>>2994912
>Its the next day
Oh boy

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>>2994912
You feel the notice of a Distant Mind
>Psionic research has received a small boost
>Slip drives have a 10% chance to alert you to their usage

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 32,997,640N
Metals: 27,873,614M
Credits: ₡6,252,206
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,175,000

Active Commercial trade routes:
>Leeland – Lanway HMS Orphan, Captain John Spreckels
[FormOther brand Fusion Reactors]
Estimated per-day value: ₡2,500,000

>Construction underway

system adjustments needed
[Heavy Fleet] x15
[Fast Assault Fleet] x5

>Formed fleets and orders
Citadel Hive Ship – [Awaiting orders]
Small Heavy Defense Fleet [Patrolling Leeland space]
25 Heavy Battle Fleet [Supporting Commonwealth Liberation]
5 Missile Ambush Fleet [Awaiting orders]
30 Light Fleets [Supporting Commonwealth Liberation]
25 Light Fleets [Awaiting orders]
10 Fast Assault Fleets [Awaiting orders]
10 Ambush Fleet
6 Carrier Battle groups
10 Missile Ambush Fleet [Awaiting orders]

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
[Gemini]
3 Taidaren Hybrids (105)
4 Human flash clone upkeep – 120
18 Human hybrid clone upkeep – 540
Specializations:
>Tech
>Engineer
>Brawler
[Hive space]
100 Human Hybrids – 3,000
Lyle Rogers – 57
Jackob Eisner – 56
Dillon Reager – 30
Clone/project upkeep – 3,908N

>Income
Metals: 2,950,500
Nutrients: 7,636,000
Net:

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 6,675,390

(Nutrient stat + structures) * 1k * dev score + modifiers = Nutrient income total
(Metal stat + structures) * dev score + modifiers = Metal income total

>>2994915
It's like exiting a paradoxical limbo dimension where things were both constantly happening and not moving forward at all.

FOR MOTHER

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>>2994923
Espionage Activity

Gemini
Agitation – ************___
Suspicion – ******_________
N 48
M 18
Development 70
[Covert Infiltration]
>Beggars and Taidarens
Resources:
1 Sleeper Cell within local civilian infrastructure
A high ranking source of information within the governmnet
Close ties with local Taidaren clans

This planet holds an embassy, random chance to gain intelligence each day, +1 Active Operation available. This planet's population is highly irritable and aggressive to Hive influence. All failure and detection chances are increased. Increased rate of psionic resistance in the local populace. Any attempt to increase unrest will receive a bonus to success chance and increased detection rate.

[Full infrastructure roster unknown]
Union Parliament Building – Unique: The primary seat of Union political authority, this structure organizes the humans and various xeno entities within the Union into a semblance of order, collecting taxes and passing laws, all things the Hive has little need for, but the single-minded cannot function without.
BFI HQ – Unique: The center of Union counter intelligence, the Bureau of Foreign Intelligence is devoted to rooting out espionage across the Union, as well as infiltrating enemy or possibly hostile planets and organizations. Allows recruitment of BFI agents and deployment of espionage cell networks on other planets.
Space Elevator [Under construction] – This space elevator is nearing completion, however political corruption and recent unnatural inclement weather patterns have caused delays.
ISGM launch facility – Launch facilities for ISGM's, or Interstellar Gravitic Missiles. In effect high-yield MIRV warheads fitted to corvette sized automated vessels capable of short range warp travel and the deployment of many dozens of independently targeting nuclear, kinetic, or gravitic warheads. Nicknamed 'planet busters' the very existence of these warheads are typically reserved as a deterrent, and are too large to be effectively used against anything other than planets or space cities.
Union Customs Authority – Unique: Large scale government oversight of import and export activity creates a demand for a greater level of traffic be diverted through the capital system when dealing with interstellar multi-national corporations so as to allow said corporate travel more rapid movement through local bureaucracy. +2 Commercial Trade Routes
[Detected Economic Activity]
Commercial Trade routes:
Gemini – Librae
Librae – Gemini
Lanway – Gemini

>>2994923
>>Formed fleets and orders
Do we... do we still have fleets?

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>>2994929
Gemini Beta
[Maintain Concealment]
This is a sparsely populated military world. Low population increases the abilities to conceal a hive, while its large military presence increases the failure rate of operations. This world is under military lock down, dramatically increasing failure rates of attempted actions and operations.

[Hydra]
Path
[Maintain Concealment]
This planet is currently under military lock down, dramatically increasing failure and detection chances. The local population is anxious and afraid of the future due to recent events, increasing the population's psionic vulnerability to influence.

Talgo
[Maintain Concealment]
Elite Hive Agent Anderson: Spin Doctor – Allows minor passive influence of local politics, increasing or decreasing Agitation or Suspicion by one point per day. Requires at least Covert Infiltration.
This planet is undergoing an infestation from non-native insectoid life forms. Discovery chance is decreased as locals dismiss your flies as part of the infestation, but failure rate is increased as local anti-infestation measures inadvertently kill your drones periodically.

Coral
[Maintain Concealment]
This planet's native biosphere is silicon based, limiting the capacity for your drones to disguise themselves as native life forms and forcing them to siphon off food from local settlements, increasing detection chances.

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>>2994912
Aww yiss, time for my favorite spacebugs quest.

>>2994912
Gas the squids
Stab the monkeys
Nuke the whales
Trust nothing!

>>2994923
Um... aren’t most of the “awaiting orders” fleets still at the artificial planet in Scav space?

Not that I’m complaining, I thought leaving the majority of our military in an area tainted by void fuckery was a bad idea anyway.

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>>2994936
[Eridanus]
Huron
Agitation – **_____________
Suspicion – *______________
N 78
M 25
Development 65
[Passive Observation]

[Full infrastructure roster unknown]
Huronese Fishers' Guild – Exclusivity laws and carefully organized mass-branding gives locally caught specimens artificially high value, translating 25% of local N income to Credits.
Island Resort – Strings of small island chains domed against the frequent storms offer mock-traditional entertainment and themed luxury events to the ultra-wealthy, increasing Credit income
Wet Navy – Floating and submersible platforms make up the majority of the planet's anti-orbital battery locations, allowing for the rapid relocation of PDF forces on short notice. Improves firing arcs of anti-orbital weapons.

[Sirius]
Mentan
[Maintain Concealment]
Elite Hive Agent Decker: Tech – Is able to gather additional information, reduces detection risk of local espionage.
This planet is currently in a state of mild unrest due to regular protests and small riots regarding upcoming local elections. Such activity is considered normal for the planet's relatively unstable political landscape.

Arnim
[Maintain Concealment]
This planet is currently reeling from a sudden and sharp rise in interstellar economic instability, resulting in widespread panic among the economic elites and a local pension crisis among lower class employees as a result of the sudden flash-crash of a number of megacorporations' stock values, a sharp rise in interest rates, and the reduction of a number of Expanse prospecting related market trackers to penny-stock status. The lower classes suffering from the sudden loos of pensions and savings are demanding answers, and protests have broken out, with riots outside several major banks. Anti-xeno sentiment is growing rapidly, against both Valen banking clans and Hive territorial claims.

>>2994932
Yes... Though you've sent most of them into Scavenger space. I may not have updated all of their orders correctly. I had to delay the thread due to one of my tooth fillings spontaneously failing and causing an abscess, resulting in debilitating pain through most of the weekend. Ended up having to delay the thread and spend most of the week in bed high on prescription pain killers because of it while waiting for a root canal appointment on monday. As a result, most of this thread's prep work was done over a sleepless 32 hour period, with a short nap just a few hours ago. Please let me know if you see anything wrong and I'll fix it.

Weekly reminder

>Raid OQ
>Board a scav vessel for their FTL.
>Board and take over a scav world ship.
>Send a diplomacy team to earth.
>Take Reprive (I think that is the system that our mother made her last stand and it only has mining corvetts, it would be a great test for our raiding fleet.)

>>2994945
Void fuckery isn't that contagious. Only when the void shards are involved do we really have to worry.

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>>2994947
Hive space: All worlds within Hive territory are able to perform espionage without resource cost, and all actions and operations have a dramatically increased chance of success and decreased odds of detection, but discovery brings with it a much greater risk of major public backlash and public discontent when performing events not linked to counter-intelligence.

Domain of the Red Queen

[G-426]
Leeland (capital)
N 60+40
M 45
Development 50

Income:
4.861MN
112.5KM

Defensive structures
Surface to Orbit Missile System – Uses long range missiles to attack enemy ships in the system (1KN)
Anti-orbital battery grid – Directly attacks enemy ships in orbit (8KN)
Military structures
Hangar facilities – Deploys atmospheric and orbital drones to intercept attackers, uses aerodynamic and fighter drone designs (4KN)
Psionic Shroud – Conceals hive activity from psionic senses (1KN)
Economic Structures
Docking Pylon – (2000) (100KN)
[Empty docks: 8000/8000]
Capillary Tower – (25,000N)
Smart Mines active – Calculates development stat twice for metal income
Algae Farm – +25N
Film harvester dock – +15N

Asteroid mining base [Depleted]
This hollow asteroid provides an excellent location to construct a Space City at low cost.

Asteroid belt
M 57
A sizable belt of metal rich asteroids containing a large, hollowed out Hive mining base that would serve as a decent foundation for a Space City hub.

Gas giant
A hydrogen gas giant that contains a bounty of usable gas fuel, such as tritium and hydrogen for FTL navigation and fusion power generation, making it a common pit stop for passing hive fleet patrols. Research on methods of further exploitation of its atmosphere is underway.

>P1
N 0
M 75
Development 0

>P2
N N/A
M N/A

>P3
N 24
M 7
Development 0

>>2994947
>one of my tooth fillings spontaneously failing and causing an abscess
[curse continues]

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FEAR THE VOID

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>>2994951
[Dagmar]
Kaltara
N 0
M 100
Development 20
Pop 0

Income:

This planet's small corporate population has evacuated with the Union forces, taking what supplies they can and leaving the rest.

Economic Structures
Magma wells – Mostly automated magma pumps extract liquid metal resources from subterranean volcanic rivers for further filtration and refining, Allows extraction of resources relative to Development without a civilian population center. [offline]
PDF Field repair depot – The remains of a military facility devoted to the assembly of field repair kits and equipment for local military forces. [ruined and offline]

Gibson
Nitrogen ice giant with a a number of resource rich rings

>Gibson Station
A mostly automated mining facility, the station has been evacuated and stripped of most of its equipment. What remains is a large, yet empty husk of a refining facility, little more than the rough equivalent to an empty parking garage stripped of all valuables, but the husk itself would make it more easy to construct a larger and more dedicated mining facility in the form of a Space City in the otherwise dangerous construction site of the planet's rings.
>>2994945
You did, but as I said I may have some mistakes listed due to most of the prep being done in either a sleepless marathon or in a drug and pain addled state of confusion.

>>2994953
I know, right? It happened literally the morning after the last thread finished.

>>2994951
>>P1
>N 0
>M 75
>Development 0

>>P3
>N 24
>M 7
>Development 0

Wow, that's an impressive quantity of resources for planets that we've been more or less writing off so far. Maybe we should start developing them before too long.

>>2994936
>forcing them to siphon off food from local settlements

Wait, that shouldn't even be necessary once any hive infrastructure is grown whatsoever. Solid State Teleportation alone allows bringing in raw Nutrients and Metals, and then there's complex matter reconstruction.

Suppose we should raise this to Passive Observation so we can begin Invasive Research on the silicates, and start escalating on Mentan and Arnim too.

>>2994951
>>P2
>N N/A
>M N/A
Nothing suspicious here.

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>>2994956
[Koenig]
Accretion disc
N 15
M 30
A large field of asteroids, gas, and small dust particulate combined into a thick soup of exploitable resources.

Tadeki Station [Destroyed]
This mining station once used by Union military forces for field repairs of passing ships has been rapidly salvaged and made to self destruct using a low yield nuclear warhead, likely to avoid allowing the salvaging of any potential military secrets regarding Union starship construction. All that remains is a cloud of metal particulate to be added to the rest of the accretion disc.

Calpamos
N N/A
M N/A
Development [Unavailable]
This hydrogen gas giant provides a bounty of water and hydrogen to fuel passing starships, and was the last stop of most evacuating fleets as they left the Expanse during sovereignty transfer. The planet has three moons, each of them habitable to some degree.

>Calpamos Station
A station tethered to the local gas giant linking to gas mining facility within the upper atmosphere. Most of the facility has been abandoned, scrapped, or otherwise rendered inoperable due to the rapid evacuation of local Union and corporate entities. Research into gas giant superstructures are required perform proper repairs and bring the facility back online, allowing the colonization of Calpamos itself.
>Hub
[Orbital Anchor]
>Wards
[Customs]
[Trade Port X2]
[Frontier Outpost] Increases Pop migration from overpopulated human worlds to worlds in local system Union only
[Barracks]
[Union Post Center] Reduces costs of shipping infrastructure in local system Union only
>Utility Wards
[Merchant Docks]
[Corporate Field office] Van Den Broek Superluminal Closed
[Rest Stop]
[Slipway]

Acheron
N 34
M 23
Development 5
Agitation ******_________
Suspicion ***********____
A small number of frontier settlers have begun initial terraforming efforts. Few have evacuated, and many seem to be forming village militias to establish an ad hoc planetary defense force. Whether this militia is intent on resisting hive rule, or accepting hive sovereignty is yet to be determined, but they have made no overtly hostile gestures yet beyond the acts of entrenching their homesteads and looting the local armory.

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>>2994963
Deckard's Claim
N 65
M 22
Development 15
Agitation ************___
Suspicion ********_______
The planet consists of a number of small farming camps built around a paramilitary base commanded by ex-ship commander Lucas Deckard, who has since assigned himself the title of Lord and renounced Union citizenship and demanding those who would remain loyal to the Union to leave. While many did, public discontent is running high, and while many seem to believe the recent events to be Lord Deckard's rather over-zealous way of retaining power under a new government, some believe there to be some foul play at work on the Hive's part. Either way, the population of just over a hundred thousand is growing increasingly at one anther's throats over the matter.

Djin
N 15
M 11
Development 0
The planet is under a mandatory general evacuation order from the Union, and Union marines have forcibly removed the remaining scientists and miners on the surface under the claim of a possible disease outbreak, transferring the small population of several thousand to a number of military hospitals at undisclosed locations for observation under short term quarantine.

[New Port]
Callahan
A hydrogen gas giant with multiple layers of rings and small dwarf planetoids of irregular shape containing sources of metal, water, and frozen gases, and was previously a major refueling station for corporate and merchant fleets.

Callahan Station
A sizable industrial facility devoted to organizing mining drones and facilitating repair and refuel of passing commercial ships. The station is mostly offline, and only a small skeleton crew remain to keep it in orbit as the owning corporation attempts to determine the state of the Hive economy.

Asteroid belt
N 0
M 22
A moderately rich belt containing precious and heavy metals

Bedrock
Agitation *********______
Suspicion ******_________
>Hub
[Promenade]
1 Megacorp HQ [Rutherford Industries Extraction and Assembly Inc.] Closed
>Wards
[Sprawl X2]
[Customs]
[Trade Port]
[Barracks]
[Refinery]
[Red Light District] +20 Dev score applied only to credit income, decreases detection risk of espionage activity, cannot be built, has a chance to grow in empty Ward slots when Pop Cap is above 100

This colony is suffering from widespread panic, dramatically lowering detection chances of espionage agents, but making the results of operations far more unpredictable, and making gathered data unreliable.

Darwin
N 88
M 25
Development 0
A military base previously existed on the surface where artifacts were excavated under close guard. The base has been entirely dismantled some time ago, and the planet entirely evacuated, leaving only the empty clearing where the Union had previously cut and burned away the local flora.

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>>2994965
[Juric]
Brandenburg

Billiard
N 21
M 0
Development 0
This planet is currently settled by nomadic gas harvesters

>Norfolk
N 12
M 28
Development 0
A corporate 'shake and bake' colony devoted to terraforming, the corporate sponsors have pulled out, and evacuated the small population of engineers on the surface, leaving the planet a barren rock as they found it.

[Telarum]
Krasnikov Interstellar corporate outpost

[Sentinel]
Sentinel Post

[Tannhauser/Kerik Ashka]
Aral
N 48
M 65
Development 0
This planet's population consists only of Valen construction workers applying the finishing touches to the Tannhauser hypergate. No permanent settlement exists, and no effort to extract local resources had been made.

>Tannhauser Gate [Valen Controlled]
>Ward
[Hypergate] Allows hypergate travel
>Wards
[Barracks]
[Refinery]
[Traffic Control] Improves traffic capacity of Hypergate
[Merchant Guild office] Valen only
[Trade Port X2]

Debris field
M 89
The remains of the Skyl homeworld, the field holds a wealth of minerals, ice, and metals.

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>>2994966
[The Garden/Wayward Hope]
Barren rock
N 0
M 3
Development 0

Asteroid belt
A small belt of asteroids in a semi stable orbit arround the star holding some amount of precious metals.

Raligha
N 90+50
M 10
Development 25

Income:
3.5MN + 1.75MN
250M

Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System (1KN)
>Anti-orbital battery grid (8KN)
Economic structures
>Bloodroot collectors: Pipes running from Bloodroot trees extract nutrient rich sap +20N
>Greystalk farms: Bio-engineered native super-crop offers easily maintained farmland tended by both drone workers and native ralighans +30N
>Greenwall pit: Genetically engineered plant efficiently recycles waste material, +50% N income
>Temple alter: A place for the Ralighan locals to worship and bring offerings to your hive, built in the likeness of your local fake queen, +500N per day, allows recruitment of Ralighan Elite Agents.

Ice Giant
A super-massive ice giant mostly composed of inert gasses with few usable resources.

[M-323]
>Orbital docking pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 sub capitals or 1 capital ship, (50N)
[Empty docks: 0/4]
>Mining corvette salvage operations +2,688,000M per day (+8000M per corvette)

[A-295]
Frozen Ice planet
N 20
M 1
Development 0
A small frozen planet covered in various forms of ice

Binary volcanic planets
V1
N 0
M 100
V2
N 0
M 100

Barren radioactive planet
N 0
M 6
Development 0

>>2994963
> a paramilitary base commanded by ex-ship commander Lucas Deckard, who has since assigned himself the title of Lord and renounced Union citizenship and demanding those who would remain loyal to the Union to leave
Well this one looks like a piece of work.

>Darwin
>A military base previously existed on the surface where artifacts were excavated under close guard.
I don't think we've sent an expedition to sample the local flora and fauna here yet.

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>>2994972
[Desmond]
Accretion disc
N 23
M 35
A thin ring of stellar debris orbiting the two native stars containing a microbial substance able to feed on local metals

Pegasean Gas Giant
Advertised as “the Inferno” by the travel agency organizing the local band performace, this giant is unusable for resources due to the simple fact that it is endlessly engulfed in flames, a fact that makes it useless for mining, but quite attractive to tourists visiting the orbiting Space City

>Builder's Gift
>Hub
[Presidium]
>Wards
[Zoological Reserve]
[Zoological Resort]
[Inferno Resort]
[Thermal Regulator]
[2 Trade ports]

>P1
N 0
M 0
Development 0
A small frozen ball of ice and rock

>P2
N 15
M 26
A primordial world with a thin atmosphere and high levels of oxygen, as well as geological activity and a surface covered in shallow pools of a strange animated liquid carbon substance.

Asteroid belt
N 16
M 5
A sparse field containing a small amount of metals, but mostly ice and rocks.

Ice planet
N 7
M 2
Development 0
A small planet on the edge of the system containing mostly ice and negligible sources of metals.

[Wonder]
Debris field
A thick and widespread layer of micro-particles and debris spread across the system, granting a penalty to the ability of ships within to dodge incoming attacks.

Ancient Dockyard
The site of the Builder's ancient laboratories and experimental shipyards, now little more than a vast tombstone marking her passing. The massive structure could be easily and cheaply retrofitted with your own advanced construction techniques to create a space city.

[Farcast]
Derelict Sensor array

Glassed Hive world
N 0
M 100
D 10

Income:
0N
100KM

>Smart mine mantle excavation: Calculates development stat 3 times for metal income

Deep space waystation
>100 docking pylons (10KN)
[Empty docks 400/400]

>>2994957
Yea I realized that just dumping info into the thread of only places you've colonized makes both me and most of you just about totally forget about everything else in your space, and frustrates the hell out of the few that remember them, so I just statted all of them up with semi-randomly rolled stat blocks.

>>2994957
I'm sure it's still a bit of a controversial topic but I'd still like to core mine at least one 0 N planetoid.
>>2994958
I'll second increasing espionage level.

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>>2994977
[Refuge] – The Scarred Queen
An unusually dense and reflective ort cloud makes it unusually difficult to accurately blink deep into the system and disrupting sensors attempting to penetrate the cloud.

Frozen metallic world
N 5
M76
Development 0

Rocky temperate world
N 52
M 35
Development 0

Binary moons
>P1
N 5
M 20

>P2
N 12
M 24

>Forest Moon
N 78
M 13
Development 15

Defensive Structures
Spore Caster Network – A network of Spore Castors placed across the planet's surface capable of targeting orbiting enemy vessels in conjunction with additional anti-orbital weapon systems.
Anti-orbital battery grid – Under construction
Surface to Orbit Missile System – Under construction
Temple of the Unseen – A grand temple devoted to the Matron Queens, the gods of the Phantoms, tended to at all times by the planet's most revered elder matrons and patriarchs, they focus their abilities in tandem through the temple as an amplifier, projecting a blurred sense of incomprehension over the planet's surface, preventing enemy forces from accurately bombarding surface targets during combat. Requires a native Phantom population, and allows recruitment of Phantom Elite Agents.

Military Structures
Hangar Facilities – 20% replenished

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>>2994982
New Construction Options

Defensive structures
Spore Caster Network – A network of Spore Castors built within the most critical components of the local planet's surface infrastructure surrounded by heavily fortified flak and anti-air weapon systems devoted to intercepting incoming landing craft or low-orbit attackers. The spores themselves use a modified skip drive to propel a tachyonic warhead into or near the enemy target before exploding in a burst of hard radiation that damages nearby targets and scrambles sensors and psionic senses, in effect serving as a kind of orbital flak weapon. 6,000N 12,000M
Anti-orbital battery grid – A network of anti-orbital batteries scattered across the planet, each situated in a fortified bunker complex fitted with stationary gun positions and intense hive creep fortifications. Each battery is a capital ship class particle beam capable of attacking enemy vessels in orbit of the planet, each situated in relation to the others to provide overlapping fire over any location above the planet. 8,000N 48,000M
Surface to Orbit Missile System – This massive bunker complex houses a wide range of warheads and a nigh limitless number of missiles within its protective walls, allowing you to launch missiles against approaching invaders from the safety of your hive. The facility uses the ship missile stats and comes equipped with a single Cruise missile silo that can target any detected object within the system, five Stinger missile silos capable of targeting any craft within high orbit, and ten Swarm missile silos specialized in targeting high altitude aircraft and low orbiting targets. The facility itself is a massive complex spread out over several miles, and includes guidance and launch equipment, as well as the means to construct and maintain a stock of warheads and missiles. (1500N 2500M)
Shield dome network – An overlapping network of bunkers crisscross the landscape of a planet offering emergency shelters for any local inhabitants to survive orbital attack, as well as shield emitters placed in overlapping layers set around important infrastructure and planetary installations. Like all shields, heat quickly becomes a problem as it sustains fire, as such a mixture of ventilation towers and subterranean heat sinks, turning a small facility into a massive, sprawling network of infrastructure. If the planet suffers orbital bombardment, this planetary installation will absorb all damage first. 8,600N 50,000M

>>2994977
Haven't we been terraforming Farcast for a while?

>>2994977
>frustrates the hell out of the few that remember them
Thank you for thinking of my autism.

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>>2994985
Military Structures
Military Spaceport – Extensive fortified maintenance bays and hangars are built across the surface of the planet, as well as infrastructure and manufacturing centers to support the production and maintenance of a planetary strike craft squadron. Swarmer fighters are produced at a constant rate with suitable range to intercept orbiting vessels or approaching dropships, while more advanced fighters and gunships of the most suitable design are produced and maintained for system wide defense and patrol Aerodynamic drones are also maintained in scattered hangar facilities to provide air support in the event of ground attack, and intercept enemy dropships. All craft are held in hibernation to reduce costs, allowing an entire planet's worth of strike craft to be maintained for a relative low cost. 500N 1000M
Psionic Shroud – A single building built around the shattered remains of a Void Shard, the shroud amplifies the unnatural mental silence of the broken crystal within to mask an entire planet from potential detection, preventing outside forces from easily detecting the thoughts of a hive. (2,000N 5,000M)
Psionic Sensor Tower – A massive spire composed of highly psionically sensitive instruments and material focused on the detection and measurement of wide range quantum states in a vacuum directed at the space around the planet. Grants a chance to predict the arrival of ships approaching the system via certain FTL methods. The effectiveness depends on the method used and the size of the incoming fleet, granting a base chance to detect incoming Blink drive ships at 75%, Space-fold and Rip drive at 50%, Warp drive at 25%, and Flicker drive at 10%. Gatecasting ships from Hypergates and Slip drive is not effected. (20KN, 30KM)

Economic Structures
Docking Pylon – A large spire or station that contains space for docking and construction of 4 ships, or a single capital ship if placed in orbit. By default is used to produce hive vessels, but can be made to offer repair services to passing ships in return for credits or other acceptable transaction fees. 100N 300M

>>2994987
Eleven days.

>>2994985
>Shield dome network
>Spore Caster Network
Who's up for building these on Leeland right now?

>ex-ship commander Lucas Deckard, who has since assigned himself the title of Lord and renounced Union citizenship and demanding those who would remain loyal to the Union to leave.

Yeah we need to go an see to that.But good to see that at least one of our new colonies is adapting to the new regime.

>>2994993
So 3 more days till we see how good our terraforming is.

>>2994991
Weather Spire network – A networked collection of spires spread across a planet capable of studying and altering a planet’s climate and atmosphere. Construction includes the building of all spires needed to function. While the spires can manipulate a planet's climate towards any desired effect, by default the spires will attempt to optimize a planet's fertility and habitability for hive life and its primary crop strains, increasing a planet's base N score by 5. Alternatively, the spires can work to create intense storms and thicken the local ionosphere, reducing N score by 5 and imparting a penalty to enemy craft within the atmosphere and blocking enemy communications to and from orbit, as well as disrupting sensors of orbiting ships. This option is not available for planets with naturally turbulent and disruptive climates. (8,000N 20,000M)
Orbital solar array – A station placed in orbit of the local star equipped with a membrane of photosynthetic cells several kilometers in diameter capable of producing a steady stream of nutrient income. Due to practical constraints of logistics, a star system can support up to five solar arrays. Must be built around a main sequence star. Provides 1500N per day total (5,000N 5,000M)
Harvester Dock – A large pier built along the shore overlooking the spore-producing ocean film that serves as an unloading area for Harvester drones, and contains pipelines to pump collected raw nutrients to the hive’s awaiting processing facilities, includes a single Harvester which is covered by the cost and upkeep of the dock. Provides 500N per day total (38N 50M)
Orbital electroponic station – An orbital instillation built near a large source of hydrogen used to fuel a large fusion core, which in turn provides electrical power to a contained algae farm facility. Must be built in orbit of a gas giant. Provides +2000N per day and doubles as a gas mining facility, refueling the tritium stores of any ships in the system. The station itself can serve as the hub of a space city with additional investment. (3000M)
Algae Farm – A carved out space used to utilize Leeland’s natural electrical field to cultivate food. +100N per day, 1 worker to maintain.

>>2994987
Yes, there are several long term projects I know I was unable to show properly in the update, either due to forgetting or not having the time for, but I'm working on making a kind of rolling wave of improvements to things as we go, so I do have a few dozen tabs of just highlighted past posts of things that need addressing and a word document filled with a to-do list still which I am whittling down bit by bit.

>>2994947
Oh shit that sounds terrible QD. Fuck man, I hope you feel better soon!

>>2994994
sure. I'd second building them on all colonies really.

>>2994994
Would rather focus in building the gas statiin tech so we can have some use for the gas giants around our territory.

Also the nuke the Union used in blowi g up to deny us acess to Union tech. Lol the idiots don't even know we already have the plans for their ships.

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>>2994999
Hydroponic platform – A floating greenhouse platform used to grow farmland through hydroponics that can only be built on or near water with open access to plentiful sunlight. Each greenhouse platform supports roughly one hectare and requires a single worker to tend the crop and maintain the platform. Multiple platforms can be connected together to create fields of floating farmland. +200N per day, 1 worker to maintain.
Filter towers – A large underwater pylon built to extract raw nutrients from the microbial life of the surrounding ecosystem. Can only be used on planets with bountiful biospheres and deep oceans capable of supporting large amounts of microbes. Provides between 100 and 500 N per day, depending on the local environment. (500M)
Capillary Tower – This massive organic space elevator offers a number of logistical and economic advantages, despite its drastic up front cost and fragile nature. Shuttles or space craft are no longer needed to move resources from the surface to orbital structures, freeing shuttles for more important tasks. The counterweight station serves as a center for construction, with 4 docking pylons included on the structure to repair and build ships, while gaining a bonus to capital ship construction time due to the speedy nature with which resources arrive from the surface. The Capillary Tower can also spread hive creep and extract resources at an increased rate, spreading roots deep into the crust to bring up resources directly into orbit, allowing you to consume a planet much more quickly than normal. A Hive ship can construct a Capillary Tower if given the time and resources to do so, deploying one after 3 full days, after which it becomes the counterweight station, and must remain stationary until it detaches and destroys the tower to move. A Hive ship deployed in this way does not have access to its spinal weapons, but can use other features as normal. A planet can hold a max of 4 Capillary Towers along its equator. For each one, planetary mining or over harvest activities are doubled and its Development score increases by 10, this bonus can surpass a planet's maximum development, and will not affect its biosphere. Upkeep is reduced by half on planets with an atmosphere. (50,000N 500,000M)

>Begin new construction (write in)
>Adjust espionage hives (write in)
>Other

We really need to perform some "maintenance" on our Hive owned human worlds before all out anarchy breaks out across several of them.
We need to reinforce our claim, maybe couple Hive military presence with city building programs and quality of life improvements.

>>2994998
>>2994993
>>2994987
We should terraform the place the union corporation abandoned just to be smug and show on their faces what the hive can do.

>>2995006
Hey QD what's up with P2?

Hmm.
Leeland is just missing a military spaceport and Weather Spire network (and 3 more capillary towers, but that's expenssive).
Religha could use a Psionic Shroud and Sensor.

What do you guys think?

>>2994996
We need to go and see to a lot of things and finite time to do them, this guy seems like he could be an hours-long tangent so he can get in line.

First we could focus on setting in motion the research on silicate biology, since it's probably relevant to those psychic moons. A fleet getting living samples from Nowhere should have results by now.

And then there's the Project Aegis suit.

And we could start implementing Mother Knows Best on all hive-controlled locales immediately for the much needed PR reversal.

>>2995006
>Begin new construction (write in)
Spore Caster Network on all already established colonies
Shield Dome Network on all already established colonies
>Adjust espionage hives (write in)
Increase to passive observation on all Union worlds
Set Mother Knows Best active on owned human populated planets
>Other
Visibly colonize all worlds not currently populated by humans.

>>2995014
The resources are probably just listed as N/A because actually landing ships there is next to impossible. The tidal forces of gravity there are so intense they're continually tearing up the surface of the planet, if memory serves.

There really isn't anything shady about the planet from the way it was described.

>>2995024
How much is that gonna cost?

>>2995006
>>Adjust espionage hives (write in)
Set Coral Passive Observation, begin Invasive Research
Set Talgo to Passive Observation, begin Invasive Research
Set Arnim to Covert Infiltration
Set Mentan to Covert Infiltration

>>2995006
>Begin new construction (write in)
>Begin Developing any world with a worthwhile N score
>Give the Valen a heads up and assure them we won't fuck with their hypergate.

>>2995002
Thanks, I already feel better actually, just a bit tender from all the tooth excavation, but it's so much better than it was before.

Even still though, there are a lot of adjustments I've been wanting to make to better streamline the system, and I'm working as best I can to get those adjustments rolled out nice and proper, but things will fall through the cracks, so please just yell at me about them when you notice. Anytime that happens I just open a tab with that post highlighted and use it as a bookmark to get to after the thread is over. In general though, I plan on having things pick up the pace a bit and plan to avoid any more .2 threads that are not bonus mid-week threads if I can help it, unless something major and time sensitive is happening of course.

>>2995014
A long, long time ago you all voted to send a pod to the surface with some drones to explore it, and then I forgot all about it like an idiot between all the hiatuses and the heart exploding and the computer troubles and what not. I figured I'd hold off on the stats until after we properly explore it in person, since it is long overdue.

>>2995026
>nothing shady about strange crystal growths on a planet
>when the last strange rock formation was a defense system and all silicon life looks rocklike
Sure.

>>2995024
I second the colonisation of everything we can. Also we should make a public address or something to calm the people. Possibly organise a ceremony for the change in administration?

>>2995006
>>Begin new construction (write in)
Spore Caster Network 6,000N 12,000M
Shield dome network 8,600N 50,000M
Cost 14,600N 62,000M

Just to start

>>2995006
>Begin new construction (write in)
>Shield dome network (Leeland)
>Colonize P3 and Start building
Weather Spire network

>Other: Send a small fleet to protect the space around our biggest population centers. (Deckdards [although lyle and gang should be droppi g the remaning Union spies here] Acheron and Bedrock

>>2995006
>>Begin new construction (write in)
Bedrock:
Replace the Barracks with a Tachyonic Drill.

Calpamos Station:
Replace Barracks with a Tachyonic Drill.
Replace [Rest Stop] and [Slipway] with two more [Merchant Docks].

>>2994963
I bet Theseus has the tech needed to repair Calampos station. Anyone else thi k it might be worth sharing it with him discreetly if we don't mind sharing resources?

If we establish this place as a trade route he could use it to spread instances to traveling merchants

>>2995017
At least Lyle and gang are going there to drop the spies we rescued from the Valen. Maybe he can do some free service to the new Lord Deckard.

>>2995024
>on all Union worlds
Not good. There's one exception to this being a good idea.

We gotta do Maintain Concealment on Path until the military lockdown is over.

>>2995043
Maybe we could just ask them to meet with us and to talk this out and get to know how we can make things work between us.

>>2995050
>not replacing the red light district
what

>>2995024
Maybe sending Mother Knows Best to Bedrock would be a good idea?

>>2995030
I think like 44k nutrients and 186k metal?
>>2995053
Fair. I forgot to account for Path.

>>2995036
>Give the Valen a heads up and assure them we won't fuck with their hypergate.
Support not being dicks to the Valen.

Other than that >>2995024 sounds pretty good. Let’s colonize what we can.
Also supporting any specific building options that grow opportunities and don’t fuck with the Union/Valen too much. The hive can play nice.

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>>2995006
Proposals

>Set Coral Passive Observation, begin Invasive Research
>Set Talgo to Passive Observation, begin Invasive Research
>Set Arnim to Covert Infiltration
>Set Mentan to Covert Infiltration
>Keep as is
>Other (write in)

>>Begin new construction
Leeland 6,000N 12,000M
Shield dome network 8,600N 50,000M
Spore Caster Network

You also have a number of unexploited worlds, many of them are barren or otherwise lack a standard biosphere, but many at least would make for a suitable source of large amounts of water ice, and thus a decent enough source of nutrients.

>Begin exploitation of new planets (write in) [system and planet to avoid confusion]

>>2995053
Good call about Path. We need to hide out on Path until the lockdown is lifted. They’ll find the OQ’s shit soon enough and call us in to help anyway.

>>2995055
There are still humans inside. And Humans care more about their sex then their tech.

>>2995059
>>Set Coral Passive Observation, begin Invasive Research
>>Set Talgo to Passive Observation, begin Invasive Research
>>Set Arnim to Covert Infiltration
>>Set Mentan to Covert Infiltration

Arnim is cashmoney, we want to do Currency and Capital on there one day so we can connect all the other espionage hives through free smuggling.

>>2995059
>>Set Coral Passive Observation, begin Invasive Research
>>Set Talgo to Passive Observation, begin Invasive Research
>>Set Arnim to Covert Infiltration
>>Set Mentan to Covert Infiltration


>>Begin new construction
Leeland 6,000N 12,000M
Shield dome network 8,600N 50,000M
Spore Caster Network


>Begin exploitation of new planets (write in)
G-462 (Home system) P1, P3, and an expedition to P2 just to sort out what it's like down there.

>>2995050
Speaking of Bedrock, since the system it's in is right at the border of the Union i think we should convert the station into a mix of star hive and ship customs for travel into our space, what do other anons think?

>>2995059
>>2995024
Modified with maintain concealment on Path

>>2995068
As long as it doesn’t piss off the locals or helps us improve their quality of life I’m good with that.

>>2995061
We still have 10 of our hive agents on Path they can easily sneak a egglayer and buy something using From Other money to build a small coorporate building/warehouse.

>>2995074
Star hive fucks their quality of life.

>>2995059
>>Other (write in)
Oh yeah.

Mother Knows Best on:

Acheron
Deckard's Claim
Bedrock
Billiard

and can we add Tachyonic Drill asabove to those two spacecities?

>>2995074
Seeing as a number of people evacuated the station i think we can change some of the wards, maybe even the hub itself?

>>2995059
>Set Coral Passive Observation, begin Invasive Research
>Set Talgo to Passive Observation, begin Invasive Research
>Set Arnim to Covert Infiltration
>Set Mentan to Covert Infiltration

>Begin new construction
Leeland 6,000N 12,000M
Shield dome network 8,600N 50,000M
Spore Caster Network

Seems to indeed be the general consensus
>Y/N

>Begin exploitation of new planets (write in)
[G-462]
P1
P3

>Add others (write in)
>Other (write in)

>>2995068
We were going to turn Bedrock into a place to research stuff with Union Scientist. Maybe sending one of our forces there to help pacify stuff would help.

>>2995078
Oh.

>>2995082
>Y to all

>>2995082
>Add others (write in)
Leeland P1, P3. Kaltara, Djin, Darwin, Brandenburg, Norfolk, Tannhauser, Desmond P1, P2.

>>2995082
Oh does anyone else think we should turn the emptied asteroid un Leelands system into a Star Hive to build up our defenses there?

>>2995082
>>Y

>Add others (write in)
[A-295]
Frozen Ice planet
Binary volcanic planets V1, v2
Barren radioactive planet

[Desmond]
P2
Asteroid belt
Ice planet

It occurred to me that we may as well use this time to start scraping resources from planets that have long been under our control but not exploited.

>>2995090
Not Djin genius. That's where Cluster is.

>>2995094
Who better than us to make sure they stay slep?

>>2995082
>Y

>>Begin exploitation of new planets (write in)

Kaltara and the Binary volcanic planets, V1 and V2, are all at Metals 100. Colonize and begin mantle mining on those.

Construct a capillary tower on Kaltara.

Also, start at least a small hive on Darwin.

>>2995083
>keeping a research station right next door to the union.
Uhh... what exactly is the plan for that? Do we just have the humans research unique but nonvital stuff and anytime they do get a great idea we move the team deeper into our space? Cause i was thinking of turning the ancient builder dockyard into a fleet builder and research station like it was in the past.

>>2995096
Ideally someone who wouldn't wake them up with the sound of heavy construction coming from every direction. Seriously, we'd be roommates from hell for them.

>>2995082
>Begin exploitation of new planets (write in)

Oh we haven't landed an overt hive on Kerik Ashka. Do that.

>>2995082
>Y

Also okay with colonizing other planets as long as we definitely DO NOT touch Djin. That planet belongs to the Cluster.

>>2995097
Supporting building Hive on Darwin. That's where the Union got the psionic skyl artifacts they shoved into Ryan's eye

>>2995098
Mostly the plan is to use that so we can snatch the scientist that are deep connected with Union governament and put then in some small low Hive tech.

Then while they are in the station we seduce then and have then defect to the Hive, be it with the promise of researching more hibe exclusive tech or something else.

>>2995082
Also,
>Tell Valen we won’t fuck with their wormhole station and invite them to begin trading.

>>2995110
We should set up trade routes now.

>>2995082

>Y
>Exploit additional planets
[Desmond]
P1
P2
Ice planet

[Dagmar]
Kaltara

>Aprove
>Not now
>Adjust
>Add others (write in)

>Adjust domestic policies
Mother Knows Best on:
Acheron
Deckard's Claim
Bedrock
Billiard

>Approve
>Not now
>Other (write in)

>>2995108
Good call. I think I remember (it was a long time ago, don’t quote me on this) that we suspected Darwin was a hive planet.
Supporting colonizing Darwin.

>>2995098
It's solely useful as a skunkworks project.

They come to us to accelerate their research into fields we've never looked at before. Their research gets done without budget limitations, and we get the research unlocked for ourselves in exchange.

Now we're the NPC who offers to help for a price.

>>2995120
>Add others (write in)
Darwin

>Adjust domestic policies
>Approve

>>2995120
>Exploit additional planets
[Desmond]
P1
P2
Ice planet

[Dagmar]
Kaltara

>Aprove


>Adjust domestic policies
Mother Knows Best on:
Acheron
Deckard's Claim
Bedrock
Billiard

>Approve

>>2995120
>>Adjust
QD, you forgot V1 and V2 at A-295. Two of the most metals-rich targets.

Also colonize Darwin.

Approve everything else. Colonizing and policies.

Can we build a capillary tower on the Metals-rich world of Kaltara or do we have to wait until it's colonized more?

>>2995120
>Approve
+add Darwin

The ice planet is NOT the Cluster planet, right?

>>2995139
seconded

>>2995083
On that note i wonder what the Commonwealth will do. They will send scientists i guess but we should make certain they don't butt heads with each other. Should we also ask the Valen if they want to participate? We should also ask if Theseus participating in Bedrock research will be allowed. To help people learn about the Unity in a peaceful way.

>>2995140
Djin is the Cluster planet.

Also to the anon that spoked about us upseating the local population.

We have anti-setients in the expanse and eco-terrorist. They will be upset anyway.

>>2995120
>Add others
Darwin

[A-295]
V1
V2

>Y/N

>Approved domestic policy adjustments

>>2995139
You will need to wait for your hive to be established there. You could set it up to start building immediately, but I think we've hung up on these votes long enough, I think that can wait for the next day.

>>2995120
>>Aprove

>Adjust domestic policies
Mother Knows Best on:
Acheron
Deckard's Claim
Bedrock
Billiard

>Not now

I'd rather make actual diplomatic contact with the people we've just inherited from the Union and their factions before brute forcing our policies on them. I don't think the humans watching from the Union would not approve of this.

>>2995144
We should make it exclusive to the Union for now just to make it feel like we aren't helping the enemy.

>>2995144
No need to include the Valen. Research is just research we can Trade techs with the Valen then push that for our thinkers to introduce to the humans. I would rather to keep it a Union/Hive thing for now.

>>2994966
>[Telarum]
>Krasnikov Interstellar corporate outpost
>[Sentinel]
>Sentinel Post

These are full blown space cities, aren't they? I guess they'll be statted out later? The first one has to be, to have been using a Star Drill Ward.
>>2995153
>>Y

Wish we could start on the Drill though so it's ready later to be a real trade hub at Koenig:

Calpamos Station:
Replace Barracks with a Tachyonic Drill.
Replace [Rest Stop] and [Slipway] with two more [Merchant Docks].

>>2995160
No to replacing the Barracks. It helps keep order.

>>2995155
Anon the other planets don't have human population. Read QD again Only Bedrock, Deckcards and Acheron has a human population.

>>2995166
Disorder is extremely unlikely to be a problem when we have Customs already there to keep order and and screen out problems before they happen.

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>>2995153
>Y

Finished Research
>Artillery Spore
While the use of anti-orbital weapons has traditionally been limited in the Hive to atmospheric saturation fire by surface gun platforms, with any actual orbital threats handled by picket fleets, there are a few notable exceptions. One such exception, which was considered a mainstay of the defenses of throne worlds in its time, was the Artillery Spore. Launched from a large Spore Caster set along the surface, each spore was a large, roughly Space Pod sized device composed of a diamond lattice shell ending in a tapered point etched with sensor ports along the diameter, and a body consisting of a specialized sub-brain and a miniaturized and heavily altered Skid Drive. The Skid Drive itself is modified for enhanced acceleration and performance within a gravity well at the cost of drastically reducing overall maneuverability and stability. It is so unstable, in fact, that the acceleration is not entirely uniform and suffers from extreme inertia. The resulting G-forces are terminal for the spore itself, and in fact any life form known to exist, with the spore possessing no actual life support functions, and enough oxygenated blood within its sub-brain to reach the target, and nothing more. The result is a Skid Drive that effectively pushes off against the planet not unlike a standard rocket, but with far, far more potency. Once in the air, the pod will guide itself to its target until it reaches a determined distance, at which point the drive wings will deliberately offset by seventeen degrees, resulting in a sudden and ever increasing spin that will eviscerate the internal organs of the spore in less than two seconds. From this moment, the spore is an unguided rocket, its drive functioning on a dead-man's switch as its spin causes its tapered shell to drill into the target's hull, at which point one of two things will happen: the drive wings will be pulled off by the impact with the target, or will be torn off by the increasing centripetal force. In either case, the drive itself is triggered as a makeshift warhead, and it immediately performs what could only be described as a kind of impotent blink, wherein the drive expels a massive radiation burst, hopefully inside the target's hull and destroying it from within, or in the event of a miss, blinding it and nearby vessels with a sudden burst of both tachyons and multi-spectrum radiation capable of damaging or destroying smaller craft akin to a kind of flak.

>>2995160
The first is a corporate mining station, it is a space city, but it is privately owned and thus, while taxable and under your legal jurisdiction, you have no direct control over it. The second is a mostly-scrapped Union star fort, little is left apart from the metal armor and a few bare corridors, with most of the valuables and all even tangentially confidential content removed or destroyed. It's not currently suitable to sustain life but could be repaired into a Star Hive for free

>>2995160
>Calpamos Station:
>Replace Barracks with a Tachyonic Drill.
>Replace [Rest Stop] and [Slipway] with two more [Merchant Docks].
I'm rather leery of massively restructuring human designed habitats this early. Keep in mind this still less than a week after we publicly declared the expanse as Hive territory. This a crawl for us, but for humanity events are unfolding at light speed. How would it look to them if we showed up without any warning or notice to Bedrock and immediately demolished a 1/6 of the city for our star drives?

I think we should at least make an effort to convey what's happening to the people living in these cities before we start changing them up left and right. Could protect us from any anti-Hive sentiments brewing across Human space.

>>2995153
>Y

>>2995170
Customs mitigates problems just like the Barracks. Both are need for maximum effect.

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>>2995175
New Research Available
>Psionic cloak amplification
Fast
Your vassal has proposed a new scientific effort to study a means to more accurately replicate the psionic cloaking of the Phantoms in order to potentially mimic their capacity to focus their cloaking abilities over larger areas, potentially allowing a Hive world to mimic the planetary scale mental blurring caused by their population centers' major centers of worship.

Current Research
Your thinkers assemble themselves to focus on a number of different research topics, allowing you to choose one as your primary topic, and two as secondary research projects. The primary research project will receive three rolls per day for progress, while secondary projects receive two. In addition to your thinkers, you may gain additional research rolls from other sources. Vassal Hives shall offer their own thinkers to you as tribute and non-hive allies specialized in research all can be used to run their own Auxiliary research projects, granting one roll per day each. Multiple Auxiliary rolls can be assigned to the same research subject, and if left alone, will choose a topic of their own interest. A vassal hive may research anything, while non-hive allies possess specializations in their fields of study, and offer special bonuses when researching subjects in their fields.

Additional rolls can be purchased from external sources through trade or political treaties with Theseus and other factions. Such external rolls can be assigned to any research project, including your Primary or Secondary projects, and all participating factions will receive the research upon its completion.

+++Primary
>Advanced Psionic Imprinting

++Secondary
>Psionic Spores
>Gas Giant Superstructure Construction

+Auxiliary
Scarred Queen
>Empty

Elizabeth Vaughn
Specializations: Xenobiology, Quantum Mechanics, Psionics
Bonus: Zealous – Rolls twice and takes the highest result. Cannot negate critical failures.
>Empty

Adam Seiner
Specializations: Xenobiology, xenopsychology, Void Crafting
Bonus: Reticent – 50% chance of turning a Critical Failure into a regular failure.
UNAVAILABLE

External
Theseus
>Joint Research Project
This joint research agreement shares all pertinent data regarding the Obsidian Queen and her forces. This project grants Theseus access to basic Hive biological technology and automatically assists in reverse engineering Obsidian Queen technology. All rolls made for relevant technology is rolled twice and uses the best result.

>>2995175
>. It's not currently suitable to sustain life but could be repaired into a Star Hive for free
>Star Hive
>For free
Well that's all I need to hear, let's do it

>>2995169
There are people living on Billiard. How they do it I don't know but they're there.

>>2995098
We could have an open research station (Bedrock) for scientists to research what they want, potentially gaining technology we would never have thought of and if any scientists agree, we can have them research more secret technologies (like what Elisabeth and Seiner do) but they would have to defect to the Hive and move to another facility.

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>>2995183
Available Research Options

Multidimensional Physics
Slow/Slightly dangerous
Until now you have been entirely ignorant to the workings of the Void and the self proclaimed gods that rule this mysterious space. Now you realize some semblance of the truth, although any proper understanding comes with its own inherent risks of attracting unwanted attention, such understanding, you realize now, was the backbone of the galaxy spanning civilization of the ancient Hives of the Golden Age, long before the Schism began. Regaining such lost knowledge would be a great step towards rebuilding your race as the galactic superpower it once was.

Non-euclidean Architecture
Very Slow/Dangerous
The basis of the very crystal you now posses, as well as the hostile Void Shards, the process of compressing spacetime along the axis of a fourth spacial dimension is a key component to many technological devices of the Ancients in their prime. Such technologies explain the process by which the void shards function, as well as allow for the vast complexity of the memory archive you hold, compressing vast amounts of energy and matter into a pocket space where such terms are interchangeable and largely meaningless.

Psionic Thought Construction
Very Slow
The brief understanding granted to you by your examination of the contents of the white crystal given to you by your late mother, you realize that tachyons, like nearly any other form of particle, can be used in the construction of physical objects. Such constructs are inherently unstable outside of the multidimensional space of the Void, however, but allow for the construction machines of immeasurable complexity with relatively little effort by constructing them in a space where thoughts can be projected as concrete materials.

Empathetic Compulsion
Slow
A step further from the disruption of the nervous system, with additional fine tuning it may be possible to exert some limited control over an individual mind without the use of direct contact.

Gas Giant Superstructure Construction
Medium
Using a mixture of space station technology and modified, miniaturized capillary towers, it may be possible to create semi-permanent or fully permanent hives within the upper atmospheres of gas giants, where a mixture of atmospheric static, wind farming, and gas mining can provide a more constant and bountiful resource income while providing a more robust frame with which to construct infrastructure.

Swarm Drive Tuning
Slow
By configuring the gravity thrusters to respond to the foils of other ships within the same formation, performance can be increased outside of a gravity well by taking advantage of a kind of gravitational slipstream created from the foil's unique gravitational effects.

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>>2995190
Gravity Thruster Optimization
Medium
Miniaturization to the gravity thruster itself, as well as optimizing the layout of the foils across the hull allow for smaller strike craft sized ships to make use of the thrusters both when operating in atmosphere and when performing evasive maneuvers.

Psionic Thermokinesis
slow/mildly dangerous
An even more finely tuned execution of known tachyonic physics, thermokinesis is the practice of altering the energy state of atoms, but instead of altering their velocity, it utilizes a less uniform alteration to increase or decrease atomic vibration, quickly increasing or decreasing the ambient temperature of the target. It may take some time for your thinkers to successfully accomplish this feat, however, without also igniting the laboratory.

Psionic Conduction
slow/mildly dangerous
While altering the physical nature of particles has become possible, using highly controlled tachyonic signals it may also be possible to use the projected psionic energy to subtly alter and transfer other forms of energy in a more direct process than kinetic force. Your thinkers believe it may be possible to use alternate sources of energy outside of the target and potentially use tachyonic signals in order to carry that energy to the target. The early experiments have already proven promising, however it may be some time before the thinkers are capable of producing results without causing spontaneous detonations within the laboratory.

Memory Seed
Slow
By creating a miniaturized and less overtly useful memory crystal similar in overall function to the white crystals used to record thought by your elders, and modifying it into a neural implant, you believe it may be possible to create a kind of constantly updating backup memory for clones, agents, and even drones that would potentially hold its information after death. The memory seed would theoretically be capable of retaining the full memories of the host individual up to and including the very moment of death, and be able to preserve those memories long after the brain itself has physically deteriorated, a process that typically drastically limits the time frame in which memories can be gathered.

>>2995175
Holy shit, Spore artilary is fucking scary weapon.

>>2995183
Scarred Queen is assigned to the Psionic cloak amplification
Elizabeth will begin research on Psionic Thermokinesis. I want big brains cooling our ship shields.

>>2995185
Floating cities and airships.
>>2995189
Sure but we'd need the Research ward for that.

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>>2995196
>Psionic Spores
Slow
While normally the hive spores used to spread infrastructure are little more than genetically engineered nanomachines, replicating and performing their function alone until their built structure is complex enough to receive mental signals, your mixture of psionic research and advancements in spore related genetic programming has made the idea of a psionically sensitive spore seem not nearly as far fetched as it once did. With a mixture of distributed networking and complex cellular reconstruction methods, it could be possible to create a spore strain that would respond to mental signals.

>Advanced Psionic Imprinting
Slow
With the application of psionic imprinting you are able to influence and alter the state of matter using only focused and precise mental signals. Your thinkers believe this can be taken further, using more accurate signals and more precise manipulation methods to imprint more complex thoughts and ideas more quickly and easily, and at a greater range.

>Personal shielding
Slow
By further shrinking the emitters, your thinkers believe they may be able to eventually make them small enough to be equipped to the carapace of a drone, or to the surface of an armored suit. At this time it is mostly speculation and an eagerness to please mother beyond all reason, and you cannot be sure what the limitations may be, but the thinkers are sure they can do it.

>Data decryption
Medium (Very Fast with Theseus assistance)
While much of the data within the Smith mind was corrupted during the experimental extraction process or the trauma of the agent's death, there is still a good deal of encrypted data still intact. The data itself could be anything, from a revolutionary discovery to the agent's personal preference in music, or anything between. There is now way to know without decryption of the data, and the total randomness of the mystery has your thinkers begging to go to work.

>Planetary Shielding
Slow
By adding further scale to the shield dome, it is believed that an overlapping network of shields can be expanded from a series of clustered protective areas defending a planet's critical infrastructure to a vast, near total coverage shield stretching entire continents so as to protect a planet's biosphere and widespread population in addition to its military and industrial zones.

>Psionic Cannon prototype
Very slow/Very dangerous
Detailed accounts of several experiments show the slow progress of Project Godsplitter. The cannon itself is highly volatile, and even the smallest miscalculation often results in the destruction of the ship, as well as any nearby craft. It can only be equipped to a Hive ship's spinal mount, and requires a functional Void Shard as ammunition. At least a dozen testing sizes were atomized in testing the weapon, and in the end it appears The Gardener never quite perfected it.

>>2995198
No to assigning Elizabeth resea you slave driver.

>>2995202
but I must unlock additional research options

>>2995183

Set the Scarred Queen to researching Psionic Cloak Amplification
Set Vaughn to Psionic Spores?

>>2995201
You really have some creative research ideas.

>>2995198
Put Vaughn on Empathetic Compulsion. We need more infiltration powers sooner than we need pyromancy or force lightning.

Did we tell Theseus we resurrected seiner yet?

>>2995204
NO
>>2995208
Do you want her to break? She need a vacation.

Why isn't Elizabeth unavailable? Mother said it's mandatory relaxation time!

>>2995208
muh cryokinesis and thermal control in space.

>>2995183
>+++Primary
>>Advanced Psionic Imprinting
Damn Thinkers still didn't finish that even with 3 rolls?

Thing's been on the menu since thread 49. Usually we're much luckier.

>>2995214
>>2995219
I completely forgot about this. That's right, it's vacation episode time.

>>2995201
Man i want personnal Shielding and Planetary Shielding so badly. imagine never having to worry about debries from the Obisiqn Hive ever again because we simply cover the entire planet with a shield layer.

>>2995223
That's not until the black metal concert.

Wait when is that exactly.

>>2995227
It could be now.

>>2995197
I wonder... if we copied the spongy adaption obsidian used to attempt stealth on us and coated the shell with it to help reduce viability range.

>>2995221
All our luck went to the Scav war anon.

Isn't it a better idea to finish faster research first? Or have most of the research slots filled by them?

>>2995233
Faster research is better.

>>2995227
>>2995230

Dunno it has how much time in game passed? A day? Usually these shows aren't that fast. But maybe that is just Union politics.

>>2995201
Hey Quest, did we ever have a mobile shield generator type upgrade for some of our bigger ground and air forces? Just wondering if we could use such a thing to soak artillery or flack for a time to prolong battle group lifespan.

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>>2995231
What i want to know is if we can equip this artilary with our bio-weapons...

>>2995237
Union politics is hilariously slow paced but I want to give her a few days of spa treatment before the concert anyway.

>>2995235
I'm asking because most research slots are currently filled with Slow researches while we have a number of Medium and even Very Fast availiable.

>>2995243

See
>>Personal shielding
>Slow
>By further shrinking the emitters, your thinkers believe they may be able to eventually make them small enough to be equipped to the carapace of a drone, or to the surface of an armored suit. At this time it is mostly speculation and an eagerness to please mother beyond all reason, and you cannot be sure what the limitations may be, but the thinkers are sure they can do it.

It's still in R&D phase.

>>2995243
i believe that is what the new research for perssonnel shielding it's. First we put in a drone then into a bigger drone!!Then by the end we have a Titan with Personnel shielding!!!

>>2995245
The spore launcher is just an impotent blink drive warhead.

>>2995245
Well the shell could be modified to inject parasite drones into a ship probably instead of exploding. Full on starship troopers 2 horror movie on a ship.

>>2995250
Was thinking an area shield as opposed to personal.

>>2995252
Also add the Queen, Hive agents and Boarding Pods to the potential users.

>>2995258
Isn't the Shield Dome what you're loooking for?

>>2995258
That would be Shield dome we already got that tech.

>>2995262
>>2995268
I was asking if we had a drone based upgrade to project it over a battlegroup.

Sorry been a while since i reread our last ground combat sequence, must have missed it if we do.

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

>>2994947
>Arnim
>[Maintain Concealment]
>This planet is currently reeling from a sudden and sharp rise in interstellar economic instability, resulting in widespread panic among the economic elites and a local pension crisis among lower class employees as a result of the sudden flash-crash of a number of megacorporations' stock values, a sharp rise in interest rates, and the reduction of a number of Expanse prospecting related market trackers to penny-stock status. The lower classes suffering from the sudden loos of pensions and savings are demanding answers, and protests have broken out, with riots outside several major banks. Anti-xeno sentiment is growing rapidly, against both Valen banking clans and Hive territorial claims.

I just realized this must be what Union stock markets must look like right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Q6wWu5ziY

>>2995274
Photon projectors can do something similar.

>>2995259
Lyle with an ironman suit and personal shielding. The Void doesn't stand a chance.

>>2995277
The vahlen bow to the bogdabots

>>2995201
You have new research to examine, and as you are about to do so you are interrupted.

Your thinkers, eager and willing, have a minor problem. Your concert has attracted more attention than you first thought it would, and as smaller, more niche bands start to follow in the wake of the others, sending more and more requests to attend, you quickly realize you have vastly underestimated the overall scale of this event's potential.

While you could easily manage the medical needs of a small event, no more than a few dozen thousand, as more bands request to perform, the event is quickly turning from a single band tour to a massive once-in-a-lifetime multi-day event with the potential to attract many hundreds of thousands of people, a number that will begin to tax your overall thinker capacity with medical problems.

Your thinkers do have a solution, however. By diverting a small portion of your research capacity, you would not only be able to more aptly cover the visitors' medical issues, but also perform unobtrusive biological and psychological research on those attending, potentially granting you greater insight into the various sub-cultures of the single-minded. You suspect Elizabeth would be an excellent choice with her background in xeno-biology, and perhaps it would do her well to attend the event and get out of the lab for a few days.

>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs (Elizabeth will be unable to research subjects for the duration, will unlock new research subjects on completion, the Concert will be expanded into a larger event)
>Do not (Elizabeth will be free to research new subjects, the concert will remain its current planned size)
>Other

Holy fuck this is still alive? I remember when this quest first started. I am legally obligated to remind everyone Lee is best Waifu

>>2995201
Also i would say the Scarred Queen researches Psionic cloak amplification and Elizabeth goes on a vacation.

>>2995281
>Not the bogdabugs.
Cmon anon.

>>2995284
>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs (Elizabeth will be unable to research subjects for the duration, will unlock new research subjects on completion, the Concert will be expanded into a larger event)
>>2995290
FUCK

>>2995284
>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs (Elizabeth will be unable to research subjects for the duration, will unlock new research subjects on completion, the Concert will be expanded into a larger event)
Wow we're popular.

>>2995284
>>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs (Elizabeth will be unable to research subjects for the duration, will unlock new research subjects on completion, the Concert will be expanded into a larger event)

The publicity alone makes it worth it, but we may be able to "study" some interesting creatures (such as Valen) at the Concert and having Elizabeth on hand would be a boon.

>>2995284
>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs (Elizabeth will be unable to research subjects for the duration, will unlock new research subjects on completion, the Concert will be expanded into a larger event)

>>2995284
>>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs (Elizabeth will be unable to research subjects for the duration, will unlock new research subjects on completion, the Concert will be expanded into a larger event)

>>2995274
>>2995279
Photon/Hardlight Armour maybe?

>>2995284
QD, about how many days would Elizabeth be wrapped up with the concert affairs? I'd like to know how long we're taking our head researcher out of the lab before making a decision.

>>2995284
>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs (Elizabeth will be unable to research subjects for the duration, will unlock new research subjects on completion, the Concert will be expanded into a larger event)
THERES NO PARTY LIKE A HIVE PARTY

>>2995288
Lee is pretty much the Hive's legal husband at this point.

>>2995284
>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs (Elizabeth will be unable to research subjects for the duration, will unlock new research subjects on completion, the Concert will be expanded into a larger event)

Time for Hive Woodstock!!

>>2995284
>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs (Elizabeth will be unable to research subjects for the duration, will unlock new research subjects on completion, the Concert will be expanded into a larger event)

Give her a night to remember...

>>2995284
>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs

>>2995284
Also make certain she makes an incognito appearance or she has heavy guard with her.

>>2995284
>>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs (Elizabeth will be unable to research subjects for the duration, will unlock new research subjects on completion, the Concert will be expanded into a larger event)


>>2995308
Probably wouldn't be more than a week?
But she really does need a vacation, and being an academic, it's not like she'd take a vacation vacation, so having this lets her relax a bit while also working on things.

>>2995308
She needs to relax a little and what better place to have a Xeno specialist then a social even with mutiple alien species?

>>2995284
>>Have Elizabeth oversee the Concert's medical needs (Elizabeth will be unable to research subjects for the duration, will unlock new research subjects on completion, the Concert will be expanded into a larger event)
Aww yeah.

We should have part of our fleet on standby for "aerial" shows that can be watched through viewing screens and observation decks and windows. Show them some impressive maneuvers only a hive mind could pull off.

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>2995201
>(Very Fast with Theseus assistance)
If it's so Very Fast how is it not already done yesterday?

Gotta talk to Theseus's manager.

Oh boy I made it this time. Haven't been on /qst/ since you took your break.

>>2995317
>>2995322
A week is like, at least 14 threads IRL. I'm fine with Elizabeth decompressing for a bit but that is a huge amount of time and research for the hive at a very critical time.

>>2995326
Because it isn't in the research slot yet. We only have three of those.

>>2995290
>>2995293
Imagine the amount of economical chaos we can cause with our trading were we not focusing on building for war. I think it would look something like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV5QlSgq7lg

>>2994947
>This planet is currently reeling from a sudden and sharp rise in interstellar economic instability, resulting in widespread panic among the economic elites and a local pension crisis among lower class employees as a result of the sudden flash-crash of a number of megacorporations' stock values, a sharp rise in interest rates, and the reduction of a number of Expanse prospecting related market trackers to penny-stock status. The lower classes suffering from the sudden loos of pensions and savings are demanding answers, and protests have broken out, with riots outside several major banks. Anti-xeno sentiment is growing rapidly, against both Valen banking clans and Hive territorial claims.

Perhaps we should consider making some sort of Hive Currency, for human subjects in our systems to use. That way we could make a credit profit from people converting credits to our money, which we can use when we want to do buisness with the Union.

>>2995284
You send the details to Elizabeth, and while confused at the overall plan, she understands her expertise will be needed. Likewise, the various bands' managers are pleased to hear the news, and your workers once again begin expanding the venue into a massive multi-gravitational complex, using gravity plating to create a massive concert hall with both proper acoustics and a space efficiency beyond what would normally be physically possible. You turn back to the other research matters.

>Approve of the Scarred Queen's research proposal
>Request the Scarred Queen's thinkers move to something else
>Other

>>2995326
We should talk to Theseus's parents (Elizabeth and Seiner), and complain about their bad parenting and son's lack of a work ethic.

>>2995330
She can still do research using the medical pods do probe the alien teens minds and injecting then with parasites to become hive agents.

A good way to male our image and have her show off the biological augments she has. Maybe the nerd that is a Theseus agent wi replace his second set of arms for a hive one.

>>2995331
It was started before the finite slots system existed.

>>2995337
>>Approve of the Scarred Queen's research proposal

>>2995337
>>Approve of the Scarred Queen's research proposal

>Approve of the Scarred Queen's research proposal

>>2995337
>Approve of the Scarred Queen's research proposal

psionic cloaking is the way to go.

>>2995337
>>Approve of the Scarred Queen's research proposal

>>2995337
>>Approve of the Scarred Queen's research proposal
I don't know exactly what this proposal is, but it involves more research by the only other living queen, so I'm all for it.

>>2995337
>Approve of the Scarred Queen's research proposal

>>2995338
It's all cuz his father left him to pursue an older woman. Millions of years older than him, even.

>>2995337
>while confused at the overall plan
You're not the only one. I think our thinkers are faulty.

>>2995357
kek

>>2995353
She is researching psionic cloaking so it is able to cover a entire planet with it.

>>2995337
It's too bad so many Commonwealth planets have such strict immigration and emigration laws.

Not many of their teens are able to legally leave their home planet to go to this sweet concert.

>>2995368
I am reminded of the first time we came up with the idea of cloaking an entire planet in one of the early threads, back when it seemed completely impossible. Nice to see the dream never died.

>>2995378
Eh i'm pretty sure they are not even aware of that and are much more worried with the two front war that is happening in their territory.

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>>2995337
+++Primary
>Advanced Psionic Imprinting

++Secondary
>Psionic Spores
>Gas Giant Superstructure Construction

+Auxiliary
Scarred Queen
Psionic cloak amplification
Fast
Your vassal has proposed a new scientific effort to study a means to more accurately replicate the psionic cloaking of the Phantoms in order to potentially mimic their capacity to focus their cloaking abilities over larger areas, potentially allowing a Hive world to mimic the planetary scale mental blurring caused by their population centers' major centers of worship.

Elizabeth Vaughn
Specializations: Xenobiology, Quantum Mechanics, Psionics
Bonus: Zealous – Rolls twice and takes the highest result. Cannot negate critical failures.
>Busy with random event: The Heavy Metal Queen

Adam Seiner
Specializations: Xenobiology, xenopsychology, Void Crafting
Bonus: Reticent – 50% chance of turning a Critical Failure into a regular failure.
UNAVAILABLE

External
Theseus
>Joint Research Project
This joint research agreement shares all pertinent data regarding the Obsidian Queen and her forces. This project grants Theseus access to basic Hive biological technology and automatically assists in reverse engineering Obsidian Queen technology. All rolls made for relevant technology is rolled twice and uses the best result.

Elizabeth watches the scavenger broodmother stir in the medical pod as workers shuffle back and forth carrying various pieces of equipment and crates of luggage with her mental direction. More easily replicable equipment is already being assembled in your space city into a designated chamber within the resort, part laboratory, part medical center. Her mind seems cloudy with recent events. She closes her eyes and thinks of elsewhere in the hive, her vision shifting to the eyes of some wall mounted sensor cluster as she watches Seiner meditate in silence. His mind is gone, at least from your own psionic sense, though his brain shows a similar pattern to that of a human state of dreaming, but the information within is obscured from you, muddled, as if his mind were not truly there, but just a shadow of the true physical self. Whatever implants were provided to him within the vault, it seems to be having its effect. The occipital lobe of the brain shows increasing alterations, and parts of the nervous system are firing in ways that should not be possible for a human's biology, while his vital signs have slowed, as if entering some manner of hibernation.

Cont.

>>2995388
We have come pretty far.

>>2995378
This reminds me that we should be sending more stealth pods into commonwealth space and infiltrating their space as well.

>>2995397
Wait...is Seiner doing cultivation?At least that's what it looks like. It seems he will be on it for a long time if that is the case...

>>2995393
Doesn't it depend on the planet? There are feudal worlds in the Commonwealth whose inhabitants don't probably know what happens outside of their village.

>>2995401
We have so much stuff to do already lets focus in our current space okay?

>>2995397
I'm still kinda sad we brutally murdered the original Seiner, instead continuing his work with a clone.

>>2995378
>>2995393

I love the fact we been playing up this angle of not giving a fuck about all these wars going on, acting as if this is all beneath us and how pathetic the humans are

I mean union and commonwealth high commands are completely right about how bad the optics would be if they behaved like how we throwing a concert on a just opened resort while these wars going on

Its a real "Let them eat cake" moment and we can get away with it since we been playing up the ancient and all powerful aliens angle

>>2995410
fiiine

>>2995397
>automatically assists in reverse engineering Obsidian Queen technology. All rolls made for relevant technology is rolled twice and uses the best result.

Do we even know what we found in the OQ hive ship wreckage yet?

This hasn't been a very productive teamup, Theseus.

>>2995409
Well we advertised our place to the Commonwealth and most of the major lords, leaders generals and admirals said that they would rather wait the war to be over.

Maybe a young teen heard about the show and wants to experiment?

>>2995408
He's on a spirit quest.

>>2995414
>yes yes you younglings go have your war. Mother will be there after you make up with cookies and concerts.

>>2995397
>Busy with random event: The Heavy Metal Queen
Sounds Brutal. You know I wonder if we could make treating people at the event a spectacle like having a guard zero gravity dunk an overdose victim into the biotanks across the room.

>>2995397
>Busy with random event: The Heavy Metal Queen

So should we discuss hive produced memorabilia and or clothing to commemorate the event with one of a kind items that will never be reproduced again to artificially raise their value and infuse the market with highly coveted death metal themed hive products.

>>2995414
Need to do some politics nothing stop us to do war AND politics at the same time. The humans are just too bad in doing the two at the same time.

>>2995425
I just can't wait for the zero-g mosh pit. Motherfuckers will get thrown around like balloons.

>>2995428
Metallic pets! Everything you find in the petshop except an eight the size and a skin made of metal!

>>2995425
Well it's not really a zero-gravity dunk, is it.

It's an ever shifting and readjusting vector and intensity of gravity that does half the dunking for you.

>>2995414
I've been thinking about this a lot, and the best response I can give anyone who asks is "the ancient hives fought with each other constantly. Death tolls measured in the trillions and damages in dozens of biospheres. They continued to fight even though they were beset by enemies, and this is why they are no more. However, you may repeat these mistakes if you wish: it is not the first time in recorded Human history that such an event has occurred."

>>2995422
>Seiner will become our cult leader

Well i guess that Hive cult is becoming more and more likely as the time pass..

>>2995425
Now that you mentioned it i wonder what the security at the event will be. Drones and human guards? Hive agents?

>>2995441
is that more or less impressive?

>>2995433
Except for the Skyl. Wings and all. Actually, the lack of gravity will make it even better for them/make them seem more badass.

>>2995446
Drones with a large amount of speakers.

>>2995428
Man the Valen are just going to have another stroke just like they had when we had our speaker talk with then using the voice of the dead.

>>2995446
Lots of speakers, psionic-lockdown from multiple advanced relays, hardlight barriers. Overt Hive security agents.

We should probably bring some ships to guard it too. The concert is a pretty tempting target for the Ceph fleets and the emergence of the Skyl may draw their attention. There's also a (lower) risk of an OQ or Scav attack as well.

>>2995446
I would say to use our Chimera's for that heavy death metal feel, but those are supposed to be a black-ops tier secret.

>>2995446
Why not both?

>>2995414
Yes, players foolishly voted for Commonwealth elites option, instead of picking the political pro-xeno option that has actual potential benefits.

But the pro-xeno Union fringe option chose us instead anyway. We missed out on the bonus of it having been our idea.

Although really if we adjusted the invitation to the Commonwealth masses instead now. But we'd have to lobby people like the imperial court in Aquarius to acknowledge this as a special occasion, celebrating the start of the holy crusade against the invaders or whatever, so relax the passport laws for a while.

>>2995458
We could offer free “implants” to prevent psychic backlash.

>>2995463
If the Chimera wear armor they just look like fully armored humans. I actually support this idea.

>>2995463
This just made me realize we could customize the appearance of everything to match the event including the drones and guards.

>>2995466
Meh i just send the invitation to then first because i wanted to give the middle claw to the Union as a whole.

>>2995466
Yeah, I thought the CW elite idea was too narrow as well. Oh well, at least we are getting *some* good press from union factions for this. We need it.

We can't forget that we need to work on some recreational drugs to add to the party. All the drug dealers and gangs gonna try to enter the party to sell their stuff and we can parasite then and study the stuff.

The credits gonna flow from this concert!

>>2995477
We've got a pretty damn impressive collection of chemicals already in the pastebin.
The real hard question is do we offer voluntary "basic healthcare" to the visitors in the form of secondary hearts?

>>2995443
Uh dude we are the ones acting like assholes by doing this while whole worlds are burning in these wars

and i have no idea what moral message your trying to send with that message as the scav invasion is an extinction level event where putting everything into the war front is necessary given what we found out what happened to there other victims

And the union v commonwealth one, the union had it coming for being a bunch of dicks

>>2995477
We should probably get samples of all the drugs that are going to be used at the event.

>>2995461
I'm actually worried how the Ceph in the Union will react to the Skyl. Wil they recognise them as their masters betrayers? Will they connect them to the demons in the Ceph religion (the Hive but they don't realise that yet)?

>>2995481
We've always come off as not caring what the lesser races do as long as they don't touch the important things. There's no moral message to send. As to the Scavs I believe the humans would eventually defeat the scavs even without our help with the scavs apparent reliance on the worldships making them a huge target for a gravitic kamikaze.

>>2995499
ah ok my bad

>>2995481
My point is that if the humans complain about us taking sides in their war, we can't claim to have a moral high ground because different hives fought all the time and on a much more devastating scale, and uninvolved parties did not intervene. Also while the scav invasion is certainly as bad as you say, the ancient queens are all dead precisely because of this kind of infighting even in the face of incoming external threat.

So basically, knowing both humanity's and the ancient hives' history, there's basically nothing we can say about their war except tell them it's stupid but nothing we can say will make them stop until one side wins or they get exterminated from the outside.