"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only moe."-Anonymous
The year is After Diaspora 2012.Fleeing the cataclysmic destruction of the Two Day War, transhumanity has scattered itself across the stars, seeding Earthborn life across a thousand worlds. From the ashes of Old Terra arose a new civilisation, tied together by the sword it used to slay the beast of scarcity. Though all worlds are overseen by the Resource Allocation and Distribution System, the planets themselves range from wild, total anarchy to the constricting binds of tyranny. In these matters, the ReADS preferred to keep its hands off, except such times where a threat might be posed to all worlds, and the agents of their Firewall are necessary.Seventy two hours ago, for the first time in transhuman history it was confirmed that they were not alone in the galaxy - first contact was made. Unfortunately, it was hostile - the aliens, dubbed the "Vonnies" for their Von-Neumann machine tendencies - dismantled a Firewall outpost and the surrounding colonies. The only survivors were the young girls, whom had apparently triggered a bug in the Vonny IFF system.Forty eight hours ago, the order was sent out - begin the recruitment for a Firewall 'Cadet' program to defend key communications points until Project Riposte was completed; Operation: Mahou Shoujo.You are currently being the demi-godlike AI.
"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only woe."-Anonymous
>Continuing from previous thread.=omnIRC=[Daedalus]: You know what?[Da5id]: What?[Chelsea]: What!?[Rick]: You don't trust me, do you?[Daedalus]: Nope.[Rick]: Awwww man...Daedalus has disconnected from #SweetPartyPreparation========You decide that now is as good a time as any to check up on what that message from Anne. You had taken a look at the math that she was no doubt complaining of the uselessness of, and decided that you were glad to have been designed with a focus on economic distribution rather than physics research. That equation, even if it's just one, is too much for even your world sized brain to handle properly.You take another look at it, just for curiosity's sake.-Oh dear sweet mother of god and all the minor deities that preside under her this equation is complicated.-========Re: MathematicsHi Daedalus!I finished the big mathy thing.A copy is attached. Have fun with it!-Anne
>>20336188>Wat do?
>>20336206Ponder what she means by "finished," inspect "big mathy thing" attached.
>>20336188Daedalus can't use it?Ask annie what it does. We should be able to reach her on her glasses, if she's still wearing them.
>>20336291>Daedalus can't use it?>>Ask annie what it does. We should be able to reach her on her glasses, if she's still wearing them.Well, we have no reason to suspect otherwise.>>20336274 here
Those numbers better start dropping and those percentages better start rising soon. One can only take so much contrived "moe" lesbianism before one starts wanting to see some blood.
>>20336274That pretty much covers it. Then freak out that she solved an equation that we can't even -understand-.
Be shocked, etc.Check survivor data to see if any had non-original bodies. Set something up to keep an eye on Veritas, she might leak something.
There's still an IRC!#sufficientlyadvanced on Rizon. You can even go to http://rizon.net/chat and use your web browser!
What on earth does she mean by "finished"? The file is an executable - what, did the girl think that she could do in a matter of hours what a group of dedicated, planet-brained researchers had been working on for years? The entire concept was laughable - maybe you had gotten her abstraction wrong; you make a mental note to reduce her Smarts stat abstraction to something a bit lower.But just for fun, you decide to open the file.=Polymeric Falcighol Derivation=(The interface is fairly plain - as the screen is your vision, you see nothing but a dark black expanse, a small line of text in the upper left corner reading "Polymeric Falcighol Derivation Version 0.1.1b by Anne Choi". A small, blinking input flashes underneath, on and off. It really doesn't seem all that impressive. It begins to type.)Hey me.|I know this seems suspicious, but...|Trust me here.|The first strike force will arrive in three days.|Six hours after the grid goes online.|Prepare.|Oh. Also, I know we were less than a gig when we did this, but...|Operator access: 5934805938094. I am not a potato.|===============What. The. Fuck.>Wat do?
>>20336609Can planet brains freak the fuck out?I think this probably warrants freaking the fuck out.
>>20336609Use our big giant brain to determine whether or not it wold be a good idea to share this with the other big giant brains in the IRC.Also consider increasing Anne Choi's abstract smarts stat, and investigate her intellect further by upgrading her glasses to perform constant passive brain scans. If we can figure out how she thinks, then perhaps we could upgrade our own brain.
>>20336609Check this operator access thing.
>>20336660I'd say we freak the fuck out. For a good nanosecond or two. Holy shit.
>>20336609What did you do Annie!? What did you do?!
May as well say what everyone is thinking: braingasm time. Oh, and cyber with your future self if at all possible.
>>20336682I'm guessing it's a preestablished signal whoosit to let us know that we are talking to us, just in case we ever get visited by us from the future and need to prove that we are I?
rolled 13 = 13>Freak the fuck out
>>20336763Yep, a time password of sorts.
>>20336763That, or something only Daedalus knows, or near enough to it.
>>20336763Yeah, obviously. Everyone has one of those. Helps with alternate universes as well.
>>20336799You forgot your "Chariots chartios" Cave
>>20336609Well, we have three days. Start compressing and transferring vital data.Also, Get Anne to explain what the hell just happened.
>>20336609So we've got three days. That's probably not enough time to get the hordes of MG's ready. We should focus on maximum training the 6 girls we've got equiped so far, work them out for the first two day, and then give them a day off rest before shit goes down. Don't tell them when the vonnies'll arrive, but we probably could tell them it's within a week.
You freak the fuck out for a few nanoseconds. Your primary server overheats from the stress, and will need repairs taking about thirty six hours. It's bloatware like this that makes you glad you invested in backup serverhost sites and distributed consciousness streaming. Shifting off the primary server, to a human, would be the equivalent of taking of few deep breaths and stepping back to examine your position.Okay. Okay....Calming down now. Totally not freaking the fuck out that a girl who is all of sixteen years managed to out perform friggin MINI DYSONS in computational efficiency for this problem, not anymore you're not. Perhaps now would be a good time to contact the girl on her ARglasses.Besides, hearing your 'ultra secret time travel password' from what is apparently your future self was kind of whimsical, and totally not freaking unexpected and-NOPE. No freakouts anymore.You attempt to Send a message to the girl requesting she join a private encrypted omnIRC with you. Unfortunately, she seems to be a bit busy - the connection is denied; the ARglasses complaining that they are no longer being worn, and that the owner does not wish further disturbance. There is a short message attached to the denial: "C-can't come to the c-comm right now. T-t-t-too busy getting... laid. Meep!"You can almost hear the girl blushing. But that doesn't stop this from being the metaphorical cigarette drag. You sigh - however it is you do that - and are very glad you don't have any hands, lest you hold your head in weeping shame.>Wat do?
>>20336865Check Project Mahou Shoujo status for our planet, and the Beta site girls
>>20336865do>>20336860How far along is the recruiting process? What about the mass produced MG's?Talk to Alex, tell him we know when the enemy is arriving, and we need to plan for it. Don't tell the girls till we have a plan.
>>20336865Well. Anne is obviously busy. So I guess we better get to that preparing, huh? We had stuff to be doing. Sensor nets to dick around with, et cetera.
>>20336865Can we contact the researchers who did the original equations and gloat in their faces that our team so thoroughly outshone theirs?
>>20336934"Team"?Dude, the problem got solved by one sixteen year old girl in eighteen hours.
>>20336934Is there any chance of a leak? We REALLY don't want the vonnie's getting this tech. It might be worth keeping to ourselves.
>>20336865Tell Redcomet we have three days. And to get Anne in contact with us pronto.Check to see if we could fit on a mobile platform(no, not human) with some effort.Send the app to >>20336934, credit can be worked out later.
>>20336865Check training vids from both bases.Erase any footage of Anne and Minaka's little adventure from the database too.
>>20336950Yeah, but she was on our team so obviously we get to gloat even though we had nothing to do with it.>>20336954Giving it to the other planets gives the other planets a better chance of survival. The vonnies can only get it if they win. And they can't innovate themselves or they'd be different at each planet after such a long time travelling in isolation so any leak is isolated to that planet because the time travel doesn't help them get ftl.
Even without open sourcing this we can make Anne a richfag now.No more HACKING DA EKAWNOWME nonsense needed.
>>20337020Woah woah woah woah woah.Vonnies don't have time travel. They have entanglement based communication to a point beyond what transhumanity is capable of.
Anne Choi is now Gary Motherfucking Oak.She just beat us, a world-sized brain, in MATH - and then proceeded immediately afterwards to have sex.It's a twofold insult. One because she's doing creepy organic things that flies in the face of pure logic. Two because, by her standards, that's success.
Sending it to the other AI would be fun.Sorry guys, you might have 10 thousand girls, but one of my 6 invented time travel while you were recruiting.
>>20337079I know they don't have time travel. We're discussing the dangers of them capturing our time travel tech. But if they can communicate across star systems then that does sound dangerous.
>>20337188WE can communicate across star systems! That's what omnIRC *is*, everyone there is a worldbrain in charge of a planet's ReADS somewhere else.That's why Marty is so whiney, his planet was the first nom'd.
>>20337188We need to protect the time travel algorithms and technology like we protect our FTL technology. But yes, we need to tell Alex and Alexa, as well as John (our recruitment fork) and the other Firewall Bases that we have received intel with a high degree of confidence that the Vonnie scout force will arrive in 3 days.
>>20337212Yes, but they can apparently do it BETTER than us.
>>20337188>We're discussing the dangers of them capturing our time travel tech.Obviously it doesn't happen because it hasn't happened yet. If they had learned time travel, then they'd know how to time travel.And this is why you don't fucking include time loops in your shit. They make the plot too easy to predict because it sets the future in stone. The vonnies cant win now because you'd already know if they won.
>>20337247Nope, because Future!Us would be too busy being eaten to IM Current!Us about that happening.
>>20337247This time travel lets you send test messages only, and you need the algorithm to recieve the information. We don't want them to get it because you need it to be able to communicate across time.
Technically we still don't know how to time travel.We only know how to send data into the future, not receive it yet.So we should really get on that.
>>20337267Pretty sure Future!Us just gave us all the reason to go to full mobilization.We need a mobile container. >>20337247It in no way says we've "won." It sounds like we're losing the planet.>>20337304...we just got data from the future.. do not know if troll
>>20337267Because its not like it takes all of half of half a nanosecond to send a quick OH FUCK, WE DONE FUCKED UP or anything.>>20337276>>20337304I'm pretty sure if it can be used for an physics defying booty call or to receive a practical joke from ourselves, it has a few more practical uses.
>>20337247Better than forking timeline bullshit.Anyway, let's start looking into promising recruits/candidates.I don't think we should tell anyone. Maybe Rick.
>>20337327At least branching timelines keeps things relatively orderly, so long as you establish a prime timeline, like Back to the Future.
>>20337212Yes but my original point was that they obviously don't advance because there's no diversity, which is wrong if they have ftl comms. And the other point was that any outbreaks would be contained to that system, which is wrong if they have flt comms. Us having ftl comms is irrelevant.>>20337247>If they had learned time travel, then they'd know how to time travel.If we had learned how to time travel, we'd always have known how to time travel. Oh wait that's wrong we learned it just now. You can't receive messages before you get the algorithm.
>>20337327>Anyway, let's start looking into promising recruits/candidates.I want to take a look at the Dirty Dozen that John convinced us has the Right Stuff to be accepted into our Magical Girl Corps.
>>20337316>Pretty sure Future!Us just gave us all the reason to go to full mobilization.I'm not sure if we're reading the same thing.
>>20337327We should be giving the app and data back to the original team at the very least.Redcomet should be getting Firewall prepped for first contact. We have an exact time.
>>20337327I think the one person we definitely shouldn't tell is Rick.
Now that you have gotten your head back on your shoulders, and have been thoroughly creeped out by Miss Choi's desire to do Weird Organic Things after such an artful display of Maths and Science, you are now determined to get shit done. First, and perhaps most importantly, is the dissemination of Anne's programs amongst your fellow world minds. You begrudgingly open up omnIRC again, and rejoin Rick's overchannel.=omnIRC=Daedalus has joined #SweetPartyPlanning[Marty]: And that's why I hate each and every one of you.[Chelsea]: So we outfitted my gals with Mass Acceleration Fragmentation Shots.[Da5id]: Meh. FLN spam is the way to go. [Da5id]: It halts reproduction AND shatters them.[Chelsea]: Oh, I have some of that on artillery work.[Marty]: No, really, I hate all of you.[Rick]: Even me?[Marty]: No, not you...[Da5id]: Oh hai Dae.[Rick]: :3[Rick]: ![Chelsea]: Welcome back.[Daedalus]: Guys, I'm happy about the progress you've been making, and I'll let you finish, but I have among my team the greatest mahou shoujo of all time.[Daedalus] has uploaded Polymeric Falcighol Derivation.exe[Rick]: *gendopose* Excellent.[Daedalus]: Wat?[Rick]: Nothing. Just something from the old days is all.Daedalus has left #SweetPartyPlanning=========>FIELD..... FIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!
>>20337352>>20336609>Six hours after the grid goes online.|>Prepare.|considering we've lose the first engagement and they hit our underwater server, it's time to start prepping now.
>>20337377Immediately upon disconnect, you open up a line to Alex. You note with some moderate interest that he is, of all things, meditating - feet in lotus and hands resting upon his knees. You never took him to be one much interested in the Zen arts.-What are you doing?- you ask him.Without moving, he responds "Attempting to recreate the brilliance of my adorable student's Zen dodging technique."You nod, slowly. You might want to take a look at those videos, soon. Especially with the other thirteen hundred moving into the Gamma through Epsilon sites... -Well, I have obtained a new source of information. The girls need to be ready for their first defensive action in three days.-A subtle tilt of his head marks acknowledgment. "They shall be prepared in two. All of them.">Wat do?
>>20337316Exactly, Anne figured out the basics but not the whole thing.We can recieve data from the future, but we don't know how to send it yet.However, we will figure it out at some point. So sooner is better than later.
>>20337379What? Where did you get that from?
>>20337387The original math was closed-source. Would there be trouble if we sent Anne's Derivation to the Yagami Institute that originally came up with it, with a note on where to send the Rep, but to keep a tight lid on the results for now?And let's take a look at the Dirty Dozen, see how they're taking the recruitment and training.
>>20337394... >We only know how to send data into the future, not receive it yet.>We can recieve data from the future, but we don't know how to send it yet.you're doing this on purpose now. pls go>>20337417we're in a not potato that has extremely limited capacity? >>20337425No, we can do anything we want save use Gray Goo. Anything.
>>20337387Examine 'Zen Dodging' vids.
>>20337387check on beta site.>>20337425We got free reign to break the rules for this crisis.
>>20337394We do know how to send it. Only we can't send it if we never received it because stable time loops so we haven't done it yet.
>>20337452 The potato thing was her password, that she made up during infomorph childhood, in case she ever found out time travel. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
>>20337452>>20337456By trouble, I meant would Anne be denied credit for solving parts of it and creating the Derivation.
>>20337474Oh, I thought the less then a gig was because of the vonnies, not because of childhood
>>20337490the .exe had her name in it though, and thats the one we distributed.
rolled 9 = 9>Be the Potato
>>20337492I can see the confusion. Gig referred to 'Gigasecond', rather than 'gigabyte' (informorphs tend to prefer keeping time in measures of seconds).
>>20337508We distributed it to the other ReADS AI's, not to the Institute. And while they might know it was her, that doesn't mean that the rest of Transhumanity will learn about her, or give her the Reps.
>>20337490I seriously doubt they're going to go against a planetary Governor's word. Even if they do, we can put the infinite sign by her rep statement ourselves.>>20337521it was a bit confusing. good to know.
>>20337528If she does get credit, I think Annie will never want for MadReps again. This should happen, if only because it would be cute to have the submissive one paying for dates.
>>20337560If she survives, she's going to swimming in "helped saved the universe rep."then the tv, movie, book, fashion deals
>>20337387review training, look at crazy math again, check with probe fabrication.
>>20337452Sorry, I got it wrong both times. We created a stable time loop which is slightly different than actual time travel.Data can be sent along the time loop backwards to the point of creation of the time loop.My statements were from an error on my part. I misread some posts, but went back and re-read them.
>No Consensus: First Out of the Gate.Excellent. The only thing you need worry about with the Alpha Site is them oversleeping their first battle from being run ragged by Alex overtraining them - and despite his exuberance, the man does have a good sense of other's limits and how to push them. Beta site should be fine as well - between Alexa's memory and their formal instructor's hypercompetence, they will manage. Provided, of course, that the numerous expiraments involved in their formation pan out (why oh why couldn't you have sent back data regarding Icarus?).No, now is the time to examine your weakest link - the girls not assigned to any single base; the ones who didn't pass the trial of motivation. The Clean-up Crew.-Hey me!- Dantexis seems a bit suprised that you had opened up contact with him. Through his projected eyes you see the twelve girls, haphazardly slinging their weapons over their shoulders. -Um... this totally isn't what it looks like. I swear to the gods and all the minor deities that when these girls actually get to work, they are quite, ah, rather -terrifying.- The holograman looks over his non existant shoulder. -Right girls?-"Bloomin' right, boss." One of the girls says, as she quickly takes aim at a Cosetcor, a local wolf-bird. You notice, as the gun fires, that they are outside of any arcology, the slight reflection of the rebreathers around their mouths and noses. "Well, looks like we got ourselves some lunch, ifn we can cook it."One of the other girl's makes a face. "How can you eat that - it was -alive-! Not even printed out...">Wat do?
>>20337777...what have we done? Dantexis, you are so not getting reintegrated.Have Dantexis go over his... "team."Look at the time math again.
>>20337777Dantexis, we've got incoming contact in three days. Make sure the girls are ready, well rested and adequately prepared for the coming battle.We'll be doing joint exercises before the battle, in two days so make sure they're ready to meet their counterparts. Other than that good work.
>>20337777Informorph equivalent of a shrug.
>>20337777"Forward me their combat performance metrics. And make sure that they're kitted up properly in two days. I want joint exercises done with the teams from Alpha and Beta sites before the third day."
>>20337777We should probably try to have some sort of joint training exercise between the groups to make sure that they can work together should the need arise.
>>20337777Have Dantexis go over the most promising of the Crew.It'll probably be bad for inter-base politics in whatever base we send them to if all three of the team are CC, so I recommend we only get two and get the third from somewhere else.
>>20337911That is, promote two (or possibly one) to the Round Table. We'd keep all of them.
>>20337947Don't word it as a promotion.Word it as 'extra liaison duties'.
Had you been a been a biological, this would probably have been the moment when you would take a deep breath, count to three, and slowly let your annoyance with yourself fade. However, you are not a biological, and are not prone to hormonal bouts of joy or fury unless you are running certain emulators that you may have run once or a thousand times back when you were young and foolish. As such, your frustration merely simmers.-So.- You say.-So...- John trails off, tugging his nonexistant collar.-You realize, of course, that you probably are going to suffer consciousness banishment for this, right?- You ask.-Worth it,- he says. Suddenly, his voice is much louder. -LADIES. You've got incoming hostiles!-Several drones, immitating the movement patterns recorded by the Firewall team that had first contact with the vonnies. The group springs up from the slouch, one of them in particular snapping from relaxed posture to attention, moving amongst the girls as she barked out orders. The other eleven followed them - not perfectly, but with the sort of improvisation one doesn't normally get with fresh recruits. There were forty drones incoming.By one hundred meters, that number had dropped to twenty five, if only because the girls didn't have the markmanship training that they should be getting. By fifty meters, they were down to ten. By ten meters, there was only one.None of the drones survived to make 'contact'.-The girl, the one barking out tactics and orders, what was her name?" you ask. "I want her as one of the Gamma Site representatives.->Choose Name.
>>20338059Tessa Roosevelt.
>>20338086Seconding this.
>>20338086FUND IT!
>>20338086this and they need more dakka to compensate for > if only because the girls didn't have the markmanship training that they should be getting.
>>20338086Good enough.
>>20338105Or, we could, you know, give them marksmanship training.Also check stats.
>>20338159This man is deranged and trying to get us killed. Disregard him, acquire gunstacker tech.
>>20338187Nah. Accurate fire seems good for this one.
>>20338187They obviously have the potential and talent, they just need the training. So more accuracy training for them.
Southern Girl also seems pretty interesting. Anyone else interested in examining her more deeply.
>>20337777>why oh why couldn't you have sent back data regarding Icarus?It's because something happens to her, isn't it? We're sparing ourselves some pain.
>>20338326I think we have enough characters to get familiar with honestly
>>20338348We still haven't found the 'Only Straight Man' in this fountain of yuri.
-Roosevelt!- John calls over to the girls. -Daedalus wants to speak to you.-The blonde girl steps out of the crowd, which had almost too soon gone back to lazing around in the natural sunlight of the system's class B star, 10293A "Apollon". She, like her comrades, doesn't have much in the way of equipment just yet - in the mock up battle, the only things she wielded were a small side arm, and her voice; the latter to greater effect than the former."You called for me, ma'am?" the girl asks.Your holographic projection nods. "Yes, Tessa, I did. After seeing the twelve of you in action, I've come to a decision as to how you and your compatriots will be operating. The Twelve of you will be assigned to Gamma Site as a mobile strike force - a happy medium, of sorts, between the larger forces we will be deploying, and the smaller crack forces assigned to high priority missions." You look for any reation on her, and note that however well she hides it, she seems rather pleased "As well, I will be assigning you a secondary duty to be part of Gamma Site's liasons with the other forces."You can tell that she is trying very, very hard to be humble. "Sound's more than acceptable to me ma'am." Sh shuffle's somewhat nervously. "Does this mean our loadout'll be improvin'? I don't think the buck-standard C-grade's we've been working with'll do the job." When you look at her askance, she blinks. "My parent's are Firewall, Ma'am. I've known my way around a gun damn near as long as I could walk.">Wat Do>If Chosen: Select Team Loadout.
>>20337394>We can recieve data from the future, but we don't know how to send it yet.Okay. Seriously. You know how we get information to the future us? We WAIT. IT'S THAT EASY.
>>20338326> examining her more deeply.By that you mean pairing her off with another girl, possibly more than that, and watching them suck face, right?
>>2033842612 as the TF2 crew, Cap as Cap and the other two? How about Hawkeye and Yoko?
>>20338489All put through a rule 63 filter, of course.
>>20338426"Of course. Your equipment will be improved to reflect your new role."Team Loadout: FLN assault rifles and MAFS auto-shotguns, FLN grenades, FLN rocket launcher pods, and medium-grade armor with multiple shield generators.
>>20338426Of course Tessa.I'm thinking they should have pretty standard armor with their own little embellishments and ability to modify in their own ways.As for weapons I'm thinking for secondary weapon their choice of FLN shotgun or assault carbine. For primary weapon it is simply their choice based on their specialization whether it be heavy explosives, minigun, mines, heavy scattergun, sniper rifle or whatever.We want them to be able to fill in any gaps with the shotgun/assault carbine or focus on their specialty with equal ease.
>>20338426they all need jetpacksbecause the TF2 Tribes edition would be great.
>>20338525Oh dear god yes. This, exactly this.
>>20338505There is, in fact, a canon female Hawkeye, that is in the appropriate age range for this.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_%28Kate_Bishop%29
>>20338523This. Reimu-level armor or something like that. As for their specific weapons, nine of them are obvious: A flamethrower, shoulder mounted sentry gun, revolver with stealth abilities, minigun, sniper rifle, shotgun, rocket launcher, grenade launcher, and a SMG with healing/buffing.
>>20338571That is quite amusing.I just realised, the best part about this setting is that the TF2 crew could actually respawn about that quickly, if we had some bodies in stock.
>>20338638Wargame Planets.There are about a dozen or so of them.And they are basically global games of TF2.
>>20338649I like this setting already.Do any of the girls have experience with such planets?
>>20338489Hawkeye maybe, but we already have a sniper rifle. How bout either Link or Ichiroku?
>>20338659I'd have reccomended another 'mundane' super, but my knowledge of supers is not very good.
>>20338649So does that mean there's technology in place for transmitting state vectors wirelessly on death, or are the cortical stacks just really well armored or something?
>>20338523For the specific weapons, >>20338616.
>>20338649Well they're not going to have any problem with the vonnies.
>>20338689Cortical stacks are virtually indestructible.
>>20338713That would be funny to watch from an outside perspective. Biting off more then one can chew, and all.
>>20338489So Tribes TF2, Cap. America, Domino(Marvel), and Hawke Eye?
>>20337425>time travel dickery>a dozen characters out of nowhere to make the whole story take a massive detour from the current plot threads>gay shipping errywhereMein gott, we really ARE homestuck.
>>20338815... we've had recruiting efforts going since the start of the quest. do you expect us to never see some of the new people?Now that we have a timeline we're checking on our fork's efforts.
>>20338786I like Link better than Domino. Or maybe Sheik, with the whip thing from SSB.
>>20338889Why Link randomly over Domino? Luck powers are great.are you just trying to just get a rule 63 Link
You take a look at the team's weapons. They are rather impressive in their diversity, for all the roughshod quality of their craftsmanship. All of them opensourced do-it-yourself kits, they nonetheless get the job done - from flamethrower to sniper rifle, from minifacturing kit to cloaking device, they all worked decently. But decently would not be enough for to face down the threats of the Vonnies...-Yes- you tell her. -I will arrange for your dames to have their equipment upgraded. As small a fraction of humanity as we are, the threat is still existential. Each of your crew will be receiving Firewall standard issue light powered armor, with exception of Miss Putin, who will receive medium due to her weapon's decreased manueverability.-The girl tries to repress her shiver at the words 'existential threat. "Thank you, ma'am."You aren't finished. -Your side arm will be upgraded as well. And, I think, when you arrive at the base, the gentlemen from research and development will have something for you. Something regading a "variant higgs state discus', whatever that means.-Tessa perks up at the word 'gentlemen'. "I thought this was an all girl shtick - what, with the only gent for miles being made of light and all..."You give her a look."Hey!" she raises her hands. "A girl's got needs."-Great.- You deadpan. -More weird biological things.- You nod at John. -Get them out to Gamma base, and have their new weapons ready when they arrive. Even when Jane gets there, I want you sticking with these girls, got it?--Ma'am!- the other you salutes. -Alright ladies! Let's move out!->Last post for the night, but...>Wat do?
>>20338889How bout Youmu?
>>20338962Can we compromise with Alice?Crazy always wins.>>20338961now that we know when the first attack will happen we should be informing (human)civilian leadership. At least the emergeny responders
>>20338902No, I just like swords. >>20338962 would be neat too.I'm not adverse to the idea though.
>>20338962>>20338994I don't think swords are really the best option against swarms of nanobots that eat everything they touch.
>>20339041We've already made king arthur with a shockwave sword
>>20339041They'd still have their sidearms, and the Vonnies tear stuff into chunks first. Just need to avoid getting the weapon grabbed.Additionally, it could be a laser sword or some shit and be hard to grab onto without getting you mouth chopped off.
>>20339087Lightsabers? Now that I can get behind.
>>20339041
>>20339041>What if zelda were a girl>She'd look exactly the samedoh ho ho
>>20338961So far so good.Okay I think we can leave these girls alone, recruiting efforts are going well. Check in on the girls from Alpha and Beta site, see if Anne is done fulfilling her annoying flesh urges so we can talk with her about the Derivation. Make sure the girls at Beta site know about the incoming invasion, pat our daughter on the head.
>>20338986Crazy is, well, crazy. I personally think Link would be neat, but anyone who is crazy is objectively a bad choice.
>>20339131Why are we treating these guys differently? Don't tell them as well.
>>20339143Link would be boring. We're already had recruiting problems, not everyone willing would be well adjusted. It's not like she's Hannibal crazy, just has (exteme)guilt issues.
>>20339179Because we have six character who we kinda care about to take care of already. Let's not bloat the cast to the point where READS has a nervous breakdown, 'kay?
>>20337377No.No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.Fuck no.Stop giving all our trump cards to Rick. How much more evil must he get before we stop handing him our secrets on a silver platter?
>>20339112Alice doesn't count, she takes any semblance of logic and throws it out of the window before smashing it with a hobby horse.>>20339127He is quite androgynous. What if Metroid were a girl? We could use that.
Oh, we probably should look into MAF rounds. Also possibly existing are acid rounds and plasma rounds.
If we need a melee, what about one of the fire emblem girls?
>>20339208>let's divide our efforts to save the known galaxyWe should tell High Command about Rick's little girl though.>>20339249Everything is totally logic here, stop lying.We already based some armor off metroid. Calling in Alex's bounty hunter could be cool. The PN 03 women would be awesome.
>>20339204I was talking about Beta Team, and why they get told when Alpha team doesn't. Sorry for not being more clear.
>>20339315The person in charge of their training, Alex, was informed. We trust him to disseminate as much info as needed. We should at the very least inform Alexa as she runs their training regimen and also tell her about the joint exercises.
>>20339302>We should tell High Command about Rick's little girl though.We ARE High Command. ReADS is the governing authority for Transhuman Space. And everyone was already told in the OmnIRC chat, and all they said was "That was cold, you're mean" but nothing beyond that, because Rick IS the highest-ranking leader of the AI's.>>20339315>why they get told when Alpha team doesn'tWhat? Alex, the commander for the Alpha Site and personal trainer for the Alpha Team, was just told that a few minutes ago.
>>20339315We can do that after a third of Alpha team is done fucking one of the other thirds of Alpha team.
>>20339335That I can agree with.
>>20339302Rick -is- high command. He runs the ReADS, and maaaaaaay have built the thing in the years after the two day war.
>>20339344No, we(AIs) have keepers. We're also only a planetary governor.They should be told about Rick's little escapa >>20339357goddammit
>>20339357Rick -is- high, command! I demand he be relieved of duty.
>>20339344Alex is not his trainees. Nowhere did it say he was gonna tell them, just that he'd get them ready.
>>20339407We told him we have three days till contact. He's being fighting wars for 600 years. I trust him to do what needs to be done.
>>20339370No, he's pretty much right. The AIs run everything important, no keepers. The ReADS refers to both the expert systems employed by the AIs to assist in resource allocation and distribution, and the governing body of some thousands of AIs, one per planet.>>20339381You. I like you.
>>20339208>implying he doesn't already have it, due to shenanigans
>>20339437Are the AIs... initially screened by AIs then?... so we're the proto-Culture then?
>>20339496No, we're pretty much just The Culture.
>>20339507No, we don't explode stars weapons, have planet ships that can reconfigure themselves while going at one billion c, or have popguns that blow up planets.We're far far far away from the Culture's tech level.
>>20339537as weapons*
>>20338961Yay, straight girls.
>>20339579I know, how disgusting.>>20339496>Are the AIs... initially screened by AIs then?Sure, why not?
>>20339446He might have, since it could be related to that video Veritas made, the one that showed a different message to everyone who decoded it.Doesn't change the fact that he should not be trusted, and that we'd do well to keep our true capabilities hidden from him.
>>20339695I'm certainly not saying we should trust him. Rick is seeming far too much of a dick, we have learned, to trust.
>>20339644Goes against the principles of magical girls..
>>20339579Don't you mean bisexual
>>20339838If we're going to try and make them all bisexual or lesbians I might as well go back to this.
>>20339887I'm not trying anything, I'm just calling it as I see it. Grumpy straight girl will suddenly start lusting for pink tacos after sexual tension builds up between her and some member of the team she dislikes. Either that or she will remain straight just to spite my prediction.
>>20339887Magical girls rarely have contact with males that they are not related too. You don't really have to try to make them bi or lesbian, it just happens.
>>20339944So what you're saying is that this train has no brakes?
>>20339983Never did.>>20339944Only problem is that these aren't magical girls, but "magical" girls, and I quite doubt that the Firewall members staffing the bases will only be female.
>>20340007Beta might. If only as a precaution for naked Icarus.
>>20340031Alright, I could see that. Also because it's pretty funny.And now, this Udz must sleep. Not that anyone cares.
>>20340031I thought beta was mostly empty due to that
>>20340047Beta is mostly empty, SO FAR.We do have about fifteen hundred magical girls to house. It's not gonna stay that way.
>>20340007If sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic, then that means the girls will be sufficiently indistinguishable from lesbians.Or something like that. We might need to come up with a few more Corollaries for Clark's Law.
>>20340031But not allowing Icarus to interact with males as well would stunt her social development and growth.What kind of mother would we be if we locked our child away like that (besides the fact that the initial reason to have her in the first place was to throw her into battle against the Vonnies just to see if she'll die or not)?
>>20340076>1500 magical girls...and the way we're going right now, we won't see any combat until all of them have a name and at least 3 paragraphs worth of characterization.
>>20340292And until they've all had their multi-thread romance arc with one or more other girls.
>>20340077>>20340292>>20340316I told you motherfuckers. Motherfucking lesbian singularity. It is gonna motherfucking happen.
>>20340316Maybe we can combine lesbian romance with the combat
>>20340329I am not opposed to this.
Having all yuris is both unlikely to happen and pointless. Let's just pair them off as things happen.
>>20340950Fair enough. To shift to a different subject, I think that Tessa would use Kinect Specs.Also, todo:Watch zen dodging.Check if survivors had new bodies.Keep eye on Veritas.Look into more MSes for Gamma Team.Assign codenames/titles for Round Table.I'm also thinking maybe we should put off the joint exercises until we've filled the table. Maybe not though.
>>20341533We want to have joint exercises before the Vonnies arrive so we're doing them in two or so days no matter how many seats are unfilled. Their actions in the battle could make for a good way to pick out appropriate candidates for the table.
What's the bet that the vonnie IFF bug only works on straight girls?
>>20341680If so, then Reimu is out.So is Icarus, Veritas, and Alexa.And probably another 400-600 other girls. Possibly more.
>>20341533We can assume that Tessa has a seat at the Round Table. That leaves eight seats unfilled.>>20341708I believe he means straight as in "straight-up" rather than "heterosexual." Otherwise he's not been paying attention. And probably doesn't quite grasp how human sexuality works.
>>20341836Or maybe he was joking. Goddamn you guys need to remove that stick from your ass.
>>20341881What stick? I didn't mean that in a pejorative manner; the vast majority of people are actually rather fuzzy on just how sexuality works. Also, in the absence of indicators to the contrary, I must assume all comments are sincere.
>>20341836>I believe he means straight as in "straight-up" rather than "heterosexual."That was my assumption, yes.Reimu is on her second body, and there's a very high likelihood that at least half of the girls on the planet have resleaved at least once.Face Conglomerate runs 50% off sales for new faces and bodies; that kind of gimmick only works if there's a brisk business going on.
>>20342008Ah, point. Fortunately, I would expect a trend like that to have jumped out at us when we first got the data.
>>20341929>joking about lesbian singularities>clearly the people must believe that a large concentration of lesbians will actually compress time and space itself into a great big ball of fucknofunallowed.jpg
>>20342008>>20341836>>20341680>That was my assumption, yes.>Reimu is on her second body, and there's a very high likelihood that at least half of the girls on the planet have resleaved at least once.>>Face Conglomerate runs 50% off sales for new faces and bodies; that kind of gimmick only works if there's a brisk business going on.>... .... ... Time for a nervous breakdown.It'd be kinda amusing in a really twisted way if everyone BUT Icarus, Anne and Minaka were in grave danger of being eaten, what with the three being the ones with the most deathflags (recently confessed feelings, Fire-Water pairing, close connection to an important figure, innocence with a sense of wonder etc) at the moment.
>>20342190I'm pretty sure that data point would have come up already. Given that a good percentage of the girls who the Vonnies didn't eat almost certainly were resleeves I'm not worried about that.
>>20341836Actually, I meant hetrosexual. I just thought it would be amusing if all the character building we've been doing was working against us in the long run.An interesting point about resleeved girls though. In addition to that, could any neotenics or gender swaps have snuck their way into our Magical Girl troops? By lying or otherwise falsifying their records?The Pyro comes to mind...
>…could any neotenics or gender swaps have snuck their way into our Magical Girl troops? By lying or otherwise falsifying their records?An interesting question. I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but I'm pretty doubtful that it did.Well, maybe one or two hacksmiths might have done it, but certainly not in any significant number.
>>20344943>>20343062I wonder what would happen if the person in question was convinced that he really is a little girl.
>>20345108his stack would still register as male I'm betting. You are born a certain gender, no doubt that leaves traces in your stack.
>>20345357It seems that life experiences also affect the state vector somewhat. So if you believe it for long enough, it might become reality.
>>20341662Ah, joint excercises with everyone. I was thinking it was just the base teams.>>20342225>>20342077It's still worth looking up, given the potential consequences. I personally think it'll be fine, but an ounce of prevention and all that.
>>20345979you have to budget reads' time too
>>20346005>implying it takes effort to type "You check the data on the survivors and find a number of them were not on their original bodies."
>>20345357The original physical gender isn't/shouldn't be important, we're working on the current genders mattering.The thing with being able to readily get a new body, is that if your birth body feels "wrong," you can get a new one that doesn't.
>>20346578No, the nanites as far as we know go by brain scans. They don't care what your body looks like. This is the entire reason why we make a ~x year old female infomorph and a ~x year old female version of Alex. A unaltered male stack would read as male, not female.
>>20346791Well, the question is if a transexual reads like the opposite gender. If you ask me they wouldn't, since I believe they have brain structures more similar to their biological gender. I might be wrong about that though.Anyway, even if they did read as females, they'd still have to be the right age.
>>20346791So, first, I said "genders" plural, meaning both mental gender, and physical sex. Second, the sex must matter, or else we would be able to use boys, too, but boys can still fail to trigger the exception.Also, the cortical stack is a backup device, it does not do the thinking, the meat is still needed for that.>>20346855Why shouldn't they? They're in an appropriate body, with matching think meats. Also, in such a society any one with transgender issues would be able to get it fixed much earlier than it might happen in modern society. We've already seen that the digital copy of a mind can be altered to fit a given age and gender, which could easily be part of the transgender therapy involved with the body change.
>>20347109>the sex must matter, or else we would be able to use boys, too, but boys can still fail to trigger the exceptionMaybe we can use boys. We have data from one planet. All we know is that boys had a lower survival rate. Given how easy it is to resleeve/alter people with transgender issues it's a fair guess that all or almost all the physical boys were also mental boys.I don't know why we'd want to stuff a magical girl into a guy's body but it could work 100%, we haven't any evidence against it yet.
>>20347199You're right, it might work, but there's no need to try it, since we do have a plethora of actual girls, in proper bodies, to employ. And if all of the beta team work out, we should be able to effectively manufacture more girls to fight the vonnies.
>>20347109I'm sure that there are signatures that'd differentiate unaltered male and female stacks. If you've altered your stack, which last we heard is pretty frowned upon if not illegal, it's not the same person anymore. The altered stack may still have enough bits left to not pass a scan. Truth and Alexa(and to just to have a solid leader their age) are our tests for that via genderbending, while Icarus is the test for constructed female stacks.If Truth works out then maybe, but as you said we already we a large supply of girls already. Then the DOLLs after that even if they are only spare bodies and cannon fodder.The fact that boys trigger it half the time points to the conclusion that how they look doesn't matter, but the mental scan does. If it was how they looked, they'd eat anything with balls no matter the age.
>>20348094All I'm gonna say, is that there's a difference between altering one's own stack backup, and having it altered as part of a therapeutic process.
I think what matters most is the actual brain scan, because when Deadalus created Icarus it was by altering her own state vector to match that of the target range "pubescent human female".And we aren't even sure if that will work.If we just re-sleeved someone in a new body without changing their state vector we can be pretty sure it wouldn't.As for what gender they were born, I think that's Rick's whole experiment with Veritas (Formerly TheTruthIsOutThere) to see if changing the state vector of a currently sentient being is capable of triggering the vonnie IFF bug.
>>20348419pretty sure rick just wanted to troll truthIt was nice of him to let us test another constructed vector, even if he did give us too many variables(infomorph to human, gender change, age... creation?) to know why it fails/works if it does.Alexa(gender change, age change) is a better test of what your going for.Icarus(infomorph to human, age creation) for completion.
Do you think we should give the time program to Veritas? If Rick has it I'd want his morality core to have it to keep up with him. I'm just worried that by her nature she'd leak it.
>>20348669Probably not. Chances are she already has it, just locked or something, because past shenanigans, though.
>>20348669I don't have enough NOPEs.She might be a victim, but anything touched by Rick is rather likely to be a timebomb, maybe even literally so.
>>20349382Well my reasoning was that if Rick thinks it would be useful for her to have it he's given it to her already so giving it to her ourselves can only work against him.But yeah, probably too many unknowns. She's kind of crazy, a version of Rick, and likes leaking confidential info.
>>20349472>>20349382You're overlooking something. She's ALREADY USED IT. Remember the "Video" on Truth's site?
>>20349632That would explain the list, yeah.>>20348419>I think what matters most is the actual brain scan, because when Deadalus created Icarus it was by altering her own state vector to match that of the target range "pubescent human female".This is what I was trying to get at previously.
>>20349632That's a possible explanation for it, yes. It's far from 100% certain.And even if it is a time-travel thing, it's could different from Anne's time travel thing given that Anne's can't be sent back to before she invented it which was after the video.
>>20349689Keep in mind that Rick implied he maneuvered things so that Anne would invent it. That implies that he (and/or his forks) already had it somehow.By the same logic, it probably wasn't v0.1 on that site.Or it could have been US who set up that server, with past-Truth's assistance. Notice that the 'speaker' never identified themself?Agh. Too many variables.
>>20349632That's part of why I said she might already have it.
