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>>4976072
>>4975747

"It's a decent cheese for snacking on, but not what i'd normally put on an omelette... but this is the only cheese i know how to make, so uh, it is what it is. Sorry."

"It's fine..." Cylia says, turning a cube over in her fingers before tossing it into her mouth.

Sanig and Kyla also eat theirs quickly, but Gildur looks at it with some trepidation.
The sounds they make as they begin chewing are a good sign. Seems like it turned out pretty well.

"It's good! It's kind of soft and savory, but chewy at the same time..." Kyla comments.

"Yeah, it's kind of like those flavorless food cubes they put into prepackaged meals as filler, but way more substantial. I doubt these are made out of edible plastic?" Cylia asks.

"Nope. It's a milk product, as you can tell by the slight blue tint there. There are all sorts of different cheeses back on earth, but this is the only one i can easily make out here in space."

Pulling a cheese grater out of the cupboard drawer, you take the rest of the slice you'd cut out and start grating it onto the omlette, giving it time to warm up from the heat of the egg.
The fried veggies finish not long after, so you place them on top of the cheese, then sprinkle a bit more cheese on top, finishing by folding the omlette over like a soft taco.

"There you go, see how you like that. I'm gonna get started on a little side dish while i'm at it."

You place the omelette on the table for everyone to try, then get back to the stove and flip the second omelette which is still cooking.
You set the fried veggies aside in a bowl to free up the skillet, then pour in a bit more oil and get the heat going.

Taking out the cheese grater again, you quickly grate up a few Edel Roots. You mix the shredded Edel with chopped Pelka grass and season it with salt and MSG, then spread it across the pan to fry.
While the hashbrowns cook, you make up several more omelettes and set them aside to cool. Once the hashbrowns are done, you add them to the plate together with some nutrient paste bread, which you've toasted and spread jam onto.
It's the closest thing to a complete breakfast any of these guys have likely ever had... too bad they're having it for dinner.

"Mmm! Crunchy! Thish ish sho good!" Kyla exclaims, her mouth full of hashbrown.

Gildur pokes at his plate full of food, but hesitates to eat anything.

"What's the matter, Gildur? Are you not feeling well?" You ask.

"Uh... no, it's just... i've never eaten a meal prepared by a bounty hunter before. ...Is it safe?"

"Yes? What, you think i'm going to poison you? Just eat up, you'll feel better if you've got something on your stomach."

"...Alright. It does smell really good..."

Gildur watches the others eat for a moment, then copies what they're doing. He cuts off a piece of hash brown and omelette, then quickly shoves them into his mouth together before he has a chance to think about it.
His eyes go wide, then roll back into his head as his whole body shudders.

>>4976072
Ahhh, it's got that new thread smell.

>>4976073
>His eyes go wide, then roll back into his head as his whole body shudders.
another satisfied customer

>>4976073
We have another vic-I mean addi-I mean satisfied customer...I wonder if we can set upa porn chain with our cooking skills. Then bring in real chefs.

>>4976088
You know, a very easy way to make loads of money would be to create an elite 5* meal experience with the meals that we know. And we'd probably make extra cash if we make it inside a fancy spaceship as well

I am worried about this people's metabolisms... they probably won't eat for a week now after this biomass and caloric indulgent

>>4976093
You have noticed that Cylia is starting to fill out a bit.

>>4976094
Fuck, the last thing we need are fat crewmembers. Its time to reserve these meals for special ocations, or lets prepare healthier alternatives

>>4976073
So what's everyone's plan for today?
>>4976094
Certain areas or full body?
Sorry the coom is starting to take me.
Also captcha is DAVGW. Close enough to Dave good work.

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>>4976094

>>4976101
Her whole body, including "certain areas". And not just fat, either.
Don't forget, Cylia's been hanging out in high gravity quite a lot.

>>4976120
She's becoming fit. Nice.

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>>4976120
>including "certain areas". And not just fat, either.
>Cylia getting more thicker thighs
she's gonna be a wonderful woman

>>4976120
Oh good, we can continue like this atleats for a while before having to hold back.
Davod will never be able to get free of the american jokes if he makes the crew obese.

>>4976120
I think you mean, isn't living on a starvation diet because everything is shit in space when it comes to food.

>>4976139
>>4976104
dammit you coomers, we need a fit cylia, not a fat one

>>4976150
im not talking about her getting fatter thats shit
now pure muscled thighs well defined ass on the other hand they will soon know the beauty of a chiseled from stone muscle

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>>4976120
>Cylia's been hanging out in high gravity quite a lot.

Nice. We must get the crew to work out a bit. These poor fucker, they have probably skinny-fat all their lives due to shit nutrition. Cylia filling out is cool but not a great sign for her overall health prior to meeting us. She was functionally starved from the time she was on the station probably.

>>4976073
>His eyes go wide, then roll back into his head as his whole body shudders.
Fucking food slut lol

>>4976097
This is a good thing ain't it? She was on the thin side when we originally met her.

>>4976202
Nutrient paste is soul crushing and bland, but it is perfectly suited to your individual nutritional requirements. They probably weren't working out that much compared to a MARSOC operator, but they were getting all of the nutrients they need in the exact amount that it's needed in.

>>4976217
>the exact amount that it's needed in
for a couch potato perhaps, but remember she was playing at bounty hunter, so most likely insufficient for her.

>>4976220
the dispensers figure out the caloric intake that you need and that includes the work that you do, so she wouldn't have starved at all. too bad the paste is bland as fuck

>>4976226
If it doesn't taste good, people aren't gonna eat near as much as they would otherwise.
I'm willing to bet that she'd be barely meeting her maintenance intake if all she had was the nutrient paste dispensers.

>>4976094
Based SHODAN

>>4976097
She's very active, and runs around minding David, she's isn't getting fat, but this is probably going to result in proper Aisa Clan Clan body type for her. We have High Gs set as standard for our crew, remember?

>>4976120
I am jealous of your mind, for you can see the body she is sculpting. Feels good being her provider.

>>4976150
Shut the fuck up, nobody cares you use Reddit words.

>>4976217
>>4976226
We have clearly demonstrated that is not food for eating, it was food for surviving. And barely. In fact, if dispensers are made to give only what is required, that might mean it is a low form of controlling predator species by hindering their bodily growth....

>>4976243
its not; QM told us at the start that david wouldn't go hungry or wouldn't become skinnier by eating only nutrient paste; its just really bland.

>that might mean it is a low form of controlling predator species by hindering their bodily growth....
or its way easier to mass produce and all living beings can eat it with no problem. predators don't tend to be a problem because they fuck off and kill themselves by going solo, there is nothing to suppress there. not everything is a conspiracy, anon.

>>4976250
You don't know that.

>>4976250
>not everything is a conspiracy, anon.
That's what they always say.

>>4976253
you neither know that its a conspiracy to keep predator levels down.

>>4976254
and that's the kind of logic that make people drink bleach instead of taking a vaccine and having basic hygienic standards

>>4976257
Eating proper food, and living with David, and Cylia, and likely Kyla, maybe not Grandpa Sanig since he wears a grav belt, is getting hot fit. Cylia was living with fish dealers before, and was scraping by as a pick pocket. If Nutrient Paste really gave as much as was required beyond the bare minimum, she wouldn't have been as skinny as we found her.

>>4976261
maybe she wasn't eating daily? we don't really know how hard her life was before she stole our datapad and she's a space predator; she probably had an ego/pride thing going on, like with all space predators

>>4976226
>>4976217
She was living in the slums as a pickpocket after getting in debt and losing her loicense.
She probably wasn't eating that well, atleast to be /fit/

>>4976257
Everyone always insults the conspiracy theorists but they never apologize when they turn out to be right all along. Truly a thankless job.

>>4976268
>>4976278
Well she has Daddy David to thank for making everything better. I wonder how Kyla's talk with Cylia went after she got back from the toy shop.

>>4976240
Would it be better if he called it porn addiction?

>>4976305
More like projecting anti porn addiction. For lack of a better term, this guy and a few others are in a few threads calling people coomers. Might just be kids going on 4chan because its cool.

>>4976305
I thought he was talking about food porn.

took me a moment to realize that this is indeed, the 5# thread

>>4976386
we'd be by #10 or #20 if a new thread was made every 1000 or 500 posts

>>4976072
Oh boy this looks like the thread that will finally finish [Arc I]
Hope we get to beat up rock man soon
>>4976390
We go until we reach the 2000s. Also QM fucked up the thread name last time and named it #3 instead of #4

I'm about to take a nap, but if i do there's no way in hell i'm waking up before 10pm.
So the update might be late tonight.

>>4976497
hey, there WILL be an update! that's good enough! I wonder if little Gildur will develop loyalty over time or just dependence. On a sidenote, it's nice to know that he handles the G, unless he doesn't and SHODAN is selectively handling it, like it said it was doing so.

Speaking of gravity generators, they appear to be very fine tools. They are not just ON/OFF and a gauge for power and/or range. So far we've seen them do cool stuff

>>4976497
What time zone are you in fren?

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Aw yeah part three of the space marine cooking anime

>>4976120
>You can find a lover
>And mold her out of clay
>You can build a reason
>To justify anything
>You can find your own way home
>Walkin' down that lonesome road
>I know one…

>>4976497
Well, that was a solid seven hours of horrific, vivid nightmares.
Time to find something to eat, and then i'll start writing!

>>4976072
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z0N748LyO6c
a piece of music i find quite fitting.

>>4976073

He continues to twitch and shudder for a while, while everyone else watches.

"It's so weird seeing this from the outside..." Kyla comments.

"Mmm, the eggs are really fluffy today..." Cylia tells you.

"That would be the cream."

...

The next morning, you wake up pretty early together with Sanig.
You decide to try it, today. Mixing some tikka paste into near-boiling water, you let it infuse for a while before filtering off the solids.
The remainder is mixed with sugar and heavy cream. It... doesn't taste like coffee, really. But it's good, and it has the same effect.

"This had better be good, kid. I hate to see tikka going to waste like that..." Sanig says, taking a swig of the concoction.

His whole body seems to relax as he drinks it, followed by what looks like the same shudder of satisfaction you get after taking a piss.

"...I take it you approve?" You ask.

"This... it's even better than just eating it right out of the tube. Weaker, maybe... but damned good."

"Great. I'll make sure there's a pot ready for us every morning, then. Just have to get Kyla to make the pot."

"Mmm... so what's the plan for today, kid? I know you want to keep working on the warp metal, but what are you planning exactly?"

"There's two things i need to make, before anything else. I want to make sure that i can always at least rely on my fists, so i'm going to be upgrading both my gloves and the power armor's gauntlets."

"What are you planning, exactly?" Sanig asks.

"...I think using a powder would be a waste here, given the metal's properties. I'm going to make some relatively thin plates that i can rivet into place."

"So then what are you going to use the powder for?"

"That depends. At first i was thinking about just setting it in epoxy, but... it only sets off an EMP when it's being physically altered, right?"

"True."

"So then, if i've already got the powder, couldn't i kind of just... sinter it? Using the weapons fab?"

"I'm not familiar with sintering. Explain."

"It's basically a process in which you take a powder and allow it to kind of grow together into a solid mass through heating. It wouldn't literally be sintering though, i'd just be building up metal normally using the fab, but with warp metal powder embedded into it."

"Yes, that could work. You'd have to register the warp metal as a material in the printer, and write some special instructions for it's handling... but your little AI pal can do that no problem."

Right. And then after that, i have to decide what i'm going to do with the main bulk of the metal. I have some ideas, but i still haven't completely decided yet."

"Well, it's gonna be a long day, kid. We'd best get to it."

"Alright. Let's load the fab up onto the cart and head out, shall we?"

"Sure, sure... let me just finish... whatever this is."

"Tikkoffe?" You suggest.

"Sure, why not."

Working together, you quickly get everything loaded up and cart it down to the warehouse.
Which clearly has been broken into.

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>>4976956
>Which clearly has been broken into.
Is it theft? Thieves should have their hands crushed under heavy stones.

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>>4976956
>fucking thieves broke into our workshop
إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ

>>4976969
Do we not already have a reputation as a particularly mean and violent bloodhound? Who wants to be hunted so bad they fuck up with our shit?

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>>4976956
>Which clearly has been broken into.
is this a classic "cops goes in to our place to check our shit cause they say so just so to look around so they can see whats of value and take it?"
are you fucking serious?

>>4976988
I mean it's not like place belonged to us or was secured

>>4977005
Should we have pissed in a corner to mark our territory?
But for real, yeah, a lock would have been a good idea.

>>4977009
>>4977005

You had chains on the door, but they had been cut.
It'll be in the next update.

>>4977010
Ah, I see we're dealing with somebody smart enough to bring equipment.
50/50 on it being a career criminal or the cops.
Either way, they're getting pitched as hard as David can manage directly into the exterior wall of the workshop.

>>4977013
Remember, if nothing is missing or damaged that means some serious skullduggery bullshit is going down. Check for bugs, tampering and then get ready to get the fuck outta there anyway just to be safe. Last thing you need is a bomb in the rafters giving you a shrapnel lobotomy.

>>4976956
The hunt begins.

>>4976956
So...who is dumb enough to call the assisted suicide hotline.

>>4976956
>>4976956

The chain holding the warehouse's roller door shut has been cut, and the door itself is ajar. Someone's been inside.

Fortunately, you fully expected this and took absolutely everything of value with you when you left.
It doesn't seem like any of your tools have been stolen, although you do see something that makes you laugh.
There's a handprint on the outside of your steam hammer's boiler... or rather, there's a layer of skin fused to it in the shape of a three-fingered hand.

"Yeah, that'll do 'er. Dumb fucks. Alright, let's fill up the boiler and get everything lit."

After filling the boiler with water and the firebox with charcoal, you light it up. Then you do the same with the forge, and stick your warp metal stock off in there while it warms up, since it's going to take a while.

"Alright. I'm going to make a few extra tools, so watch the door for me while i'm busy, would you Sanig?"

"Sure thing, kid. Anyone comes in, i'll blast the hell out of 'em."

You spend about an hour just sitting around, making a few tools that you think might be useful and just chit-chatting with Sanig. Nobody comes in to bother you during that time.

...

"Yeah, i'm thinking maybe an induction heater would be better." You explain.

"True, if it behaves normally." Sanig responds. "There's no telling what an electromagnet would do to this stuff."

"Ah, speaking of... it looks like it's finally up to temperature. Shall we get started?"

"Yep. I got the reference models here, so whenever you're ready, kid."

You pull one of the bars out of the fire and clamp it down in the vice, which quickly starts sucking up the heat and glowing red itself.
You mark the metal with chalk, then start sawing away at it to get appropriately-sized slices for the glove's knuckles.
At this size your only real option is to hand-forge it, which is a bit of a pain due to it's hardness.

"This shit almost reminds me of inconel..." You moan, slamming your hammer down to move the metal.

"Kelum weyr, ahlmus setla ohkt. Oltehrr tet dah."

"Can't understand you right now, Sanig. Sorry."

One by one, you forge out four plates to cover your knuckles, then punch eight holes in total for the rivets to go through, only breaking a single hardened steel punch in the process!

"They look pretty good, kid. A little rough maybe, but not bad at all."

"Yeah, i agree. That roughness has it's own aesthetic though, you know? And at least this stuff doesn't oxidize... at all, from what i can tell. That would be hell to clean up."

With the glove's plates boiling away in their own little bucket of water, you get to work sawing out some much larger chunks of metal for the power armor's fists, and end up using the remainder of that bar.
You toss the second bottle cap into the fire to prepare it for forging, just in case. It'll take a while to heat up, so it's best to do it now.

With the chunks cut out, you get to work forging them out. First on the power hammer, and then by hand.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>4977071
Roll for random encounter

>>4977071
alright, nothing was taken. That's good... they were totally trying to understand the setup, however. Hey, could sanig look for SUS stuff around the warehouse? tiny cameras, microphones... that stuff. If they were not fried by emp of course

>>4977071
>There's a handprint on the outside of your steam hammer's boiler... or rather, there's a layer of skin fused to it in the shape of a three-fingered hand.
If we want to go on a hunt, we can ask at the hospital for anyone that came for a hand skin graft and have 3 fingers. I doubt we will get more that 5 pepole at most

>>4977132
I mean 3 fingers is pretty normal in a lot of species. Would be harder to find the culprit.

>>4977071

It doesn't take too long to forge out a set of plates that you'll be able to rivet onto your power armor's gauntlets. They aren't very complex, after all.
With those done, you take the first set out of their quenching bucket and test their fit against your fingers. They feel just about right, with no sharp edges cutting into your hand.

All that's left now is to make an actual weapon, either solid or powder-infused.
If you make it solid, it'll be practically indestructible, but if you use powder you'll be able to make multiple weapons.

So that's your first choice to make.

>Make a solid metal weapon (Just one)
>Make powder-infused weapons (One for each of the crew)

>>4977156
How many of them would have needed a full-hand (and only hand) skin graft, though?

>>4977156
But we're looking for people who burnt their hand in the last 12-ish hours. That narrows it down by a lot.
>>4977168
>Make powder-infused weapons (One for each of the crew)
BATS FOR EVERYONE

now heres the thing though what are the chances of them actually using powder infused weapons without losing their mind first when they encounter one everytime?

>>4977180
Thats beside the point; now they have a chance to defend themselves when/if we encounter a wraith. I suspect this will be great for cylia, who has been having nightmares and bad nights since the dodo planet

>>4977168
>Make powder-infused weapons (One for each of the crew)
In case of ghosts break the glass.

>>4977168
>>Make powder-infused weapons (One for each of the crew)

>>4977168
>Make powder-infused weapons (One for each of the crew)
all right OFF time

>>4977168
Go take a powder, ghosts!

The whole point of the warp metal weapons is to beat ghosts to death right? I distinctly remember Cylia going practically catatonic when she saw them, plus most of the crew can't seem to see them can they? Might be better to male a single weapon rather than give the crew one each if they won't even be able to use them.

>>4977213
The second time when the hitchhiker apperead she only became afraid.
So we can train them to be ghostbusters.

>>4977168
>Make a solid metal weapon (Just one)
Since Shodan has our memories can’t we ask her to play Ghostbusters for everyone?

>>4977168
>>Make powder-infused weapons (One for each of the crew)
As much as I want our own personal Mjolnir, that comes later. Security for now, hyper-hammer later.

>>4977168
>Make powder-infused weapons (One for each of the crew)

>>4977168

"I think i'm going to go with powder-infused weapons after all. If anything happens again, i at least want to give you guys a fighting chance."

"How kind of you. But i can't swing a weapon very well, even with my suit on." Sanig tells you.

"Well, i can spare some powder to make a few bullets for you, just in case..."

"What, are you kidding me? I'd break my whole damned arm if i tried to fire one of your maniac weapons!"

"Not necessarily... there are smaller versions with little to no recoil, but they still do a hell of a lot of damage. I'll cook you something up, don't worry about it."

"Eh... if you insist. I've always preferred my lasers and phasers, though."

"Alright, so i'll need to make some special .22 rounds for Sanig, but what about the others...?"

>Call them up and ask what they want
>Just make what you think would suit them best

>>4977260
>Call them up and ask what they want

>>4977071
>Some dumb motherfucker is walking around with melted palms
Fuck em, now who do we know with 3 fingers?

>>4977081
Anything in range to watch us is guaranteed fried.

>>4977260
>Call them up and ask what they want
>Give them recommendations and special offers if they want us to get, creative.

>>4977260
>Call them up and ask what they want
>inb4 stupid shit

>>4977227
This. This this this this, they must learn the glory of the greatest comedian ever.

>>4977281
Carlin wasn't in Ghostbusters.

>>4977260
>Call them up and ask what they want

>>4977260
>Call them up and ask what they want
May as well but no projectiles since it’s a waste.
>>4977281
We could also implant our marine training into the head of Clank.
Our current party layout would most likely be Us, Cylia and Clank being the real damage dealers and Princess could be a viable stand in but I rather wait till she’s larger. Now, if we manage to get the war bot onto David levels of insane then oh boy.

>>4977321
Princess is going to be our fat baby until Cylia makes David's babbies, then Princess is going to be big sister.

>>4977260
>Call them up and ask what they want

>>4977321
>We could also implant our marine training into the head of Clank.
hell no, we have enough sociopaths with david, plus it seems that clank has his own military training

Did we check the workplace for any planted spygear? Sanig check for us right?

What if we gave him gyrojet weapons?

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>>4977421
what about a warp dust blanket? like pic, but with warp dust

>>4977260
Can we put some security drones in here with phasers bola launchers, and riot foam?

>>4977260

Walking outside, you look up at your hovercart which is currently floating high up in the air.
Gesturing to it, the cart lowers itself down so you can grab your gear.

You pull your holopad out of a backpack, then dial up Kyla to start.

"Hey, Dave. What's up?"

"I'm not Dave. Listen, what kind of weapon would you want if you were fighting a wraith?"

"Me? I'd prefer a hoverbike so i could get my ass out of there, honestly."

"..."

"Fine, fine. Uhhhh... maybe an adjustable wrench? That way it wouldn't feel weird carrying it around all the time."

"...Why do you carry a wrench, anyways? Nothing around here uses bolts."

"Because a lot of internal stuff is still screwed together for easy maintenance. Also it's a good hammer for whacking stuff."

"Alright, fair enough. I'll see what i can manage."

Hanging up with Kyla, you ring up Cylia next.

"David? Is something wrong?"

"No. Well, someone broke into the warehouse, but that's whatever. I actually called because i'm about to work on some anti-wraith weapons for all of us, and i wanted to know what you'd like."

"A dagger. Single blade, five inches long with hand guard and palm swell handle. Full tang. I'll need a sheath, too."

"That's... very specific. I'm surprised you know that much about knives."

"They're my weapon of choice, actually. I haven't had one in a while, but..."

"Alright, got it. I'll make sure it's extra sturdy."

"Thank you, David."

You hang up with Cylia, putting your pad away and letting the hovercart float back up to safety.
Gildur... probably doesn't need an anti-wraith weapon. You'll make him a small knife just in case, but you don't see him having the balls to actually fight one.
And clank, well, you know exactly what kind of weapon he would use. It'll be easy to produce a blade for him.

All that's left now is to figure out what kind of weapon you want for yourself.

>Replace your KA-BAR, maybe with duranium instead of steel
>Make a Louisville Slugger to keep next to your bed
>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?
>Write-In?

>>4977467
>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?

>>4977467
>Make a Louisville Slugger to keep next to your bed
You picked the wrong ship fool!

>>4977260
Gramps giving me the impression that most races discount the ballistic tree.

Why do I see future human ships rocking SotS style impactor armaments while everyone is running around like headless chickens because they did not roll impactors and now need to scramble o another type of doctrine. This also compounded by humans lending themselves naturally towards boarding compared to others.

Well boarding first as that will require some engineering and impactors later for we, well some proper nerds not us personally, will need to crack native human antimatter before impactors if we go by SotS style.
>>4977260
>>4977467
>Mace to the face

>>4977482
they are way beyond guns now. i remember QM telling us that some of the heavier warships have railguns and coilguns, but phasers are more convenient to the normal person

>>4977467
>Make a Louisville Slugger to keep next to your bed
Won’t know what hit him.
Also what are the chances the fucker that attempted to nab our hammer was a Sadia goon?

>>4977467
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>>4977492
chances are it was just a random vagrant. Someone from the slums. I do not recall at what level the warehouse was, however. I bet it was a little beggar money-kid. I dislike monkeys.

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>>4977467
Chivalrous as fuck.

>>4977504
Fuck, forgot to actually vote.
>>4977467
>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?

>>4977472
>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?
Changing to this because power armor with a mace is like the knights of old.

>>4977467
>Make a Louisville Slugger to keep next to your bed
Lets hope David can bat like he can pitch.

>>4977492
>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?
Changing vote to this because the Surreal sight of David in his power armour larping as a knight would be heavenly

>>4977467
>>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?

>>4977546
"Thou mother art gay"

>>4977554
And thou mother liked mineth polearm.

>>4977560
And thou father smelt of elderberries.

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>>4977467
Make a big ole Bowie knife with a D guard.

>>4977467
>>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?
I'm thinking something reminiscent of Sauron's mace for the irony.

>>4977574
PFFFFT!

>>4977467
>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?

>>4977467
>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?
Fucking Sauron. OP please, you need to give us the option to decorate our power armor. Maybe add a high pitch speaker that's always projecting at a frequency that nerves people, a tatter giant cloak with blood stains, and decorative steel armor plates on top of the existing armor.

>>4977688
>"Hey David thats a pretty cool mace"
>unintelligible speech about the Silmarillion
+1 on Sauron armour too

>>4977688
Maybe make the Sauron bits modifiable? So we only pull out when we want to be threatening, or be more of a edgelord.
Although I'm still more of a fan of either sinple knight aethetics, or the sick flame paint.

>>4977486
We should get a "light" ship grade laser gun that we can wield while wearing PA. make it fully automatic and turn it into a gatling laser gun, ya dig it?

>>4977697
How can we make it scarier? Cut up pieces of the wraith and nail it all over the armor? See if the genes of the wraith could be replicated so we can make wraith leather?

>>4977467
>>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?
GIVE US SAURON ARMOR

>>4977467
>Make a Louisville Slugger to keep next to your bed
A home run for each ghost head.

>>4977467
>>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?

>>4977710
Tbh I just want the Helmet since it looks amazing but we gotta research all the properties of the wraith corpse before we decide what to do with it.

>>4977710
>Cut up pieces of the wraith and nail it all over the armor?
thats a bad idea for a two reasons. first, no one knows what a wraith looks like, so they won't know we're using one as a cloak, second, we still need to dissect the thing for whatever secrets its corpse has

>>4977835
Not to mention most aliums can't even see wraiths so we'd just have seemingly a couple nails driven into the armor for no real reason.

>>4977467
Trench club

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>>4977467
>Instead of a baseball bat, maybe a mace with a bladed head?

>>4977835
>>4978128
Good points, but isn't the corpse visible in the cryopod right now? If we could I hope we could study then, then replicate the fear effects they give people when they look at a fully manifested one.
Awe man, image if we could combine the fear effects of the wraith with that invisible lizard alien. We could be like some sort of armored, giant, ghost monster! Image David riding on Princess when she's adult. Shit would be wild.

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>>4978196
>Our mace comes out pic related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asr6_eNCuoU
Oh yeah, its all coming together. We shall put horns on our Power Armor, so all may know terror at our approach.

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>>4978196
>>4978204
Blast Noosphere looking like this, for the climax we march on Gron.

>>4978204
I'm sorry. Mechanicus was released in 2018, it hasn't even been created yet.

>>4978206
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BQvCCB-PiA
There's probably a rhythm and reason to scary music and sound effects designs in media. Noosphere is pretty banger, but I think we could put scary music to better use to demoralize all our enemies.
>David rockets himself out the airlock and into the the enemy's ship
>Hull breach causes some crewmen to get sucked into the vacuum of space
>Those few unlucky enough to active their mag boots get to watch this metal monster claw its way into their ship before breach sealing shields activate
>We fire into it with our heavy phasers to little effect
>shitty pants hard
>it makes a blood curdling howl as music begins to play from somewhere
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvjO-UhCyHw
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvjO-UhCyHw
>oh gods how did it get so close!
>it coated in blood and organs of all your friends
>panic and try to contact security for assistance
>you're able to fire off a quick warning about "the space monster breachi-"
>it fucking turns your knees into mulch with it's sinister looking maul
>officers on the command deck are panicing, because all they hear is boss music and the screams of soon to be dead crewmen
>communications office comments on hearing some unsettling music coming to the deck

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>>4978217
>I'm sorry. Mechanicus was released in 2018, it hasn't even been created yet.
Damnit.
>Dead Space
Well that works too.

>>4978217
Sure you could go with something from Dead Space or...
https://youtu.be/NpOVKbM7vlA

>>4978217
>>4978251
You guys are really missing out. Don't waste time with music, just play elk calls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gBk04ajuxk

>>4977467

"Alright... i think i finally know what i'm going to make. But i'm going to need some more tools before that."

"What is it this time, boy?"

"Well, i'm gonna need to turn the rest of my warp metal into powder... but to do that, i need to grind it down."

"Ah, that is a problem." Sanig says, scratching his chin.

"Fortunately, i think i have the solution." You tell him, pointing to your tupperware container full of wet shavings.

Walking outside again, you lower the hovercart down again and haul it inside, getting ready to print some tools.

"SHODAN, did you finish uploading the program?"

"Yes, Captain. Your fabricators should be capable of handling warp metal shavings now. In theory."

"Good work. Now, let's see if i can actually do this without frying something."

You dump your current stock of warp metal shavings into the materials hopper and close it up, allowing the machine access to them.
Placing the neural interface helmet on your head, you start up the fab and begin the process.

Sanig watches with a grin on his face as the dust filters out and simply hangs in the air, almost creating a shadow of the item you plan on making.
Regular steel slowly builds up on the surface of the warp metal grains, filling out little by little until the form of the object takes shape.
There was no lightning, no explosive electromagnetic event and no catastrophic failure.

And what was it that you made exactly?
A grinding disc, but made of steel. It's edge is heavily impregnated with sharp warp metal shavings, which as far as you know are the only thing that can cut warp metal without excessive force.

"I assume there's a tool that goes with this?" Sanig asks.

"Yes, there is. And then there's a tool that powers that tool as well."

"This seems overcomplicated..." He complains.

"Well, this is what happens when you can't use electricity. I'm gonna make it fuckin' work."

Sitting back down, you immediately get back to work printing something else. This time, it's an air-driven angle grinder.
Fortunately, air-driven devices are blessedly simple and you finish within a span of minutes.

Less simple is the compressor you'll need to power it, but fortunately electric motor designs are cheap, and some are even free on the local net.
You've already got the design loaded onto the fab, so you don't even need the helmet on for this one. It takes about ten minutes for the fab to spit out a medium-sized air compressor.

You'd love to just print a plastic hose, but it would take the weapons fab far too long to do that, so you end up printing the majority of the run out of copper instead, with a length of reinforced rubber hose on either end. Bit jank, but it works.
And while the fab is printing that hose, you take the compressor outside and hook it up. It'll need to be outside of the range of any lightning bolts or EMP bursts while you're running it, but that's no problem.

I want to fab up some cosplay and make Clang our witch king of angmar.

>>4978367
So would be Sanig be a dwarf or hobbit?
Kyla would be just a normal orc, and Cylua is obviously an elf.

>>4978421
What? The only one that would cosplay would be sanig ans one of the races you said, but cylia stays as a catgirl and kyla as a goblin

>>4978486
It's for fun, not a serious suggestion anon.
Now answer the questions.

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>>4976870
I get them too my man. To the point, I normally just stay up if I am agitated and can't have a few beers to settle before sleep because of work the next day or what-ever.

Reread the 1st few threads and you really dropped a lot of hints for stuff later on. I imagine we will feel so dumb for not getting what wraiths, dark matter, and dark energy are and how they connect before it is said IC.

>>4977260
So primer only .22 rounds are pretty damn good for plinking in town, and won't perf part of the ship. To weak to cycle an action themselves but a small revolver might be good for gramps.

>>4977429
Why not see if our resident rogue can come hang back for a little bit after we leave and see if she can spot someone and follow them if they hit us again. Maybe even say loudly as we walk out how we are just gonna leave the ingots here for the night, sweeten the pot. We obviously leave nothing behind.

>>4977501
The managed to cut through a steel chain. Most bums I know don't have the resources to cut or hack through even a security chain. Might be gangs just looking for a score, might be something else. Steel is very strong to these guys as you recall. I am paranoid.

>>4978522
>So primer only .22 rounds are pretty damn good for plinking in town, and won't perf part of the ship. To weak to cycle an action themselves but a small revolver might be good for gramps.
Just make a compensator for a proper calibre, its piss easy to get 9mm pistols to almost no recoil with roller delayed systems and suppressors/compensators balanced right.

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>>4978528
Listen man, not gonna argue about this but Sanig is not anyone we ever want to need an operator looking set up with a suppressor, functional comp, and actual recoil dampening system like we pulled it from a fucking over designed Kriss. Unless we go on all out war vs wraiths, simple is better. Recall how we tried to explain what Murphy's law was? A simple setup is best, just enough to defend himself if shit pops up with another Wraith.

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>>4978356

With the compressor running and your hose hooked up, you clamp the red-hot warp metal down and start cranking on it, hard.
A large bucket underneath catches the burning hot dust and quickly begins boiling as the dust rapidly dumps it's heat into the water.

"Man, this stuff would make an amazing heatsink..."

"If only you could get enough of it!" Sanig yells from across the room. Apparently your grinder is quite loud and annoying.

It takes less than a minute for the steel grinding disk to start glowing, at which point you have to quench it to keep it from melting.
This repeats over and over and over again, at least fifty times over the course of an hour.
However, by the end you're left with a very nice blob of warm metal powder by the end.

"Man, it's weird. It acts like it's magnetic, but only with itself." You note. "It doesn't stick to steel at all."

"Kind of creepy, ain't it?" Sanig asks.

"A little. Alright, let's get this stuff in the printer already."

You start off with Kyla's wrench. It's fairly easy to make, and you get it done quickly. A bit oversized for her, you think, but this is what she normally carries around.
Since you're making your crew's weapons here, you decided to use plain hardened steel. No fancy alloys or weird composite materials, just plain steel. Something about it just feels right.
Well, that's ignoring the fine speckling of warp metal visible in the surface of the wrench...

Moving on, you make Cylia's knife next, to her exact specifications.
It got you thinking though, and so you decide to update your own KA-BAR a bit while you're at it, adding spiked knuckle dusters to the handle, a pommel striker and a light dusting of warp metal throughout. It's not much, so it should be alright.
Your own blade now more resembles the old trench knives used in the first world war, minus the triangular blade. You still actually use your knife to cut shit, so it's kind of important.

Next up will be... likely your new siege weapon. A certain mace from a certain film that you quite like the look of. It's sheer weight requires two hands to wield it, but it fits perfectly in one hand while wearing your power armor.
The whole handle of the mace is made of titanium to reduce weight while retaining strength, but the blades on it's head are hardened steel. The whole thing is thoroughly impregnated with warp metal, it's dark grains visible throughout.

"What the hell is that supposed to be?" Sanig asks incredulously.

You stand tall, mace resting against your shoulder as you appreciate it's girth. It feels good in the hand, and you're quite happy with it.
Taking it in both hands, you take aim at one of the many empty aluminum crates scattered throughout the warehouse.

With one massive swing, the crate is completely caved in and ripped apart. It actually sticks to the blade, requiring you to slam it against a pole to dislodge it.

"That's ridiculous. Even you can't wield that thing properly! I can see you straining, kid!"

>>4978553
Gron's getting golfed into a sun

>>4978553
The galaxy will bow with the coming of the Dark Lord.

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>>4978553
>I can see you straining, kid!"

Just wait till I start doing some work outs in 2.3G. And I kinda meant it more for the power armor to be honest. I sill have my new knife I really need it. Pretty sure I can still smack a Wraith with Grondname of Sauron's mace, not to be mistake for the tiny dick rock-boi it is getting used on. here though. It sucked at throwing down honestly. I killed the last one with a baseball pitch.

>>4978553
"It's not meant to be carried unarmoured."
>Start training in 1.5 G (or higher) to raise more mass.

>>4978553
>"Man, this stuff would make an amazing heatsink..."
>"If only you could get enough of it!" Sanig yells from across the room.
this gives me an idea. what if we use the railgun thing from the last thread, but as an emergency/"fuck you in particular" weapon?
because unless we manage to find a way to heat up the chunks of metal fast, we won't be able to alpha strike the enemy ships unless we preheat the rounds, and that's a bad idea for a stealth ship

>>4978553
Gron is getting caved in
>>4978566
I thought Grond was Morgoths hammer.

>>4978600
I am dumb and and just recalled that name in conjunction with it being a hammer in LoTR. Still kinda works though, based on a quick wiki search.

>>4978622
We can save that for a much larger weapon.

>>4978553
The smile on my face is hurting now.

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>>4978553
This makes my mace the big mace.

Time to HUGE quest Gron into a fucking sun.

>>4978735
too bad we need him alive

>>4978736
>need him alive
No we don't. Well, we can turn him in for a bounty, then ask the corpo guy if we can kill him.

>>4978740
i like how you think

>>4978740
Yes we do, we aren't hunting him for a bounty, but to complete the deal with Sadia after we fucked up theirs goons.
We are delivering him to them, if they decide to kill Gron, will be after they interrogate him, on their own terms. The only way we could kill the rock guy would be if capture was impossible, in which case we would need the corpse as proof, and probably would make Sadia less appeasead.

we need gron less alive but not dead.

>>4978745
I see

>>4978787
Then the solution is to maim all his limbs off, then cauterize the stumps with laser fire. If he goes into shock then we stank him with a 10mm thick needle + coagulants. I think.

>>4978740
Sadia better not cheap out on us but chances are they are gonna either a) attempt to take care of us both or b) seeing our horrific power will attempt to get us into their employment by whatever means necessary. I don't trust them at all so expect the worse.

>>4978811
No no no, it is
>to be mauled
>cauterizing if needed
>administer copious amount of sedatives and analgesics you need both, sadly
not necessarily in that order
>>4978819
I trust sadia will just leave us alone

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>>4978745
If we bring Gron back dead, we are "good" with Sadia. Alive gets us cash in the bank. Supposedly.

>>4978811
>>4978994

That stupid completely unneeded level of violence will close off the Cylia route and alienate the crew, other than the robots I guess. Cylia has already stated she will not deal with us torturing people like that. I imagine she would just leave at that point, with her share of the pot.

Also
>I trust sadia will just leave us alone
Haha. For now maybe.

>>4978819
Pretty sure we are fucking off after this job, so that might help with not getting screwed by Sadia unless they have a welcome party waiting for us when we bring Gron in.

>>4978553
Time to train in High G

>>4979196
or see if some of the rejuve serums would work for us to reverse us back to peak.

Then we can have a faster healing speed, and with a dedicated medical treatment we could work out until risking if not outright muscle damage and heal them back up to have a far greater rate of gains.

The issue then becomes skeletal development. Remember once you get into adulthood the skeletal structure ossifies and for the most part stops growing.

>>4979200
The rejuve serums are custom-tailored to work with Grey physiology that was custom genetically engineered to use the rejuve serums.

That being said, enhancements and a bit of genetic engineering seem to be common place so we could probably get those done to us.

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>>4979200
>>4979201

This. It was stated said if we were as rich as a high Galactic noble, we could probably live forever with patch-jobs but as it stands we are shit out of luck, the rejuvenation juice that the Greys use as default are kinda locked out from us.

All Greys are clones of a clone at this point other than our Sanigger and ones as old as him btw. Even he got his cock chopped off via gene mods but he screwed off before the Thing was complete.

>>4979208
>>4979201
I was referring to some of the custom ones. To get it to work we will need another grey exile or someone of similar calibre and experience.

Or headhunt for some very obscure human researchers, because this I expected is like virusology and antivirus creation. A lot of people know some things about the!, the average doctor knows somewhat more but neither is someone you can actually relly on to fuck about with them and the true specialists who truly know how to do it and are not monkeys following procedure are depressingly scarce, even in their own industries.

Also it is jot for love fe everlasting bit for pushing for peak theoretical human and staying there.

Being able to push the gains game beyond even bodybuilders. The only issues are as I said before the bones and well the joints too. This might need some reinforcement, or clever workaround.

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>>4978553

"It's not meant to be used unarmored. I can, but it's not meant to be."

"That makes more sense... but you're still a freak for being able to swing that thing."

"You're starting to sound like you don't want anti anti-wraith bullets."

"...And?"

You roll your eyes and set the mace down on the floor.
The last thing you need to make is some .22 rounds for Sanig. However, regular .22 rounds just won't do. If he needs it, you want to make sure it puts the target down for good.

So you've decided to build him a revolver chambered in .22 hornet instead.
Same size of bullet, but traveling around three times faster at 3000 feet per second.

It's a simple revolver without a lot of fancy features. Small but relatively heavy to help lower recoil, with a eight shot cylinder.
You don't make the warp metal bullets at first, because you want to test fire it first. So to start off, you just make simple lead bullets.

"Alright, check it out and tell me what you think, Sanig."

You hand him the unloaded revolver, and he seems surprised by the weight.

"Why's it so heavy? It doesn't even have any electronics, does it?" He asks.

"The weight reduces recoil. If i made it at light as possible, it would hurt your hand every time you fired it."

"Interesting."

Sanig holds the revolver in one hand, squinting his eye and looking down the sights.

"Hmm. It feels good, i kind of like it. There's just something... barbaric about it, you know?"

"Great. I'll test fire it then, and if it doesn't blow up, bind or misfire we'll call it good."

Sanig hands the revolver back and you load it up. Taking aim with one hand, you fire all eight shots into another aluminum crate without issue.
Looking the crates over, you see that the bullets penetrated both sides of the crate and then punched into the crate behind that, which was full of metal junk.

"Looks like it works well. Good job, kid."

"Thanks. You want to try it out next? Just to make sure you can handle it?"

"I'm sure i can handle that little thing. As long as it's not that monstrosity you keep slung over your shoulder half the time..."

"Hmm? Oh, the KS-23? Haha, yeah... i wasn't exactly sure what i'd be encountering when i first got here, so i went a little overboard. The original ones were made from the barrels of defective anti-aircraft weaponry."

"So it's for shooting down aircraft? I'm not shocked in the slightest. Here, give me that thing..."

Sanig takes the revolver back and, after showing him how to eject the spent cartridges, he slowly loads it back up.
He then flips it closed as naturally as he breathes, then takes aim at a crate...

"Well, i'll be. Your grouping's almost as tight as mine, old man!"

"Hah. I never liked using scopes on my phasers. Never did trust computers to do my targeting for me."

"I can agree with you on that! I prefer my iron-sights if i can help it."

You both have a laugh and bump your fists together, but that little moment is sadly interrupted.

>>4979253
>Grandpa and Grandson, bonding over /k/
Feels good.
>You both have a laugh and bump your fists together, but that little moment is sadly interrupted.
So either someone is about to die, or someone is going to die screaming.

>>4979253
Don't worry! Yelling and swinging solves any trouble!

>>4979253
>But that little moment is sadly interrupted
Someone is in for a suprise.

>>4979253
>war vet grandson bonding with war vet grandpa
This was an incredible wholesome bonding moment, but if this is a ganger interrupting us there gonna love everything they love.

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>>4979253
>He then flips it closed as naturally as he breathes, then takes aim at a crate...

>Hah. I never liked using scopes on my phasers. Never did trust computers to do my targeting for me.

Our Grigga is the Ayy version of us that never happened. Also trusts the Force. So 100% about him being ex military now. Perfect. I love it.

>that little moment is sadly interrupted.
You are gonna have a bad time.

>>4979253
>You don't make the warp metal bullets at first, because you want to test fire it first. So to start off, you just make simple lead bullets.

Can we install some sort of tracker for the warp metal bubbles? like adding a radioactive isotope that lets us know how close we are to them, because i feel its gonna be a pain in the ass to make the bullets again

>>4979384
Anon all we got is just the powder. Can we make so many .22 bullets right now. It doesnt have to be solid warp metal bullets. It just needs to coat the bullets is all. Its not like we're gonna need a high quantity of these things. For now.

>>4979253
Okay I'm thin security is probably coming to check in on us, and i think i want to run a quick experiment with Sanig on the wraith corpse.
Now these things already looked dead wya before David murderlized it. I'm wondering if the wraith corpse will react to anti-matter dust like salt to a freshly cut animal. As in touch know how a fresh cut meat reacts to salt, would the same apply to a dead wraith?

>>4979384
Anon, the Ayys, and from what I remember the majority of them will surely die with even a minor exposition to radioactive material, humans in the other hand can eat a banana and not instantly dying in the act and we can slowly agonize with deadly amounts of radiation, but the Ayys can't stand it.

I think that it might be better to find some alien luminicent substance and fill the bullets with it, like so when the alien (because I don't think we should use this for the Wraith desu) starts to bleed or anything then he's going to leave a trail. Think of it like the first Hellboy movie when he can track that demon because of that green stuff it left thanks to the special bullet

>>4979416
So what you're saying is, when we're gonna fight Ayys we should start coating our bullets in uranium for maximum lethality.

>>4979500
I would believe that there are elements that decay even faster

>>4979500
that would probably kill our ayy friends too. High explosive rounds should be better though; the explosion might trigger the hervibore's suicide trigger

>>4979526
We just yell at herbivores and they drop dead! Same way how sheep freeze when scared

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>>4979253
When are we going to do something about Afganistan?

>>4979500
Remember in the first thread where we discussed weaponizing radiation? I remember someone bringing up using a chunk or uranium and a fan to blow radioactive particles at aliens. Fucking wild shit.
We'll probably never do it since some free members will probably leave due to excessive cruelty.

>>4979573
>When are we going to do something about Afganistan?
david would probably recall the troops earlier

>>4979577
David would probably evacuate the civilians BEFORE the troops.

>>4979580
David probably wouldn't cock up the entire thing to a degree that seems intentional.

>>4979577
>>4979580
Why do we have troops stationed there anyways? Govs and corps hungry for big oil?

>>4979573
If David was going to do something about it, he wouldn't start in Afghanistan.

>>4979585
Three big reasons off the top of my head
>It's a considerable strategic advantage to have Afghanistan as a launch port for any military operations in the Middle East
>Endless "war" means endless spending of billions on non-descript "war efforts"
>there's fat fucking Lithium deposits in Afghanistan

>>4979585
originally it was revenge for 9/11 and then after bin laden died we were supposed to leave, but then it became a game of "we should stay juuust one more year". rinse and repeat for like 10 years

>>4979585
The CIA grows opium there. Search it up on duckduckgo, Google blocks it.

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>>4979615
What always gets me is that people somehow expected the Afghan military to actually hold back the Taliban for a time.
Even if they wanted to (spoilers: they didn't), they're notoriously incompetent.
Their entire force would probably get fucked by 2 hadjis in a technical.
>>4979617
Also this. Why they didn't move operations anywhere else, I have no idea.

>>4979585
Who do you think got paid for the trillions of dollars spent in Afghanistan? It was never about winning or making any sort of change.
>>4979573
>posting literal fake news that got btfo before the artist could even finish drawing the comic

>>4979599
i think the soldiers on the ground figured out that arabs&co don't do democracy western style.
Pakistan had to break up protests about a christian teacher or nurse suspected of proselytizing not getting the capital punishment tienanmen style with tanks.
>>4979585
>>4979615

political inertia (can not admit fault without the risk of having to resign or losing the next election) and business inertia (some donors were making money so interest to keep it going)

>>4979573
Actually, in the first thread, QM confirmed most aliens instantly die so I don't think we can consider it cruel. We had a lot of insane ideas going on in that /k/ rant.

>>4979636
Most of that rant was me explaining to a singular anon how firearms work and why they generally don't work in space.
Several times as a matter of fact, since apparently the first three posts reiterating what "cold-welding" was didn't take.

>>4979638
I was the anon trying to push the antimatter weaponry and just generally trying to push the most insane ideas forward. I still want that ship-mounted cannon and I won't stop trying.
Oh yeah, are we heading for Gron after we deal with whatever came into our warehouse?

>>4979642
we still need to plan an actual plan, but yeah

>>4979599
Where would he start then?

>>4979615
Wow.

>>4979617
Jesus.

>>4979622
I didnt know it was fake news. I saw sad dog comic, then I felt sad.

>>4979642
>>4979643
We can figure something out for the ship cannon to prevent cold welding, or go for broke on something that already exists like railguns. Maybe depleted uranium warheads for railguns?

>>4979644
a railgun is a fine idea, but that's way overkill, specially since we tend to sell the ships we capture and we'd ideally run from anything that is bigger and more armed than us.

>>4979651
It's not overkill if we have to fight something double our own ship's tonnage and armor, wouldnt you agree?
We dont tend to sell our ships since we have soon to be two welded together in dry dock to double as a spare home/storage, and we've only made a single deal to sell the one ship.

>we'd ideally run from anything that is bigger and more armed than us.
So you want us to get a bigger ship than Grons to take him out? That's some pussy shit right there, just get the cloaking device, get a better shield generator, and get more thrusters for better maneuverability.

>>4979618
You know the Afghans had an extremely high casualty rate? They rowed with whatever they had. The problem was that 2/3 of the army was a paper army and the leaders took the money and used it on themselves. Their army wasn't even payed when the Taliban rushed them
One thing that's the allies fault is that they used contractors to repair the way to advanced equipment they gave the ANA and that way the Afghans weren't able to get competent in the maintenance of this equipment.

>>4979653
if we have to fight something like that, we'd better bring something similar to their tonnage and armor. otherwise we're the equivalent of somalian pirates who attach a machinegun to a dinghy

>So you want us to get a bigger ship than Grons to take him out?
his ship is similar to ours in size, albeit more armored and probably with more weapons as well; but we have the stealth advantage, so things are evened out.

>>4979657
So you do or dont want a railgun?

>>4979654
Regardless of the circumstances that led to their under-readiness, they were unable to perform all the same.
That said, I'm almost certain that turning the ANA into a competent and well equipped fighting force was never really a priority for their allies.

>>4979668
There's a big giant report about it that came out within the last year or two I think. At no point did anyone give a fuck about knowing waht they were doing on the US and afghan sides. Everyone was just winging it with dumb descisions for 20 years.
I also remember that some guy that leaked the fact that something like 90% of the people drones killed were civilians got prosecuted and sentenced a month or two ago as punishment for revealing said classified war crime.
The US allied itself with local warlords and ironically made the locals distrust the US MORE since giving people that will rape and pillage everyone military funding/backup is not the way to gain local support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtZboGLNQaI
Nearly all of these guys are high too. Just look at how shit these guys are at even the most basic of things.

>>4979675
It's the big reason why I hesitate to call it a "war" in the first place. Nobody from the US gave a shit once the 9-11 hysteria wore off.

>>4979253

"Well, well, well. What do we have here? I was wondering what all that damned noise was, but it looks like we found the source. Why don't you hand over everything you've got, and maybe i won't break your legs."

It's a group of five, all the same race. They kind of look like Gildur, but their bone structure is different and they've got way more muscle.
You can't help but smile as you notice something. These guys don't have three fingers, but their hands are naturally splayed out like they're doing the vulcan salute.
And one of them has his hand all wrapped up.

Their leader, clearly a size larger than the rest, steps forward to talk.

"That's a hard stare you got. What are you looking at, pinky?" He growls.

And then he makes the mistake of poking you in the chest.
Your fist flies out before you even think about it, smacking him right in the jaw.

Shockingly, he doesn't fly backwards. It clearly hurt, but he just growls and forces your arm back, fist still planted firmly in his cheek.
You see now that his eyes are super bloodshot, and his pupils are dilated like crazy. This guy's high as balls.

The man roars at you as he throws a punch of his own. You let it connect, and it blows you backwards. You slide on your feet for a distance before catching your balance again.
You feel something wet trickling down your lip, and you can taste the blood in your mouth. That one hurt.

"Uh oh." You hear Sanig mutter. He stares at you with one brow raised and slowly backs further away from you.

You feel pretty good right now. Your muscles are loose, and you're already sharp and warmed up from working in the forge.
The drugged-up retard is charging you right now, almost in slow motion. Both arms raised and claws extended, his tongue is lolling out of his mouth, which is practically dripping with foam. He's out of his head for sure.

>Break him
>Finesse him
>Humiliate him
>Write In?

>>4979712
>Humiliate him
its been some time since we could liberally -and more importantly- guiltlessly brutalize someone. we'll definitely enjoy this.

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>>4979712
>Humiliate him
I expect David to finish with a damn flash kick given we're in a .03G environment.

>>4979712
>Humiliate him
Sanig is on the same wavelength as us.

>>4979712
>Break him
This or humiliate, so long as we brutalize, and cripple him.

>>4979712
>Humiliate him
don't do drugs. Pretty cool tho, this is the first (minus gron) alien whose head doesn't go flying after a punch

>>4979712
>Humiliate him

>>4979712
>Humiliate him
Thugs only understand that.

>>4979712
>Humiliate him
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

>>4979712
>Write In
Changing vote, let's maul him with the maul. Let's put this baby to the test.

>>4979745
I think that's what we're doing when we humilate this crackhead.

>>4979712
>humiliate him.
The dude is surprisingly big and heavy. I say we trip him, send his face flying into the forge at some point , and let his intoxicated ass murder/maul his own teammates so that we can get a bonus on the bounties when we turn them in.
Alternatively we break a leg with the maul.

>>4979712
>Humiliate him

>>4979712
Done forget to check all these guys for bounties then drain their accounts again.

>>4979757
that's already baked into our muscle memory

>>4979759
It occurs to me we could make a decent living by beating up all the thugs on the station and stealing their cash on the regular.

>>4979764
it has worked well so far for us. if it weren't for the crew, we'd probably have like 500k-1 million credits right now

>>4979775
We could probably make that much money if we spend an entire month dedicated to chasing bounties.

I know that Cyla still runs her buisness in on the station, and I curious about how much income she gets on the regular. Maybe she could use advertising help? Nah shes a buisness woman and probably already had that down to pay.

>>4979778
kyla is pretty well set with her business. she's only with us because she can fiddle with the ayy ship

>>4979712
>Finesse him

Palm strike to the jaw then put him on the ground, hard. Then work on the rest of these assholes. Make sure we get a video of us just destroying them, Also Sanig should shoot the one that will inevitably run.

>>4979781
And David's Diiiiiiick, and the cool shit David makes and finds.

>>4979742
Actually, changing my vote to
>Finesse him
These trash are not worth the effort, just take them out and dump into a trash can.

>>4979712
>>Humiliate him

Roll 1d100, best of three. No DC.

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>4979844
Here we go.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>4979844

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>4979844
Nat 1

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>>4979847
time to deliver the blood

>>4979847
I kinda hoped for 100, but this is good.

>>4979573
What do this comic mean? Isn't this the artist that did Darth Biden draining the melanin from a black woman?

>>4980111
I think its like a dog left behind in a US base in Afghanistan?

>>4979847
As it turns out, being too high to feel pain doesn't stop you from getting fucked up. Who'da thunk it?

>>4979712
kinda wish we had the bat

The mace straight up kills people.

>>4980194
Yes, and?

>>4980194
We can make a regular ass bat then, but I can't imagine a situation where we only want to KO a wraith

>>4980231
Is it even possible to only knock them out?

>>4980232
Who knows? Probably not though, in my absolutely scientifically backed and extremely precise guesstimation.

>>4979712

You let him charge you, then drop underneath his strike as the tries to claw at you.
Throwing out your left leg, you sweep his feet and let his own momentum carry him forward. He tumbles and lands on his face, skidding across the floor tiles.
That pissed him off real good.

"Kick his ass, boys!" One of the other men yells.

"Yeah, help the boss!"

"Let's get him!"

As they start yelling, Sanig pulls something out of his jumpsuit and tosses it into the crowd, where it lands with a metallic twang and rolls across the ground.
It ticks for half a second before popping open violently, at which point a massive burst of electricity flows out in every direction, dropping three of the four men to the ground.

You don't have time to worry about that though, because "the boss" has clamored to his feet and is charging at you again. Looks like this time he intends to throw some kind of superman punch.
This time, you feint to the right before ducking to the left, letting him pass above your right shoulder. The man's head firmly impacts your open right palm, and once again his own momentum slams him against the floor.
He rolls over to get back to his feet again, just as quickly. Before he can get back up again though, you kick him in the gut so hard that he wheezes.

"Weak." You spit. "Is this all you've got?"

The dog-like man just stares at you for a moment, almost like he can't believe what you just said to him. He then growls loudly, grabbing your ankle and making an attempt to bite your leg.
You stomp down on his arm with your free leg, breaking his wrist and freeing your leg. His head is blown back as you kick him in the chin, having missed your leg.
He rolls several times to get away from you, then just looks at his wrist as he notices it dangling limply. Can he not feel it, or...?

You take a moment to glance over at Sanig, who seems to be just fine. He's currently got one foot on top of an unconscious attacker, who has a smoking phaser wound on his chest.
The other attackers are rolling around on the floor and groaning, but they might be back on their feet soon. Well, you're sure Sanig can handle it.

Oh, looks like the crackhead is coming for you again. Charging in like an idiot, of course.
This time you don't dodge, and instead deliver a pair of heavy blows straight to his face.

"One, Two!" You shout in quick succession.

He doesn't go down from that, so you pop him again.

"One, TWO!"

A light jab followed by a right straight, he's knocked back and stumbles on his feet just like you did when he punched you. But he still doesn't go down.
You can see blood running from his nose and mouth after those, so you know you're doing damage. Whatever he's on, it must be some good shit.
This time you're the one charging in. He seems dizzy, regardless of whether he can feel the pain or not.

"One, Two.... UPPER!"

Again you pop him in the face, but this time the jab comes from your right, and you follow up the left straight with an uppercut.

>>4980248
>"Kick his ass, boys!" One of the other men yells.
>"Yeah, help the boss!"

I hope they had that boston gangster accent
>"Let's get him!"

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>>4980248
Damn. Maybe it is the space-crack but this guy is pretty damn tough. Too bad being a tough guy out here means you never have to really learn to fight for real.

>>4980275
He remind of those guys who take ton of bullets but survive because they are so high, de-facto already dead but still going through pure drug power.

>>4980248
He's just using this fucker like Glass Jaw Joe.

>>4980248
Holy shit, how high is this guy? Shame that whatever drug he is on muat be weak on humans, could made some good combat stimulant. Probably will end up just as a sleeping pill for David.

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>>4980277
So this guy is a Giga-Nigga on PCP? Love it.
Too bad David is an Ultra-Chad

>>4980277
shouldn't have used 9mm, fed boy

>>4980248
probably has a fractured skull and is dealing with hemorrage.

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>>4980323
If we want to get really autistic over this, then .357 Sig is the best around around other than maybe 5.7mm, depending The only thing that hurts these calibers or other specialty ones like them is the price of the rooty-tooty-point-and-shooty and what each round costs, which are negligible in space, what with the nano-fabs,

>>4980442
Man I just brain people with rocks. All these people with their tech nine ologies. If it was good enough for our ancestors it's good enough for me.

Cain Gang

>>4980450
what is a bullet, if not a particularly fast rock

>>4980451
A completely different atomic composition and biblical significance.

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>>4980450
>>4980451
We fast-balled a chunk of metal hard enough to explode a demons head. We punched a guy made of rocks and felt good on how we did. David is pretty oonga boonga, aside from being kinda smart.

>>4980456
Simple living. Happy living. Smashing rocks and big ass cocks. We should buy a boat.

>>4980460
truly Royal, anon

>>4980248
Make him kick himself!

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>>4980460
We are already on the boat. Space boat. It's nice.

>>4980248

You feel his jaw give out as you spring upwards and put your whole body behind this uppercut. He flips once, and then twice through the air before finally hitting the ground.
But this motherfucker, he's still trying to get up! You can't friggin' believe it!

"Stay down, dumbass. I'm not trying to kill you right now."

He's ignoring you. Slowly, he manages to uncrumple himself and starts to sit up...

"I said stay down!"

You kick him square in the balls with your steel-toed boots, and hear a horrifying crunch.
He clearly felt that one, despite whatever drugs he's on. His eyes bulge out of his head, and he almost immediately vomits.
Then, as he's squirming around on the floor, you hear him shitting himself as well. Violently. You don't really want to touch him anymore.

Looking back up, you see Sanig has dealt with the others.
Two of the four men are laying on the ground with phaser burns, and the other two have dropped their weapons and are standing in place with their hands up.
Sanig looks to be fine, and is holding them up at phaser-point.

"You good, Sanig?"

"I'm fine, kid. How about you? I saw you take one to the face, there."

"Please, if that could put me down i wouldn't have made it through middle-school."

Your conversation is interrupted as "The Boss" starts screaming inbetween his fits of dry-heaving.
You do your best to ignore that for the moment, and begin interrogating the prisoners.

"Hey, you there. Quintuplet number one." You demand.

"...Me?" He asks.

"Yes, you. Dumbass. What the fuck is your boss on? There's only one species i know who can take a punch like that, and he ain't it."

"He... He's addicted to Redsang. We've been trying to get him off it, but..."

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Second question, what the fuck are you doing in my warehouse?"

"We're... robbing you?"

"Oh yeah? Doesn't look like it to me. You new around here? Maybe you don't know who i am, or are you just that stupid?"

"W-Well, we did kinda... just get here the other day..."

"Yeah, i figured. Question number three, why was your friend here snooping around my warehouse?"

You point accusingly at quintuplet number two, who's standing next to number one here.

"Wha- How did you know?!" Number two exclaims.

"Okay first off? If i was bluffing and didn't know before i would now."

"Hey, that' cheating!" He yells. You smack him across the face to shut him up.

"And second, i did know, because i saw your fucking skinprint on my hammer. Yeah, good job dumbass. Hot things are hot, did you learn that in special ed?"

"I didn't know it was hot! There were no warning labels on it, man!"

You chuckle at that.

"Heh. Yeah, this machine predates safety, as they say. People like you are the reason they have to put "Do not drink" on bottles of bleach."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

You pop him in the nose for talking back to you.

"It means you're not just stupid, you're so fucking stupid that you're a danger to yourself and society. Idiot."