>>32914512
Only if he helps us in giving info and available tech in the files.

>>32914512
> You have several workers take the terminal away to be torn apart for scrap metal.
Wait wait wait why should we do that, can't we reverse engineer that?

>>32914512
>Current armory
26 Thorn Launchers
19 Sting Casters
3 Fire Sprays

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 611
Metals: 113

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Queen – 5
Worker (60) – 120
Warrior (5) – 20
Thinker (20) – 60
Speaker – 3
Digger (10) – 40
Refinery (2) – 14
Sniffer (2) – 8
Wasp (3) – 15
Antenna (3) – 9
Nutrient costs: 294

>Income
Nutrients: 550
Net: 256

Hive Structure
>Reservoir
>General storage
>Food storage
>Advanced Laboratory
>Infrastructure
> Mine: +250 M per day (+25 M per digger)
>Algae Farm: +500 N per day (1 worker per 100 N)
>Clarke Research Outpost

Current Construction
>Throne Room
>Farm Expansion

New Construction Options
>Hangar facilities – the much needed landing and storage facilities for air and space craft. Has room for twenty aerodynamic drones and landing space for ten shuttles. Includes space and tools for service and repair.

>>32914512
I mean, it's not a super big priority for us. And we're still clearing the ship for stuff and safety concerns, yadda yadda. You know how it is.

>>32914541
Current Research
>Small land drone
>Large land drone

Available research options
>Lightning gun
Very slow: potential of failure and destruction of sample device
This powerful weapon appears to throw rapid bursts of highly conductive plasma in a manner not unlike natural lightning. The humans of the Union call it a “CIP Pistol” which seems to stand for “Concentrated Ionized Plasma”. From what you have seen of it in action, it appears to have devastating damage potential, but is difficult to aim and holds a very short effective range.

>Ion thrusters
Slow
The Unity drone is held aloft by a series of powerful ion thrusters that use the air particles around it, or stray particles found in the interstellar medium to accelerate and change vector in a highly efficient fashion. No real fuel is needed, only a powerful electrical charge. The only major drawback is that with the increase in efficiency comes a drop in overall performance and power. The Unity appears to have gotten around this limitation by carrying their drones in larger ships that transport them in and out of combat, and by limiting the drone’s size to a bare minimum.

>Cyclotron particle beams
Very slow: Runs a potential of failure and destruction of the sample device.
Unlocks Liner particle beam research
The Unity drone is equipped with four powerful cyclotrons, a ring of superconductors that use powerful magnetic fields to rapidly accelerate a series of particles to near-light speeds, which are each attached to one of the four main weapons. The cyclotron is both compact and efficient, but is relatively fragile as damaging any one component will disable the entire system. It also requires a short but noticeable amount of time for the cyclotron to accelerate a new shot. The drone fires them in sequence to account for this and provide more firepower.

>>32914540
Well you already have computer technology in the form of your thinkers. Same tech, different method.

>>32914553
>Conductive armor plating
Medium
The Unity drone appears to have been designed with the energy based CIP pistol in mind. Layers of highly conductive struts frame the armor like a faraday cage, protecting the inner working components from electrical fields and directing harmful blasts of energy away from critical areas. It is much less effective against solid projectiles however, and is only as strong as the metal alloy plating covering its chassis.

>Oxygen recycler
Slow
In the process of disassembling the human environment suit, the thinkers found a culture of artificially mutated microorganisms. They were able to take several samples and have set them aside for further study and application. The humans appear to have used them in a small tank to turn CO2 into breathable oxygen, you may be able to do the same, reducing the rate at which your drones need to breath, allowing them to work in areas even a filter lung would not function such as underwater or in vacuum.

>Reactive armor
Slow
While most of the human suit systems are designed to solve various failing of the human body, you may be able to learn from their chosen method of protection. The suit has a thin layer of microfibers that rapidly solidify into a dense shell when subjected to dangerous kinetic force, both serving as a cast for broken bones and protecting against blunt trauma. Developing a method of weaving a similar substance into your drones would greatly improve their resistance to impacts and ballistic attacks; however it would have no mitigating effect on directed energy weapons.

>Human dissection
The two human corpses taken from outside the Hel’s Angle are, between them, in good condition and could offer insight into human biology if dissected and studied fully.

>Ballistics
While the ranged weapons of the humans are not unlike your own, they do hold a variety of projectile types. Study of this ammunition variation could provide new kinds of projectiles to face new kinds of armors.

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>>32914512
after we finish scavenging, and having out thinkers dig through the files first.

>>32914553
Thinkers can't get augmentations? Or at least reverse engineer how they store their data?
Just saying, we should research anything that could help us research better.

>>32914551

I'll support this.

"Yeah sure Theseus, we'll have a thinker and a couple of drones do whatever you want, but we're busy right now.

>>32914573
make more thinkers, they are cheap and the upkeep isn't much.

>>32914565
>>Conductive armor plating
>Medium
The Unity drone appears to have been designed with the energy based CIP pistol in mind. Layers of highly conductive struts frame the armor like a faraday cage, protecting the inner working components from electrical fields and directing harmful blasts of energy away from critical areas. It is much less effective against solid projectiles however, and is only as strong as the metal alloy plating covering its chassis.

>Human dissection
The two human corpses taken from outside the Hel’s Angle are, between them, in good condition and could offer insight into human biology if dissected and studied fully.

>Ballistics
While the ranged weapons of the humans are not unlike your own, they do hold a variety of projectile types. Study of this ammunition variation could provide new kinds of projectiles to face new kinds of armors.
They all should be done in a day or two.

>>32914551
I agree with this.

>>32914512
Ya later,
Lets research and figure what every system on the ship is before connecting it to the ai to be safe.

>>32914604
>>32914551
>>32914576
Can we have our thinkers snoop as well, before helping him?
Like i said here.
>>32914572

>>32914565
>Regeneration Tank – These large tanks appear to be designed to rapidly heal wounds in some way, and further research of the tank’s fluid and the mechanism of the tank itself should offer insight into its inner workings.

>Gravetic Materials – The strange exotic matter known as Canderon found within the Clarke appears to alter spacetime to some degree in the area around it when subjected to powerful electro-magnetic fields. While incredibly volatile, this material is clearly the key to Human Warp Drive technology, and research could lead to the replication of this technology if given time.

>Grape Shot - This strange local fruit bursts open violently when disturbed, hurling sharp barbs in all directions. The potential weapon applications are obvious, but research must first be done to increase the explosive force to be effective in combat. The name, you note, is from one of Lee's few entries into the Union black box during their stay on the planet.

>Fungal spores - The incredibly deadly spores of the ocean are a potential for further study, although grate care must be taken to avoid infection.

>Berry birds - The strange animated fruit of the small bush found in the jungle are interesting specimens. You are curious what a more in-depth study may reveal of the creatures, which seem to be both plant and animal at once.

>>32914565
How long would the Ballistics and Human Dissection take?
I would like to get those done soon.

How many days till the army hatches?

>>32914621
Can we study the lizards and the flying jets as well?

>>32914617

Sure, why not? Though deleting data ought to be a mortal sin to Theseus if he came about the way he did.

>>32914639
Those are my next priorities after our current projects too.

>>32914642
Right when lyle is about to leave, to add tension.

>>32914617
The only problem I have with that is not having thinkers researching. How long would file snooping take?

>>32914573
You know, you're right.
I'll think of something nice, but for now it will need to just sit in the corner till I think of a tech for it, but you're right, it should be researchable.

Just dissect the humans while there there still fresh.

>>32914674
how about, how unity shares knowledge?
or
you can use the larger drone research to help make super thinkers.

>>32914512
send many more workers to speed up the tunnel construction under Lyle's ship. I do not want to risk them fixing their ship before our new troops hatch.
Also, we should lay more drones now that we recovered a lot of food.

>>32914541
Lay more workers and thinkers.

>>32914710
Ya that makes sense.
More drones and also more warriors.
Always got to expand

>>32914674
How about instead of using the filthy inferior human tech to make us research better. We make it so the more thinkers there are the better they perform.
Kind of like the Geth if you're into Mass Effect.

>>32914674
I was hoping to figure out how to crack Unity brains open for delicious (degraded dependent on dice roll) data. Theseus wiped the brain so it'd be silly to assume there's anything left to find, but study of architecture to determine likely methods for the future? Maybe. Or maybe not!

lets double our amount of workers and thinkers guys.

>>32914657
I mean Slow, Medium, or Fast.
They don't have an entry like the rest on that list.

>>32914739
Well duh, we could study the technology to determine a way for our Thinkers to be more efficient. Data structures and stuff. Kinda like what >>32914756 said.

>>32914764
This too. I support this notion.

>>32914674
Have the brains connect them selves and transfer their thoughts while connected, kinda like in Futurama.
Maybe even be a nutrient cost boost.

>>32914776
We've historically performed dissections in relatively short order. Ballistics being an augmentative tech suggests it'd be in the similar vein.

Research Humans and berry birds.
Learn about our rivals and what the heck is on this planet

>>32914649
You already studied the flyers, which got you the ram jet.
Which lizards?

>>32914639
Dissection is one of the fastest research actions, so a day.
Ballistics would be a little more difficult, but with your current thinker count it would be the same.

>>32914710
well you already have more drones on the way, but they don't get counted in the census in the OP till they hatch.

>>32914739
ME1 was amazing, ME2 was fun but ultimately pointless despite Legion being by favorite character, ME3 was so bad the demo made me feel violated.

>>32914776
That;s mostly because I wrote them up just now. Sorry.

>>32914814

Look at it this way, if ME2 hadn't been made into a game then the plot of ME3 wouldn't have needed to be modified.

I play the multiplayer though, it's fun.

>>32914786
I actually meant the equivalent to a dissection, but on AI brains. So... whatever that means in terms of rewards. Increased ease of communication with Unity? Increased chance of recovering data from Unity 'corpses'? First step in Queen backup tech? Who knows!?

>>32914814
I hate how they ruin Legion and basically made every character from ME2 a cameo,add a few useless chacters,change the original ending of the relays causing black holes, and making the star child affect my Shepard who watched a whole galaxy die because of him
they also brought back the reapers masters, that promised to rape every one after the war is finished, and made a protheon squad mate DLC only that is on the dic, hell they even introduced kai leng the cereal eating bad guy, or how lazy they were with Tali.

>>32914871
What do you mean by Queen Backup Tech?
>>32914786
I doubt outdated data structures would be more efficient than our thinkers but whatever.

>>32914879
>>32914841
>>32914814
>Raping Legion
>and giving EDI a sex bot body
God i hate that game, so much.
Hell the fucking quarian war was retarded and forced.

>>32914871
Hmm, good points. We'll just see what QD has to say about this (he did say we didn't scrap it tho).

>>32914893
At least there's a new perspective on thinking other than our biological version we could salvage there, no?

>>32914814
Anyways back to The Quest I'd like to research Human Dissection and Ballistics next please.

>>32914901
>>32914879

And was I the only one who was caught totally off guard by the ending being all about machines v organics when they hadn't touched on it hardly at all in ME2 aside from side-quests?

>>32914925
You weren't the only one.

>>32914893
Creating a backup queen in stasis connected to the network to seamlessly activate and continue operations in the event of the queen's death. It's basically game-breaking so I don't think it's actually at all likely. just throwing out random ideas.

You reach out to the new Theseus, still unsure of what he had just done. "Perhaps later, when the ship is more stable. There is much to search through still."
You sense a slight uneasiness in Theseus. "Of course, I do not wish for you to risk harm on yourself at my expense."
Just as you detect his feelings, he detects yours. "I assure you, I am the same mind, for I hold the same component memories. Death is meaningless so long as data survives."
You are still unsure, but you take his word for it.

>>32914841
It's a topic for another time, but I just wish that they both had a competent writer and went the "Element Zero causing the heat death of the universe" rout instead. Also Star child.

>>32914925
Nope.
>>32914911
Whatever you say man. I don't care that much anymore after that last half hour of not understanding each other that occurred.

How are we communicating with Theseus again?
Radio or psychic?

>>32914925
Here is the real ending,
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:The_scrapped_%22dark_energy%22_ending

>>32914939
Holy Moley you know what we should do?
Cut an electrical power line or 10 on the mercs ship and stick them in the ground.

>>32914970
USB clam.

>>32914984
Can we get back on topic please?
Besides that theory is bull anyways.

>>32914989
That's actually a good idea, though I think they would notice something if a couple of cables are somehow cut.

>>32914939
As the day goes on, you can see Lyle continue his patrol. Today he appears more idle, although he is still clad in his heavy armor. He doesn't walk the perimeter of the clearing, but stands watch on the top of the Angel's hull.

>>32914970
Bit of both. A standard hardwired connection connects to an adapter that translates digital data into mental data and vice versa.

Huh so lyle is letting his guard down.
Prob just watch and then strike all at once
Send in some drones to act as bullet catchers and mess with the ship when we attack so the warriors focus on the real threat

>>32914970

Psychic radio.

No, really.

>>32914989
Oh god, that's brilliant. Toss some of whatever's arcing all over the place over into their area.

>>32915019
>>32914989
>>32915062
That would take a week though.

>>32915057

I'm still a bit stumped as to why our workers and diggers have not been burrowing under it this whole time.

>>32915071

It took a couple of hours for the humans' electric fence thing.

>>32915020
Your hive works diligently, and your sniffer watches as the crew of the Hel's Angel hefts one of the engine housings back onto its gimbal with great effort, using a small unfolding crane taken out from within the ship's cargo hold. As the day progresses you oversee the construction of your throne room. The frame of the room is complete, and your workers start on the more delicate parts of the architecture. A chorus of joy interrupts you.
"We have done thing for Queen!"
Your research into large drones is finished.
"We are almost finished! Very nearly!" Your other thinkers shout in reply.

>Start new research
>Boost the slowed research

>>32914814
>well you already have more drones on the way, but they don't get counted in the census in the OP till they hatch.

I know we do. I mean to lay even more. We should be constantly expanding. More farms, more refineries, more metal excavators, more drones.
I feel that we have been incredibly inefficient and could've had a hice ten times more than we have right now if we expanded more properly.

>>32915072
They have.
They're having a really fucking hard time with it though.

>>32915071
I don't really want to trample their shit with giant beetles either.

>>32915084
It took days for anything significant to reach them.

>>32915085
>Boost the slowed research

>>32915072
They are, but you rolled really, really badly for that tunnel, so it's taking a while. Like, public union worker slow.

>>32915086
Work out the math and I'll start doing what you say.

>>32915085
can we build even more workers, and thinkers?

>>32915086
Amen to that
and start the human research cause if we kill lyle we need to see what baseline is to compare

>>32915085
>Start human autopsy

>>32915085
>Boost the slowed research

>>32915085
>Boost the slowed research
want all 20 to be free first.

How are the thinkers divided again?
Is it 50 - 50 for research and helping managing things?

>>32915085
>Boost current research
Your thinkers come together and quickly resume their research.
Meanwhile, your Smart Bomb and Thinker drones are starting to hatch.

New total
12 Smart Bombs
24 Thinkers

You know what we could do?
Harass the ones fixing the engines by shooting suppressive fire from the surrounding foliage. It doesn't matter shit that we won't hit them but we will stop them from their work and likely make them more stressed. The warriors should then immediately move as not to be killed by Lyle. Hit and run / guerrilla tactics.

We could even send in free workers to build trenches and barricades in the surrounding forest to provide cover for the Warriors.

This tactic will also make Lyle expend his ammo.
If I'm not mistaken we have few warriors left si we should totally do this

>>32915145
More like 100% researching thing, minus the one for managing our infrastructure. I do wish we'd have a couple set aside for worker management so we could pull one for combat duty.

>>32915106
will ir speed up if we send more workers?

>>32915168

If we set the Smart Bombs to assault and attack the ship's engines at night then they'll either
1) Tear up the engines with their claws
2) Get shot while one the engines/ship, further damaging them and delaying departure

>>32915199
The real targets should be the personnel, not the engines.

Huh only 12 smart bombs
We should try to punch as many holes in to the ship as possible.
Our objectives is to destroy any remains they have on board and any research that they done.
So we just got to get into the ship as fast as possible.

>>32915160
The day ends and you see the crew of the Angel retreat back into the ship. You wonder why they would leave themselves vulnerable when you notice the shape of Coil in the cockpit, no doubt monitoring the clearing with whatever sensors the ship may have. They know you are watching them, that much is clear, they just don't know from where.

855N 363M

"Finished finished!"
Your research project has completed, all they needed was a bit of help from their brothers it seems.

What will you have them research next?

>>32915236
Why not ambush them when they come out of the ship in the morning to do repairs? Damaging the ship seems somewhat pointless.

>>32915245
>Medium
10

>Human dissection
4
>Ballistics
10

>>32915222

I like the Taidarens though.

>>32915268
Medium is Conductive armor plating.
>>32915245
What did we get from researching large and small drones.

>>32915245
Split between human dissection and ballistics.

>>32915269
Me too, Lyle's the biggest threat. With him out of the way, there's a reasonable chance of capturing/disabling the others. Wouldn't mind learning the squid language.

>>32915285
>Split between human dissection
nah just give this 4 thinkers, diesections always take a day.

>>32915199
by the time the bombs hatch, wouldn't the new warriors be ready too, making harassing tactics unnecessary?
I only suggest that because I feel like they might fix their ships before we are ready to assault them again.

>>32915268
While the armor plating is neat and all, it's not super relevant against the enemies we're currently facing.

>>32915293
scratch that, I only now saw that they have hatched already.
Yeah, we can bomb them if we feel they made a lot of progress on the engines.

>>32915261
Cause we only have 12 and we don't know how powerful they be against the hull.
We will only get one chance to do this so we need to hit them with everything at once,
The plot demands it and the QD saying they are alert all the time so no point.

>>32915294
Its the quickest tech, and should pop near the time humans does.

>>32915307
There is no reason we have to throw all of them at them at once.

>>32915309
>>32915294
Plus laser proofing warriors sounds like a good idea.

>>32915112
Dang, I kinda hoped that some other anons who love that shit would do that.

Also, I'm not sure what the metal extraction -> refinery rate is. Iirc, we are being bottlenecked by our refineries and need to build more of them.

We should build hangars and start producing ships already.

>>32915245
Research Humans at least

>>32915245
>>Conductive armor plating
10
>>Human dissection
4
>>Ballistics
10

>>32915322

5 or 10 (I forget) diggers to 1 refiner is the going rate of exchange.

>>32915245
Ballistics and Dissection.
It's like 4 A.M. Where I'm at right now so good night and thanks for being an awesome QM.
But before I go capturing the crew is a bad idea. Just kill them and dissect them to learn how their language for the speaker. That way we can play nice with others of that race that aren't looking to mount us on the wall of a scientist.

>>32915320
We rolled horrible against this guy.
We are gonna lose a couple just moving them into position.
And the warriors are gonna be hatched soon.
So we should just use the whole task force instead of just sending in one section.

>>32915361
>So we should just use the whole task force instead of just sending in one section.

I agree. No point in sending small groups. Lets just zerg rush them. We managed to take down Bob, we will manage to take down Lyle with just a bit more troops.

>>32915277
>Large drones
These massive hulking forms are not simply big drones, they are big land drones. Where once your drones were limited by the square cubed law, these new drones have new biological developments to reach sizes that were once impractical or impossible. This allows the use of much more powerful weapons and armor.
>New Adaptation
Carapace: Heavy Armor (5N 20M)
Simple enough, instead of using fancy tricks to deflect or absorb damage in new ways, you simply put more armor on.
>New weapon variants
Thorn Cannon - A scaled up version of the Thorn launcher, it is a bigger weapon that fires a bigger projectile at a higher rate of speed. Difficult to aim and slow to fire, it is a long range weapon intended for indirect artillery fire, however it is capable of direct fire, and is devastating when you manage to hit with it.
Rotary Stinger - A scaled up version of the Sting Caster, the Rotary spins several large barrels to increase rate of fire without causing overheating issues. Accuracy is poor, but when you are firing this many projectiles you are bound to hit something, and when it does hit it hits hard! Most useful as a direct fire weapon against soft targets, it is capable of doing reduced damage against armored targets.

>>32915346
Jesus I can't even English.
Goodnight

>>32915378
Jesus that good, what about small drone?

>>32915377
>>32915361

Unless it looks like they're going to complete engine repairs before then. If that happens the bombs are deployed in full force.

>>32915378
>Rotary Stinger
Oooooh.
Do legs scale up with size or do we need new ones?

>>32915346
>>32915388
Thanks for being an awesome player.

>>32915401
Writing that next.

>>32915408
Yup, although "sprinting" is sort of misleading... it's more like "decent speed" and "makes an iceberk look like a speed demon."

>>32915407
K i agree to that

>>32915407
I agree with that too.

>>32915422

>Iceberk

>>32915422
Can we make 5 warm drones?

>>32915422
So using endurance legs would be akin to a heavy tank, around a dozen miles per hour at most?

>>32915245
>855N 363M

lay 3 more shock troopers and make weapons for them.
I want to have even numbers so that we can easily divide them into 2 squads of 3 or 3 teams of 2.

>>32915456

How about lay 7 more shock troopers?

Have the tunnels under the ship be detected?
Cause if not we can just breach the ship from underground and bypass that killzone they set up

>>32915456
Wait change the caprace of these new shock troops to Heavy armour.

>>32915378
>Thorn Cannon - A scaled up version of the Thorn launcher, it is a bigger weapon that fires a bigger projectile at a higher rate of speed. Difficult to aim and slow to fire, it is a long range weapon intended for indirect artillery fire, however it is capable of direct fire, and is devastating when you manage to hit with it.
>Rotary Stinger - A scaled up version of the Sting Caster, the Rotary spins several large barrels to increase rate of fire without causing overheating issues. Accuracy is poor, but when you are firing this many projectiles you are bound to hit something, and when it does hit it hits hard! Most useful as a direct fire weapon against soft targets, it is capable of doing reduced damage against armored targets.
Is this restricted to only large units?

>>32915475

I think that's only available for biglargehuge drones.

>>32915475
wouldn't heavy armor slow them even more?

>>32915464
Sure, that works

>>32915464
The more shock troopers you have, the less benefit they provide over basic warriors for their cost because the benefits of their sensory suites can only overlap so much.

>>32915378
>Small drones
For what seems like since the dawn of time, your kind have been limited in the size of your drones to what you can fit the necessary organs into. With some ingenuity you have devised a way to create drones far smaller than anything previously to exist in your kind. These drones are small and fast, but are incredibly frail. While they could run underfoot unnoticed, they could be just as easily crushed underfoot.

Small drones are unable to equip ranged weapons or advanced armor due to their size (>1 meter) but are capable of quickly moving, flying, or climbing their way into cramped spaces without anyone noticing. As close to a fly on the wall as is possible.

>>32915435
I bring dishonor on my house, I know.

>>32915475
Heavy armor is only available for large drones. (think plasma bug from Starship Troopers for size reference. It's like a house with legs that kills things.)

Did we ever destroy all the ship turrets completely or were they repairable?
Cause that is not gonna be fun.
We already facing a one man army and gave him days to prepare

>>32915505

Yeah and we'll have all of 10 in a couple hundred drone hive. It's not a big deal.

>>32915497
Because they themselves are about the size of a medium drone. It would be like trying to shoulder fire a howitzer.

When I say "large" I mean "Xbone pizza order LARGE"

>>32915523

They were never damaged in the first place, we hid in the blindspot of the only two turrets that can attack while the plane is grounded.

>>32915530
Jesus that sounds good.
How much would it cost to make 5 worm drones, and 2 XBOX HUGE Drones.
Also how cheap are small drones?

>>32915509
>Human dissection
an easy task for your thinkers, you assign several of them and expect the project to be done within the day.
You still have enough idle thinkers for more research.

>>32915548
I'm thinking using a cost modifier. x2 for large, .25 for small. That way I don't need to go through and re-price everything and it's easy for us all to calculate cost.

Joy
We are going to have to provide a hell of an escort to the bomb bugs to get them to reach any target

>>32915567
>>Human dissection
>an easy task for your thinkers, you assign several of them and expect the project to be done within the day.
>You still have enough idle thinkers for more research.
look at
>>32915331
>>32915268

>>32915577
Cool, my bad.

>>32915567
>Human dissection
>Conductive armor plating
>Ballistics

>>32915548
Is worm drone a 'large' class drone?
If no, then it should be.

Also, large diggers and refineries and maybe workers too. That would increase the harvesting of raw materials exponentially. And large workers could be used to construct massive structures (if we ever want to do that)

>>32915588
Worm drones are basically large diggers, designed for building and tunneling.

>>32915588
Massive underground structures too.

Muh ant tunnels.

>>32915587
You can see that Lyle and his crew are starting to make progress on the ship repairs. Your workers are slowly making progress, and have begun construction of the cavern beneath the ship finally. It will still be some time before they are finished, however, but the tunnel has reached directly under the ship.

>Use your Smart Bombs to initiate a surprise attack from bellow
>Wait for your warriors to hatch
>Other

>>32915622

Sorry, initiate a surprise attack from below? Only if it wouldn't reveal the fact that we're building a cavern down there.

I'd prefer to have them sneak through the undergrowth and launch a surprise attack from there.

>>32915622
>Wait for your warriors to hatch
We'll do an all out attack, the bombs tunnel up from under the ship and blow themselves up, and warriors swarm while they are distracted.
If those still don't work, collapse the tunnel.

>>32915567
So to do large warrior drones it would be like.
Artillery worm
Olfactory:Advanced (2N)
Acoustic: Moderate:(1N)
Radio:Moderate: (2N)
MandibleCombat: (1N)
Arm/graspers Strength(1N)
Legs/mobility Sprint (1N)
Auxiliary/utility
Carapace/chassis Carapace: Heavy Armor (5N 20M)
Chassis: Large
26N, and 40 M. or 21N and 20 M(if the heavy armour doesn't get doubled.)

>>32915622
Ready/Hibernate our smartbombs in the tunnels but don't attack yet.

We'll wait until the warriors hatch, but if there's a chance they'll escape before our warriors can reach them we can still ambush from below and wasp harass from above to impede their repairs.

>>32915567
>>32915669
How much Nutrients does the heavy versions of the weapons cost?

>>32915622
Am I correct in thinking that what the smart bombs would do is burst out of the ground and then fly to the engines to attempt to disable them?

Wait for it.
And they burned the undergrowth remember so no sneaking there.
Hell we should just drop the ship into the cavern when we launch the attack

>>32915622
>Wait for your warriors to hatch
>Harass with wasps to slow their work.

>>32915684
None, weapon grafts only cost metals. Large are x2, so 30M each.

>>32915694
Correct, like antlion spawning season.

>>32915708

I can't wait to hear all the Aussie cursing Lyle will utter when we drop his ship in there.

>>32915622

>Use your Smart Bombs to initiate a surprise attack from below

Y'know if we have to attack them at the last minute to prevent their escape then I'm willing to bet Lyle is gonna start taking this personal. Well, more personal.

How long do we have on those warrior eggs?

>>32915567
>>32915669
Here is the design for the Worm drone as well.
Olfactory: Basic(Free)
Acoustic:Moderate:(1N)
Mandible: Construction: 1N)
Arm/graspers:
Dexterity: (1N)
Legs/mobility: Endurance (1N)
Auxiliary/utility
[Chemical forge:(12) maybe]
Carapace/chassis
Carapace: basic
Chassis:Large
So 8 nutrients or 32 nutrients

>>32915622
When will the warriors hatch?

>>32915622
how much progress have they made and how long could it take them to finish the repairs?

we should start building hangars

>>32915622
Looks like
>Wait for warriors to hatch

>>32915749
A day, the cavern may take longer to finish, however.

>>32915780
You are unsure, but they are starting to make progress. The engines have been placed back onto their gimbals at the very least.

>>32915758
>>32915669
>>32915733
Design for Gatling drone.
Olfactory:Moderate (1N)
Acoustic: Moderate:(1N)
Mandible Combat: (1N)
Arm/graspers Strength(1N)
Legs/mobility Sprint (1N)
Auxiliary/utility
Carapace/chassis Carapace: Heavy Armor (5N 20M)
Chassis: Large
15 N, and 20M, add another 5 and 20 M if combat armour doubles.

>>32915800
I still say that we should endlessly harass them with couple of warriors by shooting from out of the forest and quickly retreating

>>32915826
thats actually a good idea

All right i did the worm drone and the two heavy hitter drones, no clue how to do the mud wasp though.

>>32915826
I think we should continue to let them drop their guard. Lyle not patrolling at night is gonna be a huge boon for dropping the ship into the tunnels.

>>32915669
>>32915816

lets lay 2 of each just in case we'll need them in future

>>32915869
How could Lyle prevent the tunnel collapse by patrolling at night? He can't do anything about that.

>>32915876
The heavy hotter drones might seem like overkill, but sure.
>>32915800
So what would the upkeep be of the heavy drones?

>>32915882
Not preventing it, being inside the ship when it happens so he has to deal with the tunnel business.

Or maybe that's actually bad because that'd funnel our troops. Nevermind.

Finally here during an actual session! Mostly just been watching archives.

Question, QuestDrone - is the hex map going to get updated anytime soon? The one I keep seeing in archives doesn't have the crashed ship, or mines, in-construction second hive or the Hel's Angle on it, and still shows the abandoned human camp...

>>32915800
As the next day dawns your warriors and wasps emerge into the world, eager to bring your wrath unto your enemies. Your new workers hatch as well.

New Total
Worker: 75
Warrior: 25
Wasp: 18

Your workers frantically tunnel under the Hel's Angel, but they are still not finished. You are unsure if the cavern is large enough to fully engulf the ship, but it is deep enough to try.

As you watch over the last of your hatching drones you hear a deep mechanical roar
"Holy dooly! She sounds happy as ever!"

"Fixing fixing!"
"Shards not aligned, need more fixing!"
"Fix more fix more!"
"Fix fix"

"Well get to it, she'll be apples at this rate!"

The engines stop their humming and the two small creatures dive back into them.

He will not be in that dropsuit if he in the ship at least.
And we can breach it faster to get troops inside.
While our guys are good they will take a beating if this is out in the open.
The faster we get in the ship and force them into melee we basically will win.

Rolled 30

Start it

>>32915947
The warriors have to reach there first! But yes.
It is time.

ACTIVATE IT.

>>32915930
New day
944N 613M

>>32915902
That is mostly due to me being lazy, and I will try to update the map soon. Sorry.

>Now or never, charge and collapse the tunnel!
>Charge in, but don't collapse the tunnel yet
>Harass them to buy time for the tunnel to be finished
>Other

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>>32915930
It's time

charge and collapse the tunnel

>>32915984
>>Now or never, charge and collapse the tunnel!

Don't forget the Smart Bombs

>>32915984
So can we lay 25 more workers.
6 more thinkers.
1 Artillery
1 gatling
2 worms.
3 more shocks

>>32915984
>Now or never, charge and collapse the tunnel!
+ Smart Bombs.

6 bombs to engines?
6 to make breaches in to the ship

>>32915984
>Now or never, charge and collapse the tunnel!

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>>32916023
Wait, are the warriors in position?
If yes then
>Now or never, charge and collapse the tunnel!

>>32915984
>Charge and collapse the tunnel!

You have 12 smart bombs lying in wait.
>Target the ship
>Target Lyle
>Target Huey and Dewy
>Other

>>32915984

>Charge in but don't collapse the tunnel yet

target the ship (engines and hatch)

>>32916046
>>Target Lyle
Have Target Lyle, and the other 5 target the engines. Leave two in reserve in case shit fucks up

>>32916046
>Target the ship
6
>Target Lyle
4
>Target Huey and Dewy
2

>>32916046

>Target Lyle
Hey, wake up the Speaker and send it over there. I want to talk to these guys.

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>>32916046
>Target Lyle

>>32916070
You could've thought of that BEFORE we attacked?

>>32916079

No, I mean if there's any survivors. If Lyle goes down and we back off a bit I bet the others will surrender.

fuck it
we are gonna kill them all and make a boss pole with there skulls
>>32916070

>>32916046
>the ship
take out their way home and it doesn't matter if we somehow lose

>>32916046
>5 target Lyle, 5 target the ship, 2 reserve
seems to be the overall consensus. You dispatch your speaker just in case. They all appear to understand the human language, at least.

Roll 1d100, best of 3

>>32916089
You just want squishy toys.

>>32916070
fuck that

maybe if Lyle survives we can negotiate with him

Rolled 100

>>32916102

Would it be possible to have our thinkers research our existing guns in order to attempt to make a heavy sniper rifle type thing?

Having a Navy SEAL drone to snipe Huey and Dewy from a mile away woulda been cool.

Rolled 92

>>32916102
I swear this guy has a charm on home.

>>32916109
THE SWARM HUNGERS.

>>32916110
Bitch we got artillery, and Gatling guns.

>>32916103

They're so cute though, they even have rhyming names "Huey" and "Dewey".

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>>32916109
HELLO LYLE

HOW HAS YOUR DAY BEEN

Rolled 31

>>32916109
yes
thank you
yes

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>>32916109

>>32916109
Haha fuck you Lyle and fuck your ship.

>>32916109
The very first roll, too.

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>>32916109
Baneling Rush OP
need nerf

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>>32916102
>>32916109
Writing.

>>32916109
You fuck with the hive, you don't make it out alive.

We shall make a fine boss pole

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Rolled 99

>>32916109
I'm literally chuckling to myself for the last couple of minutes.

>>32916138
Aww shit, that game. I know that game. Have they finished it yet?

>>32916153
yup, they also have been adding shit to it.

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>>32916109
>>32916109
>>32916109
FUCK YOU AND THE ASSHOLE PLANET THAT SPAWNED YOU, AND YOUR SHIP IS STUPID!

>>32916153
no, it's ok though

Rolled 29

>>32916150

Your roll isn't too shabby either.

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>>32916109

Did we ever finish that design for the brain eating drone from Starship troopers?
The one the eats gets allthe targets memories?

>>32916211

We never even started. How could we when we haven't even performed a human dissection yet?

Rolled 62

>>32916211
I don't remember if we even started, we just finished the small drone research.

sorry my bad
be a hell lot easier than interrogating them

So does the crit mean that we defeated them, and that nothing gets too badly damaged?
IF so, then that means that the tunnel our workers dug can be used to drag the ship back to clarke.

>>32916245
we still need to deal with the squid

>>32916235
Well it could still be very useful, we'd probably just have to finish dissecting the corpses.

>>32916245
Most likely, tough if the last crit is to go by, we may get something extra.

>>32916261

It occurs to me that the squid is going to have a helluva a time look-speaking with the Speaker if it chooses to talk.

>>32916291
?

>>32916304

The squids communicate visually, by shifting their skin color. Our Speaker drone is peacock/Mantis shrimp colored and luminous through most of the visual EM spectrum and then some.

>>32916304
The ceph communcates visually by changing the colors of their skin.

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>>32916109

>>32916291
the squip is a hardass and may decide to blow the ship up to fuck with us

BANELING RUSH NEEDS NERF

>>32916339
You can stop posting now.

Remember guys
That ship uses the squid drive that almost no one has seen.
Not even the ai info junkies
And that squid aint no mook either
So yeah this aint over till they are all dead and the ship is in our hands

>>32916376

Yup.

We might want to keep one of them alive just so we can make sure it gets repaired.

>>32916405
>>32916376
AI shall never know.

>>32916376
with the amount of troops we have and the potential to hatch more, there is no way they could get away anymore.
They got lucky at the beginning because we didn't have a big enough army.

Lyle on his own will not be able to stop 25 warriors and 18 wasps.
If you're afraid they will somehow escape, we can always fuck up their engines again at the start of the assault.

>>32916411
i just noticed that today is my birthday.

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>>32916102
Your sniffer watches as Lyle moves to the engines with interest, and then whips around, weapons at the ready. The others freeze at the sight.
"Did you feel that?" He says, almost a whisper. "There it is again!" He turns to the cockpit of the ship. "Coil, you have a reading on-" Before he can finish the ground shakes and splits open with a sea of grasping claws and gnashing mandibles.

"What in the hell?" He yells, his suit being pulled into the mob of chitin. His flame thrower ignites directly downwards, torching the ground beneath him. You can hardly hear him as his weapons roar to life, tearing into the dirt to the sound of a string of profanities your thinkers are incapable of translating. Wings sprout from the ground and the swarm reaches up for the underbelly of the Hel's Angel as your drones tear into the open panels and bare circuits. Lyle swings his weapons upwards, slicing them off the hull with a hail of bullets and sending their acidic innards spewing across the ship. Immediately the armor plating begins to ooze down the side of the ship and wires slowly turn to puddles within the conduits. Heuy and Dewy are quick to vanish in the maze of vents and shafts, but Lyle keeps his gaze locked on the sizzling hull plating, his face shaking with rage. "You fuckin want stains!" He turns to run to the ship, but is immediately pulled back by the weight of more drones, each wounded and bleeding. He quickly pulls one off of his shoulder and tears it in half, only to have it burst open. The others burst under the pressure of their glands, spewing the caustic acid across the area.

Lyle lets out a scream as his helmet slowly dissolves inwards onto his face, and he quickly tears what is left of the liquefied scrap away and throws it to the ground. His face is bloody and burnt from the chemicals, the holes in his cheek revealing the metal reinforcing beneath.

Cont.

>>32916422
happy birthday!

>>32916422
happy birthday

>>32916431

Good to know that our acids are up to snuff. Goddamn.

>>32916422
How old? Happy b-day.

>>32916422
happy arbitrary date notation that brings you closer to your final resting place created as a day to make you be more at peace with the futility of your existence

>>32916458
>>32916454
>>32916433
thanks and 20, years old
>>32916466
thanks

>>32916431
well at least hes not in the dropsuit anymore

>>32916431

Lyle, you saw the beacon. You shouldn't have come down, we're a developing race prone to random fits of violence!

>>32916431
"What was it you told us human? Don't take this personally?"

>>32916431
>"You fuckin want stains!
?

>>32916542
Man, if the speaker were there and Lyle is somehow still conscious, that would be one cheeky comeback/

>>32916554
'fucking wank stains"

>>32916554
We threw raw eggs at his ferrari.

>>32916562

The Speaker is there. If Lyle IS still conscious then we definitely should.

It'll probably end up with him snapping the Speaker's neck, but that's worth it.

>>32916562
i believe we did send the speaker and i agree

>>32916431
Your warriors move in, having waited to avoid damage from the first wave's acid and let loose a hail of fire as they charge towards the ship. Lyle turns to face the stampede and lets out a deep, thunderous roar that nearly drowns out the sound of your charge, and enters a dead sprint into your warriors. The impact alone crushes the carapace of one of your warriors, and as it moves to bock the next Lyle brings his unarmored forehead into the face of another drone, snapping the chitin on the head. Three blades find their way into the weakened armor plating and emerge stained red, but Lyle doesn't seem to notice. He brings his plated fist into another drone, fracturing the armor and sending the drone reeling backwards only to be replaced by the advance of two more. He jerks to the side as a blade cleanly slides along his skull, peeling his left ear from his head and he quickly punches the arm, snapping it at the joint.

Another stab, and another slice and four more claws find marks in the creases of the armor, tearing off servos and staining the wires crimson. He continues to swing his fists, streams of bullets and flame going in all directions and your wasps move in, diving from above. They pick at any exposed location. A missing shoulder plate, the forearm, and slicing at the head as they fly by in all directions. As the mounting pile of drones grows Lyle disappears completely under the shifting mass and you note from your sniffer's perspective that the cockpit is empty.

Cont.

>>32916422
Happy birthday!

>>32916542
>>32916562
Nah i like this line more, and for it to be siad in a matter of fact way.
>>32916494

>>32916579
Jesus Christ i wonder, if our shock troops can take him on.

>>32916579
This fucking guy...

>>32916601
Maybe we should send them in?

>>32916579
Use the flamethrower on this one
Let the others get into the ship
fucking one man army shit

>>32916601
>>32916610
>>32916620

You guys expected him to take down less than 20 warriors with him in that suit?

And he's just one (albeit heavily upgraded) Drop Trooper.

>>32916579
"you note from your sniffer's perspective that the cockpit is empty"
fuck he heading to the ship

>>32916630

He's probably going to try to tear up the Ceph Drive before we can get to it.

>>32916579
and that suit gonna go boom

>>32916601
>>32916610
>>32916620

Calm the fuck down. QD is just making the scene more dramatic because "you go in and stomp everyone's shit" would be a little boring.

>>32916579
scatter and get into the ship you idoits

I can't wait to see his expression when he sees our elite troops.
Our warriors are around 8 feet tall, but our Elites are around 12 feet tall.
>>32916647
It just shows, how hard this fight would have been, i think we would have lost 6/8 of our warriors and 3/4 of our wasp.
He might do suicide bomb though.

>>32916638
I think this dude's right, we should storm the ship now, kill or capture the Ceph, and take the drive hopefully intact.

We hould have our speaker repeat this.
"Now, I'm gonna go take a piss, and then I'm gonna think on all the things I can buy with thirty thousand creds. Now for givin me such a fun ol' time, I'll let bygones be bygones, but if I see ya start making somthin personal outa this, I'll have to get serious." He leans in close. "Hear that, ye' majesty?" With a quick jerk of motion and a loud crunch your drone's head splits open and the wasp's senses become blank.

Shoulda just sent droves of suicide bombers.

>>32916677
nah, we want to research the stuff.

>>32916674

Yep. We certainly should.

>>32916579
thank you

>>32916659
>It just shows, how hard this fight would have been, i think we would have lost 6/8 of our warriors and 3/4 of our wasp.
Inverse Ninja law? I hate when that shit happens. Even if we had rolled badly, we shouldn't lose that much of our troops. Our warrior drones are powerful. Lyle maybe be strong but taking on 10+ powerful opponents at once should quickly take him down. He is just one man, no matter how augmented he is.

>>32916703
He had a drop suit, made for battle, and this proves right now that he can take on a whole lot of insects with out the suit.
Also the suit had a Gatling and flame thrower.
those two weapons would have torn through our units, until either he ran out of ammo or we damaged them, and then there was the armour that should have protected him against most attacks.

>>32916703

Eh. Our warrior drones are strong but they're designed to die in droves. That's what our race's combat has been like forever.

Lyle, on the other hand, has been focused on making himself more survivable his entire life. I suspect that we would've lost fewer troops if we'd rolled high on an attack (that didn't affect his ship) because he would've had a good fight, realized he was outmatched, and made a deal like he does with the Unity.

I suspect this 100 (and our damaging his ship) have actually allowed us to kill him though. He's just gone berserk while we try to do it.

>>32916703
He's more of a heavily armed and armored murderbot with an augmented human core.

>>32916703
Lyle did heavy damage to us before he even got into the power armor. We're fortunate our bombs managed to weaken him before we sent in the warriors - prepared and uninjured, he might have crushed us on anything less than the 100 we got.

The clarke drive would taken out everything within the Continent
Lets not see what the squid will do to us shall we

>>32916762

I'm actually betting that it's probably capable of in gravity well jumps, and that's how he gets out of the shittiest situations alive.

First rule of bugs
Our mooks are better than your mook
But you guys get the heros

>>32916762
QuestDrone wouldn't do that to uss after a 100. Probably.
I suppose we could have tried that assasination to take him out in the cockpit earlier though.

>>32916789
Snozzy is my hero.

>>32916579
Your workers announce the completion of your throne room with the last piece of stone chiseled away. The crimson water of your spring cascades down around your grand throne like a hall of curtains, flowing into a river around the rim of the chamber. An entourage of workers hoists you into the air, carrying you and your precious egg sack through the halls with reverence.

With a loud bang a number of rockets let loose from within the mass of drones sending limbs and chunks of chitin arcing across the clearing. They swerve in the air before coming back down dangerously close to where they came from. The gaps in the horde close back around the human before he can raise his weapons, and with a swift slice he lands on one knee.

Your workers hoist you into your throne. The magnificent sculpture of chitin and stone wraps around your form like an extension of your body. It reaches from the ground to the ceiling, its crystalline design glancing the ambient glow across your form and the red water around you like an aura signifying your royalty.

"Coil, where are those damn turrets? Coil!" Lyle says between heavy gasps for breath. He clenches his teeth and lets out the growl of a wounded animal. "Burn in hell ya boneless bastard!" and he swings his fist at your warriors. It misses, deflected by a well placed claw and is immediately punctured by several blades. Your warriors twist their claws, forcing him downward into a kneel. With his right hand he pulls out a small device, but before he can press the button on it his hand is impaled and pinned to his thigh. He falls back under the wight of his suit as the last servo gives out, and with a gasp he coughs up a thick glob of blood.
"It-it was a good fight..."
You bring down a blade into him, slicing cleanly into the chest, and he smiles.

>>32916798
>"It-it was a good fight..."
also one you brought on yourself by being an ass and ignoring every warning not to fuck with us

>>32916798
Man making the throne room, was such a great decision.

>>32916798
Some one should draw this, or some shit.
I can see it done like a manga or comic book, with each panel cutting back between the scenes.

>>32916798
we should quickly send bunch of warriors and wasps into the ship just in case

>>32916798
Frak
Its beautiful

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>>32916798
Hail to the Queen.

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>>32916798
A marvellous performance, warrior.

Shame he's too valuable a specimen for the Thinkers to just give him a clean burial.

>>32916798
Beautiful. This harmony...

>>32916798
So what are our losses and injured?

>>32916798
Hey we can research those regen vats right?

Any chance of rushing our thinkers a bit and keeping the guy alive for a few days while we get some stuff assembled?

>>32916798
You wanted us to do the throne room, just for this moment didn't you.

>>32916870

He's got a functioning vat in his ship. If we could persuade one of his crew he might come back from this.

>>32916870
I wouldn't mind keeping him alive.
If what the unity drone told us is true, we can use him for our own means.

>>32916880
>>32916870
Second, lets try this shit out.

>>32916870
Eh no..
This guys turns on every one so
no
just kill him be done with this
and prepare for whoever sent him

>>32916883

Indeed, very useful.

>>32916870
I'd rather have him finished and be done with it. He's a pretty major wild card. He got his warriors death. Leave it as that and dissect for research.

>>32916870
Why? He had his moment, let him die his own death.

>>32916902
We could get a freebie, if revive him, but that depends on weather or not you value that over dissecting him.

>>32916798
Your speaker arrives at the scene. The silence is deafening. You have never known the jungle to be so quiet, or so peaceful.

Your warriors quickly pry open the loading bay doors and storm the ship. After some time of tearing open containers and ripping apart bulkheads they find Coil lodged in a small air duct, his artificial shell discarded and his body compressed into a six inch tube. The Ceph flashes a vibrant display of yellow and green as your drones drag him out. They find the two Taidani twins inside of a power manifold, its innards folded around them into a protective nest of wires and power conduits.

What do you do with them?

>>32916870
>>32916880
This would be possible, yes. It would be easier with the help of the crew who know how to use it. While technically dead, advanced medicine can pull off all kinds of wonders.

>>32916925
Have them revive the old fucker.

>>32916925
Keep him dead please.

>>32916925

We keep them alive for now. Try to decipher the Cephs language.

I support resurrecting him. He'll respect us, that's more than can be said of his other clients.

>>32916925
No hes bad news
just kill him and let him die
With the others take them prisoners i guess and move them to another location away from the hive, the clarke and this ship

>>32916925
Kill them. No stupid risks, just end them and take the ship.

>>32916925
Let dead Lyles stay dead.

>>32916925
Revive him, and have him do a job for us.

>>32916925

Resurrect him. Leave them be aside from getting their help.

>>32916925
Take them hostage, try to start working on communicating with the Ceph.
I'm still not sure what to do with the fucker though. We don't really need him since we basically have all the essential tech locked up in our genetic memory, but there are advantages with stealing and reverse-engineering human tech.
I'm gonna have to go with keeping him dead. I don't want to have to deal with him again

>>32916925
Keep Lyle dead, and... interrogate the squid? Or kill and dissect I suppose.

>>32916925
>All these people wanting to ruin a warriors death.
I get hating his guts and wanting to torment him even in death, but you actually seem to think this is a good thing to do.
Kill them all. Take the tech.

>>32916925
Time to bring the dead back!

While I recognize he won't tell us his employers, perhaps there are other ways to get some help here.

>>32916925
Off them all and take the ship. And don't fucking resurrect Lyle.

>>32916925
>kill them all
>keep the crew alive, and leave Lyle to his fate
>Try to use the vat to heal Lyle and take him prisoner
>Other

>>32916872
Well I certainly wasn't going to let the moment slip by

>>32916958

We might be able to get his employer's name out of him. We seem (oddly enough) to be the first ones to have killed him.

>>32916925
Get their help and revive him.

Keep in mind that resurrecting Lyle means we don't get the ship, or the bodies of his crew. He'll barter for that, etc.

Serious guys this guy is bad news
just kill him
he knows way to many people
and he sell us out at a chance

>>32916973
>kill them all

>>32916973
>Try to use the vat to heal Lyle and take him prisoner

>>32916973
>kill them all
Come on people, no stupid risks.

>>32916973

>Use the vat, prisoner
>Keep the Crew

>>32916973
>keep the crew alive, and leave Lyle to his fate
No, keep the fucker dead please.

>>32916973
>kill them all

>>32916973
I don't care what we do with the crew, just kill Lyle.

>>32916973
I don't care whether we kill the squids or not but Lyle must die.

>>32916973

>Try to use the vat to heal Lyle and take him prisoner

>>32916973
Make Lyle one of us. Yeeessss.
But we need to dissect humans first.

>>32916985
well there's nothing saying you can't keep him prisoner while you research the ship.

If he's your prisoner then you can do whatever you want with his ship, since it isn't his anymore.

>>32916973
>Try to use the vat to heal Lyle and take him prisoner
Having him do a job for us sounds tantalizing.

>>32916973
lyle must die
lyle must die
lyle must die

>>32916973
>keep the crew alive, and leave Lyle to his fate

>>32916973
>kill them all