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>>39593258

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 8674790
Metals: 2363053
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
Gilled Warrior (100) – 700
Aquatic Warrior (50) – 400
Thinker (2000) – 6000
Quantum Thinker (1000) – 5000
Speaker – (3) – 12
Digger (200) – 800
Refinery (40) – 280
Sniffer (2) – 8
Small Sniffer (200) – 200
Aquatic Sniffer (200) – 400
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 (3000) – 57000
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 disruptor (50) – 3750
Advanced Relay (69) – 6900
Upkeep: 573171N

>Hive fleet
Space Pod (5000) – 150000
Heavy Fleet Fighter (272) – 18224
Heavy Gunship (36) – 1080
Shuttle (10) – 250
Mining Corvette (236) – 64900
Patrol Corvette (126) – 63882
Scout Corvette (8) – 1800
Lancer Corvette (2) – 450
Fleet Corvette (244) – 54900
Heavy Fleet Corvette (48) – 56256
Heavy Fleet Frigate (36) – 51372
Stealth Frigate (4) – 1952
Vanguard Frigate (600) – 240000
Heavy Cruiser (110) – 133650
Heavy Fleet Cruiser (18) – 45090
Heavy Fleet Battlecruiser (4) – 32548
916,354N

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>>39593295
>Metals: 2363053
Finally we're making some headway on that metals deficiency

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>>39593295
>Formed fleets and orders
Small Heavy Defense Fleet [Patrolling Leeland space] (Undergoing repairs)
Heavy Battle Fleet [Awaiting orders]

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
25 Human captives of the USV Hope – 750
[Gemini]
Lyle Rogers – 47
2 Human hybrid clone upkeep – 60
Specializations:
>Tech
>Engineer
1 Human Chimera egglayer – 80
[Hive space]
100 Human Hybrids – 3,000
3987N

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 895859N

>Income
Metals: 2,038,000
Nutrients: 3,901,250
Net: 2,411,725N

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>It's back
Woop woop

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>>39593348
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: (500) (50,000N)
1469 under construction
[Empty docks: 2000/2000]
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: +1,500,000N per day, 3,000 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)
[Empty docks: 4/4]
>Mining corvette salvage operations +1,888,000M per day (+8000M per corvette)

[Farcast]
Derelict Sensor array

Glassed Hive world [Planetary survey underway]
>Hive bunker complex

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

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>>39593386
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)
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)

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>>39593415
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.

>>39593295
>Bio-tank (512)
>not 1000
Really QD I thought you'd fix that.

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>>39593468
Finished Research

>Thought muffler
By utilizing your new understanding of crystalline brains you have been able to adapt your understanding of the psionic shroud into a more compact and reproducible form. While it is nowhere near as effective, it is capable of muffling the thoughts of your drones to any psionic sensitive beings not attuned to the hive, causing them to blend in to the background noise of the universe and making them more difficult to detect mentally. This is a passive upgrade that affects all drones utilizing your newly created crystal neuron technology.

>Photonic Blaster
By utilizing a series of lenses and carefully adjusted electromagnetic pulses, a beam of intense light is chopped into pulses, forcing photons to collide and form into temporary molecules. These photonic molecules are capable of behaving as if they held mass, and interact with other matter, causing intense burns and localized radiation. The bolts of molecular light do not travel at the full speed of light so long as they hold together, but break up on contact, causing a bright multi-spectrum flash and small shockwave that burns and ruptures the target.

>>39593470
I did, I have it all here in my notes, I guess the edit didn't save on the op last night.

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>>39593538
[New weapon unlocked]
Photonic Blaster – The blaster utilizes an intense multi-frequency laser to produce a powerful beam of light that is then focused through a series of carefully calibrated lenses and electromagnetic fields to slow down the stream of light in intervals, forcing the photons to bump into one another and join into a molecule that is capable of interaction with matter, and then fired as a bolt of light. The photonic molecule acts as if it holds mass, and breaks apart back into individual photons upon contact, causing a burst of intense radiation that causes severe burns to the target as it super heats the air directly around it, creating a small shock wave that can rupture armor and soft targets alike. The weapon itself is highly stable, and is capable of firing continuously with little heat buildup and little to no recoil. The bolt can slowly loose photons as it travels, and moves much slower than light speed, which limits its effective range, but not by much. While the weapon has no outstanding features about it, it is a reliable weapon for many different uses that is never the perfect tool for the job, but is always an acceptable choice for just about any situation and improves in effectiveness the more it is used.
Size: M
Dmg: Medium Energy/Thermal
RoF: Medium
Rng: Long
Acc: Medium
Special: Quantity is a quality – If more than one blaster is attacking a single target, its armor becomes less effective at blocking blaster fire with every shot as they slowly impart more and more heat to the target and slowly blast layers of it away. This effect cannot totally remove armor, but can temporally reduce its effectiveness to nothing, depending on the armor type and the number of blasters used. A single blaster cannot benefit from this. Drones with blasters will focus fire by default as much as possible when targeting armored units.

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>>39593538
>Thought muffler
YES

>>39593566
>Photonic Blaster
So, It works like a Star Wars blaster?

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>>39593566
[New research unlocked]

>Blaster Cannon
Fast
Immediately after studying the alien blaster your thinkers have proposed methods of altering the design to increase its size for large drone and ship use. The general reliability of the blaster promises to offer a weapon option capable of filling general combat or support roles with great effectiveness, although it would leave niche roles unfilled.

>Anti-orbital pulse cannon
Medium
The major drawback of the anti-orbital battery is the inefficiency with which it punches through the atmosphere with its particle beam, losing both range and damage. By adapting the blaster’s design to ‘pulse’ the beam of the battery weapon, your anti-orbital defenses could potentially increase both their range and average damage per shot.

>Photonic microstructures
Slow
The useful applications of manipulating massive photonic molecules are many, and your preliminary studies indicate that you may be able to develop more practical uses beyond the blaster, especially in the field of energy shielding.

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>>39593566
>M
>Dmg: Medium Energy/Thermal
>RoF: Medium
>Rng: Long
>Acc: Medium
Rearm all warriors with this now!

>>39593602
Those poor fuckers we took this from have no idea what they have unleashed

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>>39593602
Current research

Psionic implantation
>Medium
By implanting neural crystals within a non-psionic subject you can deliberately cause a mutation within the subject, forcing it to grow the organs necessary to influence and interact with psionic networks. You now recognize this technology as the most likely cause of Vaugn's own alterations, indicating the relic found on Raligha to be a form of prototype of this technology, or perhaps it was left by the Gardener as a gift to the natives.

Enhanced Psionic sensitivity
>Slow
By putting your new knowledge into practice, you should be able to enhance the abilities of your medium and advanced relays to be able to detect, and with further research influence, non-psionic creatures in proximity.

Nausea field
>Slow
A rather interesting side effect first noticed with your Blink drive, but now weaponized to great effect as a defensive measure. You should be able to enhance your medium and advanced relays to emit a wave of sickening nausea in a radius around it, causing effected subjects to feel increasing levels of both physical and mental uneasiness, causing feelings of dread and queasiness.

>Solid State Teleportation
Slow
While standard quantum systems allow for instantaneous transportation of data, this technology would allow for essentially the instantaneous transport of matter. The matter in question would be disassembled into individual particles and transported in much the same way as bits of data through a quantum relay, and then assembled on the other side. Due to the nature of the process, only simple objects such as raw resources could survive teleportation. This should allow for the transportation of resources across hive space without the need to delegate ships to serve as trade vessels.

>>39593602
Can we make a firefly warrior that has a pulse rifle for a butt?

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>>39593664
>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]

>Quantum Tuning
Medium
While current quantum computing technology requires the relays be built to accommodate one another, this technology should allow you to quickly attune pre-existing devices for one another when in proximity. Your thinkers suspect more opportunities to open up after further research is done. You suspect Theseus would greatly appreciate such a technology, if he does not already poses it.

>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

>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.

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>>39593703
>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.

>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.

Available research options

>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.

>Add research (write in)
>Maintain current research
>Other

YES
IT IS TIME ONCE MORE

>>39593749
>Photonic microstructures
>Blaster Cannon

>>39593749
>Add research
Add all the new options but leave out the Pisonic cannon prototype

>>39593749
>>Add research (write in)
>Blaster Cannon
>Anti-orbital pulse cannon
>Photonic microstructures

>>39593295
We swimming in the nutrients.

And metals.

>>39593386
>Add research
Blaster Cannon
Anti-orbital pulse cannon
Photonic microstructures

How many Bloodroot collectors are we capable of building on Raligha? Build that many Bloodroot collectors.

>>39593538
Question QD, how effective is the passive thought muffler? Like a hostile hive ship within the oort cloud wouldn't be able to detect our psionic noise until it gets way closer?

>>39593749
>Add research (write in)

>Blaster Cannon
>Anti-orbital pulse cannon
>Photonic microstructures

>>39593749
At the rate we're getting more research we'll need more thinkers. Also can we start cloning the rest of the Skyl for Heretic?

>>39593875
meant to link to:
>>39593749

>>39593749
>>39593898
QD are we at the point where our thinkers are getting pressured? In which case we should lay more thinkers.

>>39593851
I fucking told you guys we should have built mining corvettes way earlier.

>>39593898
Flash cloning will make that quicker. Or at least a more stable version we may get later will.

And we do indeed need more thinker, if only to make shifts and let them rests their big, adorable brains once in a while.

>>39593979
>Flash cloning will make that quicker. Or at least a more stable version we may get later will.
You do realize that will take about five days to get the same amount of time cloning takes.

>>39593749
Add
>Blaster Cannon
>Anti-orbital pulse cannon
>Photonic microstructures

>>39593887
It won't hide hives or large numbers, but a pod will be more difficult to detect, and even if it is detected it would be very difficult to home in on its location via psionics.

Essentially, instead of all the drones in the hive screaming "for mother!" they are all told to whisper it.

>>39593898
Your pods have now switched to mass producing skyl to fulfill the order, yes. Flash cloning will make that faster, but run the risk of causing genetic disorders and abnormalities due to the rush.

>>39593956
A bit, mostly due to all the slow research subjects.

>>39594021
It's a very large order.

>>39594040
>Essentially, instead of all the drones in the hive screaming "for mother!" they are all told to whisper it.
You bastard! Give me back my sides.

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>>39594040
>Essentially, instead of all the drones in the hive screaming "for mother!" they are all told to whisper it.

>>39594040
>Essentially, instead of all the drones in the hive screaming "for mother!" they are all told to whisper it.

USN Breaking NEWS- The elusive Hive has discovered the secrets of using an inside voice, all hope for humanity is now lost

>>39593566
could
could we outfit entire swarms of fighters with this blaster to severely weaken larger ships

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>>39594040
>Essentially, instead of all the drones in the hive screaming "for mother!" they are all told to whisper it.
God dammit QD I love you

>>39594040
>Essentially, instead of all the drones in the hive screaming "for mother!" they are all told to whisper it.

Darn it QD! you made my sides run off again! Go and help me find them this time!

Remember to ask Theseus for files on "Steven Geldron," last sightings of David Pinkleton--who might have been lying--and whoever is responsible for the death report on the "Jhon Doe" we left behind in Long Island station.


Also curious about the recent whereabouts and activity of Trevor Grey -- the one human who has seen the pod in thread 1 firsthand, and who insisted to Seiner that the hive was advanced interstellar settlers. And what the full report from the Malihan rescue mission to Raligha includes. That one survivor may or may not have dropped that ammo sample when we had the Ralighans drive him off.

>>39593703
>[Unlocks the Capillary Tower construction option]
we tyranid now

So, at the rate we are going, how long before we FINISH SCIENCE in this universe and have to move on to a multiverse, and then the Omniverse, and then the other Omniverses to satisfy our addiction to research?

>>39594223
30 threads before we breach the dimension where the crystals live

>>39594223
"Oh look! In this universe the noble gases aren't inert!"

>>39594040
>the queen telling her children to use their inside voices

>>39594242

How many threads after that where we create micro-universes the size of a pin head to extract infinite resources from?

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>>39594242
I'll hold you to that promise anon.

>>39594250

>Discover Total Annihilation Universe
>Slowly back away as a matter of principle and go somewhere else, like SupCom, or PA.

>>39594040
Where does Elizabeth poop?

>>39594299
+1 Nutrient

>>39594299
Right into the nutrient tanks. Gotta recycle those nutrients

>>39594223
>>39594242
>>39594294

So does this mean that the Red Queen becomes the KaledioQueen?

Actually, that sounds kinda cool, just all fractured colors and glass-like textures on our Queen.

>>39594324
>>39594319
Can't wipe your ass with a nutrient tank anons.

>>39594040
>Essentially, instead of all the drones in the hive screaming "for mother!" they are all told to whisper it.

Im dying, Send help.
>>39594208
Now we must devour all the planets.

>>39594334

Get out of here Zelretch.

>>39594355
>>39594040

QuestDrone please tell us how Elizabeth and the prisoners wipe their asses.

>>39594363
Why did I read that as Tzeench?

>>39594419

Tzeentch ain't got nothing on Zelretch.

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>>39594208
>>39594358
I'm trying to imagine how terrifying we would be with our swarms descending from orbit and covering the entire sky with our children.

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>>39594040
There is a light ding, and the doors to the lift open. The human guard walks out and into a large warehouse. You did not move far enough to have reached the surface, so this must be a basement level, and the warehouse itself appears to spread out into the area where the empty courtyard is, with several large vehicle lifts located beneath it, and a large sealed gate marked as leading to the parking garage.

The human guard walks out and up to a waiting guard standing nearby.
"Let security know a reclamation team will be stopping by." He says, his voice flat. "One for recyc." The man nods solemnly and clicks his radio as the other walks off into a hallway labeled as a barracks.

Your flies are quick to move out, blending in with the exposed wires and support struts as they crawl their way out of the elevator. You notice that the elevator seems to continue up into the ceiling to the building proper, and several staircases lead to areas marked for various uses indicating many of the humans here seem to live within the compound.

>Have your flies spread out and search the warehouse
>Have your flies attempt to ride the elevator further up
>Other

To anyone who wanted to sell Fusion Reactor I would like to inform them that it would backfire horribly.

>>39594539
>>Have your flies spread out and search the warehouse

>>39594539
>Have your flies spread out and search the warehouse
>Have your flies attempt to ride the elevator further up

Send half further up

>>39594539
>>Have your flies spread out and search the warehouse
>>Have your flies attempt to ride the elevator further up
Can't we split them up? From what I understand we have several dozen flies in there right now. More than enough to cover both.

>>39594539
Split them?

if not

>Have your flies spread out and search the warehouse

>>39594539
Just split them up
>>39594616
We pretty much spit up our scouts every time we done our stealth runs

I just realized that we have absolutely zero weaknesses when it comes to warfare, especially when it comes to the psionic shroud and thought muffler making our Hive-frequency the next thing to impossible to locate and analyze.

>>39594616
>>39594597
>>39594658
>>39594662
Just means more work forQD

>>39594684
He'll probably cut out shit he would have posted had we been more specific and only present us with the most important stuff we find. The price of casting a wider net.

>>39594539
>Have your flies spread out and search the warehouse

What are we looking for again?

>>39594801
I'd say that motherfucker that spotted us and got away still breathing.

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>>39594801
Uh, Im pretty sure were always looking for Lee so we may crown him King.

>>39594539
An empty elevator would seem to suspicious, you spread your flies out into the warehouse instead. Once you search the area and get your bearings, perhaps you can find an alternative way up.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>39594883
cas

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>39594883
Rollan

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>39594883

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>39594883

>>39594883

>>39594883
>>39594912
phew

>>39594918
Oh boy.

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>39594883

>>39594674
Theoretically yes. But realistically, given the way we've been playing, We have problems of our industry and strategic resource reserves barely being able to keep up with our levels of production lately.
Also I realized that we have almost no strategic depth. If and when the Obsidian Queen discovers Leeland, she could rush us right there and then, and even if we could evacuate to out other worlds, we would be in very dire straights since we have almost all our industry, food, and metals situated there.

Hey guys what are we doing with regards to farm building and nutrient income in general?

>>39595029
I always knew fluff was a monster, but not that kind of monster.

>>39594981

So we've been playing our Military like an RTS instead of a 4x?

>>39595090
Didn't we discuss about automated farm building and expansion, or did that go nowhere?

>>39595161
I remember discussing it but i can't remember if we ever implemented it.

>>39595029
AUGH! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
>>39595103
I am NOT like that! I am harmless little fuzz ball.

>>39595122
Yes. We are basically advancing at the MAD SPEED of the RTS while the humans have been stuck with slow expansion of 4x.

The main problem is that the Obsidian Queen has the same speed as we do /and/ had a lot of time to entrench itself.

>>39595243
Gonna kill you with fire

Daddy-long legs are harmless bros that eat tons of flies and mosquitos

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>>39595323
Fuck you spider!

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>>39595381
I AINT A SPIDER

arachnid yes, but spider no

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>>39594883
Your flies spread out among the hallways and corridors surrounding the central warehouse, which seems to store a strange combination of military, medical, and surveillance equipment. Various sealed chambers lead into what appear to be surgical rooms, although the chambers are each air tight, and you can find no way of entry without risking detection.

In the corridors around the building, you find a number of small barracks and mess halls serving humans in mixtures of fatigues, civilian apparel, military gear, and lab coats.
"So you hear about Yune?"
"No, the guy gives me the creeps honestly."
"Heard he got shot a few days ago."
"Really? How'd they manage to pull that off?"
"Nobody's sure, he's been up in medical."

Your fly moves along the ceiling and wraps itself around a fire suppressor, its body contorting to match, and the rest of your flies continue on as the conversation switches to the topic of some local sporting event.

You eventually find an area marked with a number of signs: "Main medical" on the top floor of the warehouse, with the two bellow marked "Medical lab" and "Bio hazard containment" respectively. There is a small airlock leading into it, with what you recognize as a bio scanner inside.

On the ceiling is a number of decent sized air ducts slowly circulating the air. The grates are too small even for your flies, but given time, you should be able to chew through them.

>Attempt to sneak into the lab area through the airlock
>Chew through the grates to the air ducts
>Other

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>39595533
>Chew through the grates to the air ducts

>>39595381
>Daddy long legs
>Spider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuDqNLgVHv8

>>39595533
>Chew through the grates to the air ducts

>>39595533
>Chew through the grates to the air ducts

>>39595533
>Chew through the grates to the air ducts

>>39595533
>>Chew through the grates to the air ducts

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>39595533
>Chew through the grates to the air ducts

>>39595533
>Chew through the grates to the air ducts

>>39595595
>>39595594
>>39595591
>>39595585
>>39595580
>>39595557
>>39595596

>Everyone
>Fuck the Bio-scanner

>>39595533
>Chew through the grates to the air ducts

I think a mix of Thorn Launchers and Photonic Blasters would be best for our drones, at the squad level. Thorn Launchers are already good vs armor, with the blaster's special, they're even better.

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>>39595533
Your flies begin gnawing into the grate slowly but surely. Small metal chips occasionally fly from the duct with a light crunching sound.
Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

Beyond the confines of the facility, Lyle looks over the schematics of the city sewers once more.
"It's simple enough. We just need to set up the sonic scanners along the roof, and set breaching caps once we get a decent reading. Hopefully we won't need 'em, but I like to be safe." Dillon says. A microphone set along the desk crackles with Jackob's voice.

"I'll see if I can preoccupy any guards while you get that done, but you two need to work fast."

Lyle flips a small grenade sized disk in his hand. "No way to tell if there's any surveillance there, so we can hit them with a bug bomb before we get started to cut out any cameras."

Dillon clicks the map and it dissipates into a flash as the hologram vanishes. "Good. Jackob, let me know when you have the skiff in position, we'll meet you at junction under Adams and thirty first."

The microphone cuts out and Dillon looks back to Lyle as he packs the projector into his coat.
"This is official agency work now, but we'll still be on the lookout for your guy, obviously. I assume you don't want him on any official records, so I won't mention him in any reports at the end of this."

Lyle gives a quick nod as he swigs down the last of his drink. "''Preciated."

"But" He adds, "I wanted to ask you something real quick."
cont.

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>39596024
Do we roll?

>>39593258
FUCK! IT CAME BACK WHILE I WAS ASLEEP! BUT ATLEAST YOU CAME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck yes my weekend is infinitely better.

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>39596024
ROLALNAN

>>39595996
Agreed, though with the addendum that we have a small number of flamethrower drones too. For example every 10 warriors might break down to something like
>4 Thorn Launchers
>4 Photonic Blasters
>2 Flame Throwers

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>39596024

>>39596024
>"But" He adds, "I wanted to ask you something real quick."
ABORT

>>39596093
That sounds good to me. I was going to say I prefer 5 photonic and 1 flame, but thinking about it, 2 flame throwers in a squad of ten would allow them to actually cover each other.

>>39596024
>I wanted to ask you something real quick

Have the parasite crawl out of Lyle's mouth and attack Dillon screaming "HE KNOWS".

>>39596093
Smart, that would give our entire swarm a huge amount of tactical flexibility.

Did 4chan freeze?

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>>39596024
"I know you don't typically talk about your jobs one way or the other, I respect that professionalism, and you don't have to answer, but I still have to ask."

"Because of your job?" Lyle asks.

"Because I'm curious." Dillon says. "People don't pull off much without my agency finding out, and I know for a fact that someone got in dirty with someone, and a pile of aliens ended up on a ship from Mars on its way to Tadega." Dillon looks over various weapons and stashes them along the inside of his reclamation uniform. "Nobody imports trout to Tadega, and Olympus shipyards isn't usually in the merchant business, and then a few days later the picket fleet nukes the place without warning." He shakes his head slowly. "It doesn't usually take that long to collect a few local specimens, especially not for you. You got caught, didn't you? I mean, let's face it, you don't have a perfect record. I've traced half a dozen Unity infections back to you, but never with any legal evidence, and I just leave what I do find off the record, but before we do anything else, I just wanted to know if you're good."

Lyle pauses for a moment, and begins folding the breaching caps into his bag. "Course I am."

"I just figured, those things are smart enough to speak, they could be smart enough to know what they don't know. I mean, imagine if they got a warp drive?"

Lyle lets out a reflexive chuckle. "God damn, man. What do you think's going on here?"

Dillon shrugs. "I don't know, don't really care. I'll leave that to BFI's more legitimate branches. I just wanted to know how you've been doing."

>Inform Dillon about the hive (write in)
>Say nothing
>Other

>>39596457
People just stopped shitposting.

>>39596473
>pic
Ain't that nigga a Pilgrim?

>>39596473
>>Other
Laugh.

>>39596473
>Other
Say hes doing damage control for someone cause of that nuke mess

>>39596473
Sounds like Dillon needs a parasite

>>39596473
>imagine if they got a warp drive?"
Hehuehueh

>Say nothing and laugh

>>39596473
>laugh
>begin to look for opportunities for giving Dillon a parasite.

>>39596473
nothing or
other
say multiple parties were raiding the planet at the same time

>>39596503
Pilgrim hero from Endless Space, yup.

>>39596473
>imagine if they got a warp drive?
Yeah, imagine that.

Now imagine they have a drive one step above warp.

>>39596532
The hilarious thing is that we do, only we don't use it because it's woefully inefficient compared to our own blink drives.

>>39596473
"I'm better. The local wildlife carries hellish kinds of diseases though."

Lyle told his broker he had space malaria.

>>39596473
>Other
Get a parasite in him. He knows too much and is too useful to kill off.

>>39596531
>>39596547
>>39596588
Someone in his line of work might be pretty damn useful to have parasited, but I'm worried about how much can go wrong.

>>39596588
Not an option yet. Lyle won't do that, and he's too on guard, and Lyle has no parasites on hand.

When he gets inevitably injured in the attack, hybrids will retrieve his injured ass and heal him and Jackob with the parasite's soothing medi-gel.

>>39596588
we need to arrange an accident in this op that's what

>>39596623
>Lyle won't do that, and he's too on guard, and Lyle has no parasites on hand.

Lyle WILL do that.
Yes he is, which is why we need to wait for opportunities in him.
A temporary problem.

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>>39596588

Time to operate!

>>39596623
yeah lyle had a minor mind break when he saw the hybrid clone
we have a lot of influence but we cant push too far right now

>>39596473
>>Inform Dillon about the hive (write in)
"Look mate, I can't say much right now, but there is a lot going on I can't talk about. But suffice it to say, they have actually taken a good deal of interest in what's going on in the Union, and are looking for resourceful gents like me to check it out. Offering some impressive healthcare schemes to back it up."

This guy could be of immense use to the hive, and he seems to know how to be discreet about his business. We should just let him know that we'd be interested in 'recruiting' him, get him used to the idea of working with the hive.

>>39596763
The hive is not a fucking door to door salesman.

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>>39596791
New caste idea

>Conversion priests

>>39596763
hah no
if we got to leave hints then blame the unity, valen or another human faction then

>>39596816
Nah, we can just infest the populace and have them do it for us.

>>39596763
Absolutly Not!, Just say were fine.

>>39596816
"Hi I want to take a moment to talk about your one true savior, the queen"
You blink looking at the person standing in your doorway
"What the hell?"
He smiles, "The Queen is your one true savior
As you are about to slam the door in your face his foot stops it, And he opens the door
>Holy shit he is strong
He punchs you in the gut and you fall to the floor
"Wh-wha the hell?!" you exclaim
He smiles at you, All your nutrients r belong to us
>Fade to black

>>39596909
>infest the populace
>give them a drive to infest others
>whenever they complete a task for the queen, inject them with a dose of dopamine

Guys, I'v just been inspired, we should genetically engineer us some zombies and release them upon the new frontier, Bam Union gets pushed back.

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>>39596473
"I'm good. Had a close call is all. Some nasty infection."

Dillon nods. "Alright then. Whatever it is, it's your business. Let's go."

Your ghostly illusion fades from view, echoing your thoughts in his mind. "Yes, imagine if we only had a warp drive."
Lyle fights back a grin as he exist the room.

The skiff sits waiting at the sewer junction, its flood lights cover the waters ahead in blinding light. It is a decently sized platform mounted on a series of levitation pads nearly a foot from the water, with a rack near the back big enough for several human bodies, and a large empty box that smells like a Valen's gift in a Taidraen embassy after being left to 'ripen' in the sun for a week. Jackob sits in the front, where the bumper dips down to offer a wider view from a small leather seat covered in stains of unknowable origins. Six seats are set up along the sides facing inwards, with three on either side, and in the center is a chest high rod with a pivoting mount where a search light would go, although you make out the silhouette of the Suncaster under a thick blanket nearby. Lyle secures it with his foot and straps himself in, and the skiff lurches forward with an echoing hum.

cont.

>>39597082
That's retarded.

You're retarded.


Not the good kind of retarded.

>>39597095
>Your ghostly illusion fades from view, echoing your thoughts in his mind. "Yes, imagine if we only had a warp drive."
>Lyle fights back a grin as he exist the room.
Is Lyle coming to accept the Hive as his family?

>>39597128
And soon we'll add Dillon too. We need to get some parasites on line for Lyle to use.

>>39597128
Wait, Does Lyle Even have any living family?

>>39597163
Maybe even... give him access to a few parasites, and leave it up to him if he wants to use them or not.

>>39597128
We could offer him a Hive ship sometime.
>>39597173
HIS FAMILY IS DEAD!

>>39597163
Parasiting secret agents is a retarded thing to do. You think they don't have mandatory periodical health examinations? In the fancy spacefuture where there's advanced medical scanning technology?

After every fucking job.

>>39597243
>Lyle at the helm of a Hive ship commanding his own fleet
I want this to happen now. Give him Elizabeth's ability too.

>>39597243
hive ship would be very hard to mask if lyle went on runs into non hive space, also the chances of him giving up the angel is worse then the chances of the black queen committing suicide as penitence for killing her kin.

>>39597248
Anon have you realized that fluff offers nothing of value yet? There is a reason people consider namefags cancer.

>>39597308
He can keep the Angel in one of the Hive ships launch bays.

>>39597321
And your shit posting makes others realize you have nothing of value. You are the reason the anons are becoming the real cancer here. We're going to have to paracite Dillon

>>39597303
He's a boots on ground guy, he doesn't know how to command a human starship much less an alien fleet.

I got it.

We enlist Theseus, and then grow a special ship for Lyle, and have Theseus build AROUND the living parts of the ship.

Cyborg Commando Space Ship.

I DO THING FOR BROTHER WHO DOES THING FOR MOTHER AND UNCLE.

>>39597321
Yes he offers value

Hes the community punching bag
I mean there a hell lot worse name fags than fluff who deserve they abuse they get

fluff is alright

>>39597387
Sneaky beaky

>>39597387
Fund it.

>>39597321
What concerns me is the other support the idea has. If we want to just nab him and run off with a forcefully infested secret agent, sure, that's doable. Sticking a parasite in him and expecting to make use of the resources gained from his position is idiotic. First of all, conditioning him to be useful is going to take 1-3 days and a healthy chunk of a thread, or outright fail. Rolls will be involved. Then how's he going to explain being AWOL? Without getting a medical checkup? Wont happen. We -already- have access to his resources via Lyle. People are being silly.

>>39597377
It doesn't work that way; think things through.

>>39597387
I will allow this.

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>>39597387

>>39597387
Ooh, good idea. I've been wanting to leak vital information on our technology to Theseus for no substantial return for a while now.

>>39597498
He does have a shitload of the Obsidian Queen's torn apart ships in orbit above his worlds.

>>39597498

And I've been wanting to stop bringing up the neckbeard proxy that is Lee since the first couple of threads.

We can't all have the things we want.

>>39597498

He has the OQ's broken ships scattered in several places he can study, and people apparently insist that she is on a roughly equal technological level to ourselves.

>>39597520
>>39597524
>>39597551
None of these are reasons to do the stupid thing.

>>39597387
>We enlist Theseus, and then grow a special ship for Lyle, and have Theseus build AROUND the living parts of the ship.
Or Theseus could just construct a shell and we grow a ship inside it.

How about instead we talk about what fleets we want and what worlds we colonize.

>>39597661

>Colonize

All of them, because we don't have to worry about such silly bullshit as habitable environments.

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>>39597095
The skiff slides to a halt over the floating mess by the elevator.

"It took you long enough." Says the guard. "Hurry up and get this packed up. We need to flush this section out."

Jackob hops the railing to the walkway. "Yea, well first I'm going to need you to walk me through how this happened."

"What? We were fucking attacked by these things, I already told you!"

"No, no I mean details. Gonna need you to show me where they came from, how they got in, all that. If this was a malfunction we can't have it happen again. We have traps all over the city, what if the design is defective?"

The guard quickly points over to the end of the canal. "They came from over there. You can check yourself."

Jackob shakes his head. "No can do. You need to show me the details, either you, or your boss. It's under your building, which means that you could be held liable under the right circumstances, since you clearly have a presence down here already. Lot's of companies like to use these tunnels for moving sensitive stuff, and sometimes they take shortcuts they shouldn't. If you don't come with me, and I find out your company could be at fault, that could be years of court battles, but you could always tell your boss to come down here instead."

The guard lets out a frustrated groan. "Fine!" He says and leads Jackob off to the end of the corridor. Jackob turns back behind him and gives a quick thumbs up as Lyle presses his thumb against a small frisbee shaped device, causing it to start to hum softly.

"Alright, we have about five minuets before that thing could be detected." Lyle says as he grabs one of the sensors. He squats down and leaps into the air, quickly reaching the ceiling several meters above and grabbing hold of a pipe as he plants the sensor on the cement above. Dillon quickly tosses him several more as Lyle plants them one by one and you watch as each one covers itself in a stone-like foam, blending into the surface of the ceiling.
cont.

>>39597690
>All of them, because we don't have to worry about such silly bullshit as habitable environments.
We do have to worry about them having exploitable weaknesses.

>>39597321
the only thing I dislike about fluff is his shitty roll luck. The only thing I dislike about you is that you cant just ignore him like a sane person. Also he is no where near as bad as ND/whiteagle so there is that.

>>39597661
We need to capture Desmond before the Scavengers get control over it. If they do they'll be able to attack any system in the frontier expanse including ours.

>>39597736
And turn P2 into a farming colony.

>>39597694
dayum

>>39597694
>He squats down and leaps into the air, quickly reaching the ceiling several meters above and grabbing hold of a pipe

Lyle jump good!

>>39597661
We should definitely fortify Wonder for mining and defense against further Scavenger attacks. It would also make sense to test our planet seeders on the glassed world we inherited from mother. I've crunched the numbers, and it is well within our budget to do so.

Also, I have no problem with dilllon knowing too much, truth is, it'd be nice to get some hive good will going that doesn't involve insane amounts of parasites and complications. Part of why I made that whistle blowing plan.

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>>39597694
Dillon manipulates a small receiver as Lyle places the last of the sensors and lands with a thud next to the skiff.

"Hold on, I'm picking up some kind of weird interference, like a... buzzing. Need to adjust it a bit first. Here we go. Place has a basement warehouse, looks like a pretty big complex actually. The floor above us looks like a loading bay of some kind." He looks up and tosses Lyle a hand full of blasting caps and points out several locations.

"Yea, sure thing, since you look so busy."

"Well that's what you get for being the only one with fucking frog legs." Dillon says. "You know what they say about grass and the lawn mower."

"Actually not really. I've honestly never seen a lawn in person, except maybe one of those shitty plastic ones." Lyle says as he leaps to one of the corners, his legs digging into the conduits and sprinting up the wall just enough to plant the charge, then hopping back to the walk way. In several minuets he has the charges in place.

"That's that, now, we do what we came here for. Grab a net and act like your job is actually boring." Dillon says as he reaches for the jammer. "We can make a plan of attack once we give the sensors time to get a good eye on the building."

Above, your flies begin to pour into the air vent through the metal grate. The air to the lab appears to flow through multiple filters, but you also find several ducts leading upwards into the levels above. They are unlabeled, but you suspect you have enough drones to cover all your bases.

>Have your drones chew through the filters to infiltrate the labs
>Have your drones focus on searching the upper levels
>Split your drones
>Other

>>39597921
It may at some point be reasonable to leak information of the hive to carefully selected individuals in Union intelligence/political positions, but it is somewhat premature at the moment.

>>39597921
Yeah, it's pretty clear from the way QD is writing this quest that it's pretty much impossible to keep doing these sorts of covert missions without any characters connecting the dots. Sooner or later it is all but bound to come out that we're not exactly stone smashers, and it would definitely be in our best interest to use the Union's social and political environment to further our ends when that happens.

>>39597993
>Have your drones chew through the filters to infiltrate the labs

Lets see what they have in there.

>>39597993
>Have your drones chew through the filters to infiltrate the labs

I kind of wish we could just send a bunch of drones on our planet to search automatically for new creatures to study.

>>39597993
About how many flies are we working with here?

>>39597921
I agree, but it's the timing of it the tricky part. Yes I wanted to parasite Dillon, but I did not say right now.

>>39597993
>>Split your drones

>>39598007
>>39598043

Well it is possible that should we choose not to infest Dillion, we can use him to facilitate peaceful contact with the Union, though honestly I don't see any benefits to that compared to us just walking up to them and saying hi.

>>39597993
>>Split your drones

>>39598088
"GO MY CHILDREN! FIND ME NEW AND INTERESTING THINGS TO POKE AT!"

>>39597993
>Have your drones focus on searching the upper levels
If it's a lab, the filters almost certainly have monitors tracking whether they work or not. Definitely not designed to detect intruders, but bigass holes being chewed through them is going to register as a filter failure on their system.

>>39597993
>Hold on, I'm picking up some kind of weird interference, like a... buzzing
I wonder what that could be.

>>39598098
We don't need him as an ambassador for the hive, that's what Lee is for. The dudes a professional cop/spook. His contacts and skillset would be best employed in the shadowy underworld, but yeah, we don't necessarily have to give him a parasite for that to work.

>>39597993
>Have your drones focus on searching the upper levels

>>39597993
>Split your drones

>>39597993
>>Have your drones chew through the filters to infiltrate the labs

>>39598095
That's still a dumb idea. You cannot parasite intelligence officers and have them maintain cover.

>>39598098
It is better to have sympathetic agents in an organization prior to official contact than to not.

>>39597993
>>Split your drones
We made a lot of them explicitly to split up.

>>39598147
Alteratively, hes a spook with a lot of contacts, I doubt we'd be the first foreign xeno power hes been in contact with. He probably knows valen contacts and probably a few of the sewer people as well.

Hey guys, we should parasite theseus, hes got a lot of contacts around the universe and could leak our presence were he to feel like it, its the only way to be safe...

>>39598171
Likely we'll parasite him after we go public

>>39598198

So you are saying we should shove our worm down his throat.

>>39597993
>>Split your drones

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>>39598199
Wow it's like you don't even read the things people write. You cannot put a parasite in a person's body if they are in the intelligence game and expect that parasite to go unnoticed for any amount of time. You cannot expect an intelligence agency to be in favor of one of their agents having an alien parasite inside of their body. There is no way to reconcile a parasite in Dilon's body with Dilon working his current job. It is better to have him in his job and vaguely-but-maybe-not-really sympathetic than it is to have another above-average human agent to play with.

-Especially- after we've revealed ourselves.

>>39598256
If it does, we're going to crack the planet he died on, mark my words.

>>39597993
>>Have your drones chew through the filters to infiltrate the labs

Speaking of that, since we've got such an efficient method of stripping minerals, we could probably sell a bunch of rare minerals after going out into the open and then give a shit ton of credits to everyone we currently have captive as recompense. Also we can probably con our way out of it on the ground that the tribals were the one to attack after unity firebombed there ship, and we just happened to be the ones that had to play clean up afterwards.

>>39598301
No, no, full scale invasion. There would be nothing more terrifying than some unknown insectoid race blinking in from out of nowhere from deep space and unleashing innumerable fighters and invasion swarms.

>>39598336
didn't we solve ageing awhile ago?
why not sell that?

>>39598336
>then give a shit ton of credits to everyone we currently have captive as recompense
Or we could just wipe their memories and drop them off on the Valen's colony.

>>39598414
It would look far better to make it clear that people who fucked with us don't necessarily have to die. It kind of sets the whole idea that we aren't some horrific monstrosity who will melt all who disagree with us into raw biomass.

>>39598409
>didn't we solve ageing awhile ago?
>why not sell that?
Because selling tech that valuable and hard to get is stupid.

>>39598269
I do read thank you, I don't expect him to remain in the agency either if we do that. however We could have him infested long enough to pass MORE parasites into other agents and more or less compromise as many members of the government and the ones who do the screenings as we can. We'll feed the higher ups an 'green lite' and get the intelligence right from the source. It's risky, but it could work.

>>39598452
Pretty certain they actually need regular injections only we can provide.

>>39598482
If we can biogenerate it anyone can. Hell, we use vats of e-coli to produce insulin in real life right now. They might not be able to make it as cleanly or efficiently, but it can definitely be done.

>>39598482
What is research?
>>39598441
And your point is? Seriously I'd rather that they fear us enough to not even to dare attack us again.

>>39598147
I thought we were going to use Elizabeth to do that, I mean I'm sure she'd just do it if we asked.

>>39598536
Thats not how people work and they didn't attack us, if they fear us they will make it there point to invest as much money as possible into ending our reign of terror, in secret or otherwise, it would be a nightmare to stamp out and would contribute to us having to probably ultimately invade them when they call our bluff. People don't like living in fear.

>>39598452
it only works on humans and some other aliens anyway

Why don't we just ask Unity how to go about first contact? He'll provide a better plan than we could.

>>39598566
>they didn't attack us
Having amnesia there?
>if they fear us they will make it there point to invest as much money as possible into ending our reign of terror
That's not how it works.

>>39598473
If he leaves the agency most of his usefulness as an agent of the hive would be gone.

>>39598544
Bro, do you follow these threads? The general consensus was that Lee would be better suited, as his name is already widely known, and, y'know, he technically is still our ambassador.

This is your weekly reminder that we still have not gassed the ceph!

>>39598621
Also in case you don't remember, my first contact with the union involved quite a few fatalities and a fear of me that lingers to this day.

>>39598643
>Thats not how it works
Yes, because during the cold war americans weren't investing money in opposing the soviet union because we were too scared with fighting such an intimidating and powerful foe...

>>39598269
You only need to put a parasite in him for five days.

That's long enough to clone him and implant all the memories of the original into a hybrid.

Also, we don't know for sure that intelligence agencies regularly do elaborate, lengthy CAT scans on their personnel.

If, after we parasite him, and invade his memories to review just what kind of scrutiny he's under. Then we can make a decision whether to keep him parasited based on that.

We might at least want him parasited for purely passive spying purposes, if not altering his behavior any that would draw attention.

>>39598648
We would still gain his knowledge and non-departmental contacts. But for all we know, BFI's heavily compartmentalized and we end up learning almost fuck all.

>>39598643
THEY didn't.

One corrupt politician and his legitimately insane henchmen did, which was done in full contradiction of first contact protocol. His actions are simply not representative of the Union as a whole.

>>39598473
once we are ready to go fullscale take over this would be a neat idea, otherwise no we need to stay as incognito as possible until the last possible minute, we have not finished all of our prep work for the fallout that will accompany this. We should stay in the shadows until we can wipe out a planet with ease...you saw how our shit got wrecked last space battle right? we dont have enough fleets to keep losing because of shit rolls...not yet anyway

>>39598648
I thought about it and yes, that is likely true. And more likely everyone will leave him be, but alternatively we could use him as an infection agent to convert most if not all the agency itself and still let the higher ups think nothing happened. This could work if we don't go public.

I just realized, with our ability to generate people who we can seed full memories in and such, we could just start generating a shit ton of mary sues and fill the dark corners of taverns across the galaxy!

IMAGINE! All of those adventurers in tribal worlds might just be us planting ourselves into there system!

If this guy was able to put the dots together on lyle, theseus, and us he can probably put the dots together on the few missing days of his life. He will probably quickly figure out someone knows everything and play damage control as well.

>>39598708
>non-departmental contacts
While I don't doubt they are substantial, the guy was fully aware of shit going down the length and width of the Union. I don't want to do anything to jeopardize ANY of his sources of intel, they are the reason he is so valuable in the first place.

>>39598705
if we want the memories and dna to clone him we dont even NEED to implant a parasite, just stuff his ass in a tank for 24 hours tops. >>39598269
he has a point, I mean do you personally want to make nice with an alien bug race that wants to just stuff parasites in everything before even bothering to make diplomatic attempts? Na mate thats the stuff of horror movies: face it we are fucking terrifying as the hive and we need to tread carefully with the other races until this black queen issue is resolved.

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>>39597993
You have your drones slip up and search the compound. The flies by the filters are slowed, but they are quick to begin making progress. Your other drones find no resistance as they move up and through the upper levels of the building. Your flies find a number of offices and cubicles. Near the area where the labs are located, in what you note would be the level above the main medical floor, is an area marked as the infirmary. Near that is another small mess hall, little more then a small break room, and while you note sidearms at the hip of most in the area, there are very few fully armed guards.

Unlike the medical lab, the infirmary appears mostly open, with an automatic door near the front and boxes of medical equipment lines along the wall outside. On the floor above the entire area is dedicated to administration, with countless files and papers marked as top secret sitting in piles, or floating as holograms on agents' desks. On many computers you can see what looks like video footage, and you can even recognize several Union political figures sitting in what look like their offices, or from the shaky cameras of their personal communicators.

"I honestly could care less about your pointless excuses, I want results, and so does the council." You recognize the smooth drawl of a Talgoian accent. A fly moves closer and finds a large office near the far wall where a hologram of Killinger stands several inches high on a desk. "You told me you would send in a report last week, and now you tell me it's 'being handled' well, it's time to shit or get off the pot, because you've been leading the local gangs around on a leash trying to mop up this mess and apart from getting your hit men on the fucking news, you have nothing to show for it!" He throws a device at an invisible table in front of him, and the data on it is flashed above him, showing a local news report of the men Lyle and your clones had killed at Lee's apartment building.

cont.

>>39598705
Five days is a long ass time. We know that meager human tech can create fairly convincing body duplicates, so after a delay like that, a thorough medical examination is the only sane response.

It's not feasible.

>>39598757
So are we going public or not? You're all over the place.

>>39598693
Anon we could easily outpace them in every way possible. It wouldn't matter.

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>>39598757
>Infecting an entire department of a Union intelligence agency

Fluff...please...just stop talking. This plan is so bad, and has so many ways to go horribly wrong I don't even know where to start.

>>39598873
Do you REALLY want to bank on the fact that humanity wouldn't manage to find some thing we managed to overlook and make our lives hell? Do you REALLY want to bank that they wont go into the arms of those crystal things if they offered humanity salvation? Do you REALLY want to plunge us into a genocidal war because you don't want to trust anyone ever?

>>39598826
>showing a local news report of the men Lyle and your clones had killed at Lee's apartment building.
hue

>>39598852
I'm just tossing out plans for if the anons want to go that way. I have the feeling it won't now. I'll stop so don't worry about it.

I don't understand why people are so stuck on possibly allying with Humanity.

We have Theseus and Heretic, and a dozen other aliens we could be friends with.

Why can't we just tell Humanity to fuck off and go we go be friends with other people?

>>39596724
We can push him as far as we want. His mind doesn't matter now that we have complete control of it. He can complain about an order, but he can't say no to an order.

>>39598873
If the humans existed in a vacuum, sure. They don't. There's the Black Queen, the crystals, the Ceph. We don't know which side Theseus would truly come down on, either.

Avoiding pointless conflict when the cost is not engaging in equally pointless power fantasy is only sensible.

>>39598931
We can use whatever help we can get, and they're just annoying enough to not ignore them.

>>39598757
I like your enthusiasm but fluff we must do this sneaky like, cant go and infest them all at once mate, not yet anyway. If we want data we can stuff em in a portable drone tank after sedating em then make it seem like they got drunk passed out and had a shitty night.

>>39598931
Or at least tell the Union to fuck off and pay a visit to the Commonwealth.

>>39598931
I DONT want us to ally with humanity, I just also don't want us to end up getting in a genocidal war with them or in a cold war with them.

>>39598931
"Friends" is an overstatement. Nonaggression is all I need. Casual trade relations would be pleasant.

We still need a couch.

>>39598931
cause we are human i guess
and half of use are just cant role-play from the perspective of another species to save our life

>>39598955

Theseus would come down on Theseus' side.

Which is our side, provided we don't go for extinction, because we are immortal and won't dick him over for votes and consider him to be an ally and friend with goals that are not in any way, shape, or form opposed to our own and do not cause more than a very minor amount of friction.

>>39598894
>Do you REALLY want to bank on the fact that humanity wouldn't manage to find some thing we managed to overlook and make our lives hell?
Like they haven't tried and failed miserably.
>Do you REALLY want to bank that they wont go into the arms of those crystal things if they offered humanity salvation?
More tech to research.
>Do you REALLY want to plunge us into a genocidal war because you don't want to trust anyone ever?
We can't "trust" anybody anon.
Also I never said feared and hated. Personally I prefer feared and respected.

>>39598931
Because we want less fodder for the Black Queen. If the black crystals infects humanity, we'll be in trouble - but if we can get them on our side, the fight against the Black Queen would be easier.
And then again we haven't even touched the Valen, Scavvies and Taidarens. Three potential Black Queen fodder right there.

>>39598931
Allying with them is a bit optimistic but they're going to discover our true nature eventually, it's inevitable. We need to be on good political footing with them when they do so that we can avoid any altercations with them while we're dealing with this fucking void crystal god nigger and his faggot slave races.

>>39598931
>dozen other aliens we could be friends with.
All of the not dick aliens that we aren't currently allied with have more or less friendly relationship with the humans. They certainly won't appreciate the bullshit some anons propose.

>>39598931
No one said anything about allying with Humanity, what we're trying to do is to not have them declare war on us because some idiots think it would be a good idea to infest one of their intelligence agencies and populations centers.

>>39598955
I thought we were past the point that there would be no doubt that Theseus would side with us on anything short of declaring genocide on the human race.

>>39598998
They HAVEN'T tried to make our lives hell, they tried to capture a few of us to experiment on, not knowing even the slightest of our capacity, and they also tried to prevent us from becoming warp capable by monitoring us, also not knowing we already were. Neither of those constitute a targeted antagonistic effort.

>>39599019
'Friendly' relations at the point of a gun.

>>39599065
Valen are friendly because they can crash the human economy if they felt like, and the ceph are actively antagonistic towards humanity with out them even realizing it. The lesser races fall on all sides of the spectrum here.

>>39599096

Mostly negative because their induction into the Union was in the form of annexation.

>>39599126
At least one of those races naturally lived in shit and had a pretty low quality of life to begin with. If anything them being annexed actually helped them. With the mute ceph they actually benefit also from the union as thats a place they can live without actively being murdered.

>>39599048
You do realize there is nothing they could do to make our lives hell.
Also your argument falls apart pretty when you realize that it is better to be "Feared and respected" than "Loved and respected".

>>39599045
That's anons being naively optimistic regarding Theseus's bearing. He's not going to betray us under any circumstances, but his retaliation against us for certain categories of behaviour towards humanity would not constitute "betrayal".

The thresholds on behaviour necessary to garner retaliation are currently unknown to us. People are making assumptions about it. Personally, I feel that Theseus would not respond well to anything resembling planetary invasion of an established colony.

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>>39598990
Fucking Scavs and their false advertising, we were promised a couch!

>>39599180
Whatever you say, Machiavelli.

>>39599180
Do you remember those two times that there warp drives malfunctioned and temporarily formed a gravitational singularity? Yeah, I'm pretty sure they've found a way to weaponize that. I'm also pretty sure you could crack a planet with a well placed singularity bomb. Alternatively there are plenty of potential doomsday devices including flat out thermal overloading our atmosphere to turn our planet into a molten hellscape.

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So is this a pretty accurate description of that time the Union sent a cyborg to destroy our hive?

>>39599180
And your argument falls apart when you realize that there is absolutely nothing to be gained by engaging in a pointless genocidal war.
And there is plenty they could do to make our lives hell, have you forgotten how vast their territory and industrial base is? If they really cared to they destroy much of the hive.

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>>39598826
"Yes sir, but I did want to talk to you about your opponent, Richardson?"

"That Green sack of shit is less likely to beat me in an election then my own ass." His jaw line tightens in anger. "I'll worry about my election, you worry about doing your job. I tell you to figure out who killed our mole, and you hire a dozen hit men to start a fire fight in a high rise. I tell you to contain the situation, and you get one of your best men, a man with substantial investment from this project mind you, nearly killed by some gang banger asshole, and have quite possibly lead the straight to you!" He clenches his tiny fists, and you note the man in the room is quite tense, despite the hologram's tiny size. "I'm going to make a call. This has gone on long enough. The council will make plans to have a new location prepared, clean out this base immediately and get the subjects ready to move." Killinger moves to an unseen control, and pauses as if he remembered something, looking back up sternly. "Just remember how critical your project is. We can ill afford a repeat of the battle of Sol, so by God you better get your ducks in a row before the Commonwealth does." He jerks his arm off screen to shut off the feed, his arm tensing as if snapping a man's neck, and the hologram winks out.

The man turns to his desk and presses a button and an artificial voice responds.
"Please contact the Secretary Council." He says, and he closes the door.

As you watch the man look over various papers your flies continue to spread out, reaching the next level of the building. It is largely empty, with a number of guards standing in empty hall that leads to a sealed area with two guards standing at attention. On the other side, near the elevator, is a locked door behind which you detect a mess of electrical equipment and activity.

>Have your flies move in to listen in on the conversation in the office.
>Investigate the office on the top floor
>Investigate the infirmary
>Other

>>39599180
sure we could probably wipe out a great deal of their population and infrastructure, crippling the whole fucking union but it would be a pyrrhic victory.

they still have the combined might of the entire union military to bring to bear on our shit after we do that, while we only have a two shitty fleets to defend from the obsidian queen and the now royally pissed off union military.

>>39599344
>>Have your flies move in to listen in on the conversation in the office.
Holy shit, these guys are into some deep shit.

>>39599344
Aw fuck
Any one bet they been remaking the psychic cannon and that's why the ceph been attacking them?

>>39599344
>>Have your flies move in to listen in on the conversation in the office.

>>39599344
>Investigate the office on the top floor

>The council will make plans to have a new location prepared, clean out this base immediately and get the subjects ready to move
Subjects? What the hell are they doing in here?

>>39599313
>there is absolutely nothing to be gained by engaging in a pointless genocidal war.
In his defense, planets. Resources.

>>39599344
>>Have your flies move in to listen in on the conversation in the office.
>Investigate the office on the top floor
If we can confirm this is where they are keeping records we can relay that information to lyle who can relay it to his team.

I've been thinking, with how volitile the psychic cannon is, and what happens when it fails... what if we made a version of it that was designed to fail. A psychic WMD per say. You send it towards your target, and detonate it on top of it to cause massive damage.

>>39599441
From where we're starting to get, a war with us might result in us flat out going death star on planets.

>>39599344
>Other
Keep the majority of them listening in, but move a couple into the infirmary and the top floor

>>39599344
>clean out this base immediately and get the subjects ready to move."

Test subjects. In Medical lab, or in biohazard containment?

>Have your flies move in to listen in on the conversation in the office.
>Investigate the office on the top floor
>Investigate the infirmary

Fly splitting 3way time?

>>39599238

>Do you remember those two times that there warp drives malfunctioned and temporarily formed a gravitational singularity? Yeah, I'm pretty sure they've found a way to weaponize that
That's a Unity exclusive tech anon.
>Alternatively there are plenty of potential doomsday devices including flat out thermal overloading our atmosphere to turn our planet into a molten hellscape.
Which with is effectively impossible to do unless you have immolator warheads. Which they don't have.

>>39599344
Adding onto my vote here>>39599489

>Other

Notify lyle and his team that they are beginning to clear out the building. However they are still unaware they have been found out.

>>39599519
I say so.

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>>39599344
>and have quite possibly lead them straight to you!

Huehuehuehuehuehuehue

>>39599557
...Nope, unity tech is a branch off of union tech, which uses exotic matter to accelerate at speeds that are higher than the speed of light, that exotic matter also forms a gravitational singularity when its containment fails. As we saw with our screw up in that salvaged union ship.

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So what did Lee look like again? Because I've just been imagining him as Lee from TWD game for shits and giggles.

>>39599588
>...Nope, unity tech is a branch off of union tech
It was invented by Unity.
>which uses exotic matter to accelerate at speeds that are higher than the speed of light
You really are a moron. That's not remotely how it works.

>>39599658
Are you mixing up the union and the unity? The unity is theseus, which was created BY the union. Hence the similarities in technology.

>>39599696
Nope Unity invented the Singularity projector for use in their space fold drive. The Union in quest has been stated as being unable to replicate it.

>>39599344
Your flies move to infiltrate the offices, and you give Lyle the impression of urgency with which they seem to be preparing to move.
Please roll 2d100, best of 3 each. First for the top level office, second for the main office.

Lyle sits in the skiff as it unloads its morbid cargo at a recycling facility. "Have you found anything on the sensors yet?"

"I bit. It looks like some fortified position, but just judging by what areas have the thickest walls, I'd say we have a decent bet on what they don't want us to see." Dillon says.

"Well we should move fast. I don't think they're going to stick around for long after all that's happened."

Rolled 59, 44 = 103 (2d100)

>>39599894

Rolled 15, 58 = 73 (2d100)

>>39599894
>>39599894
>Lyle sits in the skiff as it unloads its morbid cargo at a recycling facility.
Damn, no trout set aside for us then.

Rolled 20, 24 = 44 (2d100)

>>39599894

Rolled 37, 87 = 124 (2d100)

>>39599894
Well shit, this ain't good.

>>39599647
Don't you dare, I won't be able to handle loosing Lee Again.

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>>39598980
The Union is diseased, rotten to the core. There's no saving it.

We need to pull it out by the roots, wipe the slate clean, BURN IT DOWN!

>>39599344
>We can ill afford a repeat of the battle of Sol, so by God you better get your ducks in a row before the Commonwealth does.
This is vague to work off of, but I'm getting the feeling that Killinger represents a faction that is neither Union nor Commonwealth, playing both for whatever it is they're trying to achieve.

>>39599959
You know it's gonna happen anon, no Lee ever survives situations like these.

Gah, Why can't we just conquer the new frontier, and give the rest of the union to the commonwealth?

>>39600133
Have you ever played Europa Universalis, because you should know what happens when you randomly conquer an entire civilization and hand them off to someone else. Rebellions fucking everywhere...

>>39599696
>>38103852
>the server ships mow down formations of approaching corvettes with singularity projectors.
>>32362180
>>Unity
>Artificial intelligence technology which led to the total destruction of Chandra 3, and the loss of half the Rimward fleet. Remnant has fled outside of Union space, and is suspected to be operating on a nomadic basis via serverships of various designs. Unity serverships are reported to have weaponized singularity devices, engagement is advised only in dire circumstances.

>>39599760
It definitely sounds like Unity invented weaponized singularity devices. But I don't see where it's mentioned as being related to the Space Fold. Their alternate FTL seems to be a separate invention of theirs that humans don't have.

I don't think we've heard anything about the space fold drive really.

>>39600153
I've played crusader kings and Victoria.

They end in either uprising or Nazis every time

>>39600153
That sounds even better, that means the commonwealth will be busy and can't backstab us.

>>39600167
Sounds like the unity have actually mastered it to a science, being able to project a temporary controlled singularity on a target without wiping yourself out as well. Singularity bombs are far easier to make and would likely be viable still. In general its easier to make something that is massively destructive and doesn't have to worry about damage control to itself afterwards.

>>39600038
SPORE THE HUMANS

SPACE WAR NOW

>>39600153
We could always just eat everyone.

Anyway, I'm going to bed now guys, please don't plunge us into an intersteller war while I'm gone... again...

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>>39600254
Making the mother of all omelets here, anon. You can't fret over every egg.