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>>39014538
>Current armory
1169 Thorn Launchers
20 Thorn Cannons
5823 Sting Casters
530 Cyclotrons
345 Rotary Stingers
3 Fire Sprays
95 Plasma Spray
422 Particle Cannons
320 Lightning Guns
120 Lightning Cannons

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 4,779,286
Metals: 704,303
Credits: ₡2226
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,177,400

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 52325
Queen – 5
Fake Queen (3) – 165
Small Egg layer – 12
Worker (85005) – 170010
Aquatic Worker (5140) – 20560
Vacuum Worker (5200) – 31200
Radiator Worker (5100) – 20400
Warrior (11209) – 56045
Aquatic Warrior (100) – 700
Thinker (2000) – 6000
Quantum Thinker (1000) – 5000
Speaker – (3) – 12
Digger (200) – 800
Refinery (40) – 280
Sniffer (2) – 8
Small Sniffer (200) – 200
Fly (1100) – 4400
Wasp (1100) – 5500
Haz-mat Workers (20) – 80
Shock Troops (40) – 520
Parasite (80) – 320
Bio-tank (512) – 12800
Excavator (1000) – 19000
Colossus (20) – 300
Hovertank (200) – 5000
Harvester (50) – 950
Support Fluttercraft (2) – 272
Ghost Beetle (5) – 135
Heavy Warrior (1000) – 19000
Chinook (100) – 1800
Air defense drone (80) – 5920
Bomber (160) – 6560
Strafer drone (400) – 6000
Heavy Interceptor (160) – 4480
Light Interceptor (800) – 11200
Advanced Relay (69) – 6900 (set as default method of ship control)
Upkeep: 480,871N

IT IS TIME ONCE AGAIN

We should make some ships with cloaks an nukes to do a fire run of Autny's shipyards.

>>39014577
THE BEST TIME ONCE AGAIN, MY FRIEND

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>>39014554

>Hive fleet
Space Pod (5010) – 150300
Heavy Fleet Fighter (200) – 13400
Heavy Gunship (12) – 360
Shuttle (10) – 250
Mining Corvette (36) – 9900
Patrol Corvette (20) – 10140
Scout Corvette (8) – 1800
Lancer Corvette (2) – 450
Fleet Corvette (44) – 9900
Heavy Fleet Corvette (16) – 18752
Heavy Fleet Frigate (12) – 17124
Stealth Frigate (4) – 1952
Vanguard Frigate (100) – 40000
Heavy Cruiser (10) – 12150
Heavy Fleet Cruiser (6) – 15030
301,508N

>Formed fleets
Small Heavy Defense Fleet
Heavy Battle Fleet (Under construction)

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
25 Human captives of the USV Hope – 750
3 Human hybrid clone upkeep – 90
Specializations:
>Brawler
>Tech
>Engineer
Lyle Rogers – 47
887N

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 783,129N

>Income
Metals: 438,000
Nutrients: 2,401,250
Net: 1,618,121N

In an embarrassing and painful display of poor dexterity, I nearly split my head open against the toilet this morning while entering the shower, so while I think I have everything updated if you find an error just assume I forgot it due to high impact porcelain based violence and let me know.

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>>39014577
>>39014646

>>39014647
Jesus, dude, how you feeling? Nothing too major, I hope?

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>>39014647
Hive Territory
[G-426]
Asteroid mining base: 50,000M per day.

*Leeland (capital)
Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System (750N)
>Anti-orbital batteries: 35/35 (8750N)
Military structures
>Hangar facilities: Room for 4840 Aero/fighter Drones and 2420 Shuttles (3025N)
>Psionic Shroud (1,000N)
>Prison Outpost
Industrial structures
>Docking Pylon: (200) (20,000N)
1769 under construction
[12 Heavy Fleet Cruisers]
[24 Heavy Fleet Frigates]
[32 Heavy Fleet Corvette]
[6 Patrol Corvettes]
[72 Heavy Fleet Fighters]
[24 Heavy Gunboats]
[Empty docks: 630/800]
Economic Structures
>Smart Mines active: 100,000M per day
>Algae Farm: +2,400,000per day, 24,000 Workers (1 worker per 100N)
>Film harvester dock: +750,000N per day, 1500 Harvesters active (500N per Harvester)

M-662
Raligha
Defensive structures
>Anti-orbital batteries: 35/35 (8750N)
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: 500N
>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 Heavy Fleet Battlecruisers]
[Empty docks: 0/4]
>Mining corvette salvage operations +288000M per day (+8000M per corvette)

Deep space waystation
>100 docking pylons (10,000N)
[Empty docks 400/400]

>>39014554
>Desmond, a-295, Wonder, Refuge, Drift
We need to capture these systems soon.
Also we need more patrol ships.

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>>39014538
>The sound of buzzing echoes through the chambers as your drones begin to map out the sewers of Gemini’s capital.
Soon

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>>39014695
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)
>>39014688
I think it's fine, just took some pain meds, and even if it's a concussion what better way to stay awake then to run all night?

>>39014767
Just be careful.

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>>39014767
Military Structures
>Hangar Expansion – Construct fortified hangar facilities of +40 aero/fighter drone space and +20 shuttle space. 50N 100M
>Psionic Shroud – A single building built around the shattered remains of a Void Shard, the shroud amplifies the unnatural mental silence of the broken crystal within to mask an entire planet from potential detection, preventing outside forces from easily detecting the thoughts of a hive. (2,000N 5,000M)
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
>Weather Spire – A networked collection of spires spread across a planet capable of studying and altering a planet’s climate and atmosphere. Construction includes the building of all spires needed to function. (8,000N 20,000M)

>>39014554
>>39014702
We should wipe out that Dagmar mining operation.

>>39014688
He probably just invented time travel.

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>>39014809
Economic Structures
>Orbital solar array – A station placed in orbit of the local star equipped with a membrane of photosynthetic cells several kilometers in diameter capable of producing a steady stream of nutrient income. Provides 1000N per day total (5,000N 5,000M
>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 total (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.

>>39014802
Just the Curse is all.

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>>39014876
Finished Research

>Bored chitin slugs
By improving the shape of your kinetic slugs, as well as increasing the spin imparted to them as they leave the weapon, you can improve the armor penetration potential of your kinetic weapons. A kinetic weapons now deal more damage to armored targets. [passive upgrade]

>Siren
Taking the form of an elaborately shaped head similar to a radar dish, this adaptation allows a drone to emit a powerful mixture of sonic frequencies and directed electrical pulses to cause severe disorientation to a target. The effect causes blackouts to your own drones, but the drone is immune to its own effect, and the pulses are shaped to prevent friendly fire. Causes nausea, loss of balance, and muscle spasms to subjects in a 45 degree cone in front of the drone with an effective range of roughly ten meters, depending on atmospheric conditions. Long term exposure can cause seizures, irregular heartbeat, and may lead to cardiomyopathy.

>Microfactory chambers
Using advanced compact assembly designs lifted from human industry and combined with your own biological and nanomachine based assembly processes, you have developed a relatively effective method of manufacturing small craft within the hull of a ship. A ship equipped with a microfactory will automatically replenish any lost strike craft it carries, or if it is assigned to a fleet, it will automatically replace any lost strike craft within the fleet itself. Hive ships gain this ability for free, while other ships must be equipped with the chambers.

>>39014912
>>Siren
So how effective would these be in the sewers on Gemini?

>>39014647
>Space Pod (5010)
You know I just realized how easily these can be shot down. Since when they blink they broadcast their position to everyone in the system and they have poor maneuverability they rendering cloaking ineffective.

>>39014538
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS IT RETURNNNSSSSSS YEEESSSS TOO LONG I WAITED!!!!!!!!

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>>39014912
>Laser cooled superconductors
Utilizing powerful cooling rays to maintain a temperature of near absolute zero, superconductors can be constructed and maintained out of cheap and easily replaceable materials and nearly no cost, allowing the hive to construct and maintain efficient mass transport networks across a planet to increase the speed at which the hive spreads, and removing the need for shuttles to transport drones and resources across a planet.

>Crystalline neural structure
With your new understanding of the memory crystals and their function, you have gained the ability to construct your own, as well as entered into the new field of crystal computing.

>>39014941
Thats why they're supposed to blink a light-day out of a system and slowboat it from there. As for combat, they're more of a means to overwhelm an enemy's point defence through sheer numbers, with anything actually taken out as a bonus.

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>>39014974
[New research unlocked]
>Gravity reflection
Slow
Using superconducting polymers at near zero temperatures, you can interact and direct gravitational forces. Further research could lead to interesting applications of this new discovery.

>Advanced Psionics
Medium
With your understanding of your own mental capabilities expanding and recent discoveries hinting at even more applications, you feel that a full and detailed study using your new knowledge may reveal even more avenues of research.

>Neural crystal fractals
Medium
Further experimentation into the advantages of crystalline neural structures over your simpler organic computing has led to a potential breakthrough. By creating redundant designs the method of interaction with psionic signals can be adjusted, potentially leading to a sturdier defense against psionic based attacks.

>>39014912
Could we use the Siren genetics in mines and our creep? Have dish shaped emitters that trigger on depression would seriously screw over a ground assault attacking a fortified position.

>>39014974
Hyped.
Crystal thinkers when?

>>39015004
>Gravity reflection
>Advanced Psionics
>Neural crystal fractals

Technological singularity soon.

>>39015004
>Advanced Psionics
This feels like a priority research.

>>39015008
We might be able to use it to ECM burst the nigger queens drones, as well as potentially blinding battleships.

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>>39015004
Current research

>Unknown directed energy weapon
medium
A mysterious weapon of unknown composition and capability, picking apart the various remaining samples should reveal more about its nature.

>Thought muffler
Slow
While you are still unsure how to build replicas of the void shard remains needed to build the psionic shroud, you do think you may be able to recreate a similar effect. While the result would likely not be nearly as effective, it could be employed by individual drones or ships without the need for built infrastructure to support it.

>Quantum Entanglement engineering
Slow
Experimentation with the behavior of entangled particles could reveal potential uses beyond simple communication. Your thinkers have several tests ready to proceed to test the interaction of quantum entanglement with your own technology, although the tests will require the construction of multiple prototypes and test devices that will likely not survive the experiments.

>>39015004
>Advanced Psionics
>Neural crystal fractals

Gravity control sounds cool, but let's focus on these two as priority due to current events.

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>>39014974
>>39015004
>With your new understanding of the memory crystals and their function, you have gained the ability to construct your own, as well as entered into the new field of crystal computing.

>>39015004
>Gravity reflection
This could negate the way our AI friend detects our cloaked ships, if used precisely. Not to mention a shit ton of other uses. Wormholes anyone?

>>39014984
>As for combat, they're more of a means to overwhelm an enemy's point defence through sheer numbers, with anything actually taken out as a bonus.
Why not just set up an ambush with cloaked fighters armed with plasma lances? It would be ten times more effective.

>>39014538
Gas the squids, space war now!

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>>39015056
Available research options

>Ground-orbital mega-construction
Slow
By using new construction systems to improve efficiency, the hive can build new projects capable of reaching orbit, using the rotation of the planet to remove the requirements of a free standing structure and instead essentially hang a station in orbit from the surface of the planet. Such a construction project would double as a docking pylon capable of constructing capital ships at a much faster rate, and replace the need for shuttles to ferry goods to and from orbit. [Unlocks the Capillary Tower construction option]

>Mantle excavation
Slow
By using advancements in the operation and function of the metal trees, you can force them to focus their attention past the rocky crust of a world and have them dive their roots clear into the mantle of a planet, tapping into a vast wealth of metals

>Psionic Cannon prototype
Very slow/Very dangerous
Detailed accounts of several experiments show the slow progress of Project Godsplitter. The cannon itself is highly volatile, and even the smallest miscalculation often results in the destruction of the ship, as well as any nearby craft. It can only be equipped to a Hive ship's spinal mount, and requires a functional Void Shard as ammunition. At least a dozen testing sizes were atomized in testing the weapon, and in the end it appears The Gardener never quite perfected it.

>Flash Cloning
Medium
While it may not be healthy for the clone in question, your mastery of biological technology allows you to accelerate the normal growth cycle of a clone, growing it to maturity within a single day, however clones are not as genetically robust as your own drones and doing so may cause undesirable genetic defects that may take time to reverse and result in a lower quality final product.

>>39015078
what if we attempted to overload a system by jumping thousands of pods in from all angles, so that there detection of supernovae isn't enough to figure out where exactly our fleet jumped in from, they know 5000 of something will have jumped in, with no idea how we did it exactly.

>Flash Cloning
Supporting this so our evil zombie apocalypse plans can occur one day.

>>39015104
>Ground-orbital mega-construction
muh

>Mantle excavation
dick

>>39015104
Available research options

>Ground-orbital mega-construction
Slow
By using new construction systems to improve efficiency, the hive can build new projects capable of reaching orbit, using the rotation of the planet to remove the requirements of a free standing structure and instead essentially hang a station in orbit from the surface of the planet. Such a construction project would double as a docking pylon capable of constructing capital ships at a much faster rate, and replace the need for shuttles to ferry goods to and from orbit. [Unlocks the Capillary Tower construction option]

>Mantle excavation
Slow
By using advancements in the operation and function of the metal trees, you can force them to focus their attention past the rocky crust of a world and have them dive their roots clear into the mantle of a planet, tapping into a vast wealth of metals

>Psionic Cannon prototype
Very slow/Very dangerous
Detailed accounts of several experiments show the slow progress of Project Godsplitter. The cannon itself is highly volatile, and even the smallest miscalculation often results in the destruction of the ship, as well as any nearby craft. It can only be equipped to a Hive ship's spinal mount, and requires a functional Void Shard as ammunition. At least a dozen testing sizes were atomized in testing the weapon, and in the end it appears The Gardener never quite perfected it.

>Flash Cloning
Medium
While it may not be healthy for the clone in question, your mastery of biological technology allows you to accelerate the normal growth cycle of a clone, growing it to maturity within a single day, however clones are not as genetically robust as your own drones and doing so may cause undesirable genetic defects that may take time to reverse and result in a lower quality final product.

>>39015078
Tue, but IMO the pods are a stopgap weapon since we're still trying to unfuck our industrial capabilities.

Double posted, dude.

>>39015104
>>39015134
The QM is skipping. Somebody hit it again.

>>39015134
You already posted that, QD.
Maybe you do have a concussion?

>>39014876
>>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)

Well, its the start of a new thread again, and I must repeat the proposal to colonize our capitol system's gas giant with 45 Orbital Electroponic stations.

>>39015161
Seriously, if you can't run, don't run. I'm legit worried.

He since we can make our own crystals can we make them red?

>>39015104
Your thinkers continue to churn on your research subjects, prioritizing those that can be completed quickly.

>Add more topics to the research list
>Wait to finish your current topics
>Other

>>39015134
huh, weird.

>>39015183
Na, I'm fine, it was early this morning and there's hardly a bump left.

>>39015231
>Add more topics to the research list
>Flash cloning
Ceph/scav zombie apocalypse when?

>>39015076
I the one who suggested that shit to QD and you don't even know what kind of crazy shit that leads to. Potential Graviphotons, gravity beam emitters, and kaiju bugs
>>39015126
That would take millions of pods and mine would take a handful fighters. And those fighters would be able to destroy an entire fleet.

>>39015231
If you're sure.

>>39015231
>>Add more topics to the research list
>Gravity reflection
>Advanced Psionics
>Neural crystal fractals
>Ground-orbital mega-construction
>Mantle excavation
>Flash Cloning

>>39015231
>Add Advanced Psionics

I don't like giving the thinkers a ton at once.

>>39015231
>>Add more topics to the research list
>Ground-orbital mega-construction
>Mantle excavation
>Flash Cloning
>Gravity reflection
>Advanced Psionics
>Neural crystal fractals

>>39015273
Kaiju bugs would be hillarious. Not to mention we could recreate godzilla or something and put it on earth

>>39015078
>It would be ten times more effective
>than nukes you can't even see until they blow up in your face
Lances are good, but not 50 megatons of heat good.

Cloaked nuke pods for the big targets, plasma lances for the smaller ones.

>>39015231
>Add more topics to the research list:
Gravity reflection
Advanced Psionics
Neural crystal fractals
Flash Cloning
Mantle excavation
Ground-orbital mega-construction

Does anyone actually think we need more docking Pylons than the ones we already have?

>>39015231
>Add more topics to the research list
Gravity Reflection
Advanced Psionics
Neural Crystal Fractals
Mantle Excavation

>>39015273
Can we at least do flash cloning, I'm pretty sure we could start cloning a massive amount of rogue scavs and completely fuck with there pheremone system, or just use targeted biotoxins or space aids on those bioreceptors

Also friendly reminder that we can whistleblow at any time on the shadow government activities. Or construct an elaborate fake conspiracy in which Seiner is the BBEG of all of it and not us.

>>39015353

You must construct additional pylons

>>39015353
Not really, overall we have the capacity to make 600 capital ships or 2400 subcapitals at a time with our current industrial capacity, though I would like to make that 1000 docking pylons because I like simple numbers.

>>39015353
Constantly.

>1769 under construction

But we await the current queued up batch still.

>>39015231
>>Add more topics to the research list
>Mantle excavation
>Neural crystal fractals
>Advanced Psionics

Hopefully this will give use the foundation to make a psionic cannon without needing crystals.

>>39015341
>Lances are good, but not 50 megatons of heat good.
Anon all our ships have 50 megatons of heat by default and it'll only a handful of fighter armed with lances to take down a battleship (about 20 to be precise).

>>39015231
>>Flash cloning
The only time sensitive one.

>>39015231

Add:
>Advanced Psionics
>Gravity Reflection
>Mantle Excavation
>Neural Crystal Fractals
>Flash Cloning
Seem to be the general consensus
>Y/N
>Other

>>39015353
Resources sat in the bank do no good for anyone.

Production power needs to keep up with income to achieve true exponential growth of forces, and that is something we need vs the obsidian queen. She has had much longer to build up and is starting from a stronger resource position.

>>39015510
>Y

CLONE WARS SOON

>>39015510
>Y

>>39015510
y

>>39015231
>Add more topics to the research list
>Gravity reflection
>Neural crystal fractals
>Advanced Psionics
>Ground-orbital mega-construction
>Mantle excavation
>Flash Cloning

>>39015510
y

>>39015510
>Y
Soon. We shall be unstoppable!

>>39015510
>Y

>>39015510
Y

>>39015510
Y

ZOMBIE END SOON!

>>39015510
Y

>>39015539
>Clone Army of Lyles

make it happen, they can be the police/militia force for any human planets we conquer.

>>39015231

>>Add more topics to the research list
>Gravity reflection
>Advanced Psionics
>Neural crystal fractals
>Ground-orbital mega-construction
>Mantle excavation
>Flash Cloning

>>39015611
I think Lyle might find that disconcerting.

>>39015611
Why would we conquer human planets again? Causing mass economic chaos is more fun.

So if I recall.
We were about to open up the box. Possibly let Elizabeth witness it through telepathy while she's getting checked out in a mad tank. Sort through OQs ships to see what's different. And maybe catch some wild animals to put parasites inside on the side.

>>39015630
Whatever he can deal with it, and who doesn't want an army of clones they are able to boss around anyway?

What if we made a mass scav commander army, the raw amount of conflicting pheremones would immediately clusterfuck any subservients in the ships.

>>39015683
I thought we were going to let the tank do its thing first, then open the box with her.

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>>39015510
Your flies fill the air and spread through the pipes and tunnels of the sewers surrounding the protein recycling plant and slowly rise to the surface, watching and listening as humans go about their daily lives. Back bellow the streets your hybrids stand around an egg as it cracks open and a parasite squirms out, writhing within the soft shell.

Your hybrids are obedient to your mental commands, but they will require a parasite to control the metamorphosis to becoming a chimera capable of laying any larger eggs then your small egg layer.

>Implant your Brawler
>Implant your Tech
>Implant your Engineer
>Other (write in)

>>39015683
I thought we were going to go through the Crystals.

>>39015734
Right
>>39015730
QD get on it.

>>39015730
>>Implant your Brawler

>>39015701
That'd be fun. The great thing about Scavengers is that we can really let loose on them militarily without worrying about the same degree of blowback we'd incur attacking humans.

>>39015730
Implant the... hm

>Implant your Brawler

Our tech and engineer can be much more useful.

>>39015730
>>Implant your Brawler

>>39015770
I think that's why QD added them, as something to vent all our murderhobo on with few to no consequences.

>>39015730
>>Implant your Brawler
Uh we already voted for this one last week.

Did you just forget last week that we needed to wait until we had parasites inside them?

>>39015730
>Other
Don't bother instead go through the crystals like we voted to last thread.

>>39015730
>>Implant your Engineer
How mentally independent are our chimeras by the way? I know they're perfectly telepathically linked with us, but do they still retain their skills and knowledge?

>>39014941
>they have poor maneuverability
You couldn't be more wrong, friend.

>>39015730
>>Implant your Brawler

>>39015730
>Implant your Brawler

>>39015611
>Not making an army of the Horrifying Ball of Arms Man on the 1d4chan talk page.

>>39015835
>You couldn't be more wrong, friend.
They are. The fighters are specialized for in system movement and combat, the pods are specialized for interstellar movement and scouting. The ion thruster on the pods are much weaker.

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>>39015932
We need to engineer some necromorph horrors is what we need to do.

>>39015833
Yes, they're completely independent. They require no direction from us to do...anything. Give'm and objective and they'll devote their own skills and knowledge to achieving it.

Perfect for special operations.

>>39015952
The only ships that outclass the pods' maneuverability are Fighters. That's it. They're pretty damn maneuverable, one outran a nuclear bombardment once.

>>39015730
>Implant your brawler

As your hybrids see to the procedure you turn your attention to more interesting matters. The remaining memory crystals left by your predecessors. You had looked through the crystal belonging to the Gardener, as well as skimmed the memories left by your mother, but you still have the crystal found in the wreckage of the desolate, crumbling world that was once the home of the Builder. You have your workers move them into position and you focus your attention on its contents.

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

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>39016039
fug not rolls

Rolled 38 (1d100)

>>39016039

>>39015979
The horrifying ball of arms man fits the bill. Just imagine seeing a big ball of biomechanical arms and legs hunched over a fallen, comatose person you know. Its mouth is inserted into said person's spine and it hasn't noticed you yet...then you see its eyes lock on to you as its hypodermic needle tail twists to face you.

Then another one descends down a vertical wall behind you without making a sound.

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>39016039
Oh dear.

>>39016039
Going

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>39016039

>>39016061
>>39016062
>>39016071
Dammit.

>>39015992
>The only ships that outclass the pods' maneuverability are Fighters.
That's not saying much since all of our ships have shit maneuverability because of the skid drive.
>They're pretty damn maneuverable, one outran a nuclear bombardment once.
>Speed = maneuverability
You have not idea what your talking about.

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>39016039
Lets see what could have been.

>>39016106
Actually, all of our ships have the ion drive. And before that they had chemical thrusters, which were nothing to sniff at despite their relative inefficiency.

>all of our ships have shit maneuverability
Except for all the sub-capitals (see: most of our ships) and the battlecruiser (see: all but 2 of our ship classes). So yeah, you're wrong.

>>39016164
Why is it that every single roll we've ever made to research or salvage knowledge from the ancient hives we've completely and utterly failed?

>>39016214
With the thing Elizabeth said about no one is supposed to know a lot about the void crystals unless they want to get exterminatus'd, i think this is becoming a plot point.

>>39016214
Because its hard.

>>39016214
We are not meant to know this dark knowledge

>>39016173
>Actually, all of our ships have the ion drive. And before that they had chemical thrusters, which were nothing to sniff at despite their relative inefficiency.
>Except for all the sub-capitals (see: most of our ships) and the battlecruiser (see: all but 2 of our ship classes). So yeah, you're wrong.
The ion thruster is a secondary drive, the skid are the primary and they decide the overall stats and that means their default maneuverability is almost zero and the ion thrust modify the maneuverability slightly.

>>39016348
>The ion thruster is a secondary drive, the skid are the primary and they decide the overall stats and that means their default maneuverability is almost zero and the ion thrust modify the maneuverability slightly.

In any system our ships will have several gravity wells they can lock onto for acceleration, not to mention that they can also use the gravity wells created by human drives.

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Now that we can hibernate our drones we should keep a supply of parasites suspended until we need them. Waiting for them to hatch before impregnating new arrivals on the planet is mad gay.

>>39016769
Most definitely.

THE PLANET SHALL BE OURS.

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>>39016039
You feel the memories of the long dead hive wash over you as you peer into the crystal. You can see the warriors of the Black Queen burst into the chamber and attack the effigies of the other queens, carrying them away. The image goes blank as the Builder's own effigy destroys itself and you can feel the panic of the hive spread across the planet. Bunkers are built to house drones and cannons, and airborne drones fill the skies. After several short days of this, you hear something as a single pod blinks into existence on the edge of the picket fleet.

"I have finished it, but it has not been tested."

You recognize the voice, and you watch as the Builder and your mother begin to prepare.

The Builder's planet is grand in size and scale, filled with towering monoliths and spires mounted atop the bedrock of hard granite and metal ores. Entire spires are collapsed to make room for defenses, bunkers and pylons alike cover the planet as the White Queen's ships deliver a small package, and it is quickly grafted within the Builder's hive ship.

"Will it work?" The Builder asks. Her carapace is jagged and angled with horns covered in rings and metal ornaments. Her hive is almost entirely metal, woven from carbon strings like a spider's web. Your mother's response is cold.
"I do not know. I cannot test it without alerting them."

The Builder clicks her mandibles together once, harshly like a dropped brick, "You wish form me to test it for you."

"You will have the opportunity. Inform me of its success, or its failure." She says. Her ships retreat as the Builder's forces take the delivery, and one by one they blink away.

Cont.

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>>39016769
I meant on our capital planet but yeah we should be laying some parasites in humanland as well.

It's important that these things do NOT get discovered so we should try to minimize that possibility as much as we can. Ideas?

Personally I believe we should be very selective about who we infect, higher ups only, shadow government types are a high priority. Maybe we can come up through their toilets when they're asleep and paralyse them with our flies before impregnating them. Obviously everything on the human planet should have self destruct built in.

>>39016906
I honestly think we're overdoing the shadowruns.

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>>39017013
You think incorrectly anon.

>>39016906
Imagine if we did start infecting civilians, I mean, assuming we don't go loud and crash one of those citadel-esque ships into the planet and start throwing creep everywhere.

Imagine a family where the father gets infected. Biding his time, acting like nothing is wrong. He's still essentially the same inside, just with new motivations and another mother for the family to meet. No one even gets suspicious. Until an opportunity opens up. Ambushing the wife, knocking her out or just dragging her off. Tearing her open and pushing strange creature inside of her. Then she's up and about like nothing ever happened. She might not even remember. Then they get the kids while they sleep. Then the get the neighbors.

Imagine if word got out. What if you found out your SO had a parasite? What if they were attacking you to try and infect you too? Perhaps you'd convince yourself that they aren't the same person anymore. But your loved one is still in there, somewhere. And if you tie them up, or lock them somewhere, that won't hold them for long. Maybe a day. Maybe two. And a horrific changes start happening to them. The longer you delay, the more the person you loved starts slipping away.

>>39017013
Union foreign policy being what it is we can't afford to take any chances with them, I want to infect these shadow gubbermint cunts.

What exactly does shadowrunning mean?

>>39017126
You ever watch the old Invasion of the Body Snatchers film?

>>39017126
We are a living horror movie to this universe. I am not entirely sure how to feel about that.

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>>39016818
>and it is quickly grafted within the Builder's hive ship.
>hive ship
Nani?

But we found the failed cannon in the ruins of a battleship.

>>39016906
Yes and...
>>39017126
...than this

>>39017126
Yeaah, let's not go there. If we pulled a stunt like that a single Union planet and word got out, their fleets would turn Leeland into a nuclear holocaust in a month.

Never underestimate how extreme the actions of humans can be when sufficiently motivated. And nothing would motivate them like fear of body snatching aliens eating their loved ones minds.

>>39017132
>Union foreign policy being what it is we can't afford to take any chances with them, I want to infect these shadow gubbermint cunts.
Not really. The Valen have managed to deal with them. We just have to ask the Union how they want to deal with a hive mind voting, and they'll shut the hell up for fear of us gaming the system horribly. Also, we can have theseus have politicians we don't like short medical stock. Then reveal it to the media.

>>39017132
Paranoia, anon. Very often the byproduct of a Shadowrun board game.

>>39017232
The Valen aren't planning on implanting mind-control parasites in the Union's constituents.

>>39017178
Wait never mind I don't know why I thought the derelict was smaller than it was. >>35192884

I'm...not exactly onboard with all this infestation stuff. Unless they attack us.

>>39017306
I agree, Why infest the humans when we can lay our better drones.

>>39017221
And... how would they find out it's our doing?

A sudden infection of some strange parasite is all they would know.

>>39017306
Ssshh, they've been at it since day one. Just refute them when their arguments get sufficiently unfeasible.

>>39017291
You're right. Clearly, we should rethink that plan.

>>39017306
I have my reservations too. It's an ugly process and it will destroy any diplomatic standing with the Union if discovered. However, we've already been under attack from some shadowy faction within the Union. We can't let them tell the other Queen where we are.

>>39017306
Technically they did attack us twice now. First with lyle and second with the android guy.

>>39016681
It take many gravity wells to improve its maneuverability and even then it would it be marginal at best because more gravity wells improve the directions it can turn not how well they can turn.

>>39016906
Ideall first you implant the medical personnel that are capable of detecting them in the first place.

But as a first start, Taidaren squatters and the impoverished that no one will notice are a good beginning. You just find people that have a number of degrees of separations to the doctors of the valuable targets.

>>39017411
"An alien insectoid hive mind has taken control of all the hospitals! They're implanting people with parasites that take over their mind! DON'T GO TO THE HOSPITAL!"

Man, we sound like a crazy fucking conspiracy theory.

We could implant some college students from Mentan and use them to steal tech while making them seem like a genius.

>>39017404
Whatever part of the government (if it's even government proper) attacked us. I get wanting payback, of course. This just feels like disproportionate retribution, that's all.

>>39017395
That shadowy faction attacking us. There is no proof about it, but we can't rule out the possibility that the Black Queen is playing the same game of 'Infest the humans' and use them to attack us now. What a twist if the black queen and our queen is just using the humans this way.

>>39017467
Haha, Holy shit. Alien bodysnatching wars. That'd be a fucking mess, humans as a proxy race.

>>39017404
Those were probing, scouting attacks conducted by operatives with very questionable mental states. A contracted, prolonged assault on the Hive has never occurred and the wider Union wouldn't stand for it without provocation.

>>39017467
Fluff I beg you, don't start that. Our shadowruns are going through the roof as it is.

>>39017467
>Black Queen is playing the same game of 'Infest the humans'
Fluff that's impossible she doesn't even have stealth tech and Theseus is separating from the humans.

>>39017501
As evidenced by the uproar with Lee's imprisonment. There WERE protesters technically on our side, if anyone else recalls. (Naive though they may be, they were supporting us. Or at least Lee's interaction with us.)

>>39017467
I'm going to rule that out, if only because that would mean the Black Queen already knows where exactly we are. However, that doesn't mean that it can't happen at a later time.

>>39017465
Fuck em. Dont have to be nice to every alien we meet.
>>39017501
They put nukes over our heads for the purpose of wiping us out before we reached a level where we could threaten them. Thats good enough for me.

>>39017494
Indeed, the black queen doesn't know where we are at just yet. (I think) But she might know the humans might be getting clued in. Hence that idea of mine.
>>39017528
Alright, but we might not be able to rule that out.
>>39017539
We don't know her tech pool yet. She might or might not have it.
>>39017552
That too is likely.

>>39017528
It's hard enough keeping the KILL EVERYTHING and INFEST EVERYTHING anons under control.

>>39017596
>We don't know her tech pool yet. She might or might not have it.
If she had stealth tech she would have used it against us by now moron.

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>>39016818
Days pass before the first signs of the attack can be seen. Several pods across the system blink in and out, observing and retreating before they can be attacked. They continue to observe for another day, and then vanish.

Just beyond the range of the Picket fleet a formation of capital ships blink into existence. They charge into the waiting line of defending ships and are quickly overwhelmed by sheer numbers. You feel confusion from the queen as her sizable picket moves around the attacking forces, and then a sock of panic as... something... pours itself from an error in space like a liquid seeping from a cracked glass.

The Hive ship fires, and there is a terrible scream of mental anguish, then then nothing as the ship snaps in half under the stress, engulfing entire formations within the blast.


You put down the crystal as the memory of the stellar object sliding through the picket fades away, and you note your patrol ships report no more pod activity. They slowly drift back to their standard patrol routes, reporting no further disturbances to intercept.

Elsewhere your flies have spread across the district, filling the sewers and patrolling the streets. They are ignored by the crowds, or met with lazy swats of the hand. A short man behind the desk of a store sprays one of your drones with the contents of a spray can and forces your fly to flee, but he only grumbles and returns to his seat.

>Have your flies scout the Capital District
>Have your flies map out and monitor the area around your new hive
>Split your flies between the tasks
>Other

Would our be possible to clone ourselves, memories and all, and send it far away? Possibly so the quest Continues if we lose.

>>39017674
>Split your flies between the tasks

>>39017715
that was asked way back, believe the answer was 'no'.

>>39017674
>Have your flies scout the Capital District

>>39017674
"Man, is it just me, or is there a ton more insects now?"

"Eh, You're probably just imagining it.."

>>39017715
We could just go to Andromeda. We have almost all the tech to do it.

>>39017674
>>Split your flies between the tasks

>>39017674
>>Have your flies map out and monitor the area around your new hive

>>39017674
>Have your flies map out and monitor the area around your new hive

>>39017674
>>Have your flies scout the Capital District
How many flies have we got working on this task currently?

>>39017674
>Split your flies between the tasks

>>39017674
>They continue to observe for another day, and then vanish.
>Just beyond the range of the Picket fleet a formation of capital ships blink into existence.


>and you note your patrol ships report no more pod activity.

HAPPENINGS SOON

>>39017674
>Have your flies map out and monitor the area around your new hive
Scout where easy first.

>>39017779
Well at least the Heavy Defense Fleet is complete.

>>39017674
>Have your flies map out and monitor the area around your new hive

>>39017561
>They put nukes over our heads for the purpose of wiping us out before we reached a level where we could threaten them.
Where did you get that idea? You have no clue what the protocols of contact and engagement are. Keep in mind that nukes are a standard part of any Union armory, every combat capable vessel carries more of them than a modern day missile silo. They've got far less stigma attached to them than they do IRC, and even then the satellite wasn't even carrying enough to wipe out an entire civilization. Heavily disrupt their industrial capacity and population centers sure, but not enough for an extermination.

>>39017674
>>39017674
>Have your flies map out and monitor the area around your new hive

Captcha freaking out for anyone else?

>>39017913
I hate to say this, but the entire reason that the 'Fuck the Union' people are like that is the fact that we know exactly what their First Contact protocols are.

They're pretty jerkish, but considering what we're doing, I think there's a slight bit of justification there.

>>39018120
And we are fully justified if we attack them.

>>39018120
Understandable, but no need to give them an casus belli so good that only an idiot would ignore it with all the infestation we're planning. The last thing we need is a to-front war right now.

>>39018172
No, I agree with you entirely. Just being square about the situation. I really don't want to fuck with the humans beyond first contact 'don't fuck with us' intimidation.

>>39018172
That's why the don't find out about it.

We have extreme stealth and subterfuge on our damn side, they won't find out unless we let them or go full scale war against them.

>>39017913
I don't even see how that nuke is relevent. It wasn't supposed to fire autonomously, and for the level of tech they thought we had, a nuke in orbit would have meant shit if they brought in a warship

>>39018215
I honestly think you're underestimating the humans a bit. No exaggeration.

>>39018230
People are spiteful, I guess.

>>39018172
>The last thing we need is a to-front war right now.
No the last we need is the Crystals attacking us we could easily conquer the humans.
>>39018233
You're severely overestimating them.

>>39018215
Easier fucking said than done, remember, we're going with rolls here. And we already fucked up one roll with letting the agent escape.

>>39018120
The more dangerous steps we make, just out of self-defense, the more cause it gives them to do the same. We're back to Cold War game theory.

We already have four different species we definitely need to perform a significant genocide on, humans are not one of them, lets not throw them into a major war please. Plus I always loved the idea of a terran zerg joint operation.

>>39018261
>We could easily conquer the humans
>They have a space-elevator on mars since forever
>They can mine on the surface of stars
>We can do neither of these things

Yeah, easy bruv.

>>39018120
We found a document on a hard drive on a wrecked ship detailing how to make an alien society economically dependent on the Union for higher tech. A bunch of anons somehow seem to have interpreted that as a declaration of intent to commit xenocide.

In the mean time, barring the actions of a rouge faction and their deranged agents, the Union have been relatively up front and diplomatic with us.

I say we should base our exchanges with them on their actions and political environment, not a single file based on one of their obscure bureaucratic protocols.

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>>39017674
>Have your flies map out and monitor the area around your new hive

You send your flies into patrol patterns and have them find hiding spots to keep watch of important junctions. Even within the sewers there is an abundance of activity as Taidarens scavenge among discarded refuse, drunkards stumble through sludge safe from the biting cold, and shifty-eyed criminals exchange merchandise and information bellow the plastic and enameled skyline of the office buildings and condos above.

Your Brawler bends over in pain as the wounds seal themselves across his abdomen and you can feel a desperate hunger was over him. The hybrid claws back to his feet and quickly makes his way into the twisting tunnels under the guidance of your patrolling flies. A guttural cry echoes back from the poorly lit tunnels as your clone turns the corner.

Your patrols continue to report nothing of interest, and it begins to worry you.

>Have your ships reinforce Raligha
>Have your ships reinforce Leeland
>Have your ships reinforce M-323
>Keep them spread out on patrol
>Other

>>39018284
We might not get the chance; we cannot afford to get into a conventional fight with them.

>>39018315
Agreed.

>>39018296
We focus on raw numbers they focus on quality. An army of cloaked ships armed with plasma lances could utterly demolish their fleets and on land we're a nightmare.

>>39018315
I agree with you.
>>39018318
>Have your ships reinforce Leeland

I get the feeling Red v. Black (Obsidian): Round 2 is about to start...

>Have your ships reinforce M-323

I feel like she's not gonna just throw everything at our base planet from word go.

>>39018318
>Have your ships reinforce Leeland
Also, we have spare minerals and dock space. 600 stealth plasma boats please.

>>39018318
>>Have your ships reinforce Raligha
OQ knows this planet very well, and it's the closest to where she battled our mother. Time to show the natives a rematch.

>>39018318
>Other
Send some pods to find her systems and try to crash one into her planet.

>>39018406
I'm doubtful of that. If the humans were so easily wiped out why haven't any of the other factions done it already?

>>39018318
>Have your ships reinforce Raligha

>>39018318
>Keep them spread out on patrol
We can always move them should an attack happen.

>Other
Notify allies that there MIGHT be a large attack soon and to be very afraid.

>>39018433
Seconding. We cannot yield the initiative.

>>39018296
Infestation /=/ conquer

>>39018318
>>Ask Theseus

>Other
Tell our allies that something is up and to prepare their anuses.

>>39018318
>Other

Take the Theseus observation satellite and hide it somewhere deep in a bunker.

If it's destroyed in battle, the quantum string is severed, and the Union will schedule a maintenance crew to investigate it.

>>39018442
>I'm doubtful of that. If the humans were so easily wiped out why haven't any of the other factions done it already?
To be honest none of the faction focus on numbers besides the Skyl. Unity isn't that good at war, the Scavengers are currently annihilating the humans, and the Valen are too peace.

>>39018318
>Other
Prepare to evacuate to another planet. We do not know their strength and must be willing to give ground at the worst case.

>>39018573

> the Scavengers are currently annihilating the humans

Wait, what? Since when?

>>39018576
We have 5000 pods why don't we fucking use them to zerg rush her systems.
>>39018592
The Commonwealth is getting rekt by them.

>>39018592
Well see, the anon in question doesn't care for facts. So he takes the Scavengers capturing a single Union vessel and then being driven off as "the Scavengers annihilating the humans".

Hey, why don't we make first contact with some of the commonwealth factions before we make contact with union?

>>39018657
They'll probably tell the Union.
>>39018614
IIRC we don't know where exactly to strike.

>>39017674
>You put down the crystal as the memory of the stellar object sliding through the picket fades away,

Huh, it didn't even include the message sent to probably-White-Queen at the end or confirm she was the recipient.

>>39018703
>IIRC we don't know where exactly to strike.
>Implying we can't find them with 5000 pods
With players this stupid we're doomed.

>>39018318
we need more hive ships so we can reinforce and rebuild medium sized ships on the go, have we made a dedicated drednoght sized or bigger support ship? like a giant armored factory that has little in the way of weapons sans for defense and a metric asston of shipborne production?

>>39018630
In a similar vein, we can conclude that the Ceph are annihilating the humans.

>>39018739
Not as long as you're here to educate us, Great Leader.

>>39018746
Why would we need one instead of just docking pylons?

Like, really why? We're not really widespread yet, we don't have anyone going out on grand voyages, why can't we just use docking pylons?

>>39018809
Pods are designed for scouting and we only have 15 systems to look through.

>>39018836
Well I guess you're right, that sounds feasible.

>>39018836
I hoped Thought muffler research would finish so we could put that on pods before sending it into enemy hive space. Since that would preclude them noticing that anything has entered the system at all.

I'm not sure how useful scouting out a point of attack right now is though. It might be better to have it be on our own homefield, where planetside missile silos exist.

>>39018901
It would force her to divide up some of her forces for defense instead of attacking us.

>>39016730
This is what we need the drone made of parasites for.

>>39018901
I want to disrupt her attack before she even gets a chance to launch it also if she does attack she'll have to realize that she'll be leaving an opening for us to exploit. Also we need to know what we're going up against.

>Your Brawler bends over in pain as the wounds seal themselves across his abdomen and you can feel a desperate hunger was over him. The hybrid claws back to his feet and quickly makes his way into the twisting tunnels under the guidance of your patrolling flies. A guttural cry echoes back from the poorly lit tunnels as your clone turns the corner.

Man, didn't even buy some happy meals in advance for him when he got parasited.

Those other two hybrids are slacking. They had a whole day to prepare for the parasite hatching and chimerazation.

>>39019089
He's just gonna go munch on the hobos and Taidarens.

>>39019089
There's plenty of turds floating around for him to eat.

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>>39018318
>Reinforce Leeland

You recall a number of your ships from their usual patrols and trade routes to reinforce your picket over Leeland.

A quick signal is sent along your lines of communication, and the Skyl and Union fleets take their own defensive positions. Hopefully you are wrong, but you would prefer to look foolish then to face another surprise attack. All there is left to do now, is wait.


"Are you sure you couldn't find anywhere closer?" Jackob says as he drops his bag. Lyle inspects the kitchen of the cheap hotel room. A high rise "business suite" offering little more then what is absolutely necessary. Oddly enough, it was still more luxurious then the usual safehouse. Even cheap lobbyists had standards, after all.

"The window has a perfect view of the target, it's only a few miles away. I didn't want to run the risk of any of their guys spotting us." Dillon says as he setts up the bulky weapons platform near the window. "And by the way, just stating the obvious, we can't set up this thing on the roof without running the risk of somebody noticing, so lets try to not use it unless the shit hits the fan. I'd like my security deposit back at the end of this."

Jackob snaps his fingers at the holo-screen and waves over the local news. "Hey you know anything about that?" He asks, pointing to the image of the crater your pod had left in the fields outside the city.

"You know I couldn't tell you if I did." Dillon says "Besides, wasn't it just a satellite?" Jackob scoffs.

"Then why'd BFI find it so interesting, and look at that level of security, they didn't even let the locals near it."

You give Lyle a nudge.
"Maybe it was just their satellite? They need them too you know." He says.

"You're telling me that we're staking out a secret BFI office after all the shit we've seen, and you think nothing of them stealing some space shit before anyone can see it?" Jackob asks. "It's Dillon's job to be a fuddy duddy but I expect more from you."
cont.

>>39019258
Wait can't we scout her systems out? We have enough pods to do it.

>>39019287
Are they all fitted with self destruct mechanisms? I don't want the nigger queen getting a hold of the cloaking tech.

>>39019402
>Are they all fitted with self destruct mechanisms?
All of our ships are fitted with self destruct mechanisms.

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>>39019258
"What, you want me to agree with you that it's odd? Sure, it was probably an illegal sat, but I still think it was probably their sat. What else could it be?"

"Alien insurgents, rebel terrorist plots, a Commonwealth invasion, anything." Jackob throws up his arms for emphasis. "I heard that by the time the cops got there it was already gone. That one of the locals saw it lift off the ground and disappear into the woods, as in a ship, not debris."

"And where did you hear that?" Dillon asks.

"Bet he was higher then Olympus Point when he told you, whoever it was." Lyle adds. Jackob flicks the channel to something else in annoyance.

"That is besides the point."

You split your attention between your many tasks, and you plot out locations for your pods idly as you mull over your options.

>Send your pods out to search for and intercept the Obsidian Queen's forces
>Keep your pods in your space and have them keep watch for any attack
>Other

>>39019464
>Send your pods out to search for and intercept the Obsidian Queen's forces
We have over 5000, that's more than enough. And information is valuable.

>>39019464
>Send your pods out to search for and intercept the Obsidian Queen's forces
Let's get Heretic on this as well.

>>39019464
>Send 1000 pods out to search for and intercept the Obsidian Queen's forces
>Keep 4000 pods in your space and have them keep watch for any attack

>>39019464
>>Send your pods out to search for and intercept the Obsidian Queen's forces
Not all of them though, 1000 should be plenty. We made a surplus of these things for situations like this after all.

>>39019464
>Send your pods out to search for and intercept the Obsidian Queen's forces

>>39019464
>Send your pods out to search for and intercept the Obsidian Queen's forces

You grasp a thousand out of your swarms of pods with your mind and begin targeting the nearest systems away from hive space.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3 to scout enemy territory.

>>39019464
>Send 1000 pods out to search for and intercept the Obsidian Queen's forces
>Keep 4000 pods in your space and have them keep watch for any attack

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>39019732
pls

Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>39019732
Here we go

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>39019732

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>39019732

And here we go...

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>39019732

>>39019747
>>39019752
>>39019755
We sure are high rollers tonight.

>>39019755
Well we didn't fail.

...Jesus fuck, dice gods.

>>39019765
With 5000 pods how could we?

>>39014681
What's this from? I can't remember the name

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>39019732
I wonder what was behind door number 2.

>>39019845
QUALITY rolls

>>39019869
Well, that roll was not the roll you got. So we are doing better.

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>>39019845
Oh fluff...

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>39019778
Quantity is it's own policy.

>>39019782
I don't know, I just grabbed it from Decu's twitter and edited it.

>>39019897
Good thing I stay out of the rolls that counted.

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>>39019732
You lack any up to date sensor data of the region, but you are confident from the sheer number of your pods that you will at least find some information. You cluster your thousand pods together and blink them to the several of the systems.

First Landing
Named by your ancestors as the first settled hive world beyond Raligha, known then simply as the Garden. It was actually held by your Mother, offering a decisive advantage that likely led to her position above the other queens. A collection of worlds can be seen orbiting the white dwarf star. Near the edge of the system is a belt of debris and stellar gas, while closer in is a small rocky planet, its surface covered in frozen slag and the solid waves of molten rock. Craters mark the surface, and shattered towers show where contested hives fought and died along hundreds of hotly contested landing zones, likely in the wake of the White Queen's retreat. Open veins of metals form on the surface like gashes in flesh, shimmering with ice. A black mat of living hive is spread across half the planet like vegemite spilled across a globe. It churns and moves with activity, with pylons sprouting from the surface by the thousands like hair. A globe of sub-capitals, mostly corvettes, are formed in orbit around the planet, and clusters of orbital pylons in the hundreds drift amid them, each attached to some manner of half-finished capital ship.

The next planet in is a ball of ice, likely once a lush oceanic world before the star withered into the cold white ball it is today, but that was long before even the queens arrived. Tubes cover the ice sheets in thin lines, piercing the surface to the liquid water bellow while massive hive spires swell with liquid water and nutrient paste. Corvettes and shuttles swarm over them, quickly moving back and forth between the surface and the fleets above.

cont.

>>39020296
>A black mat of living hive is spread across half the planet like vegemite spilled across a globe. It churns and moves with activity, with pylons sprouting from the surface by the thousands like hair. A globe of sub-capitals, mostly corvettes, are formed in orbit around the planet, and clusters of orbital pylons in the hundreds drift amid them, each attached to some manner of half-finished capital ship.

Goddamn we need to step it up.

>>39020296
So guys... lets not jump to conclusions or insanity, but we could totally drop a fungal bomb exterminatus on the planet.

>>39019782
I think it's from Tamen De Gushi.

>>39020296
send the coordinators to Theseus so he can launch a Rod from God at near light speed.

>>39020413
Is our creep stronger than her creep?

>>39020431
Correct

Guys, guys, what if, and I'm saying what if, hypothetically speaking... we pull a Fuklaw on the Black Queen?

>>39020413
I think it's a good idea for a spoiling attack, preferably using fast growing single-use craft like pods. Do note however that the nigger queen would also have the ability to rapidly analyze and immunize herself from whatever biological agent we might use.

>>39020459
A what? I know that's a 40k reference, but I dunno what you mean exactly.

>>39020452
Doesn't matter, that fungi hijacks receptors and turns all her drones into a bunch of adorable insane jihadists ready to burst into more fungal attacks.

>>39020481
Dropping multiple frigates on her head... although it'd be more effective if they were terran, a shame we can't get the warp core substance to make singularity bombs out of.

>>39020499
Just swarm pod bombs at her pylons.

>>39020452
The creep will not take root on a planet until if it isn't under our control.

>>39020605
Also they can just orbital bombard it to keep it from spreading, so basically we need ships for that to work.

Well, I'll have to post my wall of battle fleet on the wiki tomorrow. It shouldn't be too hard, I already have the task forces set up.

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>>39020296
The last planet is another rocky world, close enough to the star to just barely maintain its warmth. You detect a hint of an atmosphere and trace signs of liquid water along the surface, although there is no life. At least, no native life. The entire surface is covered in black hive structure, and swarms of drones can be seen even from space as they move by the millions from construction project to construction project, or simply on patrol, moving from whatever hive they emerged from to an awaiting corvette. A Hive ship sits parked in orbit while streams of shuttles flow to and from it like a stream of liquid from its side. As the system's defenses shift to intercept your pods you detect the Hive ship charge its drive, and in a pulse of radiation that briefly illuminates the surrounding fleet it vanishes.

Several wings of corvettes are quickly moving to intercept your pods, flanked by swarm drones.

>Blink your pods away
>Blink to another system in the region
>Attempt to attack (write in)

I've got an idea, an evil evil fucking idea... what if we put some tech that was superior to her, and modified it slightly with a backdoor, something that made it so some signal, when activated, causes them all to either go rogue or horrifically die. We could use this to in theory hijack her ships and cause all sorts of chaos.

...Iiiiiiiiii do not think we are ready for this.

>>39020669
>>Blink your pods away

>>39020669
>>Blink to another system in the region

>>39020669
>>Blink your pods away
Into the sun?

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>39020669
>Blink to another system in the region

>>39020699
we need to do some harassing attacks if we don't want to rolled over in late game.

>>39020669
>Blink to another system in the region

>>39020746
Damnit, money says that's the only good roll we'll get tonight.

>>39020669
>Blink to another system in the region

>>39020669
>Blink to another system in the region

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>39020777
We'll be fine, I sacrificed a goat to the dice gods just this morning.

>>39020798
Looks like it had to be a young virgin woman.

>>39020669
What why aren't we sending the a few pods to a bunch of systems at the same time.

>>39020669
Well damn... These look like a good couple of targets for some Immolator warheads.

>>39020833
Well you are, but we're dealing with them one at a time to avoid things getting too nuts.

>>39020859
Our pods will self destruct if they die right?

That reminds me, we have at least one Burnout Drone from our boarding swarm- QD said it would cause lots of chaos if we could get it to one of the Obsidian Queen's relays.

>>39020956
We should get a siren in our boarding parties also... it has a really nasty effect on hive style life forms.

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>>39020669
Cluster
This system is not a system at all, and had the map data you recovered not include it you would have likely never known where it was. One of the hives of the Nomad, Cluster is a collection of asteroids, stellar debris, and ancient ship remains held together by hive structure and tendon cables. It is far too large to be mobile, although many of its components appear to have once been mobile, with dozens of derelict hive ships forming into catacomb like structures interspersed with rubble and pylons.

Several battleships are docked to the carved chunks of hive ship hull that makes up a portion of the Cluster, and they open fire as they detect your pods. Swarm drones pour from the cavernous structure in twisting formations as they close in on your scouts.

cont.

>>39020925
If they are dealt enough damage to die without being outright destroyed they will attempt to self-destruct.

>>39020982
>>39020956
Given our available research options, and the Obsidian Queen's apperance...I'd say the burnout drone would do less than we'd hope.

>>39021093
So... I think we found a candidate target for our nanomachines. Now, how will we actually get there safely?

>>39021093
>This system is not a system at all, and had the map data you recovered not include it you would have likely never known where it was. One of the hives of the Nomad, Cluster is a collection of asteroids, stellar debris, and ancient ship remains held together by hive structure and tendon cables. It is far too large to be mobile, although many of its components appear to have once been mobile, with dozens of derelict hive ships forming into catacomb like structures interspersed with rubble and pylons.
We need to study this shit.

>>39021178
If we can survive it shooting at us.

>>39021178
On the contrary, we need to vaporize this shit. Its basically a static deathstar.

>>39021212
More like cannibalize it into our own ships.

>>39021212
You do realize this was most likely Nomads main hive.

>>39021106
>Given our available research options, and the Obsidian Queen's apperance...I'd say the burnout drone would do less than we'd hope.

QD was vague on the ask page, but he confirmed it would cause a great deal of chaos. Remember, the burn out drone is designed to use her own relay network to distribute the jamming signal (until the captured relay suicides or burns out).

Guys, we can task around a couple hundred pods with fusion bombs, blink just outside the system, the sublight in under stealth, until we're right next to the nigger queen's pylons and then blow them the hell up in a spoiling attack.
It won't do much outright damage compared to the size of her fleet, but at least we can slow down her production of capital ships and buy us some breathing room.

>>39021093
huh I wonder what kind of tech we could create from biosamples. Hey QD is the possibility of using the ocean spores and nanomachine based cloud bombs a possibility? I wanna go full on total annihilation on OQ and wipe her off the face of the universe for her treachery.

>>39021539
At this point it may be our only hope to survive the first part of the war unless the advance psi research gives us something to wipe out her network

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>>39021093
Jewel
Your pods erupt into space around the system and begin taking notes as quickly as possible. It is a rich system, appropriate named, and even after the brutal wars of contesting hives it remains, not quite pristine, but still a prize to be had. A gas giant skims along the edge of the asteroid belt at the edge of the system, and among the many moons and rings you see thousands of small pylons and corvettes mining gas from the planet as corvettes strip the moons and nearby asteroids bare of metals.

Further in you find a planet with a dense atmosphere, placed firmly on the edge of the habitable zone of the main sequence star. Weather patterns and plentiful signs of liquid water cover the surface, and through the clouds you spot the tips of hive spires and docking pylons. A Hive ship and two battleships orbit closely, their massive hulls covered in the dark specs of corvettes and other smaller craft. Orbital pylons drift in the orbit of the planet's two moons, both seemingly rich with metals.

Further in is another habitable world, this one more dry but still suitable for life. Blankets of bright orange flora covers the planet's wind swept mountains, pierced by the constantly spreading hive structure of the Obsidian Queen like an infection against the bright colors of the native life. A harsh buffer of lifeless gray soil marks the end of the edge of the hive structure and the start of the wilds. At least a dozen battlecruisers drift in orbit as hundreds of sub-capitals stream from the pylons bellow.

The pickets are quick to respond. Your pods begin calculating for their blinks as swarmers emerge from the asteroid belt, blurring your sight of the gas giant.

>Have your pods explore the coreward systems of Farcast and Wonder
>Have your pods continue to explore Spinward
>Other

>>39021605
not worth the cost and would be rebuilt in the time it would take us to move a fleet of meaningful size over there to take advantage of that. Lets save that tactic for when we are desperate and unable to handle things. Now if we took the concept of a suicide unit, slaped its template into a carrier with microfabs, then this tactic would be fucking devastating. We have not made either template yet and im too lazy to draft it up my self.

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>>39015084
I believe you got the wrong line there, pal.

>>39021638
>>Have your pods explore the coreward systems of Farcast and Wonder
We better hope these are still clean because we need more resources.

>>39021638
>Have your pods explore the coreward systems of Farcast and Wonder
We'll need these systems any way.
>Have your pods continue to explore Spinward
She most be on those worlds.

>>39021638
I think we may be slightly outgunned.

>>39021638
>>Have your pods explore the coreward systems of Farcast and Wonder

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>>39021705
Understatement of the year.

>>39021638
>Have your pods explore the coreward systems of Farcast and Wonder

>>39021638
>Have your pods explore the coreward systems of Farcast and Wonder

Please roll 1d100, best of 3 to evade the engaging picket forces.

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>39021915