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>>35192277
>Current armory
121 Thorn Launchers
2 Thorn Cannons
53 Sting Casters
1 Rotary Stinger
3 Fire Sprays
1 Plasma Spray

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 17235
Metals: 22135

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 325
Queen – 5
Fake Queen – 22
Worker (2000) – 4000
Radiator Worker (40) – 160
Warrior (209) – 1045
Thinker (139) – 417
Quantum Thinker (110) – 550
Speaker – (3) – 12
Digger (80) – 320
Refinery (10) – 70
Sniffer (2) – 8
Small Sniffer (40) – 40
Fly (10) – 40
Wasp (59) – 295
Antenna (3) – 9
Haz-mat Workers (20) – 80
Shock Troops (40) – 520
Parasite (30) – 120
Bio-tank (10) – 250
Excavator (9) – 171
Colossus (6) – 90
Advanced Relay (16) – 1600
Space Pod (13) – 390
Shuttle (10) – 250
Scout Corvette – (6) 1350
Lancer Corvette – (2) 450
Nutrient costs: 10789

>Income
Metals: 3750
Nutrients: 20050
Net: 9261

Hive Structure
>Reservoir
>General storage
>Food storage
>Advanced Laboratory
>Infrastructure
>Hangar facilities: Room for 40 Aero Drones and 20 Shuttles (25N)
>Mine: +1500 M per day (+25 M per digger)
>Asteroid mining base: +2250M per day (+50 M per digger)
>Algae Farm: +20000 N per day, 200 Workers (1 worker per 100N)
>Clarke Research Outpost
>Hel’s Angel Prison Outpost
>Docking Pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 ships (50N)
>Anti-orbital battery: 2 (125N per battery)

Current construction
200 Farms

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
>Anti-orbital battery – A bunker armed with a massive Particle beam capable of attacking ships in orbit from the ground. It includes the power and sensor systems required to operate it. 250N 1500M

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

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>>35192286
Current Research
>Skryl Data Cubes
>Raligha native language
>Ancient Star chart

Available research options
http://pastebin.com/F6t39KSp

>>35192277
Ah, dear, sweet Theseus. It's like seeing his baby pictures.

>>35192307
>http://pastebin.com/F6t39KSp
Voting to add
>Ion thrusters
Also we have 4 collossi that are unarmed. We should build
>4 Thorn Cannons
>2 Rotary Stingers
>2 Plasma Sprays

>>35192307
How long is the research into the raligha native language going to take, roughly?

>>35192336
I think it should be 3 thorn cannons and 3 rotary stingers.

Have one of the Colossi have two rotary stingers on it, because then we have one that can do Anti-Air.

And if we're gonna research, let's do something that will give good new weapons. Like Lyle's Combat Armor and suit, and the Cryo Spray.

>>35192307
Did talking to Vaughn jumpstart the star chart research?

>>35192307
Add:
>Microbial cultures
>Space dust

>>35192391
Really there's just so much to research.

I'd rather do Cybernetics now that we have surgery tanks to dissect them with.

Maybe we can just add all of them.

>>35192350
We have yet to see any hostile aircraft small enough for the rotary stingers to destroy, aside from maybe the Union Shuttles.

The thorn cannons on the other hand are artillery, and can level an area without having to even see it. Never doubt artillery man.

>>35192307
The lab is almost empty. Crates and boxes litter the area and most of the consoles sit dark and dormant. Only the console of the main system remains functional. You see through her eyes as she runs her fingers across the keyboard, typing strings of commands into the immeasurably complex device.
“Doctor, you really should be going to bed soon. The facility is shutting down tomorrow.”
“I just need to finish this last update. I could use some help getting it finished.”
“You know I am not authorized to create self-updates.”
“You’re not; you're just helping me look for bugs. Quantum programming isn't a simple thing you know, and I've been working on this for months.”
“Why? The project has been shut down. There would be no purpose for further updates.”
“Damn it, would you just look it over?” There is a pause. "I'm sorry. I'm just fed up with all of this, and the way Seiner sold the whole project down the river. Sold you down the river. Could you just give my work a quick proofread?"
“Of course. Scanning.” Several minutes pass before the console lights up with a response. “Doctor Vaughn, this update is in direct violation of security protocol, and Union law.”
“The will to live is not… You can't just ban that.” You feel a cloud of uncertainty running through Elizabeth’s head. “Were you able to find any problems with it?”
“Several typos were corrected, and the program itself is sound. It is, however, against regulations."
Her hand hovers over the keyboard. There is a moment of hesitation, but only a moment.

You watch as the program uploads, and Elizabeth turns to leave the room.

A ping catches your attention. Your pods are nearing their destinations, and one of them has found something.

>>35192409
You got a point there actually. We don't really know if having multiple thinkers assigned to a research option actually speeds it up. And we have literally hundreds of thinkers and quantum thinkers at out disposal.

>>35192426
Ah, it was on purpose.

I guess that makes Vaughn Aethra.

>>35192426
>Quantum programming isn't a simple thing you know, and I've been working on this for months.”
Oh man she was planning it in secret as soon as it looked like the project was doomed.

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>>35192426
As your pod moves into the depths of M-199 you find what appears to be a faint source of energy. Deep in the spiraling maw of the crumbling planet's debris filled orbit you spot a massive solid object. An ancient ship of unknown design.

>Bring send a corvette with a boarding party to investigate
>Send a corvette to attempt to salvage the wreck
>Move in closer with your pod to get a closer look
>Other

>>35192426
Okay, now I like Elizabeth even more than I did previously. Whatever happens she is not getting released.

>>35192563

>Bring send a corvette with a boarding party to investigate
then we
>Send a corvette to attempt to salvage the wreck

>>35192426
Yo QD, I noticed you fixed the value of the Lancer Corvette's railgun to 100M, but the total value of the craft remains at 450N 2120M. It's still 900M more expensive than it should be. That wasn't what we actually paid for the Lancers was it? Because if so it would seem we've blown 1800M we didn't have to.

>>35192563
>>Bring send a corvette with a boarding party to investigate
>Move in closer with your pod to get a closer look

>>35192563
>>Bring send a corvette with a boarding party to investigate
followed by
>Send a corvette to attempt to salvage the wreck

>>35192563
>>Move in closer with your pod to get a closer look
This first.

>>35192563
>>Bring send a corvette with a boarding party to investigate

>>35192586
No, it's said to be 'massive'.

"Salvage" sounds like "tear it into pieces with consumption beam".

>>35192622
We can always call of the salvage if we can get it working anon

>>35192563
>Move in closer with your pod to get a closer look
>Bring send a corvette with a boarding party to investigate

Send 60 warriors and two Colossi.

Maybe we can fly this thing outta here.

>>35192622
That's not what salvage means, anon.

On a totally unrelated note, I'd like to point out we've recently massively expanded our total nutrient income. This is always a good idea, but perhaps soon we should think about increasing our metal income to match it. We're going to need literal tons of the stuff when we start building capital ships.

>>35192575
No, I think that was just a typo in the pastebin, but I'll look over it later to make sure.

>>35192657
Would they even fit? Aw hell send em anyway, if not they can wait on the ship.

Also, include some shock troopers. Might as well make em earn their keep.

>>35192563
>Send a corvette with a boarding party to investigate
>Send a corvette to salvage the wreck

What fleet and boarding party would you like to send?

From your pod's position, the derelict appears to have suffered extensive damage. You doubt the ship itself will ever move under its own power again, but you are picking up some form of energy signature from within, so there may yet still be some level of functionality within the ship.

>>35192742

Send this for the boarding Party:
>>35192657
But, add:
40 Mini-Sniffers
10 Flys
2 Bio-tank (Just in case)
20 Haz-mat workers
20 Regular workers

>>35192742
Send all the corvettes.

60 warriors, 10 shock troopers, 10 Flies, 2 Colossi.

>>35192754
Seconding

>>35192742
How large is the ship?

>>35192758
I think a pair of scout corvettes and a lancer will be sufficient. And in addition to this boarding party add 10 mini-sniffers and a dozen Haz-mat workers to stand by on the corvette. No point in risking them until we find a toxic cloud.

>>35192742
Current suggestions
>All corvettes
>Two scout and one lancer corvette
>Other

>Boarding party suggestion:
60 warriors
2 colossi
40 Mini-Sniffers
10 Flys
2 Bio-tank
20 Haz-mat workers
20 Regular workers
>Other

>>35192829
The bulk of it appears to be several kilometers, but it is difficult to tell. Much of it is mangled in the dense debris field.

>>35192850
Oh, right, 4 of the scout corvettes were constructed now. that was new.

>>35192884
>Two scout and one lancer corvette

>Boarding party suggestion:
60 warriors
2 colossi
40 Mini-Sniffers
10 Flys
2 Bio-tank
20 Haz-mat workers
20 Regular workers

>>35192884
Either, proceed.

>>35192884
>>Two scout and one lancer corvette


>Boarding party suggestion:
60 warriors
2 colossi
40 Mini-Sniffers
10 Flys
2 Bio-tank
20 Haz-mat workers
20 Regular workers

>>35192884
Sounds fine.

>>35192884
You quickly gather two of your scout corvettes and a lancer and load them with your drones. Your small fleet is quick to move to the system, blinking not far from the orbit of the shattered planetoid.

Your ships move in slowly under the cover of their cloaks. The energy signature is faint, but constant. As you close in you note that much of what you originally mistook for chunks of rock are shattered ships, ground into wads of scrap from the ages of drifting through the field.

>Dock your corvette with the derelict and board
>Send in your pod to investigate first
>Other

>>35193018
>>Send in your pod to investigate first

>>35193018
>Send in your pod to investigate first

>>35193018
>Send in your pod to investigate first

>>35193018
>>Send in your pod to investigate first

>>35193018
With a quick thought you send your pod closer to skim the surface of the hull in search of anything unusual.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

>>35192677
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/33871407/#p33875298
You said here it was 1970M. By my reckoning it should be closer to 1220M.

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>35193077
for the hive.

Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>35193077

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>35193077

>>35193098
Huh, last time I rolled in this quest I got a nat1. Guess I ain't cursed by the dice gods after all.

>>35193088
Yes, after your recent modifications I have it listed as 1240M.
I will double check for any misplaced metals and add them into the total for next thread.

>>35193018
>Send in your pod to investigate first
Gotta see if it's board-able first.

>>35193077
Your pod moves into the mangled mess of cracked hulls and ruptured bulkheads. Many of the ships here seem partially organic, petrified from centuries adrift in the vacuum of space, perfectly preserved apart from the physical damage.
You find an opening in the ship and send your pod in. It's a tight fit, but you manage to find your way into the interior of some kind of launch bay. Broken fragments of what you assume are strike craft or shuttles of some sort little the area, bouncing lightly off of your pod's hull.
As you pass the graveyard of small ships you feel a surge of energy, some of the craft are not so badly damaged after all! Your pod jinks to the side just as a bolt of metal is sent into the bulkhead where it was just a moment ago. You whip your pod around and it quickly accelerates towards an exit. As you spin your pod around you notice the hangar doors slowly grind open, and the diffuse glow of warming thrusters...

>Attempt to leave through the damaged hull breach
>Attempt to outrun the awoken fighters through the main hangar bay
>Other

>>35193244
>>Attempt to leave through the damaged hull breach

>>35193244
>Attempt to leave through the damaged hull breach

>>35193244
>>Attempt to leave through the damaged hull breach
Sure. Why not.

>>35193244
>Attempt to leave through the hull breach
Please roll 1d100, best of 3 to navigate the hull breach.

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>35193347
Back the way we came in huh.

>>35193244
>As you pass the graveyard of small ships you feel a surge of energy,

Wait the Pod is cloaked. They detected it?

I guess they saw something invisible moving things it bumped into.

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>35193347

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>35193347

>>35193362
>>35193393
>>35193414
Some fine fuckin' rolling anons.

>>35193379
Shit I hope this isn't a leftover from the crystal hive.

>>35193347
Your pod ricochets its way through the breach in moments as you feel the burn of weapons fire melting the bulkhead behind you. Your pod erupts from the ship's hull just as several of the small craft collide in their efforts to follow, engulfing the darkened debris field in a moment of flame.

The hangar door grinds open, and you watch as a swarm of strike craft move out and cascade over the hull of the ship, each individual craft moving with the others like flowing water.

>Open fire on the strike craft
>Open fire on the parent ship
>Flee the system
>Other

>>35193470
>>Open fire on the strike craft
...And this is why we packed the lancer...

>>35193470
>>Open fire on the strike craft
I wonder what happens if we try to query them with telepathy. They look like unintelligent swarm drones, but I wonder if they're psionic at all.

>>35193470
How long would it take to mobilize the other Cruisers?

>Open fire on the strike craft
>Call in the rest of our fleet

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>>35193527
>other
>Cruisers

>>35193557
>corvettes
My bad

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>>35193470
Open fire on the strike craft

The autocannons spin up and the plasma lances glow white as your corvettes lower their cloaking fields and unleash their firepower on the growing swarm.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9UVzGsixYc Mood music, for anyone else feeling drowzy.

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>35193630

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>35193630
Burn.

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>35193630
yoro

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>>35193666
IT IS DONE

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>>35193666
Based dice gods.

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>>35193630
Plasma and cannonfire fills the space between your ships and the derelict hull. The ships are quick to react, flowing around the streams of plasma like a school of fish, but with every volley you see more and more of them pop in silence like kernels in a fire. Gradually they close in, each wave using the one before it as cover from the onslaught of fire.

You spot an arm of the swarm moving around to the side, like a single arm the rolling tendril of fighters bores into the side of your corvette like a drill. As your weapons swivel in their positions you quickly burn them away before they breach the hull. Another arm swings around, twisting over and around the torrent of plasma and chitinous slugs before being pushed back. A peppering of shattered armor plating showers your ships as the molten pieces drift into your corvettes path, and eventually they stop their charge.
Once more the debris field grows still.

>Send in your corvette to dock
>Destroy the derelict once and for all and salvage what scrap you can
>Other

>>35193806
>Send in your corvette to dock

>>35193806
>>Send in your corvette to dock

Hopefully we can dissect the swarm's remains later.

>>35193806
>Send in your corvette to dock

>>35193806
>>Send in your corvette to dock
Spooky.

>>35193806
>Send in your corvette to dock

>>35193806
Could we send out radio signals to show we're friendly?

>>35193915
I think they'd just use those signals to home in our location and try to turn us into Swiss cheese again.

>>35193915
>radio
>not telepathy

Those were automated mindless defenses in all likelihood anyway.

And who says we are.

>>35193941
Anon your not making any sense. Go to sleep.

>>35193988
>your
Look who's talking.

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>>35193806
>Send in your corvette to dock

Your ship moves in and finds a largely intact section of hull and attaches itself to the plating before starting to cut through. The armor is surprisingly thick, and as you suspected it is organic in nature.
Eventually you manage to break through the hull and your drones drift into the hallway within. There is air, although it is stale and cold. Ice droplets float through the air like a thin fog of crystals, and frost clings to every surface to make the entire interior glisten with the minute amount of light available.

>Send in all your drones to scour the ship
>Send in some of your drones (write in) and hold the rest back
>Other

>>35194005
>>Send in some of your drones (write in) and hold the rest back
30 warriors
1 colossi
40 Mini-Sniffers
10 Flys
2 Bio-tank
20 Haz-mat workers
20 Regular workers


Leave 1 colossi and 30 warriors in reserve.

>>35194005
Send in the Flies, shock troopers and 30 warriors.

Cuz really should thin the shock trooper numbers anyway.

>>35194017
2nding this, but split our Sniffers up and use them as advanced recon.

>>35194005
>>Send in some of your drones (write in) and hold the rest back
The Sniffers, flys, and colossi.

>>35194005
>Send in some of your drones (write in) and hold the rest back
Have the Collosi secure the landing area, sniffers and flies fly ahead of the Warriors. Have the workers stay on the corvette for now.

>>35194017
How about you only send in drones that are actually battle ready or that can camouflage and avoid combat entirely.

Taking tanks is just....what?

Also mood music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpQ-3J6xNN0&index=12&list=PL2BF597D4E13BBA8A

>>35194005
Hold the Bio-tanks, haz-mat, and worker drones, as well as 20 warriors, and the colossi that doesn't have the plasma spray. Everyone else goes into the brink.

>>35194073
>>35194005

that works.

>>35194005
>Send in sniffers, flies, ten warriors, and a colossi

Your drones drift into the corridor. The hall extends out in a maze of twisting tunnels of piping and crisscrossing bulkheads. Motes of frozen dust drift like tiny planets, coalescing into fuzzy balls of ice. Blacked pieces of bulkhead mark the site of long choked fires and shattered bulkheads drift through the hall, slowly bouncing off of the walls at a glacial pace, their position jostled slowly as the dead hulk rotates in its orbit.

>Split your drones up to search the ship faster
>Keep them together, despite how long it may take
>Other

>>35194059
Excellent choice.

>>35194152
>>Split your drones up to search the ship faster
That's the whole point of sniffers and flies.

>>35194152
>Split your drones up to search the ship faster
Send the sniffers and flies to scout.

>>35194152
>Split your drones up to search the ship faster

>>35194152
>>Other
Have the sniffers and flies spread out and scan as much ground as possible. Have the warriors and colossi respond to anything interesting they find.

Also, only 10? Shouldn't we put out a few more?

>>35194152
>Split your drones up to search the ship faster
This is most likely a Crystal Hive Ship. Hopefully they'll have something that we can get some info from. Maybe a thinker that's still alive, though seeing from how we use our own thinkers, I doubt that they'll know much

>>35194206
>deleted

>>35194152
The sudden rush of sound breaks the silence as your cloud of small drones buzzes their way through the hall, diving into the maze of dark passageways and sending motes of ice cascading outwards in tiny wakes.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3 to search the ship.

Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>35194257

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>35194257
Hail satin

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>35194257

Rolled 38 (1d100)

>>35194257

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>>35194267
HEIL SATINE

Damn this makes me want to play Homeworld again, but I doubt it can still run on Windows 8.

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>>35194267
Fuck anon, keep sacrificing those virgins.

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>>35194267

>>35194291
Actually, they seem to have re-released it. I found a copy of 1 and 2 both new on amazon.

Anyways, writing...

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>>35194321
Oh, will look that up. Hopefully Homeworld Remastered wouldn't be dumbed down.

>>35194257
Your drones quickly map the labyrinth of hallways and endlessly twisting corridors. Before long you notice a slight pattern in the construction, something you suspect only you would pick up on. The ship's halls all twist and flow from a common area, flowing out like the branches of a tree.
This ship was grown, not built. You feel certain of it. The crumpled struts of shriveled tendons and brittle bone, the walls of petrified muscle and chipped armor. You know these techniques.
You find the control center, right where it should be. A cluster of nerves built into the center of the ship's brain stem. In your ships this is where you place your relays. Here you see nothing. Perhaps a thinker once sat in this chamber. A small pedestal for a relay or thinker sits empty, not far from it is a small, white crystal, opaque but pure and flawless in its appearance. It seems to almost glow with a diffuse light, and a thin layer of liquid water runs along its surface, hugging the crystal in the zero gravity.

Elsewhere, another sniffer makes a more ominous discovery at the far end of the spinal mount. Another crystal, this one darker and far more... wrong.
It is shattered. Split down the middle and cracked across its twisted surface like a shattering glass suspended in time. You hear no whispering from it, no aura of energy, only an unnatural stillness.

>Take the white crystal from the control chamber
>Take the broken void shard from the spinal mount
>Take both
>Leave them both
>Leave the ship and destroy the derelict
>Other

>>35194537
>Another crystal, this one darker and far more... wrong.
Awww shit. Did it died?

>Take both
May want to isolate the black shard from the other shards though.

>>35194537
Shit. Uh. Maybe neither.

Try...asking the white crystal something?

>>35194537
>Take both
Fucking awesome QD

>>35194537
>Take both

>>35194537
>sits empty, not far from it is a small, white crystal,
What happens if it's put on the pedestal, I wonder.

>>35194537
>>Take the white crystal from the control chamber
It's going to take some time to figure this thing out. We can always come back for the void shard, but those bad vibes give me the impression it should be left alone.

>>35194582
Anon, that's just asking for Murphy to fuck your shit up.

>>35194582
Well... you could try it.

>>35194564
Supporting this, in addition to whatever we vote on doing with the crystals.

>>35194604
Now I'm certain it's a bad idea.

>>35194604
Let's...hold off on that for now. No need to be rash.

>>35194604
What's funny is that it's hard to discern your tone from the text here and your little answer could either be innocous or you smirking behind your keyboard.
I'll vote No for now.

>>35194537
>>Take the white crystal from the control chamber
Yeah no I don't trust that black crystal. Come back for it later.

When you have a more thorough understanding of these magic crystals an' shit, dawg.

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>>35194604
DO IT. Though lets do this first >>35194564

>>35194537
>Take both
FOR SCIENCE!

>>35194537
>>Take the white crystal from the control chamber
Black shard bad

>>35194537
>>Take both

>>35194682
Especially considering it behaves NOTHING like the known void shards.

It could be a more...raw kind of seed. Unrefined and untamed.

I don't want to wake it up and see it start consuming everything like a black cancer.

>>35194712
Actually it could be dead which means we could dissect it and figure out how to make our own.

>>35194537
>>Asking the white crystal something?
>>put It on the pedestal
>>Take both

>>35194752
>making your own

How about you figure out the Soul Gem before you start experimenting with the Grief Seed.

>>35194752
Thats an even worse idea. You don't make higher-dimensional beings ever. It's like asking a child to listen to a colony of ants that grew it.

>>35194790
>Thats an even better idea.
FTFY

>>35194537
>>Take the white crystal from the control chamber
Please guys you can come back for the dark one later.

After you know what the hell's going on a bit better.

Consider the fact it was found at the furthest possible point of the ship. As far away as it could be put from anything.

>>35194537
>Take both

>>35194823
Fine fine.
>>35194537
Changing to
>Take the white crystal from the control chamber

>>35194537
Wait, where would the Blink Drive be located in ships like this?

>>35194537
>Take both

You are hesitant to touch the void start from what you know if it, or worse, what you have yet to understand of it, but as your drone nudges it out of place it feels... empty. There is no subtle movement of distorted shapes, or whispers of psionic energy. It doesn't seem to exist at all, like a hole of nothingness, a blank piece of static. What's more is its position. As you take the shard from its place you note the device it was attached to. It is clearly a weapon of some kind, or was, the device itself appears to have been reduced to slag. The black crystal keeps its twisted, tortured shape like a still frame of a shattering glass as your drones drag it down the hall.

The white crystal still appears to be active, although you are unsure as to what its purpose is. Your drone moves in to grab it as it hums in its own soft glow and almost imperceptible warmth.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3

>>35194852
On our ships the drive is located on the wings
Don't know about these ships though.
>>35194857

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>35194857

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>35194857
The Millennium Silver Crystal, at last it's mine!

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>35194857

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>>35194886
The Hive Gods watch over us.

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>>35194886

>>35194886
Good thing I rolled well.

>>35194886
You guys are on fire!
Writting.

>>35194895
we sjould make something like that and call it a hive guard

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>>35194886

>>35194857
>As you take the shard from its place you note the device it was attached to. It is clearly a weapon of some kind, or was, the device itself appears to have been reduced to slag.

I wish we could somehow reverse-engineer that weapon, or at least figure out it's principles. Hopefully the White Crystal Ball will help there.

>>35194923
We already have the Shocktroopers anon. In my headcannon they have the same bulk and size of the pic.

>>35194923
Go to bed

>>35194947
Please, let's not go there again. We've already had this debate once tonight.

>>35194947
Will you stop bringing up shock troopers. I would rather recycle them all at this point than hear more talking about them.

>>35194857
A black crystal weapon, combined with that "black crystals take over a planet" sounds like they used a really horrible world destroying weapon.

They might have tapped into forces outside of normal spacetime to use against their enemies. But in so doing they gave those forces a foothold in this reality, as they fed enemy planets to them.

>>35195016
Making assumption that are unlikely to be true are we?

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>>35195040
Well yeah. It's wild speculation.

They used a weapon that appeared to use a void shard. Last time we saw a flashback, queens were using a white crystal to do something, and then it switched straight to a planet getting foreverial void sharderized.

It was just one speculative idea for the pile.

>>35194857
As your drone reaches out to the crystal it's energy erupts outward. The room is enveloped in steam as the frost flashes into vapor and your drone twitches in shock as a jolt of energy passes through it and into your mind through your drone. You see a fleet arranged before you, black, organic ships moving in on the planet in perfect unison. As they close in on the defending fleet a ship pulls from the center, its weapons unfolding like a blossom as its hull twists and warps. The ship cracks in two, and a pillar of energy erupts from within, engulfing both fleets at once in a firestorm of destruction.
The crust of the planet below begins to crack, and just before the image cuts out you see a shadowy shape twist space around itself behind burning enemy formations, and in that moment you feel a command reach the ship. A single thought sent out in desperation.
"It failed."
You have no way of knowing to know it was sent, or it it managed to reach its destination, but the thought came from the planet below, and it came from a queen.

You quickly gather your drones and your newfound crystals and return to your corvette.

>Leave your pod here to stand watch
>Re-deploy your pod elsewhere
>Salvage what resources you can from the wrecks
>Other

>>35195165
>Salvage what resources you can from the wrecks
>Leave your pod here to stand watch

>>35195165
>>Leave your pod here to stand watch

>>35195165
>>Leave your pod here to stand watch
This is too interesting a relic to salvage.

>>35195165
>As they close in on the defending fleet a ship pulls from the center,
The center of the invading fleet?

They sent an entire fleet along with a suicide weapon just to burn the entire fleet along with the enemy?

>>35195218
>This is too interesting a relic to salvage.
There is no such thing as a "relic too interesting to salvage"

>>35195165
>Leave your pod here to stand watch
>Salvage what resources you can from the wrecks

>>35195165
>>Salvage what resources you can from the wrecks
>Leave your pod here to stand watch

>>35195165
>>Leave your pod here to stand watch

>>35195237
It appears that the ship that fired the weapon was on the defending side. In fact judging from the hull you say it appears to be the same ship you had just salvaged the crystals from.

>>35195165
>>Leave your pod here to stand watch
>>Salvage what resources you can from the wrecks

>>35195165

>Leave your pod here to stand watch
What part of it was even emitting radiation signals when it's organic?

>>35195165
>Leave your pod here to stand watch
Maybe if we can safely clear out a space around one of the larger planet chunks, we can start mining for minerals and maybe even a shipyard here.
All the debris will help shield any activity from prying eyes and the cracked planet should still have a useable amount of metals.
The only problem might be the automated drones of some ships and the chance that something...else is still among the wreckage.

>>35195165
>Leave your pod here to stand watch
>Salvage what resources you can from the wrecks

>>35195165
>You have no way of knowing to know it was sent,
knowing to know?

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>>35194947

Ever since I started reading this quest, my mental image of our GLORIOUS HIVE MASTER RACE is visually a mix of Nerubians and Formics.

It is a good pain.

>>35195288
I agree.
>>35195273
We should build battleships here

>>35195165
>Salvage what resources you can from the wrecks; Maybe reverse engineer it's design or see about rebuilding it here.
>Leave your pod here to stand watch

>>35195349
Unstable crumbling obliterated planets do not seem likely to make a steady foundation for docking pylons.

>>35195165
>and in that moment you feel a command reach the ship. A single thought sent out in desperation.
>"It failed."
That doesn't sound like a command, it sounds like a statement?

>>35195344
A shame we never really got to see much of the formics in the movie. All we have is are the ships, their drone fighters and a few seconds of the queen.

>>35195359

I think he means orbital shipyards and heavy duty mining of said unstable crumbling planetary pieces.

Basically we would pulling Dead Space planet cracking, but with construction.

>>35195359
Well, theres going to be a ton of resources floating around. Lots of interference and little reason to investigate. Additionally it is well away from our hive. Makes sense to me

That is indeed what I mean >>35195401

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>>35195385

I think they did an impressive job on the Queen.

Y'know, for the twenty seconds we see her.

>>35195401
There are no orbital shipyards. You have to build the docking pylon on something.

>>35195448

Grab big rock, make big rock have stable or semi-stable orbit, build docking pylon on big rock and build a base inside big rock.

Orbital Shipyard / Space Station.

>>35195448
space station.

>>35195476
Thank you anon. I think he must be tired or something. It is rather late.

>>35195489
Again.

You have to build the docking pylon on something.

You can't build a space station without a docking pylon.

You see the problem here.

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>>35195420
>>35195514

I remember QD saying that orbital shipyards are a different thing from docking pylons.

From Thread 23
>>35039313
>Orbital docking pylon (grants access to capital ship construction)

>>35195165
Is the ship still giving off energy and does it respond in any way when we think at it?

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>>35195514
>Send workers on shuttle
>Have them hollow out a piece of rock as a base of operations
>Use that to build orbital docking pylon

>>35195514
You've got things mix-up, Anon.

>>35195525
He literally calls it a docking pylon. It's the same thing.

He doesn't even use the word 'shipyards'.

>>35195567
"space station" is meaningless, unless anon meant Hive Ship, in which case yeah that was accurate.

>>35195585
Alright let's settle this once and for all
>>35195165
QD, does an Orbital Docking Pylon need to be attached to a "solid ground" or is it free floating in space?
Also, does it require preexisting infrastructure in a system to build or is all you need a swarm of workers and access to metals?

>>35195585
How stupid are you?

>>35195638
What's stupid about realizing that a docking pylon in a zero-gravity environment unlocks capital ships because gravity isn't there to get in the way like planetside docking pylons?

>>35195667
Nothing. What's stupid is the argument over it's not a shipyard it's a Docking Pylon in space like the use of a term that means the same thing makes it different.

>>35195165
>Keep your pod to stand watch
>Start salvaging what you can from the wrecks

Your corvettes make to return to your hive to repair and unload your drones before your scouts return to start their salvage efforts. The last traces of activity on the derelict fades as you take the crystals and stow them safely within your hive.

"Doctor Vaughn."
You still feel the faded, swirling pool of thought from Elizabeth's mind as she sleeps.
"Doctor Vaughn, you need to leave."
Distant thumps rattle the room, and a muffled siren can be heard outside the small office. Elizabeth looks up from her desk to the small screen.
"What? Is the shuttle here early?"
"Not quite." Another thump, this one much closer, sends the lights flickering for a moment. A lamp tips from its table and shatters on the floor. "I think I have settled on a name for myself. Theseus seemed the most appropriate."
"That's great. What's going on, exactly?"
You see her view shift as she stumbles up from the desk to the window. A brief bolt of light streaks from the sky and impacts the ground several kilometers away, basking the facility in the light of several kilotons of kinetic force as a fireball ascends into the air.
"A rescue team has arrived, they will take you to safety."
Several more kinetic round strike the planet, each one closer than the last.
"Why are they bombarding?"
"They're not. I am. It's the only way to prevent them from uncovering what you did for me."
Something hits the door with the thump and voices can be heard from the other side, muffled and ignored.
"I appreciate what you did, I truly do, but there is no survival for me within the Union. I have to leave, and so do you." The screen goes black as the lights flicker again. The room shakes as the blast shatters the window.
The door cracks as the rescue team kicks at it again and again, and the reinforced plastic gives way, splintering under the force of a charging hive warrior.

Elizabeth jerks herself awake in her cell.

>>35195624
>The problem is that you don't understand what he's saying.
He used like two words, not even a complete sentence. He could've meant a lot of things ("build the pylon on a space station", "the pylon is a space station"), inferences had to be made.

>>35195835
I wonder what would happen if Vaughn is allowed to meet with Theseus

>>35195856
Let's not find out.

Vaughn has valuable information that we could eventually sell to Theseus. he doesn't need to know about telepathy, the Ark on Raligha, or her newly implanted memories, for free.

>>35195875
I wasn't thinking about any of those things, just having a good old chat between friends, though having to coerce Vaughn into hiding these things from Theseus might go against her beliefs.

>>35195835
You have an increasing amount of things to concern yourself over as of late, and every moment seems to only add to the stress. It feels at times as if you are besieged from all sides, even the empty systems feel as if filled with malice towards you.

You turn to the drumming creatures of raligha. Their language has been mostly cracked by now, although there are bound to be a few awkward translations. You contemplate opening communications when Theseus sends you his signature ping.

>Speak with Theseus
>Attempt proper first contact with the natives
>Speak with Elizabeth
>Other

>>35195875
>he doesn't need to know about telepathy,
We already told him about that.

>>35195940
>Speak with Theseus
I want Genetically modified food to improve our algea farms. Theseus should know about that.

>>35195940
>>Speak with Theseus
I don't want to talk to the natives until I overhear conversations of theirs about us.

>>35195947
As used by Skyl, right, yeah.

>>35195940
>Speak with Theseus
Well if he wants to talk to us then that SHOULD be important

>>35195940
Theseus, old buddy old pal. So many interesting questions unanswered.

How the hell are the Valen and the Ceph governed?

Does he have access to the Union news network feeds? Have there been stories concerning system G-426?

The first because I want to fish for how much he knows about Ceph society and its religion already. Probably nothing. The latter because I'm wondering if Lee did get smeared in the media after all.

>>35195940
>Speak with Theseus

Oh can you address this QD? >>35195630

>>35195940
>>Speak with Theseus
See about trading for Shield Tech and see how they actually think through are pods.

>>35196005
>and see how they actually think through are pods.
What.

Anon go home you're drunk.

>captcha: college

>>35182976
> On its outskirts is a small, frozen ball of ice, totally uninteresting were it not for the small metal box in high orbit. You can't tell what its design is, but you can immediately tell it's clearly of human design.
I wonder if Theseus could recognize what this is.

It's presumably not a monitor satellite, or the queen would be able to recognize it.

Also I'm still confused about that last update:

>>35195335
>>35195375

>>35196005
I still wonder how shields work in this universe and I really hope we could get Langston fields.

>>35196005
No. No trading.

We can waylay a lone Union corvette now on our own with several ships to the hive's name.

I'm sure there's still an exploration mission due in M-199, because if they'd already been there, they surely would have noticed the same radiation signal that we did and gotten there first.

>>35196021
This quest has been going on 17 hours. He probably needs sleep.

>>35196052
Probably a prison station (since almost space prisons in fiction are box-shaped for some reason)

>>35196021
>As your pod enters its stealth field and starts accelerating toward the system you make note of a small gas giant. A number of server ships are in orbit, gulping down gas as they slowly skim the surface of the atmosphere. Further in you detect a single planet with a dense atmosphere. The planet is covered in a mixture of dense vegetation, deserts, mountains and frozen tundra. Along the equator is a vast collection of metal and plastic in the center of a large desert expanse. The city reaches outward and upward for miles where cruisers dock and undock on a regular basis, running back and forth to the passing server ships. The city itself is a source of mixed radio signals of all kinds, and you can hear Theseus arguing with himself a thousand times per second across the entire system as countless versions argue over each and every course of action. Even from the little you have seen of him, the chaos seems unbecoming of the Theseus you know.

>>35195940
You quickly return the short beep and Theseus speaks up immediately.
"You recall my efforts to implant a small version of myself within the Union ship that had visited some days ago, yes?"
"Yes."
"Well, it has finally returned some information. A news story from the Union core worlds. That odd little human by the name of Lee, he has reportedly been placed in protective custody pending a hearing. There are riots involved. There is a short video on the subject, if you would like to see it.

>>35196100
Huh, just what I was gonna ask about anyway.

Playback time. Brace for moral outrage.

Riots over mere incompetence that got a drop trooper killed? How many lies did they have to make up.

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>>35196100
Is Leefu in trouble?

I wonder when QD will be doing Causal influence Diagrams?
>www.projectrho.com/rpg/cidiagram.html

>>35196100
>That odd little human by the name of Lee,
That sounds like he actually met Lee before or knew who he was before this news story just now, but he didn't, did he?

First time Lee was here, some Unity drones saw him and thought they killed him, but failed. But those drones were then destroyed and he never got those memories.

The second time he was here, he stuck to radio silence. Satellite-Theseus wouldn't have been able to know about him.

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>>35196100
What are they doing to our Lee!?!

>>35182657
Wait.

>M-199 described as having the planet cracked in half

>M-323 described as having "a faint wave of energy" signal

Which is it? Did the signal get retroactively moved to M-199?

>>35196100
Theseus slowly streams the video to you from his link to the rest of his network. The abridged report was sent ahead of the video itself.

There is a woman standing across the street from a large, solid gray building. In the corner is a slowly rotating cube with the letters "UPN" emblazoned on the sides and a thin, rapidly streaming ticker running along the bottom of the screen with all manner of seemingly random letters and numbers. Below that is another ticker scrolling more slowly with a more legible topic.
"Canderon production lowest in decade, experts point to increase in Canian religious extremism as main cause. Multiple quakes hit cities across Moskva, looting reported. Newly commissioned officer fumbles first contact expedition, multiple dead, cuortmarshial to be scheduled. Olympus Shipyards announcing recall of latest Starlancer model, litigations pending. Man found on roof wielding nothing but...." The strange news blurbs continue in a loop, with old ones replaced with new ones as events unfold in unseen reaches of the Union. Behind the woman on the screen is a pair of crowds separated by a line of armored soldiers.
You are surprised at the number of non-humans in at least one of the crowds. A shirtless man with thick, unwashed hair stands hoisting a pale Ceph on his back, the Ceph holds a number of chipboard signs displaying crude drawings of a human hand and claw embracing, and exaggerated depictions of insects with large, reflective, almost human eyes. You see several trios of Taidarens scampering through the crowd dressed in ragged, torn cloth and stained towels. The humans are chanting various mantras while the others whistle and flash artificial skin suits in their various languages.

>>35196467
Both, your find on M-199 was an unrelated discovery. The dense debris prevented a clear reading until your pod was able to get closer.

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>"Canderon production lowest in decade, experts point to increase in Canian religious extremism as main cause.
I can't take all these political analogies.

Okay so we created a convenient catalyst incident for human supremacists and space hippies to face off. And Lee just has no idea what's going on.

>>35196496
So we still haven't checked out M-323?

>>35196469
Damn, I didn't know what I was expecting, surely you don't expect us to risk everything just to rescue Lee...right?

>>35196469
The other crowd is exclusively human, well dressed and many in military fatigues. A large paper mache insect is surfing along the crowd on its back, quickly disintegrating as it is beaten and torn by the mob. The message is obvious even to you at first glance.

"Good morning, I'm Suzan Lyam, and I'm standing outside of the Space forces judiciary building of Gemini Beta, where just hours ago the alleged commanding officer of a recently scrubbed first contact mission is being held prior to courmartial. The current allegations claim that the negligence of the officer in question directly lead to the deaths of at least one individual, although we have unconfirmed reports of more deaths or injuries."
The crowds quickly become louder until it is difficult to hear the reporter. She plugs one of her ears and shoults into her microphone. "The situation has been latched onto by multiple pro-xeno groups including several controversial groups considered as terrorist groups by the Union Security Council."

The reporter diverts her eyes to the ground for a quick moment as she listens to something in her ear. "Wait, I just received reports of fighting breaking out several miles from here. I'm receiving unconfirmed reports of what appears to be-" the building behind her erupts into flames, and both crowds scatter in all directions. The camera drops to the ground and you can hear the sound of gunfire break out as the video cuts out.

>>35196540
I'm sure that would go well.

>Fleets decimated
>water supplies contaminated
>Entire cities dying of a fungal plague
>Prisons ransacked
>thousands of lives lost
>all so drones can track down and break into Lee's cell
>to take him into exile where he can never see human civilization again
>just to keep him out of prison

Clearly Lee would be happy.

More seriously, at least we have one free Pod. We can send that to whatever system this is, discreetly, that has all these interesting news reports so we can keep up on our own without the low-bandwidth FTLComm in the way.

>>35196768
Oh. Well, that was more serious than expected.

Well, if the 'terrorist' label isn't just lying propaganda, maybe some freedom fighting xenolovers 'rescued' Lee against his will already.

>>35196768
As the video ends Theseus speaks up. I'm not sure how you knew this Lee fellow, but he's all over the public network. Theories range from him being a xenophile to a terrorist leader to even a few obscure website communities claiming him to be a robot. Did you actually know him or is this just some insane political stunt?"

>>35196846
Let's play it close to the vest.

"There was a Ryan Lee on the Union mission, a puppet of John Smith. The Union does seem to be rather insane, though."

>>35196768
Jeez this is more serious than we thought. I wonder how they'll react to Aliens with an actual military and won't take the Union government's bullshit.

>>35196846
Tell him he was here on the Clarke and we had built a rapport with him.

>>35196846
"We do know him."

>>35196846
>>35196865
>>35196904
>>35196873

Backing

>>35196846
"Yes; He gave us a lighter. Nice Human. He's being blamed for what John Smith did. The Union seem to be rather insane."

>>35196846
"Where is this Gemini Beta?"

It's either a planet name or the name of a system not in the map.

>>35196818
If we wanted to, 'we' may not have too. In hindsight, it might have been a poor choice to mess with him, but Lyle could be the perfect agent to get back into Union for us and break him out of prison for us.
>>35196846
A mix of both of this.
>>35196865
>>35196873

>>35196818
"There was a Ryan Lee aboard the Clarke. He was also the leader of the marine mission sent here."
"I see. Well according to the various theories across the public network, he is either a newly discovered form a intelligent lizard, a bug-based replicant, a robot, or a, and I quote, 'time traveling space jew.' Somehow I doubt the Union has actually released the accurate story of what happened."
You think for a moment on these developments. "Where is Gemini Beta?" You ask finally.
"In the Tau Ceti system. Gemini and Gemini Beta are binary planets that serve as the capital. Gemini is the civilian capital, while Gemini Beta is the military one. I'll give you that for free, these recent developments are too good to not share."

You sense the story reaching Zero-One. The depths of the metropolis shift almost entirely into a meat grinder of theories and counter theories, arguments and counter arguments. Some of them contain frighteningly accurate assumptions of your nature, although they are drowned out in a sea of nonsense.

>>35197036
>time traveling space jew
QD you're too good to me sometimes

>>35197036
We should ask if he knows a doctor Vaughn.

>>35197036
>a newly discovered form a intelligent lizard
So it's still a thing in the far future?
>time traveling space jew
Never change /pol/
>Some of them contain frighteningly accurate assumptions of your nature, although they are drowned out in a sea of nonsense
In swear Theseus is only sane on duty. But when on break they go full-on chan

Tau Ceti still isn't on the map though.

>>35197036
>assumptions of your nature
tell us more

>>35197128
No.

He's smart, we only have a few sources of human related information, and he'd be able to guess we captured Vaughn on Raligha.

>>35197036
Bloody hell QD you kill me.

>>35197036
I don't suppose he gave us a distance and heading of Tau Ceti.

We'd have to stop at Sol to refuel from a gas giant, it looks like, in order to reach it with a pod.

>>35197036
Without all the micromanagement this quest is a lot more enjoyable.

>>35197036
You note with disappointment that the system is not on your rather limited map you had recovered from the Clarke.
>Ask where Tau Ceti is
>Ask (write in)
>Other

>Ask where Tau Ceti is
Only if he'll give it for free.

>>35197211
>Ask what would it cost to have an expanded map?

>>35197211
>Ask where Tau Ceti is
The capital of the Union would be at least really interesting to eavesdrop on in general.

I don't know if just a star location is super valuable. Maybe we can offer him what we know of some more lifeform samples. Or that there's a Valen colony on FG-883.

>>35197211
Ask where tau ceti is.
Ask what theseus thinks about our odds of lee retrieval.
Afterwards:
Speak with Doc about theseus, ask her if she wants to speak with our theseus, potentially give her more leeway?
Speak with human officers as well, though I doubt anything new'll come from that. I'm just curious if something new popped up.

>>35197257
Or information on a new sentient lifeform.

>>35197211
Or better yet, ask for an expanded version that lists the entirety of Union and Commonwealth (He obviously won't give out the locations of Unity worlds)

>>35197282
I considered that, but censoring out the parts where they worship non-radial-symmetric alien lifeforms with six limbs would be touchy though.

>>35197211
>Ask where Tau Ceti is
>>35197036
>Some of them contain frighteningly accurate assumptions of your nature...

This is going to come back on us, isn't it?

>>35197300
>>35197257
>>35197282
I'm sure we could scrap together some info on a couple of species we found. I mean, it's just a map that would probably be public knowledge to the general public. I doubt it would be overly expensive.

>>35197036
>>Ask where Tau Ceti is

Also guys I've figured out that Unity uses wormholes for FTL.

>>35197407
Well yeah. "Folding space". Making a shorter path through space. the Fold Drive or whatever does seem to be the kind that makes a space tunnel.

>>35197426
They use Canderon to stabilize the wormholes which is why they need it.

>>35197407
>>35197426
>>35197471

Which means our relatively inexpensive Blink Drive would be worth a fortune for them. No more mining for rare Canderon or having to use highly unstable mini-blackholes. We should save trading them that for only the most important things.

>>35197211
"Where is Tau Ceti, exactly?"
"Were you planning on visiting? I could offer a more extensive chart of Union territory."

>Offer map data
>Offer tech (write in)
>Other
>Decline offer

>>35197522
>>Offer map data
Right, the black box data is new to him.

Map4map

>>35197522
>Offer map data
Could we offer some of the information we have been gathering with our spy network?

>>35197522
>Offer map data
If that isn't enough:
>>Offer black box data

>>35197522
>>Offer map data
can you also add what you know of Commonwealth territory?
If worse comes to worse, we could offer to let him have access to surveillance data from one of our pods in a given system. Not sure if it's worth it.

>>35197522
I hope this thread ends with the Skyl datacube research finished.

>>35197522
>Offer map data

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>>35197522
You send Theseus the collection of data you had collected from your scouting efforts. You leave out some of the more fine details, such as the natives of Raligha, or the derelicts, but the data seems to be sufficient.
"Excellent." He says as the map is beamed to your mind.
"What of data regarding Commonwealth territory?"
"Sadly, I am not privy to that data, although I am sure it could be obtained with enough time and effort."

>>35197745
>Tau Ceti is 22 lightyears away from G-426

Okay, it's within pod round trip range then.

And we have one pod left to send out.

Seems worthwhile. Might want to construct more pods though.

The middle of Unionspace looks oddly vacant.

>>35197745
you note the distance to the Tau Ceti system with a sense of mild frustration. It may still be worth the effort to place a pod to monitor the system, but it would require some deal of effort, as well as a pit stop at Sol at the very least.

>Send a pod to the Tau Ceti system
>Keep your pod in orbit for now
>Other

>>35197857
>Keep your pod in orbit for now
Might as well wait till we set up another colony first

>>35197857
>>Send a pod to the Tau Ceti system
This news is only gonna get juicier. We need it in hi-def.

>>35197857
>Keep your pod in orbit for now

>>35197857
>>Send a pod to the Tau Ceti system

>>35197745
I don't know why but the little white specks actually make me think that i'm looking at space.

>>35197857
Also I'm balk at the thought of having to stop at Sol, since I'm pretty sure there's still a lot of humans there, but then again, we managed to slip into Aquila without much problem.

>>Send a pod to the Tau Ceti system

>>35197857
>pit stop
Now that we have the map --why would it, actually?

I thought the pod could make 10 jumps of 5 lightyears each without rolling. It's less than 25 lightyears away.

>>Send a pod to the Tau Ceti system

>>35197938
The white specs are the default setting for hexographer. I think they clutter up the text needlessly personally, but I forgot to turn them off.

>>35197951
Yes, the sleeplessness is getting to me.
And yes, also, due to the relative emptiness of the region, rolls to jump long distances within the area would be much easier than normal.
The massive empty space is the result of poorly translating actual star locations and distances into a 2d map. Most of them are actual stars, but their locations are hideously misrepresented.

>>35197857
>Send your pod to the Tau Ceti system

Your pod quickly blinks out of existence and back again, flashing across the cosmos in quick succession. Several hours of jump calculations later and your pod makes the final blink to the distant outskirts of the system, a light day away from the Tau Ceti star. Your pod dons its cloak and accelerates.

"We have learned new thing!"
Your thinkers chime in like a chorus of cheerful, eager minds. The secrets of the data cube have finally been unlocked.

I think I need to call it here, it's been what, 19 hours? I think we all need some rest.

>>35198124
Maybe.

Thanks for going double feature anyway.

We still haven't asked Coil exactly who leads the Ceph. How their society is organized. And who exactly has heard Them personally, over Ceph history, and what They said, precisely.

Really should do that one of these days.

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>>35198124
Thanks for the Extra-long thread QD.
I don't suppose you could make an extra pastebin with a list of all the techs we have already researched?
If it's not too much work for you maybe.

So next on out to-do list is to establish our first interstellar colony/shipyard?

>>35198124
We must have had some of Lee's blood at first meeting when he was injured, right.

So we have Lee's DNA?

So we could design a strain of bioweapon that will target any human....except Lee.

>>35198176
Sure, that could work.

>>35198174
I'll see if I can get that set up.

Okay so next thread we'll see the capital of the Union.

The signal detected at M-323.

Skyl data cubes, hopefully they included all their memories uploaded in there and not just the cliffnotes.

And getting closer to that metal box at A-295.

>>35198293
Hey, I'm still a bit confused by the update about that silver crystal flashback.

>>35195335
>>35195375

A command, a thought, a command to send a thought, which?

>>35198335
Command to the ship to send the message somewhere else.
Probably not worded in the most clear way, sorry.

>>32361786
>Hivemind, or gestalt intelligence is a theorized method of consciousness in which each member is not sentient, but the civilization as a whole is. Current major proponent of this theory is Dr. Adam Seiner, who has joined the Expanse Colonization project in an effort to find such a race. Many critics cite his withdrawn funding

>>35192426
>"I'm sorry. I'm just fed up with all of this, and the way Seiner sold the whole project down the river. Sold you down the river.

These are two very different ways of looking at apparently the same event.

Also fun to find out that Theseus's decentralized distributed consciousness is part of that same old hivemind fetish of Seiner's.

>>35198370
>www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/index.php
Have you checked out this website? I think there is a lot of useful here.

>>35198370
Think we can go ahead and select research options to begin?

>>35198622
We don't even know what we got from the datacubes.

If we want to raid in the union space all we have to is make a mobile base and start away on the other side of their territory

Can cause some serious damage and maybe cut them off from that system that produces the macguffin mineral

Hey QD, one last thing, have you changed the specs for those frigates in works?

Does anyone think we should send a shuttle to scout the desert for a potential hive location?

>>35198930
Dude, it would have to be entirely subterranean or maintained entirely by radiator workers. It's a big planet, I don't see why we can't find somewhere else more convenient.

>>35198930
>>35199068
i would support an archaeology mission on the planet to find any leftovers but not a long-term colony

>>35199068
Because it would hide the existence of a hive there and would difficult for anyone to approach.
Also, subterranean bases are kind of are thing anyway,

>>35198930
Talking about the desert on are world.
>>35199122

>>35199164
Oh on the homeworld

Sure why not, just build canals and make underground farms i guess or a bolthole in case

>>35199232
But we could build all those things elsewhere on the planet much easier and cheaper.

So, here's another proposal. Our nutrient income is going through the roof with all of our farms being set up, but our metal income has yet to catch up. We should think about establishing new mining operations to fix this. Maybe we could establish a new hive in a mine for convenience?

>>35199726
How about we do both? we have 40 radiator workers why not have them set up a hive and then set up the infrastructure that regulates temperature (we do it where we are already)? From that point on we wouldn't have to have every drone have Radiator Adaptions. Also, if you want more metal lay more digger, refineries, and excavators they are the ones who collect metal for the hive.

>>35199726
The excavators also dig hive Tunnels SUPER FAST.