>>25825835
Adjutant, is it possible to leave a few bunkers intact for the remaining 14% to take shelter?

>>25825874
No. If we leave the bunkers they can rebuild. Which means we've failed.

>>25825874
SCVs will report to their bunkers before they are willing to board our transports. If they begin base repairs, the other civilians will feel compelled to return to their posts.

>>25825897
No choice but to sabotage the bunkers then. Sucks to be the 14%

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I do not morally object to this mission but I have the feeling that its all to easy and it will end up blowing up in our faces in some way.

Well, its like this if the anyone wants to stay in the middle of a super hurricane, we let them. We tried to save their lives but if they want to waste it, their choice.

>>25825932
Muh 14%.

>>25825939
I feel that way about...all of our missions.

You get use to it.

>>25825940
Yup.

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You have Mia sent to your quarters. Despite her previous affiliations she still adheres to military protocol and stands at attention until you address her.

>"At ease, Rodriguez. I have a special operation I need you to help undertake."
>"Yessir."
>"I need to disable a sensor tower at a civilian mining operation. I need you for deployment and extraction. No one else can know about this."

She has a good poker face, but you can read her thoughts. Far clearer than you used to be able to, in fact. She's instantly worried about the fact that you're keeping things from your crew for the first time - to her knowledge, at least.

>"Yessir. Can I... ask why, sir?"
>"Do you need to know, Rodriguez?"
>"No sir. I don't."
>"Then suit up, report to the Banshee. We're going planetside."

You don't doubt that she won't pose a problem once she understands exactly what's going on and the necessity of it, and you assume her loyalty to you after saving her life is enough. You head to the Bridge.

>"XO, what is the current status of my transports?"
>"They've just landed, Commander. Shore leave duty."
>"I have a mission for them to undertake. Simple supply run, no escort needed. Have them sent to these coordinates."
>"Yessir."

You make for the Banshee. Hopefully your plan will go off without a hitch. You board the banshee and it disembarks from the Daluke, letting the planet's gravity pull it down.

You are about five miles out from the installation. Time to make a decision.

>Water landing, swim to the base.
>Air entry. Jump out and activate parachute as Mia flies over the installation.

>>25825973
>>Water landing, swim to the base.
we could go for a swim. SEAL style

>>25825973
Which is the least risky?

>>25825973
Swim, unless our gear is too heavy. Parachute will be seen and people will suspect something's up

>>25825973
>Water landing, swim to the base.

>>25825973
Water landing

Easily not detectable

>>25825973
>water landing

>>25826002
Parachute could get spotted.

>>25826002
Air entry is higher risk, but will get you past enemy security and nearer to your objectives.

Water entry is lower risk, but you will need to bypass shore security.

>>25825973
Swim. You'll be harder to spot that way.

>>25826026
LOW RISK. WE CANNOT FUCK THIS UP.

>>25825973
Are there any records of hostile sealife on this planet?

>>25825897
Could we leave one bunker open, wait for people to get in and then sabotage the door?

>>25826032
((You guys never wanna play my risk/reward game any more!))

>>25826026
Sea entry it is then

>>25826039
they will likely have a worse death that way

>>25826049
My ass is still sore from last time, Adjy

>>25826037
Likelihood of encountering sea life that will pose a critical threat to mission success: 12%.

>>25826059
how so?

>>25826049
Ha...if we don't fuck this up we GET the reward... Silly adjutant.

>>25826026
Easy, once we kill the sensor tower, we can stealth through

>>25826039
Sabotage of the bunker door will result in evidence of our activity on the island.

Additionally, the time required may mean that our own crew detects us.

>>25826068
We should be alright then...ready to vote

>>25826026
Ok, then airdrop it is

>>25826049
Don't worry I'm still thirsty for some more

>>25826074
If they're in the bunker they'll be able to get out. They're SCVs dude. They'll just need time.

We cannot save them. Stop it.

>>25826088
Crap, so they can detect us hacking the door so that it'll stay shut?

Begin votes for Consensus:

>1 Water landing, swim to the base.
>2 Air entry. Jump out and activate parachute as Mia flies over the installation.

>>25826088
>the time required may mean that our own crew detects us.
that would be awkward as fuck

>>25826049

Consider it /tg/s form of PTSD brought about by bad rolls and bad results... the greater a perceived negative effect, the more likely /tg/ is to go into super panic conservative mode...

>>25826122
Yes.

We don't want it to stay shut. We don't want them in it in the first place. Some of them are going to die.

If they make it to the bunker we lose. They rebuild and we don't get the land. Game over man.

We've been over this.

>>25826139
>1

>>25826139
>1

>>25826139
>1

>>25826139
>1

>>25826139
>1

>>25826139
>1

>>25826139
>2

>>25826139
>1

>>25826139
>2

>>25826139
>1

>>25826139
>1

>>25826139
>1

>>25826139
Vote ended at 01:26. Tallying votes...

>>25826231
I am just assuming ghost gear doesn't get all fucked up if submerged in water.

>>25826267
Considering we'd be fucked if it rained if that was the case, I say it's at least waterproof.

>>25826267
uhh, its vacuum proofed, so I would hope so...

You open one of the Banshee's side doors, the ocean rushes past below you at around 60 miles per hour. It's tropical, so at least you won't have to worry about being cold. You yell to Mia over your com, the deafening roar of the Banshee rotors so loud she can barely hear you over it.

>"Remain stealthed, do not fire on any targets, and make for the Extraction point!"
>"Yessir!"

You turn around and fall back, you always found it easier to fall if you couldn't see the ground, and hit the surface of the water. With your Cirus suit on you immediately start to sink, but between your psionics and training it's the easiest water landing you've had in a while. You stay below the waves, letting your rebreather siphon oxygen from the water, and your HUD navigate. Soon the ocean floor starts to rise up to meet you, and you unsling your C-20A rifle from your back. Your stealth activates and you crouch down low, slowly walking up from the beach to the Foliage.

The perimeter is protected by an electrified fence topped with razor wire and various signs saying that it's a very, very bad idea to trust the fence. You make for the main gate, a simple gate leading up to a large dock, with two observation towers. The single guard seems less than alert.

Loading suggestions:
>Use psionics, cause a nosebleed to try and get him to leave his post.
>Attempt to scale the main gate.

>>25826352
What the our chances of success?

>>25826352
>>Use psionics, cause a nosebleed to try and get him to leave his post.

>>25826352
>Use psionics, cause a nosebleed to try and get him to leave his post.

>>25826352
>Use psionics, cause a nosebleed to try and get him to leave his post.

>>25826352
>>Use psionics, cause a nosebleed to try and get him to leave his post.

>>25826352
>Use psionics

The guard post doesn't happen to have a door that leads into the base does it?

... Eh, wait, don't we have like 80,000+ credits in the bank anyway? Why did we decide to do this thing anyway?

>>25826352
>Use psionics, cause a nosebleed to try and get him to leave his post.

Test driving our new powers seems good.

Also, if we can, do a psychic check for any other nearby minds so that we can be sure that there isn't anyone around who we just can't see.

>>25826352
Is there a chance that we kill the dude by trying to cause a nose bleed?

>>25826352
Time to test out some of our new Psionics on a living subject

>>25826386
You have no experience with using your psionics in this fashion.

Your acrobatics skill is more reliable.

I cannot give exact estimates at this time.

>>25826411
Bigger chunk of land and we can buy the smaller one as well. TWO chunks of land.

>>25826413
Killing people with your mind is not easy, it is in fact very difficult.

My guess, unless he's a hemophiliac, is that we couldn't kill him with our mind if we tried.

>>25826352
We'll use Psionics to cause a nose bleed. If he's lazy then chances are he is waiting for an excuse to leave.

>>25826422
Well, that's why we're testing it out. If it doesn't work, then we jump the fence

>>25826408
The guard will need to open the main gate. This will give you time to enter

>>25826411
You have been offered a base location.

>>25826413
It is possible that you could overcompensate and cause irreparable brain damage.
Death is unlikely.

>>25826424

How badly do we need this land? We're just going to build stuff, or mine & etc, from it right?

I need to fully catch up on today's Ghost Quest...

>>25826442
Nosebleed it is then.

>>25826442
give him the nose bleed we need the training

>>25826459
We need it or we'll keep losing morale. That and it's dosh. Lots of dosh. And free after we finish the mission. Plus we'll have our first base!

>>25826459
Well, morale drops daily without supplies

We need a place to build some of our new toys

and Plus we're helping out a company that has done us many favors.

Registering partial consensus. Begin voting.

>1 Use psionics, cause a nosebleed to try and get him to leave his post.
>2 Attempt to scale the main gate.

>>25826488
>1

>>25826488
>2

>>25826488
>1

>>25826488
>2

>>25826488
>1

>>25826488
>1

>>25826488
>1

>>25826488
Did we buy that 2nd smaller chunk of land yet? Cuz we're so doing that.

>>25826488
>2

>>25826488
>1

>>25826510
I have abstained from the purchase until this mission reports successful, Delta Phoenix.

>>25826488
>1

>>25826524
Understood. Thank you Adjutant.

>>25826488
>Voting ended at 01:47. Tallying votes...

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You can't just let an opportunity like this go to waste, you use your Psionics on the guard, who immediately pops a Nosebleed with an "Aww, shit, fuckin' again?"

In... retrospect, you're not actually sure you caused it. Either way, the man opens the gate and walks in. And so do you.

The first bunker is in sight. You'll need to make it look like an accident. You make sure no eyes are on you and pick up a nearby rock, and jam it in the door's rotor. That might've been a tad much, but it'll get the job done.

You continue throughout the base, using cover, reading minds to sense patrols, and stealthing through doors. Security is extremely light as you make your way from bunker to bunker and disable their doors. Finally, you make it to the sensor tower. There are two men talking up in the tower, watching for stray storms. You hug the wall and listen.

>"No, no, no. Listen. I'm telling you. Wrestling is real. Not a damn bit of actin'."
>"You fuckin' kiddin' me, Cleetus? It's faker'n shit! You saw that fight, Luchalisk and The Human Thor, right? Threw a punch - didn't connect - guy goes down anyway?"
>"He was just dodgin' it!"
>"Yeah, right!"

You'll have to disable it somehow...

>Lockdown Grenade. Hope they aren't smart enough to know what's going on and blame mechanical failure.
>Kill both of them, hide the bodies. Casualty rate is already less than 100%, what're two more bodies?

>>25826743
Lockdown

No gunshot victims

>>25826743
Guys I don't trust them to not be smart enough. These guys are hicks. Hicks love explosives. All sorts of explosives.

Guys we gotta kill em.

>>25826762
No one said shooting them. We'd have to make it stealthier than that. Broken necks or something.

>>25826743
>>Lockdown Grenade. Hope they aren't smart enough to know what's going on and blame mechanical failure.

If they are smart enough, then kill them, I suppose.

Say, do we have any knockout gas?

>>25826743
We could always give them nosebleeds as well.

>>25826743

Eh, the second option isn't even necessary, is it -- I mean, we could just knock them both out and then sabotage the sensor tower.

>>25826743
Lock down. This must look like an accident.

>>25826779
actually yeah...why don't we just make them leave their posts!

>>25826743
Any way we could just, like, find a small animal nearby, roughly slash open a power line so it looks chewed, shove the animal in there and watch the tower's lights go out?

I hate mice and rats so goddamn much. Wire-chewing bastards.

>>25826803
>>25826779
These are both good plans.

>>25826803
Eh....finding a small animal would be a long shot.

>>25826779
Nosebleed doesn't sound as terrible.

>>25826776
We do not have nonlethal ordinance at this time.

>>25826779
You are not currently able to attempt to use this ability on two individuals.

>>25826784
If they are unconscious during the storms there is a 99% chance of death.

>>25826803
You would not be able to signal the distress signal for your crew if you cut power or communications to the sensor tower.

>>25826774
This, they're not wearing armor or anything right?

>>25826838
Can we disable the "sensor" part of the sensor tower?

>>25826838
Well guys...

We can either kill them or risk them finding us out and blowing this entire god damn operation.

Do we REALLY want to risk that?

If we're willing to endanger the entire mission over two guys why the fuck did we even coming here?

>>25826864
They are unarmed civilians.

>>25826865
You are currently at sensor control.

You do not currently have ordinance to destroy external sensor components.

>>25826876
So easy to kill.

>>25826871
If we're willing to blow the mission over this we shouldn't go on missions anymore. Period. Feelings get in the way.

>>25826885
Can we possibly influence them to feel the need to take a piss or something?

>>25826871
Well, if our psi is up to it, we could try to get 'em mad at each other. A fistfight would distract both of 'em plenty well enough for us to do our shit and get out.

I think that might be beyond us, though.

>>25826876
Then, unfortunately, we must kill them since there is apparently no other way.

Dispose of them, and the bodies swiftly.

>>25826899
You do not currently know how to perform suggestive Psionics.

>>25826899
Pretty sure they'll know that someone is fucking with em.

Was stated during our mission against brutus.

>>25826871

Well, we can still just go with the "Lockdown Grenade" option.

I mean, how often do random civilians expect (and are able to recognize) freaking GHOST activity? (Seriously, is the first thing one's mind jumps too when something breaks "A Ghost did it!" ?) I figure it'll pass as mechanical failure.

>>25826913
So
>>25826909
this is out.


Guys we pretty much have to kill them to not have a risk.

>>25826924
Notice the words "Hope they aren't smart enough".

We'd be risking it. The whole damn mission on this. Everything. If we fail this we're going to get run of the planet, you know that right?

>>25826913
Kill them. Why is this even a question? We are a GHOST not a member of the Red Cross. We get in, do what we have to do, and get out. Why is killing two guys a problem, but killing 14% of the installation is fine? I didn't think /tg/ was so emotionally weak.

>>25826940
Yeah, they're just gunna have to go.

>>25826925

Well no -- we could just use the lockdown grenade.


Our options for distracting them or psionically tricking them are limited.


But the simple, basic option of "Just freaking sabotage it with a lockdown grenade, they won't find out its a Ghost" is still there.


How suspicious are these guys anyway?

>>25826940
No, because if they start suspecting, then we will READ THEIR MINDS and NOTICE that. THEN we can decide to kill them.

FURTHERMORE, we aren't going to get automatically run off the planet.

Because we have to be TRULY found out -- people have to link "random sabotage" with "This particular person did it" and all the way to "This guy is from the Daluke."

>>25826949
They apparently are.

If we get caught we're fucking done. Period. Yet we're willing to risk a god damn mission over two jack offs.

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Voting beings.


>1 Lockdown Grenade. Hope they aren't smart enough to know what's going on and blame mechanical failure.
>2 Kill both of them, hide the bodies. Casualty rate is already less than 100%, what're two more bodies?

>>25826968
How about we don't waste ammunition that might be pertinent to our escape, and just put a bullet in each of their heads?

>>25826743
>>Kill both of them, hide the bodies. Casualty rate is already less than 100%, what're two more bodies?
give them a quick and merciful death

>>25827002
>2

>>25827002
>1

>>25827002
>1

>>25826968
If anyone gets suspicious we'll not only be fucking ourselves but BMC.

The grenade is risky. All these guys need to do is call in. I don't think you understand how fast radio's work. There is no "Oh hey we'll just kill em if they figure it out". They'll just radio in and then the mission is over. No load saved game, no nothing, and we've just wasted a shit ton of time for nothing and got BMC pissed off at us for failing.

>>25827002
>1

>>25827002
>2

>>25827002
>2

>>25827002
>1

>>25827002
>2

>>25827008
Fucking vote the right way or it won't be counted.

>>25827002
>1

>>25827002
>2

>>25827002
>2

>>25827002
>2

>>25827031
I did, that was posted in reply to the earlier post and not for the current vote

do you require use of the resoc tanks for poor eyesight?

>>25827018
>>25826969
>get caught

By civilians??


Look, think through this logically --

We use the lockdown grenade.

They do NOT blame a mechanical failure.

We immediately read their minds.

We can immediately take action to kill them.


Even if they suspect sabotage, we STILL managed to get here stealthily -- NOBODY KNOWS WE ARE HERE.

Nobody knows who we are either!


In order for us to get blamed and run out of town, people have to KNOW that its US.


What're they going to radio in -- "Oh, sensor tower went down"?

Or is it going to be "It was the BMC ghost, in the base, with the lockdown grenade, and she was from the Daluke Battlecruiser."


There is a HUGE difference between "Catching on to the fact that something just happened" and "We get fucking run off the planet at the slightest failure."

>>25827002
>Voting ended at 02:16. Tallying votes...

>>25827064
RADIOS HOW DO THEY WORK?

"Hey we got some shit happening over here boss. Shit just stopped workin for no reason. No I don't think it's mechanical. Somethin ain't right."

THAT'S ALL IT WOULD TAKE.

>>25827069
Don't shoot em. Make it stealthy.

>>25827081

Yes. They would radio that something happened.

Of course, they'd have to be faster than us reading their mind and deciding to put a bullet in their head.


Also, as I have been pointing out, them radioing something in would NOT immediately result in people figuring out that there's a Ghost around, that it's hired by the BMC, that it's Delta Phoenix, and that she's from the Daluke.


Plus, have people considered that TWO DEAD BODIES might ALSO raise the alarm?

Somebody goes to check on the guys in the sensor tower, and finds 2 dead people -- THEN, the radio is "Oh shit, 2 people died!" rather than "Bugger, we got a mechanical failure here!"

Which do you think is more alarming??

"Fuck, Sensor Tower broke down."

or

"Oh shit, our sensor tower is down and TWO GUYS ARE DEAD!"

>>25827127
We're going to hide the bodies. After a hurricane considering this is A TIME WHEN WE CAN GO INTO SPACE they're going to find the bodies.

Bullets in the god damn brain don't equal dying to a hurricane.

>>25827127
Hidden bodies.

>>25827158
>>25827162

Two people go to check on the guys in the sensor tower. They find the guys missing and the sensor tower is broken. They'll radio that in.


Alternatively -- people first notice that their sensor tower just broke. So they radio their guys in the tower. If they were still alive, they might answer "Yeah, don't know what happened, shit's broken" -- if they were suspicious, they'd go "It's broken, maybe sabotage."

If they are NOT alive? Then when people check on the guys in the sensor tower, then they get NOTHING. And if they send somebody to check on them, they'll notice the missing people.

And that's a LOT more suspicious than "Shit, mechanical failure" or "Shit, its broken, and I don't think its mechanical failure maybe?"

>>25827225
You do know that after we break the sensor shit is bout to hit the fan right? Then we're fuckin outta here?

>Consensus Achieved.

You enter the room, stealthed. You instantly break the first civilian's neck and he goes limp on the floor. The other jumps up from his chair, startled by the loud noise and his friend going limp. He backs up against the wall, screaming like a little girl.

>"Aaaaah! AAAAH! Cleetus! Cleetus, you dead?!"

At this point he notices you quickly advancing on him, the shimmer of your light enough to give it away. You cut off his screams, your real hand grabs his throat and he gags. You lift him a foot off the ground and hold him. You watch the life slowly fade from his eyes, then drop him to the ground. You turn and move to the sensor controls. You enable the distress beacon first, then disable the sensor. You move the bodies to a nearby supply closet, then hack it sealed.

>"This is Delta Phoenix. The Sensors are offline."

You look down at supply closet for a moment.

>"Continue operations."

Your escape is uneventful. The gate fortunately opens for a shipment of equipment being loaded onto the island. Your plan hadn't accounted for additional civilians, but there don't appear to be many. You head for the mountain at the end of the island, where Mia's stationed. The only way you find the Banshee is by your HUD's IFF sensor. You quickly board and fly overhead. The calm, blue skies of this tropical paradise have already turned to grey. Lightning and thunder begins to roll as your Banshee makes an exit.

>"Do what you needed to, Sir?"
>"I always do, Rodriguez."
You look down at the base as it shrinks into the distance.
>"I always do..."

Moments pass before you hear radio chatter over your headset.

>"This is Dropship-1, I'm reading your distress signal, do you need help?"
>"We've got a hurricane comin'! Our bunkers are broke - all of 'em! We need help! We've got 40 people!"
>"Roger, we're on our way..."

Minutes later, you return to the bridge with Mia, who doesn't say anything. Your XO turns to face you.

>Loading...

>>25827225
Or maybe they assume the suddenly missing guards were corporate spies who sabotaged the sensors then ditched?

There's tons of ways it can go but the chance the bodies are found after the hurricane are pretty low. If we kill them in CQC, which we should, it doesn't even matter if they're found later.

>>25827291
Mission accomplished boys. Mission accomplished.

Bit dirty but hey...

Requesting to buy 2nd chunk of land.

>>25827291
Oh shit xo gonna lecture us

>>25827328
Lets wait until we know that our crew are safe.

>>25827335
If we're going to continue to protect this crew's best interests we're going to have to get our hands dirty sometimes.

>>25827335
Don't think he gives a shit as long as we look out for the interests of the crew. Which we were doing. Assuming he knows.

>>25827367
It's not exactly a hard leap of logic to make. We go out for some reason with Mia, have him make transports go somewhere, and then a hurricane erupts out of nowhere leaving a plot of land for us.

He's not an idiot, he knows what we did.

>>25827335
You were speaking to your Adjutant, who relayed the message to the BMC, for clarification.

>>25827402
Of course he knows. He's our XO for a reason.

We did it to help our crew. (And ourselves. We are part of the crew.)

It was worth it as long as we don't get caught for it. (Then it isn't worth it. Not worth it at all.)

Tell XO "Crazy weather we're having today."
Say nothing more.

>>25827335
>>25827367
>>25827402

Well... He could be assuming that the job was to stage a disaster, and then be on hand to rescue people... Which is less bad then just straight-up causing sabotage to kill people.

>>25827291
>"Sir, something came up while you were in Radio silence. Our men at the contact point received a distress signal after your supplier failed to show."

You ask, hoping to keep up appearances,
>"What kind of distress signal?"
>"There was a freak storm hitting a mining base, they had no evac in time except for us. I gave the go ahead to get Civilians out."

The XO pauses for a moment, best deciding how to word the next bit. You sense his apprehension. It isn't good.

>"We saved 14, sir. They lost 48 civilians. The storm took out a vespene refinery and, well...We're still being hailed as heros, though, sir. That's 14 men that wouldn't have made it. Otherwise."

You can feel Mia glance at the back of your head. You don't much care for it. She doesn't know what you've gained yet, you'll need to explain it to her before she gets upset.

>"Good work, XO. Tell the dropship pilots they did what they could. Carry on, I need to finish Debriefing Rodriguez."

She follows you in silence, her opinion going between two extremes, afraid you've been a murderer this time, but loyal to the idea that you had your reasons. You both enter your quarters, and you stand behind your captain's desk. She stands opposite, rather still.

>"The Blackmoon Consortium will be purchasing the base now, as everyone else will believe it's prone to freak accidents. They will then give us the land for a base, as a reward for eliminating the competition."

Mia's jaw slowly, progressively, drops.

>"That's some real Ghost shit, there. Sir. I knew there was a good reason."
>"That'll be all then, Rodriguez. Dismissed."
>"Thank you, sir."

She offers a salute and takes off. You sit down in your chair, awaiting confirmation from the BMC.

>>25827481
...I can't tell if she approves or not
Also, only 14? I thought we had enough room for 80% of the island?

>>25827481
>That's some real Ghost shit, there, Sir.
Indeed it is.

>>25827529
and evidently rolled shit

>>25827481
Eh...Well Rodriguez had her first ghost mission with us. I don't think it's what she expected it to be.

Either way, once we get the land from BMC we should get that smaller chunk. Start setting shit up asap before we leave.

>>25827529
We did but apparently couldn't get to them all.
If we wouldn't have set a distress beacon at all they all would have died.

>>25827481

Ah, what exactly was her reaction/opinion to the reason we gave? Er, how weighted is her conscious here?

>>25827529
Yeah, I was wishing that more would get rescued, too, but... damn Vespene refinery.

>>25827529
Refinery blew up. It took most of the civvies there with it

>>25827529

Not enough time for the evacuation.

>>25827529
Unforeseen complications. Vespene refinery blew up and killed lots of people

>>25827529
Transport capacity was 38 between the Hercules and the Dropship.

The Vespene Refinery explosion resuled in nearly all civilian deaths.

>>25827481
Shit, 77% casualty rate.

Maybe we should go to Mia again and ask if we made the right choice accepting that offer?

>>25827567
Well that sucks. Ah well, can't make an omelet without breaking a few heads. I mean eggs.

If I may have your attention, Dark Phoenix. The BMC has confirmed the transaction. The base is currently registered to them but they have granted us full access to do with it as we desire.

I have taken the liberty of landing all Orbital structures should we need them.

Our next Agenda item is to purchase the smaller tract of land for the purpose of additional supply depots.


>Small base location. No resources available. Can land command center, 4 supply depots, or production building. 40,000 credits.

Authorize purchase?
>Y
>N

>>25827595
and make her doubt us after we reassured her trust in us? are you retarded? oh wait, you are

>>25827595
nah, we don't want to show weakness. We're still a ghost.

>>25827622
>N

>>25827622
>Y

>>25827622
>Y

>>25827622
>Y

>>25827622

Er hey, how big is the area we just got, again?

Is it enough to meet all of our needs if we build supply depots?

>>25827595
No. That would make her feel bad/worse. Lets just leave it at the free base.

>>25827622
when can we next whore out our people to make LOADSAMONEY

>>25827622
>N

>>25827635
Wrenloft why do you hate us? We just got that land for free.
Now we can get this land.
It was made for you and me.

>>25827622
We have to buy it?
Man this mission was nothing like I hoped...

>>25827622
>Y

>>25827669
We got the base for free. This is a different base. We can have TWO bases.

>>25827669
Different tract of land.

>>25827652
It is large enough to construct 6 supply depots without defensive installations.

>>25827669
No, we got that land. Now these guys want to buy MORE land, at a huge price, and I don't know if we'll be here for that long.

>>25827669
read it again

>>25827669
wrong base location, this is the second, smaller one for sale

>>25827678
Oh...well then

>>25827622
>Dark Phoenix

Do you need maintenance again Adjutant?

>>25827652
WE NEVER HAVE ENOUGH ROOM.

>>25827669
No it's a seperate vacant lot. It's basically going to be supply depot space.

>>25827622
>N

>>25827682
How many WITH defensive installations?

You know, if Mia learns that we had an alternative that we could've gone for, she's going to disapprove of what we did even more.

Whereas if we only go with this one, it might seem like we only did all this for the supply depots.

>>25827682
How many supply depots do we need?

>>25827669
We have secured base location Alpha.

We are voting on purchasing base location Beta.

Should I schedule resoc tanks for spatial awareness conditioning?

>>25827622
>y

>>25827622
>N

>>25827689
oh we shall give her lots of loving maintenance

Guys we wanted both so we could actually set up to be part of this world's economy. Holy shit, we got one base for free now we can invest in another one and you're being jews. Stop it.

>>25827711
Current supplies are at 64/48 Supply

>>25827622
>Y

>>25827689
Error: Runtimes
Reminder: I am in Control of the Daluke's weapon systems and life support.

>>25827713
No we still need the social skills update.

>>25827713
Yes please. People are crazy.

If we get both we can set up supply depots at both, have the shit we need on the ground, sell excess supplies for dosh, make loadsamoney at a stable income.

>>25827710

A single supply depot can be replaced by a single turret.

A single bunker can replace 2 supply depots.

>>25827747

Hey, remember that we know where you live!

...
...

Of course you also know where WE live. It is, in fact, the same place. Hmm, tricky...

>>25827622
>Y

>>25827622
>Voting Ended at 02:47, Tallying votes.

we can have location Beta be our commercial centre, a part of the local economy, providing us legit profits and opportunities, while location Alpha can be our military centre planetside, for R&D and manufacturing our military units

>>25827764
Well we could use a bunker. What other buildings can we build?

>>25827747
Meh, as long as the deep doesn't go beyond our code name. I personally think its funny. Like its this one quirk that no tech has ever fixed

>>25827784
I like this idea

>>25827788
as long as Adjy gets our name right when there are other people around, she can call us whatever she wants in private

>>25827787
We have access to no other defensive structures at this time.

I can requisition schematics for Perdition turrets from Engineer Guyver, but they will be combat ineffective on an island.

>>25827784
I also like this idea.
Told you we could never have enough land.

>>25827747
>Malfunctioning Adjutant
>In control of critical systems

Whelp.

>>25827829

What about Nomad auto-turrets?

>>25827832
think of what will happen to the ship when we have our way with her in bed

>>25827838
I can have the Nomad construct auto-turrets in place of missile turrets.

They are effective against ground and air units, but have inferior range and damage against air units that are more likely to assault the island.

>>25827859

I was thinking more about Base Beta.

>>25827859
I say we stick with missile turrets for the Island

>>25827859
yeah how much room would those take up? They'd be good for base beta I think.

>>25827887
2 missile turrets for the island should do it right? One in opposite corners?

>>25827885
Base Beta is located in a major civilian center. Defenses are redudant as Murican government forces will protect it.

Holding a static location against the Murican government on Murican soil is not advised.

>>25827859

Er, how much violence or crime or sabotage is there on this planet?

Let's first figure out *how likely we are to come under attack* before we decide to pull defenses everywhere.

I mean, I think this place we just sabotaged, had NO real defenses at all didn't it? It just had fences.


In fact... wouldn't putting bunkers and turrets on the island actually make people MORE worried and pay more attention to whats going on over there?


I think people might be looking at this too much like a usual StarCraft base-building game... When actually we're on a (I assume relatively peaceful) planet.

We are not going to get attacked by Zerg or Protoss on land. Not usually, anyway.

>>25827900
I like this plan.

>>25827912
And if they do decide to attack, our defenses aren't going to be worth jack squat. So it is more efficient to just load up on supply depots.

>>25827912
Murican Crime is at Fringe World standard. The majority of civilians own Firearms.

It is highly unlikely that the supply depots will come under attack from any force that static defenses would be able to fend off.

>>25827911
>Base Beta is located in a major civilian center. Defenses are redudant as Murican government forces will protect it.

>Holding a static location against the Murican government on Murican soil is not advised.


Yeah, this, guys.

Keep in mind just WHERE we are, and where we're building -- were on a planet, not on some fringe area, not in some mission where we might be attacked by Zerg or Protoss...

So please, let's NOT build weapon emplacements in the equivalent of the USA homeland!

I don't think we'll need more defenses then this base had before the hurricane.


Really, we don't want to spook the natives or anything.

>>25827940
Gotcha.

So 2 missile turrets for the island?

That leaves us with 4 building units out of 6. I say we build a barracks and find out what else we can put there.

4 supply depots in the city.

>>25827912
Personal note: If Delta Phoenix was focused on typical Base-Building strategies, she would have twice the current economy and not be almost twice her supply cap.

>>25827912
Its our military compound. Even if nothing's likely to happen, it's our alpha base, our primary land presence. It would be stupid not to guard military hardware.

>>25827975
We are currently in possession of a Barracks.
Recommendation: Review current unit file.


Resources are as follows:

Marines: 11 (11 Supply)

Firebats: 2 (4 Supply)

Marauder: 1 (2 Supply)

Medics: 1 CMC, 1 Civilian (3 Supply)

Vultures: 1 (2 Supply)

SCVs: 12 (12 Supply)

The Daluke (XO: Sall Jamesson.) (+40 Supply)

Hercules Class Transport (Unnamed. Pilot: Ensign Mark Solo, Copilot: Petty Officer Steven "Chewy" Graves) (6 Supply)

Planet-Hopper class Dropship (Unnamed. Pilot: Corporal Nigel Ohann) (2 Supply)

Wraith ("Dolphin 13", Pilot: Mia Rodriguez) (2 supply)

Valkyrie ("Bad News", Pilot: Dave Jonesy. Copilot: Carol Theon) (3 supply)

Banshee ("Knife", stealth reactor, no pilot) (2 supply [3 With dedicated pilot assignment])

Nomad (Unnamed. Pilot: )[2 Supply]

1 Command Center (+8 Supply)

1 Barracks

1 Engineering Bay

Civillians: 12 men, 9 women, 5 children (13 Supply)

Supply: 64/48 Supply (-16 Morale per day.)

Morale is currently falling.

>>25827976
Adjutant besides the barracks and supply depot what else can we build? Factory? How much room will that take up?

>>25827972

As the original instigator of this, I withdraw.

I was curious for the most part, since I didn't want people stealing shit from us while we're away.

>>25828003
We have access to the Factory schematic.

It would replace 2 supply depots.

>>25828019
We can build that in some other place. For now, lets load up on depots and start making some money and morale.

>>25827983

If it spooks the people around or makes them more likely to investigate or meddle because it drew interest, then it would be counter-productive.


Adjutant, how likely are we to NEED defenses?

And what sort of defenses can we put up without it being... well, awkward or suspicious or alarming to the natives?

>>25828014
Leaving Automated Defense Weapons in Population Centers is against Muric city ordinance 7-7-10.

It will be seen as a criminal offense and we could face fines up to 15,000 credits and jail time up to 4 years.

We do not currently have technology to hide weapon emplacements.

>>25827998
>The Daluke (XO: Sall Jamesson.) (+40 Supply)

You'd think a warship built to house 8000 crew would have more supply than that.

Also, is the Barracks in the Armory?

>>25828036
Expected need for defensive emplacements is 1.9%.

>>25828049
The Daluke is capable of providing more supply but is currently heavily damaged.

>>25828051
Yeah, lets skip the weapons and just build supply depots.

>>25828063
Can we just build a Factory, and our supply depots? There's not much to mine here, is there? If so, move our CC over, but otherwise, we just need our Goliath and supply

Also OP, how is this gonna work, when we build the depot and leave and recycle them, do we lose the supply they provided?

>>25828063
What if we manage to spawn some overlords or warp-in some pylons?

>>25828034
Why not build the factory on the island? We kinda owe henderson for buying it. 4 supply depots in the city will be fine for dosh and supplies I believe.

>>25828051
Okay so we don't need defenses. So we put a barracks and a factory on the island. We have 2 more spots left for either 2 more supply depots or one other big thing.

>>25828042

Ah.

>>25828051

Oh.

So... we could probably get away with like, at most, a fence and a marine guard or two. We would probably only NEED at most a fence and a guard or two, for that matter.

>>25828083
If we leave the supply depots up, they'll generate credits for us when we sell back.

>>25828093
Well, we could build it here, make a goliath for him, then lift it off for more depots.

>>25828083
There are 2 available vespene geysers and 8 available mineral deposits on the island.

>>25828083

Goliaths.

Plural, we might as well build multiple while we're at it.

>>25828105
START MINING

>>25828105
SHIT SON!

>>25828105
Then let's get amining!

capatcha: iVietin United

>>25828115
>>25828118
>>25828122
((Oh lord Jesus have they finally realized that this is the part where I throw a billion medipacks and ammo at them before the next big fight?))

>>25828115
>>25828118

We're usually limited by Vespene rather than minerals, I believe, so I'd prioritize Vespene over minerals a little. But yeah -- very nice.

>>25828105

Minin' everyday!

Minin' all the way!

>>25828105
Then how about this

1 command center

Everything else supply depot

>>25828137
YES

>>25828137
don't you dare go Serious Sam on us Adjy

>>25828137
Kinda figured that. This down time was to prepare.

Guys what do we really need? People and supplies to finish fixing the ship.

>>25828152

We'd need a factory as well.

And I'd be a little uncomfortable without defenses.

>>25828165
((I kinda have to or you're gonna be all "ram that protoss carrier with our cruiser and have Henderson board it solo! He can do anything!))

>>25828137
You know we're paranoid Adjy
You have to choose, either we're paranoid, or reckless
There is no inbetween for tg

>>25828167
ya we need to start looking for people to hire on

>>25828152
we already have a command center - its floating with the barracks

>>25828167

Manpower and supplies.

Speaking of which we should start recruiting soon.

>>25828167
Speaking of the ship, should we have an art gallery-ish thing in it where we put murals up showing significant events that occurred with the ship?

>>25828152
In doing so we will be unable to land any production facilities, but will maximize supply production.

>>25828083
More like we lose ACCESS to the supply hey provide. Assuming we don't dismantle them of course, since I don't see why we'd have to. We should be able to leave them running while we're away as static holdings. Maybe at reduced efficiency but, eh.

>>25828172
((You are protected by the full military might of AMURIKUH and if I have to explain it to one more motherfucker I'm going to go rogue.))

>>25828191
Can we take surplus supply with us?

>>25828178

So we're getting buttraped because of our current overwhelming success.

Lovely.

>>25828191
We need nothing else other than supply. But can we make a factory, pop out a goliath, and send both back to the ship to make room for more depots?

>>25828182
Yeah...

Guys let's just use the 4 supply depots right now and set up our military stuff. We need troops and we need to get henderson his goliath. We can pull our factory and barracks up when we get ready to leave and replace it with supply depots. Right now we just need to stabilize morale loss with the supply depots. Raking in money can come later.

>>25828201
Rampant. You mean Rampant, not Rogue.

>>25828201

Oh sorry.

Shutting up now.

>>25828201
Then we shall vote
Votin time!

>>25828202
Supply can be stored in surplus instead of sold.

>>25828203
((Do you want to just have a 4 man squad and fight zerglings forever when the option for an interstellar space empire exists? Cuz we'll do it, I don't give a fuck.))

>>25828172
Its a civilized planet

If we needed defense mind as well go to a fringe world rich in resources and get what our defences paid for

The factory has to wait because we don't currently have any tech type buildings to even make anything in the factories besides vultures
>>25828183
Yeah I know we land it and just build supply depot
>>25828191
We I don't think we should be producing anything until we get way more capable crew members like WAY more to fill our battleship and we gotta repair it also before we head out

>>25828201

Speaking of AMURIKAH military might, how heavily armed are they compared to the usual?

>>25828201

Sorry, I kept trying to point that out (along with "You know, MURRICA might not appreciate us building defenses and automating them on their land") but the only way I was able to get through was by continuously asking you so that you could point it out for us.

I wish you'd just point this sort of stuff out to begin with, it'd make things sooo much easier and involve much less stumbling around in the dark and trying to guess at what the next obvious thing we should think of (but isn't actually obvious) is.

Designating base Alpha Layout. Voting beings...

>1 Command Center, 2 Refineries, Factory, 8 Supply Depots.
>2 Command Center, 2 Refineries, 10 Supply Depots.
>3 Command Center, 2 Refineries, Barracks, Factory, 4 supply Depots.
>4 Aliens are coming to get me. 16 Missle turrets.

>>25828249
We suck.

>>25828234
I'm totally game for galactic conquest

Who knows? Maybe we'll become our own 4th faction once we hire enough engineers to improve Terran tech and achieved Psionic level 1532635263

I say we max supplys until we can build a tech lab, and focus on getting more manpower and marines for a sizeable force capable of not relying on solo missions for everything

>>25828274
>1

>>25828234

Not really, though I was hoping we wouldn't immediatly get swarmed by a horde of enemies and at least have a few easier mission to help ease us into our new military capabilities.

>>25828274
>3

>>25828274
>2

>>25828274
>2

>>25828274
>1

>>25828274
>3

>>25828274
>1

>>25828274
>1

>>25828274
>3