Kill.
Eat.
Sleep.
Do what the Hivemind tells us.
Kill.
Eat.
Sleep.
...

We are the hivemind, tard.

See about putting the power to other uses. Splitting it up to supply energy to alternate things.

>Fucking around on a UED installation
someone is for a world of pain....

>>15809962
Labbrate has been sifting through the scientists' memories since their infestation, and it isn't really sure whether this will work at all, but doesn't think we ought to go making this Terran's plan any more complicated than it already is.

How about regulating the amount of power we supply, by starting off with almost none, and slowly increase it until things are functioning at a minimal power rate (So overloads don't occur)

>>15809908

Massive media blitz? Does this mean that there are tons of other UED colonies with their own burgeoning civilian populations within the proximity of the worldship-park thing?

Also, have the Zerg Science Corp. looked over the innards of the worldship? Perhaps our newly infested scientists can take our best zerg minds on a tour of the off-limits area of the park.

Is it possible to remove the relic from the ship?

As in the how will come later but will disconnecting it from the vessel cause problems?

>>15810117
Possible, but not without it being noticed. Like, "Hey, why are they airlifting the Epcot Center out of Disney World?" noticed.

>>15810094
Labbrate is as impressed by the ship as the Terrans, and feels like it could use it to reverse-engineer the same sorts of things the UED has (especially with that 30 years of background we just picked up), but doubts it will be much more use than that without power. It thinks that the ship might run off of a psionic energy, and that the crystals may be Khaydarin in nature, so a closer study with the proper materials might yield better, safer results, but that would require bringing the piece back to Zerg territory.

As to the vicinity of Terran colonies...the Disney World analogy holds. This is like...Space Florida.

>>15810057
The Terran's plan doesn't allow for this. It's basically completing a circuit.

>>15810224
Then we should either a) Offer a joint research of the thing, or b) Steal it and hide it so we can study it.

my vote is for B.

(Yes, I know I am normally the diplomacy guy... But sometimes, you just want to make war. Y'know?)

>>15810273
(Like when somebody deletes your hard-won Disgaea save game because she's too inept to save in her own damn slot. Bitch)

1 vote for stealing the thing

>>15810361
(Or when someone steals your booze.)

>>15810396
(-Nobody- steals my booze.)

>>15810361

Consult our science-brates. How many zerg units would we have to place on the Worldship in order to recall it to one of our planets?

If we can manage this, we could whisk it away from known space without much of a trail to follow.

>>15810448
...That is an excellent plan, and much better than the one where I had of us landng battlecruisers on it and jumping it away...

>>15810448
Quick number crunching puts the number at fifty overlords, a hundred and thirty zerglings, or roughly a hundred and seventy five infested Terrans, give or take.

They would need to be evenly spaced over the hull, and even then, there's a chance some of the ship might be left behind. Still, so long as no bits of our units were left behind, there wouldn't be very much to point the finger at us, especially since, to our knowledge, the UED has never encountered the Protoss at all.

>>15810531
Can we double, or triple that number with infested Terrans?

Nothing gets left behind....

>>15810531
There are terrans still in the amusement park right? If so, anyway we can infested them, ALL.

>>15810579
which would also allow us to begin infesting the UED, and eliminate any kind of biological tracking, where we would only have to deal with the electronic ones...

>>15810554
Increasing the load much beyond what's required will actually increase the burden, and thus the odds that something will be left behind.

>>15810579
Thousands, easily. If we were to stealthily infest them and sneak them back to the worldship piece...

If we've found a broken circuit, how about we extend the circuit and build in loads of capacitors to account for overload?

Huge capacitors.

>>15810627
>stealthily infest them

Can we bring a few canisters of pressurized zerg spores aboard and dump them into the ventilation systems?

If we wanted to just steal the relic, we could infest some workers and have them start putting p 'sorry for the inconvinence, we are upgrading to rip you of-, I mean, serve you better!' Signs around the thing and put up scaffolding.

If we make the scaffolding metal plates and weld them air tight, we can burn our way through the hull to reach the relic and leave without anyone the wiser.

The fact that there are SCVs around helps.

>>15810627

Do we have any of those spores left over from infesting that farm planet? Those are slow-acting spores, yes, but perhaps our sciencebrates could modify them to be faster, but maintain the subtlety of the infestation.

If the scientists weren't supposed to make a report back to the UED anytime soon, or have any UED officials/agents in the park that check over the thing repeatedly, then perhaps we could bar in the tourists by damaging the airlock. Then we shunt in infestation spores through the ventilation to make them sufficiently zerg, then recall the ship.

>>15810781
We would have to manufacture them, or ship them from the Koprulu Sector. Either option would take weeks.

Our agents can infest other Terrans, though.

I'm voting for infesting the staff and then the tourists before taking the worldship

>>15810856

I suppose that the worldship materializing into warp-space then disappearing would've raised a ruckus anyhow.

How grotesque do our current infested Terrans look like?

How long would it take to ship other subtly-infested Terrans over to the tourist station?

>>15810914

Seconding.

As part of the plan to Recall the worldship, perhaps we should have the younger scientist send out a memo concerning the power relay idea.
When we initiate the Recall, it could look like the completing of the power circuit resulted in the worldship's Jump drive activating in an uncontrolled Jump, and the thing just disappeared. This will give the UED an easily explained cause for the disappearance, and they thus won't suspect enemy action.

>>15810856
Alright, have our agents begin infestation. "All personnel are required to submit to routine medical checks." One at a time in a closed room. Infestation factory.

But we should really build some pressurized spore canisters. We could bombard cities and fortifications with them.

>>15810918
They wouldn't pass a medical scan of any kind, but they can pass for human in most situations.

Our supply of infested Terrans in this area is less than ten. If we intend to use Terrans to psionically anchor the worldship piece, we will need to infest more.

>>15810926
2 for infesting Terrans from the station and recalling

>>15810950
>>15810926

NO.

Go with the plan where we fake the worldship entering ftl.

>>15810950
indeed we should, hell we could take a page out of jurassic park and make the canisters look like everyday items. Shaving cream cans etc

>>15810993
we can still do that after we take over the park

>>15811012
Me btw

I remember that we used to infest places by shoving an IT into the water supply. Might be worth considering. Regardless, we must get that piece-o-ship.

Also, since we now have a pair of UED Terrans, any better idea about how big UED space is, or rumors of Dyles.

>>15810993
But we need to infest more Terrans if we're going to have a strong enough psionic anchor that we could Recall them with the worldship and make it look like an unplanned accidental Warp drive activation.

So, 1 more vote for infesting Terrans and Recalling.
Include the sending out of the memo maybe an hour or two before we do the Recall.

>>15810950
Roll 3d20 for infestificationizing.

rolled 16, 13, 10 = 39

>>15811087
So many dice

rolled 4, 13, 16 = 33

>>15811087
Come on, twenties!

rolled 2, 15, 4 = 21

>>15811087

Rollin'

>>15811057
We would need 6 Terrans for that, as well as access to the local water purification systems.

>>15811077
It seems like UED space is, indeed, as big as Dyles had us believe. However, it also seems that the UED was geared toward colonization and exploration, rather than infighting, like their Confederate cousins. Dyles' infection caught them entirely off-guard, and a dozen world fell in the first few weeks. The UED has since ramped up its war efforts, and intends to push the Alien Menace back to whatever dank hole it crawled out of.

>>15811123
Infesting the Terrans is relatively easy work. Within three hours, we have a hundred of our necessary one hundred and fifty. About two in every three attempts to infest is successful.

Roll another d20 for the last 50.

rolled 14 = 14

>>15811200

>>15811200

Oh yes. Of the memories we absorbed, does any shed any light on the intervention we performed on the two fleets?

>>15811217
The task is deceptively simple. We have our 150 Terrans, and our scientists' knowledge helps to bring them unnoticed to the ship. After a bit of...logistical juggling, their bodies are spread evenly over the surface of the relic.

Now, comes the hard part. Cyberbrate and Labbrate work together to plug in the very delicate and complex formulae to fold space and time to bring the worldship back to the Koprulu Sector, and Internbrate contributes a strong intuition for the necessary guesswork on a target this large.

Roll 3d100, and cross your fingers.

>>15811288
We are...about 75% sure that we saved a UED world from an invasion by Dyles, though neither of the scientists seem very in-touch with current events. Being cooped up in a highly-classified secret installation studying a ship that officially doesn't exist will do that to you.

rolled 13, 16, 16 = 45

>>15811087
I see you rolled, but I wanna check my luck for any later rolls.

rolled 5, 78, 74 = 157

>>15811313

Let's do this!

rolled 22, 74, 81 = 177

>>15811313

>>15811347
>5

Oh my God.

>>15811346
This is a 3d20, not a 3d100. Don't use this roll.

>>15811346
Those were d20's I hope...
>>15811347
>>15811354
looks like we got screwed on our first role... but everything else should go
>Just as planned...

>>15811347
I don't like that 5.

>>15811394
fortunately for us, one of Cerabrate ANon's policies is best out of the first two replies.

SO we shall see if 22 is any better.

>That 5

Fuuuuuu

>>15811374
(It's alright. The other rolls were pretty good. Not great, but good)

>>15811347
The station shudders mightily as the universe bends and a psionic thunderstorm erupts. A dozen of our Terrans are stricken dead, and a dozen more are flung from the craft as it is pulled through. On our side, about 80% of the worldship emerges over Xenta, coated in the blood of infested Terrans.

On the other side, the station's supports buckle, shearing off about a third of the structure. Women, children, and dead-eyed temp workers are thrown into the vacuum of space to die slow, tortuous deaths. The last of our remaining infested Terrans in the system starts to fade from hemorrhaging as it sees emergency vehicles frantically extinguishing plasma fires from exposed power centers.

The Mothership amusement park will...probably never recover.

>>15811556
Well, best getstarted on finding out what this mothership does...

Hopefully it is a varient of a protoss mothership of which we can salvage and make operational through heavy modification and the addition of both zerg and Terran tech...

Hopefully.

>>15811600
(Mothership was the park. What we have is 80% of what was once a chunk of a Xel'Naga worldship)

>>15811556
Check to make sure that we got the worldship fragment intact.
Also, if any of our Zerg Infested are still at the scene of the crime, make sure to police the bodies and destroy evidence of our presence.

>>15811556
"Sir, the worldship... it's been stolen."

"STOLEN!? HOW?!"

"Right from under our noses sir. Warp rift."

"FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU-"

>>15811600
I don't think it's a variant of anything, it's the Xel'Naga worldship for Dad's sake.

>>15811649
Begin advanced research now that it's in our space. Compare it to the Khaydarin Crystals and what we know of them.

>>15811690
Right, yes SCIENCE! NOW!

Well, research it anyways, and we can either use a combination of phyionics, and electricity to make it work, or someone else can come up with a plan.

What's going to be our long term plans with the UED? Eating it up or evntually peace, if given the chance?

>>15811734
>>15811690
>>15811600
Labbrate is vewwy vewwy cawefuw.

It tentatively prods things, both physically and psionically, for a few hours before it brings in a small crystal and attaches it to a subsystem. A spark of light glows within the crystal, and in some of the crystalline elements of the ship, and a small display powers up.

Characters appear that we recognize as Xel'Naga, but not enough of the Overmind's memories of the Xel'Naga remain in us to translate them.

Roll 1d100 and pick somebody (any one of our cerebrates, Artisanlord, or Us) to do the translating.

>>15811788
The answer is simple, nom.

rolled 85 = 85

>>15811861
Let's have ourselves do the translating.

rolled 97 = 97

>>15811861
ARTISANLORD!

>>15811898
The /tg/ dice love that crazy one-clawed artist.

>>15811898

Artisanlord ftw.

>>15811898

Also, what's showing on ZergTV?

Perhaps it is time to branch out channels.

Maybe even a Zerg version of swapping spouses.

>>15811898
(He's almost as good at reconstructing a 40,000 year old dead language as he is BAD at bluffing Morians)

Artisanlord concentrates with savant-like intent for about 30 seconds on the message, and provides us with a perfect translation.

The display says that it is Auxiliary Backup Subprocessing Node 6-C, experiencing massive data corruption, functioning on .2% power, and registering an approximate 91% loss of worldship mass. It suggests that we activate the emergency distress signal and begin evacuation. It claims to be logging over 4,000 error reports and that it is unable to produce today's Holiday, Birthday, and Anniversary Announcements due to catastrophic system failure.

Labbrate wants to know if we would like to attach a larger crystal, to accommodate greater functionality.

>>15812073
...Yes.

And hopefully have cyberbrate work on this too.

>>15812073

Do it.

Do we now have a working knowledge of the language thanks to artisanlord?

>>15812073
More crystals.

>>15812073
Make it so, Labbrate.

>>15812100
Yes. We have no idea how it happened, but yes.

>>15812133
A few more hours of careful tinkering has Labbrate connecting crystals where it thinks they will fit.

Power is slowly restored to the worldship fragment, and the crystalline structures in the wall come to life, glowing and pulsing. Warnings and emergency alarms flicker on nearly every surface. Labbrate deals with them as they come, slowly assuring the ship's computers that the crew is safe, and that the 91% decrease in ship mass is perfectly normal.

There are some close calls, as one subsystem attempts to drain all of our power reserves to restore atmosphere, despite that a substantial portion of the craft is open to space, another attempts a scorched-earth defensive mechanism, and a third attempts to change the ship's desktop theme color to lime green, but we slip by each of them.

Labbrate thinks management of the fragment is stable, for now, if we would like to attempt to glean some knowledge from it.

>>15812276
For SCIENCE!

>>15812276
Quick, how do we hack the protoss data network and make their automated defenses register all non-zerg lifeforms as hostile?

>>15812276
I guess the first thing to do is see if any of the databanks are accessible.

>>15812361
To our understanding, the last time the Xel'Naga interacted with the Protoss, their "defense grid" consisted of spears and moderately-sized rocks.

>>15812362
Data corruption is rampant, from Terran tinkering, trauma (both the trauma that destroyed the ship and the more recent trauma we inflicted on what was left), or simply degradation from age.

A bit of digging shows data intact in folders for operations, design, ship's logs, and bio-diversity.

>>15812458
First, check out designs.
Then bio-diversity, followed by ship's log and operations.

>>15812458
Bio-diversity! Maybe a super cool new strain can be hunted down. Or it just has lots on the protoss, still useful. Design and operations would be handy too.

>>15812458
>>15812475

Nargil gets everything under biodiversity.

>>15812276

Glean away!

With this technology, we could do some crazy shit.

>>15812475
>>15812506
>>15812519
Two for bio-diversity, one for design.

(I've got a headache. We're probably going to look at one before I take some aspirin and go to bed. We should pick something exciting to get into for next week)

>>15812571

Do we still get the option of using the other folders?

But biodiversity might be the thing to give the Zerg a HUGE baseline boost, or introduce terrible new strains of Zerg to deploy against our enemies.

>>15812571
Something exciting for next week... create a low fantasy world and film the goings on for ZergTV.

>>15812654

Survivor: Zerg!

An instant hit!

>>15812629
(Later, probably. The woman's home, so my headache is now getting worse. She just babbled about using the ER for primary care for like, 10 minutes, then turned on the Golden Girls. Apparently, she's got some kind of bug that she's been happily sharing with me, and is likely behind this headache. Lovely)

The sheer size of files in the folder, corrupted or not, is impressive. Most of them are completely unusable, but there are still thousands of detailed files on plants and animals that we have never encountered before.

Nargil isn't entirely sure about learning things from a computer, but is fascinated by a feathered lobster-like creature. It thinks there are applications there, if we can get it the genetic code. Cyberbrate could try, with a bit of effort (1d20).

(We should also choose something to get ready for next week)

rolled 2 = 2

FEATHERED LOBSTER ZERG ARE TEH FUTURE!

rolled 19 = 19

>>15812792

>>15812773
>>15812792
We could also just find out where it's from and collect samples.

rolled 12 = 12

I too, believe that feather lobster zerg are the future.

Go Go Gadget Dice!

>>15812792
Apparently, some of the corrupted data is just too much for Cyberbrate. After a few minutes, not only is the data still incomprehensible, but the reconstruction algorithm has spit out the genetic code of a one-legged bald hamster with severe diabetes.

What a disaster!

>>15812823
There is a planet of origin, but we don't recognize the name. Or the constellation reference.

>>15812858
Produce that hamster and market it to Terran children. The trauma of a dying pet so young will surely cause crippling psychological problems when they try to shoot at zerglings.

>>15812922
I guess it's not a total loss then. Something for next week... besides just having cyberbrate unearth as much as he can from the worldships memory and labrate science poking the thing itself?

>>15812956
Urrrg. I feel like saying something about the masses demanding action, but realistically you guys are the masses, and you're demanding delicious Xel'Naga secrets. So...I guess, more research?

God, I haven't had a headache like this in recent memory.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/15809908/

Hopefully, I'll be hale and hearty next week, so I can give you more than deformed hamsters. How often do I get to say THAT?

>>15812858
NOES! TEH FUTURE HAS ABANDONED US!

>>15812803

>>15812858

Wasn't it best of 2?