I'll give this a bump. I know it's quite late, but hey. Maybe some people are still around for it.

Excellent.

I'm ready if anyone else is!

>>11269862
If there ain't at least two others, this'll be going down the drain this week.

This is the second bump.

I'll delete this shortly after the third bump, if a third bump is required and if people do not immediately pour in after it.

>>11269903
I think part of the issue is that the board's moving pretty fast tonight.

>>11269952
That could be it, maybe.

I'm in favor of continuing.
Do we still have that weird budget thing where STFU takes any left over money at the end of the year?

wtf is this? I kind of want.. but not sure if want because I don't know what it is.

>>11269599
FUCK YEAH MEGACORP QUEST!

I've seen a thread weeks ago, and it seemed like you were already dozens of threads in. How do I quickly catch up?

>>11270007
Yes.
There have been several cases where you have spent so little that I have counted some of the spare cash as going towards them instead of your automatic science/security/anything-but-stfu funding.

I can dig it.

So does this mean that Pentex will stop being excessively evil, and stop trying to ruin everything?
Also I was wondering... Could we manipulate the Umbra for terraforming purposes? Like pretty much do the opposite of what Pentex did to Pandora, by subtly encouraging life and growth on a previously inhospitable world.

>>11270033
Well, unfortunately sup/tg/ is down, so the best method is out.

Really, though, don't worry too much.

>>11270033
Dozens? A dozen, at most.

Anyway, whoa.

Population rush.

Okay, I'll start shortly after compiling a list for our fellow.

>>11270060
Completely plausible, with the right technology and understanding of the Umbra.

>>11270073
I know we're a sci fi mega corporation with the military power of a galactic empire, and a bunch of similar corporations from games and movies are competing with us, I just don't know where we are right now, or what we've done.

>>11270138
Well, you might want to follow these threads a wee bit.

Previous threads:
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/9922001
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/9930522
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/10073577
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/10232125
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/10238033
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/10391339
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/10394744
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/10539361
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/10542296
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/10695160
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/10698641
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/10995841
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/10999342

sup/tg/'s down, so this is the best alternative.

RIGHT THEN.

Getting this operation underway.

If we haven't already, I propose we regularly monitor the Umbra for any sudden changes, I don't want Pentex to take us by surprise with any of their shenanigans.

Hmmm... Anyone in favor of having ODIN do a complete inventory of all our existing resources, copyrights, patents etc? I just want to make sure that there's a: little chance of other corporations ripping us off and b: there isn't any dusty prototypes in storage somewhere that could speed up the research process.

Year 2171:
Colonists have arrived at Tau Ceti. Population increase. The colony ships are returning to Earth.
A research assistant does the 'early breakthrough' dance, but it's a little stale. Almost every project is being completed at a stupidly fast pace.
The research into Military Applications of Portal Edges is complete. Request more details.
The research list has been updated. Request more details to select your next project.
A compiled "Starship Construction" guide has been created. Request more details.
Anomaly detected in the 40 Eridian system. A heat source approximately three kilometres in length recently passed through the system at a speed of 0.075c.
Civil war on Ares is still underway.
It's not full scale war on Mars, but it's close. 289 named UN Peacekeepers have been killed in purposes related to the rebellion since tension began. No new information.

Balance: $283b
Income: $283b

>>11270343
Requesting all details (do you really have to ask?).

>>11270093
And how is our understanding of the Umbra? I know we have access to the DNA samples Pentex used to power the gates, I think they came from something called Garou or whatever? I'm pretty sure the UN knows just as much about the Umbra as we do, but I'm not sure if the other megacorps have taken an interest in Pentex.

so.. are we all on the same team? WTF IS THIS SHIT... EXPLAIN IT!

>>11270319
Having ODIN do a complete inventory requires *me* to do a complete inventory.

This is quite a lot of work.

Regarding copyrighting and patenting, however, you get a small cut off of any profit made off of any form of Portal technology anywhere, in any application.

No one is ripping you off or cheating you, as far as you're aware. And regarding resources, please don't make me recount every last detail or we'll be here until the cows come home.

>>11270093
If we're going to try this, I advocate we use that Gliese 876 planet as a testing ground. All we have to do is minimize that mutagenic chemical and we're golden for colonizing.

>>11270429
The problem is that we can use that mutagenic chemical. I'm still in favor of dropping it on one of the "bacteria-only" worlds in the Alpha Centauri system to see what happens.

>>11270406
Ah excellent point. Hmmm... is ODIN is advanced enough that he (or it I suppose) has his own sense of curiosity? Could we tell him to only mention things that he finds interesting/we've overlooked? I think we've been pretty on the ball on not leaving any dangling hooks but I'm not completely certain.

>>11270354
Generally, yes.
Yes I do.
Because it takes far too much space to post it all at once.
>>11270387
No, you're not all on the same team.
You're rival corporations, all trying to take advantage of space and its resources.
>>11270366
You're capable of creating permanent gates between the physical world and the Umbra, using a fusion of your tech and Pentex tech. They're not as efficient as that of Pentex's at this stage, but they work.

Anyway.

POSTING DETAILS.

>>11270457
Can't we just take a sample of the gas and then synthesize our own? Or do we actually have to physically retrieve the gas from Gliese?

MEGACORP QUEEEEEEEEEEEEST!

Military Applications of Portal Edges:

EDGE KNIVES:
You can create military equipment that uses Edge technology, such as knives. Sadly, close combat has been a laughable concept ever since the Industrial Age. As such, these Edge Knives are mostly useless in a combat situation.

EDGE MINE:
This is a war drone equipped with two Edge projectors and designed for mobility and durability. If it detects a heat signiature within a certain range it does not recognize as either a warhead or a Sleipnir vessel, it will accelerate to maximum velocity towards the object. It will attempt to impact the enemy vessel and bore through it. Upon exiting the enemy vessel, it will approach it again. The assault will only end when the heat source no longer exists. These Edge Mines are devastating in high numbers.

RAMBOAT CHASSIS:
This is the Edge Mine taken to extremes. A warship can be constructed in such a fashion that Portal Edges are projected over the hull, all tapering into a submolecular tip at the bow of the vessel. A warship with this chassis also has its engines refitted for the purposes of increased mobility, speed and acceleration. The purpose of this vessel is to hit others at high speeds, literally tearing a hole through other vessels, if not slicing them in half.

I forget, are we keeping the Aresians a secret?

Research List:

- Further Development of Energy Transfer Portals - Allows for increased efficiency.
- Groupmind - Allows for a radio-connection between multiple human minds for improved group thinking.
- Macro Sapience - Develop an understanding of "world minds" similar to those on Chiron and Pandora and an ability to recreate them.
- Macro Portal Carriers - Adapt portal technology so starships possessing it can be utilized as carriers.
- Reflector Chassis - The ultimate development of the Deflector Chassis. Most expensive but reflects projectiles.

Choose one for next research project.

>my face when no one but the people playing it knows what this shit is

Is there like a... a wiki for this game or some shit? ANYTHING.. ANYTHING AT ALL? How can we all be part of a megacorporation? WHO CALLS THE SHOTS? Does 1 person control 1 corp? WTFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

This is the first time I've played, but I want to get into it. Bumping.

>>11270514
Yes.

Starship Construction Guide:

Available engines include:
Standard (Interstellar Travel Impossible): FREE
Standard (Interstellar Travel at 0.5c): $5b per LY
Standard (Interstellar Travel at 0.75c): $10b per LY
Pandorium (Interstellar Travel at 0.75c, Unlimited Range, Limited Amount [3]): $10b

Available standard modules include:
Cargo Module (Contains 200 tons): $1b, Maximum 20
Cyro Module (Contains 100 people): $1b, Maximum 40

Available weapon modules (MAXIMUM OF 80) include:
Mass Driver (Short Range, Physical, Rapidfire, Low Damage): $5b, 1 MODULE
Laser Point-Def (Point-Def, Energy, Rapidfire, Missiles): $5b, 1 MODULE
Portal Boarder (Long Range, Missile, Slow, Boarding Mechanism): $10b, 2 MODULE
Missile Silo (Long Range, Energy, Slow, Homing, High Damage): $10b, 2 MODULE
Hanger (Deploys War Drone, Drone, Utilizes Mass Driver): $10b, 2 MODULE
Hanger (Deploys War Drone, Drone, Utilizes Portal Edge): $20b, 2 MODULE

Available chassis include:
Standard (No additional benefits): FREE
Warship (Capable at space combat): $20b
Deflector (Warship Chassis + 90% Physical Deflection): $50b
Ramboat (Warship Chassis + Portal Edge Ramboat): $75b

>>11270515
I vote for carrier research

>>11270525

just roll with it man

im-pro-vise

>>11270504
Mostly useless in combat, perhaps. But they have an extraordinary potential in industrial work. Market them.

Build a hilarious amount of Edge Mines and outfit all of our military starships with them. Repurpose many for use in an atmosphere and grant them the capability to go after specific targets, down to the size of a man.

>>11270387
>>11270525
You two are obviously the same person.

I posted logs of previous sessions here:
>>11270218

You might want to read them to understand.

To:
>>11270033
>>11270527

You might want to read it as well.

>>11270504
Oh that reminds me, I was wondering if this would be a possible invention: Pretty much a standard portal gun (maybe miniaturized) given to the captain of our ships, with one portal permanently affixed to the outside of the ship. I'd imagine it would kind of be like an instant airlock, useful for getting rid of hazardous material/cargo/intruders.

>>11270525
We're all the board of directors for SLINT, a subsidiary of STFU. We control what the corporation does. We are opposed by several other corporations, and, to some extent, the UN. Plasma serves as Game Master, providing us with information we use to make decisions. The game consists of us telling Plasma what we want and him telling us what the results of our actions are. That's more or less it.

>>11270515
Groupmind.

Also, let's get some construction yards building that we can ship out-system. Especially for Tau Ceti, since our main colony is there.

>>11270515
I'd go with Macro Portal Carriers as well.

>>11270515
i vote for Groupmind, that way we research even faster

>>11270515
Groupmind. Once we link our R&D teams into unified thinking constructs, we will be unstoppable, at least tech-wise.

>>11270504
IDEA:

Combine edge mines with payloads of Hermesium.

When they enter a ship they eject hermesium into the area around it, hopefully starting fires throughout the vessel, thus, increasing the heat, and making the mine able to continue fucking the ship up for a much longer time.

While I like the idea of Groupminds, it also seems to have the highest potential of going horribly wrong...

rolled 25 + 10 = 35

Rolling to hack into Weyland-Yutani's computers and pull out any useful information. Technological breakthroughs and information on their extrasolar colonies is the highest priority. Devote the usual funds to the coverup if this goes wrong.

>>11270634
I agree, at least with portal carriers, we know what we are doing.

I vote for portals. Portals are fun, and could be marketed as a novelty as well as an actual useful technology. Example: Mass produced portal guns that we could market to the military of various planets; also same idea for consumers.

>>11270648
We marketed portals ages ago.

Expand operations to the five nearest star systems with no habitable planets. Yes, we won't be able to colonize the way we do in other places, but there are still resources to be had. Barring all else, we can siphon energy and material from the star, and build on that.

Who's with me on this?

>>11270429
The atmosphere is quite saturated with it. Removing it will take a long time.
>>11270457
This is a possibility.
>>11270467
Yes, he does. He'll look into it, since you asked.
>>11270488
No. It has been stated before, there are certain chemical compounds in the gas that are impossible to synthesize.
>>11270514
I'm quite sure you are, yes.
>>11270552
They are already used in industrial work. This is for military applications.
However, accepting the other suggestion regarding miniature Edge Mine. Naming them Edge Drones.
Edge Mines also do not have to be installed in a ship.
>>11270565
This sort of thing can easily be developed without any research.
Developing it.

>>11270634
Think of it as a purely biological and human-scale equivalent of the MAGI system.

If you've read A Fire Upon the Deep, the Tines were where I stole the idea from.

Plasma, I know that the UN hates/fears us, but what does the average person on Earth think? I'd imagine we'd be liked as the people behind the Energy Portal and Personal Muse project, but we also have a habit of being framed for scandals...
Oh and there's no way for the Personal Muses to go rogue/viral or anything right?

>>11270659
Well ok then, as I said before its my first time playing.

>>11270665
They may not HAVE to be installed on a ship, but I'd like them to be carried anyway, as a secret weapon.

Are there any other planets or sizable moons in the Gliese 876 system?

And I'd propose that we use 40 Eridani for our "bring dead worlds to life" research. Nothing there to screw up.

On that note, can we have more info about the anomaly in the 40 Eridani system?

>>11270665
So as far as the public is concerned, the only known sentient aliens were the Na'Vi, and they're all dead now?
That reminds me, I remember someone was planning on making some kind of preserve of cloned Pandoran lifeforms... how'd that turn out?

>>11270695
The Muses aren't sentient. They're basically a very, very, very advanced version of Cleverbot and Akinator, one that functions as a personal assistant.

Also in relation to the mutagen, we could release large amounts on planets populated by our enemies.

>>11270751
Planets are rare enough that rendering a good one unusable is a bad idea, I think.

>>11270751
That is a tactic that could backfire in so many ways.

If we aren't already doing it, have some of our research types investigating that chemical from Gliese 876. Let's see if they can come up with some actual applications for it, or ways to direct its effects more tightly. Obviously, the research facility would be manned by robots and drones only, and separated from any of our regular facilities by hard vacuum.

>>11270695
No way for them to go rogue.
You have thousands of subsidiaries that most of the public do not connect to you through which you market your products. Most intelligent people connect to these companies, but in the end, they don't care much about your past scandals - every megacorporation has their dirt.
>>11270662
This is a possibility, if others agree.
>>11270648
If you've got any new ideas on how to use portals, give them to me. Lots of people have already used tons of different ideas - energy transferral, prisons, military, industry, travel, medicine, etc. If you have any new ideas you think are quite revolutionary, offer them. Who knows, people might not have thought them up yet.
>>11270643
You discover nothing new via your attempts, I am afraid. You are not discovered, either. Two hacking attempts remaining.
>>11270615
You get a massive brofist from a research assistant. They'll get right on it.
>>11270581
Eight construction yards will be arriving at Tau Ceti by... 2196.

Sorry for any delay.

Anyway, I'll be compiling the votes after this post and going with the most voted research option.

>>11270751
There aren't really any planets colonized on a large enough scale by the other megacorps. Or at least that we know of. No real point in exterminatus'ing an entire planet when there are only small colonies on them.

>>11270808
I agree with colonizing the 5 nearest systems.

>>11270343
Start building additional colony ships in the Kuiper Belt. We have a whole lot of people who want out of the Solar System, and eight years left until they want to leave.

Also, let's get a science team headed towards 40 Eridani. We can do Umbral Terraforming experiments there.

>>11270662
I think we would need to have interstellar portals already taken care of for this to be profitable.

>>11270808
I agree with the expanding into nearby solar systems thing.
Also: carriers

Possible research items:

Portal Stealth - Hull portals prevent detection by causing radiation to pass through the ship.

Portal Driver - Two portals at opposite ends of a mass driver (or gravity chamber) allow a projectile to accelerate to massive speeds before being ejected.

Portal Plumbing - Who needs pipes? Everything goes right where it needs to, instantaneously. An astounding number of practical uses, obviously not limited to waste disposal. For example, if we still use crude oil, say, for plastic, we could eliminate the pipelines entirely. I'm assuming we aren't already doing this on a massive scale.

rolled 82, 34 = 116

Another hacking attempt on W-Y, same goals as before. They're the biggest threat.

And as for our second biggest threat, let's hack the UN databases for any interesting data there.

First roll is for W-Y, second is for UN. No idea what our current modifiers are, so I'd be obliged if someone else could add them in.

Standing order: Use all construction yards to produce War and Construction drones in a 1/2 ratio unless the yards are being used for something else. Anyone else support this?

rolled 36 + 10 = 46

Hacking Weyland again.

>>11270878
The only problem I can see with portal plumbing is that it has potential of going horribly, horribly wrong if the power ever gets cut.
Maybe it's more plausible on space stations and space ships, where saving space is important.

The one massive problem with the "expand into nearby systems with no terrestrial planets" thing is that I'm pretty sure Weyland-Yutani is already doing that. I'd rather not try to set up a colony right next to theirs until we're actually ready to fight them.

If Umbra exists, what else is out there? Queue research into additional dimensions, such as hyperspace and subspace.

>>11270892
92 for WY, and 44 for the UN.

>>11270895
No, costs money and the construction yards we have either can't send them anywhere, or they'd be siezed by the UN immediately.

>>11270878
Regarding the pipes, if there are still parts of the world suffering from insufficient water, we can fix that no matter how far away the reservoir is. Even if it's not profitable, it seems like the kind of sappy stuff that will make us look good.

>>11270911
That's exactly where it should be used most. However, if I understand correctly, it takes 10 minutes for a portal to "die" after the power goes out, which should be enough time to engage whatever safeties are needed.

>>11270911
Hey, guess who controls most of the power to the world.

>>11270931
Yes! Become the saviors of those on Earth who need help. For free of course.

Though the public image of us being pure and good will be worth more than money.

>>11270803
They'll get on it.
>>11270731
It's not that simple.
40 Eridani isn't a barren world - it's a dead world, a destroyed world. It's been shattered into a million pieces that are slowly slipping apart. It's disintegrating with every passing year.
>>11270878
First option: Adding.
Second option: Researching.
Third option: So basic it doesn't require researching. Marketting.

CREATING THE FIVE-NEAREST-SYSTEM EXPANSION, EXCLUDING ALPHA CENTAURI.

RESEARCHING PORTAL CARRIERS.

MOVE ON TO NEXT YEAR Y/N

>>11270929
Then we can build them covertly and keep them in the Umbra, or something like that. If money's an issue, we just have to build less of them. STFU takes whatever we don't use anyway, so it's a good way to soak up our extra change at the end of the year.

>>11270895
Yes, with one modification: set one yard back Earthside to luxury work. Think superyachts, or 100,000 dollar cars, or private jets. Cruise liners for intrasystem travel. And, of course, any orders for large-scale equipment that the colonies in the Sol system might have.

>>11270892
I'm so glad you rolled before
>>11270904

>>11270931
I support this.

>>11270950
No. We need resolution on the hacking attempts, and more info on the anomaly at 40 Eridani.

>>11270950
Yes, after hacking.

>>11270960
Superyachts you say?

>>11270950
Once you've got the hacking attempts and our orders in, yes, new year.

>>11270960
Supported.

>>11270992
Yes, just like the USS Fatass.

>>11270950
Odd, that, given that gravity should be forcing the pieces to slowly recombine.

But that just makes the idea of rebuilding it from the Umbra more fascinating.

>>11270992
That particular one only works if we make sure that our robots have "oddly adorable" as the standard design aesthetic.

>>11271011
Let's first just take a look at it from the Umbra, for all we know, whatever happened caused devastation elementals to form or something... The Umbra is -weird-.

>>11270904
>>11270892
Weyland-Yutani has space colonies in seven systems:
Barnard's Star
Wolf 359
Lalande 21185
Sirius
Luyten 726-8
Ross 154
Ross 248

They are the primary source of all raw materials, from gases to metals.

You discover encrypted documents on three different types of Unobtainium that they've discovered, although you're unable to access details. U-005, U-007 and U-013.

The public hasn't been inform of the existence of this Unobtainium.

>>11271033
Don't forget giving them all advanced AI capable of flawlessly simulating emotions, no matter how little sense it makes for their assigned directives.

>>11271040
Expand primarily to systems that have no presence from any other corp. Timeskip, please.

>>11271040
We'll have to focus on WY to find out what this stuff is.

BEGIN SCANNING NEARBY STAR SYSTEMS, GOING OUT IN A SPIRAL PATTERN, LOOKING FOR SPACEBORN MATERIALS AND NEW UNOBTANIUMS.

Begin bio-weapons division.

Develop race of insectoids with hive mind.

Merge with the Zerg Quest that's supposed to start tonight.

>CEO Cerebrate Anon
>CFO Accountantbrate
>Chief of Theater Operations Artisanlord

>>11271040
Well, I guess we can try to figure out the details next year. Now, the 40 Eridani anomaly?

>>11271069
>SPIRAL PATTERN

AWWWW YEAAAAAAAAH

Let's get an exploratory team and construction yard headed towards Epsilon Indi, at least, along with any other stars within 20ly that Weyland-Yutani hasn't laid claim to yet.

>>11271076
Shape is unknown.
Size has already been stated.
The anomaly's heat signiature was an average of 295 Kelvin, with certain parts being as high as 310 Kelvin.
It was travelling in almost a straight line - there was the slightest arc to its movements.
It deccelerated to 0.05c as it entered the system and accelerated to 0.09c as it left scanning range.

>>11270950
Additional: Set research goal of Portal Carriers.
Have Hermes CY-1 & -2 construct Heavy Freighters to go to Tau Ceti with factory and Portable Portal components.
Go to next year.

>>11271158
How fast can the current known human drives go?

>>11271158
What other systems are on its projected path, both behind it and ahead of it?

>>11271158
What vector was the anomaly going in? As in, what direction and what systems would be in its path?

>>11271196
0.75c, and read the goddamned archives for basic shit like this.

>>11271158
Out of curiosity, how similar is that heat signature to the average human starship?

And was it still accelerating as it left scanning range?

Send some probe on the projected course of the anomaly, if we can travel faster, perhaps we can intercept and take a look on it.

>>11271247
I think that is a pretty low temperature level for a starship. Starships would produce a lot more heat, thanks to the various systems, engines and crew. Or the whole 3km thing is its heat dissipator.

>>11271303
thats 20 to 35 celcius-ish

plenty warm for life similar to ours, roo much warmer and we'd start getting heat stroke

I'm wondering if the object looked anything like this.

>>11271260
The probe cannot travel further. It has come its destined halt in 40 Eridian and can't move any further. Any other drone would be far too late to overtake them.

Also, their arc does not pass through any system, as far as you know. In order for them to reach a system, they'd need to alter course in deep space.

Anyway, sorry for delay. MOVING ON TO THE NEXT YEAR!

>>11271353
Where was the probe coming FROM, though? We should be able to plot a list of guesses from its trajectory?

Year 2173:
Crawler 4 arrives at Eta Cassiopeiae. There are two terrestrial planets and five gas giants. None of them are habitable. Nothing remarkable here.
Two anomalies identical to the last have passed through 40 Eridian. One has gone straight after the other.
You have created 2 Edge Mines for each of the War Ships in Alpha Centauri. That's a total of 16 Edge Mines.
You are beginning the construction of five colony ships, to reach the nearest uninhabited systems as far as you're aware.
You were in debt a bit to manage all of these projects at once, but you've handled it.
The civil war on Ares is on the verge of being won.
Edge Drones, a miniaturized version of Edge Mines dedicated for infantry-scale operations, have been developed. Market to military?
Portal plumbing has been marketted. Slight increase in income.
After all of the construction projects, you fell slightly into debt. This year, though, you've managed to pay it off sufficiently, with a little assistance from STFU.

Balance: $24b

Any project you wish to initiate this year?
Income: $291b

>>11271517
Establish a base in Eta C.

I'm on board with marketing the Edge Drones, but ONLY if we have multiple undetectable killswitches embedded in their hardware that only we have the codes for.

>>11271517
So... who's winning the war?

>>11271517
I don't think we should market edge drones.
It's nice to have an ace up ones sleeve.

>>11271384
Destination: Unknown.
Origin: Unknown.

According to your starmaps, they've come from deep space and they're going towards deep space.

>>11271517
Can we defend against Edge Drones? If yes, market. If no, don't.

And let's get a colony ship underway to Eta Cassiopeiae.

Those anomalies in the 40 Eridani system: where are they coming from? Seriously, their trajectory through the system should let us plot the course they took to get there.

And let's get one warship built at an outsystem yard, preferably one that isn't under UN interdict, and send it to intercept those alien probes heading through 40 Eridani.

>>11271517
Send a bigger probe to 40 Eridian, so finally we can find out what we are dealing with.
Should be equipped with an all-spectrum scanner, passive and active radar, magnetic and radiation detectors, heat-sensors, optic scanners (so finally we can have a look at these things) and other measuring equipment we can think of.

>>11271517
Plasma, have you read Revelation Space?

>>11271579
The natives of Ares - Aresians, as you've imaginatively called them - are split into two factions. At least, the ones you're in contact with have two factions.

It was originally one faction that beat back the other two with your assistance. Unfortunately, you had chosen a rather static, stagnant society to empower. As a result, you tried to stimulate change and started a civil war.

The New People are what the faction were originally called - they're the ones on your side and they support the changes you wish to install.
Those who wish to keep the old methods about are called the True Way. They're conservative and they've grown tired of your meddling after you tried to influence how their government functions.

I'm thinking we should send colony or factory ships to pretty much every system we know about. Since we have FTL comms, we can just call them back if the probes discover something insane, or worse, nothing at all.

Thoughts?

>>11271517
Start construction of 1 Heavy Freighter and 1 Colony Ship for Eta Cassiopeiae: Mission objective to be the construction of a mining operation in the system.

>>11271517
We'll use Eta Cassiopeiae as a test run for Umbral Terraforming.

Enter into sex bot industry.
Enter into bio-engineering industry.
Develop inter-branch project.
Release sex bot with actual vagina.
Enter into feminine hygene products industry.
"Accidentally" release "glitch" in sex bot that makes it have a period every month.
"Forget" to release patch.
PROFIT!

>>11271653
Maybe we should lessen our intervention. Or maybe we should intervene on a massive scale. I don't know which is likely to get us a better long-term result.

Sociologists, where art thou?

Let's design our future probes so that they can refuel themselves at their destinations.

>>11271686
Right now we're letting them duke it out, make it look as though we're giving them self determination.

>>11271687
Let's design our future probes so that they carry everything necessary to set up a conyard in the system.

>>11271681
We already kind of have sex bots. We market persocoms as a more expensive version of a muse in a robot body, and I expect that one of the features we quietly offer for a substantial added sum is "anatomical correctness".

>>11271670
Or we could just fill the colony ships that we have sitting idle at Earth.

>>11271597
Alright everyone, what do we stand to lose if we just approach one of the other corporations (like Morgan or Chrysalis) and ask if they have any data on the matter?

>>11271745
That would mean revealing what data we already have.

I'd like to attempt a hack first.

What exactly do the Aresians look like anyways? I think I remember them being quadrupedal.

rolled 31 + 10 = 41

Hacking Weyland Yutani.

>>11271780
Why do you always choose Weyland Yutani?

Are we currently pretty much running the show in the AI/robotics divisions, or is their stiff competition in that market?

>>11271761
Here's some of the information regarding appearance from the dossier, in two posts. Sorry for the delay, people.

They are hot-blooded mammalian quadrupeds. Males appear to have an average length of 6’4” from head to toe while females are slightly larger with an average length of 6’6”. Similarly, the average male weighs 160lb while the average female weighs 170lb. Like so many other creatures in Lacedaemon, their hide can be compared to ash-coloured sealskin. It is smooth, streamlined and can almost be described as aerodynamic. Their torsos are smaller and more compact than that of a human, by a few inches. The only exclusion to this is a redundant stump at the bottom of the spine, the remnants of a tail.

Their limbs are longer than ours and possess two additional joints. Their arms possess one additional joint between their wrists and their elbows and another between their elbows and their shoulders. Their legs possess one additional joint between their ankles and their knees and another between their knees and their hips. All four of their limbs end with the same appendage – a three fingered hand, with each finger being far longer and in possession are far more joints than a human finger. Each joint an Aresian’s body is hypermobile, leading to flexibility that is impossible in a human. To indicate just how long an Aresian’s arms are, their arm span is one and a half times the length of their body.

>>11271823
The structure of an Aresian’s skull can be considered almost dog-like. The teeth are designed for an omnivore and surprisingly similar to those of a human. The nostrils are much narrower and have several internal membranes to filter out the ash so often inhaled. Its large eyes possess multiple sets of eyelids to aid the vision of the Aresian when ash is raining. Rather than ears, it simply has a pair of holes, covered with small flaps of skin. Finally, it has a very large, long muscular tongue that it uses to taste the air. When moisture needs to be conserved due to extreme heat, rather than extensive sweating, Aresians pant, much like dogs do.
Just like human appearance varies, so does that of an Aresian. The skull can be narrower or thicker, elongated or flattened and so on. The colour of the skin can vary from being darker, almost the colour of charcoal around equatorial areas to being almost as white as snow near the super volcanic zones, where ash chokes the sky. Neither extremes have been seen due to lack of proximity to either area, but variation has been noted. Irises also vary in colour and common variations include orange, yellow and green. Slightly rarer, but still occurring are blue and red irises. Amongst Lacedaemonian Aresians, a longer, narrower head is more attractive for males while flatter faces are more appreciated amongst females. A larger skull is attractive despite gender, indicating a large brain.

>>11271737
They don't have the range, unless they're upgraded.

>>11271813
Biggest threat

>>11271823
IIRC their vocal cords and ours are incompatible, our translators were genetically modified to be capable of speaking the Aresian tongue. ...Where there any medical problems as a result of that?

>>11271850
Since they're all modular, that's not a big problem.

>>11271761
I always imagined they looked like the Elcor for some reason. Somehow the physical slowness of the Elcor mixed in my mind with the stagnation of Aresian society and how slow it takes them to change.

Having a slave army of Elcor always seemed to be an awesome image in my mind.

How has HEL been doing? She's our counter-espionage AI right? any noteworthy hacking attempts?

>>11271823
>>11271843
I get the sense you enjoyed race creation more than a lot of the rest of this.

rolled 67, 78 = 145

Hacking Weyland-Yutani and Chrysalis Corporation.

SENDING A NEW, SUPERIOR TYPE OF COLONY SHIP TO ETA C FOR COLONIZATION.
FROM NOW ON, ALL PROBES WILL COST $40b. THESE PROBES CONTAIN EXTRA FUEL TANKERS, A DEPLOYABLE CONSTRUCTION YARD AND SUPERIOR SENSORS.
SENDING A $40b PROBE TO 40 ERIDIAN.
FIRST HACKING ATTEMPT FOR WY FAILED.

Anything else?

>>11271895
Instead of becoming our slaves, I believe the plan was to get them working for us as a client race, treating them fairly.

>>11271913
So 77 and 88 huh?
But why Chrysalis? Sure they're probably run by Nyarlathotep, but they've been friendly to us so far, and they're just starting out besides.

>>11271913
Okay, so that's a 77 on W-Y and an 88 on Chrysalis.

Also, if we have any spare cash after our other projects, I propose we have it invested in expanding and improving our research facilities.

>>11271921
Keep tabs on the UN. Get a few men inside, maybe, but keep it low-level. I want to know what those bureaucratic fuckers are up to.

Other than that, I dunno. Timeskip, I guess.

>>11271933
Because hacking is our way of saying hello to a new corporation, and because we know essentially nothing about them. May as well start building up a Chrysalis dossier to go with the rest of them.

>>11271927
Well I know we are training them to become our bro-tier comrades, but the image still stands.

>>11271921
Just check up on ODIN, LOKI and HEL, see if they're satisfied with their work etc. Is there anyway of contacting BALDER (that's the name of that AI that piggybacked on another corp's ship right?) or is it more of a he contacts us sort of thing.

>>11271517
Plasma, I'd like to get an analysis of whether one of those alien probes in 40 Eridani could have caused the visible damage to the planet if there was a collision.

WY Hacking:
Apparently U-013 is some fascinatingly hard chemical compound using elements foreign to Earth. In the natural state that it was found in, it was incredibly malleable. Almost liquid. Upon subject to extreme low temperatures, it immediately solidified and hardened into a much firmer substance. They use it in a lot of their machinery outside of the solar system.

Chrysalis Corporation:
Okay, these guys are another cultist corporation, it seems, like Pentex. Apparently "something sleeps into the sun of Lacaille 9352". That's their reason for sending a ship to the system a short while ago, then.
A lot of it is semi-religiously gibberish. There's also a lot written in a language that isn't recorded.

>>11272056
Anything in the area to check up on this sun? Doesn't hurt to be curious.

>>11272056
Prepare inter-system portals for disorienting an elder god when they're scheduled to get there, just in case.

We should be able to toss it around like we did to the pentex probes while waiting for an actual warship to hit it.

HEL has uncovered no hacking attempts.
LOKI is apparently having quite a bit of fun discovering secrets. Some of the Lone Gunmen are complaining about his behaviour, though. Something about electrocuting them via their equipment and saying it's a joke.
HEL has defended the system against some hacking attempts. Nothing worth mentioning, in her opinion.

The anomalies impacting the planet in 40 Eridian should not have had a planet killing effect on that scale.

There were minor health problems after the genetic splicing. Their personal quarters required a slightly lower oxygen level. At standard levels, they developed minor respiratory issues.

>>11272056
There is a station at Lacaille 9352, built eons ago by an ancient race, long forgotten. It is the only thing containing the being within the sun, the W'rkncacnter. It must be repaired.

Timeskip?

>>11272056
...If there's something sleeping in a star I'm like 90% sure that we don't want it to wake up.
...I'd imagine that if there really is something in Lacaille 9532 it would leave a pretty big Umbral presence, but I have no idea how we could verify that.

>>11272092
No.
However, satellite telescope scans show nothing of interest.
>>11272112
You have nothing capable of creating portals in that system.

>>11272165
Exactly why we need a pair of eyes on the sun.

>>11272124
Aren't the Lone Gunmen functionally immortal?
...And is anyone really surprised by LOKI being kind of a dick? Anyone remember why the mythological Loki became a massive tool? I was never clear on how he went from being bros with Thor to killing Balder for shits and giggles.

>>11272215
They are. But pain still hurts.
>>11272150
Time skip it is.

>>11272183
Wasn't talking about that system, I was talking about the ones we are based in. should Chrysalis wake the thing up, I wouldn't be surprised it if got information on Earths location from them as well.

>>11272165
Even though it risks bringing Nyarlathotep's plan one step closer, maybe we can make that suggestion to Chrysalis? Don't we have access to the Umbra ourselves? Maybe create a plan where we loan some shit off to them in return for stuff.

Well... we found that info by us hacking them, but we all hack each other anyways so it shouldn't be a big deal.

>>11272056
Assign a few expendable people to try to decipher that language. Keep it away from the AIs and important researchers; we're genre-savvy enough to know that this shit sometimes drives the readers insane.

>>11272254
...no, no I don't think helping a bunch of cultists wake up a being sleeping inside a star is a good idea. At all.

>>11272281
And keep that shit away from our AIs. We don't need a Chaos infection in our machines.

>>11272295
I for one want to see that happen. Just because we can.

IF WE CAN'T WIN THIS WAR THEN NOBODY CAN.

>>11272254
A part of me thinks that if we tell the Chrysalis that we hacked them, they will see us as a huge threat and try to fuck us over. On the other hand, a part of me thinks they'd jump at that kind of offer like a bitch in heat.

2174:
A crawler arrives at Delta Pavonis. There are no terrestrial planets. Just two gas giants and three asteroid belts.
Three anomalies arc through Delta Pavonis. Two are going in the same direction, from deep space, to deep space. One is going from deep space, to 40 Eridian.
Five anomalies arc through 40 Eridian. All five come one after another, from deep space, to deep space, in the same pattern. Except for one. It deccelerates at a speed that would flatten any human vessel and changes course, accelerating in the direction of Pi Orionis.
The New People have won the civil war and are beginning to rebuild the damage caused by the conflict on Ares.
A probe is on its way to 40 Eridian.
Apparently, New Shanghai on Mars has been cordoned off by the UN as they dictate the rebuilding process. This light up on the Martian debate once more.

Balance: $127b
Income: $302

Also, I prepared an entire dossier on Ares, not just the species section. So, to the person who said I enjoyed creating them more than the rest, I put a lot of effort into that entire planet in all its aspects, really.

First check the umbra around that sun. Let's see it first for ourselves, that if anything is there, does it have an umbral presence.

>>11272386
Help Aresians rebuild. We let them settle their own battles as a sign of self determination, but now we should show that we "care about them" by funneling lots of resources into helping them recover from that shitfest.

Basically it would be a PR campaign

>>11272386
So, what is at Pi Orions?

Okay, we really need to find out what these anomalies are. I say we use Umbra first.

>>11272438
Probe is going there to check them. If we can, we should do an umbral scanning too.

>>11272386
Have we been able to get any useful data at all from analyzing the anomalies? Anything that would give us ideas for directions for our own research?

>>11272386
Are all the anomalies moving in the same direction?

If so plot their course, send a probe to a distant star in the opposite direction of earth from them, have it move back to a point along their plotted course and have it hail them when they pass through.

Trying to make sure they don't follow its backtrail to earth if they're hostile.

>>11272435
We'll know in eight years.

>>11272404
You pop an expensive telescope through an Umbral gate and catch a glimpse on the sun.

According to your findings, the web in the Umbra that supports all things like a scaffold, well, it's apparently severed in the entire system. Lacaille 9532 is a hole in the web, where nothing is supported. According to the Umbra, there's no sun there. Instead, there's a gigantic miasma of a million swirling colours, forming a thousand images and shapes. Your Umbra-savvy researchers recognize this as the stuff of the Wyld, the Umbra's spiritual manifestation of creation. It's present everywhere, flowing through the web of reality and around it, but it's definitely in quite a strong concentration there.

>>11272438
The only real options are either another megacorp getting a step closer to FTL or some alien fuckers that will mess our shit up.

Is there any shit like those probes described in any of the settings our rivals are based off? Anything to give off a hint.

>>11272386
Let's invest in an expansion of our R&D department. Either to allow us to do an additional project, or to increase the speed of our megaproject.

>>11272438
Too small to observe via Umbral telescope. You also have no Umbral facilities in 40 Eridian, so that's impossible too.
>>11272497
Initiating.

>>11272522
Uh, so something is there, like a manifestation of creating chaos. Now the question is, what should we do about this, and Chrysalis?

>>11272522
A sort of Crawling Chaos, perhaps?

As long as we're in the Umbra, can we get a quick look at other nearby systems? Just curious if there's anything interesting

>>11272522
Time to send a probe out to Lacaille 9352. Shit is getting serious over there.

>>11272541
Putting EXTRA cash into R&D then.

>>11272540
Well, the worst possibility for those probes is unlikely, given that Delta Pavonis would have been a very different system if that universe was being included.

Inhibitors aren't something you want to run into. Ever.

>>11272590
A colony ship will be created by 2178 and arrive by 2193. Still send probe?

>>11272624
The last thing we want to do is send a ship and have it disappear in that sector without any real idea what happened. What year would the probe be finished and how long would it take to get to Lacaille 9352?

>>11272386
I don't remember if pentex had a passive probe in Delta Pavonis, but in case they don't then we should share this shit with the UN.

They already know about these things through the probe in 40 Eridain, since pentex is just a puppet cooperation for them.

Basically, if aliens are about to fuck up our shit then we might have to work together to survive, so sharing this info will be the first step in coming to terms with one another.

They already know about the shit

We need to crack the unknown language as soon as possible. The more information the better.

>>11272655
Probes are quick and easy to finish. It'd arrive in...

2190.

>>11272667
If the UN wants something from us, they'd better be willing to pony up some cash. They don't deserve freebies.

>>11272691
Census on this guys? I do not want to be the only way making this decision.

>>11272671
Scientists are currently at it.
>>11272667
>>11272694
So, talk to the UN about it?

Also, any hacking this year?

>>11272571
Well, we know we have to stop them from awakening it. But we've got shit to deal with right now.

Ares: Can we try to aid the New Peoples reconstruction efforts using our construction yards? I don't know if we're actually doing anything important with them now so it might be prudent to try build them some pre-fabricated stuff, like houses or whatever they need.

>>11272671
It is quite hard to crack a language when you don't have any idea of it. And if it uses pictograms, then it is quite impossible.
You would need some interpretations, or a few translated sentences to crack it. Can't we find anything like this in the files from Chrysalis?

>>11272743
Guys, do we hack Chrysalis or Weyland-Yutani?

rolled 100, 43, 64 = 207

>>11272743
Weyland-Yutani, Tyrell, and Morgan Industries.

>>11272782
Go for Chrysalis, we need more info on this crawling chaos thing.

>>11272782
Seems like Chrysalis is the best option, especially if we want to speed up the language cracking process.

>>11272745
Sure can do that.

>>11272694
There's no profit in hiding this information. We have no idea weather or not these anomalies could be in some way hostile, it does seem to be the case that they're casing each other, so they don't look to be invading us. Yet.

If we share this with the UN, who have the largest space fleet I think, it would be seen as a gesture of good will, and it might help us in the future if we need to call on them. Conversely, hiding this info could be seen as specious at worse and uncooperative at best, so they'd be much less inclined to help us if we needed them.

>>11272790
I'm okay with this.

rolled 47 = 47

Hacking Chrysalis

rolled 1 = 1

>>11272793
>>11272800
>>11272790
Sorry about that. 1 switches Tyrell to Chrysalis, 2 switches Morgan to Chrysalis.

>>11272671
Somehow I don't think the sun will be a real threat for awhile. Because really, if it really is an Outer God then it is permanent endgame. Most likely it is just some weird magic tech type of thing. Releasing a world destroying god while Chrysalis was just introduced wouldn't really fit the timescale. Nobody starts off with their trump card.

In more likelihood we should assist Chrysalis. Not only would it let us piggyback off any of their discoveries but it would also allow us to monitor the shit out of it. The other megacorps teamed up to fuck us over, so why not team up with Chrysalis for the potential of finding a new weapon or tech that could tip the scales in our favor?

Well.. tip the scales in our favor for maybe a session or two until another timebomb explodes in our faces.

We know Chrysalis will eventually backstab the fuck out of us, so we might as well take advantage of the rare times we are on their good side. Who knows, maybe by helping them in this case we can figure out their future plans and secretly put up countermeasures to stop it?

>>11272822
I am voting for putting all the information on the free-web, and saying that we dont hide anything.

Its no use getting into bed with the UN at this point, they already tried to fuck us over multiple times

>>11272822
Perhaps we should wait for our modified probe to arrive? And when we have its info, then think about this again?

>>11272806
I just think it might be good for the PR, you know, we ask them what they need and then try to build it for them.

It could look bad if we instigated all this destruction in a civil war and then did nothing to take responsibility for it. Just ask first this time. We don't want history to repeat itself.

>>11272837
>>11272828
Confusing me, AARGH. Prefer to leave my original post as-is, or go with the roll to switch one choice to Chrysalis.

>>11272848
There was no "trying" about it. They have fucked us over, and they will continue to do so until we eliminate them as a threat.

>>11272867
This should have been a question. Sorry.

>>11272859
Basically this

>>11272848
I don't know about releasing it to the public, we could cause a minor panic.

>>11272853
Well we might be able to bargain a little if we had some more useful information, so we could go for that.

>>11272869
Not all of them, Morgan industries should be relatively buddy-buddy with us (plus we own a decent chunk of their stock)

And W-Y hasn't actually done anything to hurt us outright (though they probably did buy off the UN for pandoran mining priveledges)

>>11272910
minor panic isnt our issue. It is the worlds governments.

>>11272935
But at the same time the UN could possibly go "LOLFEARMONGERING" and hit us with more sanctions for "attempting to disrupt the peace"

And if it is another megacorp then it will bring us to their attention and they may try to do something about us.

>>11272910
Let's wait for the updated info on the anomalies.

>>11272935
That's true, and we could also use that panic to put pressure on the UN

say something like the UN trying to strong arm us in the past over issues we had nothing to do with caused us to decide to wash our hands of any responsibility for this sort of thing and just tell everybody about that type of thing when we find it.

>>11272964
If the information does turn into something then we can just make a trollface at the UN and further discredit them.

>>11272859
Do this.

>>11272925
I was only talking about the UN.

>>11272935
That's right until they fine Us and bring Us to court for it, or the rioting results in destruction to Our property or people not using Our products which costs Us money.

Don't get me wrong, sometimes panic is great for business, but right now, in the middle of a war on Mars, it wouldn't be vary helpful.

>>11272925
We shouldn't expect any special treatment form Morgan, even though we saved his life, but yeah we're OK right now. He's up to something, though, and I wouldn't mind knowing what.

>>11272790
Morgan Industries is fully colonizing Chiron. You're still getting your 8% from them. However, they're mostly united about what to do with Chiron. What are they doing with the moon? You've got no idea.

Tyrell Corporation hasn't actually constructed a single starship. They're not actually participating in the space race itself - they're feeding off it, like a parasite.

WY:
Just this year, contact was lost with a rogue planet that drifted into the Wolf 359 system. It settled into orbit and they constructed a mining base there. It was also an experimental facility, as there was apparently a parasitic alien species on the planet, and they want to perform a few experiments regarding it. Well, they lost contact with the facility a few years back and a team of specialists were sent to recover important information and samples of the alien species. Sadly, the mission was a failure and the entire colony was nuked by renegade security personnel, that's the guess, anyway.
U-005 is a liquid hyperconductive, better than any Earth-based metal. They use it in almost all of their electronics. You have gained the information required to synthesize it.
U-007 is apparently a room-temperature superfluid that they found on an alien starship on the rogue planet. The same starship that contained the parasitic aliens. Synthesizing it is almost.
15 Pandorium engines are being transported from Earth to an orbital facility in Jupiter via shuttle. The shuttle can be intercepted if you desire. I will require another roll, however.

>>11272964
If they keep dropping sanctions on us, then we get a vote to leave. Take our property, anything we loaned, and our people. Get up, leave. Start a dummy corporation to keep selling our products/ways off of earth. Absorb the Dummy corp when we have more buying power than earth does.

>>11273033
synthesising it is almost what?

>>11273055
Almost impossible, sorry.

What kind of relationship do we have with Mars atm?

>>11273033
>15 Pandorium engines are being transported from Earth to an orbital facility in Jupiter via shuttle.
Hold on. Is this just part of a regular transaction or is it highly out of the ordinary? I'm going to vote no regardless, but this sounds worthy of note.

>>11273033
Lets get some people to explore that planet. And do it fast.

Get in, get out with everything we possibly can.

>>11273033
Hmmm...I wonder what happened on that planet? MARINES WE ARE LEAVING.

rolled 84 = 84

>>11273033
Live dangerously, intercept the shuttle.

>>11273033
Let's call U-005 Hycium. We should use it in absolutely everything.

>>11273095
This.

>>11273097
Find out about any downsides first.

>>11273083
"Almost impossible" and "impossible" aren't the same thing. Is there any way to make synthesizing it more effective, and is it worth the effort that would require.

>>11273089
We're on bro terms with the separatist movement, since we helped them out in the past (told them who nuked them, and that the UN was building a super ship to fuck them with) I'm not sure how everyone else is.

>>11273091
No people. For the love of god, no people! Just drones. We have FTL communication, we don't have to worry about timelag for controlling them.

Make damn well sure that the ship we send to investigate is stealthed in every way we can come up with, though.

>>11273033
>parasitic alien species on the planet, and they want to perform a few experiments regarding it

:3

How did the hacking on Chrysalis go?

>>11273117
I'm thinking we should find a way to support them somehow. We would need to avoid providing them with any kind of portal technology, since that would make it obvious who is supporting them, but could we provide them with information on the U.N., maybe their ship specs or their movements? We could also supply them with conventional weaponry if it would help, or provide training of some kind.
>>11273095
I can get behind this

>>11273089
You do a few odd jobs for them. Shipping people about for them and so on. You're also an information provide.

In their eyes, you're a necessary evil and they're reluctantly thankful for your help. They don't like the UN or the corps, but you've assisted them quite a bit.
>>11273090
Well, it's very, very precious cargo that they're handling there.
>>11273091
Sending a colony ship filled with 10% military 10% scientist 80% military.

>>11273153
>10% military 10% scientist 80% military.

So... 90% military then?

>>11273091
It's in a different star system, it would take us fucking years to get there and by the time we did everyone would be dead due to "LOL FACE HUGGERS". Let WY deal with their own shit for now.

>>11273115
We'll probably need to research it first, which I would of suggest we anyway because stuff like this is worth investigating.

>>11273097
Agreed.

>>11273153
1% scientist.
99% Military.
And send a shitload of drones with it. As little human interaction as possible.
This should be a new policy regarding hostile worlds. Use Humans as little as possible.

>>11273178
Are we already forgetting PANDORA?
So much that was lost there. Lets not have that happen again.

>>11273178
Wolf 359 is close. Really close. It's only 7.8ly away. So a decade to get there, more or less.

>parasitic alien species
>Sadly, the mission was a failure and the entire colony was nuked

Wait a minute, unless I am mistaken, didn't Aliens happen in 2179? It's only 2173.

>>11273153
How much will a colony ship costs us and how long will it take to get there?

>>11273095
Well all things said and done we need to churn out some craft to get these illicit engines out of system fast.

>>11273218
I think that competition may have accelerated Weyland-Yutani's push to the stars.

>>11273153
For the ship investigating Wolf 359, make sure there is a decontammination procedure between the ship and the surface of the planet. We don't want a repeat of Alien.

>>11273115
No.
>>11273150
You hacked Tyrell instead, sorry.
>>11273171
I meant worker the first time. But okay.

1% scientist, 99% military, as someone else suggested.

Putting 500 Edge Drones in the cargo section.

The shuttle raid to obtain those engines was successful. They've been checked, debugged and been dismantled and examined countless times, before being reassembled, to make sure that they weren't being traced in any manner.
You now have 15 additional Pandorium engines.

>>11273218
what is to say it wont take us 4 years to get there?

Oh, and Plasma, when we send the ship, keep ship to ship based weaponry secret, and have our military personnel armed and trained. As little Cryo as possible.

>>11273197
But this isn't Pandora though.

This is fucking aliens and fucking face huggers. There's nothing of value to lose, unless you want to weaponize them, and we all know how that works out.

>>11273255
Oh fuck, I wonder if those anomalies are predator ships..

>>11273220
Send engines to Alpha Centauri?

Also, you've got 4 idle colony ships at the moment. So you'd be sending a standard one already made.

It'd arrive at 2183.

Face Huggers from Portals Everywhere!

>>11273255
If the films have taught us anything, it's that playing with Xenomorphs is always a bad idea. But I'm betting that we're going to do it anyway at some point.

>>11272717
Since no one has opposed it. I say we build and send out the probe to Lacaille 9352.

>>11273255
Lets see... Wasn't their a possible use for the Synthetic Royal Jelly?
Made berserk people?
Usable if we ever get into a fight against someone else.

and we could always drop aliens on a planet, seed it with them to stop our rivals.

>>11273255
Well, assuming you don't actually want the planet you drop them on, it works out pretty well.

I wonder what an Alien/Aresian hybrid would look like. A Na'vi hybrid would be infinite hax due to plot armor.

>>11273319
do it.

>>11273313
Playing with xenomorphs and using humans as any part of that process is a bad idea.

We have robots. And Hermium. (sp?)

>>11273313
Well we are pretty much the most genre-conscious megacorp in existence, so I highly doubt even we would fuck with xenomorphs.

>>11273295
No, send the engines to Tau Ceti, nobody knows about our colonies there and they'll soon have construction yards.

also, list of systems we've explored as well as the nearest 5 systems noone else is using?

>>11273367
Hermesium. And Xenomorphs have acid for blood, so we could still lose the 'bots. Not as bad as having a colony overrun, of course.

>>11273295
Build three ships with the Pandorium drives we're known to have. Make them mobile bases, pretty much, with portal facilities, construction facilities, and room for passengers and cargo. Then put five Pandorium drives on each as cargo. Send one ship to Alpha Centauri, one to Tau Ceti, and one to Delta Pavonis.

Also, a really evil part of my mind wants to see what happens if we dose a xenomorph with some of the chemical from Gliese 876.

>>11273295
Pop the engines into our colony ships, take them to AC, and then put them into our warships stationed there. Leave 8 Pandorium engines (so 5 plus out current 3) in Sol.

Try to get the Lone gunmen to make scapegoat somebody for this, like Brazilian terrorists or something.

>>11273379
Seconding. Also after this are we ready for time skip?

>>11273384
Xenos don't really give fuck to robots, if they don't attack them.

>>11273370
At the very least, fucking with them enough to know in-game exactly what they're capable of and how best to kill them would be useful.

>>11273245
And it will be impossible to trace the shuttle raid to us, right?

>>11273396
No. Scapegoat Tyrell. What better way for them to finally decide to get in on the space race than to "acquire" some Pandorium engines?

Although scapegoating only occurs if W-Y figures out they lost that shuttle to foul play instead of an accident.

And I think next year we should see what MNU's up to.

>>11273379
seconding that.

And lets set aside facilities on earth to work with the Xeno's. Post all the data that we collect on the free-web, make it very clear that they are dangerous beyond belief. Then engineer the facility we have as being broken into, and the eggs and drones released...

This is after we find out exactly what happened to the colony.

Two things to research, at some point: brain uploading, and custom-grown bodies. Since we have FTL comms, we could use that combination to start populating our colonies more quickly, or to shift people around faster, or to just fork off valuable personnel and have them in multiple places at once.

>>11273319
Do it.
>>11273322
I'm gonna need a source on that Royal Jelly, I've never heard of it. And do you know what else is good for getting into a fight with people? Guns. Look, I just don't see the value in getting all up in WY, one of the most powerful megacorps, face and moving around in their system for some ill defined reason.

If we do this, firstly they'll know that we hacked them, and secondly they'll be pissed at us for stealing their aliens (and that's if we succeed anyway).

This is just to much risk for to little gain, as far as I see it.

>>11273421
We already know how best to kill them. Nukes, flamethrowers, Hermesium, frag grenades, things like that. They don't have any tech, so we could just bombard them with cruise missiles and lose nothing.

>>11273443
Very difficult, yes.

Brazilian terrorists are difficult to blame at this stage, as the war is over.
Martian terrorists? Now that's certainly a possibility.
Anyway. TIME SKIP.

>>11273466
Both have already been researched.

>>11273396
why bother? the warships there aren't allowed to leave the system, send em to tau ceti and purpose build 15 warships there.

Standing order: All facilities containing Xenomorphs (and the surrounding areas) must be double-fortified with ACID-PROOF MATERIAL.

>>11273483
Then make those standard issue on any of our future probeships. We want them to be able to start up colonies right away if possible, without having to wait decades for shipments from Earth.

Guys, no negative consequences will arise from going to LV-426. We just lost contact with the colony. Probably some redneck accidentally cut some crucial wire in the communication center. It isn't as if I sent the colonists to explore some alien ruins. Where some parasitic lifeforms might exist. That we want to weaponize.

>>11273494
Put them in space. No portals allowed that leave the facility for anything except energy transmission. If the facility goes wrong, the energy portal is closed and a portal opened from the facility to the core of the sun.

>>11273505
You're effectively turning your probes into automatic colony ships. Which is really not what probes are about.

ANYWAY, TIME SKIP.

>>11273546
Fuck probes. We don't need decade-long delays after exploration to actually start sending useful things to other systems.

>>11273468
this comic series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_castes_from_the_Alien_expanded_universe#List_of_Alien_castes_in
_expanded_universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens:_Genocide

>>11273465
If you want to do this to discredit WY then that's more understandable, but we'd defiantly bring ourselves into conflict with them.

It's worth remembering that they're giving us 200 billion or so a year to keep up the Pandora blockade, and that currently makes up a lot of our disposable income.

>>11273447
Yeah they've been quite for a while, we've got an AI on route to Epsilon Eridani which should tell us what they found there, but we don't have much else.

Seconding send our engines to Tau Ceti.

>>11273539
This idea = yes.

>>11273546
We're at autosage, by the way.

We should at least send a team of military personnel with some scientist to check out Wolf 359 planet. The worse case scenario they all die. Whatever they can be replaced. The best scenario we find some new information.

>>11273546
how about expanding our selection into a basic factory unit.

Sets up shop, mines a planet for resources. Builds a cloning unit. Builds a FTC post. Downloads DNA info and brain data and makes our people on planet.

And have one that is dedicated to building a city, start it with a bio-dome to protect our people from atmo.

Go from there.

>>11273607
>and makes our people on planet.

This is brilliant. Why waste valuable space on cryo tubes when you can just BUILD the crew at the destination?

>>11273641
Uploading brains being hideously expensive would be my personal reason for it.

>>11273673
only because we charge so much for it.
And what was that I heard? Oh yes! The birdie told me that we might be able to manufacture minds... build NEW people.
With the same knowledge that others have.

Want a new Scientist? Only have ones with morals? Make a new one and delete the morals!

>>11273673
Unless it costs a billion or more a pop, I wouldn't worry about it. We're big enough to flat-out ignore any expenditure under one billion USD as inconsequential.

New thread: >>11273696

>>11273713
We don't charge anything for it, we don't sell it at all. it's only been used on the top of the chain of command, or special situations (like our hacker team)

>>11273673
I don't know about it being expensive, the only problem I can see is that it would require a lot of work. We may have the tech for these things but we'd still have to find minds to upload and create bodies for them, and I don't know anything about 'downloading' a mind.

But it's worth researching, since it would be a lot easier than sending ships there.

>>11273756
Well, I would suggest that we make a baseline jack-of-all-trades colonial team. laborors, scientists, security, everything.

Then its just copy/paste

>>11273755
Are you thinking of clinical immortality? That's not really the same as mind uploading.

Any way, new thread.

Sleep required.

Sorry folks. Going to have to draw this to a finish.