GAS THE SQUIDS
NUKE THE WHALES
STAB THE MONKEYS
TRUST NOTHING
THE VOID IS WATCHING

>>1394302
Best time of the week coming through.

>Efforts to collect samples have largely met with failure, loosing several drones to the rapid and aggressive parasitic nano-virus which continues to attempt to assemble some manner of hive structure out of the remains of the derelict ship.

This is both interesting and concerning. I wonder if we can program our own creep to start auto-building structures soon...

What a lovely preview of what will shortly be happening on Path.

>>1394302
QD don't we have hard light armor projectors? Why not try those?

>>1394302
Shit OQ's creep is some scary shit...and Path will have to deal with it shortly...

>>1394323
>>1394317
We have a simple counter to it anons. Disassembler warheads.

>>1394317
>interesting and concerning
It's neither, it's perfectly expected. Our spores already do that. We unlocked it long ago.

>>1394330
That is fine in other planets. Also it seems the Phantoms will need to move from their world for a time if we plan to use one of those on their own planet.


We should stop is as soin as we can before OQ find the surviving queen and the Phantons.

>>1394321
They won't project underground where the spread is really occurring, will they?

Useful for containing a sample safely, though, yeah.

>>1394342
Actually disassembler warhead have a spread limit built in. They don't kill everything on a planet.

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Quick question QD, why a point 2 thread?

>>1394360
We didnt finish the turn last thread

>>1394355
Can't we terraform the planet? I bet a ecological reboot of the entire bio-sphere might help getting read of it.


I was thinking in something like detonating the warhead inside the planets core.

>>1394355
That's correct.

While we can handle the containment for now, I'm interested in seeing how the (formerly) Barren Queen deals with this. We agreed it's her planet, after all, and it'd be interesting to see her standard "anti-creep" protocol. We can also offer disassembler warheads for her to use along with the other tech at our disposal. We have no real need to keep our tech secret here.

>>1394370
Oh I thought didn't understand the situation and how our technology affects it, I didn't realize you were just stupid.
Carry on.

OH FUCK I'M LATE!

>>1394402
Woe you are so wise anon i understood everything from your so well written and thought out post.

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>>1394302
Sirens echo through the cramped halls of the small urban hive of subsidised housing and corporate worker condominiums as flashing rope lights run along the floors towards either escape pods or emergency bunkers. Humans run every which way, regardless of the direction of the lights, some fighting while others flee with piles of goods pilfered from ransacked stores. Taidaren weave between them like fish swimming through a rushing current as they slip in behind every human that breaks a window or kicks in a door, leaving with boxes of seemingly useless items and layers of poorly fitting human tailored clothes bundled up over them haphazardly. Ships flee the docking bays of Bedrock with frightening haste as you see several freighters ripping the docking clamps of their port clean from their anchors, other, less durable ships shearing off chunks of their hulls as others are let loose from their clamps only to skim the wall of the docking bay on their way out, grinding against the shields of nearby ships and smashing away the tug drones like flies.

A human voice comes over an open radio channel, broadcasts from a laser comm directly to your nearby patrol fleet. The voice shakes with unease, as if reading from a script he no longer believes.

"Unidentified fleet, state your business! this is Union territory."

"The Hive has already told you. You are behaving in an abnormal manner. Please return to typical behavior until further notice."

cont.

>>1394321
That is what is currently working best as hard light projectors begin making their way to the scene.

Daily reminder


>Raid OQ
>Read the locked memories of that thinker.
>Board a scav vessel for their FTL.
>Send a diplomacy team to earth.
>Build that new FTL prediction building.
>Take Reprive (I think that is the system that our mother made her last stand and it only has mining corvetts, it would be a great test for our raiding fleet.)

>>1394427
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

>>1394429
support

>>1394423
The disassemblers can kill all the creep without destroying the biosphere.

>>1394439
supporting

>>1394427
That's some serious panic from a small peaceful scout fleet.

>>1394439
I agree disassemblers is probably the best anti-creep weapon (at least when the creep is contained). However, we should check with the Barren Queen before deploying any weapons on what is "technically" her planet.

>>1394447
supporting more

>>1394447
We're already deploying weapons anon.

>>1394456
i did not know that?

>>1394459
We're not deploying warhead yet but we deploying an army to deal with it.

You know what would be a good idea for a weapon against OQ creep? Radiation.
We know of a planet in The Red Giant system near the commonwealth that's so irradiated it's harmful even to us, so why don't we research how much irradiation there is and make a weapon out of it?

>>1394471
good idea

>>1394471
DO YOU FUCKING READ?

>>1394456
By deploying weapons I meant anything new and relatively untested. So deploying disassembler warheads would be something we'd need to check on vs our conventional anti-creep containment procedures which already have the Barren Queen's implied support.

>>1394479
No, i just got here.

>>1394484
Warhead would probably be pretty bad to use. Now many smaller versions like stinger missile sized or carpet bombing with disassembler grenades might work if we tweak them to go after only Hive creep

You guys need to chill on the creep thing, just clear it the long and steady way since we got this one in control

No need to nuke it or use the grey goo on it

>>1394484
Disassembler are far from new and they'd be only untested on the battlefield.

>>1394427
Coil shrieks in a vibrant yellow-beige polkadotted burst with swirling lines of vibrant orange. His implant fails to translate it, but alarms begin to go off across the canopy as his boneless tendrils twitch and swirl in their flight control armatures. Lyle is tossed to the wall ass he attempts to reach the seat below Coil's nested collection of controls.

"The fuck happened? They detect us?" Lyle says. "We all know that shuttle we stole has a tracker in it, same with the escape pod but once we dump them in the atmosphere we should be good to go." He flips his fingers over the control switches as the sensor readouts come alive across his console. He flicks it with his finger several times, assuming an error.

"Local space on high alert!" Coil says, his translation overly crude as he struggles to word his colors for proper translation. "Multiple ships to battle stations, deploying strike craft and moving to blockade!" Lyle begins to laugh as the chittering voices of a chorus of drones echo over the radio frequencies.

"Bit of an overreaction I think. Just a little pile of corvettes." Lyle says as he looks over the readings. "Either way, while the slimy bastards flip their shit we can slip out the back door."

Cont.

>>1394503
i love this HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

>>1394503
>mfw our plan if sending ships all over the expanse is serving to cover all our black ops missions
>mfw with ships over Tokyo we will distract the PDF's even more and help the terrorist attack.

>>1394503
MY SIDES

DAMMNNN YOUUUU QM

MYYY SIDDEEESSS

>>1394503
>We only sent corvettes.
>This reaction.
WOW

>>1394522
support

>>1394517
>>1394524
Iiiii missed something. Why's this funny? I WANT IN ON THE JOKE

>>1394503
Clearly this needs to become routine so they start ignoring or presence.

>>1394447
No no, the fleet over Gemini is the small scouting fleet, remember?

This is a tiny survey fleet.

>>1394522
This was the best decision we've made yet.

>>1394503
The more I think about it, the more I think sending tiny fleets to all the Expanse planets was a good idea. The Union is falling apart now and we haven't even fired a shot. I can only imagine how bad the politicians expect things would get if we actually started shooting at them. It gives them all the more reason to realize that in order to survive they have to give us what we want.

>>1394528
It's funny because every planet we sent ships to are freaking the fuck out even though we only sent a handful of corvettes to each place with no intention of actually attacking. It's the Union's overreaction everyone finds funny.

GOD DO I WISH WE STILL HAD A SPY WITH THE INNER COUNCIL

AH WELL MAKE DO LISTENING TO THE VALEN FREAKING OUT NEXT DOOR

>>1394522
Virgo isn't in the Expanse.

Unless we suddenly decide we're taking that system too since the Union dragged their feet on the others.

>>1394539
Oohhhhhh.

...yeah, that IS funny.

>>1394542
The valen next door to our embassy

>>1394549
Depending on how bad the resulting OQ creep and THING catastrophe is we might just get that system.
Or at least Path.

>>1394539
And anticipating how hilarious will the union and valen rep be the next time we talk since its going to be !FUN!

>>1394528
We send a tiny fleet to every planet in the expanse. The local defenses reaction is making all the stationed humans shit their pants because they know if we decide to take the expanse by force they will all die.

>>1394503
But how is the stealth hive inside of Bedrock enjoying the internal chaos?

How many ships did we send anyway?

>>1394557
Isn't it one of the most populated systems in Union space? With several times more people in just one city than in the entire Expanse?

I doubt we're getting Path without a fight unless things really go FUBAR.

>>1394574
>I doubt we're getting Path without a fight unless things really go FUBAR.
That's what i said.

>>1394574
Talgo, Killinger and Lees homeworld, is also in the same system

>>1394568
Not many that is why this is so funny.

>>1394592
Can i get specific numbers?

>>1394603
Small enough QD didn't even ask for a vote on the number of ships we'd send. I'd guess less than 100 total ships spread out over all the systems in the Expanse.

>>1394603
There wasn't a certain number set for this fleet. We are here just to observe anyway.

>>1394603
Also if we consider our light fleets have
(60) Light Fleet Frigate and (15) Light Fleet Cruise. We could have just divided one light fleet for the whole expanse.

We should start slowly increasing the number of ships watching them just to mindfuck them

>>1394656
Just imagine our production once we colonize the entire expanse.

>>1394673
>Disregard the ships in orbit, The Hive only wishes to observe.

>There's a lot more ships now...

>The Hive wishes to observe more intensely, please continue regular Union business.

>>1394673
that would be fun one more ship for every planet every minute

>>1394673
When our new order of ships get ready, we can do that.

>>1394673
That's classic 'we swear we're not gonna do anything NOW INVADE GO GO GO' escalation though.

>>1394679
It will be glorious!!!

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>>1394689

>>1394656
>>1394689
>The hive wishes only to be friends and provide free healthcare for all humans in its territory.

>>1394721
yes lets do that Qm can we make a drone that looks like that it only purpuse is to do that and obseve people?

>>1394730
In person? that called a speaker

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>>1394730

>>1394732
just a drone that does this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds6-o4gomRc

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>>1394427
>>1394503
>All this panic
My fucking sides are gone

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>>1394503
Lee leans back in his seat with his feet kicked up onto a glowing patch of hard light extended from the floor as he looks over a stack of reports and interview requests slowly scrolling by on the small chitinous data pad, the screen a patch of chromatophore skin-like membrane stretched thin across its rectangular carapace as haptic holograms slide over its surface to form a projected keyboard. You hear a noise, something like the horn of a steam boat mixed with a rumbling of a natural geyser followed by what you could only describe as the noise of a large cat sprinting across the keyboard of a pipe organ. Lee lets the data bad dip down to his lap for a moment as he looks to the wall as it vibrates as if a local tram were riding past inches from the other side as the building rumbles with a thunderous subsonic noise. You manage to translate it as a primordial valen scream, an involuntary emotional display which could best be described in human terms as a mixture of immeasurable fear, stress release, and confusion most typically heard echoing through the halls of centralized centers of higher learning or brokerage firms after an economic bubble has burst, but in prehistoric times was more likely an involuntary alert system to indicate a predator has approached the clan's waters. Lee looks about the room with confusion.

"Was that an earthquake?" He asks, and a short time later another crash makes Lee jump slightly in his seat as Lang slips in the hall as he attempts to enter in a full sprint, and he quickly drags himself to his feet and throws himself through the door to your embassy's offices. Lee drops his datapad with veiled annoyance as Lang catches his breath.

"Fleets... orbiting..." He gets out before dropping to a chair that materializes out of a haptic hologram beneath him at his unconscious desire to find a seat. He seems to notice the surprise only after he sits, only to have the inevitable question cut off with a worker handing him a glass of water.

"Slow down, and start over." Lee says. "Fleets of what, where?"

"Hive fleets! All across the Expanse!" He says. "People are in a full panic, saying it's the first wave of an invasion."

"We said we are observing!" A speaker says with indignation. "Twice this was said! Humans still swarm with mindlessness. Very small survey fleet only meant to gather data of what Humans have done to Hive space."

"Well, humans live there, and that's not how they see it." Lang says. "I ran all the way here from the main press building." Lee glances down to his data pad as news alerts begin to flash along the bottom. He presses one of them as a holographic display of a small collection of corvettes centered around a frigate float into the orbit of Billiard as seen from the telescopes of Brandenburg.

"What that? Is this what all this insanity is about?" Lee asks.

"Those formations just showed up in every system in the expanse." Lang replies.

"Well the Expanse is Hive space." Lee says simply.
cont.

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>>1394503
>meanwhile, across union space..

>>1394784
>"Well the Expanse is Hive space." Lee says simply.

Lee is best human, the best human.

>>1394784
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH

GAKKK

MY SIDES HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING

>>1394784
"It's just a few corvettes, do you also panic when the train is a little late?"

>>1394805
Remember when anons wanted to stop our diplomancing before it started by killing Lee? Good times.

>>1394825
What? who wanted to kill lee?

>>1394784
I lost it...Lee's and our speaker's reaction is the best.

>>1394835
Fools.

>>1394825
I'm still waiting for the inevitable collapse of Hive-Union relations so we can go full Zerg on these silly bitches.

>>1394794
hahahahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH<AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahah ha ha ha ha

>>1394835
Some anons that were discussing why a alien bug creature would be interrested in a human. It was way in the first few threads i think.

>>1394835
Ive been re reading the quest and WAAAAAY back when we first found him injured, some anons wanted to kill him and analyze his corpse,maybe not in that order.

>>1394850
MY SIDES I NEARLY PISST IN MY BED!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>1394853
Honestly he's like our Watson.

>>1394845
Well given their previous track record I'd give it an in-game week before we have to pull a Kerrigan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbeoSPqRs4

>>1394863
nice this WILL HAPPEN in know it

Just send fleets similar in size to the one orbiting Gemini to union core systems to make them understand fucking with us is a death wish

>He gets out before dropping to a chair that materializes out of a haptic hologram beneath him at his unconscious desire to find a seat. >materializes out of a haptic hologram beneath him
>at his unconscious desire to find a seat

Every thing about this part is golden.

>>1394881
Too aggressive for right now.

>>1394863
Good choice of HoS. We dont want to exterminate them,nor utterly destroy their way of life:we just want them to stop being such fucking assholes. One idea that ive thought of is as a show of power, in the first battle we take all of their soldiers without killing almost any of them. After that we return them in a bunch of shuttles with a message:
"Mercy is a privilege of the strong.If we are able to spare your forces without suffering significant losses, imagine what we are capable of if we do not care for the lose of you lives:.

>>1394881
We only have one hive ship. We don't actually have that much to throw around we just pretend we do.

>>1394902
Doesn't need to include a hive capital ship, add more battle cruisers then

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>>1394863
What are you talking about, we already have one working in our psionic R and D department, remember?

>>1394845
Hopefully the Union won't be stupid enough to actually initiate an attack against an overwhelmingly superior force when they're already getting fucked up the ass by the Commonwealth. They also know (or at least the important people should know) they really shit the bed with the Nowhere fiasco and that there might actually be a good reason for the Hive's intervention.

I'm more worried about a few rogue trigger happy commanders attacking our forces than I am about the Union as a whole declaring war on us. I doubt we'll get a chance to go full Zerg, but it would be fun to do so if necessary.

>>1394863
They wouldn't even last a week if we redirected all our forces from the Commonwealth to Union space. We have them ridiculously outnumbered and out gunned without even calling for backup from Theseus/Heretic/Barren Queen. The biggest hindrance to our advance would be Anons not wanting to exterminate everyone on each planet, which would limit us to relatively small scale strikes.

>>1394863
You mean Elizabeth? She is already a Kerrigan. And we are very proud of our adopted daugther.

>>1394921
Also OQ might be waiting for us to move most of our forces. That is another big reason why we cant just invade them:we have only felt OQ prodding us,we have never felt her actually try to invade us.

>>1394949
She was trying to find our capital only and basically responded by mocking her attempt.

>>1394972
Thats my point. She didnt try to invade us. Until she tries and we can gauge her power, Id prefer for us to keep a majority of our forces by Leeland.

>>1394985
The psionic shroud hids our activity there and makes it impossible to know it was our capital.

>>1395018
Pretty much this.

Plus we can blink our forces back instantly in the event of an attack, so the physical location of our military matters much less than it does when travel actually takes a considerable time (like for the Humans). Plus an actual invasion of Leeland would probably be enough of a threat to the war effort that Theseus/Heretic/The Barren Queen would send everything they have to our defense, since if the Red Queen dies it's essentially game over in our attempt to defeat the Void.

>>1394985
We have made a order for more ships. But we REALLY need to get the expanse or we will start having a negative income. Hopefully this "observing fleet" will put enough pressure in the Union politicians.

>>1394921
Not really. We shouldn't go for scorched earth tactics anyway. every human is basically a mini hiveless queen. you don't need to kill everything to take control you don't even need to kill anything in some cases. shock and awe is extremely effective and efficient if we need to fight the Union.

If fights do start I suggest first order of business is liberate the sun bros. we cripple the unions Candaron production, look militarily superior in every way to the Hawks and to the doves we look like the liberators of the downtrodden. Plus we get sun bro genetics.

>>1395074
Come to think of it.
>>1394784
QD can we put ships into hibernation?

>>1395074
Can we put ships into hybernation? I remember anons talking about it but QD never confirmed it.

>>1395112
We can ask now. Although ships are just bigger drones QD never confirmed or denied we could put our ships into hybernation mode.

>>1395039
>Plus we can blink our forces back instantly in the event of an attack, so the physical location of our military matters much less

The Union would have the most *infuriating* time trying to fight us in the Expanse. If we ever started to lose in one system, we'd just blink out, use the extra forces to mop up somewhere we're winning, then send the combined forces back to the formerly losing battle.
From humanity's perspective, they just scared off the bugs only for them to show back up minutes later with twice the numbers.

>>1395135
That's the problem when you fight a Hivemind.

You're not fighting one fleet, you're fighting all their fleets, you just don't know it yet.

>>1395151
Honestly, humanity's only hope in a war would be to assemble all their forces together to mitigate our ability to pick them off one at a time with overwhelming numbers and attempt an all out assault on Leeland. Which would not happen for a multitude of reasons including but not limited to the fact that they don't even know that the Queen is still on Leeland or that killing the Queen would stop the hive..

>>1395151
Don't forget Heretic and Theseus. Heretic must be in a good humor to purge some humans after what they had done at Nowhere

>>1395176
The Queen is in a bunker so deep that she might as well be lurking in the core of the planet, with enough decoys that they'd need a ground war that makes the somme look like a slap fight to drind their way to her.

>>1395176
And the fact their FTL is super slow compared to the Hive blink drive before they even manage to organize and move their fleet we would be able to blink right on top of then.

We should open up a chanel to the humans to ask for a commentary like "we see humans breaking windows dose this have religious meanings"
"No thier rioting!!"
"Rioting? The hive doesn't know this word but humans seem to find it fun"

>>1395176
Plus our tunnel network means if they try to bomb us, we can just move ourselves either away or down. Our underground food supply also means we can just keep pushing out drones. Its a bottleneck scenario, but they will run out of troops long before we do.

>>1395192
Right we actually relocated the Queen after the Smith invaded the Hive.

>>1395199
Humans are so strange...

>>1395176
Hey man, don't underestimate the tenacity or ingenuity of humankind when they've got their back to the wall in a fight. Right now we have an overwhelming edge over them because we've been scoping out their infrastructure and key tech developments when they know absolutely nothing about us. All they need to do is come up with sufficient tactics and technology to match or overcome that edge (and if their survival is on the line you can bet they will start getting creative) and they could really start putting some hurt on us in a fight.

Don't forget, they've got a nigh bottomless supply of naval vessels in storage, a huge population, and one of if not the most technologically sophisticated armies in this setting.

>>1395192
>>1395202

Exactly. Their best hope is to get in a protracted ground war with the Hive in an attempt to penetrate an impenetrable bunker complex under Leeland while fighting an overwhelmingly superior fleet and ground military.

Their "best hope" is insanely improbable, but it is their only path to "victory" that is even slightly possible (absent OQ bullshit).

>>1395199
>>1395209
It reminds me of how whenever anthropologists don't know what something is, then they by default claim it was used for 'ceremonial purposes'.

>>1394784
Lang seems to want to say something, but doesn't quite know what. He stammers for words for a moment before Lee cuts him off.

"How about you just tell everyone to just calm down and stop panicking, and just let the hive do its surveys, alright?" He says, Lang nods shakily for a moment as he thinks.

"Well I was just about run out of the press room with people asking for a statement. That kind of thing is typically your job and people are still worried about any possible invasion."

"Alright, alright. Just put out a written statement." Lee says. "We can do that right? Do we have somewhere to just send written statements? Just tell them it's an astrological survey of the systems and the ships are no more dangerous than a typical transport convoy. Those corvettes are mostly used for material and drone transport anyways. They're practically just panicking over a fleet of starbus-780s in orbit."

"Well you should make it a priority to get that interview set up as soon as possible." Lang says. "I'll pass on the information to the local news outlets but I doubt people are going to be all that pleased regardless."

"They're running out of things to burn out there." Lee says, and looks back to his data pad as he continues to read through requests from various networks for their exclusive. After a short moment he glances back to Lang, as if surprised he is still there, and Lang quickly rushes out of the door with a visible limp. Lee simply sighs with exhaustion and rubs his temples.

cont.

>>1395199
support and super funny

>>1395213
Then we call Heretic and we will see which side have the most advanced tech in the setting.

>>1395220
"Since it doesn't make sense it obviously means it was made for religious purposes."

>>1395213
HFY GO AWAY

We have endless waves of utterly expendable troops that we can produce in minutes when it takes then decades to make a soldier.

We have technology that advances faster in a month than they have in several thousand years, and shows no sign of decelerating.

We can make enough ships to double their total reserves in the time it takes then to bring their forces out of mothballing.

Humans are fucked, and nothing they do can change that. ELDER RACE BITCHES

>>1395223
Time to educate humans on the Hive. Primarily history, the differences between each Hive, and fashion.

>>1395223
Ooooh!!! Is it interview time? This is going to be good.

>>1395223
"I've got the list down to a few networks." He says. "They're not all going to be all that fair, given the situation, but I've at least weeded out the outlets that have been screaming about the hive turning humans into food and the ones claiming total invasion is imminent." He hands your drone the datapad as he leans back in his seat.

>UPN - Union Public News, a nonprofit news outlet which is often hailed as both the seal of quality for balanced news coverage, and as the dull droning of pretentious intellectuals, it is typically biased towards the political establishment regardless of party affiliation.
>QNN - the Quantum News Network, with a legacy of balanced coverage and anti-authoritarian reporting, the network formed near the end of the Colony Wars from a batch of political activists utilizing the new technology of Quantum Communications to disseminate information on the brutality of local Confederate crackdowns and has since grown into one of the largest news networks in the Union. While it arguably used to be balanced, it has begun to lean towards a pro-Green stance in the past few years rather strongly.
>The Savanna - A subscription based alternative news outlet openly dedicated to pro-Rhino political positions, it has numerous network channel subdivisions under various names across Union space and often streams interviews freely across Q-comm networks.
>Star News - A somewhat moderately pro-national and Tory news outlet under the claim of fair and balanced reporting mixed with regular political commentary from highly political pundits and more opinion shows than actual news coverage, its sensationalism makes it one of the most viewed networks in the Union.
>Other

>>1395223
>"They're running out of things to burn out there."
Oh,Lee.The cornerstones of human ingenuity are our ability to kill anything,eat anything(if we prepare it right),and how to destroy anything. In a few hours they'll probably start burning the streets.

>>1395223
>After a short moment he glances back to Lang, as if surprised he is still there, and Lang quickly rushes out of the door with a visible limp.
Oh no poor Lang, he needs a dip in medical paste and a relaxing bath.

>>1395273
Let's do all of them at the same time.

>>1395273
>Star News

Heads are gonna yak bad about us regardless, may as well go direct.

>>1395237
It's not HFY, it's a valid consideration. No harm in an estimate of the enemy that's not 'HAHAHA we're so great.'

>>1395273
All 4 and see how united there media is right now as they each give their own spin

>>1395292
This, just a group of speakers walk out of the embassy and head for each news network.

>>1395292
>>1395308
One more thing
Have each and every speaker levitate their way there.

>>1395273
>QNN

>>1395308
>>1395302
>>1395292

Oh god. Just on every news channel throughout the Union are identical speakers spouting adorable nonsense in *perfect* unison.

>>1395273
>Other
What was that info wars knockoff called again?

>>1395273
>UPN
Balanced is good,but it takes the side of the establishment.
>QNN
Grens are nice, but balanced is best
>The Savanna
Subscription means fewer viewers and interviews are only OFTEN free.
>Star News
They would try to steer the issue into unrelated matters.

>>1395273
>>UPN - Union Public News, a nonprofit news outlet which is often hailed as both the seal of quality for balanced news coverage, and as the dull droning of pretentious intellectuals, it is typically biased towards the political establishment regardless of party affiliation.

Do we really want to have to work our way through 4 interviews about the same thing? We've got other stuff to do.

>>1395315
Hell, we can have the speakers levitate random shit during the interview.

>The interviewer hands us a coffee mug with the corporate logo on it. We levitate it into our mandables and swallow it on live television.

>>1395308
We really need a specific term for multiple speakers. A cacophony maybe?

>>1395321
>They say HELLO at exactly the same time.

>>1395273
QNN. Seems interesting enough.

>>1395273
If we can only choose one (time constraits, QD constraints etc), I would say:
>QNN

If we can choose up to three:
>UPN
>QNN
>Star News (as a joke)

>>1395328
a choir.

>>1395273
>>1395324
Less be real, asking for a supposedly 'balanced' network is silly. What counts as balanced is defined by the heavily manipulated Overton window. It'd be solely playing into the artificial status quo.

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>>1395323
THE NECTER IS TURNING THE TEIDERIANS GAY!

>>1395273
>>QNN - the Quantum News Network, with a legacy of balanced coverage and anti-authoritarian reporting, the network formed near the end of the Colony Wars from a batch of political activists utilizing the new technology of Quantum Communications to disseminate information on the brutality of local Confederate crackdowns and has since grown into one of the largest news networks in the Union. While it arguably used to be balanced, it has begun to lean towards a pro-Green stance in the past few years rather strongly.

I see your references QD

>>1395338
....a chitin choir perhaps?

>>1395237
>We have endless waves of utterly expendable troops that we can produce in minutes when it takes then decades to make a soldier.
And they are by and large mindless drones that are next to useless if they're not guided by our or a thinker's intelligence. All the Union needs is a way to kill a lot of drones very fast to counter those massive numbers. A nuke or tactical strike from orbit would do the job terribly well, to say nothing of psionic fuckery if they ever manage to get their shit together long enough to figure it out.

>We have technology that advances faster in a month than they have in several thousand years, and shows no sign of decelerating.
Lol no we don't. We have the basic tech the old queens brought with them in their FTL emergency lifeboat, and literally everything else we've reverse engineered at lightening pace from the humans or Skyl. QD has explained several times, in depth, as to why the centralized intelligence makes hives terrible at inventing anything. A single hive is a single entity, and doesn't have the sheer creative potential of a massive society of individuals, no matter how good it is at taking things apart.

>We can make enough ships to double their total reserves in the time it takes then to bring their forces out of mothballing.
We can only make as many ships as our resource income allows, and with the last order we've sort of hit our limit until we expand that. Right now we should actually have negative income because of the resource upkeep costs of our vast numbers of ships. And the Union can bring those ships out of mothballing very, VERY fast if they start getting desperate.

Don't buy too much into your own hype man, hubris has led many great military powers to their own destruction. Right now we hold the edge but when humanity starts to learn more of us they'll start coming up with novel ways to counter that edge.
I mean Jesus this quest was half inspired by Ender's friggen Game dude. What are we going to do when the Union starts deploying genemodded autistic super children against us?

>>1395328
A raucous.

>>1395321
"Humans are being told now for the third through eighty-sixth times, we are assessing our property. Please act like normal humans. Cease smashing your own glass in reverence at once. No one is to be harmed. As the Lee says, these fleets are like star busses. Star busses bristling with railguns, yes?"

>>1395273
>>>UPN - Union Public News, a nonprofit news outlet which is often hailed as both the seal of quality for balanced news coverage, and as the dull droning of pretentious intellectuals, it is typically biased towards the political establishment regardless of party affiliation.

QNN would hurt the Greens in the election. It might even drive them towards more openly hostile actions rhetoric against the Hive to counter claims they are in league with the alien invaders.

Remember how the Valen made a big public show of support for the Greens while supporting the Tories in reality because they knew how unpopular the Valen were. Magnify that by 10 and you'll see just how bad an impact on the Greens there would be if the Hive appeared to show any favoritism towards them before the election.

>>1395273
>>The Savanna

Savannas sound very tasty to consume and turn into hive infrastructure.

>>1395366
If I remember right the Greens were pro-xeno rights so we'd get better PR with QNN

>>1395273
>>UPN
>>QNN

>>1395349
If they try any psychic fuckery we break out the Immolator warheads. That is one tech tree we will stop at nothing to keep them from going down.

>>1395366
Greens are already dead in the water.

>>1395325
If we do all we can reach all the humans and so anwsering all points of view and learning each politican human point of view of us. The more interviews we do more people will watch it.

Beside it's bot like we can't do it.

>>1395343
What's the reference?

>>1395374
>If I remember right the Greens were pro-xeno rights so we'd get better PR with QNN
No we wouldn't.

>>1395374
Exactly. The Greens are Pro-Xenos so the opposition will assume/argue they are in league with the hive. If we play into that assumption it will hurt the power the Greens have hugely.

Remember how Alder was so hostile towards the Hive-Commonwealth connection during the forum? She was doing that because if she was soft on us it would be political suicide. If we appear to favor the Greens the Greens will up their anti-hive rhetoric as a matter of survival.

>>1395349
>All the Union needs is a way to kill a lot of drones very fast

Ya don't say.

>>1395349
Their is a very simple way to end the entire fight.
Immolator Warheads.

>>1395380
>Their big "Project X"/"Omega Protocol" allows 1 in 1 million toguage vague emotions and they have an aneurysm afterwords
Dont think we have any worries on that front.

>>1395349
I have one word for you...Titan drones.

>>1395407
Can't really use an immolator warheads in a defensive action against a space borne fleet, which is where the real danger lies in an open conflict.

>>1395349
>What are we going to do when the Union starts deploying genemodded autistic super children against us?

I distinctly recall one of our thinker upgrades was effectively giving them autism.

>>1395413
Philoctetes pls, go get on the hydra's back.

>>1395395
It's all the news stations, they're based on CNN and the like

>>1395426
Crystal autism.

>>1395423
You really don't know our capabilities.
We have Disassemblers that destroy any defensive ground position. We have weapons that counter anything they bring in. We can hijack their ships and turn them against them.
You literally know nothing about what we're capable of.

>>1395451
You mean people right?
unity the one that hijack there ships controls

>>1395451
Now call him John Snow and fuck him hard.

>>1395456
Nope. Scavenger tech is designed for stealing ships.

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>>1395323
Data Wars, however Lee removed them from the list as their last three articles have been about mandatory mutations to join the Hive Mind, the devastating effects of if you're orbiting fleet were to open fire in rather over-theatrically exaggerated detail, and a satirical comedy bit in which the news anchor attempted to sell a made up resort to a "sugar mine labor camp" as a "mandatory, life long" vacation while wearing a large rubber insect mask.

>>1395468
Yeah let's avoid talking to them...just yet

>>1395459
They don't have tech that does that
Its there scav boarding crew/marine that hijacks other ships and are trained in how to use human tech

Unity just straight up installs himself and takes direct control, so unity technique is based of his tech

Unity more efficient

>>1395468
>Implying we would use subpar human labor to mine the precious precious sugar resources of the Hive.

The Sheer /Insult/!

If we had a religion that would have caused a crusade!

>>1395273
Star news just for the shitstorm.

Or UPN for the safe choice.

>>1395485
And the Union's ships are designed against that.

>>1395273
Where the heck is the bigwig Reverend's reaction to the hive yet anyway?

>>1395468
Make a note to send them a gift basket.

>>1395514
made of ssugar

>>1395468
God your on a roll, but he isn't that far off the truth though is he?

>>1395273
>Other

Fuck it just release a space Youtube video outlining that we are just surveying shit and that we have informed the Union government about this before we started. Act confused about why this information was disseminated to the public at large

>>1395494
We do have a religion. Remember, it's to kill the void gods.

>>1395532
SUPPORT

>>1395514
This.

>>1395273
I changed my mind again i will pick this
>The Savanna

>>1395532
I don't recall telling the union government about this.

>>1395521
>>1395514
Filled with Confectionery Treats

>>1395552
i thought we did?

>>1395328
A cheek

>>1395514
Supporting this.

>>1395532

Also this.

>Hive told your Speakers of survey, Speakers did not convey to rest of humans. You have bad Speakers.

>Hive suggests replacement Speakers.

>>1395552
So? The political climate of the Union is such that its very partisan. Lets play off the distrust of the public to the government and spread some dissent

>>1395552
I think thats the point, they declare they didn't know but people are wondering already how much bullshit they were being told prior

Its to damage the internal affairs of the union

>>1395514
Maybe with a voucher that says "Favorable Labor Camp Position For Inferior Human Laborer" with the host's picture on it.

>>1395566
SUPER ULTA ULIMET SUPPORT

>>1395451
>You really don't know our capabilities.
I know exactly what we're capable of. It's just that once the Union get's a chance to see all our shit, and the time needed to develop counter measures, they could handily counter any single one of those terrible weapons.
>We have Disassemblers that destroy any defensive ground position.
Give them a sample of disassemblers or even the grey aftermath of one of their attacks, and could come up with an EMP pulse, or a chemical based deterrent, or just an extra shell over their defensive positions to absorb the disassemblers before they can reach the heart of the structure. Once you see what they are and how they work it's not hard to come up with a way of stopping it.
>We have weapons that counter anything they bring in.
Can't really stop a 150 megaton thermonuclear blast, but that aside, this is only because we captured their tech and reverse engineered it an a comparative blink of an eye.
>We can hijack their ships and turn them against them.
We've never actually tried to board anything yet, you know, it's not guaranteed to succeed every time by any measure. And all they would have to do to counter that is exactly what we do, install a nuclear dead mans switch in every single craft, to be activated if the ship is captured.

>You literally know nothing about what we're capable of.
And you have very little imagination or foresight. Every single terrible weapon we have can be countered if they learn of it. If that happens they can single out and develop ways of limiting the impact of each one. QD wouldn't include the Union with their flashy tech and huge numbers of ships in the setting unless they could prove a genuine challenge to us in a protracted war.

>>1395568
>>1395569
But that would be lying and that can come to bite us in the abdomen.

>>1395569
I think that it wont be as effective since there now starting to circle the wagons at this and this is just more alien aggression

>>1395552
Could have sworn we did at some point.

Or at the very least we've told them that we owned that space.

Can't be mad at a guy checking his front lawn to see how badly the dogs have shit in it since he's been on vacation.

>>1395566
>Hive told your Speakers of survey, Speakers did not convey to rest of humans. You have bad Speakers.
>Hive suggests replacement Speakers.

Support

Addendum:
"Are your speakers so accustomed to lying that they have forgotten to tell truths?"

>>1395579
So? All fair in politics

And this is politics, lying is the most major tool in it

And we are relying on bullshit and brute force to get what we want

>>1395514
This seems like a better option. Time and effort would be wasted dealing with it during the interviews.

>>1395468
Is this the same network that also sells arsenic-based water filters to filter out the dangerous dihydrogen monoxide that the illegitimate government puts in the water supply?

>>1395587
Pfffhahahaha

>>1395579
Yeah, I agree. We've got enough dirt on the Union as is without needing to make stuff up. At the end of the day if Union leadership universally says the Hive had no communications to the Union about survey ships showing up the people will believe their leaders over the invading alien bugs. Strange, but true.

>>1395532
THIS, but also supporting the gift basket.

Phoneposting is the worst.

>>1395590
No we're relying on ancestral maps and brute force, no bullshit there.

Did we tell the government to stop digging for artifacts? I think we did back on the hive ship but I'd like to make sure.

>>1395610
What maps? we dont have any maps to show anyone

Its pure bullshit, but real good bullshit

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>>1395613
>What maps?

Mental maps.

>>1395613
The map we found back on the arkship.

>>1395616
Exactly good bullshit
No one can call us out on that since we are Psi race

>>1395616
And this too, we have white crystal records and the barren queen, we can make the maps.

>>1395616
Didn't we also have a skyl data cube with maps on it? We can use that too.

>>1395613
Our anger at the artifacts is not at all bullshit. And this is actually truthfully ancient hive/Skyl territory.

Plus, the humans have effectively declared war on us through their own actions.

They have:
Invaded our territory and placed WMD's in orbit,
Attacked a sentient protectorate species (the Rhaligeans),
Hired mercenaries to kidnap civilians and diplomats (Lyle capturing drones and a speaker),
Murdered said diplomat in an experiment,
attempted to cover up the civilian's escape by deploying nuclear weapons against their own facility,
Sent a Smith assassin against our head of state,
Been generally overall dicks,
And almost destroyed the fabric of reality.

We're really only angry about the last part, but we can bring up all these things as legitimate causes for us to claim the Expanse beyond historical precedent.

We also have lots of things from our casual knowledge of history to carbon dated ancient hive structures to prove this really is ancestral territory.

>>1395641
we should mention this

>>1395641
>Attacked a sentient protectorate species (the Rhaligeans)
This was an accident so it unfortunately won't be good to use it.

>>1395641
The only think stopping me from voting to whipe out all the humans is just because this was organized and dobe by Killinger. I don't want to blame a hole race for the wrongs of just one entity. But i'm starting to get short on my patience.

For fucks sake the Commonwealth did a better diplomatic job that then.

>>1395578
Most of that is flat out wrong or woefully misinformed.
>the time needed to develop counter measures
It would take month. The war would be decided in weeks.
>Give them a sample of disassemblers or even the grey aftermath of one of their attacks,
The first one is not happening because nobody here is going to give it to them, the second tells them nothing.
>install a nuclear dead mans switch in every single craft, to be activated if the ship is captured.
This is good for us anon. It requires time, effort, and resources and could easily backfire on them if we capture the crew alive.
>Can't really stop a 150 megaton thermonuclear blast
You can shoot down the nuke beforehand.
>QD wouldn't include the Union with their flashy tech and huge numbers of ships in the setting unless they could prove a genuine challenge to us in a protracted war.
They actually lost their chance to be able to challenge us a while ago and they're starting to realize that. The only way they could fight us effectively is if they set aside all of their difference with the Valen and Commonwealth and worked together to fight us.

>>1395641
>attempted to cover up the civilian's escape by deploying nuclear weapons against their own facility,
But anon, those nuclear weapons destroyed those civilians of ours on the base, remember. It's not like we've got stealth ships that can land on one of their most heavily monitored worlds and exfiltrate our suicide bombers civilians while they were transporting the remains of their head researcher. That's just crazy talk.

>>1395658
They did invade a ancient hive. So they were basically digging up a hive private/sacred ground. And to the people in Raligah The Gardner's hive was a place of religious worship.

>>1395676
They can fight us in space just fine. No amount of asking for help would let anyone win a ground war against the hive except another hive though.

>>1395696
You're right, but it would be preferable to say
>Trespassed on a holy planet.
>Damaged a holy Relic(They blew up a tiny wall wall in the arkship)
Than to blame them for the deaths of natives which they didn't know were sentient.
Actually that reminds me, if the government gets uppity just reveal to them they damaged a 7,000+ year old relic.
Or was it 70,000?

>>1395672
There are millions of Killingers. Remove one and another will take its place.

The only way to really make the galaxy safe from another Tartarus reactor is to kill them or parasite them all.

>>1395728
Actually it's older.

>>1395728
sopport

>>1395735
How many years older? I keep forgetting.

>>1395731
Big Daddy Killinger is a smart son'uvabitch. He will make what ever decision will secure him power. I doubt he would risk the Tartarus Reactor unless he believed he had no choice.

>>1395728
I think it's longer 70 thousand is when the OQ's betrayed the other hives.

I also agree with everything you wrote.

They're going to bring up the Hope crew you know.

In fact, a Hope crew member is probably their surprise guest on the show.

How do you explain the unexplained surgeries, the missing time? Where is Vaughn?

>>1395745
70,000 year ago was the betrayal. It's an exodus artifact.

>>1395728
Supporting. And we can offer to let them send a survey team to Rhaliga. There is AMPLE evidence the Hive has been active in Expanse for thousands of years there and the fact that the Rhaligeans are sentient and can back us up with cave drawings/oral history is just icing on the cake.

>>1395749
Or ge thinks he can control it. Hope he isn't crazy enough to try that.

>>1395676
>It would take month. The war would be decided in weeks.
If we're successful, sure, but what are going to do about the survivors or now thoroughly humiliated Union rump state? Unless you're talking about a total war of extermination, which I doubt would sit will with our allies or adopted humans.

>The first one is not happening because nobody here is going to give it to them, the second tells them nothing.
They don't need much to work out a counter measure, just enough to know how the nano bots propogate and spread. It's not like the idea of a grey goo super weapon is a novel one to humanity.

>This is good for us anon. It requires time, effort, and resources and could easily backfire on them if we capture the crew alive.
It doesn't take much time or effort to rig up a ships main power drive to explosively overload I don't think. And the assumption is that by the time they consider dead man's switches in the first place, the welfare of the crew would be mostly a non issue. If the captain had to decide between letting their ship fall into enemy hands to be used against their countrymen and blowing it up with all hands, they'd probably pick the latter.

>You can shoot down the nuke beforehand.
Easier said than done, especially in the numbers the Union likes to deploy them in.

Understand I'm not talking about a single violent confrontation here, I'm talking about a protracted and drawn out war, in which the Union has sufficient time and motivation to focus their war machine on us. And unless we're willing to commit unrestrained genocide or permanently destroy most of the planetary bodies in this sector of space, we're going to have to consider the likely behavior of the Union in the long run.

>>1395759
How long ago was the exodus?

>>1395751
Vauhn is in Leeland they can ask for a interview with her after.

What surgeries? We haven't left any evidence of it.

>>1395768
We have the tech to drop an immolator on every major population centre of the Union in a single day. There won't be a drawn out war, just a single, unrecoverable strike,

>>1395751
We can say that Vaughn has proved to be amazingly capable and is largely responsible for the Hive's patience with the Union at this time. She may be available for an interview, although whether or not she chooses to accept is up to her.

>>1395273
>QNN

Lee watches as the data is streamed onto the screen of the organic datapad.

"Well don't expect any soft punches no matter how much pro-xeno support they have. Not after all this insanity." Lee says. "Although out of all of them I suppose QNN does offer the best chance of not walking right into a PR death trap."

"Speaker will speak well." Your drone chirps. "Lee and speaker speaking will overwhelm their speaking. This speaker has seen human speaking strategies for news. Speaking is done as loud as possible to mute out other speaking until the time runs out."

"Uh... I don't think you've-" Lee's voice is cut off as your speaker chirps loudly over him.

"That's not-"

"Best speaking!" Your drone says. Lee sits in silence as he emanates thoughts of annoyance. Your drone chirps in confusion.

"Lee will help with speaking." Your drone says.

"Just... pay attention. This isn't a conversation to hand over to the thinkers." Lee says. "I think that should be obvious." Your drone's mind, a tremendously simple thing, even with the relative complexity added in to permit speech, struggles in a fog of confusion as it reaches out to you, searching for something it cannot comprehend. Your drone chirps with a notably different composure, although it is possible Lee simply feels your mind's burning focus.

"Yes." You say. "This method of disseminating information is inefficient. It lacks nuance."

"Well I'm still getting used to the whole... uh, mind melding thing." Lee says as he waves his hand about his head for dramatic effect. "I think I'm starting to get the hang of it though. Either way, I'll make sure that press release it good to go and see if we can wedge our way into a good time slot."

>Accept QNN's request to visit their network studio in person downtown
>Inform them to send a reporter to perform the interview within your embassy
>Perform the interview over the local network.
>Other

>>1395768
>I'm talking about a protracted and drawn out war
So something that will never happen.

>>1395790
Welp, we're going to hurt the greens PR.

>>1395790
>>Inform them to send a reporter to perform the interview within your embassy
Time to show off our sweet pad

>>1395790
>Inform them to send a reporter to perform the interview within your embassy

Let's show of our crib and tech to the humans

>>1395812
"Hello QNN, welcome to my crib."

>>1395775
We took a prisoners who weren't injured away from the others and told him he would 'feel better', and knocked him out. They'll at least ask about that part.

Rolled 3 (1d3)

>>1395790
1. Accept QNN's request to visit their network studio in person downtown
2. Inform them to send a reporter to perform the interview within your embassy
3. Perform the interview over the local network.

>>1395790
>>Inform them to send a reporter to perform the interview within your embassy
All the big interviews are conducted on official grounds on network television.

>>1395779
>>1395792
Did you forget that immolator warheads permanently and completely destroy an entire planet, beyond the extent of even our terraforming tech to repair? That isn't something you can include in you standard arsenal of conventional weapons in a war, otherwise you would leave entire swaths of space stone cold dead and useless to us.

Right now we can win just about any sort of war with the Union, but unless you're willing to commit near total xenocide (heh, and it's clear most anons aren't) then you've got to think about what you're going to do about the survivors left over.

>>1395801
Actually if the greens don't hold their tongue they can show how that they won't deal ligthly with aliens. May even turn some votes in their favor.

>>1395790
>Inform them to send a reporter to perform the interview within your embassy

>>1395790
>>Accept QNN's request to visit their network studio in person downtown

I like the imagery. Dunno why we're not going for it.

>>1395749
There are millions of Killingers. One of them lacks motive to do the same mistake again. The others haven't learned the same lesson.

All it takes is a bit of crystal corruption, or humans willing to sell Canderon to Ceph agents, and whoops.

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>>1395790
>Inform them to send a reporter to perform the interview within your embassy

>>1395848
>you've got to think about what you're going to do about the survivors left over.
Adopt them?

That doesn't require much thought at all.

>>1395842
We were just conducting exams to make sure humans had any verming that could demage the hive. Unsuprisinly they haven't

>>1395790
>Accept QNN's request to visit their network studio in person downtown

>>1395866
Killinger is head Killinger for a reason. If a bunch of ambitious guppies in his pond try to shake things up, he will gut them.

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>>1395801
>Welp, we're going to hurt the greens PR.
Yep, this is going to hurt them for sure. Oh well...

>>1395790
>Inform them to send a reporter to perform the interview within your embassy.

Time to show off our awesome home. Pic related is how I imagine our embassy looks.

>>1395875
Of course we will adopt then we will make the humans see what they are missing once they join the hivemind.

>>1395842
An they came back perfectly fine.

>>1395889
Quick, post ancient stone temples!

>>1395790
>>Inform them to send a reporter to perform the interview within your embassy
Kinda want to show off our sweet digs

>>1395889
When they walk in to the interview room we can use holoprojectors to make it look like there walking in to space that will impress

>>1395848
You're assuming they would fight past the first one. I condone using it in the same way the US used it on Japan.

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>>1395913
this is the only picture i have in or of a stone temple

>>1395929
Good enough!

>>1395916
>human repoter ask
>"were are we going to sit? There are no couches?"
>Speaker chips softly hard light couches and chair for everyone
>speaker says.
>"The hive is quite efficient to provide adaptable seats. All the truly advanced species knows that"

>>1395935
do you like it?

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>>1395929

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>>1395956

>>1395950
Yes

>>1395886
They hardly need to usurp official government authority on Killinger's radar to fuck shit up. All they need is an experimental lab. Plenty of private ones to be corrupted into dooming 3-dimensional space.

>>1395927
And that would probably work, but then you've got their entire state mostly intact that you would have to deal with. They'd have access to all the reserves of material and manpower the Union has access to now, with every reason to fear us. You can bet that in such a state somebody would start furiously researching the weapons we used against them no matter how thoroughly we disarm them.
Because if their behavior in this quest shows anything, it's that human beings are bloody minded in their pursuit to know the unknown to the point of self destruction.

>>1395977
At least we would get Union support, or at the very least they wouldn't start freaking out, if that happened and Killinger didn't want any void fuckery. We dont need their acquiescence, but it would minimize trouble.

>>1395979
COMMONWEALTH. Do you understand?

>>1395790
>Inform them to send a reporter to perform the interview within your embassy

However we should have a hardlight room ready. a room filled with nothing at all that is decorated entirely with hardlight furniture.