>>18258343
How likely can we leave no trace of hacking the Titan Array? By either hacking well of inflicting physical damage to cover it up?

>>18258418
Stupid name falling off.

>>18258418
There's a pretty good chance that we'll be able to do it without being detected. The main issue is that the Terrans are pretty hot for us to leave soon. We might not have enough time.

>>18258448
Even if we get only a partial readout that will be better than nothing, start hacking and stall by moving everything to Titan, to make warping out easier obviously. It's not like we can have everything leave independently, that's hard. Side objective id learning how the hell they're mining gas giants.

>>18258448
Let's not chance it. We know what holdings they have, and the current troop deployments could change when we're about to attack.

No need to chance detection for intel that'll get stale before we can use it.

>>18258448

Why push our luck?

It'd be easier to back off, show some good faith, and after we're done mopping up the Dyles problem, we should simply throw some infestation spores in Sol's direction. It worked pretty well last time we tried (fifty threads ago, good christ!).

I say we comply with the Terrans' demands and instead focus on obliterating the Dyles legacy. Also, have Accountbrate send us a list of worlds for the next colonization sphere. It's time to grow our borders.

>>18258482
I guess I could settle fro dropserver scouting all their holdings before infestation missleing everything.

>>18258479
Roll yourself 2d20, then.

It looks like the mining operations for most of the gas giants involves lots and lots of scoop ships. Jupiter's atmosphere is being collected by ships that are wasting almost everything they collect just to get out of its gravity well, but we suppose we can't judge the Terrans for doing something inefficient just to say prove that they can. They're not the ones who dragged a planet from system to system...

>>18258482
>>18258484
>>18258541
Oh. That's what I get for not refreshing more often, I guess...

>>18258577
I backed down from hacking, I'm content with extensive scouting. Also, silly UED that's not efficient.

Are we set to leave the Sol system, then?

>>18258625
Looks like it. Be sure to blare "We are the Champions" over all the comm channels as we leave.

>>18258625
Yes. Leave Sol, and begin attacking Dyles' holdings in earnest. He's lost 2/3 of a major strike force. Let's not waste this opportunity.

>>18258640
Not "Gonna Fly Now"?

>>18258641
While building infestation missiles to shoot at the UED later, it goes without saying, but it's been awhile sine the last thread.

>>18258668
It has. Hopefully, though, shit's going to get fast-paced and amazing soon.

>>18258668
>>18258641
>>18258640
While broadcasting music we shouldn't know from a time period so far in the past that nobody alive even thinks, "hey, I've heard that somewhere," we depart.

Interestingly, this is almost the exact second that our cloaklord reaches the Dyles world we learned about from the space station that was refining an accretion disk, two or three threads ago.

What we find there is a world perfectly fitting the atmosphere type of all of Dyles' terraformed worlds. It has an incredibly complex and dense biosphere, as well as an orbital platform under construction. We notice several Confederate ships in use. The fleet here is substantial. The psionic energy in the system is very potent.

>>18258738
Okay.
Nuke it?

>>18258801
What are you crazy? There was something we were going to try first.
>>18258738
Shoot some infestation missiles at it. If that doesn't work, nuke the fleet/platform, probe the planet.

>>18258801

>>18258848
>43B, 1x1
lol u

>>18258848
Oh, come on, Internet. Must I do everything myself?

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/36ig53/

Hey! Good to be back. Managed to screw up and miss the last few threads. Whoops.

I second nuking it immediately, provided we don't have any reason to think something like "but then they'll just shoot down the lot."

>>18258865
Fine I'll amend my plan, shoot some infestation missiles at it, if that doesn't work storm it.

>>18258893
>>18258865
Er...Yes. They've got...Point Defense Stuff.

No missiles. They're totally missile-proofed.

Why can't you just let this be awesome?

>>18258917

I will accept these shenanigans, so long as their point defense systems make proper pew pew noises.

Also, can we be more specific about their defenses? Not numbers, because I know you hate those, but how strong does this defense force being built look? Do we have the forces to meaningfully assault them directly? What does Warbrate think?

>>18258917

Let's check to see if Kerrigan has any special requests regarding Dyles. At the very least, we should have enough time to notify her of what's transpired over Earth regarding Dyles while we're mustering our fleet.

>>18258917
How about we detonate the nukes outside the range of their point defense and let the radiation poison the planet?

You have to realize CA, that if you present us with a target that would be a bitch to invade, we're gonna want to blow it to hell.

Hey, maybe we could call our good friends the UED and have a coordinated counter-invasion? I'm sure they're howling for blood. Unless we're trying to keep this system secret.

>>18258917
Oh, fine.

Have Warbrate analyze the situation.
What sort of fleet will we need to muster in order to defeat the enemy here?

>>18258917

I've got a crazy idea.

You know how Dyles managed to make an exploding ship take out a good portion of the fleet we sent to rescue the Protoss from Dyles by initiating warp while it was exploding?

What if we did that... but with NUCLEAR MISSLES? Even if they have point defenses, they wouldn't be able to track missiles in hyperspace. And we want the missiles to explode anyhow.

>>18258963
We took out most of Dyles' fleet for practically zero losses, we can storm the planet if CA wants us to. We can storm it with Gorn.

>>18258993
>What if we did that... but with A HEIGHLINER?
ftfy

>>18258950
Kerrigan is setting up infested agents inside the UED. She still thinks we wasted a perfectly good opportunity to infest Earth, but that's alright. Anyway, she's up to date. She wonders why there are Confederate ships over this planet, since we haven't seen any of them during Dyles' war with the UED before.

>>18258963
>>18258946
It will be a tough fight, surely, but Warbrate is confident that we'll win. Considering how far it is from both UED space and the Koprulu Sector, Warbrate thinks we ought to gather our forces nearby with the heighliners before invading, just to save time.

>>18259006
Cyberbrate and Labbrate are both giving us the ಠ_ಠ face. That's impressive, since neither of them have eyes or a mouth.

>>18259022
I agree with Warbrate. Mass forces outside detection range.

We'll split our fleet into two groups. Space combat and landing. Almost all space-fight-capable assets engage on one side of the planet and draw the defenders' attention. Landing then advances on the OTHER side of the planet and assaults with no interference except from ground defence.

>>18259022
>heighliners
Nope. Let's not risk Dyles breaking them. Or stealing them. They're good for rapid response and mass transit, but we won't really get a huge benefit in this situation.

>>18259022
Oh I know why! It's because (see spooky zerg quest)! Be sure to mention that to Keri "It's because of the Halloween Special, dear sister." It will confuse here, and I will laugh.

And I though massing our forces nearby with heighliners before attacking was our new standard operating procedure.

>>18259086
If memory serves, you were all pretty explicit that we were taking troops to and from our staging point at Lutrious, not to the battles themselves. Or anywhere near the battles. Just a straight shot from Lutrious to Koprulu and back.

Except for that one fight, but we ended up accidentally excising part of the universe...

Ahem, so...we cool to bust in there and shoot from the hip, or is there some other plan?

Let's gather our forces, go in hot and keep smashing them til they fucking explode.

>>18259173
Small force to draw the fleet away from the platform, then flank the fleet with another force, storm the platform.

>>18259173

Perhaps we could spare a task force to ensure that no Dyles ships warps out of the system. Or if they do, the task force can quickly give chase and eliminate them.

Dyles' planet may have a lot of point defenses, but if we draw his attention away from our ground boarding force with our navy, perhaps we can allocate a mix of nuclear missiles and many more decoy missiles to assist the ground forces in clearing out problematic areas.

>>18259227
>>18259235
>>18259221
>Rock them like a hurricane: 1
>Divide and conquer: 2

That's more like it.

Well, if there's no other input to be had, I'll be needing 3d100 from you guys. And the fun may commence.

>>18259235
>(cont.)

Also while he's dealing with our space forces, we may want to see if we can send out cheap cloaked units (i.e. scourge with cloaking harnesses or something or dropbservers) to probe where he has detectors present.

Then send in flights of cloaked nukes from the opposite of wherever our space fleet is duking it out and send in invisible death from above.

Also for our ground forces, we might want to do a classic Starcraft leap-frogging tactic. Clean up an LZ near a series of defendable mineral/vespene deposits, start a Hive Cluster there. Leave some garrison forces to protect the base, then steadily clear out stuff by doing a slow advance with long-ranged attack units (i.e. Guardians and Siege Tanks) backed up by an ungodly force of Zerg units. Also, send out detectors (observers or dropbservers) escorted by fast-attack air units (mantalisks or mutalisks) to see if they can quickly identify enemy detectors; if they're units like Science Vessels or such, crash Scourge against them or have our skirmishers try to quickly bring them down. If they're fortified structures, make note of them, and have the Long-ranged units slowly advance toward that direction.

After taking out detectors, send in waves of cloaked nukes to clear out the area.

Also, see if we can include any mass-splash damage units into our forces (i.e. Gausslisks with flamethrowers and such instead of the standard rapid-fire gauss gun). We're basically dealing with speedy infested terrans who, instead of blowing up, do absurd amounts of melee damage and any vehicles Dyles may have salvaged.

rolled 41, 4, 5 = 50

>>18259338
Alright, here's your 3 d100's.

rolled 55, 29, 70 = 154

>>18259338

Don't look back. Roll on forward!

>>18259353
>>18259367

Oh dear.

>>18259353
>3d100
>Results total 50.
>Average value: 16.6

The dice just don't like you.

>>18259367
That's more like it.

Quick question: Just Zerg forces, or should we bring in the Toss and Terran ships? We're outside of UED space, now.

rolled 13, 54, 80 = 147

>>18259412
We roll for stuff!

>>18259436
Bah, let's use everything.

>rvevad brahman
and zombie cows.

>>18259436

How far outside of UED space? It must be pretty far out from the Korpulu Sector and Earth if we used our heighliners to keep Dyles off-balance.

>>18259436
FIRE EVERYTHING
NO SURVIVORS

>>18259455
>>18259460
One "Let God Sort 'Em Out" special, coming right up!


Redirecting our Earth fleet, we use the heighliners to bring our weight to bear on the planet. For safety's sake, we gather about a day's Warp flight away. Far, far outside of the range of any sensors we know of. After the last load of Zerg arrive, we start on the Protoss, then the Terran ships. Once the heighliners are safely back in Zerg space, we set out.

Dyles' ships are caught completely off-guard. Our forces immediately begin to tear through them. Unfortunately, they form up into a defensive posture around the platform rather than venturing out to engage. This makes the ground insertion more difficult. Despite our cloaking devices, the crossfire is heavy, and several cloaklords, dropships, and shuttles are vaporized. We manage to land approximately a third of the ground forces we brought, and immediately begin to fight tooth and claw for a foothold on the platform. The resistance is uncannily strong, with Dyles' units either fully utilizing Terran warmachines, or barely covered against the vacuum and moving with near-blinding speed.

(Either toss out suggestions or roll 3 more d100s)

rolled 65, 11, 74 = 150

>>18259624
Wait I thought we were landing forces on the planet.
Whatevs.

>>18259624
Start using the carrier beans on the fleet, shoot enough holes in the platform to depressurize it.

>>18259624
Now that they're engaged, begin firing nukes into the flanks of the enemy force. Our space forces will be the anvil, and our nukes the hammer.

>>18259686
(Whoa. Is that what everybody else was going for? I may have just assumed everybody talking about landing was with TUCAMP on taking the platform. We can take a mulligan on this if I totally misconstrued what you guys wanted)

rolled 95, 20, 85 = 200

>>18259745
>whatevs

>>18259745

I was suggesting landing on the planet with the whole leapfrogging thing.

But if our forces are still engaged at the platform, perhaps we can get our swift mantalisks to single out the spacecraft that are only barely shielded against the vacuum and shred up vulnerable areas.

>>18259800
Had I known you wanted to go after the planet, I would have advised to take the platform first.

rolled 70, 36, 47 = 153

>>18259866
>>18259800

Yeah, we might just want to take the platform anyway. It'll serve as a good staging point for orbital shenanigens.

>>18259769
>>18259800
(Alright, then.)

>>18259769
>>18259686
The ground battle is still rocky. Metabolic enhancements are barely keeping our Zerglings in the close quarters fights with Dyles' forces on the front line, and his artillery is already dug in better than ours. Gorn's battle lust is keeping the fight going, but it is loudly demanding assistance.

The battle above is going much better. We have managed to work Dyles' forces into a tight formation around the platform, and are whittling them away bit by bit. Warbrate's confidence wavers slightly as it remarks that an abnormal number of scourge are exploding without targets. That happens periodically, of course, but never this frequently.

We are sensing an increase in the level of psionic activity.

>>18260000
MIND CRUSH IT!

rolled 76, 22, 55 = 153

>>18260000
Point every psychic thingamawhatsit we have at it.

>>18260000

Get to scanning or otherwise pinpointing where the psionic activity is originating from. Also, try to see if the Scourge are exploding more frequently in a certain area, or if they're just exploding randomly.

Ask Warbrate if he can spare any air units with strong Air-to-Ground attacks to start supporting Gorn. If this is not possible, see if Warbrate can snipe any artillery placements with Yamato cannons.

>>18260000
Do we still have a copy of the DNA from that anti-psychic monkey?
Would it be possible to make an anti-psychic "toxin" to spray on a planet like this?

>>18260108

I'm not sure we could make that and just roll it on out while we're in the middle of an engagement...

>>18260256
Well, we wouldn't use it now. We would attempt to create it so we would have a weapon against another planet with a massive amount of point defenses like this one.

>>18260108
We do.
Not even a little bit possible.

>>18260073
>Using >>18260066 's numbers

At first glance, we think what we're feeling is on the surface of the planet, but closer inspection makes it clear that it's coming from BEHIND the planet. One overlord skimming across Warp space around the planet later, we notice a Confederate battlecruiser in orbit of the other side of the planet. Even so, it takes a moment for us to notice it. It's like our overlord's composite eyes just slide past it whenever we try to focus. Just as we get a better look at it, its main cannon kills the unit.

>>18260285
Nuke it!

>>18260285
NUKE IT!

>>18260285
What do the 'toss think?

Carrier beams, target that battle cruiser.

>>18260285

Peel off some Scouts and Wraiths to harass that Battlecruiser and try to take its engines offline. Have some other heavier naval assets (i.e. Battlecruisers) get into position to Yamato that thing to death.

Also nuke it, etc. etc.

>>18260323
Lots of hoity toity things, I'm sure.

They don't know this fight is happening, though, so they don't think anything about it. Are you suggesting we invite them? The heighliners could have them here in a jiffy.

>>18260357
They'll need to leave the battle in progress to come around the planet.

>>18260322
>>18260293
I'm torn between letting you try this, knowing how terrible our aim has been with nukes in the past, and continuing to choo-choo-all-aboard-the-DM-railroad forbid nukes...

>>18260420
>'toss
Uh, back at >>18259436 you asked if we should bring the 'toss and some terrans, and you got 'let's use everything' and 'FIRE EVERYTHING'.
Didn't we bring the 'toss with us?

>>18260450
That was us bringing OUR Protoss and Terran units. We've got a pretty respectable set of ships and units from each, being an infesting hive of mind-eating monsters and all.

I think there would have been more of a stir if we were bringing Khas' forces anywhere in the heighliners. He doesn't even know we HAVE those, yet.

>>18260450
No, that was about our Protoss and Terran ships, not bringing the actual Protoss here. That's just a stupid idea.

>>18260420
Move the Carriers. Warn Warbrate that we need to take out that command battlecruiser.

>>18260496
>>18260486
'K, I derped.

>>18260285
>behind a planet
This is why we need the German sized carrier beam focusing crystal, so we can blast a hole through the planet. But, I think we should seize the bc, an IGNORE ME field might be handy.

>>18260525

I agree, but I'm concerned it might be part of Dyles himself, rather than a Dr Who style technological perception filter. Also, moving to invade and subdue the Dyles entity and it's component parts has given us all manner of trouble in the past. Poor Zergleks.

>>18260525
You're right, TUCAMP. This whole dilemma could have been avoided if we had just removed the crystalline solid core of a gas giant and carved it into a focusing lens, then carted that around in the middle of a raging warzone.
Simple, really. :P

>>18260517
Happens to everybody.

>>18260515
>>18260525
So, that's one person voting to take the carriers out of battle to attack the BC, and one voting to bring in a boarding party.

>>18260609
Man I dunno. We need to take this station out, and a protracted battle will end up in Dyles' favour I bet.
Throw a few things at the BC, but keep the carriers on the station.

>>18260663
What things?

>>18260609
>>18260609
>>18260663

I dunno... Dyles probably has some sort of superweapon or other piece of crazy psionic asspull weapon to get him out of trouble. If those scourge exploding are due to that Battlecruiser's psionic stuff, then NOT taking it out ASAP will gradually begin to screw us over.

I'm voting for sending shit at the Battlecruiser.

>>18260766
But what shit?

We've got two options on the table so far.

>>18260742
>>18260776
Mutas, some Scourge, mostly stuff we won't terribly mind losing/having turn on us/IA! IA! etc.
I seriously doubt we can just smash the thing right now, from the opposite side of the planet. It might even be bait. Dyles certainly isn't above using psychic dickery to make us thing something is a valuable target when it really isn't.

The argument against using Carriers is decent, so since we're being hinted not to take the obvious option (nukesnukesnukesnukes), let's flood that fucker with wraiths and mutas and similar small, high speed craft.

>>18260776

Hmm. It's one of those old Confederate Battlecruisers, right? Probably has the one huge laser instead of an array of laser batteries and only a Yamato Cannon as a secondary weapon. While in Starcraft it wreaked havoc on smaller swarmy units due to being able to one-shot them, in reality these BCs probably have an atrocious accuracy against smaller units.

I'd say send Scouts/Wraiths/Mantalisks/Mutalisks to cripple it, and send out our thoroughly mechanical Observers to scout out where that psionic emanation is coming from. The Observer, being a pure machine, should be able to focus on the Battlecruiser without becoming all woozy; perhaps it may also be able to relay targeting information to our units to improve accuracy. Perhaps send in a Battlecruiser or two to snipe it with Yamato Cannon shots.

>>18260829

That is, the observers should be able to pinpoint WHERE on the Battlecruiser the psionic junk is coming from. After that, our swift craft can do precise strikes on that location to try to eliminate it.

>>18260828
>>18260829
>>18260609
So, in total, we've got

Get that bitch some carrier beams. Bitches love carrier beams: 1
Prepare to be boarded: 1
Zergrushkekeke: 2

Any more votes?

>>18260859
Guess not.

Roll yourself 4d20. Let's get this shit started.

rolled 6, 17, 6, 3 = 32

>>18260981

rolled 16, 20, 3, 8 = 47

>>18260981

It's time to settle this like men.

But with dice.

rolled 5, 4, 2, 6 = 17

>>18260981

rolled 8, 20, 15, 19 = 62

bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

>>18261045
Good showing!
>everyone else
What the heck is up with that second die?

rolled 9, 13, 6, 3 = 31

>>18260981
I hope I'm not too late!

>>18261020
>>18261018
Warbrate decides against sending scourge, considering the trouble they're already having. So one squad of mantalisks and one of mutalisks break off from the battle, maneuver around the planet, and engage the battlecruiser.

Immediately, we worry that we've made a mistake. The minds of the mutalisks immediately feel strained. As the battlecruiser ineffectually attempts to shoot them down, our connection to the mantalisks resists any tampering...but the mutalisks' minds almost all at once disappear from our thoughts. From the perspective of the mantalisks, we watch them go limp for a moment, then twirl in air and begin attacking us.

Our mantalisks are able to destroy most of the mutalisks before the battlecruiser and rogue Zerg manage to finish them off.

Dyles' thoughts echo briefly in our mind:

"You've been experimenting with stealing my children, Wricking One. Turnabout IS fair play, after all."

Roll 2d100.

rolled 31, 81 = 112

>>18261173
DEFCON 1

rolled 93, 48 = 141

>>18261173

ROLLAN

rolled 1, 16 = 17

>>18261173
Okey doke.

rolled 25, 70 = 95

>>18261173
We should have sent more mantalisks.

rolled 3, 68 = 71

>>18261173

It's one thing to take control of our units, Dyles. But making up words? That is UNFORGARBIBBLE.

>>18261202
>1
oops

>>18261173
Quick! Terminators flying Wraiths!.

>>18261202


>Noko

No.

Noko rolls in quest threads are immediately suspect for faggotry.

>>18261194
>>18261196
>Dyles takes one of our forces for sure, but the posts disagree on which
>Flip coin

(Oh, you poor bastards.)

The psionic energies in the system crescendo madly as Dyles' forces all seem to pause. Warbrate begins directing forces to take advantage of the pause, but a scout doesn't respond. Then another. Then a carrier. We feel them twist and tear out of our thoughts, like teeth in a vise. We pull back, gripping at our units with all our might, but it is too late. Fully four out of every five Protoss ships under our command are gone. Warbrate, reacting with the precision we've come to expect from it, immediately presents us with two options: strike at Dyles' Terran ships while his mind is still distracted with stealing our ships, or turn to strike the Protoss ships before Dyles can adapt to piloting them. It doubts we have time for both.

Kerrigan's mind is stern as it argues for a third option: send everything we have around the planet. Destroy the battlecruiser before it can try that again. That might free our units or it might not, but to Kerrigan, the threat to our control is more important.

We must react quickly. What do we do?

>>18261261
We don't have a lot of airborne mechanical ships left in reserve, and it would take a little while to get them into heighliners and into the battle, but we could do that. It's possible.

>>18261326

Let's get that Battlecruiser down. We're experienced enough in killing Protoss ships, and our other assets probably outnumber the Protoss junk by a good margin. But if Dyles gets control of our other units, we're going to be even more screwed than we were before.

Yamato cannons online, concentrate fire on that cruiser!

>>18261326
I side with Keri, this is not a good sign and needs to be dealt with quickly and with much prejudice and radiation.

I feel as if I should slap the fuck out of the people who didn't bring up the idea of installing our psionic Control emitters in our Heighliners. Then bringing their power up to max for this situation.

I mean fuck, the damn thing's power source produces enough energy to get them into slipstream, for such a massive ship that's pretty damn impressive, with that powering our Manual override emitters we would NEVER have our control brought into question.

>>18261372

You probably should have brought that up earlier instead of saying that you came up with the idea but decided not to put it forward for some reason, then going "I TOLD YOU SO!". Even when you didn't before now.

>>18261326

We must now look at every unit in this system as being forfeit in advance, a potential asset to be used against us in the future. The only sensible option is to move to prevent the theft of additional units, while preparing a secondary attack outside the system on the assumption that we will lose everything we have committed so far.

So, should we give up the ghost and demand that our stock of nukes be brought to bear, or start pulling from defense forces to form a second assault wave?

>>18261326
I side with Kerri. That thing is a serious strategic threat, while the platform and captured 'toss forces are not.

>>18261398

This is the first time I have ever posted in a Zerg quest thread, I LITERALLY just learned it existed through sup/tg/.

I mean, someone should have thought of it by now, we DID almost lose the quest earlier on when Tarsonis happened, and I thought you guys would have kept that in mind for the future, ESPECIALLY once we started dicking around with the UED.

>>18261436

Quit harping, we'll have labrate look into it after the fight.

>>18261436

Well, we'll look into that after we're not busy with stuff.

In the meantime, we minimize our losses and enjoy this spider's rhythmic jam.

>>18261372
The Psi Emitters attached to the heighliners?

You're free to try that. Heck, the heighliners are just chilling right now. You could get to work on that during the fight.

>>18261426
>>18261420
>>18261363
>>18261359
So, we're all in agreement with Kerrigan, then? It's good to see siblings getting along!

Roll 4d100. I'm not sure if I'll need all of them, but better safe than sorry.

>>18261481

I sense a future project for artisanlord in your pic.

rolled 11, 71, 92, 89 = 263

>>18261489
Oh yeah bring the heighliners near, but not into the system, and then break out the psychic Waterloo.

rolled 50, 100, 89, 26 = 265

the dice are trying to kill us.

Psionic high five Dyles while he`s distracted. That`ll show him good.

rolled 52, 71, 40, 38 = 201

>>18261489

Let's do that plan with the Heighliners.

Also... anyone else feel kind of weird that so many battles in this quest, in the end, depend on what is essentially a children's dice game?

>>18261532
You... do realise which board you're on, yes?

>>18261372

This...is actually a really, really fucking good idea.

Let's do that immediately.

Fuck, it would probably even give us an edge is Psi-based actions, what with having the equivalent of an Overpowered Amplifier for our psionic might.

Though it probably would increase their target level, but everyone wants one to reverse engineer anyway so that's not a problem, and they are to us what the US's Supercarriers are to them, so they'll have a pretty damn huge fleet guarding them at all times anyway.

>>18261516

Supercharge psionic high-five into psionic PUNCH.

Apply it liberally to Dyles' (or all of his units') sensitive areas.

A low blow, but turnabout is fair play, right? Mind controlling units feels like such a copout.

>>18261532
(I used to just decide outright whether you guys succeeded or failed at stuff, but I noticed that things kept going from "Ok, you guys have enough Zerg to infest God. Do you want to try that?" to "You have like, 5 units left. Bummer" and back, which was more because I liked the dramatic flair of wrecking all your shit and letting you pull through at the last second than anything else. I started using the dice to give you guys more of a fair shot at success. We can go back to the other way, if you guys feel like the dice are in the way. I'm easy.)

>>18261516
(Consider it done)

>>18261625

Oh, I don't have a problem with it or the fickleness of the TG dice gods. I was just struck by the thought that this conflict could be essentially boiled down to Dylesmind and Cerebrate sitting down at a table and throwing dice with their mind. Then RAEGING every time the dice screwed them over.

>>18261655


But the Dice ALWAYS screw us over.

And then we just nuke the fuck out of whoever is winning.

Anon is a very sore loser, where others would flip the board in rage, he just nukes the fuck out of something till the surface is little more than a molten radioactive wasteland.

>>18261667

Yeah. Which is probably why OP wanted us to actually do shit instead of sending nukes. Or when that didn't work, send nukes, BUT WITH DECOYS! Then when that didn't work, send cloaked nukes with cloaked decoys. Then we try to crash heighliners into planet and risk ripping the universe in half because of purdy explosions.

>>18261511
>>18261532
We hope that Dyles' sight is impaired during his little psionic outbursts, so that we can imagine that the first thing he sees through the eyes of the Protoss is empty space, and the first thing he sees through the eyes on the battlecruiser are our ships appearing en masse.

That's not likely, though. The battlecruiser is already turning to jump out of the system when we arrive. While fingers and claws are reaching for controls, we concentrate on where Dyles' voice came from in our mind and direct a psionic high five that way. The ship visibly shudders as its pilots are shaken by proxy. We go slightly overboard in disabling his engines: our fire shears the engines off the ship entirely. As the ship's various systems fail, breach, overload, or simply blare in alarm, we notice with confusion that the escape pods jettison. We have never seen that happen on a Dyles-controlled vessel before.

Most of the pods are destroyed in the explosion of the craft, but some are falling toward the planet's surface.

Should we just let them fall?

>>18261667

Nothing says "I own this place" like a radioactive "fuck you!" button on standby.

>>18261701

Let not a tadpole survive.

>>18261701

I put forth the motion to destroy those escape pods.

All in favor?

>>18261667
>But the Dice ALWAYS screw us over.

So did I.

Before we started using the dice for everything, you guys were perpetually one big battle away from being completely annihilated. Now, you're a few steps away from conquering the whole galaxy. The dice are your friends much more often than they're your enemies.

I mean, I'll try to be fair if we switch back, but I do tend to play favorites with our villains. Kingston started out as just a paranoid guy on a science vessel, for instance.

>>18261702
...Ronald Reagan?

>>18261738
Aye.

>>18261758

If a tg had avatars, and some friendly artfag were to draw a fabulous infested reagan, I woud use it forever.

>>18261758
Either way, the quest will probably end soon. We'll either win, or you'll get sick of us and we'll lose.

Stick with the dice. They may fuck us over alot, but we do get lucky when it counts.

>>18261781

Yeah. The dice system is fine as it is.

I mean, what would we use otherwise, Card games? To decide the fate of the universe? Now that's just silly.

>>18261781
(Nah. I'll just get drafted by Blizzard to write all the stuff for a Starcraft MMO and whacky Zerg Quest shenanigans will become canon, shared with the whole fanbase. Then I could get PAID for this)

>>18261767
>>18261738
>>18261721
For a fun change, roll 1d15. I like the possibilities I've come up with too much to choose.

rolled 11 = 11

last post for the night. Bler.

rolled 5 = 5

>>18261822
Okay, nobody move, I got this.

>>18261780
I made you something. :)

rolled 2 = 2

>>18261846

Codeki is a good person who makes me a liar. Fukken saved.

>>18261873

Goddamn, left the dice line in. Sorry. If you take either of my rolls, make it the first one please.

rolled 3 = 3

>>18261822

"Interesting stuff" happening in a pivotal moment?

I dread to see what it is, but I can't help myself either!

>>18261834
(There's another consideration for the dice: they delight in forcing me into the situations I considered least probable)

A few diffident blasts from our battlecruisers later, the last escape pod explodes, and a searing roar of rage and defiance screams through our mind. It rings with such force that we immediately feel Dyles' body burning in the flames of the pod. The consciousness Dyles has become is powerful enough that it actually manages to survive, at least momentarily, the destruction of its physical vessel.

We feel its power reach out in every direction, searching, seeking a new mind to fill, a new psionic host. We feel it ravage through the system until it feels a connection it can manipulate. With horror, we watch as it fuses with that connection, or rather, connections.

Dyles' mind has survived its body, and taken up residence in the dense, interconnected ecological web of the planet below. It seems impossible, and it would be, if it were not for the fact that the amphibian parasite that comprises Dyles has infected every planet, tree, and animal of this planet. Everything here is host to it. Everything here is already a part of Dyles' greater entity, and has now become host to Dyles himself.

>>18261897
>If you take either of my rolls, make it the first one please.

I'm glad you approve. Anonymous' roll and your second roll both would have led to Dyles just keeling over dead. Nobody rolled in the interesting 6 - 10 range. Probably for the best, really. Option 2 was almost as silly as what we ended up with!

>>18261846
Starcraft Photo of the Week.

>>18261822

Does one of the possibilities involve Cerebrate Anon hundred-hand-slapping Dyles to death through psi-high-fives like some sorta Protoss E. Honda?

rolled 1 = 1

>>18261758
infest everything on the planes and the ship

>>18261977

Gentlemen.

How do we kill a planet?

>>18261977

Pffft, are you even asking what the fuck we are going to do now?

We are going to nuke it.

Then we'll nuke it again.

And again.

And AGAIN.

AND AGAIN.

We will not STOP Nuking it until the planetary crust is fucking GONE and the only thing VISIBLE is a thick atmosphere of ash and tiny glimpses of the fucking molten mantle.

>>18261977
>>18262005

Do we have that planet de-stratification device lying around? The one we developed from the Xel'naga worldship fragment?

We might not have enough carriers to divert to power the thing, but perhaps the heighliners might be able to supercharge it so it can activate more rapidly.

>>18262005
Nukes. . .
Smash a different planet into it.
make the sun go supernova. . .

There are plenty of ways. This should actually be easier than when he was normal. He can't escape now.

>>18262005
Feed it lots of fatty foods to drive up its cholesterol and just wait? NARF!

>>18262035
>He can't escape now.
Did you learn nothing from our war with Kingston?

>>18262035
>>18262023

I'm not sure how we can make the sun go Supernova given we only have control of our Terran/Zerg/20% of our Protoss assets.

Nukes we have in spades.

We can't divert planets very easily anymore.

>>18262027
We never constructed one, but we could probably retrofit a battlecruiser or carrier into one relatively quickly. Maybe a day? Two? It still wouldn't have enough power to completely stratify elements, but pulling up a significant portion of one or more would be possible without recharge.

>>18262023
>>18262035
>>18262065
>Nukes.

If nebulous, Plot-Based Point Defense Stuff (the REAL Star Wars missile defense program!) was keeping you from nuking the planet back when Dyles was on the surface, what makes you think it won't keep you from nuking it now that Dyles IS the surface?

Why don't we just tell Labbrate to shut up and crack a highliner open? Red wave of doom.

>>18262111
I won't stop you, but might wipe out the whole system, depending on how the ship is "cracked open."

Just so you're aware.

Everybody's gone to bed, haven't they?

>>18262136
>whole system
So long as it kills Dyles, I'm cool with that.

>>18262104

Well, technically he's just every plant or animal biomass that has enough junk to sustain a Dyles parasite. So I guess stuff like grass or moss wouldn't count on that front. Or tiny insects. But close enough, I suppose. On the bright side, this means that Dyles isn't necessarily more powerful, as it's his base consciousness but decentralized into all the living stuff on the planet. This may also quite possibly mean that he has to expend more power in maintaining his will and not just become subsumed in the mass of stuff he's infected.


I am reluctant to admit this, but we either need to risk cracking open the space-time continuum by sacrificing a heighliner to kill Dyles NOW, or we might risk him growing stronger later on. If we shuttle in a heighliner with our Psi-emitters cranked up to 11, we might be able to prevent him from controlling other units or quite possibly retake control of our subverted units.

>>18262160
>>18262173
So, wait, are you destroying a heighliner in an attempt to remove the planet from the fabric of reality entirely, or are you wiring a Psi Emitter into a heighliner in an attempt to block Dyles' psionic connections?

>>18262160
>>18262111
>>18262136

In that case, if the heighliner is rigged to explode for sure, we should have our units ready to jump out when that happens.

Maybe keep the odd Observer in there to see what's really going on.

>>18262197

Hmm. The Psi-emitter basically just broadcasts psionic waves. If it was strong enough, perhaps we could drown out Dyles' own psionic control, "liberating" the creatures from the parasitic control so long as the frequency was maintained. It would be akin to drowning out Dyles' voice.... except that's all he is right now: an entirely psionic entity that exists in the minds of the parasitic creatures under his control.

If we slapped enough emitters onto the heighliners and hooked them up to said heighliners, then started broadcasting it like obnoxious neighbors' speakers at 3:00 AM in the morning right before that important meeting, it would essentially be screaming him out of existence.

I'd say yes to this plan, if what I've typed up is more or less correct.

>>18262233
It's certainly a possibility. It's also possible that Dyles' psionic connections are sufficiently different from ours that it will do nothing. Or something unexpected.

We don't know. We've never used the things like this.

Also, we've never run that kind of power through them. We aren't sure how the Emitters would take it.

>>18262197
If >>18262233 is correct, do that.
But if it looks like it won't work, break reality.

>>18262233

>(cont).

Combined with the fact that psi-emitters are rigged to reach across star systems by themselves by default, overcharging them could result in a fuckhueg wave of psionic resonance that's tuned into our consciousness. We'd either dominate Dyles, or simply disrupt his consciousness into nothingness, or at the very least make him work much harder to maintain any semblance of fine control of the units he has in the system.

>>18262250
Turn one on, see if it does anything, muck with a bit to see if it works better or worse, juice them all up if we're satisfied it will work, nuke spacetime if we're not.

>>18262254
>>18262250

Before we do anything, rig the Heighliners with failsafe devices. If we lose control of the vessel, rig them to break reality.

>>18262274

I agree that it might be prudent to test out the psi-emitters first to see if they have any effect at all. They're already rigged up by default to broadcast a strong enough signal to span multiple star systems.

>>18262254
See
>>18262250

>>18262281
...Call for a vote on that Monday (This is me deciding that we're playing Monday next week. If I feel like it, maybe also Tuesday. We'll see)

>>18262274
So, you say send one in with a Psi Emitter, see how it works, and if it doesn't kill Dyles, blow it to hell?

>>18262312
No, we send in one and see if it works, muck around with the settings on it for bit to see if we MAKE it work, and if we can't, THEN we blow up everything forever.

>>18262334
I don't want to do this if there's just one person. If shit goes sour (and let's be serious: it's a real possibility), people will be pretty angry if it's just one dude posting.

Is anybody else for this plan?

Looks like you're alone, man. That's ok. We're all alone sometimes.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18258343/

Be here on Monday. You can argue with TUCAMP about the heighliners. He might even like your plan.

UNTIL NEXT TIME, /tg/! CEREBRATE ANON, AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

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