>>21566417
Hell yes, Fabrique Generale time!

Now a community of these people have set up shop outside your Tower's walls, in exchange for food, water and medical treatment they give you resources. But you have to protect them if you want to keep them as a source of income. Oh, and they're a steady source of recruits.

Lesse what else... Oh, you sent a party of soldiers out into the plains with some merchants to a town called Shmidtsburg. A place apparently run by "Metal Heads."

Last but nbot least you're at war with a mysterious organization that simply calls itself "The Majesty." Ther've fielded Power Armor, Lasers, Cargo Helos and APCs in their skirmishes with you.

Recap over, incoming copy pasta.

Week 38:
Population: 750
Technology: Robotics, Basic AI, Automation, Comms, Explosives. Basic Anti Ballistics, Taser Weaponry, Firearms, Hydroponics. Powered Armor, Geddonite Batteries, Cargo Helo, Geddonite Farm, Spider Silk Farm, Artillery
Weapons: AntiAir Guns, Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Semi Auto Pistols, Revolvers, Combat Knives. Tasers. Grenades, RPG Launchers. AntiMaterial Rifles. SAM Launchers
Armor: AntiBallistic Vests, Riot Armor, Tueton MK3
Soldiers: Heavy Gun Rovers, Gun Rovers, Power Armor Troopers, 4 Armored WreckingRovers. 3 Tgh+Agl Squads. 3 Brl+Agl Squads.
Defenses: Exclusion Zone, Exclusion Zone Wall.
Cool Stuff: HoloCenotaph, 1 Functional Unarmed Majesty Helo. Viktry Town
Contacts:
The Parish: Allied
D.B.R.L.: Allied

2 Resource units every turn.
1 extra unit every 4 turns.

A: Explore
B: Scavenge For Supplies
C; Construct Something New
D: Research New Technology
E: Make a Suggestion.

Goddamn, I was just about to go to bed. Looks like I'm up all night.

>>21566478
What is the condition of Viktry town? Is there any law enforcement there as well?

>>21566478
Let's upgrade our RPG's with Tandem HEAT warheads. Hopefully we'll be able to knock out Majesty APC's in one or two hits.

C - lets get another wreckingrover online
D - using our new materials lets develop an airborne drone!

You know what we should do?

Ally up with DBRL and co-cooperatively fight against Majesty. We help each other, improve our troops, equipment, give each other weapons and armaments and etc.
I mean, not just us going against Majesty while DBRL provides some discount, I mean, wielding troops together, we should have twice as much forces to go with.

anyway
>>21566478
>C; Construct Something New
>D: Research New Technology

We need AA-HeavyRovers against Majesty's air superiority

Also, we should buy gene-mods and eventually have ALL of our troops upgraded

Okay there's tunnels beneath the city, mostly stuff left over from the old sewer maintanence tunnel system. They're heavily flooded and useless as is. There was talk of making use of them so let me lay down your options for these tunnels.

First off you'd need to seal off a section of the tunnels and drain it, that's one resource unit right there. Plus that's an action requiring a lot of manpower so it'll limit what you can do that turn.

Once drained of water you need to clear out that section, that'll use up another turn and grant you some resources from the stuff left in the tunnel. But then you'll have a section of tunnel that's clear of obstructions and water.

So at the moment the tunnels are useless, however you can clear them out, and even expand on them so you can make your own tunnels to other places.

So yeah. Tunnels.

Rolled 39

>>21566533
I think the problem is that we're going to need the entire city on our side before we go after the Majesty and get some more tech done, you guys have done alot in my absence.

>>21566478
In the mean time,
A: Let's try to find more people.
D:Let's upgrade our AI's.

>>21566512
Aside from tearing down and rebuilding the more dangerous sections you haven't bothered with it much. also as part of your agreement with the Prostitutes guild you supply them guards to deal with troublesome customers, that's your only major presence, aside from a small building where people turn in salvage for barter chits. Modifying your presence and policies in Viktry Town is a free action.

Oh, and for the record you can make space age materials, just not those specific materials. Your main source of building material and chems and stuff is recycled from whatever you can find in the city so whatever you make is made with stuff you can easily mass produced...

>>21566536
forget about the darn tunnels, who keeps mentioned them anyway?

>>21566573
We should add a local police station with a few security guards just so law and order doesn't just stop at the front doors of the Prostitutes guild.

>>21566519
What is a Tandem Heat Warhead?

I'd also like to npote that you have SAM launchers with capacity for 3 missiles in their magazine. They infrared targetting beams, so you can use either the built in targetting device or have a spotter mark your kill for you.

Requires line of sight with the launcher though.

Oh and you have heavy rovers with Crownbreaks and SAM Launchers, an AA Rover would basically be an MBT modeled on the bastard child of a WirbelWind and an Abrams.

>>21566573
How big is the shanty town anyway? How many people are there?

>>21566597
Perhaps, if we are going to protect them all, we should get a deal going with the rest of the people just like with the Prostitutions and the Merchants? I mean, we make some people pay for protection and others not? That's not right. Either don't demand pay at all or have everyone chime in.

Rolled 92

>>21566624
How many heavy rover can we build for a resource anyway? We should build shit ton of them.

Actually, we should do that AND improve AI so that eventually we don't have to wield human troops that much.

Seriously, lets get AI research going. It's our speciality

>>21566626
Indeed, it's not fair just to have the high payers have protection, it's also more productive if people have the feeling of safety.

>>21566586
well at least one person was interested in using them for Geddonite farming. The other was worried about infiltration I think.
>>21566597
Okay your guys slap together a police station and staff it with some rookies from security, anything else?

Oh and what do you want to do with your old geddonite research lab? Its on the edge of your usable territory and outside of your wall. All of the original geddonite samples it contained have been used up in batteries or farming experiments.

Oh and you need to expand either your geddonite farming operation or biofuel operations if you want to have more than 6 wrecking rovers or 1 ultra heavy rover.

>>21566674
We could build some solar collectors, their low maintance and run on cheap power source.

>>21566624
Tandem HEAT warhead is a dual HEAT explosive device. The initial shaped charge explosive creates a hole or explodes any reactive armour, the second charge activates after the first and blasts the jet of (usually) copper plasma into the interior of an armored vehicle.

>>21566626
The protitutes and the merchants made a deal, you took it, so far you're acceptinjhg scrap from people who turn it in and give them barter chits based on that item's value.

>>21566658
at the moment you have 100 light rovers and 50 heavy rovers. You have 100 light rovers and 50 heavy rovers active at the moment. Increasing your geddonite or biofuel resources would double that number.

>>21566698
I assumed that was how your AP RPG rounds worked. You have HE and AP rounds, it just that the SAM rounds are bigger, heavier, and that much more effective. An AP round from an RPG can damage tank armor and kill APCs or Power Armored tropps but an SAM round does it better.

Rolled 30

>>21566674
>well at least one person was interested in using them for Geddonite farming.

God, we at least have 300 vacant stories in our tower and some knucklehead wants to waste valuable turns and recourse doing something useless like this? We have a powerful enemy and can't waste turns and resources that could otherwise have been used for advancing tech or building stuff.

>>21566704
What if we scrap all light rover? How many can we have after that?
It seems to me that light rovers are completely useless against Majesty.

>>21566704
So, how big is the shanty town?

It'll take you a half a resource unit but you can make a Targetting application that will apply to both power armor and all robots you produce. You get 2 and a half resource units every turn. (so I guess you get 3 units next turn. huh.)

anyway for a full resource unit you can produce targetting scopes and goggles that interface with those things for non power armor users, would make your soldiers more effective in combat.

>>21566720
Ah, alright. A SAM round shouldn't really be more effective at ground work though, most man portable surface to air missile warheads work on annular blast fragmentation to shred vital aircraft pieces rather than raw explosive power to knock them down.

>>21566750
That's what AI research will do, right?

If you stopped making Light rovers you could support 100 heavy rovers 8 wreckingrovers and 2 ultra heavy rovers. no extra resources would be gained (but you wouldn't have to spend a turn producing 50 more heavy rovers.) While Light Rovers are useless against Majesty Forces they're quite effective against bandits and such, you might do some stuff outside this city so there's that to keep in mind.

Viktry town is home to 250 people and is built basically in every possible space outside your tower. It would be within the bounds of your proposed secondary exclusion zone wall though.

>>21566750

Yes to the AI and yes to the targetting equipment, both will be a nice bonus to our troops.

>>21566724
I have an idea:
Could be feasible to create some kind of projectile capable of draining or short-circuit the Majestic armors?

Maybe by releasing conducting material into the power conduits or whatever they use, if we short-circuit it, and hopefully, take down the entire electronic sistem, then the tech would be up for grab, as well as Majestic prisoners

Another option could be using the energy-absorbing capabilities of Geddonite-B but it would be more expensive.

TL;DR Shutting down Majestic's technology for capture

>>21566759
Noted, I guess your guys carry RPGs or lots of grenades when they expect a need for HE Ground work. Basically whenever you make an explosive you make it in HE and AP varieties since those are the only types of weaponize explosives you've bothered to develop.

>>21566762
If you use the Helo Data, yes. You could also try to improve AI in other areas.

>>21566808
We tried doing that with EMP, but it causes their suits and tech to hit the thermite switch immediatly and destroying it on the spot.

>>21566808
so far as you can tell from what's left of the Helo's self destruct system any attempt to circumvent the self destruct system will result in activation of the self destruct system.

U\You can't tell much because it appears that the main computer was almost completly destroyed accept for a few lucky fragments that data could be pulled off of. (that's where your targetting data came from.)

Short of figure out where the majesty troopers keep the computer on power armor and then physically destroying it (which would kill the armor occupant) there appears to be no way to circumvent the self destruct.

>>21566837
EMP is a disruptive energy surge meant to overload (and fry) electronics AFAIK

I was thinking something along the line of "Energy drain"
I mean, if there is no power, the self-destruct system can't work as well

>>21566793
>If you stopped making Light rovers you could support 100 heavy rovers 8 wreckingrovers and 2 ultra heavy rovers. no extra resources would be gained (but you wouldn't have to spend a turn producing 50 more heavy rovers.) While Light Rovers are useless against Majesty Forces they're quite effective against bandits and such, you might do some stuff outside this city so there's that to keep in mind.

Lets do it then. We can always refit them into light rovers when we're fighting against raiders and otehr low-level enemies.
Also, we are cultivating AB geoddites in our tower, right? Is there any reason why we should keep the geoddite lab going? If not, I suggest we destroy it and the geoddite inside, it is an exposed target for Majesty and we do not want them to steal our research.

>>21566872
Whilst this is an ok idea, I have no clue how we'd do it. The only thing I can think of is Geddonite slugs with rapid charge modules attached.

>>21566803
so any arguments against developing targetting equipment and a Targetting application for your robots and Tuetone armor?

Thats 1 and 1/2 resource units which would give you enough resources for 1 other action.

Have we looked into improving our production capabilities? So far we have the ability to produce up to heavy rovers but how about we start towards developing the capability of constructing our own helos or walker tanks?
We cant do it yet but what steps do we need to take to get there?

>>21566829
>If you use the Helo Data, yes. You could also try to improve AI in other areas.

That's what the rolled 92 will get us?
As long as it is AI research, I'm all for it. We should really focus on our strength researching robots and AI.
And no, putting AI into power-suit doesn't cut it. We need dedicated kill-bots and that means they should not be bipedal humanoids, that is an inefficient way to build robots designed to kill and destroy stuff.

>>21566890
Or strands of cunductive material (Carbon nanotubes maybe?) to short-circuit it.

>>21566898

No, those are good uses for our resources.

>>21566898
No objections.
And scrap all the light rovers too if that is a free action. We don't need them for now.

>>21566898
We could try exploring more of the city.

>>21566883
There is no geddonite left inside, you used all of it, you've got some research equipment and a few lead lined barrels of radioactive majesty junk in there. You could easily put it to another use or destroy it, its more of a multi story bunker than a research lab to be honest.

>>21566872
You could try it I guess. But you know for a fact that the helo's self destruct includes a massive incendiary bomb and is VERY redundant. There's even a large red button in the cockpit so that the pilot can trigger it.

>>21566898
Back, reading.

>>21566940
Well, we should at least remove the research equipment and any data. We wouldn't want them falling into wrong hands.

How is the defence on the Parish look anyway? Do we have SAM launchers there? Heavy rovers? Power armored units? We should station at least one gene-modded squad there too.

>>21566940
>>21566872

Then how about lets not.
Im all for advancing but not with unneeded danger to ourselves and wasting our resources.

>>21566573
>Oh, and for the record you can make space age materials, just not those specific materials.

Which materials, the ones I made a huge list of before?

>>21566971

NO!
Keep the goddamned mutant freaks away from the old testament god fearing simpletons!
You want them to declare our security devil spawn?

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>>21566915
your robots have 6 optic lenses. Your armor has six optic lenses, there's a reason for this. Also your killbots and power armor share as many design elements as possibole so that you can share innovations used on one group of tech with the other group of tech.

>>21566907
Well researching Sextapedal locamotion is a start. You'd need some manner of functional legs before you could develop a walking tank.

Also if you develop APCs the wrecking rover will serve as the base for their chassis.

>>21566997
Let's spend that resource point in legs then

>>21566984
I suck balls at communicating. Look you can make those specific materials but not in any quantity to be useful for anything industrial scaled. So you're developing cheaper, easier to produce alternatives. Ones that can be made with stuff recycled from the ruins of a dead city for instance.

>>21566724
>God, we at least have 300 vacant stories in our tower and some knucklehead wants to waste valuable turns and recourse doing something useless like this?

It has REPEATEDLY been observed that we are a target of the local boys with aircraft, high explosives, etc. If anything, we should DE-CENTRALIZE our vital facilities so that, for example, IF THE TOWER GOT NUKED AND WE LOST IT, we wouldn't lose everything.

You know, Majesty uses micro-fission nuclear reactors to power EVERYTHING, I bet they have enough material for a nuke. You know where there's good shelter from nukes? UNDERGROUND. Like in the TUNNELS. Which would make a great shelter for our PRECIOUS, VITAL Geddonite manufacturing facilities.

>>21566808
Yeah, let's fuck with fission reactors before we've finished our anti-radiation project.

>>21567037
Let's expand underground more! Bunkers! Secret base! The tower is just a ruse.

>>21566915
There has been no serious need for AI beyond what we have. Drones are fine until our operators cannot control them because of the complexity.

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>>21566996
Only people with the Red Package look like mutant freaks, pic related.

People with Blue or Yellow package just have wierd eyes. Your Green eye troops have green eyes, like the cornea and iris are all one solid color and the pupil is the only variation. They can hid their mutation with a pair of sun glasses.

>>21566996
Given that our security teams have protected it in the past without complaint, and given that the Parishioners see us as having awesome Jesus magic on our side, I don't think so.

>>21567078
Also its worthy of note that many descriptions of angels in the bible are downright bizarre. Since they think ypou're some wierd offshoot of The Sons of Isreal they won't bat an eye if freakishly muscled people wearing your colors show up in their village.

>>21567026
So here's a continuation of some of my thoughts in the previous thread.

If we can get a few more sources of resource influx together, we can get three resources to spend a week. This would allow us to have two long-term projects running at once that require one resource unit a week and one resource reserved for immediate shit, decision-making, etc.

This would let us do things like researching complex systems while giving us something to decide on every week. That way, complex projects like power armor optimization or the radiation project we were going to partner with Darwin on will be feasible without removing flexibility.

Or creating stupid arguments between the players.

Okay so at the moment you're stocking up your remaining light rovers in a storage area in your tower until someone feels the need to break them down for resources (which would take an action and net you one resource unit) They may come in handy later.

Now there has been talk of walking tanks for awhile, do you want to take that first step and develop sextaped locomotion with your remaining resource point?

If so gimme a 1d100, 1 for targetters and improved targetting over all and 1 for sextaped research.

>>21567124
Proposed projects:

Project RINGMAIL: While our first Power Armor project, Project Kingslayer, yielded viable prototyping, without significant research and development our armor has only strength enhancement; against Majesty lasers, heavy munitions, or our own Crownbreaker anti-materials rifles it has all the stopping power of wet cardboard. We haven't even shielded the users from problematic power discharges yet, let alone created active camo or good enhanced vision. Protection is paramount. Project RINGMAIL will attempt to integrate pre-impact and newly developing technologies for the best armor possible.

Note well: many of project RINGMAIL's dividends will be cross-applicable to our robotics, vehicles, etc. You could upscale many of these technologies for use on a tank or an aircraft or a drone.

Continued below.

Rolled 86, 3 = 89

>>21567150
Is dice+2d100 right?
Well, let's hope

Rolled 63

>>21567150
Roll for legs

>>21566997

Then I suggest we put our last resources into developing this as a start.

We might consider then developing a better type of armor to then mount on our new vehicles and use in our power armor.

>>21567163

Project OVERCHARGE: This would involve using the tall service core of our vehicle and its height for huge power generation and Geddonite farming, along with creating a system to distribute that power from the top of the tower to receiver units that can be stationed anywhere, and probably mobile units as well because, while Geddonite is a great energy storage medium and slowly recharges, we have begun to approach the bottleneck in terms of what our current power generation system will allow us to field. In essence, we need a massive battery charger system.

As such, making use of systems that will incorporate solar collectors, electromagnetic power generation using our mile-high tower's height to take advantage of changes within the earth's magnetic field (on a given day, these can be huge even on an hourly basis with a long enough sensor), atmospheric pressure, and heat exchange between the top and bottom or inside and outside of our tower will give us a massive power generation system.

Emitters to send this energy from the top of our tower, taking advantage of its good vantage point, to various locations around the city through the air have been previously described as possible (by the OP); as such, we will have to develop and create them. Mobile emitters have been previously described as possible.

We will also have to seed Geddonite fungus properly throughout the service core to create the initial collector, our 'reservior' system.

Of course, the curvature of the earth limits the effectiveness of this means to the horizon, though relay emitters might be possible within Light City itself.

>>21567179
well its 1d100 per action but I'll take that 86, ignore that disastrous 2, and take that 63.

writan.

>>21567227

Project DAUNTLESS: This is the premier walking/rolling tank suspension, also cross-applicable to other areas. It uses a combination of treads, legs, and backup wheel systems to ensure that the post-impact wasteland cannot stop a heavily armored land vehicle. It involves integrated suspension research and comes in three separate parts.

Project to develop radiation cleanup materials with Darwin, as yet non-codenamed: This is slated to take six resource units and give Darwin and ourselves a good opportunity to stabilize our corporate relationship; it will also allow us opportunities to learn their corporate culture and find out if they're merger material.

>>21567163
>>21567227
>>21567277

*thumb up*

Captcha: opposes nedeclu
No captcha, this is too good to be opposed

>>21567277
>>21567227
>>21567163
So that's about it.

Like I said, if we got a few more rovers together so we could get three resource units a week we can work on two of these at a time and have enough raw material for a third thing, every turn.

Note that OVERCHARGE has been described by OP as allowing us to dominate Light City, over time.

I expect it would involve building a relay network, but nothing would solidify our operation quite so much as having good amounts of power wherever we go in town, so long as we can find a place with line of sight to the tower or a relay and recharge. Not too hard with a tower over a mile high like ours.

PROJECT LONGBOW is initiated with hopes of giving our soldiers an edge in the field, the desired effect has been achieved within our expectations. The Tueton armor, like all of our combat oriented robotics designs, has 6 optical lenses, these have been designed to work with modifed targetting software taken from the salvaged Majesty Helo. This software is also designed to function with a custom targetting scope and a set of goggles that people without power armor can use. The software has been turned into a patch for the Zeitgiest Operating system and has been uploaded to all active and inactive combat rovers (following the phase out of the Light Combat Rovers and their replacement by Heavy Combat Rovers.)

PROJECT GOLIATH PHASE ONE: has also yielded acceptable, if unnotable results. We now have funtional Sextapedal Locomotion Drives which can be used in place of the modular wheels or treads that all our robots make use of, these cannot be used in tandem or as auxillary forms of locomotion.

>>21567227
Project:OVERCHARGE

Sounds like a good idea, but im unsure how feasable it is at our current level, let us hear some projections first before commiting.

>>21567277
Project'DAUNTLESS

I like it, and I see it as the natural progression of our new walker system if its not what we will already develop with this next system. But maybe not as urgent.

>>21567163
Project:RINGMAIL
This should be our next goal. wether on our fture walker tanks, or on our power armor new armor advancements will save valuable lives.

>>21567337
I take it LONGBOW's goal is giving the armor a dedicated targeting and sensor system?

I proposed the name RINGMAIL because the layers of armor will need to be replaceable, and this can be done with hexadon-shaped cells in layers, sort of like the pattern mail rings make. Also it'll need a faraday cage which can be done with chain mail, amusingly enough.

>Goliath
I like it for the tank project.

>>21567346
>Overcharge
>feasible?
Last thread OP said it could be done, I imagine he's going to want to make it a bit harder so we don't steamroll but it will likely be necessary.

>Dauntless
>not urgent
The need to have our tanks not get blown apart requires armor, yes.

>Ringmail next
Finally, someone else who wants to finish the fucking power armor and will vote with me.

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>>21567387
pic related is a presently functional armor and camo system developed for RL tanks. I was thinking of scaling down the cells to about one inch wide and having two layers, complete with all our various armor techs. Note that you can replace the cells without having to tear off a huge, ten-ton armor plate from the side of the tank. Think about not having to replace a whole section of armor plate on our power armor for fixing one bullet impact.

Week 39:
Population: 750
Technology: Robotics, Basic AI, Automation, Comms, Explosives. Basic Anti Ballistics, Tasers , Firearms, Hydroponics. Powered Armor, Geddonite Batteries, Cargo Helo, Geddonite Farm, Spider Silk Farm, Artillery, Sextaped Locomotion Drive
Weapons: AntiAir Guns, Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Semi Auto Pistols, Revolvers, Combat Knives. Tasers. Grenades, RPG Launchers. AntiMaterial Rifles. SAM Launchers
Armor: AntiBallistic Vests, Riot Armor, Tueton MK3
Soldiers: Heavy Gun Rovers, Gun Rovers, Power Armor Troopers, 4 Armored WreckingRovers. 3 Tgh+Agl Squads. 3 Brl+Agl Squads.
Defenses: Exclusion Zone, Exclusion Zone Wall.
Cool Stuff: HoloCenotaph, 1 Functional Unarmed Majesty Helo. Viktry Town
Contacts:
The Parish: Allied
D.B.R.L.: Allied

2 1/2 Resource units every turn.
1 extra unit every 4 turns.

A: Explore
B: Scavenge For Supplies
C; Construct Something New
D: Research New Technology
E: Make a Suggestion.

>>21567387
PROJECT RINGMAIL

Glad to help.
Its simple really, we have repeatedly clashed with a superior military force. We need to bring our forces up to snuff and be able to secure our borders.

That being said, if OVERCHARGE is feasable then I suggest we pursue it once we have finished our power armor.

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>>21567421
Pic related is the camo system in action.

>>21567457
HOLY COWS AND ASSORTED LIVESTOCK!
IT'S REALLY A THING?

Rolled 98

>>21567421
Put one resource away for the Joint Project and tart Project Ringmail.

>>21567453
My suggestion is as follows:

Build more wrecking rovers until we push up to three resource units a turn.

Continue RINGMAIL alongside LONGBOW or put LONGBOW on hold.

Approach Darwin about the radiation project.

Once RINGMAIL finishes (probably a month at least, two months at most), move onto OVERCHARGE.

In the meantime, expand biodiesel generation with a dedicated facility for one resource unit to cover power generation expenses.

This leaves us with one resource unit a week to do with as we like as soon as we finish getting more rovers together.

>>21567457
Looks like a volkswagen commercial in germany. Notice the "Auktionshaus" "Juwelier" and the red "A" (apothecary) in the background.

>>21567491

Agreed, with 3 resources a week we can finish the joint project quite quickly.

I suggest we continue with LONGBOW however, its a good project we should see to completion.
Done together with RINGMAIL the technologies might even develop in synch leading to better results overall.

>>21567487

Lets keep that resource for now, with the extra Wreckingrovers we can get up to 3 resources and finish the project faster when we do startsaving for it.

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>>21567497
Fuck, that was another camo project with LEDs, apparently some Mercedez Benz engineers did that with a camera and hardware store materials but we can use that kind of tech anyway. It's from here: http://www.quora.com/James-Bond-007-creative-franchise/What-was-Qs-most-advanced-and-realistic-inven
tion

The pic below it is from the BAE ADAPTIV system I was talking about it, but yeah, could still use that shit with thin, transparent LCD panels made from graphene (the stuff in carbon nanotubes).

http://m.engadget.com/2011/01/14/bae-systems-develops-e-ink-camo-for-tanks-and-war-zone-e-readers/?i
cid=eng_Armor_art talks about e-ink camo systems, which they've developed. Pic related.

Here's some of their shit on youtube for those who are interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlLqdFsMnCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7FZr98MleU

Just search for 'BAE adaptive camoflage'

>>21567487
With that roll I'll let you develop a functional, highly expensive prototype right out of the gate. You'll have to make the technology a lot cheaper if you want to get general use out of it though.

and yes, project LONGBOW is meant to create a dedicated targetting and scanning system over time.

>>21567580
Why not give the prototype to Darwin for a while and ask them to improve it or find leads for us to follow in industrial manufacturing/do some beta testing?

Should keep them busy until we decide to push forward.

>>21567563
I'm all for developing LONGBOW alongside RINGMAIL, but note that we will be doing boring power armor shit for a while and that as new needs arise LONGBOW will become active again, as it is a general sensors kinda project.

>>21567607
Did the Darwins already recieved our anti-material rifles? I mean we could gift them it as a way of improving their chances of fending off the Majesty.

>>21567607

Then I suggest we continue to develop both alongside one and other until something urgent comesup.
At which point we can put one or both on hold to handle the new situation.

>>21567607
Interesting notion, they'll only allow it if you A: let them have an office in your tower, preferably up near the roof, with a radio and B: if you let them retain a sort of co=patent so in the event of society being rebuilt they get to share the profits. (and presumably make stuff with it.)

So we going with ringmail research and slotting one research for PROJECT PURGATIVE?

>>21567607

Also Id rather we hold onto the prototype for now. It will help the Project move faster.
Rather why dont we trade some research data with them, find out if they have any similiar avenues of research or something that might help our own research.

>>21567453
Could we actually develop Hijacker virus programs against the Majesty set-off switch instead, as it'll lock the majesty troops out of their own Helos and soldiers.

>>21567703
We could do that.

>>21567659
so far you haven't even shared your improved artillery piece design with them. You could give the rifles to them as a good will piece or you could trade the technology to them for more equipment (yeah they have life support devices that can keep an organ alive, watching an amputated pig lung breathe is freaky.) and the devices in question are very complex and capable of quite a lot, you know this because their invention was a big preimpact news item and all respectable medical laboratories would have one.

>>21567746

Promising idea, if it is possible we should keep it in mind.
Step it one step further and we could be setting their self-destruct systems off via virus as well.

>>21567765
What if we set up a co-patent with the Darwins with their biological sciences and our robotics technologies, we could work on cybernetics.

>>21567709
This is the prototype for a radiation cleanup system and treating radiation burns/sickness, not RINGMAIL, LONGBOW, or anything else. I think we're using the PURGATIVE codename, see >>21567703

>>21567675
Very well. I'm going to write up a summary of what we've already done towards RINGMAIL and what we need to do to give ourselves good armor, OP can correct it as it will just be a list of goals.

Done:
-Aramids research. This is the family of plastics that gave us things like nomex, kevlar, etc. Partial environmental protection, good tensile strength, good impact armor but bad on toughness (breaks much more easily than other substances).

-Space age materials research. This is all the shit from mylar to gore-tex to ceramics that was used to get us to the moon and satellites into orbit. A lot of the stuff used for environment and climate control in space (vacuum is fucking cold, but the sun can heat you up VERY FAST) has cross-applications if you want a power-armored soldier not to get burned by acid, poisoned by toxins, drowned, suffocated on his own co2 exhalations (love dat one-way carbon dioxide helmet vent), or melted by explosions. This and the ceramics should give us components that flush a good deal of heat away from where we need it.

-Spider silk research. We got the guys at Darwin to give, in essence, several copies of a life-support box for the massively-upscaled silk glands of the Darwin's bark spider (coincidentally named that, hurr) along with a means of forcing them to give up said silk. This spider's silk extrusions include threads calculated to be OVER TEN TIMES as tough as kevlar or steel; the spiders use them in nature to make eighty-foot webs over fucking rivers.

>>21567746
Nice idea, we'll need first a way to decode their transmissions...
Maybe a small insect-like drone that will record their communications and other useful informations.

>>21567746
I don't think software is the key. They'd just make it a mechanical system eventually. What we should do is use sonic vibration weapons against them, more on that after I'm done with the Ringmail shit.

>>21567703

Yes to move forward with this plan, although makesure we put them in a safe position from the outside and keep the research under tight security.

>>21567765

Open up trade talks, lets first find out what they might want. So far weve done most of the purchasing, lets turn it around.
Make sure our best men from the marketing and sale departments are put on the job.

>>21567813
ah my mistake, carry on then and ignore my sillyness

>>21567831
Yes, but mechanical systems work slower then coputerized systems which then gives us the upper edge. We could try putting more research into AIs and get the more intelligent kind to help us with hacking their systems.

>>21567831
Not that anon but if we can assume control of their systems then we can also fool them into thinking that it was NOT a virus (Ex: fake report of attacking forces)

For what they'll know their forces were killed by an ambush instead of having their armor turn on them.

Also, if we keep the virus a secret we may sneak it up via their helos into their main base.

>>21567813
Continued.

To do:
Allotropic group-14 research. These are the other forms of various useful elements from periodic group 14, including carbon and silicon. TL;DR: it's the stuff inside carbon nanotubes and its circuitry-related cousin. The allotropes graphene and silicene can do a SHITLOAD of awesome things like creating freakishly thin, transparent LCD screens for our active camo (graphene), tolerating wide temperature ranges and environments (though the other plastics will be good for non-reactivity), creating the next level of microcircuits if you can figure out how to print them, be part of supercomputers (both, though silicine doesn't react with oxygen in various forms and would be a very good lining system for our power distribution). If we line our Geddonite superconducting materials with this shit we're going to have a stable power distribution system for...

-Reactive electromagnetic armor. This is a couple layers of capacitors. A HEAT (that's high explosive anti-tank) round or high-density penetrator (material rifle shot, railgun shot that's below near-reletavistic) hits the capacitors and they release a FUCKLOAD of electricity into it. The result is that the explosive can vaporize before it does any damage to the guy in the armor, though it'll ablate away a layer of armor plating.

-Faraday cage. The armor is very high powered and will need a means to keep from electrocuting the user. This will also give us a pretty good protection system against people picking up electronic radio transmissions when they get decrypted inside the trooper's earpiece, forcing them to work to decrypt the signal.

Continued.

>>21567916

Hmm, very nice thinking.
We could make them think they are being attacked from multiple angles, from overwhelming forces.
Even if they figure out the ruse they sill will not know from which direction we are coming or how to counter the virus.
Still, we do not know how possible this is, as far as i understand our software capabilities are limited to our rover-ai's and our operating systems.
Do we even have a cyber warfare department? What are they doing anyway, beating Majesty troops at TF2

>>21567888
Mechanical systems can work just as fast. A dedicated mechanical system to respond to a loss of user vital signs and detonate the nuclear charge would be very easy to adapt to. What computer systems do better is make the decision more intelligent.

A dedicated sonic weapon could make the Majesty soldiers throw up and lose consciousness, we'd just need to attach a sonic vibration system to a strong enough magnet to hang onto their steel armor for a while so the thing would tramsit the vibrations. We can deploy it like a cordless tazer dart if we can make it small enough and they'll be pretty fucked. The best part is that they'll be alive but unable to engage us or the self-destruct due to a degree of incapacitation that ALSO doesn't trigger the self-destruct.

>>21567453
D: Work on Hijacker computer virus and
D: Work on delivery system for said Hijacker computer virus.

Rolled 9

>>21567999
derp

You send some resources down to the DBRL building under heavy guard. These are taken by friendly, if distant, guards and your men make it back to The Tower without being mollested by large animals, Majesty forces or junkies.

PROJECT RINGMAIL is inbitiated, and thanks to some happy accidents several weeks of research are turned into a few days. You develop a light, thing material, that when combined with some circuitry, a power source, and some small cameras, is capable of rendering a user invisible. (similar to the cloaking systems seen in popular fiction for decades.) The only draw back is that it is absurdly expensive. If you ever want to take it out of the Ivory Tower and into the real world you're going to have to make the HAUBERK system cheaper.

>>21567999
Let's not develop a virus that could be used against us later with a few changes, thx. Cyberwarfare would cripple us.

>>21568013
It's why we work on an antivirus or a lock on it, so we can only use it then, like how Apple has set up their OS system that jailbreaking it causes it to stop functioning.

The Darwinians are willing to trade you their HMG, LMG, and some very potent gaseous weapons in exhange for Crownbreaker and Targetting system designs. The gasses in question can be paralytic, knockout, or normal teargas (you could easily make smoke grenades that uses the fairly advanced delivery system.)

They also express some interest in your RINGMAIL project and the notion of yet another cooperative project. They maintain that they'd like a co-patent and intimate that they may be willing to share some "Protien Based Memory Storage" technology but that you'd have to foot the cost of their research to the tune of 3 resource units.

They're also quite pleased in your investment in PROJECT PURGATIVE and hope that you will continue to fund it.

>>21567952
Continues:

-Development of anti-laser defenses. We need to make a layer of armor under the active camo that will be composed of reflective stuff that ablates and aerosolizes, effectively puffing out into a small cloud that scatters laser light in all directions. The most useful laser frequency for weaponization is infrared, so that means copper & copper compounds. However, we should create a secondary layer to be on the safe side.

There's also a risk of a laser being pulsed slowly enough not to cause the aerosolization but fast enough to slowly heat shit up and burn the user alive. While good heatsinking and heat transfer materials mixed with conductive stuff to flush the energy to heatsinks (and maybe water cooling) will mostly fix the heat problem, we need to be able to have system detection up for unusual heat and light patterns and have the armor or user respond by using a smoke screen that their sensors can see through, preferably a highly reflective one that scatters laser light. Not to mention eye shielding to stop them going blind, but that's more for LONGBOW.

-Integration of components. We'll probably need a dedicated lab.

-In-the-field repair systems. Our honeycomb-structure armor will at best take a hit and need individual cells to undergo replacement. A mechanical system that can do this and will fit in something about the size of four phone booths standing together in a square (read: fits in a tank-rover thing) will allow this to be done in the field.

>>21568055
oh my god, this is a terrible idea, you clearly do not have enough information tech know-how to keep us from being laid right open when this crap backlashes

Week 40:
Population: 750
Technology: Robotics, Basic AI, Automation, Comms, Explosives. Basic Anti Ballistics, Tasers , Firearms, Hydroponics. Powered Armor, Geddonite Batteries, Cargo Helo, Geddonite Farm, Spider Silk Farm, Artillery, Sextaped Locomotion Drive
Weapons: AntiAir Guns, Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Semi Auto Pistols, Revolvers, Combat Knives. Tasers. Grenades, RPG Launchers. AntiMaterial Rifles. SAM Launchers
Armor: AntiBallistic Vests, Riot Armor, Tueton MK3
Soldiers: Heavy Gun Rovers, Gun Rovers, Power Armor Troopers, 4 Armored WreckingRovers. 3 Tgh+Agl Squads. 3 Brl+Agl Squads.
Defenses: Exclusion Zone, Exclusion Zone Wall.
Cool Stuff: HoloCenotaph, 1 Functional Unarmed Majesty Helo. Viktry Town
Contacts:
The Parish: Allied
D.B.R.L.: Allied

2 1/2 Resource units every turn.
1 extra unit every 4 turns.

A: Explore
B: Scavenge For Supplies
C; Construct Something New
D: Research New Technology
E: Make a Suggestion.

You have 5 resource units thanks to various sources.

>>21568055
>>21568013

Which is what a cyberwarfare department would be incharge of.
However I think we are jumping the gun a little.
We need to finish off our radiation and armor projects before we start any more long term projects.

For now I suggest we might construct our second wall around Viktry town and set up train some new security forces to guard it or (if we are short on manpower) initiate a militia amongst the townies.

>>21568102
Forgot my name. So that's about two month's work worth of clear goals for RINGMAIL. We'll also need to spend time integrating everything with the results of LONGBOW and more time making the manufacturing process cheaper and easier.

Mind you, we COULD focus all our resources on this and be done in three weeks max if we rolled well.

>>21568120
Like how the sextaped locamotion is a terrible idea? Those damn spider walkers are ass slow in real life! I could link you a video on how fast they go!

>>21568128
>five resource units
Spend three on RINGMAIL, one on LONGBOW, and one on getting more rovers/getting resource harvesting from 2.5 per week to 3 per week?

>>21568153
I'm going to preface this by saying that I think information warfare will be a good addition later.

While RL equivalents have never yet been developed for speed, even if the system we build with futuretech is a bit slow it was intended to get over obstacles when the integrated tracks couldn't and to return to a rolling state when they weren't necessary.

Alone, the hexaped drive would be shit. An integrated drive would be great.

Rolled 83

>>21568128
2 resources to PURGATIVE, 1 to Wreck Rover, 1 to Longbow and 1 Ringmail

>>21568162

I say we spend two on RINGMAIL, one for LONGBOW.
One needs to go to PURGATIVE as we continue the project.
Finally I do support the idea of more wreckingrovers so the last should go there.

Reassure the Darwininians that we plan to continue with PROJECT PURGATIVE and consider it a major step forward in restablishing order in the world.
Hammer out the details to the RINGMAIL deal and how the cooperation might work together, dont finalize anything yet.

What about the HMG, LMG and gases for Crownbreaker and targetting technology? What does the rest of the board think?

Rolled 28

>>21568241
I would be alright with this trade

Rolled 14

>>21568241
heres my roll to go with my suggestion

>>21568258
I really need to stop rolling when I don't mean to.

>>21568259
Which is crap, naturally

>>21568128
LONGBOW goals/benchmarks/targets:

-Bulletproof eyepieces compliant with most RINGMAIL standards. With dielectric mirroring, good heatsinks, and graphene lining, we can make the optics and eyepieces very hardy.

-Modular optics and sensors that can be replaced in the field. We may never develop a system that can withstand damage; the next best thing is something you can fix by taking one piece out and snapping another in its place.

-Integrated multi-band optics and hud. Night vision isn't enough, heat vision isn't enough. They certainly may be closer to enough together, but without something to overlay that data with targeting and range information, etc, not to mention friend or foe identification you're only a LITTLE better than blind. With microcomputing and graphene transparent LCDs, we can make this shit create a very smart display.

-Various softwares for all this and more importantly ballistic targeting. If you're a sniper and you have a machine that can automatically adjust for wind, well, so much the better.

-Encrypted comms capable of sufficient bandwidth for two-way video transmission. Only a little beefier than what certain modern smartphones do, so very feasible. Gives our troops a lot more intelligible data in the field if the CO can send them a map of the building, etc.

-Ability to link into a weapon or drone of our manufacture and fire it. Say you have a camera and a trigger remote on a rifle. Say you want to put it around a corner and shoot at someone. You'll need a way of using those sensors remotely.

-Thought-control over this via electrodetection, as with the Teuton armor itself. Obviously, a set of systems to detect user input compatible with current power armor standards.

-When all above targets are hit, integration with RINGMAIL.

alright in terms of LONGBOW you can develop several subsystems. Off the top of my head I can think of night vision, thermographic detection systems, more sniping software that will help a user kill his target at range, and maybe something for robots and Missile launchers.

>>21568241
>What about the HMG, LMG and gases for Crownbreaker and targetting technology? What does the rest of the board think?

Sure, and we'll throw in our advanced howitzer tech if they give us more implants. With RINGMAIL/LONGBOW proceeding well, we need far more toughness and agility mutations applied to our teams.

>Hammer out the details to the RINGMAIL deal and how the cooperation might work together, dont finalize anything yet.

Consider this: they have MUCH WEAKER defenses. If Majesty hits us and fucks with our labs, we are invulnerable to anything except a nuke and if we put the project development in our underground layers, even a nuke may not stop us. They're comparatively small and defenseless.

I don't see what they could offer us for RINGMAIL, let alone LONGBOW. We are the industrial center, we have robotics and computers, we have materials science and a copy of the entire library of congress archive to work from among other things.

They're a biological research company. We'd be better off developing it ourselves and then trading them power armor tech for mutations for now.

>>21568365
they'll give you 48 mutation therapies (24 squads with 2 mutations) in exchange for improved artillery piece schematics. That's a free action you gonna do it or what?

Also whats our consensus on resource use? Roll for it and I'll give you a result, lord knows I've got enough raw material.

>>21568434
Yes to the trade as modified. Total numbers requested for our mutated troops before and after the trade, please.

I'm going to try and be on-center here with resources:

One each for RINGMAIL, LONGBOW, and the rovers.

Two for PURGATIVE so we can hit the three-unit benchmark next turn and keep churning away at everything else.

Seconding requested. Suggestens for alterations requested.

Rolled 88

>>21568509
Rolling.

Rolled 20

>>21568509
secondan

>>21568509
FUND IT

>>21568509
Seconding

>>21568527
In light of the near-consensus elsewhere and my roll being way higher, want to jump on this here bandwagon?

Bugger what i was gonna say.

Motion passed.

I'll take that 88 for LONGBOW, I suggest you try to roll something better for RINGMAIL.

writan up LONGBOW.

Rolled 26

>>21568610
rolling Ringmail

Rolled 62

>>21568610

Rolled 26

>>21568610

>>21568641
thank god

Rolled 40

>>21568621

For RINGMAIL

Rolled 30

>>21568610
hurrr

>>21568641

How about you just roll from now on?

Rolled 62

>>21568610
ringmail's like an eight week project, we can roll again right?

>>21568667
Given some of my earlier rolls this would be a very bad idea.

Rolled 41

RINGMAIL roll.

>>21568668
Yeah, this is essentially like...to build a dedicated lab. I hope we don't need a fucking insane 99 roll for that alone.

PROJECT LONGBOW UPDATE

Our efforts to discover a tough, impact resistant material have yielded nothing that won't require at least an inch of transperant polymer. This is not only expensive, but unfeasable on small scale devices like targetting goggles and Tueton or Light Rover optic. In light of this we have developed a manufacturing method and a series of easily replaceable components. These have been put into production and the old LONGBOW targetting devices are being phased out.

We have also edeveloped some basic night vision equipment, this is being integrated into all future LONGBOW equipment. This will make any future night missions much easier on our people and may grant us a much needed edge against majesty forces. (recovered optical device fragments however suggest that Majesty armor already has nightvision capacity, helo equipment confirms vehicular thermographics and nightvision.)

Rolled 81

>>21568610
ringmail roll

>>21568709
I take it we can keep working on these projects to try to hit more of their goals if we want?

>>21568713
Aaaaameeen

>>21568713
Someone's getting more stock options. STOCK OPTIONS FOR THE HIGHEST ROLL.

PROJECT RINGMAIL UPDATE

A dedicated lab is set aside for the production and modification of the Tueton's subsystems and various other integrated devices as well as the production of materials and systems that will prove useful once integrated into the Rovers and proposed DAUNTLESS projects.

(basically you get a dice bonus to all RINGMAIL related activities. might be a good idea to do this for future long term projects. Okay, we set aside 2 resource units for PURGATIVE, what are we spending that 3rd one on? Integrated sextaped and wheel/tread locomotion?)

>>21568738
you get 3 rolls max. that 62 was your highest roll out of 3. sometimes you just get a series of bad rolls. Be glad it was only on building a lab and that you were in the "Low success" range.

>>21568780
We wanted to produce a Wrecking Rover.

>>21568780
For the record, the e goes before the u in Teuton.

>>21568797
Whatever works for you, OP. I'm glad it wasn't just a huge setback this round, tbh.

Anyway, wrecking rover, yeah.

>>21568827
Okay noted.

Anyways you don't have to roll to build a wrecking rover. You build it.

Oh and your dudes returned from shmidtsburg. Gimme a second for copy pasta and I'll be right back.

Week 41:
Population: 750
Technology: Robotics, AI, Automation, Comms, Explosives. AntiBallistics, Tasers , Firearms, Hydroponics. Powered Armor, Geddonite Batteries, Cargo Helo, Geddonite Farm, Spider Silk Farm, Weaponized Gas, Artillery, Sextaped Locomotion Drive
Weapons: AntiAir Guns, HMGs, LMGs, Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Pistols, Combat Knives. Tasers. Grenades, RPG Launchers. AntiMaterial Rifles. SAM Launchers,
Armor: AntiBallistic Vests, Riot Armor, Tueton MK3
Soldiers: Heavy Gun Rovers, Gun Rovers, Power Armor Troopers, 5 Armored WreckingRovers. 3 Tgh+Agl Squads. 3 Brl+Agl Squads.
Defenses: Exclusion Zone, Exclusion Zone Wall.
Cool Stuff: HoloCenotaph, 1 Functional Unarmed Majesty Helo. Viktry Town
Contacts:
The Parish: Allied
D.B.R.L.: Allied

3 Resource units every turn.
1 extra unit every 4 turns.

A: Explore
B: Scavenge For Supplies
C; Construct Something New
D: Research New Technology
E: Make a Suggestion.

oh, and you have 48 mutation therapies from your trade. Get pickin.

>>21568972
>mutation therapies

Since the armor can be upscaled to simulate the brawler mutation, we should use toughness and agility together to create 24 more troops/squads because the extra protection and superhuman speed/aim will work VERY well with the tools available.

Until a need is demonstrated or integration for it is supported, the brawler mutation is a waste of resources; our existing team is enough to fill the niche for now.

>>21568972
>resources
1 Ringmail, 1 Longbow, 1 Purgative. That'll keep Purgative buttoned up for a while, right? Three resource units total for now?

Means next turn we can do things like put up more walls or start working on the tunnels or something.

>>21569039
A question: the Majestic reactor use fission or fuson?

OPERATION LONG ROAD AFTER ACTION REPORT

Shmidtsburg is an interesting place, preimpact it appears to have been a fairly common small town that had an annual "Heavy Metal Music Festival" in an attempt to draw in tourists. (check the cultural data on the phenomena, our music libraries have extensive samples of "Metal" music) This appears to have brought in a certain crowd after the Impact of Asteroid Geddon. The town is dominated by an enormous step pyramid, a priesthood of somesort lives inside the pyramid and they serve as spiritual leaders and administers. (aside from a biannual festivel involving drunken orgies and a fondness for leather, silver, facepaint, heavy metal music, and long ballads about..well anything you could think to name, the culture doesn't seem to deviate from preindustrial agricultural communities) They have a powerplant that runs off of the coal mined from a nearby town and they grow enormous fields of corn, which are guided by literal knights in shining armor.

continued.

>>21569057
Since fusion reactors have to be larger than a building or the reaction will fizzle due to the restrictions of applued subatomic physics, gotta be fission.

>>21568972

I agree on the three way split.
Having Tough/Agile troops will also be a bonus, but what about setting up a purely Agility(meaning 48 soldiers with mutations) based Sniper Corps. They wouldnt need much except riot armor(later the HAUBERK system) and maybe some sextaped(which I keep reading as sex taped) gun rovers as support.

>>21569146

Considering Power Armour is basically made for everyone right now, it seems kind of useless not to equip every soldier we have with it.

The "knights" in question tend to shy away from fullplate though, preferring a steel breastplate with some riveted leather to protect the rest of their bodies. They usally wear a stuka helmet and use hunting rifles, SMGs, the occasional HMG and they also frequently ride around in biodiesel powered vehicles like motorbikes and pick up trucks.

Upon arriving in shmidtsburg we saw thw town attacked by mollochian forces, we intervened and were able to help the town defenders in fending off the invaders. This gave our merchant friends some favorable deals.

Aside from some things like crude electric lights, internal combustion engines, firearms, and steam powered industrial devices (The black smith used a steam hammer for his armor forging duties) we didn't see much in the way of technology here.

The people of Shmidtsburg live on a diet of fruits and vegetables, either grown locally or traded for from merchants. They also eat meat, taken from sheeps, cows, and pigs.

continued.

>>21569146
>sextaped(which I keep reading as sex taped)

Why we don't call them Hexapodes then?

>>21569184
seems like the fucking perfect place to pickup cheap resources.

>>21569146
It strikes me that if we don't standardize power armor, given the difference in level of protection it offers, we would just sow discord among our own troops given that they already know we can mass produce it (we gave a suit to every adult in our population a while back, and we have the best industrial production capacity around).

Not to mention that riot armor doesn't do much against getting stabbed, for example. Someone sneaking up on a RINGMAIL-rated Teuton-suited sniper gets to stab through the equivalent of a steel block before they get to flesh, though I expect they could find a vulnerability if they looked hard enough...over the course of an hour.

However, putting snipers in RINGMAIL-rated suits also gives them active camo.

The big reason for requiring a toughness mutation for such things is to cut down on injuries from heat and give the users a huge pain tolerance, etc. The toughness mutation also lets you eat anything you want out in the field without risk of poison, etc and get nourishment; a sniper out for three weeks worth of murderin' wouldn't need to work as hard to pull together some kind of survival ration. The radiation protection is a big bonus.

Frankly, the ease with which we can develop tech and trade it to the Darwin people makes double-mutating our entire security force and much of the rest of the population very feasible. Not to mention the effects this will have on fine-control stuff, like prototyping circuits with the help of extremely acute vision and VERY steady hands and possibly the ability to work longer hours with ease.

Toughness+Agility is extremely good.

>>21569213
Or recruits

>>21569146

I just wonder how maneuverable and stealthy they can be.
Theres a difference between, say, power armor from Starship Troopers and from Bubblegum Crisis

Literacy appeared to be fairly commonplace among these people,. combining that with what appears to be a network of traderoutes we must come to the conclusion that societal breakdown is not quite as extreme as it first appeared. These people value the ability to read and write (indeed musical ability is considered something that divine forces smile upon) so culture of one sort or another appears to be surviving outside of Light City.

The people of shmidtsburg expressed some interest in buying machinery from Fabrique Generale but no concrete deals have been made. (electric guitars and guitar strings were mentioned as well as amps and speakers.)

Aside from some culture curiosities nothing else worth mentioning has been raised by this first encounter.

Addendum:

We recovered 50 pounds of geddonite crystal from the plains and it has been forwarded to the labs. Initial test suggest that it can influence electromagnetism somehow.

For Tommorow.

>>21569242

Fair enough, that addresses my worries and makes good points for the toughness.

Still Riotgear can actually be fairly good with our new advances and until HAUBERK becomes available in large quantaties they may make better stealth troops

>>21569251
Maneuverability and stealth would only be helped by agility mutations. However, the power armor doesn't have much in the way of active powered systems and it has active camoflage planned. Everything, including the cooling system, should run pretty quiet, and the range of motion in the suit shouldn't be worse if we design it properly.

oh and for the record 100+ degree weather if common on a daily basis from coast to coast sp fullplate isn't something you're gonna see pretty often in the wastes. Even wearing an iron breastplate is pushing it pretty far.

>>21569266
>influence electromagnetism somehow.
>influence electromagnetism
>electromagnetism

WELP! Here my railgunboner start rising

>>21569287
Given the point in >>21569301 about climate and armor being difficult to deal with in addition to our current ability to manufacture earlier prototype power armor in VERY large quantities, I'm in favor of focusing on climate-controlled RINGMAIL suits being the norm with riot armor stockpiles to fall back on.

However, we can always stockpile a heap of the stuff for use in relatively safe environments and in case we badly need it.

>>21569301
100 degrees in what units? Celsius? Kelvin? Farenheit?

>>21569057
Highly advanced fusion reactor with some very small backup fissionb batteries in your helo, you'v never recovered an APC or suit of power armor so you don't those look like.

>>21569266
Aside from the relationship of electricity and magnetics that is well understood, how does the Geddonite do this? Does it focus magnetic force? Electrical energy? Does using one on the other produce a greater effect than it should?

>>21569330
Oh, railguns were already a possibility once we had geddonite, they just require MASSIVE amounts of reserve power.

I think its pretty obvious what we need to do next.
Schmidstburg obviously is to stupid to run it self and we need to invade and take control for their sakes.
THe only thing that makes sense, course our bosses, and you didnt hear this from me right? Our bosses are to soft to do anything like this, their not morally distanced enought o be able to make the right dcisions for the corporation as a whole.
Hostile takeove, thats what I say.

>>21569344
farenheit, did celsius or kelvin become standard when I wasn't looking?

>>21569375
Good thing I installed pickup mics around all the watercoolers.

Someone go sit this Rick fella in front of a video loop of our troops kicking the shit out of Majesty teams and explain to him how fucking moronic it would be to set our sights on outward communities before dealing with them and how much of an idiot he is in general.

Rolled 68

>>21569266
COME ON.
Gauss rifles

GAUSS RIFLES FOR OUR SNIPER TEAMS.
Finally.

>>21569366
Yeah, but now we have something that can potentially reduce the demand of power for the railguns, like a catalyst

>>21569375
have this man reassigned to resource collection duty with the Viktry town workers.

>>21569333
That actually makes me think.
What does our Power Armor look like.
Im just thinking would it make more sense to outfit our internal security(basically our police/constabulary) in Riot Gear to project a less menacing face to our people(both in the Tower and in Vikry town)?

>>21569426
No, we have something that can make the launch easier maybe. What we lack is a source of power to recharge all this shit. Hence Project OVERCHARGE.

>>21569199
hex means eight, sex amusingly enough, means six.

You could call them sexapodes I guess.

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>>21569452
I was pushing for something like pic related because ots curved surfaces won't show up much on radar and so forth.

We can always paint them in various ways.

>>21569440

Feh look at this, our men are obviously superior and clearly winning. Why are we so worried about these clowns. We should annex these idiots along with those peasants from "Smiffgurb" or whatever its called.

>>21568972
1 Purgative, 1 Ringmail, and 1 to Research the electromagnetic properties of geddonite

>>21569500
dohoho, we're in the midwest so you picked midwestern brotherhood armor, very clever

since we're making honeycomb armor plates those would be all over the arms, legs, and torso, maybe even the helmet

>>21569528
We can set up a new, dedicated Geddonite research facility in our tower's subterranean levels next week. LONGBOW is too important to delay.

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>>21569242
damn these thumbnails...anyway I think this is the right picture.

>>21569489
Eight is Octa Like Octopus or Octagon,
Hex is Six like Hexagon, Hexadecimal (10+6) and the like.

Look it up on Wikipedia

>>21569514
Ignore me I was responding to >>21569419

Apparantly ive been rereassigned to work with these schmucks.....god, their not even well managed.
Honestly I could do a better job then those twits on the Board.
We should be putting all our resources into training up these expendables into shock troops and invading that Parish place.

>>21569569
More or less, though more with the knife sticking out of some guy's helmet because it got caught in the spidersilk layer.

>>21569569
>>21569500

Okay so something tough but man-sized, more or less.
Okay, that still leaves me fealing our men look like intimidating giants, which is great for military action but might give the wrong impression to our civilians....can we call them that?
I think Internal Affairs should be outfitted in Riot Gear, a little less menacing looking I think

I'm awake, I'm awake.
What'd I miss?

>>21569500
I tought that curves ended up more visible on the radars, at least on aircrafts...

>>21569651
Youve missed our corporation being run into the ground by incompetant morons.
I swear they should just make me CEO and Id turn this whole place around.
The Parish place first, with our hordes of expendable idiots from Viktry town.

>>21569651
Well, this asshole:
>>21569583
>>21569514
>>21569375
Is trying to remove the current board members, which would probably jeopardize our upcoming project to make railguns that SHOOT THINGS SO HARD THAT THEY SET PARTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE ON FIRE.

I trust you know what to do, company asset that owes me a favor for not firing you.

>>21569639
You mean like, police forces? People working in settlements we control could be up against insane relapses and people with homemade weapons.

We can give them a different paintjob and shit like that, but I don't want them at greater risk policing our streets than they would be on the front lines, you know?

>>21569681
I know exactly what to do.
We make FLAMING GUNS.

And we put me and him alone in the boiler room. That's MY domain.

>>21569681

See what these jokers are trying to do now? Trying to remove a loyal and longstanding employee by threatining another.

And railguns that set the atmosphere on fire?Hellooo, how stupid is that. We need good old fashioned soldiers stomping a mudhole into savages. The only way to solve this problem and the crrent board is to stupid to realize it.

>>21569713
Oh man, I thought you got fired man. How you been buddy. Would you like some help with that bozo?

>>21569725
We robotics, not soldiers. You and I need a Boiler talk.

>>21569703
I suppose, then limit it to Tower Security and maybe Viktry Town, with Power Armor border control. I just dont want to have to deal with a bunch of upstart civies feeling oppresed and making noise about it because they feel threatened by the big mean space marines who stepped on their pet cat by accident(though with the size of the cats here)

>>21569366
Well you don't know, just that it does. Storms are much more common across the whole of the united states than they once were, and you'll notice in earlier threads that lightning was very frequent over the geddonite plains, more so than in Light City.

However you don't know what the exact effect this strain of geddonite has on electricity and elctromagnetism. You'll have to study it to find out in detail.

>>21569725
>Sending soldier to stomp someone
>Not affirming our overwhelming power with earth-shattering autority via giant chunks of metals shot at relativistic speed

You seem to hate fun, are you from /v/?

>>21569740

My point still stands you psychotic excuse for plausible deniablitiy, the Board is just using you to keep the truth of ther incompitance quiet.
If youd just listen to me and let me set this place on track we could force Smeglurd and the choir boys under our heel in no time!

>>21569582
herp. God knows how I came to this conclusion.

Well anyway having been corrected I'll update our copy pasta next turn to reflect that.

>>21569789
I'm used to being the one who isn't in charge. You just need to learn that not being in charge isn't that bad. Now get up and help me make these flaming gun bullets.

>jourtsB Chauncey
I shall now call you Chauncey, regardless of reprimand or disdain for this name.

(Out of Character, I love your every-post changing name. Quite ingenious.)

>>21569791
Don't worry, is a common error with greek words, i took a full year to learn to discern them

(That time when i confused triangles with squares, i've never seen a teacher facepalming so hard)

I am hereby proposing Project SONATA.

SONATA will create two non-lethal suppression and incapacitation weapons.

The first is a sonic emitter that disrupts, but does not destroy or permanently damage, the eardrum. People will experience a lot of pain and likely have no capacity to fight our forces. This will be a potent weapon in coralling the escaped lab animals that Darwin developed (the giant rats and shit) if we use a concerted effort and herd them.

Part one will also require an addition to RINGMAIL/LONGBOW to shield our troops from the ill-effects.

Part two is more complex and more direct - it relies on sonic vibrations being transmitted at low frequencies to incapacitate armored forces.

In essence, if we fit a strong electromagnet powered by a geddonite battery to a sonic emitter with the goal of having it attach to someone in metal armor and make them feel the effects of the vibrations, we will likely render the target unable to stand, focus, or hold down his lunch without killing him. This won't be likely to trip Majesty power armor self-destruct switches unless they are generally impervious to shaking or buffeting, and given the previous experience we've had watching their troops survive the kinetic buffeting encountered in RPG and grenade explosions without triggering self-destruct mechanisms this should be a low enough risk to be worth investigating, the possibility of deadman switches et cetera notwithstanding.

>>21569889
Continues.

We can use our taser and missile equipment as a baseline; a dart or, if necessary, heavier projectile containing multiple darts, will be fired/launched in the general direction of the target (preferably an aimed shot). If the weapon hits, the electromagnet triggers on contact using pressure detection (nose of dart being impacted allows the circuit to be closed between the magnetic coil and the battery). After a fraction of a second, the sonic emitter should begin operation and incapacitate the victim nearly immediately.

Use is suggested alongside of blackout equipment like faraday-cage nets and smokescreens so as to effectively cut off any feeds the target might be broadcasting and create a communications blackout.

In effect, this may give us a chance at live capture of Majesty troops for depriefing and pos

Oh hey, pyro guy is back, we never did develop those incendiaries and now we have gas grenades (flashbangs aren't out of the question, I mean fuck its just a weaker explosive, maybe includeit on next explosive upgrade...) hell Incendiaries are even more sensible in the tropical heat...

Uh anyway what are we doing guys? If you want to figure out Geddonite type C you need to research it. You have 3 resource units and I think we have what... 1 slotted for purgative? That'd give you 4 units in there and put you 2 units away from completion.

Oh and how about the gene modified soldiers? its what...? an even split across the board? You still haven't developed brawler armor but power armored brawlers would be monstrously strong so there's that...

-shrug- gimme some answers guys.

>>21569913
We need flaming guns.
I like fire.

>>21569899
*possible reverse-engineering of their armor.

>>21569762
Tower security, sure. Anything outside that, power armor. V-town's a bad place right now, we had to kill criminals there who wouldn't surrender otherwise.

Why the hell is this guy even allowed to work near such important equipment anyway? Just another example of idiocy from above I suppose.

Well I wont stand for it any longer. I will rally those underfoot, the unwanted and the scavengers and criminals! The only ones not blinded by the board of bastards! The corporation must be brought under new management!
...
Right after my lunch break, bastards arent getting me to give that up anytime soon.
But as soon as im back the revolution begins.
Or my name isnt RIC-....bugger

>>21569789
Hey look, it's exhibit A for Why Power Should Never Be Centralized, A Public Service Broadcast

>>21569920
And research Geddonite C
And start researching Power Armor for brawlers, focused on armor and strenght

Give us some Brawler genemods all of them, and lets give them to a bunch of shock troopers dopedon angel dust and send them against the Parish, though I doubt you'll listen to me

>>21569983
Bad Chauncey. The Boiler is my domain. You get the water dispenser on the tenth floor.

But we need fire guns. I vote we research Geddonite C because maybe it has incendiary qualities.

Also I'm gonna play with some gas grenades, hope nobody cares. I'll be on the roof.

>>21569913
We have relative consensus on 24 double-mutated toughness+agility guys/teams given previous remarks.

We'll do RINGMAIL/LONGBOW this round and build a Geddonite research lab inside the tower, underground, I think that's the majority.

>>21569983
It's funny when you're just roleplaying but if you're going to fuck up a consensus game with your shit that makes you a troll or a quest-hater. I'd adjust my remarks appropriately if you want to be seen otherwise.

>>21570004
I'll go with this, thought PURGATIVE was one unit away from completion. We can get more wrecking rovers and biodiesel plants if we want to run three at a time.

The consensus was a split of Toughness and Agility mods to be given to what was it 24 of our men.
I still think we should finish off our RINGMAIL/LONGBOW and the PURGATIVE projects first before we start SONATA, wasnt DAUNTLESS going to be next as a concept?

Also point made on Riot Armor, if the consensus is Power Armor where we can then I agree, not liek Im human resources or anything. Not my field of speciality

>>21570045
It would be more helpful to state your position rather than to say that things were split, I think. We can sort of see if we've got support that way.

Rolled 92

>>21570039
>>21570004
>>21569913
Rollan.

>>21570062
I figured stating that was showing that I support a split of Agility/Toughness mods for 24 soldiers, was i not clear?

Okay the most sensible course concerning genemods at the moment is A combination of yellow and Blue packages so you'll get 24 more squads of the Steve Roger Special next turn. In the meantime lets figure out consensus here,

Rolled 4

>>21570004
Gonna roll of rthis.

>>21570115
Bad way to start of my dice rolls.

>>21570079
So, just for the sake of understanding what the fuck we're rolling FOR:

RINGMAIL next step is allotropes, graphene and silicene and their applications in carbon nanotubes and a lot of other shit.

LONGBOW should focus on integrated optics.

>>21570115
That is a free action, so luckily your horrible roll is maybe not going to be factored in.

>>21570115
You should let the other roll be taken. He did much better.

And another thinking grenade for the pile.

>>21570111
1 RINGMAIL, 1 LONGBOW, 1 Geddonite research/lab so we can use that 92.

>>21570137
I support this. Who else supports this?

>>21570039
well feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but you've invested 3 points in purgative now haven't you?

>>21570147
Okay. As long as incendiaries come soon after.

>>21570147
I do! I do!

Rolled 9

>>21570026

Whats next? Going to call me a communist and a queer? Nice try, trying to devalue my statements and marginalize me. It wont work.
Just because I stand for immediate success rather than all these schemes that will just waste our resources and get us killed when our enemies are coming for us.
We need to establish our dominance and letting these little villages think they sit on an equal footing with us is wrong.
We need to press them down under our superior corporate might and I will not have piss poor managing ruin that.
So Brawler mods and shocktroopers

>>21570170
Way to suck, buzz killington.

Ahem *calls internal affairs*
Ignore him please, and do get back to >>21570079

Thank you for your time

>>21570170
If you are RPing then put a disclaimer, otherwise cut it off!

>>21570209

Up yours, Im trying to suggest an alternative route then all this damn wait and hoard and prepare malarky. We need to start seeing results instead of continuing strain our resources developing technology we cant even produce on a large enough scale.

It was all fine and good producing Power Armor, but now we have it, why arent we marching into neigbouring territory and claiming it properly, why are we allowing a bunch of pansy ass biologists dictate terms?
I say we get out there and mix shit up!

>>21570251

AND GODDAMNIT MY NAME IS RICK!

LONGBOW UPDATE
Using data culled from the equipment of the captured Majesty Helo we were able to develop nightvision for LONGBOW related equipment. We now have developed thermographic equipment and developed modular devices that will allow us to modify all currently produced LONGBOW developed devices so that they will possess this functionality. Along with this we've included a minor HUD modification that will give our Teuton users the same IFF functionality that our Rovers enjoy, It's a fairly primitive upgrade but it is useful.

More Importantly though we've managed to upgrade our communication feeds, Teuton's now have an encryption device located in their helmet as well as an expanded functionality in concerns to the data they can recieve and transmit. They can recieve visual and audio information and use a complex series of sensors that detect fracial muscles and eye movement to send commands to the HUD. Our troopers can share what they see with eachother and their commanders.

okay everyone chill out.

Rick your behaviour, while amusing is ruffling some feathers, please tone it down a bit.

Everyone else, take rick's behaviour with a grain of salt.

Now. Give me a roll for RINGMAIL. I'll ignore that 4 since the mutations were a fee action.

>>21570251
Because until it's finished it has no protective properties. You know from what? From the penetrating bolts in this gun my colleague is pressing against your skull.

The message from the board is not to be a disruptive influence in their plans for renewing civilization if you can't see anything better to do than using slaves to make more slaves.

Go ahead and pull the trigger there, Bill.

*click*

>>21570251
In case you didn't notice, Majestic has enough military power to sweep the flor with our ass thrice over! Is probable that they have a nuke, maybe more than one! The only reason they aren't going full force on us is because we still are a small insignificant blip on their radar!

They have air supremacy, mobility, laser weapons that simply tell power armor to fuck off, vehicle that almost don't need to refuel, highgrade armor and technological advantage!

We are nothing but ants against a lion! Either we play smart or we lose! Understood?

Rolled 77

>>21570295
Rolling.

Rolled 65

>>21570331
rolling for delicious nanotube substances

Rolled 10

>>21570331
hurr

Don't forget to plant that Majesty ID card and bomb vest on him, we need to make him seem like an insurgant.

>>21570354

I believe we go with this one no?
Seriously, you should be given position as Secretary of Probability Analysis and Projections

Rolled 85

>>21570331
I want good armor.

>>21570384
Or I could accidentally miss and drop a grenade on him.

You know. "Accidentally" being my excuse for everything, after all. Like that time the boiler almost overheated, because I was using it to cook omelettes.

A traitor to General Frabrique
A spy in service of Majesty
Convicted and Executed for Agitation, Sabotage, Terrorism, Attempted Murder, Bestiality, Cannabalism and Substance Abuse

Death in Week 41 post 21570341 after Reopining of General Fabriques Doors

He shall not be missed and let his immortal soul burn forever

PROJECT RINGMAIL UPDATE
We have managed to make some progress on PROJECT HAUBERK. The LED hexes have become easier to produce, and lets face it, carbon is probably the most common element on our planet. We can get it from pretty much any resource you could name. The key point in producing the LEDs required to allow us to create a cloaking system. We've managed to make mass production of these LEDs viable. However we're having issues with the software and placement of the power device in our Rovers and Teuton model is proving to be a liability when used in test with Heat Seeking weaponry mockups.

We're getting closer but the technology needs more work. At the very least we can produce the important parts of HAUBERK in bulk. We just need to figure out how to iron out the bugs.

Rolled 95

>>21570485
holy shit dude shut the fuck up no one cares bro