>>24491512
"Will she be alright, Theta? I tried to catch the bullet, but..."

>>24491512
"Hi honey! How are you feeling?"

We really don't have time for this, should get to saving the double-As pronto.

>>24491512
"Hi."
No time for this shit.
Summer, Sarvesh, Omni, we're getting Anna and Alex.

>>24491512
"Hi Kat! How are you feeling?"

>>24491512

give a little smile and a wave her way "you should get some rest"

>>24491512
We have already done unknown damage to Isaac, so Heather's probably in danger-mode now to prevent hysteria/overwhelming guilt. So, make sure we've done all we can for Robin, then round up Sarvesh and volunteers for rescue part 2.

>>24491512
>>24491512
"will she be ok?"

>>24491576
Indeed, it's go time.

"Will she be alright, Theta? I tried to catch the bullet, but..."
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." He said. "Me and Kailynn will do our best. She should be fine."
"I haven't had enough coffee for this." Kailynn said, connecting equipment to Robin's head to take a look. "You fixed it all up structurally fine, but there's a bit of inactivity here that's worrying. Put in some... " She said, and then started babbling in the alien tongue that was neurochemicals, pointing to various points on the screen. Theta talked back in the same alien tongue, and you turned to Kat.
"Hi, Kat!" You say. "How are you feeling?"
"Dizzy." She said. "And sleepy. I was... I was with Julie and we were getting ice cream, and now it's all fuzzy."
"You should get some rest."
"Yeah, okay." She said, and hugged Damien. She curled up, and fell asleep almost immediately in Damien's lap.
"I don't have time for this." You say. "I'll get ready to save Anna and Alex."
"Alright." Damien said. "And... I..."
He went silent, and hugged Kat tightly.
"Thank you." He said, and sniffled.
You make your way back into the cafeteria where Summer, Sarvesh, Omni, and Summer's manifestation was.
"Okay." Summer said. "I think I can help a little more this time. A... lot more, actually. I have a trick up my sleeve."
"You don't wear sleeves." Sarvesh said, neutrally- he was anxious, you could tell.
"Neither do you." She responded.
"I do not, either." Omni said. He looked down at his small chunk of the material he'd created.

>>24491716
"Well, let's just assume for the purposes of this mission that you're all making use of my sleeves. What have you got for us, Summer?"

>>24491716

"where we are going, we won't need them."

optional:
<Theta, how... how is Isaac doing?>

>>24491716
"We'll have to make do with my sleeves then."

She's not wearing any, right.

>>24491716
"We should prepare for this. We're going to be facing a lot of drones and any number of unknown weapons. Make sure you all get weapons from Anna's stash."

Also, this might be silly, but I don't think we should bring the Ion Laser. If Delta can get a hold or sense the crystal, he can make lots of them.

>>24491716
First eat grab shakes and food bars what ever we can carry, then to the ship get to the last place we seen them both.

>>24491716
<If you want to stay behind, I'd understand, Omni.>
Hug him. He will never have had enough hugs. 13k fucking years.
"Let's roll, prepare for worst."
Radiate murder. Cloning, using them as slaves, murdering the "useless" ones, kids as hostages and who knows what else.
They will burn.
They shall know our wrath, for we are Titan.

>>24491716
"No matter, we won't need to hide our tricks in any pieces of clothing. Worst case scenario, we'll just get them out of there with brute force, and they'll both be fine, and so will Robin and Isaac and everyone else. Am I being clear?"

>>24491716
We should probably finish the Exosuit and take that.

>>24491716
Fucking hug Omni.

For the love of god.

13,000 years.

>>24491716
Get forcefield.
Strap to ship.

>>24491806
Takes too long.

>>24491806
That would be nice, but it took us over 20 hours nonstop work to get it to 80% complete.
It'd take too long to finish it.

>>24491806
No time.

>>24491806
Yeah let's just take some time working on this while both of them could be bleeding out or on their last legs resisting VQ corruption, great plan.

"Well, let's just assume for the purposes of this mission that you're all making use of my sleeves."
"Yesterday during lunch, I went to practice, and I figured out how to bring a ... sliver, I guess, of my reality, and put it into this one. It's hard to explain."

"We should prepare for this." You say. "We're going to be facing a lot of drones, and any number of unknown weapons. Make sure you all get weapons from Anna's stash."
"I... don't quite know how to use them." Sarvesh said. "My lower arms aren't strong enough, and my upper arms are pincers."
"Carry them anyway." Summer said. "I can't use them, but I watched a lot of action movie trids, just in case. Got all those guys in my head."

<If you want to stay behind, I'd understand, Omni.> You say, and hug him. You hug him tightly, eyes closed.
<No. I will come.> He said. <I will utilize the forcefield machine and some of Anna's infantry weaponry, or pilot Surya.>

>>24491837
But if 20 hours=80% then 4 hours=20%.
Meaning we could finish that shit in 4 hours with some hitch in our geddy up.

>>24491837
We probably *could* if Summer can manage time dilation inside her pocket dimension. Not sure if it's worth the effort.

>>24491855
That's 4 hours too long.

>>24491851
"Sarvesh, how is your finesse with TK? Could try it that way."

"Also, Summer could you manifest gas mask for everyone?"

>>24491855
Less if we got Sarvy and Omni to help.

>>24491873
Fucking genius.
Amazing suggestion.

"Summer, can you speed up time in your pocket world?"

>>24491855
Who knows, if we can do it on-route, then sure, if not, then we're going to have to go without.

>>24491851
"Omni, if you're using the force field generator I want you taking point. Do you have any idea if it's two way? I've been assuming it is."

Does the 80% mean it's 20% from being usable or that it's missing a/c and coffee maker?

>>24491929
>It's about four hours away from barebones functionality.

"Also, Summer, could you manifest a gas mask for everyone?"
"Yeah." She said, and opened her personacom to look at something. A mask appeared for you, for her, and a strangely shaped on for Sarvesh- one that didn't cover his mouth at all.

"And summer, can you speed up time in your pocket world?"
"... I... I don't know." She said. "It could be dangerous if I tried that. I... I could try, but something could go wrong."

"And Omni, if you're using the force field generator, I want you taking point."
"Yes. I can do that." He said.

>>24491929
We built the suit around the coffee maker.

>>24491929
I don't think so. We made it out of scrap materials so it's probably a frame lacking life support and power generation.

>>24491948
I think we're going to have to do without the exosuit this time. Too much risk and time wasted.

>captcha: firozal Demiurgus
>Demiurgus
Fuck I hope not, we've got enough problems today already.

>>24491948
"looks like we'll have to do without that then."

>>24491948
"Can you run an ECM program when we arrive, Omni? That should give us some breathing room."

>>24491948
We'll be mainly up against drones, right? I think with our technopathy and time of the essence, we can afford to risk not using the suit.

"Sarvesh, do your people have any concept of ranged combat? Could Summer manifest a gun more suited for you? Perhaps one designed to be held in your claws with a trigger on the side?"

>>24491948

to Summer: "let's not, if anything goes wrong... well, let's just not do it."

>>24492000
Sarvesh is a close combat badass who can teleport. If he gets into a ranged fight, he can just reappear behind them.

When we approach, turn off transponders and quantum routers and wifis and blueteeth

>>24491948
We're taking the Gae Bulg though. We'll cut through the entire damn facility if need be.

>>24491948
Bring the uncompleted suit and so on with us, we can finish it up on the way.

>>24492035
>Deactivating quantum routers disconnects them, and they cannot be reconnected. At all. You'd need to trade in your router for a new one, and that could take a few hours.

"Looks like we'll have to do without the exosuit, then." You say. "Omni, can you run an ECM program when we arrive?"
"I can attempt to." He responded. "I'll need time to develop the ECM, connected to the ship computer. Do not worry, my limiter will remain on."
"Sarvesh, do your people have any concept of ranged combat?"
"Yes." He said. "Our concept for ranged combat is 'run closer'."
"... I'm going to make you armor on the way." Summer said. "But I need to figure out how it'll look, first."
"Alright." You say, and close your eyes. "Time is of the essence."
You think... is there anything you're missing before you set off for Kisheda?

>>24492045
Ship's fast, in case you didn't know.

>>24491948
She gets her mechanical mind set from her mom......and leadership skills and general being a bad ass from her Dad.......this...will be interesting. Speaking of which, I wonder if anyone has realized that we can get Dragon to help at any point cause well.....pap dragon

>>24492060
Better telepath Armatek to lube up cause we're going in dry.

>>24492060
Do we want to call up Ferret to contract Blackreach? We have his number, and we have money.

>>24492060
Maybe remote view the place?

>>24492060
Almost certainly. Who knows what though. Anyway, get as much info as you can within a few minutes on what to expect from whichever greek letter knows the most.

>>24492100
Thinking about that, we should include that we aren't going to go after their rank and file wageslaves, since those people would have no idea what Armatek's really up to. The agents, scientists, and managers involved though...

>>24492100
>Letting them know we're coming.

Let's not.

Although it might be an idea to throw some technopathy at an Armatek facility a long way away from where we're going, so that they redirect their attention there thinking it's our target in revenge for Kat.

>>24492060
"Well maybe we could mount a machinegun on you for Summer to use as a turret. With your permission of course."

>>24492132
not a bad idea

>>24492060
I'm guessing this is a hint for don't rush off.

Can we at least ask Theta or Sigma how many drones we'll be facing?

>>24492132
That's not a bad idea.

>>24492151
Indeed, any more information on Delta that they have would be very useful.

>>24492132
>>24492145
>>24492153
We can shut down all communications for some Armatek facility and leave them to panic over it, thinking the facility's about to be hit.

Then we go to Kishida while they're distracted. It'll leave us less likely to have to deal with additional Armatek backup.

>>24492060
I think that if we immediately rush off, that they will be better prepared for us as hey, two of our people were already there, and we already have them riled up for getting Kat. I think we should wait a day or two, get as much info as we can, finish the suit, and the go in without lube, ball bearings deep

>>24492206
As well as this >>24492205 on our way

>>24492206
We have no idea if Anna and Alex are in immediate danger, but it's highly likely, we don't have the luxury of waiting that long.

>>24492206
The longer we wait, the more opportunities they have to catch and implant (Or just straight up murder) Alex and Anna.
We should ask his siblings about Delta, then go.

>>24492220
And just a thought, since the guy who makes the drones via manifestation, we should be able to control those, right?

>>24492235
But the less intel we have, the less chance of being sucessful

"We should ask one of the others about what's there." You say. "And about Delta.
"Well, I think Sigma is awake. Epsilon is still out, and Theta is working on Robin." Summer said. "Let's go talk to Sigma."
Sigma was currently looking a lot better than the last time you saw her, lying in bed covered in blankets, a small gel pack on her forehead.
"Hey." She said. "Did you kill that bitch? The one who made Epsilon toss me out of the station."

>>24492272
"Maybe. I doubt it though. Hey, what do you know about [place] and Delta?"

>>24492272
"Afraid not, though we sent her packing with a black eye. We'll deal with the Void Queen soon enough, but right now we need to know about Delta, because we think Anna and Alex might be in trouble on his world."

>>24492272
"We know where she is, but short of throwing a RKV at her planet I've had no ideas. Honestly people make such a big deal of war crimes... anyway, what do you know about the facility that houses Delta?"

>>24492272
"Not yet. We have to deal with Armatek first. Anna and Alex are apparently fighting Delta."

>>24492272
"First ArmaTek. Then Voiderella."

>>24492272
"That's for another day. Need to know any intel you've got on Delta."

>>24492272
"Doubtful, I gave her a bloody nose and she won't be doing anything for a bit, but she's not gone.

You doing alright?"

>>24492272
"All in due time."

>>24492272
"No, but I managed to rough her up a little, and that red stuff will protect us all from her.

In the meantime, how dangerous is Delta? Anna and Alex are currently somewhere around the facility he's in, and we're thinking it's about time we gave Armatek a bloody nose."

"Afraid not, though we sent her packing with a black eye." You say. "We have to deal with Armatek first. What do you know about Delta and Kisheda?"
"The Kisheda facility?" She asked. "That place is... hell, it's just Delta's wonderland. As long as he keeps up the mining, Armatek doesn't care what he does. I have a lot of problems getting through to his machines."
"How dangerous is he?"
"... He's... absentminded." She said. "Strange. I don't think he has emotions." She said. "He can fabricate anything he knows, and has some sort of... intuitive sense for it, I guess. As long as you don't bother him or whatever he's working on, he doesn't care."
Then she sighed. "But if you do bother him, or jostle something, then suddenly you have ship-scale weaponry assembling itself in front of you."

>>24492400
"I think Alex and Anna bothered him."

>>24492400
"Is there anything he can't make?"

>>24492400
"What would he do if I broke his implant? It doesn't sound like he really dislikes Armatek that much."

>>24492400
So Delta is basically autistic. Good to know.

"He's your sibling, so I feel like I should tell you... It may turn out that we have to, er, deal with him. If there's no implant to disable, and he's working for Armatek willingly, then he'll probably be our enemy.

Is that alright?"

"What would he do if I broke his implant?" You ask. "It doesn't sound like he really dislikes Armatek that much."
"I don't even know if they have an implant in him." She said. "He doesn't care about that sort of thing. He only really cares that someone feeds him, pretty much."
"Is there anything he can't make?"
"Organics, mostly." She said. "He can make metal, plastic, alloys, polycarbon, even small nuclear cores if he tries." She said. "But nothing organic, living, no food or wood... And everything has his... feel. His taste."
"... He's your sibling, so I feel like I should tell you... it may turn out that we have to, we, deal with him." You say. "If there's no implant to disable, and he's working for Armatek willingly, then he'll probably be our enemy. Is that alright?"
Sigma was quiet. "... He's never been close to anyone, much less us. I still don't think he knows our names, or cares. Go ahead and kill him if you need to."

>>24492400
"Oh great. So we will just have to avoid him and we will be fine?"

>>24492536
"So, if we had to extract two people from there, what would you recommend we do?"

>>24492536
Let's go down to iso again and feel him out. We'll see if he has an implant or not.

>>24492536
"Okay, thanks, Sigma. Hope you feel better."

Okay, plans to deal with Delta, go.

>>24492536
"Any chance of getting on-planet and into the facility without being detected? And if not, any idea how to get as far as possible first?"

"So, if we had to extract two people from there, what would you recommend we do?"
"... There won't be two people there." She said. "He has no reason to hold them, even under orders. He'd just let them walk out."
"So we just have to avoid him and we will be fine?"
"Most likely, yeah."
"Any chance of getting on-planet and into the facility without being detected? And if not, any idea how to get as far as possible first?"
"There's a satellite in geosynchronous orbit around the facility, and that's keeping an eye on things, but the rest of the planet is abandoned. It wasn't even a colony planet, because the people who bought the rights didn't have the money left to terraform it correctly. Armatek's since acquired it. I guess.... If you were able to make the satellite pretend not to notice you. That one isn't delta's. You'd have more problems on the surface, though, probably."

>>24492573
Let's just not whack the hornets nest. Leave Delta alone. He doesn't care if Armatek crashes to the ground around him as long as he gets to keep making drones, as far as I can see.

Just leave him on that dead world forever.

>>24492627
So knock out the satellite.

Cool

>>24492627
"Hmm...Maybe I'll just use the iso chamber to break his implant, if he has one, then we'll just leave him alone, I guess."

So I say if he doesn't want to come with us and he has no implant, we kill him. We'd be depriving Armatek of a valuable asset.

>>24492627
kinda figured this. Delta was riled by them possibly, and they left, and delta went back to buisness as usual. Anna and Alex may not even be there anymore, and for all we know, could possibly be on their way back

>>24492699
Nah, if he has nothing to do with Anna/Alex's distress nor prevents us from finding them, just leave him there. We'll gut their company long before he can invent something new for them anyway.

>>24492699
All he's doing is mining. Taking out a single mining facility won't do much to them as a whole. What we want to do is expose all their secrets.

>>24492700
We'll just head toward the big black sphere area we can't sense anything in.

>>24492743
>>24492762
He's not only mining, he's manufacturing weapons and vehicles for them.

"Hmm, maybe I'll just use the iso chamber to break his implant, if he has one, and then we'll just leave him alone, I guess." You say.
"That's always a good idea." She said. "Avoid Delta."
"So we're not going out there?" Summer asked. "Or are we just going to go around him?"
"At the very least, there'd likely be data on that satellite." Sarvesh said. "On where Wyvern headed until it left scanning range, at least. If they even did leave. You said they left the planet, right?"
You nodded.

>>24492743
He can't invent, he just makes.

From the description given, it basically sounds like he's just a living factory. Why bother taking out a single factory when it won't do much to Armatek on the large scale?

>>24492774
granted, he may have shot them down, we still may need to go, but yeah, head toward the big black sphere, and poke around. We have no need to go in guns blazing. Anna's a big girl, she knows what shes doing.

>>24492809
"Alright, lets go check out that satellite. If Delta notices us, let's just tell him that we're not there to bother him."

>>24492809
Remote view/technopathy it I suppose.

"Alright, let's go check out that satellite." You say, and make your way down to the isolation chambers. You set yours to only half an hour, climb in, and close your eyes, focusing...

>Roll technopathy/remoteview!

Rolled 85

>>24492872

Rolled 67

>>24492872

Rolled 57

>>24492872
Boop

Rolled 80

>>24492872
hey Mr. satellite, could you help me find my friend?

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>>24492887
>>24492888
>>24492893
>>24492897
Not bad.

Rolled 21

>>24492872
Oh dear, here we go with the rolls.

You close your eyes, and reach outward...

And you find a terraformed planet, green grass covering large patches of the surface. It was small, yes, but it was there. Through the satellite's eye, you looked down at a large facility- and you could barely, barely make out someone in a wheelchair, riding from one building of the facility to another.
<Hey, Mr. Satellite, could you help me find my friend?>
<Oh, what did your friend look like, dear?> It asked, the voice sweet and motherly.
<Well, it was grey, and very sharp looking...> You say, and send it a mental image.
<Oh, that one! I activated red alert for your friend, I'm afraid.> The satellite said. <The automated drones chased them and I alerted the Armatek forces through entanglement, but don't worry, they headed toward demiurg space. The Armatek forces won't chase them there, dear. I'm sure they'll be just fine.>

>>24492967
<Thank you very much.>
Pull out.
"They went to Demiurg space..."

>>24492967
>mental image of the wyvern

>>24492967
<Can you give me the data so I'll know exactly where they were headed please?>

>>24492967
Fucking.......hell......towards demiurg space.......

>>24492967
<Thank you, Ms. Satellite.>

"Omni...I don't think you'll like this, but we're heading to Demiurg space."

>>24492967
<Thank you! I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone you told me this, please.>

>>24492967
Ping for Wyvern

>>24493039
This.

<Can you give me the data so I'll know exactly where they were headed, please?>
<Of course, dear!> She said, and you received a mental image of the wyvern's trajectory, toward the edges of demiurg space.
<Thank you very much, Ms. Satellite.> You say. <I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone you told me this, please.>
<Oh, I won't, dear.> The satellite said, and you opened your eyes again. You triggered the isolation chamber early, and it hissed open. You pulled your clothes back on, and opened the curtain. Sarvesh and Summer gave you expectant looks.
"Well?" Summer asked.
"... Omni... I don't think you'll like this, but we're headed to Demiurg space."

You explain everything you'd found- where they were headed, that they were there, when they set off...
"They were going directly to the gas giant of Nagralsh'ka." Omnissiah said. "It... was, at least, a location of contentous battle between demiurg warlords, and some frighteningly intelligent Crows on the earthlike moon there. I do not know why the Crows are there. I expect they were taken as prisoners and broke free. I do not know how it is now."

>>24493115
"So, how long will it take to get there, and what should we expect?"

>>24493115
"Will we be able to get in and out unnoticed?"

>>24493115
"Well that's just perfect. Poking the wasps' nest."

>>24493115
"Can you check if there's any recent, non-classified information available for the region?"

>>24493143
Robin, we're going to meet your family, sleep well.

>Unarmed ship heading into a Demiurg warzone
This seems like a bad idea.
Can we put an isochamber on Surya? With the isochamber boost but at close range instead of the other side of the galaxy we could take control of entire fleets.

>>24493248
So, pretty sure we're going to have to chill out for a few days, or get the government involved, or blackreach.

"So, how long will it take to get there, and what should we expect?"
"Several hours." He said. "Combat, primarily. hundreds of solar platforms almost a century old, are being fought over. Weapons platforms, mines, debris, and similar circle the planet. There will certainly be several battles breaking out as we arrive. The moon is relatively safe, however, but the Crows have taken to that habitat rather well, and have bred significantly."
"Well, that's just perfect. Poking the wasps' nest." You say. "Will we be able to get in and out unnoticed?"
"Most likely, if we are careful." Omnissiah said. "Most of the weapons platforms have incredibly simplistic programming, due to the way they keep getting captured and reprogrammed to different IFF frequencies. I should be able to modulate our transponder to most of the common codes, so those will be little issue with them. The real risk is if we get spotted by a manned ship."
"Can you check if there's any recent, non-classified information available for the region?"
"None. There is no UPA data on the location. There is only my own memory."

>>24493248
Probably not. And definitely not on such short notice.

Rolled 64

>>24493274
"I could just switch all the platforms we come across to attack other IFF frequencies."

>>24493274

Exa, could we jump back in the chamber and start looking around in that area technopathically? See if the Wyvern is in that neck of the woods?

>>24493293
Whoops, left my dice on.

>>24493274
"We can work on the exosuit on the way, that's good. Do you think it's worth arming Surya with whatever we can? We'll worry about UPA law another day."

>>24493274

>>24493296
would be good to at least try this. Maybe there is a big black sphere of nothing flying around out there.

>>24493296
I think maybe we should stop hopping in and out of the chamber and actually do something.

"We can work on the exosuit on the way, that's good." you say. "Do you think it's worth arming Surya with whatever we can? We'll worry about UPA law another day."
"There's nothing we can arm it with." Omnissiah said. "Not on short notice. We have no ship-scale weaponry we can install."

"... Well, I'll go jump back into the chamber and start looking around the area." You say.
"I will decompress my memories of the location so that I know more." Omnissiah said.
"I'll... see if I can try manifesting some really big guns for Surya." Summer said.
"I will be useless." Sarvesh said.

You climbed into the chamber again, this time skipping removing your clothes, and simply focus...

>Roll for clairvoyance!

Rolled 24

>>24493370

Rolled 50

>>24493370

dice dice.

>>24493364
I agree, now is the time for action. We know where they were headed, let's go there.

Rolled 44

>>24493370

Rolled 6

>>24493370

Dice for the dice gods!

>>24493364

This is not a situation to go into unprepared.

Rolled 55

>>24493370
Fuck, we need a good roll

Rolled 80

>>24493381
>>24493382
>>24493388
Seems we're out of luck.

>>24493274
"Well, if we are spotted, I can always bust out the technopathy, make their targeting go haywire or some such.

I think we should go."

Rolled 11

>>24493370
Slica dica

Rolled 57

>>24493370
<Work on the exosuit if you don't want to be useless, Sarvesh.>

Rolled 51

>>24493370
Ah man, always late to the rolls

You wait there for a few minutes, frustrated- you can't seem to relax enough to get a good focus- all you saw was a blur.
Now's the time for action, you realize, and trigger another early release.

"Nothing." You say. "We know where they're headed, so let's go there. If we're spotted, I can always bust out the technopathy and make their targeting go haywire."
"I could also likely reprogram the weapons platforms to our own, if I can get one of the drones there." Omnissiah said. "Actually, come to think of it, if you could utilize technopathy and reprogram the weapons platforms all at once, we could... take the entire system. Refurbish the debris into more drones, use the drones to repair everything, and the platforms as recharging stations..."
Summer looked back at you, and pouted. "I can't get it to work." She said. You felt the air around her... quivering, in a strange way, and realized- that was the effects of her personal reality overlaid upon your own. She sighed, and the quivering stopped. "I'm really bad with guns! I'm sorry."

>>24493381
>>24493382
>>24493388

Obviously we need to be nude for this to work.

>>24493442
"Don't worry about it, we'll figure something out."

Hug Summer.

"Alright, let's go. The longer we wait the more trouble they could be getting into."

>>24493442
"It's okay, you'll get it someday."

>>24493442
I guess we don't have much time otherwise I'd suggest we construct a weapon from whatever we have on station.

Rolled 41

>>24493442
"It's okay. We'll just have to keep stealthy, not get shot, or anything like that."

"Let's load up and get moving."

>>24493442

Hug the tiger, earskritches. "I understand, Summer. It's okay, you'll get it." Now is the time to start heading out, though.

Do we know what Damien's up to? How blind is he?

>>24493442
"Don't sweat it, I failed at what I was trying just now too."

>>24493442
yea but Ill need you help for the programing omnissiah, but it should work when we get close Ill jump in the iso chamber connect to you and then connect you to all the other computers

>>24493442

"it's alright Summer" hug and pat

I really like the idea of us taking control of an entire system before anyone even knows what the hell is going on.

>>24493442
"Right now we have a rescue to enact, Let's get that done before we contemplate stealing systems from the Demiurg, ok?"

Summer is probably as incapable at manifesting weapons as Delta is at manifesting living things

"Don't sweat it." You say, and scritch her ears. "It's okay, you'll get it."
"Okay." She said.
"Alright, let's go. The longer we wait, the more trouble they could be getting into."
"Yes, let's." Sarvesh said, and the four of you made your way to Surya. When you got there, there were two marines standing in front of the door.
"I'm sorry, Miss, but our commander thinks it's too dangerous for you to be heading out so soon after the incidents recentl-"
And then you were all on the other side of the door, Sarvesh teleporting all four of you and your equipment several feet forward.

And there, just as shiny as it was after its first paint job, was Surya.
And Surya cheered for you.
The four of you climbed in, Summer laying in the bed, Sarvesh strapping himself down on the lounge, and Omnissiah climbing into the dock. You made your own way into your seat, and set off. After the jostling and bustling, you turned on the bubble drive, and Omnissiah locked into control, so that he could take you out in an emergency. You found yourself sitting in the lounge a few minutes later, as Sarvesh tried his best to cook in the cramped (for him) workspace that was the ship's kitchenette.
Summer was quiet, extraordinary so- and then suddenly she hugged you, and hugged you incredibly tight, even when you consider the amount of raw muscle she hid in her fuzzy body.

>>24493442
"I like that idea."

ASSUMING TOTAL CONTROL

>>24493553
Meh, she can pocket Syra and us if shit goes south.

>>24493558

Ooof as we're crushed by kitty. "Summer! I... you're really scared, aren't you? It's okay, we're going to rescue them. This isn't the first time we rescued Alex, you know."

>>24493558
Did we load up the exosuit? Can we get it finished in time?

>>24493558
"They'll be okay Summer... We'll bring them back."

>>24493558
"Don't worry Summer, we'll be fine! What could possible go wrong?"

We need to get her to manifest a bitchin' captain's coat and pirate hat along with our armor.

Suggestion to player base:

Get Sarvesh and Robin to hook up.

>>24493618
No time for waifu/husbandu shit right now. We've got shit to do.

>>24493618
I don't think that's gonna happen.

Rolled 72

>>24493594
SO NOT SAY THIS

EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

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>>24493594
>"What could possibly go wrong?"

You motherfucker.

>>24493558
"You know, I've been trying really hard not to think about anything other than plans for how to go about this, because after my holiday from the world and this day so far, I don't want to give my mind any chance to get a handle on the situation."

>>24493587
>Not enough time. The ship is too small for Sarvesh and the drones to help, else you would have enough time.

"Summer! I... you're really scared, aren't you? It's okay, we're going to rescue them. This isn't the first time we rescued Alex, you know."
"No, I'm not very scared at all, because we're psychic badasses." She said. "I just feel... Kind of lonely, I guess. We've all been so busy since like, thursday. After this, we should hang out or something."

>>24493676

Nod, hug the kitty back hard.

"Maybe another group trip next weekend? Someplace fun and chill, where we can relax some."

>>24493676
"Of course we can hang out, I'm sorry I've been too busy to spend time with you."

Keep hugging the adorable tiger.

>>24493676
"After this, I just want to relax... I'm so tired of drama. Before anyone can relax though we need to disembowel the CEO of Armatek."

>>24493676
"That's what I was thinking too. After all this is done with we should all go back to the beach or something."

>>24493594

>why don't we ask her to manifest some pineapple salad while we're at it?

>>24493676

"a group trip or maybe a movie night when we get everyone back to the station."

>>24493726
Not a bad idea.


Anyone feeling hungry?

>>24493676
"I would love to hang out as soon as massive problems stop appearing out of nowhere."

>>24493676
Still want Heather to visit her parents alone before anything else, and not just because of the Anna thing - between killing Lambda and potentially fucking Isaac up, as well as general stress, I'd imagine some parental advise/comfort would be useful.

>>24493676
"Yeah, things have been kind of a whirlwind lately... We really need to take a few days off and go to the beach.

But we gotta keep going for a little longer. Just 'til everyone is safe."

>>24493697
The weekend's already reserved for everyone coming to visit our home.

"Of course we can hang out." You say, and hug her just as tightly. "I'm sorry I've been too busy to spend time with you."
"Hah, well, maybe if I manifested a strong, manly version of myself you'd be more interested in *me*." She said, giggled, and started purring.
"Done." Sarvesh said, and held out warm, steaming biscuits.
"We gotta keep going for a little longer." You say. "Just 'til everyone is safe."
"Okay." Summer said, and swallowed a biscuit whole. Sarvesh simply floated in the zero G, his legs folding up underneath him, and he ate his own. "how long, Omni?"
"Two and a half hours remaining." Omnissiah responded. Sarvesh sighed.
"I don't have enough time to sleep, sadly."

>>24493796

take this time and think, prepare for what might lie ahead.

>>24493796

Shrug noncommitally. "After all this chaos and stuff, I don't think that I'll really be interested in anyone in ways beyond friendship. Need some time to cool my head, you know?"

This can get shot down if it doesn't jive with what people are thinking.

>>24493844
Nope.

>>24493844
Nah, let's not say that.

>>24493844
I'm pretty sure that's what the general consensus was. Cool off on the waifuing entirely for now.

>>24493844
This isn't the time for relationship talk, this is action time.

>>24493844
I agree but no need to say it out loud, just avoid seeking it out and let down anyone who really tries.

>>24493796
"Hell, if you could manifest something nice and reliable that doesn't hold double standards in the worst of ways, I'd be massively interested."

"We're going to watch movies tonight. Just you and me."

>>24493885
I'm waiting to see what happens after we're done kicking Demiurg ass before we even talk about any of that stuff.

>>24493895
>"Hell, if you could manifest something nice and reliable that doesn't hold double standards in the worst of ways, I'd be massively interested."

Good god, that is way, WAY too bitter.

>>24493913
"If you can hold a promise, I'd be happy to spend tonight watching movies with you."

>>24493913
We're pretty bitter.

>>24493933
>>24493934
I just don't think we should be doing any Anna related talking right now. Please stop trying to push this when we're busy preparing to fight Demiurg.

>>24493796
"Let's just do something nice and relaxing, watch a movie or something. No romance."

OOC, I think we should let Summer know what's going on. She is our roommate, after all. And gives the best hugs.

>>24493934
REALLY don't think that focusing on our troubles (Anna, stress, how Isaac's doing etc) is a good idea while we're still on high alert. Save it for after.

>>24493954
Nothing but mission talk now, guys. Teenage bulshit after infiltrating deadly alien space

>>24493954
I think we should let her know what's going on after this mission.

"... We're going to watch movies tonight." You say. "Just you and me."
"Yay!" She said. "Wait... like, after we get back, tonight, or tomorrow after classes tonight?"
You shrug, and just hug her, and think about all the things that could go wrong...

You wake up to Omnissiah beeping loudly, sitting up. You, Summer, and Sarvesh all sat up to look at him.
"We are about to arrive within five minutes." He said. "I can stop near the planet, very close to it, or rather far off. It's your choice. If we're close, we could fall into the atmosphere and the drag would take us, but there's no chance of running into debris. If we start far off, it's more likely we'll be detected by ships, and if we start rather close, then we may come out of bubble drive inside of a battle."

>So much knee jerking
But yeah, no need to bring it up now.

>>24493796
Let's just tinker with the Ion laser for a bit. Get our head in the game

Honestly, this is unbelievable. We're about to go into a warzone of a deadly alien race and you people want to pick now to start bitching about Heather's relationship issues.

Put a lid on it, we're on a mission here.

>>24493982
Further out, we need time to scan for them, both with ship scanners and psychic scanning.

>>24493982
Far away. We'll try for the stealthy approach, as much as we can.

>>24493982
"Start far away, Omni. Everyone, get on breath mask and vac suits. If the hull is breached I don't want anyone suffocating."

>>24494018

Far off is more time to be detected. If we can't scan to see what the situation is like on the ground, then just warp in close.

>>24493982
"Let's jump into a stable orbit, then I can try to control all those platforms, and maybe any hostile ships."

>>24493982
"hell starting out in a battle is almost ideal, ill be in the iso room lets be reddy to min take some weapons platforms.

>>24493982

need to be close enough to reprogram the platforms without it draining us to much

"Start far away, Omni." You say. "Everyone, get on breath masks and vac suits. If the hull is breached, I don't want anyone suffocating."
"Yes ma'am." Summer said, and shimmered- and her vacsuit manifested itself on her. Sarvesh slipped on his own mask and massive oxygen supply, and Summer turned on her personacom, looking at strange scribbles she'd drawn. You're not sure why.
"Two seventy seconds." Omnissiah said. "Two sixty."

You waited, your body tensing, as you climbed into the cockpit seat, strapping yourself down. You pulled on your own helmet, and clamped it there. All you heard was Sarvesh and Summer breathing, their helmets in radio contact with yours.
"Sixty. Fifty. Fourty."

And then you took a deep breath, and felt something far away...
"Pulling out of bubble drive." Omnissiah said, and the ship shook.

>Field too long!

>>24494233
Far off, you saw a massive, green gas giant, and a forested moon reflecting the sun's light, fog covering it- it had an atmosphere. And then you noticed the debris, floating in a great ring- both around the gas giant and the moon...
And then you noticed that some of the 'debris' was firing great green bolts of plasma, and others shooting lancing spears of light. A small explosion came from one, gas and fire bursting out.
To the left, it looked like there was a major, major battle, quickly serving and moving fighters fighting one another. 'Upwards' from your current orientation, there was a series of platforms pointing rusted solar panels toward the sun, and there was... Something strange looking, right there...
And then you noticed the swarms of fighters circling the moon, blasting one another with missiles, weaving in and out of the atmosphere.

And then suddenly your ship shook, and Omnissiah pushed it to the side.
"Disfunctional weapons platform." Omnissiah said, bringing up an indicator for you. It fired a second bolt of plasma at you, and Omnissiah dodged again.

Rolled 31

>>24494245
Take it over.

Rolled 76

>>24494245
Technopath it to regard us as friendly!

Rolled 79

>>24494245
Take it over!

>>24494245
Set the platform to be idle.

"Can you see a way past the fighters?"

Rolled 77

>>24494245
Take over as many platforms as we are capable of, get them all to work in accord to bring down any that are left out of our control.

>>24494245

need to take a closer look at the strange looking thing as soon as we have some breathing room

>>24494245
> 'Upwards' from your current orientation, there was a series of platforms pointing rusted solar panels toward the sun, and there was... Something strange looking, right there...

Could be Anna and Alex hiding, once we've dealt with the weapon platform we need to check that out.

You take a deep breath, and push your will into the raving, ranting weapons platform. You saw what it was, now- an oversized breeder reactor, with large storage for noble gases, and a single, simple ship-based weapon. It was very hodge-podge, but someone had reprogrammed it to fire on all ships ever.
<Please, could you not fire on me?>
Your vision blurred, and you felt a minor headache start to build.
<As you wish, my lady!> It responded, and went still.

"Can you see a way past the fighters?"
"No. There are several fighters above us, but they seem to be in combat with someone with large kinetically propelled needles. Strange, demiurg use energy weapons, primarily."
"Move the camera up there." Summer said, and Omnissiah did.
You didn't see a platform. You knew it was there, it was... as if...
As if it was a blindspot. As if your mind refused to look there. As soon as your realized that, you *saw* the blindspot, as if it was a great, warping black hole in your vision.
"... Do any of you see that?" Sarvesh asked.
"I see a simple solar platform." Omnissiah said.
"I don't see anything." Summer added. "It's just space.

>>24494445
"There's like a...blind spot or something. There's something right there."

Rolled 37

>>24494445
"No, Alex is using his powers to create a, for lack of a better word "Somebody Else's Problem" field. We need to get up there."

>>24494445
"No, there's something there, something that's trying to stop us looking at it. It could be Anna and Alex. We need to investigate."

>>24494445
"It's there, there's a point where your mind refuses to see, just look for the place you are unwilling to look at.

It's hopefully Anna and Alex."

Rolled 18

Our IFF is Friendly to everything.

>>24494445
"Take us in. Can you run that ECM still, Omni?"

>>24494445

"that might just be Anna and Alex."

>>24494445
"No, it's not just space, it's the wyvern, and you can't see it because of Alex, who is actually Phi. I can't actually see it either, but I can see that there should be something there that isn't.

I'm probably not making much sense."

>>24494445
> large kinetically propelled needles
that should be the wyvern's kinetic spread shot

>>24494445
"It's Alex."

>>24494445
Watch it not be Alex, but rather the BioBeast we made.

Anna's ship shot those needles during our little look backwards in time, high chances that it's them!

>>24494512
No telling about Alex. Let him do it himself.

>>24494556
Most people already know, we kinda blabbed when we were back on the station.

>>24494591
No we didn't

>>24494591
No, Lambda blabbed.

>>24494632
Same difference.

"No, there's something there. Something that's trying to stop us looking at it. It's Alex. We need to investigate."
"I'm piloting us." Omnissiah said, and he reoriented the ship so that it was ahead of you instead of above you, and you sped up toward it. Summer gasped as she realized it, and the further you go, the smaller the black hole seemed to get, until you saw diving, swarming fighters- and one depressurize, needles slamming through its hull. You got closer, and your mind still rebelled to see it, until... barely, hardly, you could see ... the Wyvern, upsidedown, sitting on the solar platform. The barrel kept twisting and firing at people, while Anna's exosuit worked frantically on the ship's innards. You saw someone in a spacesuit, tethered to Wyvern and simply drifting, legs crossed...
But you couldn't recognize him. You knew he was Alex intellectually, but your mind rebelled at the thought of that... thing being a person. Of that thing being anything sapient, or even something that really existed.

And then one of the fighters turned to you, and fired a lancing beam of light. The ship tried to tug you out of the chair as Omnissiah took you away again, retreating from the fighter.
"We have no weapons, sadly." Omnissiah said, neutrally. "Does anyone have a plan?"
"Turn the camera backwards." Summer said.
The camera whirled back, and you saw... space itself split open, and the fighter flew adroitly into the rift... and then the crack it closed.
"Got it."

>>24494637
Shouldn't spoil it for others

>>24494656
"That was awesome, Summer."

Well then, I guess we're going to need to get out there to help. We can use technopathy to interfere with the fighters' weapons.

>>24494656
"Nice. Very. Nice."

>>24494661
they were there when lambda blabbed. theta was depressed that Alex was his bro, because he was attracted to him

>>24494656
"Wow."

>>24494661
They know. Lambda said it, and Theta was all "omg I was attracted to him but he's my brother", and stuff.

Rolled 18

>>24494656
That one's yours, Summer? Amazing!

Start messing with the local's IFF so they don't see us going towards Alex and Anna.

>>24494661

deleted.

>>24494656

use technopathy to send the fighters attacking wyvern packing, preferably where they'll be to preoccupied to come at us again.

>>24494656
Try to fix their ship with technopathy.

>>24494656
"That's fucking awesome!"

"Can you get them on the radio, Omni?"

Rolled 26

>>24494734

forgot to roll.

>>24494715
She pocket dimension'd the fighter that was going after us. And possibly then demanifested it.

>>24494656
"Impressive."

>>24494661
>"I think they were finding more about Alex." You say. "But why did they do it with just the two of them and not tell anyone where they were going?"
>"They told me." Jilly said, quietly. "Alex wanted to find out the truth about himself, and he asked Anna for help. She agreed."
>"So... he knows the truth, now?" Lambda asked.
>"What truth?" Rho asked.
>"That Alex is Phi." Lambda said.

>Everyone paused.

>You turn down to Einstein and write a message, sending it off-
><Quantum entanglement to the target has been lost.>

>"Wait, Alex is my *brother*?" Theta asked. "I was attracted to him! Damnit, damnit."
>Damien was very quiet, crossing his arms. He almost looked asleep.
literally last thread

<Ladies and gentlemen, my apologies for bothering you, but would you be nice and ignore us? >

"That was awesome, Summer." You say.
"I know!" She said, and focused. "Now I just gotta get rid of the guys inside of it, and put my own manifestations in there..."
"Take us closer, maybe." Sarvesh said. "I... don't think I can teleport in there."
"Doing so."
"Can you get them on the radio, Omni?"
"Yes, I can." He said.
"Hello, this is Surya." He said. You heard crackling. "Repeat, this is Surya."
"Oh, omni, thank christ." Anna responded. "I need your drones to help me fix this. We caught one of those... bladed four legged things to the engine, and now the wiring's fucked."

You close your eyes, and focus on the other three fighters swarming around...

>Roll technopathy!

Rolled 21

>>24494656
Take out those fighters. Make them stop responding to commands.

Rolled 34

>>24494656
"Full steam ahead."

Get any fighters in the way to malfunction.

Rolled 12

>>24494783

Rolled 56

>>24494783
Rolling!

Rolled 58

>>24494783
Rolling.

Rolled 45

>>24494783
Rolling to break all their stuff.

Rolled 53

>>24494783

rollingz

Rolled 16

>>24494783
ROlz

>>24494785
>>24494792
>>24494802
It hasn't been our day today.

Rolled 56

>>24494783
1s for the 1 throne

Rolled 73

>>24494824
Aye. Sigh.

Rolled 1

>>24494783

Rolled 74

>>24494824
Could be worse

Rolled 69

>>24494844
Damn you.

>>24494844
...shit.

Rolled 67

>>24494783
"We've got new VQ shields, where did you find the scythe-beasts?"

>>24494844
>>24494846
Yep.

>>24494846

like so? >>24494844

>>24494844

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

Rolled 24

>>24494844
Oh hell, what's that going to do.

Rolled 55

>>24494844
I guess we're out of this fight.

Oh well.

>>24494844
Fuck.
>And then we accidently assembled all the fighters into Demiurg Voltron and passed out

Rolled 23

>>24494844
Balls.

Rolled 68

>>24494844

does it matter that it's the 11th roll?

is it far enough down the list to be relatively safe?

>we're fucked aren't we?

Rolled 24

>>24494844
Jesus christ.

I don't think we could have had this at a worse time.

Rolled 9

>>24494783
I'm laughing right now, oh god, we are fucked.

Rolled 60

>>24494895
1s and 100s always count.

Rolled 90

>>24494844
testing something real quick.

You focus... and the ship jerked again, hard, and lost your focus. A lance of laser fire scratched down Surya, and you *heard* the hull whimper in pain. There was a loud hiss, and an indicator told you- life support was damaged. One of the drones shot out of your ship and started repairing it, while the other went down to help Anna.
"I'm going down there." Sarvesh said, and vanished. You saw him push himself downward toward the station.
"Sarvesh!" Anna said, over the radio. "Help me replace these decabulators. Things are not looking good."

"Okay!" Summer said, and closed her eyes. Another crack opened, and the demiurg fighter shot out again- except it started firing on the other fighters instead.

And then, a laser embraced Surya again.
And you felt Helios scream, all of the wiring slashing open on the ship.
Your ion drives cut, and you saw the lights start to wink out.
"I've lost computers and primary thrusters. No bubble drive functionality." Omnissiah said.

And then, Summer's fighter exploded in a flash of light.
"Warning." Helios said. "Containment breach imminent. Please vacate the premises."

>>24494895
Pretty sure Exa's said that he always takes 1/100 rolls regardless of how far down (assuming it's not right before he posts again at least), presumably to discourage people leaving dice on.

>>24494895
Well, it's like a 12% chance of a crit fail/crit success, so I dunno.

>>24494924

"SUMMER! TAKE SURYA INTO YOUR PERSONAL DIMENSION AND CONTAIN IT!"

>>24494924
Oh fuck off, we're not letting our ship go up on it's second mission.

If the wiring is cut, use our own head as a router.

Rolled 94

>>24494924
<No, not Today, Helios.>

>>24494954
That ought to do it.

Until the inevitable nat 1 to come.

Rolled 65

>>24494924
<ABSOLUTELY NOT.>

TK finesse to repair the damage.

>>24494952
Going into the dimension to protect ourselves is good. But we can fix it ourselves.
Summer is rubbish at manifesting tech and we want Alex to be able to ride our ship.

Rolled 58

>>24494924
We're losing our ship on the second flight.

I am...wow. I don't really know.

>>24494998

That was in case we can't fix it and have to let it splode.

>>24495002
Stop rolling, it's only getting lower again.

Rolled 41

>>24495002
Guys, I got this.

Rolling to save the day like a big damn hero.

>>24494924
A single laser?

I would've thought the hull would have held up better. Shit.

>>24495059
Apparently our ship's a lot flimsier than we thought. Might need to get a tougher hull if we can get it back to base in one piece.

Rolled 92

>>24494924
Guys, we're masters of TK finesse.

We can do delicate engine repairs.

<No, not today, helios.> You tell it, and close your eyes.

And, beautifully, technopathy and TK fused into one, powerful thing. Helios guided you into repairs, reconnecting cables, and forcing you to pump power into the ship to sustain it in time... and your vision blurred. A drip of something came out your nose. Your headache grew stronger... and then the lights flickered on.

A dragon came roaring out of nowhere, a lancer on the back, smashing the end of his lance into one of the fighters, before vanishing. Kinetic spreadshot from wyvern slammed through the other one, and...
And you look around.
And there's nothing there. No more living demiurg ships.
Helios was contained (though it would need repairs), and your life support was quickly getting fixed, though you were losing air.
Below, Anna and Sarvesh were working like madmen to repair the wyvern.
"I've regained control of the ion thrusters." Omnissiah said. "No more nearby fighters detected. I suspect they belonged to warlord Helgaldaz. Orders?"
"I... I did it! I got two of them!" Summer said. "One with a dragon rider, and the other with knights! I'm the best!"

>>24495079
Or just an impenetrable forcefield. Omni's working on that.

>>24495090

Did we pack the repair drones?

>>24495090
Hold position while we wait for Anna and Sarvesh to finish repairs and keep watch for other Demiurg. Heather probably needs to catch her breath after what she just did.

>>24495090
"Take us in next to them...I need to...I need to sit down for a second."

>>24495090
"That dragon was awesome!"

Stay in position, cover them while they repair, but stay out of their firing arc.
"Tell me about Helgaldaz."

Do a wide area technopathy ping.