>>18759315
Excellent.

Has construction of a small Mk III battleship task force in our Core Worlds been initiated?
Have Warbrate provide Cyberbrate with tactical advice so that the Machine Fleet can take advantage of its superiority.

I am suspicious of the Protoss; continue our colonization waves at a regular schedule, and send out advance waves of dropservers and cloaked overlords to make sure that the Protoss aren't trying to pull a fast one on us.

Have the Machine forces recovered from their latest defeat at the hands of the UED?

>>18759315
Cerebrate, can you give us an example of some of the messages that the UED has sent, especially after our most recent punitive expedition against Seurat XII?
What's the mass media doing with this story back in UED space?

And did we go ahead and have the Machines call themselves part of the CORE Central Intelligence?

>>18759366
>construction of a small Mk III battleship task force in our Core Worlds

It has not. Do we want them in the Koprulu Sector?

>Have the Machine forces recovered from their latest defeat at the hands of the UED?

We lost two of the new Mark IIIs, but production rolls on.

>>18759315
Personally I'm not too worried about how many world the toss get, they're a slow people, and it will take time to build up the colonies, but just to be sure so dropserves with UED markings to spy on a few of them will be good. Also we should name the Mark III, I'm thinking Lubov Sdabni Class Battleship. Or just Sdabni. And hows the toss attack on "Dyles?"

>>18759532
>Do we want them in the Koprulu Sector?
Noooooo. No no no. Bad idea.

>>18759558
Why not?
The Protoss won't be able to penetrate that deeply into our empire, nor can the UED.

Also, if the dreadnoughts are stationed in deep space, away from any of our settled worlds, how are they going to find them?

>>18759558
>Bad
Is it? I think it's an idea of indeterminate quality. Making them out there is safer for use, but here we can make them faster. I think it's a wash, but both ideas are valid. Also, did the Morian Republic pay their taxes to the Infestation and Revenue Service today?

>>18759609
The idea for building them in our Core Worlds wasn't to send them towards the Machine Front in the Barrens.
It was so that Warbrate would have a chance to play around with the new battleships to get used to them, and to have a small force of them on-hand if new hostilities erupt.

I think I cam summarize what everyone agrees on, we need to build more Love Muffins!

I'm leaning towards having the factory away from our space. If push comes to shove and they discover that we're behind the machines, it seems that it would be a fairly simple matter to tune-up our facilities to keep producing the new MK III battleships.

>>18759500
It started as very general messages that we were in their territory, then threats that they would destroy us if we didn't leave. Now, they are declarations of war impending destruction. Defensebrate thinks we're pretty close to seeing a full-scale military campaign.

>>18759638
>>18759886
Currently, all faux AI forces are being manufactured in the Barrens, to keep the UED from tracing them back to us.

>>18759681
L-love muffins?

>>18759886
We can also infest them en mass, which raises two questions.

Are our infestation missiles still keeping pace with UED expansion, and hows Accountbrate's takeover going? And we still need to build more Love Muffin Class Battleships. LMCBs.

>>18759972
Yes Love Muffin, or Lubov Sdabni if you prefer a russian flair. Technically sdabni isn't necessarily a muffin, my dictionary says it could be bun, so really any small baked good.

Let's check in with Kerrigan and see how she's doing.

Also, if I remember this correctly, wasn't Kerrigan was dabbling with Xel'naga artifacts around the time of the invasion of Aiur (back when the Overmind was still alive). Her invasion of Umoja may also have something to do with Xel'naga artifacts or Protoss junk. I wonder if she'll be appreciative of a Xel'naga-to-Zerg cipher that Artisanlord cooked up for us when we were poking around in the Xel'naga Worldship.

>>18759886
I find it difficult to believe that the UED would be able to find our Core Worlds, and a secret task force we keep in the area between star systems.

>Are our infestation missiles still keeping pace with UED expansion
>hows Accountbrate's takeover going
Seconding these questions.

>>18759989
>Are our infestation missiles still keeping pace with UED expansion

Toaster is keeping up, but if we feel like destroying a few more colonies to be sure, it wouldn't argue.

>hows Accountbrate's takeover going?

Roll 2d100 to find out.

>>18760116
Kerrigan is amused by our ploy with the Terrans, but thinks we ought to just get on with it and kill them.

rolled 84, 65 = 149

>>18760166

Alright. No pressure.

rolled 96, 92 = 188

>>18760166
rolling

>>18760166
Point out that "If we hadn't been silly, we wouldn't have Love Muffins." Then avoid explaining what a Love Muffin is. Can we send a psionic facial expression? Cure out lack of facial expressions!

>>18760240
Okay, not rolling after that.

>>18760166
>Kerrigan is amused
Anon: We can't just infest them!
Kerrigan: Why not?
Anon: Because! A true victory is to make the enemy admit that they were wrong to resist you in the first place! To force them to acknowledge your greatness!
Kerrigan: Then you infest them?
Anon: Only if it's necessary.

>>18760329

The truest victory of all is forcing an enemy to submit to you without infestation.

Besides, we were invented by the Overmind to think of new ways of overcoming the Swarm's foes. Sure, we could just run roughshod all over the opposition with waves upon waves of newly-hatched horrorzerg. Or even think of a completely new breed of Zerg to throw at them. But that's not our purpose; ANY cerebrate (or psionic Zerg/human hybrid) can kill things by dthrowing huge swarms of ravening Zerg at them. A particularly cunning one may even maximize killing while minimizing dying.

But BUYING OUT a civilization and mining all of their collective ingenuity to add to your greatness? That takes a lot of out-of-the-box thinking and smarts.

>>18760182
>>18760240
Accountantbrate has managed to wedge itself into a few small defense contractor companies. This is lucrative, and has the possibility of getting some juicy details of classified projects or design weaknesses, keeping up the facade of humanity is very difficult and vital. The UED is not lax with its security. Should Accountantbrate attempt to feed us information that might be of use, or even dig for information it might not necessarily have clearance to see?

>>18760418
Have Accountantbrate take the safe road for now.
The UED is gearing up for a war against the CORE Central Intelligence and the Machine Fleet. Their security will be on higher than normal alert.

>>18760414
Actually we were created to "confound" the enemies of the swarm, the first post was... I was going to get the exact date, but sup/tg/ seems to not want to list it any more. But it was on or about July 16, 2010. This wuest is a lot older than I remember it being. They grow up so fast.

>>18760584
07/15/10(Thu)01:10 is the date stamp on it.

>>18760458
So be it.

(Also, is everybody agreeing on this CORE AI and Love Muffin naming scheme?)

>>18760741

I'm definitely in support of that delectable naming scheme.

>>18760584
Well, we're confounding everyone, so I think our mission is in good condition.

Do we even have an endgame victory condition? Infest the galaxy maybe?

Anyways, Accountantbrate shouldn't take extreme risks, but how about building in deliberate deficiencies into the weapons we're producing for the UED? Nothing like overheat=explode, more like an easily detectable energy signature, or a difficult to use handgrip. Stuff that won't tip off the bigwigs, but will affect the guys on the ground.

Kerrigan: "Ahh Cerebrate, I see that you've *finally* launched your puppet-force attack. It's good to see that the... wait, what's the name on that ship? 'Love Muffin?'"

"What the hell, Cerebrate?"

>>18760797
I'm CONFOUNDINGGGGGGGG!!!!!!
>>18760741
I seem to be failing at searching the archives, oh well. And , surprise, I support baked goods themed naming conventions.

>>18760780

Disguise flaws as design compromises. Of course, they should be appropriately lower in cost not to rouse suspicions.

Or insidiously nudge the Terran manufacturers to switch over to the Quikscell mentality: "We make Vedettes!", "Because you're too poor to afford anything else." and "Some assembly required."

>>18760741
Agreeing to the current naming scheme.

Alright, so I think we have our current set of plans agreed upon:
Accountantbrate to take a safe course of action in the UED.
The CORE is to continue strip mining planets, building up its defense fleet of Love Muffin dreadnoughts, and destroying UED colonies in response to UED Navy interference.

Keep a wary eye on the Protoss and continue our colonization program.

How are the Machines being portrayed in UED news media?

>>18760845
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/11143565/

The first one's tags aren't great. The only one it shares with any of the others is Cerebrate Anon.

Love Muffins and CORE AI it is.

>>18760780
>endgame victory condition

Eh, depends on how you guys play your cards.

Meanwhile, the UED have destroyed two more mining teams, and managed to escape before our Love Muffins could arrive.

(Oh, that sentence is beautiful. I'm suddenly happy with this naming scheme)

>>18760981
Step up local production in the Barrens. Replace the losses, and don't let them deter the implacable march of the CORE.

Have mining teams be escorted by 4 dreadnoughts at minimum.

>>18760981
No wonder, I just went with 'zerg,' and I know people would like Love Muffin. Also, any frigates that the CORE has are now Ampersands.
>>18760960
Sell lower quality weaponry for a much lower price to the UED, I support it.

>>18761027

Seconding.

Perhaps we can also have Cyberbrate cook up some appropriate-looking CORE scoutships or cloaked surveillance drones to give us advance warning of impending UED attacks on CORE assets.

>>18761156
You mean Kittens and Leviathans, right?

>>18761027
We won't be able to attack anything for a while if we divert all the new Love Muffins to defending the mining teams. Is that alright?

>>18761064
Yeah, the first three are potluck for tags.

>>18761343
I think guarding our mining operations is a logical thing to do, so we'll just have to build more Love Muffins and Ampersands. Since I think we had small cruisers/frigates before we had Love Muffins, and I want to name something Ampersand.

>>18761343
>We won't be able to attack anything for a while if we divert all the new Love Muffins to defending the mining teams.
This is the logical thing to do, as the UED seems intent on ignoring the escalating responses of the CORE, and more minerals are required to construct a larger task force to respond to the UED's continued aggression.

>>18761380
>>18761405
>it's only logical

>>18761623
Well four Love Muffins might be much, and an over reaction. SO, let's start with one Love Muffin then scale it up until the UED can't destroy them anymore.

>>18761702
In that case, we might have a few ships available to attack the UED, if we want.

>>18761879
Nah, I say save the ships for defense. Our attack can wait until more Muffins are ready.

>>18761879
We'll build more, clearly your Vulcan mind can't grasp the human concept of a ridiculously large industrial capacity, or love, but mostly the industry.

>>18761924
Ding. Oh the Love Muffins must be done, let's just the the COREvestion oven. Yep they're ready. Now fly my muffiny children and feed the UED your bullets.

This naming convention just keeps getting better.

>>18761924

We should also develop more types of CORE ships for the fleet. It may make the UED think that this AI is getting wiser and developing more stuff to throw at them as time goes on, and make them commit to a long-term conflict.

Plus, it'll be good practice for our Zerg design team. If our plan pans out, we may even be able to mod the hell out of our Terran assets and make them better than ever before.

So, while more Muffins are in the works, what would you like to do?

I should mention that the UED just sent a small raiding party at one of our mining teams, and the Terrans were utterly destroyed.

>>18762115
Bake Love Muffins, poke the worldship.

>>18762115
Begin design of a scout ship and interceptor fighter for the CORE.

>>18762154
Pick one and roll 2d100, and we can see what Cyberbrate comes up with.

rolled 67, 90 = 157

>>18762289

Rollers gonna roll.

rolled 19, 17 = 36

>>18762289
Interceptor Fighter

>>18762347

Whoops, forgot to mention what type of ship.

Let's have a scoutship design.

First things first. I don't know if /tg/'s fixed this "That's a pretty nice thread you've got there. How about some inexplicable autosage?" problem, but we're archived in case it is. Screw losing more threads.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18759315/

Bam. Continuing on!

>>18762347
>>18762350
Cyberbrate's design is fairly elegant. Its firepower is acceptable, if a little on the weak end, but its shielding is fairly solid.

>>18762394
K, well since I used your roll, that'll be what we designed, then. :P

rolled 17, 1 = 18

>>18762437
Then can I roll for the fighter?

>>18762431
I do love it when my actions appear in the description or tags. An I like the scout, it is a scout after all. I shall name it Skittles.

rolled 58, 30 = 88

>>18762458
I don't like your fighter roll.

>>18762484
Or mine for that matter, but why are we making fighters? We'd have to make carriers to make the fighters any use, not frigates are another story.

>>18762498
Frigates and light cruisers, then?
Designed to be able to ram enemy ships, perhaps?

>>18762533
Ampersands and Capacitors, yes.

>>18762546
Capacitors! I LIKE IT!

>>18762431

A good start. A scoutship only needs to be fast, have large fuel reserves, and be capable of taking punishment when ambushed.

>>18762475
Love Muffin the battleship, Skittles the scout ships...

>>18762561
>>18762546
>>18762533
Ugh. I'm gonna need to write this down.

>>18762484

ME AM HELP WITH GUD RULL.

rolled 96, 19 = 115

>>18762649

ups. Real roll incoming.

An idea that just popped into my head. I assume the CORE has been referring to itself as the CORE. So over the course of the war with the UED it slowly starts referring to itself as 'we' then later 'I.' It changes absolutely nothing, but might make the UED worry.

>>18762644
Well I'm in a silly mood, and people seem to be indulging me tonight. And we still haven't poke the worldship. It's been like FOREVER! or something. A few months anyway. Have you found the missing sheet?

>>18762656
You, uh, you should say what you're rolling for.

>>18762663
(I would think an implacable AI systematically strip-mining your galaxy ought to make them worry, anyway)

rolled 64, 42 = 106

>>18762732
Rolling for Ampersand frigate.

>>18762663
And later, throw in a 'they' once in a while.

>>18762732

Whoops.

I dunno what this ship type is called. But it's small, fast, and capable of downing frigates and possibly large capital ships in sufficient number.

Some sort of speed bomber or heavy interceptor, I guess?

>>18762808
Dials.

>>18762860
No, Gage.

>>18762808
Sounds more like a cruiser to me. The naval size convention seem to be Destroyer<Frigate<Cruiser<Battleship. But in space frigates seem to usually be the anti-fighter and light ship ships, with cruisers being the medium ships below capital ships.

>>18762860
>>18762875
Those are both wrong, clearly the names is Daffodil.

>>18762917
>>18762875
>>18762860
Can we please stop with the names? It's like a fucking baby shower in here.

>>18763014
Give us the ships, and we'll stop with the names.

>>18763014
No, that'd be Jackson, Aden, Montana, Dakota... I'm not giving up Love Muffin, the others I don't much care about because they're not godships.

>>18763014
See what you've done CA? By giving in to their madness, they expect it.

Gotta pull the reins.

>>18763051
You already have ships!

>>18763093
We still need the light cruisers, though.