>You are Newt. Alpha shadow and the hives Recon and assassination specialist.

You raise your dripping maw from the belly of a dead crewman, entrails dripping from your fangs as you chew the unfortunates liver. The humans aboard this station appear to have fallen back from the reports of the warriors and drones setting up the hive structure. They know they are outclassed immensely and are holing up, attempting to seal off the station.

>Send a recon team (Newt and 3 Shadows) to infiltrate and scout it out (D100+4)

>Send Dutch and a commando team to do a deep strike (Dutch +4 Warriors or 2 Heavy warriors. Determine loadout, D100+6)

>Send Quiet alone to survey the situation. They wont even see him until theyre dead (D100+3)

>The hive does not sneak anymore. Full attack. (D100+12

>>1609313
Also-Current hive Constructs (biomechanical improvements to Echo Hive)

>1 Boarding cannon (can launch 6 regular sized Xenomorphs or 2 Large at an enemy ship)

>4 Quillburst Emplacements (Fast firing Point defense and anti fighter posts)

>2 Superior Sensor clusters (can scan system and detect stealthed or small vessels)

>6 Burster Spine launchers (slow firing dense spines that explode deep in enemy ships/structures)

>4 Spine Cannons (Fires superdense Spears of chitin deep into enemy ships. Can be loaded with incendiary, Acidic or just kinetic spikes)

>Jammer Clusters- can actively jam enemy transmissions indefinitely. Cannot scan while jamming

>1 Superior Bio-Reactor- provides extra power to engines and Weapons. Currently at +3 bonus to movement and weapons.

>1 Bio-Plasma Engine. Capable of moving Echo Hives Ponderous bulk through space if you don't mind waiting.

>Trapped interior- enemies will immediately take losses upon entering Echo Hive.

>Navigator- You need at least 1 per ship to actually get anywhere instead of just drifting forever.

Rolled 23 + 12 (1d100 + 12)

>>1609346
>the hive does not sneak anymore. Attack

Rolled 49 + 4 (1d100 + 4)

>>1609346
>>Send a recon team (Newt and 3 Shadows) to infiltrate and scout it out (D100+4)
Infiltration and terror tactics are a hallmark of our hive. Let's have Newt open up a hole in their defenses for Dutch and our warriors to exploit.

>>1609797
This. Dice!

Rolled 71 + 12 (1d100 + 12)

>>1609853
Woops!

>71+12. Full assault.

Screeches of rage and excitement echo through the halls as your hive gathers for an assault. Claws click and clatter along the metal floors and walls that have yet to be coated in thick, wet black resin.

Your Goliath and Heavy Warriors barrel ahead into sealed doors, some still glowing from their welds in the center. The metal is bashed open under repeated strikes of their bulk. Humans scatter in fear, some firing as they run and others ducking into cover as your weapon equipped warriors fire into them. Needles, spines and shards of chitin fly through the air alongside bullets. Men fly back and lay in crumpled piles, bodies pierced a dozen times. Xenos squeal in rage as they are flecked by bullets, gouges torn from their hides.

Battle is joined.

>Write in strategy. This is a military station so they have decent armaments. However their crew is mostly injured and those that are combat capable are few in number.

>most popular choice wins

>SURVIVAL BUMP

>>1610059
Shield wall out front, ranged warriors along walls/ceiling, squishy units hiding inside the formation lobbing attacks.

>>1610929
backing

Your Guardians rapidly form up, their Shredder cannons thumping heavily. Shards of razor sharp chitin whistle through the air in clouds as men and women scream and fall, clutching bloody stumps or coughing up blood from pierced lungs.

Quiet slings a cloud of needles over the shield wall, peppering a group of men who fall nearly simultaneously, lips and tongues swelling as they die. The cruel Xenomorph rushes off to find his next firing position.

Dutch shrugs off the terrified humans firepower, bullets glancing from his hard carapace as he slashes in rage with his claws. His heavy limbs break bone and allow the bladelike claws to rend limbs.

Your Needle Warriors and Spine warriors cluster behind the Guardians, firing through the gaps as they close in. Many a Human falls studded with spines or pierced a dozen times by the slender quills.

As the shield wall advances you leap over, followed by the rest of the drones and shadows. Pouring over the suppressed humans you lay about with fang and claw, blood arcing high as you whip from one foe to the next, ducking under fire and slashing wildly, spilling entrails and gore in tides of crimson.

>3 Drones mildly wounded
>1 Shredder guardian moderately wounded
>Dutch mildly wounded
>2 Warriors mildly wounded

>27 humans killed
>11 humans captured.

>Pursue and Destroy (D100+12)

>Reinforce position (D100+14)

>Change perspective to boarding crew 1

>Mutate/Equip a hivemate

>Other

Rolled 40 + 14 (1d100 + 14)

>>1611359
>>Reinforce position (D100+14)

Rolled 6 + 12 (1d100 + 12)

>>1611359
>Pursue and Destroy (D100+12)

Rolled 63 + 12 (1d100 + 12)

>>1611520
Get those little face huggers to work, and have our lazy goliath lead the charge

>>1611588
You actually are rather low on facehuggers right now.

Rolled 71 + 12 (1d100 + 12)

>>1611359
>Pursue and Destroy (D100+12)

>63+12. Pursue and Destroy.

Your Swarm moves forth, swarming over the dead and wounded humans after those that flee. The Goliath leads the charge, a pair of needle warriors clinging to its sides and firing into the humans while chattering gleefully.

A crewman falls in front of the Goliath, his terrified scream cut short under a massive clawed foot as the beast crushes him to jelly. Your Heavy warriors charge behind, their crushing blows flattening men against the walls and smashing bone to dust.

The humans that do manage to flee your retribution are few in number, several crowding into escape pods and fleeing the station entirely.

The heavy bulkhead doors seal shut ahead of you. The remaining humans opting to leave their wounded to you.

>38 humans killed
>17 humans captured.

>Smash open those doors. Claim Beta station (D100+12)

>Leave them be for now, consolidate your position (D100+14)

>Switch to Boarding Crew 1

>Mutate/Equip a hivemate (who)

>Improve hive (D100+14)

>Other

Rolled 85 + 12 (1d100 + 12)

>>1612421
>>Smash open those doors. Claim Beta station (D100+12)
Your base is ours now

Rolled 75 + 12 (1d100 + 12)

>>1612765
All your base are belong to us.
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::::to the collective::::
Though after this we will need to recover the pods that escaped. We have jammers in place, but its best not to let them get too far. Perhaps time to mutuate and evolve some Vaccumorphs after this, no?

Rolled 95 + 12 (1d100 + 12)

>>1612765
Rollan.

>>1613056
YYEESS!

>95+12. All your station are belong to us.

The seam between the doors glows briefly as the humans attempt to weld it shut, spatters of molten metal dripping onto the floor as the metal is fused together. Perhaps if they had more time they could hope to keep you out.

They do not.

Your Goliath barrels into the doors like a juggernaut of hate, knocking them free from their mountings and crushing the humans working on them into a fine paste under tons of metal. The tide of chitin that moves in behind the Goliath swarms o Er any resistance, most of the humans simply staring in shock as they are pulled down and subdued by the rampaging xenomorphs. Every crack and crevice of Beta station is inspected, ever hiding spot scoured until the crew is secured in resin cocoons in the rapidly expanding new addition to Echo hive.

>Captured Beta station (I actually meant for this to be a bit more challenging but you guys rolled a LOT better than they did. Nearly every time. That's why you did this with almost no injures on your part.)
>Killed 7 human captives
>Gained 29 human captives

>Improve hive (How, D100+14)

>Build Hive constructs on/in Echo station

>Mutate/Equip a hivemate (Who and how)

>Research a tech (D100+14, write in)

>Switch to Boarding crew 1

>Other

>>1613586
>>Switch to Boarding crew 1
Alright, let's wrap up the capture of all nearby ships before we start getting comfortable.

Rolled 8 + 14 (1d100 + 14)

>>1613586
>Mutate
10 Drones -> Warriors
1 Drone -> Builder
1 Drone -> Navigator (hold off on installing, I want to build a xeno frigate.)

>Improve hive
Extend our hive nodes onto Beta.

>>1613602
Then do this.

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>1613586
>Other
Send out the Gremlins to find any new tech/ secrets for us to learn. Perhaps there was some clandestine science on board. At the very least we have captured many, many intact and operating systems.

>>1613586
Actually, can we molt some of our drones into Arachnae? They could really help out both the gremlins and the shadows, and if we intend to expand the hive they will be useful construction workers.

Plus, they're absolutely terrifying.

>>1613784
>arachnid Xenos
I'm fucking terrified, backing

>>1613784
Of course you can. As a stealth/defense unit they are pretty awesome.

>>1613674
Beta Station is actually just a shipyard/outpost basically. Ships come by to refuel/reload/do repairs and whatnot.

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>>1614092
Jinkies scoob!

>>1614091
in light of this, I would like to redirect my roll at:

>Improve hive (How, D100+14)
That one upgrade from the last session where all metal is converted into Chitin, etc by placement of acidic nodes

>89+14. Metallic chitin conversion.

All across Echo hive and its new addition Builders scurry and toil, drones following diligently. They vomit forth the nodes of pulsating tissue, securing them to the walls and floors in corners. As they grow and spread their living resin across the stations the metal underneath begins to bubble and corrode away, the chitin surrounding it taking on a metallic sheen. The nodes spread as the metal beneath is eaten away, bubbles of the black chitin spreading like slow oil across the exterior of the hull.

The floors and walls within Beta and Echo begin falling away, the resin forming large chambers and rounded corridors within. No longer a twisting maze of human made hallways. A hive of swirling passages and open, dark chambers underneath a thick, metal enfused shell.

Echo Hive now is a shiny black conglomerate in space, protrusions of resin hiding the weapon emplacements and sheltering the engine. The remainder of Beta station bulges like a tumor from the lower portion of the hull, the metallic chitin spreading slowly across the outside.
Truly the hive is now alive in the vacuum of space.

>Improve hive/Build hive constructs (D100+14)

>Mutate/equip hivemates (who and how)

>Switch to boarding crew 1

>Research a tech (What, D100+14)

>Other

>>1614475
>Mutate
4 Gremlins
1 Builder
15 Warriors
2 Whatever special units anon wants (write-in, please)

Should leave us with 50 drones, 15 Builders, 25 Warriors, and 10 Gremlins.

Let's switch to the boarding crew immediately after mutation starts.

Rolled 34 + 14 (1d100 + 14)

>>1614475
>Improve hive/Build hive constructs (D100+14)
Add structural reinforcements.

Rolled 24 + 14 (1d100 + 14)

>>1614829
>>1614533
Do these both.

>>1614842
Support

Rolled 87 + 14 (1d100 + 14)

>>1614475
>>Research a tech (What, D100+14)
Assault rifles

>>1614903
Roll, pls?

>>1614910
by virtue of being too slow, we meet the 3 roll requirement, and it seems Assault rifles are in our future.
>>1614908
congratulations to the man with the gun.

>>1614908
Already done. Needle warriors are the result.

>>1614903
Trying to dice again

>>1614908
Want to join the "structural reinforcement" team?

>>1615131
I think ill just repurpose his roll for that if he doesn't answer.

>>1615141
Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Could we get a list of researchable tech sometime?

>>1615290
Researchable tech is pretty much anything in reason. Biomechanical weapons, Upgrades, Armors, additions to the hive, really that's the "Xenomorph this this thing" option. Better engines, new ship based weapons, new Xenomorph types, new weapons, new Tech. Its a write in.

>87+14. Structural supports.

Your builders, tireless as ever begin moving about the entirety of the Hive, weaving thick strands of resin into shape. The metal infused material takes form as series of honeycomb like braces that spread throughout the hive.

The braces are built into the walls, each room, passage and chamber supported. A thick layer of the structures are woven into the outer layer of the hive, bracing the shell against even the most cataclysmic of impacts

>Improve hive/Build hive constructs (D100+14)

>Mutate/equip hivemates (who and how)

>Switch to boarding crew 1

>Research a tech (What, D100+14)

>Other

>Also implant hosts how. 67 human captives.
>54 eggs. Double facehugger mutation.

>>1615332
>>Switch to boarding crew 1

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>1615332
(dont know if we need a roll or if its by popularity)
>Switch to boarding crew 1
and use enough eggs to generate some new drones to get to work...doing drone things.

Somewhat unrelated, but can capture the other frigates and upgrade them as our hive is... and put them to use as potential...life boats for our hive population, lets say, if something bad were to happen...like a planetfall?

>>1615356
Of course you can. And switching to boarding crew is just popularity.

>>1615332
>>Switch to boarding crew 1

>>1615406
Then yes, I would like to switch to crew 1.

I will use my roll to attempt an unusual mutation if you will allow it. If not, Then to whatever your own digression allows.

A xenomorph that can utilize the technology we have uncovered to get around in space, namely for boarding actions. Basically, the ability to endure the vacuum of space a bit better than most, and have some sort of miniaturized reactor/ engine system.

>>1615453
I can make that work. Instead of smaller bioengines id think a exoskeleton with tubes of highly pressurized gases that allow for maneuvering in vacuum and 0g

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>>1616017
Ill take it!

>>1616706
>that pic
kek

>Mutation Researched-Vacuummorph.

A Xenomorph adapted perfectly to survive and move in the airless void of space. Its carapace is layered with a particularly viscous "blood" that hardens in the flash of an eye to seal any gaps. Advanced air recycling organs line the inside of its body cavity, allowing it to function for days without air. Tubes of highly pressurized gases line its limbs, allowing to maneuver in 0g. Extremely sticky pads along its foreclaws and feet allow it to adhere to the hull of Echo hive or an enemy vessel easily.

>Boarding crew 1.

The Ship has devolved into chaos in the meantime since your boarding crew made their violent entrance. Asphyxiated and boiled corpses fill the lower decks of the ship, the crews unable to repair their life support because of the silent killers that inhabit the very walls. Every man who ventures out is never seen again. The remaining crew have locked themselves into the main battery and hangar bay and are attempting to either escape or trigger some sort of last ditch explosion. It isn't good either way.

>3 Warriors. 3 Drones.

>Attack the Hangar. They won't escape (D100)

>Attack the main battery (D100)

>Other

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>1617321
>Attack the Hangar. They won't escape

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>1617321
>Attack the Hangar. They won't escape

>>1617367
>>1617464

The dice gods cease to smile upon you

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>1617321
>>Attack the Hangar. They won't escape (D100)

>>1617695
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axTt145iggs
Like a firey god exploding from the crust of the earth, anon 6SJy1F2M saves the day.

>93. Attack the hangar.

The humans that had sealed themselves into the hangar had behaved as though they were combating beasts. The bulkhead doors were barricaded with shipping containers and sheets of metal. Men and women move about, loading shuttles with supplies and watching the doors with their weapons never far from their hands.

They never expected the attack to come from beneath them.

The slats of the floor burst open, black carapaced Warriors emerging and dragging humans under the floor. Blood fountains through the gaps in the floor as the Warriors tear them to pieces.

Drones leap into groups of the humans, moving too quickly for the panicked crewmen to even draw a bead on them. The humans attempt to flee through the barricaded doors but the rampaging xenomorphs fall upon them like a tide of claws and hunger.

>Hangar captured.

>Attack The main Battery (D100)

>Request reinforcements (up to 6 regular sized xenomorphs)

>other

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>1619813
Attack The main Battery (D100)

Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>1619813
>Attack The main Battery (D100)

>>1619882
supporting

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>1619813
>Attack The main Battery (D100)

>>1617321
>>Attack The main Battery (D100)

>94. Attack main battery

The main battery of a frigate is in essence, a giant armory for the various point defense cannons and minicannons that stud the hull. The massive shells for the main cannon line the walls, sitting like silent monoliths as the remaining humans move about in their purpose.

Charges are rigged along the high explosive shells, the cannons rigged to fire misloaded shells and rupture the hull. The humans intend to scuttle the ship and deny your hive their ship.

Their efforts are for naught.

With screeches of rage your boarding crew tears through the very walls, climbing along gunbelts and exploding from ventilation shafts. The few humans entrenched within the battery are surrounded, overwhelmed.

They fight valiantly, the lack of fear known only to men who know they are already dead. They fire into the Xenomorphs and attempt to set off the charges before they are cut down and ripped apart by merciless black claws.

Your Boarding crew report back to the queen. They have captured the ship. What is her will?

>Fire a group of builders and drones to the ship to begin Hiving it.

>order them to impact it with echo hive

>Activate the scuttling charges (Lose the drones and the ship)

>Other

>>1620740
>Fire a group of builders and drones to the ship to begin Hiving it.
Let's wait before fusing them (if anyone thinks we should).

I just recently read this quest. It has me thinking up some new Aliens horror scenes.

>3 Builders and 3 Drones sent to Captured Frigate.

A small crew of builders enjoy a much gentler journey than the sudden jarring explosion of movement the first boarding spikes experienced.

They clamber out of the spike as it pierces the hull of the frigate, the resin it is composed of rapidly being broken down as your Builders repurpose its mass to repair the hull and begin the process of Hiving the ship.

>Lay down acidic nodes to convert the metal to Hive Chitin. (D100+3)

>Research a Tech (Improve Buster spines, Improve Spine Cannons, Improve QuillBurst, improve Reactor tech, other)

>write in

>>1620740

>Fire a group of builders and drones to the ship to begin Hiving it.

We need to collect the rest of the frigates around the hive, and carefully...as carefully as xenomorphs can, Dock them side by side with each other to create our new home.

Rolled 95 + 3 (1d100 + 3)

>>1621145
>>Lay down acidic nodes to convert the metal to Hive Chitin. (D100+3)

>>1621162
no replies. Requesting either resolution, or confirmation that quest is in stasis for a while.

>>1621162
Supporting

>>1621162
Ooh baby! With a roll like that I have to support.

>>1621159
Modified thought: If we could make a single roll to convert the remaining frigates into minor hives that mirror our own structural/ engine upgrades, and some sort of boarding spike system...tl/dr: a complete mini hive: why? In each Frigate we put a few warriors, some drones, some eggs, and a juvenile queen as a sort of "hive starter kit" and send them on their way.

Eventually we get to butt heads with these other hives, and its up to the QM to determine how they evolved, what became of them, if they were successful, wiped out, or somehow enslaved by humans, etc.

Gives more story options.

This shit dead.

>>1632186
Nah, cursedqm has another quest he does besides this one, he'll just get back to xenomorph quest later.

>>1632194
Oh god damn it, I swear I don't normally namefag.

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>>1632668
NO FUCK YOU, I'M NOT A NAMEFAG, I'M NOT A NAMEFAG DAMN IT!

>>1632703
THATS WHAT A NAMEFAG WOULD SAY

>>1632703
I spent far too much time laughing. thank you anon. I can hear the DBZ music and sound effects.

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>>1635462
NO FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU BOTH, I'M NO NAMEFAG!! YOU ARE ALL NAMEFAGS, I DON'T NEED THIS SHIT, I'M NAVY SEAL AND GOT MARINES ON ALL YOUR ASSES AND ALL THAT SHIT, YOUR FUCKED KID!!!