It's the best time of the week again!

>>3069393
>69.4

This day just keeps getting longer than expected.

Now I just wanted to mention something interesting about time manipulation we just learned about. Stuff like closed timelike curves are a potential application with time manipulation. The basic idea is that spacetime can be made cyclic, returning it to it's beginning point like a classic timeloop but with some important differences. For CTC, when it resets, everything that existed in the space the CTC took place in suddenly reappears in it's original location and state even if the object is removed from the CTC (in which case it becomes duplicated). This allows the possibility of copying and pasting any object we want to, regardless of what it is, as long as a CTC encompasses it.

fucking hell space florida sounds like a living nigthmare.

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>>3069393
>It's back
I'm so ready for this shit

>>3069420
Seems like a fun place to visit that I'd never want to live.
Just like real life.

>>3069439
>>3069420
As a space crab/bug it looks like a very nice place to live.

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>>3069393

>>3069420
Makes you want to join an apocalypse cult doesn't it.

Threadly 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.)

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>>3069439
It's just missing a very expensive resort on it. Wonder if the Hive can make one there.

>>3069443
True.

>>3069454
Makes me want to build a theme park actually.

>>3069393
We unlocked gas giant superstructure construction this morning but we still haven't colonized the 3 hydrogen gas giants we just conquered, Callahan, Billiard, and Calpamos.

Should probably fix up Calpamos Station while we're there.

>>3069471
We don't have the resource output to build more space cities like that.

>>3069471
SUPPORTING THOSE GAS STATIONS

>>3069459
At this point I'm starting to wonder if QD will ever give us a chance to do any of these things.

>>3069471
Need to bump our econony and wait for the development in the planets we just got to ourselfs.

>>3069477
The list used to be longer.

>>3069486
means we are getting somewhere or they are forgetting to ad things

>>3069476
Anon have you even read how building space cities work? We barely have the capacity to build one let alone FOUR.

>>3069486
I don't even remember that and i'm the guy who started posting that list every thread.
Christ it's been long

>>3069475
>>3069492
Those aren't new space cities, any more than colonizing Kaltara was building a space city.

Gas giants can now be treated just like terrestrial planets and get a Development score.

>>3069459
>>3069494
Speaking of the list, anyone have things you think we should do in the near future to add?

>>3069494
People barely want to build new ships. I don't trust the list anymore besides it's more a tradition that needs to be posted from time to time.

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>>3069393
Lee looks out over the balcony of the embassy, its street having been hoisted back up to the rest of the roadway from the bunker bellow, and looks at the glow of the city. It is not the street lamps or public space heaters of the typical Gemini evening, but the glow of fires: torches, bonfires, and burning vehicles. Down the street, a valen shuttle lifts off from the embassy, and a new one soon takes its place. Workers shuffle about from place to place carrying paperwork, data pads, and boxes of personal effects as they seem to pile everything into the new shuttle before a large cargo platform holding a valen diplomat is lifted into the hull and it too takes off, again replaced with a new one.

Anton exits the building to the balcony across the alley with a look of urgent concern on his face, as if looking for something, and quickly moves over to the edge of the balcony.

"Representative Lee." He says with rushed formality. "You're not evacuating?"

"Well, I don't think so." He says. "At least not quite yet."

"Well we're leaving a skeleton crew here for now." Anton replies. "The valen no longer consider it safe to remain on Gemini, and nothing worth the risk can be gained from staying here. I was actually ordered to find you and petition a formal request. I was worried you would already be gone."

"No, so far I'm just trying to figure out what's going on in the Union higher ups." Lee says. "Everyone is panicking, nobody knows what's going on, and it seems like anything outside of the capital district is cut off. It looks like where the only district in the city with reliable power right now." Lee looks back at the foreboding glow, the spires of the New Prescott skyline ominously dark and silent, with only the sounds of distant flames and the shouting of mobs, but none of the familiar noises of a bustling metropolis. "What request did you have?"

"The valen want to open an official embassy within Hive space. I'm actually being deployed with most of the employees in the embassy to the new space city you have."

"Builder's Gift?"

"That's the one." Anton replies. "I was hoping you would pass on our desire to establish a more permanent embassy within the space, but a more temporary consulate at the space city is fine for now at least."

"I'll pass it along." Lee says. "I take it you're leaving for Builder's Gift now then?" Anton nods.

cont.


Sorry about being a bit late there, I spilled my drink all over my desk mid-prep.

Also, I did not mean to get your hopes up over the midweek thread, but just as the last thread 404ed I realized that my work free day I was looking at thinking it was a good day to run a thread was actually Thanksgiving...

Fortunately, we do still have a lot of somewhat time sensitive things to do leftover from the last hiatus.

>>3069498
The Gas Stations use the same mechanics a space sixty as far I know. Tell me where it was mentioned otherwise.

>>3069499
How about exploring Tadega for any sign of that errant Void shard the Union may or may not be about to hand over to us? We just started espionaging that world for that reason.

>>3069499
First that comes to mind i call back our fleet and awake the reserves we have in storage in Leeland.

Also build a planetary shield over Darwin.Oh and collect the Ceph wreckage on Gemmini's Orbit.

>>3069505
Let's offer these slow ass turtles open trade using our station.

>>3069499
a reminder of what we learned in the mindscape and how we should completely stop research in the void cannon

>"The valen want to open an official embassy within Hive space. I'm actually being deployed with most of the employees in the embassy to the new space city you have."

Yay! When the Valen's are so scared and impressed that they want to go to your side. I really like the merchant slugs.

>>3069521
We aren't researching though.

>>3069505
Valen don't even have a formal centralized government, they're basically anarcho-capitalists, what does 'embassy' even really mean in their context?

Not that it matters since it just gets them closer to the mind reading relays and sleeper agent creating Resorts.

>>3069505
Anyone remember our answer to the valen's Tannhauser mining deal? Cause now is a perfectly cheeky time to tell their representative.

>>3069505
"Personally, I'd advise you do the same." He says. "Gemini hasn't had unrest like this since the Colony Wars. My employers are not convinced the local government will be able to maintain control. The valen inside sorta drew straws, everyone called in all their favors at once, and the one with the most outstanding debt remaining is staying behind. Everyone else is leaving."

"I'll be sure to pass on that vote of confidence too." Lee says.

Anton quickly rushes back into the embassy, turning before the doors close behind him.

"I'll see you at Builder's Gift then!" He says, shouting over the engines of the shuttle as its thrusters roar to life and it drifts into the air above before yet another arrives for the next batch of cargo, this time quickly filling with human and ceph employees.

The human may have a point. Your ships in orbit can see the fires bellow, and the riots only seem to be spreading, even with the local PDF being deployed in full force, the violence is only escalating.

>Evacuate your embassy's non-hive residents.
>Maintain operation as normal
>Other

>>3069523
Jabba the Hutt knows who to side with here.

>>3069526
its a reminder so people dont forget and so new anons in this quest dont suddenly vote to continue the research i dont want to risk it

>>3069517

I take we don't need to be slow with the Valen and they would appreciate want to make a secure alliance/business relation with the Hive.

Specialy after routing what should be the biggest void cutter raid they have seen. I always forget how Valen's think that wars in bigger numbers are just scary.

Or was that a costume from old time? I forget.

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should we assist the locals in stopping this crazy riot?

>>3069530
>Maintain operation as normal

This is a cheap show of support for us to do to back the union council no real risk for us and will reassure them that we will not stab them in a heartbeat like the whales

>>3069530
>Evacuate your embassy's non-hive residents.
It would take just one nuke to kill our Lee. I'd rather not risk it.

>>3069530
Oh good there's one left. We can use the one remaining Valen as the neutral mediator / living lie detector if we demand an in-person assurance from Windsor that they are handing over all artifacts and holding no void shards back.

Since we might not want to too-openly advertise our own lie detecting ability.

>>3069530
>>Maintain operation as normal
Lee can survive Agitation 100% ...right?

>>3069527
A building through which the most powerful clans of Valen space can organize business endeavors. It's honestly less an embassy, and more like a sales rep office where they can keep their manipulator appendage on the pulse of the hive's political and economic situation, maintain proper communications, and more easily negotiate treaties.

In practice, it is also a way for the big wigs of Valen space to essentially monopolize trade into outside space, forcing other merchants to go through them if they want to do business.

>>3069530
>Evacuate your embassy's non-hive residents.
>Other: "Send invites to Builder's Gift for Key politicans of the green party and Rhino also those in favor of Xeno rights" Do this so they have a excuse to be out of planet.

>>3069530
>Evacuate your embassy's non-hive residents.
If Lee's friends are going to be loafing around, at least lets have them loaf somewhere safe.

Gettem to builders gift!

Lee, rest his soul, is going to have to stay for diplomatic reasons though

>>3069552
Eh smart slugs. We will have a great and profitable partneship

>>3069530
>Maintain operation as normal

>>3069530
>Maintain operation as normal

Our defenses should be able to handle the unrest without difficulty, but more importantly an evacuation would be bad PR and would make us appear frightened.

>>3069530
>Evacuate your embassy's non-hive residents.
The situation is deteriorating on Gemini, best to get them out of there to Builder's Gift, and it's probably for the best, with Gemini under further possible threat of WMD.

>>3069499
We have yet to actually review the top secret documents Morgan leaked to us.

>>3069553
support

>>3069542
No,no a foreing power doing this stuff can be easily turned as a invasion of our part.

Also i think we should stay just to keep things normal but Lee needs to be Moved to builders gift. But the Hive doesn't need a official representetive maybe we can finnaly have a use for Lang.

>>3069530
>Maintain operation as normal

We don't really have that many non-hive residents and i trust that the Hive can deal with simple riots.
Does the Union Goverment requires some assistance?

>>3069555
Well Zippo can finally get those 3 new hearts they asked for on the trip over on some complimentary in-flight surgery. We've been postponing that operation for 5 days now.

>>3069530
>>Maintain operation as normal

>>3069574
Until the situation calms down, yes, I think we could indeed use Lang...after a a psychic interview.

>>3069561
>>3069562
>>3069551


GUYS!! One s8ngle embassy can't handle mob attacks or even people positioning outside the Hive and taking potshots at everyone. If the firce can't handle thing we can at least evacuate the no dronea perssonel which is basicaly, Lee, Zippo, Sushi and maybe Lang, Lee's assistant.

>>3069569
>We have yet to actually review the top secret documents Morgan leaked to us
Oh man i completely forgot about that.
QD can you give us a brief description of what secret documents Morgan gave us?

>>3069555
support with what ever wins keep friends safe

>>3069530
>Evacuate your embassy's non-hive residents.

>>3069542
The riots are the perfect thing to jam up Union counter-intelligence operations, which are a threat to the hive's espionage activity, so no.

If anything we want to encourage them to continue to keep the spooks' plate full.

The riots are the perfect cover for some Recruitment actions or more Smash and Grabs.

>>3069587
I doubt that very much unless it ends up being a cover for a spec op's raid by fucking the goverment.

>>3069530
>Maintain operation as normal

>>3069578
Mobs are still a think and our drones are good but 100000+ humans against a handfull of drones are bad odds.

At least move then out incase shit hits the fan we don't lose Lee or anyone we worked on Such as the business guy wanting to build a franchise in our space.

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>>3069505
About those Valen...the more I think about the position they're in and their past actions, the more concerned I get that they've been dealing with the Void directly.

Think about it, every Ceph that leaves their homeworld in the Hall of Souls does so by using their transport system. There isn't any way the Valen could have set up a network like that without directly negotiating with whatever equivalent of a government the Ceph have. And when they decided to settle the expanse, out of all the planets they could chose to settle they chose the only single one existing that the Skyl lived on before they broke from the Void.

And if those aren't enough coincidences to make you think, consider that when the Union funded an experiment on the Void shards to draw the Void itself into reality, they did so in the very heart of Valen space. The fact that the Valen nominally turn a blind eye to the goings on in Nowhere is hardly a believable cover. This was a major scientific operation by the one other sovereign power the banking clans do business with. They had to have, at the very least, been aware of what the Union was doing in that system, they're mind readers of all things.

Maybe individually any one of these events could be explained as just another massive coincidence, but with all of them together there's an obvious pattern forming here. The Valen are clearly more involved with the Void gods than we've been assuming up until now. The faster we get on to figuring out just how involved they are, the sooner we can stop this from biting us in the ass.

>>3069530
>Maintain operation as normal
I'll support building increased security like having the grounds guarded by close range colossi and heavy warriors.

>>3069605
Do we have a Shield Dome on our embassy?

>>3069601
What if they do that? I mean wouldn't be safer if Lee was out of planet and safe in Builder's gift?

Also i just realize that everyone and their mother is moving to Builder's gift. Making it a very hot target for worst aunt.

>>3069530
>>Maintain operation as normal

>>3069614
Leabing is too much of a bullshit, at the moment. However we can renforce shit and worse case clone them?

>>3069587
We can easily land more drones if things get out of hand. I (think?) our embassy has shielding too.

Even if it doesn't have shields, a combination of siren-equipped drones, psionic speakers, and the normal garrison should easily be able to contain the unrest. In a worst case scenario we can deploy drop-pods - although that is probably overkill.

>>3069569
>>3069591
Agreed, we should read the documents.

>>3069607
>they did so in the very heart of Valen space.
Wrong. Tenebris is on the border between union-valen space though technically owned by the valen.

>>3069612
I doubt we habe that we only have our creep, some smart mines and our hardligth defense system. Oh and some hidden medical facilities under the hive.

>>3069614
We should call Heretic to help with defense of Builder's Gift.

>>3069626
We should have one dammit. That makes us infantry proof.

Popping in to state:
This Ceph attack is bigger than most. It might have been triggered by our presence, but it's possible it wasn't.
We may want to point out we know the humans are holding out on us regarding artifacts.
But we should definitely ask/figure out why they think the Ceph attacked in such force, and what Ceph stuff they may have (aside from void shards) that could attract such attention.
tl;dr: I don't think the Ceph did this randomly, and I'm not certain it was all our fault. We need to figure out what, if anything, the humans may have that ticked off the Ceph.
It could be useful for neutralizing their god.

>>3069605
We can always evacuate if the rioters are going to break through the defences of the embassy (though it seems unlikely) and they don't seem to have an air force so it still seems safe.

>>3069587
We don't need to defend the embassy if the capital district itself is successfully locked down. The best security barrier is further out than the hive's individual embassy.

I mean we may want to have some hive warriors as 'private security contractors' or something to guard that barrier...

>>3069622
And that will make people thing that we are at war with the Union.

>>3069621
I guess we could reinforce everything. Fortunantly we can cooperate with the Valen in the Embassy i still would rather that at least Lee and the others evacuated as a excuse to do a diplomatic gathering in builder's gift.

>>3069628
Heretic is in full nanny mode with the skyl. We could ask Theseus to bring in a server ship as an "ambassador" to the new galactic meeting place.

>>3069530
>Other
Can we beef up security? Maybe deploy some titans in the courtyard as a show of force?

>>3069614
I’m worried about builder’s gift too. It could easily become a very tempting target and it had been well publicized. We need to deploy a major defense force to the system.

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>>3069623
Doesn't look like it's near any borders on the map.

>>3069649
Huh I guess I remembered wrong.

>>3069640
How about some hybrids in medium carapace?

>>3069644
Hold on now, let's think about this before causing a server ship that the human public thinks only exists to kill humans to pop up over the human capital.

>>3069623
It's not at all on the border. Not that space borders mean much.

It's just mostly undesirable territory where refuse washes up.

>>3069658
I meant asking Theseus to show up at the Builder's Gift now that the Valen are moving there.

>>3069672
Ah, my apologies then.

>>3069607
Well duh, we know that there secertive as hell and the one clam incharge of there gate system has avoided sending any whale to meet with us , they probably know more about the void and have been keeping it a secret from rest of there society

>>3069607
Well no. All the Valen would have to do is share the address of one of their hypergates with a Ceph criminal, a heretic and betrayer, part of the resistance who smuggles out those who are slated for extermination.

It is possible for traitors to continue to use void cutters without authorization, since Coil stole a quartet of crystals and piloted them for Lyle. So one of them just smuggled a micro hypergate back to the homeworld on a void cutter.

Of course the odds are that the masters actually know about most of the Ceph criminal underworld and use them as controlled opposition, but there's no reason for the Valen to realize that.

>>3069640
>>3069639
You guys are speaking as if the rioters wouldn't be able to get some gear and cause a rebellion...wait....maybe we can use our Hive to keep that group way from us.

Anyway now that i think about it we are putting practicaly all our eggs in a single basket (Builder's Gift) What if the Ceph attack was to either destriy the Hive ship and have us move our fleet away and have every ally we have focus in one single place...

>>3069636
Not just a bigger attack but also a attack on the human capital. Which is a novalty since Ceph only attacked freigthers or merchant ships until today.

>>3069682
>they probably know more about the void and have been keeping it a secret from rest of there society
The info they have is public knowledge. Where the humans see "trees" in the Void the Valen see "currents". They seem to know about the Hall of Souls to some degree and actively avoid or fear it. Like they programmed to avoid the pitfalls of the Void.

>>3069688
Or care. As long as the money keeps rolling in what motivation would the Valen have to care if they're supplying a controlled opposition?
>>3069691
The human ground forces don't have the gear to easily penetrate our embassy if we actually reinforce the place. I highly doubt the rioters will be disposed to attack after the first few hundred become a charred corpse.

>>3069700
Every sentence you just said is missing a [citation needed].

>>3069706
Fair point. And i gope that the humans won't be easily iverrun and have their military gear stolen by rioters.

Besides not like the common thug knows how to use a tank.

>>3069710
I think he's confusing the tachyons in realspace with the void metaspace

>>3069706
Since when did we decide we needed the Valen? Honestly, we should have begun adopting them a long time ago.

I for one support complete freedom from all Valen influence. We are the movers. We are the shakers.

Shellfish dont belong in our pond.

>>3069710
Well I guess it is mostly baseless assertion but the story about dead pulling that Valen into the underworld screams of meddling in their genetic or Void stuff.

>>3069530
>Maintain operation as normal
Lee watches as the last shuttle quickly departs, and returns back into the building as Sushi rushes about with a pile of bags and various band paraphernalia while Zippo rushes behind like a bunch of excited puppies.

"I think the spaceports are closed." Lee says.

"But there are still some charter flights." He says back.

"Can you afford that? I'm betting they're going to be price gouging right now." Lee says. "Tell you what, you really want to go that bad, I'm sure there's a hive ship heading in that direction already, I can get you on a shuttle." Sushi jiggles with excitement, his voice offering no hint of it as the speaker drones on.

"Thank you." He says blandly. "Are you not going?"

"No, or at least not unless things get worse here. If the Capital district starts to fall apart, then maybe I'll be sent away but for now I still have work to do. You guys go have fun though."

"We will bring you gifts, then." He says.

"Please don't, I can get just about anything they are going to be selling there for free anyways." Lee replies.

"We won't!" Zippo squeaks as they march in tight circles around Lee. The four of them all rush off down the hall as Lee sighs and looks back to a wall that projects an image of a local news feed of several channels, or what few are still broadcasting.

cont.


>>3069591
Much of it are things that you knew already but he would have now way of knowing you know. I'll have a more detailed write up of the more useful stuff next thread, since right now everyone seems to be in a panic over the recent attacks and the defacto rebellion growing in the city.

>>3069700
No the only info that is public knowledge among them is just basic psi craft and how to use it given that is a natural ability they all have

There been no indication that the whale public at large have deep understanding of the deeper mysteries of the void or how powerful psi can be given most seem to be distracted by there never ending game of blackmail ratrace

That story we heard was a hella old legend that may be considered by the public the same way we use the old santa myth

Now if there any whales with deep knowledge avout the void it would be the ones in that guild that controls and run the gate network and given there tendency for being sneaky it would be easy for them to keep info about the void and all its dangers away form the run of the mill whale public

>>3069725
You are fighting a losing battle. According to QD Valen the could have been our greatest allies if we chose to land on Aral.

>>3069725
I don't think we have. Anons just seem believe they're so paranoid we'd never be able to do anything.
>>3069741
(((Greatest ally))) The valen are behind the bugs and are just their puppetmasters that finally decided to invade the Union!

>>3069740
To the lesser races the understanding of the Void is no different than mysticism and we do know there are more races out there that the White Queen meddled with other than the Humans and Phantoms.

>the defacto rebellion growing in the city.

Oh...so there is a rebellion? Wonder if they blame us and the government for all this shit. Probably both now that i think about it.

>>3069750
That is what happens when Agitation maxes out. Revolt.

Quick, Taidarens, grab everything and everyone you can while all the cameras are smashed.

>>3069725
Amen to that, from what we've seen the only benefits in human-Valen interactions go in one direction. Valen only invest in anything if they plan on exploiting somebody.

>>3069741
Yeah, and Theseus could have been our most hated enemy. But things didn't turn out that way, did they?

>>3069746
We don't know anything about the Valen and I feel like Anons have really dropped the ball in terms of reaching out to potential allies. We could help them learn about their psionic abilities instead of scaring them shitless.

There's been a ton of speculation about the Valen in this thread, but because we know so little about them (we somehow haven't even managed to parasite any yet!), we shouldn't form any kind of serious conclusion about them at this time.

Agreed that we can and should try to make them allies, though. Bringing groups together has been a strength of the Queen.

>>3069757
i think there is a difference between a Rebellion and Riotters or Looters doing stuff.

>>3069759
greatest ally doesn't necessarily mean not controlled.

>>3069759
Nah, protecting races under our aegis of protection is the strength of the Queen. The Valen never get involved with anybody if they can't find their pound of flesh to get out of the deal. We don't need friends like that.

>>3069757
I'm now noticing what happens at maximum Agitation isn't quite spelled out explicitly in the pastebin.

https://ask.fm/QuestDrone/answers/142856526373
>Once Agitation reaches 100, the populace will enter open revolt and a grassroots populist revolution will attempt to secede from the current governing power. Until then, different categories of Agitation result in various penalties that effect both the ruling faction and to a lesser extent anyone performing espionage.

>>3069750
We really should do a interview to improve our public perception.
>>3069758
If we did business with them we'd end up in control very quickly. Humans are terrible at uniting at a common cause, Valen are better, and we are the best.

>>3069759
We can try to find a down on his/her luck Valen and offer him/her the same deal as with Anderson. I would like to see a Valen minister of trade for the Hive.

>>3069738
I wonder if the Union government would take us up on an offer to help mollify the situation.

Alternatively.. >>3069770
>grassroots populist revolution
Don't we have a buddy on Talgo who might be able to use this? And I don't mean Anderson.

Regardless: I think Killinger might use this unrest as a pretext to become "king."
This would not be helpful to us, I think - we should try to shut that down. Whether that's brainfucking the populace into calming down, or controlling/influencing the opposition and preventing Killinger from going tyrant on us.

>>3069768
>The Valen never get involved with anybody if they can't find their pound of flesh to get out of the deal. We don't need friends like that.
That's the thing, though, we only really know about the Valen through how the humans see them. Until we have at least managed to scan at least ONE Valen it is incredibly premature for us to conclude that any kind of relationship with them will require a sacrifice of a "pound of flesh" (or whatever that means to the Hive).

We don't have enough information to decide a relationship isn't worthwhile.

>>3069781
I think killinger has long stopped giving a shit about the king bill and now just wants the bleeding of the union to stop

>>3069777
We have the cuckfish for that! It’s a little fucked that the first whale we managed to do business with lost his job for doing exactly what his boss did.

>>3069768
You retarded if you think like this. The Valen society is entirely built upon mutual benefit and are most non aggressive out of all the races. Also their perspective on debt would be good to adopt to some degree still it would go a long way to fix the problem the past Hives have had. A lot more than the death world bullshit people have been pushing.

>>3069777
That could be interesting.

I think our best bet for implantation at this time is probably the Valen singer for the Metal Band. With all the psionic signals going on a parasite may actually be necessary for the Valen to maintain their focus during the performance - and their already scheduled time aboard our station would make it easy to make a secretive "offer"

>>3069770
So the capital will try to secede from the Union? That would be interesting. By the way, i am trying to find how many trade routes are allowed for each planet/space city but there doesn't seem to be any information about that in the pastebin section about trade. Am i just not seeing it?

>>3069781
This rebellion is entirely localized to the planet Gemini.

President Killinger is simply not going to happen, a Void puppet will take the throne Conrad was convinced would be rightfully his, if anything.

>>3069797
He may have rolled poorly on his smuggle-self-to-safety roll and is sleeping with the fishes now.

>>3069808
>many trade routes are allowed
The space cities pastebin lists those numbers.

Planets are a mystery.

>>3069799
They're also not very nice, and aren't afraid to bring the full might of their slimy business lawyer bullshit to bear on some poor fuck to make money. They can't really bleed us but they can fuck our expanse populations, they're good at fucking humans.

>>3069741
You uh, got a quote for that? Was that a new answer from the Askme?

>>3069813
>they're good at fucking humans.
To be fair, we're pretty good at fucking humans over too (at least from the human perspective).

The Valen can be slimy, but so can we. We haven't really engaged in diplomacy so far, but that certainly doesn't mean we should at least attempt some serious friendly outreach before they give up on becoming friends with the Hive altogether.

>>3069774
I was wondering if making more trade companies like FormOther to give people employment and a more peaceful connection with the Hive would help the Hive's public image.

>>3069817
Hes a whale apologist making up bull to cover up the fact the whales seem to religously worship acting like wallstreet executives and all the horrendus behaviour that ensure as we saw from andersons memorys as a whale shadowrunner and what they been doing on talgo as told by lee families

>>3069799
Only if you define 'mutual benefit' very loosely. Have you forgotten how fantastically cruel the Valen are to everyone who finds themselves in debt to them? We've seen about two Valen characters in this quest, and already we've seen countless examples of mind rape, cucking, and no end of slavery enforced out of sheer spite. Just because they're empathetic does not, by any measure of the word, make them kind or benevolent. If anything in a hyper competitive environment, it makes them the opposite.

>>3069826
I concur, anon. Still, in real terms it's only been a few days since we had our official meeting with the Valen and scared them shitless. The opportunity isn't lost yet.

>>3069813
Well I have to agree with anon upthread that most of our perception is shaped by the humans' view of the Valen. Valen aren't very nice to humans, but neither have we been.

I think that it would be a rather different relationship with us. We would also be immune to their business-lawyering and could extend that protection to any citizens.

>>3069813
You do realize we can use that stuff to release a debt policy to get more people into the Hive and the Valen are great managers.
>>3069817
I don't think he said it on ask but he did say they could have been our greatest allies which makes sense especially how profitable such an alliance would be. It be the Gate all over again for them.

>>3069826
Before we act nice we need to exploit their fear as much as possible before smoothing it over and becoming BFFs/best frenemies forever.

We can't miss the opportunity to extract hypergate tech from them.

We could have their 'Queen' equivalent, the highest guy in the Guild of Transportation, meet with a Fake Queen drone, or something, and give him visions of profits turning into red ink due to Tachyonic Drill price competition if we don't get what we want.

Then we can smooth it over with immortality and adoption.

>>3069812
Thanks for the information. I am curious about the planets since the Union capital of Gemini was revealed to have only three trade routes which seems a rather small number.

>>3069817
I remember that too, he was talking about how the planet choice on thread 1 changed what neighbor we had to start out with, we ended up with Theseus but we could have landed next to the Commonwealth or Valen irrc. I don't have a source for this.

>>3069826
Can't really argue with anything in your post, except to say that I'm concerned the Valen will take a less than nurturing stance towards the humans under our care if we let them. A few threads ago Lee's family was telling Anderson about how the Valen were strangling local business and aiming for a monopoly on the planet.

I'm all for giving them an office on builders gift, this is all just something to keep in mind.

>>3069839
You do realize every nation has done awful stuff. The Greens are no saints either since they're actively fucking over the Union. Killinger and Jack are trying to save Union but doing more damage in the process. The Commonwealth is full of backstabbers.
Every nation will go to shit if we don't control it.

>>3069833
>>3069817

That Anon is definitely not making it up, I remember the quote from QD too although I'm not sure where it is. It was something like how the Valen could have been amazing allies and Theseus could have become a terrible foe if we had made decisions in the quest different way.

Theseus and how everyone sees him (as a terrifying killbot), is exactly why we should investigate situations themselves before deciding diplomacy is pointless.

>>3069841
>The opportunity isn't lost yet.
I agree, but the window of opportunity is likely closing. We should try to make some friendly overtures at least. Hopefully once we implant one of them we can figure out what makes them tick and what they would like more easily.

>>3069850
Unless the fear makes them just shut down and stop all diplomacy with the Hive. We're pushing them pretty close to the breaking point and if they consider the Hive a lost cause it could be bad.

>>3069860
Strictly speaking, any of those stories from Talgo farmers may have been false flag operations to stoke anti-xeno sentiment.

>>3069865
i guess we could always parasite the Valen in the Embassy. According to Anton he us ine of the lowest ranking Valen and being given something to stop poisoning and heal him seems migthy usefull.

>>3069865
>>3069833
>>3069817
IIRC, it was a general "What-if" scenario if we have had landed on Aral. In the same answer, he also said that we would have been allies with the Union against Theseus if we had taken their word for it and never bothered talking to him.
I can't dig it out now since I'm at work atm but I do have a word file of all the ask.fm posts. I'll see if I can put it up when I get back to my PC.

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>>3069738
The shuttle rocks from side to side, the soldiers within swaying instinctively as they ready their gear. A holographic map projected into the air in the middle of the cargo bay shows the surface of Argos is a simplified layout as Lord General Cunningham examines it with careful eyes, studying every inch of the map as it updates each minute with new information from the front. His own dropsuit is bulky, with the addition of a large backpack shaped module where his suit holds a miniaturized comm unit. As a result, it is slightly less armed than a typical dropsuit, and is missing the typically popular missile pods to make space for the extra bulk and weight. He is kneeled down as a technician performs some final adjustments on his leg, his arm propped up on a sheathed powered sword in lieu of his cane to help stabilize him as the shuttle continues to shake.

"Ten minutes." The radio on the walls buzzes the words loudly. Cunningham clicks a button on the map, and it zooms in, showing the shuttle and the formation of aircraft surrounding it. He clicks another button, and the visual shifts to thermal imaging, showing a heat map of the ground below. It is dark, and colt, but scattered throughout you see flashes of lights, sudden, momentary bursts of heat radiating out from what look like comm towers.

"They're running on radio silence. They know you can crack their frequencies." He says. Your drone chitters with pride as it squats on the other side of the map display. They are right to be concerned.

The heat signatures quickly rush off over the horizon, signaling the defenders at your destination of your approach.

"Once we start the attack, my team inserted within the city will move to the next stage of the operation and detonate the charges they've planted. Hopefully they've been able to find some important facilities to take out. After that, they move in on the enemy command post and prevent their evacuation." Cunningham looks up to your drone. "Personally, I think I'd like a word or two with whoever's in charge of this invasion. I take it you'd like a crack at them as well."

"We do not need words." Your speaker replies with a chittering hiss. Cunningham chuckles.

"Of course with what we've seen already, their commander will likely be quite the combatant."

"Five minutes"

"The Hive will be deploying an appropriate force."

cont.

>>3069865
That would make no sense from either a business or a self preservation perspective. Fear would at worst make some of them keep physical distance from drones. But walking away from all dealings would just mean we could deliver on the threat of economic devastation.

They have no choice but to deal, or they'll lose. There is a clear path to profit, doing what the hive says, so obviously not a lost cause by any means.

>>3069885
Quite. https://ask.fm/QuestDrone/answers/136301544997

>>3069886
YAY!! Commonwealth Buddies!!

>>3069887
Yup the Rip drive is quite literally a ship mounted Hypergate. There's no way they'll back out of any deal if we offer that.

>>3069887
The Hive has also proved to be very efficient against a large Ceph attack. Something that the Union showed with their fleet in orbit to be unable to handle.

>>3069886
So, wonder if this is a Matriarch or a Matron the CW is attempting to capture. Should be interesting to see the humans fighting one of the leadership at least.

>>3069912
I wonder if we can actually talk her into surrendering.

>>3069924
oh yeah that turned out so well last time.

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>>3069886
"I'd expect nothing less." He replies. "Your air support is greatly needed, our own has suffered extensive losses. A first wave drop will also have a low survival rate. Appart from my personal guard, who have the unenviable task of following me everywhere, my forces will hang back until your drones take out the city's perimeter guns. Me and my personal forces will land here, at the port, and secure the railyard as a beachhead so that the cargo trains can bring in the reinforcements and heavy equipment. After that we regroup, and push in through the main thoroughfare to the spaceport where they seem to have their HQ, or what we think looks like their HQ. It's largely formed from a deployed cruiser sized vessel that landed at the spaceport. My commandos are ordered to infiltrate it and prevent it from taking off it if is able to do so."

"Thirty seconds."

"Any last moment changes you recommend?" Cunningham asks.

>Approve of the plan
>Ask about some detail of the plan
>Recommend a change
>Other

>>3069924
Maybe...

The Scavs generally have xenophobia that would make the 40k look tame in comparison, but if we claim to be old ones or agents of the old ones, we might have a chance.

>>3069924
They literely don't have the word for that in their vocabulary. Only way to grab the leader is by incapacitating it and capture it by force.

>>3069931
We never tried.

>>3069932
>Approve of the plan

>>3069937
We have the power telepathy. We'll make a word for them.

>>3069932
>Recommend a change
Offer to deploy a boarding fleet in the airspace above the port to capture the ship if it attempts to take off.

>>3069932
>>Recommend a change
Offer to deploy hive commando/special operations units to keep the cruiser from taking off. It's a great chance to finally utilize our chimeras.

>>3069932
>Ask about some detail of the plan

>Other:"Any chance of...human prisioners being found in the complex? You did mentioned they liked to use people as shields to make your troops doubt attacking."

Also did i hear it right there is a landed Scav cruiser here?!

>>3069944
We’ve literally tried exactly that. Her brain simply didn’t have any analogous concept to equate the word to. For the scavs, to fall in battle is defeat; no ifs or but’s about it.

>>3069932
Can we support the commandos operation? Sending specialist drones of our own for example.

>>3069946
Supporting.

>>3069946
i think the ship is landed and not in orbit.

>>3069932

Backing us providing support to the commando operation.
>>3069948
>>3069954

>>3069953
Man they are worst then the Klingons

You know this puts us at a bit of a problem. If the commonwealth captures the cruiser we either have to distance ourselves from the reverse engineering effort made by the humans, demand the ship for ourselves or break our word about not involving ourselves in the human war.

>>3069962
If anything from what we know about the Broodmother/Matron they are fucking huge maybe the reason the cruiser is landed is because she is actually aboard it.

>>3069958
I said ‘if’. There is no garuntee an infiltration while it’s docked will succeed.

>>3069932
Wow we're finally back to Namek.

We've been fighting in the Tiberion system so long but it isn't in the pastebin yet. >>1235387

Uh, long ago we got the option to 'aid Elvanine', but it wasn't described as under attack by Scavs. It is being attacked, right?

>>3069966
I mean...we could always i dunno share tech and info. We are doing that here already by sharing what we learn about the scavs and their techies are probably already trying to reverse some of the blaster techs.

Also we need to prevent the ship self destruct. Because scavs seem to love to deny us our beautifull battle loot.

>>3069966
>>3069969
I just had a thought, if we're actually able to capture the scav ship intact we might be able to use it as an infection vector for the worldship at Old One's Promise. They'd probably let the cruiser dock with the worldship especially if they thought a Matron was onboard.

>>3069975
And then we could invade it. Or possibly destroy/infiltrate the worldship with our human buddies.

>>3069973
I have no problem sharing tech with the CW. They are very slow at reverse engineering anyway and giving small slivers of technology may allow us to extend our influence over them. If we want them to build the psi cannon for us it may even be necessary.

>>3069975
That is a good idea. We could parasite a bunch of Scavengers and have them infiltrate the Worldship while the Matron talks about some great threat or something like that.

>>3069975
A plausible plan. Even if the matron gets killed for failing the crew would probably be absorbed by other matrons or even the matriarch.

>>3069987
Giving them tech would more or less mean we are overtly picking them over the Union.

>>3069975
Hot damn. Time to ready the psionic spores and hive creep.

We need more designs with the Ovipositor.

>>3070003
No it would be equalizing them with the union since we have started a joint research program with the union and anons forgot about how that would effectbour dealimgs with the commonwealth

>>3069973
We should share at least some of what we learned from the captured matriarch. Also it was mentioned that having a technology and mass producing it are two very different things for the humans so even if they get scavenger technology it is doubtful they could use relatively soon.

>>3069932
DEPLOY THE TITAN

>>3070018
Incorrect. We never intended on giving them combat so you're full of shit.

>>3070003
Were already planning on effectively leaking some of our tech to the union through the sale of things like our cybernetic augs and hardlight entertainment. I’m sure theyd be willing to look the other way over a few pieces of tech that were captured within the CW borders.

>>3069975
We will need a ship intact to reverse engineer the antimatter reactor that's probably onboard and its flicker drive.

We can reverse engineer the ship, or we can send it back as a spy, we can't easily do both.

But we probably shouldn't use this thing as a spy. Because we want no witnesses, no data, absolute silence coming back from human space. We want these fleets lost with no survivors, and a big black hole where intelligence about what happened should be.

There are away teams we can parasite to infiltrate the world-ship. They're more suited to it than this cruiser vessel.

>>3069986
>>3069989
>>3069991
>>3070004

If we want to capture the Scav ship intact it's all the more important that we send out own special forces with the Commonwealth to make sure the plan doesn't get screwed up.

>>3070026
What if we parasite the Scavenger scientist and engineers?

>>3069932
>>Recommend a change
The hive will lead the infiltration of the cruiser. There must be no chance of Scavs escaping.

Of course also there should be no chance of its self destruct.

>>3070029
Also we alone possess the knowledge of how to pilot it, extracted from Scav brains.

So we can safely capture it and pilot it back to Leeland, it's fair payment for assistance really. We just gotta tell them we're the ones piloting it after we capture it.

>>3070026
We could reverse engineer the ship first, and then later use it for infiltration purposes. We used the same tactic successfully years ago with the wreckage of the Clarke (at the start of the campaign).

>>3070020
>>3070018
True

>>3070003
We are not giving then tech. This tech is just scavenger tech not ours.

>>3070018
We aren't giving shit to the Union either. 'Joint research' means a skunkworks where we accelerate whatever ideas they bring to the table.

We don't give them access to new things. They give us access to new things.

>>3070018
Why can't we offer the same thing to the Commonwealth ?

>>3070066
It wrong not true and we've already reverse engineered Scavenger tech unless you want to give it to the Union too.

So what you guys suggest, beside a speaker, to go with the commandos? Are we sending Flies too (although i would rather not do that)

>>3070020
I agree we should share what we learned. The knowledge that the Scavs have destroyed multiple civilizations before them and information about the true size of the Scav fleet will make the CW realize how utterly fucked they would be without the Hive, and will hopefully also scare them enough they back off their war with the Union to conserve forces.

>>3070090
No you silly drone. What i'm saying is that we can research the tech together but it wouldn't be us giving it to then it's a tech of a ship on their planet. If anything they are the ones sharing with us we are just acellerating their research time not giving the ready tech to then.

>>3070090
We haven't reverse engineered their FTL drives anon. Who knows what other goodies and tech we could find on a cruiser class vessel?

>>3070074
No doubt but we already annoced it to the public by having elizabeth send that open message to mentat that we were opening a joint research program and every spy agency would have sent it back to there hq to think on what the fuck are we plotting


While the officals would know something is up, all the public knows is that we have offically opened a research program

>>3070099
That'll fly real well when Union troops start getting killed by blasters.

>>3070091
I'd probably vote for sending Chimeras or Hybrids, along with Ghost beetles and other special operations drones.

I agree I'd rather not use flies either if we can help it, but it may be necessary since the capture of the ship is so important.

>>3070107
The commonwealth would have gotten their hands on blaster tech no matter what we did and you know that.

Lets joint research the FTL with the Commonwealth and split the rest of the loot.

>>3070099
Teaching how to reverse engineer the drive the will hand them victory on a platter. It's seriously too good to give it without getting paid.

>>3070112
Yeah but it'd take months or more likely years for them to reverse engineer the tech by themselves.

>>3070107
And what the Union gonna do about it? If they want we can always give a skunwork with then. Besides you speak as if they would be able to produce these weapons immediatly.

>>3070115
No.
Wait scratch that. I have a song to play for you
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qlC6in7R0NU

>>3070120
i Mean aren't we getting payed by researching all the tech we get from the captured ship? We can always ask for something more too.

>>3070120
Who said anything about teaching them how to reverse engineer? That's no the equivalent of setting up a joint research project. Most of our prowess at reverse engineering comes from our inherent nature as a centralized intelligence.

>>3070125
It's not about what they can do but how it'll make us look. If we're playing alliance maker our word needs to be gold.

>>3070127
A man of taste at the very least.

>>3070135
Fine...we can get another cruise another time. Or maybe we can just have the Commonwealth share whatever they find for us.

>>3070107
You’re assuming the commonwealth war with the Union will continue. We have massive and growing influence in the commonwealth and we can likely get them to scale back or drop the war against the Union. Additionally, with the Union on the verge of collapse and myriad external threats we can likely get the Union to back away from war as well (even after the gravitic weapons deployment I think we could force a “white peace”)

>>3070135
Yeah at this point it's looking like we are going to betray the Union wholesale which opens opportunity for Void shenanigans again.

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>>3069932
"It was said humans are held captive within the area?" Your drone says. "In what locations is this likely?"

"The whole city." He says. "It looks like they've been rounding up civilians and putting them in pens nearby their military centers. It's why I sent in commandos instead of an orbital strike."

"The Hive can assist these commandos." Your drone chirps. Cunningham waves his hand.

"Not needed. They are already on site. By the time you get there they will have already finished their task, however I would be thankful, and I am sure they would be too if you are able to reinforce their position and assist in their extraction. Once we lift radio silence I'll let them know the calvary is inbound. As it is now, they are ordered to attempt to destroy the ship's thrusters. Its main drive is potent enough, but judging by how it touched down, it doesn't seem very graceful in atmo. Once it's grounded they fall back and will rendezvous with your forces and make a final push on the HQ. That combat is going to be tight and brutal, I have no doubt. I suspect your forces will be keen on that kind of roughhouse."

"The Hive shall secure the enemy HQ then."

"Excellent." Cunningham says. He pushes himself to his feet with the sword in his hand, propping himself up with it like a cane. He attaches it to his belt and his helmet unfolds over his face, his voice suddenly coming through on the suit's speakers at a much louder volume.

"If you wish to remain outside of combat, you can wait here, although I can't say it will be safe here either."

"This speaker is disposable, it will maintain communications with the Cunningham.

"Ten seconds!"

"Well then follow close." He says. He turns to his men, each in a bulky and elaborate looking drop suit of their own as the cargo bay doors begin to open, revealing the vast formation of air units around the shuttle. Hive and commonwealth shuttles, atmospheric craft, fighters, bombers, and cargo and troop transports of all types and designs. Suddenly, almost the moment the formation passes the city's outer limits, the shuttle suddenly rocks to the side with a loud bang, and a sudden wave of flak and bursts of blaster cannons begin ripping into the formation. A red light begins flashing along the wall and a loud buzzer drones on as the drop troopers charge out the back of the shuttle. Cunningham draws his sword and opens into a sprint, diving out the bay doors as your speaker rushes after him, his suit firing its thrusters in short bursts to send him jutting from side to side, bobbing and weaving through the flak.

cont.

>>3069970
It was being invaded. You drove off the orbiting fleets. Argos however has had enough time for them to dig in and get a foothold on the planet.

>>3070135
It would look more shady if we weren't doing the essentially the same exact thing with the Union over the Cluster and OQ incursion on Path. All this tech would come from hostile aliens captured on Commonwealth worlds, it's fair game.

>>3070150
The only way this would be true was if we didn't aid them in reverse engineering the tech.

I just realized we have an excuse to not give them the drive. IT'S A RELIC OF THE WAR.

>>3070160
Then we definitely shouldn't and should take it away as too dangerous like we did with the contents of the Path lab.

>>3070162
True.

>>3070160
If we're talking about tech we could get from the ship, and not tech we've already unlocked, then most of the novel tech the Scavs have would not be covered by a joint research initiative.

>as the cargo bay doors begin to open, revealing the vast formation of air units around the shuttle. Hive and commonwealth shuttles, atmospheric craft, fighters, bombers, and cargo and troop transports of all types and designs.

So fucking awesome!

>>3070177
I still wonder why there are people against assimilating the other races.

>>3070182
Because then there would be no one left to fight. Not all races are the same or of equal value to the hive.

>>3070182
In my opinion assimilation sounds a lot like we would be enslaving then like the void does witht he other races. And i would rather not do the same as the void.

>>3070182
Also, when left to their own devices and pressures of which we do not shield them from, they can create some pretty neat things. I'm fine with assimilating some of them.

>>3070162
We can't just go around calling everything we want to steal a precious relic, it'll be perceived as transparent greed and anyone who hears of this will be less likely to believe us next time we're trying to stop the Union from summoning satan.

Besides, didn't their FTL drive come from the silicates? Silicates are not the void.

>>3070189
To which I say you complain of a non problem. To care about their value of their lives is what leads to atrocities and the Hall of Souls. It is the fact they are alive that makes them valuable by default.

>>3070199
We more or less think the silicates are the Void right now. Seiner hasn't returned yet.

>>3070199
>Silicates are not the void.
Technically true, but the Hive won't know that until Seiner gets back from his vision quest.

That being said, I'm open to trading with the Commonwealth for the ship. Even if we don't trade any technology our knowledge of the Scav forces, deposition, and objectives would be extremely valuable to them.

>>3070214
Or we could simply request that we're allowed to reverse engineer the ship without giving them the technology we get and justify it as the only way we can maintain neutrality in the conflict unless they want us to also aid the Union. It's a bit of a strong arm tactic but still.

So we are parasiting as many Scavengers as we can right? So we can get that sweet bonus to reverse engineering the ship.

>>3070238
of course.

>>3070238
We're reverse engineering that clunker regardless of how many scavs are still alive at the end of the fight.

>>3070238
Obviously duh. Now that i think about it if we grab the scavs engennier we might not need to capture the ship to reverse engenier it.

And I just realized we can use this ship to infiltrate the main fleet.

>>3070246
Getting their scientists and engineers gives a massive boost to researching their tech and their tech is likely to be pretty slow to research.

>>3070250
Yep, we just talked about that. See >>3069975

>>3070266
Oh I thought that post was talking about the other one.

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>>3070149
As your speaker leaps from the shuttle, you see one of the other cargo transports tear open. Several drop suits emerge, some in parts, others diving out of the shattering hull and growing flames just in time. Elsewhere, an atmospheric craft is suddenly struck by incoming flack and its wing sheers off, sending it tumbling in a spiral as it falls from the sky, its shed wing incinerating into pieces as several craft behind it move to evade the debris. Your speaker swings itself away from a passing bolt of plasma as it plumes open and tears open the shuttle's fuelselage above you, sending the whole cargo bay erupting into flaming chunks. Tracer fire whizzes past your drone, fired from reclaimed commonwealth defence systems retrofitted bellow to be used by Scavenger hands. Your drone straightens itself into a sleek profile to dive after Cunningham, quickly diving out of the way of a shuttle as the rapid pings of projectile slugs puncture its cockpit and shatter its windshield, filling the inside of the windows with red as it gradually descends into a wild spin and its hold breaks open as the drop troopers within dive out before the shuttle impacts the side of an office tower, shearing off a chunk of the building as the flaming husk rolls into the street bellow.

You nearly catch up with the general and his personal guard. Your drone spins in the air to face its head towards a sudden noise as the sound of pulse jets suddenly breaks the sound of the rushing wind and flak, and you see a formation of the oddly shaped vehicles hurtling themselves skyward towards the air craft. The first wave is quickly intercepted as your own aircraft open fire, and the two forces begin to intermingle.

>Have your aircraft focus on taking out the enemy aircraft
>Have your aircraft focus on defending the landing troops
>Other

>>3070272
>Have your aircraft focus on taking out the enemy aircraft
Air superiority is the best superiority.

>>3070272
>>Have your aircraft focus on taking out the enemy aircraft
It's what our aircraft are designed to do.

>>3070272
>Have your aircraft focus on defending the landing troops
The more people get to the LZ the easier it is for the troops following.

>>3070272
>>Have your aircraft focus on defending the landing troops

>>3070272
>Have your aircraft focus on defending the landing troops

>>3070272


>Have your aircraft focus on defending the landing troops

I mean this is what we want the less humans are dead the better right?

>>3070272
>>Have your aircraft focus on defending the landing troops
Our job is to support the ground forces not to get distracted dogfighting the enemy. Once the first wave has a beachhead we can destroy the opposing aircraft.

>>3070233
"First rights to salvage" is also a fair payment for assisting in defense of human planets anyway. They are the ones requesting our help here, after all, not the other way around.

Looking back at the backstory of our Matron couldn't we instead of demanding surrender offer the Matron a place in our fleet along with a Worldship? That might be worth testing to see if she rebels against her kind.

>>3070272
>Have your aircraft focus on taking out the enemy aircraft
Can't let the air support take out the human troops.

>>3070199
That it's from the days of the War with the spheroids and not the later Schism might make the case stronger, not weaker. It's from one of the Three.

>>3070272
>Have your aircraft focus on defending the landing troops

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>3070340
Mother please

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>3070340

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>3070340
FOR MOTHER

Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>3070340
FOR MOTHER

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Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>3070340

JOLLY COOPERATION!

For Mother!

>>3070351
>>3070354
>>3070356
It's going to be one of those days.

>>3070359
god damn it

>>3070359
Guess we know what Mother wants us to do next time.

>>3070359
Alas, we were too late.
Priming dice arm for next set of rolls...

>>3070367
Jolly Co-operation with Cunniham?

>>3070385
Indeed fellow thinker, indeed.

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>>3070340
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFkbyajVWR8

A drone craft passes with a sudden scream as a flight of scavenger pulse jet fighters hurl themselves into the formation, their directions suddenly shifting and changing as their thrusters juggle their hulls through the air back and forth. Your fighters give chance, though their pulse jets make them too maneuverable to hunt down effectively. Your fighters move into packs, surrounding them and closing in on each one, forcing them into a killbox of overlapping fire between your fighters, but the process is inefficient, on an equal footing, the pulse jet fighters evade and dodge every attack.

The aircraft above have served their purpose, and you see them begin to turn as they drop their forces, many of the enemy fighters give chase, and the sky is quickly filled with a maddening haze of weapons fire and flaming debris. Your speaker darts between the debris and incoming flak, diving away as fighters buzz around the falling troops.

A pulse jet fighter rushes by, suddenly jerking in its flight path as Cunningham's suit fires its thrusters, and he swings his sword as it passes, the brief contact suddenly sending him spinning through the air as a pulse jet nozzle flies away in a burst of flame, and the fighter's side suddenly erupts into a burst of flame as the oblong hull hurls itself like a baseball through the air tumbling uncontrollably toward the city bellow. His suit's maneuvering jets quickly spin him back around as his guard move to follow his path, firing their suit's guns at the passing fighters as the swarm through the air intermingled with hive and commonwealth strike craft.

"Ready to brake!" Someone shouts as the ground rushes towards the troops. The upper layers of the city's towers suddenly passing on either side of you with a sudden, deafening rush of air.

cont.

>>3070498
Nice fucking music choice.

>>3070498
>Cutting the wing off of a fighter plane while falling towards the enemy occupied city
RULES OF NATURE

>>3070508
No wonder Lyle respects this guy.

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>>3070498
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBa5tf4BZ10

The drop suits suddenly deploy several metal discs from their backs, each tethered to the suit as they open up like small parachutes, each one firing a a set of four retro thrusters as the drop suits begin to rapidly lose velocity until the discs sputter and flicker out, and the tether's detach from their backs. The troops fall the rest of the way, their jump jets firing several feet from impact as the streets bellow are pulverized underneath their armored feet. The troops immediately open up with their weapons, tearing into defences you cannot fully see from your perspective above.

Several scavenger grunts rush from their cover in flames as a stream of hot plasma is sprayed into the cluster of defenders. Blaster bolts lance out at them as they open fire, and Cunningham charges forward, his armored legs tucked in as his jump jets fire in a controlled sputter that sends him rushing forward at great speed, and his suit barges through the wall of of what was once the wall of a bakery as two of his guards follow close behind with the sound of gunfire and the smell of charred Scavenger flesh as panic pheromones fill the building.

Your speaker slows its own descent with a sudden burst of mental energy, sending debris and dust scattering and billowing up around your drone as it slowly touches down on the ground with the grace of a specter, floating into the crater left by one of the human troopers as you look over to their advancing line. The Scavenger defences have already broken in this intersection, their ordered positions breaking apart under an unrelenting wall of fire as the drop troopers march forward as they maintain their fire, their move assist armor holding their weapons steady as they fire a stream of automatic kinetic slugs into the buildings surrounding them until each squad stands only feet from the shattered doorways and windows of the buildings themselves.

The sudden silence is itself deafening. Cunningham walks back out from the bakery, his suit coated in alien blood as his sword's vibrations shake the blood clean and he returns it to its scabbard at his hip. Several radio antenna extend from his back and you feel the sudden burst of radio signals echo across the battlefield.

"This is Lord General Augustus F. Cunningham, my forces have made landfall. We landed slightly off course, two klicks from the beachhead. All other squads able to do so will move ahead on mission. Any who are unable to do so report in status and required aid."

He clicks a button and the signal stops. He turns back to the rest of the troops as they examine the debris of the local shops, pulling several scavenger corpses from the rubble, or sending a bolt into some for good measure as they offer a last gasp or involuntary twitch of a dying organism. One of the troopers marches up to the Lord General.

cont.

>>3070620
>Your speaker slows its own descent with a sudden burst of mental energy
I just realized. We can make drones that can fight like Jedi.

>>3070638
Jedi are pussies compared to Speakers.

>>3070638
>I just realized.
Really? How do you just start realizing this? People have been making Star Wars references for a long time now so unless you're new you must be the densest motherfucker I've ever seen.

>>3070654
Does your hostility make you feel better?
Having a rough day anon?

>>3070662
Please accommodate that thinker; he is assigned to union vidnet monitoring and has been rickrolled more than eight hundred times today.

>>3070662
I'm not trying to be hostile. Just how anyone can just realize such a thing when players have had prolonged discussion about "Jedi bugs" in quest.

>>3070662
He's kinda right though, we invented lightsabers sages ago.

>>3070620
"The landing zone is secured, sir. No civilians. A few bodies, but they're all old. Likely from the initial invasion."

"Depending on how accurate the other squads were, we should be securing the rail yard any moment now." Cunningham says. He points his hand like a knife down the street, where you can smell the pheromones of yet more scavengers. "We move in incremental waves, moving forward one squad at a time, the others offering covering fire. My squad covers flank, up on the buildings and moving along side. We catch them in a creeping crossfire, keep moving don't get complacent. They're maneuverable but they don't have good armor. They've built their military to attack, not defend, so we keep them on the defensive."

"Yes Lord General!" The trooper says, and he quickly runs ahead with the rest as Cunningham walks over to your speaker, his hand resting on his sword's hilt as a set of small sensor probes fire from his shoulders and begin drifting forward down the street.

"You okay?" He says.

"This speaker is undamaged."

"Good. Stick with the back line to stay out of the fight. I'm not sure how durable your diplomatic castes are."

>Stick with Cunningham and have your drone assist in the combat with its psionics
>Have your drone stay in the back and avoid combat
>Other

>>3070691
>Stick with Cunningham and have your drone assist in the combat with its psionics
We can just airdrop another if this one gets damage significantly enough. Besides wouldn't want to have another interesting human getting killed.

>>3070691
>>Stick with Cunningham and have your drone assist in the combat with its psionics

Commonwealth been getting some good rolls I guess, the spotlight is on them for now.

Actually did we upgrade the speakers with the hardlight blades?

>>3070691
>>Stick with Cunningham and have your drone assist in the combat with its psionics
Speaker is both disposable and surprisingly deadly in combat.

>>3070691
>Stick with Cunningham and have your drone assist in the combat with its psionics

>>3070700
Anons voted against it, only the ambassador drones got those. Which was a terrible decision in my opinion, as the speakers are the ones we actually send out into active battlefields.

>>3070691
>>Have your drone stay in the back and avoid combat
We can't openly admit to telekinesis, it would leak to the Union like everything does.

>>3070700
Only the Ambassadors. I looking at the thread now. Ghost Beetles and Psionic Warriors can use psionics to assist in combat.

>>3070708
We just causally used telekinesis though.

>>3070691
>>Have your drone stay in the back and avoid combat

>>3070707
No we're sending the ambassadors out into battle, QD just uses the name speaker interchangeably for some reason.

>>3070691
>Stick with Cunningham and have your drone assist in the combat with its psionics

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

>>3070740
The ambassador is a kind of subclass of speaker, like how a radiation worker is still a kind of worker.