YES! i didn't miss tauquest!

is looking around for a weapon of our very own still on the table?

>>8426561
Find our way to a security station to get a weapon then make to deck 3 to get the Lady's trinket.

where are we again?

>>8426591
>>8426615

>>8426619
Deck 5, near where we met the Lady.

>>8426615
seconded

I know cyberspace is the lady's domain, but can we still manually check the computers for background info?

Remember this place, the database room, it could be important in the future.

You silently turn from the processing unit, your hand tingling slightly as you disengage your tentative interface with the datastream, and instead consult the information you've compiled on the ship. There are numerous security stations on each deck, although so far many seem to have been picked clean before the evacuation. You haven't paid a visit to the command center on this deck yet, though, so there may yet be something worth finding.

Unrelated, roll 1d100.

rolled 63 = 63

>>8426688

Let's try something. Find a random object and try to manipulate it with our new powers...

rolled 68 = 68

>>8426688

>>8426673
Checking databases with keyboard rather than neural uplink, I mean

>>8426698
What powers? We have enhanced strength, endurance and a Scarab Foundry, not telekinesis.

>>8426708

Wont the Lady still notice our probing around?

>>8426714
and wings dont forget the wings

we should try and start our scarab swarm. next time we get necrodermis we should create a new drone.

>>8426688
Check command after we investigate computers here

(also, 63? We are so fucked)

>>8426714

We can consume dead Necron. Perhaps we can do the same with other objects. Or even build Non-necron things.

>>8426720
Leave the lady alone, investigate the ships logs and other information

>>8426755

but doesn't she inhabit the whole dataspace? who's to say she's partitioned herself? i think its risky.

As you depart the data center, you cast a glance towards the various terminals scattered about the space. Each one displays a scrolling array of necron glyphs which you can't quite understand, but nonetheless recognize as a security lockout. The Lady appears to have taken precautions against your snooping.

It wouldn't be that easy, you realize. If you expect to learn more about your mistress, the best source is probably the research notes taken when it was brought aboard. Maybe you can even locate its sarcophagus, provided it hasn't been moved.

The chilled ranks of databanks gives way to more mundane corridors as you move away from the Lady's domain, exiting the data center on your way to the security hub. Caution guides your steps, however, the memory of the necron wraith that attacked you mere minutes ago still fresh in your mind.

Unrelated, roll 1d100.

rolled 46 = 46

>>8426805

rolled 46 = 46

>>8426805

>>8426810
>>8426813
whoa, what are the odds?

rolled 9 = 9

>>8426720
>unrelated roll


HAH!

>>8426813
>>8426810
wow

>>8426817
About one hundred to one.

>>8426817
1 in 1000 i think

rolled 80 = 80

>>8426805
Alright, remember to keep our eyes peeled for any dataslates and non lady terminals

>>8426823
>rolled a 9

>>8426838

It depends. If it's specifically two 46s, then it's 1 in 10000. If it's just two of the same number in a row, it's 1 in 100.

>>8426838
1 to 10000, if I remember that stuff correctly.

>>8426844
Doesn't matter, OP goes with the first roll. Still, a 46 is pretty good considering all the absolutely horrible rolls we usually get.

>>8426865
I think it would be if going for 46 specifically it would be all the possible outcomes 1 and 1 1 and 2, With all the possibilities of doubles.

A whisper tickles at the edges of your perception, distant and indistinct. It doesn't seem to be the presence of another necron, at least none that you've encountered thus far, but neither does it sound like the quiet murmur of air circulators or conduits that you've grown accustomed to as you've explored the bowels of the ship.

Roll 1d100 and declare an action.

>>8426909

rolled 50 = 50

>>8426909

rolled 14 = 14

>>8426909
Brace ourselves!

>>8426920
Didn't state an action, doesn't count.

>>8426920

Faking rolls is frowned upon.

rolled 23 = 23

>>8426909
Keep alert

>>8426922
nice

rolled 74 = 74

>>8426909
Look around
Have drone scan the area

>>8426957
forgot to switch what I was rolling

>>8426922
Would you mind not noko-ing for these die rolls? It's not that we don't trust you, it's just... well, actually, that's exactly it.

>>8426998
;_;

>>8427017
See, with most quests you want high rolls, so it doesn't matter because putting in something very high runs the risk of going over and getting exposed. But for a quest where you want low, it's all too easy to noko in a d30 for a low result, and no one would be the wiser.

>>8427045
I swear it was a d100!

Alright, next time delete the noko part...

>>8426964
You come to a stop, scanning your surroundings for any sign of threat. Silently, Drone disengages from its dock beneath your wings and levitates clear of you, curling its stinger into a ready position in case a threat should present itself.

'At last,' an unfamiliar voice rasps, suffusing your perception in the same way as the Lady's - you instantly recognize it as a form of wireless communication employed by the necrons. 'It... is a pleasure, little... one. I have been eager to meet... you.

'I am the Dusk... of Uncountable Suns.'

Shit, shit, shit!

>>8427115
uh oh

8427115

Ask what is going on? Why are you and the Lady in conflict? I though that Necrons were united.

>>8427115
Oh goody! Here's where we get to accept missions from Dusk as well! I expect that this mission will have 4 outcomes:

1: Fail to get the item.
2: Give item to Lady.
3: Give item to Dusk.
4: Keep item for ourselves.

"Hello. Goodbye." Shut down communication with him. If we can't then just ignore him. We have enough problems on our hands already.

>>8427115
"Hello"

We're the new lord on the block. Maybe Dusk is just being neighborly.

>>8427159

rolled 61 = 61

>>8427192
we're not a lord yet.

>>8427203
Emphasis on YET.

>>8427217
of course

If we want to be, we will be. Simple as that.

"YOU!
Why do you keep trying to kill me?"

>>8427245
I think he's saying we should play dumb

>>8427245
Yeah, but there's probably a reason he and the lady split.

"I've been meaning to ask... what were you before you were a robot?"

'There is much you do... not understand,' the Dusk drones, its language stilted as if it were unused to communicating. Not an unreasonable expectation, considering how few necron lords there must be. 'Come... to deck seven. I will show... you.'

Can we tell where this voice is coming from?

>>8427281
Deck 7. We must go to Dusk 7. Assuming the Lady is telling the truth is too great a risk.

For all we know, she's the Deceiver being a bigger dick than Eldrad.

>>8427281
Whatever, if he wanted to kill us, I'm pretty certain he would of already made his move. Follow him.

>>8427281
"Can you deal with the locks on these doors?"

>>8427304
Or it's just a big fat trap.

>>8427281
we should make a spy cam in our forge to go for us.

>>8427284
in our head radio

>>8427281
"Hmmm, walk into an obvious trap?
Yeah, no thanks."

>>8427281
"Sorry, we've got business on deck 3. Maybe next time we're headed in your direction, but we're busy right now."

>>8427281
"I'm sorry, but you've been trying to kill me for a while now, so why should I trust you?
How am I supposed to know this isn't some sort of trap?"

>>8427324
we should totally make a little hovering eye that can scout ahead and all around keep watch.

Name it Blinky

>>8427281

Oh great. More Necron trickery.

>>8427324

Agree, we need a lifeless scout.

We will have to be an honest necron, once we become the Mistress of the Undying Swarm.

Honest and necron are two word that don't go together.

Currently trying to come up with a name in Tau to call oursleves.

right now i have Fio Mesme ( earth combination ) but I can't find a word that would work for necron.

>>8427481
Unless the word "aren't" is in between them.

Ask Drone for advice.

Gue T Aloh Fio lit. Being of Cold Earth

>>8427498
Korst'la means 'reaper' or 'being of death'
That sounds spot on for a necron

>>8427498
Korst'la: “Death being” or “Reaper”

>>8427498
>>8427539
What's wrong with Mistress of the Undying Swarm?

>>8427574
that's our Title

not what we are

>>8427566
>>8427568
Korst'la mind

>>8427568
>>8427566

Fio Korst'la Mesme?

or maybe just Tau Korst'la

>>8427604
Sounds good- though we should keep xeno as a nickname

>>8427640
well that's our name, not what we are.

>>8427604
I like it

Also, Shas - still wanting to say >>8427372
>>8427314

Get Dusk to prove his intentions to us and help us find a weapon.

So, consensus seems to be leaning towards investigating deck 7 at SOME POINT

>>8427604

I approve.

>>8427604
this is just so we can stop calling ourselves Necron, which we agree that we are not.

'That is regretable,' Dusk states, although if your refusal to comply had any emotional impact on the necron, it doesn't convey. At least the Lady expresses a grudging satisfaction when you defy its expectations. 'But very mortal. Prepare for unforeseen... consequences.'

The connection drops, leaving you to silently ponder. What little you know of the Dusk of Uncountable Suns, you've learned from the Lady... a being that you fully realize isn't much of an improvement, whose only saving grace is that it appears to be too weak to pose a threat.

Drone confirms that both lords are equally likely to be working against your interests. Deprived of the Lady's influence over it, your scarab seems to have taken a much more pragmatic view of things and has come to the conclusion that you are the only lord with serving on the Su'T'ji.

Unwilling to wait any longer for the inevitable reprisal, you make haste to the security center.

>>8427686
Well crud, maybe we can trick them into fighting each other, while we pretend to work for either's interests. In the meantime, here's hoping we find a weapon!

>>8427686
This dusk guy is touchy,
We weret rejecting him outright, we just needed more than his word that he would kill us.

>you are the only lord with serving
Awww... Drone, you're so sweet.

>>8427686
>Prepare for unforeseen... consequences
......Really, you had to quote that?

Be on guard.
If we have any necrodermise left, make a mindless scout drone

>>8427686
>BAWWWWWWW, the girl-Tau won't play with me! I'll make threats and plans to kill her! Yeah, that'll show her!

Geeze, what a fucking child.

>>8427753
Lady is SHODAN, Dusk is the G-Man. >>8426610 is probably GLaDOS.

Wait:
So, the dusk of countless suns is the G-Man?

>>8427767

...and that makes us?

>>8427779
Half-Life makes so much more sense now...

>>8427788
What do you mean? We're Xeno. We are unique.

>>8427788
Gordon Frohman.

>>8427779
if thats true then honestly id rather serve him over Shodan, but as we have seen usually if this is what Dusk will play like, he will somehow manipulate us into doing his dirty work no matter what

>>8427816
I'm ok with this

>>8427822
Dear god... The Necrons are so fucked...

So, onto command center!

Time...has... run out... Miss Fio Korst'la

>>8427841
Fio Korst'la is our new race, not our name. which is still Xeno

>>8427840
this

>>8427788
A combination of Chell, Gordon Freeman, Isaac from Deadspace, and Motoko Kusanagi

>>8427853
Still, you gottta admit, for that line, it works better than just "Xeno".

You arrive at the security station, sealing the door behind you as your apprehension begins to fade. Your brush with the Dusk of Uncountable Suns was disconcerting to say the least. You can't help but wonder what it's thinking, or if its actions are guided by nothing more than sixty-five million years of dementia.

Regardless, you find yourself once more in comfortably familiar surroundings. The security stations all seem to follow a common layout with broad, tempered windows overlooking the common areas of their control zones. An unlocked terminal sits nearby and several lockers stand ready to be inspected, although if past experience is any indication, you aren't likely to find a weapon.

Declare an action and roll 1d100.

>>8427871
I'm still ok with this

>>8427877
"Little Fio Korst'la" then, instead of "Miss"

First the security center. The command center could be heavily guarded. If we want to have any chances then we need weapons.

rolled 7 = 7

>>8427879
I have drone scan for traps

rolled 48 = 48

>>8427879
Check lockers.

rolled 72 = 72

There's bound to be a weapon in one of those lockers, start hacking.

rolled 63 = 63

>>8427879

Find weapons, armors and equipment.

rolled 38 = 38

>>8427879
Lockers, then investigate terminal

>>8427894
and weapons?

rolled 36 = 36

>>8427879
LOOK FOR STUFF

>>8427914
.... And weapons

What ever we do fin, if it's not weapons, we should try to convert into material and build a camrera scout in our forge.

>>8427894
Drone is happy to oblige, flitting around the room as it evaluates your surroundings for potential threats. You leave the scarab to carry about its task, but the moment you turn your back you hear an excited chirp! Drone buzzes frantically, circling a yellow crate that appears out of place in the austere security center. Bold lettering on the container indicates that it originated in research and development.

>>8427975
RnD? WEAPONS!!!

>>8427975
Well, that may be trouble
Any indication of what's in the box?

>>8427994
Experimental Prototype Weapons at that!

>>8427975
have drone open the crate carefully checking it for any possible traps, approach with caution

>>8427975

Examine the box before opening. Find warning letters or other signs of danger. Oh and the code number.

>>8427975
Can we scan the contents of the crate without opening it? There might be something fragile or deadly inside that would warrant not opening it.

I think I got a good surname for us. Xeno Ta'ro'cha

Ta'ro'cha lit. of many minds.

Check terminal for info

Drone gives it a heroic effort, but finds the clasps on the container to be too much trouble and simply devours them instead, processing the packing material into neatly ordered atoms of necrodermis base for your foundry. Once the seal is broken, the scarab has no trouble in squirming into the case and popping the lid open with an extension of its wings, revealing the contents for you.

The sight is a strange one, as you're able to recognize at once how advanced and primitive the weapon is. Somehow, tau scientists have succeeded in replicating necron gauss technology in a man-portable weapon system. While there is a superficial resemblance to other infantry rifles, the necron heritage of the weapon is obvious in the pronged barrel and long, tubular focusing element.

Your hands itch as you pick it up, a sensation that you recognize as an instinct to break down the technology and incorporate it into yourself. You know with utmost certainty that you are more than capable of elevating the device to its proper specifications, making whole an otherwise incomplete copy.

>>8428104
What do you mean, incomplete?

>>8428104

It's hand-integrated gauss cannon time.

>>8428104
Score!

>>8428104

Try to improve the Necron components AND the Tau components. Also add the model to your database.

>>8428104
Oh sweet tau it's perfect for us!

>>8428128
I'm guessing it means it will upgrade with us

>>8428128
Primitive Tau copy of Necron tech. It's probably incomplete because they couldn't get it right.

>>8428151
Keep hands

upgrade gun

also, Have bob eat the rest of that box. mm necrodermis.

make a tail to mount the weapon on

We probably won't be able to do our crazy acrobatics if we have a gauss flayer arm.

>>8428165
A tail? Don't be ridiculous.

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY

>>8428174
or more arms

>>8428165
We don't need a tailgun when we can have a crotchgun.

>>8428165
>>8428174

Why not a extended metallic spine to mount it on, pew-pew from above the head?

>>8428104
fix up the gun, have drone eat the rest of the box, KEEP HANDS! hell why not have it shoulder mounted if we really want to incorporate it into us?

What if we build it into our palms like Iron Man?

>>8428183
but we don't want gender reassignment surgery

>>8428144
>>8428161
This. Keep our hands, but finish the gun.

>>8428192
THIS!

>>8428183
...

ya, no.

>>8428192
This, or in the very least, make it an arm cannon like Samus.

We're not Space Pirates damn it, no need to constantly weaponize every limb we have.

are you dudes archiving or saving these threads? i kinda like to go over them in archives

I suggest to improve the guns and add small versions of the devices hidden inside our hands/arms. This way we could have more firepower and versatility.

>>8428192
that would be awesome but u realize that means we would have to turn our entire arm into necron then right? i mean im pretty sure that will be one hell of a traumatizing experience

>>8428228
We, we could always just do both arms so we aren't lopsided.

>>8428227
i like this, but can we even fit the tech of this thing in an arm?

Here's an idea: we could use it like a regular gun.

>>8428227

Make sure that the design don't reduce our dexterity/mobility.

>>8428237
I'm guessing we should be able to fit a gauss flayer into a forearm. It might lose a bit of power, but it'd be doable.

>>8428237
We can rearrange molecules into use as necrodermis, doesn't seem far fetched for a organic looking arm to convert into a gauss flayer. Although, I'm still against converting our entire arm into a weapon and simply adepting the gun itself to being easily held.

>>8428247
That's what I'm for. Just because we're part-Necron doesn't mean we want to be MORE Necron.

>>8428212
I'm not saying to DO it, just that it would be more fitting for /tg/ to have some TG going on.

>>8428247
best idea. let's just upgrade it and not assimilate it.

>>8428262
Right now, our defences consist of acrobatics and the phylactery. It'd probably hurt our taumanity less to integrate the flayer now to keep our hands free to help with our acrobatics, thereby lowering phylactery usage.

I thought we were embracing our Necronitude now.

>>8428277
Yeah. Fix it so that it's up to its full potential and then use it like a regular gun.

Regular guns are passé. What we need is one or more robot arms.

>>8428227

Include Tau modifications into the devices.

>>8428183
think scorpion tail but instead of stinger you has an energy cannon.

No
USE THE GUN LIKE A GUN
DON'T FUSE IT TO OUR BODY!

Guys, guys, guys. Remember what happened to our awesome fusion torch? If we assimilate it, we can't be disarmed.

Unless our arms are actually ripped off, in which case we're literally disarmed...

you know, another set of arms wouldn't be such a bad idea.

>>8428308
Seconded

Hey, does anybody else feel like Shas is just sitting back and letting us bicker?

>>8428319
"But I don't have any arms to hug you with!"

;_;

>>8428325
Shuddup!

Why not both solution. Separate gun and a second Self-defense mechanism into our arm, we could even upgrade either weapon later.

>>8428330
that's why me should get a tail/extra set of arms

>>8428330
i call to have the iron man idea in place, Robat arm and hand with the gun built into the palm. how could someone not think that would be awesome!?!?!?!?

>>8428327
Yeah, I'm getting that too

>>8428346
Enough, we're not turning Xeno into a Tomb Scorpion whatever.

>>8428327
Yeah, it's kind of annoying. And then he'll come in and "It did it itself because you couldn't agree on anything." Which is stupid; you have a half dozen or more people and we are not just going to suddenly start agreeing on it. We either need to start having votes for things or find some way of getting a consensus met, because this shit isn't working and just wastes time.

>>8428343
>>8428346
>>8428347
NO

Alright, everyone for keeping our arms and just fixing the gun (FOR NOW), say aye!

Whatever the choice, we should upgrade the Tau and Necron tech and add the model in our memory.

>>8428363
I.

Aye

>>8428363
I'm absolutely in favour of arms.

Do we really want to end like Abaddon?

Totally for the hand-cannon.

>>8428363
aye.............for now

Keep the Rifle upgraded (Tau and Necron componetns). Also keep our arms, but include small devices hidden that serves as mini gauss guns.

AYE!

extra arms that can be hidden under are wings

Just wait and see. We'll lose this gun just like we did the last one. And the saw before that.

Hand-cannon. We still have our hands, after all.

And when was the last time you were able to feel the core of your arms?

we could put it in are drone foundry and make it a gun drone

Guys, are you aware that as a Tau our sight is not very good as it could be (especially being from Earth Caste). Perhaps we should try to resolve this problem...

So, a consensus has been found.

Upgrade weapon, do not integrate with body

>>8428457
Judging from our current tasks and where we're heading...

>>8428457
If we do, we're getting realistic eye implants, not those crappy things like Bottou has. Or however you spell his name.

>>8428465
I'd rather make it a gun drone

You run your hands along the barrel of the gauss carbine, reshaping it like a sculptor manipulating clay. Components transform at your touch, taking on new configurations as your nanites rearrange the weapon to meet its full potential. When you're done with it, the boxy weapon looks almost completely different, a fusion of tau and necron technology that incorporates the best elements of both - there's a certain relevancy to it that you can appreciate.

Drone glances up from its feast of raw materials, stripping the security station of anything not strictly useful. Gorged with atomic material, it returns to replenish your own supply and resituates itself on the dock between your wings.

>>8428499
We have a weapon, and our Drone is fed. What say you, guys: TIME TO KICK ASS YET!?

>>8428499
So we're looking at 30" range, S:5 AP:5 and Special:Gauss?

>>8428457
Mr. Battau, Mr. Battau!

>>8428517
No, let's argue for another two hours.

>>8428499

Right, now find an armor a helmet, photon grenades and other equipment.

>>8428499
Check terminal

>>8428529

Roll 1d100

>>8428519
WHY DID YOU CRASH YOUR HARD DRIVE SATELLITE INTO THE SUB? FFS, YOU COULD HAVE USED A FUCKING WORTHLESS CELLPHONE SATELLITE OR TV SATELLITE BUT NOOOOOOOOO, YOU HAD TO FUCKING SACRIFICE YOURSELVES!

D-damnit mini-tanks, i-it's not like I liked you or anything...

rolled 52 = 52

>>8428539

rolled 81 = 81

>>8428539

ROLLIN!

rolled 16 = 16

>>8428539

rolled 1 = 1

>>8428539
Here goes something!

>>8428540
Fortunately, unlike the Tachikomas, we're Drone's hard drive.

rolled 66 = 66

>>8428528

Use this one, please.

>>8428548
I don't suppose we could use this one instead of the 52?

>>8428548
I...
I don't believe it.

I rolled a natural 1.

I ROLLED A NATURAL1

>>8428565
And since it's not the first roll, it doesn't mean shit.

Why do we always roll shit initially, and then roll fantastic?

>>8428575
....

god dammit

>>8428565
well fuck................

>>8428541
You take your time and review the records found on the security terminal, but nothing of significance leaps out at you. Surprisingly, even though you're now able to recognize and process data with machine-like efficiency, shift status reports still bore you out of your mind. After just a few minutes and several gigabytes of data, you come to understand how so many necrons go insane.

rolled 57 = 57

>>8428603
have drone eat the terminal for wasting are time

>>8428603
Can we use this knowledge to prevent ourselves from going insane?

>>8428603
What can we do with our Drone now that we've both been consuming materials for ourselves and the forge? Can we upgrade him, or perhaps make another one?

>>8428616
defiantly this. have drone deposit the materials in us and eat the terminal.

>>8428603

OK. From now. Drone shall assist us when we try to manipulate data/computers.

>>8428603
Alright
Get a move on I guess
Search for armor or something

>>8428626
ya just how much necrodermis do we have? considering both drone and us have been happily eating away at material, also just what upgrades can we afford to create with our current stache?

>>8428626
let's make that camera scout!

>>8428626
How about we make a scout variety
Essentially a floating camera

if we have enough necrodermis then we should make a camera scout. and if possible another Gun Drone.

Make a new one with scout capabilities. Also update the processing power of both and link it us in order to increase our hacking abilities duss reducing the chances of becoming insane.

>>8428672
>>8428657
>>8428649
That's the plan!

what about a stealth field?

You flex the manipulators in your foundry, shooing Drone from its dock so that you can tool up. The scarab chitters jealously, in no hurry to share your attention with another construct but you assuage its concern by hiving Drone's consciousness into the new body - after all, you're not entirely certain you can create a machine soul from scratch just yet.

Between your reserves of necrodermis and the raw materials that Drone furnished you with, you're able to rapidly fabricate a brand new scarab of identical specifications. Drone regards itself curiously, one circling around the other as it adapts to its burgeoning hive mind.

>>8428728
D'awww, new friend for Bob! Now, onwards to deck 3.

>>8428728
Yaaaay! Drone has a buddy! :3

Any info on what it can do?

Have both of them collect resources. Then build a third.

Repeat until we are Mistress of the Undying Swarm.

>>8428741

Not yet. We need explosives, armor, photon grenades and maybe computers.

>>8428728
sweet, how much necro do we have left?

Keep Drone Prime with us, send the others out to explore.

>>8428770
Drone Prime

DP

awesome

>>8428757
Uggg, look, it took us 2 hours just to get the gun. There's nothing more in this station, and I'll be damned if we're going to go to each station on each floor. Let's just get the thingamajig already. Besides, we have necrodermis and metal bones and shit; we don't need any armor except maybe a battlesuit which they wouldn't have on the ship anyway.

>>8428781
Ya, we should get a move on.

I wouldn't be averse to armoring up our skin. Pic related.

go explore deck 4 looking for stuff for the drones to eat. then onto deck 3

>>8428781
Agreed, though we should look for a crisis suit if we can. We found this crate, who knows what else we can find still on this ship (or loot from our enemies)

>>8428808
Or maybe we can CONVERT something into armor like we did with the gun.

But, what about checking the terminals? The information therein is our only link to the past

are next drone should be a shield drone

>>8428823
Look, there's not going to be a crisis suit. This is a research vessel. This weapon was probably looted from the tomb and then experimented on by the Tau. We're more likely to find a Monolith in the holding bay then a battlesuit.

>>8428837
WE JUST CHECKED THE FUCKING TERMINALS! THERE WAS NOTHING THERE! NOW GET THE FUCK TO DECK THREE AND MAYBE WE'LL FIND A TERMINAL THERE!

Tau Quest will resume tomorrow evening.

Our next upgrade should be a taucron stealth module or a taucron eye.

>>8428842
Okay, if we find a crisis suit along the way, we'll be sure to pass it up, since there's OBVIOUSLY none on the ship. Gotcha.

Anyway Shas, I'm up for continuing to retrieve the item on level 3.

>>8428728
Play nice Vas Paus
If there is nothing left to loot here, let's move on to the commanders room, and then down tobdeck three

>>8428840
it seems like all the new drones will be copies of Drone Prime, so instead of making a Drone that does X, we upgrade all the drones to work together to produce stronger versions of their current capabilities. I.e. give all the drones the ability to create shields and the more drones that do it, the stronger the shield will be.

>>8428866
Oh, fuck you. That, that, that's just mean is what that is!

>>8428874
I'm just saying we shouldn't go out of our way to look for one.

I think that the sooner we finish Necronizing, the better. We're going to have to fight against some seriously powerful opponants soon.

>>8428907
or at least we shouldn't scour the ship. but the more drones we get the easier it would be to search for things.

>>8428907
And I agreed with you when you said we should just go to find the item on level 3. If we stop by anywhere along the way though, we should do what we can to check what it holds and loot what we can.

>>8428919

Please use the word Taucron, we no longer follow the pure Necron path but the new tau+necron combo.

God DAMIT

Ok so what do you guys think?

Name: Xeno Ta'ro'cha

Title: Mistress of Undying Swarms

Race: Fio Korst'la Mesme (aka. Taucron)

This is a Tau science vessel dedicated to study Necron tech. There should be enough military hardware to defend this place in case that something goes wrong (as it did).

We may be aesthetically Tau, but we're becoming a Necron. It's important to maintain perspective on this.

The difference is that we're a young, dynamic Necron in a galaxy full of old fogeys whose glory days were before the Chaos Gods even existed. We're going to make immortality interesting again.

>>8428950
Looks good

>>8428950

I really want to run with the scarab theme for Xeno's next few upgrades. A set of decorative secondary arms would be really great.

>>8428954
By going on a laugh-a-minute whirlwind journey through the cosmos, making friends and having fun all the way?

>>8428967
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of just creating things. Necrons only ever seem to destroy, but we're Earth Caste, originally. We build.

>>8428954
Just like the gun we are a combination of Tau and Necron. Even when we reach our most advanced stage we will still not be fully Necron, because we are Tau. Therefore, we are both Tau and Necron and neither.

>>8428975
Meh, I like my idea better. It's more easily adaptable into a movie and 13 episode anime.

>>8428990
thirteen... why is it always thirteen...

>>8429012
Long enough to be considered a season and be marketable, short enough to not touch on everything and leave the audience unsatisfied.

Don't get ahead of yourselves- we're nowhere near out of the woods

Alright, so I'm thinking we should come up with a few ideas.

Firstly I think we should find some materials to convert into removable armor because we're unlikely to find any actual armor.

Second I think we should analyse the gun and try to upgrade Drones stinger or convert one the their stingers into a gun like ours.

Third We need to get drone some kind of shield generator or something.

Fourth I think more arms is a good idea, we could keep them under our wings until we need them. With more arms we would have more dexterity and more defending ability.

5 we should see if we can make one of the power amulet things.

>>8429063
I like all of these but the more arms one

>>8429084
Same.

>>8429084
What's wrong with the arms?

>>8429106
Sounds painful, and not very life-friendly, which we still are.

>>8429106
Well first of all, extra arms don't work that way. They won't give us more dexterity, they'll likely get in the way. And second, it's a waste of resources that could better be spent on more drones, getting Drone a Tomb Spider body, or getting to Necron Lord status.

>>8429123
not any more painful then the wings were, and they would be kept UNDER the wings, out of sight out of mind. until we need them.

>>8429129
i guess you have a point there.

I'm gonna make a list up that we can refer to, so what things do you want in what order?

A list of what?

>>8429159
upgrades

>>8429170
Well, I want a Tomb Spider body for Drone first and foremost.

>>8429188
ok, we WANT that first, but is that feasible?

>>8429203
I'm honestly not sure. I'd think so; all we need is to save up enough nanites or whatever and have enough self-control not to use them before we have enough. If we do it right we'll have enough firepower and strength to take on anything short of a Monolith, and we can ride it too.

Ok so hows this for a list

1) Upgrade Bob to Tomb Spyder

2) Make a set of Armor

3) Upgrade drones with better guns

4) Drone shield Generator

5) Create Power generator thingy

>>8429232
I don't think that upgrading drone to tomb spyder is is the right thing to do. for example we are on a space station how is it going to fit through all the passages and doorway?

>>8429277
We've already met a Tomb Spider and it fit just fine. Also, with this form, if need be, he can make his own doors.

>>8429320
but we crawl through air vents and shafts, tomb spyders stroll down the hall. we need to stay stealthy so maybe tomb spyder should wait till later. a lot later.

>>8429320
in was in a large cargo bay not in the main passages

>>8429366
1We saw it earlier. It chased us around the ship through the corridors. It can fit. Besides, why would they even build one here if it couldn't do anything outside of the storage bay?

>>8429359
We haven't done that since we first necro-tized. We don't stealth anymore.

>>8429384
we crawled through a vent to get to the reactor and then we teleported to pretty much where we are now.

>>8429411
Okay, we sneaked once since we got necrotized. Still, having a bit of heavy firepower would be good. We don't have to take it everywhere since Drone can control several bodies at once.

>>8429433
we just got a gun that could be better than expected, and two drones with gun. not o mention we can fly now.

I'm really not seeing much reason for a big bulky tomb spyder anymore. especially since their pretty much weak sauce to us now.

>>8429482
Because it's fucking awesome, okay? I just want us to have something fucking nice.

>>8429510
We just got the Tau Necron HARMONY HARMONY OH LOVE GUN. That's pretty nice.

>>8429578
First of all, that is not, but any stretch of the imagination, Erasure's best song. Second of all, it's a fucking gun. Big fucking whoop. We've punched out Tomb Spiders and Wraiths, we don't need a fucking gun.

>>8429622
*by any stretch

Christ I should go to bed...

>>8429622
>>8429626
why would you want a tomb spyder now that its been shown that they can be punched out

>>8429647
Because we have plot armor. Just because we're able to take them out doesn't mean they're not fucking awesome.

>>8429622
>It's a meme get over it

It's a gun that could probably take out 4 tomb spyders from the SKY in the time and effort it would take to punch 1 to death.

>>8429678
Yeah, we'll see how that works out.

>>8429668
They're NOT awesome, and personally I wouldn't want to turn Drone into one.

more drones for are swarm is probably more cost effective.

>>8429689
Giant particle gun, DCCW, multiple wounds and decent toughness is not awesome? I'm sorry, what is YOUR definition of awesome? Is it a single character who gets unrealistically (lol realistically in sci-fi setting) powerful to the point where it breaks your suspension of disbelief? Because that's where we're headed.

>>8429739
ok, awesome to have as a luxury EVENTUALLY. We need one like we need a Ferrari.