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>>1591699
All is eerily calm now that your forces have pulled back to establish a defensive position, regrouping to figure out what to do.

The Berserk Securitrons and the new, heavily armored Salvage Securitrons are not attacking actively, yet even now ceaseless work from within the confines of the Securitron Deconstruction plant. They have also turned upon the Loading Station and the Waste Disintegration Platform for reasons unknown.

You have sent off Riddick to track down your daughter, having confidence he will be able to do so. He's your best man for the job, and he has a car. Surely he can catch him.

Your brain has requested you here. With your main securitron forces now a liability, you must rely on your human forces and allies and will have to put every bit of imagination to the task of defeating these enhanced securitrons before they spiral out of control.

>>>>>Food: Below Average (Slowly Rising)
>>>>>Water: Low (Slowly Rising)
>>>>>Medicine: Below Average (Stable)
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Wood (tiny) Scrap Metal (Bellow Average) Special Electronics (Exhausted) Hygiene Supplies (Abundant) Booze (Low) Alien Tech Scraps (Moderate) Alien Robotic Corpses (Tiny) Hexcrete Bags (Moderate)
>>>>>Fuel: Airplane Fuel (Low) Ethanol (uses Food)
>>>>>Total Pop: 274 Humans (and companions) +40 Mutants/Nightkin
>>>>>Total Armaments (proportionate to the total pop) Below Average
>>>>>>Weapons: Type (Subtype, Amount, Condition)
-Conventional Melee Weapons (Legion; Moderate, Pristine)
-Conventional Firearms (Legion; Moderate, Pristine) (Mercenary, Above Moderate, Intact)
-Energy Firearms (Human Plasma, Moderate, Intact) (Human Laser, Moderate, Intact) (Alien, Moderate, Intact) (Alien-Jurry Rigged, Moderate, Intact)
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional (Below Average) Energy (Moderate)
>>>>>>Armor/Uniorms:
(Salvaged Legion, Moderate, Pristine)
(Legion Centurion. Tiny, Intact)
(OW American Infantry Armor, Moderate, Intact)
(OW American Infantry Uniforms, Moderate, Intact)
(7 Alien Bounty Hunter Armor)
(7 Alien Bounty Hunter Big Rifles)

--TRONA---
++Outpost++
>>>>>Military: 50 Securitrons MK2
>>>>> Infrastructure: Ruined buildings.
>>>>>Defenses: Ruined Houses
>>>>>Animals:

---NEWBERRY SPRINGS---
++BigMT Outpost++
>>>>>Military: 100 Securitrons MK2
>>>>> Infrastructure: Ruined Houses. Lake. Hemp Farm (Small). Banana Yucata (Medium) {NEEDS MORE HOUSES}
>>>>>Defenses: Ruined Houses. Nat100 Robot Defenses.
>>>>>Animals:

---THE CRATER---
>>>>>Morale: High
Permanent: Patriotism (Slight - Phoenix Commonwealth)
>>>>>Current Pop:
97 Human
1 Ghoul
>>>>>Garrison:
5 Devils Brigade - Power Armor
19 Couriers Companions - Arcade, Doc Delilah, Cass, Raul, Veronica, ED-E, Rusty, Wendy Gilbert, Hazel, Desmond Harper, Vanessa, Joana, AXE MAN, Milton+Hans, Sonia, Riddick, Dean Domino, Slave
98 Securitrons MK2 {BERSERK}
1 GIANT ROBO SCORPION {OFFLINE}
397 Robo Scorpions {OFFLINE}
>>>>>Prisoner: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: Higgs Village Warehouse [6 Intact Homes w/{Toilets, Air Condition}, Indoor living area. Raul’s Shack. Follower Hospital. 5 Box Cars. Latrines. Plumbing Water. Heated Water. Indoor Ventilation.) The DOME. The SINK (BigMT Command Center. The THINK TANK). The FORBIDDEN ZONE. Military HQ/Barracks (Great){NEEDS MORE ACTIONS}. Lobotomite Pleasure House (Primitive). Constrution Site (Small). Y-0 Research Center. Scrap Performance Stage. X-2 Transmitter Array. Hemp Farm.
Chinese War Factory
Small Chemical Mill
Magneto Hydraulics Plant Robotics Facility
(Tiny) Cass' Multipurpose Ethanol/Alcohol Distillery
X-12 Biological Research Plant
Small Automated Hexcrete Plant
Doppler Radar
>>>>>Defenses: Radar Fence/Mountain Range. Laser Turrets (Few)
Watch Towers.
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Riddick’s Charge Co. Dodger. 1 Giant Crane (Ruined) 1 Alien Scoutship (Ruined/Unworkable)
>>>>>>Power: Electricity (HUGE). BigMT Underground Reactors
>>>>>>Other
+The THINK TANK
+Dr. MOBIUS
+Unity
+Julia Farkas
+Arcade Ganon
+30 Allied Followers
+55 Captured Female Lobotomites
+67 Captured Male Lobotomites.
+20 Construction Bots
Boom Town Shooting Course

---

The Brain and Doctor Mobius have retreating the Robo-Scorpions back to the FORBIDDEN ZONE, and placed them offline citing potential risk.

---THE BOXCARS---
>>>>>Morale: High
>>>>>Armaments: Average
>>>>>Current Pop:
179 Human
+40 Super Mutants/Nightkin
>>>>>Garrison:
2 Couriers Companions – Doc Mitchel, Doc Doc Orderly MD PHD DDS
+15 Mr. Orderly Robots
51 Child Soldiers “Freeside Rats”
11 Trained Regular Officers [OW American Infantry Armor] (Plasma/Laser) {Veterans}
25 Trained Regular Infantry [OW American Infantry Armor] (Plasma/Laser) {Veterans}
22 Trained Militia [Mixed Salvaged Legion] (Firearms) {Veterans}
30 Militia Recruits [Mixed Salvaged Legion] (Firearms) {Raw}
+20 Super Mutants
+20 NightKin
175 Securitrons MK2
>>>>>Prisoner: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: 19 Rail Car Homes. 15 Sheet Metal Homes. Latrines. Spring Well. Hazmant Truck Container. Radioactive Liquid Tank. Irradiated Water Tank (85% Intact) Clean Water Tank (Intact). Improved Public Baths. Public Washing Machines.
Banana Yucca Farm (Large)
Cotton Farm (Medium)
>>>>>Defenses: Disease Quarantine Measures (Primitive)
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Vertibird, 1 Fuel Economic Fuel Semi Truck, 7 Tracked Construction Vehicles (Mining Specialized) Jacob Mile's Mr. Fix-It Frame
>>>>>>Power: Electricity (Adequate) {Shared from The Crater}. Electrical Poles

>>>>>>Other:
+Marcus
+Keene
+16 Herd Animals (Brahmin/Bighorn)
+3 Young Brahmin

--

You have 4 actions, to be directed each turn.
1 Hero Action (what YOU are doing)
1 Civ Action (a multiuse action based on your current civ power
1 Repair/Construction Action (An action to either repair a thing OR a general construction action. both have been granted by current equipment/companions)
1 Military Action (must be for military reasons i.e. scouting, attacking, raiding. NOT research/non-military construction / generic resource scavenging)

You may freely consult any available companions/civ elements for advice at any time

>>>>>A. Scavenge (for what)
>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons (where).
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials (where/what)
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
>>>>>Turn: 61

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>1591763
>hero and military, combat operations and recon against the mad robots
>civ get the medical tents and other supplies ready for incoming wounded and you know, transporting water/stocking it
>repair, make sure the bots outside don't have a backdoor for the virus and the softsafe is double checked

>>1591804
this. and let's use a boon to ensure that we experience minimal casualties due to this setback.

afterward, i suggest we start building our own robots using locally sourced materials. we'll build them OUR OWN WAY and with a backdoor known only to us that can prevent this kind of shit from ever happening again

>>1591809
No fucking boon. Stop trying to burn them so easily. They aren't candy

>>1591813
boons are probably best used in the case of an emergency
we're trying to build up our strength; can we really risk losing all/most of what we have?

Tell you what, against my better judgement, I'll give you guys a second boon to spend. in compensation for some previous 100s that could use a boost.

I'll warn you stronger 100s from now on means stronger enemies.

>>1591820
Yes because we're not gonna lose them all unless somebody rolls another 1. Also roll you fuck. How does nobody get that

>>1591822
Uh QM pretty sure that doesn't fit the issue that was raised about how 100's pale in comparison to 1's or I might be misunderstanding.

>>1591848
The 1s aren't nearly as bad as you make them out to be. Sometimes there's a simple solution that's not so simple to figure out.

Its a matter of if you can effectively mitigate a problem, and whether you let it just strike you down or turn lemons into lemonade.

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>1591820

>>1591858
I wasn't one of the complainers personally if I had it my way we'd be farther ahead then we are. I was just confused as to why the change. I rather like this as is.

>>1591895
Well, its not yet in stone, I'll think about it.

I'll still let you guys have the boon though. But I demand a sacrificial offering! of Drawfaggotry! Any would be nice.

>>1591910
I'm a stone mason dammnit QM not a drawfag! I can only make so much HexCrete

>>1591910
I'm only decent at drawing shitty floor plans

>>1591804
support

Rolled 25, 30, 33 = 88 (3d100)

>>1591804
LOCKED

Need one more 1d100

>>1591964
Oh no, That's not good for us is it?

How come our brain which I figure has more well...computing power is unable to counter act the virus?

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>1591964
Heres hoping

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>1591960
roll

>>1591970
>Brain
"I would need you on board for that. Its a bit abstract to explain but the phrase "man cannot serve two masters".

We'd both have to become a machine, or at least put you in Cryo, to effectively become a computer ala House. At least until computer science advances enough to address certain metaphysical constraints, it has not yet."

>>1591998
Wait, But how is it any different then currently? You're already looked INTO computer systems. Pretty much a Robo-brain just on a larger scale and without the memory wipes. Therefore you should be able to act against the virus without issue. We would't need to become one with the machine's because you are by all accounts our 'cpu/memory/ect'

>>1592010
>Brain
"This isn't that sort of problem. Its not one of computing power, or lack thereof. There would be risks were I to access it to defeat it on this scale. The berserk program is highly adaptive. It would take an existing AI to defeat it.

And I can't just become an AI. Its quite simply our split personality combined with such an intense integration into a computer by only half of 'us' might very well drive us both mad. I'd need to do some more tests to figure out how to prevent this. Ironically Unity is a likely possibility due to her seemingly dualistic personality abilities, but that poses its own risks.

Not even the rest of the Think Tankers have integrated themselves into a computer AI proper. House put his whole body and mind into the effort."

>>1592031
So we can solve the problem if we, the body, go under, then we, the two of us, can combat the malicious code through virtual space?

>>1592031
Well work on that and keep us updated on it, That might be nice to make copy of us as AI's. Ensure our will is done everywhere.

>>1592040
>Brain
"That's one solution. It's untested, but entirely possible.

There are others I am pondering. Perhaps we could find an existing AI to combat this on our behalf in stead. There may be other solutions but I'd need time to think, time we don't have"

>>1592051
"Well, not entirely untested.

House did it. But house never split his brain. Still, its proof of concept that lasted and worked for 200 years."

>>1592051
If we had an AI, could we, the AI and you and I all go in and solve the problem without damaging the bots?

>>1592063
>Brain
"The AI itself might solve the problem if it has the strength to combat and overturn the Berserk. Just hope you can negotiate with it for what you want."

>>1592093
I was thinking the two of us go into the CYBER-WORLD with ED-E supporting us, so we're not alone.

>>1592131
>Brain
"Hmmm, yes. Or perhaps more than just ED-E. Other potential robotic intelligences. Pity we do not have ARES."

>>1592157
I don't know the mod followers we have left, are any a robot, or a cyborg with a neural interface?

>>1592170
"Rusty, Muggy, you and I, ED-E, Dr. Mobius, Dr. 0.

. . .and Victor, who I have not yet awoken. Also several of the Sink Modules. Possibly the Think Tank. Gabriel Sanchez.

. . .Unity."

brb

>>1592196
Okay so we go into the digital world with Rusty, ED-e and try and talk to victor, then go hunt the malicous code down.
Rusty might not be a teddy bear, if we're in the digital scape, so that would be good.

>>1592196
>>1592218
What about the other Securitron AIs, Yes Man, Jane, and Marilyn? Also our Stealth Suit AI?
Although we should keep Yes Man as far away from this as possible unless shit has really gone to hell.
What about our mechanical or electrical specialists, could they help out? Perhaps by diverting more power into the systems?
Could we also try getting the Chinese to start awakening some of the folks in the spaceship freezer?

>>1592534
Jane and Marilyn are a hard maybe, cause they may be loyal to house.
Stealth suit maybe, depends on if she's an actual AI or a dumb AI which can only do one job.
Well if at first you don't succeed give it more power
We need the hot juice before we wake anymore people up.

Why are we not doing everything we can to wake Unity. They have some telepathic link to every member of their collective including Sam.
Hell, the qt redhead is just one of the many bodies. Let's go to the orchestra and ask them for help tracking or child.

>>1592534
They exist.

Currently the Stealth Suit is a low tier AI. Technically, apart from Victor, Yes Man, Jane and Marilyn most of your other techy companions are low tier AIs as is the Brains.

>>1591804
Everyone is preparing themselves, now that they have had time and a warning. The BoxCars are arming themselves.

Meanwhile the Securitrons are being secured with additional updates directly from the Brain and the Platinum Chip to make them resiliant to any wireless attacks.

The Chinese Army is mobilizing, they are ready to deploy in a defensive position as well as their new alien jurry rigged weapons.

You send a number of stealth agents and companions to spy on the robots. Thus far, they are successful and are setting up hidden sniper positions around to observe.

They are not acting aggressive, which is strange for the Berserkers, but instead seem to be building. Building, always building. Something.

There's a big debate about what to do. The Chinese prefer a more aggressive approach, and say if given time and an action and fuel they can develop a type of vehicle to directly combat this threat. Some in the BoxCar agree too.

You suspect some of your companions might have ideas but haven't asked them yet. The Brain meanwhile, is allowing you to digress your options which thus far are ones of assault, electronic subterfuge, or. . .well thats it really. Brain and Dr. 0 analyzing the data constantly and always being on guard for if they try to attack other systems so being able to come up with strategies is a bit difficult right now.

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>>1593223
Riddick and his car have left direct communications range.

Food and Water have improved, since we aren't actively under attack.

Good news the Hemp Farms have bloomed in Newberry Springs. We have more extra Plant Material for fuel.

Rumors persist that some people are taking snippets of hemp to smoke them.

>>>>>Food: Average (Stable)
>>>>>Water: Below Average (Slowly Rising)
>>>>>Medicine: Below Average (Stable)
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Wood (tiny) Scrap Metal (Bellow Average) Special Electronics (Exhausted) Hygiene Supplies (Abundant) Booze (Low) Alien Tech Scraps (Moderate) Alien Robotic Corpses (Tiny) Hexcrete Bags (Moderate) Plant Material (Small)
>>>>>Fuel: Airplane Fuel (Low) Ethanol (uses Food)
>>>>>Total Pop: 274 Humans (and companions) +40 Mutants/Nightkin
>>>>>Total Armaments (proportionate to the total pop) Below Average
>>>>>>Weapons: Type (Subtype, Amount, Condition)
-Conventional Melee Weapons (Legion; Moderate, Pristine)
-Conventional Firearms (Legion; Moderate, Pristine) (Mercenary, Above Moderate, Intact)
-Energy Firearms (Human Plasma, Moderate, Intact) (Human Laser, Moderate, Intact) (Alien, Moderate, Intact) (Alien-Jurry Rigged, Moderate, Intact)
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional (Below Average) Energy (Moderate)
>>>>>>Armor/Uniorms:
(Salvaged Legion, Moderate, Pristine)
(Legion Centurion. Tiny, Intact)
(OW American Infantry Armor, Moderate, Intact)
(OW American Infantry Uniforms, Moderate, Intact)
(7 Alien Bounty Hunter Armor)
(7 Alien Bounty Hunter Big Rifles)

--TRONA---
++Outpost++
>>>>>Military: 50 Securitrons MK2
>>>>> Infrastructure: Ruined buildings.
>>>>>Defenses: Ruined Houses
>>>>>Animals:

---NEWBERRY SPRINGS---
++BigMT Outpost++
>>>>>Military: 100 Securitrons MK2
>>>>> Infrastructure: Ruined Houses. Lake. Hemp Farm (Small). Banana Yucata (Medium) {NEEDS MORE HOUSES}
>>>>>Defenses: Ruined Houses. Nat100 Robot Defenses.
>>>>>Animals:

---THE CRATER---
>>>>>Morale: High
Permanent: Patriotism (Slight - Phoenix Commonwealth)
>>>>>Current Pop:
97 Human
1 Ghoul
>>>>>Garrison:
5 Devils Brigade - Power Armor
19 Couriers Companions - Arcade, Doc Delilah, Cass, Raul, Veronica, ED-E, Rusty, Wendy Gilbert, Hazel, Desmond Harper, Vanessa, Joana, AXE MAN, Milton+Hans, Sonia, Riddick, Dean Domino, Slave
98 Securitrons MK2 {BERSERK}
1 GIANT ROBO SCORPION {OFFLINE}
397 Robo Scorpions {OFFLINE}
>>>>>Prisoner: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: Higgs Village Warehouse [6 Intact Homes w/{Toilets, Air Condition}, Indoor living area. Raul’s Shack. Follower Hospital. 5 Box Cars. Latrines. Plumbing Water. Heated Water. Indoor Ventilation.) The DOME. The SINK (BigMT Command Center. The THINK TANK). The FORBIDDEN ZONE. Military HQ/Barracks (Great){NEEDS MORE ACTIONS}. Lobotomite Pleasure House (Primitive). Constrution Site (Small). Y-0 Research Center. Scrap Performance Stage. X-2 Transmitter Array. Hemp Farm.
Chinese War Factory
Small Chemical Mill
Magneto Hydraulics Plant Robotics Facility
(Tiny) Cass' Multipurpose Ethanol/Alcohol Distillery
X-12 Biological Research Plant
Small Automated Hexcrete Plant
Doppler Radar
>>>>>Defenses: Radar Fence/Mountain Range. Laser Turrets (Few)
Watch Towers.
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Riddick’s Charge Co. Dodger. 1 Giant Crane (Ruined) 1 Alien Scoutship (Ruined/Unworkable)
>>>>>>Power: Electricity (HUGE). BigMT Underground Reactors
>>>>>>Other
+The THINK TANK
+Dr. MOBIUS
+Unity
+Julia Farkas
+Arcade Ganon
+30 Allied Followers
+55 Captured Female Lobotomites
+67 Captured Male Lobotomites.
+20 Construction Bots
Boom Town Shooting Course

You have repaired the Auto-Doc and healed Couripor.

Unity has awoken and healed herself. She seems very angry.

---THE BOXCARS---
>>>>>Morale: High
>>>>>Armaments: Average
>>>>>Current Pop:
179 Human
+40 Super Mutants/Nightkin
>>>>>Garrison:
2 Couriers Companions – Doc Mitchel, Doc Doc Orderly MD PHD DDS
+15 Mr. Orderly Robots
51 Child Soldiers “Freeside Rats”
11 Trained Regular Officers [OW American Infantry Armor] (Plasma/Laser) {Veterans}
25 Trained Regular Infantry [OW American Infantry Armor] (Plasma/Laser) {Veterans}
22 Trained Militia [Mixed Salvaged Legion] (Firearms) {Veterans}
30 Militia Recruits [Mixed Salvaged Legion] (Firearms) {Raw}
+20 Super Mutants
+20 NightKin
175 Securitrons MK2
>>>>>Prisoner: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: 19 Rail Car Homes. 15 Sheet Metal Homes. Latrines. Spring Well. Hazmant Truck Container. Radioactive Liquid Tank. Irradiated Water Tank (85% Intact) Clean Water Tank (Intact). Improved Public Baths. Public Washing Machines.
Banana Yucca Farm (Large)
Cotton Farm (Medium)
>>>>>Defenses: Disease Quarantine Measures (Primitive)
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Vertibird, 1 Fuel Economic Fuel Semi Truck, 7 Tracked Construction Vehicles (Mining Specialized) Jacob Mile's Mr. Fix-It Frame
>>>>>>Power: Electricity (Adequate) {Shared from The Crater}. Electrical Poles

>>>>>>Other:
+Marcus
+Keene
+16 Herd Animals (Brahmin/Bighorn)
+3 Young Brahmin

--

You have 4 actions, to be directed each turn.
1 Hero Action (what YOU are doing)
1 Civ Action (a multiuse action based on your current civ power
1 Repair/Construction Action (An action to either repair a thing OR a general construction action. both have been granted by current equipment/companions)
1 Military Action (must be for military reasons i.e. scouting, attacking, raiding. NOT research/non-military construction / generic resource scavenging)

You may freely consult any available companions/civ elements for advice at any time

>>>>>A. Scavenge (for what)
>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons (where).
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials (where/what)
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
>>>>>Turn: 62

>>1593229
>Unity has awoken and healed herself. She seems very angry.
Ask her if she can locate or child. Maybe also send her. I recall that she can move very fast and might catch up to Riddick

>>1593229
How many people live in newberry?

>>1593225
>Rumors persist that some people are taking snippets of hemp to smoke them.
After this is over clarify that they can smoke the hemp now that it's in abundance but they must moderate, like 2 a week or something.

>>1593245
Nah I think we should keep a blind eye to it to stop people depleting our stocks we need fuel after all

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>>1593233
>Unity
"I faintly hear her thoughts, she cannot see and he is too strong for her to break free. He hides somewhere. Her fear clouds my mind to hers.

It is possible if she keeps this up, she may severe with Unity of her own accord."

>>1593241
About 40

>>1593253
*of her own terror"

>>1593251
Then keep a blind eye is not what we want to do. Keep a blind eye means ignore.
>>1593253
Can she see anything tell you anything to make the searcch easier? Narrow down her location?

>>1593255
>Unity
"She feels sand on her skin. Sometimes she feels wind as they move. Yet she has not heard the sound of Riddick's engine."

>>1593255
Shit. We have a dog. Riddick should have taken rex to sniff the giant out.

>>1593229
>HERO
Get ready for deploying ourselves along with any other stealthy heroes / companions to the crater. Goal is turning off / disabling as many securitron's of the construction / salvage or military model as possible without severely damaging them or at the very least, only parts we can manufacture new replacements for.

That or we go into cyber space and deal with this on that end depending on how easy that would be and if it would have any potential "real world" problems.

>CIVILIAN
Another run for concrete materials assuming we can make enough fuel. It'll at least get the robots out of the lines of fire for now.

>REPAIR / CONSTRUCTION
Can we use this to salvage? If so then get on that.

If not, head to Newberry and help our settlers repair the town, expand the farms and otherwise get it running again. Sooner they are completely setup the sooner we can expand elsewhere...

>MILITARY
Continue preparations for potential combat by digging trenches and otherwise fortifying and re-positioning our forces. Be ready for the attack if it ever comes and if not: then at least our troops got some good experience in field fortification and we can tell who has shit nerves.


Good plan. Yes or no?

>>1593293
Go cyberspace. If we succeed we have the robots still.
Probably just use the repair action to rpair newberry

>>1593296
Reason for salvage is simple. We need more materials.

Reason being, we need to produce robots. Mining, agriculture, scouting, military, firefighting, medical and industrial robots.

To get the materials for these we need scrap, since we lack iron ore and seemingly we can't make aluminium / bronze robots.

>>1593293
Also send unity after Sam.

>>1593309
We do, but i think we ran out of salvage in easy to find locations. Which is why were upgrading the securitrons to survive abd salvage the divide.

>>1593431
We were running low on locations but I want to grab as much as we can from this region before we focus on the divide.


Also I couldn't think of anything to put there since most of the shit I would want to fix or build is in the crater.

>>1593293
Go with this action Confirm?

Y/N

>>1593523
Y

>>1593523
>Y

Rolled 3, 42, 90 = 135 (3d100)

>>1593293
LOCKED

I need 3 1d100s anons

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>1593544
Hey a question OP, would the holo-sims count as sleeping to any degree?

>>1593551
Further testing is needed

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>1593544

>>1593562
I ask because all I could imagine was replacing all of our beds with them.

Imagine it, you go to sleep and get transported into some sort of virtual training and entertainment centre along with everyone else. Where you can spend the time you are "sleeping" learning, training and relaxing with friends and family: no matter how far away you are.

It in theory would allow for a productivity gain (as we no longer need to leave as many hours in the day for people to relax and shit) of anywhere between 33 and 50%. Especially since you could reduce the number of real-world entertainment faculties and such, since everyone can and would use the online stuff: no risk of physical injury, no risk of crowding and everything is some-what subject to customisation.

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>1593544
I'll roll the 3rd one

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>1593544
>>1593600
I thought we already had 3 voters for a moment.

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>>1593293
You call out all your human forces available to this fight, and have them dig in. Morale is shaky, but the officers try to stabilize the situation. The Chinese fare better, they seem to have had stories as children about the glories of the Great War and this is sort of exciting for many of them but they aren't immune to fear either.

You deploy your big tank near the Magneto Hydraulics complex, as it would be an obvious nearby technological target for them.

Your forces try to dig deep, but the value of trenches and walls comes into question when each securitron has both a missile pod AND a grenade launcher.

---

Meanwhile you and your stealth team try to pick them off one by one, in a manner as to save them for repair later.

It goes rather poorly. Melee efforts, while successful in some regards, result in being horribly blasted out by other securitrons and even you have to pull back.

They chase you down, only for your massed gun line to mercifully dispatch them before they can cause any damage. But the survivors pick up the wrecks back, and no doubt will repair them.

Efforts to snipe and disable them with high caliber AP rounds are also met with frustration. The robots do something unexpected.

They bring up infected Sentry Bots, which have much heavier armor than Securitrons. Their rocket launcher is replaced with a big piece of scrap iron bolted on to act as a shield, while their body has been upgraded with additional armor. These they bring up to the front, suppressing your snipers with ranged fire while other securitrons haul away the wrecks.

The brain is concerned.

>Brain
"This isn't berserking. This is intelligence. Good intelligence. I don't understand it, Dr. 0 any theories?"

>Dr. 0
"Hmmm. Well, I did design the Mark V to be superior to House's model in every way. Never got to test those tactical combat features since every model we made just decided to attack everything mindlessly on sight. Maybe they've figured out how to access that knowledge."

>>1593695
Okay so I think we might want to talk with this AI and try to recruit it if we can or eliminate it.

>>1593695
Question, Do they ackowledge white flags, And can the beskers in theory...speak?

Dr. 0 Specializes in AI' what the fuck is wrong here.

>>1593695
>>1593293
You set the Seucitrons afar to repair a few more houses in Newberry Springs, but there aren't many more left. Others in Trona bring back scrap metal from afar.

They do collect Concrete decently enough. Not as good as dedicated construction bot, but they work hard and have numbers.

---

Water has returned to normal levels. It helps that the BoxCars has less of a water requirement now that Newberry Springs exists.

>>>>>Food: Average (Stable)
>>>>>Water: Average (Stable)
>>>>>Medicine: Below Average (Stable)
!NEW!
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Wood (tiny) Scrap Metal (Average) Special Electronics (Exhausted) Hygiene Supplies (Abundant) Booze (Low) Alien Tech Scraps (Moderate) Alien Robotic Corpses (Tiny) Hexcrete Bags (Above Moderate) Plant Material (Small)
>>>>>Fuel: Airplane Fuel (Low) Ethanol (uses Food)
>>>>>Total Pop: 274 Humans (and companions) +40 Mutants/Nightkin
>>>>>Total Armaments (proportionate to the total pop) Below Average
>>>>>>Weapons: Type (Subtype, Amount, Condition)
-Conventional Melee Weapons (Legion; Moderate, Pristine)
-Conventional Firearms (Legion; Moderate, Pristine) (Mercenary, Above Moderate, Intact)
-Energy Firearms (Human Plasma, Moderate, Intact) (Human Laser, Moderate, Intact) (Alien, Moderate, Intact) (Alien-Jurry Rigged, Moderate, Intact)
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional (Below Average) Energy (Moderate)
>>>>>>Armor/Uniorms:
(Salvaged Legion, Moderate, Pristine)
(Legion Centurion. Tiny, Intact)
(OW American Infantry Armor, Moderate, Intact)
(OW American Infantry Uniforms, Moderate, Intact)
(7 Alien Bounty Hunter Armor)
(7 Alien Bounty Hunter Big Rifles)

--TRONA---
++Outpost++
>>>>>Military: 50 Securitrons MK2
>>>>> Infrastructure: Ruined buildings.
>>>>>Defenses: Ruined Houses
>>>>>Animals:

---NEWBERRY SPRINGS---
++BigMT Outpost++
>>>>>Military: 100 Securitrons MK2
!NEW!
>>>>> Infrastructure: Houses. Lake. Hemp Farm (Small). Banana Yucata (Medium) {NEEDS MORE HOUSES}
>>>>>Defenses: Ruined Houses. Nat100 Robot Defenses.
>>>>>Animals:

---THE CRATER---
>>>>>Morale: High
Permanent: Patriotism (Slight - Phoenix Commonwealth)
>>>>>Current Pop:
97 Human
1 Ghoul
>>>>>Garrison:
5 Devils Brigade - Power Armor
19 Couriers Companions - Arcade, Doc Delilah, Cass, Raul, Veronica, ED-E, Rusty, Wendy Gilbert, Hazel, Desmond Harper, Vanessa, Joana, AXE MAN, Milton+Hans, Sonia, Riddick, Dean Domino, Slave
98 Securitrons MK2 {BERSERK}
1 GIANT ROBO SCORPION {OFFLINE}
397 Robo Scorpions {OFFLINE}
>>>>>Prisoner: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: Higgs Village Warehouse [6 Intact Homes w/{Toilets, Air Condition}, Indoor living area. Raul’s Shack. Follower Hospital. 5 Box Cars. Latrines. Plumbing Water. Heated Water. Indoor Ventilation.) The DOME. The SINK (BigMT Command Center. The THINK TANK). The FORBIDDEN ZONE. Military HQ/Barracks (Great){NEEDS MORE ACTIONS}. Lobotomite Pleasure House (Primitive). Constrution Site (Small). Y-0 Research Center. Scrap Performance Stage. X-2 Transmitter Array. Hemp Farm.
Chinese War Factory
Small Chemical Mill
Magneto Hydraulics Plant Robotics Facility
(Tiny) Cass' Multipurpose Ethanol/Alcohol Distillery
X-12 Biological Research Plant
Small Automated Hexcrete Plant
Doppler Radar
>>>>>Defenses: Radar Fence/Mountain Range. Laser Turrets (Few)
Watch Towers.
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Riddick’s Charge Co. Dodger. 1 Giant Crane (Ruined) 1 Alien Scoutship (Ruined/Unworkable)
>>>>>>Power: Electricity (HUGE). BigMT Underground Reactors
>>>>>>Other
+The THINK TANK
+Dr. MOBIUS
+Unity
+Julia Farkas
+Arcade Ganon
+30 Allied Followers
+55 Captured Female Lobotomites
+67 Captured Male Lobotomites.
+20 Construction Bots
Boom Town Shooting Course

>>1593732
White Flags are blown up on sight.

Efforts to communicate are returned with a simple message. "DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY"

>Dr. 0
"You act like you've never seen a rogue AI before. Hmm, I suppose I could try to design another AI to combat this one."

>Dr. Borous
"Wait. This reminds me of my own experiments. Yes, I once had to deal with a deadly pest INVASION! The invasion of the Lab Rats!"

>Dr. 0
"And what did you do?"

>Dr. Borous
"I created a new species of LAB CATS! To combat the Lab Rats. But, then I had to deal with a new and even more terrifying threat. The invasion of the LAB CATS!"

>Dr. 0
"And then what did you do?"

>Dr. Borous
"That was when I had the ingenious idea to splice the DNA of dogs and rattlesnakes, and I created the Nightstalkers! All has been made well since."

---

---THE BOXCARS---
>>>>>Morale: High
>>>>>Armaments: Average
>>>>>Current Pop:
179 Human
+40 Super Mutants/Nightkin
>>>>>Garrison:
2 Couriers Companions – Doc Mitchel, Doc Doc Orderly MD PHD DDS
+15 Mr. Orderly Robots
51 Child Soldiers “Freeside Rats”
11 Trained Regular Officers [OW American Infantry Armor] (Plasma/Laser) {Veterans}
25 Trained Regular Infantry [OW American Infantry Armor] (Plasma/Laser) {Veterans}
22 Trained Militia [Mixed Salvaged Legion] (Firearms) {Veterans}
30 Militia Recruits [Mixed Salvaged Legion] (Firearms) {Raw}
+20 Super Mutants
+20 NightKin
175 Securitrons MK2
>>>>>Prisoner: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: 19 Rail Car Homes. 15 Sheet Metal Homes. Latrines. Spring Well. Hazmant Truck Container. Radioactive Liquid Tank. Irradiated Water Tank (85% Intact) Clean Water Tank (Intact). Improved Public Baths. Public Washing Machines.
Banana Yucca Farm (Large)
Cotton Farm (Medium)
>>>>>Defenses: Disease Quarantine Measures (Primitive)
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Vertibird, 1 Fuel Economic Fuel Semi Truck, 7 Tracked Construction Vehicles (Mining Specialized) Jacob Mile's Mr. Fix-It Frame
>>>>>>Power: Electricity (Adequate) {Shared from The Crater}. Electrical Poles

>>>>>>Other:
+Marcus
+Keene
+16 Herd Animals (Brahmin/Bighorn)
+3 Young Brahmin

--

You have 4 actions, to be directed each turn.
1 Hero Action (what YOU are doing)
1 Civ Action (a multiuse action based on your current civ power
1 Repair/Construction Action (An action to either repair a thing OR a general construction action. both have been granted by current equipment/companions)
1 Military Action (must be for military reasons i.e. scouting, attacking, raiding. NOT research/non-military construction / generic resource scavenging)

You may freely consult any available companions/civ elements for advice at any time

>>>>>A. Scavenge (for what)
>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons (where).
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials (where/what)
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
>>>>>Turn: 63

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>1593745
Dr. Borus and Dr. 0 Are my spirit animals.

>Hero and Military action - time to shut it down, Get to work on killing the rogue AI's.

>Con - build up the military HQ

>Civ - Find more radation scrabs and other matierals then covert them into chips so we have more sierra machines.


QM, Might want to use a paste bin and put what we can use the cloning machines for and any other RnD stuff we've done/have.

Quick question, there are remains of a huge roboscorpion a few feet south of the Waste disintegration platform, is the remains still there?

>>1593745
Okay, for all future references: if Borous comes up with a plan or idea or a concept, we must forcibly avoid following it. Since it must obviously be wrong.


>>1593759
If I might make a suggestion, we don't need to go anywhere for radioactive scraps since we still have 85 % of our irradiated water tank which we can convert. Saving time and thus allowing us to focus on making more chips.

Also you'll want to hold off making more replicators until we do a few more research actions into them. Since we need to greatly improve them to make them very useful for us.


Also what do you mean by killing the rogue AI? Cyberspace or real world?

>>1593771
You used those in a battle quite some time ago

>>1593759
Supporting

>>1593784
Excellent, that's a load off my mind.
What about the warheads in the loading station? Did we salvage them before the berserk AIs came?

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>>1593790
Which warheads

>>1593795
Were they nuclear warheads or regular explosive warheads?

>>1593774
Didn't we finish the water tank off in our researching of the vending machines?

Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>1593759
>hero
Go into the digital world with those who can- ede, rusty. Abd confront the intelligence
>civ
Plant spices and other valuable plants at newberry.
>military
Keep the berserkers contained in the mountain
>construct
Build homes in newberry

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>1593759
Supporting, assuming that he means we are gonna do a cyberspace battle against the AI.


>>1593804
Seemingly according to the current turn report we still have 85% of it. If you mean our research into the construction of additional replicators, no, it only cost us two thousand chips which is less than the value of this water tank since it has been our primary source.

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>1593759
Supporting if this is for Cyberspace battle.

>>1593803
If you mean artillery shells they were probably non-nuclear

Rolled 81, 37, 72 = 190 (3d100)

>>1593759
[LOCKED]

Writing

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>>1593759
The Brain tells you to have the Auto-Doc place your body in a sediative coma.

You ask if you're going to need to sit in some kind of chair or a cerebro. The Brain informs you that's not necessary.

>Brain
"I'm right here already hooked up remember? We just need to combine our focuses again."

You enter the Auto-Doc, and you feel yourself being placed on a soft air padding of sorts, as needles are injected into your veins and you feel tired.

---

You don't wake up. At least, you're pretty sure you're not awake. You can't fee your body. You can't /feel/. There's no gravity. No weight. You can't move your fingers or anything. Can't even turn your eyes to look around. You can't even breathe or feel your lungs.

Its a terrifying, horrifying kind of paralysis, as though someone had taken every single thign that ties you to the earth and snipped it away with a pair of scissors. You try to focus on the feeling of your own thoughts, just to confirm you aren't dead.

Then, mercifully, a sense is returned to you. Sight. You can see. By god you can see, everything is so clear. You see colors you can't describe. Even for your enhanced perception, your vision is sharper, crisper. Before you could only focus on one thing at a time, things in your periphery or out of focus were blurred. But now its as if you can see everything all at once, zoomed in and out at the same time.

The ground is really low for some reason.

There's some kind of graphc overlay, identifying objects for you, further enhancing your vision.

You hear a voice. Your Brain's voice.

>Brain
"This is a recording. I haven't yet found a satisfying way for us to dually exist as thoughts without driving us mad. There would be too many voices and thoughts and no ability to distinguish the self.

I hope the experience thus far isn't too much. I imagine it would take some getting used to not having a body. But this is what Cyberspace is.

Its not some fantasy other world like a dream, its an overlay of the real world based on the various inputs and sensors we can experience. Right now, I am limiting you to one singe roboscorpion so you can get accustomed to your new experience."

>>1593922
I DIDN'T MEAN CYBER SPACE. I MEANT KILL THE REAL WORLD. OH GOD. WHAT DID WE DO.

I guess hackerman time.

>>1593926
Why would we do that? The robots are ridiculously hard to kill, and that doesnt solve the root problem.
Treat the disease, not the symptoms.

>>1593926
The rest of us wanted cyberspace. So we get cyberspace.

>>1593933
>>1593931

That wasn't what i put forward, I WAS worried our brain and body might be highjacked but its too late now.

>>1593935
You put "kill rogue ais" you cant do that to an intelligence without a central core in meatspace.

>>1593935
An AI taking over a biological system? Improbable. AI's deal in defined values, no matter how complex and granulated. Humans are kinda...fluid.

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>>1593922
What follows next is a series of lessons pre-prorammed by the Brain on direct Neural-Computer interface.

You learn how to move your body in more ways than one. Certainly, you can move and control it directly as one would their own arms and legs but for a larger scale this is inefficient. Instead, you learn how to command or "Delegate" movement commands to the machine itself, ordering it to walk for you or move somewhere or do some thing.

This particular robo-scorpion has been modified with some enhanced tools and capability.

>Brain
"Thus far, and I pray, continually neither us nor the Berserk programming has figured out a way to wirelessly override something's programming. Mr. House certainly couldn't either or he wouldn't need the Platinum Chip nor your services.

Hacking therefore, still requires some hardware modification. But forget pulling down computer terminals, I'm going to show you how to hack something the hard way."

The Computer enhances your own knowledge of electronics and computer hardware and software, and very soon you are welding into the motherboard of a computer server and attaching wires from the robo-scorpion to it in various places. Then, you proceed to hack as 'normal' if it can be called normal. Instead of using your fingers and keybard, you simply "think" what you want to do to the wall of coding and text flying before your vision.

This is incredible. The things you can do to modify the coding, like nothing you've ever seen before. This is computer science on a much higher level.

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>>1593992
>Brain
"Simple enough yes? Now all you have to do is defeat these Berserk machines pshyically, hack into them with whatever robot interface you are using, and then re-program them while at the same time preventing your own bots from being re-programmed in turn.

But one little measly robo-scorpion is not going to cut it, or even one securitron. You're going to learn to multitask and juggle, or have competent AI helpers you can delegate tasks too. Let's see how much data input you can handle."

Suddenly and without warning your vision splits in two. You are not looking through the eyes of one bot, but two. If you were in your body you'd be dizzy, but so far you think you can handle it. Its a bit more difficult, you have to actively think on what each bot should be doing to complete its task and then make sure its on the right path. The brain has a series of tasks it wants you to perform.

You get the feel of two. And then three, with more difficulty. You're straining by the time you reach five.

Seven seems to be your cap for now before you become horribly inefficient. Furthermore these are low level tasks outside of a combat setting.

You begin to appreciate how someone like House must have defeated so many missiles from striking New Vegas at once.

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>>1594026
>Brain
"I've upgraded some of your electronic companions with enhanced capabilities to perform these tasks. I got the blueprints for some enhanced modular armor for ED-E from ARES as an example. Their ability to think for themselves in a combat situation will make it easier for you to focus on defeating, capturing, and reprogramming the berserk models while gaining valuable data.

Now your tasks is to formulate a proper military strategy to succesfully overpower these robots, and then hack them via your various robotic allies. It would be far too time consumin and impractical to attempt to do this in your current human form, but in this way we have a chance and the added security of you overseeing your robotic companions.

This concludes our program. I will deactivate the neural interface so you can discuss a plan with myself and your companions."

>>1594064
Your vision goes black again, and this time you do wake up inside the Auto-Doc. You gasp and try to remember how to breathe, and get out of the machine.

The Brain on a monitor and your robotic companions are there at the THINK TANK, with various upgrades.

>Brain
"Welcome back. I hope this was informative experience.

The plan is fairly straightforward. We need to physcally defeat the robots, and then input the programming. The good news is doing this means we also gain a select number of repair drones to add to our forces.

Now comes the part about strategy and militarily achieving this. Do you have any current plans?"

>What do

>>1594083
idk famalam pincer maneuver and promise our warriors a place in heaven if they die

>>1594083
Stealth would be best. what elements do we have that can sneak up on a securitron and insert our code?

>>1594083
Stealth op i gues, emp grenades from a distance and shit to keep the bots pinned down.

>>1594101
>Brain
"You still have that stealth team of yours. The problem is they are human. Of course, you could equipt some of your robotic companions and even some robot assets with stealth boy but you don't have an endless supply of those."

>>1594083
"Well I don't suppose we have any way of messing with their sensors? A weapon which could force a system reboot or something?

Failing that my plan is primarily to engage the robots everywhere with our human forces, distracting them, before looking for a weakness in their line. Then we deploy the robotic forces there to try and force the advantage by capturing as many as we can before pulling out again.

If repeated a few times, it'll learn but I have a plan for that too. That whole period of time we will be sneaking through a few of our stealth specialists to the repair bots in their rear lines. With the goal of having them deliver a reprogramming robots. Once we have disable their repair bots, by removing a fuse or two or altering their code and making them construct essentially a secure metal box around themselves, they can't repair their losses. At that point conventional methods of elimination by 'wounding' them can be used: crippling their wheels and such.

I am aware that during this time we will still have to deal with the Sentry shield bots but I have a plan for that too: if we can drag the damaged robots far enough away from their lines by whatever means, across an area which we have laced with frag or pulse mines, then they will be seriously damaged as their shields are in front of their tracks. This should result in either mobility or circuit damage, reducing their combat effectiveness greatly.


Repetition of these tactics: immobilising and isolating; will lead to our victory. Assuming that they can't prevent the loss of the Repair bots or they get wise to the land mines but even then, once our stealth forces return, we can have them covertly deploy behind them with anti-material rifles, disintegrators and other such things to eliminate their wheels / tracks and such."


>>1594089
None of our people are christian. At least not devoutly as far as we would be aware.


>>1594101
Our robots that he has modified, our robotic companions and potentially the Chinese as I imagine they had some way of countering the american pre-war robots and such. Failing that we can probably rig some sort of backpack robot (A robo-scorpion but without any legs or lasers maybe?) they can deploy to convert robots as needed.

>>1594124
We can't throw together a bunch of dongles so they can plug it in and we'de be connected?

>>1594126
>Well I don't suppose we have any way of messing with their sensors?
"Not without messing our own."

>Well I don't suppose we have any way of messing with their sensors?
"No. And thank goodness, why what if they used it on us?"

>We can't throw together a bunch of dongles so they can plug it in and we'de be connected?
"Some of these robots might not follow a standard design, and you'd have to anticipate each of your human forces to know exactly where and how to plug them in."

>>1594156
Ok. So if we want our stealth teams to be more effective we need to get rid of the sentry bots. We didn't have those before, so any we can salvage is a bonus.

Seek out isolated bots, either upload the code or shoot it, then when reinforcements arrive, stealth up to the sentry and update them. Use the sentry to distract the retrievers while our bots upload on the retriever.

>>1594186
Gonna brb for a few hours, continue to think up a strategy or a plan it might be helpful. Don't forget you can consult other people under you.

>>1594186
Mobility kills would be best against them since they are too heavy to move without their tracks by other robots. As that would allow us to deploy our forces to capture their compatriots and once the disaster is completed, them.


We could probably achieve this by use of a proton axe to their tracks or a incendiary or other such grenade.

>>1594197
We can make use of the band. When Unity first went all necromorph, when we arrived to the mountain she was integrating robot parts into herself.

If we can give Unity, the hive mind, the code, then the band can assimilate robots and inject them with the code. Then release the bots with their new software installed.

>>1594262
Nope. It was stated by Unity herself that only "her" body has that level of integration and mutation.


Our best hope is eliminating the repair bots like I described (remove a few fuses / cut a few wires) and then the Sentry bots before generally routing the Securitrons.


At that point their defeat is inevitable and we can win without losses.

Back.

So is there any consensus on an attack plan?

>>1595231
go with >>1594126

>>1594126
Vote

>>1595231
Stealth

>>1595231
Supporting stealth

>>1594126
>>1593878
>>1593821
>Writing

>>1594126
You enter once more into that machine realm, to see your plans come to fruition.

Your forces being a series of engagements anywhere they can anticipate the robots to reply. Kreger, with experience, prepares pre-planned killzones where the mighty Bawang Tank can fire its guns with massed disintegrator fire.

Marcus and his super mutants are on standby to try and lift away the bots with their enhanced endurance.

It seems to work, well in fact. You secure a number of repair bots to your side, and firmly reprogram them adding them to your forces.

Casualties are had, but the effort does appear to be going well.

Meanwhile, you scan the Bots for any information that may be of use.

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>>1595616
Your stealth team manages to deploy behind the Robot lines, providing visual confirmation of something you dread as you decode the Repair Bots orders.

The Berserker Bots are building more of their own repair models, simply getting rid of the originals won't work.

Furthermore, they are amassing metal inside the Deconstruction Plant to build a huge war machine of sorts, heavily armored, with long graspers and claws to grab bits of metal to add to itself. It is armed with a massive disintegration beam stolen from the Waste Disintegration plant, and it wont be long now before this thing is unleashed.

Time is of the essence, with each moment the bots get closer and closer to their big giant war machine. This they have heavily guarded inside the building, and the Stealth Team is having problems progressing any further due to the defenses and patrols being erected by the robots.

>What Do

>>1595723
We need an uplink to the walker. Maybe a robot with a stealth boy can connect to it.

Remember you have 2 boons to spend, and can ask in game characters for advice

>>1596052
I dunno, does any of the companions see any weak points in the bot defences, or can think of some thechy way to solve the problem?

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>1596205
Roll check

>>1596205
>>1596294
>Unity
"I can break them. . .these are but mindless destroyers, and I would like to go after our daughter. However, once I take them they will be mine."

>Dandan
"We have a vehicle we think might be able to defeat the bots if you give us steel, actions, and fuel."

>Kreger
"These aren't invincible or invisible, and they are turtling up. Applie brute force might actually work here, perhaps we might turn those really big guns of yours on them while also using that finger of god toy of yours. Might blow up the facility, but its the safest bet."

>Forecaster
"I can see what the others cannot, what your machines are unable to. Let me lead you to where you may strike. Forecast: A risky, but definitive endeavor."

>Sonia
"We could try to build some low yield tactical nukes. If the actual bombs don't get them, the EMP will."

>>1596309
>Follow the Forecaster wth our chinks.

>Forecaster
"Oh, and I forgot to ask. My head hurts. Very badly. I could use a certain boon of chems, that would make this much easier on me."

>>1596322
>QM making subtle hints
THERE'S ONLY ME HERE QM, BUT DAMN IT. Use the Boon to make him able to do this shit without issues such headpains. or turn us into a pskyer.

>>1596356
Op did give us a free boon, fuck it ill support.

>>1596356
Heh. Wish more anons were on right now Maybe I should get a twitter. I have bursts of updating energy followed by low energy moments.

>>1596369
Ya, I'd suggest it or a discord. Either or.

Can we us a boon on getting FUTURE SEEING?

>>1596383
Get enough votes for it, I'll give you options.

>>1596383
will support

>>1596367
Hey anon back this >>1596383


>>1596391
I'm getting it.

>>1596403
I mean on direct future seeing.
>>1596356
LOCKED

writing

>>1596403
That seems like a terrible idea that leads down a road of drug dependency

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>>1596414
>>1596356
BOON SPENT. CRITICAL BOON ACTIVATED.
You are more than a little concerned about handing the young boy a suitcase full of your best shit. This is stuff hand picked by niner for his birthday.

But, you have faith in his abilities and wonder if the drugs won't get rid of the massive headaches he has while telling the future.

He asks you to take the stealth team to the Higg's Village for some reason, where he is there waiting in his usual clean green striped shirt and pants. His helmet is off, and he has this grin on his face and a pink blush on his cheeks. You would be surprised if he wasn't after how knackered anyone would be on that stuff. He has a clean cosmic knife in one hand, and a revolver in the other.

>Forecaster
"You are ready?"

>You
[Yeah. Why'd you call us to the village?]

>Forecaster
"Follow me."

The Forecaster leads you to a hole in the ground that, evidently he dug out with a shovel. Before you realize it you're making your way through a series of tunnels you had no idea even existed. This doesn't appear on any known map, and these are clearly not sewers. As he leads you and your team on, you have some questions.

>You
[Okay, I'm curious what are these tunnels?]

>Forecaster
"I don't know. I found it."

>You
[Is that where you found a Cosmic knife? We haven't made any of those yet. Did you activate the machines forge one?]

>Forecaster
"No. I found this in a kitchen drawer. You missed it."

>You
[Oh. . .well then. You seem to be very to the point with your answers. You usually speak in riddles or vagueries]

>Forceaster
"Thanks to the medicine you gave me, I think very clearly now. I don't need to guess as much.]

>You
[Does that mean I get a straight answer if I ask about the future?]

>Forecaster
"Depends on what you ask."

>You
[Okay then, tell me something about the future. Something clear.]

>Forecaster
"Sure. When your daughter grows up, I'm going to ask for her hand in marriage."

>You
[. . .]

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>>1596505

>mfw the Forecaster will ask our daughter to marry him in the future

Wheeeeew lad!

And as much as I'm pissed about berserk Securitrons taking our daughteru. Take heart anons!

Because if Caesar decides to kidnap our daughter there is only ONE proposition I have in mind.

We kill them.

All of them.

Horribly.

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>>1596505
You reach the end of the tunnel. Amazingly, the Forecaster says you're right underneath the Deconstruction plant, close to the big giant tank thing.

>Forecaster
"This is it. The tank is right above us, a few feet away. You will need a distraction while you neutralize it. Without their tank, they won't be a big threat and you can just kill them by other means."

>You
[What's the distraction?]

>Forecaster
"Me. I'm going up there to attack the boss. You go for the tank."

>You
[Um, yeah, no offense kid but you're not going to last that long. Or at all. They have missiles and gatling lasers and armor, heavy armor.]

>Forecaster
"I can and I will, trust me. I'm very determined."

You aren't really sure if you should. By all reasoning this is a terrible idea, but, well, its not the first terrible idea you've had. You feel sad for the kid, so young, even though he. . .wants to marry your toddler child in the future which is really weird. But its his funeral.

>You
[Okay, if you say so.]

---

Explosions. Laser fire. Even melee swipes. The Berserk Securitron Boss is a formidable foe even without his bodyguards.

And the Forecaster easily dodges them all. His body pumps with Turbo. . .and its almost like he knows exactly where they are going to strike and dodges out of the way before they even fire.

You waste no time activating your stealth boys and rushing to the Tank. You didn't need a robot body this time, the Forecaster told you exactly which panels and which wires you needed. And this time you CAN bring a dongle.

The tank. . .walker. . .thing has a big heavy power source made of many fusion batteries put together, and a big disintegrator gun at the front.

As you hack it, you realize the tactical situation has several options.

CHOOSE:
>Set the Tank to attack and defeat the rest of the Berserk Bots. Disintegrated bots won't be repaired. Then you can attack from two sides and call in outer reinforcements. Likelyhood of tank destruction is very, and there is a small chance of it being rehacked.
>Set the tank to Self Destruct. No doom tank, no threat, no problem, the rest will fall with sustained attacks. It could damage the facility though, but should get rid of many many bots. This is the safest, surest route.

>>1596573

I'm not entirely sure about this, but fuck it.

>Set the tank to Self Destruct. No doom tank, no threat, no problem, the rest will fall with sustained attacks. It could damage the facility though, but should get rid of many many bots. This is the safest, surest route.

Play it safe

>>1596573
>>Set the Tank to attack and defeat the rest of the Berserk Bots. Disintegrated bots won't be repaired. Then you can attack from two sides and call in outer reinforcements. Likelyhood of tank destruction is very, and there is a small chance of it being rehacked.

>>1596585
supporting

>>1596573
>>Set the tank to Self Destruct. No doom tank, no threat, no problem, the rest will fall with sustained attacks. It could damage the facility though, but should get rid of many many bots. This is the safest, surest route.
If we do this, will the destroyed bots in the explosion be salvageable? Possibly parts of the doom tank too?

>>1596461
Get some dedicated Psyker drugs after this?

>>1596573
Set it to attack

>>1595723
I knew it.
I knew it from the beginning they were going to make a giant roboscorpion with a disintegrator.

>>1596585
>>1596681
>>1596691
You decide to set the Tank to Self Destruct, the risk is just too great.

You call the Forecaster to fall back through the tunnel.

You and the boy flee through the tunnel, as a bright white flash illuminates the room. But you escape with your lives, and no one is hurt. Meanwhile above the sound of tank treads making dust fall and marching boots signal the attack has begun.

>Forecaster
"Good job. I find destruction preferable to sparing."

Since when did the forecaster get so morbid. What exactly was in those drugs.

---

The following battle was a resounding success, aided by the sheer destruction of so many bots from the exploding dis-integrator tank.

The Securitron De-Construction plant is in shambles, luckily the Concrete superstructure remains intact and only repairs to the machinery is needed.

You are able to reprogram and repair a number of new robots! Not just your salvage and repair model, but entirely new ones generated by the Berserk program!

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>>1597285
Most impressively, you find a massive type of robot. Some kind of universal Omni-Constructor able to do a vast variety of tasks, while also being incredibly armored and up gunned for its own defense!

+1 Super Heavy Omni-Constructor
+30 MKV Hazard-Salvager Securitron
+15 Sentry Shield-Juggernaut Minigunners
+60 Small Flyer Repairbots

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>>1593759
With the help of the new Construction Robots, the Military HQ is complete!

You begin to dismantle the rest of the Irradiated Tank. With the help of the Repair Fliers, Raul has some extra hands to help him and in no time at all a vast amount of chips are derived from it.

>Raul
"Wow boss, you should have thought of this months ago. I like the new help"

>Brain
"These are very useful. I believe we could upgrade them to be even more useful with some actions."

>>1597307
Y'know, most people find its polite to wait a while before suggesting the very thing that lead to the most recent crisis. Not immediately afterward.

Alright now that this is over let's figure out what we're going to do next.
I think we should build trucks so we can transport shit like water or scrap metal from Newberry/Trona faster, reverse engineer the new robots if needed, research Divide robots(If not yet completed), Scout the Divide for stuff like the Eyebots, research the alien metal then research the Alien scout ship.

>>1597307
We still either need to build that pipeline or housing for our people.

>>1597319
No pipeline, better to make trucks for the flexibility.

>>1597312
If we want to start operations in Trona, we need a signal booster somewhere along the way so we dont lose control during dust storms and the like.

>>1597323
Right, add it to the list.

>>1597312
First and foremost we go full Liam Neeson and get our daughter back. I suggest putting all our efforts in that.

>>1597331
Of course, did Riddick teach us how to fly the alien scout ship?

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Riddick has returned, and Unity waits for him as well. His car is all banged up and he's clearly injured, but beneath his cloak he reveals a small child that runs up to you and hugs you, and then her mother as well.

>Riddick
"He's a hard man to kill. Knew what you wanted was your daughter safe, pulled back before she could get hurt."

He then goes to tend his wounds, while Unity thanks him. Riddick doesn't say anything, but nods.

>>1597334
So is he dead?

>>1597334
"So he escaped? The Legion will be aware of us then."
Let's change the list, Alien metals and scout ship first, this gives us a areal advantage and we could use the ships to scout the Divide and transport.

>>>>>Food: Average (Stable)
>>>>>Water: Average (Stable)
>>>>>Medicine: Below Average (Stable)
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Wood (tiny) Scrap Metal (Average) Special Electronics (Exhausted) Hygiene Supplies (Abundant) Booze (Low) Alien Tech Scraps (Moderate) Alien Robotic Corpses (Tiny) Hexcrete Bags (Above Moderate) Plant Material (Small)
>>>>>Fuel: Airplane Fuel (Low) Ethanol (uses Food)
>>>>>Total Pop: 274 Humans (and companions) +40 Mutants/Nightkin
>>>>>Total Armaments (proportionate to the total pop) Below Average
>>>>>>Weapons: Type (Subtype, Amount, Condition)
-Conventional Melee Weapons (Legion; Moderate, Pristine)
-Conventional Firearms (Legion; Moderate, Pristine) (Mercenary, Above Moderate, Intact)
-Energy Firearms (Human Plasma, Moderate, Intact) (Human Laser, Moderate, Intact) (Alien, Moderate, Intact) (Alien-Jurry Rigged, Moderate, Intact)
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional (Below Average) Energy (Moderate)
>>>>>>Armor/Uniorms:
(Salvaged Legion, Moderate, Pristine)
(Legion Centurion. Tiny, Intact)
(OW American Infantry Armor, Moderate, Intact)
(OW American Infantry Uniforms, Moderate, Intact)
(7 Alien Bounty Hunter Armor)
(7 Alien Bounty Hunter Big Rifles)

--TRONA---
++Outpost++
>>>>>Military: 50 Securitrons MK2
>>>>> Infrastructure: Ruined buildings.
>>>>>Defenses: Ruined Houses
>>>>>Animals:

---NEWBERRY SPRINGS---
++BigMT Outpost++
>>>>>Military: 100 Securitrons MK2
>>>>> Infrastructure: Houses. Lake. Hemp Farm (Small). Banana Yucata (Medium) {NEEDS MORE HOUSES}
>>>>>Defenses: Ruined Houses. Nat100 Robot Defenses.
>>>>>Animals:

---THE CRATER---
>>>>>Morale: High
Permanent: Patriotism (Slight - Phoenix Commonwealth)
>>>>>Current Pop:
97 Human
1 Ghoul
>>>>>Garrison:
5 Devils Brigade - Power Armor
19 Couriers Companions - Arcade, Doc Delilah, Cass, Raul, Veronica, ED-E, Rusty, Wendy Gilbert, Hazel, Desmond Harper, Vanessa, Joana, AXE MAN, Milton+Hans, Sonia, Riddick, Dean Domino, Slave
98 Securitrons MK2 {BERSERK}
1 GIANT ROBO SCORPION {OFFLINE}
397 Robo Scorpions {OFFLINE}
>>>>>Prisoner: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: Higgs Village Warehouse [6 Intact Homes w/{Toilets, Air Condition}, Indoor living area. Raul’s Shack. Follower Hospital. 5 Box Cars. Latrines. Plumbing Water. Heated Water. Indoor Ventilation.) The DOME. The SINK (BigMT Command Center. The THINK TANK). The FORBIDDEN ZONE. Military HQ/Barracks (Great). Lobotomite Pleasure House (Primitive). Constrution Site (Small). Y-0 Research Center. Scrap Performance Stage. X-2 Transmitter Array. Hemp Farm.
Chinese War Factory
Small Chemical Mill
Magneto Hydraulics Plant Robotics Facility
(Tiny) Cass' Multipurpose Ethanol/Alcohol Distillery
X-12 Biological Research Plant
Small Automated Hexcrete Plant
Doppler Radar
>>>>>Defenses: Radar Fence/Mountain Range. Laser Turrets (Few)
Watch Towers.
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Riddick’s Charge Co. Dodger. 1 Giant Crane (Ruined) 1 Alien Scoutship (Ruined/Unworkable)
>>>>>>Power: Electricity (HUGE). BigMT Underground Reactors
!NEW!
>>>>>>Other
+The THINK TANK
+Dr. MOBIUS
+Unity
+Julia Farkas
+Arcade Ganon
+30 Allied Followers
+55 Captured Female Lobotomites
+67 Captured Male Lobotomites.
+20 Construction Bots
+1 Super Heavy Omni-Constructor
+30 MKV Hazard-Salvager Securitron
+15 Sentry Shield-Juggernaut Minigunners
+60 Small Flyer Repairbots
Boom Town Shooting Course

>>1597345
Are the Berserk securitrons capable of functioning in the Divide or do we need to research that again?

---THE BOXCARS---
>>>>>Morale: High
>>>>>Armaments: Average
>>>>>Current Pop:
179 Human
+40 Super Mutants/Nightkin
>>>>>Garrison:
2 Couriers Companions – Doc Mitchel, Doc Doc Orderly MD PHD DDS
+15 Mr. Orderly Robots
51 Child Soldiers “Freeside Rats”
11 Trained Regular Officers [OW American Infantry Armor] (Plasma/Laser) {Veterans}
25 Trained Regular Infantry [OW American Infantry Armor] (Plasma/Laser) {Veterans}
22 Trained Militia [Mixed Salvaged Legion] (Firearms) {Veterans}
30 Militia Recruits [Mixed Salvaged Legion] (Firearms) {Raw}
+20 Super Mutants
+20 NightKin
175 Securitrons MK2
>>>>>Prisoner: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: 19 Rail Car Homes. 15 Sheet Metal Homes. Latrines. Spring Well. Hazmant Truck Container. Radioactive Liquid Tank.Clean Water Tank (Intact). Improved Public Baths. Public Washing Machines.
Banana Yucca Farm (Large)
Cotton Farm (Medium)
>>>>>Defenses: Disease Quarantine Measures (Primitive)
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Vertibird, 1 Fuel Economic Fuel Semi Truck, 7 Tracked Construction Vehicles (Mining Specialized) Jacob Mile's Mr. Fix-It Frame
>>>>>>Power: Electricity (Adequate) {Shared from The Crater}. Electrical Poles

>>>>>>Other:
+Marcus
+Keene
+16 Herd Animals (Brahmin/Bighorn)
+3 Young Brahmin

+10000 Sierra Madre Chips

>>>>>A. Scavenge (for what)
>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons (where).
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials (where/what)
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
>>>>>Turn: 64

>>1597348
Blueprint indications appear to be so, you could always run a field test

>>1597350
Alright then.
>>1597349
>Hero.
Research alien metal, spend time with family too if possible.
>Civ.
Research the alien metal.
>construction.
Build transport trucks.
>Military.
Test the Berserk securitrons by having them get hit by a Divide storm or by sending some into the Divide.

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>1597352
Here is the roll

>>1597349
How far is it to legion front lines at camp mojave, and how long would it take a very fit man to run that distance if he does not stop?

>>1597355
We estimated 3 days with Securitrons+truck back when we started the journey, since the Legionnaire is superhuman he should take about the same time.

>>1597356
So we can send riddick and rex to intercept him and kill him vefore he reveals anything.

>>1597359
Riddick already failed and needs to heal before he can try again, we also don't know how much time we spent fighting the Berserk robots so we might not reach him in time.
How much time has passed since the Legionnaire escaped QM?

>>1597362
Altough in genera I handle abstraction of time, by the time riddick returned the Legionaire running at superhuman speeds would already be in the Mojave by now.

>>1597365
Welp, that's that, i insist we research alien metal+alien scout ship above all else.

>>1597365
Damn. Oh well. Could the legionaire even talk, or was he more of a beargh bleargh sort?

>>1597370
Niether your daughter or Riddick heard him speak, but that doesn't disporve he can talk

>>1597369
I imagine the ncr frontline is right up against the legion so we should be safe unless the ncr is pushed back even further.

>>1597370
He could talk before the dissection started, he probably still can due to his regeneration, and he doesn't need to talk to communicate to the Legion.

>>1597374
Yea but the superLeginare is going to tell the Legion and Caesar where we are and what we're doing, they might attack so it's better to be safe and get air superiority.

>>1597375
It was more a question of how coherent he was. If hes a mindless bezerker, hes a big asset for the legion, but cant leak our location. If he is coherent, then we gave them another lanius. But thats implying they believe him.

>>1597381
He attacked unity with lots of sleep syringes and stole our child, he's plenty coherent.

>>1597352
Im in favor of this, but I still favor infrastructure over truck's. Either housing for our people, or a pipeline.

>>1597380
If they attack they'd need to breach ncr frontlines, and make a three day trek through death valley, while suffering ncr counter attacks.
Even if cesear knew where we are exactly, he will not be attacking for a while.

how about we go vietnam on this and litter the way up to big mountain with thousands of hidden traps and just quarantine our people to the boxcars and crater with a fence? if we're not going to fight the legionnaire directly, we might as well have the defensive advantage if/when there's a counter attack

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>1597352
Sure vote this

>>1597393
I think we repaired what we could of Newberry's houses but i agree, we need to build houses now.
The reason why i prefer trucks is that the pipeline is permanent infrastructure and takes a significant amount of metal, i think it's not worth building just for water when we can build trucks that are flexible and can deliver other things too like scrap metal.
>>1597394
True but don't think they'll attack with soldiers, they are clever and will try something else.

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>1597352
rolling for this

>>1597398
consider my suggestion tho

We should also send troops to unity town and dissuade unity from accepting new people without checking if they're Legion spies.

>>1597403
Trucks would be better for our purposes. They could move stuff from trona or the divide as we get those operations going.

We should probably plant spices or other valuable plants at newberry so we could trade if it ever came down to that.

>>1597398
Actually we can do vietnam style guerilla fighting, the Legion does have to cross a desert, a desert we can hide our troops in.

>>1597408
If she accepts people, they cant really go report back to the legion. Shed know theyre legion once assimilated.

>>1597352
LOCKED, writing

>>1597409
I believe QM mentioned NCR already has spices so trade with them won't work, other towns/factions however could want spices.

>>1597413
I'm more worried about a Legion sabotage of Unity's hivemind, don't know how they'd do it but better safe then sorry.

>>1597416
Depending on the spice they may still want more. Or other kinds.
Like saffron or real coffee.

>>1597423
True, guess it's worth an attempt and our people need spices too.
I'll make them when we have the time.

By the way the berserk robots thing gave me an idea for Elijah, can the disintegrator disintegrate vault metal QM?

>>1597434
If you can deliver enough force/energy.

>>1597434
He answered a while back with "slightly". Wed need a bigger disintigrator to punch through to elijah.

>>1597440
>>1597441
Could the walker's disintegrator have done it?

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>>1597352
The Alient metal is some sort of synthetic alloy whose composition remains, of yet, unknown. If you only had a bettter replicator perhaps you could investigate it on a molecular level, but for now it seems unfathomable.

What is known is its superb properties as the material for an aircraft. Thought not strong or durable as steel, its fantastically light weight for its strength, far superior to aluminium. It might serve excellent properties for hover and flying constructs, and is able to be melted and reforged. Quite easily in fact.

Meanwhile, you construct a number of supply trucks from the Chinese War Factory and you send a number of robots off to the divide. Because it is out of your communications range, you'll hope that soon they return with good news.

>brb

>>1597459
That reminds me, we need to invest more research actions into the replicators.


Preferably alongside a boon or two. Backed up by convincing every follower of the apocalypse and science / repair focused companion to undergo the lobotomite surgery so we can have their brains work too.

>>1597493
Didnt the qm say we could get a dedicated research action for doing something at one point?
So all our civ actions donr have to be research.

>>1597493
>That reminds me, we need to invest more research actions into the replicators.
I agree.
>>1597499
I believe he said we need more researchers.

>>1597501
I thought it was complete the relevent research facilities?

>>1597501
>>1597505
>>1597499
You need a boost. I'm wanting to see if you guys can use your imagination for this. If you're clever enough you might not even need a boon to make it happen.

>>1597517
We can either
1 Make the followers/companions undergo the lobotomite surgery for more science brains.
2 Use the Big MTs large cache of science books to teach our people and make our society mostly research focused.
3 Make AIs to research for us maybe?

>>1597517
To seeing how we disassemble it, get it analyzed, find equivalents to use as a reference?
Was it hinted at that post?

>>1597501
>>1597505
Well getting all those scientist, engineers and other educated brain's together to throw ideas around and develop them could arguably be counted as a research facility.

Admittedly a primarily design and theory division unless they have labs and workshops to manufacture prototypes and test ideas. However if we are going to give them such things, I would suggest making a few "lab" robots for them to control for experiments and a custom forge / material replicator system of some sort.

If we back this up with some sort of disassembly and cataloguing section they can also develop / work on alien or foreign technology by taking it apart for study.

>>1597517
Wait is this for the Vending machines?

>>1597524
Someone is using their noodle

Seriously guys, I know as a QM there are things I know that aren't immediately obvious to you but just trying to think out of the box sometimes can lead to surprising results.

The brain brought you here for a reason!

>>1597528
I'm uncomfortable with using the Lobotomite surgery on our people but i won't complain if it gets picked.

>>1597531
>Someone is using their noodle
Is it number 2? I want it to be number 2.

Throw the brain in a jar option to abyone that wants it, and then expand the thinktank?

May give the current think tank some focus, although that might not be the safest thing....

We could also try to find the New Vegas BoS, with them and the Followers it would make a good research group.
Unless Maxson got them first.

>>1597541
Do not use the think tank until we make them sane again with personal Lobotomite bodies or something.

>>1597534
Probably a nice mix would be good. Make people aware brain removal is an option, start educting them, and develop some ai assistants.

>>1597459
>If you only had a bettter replicator perhaps you could investigate it on a molecular level, but for now it seems unfathomable.
>>1597517
>>1597525
>>1597531
What are we trying to think out of the box for? What's the missing piece to the puzzle?
Being able to analyze the material?

>>1597545
Alright, let's do that then.
>>1597549
we're trying to think outside the box for researchers, look at what Qm is linking to in >>1597517

>>1597549
How to get dedicated research actions rather than use general civ actions to do research.

>>1597544
We should work on that, or i fear they will always be a ticking timebomb just 2 seconds away.

Alright then everyone, let's build a school.

>>1597553
I imagine being in an echo chamber of crazy is worse for them than having some moderating influences in the think tabk

>>1597553
>Klein
"NONSENSE!

OUR DOOMSDAY CLOCK INDICATES WE ARE 2 SECONDS PAST MIDNIGHT! I WON'T HAVE ANY LATE CLOCKS ON MY WATCH!"

>Dr. 0
"Uh Dr. Klein are you sure that was the purpose of the doomsday clock?"

>Dr. Klein
"OF COURSE I'M SURE! WERE IT NOT FOR ME, WE WOULD STILL BE SUFFERING THOSE INFERNAL RED ALARMS FROM OUR CLOCK GOING OFF. YOU INCEREBRATES DIDN'T EVEN INSTALL A SNOOZE BUTTON."

>>1597562
Hey QM, can you post that list of tasks again?

>>1597556
This is true. That and the recursive data loop. I feel that if we fix them and convince / coerce them to our way of thinking they could be an amazing research force. Especially if we add any of the brains that we produce to the mix for a much larger focussed think tank.

None of this is without risk however.

>>>>>Food: Average (Stable)
>>>>>Water: Average (Stable)
>>>>>Medicine: Below Average (Stable)
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Wood (tiny) Scrap Metal (Average) Special Electronics (Exhausted) Hygiene Supplies (Abundant) Booze (Low) Alien Tech Scraps (Moderate) Alien Robotic Corpses (Tiny) Hexcrete Bags (Above Moderate) Plant Material (Small)
>>>>>Fuel: Airplane Fuel (Low) Ethanol (uses Food)
>>>>>Total Pop: 274 Humans (and companions) +40 Mutants/Nightkin
>>>>>Total Armaments (proportionate to the total pop) Below Average
>>>>>>Weapons: Type (Subtype, Amount, Condition)
-Conventional Melee Weapons (Legion; Moderate, Pristine)
-Conventional Firearms (Legion; Moderate, Pristine) (Mercenary, Above Moderate, Intact)
-Energy Firearms (Human Plasma, Moderate, Intact) (Human Laser, Moderate, Intact) (Alien, Moderate, Intact) (Alien-Jurry Rigged, Moderate, Intact)
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional (Below Average) Energy (Moderate)
>>>>>>Armor/Uniorms:
(Salvaged Legion, Moderate, Pristine)
(Legion Centurion. Tiny, Intact)
(OW American Infantry Armor, Moderate, Intact)
(OW American Infantry Uniforms, Moderate, Intact)
(7 Alien Bounty Hunter Armor)
(7 Alien Bounty Hunter Big Rifles)

Bots have not yet returned, but the Divide is a distance away. Hopefully they will come back soon.

--TRONA---
++Outpost++
>>>>>Military: 50 Securitrons MK2
>>>>> Infrastructure: Ruined buildings.
>>>>>Defenses: Ruined Houses
>>>>>Animals:

---NEWBERRY SPRINGS---
++BigMT Outpost++
>>>>>Military: 100 Securitrons MK2
>>>>> Infrastructure: Houses. Lake. Hemp Farm (Small). Banana Yucata (Medium) {NEEDS MORE HOUSES}
>>>>>Defenses: Ruined Houses. Nat100 Robot Defenses.
>>>>>Animals:

---THE CRATER---
>>>>>Morale: High
Permanent: Patriotism (Slight - Phoenix Commonwealth)
>>>>>Current Pop:
97 Human
1 Ghoul
>>>>>Garrison:
5 Devils Brigade - Power Armor
19 Couriers Companions - Arcade, Doc Delilah, Cass, Raul, Veronica, ED-E, Rusty, Wendy Gilbert, Hazel, Desmond Harper, Vanessa, Joana, AXE MAN, Milton+Hans, Sonia, Riddick, Dean Domino, Slave
98 Securitrons MK2 {BERSERK}
1 GIANT ROBO SCORPION {OFFLINE}
397 Robo Scorpions {OFFLINE}
>>>>>Prisoner: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: Higgs Village Warehouse [6 Intact Homes w/{Toilets, Air Condition}, Indoor living area. Raul’s Shack. Follower Hospital. 5 Box Cars. Latrines. Plumbing Water. Heated Water. Indoor Ventilation.) The DOME. The SINK (BigMT Command Center. The THINK TANK). The FORBIDDEN ZONE. Military HQ/Barracks (Great). Lobotomite Pleasure House (Primitive). Constrution Site (Small). Y-0 Research Center. Scrap Performance Stage. X-2 Transmitter Array. Hemp Farm.
Chinese War Factory
Small Chemical Mill
Magneto Hydraulics Plant Robotics Facility
(Tiny) Cass' Multipurpose Ethanol/Alcohol Distillery
X-12 Biological Research Plant
Small Automated Hexcrete Plant
Doppler Radar
>>>>>Defenses: Radar Fence/Mountain Range. Laser Turrets (Few)
Watch Towers.
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Riddick’s Charge Co. Dodger. 1 Giant Crane (Ruined) 1 Alien Scoutship (Ruined/Unworkable)
>>>>>>Power: Electricity (HUGE). BigMT Underground Reactors
!NEW!
>>>>>>Other
+The THINK TANK
+Dr. MOBIUS
+Unity
+Julia Farkas
+Arcade Ganon
+30 Allied Followers
+55 Captured Female Lobotomites
+67 Captured Male Lobotomites.
+20 Construction Bots
+1 Super Heavy Omni-Constructor
+30 MKV Hazard-Salvager Securitron
+15 Sentry Shield-Juggernaut Minigunners
+60 Small Flyer Repairbots
Boom Town Shooting Course

---THE BOXCARS---
>>>>>Morale: High
>>>>>Armaments: Average
>>>>>Current Pop:
179 Human
+40 Super Mutants/Nightkin
>>>>>Garrison:
2 Couriers Companions – Doc Mitchel, Doc Doc Orderly MD PHD DDS
+15 Mr. Orderly Robots
51 Child Soldiers “Freeside Rats”
11 Trained Regular Officers [OW American Infantry Armor] (Plasma/Laser) {Veterans}
25 Trained Regular Infantry [OW American Infantry Armor] (Plasma/Laser) {Veterans}
22 Trained Militia [Mixed Salvaged Legion] (Firearms) {Veterans}
30 Militia Recruits [Mixed Salvaged Legion] (Firearms) {Raw}
+20 Super Mutants
+20 NightKin
175 Securitrons MK2
>>>>>Prisoner: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: 19 Rail Car Homes. 15 Sheet Metal Homes. Latrines. Spring Well. Hazmant Truck Container. Radioactive Liquid Tank.Clean Water Tank (Intact). Improved Public Baths. Public Washing Machines.
Banana Yucca Farm (Large)
Cotton Farm (Medium)
>>>>>Defenses: Disease Quarantine Measures (Primitive)
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Vertibird, 1 Fuel Economic Fuel Semi Truck, 7 Tracked Construction Vehicles (Mining Specialized) Jacob Mile's Mr. Fix-It Frame. 5 Chinese Supply Trucks
>>>>>>Power: Electricity (Adequate) {Shared from The Crater}. Electrical Poles

>>>>>>Other:
+Marcus
+Keene
+16 Herd Animals (Brahmin/Bighorn)
+3 Young Brahmin

+10000 Sierra Madre Chips

>>>>>A. Scavenge (for what)
>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons (where).
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials (where/what)
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
>>>>>Turn: 65

>>1597562
>tfw our doom has already happened.

>>1597568
Will do when I get back home, have to go somewhere atm

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>1597579
>Hero.
Collect books in Big MT and put them in the school when finished.
>Civ.
Make more sierra madre machines.
>Construction.
Build a school in The boxcars.
>Military.
Training and learning.

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>1597582
Sounds good. Vote this
Publicize brain removal if its a free action.

>>1597584
I'm still not sure about brain removal, don't want too many people to take it so maybe hold some tests later when the school is finished and offer the top 3-5 the choice to be Lobotomized?

>>1597590
Why not? Literally no downsides. Even when you're in a radio dead zone, youre atill you.
And dumb peoples brains still become hella smart

>>1597597
>Literally no downsides.
I don't believe that.

>>1597579
>Hero.
Attempt to convince the followers of the apocalypse to undergo the brain removal procedure.

>Civ.
Research the Material replicators.

>Construction.
Begin construction of a radio tower / booster tower towards the Divide.

>Military.
Scout out the region towards the Divide.


Trust me, I have a plan. We can build a school in future and we will get a far better deal from it when I've done the research I plan on doing.

>>1597602
Y'know the qm isnt going to kneecap your plan just because you told everyone before hand. You can actually explain rather then just say "trust me, i have a plan"

>>1597602
Nah, do it now.
And you can just tell us your plan instead of saying "trust me" you shady man.

>>1597602
Also we can't research the replicators without making more.