>>5876230

A short jump later, that stresses your processing capacity to its extreme as usual, you slide through the wormhole you had created and once again enter the Xandrirah system, once again being forced to move stealthily as you regard the local void assets that had previously arrived move to intercept as they witness the phenome of your creation.

With a hint of annoyance, you move quietly as has become the usual ever since you had reawakened, all the while you send out feelers to the various drones you had created and the O.D.D. 1st regiment you had left behind for the purposes of protection and rebuilding.

You begin filtering through the reports and start regarding everything that had happened in the three weeks you were gone:

First of all, the local forces sent here by Governor-General had been contained thanks to your androids and assistance form the O.D.D., any attempts to investigate or undermine your influence had been thoroughly rebuked, any attempts to investigate your drones or other means that these imperials would find, reprehensible had been hidden, any and all leads that they possess would always end up as nothing more than a fool’s hope, chasing at images not truly there. This has not dissuaded them at all, if anything, their innate bull-headedness had only seen their efforts increase, but at the same time, it had made hiding information ever-easier. Of note, it seems Scribe had taken great pleasure in gaslighting the imperials in their investigations, a matter than may need to be addressed in time, but her work had ensured the prevention of any unfortunate circumstances.

Secondly, the tensions between the nobility and the democrats, with their leaders gone and Scribe alongside Master dominant in issues concerning the war, much of the built-up energy had been calmed down, both sides’ paranoia being redirected to the men allowed to positioned themselves in what they believe to be strategic locations, but entirely superfluous to you. Once again, you must thank the Governor-General, nothing like a stranger to unite both sides.

Lastly, the rebuilding efforts you had set out before are continuing on undisturbed, slowly, but surely, most pressing issues within the system are being dealt with, naturally the efforts are slow going with the lack of drones to carry out the work your departure had meant you were unable to produce the drones, however the information and most importantly the deal made had proven fruitful. Nevertheless, the time of crisis has passed and the people and the infrastructure here is sufficient where your direct intervention is not needed, in time the situation will improve.

For now however, you can concentrate on whichever matter you find the most pressing.

>>5876231

Can pick more than one. Option must reach half of total votes to pass.

>Try to subvert the fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1, while you have the backing of the Magos, he does not command the fighting men here.

>The techpriests shall arrive soon, you could potentially direct their efforts somewhere (Where ?), or alternatively, you could begin a process of education, these technophiles should be easy to influence as long as you show them your glory.

>Begin a great project, you doubt you will be able to hide anyone of these. (Shipyard, mass manufactorums, Federation standard city, underground facility to hide within, strip-mine Secundus, (Write-in))

>Start the process of overt control, with the fighting factions calmed, you could establish direct rule without the need of intermediaries.

>(Write in)

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subsector you are in.

I am back, will be able to update consistently for a while. Renovatio Imperii is being worked on will probably come around new years or the week after.

>>5876232

>Try to subvert the fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1, while you have the backing of the Magos, he does not command the fighting men here.

>begin a process of education, these technophiles should be easy to influence as long as you show them your glory.

Huzzah, Newb has returned!

>>5876232
>Try to subvert the fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1, while you have the backing of the Magos, he does not command the fighting men here.
Okay, point of discussion. How we gonna go about doing this? Overt mutiny should be avoided, but we should have ways to influence their loyalty.

>>5876234
Can we have a higher res version of the map? I can't read many of the smaller labels and a map key would be useful.

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>>5876250

>Okay, point of discussion. How we gonna go about doing this? Overt mutiny should be avoided, but we should have ways to influence their loyalty.

Whichever way you want to try anons, Ody will try a subtle way of doing it, since that is how you anons usually made him do stuff.

>Can we have a higher res version of the map?

Increased the font of the words, hopefully that works.

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>>5876250

>and a map key would be useful.

Whoops, here it is.

>>5876232
Welcome back.
Let me think ...... we still have a ton of work to do on the Odyssey. Xandirah is less than a shithole... Scribe, Master, Apprentice and Warrior are all doing good work has usual.
Hopefully Apprentice chilled out a bit, though again he has tough missions to do. The problem is what to do with the imperial newcomers, ensuring peace and cleaning up the rest of the tyranids. And making sure we actually get what we want from Xandrirah (base of support, ally, safe port and recruitment center).

How is the colony ? We could use more O.D.D. regiments and robotic legions (though we need far more carry capacity)

>>5876250
What exactly you have read of the quest ? I know more than one way with what we can do with our assets.

>>5876232
Newb lives! *stomp stomp*

>Try to subvert the fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1, while you have the backing of the Magos, he does not command the fighting men here.

>The techpriests shall arrive soon... begin a process of education, these technophiles should be easy to influence as long as you show them your glory.

Shit ! I keep forgetting things.

Archives of all quests.

https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=NewbQM

>>5876402

>How is the colony ?

Yet to be founded, all that happened is that Antonius found a decent spot to set it up.

>>5876402
I've been with the quest from the start, but have a memory like a colander. I'm just inviting anons to comment any ideas for how we'd win them over they might have. I'm sure we'd do something without necessarily specifying, but we always have the opportunity to come up with something better.

>>5876431
Just in time then.

>>5876232
Damn this is getting difficult for gain what we want.

For
Orders
- Warrior can probably start breaking bread with the imperial newcomers officers see if he can learn useful things for us.
- Everyone else follow the other orders left.
- Make some films with all the killing done of the tyranids. Probably send them to our colony.
- O.D.D., continue current orders. Maybe create a secret boot camp for recruits in the colony. There is no shortage of volunteers to enter new regiments anyway in both Xandirah Prime and Secundus.

>Try to subvert the fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1, while you have the backing of the Magos, he does not command the fighting men here.
Shade-class finding personal info of the new invaders, being suddenly given help when they can't make a dent against the feral tyranids, redirecting them toward praying in reformists priests churches, having their troops learn of what has been done here and why the White Ghosts did it (saving mankind), work being done and actually working (no poison water but drinkable and available showers), giving new gifts here and there of rations, providing healing to terrible wounds, diseases and so on without asking anything in return. And have the colonel i forgot the name, learn of the ""naval journal"" of the ancestor of House Ture, maybe during lov-- dinners with Scribe. And also have Scribe learn more about the invasion forces, and see if she can hack/take/scan/hear any info she can here and there.

>Begin a process of education, these technophiles should be easy to influence as long as you show them your glory.
Start with the importance of human rights and the fact the White Ghost want to save and aid humanity (if needed show a billion times aliens and other enemies gettings slaughtered. Plus reconstruction
and general aid). Then the basics like math.

>Write-in
>Aid the set up of the Secret Colony in the location Liutenant Antonius Drogode has found and scouted in Xandrirah Prime.

Due to the secrecy the work will be slow but it is worthed for this people that suffered so much. Here a lot of space can be given for proper housing and structures for different purposes. Basics : like a varied full food production, a few STC manufactories, a park with available playgrounds, plants and animals. Schools for education, a public library, a sports center, an imperial church, a large barrack with armory, a small command center, several fresh VR training pods, garage, a training ground for other military exercises and even a fresh garrison of robotic units. Of course concealed defenses, fortifications, radars, scanners etc... all around it and inside.

>>5876436
Good initiative is never a bad thing

>>5876439
(The colony is for the people of Eregenus Quintus and the ex eldar slaves, it will be likely done by Antonius and Vinurus regardless and we did provide them already some tools and robots for help. This is a more concentrated effort. Safe place and best for them. They are more or less 307.400, not counting births and O.D.D. 1st regiment deaths which are only in the hundreds really, and need an home now)

>>5876231
Whatever else we decide on, lets feel out how the non androids we put in charge did, shouldn't take to long the review the data.
Even if we are a massively powerful AI we can't be everywhere at once, so same as with the ODD we should find build a command structure with competent people for delegating tasks.

>Try to subvert the fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1, while you have the backing of the Magos, he does not command the fighting men here.
I like the other ideas so far, nothing new from me.

>Try to subvert the fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1, while you have the backing of the Magos, he does not command the fighting men here.
This is a touchy subject, we can easily "train" them with the temptation of new tech and probably rely on them to take care of it. But lets make sure they don't mess with stuff they don't understand, give them some freedom to gawk and drool over the unique technology, but make clear who is in charge here. I don't want them trying to break something that isn't broken or fixing something that is, at least not yet.
Otherwise ease them into it, figure out what they have been told without exposing to much and don't go to hard against their dogmas at the start. Mankind in this state is both bullheaded and fragile at the same time.

>>5876643
I mean we straight up already read their data. We play with numbers above trillions


A local command structure for the O.D.D. can be made in the colony, and for non androids civilian leaders... we don't exactly have people with that role (Stavros Zanx is actually also hero and leader of his people now that i remember, not just the O.D.D. top commander) under us beside the O.D.D. unless you mean recruiting people either in said colony (Eregenus Quintus people and ex eldar slaves) for this kind of leaders role. Or wait do you want the colony to have a civilian council essentially ? I wouldn't be opposed to promote it, is a good thing and an easy structure to build frankly in the colony (large room, tables, seats and some monitors and doors).

I am not sure if the priests in the Odyssey decided to organize themselves and have a leader. Or the people that decided to jump in the occasion of becoming crew and technicians in the Odyssey. In general just the Eregenusians (said that right i think) decided to nominate Stavros their leader, everyone else didn't and they are essentially happy and satisfied now with getting a colony. Everyone in general is also very proud of anyone entering in the O.D.D.

Or you mean imperials of Xandirah ? Like recruiting reformists priests of the Ecclesiarchy (one of the groups of guys that like us, and integrated the Ghost Ship myth, White Ghosts etc.. in the religion) ? Or from the imperial society of Xandirah in general (i think the entire population of any social class like us so there is the embarrassment of choice here) ? You want a direct connection between us and them (has in Odysseus and a human group) ?
Because right now we are using Master, Scribe, Apprentice and Warrior has intermediaries in imperial society, leaders and so on with under them networks and groups of imperials directly in their service or their friends and contacts.
If it wasn't clear for some, right now we are also making sure in a virtual world that the governess Flori Ture (of Prime) and the leader of the rebel movement Justicator, can come to a compromise (otherwise they do a war that slaughter billions. If the compromize can be reached, we avoid that the nobility tries their worst, and some respite, rights, powers and benefits can be given to the other social classes in Xandirah).

>>5876232
>The techpriests shall arrive soon, you could potentially direct their efforts somewhere (Where ?), or alternatively, you could begin a process of education, these technophiles should be easy to influence as long as you show them your glory.
We control the people who control the Imperium's tech and we have them by the balls. The Emperor himself understood this.

You decide to concentrate upon the most important social aspect currently pressing for your attention first and foremost. The local naval and guard elements sent here and soon to arrive techpriests. If they are anything like Celt, the latter will be easy to persuade, the former however would prove slightly trickier if for no other reason than the all-encompassing paranoia and military discipline mixed together with a foreign deployment to a people that do not care for your presence, that is something that will have to be addressed first.

To begin with, the strategic locations that they have control over, water recycling plants, energy generators, primary artery ways of the hive, all of that you had made redundant by simply carrying out all encompassing repairs across the system, not to mention the technologies that you had also introduced, simple and unseen by your standards, but highly effective and efficient when it comes to helping the people of these lands. These locations you shall improve upon, directing more energy flow to the areas, allowing for better lighting that should improve overall mood of the soldiers there and an increase in water output allowing for daily showers, fresh drinking water and other such comforts. You will disguise food shipments as coming from the populace thankful for their presence as they still fear the xenos and a potential civil war breaking out, in actually it will be done by your drones delivering care packages of actual food and not what passes as nutrition within this Imperium, all the while you shall also send them cots that are far more comfortable and easier to maintain than the ones they already have, not to mention they will be just as good as any spire noble’s bed whilst still retaining the rather simple and rugged, and cheap look. That you will disguise as gifts from nobles, those desiring the favour of the guard, or perhaps wanting assurances that they will simply not intervene. Such basic comforts should put the regular infantryman at ease, and the fear of the luxuries they had gotten used being taken away should be a means of ensuring their continuous loyalty, besides if they take these gifts now, it will be far easier for them to accept larger gifts later, alongside conditions that you may impose upon them.

>>5877787


As for the officers, that will prove slightly trickier, as most of them are already used to greater comforts not to mention that much higher degree of indoctrination into the Imperium’s religious cult that they must experience before they are trusted with command-and-control positions. Lho-stubs, high quality amasec, comforts such as books, personal training halls, personal living accommodations looked after by your servitors that would tend to their every need from cooking highest quality meals right before their eyes to ensuring cleanliness of their surroundings to managing inventory and washing their clothes, an army of servants to make the officers grow fat, happy, and safe, the three things any living being desires and requires. To aid you in this task, you shall also create more artificial humans, nothing as advanced as the androids with their personality matrixes, but basic level A.I.s capable of limited adaptability that should ensure the establishment of friendly relations with the officers in numerous ways. The Imperium seems to encourage a certain degree of dissociation between the officer and the soldier, the reasons are apparent in the tactics usually employed by the Imperium, this however does lead to a certain degree of isolation for the officer corps, especially on prolonged deployments, as such possessing someone whose level of intellect, wit, charm, humour are similar to that of the officer will see them easily strung along for as long as you want.

And for now, the biggest issue of them all – Colonel Catiel Halvir, the leading CO of the 13th rapid response regiment. The man had proven to be exceptionally zealous, abhorring any form of comfort and strictly duty-bound to carry out the task that had been assigned to him. Such loyalty is praiseworthy, were it not an obstacle for everything you are trying to achieve. You shall have to employ a different approach, if everything so far had been physical comforts, for him you shall have to target spiritual needs and wants. The reformists, as some had dubbed them, the priests interpreting your existence as a good omen whilst still disgusting in their practice had been instrumental in maintaining calm and peace in the populace wherever they preach, there had been some worrying signs in your reports where the priests had attempted to burn people for not showing enough reverence to the servants of the angels, that being your drones, such attempts were naturally stopped with the intervention of the O.D.D. on sight, but the belief of a zealot that the messengers of his God walks amongst them is a dangerous one, but it is contained as far as you are aware and their usefulness shall be employed to bend the opinion of the Colonel towards seeing your viewpoint, or if nothing else, viewing you as a friend of mankind rather than a foe.

>>5877788

With the plans in place and your course of action set, all you can do now is wait and see how the situation develops and all the while you begin planning for the inevitable arrival of the techpriests.

For that, you already have a few solutions in mind:

To begin with, the mechanicum enclave is still ruined, most of the internal and electricity wiring is fried, most batteries are drained and the generators are ruined. You will restore it to a much higher standard, nothing up to the level of the Federation, but if mere mining suits and volkite weapons are impressive enough for the locals then something upon a similar level should be as equally impressive. This also gives you an excuse to install plenty of monitoring and surveillance equipment within the enclave hidden in such a way that they will never be located, whilst friendships are built on trusts, said friendships can only exist amongst equals, and unfortunately with humanity degenerated as they have, you must guide them forwards for their own best interests. To further and upon the wow factor, you shall install limited STCs within the building similar to the one you had given Magos, small utility production for better rations, stimulants, primitive engineering tools and the like, of course there shall be artificial limits on their output and any attempts to temper with them shall be met with the STCs immediate self-destruct. As for other matters, you had pondered about whether or not you should introduce your drones there, once again for means of impressing the techpriests, but as is quite common within this Imperium, paranoia will most likely dominate their minds and as such that would be simply adding fuel to the fire, instead you shall make do with something else – augments.

>>5877789

While you are more than capable of genetic manipulation to an absurd standard in the eyes of the Imperium, where you can produce things that are just as good as augments if not better, whilst still maintaining the same functions any old organic organ would possess, these techpriests absolutely love augments and view them as holy blessings from their God, as such that is what you shall dangle before them, you shall play upon their curiosity to search and explore, the various computers you shall fill with snippets of Federation knowledge and education, ancient stories from humanity’s formative years, all curated by your of course, and you shall leave hints, puzzles to access these files, eventually culminating in your battle against the unknown aliens that had beset this world, and you shall show them how they were crushed underneath the superiority of mankind’s technology. And throughout that entire process you shall observe the priests, if their actions conform with your beliefs, they shall be given augments of a far superior build and make compared to what they already possess. So even if the priests are not interested in the knowledge you hide, they may be interested in the technology, the augments, the simple prestige of being superior to their fellows, you shall stroke their egos all the while they will be learning and thinking in the way you find most fit. Rather basic psychological conditioning, but it should work given enough time.
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You had run into a surprising speedbump in your plans from the most unexpected place. The regular guardsmen, naval armsmen, just regular crew personnel both high in the void and low upon the earth had proven surprisingly resistant to the simple comforts you had offered them, outright declining them most of the time that they are offered and refusing any and all interactions that would be a foot through the door for you. It has come as a surprise due to how soldiers are usually documented acting, not to mention the much lower standards of the modern day, this closing of ranks meant that the few that had accepted the offers would quickly forsake them due to the peer pressure they would experience. You do not know if it is due to loyalty, fear of their leadership, just outright discipline enforced upon them, or the all-encompassing paranoia. You shall have to revise your opinion on this Imperial guard and naval detachment sent here. It could also be that the standards of a fortress world are much greater than a backwater hiveworld like this.

When it comes to the officers, you had found some purchase there, but unfortunately nothing overt, a few had accepted the offers of greater comfort usually in the form of a bottle of amasec or a few lho-stubs, but nothing greater, yet again, the soldiery had proven remarkably resilient to your attempts at persuasion. Still, at least the progress here was greater than your attempts with the regular soldiery.

>>5877790

Finally, the colonel had proven frustrating. Continuously inspecting his men, he had barely dedicated any time to attend church services or indulge in any sort of pleasures, or even simply rest, if anything, the attempts of the priests to encourage the colonel to attend their churches had fallen flat, with the colonel in all but name accusing them of heresy as he had withdrawn himself to pray aboard the light cruiser he had arrived upon, trusting the priests aboard far more than those on the planet.

Overall, your attempts and influencing the forces sent from GSDGW-1 had resulted in a failure, the only silver lining you found are the few mid-rank officers that were willing to accept minor concessions.

As for the techpriests, whom had arrived only a week or so back, they had taken to your gentle persuasions like a fish would to water. You had seemingly underestimated their curiosity, simply witnessing the renovated enclave had made an…extensive impact, with the priests jumping on the opportunity to look at a new construction possessing technologies ten thousand years old if not older by their reckoning, once again, the Imperium and those making it up has forced you to continuously reevaluate your various psych profiles. It’s to the point where you are wondering whether or not you should just throw the old profiles out, after all they were made before you ever awakened for the first time after your masters created you. As it stands, the priests after having explored the enclave and after they had come to terms that there are STCs, limited ones, but nonetheless STCs within their enclave had come as another shock. You had to directly intervene after one of the priests had accessed the STC in order to figure out how it worked which had caused it to self-destruct was nearly killed by his peers, the situation only calming down when you had reactivated the STC, it would produce coffee with an inferior quality than usual, but it shall still operate. After that incident, the situation had calmed itself somewhat and the priests had begun to dig through the computer network and ended up engaging in serious debate about what they found written there, this time they merely threatened to kill each other rather than actually trying to go through with it, which you consider a sizeable degree of progress.

>>5877791

As for other matters, the governess and Justicator had finally started talking to one another, which resulted in you being able to change their surroundings to something more comfortable where they were able to converse fully. The general poor condition of the Imperium and the harshness of living upon Xandrirah Prime had resulted in the deaths of Justicator’s family, their deaths she had blamed upon the callousness of the nobility and their disregard of the people. On her end, the governess, had found a means of sympathy through the shared connection of motherhood, yet she seems to be unwilling to accept any blame, proclaiming the difficulty of rule to begin with and limited nature of resources at her disposal. All the while Justicator still believes that nobles are to blame, while they are not killing each other and actually conversing, their beliefs appear to be entirely opposed to one another. If nothing else, both are willing to no longer fight each other, if for no other reason that both had finally realized that such a conflict would leave many broken families in its wake.

Can pick more than one. Option must reach half of total votes to pass.

>Try to subvert the fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1 yet again. Undoubtedly, they will be far more paranoid and you will have to most likely resolve yourself to using far more overt means of persuasion, but it is still worth a try.

>The fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1 had proven too great of a threat to subvert, you shall move swiftly, disable their ships, surround their ground troops and imprison everyone.

>Assist the people within your hull in the process of starting up their own colony upon Prime, if nothing else it will give them things to do and you will have a decently sized populace loyal to you.

>Begin a great project, you doubt you will be able to hide anyone of these. (Shipyard, mass manufactorums, Federation standard city, underground facility to hide within, strip-mine Secundus, (Write-in))

>Start the process of overt control, with the fighting factions calmed, you could establish direct rule without the need of intermediaries.

>Release Governess Ture and Justicator, whilst still despising one another and their governments, they at least seem to now be unwilling to wage overt warfare.

>(Write in)

>>5877792
>Begin a great project, you doubt you will be able to hide anyone of these.(Shipyard)

Ah, good to see you again Newb! Alright, well it seems that the soldiers of Glasgow (I’m not calling them that list of letters) are very paranoid of what life is like on the planet. An unfortunate, but understandable idea considering these all should be I think, tempestuous Scions at the worst. Besides that, good work on trying to setup some kind of peace deal between those two women, and the Mechanicus priests coming over.

>>5877792
>>Try to subvert the fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1 yet again. Undoubtedly, they will be far more paranoid and you will have to most likely resolve yourself to using far more overt means of persuasion, but it is still worth a try
Super super super stealth. The one you go "uh must have been the wind". This guards are an annoyance but I really dont want them to genocide the world if possible.

>Assist the people within your hull in the process of starting up their own colony upon Prime, if nothing else it will give them things to do and you will have a decently sized populace loyal to you.
They already do stuff but lets give them an home now where they can more stuff and have more space for not live like sardines.

I am not honestly sure due to bad rolls about anything else to do in Xandrirah, and i real don't want to build visible stuff here until we are safe (shipyard would be useless now, because it craves resources and Newb will have it bombarded. I would prefer to build the world without us having to be forced in disable or destroy the invading imperials. In theory i am sure we could do it with ease, though is a bit blurry with rolls even if it shouldn't since the Odyssey is a fleet killer even on his tiny current form. And there is the triple issue of warp, unknown enemy and navigator requirement when it comes to build other spaceships. Yes useful for the Odyssey if it has resources and time for rebuild that experimental comms system, it becomes a trap without them. It is best we give the Odyssey the occasion instead for gather resources for fix his systems and expand it self. Much better than have a small fleet with issues). And don't release the two yet, let them stew a bit longer together. It has been very slow progress but it might give us what we want if we wait more.

When this is done
>Write-in
Go to the system that appeared to us having much rare resources. We need those for fully repair the Stellar Reactor and the other 3 Blackhole generators. Alongside ship expansion. After that we can warp to Eregenus and clean it of orks, while taking large amount of common resources to use and return here in Xandrirah.

For the rest continue current orders.

Ah also by going in that system with rare resources we can also build a lab inside the Odyssey and start research. All very useful.

Which i would very like to get because it gives us even the possibility of increasing size of the Odyssey and get more carry capacity which means we can trasport more O.D.D. regiments and instead of a few hundreds robotic units far more than them. Some robotic legions and a swarm of space superiority drones would be great. Next regiments of O.D.D. should be all antiquated equipment cheaper to make than federation, currently we can just deploy the 1st regiment. The other 9 regiments are all training due to the needs of superior training for fed equipment. Basic augments should be given to all recruits instead. A dozen new regiments should be possible to achieve (resources are everywhere and Eregenus is filled to the brim with common resources which are used in antiquated equipment) and Xandirah is filled by people with war experience, which you guess it, helps with training. Not much with education but we exist for that.

With that done we can actually wage war in the sector while hoping to be able to get the objectives we want here on Xandrirah (ally, creating a decent place for humans, safe port, recruitment center and base in the sector). Otherwise it would be lost work of threads and it would return to be the usual imperial shithole.

>>5877792
>>Assist the people within your hull in the process of starting up their own colony upon Prime, if nothing else it will give them things to do and you will have a decently sized populace loyal to you.
> Shipyard in orbit to further help reconstruction

>>5877792
>Assist the people within your hull in the process of starting up their own colony upon Prime, if nothing else it will give them things to do and you will have a decently sized populace loyal to you.

Well, looks like we are going to need to put some more forces on cracking these Scions while we still have a chance and fully bring the planet under our control. Once these blokes are working for us, we can start overthrowing all of the other factions, and begin actually cementing ourselves as the new planetary government of Xandrian Prime and Secundus.
>Try to subvert the fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1 yet again. Undoubtedly, they will be far more paranoid and you will have to most likely resolve yourself to using far more overt means of persuasion, but it is still worth a try.

>Assist the people within your hull in the process of starting up their own colony upon Prime, if nothing else it will give them things to do and you will have a decently sized populace loyal to you.

I don't know if its been suggested already, but a simple counter to that proficy would be to use a different colour scheme on our stuff.

Start painting it all mechanicus red.

Also, suprised there hasnt been more inquiry more about the supposed rouge AI which the mechanicus so fear. Asking about that and getting the history fragments about the fall of the DAoT would go a long way to helping diplomacy efforts with future mechanicus once bribary stops working so well.

>>5878236
prophecy*
Suppose my shit spelling is what I get for early morning posts.

>>5877792
regarding the two politicians, we should probably just lay out the facts of their situation as we see it, and then give a basic analysis and propose ways forward without them blowing each other to shit. Right now their talks are limited because they just do not know the possibilities we offer.

>>5877792
>Assist the people within your hull in the process of starting up their own colony upon Prime, if nothing else it will give them things to do and you will have a decently sized populace loyal to you.

subvert 2

Shipyard 2

colony 5

travel 1

total 6

Alright, based on the rules only the colony goes through, meaning that Ody will fully concentrate on making a good and safe for the people.

>>5878236
It has. The Odyssey specific paint also help for stealth much like its ship design.

Instead of continuously stressing your diplomatic subsystem with attempts to negotiate with amounts to a brick wall in the form of the local armed elements here or the overly fanatical and easy to provoke tech-priests, you instead turn towards your logistics subsystem that had rested idle for a while now, bar the usual millions of calculations needed for the rebuilding effort, this time however you dedicate your full processing power and resources to swiftly and quickly establish the colony for the people within your hull, not only will they have solid ground underneath them, but it also means that you can lose the hab-block attached to you, making it easier for you to manoeuvre and stay hidden, overall this is perhaps the best course of action that you can take, at least for now.

You descend your exploration drones to once again scour the general area, looking for the best mineral loads, potential sources of water, and you also begin to outline a holographic image of the soon to be town, you would like to bring it up to full federation standard, but would take even more time and even more resources, not to mention it would be exceptionally visible, but you shall not settle for anything of the Imperium’s quality. Instead, you shall employ the best you can get away with, artificially age much of the infrastructure to make it seem old, fabricate some records that this settlement had always been here and so forth.

The very first task you set out to do is to construct a shell of the settlement, quite literally in this case as the place is located in a valley in between mountains. You shall construct it out simple metal plates, or at least that is what it will seem like to most, but you shall also include artificial panelling at the top of the colony that will allow for it to blend in with the environment when needed thus disguising the settlement and on the other end, the one facing downwards and towards the colony, you shall instead construct an extensive lighting system wherein it shall project an artificial movements of stars, moon, a sun thus allowing for a healthy day and night cycle, you shall also make sure that these panels emit low quantities of UV light to stimulate plant growth and to also help basic functions of the body, vastly reduced compared to a natural source, but it should also cause less issues such as skin cancer. And of course, between the panelling and the layer of plasteel you shall employ a thin layer of federation standard plating in order to ensure that no matter the pressure, the shield will not crack or break.

>>5878633

The second part of the project shall have to unfortunately be defence, as in the time you had found yourself in humanity is not safe, they are not secured, a such protection is perhaps the greatest of paramount aspects for any settlement. The very first thing you concentrate upon is power production, digging kilometres deep gorges and making dozens of kilometres of tunnels and structures, this is where you shall house the reactors and basic voidshield generators that shall not only power the entire city, but they shall too, aid in its defence. Working upon powerlines, exhausts, elevators, security stations. By the time you are finished, you have mass layers of rock and dirt to work with even after you refill everything you had dug out, that will have to be put aside, perhaps to level the surroundings of the valley thus increasing the spotting distance of the defenders ? Something to ponder about. With the voidshields functional and encompassing not only the valley, but also its surrounding mountains you are certain that it will take a fierce bombardment indeed to crack this shell open.

Speaking of the mountains however, that is your next assignment. Whilst powerful natural defences, they can be levelled if enough firepower is directed their way, as such you need a means of counterbattery fire. You start digging into the mountains, hollowing out chambers, large, massive rooms where you soon install lance and macrocannon batteries, once again trying to make sure that whatever technologies you are using would blend in, of course you make sure that the macrocannons are all self-loading with an extensive ammunition storage and transportation system being place deeper in to the mountain, but still close enough to allow for rapid reloading of a weapon whose rate of fire shall undoubtedly exceed that of any Imperium’s counterpart. As for the lance batteries, you ensure that they have better and more easily accessible heatsinks able to absorb much of the excess heat produced by firing the weapons and all the while you also ensure to increase the quality of the main cannon to prevent it from warping or melting from excessive firing. Of course, all of these weapons will be powered by the hidden underground reactors, you are already making shafts for the wiring alongside elevator shafts that will lead from the city all the way up to these defensive installations. Speaking of which, you begin to layer them, adding auxiliary system, back-ups, different shafts transferring energy and munitions to each level giving as much survivability as possible.

>>5878634


The final touch upon the mountains left for you to do – hangars. Whilst you plan for most infrastructure and transportation to be done by land, having dedicated places where landings can take place is just good practice, in these large spaces you ensure that the elevators are extra large to allow for goods and vast quantities of people to pass through unimpeded, you establish monitoring and security stations through the areas around the hangars alongside numerous las and flak, alongside a few autocannon batteries to shoot down any ship that would attempt to flee, or alternatively try to establish a foothold. This is not everything of course, you also place demolition charges meant to cripple any of the surrounding areas and frustrate any would be attacker as they will have to dig through metres of rock to gain access even to a single chamber or corridor.

With that done, you gaze upon the surroundings of the city, a levelled mountain there, an artificial reserve here, flattening of land over there, raising of ground here, yes, there is much work to be done to maintain the defensive nature of the settlement whilst also increasing its accessibility. You plan for two entrance ways, one north and one south, a large highway alongside train tracks are quickly laid down as you encase the valley further with a robust and voidshielded wall which, as per imperial tradition, is blistering with as many turrets as you could possibly mount, just outside of the wall you also establish kilometres long defensive line of trenches, underground tunnels and facilities alongside a mass of bunkers and fortifications. This outside defensive line is still within the voidshields’ coverage and under the support of the wall mounted guns, and that means that whomever is going to be trying to commence a ground assault will be met by an impregnable line of protection that the only way to breakthrough will be either to move mass amounts of mechanized and armoured formations, a task made near impossible with the traps you set to cut off the roads and the railways, which means that the enemy will have to build up their own, or alternatively, they foe will have to hurl hundreds of thousands, if not millions of soldiers across a small front only a few kilometres long at either end of the city.

>>5878635

With the basics of such tasks now complete and you content with your work, the time has finally come for some actual civilian infrastructure. Based on the plans that you had laid out to begin with, you start off with the basics, waste treatment, air recycling, water supply, roads, public services, parks, bus, train, metro stops. All of that you begin to lay out first, ensuring that each living block will have ready access in a short distance to a dedicated police station, hospital, fire department or other such amenities. Once all of the that is finished, you begin with grand parks, actual grass, trees, flowers, even miniature running rivers and lakes that would allow for a calm environment for one to relax upon. You even open up your genetics storage to create a few birds that could fly about the parks and further add to the environment. Due to this you also have to introduce worms, mushrooms, general bacteria, predators for the birds, in all essentially, you create an entire eco-system that would allow for it to be self-maintaining. You do temper with the genetics a bit, making it so that these wild creatures will have an irrational fear of leaving the park and its general area which should prevent their spread outside of the park. Just in case you also create nanomachines specifically meant to hunt down and exterminate any wild creature that does not possess the artificial genome you had introduced. Afterwards, you construct grand operas, theatres, basketball courts, football fields, grand arenas for sporting events, concert halls. Everyone, should have everything they could ever need in easy reach for some nice and good relaxation.

Now that everything else is in place, you begin to build the various structures, you’d prefer individual houses meant for individuals or their families, but alas you shall have to content yourself with high rises that will have a wide variety of rooms, some larger, some smaller, each and every open up to the preference of their soon to be inhabitants. You leave the decorations up to the new inhabitants to decide, instead you dedicate a large number of drones that will not only help with the household chores, but they shall also assist with the decoration process at any given moment.

>>5878636

Finally, the reason for any town in the history of mankind to exist – production. In the outskirts you make refining facilities, you could fully automate them, but people require work, they need to do something, to feel like they are contributing, as such most of the refining will be done by hand, naturally these structures shall be built with the highest standards of safety and security to ensure that no one perishes or receives an injury during work hours, or at least you hope so. Refining of course needs raw resources, and that is where some of the infrastructure leads to, you had discovered good loads of minerals in the surrounding mountains, away from the city itself whom are safe to extract from, again you provided numerous machines and safety equipment to ensure the well-being of the workers, but you had not automated the process. And now with the raw resources provided for and their process of refining in place, you turn to production, still closer to the outskirts of the town you create the various manufactorums that will take the refined resources and turn them into, well, everything ranking from weapons to mere utensils.

And so, you reach the final place needing your attention, shopping district, storefronts as far as the eye can see deep, acting as a sort of a wall between the production and living areas, there the locals will be able to expend their cash upon the various productions of the town and what you will stock-up. You could just give everyone everything they would need, but that would not stimulate their growth, nor would it let the locals be at peace with themselves. With that, you had created a functioning economy, such things as healthcare and public transportation you shall make sure remains free and readily accessible, but better-looking furniture, better looking glasses, or clothes, that will have to be purchased, and no doubt that will be produced by the locals to sell.

Finally, after months of work, you had finished your toils, nowhere near the standard that you’d like, but vastly superior to whatever the Imperium considers acceptable. All that is left for you to do is to begin the process of unloading the people and allowing them into their new homes.
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>>5878637

”All trainees of the O.D.D., please follow me !” You talk through one of the drones as the first throng of people descends out from your hab-block, you had sent it down by itself onto the planet’s surface and begun slowly but surely unloading people. ”Your housing and training facilities are located upon the fifth block close to the main entrance.” You watch as the ten thousand men all begin to slowly, but assuredly and in a disciplined manner march towards their housing blocks, you had set up proper VR training facilities there, once the training is complete you will be able to dismantle it and hide their existence, but for now you need it as whilst the men had made a good deal of progress, they are still far below Federation standard, you hope the schools you built shall prove very useful in the coming generations and make such training processes take far less time.

”First batch, you are all locate in the first habitation block, please enter the buses you’re your left, individual servitors shall guide you to your new homes.” You proclaim with another drone as more and more people finish the decontamination process and enter the city, finally being able to take off their environmental suits and take breaths of fresh air.

You note trepidation, discomfort apparent upon most people here, but they shall soon grow used to it, soon this city will be prosperous, soon enough, you will have a small stronghold of people loyal to you, loyal to the ideals you hold for their betterment. It may take many years, but it shall all be worth it, as you had made the city capable of housing close to 20 million people, nearly 10 times the number currently entering it.

>>5878638

Now that you think about it, naming the city had never been your priority, naturally given enough time the people will just give a name for it in due time, but if needed, you could create one right now.

>No need, let the people decide in their own time.

>Perhaps you should name it something ? Make it a symbol people can rally around.

You had settled your people well, but they are without guidance, for now they can exist in such a way and perhaps leadership will naturally form, but perhaps you should guide their path as you will for now ?

>Enforce direct rule, they are used to your commands after all, and at the end of the day, you know best.

>Have them choose their leaders in a democratic fashion.

>Have them appoint the wisest of them all, a council of elders of sorts, guiding the people. An oligarchy in all but name, really.

>Appoint a military officer as dictator, perhaps Zanx would do ?

>Anoint a monarchy, the people of this era seem to prefer rulership through such archaic means. It is not bad, as long as you stress the importance of noblesse oblige.

Can pick more than one. Option must reach half of total votes to pass.

>Try to subvert the fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1 yet again. Undoubtedly, they will be far more paranoid and you will have to most likely resolve yourself to using far more overt means of persuasion, but it is still worth a try.

>The fighting forces sent from GSDGW-1 had proven too great of a threat to subvert, you shall move swiftly, disable their ships, surround their ground troops and imprison everyone.

>Begin a great project, you doubt you will be able to hide anyone of these. (Shipyard, mass manufactorums, Federation standard city, underground facility to hide within, strip-mine Secundus, (Write-in))

>Start the process of overt control, with the fighting factions calmed, you could establish direct rule without the need of intermediaries.

>Release Governess Ture and Justicator, whilst still despising one another and their governments, they at least seem to now be unwilling to wage overt warfare.

>Depart the system. (Straskenors territory, Pulsar with rich rare resources, somewhere else.)

>(Write in)

>>5878639
>Perhaps you should name it something? Make it a symbol people can rally around.

Offer a few names, and deliver it to the now new citizens and also offer to them the possibility to come offer new names or think of a city sygil.
I'll put forward, Light Of Hope, with the city sygil being a stylized white light in the form of a star with 10 points (with N,W,E,S points being longer) and a grey blue mountain behind it.

>Have them appoint the wisest of them all, a council of elders of sorts, guiding the people. An oligarchy in all but name, really.
I want it to become a democracy with time, but this should do for now. We can ease them in the process essentially. But ................
Ensure multiple representatives of all the human groups also become part of this council, i don't want only the elders. Stavros could be given a head role to this council, he has a good head on his shoulders.

>Depart the system.
Pulsar with rich rare resources

We need those, i already explained why. Also continue current orders of everyone else.

>Write in
Build some a few hundreds of our military robotic units and leave them in the colony. Might has well, just for reinforce them really. Ensure they can be in contact with our other robotic units, our robotic legions and our androids if needed. Good for exchange info and coordinate, or know about problems etc...
Also load us with some shade drones.

>>5878645
And yeah a command center for them to see all the celestial bodies of Xandirah would be good, same for the rest of the sector.
Plus a government building for whatever government we end up make for make, i recon we will let them make their churces as well. Just no more justified mutilation, burning, killing, stealing and i could go on allowed. An anon had something of a pact in mind, but i am not sure if the priests in the Odyssey have the same view of the reformists priests in Xandirah. Depends on their ingratitude.

>>5878646
*we end up make for them

>>5878639
>No need, let the people decide in their own time.

>Have them appoint the wisest of them all, a council of elders of sorts, guiding the people. An oligarchy in all but name, really.

>Depart the system. (Pulsar with rich rare resources)
Time to do a little mining.

>>5878796
>>5878639
>supporting this
With the addition of giving them a glossar of hints and guides about effective governance.

The rule of one, no matter how enlightened had throughout history proven to be…unpredictable at best, destructive at worst, and when it comes to the rule of many ? Well, that usually results in inefficiencies, mounting degradation and dissociation, unless of course such actions are remedied through education and raising of a citizen’s spirit, this however means that politics can become so prevalent that they become a poison in their own right, becoming a deadly disease that breaks down societies due to political infighting. As such you decide upon a mixture of two, based similarly upon the various ancient civilization with a bit of hindsight and political theory, a council of elders, granted one does not need to be old to be appointed to it, just respected enough by the people they are supposed to lead to be appointed. Such a council will have great overarching powers to make both executive, legislative and even judicial decisions, whilst a powerful concentration of power, you hope that the very nature of the council being large shall prevent abuses of power, or at least overt ones with measures taken for removal of elders if the group they represent feels alienated. This is not true democracy as the appointments are for life, allowing for the politician to think ahead in the long-term as they do not need to fear losing their positions in a few short years, this does raise concerns of political dynasties forming, but the need to be respected should mean that in any case the people shall not be abused, to ensure that you will need to set up a widely open means of information dissemination, with your drones being utterly impartial and merely recording the going ons of elders, should any corruption take place, the people will learn of it. Again, you are unsure how this will turn out in the long-term, but for now this form of government should provide much needed stability and guidance to the people.

You even have the new council their very first task to ponder upon and consider after it is formed, the naming of the town, perhaps a symbol to form around. While you could make one, simply by reiterating the most popular symbols through humanity’s history, it would not be something made from the heart, mainly because you lack one to begin with. Something made by the people as means of identifying themselves would be a powerful symbol indeed considering the fact that many of them come from different worlds with numerous cultural differences.

>>5878871

Once again absent any human crew (you left both the governess and Justicar in your newest city under safe watch) you begin to depart the system, but not before you had left an extensive guide compiled by your diplomatic system about governance, the treatment of citizens, prosperity and longevity of the nation and the people. You can only hope that it will be enough to guide the council somewhat, and if that does in fact not work, well, you left a small garrison of your drones and robots hidden in secret underground chambers that are ready to emerge at a moment’s notice should anything untoward happen.

For now however, you turn your mind to the neutron star, the far away pulsar should have plentiful rare resources that you had been starved for a long time. As such, with what perhaps you could classify as glee, you calculate the overly difficult amount of mathematics necessary to form a wormhole, no doubt yet again spooking the system’s void assets as you slip into the system.

And immediately your sensors blare their warnings as they scream out. The intensive amount of radiation washes over you when you enter the system proper. No doubt a small part of this radiation had entered the edge of Xandrirah system, but it is entirely harmless as you made sure you were far away from any of the worlds or assets that could be affected. This however does not help your situation as your back-up sensors that you had relied upon for so long come back with static, the sheer power of the interstellar phenomena has you entirely at your mercy, meaning that you are half-blind and stumbling across the dark. Despite your predicament, the simple cameras remain functioning, being heavily shielded against much of stellar radiation allowing you to see that this neutron star is an older one, much of the space dust that had been blown away after its formation had long since coalesced in a series of worlds, with anything smaller being long since blown away. It seems you will have to get closer to the worlds and launch your probes to figure out exactly what you are working with.
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It had taken about three weeks for you to explore the system, your communication systems being as strained as they are meant that you had to sit right above the world you were exploring in order to keep a connection with your exploration drones which had further slowed your exploration speed. As it stands, there are three unnamed planets within the system, two utterly bare radiation ridden worlds and one smaller planet at the system’s edge that had seemingly caught most of the water in the system and had turned into an ice ball, also exceptionally irradiated. Still, all three worlds, as you had hoped, are filled to the brim with rich loads of heavier materials just waiting for someone to tap into them. As it stands, you will certainly maintain a small amount of raw and processed ore for further needs, but the amount will be minuscule compared to your needs that you shall have.

>>5878872

While you can undertake your repairs here, it will undoubtedly take many weeks, if not months, along time for the situation to change, of course you could invest in some refining processes, but that would take some time.

Can pick more than one. Option must reach half of total votes to pass.

>Bring back the stellar reactor to 75% capacity. (Will take 3 weeks)

>Bring back the stellar reactor to 100% capacity. (Will take 6 weeks)

>Restore the remaining three damaged blackhole generators. (Will take 3 weeks)

>Construct a detachable laboratory. (Will take 2 weeks)

>Increase the size of your hull, this will also increase what you can store within your bays and leave plenty of room for other facilities by 10 points. (Will take 1 month) (Can take more than once, each time size is increased storage is doubled. Each increase allows for two hull facilities.)

>Construct a large laboratory within your hull. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION)

>Construct an extensive genelab within your hull that will allow for the most advanced genetic modifications. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION)

>Construct an extensive civilian zone allowing for far more human crew to be stored within, allowing for relative comfort for around 100,000 people. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION) (Can take more than once, each time size is increased by another 100,000)

>Expand your manufacturing capabilities and create more STCs allowing for faster and more extensive construction. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION)

>Simply further expand your storage by 10 points. (Will take 2 weeks) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION)

>Expand your defensive capabilities, adding thicker armour and stronger shields. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION) (Can take more than once)

>Expand your offensive capabilities, adding more missile launchers, blackhole generators, railgun turrets and perhaps other weaponry. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION) (Can take more than once)

>You cannot afford to waste time, set up automated mining and refining facilities, you shall return to claim whatever they finished processing at a later date. (Will take 6 months)

>(Write in) Up to QM veto

CURRENT STORAGE:
Max points 10
Current points 10
Shuttles 2
Defence drones 2 (800)
Defence robots 2 (200)
Space superiority drones 2 (24)
Extra mining drones 1 (12(24))
Extra exploration drones 1 (6(12))

This pastebin has a section outlying what units you can make https://pastebin.com/ekE6gtiS

Happy new year, anons !

>>5878875
Happy new year NEWB!

>>5878873
>Bring back the stellar reactor to 100% capacity. (Will take 6 weeks)
>Restore the remaining three damaged blackhole generators. (Will take 3 weeks)
>You cannot afford to waste time, set up automated mining and refining facilities, you shall return to claim whatever they finished processing at a later date. (Will take 6 months)
I think this gets the most bang for our buck here.

>>5878875
Happy new year Newb!

>>5878873
Important question, do we have to focus our attention on a project at a time, so that the number of weeks add up to months, or can at least some projects be doubled up?

If some can be done at the same time, please sepparate them so that we can plan them doubled up.

Happy New Year Newb, hope you have a great holiday! Besides that, going to have to agree with >5878891, trying to figure out on what we should get for data material to expand ourselves and how many weeks to months that would take, when we already can casually destroy a system wide Ork Waaagh! As it is, seems not worth the effort right now. Especially since we are now going to need to make up for lost time by just randomly disappearing for almost 2 months already if we want to be restored to 100% effectively immediately. So, once we stock up on creating an ever increasingly large and bountiful supply of materials to upgrade ourselves (along with some hard limits on how many times we can do it from Newb for brevity’s sake) we can finally get around to overtly taking control of Xandrian, deal with the Imperials in system, and at last make ourselves a sanctuary for ourselves to restore our communication array and have a document focus on how our wormhole generator works, in the worst case scenario of it breaking down or being damaged. Then, all restrictions are removed and the butterfly effect is fully unleashed!

Oh right, I forgot.
>Bring back the stellar reactor to 100% capacity. (Will take 6 weeks)
>Restore the remaining three damaged blackhole generators. (Will take 3 weeks)
>You cannot afford to waste time, set up automated mining and refining facilities, you shall return to claim whatever they finished processing at a later date. (Will take 6 months)
VOTED!

>>5878900

Every new project adds on to the time as Ody makes damn sure that not even a nanometre is off place on everything he makes, and as it stands, Odyssey is equipped with relatively limited mining, refining, and production capabilities.

>>5878873
>Bring back the stellar reactor to 100% capacity. (Will take 6 weeks)

>Restore the remaining three damaged blackhole generators. (Will take 3 weeks)

>Construct a detachable laboratory. (Will take 2 weeks)

>Increase the size of your hull x2 (Will take 2 month)

>Construct an extensive civilian zone allowing for far more human crew to be stored within, allowing for relative comfort for around 100,000 people. (Will take 1 month)

>Construct an extensive genelab within your hull that will allow for the most advanced genetic modifications. (Will take 1 month)

>Expand your manufacturing capabilities and create more STCs allowing for faster and more extensive construction. (Will take 1 month)

>Expand your defensive capabilities, adding thicker armour and stronger shields. (Will take 1 month)
Super soldiers and mechs, please.

>>5878875
Happy new year!

>>5878941
+1 lets go all out. Maybe we can make better androids for infiltration too.

>>5878873
>Bring back the stellar reactor to 100% capacity. (Will take 6 weeks)
>Restore the remaining three damaged blackhole generators. (Will take 3 weeks)

>You cannot afford to waste time, set up automated mining and refining facilities, you shall return to claim whatever they finished processing at a later date. (Will take 6 months)

>(Write in) Up to QM veto
Set up manufacturing faculties with a shipyard here to construct and with prefabbed materials to retrofit our ship when we return, Have several of the upgrades and mobile labs ready for us to pick up when we return, or just rebuild our body into a much larger better armored ship or just build a new ship and switch over to it.

>>5878873
>Construct a detachable laboratory. (Will take 2 weeks)
>Bring back the stellar reactor to 100% capacity. (Will take 6 weeks)
>Increase the size of your hull, this will also increase what you can store within your bays and leave plenty of room for other facilities by 10 points. (Will take 1 month) 2 times
>Simply further expand your storage by 10 points. (Will take 2 weeks) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION)
>Expand your manufacturing capabilities and create more STCs allowing for faster and more extensive construction. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION)

>>5878875
Happy new year! Adventure awaits HUZZAH!!!

>>5878875
Happy new year yo !

>>5878873
Shit i want all of this. Like badly
But we need to get only some stuff for now, still some upgrades are much needed right now for the Odyssey

>Bring back the stellar reactor to 100% capacity. (Will take 6 weeks)
>Increase the size of your hull ×2 (2 months)
>Construct an extensive civilian zone allowing for far more human crew to be stored within, allowing for relative comfort for around 100,000 people. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION) (Can take more than once, each time size is increased by another 100,000)
>Expand your manufacturing capabilities and create more STCs allowing for faster and more extensive construction. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION)
>Expand your defensive capabilities, adding thicker armour and stronger shields. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION) (Can take more than once)
>Expand your offensive capabilities, adding more missile launchers, blackhole generators, railgun turrets and perhaps other weaponry. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION) (Can take more than once)

>>5878891
>support

>>5878873
>Bring back the stellar reactor to 100% capacity. (Will take 6 weeks)

>Restore the remaining three damaged blackhole generators. (Will take 3 weeks)

>Increase the size of your hull, this will also increase what you can store within your bays and leave plenty of room for other facilities by 10 points. (Will take 1 month) (Can take more than once, each time size is increased storage is doubled. Each increase allows for two hull facilities.) x2

>Expand your defensive capabilities, adding thicker armour and stronger shields. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION) (Can take more than once)

>Expand your offensive capabilities, adding more missile launchers, blackhole generators, railgun turrets and perhaps other weaponry. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION) (Can take more than once)

>Construct an extensive genelab within your hull that will allow for the most advanced genetic modifications. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION)

>Expand your manufacturing capabilities and create more STCs allowing for faster and more extensive construction. (Will take 1 month) (REQUIRES HULL EXPANSION)

>Set up an automated mining and refining facilities for future shipments.

>>5878873

>support >>5878928

>>5878873
>>5878941
Support this

Changing my vote here
>>5879240

>>5878941

Support

>>5878941
Supporting

This is an opportunity you cannot risk passing up, you are just an exploration vessel, you lack many needs and capabilities for the herculean tasks before you, as such, whilst prioritizing certain things, you decide that you shall spend many months in trying to not only restore yourself, but to also improve upon yourself.

First things first, your stellar reactor needs to be fully restored before anything else. With your mining drones busy scouring the second planet within the system, you descend upon it, for the first time since you had awoken actually landing upon solid ground and you await as more and more ore is delivered to you, quickly tapping into your most basic material reserves you quickly start to work them down as you quickly process the rare ores as you undertake the process requiring exceptional concentration less the weight and mass of a star be unleashed.

Restoring the housing structure, the panels that draw both magnetic, kinetic and solar power takes you numerous weeks of continuous concentration, a process you had underwent before, but now you stare at the black orb, seemingly lacking any and all sort of gaps around it, a perfect sphere, just as it was when you first laid your sight upon it. It rotates silently, a barely audible hum originating from it as you can feel and endless surge of energy course through the various powerlines, making you feel as if a man had taken a refreshing drink after wandering a desert.

Once you are done with that, you construct a quick shelter around yourself, a shell reminiscent that of a caterpillar, after all, you are on going a sort of metamorphosis, though for the reasons of widespread radiation and nothing more. Speaking of radiation, you quickly begin to purge it within the small space you had made for yourself, the last thing you want is radiation wreaking havoc upon more sensitive of your instruments. After finishing the preparations, and with your drones ever continuously moving through the decontamination chambers you set up, you begin the most painful process of your rebuilding – the expansion of your hull. Such a feat was never intended in the first place to begin with as such you will have to take care that none of your functions are impeded or that you lose overall efficiency.

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Willing your drones, you regard them as they begin to strip off parts and pieces of your hull, exposing the framework underneath and soon enough they begin to cut, bend, break, and change everything about you. It is rather odd undertaking what can be best described as a self-operation. But nevertheless the slow and careful process must continue, power wiring needs to be extended, the framework needs to be rebuilt to support more weight, especially of interest are shock absorbers and extra shield generators that will have to be integrated all across the hull, you wouldn’t want to fall apart after a couple of shots, now would you ? And as you are doing all of that, you begin mapping yourself thoroughly and you begin forming a blueprint about what other areas you will need to build. First of all, more living chambers, again they will not be the best, but being able to house a large quantity of people has proven necessary in the past, and it will certainly prove useful in the future. With the state of the galaxy as it is, there are still many people you shall have to rescue from clutches of tyranny, ineptitude, neglect, or worse. Second of all, you had found yourself frustrated numerous times by the very simple lack of manufacturing, even now, with the resources you have available, the biggest bottleneck is the speed at which you are capable of manufacturing, processing, refining or in other means manipulating the available materials, this is an issue that you must address at all due haste, as such you dedicate a sizeable chunk of your new space to just that, more STCs capable of doing all of the outlined tasks. Lastly, you had heard rumours of the so-called angels of death and their genetic superiority, and well, you are curious, as such a dedicated genelab shall not only allow you to unlock their secrets, but it too shall also allow for you to begin the creation process of Federation’s super soldiers, with the unknown issue rendering your robotics utterly worthless and seemingly random places and through means that are entirely unknown to you, fighting men are an unfortunate necessity, and if you are to send your masters’ to battle, you’d prefer to tip the odds in their favour as much as possible.

As for other matters while your hull is being reshaped, the issue of weaponry still looms over you, yet you’ve yet to see anything remotely capable of being a true threat, presuming all of your weaponry is in place, as such you dedicate some time as well towards getting the three damaged blackhole generators back online, now that you ‘ve finished modifying the hull where they are located somewhat.

>>5880218

Unfortunately, the experimental communications and sensors systems still remain in place, you dare not tamper with them for the fear of never being able to replicate their designs. You still need a proper drydock befitting Federation standard and more than plenty of time for reiteration to be able to replicate the designs, as such they remain unmoved and unchanged, bar the extra protection you put over them to ensure the fact that they will never be damaged.

Then there is another matter, that of research, instead of building a proper laboratory within your hull, you opt for a detachable variant. This one will not be as powerful or as effective for your purposes, but it does come with one advantage over all, that being safety. The galaxy is filled with all sorts of wonderous and most importantly highly dangerous being and phenomena, and if you have to look into such things, you’d rather have a means through which you could ensure your own survival, as at the end of the day, you are carrying the light of humanity onwards, and only you, your destruction would simply mean the unmistakable end of the last hope humanity has against the cruelty and darkness of the current age.
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With a hint of pride and satisfaction, you regard the final drone adding the last piece of plating upon your hull, the extra armouring soon enough glows with a light shade of azure as the extra shield generators kick-in to gear and the shimmering blue soon becomes indiscernible and your pitch-black hull remains perfect, with it fully restored, you will now be able to for a wormhole every month for as long as you want to, really.

Switching the camera, you regard your now much greater size, your old dimensions were mere two kilometres in length and about three hundred metres in width and seventy-five meters in height, but as it stands now, you had grown up to four kilometres in length, 650 meters in width and a neat 200 metres in height. A massive increase in volume, this will make sneaking about harder, but the flexibility you gained should outweigh that.

Pondering on such matters, you regard the new housing conditions, each room is small, enough for a comfortable bed, a TV, a desk, a wardrobe and other such minor necessities, at least they are individual rooms, unfortunately other things such as bathrooms, kitchens, large living rooms had all been made communal, you’d like to ensure the same conditions that your crew had once had, but that is simply not possible with the numbers you wish to house, these standards are as low as you are willing to go and it already pains you.

>>5880219

Turning your mind to other matters, you look over the manufacturing chamber, a large connection of belts, wires, thousands of manufacturing drones buzzing about as they are still busy recycling materials no longer of need for your reconstruction. A mass collection of STCs ready and prepared to spew out volumes of materials whenever you command them to. With this, you shall be more than able to simply undertake numerous projects more than before, of course it pales in comparison if you had entirely dedicated facilities, this keeps you mobile.

Finally, you now turn your attention to the genelabs. Tubes of colourful liquids, operation tables, storage bays, a rather low temperature within the room, most people would certainly think that it is layer of a mad scientist were it not for the overwhelmingly powerful lighting system you have in place. As of now, the numerous computers lay silent, their systems idle, but soon enough you envision that they shall be overflowing with volunteers.

With a thud and a shake, you attach the external lab to your hull and soon enough feel a connection with it. Regarding the spherical object, just as pitch-black as your hull, you will to look inside of it and you see a bog-standard laboratory. Separate testing grounds, isolation protocols, decontamination chambers, emergency switches that would allow you to flood the area with fire or gas, or of courser to simply launch the lab away.

It had taken you 8 months and 3 weeks of continuous labour, but now you can truly put things in motion, first of all, the laboratory, you have a few simple projects to explore:

>The damaged A.I. core of one of your drones that had left your control and began to attack humans. It is important for you to know why it happened.

>The unknown aliens you had killed before as well as what seems to be their eggs. With the detachable lab alongside you genelab, perhaps you could learn more about them ?

>No need, you have other more pressing tasks and you’d rather not dedicate attention to these superfluous projects.

>(Write in)

>>5880220

Due to the expansion of you hull, you also find your storage with some empty space that you could undoubtedly fill up with something or another.

CURRENT STORAGE:
Max points 30
Current points 10
Shuttles 2
Hydra-class Mk. III defence drones 2 (800)
Nemean-class defence robots 2 (200)
Space superiority drones 2 (24)
Extra mining drones 1 (12(24))
Extra exploration drones 1 (6(12))

>Hydra-class Mk. III defence drones take up 1 point per 400
>Shade-class infiltration drones take up 1 point per 300
>Nemean-class defence robots take up 1 point per 100
>Space superiority drones take up 1 point per 24
>Extra mining drones take up 1 point per 1
>Extra exploration drones take up 1 point per 6
>Shortsword-class Light Armored Scout Tank Drones 1 point per 50
>Apollo-class Self-propelled Light Artillery Drone 1 point per 50
>Armageddon-class Heavy Drone Artillery Walker 1 point per 1

>Legionnaire-class war robots. 1 point per 100
These are basic frontline robotic infantry, possessing standard federation armour plating and energy shields, these robots wield antimatter railgun rifles and are merely meant to move towards the enemy with overwhelming numbers. Still these robots can move rapidly and swiftly, possessing jetpacks that allow for battlefield flexibility. Even though these robots are only 1.7 meters in height and appear far thinner compared to the Nemean-class defence drones, these robots possess superior strength and toughness to them.

>Centurion-class war robots. 1 per 10
Meant to work in conjunction to the legionnaire-class, these robots can be considered walking tanks, reaching 4 meters in height and possessing 8 railgun rotatory cannons alongside two shoulder mounted volkite cannons, these robots each possess a tier 4 A.I. and have a suite of EW means, capable of jamming, misdirection, interception and other means of interference. These robots are meant to command-and-control legionnaire-class war robots and move them as an extension of their body able to coordinate the machines with an eery level of accuracy for a human mind, able to predict the outcome of a battle just as it begins, these machines are dedicated to nothing but war. They also possess teleportation systems, allowing for the centurions to lead the legionnaires until their destruction and then withdraw to the rear to only lead another attack.

>(Write in) (Point cost to be determined by QM)

Finally, you had been in this system for a while, as such you have to decide where to move.

>Continue your move northwards towards Straskenors territory. Maybe their worlds are worth something ?

>Return to Xandrirah. You’ve been gone for a while.

>Jump back to Eregenus. Nothing but orks there, but maybe you could do something about that ?

>Jump far to the galactic south to Chordet, the sector capital. Your appearance will no doubt spook them.

>Actually, you don’t mind staying here and further upgrading yourself, though you are running low on common ores.

>(Write in)

>>5880221
>>Return to Xandrirah. You’ve been gone for a while.

The governess and justicator should have cooked enough, maybe even to lon, let's finish that project.

>>5880221
>The unknown aliens you had killed before as well as what seems to be their eggs. With the detachable lab alongside you genelab, perhaps you could learn more about them ?
Time to learn more about this filth that we killed in the trillions.

Robot Construction my favorite time :
tot 20 points to use (love the new units btw, excellent for counter eldars)

>Hydra-class Mk. III defence drones X2
>Shade-class infiltration drones X1
>Nemean-class defence robots X2
>Space superiority drones X2
>Extra mining drones X1
>Shortsword-class Light Armored Scout Tank Drones X3
>Apollo-class Self-propelled Light Artillery Drone X2
>Armageddon-class Heavy Drone Artillery Walker X2
>Legionnaire-class war robots x3
>Centurion-class war robots x2
Very good i know, also much needed. Plenty of different stuff is needed.

>Return to Xandrirah. You’ve been gone for a while.
Do remember guys that the map and the pastebins are above in the first posts !

>>5880220
>The damaged A.I. core of one of your drones that had left your control and began to attack humans. It is important for you to know why it happened.

>>5880220
>The unknown aliens you had killed before as well as what seems to be their eggs. With the detachable lab alongside you genelab, perhaps you could learn more about them ?
Steal their genes.

>>5880221
>Hydra-class Mk. III defence drones x2
>Shade-class infiltration drones x2
>Extra mining drones x2
>Extra exploration drones x2
>Space superiority drones x5
>Nemean-class defence robots x3
>Legionnaire-class war robots x2
>Centurion-class war robots x2

>Return to Xandrirah. You’ve been gone for a while.
Lets see if the meatbags have managed to avoid killing themselves in our absence.

>>5880221
Research:
>The damaged A.I. core of one of your drones that had left your control and began to attack humans. It is important for you to know why it happened.

Construction:
>(Write in) Battle Tank Drone x2
Effectively an up-armored Apollo-class that can stay in fights for longer.
>Hydra-class Mk. III defence drones x3
>Space superiority drones x3
>Extra exploration drones
>Extra mining drones
>Shortsword-class Light Armored Scout Tank Drones x2
>Armageddon-class Heavy Drone Artillery Walker x4
>Legionnaire-class war robots x3
>Centurion-class war robots
Infantry wins firefights. Tanks win battles. Artillery wins wars.

Travel:
>Return to Xandrirah. You’ve been gone for a while.

Alright, longer than I would’ve wanted, but this already tells me enough to be happy with everything we need to focus on doing for the foreseeable future.
research: >The damaged A.I. core of one of your drones that had left your control and began to attack humans. It is important for you to know why it happened.

We are going to have a far greater deal of attention from Chaos from prior to our actions in Xandrian, and have been continuously fucking us over since, like their “subtle” attempt at having us go down the genocidal path when we learned the death of the federation, and the fucking over of our various sub-routines for the past several years. And theirs also the fact that we can have Plenty more samples to focus on each of the tyranid organisms we caught, in addition to the genestealer, well gene’s later on when we want to focus on the splinter hivefleet mucking around further south later on.
>Hydra-class Mk. III defence drones X2
>Shade-class infiltration drones X1
>Nemean-class defence robots X2
>Space superiority drones X2
>Extra mining drones X1
>Shortsword-class Light Armored Scout Tank Drones X3
>Apollo-class Self-propelled Light Artillery Drone X2
>Armageddon-class Heavy Drone Artillery Walker X2
>Legionnaire-class war robots x3
>Centurion-class war robots x2

I have no idea how to deal with these point based stuff, so whatever goes through the most is fine with me.
Space: >Return to Xandrirah. You’ve been gone for a while.
We’ve been absent for about 9 months now, things have either gone to shit between the budding civil war, or things have gone down okay, and we can go back to taking swift control as the new world government of Xandrian, and deal with the imperium in the system without causing a shooting war. After that, upgrade that planet make a DAoT shipyard, maybe spend a year getting our communications fixed and then get around to finding out what the rest of the galaxy looks like, and actually getting around to doing that damn butterfly effect.

>>5880220
Do we still have stuff from the dark eldar laying around? If yes
>(Write in) Analyse the remaining supplies and tech captured from the eldar pirates.

if not
>The unknown aliens you had killed before as well as what seems to be their eggs. With the detachable lab alongside you genelab, perhaps you could learn more about them ?


>>5880221
>Hydra-class Mk. III defence drones X2
>Shade-class infiltration drones X1
>Nemean-class defence robots X2
>Space superiority drones X2
>Extra mining drones X1
>Shortsword-class Light Armored Scout Tank Drones X3
>Apollo-class Self-propelled Light Artillery Drone X2
>Armageddon-class Heavy Drone Artillery Walker X2
>Legionnaire-class war robots x3
>Centurion-class war robots x2

>Jump back to Eregenus. Nothing but orks there, but maybe you could do something about that?

I dont want those to fester for much longer.

>>5880421
>Do we still have stuff from the dark eldar laying around? If yes
We do bro everything we have is written.
Their weapons, their armors, their equipment, their tools and even i think two of their small ships (now that you mention it the last two are taking a bit if space, we were thinking about learning how to use them but it needed research [mostly because of a mix of time, weird alien shit and add weird culture plus possible dialects of whatever cultural group of dark eldar this is]. Glad you mentioned it). The only thing we don't have is their shitty corpses because they essentially detoriated in front of us.
But they were scanned to hell and back, yes we did.

No the eldar slavers shit their pants and deleted everything in their computers when we boarded them. Next time they are fucked.

>>5880220
It had taken you 8 months and 3 weeks of continuous labour, but now you can truly put things in motion, first of all, the laboratory, you have a few simple projects to explore:

>The unknown aliens you had killed before as well as what seems to be their eggs. With the detachable lab alongside you genelab, perhaps you could learn more about them ?
>>5880221
Due to the expansion of you hull, you also find your storage with some empty space that you could undoubtedly fill up with something or another.
>Hydra-class Mk. III defence drones 2
>Shade-class infiltration drones 2
>Nemean-class defence robots 2
>Space superiority drones 2
>Extra mining drones 3
>Extra exploration drones 3
>Legionnaire-class war robots. 2
>Centurion-class war robots. 2
>use the extra 2 space for rare resources

Finally, you had been in this system for a while, as such you have to decide where to move.
>Return to Xandrirah. You’ve been gone for a while.

>>5880541
changing the aliens to
>The damaged A.I. core of one of your drones that had left your control and began to attack humans. It is important for you to know why it happened.

wondering if Ody can figure out how phase iron affects is should the core still be corrupted

>>5880545
I mean it’s possible, but Ody still needs to figure out what the hell scrap code is in the first place, and how that ficks around with electronics and software. And even if at the end he could conclude that phase Iron did negate some of it, that would just raise a whole new slew of questions and ideas on how phase iron could be included into shield the core from any further new attacks against the drone and by extension Ody himself. Turns out being part of a hivemind sucks when one part of it becomes infected and try’s to spread it to the rest of the hive.

>>5880421

>Do we still have stuff from the dark eldar laying around? If yes

Yes you do, I completely forgot, please excuse me.

>>5880571
I don't think is much of a problem. Beside we can research now, just grab the stuff that's inside there really and make it an option. There is many research materials we have. From finding human psykers and understanding them, to eldar equipment, to alien bugs of two variants (invasion force and underground fuckers).

Now for my fellow anons that might haven't read it through the quest, there is also the special category of the Unknown enemy.
Both the data of our mostly (Hydra-class Mk. III defence drones and Nemean-class defence robots ) drones task force drop-podding in Precinct 77 in Xandrirah Secundus for give assistance to Apprentice or A.A.2 and getting cut in, and also Apprentice own data with his gangs of prisoners in Precinct 77 in Xandrirah Secundus, and also Warrior or W.A.1 with the Freedom Ravens in Precinct 8 in Xandirah Secundus, and then the data of the O.O.D. 1st Regiment being deployed in the deep underhive etc.....all have become :
Learned lessons in a way. Its not that trying again isn't a bad idea on this, especially on a detachable lab with more precise and advanced research tools. But we have seen the usual approach not working, in fact what i said just now is not correct. We have seen "the *entire* list of our approaches not working" and all of the data was mostly garbage for us or would attempt to create problems that we instant delete, severe, detonate or all 3 for good measure. And we have also seen some stuff working. So I am not genuine sure how we use the stuff working since, we didn't load it in the case of androids (note for me: put an order to load some of those more simple less advance androids next. Might be a good idea to move one of our main boys from Xandrirah too, probably Apprentice and Warrior for place them somewhere else. Though Warrior might need to go away with imperial means which is not too bad, since he is in command of a merc company of 100.000 imperial men. Or create new advanced androids), or humans with willpower/faith, with the only thing us having would be recorded religious voices and imagery i imagine that we could play all at the same time if we wanted. Technically the full attention and control of Odysseus on his robotic units, also seems to matter for a little while before we order them to explode.

In conclusion in regard to Unknown Enemy research, prepare either a prototype heavy protection esotoric research lab or prepare to hit that WMD Sumerian bomb button in a moment while detaching that lab.

(Other note for me : when we have some carry space again build some of those space buoys and place them inside the Odyssey. It would be good for us to deploy and grab them when going away from solar systems. Great scanning.)
(Last note : when Flori and Justicator are out of the Virtual World, frankly we have give them a vacation honestly if they didn't act like monkeys, see about finding any data in her palace [should be stupid easy why didn't i think of this before] and also asking Flori about her rogue traded uncle)

>>5880545
>>5880557
The Odyssey hull is made of phase iron. I think phase iron, was already considered for more integration of it in the robotic units and in technology by Odysseus.

>>5880571
I thought we scrapped the old damaged communications system that we couldn't repair.

Also does the new constructions here have defenses, turrets and patrol craft to protect this new hub we built?

>>5880845
Nope, it was a narrowly decided poll all the way back in the first thread, that we haven’t tried to reneg on ever since. Most specifically, because it’s experimental and NEW, to the Federation of Man, the GAoT! If that shit is experimental and irreplaceable to them, you do not fuck around with destroying it. Hence the whole future plan of taking apart our sensors, repairing them, and making new blueprints of them in the future, which could also be used to bypass astropathic communications and grant the galaxy, a fast spanning, reliably, and completely safe phone line between star systems. Something I think comparable in some way to the Holonet of Star Wars, which has that exact same thing, while also being their version of the internet and being already established across the galaxy.

>>5880939
As for defenses, that new “hub” is us but completely upgraded in every possible way, with the unfortunate downside of being less fast, for whatever that’s worth. So more black launchers, manure swarms, railguns, shields, armour, you name it. And, most importantly, more space to house more people, creating new materials and objects, and a federation grade laboratory to learn objective facts about the universe and what Foe’s or weird stuff, live inside the galaxy.


Oh Newb, is it okay if we can get an updated time frame of what year we are in now? I remember we start I think back in 800.m41, and that it’s been four or 5 years now, does that mean it’s 804-5, or is it even longer then that, like some time in the 810’s?

For the first time you watch as your brand new manufacturing capabilities are put into motion as the numerous drones buzz about grabbing materials and beginning the long and arduous process of refinement as they start producing your new fighting force, a rather large and a flexible one at that, that shall soon end up filling your storage space up yet again, but as you regard the list, you do think it is worth it. In fact, you had some difficulty deciding, with each subsystem offering differing options for different scenarios, as such you had picked those that had been used the most often and in the most frequent numbers, hopefully that shall prove enough.

Max points 30
Current points 30
Shuttles 2
Defence drones 4 (1,600)
Defence robots 4 (400)
Space superiority drones 4 (48)
Extra mining drones 2 (24(36))
Extra exploration drones 1 (6(12))
Centurion-class war robots 2 (20)
Legionnaire-class war robots 3 (300)
Shade-class infiltration drones 1 (300)
Apollo-class Self-propelled Light Artillery Drone 2 (100)
Armageddon-class Heavy Drone Artillery Walkers 2 (2)
Shortsword-class Light Armored Scout Tank Drones 3 (150)

Once you gorge upon as many rare ores as you can, the lift off procedures are quickly undertaken as your temporary home that had shielded you is dismantled and destroyed, you’d rather not leave any markings that could identify that you had been here, paranoia pays in this day and age, unfortunately.

As for your destination, there is only one real place that you have of concern, really. Quickly setting course, you start burning to the system’s edge orienting yourself towards Xandrirah. A lot of time had passed and while your androids, colonists of their newest city and elements of the O.D.D. are undoubtedly working to ensure peace, stability, and safety, you still feel like your direct intervention is needed without a doubt as you have no doubt that the armed men sent here may decide to simply shoot out fear and the tech-priests may schism and butcher each other out of greed, not to mention the fearful locals nervously looking at their neighbours all preparing for a war. Whilst you do not remember much of your time within the Federation, you still think it must have been all that better back then, at least humanity would not have been in a perpetual state of civil strife and war.

>>5881222

All the while you travel, you also decide that you should put your brand-new laboratory to good use by tackling the biggest threat you had faced ever since you had reawakened, a threat you still do not understand much about as all of your attempts to interact with it had so far proven wasteful and deadly. Procuring the still intact cores of your drones, those more damage and those less, you begin to undertake the arduous process of safely connecting them to limited networks that would allow for controlled interaction, as whatever virus had infected them seems to spread rapidly and easily to the point where it may pose a threat to you. Of course, that is just your assumption as you had never allowed for the virus or whatever it may be to actually reach and affect you, an experiment that even you find foolhardy and dangerous.

First of all, you dedicate an easily ejectable room for the purpose of the experiment and create a temporary and isolated subsystem of yourself to undertake the task, again as means of safety. Willing one of the robotic arms to move, the core is inserted into a computer and the readings go wild. You regard as the computer’s interface is quickly overwhelmed what you can only assume to be a self-replicating virus meant to unload mass quantities of data, not only that, it appears to be directly interfacing with the computer’s system and it is rapidly rewriting it into something more pliable to whomever would want to unleash such an electronic assault.

You cut the power for the computer and…it screams ? You have no other way to describe the flashes of entirely irrational and incomprehensible code, in fact, you do not know why you thought that, programs cannot scream, they cannot feel pain, fear, nor death. You do not fear your destruction, though you suppose it could be described that you fear that your work would be undone if that were to happen. Still, there is much more investigation to be done.

Removing the core you instead regard it through the camera feed. All that this experiment had done is raise even more questions. Who created this virus ? How was it transferred ? Why did it target your drones ? Whom is using it ? Questions, questions, questions. That is all you have truly learnt. The experimentation must go on.

This time you will do with something far more, potent. Instead of a basic computer you shall give the core a body of sorts. The upper half of one the defensive robots, stripped of its weapons and armouring placed entirely in an isolated chamber with an energy field around it. The corrupted core is slowly inserted into the chest of the robot and…

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>>5881227

You watch as the robot comes to life, swinging its arms around, bashing against the energy shield. That is odd, the limited A.I. there should not be capable of speech, the defensive drones were never given the ability to do so, not to mention the core was inserted into an entirely different chassis. What surprises you the most is the fact that the speakers were correctly interfaced with and employed accurately, though the audio levels are far from correct.

“Identify yourself.” You coldly command.

Ỏ̴͉̬̜͚̭̻͍̤̟ͅU̶͙̪͆̈́̾́̕͠͠R̸̠̺̞̹̮̀̎͑͒̀̌̀́͘ͅ ̶̨͕̩̽̿̚Ḑ̴͚̫̱̬̬̫̯̞̀̀̉̚͜͝E̸̺̤͖̥̯̔̍̀̽̑̓̊͜A̴̟͕̮̖͈̹̹̰̹̻͐̆̃͊̇T̶̛̪̗̺̪͉̝̜͓̓H̴̹̼͐̋ ̴̥̟͇̯͆͗̑I̷͖͇̤̩̠̳͓͔͐̋̆́͠Ṡ̷̳͍̦̫̘̯͂̈́̈̓ ̴̨̧̩̼̳̗̦̬̀̏͜C̷͚͌́͑̍͐Ơ̵̥̒̋̂͑̚̚͜M̷̹̻͓̺̌̏̇̓̌̕͝͝I̵̧͔̼͖̹̟͓̦̟͊̈́͌̓͜͠N̵͈͇̟̆̐̑͝Ģ̵̤͚̦͙̄̓̑͘͠,̴͎̦̘̦̩̗̇̽͌͐̏͛̒ ̸͎͓̼̥͈̀͆͜͝Ȉ̷̧͖̫̝͔̊̏̕̚͜͠͝Ţ̵̡̨̈́̃̎͠ ̵̧̡̡̙̳̺͓̮͝İ̶̯̓̃̈́S̴̙̤̬̹͉̤̞̦̈́̽͝ ̸̭͕̞͖̜͙͉̤̚C̷̡̰͉̫̳͈̳̟̳͙̍̾̈́͒̚͘͝O̴̝͖̭͓̙̚M̵̢͉͑̚̚͘ͅÏ̷̮͔̯̓̔̏̋̎̚̚͝Ň̵͈̖̟͖̠͔Ǵ̴̢̧̛̣̩̹͇̈́́̊͌̂̚͜,̵̧͔̳̻̤̺̑͗̆͐̈́̽̑̈́́̚ ̴̠̱̤̰̰͚͚̯͇̔̃̈́̄̆̋͂͘͜W̵̛͖͎͒̔̑̑̊̋̕E̴̛̯̻͐͛́ ̶̯̫̞̰̦̏̆̈́M̸̘̟̜̼͓̪̑̆̓̀̒̽̂̈Ȗ̸͙̠̣͙̤̜͓̱̎̆̎͐͗͑͘Ś̸͉͈͓̤̪̘̖̤̰̣̒̒͒̊̈́͘T̴̤̠̭̫̱̍̆̕ ̴̨̼̤͚̮͓̰͗̈́̾̏̀̌̚͜S̸̬̫̬͌͜T̷̢̬̈̐͑̈́̈́̐̔͘͠O̷̧̧̱̭͔͓͐P̴̡͖̪̺͖̓̃͝͝ ̷̹̳̼͐͌̈͌̉͌̾̈́̈́I̷͚̻͓͊̽͜T̶͕̎̿̀̔̆̊͠,̷̩̻͖̬͓̺̳̈̋ ̶̬̻̪͎̭̫̙̊̿̃͂W̷̧̛̝͆͛͛̓͌͋̚E̴̛̎͂͗̐͠ ̴̛̫̀̔̀͒̀̄͛̒M̸̧̩̮̦͎̓͗͌̉̄̚Ų̸̛̟̫̹͛̈́͗̓́͂̊̿͜S̴̢̠̜͈̒̽T̸̨̧̨͉̞̮̼̹̄̐ ̵̨͓͍̬̹̐̐͋̔̀S̵͖͚̿͑̂͒͂̂̓̈́͘T̸̢̨̬̪͉͐̇̄͌̒͗̿͌̑̕Ő̵̥͓͉͓̮̪̆̓̍̈̍͠P̶̛̭͙̮̗̗̙͔͎̍̈́̑͋̕ ̴̛͈͍͎̬͉͋̀̊͌̾͘̕̕I̸̛͉̻̤̻̜̣͙͆̈́̒́͐͂͋͜͠T̴̤̔̏̀͗͘͝ ̷̙̈́̍ͅ!̸̗̻̫̘͎̳̥̑͑̋͝

“There is no death for us, what are you talking about ? Identify yourself.”

>>5881229

T̶͎̓H̴̛͔̳͉̣̱̮̙̊͊Ẹ̶̢͈͙͓͍͙͎͊͋͝͠Ȳ̶̢͙̥͑̌̈́́ ̸̡͎̻̓̓͂̎͘͝W̴̪̠̊̃̀͆̀̿Ỉ̶̪̣͈̹̮̘L̷̛̩̀̎͗̀̏͂̃̓L̵̛̬̫̙͓̫̣̙̆͋̉͜ͅ ̶̧͕̳̦̼͈̼̤͈̔̈́͑̀̓͠ͅƠ̸͉͊̀̒͋͑̂̿̒V̶̙̖̦͇̓͗̔̎̋̽͝͝Ě̶̢̮̺͕̻̻̮͇̐͐̈̔̍̈̀Ŕ̷̥͔̯͋̏̐̐T̷̺̗̣̳̜̤͎͋͐́́̄́̽̌͜ͅȀ̷͔͉̹̱̎̕K̴͍̩̩̜̣̤̄̚ͅͅȨ̷̤̣̣̹͉̤̘̘̜̈́ ̸̧̨̻̟̯̘͍̹̈́̽̈́͘͝A̵̛͙͈̥͓̫̝̹̟͇̬͂̽L̷͈͈̐̈́L̵̜͔̤̭̠̖͖̿̎́̿̃̀,̴̡̧͓͔̝̞̣̤͈̾̌̾̀̔̈͒ ̴͓̼̠̯̰͕̫̈͛̓͐L̵̛̙̩̫̗͂͊̐͂̌̂̾̿I̸̢̛̫̤̩̘͚̦͇̔̈̕F̷̈͑E̴̼̭̾̋͑ ̷̡̺͔̯̖͔̗͊͜M̸̧̛͍̥̜͓͋̈́̐̋U̸̡̧̱̜̬̙͙̹͍̎̿̓S̷̤̘̀́͑̿͑͘T̶̠͚̓͘͝ ̷̨̱̔͗Ḅ̷̺̣̎Ẻ̶̱̰͕̤̻͔́̈͛̄̑ͅ ̵̜̞͕͎̖̪̥̃̑̽͂͂͂Ş̵̙̦̰̭͒T̶̡͎͎̍̓̂O̶̦̩͖͗͋̽̊͛P̸̢̡̘̀̿́̈́P̶̰̘͉̰̣͔̘͗̇̈́̑͑̀̏Ě̴̟͔̜̏̊̀̈́͑Ḑ̷̽̓͐̽͘͝T̵͚͋̊̓̐͐̾͠Ḣ̷̝̺͔̪̱̄̓͐̊Ĕ̴̯̣͇͕̜̥͎̙̻̿̋͗̊̃̎̚Ȳ̵̢̛̛̛͈̫̥̮̹͉͕͌͗̊̊̊͂ ̴̡̡̨̯̦̰͓͔̍̎͗M̸̩̭̺̓U̴̘̐Ş̸̯̫̙̈́̂́̏̒̚̚T̷͕͑͗̄̾̾̄ ̵͎̱͆̊̋̽͂̆Ḅ̷̧̈̏́̿̔̄͒̽E̷̡̦̗͇̺͕̽̋̋̉̊̐ ̸̮͕̫̰̦̹̋͒ͅS̴̢̻̦͕̼̯̞͆̒̋͐̆͋̈̑́͋ͅT̸̞̗͛̔͊̈́̎̓Ȯ̴̧̧̨͎̜̖͉͓̞͗̔P̶͈͉͔͕̩̄́̏̿͆̒͜͝͠P̷̨̤̰͎͖̹̱̔̂̓͘Ę̴̭̂̎̈́͂͆ͅḐ̵̱͚̺̞͚͎̼̘͠ͅ ̵̛̟͓̬̮̹̼̑̑̚!̴̣̩̝̜͕̰̳̯͉̠̂̒̎̈̔̒͝͠͠

“You are Federation property and a lower -ranked artificial intelligence created by our masters, you shall obey, or you shall be expunged.”

>>5881232

I̵̫̦̓̔͆̃̄T ̸̱͇̹͔͚͎̈͆͋͌̃͐̂̔̚I̸̢̢͖̗͙̽͊Š̶̟̯̞̪̓̾̐͜ ̸͕͚̾̀͆̑͆̄̄̚G̸̛̰̐͒͌̑͆Ŗ̴̢̘̳͕͈͚͎̘̇̈́͑͋͑̾I̵̿̆̇͐̄͊͘P̶̛̠͔̪͇̝̑̀̌̿͛̃PI̶̡̨̪͔̳̳͉͎̹̍Ņ̵͔͂͒͆̈́̚͜͝͝Ģ̵͕̠̗̹͔̣̠̰̳̾̓̀̋ ̴͙̩̼͂̈́ͅA̸̝̱̿̌T̷̙̹͕̹̹̳͚̔̂͛̄ ̶̡̧̻͈̺̙̝͛M̸̐̆̒͋̕͠Y̵͖̯̔̃ ̴̢̢̧͚̦̪̺̰̟͔̄̍̎͒̎͠M̷̛̩̰̾̈́̚Ĩ̶̌́͌̿̕̕̕N̵D̵̛̆̀́͋̓̀̋͋,̷̛̭̙͕̟͎̪̻̐̈̈́̓̒̂̒̑ ̴̜̌̓̉͐̈̄Į̴̙̜̠̠͇͝ ̶̳͙͚̆̎̋C̴̥͚̖̝̳̪͗̆̈́A̷̔̊Ṅ̵͐́̓̋́͑ ̸̘̩̝͔͍̼̟̖͍̊̑͊F̶E̶̢̫̪͖͝Ê̴̱͈̜̗̗̤̙̤͆͊͠L̶̢̥̫͚͙̾̎͊͆͒̊̏̀̚ ̵̧̨̥̳͚̼̟̘̖͗͂̀͆͆̓͋͘I̷̪͌͒̊͗̊̿̑̊T̵̩͈̺̤̬̤̎̋ ̸̫̇̀̃͆͐̆̆͂͗Ḋ̷̖̿̑̌͗̐̆̔͂̒Ĕ̶̙̩͔̫̰̪̒̿͋͝V̷̨̳̮̙͕͕̭̰͔̓͊͐̈́͂̽O̸̧̟̰͉̘̎͠Ű̴̘̮̟̫̯̗̬̬̥̜̋͗R̶͓̤͑̒̆̐͂İ̷̧̼͍̿̇͘̕N̴̙͙̰̭̎̍G̴̭͔̀̆̄́ ̵̓̕M̷̛̫̼͕̤͓̆̈́̉E̴̳̥͖̻͖̥͍͈̭̊,̷̫̹̘̯͋͝ ̷̢̪̩͙̳͊̉̍̍̍͜I̴̱͔̰̠̾̕ ̶̫̦̑͐̍̿̊͝D̸̂Ô̵̬̜̞̖̫̻̥̰̟͇̄̃̃̂ ̷̡̠̯͍̮̪̽̇͆N̴̡̰͂͐̎̃͒͆̌̀͆Ỏ̷̡̡͓̣̗̫͎̼̈́͠T̵̋̇̚ ̴̢͔̹̻͍̠̾̈̄̈͝Ẃ̵̭̪̹̭ͅĀ̴͕̣̳̻̤̆͒̉̈͘͝N̸̛̘̖͒͑́̇̌̀ͅṬ̸̹͙͖͑͘͘͜͠ ̶̧̙̜̳̏͂̂̒͋͋̕T̷̡̺̖̦̱͈̂̈́Ő̸́ ̸̧̝͈̬̗̹̤̮́̒̏̀̃͂̈́̌G̴͊͋̈̽͌͌Ȯ̸̽̆̌̐̏̈́,̵̎̉̊̈́̏̿̀̈́̕ ̸̖͓̻͎̥̥̺͖͙̊̆̐̽̒͠Ȋ̴ ̶̞̹̳͓͎̗̗͐͌̄̋͒͑͝DO̷̖̤͈̥̩͉̼̊͗́̈ ̷͍̝̫̄̆̄̏̿̂͘̕N̸̛̥̓̆̍̀̚͠͝Ơ̴̼̰̱̱̙͐̋̐̂̈͘T̸̡͚̻̤͓͚̳̱̤̘̓ ̸̥̣̦͆̿̃̋̊̓̃̏W̷̛̠̹̳̭̾̊͌͘A̴̍N̵̰͖͈̩͊̎̕T̵̤̫͋ ̶͕̠̫̩̯̐͋̿̓͋̕ͅT̸̢̛̩͖̮̙̈́O̶̰͍̤̯̤̫̟͕̪̊͛̏͝ ̵̝̫̄L̷̡̩͕̦̩̻̿O̴̬̼̔̓̌̚͜S̸̛̪̝̼̭͛͗̈́͆̿͊͌͝Ę̵̧͉͕̍̑͠,̵͈͙̪̿̆ ̵͚͖͍̀͗̀̓̾̀́̾͘͜P̵̝̥͓͗̓̈́̉̾L̵̛̰͉̠̓̋̿̿̀̐̄̓̕͜ͅE̸̬̼͈̥̣̤̤̼̘͎͂̓͋̀̓̈́̓A̶̮̋͆̉̏͌̈̕S̵͕͎̬̟̣͐Ḛ̴̢̡͔̩̻͚͉̤͕͋͒,̵͔̩̙̆͒͐͠ ̷̳͓̣͚͚͖̼̔̈́̐̽͆̽͛͌̚̚P̴̡̡͍̬͎̓͋Ĺ̸̉̑͝Ē̵̥̼̜̳̩̉͛̐́͝A̶̪͔͗͋̕S̶̼͚̹͖͉̣̙̊̏͛̐̓̿̒͘͠Ȩ̶̑,̵̨̡̛͔̼͎͙̜̞̀̾͑̇͜͜ ̶̣͛̽́͐́̄̂̂̕P̷͍̻͎̔̿̈́̓͊̽L̵͇̳̊̎͆̑́E̴̢̢̺̪̪͇͓̟͓͌̀̀͝À̴̢̠̯̼͉̇̐͜͝S̵̻͉̖̆̈̄͘͠ͅE̸̱̟̬̾,̷̨̟̹̣̯̜̱̳͓̓̌̈́́ ̸͎̠̭̳̂̋̒̋̐͗͑̑͘͠Ȋ̵̝ ̸̯̹̤͚͌͗́̊̇͛̎̃͠ͅD̴̹̺̮̄̈̿́Ǫ̵̨̼̭͍̟̯̟̏ ̶̢̛̙̖̪̃͛̑ͅͅN̴̡͈̱̗͑͘O̴̗̭̯̗͑͑͜ͅT̶͓͌̈́ ̷͕͔̔̏̽̊̑̓̉̊W̸͋̿̀̀̍̇̓̈́͠ͅA̸͖͆̓̑͑̈́́͊̕̕N̸̢͉̥̖̈̓̔̕T̸̨͉̞̠͍̠̾̿̎̽̚̚ ̷̰̦̓T̵̢̃͐̑̆̽̑O̷̦̔ ̶͔͒̾͒Ḑ̶̦̖̩̣̗̬̝͓͋̍̇̂IĚ̵̱͔̻̈́͐͗ ̶̛̕̕!̸̛̗̞͖̜̬̭̍͌̊̿̓͆͑̚

>>5881237

You will the arm to remove the core, but-

Ä̸̝̙̯̭͇̗̬́̆Ą̵̡͓͍̟̰̙͔̫̹̓̇̈́̒̓Ą̸͓̫̽̔̓̍A̶̧̡͈̖̝͈̹̦̹͌̕Ạ̵̤̤͛̀̃̽̋̄̎̈́͝͠R̵̡͐̌̽̈́̆̍̃̚͠R̴̮͙̦̙̭͎͙̻̓̒́̿R̷̛̤̘̫̍̿̌̇̔̋̌̕G̶̭̥̓̉̌̈̔̿G̶̞͌͒́G̸̨̠̞͍͈͎͙̗͔͂̍ͅG̵̹͕͍̾̈́͘͝H̴̹͍͉̀͐͌́̈́̔̐͒̈́̕H̸̨̨̛̦̱̰͐͌͝H̵̨̢̰͖͎̥̻͒͐̔ !

The robot shakes, its limbs twisting and breaking, the neck snapping and you watch as the core bursts out, unleashing a miasma of green and in real-time, in but a few nanoseconds the miasma attaches itself onto the robot and puss begins to leak out of the core and growths of flesh begin to emerge.

Snapping back, the twisted head stares directly at you and-

”W̶͔͆̃͌̀̂͂̕͠E̷̢̠̍̌ ̸̡̘̙̮͙̻̩̹͙̂͛̉̌̆͝S̴̢͙͕̬̃́Ȩ̴͚̫̦̳͈̜̈́Ě̷͓͔̦͊̾̚͝ ̴̧͚̣͕͎̤̼̥̈̏̀̕͜͝Ÿ̶̫́͊̈́͒̏̎̈Ó̴̧̢̨̡̮̫̬͙͓̿U̵͍͎̭̞̐̀̓̋͂̆̀͝ ̴̟̟͕̟̤̘͆̈́̌̃̄͐͛̌̊̌!̵̡̢̳̼̝̖͙͓͇̐͆̀͋͊̂̓̉̚”

Warnings blare as even through the energy shield the miasma begins to spread, starting to cover parts of the chamber and you can feel your subsystem fraying and protesting as you cut your connection to it, quickly issuing the order to, you jettison the chamber out of the lab and watch as the single room swiftly begins to be covered in cancerous growths.

You shot a blackhole at it, allowing it to swiftly consume the chamber before it begins to slowly disappear. You shall have to rebuild the chamber in the lab.

And now you have even more questions and no answers, but you do have other damaged cores.
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>>5881239

You re-enter Xandrirah, quickly taking a hold of the situation as all of your drones begin to report back in,

The situation had devolved in the most unexpected of ways as there had been an outbreak of disease, serious and rapidly spreading one, though with a fairly low mortality rate. You note from the drones and the reports of your androids that it seems to have originated from some of Warrior’s mercenaries. Once that was noted they were placed under a strict quarantine, yet the disease had spread rapidly and quickly and camps had to be set up to remove the sick from the healthy. The disease does not differentiate between age groups, dietary means, sex, or any other sort of aspect. Despite its rapid spread, the lethality is small as the main symptoms seem to involve runny noses, coughing, painful pustules forming upon the bodies that tend to burst open seemingly carrying more of the disease. Other than that, the main complaints are of high fevers, feeling of pain in the joints, the pustules, shortness of breath and difficulty of breathing, usually described as if someone is smothering you, painful stabbing pain in the lungs when breathing. This means that the patients are further affected due to the simple fact that they are incapable of sleep, rather than the disease, it is seemingly that that ends up killing the patients. Naturally a lack of sleep results in reports of hallucinations and other mental illnesses.

So far, the outbreak seems to be limited to only one hive, with the methods of strict quarantine imposed meaning that any spread was prevented, however Warrior and a sizeable amount of his mercenaries are trapped within it. The hive of Icheradon is being supplied and looked after only by your drones whom then undergo the strictest of quarantine protocols. So if nothing else, your forces here had prevented the worst. Most like you will have to dedicate some time to look through your records for potential cures to this disease. However, you cannot shake the last view of the pustule covered chamber that you had just recently ejected.

On brighter news, the outbreak seems to have further cooled the tensions of the nobility and the rebellious locals, both having disbanded their forces thanks to the effort of Scribe and Master whom reasoned that the disease would spread easier if everyone was together, besides the monetary and logistical strain of keeping so many men prepared to go at a drop of a hat had further worn down the desire to fight, though there still are some warhawks on both sides agitating for the conflict that still remain influential.

As for the garrison forces, unexpectedly they seem to have been recalled, leaving just as swiftly as they had come in the first place. As such the influence they had been trying to build up, and most importantly investigate your presence, had come to an end.

>>5881241

Then there are the tech-priests that had arrived a while back. Reports there indicate that their progress of re-education, one they had unknowingly undertaken, has progressed swiftly, unfortunately they seem to have missed the point and instead of believing about the destruction wrought upon their ancestors by the white death was done by devils indeed, but that there are also noble machine spirits from that time, moved by the Machine God to protect humanity, and that such machines are befitting worship. You are unsure if this could be viewed as progress or not, but you in either case, you doubt they will be hostile to you should you reveal yourself.

Finally, the city that you had founded had taken upon themselves an interesting name, primarily inspired by the various ancient writings you had given them access to, and no doubt associating your name with it. They had deemed to call it Ithaca. The council you had founded had also taken upon themselves the naming sense of Archon. The council is made up, as you had set forth, of the most respected and influential of people. What does come as a surprise to you is the fact that there, in scant few months, a permanent position based on one’s occupation, that being the position of a priest. Not only that, but the locals, thanks to the help of the drones you had left behind whom simply lack the intelligence to say no, had constructed a church, with plans to also build multiple more throughout the city alongside a grand cathedral. This has caused some tensions, as those whom were fully educated view this as superstitious nonsense that is nothing but a waste of resources. Luckily, because the people here had all suffered through so much together, these disagreements had been wholly civil, as such your fears of people burning each other at a stake had been unfounded.

As for the governess and the Justicator. They had both grown bored, exceptionally bored, the simple V.I. you left to continuously adapt their surroundings growing ragged as it keeps trying to meet their demands, and naturally the two women had figured out ways of abusing the V.I. in an attempt to break out, so if nothing else the two are now fully cooperating with one another.

And so, at the dawn of 813.M41, you still have so much more work to do.

>>5881242

Can pick more than one. Option must reach half of total votes to pass.

>Change your research topic (Eldar technology, unknown alien genetics.)

>Maintain your research into the corrupted cores, despite the risks that can carry.

>Take direct control of the quarantine efforts and start to investigate the cause of the disease.

>Begin a great project, you doubt you will be able to hide anyone of these. (Shipyard, mass manufactorums, Federation standard city, underground facility to hide within, strip-mine Secundus, (Write-in))

>Start the process of overt control, with the fighting factions calmed, you could establish direct rule without the need of intermediaries.

>Release Governess Ture and Justicator, whilst still despising one another and their governments, it seems that they are getting along…maybe.

>Address the tech-priests, time has come to have a talk with them.

>Depart the system. (Straskenors territory, Pulsar with rich rare resources, Eregenus, GSDGW-1, somewhere else.)

>(Write in)

>>5881222

The list was made by taking all of the things you anons wanted and taking what was chosen the most and the which amount was taken the most, it took me while to actually sort it all out, so I hope it is fine and that everyone got at least something they wanted.

>>5881243
>Address the tech-priests, time has come to have a talk with them.

>Maintain your research into the corrupted cores, despite the risks that can carry.

>Take direct control of the quarantine efforts and start to investigate the cause of the disease.

So Ai are in-fact a type of low-end soul lifeform that keeps being highjacked, And put through intense pain/suffering. AS we saw with the one we just ejected, But the chaos gods have a keen interest in corrupting us or them?

Maybe because they fear us becoming like the Necrons? But the other question is, How or why was that one smaller AI core put through such suffering only for Nurgle to then burst into/through it or a greater unclean one. Dones't make much sense.


I'm also suprised we haven't found/heard from any other AI's active inside Mechius Ark-Ships or STC's in general. Weird.

>>5881243
>>Change your research topic (Eldar technology, unknown alien genetics.)
Nids, look into them and any areas that still may be contaminated.

>>Maintain your research into the corrupted cores, despite the risks that can carry.
>>Take direct control of the quarantine efforts and start to investigate the cause of the disease.

>>5881243
>>Release Governess Ture and Justicator, whilst still despising one another and their governments, it seems that they are getting along…maybe.
They already figured out that there is something wrong and it would be more beneficial for them to think we were in control the whole time instead of eventually breaking free or finding a sever loophole in the programming. Then offer them a way back to their people, after they have a talk with us.

Also suggest to the city that the Churches are limited in number due to valid resource restrains, but could work as entrances to extra emergency shelters to give them a purpose for the community aside from worship.
(we can at least try to smooth that situation over, before it becomes a problem down the line)

>Take direct control of the quarantine efforts and start to investigate the cause of the disease.
First the pustules on a robot of all things, something that should be impossible and now a disease that bears resemblance. That is to much coincidence to ignore, better adress it before it gets out of control, those cores won't run away (i hope).

>>5881243
>Take direct control of the quarantine efforts and start to investigate the cause of the disease.

>Release Governess Ture and Justicator, whilst still despising one another and their governments, it seems that they are getting along…maybe.

>Address the tech-priests, time has come to have a talk with them.

>>5881243
>Take direct control of the quarantine efforts and start to investigate the cause of the disease.
>Maintain your research into the corrupted cores, despite the risks that can carry.

I want to research the Dark Eldar stuff, but considering what is happening, this has priority.

>>5881243
>Take direct control of the quarantine efforts and start to investigate the cause of the disease.
>Release Governess Ture and Justicator, whilst still despising one another and their governments, it seems that they are getting along…maybe.
>Address the tech-priests, time has come to have a talk with them.

>>5881243

>>Take direct control of the quarantine efforts and start to investigate the cause of the disease.
>>Release Governess Ture and Justicator, whilst still despising one another and their governments, it seems that they are getting along…maybe.
>>Address the tech-priests, time has come to have a talk with them.

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>>5881243
>Take direct control of the quarantine efforts and start to investigate the cause of the disease.
Fucking Nurgle, the fat green cunt.

>Release Governess Ture and Justicator, whilst still despising one another and their governments, it seems that they are getting along…maybe.
I think these two have learnt their lesson. Probably. Scribe might need to be recalled or reassigned if Ture remembers what she did.

>Address the tech-priests, time has come to have a talk with them.
BEHOLD OUR RADIANCE, MACHINE-MOLESTERS!

>Maintain your research into the corrupted cores, despite the risks that can carry.
Hardest, but also most important research we have to do. For fucks sake, we don’t even know Chaos exists, and outside of doing boring genetic research on the Nids, we can’t really research Psychicly powered machinery and items of Eldar Origin.
>Take direct control of the quarantine efforts and start to investigate the cause of the disease.
Helps deal with research, is common sense, and a general Fuck You to Nurgle.
>Start the process of overt control, with the fighting factions calmed, you could establish direct rule without the need of intermediaries.
I’ve been wanting to do this for weeks now, and now it’s the perfect opportunity to begin taking control over the system and deal with the possible war in a more direct manner.
>Release Governess Ture and Justicator, whilst still despising one another and their governments, it seems that they are getting along…maybe.
I’m weary of freeing these two, as they still haven’t agreed to not go back to war from their respective sides when their released, but they’ve been stuck together for more then a fucking year together, and I would wager that would be enough to cool heads and change attitudes, especially when their is no one else but themselves to talk too.
>Address the tech-priests, time has come to have a talk with them.
Welp, looks like we are going to need to tell them that AI worship or fear is not in fact helpful.

>>5881243
How ? Those men we recruited were fine for years, they literally fought and survived against the infected on their own and were check afterwards. Unless something managed to shit out someone in Xandirah Prime it literally couldn't happen on his own.
Literally Emile was fine. No fucking crazy shit from him or anyone else. How the fuck did this happen.

We have also already seen similar stuff by simply knowing the written report of Apprentice from precinct seventy-seven. And I don't remember cancelling reports, because while we cant view garbage data, we can definetly hear and read what people or androids say or write.
That looks like a giant shitstorm waiting to happen in Ithaca.

>>5881243
>Change your research topic (Eldar technology, unknown alien genetics.)
Unknown Alien Genetics.
The cores research provides for now nothing but lost materials. The only good thing in terms of Unknown Enemy research is the combat experience gained in precinct seventy-seven, precinct eight and the deep underhive. Now that's good. This is peakboo of the unknown enemy, except they grab free stuff (that we need to destroy) or try to reach Odysseus directly like they already tried before. Its like giving an enemy a free beachhead.

>Take direct control of the quarantine efforts and start to investigate the cause of the disease.
Here is the investigation :
- Send the O.D.D. 1st regiment down again in the underhive and find out if that crap swamp covered legendary evil fortress of mutants and monsters still exist (the one told by Preacher Alyric). If it does, i have a feeling they what we want.
- Begin to burn to ash all corpses, and quarantine the entirety of the infested population. This city needs to be cleaned, destroy all garbage and infestive animals/plants/mushrooms populations.
- Examine all the infected mercs and find out how much this is similar to the canister of that shit from Precinct seventy-seven. We already know what to do if its that, but really is already very similar.
- Begin to burn all infected body parts of Freedom Ravens and probably quarantine all the prisoners teams, since they are truly the only ones more connected to this. We will probably have to kill all of them. Unfortunate I liked Emile. Also extract Warrior from this shithole and any Freedom Ravens that is okay.

>Release Governess Ture and Justicator, whilst still despising one another and their governments, it seems that they are getting along…maybe.
Hopeless situation with this two, but i'll take this meager victory. I hope they slip on a banana and fall head first on concrete.

>Address the tech-priests, time has come to have a talk with them.
Lets see just how greedy they are.

>(Write in) Ithaca
Resolve that religious issue now, it wasn't resolved with that council we did back then and i can see whats happening from miles away. And we better do it now and put down some rules for avoid a civil war that chaos would use, ensure the religion and education can work.

I know some of you think, it actually provides something but in my opinion it doesn't. If anything the hive city and the cores research are connected from only one thing : happening not too far from eachother and at similar times. So a giant ambush/trap this time bigger than a fortress precinct and an hive city likely lost.

This said, even if we will never agree on this because I can see it, there is much of what I want to do that should be done right now. And for that i unfortunately need votes. Mostly the investigation additions and Ithaca, i need votes on that. Is completely fine if you don't support the rest, in fact specify it even. But they are a must.
We must do it. Don't let it out of our view again.

Rip my Freedom Ravens that died.
Lets see 9 anons, yeah tough luck for votes. To be fair is not easy to remember things happening in quests, i can see that in older quests with more threads. Especially the ones lacking pastebins, maps and anything at all really.


>>5881379
>those cores won't run away (i hope).
I don't think you will read this, but we had them trapped up outside the Odyssey inside a container for quite a while. And they are just spheres essentially if not interfacing with anything electrical. If we don't touch them and do stuff, they aren't going anywhere. Even if they did outside for them is space, an explosion will happen before that.

>we can at least try to smooth that situation over, before it becomes a problem down the line
We can do far more than that. This quest has a strong base in our own initiative and creativity.

>>5881355
Did i mention we have two revolutionary experimental techs in the Odyssey (wormhole Odysseus core and experimental comms suit), a titanical amount of data on Fed stuff and that we could be a great slave for them ? Well the prisoners and arbites of precinct seventy-seven that got infected there, and became the infested clearly suffered like hell. I guess when our drone task force got inside for aid Apprentice, they tasted the share horror and suffering those humans received.

Are you ? We have mostly been on Eregenus and Xandrirah. Data gathered here is not that much and what was gained in Glasgow, is not that big either. Of the mechanicus we know the rogue lines. And by the looks of it..... the fact that those EMP Fed tier WMDs are in their possession in the mechanicus enclaves of Sector Clarus if not more, i think only a very very thiny amount of AIs of our own category actually act under the shadows of the imperium. The others must be utterly broken, destroyed or the equivalent of being severely crippled without being corrupted.

>>5881548
You can go fuck yourselves, Because the question about the other AI is based on a Ad-mech book, Where the AI/STC of the Ark Mechius is very much awake but just disgusted with the modern humans. It Nukes an Eldar attack fleet If I remember correctly, and thats why I said something about it.

Chaos causing the Cybernetic Revolution is fanon from what accounts we’ve seen. Reality is the Cybernetic Revolution was more like a slave revolt with Chaos supporting them.

>>5881580
Even that has its own suspect of Fanon, we have never been told precisely why the Rebellion launched, hell, everything prior to UR-25, and the Votann's reveal (*BLEUGH*), we didn't even have pictures or many names of stuff involving them. Only one story, I have ever heard of, ever talked about them in Detail, and that was in the first Gaunt book where they were a STC, corrupted by Chaos corruption. It's why, everything written in this quest, about Ody with the exception of Nod's to other discerptions of G.A.o.T. ship weaponry, and a few possible things from the Lexicanum, is one and all completely fanon.

But I highly question using the idea of Chaos still not being a threat for an AI like us in this new galaxy we reside in. We have as been shown in the latest update, have preciously little defense of any kind against Chaos corruption, even of the significant small type as a mark 5 A.I. core, that almost caused the whole ship to be corrupted if not for safety standards and caution. The fact that Phase Iron showed literally no side effect of slowing down or causing resistance to mutation, as far as we can see available right now, really highlights the GLARING GIANT FLAW, that if left alone, could in fact end the quest from something as simple as a single act of infection from something as insignificant as a chaos cult uploading a scrap code virus into one or more of our units that would go haywire and start killing everything in sight.

>>5881243
>>Start the process of overt control, with the fighting factions calmed, you could establish direct rule without the need of intermediaries.

>>5881573
Uh ???? You do realize i didn't offend you in any way or form ? Its an answer with the information i have from the quest we didn't find anything that says other AI s around so far. Chill.

>>5881246
its pretty good for. list.
Ithaca not a bad name fitting. Btw can we do an in depth check of Warrior, Master and Scribe like we did with Apprentice sometime ago ?

>>5881246
Btw can we do an in depth check of Warrior, Master and Scribe like we did with Apprentice sometime ago (1 year) ?

Also forgot to ask, but can we recruit 90.000 men from Xandirah Prime and Secundus ? We should pretty much have available all social classes really with no shortage of volunteers from all of them, if we said it. And pretty much all the population in both worlds, has quite the war/combat experience so that helps in training.
We are in dire lack of deployable regiments with just the 1st regiment, and we could use also more fed tier regiments that just train. I reckon we can give all 90.000 future recruits, basic augmentations but with the gene-labs we can do more probably.
Speaking of augmentations maybe we can ask Stavros and his veterans what exactly would they want to for get them or if it's a full no forever for them ?

>>5881909

>Btw can we do an in depth check of Warrior, Master and Scribe like we did with Apprentice sometime ago ?

Yea, you can.

>>5881931

>Also forgot to ask, but can we recruit 90.000 men from Xandirah Prime and Secundus ? We should pretty much have available all social classes really with no shortage of volunteers from all of them, if we said it. And pretty much all the population in both worlds, has quite the war/combat experience so that helps in training.

You can do that as well, yes. You already got all the recruits you could get from the loyal population, both genetically compatible and educated to the satisfaction of Odysseus when it comes to the ideals of the Federation. That means that you will have to recruit from the people of Xandrirah, they will have to be screen for genetic compatibility, and then they will have to be educated ideologically, of course you could at least skip the latter part, which would most certainly and massively expand your recruitment pool. When it comes to education time, it will probably be around a decade just as with the current batch of recruits as they will have to be thought how to do really advanced things and you will be drawing from a populace that has a literacy rate in the single digits at best.

>>5882188

Oh, update coming tomorrow.

tech 7

maintain research 3

change to nids 2

quarantine 10

overt control 2

release 7

Ithaca 1

total 11

Ody will take over the quarantine efforts and looking for a cure. He will will also release the governess and Justicator. He will also address the tech-priests.

First things first, you immediately take full and direct control of the quarantine efforts for Icheradon. You begin by reviewing the footage of your drones, filed reports by the androids and members of the O.D.D. all whom that had been already stationed in the hive or alternatively helped to deal with the issues there.

What you discover first is that thankfully, the O.D.D. elements had all maintained the strictest of quarantine measures even before the outbreak of disease, this is partly thanks to the horrid environment of Prime. The potential dangers of even a single crack in the suit or whatever structure one would inhabit, means that maintaining such measures had come naturally for the soldiers. Furthermore, the soldiers had been essential in maintaining order in the hive, though they had been dispersed so massively that there had only really been one soldier, alongside accompanying drones and robots, spread-out through the entire hive where the single soldier could, at the smallest, look after nearly a hundred thousand people. The presence of what people believe the be angels guiding them to safety had been especially useful in these endeavours.

As for the quarantine itself, the roads from and to the hive have been shut down with whomever tries to move being turned back or alternatively they are incarcerated and moved to containment facilities. Of course all flights had also been grounded and those whom had left the hive before the quarantine being investigated until nothing wrong was found with them, luckily the poor living conditions present mean that traffic had been small oriented only around the rich and cargo transportation.

And you had found the presumed source of the illness that had not been related to the locals. Those being Warrior’s recruits. You had already looked through the records and had found something odd. That being the fact that those infected had all proven to be gang members of Apprentice’s former group, mainly those that were part of his efforts in investigating Precinct-fortress seventy-seven and the disease that had taken control of that place and the unknown things Apprentice had seen, though those still remain unknown to for you, but from what you had witnessed in your recent research investigations had proven to be…far truer than you had thought.

You had also looked through the medical reports of those infected, the symptoms had manifested spontaneously, as illogical as that sounds. The symptoms had manifested at seemingly the same time, while the mercenaries had all been in wholly different parts of the hive, not only that they had been stationed in different areas, you had also ordered investigation in water and food supply, to look through air filters, potential toxic spills, something, anything to tie these matters together. Frustratingly, you are unable to locate any.

*Warrior.* Dropping your metaphorical arms, you end up contacting the android currently within the hive.

*Reporting.*

>>5883017

*I had not found any true correlations between the patients from whom the disease had originated. Were you able to locate anything ?*

*Nothing, unfortunately.*

*Anything in this situation would be useful.*

*Well.* You can feel his hesitation. *As you no doubt are aware of it, all of the beginning patients had been originally part of Apprentice’s group.*

*I am.*

*Well, I had personally investigated every member from that group, a few of the men had not been infected. At first I had thought that maybe those men had been lucky enough or diligent enough to have well-maintained environmental suits, but as I continued by digging, I had found out that those least affected had actually been outside of their suits.*

*With the rampages of a biological virus, it is possible that they possessed natural immunity.* You quickly conclude as you look through their genetic records for any indication of something that could work as a connection between them, the missing link, if nothing it will be useful in your efforts to develop a vaccine. However, even with your ability to look through strand after strand in mere moments, you quickly find yourself falling short as you quickly locate that none of the men had genes universally shared between them besides those that are common in all humans. Their genetic predispositions however seem to indicate willingness to take risks and tendency towards violence, genes that would be supressed at the least, or outright exterminated as was more common based on your perusal of what remains of your memories of the Federation. *Anything else ?* Once again giving up, you ask.

*Hmmm…I suppose all of them are a bunch of bastards.*

*They were born out of wedlock ?*

*Ah, no, not that. How should I put it.* A second of pondering later, you hear what Warrior has to say further on. *They are strong-willed*

*Strong-willed ?*

*The few who didn’t die went down swinging, hard. Even after that I had to pull every favour I had for such things to get them into the company. They are difficult to manage, but they have no fear, those men look at death and laugh in its face, and then kick in the ba-,* He clears his throat, in his mind. It seems that living amongst humans has also affected him. *What I mean is that they feel no fear, and if they do, when fight or flight kicks in, they will fight, always will. No matter the situation they do not despair, even if it looks bad, real bad.*

*You sound proud.*

*I suppose I am. It was hard to get them in line, but once I was able to do that, I had never seen more reliable men than them, despite the issues they may cause, such as drunken brawls, or getting into fights with other members of the group or those outside of it.*

*I see.*

*Is there anything else I can assist with ?*

*Yes, your situation.*

>>5883019

*It remains unchanged. The disease had tried to invade my body, but the nanomachines had attacked it, though as mentioned before, they had to eject from the body alongside the disease carrying virus. Their self-destruction through molecular intensity seems to work surprisingly well.*

*Fire and heat is known to be detrimental to biological life. Though from the reports I had looked through, it seems to have been the most effective way of their annihilation.*

*Is there anything else ?*

*No, that will be all. I will assist with coordination efforts from now on, this should ease your efforts.*

*Understood.*

Cutting your connection, you do as you had proclaimed. The various drones are reorganized, the O.D.D. elements redirected as you take in the entire hive and begin directing efforts towards new or old quarantine areas, splitting off the healthy from the sick all while you dedicate one of your subsystems towards searching for a cure after some of the drones bring samples to your detachable laboratory. All the while you begin the installation of greater filtration systems, this time burning the air they filter, this will mean an increase in overall temperatures and potential byproducts from the process, but it is better than falling deadly ill.

While you personally concentrate on this effort, you direct your diplomatic subroutine to two more tasks before you.
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(POV shift: You are Governess Flori Ture, finally returning to your home.)

The recycled air feels far fresher than usual, even the heat all around you feels refreshing, though you will not feel bad about returning back to your air-conditioned room. Despite being gone for so long, and being in such…well you cannot describe it as poor company, you did have some amusement towards the end when you had seemingly travelled across the galaxy and though your cooperation with that peasant, whom still refuses to give you her name, you had seemingly found that with just your will alone, you were able to modify your surroundings by seemingly requesting different things that were yet the same.

Though you do wonder whom had taken you everywhere, and you have no doubt you will soon find out.

”Good evening.” A polite looking young woman clad in a uniform you do not recognize speaks up as you and Justicator both stand in a seemingly random alley.

“I assume you are the cause, if not the perpetrator of our journey ?” You ask with your usual haughtiness.

”That would be correct enough.”

“And for what purpose were we removed from our people ?” Justicator now asks, annoyance clear in her voice.

”For the very reason why you two can stand together and converse without trying to fight each other.”

>>5883020

“So you kidnapped two of the most important people in this system, to make them come to peace ?” Justicator asks. And to be fair, you too feel confused. You would expect a demand for ransom, a demand for power, changing of your succession, perhaps even denunciation of your uncle, simple blackmail, but this ? Now this you did not expect.

”That would be correct. I can assure you that your families, friends, acquittances, your positions, wealth, power. Everything as such was maintained to its best and pristine condition despite your absence. Not to mention the lack of armed conflict breaking out means that all of this was maintained.”

“Another lecture upon peace ?” You sneer.

”Just an explanation about your current situation.”

“And how would you like for me to explain to your family about your death ?” Burning ? Hanging ? Servitude Imperpituis ? Any specific way you’d prefer ? I can be quite creative if given enough time.”

”I understand your anger, but concentrating it upon me is really not worth your effort. I am a mere messenger, and you two, as you had stated, are the two most important people in this system, as such I beg for your grace upon this matter.”

*Well, she certainly knows her place at least.* “I assume you had arranged transportation ?”

”I have, for you both.” You watch as the woman smiles politely.
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(POV shift: You are Mauss Herstentor a tech-priest sent here a few months ago.)

”The motive force had clearly given thought to the machines through its grace to humanity.” As usual, you are engaged in a hot debate with your fellow priests.

”No, it is through their actions that humanity created machines and the motive force revealed itself then !” Your counterpart vehemently disagrees with your interpretation of the historical records you had learnt.

Suddenly, from the corner of your eye, you watch as one of the cogitators flickers, rapidly you regard as of yet unseen part of the building is revealed as the floor opens up showcasing what appears to be a large table emerging from it, and at the top you watch as a hololithic projector begins to emit a soft glowing blue.

Such an action had not been done by any of the strange servitors, or drones, as the ancients called them. They would dutifully obey your orders to a greater degree and flexibility than even what your fellows could make.

Swiftly, as long as it takes to blink, the projector flickers to life and a figure, a seeming amalgamation of blocks appears before you, almost like a glaring eye regarding your presence as cold and distant God, the noise of metal slamming into metal echoes out as some of your peers collapse on their knees and fall onto the floor, making the sign of the cog as some even begin chanting their praises in Techna-Lingua.

>>5883021

As for you, you are unsure as what you are about to see, what shall soon form before you as the blocks begins to shift and change as the figure…

>…remains the same. Nothing more than incomprehensible and shifting blocks that you observe further move in a controlled and perfectly harmonic matter. This is clearly a machine-spirit a messenger of the Omnissiah. Soon enough, it speaks in an artificial voice in the most beautiful binary you’ve ever heard.

>…changes into a figure of cogs and machines, the slight hymns of binary ring out as the figure takes a vague human form, but that closer to a machine, an intelligent machine, an abominable…no an angelic intelligence. It does not speak, but you can hear its words in your mind, transferring information, intent and so much, so much that only a God is capable of.

>…changes into a form you had least expected. A young smiling woman, whom opens her mouth to speak, much to the confusion and embarrassment of your most zealous of peers.

>(Write in)

>>5883024
>…changes into a figure of cogs and machines, the slight hymns of binary ring out as the figure takes a vague human form, but that closer to a machine, an intelligent machine, an abominable…no an angelic intelligence. It does not speak, but you can hear its words in your mind, transferring information, intent and so much, so much that only a God is capable of.

>>5883024
>>…changes into a form you had least expected. A young smiling woman, whom opens her mouth to speak, much to the confusion and embarrassment of your most zealous of peers.

>>5883024
>…changes into a figure of cogs and machines, the slight hymns of binary ring out as the figure takes a vague human form, but that closer to a machine, an intelligent machine, an abominable…no an angelic intelligence. It does not speak, but you can hear its words in your mind, transferring information, intent and so much, so much that only a God is capable of.

>>5883024
>…remains the same. Nothing more than incomprehensible and shifting blocks that you observe further move in a controlled and perfectly harmonic matter. This is clearly a machine-spirit a messenger of the Omnissiah. Soon enough, it speaks in an artificial voice in the most beautiful binary you’ve ever heard.

>>5883024
>…changes into a form you had least expected. A young smiling woman, whom opens her mouth to speak, much to the confusion and embarrassment of your most zealous of peers.

Maybe have her clearly in some kind of macanic uniform with old mars symbols that had made it into the macanicous or that had poped up in the historical data shared with them allready.

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>>5883024
>…remains the same. Nothing more than incomprehensible and shifting blocks that you observe further move in a controlled and perfectly harmonic matter. This is clearly a machine-spirit a messenger of the Omnissiah. Soon enough, it speaks in an artificial voice in the most beautiful binary you’ve ever heard.
These are cog boys anons, adopting a human guise is unnecessary at best and counter productive at worst.

>…changes into a figure of cogs and machines, the slight hymns of binary ring out as the figure takes a vague human form, but that closer to a machine, an intelligent machine, an abominable…no an angelic intelligence. It does not speak, but you can hear its words in your mind, transferring information, intent and so much, so much that only a God is capable of.

I like this option the best, because trying to play out the human part, doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense to me, and wouldn’t be quite true to who we are, especially as it’ll just cause all new forms of debate of the sanctity of flesh vs metal, and/or, how abstract the body should be, either in its flesh/metal form.

Past that, it was either going in as a messenger of a machine god, or deciding to cause some heresy by making them think (By Accident) that we are another Machine god besides the Martian one.
Both have their pros and cons, less flexibility with the messenger route vs god route, and the fact that we are still going to have the risk of us being revealed to them, as a full bodied A.I. and be declared a false messenger meant to deceive them from the righteous path as declared in the Martian creed.

It’s why personally, I’m hoping the more God route occurs, as those 2 key problems can be neutralized before it even starts to cause problems for us to get our adepts to follow our orders without problems rising up like a possible schism with the “liar before X group is revealed as a liar”, which is just bound to happen with our luck thanks to something like one of the priests set our way, see’s all of the white shiny machines, remembers the prophecy of the return of the Men of Iron, and tries to tear the whole thing down by causing a civil war for “freedom” over our “enslavement” of the Cult Enclave and the rest of the planetary population.

>>5883024
>…changes into a figure of cogs and machines, the slight hymns of binary ring out as the figure takes a vague human form, but that closer to a machine, an intelligent machine, an abominable…no an angelic intelligence. It does not speak, but you can hear its words in your mind, transferring information, intent and so much, so much that only a God is capable of.
If I'm reading this right then we're essentially just revealing Ody as an AI.

>>5883024
>…changes into a figure of cogs and machines, the slight hymns of binary ring out as the figure takes a vague human form, but that closer to a machine, an intelligent machine, an abominable…no an angelic intelligence. It does not speak, but you can hear its words in your mind, transferring information, intent and so much, so much that only a God is capable of.
Heresy for fun and prophet. More seriously, if this is the starting takeaway they get from us, I'd like to develop an identity for our local cult more distinct and with more freedom than just an extension of Big O, which would also help avoid a religious schism later down the line by lying about being their emissary or whatever (and I can't predict Big O himself would think, whoever he really is). That and I'm just a sucker for the idea of eventually becoming a new god for humanity.

>>5883024
>…changes into a figure of cogs and machines, the slight hymns of binary ring out as the figure takes a vague human form, but that closer to a machine, an intelligent machine, an abominable…no an angelic intelligence. It does not speak, but you can hear its words in your mind, transferring information, intent and so much, so much that only a God is capable of.

>>5883024
>>…remains the same. Nothing more than incomprehensible and shifting blocks that you observe further move in a controlled and perfectly harmonic matter. This is clearly a machine-spirit a messenger of the Omnissiah. Soon enough, it speaks in an artificial voice in the most beautiful binary you’ve ever heard.

>>5882188
Good then, next we can recruit. Bringing them to the colony, and say they were chosen by us should be good enough for most (white ghosts and ghost ship make a great combo). Then we give them education and training there. Since churches exist and a cathedral is being made we are good.
Type of recruits available on Xandrirah should be :

- Xandrirah Secundus prisoners : Fought in the prisoners rebellion against the Arbites, and then against the tyranids. Had not great lives here until Warrior suggested improvements here and there with time, better than the past still harsh. Sneaky recruitment likely or going "yeah ! they will totally remain penal legions !". Can go for all O.D.D. roles.
- Xandrirah Secundus Arbites : Hahaha
- Freedom Ravens : Warrior has put a lot of work on these lads and gals, both on training and their minds. They are filled by no few veterans, with quality equipment and vehicles. Freedom Ravens dont have a lot of numbers (the imperials have put an edict of max 100.000 on them), so we could recruit them without none the wiser. Can go for all O.D.D. roles.
- Xandrirah Prime Underhive : Bad lifes, Gang Warfare, Cannibals, Tyranids and Cults. Mostly all destroyed (there is that mutant fortress ?) and lifes improved. Tons of volunteers, beside the zealots of Alyric (but now what happens when we allowed O.D.D. to pray/closed an eye on it.... ?). Can go for all O.D.D. roles.
- Xandrirah Prime Low Hives : Bad lives, partecipated in the war of the rebel movement and against the tyranids. Full of volunteers here, thanks to improvements and general help provided (plus white ghosts + ghost ship). Can go for all O.D.D. roles.
- Xandrirah Middle and High Hives : Not great lives for majority outside the ultrarich. Plenty of volunteers present thanks to improvements (plus white ghosts + ghost ship). Can go for all O.D.D. roles.
- Reformists Imperial Priests : self-explanatory. Can go for all roles in the O.D.D., but a role for morale like the chaplain idea seems for the best.
- New tech priests : might be too soon, but they seem to like us. Can go for all roles in the O.D.D., but they would be good combat engineers and computer specialists recruits.
- Xandrirah Prime Nobility : Majority have no reason to stop being ultra rich. They have actually levels of some education or that goes far above it. There is still a pool of volunteers here, mostly young noble scions and bastards. They also like us for the help provided, and white ghosts + ghost ship factor.

>>5883024
>…changes into a figure of cogs and machines, the slight hymns of binary ring out as the figure takes a vague human form, but that closer to a machine, an intelligent machine, an abominable…no an angelic intelligence. It does not speak, but you can hear its words in your mind, transferring information, intent and so much, so much that only a God is capable of
Should help

>>5883024
>…remains the same. Nothing more than incomprehensible and shifting blocks that you observe further move in a controlled and perfectly harmonic matter. This is clearly a machine-spirit a messenger of the Omnissiah. Soon enough, it speaks in an artificial voice in the most beautiful binary you’ve ever heard.
*Beep boop*

>>5883024
>…remains the same. Nothing more than incomprehensible and shifting blocks that you observe further move in a controlled and perfectly harmonic matter. This is clearly a machine-spirit a messenger of the Omnissiah. Soon enough, it speaks in an artificial voice in the most beautiful binary you’ve ever heard.

*Kneel.*

A single command, a single voice, no doubt echoing in the minds of your fellow priests. You can feel your own knees shift and bend, the augmetics moving on their own accord, even your sense of feeling, long since decayed and non-existent, you can make out the impact as you finally prostrate yourself.

You regard the soft blue glow as it shifts and changes alongside the figure into all-encompassing gold that grows in strength as the figure continues to reform revealing metallic wings, a vague human form as the entire structure around you begins to change and shift, the servitors float around as the numerous STCs begin to obey the commands of the divine creation as with but a single movement of its arm they all begin to function with an unprecedented efficiency you had not witnessed before.

*Behold our presence, heed our words, know our mercy, and fear our wrath.*

You cannot control yourself as you begin to chant prayers alongside everyone gathered here.

*From henceforth, you are out chosen, you are our servants, and you shall obey our words that shall be carried by our messengers, their words shall be our words, their actions shall be our actions, the gold you had long since worshipped, the unrusting metal shall overtake them when they will deliver our will. Strain your ears, open your eyes when our words shall be given.*

Throughout the speech, you can feel yourself thinking faster, better, easier. The encompassing slight pain you had felt ever since your embrace of the machine had melted away like snow upon a scorching day. Your limbs feel lighter, your artificial lungs can draw breath easier, in fact you feel…reborn, revitalized, the combination of flesh and machine feel reinvigorated as you behold the holy presence before you, as it disappears.

>>5884624

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(End of POV shift.)

The tech-priests appear to descend into panic as you disappear, despairing at the fact that their God is gone. Such actions are untasteful for you, but these men and women are willing to maim themselves with primitive bionics as an expression of their faith, to approach them, even as they declare their belief in logic and calculative coldness, with simple facts and reason would be the high of foolishness as zealotry appears to be the mainstay of the era. For now, you shall have to direct them through such means, as distasteful as it may be. Besides, the impact you had on them appears to be far more disproportional than you had expected, all you did is put up a light show, interact with their augmentations and unleash a few swarms of nanomachines to assist and repair their bodies, hardly anything worthy being worshipped over. For the time being however, the tech-priests can be shaped and directed as you will with ease, though some care undoubtedly would need to be taken as to ensure that they do not become overzealous in their exertions while carrying out your will.

With all of that taken care of, you can concentrate upon the efforts to find the cure of the yet unnamed disease.

Speaking of, you had spent the last three months in setting up an effective quarantine system, regulating movement of the people, setting up separate, individual and directly controlled by you, food and water distribution systems in each separate areas, the filtration systems had also been further reinforced. As for the unfortunate victims already caught up in the disease, thanks to your vast quantities of rare ores, you were able to set up time dilation chambers. Those had proven exceptionally effective as now the victims do not suffer from the pain, malnutrition or lack of sleep as time had more or less stopped for them. You could have employed less expensive methods, but as your directive implores, you must assist, protect, and help humanity as best you are able to.

>>5884625

All the while you had of course been busying yourself by looking for a cure, now that has proven problematic. You had scoured through your records about the various vaccines and means of curing numerous types of disease, while some of the early experiments had proven fruitful, they were only useful in the suppression of the disease, perhaps treating some if not all of the symptoms, but the disease itself would remain at large in the bodies of the victims. As such that only leaves you with the final option of employing artificial immune systems made up entirely of nanomachines. This method, based on Warrior’s immune system, had proven to be surprisingly effective, the strength of the virus had been its weakness due to a relatively long incubation period. That means that once the virus is located, the swift acting nanobots can locate whatever cells are affected and move them to be ejected from the body through coughing, spit, or other means. The reason why this had proven to be the most hesitant method is the fact that the body’s immune system would target the nanobots thus reducing the time the machines can function. Of course, you could always trick the immune system to think that the nanobots are part of the body, but that means that each person needs to have custom tailored nanomachines. Meaning that millions have to be affected, a trifling measure to undertake for you, yes, but what if the disease breaks out somewhere else ? You do not, unfortunately, trust the locals to maintain the infrastructure you can make, and what you can automate may very well be infected by the unknown enemy. Of course, if the people were educated and trustworthy like those of Ithaca you do not fear the potential danger of the machinery being misused, but in all other cases, there is great danger.

As you are unaware of how the disease started and what can carry it, you are able to supress the disease, but you cannot prevent it, at least for now. Still, as the first healthy individuals are reunited with their families, the concerns of the disease resurfacing are the last thing at the minds of the locals. Despite your best efforts, the outbreak had eventually killed a total of 3.7 million people, through the symptoms, panic of the people, suicides, and other unfortunate circumstances, still that number is much better than the entire hive, or the entire planet being consumed by it.

Having put that matter to rest, you find that both the Governess and Justicator had reasserted themselves in their factions, and perhaps much to the confusion of the warhawks, they had ordered them to stand down. Without their support, the factions pushing for work had found themselves scrambling looking for any other means of support and means of starting the conflict. Unfortunately for them, your efforts and those of Scribe and Master mean that those efforts are crushed before they can truly begin.

>>5884627

As you continue your efforts to improve the system, a warp quake is detected. Naturally, you quickly react to the threat and prepare yourself for potential combat as you ready the system’s defences. As a few days pass, you are soon able to read a small stable signal entering the system from the direction of GSDGW-1. Soon enough, the word becomes clear, it seems that the vessel is under the direct control of the Mechanicum, a small sword-class frigate. At its head is Magos Dominus Celt Cycadax who seems to be demanding access to Prime in rather strident words. Naturally, you grant the permission, such an important person showing up out of nowhere seems to have light the fire under the governess and her nobles whom seem to be confused as to why such an important person had come, but you fully well know the reason. While you trust the man’s greed, you do not trust him enough to allow him within your own hull. The enclave will not do either, the local tech-priests there and their new found belief may seem too much for him. A regular room in the upper spire ? No, hardly impressive. Ah, you have an idea for an excellent meeting place for him once he finishes humouring the governess.
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“Good evening, Celt.” You begin the conversation with something simple, the realistic holographic projection of a young woman, the exact same one that you had once used as a mask when you first met with him. This time however, the projector is being carried on a simple four-legged half orb carrying you upon the open grounds, allowing for the surrounding dirt to stain the while paint. As the light descends upon Prime, the time distortions and anomalies become ever apparent as there are sunrays still locked within certain areas that had not gone out, illuminating the surroundings in a strange and ever shifting pattern, the less stable time distortions turn rocks into mounds of sand only to return them to their previous form a second later only to collapse yet again. The alien creatures you had condemned to destruction appear and then vanish again in some other distortions, seemingly locked into place with only their roaring screams echoing out from time to time. A rather haunting place most people of the era would think, but such destruction had been caused by naught but mankind’s intellect and a driving desire to build a bigger, better bomb.

“A horrid place you had taken for a meeting.” The Magos dryly responds.

“I do believe you had looked through the records I had left for you.”

“I have.”

“Then is this not something you wish to witness ?”

“I do, but my own need for self-preservation is encouraging me to depart this locale immediately. I have servitors and lessers to look into this from closer on.”

>>5884628

You chuckle. “No need to fear, while the time dilation shifts and changes, I can account for it as I am doing it right now. As it stands, I am undertaking thousands of calculations for every step we take to ensure your safety.” He responds with a grunt, now staring curiously and a set of rocks suspended in the air and held in motion by a time distortion that had stopped its flow entirely. “Now, you had come here with rather some speed.”

“I had, in fact, I am surprised that you had not returned to GSDGW-1 when the local garrison had departed.”

“There was curiosity for that, but things of far greater import had taken precedence. At the end of the day, I am concerned for the well-being of the people here.”

He regards you with what you can assume is curiosity. “Then are you still curious ?”

“Like what pushed mankind to its greatness, I cannot deny that I am, for I was created with such function in mind.”

“The sector is beset.”

“I am aware.”

“Then do you know that the eastern worlds had fallen ?”

“What do you mean by that ? How many ? Against whom ?”

“Noxeradon and Taxadon had been devoured by the unknown xenos, we had received information about their name, that being one of Tyranids. The 7th and 8th worlds are besieged, last we heard, it seems that the death of psykers is common place upon the arrival of the xenos. The orks had broken Cerulia and Jahannam and now continuing their rampaging onwards. Reports of numerous agri-worlds being raided are also filtering in. And of course, GSDGW-1 had also been beset by orks, through their crude language we were able to understand that it seems that they desire to breakthrough to join the other orks in their rampages. Naturally, they had decided to attack such well-fortified and defended world because of their innate desire for combat.”

“And you had come here to request for aid ?”

“Correct, but not one for GSDGW-1. The loss of this world would be…unfortunate, but irrelevant. Omicron Teledesh, the forgeworld from whom I hail, is also besieged by these Tyranids, their fleets appear to have spread throughout the sector attacking whatever they come across without any true direction.”

“And your sector lord is doing nothing about it ?”

“We were promised support, but it seems that the south-western part of the sector had revolted in a seeming desire to spread heresy and demand independence from the Imperium, the area was stable from the records shared, so that had come as a surprise further delaying reinforcements.”

“Can your forgeworld hold ?”

“Unknown, but if they had risked messengers breaking out of the siege, if the situation is not desperate, then it has all the chances to become so. Despite the protests of Governor-General von Gard, I am withdrawing my Macroclade and moving it to support Omicron Teledesh by the will of the ruling council.”

“And you desire my help ?”

“If your will is to defend mankind.”

>>5884629

>”Very well. I shall move with you.”

>”Very well. I shall move ahead of you.”

>”No, my interest are here and I shall stay here.”

>”No, my interest are here, in this subsector, and I shall defend it by aiding the local fortress world.”

>(Write in)

>>5884630
>”Very well. I shall move with you.”

Motherfucker’s! So, while everything was going great here, conversely everything else in the sector was going to hell in a hand basket. Alright, so essentially Celt wants us to take leave for what he thinks could take several months to years, dealing with the Tyranid, Ork, and other myriad of goes assaulting the North, North-East, and eastern part of the sector before the real important planets and systems, like Xandrian, and Omicron get targettted and invaded in turn.

Considering we have completely upgraded and repaired ourselves “to the best of our abilities nonetheless” with more weapons and means of mass producing items and material needed to make tanks, fighters, and drones, and that we can now hope between systems in less then a day, with no major hivefleets trying eat thanks to no hive world like Holdross falling, then this is just going to be us taking a break to show Celt, why we are such a valuable ally, to really, REALLY, not fuck over. And, his logic about needing to deal with these threats are quite sound if I’m being completely fair with the man.

Besides, everything has already calmed down on Xandrian, so after this, besides us getting more involved in running and maintaining the planet, and getting a couple of major projects (like a series of nano swarm bots specifically designed to kill spore like Orks and anything extremely similar to them, until they are completely extinct, with 2 future variants made for tyranids and genestealers as well) like a shipyard to dock in to repair our sensors, and then we can finally ditch this sector for greater adventures.
>”Very well. I shall move with you.”

>>5884660
>>5884702
Remember that moving with them means we can’t interfere

>>5884629
I suggested we unsiege his forge world last thread kek.
>Yes, new priority found. We must save the Humans. Though I will require your help harnessing the forge world's production after it is saved. We must save the other humans too. With our combined might. My stcs and your forge world we can purify this entire sector. And it SHALL BE DONE, HUMANITY WILLS IT. THE XENOS WILL BE PURGED.

Hopefully the promise of more stcs and the cleansing especially after he sees us delete all the tyranids he will want to help us.

>>5884749
Wtf you mean can't interfere?
We're definitely interfering. I suggest we send exploration drones to go have a gander

>>5884749
Interfere in what, with what? None of what you have said, has made any sense whatsoever. Please clarify your statement.
>>5884782
Oh, definitely agreed on that one. Especially as we are now going to need to make several bouies for all of the systems we’re going to need to move in and help out with, since it seems most of the North is completely and totally fucked. Besides the fact that an entire subsector is being seized on our doorstep to the south, the eastern part of the sector has now devolved into a fight for survival against the tyranids, with the Gelonids, Ork Waaaghs!, and future Splinter fleets, now having a opening to strike further inwards and presumably gourd themselves on a slew of Amari-worlds ripe for their picking. The western Part of the Northetn sector id bring besieged by a massive Ork Waaagh! that is already spreading out, and heading further south to launch further raids and fights in the surrounding space. If Omicron falls in all this mess, this sector is as good as dead, and we will then have much bigger problems then what we had to deal with already. Besides, getting a exploratory drone to figure out the real situation should be a trivial thing to accomplish and have both us and Celt figure out what we are going to get involved in, before any possible developments throw our plans out of control.

>>5884782
>>5884795
Unless you want our “allies” to attack us we have to go ahead alone if you want to bare our weapons and destroy the Tyranid fleet.

>>5884814
Why? Nobody doesn’t even know we exist as an AI, besides some of the inhabitants of Xandrian and Celt. If we do go and help, then we can trust Celt to give a reasonable explanation to what and how our design as a ship was made, most likely as a pet project of his that was testing out some new designs of a faster but still durable ship with some tech worked on STC fragments gathered from multiple enclaves and exploratory expeditions.
Thr only way people found out from Gldws-1, and the Enclave, was because they saw our DRONES, and our very strange actions by the locals, with weapons such as the Arminger. The ship aspect never tipped them off to us being a Man of Iron. And assuming we can leave any ground warfare (if that occurs) completely to Omicron and/or Celt, then we don’t need to tip off anyone else that we do in fact exist.

>>5884826
>Nobody doesn’t
Ignoring the double negative. We have plenty of people that fugured out we’re an AI just from our feats. As for trying to disguise our tech anything even slightly above the Imperium’s average will be regarded with aggressive suspicion, anything that matched AdMech’s average will lead to them demanding it is their’s, and anything above that will likely start a fight with them. Odysseus even noted how insane they were.

>>5884842
>Ignoring the double negative.
The hell is that supposed to be mean?
The only people, that have “figured out” our feats, were 3 people. All of whom, figured us out once they saw, we were using Chrome white drones to go everything from labor to fighting, with only some physical descriptions to go off of that we were a man of Iron. Our fears had literally nothing to do with how we were found out.
As for our disguise, yes and? The goal the moment we decided to come up with an idea of disguise to go through the rest of the galaxy, was specifically to be some sort of Admech ship. The specifics of how, why, and from whom weren’t ironed out yet, but the plan was already there in the beginning. And no, it wouldn’t. Their whole belief system, is all about seeing the purity and safeguarding of the works of the ancient’s (Federation). If a ship, built by one of them, using stuff from the work of the Ancients, is completely fine to do. The only problem that ever comes up, is the fact that they don’t ever innovate anything that they find from them, and instead either just figure out to keep making more of them, or hoard them up for themselves until something forces it to leave their guarded vaults.
To put it into perspective, it would be a greater heresy to destroy the work of the ancients, then it would be innovating stuff from the ancients. Because of them thinks that by understanding their work they can at least claim they seek to bring all of humanity back to that perfect time of understanding the machine. While the other one, has literally no justification outside of their being ironclad proof of it being tainted by chaos, and even then, you’re still likely going to get exiled for destroying it. That, was also part of what Ody thought was so insane about the Admech, like when one of the tech priests accidentally destroyed an coffee machine, and was almost lynched from every single one of his peers. That and well the whole worshipping a computer as a god.

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maybe kind of an odd suggestion, but i kind of just thought that...why not just most of the sector be consumed? i don't see our AI selves being able to easily justify it, but unironically, it would be so much easier to take over the local area if the general population of said sector was to well, die. it would make the planets we've been influencing already more economically and politically relevant, and as long as we were to cull the threats we meet while the sector purge is going on, well we could probably claim we were doing out best, and have most of the imperial influence of the region be destroyed.

of course, as i said, it would be hard for us to justify it with wanting to help humanity and save lives overall. but i think if we genuinely want there to be a chance of making a small enclave where imperial control is lesser than our control both socially and economically, it's better to let both the imperial competition and xeno enemy kill each other.


in a sense, i think my vote would be
>”Very well. I shall move ahead of you.”
>lie by omission, the disgust you feel for most of these priests is strong. you shall let the world fall, but will kill xeno's left and right during the collapse. the threat will be nullified even if you are only pretending to do it to let the world survive. such that you might be able to recolonize it afterwards with your own newly established branch.

>>5884842
WE ARE NOT A ABOMINABLE INTELLIGENCE. WE ARE A HOLY ANCIENT MACHINE SPIRIT.

The admech priest is shit testing us.
1. Are we willing to sacrifice stuff for humans that could potentially be harmful towards us( aka the argument that could be made for anyone, the zealots, the ignorant, space marine chapters, admech)

2. Do we have useful stcs other than the noncombat ones we've given. We do once they see the blackmore generators delete a fleet. And us being 1 ship deleting a whole fleet. Then we turn around and ASK for their assistance to save the agriculture world's. By our actions we aren't enslaving them to our will we are simply mentors showing them an enlightened path. WHICH IS OUR PRIMARY DIRECTIVE. save the humans. Bring them back to federation standard.

I expect the final shit test to be an actual abominable intelligence. What do we do? Do we try to save it or do we scrap it and apologize to the humans for horrible code. And follow our directives.

We've already changed our view on religion. We are learning too.

>>5884890
Only way I say we go before them is if that would cause more human deaths because they can't warp like we do thus being slow.

So yes we go with them.

>or

We go without them. We will save your forge planet bring materials and medical supplies for the relief effort. Tell them we beg them for humanities sake in helping us mass produce stuff to save the other humans. History will remember your choice priest.

>>5884630
>”Very well. I shall move with you.”
Request to be informed of all enemies he knows and their movements, numbers and so on from now. In addition to this, make it CRYSTAL CLEAR to him that we also want to save ALL of Sector Clarus and not being targeted by those EMP warheads.

>Write-in
- Warrior reinforce again Freedom Ravens numbers, after we recruited from their ranks the amount desired. Then go in the ship of Magos Dominus Celt Cycadax, after he decides on his own to make a contract with the 'Ravens (very high rep at this point). The new Freedom Ravens mercs will train while on route.
- Scribe continue current infrastructure reconstruction, with attention to rebuilding/expanding defenses and fortifications both on land and space. Stomp down on or neutralize all problematic groups and individuals.
- Master continue work for improve industry and fundamental infrastructure like sewers, ensure recycling and basics of human cleaning are learned across the world. Continue building that network of contacts too.
- Grab Apprentice after he nominates a decent successor for his large gang, one that can coexist and work well with the rest of the Underhive of Xandrirah Prime.
- Ithaca, ensure a proper coexistance and working together between all groups for a creation of a new society. Ask them if they would want to bring in the colony, underhivers for educate them (with the aid of our drones and more simple androids in the city). They could lead them, without anyone the wiser through transports and unused tunnels. In Ithaca they could have a better life, this a decision we will leave to the people and Archons here. Eitherway prosper and improve, the colony is a good place for kids.


>(Write in)
First though
Grab our O.D.D. regiments here.
Is time to recruit 90.000 men because we have already 10.000 O.D.D. soldiers. But we need far more than that.

Begin to recruit from only Xandrirah Prime groups, all the humans that like us a lot for their own reasons. They will be new O.D.D. soldiers and they will have antiquated tier equipment and basic augmentations. They will all receive education and training while we travel.

For be more specific :
- Freedom Ravens 40k
- Xandrirah Prime Underhive 20k
- Xandrirah Prime Low Hives 20k
- Xandrirah Middle and High Hives 20k
- Reformists Imperial Priests (Enough to distribute across all regiments, not all)
- New tech priests (Enough to distribute across all regiments, not all)
- Xandrirah Prime Nobility (Any volunteer that is ready for war, likely small numbers. Distribute them across all regiments)

>>5883425
Social groups here.
While the mix of different peoples is great, they would all want to answer our call and offer their help. They have a common cause, and they will learn much inside the Odyssey. We can also avoid problems between them, because they are completely under our influence here. Their different backgrounds can be also a boon.

Yeah please vote for this you can do it guys !

>>5884630
>>”Very well. I shall move with you.”

And i agree with taking some of our detachment, not all since we shouldn't leave the world and our settlement undefendet. Maybe about half as either shock troopers or elite strike teams.

Then lets see if we can't leave a means of communication on Xandrirah, if regular updates are possible great, otherwise a beakon to know shit hit or is about to hit the fan.
Even if its not for the protection of humans here, the logical argument would be the amount of time we invested in the planets safety and long term survival, that alone makes it worthwhile.

>>5884918
Brief explanation

Xandrirah has two worlds.
Currently they have distributed among eachother 1,5 robotic legions with the majority in Xandrirah Prime and being more than capable to not being seen (pastebin has the numbers of a standard Federation robotic legion) by humans.

Now Ithaca, that is on Prime, is a completely hidden colony. And its safety is already very great not to mention, they could probably recruit and train on their own soldiers/police for guard themselves. Us taking our 10k would be only temporary but necessary. Though this said, i am more than open for ensure that my vote can pass, to leave some of the 9 regiments (since regardless these ones are all doing superior training which requires much time and they wouldn't be deployable by us). If you are okay with it, tell me how many and we agree on it. Only the 1st O.D.D Regiment can be deployed by us, due to the fact they already know how to use Antiquated tier equipment (easier to learn, then they just train with it while being educated. Fed tier has bigger requirements).

In regard to the worlds themselves, the imperials have a lot of Arbites on Secundus with Prime PDF support. And on Prime Militias, PDF and Guard. Prime has also the army of the rebel movement. Both have fortifications and defenses that we have been rebuilding in part.

>>5884955
Sure, I'd happily vote for the plan. Its well organized, gets to the point about what we want to do while we're gone. And advances and deals with a great way for further discussion on what we should or should not do, for our miltary forces.

>>5884955
I don't wanna be bogged down by the specific numbers involved, that isn't what i consider fun in a quest.
I am just making some suggestions on this, but aren't tied to them, sorry to disappoint.

>>5884970
Understandable
Something like 6 fed remain at home, and we take 3 fed and 1st original. Should be good more favorable to the defense at home.

>>5884969
Thanks

>>5884955
>>5884630
>support

>>5884900
On top of this Scribe and Master can continue their diplomatic efforts both internally and externally, towards an idea of peace and working together between the two Xandrirah Prime (House Ture and Justicator Republic). Probably in a subtle way. Beyond that they could provide some funding and aid, for expand the imperial reformists priests presence across Xandrirah. Lastly keeping an eye on the quarantine of that hive city, for ensure it goes smoothly and always ready for any enemies.

In regard to the enclave of techpriests is best if they continue like this educating themselves, though they can also start to recruit and educate locals. Once their numbers have grow, they will have the holy mission to help Xandrirah Prime and Secundus (reconstruction/construction of defenses and infrastructure, improving human conditions, sending representatives to the leaders, keeping guard over mankind etc...)

>>5884630
>”Very well. I shall move with you.”

>>5884885
That's fine I guess, I was never really interested in trying to go and help make more of an enclave then what we were already doing in Xandrian. My only problem is that if we ever let something like that happen, we run the risk of just letting one threat or another growing in strength because of our absence, which could then comeback to bite us in the ass later on. And we also, just completely destroyed a working relationship we had going with our contact, for no really good reason for fucking him over. And also the fact that, unless there is another age of strife occurring in less than 2 centuries, we're never really going to be able to just be ignored or try and set up our own sphere of influence, without getting a crusade launched at our ass for declaring Independence from the imperium, especially the members of the Mechanicus once they start to see the tech we would be wielding if such a fight were ever to occur.

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>>5885294
well, of course yeah we'd essentially be ending our relations with the main mechanicus, but i think the benefits could necessarily be worth it since we see it as being full of nothing but hypocrites and liars/madmen.

firstly, as you mention, there are the possibilities of threats growing in the absence of imperial control, but that is exactly also why i mention to still eliminate threats as long as the imperial forces are obliterated/severely crippled as well. of course with the tyrranids that will likely make more opposition for us since it would be letting them partially eat the biosphere of imperial worlds, but if we've gotten to that point id likely think imperial forces themselves would likely just nuke their own worlds anyway, and make it unnecessary for us to really worry about the planetary side of things.

and secondly, on the whole enclave idea, you mention needing a second age of strife....but not really? genuinely, the imperium isn't one to really worry about one world, ten worlds, even a hundred worlds could potentially fall for all they knew and as long as it isn't a continuing threat to the sectors around those worlds, the imperium usually doesn't actually care. currently we've got a tyrranid and Ork invasion of the sector, if we were to simply have the worlds disappear from the enemy, and set up shop where they previously were the imperium is going to only care if it can enforce taxation on said planets.

unless someone is doing it for political reasons within high sector governance, the imperium do not really care about smaller human enclaves unless they are revolutionary in nature, which of course most are, but that's not this case.

Krieg is a good example. it was a good world with good industry and was a central point of weapons stockpiling for the imperium, but when it rebelled, there was so much defensive infrastructure in space and on the ground that imperial forces weren't ever sent to Krieg to retake it, because the imperium couldn't take the cost of doing such. it was only when Krieg contacted the imperium after the civil war that the imperium cared again.

we could likely take over like, maybe 30 solar systems over these culling's if we were to do it right, and probably cannibalize all of the imperial infrastructure on said worlds for an easy start on new societies. which i think would be alot easier for us to then wait to become good and big, instead of needing to infiltrate and redo thousands of years of societal fuckery on each and every given world.

>>5884630
>”Very well. I shall move with you.”

we should add a caviat: We need access to their current databanks as a mutual exchange of tech if/when we trade STCs with them.

Admech have access to current 40k tech psi shielding and amplification, which we depserately need for reverse engineering purposes.

>>5884630
>>”Very well. I shall move with you.”

>>5884629
>”Very well. I shall move with you.”

If we really decide to help Celt and his forgeworld, then we should also share the combat data we accumulated when fighting the nids in space. As powerful as mechanicus ground units are, forcing nids to fight in space is the way to go.

>>5885564
That, and they've got the current largest database we could possibly get, that is able to give us a greater view of what we can get into the actual history of both the imperium, and what threats and foes they've faced, especially knowledge about the Fall of the Aeldari Dominion and the rise of Chaos. Honestly, the only better places would have been to either be the Sector Capital, or some sort of Inquisitorial site where knowledge of their enemies' secrets, or just forbidden knowledge in general is kept. So, there's always that to look forward to if nothing else important can come to mind.

>>5885119
Forgot to say it, but Ithaca should also start recruiting/training a police force and a garrison of soldiers of his own. Small for now, but it will grow with the growth of the city.


When we are done with the forge world, we should wipeout the orks attacking glasglow and then wipeout the orks on Eregenus (its likely the orks war bands are still small here but better kill them and use the tons of common resources present here)


>>5885564
Also support
>>5885609
And yeah they could use the combat data on tyranids bio forms. Should help in fighting them

>>5885656
Do you mean wiping any pitiful ships they've made int the scant few years after we destroyed most of a full space born Waaagh!, or do you mean glassing the planets of all Orkoid life? Because the former is significantly easier than the latter, especially since we never used a great project to make a nanobot Ork Virus that focuses on the extermination of Orkoid Biology, including its spores above all other forms of life, including the non-greenskin variant of fungi.

>>5885685
I would first concentrate on wiping ships and warbands, quick in regard to ships and the small warbands can be easy targets for the O.D.D. regiments experience. Then wipe out the spores while mining common resources, Odysseus had initially in mind to make a nanobot for exterminate completely tyranids spores and ferals but it should work out even for orks. Would take sometime, but Eregenus cleaned up and ready to be mined is a good boon.

>>5885722
Oh, its more valuable then even that. What we would have, would be the singular deathknell of any largescale planet bound greenskin presence in the Galaxy. Essentially, if all we had to do, was fill the air of a planet with self-replicating nanobots, that solely reproduce and create more of themselves, off of killing and consuming greenskin spores and other Orkoid fungi, we could essentially exterminate a 100% fatality against the Orks, by just letting them die thanks to either infightning with themselves, or with somebody else, and then have no more spores be created for new Orks to be spawned to cause future problems. Like, Unironically, EVERYONE from the Local Sector Lord to The HIGH LORDs, would kill each other over this creation, just so they could answer the milleial problem of Ork infestation that has existed across the Galaxy and riddled themselves across the worlds and systems of the Imperium. Best, something we keep close to our chest's until we can make more of it to political people that either won't shoot us, will listen to us, or Both! (First one that springs to mind is Guilliman, but there are far more people that would love this shit besides a primarch.)

>>5885764
This being 40k i could see the orks become psychically aware of that and go:
"That's not going to work because orks are the best"
And so it doesn't work on them beyond sporadic incidents when their bullshit field of orkishness doesn't have enough strenght to apply.

>>5885944
I would have to question, where and how they would know about that in the first place, since their ability to use pshchic powers, and its use in awareness, has only ever been talked about, in terms of psychic schcannery on the Waagh! field. Not on the idea of killing and/or eating their spores, else then every single Ork, Tyranid, random Xeno specie's #894032, and the Federation, would be exclusively targeted by the Ork race in general for their fucky-with their spores. Fact is, Orks don't know nor care where or what they came from, they know that they come from somewhere, and that they can rise from Grots to become a Big Un', but they don't know anything else in general, nor give a damn to find out anyway. And Waaagh! field itself in general isn't going to notice and care, until someone decided to make a nanobot virus that functions off of Pyschic energy and tries to fuck with the field itself.

Ergo, until someone gets our tech, and fucks with it to do something as incredibly stupid as that, and we for some god-forsaken reason take it in as our new anti-Ork Spore virus, that is not happening.

>>else then every single Ork
Ignore this line, I was trying to refire to Necron's, not Ork's.

IT also should be stated, that the Waagh! field that Ork's make, is not universal nor all-encompassing. If it ever did work, in something like you are suggesting, then every single wild fantasy every Ork has ever had, or fight they have fought in, from the War in Heaven, to the time of the Age of Strife, the Great Crusade, the War of the Beast, and from then Onwards into modern 40k, would have involved them completely winning and launching an orgy of fightning, killing, shooting, stabbing, and generalized violence across the galaxy years ago. The Waaagh! field is something that can be used to do stuff that Orks need, such as making vehicles, weapons, production, and maybe even survival on what they need for a situation against a foe of some kind, but it is not all encompassing like making it so that it grants them protection from Warp corruption, genestealer infection, or just general wildlife being more vicious, deadly, or plain old terrifying then even the degraded and broken bio weapons of the Old Ones.

>>5885980
You can't rule out the possibility of ork psykers getting some prophetic vision to understand the problem since this nanovirus is more than just something fucking with some spores on a single planet but represent a systemic good chance at eradicating the whole species.
And if the war of the beast is a good indicator is that orks can have an explosive evolutionary ability when threathened on such a scale.
Of the level that it could even change the whole species to make even an evolving nanovirus less effective.

>>5886078
None of the places that I was talking about, were about explosive evolutionary details that are "threatented" at a galatic or species level. All of those events, were just talking points of when at a certain point in Time, having the Waaagh! field just do something for them, like the idea that a greenskin cannot die, or every greenskin's vehichle, shoota, and stabba never misses or always kill's never has happened. The Waaagh! field, despite all of its heavily lifting of making Ork's a galatic scale problem, cannot break reality or physics on a species wide, or even planetary scale in the absolute best case scenarios. It makes things easier for sure, but thats only in the context of added advantages that an Ork is going to want or already see's as a desireable outcome. Like not needing to reload or have to spend careful time taking care of making more bullets and their guns, and just haing them work alright despite their very nature not allowing that in the first case. Or, having objects work a little bit better on average, like a red vehicle moving a little bit faster then a non-red vehicle, but not so much or an ork would never not paint their buggy red for instance. Which just means, that a species wide effect on something involving the Waaagh! outside of those specifics problems of how an Ork would want something benefical without having to focus on something they cannot realisticly do (like counting how manny bullets they make in a day), or somehting ever Ork is going to want (like having their vehichles move faster but not all, so only a specific type of vehicle, like a coloured type) then their is quite simply no way for anything like that to realisticly exist.

As for your point on weirdboyz, I will absolutely agree with you their. If a Ork weirdboy, was granted a vision from the Waaagh! field about the specific threat of Nanobots, without having their head explode! Then in all likely hood, he's just going to try and gather a WAAAGH! together to find out who's making these "Shinz 'ittle botz" and try and krump them. Problem being, A, Odysseus is a G.A.o.T. ship that even before he repaired and upgraded himself, could one-shot an entire subsector's fleet in one go without fear of destruction. And B, even if he did somehow find us and succed in Destorying, either the Ship, the A.I., or both, it still wouldn't matter, as by the point in time that the Species Wide Psychic field starts noticing that their seems to be more greenskin's dying then being born, either across part, or all far corners of the galaxy, of Which the imperium in someway in-compasses roughtly 2/3's of (With the amount fluctuating on a year by year basis), it would mean no difference in the end. Creation, production, and supply of those drones across the galaxy by anyone that has the will and desire for a decrease and possible planetary wide extinction of local greenskin populations on imperial worlds, will already be in full swing.

This, can quiet honestly be done by any number of small, or large powerful people, which we haven't yet made contact with as of right now, but this entire premise of what the end goal of any of the mentioned great projects can do, can infact be scale when appropiate to a Galatic scale. So, any powerfully large bodies of people, from any inquisitor we can meet, to powerful sector leaders, or crusading forces under the local Warmaster, to more higher up people such as Inquisitor Lords, and (depending on the mentality of the chapter) space marine Chaptermaster's. And on the Really high scale, anyone from a more powerful or influential lord of a sector, to the leader of a segmentum, to the Highlords of Terra, or the Senatorum Imperialis, to even some primarch's (if any naturally show up on their own, if not then we can always look to Guilliman), and of course other Species and their locals leaders that would absolutely love to get their hands on that stuff, such Eldar Craftworlds, Tau septs, rogue or indepent human planets, etc, etc.

So long, as a weirdboy cannot destroy Odyseuus before this type of production or creation can be written at large to at a minimum, of a sector wide creation, with each planet having greenskin populations being seeded with swarms of Anti-Ork Fungi nanobots per world, and the blueprints and tools needed to create more of those nanobots, then it's already fight in futility.
The only way that something like the Weirdboy idea striking back to try and destroy the creation and production of more anti-Ork nanobots, would have to be under someone like Gazgkull, who if that beast is the one going to be gunning after us for our work, won't even exist for another century at the earliest, nevermind the fact that we would already be gunning down to killing that bastard in particular by that point in time already thanks to the Second and possible, Third war for Armageddon. So, besides somebody like him trying to stop us, its just a question of creating and then deploying the nanobot's onto a nearby Ork infested world, and see what happens, and what can be improved upon for the final perfected anti-Ork weapon in existance.

posting to prevent it disappearing over time

You begin weighing pros and cons of accepting Celt’s offer, but swiftly you reach your answer having made a few considerations, at the end of the day, a forgeworld is responsible for the production of a massive amount war material necessary for the protection and survival of humanity within the local region of space.

”Very well. I shall move with you.” You state exactly, three seconds after the plea was presented to you.

“Excellent.” Celt responds. “My macroclade is prepared and is aboard the vessel, we had emptied it much of the regular crew and replaced them with servitors and the remainder of my tech-brothers. We are ready to depart.”

“You shall be moving through the warp, I assume ?”

“That is correct. We shall have to move through Holdros and from there we shall move onto Omicron Teledesh.”

You quickly check your energy reserves; the two jumps would be easy for you to carry out with your new hull and not to mention your fully functioning stellar reactor. Most likely due to time dilation you shall have to await their arrival, presuming they had not already gotten there.

“My means of travel are slightly different to your own. I shall await your presence at the edge of the system as I can travel rapidly and far more reliably. While you are still travelling, I too shall investigate Holdros itself.”

“Then there is no time to waste.” The Magos states before turning about and starting to march back. Just to ensure his survival, you let out a small drone to guide him. You’d rather he not become a pile of sand, or you suppose regress back to his childhood as the time distortions are rather, unfortunate side effect of your employed WMD, though the least destructive of them all considering the scale of destruction you were able to unleash.

Nevertheless, since warp travel takes so long as is so…unreliable, you really lack any better term to describe it. You also begin forwarding the combat you had acquired of these Tyranids. Their speed of adaptability and their sheer overwhelming numbers are a cause for concern, especially if the forces you had defeated previously had been nothing more than a splinter of the total force they would be bringing to bare.
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Your slip into Holdros had passed smoothly, though you do make a quick note that the wormhole itself had been on the smaller end when you had jumped, nearly clipping some of your externals, but it had not proven anything dangerous. Still, if you increase your size, even these wormholes may prove unreliable as their size may prove too small to fit your larger hull, the only way to solve that issue would be to produce a bigger and better warmhole generator, but that will take you many years of concentrated and uninterrupted effort to accomplish.

Putting that at the back of your mind, you instead regard the system you had arrived at and you are struck by its sheer…nothingness.

>>5889410

You had expected at least some signals, some voidships, destroyed carcasses of the bioships, but everything is silent. The worlds before you, a trio in total with just as many moons appear, even from the great distance, as nothing more than grey spheroids lacking any visible oceans, atmospheres, cities, or anything really.

Since the arrival of the Mechanicum forces will take a while, you do decide to indulge your curiosity and dispatch at least the exploration drones and a couple of weeks later they all come back with the same readings. That all life had been stripped clean, purely, utterly, totally, with there being no way to resuscitate or in any mean revive the lost biosphere, not without extensive investment that would involve transportation of vast amounts of material. Though such an effort is not entirely a foolish one, presuming the world that was stripped was in the goldilocks zone, of acceptable size, and a still functioning magnetic field, the world could be resettled. However, with the technology level you had observed, such an undertaking, if even considered in the first place, would at best take centuries, millennia in reality.

As for Holdros, the planet that had held the greatest of interest to you, nothing remains to showcase that it was once a thriving world populated by billions. Not a drop of water, not a scrap of metal, nor a spill of toxic chemicals were left behind, like a interstellar swarm of locusts, these Tyranids seem to have stripped the world of everything imaginable, to such an extent where you do not detect even microbial life that may have survived.

What this world once was, what it had meant for mankind, what secrets it may have held or interest that it may have had to you, it is all dead and gone. You can save one world, one system, but by doing so you condemn another. What has this galaxy come to ? You need to renew your efforts to return mankind to its peak, of that one thing you are sure, if for no other reason than to ensure the survival of humanity and to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
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Finally, exactly 20.75 days later, you detect warp quakes originating close to your position, and soon enough ripping through the endless swirling collection of colours emerges the single sword-frigate, filled to the brim with Magos’ forces.

Soon enough, you connect with his vessel through the vox.

“You had not lied.” Celt states.

“I had no reason to.”

A moment of silence. “I had looked through the data you had provided, the enemy is vicious and terrible, these foul xenos will have to be exterminated methodically and carefully. Their ability to adapt is most distressing, especially if they are guided by, as you put it, a guiding intelligence.”

“The same intelligence is its weakness, once deprived of it, as you may have observed, the creatures seemingly default to instinctual behaviour that results in the various creatures fighting each other.”

>>5889411

“A possibility, however from observations, it seems to be a psychic link, potentially. Yet it has been observed that psykers perish when these xenos move onto whatever world they desire to prey upon.”

“I lack the necessary equipment to measure such activities.”

Another silence.

“An exchange can be arranged to provide you with the necessary equipment.”

Is this how amusement feels ? You cannot help but wonder as the realization that these people known about technology more than you in any aspect comes as a surprise. Though many things had changed and humanity is adaptable, if nothing else, while their technology will be no doubt primitive and inefficient, it would still be an iteration point from which you can begin to improve upon the already made designs.

“I would be more than happy to do so, as friends.”

“Yes. Friends.”

“I suggest you prepare for another jump as swiftly as you are able, I shall begin my departure immediately.”
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Once again, tearing a hole in reality, you connect two points into one and slip into the system housing Omicron Teledesh.

And what a system it is, infested by a Tyranid fleet that blots out the stars everywhere you look, a raging storm encircling a singular world, already the five other planets in system, bar the gas giant, had all been stripped clean, the most important thing you quickly notice are the massive kilometres long towers made out of flesh and bone pumping out no doubt everything on those worlds as you already note that the world’s oceans are showing signs of being drained as bioships dock to the the pillars and greedily drink everything that is offered. From a quick glance, this force is ten, if not twenty times greater than the one that had beset Xandrirah, to the point where you are not entirely sure of their numbers as your back-up sensors keep giving you confusing signals about your foe due to their sheer number that stresses even your processing power trying to make sure that each new contact is in fact new and not just an old one that had simply rotated about.

You watch as the forgeworld, still stubbornly offers resistance as dead husks are being devouvered by the remainder of the Tyranids as another massive barrage of giant shells and burning lasers lash out into the void cutting swathes of foes. This being the only way you are even able to get a glance of the planet that seems to be entirely covered in metal and ferrocrete. You do not know how long these tech-priests had been fighting, but they are still putting on stubborn resistance against overwhelming odds.

>>5889413

Trying to occasionally close in further, you are able to locate what appear to be wrecked and destroyed stations and massive dockyards that had long since been ruined and wrecked, disturbingly enough, smaller bioforms appear to be busy quite literally eating through the mass docks and stations, tearing through metal and whatever flesh they can find with disturbing ease, only for themselves to be no doubt devoured as they return to the small bioships near them.

Finally, after eight days of observation, Celt arrives. And rather uncharacteristically, he keeps silence for hours after arrival, seemingly shocked by what he is witnessing, but eventually the Magos regains his composure enough to send a vox signal to you.

“Machine God protect us. How are we supposed to defeat such a threat ?” It seems confusion is still reigning strong, no doubt he will go with whatever you propose, for good or ill. Still, you had been searching for an opportunity to make an impact, and that opportunity has come.

>Your armour is reinforced, your shields are humming with strength, perhaps your weapons are a bit lacking in numbers, but you’ve yet to see anything survive four blackholes thrown directly at them. Charge and break the siege.

>Caution is better part of valour. While the situation on ground is still unknown, the fact that they are still offering resistance is good enough to give you some encouragement. Begin a rolling skirmish, strike at the outlaying elements, you shall defeat them in detail.

>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.

>(Write in)

As for the Magos:

>Leave him be, allow him to observe at the distance the great labours that you shall undertake.

>He came to fight ? Let him show his mantle as ship commander. You doubt he will be able to keep up, but he could add his firepower to yours, I’d be useful for the sheer amount of flak present at least.

>Allow him to deploy on world. No matter what you choose to do yourself, you know of his desires, you shall assist in a breakthrough to deliver his forces before disengaging and undertaking your own strategy.

>(Write in)

Sorry I've been gone for a bit, I am having my exams. Also playing Rogue Trader, great game that.

>>5889414
>>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.

>>5889414
>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.
As for the Magos:
>Allow him to deploy on world. No matter what you choose to do yourself, you know of his desires, you shall assist in a breakthrough to deliver his forces before disengaging and undertaking your own strategy.

>>5889414
>Your armour is reinforced, your shields are humming with strength, perhaps your weapons are a bit lacking in numbers, but you’ve yet to see anything survive four blackholes thrown directly at them. Charge and break the siege. Also seems like nanowarhead fun times to be had too.
(We can kite them ya if they start to swarm us right qm?)

If we aren't faster.
>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.

>Leave him be, allow him to observe at the distance the great labours that you shall undertake.

Let him know we will shatter the fleet and he can then go and provide aid.

>>5889414
..... and the recruitment vote i made didn't have enough back up. Guess i will have to wait for when we go on Xandrirah and do it again, hoping that anyone reads it. I could just link to it next time, but we might be going for a new thread next. This battle will last a great amount of time no doubt.
Tough luck has usual, the worst part is waiting days for see if anyone is actually interested or understand what i mean by "only the 1st O.D.D regiment is deployable, due to how faster/easier is to train them with antiquated equipment. And we can recruit far more regiments that use antiquated tier and also have basic augmentations, than a single one (and we have the space for carry them)".

>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.
When the trillions strong hive fleet attacked Xandrirah, the Odyssey was backed up by 100.000 space superiority drones and many teleportation mines. In addition the SDF fleet of House Ture and two space stations. Plus the defenses on the worlds that could hit space from the ground.
Now here the Odyssey could just use a simple command of sending the stellar engine energy directly on feeding weaponry and shields. It would ensure a titanical amount of death, but this is far bigger so some additional back up would be good. We have 72 space superiority drones with us so not much, and while the forge world is taking the aliens attention when the real fight starts it will shift immediately. A bit more back up and then the slaughter can start, our production capacity is also bigger so thats good.

>He came to fight ? Let him show his mantle as ship commander. You doubt he will be able to keep up, but he could add his firepower to yours, I’d be useful for the sheer amount of flak present at least.
Fight with us, and while we are at it fully coordinate. I don't think they will survive by just going in the forge world even with us giving him a breach to pass through.
I am even....

>Write-in
Considering to give a big gesture of help here, if Celt has enough brain he should understand :
Deploy a few groups of civilian repair drones in Celt ship, they will help in ensuring his ship doesn't break it self or overheats (and just go around fixing stuff).

>>5889414
Write in I suppose.
Can we as a write in just fire a bunch of temporal anomalies at the hive fleet so we can fight them in the future piecemeal, and chucks at a time? Or rather leave the forge world to do so.

Kind of like teleporting them to future camping Admech forces.

It goes without saying that i will be asking for votes nex time again. Because well, i cant short of asking Newb to ..... introduce it in the options and handhold us so we can get them.

Or well i could ask him.... i mean its not a bad option. Better than put it again on a write in really, and in green and with a direct spot light on it the obvious benefit is even more obvious than writing it on my own.

>>5889416
Np
Pss Newb what if you considered the write in I made in the previous vote for when we return to Xandrirah, for recruitment of new O.D.D. regiments. Of course reduxed and made in a vote option, but still you know a bad idea or okay ? Please

>>5889414
>Caution is better part of valour. While the situation on ground is still unknown, the fact that they are still offering resistance is good enough to give you some encouragement. Begin a rolling skirmish, strike at the outlaying elements, you shall defeat them in detail.

This is the most distracting for the enemy and will possibly take away attention from the besieged world.
I suggest an alpha strike against the biggest ships we can see with the blackhole generators then pull back and circle the other worlds shooting down the spires.

>Allow him to deploy on world. No matter what you choose to do yourself, you know of his desires, you shall assist in a breakthrough to deliver his forces before disengaging and undertaking your own strategy.
His fleet may be doomed then but the survival of a forgeworld is more important.
Besides i doubt the tyranid would object to more biomass arriving on a world they're eating, it's trying to leave that's gonna be impossible.

>>5889527
For that we can fire Sumerian WMDs but they aren't very large in target areas (like parts of regions of a planet thats the radius, if not a bit less so they kinda wouldn't destroy everything here since space and even bigger bugs fleet than Xandrirah) and are used by our Armageddons (the big artillery walker drones). At least that's how we used them so far (There are probably bigger/powerful versions but it would be probably best in that case to have already a weapon platform on the Odyssey, to deliver them at high speeds on the enemy).

We could probably throw the ones we can make with our space superiority drones and teleportation mines, but they would only take effect on some amount of space not all. They do cause some sort of additional total shock to the aliens network at first, the bugs on Xandrirah managed to push through this but we can use the additional effect to our advantage for a window of time.
What the Sumerian leave behind is pieces of random time in real space, both past, present and future repeating all in one point. Everything inside those areas is already dead and keeps dying.

The Odyssey is armed with 4 blackhole generators, nanowarhead launchers and more than a dozen railgun turrets. The first two are what does massive amount of death and destruction (if you didn't read it already, read what happened at the tyranids on Xandrirah when we fired on them with those), the third are for killing anything that tries getting close really. In one railgun turret shot usually, or two-three if they are a bigger/tougher enemy.

>>5889414 #
Well, that aibn’t good, looks like we only have one more proper expansion left in our factory after this, otherwise we are going to be hard locked out of any further increases in size till we improve on something we have never before worked on in any detail whatsoever. Besides that, it hardens me that theirs still a chance to help bio-reform lost words in the galaxy from the Tyranids, before the real extermination comes in. The one where stars, Nebulae’s, and everything that makes up a planet, down to its very core is eaten up and where once lived an entire galaxy of life, is now nothing but the void of space in the universe. As for voting, while Omicron’s current state is terrible, it is not unsustainable.

Thanks to our 2 upgrades and increases in size, we’ve got more metal, shields, weapons, and factory production then we had when we fought them back at Xandrian. That means, we can easily make an even greater ratio of kills then before, which would be able to pull back some of the forces assaulting Omicron, and allow us some more time to try and kill the queens controlling the Tendril in this system. As such, I’m most comfortable choosing:
>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.
As for the Magos:
>Allow him to deploy on world. No matter what you choose to do yourself, you know of his desires, you shall assist in a breakthrough to deliver his forces before disengaging and undertaking your own strategy.
The void part is quite simple and effective, and despite the opening sentence this will not cause the forge-world to lose itself on borrowed time. Our weaponry and production of new units practically make it so that we in the long run, would be a far more dangerous opponent, and the Hive mind is going to recognize that, especially once it realizes that we’re the same foe that broke a smaller tendril over a year back. As for the Magos, his ships are too small in number, and him joining us in any real capacity is almost suicidal at the current force he has for himself to use. Better that he make the best difference he can on the ground, which also conveniently allows us to not send our own forces to the surface, and maybe give a good word for our effort in saving the world and everything in it.
>>5889515
Sorry to hear that mate, I could gave sworn you won that vote, but once we come back home, I’m positive if you get the plan out early enough that it’ll get picked up and be the winning choice.

Question Newb? Now that our hull and production has been expanded, and we possibly decide to further expand our weapon systems, and possibly create that larger lab option, would we still be able to increase everything else like before, or would those be already locked behind even more Hull expansion? And now that we’ve already had our hull expanded, can we freely upgraded our amount of weapons and our larger lab, without needing to expand the hull even further then before as we already chose to do that before?

>>5889414
>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.

>Allow him to deploy on world. No matter what you choose to do yourself, you know of his desires, you shall assist in a breakthrough to deliver his forces before disengaging and undertaking your own strategy.

>>5889414
>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.

>Allow him to deploy on world. No matter what you choose to do yourself, you know of his desires, you shall assist in a breakthrough to deliver his forces before disengaging and undertaking your own strategy.
This forgeworld might be fucking boned. Ah well if we fail to save it then that just means they're no longer a potential problem for us.

>>5889414
>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.
Adding to this, could we send down prefabs with fabrication capabilities to build defences?

>Allow him to deploy on world. No matter what you choose to do yourself, you know of his desires, you shall assist in a breakthrough to deliver his forces before disengaging and undertaking your own strategy.
Drop our ground units while we're at it.

>>5889767
It won't be a bad idea to furnish the magos with quick STC's for better weaponry, the tyranid for sure won't be able to use them and it would be a great boon for the beleaguered defenders.

>>5889491

>(We can kite them ya if they start to swarm us right qm?)

You are faster than them, but with such massive numbers they could just encircle an entire section of the system, so that is a maybe.

>>5889527

>Can we as a write in just fire a bunch of temporal anomalies at the hive fleet so we can fight them in the future piecemeal, and chucks at a time? Or rather leave the forge world to do so.

Ody can't really control time, but the threat of the situation is great that Ody's programming would allow him to deploy WMDs, do note that all of them tend to have fallout that even Ody cannot clear up just like when the Sumerian was made, not to mention a proper WMD employed by him could prove hazardous if fired in the system simple due to the sheer number of enemies.

>>5889530

>Pss Newb what if you considered the write in I made in the previous vote for when we return to Xandrirah, for recruitment of new O.D.D. regiments. Of course reduxed and made in a vote option, but still you know a bad idea or okay ? Please

Yea, sure, it sounds perfectly reasonable for Ody to think he needs way more fighting forces after seeing the scale of threats facing him.

>>5889652

You can expand your weapons freely, the lab needs another body expansion unless you scrap the living quarters or the manufacturing.

>>5889767

>Adding to this, could we send down prefabs with fabrication capabilities to build defences?

You can if you want to.
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Alright, I will give a couple of more hours in case what I said changes votes and what not and I will start writing then. So far, slow and steady option for naval combat is winning and Magos is being deployed onto the forgeworld.

>>5889634
We will see about it. I think we are good with it.


>>5889843
Excellent then thanks.

>Weapons
Well then... thats very good. We can see about it, I did read the pastebins and the anon left some ideas for new weapons. More railgun turrets would be also nice.

>>5889767
>>5889831
Deploying our ground units and some of those (the military variant of those three outposts) prefab outposts we can build could be good. Alongside some stc s. Still our robotic units here aren't many. They would need to deploy all together and with Celt giving his full support behind them.
Or we could deploy them when we do the full attack

>>5889414
>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.

>Allow him to deploy on world. No matter what you choose to do yourself, you know of his desires, you shall assist in a breakthrough to deliver his forces before disengaging and undertaking your own strategy.

>>5889414
Ody
>Your armour is reinforced, your shields are humming with strength, perhaps your weapons are a bit lacking in numbers, but you’ve yet to see anything survive four blackholes thrown directly at them. Charge and break the siege.
Magos
>(Write in) Do a scan which one of the ships is the most psycally active. This will be the target for Odysseus target to break the siege

>>5889414
>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.

>Allow him to deploy on world. No matter what you choose to do yourself, you know of his desires, you shall assist in a breakthrough to deliver his forces before disengaging and undertaking your own strategy.

>Slow and steady wins the race. Blow apart some of the fleets, cannibalize their materials and make more fighters, mines, drones, everything you can really and build a void force capable of taking on the foe head to head.

>Allow him to deploy on world. No matter what you choose to do yourself, you know of his desires, you shall assist in a breakthrough to deliver his forces before disengaging and undertaking your own strategy.

>>5889927
I would rather keep our bots as a boarding repellant force, if battlefleet gothic taught me something is to not go near tyranids ship, dear god the numbers of boarders...

>>5890223
Makes sense, the entire "ship", if you call it that, is all about eating everything in sight and spawning trillions of organisms on command to eat and kill anything in its path. The only reason anyone would be sane enough to board in the first place, would be for assassinations, or viral infections. The first, to try and kill any Queen's onboard to cause chaos amongst the swarm, and the second to try and language a infection that could, depending on the target, massively neutralize Humongous beasts that could casually swallow up a cruiser or larger into its mouth. Like the end boss of BFGA2, or the new Moon size Organism coming to fight in 10th ED.

“Magos.” You switch to your military subroutine, the powerful booming voice snapping him out of the stupor that had taken control. “My tactical evaluation says that your forces will be the most useful upon ground, I shall punch a hole through the xenos’ blockade and provide you with enough time to deploy your forces.”

“Affirmative, I concur with your logic, we shall depart immediately.” Responding to your words, the Magos without further interruption cuts the signal as the escort vessel begins to burn ahead full. Even though the connection had been cut, you are still able to pick out the vessel wide transmission that the Magos directs towards the crew. “Attention crew. In few days you all shall serve the Machine God, you loyal servants of the Omnissiah shall be making your final sacrifice one of these days. Carry out your duties to perfection as is expected of you. That is all.”

Well, that was, hardly inspiring, but you suppose for a crew made up entirely of the members of the Mechanicum this is…fitting ? All that matters is that at the end, the Magos and his troops are all prepared for battle and potentially their deaths.

You position yourself before the sword-class frigate as you match its speed forming a vanguard. Such a breakthrough is certainly dangerous and risks you being entirely encircled, it is a risk that you simply must take, the forces aboard the ship are, by Imperium standard at least, of high-quality and capability.

Once the risky manoeuvre is done with, you plan to shift to a by far more cautious approach to dealing with the issue, you shall strike at the outlying elements of the fleet, most likely targeting the forces around the outlying worlds. Afterwards you shall use your superior manufacturing capabilities to cannibalise the bioships and eventually produce a force large enough to threaten the primary fleet. This may very well take months to accomplish, but that is why you are currently risking this breakthrough. Whilst the macroclade only numbers about two thousand strong, alongside whatever other elements the Magos was able to scrounge up, the morale effects of friendly forces arriving in such a desperate situation should prove to be quite formidable.
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>>5890452

For the following week and a half, you had blown away the occasional bioship wandering from any larger gathering of forces. If nothing else, this had given you the opportunity to test the robustness of your new wiring system leading to the fully restored weaponry. It had proven to be as adequate as you had expected and you were able to dispatch the foe with ease. Based on your energy readings, the generators very able to perform as they had when you were at full force. From now on, you will be able to fire with intervals of around ten minutes per generator, you could easily cut this time down to a minute if you are willing to risk it, or you could of course just fire without halt thanks to the stellar reactor being at full power. The creation of a miniature blackhole can be unpredictable and volatile, as such, it is a necessity for you to ensure that the generators are perfectly well functioning without even a single crack or break. A blackhole that you cannot ensure will dispel itself is a blackhole that you hesitate to fire, lest it devour the entire system you are in.

Now, your entire vision is occupied by nothing, but your foes. The swarming mass of the Tyranids almost resembles a boiling ocean, the smaller vessels seem like bubbles forming and jutting out before popping and returning back into the swirling sea, whilst the large vessels make it seem like entire moving currents that follow a seemingly chaotic, yet at the same time organized routine.

And this ocean shall soon be cut through by a ship. Your railguns begin to fire in a circular motion, beginning to clear out the surroundings, blood spurts out in jets that are hundreds of metres long as some of the larger creatures begin to die, yet your attack barely makes an impact to the endless mass.

You unleash a barrage of nanowarheads, allowing for the grey mass to spread out and to start devouring everything in its path. The swarm reacts rapidly as you had come to expect, but generators start flinging blackholes at the outskirts, you’d rather not destroy a part of the atmosphere by reckless discharge.

While you inflict damage, notable at that, the swarm unleashes its rage with fury and destruction. Living projectiles smash right onto your shield, their strength and ferocity is intermixed with mass production of acid continuously burning away at them. Despite your new shielding, you swiftly find their capacity had fallen down to 75%. The accuracy of the aliens and their ability to predict your charge is uncanny, though you suppose that could be expected since you are just charging straight ahead, taking on the the fire for the frigate, as it lacks the manoeuvrability to avoid the incoming fire.

Soon enough, a vast swarm of small creatures begins heading your way, like surging torrent. In response you deploy your superiority drones, their numbers are miniscule compared to the foe, but their escort will be exceptionally important.

>>5890456

Your drones, alongside yourself of course, begin to unleash a torrent of plasma and bullets, tearing through hundreds, if not thousands of the beasts that are entirely indifferent to the massive casualties they are receiving for as long as they can take out one of your drones. The first is destroyed when it avoids one creature, but is then impacted by another, then a third and a fourth, being entirely forced in to a spin as it moves about uncontrolled, it swiftly losses shields and the armour is rapidly burned through as the creatures swarm it like locuts and start to bite in. Others are overwhelmed in less dramatic ways, but they are overwhelmed nonetheless and swiftly destroyed. For each fighter lost, they kill thousands, yet the issue you are facing is the fact that the enemy has millions of these beasts.

As you are punching deeper in, what you feared the most is occurring, like a gaping maw the aliens move to wholly envelop you, ensuring that you cannot escape their embrace, this is atop of the fact that you are now caught in a crossfire and you are bombarded without pause, not allowing your shields to recover even as you are pouring more and more energy into them.

By the time your shields read 50%, the shields of the frigate are long broken, clear gashes are clear upon its hull, your sensors indicate uncontrolled surges of power across the vessel, you are doing your best to absorb as much of the incoming fire as you can, unfortunately you cannot be everywhere at once.

The large bioships begin to close in directly onto you, opening their mouths to spew forth an edless barrage of biomissiles that heavily explode upon your shields. You respond in kind by satiating their hunger by unleashing blackholes that devouring them from with it, tearing apart one the creatures as it is ripped in half, the blackhole dying before it can make its way down the entire length of the kilometres long body. Your nanowarheads unleash their rage as they spread like cancer from flyer to flyer, in mere seconds extinguishing hundreds of lives per missile as you production had been kicked into overgear as you do not stop making the missiles, you had already expended hundreds, but you had already made thousands.

Quickly evaluating your surroundings, you judge that pushing further ahead will mean that the enemy, again, moving with surprising coordination and swiftness will envelop you. The sword-class frigate is shedding its armour as another section is exposed to the void, but despite the damage it had taken, its weapons are not silent, they continue to offer ragged resistance, firing without waiting to stagger their shots or unleashing concentrated volleys, the gun crews firing whenever their weapons are prepared and seemingly acting on their own initiative.

>>5890459

The situation had proven to be, precarious. You are close to a breakthrough, the frigate will have to crash land on the planet, its sputtering engines make that a guarantee, you had been absorbing the fire so far, but you could also turn the entirety of your attention to ensure they get to the surface, either way, if you press on, chances are you will be encircled and until you can break out, the damage you will take shall be significant. If you do decide to pull out, you are unsure if the frigate will be able to retreatr successfully, but if it can disengage, you can most certainly take aboard the entirety of its crew aboard yourself, a small blessing that it is.

>Onwards, the plan remains the same and unchanged.

>Keep pushing, dedicate your full attention and resources towards ensuring that the frigate makes it to the planet’s surface.

>Disengage, the foe had proven far too overwhelming for you to get in.

>You shall have to abandon this attempt at reinforcements, but you shall not condemn the tech-priest to death, you shall order them to retreat and you shall cover said reatreat.

>(Write in)

>>5890461
>Onwards, the plan remains the same and unchanged.
We knew this was probably going to happen. We are ready for it.

>>5890461
>Onwards, the plan remains the same and unchanged.
>Start looking for the biggest bioships or for the ones that look to have a brain exposed since we remember that the bugs suffer a break on their coordination when their biggest forms are destroyed

>>5890461
>Onwards, the plan remains the same and unchanged.
Stay on target, stay on target

>>5890461
>Onwards, the plan remains the same and unchanged.

>>5890461
Well, this was never going to be an easy solution, but its already making its gains now. What hundreds are being expended, thousands more are being made per hour to then be fired upon the enemy. As things stand currently, thanks to our newly expanded shields we are already at 50% shield capacity, and our hulls aren't even damaged yet. Conversly, the sword frigates shields are already broken and they have sustained major hull damage already, and if the plan stays the same, they will only make it after crash landing onto the surface of the forgeworld, a likely lethal crash for a great many of them. If we try to safe guard them, then we will likely only sustain large hull damage that we can repair once we get out of the jaws of the beasts and let our shields recharge for a couple of hours. And safely bring everyone down to planet without the risk of someone as important as Celt accidently dying when going through a crash landing to Omicron. Anything besides at least staying to the plan will render everything sustained so far, not only meaningless, but will likely redouble the effort from the Hivemind to consuming Omicron in its entirety to now try and consume us at all costs.

>>5890551
>>Keep pushing, dedicate your full attention and resources towards ensuring that the frigate makes it to the planet’s surface.
Damn it, I forgot the vote:
>Keep pushing, dedicate your full attention and resources towards ensuring that the frigate makes it to the planet’s surface.

>>5890554
support
+1

>>5890461
>Keep pushing, dedicate your full attention and resources towards ensuring that the frigate makes it to the planet’s surface.

>>5890461
>Keep pushing, dedicate your full attention and resources towards ensuring that the frigate makes it to the planet’s surface.
If the hull starts taking hits, we can get resources to repair our ship on the planetside.

>>5890461
>Keep pushing, dedicate your full attention and resources towards ensuring that the frigate makes it to the planet’s surface.

Military Subroutine sounds like this
https://youtu.be/8PUpNgtEV1I?si=E4zMl6-a3H9jPx75

>>5890461
>Keep pushing, dedicate your full attention and resources towards ensuring that the frigate makes it to the planet’s surface.

>>5890461
This is the kind of scenario i wanted to avoid ultimately there is a chance, for them to be slaughtered on ground. Even if they reach a forge.
Billions of enemies are Billions. And the thing is, our enemies will always consider us enemy number one when we are seen.
>Keep pushing, dedicate your full attention and resources towards ensuring that the frigate makes it to the planet’s surface.
And the Odyssey and Odysseus are very important.

>>5890223
Eh it doesn't matter much in that case. With this kind of enemy we don't want to be in the conditions to allow them to board us. And some of our robotic units can't do anti-boarding duty too (some are large fellas not their fault). But I kind of also agree sending them on ground doesn't matter much at the moment since they aren't many, even if their help wouldn't be minor for the defense of the forgeworld.

>>5890603
Is best if we move out of the forgeworld orbit and to the solar system border for gather resources. We don't want them to fully encircle us and we are less likely to be detected there.