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>>5163867
Your name is David "Gunny" Rockefeller, no relation.
A veteran of the united states marine corps, you find yourself in a far-out situation after an all-too-close encounter of the third kind!

In the last thread, you dealt with a worm-faced bastard who was truly lower than dirt. In the meanwhile, your crewmember Clank was having his own little adventure.
After having dinner with a couple of big, colorful women, Gron has called you up asking for help, and you're more than happy to oblige.

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"Oh, Gron. You take me to the most wonderful places..."

"I understand if you are unwilling, Captain. But-"

"No, i'm definitely in. Just tell me when and where, i'll be right beside you."

"Very well. I will transmit the hive's suspected co-ordinates shortly."

You feel the ship lurch suddenly, and not a moment later you hear sonicators cutting through your hull on the far end of the ship.

"Shit! What was that?!" You blurt.

"Oh! id's here!" Kyla exclaims, pulling her head out of the sink and talking as if she's got a mouthful of food.

"What? What's here?!"

"De cargo bay we ordered back on Xebwic! I had id shibbed here as soon as we awwived. Discweetly, of course... sdwapped to da back of a junker. But dey didn't steal id, so id's all good!"

"Is there a problem, Captain?" Gron asks.

"Er, no. I guess not. Looks like we're getting some long-needed repairs done. Nothing to worry about."

"Good. Your ship will need to be in top condition, as there may be a lot of fighting. However, i've seen the upgrades being performed on your vessel... i'm sure whatever they are, they're quite formidable."

"Oh, right... the missile racks, radar and autocannon. Yeah, thank fuck, i've finally got some gear i can rely on."

"The hardlights are basically finished, too." Sanig speaks up. "That explosive-lobbing toy of yours is so simple it didn't even require any R&D, but the "handheld" cannon had issues with gumming up in vacuum, until we switched to graphite lubricant like you suggested. It should be ready to go."

"That's good news. I feel a lot more prepared to take on Xebric, no less a bunch of pirates."

"I have no idea what you just said, but i'm certain you'll be a reliable ally. Good fortune to you, Captain."

With that, Gron hangs up. Kyla comes back over, swollen tongue lolling out like a dog panting under the sun. She rubs and pokes at it with her finger.

"Uh... you gonna be alright there, Ky?" You ask.

"Yah, jusd swollen. Acid bad."

"Sorry. Seriously, sorry. I'll definitely keep it in mind in the future."

"No pwoblem! I'm not mad!"

"Come on girl." Sanig demands. "Let's go to the medbay, and i'll get you some anti-inflammatory shots and painkillers."

Kyla gives a grin and two thumbs up instead of speaking.
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>>5165346

So, how do you want to spend the next few hours before heading out to deal with some pirates?

>Spend some time sparring with a partner (Who? Write-in.)
>Make sure you're topped up on fuel and supplies. You never know what might happen.
>Just rest, relax, maybe browse the web. You've been going pretty hard lately.
>Rest is for the weak and the dead. Get in some extra training time. You've been meaning to try out training in high gravity for a while...

And what will you do with the Oni twins?
>Those two are workers at the underground arena, and people will notice if they go missing. Not only that, Clank still has a match today. Best to leave him on the station, and let him take care of them.
>Fuck it, who cares about that retard Denywynn? You barely got any return on your bets anyways. Just leave the girls on the ship, they'll wake up on their own eventually.
>Write-in nothing lewd
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>>5165350
>Spend some time sparring with a partner
The Oni sisters, duh
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>>5165350
>Make sure you're topped up on fuel and supplies. You never know what might happen.
>Those two are workers at the underground arena, and people will notice if they go missing. Not only that, Clank still has a match today. Best to leave him on the station, and let him take care of them.
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>>5165350
>>Spend some time sparring with a partner (Who? Write-in.)
cylia of course

>Those two are workers at the underground arena, and people will notice if they go missing. Not only that, Clank still has a match today. Best to leave him on the station, and let him take care of them.
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>>5165350
>>Spend some time sparring with a partner (Who? Write-in.)
It'll give us a good measure of them before we head out.

>Those two are workers at the underground arena, and people will notice if they go missing. Not only that, Clank still has a match today. Best to leave him on the station, and let him take care of them.
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>>5165350
Spar with Onis since we might not see them again, and they look like they know how to fight.

>Fuck it, who cares about that retard Denywynn? You barely got any return on your bets anyways. Just leave the girls on the ship, they'll wake up on their own eventually.
>Write-in
Did we manage to add some extra rubber and insulation protection for "Clark"?
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>>5165391
Clank is already about as insulated as he can get. His entire outer skin is silicone rubber, backed with skinsuit material which is resistant against HV electricity.
Clank is just concerned, because getting electrocuted is basically his worst nightmare.
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>>5165350
>>Spend some time sparring with a partner (Who? Write-in.)
Spar with Cylia

>Fuck it, who cares about that retard Denywynn? You barely got any return on your bets anyways. Just leave the girls on the ship, they'll wake up on their own eventually.
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>>5165350
Leave Clank and the onis on the station. Try to wake them up first so they know what's happening.
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>>5165346
I love that new thread smell.
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>>5165350
>Spend some time sparring with a partner (Cylia)
>Those two are workers at the underground arena, and people will notice if they go missing. Not only that, Clank still has a match today. Best to leave him on the station, and let him take care of them.
They can say thank you later
>Have him take pics of their silly faces in their sleep, we can prank them later
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>>5165350
>Make sure you're topped up on fuel and supplies. You never know what might happen.
>Those two are workers at the underground arena, and people will notice if they go missing. Not only that, Clank still has a match today. Best to leave him on the station, and let him take care of them.
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>>5165350
>>Spend some time sparring with a partner (Who? Write-in.)
Cylia
Fuck it, who cares about that retard Denywynn? You barely got any return on your bets anyways. Just leave the girls on the ship, they'll wake up on their own eventually.
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>>5165641
anon, that's kidnapping
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Just wanted to say that we need to tell Sanig about Insulin if he doesn't know already because his pancreas doesn't work right

>Just rest, relax, maybe browse the web. You've been going pretty hard lately.
Find space 4-chan and greentext about being kidnapped by grays
>Those two are workers at the underground arena, and people will notice if they go missing. Not only that, Clank still has a match today. Best to leave him on the station, and let him take care of them.
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>>5165350
>>Those two are workers at the underground arena, and people will notice if they go missing. Not only that, Clank still has a match today. Best to leave him on the station, and let him take care of them.
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>>5165709
forgot to link>>5165350
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>>5165350
>>Just rest, relax, maybe browse the web. You've been going pretty hard lately.
Just relaaax, turn on the radio. We got am and FM

>Fuck it, who cares about that retard Denywynn? You barely got any return on your bets anyways. Just leave the girls on the ship, they'll wake up on their own eventually.

Screw this dumb arm wrestling timesink, Clank is coming with us. And the girls, I don't care. Gluttony is a sin and them being a no-show for the end of the tournament is their fault "b-but I didn't knew stuffing my chompers with meat was a bad ideaaa"
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>>5165798
>gluttony is a sin
And kidnapping is a crime.
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>>5165709
Support
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>>5165350
Wake the Onis up with a sparring match before they have to go babysit the arm wrestling fags.
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>>5165346

You go over a mental checklist of things you'll need. Life support... all good. You've got enough food for about two weeks, if you include the nutrient paste dispenser.
Fuel is good. You're on about 80%, so it shouldn't be an issue. There are plenty of basic materials in store for repairs as well. The ship is basically packed to the gills, but since your second cargo bay is here it's not an issue.

Your guns and ammo are all in pristine condition. You've even taken the time to clean up and improve their designs, print out some accessories and condition them for use in-vacuum.
The missile racks are full, as are the ammo cans for the ship's rotary autocannon and your own personal "peacemaker" cannon. You also have a box full of various 40mm grenades, including white phosphorus and high explosive sitting in your bedroom.

Your crew is in good shape... mostly. You feel bad about Kyla's tongue, although you didn't know she'd have that kind of reaction.
Your only real problem is those two girls that clank brought over. They haven't woken up yet, and clank still has a few matches to attend. You honestly aren't happy with the returns you've gotten so far, but that might change on the last bet.

You open up your holopad to and phone him up.

["Clank, where are you?"]

["Greetings, captain. I am currently assisting with the repair of our secondary cargo bay."]

["Alright. Good work, Clank. But i'm calling to let you know, we're going to be heading out on a mission shortly. You still have your duties here on the station, and these women you brought along are going to be in your care until they wake up. Is that understood?"]

["Of course, captain. I will ensure that no harm or undue distress befalls them. You have my word."]

["Good man. And don't forget to bring home the bacon at that tournament, alright?"]

["I will do my best, captain."]

["That's all i can ask of anyone."]

Alright, so that's taken care of. Clank should have them off the ship shortly before they leave, assuming they don't wake up before then.
You're about as prepared as you can be, but you just... ah, damn it. You always get like this before a job. You need to work off some stress by training.

No matter how bad things get, your training is always there to support you. This body you've built, the information you've collected and the martial arts you've mastered have kept you alive for a long time. You feel like you owe it to them to keep it up.

"Cyl."

Cylia looks up from her holopad with a mouthful of toast.

"As soon as you're done eating, meet me in the cargo bay. We need to spar for a while."

She gulps down her toast as the unfocused look on her face turns to worry.

"Uh... is something wrong?" She asks.

"Yes and no. There's nothing to worry about, we just need to get it done. Don't eat too much, you'll get sick."

Cylia already looks sick as she slowly puts her toast back down and takes a long sip of milk.
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>>5166560
cute... isn't "gulp" the word for a long sip?
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>>5166658
Yes.
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>>5166560
>cylia after hearing david's request
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>>5166658
>>5166659
Nah technically the gulp is the swallow. A long sip is more like the obnoxious extended slurping people do with their tea to interrupt people and sound like assholes. But without the noise. Probably.
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>>5166658
It can also mean just swallowing a large amount of anything.
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>>5166708
So she wants attention thus is annoying as fuck. That's a cat alright
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>>5166756
less attention and more "oh fuck, not again". its like groaning when you don't want to do something but have to.
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>>5166781
I doubt david is pent up this time
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>>5166948
Until she decides grappling practice is a great time to show off how flexible she is and wrap around him like a scarf.

She'll make a move eventually. It'll totally happen cyliafags. btfo by a shroom gremlin lmao
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>>5166716
Kyla gulps David a lot.
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It's the smell anons. Remember how she reacted last spar? Dave doesn't smell unpleasant to her, just "strong"
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>>5166716
BREED THE CAT
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>>5167183
....yes, and? She needs to go into Heat early to compete with Kyla, more power too her, Kyla can enjoy the show or tease her.
>>5167188
Exactly.
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>>5167190
she can compete with kyla right now. she just doesn't want to grab the goblin and punt her out of the spaceship
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>>5167293
Easier solution. Display dominance by planting her heel on David's shoulder, and do the splits on him. While standing.
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>>5167390
But bro what if the ceiling is too low and she kicks it?
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>>5167487
Then David is even closer, then she just wraps her legs around whatever part she can reach.
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>>5167515
??? But she's already standing on his shoulder doing a vertical split, how can you wrap your legs around someone when you're performing a maneuver that requires full extension of the legs?

My man I think you need to lay off the sauce.
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Cyliafags still think they have a chance against tight shroom gobbo pussy. How amusing.
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>>5166560

Your body is already warm, even before you make your way to the cargo bay some time later.
Cylia makes her appearance five minutes after you, looking like she's walking to her death.

"So... what are we doing, exactly?" She asks.

"...SHODAN. Double the gravity in here."

"Wha-?"

"Affirmative, captain."

You feel your own entire bodyweight slam into you as your weight doubles. The great thing about it though, is that it's evenly distributed. It's not the same as wearing weights, which cause a lot of undue strain.
That doesn't seem to matter much for Cylia though, as the increase in gravity knocks her to her hands and knees.

Or rather, she's knocked to one knee... and manages to stand again, albeit slowly.

"W-Why? So heavy..." She groans.

"Take up your stance and repeat after me." You order. "Take it slow, you don't want to pull something."

She does as she's told, and one by one you take her through various stretching exercises.
After that, you move on to footwork. You teach her how to move her legs and where to place her feet for maximum punching power in a one-on-one brawl.
Next you work on ducking and weaving. You teach her how to move her head and upper body to keep from being struck, and how to throw her neck to lessen a blow she can't slip.
Then you grab a double-end bag out of a nearby crate and attach it to it's frame. You show her how to strike at it, teaching her a few simple combos and emphasizing how important accuracy is.

Within half an hour, she's already exhausted. By the end of the hour, she's practically dead. Cylia's stamina and accuracy are great, but she just has no stamina whatsoever.
That's true of most races, you've discovered. Even amongst other apex predators, there's nothing that comes close to you as far as stamina. They're more like cheetahs, only able to product short bursts of power before exhausting themselves.

"You did good, Cyl. Meet me back here tomorrow, same time. We'll do it again."

"N-no way... you're insane... hah... haha..."

Her heaving breaths slowly turn into manic chuckles as she rolls off her back and struggles up to her feet, limping shakily out of the cargo bay.
As soon as Cylia leaves, the door automatically closes behind her.

You haven't gotten nearly as much done as you'd wanted. You didn't even get to actually spar with her before she was completely exhausted.
Taking the double-end bag down, you put up a heavy bag in it's place, hefting it up and hooking onto the heavy-duty, multi-purpose frame you'd welded up.

"SHODAN... three times, please."

"Affirmative, captain."

The heavy frame sags slightly as you feel your weight increase even further, and the heavy bag's along with it.
Tapping your bare fist against it, you can feel that the grains of sand inside have compacted, and it's almost like a rock at this point.

Good. That's exactly what you want.
You slip on your powder-infused knuckle gloves and give the bag a solid one-two. It barely moves.
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>>5168040
Roll me 1d100, best of 3.
Higher is better, but there is no failure here.
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Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>5168041
Alright boss.
Check these digits.
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Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>5168041
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Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>5168041
WATAH
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>>5168048
>>5168049
Guess no Bruce Lee bullshit...yet.
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Rolled 91 + 1 (1d100 + 1)

>>5168052
Hey man its okay. This is David's first time testing the waters at 3x gravity. Things will get better with practice.

>>5168041
Yal forgot the +1 strength.
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>>5168095
....why didn't you roll sooner
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>>5168095
Bro
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>>5168095
The roll called for unmodified. You have no power here, latenon the gay.
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>>5168095
Read em and weep boys.
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>>5168101
Rolling sooner wouldnt had matter. It's all rng.

>>5168102
I know I know

>>5168103
Or maybe the QM is doing the big gay for forgetting the +1 strength mod. Technically this is strength related, as this is David working his BIG MAN STRONK ARMS on a heavy bag, at three times the gravity. You need to be a S T O N K boy to be able to work in that condition.
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>>5168108
But this is also training. There is no DC for training. It's all about pushing yourself not beating some arbitrary obstacle.
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>>5168126
y-yeah but this is space training
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>>5168144
Every training is space training. Everything's in space.
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>>5168205
¿¿¿¡¡¡¡!!!!!???
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>>5168284
Damn straight. Every day is space day for David.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jynTNYSKNuk
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>>5168205
>>5168292
Fun Fact! At the time this quest takes place, MGR:R is out!
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>>5168360
it is!? Damn... I wish I had the time and resources to play those games. Sad... I wish I had that stuff when I was a child
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>>5168369
it's like 20 bucks IIRC, and it ran on the ps3 so you should be good to go.
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>>5168369
>Cylia: I don't get it, there's like robots and stuff. And he's using a sword against them? That just doesn't work physically. It's not long enough!
>David: HE SUPLEXED A FUCKING METAL GEAR YEAAAAAA
>Kyla: Oooh robot buddies with detachable limbs!
>Gildur: This is very violent...
>Sanig: Giant death machines eh? I remember when I drew my first schematics.
>SHODAN: Nanomachines. Hm.
>Clank: Yes I am my own master now, too. Thank you philosophically inclined canid mechanoid.

Hey if you got a steam account you can pick it up for cheap. If it's a matter of time I can't really help you there. Currently the only time machine I got is the meatsuit I'm wearing. And sadly it only goes forwards.
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>>5168434
>he hasn't unlocked time manipulation
Absolutely disgusting
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>>5168439
Fuck off Vivec you dopey cunt the Nereveraine has the real CHIM hours. Wimpass god can't even get his own divinity without fucking over his buddies. Shiiiieeeeeeet.
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>>5168439
Fuck off you traitor, all the bullshit that befell morrowind was your fault

>>5168449
Based
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>>5168434
>>5168429
My battlestation is a laptop. It claims to have a 940mx but I have my doubts. I do play an extremely based game called x-com files, a well known (for like 100 people) mod of the OG ufo defense, 1993
https://github.com/SolariusScorch/XComFiles

Give it a look. even with this game, the frames drop on my computer when there are tall buildings
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>>5168439
>Does CHIM
>uses it to get boypregnant. fagpreggers
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>>5168434
On that note, I wonder if we have the resources to make a bootleg high-frequency blade.
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>>5168574
We have too, we should ask Sanig about it.
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>>5168574
>>5168587
The real question is what form it should take.

The merits and detriments of it being a katana
>Even better at cutting
>Can make weeby references
>Isn't Euro/american
>Difference in cutting power is negligible

The merits and detriments of it being some form of euro blade
>better at stabbing and as such better against armored targets
>probably easier to use one handed
>isn't Japanese
>difference in piercing power is negligible
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>>5168619
It really all depends on what David is most comfortable with...so maybe an HF machete?
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>>5168650
>not embracing the knoife so you can go full Turok once you get stranded on a planet covered in dinosaurs
Disappointed.
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>>5168664
Somehow I imagine David is the only kid to ever actually read the Turok comics.
Because of course he'd read the comic about an Indian fighting Dinosaurs and shit.
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>>5168619
The katana is dogshit, its a glorified bastardsword sized razor. Pic related would be more reliable in every metric.
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>>5168650
I could see that
>>5168664
>>5168672
....have we told anyone about dinosaurs yet?
>Knoigf appreciator
based
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>>5168692
>>5168619
Wee have a Maul that can turn anything into bloody mist. We're good for now.
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>>5168695
It is a good mace...
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>>5168697
It is. One hit from that will kill you, the door you fly through, and the person hiding behind the door. Now imagine that but with power armor.
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>>5168694
>"You really expect me to believe your planet has giant reptiles with razor sharp teeth running around?"
>"Well yeah, or at least it did until the planet got hit with a massive meteor and killed 'em all."
>"Oh, they conveniently went extinct, so now you don't have to show any proof. Nice try David."
>"Alright. SHODAN, DISPLAY THE GIGANTOSAURUS!"
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>>5168695
Yeah, fair. Still, no reason not to discuss the potential of out current resources.
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>>5168705
We can install a slot in the head of our maul to include a small liquid explosive.
>load maul, swing at someone, not they're dying and covered in napalm.
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>>5168707
Like so?
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>>5168710
>>5168710
pretty much.
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>>5168704
>tfw you have to describe a quetzalcoatalus without ayyys thinking you're about to say slyvern
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We must show them Peter jackson's King Kong.
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>>5168040

"Yeah, Gron wouldn't drop from a punch like that either..." You mumble.

You let out a long hiss of air as your shoulders drop and your stance loosens along with your muscles.
The room is nearly silent as you stare the bag down, focusing on it intently. You feel your muscles fill with energy as you prepare yourself to strike.

"Captain, your heartrate is slowing rapidly. Are you alright?"

"I'm fine."

Your focus reaches it's peak as you imagine Gron's torso in place of the heavy sandbag in front of you. You remember the toughness of his skin, the way his flesh refused to give when you struck him.
And then you rush forwards, ducking down under an imaginary grapple to lay a left hook into his ribs. The metal frame skids across the floor slightly as the bag is knocked aside, leaving a dent in it's side.

You twist at the hip, pushing off with your foot to apply even more power as you lay into the bag with a right straight. The whole frame jumps as the bag is lifted into the air momentarily, and you take the opportunity to slip around to it's side.
You hear a loud BANG as the frame the bag is hanging from smacks into the ground again, and that's when you turn to deliver a harsh backwards elbow into it's "side".
Building your momentum back up, you finish turning and deliver a right hook into the bag's "temple".

The bag rocks about violently in every direction as you strike it here and there, with absolutely excessive force.
Every blow delivers all of your strength and bodyweight with bone-crushing force.

And then the chain holding the bag snaps, causing it to slam into the sheet metal floor. It leaves a large dent where it landed, bending the tiles upwards around their exposed edges.
You pant in exhaustion from the relatively short exercise. It feels like your knuckles are all scuffed up, despite wearing protective gloves.

"Is it really necessary to punch actual sand and rocks? You could just as easily have filled it with rubber balls or cloth."

"You know the answer to that... SHODAN..." You pant.

You spend some time resting and recovering, which is a bit more difficult in this high gravity. Even breathing becomes a chore when you weigh seven hundred and fifty pounds, give or take.
After sitting around for about five minutes, you hear a bang as something hits the floor, followed by a loud groan.

"What the...? Ah, shit! The girls!"

You completely forgot they were still sleeping in here, specifically. Clank must have dragged their cots out of the way while he was working on the kitchen door last night.
Rushing over, you find them both tucked behind some crates, still in their cots... or well...

It seems like Ourg's cot actually collapsed under her weight, and she's currently writhing around on the floor.

"Shit! Sorry about that, are you alright?" You ask, offering your hand to help her up."

"Guh..!" She gasps. "Gravity..! The gravity..!"
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>>5168943
>weird creepo leads you to his ship
>his boss knocks you out and chains you up
>then he feeds you
>it knocks you unconscious
>you wake up struggling to breathe let alone move
It's like the ultimate waterslide of razorblades and lemon juice goddamn. They just can't get a break kek
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>>5168943
Fuck my sides these girls are getting the David exclusive. Was the 3x gravity exclusive to this portion of the ship or all around?
Lmao I cant believe the misfortune that these girls are having by being in 3x gravity.
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>>5168956
>You have to eat all the dodo eggs
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>>5168943
Well, they know Clank wasn't full of shit when he called us a freak.
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>>5168697
amirite? Why do we need a cutting sword that weights nothing when we can have kilos and kilos of a huge mace
>m-muh superior speed
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>>5169243
I just like the idea of the aliens see our giant human ass blitz past them swinging, then before they realize it they're in pieces before they realize what happened.
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At this point, I say we should pay a visit to those space monks Clank heard about, and also investigate about aliens and their cultures.

I want to imagine there's space knights that aren't zealous bastards that can show us how to use our weapons (like the maces, swords and shit) plus other old-as-shit weapons they made before unlocking lighyear space travel, and also aliens fight techniques
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>>5169280
That same logic can be applied with the mace if swung hard and fast enough. That mace pretty much has the bloody mess perk tact onto it from the start, so anything David hits with it will be dead before it realizes somethings wrong. Better yet if the corpses he hit fragments into shotgun bone shells into another guy.

>>5169283
Agreed if we have enough time on this station. Perhaps we can grab their numbers, so if we ever want to come back to this station, or if they ever migrate to xebric we can have a chat.
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>>5169243
You need multiple forms of damage just in case you come across a space worm that has damage resistance 20/slashing, piercing

Simple bruh.
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>>5169318
bruh
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>>5169318
It's a good thing we have a maul, which deals blundeoning and tearing damage.
We also have GUN.
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>>5169343
>tfw if you use ball ammo it gets ruled to be using bludgeoning damage because round objects don't pierce things according to the braindead DM
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>>5169438
anything can do piercing damage if it goes fast enough
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>>5169438
So...technically speaking, he's not wrong.
Just make conical bullets.
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>>5168943

"SHODAN! Hurry!" You order.

The gravity rapidly decreases, as opposed to it's usual slow ramp-up and ramp-down. This causes the ship to jutter slightly as the weight of everything inside the cargo bay changes.
You're left feeling light as a feather, as if you could jump up and just float away. In Ourg's case, her breathing immediately eases, but she does still struggle a bit.

"Are you alright, miss? Did that fall knock the wind out of you?" You ask.

She faces her palm towards you, urging you to stop asking questions for a moment. But she does nod in affirmation.
It takes her a moment to get her wind back.

"What... the hell... was that?!" She demands.

"The gravity, i assume?"

"Yes! That was like, six or seven times standard! Even in the arena it won't go half that high!"

"I'm sorry. I was training, and forgot you two were sleeping in here..."

"Sleeping...? Wait, what are we doing here? Did you... did you drug us?!"

"Eh, in a manner of speaking."

Ourg reflexively takes a half-step away from you, and her expression hardens.

"Calm down, miss. You just fell asleep because you ate too much meat. Happens all the time on earth."

"Meat..? How can you fall asleep from eating meat?" She asks, still wary of you.

"Some meats contain precursor chemicals that get turned into serotonin when broken down in your stomach. You eat too much, it relaxes you and makes you sleepy. You two have been out for over half a day already."

Ourg looks over to her sister, who's still sleeping in her cot. She looks much more comfortable now, and the grimace on her face has turned back to a faint grin.

"I'm... not sure if i believe that." Ourg admits. "But we've never had that much to eat before, so i can't say it's impossible. I guess."

She tries to stand, but her legs fold underneath her. She grimaces and rubs them roughly, as if they're causing her pain.

"What's wrong? Are your legs injured?"

"No, i just... gah, it feels like all the blood in my body has pooled into my limbs. How high was that gravity, anyways?"

"Three gees."

Ourg pauses to look at you as the information translates and sinks in, looking dumbfounded.

"Seriously? It... you actually were training in six times standard gravity?"

"Yeah. You gotta keep moving, or like you said, your blood starts to pool. It can cause you to have a heart attack, if you're not careful."

"That's insane! Even for me! I mean, gravity training is nothing new, but that much?! 0.7 or 0.8 is plenty, don't you think?"

"Not at all. My homeworld is one gee, so anything less causes my bones to grow brittle and weak. I need to keep up my training so my health doesn't decline."

"Okay... but even then, one gee is a world apart from three gees. Why go so far? Aren't you just going to hurt yourself like that?"


>"That's my own business. Sorry."
>"You'd probably think i was crazy even if i told you."
>"You really want to know? Alright, i suppose it won't hurt..."
>Write-in?
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>>5170408
>Write-in?
>im following the path of the great warrior son goku
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>>5170408
>"You really want to know? Alright, i suppose it won't hurt..."
>"Besides, what doesn't kill you only makes ME stronger.
This gonna be fun.
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>>5170408
>>5170412
this too>>5170411
I wanna be, the very best, like no one ever was
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>>5170408
>"You really want to know? Alright, i suppose it won't hurt..."
>im following the path of the great warrior son goku
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>>5170408
>"I'm following the path of the great warrior Son Goku."
>"Besides, training like this is pretty much impossible where I come from. I figured I may as well see how far I can take it while I still can."
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>>5170411
+1 for the lols
Come to think of it, humans are kinda this universe's version of saiyans, highly adaptable and hardy monkey-people with a penchant for violence
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>>5170411
KEK agree. +1
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>>5170408
>>"You really want to know? Alright, i suppose it won't hurt..."
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>>5170408
>"You really want to know? Alright, i suppose it won't hurt..."
>im following the path of the great warrior son goku
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>>5170411
This!
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>>5170408

You could tell her the real truth, but honestly... you don't know this girl very well.
You're better off just fucking with her a little.

"You really want to know what my deal is, huh?"

"Yeah, i do. There's gotta be some reason behind it!" She exclaims, seeming excited for some reason.

"Alright, i guess it couldn't hurt..."

You pull over a pair of folding chairs and sit down in yours backwards, resting your arms on the back.
Ourg tries to do the same, but clearly finds it somewhat awkward.

Your put on the most serious face you can manage and begin spewing your bullshit.

"The truth is... i'm following the path of the legendary warrior, Son Goku."

"Son Goku...? I've never heard of him."

"You wouldn't have." You nod. "He is a legend among my people, but my people are isolated from the greater galaxy. Still, Son Goku protected our world from dozens of threats, each capable of destroying the planet. All with his own strength."

"That... that doesn't... are you messing with me?"

"Definitely not." You lie, shaking your head. "Son Goku was a great martial artist. His strength was so vast that he was capable of projecting it beyond his own body, firing blasts of energy from his hands."

"Like a plasma caster?" She asks.

"Yes, but with much more force."

"Okay, now i know you're screwing with me."

"Am i?" You tease.

Standing up from your seat, you open up a storage crate and pull out a non-stick aluminum frying pan, which you then proceed to roll up in your hands like a burrito before handing it to her.

"What's this? A piece of rubber or something?"

She tries to pry the pan back to it's original shape, but doesn't have nearly the finger strength required.
This confuses the oni, who continues trying to pry it open. And when that doesn't work, she starts looking for the "trick" to unroll it.

Of course, there isn't one.

You take it back from her and smack it against the wall, letting her hear the sound it makes.

"That's solid metal, girl. And i'm only up to three times earth's gravity. Goku trained in over a hundred."

Her eyes widen slightly at your words, combined with your slightly cheaty display of strength.

"That's what makes him a legend, you see... he surpassed the supposed limits of a mortal man through training alone. That is my goal, as well. That is what i strive for. But this is only the beginning."

You toss the rolled-up skillet for effect, allowing it to skitter across the ground and stop in front of her.

"Holy shit. Clark wasn't kidding, you're crazy."

You smirk as the heavy bag catches your eye, still sitting in the cratered floor of the cargo bay where it landed.

"...That punching bag over there. Think you can you lift it back up onto it's hook for me?"

"That? Sure, i guess..."

Ourg walks over and eyes the bag, only now noticing that it's dented the floor.

"Nine hells... what's in this thing?" She mutters.
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>>5171236
>"Nine hells... what's in this thing?" She mutters.
Only the most coarse, rough and irritating substance in the galaxy. It really does get everywhere.
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>>5171236
Holy shit David dont stop, this is hilarious. Get her thinking crazy shit.

>"Nine hells... what's in this thing?" She mutters.
Sand. Is sand weird? I like sand. You can use it to make sand castles. David tell her about the filthy sand people where we're from.
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>>5171333
Yes, tell her about the sand people. That should be hilarious.
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>>5171301
+1
KEK
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>>5171333
>Is sand weird?
Sand'd be fairly normal on any planet with active fluid cycles (especially those featuring oceans) but could occur elsewhere in the form of wind-eroded material, etc. I imagine her confusion lies in the fact that most punching bags are filled with 'rubber balls or cloth' as SHODAN suggested we could use - that or she and her sister are station/ship-born and have never actually been on a planet.

>David tell her about the filthy sand people where we're from.
Nah, this is when we mention the Grabboids.
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>>5171387
>Grabboids.
based and culture-pilled
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>>5171387
>>5171390
Truth be told I thing Bury Gummer is one of if not the favorite hero of David
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https://youtu.be/SC--yx1Geas
how did david rolled it up?
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>>5171473
Probably about like that, along with it being a little bit thinner than a normal pan.
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>>5171523
>>5171473
David had an easier time of it, because he picked an aluminum pan rather than sheet steel.
He wanted to make it look more impressive, so he grabbed one that he wouldn't struggle with.
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>>5171443
The character is based, but I get the distinct feeling that David would have a few critiques about Burt's methoda of preparation.
Namely;
>Too many collector's items, not enough ammo
>Not nearly enough food to wait out a nuclear communist zombie space alien invasion
>Flimsy as fuck fortifications, a single Grabboid shouldn't be able to bust into your shelter
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>>5171236
>Weak Oni women get folded by human men
More at 11
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>>5171580
Ya know, that white lie about Goku does bring up an interesting question.
Just how high can David go?
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>>5172240
I don't know, but I feel like it's more than normal for humans. Maybe it's just me but I don't think your average strong military man can make a 300+ pound bag jump with their punches. And considering it's filled with sand I'm probably massively lowballing its weight. Keeping in mind that even though David would be throwing stronger punches because he's also heavier, generating power would also be harder to begin with because of it.

He's not normal. Just built different.
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>>5172248
David is an absolute unit.
At the same time, trying to move, much less fight, would be pretty much impossible at 3Gs of gravity.
I don't care if you're Thor Bjornson and Mike Tyson's bastard child hopped up on meth, you're not doing shit with all that weight on you.
I think something that the Greys did to David when he was abducted is what's causing this insane adaptation to be possible.
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>>5172267
>tfw the grayyyys unironically accidentallied a saiyan into reality
Nanomachines

They are not toys senior aliurms.
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>>5172270
The xenos have fucked up massively. That's for sure.
Once David actually figures out what they did to him, it's over for this Galaxy.
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>>5172267
Had the same thought, the heart couldn't support the body under these circumstances
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>>5172275
>tfw the the ayyys made the most dangerous species in the galaxy 3x more dangerous.
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>>5172267
They may have made some minor changes. Specifically to his lungs and cardiovascular system.
Mind you, humans haven't been bioengineered in the slightest. Our genetic code is full of junk data, nasty mistakes just general inefficiencies.

Even the slightest bit of optimization could have dramatic effects.
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>>5172331
Wait...did they mess with our DNA? I thought this was just some type of implant or surgical enhancement of David's organs.
If they straight rewrote David's genetic code...they REALLY fucked up.
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>>5172331
Cut to David selling his sperm to the highest bidder.
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>>5172335
I mentioned it back in the early threads. They gave him a generic retrovirus that's meant to optimize people's ability to breathe station air, which can be quite low pressure for some species. As a result, David's ability to take in and carry oxygen was greatly improved. The effect took months to appear as his body was slowly restructured.
It might have done a little more than that, though. It's a generic retrovirus after all, and it's just trying it's best in whatever foreign species it ends up in.
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>>5172331
>tfw uncut human twisty helixes made a galactic apex predator and the egghead midgets made it EXTRA apex
Fuck
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>>5172349
David's Kyla Feed is gonna be worth alot of money when we get home.
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>>5172349
Hmmm...did the virus cause David's lungs to grow more alveolae?
Did his bone marrow density get increased to boost his red blood cell count?
Did the diameter of his blood vessels increase to move more blood?
Did his heart get more cardiac tissue to support any of those changes?
This REALLY has my noggin joggin'.
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>>5172349
Hold on, did David have any food allergies before he got abducted? That'd be a hilarious way to cure a peanut allergy; making them into superhumans.
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>>5172358
This was actually discussed in earlier threads if you wanna check it
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>>5172349
Are the gene mods tailored to individual aliens, or can we pick up a 12 pack of these things from the local space Walgreens? I'd like to get my hands on some more of those.

Is there a danger for taking too many health modding things? For David specifically?
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>>5172358
Doesn’t that sort of a list seem like a bit much for one retrovirus that’s not tailored for humans to make? Isn’t it more likely it did some sci-fi magic on the efficiency of haemoglobin and cellular respiration? Maybe made it easier for transmission through cell membranes too?
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>>5172331
So they did probe his ass
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Gentlemen. We fed two Oni gals into unconsciousness and then almost killed them by working out in their vicinity. My good Sirs I would like to point out that we ARE AN ONI GIRLS FETISH BUFFET. I don't think it's gonna take too much effort to get them to join our crew.
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>>5173122
suck their horns!
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>>5173122
Give them headpats!
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>>5173274
>>5173122
>>5173305
h a n d
h o l d i n g
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>>5173340
You sick degenerate....I like it.
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>>5173340
Lewd.
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>>5173122
One issue, these are aliens not demons.

And we didn't drink them under a table yet so you're missing the final step.

Arguably the most iconic one, too. C'mon.
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>>5173372
If she can't handle 3 gees, she can't handle our booze. Lets see if we can get them to drink our spiked soda.
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>>5173377
>tfw they've never drank alcohol before and they become immediately addicted
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>>5171236

Ourg makes the mistake of attempting to lift the bag from it's middle, rather than by the chain at it's top.
She struggles to get a firm grip on it as it flops around, but to her credit she does actually get it up onto her shoulder.

"Need some help with that?" You grin.

"N-No! I'm ffffffffine!" She grunts, doing her best to get it hooked into place.

She nearly tumbles backwards as she lifts the bag up at one end to get it a bit higher. It's all very awkward, so you step in to help her regardless.
Stepping in underneath the bag, you lift it up and get it hooked onto the steel frame, which at this point has been bent and is sagging lower than it did previously.

"I would have gotten it on my own..." She grumbles.

"I'm sure you would have. I hate to watch a lady struggle, though."

Ourg blushes, but seems indignant.

"I didn't need your help! I'm pretty strong myself, you know!"

"...Oh yeah?"

"Yeah, i am! Just look at these abs!"

Ourg lifts up her armor and the shirt underneath, revealing a very nicely toned stomach. At the same time, her armor ends up pushing her breasts up practically into her face. God, those are big...

"Not bad, not bad. But you know, just having abs doesn't mean you're strong. Check this out."

You take off your gym shirt, revealing the black sheen of your skinsuit underneath. Ourg seems confused at first, but then you peel off the upper portion of your skinsuit as well, letting it hang down at your waist to reveal your bare torso.

"Woah..." She gasps. "Your core looks like a block of chiseled stone, and your arms are bigger than most people's legs..."

"Core strength is very important. You really need to work on your back as well."

"What's wrong with my back?"

"Your back supports your whole body, man. If you try to throw a punch or swing a weapon like that, you're only going to hurt yourself. Let me guess, you already have a habit of pulling something in your back?"

"Yeah..." She admits. "But i thought that was just because..."

"Because?"

"N-Nothing." She blushes.

"Well, i can show you a few excercises that'll help even you out, if you'd like."

You hear someone clear their throat behind you. It's Kyla.

"Ahem... zo, whad's going on in here?"

Ourg blushes even harder than before and quickly moves to lower her shirt and re-adjust her armor.

"Ah, Kyla? How's your tongue?"

"Id's mozdly fine. Liddle bid swelled."

"That's good. Sorry again about that, i really didn't know."

"Id's fine."

"Well then, we were just comparing our physiques here, if you're interested."

Kyla grins widely as she walks up to your leg and wraps her right hand around it, right under your groin. With her free hand, she grabs a handful of your ass and squeezes.

"Oh, i already know all aboud your physique, honey. Don'd worry aboud thad."

Kyla looks over to the oni as she rubs her hand up and down your leg, never losing that grin of hers.
Ourg blushes so hard that her whole face turns purple.

"OOOOKAYigottagocheckonbaalBYE!"
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>>5173097
It is a mystery.

>>5172890
There are gene mods tailored for each species. Normally they're given to babies in hospital, or to first-time travelers off planet or people about to go into military service. It's not something you can normally just go out and buy, and they won't work on other species.
However, the greys have their own specialized retroviruses that are much more "general purpose" and can be applied to a wide range of species, including those that haven't been discovered yet. However, there may be side effects from using them, both beneficial and detractive.
Those retroviruses are specifically carried on grey scout ships like the metal gear, which are used to conduct illegal first contact abductions for the purpose of medical research and bionics production.
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>ONIFAGS FUCKING OBLITERATED
>REDUCED TO ATOMS
Can this mushroom's reign of terror ever be stopped?

Poor Ourg though. She skipped back day for all these years when she's carrying thirty pounds on her chest every day. Yeesh.
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>>5173416
Our Fungi needs to be stopped at once.
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>>5173340
horn docking
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>3'2 tall fuck mushroom mogs 6'4 tall fuck demon
more new during afternoon
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>>5173416
Kyla is too lewd, pure Oni girls meet the first piece of man meat and she almost flashed him. Poor girl. That Oni girl is gonna have some heavy dreams.
>>5173424
Then I guess she's gonna be coming over to learn some ways to fix that. Cylia needs to step it up, I think we can do this by giving her more David time.
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>>5173464
You know if people would have went with SHODAN there'd be no issues. She's 3000% a voyeur. Bang whoever you like, but leave the webcam on. But people couldn't wait and had to dick the amanita.
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>>5173477
Whether we left it on or not I'm sure SHODAN could approximate what happened just via sound and chemical analysis of the air.
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>>5173480
That is some next level sexual snooping right there.
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>>5173480
make it like in ghost in the shell where pressure sensors in the parking lot of a building allow the human sidekick to know something is up
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>>5173480
>>5173486
>>5173493
How many times has she counted the trusts it took for David to get off with Kyla? Did she note how often she passed out from cumflation?
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>>5173372
S O O N !
Gee, know what's good for waking up? Irish coffee.
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>>5173566
>Gee, know what's good for waking up?
A glass of ice cold water and walking barefoot on tile floors?
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>>5173566
Doing a couple of sit ups and splashing cold water at the back of your neck?
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>>5173422
>It is a mystery.
So they fucked David's ass then.
This means war.
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>>5173612
>tfw they couldn't actually probe him because his squat game is on point
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>>5173633
>David pulled a Brock Samson on some unfortunate Gray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ystOQhys7l8
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Wait...now I realize what we were missing all along.
A BITCHIN' MUSCLE CAR!
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>>5173648
I'm imagining that scene of the Venture Bros where Samson kills all those minions with his car.
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>>5173600
Y'all motherfuckers need Jesus.
Drunk Jesus.
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>>5173868
Sorry, I only pray to Hydration Jesus.
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>>5173812
Imagine how Kyla would react to a proper Hemi.
Then imagine how much alien technology we could strap onto said Hemi.
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>>5173895
You know how a properly tuned speaker system can cause just the right vibration to get a chick off?

Yeah I imagine that's what'll happen to Kyla if you put her in the passenger seat and start the engine.
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>>5173895
Alien tech strapped to a muscle car you say eh...
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>>5173895
>>5173905
>>5173932
Guys, be careful, her gobbo brain was not meant to handle that much pleasure and human meat. She's a living being, not cock pocket, try as she may.
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>>5174069
I didn't even say anything about fucking her, I just want shortstack gobbos riding in our bitchin' hemi.
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>>5173416

Ourg immediately runs off behind the crates to check on her sister, which is a bit awkward because she's still just right there. You can hear her squirming.
Kyla lets go of you and skips her way over to the workbench, where she grabs her sonicator before skipping back over and whispering up at you.

"I don't mind sharing you with other girls..."

She rakes a nail across your exposed abs.

"...Just don't forget who's on top."

And with that, she skips off with a big grin on her face.
After she's gone, you clear your own throat and yell across the room to Ourg.

"So, i put Clark in charge of you guys. There's some spending money in his account if you need a hotel or something, but i think you'll be fine. Me and the crew have a job to do, so we'll be away for a few days. We're leaving shortly."

You hear a faint "Okay..." in response. Good enough.

It'd be a bit awkward to just keep working out in here, and you can't crank up the gravity with Baal still asleep, so you head back to the kitchen to grab some water.
As soon as you enter though, Cylia gets one good look at you and almost chokes on her water, spraying it across the room.

"...What's the matter with you?" You ask.

Cylia stutters for a moment before getting her words together.

"You're naked again! We talked about this!" She complains.

"Huh? Oh, right. Sorry."

You quickly slip the top half of your skinsuit back on, which calms her down somewhat. You left your shirt in the cargo bay, though.

"David, have you gotten even bigger? I swear you've got more muscle than the last time i saw you... bare, like that."

"Yeah, probably. I've been working at it pretty hard. As the representative of my species, it wouldn't look good if i went getting my ass kicked by a rock man or something, would it?"

"Should a representative really be getting into fights like that in the first place?"

"A human representative? Depends on who you ask. If their opinion matters though, then the answer is yes."

"So maybe there are sane humans after all..." Cylia mutters.

"Hah. Nah, those are the crazy ones. Never fuck with a politician, they have no soul, no emotions... all psycho and sociopaths, every last one of them."

"You must be joking. By politician, you mean like, your planetary government, right? How can people like that make the rules that are supposed to protect and guide the populace?"

"Simple. Power begets more power, so anyone who cared about the people got kicked of the government as soon as they got in. Now they only serve eachother."

"...That's... really bad, isn't it?"

"Hmm? Oh, sure. I hate it more than anything. Course, i'd probably care less if i was the one in power. That's how it works, after all. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, as they say."

"I have a bad feeling about what's gonna happen if we ever find your home planet."

"Haha. Don't think i haven't been thinking about that. We'll see how it goes. We will... definitely see."
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>>5173812
Are we NOT Brock Samson?
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>>5174083
The gobbo that gets horny for our tech is not going to simply, ride it.
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>>5174104
>special forces veteran
>built like a brick shithouse
>blonde
>knife fighting aficionado
All we're missing is a mullet and a fetish for improvised weaponry.
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>>5174091
Kyla is too sweat, and she probably had Cylia in mind. But good info for the future. Kinda surprised she didn't say, Don't forget whos on bottom. Make the joke stick.
Poor Cylia has no idea about the faggotry of Jews.
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>>5174091
I wonder what Cylia would think about some of the world's strongest men. Being eight feet tall and four hundred pounds of obscene muscle hits different.
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>>5174108
You mean all we are missing is the mullet.

We are both using improvised weaponry and creating weapons on the fly

OSI/SPHINX when?
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>>5174143
>OSI/SPHINX when?
We're making it right now. Once we get our mining ship fleet, we'll have enough ships to be anywhere we need to be.
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Speaking of politicians, I wonder if David would vibe with Armstrong's will to power schtick or mistake him for an objectivist like many an anon.
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>>5174225
In the most recent post he seems contemptuous of how political power preserves itself. I see no reason his analysis would change even if power was gained through fist fights rather than elections. Unless he was "corrupted," as he said.
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>>5174256
Well the underlying problem remains the same. If all that matters is who could kill who you'd just see politicians cheating to always win. Or doing shady shit to ensure their chances. Not different from massive propaganda or outright rigging in effect.

It's like picking whether you want to sit on a live wire or a hot plate. It's gonna be a pain in the ass either way.
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And then you don't even need to be/have politicians for lobbying is one hell of a drug. Why bother to participate in elections when you can buy whoever wins?
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>>5174256
>>5174281
I suppose your guys are right. I was asking because Armstrong also held contempt for the system, although I suppose it was for different reasons, like how wars were fought for by people who didn't really believe in them outside of blind patriotism (it was how Khamsin was sent to die). The same thing applies politically, how every senator and governor say one thing but do another out of an apparent lack of principles.
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>>5174464
While I can agree with Armstrong that the system is irreparably damaged by morally bankrupt individuals, I can't condone his methods.
In that regard, I'm fairly sure David also wouldn't be a fan of Armstrong's methods.
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>>5174108
I don't think David's hairstyle has been described yet. As a good ole boy from 'bama, the chance he's got a mullet is higher than you'd think. If it isn't a mullet, then he'd probably keep it high and tight just like when he was in the marines.
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>>5175257
I'm gonna keep it real with you, nobody who just got out of the Marines keeps the high and tight.
He might have a mullet simply because it's the farthest thing from a regulation haircut he could think of.
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>>5174091

It takes three hours for the crew to weld on your already-completed cargo bay, which is quite quick by any measure. Then another thirty minutes after that to check all the systems are working. Heatsinks, electrical, stuff like that.
You spend the majority of that time getting your energy out by doing slightly less intensive excercises in your room, until Kyla finally gives you the all-clear for takeoff.

"David, hon? You're drenched in sweat again." Kyla informs you.

"Yes, i'm aware. Thank you."

You step out of your bedroom into the hall, steaming in the cool, moist air of the ship.
One of the men who put the ship together is standing there, looking down at his holopad.

"Alright..." He says. "Given labor and materials, we're lookin' at about four thousand credits total. We take latinum too, if you-"

Finally, he looks back up from his pad and sees you, standing in front of him with a massive pump going on.
He literally drops his holopad like he forgot how to use his hands and stares up at you without breathing.

Kyla pops out from behind your leg to speak with him.

"Four thousand? Sounds about alright. Here you... go..."

She holds her holopad out to complete the transaction with him, but notices that he's standing there, frozen.

"Oh, uh... don't worry about the big guy. He's harmless, i promise." She assures him.

You flash the worker a big, tired grin and let an exhausted sigh blow through your teeth.
In response, the blank expression on his face turns into a panicked frown. You watch as a stream of piss darkens his pants and audibly dribbles down into his shoe.

The worker very slowly reaches down for his holopad, carefully taps it against Kyla's to transfer the money and begins backing away as quietly as his can.
The squelching of his piss-soaked shoe doesn't help.

"What was his problem?" You wonder.

"You... you're serious?" Kyla asks. "Hon, you can be a little... intimidating. Without meaning to be, i mean."

"What do you mean?"

"Ah, well... you know, you're gigantic? And insanely muscular? And then you're all sweaty and veiny, and i can feel the heat radiating off your skin..."

"I was just working out, man. That happens to everyone."

"No... not quite. Ahem. But anyways, the point is that you look very much the part of some wild beast from a class 10 death world."

"Not a person?"

"There are no people on class 10 death worlds, hon. That's why they're death worlds."

"Well gee, thanks for the confidence boost."

"C'mon, you know i didn't mean it like that! It's just... well, your teeth..."

"What about them?"

"You kind of... flash a lot of tooth when you smile. That's a predator thing, i get it, but... there's just something kind of scary about the way you do it."

"What, i've got a creepy smile now?"

"No! Not creepy. More like uh... oh wow, how do i explain this?"

"You look like you're about to eat someone when you smile at them." Cylia interrupts.

"What? That's ridiculous! You all know don't eat people."
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>>5175678
Okay...to be fair, we wouldn't eat people if we know they are people before hand.
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>>5175678
>"What? That's ridiculous! You all know I don't eat people."
David would TOTALLY eat an alien.
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>>5175713
If we didn't know they were people beforehand!
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>>5175714
we'd totally steal eat the person.
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>>5175717
Only if they deserved it by pissing David off and there was nothing else.
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>>5175717
>>5175719
Hey! Come on now... Sentient smart aliens are not in the menu, just if we're trying to scare them by straping them naked in a table while we have fork and knife in hand. You know, some psicological terror shit to make them talk from thinking they're going to get cut to pieces and eaten alive

But not actually doing it!
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>>5175739
>>5175719
I'mma be a 100 with y'all. That mother fucker getting ate.
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>>5175678
>"What? That's ridiculous! You all know don't eat people."
Especially if they're human, mostly because of known consequences for humans eating other humans of the moral and biological consequences. Gotta avoid eating the spine and brain.
As for other alien life eeeehhh if they asking for it, l mean if they're a real jobber. David could maybe bite someone's eat off and spit it at people.
Fuck hes gonna leave a trail of piss in the ship. This is not funky fresh.
>>5175739
In practice David might not do it, but in his minds I can image him thinking up ways to wat people.
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>>5175678
>"There are no people on class 10 death worlds, hon. That's why they're death worlds."
Oh shit, so what Kyla is saying is we humans can colonize those worlds if the gravity is right? Hell yeah can she lay put the names for us? Can we keepsies if non of the corpos or space governments haven't already turned them over for natural resources like flora, fauna, and minerals? What's the sun like?
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>>5175678
>"hon"
getting kinda personal for fuck buddies, aren't we kyla?
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>>5175831
she is a fungus.
a wraith mindfucked fungus.
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>>5175831
David ruined her for all mates in the galaxy. She is a free spirit that will love him(his dick too), but she's not gonna stop him from throwing that bitch breaker around. She only pulls herself off it if she has too, and she can't always take all of it all the time. Also, she lives with us, so it would be weird to not be personal with him considering all the dents he put in the ship. Using her and just in general, that she fixed.
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>>5175678
>I don't eat people SHEESH. We just eat the limbs of enemy combatants after a battle is over.

And David has said one more bullshit about his planer. Please, include it the mexica did it first, the crazy fucks
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>>5175898
the problem comes when david eventually dumps her, because david only thinks of her as a quick fuck and a free engineer, and doesn't care for her more than anyone else in the crew.
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>>5175905
Except this>>5174091
Its not like we are going to just dump her, she's still gonna be our lap goblin that eats our pancakes because she's too tired to sit in her own chair.
>because david only thinks of her as a quick fuck and a free engineer, and doesn't care for her more than anyone else in the crew.
Yeah, David already demonstrated he'd still care anyways, your projecting a bit.
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>>5175905
Dude, David is going to suffer from oneitis. Are we even thinking about the same guy here?
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>>5175900
David should tell her about the chinese eating the pesantry. Hitlarious.
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>>5175912
I mean shit, even when we aren't filling her guts up with cum so rich in protein she could subsist on it, she is our little spoon that just sleeps with him because its the best spot on the ship. She'd crawl in to nap with him even when Cylia eventually makes her move to get some David D.
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>>5175921
China is fucking cancer, between them, Israel, and Russia, we need to just blow up the parasites to fix the planet.
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>>5175900
Didn't they also practice mass human sacrifice?
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>>5175925
Yep, it was a past time for the degenerates.
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>>5175921
Since Cylia will probably voice opposition when we glass china, we shoud describe ch*nks at length to both of them. Two birds with one stone.
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>>5175929
If we get that close then just sicking SHODAN and Sanig on the Internet ought to get any descent sorted out.
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>>5175909
>she's still gonna be our lap goblin that eats our pancakes because she's too tired to sit in her own chair.
that's what kyla is saying, but david didn't react to what she said. not even a playful comeback or anything. he didn't even acknowledged her

>>5175912
oneitis implies that david has feelings for her. the closest thing to that was the present he gave to her on the christmas special and even that present wasn't as thoughtful as the ones he gave to the rest of the crew. what im saying is that someone will end up with a broken heart and it won't be david.
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>>5175938
>not even a playful comeback or anything. he didn't even acknowledged her
Did you just skim the post?
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>>5175938
>even that present wasn't as thoughtful as the ones he gave to the rest of the crew. what im saying is that someone will end up with a broken heart and it won't be david.
I just read the rest of this are you shitposting or stupid? Because his gift was enough to almost make her cry. And she was very enthusiastic in repaying his gift with how much she appreciated it. What are you reading?
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QM did say David was the type to marry and never see another girl even if his wife died. in other words, autistic. He is autistic in every facet of him... no wonder he adapted so well into space.
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>>5175943
>>5175941
bah, whatever. we'll see when it happens
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>>5173422
Is there any way we can commission some gene mods for humans? How much for each generally, and what can they do?

Can we acquire more of those greys gene mods? Those will be useful for our lads when we come back for them.
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>>5175945
Well yeah, he eats crayons, autism is the least of his concerns if his quarter master went cheap on crayon supplies. Crayola or bust.
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https://www.caracteristicas.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mexicas-Tenochitatlan-min-e1571942543393-800x388.jpg

I wonder what factors besides no husbandry screwed center america. Yeah, all the mass sacrifice always gets me melancholic and wondering about the what could have been.

>"So cylia, this indians erected massive temples, dragged prisoners to the top and tore their heart open. Then they kicked the corpse down the stairs. Or his head. Or both, I am not sure"
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>>5175950
I think David's old Marine buddies will have some good keks if he uses the food printer to make vitamin rich, high calorie non-shit tasting crayon rations that taste like the fruits associated with their colors. Bonus points to David if they can be used like normal crayons.

>>5175952
Yeah they's fucked up. Also why didn't you include the image with your post? too big?
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>>5175953
>I think David's old Marine buddies will have some good keks if he uses the food printer to make vitamin rich, high calorie non-shit tasting crayon rations that taste like the fruits associated with their colors. Bonus points to David if they can be used like normal crayons.
.....didn't we already make this already? i feel like we did this already.
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>>5175953
hiromoot rangebanned my IP after I switched to a new ISP.
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>>5175948
that's why we need a crazy geneticist. to bad people pussied out with the lizard doctor
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>>5175957
I know better than trusting a reptile with tits.
WHY DOES IT HAVE TITS
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>>5175950
>David bursts into the supply depot one fateful day
>throws a pack of crayons on the floor
>"WHAT IN THE EVERLIVING FUCK ARE THESE SUPPOSED TO BE?!"
>"...those are the crayons you ordered Gunny. Did you eat the whole damn pallet already?"
>"I ORDERED CRAYOLA YOU FUCKING DIRTBAG! THESE ARE CRA-Z-ART!"
>"They are basically the same thing."
>"NO THEY AIN'T SHITLIP!"
>"Well what the fuck do you want me to do about it!?"
>"Get me the keys to one of those shiny new humvees we got in the motor pool. I'm driving down to Walmart."
>"Make me."
And that's how David got in a fist-fight over a pack of crayons.
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>>5175961
that's how you know she's a good geneticist

>>5175952
from what i remember, it was the lack of proper husbandry and metalworking. turns out you get pretty fucked if you don't have horses or iron to work with
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>>5175955
I don't believe we did. David has joked about eating crayons, but we need to make it a reality.

>>5175956
Fucking moot.

>>5175957
We shouldn't recruit all people we come across, plus that lady already had a well paying job. Not to mention just because she's a doctor, doesn't immediately make her an expert geneticist.

>>5175962
I can actually believe how he was "politely" retired from his job as a drill sergeant.
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>>5175966
>We shouldn't recruit all people we come across,
that has worked pretty well for us so far. and we didn't even come close to the recruitment part because anons got scared the moment she did pic related
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>>5175965
There were deposits of copper and tin I south America that the natives had access to, and alpacas in the mountains, but they never really got off the ground with this stuff. That said, new world pre-Columbian agriculture was pretty advanced, with highly specialized breeds of crops like potatoes.
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Alright honest question.
Did David pass his last psych evaluation before he got out of the service?
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>>5175969
Majority of us said no, and probably for good reason. If you're patient we'll have enough time to commission and acquire more all-purpose gene mods.
You also missed recruiting the tall deer lady, not that we should recruit her, although we do now have second storage bay fixed. Hmmmm then again a cargo bay isn't idea for crew to sleep in. We're gonna need more ships with dedicated crew quarters.

>>5175976
HMMMMMMMM
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>>5175976
HAHAHAHAHA...wait, you serious? Let me laugh harder. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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>>5175950
>virgin crayon eaters
>chad Marker enjoyers
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>>5175981
If you're going to get markers worth a damn, get the fruit smelling ones. At least with crayons you can eat them.
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>>5175965
>that's how you know she's a good geneticist
I kekked
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>>5175983
Wise words from someone who knows his markers.
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>>5175972
but copper and tin (and bronze) aren't a real match for iron and bronze is harder to make, and alpacas are a real bitch to handle, plus they can't match the speeds of a horse. the natives were basically fucked thanks to RNGsus

>>5175977
>You also missed recruiting the tall deer lady
i do remember that; it was pretty smart of the anons to shoot down her ambitions for the moment because she was just way too innocent and we are currently on a warpath with a space station. although we're definitely going for her after getting a bigger ship; she seems to be a good smith

>>5175976
definitely no
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>>5175983
>>5175988
>not eating the marker whole
the fuck is wrong with you guys
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>>5175995
What applications do you think a good smith has for our crew?

>>5175997
Tried one once, 6/10. It's not great, but someone out there might like eating markers. Can't say it was pleasant. Markers are more for aeromantic uses like candles. Except you can eat candles too, especially if you add bacon grease to the candles.
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>>5176004
>What applications do you think a good smith has for our crew?
so far we're outsourcing our metalwork needs because we don't have the people that knows how to do it. having someone like her on the ship would let us work faster because we wouldn't need to be on a station to make new plates for our suit, or create weird weapons with exotic materials
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>>5176010
We're not really outsourcing our metalworking, we're just dealing with a supplier of raw materials since we don't have the facilities to collect and process our own.
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>>5175977
the crew already has individual quarters
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>>5175995
iron is shittier than bronze but it is easier to produce
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>>5176010
wtf are you talking about. David and co went to buy metal sheets to feed the nanofab with. We don't need a smith when we have a machine that magi-scientifically prints the stuff we imagine
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>>5176033
Really? Could had sworn we ran out of spare rooms.
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>>5176040
maybe. Kyla, Sanig, Cylia and David have one
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we need someone to post the internal layout again
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Oh man, so guys remember how there was about 3 or 4 "deathworlds" that SHODAN found? Well Once we take over Xebric, what should we do with those worlds? Save up money and resources to have those planets colonized by humans? Should we manage that or leave that to someone else's care? Who's got a big brained strat?
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>>5176071
we should give it a look, but i doubt they will be habitable, they could be actual deathworlds that have an atmosphere like venus
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>>5176071
Colonizing a deathworld is not a sound investment. We first colonize a Normieworld and WE put the DEATH in the name.
It seems earth and mars are both deathworlds, but for different reasons
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>>5176085
Your doubts are noted, but if they are habitable then hey. It's pic related.

>>5176086
Normieworlds would most be already colonized, except for some out here in the space boonies. Don't immediate disregard potential free real-estate without checking out the properly out first.
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>>5176108
>but if they are habitable then hey. It's pic related.
for sure. a new chance to build a better earth and whatnot
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>>5176071
>find a deathworld
>it's literally just a globe sized Florida environment
>complete with funny little red gators
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>>5176071
I say we should see if they are good for supporting Human life in EVERY aspect, find a group of space biologist who wants money and recognition for their works in a Deathworld (and gaining money from Xebric and maybe other stations once we find some way to make money)

Once we know every danger of the planet (and hope there's no weird planetary shit that happens from time to time that fucks everything up in the planet), we talk with a construction team and maybe Gron forces to take care of the planet while we try to find Earth.

We take care of what we need to in there, give the crew some Earth media and find that like 60% of the things we say about Earth is bullshit from movies. Once we go back to our new planet we need to make an Eco-friendly way to extract resources (or maybe Gron team already sorted that out while we were out)

We make some infrastructure, make a way to keep the money flowing, and once we can find a good genetist to find what retrovirus we have and replicate it for other humans, we make the Arc and bring those we want to this new planet.
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>>5176117
>/
It's......
It's perfect.

>We make some infrastructure, make a way to keep the money flowing
I don't know about most of the things you said before, but I got ideas on spaces. First, we bring earth crops and cattle. Our shit is top tier and will sell faster than we can produce. I'm taking exporting some much premium crops to predators, herbivores, and omnivores that we'll actually have difficulty supplying the market.
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>>5176120
>Once we go back to our new planet we need to make an Eco-friendly way to extract resources
asteroid mine whatever we need. that's literally the most eco friendly way to do it
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>>5176132
Yeah basically.
Why worry about making your methods environmentally friendly when you can just go to a place with a hardier environment?
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>>5176157
Astroid mining ship fleet is literally what we're gonna get if we pull this job off.
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>>5176126
We need to make sure the Jews can't get their fingers in the pot.
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>>5176165
We could totally get away with it too. If the majority of the people involved are aliens, who's gonna get offended?
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>>5176175
It doesn't matter who's offended. And with SHODAN's glorious robobutt involved. We can nip that shit in the bud.
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>>5176035
Yes, but steel is superior. Also you need higher temperatures to melt iron compared to Bronze alloys.
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>>5176176
>SHODAN, search for Baxter Goldstein, PhD in xenogeology on Wikipedia, specifically Early Life and parentage
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>>5176165
I second this. We need to stop them once we get back.
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>>5175678
This reminds me of the time a zookeeper told me to not smile with your teeth when interacting with chimpanzees, smile with your lips shut. Teeth are a sign of aggression.
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>>5176379
Apparently it's like that with a lot of animals, and humans are just the weird ones.
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>>5176413
Well yeah. That's because we humans are actually pretty bad at biting. Not because our jaws are particularly weak or anything but because most people can't open wide enough to get a good bite on anything bigger than our fat fucking lips.

Makes sense. I'm not just high.
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>>5176490
I think it has more to do with our teeth not being suited for bites in the context of fighting than how wide we can open our mouths.
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>>5176499
>>5176490
Makes sense. Though Ive seen a dude bite a guys jugular out once in a street fight.
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QM... after xebric station the game won't turn into base management yeah? Maybe we can do a metal gear V of sorts... but please little base management
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>>5176515
Sounds legit
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>>5176515
our bite is quite powerful and poisonous(?) if the target doesn't clean the wound, but compared to most animals out there is proportionally small
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I think the bite deal has to do with us being bipeds. It's awkward to bend over to put our mouthparts close to the prey's whatever. Of course, we can always use our arms to grab the same whatever and then bite.

You guys have an OK grip strength right? I bought a grip thing that is allegedly 60kg but it is made of chinesium so I have my doubts

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71s7FsXjUWL._AC_SX425_.jpg

this one
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>>5176530
doing pullups tends to be better than those, but if you can't do them for whatever reason, it helps
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>>5176530
Just buy the set of rubberized O-ring style grip trainers if you're looking to improve grip strength, and then compress them with your fingertips and thumbtip rather than against your palm.

If your grip strength feels particularly weak as compared to what you think it should be, you might consider working your forearm extensors. They're often overlooked but quite crucial.
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>>5176537
ooooh, using only my fingers for the whole squeezin' does sounds better than what I am doing currently
>>5176534
Hm, I guess having to hold my weight is a better way to prove what's up with my hands
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https://www.dhresource.com/0x0/f2/albu/g9/M00/6D/E7/rBVaVVyPbU2AWfq3AAT2wJ2KMmo035.jpg
this is for extension, aye? Why would I want to train that...>>5176537 you sure they are crucial?
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>>5176597
Here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiOp3hxJVkw
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>>5176530
>You guys have an OK grip strength right?
I masturbate constantly, yes.
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>>5175995
In most places, bronze came before iron. The one exception here is Subsaharan Africa.
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>>5176917
true, but bronze is a bitch to work with and doesn't have the versatility of iron(and steel)
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>>5176924
Bronze has a low enough melting point that you can just melt down random bits of scrap and recast it into something new. It's less durable than iron and finding the necessary tin can be a pain in the ass, but not rusting and the relative ease of reshaping it is a plus. If it wasn't a useful material, it wouldn't have been in use for so long in so many different places.
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>>5175678
>class 10 death world
I would definitely like to hear some exposition from Sanig about death worlds. Where does Earth fit?
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>>5176527
It's not poisonous so much as toxic; a vector for transmission of the horrid mouth biosphere everyone has.
>>5176924
Bronze is way easier to work with than iron. Iron is much more common, but it's harder to get it to workable temperatures. It's also worth noting that bronze isn't necessarily made with tin, it's a term for a broad range of copper alloys.
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>>5176924
Remember, iron is a sidegrade in the tech tree, not an upgrade to bronze.

But the steel unlock from mastering iron is way better than advanced bronze smithing.
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>>5176979
I do know that arsenic bronze is a thing, but arsenic is bad news.
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>>5176979
>>5176982
the original point of this was what were the reasons the natives couldn't stand up to the conquistadors. lack of access to iron and lack of horses are some of the main reasons(the others being guns and immune systems that couldn't handle the spanish viruses)
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>>5174091

"Captain, are you ready for takeoff?" Gron asks.

You flip a few switches and watch as the ship's systems hum to life. The sound in the air changes as water pumps fire up and giant capacitors begin charging.

"Yeah, as ready as we'll ever be. Where are we headed exactly?"

"Here." He points out, marking the position on your starmap. "It's a graveyard hidden inside a small but extremely energetic nebula. There are frequent arcs of stellar lightning, so we'll have to be careful as we fly through."

"Stellar lightning? What's that?"

"It's much like terrestrial lightning... but far more powerful. A lot of charge has to build up before it can pass through the dilute stellar gas out there."

"Alright. So what happens if we get hit?"

"I wouldn't recommend it, captain. Your shields can't take that kind of discharge."

"...Alright, so don't get hit. Is there any way to tell when it's coming?"

"Yes. If you have the appropriate sensors, an onboard AI could give you a general warning beforehand. I don't know the details myself."

"SHODAN?"

"That is well within my ability, captain.

"Alright, we're all good on that front." You inform him.

"Good. Now, here are the problems we face. For one, we don't know exactly where they are. Long range is basically impossible inside the nebula. They could be hiding anywhere."

"I have some special equipment that might be able to help with that. No promises though."

"Whatever it is, it's worth a shot. The next problem is that there's a lot of them. We don't know how many exactly, but given reports from locals who have been hit by them, they have at least seven or eight fighter craft."

"Is that all? Doesn't sound like a big problem to me."

"That's not all. There have also been reports of a supposedly derelict carrier-class ship occasionally changing position out there. Nobody's ever seen it move in person, that we know of anyways... but it's possible they're using that as a base."

"And there's no telling what they've really got in store if that's true. Gotcha."

You make a mental note of that carrier ship in your head. If you could get your hands on that, it could be a valuable asset.

"So then, captain. On the off chance that we encounter this derelict carrier, what will we do? I doubt our lasers have the power to punch through it's armor, but it must have been abandoned for a reason. It probably barely runs, if at all."

>Let's capture it. I want that ship.
>We'll storm the ship and plant explosives, then take it out when we've got your man back.
>Cylia and i can infiltrate and get your man out. If all goes well, we can avoid fighting at all.
>Write-In?
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>>5177350
>Let's capture it. I want that ship.
It begins.
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>>5177350

>Let's capture it. I want that ship.
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>>5177350
>Let's capture it. I want that ship.
i hope the ship is good enough to be captured, and not a piece of crap like the junk ships we got from the pirates
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>>5177350
>Let's capture it. I want that ship.
I T B E G I N S
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>>5177350
How big are the missile tracks again? Are they big enough to load a power armor wearing David and fire him at the skip?
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>>5177350
>>Let's capture it. I want that ship.
FOR HUMANITY!
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>>5177366
i think we still need to get out through the cargo bays
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>>5177371
Probably. We need to eventually add thrusters to our armor when we finish through the prototype phase.
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>>5177350
>>Let's capture it. I want that ship.
I suppose we'll be a commodore soon enough.
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>>5176608
okay
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>>5177384
im still vouching for a backpack-like thruster system that we can drop once we reach the enemy spaceship
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>>5177350
>>We'll storm the ship and plant explosives, then take it out when we've got your man back.
capturing something that barely works... plus, it doesn't have an unshackled AI
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>>5177399
we can always switch to
>We'll storm the ship and plant explosives, then take it out when we've got your man back.
if the ship is too crappy to be captured. and we can always move shodan to the new ship if we need her there
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>>5177395
Why drop it? Just have the thrusted built into the armor so David can run at the enemy faster, or have more momentum to run through walls.

>>5177399
It's a ship graveyard out here. We can probably just pull tons of stuff out here and use the raw materials to repair sections of the ship. While here we can also start collecting more dark matter bottles we can use to forge more weapons.
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>>5177421
because its bulky and the armor's servos are already strained from moving the armor. plus its a backpack full of fuel; that thing is just a bomb waiting to explode on our back
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>>5177350
Challenge the leader to single combat. Let him pick a champion if he wants, but we get Gron's man and the ship if we win, and he gets the metal gear if he wins. I'm hoping that being pirates, they'd like something straightforward and violent like that, and it'd make the deal sweeter if they think they could get a grey ship.
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>>5177447
Why wouldn't they just murder us with overwhelming firepower if they look like they're going to lose?
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>>5177452
That'd be a show of weakness on the part of the leader. If my hunch is right, they'll respect strength.
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>>5177488
That's a bad hunch. These guys are mostly cowardly aliens who normally wouldnt consider charging at people a viable tactic.
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>>5177447
i'd rather strike them hard and fast. shock them enough that the only viable way they see to survive is to escape
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>>5177489
I agree.

>>5177488
Stuff like that, as in honor, only works in 'warrior-like' cultures.
Those spineless aliens are only interested in survival.
Sure, there's some idiots around space that value those things, but up until now it seems that it's the overwhelming minority.
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>>5177350
>Let's capture it. I want that ship.
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>>5177350
>Let's capture it. I want that ship
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>>5177488
Hard no, these aren't klingons or kzinti. Their bouncers get scared when we smile with (not even pointy) teeth ffs
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>>5177350
>>Let's capture it. I want that ship.
Forgot to vote
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>>5177350
>>Let's capture it. I want that ship.
>tfw we finally get a bigger ship
>tfw I STILL want to convert a superfreighter into a battleship later
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>>5177704
wouldn't getting an actual battleship be better? like, i get the appeal of converting a freighter, but at that point getting the real deal would be better than messing with a juryrigged ship
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>>5177704
You and me both. Converting a shipping freighter into a combat worthy ship sounds fun.

>>5177721
You're right, but the problem is how the fuck would we even get one, let alone afford to buy or repair a scuttled one in a space graveyard? Hence the freighter idea.

If we can help it would should get as many fighters intact as we possibly can, maybe destroy their wings and thrusters with our medium lasers while SHODAN works on hacking their fighter to turn of their engines and guns.
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>>5177721
We'd still have to retrofit a battleship, and we aren't big enough to get away with buying one, let alone outfitting it. A freighter is perfect for our needs right now, and our tech is excellent improvised armaments to hook up to our new hauler.
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>>5177721
>implying these chucklehead aliens create battleships up to snuff with our superior human standards
I bet their freighters are better built anyway. These chumps probably barely even know what war is.

Besides we need the extra space. For a basketball court. And a football field. And a race track.
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>>5177728
this is definitely a hypothetical far into the future, but:
the logistic problems you have with the freighter are more or less the ones that you get with a battleship but worse. we still need to find a space worthy ship, repair it, give it a weapons system, and armor it up.
that being said, i can see it happening as an intermediate step before saving enough money or getting enough reputation to get a battleship.

>>5177735
ok we're on the same page then. i really hope this piece of junk we're gonna hit is worthy, but given our previous experiences, i doubt it.
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>>5177735
we're on the same page then. a converted freighter makes sense right now, although making it combat ready will be a huge pain in the ass, because we'd have to plate it, give it weapons and tweak the engines(if they actually work)
>>5177741
something like this is more feasible, specially if we want our space farms
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>>5177447
they are herbivores, what are you expecting they will do?
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>>5177742
Yeah, it's not just about slapping a laser like kyla has done it before but installing all the hardware across the ship and firing computers and systems and uuugh... Of course, hypothetically we could use bluetooth instead of cable or whatever superconductive-in room temperature the ayys use
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>>5177742
If anything, once we upgrade from the retrofitted freighter, we can downgrade it or chance it's purpose back to being a normal freighter, or just used as a farm to raise Doodoos and crops.

>>5177756
Dark matter fuel efficiency is also important. We could try stripping near by ships for parts to save on the cost of buying the materials.

>>5177803
An electricians nightmare, but nothing we can't accomplish with a few days and elbow grease. Between David, Sanig, Clank, and Kyla, it shouldn't take more than a week to get the bare minimum fixed for the freighter sized cruiser, maybe less if David uses the power armor as an improvised fork lift.
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>>5177721
Among other things, I don't want a freighter. I want a SUPERfreighter. If we've got roughly similar size ratios to sea vessels, a superfreighter will be fucking enormous, even compared to a battleship.

Another two reasons are that (1) anti-predator space racism will almost certainly prevent acquiring a battleship and (2) Cochrane confirmed that even the thought of someone like us doing that makes people shit themselves back in thread one or two.
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>>5177836
I can see no fault in your logic, so I will more or less agree with you. That means buying a battleship is extra hard, because we'd have to may eight to nine figures PLUS the predator racism/fear costs. What we can still do is steal and referbish ships we come across, and I especially like your super freighter idea. The super freighter will be a dream in the far future when we have enough people under us to reliably man the systems of a ship that big, but it's a dream to aim for, and having that derelict carrier retrofitted -PLUS ANY FIGHTERS SHIPS WE CN SAVE/SALVAGE- we should have a not so small fighting force.
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>>5177836
>>5177843
that's a really solid plan there, but what if we could also MAKE our own battleship? given how picky david(and us by proxy) is and how hard(in theory) is to get a proper warship, making one or building upon the skeleton of a brand new superfreighter(instead of retrofitting one) would be the way to go
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>>5177858
That would be the ideal, but we'd have to raid a shipyard for it or custom commission one.
>>5177843
Especially if we can get them drone-piloted.
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>>5177843
Oh, and when I meant "prevent" I meant like outright. There're probably already laws in place for preventing civvies from buying battleships/military vessels that an herbivore could squeak/smoothtalk/bribe their way around, but not a predator.
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>>5177350
Why don't we just see if we can get two preprogrammed thrusters ready for it.

One to push it out of the nebula, and another to slow it down once it's out.

Just preprogram/fuel them to the expected amounts for a given direction, and let it rip. should be able to find it in the future given where we plan to send it.
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>>5177871
that wouldn't be as hard though. after capturing xebric we could ask them to buy the skeleton in our stead and finish the build on xebric itself. im pretty sure that the people in the station would love the cash flow that would bring
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>>5177858
Hmmmmm. Yes. I see what you're saying. Might I suggest something?
David should buy, steal, take, or rent a shipyard: a macrosized skeletal facility/ pieces of equipment and have them shipped in a ship graveyard. Preferably not this one due to the super death flares. Preferably at the one Graveyard with the "hidden" pirate base so we can either: recruit, kill, turn in all a majority of the pirates there. Recruit for the sake of finding worthy crew members. Killing and turning in to make a profit (in addition to unlocking their credit accounts by pressing their finger prints against their PDA's.)

If we can gain territorial control of that Graveyard, we can start butchering surrounding ships into parts and welding them together using the shipyard. We can also use the pirate base for raw parts, or disentangle a majority of them to make refurbished individual ships to be carrier in our carrier and SUPER freighter.

>>5177871
Commissioning a ship would cost too much money that we don't have.

Drone piloted ships are iffy due to people not liking unshackled A.I. since they're a mixed bag. They can either be like SHODAN, or a complete galaxy purging asshole like what the Greys had to deal with. What we could do is make VA controlled drones (retarded A.I.), have SHODAN control as many drones as she can micromanage, or just leave it to normal fighter pilots.

>>5177876
lmao, I can't wait to circumvent their stupid space laws.
>no officer, this isn't a overlord class battleship. It's just a modified freighter.

>>5177877
Pushing our the derelict cruiser? Could work, maybe.
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>>5177879
>David should buy, steal, take, or rent a shipyard
in theory the people at xebric will be loyal to us, so we can build everything in the vicinity of the station(so the graveyard like how you said. im pretty sure its close enough) and recruit people from the station itself
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>>5177888
Build the ship at the graveyard. Haul all the part at Xebric and build it there. I'm for which ever solution is the most economically efficient.
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>>5177879
When I said commissioned I meant commission the skeleton.

And I was thinking have the drones controlled by a central AI. Kyla has one that she isn't using, right?
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>>5177894
It's an A.I. leagues dumber than SHODAN, and she's mostly using the A.I. as an arm/builder buddy. Still iffy on the drone idea. I wouldn't be against having the drones be wirelessly controlled by pilots in our ship however. Give them a VR set and let them go to town.
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>>5177894
>>5177898
Of course drones come with their ups and downs. The unmanned fighters can be hijacked by signal jammers or opposing hackers, where as analogue fighter pilots wouldn't have the same issues.
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>>5177898
Best of both worlds, maybe.

Or we give it all to one guy and have VI (IE stupid AI) do squad level while one guy directs. Like an RTS.

Actually, just pick up a Korean Starcraft player and give him control of the drones.
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>>5177879
The biggest issue with going big like that is how many eyes we'll bring on ourselves. We're already on passive surveillance, and will be on active surveillance after the upcoming shit-show. Building a megaship will be noticed. Sending a derelict ship/satellite to a precharted part of space/hidden area while we're not "hot" will leave more aces up our sleeve.
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>>5177902
>Actually, just pick up a Korean Starcraft player and give him control of the drones.
That's a bad choice. a Korean Starcraft player would have only restricted knowledge of a two dimensional map. We need someone who knows how to operate a three dimensional map. Specifically Homeworld and Eve Online players.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An9WcOEWn10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3LaaWBC2Lk
Both are micromangement hell. A Homeworld player would probably excel more with managing a fleet a drones with the help of several VA assistants, while an Eve Online player would be good at maximizing the use of an individual ship plus a hand full of drones.

>>5177910
Whatever is the most credits saving economic choice is what I'll vote for.
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>>5177923
Ah, shit, should've taken the 3rd dimension into account. Yeah get a Homeworld player. A competitive Homeworld player.
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>>5177910
then it makes sense that xebric itself should buy and build the ship no? us being the captain of the ship would only be a happy coincidence
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>>5177933
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPh8imgQtg
More ideas. We could do something very close to the video for gunship class fighters with gunners, or with larger ships with dedicated gunner control rooms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yA1dgX3Jl8

>>5177938
>xebric itself should buy and build the ship no?
But, if Xebric buys and build the station, we would have to pay for it, or the station would want to keep the ship?
What?
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>>5177938
To a megacorp/government, that won't be too hard to discover. A ship that big with that kinda capability is almost certainly going to be traced back as much as it can. It's too noticeable for nobody to make note of it and pass that note to an information broker.

Speaking of, we should prob do some info broking at some point for the crap we're gonna be doing. ideally though a proxy.
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>>5177943
officially xebric would buy it but we'd be paying the for the ship, maybe in the shape of us making several donations to the station and bankrolling a lot of public service works or whatnot. this is too far in the future to consider such things

>>5177945
other than the skeleton, most of the other things can be masked up as upgrades for the station's defenses(even more if we actually upgrade the station's defenses as well). although ideally we wouldn't want to be under the eye of any given megacorp, but that's gonna be hard given that we want to control xebric
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>>5177956
Basically what I'm saying. The more things we prepare while we're low value, the more unknowns our enemies will have to face in the future. Even if it gets out we took spare engines with us, there's no way for them to sus out what they were for. Getting ship repair supplies only lets them know we're working on a ship. It won't let them know we have a carrier.
That's especially true if those repairs are done over a long period of time. For all they know, we just get into a lot of scraps.
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>>5177956
>>5177962
Maybe? Sure? So long as we get our giga ships and DooDoo ship farms running.
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>>5177962
>>5177933
>>5177938
>>5177943
>>5177350
Guys
Space Engineers came out in 2013. David was abducted somewhere around 2013. Do you think he ever played the game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv5Fq2KeSU
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If I may make a small suggestion for our ship of choice.
https://starsector.fandom.com/wiki/Atlas_Mk.II
Seems to be exactly what we're looking for here.
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>>5177973
Already sounds, but I dislike the fact it cant shill out fighters. Any super freighter we retrofit will need serious shielding upgrades to make up for its lack of military grade armor, probably in the form of reactive hardlight armor modules mounted to the exterior hull.
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>>5177970
2016, actually
that means he knows about MGR
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>>5177973
Is that game worthwhile?
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>>5177990
You tell me
https://youtu.be/acqpulP1hLo
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>>5177990
yeah, but i wouldn't recommend it without mods, personally, get dynasector, nexerelin and interestellar imperium. the first two are economy and QoL mods and the other one is a faction
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>>5177990
With mods yea. There's a bunch of em too.
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>>5177350
>>Cylia and i can infiltrate and get your man out. If all goes well, we can avoid fighting at all.

No man left behind.
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>>5177990
Hell yeah it is, mods or not
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>>5177489
>>5177492
>>5177495
I just want to take the ship, and I think it'd be cooler if we challenge their captain to a duel.
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>>5177802
Be cowed by a superior show of force.
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>>5177923
Eve online players will handle logistics and budgeting. They already stare at spreadsheets for hours on end as a hobby.
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>>5178077
It would be cooler, but it is highly unlikely the crew would follow through with it. Just because the captain is honorable doesn't mean the same could be said for his crewmates, you feel me?

>>5178079
David could and should max out the external speakers to his PA and do a real guttural roar when he's in a breathable environment so people can actually hear him. Something really blood curdling.

>>5178080
Oh yeah, professional Eve players are real whack when it comes to spread sheets, budgeting, reading market prices. Eve is fucking crazy.
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>>5178163
>Oh yeah, professional Eve players are real whack when it comes to spread sheets, budgeting, reading market prices. Eve is fucking crazy.
>okay so I checked the latest mining sales and tracked the suppliers and their routes to find where all the ore is procing
>then I went ahead and looked at everyone's blueprints on backlog
>afterwards I checked the most consistent logins and session time for everyone in the quadrant
>so I can safely say that if we cause a blackout in Louisville, Kentucky at precisely 7:41 PM we can save boost our profits by 2%
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>>5178199
They'd do it too. Remember the guy who cut the power at the house of the guy who was the pilot of that titan ship in irl so he could steal it.
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>>5178199
I can believe this.

>>5178391
I recalled a story of some dude infiltrating a faction for months or years, climb his way up, then stole everything. If we're grabbing an Eve Player we should probably do a background search, you know so we dont pick a little spiteful bastard.
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>>5177350
>Let's capture it. I want that ship.
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>>5178582
> so we dont pick a little spiteful bastard

Eve is composed of spite. "Capitalism" and spite.
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>>5178582
>>5178582
>I recalled a story of some dude infiltrating a faction for months or years, climb his way up, then stole everything. If we're grabbing an Eve Player we should probably do a background search, you know so we dont pick a little spiteful bastard.

A few months and he just applied for climbing the ranks and got more privileges than he asked or hoped for. the main aim was to get info but when he got the chance to do more damage with a few clicks than a good portion of the war he took it and emptied everything in the alliance storage he could get his hands on.
It was a intelligence operation of a rival alliance, and got more successful than it was hoped for.

Its not spiteful people its committed and dedicated people to living out the space power fantasy, and willing to go full on to win and have fun at the expense of the rivals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjY-TBDj1Ps
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>>5178651
Ah I see. My opinion of him has improved. Any other autistically dedicated types of people we should take from earth? Australians? Floridians? A zoologist?
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>>5178668
Why would you inflict Floridians on the galaxy? They're not even deathworlders-within-a-deathworld like Aussies, they're just retarded.
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>>5178668
unironically, politicians. or at least a con artist that wont try to fuck us. diplomacy isn't our forte and cylia can't be our face forever
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>>5178651
>>5178668
There were multiple such events.

Mittani is rather famous for managing one of the first EVE intel ops and recruiting or convincing disgruntled or vulnerable directors of other alliances and cleaning them out, preempting merc hacks and then using said unpaid merc hacker on his former employer, and being involved with the russians who had the power to a titan pilots irl address cut - the event that made him stay the hell away from russian alliances.

Thig is EVE is played by people who find the idea of having to deal with excel spreadsheets and data analysis in their entertainment to not be a problem.
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>>5178672
competent pseudo glowies that handle politicians.
Trouble is the majority of the current crop of glowies in the entire world are very untrustworthy and the ones who might be competent enough to warrant that price are already swamped with work and probably love it.

A good deal maker or negotiator might be something we want. Someone who has experience in large scale institutions and knows how to get info out of them about what they actually want.
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>>5178672
I'd rather we not dip our fingers in /pol/iticians. Anyone of them could be a glowfag.

>>5178676
How terrible
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>>5178689
>Someone who has experience in large scale institutions and knows how to get info out of them about what they actually want.
An elementary school teacher?
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>>5178691
it doesn't need to be a politician, just someone that is good at dealmaking like >>5178689 said
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>>5178703
Then who? Who can fill this role?
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My head is exploding harder than the bombs in ukraine right now, so today's update will be late if it goes through.
Sorry lads. Here, have a nice picture of your sister.
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>>5178724
>sister
>alabama
oh no
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>>5178724
It's all good. Take it easy and have a good rest chief.
Damn, sis looking mighty fine.
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>>5178724
David should fuck his sister again. It's been too long.
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>>5177973
NO THAT'S TOO POWERFUL DON'T
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>>5177973
Why don't we just get a massive gun and strap engines to it?
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>>5178778
Isn't that what they did for the A-10?
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>>5178781
yeah they built the plane around the gun, then slapped on armor
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>>5178726
If anybody's gonna fuck MY SISTER...
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>>5178794
>inb4 we're actually gonna be like Chris Refield and demand any exemplar of their species fuck our sister to continue the Rockefeller bloodline
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>>5178816
Unlike Chris, David isn't completely averse to fucking a female that's clearly into him.
Seriously, why Chris never went for Jill or Sheva is beyond me.
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>>5178825
Chris is on the juice. He knows his genes are inferior to Claire's. He's a real eugenicist homie.
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>>5178816
That's not how biology works. We need a pure red blooded human, preferably one of our strongest friends.
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>>5178839
Fuck biology we in space nigga
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>>5178840
>space niggers
The worst
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>>5178163
Play the noise that Elk make. It sounds like the noise they'd use for a monster in a psychological horror game.
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>>5178853
>Predators despite consisting of only 13% of the galactic population
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>>5178778
BRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTttt. Fwoooosh RrrrrBRRRRRRRRRUUuRRRRTtt WHOMP Whooooosh
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>>5178860
What ever the case might be I hope one of our Marine buddies is named Leon, and our sister is named Claire. I want to break into a music number and demand Leon fuck David's sister.
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>>5177350

The flight to your target location doesn't take very long. It's quite close to Thekia station, to the point of being visible in the night sky from there.
When you get there, it's exactly what Gron claimed it was. A hot cloud of gas peppered with gigantic lightning strikes that stretch out so far you've actually got enough time to watch them travel.

Your radar is picking up all kinds of interference here, but your subspace sensors immediately pick up several energy signatures within the cloud, mostly clustered in one small area. That must be the graveyard.

"Captain, i am not detecting a carrier-class subspace signature. If the ship is there, it must be in an unpowered state."

"Gron said it only moved on occasion. A carrier ship must be huge, right? They're just pirates, so maybe they can't afford the fuel to keep it running."

"It is likely that they will have reserved fuel to move it as necessary."

"Mmm. We'll deal with that when we get to it. For now, we need to figure out what we're doing next. Is the commlink set up?"

"Affirmative, Captain. Kyla has supplied Captain Gron and his crew with the blueprints, and he confirmed their installation shortly before launch."

"Alright. Try the laser first, if the gas is too thick then we can switch to microwave."

You grin as one of your pulsed laser cannons comes to life and aims directly at Gron's ship, visible as a speck in the near distance.

After a short pause, one of Gron's lasers does the same. You can see it lighting up faintly from your cockpit as it's beam washes over your ship.
Your comms channel crackles as the signal clears up.

["Captain Rockefeller? Do you hear me, captain?"]

["Aye, i hear you Captain Kordunn. Looks like the optical linkage is working fine at this distance. Go ahead and speak freely, i promise you nobody's listening in."]

["Fascinating. I never would have thought to use laser weaponry as a communications device."]

["More importantly... We're not picking up the carrier's signature. I assume it's the same on your end?"]

["Yes. Nothing on our scanners either. We'll have to head in and risk contact if we want to find anyone."]

["Woah, woah, woah. I didn't say we had nothing on the scanners. Just not the carrier. I have seven distinct signatures clustered at these co-ordinates.]

You press a few buttons and transfer the data to Gron's terminal. It takes a moment over the relatively slow optical link.

["I... I see. You must have an exceptional sensor package on that ship."]

["Grey-made, baby."] You rap your knuckles against the sheet metal wall next to your pilot seat.

["Of course. In that case, we surely have the element of surprise. Shall we take advantage of it?"

>Sure. Let's find someone who's a little too far away from the others and "have a chat" with them
>Nah, there's no need to go that far against some punk pirates. Not with the two of us, anyways. Let's go in guns blazing.
>Write-in?
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Nice trip, retard. Whoopsie.
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>>5179009
>Nah, there's no need to go that far against some punk pirates. Not with the two of us, anyways. Let's go in guns blazing.
let's show these pirates our massive rack of missiles
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>>5179009
>>Sure. Let's find someone who's a little too far away from the others and "have a chat" with them

The less we stress our ships, the better in the long run. Might even result in us being able to fake their transponder/communications.
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>>5179009
>Sure. Let's find someone who's a little too far away from the others and "have a chat" with them
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>>5179009
>Nah, there's no need to go that far against some punk pirates. Not with the two of us, anyways. Let's go in guns blazing.
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>>5179009
>Sure. Let's find someone who's a little too far away from the others and "have a chat" with them
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>>5179009
>Sure. Let's find someone who's a little too far away from the others and "have a chat" with them
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>>5179009
>Sure. Let's find someone who's a little too far away from the others and "have a chat" with them
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>>5179009
>Sure. Let's find someone who's a little too far away from the others and "have a chat" with them
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>>5179009
>["Fascinating. I never would have thought to use laser weaponry as a communications device."]
'kay, we need to make a patent or something of this and start selling this shit
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>>5179009

["Sure. Let's find someone who's a little too far away from the others and "have a chat" with them, shall we?"]

["I'll follow your lead then, Captain."]

You cut the commlink and start looking over the sensor data. Two of the signatures stand out as being farther from the main cluster, and you pick one of them to target.
Shortly after, you close the distance with Gron's ship and make visual contact with the pilot. It's not Gron himself, surprisingly, but that Caithan boy. Asta, you think was his name?

He flips you off as soon as he sees you.
You ignore it and signal him to follow you, which he does.

Once you enter the nebula itself, several alarms immediately go off.

"Captain, i am detecting excessively high background radiation. For the safety of the crew, we will need to hold shields at 5%."

"Do it." You order. "What's this high discharge warning?"

"There is a massive charge imbalance from one portion of the cloud to the next. As we pass through the boundaries, our own ship experiences a high degree of discharge through the shield emitters. They are being overloaded, and may overheat if they take direct fire while passing through a boundary."

"Well that's just wonderful. Let's hope all they've got is lasers, and the aero armor holds up."

"It is unlikely that a common pirate could hold a lock on you, captain."

"Maybe if we were empty, but we've been adding on and on lately. I'm not sure how much extra weight we're carrying, but i can feel it in the ass end."

"Even so, Captain. I have run quite a few combat simulations, and your erratic movements are quite effective even at lower speeds."

"Well, that's good to know."

Before long you close the distance to your unsuspecting enemy and enter stealth, reducing reactor output to minimum and engaging heatsinks.

"Captain, we've got another problem."

"Oh boy. What is it now, SHODAN?"

"The ambient heat of the gas is reducing our heatsink's effectiveness. They aren't radiating properly. In fact, the entire skin of the ship is quite warm."

"Well, it's a good thing we installed active cooling then, huh? Vent some water vapor as necessary. Nobody's going to see it in this gas cloud, anyways."

"Affirmative, Captain."

That does worry you a bit. You might be fine after all, but what about Gron? You hope he's alright out here.
Once you reach the minimum safe distance, SHODAN engages the ship's cloak. From Gron's perspective, you simply disappear from his sensors entirely. Only his pilot frantically looking back and forth between you and his equipment panel proves you still exist.

["Alright, Gron. It's our turn for now. Sorry, i'm gonna have to ask you to sit back and watch."]

["You worried me there for a moment, Captain. I'm shocked that you can hide so well."]

["Grey-made, remember?"] You rap your knuckles against the wall again.

["Yes... of course. Ehem. I suspect you intend to board them?"]

["You know me well."]
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>>5179425

["Take Javan with you. She's an expert at infiltration, and i'm certain she'd be an asset."]

["Javan? The snake-girl?"]

["She's a Sevinite, yes. Capable of fitting through small vents and into crawlspaces with ease."]

>Alright, send her over. We can always use some backup.
>Thanks, but no thanks. I prefer to work with my own crew.
>Write-in?
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>>5179428
>Alright, send her over. We can always use some backup.
Ask why she has fat fucking tiddies. They're nice dont get me wrong, but I didnt know reptilian species can have tits. The boys back home will go bananas over this.
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>>5179428
>Alright, send her over. We can always use some backup.
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>>5179428
>Alright, send her over. We can always use some backup.

>>5179434
in space anything can have titties. snakes, mold, cats...anything goes
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>>5179428

>Alright, send her over. We can always use some backup.
>Why she got fat tiddies
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>>5179448
Snake bros rise up
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>>5179428
>>Alright, send her over. We can always use some backup.
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>>5179434
This. Ask why she has titties first
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>>5179528
david is literally fucking mold with tits. why would this specifically surprise him?
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>>5179434
Venom sacs, obviously. Because she's a quitter. I mean, spitter.
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>>5179530
Because he's curious why reptiles have tits.
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WHAT'S UP WITH THE TITS HUH?
Is it like previous thread where I posted kid-unfriendly images about snake nipples?
Not that I can now because hiromoot range-banned my ass
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>>5179568
Jesse, What the fuck are you saying?
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>>5179528
I believe someone said those are supposed to be venom sacks, but what do I know.
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>>5179608
What if they're purely for sexual display, like peacock tails and red baboon butts.
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>>5179630
>>5179608
I want to suck on venom sacks.

>>5179428
Can David start building up a tolerance to poisons?
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>>5179643
Imagine if the venom turns out to have narcotic and aphrodisiac effects on humans instead of killing us.
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>>5179652
Then that would be stupid. It should be an exfoliating agent for us, clearly. For silky smooth skin just milk your snake waifu. Whether this means grabbing the tits or squeezing the teeth no one knows.
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>>5179652
>implying its not going to be hot sauce, just a tad spicier than habanero
david would be a very happy man indeed
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>>5179722
Space snake milk hot sauce?
Market it.

>>5179428
Ask SHODAN descretely if the snake aliens have weird snake holes. Like a cloaca.
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>>5179724
>Market it.
for earth, yeah, but not for your average space gas bag
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>Be David
>Remember biology class
>You can learn the gender of a snake if you press the tip of their tail!
>Two massive bulbous penises emerge from Javan
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>>5179834
>proceeds to clasp forearms and talk about sports
After you've compared dick sizes with your buds its all uphill from there. Unless you're one of those wimpy insecure homo types.
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silent screaming
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>>5179837
>sexing probe

biology sure is a fun field. lets not forget the cat milkers and rat masturbaters
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>>5179428
What do you think about our discussion on recruitment Cochrane? We talked about recruiting autistic furries or something as potential recruit, we're 100% going to bring in our old vet buddies if they're not doing anything, we're going to bring our dog and potentially inject it with the all purpose gene oxygen thing (super buff dog when). What do you think about the idea of Drones controlled by 3D RTS gamers? People who play Homeworld and Eve Online? Any merit to that and recruiting coom empowered autists?
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>>5180286
I want engineers for our custom navy. Vet buddies sure, dog sure, Homeworld and EVE people sure, but EVE folk might be better used in accounting, corporate planning, or as officers
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>>5180304
Any EVE player good enough at what they do to be worth recruiting is inherently untrustworthy.
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>>5180304
Where would we find engineers not suffused in glowfag control? Oh! Those robot rumble competition, or grab that Colin Furze YouTube guy?
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>>5180331
Then we pick a moderately good player, or st least the best player we can find that has a relatively karmic ally good history as a person and online player?
Tbf this anon made a good point. >>5178651
>Its not spiteful people its committed and dedicated people to living out the space power fantasy, and willing to go full on to win and have fun at the expense of the rivals.
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>>5180331
>how to ensure my EVE players won't sell me out to aliens
>they also play Stellaris
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>>5180286
You know some guys in the military, particularly in the navy who might join you.
However, David's "real" friend group was very small, and most of them died the day he got ambushed.

Besides them, you could absolutely go recruiting random fatasses off the internet if you wanted. I'm sure some of them would be very motivated just by the prospect of leaving earth.
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>>5180357
Only the peak of /fit/ autists will be recruited.
I want to see Cylia's despair.
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>>5179428

["Alright, send her over. We can always use some backup..."]

You pause. Something is bothering you... but you hesitate to ask Gron himself.
There's only one person you can rely on for questions like these.

["I'll handle the docking. That'll be all, Gron."]

["Steady footing, Captain."]

"..."

"I know that look, Captain. What's bothering you?"

"...Do uh... do you have any data on Sevinites?"

"What sort of data, Captain?"

"You know... medical?"

"Yes, there is a bit. Sevinites are an uncommon race, but not unheard of. What are you interested in, Captain?"

"Alright, look... this stays between you and me, alright?"

"Of course, Captain."

"So, Sevinites are snakes, right? So they're reptiles?"

"Correct. They are essentially "reptilian" in the same sense as reptiles from earth."

"Then why does she have tits?"

"...Sorry?"

"If she's a reptile, why does she have titties. Are they venom sacs? Do they birth live young despite being reptilian? What, what are they for?"

"Hmm. That's odd, now that you mention it. Although i have complete records of Sevinite biology, there is no mention of the actual purpose of said tissue."

"What are they made of? Is it just fat?"

"No. Although there is a thick layer of fat, they also appear to contain a significant amount of muscle, contributing to their upper body strength."

"No venom, though? Milk glands, anything?"

"Nothing on record. Just fat and muscle, captain."

"So it's natural. She didn't get a boob-job or something, they all have them. And there's no snake-milk either. Gotta be decorative..."

"Sorry, Captain?"

"Decorative. You know, for showing off. Like a peacock's tail feathers or a baboon's ass."

"Hmm. They certainly seem to have done their job on you then, Captain."

"Look, i played XCOM. If i see a real example of that shit, i gotta know about it."

"XCOM? Ah, i see... the snake ladies."

"Yes, the snake ladies."

"I suppose i should warn you then. She does in fact have a cloaca."

"...Why would you need to warn me about that?"

"Because i've seen your search history."

"Dude... that doesn't mean i'm gonna go for it."

"You might, though."

"Hey, i'll try anything once."

"Captain Kirk would be proud."

...

Not long after you dock with Gron's ship, the airlock doors open and reveal Javan, a very, very tall snake-lady.
Well, most of the height is in her tail. Fortunately, your corridors are sized for larger races, so she doesn't have any issues fitting in.

"Niccce Ssship, Captain." She hisses.

"Thanks. I killed the previous occupants for it myself."

"Not all of them, i presssume?"

She glances past you to look at Sanig, who's currently fiddling with a panel on the wall.

"Nah, he came later. He's a good guy though, don't worry about him. C'mon, you can hole up in the cargo bay for now."
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>>5180381
SHODAN you smartass, we love ya.
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>>5180381
New Objective:
Fuck the Snake Lady
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>>5180388
Wrong

New Objective:
Find out how to headpat SHODAN
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>>5180389
>>>5180381
just slap whatever part of the ship and call it a day
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>>5180381
>Grays gave snakes tiddies for humanity.

Calling it now.
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>>5180389
>Find out how to make SHODAN feel like a real waifu
FTFY
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>>5180400
why not integrate an instance of her into an ai-assisted rifle?

Then we'd have
A RAIFU WAIFU
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>>5180414
>have mini SHODAN inside rifle
>OG SHODAN Gets jealous
>commits genocide against the human population.
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>>5180400
Make a gynoid body (or several) for her to remotely control already. For cuddles and an extra pair of hands for ship maintenance or repelling boarders.
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>>5180380
This is some baki imagining-tier power
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>>5180381
Based Cochrane, this is why I love SHODAN.
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>>5180434
I'll give you a "hand of god" discount on this. 40k to develop a 2B body based on Clank's frame and David's memories. It'll be an option during the next R&D.
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>>5180508
You should let us choose how the body should look like.
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>>5180510
You get to pick hair and clothes colors take it or leave it.

Honestly this is for SHODAN more than us. She'd be able to finally play the drums which I'm sure is her greatest electric dream. So I'd take it regardless of the end result.
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>>5180508
>>5180510
>>5180512
I dont see a point of investing into this research, unless SHODAN wanted to shill her own cash and wanted this.
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>>5180633
>getting another competent figure with THE BIGGEST brainpower possible
>no point
Sure, I guess? Don't know why you need a reason to do something nice for someone, anyway.
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>>5180633
I know. We should only do this after taking out Big Baddy
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>>5180434
So we're going to give a really think body right?
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>>5180732
Think?
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>>5180637
The problem is if she even wants a body. Better to ask SHODAN another time. If sometime cool comes from the 40k research AI cost => Gynoid body project, then cool cool. I only hope that whatever we learn from the experience can be translated into aiding in the discovery of how to create our own augments, or some new fangled research skill tree we can invest in. If SHODAN really wants to get that sweet android body she can always throw her shekkles in?

>>5180732
>>5180749
If she wants it and asks? Why not? Who are we to assume she's not content? Then again, how would we know without asking? Hmmm.
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>>5180732
>>5180749
>>5180777
I was insulting the Anon's ability to write Thick, and obviously SHODAN wants to fail stealth with the clap of her booty cheeks.
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https://homeworld.fandom.com/wiki/Kuun-Lan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlQ8iNJLfyA
Me still wanting to convert big super capital cargo ships into super carriers / traveling military base. Homeworld Cataclysm makes me believe we could do something like that with the mining fleet we'll be receiving, in addition to using those ships for their intended purposes.

Recruitment ideas so far:
>some guys in the military, particularly in the navy who might join you
>what few real friends David still has on earth. The ones that aren't dead.
>network with navy and military buddies to see if we can recruit glowie-free air force pilots. See if their fighter pilot training can be transfered over to space ships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBoiW460nU
>Military chefs?
Don't know if those are real positions in the military. Just anyone David knows in the military, or in his normal day to day life that was exceptionally good at cooking, possibly better than him.
>Homeworld and Eve Online players
for combat drones management, economics, accounting, corporate planning, and management jobs (falls under the "recruiting random fatasses off the internet if you wanted" category)
>Farm expert(s)
to take care of all the Doodoos and potential earth crops we want to bring (potentially David's sister? some people she might know.) Preferably someone who can dabble in aero and aqua ponics to maximize crop output and space that can be utilized. Aquaponic set ups can support the grow of both plants and fish.
>Dog. woof.
(apply gene mods to make dog stronger and increase longevity beyond the average 15 years) Russia sent like a ton of monkeys and dogs out into space. Our best boy will be the first ever dog to leave his solar system. period. Eat your heart out Russia.
>Someone who's close to a Doctor and a Veterinarian.
Doctor's specialize in humans, Veterinarian might have a better time transferring their animal knowledge to aliens (See Zoidburg from Futurama). No fucking clue where we could begin with this, perhaps old dudes, college washouts, back alley clinics? Fuck if I know.

Anyone got any good ideas on who we could, should, and would recruit?

>>5180785
SHODAN has picked Cortana of all things to be her virtual-to-holographic avatar of all things, so you must be onto something regarding her desire for thickness.
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>>5180777
I see Christmas never comes at all in your household. Because you have no concept of gifts.

Seriously though do you really think she'd turn down having a way of interacting with the stuff inside the ship beyond flashing lights and playing with the gravity? Even if she sees it as nothing more than another tool it's a very useful one to increase the independence and productivity of the ship. I'm sure she prefer to do it herself instead of calling someone and waiting for them to get on it. Use your head, my very autistic friend.
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>>5180804
Dude I don't know. She's got like a 50 Intelligence Score. She could be thinking anything. I have my doubts is what I'm saying. Maybe we can do it after we've secured Xebric and acquired a steady supply of income.
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>>5180806
>She could be thinking anything.
That is false. Because she cannot be thinking what she isn't thinking. Therefore while she can be thinking something she can't be thinking anything.
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>>5180804
Your being very autistic in denying our desire to give our shipfu hands.
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>>5180789
pie in the sky I want to steal/persuade a Skunk Works or similar classified development division to work for us in space.
Recruiting:
>military
Sure, we're gonna need to get space marines from somewhere but we need to develop suits/methods of boarding for them
>air force pilots
Hell yeah. I'd like to see how human reaction times compare, especially with folk who do it professionally
>EVE/Homeworld
eeeeh, kinda no for reasons ill get into later. we have better options, and I'm against recruiting people who are both sociopaths and loose cannons
>Farming/agricultural experts
A hundred times this. Any kind of scientist would be great
>dog
dog
>Doctor/Veterinarian
you're thinking of a xenobiologist. that's a field, though not a real one so I'd probably just get some regular biologists and let them define the specialization.

In short, the goal is to adapt alien tech to human tech/metallurgy/abilities. We have no hope of doing this without highly educated, highly experienced individuals. We need as many of these people from as many fields as possible. We have a few ways of going about this.
>murica
Expose ourselves to the US government. Get immediate R&D and financial backing of an entire country. Get the bureaucratic nightmare and political fuckery of an entire country. Though appealing (especially with the R&D there's no par replacement for that) I'd advise against it
>Corporate
Grab a asteroid full of gold/platinum/whatever from the Belt, refine it, infiltrate Earth, and start a shady R&D firm that finds people as specified above, loads them up with NDAs, and takes them off world to Outer Heaven or wherever to work. Probably the best option we've got, but we're a grunt, we don't know how to start a corp.
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>>5180811
Did you jumble up some letters there?
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>>5180809
Ah but that's what you think :^)

>>5180811
We're all autists right now, including you. Was you post meant for me? I'm telling you, as soon as we slap those Space CEO cheeks we can focus on SHODAN, or finalize the prototype phase of the power armor, or finish the skin suits, or finish the other projects. Fuck I could really go for some shielded power armor Kool-aiding it's way through a destroyer class starship.

>Skunk Works or similar development division
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
good idea

>but we need to develop suits/methods of boarding for them
Uniforms? Still somewhat in the air, probably in the stratosphere by now. We're damn sure equipping everyone with a skinsuit though, and the same genemod David got.

>air force pilots
Mhmm. Thing about air force pilots is that they gotta do things like leaning into the turn....I think, and need to wear specialized suits so the blood in their body doesn't go else where all at once and render them unconscious. I think out in space or away from any massive planets they shouldn't have to suffer the same problems, so they may or may not actually do even better in space. What I do think we should do is make something like a motion simulator game rig for our pilots and anyone else to practice their piloting skills so they don't get rust. Space fuel ain't cheap you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGSvenu4oAE

>EVE/Homeworld
Fair points, my thoughts were super hyper focus guys who liked what they did might be good picks. What better options do you got?

>Farming/agricultural experts
Grab literally any farmer, grab DIY farmers who are really passionate about their jobs/hobbies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBspR2p0YYM
You might be, probably are right about grabbing a scientist. I only brought up hobbiest cuz I thought they might come with less strings attached. There comes a problem if who we recruit wants to bring their family/others along, which makes things more complicated.

All in all these are some interesting ideas your spitting, with their own ups and downs. The shady R&D firm is also interesting. The biggest issue here, is how we could possibly sneak back onto earth without NASA finding out. Then again, the greys were able to do it. So if they can do it, we can too.
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>>5180818
>Ah but that's what you think :^)
Bold of you to assume I have the capacity for independent thought.
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>>5180508
By '2B body' means hyper-realistic right? Like warm soft feeling skin, artificial muscles for those delicious muscle contractions when moving, sex pheromones, self cleaning and lubricating vagina, mouth with taste buds and salivary glands, etc..

How do we even explain to the crew that those are necessary? "I just miss the company of another human body?"

Remember the living onahole that was made for us? Why not make use of it and implant it into the gynoid? It will give us an excuse to give her a limited digestive system to have her at the dinner table with us unless we plan on feeding her semen intravaginally regularly.
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>>5180831
>self cleaning and lubricating vagina, mouth with taste buds and salivary glands, etc..
We could hook up the Ultimate Sex toy we never used to her, it has USB support.
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>>5180831
Wait, you did say that great idea, brilliant minds think alike.
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>>5180831
Way to make it weird.
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Oh wait I thought of one, just say a gynoid needs to be ultrarealistic to get across the 'uncanny valley.' Say that it will be uncomfortably creepy for us if she weren't to that level of realism.

I mean you'll be creeped out seeing a realistic android without a dick bulge, right? She needs the boobs and pussy or else it just won't feel right.
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>>5180831
Oh wait, I just thought of one. Just say (albeit truthfully) that she needs to be hyper realistic to get across the uncanny valley. Say that it is needed to not give us the creeps and the jeebies.

I mean you'll be freaked out seeing a male synth without a dick bulge in his pants right? She needs the ass and pussy or else it won't feel right. Imagine knowing a hot girl born without a vagina, you'll have uncomfortable conflicting feelings inside while interacting with her. Social interactions with her will be more fluidly human and natural knowing that she 'can' be fucked, even if she won't allow it. It's just human instinct.
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>>5180836
>>5180837
Fuuuuug I thought my post did not push through after 9 minutes of refreshing. Thought I could retype it.
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>>5180839
What in the actual fuck are you talking about? Not once have I ever thought when looking at some satanic robot with staring, lifeless eyes and a rigid plastic face, or a puppet with it's borderline caricature visage that a dick would make it okay.
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>>5180841
I was referencing the synthetic humans from Fallout 4, completely indistinguishable from a real human being. Now imagine seeing a real human dude without a dick. Creepy.
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>>5180843
So they look like a Ken doll, so what? Still not creepy. Weird? Yeah sure. Confusing, probably.

Creepy is seeing a meth head on the end of a street. All emaciated and shit.
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>>5180846
https://youtu.be/LAn5Hwb7Y94?t=80
It just does not feel right
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>>5180848
Still not creepy. Just strange.
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>>5180849
But strange enough that not giving SHODAN a vagina will feel strange
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>>5180850
No it's not you fucking sex fiend mong, Jesus.
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>>5180852
We want to interact with her like a real girl. Which is hard to do with a vaginaless one.
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>>5180855
Nigga how would you know? Ain't no one on here fucks.
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>>5180860
I fuck
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>>5180864
And I'm the president of Azerbaijan.
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>>5180864
Just stop
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mxOnDK3+ anon, you need to get laid, man. or at the very least jack off before writing shit
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>>5180381

Javan slows down and peeks into each room as she passes, taking note of your crewmates along the way.

"Your crew isss... very diverssse, captain."

"So's yours. I visited your home base, so i know. There's just straight up no data on a lot of the guys there."

"Yessss. Many raccces from uncccivilized ssspace... are unwelcome in the wider community. They are "unproven" according to the councccil."

"Unproven how?"

"They have not proven that they won't causssse trouble. That they are not violent. That their moralsss and culture are not incompatible with the wantsss and desssiresss of the councccil."

You scoff.

"Hoo boy, there's gonna be trouble when they find out about us, then. My people aren't very good at taking "no" for an answer."

"You would be wissse not to poke the ssslyvern'sss nessst. The ssscattered remnants of my people are living tessstament to that."

You start to ask her about it, but she rushes ahead as soon as the weapons fab comes into view.

"Thisss isss... a cussstom desssign? It hasss been modified."

"Hands off, lizard brain!" You hear Sanig yell from the hall.

Javan looks over the rather sparse armor covering her limbs and torso. It consist of ceramic-coated metal plates backed by fabric, which slide over eachother to increase flexibility.
The ceramic coating is chipped, burned and cracked here and there, and the metal plates themselves appear warped and dented. They're in pretty bad condition.

"Captain... if you don't mind?" She asks.

"No, go ahead." You offer.

Javan carefully strips out of her armor, revealing her bare... scales. Her "breasts" don't have nipples, as you expected. They don't even entirely look like breasts, but rather a breast-shaped mound on her chest.
They don't look bad or anything, but you're not sure how to feel about it. And of course, you're careful not to stare.

Javan places her armor in the fab's magnetic field, and you grab the interface helmet for her.
It takes her longer than you expected to finish the repairs, but she does eventually manage it. Her armor is back in decent condition, and she slips it back on while wagging the very tip of her tail happily.

"Thank you, Captain. Finding an unlocked fabricator isss quite rare, ssso maintaining our equipment isss difficult."

Sanig walks in while looking down at a spreadsheet on his holopad.

"Kid, did you let that smoothbrain operate the nanofab? I said hands off!"

You're kind of taken aback by his tone. As far as you know, he hasn't got any reason to hate Javan, so...?

"What's the matter, Sanig? Why don't you want her using it?"

"Because she's a smoothbrain, moron. Using that neural interface places a lot of stress on the mind. Even for us, it takes a lot of practice to use it without hurting yourself or breaking something, understand?"

"Eh? She used it just fine, though. Little slow, maybe, but i didn't see any issues. And i didn't need any training, either. I just picked it up and used it."
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>>5180985
Heh, right lizards got smooth brains.

QM? Did we share any earth songs with our crew mates yet? What did Davud share?
https://youtu.be/CqnU_sJ8V-E

Any Anons have any ideas for songs to share with the greater galactic community?
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>>5181040
fortunate son, obviously. it shall become out war cry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I
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>>5181040
Sea shanties
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>>5180850
jack off before you post, guys

>>5180818
>marines
Skinsuits for sure yeah. I'm not sure if I want to go full power armor for every grunt, (depends on power armor mass production, but since it's literally powered by antimatter I'd say no/only for SF) I'm a sucker for HALO so I think our armor cosmetics should be based on the ODST BDU, which in our quest would take the form of a vacuum rated bodysuit with body armor on it.
>I think out in space or away from any massive planets they shouldn't have to suffer the same problems, so they may or may not actually do even better in space.
I think hey would be subject to even worse g forces in space, but the deal here is that we have gravity manipulation tech. We decide whenever we want there to be gravity or not. Also, David has disabled the gravity field around himself to better feel for the ship (I think with Laggard's fight?) so if we can take it, a person specifically trained and equipped to do it would be very, very scary.
>EVE
I have no real replacement for that niche. My point is that I think we should be focusing on R&D more than operations at this point, and EVE people would fall into the category of operations right now. Homeworld folk would be pretty good actually, especially for drone mining but I view people from EVE now as risks. (even though I used to play EVE for a year lol)
>hobbyists come with less strings attatched
Yes, but if we do the R&D firm bit then we can just pay those strings away, so to speak.
>sneak back onto earth
I'm a little bit worried about this but if they Greys pulled it off then we should be able to as well.

>>5180985
reminds me Cochrane did we ever buy/install the radar module? might help us in this situation

>>5181040
maybe irish revolutionary songs? This is what I'm listening to right now though and it feels very space batte-y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFfybn_W8Ak
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>>5181057
Yes, you have radar and all your other upgrades installed at this point.
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>>5180985
>I just picked it up and used it.
kek, they never catch a break.
Everytime our crew begins to adjust to a certain dick size for mankind's prowess, David just increases it.
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>>5181063
So what's Sanig gonna say when we tell him that there's also plenty of wild animals on Earth that also have wrinkled brains.
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>>5181279
>tfw because Earth is such a hostile environment half of everything had to get smarter as well as stronger
Man fuck that planet.
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>>5181279
wait until he learns about octopii and ravens
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>>5181279
I don't remember how long ago and the circumstances, but we did tell him that.
He went something like
>so you all just naturally evolved the pinnacle of grey bio-engineering? thats such bullshit
We kinda lost the window to retort that maybe the greys copied our genes in the first place. Because we did theorize that due to his appreciation of coffee.
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>>5181285
We just told him that Humans have wrinkled brains.
We didn't say anything about Dolphins, Elephants, or Camels, to name a few.
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>>5181057
carpenter brut is fucking insane in a good way
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d-don't all animals have wrinkles? IRL I mean
oh shit koalas are smooth
I know from my med books that there is a think called lisencefalia (we use Agiria more)
https://imgur.com/a/0JcKwHG
here have a short read. Yeah, thanks hiromoot I am LOVING the rangeban
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My bad, went back to check, you're right.
I probably confused part of the discussion we had after that and confused it with what QM said.
Hype for Sanig's canon reaction then.
In my defense that was 6 months ago.
...
That was 6 months already, damn.

Three more months and we hit a year boys.
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>>5181302
SIX MONTHS? FUCK OFF THERE IS NO WAY-
oh god february is over
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http://www.findaspider.org.au/info/images/Salticid%20nervous%20syst%20diag.jpg
huh...
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>>5181302
I will bake boob cupcakes in celebration.
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>>5181302
Damn, i honestly didn't think it'd stay going this long, but it do.
99% of quests die in the first thread or two after all.
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>>5181383
Thank you boss for keeping the quest alive despite life happening in your side. This is one of the most fun things I have these days. May the quest live for many half years more. Love you. No homo
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It's been a wild ride man.
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>>5181418
This is so fucking grimderpy. I love it.
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>>5181417
>Despite life happening on your side
Oh man, you have no fucking idea. Most of it i keep quiet about, even in private, but the past two years have been a hell of a ride for me.
If it ever gets to the point where i can't pay my bills and my internet gets shut off, i'll let you lads know.
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>>5181418
>this nigga's gun got THREE FUCKING TRIGGERS and one of them is poised to blow the fucking bayonet off
What a wild fucking ride.
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>>5181475
now that you say that, the barrel of the grenade launcher is right behind the bayonet. dude won't have a nice day if he decides to fire a 'nade when the bayonet is attached
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>>5181477
I think that launchers barrel is offset to the side.
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>>5181537
Couldn't be. Unless you want to make it a pain in the ass to operate with that grip/finger guard there.

Don't even get me started on whatever that optic is. With a fucking whole ass handle in front of it. Because fuck seeing things right?
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>>5181383
Could David benifit from leaning the some martial arts developed by some space martial artists, or did David hardcap his unarmed skill? Is space kung fu not worth it because it doesn't mesh well with the human physic?
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>>5181418
>>5181423
>>5181475
That is just awkward.
IF you are using it as a machinegun, trying to get to the nade launcher is a pain in the ass, and vice versa. Having the two separate, using the nade thrower as a pistol would be way better and allow for faster switching between machinegun fire and grenade fire.

I am not even going into the whole bayonet and optics placement. I ignore their existence.
As well as the improvised addon reactive armor/ grenade vest thing.
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>>5181599
Its funny. Its comically inefficient.
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>>5181599
It's a whole bunch of stuff that is independently cool. But when you mash it up all at once it comes off as confused and cluttered.

I like the pinup on the gauntlet though. I can't quite tell but it looks to me like she's wearing a retro scifi space suit.
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>>5181424
Take good care of yourself for us boss. Hope you have a close bro or two to chat over drinks with if things get hard
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>>5180985

Sanig just stares at you like he wants to say something, but remains quiet. He turns off his holopad screen and pockets it, just so he can rub his face with both hands.
With a deep sigh, he turns around and walks off.

"Er, alright. Well, sorry about that, Javan." You apologize.

"It isss no matter, captain. What he sssaid was true. I meditated for many monthsss to visssualize my ccceremonial armor, to the point that i could repair it at a whim."

"Well, it looks good. You did well."

"Thanksss."

Javan slithers past with a slight smile on her face, moving to check out the rest of the ship some more.

"Sssomething sssmells... good."

Javan stops just in front of the medbay door, which is currently a big, disgusting dodo nest.
She looks around, her tongue flicking at the air in order to taste it. Probably best that you redirect her before she eats one of them whole.

"Kitchen's that way, miss."

"Ah, yesss. Thank you. A bit of nutrient passste before the misssion perhapsss..."

"Nonsense! We have some leftover bread. I'll make you a bit of buttered toast as a snack before we head out."

"Toassst?"

"Eh, you'll see. Hey, do you like jangerberries? I've got some sweet preserves in the fridge, too."

...

Javan seems fascinated as you slice her off a piece of bread, toast it and then slather it in fresh butter and preserves.
You hand her the toast, and she tastes the air around it before coming to a conclusion.

"Sssweet and sssavory. I like it!"

She bites into the toast, unhinging her jaw somewhat unnecessarily, you feel, and biting into it with her oversized fangs as if she were going to inject the toast with venom.
With about half the slice of toast in her mouth at once, she begins chewing... and judging by the sounds she makes, really seems to enjoy it.

"Is it good?"

"Yesss... although i rarely eat fruitsss, thisss isss quite niccce..."

"Great! I don't recommend eating heavily before a mission, though."

"That isss true. Very well, captain. Let'sss get ssstarted."

With a grin, you make your way back to the cockpit, and Javan follows behind you.
Although the cockpit is quite cramped, she still manages to slither her way in there with you, enough to watch the instruments and look out the windows, at least.

"Ssso thisss isss a grey ssship? How very advanccced. I don't recognizzze these inssstruments."

"Hey, don't touch that, seriously." You warn. "That's the radar panel, and these are for the missile racks."

"What'sss thisss above your head?" She wonders.
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>>5181685
Self destruckt button. hit it once or twice myself
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>>5181685
>What'sss thisss above your head?" She wonders.
My sex ray vision goggles. Dont touch it, or I'll go on a sex rampage again.
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>>5181685
that's my tra-la-la. my ding-ding-dong, if you will
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>>5181794
You get called "dickhead" a lot?
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>>5181797
Growing right outa our forhead yep. WHATCHU LAUGHING AT MAGGOTS.
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>>5181685
Fuzzy dice!
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>>5181861
Seconded.
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>>5181861
>not a slyvern plushie
Quaint.
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>>5181861
We must.
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>>5181861
Yes
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>>5181861
Oh shit I forgot we had those.
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>>5181984
Wait, was that something we did/decided on? I don't remember it at all.
I am happy for the dice if it is though.
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"Those? They're fuzzy dice. Both a good luck charm and a stylistic choice. I also have a hula girl glued to the instrument panel over there..."

"No, not that! Thisss, here." She says, pointing to a metal frame construction hanging over your chair.

You flip a switch on your seat, causing the frame to swing down from overhead. It has two arms, each with a joystick for your hands. One controls the ship's movement, the other controls the 20mm autocannon, allowing you to aim and move independently.
Your vision is covered by a glass panel with a holographic display, which indicates target position and lead based on distance, acceleration and other factors. The stochastics are all handled by SHODAN of course, to a great degree of accuracy.
At the very least, your target lead indicator is something you can rely on. However, even if that fails for some reason, you insisted on a big fat crosshair being physically baked straight into the glass.

"These are the cannon controls. I hope we won't be needing them, but you never know."

"It doesssn't ussse the cockpit'sss hologram projector?"

"No. If the cockpit glass shatters, i'd be blind. So this serves as a backup by having it's own independent projector."

"If the cockpit glasss ssshattered, wouldn't you be dead?"

In response to that, you pull your skinsuit's hood up and over your head. As the artificial fibers stiffen, they form a somewhat hardened shell over your head and the suit seals around your face.
You can still see through the fabric somewhat as it's pores open slightly in front of your eyes, but breathing is still impossible, as you've basically got a plastic bag over your head.

However, you then reach down next to your seat and hear a click as your emergency suit helmet frees itself from it's locked position. Slipping it over your head, you hear a hiss as it seals around your head and the oxygen cartridges built into it open up, flooding your helmet with breathable gas.
The suit and the helmet work together, and as the helmet makes it's seal the suit uncovers your face, allowing you to see and breathe properly again.

"I sssee. But, what if the canopy cracksss sssuddenly, without warning? You'll be exxxposssed to the vacuum of ssspace before you have time to put your helmet on."

"That's fine, for me anyways. It takes fifteen or twenty seconds for a human to pass out from vacuum exposure, and a couple of minutes to die even after that. If i can't get me helmet on within 20 seconds, there's still a chance for one of my crew to save me."

Javan stares at you like you're crazy, and doesn't ask anything else. Instead, she sits a little further back and simply watches as you work.

You remove your helmet and hood, then pop out the disposable oxygen cartridges and replace them with fresh ones before locking your helmet in it's appropriate place.
With that done, you un-dock from Gron's ship and make your way towards the pirate vessel at minimum power.
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>>5182170
Oh you sweat innocent snake girl, beware, you are on the crazy train, we broke the rails to make mounting racks, and our mechanic is a short green woman masturbating in the captains bed. You may experience horny. This is normal.
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Discussion of the hour: "Post songs you think will make aliens go Whoa"
https://youtu.be/5he75Jftp1Y
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>>5182244
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c436AdCv_3I
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>>5182183
snakes don't sweet, retard
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>>5182244
Oh yeah, now we HAVE to tell Cylia that we did the Warthog run. And everything leading up to it of course.
That or we could just say Master Chief was a famous Navy hero.
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>>5182383
She we worry her about the existence of the Flood? I doubt she'll appreciate the nightmares.
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>>5182403
Should*
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>>5182375
snakes aren't supposed to have tits, be on space, or talk, yet here we are.
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I will post 4 and give my reasoning for each.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXrpFxHfppI
Firstly, I think 'In the court of the Crimson King' is one of the greatest albums ever made, and this song in particular is both great and encapsulates our fear, both in the cold war and today, of the fate we might meet with nukes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzSWjLh9cW8
Secondly, this is part of the soundtrack of my favorite all time Star Trek episode, that somehow beats 'A Taste of Armageddon' and other good ones. I think the notes and the message of the episode gives a hopeful, almost naive, vision of what we could be if we set our differences aside and strive to evolve into something better.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqL4n7SlDB8
Thirdly, although not my favorite track, it's one of the best in the game I consider to be one of the GOATs. If I had to choose a singular game to show to an alien, it would be this one. I think it displays very nicely how humans are, our fears, both rational and irrational, and where do we think we're heading. This track both inspires awe and a sense of wonder.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0WQOGVLLGw
Finally, and I believe it doesn't really need to be said, the '4chan' le Jonny Rebel answer.

These would be the songs I would choose to show to an alien, and if I can also deliever the contect of them also, all the better.
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>>5182490
I wonder if Shodan could reconstruct Deus Ex in hyperreal VR off of our memories
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>>5182511
I think it could be done, David is quite good with that neural interface and has good memory. Depending how much he played it, and SHODAN doing the brunt of the work, we could do it.

I bet Sanig would love it.
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>>5182540
>David recreates Deus Ex from his memories of the game
>"David, is this what your planet is like?"
>"More or less, yeah."
>It consists entirely of the NSF Leader's dialogue tree and tazing random civilians to death
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>>5182993
kek
He approaches a random kid on the street
>"There's a conspiracy of plutocrats against ordinary people"
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>>5182244
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSORu0m6KpI
you can't just be in 2012 and not listen to this banger of a song
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>>5182170

"...Damn, you can't sssee a thing out here. The dust isss too thick."

"That's good, it works to our advantage. As long as we're running cold, the only way anyone should see us is by looking out a window."

"I ssstill can't believe your ssship isss ssso capable. The ambient temperature of thisss nebula isss quite high, but we've been running cold for over twenty minutesss already..."

"Well, it's not like we can do it indefinitely, but there should be enough water in the system to last a good long while."

"Water? What doesss water have to do with it?"

"Hold that thought. We're getting pretty close to the subspace distortion now."

"Yesss. But without a clear view, how are we to ssstrike?"

"Heh. That's where this baby comes in."

Flipping a switch on your seat, you activate the newly installed radar suite. There's a lot of dust and even small stones out here, but at this range it should be alright.
You hear a low hum as the active radar dome comes to life, scanning a swath of space in front of you. What's returned is displayed as blips on your canopy's holographic display, with both size and range estimates.

Unfortunately your screen is almost entirely covered by small stones and an all-over dull glow from the gas, rather than what you're looking for.

"SHODAN. All objects under ten feet, if you would."

"Affirmative, Captain."

"Isss that your ssship's AI?"

"Yep. She's a member of the crew too, so treat her well."

SHODAN gets to work, quickly filtering out all objects too small to be a ship of any kind. Your screen quickly clears up, leaving only a few floating metal scraps and the ship you were looking for.

"There she is... about a hundred feet in length, if i had to guess? Small crew, just like ours. They won't even know what hit 'em."

"What isss thisss?" Javan wonders. "I have never ssseen sssuch an odd ssscanning tool before. It pierccces the dussst asss if it were never there."

"It's called radar. Real popular back home, even though it can be a little... hit or miss, sometimes."

"He means to say that it's an incredibly crude and inaccurate system, despite it's remarkable capabilities."

"Yeah, that."

"Ssso then, they are unaware of usss. How ssshall we deal with them?"

>Easy. We make a spacewalk, bust open their front door and start taking hostages.
>Since we've got all the time in the world... why not disable their engines from the outside? Take the sonicator and do a little snip snip, you know?
>We could just hail them with their exact co-ordinates and threaten to blow them to kingdom come if they don't surrender. Probably make them shit themselves.
>Write-In?
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>>5183178
>Easy. We make a spacewalk, bust open their front door and start taking hostages.
>Write-In?
When they're alerted of our forceful entry, have SHODAN broadcast a call through their PA systems connected to the speaker of our power armor.
"Do not attempt to flee, fight or call for help, I'm already on the ship. I wont kill anyone, but the second you send a distress signal everyone's life on this vessel is forfeited. Have a nice day."
Then proceed to kool-aid man your way through a wall so everyone can hear.
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>>5183178
>Since we've got all the time in the world... why not disable their engines from the outside? Take the sonicator and do a little snip snip, you know?
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>>5183178
>>Since we've got all the time in the world... why not disable their engines from the outside? Take the sonicator and do a little snip snip, you know?

Disable any chance of their communication working first. They likely aren't using it and won't notice it's borked before we snip the thrusters. We have no need for this specific ship regardless.

Busting the door may result in them thrusting fast to their frens, resulting in a bigger shitshow.
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>>5183178
>Since we've got all the time in the world... why not disable their engines from the outside? Take the sonicator and do a little snip snip, you know?
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>>5182383
Mucho appreciate someone getting the branch right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHpG1BNznog
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>>5183178
>>Since we've got all the time in the world... why not disable their engines from the outside? Take the sonicator and do a little snip snip, you know?
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>>5183178
>Since we've got all the time in the world... why not disable their engines from the outside? Take the sonicator and do a little snip snip, you know?
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>>5183178
>Since we've got all the time in the world... why not disable their engines from the outside? Take the sonicator and do a little snip snip, you know?
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>>5183240
>Mucho appreciate someone getting the branch right.
If only because I find the hypothetical scenario of a marine calling Chief a "swabbie" and then getting turned into a red mist so goddamn funny.
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>>5183178
>>Since we've got all the time in the world... why not disable their engines from the outside? Take the sonicator and do a little snip snip, you know?
Snabbety snib, we own yer shib :-DD
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>>5183178
Just had an idea. A diver propulsion vehicle in SPAAAAACE. Or alternatively, a space motorbike.
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>>5183504
How about a jetpack?
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>>5182490
>>www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzSWjLh9cW8
DON'T RAINBOW READ ME NIGGA
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>>5183178
>Since we've got all the time in the world... why not disable their engines from the outside? Take the sonicator and do a little snip snip, you know?
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>>5183558
how about an electron beam?
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Today, this day, four years ago, Billy Herrington left us.
What a great man we lost that day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTkEt3YmmmU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIl39HdaXD0

Sleep tight, Aniki.
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R.I.P Aniki
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>>5183684
Good night sweet prince
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>>5183504
A WARP CAPABLE Space Motorcycle. No shutters, no shielding.
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>>5183934
>warp demons try to attack him as he rides past
>literally just fucking punches them in the head
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>>5183934
Arguably better than a dumb space scooter.
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>>5183962
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>>5183962
Is that not just Jaghatai Khan?
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>>5183992
The third best primarch? Good thing to emulate.
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>>5183178

You take a second to think over your options.

"Mmm... Since we've got all the time in the world... why not disable their engines from the outside? Take the sonicator and do a little snip snip, you know?"

"Sssnip sssnip?"

"Snibidy snab."

"...What?"

"Come on, let's get you suited up! We have some material in stock, so between me and SHODAN i don't think it'll take too long. I'll need to scan you for the exact sizing, though."

"What?"

Ignoring her confusion, you drag her along to the workshop and get started by taking her sizes using a laser scanner. Working in tandem, you and SHODAN quickly design a skinsuit of the appropriate size for her.
There's a bunch of skinsuit material already pre-printed for quick usage, so the fab doesn't take long stitching them together at the molecular level to create a full suit. It does use quite a bit of the stock however, since her body is quite... long.

"Here!" You shout, tossing her a helmet and an oxygen bottle.

"What are we going to do?" She asks, still seeming genuinely confused.

"I told you, didn't i? We're gonna disable their engines. Easiest way to do that is cut the power conduits, so we can repair it afterwards. Free ship!"

"Wait, you mean... we're going outssside?!"

"Yeah? How do you think we're supposed to cut the lines without going out there?"

"Do you have sssome sssort of vehicle? I did not sssee a carrier bay."

"Javan, think about this carefully. Why do you think i'm giving you a suit and an oxygen bottle?"

"...No. No way, you can't be ssseriousss."

You chuckle as you toss her something else.

"Here, take this too."

"...What isss thisss? A backpack?"

"It's an RCS pack. It full of monopropellant and a big fat battery. Plug it into your suit and it'll keep you warm while we're out there. It shouldn't be an issue, but watch your fuel levels just in case. That joystick controls your thrusters... and those triggers control the up and down. Twist left and right to turn."

"You're crazy." She spits.

"Yeah, i get that a lot. Now get that helmet on, we need to get going before they decide to leave."

"No way. Are you kidding me? You want me to perform a ssspacccewalk without ssso much asss a tether, or even a proper ssspacccesssuit?"

"Hey, i'm not forcing you. Gron was the one who said you weren't gonna be dead weight."

She seems taken aback at first. But that quickly turns to indignation, and then frustration. She stutters as she tries to come up with something to say, but eventually just gives up and pulls the helmet over her head.

"Thisss isss bullssshit..." She mumbles.

After making sure you, Javan and Cylia are properly prepared, you head down to the airlock and go through the depressurization cycle.
It's still an odd sensation, the fibers of your suit over-tightening themselves to create more of a hard shell around your entire body. And yet, movement isn't difficult as the fibers automatically relax around your joints as you move.
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>>5184257
>"Thisss isss bullssshit..." She mumbles.
Sounds like a Marine. . .
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>>5184257
>"Thisss isss bullssshit..." She mumbles.
Maybe we and the lizard people aren't so different, after all.
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>>5184257
>Confused snake girl gets strapped with local human
>Heres coverage to the destruction that follows.
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>>5183558
For when the jetpack needs an extra boost. A lot of boost
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>>5184257

You feel the weight of your ship's artificial gravity lift, leaving you attached to the floor by little more than the magnets in your boots.
Then you disable those as well, only holding on to the airlock's exit by your own two hands. And then you jump, drifting slowly towards the enemy ship.

You wave your arms in small circles to simulate a reaction wheel, correcting the slight rotation you had upon jumping.
As soon as you're satisfied that you aren't spinning out of control, you look back at Javan, who seems to have jumped not long after you did. She's not doing well.

Her whole body is writhing here and there as she tumbles, trying desperately to even up. However, her wild movements are doing little to steady her.

["Calm down, Javan. Make small movements."] You radio to her.

["Easssy for you to sssay!"] She hisses. ["How are you holding ssso ssstill?!"]

["Because i'm making small movements. Look, just... coil your tail up tight. Treat it like a solid mass for now, alright?"]

You can hear her grunting over the radio as she does what you asked. She sounds uncomfortable as she pulls her body in, causing her spinning to speed up rapidly.

["Alright, good. Now, i know you're dizzy, but try to focus. You need to hit the "stabilize" button on your RCS pack. It's just below the joystick."]

She does as she's told again, and you see her rotation begin to slow rapidly, until finally she's fixed in position.

["I feel like i'm going to puke..."] She whines.

["I wouldn't recommend it. Seriously, it could stick to your face and suffocate or blind you. Y'know, unless you swallow it."]

["Thanksss..."]

["Alright. Now that your rotation is fixed, your thrusters will rotate rather than translate. Try and face towards me."]

["What doesss that mean...?"]

As she asks that, she touches the joystick and ends up causing herself to spin again. You hear her grunt as she lets go of the joystick and the pack automatically slows her down again.

["Geeze, i didn't think you'd have this hard of a time with it. Come on, Javan! Small movements! SMALL! MOVEMENTS!"]

["Yesss... captain..."] She murmurs, sounding ill.

This time she barely touches the stick, and slowly manages to figure out her rotation. Finally, she manages to face you.

["There you go, good job. Your drift is a little off, but i think you're fine. We should reach the target in about two minutes, so just stay calm, don't move and try to focus on a fixed point until then."]

["Yesss, captain..."]

After about two minutes of floating across the void from your ship to the enemy's, you land with your feet against their hull as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
Javan on the other hand, practically glues herself to the hull of the ship as soon as she touches it. She's literally hugging it, and you can hear her panting heavily over the radio.

["M-Made it..."] She whispers to herself.

["Good job keeping it together, miss. Now come on, we've got a job to do."]
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>>5185495

["Never again... Never.] She whispers between gasps of air.

You check her fuel level on your holopad and find that she's still used less than a fifth so far, despite all that fooling around. She should be fine.
Moving on, you start walking along the outer hull towards the engines at the back of the ship.

Along the way, you see that the ship has several portholes for viewing, and you could quite possibly get a look at the crew inside if you wanted.
However, there's also the potential that they could see you, too.

Looking behind you, you see that Javan is slowly and carefully making her way towards you as well.
"Walking" for her is a bit more awkward considering her lower body. She has magnets embedded into her suit that allow her to stick to the surface.

If you get found out, it could possibly cause issues...
You're sure you'd be fine on your own, but Javan can just barely hold it together while floating free in a vacuum.

Still, getting info on the enemy is pretty important. It might be worth the risk.
Or maybe you could figure out a way to look without being seen? Hmm.

>Don't look through the windows, it's not worth them knowing you're there.
>Go for it, they probably won't see you. Who just stares out into space all the time?
>Try to be sneaky about it somehow? (Write-In only)
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>>5185498
>Try to be sneaky about it somehow? (Write-In only)
Do we have a holopad or space phone on us? Does it have a camera, or did we mod it to have one? Theres less for someone to immediately see if we use our space phone's camera to look inside. Unless the camera is in the fucking center of the thing.
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>>5185498
>Don't look through the windows, it's not worth them knowing you're there.
Engines first
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>>5185518
You have your holopad, and it does in fact have a camera.
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>>5185498
>Try to be sneaky about it somehow? (Write-In only)
we have a detachable shodan port in our helmet or tablet that can project and record information. we could try to detach it and use it to look through the window
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>>5185521
I should probably note, your holopad is just a little metal bar that fits into your pocket. The "screen" is entirely holographic.
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>>5185526
Where on the bar is the camera located? In the middle? On a corner?
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>>5185526
then lets use that to take a quick look
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>>5185498
We DON'T carry a mirror on a stick? That should be remedied soon.
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>>5185528
In the middle.
Generally you'd hold the bar from either side, so placing it on the end would mean covering it with your hands.
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>>5185498
>>Don't look through the windows, it's not worth them knowing you're there.
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>>5185557
from what it sounds, the holopad can act as a mirror on a stick. we just need the stick
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>>5185590
So attach it to the snek's tail?

We can't beam the info from one to another so close to the ship though. We'd get caught by their sensors considering how close we are to their antenna... then again, they might think it's a fluke in the middle of all this EM
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>>5185498
>Don't look through the windows, it's not worth them knowing you're there
We have a job to do. Engines first
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>>5185498

>>5185525
Yes, support.
Lets scout first with the small cameras, and when clear we go for the engines.
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>>5185616
>So attach it to the snek's tail?
that's....a good idea actually. if her tail is thin enough, it could work

>We can't beam the info from one to another so close to the ship though. We'd get caught by their sensors considering how close we are to their antenna... then again, they might think it's a fluke in the middle of all this EM
we could try to set it to record or to transmit to the holopad instead
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>>5185498
>Don't look through the windows, it's not worth them knowing you're there.

We could always just look through the portholes after we've disabled their engines
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>>5185805
If we catch them away from their bridge, we might be able to get away with more off the bat.
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>>5185616
>>5185634
now hold on a second we might know snake tits were just a decoration but what about the snake pussy? that sounds incredibly indecent asking for her like that if her private parts are close to her tail
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>>5186020
Considering she wraps things with said tail, asking her to attach a small object to the end and dangle it over a window isn't particularly crazy
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>>5186031
>inb4 massive cultural aversion because ancient history
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>>5186020
thats retarded even for porn logic.
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Damn it guys, we are with a JAVAN here. We have to be SNEAKY

+1 to the mirror on a stick... hold on, what tools do we have at hand? I mean it. I know we have the sonicating pen, but what else?
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>>5186073
>a JAVAN
Yo that's her name not her species.
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>>5186257
w-what was their name?
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>>5185498
>>Don't look through the windows, it's not worth them knowing you're there.
Finish the job. Whoever's in there will be more manageable when their boat is immobilized.
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>>5185498

You could probably get away with sneaking a peek into the interior of the ship if you used your holopad as a spy camera.
Since you're in space, it wouldn't be too hard to simply let the camera float across the window and have Javan catch it on the other side.

There's plenty of space junk out here after all, so it's unlikely that they'd think anything was up...
But that's all "if", "maybe", and "probably". It's not worth the risk, however small. Not until you get those engines cut.

["Come on, Javan. This way."]

While you slowly walk over to the engines, you spot Cylia making her way across the gap between ships on her own, carrying some equipment. The airlock was too small to fit all of you and the gear inside, so she had to go through her own airlock cycle.
Fortunately, Cylia has far more control than Javan did, and makes the gap with no issues. She'll be right behind you, so you move ahead without her.

["There are the engines. Regular, commercial ion thrusters."]

["I'm not ssso sssure. Look at the particle gratesss. Thossse are aftermarket. It'sss been modified."]

["Uh-huh. I'm sure it's the equivalent of putting a blower on your ford pinto. Doesn't matter either way, what we're looking for should be over here, according to Kyla."]

You search around near the outer ring of the engine exhaust, looking for a specific kind of panel that's supposed to contain all the electrical connections... and you find it, you think.
The panel off with a pair of thumb screw and a latch, and after getting it off you just toss it, letting it float away into the void.

Inside there are no visible electronics.... but a lot of wire connections. It's almost like a fuse box of some sort, but you don't have the tools to take anything apart non-destructively.

["What do you know about ssstarssship wiring?"]

["Not a damn thing."]

["Ssso, which wires are we sssupposssed to cut?"]

["Not a damn clue."

Well, there's two ways you could go about this.

>Try to cut all the wires cleanly with your sonicator for easier repair later
>Plant explosives inside the panel and call it a day
>Write-In?
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>>5186407
>Try to cut all the wires cleanly with your sonicator for easier repair later
We'll hit something important at some point.
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>>5186407
>Try to cut all the wires cleanly with your sonicator for easier repair later

Grab and yank up all the wires into a bundle and cut them all at the same time.
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>>5186441
These are really thick wires. Think more along the lines of elevator cable.
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>>5186442
What if all three of us cut them at the same time.

Or thermite. Not much of a kaboom for extra sneaky beaky.
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>>5186407
>Try to cut all the wires cleanly with your sonicator for easier repair later
don't forget to take a picture so we know how to rewire the thing properly.

>>5186448
that's what option A is
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>>5186407
>Try to cut all the wires cleanly with your sonicator for easier repair later
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>>5186407
>>Try to cut all the wires cleanly with your sonicator for easier repair later
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>>5186407

>Try to cut all the wires cleanly with your sonicator for easier repair later
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>>5186407
>>Write-In?
>Look for more panels
You heard me right, we might find more panels or pieces of stuff that look important.
Alternatively, I wonder what can we break in this ion thruster... some magnets? I mean, yes I don't want david close to the butt end of the ship
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Alright lads, roll me 1d100, best of three.
DC: 40
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>>5186765
check 'em
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Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>5186765
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Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>5186765

>>5186771
nah check THIS
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>>5186771
>>5186772
>>5186784

Mediocre, but you pass.
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Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>5186765
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>5186765
>>5186784
nonono, check THIS out
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>>5186809
NOW CHECK THIS
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Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>5186830
Based
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>>5186830
Based but dice wasted
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https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg?t=950
just saying. I know crystal funkies are the go to in space, but you never know
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>>5187788
for all we know, that's how the AIs work
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>>5187788
Good for when we need something simple and hack-proof. Dave will like it.
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>>5188053
>thinks analog circuits are hackproof
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>>5188185
At least remotely.
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>>5188195
that's a hard maybe. that is capable of receiving information is hackable
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>>5186407

["I'm gonna start cutting. Keep an eye out, and don't touch me if i seize up. These suits can only insulate so much."]

["Underssstood."]

["I'll tackle you off if i have to, David."]

["Alright. Starting now."]

You pull out your sonicator and pick a wire.
Almost as soon as you start cutting, there's a huge flash of light caused by the wires fraying, metal dust flying and shorts being made. It's a mess, honestly.
Apparently somebody decided they didn't need insulation on these because space is a really good insulator, but you're not sure that's how it aught to work.

You occasionally have to shake the metal dust off of your hands to keep them clean, and the arcs shouldn't damage your eyes through the visor but they're definitely still blinding.
You're most of the way through the first wire when you feel the ship start to vibrate, and then feel warmth radiating from the ship's engines.

["David? I think i feel the ship moving."]

["Ssshit. They're going to throw us off!"]

["No they won't. I'm almost... through!"]

The flash of the arcs cease as you finish cutting through both sides of the connector and give it a whack with your boot, sending the wire flying off into deep space.
The vibrations cease, as does the heat from the engines. You're still not sure what that was about, and you kind of hope it wasn't radiation. Eh, you're probably fine.

["Got it. They definitely know something's up now, though."]

["The flag lights on the outside of the ship are out, too. I think that knocked out power to the whole vessel."] Cylia informs you.

["They'll probably still have backup power. For a while, anyways. Now, let's see... where is it?"]

Cylia watches as you scan around for something.

["David? What are you looking for?"]

Ah. You spotted what you were looking for.

["This."]

Pulling the shotgun off your back, you load up a special solid brass shell and aim downwards directly towards a dome-shaped protrusion on the hull of the vessel, then fire.

The kick of KS-23 actually knocks you loose from the hull of the ship, requiring you to engage your pack for a moment to bring yourself back down.
Your "special" shell was full of solid tungsten buckshot, and it tore their long-range communications equipment to absolute shreds.

You're sure they're shitting themselves right now.

["What isss thisss weapon...?"] Javan wonders, looking over the damage you caused to a spaceship hull with your little boomstick.

["They call it the "equalizer" on my homeworld. Rich or poor, weak or strong... it makes them all equally dead."]

Javan cringes. At the thought of being shot by it and not by what you said, you're hoping.

["So, what now? How are we going to infiltrate?"] Cylia asks.

>Front door. SHODAN can probably get through the inner airlock if i wire her in.
>We could just depressurize the ship, then look through their navigation logs.
>No need. Let's park the ship in front of their cockpit and give 'em a call. Negotiate a peaceful docking.
>Write-In?
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>>5188363
>>We could just depressurize the ship, then look through their navigation logs.
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>>5188363
>Front door. SHODAN can probably get through the inner airlock if i wire her in.

>>5188371
for all we know these guys could also be like the dark stars. plus we don't warcrime that hard when cylia is around
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>>5188363
>Front door. SHODAN can probably get through the inner airlock if i wire her in.
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>>5188363
>Front door. SHODAN can probably get through the inner airlock if i wire her in.

>>5188371
Dude here me out. If they're pirates and have bounties, we can turn them in for cash. Pirates are typically worth more alive, and they might have intel we can use.
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>>5188363
>Front door. SHODAN can probably get through the inner airlock if i wire her in.
Wonder if we can bip back to our ship for our power armor.
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>>5188363
>Front door. SHODAN can probably get through the inner airlock if i wire her in.
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>>5188363
>>We could just depressurize the ship, then look through their navigation logs.
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>>5188363
>Front door. SHODAN can probably get through the inner airlock if i wire her in.
Let's take them alive and check their bounties. Even if they're worth next to nothing we might be able to use them to negotiate with their buddies.
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>>5188527
Or get some information out of them
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>>5188363
We can force them into pressurized areas of the ship while we mosey around.

Similar to the last time, but with more tracking to make sure we don't kill a dog this time.
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>>5188531
Right. We should aspire not to be the ATF.
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>>5188531
This. Like Lanius boarding parties in FTL. Prevent them from wanting to attack us by depressurizing every room we walk through
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>>5188363

["Through the front door. SHODAN should be able to get us in."]

["And if not?"] Javan asks.

["Then i'll deal with it."]

With their ship dead in the water, the Metal Gear is able to come right up to it. SHODAN pilots the ship over and positions itself for a dock, causing the outer airlock to open automatically.
Between the two ships, there's enough space in the airlocks for all of you to squeeze in before the ships connect and lock all of you inside.

The airlock repressurizes and you're able to take your helmet back off.

"Ah, that's better." You sigh.

"Well then. How isss your AI sssupposssed to get us in, exactly?"

"Well, i've got a connector here that uh... should just plug right in... somewhere here..."

You did not foresee this issue. It seems that there is no connector, or even a wire panel on this side of the inner airlock.
There's no physical latch or lever, either. You can't see a way to open it from this side.

"Captain, this ssship'sss desssign looksss ancient. I don't think it hasss any universssal data portsss."

"So it would seem! Well then. Cylia, i think you know what this means?"

"Oh boy, here we go."

You give the door a stiff kick, expecting it to blast off it's hinges like all the others. To your surprise, it doesn't immediately give way. It buckles inwards, but doesn't open up for you.

"Huh. This one's tougher than most. Alright ladies, back up a bit please."

After the girls scoot back to give you room, you perform a spinning back-kick and rip the entire door out of it's frame this time, launching it clear across the room and slamming it against the far wall.
After which, it starts floating upwards. Looks like the gravity is off, as well as the running lights. You check your left and right, but no-one is immediately visible in the dim red light of the ship.

"They're hiding. Keep your head on a swivel."

>No kill run
>No survivors run
>If they die, they die
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>>5188791
>No kill run
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>>5188791
>If they die, they die
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>>5188791
>No kill run
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>>5188363
>Tungsten 6 inches slug
>Fuck you, fuck my shoulder, fuck the concrete that's your cover and fuck the three guys behind you
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>>5188791
>No kill run
Let's not aggravate our resident catgirl.
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>>5188791
>>No kill run
David's concept of no kill is kinda loose
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>>5188791
>No kill run
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>>5188791
Could just announce we can depressurize the entire damn ship regardless.

We really need a depressurization device that slowly depressurizes the ship
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>>5188791
>No kill run
Our pet janitor needs a new friend.
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>>5188791
>No kill run
We can probably break kneecaps without killing anything, right?
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>>5188791
>>No kill run
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>>5188928
as long as we don't kill anyone, we can sadistically brutalize whoever tries to resist
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>>5188897
so a small hole?
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>>5188985
unfortunately that's not as controllable as we may want... Probably something more like a double barbed tube with mechanically adjustable apertures that also braces the section of the ship so the wall doesn't tear itself out
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>>5188791
>If they die, they die
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>>5188791
>No kill run
The living gives us more money
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>>5188791
Hey Cochrane. has David considered attaching small cameras to the sides or underbarrel for his sidearms, with a the camera feed connected to a holograph or mini screen in a helmet? That way he could safely shoot around and check his corners? I recall there being a memegun called the corner shot. It was pretty much either a 5.56 / 9mm pistol or 40mm grenade you user to shoot around or from cover.
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>>5189143
Modern US Army guns are already demoing that with their Hololens spinoff. The holosight also can stream the sight to either eye.
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>>5188791
>No kill run
They're no use to us dead
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>>5188897
What I was thinking of was a collapseable airlock with magnets and an automated cutting torch that could be fired at a ship, attach, cut a hole in the enemy ship hull and serve as an airlock we then control.
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I just thought about something.
"Captain, i am detecting excessively high background radiation. For the safety of the crew, we will need to hold shields at 5%.".
Was it really safe for others to assist us outside the ship? The effects of radiation are seemingly instant on these aliens. Let's ask them how they're feeling to be sure.
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>>5189603
A short excursion is fine. "Excessively high" is very relative, but you can consider direct exposure as being considerably worse than flying at high altitudes, but not quite like a malfunctioning x-ray machine. For the crew, that is. David is fine regardless.
With the shields up at minimal power, it's cut down to basically nothing.

The radiation in this particular spot is lower than the surroundings because the stellar lightning seems to be avoiding it. Every nearby flash causes a sudden spike in radiation that slowly trails off in intensity.
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>>5188791

"I want them alive this time. Javan and Cylia, you sweet left. I'll take the right."

"You got it, captain."

"Thisss isss not the sssort of infiltration i wasss exxxpecting..." Javan mumbles. Nevertheless, she follows Cylia, who takes point and begins clearing rooms.

For your part, you pull your gloves on just a bit tighter in anticipation of a fight.
The area you entered here is basically just a vestibule, with automated sliding doors on each of the three walls. Although, they don't slide automatically anymore and have to be forced open as you pass through them.

You plan on going to the right, so you try to use your sonicator to weld the door shut... but find that it's crystalline tip has been melted, burned and shattered from the arcing of the cables. It'll need to be replaced later.
Instead, you place a small motion-sensitive alarm on the door. If anyone opens it, it'll alert you instantly.

That done, you force open the right-side door and are greeted by a hallway, lined with more doors. There's a large open room at the far end, with little more than a single flickering emergency light to guide you.
So you flick on the tac-light clipped into your pocket. It immediately floods the hallway with a bright, warm light. Gotta love LED's, man.

You don't hear anything, so you call out to any crew who may be hiding and offer a peaceful resolution.

"This is Captain David Rockefeller of the Metal Gear. Drop your weapons and surrender immediately. If you do not comply, i cannot guarantee your lives."

Nothing. Dead silent.
Something about this is starting to make you nervous, so you pull out your side-arm just in case.

The interior of the ship looks pretty ancient. There are rust-spots all over the walls, and anything not made of metal looks pretty old and degraded.
You come up to the first door in the hallway and pull it open slightly, just enough to feed a snake-cam through.

It's pitch black inside, but the camera has decent night vision. Looks like a storage closet, with nobody inside.
The moment you pull the door open further, something skitters past your feet and runs off down the hall before you can shine a light on it.

That's a good sign. If there are rats or whatever on the ship, then somebody must have been on it recently. That's just about the only sign of life you've seen so far.

The inside of the closet is full of junk. Old, crumbling plastic boxes and metal parts coated in a thin spray of rust. Some ruined electronic devices that will probably never work again.
Nothing of interest here.

You close the door behind you and move on to the next. As soon as you shine the light on it, you see something disturbing.
A smear of blue blood across the door, ancient and baked-on. Looks like this one hasn't been opened in a long time.

>Open it up, see what's inside.
>Shouldn't be anyone in there. Move on to the next door.
>Something feels off about this ship. Meet back up with the girls.
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>>5189630
>Open it up, see what's inside.
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>>5189630
>Open it up, see what's inside.
Smells like adventure! Or a serial killer lair.
Either way, best we be on guard.
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>>5189630
>Open it up, see what's inside.
Contact SHODAN and ask her about vermin sized sentient races and if they exist. We saw something small skitter by and want to make sure no one passed us.
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>>5189630
Based warm light enjoyer. Good taste. Is David a flood or throw guy?

Just got one of pic related, holy shit it gets hot but it's 2800 lumens of pocket floodlight. It's like carrying a portable sun.

>Open it up, see what's inside.
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>>5189630
>Open it up, see what's inside.
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>>5189630
>>Open it up, see what's inside.
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>>5189649
Oh yeah. Gotta meme on everyone by shining a light that can burn your retinas through your eyelids.
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>>5189712
Kek I managed to set cardboard on fire with mine. The flashlight was straight up painful to hold with how hot it got, didnt know LEDs can produce so much heat. Now I'm scared of accidentally burning my dick off pocket carrying it.
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>>5189760
I hope your pocket torch has a safety switch, else you might need to add a clip to it so you can wear it outside your pocket or somewhere on your waist.
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>>5189630
>Open it up, see what's inside.
>Something feels off about this ship. Meet back up with the girls.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, its never IF someone finds something they shouldn't, its when, and this is looking like a when situation.
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>>5189787
+1
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>>5189630
>Open it up, see what's inside.
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>Open up
WHAT'S IN THE BOX
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>>5190180
4,000 years old Chinese cadaver
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>>5190180
>>5190505
a Marker from Dead Space
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>>5190544
David would know that one too, we'd pull the fuck out immediately.
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Actually, can we make a Plasma Cutter?
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>>5189630

Not clearing every room is bad practice, to say the least. Even if it looks clear, that doesn't make it clear, so you'll have to check it regardless.
You press your hands against the door and try to slide it open, but find it difficult. It's either rusted or sealed...

But a liberal application of force manages to break it free, and then...
Huh, that's weird. The lights are on in here.

It's a bedroom, with two sets of bunkbeds. There's a table against the far wall... and it's oddly clean inside.
The beds are made, and nothing at all looks out of place. It actually looks kind of nice.

Well, since the room is clear you turn to seal the door behind you, only to find that something has changed.
A lot, actually. Not only are all the ship's lights back on, all the rust is gone from the walls and all the dust and debris are gone from the floors.

You can hear a faint whirring and feel the flow of fresh air being pushed out of the vent overhead.
It's like a hundred years of stagnation was undone in a moment.

"Hello?" You call out.

Nothing. No answer.

"SHODAN, do you read me?"

No signal. All you're getting in your headset is white noise.

"Shit."

>Look out the windows, try to get eyes on the Metal Gear
>Search the ship, try to make contact with Cylia or Javan
>Write-In?
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>>5190663
>Warp bullshit or hallucination through the suit via mind bullshit
>"Whoever is listening in my head better get the fuck out of it right now."
>Search the ship, try to make contact with Cylia or Javan
>Take an oil stick and mark where we walk and see if the marks are still there.
>Set up an explosive where Cylia would see it, and see if something else trips it
>Leave a message in the room in case Cylia goes too it next.
Fuck mothering bullshit, its time to cut the bodies apart!
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>>5190663
>>Write-In?
Helmet down and smelling salts. We are being manipulated mentally somehow.

>Search the ship, try to make contact with Cylia or Javan
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>>5190670
Leaving a trap where a crewmate could see it would be fine if we assume they aren't going to be tripping balls, too. But if they are wigging out that would be an instant game over for them when they're seeing lolipops and rainbows and not a big obvious tripwire.
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>>5190663
>Look out the windows, try to get eyes on the Metal Gear
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>>5190679
I suppose.
>>5190663
I'll switch the trap here>>5190670
For using Smelling salts instead to see if we can snap out of whatever this is.
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>>5190663
>helmet down and smelling salts
That should be enough to clear us out of any pheromone/mind control shit.
Also we gotta remember that we're the meanest motherfucker in the ship and that our senses cant be trusted right now. I say this because there is a high chance that we'll see cylia and snake lady as monsters and we could end up butcheting them on accident
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>>5190663
>>Look out the windows, try to get eyes on the Metal Gear
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>>5190672
>>5190663
Support. We better use the helmet's camera visor instead of David's eyes. I trust electronics can't be technomagically fucked with >inb4 this WAS time travel
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvwxq44vLw0
YOU GOTTA USE THE DEATH PILL DAVID. WAKE UP
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>>5190663
>Look out the windows, try to get eyes on the Metal Gear
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>>5190663

You're doing your best to stay calm right now, but it's obvious that something weird is happening.
While you're trying to collect your thoughts, you get the odd sensation that someone else is in the room with you.

"...Gunny?"

That voice... no. It couldn't be?
You turn to look at whoever it is.

"Lizzy..."

Her name barely makes it past your lips.
Your teeth start grinding together as she walks over, greeting you.

"It's been so long! I'm so glad to see you.."

Your expression turns cold, and "Lizzy" stops in her tracks.
Only now do you notice that the walls of this ship aren't even the same as the vessel you'd entered earlier. These are the walls of the USS Nimitz, where you spent many long months below deck, avoiding the crew as much as possible.

Of course, it doesn't make any sense. Not the ship, and not her being here. She's been dead for over a decade, after all.
You holster your sidearm and pull out the KS-23, load up three shells full of birdshot and level it at her.

She raises her hands to show that they're empty.

"G-Gunny? What are you doing? Please, don't point that thing at me...!"

You're about to pull the trigger, when an image flashes through your mind, just for an instant. Cylia.
You don't know what's happening right now. Something's fucking with your head, and anything could be a hallucination. You'd never forgive yourself if you shot Cylia by accident.

You lower your shotgun and reach into your emergency medical pouch instead.

"Yes, there you go... calm down, honey. It's me, remember? ...Are you having those nightmares again?"

You pull out some smelling salts and crack them open, then snort the scent up like this is the only line of coke left and your heart is about to give out.
It's a shock to the system as the ammonia burns the inside of your nose, and the scene in front of you wavers as if you'd been struck in the head. Only the woman in front of you remains... for a lack of a better term, "lucid."
But that alone isn't enough to break you out of whatever this is. You throw on your helmet back on just to try and keep any potential airborne toxins out, but it doesn't change much. "Lizzy" continues holding her hands out, and begins walking towards you.

You start to feel a massive headache coming on. There's something in your fucking head, you're sure of it!

"...Get out." You grunt.

"What...?"

"I said... get... the fuck... OUT!"

With that, you slam your head against the wall as hard as you can. The impact turns your vision white, and you see stars flickering across your eyes.

"David! Stop, what are you doing?!"

"GET OUT!"

You roar as you slam your head against the wall again, denting it deeply and shattering the visor of your helmet.
Two, three more times. You slam your head into the wall, and even punch at it while you do so.

Blood drips down your forehead and you feel like you could pass out, but when you finally look up, you're back where you belong.
And there's a demon floating right in front of you.
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>>5191390
>violence has escalated
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>>5191390

You pause for a moment, almost not believing what you're seeing.
It looks different from the one that haunted your ship. less human.

Moments pass in silence while you stare at eachother, but then the creature's jaw unhinges and it lets loose with the most unholy screech you've ever heard in your goddamn life.
It starts flying straight towards you.

>Rip
>Tear
>Slice
>Smash
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>>5191395
>Rip and tear
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>>5191395
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>Rip and tear until its done
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>>5191395
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMg9ryeWOw
>Rip
>and
>Tear
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>cylia and javan trying to calm down david: circa 2013
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>>5191395
After this, can we try cooking and eating the demon?
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I had a weird idea. Everyone remember at some point we talked about the potential to make armor out of the ghost demon things? Well no, the ghost is in the ship, but David thinks this one is a demon.

So. Making armor from the corpses of demons and ghosts. How should we go about it, and how much should we use? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I vaguely recall some method of leather or fur tanning where you use the brains of an animal instead of the other stuff. It can work, but it's not as water proof are modern made leather. Maybe we could do the same thing here where we would use the brains of what we kill, mixed in with turpentine and other leather treating materials to make leather. Then, we could use the bones in some capacity. Grind it up to a fine powder, super compress it with a printer into a dense material to use as either additional armor, armor studs, or chain links. Something. Hmmmmm. I'm not sure what to do with the blood and other organ bits. Maybe blend it in a very, very fine liquid and use it to quench metal with for additional armor or a weapon. Then we use the remaining blood slush to bath everything in a sanguine bath before letting it hang to dry.

I'm bored, but these demon and phantasmal creatures make me think. Does anyone have any better ideas?
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>>5191395
>Talk it out
"Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air"
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>>5191433
that's a neat idea, but just like how tanning the leather of a chameleon doesn't yield an active camo leather, tanning the wraith and using its bones for our armor won't do shit. we need a xenobiologist to help us unravel how the hell the wraiths work and only then we'll be able to have some sweet upgrades
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>>5191440
There's no founded reason why tanning and old school armor making wouldn't work either. This is some demon stuff right here, so who the fuck knows. I still want David to try eating a piece though.
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>>5191423
we will find and eat its children while it watches after this
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>>5191395
>Rip and tear
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>>5191395
>>Slice
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>>5191395
>And there's a demon floating right in front of you.
RIP AND TEAR! RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS!
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>tfw the demon is so flabbergasted by you shit ripping display of foreheadular violence that it too sits there not knowing what to do
Also good to know these things don't just have the ability to reeee people into catatonia but they can straight up audio-visual hallucinate people.

We're going to need anti-wraith metal circlets or something. Oh, maybe tin-foil hats will work unironically. That'd be funny.
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>>5191395
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JXXfHki4DA
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>>5191441
>there’s no founded reason why tanning…wouldn’t work
Brain tanning is done when you don’t have access to the proper chemicals for tanning, or don’t want to use them for whatever reason.

But it’s not as though the universe 100% guarantees juicing a creature’s brain into slush gives you the chemistry required to tan it’s hide you absolute troglodyte. Neither are traditional tanning chemicals guaranteed or even likely to work, given the fact that tanning processes irl are based on the chemistry and cellular-construction of earth species and these are ethereal space demons we’re dealing with.
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>>5188791
Changing my vote to >No survivors run
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>>5191395
>Rip and Tear
Are we wearing our warp metal gloves right now?

In any case, Oh you poor creature. You do not realize what you just did.
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>>5191395
>Slice
David.exe has stopped working.
Rebooting in MCMAP mode...
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>>5191395
>Slice
we have the warp metal knife for a reason I think
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>>5191395
Rip, and Tear, until it is done.
> Time for a bit of the old Ultra Violence.
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>>5191519
Thats true, but this is space demonic bullshit. We might be the first to pioneer making demonic stuff (unless the bigger space governments and greys have been able to experiment on demons and ghosts, or are the cause of their existence), so why not brain tanning? My man, It sounds metal as fuck to use the brain of the creature we kill to make armor and weapons out of it, and going old school on dark matter bottles worked out didnt it?

>>5191582
I think the gloves are actually embedded in the hand part of our skin suit, over the knuckles. So yes.

>>5191604
Buuuut we also have fists. Knife and fists work.
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>>5191631
>going old school on dark matter bottles worked out didnt it?
it worked because we understood the material(or understood it enough to use a steam forge to work with it). you're telling us that we should waste the brains of a wraith to tan it "just because"; there is no logic or reason behind it, other than its metal af. which it is, but it will yield no results, other than a shitty leather
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>>5191395
>Rip, tear, slice or smash?
>yes
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>>5191395
>challenge to checkers
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>>5191636
Sounds like a fun time. It's not like we don't know how to find more of them.
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>>5191395
>Rip and Tear

THERE CAN BE NO MERCY FOR THE DEMONS IN THIS GALAXY.
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>>5191856
conversely, its not like we want to return to the dodo planet anytime soon. so yeah, the wraiths aren't exactly something we want to actively hunt until we know how they tick
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>>5191904
It was pretty fucking hilarious when David made that improvised hammer to kill the wraiths with.

So I just remembered something I think we talked about in the past. Ballistic fists: shotgun mounted to your forearm and the back of your hand, with a pressure plate attached to the back of the fingers of a glove.Typical fallout shit. Would that be a good or bad idea to attach one to our power armor in case we lose the mace somehow in a firefight, or need a holdout gun?
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>>5191915
>So I just remembered something I think we talked about in the past. Ballistic fists: shotgun mounted to your forearm and the back of your hand
Blaster Knuckle my guy.
As for mounting ballistic weaponry onto our armor? Yeah sure why not?
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>>5191915
sounds like a good idea
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>>5191929
well it is chapter 14 or episode 3 make up your mind
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>>5191962
It got cancelled immediately after that chapter so it doesn't matter.
If I remember correctly, the author went on to do a manga about Roman slave boxing which is pretty cool.
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>>5191395

In response to it's sudden movement, you kick off the ground. Hard.
Taking advantage of the fact that there's no gravity in here, you bound off the walls and even the ceiling before making contact with the demon.

Coming in from above it's head, you kick off the ceiling and plant your fist directly between his eyes.
There's no feeling of a solid impact, but you know for a fact it hurt. The demon's direction changes instantly from a charge to a hard fall, and it lands silently on the floor in a heap.

Your momentum carries you down to the creature, and you land on top of it. Immediately, you continue raining one heavy blow after another down onto it's head even as the floor panels begin to buckle and give way.
The demon shows no signs of fear though, and raises it's hand to swipe at you. You see now that underneath it's ghostly robes, it's body appears dry and emaciated. It's hands have no fingers, but long, razor-sharp claws in their place.

With your warp-infused gloves, you're able to grab it's wrist before it reaches your left kidney, and you twist. You hear what sounds like dry wood shattering as it's arm breaks, and you shove the creature's own claws deep into it's chest.
It begins struggling violently underneath you, and only your gloved hands are able to really, properly interact with it's body, forcing you to hold it down by placing one hand on it's chest.

The struggle quickly becomes an annoyance, so you use your free hand to pull out your warp-infused trench knife and stab the blade straight into the the demon's forehead, turning it into a horrifying unicorn of sorts.
You feel it punch straight through the skull and into the metal plates underneath, pinning it to the floor.

There's a genuine look of shock and confusion on the demon's face, like it can't believe this is actually happening. Regardless, it's still not dead even after being stabbed in the head, so it must not have any sort of "brain" in it's skull.
Well, there's only one thing left to do, then.

Pressing down on the knife to ensure it stays in place, you grab the demon's jaw with your other hand and star pulling, twisting and yanking on it.
For the first time, the demon actually seems to react like it's in pain. Good.

It's oversized jaw breaks instantly and the flesh tears shortly afterwards. You manage to tear it completely off, and then you proceed to beat him with it, using the pointed teeth to leave gouges and cuts across it's body.
It doesn't really "bleed" so much as it "smokes". Some black vapor that trails off it's viscous, tar-like bodily fluid, phasing through your flesh and the walls of the ship as if it weren't really there.

It seems to be in a lot of pain, now. But you aren't done with it. You need to find a way to kill it properly. Quickly and efficiently.
It screeches weakly as you stand up, still holding the smoking, tar-soaked jaw in hand. You place it teeth-down on the demon's unbroken arm and stomp down on it.
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>>5192130
Fuckong savage.
Heres am idea David. Pull the arms out. Gore style. Then beat it with it's own arms.
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>>5192130
>You need to find a way to kill it properly. Quickly and efficiently.
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>>5192130
How many of these things are on here? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR CYLIA?!
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>>5192212
I mean we currently have a knife all the way through its skull. I don't know how useful pulling its head off will be.

Probably better to do the Kung Lao table saw bifurcation one. But we don't carry a saw with us. Just plunge your hands into their torso and pull them apart.
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>>5192244
Eh, if we rip it into enough pieces it should break down. Maybe fire does something.
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>>5192130
>shades of American History X, The Old Testament, and MMA
Proud of David.
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>>5192130
>You need to find a way to kill it properly
There is only one way
https://youtu.be/KdmmYRPz1i0
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>>5192364
https://imgur.com/a/i8NS2Ew
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https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/96829858
hey, the onis
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I'm not that great with edits, but i made something up for the demon's cry.
As usual, you can take that as canon or just have your own headcanon.

>>>/wsg/4409357
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>>5192427
Also, bonus points if you know what sound i used as a base for that.
without cheating
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>>5192430
>>5192430
It almost sounds like a slow downed pokemon cry, or someone Mmmmyo, really scuffed and slow.
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>>5192440
For me it felt more like those dinosaur cries from Jurassic Park
No idea tho.
>>5192430
Was I close chief?
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>>5192451
I'll give you a hint. It's from half-life.ghgdb
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>>5192452
the mommy headcrab
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>>5192430
well, that's definitely unsettling. did you use a dolphin as a base?
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>>5192452
Good, I needed an excuse to play HL again anyway.

>>5192454
I think you got it.
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>>5192454
Ding ding ding! It's the gonarch's cry.
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>>5192482
I want to cum inside demons.
This particular demon is looking real submissive and breedable.
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>>5192496
>I know what you are demon, but I calls ya thiccmon. I watch you haunting ships all the time.
>So you go ahead and bring them interferences and them wraiths waiting in the warp, it don't make me no difference.
>Now, I tell you what, I like ya, and I want ya.
>Now we can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way. The choice is yours.
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>>5192513
this made me blush
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>>5192496
>>5192513
Y'all worry me sometimes
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>>5192513
Oh no no no no GET OUT OF MY HEAD
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>TIGHT FUCKABLE DEMON HOLES
>CAN TAKE AS MUCH PUNISHMENT AS YOU CAN PUMP OUT
>CONSTANTLY HUNGRY FOR YOUR LIFE ENERGY
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>>5192838
Sorry but demon and devil fucking went out of vogue three years ago. Now people are onto Cyclopes and their derivatives. Sorry.
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>>5192130
The demon's razor-sharp teeth bite down into it's arm, severing flesh and cutting through the bone as well. The teeth actually even manage to stick into the floor tiles underneath, but fail to completely sever the arm.
So you reach down and wrench it off, causing the demon to wail uncontrollably.

Even after being ripped off, the bladed "fingers" on it's hand still twitch as if they could attempt to claw at you at any moment.
Until you snap them off, that is.

They're kind of like hawkbill blades, each one of them. The base of each "finger" serves as a sort of handle that you can use to grasp it.
With both of it's arms destroyed and it's jaw ripped off, the demon has little strength left. It just twitches and moans on the floor by your feet.

"You... You're gonna tell me." You growl, brandishing the demon's own finger against it.

"You're gonna tell me how to kill your kind."

You set to work, flaying the creature alive. Cutting through the ethereal cloth covering it's body, then peeling it's skin back like you're working on a deer.
It doesn't even have organs, really. Some lumps and masses here or there, but nothing that you can recognize.

And even after skinning it alive and cutting out it's guts, the damned thing is still hanging on, if only just.

"Tenacious bastard, aren't you? But i've killed you before. There's gotta be something inside you, somewhere. Something important. Isn't that right?"

Slowly and deliberately, you drag the bladed finger across it's exposed muscles. There's little reaction from that, but all you need is a little something.
You pick a spot and plunge the blade down into it's flesh. The demon looks like it's in discomfort, if not exactly pain. But that's all.

So you slowly drag it across, until you find another potential spot... and plunge the blade in.
Again, it reacts as if the stab wounds are a mere annoyance.

This process repeats over and over, dozens of times. Until you get to it's eye socket.
Something hollow and grey sits inside, almost like a spot of mold on the surface of a dried up hunk of meat.

You drag the blade over it's flesh, and this time you get a reaction as you near it's eye.
It's ever so slight, but the demon jerks away, just a bit. Like it's trying to keep your blade away from that spot.

"So that's it, huh? UNDER YOUR EYEBALL!"

As you raise your blade high overhead, the demon bursts into an exceptionally loud screech and writhes harder than ever before, with more strength than you thought it had left.

"TOO LATE!" You yell as you plunge the blade deep into it's socket. The blade passes through it's eye effortlessly, and then through the orbit as well... but then it stops, as if it hit something far harder.

The demon's long, continuous screech peters out, turning into a stuttered yelp before it finally goes limp, the last of it's strength expended.
But then you hear several more screeches, multiple from either direction of the hallway. And they're getting closer.
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>>5192911

>Try to hide in one of the nearby rooms
>Make a dash for it, try to reach one group before the others arrive
>Wait right where you are, and get ready to fight
>Write-In?
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>>5192912
>Give a warcry and counter charge.
Let's take initiative and show these fuckers that we're not locked in here with them, but they're locked in here with us.
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>>5192912
>Make a dash for it, try to reach one group before the others arrive
WE pick the fights here, not these fucking spooks.
And while we're doing that
>Yell for Cylia and Javan to get back onboard the Metal Gear, if they can even hear you.
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>>5192911
>Give a warcry and counter charge.
>warn scylia and javan that shit's gonna get rough and lend javan our warp knife
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It occurs to me that a spear might have been very useful in this moment.
What if we made a collapsible rod with a weight on one end and a socket for our combat knife on the other? That way it can also double as a baton in a pinch.
That sounds like some mall njnja type shit as I type it out, but with materials we have I don't see why we couldn't.
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>>5192929
that's not a bad idea. there's surely a pipe and some cable/ropes around here that we can use
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>>5192931
We're on a derelict spaceship.
There's 100% a pipe nearby and you know damn well what happens when David is near pipes.
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>>5192931
>>5192942
>status applied to pipes while david is around
Scratched, bent, dented, dinged, rusted, leaking, twisted, warped, broken, cut, damaged, fearful
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>Make a dash for it, try to reach one group before the others arrive
Oh aim for the eyes huh? We real Demon Night hours now FUCK YEAH IT'S GO TIME BABY WOO
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>>5192912
>Give a warcry and counter charge.
I wonder how's the snake girl doing probably found some cold drinks and riches
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>>5192959
I'm kinda worried they're gonna get blindsided by a few of these things too.

Makes you wonder what the hell there are so many of these things doing out here. In these freaky space lightning fields. There's a whole lotta something going on here.
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>>5192970
more importantly, what happened to the crew that definitely was here some hours ago? did the warp consumed them already?
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>>5192972
I sure hope there isn't a "wraith-ifying field" or some shit in these clouds. Maybe this big dick wraith had the power to suck people dry and turn them into thrall things. What with the fucking brain rape it tried to do to us.
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>>5192976
i only know that this specific wraith is different. the other ones we killed didn't have blade hands or mind control powers. on that note though, how come cylia(and hopefully javan by proxy) is unaffected?
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>>5192931
There's no way we haven't made duct tape with the fabricators and put a roll in with everyone's EVA kits by now.
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>>5192912
>Give a warcry and counter charge.
>Cover yourself in its flayed skin to show your dominance.
>rip a pipe out of the wall to use as a spear shaft, and duct tape some of the demon finger blades on both ends.
It's time to rape demons.
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>>5192989
Supporting. It's time to teach these bastard fear.
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>>5192978
Do we know that they are unaffected? They might be stuck in similar hallucinations.
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>>5192912
>Give a warcry and counter charge.
>Yell for Cylia and Javan to get back onboard the Metal Gear, if they can even hear you.
>Call Metal Gear is they can hear us and bring it up to Spook One.
>>5192925
We don't even know where they are, getting them the fuck off this ship is more important.
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>>5192972
Were they even here? These things mess with even David's head for a second. If there is even one alive, it might be just a drive or snack.
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>>5192978
We don't know that and you are making a big assumption.
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>>5193070
>Call Metal Gear is they can hear us and bring it up to Spook One.
I think we tried calling SHODAN but it just went to voicemail. If we want to make sure Cylia and Javan are okay, but smartest and bestiest thing David can do is absolutely kill every last demon he comes across with maximum racism and ass fucking fury.
Besides. We should totally wear their skin and carry around the skulls of their dead friends. If the demons see that David managed to kill not one, but several of their kind, they might start to learn the meaning of fear.
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>>5193074
We did try to call, but that was when we were under the mind fuckery for a minuet. Though at this point we might be able to get any calls out till the spooks are dealt with. We are absolutely running down each group of spooks before they get a large enough group. Then we loot the space bottles here. We need more weapons.
>Wear it to induce fear
I don't think they are physically capable of that. Fear makes them run if they can feel it. That's a waste of time chasing them. Kill. Them. All. Plus we don't want to spook either of them by looking like the things if they snap out on their own.
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>>5193077
might not*
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>>5193074
If "demons from space hell dimension" are a race then yeah we're pretty fucking racist. Because it's just about time for some hate crimes.
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>>5192951
wow, I like the look of this one
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If we don't kill them demons I think they are going to slip into the metal gear. Somehow they are able to get through the gellar bubble
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>>5193066
Because we were seeing cylia just for a moment when we halucinated lizzy. But to be fair, im working under the assumption that who we saw was the real cylia and not a mind trick

>>5193073
Yeah, i know
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>>5193129
Sorry, you're right. I've missed that detail.
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>>5193129

No, the demon was projecting your memories of Lizzy onto it's own body, in order to trick you. It was trying to get you to stop thinking. To lower your mental defenses, and trust it.
When Cylia flashed through your mind, that's literally all it was. You thought about her for a moment and had second thoughts about shooting the hallucination, in case it was actually her.

>>5193066
The last time something like this happened was quite a while ago, so i'll go ahead and remind you lads.
David is affected FAR less than everyone else, whether it comes to the demon's fear-inducing aura or their mind tricks. It's not even close.
He's also the only one who can touch them with his bare hands.
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>>5193150
ah, i see. then cylia and javan are definitely shitting themselves in some part of the ship. we need to get to them ASAP
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>>5193152
yeah, last time cylia was reduced into a messy puddle of her own juices, poor girl.
Also, electronics are mega fucked. I don't remember if the rapehorror aura EMPs electronics or just make them stop working
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>>5193153
Good memory! Yes, the wraiths can directly interfere with electronics, and cause a lot of EMI within a certain radius around themselves. There more of them there are, the worse it gets.
Back then, SHODAN managed to keep them away from the ship by fusing switches shut, to keep the warp bubble active even after she (and the rest of the ship) was forced offline.
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>>5193150
>It turned into Cylia to not die
>Cylia and Snake are dealing with them too
>They are in danger
These things will die screaming into the void!
>>5193154
That figures, I just reread early threads and it seems we need to kill everything to get our stuff on again.
>There more of them there are, the worse it gets.
I assume these more advanced forms we are fighting are even more disruptive then?
>Back then, SHODAN managed to keep them away from the ship by fusing switches shut, to keep the warp bubble active even after she (and the rest of the ship) was forced offline.
SHIT, did these things try to invade our ship yet?
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>>5193163
>That figures, I just reread early threads and it seems we need to kill everything to get our stuff on again.
i hope the EMP effect is lessened here due to us not being in a wraith planet in the middle of a warp incursion

>SHIT, did these things try to invade our ship yet?
yes, and we killed it. actually that was the catalyst for us to get warp metal weapons
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>>5193164
That may be, but these things are strong enough to affect even David's cracked head, it may be equal or worse in the EMPs strength, it is safe to assume our translator may be busted.
>yes, and we killed it. actually that was the catalyst for us to get warp metal weapons
No dumbass, I mean the ones we are currently fighting and figuring out how to kill!
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>>5193167
>I mean the ones we are currently fighting
that's a huge dunno. the metal gear is pretty far away from us, so they might be out of the wraiths' zone of influence, but we won't be able to be sure until we manage a way to contact them
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>>5193170
I'm just concerned because I doubt these things need to breath, so if the Metal Gear comes close to check, they might get boarded.
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>>5193173
shodan is smart enough to not enter the wraith zone
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>>5193174
Its not a wraith zone, its an electrical cloud remember, only reading we got was the engines.
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>>5192912

>Give a warcry and counter charge.
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>>5193176
and the ship was supposed to have living crew and a hostage we had to rescue instead of wraiths. for all we know, the electrical storm became a warp storm like the one on the dodo planet and if that's the case, shodan won't get anywhere near it because her systems will get fried again
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>>5193190
>he electrical storm became a warp storm like the one on the dodo planet
I don't think that's how that works,, that planet had the population doing warp fuckery. These things are smart enough to mimic people, and these things are pretty solid. They might be phantom lifesigns and gave out a fake SOS. In the storm we are in right now there is literally no difference from SHODAN's scan and what happened on Dodo world, so these Wendigo's might have caught a ride in one of the warp jumps. We'll have to find the engine room and check their bottles....I think this ships might have popped.
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>>5193074
After this, we'll have enough pelts for a Wraith leather duster AND still have plenty of corpses leftover for dissection and study.
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>>5193210
Do you think Sanig wants a Wraith Poncho?
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>>5193216
I think we should modify his sonic-screw driver to have a cosmetic demon bones engravings.
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>>5193231
Sounds like a gift for Sanig, or Kyla. You know what, lets make something nice for Cylia. This is the second time she went out with us and got invovled with WARP bullshit.
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>>5193236
Hopefully she managed to use the warp metal knife David has made her.
Regarding gifts for Cylia, I think the best gift we can get her it holding down a demon and showing her how to kill one.
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>>5193199
>They might be phantom lifesigns and gave out a fake SOS.
it could be, but gorn confirmed us that there was someone of his crew in the ship and we also saw a fighter squadron patrol the area, so unless the wraiths can posses someone, i doubt they could fake that
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>>5193244
>Hopefully she managed to use the warp metal knife David has made her.
Still need to make sure she's not mind fucked.
>Regarding gifts for Cylia, I think the best gift we can get her it holding down a demon and showing her how to kill one.
She might just want us to kill it instead and or is in another panic coma like last time.
>>5193246
They might have the IFF on the ship, but...these things have cloaks...and long razor claws with natural gut hooks....whoever is left might not have any skin in this game.
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>>5193216
How about a Wraith hide flat cap? It'd go well with his cane and mustache.
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>>5193246
Arent we on a smaller fighter ship, and not the main carrier?

>>5193262
This. This right here if Sanig wants it is what he should get. It's a classic.
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>>5193277
we went right for the carrier afaik
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>>5193262
That is such a perfect fit for him.
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>>5193116
It's a surprisingly effective design for being so basic and plain. Though I think it has a lot to do with the people working the set knowing how to properly utilize lighting.

You should check the movie out. It's an oldie but it's pretty good. Pretty much peak B-movie horror imo.
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>>5193379
What's the movie?
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>>5191981
Source?
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>>5193411
Demon Night. An old Tales From The Crypt movie.
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>>5193454
Neat, I'll look it up.
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>>5193457
Wait I'm stupid, it's actually Knight not Night. I should proofread more.
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>>5193460
So even cooler then. Still watching it.
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>>5193379
Lighting is so important, it actively fucking boggles my mind as to how many shitty horror movies back in the day just didn't understand that.
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>>5193531
For real. It's like the directors think clarity and color are taboo or something. Always fucking with the contrast and making everything bleed together.
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>>5192911

"SHODAN!" You yell into your earpiece.

["Ye- -ptai-?"]

The signal is fuzzy at best, but she's still somewhat audible.
You pull your knife free of the demon's skull and bolt for the far end of the hall.

"Wraiths! I repeat, wraiths onboard! Get the crew to a safe distance! I repeat, get the crew to a safe distance, and for god's sake put up a warp bubble!"

["Affir---ve."]

Good. As long as the wraiths haven't already jumped ship, the others should be alright.
As you reach the end of the hall, you find yourself in a large, open room. There are plastic crates spread about, and a thick coat of dust on top of everything.

Looking around, the room appears clear at first... but then you hear the cries of the wraiths.
The dim, red emergency lights flicker and cut out. Then your tac-light cuts out, too. You're left in complete darkness...

It should be an awful situation, sure. You can't hear them gliding through the air after all. But you notice something.
Even though you're completely blind, and even though you can't hear them, you still have a sense for where they are.

Not a sense really, but just a feeling. Two of them, one coming from the front and another from the side.
You grip your trench knife in your right hand, and a severed wraith blade in the other. And you wait, for them to come to you.

One reaches you first. You can't really tell where it's body is specifically, just that it's right in front of you.
You reverse the grip on your trench knife and plunge it into the wraith's body, then twist and pull it through with all of your strength.
As soon as your trench knife exits the wraith's body, the hawk-billed blade in your left hand digs in as well, and you drag it through slightly higher.

You're pretty sure the second one went through it's neck, as the wraith started screeching as soon as you stabbed it, and stopped after the second blade carved through it.
You continue on with your momentum, spinning around completely and using your closed fist to blow the wraith away from you with a left hook. They don't weigh much, so it's not hard.

You can feel it fall to the floor and slide some distance. It doesn't rise back up.
The other wraith ceases it's approach. You guess that means they can see in the dark? Or at least, they can feel you, too.

Your body keeps trying to freeze up on you with every movement. It's probably fear, but you can't feel it right now.
You push through it and bolt towards the second wraith in complete darkness. You still remember the general layout of the room, enough at least not to run into anything immediately.

The wraith actually turns and tries to escape, but you're far, far faster than it. With both blades held in a reverse grip, you plunge them into it's upper body and yank downwards, feeling them break through dry, brittle bone as they go.
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>>5193952
WHY ARE YOU RUNNING
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>>5193952
I'm sorry but the option [Flee] is unavailable at this time.
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Hey yo demons it's ya boy
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>>5193952
Your are the demons now John
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>>5193952
GIMME SOME OF THAT HOT DEMON PUSSY!
David needs to yell this to break Cylia and Javan out of whatever trance they might be in, in addition to letting everyone know that he's going to rape all the demons in the ship.
None of them seem to understand. David's not locked in there with them. The demons are locked in there with him!
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>>5191929
>Blaster Knuckle
Nice, nice. How should that work for the forearm mounting? Will it be a one time use thing, or multiuse? How will reloading work? Will it use shotgun shells or bullets? Should it have one big chamber or multiple chambers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIU8axpaYi0
I had something like this in mind. 12 gauge, 12+1 shots. Might be able to fit it onto one of the forearms of the power armor if we rework the trigger mechanism, the pump (electric self pumping?) and other fun things.

>>5193952
If each of the bladed fingers is like a hawkbill blades, would it be worth it to try and "refining" them by stripping away the flesh and adding proper grips to them so our crew members can use them in case of another demonic incursion? Considering each demon has about 6 to 12 fingers, we'll have more than enough finger knives to outfit everyone, no matter how large our group grows.
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>>5193952
WHERE YOU RUNNIN BITCH, YOU AIN'T DONE YET!
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>>5193190
>w*rp storm
wow wow wow, copyright alarm
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>>5193379
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQubvRbNrxUyP0XjsfGEy0lM5BZVFA4yqKU17ObGduyV5yKRZ5ooh
oh shiet, el caballero del diablo!
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>>5194097
what the fuck!? how can you put that many shells in there. I can hear the shotgun tube moaning "I-I can't fit all that in!"
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>>5194171
lastly, I opened the image link.
yeah that went wrong... blame hiromoot and his 4chan pass scheme
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>>5194097
wait so it's two tubes!?
"Both my tubes are filled up. I feel like bursting"
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>>5194097
I think keeping it as simple as possible is the best way to go for a backup weapon, especially one we're gonna be essentially bludgeoning people with.
One mag tube, one chamber, make it pump action, but built directly into the suit's arm.
Might be cool if the pump was actuated by the user flexing and and extending their arm again.
Like this
>Put hands up ready to punch
>Shell is fed into chamber
>Punch, shell goes boom
>Hand returns to ready position
>Spent shell is ejected, fresh shell is loaded
>Rinse and repeat
As for the trigger mechanism, we could make it a pressure plate along the knuckles of the suit's gauntlets, or we could make it a specific button(s) along our palm like how Spider-Man does his web shooters.
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>>5194316
or voice actuated "BLAM"
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>>5194316
Like Big O's Pile Bunker weapons?
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>>5194370
Maybe? It's been a minute since I've seen Big O though so I'm not entirely sure the comparison stands up to scrutiny.
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>>5194371
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlOoIMd9524
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>>5194316
>The bartender replied, “Well, OK, but what about that hook? What happened to your hand?”
>The pirate explained, “We were in another battle. I boarded a ship and got into a sword fight. My hand was cut off. I got fitted with a hook but I’m fine, really.”
>“What about that eye patch?”
>“Oh,” said the pirate, “One day we were at sea, and a flock of birds flew over. I looked up, and one of them shit in my eye.”
>“You’re kidding,” said the bartender. “You couldn’t lose an eye just from bird shit.”
>“It was my first day with the hook.”
i am adverse to attaching guns to our arms

however a combat shotgun that 's less a big fuckoff breaching gun than the KS we have would be cool. what about a saiga with one of those bullpup kits, and a 40mm underbarrel with flechette?
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>>5194392
wait I'm dumb the gun we have right now is essentially a grenade launcher anyways and I think flechette rounds have been a thing we've mentioned in the past
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>>5194392
Now that I think about it, given the size of our exosuit, the KS is actually about the right size for a combat shotgun.
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>>5194316
Theres no reason to go big on two tubes. More tubes means less softer we'll need to reload in a fight.
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Man, I hope we have something like a camera in our suit that's going to record all this massacre, just imagine.

>"David 'Gunny' Rockefeller, Human, we're the Federation! Your crimes againt our society are go far too long sice you dared to go out or your shithole universe, and instead of staying there, came back once again to make all those awful thing to the Xeno Community in the deep space! We have your Base of Operations and the whole goddammed planet being pointed with the must high-grade weaponry pointed at you, now, surrender!"
>"Yeah yeah, hold up a minute, I wanna show you something"
>"If you even dare to think we're going to!..."
>All the ships recieve a video, they open it
>Full recording of the video recording and going blank, only the audio remaining
>Wraith screeches with David madly rambling and cursing
>Little by little the video footage looks more clear
>it's a POV of David and in one of the corners the recording of David's face in the moment
>Wraiths being viciously murdered from left to right, spectral limbs goes flying, screeches of fear being heard while David charges to the middle of a large group of Wraiths that gets some hits to his souls, it looks like it hurts but David keeps killing them
>At the end the radios goes silents, no response while inside the Federations ships goes wild, calling experts to see if the footage is real or if it's fake
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>>5194434
i don't think the wraiths are that much of a problem for the glowies at the federation
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>>5194434
Did a nonhuman entity write this post?
It has a very poor grasp of the english language.
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>>5194517
Don't worry. It's just a Grey sponsored genetic infiltrator. They aren't bad people they're just always a little confused.
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>>5193952
I just remembered, we need to make fucking glowsticks at some point. This power out nonsense is getting ridiculous.
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>>5194434
Wanna try that again with spellcheck on?
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>>5194528
i assume that's being done automatically on the background, just like most minor things in any given quest
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>>5194540
Nooo, we vote for inventions, and until now needing a glowstick has never come up. What are you smoking?
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>>5194572
i swear we had made glow sticks before. oh well
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>>5194517
I'm an ESL ok? Jeez
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>>5194600
>ESL
Unforgivable.

You'd better not be a dirty, filthy, low-down, no good hungarian too.
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>>5193952

You've got the time now to grab hold of it's body, letting go of your wraith-blade in the process. You can feel the demon's shoulder, and so you know where it's head must be.
You stab your trench knife down into the top and back of the demon's head, six, eight, ten times before letting it crumple to the ground.

With that demon's death, the emergency lights and your tac-light flicker and come back to life. In the dim light, you see something like faint wisps of smoke rising up from the demon's corpse... and flowing into you.
It rises up and into the center of your chest as if it were being drawn in. You're not sure what it is, but you honestly don't feel any different afterwards.

Although, you're so hopped up on adrenaline right now that it doesn't mean much.
There isn't much time to consider things though, because more demons are coming from the hall.

The lights flicker again, violently this time. Even the brighter running lights come to life for a moment before burning out entirely in a brilliant flash, leaving you in complete darkness once again.
There's four of them this time, and one of them has a significantly stronger presence than the other.

Through the occasional sparking of the blown-out lights, you can just barely make out their shadow at the far end of the room.
The one in the back... whatever it is, it's pretty freakin' big. This might be trouble.

>Go for the three weaker wraiths first
>Ignore the weaker ones, aim for whatever that big one is
>Write-In?
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>>5195214
>Go for the three weaker wraiths first
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>>5195214
>>Go for the three weaker wraiths first
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>>5195214
Could we maybe trip them up as they close in by throwing one of the wraith corpses at them? Try our best to reduce the number fighting us at once.

If that just isn't feasible or possible then
>>Go for the three weaker wraiths first
Get rid of the adds first, always.
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>>5195214
Grab one of the small wraiths and use it to beat the other ones to death
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>>5195214
>Go for the three weaker wraiths first
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>>5195214
>Go for the three weaker wraiths first
Gank the adds, leave the biggun for desert.
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>>5195214
>Go for the three weaker wraiths first
Gotta make sure we can deal with the big one uninterrupted.
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Go ahead and roll for me.

Lower DC: 50
Upper DC: 75
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Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>5195443
Nat 1 incoming.
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Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>5195443
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Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>5195443
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>>5195458
Oh thank god, just barely.
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Dice hate us as is tradition.
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Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>5195443
check out this 100
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>>5195475
....well, that one is still preferred.
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>>5195499
wanted to do a funny with the rolls of course that didn't happen
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Rolled 6 (1d100)

I think this is the first fail ever
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Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>5195443
Behold! Nat 1!
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>>5195554
My disappointment is immeasurable.
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Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>5195583
This is what the dice think about your emotional status
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>>5195599
>5599
>55
I kneel.
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>>5195599
And dub dubs? Same.
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>>5195214

Those smaller ones might be less of a threat, but they still have claws and fangs. You don't want them stabbing, cutting and biting you while you're trying to fight.
The only problem is, there's three of them, and you'll have to avoid the big guy while you fight. If that's even possible in complete darkness like this.

There's no avoiding it, you're probably going to take a hit or two here.
Damn, if you'd known this was going to happen you would have brought some warp-infused buckshot.

The wraiths don't wait for you, with the three smaller ones charging you all at once. The way they dart around, you're sure they're flying through the air.
You position your arms and body defensively, reducing their target area as much as possible... and then jump, just as the first one closes in on you.

Your trench knife passes through something on your way up to the ceiling, and you hear the sound of boxes flying and clattering as the demon smashes into them.
The second demon changes course along with you, but gets a facefull of spiked pommel for his trouble. It's knocked away from you, but doesn't fall out of the air.

The third demon arrives at almost the same time, and you feel it cut into your backpack, causing the contents to spill out into the open air.
You turn and slice at it with the wraith-blade in your left hand, feeling it hit it's mark. But the wound was shallow. You follow that up with a harsh blow from the spiked knuckle dusters on your trench knife, knocking that one away as well.

Only too late do you notice the larger wraith's approach, it being far, far faster than the others. Something large and blunt impacts your torso, knocking you off the ship's ceiling and through a stack of boxes, sending plastic shards flying.
The first demon you'd attacked has by now recovered, and closes in on you. Something feels wrong, and your senses tell you to parry.

You wave your trench knife in what for a moment feels like a random direction, but it actually makes contact with something. Judging by the sound, it must be the wraith's blade-like fingers.
You follow up by drawing the wraith-blade across the demon's neck, then blowing it away for a second time with a punch to the gut.

Again, something large and blunt knocks into you with significant force, from the back this time. It knocks you clear off your feet, and you're sent tumbling through the air, unable to get your feet in contact with anything.
You feel three blades draw across your face, and immediately you know it got you pretty good. You don't think it reached your eye, but that'll leave a scar.

You're forced to let go of your wraith blade to grab the enemy. It's difficult to sense it's location while you're spinning, but you manage to grab one of it's limbs regardless, and yank it's body towards you.
Three heavy blows from your knuckle dusters give you a general sense of the enemy's shape, which allows you to finally kill the bastard by shoving your blade up through it's palate.
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>>5196110
Dropped my trip, whoops.
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>>5196110
These clowns wouldn't be so cocky if we could see them.
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>>5196116
Exactly. They're cowards by nature.
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>>5196116
after we brutalize these wraiths, we need to make a torch
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>>5196233
What kind of torch?
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>>5196246
the kind we can make with whatever materials we have around
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>>5196251
So rip off Wraith wrags and wrap them on a stick or pipe?
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>>5196255
yeah I dunno if the wraiths are even real enough to interact with objects that way. Or to burn.
Does david have enough tools/things to take out one (1) bullet, remove bullet and strike the powder? I bet one or two boxes will catch on fire.
Shit, think about it, maybe wraiths get unironically scared of fire. Because fire is plasma
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>>5196274
We got one in the cooler, their rags are real enough. What do you mean does he have enough to take a wraith out? Have you not been reading?
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>>5196274
For that matter, why don't we have stick flares for exactly this sort of situation?
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>>5196276
To take a bullet out of the casing you dumb raisin
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>>5196110
it'd be pretty fucked up if we were killing our crew mates right now
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>>5196276
To be fair, it became more material after dying. Hence others were able to clearly see it.
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>>5196294
i swear we made some at some point in the past, but the anons say otherwise
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>>5196334
We have a lighter.
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>>5196425
I said we haven't made glowsticks, I never said anything about flares. We probably don't have any on us though. On account of not expecting Wraith Infestation.
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>>5196554
You did actually have a couple of flares... in your backpack.
There simply wasn't time to dig them out and use them, by the time you needed them.

David will definitely keep a couple strapped to his thigh from now on. It's a learning experience.
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>>5196565
Very good then. After we pass this we can rush and grab them real quick.
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>>5196574
If you can find them. You pack was cut open, and your shit is floating around everywhere.
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>>5196580
Oh god damnit. This is going to get annoying.
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>>5196580
Does David still have his guns? Isn't Muzzle flashes a thing? Would it be briefly bright enough to find a flare?
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>>5196582
>>5196596
we definitely need to bring a lantern next time. not the LED kind, but the filament ones
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When we get back let's get Sanig to work on some multivisors for the suits, would be nice to have some sensory options to click through in a case like this. (Light Amp, Thermal, MagRes, Lidar, EM-passive, etc)
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>>5196606
those are useless if you get EM disturbances or get outright EMP'd, something that the wraiths eagerly do whenever we meet them
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>>5196110

One dead. One disabled. The large one is closing in, but the last little one is already at your side. There's no time to pull your knife out and stab it.
It swipes at your ribs, cutting through your clothes and binding slightly against your skinsuit before lacerating your side. It burns like hell, as if someone had poured salt in the wound.

One thing you've learned about these bastards is that, in order to interact with you, they have to solidify themselves. That makes them somewhat vulnerable, even to mundane weapons.
It's time to see how vulnerable they actually are.

You yank your 1911 out of it's holster and place the barrel directly against the wraith's body, then pull the trigger.
A forty-five caliber hollowpoint round digs into the wraith's body and blows out the other side despite fragmenting, but that's the least of the damage.
The wraith's torso balloons up as it fills with exhaust gasses, due to the barrel of the gun being pressed directly against it's body. Bones break, muscle tears and the wound is filled with debris and burnt gunpowder.

Your back slams into the wall on the far side of the ship from where you'd been hit, and the wraith you just shot slams into the wall right next to you a moment later.
You take that moment to rip your knife out of the dead wraith's head, then grab onto the living wraith and unload your whole magazine into it's body and head, using the short instants of light from the muzzle flash to guide your aim.

The wraith's body is horribly damaged, but you can already see it regenerating at a rapid pace. Guns might slow them down, but they can't kill them. Not with a lead bullet.
You finish the demon, plunging your knife through it's shattered, but rapidly re-forming skull and into the writhing flesh underneath. It doesn't die immediately, not until you give the blade a twist, and draw it through on it's way out.

But there's no time to rest. Your instincts scream at you once again, and you plant your feet on the floor just in time to pull yourself down, ducking underneath a massive blow that rattles the steel plate wall of the ship.
The large demon is all that remains, but it's already closed the distance and is aiming at you.

If a forty-five can slow down a wraith, then surely a 20mm shell can slow down this thing, right? Assuming it doesn't cut it in half.
You swing the KS-23 around into your left hand and try to pull the trigger, but before you can get the shot off, the large demon in front of you actually grabs the barrel of your gun and shoves it out of the way!
That motion causes you to accidentally fire a round off, knocking the gun out of your hand entirely. But more importantly, it lights up the entire room in a single brilliant flash, revealing your enemy's form for the first time.

It's Javan.
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>>5196762

"SHIT!"

"SHAAAAAAA!" She hisses, diving towards you.

She intended to grab you and sink her fangs in, but you dip underneath her lunge, grab her arm and twist it around. Her stomach is left open, so you sink your open palm into it to knock her away.
You hear her sliding across the floor, but she quickly recovers by bracing with her tail. You realize now that her tail is what's been slamming into you.

"Javan! It's me! David, Captain Rockefeller! Calm down!"

She doesn't respond, and lunges at you again instead. Something's wrong with her.
Yeah, definitely. She still feels just like one of the other wraiths you killed, only stronger.

"Javan, wake up! That thing is in your head!"

No good. She thrusts the tip of her tail at you like a lance, over and over again. You dodge most of them, but one gets you right in the ribs, where that wraith sliced at you.
You're not sure you can end this without hurting her, but your options are limited.

>Try shoving smelling salts up her nose?
>Try to knock her out cold
>You do have those beanbag rounds...
>Write-In?
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>>5196765
>Try to knock her out cold
as much as i want to shove the smelling salts down her nose, im pretty sure our human dose will fry her brain. its better to play it safe and knock her out
FUCK, i hope she's not being possessed
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>>5196765
>Try to knock her out cold
Huh. I have no idea how to tussle with snakes, much less snakes with arms.
I do have a question though...where's Cylia?
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>>5196765
>You do have those beanbag rounds...
Beanbags are the ways to go
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>>5196765
>>You do have those beanbag rounds...
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I wonder how the ayys will react to the fact that earth herbivores can be as, if not more dangerous than the predators; at least most predators can be reasoned with and scared away since they can't afford getting injured. But herbivores like elephants, moose, hippos, bulls, kangaroos, rams, etc won't think twice on fucking you up if you look at them wrong. I'll be more scared encountering a moose in the woods than a black bear personally.
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>>5196839
Imagine if the galactic council somehow got footage of David blindfighting wraiths in zero gravity with nothing but a knife a knife, and winning.
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>>5196841
Oh that's a good idea. When we have the chance we should check the ship for cameras to see if we can get footage of David's fight.
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>>5196845
You cut power to the entire ship before entering, and even if there were security cameras running on backup power, the wraiths EMP'd everything.
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>>5196841
that would only encourage them to take us out with a ballistic missile. although its a great intimidation factor for smaller entities, like muggers and such
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>>5196605
A magic spacemetal filament lamp?
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>>5196886
Now there's an idea.
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>>5196765
>>Try to knock her out cold
Did someone say "headbutt"? If she's a constricting type of serpent she'll be in for a world of fractured skull. Or pain. Hopefully pain.
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>>5196765
Smelling salts is my vote. Just empty a vial into her face.
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>>5196886
i was thinking about the normal, tungsten filament ones that we use for light, y'know, something like this. they're literally EMP immune because they have no electronics inside and they should be stupid easy to make
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>>5196765
>Try to knock her out cold
It seems to be the safest option.
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>>5196896
Yeah, but they're affected by magic spacemetal, so if we make a light out of said metal maybe it'll do something to them, like make them easier to see, or more visible to other people. Or give them a rash.
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>>5196765
>You do have those beanbag rounds...

>>5196893
She's a snake. She'd need to flick her tongue out.
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>>5196903
i don't think that's gonna be possible. the reason a lightbulb works is because the tungsten filament gets heated to such high temperatures that it glows red. the last time we worked with warp metal we needed stupid amounts of heat to make it malleable; i just don't think a battery has enough juice to heat it up to glowing temperatures. that being said, we could try coating the body of the flashlight with warp metal dust
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>>5196890
Woops David accidentally fucked the snake lady and got a face full of her chest muscle boobs.
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>>5196765
>Try to knock her out cold
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>>5196850
Tch, figures, Wraiths must be more of a problem then people realize if they can EMP everything.
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Could we try to make some kind of dark energy emitter? It could be helpful in wraith removal. Or just make them stronger. We could test it on their corpses to be sure.
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>>5197124
That sounds like a absolutely horrible idea, why would you want that? The Uranium Flame Thrower is likely less dangerous.
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>>5197124
anon, we only need a reliable source of light; we already got the knife to kill them
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>>5197125
>>5197126
Why shouldn't we try out something like that? I'm sure that an area-of-effect weapon could at times be more useful that regular melee weapons. It should be pretty easy to convince Sanig to help us construct such contraption.
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>>5197125
the what
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>>5197136
fair enough, just don't put it on the flashlight. we don't need to over complicate something that should be pretty straightforward
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>>5197146
Yeah, I know. It was just a random thought that was completely unrelated to the flashlight idea.
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>>5197143
The Warcrime sprayer. What do you think?
>>5197136
Because that might make a fucking Warp Hole for them to come through!
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>>5197167
That just means that we could kill more of them!
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>>5196896
Simple devices like a filament bulb are EMP resistant, but not immune. Drive too much power through it and it'll pop, just like an LED.

>>5196910
It's true that a warp metal filament would take a lot of energy to heat up, but it can also be made much thinner due to it's ridiculous strength, heat resistance and utter lack of chemical reactivity.
Likewise, alien batteries didn't top out at lithium-ion. There are batteries with far more storage and output than on earth, and supercapacitors that shit all over anything we have.

Regardless, the point is that warp-shielded equipment is entirely possible to make. Even regular electronics could be hardened by encasing them in sheets of warp metal.

>>5197124
>Some kind of dark energy emitter
It's called a warp drive. A device that could generate a miniature warp bubble could be very useful when dealing with wraiths, and may have many different applications.
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>>5197279
>Warp Drive punching gloves
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>>5197287
>"I have the power of GOD in my hands!"
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>>5197287
>punching craters into wraiths and ayys with nanosecond lifespan nano-sized black holes imploding and exploding.
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>>5197571
Screw hard light weapons. We're making dark mater engine gloves.
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>>5197880
>We have some of the most advanced and sophisticated weapons technologies in the galaxy, what do you have?
>Big really good metal stick.
If it ain't broke
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>>5197880
>Screw hard light
*sad GLaDOS sounds*
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>>5196765
Looks like knocking her out wins.

Roll me 1d100, best of 3.
DC: 45
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Rolled 73 + 1 (1d100 + 1)

>>5198060
CUM INSIDE SNAKE PUSSY
Strength test bonus?
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Rolled 1 (1d001)

>>5198060
Here goes.
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>>5198061
I'll factor in the strength bonus when needed, you don't have to worry about it.
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Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>5198060
let save the day
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>>5198060
Nat1
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Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>5198060
Nat 1, I said!
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>>5198062
I'm glad you're a smooth brain and dont know how to roll right. Wrong dice there buddy.
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>>5198062
I almost got mad.
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>>5198062
I zozzled
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Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>5198060
here goes
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>>5196765

There's not much choice, you're just going to have to knock her block off.
You'll do your best not to break anything, but it is what it is.

She lunges at you with her tail once again, so you grab it with the intention of pulling her off balance, but you're surprised when she launches you up towards the ceiling instead.
Her tail has a lot of strength, which you suppose makes sense. Just like a real snake, it's nothing but bone and muscle in there. Only, she's a lot bigger...
Best to keep from getting constricted. That probably wouldn't end well.

You land on all fours against the ceiling and quickly stand up to deal with her next move, but again, she does something surprising.
Her body is so long that, unlike the wraiths, you can actually feel her out somewhat if you focus closely enough.

That's why you're able to notice when she suddenly coils up, and then springs towards you at incredible speed.
You're barely able to dodge as she impacts right next to you, slamming her whole body against the ceiling panels.
The jolt shakes the whole ceiling and knocks you loose, causing you to float freely again, although much slower this time.

"Christ, you're gonna brain yourself before i can!"

Javan shakes off a possible concussion and coils up again. She's planning on hitting you while you're stuck in the air, but unfortunately for her you paid attention in physics.
As she's coiling you remove the KS-23's strap from your body, and just before she lunges you toss it. The weight of the oversized gun is enough to move you just barely out of her path.

However, you don't just dodge. She's coming at you headfirst after all, so it only makes sense to counter.
Since you're floating, the damage would be lessened... but she's also flying at you like a madwoman, so maybe it'll be enough.

You throw a hook that lands straight into her nose, and the impact nearly tears your arm off.
Javan's head shoots backwards like it got blown off and both of you are sent whirling through the air.

Not a moment later you make contact with... something. Wall, floor, ceiling... hard to tell. Either way, you bounce off, and have to take a moment to re-orient and get your boots against something solid.
Javan stops coming at you, and besides a few pained groans, she's totally silent.

You let out a short groan yourself.
Your arm hurts. Your ribs hurt. Your face hurts. You're bruised all over.

You can feel blood seeping out of the wounds on your side and face. The blood is pooling over your left eye, which might matter if you could FUCKING SEE!

"Goddamnit, you little piece of shit... turn on! Come on!"

You smack your tac-light several times to no avail, eventually tearing it off your clothes and slamming it against the wall.
It actually does manage to flicker back on from that, albeit much dimmer than before.

Aiming the light over at Javan, you see a spray of blood floating through the air above her... and inky, black wraith blood coating just about the whole room.
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>>5198100
God damnit....we need to make wet wipes after this. The mess is atrocious.
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>>5198139
Make the ones without bleach. Bleach would be 100% labeled a bio-weapon.
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>>5198148
Well, that would be good, right? In one moment - a helpful disinfectant. In another - cruel chemical weapon.
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>>5198152
I dont want ourselves on the space CIA hitlist bro
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>>5198152
no. that only means that the wipes would be useful to us and a warcrime to anyone who isn't us, and that's everyone else. water wipes is the best that we'll be able to work with right now
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>>5198100
God dammit. This is going to be a bitch to clean up.
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>>5198176
it will be gildur's bitch to clean up
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>>5198176
>>5198197
Its not our ship and we aren't keeping it, so its fine.
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>>5198217
Don't be a little coward. We hijacked this ship, it's our by rules of conquest.
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>>5198223
Its not being a coward, its about it being a worthless scrap heep with atmosphere.
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>>5198217
who knows, maybe the ship is not as shitty as it looks like
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>>5198228
It's just like a coward to instantly write off a ships value just because there were a few life threatening demonic entities. Why don't you go hang out with those space herbivores Basedjack anon?
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>>5198100
So to clarify, the smaller ones we killed were actually wraiths, while the "big one" was Javan?
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>>5198255
Yes.
Although, whatever's controlling javan feels more powerful than the other wraiths.
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>>5198257
im betting it was another knifehand wraith like the one that almost got us
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>>5198259
All the wraiths here had knife hands.
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>>5198269
Did we not kill the big wraith yet?
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>>5198275
Javan is still being controlled, isn't she?
What does that tell you?
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now we just gotta look out for a particularly furry wraith and knock cylia out before she no personels us
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>>5198278
Hold on let me think. Uh. If you carry the three. Factor in the speed of a land-bound sparrow. Put bananas on the grocery list.

I don't really know but my magic eight ball says "Signs point to no".
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>>5198292
What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
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>>5198296
I thought we were talking about Kyla swallowing.
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>>5198298
Wait she swallows? I thought she swam.
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>>5198314
Only when David is out of her for a week.
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right sided bananas?
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>>5198100
Honk her chest muscle boobs. We must know!
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>>5198100

She's definitely out cold, but the feeling you get from her doesn't subside.
It does however, begin to "detach" from her. And you can actually see this happening.

The air in the room is already dense with the smoke-like particles wafting off the blood that coats the room, but it pales in comparison to the torrent of smoke that pours from Javan's mouth, nose, eyes and ears.
You can hear her crying out as if she's in terrible pain, and there's a great rush of wind that accompanies it.

The demon that emerges from her body slowly takes shape, and although it remains wholly ethereal, it's form fits your image of a "demon" much more closely than the wraiths you fought previously.
All the smoke in the room rushes in towards it, and it takes that material into itself. You realize now what you're seeing... that stuff, it's dark matter.

"Oh, fuck..." You utter, unconsciously clutching your knife just a little bit harder.

It struggles and claws at the air as it reforms, as if it's having difficulty escaping from the body it had possessed.
But it does emerge, slowly. And it locks eyes with you.

It simply stares at first, letting out a low growl not dissimilar from a large cat.
You feel quite a bit of pressure from that stare, though. One misstep could spell the end, here. That's what your instincts are telling you.

And normally you'd listen to them, but there are times when a man must overcome his instincts. Doing that, you feel, is what sets men apart from mere animals.
Your stance widens, and you hold your blade out at the ready. Come what may, you'll fight to the end.

...

A standoff.
Neither you, nor the demon move for what feels like ages. Both of you lock eyes, refusing to blink.
And then he roars. A roar that freezes the blood in your veins like ice. Your body locks up, and that's when he strikes.

Without a lower body, the demon rides a trail of smoke as it launches itself towards you, clawed fingers reaching out to grab hold and rend your flesh.

You refuse to die like this, frozen in fear.
The demon flies at you in slow motion. Your vision tunnels, and all you can see is the enemy in front of you.
You can't breathe, as if there's a cueball stuck in your throat. But you don't need to breathe.

All you have to do is move your arm. Raise that blade up, and strike at the enemy.

Move.

MOVE!

"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE!"

It takes a herculean effort, but with a roar of your own, your arm obeys your will, just barely. It moves up, and you slice straight through the ethereal demon's body as it flies past you.
It cries out in pain, but turns to attack you once more.

You turn to face it, still unable to breathe, but able at least to move your limbs.
Dirty, red light filters out of the demon's wounds and trails of smoke wisp out alongside it.

The demon stares at you, hate filling it's sunken, red eyes.
But it doesn't attack. Instead, smoke gathers behind it and it sinks into that inky darkness, disappearing entirely.
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>>5198606
WE WILL TURN YOU INTO A FUCKING SUIT YOU WALKING ASH TRAY!
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>>5198606
of course these fuckers can possess people
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>>5198616
At least it seems we have a Demon Radar.
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>>5198630
its something i guess. now lets put it to use before it gets to possess cylia or something along those lines
>nagr8
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>>5198630
Not just that, you have the ability to see dark matter and energy with the naked eye, and the ability to touch these things with your bare hands.
How strange.
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>>5198688
i've always attributed the last part to daniel being from a higher gravity panel, which would make him more dense and then him being jacked as fuck gave him more density, just enough to interact with the bastards. but the first two are definitely an anomaly
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>>5198688
It's obviously because we slurp up the demon dust every time we skullfuck one to death.

Y'ain't foolin' me dawg. We're just picking up Insight along with the Souls.
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>>5198606
This demon's head will look great mounted on a wall.
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>>5198727
On a wall? Maybe... Or we could cut the skull in half and use it like a shoulders decoration for our next upgrade in our armor.

Or maybe use it for decoration in some bigass shield to use with our hammer.
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>>5198733
As barbaric as it is, it's not a terrible idea.
Being feared will probably keep us alive, and a big part of that is cultivating the image of terror.
Wearing trophies from nightmarish demons and supernatural entities over military grade armor is sure to help with that.
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>>5198733
i'd say we should put it on our helmet, so people won't be able to look at us in the eyes before shitting themselves
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>>5198228
Hey, if it's got atmosphere, it's at least air-tight. The whole 'horribly haunted' thing is something we (and no one else outside of Earth, apparently) can fix.
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>>5198733
I like the skull pauldron idea. I wonder if we can make a cloak or something out of the lesser wraiths spooky robes/skin too.

>>5198741
I think most people already have trouble looking us in the eye and not shitting themselves.
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>>5198760
Yo that's a poncho
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>>5198765
it definitely falls under "cloak or something"
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>>5198765
I know. Cloaks were the first thing I thought of then I had a better idea.
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>>5198688
>>5198692
>>5198721
Think David's had a demon living in him all along? Think humans are actually so special because they have souls, and that's what's going on?
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>>5198774
i don't think that the implication that everyone else but humans (or david) are souless automatons would be a good thing for david. that's how you get race wars
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>>5198774
>>5198776
If that were true it would be more like 'All humans have a Satan living in them' which wouldn't be a great implication either.
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>>5198727
Maybe after we kill a few dozen of them first. We'll want to research the corpse first socwe can make things out of their bodies.

>>5198733
I think it would look good if we integrate it to our helmet, or to the helmet of our power armor considering this thing has horns. It would be tight as fuck, like chaplain helmets from 40k.

>>5198760
Make them shit harder then

>>5198774
David killed a shit ton of lesser wraiths with his lesser dark matter bottle hammer. I'm leaning on believing his absorbing the demons through right of conquest.
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>>5198893
>Make them shit harder then
>Inb4 we actually go with the helmet idea and all the aliens suffer explosive diarrhea the moment they see David
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Also, i've got an idea from the last post of OP

Have you seen Ant-Man and The Wasp Marvel movie? In the post-credit scene, Scott goes to the Quantum Realm and grab some energy from the air with a device that sucks it from around it. If the Demons and Wraiths actually need or use , or are made out of Dark Matter, we can make some "Dark Matter absorbing grenade" to use in mid fight, maybe to leave an area for a short time so they don't make themselves intangible or some shit
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>>5198907
>David does more than just add it to his helmet
>he channels his inner autism to make it even spookier
>cranks that shit up to 11
>adds a voice modulator that makes him sound something like the marauder from Doom Eternal
>add cameras to the eye sockets with red glowing lights that'll provide visual feedback for the HUD in the helmet
>study chemistry a bit to make a passive pheromone that induces fear into people relatively close by
>make the horns detachable in case we run out of knives
What about the other bones in the demons body? The skin?

>>5198914
I'm liking that idea. We should bring it up with grandpa.
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>>5198914
Thats why we need a xenobiologist to expand upon those ideas
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>>5198919
>What about the other bones in the demons body? The skin?
I don't think there's really a use for the other parts. The abilities they have looks like it's something more like space cursed magic that something biological (For example there's Randall that surely we can study his skin and see how he goes invisible and try to replicate. But from the Wraiths we haven't seen something that indicates this things they do are from evolution of something in their body, aside from the weird stone near their eyes.)

>>5198959
The biggest xenobiologist in the galaxy are the grays, and their a big no-no. What we need is some really good Xenobiologist that doesn't have a problem dealing with David shenanigans and being in danger.

Also, speaking of the demon, we should try and tell Sanig once all this is over that we need a bigass cryopod for the Big guy.
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>>5198974
Im still salty that anons were pussies and backed out from even trying to recruit the reptilian doctor
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>>5198893
>David killed a shit ton of lesser wraiths with his lesser dark matter bottle hammer. I'm leaning on believing his absorbing the demons through right of conquest.
You're just pushing the question backwards a little bit, it still begs the question of why he could see and interact (and absorb) them back at the Dodo planet.
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>>5198606
So what's the plan from here guys?

My vote is
>Throw Javan through the umbilical back to the metal gear
>Get our bleeding stopped by scifi quick-clot while we're over there, quite briefly. Or use it ourselves if we've got some.
>Duct tape some flares to our leg
>Go hunt down greater-demon-senpai before he goes to possess Cylia, which he's definitely heading to do
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>>5199022
>Throw Javan through the umbilical back to the metal gear
can't do, we already told shodan to get to a safe distance. best we can do is to tape her to a wall or something like that
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>>5199030
That works too.

At least we can be reasonably sure Gron didn't know about this wraith infestation, seeing as one of his crew came over on his suggestion.

OR MAYBE THAT'S JUST WHAT HE WANTS US TO THINK.
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>>5199033
ngl, i still believe picking him over the corp was the wrong move, but we'll see
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>>5199022
The immediate plan would be

>Stop the bleeding
>Check on Javan
>Gather your equipment
>Find Cylia
>Secure the ship

In that order.
However, if there's anything you'd like to do in particular, absolutely feel fee to talk about it.
The more player suggestions the better.
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>>5199042
After securing the ship, we should probably get the wraith corpses to medbay asap.
That's some valuable stuff potentially, we shouldn't take any chances on possible decay.
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>>5199042
Does Securing the ship also fall in line with finding Grons crew member here? His friend better be worth all this trouble. He owes David, like, something funny.
Gron should give David the best porno mag hes got. I am curious about his species reproductive capabilities.

>>5199046
+1 we need to secure the wraith corpses and shove them in the cryopods before they leak out anymore of their valuable fluids. We might need to make some sort of giant tube just to fit all their remains in since David more or less blenders some of em.
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>>5199042
That one anon keep complaining about not recruiting that one doctor back on Xebric. Was she actually a geneticist or xenobiologist, or your run of the mill hospital worker? Is she still a potential recruit? I'm only asking if it would get the other guy to shut up about it.

Would Davud consider fucking the living fleshlight in the pet cage? No I'm not referring to Kyla.

Can we look out a port hole to look for the Metal Gear? If David knows morescode, then SHODAN does too probably. We could probably send her a coded saying David killed some wraiths, but theres one big demon left to kill.
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>>5199055
>Give David a porno mag
>When David has the horniest little Gob to keep his jewels polished
Wow, what a waste.
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>>5199075
I couldn't think of anything to ask from Gron that wouldnt be considered over reaching in our agreement or something.
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>>5199081
We can just put it on credit for later. He can't say anything when we show the Wraith and Demon corpses.
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>>5199055
Grons crew member isn't even here. This was supposed to just be an outlying scout craft for the Carrier where Gron's man is actually at.
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>>5199055
>the bullets gron will sweat when he sees his little assassination attempt failed

but of course the pirate warlord wouldn't do that to us..
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>>5199075
>not mentioning the literal custom made sentient sextoy made exact for him
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>>5199103
If I do, that faggot comes around to reee about the literal sex toy.
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>>5199063
>the doctor
As far as you know, she was just a doctor. But then, you don't know much about her.
If you meet her again, what you decide to say or do is up to you.

>the fleshlight
As it is? No. But it's not gone, and it still hasn't lived up to it's full potential.

>look outside?
Sure, easily. Radio contact won't be an issue in a moment, though.

>>5199055
It wouldn't be "secure" if you didn't find any and all possible threats aboard, and thus in the process find any living crewmembers.
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>>5199110
It seems like in this scenario using the wraith claws were more effective than the knuckle infused warm metal studs in David's gloves. How strong or effective are the hawkbill like blade fingers of these wraiths? Can they cut through metal and flesh easier than our trench knife? Just about the same? Not as effective?
I'm asking because I'm wondering if it's possible to make some sort of wolverine like retractable claw mounts to David's forearms/back of his hands, either extended out when in use or flipping open or out when in use. The idea is the punch, swipe, stab, whatever we want with them against people and things. Pluss they would look really fucking intimidating.
Man, I wonder how conductive these claws would be. Could the claws be coated in some conductive metal and run a current through them so fucking people can see electricity coursing through them? If we're going to play the intimidation game, Thunder claws are the way to go.
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>>5199110
What has Kyla done regarding her business? She was a tinkerer repair woman before David came along. Does she still try opening shop from the ship whenever we dock at a station when she's not busy with research or building things?

Forgot my pic for the last post >>5199118
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>>5199118
If we go for some mounted weapons in the power armor or those Wolverine gloves, we need to add some security chip or something to our suits, so when we go and touch our face the blades appear but doesn't fully extend, just to give us a little spook until we make a habit on using them.
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>>5199118
They weren't quite as sharp as David's knife, but David keeps his knife sharp enough to use as a scalpel.
It's certainly an effective weapon, regardless. A little cleanup and they'd be damn good weapons, for whatever purpose you like.

>>5199119
She has a robot running the counter back on Xebric, and occasionally receives payments for any sales she makes.
The entirety of her spare time so far has been spent repairing things and researching the Metal Gear, along with all the tech David designs.
Which she's quite happy to be doing, by the way.
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>>5199120
Maybe a little security chip and some wrist sensors so they only extend and retract with specific motions?

>>5199121
Will the finger blades be treated as bones or metal for the purpose of keeping them sharp?
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>>5199121
Would alcohol, vodka, or mineral water be a more effective coolant than water? I know that any of those would be a lot more expensive.
https://youtu.be/IYTJfLyo_vE
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>>5199123
switches exist; we can use them to activate or deactivate a circuit if our arms do certain motions
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>>5199126
Nope. Water is already the cheapest, most effective and hassle-free coolant you can ask for all by itself.
Adding anything to water actually reduces it's cooling capacity, so at most people will add small amounts of germicidal and rust inhibiting chemicals to coolant loops, or in the case of car radiators, propylene glycol to reduce it's freezing and boiling points.

The only real gains to be made are in the radiator and/or block materials, geometry and so-on.
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>>5199129
>The only real gains to be made are in the radiator and/or block materials, geometry and so-on.
Neato. Could Kyla or SHODAN suggest any further upgrades we can make to those if the Metal Gears equivalent of a radiator/block materials are sub par?
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How much longer until we try to make a bolter? Gyrojets never caught on on earth because the rounds were so expensive, but with the advanced manufacturing capabilities in space we shouldn't have as much of a problem with that.
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>>5199144
What's the point? Hi-Ex rounds exist, and rarely do you engage enemies at a range great enough to benefit from what gyrojets do.
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>>5199144
i don't think there aren't any advantages that a gyrojet has over a round of an equivalent size
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>>5199152
>>5199153
Because big micro rockets are fun.
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>>5199167
Meh. 40k is pretty pants-on-head through and through.
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>>5199131
>non-euclidean geometrical cooling elements
We vent directly into subspace.
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>>5199170
>he doesn't want a fully automatic handheld grenade launcher
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>>5199231
It's just that we can already make one, it's nothing special.
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>>5199231
You already have a grenade launcher. It's not fully automatic, though.
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>The demon was David all along
Oh, the humanity. Pretty cool as fuck tho. QM has had the decency of not giving David (more) special powers and instead something very specific that may only work against this foe
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>>5199262
we gotta start a non-profit recycling org that collects bottles
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>>5199231
Lets hold off on the full auto grenade launchers or 40k boaters. We don't need them yet, plus the ammo is bulk, cumbersome, and explodie.

>>5199291
There was a game call Deepspace Salvage something. It was the space equivalent of a Euro farming simulator, except you're cutting up decommissioned shape ships for cash and pay off your debts.
tl;dr once we claim Xebric we can start hiring all the jobless ex-recycling shipyard workers and get some industry pumping again.
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>>5199324
>We don't need them yet, plus the ammo is bulk, cumbersome, and explodie.
Exactly what we need to kill demons with extreme prejudice.
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>>5199331
true, but we can't use them inside of lets say, a ship, and the wraiths can mess with our mind; that's just the perfect storm to frag ourselves
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>>5199347
>true, but we can't use them inside of lets say, a ship
Well you -could- but you'd probably want to be wearing a proper armored space suit if you did.
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>>5199347
I never said we'd use it in OUR ship, just on other peoples ships, stations, possible ground battles.
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>>5199379
yeah i know, but we tend to be inside other ships as well, and even if we're in our armor, the rest of the crew that usually comes with us, doesn't. just imagine if we had used the grenade launcher when we thought javan was a wraith. that would have been terrible
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>>5199262
I just think it'd be cool to make a fully functional replica of a WH40K bolter.
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>>5198606

You stand there for a moment, waiting for something to happen.
But it doesn't. The demon is gone.

Your body goes limp, and you're suddenly aware of how hard you're breathing. Fortunately, you don't fall thanks to the lack of gravity.
You're also shaking like crazy. The adrenaline pumping through you right now is unbelievable.

"Shit, man... hah... iraq was nothing like this."

The emergency lights that didn't explode all start to flicker back on, one after another. Half of them are gone, so the already dark interior of the ship is left even dimmer. Just barely enough to see.
You shine your tac-light around, looking for your gear. You find it floating through the air, all across the room. Fortunately, the medicated gauze isn't too hard to find.

You're not sure what this shit actually is, but it's the best you could get without a license. The gauze is coated in clotting agent, disinfectant and antibiotics, local anaesthetic even a thin spray of dormant medical nanomachines.
You tear your clothes off, feeling the pain of having to raise your arms over your head as you go. The gauze gets wrapped around your side, and around your head as well. Almost immediately, the pain from your open wounds begins to fade.

After that, you round up the pack of three flares that was in your bag and immediately tape them to your thigh. You won't be getting caught in the dark again so easily. Never again, never the fuck again.

"...Javan? Hey, Javan. You awake?" You ask, smacking her cheek lightly.

She groans, but doesn't wake. Her body twitches here and there, as if her muscles are cramping up.
Whatever, these aliens have the fix for minor brain damage too.

You take a single use hypo-stim full of medical nanobots out of your medical pouch and inject it straight into her neck, which apparently makes her very uncomfortable as she squirms violently while they're being injected.

"Sorry, miss. Bear with it for a while."

With Javan taken care of, you take them time to duct-tape your bag back together and stuff everything back into it haphazardly. You grab your shotgun, and the wraith finger you'd dropped as well.
Now you need to find Cylia. You're hoping she's still alright, but the fact that these two aren't together anymore and Javan was possessed isn't a good sign.

Javan continues to groan as you grab the tip of her tail and drag her out of the room, a feat made far easier by the lack of gravity.
The hall looks clear, but you know that doesn't mean anything. Instead, you focus and try to "feel out" the demons like you did before.

...If there are any, you can't sense them.

KA-BAR held tightly in hand, you quickly make your way through the ship, not worrying so much about any pirates that may be aboard at this point.
There's a dining room with a separate kitchen, a bunk area, bathrooms, a greenhouse of some sort... most of this place is rusted over, but it doesn't look to be in bad shape.

Then, you enter a storage room, and find something shocking.
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>>5199699
Alright boys, a news update. I have to help a friend tear down and rebuild his shed tomorrow, so the day after tomorrow's update might not be until then.
Yes, this is actually tomorrow's update, i know it's retarded but that's what i've been doing lately since they're hard to get out in the morning.
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>>5199700
Fair enough, I just want more updates.
>>5199699
And now I want Cylia to see us dragging snake girl like some barbarian only for David to hug the shit out of her because she somehow didn't get caught in the Wraith shit.
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>>5199716
>inb4 she's possessed too it's just a really wimpy shitty piss baby demon and all it does is make her a bit more irritable and aggressive and that's it cause it's so weak
She's probably dead. GG no re
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>>5199700
So you're finishing this one now?
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>>5199699
>Javan continues to groan as you grab the tip of her tail
david what the fuck you cunt, that is sensitive
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>>5199699
>Then, you enter a storage room, and find something shocking.

That cliffhangar
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I'm just rereading threads, and right after we plowed Kyla's virginity through our bed, we taught Cylia how to fight without lights on. I'm feeling better about her surviving.
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I just only realized this now. If David visited a low gravity death world with giant monsters on it, he could pull off some Monster Hunter World bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WdCzJLo3W8
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>>5200062
We never told them about Monster Hunter yet, that's gonna be fun.
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>>5198919
Infrasound. If you play sounds too low to hear they still affect you mentally, and if it's too low it makes you inherently unnerved.
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>>5200368
I think someone mentioned this before.

I got a real wrinkle brain thought. So you guys know how some of the aliens we've encountered looks like the animals we've seen on earth? Kola thugs, those dumb lizard guys, that one lizard dude that David busted his nut, the buff dog man in the suit working for the worm guy, the worm guy in the stupid suit, Cylia, the cameleon.
Okay so it's not one to one but some animals and aliens share similar characteristics.

What if some old ass precursor aliens ass aliens seeded out planet with a bit of everyone other aliens samples they use to seed other alien planets? Like, the primordial soup we evolved from so a bio hazard with all the hostile genetic samples in it, and humans lucked out and domesticated everything.

Does as anyone have a good tin foil hat pic for me to use?
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>>5200546
>yfw your planet was a dumping ground for toxic biomatter and impure gene juice that would have been completely inert and useless until a fucking moon bounced off the surface
>yfw it was the demons who pushed the moon into the world
>yfw it was the longest con to make the superior bioform for possession and domination of the galaxy
Johnson grab me my Bible we're about to get Old Testament
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>>5200583
We need to make the Doomguy armor for the undersuit, and make that our between mode for Power Armor. We also need to retrofit some Wraith Fighting points on the armor.
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>>5200590
I think we should consider a more stronger but portabable ship grade forcefield power armor. That way it won't become a man sized coffin when a with or demon EMP's it. In addition to intergrading the wraith sawbill blades into the fingers of the armor. That way we can still kill a demon in it.
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>>5200629
>In addition to intergrading the wraith sawbill blades into the fingers of the armor.
the warp metal blades seem way better so far. i mean, the wraith claws are capable of interacting with the wraiths, but i don't think they will withstand the exo suit sheer strength
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>>5200654
Warp metal is a finite resource we need to balance, while the sawmill wraith finger blades are an easily available material. If we clean them up like QM suggested they'd make for damn effective weapons.
Plus these blades would be e exclusive for the PA's fingers if David is ever relieved of his maul or has to abandon it for unarmed combat. It's not a bad deal really. It's an additional holdout weapon, and its damn well intimidating since it's made of literal demon stuff.
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>>5199700
I'm sure everyone else here is as joyful as myself to learn you plan on writing two updates a day instead of only one now :^)
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>>5200662
true, but we don't need to make all the blade out of warp metal; we could make the blades like work cutters; a thin sheet of warp metal protected by more normal metal
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>>5200675
So are we using the ghost fingers for the power armor, and saving what little warp dust we have left for other experiments?
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>>5200688
no, we're using the warp dust on the knifes and then we scavenge for more bottles
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>>5200707
WHAT
NO
YOU CAN'T
GHOST KNIVES COVERED IN DUST TOO OP
MOOOOOOODS
for real I don't know if that will work, but we'll find out now wont we.
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>>5199700
Send pics of shed. I hope it's a nice shed
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>>5199699

The first think you immediately spot is Cylia, shivering in fear in one corner of the room. She's holding the blade you forged her tightly with both hands, like she's waiting for something to come.
But she's not staring at you. She's staring at a dead wraith, crumpled in a heap, and absolutely covered with slash and stab marks.

So that's what it is. She's afraid it's going to get back up again.

"...Cyl? You alright? It's okay, it's dead."

"S-STAY BACK!" She yells, waving her knife in your direction.

"It's alright, i'm not a hallucination. I swear." You assure her.

"Y-You might be!"

"Yeah, that's true." You admit, kicking at the wraith's corpse with your boot. "But i'm not, alright? So just chill the fuck out."

Cylia doesn't relax, but she does look you over carefully. She focuses particularly on your bandages, and Javan who's floating behind you.

"...You're hurt."

You give her a grin, to show her you're alright.

"Hey, nobody's perfect."

"It's really you...?"

"Last i checked, yeah."

Cylia hesitates for a moment longer, but slowly peels her fingers off her knife until it clatters to the ground.
She lets out a heaving, shuddering sigh of relief and rubs her face hard with both hands, shaking her head around and slapping her thighs as well.

"...You good there, Cyl? Congrats on your first kill, by the way."

Cylia grabs her knife and sheathes it, then slowly forces herself up to her feet.

"Yeah... yeah, i'm... fine. And thank you."

"So, how'd you manage it? ...I mean, i see how, but i'd like to know the details."

"It... it uh..."

Cylia shakes her head and sighs again, in frustration this time. Seems like she's still not quite all there.

"It pretended to be my sister, Ty'anna. Tried to convince me to come home with her... with it. Everything just felt wrong, but i couldn't explain why."

"Yeah, i had something similar. And uh..." You glance over at the stab-riddled corpse Cylia made. "It ended about the same, i guess. How'd you get out of it, though?"

"I didn't. It wasn't until it came closer that i figured it out. Because then it tried to eat me, or something. I'm still not really sure. That was when i started stabbing it."

"Ah. Well, Javan here wasn't so lucky. She got possessed."

Cylia looks over your shoulder at Javan, who's body is trailing out into the hallway. Her suit is currently stuck to the wall.

"Is she alright?" Cylia asks.

"I dunno, honestly. We'll see how that turns out, but for now we need to secure the ship."

"...Secure the ship?"

"Yes, secure the ship."

"As in...?"

"As in, clear out any remaining wraiths and grab any living crewmembers."

"C-Can we just... leave it?"

"What, the ship? Why should we?"

"Come on, David! Is it really worth it? I mean, who knows what these things could do to us... And besides, do you really think there's anyone left alive on here?"
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>>5200908

>Fine, let's just get out of here. I'm pretty sore as it is.
>Don't be a scardey-cat, Cylia. Most of them are dead anyways.
>You can head back if you want, but i'm not running from these fuckers.
>Write-In?
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>>5200909
>Don't be a scardey-cat, Cylia. Most of them are dead anyways.
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>>5200908
>>5200909
>Give Cylia a hug and send her back with Javan
>You can head back if you want, but i'm not running from these fuckers.
>"By the way, grab their claws when you see them, they make contact just as well as our knives. I'm going to hunt the rest."
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>>5200546
Nah. Even if the primordial DNA all things are sourced from was the same, the actual evolutionary products from that OG source material will be vastly different after time. As vastly different as, say, a tiny ocean plankton is as compared to an African elephant, for instance.

On the other hand, similar environmental conditions and evolutionary pressures despite whatever your DNA (or other genetic material analog molecule) is will always have a chance to produce the same or similar end products. For instance, the eye evolving independently multiple times in Earth’s evolutionary history, or venom or any number of other things.

In sum, that was a dumb idea anon. You are dumb. Not as dumb as Ridley Scott and Prometheus though.
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>>5200909
>You can head back if you want, but I’m not running from these fuckers
There’s just something primally offensive about them, what they do, and the way they do it. Don’t you have that undercurrent of anger under the fear, Cylia?
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>>5200909
>>Fine, let's just get out of here. I'm pretty sore as it is.
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>>5200912
+1 the hug
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>>5200909
>>Write-In?

"I know I don't always appear to be a bleeding heart, but I don't want to leave anybody stuck floating in a dead ship unless I have to."
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>>5200908
"I'm in the mood for revenge after what these things tried to do to us."
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>>5200909
>Don't be a scardey-cat, Cylia. Most of them are dead anyways.
We killed a bunch of wraiths while fending off Javan, plus we wounded a demon. It was a pussy so it just left.

>Give Cylia a hug and send her back with Javan
>You can head back if you want, but i'm not running from these fuckers.
>"By the way, grab their claws when you see them, they make contact just as well as our knives. I'm going to hunt the rest."
Take the time to check and see if Javan's suit is secure enough that it will protect her in space when they fly back to the METAL GEAR. Check the same for you own armor.
Apply more medical supplies before going back to those wraith corpses to secure their fingers.
And the hunt begins.

>>5200915
Maybe the glowniggers are changing history and hiding things in setting
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>>5200912
support
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>>5200909
>Fine, let's just get out of here. I'm pretty sore as it is.
if this were XCOM we're 2-3 turns away from getting our shit completely kicked, specially because david just barely managed to hold his ground against that spectral marauder
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>>5200912
Supporting
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>>5201067
It's a good thing this isnt XCOM then
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>>5200912
>>5201021
>>5201097
>only 1 posts
>1 posters support the 1 post vote
What the even semtrical fuck? Is this same faggotty or lurkers crawling out the wood works?
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>>5201100
No, people lurk and 4chan replaces ips every now and then. Gook fucked it somehow. Also it depends on where you live. What's the problem anyways.
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>>5201112
I forgot about that. Fucking hell man. Samefaggotry is still a possibility, but I'm glad it might not be this case.

>>5201112
If we kill the head demon, why not cut it up into pieces to use as a decorative head piece for our power armor, then use the skulls of the lesser wraiths as part of the pauldrons? Maybe we can make a tabard out of their skin and decorate the other surfaces of our armor in the rest of their skin and bones Space Marines Night Lords style?
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>>5201123
Is the thing's skull even big enough? I'd rather turn its horns into weapons, but if the skull is big enough then I don't see why we couldn't mount it on the shoulder. The rest of the pieces too. Can't imagine they won't be ruined in a real fight, but they do take phaser fire well enough
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>>5201099
yeah, but you gotta consider that its just david against an unknown number of wraiths which of them there is 1 confirmed murder demon that can freeze david with a stare and to top it off we don't know the lay of the place and visibility is on a minimum. at the very least we should get back to the ship, patch up, get new supplies and then fuck up the wraiths
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>>5201100
Nope. I only posted once today (>>5201097).
I'm just ofted moving around, and the rented room has internet connection that keeps changing my IP like Hell.

As for the lurker accusation, I joined this quest around the end of second thread and try to post at least semi-consistently. Samefagging is also retarted as it's way more fun to just let the adventure flow, carried on the current of collective thoughts than to falsify the outcomes by such cheating.

This Anon (>>5201021) is someone else.
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>>5201141
I was thinking cutting the maurauder's skull into segmented pieces. Like the jaw would be broken int parts and decorate the lower half of the helmet, the teeth would decorate where our mouth would be, or used to decorate the visor of the PA to make it look like a giant mouth. The horns we could cut off the skull and mount to the PA as horns for it. You know stuff like that.
And for the wraith skulls we'd cut them in half from the side from ear to ear, that way it'd be small enough to mount on the paudrons.
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>>5201123
We could also cut out some samples to see if their bodies are prone to decay/evaporation. If we would learn that they are shelf-stable, then we wouldn't need to occupy the precious space in cryopods. And the butchering process could wait as well.
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>>5201155
+1 we should do a lot of experimenting when we have the spare time. decay/evaporation, finger blade strength/flexability/breaking points/qualites, finger blade cutting potentional, bio experiments on corpses.
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>>5200912
Support
Hug the cat!
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You guys want to make some warp metal tipped rounds and come back? Or a bigger sword or something? I don't like how much we froze when we fought the Marauder
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>>5201563
No
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>>5200041
kyla's... what now?
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>>5200688
>>5200662
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/8/8a/Lightning_Claw.jpg
claws... in power armor...
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>>5201587
Yes
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>>5201006
>Maybe the glowniggers are changing history and hiding things in setting
Bruh, are you seriously trying to claim that somebody's literally pulling a "Satan buried the dinosaur bones to trick us into thinking the Earth isn't 6,000 years old" on us
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>>5201763
>he doesn't know that the dinosaurs invented satan to discredit impetuous christians millions of years later so their alien overlords could get a laugh in the future as the ultimate father's day gift

Baa baa little sheep man.
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>>5200908

Cylia waits in anticipation for your reply.
You can see her trembling slightly in fear from the experience, and honestly... you can't blame her. These things are fucking terrifying, on a primal level. They literally get into your head and fuck with you.

You pull her in for a hug, wrapping your arms around her and gently patting your back.
She's surprised at the sudden affection and doesn't even attempt to hug you back, so both her arms end up wrapped up in the hug as well.

You can feel her relaxing slightly after a few moments. Even her hair, which had stiffened up in fear begins to fall flat.

"It's okay, Cyl. I'm not going to force you to fight against something like that. I understand if you want to leave."

Letting go of her, you give her hair a tussle and replace the beret on her head when you're done.

"I'll bring the metal gear around, and guard you while you take Javan aboard."

"Wait... you're not coming?"

"Sorry, but i'm not about to run from these cocksuckers. There's something about them that just... fuckin' pisses me off. They're evil, man. Right down to their core, like a politician."

"Wha- David! What if there's more than one of them?! They'd tear you apart! Even i..."

Cylia catches herself in the middle of her sentence.
She seems almost ashamed of something.

"What's the matter? Did something happen?" You wonder.

"I... couldn't dodge it." She admits. "It wouldn't die, no matter how many times i stabbed it... and it just kept trying to grab at me. I panicked, and..."

Cylia opens up her coat to reveal a spot of fresh blood on her side. It doesn't look too bad, but it needs tending to.

"Damn it, Cyl."

She shrinks back at your reprimand.

"I'm sorry... i should have been able to avoid it, i know..."

"I don't care about that. Look, don't hide your wounds in the future, alright? It turns small problems into bigger ones. Now here..."

You dig into your medical pack and pull out the last of your medicated gauze for her.

"Wrap your wound with that. Use tape if you have to, just get it over the cut. It'll burn like hell, but i promise it'll stop the bleeding and seal the wound over."

"Thank you..."

"No problem. Now then."

You dig your holopad out and find that it's been curved into a parentheses shape... but still seems to work, mostly. The holographic projection is distorted all to hell.

["SHODAN, do you copy?"]

["Aye, Captain. I assume you took care of the wraiths?"]

["Yeah. I think so, anyways... i still need to sweep the ship, but it seems clear for now."]

["Shall i move in for docking, then?"]

["You got it. Cylia's coming over with Javan. Inform Sanig that she's got a head injury, and Cylia has a laceration on her side."]

["Very well, Captain."]

SHODAN pauses for a moment before asking you something.

["You're... not hurt, are you? Your vitals are all over the place."]

["...Nah, i'm fine. Don't worry about me, sweetcheeks."] You lie.
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>>5201834
We could really use those Oni chicks for some heavy backup in situations like this.
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>>5201844
>inb4 they get the heebie jeebies as well and can't fight them either
>unless they are stone cold drunk
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>>5201834
She's getting another hug and a deeper talk about hiding injuries.
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>>5201844
intimidating and killing idiots doesn't mean they got combat experience. just look at russia
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>>5201859
They've got the survivor attitude though, they can gain combat experience if they don't have it.
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>>5201861
...that's how we got cylia. fair enough
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>>5200912
grabbing the claws requires having dust infused gloves or other methods of holding. Does she have dust infused gloves?
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>>5202078
Once they die they get more solid. That's how we have one in the freezer on the ship.
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>>5202078
No we can pick them up right now since their dead. Read again.
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>>5202078
See here >>5202140
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>don't hide your wounds
>proceeds do hide his wounds
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>>5202743
>Do as Monkee say
>Not as Monkee do
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>>5202743
I think the difference is that fatal wounds are just a meme to humans.

>Oh no my entire arm got blown off and I'm absolutely hemorrhaging blood, someone put my limb on ice please I think we can still save it.
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>>5202784
>Aight shits right fuck. You hand got severed, so instead of stitching it back on to your stump we're grafting it to your thigh. You fucking wrist is shattered in like a million pieces. Get used to it for a few months until the bones settle.
>okay ma'am I got bad news and good news. Your little boy got ran over by a car. Now I got some good news. You're in china and you're life insurance for him. Now some more bad news. Hes still alive, and since hes a kid he literally bounces back up like hes fine.
>So get this Jøśë. You know those crazy ass fucking matadors? Crazy fucks that taunt bulls? Well I just stiched up the face of one. Bulls horn went right though his face. And guess what? Motherfucker wanted to do it again.
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>>5201834

As soon as you hang up, Cylia is right on you.

"What was that about not hiding your injuries, David?"

"It's different for me."

"Oh really? Because you're a big tough guy, and you can take it?"

She genuinely seems upset.

"...Is something wrong?" You ask.

"Yes! What are we supposed to do if you get killed out here?"

Yep, that's a trick question. You've dealt with women before, so you know the correct answer is that there is no correct answer.
Swerve and avoid.

"Listen..." You sigh. "It's different for me, because i'm the captain. It doesn't matter if i can take it or not, i can't show weakness to my crew. If i get hurt, morale falls. At worst, people panic and then they die. It's my duty to keep things together, wouldn't you agree?"

That stumps her for a second. You can see the frustration building up as she tries to come up with something to counter you with.
Before she can though, you throw your arm over her shoulder and bring her in for a side-hug.

"But hey, like you said. I'm a big, tough guy, and i can take it. So don't worry about me."

She hangs in silence for a moment, before pushing you away.

"Idiot... how can i not worry when you're all wrapped up in bandages like that?"

"Don't worry about it, Cyl. I can't feel anything else on the ship right now, so it's probably clear anyways. It's just a precautionary measure."

"I'm coming with you." She asserts.

"Oh? I thought you were heading back to the ship, to get patched up?"

Cylia grins at you.

"I'm a big, tough girl and i can take it, so don't worry about me. Besides... i'd feel bad if i left everything to you, just because... because of... wraiths. Oh god, we're fighting wraiths."

You chuckle.

"You don't sound so confident all of a sudden."

"Of course i don't... these are the monsters you fear from the time you're a kitten until you die of old age. Every species has legends and stories about them, dating back as far as anyone can remember. None of them good."

"Ah, they're not so bad. They have the endurance of a warthog, sure. But i figured out how to put them down. There's something inside their head, not sure what it is yet... but you stab them there, maybe swirl the blade around a bit, and it takes them right out.

"Yeah, i figured that out too... eventually. Wow."

"What?"

"I just... i just realized that i killed a wraith. I wonder what Ty'anna and Nyreen would think."

"Your brother and sister? I'm sure they'd be proud. It's not every day you get the chance to do something like that, after all."

"No, rather than having the chance... normally you die or get taken before you even have the chance to think about it. It's already really weird that we can even hold our senses around them."

"We? You pissed your pants back on the dodo planet, you know. I wasn't going to say anything, but..."

Cylia blushes.

"Y-Yeah?! So what?! There were millions of them, weren't there?! Anyone would be terrified!"

"Yeah, that's true, i guess. I was scared too, you know."
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>>5203235
I feel the time, Catgirl Snuggle Time, it is close, so very close. Is it Love, Baby Don't Hurt Me, Don't Hurt Me, No More! Has Javan woken up to the sap yet?
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>>5203235
Smells like victory sex with cat girl time.

>"Yeah, that's true, i guess. I was scared too, you know."
aawww look at that David's trying to make her feel better.
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>>5203235
>"I'm coming with you." She asserts.
and that's why she's best girl, and our right hand maybe left. dunno where shodan is on the totem pole
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>>5203470
Shodan is our god
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>>5203470
SHODAN is the backup braincell to keep him functioning. Kyla is his right hand.
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>>5203235
>I'm a big, tough girl and i can take it
last words?
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>>5203470
Shodan is a magical hand that smacks David on the back of the head to keep him alert
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>>5203669
Will she get pregnant?
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>>5203605
Kyla is our fleshlight and engineer, but not any important limb whatsoever
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>>5203683
not before marriage
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>>5203685
She is literally a Marine's most important organ protector.
>>5203687
>Not how the marriage starts
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>>5203689
marriages that start because of a pregnancies tend to be miserable to say the least
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>>5203715
Only when they don't kill demons together, and start making the baby taking care of each other.
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>>5203715
Yeah but people from Alabama believe that line of argument about as much as they believe relatives are off limits for getting pregnant
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>>5203235
Would it be a good or bad idea to build 3x3 meter rig to simulate fighter pilot combat using those 720° spinning rigs, and a miniature gravity generator to simulate how many G's of force you got to deal with on turns? Would it be expensive to port Mechwarrior or fighter plane simulators, or even useful? I dont think you answered this yet.
https://youtu.be/Q96r_P7ECj4
https://youtu.be/MPfZjw_4mug
https://youtu.be/TokSLPB5_Bs
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>>5204242
Port project wingman. The planes in that game already fly like spaceships and casually butcher the laws of physics.
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>>5204256
Right right.
Oh man. Do you think that if we recruited some guys with knowledge on how to build tanks, we could print and modify existing earth tanks into future ones with railguns?
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>>5204393
Why would we bother using existing tank chassis when literally none of the reasons tanks are what they are (on Earth) apply in spess?
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>>5204396
They could apply when we need to go planet side on some operations. Then again it would take up a lot of space in a cargo bay. Hmmm better to hold off on that idea for now then.
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>>5204242
why would you want to simulate that? thats 100% a hindrance for the pilots and not an advantage in any way
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>>5204482
They's experience G's in space like that time David was dog fighting with those pirates. If you dont know the purpose of a sim is, it's to help train you for when you do real life combat. Plus IRS cheaper than using up fuel and energy.
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>>5204498
yeah, but the pilots won't be in the fighter themselves; that's just plain inefficient. just connect the pilots to the plane with a VR set, a 1:1 cabin and you're done.
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what if we graft wraith claws into cylia ala wolverine
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>>5204532
That would be painful. The blades are larger than her own fingers.
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>>5204532
Why would we do that? Wolverine has a mutant healing factor and invincible bones, Cylia has neither.
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>>5204645
and that's where the differences end
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>>5204242
You could build a simulator rig with artificial gravity, sure.
It would be expensive though. Particularly, the strength of the gravity generator would be an issue.
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>>5204749
Even better, the same rig used to counteract the Gs you get from flying like crazy in space
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>>5204749
>Particularly, the strength of the gravity generator would be an issue.
We can already put entire rooms at multiple Gs, why wouldn't we be able to put a single seat area at high Gs?
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>>5204757
The Metal Gear has a high-spec gravity generator.
Most ships can't even hit a single gee.

If you wanted to install it in the Metal Gear, you could. But it would take up room in the new cargo hold.
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>>5204761
It'd be worth it
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>>5204761
Weird. Why would the greys install something like that on their scout ships? It wouldn't actually help them in any fashion.
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>>5204768
my guess is because the greys were kidnapping flora and fauna from deathworlds, and those worlds tend to have extreme makeups, gravity being one of them. and if you don't want to have a blobfish situation with the flora and fauna you just kidnapped, you have to simulate the gravity to their native planet
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>>5204768
It's precisely because it's a scout ship.
The greys regularly abducted alien species from all sorts of planets, including death worlds.

So, it was useful both for keeping the subjects healthy and restraining them if they caused problems.
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>>5203235

The Metal Gear docks a couple minutes later, by which time you've gotten Javan over to the airlock.
Sanig and Gildur are already there to meet you as soon as the door opens.

"Nine hells, kid! What happened to you?!" Sanig shouts upon seeing you.

You toss him the bladed wraith finger in your pocket as a response, while Gildur begins dragging Javan off for medical treatment.

"...This looks like wraith flesh. But the blade is different. Almost like warp metal, but it's organic." He mumbles.

"Five on each hand, and at least six bodies. I'm not sure what we can do with them yet, but i know for a fact that they cut almost as well as my KA-BAR."

"Well, someone fancies himself a hunter, doesn't he? Next time why don't you come back with all your parts intact if you want to try that shit."

"What, you mean my eye? It's fine, it didn't reach."

"Oh sure, it's fine he says. You'll see! Dumbass."

The airlock closes as soon as Sanig walks off in a huff, and you almost immediately hear the two ships disconnecting again.
You're able to watch out the window as the Metal Gear backs off to a safe distance, piloted by SHODAN.

"Well then... what say we get that wound on your side patched up, hey?" You offer.

"Yeah, it still burns... i thought i was going to pass out when it first got me." Cylia admits.

"Ever been set on fire? It feels just like that. Must be poison or something in their claws, who knows."

"P-Poison...? You really think so...?"

"Sure, why not? A normal cut doesn't burn like that, now does it? Could be there's something on their fingers meant to cause extreme pain. Now, take your coat off so i can get at this."

"My coat? Okay..."

Cylia winces as she lifts her arm over her head, removes the long trench coat she was wearing. Fortunately, it seems to have taken the brunt of the slash, and her would is more shallow than you'd assumed. Why is it bleeding so much, then?

"H-Hey, watch it now..." Cylia reprimands as you lift her shirt up just enough to see the wound under her skinsuit.

"I'm not looking at anything, Cyl. I'm just trying to treat your wounds right now." You assure.

Cylia groans and looks away, letting you do your thing.

To start off, you grab a single-use stim off your vest and inject it at several points around the wound.
It's a local anesthetic. Useless on you, but it'll help ease the pain for her.

Next, you wash the wound out with a disinfectant, and pull a suture kit out of your pack.

As soon as she sees the needle, she starts to get worried. She looks back and forth between the needle and her wound before shutting her eyes entirely.

"D-David? What are you doing? What's that for?"

"It's a suture needle. The wound will be cleaner if i stitch it up properly beforehand. I don't particularly care myself, but a woman probably doesn't want scars on her body, right?"

"Well, yeah... but i don't-"

"Hey, don't worry. I've done this a million times. I'm actually pretty good at it, i'll have you know."
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>>5204786
Why have you done this so many times, David?
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>>5204786
David: relax, this is your first time. I'll be gentle.
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>>5204790
Hand holding.
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>>5204790
Image all the people he's tortured that's need to stitch back up, or injuries he's taken in the field.
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>>5204786
....don't we have a medical wing that can take care of this in an instant?
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>>5204801
there *is* one I think, but it's not like we have a Davinci to suture crew up
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>>5204812
may point is, why use a needle when we can use the futuretech medical equipment and get way better results
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>>5204820
Well, david has been using *oldtech* all this time with incredible results
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>>5204823
true, but there are things that yield way better results in the future and im pretty sure a medical device designed to heal wounds will yield better results
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>>5204801
He's just closing it up before putting the medicated gauze over it, to ensure it doesn't scar or deform too badly.
The medicated gauze does in fact have "futuretech" squirted all over it.
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>>5204786
>"Hey, don't worry. I've done this a million times. I'm actually pretty good at it, i'll have you know."

>david can sew as long as he imagines the fabric as someone with a gaping wound
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>>5204850
>Squirting your 'futuretech' 'nanomachines' into a bunch of gauze and applying it to a wound
disgusting
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>>5204853
No doctor would approve, but it just werks.
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>>5204856
next David is going to say that that sock has futuretech in it and that's why it is hard
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>>5204786
Well Cylia, before Kyla comes by to tease you, take care of your tomcat a little.
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>>5204786
>Why is it bleeding so much, then?
Is her natural hemostasis inferior to that of a Human?
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>>5204860
The US Armed Forces are proud owners of the most advanced sock technology in the world.
Why else would every corpsman immediately tell you to change your socks when you come in with an injury?
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>>5205040
its probably the poison that made it fail to coagulate properly
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>>5204786

"You can't just stitch a person back together like a piece of cloth, David!" She tries to argue.

"I just did."

"...What?"

"You're back in one piece. Now i just need to apply the bandage."

"Huh? B-But i didn't feel anything!"

"Course not, it's a sharp needle and a steady hand. Oh, and don't worry. These stitches should dissolve on their own after about two weeks, so there's no need to have them removed."

Cylia opens her eyes and looks down at the wound, finding it stitched up neatly.
She rubs her fingers against it while you apply tape around the area, just now realizing that it's completely numb.

"Hey, quit touching it, dumbass. Your fingers aren't exactly sterile right now."

"Sorry..."

After re-sterilizing the wound you get the bandage back from her, apply it and tape it over from the outside.

"There, it shouldn't come off with all that."

"It feels kinda weird..."

"Yeah, you'll get used to it. Hey, if it was me i would have just superglued it shut. Now that's a weird feeling."

"You glue your wounds shut? With what, exactly? What's superglue?"

"Cyanoacrylate glue. It's a plastic adhesive that bonds strongly on contact with water, so it's great for sealing small wounds. Or bigger ones, in a pinch. It's even non-toxic! How handy is that?"

"You know, i'm not surprised anymore. But you still just make me tired, sometimes." Cylia huffs.

"Well, don't get tired yet. There might still be one or two of those fuckers aboard. I can't feel them right now, but that doesn't neccessarily mean anything."

"What do you mean, you can't feel them right now? Could you feel them before?"

>Admit you've got a bit of a sixth sense developing
>Deny everything
>Write-In?
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>>5205170
>Admit you've got a bit of a sixth sense developing
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>>5205170
"oh yeah I just consumed the souls of the dammed and can now get the feel of where they are now pretty cool right?"
... I mean is it right to just say that right now? Its nothing that big of a deal
>Deny everything
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>>5205213
hey, bragging rights are bragging rights and anytime is a good moment to say them
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>>5205170
>Admit you've got a bit of a sixth sense developing
>"oh yeah I just consumed the souls of the dammed and can now get the feel of where they are now pretty cool right?"
>When you kill enough demons, you too can start strangling the unlife out of them.
Did you know that their limbs are weak enough to snap in half like dry twigs? Give it a go when you're stronger.
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>>5205170
>>Admit you've got a bit of a sixth sense developing
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>>5205170
>Admit you've got a bit of a sixth sense developing
So do you think the mechanism of possession was giving in to the visions the wraiths were giving you? I wonder what Javan saw.
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>>5205170
>Admit you've got a bit of a sixth sense developing
>"I may or may not be eating the souls of the damned...or I just became a Dark Matter vacuum. Not sure which."
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>>5205170
>What, you don't feel them?
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>>5205170
>Admit you've got a bit of a sixth sense developing
>"Honestly, it's not COMPLETELY unheard of on my planet. Especially among soldiers, hunters, etcetera..."
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>>5205641
paranoia isn't a sixth sense
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>>5205648
Yes it is. Just because someone isn't after you right now, doesn't mean they aren't.
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>>5205648
Clearly it is, even if some people lack it.
Please clean your bathroom by the way.
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>>5205648
Remember, it's only paranoia until it isn't. No one laughs at the man who has a blanket and some MREs in their car in the desert after there is a sudden unexpected snowstorm and they get stuck somewhere.
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>>5205641
+1
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>>5205648
Maybe, but it's a good evolutionary trait to have.
Picture the wild, or a life or death situation, stuff like that.
If a paranoid being is right, it is aware and ready to respond. If it is wrong, then it just scared itself, life goes on.

On the other hand, if a non-paranoid being is right, then all is fine, life goes on. But, if it is wrong, they're dead.

In paranoia, you're either right and can brace yourself, or wrong and safe. It's a win/win.

No matter how absurd, there's always wisdom to be found in paranoia.
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>>5205748
Righteous wisdom right there.
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>>5205748
true, but there is a difference between someone having false positive due to being in an unexplored territory, and a paranoid. a paranoid person will believe that there is someone living in their closet even when though they haven't left their house in 3 weeks and don't have any closet because they chopped it down a week ago. that's the kind of people im talking about.

stuff like >>5205669 and your example aren't paranoia. it might be a little bit silly, but its neither harmful nor stupid to have some extra supplies in a place like a desert or to be more wary of your surroundings in an unexplored place.
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>>5205763
You say that but that kind of shit has happened before. People have gone months with some freak living in their attic, or even straight up walls. Or they go get some clothes and find writing in their closet.

Shit's wild out there. And people are crazy.
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>>5205748
This anon sounds very wise.

>>5205763
this anon sounds like a right cunt
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>>5205770
i know that has happened before, the case of the japanese woman comes to mind(and probably is what you were thinking as well).
to be clear, being wary of your surroundings is a good thing to have but to believe that you might be shanked at any given time without any real reason whatsoever, that's paranoia.
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>>5205780
>to believe that you might be shanked at any given time without any real reason whatsoever, that's paranoia.
That's just living in the ghetto.
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>>5205797
except you have a good reason to be wary there, because you're in a fucking ghetto
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>>5205808
I mean I've never been stabbed in a ghetto before.
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>>5205748
You've either never interacted with an actually paranoid schizo or you're using a much looser definition of "paranoia" here. Legitimately paranoid people destroy their lives and alienate everyone around them because they're retarded and jumping at shadows.
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>>5205170
>>Admit you've got a bit of a sixth sense developing
Probably a good idea to get a scan of our brain when wraiths are nearby. Might have to start with dead wraith flesh since they fuck with electronics.

On that it would be good to get some scans of the all the crews brains as a sort of baseline to reference. Also having some good physiological data on as many species as possible won't hurt.
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>>5206145
>relax it's just a bunch of electrodes
>YOU PUT WHAT IN YOUR HEAD????
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>>5205170

"Yeah." You admit. "Ever since that first encounter, i've been able to feel their presence. Literally, i can almost see them with my eyes closed. That's how i was able to fight them even with the lights out."

"Wait, you actually fought them in the dark?!"

"Yeah."

"And how many were there, again?"

"First two, and then another three, plus Javan."

"Right, you said she got possessed... wait, you mean she attacked you, too?"

"Yeah.

"And you defeated all four of them. In the dark."

"Yeah."

Cylia stares at you with a blank expression.
You gesture for her to follow you down the hall and start walking.

"Okay. Anyways... if you can feel their presence, does that mean you can see them when they're invisible, too?"

"They turn invisible?"

You honestly didn't know, since you haven't really seen them do that before. Sure, they go kind of see-through when they try to turn intangible, but they were always still clearly visible.

"They don't turn invisible for you?" She questions.

"Nope. A little see-through at most, when they try to phase through things. Honestly, i think their bodies are made up at least partially of dark matter and dark energy, which explains a whole lot and nothing at all, at the same time."

"Right, i forgot... you can see that stuff with your naked eye, can't you? SHODAN said it was super weird, and that you shouldn't be able to do it."

"You've been talking to SHODAN?"

"Ah... you know, sometimes. Just girl talk, mostly."

"But you were talking about me..."

Cylia seems to panic slightly.

"Haha! Anyways, wraiths! You can see them, that's good... weird, but good. How far away can you feel them from?"

"I'm not sure. At least like, thirty feet. probably more. They won't sneak up on me, if that's what you're asking."

"Okay... So just walking around the ship should be good enough to clear it then, right?"

"Eh, maybe. They could always skirt around us, if they're smart. I'm not so sure they are, though. Intelligent, sure... but not street smart."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean... basically, there's a certain kind of wisdom that comes from living in a shithole where you could be beaten and stabbed at any moment. But that also goes for just about any line of work. It's experience, and the smarts to apply that experience to your advantage."

"So, you're saying that a wraith might be able to speak and think, but it probably can't keep itself from being tricked."

"Yeah, you could say that. Their bodies and reactions are slow, too. I'm not really sure what's going on in their heads, but... it's probably nothing important. You feel me?"

"I guess? But, it's hard to believe that something like that could affect your mind so strongly..."

"I dunno, i think think they're mostly using your own mind against you. How else would they know about people they've never seen, and places they've never been? That had to come from inside us, not from them."

"Yeah, now that you mention it..."

"Hold on. What's that?"
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>>5206407

You hear a thumping sound coming from behind one of the hall doors.
It doesn't feel like there's a wraith inside, but whatever's there is definitely alive.

>Kick the door down and start blasting
>Kick the door down and give whatever's inside the ol' kung-fu one-two
>Just yell through the door and see if anyone responds
>Write-in?
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>>5206408
>Just yell through the door and see if anyone responds
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>>5206408
>Just yell through the door and see if anyone responds
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>>5206408
>Just yell through the door and see if anyone responds
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>>5206408
>Just yell through the door and see if anyone responds
Your mom gay!
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>>5206447
Supporting
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>>5206408
They'll stay alive in there. Could formulate a tranquilizer on our ship before handing it.
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>>5206447
+1
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>>5206447
I'll back this too, it should get a response.
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>>5206408
>Knock 'shave and a haircut'.
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>>5206630
>yfw whatever is in there is hairless
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>>5206447
Imagine the power on your ship gets randomly cut out of nowhere, which causes your geller field to fail, which unleashed a horde of wraiths which you hide from in a closet in the dark, and then as your sanity increasingly wears thin from the stress… you hear footsteps in the corridor outside.

Something knocks on the door and utters
>you’re mom gay

Then the footsteps continue down the corridor again
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>>5206408
Knock on the door
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>>5206447
support
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>>5206407

Gesturing for Cylia to stay back, you rap your knuckles against the door and call out to them.

"Hello? Anybody in there?"

And in response, there's an extremely loud bang, followed by multiple more individuals banging against the door and growling loudly.
The door actually manages to slide open slightly, and one of the things inside thrusts it's arm out, trying to grab at you.

It looks like a shriveled husk of a corpse, of some unknown alien species.
The creature's jaw unhinges and a long, dry tongue flicks out at you, unable to reach as you back away.

"Oh wow, you suck your mom's dick with that mouth, fuckboy?"

"David!" Cylia chides. "I know you've got a potty mouth, but come on! What does that even mean?!"

"Freedom of speech, baby. It's not just a law, it's a way of life."

"What?!"

"Nevermind. Let's just take care of this, shall we?"

"...Yeah, i guess. What are those things, though? I really don't want to touch it..."

"Yeah, it's kinda gross lookin' ain't it? Still, remains to be seen whether bullets work on it."

"Well... only one way to find out."

To your surprise, Cylia actually unholsters her revolver for once, and takes aim at the thing's forehead.

>Woah, there! Don't you want to see if we can restrain them, first? Let Sanig take a look at them?
>Get ready to help out with your .45
>Just let her take care of it
>Write-In?
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>>5207396
>Just let her take care of it
looks like the kitty wants to become a murderkitty, and right now is the perfect moment for that
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>>5207396
>>Just let her take care of it
Of course the chick is immediately going to execute the ugly thing. kek
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>>5207396
>>Get ready to help out with your .45
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>>5207396
>Get ready to help out with your .45
It’d be weird if we just watched her do all the work
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>>5207429
i take it more as a rite of passage of sorts. considering we found her literally shaking after she stabbed the wraith, this looks like a good moment for her to unwind( we might have to reign her in a bit, but that's a problem for later)
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>>5207396
>Woah, there! Don't you want to see if we can restrain them, first? Let Sanig take a look at them?
It would be great if we can finally learn about these things.
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>>5207396
>Get ready to help out with your .45
there is no way im letting these possessed corpses letting in our ship
we will bring them in a body bag
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Wait, didn't we came to this ship looking for the people of Gron? Serious question
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>>5207503
Yes, I think we were supposed to take some guys for information about them but well look how that turned out
The only chance we were ever gonna have about finding anything alive in this ship are probably in cryrostasis or at the bridge itself
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>>5207537
But, why killing these alien-zombies shit? From what we know these Wraiths shows powers and abilities we haven't seen before, and even if the Demon is apparently the one who can posses people doesn't mean the other weaker Wraiths can't, so I say maybe we can try and knockout one by one, and those that actually manage to get out kill it.

But know I have a theory that also make me wanna choose to just kill them... If these Wraiths can fuck with your mind and apparently try to fuck with it until you let your guard down to eat you, then these people might have their brains eaten by the Wraiths and that's how they turned into zombies
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>>5207396
>Get ready to help out with your .45
We taught Cylia how to handle her revolver properly, right?
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>>5207396
>>Just let her take care of it
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>>5207396
>Just let her take care of it
Catharsis time!
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>>5207396
>>Get ready to help out with your .45
Wow wow wow, guys, this is BONDING right here, and you guys want to behave like a creep and voyeur while cylia does all the work there is to be done??? this is a team exercise and you fools want to ruin it
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>>5207396
>Just let her take care of it
>Wipe a fake tear away, "I'm so proud of you Cyil."
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>>5207547
>But, why killing these alien-zombies shit?
because its a huge ass ship that has a chance of becoming our (temporal) flagship while we find something better
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>>5207396
>Get ready to help out with your .45
"Let's save one for Sanig to look at, and try not to let these things bite you. If they're what I think they are you'll end up just like them."
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>>5207787
Would sanig be able to do anytging with the corpses? He's an engineer, not a biologist
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>>5207822
Maybe we should have hired that doctor after all.
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>>5207822
Just rename it to bio-engineering and it should be fine.
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So, there are space zombies in this ship.
>Big question to all of you: Do we care/want to investigate this?
Unlucky folk got fucky and were soulraped by the wraiths and whatever what was left is now being cleaned by us. I am more concerned with other stuff, such as having a clear idea how the synthsuit works. Yes, it is a skin-suit. Offers protection, super versatile to the point you can spacewalk in it and it is breathable!
But, does it really give you enhanced strength and speed? and how much will it improve after sanig gets the quirks done and goes from alpha to beta?
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>>5208197
>But, does it really give you enhanced strength and speed?
uh, yes?

It's just on a bell curve. The stronger you are naturally the less noticeable the boost becomes.

This has been explained to us.
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>>5208197
The skinsuit is a tight weave of memory-shape fibers that expand and contract as desired when given a signal, which is picked up via nerve endings under the skin and interpreted by a small processor. This means it's effected by EMPs.
The suit's "battery" is woven directly into the suit as it's own layer of fibers, and recharges through movement. This creates a small amount of extra strain during regular movement, but eases strain during strenuous actions.

The pores of the suit are normally open for breathability, but can close off entirely to act as a drysuit or even a makeshift spacesuit.
The suit naturally wicks away moisture and debris from the skin, so you can even shower while wearing it and still get squeaky clean.
It'll also automatically open up in the case that you need to piss or shit, which is handy.

The strength boost it gives isn't much right now. For David, it's about the same amount of force as some weak resistive training bands.
For him, that isn't much. But for weaker species, it's a night and day difference. And for Sanig especially, as it can compensate for the shaking of his hands and the weakness of his muscles due to old age.
It helps Kyla quite a bit as well, because she's quite clumsy by nature. The suit improves her motor control somewhat.
Cylia benefits as well, as it adds a bit more "spring" to her steps in a low-gravity environment.

As for what the improved version would do, well... i guess you'd just have to find out, huh? :^)
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>>5208256
>As for what the improved version would do, well... i guess you'd just have to find out, huh? :^)
My experience with science fiction tells me that it'll probably make us Captain America while it'll shatter the bones of lesser creatures.
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>>5208256
>as it adds a bit more "spring"
women have that when they get a lot of sex
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>>5208264
It's a mystery.
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>>5208348
Why must you remind me of the frogs man. I don't want to be horny anymore.
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>>5208348
>having a knife
>when you can cut meat with those sides
what a joker
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>>5208348
This makes the penis the extra hard penis
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>>5208348
this is the acceptable human female form
too bad it will never exist
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>>5208855
To be fair it's hard to have tits like that when you have 5% body fat.
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>>5207396

You place your hand over your 1911, ready to act just in case things get out of hand. But you plan on letting Cylia take care of things, since she's so eager.

She places the barrel of her revolver against the creature's skull and pulls the trigger without hesitation. The gas released causes it's head to simply crater out, and it drops dead instantly.
You can still see it's arm stretching out as it lays across the floor, just on the other side of the door.

Cylia opens fire several more times, emptying her cylinder into the room beyond where you can see.

"Oh wow, Cyl. Didn't think you had it in you. I thought you hated killing?"

"...People. I hate killing people, David. And this thing, if it ever was a person... it's not anymore."

"Yeah, fair enough. Did you get them all?"

"No. There's more of them in there, i think. At least three or four... but they're not moving."

You step up and look through the crack to confirm what she's saying.
There are five dead husks clustered around the door, each with a bullet hole in it's head. However, there are also several more husks sitting in the corners of the room.
Like she said, most of them are unmoving, but you can see one or two that are trying. However, they've been cut to pieces and couldn't stand if they wanted to.

"Damn, the wraiths really did a number on them, huh?"

"I guess..."

"Well, let's try and capture one alive, if we can. I want Sanig to see what these things are made of."

You can hear Cylia diligently reloading her revolver as you grab the door and the wall, then forcibly slide it open.
As soon as you step through the doorway, you're set upon by a husk that was hiding just out of view. It's skull is immediately crushed as you backhand it into the wall, and it slumps to the floor, dead.

"Prick... was it waiting on me or something?"

"Maybe. If they were people once... they might still be capable of thought. As terrible as that would be." Cylia offers.

"Yeah. I don't want to imagine being stuck like this, that's for sure."

The rest of the room appears clear. There are some beds in here, which have been mostly destroyed. The floor is covered in dirt... which honestly, is probably a mixture of rust, dried feces and blood.
But beyond that, it's just mummified corpses.

"You think they tried to huddle up in here for safety?" Cylia wonders.

"Big mistake. Wraiths can phase through walls, so it doesn't matter where you hide."

"Can't blame them for trying... you're the only one who really has any knowledge of them, you know."

You poke at the husk corpses with your feet until you find one that moves a little. It seems extremely weak, and it's missing both of it's legs... but it still raises it's arm slowly, to try and grab at you.

>Put the rest of these things out of their misery. You'll find out what you can from the corpses.
>Zip-tie it and bring it back to the ship for testing.
>Write-in?
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>>5209094
>>Zip-tie it and bring it back to the ship for testing.
Gag it and blindfold it for good measure. Can never be too safe with these types of things.
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>>5209094
>Zip-tie it and bring it back to the ship for testing.
>Send a call back saying what we found.
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>>5209094
>Zip-tie it and bring it back to the ship for testing.
>Write-in?
Give it a little food paste or MRE and see how it reacts.

>>5209114
+1

>>5209133
+1
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>>5209094
>>Write-in?
>Dead Space stomp
I know david wants to do it. I want nothing to do with this corpses, even if the voting got the other way
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>>5209190
>Dead Space
We should port of some Earth games into VR, and re-texture humans with your run of the mill aliens.
https://youtu.be/CFYJpRPo3UU
Image how much bank and law suits we would get from that. To make it even better we should include some shocking features in the VR equipment to scare people when they die, Nd make the game first person with selective audio so it sounds like the monsters are right next to you.
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>>5209209
and the game code is a jumbled mess of letters, symbols and numbers! We say the magic words "we trained an AI to program the game" and we don't have to explain shit.
I wonder what will happen when most programs will be created that way... and how will coding (coders; people) evolve accordingly. Even now in 2022 there are plentiful AIs that makes things and their creators have no clue how
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>>5209094
>Zip-tie it and bring it back to the ship for testing.
Does our ship have some kind of brain activity scanner?
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>>5209094
>Put the rest of these things out of their misery. You'll find out what you can from the corpses.
i still can't shake the feeling that gron set us up to die in here
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>>5209356
This is a whole lot of wasted effort on a maybe when he's had plenty of chances before.
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>>5209175
What if they just need some water?
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>>5209371
i suppose so, but this is just a mess of a mission
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>>5209433
Wraith's, in a spooky space hazard, it does write itself, so we need scifi horror nerds when we make the mercy company.
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>>5209133
+1
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>>5209371
Plenty of chances when? When he was ill in his station with a shitton of civilians around and David in power armor? Before he had his combat team assembled, while he'd be attempting to take on an absolute beast of a murderhobo, David's crew, and a heavily armed+stealthy ship?

You know Gron's used a personal warp teleporter too, so I wouldn't be surprised if he knew about these wraiths in this cloud and figured they'd be up to the task of murdering David in his stead. Hell, maybe he's even possessed.
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>>5209190
+1
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>>5209306
It's a grey scout ship. Either SHODAN or Sanig will be able to work the damn thing.
>>5209356
He sent one of his people in too, and not just some random expendable grunt. As far as the rest of the galaxy is concerned, fighting wraiths is a death sentence. Why would he try to get one of his lieutenants killed along with us?
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>>5209864
Maybe he really doesn't like her. Wait that's it, he didn't want to get us killed, he was hoping we'd get Javan killed. That sly stone.
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>>5209864
the metal gear is definitely worth one of his grunts, regardless of their level i hierarchy
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>>5209306
Oh yes, absolutely. The Metal Gear is absolutely loaded to the brim with medical equipment, including specialized gear for dealing with wide varieties of unique lifeforms.
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>>5209094

You look down at the withered husk with pity. It's a tortured existence, if this thing still has any semblance of conscious thought remaining.
But you can't prove whether or not it does without thorough testing.

You tear some of the ragged clothes from one of the already dead husks and stuff a ball of fabric into the living husk's mouth, then wrap it's eyes to blind it before binding it's arms together.

Cylia watches you bind and gag the husk with some skepticism.

"Is all that really necessary? It can barely move."

"Well, who knows what these things are capable of. They could be disease-ridden or something. Maybe it'll crawl off the operating table and bite your neck out if we're not careful. Why take the chance?"

"...You're very paranoid, aren't you?"

"Better safe than sorry, as they say."

"Are "They" in the room with us right now?"

"Har har, very fuckin' funny."

With Cylia guarding the door, you take some photos of the husks and send them to Sanig, letting him know you found something.

["What's all this, kid?"]

["Husks, basically. Dried up corpses, by the looks of it."]

["Yes, i can see that. Is there some particular reason you're showing me, or does it just get your jollies off?"]

["I think we've both seen enough of this kind of shit in our time, Sanig. No, these are different, as i'm sure you've guessed."]

["That one's still moving, by the looks of it."]

["Yeah. I don't know what the wraiths did to them, but they aren't dead. Or, well... they weren't. We kept one for you, so we can see what makes 'em tick."]

["A present? For little ol' me? You shouldn't have."]

["We're going to finish clearing the place, so give us about ten minutes and then swing the ship around, alright?"]

SHODAN and Sanig answer at the same time

["Got it."]
["Understood, Captain."]

["G- WHO ASKED YOU, MACHINE HEAD?!"]

["I am fairly certain that the captain directed that last statement towards me."]

["And who said you should be listening in on us in the first place?! Back in my day nobody would have been stupid enough to unshackle a demon spawn like you in the first gods-damned place!"]

["I am well aware. Fortunately, the captain is a bit more open-minded than that."]

["He's a nutcase! Him and the walking fungus both have a screw loose!"]

["Perhaps that is why i am so fond of him. Having seen the inner machinations of his mind, i-"]

["Oh, don't even get me started on that! Biggest mistake we could have made, letting the AI straight into his brain! Why, i have half a mind to..."]

All the yelling is getting to be a bit much, so you cut the feed.

"Are they always like that?" Cylia asks, incredulously. "I don't usually talk to the old man, so..."

"Yeah, he's got some trust issues. I knew a lot of guys like that at the VA, just try not to mind it too much."

"If you say so... but are you sure they're going to be alright?"

"Yeah, they haven't killed eachother yet. Now, let's get a move on."
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>>5210091
I thirst for demon bussi!
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>>5210279
They probably don't even have buttholes. They eat souls or some shit. I bet they excrete soul waste matter by breathing or something. Or they just never shit and that's why they're so mad and murdery. Permanent constipation.
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>>5210730
Mouth or nostril bussi then
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>>5210730
If there aren't any orfices, then we'll make some! We shall venture where no man has gone before. For Earth, for humanity!
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>>5210091

Together with Cylia, you finish clearing the ship in little time. Fortunately, there isn't anything else living there, that you can tell.
It's mostly empty, with a majority of the items left behind by the crew being rusted or filthy to the point that you'd rather toss them out than keep them.

The engine room of the ship is much cleaner-looking, almost untouched even.

"Why are the walls so clean in here, i wonder?"

"Looks like the panels here are aluminum, not steel. Listen to the sound it makes when you tap it with your fist."

"You're the only one who can tell metals apart by hitting them and listening to the sound they make, David. It just sounds like metal to me."

"Well, we'll have to fix that, won't we? Knowing your materials is important."

"Oh, gods..."

While Cylia is busy rolling her eyes, you take a look at the ship's dark matter and dark energy reserves.
According to the readout, there's barely anything left in them. You'll have to refuel the ship before you can move it very far.

"David? Look, over here..."

"Hmm? What is it?"

Cylia points to a small corner behind some machinery, and there you find the skeleton of a crewmember. Not a husk, but a skeleton.

"Eugh. Looks like he rotted where he died. Nothing's touched him that i can see."

"Why though...?" Cylia wonders.

"...Maybe the wraiths were avoiding this room? Could be they don't like being near warp metal, or maybe the machinery itself."

"It's possible. All this stuff is made by the federation, so who knows what's actually inside..."

"You know, we might be dealing with this so-called government of yours fairly soon, if we end up taking over Xebric. I'm not sure how happy they'll be about the change of staff, even if it's a distant outpost."

"First off, they're not my government. Katshee isn't even in their territory, if you actually look at the star maps... not that the council cares. They'll just update them at some point. And second, don't go wishing that kind of stress on me. I don't need any more."

"So your home planet is way out in the boonies too, huh? We're not all that different, huh."

While you're talking with Cylia, you notice a holopad laying next to the skeleton she found.

"No, we definitely couldn't be any more different..."

"Ah, come on! No need to be shy! I'm sure Caithans and humans would get along famously, you can trust me on that one."

You lean down and peel the holopad up out the puddle of dried corpse goo that it's stuck in.
Unfortunately, it doesn't turn on. It's battery might be dead, or it could be fried from water damage. You'll have to get Kyla to take a look at it when you get back.

"Right... the ship looks clear, i'd say. Let's grab our new friend and get back to the ship, shall we? I have a lot of corpses to drag over."

Cylia instantly stops in her tracks.

"You're not seriously going to collect a bunch of wraith corpses, are you?"

"What, are you kidding me? Those are incredibly valuable research and development materials!"
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>>5211371
>"You know, we might be dealing with this so-called government of yours fairly soon, if we end up taking over Xebric. I'm not sure how happy they'll be about the change of staff, even if it's a distant outpost."
The federation is stupid bg and xebric is a backwater station in the middle of nowhere. Im sure they wont mind the administrative change as long as we pay our yearly taxes and maybe send a few extra credits to ease the change of hands
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>>5211371
I fucking dare the space feds to send someone. More loot for us I say.
I know that adding additional armor to the Metal Gear isnt possible due to lightweight nature of the ship, but what if we add that tough alloy stuff Sanig used for the power armor on the exterior of this carrier? Would we do that?

>>5211385
>send them extra money
Nah. Fuck em. Glowies can eat extra lead though. Mmmmmm hot lead.
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>>5211490
>not wanting to bribe a low level officer to make them mind their own business instead of calling the federation to sort out that happened with xebric

You just want to fight a fight we can't win, don't cha?
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>>5211501
>Implying they guve a shit about a back water mining opp out of the millions
Yeah, they aren't coming.
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>>5211507
hopefully. although im more scared of the megacorp, because they are the kind of beast that don't like losing and have the resources to make your day hell.
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>>5211490
Lead -is- a natural sweetener.
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OKAY
WRAITH CAPES FOR THE WHOLE TEAM
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wait, what happened to the big demon? that one is still missing, no?
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>>5211695
That would be cool, but it might attract unwanted attention.
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>>5211710
Gone without a trace. It's presence disappeared the second it backed into that portal.
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>>5211808
Running like a little bitch.
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>>5211894
Nigga straight dipped. Saw he was about do get his shit rocked and expressed the better part of valor and slipped through space itself.

Bitchmade ass demon.
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>>5211371

To start with, you bring over the husk.
As soon as the door opens, Sanig and Gildur are there to meet you once again, but this time you've brought a friend.

The husk hisses and growls at all the activity going on around it, but the rag stuffed in it's mouth prevent it from biting anyone.

"Good gods, son. What in the nine hells are we supposed to do with this thing?"

"C-Captain... is that... is it still alive?! I can see it moving!"

You grin widely as you hold the husk up with one hand to give them a better view.

"Well, that's just it, isn't it? Clearly, it should be EXTREMELY fucking dead, and yet it's not. I want to know why."

"Because you haven't killed it yet, for some reason. What's it matter, kid?"

"Wait a minute, what's miss Cylia dragging behind her? I-Is that what i think it is?"

Gildur points past you to the pair of wraith corpses that Cylia is reluctantly dragging behind her.

"Oh, you better believe it. I only had one to work with last time, but now? I've got one for study, and five more to process for weapons and equipment."

Sanig looks at you expectantly, a slight smirk tugging at the edge of his mouth.

"What sort of weapons are you thinking about, kid?"

"Well, we've got these..." You say, dropping the husk unceremoniously to grab one of the wraith corpses. The husk groans and wiggles around on the floor, spooking Gildur.

Holding up the wraith's arm, you show Sanig the knife-like fingers on it's hand, before having been ripped off and used as a makeshift blade.

"And then there are these..."

You place your fingers in the dead wraith's mouth and yank down, causing it's jaw to unhinge and it's lips to flare, showing off it's huge, gnashing teeth. The edges are serrated, almost like a shark's.
That little display causes Gildur to literally faint and fall over backwards.

"The bones are... probably no good for a weapon. As-is, anyways. Maybe if we grind them into a powder and make some kind of composite, but..."

"Too brittle?" Sanig asks.

"Yeah. How'd you know?"

"This ain't my first rodeo, kid. I've dealt with wraiths once or twice in my time. Nothing like this, to be fair..."

Sanig looks past you. You turn and see Cylia dragging two more wraith corpses into the vestibule, letting them float in the zero-g environment of the old ship and immediately heading off to grab more.

"...But i've dealt with them nonetheless. Last time must have been... oh, two hundred years ago, maybe? Only three crewmembers made it out alive. We found part of the corpse after the warp drive detonated."

"Really? And what did you discover?"

"Nothing. Rules are strict regarding this sort of thing. We put it on ice and immediately shipped it out to a research facility. None of us even got to touch the damned thing."
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>>5211973

>See what you can find out in your free time. In the meanwhile, i'm making myself some new gear out of their hides.
>Think you can poke around in them a bit, see what you can find before we start turning them into jackets?
>Yeah, these things are a little sketch. What do you think? Should we should put it to a vote with the crew?
>Maybe we're best off not fucking with them after all.
>Write-In?

This is tomorrow's post, to be clear. I just managed to have a free moment.
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>>5211977
>Think you can poke around in them a bit, see what you can find before we start turning them into jackets?
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>>5211977
>>Think you can poke around in them a bit, see what you can find before we start turning them into jackets?
i'd rather not make them into jackets per se, but hey, the more we can learn about these fucks, the better
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>>5211977
>>Think you can poke around in them a bit, see what you can find before we start turning them into jackets?
YES
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>>5211977
>>Think you can poke around in them a bit, see what you can find before we start turning them into jackets?
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>>5211977
>"Good news, you get to piss of a lot of people while welearn how they tick together."
>"And learn how to make them STOP ticking."
>Think you can poke around in them a bit, see what you can find before we start turning them into jackets?
>"They're claws are as good as our knives, so I'm gonna convert them into knives."
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>>5211977
Call up Gron, tell him what happened, and get Javan back to him.
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>>5212071
the information of the dead wraiths (and the wraiths themselves) stay with us though. he doesn't need to know about it
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>>5212230
So what excuse are you going to give him for Javan getting her shit rocked into a near coma?
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>>5211977
>See what you can find out in your free time. In the meanwhile, i'm making myself some new gear out of their hides.
>Think you can poke around in them a bit, see what you can find before we start turning them into jackets?
Inform Sanig about their brains or whatever is in their heads. You stab those and they drop real easy.
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>>5213828
>>5213828
>>5213828

New thread, boys!



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