>Old updates on SUPtg
>Last update here
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6120589/

woo waiting with baited breath.

>Should I just go to next update?

>>6318080
Probably, we had the plan out pretty solid at the end of the last thread. I am going to get more chillie, back in 5

>Need ant distribution for next layout.

we are mobilising, but we still need infrastructure, an army marches on its stomach after all. 50 workers, 50 diggers, 75 acidic, 75 IIwarrior

Timestamp: 15.5 hours

-Tyranid queen set to consume only sweet ooze
The Tyranid Queen has consumed 25 ants worth of strange ooze and produced 250 eggs!

250 tyranid eggs (50 worker, 50 digger, 75 acidic, 75 warrior II)
250 tyranid larvae (warriorIIs and Acidics)
125 tyranid larvae have MMED as Infernics
125 tyranid larvae 1.5 hours to MM
50 tyranid larvae .5 hours to MM

10 Tyranid eggs next to large mineral cluster. ? hours to hatch
10 Betty eggs next to large mineral cluster. ? hours to hatch.

Ant assignments:
workers --
Infernic
30 harvesting seeds. (30 sloth)
10 collecting roots. (10 sloth)
15 digging food storage chamber (15 sloth)
10 communicating regret to aphids. (5 sloth)
5 Communicating regret to aphids. (SPLENDOR)
5 Traveling to attempt to open communication with foreign ant colony. (SPLENDOR)
5 traveling to communicate with scorpions (SPLENDOR)

Normal
40 tending larvae.
100 2.0 hours from returning with Sweet ooze
20 Trying to protect the wide spider -- formed ground perimeter around the spider.
40 digging new Royal Chamber -- DEEP
100 collecting sweet ooze. Return in 1.5
150 harvesting seeds. (50 sloth)
150 collecting roots from root clusters.
24 guarding aphids. (19 sloth)
3 canabalism test subjects
2 Canabalism test subjects spasming from consuming aphid.
3 spasming from consuming aphid (1 sloth)
5 searching for tall areas to suppliment diver training
5 studying the huge mineral cluster.
15 In escape tunnel (10 sloth)
13 idle

Warriors
Infernic
70 Assisting in digging escape tunnel for scorpions (30 sloth).

Normal
10 blocking aphid chamber exits
100 in secondary hive (75). Will return in 1.0 hours as QB has begun laying eggs and has her own ants to look after her now.
45 in escape tunnel (20 sloth)

IIwarriors
Infernic
25 guarding the entrance
50 out patrolling in groups of 5.
25 guarding the queen (SPLENDOR)
75 Traveling EAST to foreign hive with 5 SPLENDORIOUS workers.
15 Aiding the wide spider (SPLENDOR)

Normal
15 guarding aphids (SPLENDOR)
5 patrolling. (SPLENDOR)
5 guarding the entrance (SPLENDOR)
5 guarding the Queen (SPLENDOR)
25 Patrolling the second hive in groups of 5. (SPLENDOR)
80 In escape tunnel (SPLENDOR)
30 Aiding the wide spider (SPLENDOR)
10 Brought 20 chunks of earthworm flesh to spiders and scorpions

Diggers
Infernic
45 aiding the 80 workers (30 sloth)
10 in escape tunnel (SPLENDOR)
5 expanding second queen chamber (SPLENDOR)

Normal
80 working on new queen chamber, food chamber, and nursery in far hive tunnels, 1 hour from the main depth shaft. (80 sloth)
85 digging new food storage chamber. (60 sloth)
10 expanding treatment center

Stalkers
Infernic
5 Traveling EAST to foreign ant Hive (SPLENDOR)

Tunnel system: 1hr travel surrounding center - topsoil.
20 wiry root locations. (Circular dispersion -- grass roots)
2 thick oozing root located. (To the west -- Oozing plant roots)
The massive mineral cluster. 20 larvae are being cared for next to it.
20 total clusters of minerals. (east)
20 total organic strand clusters. (south)
The tunnel to reach the scorpions has reached halfway. The digging ants will wait for an ant above them to tunnel downwards before opening the tunnel to the surface. !! Notice the tunnel is large enough for the scorpions, but cannot fit two of the spiders. The wasps could enter the tunnel as well. (In the EAST)
Aphid pens: 13
7 aphid pens occupied.
!! Aphids are cowering, and refusing to eat anything brought before them! The aphids appear to be fearful of the SPLENDORIOUS ants.

Primary Hive Chambers
First Food storage size: 1800 ants worth of food. Max size of chamber.
Second chamber: 1800 ants worth of food. Max size of chamber
Third food chamber: 1800 ants worth of food. Max size of chamber
Fourth food chamber: 1800 ants worth of food. Max size of chamber
Treatment center: 500 ants can be treated here. Max size of chamber
Nursery: 450 larvae can be tended here
1000 Grass seeds. x2 feeding ability, medium energy food. Plant - Grain.
1800 wiry root chunks. x3 feeding ability, medium energy food. Plant - root.
685 Sweet ooze. x5 feeding ability, High energy food. - Reserved for sloth ants. Sloth ants will preferentially eat this food. Plant - Biotic.
410 ants worth of earthworm flesh chunks. x7 feeding ability. Strange energy food. Meat.
1490 ants worth of earthworm guts. x1 feeding ability. Low energy food. Meat.
0 aphid - 0 ants worth of food. x3 feeding ability. !!Indescribable!! Energy food. Meat - Insect. !Kills wounded ants!
15 dead tyranid ants. - 8 ants worth of food. x1/2 feeding ability. Entropic Energy food. Meat - Insect - Canabalism.
5 units of ooze roots. N/A feeding ability. N/A Energy food. Plant - Root - Odd

Queen Betty's hive is no longer under direct growth supervision

Third Royal chamber: DEEP HIVE
Time to reach desired depth: REACHED. Royal chamber construction begun
Time to finish Royal Chamber construction: additional 0.5 hours.

Additional materials:
Leaves:60 ants worth ~ ? aphid feeding ability per ant worth.

Scorpion-Wasp conflict report:
Tunnel to the scorpion's defensive position is complete.
All the scorpions can enter, but have not done so yet.
The wide spider is still being attacked by the wasps.
The silver spider has joined the wide spider's conflict -- it now appears to be about evenly matched -- the aid of the ants could tilt the favor in either direction most likely. It would take a significant force though to do so reliably.

>Scorpions: The scorpions are particularly wary of the ground upon which they walk -- it seems they fear moving at all, even when all the wasps seem occupied.

>Aphid conflict: An aphid has come forward and attempted to communicate with one of the ants guarding it!
>Oddly this aphid appears to be a different color than the others. It seems to radiate heat, and appears pitch black in color.

The fuck is this? When the hell was "previously"? I'm almost always on /tg/ and I dont seem to remember this one...

>was two weeks ago -- see SUPtg archive link.
>This is a quest which runs roughly once a week; I missed last week because I hat a lot of stuff to do.

>>6318431

FUCKSHIT SUICIDE BOMBER APHID

GET THE FUCK OUT

>>6318446
It's been here most Saturdays for a few months...

this aphid is odd i would talk from a distance...

We can get some upgrades if we play this aphid right, I bet.

>Votes for aphid interactions
1 for caution
1 for full retreat

>>6318511
whats the plan?

Perhaps you could put the updates in images so as not to force these threads to bump cap quicker and quicker each time...

hmmmmm

>>6318478
naw talk to it with faith and confidence like its a normal aphid. Ants are easily replaced, trust is not. We are a clever hive after all.

>>6318561
i agree lets trust it and if it blows up...god help them all

Get those idle ants harvesting root clusters or something.

i guess this is dead...

You decide to trust the strange black aphid for now.
How will the aphid be addressed, or should the ants wait until it makes further contact?

>>6318661
Naw ant quests are just kind of slow have pateince.

>Mostly because I tend to wait 10 minutes from last post before posting.

Hey bros, did we ever get paratrooper ants?

>>6318692

"Greetings, noble aphid. What is it you wish to communicate?"

Make sure only one diplomacy ant is up close and personal with the aphid.

>>6318692
Well if its trying to comunicate I say we let it. Comunicatoin on our side should be that the forced invitation to our hive was for the purpose of a mutual symbioses. Ask how to make them more comfortable in our hive.

>>6318775
i agree

>>6318781
I second this.
They might be butthurt about eating one of them, though.

>Three of them, actually. <_<

>>6318789
we could say it was for science? >.>

>>6318750
no wasps attacked out people trying to get the flies. So we are curently in a mission to rescue some scorpians from the wasps, and helping spiders against the waps. Or at least we will be very soon.

on a side note didnt we tell the diggin ants to finish the tunel asap, going to save them weather or not they beleive we can help.

>>6318803
not just sience, but SIENCE! Sides didnt we only eat the ones that were killed in the fight after they attacked us?

>"Greetings noble Aphid. We apologize for our rough relocation of you and your friends, but we wish to form a cooperative relationship with you and your kin. What is it you wish to communicate?"

"Vile spawn of all that is chaotic, you have killed my children, devoured their bodies and souls. You say you wish to form a cooperative bond with us? We will stand by and allow no such action! Our kind will never serve those spawned of order's mishaps.
Know that we -- the great Order of Ignis -- shall avenge any who falls here today."

>>6318907
That BITCH

>>6318907
is the aphid giving off any odd smells or acting funny and that ant should back up slowy

>>6318907
Oh Fuck. Let's get some more warriors in here, ASAP. Not sure where to pull them from, though. Are the only ones within reasonable distance those marked as "guarding entrance" or "guarding queen"?

>>6318907
"We recognize our error and repent, we would prefer cooperation, though if you truely choose to go against us, we will destroy you, and your order"

Give them one last chance, then aphid genocide.

Maybe inform them that we only eat flesh not souls. That would be a completely new upgrade. (we should look into it)

>>6318973
i wouldent mind a diplomatic ant with a suside bomb effect if things are not going well :3

>>6318973
Didn't we have the chance to get one when we got warped burrowing?

>Looks like you're rather divided -- would you like more time to debate out what to do?

>>6318973
I agree with this

>>6319046
I don't think summoning more warriors to the aphid chamber conflicts with continuing to talk with them. Just shows them we mean business.

>>6318973
i agree also but i want to know if that aphid is giving off any odd smells or acting weard

>>6319043
actualy we had the choice when we got diver, we decided the chance for paratrooper ants was more awesome than a garentee of jihad ants.

>Other than being pitch black, and radiating heat, there is no other notable differences from the other aphids. The other aphids are all green, and you aren't sure if the aphid has been black the entire time or not.

>"We recognize our error and repent, we would prefer cooperation, though if you truely choose to go against us, we will destroy you, and your order"

"You claim you repent, yet you threaten us? You are but fools. If this is the kind of people you are, then you shall be purged by the great Order. Free my people now, and your kind might be savable."

>>6319104
I meant soul-eating. Though I think it was mind-eating.

>>6319151

These aphids are just behaving in an inflammatory fashion. I say we attempt to subdue them until we get this wasp thing under control, then excise the leader-aphids and any upstarts and then use the aphid society as a sustainable food caste. This solves any problems we might have with feeding an army, and provides ample food for the queen to create more functioning ants.

>>6319151
Alright so here is the gamble, we can shrug and let them go, maybe they forgive, or at least forget, maybe they dont and we have an adversary.

Or we can shrug and kill them all, and hope that they arnt psychic and no body knows we took em.

If we let them go, we make a warp tunnel strait to were we found them, and colapse it behind once they are out. No need to let them know where he main entrance is if they dont feal like playing nice.

>>6319218
Even if they aren't psychic, they're missing.

>>6319216
the Aphids are poisonous, eating them did not turn out to well. I was hoping we would eventualy be able to harvest the venom for our warriors. But alas it isnt ment to be.

>>6319227

makes a good point. If we let them go, whoever they have back home will know what we did, and that we did it.

We're in for a penny, might as well be in for a pound. I think we should go with my sentient cattle idea.

>>6319283
agree with that idea but we should make them a exit then colaps it

>>6319227
>>6319227
Its a big and dangerous world. Them being missing is not damning to us unless we were seen taking them.

If we let them go I propose something along the lines of
"If you pledge to do no further harm to us, we will do the same to you and you may leave"

>>6319308

if we can't eat them, and there's no promise they won't be a problem in the future, we should kill them. A certainty that we won't have enemies is better than an uncertainty that we won't. We're in a situation where we have made a mistake and are facing minimal consequences, we can harvest what poison from their corpses, or go with my cattle idea, but instead of eating, we harvest poison.

any one home?

"What is your decision? Are we free to leave, or will you bring down the wrath of Ignis upon you?"

>"You are free to go, but you shall be escorted from our hive, through a tunnel which will be collapsed behind you -- and under pledge that should we inflict no more harm upon you, that you shall pledge to treat us in kind."

"We cannot simply stand by, as you have slain three of our kind. We shall go, but know this: In the next three encounters with the Order, your kind shall be hunted and slain for punishment for the lives of those lost today. Ignis shall purge those who claim power over all."

>>6319461
A dead enemy is better than a live one, but an ally is better than both. Non agresion is about on par with a dead enemy. If we can get non-agresion without a fight, that is better than getting dead enemies without a fight (same result, less ants lost). If we cant get at minimum non-agresion, we accept it as a bad deal and slaughter them.

>>6319501

Our problem has been answered for us. They're enemies now, at least for a short time. I suggest we collapse the tunnel on them, try and minimize losses, and call it a was. Aphids are a zealous lot not prone to reason, we should probably temper further encounters with caution.

>>6319491
"Those that were slain where slain as you attacked us. We erred in bring you here before comunication was clear, as such we forgive your violence against us, but to think we would allow ours to be slain without fighting back is foolish"


Looks like slaughter is the way to go. Its lamentable.

>>6319491
-.- cant we become less effected by the acid/poison..

>>6319308
agreed

>Just to make sure you guys are clear on order of events: located aphids, brought them to hive without resistance, killed one aphid to test it for edibility (resulted in immediate death of the ants which consumed it), open conflict began. Two additional aphids were killed during the conflict. Conflict ends with Splendorious ants entering the picture. Black aphid approaches ants.

>>6319536

Now that we've settled that, the method of slaughter should be discussed. I think we should refrain from telling them we're going to kill them, and collapse the tunnel on them. Do it well before they reach the end, and if there are survivors on our end, we can mop up easily in the confusion. We've got the advantage in the underground, and if we can take out that black one without having to resort to combat, we remove a wildcard from the equation.

>>6319618
I like it.
I think we should start assisting the spiders reguardless of what that silver fucker has been saying.

Well if they dont accept the 20 or so ants that died in the confilct as flesh paid for flesh, then they die, they can leave as allies, they can leave as neutral, but enemies do not leave unless they can offer something worth their lives.

We have 10 wariors and 15 II wariors guarding the aphid area, not to mention 125 infernic ants that just hatched as an even divded of IIwarior and acidic, I say we bring the acidic ones to be ready for the fight, maybe their acid resistance will help against aphid venom, its along shot but why not.

On the other side, have our tunnel troops broken out and started helping the spiders yet?

>>6319491

Is there anyway to make them think that the attack was by orders from the wasps?

>Oh right. Newborn ants: 75 Infernic WarriorII, 50 Infernic Acidic -- you sure you want to send them to slaughter the aphids?

>I'm trying to hold off on Spider interactions until after the aphid bit is resolved. But I could switch over to focusing on spider/wasp conflict for awhile.

>I still think focusing on the aphids for now will make reading//summarizing quicker in the future; but still you guys decide.

>>6319616
huh what do you know, guess I didnt read the backlogs as thouroghly as I thought. Oh well genocide it is.

Colapsing the tunel on them would work, or at least traping them in the tunnel to starve. Would still like the new acidics to be in on the fight if it comes to that, to see if their resitance extends to poison. Asuming of course I corectly understood the 125 larve that MM were from the warior/acidic bunch. If not duno

>>6319683
I doubt it, sense it happend after we kidnaped them, and our tunels arnt exactly wasp sized. Though we should ask them about wasps/spiders/scorpians before we completely turn off diplomacy and kill them. We have no way of knowing if this order of ignus is pure aphids or not. If the wasps are part of the order, that would at least be convient to our alliance with the arachnids, though less conveint in the war against the wasps. If the spiders are part of it, we realy will need to keep the lid on our little fox paus here.

>>6319749

We've got three for the tunnel idea, then. We can keep any new acidic warriors we have on hand in case some don't get caught in it.

also, in order to ensure they get caught in the tunnel, we could make it needlessly long and convoluted, forgoing an actual opening on the other side of it in favor of something long enough to contain them for a collapse/fatal quarantine.

You decide to order the aphids slaughtered in a tunnel.
>"Very well, we shall lead you from our hive as we said before."
The 49 ants (10 warriors, 15 warriorIIs (Splendor), 24 workers) lead the aphids and begin tunneling through the dirt via warp-burrowing.
"What? What is this? The earth moves before your very forms? What evil are you!?"
The Aphids retreat out of the tunnel and attempt to flee from the escorts and warp burrowing ants. Three of them make it past the guards, while the rest are captured within the tunnel. The black Aphid is not among them.
Pheromones of fear, and a strange pheromone which seems to be like a prayer radiating off of the trapped aphids. They seem to have no hope for survival. -- Should they be slaughtered immediately, stuck in pens, questioned or something else?
What should be done about the three rogue aphids?

Oh boy oh boy, I thought Ant Quest was dead!

And I'll vote for collapsing the tunnel on them; but is there some reason we can't just send in the troops and slaughter them all right now? Or hell, just kill this ringleader, see if they crumble along with him.

>>6319852

I would suggest immediate action, armed patrols to seek out the rogue aphids and the slaughter of the majority of the remaining aphids, maintaining perhaps 5 for the purposes of questioning.

>Four have been captured, three are in the hive. Unfortunately, it will take a bit of time to organize search parties -- its likely only 1/3rd of the hive can be searched with the current ants before they could get enough of a lead to escape at the speed which they travel.

>>6319852
Doh, I even thought about saying we should dig standard (cus it would be easier to collapse admitidly) but then I read schlock mercinary. we can ask the regular aphids if they truely mean harm upon us for this ignis fellow (who I might point out noticed that we are a contridiction to fate, and he said he was an enforcer of order). If yes we kill them, if they dont answer at all we apoligize again and kill them. If they answer in another way we will see.

The guards at the entrance need to be double aware that there may be an escape atempt, and to try and stop the three renigade aphids, especialy the black one. The acidic that MMed need to start patroling the tunels seaking for them. The wariors that MMed are to go to the queen, it is never more important to protect here than when enemies are at the gate.

go go go

>>6319852

Since 4 are loose, I suggest that just in case one actually does escape, we don't kill them but instead turn them sort of POWs.

Since Aphids are also known as "ant cows", they can be used as a food source and later as hostages for negotiations if need be.

>>6319941

I agree with this course of action, save for I think the aphids should be slaughtered regardless of what they say. We should still ask them, and give them assurances, but they can lie just as easily as us.

>>6319963

Read the thread, they're toxic. We can't eat them.

>>6319941

GO OG OG

Especially the black one. Do we have any hints on which way he would run? We can't search everywhere, as AntiFate says.

>>6319976

Some species of ants "farm" aphids, protecting them on the plants they eat, eating the honeydew that the aphids release from the terminations of their alimentary canals. This is a "mutualistic relationship".

Ant extracting honeydew from an aphid

These "dairying ants" "milk" the aphids by stroking them with their antennae.[12][13] Therefore, sometimes aphids are called "ant cows".

u don't actually eat them, you eat their secretions

>>6319963
yeah its metagaming like that that got us into this mess. we can magicly make holes in inorganics, spiders are in an alliance with scorpians against a coalition of wasps of different species (as oposed to every wasp hive for itself. aphids a poisonous religous fanatics. what we know is wrong. this is ant quest.

>>6320017

We'll have to look more into that when we can, as it is we have some scared, pissed off and potentially lethal aphids running around the nest.

>As for any indication of where they have gone; no, there is no obvious clue to which direction they traveled. You can specify up to 3 of the following locations to be searched right now, or sacrifice one location choice to increase the number you can search after the results of this search are in by 2.
Location choices:
Any one food storage chamber (4).
Deep hive path.
Main entrance.
Path to QB's hive.
Nursery (And queen's chamber).
Treatment center.

So we should have any entrance and royal guards on full alert, and acidic MMer ants scouring the hive.

Well I dunno, unless we catch the renegade aphids, we're sort of done on this avenue, aren't we?

>>6319931
I say slaughter the ones we have on the spot. Send one ant to the entrance to warn the entrance guards of an escape attempt, half the remaining ants to search the tunnels, and the remaining ants to guard the queen.

I fell like this is appropriate given the thread topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5yWD59VpbE

>>6320116
Main entrence (as that is the exit) and nursery/queen chamber (as thats where they could do the most harm if left to their own devices) The others have no particular priorty that I can think of (though if someone can think of something i missed go for it). Though we should send a runner (digger or worker, whichever would get there fastest) to Betty and inform her that the aphids are hostile and some escaped during diplomacy.

A few Suggestions :
-Change the Queen's Diet to 20 ants worth of Sweet ooze and 5 ants worth of Earthworm.
-Take a test group of 50 Larvaes and feed them using Earthworm and Sweet ooze.
-The delayed hatching Eggs should be taken away from the mineral clump, to see if the delay is only while nearby.

Let's see what the effects of a change of diet has on us.

Stalkers type Ants in teh spider area should be affected to recconnaissance, trying to find the wasps nests. Weither to detroy or raid to be determined later.

That Ignis fellow must be located and eliminated, the queen must be protected and so must the larvaes, increase guard around concerned areas and exits. Eliminate the rest of the Aphids, we can't run the chance of them turning black. Whatever it does it can't be good for us. Preferably send acidics against them. Some short term losses are to be expected.

When Betty's honor guard become available they shall be reassigned to Aphids' search.

>>6320190
Let's just do those two, and get the extra searching later.

>>6320208
Half of the delayed hatching eggs.

>>6320190

Probably for the best. If I were the black aphid, I'd be thinking of revenge. The only question is whether he's thinking short term or long term.

>>6320235
yeah, definatly leave some, this is an experiment after all.

I wish real humans were as sensible about giving up a few of their kind for science.

>Several of the ants go to alert the entrance guards, and to search for the aphids near the surface, while others travel to the queen's chamber to guard her, and protect the nursery from the aphids. The few remaining ants locate the newborn acidic ants to enlist them in future searching for the aphids.

One aphid, a black aphid, is stopped trying to escape out the main entrance. The ants move to eliminate him where he stands.
A second aphid was found trying to locate the queens chamber. It is not black.

>ELSEWHERE WITH OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Five of each QB's delayed eggs and the Tyranid delayed eggs have been moved from their spot near the giant mineral cluster. They are oddly cold to handle.

>>6320410
Did we kill the aphids we already had?

Are we eliminating aphids on sight now?

>They are oddly cold to handle
;_;

>>6320410
On that note, the guards are authorized to colapse the entrance to stop the aphid if nescisary (though killing it without colapse is preferiable). It is easy to dig a new entrence, its hard to cantain an an hostile intent once it has escaped.

>Does it say that anywhere I've posted?

>In short, no, I don't believe you have. I think some of you wanted to ask some questions of the captured ones first?

Kill the black one, NOW. KILL IT.
Kill the one near the queen too, or at the very least prevent it from getting in range of the queen (make damn sure to leave guards for the unnaccounted for. loosing the queen to Ninja Aphids would sucks.

As for the Cold eggs, try to heat them up a bit? And another experiment possibility would be to bring a handful of hatched larvaes close by the mineral clump and see just how it would affect them... Probably gonna kill them, but hey it's for SCIENCE!

Try to inquire about the extent of the Ignis whatevers.

>>6320468
I'll cast a vote for killing them now and having the ants guarding them join the search. We can always question the missing aphids after we've captured them again, but our chances of capturing them increase if we don't have these ants pinned down.

>>6320459
Actualy now that I think on it, we should close each section that is declared clear, we warp dig so reopening the section is about as simple as walking there. Next place to search is the food storage, aphids are venomous, and we DONT want them poisening our food suplies (if they even can).

>>6320484
They arnt just cold, they are ODDLY cold. So does that mean colder than ambiant temperature (cus seriously, a heat vacume would be cool, er nifty) If we atempt to heat, atemp only to heat some, keep with the scientific method here.

>>6320542
We still have half of the initial by the mineral, i don't think we need to deal with 2s and 3s yet, do you?

>>6320513
Oh shit had totally forgotten about possibility of food poisoning, send something there now... but from where shall we pull them? Newborns?

More simply, once you have the acid ants moving, make them search in teams. When the teams reach an intersection, leave one or two ants at the intersection, to make sure nothing else sneaks by. This way, if one aphid got out and informed the rest, not only do you have a evenly distributed defense with many fall back points and quick reinforcements, but you also make sure that if it is still in the nest it doesn't sneak by your patrols without a fight.

>"You've spoken of something. Something new to us. What is this Ignis you speak of?"

The aphids give no answer, beyond further fear pheromones, and some of regret, loss and agony. They seem less communicative without the black one.

The black aphid, and the aphid which ran have both been killed.
One rogue aphid remains.

As the number of ants searching increases, they cover all of the food chambers, leaving behind a number of ants to protect the queen, and a few in each chamber they search. They have searched through all of the chambers, except the deep hive location, the path to betty's hive, and the treatment center.
Traveling to the deep hive to search through there will take significant time however, and it is currently occupied by a number of ants working to properly excavate it. . . All these locations can be searched shortly, but the deep hive would require devoted search to completely search it in the time it would take to search the rest of the hive.

>>6320410

Have the guards at the entrance collapse the exit before moving to eliminate the black aphid.

Begin questioning remaining aphids on who the black aphid was and what Order of Ignis. Also any information on where they are from and how many of them are there would be a bonus.

>>6320875
Now this IS interesting. Could be a trick, but what the hell I think we should bite. Let them live, transmit that safety pherimone, and keep an eye on them. Ask what they eat and apoligize that it is not safe to for them to leave.

>>6320875
The treatment center and deep hive should be searched first, even if it take time, momentarily halting works and reassigning it's workers to search should make it pretty quick, atmost a few minutes delay. Not that big a deal when compared to the potential troubles that rogue Aphid may cause. The tunnels to Betty's hive can be left alone as long as we watch the entrance to them, we have a hundred warriors at the other end, they cannot cause that much troubles.

I'm still in favor of eliminating the Aphids: they have, so far, proven to be nothing but troubles and while a new source of food would be great to have the potential for trouble seems to outweight the benefits at the moment. We canalways see about hunting down and capturing more in the future.

And if that's all with that, moving on to the Wasp-Arachnid War so we can move on to next turn would be great.

>>6320976
oops that was me, lost my name for a bit.

>>6321174
If we just want to wipe em out I'm not realy apposed, its just the black one was the only one that was articulate, the greenies have been mostly cowering, except the ones that went with the black one, I suspect some sort of control, posibly imbued by fate (odd note, the black aphid radiated heat, our delayed eggs are oddly cold, related?). we should at least ask about the black aphid before exicution. But I guess that can wait till next time stamp, on to the spidews.

Still alive Anti-Fate?

Guess he's gone. Someone should archive this, if they haven't...

>>6321915
yeah I'll archive.