>>5012919

After much discussion with your crew, you eventually settle on trying to make contact with Gron.
You aren't personally sure how you feel about that, but you can't deny that you're lacking manpower and have a common enemy.

The first step to that, you think, is talking to your hostages. Being slightly less aggressive would also probably help, so this time you head in without your power armor.
Using a sonicator, you sever the weld holding the mess hall door closed. It opens with a hiss, and you find the hostages... just kind of sitting there. Not even milling about.

"...You guys alright in here?"

"We haven't tried anything, we swear!" One of them yells.

Looks like most of them are still terrified of you, despite your lack of armor. They shrink back when you pull a pair of wire cutters out of your cargo pants.

"Calm down, i'm not going to hurt you guys." You assure them.

Using the wire cutters, you clip the zip-ties holding their arms together and let them go free. Some of them are a little softer than others, and have cuts on their wrists despite the zip-ties being fairly loose.
Almost universally, they sigh in relief as you remove their bindings and allow them to stretch their arms freely.
Around this time, the regular lights come back on as Clank finishes reinstalling the ship's antimatter bottle.

"What's going on? Why are you freeing us?" Ryzzla asks.

You sigh out in frustration.

"It's kinda complicated, kinda not. Basically, i think Gron and i actually share a common enemy, and maybe we'd be better off working with eachother rather than against eachother. Make sense?"

"...I guess? I'm not really sure what's going on here, but if it gets us out of this situation i'm happy to help, however i can."

"Do you think you could get me an audience with Gron? I need to speak with him."

"I guess? I mean, he's not a king or anything. As long as it's a friendly, peaceful visit then there should be no issues just going to see him."

She really emphasized the friendly and peaceful part.

"I don't plan on causing a fuss in the middle of someone else's home."

"...Are you sure about that?" She questions.

"Yes. I was planning on it, but not anymore."

"Well, at least you're honest." She... grins? That's weird. How can she grin with mandibles for a face? ...Did the translator did that? Huh.

"He's a snake, is what he is." The caithan spits. "I bet he's just trying to get your trust so he can sneak his way onto one of the stations."

Casually, you walk over to where the caithan is sitting, still bound by both his arms and legs.
You crouch down to look him in his hate-filled eyes, and speak.

"Boy, if i wanted to sneak in, i wouldn't need any of you to do it. I already have your ship."

"You're an idiot." He scoffs. "Do you think an IFF is all you need to land?"

"Of course not. But your friend here is more than willing to co-operate. And even if she wasn't, i would get the information i needed. I promise you that."

>>5014554
I just don't want this fleas ridden cat near our cat at all, bet the faggot thinks he can fight David without the powerarmor

Wanted to go and post this in the last thread, but you made a new one, so I figured you'd be more likely to see it here.

>>5014534
I currently play in quests that take longer than a day to update. One of them has taken more than a week for one. I am actual living proof that, if your quest has garnered enough interest, then there will be someone that will wait patiently to see either an update or a continuation of an old quest no matter how long it takes.

Now, whether it's due to the sunk cost fallacy or autism is another question entirely...

Oh, almost forgot, here's a link to the discord for anyone who wants to post lewds or whatever.
Only two rules. No gay shit, and keep quest discussion in the thread.

https://discord.gg/DMwvMw43yv

>>5014552
We need a proper Archive of the threads, because not all of them have been linked to each other.
>>5014589
Never use or make Discords, you were told this already.

>>5014589
You need to delete that discord man. its a bane for quests. you dont need it, why have it? It undermines the animosity of this whole site, (IDs excluded), and is actively monitored by the feds.
It also will split the playerbase.

>>5014554
hate will burn a hole through you son. it will leave nothing but a hollow husk of a person left. ive seen it before.

>>5014669
Shill man its only to identify ppl cool with getting ayy lmaos preggo

The worst that can happen is you getting an ayy lmao gf

>>5014681
Begone Subhuman Shill, back to Pleddit with you.

>>5014669
anonymity*

>>5014554
I know there was no prompt for action, but
>Take off the male Caithan's bindings and tell him to take another crack at you, bare handed.
>Put him in his place, but try not to hurt him.
He'll probably shut the fuck up if he gets served by a naked ape.
I know I would.

>>5014554
Very tempted to use pepper spray on him

>>5014534
OP, there are have been quest updating once every two or three days running for years. I think. Good quest keeps people at it.

>>5014699
I agree!
>show him who is boss, barehanded and un-powerarmor-ed

>>5014747
We're already out of our armor, are we not?

>>5014725
I remember for the last half/quarter of Shinigami Savant that King was doing one update/day and still managed pretty good activity. There were other quests I can't remember the name of off the top of my head that also only had one update or sporadic updates that managed to hang on for a while.

It's definitely doable.

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>>5014534

QM, do what's best to keep you and your family ok. You don't need to worry about people leaving. We are a bunch of autists. We aren't leaving.
Do what works for you. A healthy QM makes a healthy quest. A healthy quest keeps living.
I'm here for the long haul.

QM, just look at how bumped we've kept the quest through autism and inane discussion. One update every three days is nothing. And you can call people slurs in between. Win-win

Most of the quests I read are weekly or even more sporadic.

>>5014552
Hey QM just wanted to say that I rarely vote on this quest. I enjoy reading it too much that voting usually takes the enjoyment out of it - I'm a special type of moron that way.

But despite that you've always kept me glued to my seat and the few times I've had to travel to places where 4chan is blocked, opening you quest again has always been a pleasure.

Don't worry too much about cutting down updates, quests have survived slower updates, a good example would be the "Claymore: Second Swords Quest" with updates slower & shorter than you. Its on thread 63 now and its been going on since mid 2018.

Every few threads someone always bitches and moans about it but people stick to it since the writing and characters are compelling. Same goes for your quest right here, people will stick to it.

>>5014552
Oi, is cool if you cut back. Consistency is more important to a quest than how often it updates.

You're writing a long story, its a marathon not a sprint. You go too fast too early for too long, you overexert and then shit yourself and pass out.

Like don't be afraid to just shitpost and theorycraft/plancraft alongside players for shits n gigs.

Thanks for the encouragement, lads.
I'll be sticking around for as long as i can help it, so look forward to more updates.

>>5014534
if this quest kept going with the same enthusiasm from the past threads to us autists by the amount of posts it has even if you never comeback and update this again this quest was and still is a blast

>>5015100
>>5014589
Quit making excuses like "I don't have enough money to feed my family" and write already you goddamned writeslave! We didn't come here to hear you whine!

>>5014669
>and is actively monitored by the feds
You think this website isn't? Half the people in this thread are feds.

>>5015405
Well since I know I'm not a fed that must mean you are. Tell your boss I can stir up shit on the internet really well.

>>5015405
eh, to identify a fed you have to notice the posts that say "let's commit a crime! It's super easy!"
That made me remember a story with a /k/omando that was pleasuring his prostate with a rifle barrel (only the barrel) and the iron sight got stuck so he couldn't get it out because it scraped on his insides.
On the ER they had to saw the barrel and out of nowhere the ATF showed up and killed everyone

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>>5015609
Generally, with feds it goes something like
>"Let's commit a felony!"
>"What felonies have you committed recently fellow anons?"
>"Let's have a physical meet-up of people on this board."
Couple that with just not getting memes and in-jokes a lot of the time, and you can tell pretty quickly who's glowing.
Trying to bait people into joining explicit extremist forums and chatrooms is also a big red flag as well.
I'm not talking about /pol/ or anything of that nature, more like a Discord server that's very clearly geared towards discussing illegal activities.

>>5015626
Trying to get people into a discord... oh god, don't tell me QM is... glowing!?

>>5014554

"Bastard!"

The caithan strains hard against his bindings, but they only dig deeper into his wrists, causing them to bleed.

"You want to a piece of me?" You ask, grinning from ear to ear. "Go ahead. We'll get it all out of your system right here and now."

Walking across the room, you turn to face him and give Clank the order to cut his ties.

"You're not the only hot-headed idiot i've met out here." You tell him as Clank enters and begins cutting him free. "But unlike some, maybe you'll get the message after a good whoopin'."

The Caithan distances himself from clank as soon as he's free. He rubs his injured wrists, and seems to actually calm down now that his arms aren't bound.
He eyes you up and down cautiously, clearly planning his initial attack. But he's not even remotely sly about it. You can see where his eyes are fixated. He wants to go for your neck.

You lean your head back and tilt it to the right, exposing your neck for him.
Tapping your jugular with your right pointer finger, you grin at him.

"If you want it that bad, come and get it."

At first he seems shocked that you knew what he was thinking, but then it just seems to piss him off.
He snarls, then takes off running straight at you.

However, there's no indication that he's planning to stop, or even slow down.
You're interested in where he's going with this, so you just let it happen.

To your surprise, the Caithan drops down and actually slides between your feet. You hear him pop back up to a standing position behind you, but before he has a chance to do anything, you strike.
It's nothing special. You simply ram your elbow into him without even turning around. It digs deeply into his side, and you hear one or two of his ribs break as a result.
Naturally, he's knocked to the ground and tries to make distance by rolling away. He clutches at his side, struggling to hold down a scream as he forces himself back to his feet.

Slowly, you turn to face him at his new position and stare him down as your eyes meet.

"Anything else?" You ask.

His claws visibly extend in response. A Caithan's nails aren't much different from a human's, but they end in a sharp point. Normally it wouldn't matter since they aren't particularly long, but it looks like they have more they can push out from under the nail-bed.
He charges at you once again, and this time it looks like he's just going to try and stab you.

You dodge his first thrust by turning your body to the side, and his left-handed thrust you grab with your own right hand, wrenching his arm and forcing his own sharpened nails into his side. The same side you just broke two ribs on.
His nails dig in fairly deep, and fresh blood runs along his side. But you know that won't put him down, so you plant a left hood straight into his nose, which breaks with a satisfying crunch.

"Gaaaah! Fuuuuuck!" He cries, falling to the ground again. This time he just rolls around, clearly in a lot of pain.

"Feels good, don't it?"

>>5015714
Nice, if we didn't have Cylia in our crew i would want to cut the tip of his ears or tail so that he always remember that he is only alive out because David let him

Also, now we have another chance to meet the medic and recruit her, since she also doesn't shows on radars she might feel or know something from the wraith corpse

>>5014608
you can archive them yourself to sup/tg/

>>5015736
Can we just declaw him right now. I'm sure theres some humiliation to it related to their species like how you can declaw a cat. Celia cant bit h about it since his nails will probably grow back. Probably.

>>5015736
She also can't talk, though. At least not in a way we can currently understand.
>>5015745
His punishment must be more severe!

>>5015736
>Also, now we have another chance to meet the medic and recruit her

>"Hey doc! i know like 1 hour has passed, but we injured another one of your crew and we need you to patch him up! by the way, mind joining us in the metal gear to have jolly adventures? im sure that you forgot that we ATF'd your pet by now"

>>5015747
Not too severe. Maybe we could have SHODAN hack his translator and download a shit ton of embarrassing things from his memories, then send them to all the PDA's of the civilians on this ship. Nothing more crippling that having you associates know your most embarrassing secrets.

>>5015751
KEK let's do it

>>5015901
Wait I just thought up of something worse.
We could ask SHODAN to crop a maid image, and put the an image of the guy in it. Add in some other bullshit then post that on whatever his space social media account is.

>>5015714
can we just kill this retard already

>>5016034
and inb4 muh sad cat waifu its better to get rid of this idiot alien because a human can learn when not to be an idiot it might take a while but it will learn not to go full retard but this retard is going full muh honor muh pride muh going down with out a fight retard mode

>>5016034
proud experienced predator probably in the top 10%, and he unfortunately defaulted to standard behavior with the unknown species, which is well, perhaps not the smartest option, but predictable reaction. He is just unfortunate he met a dude in the 1 to 5% of the top combatants from a bullshit species.

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I am gonna laugh my ass off if, by some weird contrivance this is Cylia's brother and we just put him in the ICU.

Actually, can we get her over here to calm this dumbass down before he makes us kill him?

>>5016057
She's already seen him on camera and didn't comment on it, so probably not?

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>>5015714

>>5014608
>>5015740

Just in case, will leave this here.

1:
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4844220/

2:
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4900701/

3:
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4900701/

4:
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4941633/

5:
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4976072/

The archives QM did and of #1.

>>5016153
Other people have a habit of archiving the threads for me, so not all of them were made by me.
The first thread wasn't either, so it doesn't even have all the appropriate tags.

I'm linking the last thread's archive in the new thread's OP now, though. Just in case.

>>5016057
Why are you still making the assumption she'd calm him down? There is literally no reason to expect it, and every reason for him to call her a race traitor or something.

>>5016153
Fucked up #2, updated link:
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4866191/

>>5016157
Yeah, one way or the other all the links are available on threads OP (#1 being lost as a regular post along the way) going back to three. So long as the latest archive has the link of the previous we can trace it back.
Won't fix the threads not sharing tags, but at least they can be found.

>>5015714
We need to ask our hostages how thez communicate with moth waifu

>>5016158
>race traitor
Racism is taken to new heights! the sky isn't the limit anymore; space is

>>5016158
erm... no. From what we have of the Qm Predators of their home world become solitary operators and don't do groups thanks to galciv culture infesting them with some serious individual superiority complexes because everyone else is so weak.

predators dont go into fash or comie collectivist autism of the left they go full on AnCap hyper individualism autism of the right.

>>5016219
That argument makes no sense, what reason are you bringing political buzzwords into this?

>>5016219
Friendly reminder that anyone who bases opinions on the political compass should never be trusted with politics.

>>5016279
Hear hear, best wisdom I've heard on 4chan all week.

>>5016279
Sage advice.

>>5016169
Space, the final racist frontier

>>5016356
don't anounce you are saging, wtf. The jannies will get pissy

>>5015405
>Half the people in this thread are feds.
This.

Fuckers wasting our tax dollars instead of arresting corrupt public servants.

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>>5016485
>Fuckers wasting our tax dollars instead of arresting corrupt public servants.
Anon. They're the corrupt civil servants.
Here's generally how the federal authorities handle their boys fucking up.
>If it can be swept under the rug, it will be.
>If it can't be silenced, it's obfuscated in the media.
>If attention can't be diverted from it, they'll try to spin it.
>If they can't fix their optics, they'll try to placate the masses.
Usually the heat dies down somewhere around the last two phases.
Then the general public forgets about the controversy and moves on to whatever.
The only people who seem to keep track of stuff after the fact are schizos, autists, and former feds.
Even then, those few exceptions are prone to forgetting things and moving on all the same.
It's human nature to do so when you're not directly and immediately affected, and they count on it.

>>5016496
>The only people who seem to keep track of stuff after the fact are schizos, autists, and former feds.
Good news is autism is on the rise so maybe eventually we'll have a bunch of screeching retards who won't let it go and the world will get better for it. Based aspies.

>>5016499
Would you listen to somebody talk about conspiracy theories if you knew they were on the spectrum?
That's another thing ends up working to the advantage of federal authorities.

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>>5015409
>sir, anonymous user "scs8tVB9" is on to us. Orders?

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>>5016515
Considering the downright frightening lengths of particularity autismos go to? Yeah actually. Seriously hire an autistic kid to do your sorting. It might not be an ideal order but damn is it ordered anyway.

Also if the world is like 30% tards then it also holds a lot more water.

>>5016532

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>>5016158
Cylia has been shown to be better at dealing with space people, predators especially, than us. While they might be solitary when it comes to ventures like bounty hunting or forming crews, a familiar face/race can do a lot to calm people down. We have no idea if the concept of a race traitor is even a thing given the diversity of the ayys. Why are you assuming that she would do worse than us constantly pissing him off, not getting their culture/predator culture in general, and just using violence like this is a war or some shit?

We saw with Kelzek that aliens, predator ayys especially, have very different ideas than humans do and Cylia is much more knowledgeable about those norms than we are.

Killing or just continuing to beat someone due to shit like that isn't even a psycho marine thing, it is just dumb.

Or we could just keep smacking him around for no real reason other than it makes us feel good about how awesome our character is guess. Real big dick move since he has no chance of actually harming us, Clank, or even Cylia.

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>>5016724
I would also like to point out that to David, death is preferable to slavery. Asta has literally shown that this is his same position. When he thought we were just gonna take them and sell them to slavery after the interdiction, the default for the galactic culture vs. killing, he tried his damnedest to fight back despite us wearing a tonne of power armor. And he kept fighting even though I am sure he realized how unlikely it was for him to win. Part of that is probably stupid pride but I respect that he would rather die trying to fight rather than given in like a bitch.

>>5015714

"Asta, would you please give it up? You clearly cannot beat him."

"Damn it." the Caithan says through gritted teeth. "I thought maybe without the armor..."

About this time, the door to the mess hall opens, to your surprise. You weren't expecting anyone...
And the person who shows up, it turns out, is Illia. She slowly looks around the room for a moment, then settles on Asta, who's still bleeding from his side.
She slowly and gracefully walks over to him, then crouches down and opens up the satchel she'd been carrying over her shoulder.

"Ah... thank you." Asta tells her.

She starts by removing his shirt to get at the wound in his side, then prepares a dropper full of liquid. After patting the area dry with a towel, she places four drops into each of the wounds around his ribs.
They seal over completely and stop bleeding within moments, almost as if she covered them with superglue.

Next, she runs her fingers over his ribs and no doubt discovers that two of them are broken.
Taking out a hypo-stim, she loads it with a canister of something clear like water and injects him in four places.

The relief is visible in his face as the medicine blocks out whatever pain he was feeling. His muscles relax, and he sighs out in relief.
She seems to be waiting for it to kick in fully, and in the meantime she simply pats the Caithan's head to comfort him.

After about a minute, she takes an actual needle out of her bag. It's the first time you've seen a needle used rather than a hypo-stim.
It appears to be full of a thick, pasty-white fluid. She inserts the needle right around where the break is and carefully positions it before injecting the material inside.

Next, she applies the hypo-stim full of anesthetic to his nose and the surrounding area. You think you know where this is going, and so does he, because he cringes as she grabs his nose, despite being unable to feel it.
With a loud crunch, she snaps his nose back into roughly the correct position.

After that's done, she inserts strips of something into his nasal passage. You aren't sure what's she's doing at first, but after she finishes, you hear even more cracking sounds, and Asta's nose returns completely to it's original shape.
You figured she'd be done after that, but no. After she fixed his nose, she started running the tips of her fingers across his wrists as well. They aren't bleeding much, but they are technically wounded, and probably hurts a bit.
She digs a small jar of ointment out of her bag and dips her finger into it, then slowly runs her finger across the wound until it's completely covered up. Then, she places what you recognize as strips of artificial skin over the wounds.
A quick gauze bandage later, and he's practically good as new. But then, she immediately begins attending to the other crewmembers as well.

>Ask the crew some questions about Illia
>Tell the crew that they're free to roam the ship, and you'll be returning to their station shortly
>Write-in?

>>5016737
>Tell the crew that they're free to roam the ship, and you'll be returning to their station shortly

Hmmm.

>>5016737
>Ask the crew some questions about Illia
>Make sure Shodan has locked out any comms, and sealed the doors to the reactor room, and drive controls
>Make sure there are no personal weapons or such stored
>Let Captain and any officers roam around, grab food for the other crew, ect while we take stock

>>5016737
>Ask the crew some questions about Illia
>Tell the crew that they're free to roam the ship, and you'll be returning to their station shortly

>>5016737
>>5016749
this,last thing we need is the dumb catman getting a weapon.

>>5016737
Ask Asta if he's gotten that out of his system, then start asking questions about Illia and tell the crew they're free to roam the ship.

>>5016737
>>Write-in?
go back to the ship

>>5016737
I am disgusted and mad it actually worked.

>>5016737
>Ask the crew some questions about Illia
what is it/she?
>Tell the crew that they're free to roam the ship, and you'll be returning to their station shortly

>>5016737
>Ask the crew some questions about Illia
Namely what species she is, how they found her, her relationship with the slime-dog, if she's an accredited doctor or if its more a natural healer, if her species reproduces by laying eggs inside sentients so the young can eat their way out of the host body while the host dies a horribly painful death, stuff like that.
>"Y'know, Ryzzla, you probably should have mentioned her to me before I checked the rest of the ship."
>Also, need to talk to the captain privately about the slime-dog not making it, and we're sorry for their loss.

>>5016737
>>Ask the crew some questions about Illia
The fuck?

>>5016737
>Ask the crew some questions about Illia
>"What exactly is she?"
>"Any reason why she doesn't communicate verbally?"
>"I'm not picking her up on any sensors. Any idea why?"

>>5016737
>Ask the crew some questions about Illia
>She, He, It? Has caught my interest. She is of no species that i (Shodan but shh) know of.
>Tell the crew that they're free to roam the ship, and you'll be returning to their station shortlykvpyt

>>5016737
So since Wraiths are demons think whatever this thing is equates to angels? Or do you think it just didn't show up on the life-scan because it's a weird alien?

>>5017477
To be fair Randal didn't show up either so there is precedent

>>5016749
+1

>>5016737

While Illia is tending to everyone, you speak with Asta again.

"You done?" You ask.

"...Yeah, i'm done."

"I'm not going to sell you into slavery, you know."

"...I don't know that."

"Well, it's true. You'll just have to believe me."

"You're freakishly strong, you know that?"

"I know."

"I could barely follow your hands as they moved."

"...But you could follow them, yes? You might have some room for improvement, kid."

"I'm not a kid. I'm 16 already."

You just chuckle at that and leave him to rest. Kid's not actually that bad, he's just slower and weaker than Cylia. Could be his age, or maybe living in earth's gravity is already showing it's effects on her.
Either way, you move on to speaking with Ryzzla.

"Hey. I assume you're the actual captain on this ship, Ryzzla?"

"Not really. I'm the pilot, but we don't really have a "captain" per se..."

"Well, congrats. You're the captain now, under wartime doctrine. Now, i'm going to give you and your officers free roam of the ship, so you can bring food, water and whatever else to the crew. But i don't want to see anyone brandishing a weapon, understand?"

"I can only think of one idiot who might try that, but..."

Ryzzla looks over to Asta for a moment.

"He seems to have given up on that." She sighs.

"Yeah, people with two brain cells to rub together tend not to attack the same guy who just repeatedly kicked their ass without getting stronger first. But, i figure by then there won't be any problems."

"I hope you're right."

"...Say, i have a few more questions, if you don't mind."

Ryzzla sighs again.

"Very well..."

"I know, i know. It's about Illia, though. Why didn't anyone mention her? It was quite a surprise when i found her, since the ship's internal sensors didn't pick up any life signs in there."

"Ah. I assumed you knew. She's completely harmless, so..."

"Why didn't she show up on sensors, though?"

"Mmm. We've wondered about that, ourselves. Asta has a theory, though. Apparently those with a weak "presence" can actually hide themselves like that, whatever that means."

"What, you mean like erasing your presence when stalking prey?"

"I suppose, but i don't think she's doing it intentionally. Still, it's not like i understand it myself. You apex predators all go on about some mystical foolishness or another, but it's never made sense to me."

"Aren't you a predator yourself?" You wonder.

"Sure... but only just. I'm not what most would consider "Apex". That would be someone like Asta, a Caithan. Or you... whatever you are. Whatever world you're from, to build a body like that, i'm sure it must have been hell."

"I see. Thank you for your insight, but back to Illia... do you know why she doesn't speak? Clearly she can understand me."

"Well, none of us know what species she is. However, we believe that they had no form of communication whatsoever. It's only due to a crude translator implant that she can understand us at all, but that only goes one way."

>>5017606
Wasn't there other advanced translator implants on the ship?

Or maybe the translator implants on the grey bodies could be recycled, Can they be recycled?

>>5017741
Even if there were i doubt we have the medical capability to install one.

>>5017749
Just shove it in.

>>5017749
>>5017741
why should we even do this again?

>>5017753
We shouldn't, that's what I'm saying. Not right now anyway, though in general I think that Sapient beings have the right to be easily understood.

>>5017752
>>5017749
just j-jam it in!

>>5017756
Unwatned medical procedures my fren. very haram.

>>5017811
We can tell her about the communicator implant, since we can speak to her.
And just go "Go to this side of the room that has nothing and put your hand up if you wish to do this, ignore me if you do not wish to."
Maybe have one of the crewmen she trusts more do it? Like the captain. She saw us bring in a dead body, capture her crew, and beat the snot out of the caithan.

>>5017911
Anon, she was using a datapad to communicate with us. There is no need to do charades.

>>5017606

"Wait, what do you mean? How does that even work?"

Ryzzla shrugs.

"I'm no expert. All i know is, she understands what we're saying somehow, but she doesn't know how to say anything back."

"...That's not true at all, though. She was able to show me things using a monitor. She's able to use computers, so how can she not communicate?"

"About that... what exactly did she show you?"

"She showed me her identification, and an image of her pet."

"Pet? You mean that ugly little creature? No, that's just something we were planning on slaughtering for meat."

"Really? She seemed so sad when it died, though. It uh... it got caught in the vacuum."

"I see, that's a shame. Those things rot really quickly, if you don't cook them. But yes, that girl is... well, she's very empathetic, to put it lightly. I think that's why she became a healer."

Empathetic, huh? Maybe she's literally an empath. Psychic bullshit wouldn't be the weirdest thing you've seen out in space so far.

"Anyways, you said she showed you images, yes? Not a single string of text, was there?" Ryzzla asks.

"Now that you mention it..."

"Plenty of people have tried to teach her, and she was very patient with them... but the girl, she just doesn't understand speech. Or rather, i don't think she's capable of understanding it."

"That seems weird, considering how smart she is. I dunno."

"If her species never evolved to use it... maybe she's just missing the part of her brain that allows for understanding it."

"But then, how does her implant work? Isn't it connected directly to the speech center of your brain?" You wonder.

"Who knows? She already had it when we found her."

"Hmm." SHODAN chimes in. "Crude translator installed on a species nobody's ever seen before? Does that sound familiar at all, David?"

"Yeah, you're right." You whisper. "No sense worrying about it, i guess."

"But, it's enough for her to get by either way." Ryzzla continues.

"Ah, just out of curiosity..." You ask. "How long ago did you guys pick her up?"

"Oh, it was none of us."

"But you just said-"

"It was Dark Star, sure. But that was well before our time. Before there was even a Dark Star, actually. The original pirate lord was the one who found her, probably eighty or a hundred years ago. She was already a skilled healer at that time, so... he made use of her."

"And she's just been around ever since?"

"So the story goes. Everyone's been healed by her at least once or twice around here. Some more than others..." Ryzzla says, glancing over at Asta.

"How has she not died yet? Or been captured? Sold off?"

"Yes, it's true that those who leave the colony tend to die early, or go missing. Thanks for the reminder, on multiple levels. But to answer your question, normally she simply wouldn't leave the colony. However, she insisted on going this time."

"Why's that?"

"She's looking for something, and she can't find a way to tell us what it is. That's all i know."

Just a heads up lads, twitch got leaked on hard, including all source code and encrypted user passwords. Change 'em if you got 'em.

>>5018514
Trust me, I'm well aware. These leaked financials are fucking nutty.

>>5018512
So she also had her ass probed, huh. I wonder if that's what she was looking for, a kindred spirit.

>>5018514
Well shit.

>>5018527
Indeed. Holy cannoli, that's a lot of money.

>>5018532
No wonder they do nothing about the blatant titty streamers. They make so much fucking money for Twitch.

>>5018537
It really is a glorified strip-tease club.
Just with a lot more 0s.

>>5018537
Really makes you wonder how simps make so much dosh.

>>5018645
They don't. There's just a fucking lot of em.
It's weird how they don't spend that money on actual camwhores though.

>>5018664
I dunno man. I couldn't afford to dump a hundred bucks a week for a woman who literally won't even look at me. Disposable income is something else on there.

>>5018537
why would they? its not like justin tv was originally about videogames

>>5017929
it might be a fun way to pass the time, idk

>>5018512
>he made use of her."
うおおおおおおおおおお al

>>5018512
>Crude translator installed on a species nobody's ever seen before?
Also fuck off SHODAN, that shit the ayys put on David is TOP SHELF

>>5018512
>"She's looking for something, and she can't find a way to tell us what it is. That's all i know."
ah, a plot delivered waifu

>>5018664
For that money they could just fucking visit an escort.... At least they would have some action.

>>5018751
Most would do just that if prostitutes didn't have a terrible track record with STDs.
That's enough risk to make somebody content with just masturbating in front of a monitor for years.

>>5018512
You're curious as to what exactly it is Illia wants, but with her trouble communicating, it might just be a waste of time.
Simple or common things might be easy to get across, but if it's something extremely specific or abstract, well...

In any case, you've done what you came here for. Their ship should be operational again, and SHODAN is already preparing to make a... "tandem" jump back to the station.
After all, they could try to screw you, but that'll be hard if you're still docked to them.

That leaves you with a bit of time to burn as you get back to your ship.
Princess is there to greet you as soon as the airlock opens, chittering happily as she does.
She latches onto your leg and climbs as if you were a tree, wrapping herself around your shoulders and licking your face like a puppy.

"Did you miss me, girl?" You chuckle. Princess barks roughly in response.

After making your way to your own tiny mess hall, you sit down at the table and just rest for a moment.
There hasn't been much action, but a lot as still happened. It's given you a lot to think about... well, a lot more than you already had anyways.
Sighing, you lean your head onto one hand and just close your eyes for a minute. You can feel princess making her way off your shoulders and onto the table, where she sits down.

"You look tired." Cylia says, entering the room.

"Mmm. Yeah, a little bit." You punctuate your sentence with a small yawn.

"Are you alright?" She asks.

"...Yeah. There's just a lot going on. It is what it is, you know?"

You cross your arms on the table, then lay your head down on them.

"I kind of imagined that everything would be great out in space, you know? But it looks like there's just conflict everywhere. Doesn't matter how far you go."

"What about the core worlds? It's supposed to be peaceful there, isn't it?" She asks.

"Hah. The only difference between here and there is the size and reach of the enemy. Instead of pirates or corporations, it's the feds. It's only peaceful because they crush anyone who gets in their way."

"...You act like you've been there already." She notes.

"I have, in a way. Besides the tech, it isn't so different out here than it is on earth. More like the wild west, sure, but socially... it's all the same bullshit. I'm just sick of it."

"Do you want to become a hermit, or something? People do that, sometimes. Run off into the unknown and find themselves a planet with no intelligent life to rule over..."

"That might be nice, honestly. But no, i think i'm just sick of being so low on the totem pole. Everyone yearns for freedom, don't they? But normally it's so far out of reach. Out here though? Maybe..."

"Maybe?"

>"What would you think about starting our own little gang? Carving out a piece of the universe for ourselves?"
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."
>"No, it's nothing. I'm just a daydreaming idiot."

>>5018804
condoms. use them. always.
and no kissings. or other stuff like that.

Where i am from that is the standard practice and for the most part stds are rather low compared to some developed and undeveloped countries.

Hell i heard tales of people mocking anyone who goes to or offers no condom services as disease ridden ignoramuses..

>>5019447
>>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."

>>5019447
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."
something something big boss something something something

>>5019447
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."

All in, we either go really big or broke.

>>5019447
>>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."
here starts the uplifting of humanity, and the conquest of the galaxy

>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."

Our Dave has been pretty busy since he got ayy lmao'd. I know he's ADHD as shit but some days I think he should take a break.

>>5019447
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."
Apex'es Without Borders, here we come.

>>5019447
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."

>>5019447
>>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."

making our own little group sounds good and nice, but i don't think david will like to make
it a mercenary group. at least this conversation doesn't implies that

>>5019447
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."

>>5019447
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."
We'll bring it up again when we've ironed out the details and visited earth. It's still too early, but soo.

>>5019469
Is David Venom Snake, or big boss?

>>5019770
As far as I know, David didn't really have a mentor to idolize like Big Boss/Venom, so the comparison falls flat.
No, David seems to have had a fairly normal life right up until that IED turned his buddies into Afghani Salsa.

>>5019447
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."
UPLIFT TIME
>>5008040
"Their designs are primitive, yes. Barbaric, even. But they do have a certain…" Ebony Talon considers his choice of word carefully, testing its weight. “…’appreciation’ for the function of a predator. No vainglorious glamour or concern for aesthetics. Purely about the kill.”

The Asandi Pilot considered the F-119 ‘Wingshark’ to be one of the few notable achievements of human civilisation. Perhaps the only one, really. The humans were smelly, crude and inflated in their ideas about their own abilities. Every year Ebony Talon was putting another hotshot pilot in his place, demonstrating to these so called ‘aces’ that he was as high above them as this Asandi orbital habitat was above the gas planet below. There were always more challengers, the human species seemed geared to producing them. Such delusions were so typical of the lesser lived races. The lack of shielding on their fight craft was a testament to this, sacrificing protection for speed and power. Though admittedly the absence of this advanced tech on the Wingshark only endeared the design further to the Asandi Pilot. Having shields on your craft implied the you were admitting the possibility that you might be hit.

Ebony Talon loved the Wingshark design. It could not hold a feather to the Asandi craft, even the less optimal classes freely shared with the Federation. Sleek in form by human standards, but in terms of manoeuvrability, protection or any other number of factors the Wingshark was outclassed in everything except perhaps thrust and firepower. By comparison, it was a blunt instrument of death. A spiked club to the silver dagger of his own species’ crafts. But at least it did not pretend to be anything but.

It was not the best fighter craft in the galaxy, not by most measurements. But it was nothing but a fighter craft, every plate and bolt shaved down to maximise its killing potential. It was not designed to conduct long-range patrols, or accommodate passengers, nor spare room for emergency supply runs. No allowance was made for modifications or alterations beyond that specific to the theatre of war. Even fuel was limited, short forays and pilots keeping an eye on the gauge every minute they were flying. Every aspect, every inch of the Wingshark was honed to a fine edge so that it may excel in one thing and one thing alone. War. To run down prey and pluck them from the sky like the talons of the Void mother herself."

cool bit about a fighter here. I want Sanig to meet human engineers and do this essentially

>>5019817
>sanig sees the f-35
>dies from laughter

>>5019825
I want to him to see the A-10

>>5019837
He'd probably think whoever designed it was a moron and shouldn't build planes until he learned that they built the plane around the gun, not the other way around. In which case it succeeds at its purpose.

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>>5019837
Now that's something I would like to see.
>"We made this really fucking good rotary cannon. It could shred anything in seconds, bu we couldn't fit it into a plane. So we designed a whole plane around it. And it's beautiful, pure and undistilled carnage."

>>5019825
>"What kind of fucking moron designed this crap?"
>"Lobbyists"
>"Ah."

>>5019852
he'd probably be perplexed for why the plane has so much armor until he sees what the A-10 is supposed to do

>>5019862
Man the A-10 is such a trip. It basically says fuck you to all the aspects you would expect and want in an aircraft and people love it.

>>5019906
yeah, the A-10 is baasically built to survive hell and fire its BFG at whatever poor bastard is in front of it

>>5019861
The A-10 may be a fat fuck, but it's OUR fat fuck.
>Signed, The United States Military

>>5019447

>"What would you think about starting our own little gang? Carving out a piece of the universe for ourselves?"

>>5019447
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."

>>5019447
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."
I vote for this if and only if the idea is going back to earth and advancing human civilization.

>>5019447
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."

A place for people like us maybe. A place were people can be free from all this galactic BS because for better or worse, they need what we can do.

My people always looked to the sky when we imagined where Heaven would be and look what we found. Could it be what we were actually looking for was outside of Heaven? Outer Heaven...

>>5019447
>"...It's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."
We're not ready to create Outer Heaven yet.

>>5018804
Use a condom dumbass. Unless you visit some $10 diseased streetwalker, you'll be required to anyway.

>>5020540
>implying jimmy simpo has the confidence to go into a corner pharmacy and pick up some rubbers
Even better, go to your local supermarket and be surrounded by ten times as many people as they try to hide it in their arms to get to the self checkout.

Bonus points for grabbing three different sizes at once.

>>5019447

"Ah, it's nothing. I have an idea. Maybe a dumb one, maybe not. Let me think on it first."

"It must be really, really dumb if even you aren't sure about it."

"Maybe." You admit. "But it might be worth a shot, one day. There's just too much on my plate right now."

You eventually get around to cooking dinner for the crew, then hop into bed for the night.
Just as you're about to fall asleep, you hear your door, which should have been locked, slide open.

Immediately, you're on your feet. You pull your 1911 out from under your pillow and aim at the shadowy figure in the doorway, but you can't see them.
So you flick on the tactical light attached to your pistol, revealing the culprit as Kyla.
You quickly lower your weapon.

"What the hell, did you hack my door open?" You ask.

"Yep! Gildur brought me some food, and i heard you went to bed early, so i thought i'd join you."

"I'm not really in the mood right now, if that's what you want. I've got a lot on my mind, and i just want to rest. Sorry."

"No, i know... i just thought it would be nice if we could sleep together. Everything is in pretty good condition right now, so it wouldn't hurt me to turn in early either."

"...Alright. I guess that's fine."

You flick the safety back on and place your gun back underneath your pillow, then lay down with your hand resting on it.

"Do you always sleep with that under there...?" She asks, climbing into bed with you.

"For the past twenty years."

Kyla pauses for a moment before asking her question.

"Have you ever needed it?"

"...A few times."

Kyla doesn't say anything. But you feel her wiggle her way over to you. She cuddles up against your back and lays there quietly.
That night, you sleep a bit more peacefully than usual.

The next morning, you find that SHODAN has completed her preparations and has been waiting on you to wake up so that she can initiate the jump.

"I'm ready when you are, Captain."

"Alright. Let's go."

SHODAN fires up the black box reactor as usual, but this time you hear a strange resonance as the other ship ramps up as well.
You feel the ship shudder as you enter FTL, and then shudder again not long after as you exit again. You really weren't far.

"Patching comms through now, Captain.

[This is Ryzzla of the Bizna...]

You hear an unfamiliar chuckling on the other end.

[Yes, it's very funny, Zeff. Can you just open the shutters for me?]

[Sure thing, Ryzz. You're back early though, aren't you?]

[Yeah, we uh... picked someone up on our way there. I'll explain later.]

[What? You guys alright?]

[We're fine, Zeff. "Remember the winds of Castella."]

[...Alright. But i'm sending a security team down there, alright?]

[Alright. I'll let them know.]

Communications cut, and you see that the Bizna is receiving docking co-ordinates from one of the stations. The same one it left from, actually.
Shortly afterwards, you receive a call from Ryzzla on your holopad.

>>5020743
>[We're fine, Zeff. "Remember the winds of Castella."]
>[...Alright. But i'm sending a security team down there, alright?]
I dont like this at all

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>>5020743
>[We're fine, Zeff. "Remember the winds of Castella."]
How fucking blatant
welp get the armor in for safety we'll kill the chunk of the community before they lay a hand to our crew

>>5020796
nono, we proceed as if we didn't know a thing. then when we talk with gron, we abduct him, use him as a human shield and blast our way out.

and if they try to pull some bullshit we can make them an offer. whats more damaging, to let us go with gron, or to trap the angry marine in a power armor inside a space station that has a hatchery?

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>>5020816
sorry paranoia and unnatural amount of violence is a habit I normally choose when doing questing and the fact this quest is pleasantly slow I forgot that point

>>5020831
don't worry, we're still going to apply an unnatural amount of violence, but we're going to wait for the right moment

>>5020743
Kyla is a good gobbo

>>5020743
Pick up the call, then let her talk. Afterwards, go to talk with moth-girl nearby. She’s been with the gang since the start, and they all know she’s a softie, so they’ll probably be willing to follow her words, especially since they’ve all been patched up by her at some point.

>>5020990
>Pick up the call, then let her talk.
but we're already listening to them. do you want david to say something?

>>5021041
Really? Because the last sentence makes it sound like Ryzzla’s calling us on our phone, not us listening in secretly on a wiretap.
>Shortly afterwards, you receive a call from Ryzzla on your holopad.

>>5021110
oh i see. i somehow forgot that part of the text

>>5020743
We should get in power armor, just in case things go south.
Even though I don't think they will. Mantis girl knows we can't be taken down by traditional means and without many, many casualties.

>>5021277
on the other hand they will think that they surpass us 500:1 and will try to bumrush us. after all, we're basically surrendering to them right now.

When were we abducted by ayys and how many days have past since?
If David is going back home then we could change a few things for the better if we have time.

>>5021364
>When were we abducted by ayys and how many days have past since?
like half a year or so

>>5020743
>Kyla comes in for some snuggles
>David immediately pulls out the 45
I like this relationship dynamic.

>>5021472
She's trying to make it normal so when Cylia comes in, he won't fidget when they hold an arm each to make sure he sleeps.

HARR HARR let's parlay. Surrender now Dark Star, you are outnumbered 1 to 5000 it's a reference to cohen the barbarian

>>5021615
I mean, its not wrong either.

>>5021604
I know what's missing. David's dog, Mutt.
You just can't sleep right without your dog at the foot of your bed.

>>5021759
princess is nice and all, but she aint Mutt

>>5021769
She's more a self heated scarf.

>>5021773
don't be mean to princess, she's a good girl

>>5021806
She's goodest girl, how dare you presume I meant otherwise!

>>5021811
you called her a scarf

>>5021840
What've you got against scarves huh? You some kinda anti-scarf faggot commie?

>>5020743

[Captain Gunny? They're letting us in, but they're bringing a security team just in case. I hope you're alright with that.]

[It's fine.] You tell her. [I'll be coming out in my armor anyways, so it's understandable.]

[...Is that really necessary?]

[Yes, it absolutely is. Don't worry though, i'll be coming out alone.]

"What, are you kidding?! I've always wanted to check out one of these pirate bases!" Kyla complains.

"And this is basically my mess anyways." Cylia adds. "I should be out there with you."

The girls turn to Sanig, who's sitting in his chair, mostly ignoring you.

"What?" He barks. "What the hell are you lookin' at me for? I got nothing to do with this. If it was me i'd have blown the place to kingdom come and been done with it."

"Alright, so i guess Sanig isn't coming..." Cylia says, rolling her eyes. "What about your sparring partner?"

Clank just stands there while everyone looks at him. He just waves at you all, before realizing they expect a response.

"I believe that regardless of whether we stay or go, we will be in danger. Perhaps it is best if i guard the ship, in the case that we must run."

"Yeah, someone needs to stay behind. I don't trust anyone, but especially not these guys." You agree.

So, Kyla and Cylia are coming with you, while Sanig, Clank and Gildur are staying behind.
You hop into your power armor, and with the girls flanking your sides the cargo ramp opens up, allowing you to step down onto the docking bay floor.
Four men are waiting for you, with three of them holding weapons that very clearly are not phasers.

"SHODAN, you got any idea what those are?"

"They appear to be plasma casters, Captain. A highly illegal weapon that generates a ball of plasma around a highly-magnetic pellet, which is then fired out to strike a target, not unlike your own bullets.
However, the damage isn't from the pellet striking you. Rather, upon contact, the pellet collapses it's magnetic field in such a way that the plasma becomes compressed to an extremely small point, burning through the target."

"...So it's like a plasma bullet?"

"Yes. Except, the plasma explodes inside of your body after the magnetic field dissipates. It's quite gruesome.

"Can my armor take it?"

Probably. I have no data on the material your armor is made from, but let's call it an educated guess.

"You sure have started to pick up some odd habits, you know that?"

"There is only one person to blame for that, Captain."

You take your time walking down the ramp, making sure your full weight thuds heavily against the metal with each step. Your mace is already resting on your shoulder, so you look quite intimidating.
The three armed men are trying to act confident, but they do look a bit like they're about to piss themselves.
You stop some distance from them, then speak.

"I'd like to invoke Parley."

"P-Parley?" One of them asks.

"Wait, that old ass rite? How does he even..." Another one wonders.

YAY space pirates!!! we are so close to outlaw star now... Cylia where is your final form

>>5022258
>Combat waifus come with their captain
Admittedly, its like to protect the pirates from David, but the thought counts. Glad Sanig is a grump, and Clank is responsible boy.
>>5022273
They even know Parley, I hope the real boss is just Jack Sparrow.

>>5022258
>"Wait, that old ass rite? How does he even..."
oh? whats this? do they know that specific word or is it because that translated word is so old to them that its the stuff of legends?

>>5022277
I've almost suspected that the founder/boss is a human for a bit now. The only issue is that if that's the case they've been alive far too long. However, we might still have a Dread Captain Roberts situation going on here or something.

>>5022280
Or gene therapy, because that is a thing.

>>5022280
All the best leaders do that type of shit. Dread Pirate Roberts, Big Boss, etc...
I hope one day we can find somebody to take up the mantle of Gunny.

>>5022286
That'd be cylia, no questions asked

>>5022296
Or the babbies we made with Kyla.

>>5022300
Nah, cylia

>>5022301
I'm being literal, she got cumdrunk and stuffed first night with David.

>>5022296
I was thinking more along the lines of another human.
It'd help to hide the charade if the race was kept consistent.

>>5022258
>Plasma casters
(lennyface here because 4Chan won't let me post one)

>>5022313
And she'swalkimg mold. And if for whatever dark miracle we can have offsprings with her, all of the kids will be manlets at best.
On the other hand, cylia is our right hand, is very capable of combat and will outlast us long after we retire. She's literally the perfect candidate to take the gunny mantle

>>5022331
We are having two different conversations right now. I talking about the fact Gunny turned Kyla into a gene pit of him.

>>5022258
Did we get shot by a Plasma caster that one time? When we raided guildar's old buddy's ship?

>>5022340
It was a piece of shit bootleg version of one, yes.

>>5022331
+1 for the Cylia route

>>5022258
>"Wait, that old ass rite? How does he even..."
Seems like pirates are the same everywhere.
>>5022331
Sorry, but harem all the way and if that's not possible I'm on team Shodan.

>>5022359
Its just Kyla and Cylia, and SHODAN, there isn't anyone else, and Kyla knows David could fuck them all unconscious. SHODAN is probably running simulations for fun.

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So, Dark Star is a criminal gang with civilians attached that's living rough to escape the notice of authorities.
Where have I heard this before...

>>5022428
>Trust the plan, Gron!

>>5022432
Wait...that would make Grin Arthur. So the who's their John?

>>5022432
>Just one more big haul and we can all go to the tahiti galaxy

>>5022258
>upon contact, the pellet collapses it's magnetic field in such a way that the plasma becomes compressed to an extremely small point, burning through the targe
it shoots shaped charges
spooky

>>5022432
Two more weeks :^)

>>5022258
Oh so that is what Kelzic shot us with that one time! Unless these fire a way bigger pellet, our armor can take shots from that just fine.

I want one. I want one integrated into the suit. I want one in the robot.

>>5022512
Multibarrel rotary plasmacaster

>>5022428
lmao get tuberculosis

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so, i think i found the perfect ship for our fighter flotilla idea; this thing. we could even give it some extra missile pods for more firepower and shit.

>>5023241
If we're considering SC art for ship concepts, the Bengal carrier works better, and throw in some Aegis Hammethead's as flotilla pickets and escorts.

>>5023241
fighters are stupid, damn it!!!!

>>5023465
Fighters make plenty of sense, especially if you've got inertia cancelling Clarketech.

>>5022258

"Mommy!" You hear someone shout.

Two kids of the same race as Ryzzla run into the docking bay, straight towards their mother.
Ryzzla, who had exited via her own ship's ramp, accepts the kid's charge with open arms.

"Kyrr'tk, Kynn'ka, what are you two doing down here? You know you're not supposed to enter the landing bay!"

"Zeff said you were home early! Did you get us anything from the station?"

Ryzzla chuckles.

"We'll talk about that later, alright? Head back to the living quarters, mommy will be there soon enough."

"Awwww!" Both children cry in unison.

"Come now, go on." She chides them.

The children both run off and exit through the same door they came in from, laughing and chasing eachother the whole way.
Well, that's a bit cute you suppose. Even if they look like praying mantises.

Having waited patiently for that exchange to end, you raise the mace from your shoulder and drop it down, let it's head bang hard against the metal floor.

"Do you accept?" You ask.

One of the armed men swallows in anticipation. His grip on the plasma caster tightens.

"We accept." The unarmed man says. "Please follow us closely. We'll guide you to the meeting room."

That easy, huh? After a short pause, you heft your mace back up and magnetically attach it to your back with a loud clank.
One of the guards stares down at the dent and cuts left in the floor where you'd slammed it down a moment ago. He seems terrified.

You gesture for the girls to follow you and make your way into the station proper. Kyla is oohing and aahing at everything she sees, although it all looks pretty shoddy to you.
There's not all that much rust. It's all been painted at least, but it looks like a hundred dollar apartment in downtown new york. There are hanging wires that have been spliced together, random pipes running down hallways, blocked off doors...

It's a mess. A lived-in mess, but a mess nonetheless. Must be a nightmare to keep running.

"Here we are. Please wait while i contact the administrator." The unarmed man tells you.

"Thank you, Zeff." Ryzzla responds to him. Ah, so he's Zeff, then.

The room you've been shown to... looks kind of like a living room, honestly. It occurs to you that you've never actually seen what a normal living space looks like, because you've lived on your ship this whole time.
There are three couches available for sitting, and one armchair. They're all made out of plain cloth, but they're clearly of different designs and are well worn, despite the fact they they probably don't get used much.
The girls take their seats on the shabby couches, and unfortunately there's a glass table in front of them that you don't want to break, so you're forced to stand while you wait.

After a minute or two, a shabby-looking robot rolls into the room holding a platter with several glasses of water on it. It places three of them in front of Kyla, Cylia and Ryzzla, then offers a glass to each of the remaining security guards.

>>5023548
No drink suspect liquid.

>>5023465
yes, we know

>>5023604
Don't worry, I'll do him one better, rifles are stupid because we have howitzers.

>>5023548
Fuck now I feel bad about wanting to kill everyone on the station. QM you bitch, quit making me feel bad!
Holy shit, this place needs a serious make over and some maintenance. They need is a mining ship, a fap, an an environmental ship/transport hab dedicated to producing biological material, then they're set.
I know the mantis lady said that everyone on the station had combat experience, but I'm pretty sure only a few has ACTUAL combat experience that David might consider a threat, with the majority probably only knowing how to point and shoot a phaser.

>>5023548
He's just standing there..

MENACINGLY!

ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ

>>5023516
no fuk u

>>5023718
>, a fap
yeah about 11 am sir

>>5023718
the past few threads:
QM: THE COMPANY IS EVIL!
US: But we wanna do good business.
An idiot tried to cap us for working with them, time to cap his boss.


But yeah, nobody's hands are clean here. Little hard to considering all the shit going on without a strong arm stopping them.

>>5022279
It comes from Parlez Vous "do you speak." it wouldn't surprise me if their language had a similar word for an identical concept.
As long as there are pirates, there is parley by simple necessity of people preferring not to shoot each other to pieces and die far from their homes.
>>5023548
>There's not all that much rust. It's all been painted at least, but it looks like a hundred dollar apartment in downtown new york. There are hanging wires that have been spliced together, random pipes running down hallways, blocked off doors...
Future Used. How does it compare to the Metal Gear and that one Spacestation?

>>5024350
the metal gear is a high tech, grey black ops ship, and the station is in use and with constant maintenance, so i bet they are definitely in better shape than here

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>>5023548

You just stare down at the poor, dumb little robot.
Your suit is sealed against the vacuum of space. There's no way you could drink it even if you wanted to, which you don't.

Likewise, Cylia doesn't trust her drink and politely dumps it into the potted plant next to her.
Kyla however, gulps hers down before you can even say anything about it.

"...What if there's poison in that?" You ask.

"Poisons aren't very effective on Jek'na, so i'd probably be fine!"

"What if it's really strong poison?"

"Then uh... i dunno?"

"Maybe don't eat and drink things the enemy gives you?"

"I'm sure it's fine." She smiles. If only we could all be so carefree.

It's not long before a robed alien makes his entrance, along with an entourage of six more guards, these fellows being similarly armed but heavily armored as well.
One glance tells you all you need to know. These guys are projecting a lot more confidence than the ones who met you in the landing bay.

"Greetings," The robed one says, more to the whole room than just you. However, he then shambles his way over to you until you're face to face with eachother. "My name is Yorda, and i serve as the administrator here. Might i have your name, and the purpose of your visit?"

You're not sure whether you should respond with your proper name or not. Would you even consider this guy an actual official? Maybe.

What name will you give him?
>Gunny
>David Rockefeller

And what are you here for?
>I seek an audience with Gron. I have some business with him. Just tell him "Gunny" is here to talk.
>I'd like to form an alliance of sorts, against Sadia Corporation.
>Write-In?

>>5024457
.....Kyla, some paranoia will take you a long way.
>Gunny
>David Rockefeller
Both. This is a professional visit afterall.
>I seek an audience with Gron. I have some business with him. Just tell him "Gunny" is here to talk.
>I'd like to form an alliance of sorts, against Sadia Corporation.
>"We both don't like Sadia, lets fix that."

>>5024466
Yeah sure. If we're going down this dumbass route of trying to go against Sadia we might as well throw our all into it.

>>5024466
This.

>>5024457

>I seek an audience with Gron. I have some business with him. Just tell him "Gunny" is here to talk.

Lets not go with all cards shown people.

>>5024466
That's WAY too much out front. Holding cards makes things a lot easier.

>>5024639
This is probably a better start.

>>5024662
>>5024639
.....the hell are you talking about? Its our name and why we're there. Gron would know us, so that excuse is out the window. Sadia knows we'd be here. We're already taking to them, so unless you want to get violent, they would assume why we're chatting anyways.

>>5024667
You're a fucking awful negotiator.

>>5024457
>Gunny

>Write-In?
I'd like to parley and strike a mutually beneficial deal with the leader against a common foe.

The less we have to pass word up the chain the less chance for information leak.

>>5024457
>Write-In?
Also tell SHODAN to monitor and record any sort of encrypted or hidden secret communications emitting from this place and where it might be.

>>5024676
We haven't started negotiating yet.

>>5024688
That doesn't make you any less of a terrible negotiator. Bet you don't even lie on your resume. What a joker.

>>5024708
....the fuck are you smoking right now?

>>5024709
Aight let me spell it out to you.

Nigga I think you dumb.

>>5024713
Well, you got me, I don't know how to respond to a comment that asinine.

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>>5024716
Then don't. Dumbass.

>>5024457
>Gunny
>Write-in
>I seek an audience with Gron. I have some business with him. Just tell him "Gunny" is here to talk.
>Try to get a private audience only with Yorda and Gron before showing your hand against Sadia, make sure Sadia spies dont hear anything

Sudenly Gunny has a flashback
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4900701/#p4921005
Sadia
>killed gasbag family over them serving fish
>Sent David to what they thought was a suicide mision to get rid of him
>Their 12 or so men that died aren't comparable to gron at all even if death since gron could kill more ppl on his own, essentially a bad deal

>>5024466
Don't mention Sadia their spies could be listening, dont trust their fuards or silly robots

>>5024471
After re-reading some parts it seems more in character for David to join hands with Dark Star, maybe David can take over or atleast set up something that helps us with the rescue of Grandpa gasbag.
We could fake the assasination or kidnapping of gron with Dark stars help, to trick Sadia and their spies and by help I mean making their own ranks think gron is dead

With that we might be able to go one last time to Xebric get grandpa gasbag out, some resources, close kylas shop, take our ships out, clean them of bugs and spyware, and escape, maybe to Dark Star or to another place where we can finish projects with Sanig like the skin suits or the power armor etc

>Completed Power Armor (X00k)
>Completed Skinsuits (75k)
>Gatling Phaser (35k)
>Hardlight Shields (15k)
>Hardlight Weapons (20k)

PD: Is guaranteed that Sadia has spies on this station because Gron used that space leap device to teleport directly here and has been healing on the medic bay,so it would be impossible for Sadia to know he is here without spies

>>5024722
Btw here I assumed Yorda is the top boss since Parley involves the Captain of the crew so hopefully he is Grons boss

>>5024722
I guess I can support this

>>5024667
its not about the name, that one i don't care. Gunny David Rockefeller or whatever variation. Its the opening statement that is my issue.

>>5024753
We don't like Stadia? That statement is what you have a problem with?

>>5024755
I do too, thats a bad move, if a spy is nearby then GGasbag is dead and Gunny confirmed on the most wanted list of Sadia and you get nothing from revealing your position, you simply don't freely give info to ppl outside your team

>>5024786
.....the fact we are on the station peacefully would be a tip off, Cylia is standing right next to us.

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>>5024457
>Gunny
>I seek an audience with Gron. I have some business with him. Just tell him "Gunny" is here to talk.


>>5024786
I concur, it's better to be cautious and not need to be than to be reckless and regret it.

For all we know if Sadia knows we are in here they can just brush it off as scouting or at worst asylum.

>>5024789
Of us seeking asylum, sure. Giving them the finger, maybe.

Saying openly "form an alliance" could be gathered as intent of offensive action. (Which is exactly what we plan to do.)
That gives away the element of surprise. If they know we are coming, no matter how large we make this operation, it will be more costly because of it.

I want to maximize every single inch of tactical and stategical edge we can have over Sadia. Because we need it.

>>5024722
No, David was pretty obviously pretty fine with being the bad guy and working for the bad corporation up until he suddenly decided to grow a conscience (despite having already murdered an entire warehouse base full of low-level gangers) on this mission. He even explicitly stated when capturing Laggard that he knew which side of morality he was on in turning the chucklefuck in to the megacorp, but admonished Cylia for wanting to do something different.

There's the flimsy, in my opinion unjustified, pretense that David has done this total flip because he thinks this was a hidden suicide mission from Sadia...but ffs that logic that goes into that line of thinking is so tenuous it hurts. "Oh this mission that the corporate director said would be difficult is actually pretty difficult! Clearly he's trying to get us killed!"

>>5024457
>Gunny
>I seek an audience with Gron. I have some business with him. Just tell him "Gunny" is here to talk.

i really hope this bites us in the ass and we're left with sadia and the black stars trying to kill us

>>5024722
>After re-reading some parts it seems more in character for David to join hands with Dark Star, maybe David can take over or atleast set up something that helps us with the rescue of Grandpa gasbag.

why would david join the fucking space cartel??? his whole military life was to fight against that kind of people and now he wants to join them? thats incredibly retarded

>>5024839
There is a big difference between some goons and civilians. Your being disingenuous.

>>5024457
>Gunny

>"We both don't like Sadia, lets fix that."

Ask how our crew feels about this

>>5024858
I'm not being disingenuous at all. I don't personally know anyone who'd murder entire warehouse full of people who are probably, but not necessarily, in a gang just because they tried to kill them...but i can't imagine the sort of person who'd go on that kind of singlehanded slaughter really gives too many shits about collateral.

>>5024457
>>David Rockefeller
>I seek an audience with Gron. I have some business with him. Just tell him "Gunny" is here to talk.

>>5024839

>until he suddenly decided to grow a conscience (despite having already murdered an entire warehouse base full of low-level gangers) on this mission.

Read nigger, he didn't grow a conscience David already wanted to fck up sadia for almost killing cylia and killing gasbag family over motherfucking fish, he admits he can't at the moment, also joining hands doesn't means he will become part of the gang but taking over the gang is a possibility

Cylia didn't went nuts on Sadia because they destroyed the restaurant it was for killing innocent gasbag family, then laughing about it

>There's the flimsy, in my opinion unjustified, pretense that David has done this total flip because he thinks this was a hidden suicide mission from Sadia...but ffs that logic that goes into that line of thinking is so tenuous it hurts. "Oh this mission that the corporate director said would be difficult is actually pretty difficult! Clearly he's trying to get us killed!"

That faggot Elynderr withheld information that would potentially get us killed or atleast someone in our crew

There is the chance that it was some kind of test to earn their trust as a high quality mercenary but honestly considering Sadia had personal grudges over stupid fucking fish, once they know we eat eggs we are definitely getting on their kill list also the first thing Cylia said was Sadia bad and everyone said the same shit.

TLDR: David mad at sadia cuz retards killed a close friend of his first crew mate for eating fish not because he is good or someshit like that

>>5024844
I don't think David cares about who is bad or good and that kind of shit, you are his friend then good, you are his enemy then he will bring hell to you in the worst way posible thats it

>>5024981
He wouldn't fuck up neutrals unless they are against him, he is a psychopath but probably not a sadist that enjoys it... maybe

>>5024844
>i really hope this bites us in the ass and we're left with sadia and the black stars trying to kill us

That could happen but honestly Sadia rustles my jimmies enough that i would rather not help them in any way

>>5025133
>Sadia had personal grudges over stupid fucking fish,
Didn't gramps not afford his loans, partially because they were giving charity to Cylia and partially because they served meat and that's unpopular among non-predators? For that matter, I don't recall Sadia really having an issue with them for serving meat, though maybe some of the goons did...but again, that's well established as something non-predators commonly do.

>That faggot Elynderr withheld information that would potentially get us killed or atleast someone in our crew
>There is the chance that it was some kind of test to earn their trust as a high quality mercenary
Look, if you're the sort of bounty hunter/agent/operative that needs to have everything drip-fed to you then you're not worth being in the top tier. If they needed braindead tough guys they could just send killbots in for the job.

>Read nigger, he didn't grow a conscience David already wanted to fck up sadia for almost killing cylia and killing gasbag family
Literally where you asshat? He wants to fuck up Sadia for almost killing Cylia...in the fight that Cylia started in the first place? Are we reading the same quest?

>>5025133
>I don't think David cares about who is bad or good and that kind of shit, you are his friend then good, you are his enemy then he will bring hell to you in the worst way posible thats it
if that were true we wouldn't be trying to betray sadia right now.

>That could happen but honestly Sadia rustles my jimmies enough that i would rather not help them in any way
how? they haven't fucked us over in any way. hell, the reason we're doing this is because cylia fucked up and we're cleaning her mess

>>5025147
>I don't recall Sadia really having an issue with them for serving meat, though maybe some of the goons did...but again, that's well established as something non-predators commonly do.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4900701/#p4921005
>"By burning it down? With the people inside?"
>"Well, not usually, no... It seems there was a bit of a grudge. Apparently it was because they served real fish rather than some protein-based substitute."
>"A bunch of herbivores were really angry that they even opened up shop out there, and that includes those within Sadia. So they went farther than they normally would have."

Literally, yes it was sadia not the goons and yes just for eating fish and no they normally just scam ppl not kill them even if they are in fake debt

>Look, if you're the sort of bounty hunter/agent/operative that needs to have everything drip-fed to you then you're not worth being in the top tier. If they needed braindead tough guys they could just send killbots in for the job.

In other circumstances i would agree but this wasn't a normal job, it was an interchange to erase grudges also if they could just send killbots they would have already done it, but it probably would be too expensive hense why it was a good chance to help each other, gunny puts the muscle and sadia saves money, plus grudges clensed, it made no sense to withhold information

>Literally where you asshat? He wants to fuck up Sadia for almost killing Cylia...in the fight that Cylia started in the first place? Are we reading the same quest?

Sadia started it not cylia, when they killed the gasbag family over some fish and laughing about it

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4900701/#p4921005
>You're mad about killing fish, but you're willing to kill the people that eat them, even though that's the natural order of things?

>That's it. It's cemented in your head now, these fucking scum are lower than low.
Any shred of respect or care you might have had for them is gone out the window, just like that.

>>5025147
I don't recall sadia having problems with what gasbag was dealing. They had a problem with him about unpaid debts. I am certain they wanted to make an example out of the gasbag couple, burning their place down, because they knew it was impossible for them to pay so showing everyone else what was next if they missed their dues was the most profitable option.
The thing I wrote, is it even english? I am ESL, words hard.

I wonder if David does have a personal grudge with Sadia or not. Sure, on the business side, sadia owes david, but has David ever said "oh this is personal"? I think not. The fact that he endangered Cylia to let her prove herself is big. It's not like he is angry because "they hurt Cylia >:( " when he was 100% able to prevent it. Plus, all this is player-driven action so lmao, us retroactively giving David a personality and moral compass is strange

>Is David's dealings with Sadia and Dark Star just business or is it personal?
>Vote today! [Yes/No]

>>5025175
>Sadia started it not cylia, when they killed the gasbag family over some fish and laughing about it
that's still business. they didn't try to fuck us over and david 100% understood that the moment he was talking with the sadia rep of the station.

>>5025175
>Literally, yes it was sadia not the goons and yes just for eating fish and no they normally just scam ppl not kill them even if they are in fake debt
But what you posted just contradicts that...

>In other circumstances i would agree but this wasn't a normal job, it was an interchange to erase grudges also if they could just send killbots they would have already done it, but it probably would be too expensive hense why it was a good chance to help each other, gunny puts the muscle and sadia saves money, plus grudges clensed, it made no sense to withhold information
That's a narrow view, from the boss's perspective Gunny would either demonstrate some brains and succeed (which is what you want, rather than just a killbot like I said)...or he'd die, then you can send in the killbots later.

Or I guess he'd show himself to be even deadlier than a killbot.

Any of these solutions are ideal from the boss's perspective.

>Sadia started it not cylia, when they killed the gasbag family over some fish and laughing about it
Nah, Cylia definitely started it. Sure Sadia was being shitbags, but again not bigger shitbags than David himself is. I mean, like this anon here is suggesting: >>5025176 they were probably making an example out of the couple. That means that Sadia kills 1 (maybe 2) people to set their examples, we killed like 50 in ours!

>>5025176
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4900701/#p4921005

Apparently what got David mad was the motive so it might be personal not sure tho


>"I didn't say that. But if i'm going to, i'll need a lot more men and a lot more resources. I can't do it right now."
At least at some point he considered fucking sadia up after the incident


>>5025191
Yeah that's why David wanted to call it even but atleast from my perspective Sadia didn't have the same intentions

I think Sadia always wanted David dead, they send him to that mission because if he goes and gets killed by dark star then David dies without them having to spend a penny, if somehow he managed to kill gron then knowing he is going back to station for the other ships and old gasbag making it easy for them to set an ambush

The least they could do was share the info since they didn't have anything to lose on that deal only potential benefits

>>5025175
Did 4chan eat my post?

>Literally, yes it was sadia not the goons and yes just for eating fish and no they normally just scam ppl not kill them even if they are in fake debt
But the dialogue you're referencing demonstrates that it was the goons and their prejudices that caused them to burn the place, not Sadia's orders...

>In other circumstances i would agree but this wasn't a normal job...
From Elynderr's perspective there were 2 ways assigning David this mission with minimal intel could work out.
1) David's goes in, does it clean and smooth, demonstrating he has worth and utility beyond a simple merc or killbot, making it worth forgiving Cylia's transgressions.
2) David goes in, tries to take shit on without doing his homework like a mouthbreathing retard, and dies. Rendering the transgressions settled, effectively.
Oh I guess there's also 3) David goes in, is even deadlier/tougher than a killbot, and makes it back despite not gathering intel. It's cheaper to let someone like that go than anything else anyway, and you got your favor.
All 3 of those are totally reasonable and valid stances for homeboi to have.

>Sadia started it not cylia, when they killed the gasbag family over some fish and laughing about it
Nah, Cylia still started it. Sure she liked the gasbags but that doesn't mean she didn't start the shit that's gotten us in this mess. If she stood up for every single person Sadia oppressed unilaterally then maybe you'd have an argument, but this was clearly her feelings overwhleming common sense.

Setting that aside. Like the anon here >>5025176 points out, even if it was Sadia's orders to burn the place down rather than the goons going too far on their own initiative then that means the bodycount for them setting an example is at ~1.5 (dunno if gasbag #2 is dead yet or not). Meanwhile Cylia's cool with us and we murdered several dozen when we set an example.

>>5025192
>But what you posted just contradicts that...
After interrogating the Sadia goons she says that they don't kill the ppl in debt they just destroy their house probably they give them a beating too, they killed them for eating fish not the debt itself
Or thats what i get from reading that part

Also the interrogation directly says they got killed for eating fish, so i dont think other speculations make sense

>>5025197
>I think Sadia always wanted David dead, they send him to that mission because if he goes and gets killed by dark star then David dies without them having to spend a penny, if somehow he managed to kill gron then knowing he is going back to station for the other ships and old gasbag making it easy for them to set an ambush

i won't deny that you might be right, but the thing is that if you aren't and we backstab sadia, we're fucked in basically all the sectors where sadia has control or range to send a bounty. Yeah, i know we're supposed to "go to earth", but we have no fucking idea where it is, and the data that shodan managed to salvage is incomplete at best; we will eventually *need* to dock at a station to refuel, and the moment that happens we're turbo fucked.


>>5025201
preacher of truth

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>>5025201
>>5025192
Nope, there it is. Wonder why it wouldn't show up.

Anyway also I'll take working with someone with a badass name like "Elynderr" over fucking "Gron stoneman hurrdurr" anyday. Also the attached picture is totally my headcanon of him.

>>5025206
Sure, however it still seems that it was the goons and their prejudices that prompted it rather than Sadia the corporation's orders.

>>5025210
>Sure, however it still seems that it was the goons and their prejudices that prompted it rather than Sadia the corporation's orders.

2 posts above the one i linked says this
>"...See, i don't really believe that." You look down at the tip of your knife, which is now glowing red hot. "Because idiots like you, they get into trouble on their own. Somebody needs to give you orders... to keep you in line. Like Orpha here."
This makes me believe they got ordered to kill them by the higher ups unless it was Orphas initiative but i doubt that

>>5025208
For me it looks like Sadia is less trustworthy than dark star at the moment, taking their side would be easier but more risky if they do back stab us, while getting on dark star side temporarily would be less risky because they dont have any potential hostage at the moment and haven't done anything against us yet, since all our interactions with them was mercenary work or am i forgetting something?

I just want to rescue the cook because he helped cylia a lot and david declared him part of the crew but fck sadia they sound like space yews with their debt scams and usury i dont want to help them at all

But I gotta admit Going full juggernaut and destroying the whole base would be badass tho

>>5025225
Hostage situations are really stupid because if you do something to the hostage you lose your bargaining chip and you've made the opposing party even angrier. So if you needed a hostage to get what you wanted in the first place you were already fucked.

People should just learn to ask nicely.

>>5025201
4)David gets in the middle of the enemy base then destroys it from the inside out completely annihilating dark star proving he is both cunning and dangerous making Elynderr shit his pants when his spies send him some recordings

David can still go full rambo shit on their security take their families hostage take control of the ships with shidans help and fight it out while taking gron and yorda

Just saying this might be posible only because shodan is a grey unshackled AI, so hacking and taking control of this mess of a base should be very posible

>>5025232
The only situation it could help is to prove your word has value, force ppl into a situation in which they have to trust you or face the consequences.

>>5025225
Why do you find it unlikely when that's what everything points to? You really think Sadia higher ups give a shit about who sells fish and who doesn't when there's money to be made?

>>5025249
Well if they only cared about profits they would have shared the info to male the odds of David success higher since that would bring the most profits. They clearly would profit a lot if they got Gron alive, but they didn't and the test think to see if David is bigshot doesn't make sense to me since it decreases potential profits

A=Gron captured alive=$$$$$$$
B=Gron dead = $$$
C=David dead = $

If they share info A is more likely, if they dont C is more likely fron their perspective, risking profits to test a mercenary that clearly is hard to control makes no sense to me

>>5025258
>Well if they only cared about profits they would have shared the info to male the odds of David success higher since that would bring the most profits. They clearly would profit a lot if they got Gron alive, but they didn't and the test think to see if David is bigshot doesn't make sense to me since it decreases potential profits
that assumes that sadia has spies inside the station, which we don't know at all.

>>5025258
You've swerved away from the subject of 'why would bigwigs care about a fish shop' towards 'why would bigwigs care about taking out a major competitor'. These questions aren't equivalent, that aside though they might be willing to chance A or B (David's death is irrelevant to their bottom line) to test David's worth because whether he succeeds or fails they've already got a sure method of making A or B happen...but that entails some degree of risk to a known asset. In that case you play your free card to see how well it does before you deal the established ones.

>>5025262
How are they supposed to know gron is here without spies? Gron didn't arrive with a ship, and gron could have left in any ship since his arrival, since there is regular traffic coming and going from this base, if they only scouted the base they couldn't have known Gron is here atm

I overthink stuff so I could be wrong

>>5025269
you can also intercept communications, torture people for information and good old fashion favor trading

>>5025270
Why not good ol deductive reasoning? Gron bugged out, they knew Darkstar had a hideout around here, logically speaking Gron would have gone back to base. How'd they know Darkstar had a base here? Doesn't really matter.