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>>39735407
>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 7773140
Metals: 3893029
Credits: ₡2226
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,177,400

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 52325
Queen – 5
Fake Queen (4) – 220
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 (2500) – 7500
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 (1000) – 25000
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


>Formed fleets and orders
Small Heavy Defense Fleet [Patrolling Leeland space]
Heavy Battle Fleet [Awaiting orders]
Missile Ambush Fleet [Building]
5 Light Fleets [building]

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>>39735441
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
590 Skyl replicants in production – 35400
3987N

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 895859N

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

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>>39735461
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: (1000) (100,000N)
969 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: +2,500,000N per day, 5,000 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)
[1 Carrier Battlecruiser]
[Empty docks: 0/4]
>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)
[100 Mining Corvettes]
[10 Ambush Missile Cruiser]
[100 Ambush Missile Corvette]
[60 Light fleet frigate]
[15 Light fleet cruiser]
[Empty docks 115/400]

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>>39735496
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)

Woot! Hive Queen Quest!

And here we go!

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>>39735521
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.

I am exite

FOR THE LEE

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>>39735547
Finished Research

>Neural crystal fractals
The crystalline structure of your newly adapted neural computers can be altered even further to hold a fractal design, offering new benefits to your thinkers, and opening up new options for other drones.

>Blaster Cannon
Simply a scaled up blaster, the blaster cannon offers a heavy direct fire weapon capable of being deployed by a large drone.

New Research Unlocked

>Predictive combat algorithms
Medium
Your drones are always watching the enemy, either in person or through your network, and the hive grows more accustomed to certain quirks and common tactics employed by specific species or individuals. With the powerful calculations made possible by fractal based crystal brains, your drones, and clones with either psionic capabilities or hybrid or chimera types will be able to predict the vast number of variables in any single fight, allowing it to know what the enemy will do in the heat of the moment and act accordingly. Grants a bonus to combat rolls against known and researched enemies.

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>>39735585
[New weapon unlocked]
Blaster Cannon - A scaled up blaster that offers large drones a heavy direct fire weapon system capable of targeting a large variety of hostiles at nearly any range. Due to the increased size, it requires more time between shots to assemble a photonic particle, but it is still capable of continuous fire with little recoil or heat buildup.
Dmg: High Energy/Thermal
RoF: Low
Rng: Very Long
Acc: Medium
Special: Intensive forward firepower - The blaster cannon, like the blaster, does not impart damage by the force of impact, but by the force of the particle dispersing. The cannon is large enough for this force to cause a small 5 meter area of effect upon impact, pushing infantry away, knocking them down, and potentially causing damage to any one or thing nearby.

Blaster - A well balanced energy weapon that deals damage through the force of the rapid decay of photonic particles against the target. The weapon is very well balanced, making it a suitable choice for nearly any weapon mount, and due to the nature of the weapon it does benefit, if only slightly, from a spinal mount. It is a decent weapon in all areas, but lacks any major area of expertise, making it best suited for use in cheap, disposable support craft and picket forces, or as a mortar to fill in any cracks within a fleet's composition.
Dmg: Medium Energy/Thermal
RoF: Medium
Rng: Medium
Acc: Medium
Special: Focus Fire - When attacking a ship with a blaster, there is a very small chance of overloading the shield projectors. The chance stacks with more blasters. Against unsheilded targets, the target's armor is super-heated and made less effective, reducing its armor for as long as the blasters maintain fire. If the blasters stop firing the armor cools and returns to its normal effectiveness.

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>>39735619
Current research

>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.

>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.

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>>39735642
>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.

>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

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>>39735670
>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.

>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.

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 new research (write in)
>Maintain current research list
>Other

>>39735585
So what about the fancy toys Builder had lying around? Did they include Abductor ships?

>>39735689


>Predictive combat algorithms

>>39735689
>Add new research
Predictive combat algorithms
ONLY

Man, we do have a massive back log of work going on. Just one is enough.

>>39735689
>Predictive combat algorithms

>>39735701
What about the thinker mother left us. We still haven't opened up the encrypted files on it, remember?

>>39735689
>>Add new research (write in)

>Predictive combat algorithms

>>39735770
Irrelevant. Not opening that.

Mother hid those for a reason.

More urgent is downloading Yune and Michael's memories through their spine.

>>39735770
No, but we decided to put it off for now.

Right now my research-addiction is focused on those labs/vault, and whatever we found on that space station.

>>39735547
You know, eventually we need to find something more productive than Algae farms.

>>39735689
>>Add new research

>Predictive combat algorithms

>>39735819
I'm not saying we haven't got more urgent matters to deal with right now, but it's something else for the to do list.

It's getting pretty long though.

>>39735842
Harvester docks. Which we are increasing daily.

>>39735842
Well Regalia has several plants that I think they're still researching.

>>39735842
Algae is a pretty simple organism, usually single cellular or colony forming single celled. Its one of the more efficient things out there actually.

I've been thinking, we could totally just genetically engineer various forms of narcotics and sell them for easy credits.

>>39735842
We're researching the Gray stalks anon

>>39735819
>>39735836
>>39735770
More research is always good.

Also I recently came up with a game plan for expansion.

>Desmond
We need to capture this system before the Scavengers do. If the Scavengers do they'll be able to attack G-426.
>a-295
We should bring copy of Theseus to deal with the monitoring satellite and try to take control of it.
>Refuge
We should scout and claim this system.
>Drift
If we take control of this planet we'll have a good position of which to launch a surprise attack against the Black queen.

We should also search our secured planets for adaptations and new tech(we should be able to do this passively) as well as explore P2 of G-426 since it's a pretty unusual planet

>>39735407
That poor fly.

>>39735689
>Add Predictive Combat Algorithms to research

Your thinkers continue to churn away at your many research projects. Your patrols have intercepted a number of enemy pods, but you have not detected any unusual activity from the rival queen. Her forces are vast, but she seemed to still be recovering from the defeat of her strike fleet over Raligha. On the other side of your space, the Scavengers seem to be showing little concern for their scouts as of yet, but they will likely soon begin to suspect something is wrong when their ships fail to check in their progress. Your pod watches as a heavily damaged fleet returns with a Commonwealth corvette strapped along the side of the hull of a cruiser like a dear carcass draped over a car.

You find yourself enjoying the short respite, and you split your attention among the many matters of the hive before your foes on all sides resume trying to kill you.

>Investigate the interior of the Builder's Dockyard
>Manage your forces on Gemini
>Scout the depths of Huron
>Manage your new human hybrids on Leeland
>Other

>>39735901
Don't forget the Bloodroot.

>>39735842
We could see about searching Regalia for more bloodroot and building more Bloodroot collectors.

>>39735981

>Investigate the interior of the Builder's Dockyard

>>39735981
>Investigate the interior of the Builder's Dockyard

Could we also have our drones passively search for new organisms on our secured planets?

>>39735981
>Investigate the interior of the Builder's Dockyard

>>39735981
>>Investigate the interior of the Builder's Dockyard

>>39735981
>>Investigate the interior of the Builder's Dockyard

>>39735981
>Investigate the interior of the Builder's Dockyard

>>39735933
Way to think ahead of the curve anon! Territorial expansion is the next logical step in the establishment of a space empire. Add it to the to do list.

>>39735981
>Investigate the interior of the Builder's Dockyard
after that could we
>Manage your forces on Gemini

>>39735981
>Your pod watches as a heavily damaged fleet returns with a Commonwealth corvette strapped along the side of the hull of a cruiser like a dear carcass draped over a car.
I'm sensing some potential research here.

>>39735981
>Scout the depths of Huron
Didn't we already find a whole skunkworks in the dockyard? I'm still waiting for options from that, honestly.

>>39736055
>Way to think ahead of the curve anon! Territorial expansion is the next logical step in the establishment of a space empire. Add it to the to do list.
All the planets I just suggested are noncontested. Meaning they're up for grabs.

>>39736075
That's what the option
>Investigate the interior of the Builder's Dockyard
is for smart guy.

>>39736113
I know, we just have to find the time to have a vote on it. Which is becoming increasingly difficult, given the sheer number of things and research developments occurring simultaneously across the hive right now.

We going to be testing our terraforming ability on any of these planets soon

>>39735981
>Other
Finally look at those systems those pods were sent to like 5 threads ago.

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>>39735981
The dockyard is truly massive. Your drones have spread out to cover more ground, finding endless laboratories filled with all kinds of strange designs and unorthodox weapon systems. Few of them show any promise. You suspect that, without the creative and intuitive nature of quantum computing, that the Builder had simply attempted to use sheer overwhelming numbers to beat the odds into submission.

As your drones continue inward, the air starts to become less stale, with slight drafts swirling the dust and ice crystals, and even signs of liquid moisture growing in thin layers of dew on scattered surfaces.

In the distance, you hear a noise. A quick clang of metallic plating echoing from the back of the structure, where the visual damage from outside seemed the most severe. It could have simply been a corridor collapsing from the damage. Either way, it sounded to be several kilometers away at least.

>Investigate the noise
>Continue to search the labs and workshops
>Other

>>39736243
And that's what we've got farcast for!

Wish QD would straight up tell us how much it would cost though. I asked him on his ask.fm page and got now response.

>>39736277
>Investigate the noise

>>39736277
>>Investigate the noise
Adaptations, come to momma!

>>39736277
>Investigate the noise

>>39736277
>Investigate the noise

>>39736277
>>Investigate the noise

>>39736277
You redirect your drones to have their search sweep back in the direction of the disturbance. It is not long before you find evidence of the damage you had seen from outside. Entire district sized segments of the facility have been depressurized and exposed to space. Your vacuum workers move out to scout the damaged areas, searching for methods of making them safe for navigation while your other drones take alternate routes. Eventually you hear a familiar sound; the distinct thunk of a thorn launcher, echo through the halls in the distance, followed by a low rumble that makes the walls shudder.

>Have your flies scout the area
>Have your combat drones charge into the area
>Other

>>39736625
>Have your combat drones charge into the area

>>39736625
>Eventually you hear a familiar sound; the distinct thunk of a thorn launcher, echo through the halls in the distance, followed by a low rumble that makes the walls shudder.
Is Builder alive?
>Have your flies scout the area

>>39736625
>>Have your flies scout the area

>>39736625
>Have your flies scout the area
>Other
direct some workers to building that pool w/ floating sofa for Lee

>>39736625
>Have your flies scout the area

>>39736733
>>39736689
>>39736688
can we send a warrior to go along with the scouts?
i would like to protect what ever drone is getting attack.

>>39736733

This.

We must do this.

Have Lee's lighter sitting on the sofa too.

>>39736625
THE OBSIDIAN QUEEN IS HERE

>>39736764
yeah sure +1

>>39736733
>>39736791
No.

>>39736764
Fuck it sure, just make sure the warrior is a bit aways.

>>39736814
why not?

>>39736791
No. That lighter will remain around our neck for all time.

>>39736764
Ok.
>>39736814
This.

>>39736625
>Have your flies scout the area

Your flies charge ahead of your drones as they move in behind, and you have them spread out through the twisting, broken corridors to map out the area.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>39736859
FOR MOTHER!

>>39736733
Supporting this. We must ensure our ambassador is comfortable.

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>39736874
Flies and their high rolls...

>>39736842
Because it's stupid. Seriously fuck off with the stupid shit.

>>39736874
Dumb-ass they all got taught to whisper that now remember?

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>39736859
WE GOT IT

>>39736874
You did mother proud, anon. Well done.

>>39736902
Whats the point in making sense?, This is for stupid fun isn't it?, Also we like couches don't you?

>>39736898

You think that concerning ourself with ensuring the Lee's comfort is STUPID?

...I think we have a black queen infiltration here...

>>39736954
Too right. Hang 'im. A hanging always learns them.

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>39736859

>>39736954
>>39736977
No kidding.

We gotta put in a hot tub next to his pool. Maybe throw him a few female clones to keep him company, eh?

>>39736954
>>39736977
>>39737014
While I do love lee, since the beginning of the game,We shouldn't really have this as a main priority guys, Just don't get carried away.

>>39736933
>Whats the point in making sense?
What's point in being stupid if it reduces the collective intelligence of the playerbase? Because that's what happen when take jokes too far. The idiots start to think their in good company.
>This is for stupid fun isn't it?
I go to banished quest for that.
>>39736954
>>39736977
>>39737014
And the idiots clearly think they're in good company.

>>39736954

Okay seriously stop.

This joke has gone too far, it's starting to be a detriment to the Quest at large.

Well it's more like it's BEEN a detriment but QuestDrone managed to finangle the entire Lee stupidity into Union psionics gov'ment experiment bullfuckery.

>>39737046

Yes, you're probably right.

We shall not ignore it, of course, but ensuring the safety of Lee and the Hive must take precedence.

Speaking of, what's everyone think gonna happen when he finds out about the clones/captured humans?

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>>39737076
NO FUN
STOP IT
STOP ENJOYING YOURSELVES

>>39737076
>banished quest
Oh fuck not one of you again. Look, you guys already completely wrecked Snakecatcher Quest, please don't do that here just you can't make decisions to save your life or trust ANYONE.

We're trying to have fun here with our jokes. We don't need your poison to ruin that for us.

>>39737133
Um, Idea, Can we keep him on board the Theseus's ship? I don't really think he will like that. Albit that implys we bring him to hive territory

>>39737138
>NO FUN
>STOP IT
>STOP ENJOYING YOURSELVES
Please anon. I shitpost in banished quest talking about fucking literal piles of shit and you think I'm against fun. I'm not against fun I'm against you dragging this quest down to the shitter with your stupidity.

>>39737046
I agree with your opinions, but I still don't see the harm in a joke.

>>39737220
Dude, Calm down your jimmies seemed rustled, Who the hell care!, Nobody gives a damn. As long as it doesn't make us lose it does not matter. But seriously we should stop this silly little conversation, Can we just go back to taking lee to Leeland, I mean Im pretty sure we all want to see his face when he gets there, we should take a picture too.

>>39737220
>people mention making a pool and a couch for Lee
>they're now worse than hitler

>>39737046
>since the beginning of the game,We shouldn't really have this as a main priority guys, Just don't get carried away.
>since the beginning

This!

>>39737220
BQ player pls go.

I find it endlessly amusing that you would try and argue that a joke is detrimental to the quest, when you openly state you're a shitposter. Your foaming at the mouth at other people having fun speaks volumes about your own intelligence levels.

>>39737187
>Oh fuck not one of you again. Look, you guys already completely wrecked Snakecatcher Quest, please don't do that here just you can't make decisions to save your life or trust ANYONE.
I've been here since the beginning anon and I mostly follow BQ for the shitposting. Also I'm not the only BQ player here.
>>39737237
Anons lack self restraint. They never realize they're taking things to far until it's too late.

>>39737220
>I shitpost in banished quest
if i met you irl i would probably kill you, pretty much all posts in that quest are shitposts and you retards can't plan for shit

>>39737323
>I mostly follow BQ for the shitposting
And this is why you're terrible.

>>39737277
>Can we just go back to taking lee to Leeland, I mean Im pretty sure we all want to see his face when he gets there, we should take a picture too.

Most of the people don't -care- about Lee, let alone his reactions, and the ones who do beyond the joke have their priorities fucked.

>>39737335
Honestly i blame the samefaggs who are proud of "saving the quest".
Those fuckers brag about that shit.

>>39737377
>I speak for everyone else

>>39737323
>Also I'm not the only BQ player here.
Well that perfectly explains where all the murderhobos are coming from. You guys are all complete retards, you know that right? The only ones who lack self restraint are you, in all likelihood.

>>39737384
Honestly, just support what you believe is the right decision, I've argued plenty of unpopular opinions on quests, some have been right, some have been wrong, I've never samefagged on any of them. Just be an honest anon.

>>39737384
Somebody has to do the dirty work.

>>39737434
PGQ Anon here, I'm one pretty sure we're where all the waifu/husbando fags come from too. Don't judge us (Theseus for best husbando)

>>39737444
You are asking a BQ shitposter to be honest. These guys are such a toxic blend of spitefulness and dishonesty that would be like expecting a fish to drown in water.

>>39737416

I don't care about a worthless sack of wasted nutrients when we can be building our Space Bug Empire with billions upon billions of drones, destroying the traitor bitch that slaughtered the rest of our species and our mother, and then taking the fight to a bunch of Possibly-Extradimensional Crystal Void Gods and that taking their supposed mastery of technology and making it our own before we transcend this universe to begin the conquest anew.

What can Lee do to ever be a benefit to us? At least Elizabeth actively helps with research, Lee can't even do that, at most his only "Usefulness" is dubious at best as a political tool, one which people probably won't actually care about or connect to and the use of him would probably get the Union on our asses anyway because we would be admitting to be the ones who fucked their Supah Sekret Psionic research.

Guys can we just play the game please?

>>39737461
If you can't convince the rest of the players of your choice, that doesn't mean you get to be a little bitch and cheat your way to being right.
>>39737444
Same i usually just convince the guys what to do, you just have to work through out the whole thread.
>>39737496
Not the anon throwing a shit fit over lee.

>>39737515
For the lattermost point they'd have to first go public with the fact that they were detaining Lee. Which wins them very few points and makes our little jailbreak look better.

Although I do not feel diplomacy with humans is wise at heart, I'd feel better just juicing them.

>>39737475
Again, fuck off BQ player, your bullshit and idiocy might be seen as funny in your own quest, but you haven't done anything for this one. We aren't amused by you trying to sabotage every character relationship that crops up, or your inability to plan for more than 20 seconds into the future. You are the worst flavor of shit on this entire board.

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>>39737571
>And while all the retarded anon's argued, Quest-drone left went to get a snack.
>Will he ever come back?
>Will anon stop being a jerk?
>Find out next week on waifuwars.

>>39737584
I said PGQ, not BQ, get your insult targetting right.

>>39737548
It's not really cheating if it saves the MC some trouble. More like powergaming.

>>39737570
The Union I'm not interested in diplomacy with so much.

The Commonwealth, however, could work.

>>39737570

They wouldn't have to go public at all, they don't have to tell the Public anything beyond possibly fabricated evidence that we attacked them, who are they going to believe? The Government who controls their media, or the Giant Psionic Hive Minded Space Bugs who use a regular schmuck that was publicly disgraced as their Xeno-relations person?

>>39737496
You do realize you're just shitposting now.
>>39737515
I agree with you man but those anon have to have their joke/husbando or whatever the fuck they're shitposting about they get all pissy.

>>39737515
Yes this.

>>39737595
O I like that show!

>>39736859
Your flies move out and circle back, closing in on the source of the noise. As you grow closer you hear the sounds of a desperate conflict, with the sounds of weapons firing madly against the thumping rumble of explosions. Your drones begin to smell a faint scent, distinct and complex in nature, and your thinkers quickly translate the language.

"Regroup. Fall back. Cover." The scents say, each a layered and overt command. Your drones quickly get close enough to hear the rattling that makes up the more detailed portion of the language.

"Move to flank. Attack above. Adjust position to defensive. Return to position seventy."
Each command is met with silence amid the sound of conflict. Your flies locate a number of drifting bodies, some of Scavengers, and others bulky, bright yellow drones that twitch in their death throws. Beyond them several squads of Scavengers fire from behind makeshift cover as mad warriors claw and tear at them in endless waves, their minds devoid of order or cohesion.

The builder is a far more distant relative, and her network is far more difficult to feel, but you grasp a hint of their minds as they tear at the Scavengers.
"We wait for mother. Defend for mother!"

Their numbers are great, but with their lack of a queen's guidance they struggle against the organized Scavenger defensive line. Neither side has seen your drones, but you doubt the Builder's drones would recognize you as anything more then the forces of a rival queen.

>Wait for the fight to end
>Have your ships target the corridor and destroy both sides
>Attack all sides with your warriors
>Attempt to help the warriors break the Scavenger line
>Other

Sorry, had an internet hiccup, should be fine now.

>>39737605
Yeah, and I'm saying that the only ones who go around this board claiming to be PGQ players are BQ players looking to build strawman waifufags. Even PGQ players are smart enough to know they're widely hated.

>>39737722
>Attempt to help the warriors break the Scavenger line

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>39737722
>>Attack all sides with your warriors

>>39737722
>Attempt to help the warriors break the Scavenger line

>>39737722
SWARM THE SCAVS

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>>39737571

>>39737722
Wait. Fresh living Scavengers that got abandoned.

We can make them into hybrid infiltrators when the next set of Scav ships comes looking for what happened to the others.

We just have to leave them in a part they can survive in after removing anything interesting.

>>39737722
>Attempt to help the warriors break the Scavenger line

>>39737722
>Attempt to help the warriors break the Scavenger line

>>39737738
I was making a joke about the fact that we're widely hated, as are BQ, but at least PGQ isn't massively retarded, just extraordinarily argumentative.

>>39737722
>Other
Could we use Builder's memory crystal to manipulate the drones?
>>39737814
This sounds like a good idea.

>>39737722
>Other
Locate the Thinkers keeping the warriors from falling into a coma.

Kidnap them and take them back to Leeland.

We can either attach a parasite to them and convert them into our own drone, or stick them in a bio-tank to scan their memories.

>>39737630
Considering their people's suspicion of the government and our assets + Theseus I believe there's more dynamic political opportunities in relation to the 'Public Figure Lee' than what you're simplifying the situation into.

But I prefer blasting things so I'll make no effort to espouse them.

>>39737722
>Attempt to help the warriors break the Scavenger line

>>39737875
Would this work?

>>39737889
Well it should.

>>39737889
It would also be prohibitively expensive.

>>39737967
>It would also be prohibitively expensive.
No it wouldn't anon. You're just pulling that out of your ass.

>>39737722
>>Attempt to help the warriors break the Scavenger line

>>39737722
>Attempt to help the warriors break the Scavenger line

You watch as the Scavenger firing line rips the swarming warriors to pieces. Your own warriors are not far at all, and could charge the defensive line from several sides at once, or you could hold your drones back and fire from behind the builder's swarm. It would be safer, but likely less effective. You suspect your flies' acid would also be an effective distraction to give the raging drones a chance to close in, although it would be costly.

>Detonate your flies against the Scavenger position
>Charge with your warriors
>Have your warriors attack from a distance
>Other

>>39737377
Been lurking since thread 1 and I find lee hijinks enjoyable. It gives a nice counter balance to the serious tone of the quest. Witgout him and couch jokes the hive just feels bland.

>>39738034
>Charge with your warriors

>>39738034
>Charge with your warriors

>>39738034
First,
>Detonate your flies against the Scavenger position
then
>Charge with your warriors

>>39738034
>>Charge with your warriors

>>39738034
>Charge with your warriors
Lets do this.

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>39738034
>Charge with your warriors

>>39738034
>>Have your warriors attack from a distance

>>39738143
And they say fluff has bad rolls...

>>39738056

It's all fine and dandy until it becomes a detriment, which it has.

Anons are incapable of recognizing when a joke goes too far, 44 god damn threads is enough.

>>39738034
>Charge with your warriors

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

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>>39738198
44 threads isn't enough.
>>39738214

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>39738214

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>39738214

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>39738214

>>39738214

>>39738034
>Charge with your warriors

>>39738236
And the dice gods punished you for your insolence.

>>39738214
>>39738278

Well at least not all of them died.

>>39738319
That's the fourth roll. It doesn't count.

>>39738252
>>39738272
>>39738278
three rolls below fifty
amazing

>>39738236
>>39738252
>>39738272
YOU FOOLS
LOOK AT WHAT YOUR META-BULLSHIT HAVE DONE
YOU GUYS DIGSUST THE DICE GODS WITH YOUR BICKERING!
REPENT, REPENT YE META-ARGUERS!

>>39738362

...fuck.

Still, not all of them died. Just more than I'd thought.

>>39738383
3 rolls below 50, standard for the hive unfortunately

>>39738390

As the anon who first mentioned the lighter this thread, I REGRET NOTHING.

In all seriousness, I wasn't trying to start or enflame anything. Feel kinda bad that people got so pissed.

Not counting the admitted shitposter, of course.

>>39738466
Well, since /tg/'s quest attendee are usually made up from excitable biomass, that lighter sure started sparks.
THE FIRE RISES

>>39738466
I am in the firm belief that everyone is a shitposter.

Lee was the first intelligent life form we made contact with wasn't he? I rather like that the Queen is attached enough to save him. We'll just see if we can help him get his life back together somehow and then I imagine he'll leave our space or just kind of be around like the twins if he stays. I guess what I'm saying is it shouldn't be too long before Lee gets wrapped up to some extent, so just bear with it.

>>39738650
>>39738198

>>39738214
Your warriors charge down the corridors, firing their weapons as they do. Several of the aliens are struck and sent drifting from their cover and into the oncoming wall of mad drones, where they are quickly torn apart.

"New flanks. Return fire. Fortify shaken position. Assume position thirty one. Fall back."

You can feel a shift in the scents about the defenders. The chemical markers of a tactical retreat. The smaller aliens set up defensive lines along the makeshift cover and slowly move back as their commanders flee into the dark corridor. The sudden shift in formation as they turn their attention to your drones gives the mad warriors an opening, and they begin to swarm over the cover, tearing the defenders to shreds and firing their weapons at close range. The swarms close ranks in the middle as you and the crazed warriors slam into the fortifications.

A heavy warrior obliterates a crate with its sledgehammer and kicks off from the wall to a Scavenger, grabbing its chest in its claw and firing the piston with a hiss, sending bits of gore flying out like the pellets of a shotgun. It tosses the body aside and opens fire into another, but a yellow warrior leaps onto its back and bites into its carapace with its mandibles with a crunch. The mandibles crack against your heavy drone's superior carapace, but you can feel the damage, and several of the wings sheer off from the bite. Your warrior reaches back as it knaws on the metal armor and fires the piston of its sledge, shattering the warrior like a faberge art piece.

As the scavengers fall back, and those covering the retreat are slaughtered, the Builder's warriors turn on your own drones.

"Mother?"
"Not Mother!"
"Defend for Mother! Kill things for Mother!"

cont.

>>39738650
Now that we have Lee, we can focus on TOTAL DOMINATION.

>>39738727
fug

I was hoping they'd at least realize we were assisting them

>>39738739

That's actually a point.

Now that we don't have to worry about Lee's safety, we can put more focus on expansion and growing our power.

>>39738770
It was to be expected.

>>39738777
I was focusing on expansion and power growth before we even had Lee. Does that make me a hipster now?

>>39738770
Drone's are fucking stupid anon, their reactions are primal if not controlled by a Queen. The real enemies here are the scavengers because their goal is the same as ours, finding useful shit. The drones are secondary because their goal is to preserve the useful shit.

>>39738825

I said MORE focus, ser.

You are safe from the scourge of wool caps and Starbucks.

>>39738727
You can feel several warriors being torn apart by the attackers, and claws and blades slide against the armor of your heavy warriors, almost uselessly. Your flies hear a distant rattling from the scavengers as they fall back, and another shift in the scent of their commanding pheromones.

"Advantage: Utilize turmoil. Attack from range."

Vibrant bolts of light race down the corridor like strobe lights, ripping into both swarms indiscriminately. Your heavy warriors begin to glow from the heat of the incoming fire, and as they shred the mad warriors you hear new commands echo out from the distance.

"Additional force holds more cohesion. Focus fire against larger threat. Designated alpha: probable leader caste."

The bolts of light shift, focusing on your heavy warriors. Several of them crack and seep out molten metal as their reinforced carapaces smolder over, their armor melting away and sublimating to gas from the extreme heat and force of the blasts while your warriors struggle against the enraged and motherless warriors. You have gained their attention, and the focus of the Scavengers all at once. You could flee and mop up this horde, the are sloppy without a queen, and if you were to get away from the scavenger fire, you could easily finish them off, of course with the warriors' attention on you, they would likely charge after you if you were to lead them back to the Scavengers, although it would be far more dangerous.

-72 Warriors: 128 remain
-8 Heavy Warriors: 42 remain

>Have your drones fall back and focus on fighting the crazed warriors
>Charge the Scavengers, leading the horde back into the melee
>Other (write in)

>>39738962
>Charge the Scavengers, leading the horde back into the melee

>>39738962
>"Additional force holds more cohesion. Focus fire against larger threat. Designated alpha: probable leader caste."
Wait they have a word for caste? The Scavengers must operate on a caste system.

>>39738962
>Charge the Scavengers, leading the horde back into the melee

>>39738962
>Charge the Scavengers, leading the horde back into the melee

>>39738962
>other
Send in a few handfuls of flies to detonate against the scavs.
Then,
>Charge the Scavengers, leading the horde back into the melee

>>39739064

Or they've dealt with the Black Queen's forces (or other hives?) in the past and have some ideas based on that.

>>39738962
>Charge the Scavengers, leading the horde back into the melee
>Other (write in)

Prepare to transport more drones as reinforcements, even if we lose here we can just throw more drones at the problem.

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>>39739064
No shit Sherlock.

>The Scavenger's biology shows a strange dimorphism between the average recovered body and that of the commander. In addition to being larger and possessing a deeper tone on average in their language, the commander also possesses a series of highly complex pheromone glands, while the others posses an equally complex series of receptors.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Quest:Hive_Queen_Quest#Pack_Mentality

>>39739101
Use the flies, dammit.

They're just hanging back being worthless right now.

>>39739203
That's means we likely haven't seen all of the castes yet.

>>39739234
Good idea, we should be frugal with them though, just target the commander.

>>39739271
We could just sit one on its head and breathe heated air into its eyes.

>>39738962
>Charge the scavengers

>>39738962
>Charge the Scavengers, leading the horde back into the melee

Your drones turn and charge into the hail of photonic bolts, and the bulky yellow warriors charge in after them.

>Detonate your flies on the scavengers
>Keep your flies safe and away from harm
>Other

>>39739330
Nah, they're hyper alert, they'll be too aware of anything getting near them. We'll likely lose a few but it'll still be worth it as a distraction.

>>39739385
>Detonate your flies on the scavengers

>>39739385
>>Keep your flies safe and away from harm

>>39739385
>Keep your flies safe and away from harm

>>39739385
>Detonate your flies on the scavengers

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>39739385
>Keep your flies safe and away from harm

>>39739264
It means nothing of the sort.

It means they have the vocabulary to express the concept "probable leader caste."

To say it means there must be three or more castes is absurd. That's like saying because an alien identified you as the probably egg-bearing gender, this means their species must have more than the two genders you've seen.

>>39739385
>Keep your flies safe and away from harm
Losing the flies isn't worth sacrificing the advantage they bring.

>>39739385
>Detonate your flies on the scavengers

>>39739385
>Keep your flies safe and away from harm

>>39739474
What advantage? They're the only thing here besides the rogue drones.

>>39739385
If we vote yes on this how much of our fly drones will we use?

>>39739385
You decide to keep your flies away from combat. this facility is too large to scout it with too few of them.

Your warriors quickly close the distance, all the while taking heavy fire from the front, and the warriors behind them nipping at their heels.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

>>39739518
The flies are our sensory array. Without them we would be mostly blind and deaf to everything going on.

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>39739569

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>39739569

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>39739569

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>39739569
Welcome to the birthright that is the swarm!

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>39739569

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>39739569
Dammit people

>>39739566
Depending on the roll, and how many were able to close in, probably several dozen, no more than 50 of your 100 available.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>39739569

>>39739625
I think everyone thought you would use ALL of them.

>>39739760
oh well

>>39739625
QD our drones are immune to the fast acting spores and Builder's drones are vulnerable right?

>>39739625
Could we try replaying some of the thoughts we have recorded of the wild hive babies' mother in that one meeting to get them to calm the fuck down or can they tell a recording from the real thing?

>>39740078
We could try.

>>39739569
"Overwhelming odds: detonate and abandon position. Division authorized: Regroup at entry point."

The scavengers turn and flee as your drones overwhelm their posts, and the mad drones behind you obliterate any stragglers in a frenzy. As the drones drag one of the scavengers into the seething mass of claws and mandibles as the others escape, you feel a sudden shift in the air pressure.

Outside, your ships detect a small ball of flame plume out of the hull in a ball of expanding gas, and then quickly extinguish in the cold of space as a stream of frozen vapor erupts from the hull.

You feel a series of thumps quickly grow closer, and then a wall of fire billows from the nearby corridors, engulfing the swarms in flame. You watch as most of the mad warriors are incinerated, and as they singe the rear guard of your own forces, the fire recedes like an animal reaching the end of its leash. It leaps back, extinguishing itself as it collapses into the growing whirlwind, and your drones begin to slide back down the hall. Several flies are sucked down the corridor, latching onto the walls in time to see the stars of empty space, and the writhing yellow warriors being scattered into the void, along with several of your own drones as debris and chunks of bodies are sucked from the interior.

>Have your ships attempt to retrieve your drones
>Have your ships fire on the hull and vent the interior where the Scavengers seem to be
>Other

>>39739760
That's my bad then. When you're dealing with large swarms like this, short of nukes or orbital bombardments, it's very hard for a single action to cause the loss of all the drones of a single type.

>>39739956
Correct, they have had no way to build an immunity, nor do they have the leadership to attempt it.

>>39740078
They could tell the difference.

>>39740228
Could we parasite the thinkers?

>>39740228
>>Other
Do NOT damage the hull any further, continue to give chase.
Have ships encircle the hull to ensure they have no means of escape.

>>39740228
>>Have your ships fire on the hull and vent the interior where the Scavengers seem to be

>>39740228
>Have your ships attempt to retrieve your drones
How many heavies do we have left? They're the only ones with oxygen recyclers.

>>39740228
>>39740302
This

>>39740228
>Have your ships attempt to retrieve your drones

>>39740302
>This

>>39740228
>Have your ships attempt to retrieve your drones

>>39740228
Seconding this >>39740302

>>39740228
If I remember correctly the Scavengers communicate with sound and smell meaning they're completely vulnerable we could just send in our Vacuum worker and pick them off one by one.

>>39740228
>Have your ships attempt to retrieve your drones
And retrieve some builder warriors intact, too.

And yeah chase them like the others said.

>>39740228
Supporting:
>>39740302

>>39740228
>Have your ships attempt to retrieve your drones

Your drones claw at the air as they enter the void of space, their wings fluttering uselessly in the vacuum. Their carapace offers protection from space, but not all of your drones are equipped for space activity. The shadow of your corvettes loom over them in the distance as they close in to recover them.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

The drones that have managed to keep their grip soon find themselves in vacant silence. Your workers and heavy warriors inflate their lungs, sending their air back and forth between the oxygen producing cultures in their abdomen and their primary lungs. Your other drones hold their breath as they drift to the walls, their wings now useless in the airless space. The enemy's small jet packs would still function in a vacuum, but with your wings useless you suspect a firefight would be more in their favor, despite their scattered state.

>Seek out a pressurized area for your warriors, and have your other drones split up and hunt the scavengers down
>Have all your drones split up hunt the scavengers down
>Fall back to a pressurized area and seek an alternate path to the scavengers rendezvous area
>Other

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>39740615
Welp

Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>39740615
>Have all your drones split up and hunt the scavengers down

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>39740615
For mother...

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>39740615
>Have all your drones split up hunt the scavengers down

>>39740637
>>39740640
>>39740641
Welp, we win this one.

>>39740637
>>39740640
>>39740641
Shit nigger

Mother cares for all her children

By the way, I am convinced that typing a comment in your dice roll does in fact influence its roll. Whenever I've rolled for mother I've scored high, as for when I've appropriately praised the sun, harvested blood for the blood god, or done similar things.

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>>39740641
>>39740640
>>39740637


WELL NOW.

>>39740686
Could I interest you in my online casino?

>>39740615
>>Seek out a pressurized area for your warriors, and have your other drones split up and hunt the scavengers down

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>>39740641
>>39740640
>>39740637
>>39740615

>The enemy's small jet packs would still function in a vacuum, but with your wings useless you suspect a firefight would be more in their favor, despite their scattered state.

That's a solid NOPE.

>>39740686
When have you done the latter two in this quest?
>>39740615
>Seek out a pressurized area for your warriors, and have your other drones split up and hunt the scavengers down

How long would it take to get some cast acting spore grenades ready?

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>>39740640
Hell YEAH

>>39740815
>>39740706
Spaghetti manhood mind.

>>39740615
You focus your attention to your children drifting into space, taking command of the nearby corvettes. You expertly scoop them up and move them back to the hull, where they leap the distance back to the damaged corridor and regroup with others.
[Drone casualties from previous roll negated]
Remaining drone forces:
128 Warriors
42 Heavy Warriors
300 Vacuum Workers
100 Flies

[320 Builder Worker corpses recovered]

>>39740800
You lack the thumpers needed to produce and effectively deploy them at the moment, as well they would be ineffective in a vacuum, as any hostiles will either be holding their breath, like your warriors, or be equipped with breathing equipment, like your heavy warriors and other drones.

>Seek out a pressurized area for your warriors, and have your other drones split up and hunt the scavengers down
>Have all your drones split up hunt the scavengers down
>Other

>>39740978
>Seek out a pressurized area for your warriors, and have your other drones split up and hunt the scavengers down

>>39740978
>>Seek out a pressurized area for your warriors, and have your other drones split up and hunt the scavengers down

>>39740978
Could we also bring in reinforcements?

>>39740978
>Seek out a pressurized area for your warriors, and have your other drones split up and hunt the scavengers down

The flies could attempt to sneak up and hit them with paralysis venom. But that would require them to have a soft part that isn't armored. Are Scavs entirely covered in armor?

How is the commander releasing his pheromones into the air?

>>39740978
>>Seek out a pressurized area for your warriors, and have your other drones split up and hunt the scavengers down

>>39740978
>[Drone casualties from previous roll negated]
noice

>>39740978
>Seek out a pressurized area for your warriors, and have your other drones split up and hunt the scavengers down

>>39740978
>Seek out a pressurized area for your warriors, and have your other drones split up and hunt the scavengers down.

Your warriors fall back with the non-combat workers, and they find an area deeper into the structure that was undamaged by the charges. They begin to scout the area for alternate paths to their target, while the other drones continue on. Your flies leap from wall to wall, darting back and forth in rapid leaps while your heavy warriors propel themselves with their legs and drift down the tunnels in pursuit.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

>>39740978
Our warriors don't have oxygen recyclers do they? In that case:
>>Seek out a pressurized area for your warriors, and have your other drones split up and hunt the scavengers down

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>39741178

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>39741178
FOR MOTHER

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>39741178

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>39741178
pls
pastebin soon

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>39741178

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>>39741420
Look fluff, before rolling for a post, hit f5 real quick and see how many people have rolled. If there are 3 rolls there, just don't roll.

Absolutely nothing good can come of a late roll, and it will only serve to antagonize the anons if its a crit.

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>39741548

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>39741548
>not having auto-update or the equivalent enabled

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>>39741178
Your drones scatter into teams with your flies leaping from wall to wall ahead of them in search of the enemy. As your drones spread out and clear the area hall by hall, room by room, you detect a faint burst of radio waves. Your flies quickly hone in on it as it bursts again.

"Regroup."

A fly hops from a wall, and you sense a source of movement some distance away, before a series of photonic bolts fire at your drone. Your fly is caught unable to maneuver mid-jump, and pops into a mist of acid. Your drones are quick to close in on the location as the small scavenger leaps from its hiding spot and attempts to move to the source of the radio beacon. A heavy warrior turns the corner ahead of it and flips over, its tail whipping out and impaling its head, then pulling it into its embrace where the drone tears the torso in half. Several bolts of light impact it and it spins around, anchoring its legs to the floor as it opens fire. The scavengers leap to the air to evade the fire, and a tail emerges from a nearby worker passage, dismissed by the aliens as a simple air duct, and the hooked claw pulls it into the cramped space as it thrashes wildly before disappearing in a mist of fluids and bone chips.

The wall explodes with the force of your warrior's sledge, obliterating the small opening to the passage as the drone lands on the ground in silence, cracking the hardened hive interior with its claws. The remaining scavenger fires its jets, leaping away from the cloud of debris as it fires into your heavy warrior, but its leg is caught in its mandibles. You can hear the muffled snapping of bone and the twisting of joints through your warrior's carapace as it shakes the alien in its jaws like a toy, and throws it against a wall where it crumples into a heap of floating scrap.

The radio beacon changes.

"Threat escalated. Avoid engagement. Unable to damage in low number. Fall back to position zero."

cont.

>>39741784
>A heavy warrior turns the corner ahead of it and flips over, its tail whipping out and impaling its head, then pulling it into its embrace where the drone tears the torso in half.
fucking hell

sometimes i forget how terrifying we are

>>39741825
That's because we rarely get into fights.

>>39741825
Man, with predictive combat algorithms our drones will be at least an 8 on the Geiger scale.

>>39741825
Weirdo, I don't see whats terrifying about a child playing with its food

>>39741784
>"Threat escalated. Avoid engagement
DAMN NATU- I MEAN HIVE, YOU SCARY

>>39741784
Your flies spot another cluster of scavengers, this time openly fleeing in response to the new signal. They ignore your flies as they flee down the halls towards a central area near the back of the dock yard's superstructure.

In total your flies count nearly seventy of the fleeing scavengers, all in small groups of less then a dozen. They move to secure one choke point long enough to pass through, and then abandon it, firing on your drones as they move to pursue for only a moment. The bolts cause cracks and warped bends to appear along your heavy warriors' armor, but they lack the numbers to impart any damaging levels of heat or effectively penetrate their carapace.

The Scavengers fire at your flies, and peck in vain at your heavy drones as they lumber through the air with a slow inevitability, until they reach the end of the section in the form of a large airlock. Its surface is a polished metal, and the doors slide open at the aliens' approach. You hear the hiss of air on the far side as the doors slide shut, just as your warriors impact it, leaving a half-meter dent in the metal. Air hisses from where the impact has broken the seal, and your drones can smell the pheromone of fear thick in it.

For those who have been wondering exactly how powerful the heavy drone armor is, I think it's better to see them in action.

>Regroup your drones and seek out an alternate path into the next section
>Have your heavy warriors breach the airlock door and charge in
>Have your warriors rejoin your other drones and breach the airlock door
>Other

>>39741825
With how hard we would be to root out of a planet, our crazy good coordination and our hyper deadly and maneuverable ground forces, we'd be the stuff of nightmares to a human populace.

I honestly don't think the humans would stand a chance if we build our fleet up a little more.

>>39741973
>Have your warriors rejoin your other drones and breach the airlock door

>>39741973
>>Other
Have warriors search for alternate entrance, have heavy warriors rip into and weaken the airlocks.

If the warriors find an alternate entrance, have both them and the heavies bust in simultaneously.

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>>39741973
>Have your heavy warriors breach the airlock door and charge in

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>39741973
>For those who have been wondering exactly how powerful the heavy drone armor is, I think it's better to see them in action.
Well now I have to know, thanks quest drone
>>Have your heavy warriors breach the airlock door and charge in
FORWARD NOT ONE STEP BACK!

>>39741973
>Sends a fly in through the crack
>Have your heavy warriors breach the airlock door and charge in

>>39741973
>>Have your heavy warriors breach the airlock door and charge in
Sonic sledges, the ultimate lock pick.

>>39741973
>>Have your heavy warriors breach the airlock door and charge in
I'll take that recommendation. By god I'll take that recommendation.

>>39735441
There should really be a Colossus in that mix or an equivalent.

>>39741973
>Have your heavy warriors breach the airlock door and charge in
BATTERING RAAAAM
Come on you sons of Bugskowskis, do you want to live forever or for Mother?!

>>39741973
>>Have your warriors rejoin your other drones and breach the airlock door
If they're half as competent as I expect them to be, the scavs will have defensive positions and clear lines of fire behind the airlock.
Thats why we have the heavies charge and the other drones swarm in for the melee.

>>39742064
>Colossus (20) – 300
Nigga u what

>>39741973
You know, we really do just need to cram a ship with thousands upon thousands of flies and use them to swarm absolutely everything.

>>39742088
That's what I'm saying man, we need more!

>>39742090
A pod shaped like a tick that flies out, latches onto a hull, melts a hole and absolutely floods it with flies

>>39742126
Don't we always need more everything?

>>39742090
Not if they have fuckhueg bugzapper shield fields that is. You need something bigger for that. Variation, dudes, saving your army's bacon since prehistory.

>>39742088
>>39742126

I just realized I missquoted. Meant to reply to >>39741973

>>39742134
I NEED IT

>>39742134
You know, I just asked QD about efficient boarding strategies a couple days ago.

http://ask.fm/QuestDrone/answer/126725383717

>>39742090
>>39742134
>>39742162
This needs to happen.

I also want terror ships for when we start invading dense population centers.

What about a giant mosquito that sucks nothing really, just is really annoying and if your unlucky gives you a disease.?

>>39742201
How about small flying injector drones that carry a strain of our planets mind controlling cordyceps spores?

>>39742186
Well, all of our ships already have boarding proboscis, so we could very effectively use our pods for that. All we need to do is knock out any shields first, and go for areas of the hull where there point defense systems couldn't blow up the pod.

>>39742214
That's what the flies are for bud, they've got their own hypodermic blades now.

>>39742134
I misread that as
>A pod shaped like a dick
Well either way, it needs to happen. Reminds me of that one /v/ post with the mud dauber nest inside a wii full of paralyzed brown recluses.

>>39741973
>Have your heavy warriors breach the airlock door and charge in

Your warriors attempt to find their own way in, but you do not wait for them. The airlock appears to be sealed tight despite the damage, but fortunately you have a key.

Two of your heavy warriors prime the pistons of their sledges, and bring them down on the door's corners.

Please give me 1d100, best of 3.

>>39742255
Yeah, I suppose. Can't we make a new, more effective template for that though? The flies seem mainly for spying, I'm thinking of the injectors being much more aggressive. No scouting at all with those.

Maybe triple the payload they can carry.

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>39742277

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>39742277

>>39742214
Only if it looks suitably creepy.

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>39742277
DON'T BRING ME DOOOOWWWN

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>39742277

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>>39742293

Jesus Fuck.

Those poor scavengers.

PRAISE THE MOTHER!

>>39742287
Okay...
>>39742293
JESUS FUCK YES
>>39742308
NOT A ONE WOOOOOOO

>>39742293

Our Heavy Warrior Drones are basically T-1000's, aren't they?