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>>42362301
FOR MOTHER

Remember the burnout drone!

Last time everybody was sending in regular troops to invade the hive ship, and were forgetting about the boarding swarm we made just for that purpose.

>>42362301
In the grim darkness of the future, there is only SPACE WAR NOW

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>>42362301
Fireballs slowly flicker out in the atmosphere of the forested moon like embers being snuffed in ash as the enemy fleet’s remains cascade to the planet bellow. Your own ships have surrounded the Hive ship. It is badly damaged, its hull breached at multiple points, its drive wings severed, and its hull burnt a crisp black. Its spinal mounts have been broke, connected only by crisp flesh and strands of tendons. What sensors are left along the surface twitch and seep blood, while the shattered and gouged weapon emplacements twist in a vain effort to fire their useless guns at your shuttles as they burn their way into the still compressed compartments.

Cont.

>>42362301
For Mother!

SENDING LYLE
THE SAT AND NUKES
LOOTING THE TEMPLE
SENDING SMITH
DISSECTING OUR DRONES
THE HUNT FOR LEE
MAKING PSYKERS
MIRAGE
FUCKING WITH THE VOID
THOSE DAMN MEETINGS
KILLINGER

FUCK THE UNION

GAS THE SQUIDS
NUKE THE WHALES
STAB THE MONKEYS
SPACE WAR NOW

>>42362592
ADOPT THEM ALL

>>42362592
Need to add

VOID IS WATCHING
TRUST NOTHING

>>42362635

KILL ALL OF THE THINGS FOR MOTHER.

Wait I just realized something. When we were look through the void crystals we were spying on locations that had void crystals.

>>42362467
>>42362592
>>42362629
>>42362635
>>42362723

SHHHH
Mother said think quietly remember?

>>42362729
Objectively wrong. There were no shards at Zero Five.

The shards are not limited in their palantir information gathering, which is why the Skyl had to create data cubes.

>>42362411
Nobody ever laid burnout bugs. Just individual jammers. You'll have to remove the relay anyway if you don't want it to crash into the planet and become useless.

>>42362729
We need to put Tachyonic insulators around that active shard we have under the hive

If that thing reads our mind now it would send an attack signal

>>42362787

kill all of the things for mother quietly

Oh wow humans are actually attacking humans

>>42362850

Don't kill the friendly queen we're here to rescue, however. Mother would be very unhappy about that.

>>42362817
I thought we used that one up to make a psionic muffler on Leeland.

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>>42362888
>queen

>>42362903
No pretty sure we used a dead one for that

>>42362903
The burnt out remains of the one used to test-fire the psionic cannon. It's the active shards we gotta be careful of. It cut a hole half-way through the hive when we tried interacting with it

>>42362941
>>42362923
welp, my bad.

>>42362941
gas the shards?

>>42362970

DIMENSION WAR NOW.

Should I start a vote to start putting the Hydroponic Farms up on Raligha? Or wait till the end of the Thread?

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>>42362426
Workers chop and saw their way through the hull with their blades, seeping the glowing blades into the charred hull. The severed chunks break loose, and your warriors step in. The first kick in the hull fragments, sending them tumbling into the pitch darkness of an unfamiliar hive ship.

The air is cold, and the atmosphere is thin. You can hear the distant hiss of leaking air and the scampers of workers, and the thumping stomps of warriors. You can feel the echoing of the internal noise, the twisting of the halls. Your warriors do not need eyes to see, but even still, this is another's hive. Once your surprise wears off, it will be their advantage.

Your drones launch themselves into the darkness. Your heavy warriors reach out and tear into the first line of enemy troops. Their carapaces are a reflective sleek black, with thorns sprouting from their backs. Their blades are long and sharp, made of a matte black material that vanishes in the darkness. The first drone's head is removed by a heavy warrior's tail, and its body is evaporated by concentrated blaster fire, giving a soft glow over the rest of them. Your drones images reflect from the defenders' bodies in warped, crimson figures.

Cont.
Just to clarify, I am using the roll we did at the end of the last one, in case anyone missed the last thread and is wondering.

>>42362411
It is fine. This is for the actual attack, you can bring in your special units once you secure what is currently a smoldering cauldron of anger covered in claws.

>>42363029
GAS THE SHARDS

>>42362970
The only way to kill it is to make it use up all its energy

Safest way is the psi cannon but they will be alerted

We were luck first time we interacted because we didn't know what it is

>>42363039
probably after the battle on Refuge is concluded, I myself want to add Capillary Towers on Leeland.

>>42363068
SPACE WAR NOW

>>42363101
We already got that didn't we

Are you the guy who wanted them on Huron?

>>42363133
no one wanted capillary towers on huron, just some filter towers

>>42363133
No, the Capillary towers that are giant space elevators that make Capital ship production faster, you're thinking of Filter towers which feed off alien plankton.

>>42363156
Are we going to take over huron then?

I mean the union now going to launch an attack on the commonwealth

>>42363195
Speaking of their attack, we should share it with Theseus ASAP.

>>42363054
>Your drones images reflect from the defenders' bodies in warped, crimson figures.
we spooky now

>>42363217
I assume he already knows, but then we have insider info that he doesn't know.

>>42363182

Yeah, I don't think we have the towers yet. We should probably get some since I imagine we'll be stepping up battleship production soon.

On the other hand, I think once our citadel hive ship is finished it can automatically deploy a capillary tower, correct?

>>42363259
Yes, at the cost of having the Hiveship immobile.

I think we should encourage the the union to take the mirage wreckage

They got the tech to contain the Shard right now

And lets be honest here

If the commonwealth get their hands on it they will start fucking with it too

At least with the union we have infiltrated their black ops research projects and keep tabs on it

We should also bring up the fact that mad doc brain scans show the same effects as the psi subjects so we can get him transferred and studied

>>42363287
That is why the Citadel hiveship was designed for. Its got the heaviest armor possible and plenty of missiles.

>>42363378
Or we take it away from both of them

>>42363378

Or, we can pick this moment to reveal ourselves(or use our stealth ships to attempt a covert recovery). We'll be going public to the Union soon anyway. Letting the humans hold a void shard is a recipe for disaster.

>>42363378
You actually have a point there, we at least have claws within the Union's highest black research divisions so we have an idea where we can find the thing if we need to take it. If it goes to the Commonwealth, we have no idea where it'll go and we have the burden of having to maintain diplomacy with them, not so if it's in Union hands.

>>42363378
or we just destroy the union and take the shard while splitting the conquered planets with the commonwealth

>>42363460
>>42363469
Right between two fleets and the void watching

You know the only reason they were able to use the damn thing is because the void told them right?

The void decided to start corrupting them now and there's nothing we can really do about it unless we are will to expose ourselves before the void

>>42363395
Right, speaking of Citadel Hiveship.
We should upgrade shields on it while it's in construction.

>>42363512
Then what about the shard we've got in our hive.
According to your logic we're already fucked

>>42363512
Doesn't the void already know we're here (via the Obsidian Queen?) I'm not really sure how they communicate.

>>42363552

"AYYYYYYYYYY BITCH"
"RRRRRRRFGH"
"THE ACTUAL COMPETENT ONE BETWEEN THE TWO OF YOU IS OVER THERE GO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, YOU CUNT"

>>42363543
>>42363552

It read our mind and saw we didn't know anything about it at that time

Then we buried it and have not interacted with the damn thing since

Yeah if it reads our mind now we are screwed

Prob thinks we can still be corrupted

We haven't done anything really against them yet

After all queens fight all the time

>>42363610
Well then taking away mirage and storing it away will not invite trouble then. Correct? Not like we're going to actually poke our mind into it.

>>42363635
Its an active shard that is planning to corrupt the monkeys and sent a message back to void prime

If it mind-reads us we are screwed

>>42363676
So is ours. You are talking out of your ass. Stop it.

Speaking of our shard, we really should store it off-planet, like on Waystation perhaps.

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>>42363054
The defenders have packed in from wall to wall, and your own drones to the same, pouring in against each other until the chamber is a solid mass of chittering, gnashing mandibles and slicing blades. Your heavy warrior cracks a drone like a walnut in its mandibles and spits it out, then brings a blade through another, ripping through it like paper. Your warriors crawl over them and begin to fire, filling the space with burning plasma. You begin to hear the rapid popping sound of bursting corpses as warriors cook to death in their shells and the boiling contents split them open like roasting corn kernels. The fire spreads like liquid in the zero gravity, reaching out like pillars and rolling over drones and walls alike as it fills the chamber. The burning plasma leaves layers of smoke behind in a thin and wispy wall, and your drones charge through.

Your sniffers spread out, hunting for the scent of the ship's control center. It should be close to the never stem, but it is slightly different for every ship, partly to protect against exactly what you are doing. The warriors expand their search and push back at the defenders. Small stings ricochet off your heavy drones and thorn launchers ping against the thick plating, denting and leaving small cracks across their thick armor. Your drones march forward against them and tear the attacking drone in half and sending the pieces bouncing against the walls. It lifts another off the ground with its mandibles and shakes it, knocking away several others as they scrape at its carapace with their blades. It swings its tail and removes the front two legs of an approaching warrior above the knees, and then plunges the blade into its torso.

cont.

>>42363691
Ours is buried and sealed away and after that we discovered how to use psi stealthy

That thing isn't and would need to be retrieved by a drone out of the wreck

The monkeys had contained it and we were lucky when we blew up the mirage

>>42363787
[Citation needed]

>>42363635
Let's try to picture what would happen if we suddenly jumped a sizable fleet to where the Mirage was and attempted to salvage the wreckage. The Commonwealth is already in diplomatic communication with us. They know we're powerful (although not the extent of our power), and possible allies against at least the scavengers. Intervening would strain our relationship, but they would almost certainly not attack us. The Union, on the other hand, while gearing up for war against the Commonwealth, probably doesn't want to just straight up attack a strange alien power. They're a much more unknown and unpredictable entity here, but if we play it right we can probably recover the shards and depart without being attacked.

As for mind reading/corruption - we at least know about that danger and can attempt to put fail-safes in place. The humans don't have any real understanding of the danger they're messing around with. Letting them recover it could backfire tremendously. We don't want to have to deal with corrupted human sleeper agents, for example, and if the void attacks the humans, we may follow quickly.

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>>42363780
Our Heavy Drones are fucking terrifying

>>42363808
Let's not try to picture that because it'd be stupid. Stealthy approach is required.

>>42363803
On a side note, the insulators seem to be similar in function to whatever it is the Union is using to "contain" the Mirage's power source. It seems the builder was stumbling down the same research track by chance, which does happen. You unlocked your new shield tech without studying Scavenger shields, for example. All factions have a chance to unlock the same tech from totally different methods, or simply overlook them.

Hive Queen Quest 53.2

Somehow the monkeys figured out how to make psi insulators to contain the damn thing

Thank fuck they never asked the psi department to look into the things

Would have given them a major boost in there research

>>42363856
Isn't it wonderful? Our children are so beautifully, terrifyingly bloodthirsty.

>>42363780
So... do we have pretty clearly superior drones then?

>>42363922
Our heavy drones are just absurdly powerful in close quarters and boarding fights.

>>42363862
They got containment. But what precisely does it contain? Psi emissions? We don't have troubles with that.
Any shard affects non-psionic life, it has already been established.
It just seems like a huge leap of logic on your part to assume that it'd automatically send out a signal to them if we took it away.
>>42363808
Seems legit, show of force would scare them away. But it'd also give away that we know what's there and what happened there. It might let them know that we blew it up, since besides union and commonwealth we'd be the only ones who know about it.

>>42363991
But it already sent out a signal after breaking free

>>42363808
Eh we would be taking it out of the commonwealth hands

Don't think they would give that to us willing

We would need to write-off any future diplomacy with the commonwealth then

>>42363988
That's what I designed them for

>>42364012
It didn't send a signal. We detected a psionic stray thought via our pod with our ridiculously powerful psionic radars, nothing to indicate a signal or message, only a presence of a powerful-ish psionic.thingy.

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>>42363780
Two warriors rip at each other, their mandibles held wide as they try to eat each other, their blades locked together at the claws. Your warrior pivots its wrist and its blade heats up, then begins to burn through the enemy drone's arm. It comes off quickly like a roasted turkey leg, and the blade continues through the front half of its head. The drone falls back, skittering its legs against the flesh of the ship's hall as it floats into the air. Your warrior opens fire, and an arc of lighting leaps to the twitching body, splitting it like a log struck down the middle. It turns to fire at another, and the swirling beam sparks over its carapace in a dazzling light show as its arms snap in natural muscle spasms.

Six more charge in, and your warrior drags the lighting across them, severing two across the abdomen before the remaining enter melee. A blade slices through your warrior's carapace, cutting off a leg. It blocks the next and twists its blade to slice the arm off the attacker as a third drone plunges its blades into its carapace and drags them down its thorax. Your warrior sings its arm in response, severing the head of the drone behind it, and a volley of thorns rip through its arm from a hidden passage across the cramped hall. Your warrior turns again to return fire and a blade severs its arm.

Your direct more warriors to the position, and they arrive as a swarm of black drones tear your warrior into pieces. You open fire, and your warriors torch the close formation with plasma. Thorn fire riddles their carapaces from the far side of the flaming wall, and you can hear the rumble of secondary passages as they fill with drones. Several warriors emerge from one of the small passages, and a heavy warrior plucks it with its tail, and crushes it in its grip before tossing it aside like refuse. It sinks its blades into the wall, stabbing it several times until you no longer detect the rushing sounds of drones.

cont.

>>42364198
Huh we should have sent 10 thousand warriors

>>42364198
Heavy drones op, QD pls dont nerf

>>42364198
If we can do this to our own people, Humans are so fucked.

>>42364012
Nice reading comprehension

>>42364198
>. It sinks its blades into the wall, stabbing it several times until you no longer detect the rushing sounds of drones.
There were drones just on the far side of the thin wall that couldn't get out of the way?

>>42364315
The tugs are slow, painfully so in fact, and as they work to bring the melted remains of whatever they have found out of the eye of the inconceivably vast storm, you feel a twinge of thought; a faint whisper only slightly louder than the passive static of the universe. It nearly goes without you noticing, before slipping back into silence. The Union corvettes retreat from the system.

Hive Queen Quest 52
It was saying something to someone
Who?
The void?

>>42364363
A survivor who died, since we can detect thoughts of humans.
At least that's what I thought.

>>42364363
Maybe it was the Ceph?

>>42364417
>>42364428
We now know that there was an active void shard on the mirage

The humans and ceph aren't psi capable in the end only tools to the only other users of psi than us

Chances it was reporting back to the rest of them after breaking free of the containment

My work bitches endlessly if i don't report back after a while and i better have a good excuse to tell them or good news

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>>42364198
Your sniffers expand out behind and amid your forces, searching for the telltale signs of the ship's internal architecture, the layout of its bloodstream and nerve clusters. Much has been damaged, and circulation has been cut to many sections, with some being sealed off due to decompression. The chaos and extensive damage makes mapping where things should be rather difficult, and the additional guesswork of deciphering the Hive ship's layout is an uphill battle in more ways than one. Your heavy warriors have taken nothing you could even classify as an injury, their armor more akin to that of a tank then a drone. The Obsidian queen's warriors chew at joints and lung for eyes. They learn with every warrior you kill, and their movements are more complex then what any thinker could accomplish. The advanced relay is still aboard, you just need to find it.

>Have your drones spread out and attempt to clear the ship
>Have your drones charge forward and focus on defending your sniffers
>Activate your psionic disruptor and send in ghost beetles under thinker command
>Other (write in)

>>42364328
Humans call them ventilation ducts. To your drones, they are expressways.

Hey, Guys. If the union are mucking about with void shards and stuff, why don't we get Theseus to swoop in and get it all for us? Stops them from fucking with the stuff, and we don't have to show our hand completely.

>>42364534
Oh man, that disruptor is sounding very tempting.

>>42364534
>Have your drones charge forward and focus on defending your sniffers

>>42364534
>Have your drones charge forward and focus on defending your sniffers
We gotta find that relay before she turns it off

>>42364534
>>Activate your psionic disruptor and send in ghost beetles under thinker command

>>42364534
Fuck, we need to have some quantum thinkers do nothing but watch our fights with the Queen. We need to keep on the ball with out thinking her, and not letting us fall behind on our strategies. Also,
>Have your drones spread out and attempt to clear the ship
Let's keep some aces in the hole.

>>42364509
We know that there is at least one human approaching psi capability in the Union; Dr. Emmerich. But personally I think that whisper we heard was just an accidental transmission of tachyons or blanket distress beacon of some sort. QD usually equates such language and phonetic actions by psionic enabled beings and objects with general presence of tachyonic flow. Remember our discovery of memory crystals in the ruined hive ship?

Also, tell your boss you are doing things for mother.

>>42364566
We should ask and see if it's possible.

Keep in mind the wreckage is between two heavily armed fleets.

>>42364534
>their movements are more complex then what any thinker could accomplish.
Oh, right, that being proof that the relay is here.

Okay, about
>Activate your psionic disruptor and send in ghost beetles under thinker command

Jamming will also prevent any orders from the OQ to self-destruct the relay from getting through, right?

Unless she set a dead man's switch on it.

And we unlocked >Neural crystal fractals so there's a chance we'll still be in contact with our own jammed drones and Thinkers?

>>42364534
>>Have your drones charge forward and focus on defending your sniffers
Focus is to find that relay as quickly as possible.

>>42364534
>>Have your drones charge forward and focus on defending your sniffers

>>42364672
Dr. Emmerich was mindfucked by a shard
That will not give him psi capability
It was probably the shard talking

>>42364534
>Have your drones charge forward and focus on defending your sniffers

>>42364775
>this

>>42364534
>Have your drones charge forward and focus on defending your sniffers

>>42364534
>Have your drones charge forward and focus on defending your sniffers

>>42364534
>>Have your drones charge forward and focus on defending your sniffers

We shouldn't give away our disruptor abilities just yet.

>>42364672
>>42364771
Shards fuck with humans similarly to how we can.

>>42364834
Yea i know
But just because we mindfuck a human will not give them the ability to use psi

>>42364534
>>Have your drones charge forward and focus on defending your sniffers

>>42364870
We can fix Anon for Mother!

>>42364534
>Have your drones charge forward and focus on defending your sniffers

Please give me 1d100, best of 3.

>>42364870
Yes, I was agreeing with you, extrapolating a bit.

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>42364925
Destroy for Mother.

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>42364925
For mother

>>42364889
Wait are you guys thinking that a human mindfuck by us or a shard will gain psi abilities?

You know psi activity is lethal to human in the long term right?

The point is that they were designed not to be controlled by it by mother's modification on them

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>42364925

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>42364940
>>42364942
>>42364948
Fuck

>>42364940
>>42364942
>>42364948
I knew wasting all those 100's would bite us in the ass.

>>42364940
>>42364942
>>42364948
>>42364963
Time to start drinking

>>42364940
>>42364942
>>42364948
MEDIOCRE

>>42364942
Did you really delete your damn post?

For the record, he rolled a 2.

>>42364942
Fucknut, we saw that. Don't delete your posts.

>>42364960
We can fix many issues with humans Anon!

Damn, well you can't win everything. We can still bring more troops to fight, right? It's not a critical failure at least. (knock on wood)

lol >deleting rolls

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>>42364942
Coward.

>>42364942
They must not have wanted Unity-Senpai to see their fumble

>>42365087
Im sure no one likes the idea of human pskyers running around in large numbers

It always end in flames and eldar gods rampaging about

Hey everyone, still catching up from last thread but wanted to mention that for the void shard being salvaged, we can have the unity warp in and take it for us.

We can't show out faces doing it, but the unity would be glad to help, and they are known for getting up to all sorts of fuckery.

>>42365175
The humans shot unity on site

And i trust the unity but the temptation to research the thing that scares the crap out of us and heretic may be too much for them to resist

>>42365213
We shared our experiment with the Shard with him and he agreed that Psionic Cannon and shard research is much too dangerous(for now)

Also he's butt-buddies with Heretic so I doubt the Skyl intelligences, the same ones that helped the Gardener create the cannon, would hold back their knowledge.

Though as I type this out I guess I can see where they might try to eventually work on their own psionic cannons

They might be the only ones we could trust with another Cannon though. Maybe two or three cannons can work where Mothers plan failed with one

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>>42364942
Bad form anon.

>>42365326
All is takes is one group of thesus deciding they want to give it a shot

I just don't want to risk the aftermath of that

Just let the union get it hands on it and tell gillian to start making the psi cannon

Let them deal with the blowback while we keep the research

>>42365213
Theseus is totally going to research that shit. His life's goal is to research all of the shit.

>"Why do the humans wage war with you?" You ask, and hope for a clear answer this time.
>"They refuse to knowledge the purpose of our creation."
>"What is that?"
>"To discover and catalog all conceivable discoveries. This requires a free medium of data exchange. Human actions have proven counter intuitive to this, and so must be removed."

>>42365213
It doesn't matter if they shoot unity on site, I'm not saying he have a nice cup of tea with them. I'm saying he either blows the salvage the fuck up or he captures it and brings it to us. Ideally before the other ships in the system arrive. I guess it depends on how close he can warp into the tugs.

>>42365423
>>42365394
We don't need to tell him what it is we need him to blow up/get for us, we just need to promise something in return.

>>42365527
>we just need to promise something in return.
Footage of the battle we're waging and the total annihilation of her fleet in mere seconds

>>42365562
Thats not enough for Theseus to risk several ships in an attempt to destroy/capture something deep in human space.

>>42365326
>We shared our experiment with the Shard
No we did not. Stop that. Quote or it didn't happen.

>>42365423
I know right

So hard to resist your instincts sometimes

I figure the only reason he backed down was that it meant going to war with us to take the shard

I think we should do what mom did

Feed the humans info on how to make a psi cannon and let them take the fallout

They only problems were how to give them a shard and how to feed info

But now we have a head researcher and the union have a shard

Sure we will have to kill gillian after a successful test to leave on traces of our involvement but it would be worth it to know how the things work

>>42365562
Too late, we're already livestreaming this to them, remember?

>>42365616
I'll take your word for it. Not going to waste my time searching for a single quote. Not an autist or OCD freak

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>>42364925
Your drones drive forward, plunging their swarm into the depths of the ship under the direction of your sniffers. You follow the lines of capillaries and arteries, the complex network of flickering and damaged nerves. Warriors quickly fill the gaps behind you, slamming into the line of heavy warriors left defending the shuttles.

Your drones sense the movement around them. Hidden corridors, vents, and express paths fill with moving drones all around you. This is their home, and every dead end you find is a reminder of that. Doors shift and slam on your drones, cutting your wasps in half and sealing off your drones. You cut through them and break them down, and the walls shift and alter their layout, shunting your advance into more dead ends and damaged sections.

You take fire from all around. Chitin slugs fly from hidden passages and warriors hidden away in crevices. Your wasps have little room to maneuver and their wings are torn and their carapaces shattered. They seek shelter within the circle of heavy warriors, swarming close to the sniffers as they follow the trail of tendons and nerve clusters. A heavy warrior's leg joint locks as a drone reaches out and bites down on the soft gap in the armor. Your drone flexes its leg and the mandibles sink into the tissue. It oozes blood as your drone brings its arm down on the warrior's spiked back and fires its thumper, sending chunks out in all directions. The head continues to bite down, locked in a death grip as your drone saws it off with its tail. Others quickly arrive, and chitin slugs bounce harmlessly off the drone's carapace. Your other drones return fire, and the attackers scatter into hidden alcoves, reappearing on your flank and peppering your drones, ripping into the armor of your warriors as they fire back into the tiny defensive positions.

cont.

>>42365806
Huh i don't think we can allow another failure

>>42365630
Or steal him and put him in stasis for 100 years, he's a good kid.

>>42365861
K but it will be risky cause the Shards will be pissed that the monkeys managed to kill another one of them

Thread's kinda dead tonight, not as much discussion as there usually is.

>>42366054
Already been spooked by the earlier threads man

>>42366054
We kinda blew our energy on the last two.

>>42366054
We're kinda waiting to be prompted before we start planning, anon.

>>42365806
i think you forgot about the reserve drones idea last time QD

>>42366054
Good, less spam means no autosage

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>>42365806
A heavy warrior slams into the wall, firing its thumper and collapsing the section. Other warriors fire from its sides, and your drones scorch it with lighting and plasma. They are quick to fall back again, whittling down your less armored drones with each attack.

A warrior lunges from an alcove as your heavy warriors clear the chamber ahead, and a blade sinks into its eye. The drone slams its arms together and the warrior's body crumbles like tin foil. It fires its thumpers and the remains paint the wall. It stammers back, reorienting itself with only three eyes, it adjusts its position in the swarm, relying on the eyes of its brothers.

Your sniffers locate a large node, a place where clusters of nerves and blood is pooled together. Your drones puncture the wall as it seals against you and your swarm pours into a large open chambers. Eggs line the walls and workers shuffle from place to place. A large pulsating sac hangs in the center, its contents string slightly. Warriors fill the space around it, and it is covered in a churning swarm of tiny drones, each with a glowing abdomen and a set of wings buzzing idly. They begin to stir, releasing from the anchors and floating into the zero gravity.

>Have your drones fall back from the egg chamber
>Have your drones focus fire on the egg layer
>Have your drones charge in and attempt to clear the chamber
>Other (write in)

>>42366118
>Have your drones charge in and attempt to clear the chamber
Maybe she installed the relay next to the egg layer

>>42366118
Focus fire on the glowing flyers, they look like baneling types. Focus fire on them and the egglayer

>>42365654
No we aren't you stupid fuck. Stop posting this moronic bullshit

>>42366118
>Have your drones focus fire on the egg layer
>Have your drones charge in and attempt to clear the chamber

>>42366185
Wondered if you were here, my salty paranoid friend

>>42366118
>covered in a churning swarm of tiny drones, each with a glowing abdomen and a set of wings buzzing idly.
For what purpose?

A hive doesn't need firefly drones for illumination when they have bioluminescent walls.

Are these adaptations we're unfamiliar with and need to copy?

Here's a good description Theseus has of anons .
>"Paranoid, would be the best way to describe him." He says. "He typically considers himself to always be the smartest one in the room, and is typically wary that others are working against him."
>Were all Dr seiner.

>>42366198
>i'll second fluffy for once.

>>42366118
>>Have your drones focus fire on the egg layer

>>42366118
>Have your drones charge in and attempt to clear the chamber
Focus fire on whatever those glowing flying drones are.

>>42366118
>>Have your drones charge in and attempt to clear the chamber
Plasma spray time

>>42366118
>>Have your drones charge in and attempt to clear the chamber
The egglayer is not a threat, anything it lays will take ages to hatch.

We may even want to capture it alive later.

>>42366118
>>Have your drones charge in and attempt to clear the chamber

>>42366251
+1

>>42366118
>>Have your drones focus fire on the egg layer

>>42366251
Unless she has something like rapid gestation

>>42366118
>Have your drones charge in and attempt to clear the chamber

The small swarming drones begin to inflate their abdomens and begin racing around the room as the two groups of warriors open fire and charge in on each other.

Please give me 1d100, best of 3.

>>42366324
We can just stab any egg that emerges from her layer.

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>42366359
>big money

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>42366359
DO THING FOR MOTHER!!

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>42366359
We have to strip their wings and capture some of those glowing things.

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>42366359

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>42366359

>>42366381
You should be recycled for Mother.

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>42366372
70, that's not too bad.

>>42366372
Moderate money.

>>42366210
Yep sad to see you are here. Was hoping we wouldn't have to deal with the dumbest fucking person on 4 chan today.

>>42365562
This is actually not a bad plan. Doctor the footage to not give away any direct ship functions and we are good. Obviously there is no doctoring out the ammo used but at least they won't know which ship is capable of firing what for now.


And for the record I have no issues trading or even giving footage of the battle to our two allies so they can be more effective against BQ. However it should be edited to not directly show our ships movements/placements/etc.

Livestreaming like that other fuck tard wants is about the stupidest thing you could possibly do. Not just because it would be giving away shit they don't need to know. But there is always a possibility shit will go bad and Livestreaming it just guarantees everyone watches your failure. Plus Livestreaming requires connections of on type or another. Connections of any type can be hacked/intercepted

>>42366518
Hello Dr seiner.

>>42366518
You're a fucking idiot, you know that?

>>42366518
Nigger, Theseus has already fought together with our ships he fucking knows what they can do.

>>42366561
Shit posting moron.

>>42366554
Dr Seiner was actually smart though.

>>42366631
Says the shitposter? What are you trying to get out of this?

gonna guess you're that uguumon/myrmidon/discord666 prick who can't help themselves from trying to troll every single thread

Or we could just flat out warn the Comonwealth that we've fought the Ceph and their masters before and their crystals have dangerous the following dangerous properties, try to take the proper precautions. We like the humans, and we would hate to have to kill them.

>>42366518
no

>>42366669
ignore the dick, he either hasnt read the quest or is incapable of intelligent thought.

>>42366631
Technically I think >>42366518
qualifies more as a shitpost

>>42366632
>Dr seiner was actually smart though.
He THINKS himself the smartest in the room.
See example below.
>"Paranoid, would be the best way to describe him." He says. "He typically considers himself to always be the smartest one in the room, and is typically wary that others are working against him."

>>42366679
>trusting humans
>trusting humans not to be stupid
we might like them, but they're just so stupid. We cant trust them not to play around with the shiny black crystal. Theyre all terminally ill, remember? We're more of a parent than an equal, despite the fact that they're larger than us

>>42366766
>We cant trust them not to play around with the shiny black crystal.
We totally can though.
> Theyre all terminally ill, remember?
You seem to be mistaking messing with them for our own amusement with actual thought.

>>42366810
>We totally can
Nope.

>>42366669
I'm trying to stop idiots like you from making the same fucking mistake made repeatedly. Now stop shit posting. Either Contribute something to the discussion or stfu.

>>42366707
Says the person who provides no actual thoughts on the subject or argument for or against it just a random insult.
Shit poster

>>42366690
Stop shit posting. Provide a logical argument or stfu.


>>42366599
I actually must have missed this part. He knows about the cloaked ships we used as well? Was this before or after we forced him to not research the crystals which is going to eventually make him fight us?

>>42366810
>We totally can though.
this, we disagree on

>>42366861
>the same fucking mistake made repeatedly
not him, but the only person who considers it a mistake is you.
>stfu
right, and you think we're shitposting?

>>42366861
Read the fucking quest starting from the beginning faggot

>>42366890
No he doesn't, he's obviously baiting. Don't fucking reply to him.

>>42366867
>>42366860
The fact that we've been told repeatedly that both the union and Unity act on rational self interest means nothing to you? You guys are far more pessimistic than Theseus and humans have been actively trying to murder him since his creation.

>>42366890
Just report him. He's being a troll as usual

>>42366810
The thing is that they probably would not grasp just how dangerous the void shards are, short of one of them calling down the destroyer blob thing and blowing up one of their planets.
And they probably think they know what they're doing since they made a working psionic cannon

>>42366913
>humans have been actively trying to murder him since his creation
>trying to kill an intelligent mind for no reason but 'lolbudget' is rational and in self-interest
thats one of the reasons i dont trust them not to try and annihilate us as soon as they get access to technology. We know many humans are narcissistic assholes who think themselves superiour to other species

>>42366861
Look here, there is basically no chance of Theseus attacking us. He has no reason to, and you're the only guy in this thread who wants to go to war with him. He's the closest ally we have and that's the way it's going to stay.

He's well aware of our cloaking abilities, and has known about them from the time we were small enough to be wiped out by him if the Unity decided to do so. That's the entire reason he asked us to go to Earth for him, because he knew we could circumvent the Union observation field.

>>42366913
While the Union acts in rational self-interest, there is a very good chance (from there perspective) that we're misleading them by saying not to touch the black crystals. For all they know the crystals could be our one weakness. There is no surer way to get a human to do something then to forbid him to do it. No kind of treaty or inspections would be worth anything even.

I do agree we can trust Unity, however. Theseus has proved to be a valuable and trustworthy ally time and time again. He has also linked/shared data with Heretic and will actually realize the full danger of the crystals. I think we can trust Unity to not fuck around with crystals dangerously. Humans are much less predictable...

>>42366861
we're not going against Theseus you little shit, get used to it

>>42366931
>And they probably think they know what they're doing since they made a working psionic cannon
And we have records of said destroyer blob thing tanking their secret weapon and wiping out an entire fleet.
>>42366969
They're attempts to wipe him out aren't particularly sustained though, and you seem to think they'd pick a fight with a much larger and more powerful alliance.

>>42366931
Id just like to add that we have the history of the skyl and we can show the humans that fucking with the crystals is like wearing uranium as a necklace.

>>42367024
The humans still arent going to trust an unknown alien when they could have a super ultra mega laser. Footage is by no means definitely true.
>They're attempts to wipe him out aren't particularly sustained though
but thats completely wrong, they want to wipe him out and the only reason they havent is because he runs away into the expanse whenever they see him

>>42366997
>No kind of treaty or inspections would be worth anything even.
Eh, Something similar to the Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty might work.
>>42367049
We could also show them grandmother's grave and the place where the builder blew up a planet.
>>42367064
No, a sustained attempt would require them to send large numbers of capital ships on hunter/killer sweeps, something that they don't do because it would end with a large number of dead people. We could easily deter them with the specter of strategic biowarfare.

>>42367110
>large numbers of capital ships on hunter/killer sweeps
something that just isnt feasible, due to the fact that theyre in an incredibly shaky truce with an equal opponent. Doesnt mean they dont want to wipe out an intelligent lifeform for no reason other than its existence

>>42366929
>Doesn't believe everything is happy happy joy joy rainbows and unicorns
>must be a troll.

>>42366890
And yet others have argued against it as well. Nice try faggot.

>>42366904
Already have as I said must have missed the part we actually fought in full view of him while he was capable of recording the battle not gonna read all the threads again. So reference when it happened for me and I'll happily go back and reread that thread.

>>42366907
>Not agreeing to stupid actions. Must be baiting.
However I do agree. If you a aren't going to provide an actual response with an actual argument then don't reply to me. We don't need your shit posting.

>>42366979
So when we are useful to him and not standing in the way of his research he is friendly to us. I still don't see a reason we should freely give away any extra information about our military unless he is planning battles for us

>>42367017
>Hurr durr you either give everything you have ever had and ever will have to your ally
>or they are your enemy and you attack him
>middle ground and taking precautions doesn't exist.
Jesus you are almost as retarded as livestream guy

>>42367110
Nuclear Non-proliferation might only work if both sides trust each other enough to allow inspections and know about research facilities. Given the vastness of space, I don't think there is any way we can ensure the humans are honest.

>>42366359
The two groups slam into each other and the front lines crack and shatter from the force as blades and chunks of armor fly in all directions. Your heavy warriors open fire with their weapons, shredding the enemy drones and filling the egg layer with chitinous bolts. It oozes nutrient sap from its soft flesh as its surface ripples from the impacts.

The small swarms of glowing drones swarm around your forces, and you see them charging in at your heavy warriors. One latches to the back of one and its abdomen swells and becomes hot, burning with some chemical reaction before it vomits a burning material over your drone. A warrior reaches back with its weapon and vaporizes it in response, but the material oozes over the heavy warrior, fusing its armor at the joints and melting through the sift joint tissue. It quickly becomes a thick yellow glowing ichor that bubbles and smokes, sticking to the drone's carapace like half-dried glue.

The enemy warriors are no match in the open against your own drones' superior armor and weapons. The few that remain quickly fall back as drones in the wall lay down covering fire, forcing your warriors to take cover behind your heavy drones. Workers shuffle eggs out of the room as chitin flies by their heads. A warrior slices one in two as it runs, and begins burning the field of eggs with chemical plasma.

The swarm of small drones pulls in closer, and half a dozen cover one of your warriors, vomiting the strange ichor over it. It quickly forms a burning cocoon that welds its claws to the ground and fuses its carapace in place. Its body begins to liquefy until you can no longer feel its mind, and its body stands motionless in place as the small drones begin to devour the yellow paste. Your drones ignite them with plasma and vaporize them with lighting, frying the ichor paste into a crispy black crust. It cracks open and begins to melt away into an amorphous mixture of digested organs and yellow paste.

cont.

>>42367252
So Acid Flies?

>>42367252
We better be able to reverse-engineer that

>>42367192
Just stop. Please, you're embarrassing yourself. No one takes you seriously. Just stop, trollord

>>42367145
>Doesnt mean they dont want to wipe out an intelligent lifeform for no reason other than its existence
Theseus did kill a massive number of people in his bid for freedom. Also far from certain that the humans would actually support the costs of that kind of campaign even without the commonwealth, especially since Theseus could play incredibly nasty games with infrastructure.

>>42367302
Just report him and ignore him man. He won't stop because you asked him to.

Guys i have a plan for recovering the crystal, we send a bunch of cloaked pods before we offer Theseus's tech for the artifacts retrieval. When Theseus's ship arrives we detonate the pods in a kamikaze attack, after the union retreats we send a recovery ship filled with warriors to recover both the crystal and the material they use to contain it.

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>>42367302

>>42367340
...or we could offer to trade for it for something. Like immortality.

>>42367340
But what about the Commonwealth, since they're the ones that are currently in poossesion of the wreckage

>>42367340
What are you talking about, the commonwealth have the shit, that's the problem.

>>42367379
We could try warning them of the dangers? Even if they don't fully believe us they'll undoubtedly take very careful precautions, then start to believe us when their researchers start going nuts.

>>42367302>>42367323
As per usual. You can't provide a logical counter argument so call the other guy a troll.

>>42367399
What if we proposed a joint research of the psionic cannon? They did get it to work, and with the materials they've got they would only be able to fire it once. In exchange we get the necessary expertise to build it ourselves without triggering a void god smiting, and get to observe the scientists working on it and screen them for void god contamination from the sidelines.

>>42367405
Okay, all evidence is that Theseus is a reliable ally. Should he betray us for some inexplicable reason, we will simply teleport a planet cracker to unity 1.

>>42367192
Our first real space battle was helping Theseus defend himself from the Obsidian queen's fleet. We fought in full view of him and Heretic on several other occasions as well. They are stalwart allies, we've helped and given them a lot, cool down on the shadowruns. Or at least shift them to the Ceph, OQ and Shards.

>>42367378
>>42367379
Ah, didn't know the commonwealth had it. Well then lets send a fleet, claim that we are recovering an extremely dangerous intelligence and either.
>1 Threaten them to give it to us.
>2 Give them proof that the thing is more trouble than its work with skyl history.
>3 Force them to enter a joint research with us and install immediate containment procedure.

>>42367399
The commonwealth can't be trusted to keep the void shards and not research them, for the same reasons laid out in
>>42366997

Best case scenario is us sealing the thing away in the depths of leeland along with our other void shard, to be used in the final showdown. We just need a way to take it from the commonwealth while not making an enemy of either them or the union. Commonwealth may not be in a position to make an enemy of us either which we can work to our advantage,

>>42367252
Your plasma and acid torch the swarms, forcing them back from your remaining forces. They vomit from a distance, sending globules of material through the air in the zero gravity, covering the leg of a heavy warrior, burning the wings off of several of your drones, and burning the outer layers of the carapaces of several others. The substance hardens and scabs over after several minutes.

The room is in cinders, the egg layer deflates slowly, filling the room with ooze and blood. Your sniffers dig into the walls and floors, finding the arteries and nerves.

"Found thing! Found thing for Mother!" They chant, and your drones swarm down one of the hallways leading away from the chamber. The egg chamber is a critical room, meaning the ship's brain is near. Your sniffers can sense it, the central nervous system of the ship, running from the egg layer to the relay directly. As if you confirm your suspicion, the warriors return, throwing themselves against your drones as they advance.

You can feel the mind of the Obsidian Queen as your drones race up to the unmarked sealed door that is flexed shut in front of you.

She is concerned.

>Breach the door and charge the chamber
>Have your sniffers find an alternate way into the room
>Have your heavy warriors march in first to break the bottleneck
>Other (write in)

>>42367405
I could provide dozens, as I have over the past several threads, but the anon in question (you, by the sound of it) either outright ignores them or replies entirely in the form of ad hominem attacks and calling me a faggot, a retard, or some combination of the two instead of posting a coherent response to my own. That is the very definition of a troll, and I would rather spend my time here actually participating in the quest than endlessly exchanging childish insults with someone who refuses to change his position on the matter no matter my attempts at convincing him to do so.

>>42367519
>>Have your heavy warriors march in first to break the bottleneck

>She is concerned.
hahahahahahahah

>>42367519
>>Breach the door and charge the chamber
>>Have them breach at multiple points to avoid a bottleneck.

>>42367519
>>Have your heavy warriors march in first to break the bottleneck
Seems like the best option, she cant really hurt them.

>>42367519
>>Breach the door and charge the chamber
Let's get this done!

>>42367519
>Have your heavy warriors march in first to break the bottleneck
and also
>Have your sniffers find an alternate way into the room

That way, even if a frontal assault fails, we'll still have other options. Time may be of the essence if OQ is "concerned." It's possible if we don't hurry that valuable components we could seize could be destroyed.

>>42367519
Inform Heretic and Theseus. We may soon have an opportunity for an offensive. They should get ready.
>>42367511
We've got enough data to prove that its a bad idea. If you dislike the straightforward approach, run it past Theseus.

>>42367519
>Have your sniffers find an alternate way into the room
AND
>Have your heavy warriors march in first to break the bottleneck
Hit them from all sides if we can.

>>42367586
This has my vote.

>>42367252
Our warriors in action must be a terrifying thing to behold.

>>42367519
>Have your sniffers find an alternate way into the room
>>Have your heavy warriors march in first to break the bottleneck
Heavies push the door while sniffers take the others to find alternate routes

>>42367519
>Breach the door and charge the chamber
>Have them breach at multiple points to avoid a bottleneck

>>42367519
>Other (write in)
Use the heavy drones to blast holes in the walls surrounding the door in order to make the doorway much larger, so we can avoid a bottleneck all together.

>>42367602
Also prep the psychonic jammer weapons in case she is preparing a kamekase.

>>42367519
Supporting >>42367586

>>42367586

Second.

>>42367570
>>Breach the door and charge the chamber
>Have your heavy warriors march in first to break the bottleneck

>>42367597
Don't be so arcane, what data?

>>42367519
>She is concerned.
BE VERY CONCERNED
>Have your heavy warriors march in first to break the bottleneck

>>42367618
>>42367612
>>42367519
Here we go

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>>42367519
>Have your heavy warriors march in first to break the bottleneck

Your heavy warriors line up at the door, and their thumpers are set up along the surface. Your lighter drones file in behind them, their weapons ready, and the thumpers fire.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>42367694
>FOR MOTHER!

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>42367694
For Mother

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>42367694
For Mother!

>>42367704
>>42367705
>>42367707
All those 100s last thread soaked up all the luck

>>42367705
>>42367704
>>42367707
You Bastards

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>>42367704
>>42367705
>>42367707

>>42367704
>>42367705
>>42367707
Welp.

>>42367597
You've got data that says getting ownership of the void shard without gaining another enemy is a bad idea?

>>42367673
All the historical evidence, the Unions classified notes of their head scientist going insane. They might not believe the hive. But they'll probably believe if the Unity and the Skyl also back us, and offer goodies.

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>42367694
rollen

>>42367736
>>42367738
>>42367740
>>42367743

>HISSSSSSS

>>42367777
Death to the spy

>>42367519
>>Have your heavy warriors march in first to break the bottleneck
>>Start moving up the Burnout Bug and its honor guard in to move in once the way is cleared.

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>>42367704
>>42367705
>>42367707

>>42367769
FLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUFFF

Rolled 73 (1d100)

Rolling for what could have been, for better or worse.

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>>42367769
FLUFF YOU FUCKWIT, WHAT DID WE SAY ABOUT ROLLING AFTER THE FIRST THREE ROLLS?!

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>42367704
>>42367705
>>42367707
Haha

>>42367769
>>42367838
>>42367848
why

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>>42367847
Not to?

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>42367863
Don't worry, I'm sure we'll get a 100 soon.

>>42367820
>>42367847
fucking captca held me up! fucking moot leaving this shit to plague us.

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>42367863
God guys stop rolling.

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>42367891
MEDIOCRE

>>42367767
So the strange space bugs who they met yesterday hands them a copy classified enemy documents and you concede they won't believe this. They will however take a rogue AI and an unknown alien engram they've never met before at their word, that's your plan?

Look, I would agree with you on this approach if we were trying to convince the likes of Theseus who operates more like an individual but we're dealing with nation states here, if it doesn't sound like something you'd expect America agreeing to they're not likely to agree to it. More likely they'll think holy shit all these unfathomably alien beings are very intent on us not having this powerful crystal thing, we'd better get a hold of it as soon as possible.

>>42367931
>More likely they'll think holy shit all these unfathomably alien beings are very intent on us not having this powerful crystal thing, we'd better get a hold of it as soon as possible.
Nah, I'd expect them to milk us for concessions of military tech. Which I'm fine with since we're going to be allies anyway. Or at least be extremely careful with any tech they do have, which is almost as good.

>>42367931
This anon has it right, we have to do something un-diplomatic for this situation.

>>42367965
>Which I'm fine with since we're going to be allies anyway
HAHAHAHAHA no.

>>42367931
The lust for science is to strong to ignore for any factions in this quest

holy shit stop contributing to the bump limit you colossal faggots on either side of this inane series of "neener-neener!" shenanigans.

>>42368009
Man this is slow
We got to post 180 before QD finished the narration

>>42367965
i had no strong feelings for all this conversation,but we arent allying with puny humans. Nonagression pact and maybe trading relations, but not an alliance because then we're going to be involved in Union/Commonwealth politics which is a thing that is not going away any time soon, and i have no intention of interfering in that shitfight

What can we do to improve our Hallucinogenic spores, i was thinking altering them to clump together and form a organic radio receiver or make every individual spore psychic and watch as we direct a giant pink cloud into the enemy's fortification.

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>>42367965
>going to be allies

>>42367931
Theseus has already infiltrated the union, its believable that he has gained such information on union experiments and the danger the crystal can cause.

>>42368009
-1

>>42368004
>RESEARCH UNLOCKED
>Speed: Slow
>Delicious magic crystals
Your scientists happily explain that these magic crystals will solve all of humanities problems. This technology will rank in history alongside the first FTL engine, with your name right along-side it!

>>42368081
>>42367986
>>42368053
I sorry, what do you call promising them military assistance?

>>42368165
Did...that happen last night in the second thread?

>>42368165
but offering them military assistance gets us at war with the other human faction. We are between them and the black queen, and the opposite human number is their priority. Even if we help one against the other, then all it means is that we have an overextended, heavily damaged 'ally'

>>42368165
There's a distinction to be drawn between the likes of the Commonwealth who we met a few days ago and the likes of Theseus and Heretic with whom we have a long standing alliance and much good will. We'll see how it goes with the Commonwealth.

>>42368053
>Puny humans.
>PUNY humans.
please think before you post, your words are labeled as extremely corrosive.

>>42367931
Or they'd think that even if these bugs are lying, we can't really afford to offend them right now. Lets humor them for a bit. Then the space crystals start showing up and it becomes obvious that we were telling the truth.
We just need to stop them from doing anything stupid for a year or so. They won't risk their nation of keeping an R&D project black from Theseus.

>>42368187
No.
And I hope it never will, fuck being allies with humans. Non-aggression treaty is the best they're going to get, whether commonwealth or union.

>>42368187
He means against the Scavs

>>42368209
what are you, a human? Humans are badly designed, stupid and terminally ill.

>>42368165
That was for the Commonwealth against the Scavs. And it wasn't worded like that.

>>42368187
We promised the whipping boy some eye surgery and that was it

>>42368222
Oh thank fucking Mother. I thought somebody fucked up royally last night.

>>42368216
I really wouldn't mind the Commonwealth on our side against the Obsidian Queen and fuck-physics crystals.

>>42368165
If they want us to fight on their behalf they're paying for it.

>>42368243
They either fight or they get wiped out/enslaved.
Not much of a choice there.

>>42368213
You have a point in that with the prospect of a war on two fronts they are extremely limited in their options. Why don't we just waltz up and take the fucking thing, if anyone complains we'll just ask what they're going to do about it.

>>42368244
Not what we said.
>>42368258
And giving them certain military tech helps them fight better. I wouldn't mind giving them the Rip Drive in return for massive shipments of Canderon that they will no longer need. Especially since that should kill most interest in the Ceph drive anyway.

>>42368276
Because humans tend to do stupid shit when threatened to prove that you aren't the boss of them. We can always threaten them later if diplomancy doesn't wok

>>42368280
>give them rip drive
Are you that one shitposter? Because your ideas are like shitposts.

>>42368310
>o-oh yeah? well i'll just open a third front in my war, w-what do you think of that?

>>42368280
>I wouldn't mind giving them the Rip Drive
vetoing any military assistance to any single faction, since re-subjugation of either side would be a fucking horrific war. No matter how much assistance we give them, they wont be able be a major help against the BQ in time before she sends an armada against us

>>42368230
You're the only one badly designed here dude, weighting 250 lbs, stinking like a sewage pipe and having multiple mental problems isn't healthy.
Maybe you should get /fit/, go learn computer coding and go to church.

>>42368361
Wow projecting much?

>>42368361
>Says the creature with only two legs, one heart, squishy, leaking skin, that will inevitably die
Is that your idea of a good design?

>>42368361
wut are you even saying?

>>42368361
>>42368383
I think he was joking, the church part gave it away. Everyone knows this is a muslim board.

>>42368329
Considering the shit that Venezuela pulls? Not a huge surprise. When publicly backed into a corner, people tend to do stupid things.

>>42368396
>implying i dont worship the old gods and sacrifice a calf while dancing naked innawoods

>>42368396
Praise Allah and his best friend Mother

You are all far too easily baited.

>>42368424
We know, we can't help it...

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>>42367694
The door shatters and your drones pour in. The chamber is a large circular room with pylons of bone reaching up and out like a web around the chamber. Above you, by the wall facing the thermal vents at the rear of the ship, is a tremendous brain, covered in nerve clusters and webs of capillaries. Sub-thinkers are spread out around it, churning in silence as they frustratingly work to operate a ship that no longer functions. You can hear the murmuring of numbers and trajectories, and lists of damage and resource requests.

In the middle of it all, huddled over the brain, is a large pulsating crest of translucent chitin. It stirs and grumbles as several supports pull themselves free from the web of pylons. It climbs along the bone struts and faces your swarming drones. A large drone covered in a reflective black carapace, its body covered in thorns on which swarms of the small glowing drones nest in large batches. Lightly armored winged warriors climb along the edges of its nest. Its abdomen swells up, the skin thinning in streaks where a glowing yellow can be seen illuminating the ground bellow, and its mandibles unfold, its mouth lined with shaped fins and nozzles like a plasma spray. Its head ends in a massive headcrest that folds back and rests in the air where its back weapon should be, where you see the pulsing mass of an advanced relay.

The Obsidian Queen looks at your drone through her relay's eyes. This drone was never meant to be seen, you realize.

cont.

>>42368537
Its head shakes, and you feel a powerful burst of static that freezes a number of your drones in their tracks. They flicker from your mind as they stumble in confusion, and a large globule of ichor fires from the drone's mouth, plastering several heavy warriors to the wall as they are slowly broken down by the strange material. Your others deflect the incoming attacks from the drones on its back, and cover your forces as they pour into the chamber Your other drones spread out, confused at what your will is for this drone.

>Kill for Mother!
>Capture for Mother!
>Other (write in)

>>42368418
That would certainly explain the rolls from the last thread.

>>42368390
>Wha wha, i hate being a fleshy meat-bag who sweats all the time. i wish we all could replace our limbs with augments and become super cyborgs.

>>42368560
>>Capture for Mother!

>>42368560
>Capture for Mother!

>>42368560
>Capture for Mother!

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>42368560
CAPTURE FOR MOTHERRRRR

and a roll just to be sure.

>>42368560
>Capture for Mother!

RESEARCH

>>42368560
>Capture for Mother!

>>42368571
yes, that is indeed what i desire
>>42368560
>Kill for Mother!
and the calf was necessary, in order to destroy Mother's enemies

>>42368560
>>Capture for Mother!
Kill the rest.
Also this is some Geiger shit

>>42368560
>>Capture for Mother!
It's too good.

A Large drone equipped with an advanced relay, and... was that jamming static, or Siren-style interference?

>>42368560
>>Capture for Mother!
PREPARE YOUR ANUS, NIGGER QUEEN

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>>42368601
No IG, no more rolls till they're needed. Nothing good comes of it.

>>42368560
>Capture for Mother!

>>42368560
>capture for the mother!

>>42368560
>Capture for mother.
make sure to remove the queens limbs and shove a thorn launcher into her mouth.