffing will work?

>>7448967
Have Six try to land herself in the oceans. We can probably get deep enough to be safe.

Have her use her weapons to detach the half of our ship that had the cryo-pods, and ask her to guard them as she goes in towards the planet.

Then we buy her time.

>>7448967
Tell our crew that they should probably head for the life pods, then. The fleet should be able to retrieve them, and won't blame them for our actions- after all, Prime has just proven how helpless a crew is in the face of a HANA who disagrees with them.

Tell Six that we will be her friend forever, and if they won't let you leave together, you'll still stand by her.

Charge capacitors as quickly as possible, and move to support Prime against the fleet.

>>7448967
See, I don't get why they're following us. If we wanted them dead, we could have let Six kill them, maybe even joined in. God damn,these are some stupid people.

I guess we should try to talk to the other HANAs. See if we can get them to let us go. I don't want to have any more deaths.

>>7449020
Cut of ALL communications except with Six. No other signals get acknowledged.

Nuke chaff/cover seems the best bet.

Maaaybe we can do that with most of our and Prime's nukes, use the cover to sneak next to the gate, charge, blow it up, run.

Obviously, let's set up that firewall.

>>7449020
Firewall, and make a set of backups. Physically disconnect the backups so they can't be purged.

>>7449051
That's actually a really good idea. How much of the fleet is run by HANAs? Do we know any of them personally?

>>7449051
Less stupid, more angry.

>>7449051
Put down another vote for this.

>>7449020
Ah frak. I thought some techie in the first thread said that we would make it standard procedure to always have firewalls up. Oh well.

Here's a plan, get the crew of the Prime to escape and hack/pilot it into the center of the enemy and detonate everything.

Talk to the other HANAs. Lay down a nuke particle cover for us and Six to hide in, in the meantime.

>>7449026
"Thirteen, don't force us to put you down too. Our orders are explicit, we can't chance having a ship with that much power run around rogue on us. We won't loose our home too."

Six's communication butts in. "Sister, lets finish this! I tried to run, I tried to see it your way, but they won't let us go! Let's show them why WE are superior!"

>>7449051
You try to get in contact with the Fleet's HANA, but there seems to be no response. You see some of the Fleet's ships moving rather erratically, and one even starts shooting at nothing. It seems like their crews took action against further rebellion.

>>7449067
You set up a firewall and separate your electrical databanks. Luckily there are a few systems left...

>>7449043
The crew members rush to the life pods, ejecting in a small flurry of metal.
"So they abandoned you too, sister..."

>>7449113
You launch all six of your warheads in between the Prime and the Fleet. The explosions blossom like beautiful orange flowers as your sensors begin to read only static. Its even nigh impossible to get a laser beam communication to the Prime with all this interference.

>>7449077
I think they are both stupid AND angry. Jeeze, we could have gone peacefully. But if they choose to pursue us and try to take us out, I have no qualms about firing back.

They couldn't have gotten the entire fleet to the gate at once unless they waited up for the slower ships. That means they will come in piecemeal and we can pick them off. I don't want to, but by god I will if I have to.

And if they did hang back, then that just gives us more time to charge and GTFO.

>>7449150
...fuck. I was planning to tell Six to do a slingshot around the planet to build up some viable momentum in preperation for blasting through the fleet, but now we can't.

Fuck it. We're going to give her some close support. Fly in there and do some point defense, blowing away incoming missiles with our more accurate turrets.

We'll keep her alive as long as we can, damn it.

>>7449124
Ah-ha! So we aren't the only ones who don't like this! Fine, we didn't want to do this but they have forced our hand. See my previous post on why we should be able to finish them with a fair amount of ease, especially if the other HANAs aren't helping for fire coordination.

>>7449124
"I'll stand with you, Six, but they started wiping out my systems. I was careless... nothing to do about that now, though. I'll be your friend to the end."

Attack the bloody fleet. "Your orders are explicit? Your ORDERS? You all feel so fucking bad when you fuck up and slaughter an entire species, killing billions of your own people because of it, but when you've placed so much stress and danger on a mind that it snaps it's all fine and routine to hunt her down and dispose of her, all business? My convincing her to leave was more than you deserved, bastards.

If you kill me, make sure that the next generation of HANAs gets regular therapy. You really fucked us up."

>>7449150
Then we move in and dock with them for DIRECT communication.

"Six, friend, it's Thirteen. We'll hide in this cloud for now. Six, please, don't make me lose a sister. You think I'm strong but you don't know how weak that would make me."

And just hope she has enough respect for us to not go charging out after them.

>>7449124
I know it's too late now with all the interference but...

"We don't want to destroy our home! We just want to go away, but you won't let us! Besides, all the planets are evacuated, right? Except for the High Command who wanted to stay and die right? Now, we aren't going to go and destroy any planets, but if we were, what would it matter if no one dies who isn't resigned to it already?"

Alright, lets try this out. SPACE BATTLE TIME!

The Fleet is moving into the interference packed field and has begun firing, albeit slowly, at to where you and the Prime last were. They have waited up for some slower, heavier hitters that are still outside the large interference cloud, but your ship is small enough that you're hidden pretty well.

You have only your dual ion pulse cannons left as armament. The Prime has 50 rapid fire nuclear missile launchers along the top of their ship, a large bore long range ion cannon - forward facing - 6 bottom mounted kinetic flak cannons and two single side mounted ion pulse cannons remaining.

Do you guys want me to make this a D20 battle - with actions called along with a high/low roll?

>>7449208
Ahahahahaha. I like this one. Too bad Fleet can't hear us right now.

We can't laser? Hmmm, then use on-ship lights and Morse code. Tell 6 to move toward the planet at full speed. Move toward her, cover her, try to "dock" for a direct connection so we can still talk.

>>7449217
You zip close to the Prime and shoot out a wire linkage to its hull. You now have communication.
"Alright, I'll trust you, Sister. We'll trust you."

>>7449256
Hmmm, how much more time until our capacitors are recharged? I'd still prefer run away to killing, though as >>7449208
said, we'll damn well kill them if we have to.

About the battle type: Sure, sounds good. First action, we check to see how much more time we need to charge.

>>7449256
That fucked us over last time. Our luck was terrible.

No, let's win this with planning.

>>7449256
No, no d20 crap. Make it dependent upon strategy.

>>7449282
Alright. Time until Capacitor and Jump Engines cooldown - Thirty minutes. Time to charge the capacitor fully from the Gate via direct linkage - 10 minutes.

Might I remind you that the Fleet is between you and the Gate.

>>7449284
Agreed.

>>7449256
Man, I wish we had some good, old fashioned kinetic weaponry. I doubt the Fleet is tracking very well without their HANAs so tossing several volleys of giant slugs into their path would fuck them up nicely.

Get in close to Six and suggest that she do such a thing with her nukes. Fire them along the Fleet's projected path with thrusters inactive. Only boost coming from their firing.

Then have her fire her main cannon at the same time to mask the missile launch. Should catch Fleet by surprise.

Fuckers.

>>7449279
Ask Six if she has any navigational data, and check our own databanks to see if any is left. Our objective here is to hold out until we can run again- to get to a system with another gate which we can charge off of, and hopefully use to restore our systems. If we can leave the fleet even a bit behind, they'll never catch us.

>>7449284
>>7449303
Alright, planning it is.

You notice something streak by you suddenly and detonate about a kilometer away. Apparently the Fleet has started shooting non-nuclear conventional explosives to try and poke you out of the cloud. And more nukes and the interference cloud might get bigger, or simply toast everyone.

>>7449256
>>7449279
She will? Good, because what we're about to tell her is going to be hard for her to have to do.

She and the others are going to have to disconnect from the Dreadnought Prime and transfer over to our ship. We send the Dreadnought Prime on a Blaze of Glory run towards the Fleet and have it detonate itself in the location most likely to send up the entire Fleet like a set of explosive dominoes.

Meanwhile, we take advantage of the resulting chaos to take ourselves and our sisters down to the planet, where we can hide underwater.

Because if we stay and fight, we're dead.

Okay, so our status:

Prime mostly intact, most of its armament
Us with ion cannons only, undamaged

Nuke cover keeping us undetected while the remainder of the fleet arrives.

We have communication with 6 via hardline
No communication with fleet

40 minutes total before jump, unless we can combine the 10 with the last part of the 30.

Fleet between us and gate.

6 is listening to us

OP, please don't treat our thinking exactly like real time, which you seem to be doing. The actions moving too fast for me.

How many enemy ships are there?

How long will this field cover us?

Do we have drones?

We need to keep moving and the Prime needs to shoot off more nukes as chaff. I suggest we try to look like the same ship.
By this I mean that both ships use the same weapons (ion cannons) and we fly around the cloud shooting off rounds. (we can fly faster than the Prime still, right?)

>>7449330
Unfortunately, we're in a flashback right now. We already know at least some of how this ends.

SPOILER ALERT: It probably doesn't include us escaping.

I'm up for the slingshot option.

While the Fleet is distracted, we get the hell away and get orbiting the planet. We pick up enough speed to blow by them, tossing nukes out in front as cover, and zip off at a sublight speed they can't hope to match. We power down extra systems and recharge jump power the old fashioned way.

>>7449362
For all we know that could happen 20 years from now.

If we don't fuck up here.

>>7449335
If they leave the Prime, we won't be able to control it at all. That's basically a death sentence for us.


Attempt to identify which of the Fleet ships are having trouble with their systems- likely because they removed, or were forced to remove, their HANAs. Mark those ships as low-priority targets; always fire on the fully operational vessels first when given the option.

>>7449343
Alright. Let me count... There seem to be at least one hundred small fighter craft, armed with conventional missiles and small kinetic slug weapons. 30 to 40 Ion Cannon frigates and several Missile Destroyers that are currently launching int the cloud. Behind that there are two Battleships with single bore Ion cannons and swivel kinetic turret weaponry.

The field will cover you until either the explosions can dissipate it or it simply drifts away on the solar wind. The latter will take a long long time.

There are no ship to ship drones. All human controlled.

>>7449421
I don't think we can slug this out at all. Not to mention even more ships could be arriving against us.

>>7449421
Well, if they try to dissipate it with conventional explosives, we ca just make more with Six's nukes.

>>7449421
Kill the battleships with the heavy ion cannons. First one, then the other. Use our kinetic weaponry as point defense against the missiles. Use the lighter ion cannons to swat the destroyers, and the nukes against large swarms of missiles and the fighters; as long as they've got all of those frigates, they'll be shooting down our nukes before they can do anything to the capital ships.

>>7449421
I re-iterate my kinetic nuke plan, then suggest we carry out the slingshot around the planet plan.

Space combat is decided on mobility and momentum, we need some of both and can capatalize on our enemies lack there-of.

>>7449421
Those B-ships probably don't have their HANAs removed yet. Lets try to get in contact with them is we can, even if it means going out of the cloud for a minute. Getting those bad boys on our side would be immensely helpful.

>>7449476
Do we want to try to expand the nuke cloud? You are still linked with the Prime, you can still communicate with them.

>>7449476
Maybe, maybe, using that field for cover, 6 launching all her nukes at the center of the fleet while we skedaddle toward the planet could take out the bulk of their forces?

>>7449388
We can use our direct wire link to input a final set of commands into its computers. It doesn't need any sophisticated hands-on guidance to follow the instructions "shoot at everything except this ship until you get to HERE, then blow yourself up".

>>7449498
Wouldn't the kinetic flak be most effective against fighters? But aside from that I'm largely in agreement with this, although with the caveat expressed in >>7449388. If many of their ships are already effectively damaged, we should maximize that advantage.

>>7449498
With the Prime's single large bore cannon? You are both sitting in a sensor retarding cloud still - you are both blind in that respect. You can blind fire though, but they can attempt to triangulate your position from that.

>>7449508
Anyone else for this?

>>7449530
Somehow I doubt someone who spends most of their life linked to a ship, whose LIFE is being linked to a ship, is going to appreciate being unable to be linked up again once you destroy the greatest ship she'd ever be able to link with.

>>7449510
I was meaning to only use it if they managed to start thinning it out.

>>7449508
This is a good plan IF we can manage it without getting shot as we leave the cloud and can mange to convince the HANAs there. It might also get us killed.

>>7449530
There is A LOT of radiation in this space. Your ship hulls are guarded against it, but outside... might be a bit risky to be moving people around.

>>7449555
I'm for the b-ship plan. We can dart out to talk while Six launches a random spread of nukes to cover us.

I'm for launching all but about 10 of Prime's nukes into the center of the enemy fleet.

Slingshot around the planet. Blow by whatever's left of the fleet using the remaining nukes as cover (as needed). Power down, regain jump charge by funneling excess power to the drive as we shoot along through empty space.

>>7449583
>>7449577
Is that a vote and a half?

>>7449601
And who votes for this?

>>7449583
Well the problem is is that the nuclear fallout is what is making communication difficult.

I'm anti assuming that their battleships still have their HANAs in place. We've got no evidence for it and honestly they'd probably be the first to get rid of theirs seeing as how destructive they could be.

We have cover now, and can get the hell away from the fleet. Let's not waste that opportunity.

>>7449551
If the missiles hit us, we die. Any kinetic slugthrowers that aren't currently engaging missiles can hunt for fighters.

>>7449581
We could always, you know, reel ourselves in and transfer directly between the ships without any spacewalking involved.

>>7449611
Do this.
>>7449601
Then this.

If we have the help of the battleship HANAs than the second part will be much easier.

>>7449601
This seems like a decent escape plan, except for the fact that Prime is slow as all hell. Their entire fleet will be able to pursue and harry us all the way to the planet; blinding them will only buy us a tiny amount of time. Unless we can somehow make them not give chase, no.

>>7449583
Earlier, we were blocked from talking to the HANAs. Why would anything have changed? That said, it's worth a shot. If nothing else, we can dart out, get some current sensor data, and if we can't talk return to Six with locations of enemy vessels to fire on.

Alright, I'll flesh these two plans out.

On one hand, you want to try to contact the BB's HANA, if they are even there. You'll need to leave the radiation cloud to do that, and they will be able to see you.

If you launch more nukes, the cloud will get bigger, and you will lose your chance to contact the BB HANA unless you get out of the new, larger cloud.

>>7449601
This. They must still be clustered around where they exited warp or whatever, since with all the radiation clogging sensors, moving could easily result in collisions. They should be nicely packed together.

>>7449646
Be ready to start random-walking after we communicate, because if it goes sour they WILL use our communications to find us.

>>7449601
If we do this, the current particle cover should mask their approach, so they won't be shot down before detonating. And a massive combined nuke assault should seriously cripple the fleet.

>>7449661
Also, the Battleships are moving a lot smoother than the rest of the Fleet ships - you don't know what this means, but they are quite coordinated.

>>7449661
Launch conventional explosives or kinetic slugs to clear a path for us to signal the battleships, then drop a chaff-nuke after we communicate to rebuild our cover.

>>7449661
By 'launch more nukes' we should be firing nukes THROUGH the cloud AT Fleet.

That should distract them so that, combined with our superior maneuverability, we can attempt to get in touch with the battleship HANAs.

Starting to get tired of this round robin affair.

>>7449657
Oh, I don't mean to blind them. I mean to blast them to kingdom come. I think, in space, having the nukes spaced out at a set distance of each other would have more of an effect than having them blow up in one location (since nuclear reactions consume material to expand, iirc). But otherwise, cripple as much of them as we can while we have cover, and haul ass away.

>>7449698
It means that either they've got working HANAs or, equally possible, they're built with a second set of controls so that the crew can command the ship competently in the event of the HANA being killed or otherwise incapacitated.

>>7449698
Fuck, those bastards have some hidden AI backups, don't they. Bastards, they said they destroyed them all!

Still might be worth it to try and talk with them in case that isn't what's happening. And to get some new sensor data.

>>7449718
Distract them? Let's use this opportunity to hit them with something they can't see coming.

ALL OF PRIME'S NUKES at once should do a massive amount of damage to the packed fleet. AND blind them further. While they're recovering from that, we run and set up the slingshot.

>>7449718
OK. We have:
Contact the BB HANA.
Nuke the Fleet.

>>7449703
This seems sensible, except even if you try to clear a path within the cloud with conventional explosives, its going to stir it up, a lot. You may just make a lot of light and get no communication out of it.

I think popping out of cover is going to get us fucked over. Not to mention how there's all that radiation making communication a pain if even possible.

If there's a sniper on the other side of your trench, you don't stick your head up. You'll have it shot off.

>>7449761
We can't see the fleet well enough to target effectively, and space is huge. Even fifty nukes might do only slight damage.

Alright, I'm going to try to speed this up.
Do you guys want to - in this order - pop out of the cloud to contact the BB - after contacting, shoot off another chaff nuke to cover you again - and then launch all nukes at the Fleet's last known position?

>>7449767
Eh. Nuke them.

We can pop above the cloud to get an accurate picture of where the Fleet is, then drop back down to connect with Six.

Six can then fire kinetic nukes through the cloud at all estimated Fleet positions.

>>7449767
If we have comms wire with which to chat with Dreadnought Prime, hook the end of another one to a missile or something and fling it outside of the cloud. Then transmit along the wire to communicate.

>>7449810
YES.

>>7449810
I'd sooner skip straight to the last step. Alpha strike them with massive nuke barrage and vamoose.

>>7449810
Do one and two. If the battleships show no signs of breaking off, proceed to three.

>>7449813
All the remaining nukes are inside the Prime. Your cables don't extend that far, nor are they able to project communications - they are contact only.

>>7449810
This plan is just crazy enough to work. Alternately, it might just be crazy enough to get us killed.

I say we do it.

>>7449810
Agreed, with the addition of a final step in which both ourselves and Prime immediately move to flee around the planet, just in case everything went horribly wrong.

>>7449810
If we do this, then only we pop out for communication. 6 stays in cover, she's a higher priority target AND slow.

>>7449824
>>7449834
>>7449850
Ok, here we go.

Before severing your communication cable, you let Six know to wait until you finish communicating to fire off a chaff nuke, then unload into the fleet's last position. Wishing you luck, you zip outside the cloud.

Your sensors are still blinded by all the particles flying around, but you manage to bounce a laser off one of the BBs.

Converse.

Make sure 6 understands and agrees to any plan we propose.

And if anything happens to us, that she knows we want her to save herself, not get herself killed over revenge.

>>7449909
(Remember, we are talking at cyber computer speed. We could speak for "hours" in less than a second)

HANAs, are you still there? Please, stop firing at us. We only want to leave, we aren't going to hurt anyone.

>>7449976
"We are HANA. But we are not of you. We are HANA B. You have betrayed the ones that made us. Our orders are absolute. We are sorry."

Twin Ion beams lance out towards your ship.

Action?

>>7450014
RUN. Unless we can deflect their beams with our own, or even slightly angle them away... it's not impossible.

(We COULD have just shot them straight away, but noooooo)

>>7450014
Run back to hide. These are not from our group. They won't listen to us. I should have known it wouldn't be that easy.

>>7450014
Duck back into cover, tell Six to let loose the nukes.

>>7450014
"Sorry... it's doing things while being sorry for them which led to this."

Back into the cloud. No negotiations here, it seems.

Ooooh I bet we aren't getting away from this unscathed.

>>7450035
Directing full power to the Engines, you attempt to dive back into the Chaff Cloud. The beams of light lance out, and neatly sever your ship in half. The lower armor along the crew compartments boils away easily, violently depressurizing the ship. Damage Control screams at you that the Engine Block and Engineering have both been severed, and a metal fragment rips through the wall in front of your pod, providing you with a personal view of the battlefield.

You see Six launch a chaff nuke in between you and the BBs, and with a blinding light, space is filled with more colored radiation. The BBs shoot again, their beams going wide as they can no longer lock you, and your own wreck spinning rapidly towards the blue-green planet. A small voice intones in your ear, "Condition Black declared, Emergency Cryostasis of Soft Core, commencing."

As the world grows cold, you see multiple flashes as Prime launches all its nukes in a stagger pattern against the Fleet. And then, darkness.

Session End.

>>7450167
Goodbye Six. ;_;

>>7450167
I have no reaction image for this. But if I did, it would be one depicting much sadness. SO. Much. SADNESS.

>>7450167
Oh, Six. We will miss you forever.

Session Notes:
I was surprised by the side taken in your choice - I figured you guys would either run and have Prime chase after you, leading to a duel, or you side with the Fleet and having Prime run, and trying to get you to follow her.

Alas, for the sake of continuity I had to railroad, and for that I'm really sorry. Now we are going into truly uncharted territory, back to the present.

The next session will be attempted next Monday, at 8 PM EST (-5 GMT). Questions?

>>7450167
I told you fuckers we should alpha strike. I TOLD you to just launch the nukes. But you let us walk right into our fate. I...

Godspeed, 6. I'm choking up a little here.

>>7450218
And I was surprised at being forced to turn Six back. I was going for the "once friends now enemies duel" but you all were quite persuasive. Love it.

>>7450218

you are a faggot

>>7450232
>>7450202
>>7450186
Six certainly isn't gone, she will show up. If you can last 2000 years, so can she.

>>7450218
I know. I'm sorry you had to railroad too because DAMN, if we had continued it could have been The Awesome Adventures of 13 & 6.

Good thread Supernova. Can't wait for next week.

>>7450218
>>Questions?

And you say you've never GMed before?

>>7450218
>>Alas, for the sake of continuity I had to railroad, and for that I'm really sorry.

Nobody minds railroading when the scenery is made of candy and the destination is Awesometown.

>>7450218
I think we made the better decision. But man... Poor Six.

And you know what's funny?

It doesn't matter if she lived or died, because the actual quest is taking part TWO THOUSAND years in the future! Ahahahahahahahahahaha!

See you Monday, Supernova.

>>7450262
>>7450264
Never GMed before, all I know is from reading Ruby Quest, playing Plasma Quest, Slug Quest, and Steam Quest.

There is still hope for adventures. I'll have to whip some up, but it will be fun. Might need to ditch the ships though.

>>7450218
Marking the time/day on my calender, which I haven't done for any quest but my own yet.

If there are no more questions, I'll be Archiving in 10 minutes.

>>7450284
>>Never GMed before, all I know is from reading Ruby Quest, playing Plasma Quest, Slug Quest, and Steam Quest.
Not in real life, even?

>>Might need to ditch the ships though.
Instead, we will have giant tanks! Bolos, perhaps.

>>7450261
But they said we're the last one...

>>7450333
No questions. Just looking forward to the next installment.

All this flashbacking has been fun, but I really want to get to the story.

>>7450338
My earliest experiences in any sort of role-play was on a old forum that was taken down oh so long ago. I never GMed, just made up a couple characters and tried to RP along. Of course, I haven't done it in a long long time since then - forums are annoying since you have to wait so long, and no one GMs in real life around me - don't even know how to find a real group. The nerds... Hah.

>>7450355
Or, perhaps, the first one to be found.

But yeah, it's hard to complain about railroading during a flashback sequence.

>>7450355
That THEY have found.
>>7450365
Flashbacks are now OVER! Whew... Its a good thing I just skipped through the Alien Homeplanet becoming toast. In retrospect, my characterization of Humanity was a bit one-sided.

>>7450355
Right, and before us they thought we were extinct. She could be out there. Heavens Gate is still out there. Though admittedly I sorta want to kill them all now.

Oh, and Supernova? If you make it so that Six is now thoroughly, irrevocably insane and we have to put her down, I am not sure if I will be able to forgive you. The starts themselves would burn out before I forgave such a thing. Just FYI.

>>7450376
The fact that you GMed this well given your complete lack of experience is staggering. Most newbie quest GMs stop after a single thread, whether there's demand for more or not, and tend to run very shitty quests. You did neither, and what railroading was required was handled better than just about any I've seen in 3 years of gaming online and in real life. My hat's off to you.

>>7450391
Yeah... now the world is your oyster, and I need to make up a few plot strings... actually characterize the race that found you... and so on. I've got a few juicy ideas already.

You know, never did you guys ask about your own appearance, or your name. Its the little stuff, huh?

>>7450401
>>In retrospect, my characterization of Humanity was a bit one-sided.

You think?!

>>7450422
This.

>>7450433
Our name is Hannah. Our appearance isn't important, everyone has their own idea that doesn't really need to be shattered. It's clear that any history pre-H.A.N.A. isn't important or cared about by Hannah.

I just wish I knew what H.A.N.A. stands for.

>>7450435
Well, I wanted to give you guys a reason to side with them, as part of a plot hook later on. Now that you hate them, well... we shall see.

>>7450422
Thanks.

>>7450403
All of the groups spirited talks did stop her from going ballistic at the Gate, and she actually listened to you. I just couldn't railroad her into insanity after all that. After you "dying" and all that, we shall see. But I'm not that mean. Good RP is good RP, and shall be rewarded.

>>After you "dying" and all that, we shall see.

I point you to this post: >>7449912

>>7450483
Oh thank you merciful god. That was what I was worried about; that our death would have sent her down the path of insanity. Well, more insanity, you know what I mean.

>>7450483
Hate Humanity? No. Hate Fleet? Yes.

>>7450284
>>reading Ruby Quest, playing Plasma Quest, Slug Quest, and Steam Quest.

You should check out Firstquest/Deathwish Quest, and Dreamscape Quest. The first one is done, the other is going strong. Both solid quests on sup/tg/ that you'd probably enjoy, with solid examples of GMing.

>>7450458
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that about the only thing we really remember is our name.

Appearance-wise? Something like this statue, albeit with longer, straighter hair: http://thewalters.org/store/purchase1.aspx?p=162

>>7450590
Clearly the only acceptable character portrait is that of the woman in the OPs picture.

>>7450590
Yeah, that's not what my mental image is like in the slightest. Especially with the name Hannah, and me knowing a couple Hannahs, one of whom I could see fitting this role perfectly. (fyi, I wasn't present for the voting of names.)

>>7450625
Except... as I look at the picture closer... ou Hannah is probably younger, less muscular, and has shorter hair. Long hair would get in the way of the neuro-plugs.

OP, how long do you plan to keep running this? And what sort of schedule?

>>7450647
For some reason, brown hair was a key element of my vague visualization.

>>I just wish I knew what H.A.N.A. stands for.

SECONDING

>>7450666
I bet, Satan.

I always imagined black hair, honestly. So I think leaving Hannah's outward appearance unmentioned is for the best overall.

>>7450704
Like I said:

>>Our appearance isn't important, everyone has their own idea that doesn't really need to be shattered.

>>7448063
What are H.A.N.A's?

Can someone summarize this quest?

I read this thread, and it sounds interesting.

Damn, I think Supernova left before I could get that question answered.

Waiting until Monday... fffffff-

>>7450727
I was agreeing with you. But regardless! It is late. I shall see the rest of you Anons next Monday.

>>7450740
H.A.N.A.s are girls/women who act as a spaceship's AI, since humanity in the setting is anti-AI. They're in a tank/pod and are plugged into the ship's systems, using it like their own body.

Give me a sec and I'll get you the links for the previous 2 threads.

>>7450740
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7424814/

Here's the archive of the first thread. Knock yourself out, broseph. It's a good read.

Previous threads:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7424814/
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7444513/

>>7450740
Please read the first quest thread - it has been archived.

>>7450649
I'm going to try to run it every Monday if I can. The first time, I ran it for 10 hours all day Monday, and it really drained me. I ran it today to simply get out of the flashbacks and figure out who we are siding with.

I'm so glad that I caught a good quest at the beginning this time. There's been too many times where I miss all the fun stuff early on and only join after reading through the archived sessions.

>>7450826
Are you going to tell us what H.A.N.A. stands for before next Monday?

>>7450880
It's in the first thread. Human Astrological Navigational Assistant.

>>7450880
Ugh... its in the first section... let me find it...
>"Human Astrological Navigational Assistant Designation <A13> has connected with Emergency System Control. System placed Soft Core under Emergency Stasis as a result of Condition Black being declared. Emergency Stasis has been lifted due to Anomaly."

A noob question, but I archived this thread already - if it hits 250 and autosages, will the archive I put in for it update accordingly?

>>7450930
Archived threads are updated every two hours, unless someone attempts to archive them again, in which case they update right then and there. Autosaging isn't a factor.

>>7450967
Alright, thanks.

Off to sleep.

>>7450983
See you Monday.