>>20952162
Lets send... half of our remaining assets. And FIND A KITCHEN!

Rolled 21

>>20952162
nuke world hit them hard take that cube

>>20952162
Yes
Lots (anything that isn't currently dedicated to critical defense points or active engagements)
After we steal a worldship

Also, let's bug the Protoss some more. They are missing out on so many beautiful explosions.

>>20952162
>Detonating heighliners is also an acceptable order at this time
We took the highliner engine tech from the Xel'Naga. Can we detonate their engines instead?

>>20952162
Yes, we would like to send more aerospace assets.
Send half of our remaining forces, draw them in from the Protoss border if we have to.

Have them assemble at a rally point a little outside the system via heighliner, then make the final jump into the battle once ready.

>>20952330
If I remember correctly, the engine controls make no sense to use, despite knowing the language and how they work.

>>20952403
>>20952330
Depends on how well you roll.

>>20952371
>>20952319
>>20952245
Half of our forces, you say?

>>20952300
Toaster has 10 nukes ready. We could do that.

>>20952508
Yes, half. Dangerous, I realize.
And have Toaster get those nukes into position. Heighliner them in to a place at the edge of the system, drop them off, then have them make the last step of the trip via conventional Warp.

>>20952508
So nukes, engine fiddling, the half the swarm.

>>20952614
>>20952615
Alright, so...13d100? Can we do 13?

Rolled 14, 80, 30, 63, 12, 72, 92, 63, 59, 34, 97, 38, 24 = 678

>>20952721
Let's see.

>>20952721
I think it goes up to 25.

Rolled 88, 32, 12, 36, 53, 61, 64, 71, 38, 4, 24, 17, 63 = 563

>>20952751
Or it would if I remembered to put 'dice' in.

Rolled 75, 59, 67, 48, 61, 41, 44, 76, 20, 97, 93, 47, 46 = 774

>>20952721

>>20952747
>>20952758
We begin sending forces in wave after wave, joining in the fight in droves. The battle is pitched, but our interminable numbers choke the skies. The system is full of Zerg, live and dead.

One of the worldships, too, is full of Zerg, and our Science Corps finally tweaks its engine controls correctly, finesses them just right, to cause a massive detonation. A wave of red light explodes outward, tearing through space like a scream piercing a night's calm. Zerg and Xel'Naga alike disappear in the light, and for a split second, we swear that we can see a ship in the afterglow, but we can't be sure.

As the combat lulls for a moment following the blast, Toaster seizes its moment, firing its ten prepared missiles. Moments later, it is claiming that its targeting systems were disrupted by the explosion, as only one missile caused enough damage to allow our forces to destroy the craft.

It is this scene that greets the Protoss battle fleet that surprisingly rolled high enough on its very first check to arrive. The golden ships join the fray, performing quick strikes and retreating, often before the Xel'Naga retaliatory fire arrives, but they do less damage that we would like.

>>20953315
(/tg/ dice: nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens, EVERYTHINGHAPPENSNOW)

>>20953315

Send message of thanks to our protoss allies for joining the fight.

Keep throwing bodies at them and assign escorts to the protoss as living shields.

>>20953327
Storm the Worldships, and FIND ME A KITCHEN! Have we taken complete control of a worldship yet? If so we should move it one system over until the battle is over.

>>20953392
Quick determine if Khas is here, if so tell the Xel'Naga "Tada! We brought you Khas like you asked."

>>20953315
Have our controlled worldships keep firing upon the Xel'Naga.
There was one worldship that we controlled almost entirely with an intact bridge. Make sure that one doesn't take part in the battle, so that we can salvage it afterwards.

Thank the Protoss for their assistance, and let them know that we've turned some of the worldships against the Xel'Naga; wouldn't want them shooting the ships we control.

>>20953426
>one worldship that we controlled almost entirely with an intact bridge
Except for, you know, the guns.

>>20953402
We don't control the engines on any more ships. We popped the one we had.

SPEAKING OF:
1: Weapons
2: Life Support (30% of crew dead), Weapons
3: Weapons
4: Weapons
5: Weapons
(The dice only want you shooting, not driving, apparently)

>>20953416
>>20953392
Khas' fortified carrier is with the fleet; It appears that he is here, but he isn't taking our hail.

>>20953426
We lost the one with the bridge last thread.

It'll be 5d100 to fire those bad boys.

>>20953497

FIRE EVERYTHING.

As usual.

Rolled 2, 37, 76, 91, 21 = 227

>>20953497
FIRE EVERYTHING
NO SURVIVORS

Rolled 93, 4, 31, 11, 45 = 184

>>20953515

>>20953497
Wait, what happened to Ship 6?
Was that the one whose engines we caused to overload?

Rolled 94, 51, 84, 17, 16 = 262

>>20953515
FIRE EVERYTHING

>>20953527
That's inefficient. If you leave survivors you can then fire them as well.

>>20953549
6 is the one that just popped with universe-tearing fury. We had bridge and engine control, there. 7, we lost last week. It had bridge, engines, and weapons. Our best work.

On the plus side, 2 will be out of breathable air for the Xel'Naga soon, so that will probably give us options. Though, now that I think of it, you guys should roll 2d20 real quick.

>>20953527
>>20953548
We manage to fire the weapons on most of the ships, but mostly only do glancing damage to the Xel'Naga, and collateral damage to our forces in the way. However, in the fray, three enemy worldships are destroyed.

Rolled 10, 22 = 32

>>20953699

ROLLING

Rolled 10, 1 = 11

>>20953746

Fucking fail.... typed 9 instead on 0.

Rolled 13, 20 = 33

>>20953699
C'mon snakeyes.

Rolled 12, 4 = 16

>>20953699

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>>20953746
>10, 22
>on 2d20

>>20953801
Those are d29s.

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>>20953801

Guilty of being a dumbass.

Rolled 11, 11 = 22

>>20953699
Time to see how we do.

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>>20953757
>>20953769
>Xel'Naga roll both a botch and a nat 20 on the same roll

Oh, come on.

Rolled 18, 7 = 25

>>20953822
Well....that certainly is a lucky roll in a way.

>>20953834

Use the Botch then. :3

>>20953822
Because there's just not enough numerology in the numbers I've seen so far, I'm going to use this roll.

On Ship 2, Cyberbrate suddenly alerts us of a desperate hacking attempt. Apparently, the Xel'Naga sealed on the bridge are attempting to override the air scrubbers and restore breathable air to their ship. After a few minutes of feverish typing that would surely be an awesome over-the-top graphical battle with vector graphics in a rad '80s hacking movie, but is really just a bunch of infested Terrans typing quickly, Cyberbrate manages to lock them out of the system on about 4/5 of the ship, but the "vital ship's systems" areas remain under Xel'Naga control, and are soon awash in life-giving air. Such is life, we suppose.

>>20953960

Send ankle biters to eat holes in the walls.

Let them eat vaccum.

>>20954010
Piercing the hull of every compartment could take *days*. Weeks, maybe.

>>20954104
Be prepared to simply wait the Xel'Naga out.

Just have all worldships keep firing.

Speaking of which, with the Protoss now in the fight, are there more openings for us to attempt boarding actions against other worldships?

>>20954104

Bite a hole.

Enter and eat Xel'Naga.

1/5 of a worldship shouldn't be too much biomass.

>>20954138
Warbrate could arrange another wave, but warns that we've already committed 50% of our aerospace resources to this battle; It gets nervous when those kinds of numbers are all together, far away from home.

Also, it's time for a scary 2d100.

Rolled 63, 56 = 119

>>20954197

Rolled 40, 15 = 55

>>20954197
What wretched twist of fate awaits us now?

Rolled 39, 82 = 121

>>20954197

ROLL

>>20954222
>>20954217
Nothing. Just the battle wear roll. It's scary on principle.

>>20954222
Obviously we finally found a kitchen, AND THEY HAVE NO TASTE!

Rolled 18, 60 = 78

>>20954197
What is the worst thing that could happen?

>>20954266
Or we never find a kitchen, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO TASTE!

>>20954310

THey seemed to like Artisanlord's stuff.

Taste seems plenty good to be.

>>20954310
THE HORROR!

>>20954332
Did Artisanlord do the chili-con cook-off? I can't remember. Did I write this down?

Aha! It's 5 pages back, but I have it. There was no cooking in Artisanlord's cultural presentation. There has been no ZQ-canon established as to whether or not the Xel'Naga have tastebuds.

>>20954429

Not all taste has to be cooking, mien Cerebrate.

Taste in art. lol.

>>20954266
Randomly wandering all over the ships, trying to take the kitchens by force... you're doing it wrong. Have Nargil design a new breed of super-tasty zerg, and infiltrate. Get them to show you where the kitchens are. Use your smarts.

>>20954443

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>>20954520
>>20954443
We return you to our top story: Zerg Bergur is the top-selling meat product in the galaxy, but is it infesting your children? Some health officials worry that the Swarm-based beef and poultry products, the newest in a long line of "Creep Crops," may carry dangerous spores that could turn children into nightmarish insectoid monsters. More on that after the break.

>>20954626
And now we turn to Claw Swarmy with the weather.

>>20954743
I wish somebody would make animate shorts out of the silly asides we have in this quest.

>>20954743

And at 8pm, The Deadliest Catch.

Free-Range Ultralisk!

>>20954797
Ice Road Dropships just did not test well.

Depot Wars did alright.

Note: I'm genuinely cool making puns and cheap jokes for the rest of the thread, or doing some plot stuff. Either way's fine with me.

>>20954905

Well, we're still waiting the outcome of those rolls we rolled...

>>20954923
Oh. I was just going to work it into the next thing you did. That was more of a general bookkeeping thing for me.

>>20954958
(So, then...)
The Protoss are taking a beating, but still standing firm. We're proud of our brothers, though we feel a note of pride that a smaller proportion of our forces are gone than theirs.

It's hard to tell in the chaos, but there are clearly fewer than 100 worldships left. It might even be less than 75.

>>20954983

Keep ripping into them.

I'm assuming our home planets are constantly churning out zergs? Keep sending in waves of reinforcements periodically.

>>20955036
Just fighting, or did you want to try shooting from the boarding parties? Or even trying to take more systems aboard those ships?

>>20955096

More boarding is always good.

>>20955111
What kind of troop numbers are you thinking?

>>20955139

I would say most of what we have on the field, distributed across the worldships in the numbers we used in the previous assaults, since the numbers appeared to work.

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>>20955161
Warbrate warns us that this will extremely deplete our ground forces and even conservative estimates of losses will put a noticeable dent in our overlord supply.

(Pic more relevant than it's been in months)

>>20955212

I say it'll be worth it. We can produce more.

Feels like the damn final battle?

>>20955212
I don't think new boarding operations is a good idea. Last time we had surprise on our side, this time they'll know what we're up to.
Let's just reinforce the boarders on the ships we've already got a foothold on, and try to get at least one intact worldship under our control. We're obviously having better luck taking them out with guns than claws anyway.

>>20955212

No more boarding.

What >>20955230 said.

Keep firing on the rest of the worldships.

>>20955224
>>20955230
>>20955239
So, that's two nos and a yes...

>>20955255

One more for no.

>>20955274
>>20955239
>>20955230
>>20955224
I'm cool with no boarding. Less work for me.

What's the plan, then?

>>20955290
Kill the Xel'Naga.

>>20955290

Get captured guns to shoot, board troops onto captured worldships to reinforce garrisons and capture the remaining sections.

Have our fleets continue to pour fire into the Xel'Naga.

Accidentally have a damaged love muffin crash into and wreck the giant crystal.

>>20955310
Well...yes. Could you be more specific?

>>20955327
Better...

>>20955362
>Could you be more specific?
Sorry. Kill the Xel'Naga so hard they die to death.

>>20955386
Ah, well, that's much clearer. Thanks.

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Ok, I think I'm going to call it for tonight, fellas.

I should be here Monday next week. Maybe Tuesday, too, what with national holidays and all that. Who knows.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/20952162/

I'm not sure whether I liked the action sequences or the puns better.

Does anybody else get the feeling Cerebrate Anon is hiding something about this fight? Did we forget to ask about anything, or to shoot anything? Is the shiny bird thing still there? What's missing?

Zerg Quest? Is thsi happening?

Aw, shit, I missed it again

>>20959578
>giant space bird made of psi energy
Oh yeah, that thing. The thing that can drain all of our psychic energy and so far we haven't found anything that can kill it.

Also, aren't we a little too cavalier with destroying sections of the universe, and essentially warping space-time in normal space?