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>>37027385
>Current armory
269 Thorn Launchers
20 Thorn Cannons
123 Sting Casters
30 Cyclotrons
15 Rotary Stingers
3 Fire Sprays
5 Plasma Spray
22 Particle Cannons

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 748336
Metals: 527684
Credits: ₡2326
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡577,450

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 1059
Queen – 5
Fake Queen (2) – 44
Worker (5005) – 10010
Aquatic Worker (140) – 560
Vacuum Worker (200) – 1200
Radiator Worker (100) – 400
Warrior (1209) – 6045
Aquatic Warrior (100) – 700
Thinker (1300) – 3900
Quantum Thinker (355) – 1775
Speaker – (3) – 12
Digger (80) – 320
Refinery (10) – 70
Sniffer (2) – 8
Small Sniffer (200) – 200
Fly (50) – 200
Wasp (100) – 500
Haz-mat Workers (20) – 80
Shock Troops (40) – 520
Parasite (30) – 120
Bio-tank (12) – 300
Excavator (250) – 4750
Colossus (20) – 300
Harvester (50) – 950
Support Fluttercraft (2) – 272
Ghost Beetle (5) – 135
Heavy Warrior (5) – 95
Advanced Relay (69) – 6900 (set as default method of ship control)
Upkeep: 41430N

>Hive fleet
Space Pod (29) – 870
Shuttle (10) – 250
Mining Corvette (6) – 1200
Scout Corvette (6) – 1350
Lancer Corvette (2) – 450
Fleet Corvette (4) – 900
Stealth Frigate (4) – 1952
Heavy Cruiser (10) – 12150
19122N

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
25 Human captives of the USV Hope – 750
3 Human hybrid clones in production – 180 [1 day left]
Lyle Rogers – 47
977N

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 61529

>Income
Metals: 113000
Nutrients: 125000
Net: 63471

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>>37027400
Hive Territory
[G-426]
Asteroid mining base: 5 Excavators, 20 Diggers, +2250M per day (+50 M per digger, +250 per excavator)

*Leeland (capital)
Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System [under construction]
>Anti-orbital batteries: 2/35 (250N)
>33 under construction
>Surface to Orbit Missile System under construction
Military structures
>Hangar facilities: Room for 40 Aero/fighter Drones and 20 Shuttles (25N)
>Spring Mountain Hive: Original hive contains decoy queen within throne room
>*Secondary Mountain Hive: Actual site of Throne Room
>Clarke Research Outpost
>Hel’s Angel Prison Outpost
Industrial structures
>Docking Pylon: (4) (200N)
[2 Scout Corvettes]
[14 Space Pods]
[32 Space pods queued]
[Empty docks: 0/16]
Economic Structures
>Mine: 245 Excavators, 60 Diggers, +62750 M per day (+25 M per digger, +250 per excavator)
>Algae Farm: +100000N per day, 1000 Workers (1 worker per 100N) [1000 in production]
>Film harvester dock: +25000N per day, 50 Harvesters active (500N per Harvester)

M-662
Raligha – Automated: defensive focus (No trade active)
Defensive structures
>Anti-orbital batteries: 4/35 (500N) [31 under construction]
Economic structures
>Bloodroot collectors: A series of pipes and veins running from the roots of several of the nearest Bloodroot trees provide a passive and low maintenance source of nutrient income, +250N per day (5)
>Greenwall pit: Variable income (6 workers consumed in accidents, 2 containment breaches, 1 warrior wounded, average harvest provides net gain of 500N, thinkers report testing not yet complete)
>Temple alter: A place for the Ralighan locals to worship and bring offerings to your hive, built in the likeness of your local fake queen, +500N per day

M-323
>Orbital docking pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 sub capitals or 1 capital ship, (50N)
[4 Space Pods]
[Empty docks: 0/4]
>Mining corvette salvage operations +48000M per day (+8000M per corvette)

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>>37027423
New Construction Options
Defensive structures
>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
>Surface to Orbit Missile System – This massive bunker complex houses a wide range of warheads and a nigh limitless number of missiles within its protective walls, allowing you to launch missiles against approaching invaders from the safety of your hive. The facility uses the ship missile stats and comes equipped with a single Cruise missile silo that can target any detected object within the system, five Stinger missile silos capable of targeting any craft within high orbit, and ten Swarm missile silos specialized in targeting high altitude aircraft and low orbiting targets. The facility itself is a massive complex spread out over several miles, and includes guidance and launch equipment, as well as the means to construct and maintain a stock of warheads and missiles. (1500N 2500M)

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>>37027470
Military Structures
>Hangar Expansion – Construct fortified hangar facilities for your choice of +40 aero/fighter drone space, or +20 shuttle space. 50N 100M
Industrial Structures
>Docking Pylon – A large spire or station that contains space for docking and construction of 4 ships, or a single capital ship if placed in orbit. 100N 300M
Economic Structures
>Harvester Dock – A large pier built along the shore overlooking the spore-producing ocean film that serves as an unloading area for Harvester drones, and contains pipelines to pump collected raw nutrients to the hive’s awaiting processing facilities, includes a single Harvester which is covered by the cost and upkeep of the dock. Provides 500N per day (38N 50M)
>Orbital electroponic station – An orbital instillation built near a large source of hydrogen used to fuel a large fusion core, which in turn provides electrical power to a contained algae farm facility. Must be built in orbit of a gas giant. Provides +500N per day and doubles as a gas mining facility, refueling the tritium stores of any ships in the system. (1000M)
>Algae Farm – A carved out space used to utilize Leeland’s natural electrical field to cultivate food. +100N per day, 1 worker to maintain.

Fuck yeah, It's my favorite time of the week again!

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>>37027498
Finished research

>Rapid nano-assembly
Advanced construction techniques utilizing nanomachine filled paste to bond materials together on a molecular level allows for the construction of ships and buildings at a much more rapid pace.

[Nano-manufactory – While your workers are capable of efficiently providing for any and all labor you require, construction is still dependent on the growing of tools and the shaping of small components normally created within vats or shaped by workers. By employing large amounts of biomechanical nanomachines held within large centralized vats, this limitation can be removed and construction projects rapidly accelerated. Passively reduces time of all surface construction to a minimum of 1 day, depending on worker availability.]

Medical nanomachines
Uses injectable nanomachines to assist in healing wounds or performing surgery, reducing the time required for medical procedures and allowing for far more advanced medical care in the field.

[Smart-blood transfusions – Medical procedure times no longer accumulate with multiple procedures for non-hive life, and instead use the longest time]

[Bio-salve – The biological interface can now administer a regenerative salve capable of disinfecting and healing minor wounds, as well as stabilizing more serious wounds]

>Skyl controller chip
This small chip in the Skyl skull is all that remains of the complex network of nanomachine based medical systems. The device itself works in a similar capacity to your own parasites, but offers the controller extensive control over rapidly reprogrammable nanomachines capable of a wide range of tasks.

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>>37027529
New research unlocked

>Smart Mines
Medium
Replacing digger drones with programmable seeds of nanomachines allows the hive to effectively create metal trees. The nanomachines spread roots through the ground to locate ore veins, break them down and assemble them on the surface as metallic fruit-like bulbs for workers to gather.

>Liquid metal sculpting
Medium
By using nanomachines to maintain metal in a liquid form regardless of temperatures and without diluting it with chemicals, you can improve the quality of the Hive’s metallurgy, decreasing the time it takes your workers to perform metal intensive work in cramped spaces and dramatically boosting ship construction times.

>Carbon nanostructure construction
Medium
By using the ancient Raligha ship as a basis, and new construction techniques, you can implement more sturdy nanotubes and carbon based diamond filaments to slightly improve the stability and durability of your ships without impeding maneuverability or increasing cost.

>Cellular acceleration
Medium
By using advanced medical technologies to assist and boost the cellular metabolism of an organism, clones can be made to develop much faster than normal.

>>37027529
so what the difference between this and our parasite?
Also can our parasite use the biosalve?
If not than i guess its time for a on the field doctor drone.

>>37027529
I read bio-salve as bio-slave at first and got really excited. Oh well.

>>37027560
It a part of the drone so Yes.

>>37027558
Fuck yeah, all of these options are great. Just start researching all of those right away.

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>>37027558
Current research
Just about everything else.

http://pastebin.com/F6t39KSp

>>37027560
Yes, parasites can administer it to heal wounds. It essentially just gives the bio-interface mandibles a new use outside of the niche use it has now for parasites, and functions similar to how the construction mandibles work with rock, only with flesh instead.

>>37027615
>he biological interface can now administer a regenerative salve capable of disinfecting and healing minor wounds, as well as stabilizing more serious wounds
Makes it sound like our parasites can only heal internal wounds now(which i believe they could already do to a lesser degree).

>>37027626
Its time for a doctor drone, i just wonder what it could need.

>>37027626
Add four new research options to researching list.
>Smart Mines
>Liquid metal sculpting
>Carbon nanostructure construction
>Cellular acceleration

>>37027666
Mandible: Biological interface 20N
Blade: Hypodermic 2N
Arms: Dexterity 1N

Also, actually made some already, but they are planes.

>>37027680
toss out cellular acceleration and replace it Ion cannon. Then we'll be good to go.

>>37027846
Why not just throw both in? Shit seems cool.

>>37027857
This guy's got the right idea.

>>37027846
It should already be on the list. Last thread they added Everything, except one research, to the researching list.

>>37027788
don't forget
Senses Free
Legs:Sprint 1N
Advanced wings: 4N
Honey Pot 4N (might not be needed)
No clue if we should give it protection though.

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>>37027626
Lyle leans back in his seat and watches as the massive space city of Long Island slowly grows before him. It spins gradually on its axis with its solar array outstretched. Even at this distance the massive freighters can be seen like ants against it as they move to and from the busy docking rings.

As the Angel drifts into Long Island space and communicates with its control tower, you look over the rest of your hive. Your first pod was just recently finished and has blinked away to the FG-883 system, and even at its great distance on the edge of the system your pod's delicate sensors can detect an increase in local activity. There is something in space resting just on the outer edge of the planet's orbit. Your pod cloaks and begins to drift inward for a better view.

Meanwhile, within your hive proper the comatose bodies of the twins and Coil sit in their tanks. Your study of Ceph and Tidaren biology was extensive, and you have gained a wealth of data from them, and about them. You were somewhat surprised to find Coil to be at a ripe age of over 200, and the twin's memories are a garbled mess of chaotic and haphazardly planned events, like a twenty year car crash. In a lone pod rests the deceased head of Seiner, covered in probing arms and sensors working to preserve and analyze the contents of his mind. It is in surprisingly good condition.

>Awaken them
>Speak with Coil
>Speak with the twins
>Examine Seiner
>Other

>>37027649
Before they were capable of manipulating the subject's state of mind and administering medicines and other chemicals, but now they can rapidly stop bleeding and seal wounds from within.

>>37027889
Nah we left out alot of things actually.
Some of which i'm baffled at.

>>37027891
>>37027788
Guys
What if we gave a regeneration tank legs?

>>37027901
>>Speak with Coil
"Why did you come here?"

Let's get Coil to go full heretic.

>>37027901
>>Examine Seiner
>>Other
Give the twins their brother, their DNA should have it.
>>37027916
I believe a regen tank makes a drone pretty bulky, and an easy target, but maybe.

>>37027908
No, we actually added everything QD just has the list wrong

>>37027954
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to try and turn Coil from his faith. Things might end badly.

But fuck it, it might be cool to try, let's do it. We can kill him whenever we want anyway.

>>37027901
>Examine Seiner
Let's get some info first.

>>37027901
What are the implications of this?
>>37027916

>>37027901
>>Examine Seiner

>>37027996
What? I definitely added them. I did it last night.

Well bugger. I'll have to fix it again later, but you are researching everything except the psionic cannon and the ones you just unlocked.

>>37028002
I know it could be risky but I don't see how we could use him in any way without doing so.

Sides, he was already going against his religion's canon by insisting other life had been touched by Them, we might just need a bit of a push to turn him.

>>37027901
>Speak with the twins
ask if it's okay to clone them a new brother.
>Examine Seiner
and
>Other
Look into Coils memories in more detail. See how the crystal overlord rule
(use) the Ceph and if their standard of living is above "enough to be useful servants".

>>37028053
>>37028002
Or you know, try to see how he thinks now, with out the control chip.
He might even act differently.

>>37028087
Sounds like a good idea to me.

>>37027901
>Speak with Coil
>>37027954
>>37028002
>>37028053
heretic? Oh no, no. More like Either a Schism in their faith or warping him completely so he will make US the ones to worship, not the other ones. either way, we will severely undermined their faction in the long run.

>>37027901
>Examine Seiner
>>37028034
Wouldn't the bulk head be done by now since its a very fast research?

>>37027901
Just remembered weren't we going to roll for Gardener Sample?

>>37028415
we did last thread, why do you think we have those bracket research unlocks.

>>37027901
>Examine Seiner

>>37028438
That was for Seiner's head.

>>37028459
nope, we haven't touched it yet.
Thats why its an option.

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>>37027901
You gaze into the memories contained within Seiner's brain. There is a lot to sort through. Countless research studies, experiments, surveys, research papers. The man had lived for over a century, with numerous artificial organ transplants keeping him alive.

You peel back the memories further and further. He was a child near the end of the Colony Wars, and his father was a high ranking member of the local government. His grandfather, however, was a leading scientist of the Confederation, and was one of the many who died in the attack on Earth. The memory is clear in his mind, the same conversation you found recorded on his data device, but there is something more to it, something the recording didn't seem to pick up.

As the child Seiner ends the call with the press of a button, his head begins to ache.

>Search through his mind for information regarding Earth
>Search for other information (write in)
>Other

>>37028474
>>Search through his mind for information regarding Earth
>>Search for other information (write in)
His passwords to his tech and bank account.
Also military codes/bases/research outpost.

>>37028474
>Search for other information (write in)
what do they actually have about us?

>>37028474
Politics and potentially embarrassing military/political secrets.

>>37028468
>nope, we haven't touch it yet
Reread the last thread. We have the touch Gardener corpse. The roll was for Seiner's head.

>>37028531
>>37028517
>>37028508
Supporting all of these

>>37028468
We rolled for the head last thread, we were going to roll for gardener. You can check me on it
>Try to Access Seiner's memories
>We can roll for this now and have the results in next thread, actually.

>Please roll 1d100, best of 3
>91

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/36910131/

>>37028540
*We have to touch Gardener's corpse
>>37028474
Scientific knowledge please.

>>37028559
>>37028540
Huh, and the funny thing was i was advocating it, i must have been tired.

>>37028474
>>37028474
>Search for other information (write in)
All the passwords he knows about, we can sell this to theseus
than the earth shit.

Are we mothy yet?

>>37028474
>>37028531
>>37028517
Backing these two.

>>37028634
I'm against this idea, and no.

>>37028474
>Other
Look for anything science related.

>>37028634
We aren't, unfortunately.

Really, I thought about the idea for a while, and while it seems awesome, it doesn't seem very thematically correct.

>>37028474
>>Search through his mind for information regarding Earth
>>Search for other information (Everything; Every thought Seiner had will now be apart of the Hive.)

>>37028659
>>37028677
I'd hoped it would peter out eventually. Fuzziness would've been silly.

Can we at least have moth speakers? The ones with color changing fur. That's all I want.

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>>37028732
>Not wanting a massive mane of red fur adorning Speakers like a cloak.

>>37028732
It would've. I still want us to have some sort of theme, but perhaps now isn't the time to be thinking about that.

Frankly, having everything be Utilitarian would be a little boring.

>>37028761
>rainbow speakers
pls no

>>37028822
We already have rainbow speakers. Our speakers have had memetic skin for fucking ages now.

>>37028789
We have red accents.

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You guys may have an idea how much joy it fills me to be able to catch up with this quest every monday.

>>37028834
>fuzzy rainbow speaker
duble no

>>37028474
Lay one Moth Speaker

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>>37028902
I'll second the notion.

>>37028474
>Lay one of these

Mandibles: Vocalizer 2
Arms: Dex 1
Legs: Bipedal 4N 2M
Wings: Advanced 4
Utility: Acid Glands 1
Carapace: Mimetic skin 2
Carapace: Peacock (red/white stripes+red fuzz) 0
Size: Small

>>37028474
With his brain silent and dead, you do not receive the same feedback as the mind of a live individual. His memory is like a slideshow, flashing from major event to major event.

Seiner sits on the floor as his father reads over an intelligence report. The image of the Earth's moon cracking to pieces can be seen on the screen.
"My god." His father says under his breath. He closes the report. For some reason the young Seiner can still picture the image of the moon as it cascades in chunks to the surface of Earth. He can visualize the evacuation efforts as ships ferrey civilians from the surface, and he can sense a small chunk of the facility where his grandfather had worked as it fell to Earth inside of the larger chunks.

His father wakes him up with a worried look. Adam is on his back with a headache as a doctor flashes a light in his eyes.

"Do you know where you are?" He says.

"My house." Says Adam, but as he says it he can see the fluorescent lights of the local hospital above him. The doctor speaks with his father in the hall, saying something about a seizure.

"Does your family have a history of epilepsy?" The doctor asks.
Adam isn't sure what that means, but it sounds bad. They speak for a while before the doctor hands him a slip of paper and some medicine.

You see his life flash by. The image of Earth never quite leaving his thoughts. You see the endless spires of Mentan's grand cities, and the sprawl of the urban slums below as Seiner looks down from the window of his dorm room. The white halls smell of cleaning fluid and everything seems to glow an eggshell white. He scours the libraries dayly, their cavernous halls of digital and physical media alike seem endless, with what seems like entire city districts dedicated to every subject imaginable, except Earth.

>>37028979
You don't know how ugly that looks do you?

>>37029082
I think he doesn't know how british popstar it is.
At least use dark red or burgundy, but red/white stripes? Hell naw.

>>37029092
>>37029082
Go back to >>>/fa/

>>37028979
I'd rather go with this:
Olfactory: Basic 0
Acoustic: Basic 0
Psionic: Basic 0
Mandibles: Vocalizer 2
Blade: Combat 1 (for diplomacy reasons)
Arms: Dex 1
Legs: Bipedal 4N 2M
Wings: Moderate flight 2N
Utility: Acid Glands 1
Carapace: Peacock (Fur)
Carapace: Mimetic skin 2
Size: Medium
Cost: 13N 2M
Upkeep: 6N

>>37029150
No, that's the place you should be. lrn2basiccombinations.

>>37029160
I can see why you would want it to be medium sized, but I think a small drone would be be less intimidating and more harmless looking, which is what we would want in an ambassador at this stage. And speaking of intimidating, how would combat blades be conducive to diplomacy?

>>37029160
Why don't we have better senses on the speakers? Also, combat blades?

>>37029248
To help solve matters of honor of course.

>>37029248
Not very, since your ambassador alone can already overpower baseline humans without any weapons at all. But that's why they have guards.

>>37029248
They are retractable And to settle matters of honor.

>>37029272
>>37029296
Like, what, someone ruffling their fuzz?

>>37029296
Why not lay both and ask Elizabeth what she thinks?

>>37029312
Yes?

>>37029332
>leaving the designs of our ambassadors up to humies

>>37029332
This sounds good to me.

Human fashion advice is go!

>>37029312
A gentleman would never bug out at such an insult.

>>37029332
>Why not lay both and ask Elizabeth what she thinks?
We have telepathy moron. We could just send images.

I see how things go. After the "red fuzz" you're gonna suggest that our speakers start walking on two legs. Dangerous territory anons.

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>>37028987
You continue to zoom through his memories. You see parliamentary representatives shaking his hand and offering words of support in passing, but none of them are willing to mount an expedition to Earth. You watch as plans churn and plots thicken behind the curtain of Union politics. Funds are earned and labs are built. Eventually you see Chandra IV settled with a small number of scientists. An automated expedition, that is the promise from his friends in power, but only after the project is finished.

A sharp sting stops the rapid pace of memories flowing by, and you see Elizabeth storm out of the room. She yells something but Seiner doesn't know what. Some dialect of Arnimean.
"It will be worth it in the end. I'm sure of it." He thinks, but in the end there is no expedition.

At least several years blur together in a drunken haze from an apartment on Gemini. The sound of a train passing feet from the window shakes the room, and the sirens of police seem to be endless. You take note of the apartment, a small hovel not far from the capital.

Eventually there is an announcement. New colonies ripe for the taking in the Expanse region. Uncharted, unknown, and rich with new opportunities. He makes several calls, and calls in the last few favors he has.

You watch as once again he climbs the ladder of political influence, earning favors and grant money for all manner of projects. Few are willing to deal with him, but Killinger, for one reason or another, offers to help.

With his status in the Union's research division granted back, Seiner feels a ray of hope return. It has been many years, and only now does he feel any closer to his dream. At the time he had no idea what the reports of his father meant, but as he aged he remembered the images clearly and recognized what was stricken from the public records. The moon was never struck with a weapon, it fired one. It nearly obliterated the approaching fleet, and as it annihilated ship after ship it detonated.

>>37029403
I know. I just want to take the one she doesn't pick and have that be the one she deals with for the rest of eternity.

>>37029438
they already got the human legs thing, which is basically giving our drones high heels(and walk like they have high heels to), and adds nothing else.

>>37029456
>The moon was never struck with a weapon, it fired one.
Wait is that the weapon I'm thinking of?

>>37029456
I'm starting to think it may have been a surviving queen, since it sounds like something the psionic cannon would do, and as far as we know, the Crystals had no weapon like that.

>>37029456
You recall the last communication, the one recorded in Seiner's logs.
"It... speaks to me." He grandfather's words never left him. "It needs to be found again."

The Raligha hive interrupts your thought diving to bring your attention to the body of the Gardener. Your workers are ready to attempt to retrieve any valuable genetic data, if any has survived.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>37029608

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>37029608
>herewego

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>37029608
Let's not be terrible please!

>>37029617
>>37029627
HAHAHA,i can already see whats gonna happen.

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>37029608

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>37029608

>>37029634
Well at least it's not terrible.

>>37029664
if only you didn't roll it would be decent.

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! IVE BEEN WAITING ALL WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>37029608
better late then never.

>>37029608
Your samples are largely intact, although there is extensive degradation.

[New research available]

>Photosynthetic cells
Fast
By implementing the same cells used in many of the local foliage in infrastructure, you can create stations and buildings that produce energy via solar radiation to produce energy in a manner more safe and stable than fusion, although less efficient.

>Genesis Project
Medium
By studying the practices and techniques on top of the dedicated technologies of the Gardener's hive, you can develop a method that can be used to rapidly spread foliage and life on a planet with to develop a new biosphere. The process is time and resource intensive at the start, but with the use of weather spires the biosphere quickly takes root and becomes self-sufficient.

[New traits unlocked]
>Green Claw - The target DCs for cloning projects are reduced.
cont.

>>37029456
>find psychic stone
>it speaks to you of ancient truths and knowledge
>nah fuck it, let's turn it into a weapon

Humanity, fuck yeah!

We could probably stand to clone/revive Steiner. Not sure if you guys want to but Infested Steiner could prove to be a valuable asset.

>>37030164
[New adaptations unlocked]

Rotary wings - What appears to be a set of wings based on the local life, these wings spin on a pair of counter rotating rotaries. They are too bulky to be mounted on a standard drone without causing dangerous instability in flight, but with aerodynamic drones it allows for improved thrust, allowing for double the carrying capacity when used with a Honey pot, although it sacrifices in speed.

Barkskin carapace - Less a research project and more an item of interest, this carapace uses densely packed layers of bone and dead plant-like cells to create a layer of protective armor comparable to a combat carapace without the use of metals. The process can be applied to ships as well, and appeared to be the main source of construction material and metal substitute to fuel the Gardener's efforts. What it gains in metal efficiency it loses in upkeep efficiency, leading to expensive and high maintenance units, although with the rich and lush nature of the Gardener's worlds, that issue never became a problem, and she had always considered the natural and plant-like appearance to be worth the additional cost in the name of beauty, a stance your mother clearly never shared. With your abundance of metals the carapace is rendered obsolete, but the appearance can be mimicked through the peacock carapace.

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>>37030135
Oh for fucks sake fluff.

>>37030178
Insofaras giving Killinger a hug and exploding, sure.

>>37030186
>Barkskin carapace
Just what our brains needed on the rolly polly planet.

>>37030186
As your thinkers relay the findings to you you finish your own study of Seiner's mind. Youn find a wealth of confidential codes and data, but with it comes the knowledge that such codes are changed on a regular basis, or are exclusive to Seiner, who is assumed dead by the Union. However, you do find the knowledge of the locations of a number of military research facilities, as well as a somewhat limited understanding of their objectives, although even Seiner was not privy to much of it.

Several research sites reportedly focused on understanding the technology of the Void Cutters, as well as the Ceph themselves are scattered across Union space, with at least a half a dozen located on Tadega or Mentan. Others include weapons research centers and experimental shipyards, as well as a number of dedicated facilities for scanning and removing computer security breaches caused by Theseus, as well as manually performing the duties once given to Theseus before he had escaped.

>Offer the information to Theseus
>Offer to trade the information for (write in)
>Keep the information
>Other (write in)

>>37030190
What? It's not like I rolled a nat 100 there.
>>37030164
Nice. This will make colonizing dead worlds much easier and productive when we lay down the farms.
>>37030186
The wings are nice, but the Barkskin just a memento now.

>>37030347
>>Offer the information to Theseus

>>37030347
>>Offer to trade the information for
Is there anything left to trade for?
If not then
>Offer the information to Theseus

>>37030347
>Offer the information to Theseus

Also, check up on our Earth project and on Elizabeth.

>>37030347
>Offer to trade the information for (write in)
He already owes us, and we would be using the favor to gain tech again.

>>37030391
>Is there anything left to trade for?
Quantum communication

>>37030347
>Offer to trade the information for
Access to his banked Biological samples.

>>37030421
Laser cooling or quantum communications.

>>37030347
>>Offer the information to Theseus, but as part of a joint plan to gain new technology.

>>37030391
>Is there anything left to trade for?
resources, and possibly genetic engineering for food sources.

>>37030347
>Offer to trade the information for Quantum communication

>>37030484
Quantum communication is harder to research and more important.

>>37030481
I really can't believe I'm seconding this suggestion.

>>37030523
>>37030484
Okay.
>>37030421
Just make this communications than.

>>37030347
Making mine >>37030391 Quantum comms then.

>>37030347
adding to my post:
>>37030504
Ask about worlds with Native life in the systems he controls and see about allowing the hive to create a research base there to study the native life if any.

>>37030546
We have a research sample of it so why trade for it? Seems like a poor decision to me when we can use the information for other thins.

>>37030612
the sample can still break, with this we have a 100% to complete a very slow research.

>>37030545
I am more surprised people have forgotten that Unity is sitting on a HUGE wealth of genetic data it's files that can give us the chance to find incredible new options to use.

>>37030636
We can buy another sample. I'd rather trade it for information we can't buy on the internet.

"Hey Theseus, buddy, we found some secret research bases in Union space. Wanna trade for 'em?"
"How did you acquire this information?"
"From Dr. Steiner's lifeless head."

>>37030636
Not to mention it's something the Skyl remnant would kill for.
>>37030671
We can't. They're expensive as fuck. Besides we just trade our bio research for that shit.

>>37030719
Good maybe we can do a three way trade of info.

>>37030719
Yes we can that's how we got are sample. Just spend Lyle's money if needed.

>>37030771
>Just spend Lyle's money if needed.
on the subject of Lyle's money did we ever get the stuff we bought with it and have delivered in deep space? (this was a while back)

>>37030871
We only bought one thing for some stupid reason, i never understood why people just wanted the expensive modem.

>>37030871
Yes after a long ass wait we got it.

>>37030901
To reverse engineer which i'm not even sure we're doing right now.

>>37030901
Testing the waters, next time we can rob him blind.

>>37030901
Because we can use it to learn about Quantum communications without trading tech.

>>37030347
You call on Theseus and he responds promptly. You send a synopsis of the data for review.

"Yes, this data would be most beneficial." He relays the data to Zero One and it sends its reply. "And the requested price is reasonable."

[Quantum Communications boosted, will finish next day]

"Your intelligence efforts are highly impressive, even to the greater Unity." He says. Your pod detects a server ship breaking off from orbit as it fills with cruisers. It folds space soon after and vanishes from view.

A system wide alert fills Virgo and local defense forces quickly assemble. Your pod detects a server ship drifting on the edge of the system, and with a burst of energy it fires its main gun at what you now recognize as one of the cyber security facilities you had just sold the location of. The server ship vanishes as the local forces burn out to attack. Nearly an hour later the security lab detonates with a multi megaton blast as a ferrus slug impacts it at a small percentage of light speed.

"I will not ask for details of how you obtain these kernels of information, although I can only assume it had something to do with the incident on Tadega." The Clarke returns to its patrol pattern in Leeland's orbit, slowly accommodating the monitor satellite.

>Speak with Coil (write in)
>Speak with the twins (write in)
>Speak with Elizabeth (write in)
>Other

>>37030973
Ahh, Long range C-Strikes, you don't see that utilized in scifi everyday.

>Speak with Coil
Should we go about breaking his faith?

>>37030901
Not expensive. Stop lying about that. It was one of the cheapest things ever.

>>37030973
Memory dive Coil. Like Lyle back story.

>>37031059
Didn't we find out they were somewhat expensive?
Than agian we have no concept of money and lyle seems like he is rich.

>>37030973
>Speak with Coil
Time to change his religion.

>>37030973
>>Speak with Coil (write in)
Memory dive. Set ourselves up as an object of worship.

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>>37030973
>he server ship vanishes as the local forces burn out to attack. Nearly an hour later the security lab detonates with a multi megaton blast as a ferrus slug impacts it at a small percentage of light speed.
I am so fucking happy you actually utilized that capability in the quest. I fucking love you QD.

>>37031198
What happened exactly?

>>37030973
>Speak with Elizabeth (Time to search though the other crystals)

>>37031232
Unity knew a slugging space battle was too much a pain in the ass, so it just accelerated a slug to near C, and pointed said slug at the lab.
Due to math, this means the slug impacted with the force of a nuclear bomb/orbital bombardment, and probably destroyed the lab totally.

Due to Hive construction methods, however, we are VERY hardened against such attacks.

>>37031098
Read the damn archives, don't make shit up, the price is listed right there. Only 2 thousand credits.

>>37031276

Red Queen, Daughter of White Queen, Eternal Eternal Enemy of Black Queen too OP, plz nerf.

>>37031232
Most scifi would have ships close into the planet and bombard it, giving local defense forces time to react.
Here, Theseus calculates the planet's trajectory shoots a railgun slug at a good percentage of the speed of light at the estimated location of the facility a few hours later. It can't be avoided and this brings little risk to Unity's ships

>>37031309
>>37031276
That's fuckin' metal.

>>37031276
>>37031309
On that cheery thought, maybe we do need to make our hives even MORE harden to that kind of attacks. Unity can't be the only one who can do that trick.

>>37031287
I was talking about the ask page, i beleive we got C.
>They are split down the simple designations of A, B, C, and D class relays. Ds are cheap and slow, and can transmit or receive text at a rate of 1 character per second. They cannot transmit or receive pictures or other media, and can only either transmit or receive, not both. Cs can handle live text chat, or send or receive images or sound with painfully slow speeds. Bs can handle video with sound rather quickly, but can still only transmit or receive, and As are restricted on the open market, and require a license to operate. They can handle live, 2 way video chat, but are far, far too expensive to be useful as anything but vanity projects for the super wealthy. Most military ships have either B or C class relays, while typical consumers will usually either have a D, or C class, with the C class being considered something only purchased if you intend to use it for work, or are a tech obsessed geek.
Each one comes with two, which are built linked to each other. This means that if you want to use it, you need to give one of them to either the person you intend to talk to, or to a relay network service provider, which lets you avoid being nickel and dimed with the rental fees. In your case I assume you intend on breaking it apart and figuring out how it works, so that bit won't really matter much.

>>37031357

Hive creep basically auto-repairs the damage such a thing would do.

For some odd reason I feel ashamed that we haven't made a Spider-based warrior drone yet.

Maybe our equivalent to light mortars?

>>37031357
we need planetary energy shields, or hive ships.

>>37031357
It may be wise. Though IIRC all of our important stuff is very reinforced already.

>>37031431
I second the idea of a Hive ship.

>>37031414
I would imagine such a strike would wipe away hive creep as well.
>>37031431
That will help.

It just occurred to me how utterly and completely terrifying our rate of progression has been.

How long have we been awake, five, ten years?

>>37031490
More like a few months. .... Be very scared.

Isn't our hives nuke proof?
>>37031490
less than a year, but the QM said this is normal since every queen acts like a starcraft player.
Speaking of which the thought of a queen nuking a planet becuase of a misplaced egg sac is a funny thought.

>>37031490
It's been less then three months.

>>37031431
Both and Battleships

>>37031490
Nope, At most three months.

>>37031490
Not even a year. But in everyone else's defense, the older hives were very factional and would do anything to keep a dynasty's tech hidden and keep other dynasties down. We had the advantage of growing up alone with almost no opposition.

>>37031533
>>37031519

I was being very generous with the time frame on purpose, because the reality is several thousand times more terrifying than the alternative.

I mean seriously, less than a year from supping at Fungus-Blessed Red Water to SURVIVE to being one of the "Big Boys" of the immediate space with some of the most advanced technology, certainly the most advanced biotechnology.

And we basically had to either reverse-engineer everything or go from scratch, even our FTL was scrounged from the pod.

God damn.

>>37031574
Don't forget that killing queens was considered tabooed, and the worst that can be done was kicked off your starting planet.

>>37031595
Now you know why Quest drone described our race as Starcraft players.

>>37031490
You have to remember that we pretty much have a catalog of research from our ancestors also we specialize in reverse engineering.

>>37031490
Speaking of progression, we need more workers and farms and everything.
And, while the red fungus is great and all, it seems like it may be a tad lacking. Not inefficient, just that we may be better off with something a little more filling.
Might be worth it to assign a thinker to find more food sources on Leeland.

>>37031574
I'd imagine it would've been considered bad form to shoot at a newbie queen; recall that our total drone population has yet to breach even 1 million.

>>37031600

I will freely say that the Hivers / Whatever the fuck the Old Queens called themselves, are the Apex Race of the Universe.

Barring Eldritch horrors and borderline True-Space-Fae bullshit, of course.

>>37031595
>>37031642

I think we were given the barebones of tech, like ships and FTL, but everything else we use to great effect? Reverse-engineered or traded for. Holy shit I realized how fucking OP we are. It's a miracle the older hives haven't conquered the Galaxy.

>>37031622
I'd play the shit out of Hive Queen RTS.

>>37031628

We weren't even given that anon, just FTL and the Pod and barebones thinkers and drones.

Just us, the shit they could cram into a pod, vague ideas of what our ancestors possibly did, and a lowly thinker.

>>37031673
Hive vs Unity vs Human vs Ceph Free for all
I want a HQQ 4X

>>37031728
More like Hive+Unity+Human vs The Ceph's evil Gods.

>>37031728

>Implying the Hive and Unity are even allowed to fight each other unless it's a counter-intelligence op.

Need I remind you WHO spewed large quantities of piping hot data all over the Queen's most private parts? (Brain)

>>37031728
>>37031673
you mean what starcraft already is right?

>>37031782

Nah, this would be Starcraft if the Zerg ever reverse-engineered Protoss and then Terran Tech and wasn't shackled to the will of either a crippled / Hard-coded Overbrain or a stupid rampaging cunt.

>>37031657
A million years ago they were in control of the galaxy then the void crystals happened. And come to think of it when we get Warp gates we try conquering the nearby galaxy.

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>>37030973
"Don't worry, the human is in need of a navigator, and you say you are highly skilled. Humans will not often deny a skilled individual."

The mechanical puppet appears in the hall as a humanoid shape, but it makes no pretense at being human. The large viewscreen on its face shifts through various colors and patterns in the Ceph language, and a speaker on the front offers the ability to speak in the myriad of human dialects and languages, although this one is only programmed to interpret Esperanto, the most widely spoken trade language. The speakers remain silent as it speaks to coil.

"Humans are reactionary, are they not? This was a well known and well taught lesson." Coil says as the two walk down the hallway, or at least the puppet walks, while Coil floats. The Valen smuggler is still aboard his ship, somewhere within the vast tanks of water built in the command deck. A massive waterlock connects from the bow to a deck further up for Valen, but they would likely not even fit in the corridors of the merchant deck. Coil thinks he would be more comfortable on the upper decks, but he was denied access on several occasions.

"Be sure of yourself. Humans are territorial and aggressive by instinct, but it is only a show to test each other. It helps them assemble a social order and hierarchy. Show your skills and he will accept you."

Coil is unsure of himself, but as they continue down the hallway the port comes into site. The Hel's Angel sits outside the window below the loading bay, and a rather frightening human stands at the airlock. He looks to Coil as the puppet drops the cargo to the floor. "This it?" He says. "You got a name?"

Coil's translator fissles and comes to life. "I am known as Born-in-coiling-bundle."

"That sounds dumb as hell. Well Coil, you said you had something to give me in exchange for this job, let's see it."
He waves the Valen's puppet away as Coil lifts the crate's lid and Lyle's eyes go wide.

Cont.

>>37031813

So THIS is what happened to that Zerg Queen we left on that protoss colony ship and never heard from again!

If I had absolutely any ability to code I would already be working on this as a custom-campaign.

>>37031777
Oh yes...
http://pastebin.com/YyrXa3TR

>>37031817
We really need to learn more about what started the whole war. I mean the oldest memory the Skyl have was fighting us.

>>37031859

I fully believe there are several tens of Theseus' that routinely mutter "muh bug-girl waifu..." whenever the Queen and Theseus converse.

I refuse to believe otherwise, he's been on whatever passes for the internet the Union uses enough to become tainted.

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>>37031859

Whenever I think of that, my mind brings up a picture of QD up there, huddling in a corner wrapped around the link and hissing at anyone that approaches that it is his and his alone.

>>37031850
The waters are warm today, a rarity in these parts so far from the sacred waters of the spires. Coil pulses a gust of water and shoots up closer to the surface. It is still black. Not a single star above. They are only in the crystals, as he was taught time and again at the temple universities, but for some reason he still liked to check now and then. They once filled the sky with light at night, and there was even a day once, long ago, but there is neither now, nor will there ever be.
He still likes to check.

He skims the surface for a while as he makes his way to the jetstream and tries to picture what it would look like to be so close to a star as to have it actually turn the sky bright with light. Maybe he will find a world like that soon.

>Observe his memories
>Speak with Coil (write in)
>Other

>>37032117
>Observe his memories

>>37032117
>>Observe his memories

>>37032117
>Observe his memories

>>37032117
>>Observe his memories
My only idea of what to do to him is show him visions of a night sky, but I think it's too early.

>>37032117
>Observe his memories

>>37032117
>Observe his memories

>>37032117
Did we ever set a number for Skyl cloning? Or did we decide not to? It had support at the end of the last thread so I don't now if were doing it or not.

>>37032117
They once filled the sky with light at night, and there was even a day once, long ago, but there is neither now, nor will there ever be.

So it's either a very cloudy moon or planet away from it's star, or a rogue planet.

>>37032439
>rogue planet.
On a rogue planet stars are more visible.

>>37032439

Or something ATE their sun.

Y'know, like that thing we saw eating a star when we first fucked with the void crystals.

>>37032488
Just hashing out theories. It could still be cloudy but
>tries to picture what it would look like to be so close to a star as to have it actually turn the sky bright with light.
Implies that whatever planet the Ceph homeworld is, it's fucking far away from it's star.

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>>37032117
The jetstream takes him and hurls him across the Divide at great speed. Even at his velocity it takes a great deal of time to make the journey. He always hated it, the endless blackness of the depths below, especially with nothing but the blackness of the sky above. Even space did not feel as empty.

Something moves in the depths. A goliath tail whips in a flash across his view as something moves along the edges of the abyssal drop off. It crunches the rock as it slides along it and Coil flashes a bright yellow for a moment. He hated Divide.

Eventually there is a reflection in the waters above, and the distant lights of the Reef can be seen in the distance on an island standing in the center of the abyssal depths. He hops from the jetstream and shoots himself down to the outcropping of buildings. Further in is the spire, the center of the Reef and source of the sacred crystals themselves. He knows what he needs, and he needs to get them tonight, but doing so could be considered a heresy by many.

The security is tight, but he is a Pilot, one of the trusted given the sacred privilege to swim in the void above, at the very least he will be able to get to the hangars, even if his training is not quite complete yet. Hopefully.

The temple is vast, and filled with activity as always, but the hangars are typically vacant at these times. He quickly passes the doors and makes his way through the twisting tunnels and corridors, all filled with busy students and observant locals carrying supplies and tributes through the temple grounds. He blends in perfectly with his case held in his grip, and quickly makes his way to the hangars.

The doors bend at his touch and he enters. He can hardly move in the presence of the sacred craft. He can't even believe what he is doing, how could the clergy be mistaken? It was he that is wrong, and this is madness!
cont.

>>37032345
It had support, but the number was tied between 5 and 10.

>>37032652
So the Ceph raiders are battle priests?

>>37032652
But he had seen the records himself, he had studied the history and it just didn't add up right. No, he knew he had to be right, he would bet his life on it.
Coil shuddered as he realised he was indeed betting his life on it. It was a stupid decision, but it had to be done. If he could find one, just one other world with this grand gift and return with the news, it could change everything. He opened the case and reached for the Slip drive. Each shard shivered at the touch, and it's roots retracted from the Void Cutter as he pulled them from the compact hull and placed each in the case. He quickly made his way from the room.

There is a hiss. The sound of an air jet as someone enters the room. He turns to see his mentor, Flowing-in-Faith drift above the work tables.
"Why did I know you would be here?" He asks. "Despite my warnings."

Coil stamers for words, his skin flashing in vain.

>Run
>Make an excuse
>Confess
>Other

>>37032652
Go with 10.

Make plans to Contact Skyl engram after Mind Diving to ask for all available data to give Revived Skyl a fuller understanding of their Culture and net us free information. Also, offer technology for technology.

>>37032846
>>Run
"Run, Child."

>>37032846
>Run

>>37032846
>run ya inky biatch

>>37032846
>>Run
Your faith will save you, but not your false gods

>>37032846
>>Other
Remain Silent

>>37030973
We should give Theseus our memories of Tadega, minus the part where our drones start doing their best xenomorph impression. They're basically video evidence of the Union government kidnapping, torturing, and vivisecting a newly discovered species. If they were leaked to the net, not only would it cause a huge political shitstorm but it would give us a lot of leverage when we finally reveal ourselves.

>>37032972
the only thing we could "leak" is our recollection of what happened. We have no audio, no video, no proof.

>>37032943
Come to think of it doesn't Coil think his Gods are invincible or something?

>>37032883
He is older than us.

>>37033036
Unless we figure out technology to convert memory to video. I don't think that's happening anytime soon.

>>37032972
>>37033036
Perhaps we can recommend to him to hack into facilities on the planet and see if he can find any such data.

>>37033058
Well so is Lyle and we call him our child all the time. I don't think Age really comes into it.

>>37032972
But that would raise even more questions, like "How the fuck did they get the video when the when the whole place was destroyed" and "Are these alien helmet cams? what the fuck?"

>>37033059
We've used Mimetic Skin for the very same purpose, though for things not quite as complex as video.

>>37033075
We only did that when he was a child in his memory.

>>37033058

Mental age is a thing, and in that sense, we were born millennia older than him.

>>37033057
Well we managed to convince Lyle that we're a mother figure, I think swaying his faith might be of the same difficulty

>>37031673
>>37031728
So would I anon, but none of us make games or have the money to fund games.

>>37031777
Ehh?
>>37031859
W-Wha? I didn't know you had it in you Fluff...

>>37033133
Fluff didn't write it.

>>37033094
It wouldn't matter how it got out. The only one who knows about the project at this point is Killinger and he would be at the center of the controversy. I assume we would use the images from our flies which were outside of the containment cells.

>>37033133
That was not me this time. I have yet to create a Lewdfic. Not yet anyway.

>>37033036
>>37033059
We send images and research to Theseus all the time, this wouldn't be any different.

>>37033117
We could put him through a hallucinatory trip and show him the truth.

>>37033167
One thing though, that would reveal that we have flies that can act as spies and data recorders, once that gets out, they will take appropriate measures to counter them.

>>37033209
How? Have him witness the Gardener's battle up close with our narration, or what?

So, does Killinger possess a magic murder bag?

>>37033216
Not necessarily. They could just be like, goddamn security cameras.

>>37033216
It wouldn't reveal anything, the facility was completely destroyed. As far as they would know somebody planted a camera there.

>>37033230
>Gardener's battle
You mean the White Queen's battle right? Shit was like 300.

>>37032846
Coil slowly drifts back. "You would not understand." He stammers. "But I will return, and then you will!"
He rushes to the door.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3

>>37033059
Well, with the interface technology you developed you can to some extent, but it looks really weird, like Natural Selection 2 gameplay. It would have an almost 360 degree field of view, with everything being really blurry except the small line of sight of the forward ocular eyes. Visual representation of your drones' other senses could appear as highlighted objects added in during translation to digital signal.

I want a lewdfic of queenXElizabeth.

>>37033302
Here we go

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>37033302
rolling

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>37033302
>ROLLOFREDEMPTION

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>37033302
Go, squid child, Go!

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>37033302
rollin

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>37033302
stupid dice

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>37033302
go go

>>37033314

and I want a fic of White QueenxRed Queen(Our Queen)xElizabeth

It's not going to happen, so shut up.

>>37033318
>>37033326
Oh boy, Coil fucked up there

>>37033338
Better

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>37033302


>>37033314
I need inspiration before I write, otherwise the flow is all messed up.

>>37033358
Necrophilia is eww anon

>>37033367
A calm evening, an ontological hierarchy discussion, and several nicely scented cups of nutrient tea and paste biscuits. As the discussion slowly ebbs into unknown territory, something deep within the Elizabeth and the Red Queen stirs...

>>37033302
It would be really convenient for us if Coil has KOS orders on him with his people. We have wrung about as much use out of him as we can get, especially now that we can read his memories. Maybe it's time to get rid of him after this.

>>37033386

At the rate we are going anon, and our tachyon-bullshit, time travel will be a thing before we pass the half mark of this decade.

>>37033314
Sooner than you think, I just might do this

>>37033441
no anon ur thoughts too small
make coil into ceph terrorist
ceph terrorist that is very unlike coil
becomes infamous by destroying stuff we dislike
with nothing coming back to us 'bout tit

or

clone ceph army, all shall fear their floppyness

>>37033302
I imagine it would be more 'normal' as a holographic recording? Especially the bits where we had multiple drones present for.

>>37033441
No real point and if we're killing him it's silly to not just kill him ourselves. His people's feelings towards him are irrelevant.

>>37033423
Oah, a white Lilly encounter? Maybe in a spire with a nice view and
Ok, hold on.

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Obviously we need to turn Coil into Blasto.

>>37033473
>>37033524
I don't find myself highly opposed to any of these ideas.

>>37033524
>COMING SOON TO HOLO-VIEWERS
>COIL 3: SLIP TO DRIVE ANOTHER DAY
>THIS SUMMER, IT ALL COILS DOWN TO THIS
Approved.

>>37033622
Fantastic!

>>37033524
>Described as having "a lover in every port and a gun in every tentacle" Blasto roams the galaxy meting his violent brand of justice
Well that's interesting.

But we are throwing a chip and worm in his head right even if we don't kill him right?

>>37033678
We have placed a Parasite.

>>37033678
>>37033622
Mindbreaking and memory crafting is fun as long as we're not on the receiving end.

>>37033678
>right right
Obviously. We should probably do the same with the twins. At this point it should be a standard procedure for reliably utilizing other species, anways.

You know, when several anons first started getting into the whole 'mind parasite' thing I was worried about the direction it would take. But you guys have kept it pretty muted. Good work anons.

>>37033710
We could offer to them in their dreams to "revive" their dead brother.

>>37033775
That's fucking cruel.

Let's do it.

>>37033840
What, didn't you have that idea before? It's certainly valid. We have the technology. We can rebuild him (Louie).

>>37033840
You do realize that their brother shared the same memories as them.

>>37033751
There is simply no strategic advantage to "those things," anon, at least not yet.
But you will eat your words when there is a seemingly legitimate "necessity" for such things and everyone swarms them like the creeps they are deep down in their hearts.

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>>37033302
"Stop! It is you that lacks understanding!"
But Coil is already at the door. He hears the door bend open and a rush of water behind him and he bends an eye stalk to see. Coil manages to swim from view as his mentor moves frantically through the crowd in pursuit.

The city was highly secure, but even outside of a cutter Coil's talents as a pilot was prevalent. He dashed into the hollow reaches of the Reef below and into the twisting and turning tunnels of the superstructure where his contact was waiting. He did not know his name, but he was known to lead the accursed and those who would shelter them away from this world. It was a path of heretics and betrayers, and to take the holy relics of the Slip drive along such a route was a heinous blasphemy, but he has no choice.

The building is a small home assigned to workers of the heat distribution plant, but he doubts the contact is the assigned dweller. They exchange the codes, flashing a series of patterns in the tunnel before the door opens and he follows the contact inside. Within there is at least two dozen cursed mutes, their blank faces stair like corpses without a single hue of emotion or a trace of speech. They are unsettling. Coil finds a corner as far from them as he can, and wraps his arms around the case, holding it like an egg.

"We're moving out soon. Get your things and follow the tunnel." The contact says, and he opens a wall compartment to a cramped and unlit passage. It takes hours to navigate, but opens to a decently sized chamber. Wires and power conduits flow into a device in the center of the room. "The other side will be dry, hold your breath and wait."

The device hums with energy, and a sphere of darkness grows in the center. It draws in the water around it and he can feel himself being pulled in. The contact has strapped himself to a console, and Coil passes by in a panic of thrashing tentacles and vibrant color flashes. He falls into the sphere and there is nothing-

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-and then there is everything.

Stars, stars everywhere, filling the space around him with motes of light more beautiful than anything he had imagined.

He hits a metal wall as the airlock shuts behind him, and the stars disappear. Most of the water sucked through drifts in the chamber in globules for a moment before the room is flooded. The others twitch as they take in deep breaths in a grotesque display like dancing corpses, their blank white bodies soic in absolute silence.

A door opens and several lights flash around it.
"Welcome aboard. Please find yourself a place to sleep for the duration of the voyage. Payment for your ticket will be discussed prior to docking procedures."

Coil tightens his grip on the case.

Cont.

>>37034131
>>37033972
So they use a human warp drive huh. Does that mean it's useable on a planet's surface?

>>37034131
You search through his mind for deeper memories, he has lived a long life, although among Ceph he is still young.

The spires of the university reach all the way to the surface. They are a marvel to behold. Coil drifts down through one of the apertures to the library within. Only a select few are granted access, and he is proud to be counted among them. The entire history of his people are recorded within the endless caverns and twisting halls of records, from the earliest carvings to the latest scriptures of the prophets.

>Speak with Coil (write in)
>Interact (write in)
>Do nothing
>Other

>>37034283
>>Interact
View the history of the Crystals
>Speak with Coil
Why does he feel that the clergy are wrong?

>>37034307
Seconding this because I'm unoriginal.

>>37034307
Sounds good, will third.

>>37034307
Seconding

>>37034283
Speak with Coil
Do you know anything of the other races that serve the Gods?

>>37034307
Fourthing.

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>>37034585
that was supposed to be a vote to back his opinion, but 4chan is being weird for me and posting before I'm done.

>>37034283
"Why are you here?" You ask.
When Coil was first granted access to the library he dove into its wonders, taking in all there was to see. The deeper he went the stranger the lessons became, and eventually he found several... discrepancies.
That, of course, would be heresy, so he was sure he was mistaken.
"I am here to check something." He thinks to you. He seems to already be accustomed to you, his thoughts bouncing between the tiny quasi-brains and your parasite before forming a proper thought.

He finds the section devoid of activity. The room contains only ancient data, history long forgotten by most. Most of the shelves are empty, including several he could have sworn were filled not a week prior. He must be mistaken, like he was with the discrepancies.

"You know what they say is false." You say simply.

"No!" He replies. "It cannot be wrong, any more than water can be dry! It is something far more simple, a forgotten scripture. Yes."

You watch as Coil moves from shelf to shelf in search of the right tome. He finds an ancient carving, from near the beginning. It shows the Singing Stone coming to the world and shattering, bringing them into their glorious service. It was not long after that they had banished the sun and the stars to protect their devoted people, and displaying their powers in a way that none would ever forget.

And there is is, just beneath it. A tiny symbol of a swirling creature unlike anything he had ever seen. It's wings seemed to reach out in a fluttering motion and its body coiled around a shard of ice, the symbol of death. He could find no other reference to them directly, but the carving clearly went on to become the character for heretic in the ancient carved languages of the first tribes to be born in the shadows of the Reef. Here, they seem to hold a special significance.

"You know it means something important." You say as he toils over the carvings, reaching out for stone totems and ancient tomes bound in and Reefer skin.

>>37034888
>It's wings seemed to reach out in a fluttering motion and its body coiled around a shard of ice, the symbol of death.
Insect wings? The shard of ice makes me thing of the dead crystals discarded by the Psionic cannon but i'm not sure.

>>37034888
"It is damage to the stone." He says, but he knows otherwise.

He had found a tome that seemed to hold a similar symbol, referred to as the Doom Seekers, literal embodiments of sin and corruption. The tome seemed to speak of them turning from their masters and reaching to the stars for their own hunger like spoiled children. The ending chapters celebrated the guidance of the crystals as the first of the Void Cutters brought them down, granting them oblivion for their arrogance.
The tome is gone now, an empty space on the shelf marks its proper place.

"Are you sure?" You ask, knowing the response perfectly well.

"No, but I should be! I should not be here, to question is to doubt, and doubt is heresy!"
Even as he tries to turn himself away, he reaches for another tome, this time searching for more of the so-called Doom Seekers, the belligerent children that appeared to have been struck from history.

He digs deeper and ever deeper in the library, and finds another symbol. He recognizes it immediately as the ancient symbol of destruction and corruption, a circle with six sharp edges coming from the sides, and a horned spike at the top. It was the mark of evil, but here it was far more descript, like a drawing of a creature. The tablet upon which it is found has been shattered long ago, but several pieces remain. On one is a shard of ice in two pieces, on another is the strange symbol, and between them is a missing piece, with a strange beam of energy connecting them.

Without the destroyed fragment a translation would be impossible, but there is significance to this unknown symbol, a strange eight pointed star, the six outer points thin and wispy while the top and bottom point are larger, with a set of what appear to be horns set atop it.

They looks almost like...

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

>>37034965
Probably that. And since we are those creatures they would attack us even without instructions from their boss if they ever connect the dots.

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>>37035225

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>>37035225
Rollin

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>>37035225
>>37035225

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>>37035261
>>37035273
>>37035274
Nice!

>>37035225
>>37035261
>>37035273
>>37035274
THE SYMBOLS COIL
WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!!

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>>37035323

A direct translation.

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>>37035225
"No. No!" Coil is in a panic as he hurls the slab away. It shatters to nothing against the wall and cracks run up the walls. Fractures form as the illusion slips. "That can't be right, I wright, I was wrong!"

His body thrashes within the pod. "It is you! The evil, the ones that corrupted the ancient servants and caused them to be stricken from history!"
An eye opens in a panic within the tank and thrashes on its stalk.

"What does the slab say?" You ask calmly, his fragmented mind slowly processing the question as panic runs through from sub-brain to sub-brain.

"Death slayers." He says finally.

"Now, how can one who kills death be evil? How can you say such things without the missing piece?"

Your drone collects his fragmented mind together, bringing them into a semblance of order once more as you work to shape his logic. You have long ago removed his Thought Shell and have had your parasite take its place, his mind relies on yours to think, and it gives you a level of freedom beyond your normal limitations. He slowly calms, his body slowly writhing in terror within the pod as you bring his many sub-brains back into line.

>Speak (write in)
>Interact (write in)
>Other

>>37035579
>Speak
Would you us to tell you our side and the side of the discarded?

>>37035225
>eight pointed star

I need to see a drawing of this or something, cause I'm having trouble imagining exactly what it looks like.

Also, anyone notice that slaves of the dark crystals always get cybernetics as their gifts?
Maybe we're dealing with angry psionic robots as our enemies; or those whom evolved from robots.
Doesn't explain the crystal technology, though. How does that shit work?

>>37035664
spess magic

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>>37035579
So coils people had records of the skyl?

>>37035664
And if that's the case, and wonder what they would think of unity

>>37035652
I will second this.

>>37035652
Seconding this

>>37035579
Hope we get some good write-ins. I have nothing except the obvious.

>>37035664
Will try to draw up a really crappy paint image for illustration, but my best art is crappy stick figures, so it won't be much.

>>37035836
Thanks.

>>37035664

Cybernetics are the cheap, Non-complicated way of imbuing a killswitch into virtually anything.

It's like, Plug 'n' Play dependency and indoctrination vs Full-On Gene-reprogramming.

>>37035664
Maybe ascended machinists from another reality?

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>>37035664
Not much, but this should be the gist of it.
The Ceph developed a rudimentary written language before they developed screens that could convey colors and patterns so that they could record history, and it has since become a kind of holy language that only the privileged are taught to read. This translates roughly to "spreading, all-consuming evil."

>>37035908
>cheap non-complicated killswitch
If you don't play with genetics the same way a robot god plays with robotics.

>>37035978

Generalist Principle that works on 80% of everything and is relatively simple and fast, versus Genetic Fuckery that is slow to proliferate, only works on that one specific species, and requires a good deal of attention beyond "Plug this into your brainmeats, also everyone else needs this jammed into their thoughtblobs too."

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>>37035972
Oh well, not that anon but I was already finished making my own interpretation

>>37036075
Oh, it's beautiful.
Just ignore mine, yours is far, far better, and closer to what I was trying to go for anyways.

>>37036075
How evil.

>>37036075
I think they were calling us fat.