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>>33707448
>Current armory
41 Thorn Launchers
2 Thorn Cannons
23 Sting Casters
1 Rotary Stinger
3 Fire Sprays
1 Plasma Spray

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 4970
Metals: 6587

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 75
Queen – 5
Worker (119) – 238
Radiator Worker (40) – 160
Warrior (22) – 88
Thinker (49) – 147
Speaker – 3
Digger (30) – 120
Refinery (10) – 70
Sniffer (2) – 8
Wasp (18) – 90
Antenna (3) – 9
Haz-mat Workers (20) – 80
Shock Troops (5) – 65
Excavator (9) – 171
Colossus (2) – 30
Advanced Relay (5) – 500
Space Pod (3) – 90
Shuttle (2) – 50
Scout Corvette – 325
Nutrient costs: 1786

>Income
Metals: 2500
Nutrients: 4050
Net: 1726

Hive Structure
>Reservoir
>General storage
>Food storage
>Advanced Laboratory
>Infrastructure
>Hangar facilities: Room for 40 Aero Drones and 20 Shuttles (25N)
>Mine: +250 M per day (+25 M per digger)
>Algae Farm: +2000 N per day, 20 Workers (1 worker per 100N)
>Clarke Research Outpost
>Hel’s Angel Prison Outpost
>Docking Pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 ships (50N)

Current Construction Projects
20 Algae Farms (+2000N, 10 workers)

New Construction Options
>Algae Farm – +100N per day, 1 worker to maintain
>Hangar Expansion – Add on to current hangar facilities for your choice of +40 aero drone space, or +20 shuttle space. 50N 100M

Ship Construction Options
http://pastebin.com/a7Q1shZe
http://pastebin.com/YTwGk8n1

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>>33707468
Finished Research

>Mimetic skin
The Ceph skin is composed of a matrix of multicolored chromatophore cells bunched into clusters. At will, the Ceph can expand or contract certain cells to create any pattern or color desired. In addition, small bundles of muscles are layered just under the skin, and are capable of instinctively replicating most surface textures it is in contact with.

New adaptations unlocked

Mimetic skin: A thin layer of crhomatophore cells develop along the surface of the carapace to create a thin membrane capable of shifting color at will. Because the membrane is grown over the carapace, it can be used in conjunction with any carapace type, although any damage sustained would rupture the membrane. (2N)

Adaptive camouflage: This carapace foregoes defense to develop a dense weave of muscle fibers capable of replicating the texture of surrounding objects, such as a hive wall, stone, or the trunk of a tree. It offers no resistance to any damage type, but when used in conjunction with Mimetic skin a drone is capable of hiding in plain sight, disguised as any number of mundane objects, granting a massive bonus to any attempt at stealth against visual, sonar, or radar based detection methods. It is only effective when not moving, and cannot prevent detection via thermal imaging or other such methods. (8)

>>33707448
>DM-759
I thought it was OM-759?

I mean it seemed ambiguous to me at first but then i noticed that the d's in this font look like they do in Lalande, and the O's look like in Wolf.

>>33707448
Hey i thought up of a new drone design that replaces the sniffer.
>Olfactory:Advanced(2N)

>Acoustic:Advanced(2N)

>Radio: Advanced(6N 3M)

>Electrical(3N 2M)

>Mandible
>Vocalizer 2.0: similar to normal vocalizer, except it mimicks all sounds (2?N)

>Arm/graspers
>Dexterity:(1N)

>Legs/mobility
>Endurance:(1N)

>Auxiliary/Utility
>Wings: Advanced air superiority(4N)

>Filter lungs:(4N)

>Radiator Tubes:(4N)

>Oxygen Recycler:(8N)

>Quantum brain:(4N)

>Carapace:
Mimetic skin(2N)
Adaptive camouflage(8N)

>Chassis:Standard

>Size: Small

Cost:12N 1m
Upkeep:6N
Name:Scout/Spy
Reasons for upgrades.:
Senses:I gave it the advanced versions of the senses since each upgrade greatly enhances scouting and tracking capabilties, and the added cost is minimal
Vocalizer:I believe this could give a boost to stealth or used as a distraction.
Wings:the upgrade cost is minimal, and the better wings are all around upgrade on its capabilities.
Filter Lungs:Should allow the drone to travel where ever it wants and to not be affected by gas/airborne toxins.
Radiator Tubes:It allows it to survive out planets hot temperture, it also should work well agianst thermal tracking, and maybe fire/lasers( glancing shots).
Oxygen Recycler:for underwater exploration, and in case there is something the filter lungs can't handle.
Quantum brain:This should help greatly with the new version of the vocalizer, it also should help in its tracking capabilities.
Memetic ski&Adaptive camo: speak for themselves and help greatly in stealth.

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>>33707496
Current Research

>Skyl dissection
Medium
The ancient bodies of the fallen Skyl have been extensively altered in a frighteningly invasive manner. Preliminary results indicate most of the remaining tissue is composed of an inert lattice

>Linear particle beams
Medium
Based on the Cyclotron, the linear particle beam is simply the previous design laid out into a single, long line. The longer the particle projector is the more powerful the weapon becomes, however because of the nature of the speed of light, lengthening the projector gains diminishing returns. It is most effective as a fixed mounted weapon of a ship, but powerful enough particle beams can be made to cut through an atmosphere, serving as a relatively effective anti-orbital weapon against ships in low orbit.

>Biomechanical engineering
Slow
The study of how various substances interact and influence other life forms has given way to the possibility of developing new and more effective methods of biological manipulation.

Available Research
http://pastebin.com/F6t39KSp

>>33707468
what are the construction options for the clarke outpost, the hells angel out post, and the asteroid?

>>33707555
Should build a psychic transmitter on the asteroid base then

>>33707543
How long, until these research are done?
Also are the new thinkers hatched?
What do they add to research?

>>33707587
Yeah, so that we at least have more of an idea of what happening.

>>33707587
Agreed. That and we can make it also into a watch post in that system. Doesn't hurt to keep an eye out for anyone jumping into and out of that place.

>>33707543
Valen have there own FTL if I remember correctly right?
>>33707587
I still wonder why we don't have interplanetary relays.

>>33707543
These get my vote on the next research.
>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.

>Regeneration Tank
Very slow
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.

>Lyle’s Combat armor
Medium
Not as powerful or complex as the drop suit, the combat armor appears to be a delicate mix of survivability and combat capabilities, with many similarities to the Union environmental suit. It appears to contain a number of devices designed to be useful in the field.

>Bioweapon Research
Medium/ Very dangerous
Experimentation and testing with new artificial strains of spores, as well as other engineered toxins would make it possible to produce tailor-made bioweapons that would be quick to spread and difficult to cure.

>Magnetic Levitation
Medium
The small human buggy uses a series of superconducting magnets to glide along a planet’s surface a short distance from the ground. Apparently based off of Ceph technology, this device grants a great advantage to mobility.

>>33707622
nah we do

we forgot the one in the queen is medium so it got the range of the planet

we put the long range transmitter in our ships though

we just forgot

>>33707555
Well because of the lack of a magnetosphere your crops can't grow in the asteroid base, but other than that there isn't really any restriction. The base is currently automated with a thinker, with updates arriving via your shuttles as they move nutrients to the base and take metals back to your hive. For your other outposts I has assumed each one was intended for a specialized purpose, so the Clarke base holds potentially dangerous items (except the nukes, which are in a small vault far away) and the Angel outpost is mostly a prison complex. At this point though your hive is spread beneath most of the local area, so your drones can reach almost any location on the map without going above ground.

>>33707505
Yea, sorry, I didn't have much time to pre-write the OP.
Also, somebody needs to make a sci-fi font that's actually legible.

>>33707512
So what are you guys thoughts on my new drone design?

>>33707614
As far as we know we're the only with jump drives.
>>33707651
>Reactive armor
We already did that.
>Bioweapon Research
NO
>>33707673
Those are interstellar relays not interplanetary.

>>33707614
The mining base is in your home system, it's just in the asteroid field that surrounds your planet.

>>33707685
I figured we could expand on what we can do at the prison complex/clarke out post, and the asteroid still has the option of becoming a ship/nuke/mobilebase.

>>33707719
>>Reactive armor
>We already did that.
It was available research, so i picked it.
>>Bioweapon Research
>NO
Why, when we have the clarke outpost ready for it.

>>33707719
I thought it was
small range - shocktroopers / thinker covers a 1-10 k
Medium range - Queen - Cover planet range
Long range - Transmitter covers star system?

>>33707543
> http://pastebin.com/F6t39KSp
You forgot the living stellar gas and the bluepool samples we just took.

>>33707685
Time for surveying for a mining location on a different continent entirely on the opposite side of the world where mercenaries won't look!

>>33707772
Long range covers galaxies.

>>33707651
I say go for
>Lyle’s Combat armor

>>33707543
Suggested actions
>Build new facilities at the mining base
>Build an advanced relay on your mining base
>Build new facilities at your hive
>Other

>>33707512
>>33707698
I like it, it reminds me of my hacker(?) type drone from before we had the mimitic skin, adaptive camouflage and quantum brain. We could probably mix them up.

>>33707832
give the asteroid a giant engine.

>>33707832
>Other
Survey for a new, as far-off as possible mine/second base on this planet.

>>33707760
>Why, when we have the clarke outpost ready for it.
We need all our Thinkers on that one due to how dangerous it is.

>>33707543
That reminds me

Lyle is nearly as augmented as the skyl and he told us he gets head aches when ever the crystal drive is used

The drive was given to him by masters for a purpose right and with coil around just to make sure it goes to plan

We should check his head i think and test it to psychic influence

>>33707832
>Other
Have we built the bunker research facilities? Because we should build the bunker labs.
To do dangerous testing in.
We should build it right now.

>>33707859
its a quick research and we just got new quantum thinkers, so when we finished the 2 medium research options, we can pour all remaining thinkers on it.

>>33707832
Could we create a lab that specialize in genetic research and cloning?

>>33707868
It should be on a far-off continent too, in case we ever want to use it for atomics research as well.

I currently can't properly mess around with the pastebins, but I've been thinking abour deigning a specialized drone for thinkers to use during research.
If anyone feels up to it, feel free. I was considering advanced senses, extra limb/convert legs into arma, extra dexterous arms, specialised blades for dissection, with low armor/mobility/etc.
Could OP tell us if this could boost research?

>>33707496
>Adaptive camouflage
Oah boy

>>33707832
>Build an advanced relay on your mining base
>Build new facilities at your hive

More hanger space will be nice once the new farms are done. QD, how are the mines holding up back at the hive? Are they starting to run out or are they good for a while?

>>33707868
Look
>>33707685
Clarke outpost was supposed to be that bunker, but it seems people forgot about it.
>>33707881
Don't even have that tech, and its a waste of space.

>>33707832
relay at the mining base
Dock plyon on mining base
And a egglayer too on the mining base
More farms at home hive

>>33707881
that's our basic tech base already man

>>33707888
>It should be on a far-off continent too
That would be unnecessary.

>>33707911
>Don't even have that tech, and its a waste of space.
We don't need it because we have perfected it. Seriously. That is like a major part of this quest.

>>33707832
>>Build new facilities at the mining base
>General storage
>Food storage
>Infrastructure
>>Build an advanced relay on your mining base
>>Build new facilities at your hive
>Algae Farm – +100N per day, 1 worker to maintain

>>33707698
Keep your designs to yourself until the thread hits the bump limit.
>>33707832
I suggest we swap out the queens medium range psionics for long range.

>>33707915
>Pylon
No, for the love of shards no. The meteor should still look like an actual meteor and stay stealthy.

>egglayer
Also no.

We could build 60 more Farms though, yeah.

is there anyway we could start working towards some sort of underwater base?
it would need some preliminary research but i think it would be worth it.

>>33707937
>Cloning
We have yet to clone anything.

>>33707939
Nah, i agree with this man. We should build three separate bunker labs in three different parts of the globe. Maximum security.

>>33707844
I'm not a fan of the hacker drone, until we have better understanding of tech, until then we will continue to use the goop out thinkers use.

>>33707971
Dude. Every single drone is a clone. That is, like everything we do. We build clones.

>>33707969
How would it be worth it?
I would like to explore tree for sure but what's the benefit to an underwater base?

>>33707971
what do you think happens when we lay our eggs

they follow a standard format every time

the only changes are what we decide on man

they are all sterile clones man

>>33707972
its a waste of time, and resources.

>>33707958
>I suggest we swap out the queens medium range psionics for long range.
we can't augment the queen anon.
>>33707996
More samples, and easier to hide from sensors.

>>33707992
>>33708001
*We have clone another lifeform.

>>33707979
The hacker drones don't do any code cracking. The plan was just to use them as tiny drones which could scout and latch onto cables so our thinkers or us personally could read or change the signal in them.

>>33708027
We still don't need a dedicated lab for it, and cloning does nothing for us.
Its better to make a drone that look similar to a species instead.

>>33707972
>>33708003
Maybe, but for the super dangerous work, like Nuclear weapons, and other tech that if it fails, will blow up miles of real estate. We do not want that near our hive.

>>33707996
more access to interesting samples (most of earths life if underwater it should be the same here),
less concerned about the planets / hot cold cycle,
easier to hide from outsiders,
if someone does come to remove us i'd think we'd get a bit of a defensive advantage (we would be suited to the environment they would not be, even more so if we are very deep),
would also give us options for setting up bases on other planets with oceans.

>>33708027
Except EVERY time we research someone we take out their important bits and CLONE them into our own drones. Like the time we researched humans and CLONED their vocal cords into our own speaker drone.

>>33708026
Yes we can anon.
QD has said that we'd have to cocoon ourselves and we'd be vulnerable during that period but we can.

>>33707832
Suggested actions
>Build general and food storage at the mining base
>Build advanced relay at the mining base
>Build a docking pylon at the mining base (100N, 50N upkeep) This would make the asteroid base look more suspicious, but due to the lack of gravity it would let you build much, much bigger ships. Unlocks capital ships for available construction.

Your current mine is still active and productive.
Advanced relays have unlimited range, but can only communicate with other advanced relays. One per planet would be all that is needed, and at least one per fleet, with the others controlled with the single relay.

>>33708057
I agree with nukes, but not with other stuff like the bioweapon research, since all we need to do is collapse a few tunnels and have out filter drones at the place asap.

>>33708026
>we can't augment the queen anon.
I the first thread QD said we could.
>>33708043
>Its better to make a drone that look similar to a species instead.
Those could easily be spotted though.

>>33708081
I don't think you know what cloning means, friend.

>>33708093
>Build general and food storage at the mining base

>Build advanced relay at the mining base

>Build a docking pylon at the mining base (100N, 50N upkeep) This would make the asteroid base look more suspicious, but due to the lack of gravity it would let you build much, much bigger ships. Unlocks capital ships for available construction.

>>33708063
Okay you convinced me.
I want an ocean outpost now.

>>33708093
No docking pylon only one person suggested that do not do that please.

Explore the arctic though.

>>33708111
>I the first thread QD said we could.
I missed that, but ok.
>>33708111
>Those could easily be spotted though.
We can map an entire genome, i doubt our drones would be that obvious to the naked eye, at worst they can be confused as a mutant.

>>33708134
Unlocks capital ships for available construction.

Capital ships for the win

>>33708093
>>Build general and food storage at the mining base
>>Build advanced relay at the mining base

>>33708093
>>Build general and food storage at the mining base
>>Build advanced relay at the mining base
These but for the love of god let's wait on the docking pylon.

>>33708093
>Build general and food storage at the mining base
>Build advanced relay at the mining base
Voting yes on these ones

>Build a docking pylon at the mining base (100N, 50N upkeep) This would make the asteroid base look more suspicious, but due to the lack of gravity it would let you build much, much bigger ships. Unlocks capital ships for available construction.
Voting NOOOOOO on this one Except if we can cover it in mimic skin or some other camouflage

Also voting YES on a far out located bunker lab

Anybody else still up for coating our docking pylons in camouflage?

>>33708093
>Build general and food storage at the mining base
>Build advanced relay at the mining base

Oh man, as much as I want the big gun capital ships, we are not quite ready for that yet.

>>33708063
>>33708126
Agreed, get some warriors/workers with O2 alga research+sonar/EM and let's catch ourselves some fish.

>>33708160
We can't bloody AFFORD capital ships that we can't even cloak for a useful amount of time at their sheer size and heat signature.

It's an awful plan.

>>33708063
I hope one of the organisms has mantis shrimp eyes.

>>33708160
Fuck No!
Capital ships are the last thing we want right now!
We want to remain hidden and keep observing/learning as much as we can.

>>33708178
I'm up for it, but we don't know if it would need both the caperace and the membrane.

>>33708093
>Build general and food storage at the mining base
>Build advanced relay at the mining base
Veto on the docking pylon. God, there sure has been a lot of stupid in this quest lately.

>>33708160
Is this bait? I hope you aren't serious.

>>33708186
Yeah, out of all of our sensory upgrades sight is the least lacking and it has the most options.(thermal x-ray, ect.)

>>33708134
Arctic exploration is coming.
I hope.

>>33708251
>>33708134
Where is the arctic option?

>>33708262
The same place the equatorial exploration was.
Under >Other

>>33708093
>Build storage and advanced relay at the mining base.
>Build distant bunker lab for increased security
From your exploration you have noted several interesting potential locations for a laboratory

>Mountain ranges: Along the borders of most of the continents, and in several isolated areas are large mountain ranges. Digging deep beneath one of them would make it more difficult to find.
>Arctic poles: Even in the heat of summer, the poles are quite frigid. Building a research base deep beneath the ice caps would make the base more secure from biological containment.
>Badlands: The equatorial badlands are a scorched, glassed over hellscape. Building a research base here would improve containment of dangerous test subjects, such as alien life.

>>33708304
Why not all?

>>33708304
Why are we making another research lab, when we have one at the clarke?
Isn't the clarke outpost pretty far away?

I think we should bombard the Valen outpost on FG-883 with asteroids after all meteor showers are pretty common on that planet.

>>33708327
This, we have the resources, just build one at each location

>>33708304
>Mountain ranges
I want to dig too greedily and too deep.

>>33708304
Put the Nuclear weapon testing in the mountains. Possible more metal mines to be found there.
Put bio weapons in the arctic.
Put the dangerous xeno lifeforms in the badlands.

>>33708339
it is, but people forgot for some reason.
>>33707496
i believe the clarke is the star, and the angel is the prison cell.

>>33708304
>Arctic poles: Even in the heat of summer, the poles are quite frigid. Building a research base deep beneath the ice caps would make the base more secure from biological containment.
I hope this doesn't mean we research biological warfare.
That path only leads to darkness.

>>33708304
what about under the sea?

>>33708339
If atomics research goes bad we will probably suffer

If bioweapon research goes bad i would not like the zombie outbreak to be even remotely close.

Far away isn't enough.

>>33708327
Because one thing he doesn't mention about the poles and the equator, is they don't have much cloud cover due to being too hot/too cold.

>>33708304
Mountain ranges. Keep it secret, keep it safe.

Do it at a location we survey as appropriate for mining, too.

>>33708327
>>33708304
sure why not
the badlands will prep us for desert colonies
while the artic will do the same
maybe we can find something that able to be farmed in space too while we are at it

>>33708378
Down where its wetter?

>>33708371
Um, Have we been forgetting to feed and water the Lyle? He's been glued to the wall for some time now.

>>33708394
Yeah, these are probably also good reasons.
It will give us much practice to build things these labs.

>>33708399
yeah the nutrient tubes are connected to him
i think

>>33708389
>If bioweapon research goes bad i would not like the zombie outbreak to be even remotely close.
>Far away isn't enough.
except we have dedicated filter drones for that research going bad, but i do agree about the atomic warheads.

>>33708399
Uuuuuuuh. Yeah we should probably check up on the poor fellow.

>>33708378
You have not yet explored the ocean, so you're not sure how effective it would be as a location. You could assemble an exploration team of haz-mat workers to investigate the shore just beneath the ocean fungus layer if you wish, although a deep sea expedition would be more difficult.

>>33708394
We can learn those adaptation without devoting the resources to 3 separate research bases.
Plus OOC that might be a bit much for QD to handle.

>>33708304
>Mountain ranges: Along the borders of most of the continents, and in several isolated areas are large mountain ranges. Digging deep beneath one of them would make it more difficult to find.
is my vote, and only for the nuke, the bioweapon research is safe where it as at the clarke.

>>33708389
>If atomics research goes bad we will probably suffer
Fusion is actually safer than you think.

>>33708398
And everything's better
Take it from meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>33708428
lets do the shore exploration team then

>>33708428
Let's do it.

>>33708304
I'm this anon
>>33708372
Changing vote to mountain range because I don't want all 3

>>33708428
Yes, let's do that. Make some hazmat/O2/sonar drones as well.

>>33708505
we already have 20 hazmat workers, in preparation for bioweapon research at the clark.
I don't know why people forget about them.

>>33708428
We need to make a bug whale
or a sea proff ship i guess

>>33708428
Can we try this new drone design for exploring?
>>33707512

>>33708543
People are stupid.

>>33708428
I'd like to recycle our current hazmat workers and assemble this sea exploration team while we make that mountain base.

>>33708304
>Mountain research base
You quickly have a shuttle make its way to your hangar to be loaded
>Send sniffers and wasps
>Send warriors and workers
>Other

You also contemplate the ocean. It would likely be more costly, but you find yourself quite curious as to what secrets the depths hold. An expedition to the ocean may be worthwhile now that you are no longer vulnerable to the ocean spores.

>Send ocean expedition (what and how many)
>Don't send

>>33708543
I know, but do they have sonar+O2 thing as well? I don't think they do.

>>33708576
Send sniffers and wasps and warriors and workers

>>33708543
>>33708566
Or maybe it's that they don't have the O2 culture in them only the filter that won't be able to function underwater.

>>33708581
they don't but we can always make an improved sniffer for those jobs.

>>33708576
>Send ocean expedition (what and how many)

Filter drones. A fair number. If we can capture local aquatic life then we can use that to develop more specialized drones.

Eventually our research might lead to being able to convert the entire ocean surface into a biofilm farm. Were as deep sea adaptions will be useful to use for space vessels.

>>33708576
>Send ocean expedition (5 hazmat workers)
>>33708581
Worker have sonar by default.

>>33708576
Well we need workers to dig the base. and sniffers to find a good location, really.

>>33708615
The workers will need to go underwater if want want to take any research subjets back to the hive, and it'd be useful to have them anyways in case want to start underwater constructions.

>>33708610
>>33708581
Why are you guys fixated on having workers do this job, when we have sniffers that we can upgrade easily to replace them instead.

>>33708576
Sniffers and Wasps
Send the expedition 15 Hazmat Workers fitted with Sonar and the air culture.

>>33708665
Are you expecting sniffers to drag 200kg sharks back to shore?

>>33708665
Maybe because no ones made a point of suggesting them before hand.

>>33708682
they are basically workers, but with better senses.
Sniffer
Olfactory: Medium 1
Acoustic: Medium 1
Radio: Medium 2
Psionic: Basic 0
Mandible: None 0
Blade: None 0
Arms: Dex 1
Legs: Sprint 1
Wings: Medium 2
Carapace: Basic 0
Size: Medium

Worker
Olfactory: Basic 0
Acoustic: Medium 1
Psionic: Basic 0
Mandible: Construction 1
Blade: Tool 1
Arms: Dex 1
Legs: Endurance 1
Carapace: Basic 0
Size: Medium

>>33708649
We can send workers later.
>>33708665
Basically what
>>33708662
Said.

>>33708719
no the sniffers are small and dont have the construction mandible so they cant do any construction

that why we have workers to build and the sniffer are scouts mna

>>33707512
change the legs into sprint,loose the mandible bit,then you get my vote.

>>33708772
yeah, and that is the job we are trying to do now.
>An expedition to the ocean may be worthwhile now that you are no longer vulnerable to the ocean spores.
Also the sniffer is about the same size as the worker.

>>33708576
You have a hard time selecting which of your drones to send to search for an acceptable build site, and load the shuttle with a variety, just in case.
Meanwhile, your haz-mat workers make their way down the tunnels leading to the shore, exiting the hive from beneath a large rock not too far from the water. Even in the middle of the night the surface is hot and humid.
The ocean expands outward like an endless desert of dusty film. The strange, meaty plant has grown over almost all of the planet's water like a thick layer of fleshy skin.

>Scour the shore for signs of life that may have washed ashore
>Move out across the thick film
>Slice through the film and dive below for a quick look in the shallows
>Other

>>33708805
>Scour the shore for signs of life that may have washed ashore

>>33708719
So, you're saying they're basically the same thing, and it doesn't matter which we modify into an underwater version? Why are you so fixated on sniffers anyway, it's not like we're upgrading an existing drone, it's only a question of what we call the new creation.

>>33708805
>>Scour the shore for signs of life that may have washed ashore

>>33708805
>Scour the shore for signs of life that may have washed ashore

>>33708805
>>Scour the shore for signs of life that may have washed ashore
7 drones do this
>>Move out across the thick film
7 drones do this
>>Slice through the film and dive below for a quick look in the shallows
6 drones do this

>>33708805
>Slice through the film and dive below for a quick look in the shallows

>>33708841
Seconding.

>>33708833
the sniffer is better for exploration, which is why we are going down towards the ocean.

>>33708858
But it wouldn't be the sniffer anymore, we'd have to switch out so much, it really doesn't matter what the starting point is if we reach the same destination(i.e. design). I was just calling it a worker because Inhoped we wouldn't need to design another seperate drone for building things underwater.

>>33708841
Move out onto the film is a bad idea.
After we are done searching then we can go underneath the surface.

>>33708841
Thirding. But let one walk a little in front of the other to test the waters.

>>33708841
Vetoing.

>>33708841
Or instead of doing them in parallel, we can do all 3 in series instead.

In the order of increasing danger.

>>33708805
You decide to take things safe and slow for now, and have your drones scour the shore for life. Any remains that may have washed ashore should offer some clue as to what lives below the water without putting your drones at risk.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3 to search.

When are we going to be colonizing DM-759?

Rolled 41

>>33708994

Rolled 27

>>33708994

Rolled 20

>>33708994

Rolled 90

>>33708994

Rolled 99

>>33708996
after we finish colonizing our planet, we somewhat jumped the gun, when we left.
>>33708994

>>33708996
OM-759.

And there's not much cause to, yet.

>>33709011
>>33709018
>>33709022
Hahahahaah.

Good thing we weren't looking under the ocean yet.

...Seriously though I don't understand this creature's life cycle. The spores don't even seem to be used for reproduction, they seem to exist only as a defense mechanism, the same way other species evolve to be toxic to anything that tries to eat them.

>>33709022
Hey I screwed up and put a d20. Just ignore it.

>>33709056
I thought it was an algae bloom and there just so many of them now that they dominated the ocean top

>>33709030
>>33709018
>>33709011
90 sweet.

Rolled 68

>>33709056
Maybe it's vestigial? It doesn't really have any natural predators or room to grow, so it's not like it needs energy for anything, might as well keep producing spores.

>>33709034
There is no reason not to since each planet gives us access to more resources so the more planets we colonize to the faster we'll be able to spread.

>>33709132
spreading our selves thin, and losing focus is a real problem that can happen, and its a bit too early to macro.

>>33709022
Rolled a d20, so that means >>33709030
counts.

>>33708994
Your drones quickly patrol along the shoreline, finding a number of small shells and bulbous chunks of flesh cut from the thick ocean film, all covered in a thin layer of spores like fresh snow.
A mile down the shore you spot a large disturbance. A trench dug into the sand, and it appears fresh. At the base of the trench is a large clutch of soft, translucent eggs half-buried in sand and spores. A large hole has been punched through the film where something crawled up from the water.

>Take the eggs
>Try to find the mother in the shallows
>Move out across the film
>Other

>>33709176
>>Try to find the mother in the shallows
Haha time for submarine esque whaledrone!

>>33709176
>>Take the eggs
>>Try to find the mother in the shallows

>>33709160
>spreading our selves thin
That is not a problem when we can reproduce so fast.
>>33709176
>Take the eggs
>Try to find the mother in the shallows

>>33709176
>Take 2 eggs for research purposes, make sure they're safe to transport despite spores, have 1 drone take them to the hive, the others look for mother.

>>33709176
>Take the eggs
>Try to find the mother in the shallows

>>33709176
>Try to find the mother in the shallows
The eggs aren't going anywhere, but the mother might not be returning.

I hope it's a turtle.

>>33709236
>>33709202
whatever it is it will let us transverse this ocean at least

>>33709176
>Attempt to find the mother in the shallows
Your drones move to the edge of the water and dip through the hole in the film to try to find whatever left the eggs here. The waters are murky and filled with the dangling rooted tendrils of the ocean film, like an underwater forest. It is difficult to see anything in these conditions, but you think you could see something further out.

>Go across the top of the film to drop in from above
>Attempt to swim out to the location
>Other

>>33709056
It's a bit of both. The spores keep away most potential predators while infecting the occasional land animal, which lets it spread over ground to other sources of water.

>>33709215
except our egg laying is set to nutrients that we can only grow on our starting planet.

>>33709337
>Attempt to swim out to the location

>>33709337
>Attempt to swim out to the location

>>33709337
>Cut out a section of film and shine a light in.
Along with any other plan.

>>33709337
>>Go across the top of the film to drop in from above
Both of these could end horribly so I'm just picking this one.

>>33709337
>Attempt to swim out to the location

>>33709337
You don't think it looks too deep or too far out. You send some of your drones out to investigate. They breath in deeply, their filters filling with air, and they dive below the surface. Your workers crawl along the seafloor of sand and rock towards where you thought you saw movement.
There is definitely something out there...

Please roll 1d100 for searching

Rolled 63

>>33709523
Search for mother

Rolled 1

>>33709523

>>33709549
Well then.

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Rolled 35

>>33709549

>>33709549
Adventure!

Rolled 46

>>33709523

Wait, which star systems have we explored?

>>33709549
Time for FUN!

Rolled 33

>>33709523

>>33709549
Oh

>>33709549
well at least we found something, we should get our warriors over here asaps, and then prepare them to get killed (spore being everywhere in this area, so they are not coming back) after they capture what ever is killing our hazmat workers.

>>33709549
So I'm all for raising some of those eggs in captivity!

>>33709643
The roll was for searching not for combat.

>>33709549
GET THE CORVETTE READY, WE MIGHT NEED ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT

>>33709549
It's like Predquest all over again.

>>33709645
so you want to domesticate them?
I would have preferred to just research them and grow a drone with their exact genome, except under out control and see what happens.

>>33709668
a nat 1 means, something found our workers instead.

>>33709674
FIS

ITT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCz36LfN3uI

>>33709676
The mother likely has different adaptations than the young.
I was trying to humorously put forth a way that we could get the adaptations of both the young and the mature.

>>33709709
I was thinking more like Infected Mushroom.
More specifically this song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Fad9yJN_o

>>33709741
all adaptions will be in the genome that both share.
Ya know, inheritance?

>2 hours into thread
>barely begin to accomplish one thing
>critfail at it
>already 2/3rds of the way to bump limit
dammit this is gonna be a short night again.

>>33709882
QD plays long night when it comes to it
Don't worry about it

>>33709523
You think you see something in the murky water when one of your drones fanishes from your mind. Your other workers clamor to find the threat, but find only your worker, sliced cleanly in half down the middle. A moment later another is gone to the sound of a crack.
Your remaining drones scramble to get to safety as the two fallen workers are quickly pulled out of sight by something, and you hear a sickening crack of snapping carapace. Another drone dies. This time you can see a large claw, like a pair of giant scissors flash out from the depths. It stabs your worker and quickly pulls it in.
As your worker is pulled towards the creature you catch a glimpse of it before your drone vanishes into the beast's maw. It is a large, shelled creature with a number of limbs sticking out from all directions. Its body is a thick oval, like a massive plate three meters wide and almost a meter thick. Its limbs are small and slender sticks sprouting from its sides, with each one ending in a long spike stuck firmly in the flesh of the ocean film. In the middle of its body on its underside is a long segmented limb ending in a pair of scythe-like claws, and on its back is a round opening lined with teeth rapidly moving back and forth, grinding a chunk of your drone like a meat grinder.
As your drone slams into the toothy maw you lose sight of it, but you can hear the grinding sound as it eats in the darkness, and a light whip crack of its long claw as it readies another attack.
-3 haz-mat workers

>Cut through the film and escape to the surface
>Attempt to close the distance and overwhelm it
>Swim back to the shore
>Other

>>33709936
>>Attempt to close the distance and overwhelm it

>>33709936
>Split up
One cuts through the film.
Most swim back to shore.
The ones on the shore start stealing eggs.
Send some warriors incase the beast pursues.

>>33709936
17 of them, one of it. Each drone is like 2 meters. They can take it.
>Attempt to close the distance and overwhelm it

>>33709936
>>Attempt to close the distance and overwhelm it
This things badass we gotta study it

>>33709936
>>Attempt to close the distance and overwhelm it

>>33709936
>Attempt to close the distance and overwhelm it
we can always lay more.

>>33709936
>Attempt to close the distance and overwhelm it
Also replace lost drones.

>Attempt to close the distance and overwhelm it
but send a one or two back to base with the eggs

>>33709936
>Cut through the film and escape to the surface

Send a warrior squad over there to hunt that thing! we need to take it as intact as possible. I smell a hydro adaption tech from this thing.

>>33709936
>Attempt to overwhelm it
You have your workers fan out to get a better view of it and send them charging through the water.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3

>>33709936
If it's stuck to the ocean film, we might be able to attack it from above fairly well.

Rolled 36

Its agreed, that any drones we send over with out filter lungs is to be killed right?
>>33710071

Rolled 52

>>33710071

Rolled 60

>>33710071
FOR THE QUEEN

>>33710092
>>33710089
>>33710083
Seems like most of them are going to die.

>>33710115
so we make more

>>33710140
And they will fail to capture it.

>>33710171
Then we try again
It cant leave the planet can it now?

>>33710140
Glad we don't have to worry about silly things like workplace safety or morale.

Rolled 55

>>33710221
Yep, all they care about is pleasing the glorious mother, i wonder what would happen if we gave them a glorious sister, or if they meet a glorious aunt/grandma.

>>33710071
Your workers charge in, but you see the creature react, shifting its legs along the fleshy roof of the ocean as it claws its way deeper. Another claw rips into a drone, tearing it in half in moments, and another punctures a worker's carapace, impaling it on the long scissors before whipping it away.
Despite the massacre it is severely outnumbered, and as it swiftly dispatches drone after drone with a swift whip and a crack of shattered carapace your workers close the distance. They unsheath their blades, large cumbersome tools intended for tilling soil and cutting stone. They are not suited for combat, let alone combat under water, but they are dangerous nonetheless. One of your workers manages to pinch a leg with its mandibles, and it buckles with a satisfying crunch. The creature is deadly, but its shell is brittle.
By the time your drones have reached the lumbering creature you have lost another 4 workers.

>Attempt to move in for the kill
>Try to cripple its legs and capture it alive
>Other

Rolled 35

>>33710277
>Try to cripple its legs and capture it alive

>>33710258
They would react in whatever way we wished them to.

>>33710277
>Try to cripple its legs and capture it alive

>>33710277
>Try to cripple its legs and capture it alive

>>33710277
>>Attempt to move in for the kill
kill it, bring it back and use then make new drones more suitable for operating underwater with its genetic material.

>>33710277
Your workers focus on the slender limbs in an attempt to cripple the beast before it can finish off more of your drones.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3

Rolled 52

>>33710363

Rolled 41

>>33710363

Rolled 25

>>33710363

Rolled 100

>>33710363

>>33710394
God fucking damnit

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>>33710394

>>33710277
SEND REINFORCEMENTS!
A squad of 8 or 10 warriors would do!

>>33710471
Warriors can't into underwater, man.

Also, my girlfriend is Indonesian.

>>33710394
WHY? WHY COULDN'T YOU POST FASTER?!

>>33710483
We really need to make some kind of aquatic warriors.
Wait- do the jump-jet expies work well underwater? Time to find out.

>>33710394
WELP! The dice god are still mocking us.

>>33710531
>jump-jet expies
Isn't that something we don't have?

>>33710531
We kill ubercrab and then we get the underwater tech i guess
lets hope we dont expose the insides to the spores

>>33710531
Our winged warriors aren't capable of swimming, I don't think.
Though they might be.

>>33710363
Your workers rip into the creature, its shell offering little protection now that you are in melee. Its claw whips around and thrashes at your drones, slamming into one of your workers with a thud as its head caves in and its body drifts to the ocean floor. Another is plucked by the claw and torn away from the creature's legs.
Your drones work to sever what limbs they can, but even with how easily the shell of the legs break its whip-like claw is too fast to hit. It grabs another two, impaling them both before tearing them in half.
The creature is down to ten of its fifteen legs, and you have 9 workers left. The creature is too slow to escape, but you fear you will run out of workers at this rate.

>Have your workers fall back
>Send a shuttle to drop reinforcements from above
>Other

>>33710531
Hell we were given the choice to the eggs at the start so it meant it would take just longer

But we wanted it now but we roll badly i guess

>>33710572
good thing we have the clarke lab.
i see the mountain lab for super dangerous shit, and the clarke lab for somewhat dangerous shit.

>>33710585
>Send a shuttle to drop reinforcements from above

>>33710585
>Send a shuttle to drop reinforcements from above

>>33710585
>Reinforcements.

Make the rest of the workers focus on staying alive and close.

>>33710585
>>Send a shuttle to drop reinforcements from above

>>33710585
>Send a shuttle to drop reinforcements from above
Send more workers

>>33710585
Wait, better idea: AERIAL SUPPORT
Have some warriors try and shoot down the creature from the air, then send the hazmat workers to seize the body.
This works since we don't have hazmat warriors.

>>33710593
i meant the inside of the crab

>>33710673
he is underwater anon.

>>33710585
A shuttle quickly lands to take in your drones and you quickly fill it to the brim with the closest drones available before lifting off and making for the battle site.

Roll 1d100, best of 3 please

Rolled 3

>>33710689
DROPPING BY

Rolled 23

>>33710689

Rolled 37

>>33710689

Rolled 52

>>33710689

Rolled 25

>>33710688
well yeah, but can't the already-underwater workers coordinate with the warriors in the shuttle?

>>33710689

>>33710673
>>33710585
Have our Colossus with thorn cannons bombard the ocean, fuck everything

Rolled 90

>>33710689

>>33710711
Shieeeeeeeeeeeeet we losing a lot of drones this day.

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>>33710704
>>33710705
>>33710711
why?!

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>>33710736
i am so sorry

>>33710394
If only I had not rolled, you would have made it in time...

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>Galactic headline

>Local Crab Ruins Everything

>>33710722
>>33710394
>>33709030
Man i been on a roll today

>>33710736
FIS

Rolled 61

>>33710736
becuase a few anons rushed it.

>>33710722
sheeit.

>>33710736
We finally meet our Carp. Or, if it's one of the newer versions, Giant Sponge.

>>33710758
how do you take a screen cap?

>>33710717
Our weapons aren't strong enough to pierce through the film that's covering the ocean make it through dozens of meters of water and pierce this things shell.
And even if we could there's no way we can be reliably accurate.

At least this fight isn't vital, and we can just find another crab thing.

Rolled 64

>>33710807
there is the eggs as well.

>>33710807
This is true.
I'd rather get the shit roles out of the way on stuff like this and not have them pop up during stealth missions and the like.

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"You see, ubercrabs have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own drones at them until they reached their limit and died of a full stomach."

>>33710878
Many of you will die for your Queen. A few of you will be forced through a fine mesh screen for your Queen.

They will be the luckiest of all.

This is by far the most deadliest Giant Enemy Crab I have seen in ages. This thread is so worth it and our victory over this beast will be real sweet.

>>33710689
As your shuttle rushes to assist your workers continue their efforts. They manage to break several more limbs, but each gain comes with a price. The waters are littered with the torn remains of your workers. Bits of chitin drift to the bottom and chunks of flesh fill the area as mangled limbs tangle in the vines of the ocean film.
Your reinforcements reach the site and quickly dive below. You feel the snapping of chitin as your drones hit the thick film, breaking through with a terrible crunch as limbs snap and abdomens crack from the impact.
Your drones engulf the creature like a living cluster bomb, pulling its feet loose from the ceiling and sending the entire mob tumbling down to the rocky ocean floor like a ball of gnashing teeth and claws, shedding chips of chitin and streams of blood along the way. As the creature hits the rocks you hear its claw snap at the joint, and you manage to tear apart the remaining legs. Your remaining drones thrash in the water to reach the exposed surface, writhing their limbs uselessly in the water. The battle has drug your drones further out, and by the time you reach the shore with your prize the waters behind you are filled with bodies, slowly clattering against the rocks.

-7 haz-mat
-8 worker

You quickly gather the eggs and the giant creature and drag the pieces back to your hive.

>>33711040
Hell way
Not need to breed more workers, haz-mat and some warriors for meat shields then if we gonna keep exploring

is there a way to bring AI guy back to his home with our corvette?

Sure that would bring in the big friendship

>>33711086
Friendship and AI don't mix.
I know your probably trolling but whatever.

>>33711086
>A.I.
>friendship

>>33711086
we been arguing about this for a long time, and agreed to do nothing until we are big enough to be on equal footing with the AI.

>>33711086
Will you stop talking about vacuous concepts like "friendship" already?

We're a sovereign nation, nations don't have friends.

Also yes that is the entire plan, duh. Eventually Theseus is going to spill about the system where Unity goes to "refuel" (their Canderon-free FTL drive presumably, from gas giants).

There is no reason to expose the hive's existence more than necessary at such an early stage though. No contacting anybody, not even Unity, until much later.

>>33711083
We lost 13 hazmat, but no clue on worker loss.
>>33711040
Will we be purging the contaminated workers?

>>33711040
>New research option
Giant crab dissection: While you were unable to capture it alive, the corpse should offer enough information to learn and adapt from it, as well as the eggs, which seem fresh and perfectly healthy from what you can tell.

Your other search party is still scouring the planet in search of an appropriate location for a mountain research base, but a planet is a big place to search, and there are many mountains to survey. It may take a while.

Please roll 1d100 for survey

Rolled 72

>>33711140

>>33711127
There is no need to purge anything. We have the cure for the spores, the workers can drink that if they're infected. Which they'd show early symptoms of, if they were.

More importantly, we need to lay 369 workers and build 40 more farms if we want to establish an exponential growth pattern.

>>33711118
>we're a sogereign nation
Quite literally.
The Royal We is the only we.

Rolled 50

>>33711140

Rolled 85

>>33711140

>>33711152
Well let's do that after we survey the mountain.

Rolled 46

>>33711140
I wonder if we could "tamper" with the eggs while they are still developing.

>>33711165
This is a refreshingly good roll. We are officially back in business.

>>33711140
Replace all lost drones and lay 20 hazmat warriors and 20 radiator warriors. As well as 6 shock troops 3 with filtered lungs and 3 with radiator tubes. Why do we call them shock troops when they work more like commandos?

>>33709935
Not really, most nights he quits whenever the thread hits page 9 even when it's really short, a second thread has been the exception not the rule.

So maybe, maybe not. Have to ask him now that bump limit is upon us, QD.

>>33711268
The Curse of the Crab has been slain.

>>33711271
2nding beef up of kill squad

>>33711271
>3 with filtered lungs and 3 with radiator tubes
Fuck that noise.

>>33707512
Since we are in auto sage, can we discuss the possibility of laying the replacements to the sniffers?

>>33711271
add in the cammo skin, then yes, they shock troops have upgraded to commandos.

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>>33711271
>filtered lungs
>radiator tubes
>protruding vulnerabilities
>on a battle unit

>>33711271
Because they explode. presumably. It is a little silly, the result of compromise in the design process.

>>33711271
To answer your question.
Because.
Also I disagree with everything in your post.

>>33711321
Cammo skin + self0destruct is a stupid mix. Don't want to reduce armor on a unit that violently explodes when killed. Especially not one full of expensive sensory adaptions.

>>33711312
We can. The idea of the spy fly has been rattling around for a while in all our heads. Now that we have Camouflage: Extreme Makeover Edition, as well as miniaturization, it's looking very optimizable.

Once consideration is we probably want to keep total adaptation costs at 15N or lower though, because then it all rounds down to 1N upkeep per drone. (15N * .25 for small drone, divided by 2 to get upkeep) Then we can lay twice as many.

>>33711312
I'm game for it, if we lose the mandibles and change the legs.

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>>33711140
After a long day of searching you find a small mountain range far from anything of great interest near the northern swamp belt. Crevices and worn, smooth edges run along the peaks. A quick survey from the shuttle indicates that it has at least a moderate ore content, although you are not sure just how rich it is. Your shuttle lands near the summit and your drones take a closer look, taking advantage of what's left of the night to cover as much ground as possible.

Meanwhile, back at your hive, the local ocean life has proven even more deadly than you had expected. You take account of your drones and contemplate replacements.

>Replace all lost drones
>Lay new drones (write in)
>Design new drones
>Alter existing designs
>Leave it alone for now
>Other

>>33711366
it only cost 12N, and 1M, i also explained why i had some of the upgrades compared to the previous version.

>>33711396
>>Replace all lost drones
>>Lay new drones (write in)
this idea
>>33707512

>>33711396
Lay 369 worker drones to bring us up to 480 total.

And 16 Excavators, because we only have 4 planetside, to also help expand and double the number of farms.

>>33711396
>Replace all lost drones
>Alter existing designs
put in heat sinks so they won't die from the heat.

>>33711396
Let's do
>>33711152
And lay 369 more workers and build 40 more farms.>>33711396

>>33711152
>>33711396
Is 369 workers and 40 farms the right number? Either way I'll agree with it, it sounds about right. Though the farms will be added at the end of the thread I assume.

>>33711396
>>Design new drones
A bomber drone has been suggested so here is an idea for one.
Olfactory:Moderate(1N)

Acoustic:Moderate(1N)

Radio:Moderate:(2N)

Arm/graspers:Dexterity(1N)

Legs/mobility:Endurance(1N)

Chemical Forge 2.0:it basically grows explosive and acid glands that allows the bomber to release(12N)

Ramjet:(16N6M)

Carapace:
Combat:(3N10M)

Chassis:Aerodynamic(4N10M)

Size:Medium

Cost:41N 26M
upkeep:20

This is basically for clearing out an area before our warriors come in, and to harass any enemy below.
>>Alter existing designs
A warrior that uses the seeker pod.

Olfactory:Basic(0N)

Acoustic:Basic(0N)

Radio:Basic(1N)

Psionic:Basic(0N)

Mandible:Combat(1N)

Tool/Weapon:Combat(1N)

Arm/graspers:Strength(1N)

Legs/mobility:Sprint(1N)

Wings:Basic glider(1N)

Seeker Pod:(10N)

Carapace: Combat:(3N10M)

Chassis: Standard

Size:Medium
Cost:19N 10M
upkeep: 9N
Improved warroris.

I gave it wings, so that it can jump from impossible height and for added movement, plus they are cheap.

The bulk of the added cost of this unit is the seeker pod, since it basically are tracking grenades and should deal decent ranged/target damage, plus they can be used for distraction purpose/debuffing/stunning.