Requesting recommended list of topics to research.

>>11273752
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.
- Reflector Chassis - The ultimate development of the Deflector Chassis. Most expensive but reflects projectiles.
- Stealth Possibilities - Research the possibility on stealth in space combat.

If you have your own ideas, feel free to suggest them.

Oh and the Disintegrator costs:

$20b, 2 Module

>>11273758
Groupmind.

>>11273696
Disintegrator research, try to make it man portable as well as ship-sized. That way we can use it for instant tunneling and other such military applications as well as ship to ship combat.

>>11273758
Voting for groupmind.

So are we sending our band of ragtag marines and scientists to check out Wolf 359?

>>11273696
I also say Groupmind.

Factory probes.
Probes that have the ability to land, manufacture a bio-dome, cloning facility, and infastructure withing 3 years of landing.
Manufactured minds
Building a mind to be placed into a cloned body. This allows the mind to also be uploaded with memories, data, and training that they didnt have before this time.

Those are my recommendations

>>11273696
If at all possible, have our probe at 40 Eridani get a closer look at the alien probe that hit the planet.

>>11273758
I'll throw my vote in for groupmind, as well as increasing efficiency if possible.

Oh yes, how's our megaproject coming along?

What have MNU and Zorg been doing with their time?

>>11273799
Not really ragtag.

A team of scientists and over nine hundred marines, with one Edge Drone for every two marines.

Also, SOMEONE ROLLED A SIX WHEN HACKING CHRYSALIS.

FOR DELETING THAT POST, YOU FAIL THE HACKING ATTEMPT.

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT YOU'RE DISCOVERED BEFORE YOU CAN COVER IT UP.

"Care to explain what you think you're doing?"

>>11273838
Does Zorg have any records of phone conversations with a gentleman named Mr. Shadow?

>There are no sign of damage.
I vote we construct a crawler and go down there to take a look.

How long would it take for a 0.75c crawler to get there?

>>11273758
/r/ing group mind. Should help our research team, and the Lone gunmen as well.

That and we could market it for lots of money.

>>11273844
"Checking up. You know, saying a friendly hello to your data systems. Now, enough chit-chat shit. What've you got in Lacaille, motherfuckers?"

>>11273838
Zorg has continued to act as a second R&D department for MNU.
MNU hasn't been doing anything in Earth, really. It's doing big propaganda things about how useful the Gargantua will be for the UN, but that's about it. They're not doing shit at the moment.

>>11273844
Trying to gain an edge on our competitors, the same as everyone else.

>>11273873
same person, wanted to add, "What you expected us to try to BS you? You caught us we know it, you know it."

>>11273871
Yeah, we've got some time before Zorg actually matters.

>>11273844
ib4 "THEY'RE COMING OUTTA THE WALLS. THEY'RE COMING OUTTA THE GODDAMN WALLS!"

>>11273861
Quite some time. Initially, the probe you sent was a crawler but it found no safe area to land on. So, instead, it's simply orbitting the sun.

You could trigger the release mechanism, if you like. Try and have it land on the fractured, broken surface of the planet there.

Although, this means that it will no longer be able to track movement in space. Its focus will be entirely ground-based.

>>11273870
No, do not hint that we know anything. Just state the same thing they have been doing. Checking up on their competitors.

>>11273844
Shit.

Doing? We weren't doing anything, oh what's that? Right yeah, it seems like someone within our company must of thought we said "hack Chrysalis " when we really said "back Chris Alis, the new rising teen pop star from... Pluto

"Lacaille's our business. We're willing to swear hand over heart that what's going to happen there will not affect the solar system or you whatsoever.

"Besides, if you're planning on stopping us, you're a little too late.

"Our first vessel arrived there last year."

I feel we need to do some cautious research on what Weylant-Utani has done, if only because in the future, we won't be metagaming to realize that dealing with Xenomorphs is a bad fucking idea, because as is we are not justified in knowing anything about them, much less that they should be hated and feared.
(I think in-game knowledge and common sense is enough to realize that we don't want whatever lives in that star to wake up, and think we might want to casually inform the UN about this)

>>11273912
Leave it orbiting, more important to keep an eye on all the anomalies than to follow one specific one likely losing the probe and having no way to gain any specific knowledge from the exploration.

If the second probe shows up and the ship is still there then send a colony ship with a science and marine crew to explore it.

>>11273912
I say we do it.

We're not getting anything from our probe but vague numbers at this point. Time is running out, since the planet is breaking apart. We need to know what these things are, if they're more aliens ships, prawns, predators, whatever.

>>11273952
Hang up. We don't need to talk this scum.

>>11273952
"Cthulhu fhtagn"

Also: Researching Groupmind next.

>>11273952
"Would you mind telling us what you expect to find there? In the interests of not having another unfortunate Pentex-style incident, of course. It's always a bit disconcerting when a corporation appears to have something other than profit as its motive."

>>11273984
supporting this
>>11273961
the benefits far out-weigh the risks.
Besides, if we take appropriate measures, such as installing portals to capsules that are removed from each other by empty space, then we are fine. Let them get out, fall into space, and die.

>>11273984
Go for it. No risk, no reward. And we can always just take control of the Pentex probe in-system for space-based observation.

>>11273966
I'm all for sending another probe there, but we may only have one shot as this crash site before the planet disintegrates, and I doubt our probe will be able to shift through the debris of an entire planet to look for these remains, if there are any.

Look at it this way: we leave the probe in orbit, we can observe traffic in system, so can the pentex probe there as well. We'll be able to see all the ships coming and going, if there are any more that is.

If we land, we will actually know what we're up against, we will have valuable information, information we can profit from, information that other people, like the UN (whose basically own pentex) would like to get their hands on.

>>11273961
I support informing the U.N. about this being. I can't see how that would negatively impact us unless Chrysalis starts telling secrets in retaliation.

>>11274062
we won't be getting any info from the pentex probe, they and the un pretty much hate us.

as for the second probe, so far as i remember it's already on its way.

>>11274014
"The power to create. As long as you keep quiet and don't interfere, we will remain on good terms. Goodbye."

Click.

Also, releasing crawler to explore the broken world's surface.

Results will arrive next year.

>>11273952
This is the best damn opportunity to mention the Umbra idea, guys.

>We're willing to swear hand over heart that what's going to happen there will not affect the solar system or you whatsoever

Even though they are lying bastard, we might as well trust them so we can try to get a chip in with what they are doing.

FUCKING DO IT

>>11274093
I was pretty sure that we suborned the Pentex probe a few years back.

>>11274096
>>11274113
>"The power to create"

GODDAMMIT GUYS. I told you we needed to chip in. Seriously, that could have been a goldmine.

>>11274096
That... actually matches up, since the Wyld is essentially raw creative energy if I recall correctly. Lets just leave them to their work, but keep a close eye on them.

>>11274096
Well there's not much we can do Chrysalis now, we might as well wait until later if we want to do something about them.

Also, Plasma, don't we still have a +10 to hacking rolls?

>>11274196
That you do.

But the fact that the guy who rolled that deleted the post gained my ire, so I punished him, as the GM.

>>11274181
Or it could result in a WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE! moment. I have a sneaking suspicion that Narthy or some other monster is playing this corp as a bunch of fools.

>>11274210
and you did it in a way that maximizes intrigue, so nice work.

>>11274181
Who knows what that means. For all we know it could be the power to create evil.

>>11274269
Or the power to stop existance from dying.

So. Any other hacking attempts, or anything you wish to go ahead and make?

Alright, well we've got 300 billion dollars to blow. Anything we don't spend goes directly to STFU.

Why don't we try and convince the countries that currently don't use energy transfer portal to convert to them, run a Massive PR campaign, spend about 5 billion on it. Hopefully that will provide us with a bit more income.

Other than that there's not a lot we can do. So let's just find a way to spend money and then timeskip.

rolled 75 = 75

>>11274290
Might as well hack Weyland-Yutani to find any more info on Wolf.

rolled 69 = 69

>>11274290
lets hack... the UN. Screw with their plans. Alot.

Rolling.

>>11274290
Has ODIN found anything of note? Also, subtly monitor LOKI's behavior.

We should start running some Marketing Research programs and stuff to find out how people feel about our products and how they feel about or competitors, to see if we might get some insight into future improvements or areas of focus. It's relatively small scale but shouldn't take more than 20Bil or so if we want it to cover all the bases.

>>11274297
Let's combine Na'Vi and Garou and give them the task of making sure Pentex and Chrysalis don't do anything bad in the Umbra.
...Because if we don't do something that could be profitable but is probably stupid and dangerous, what right do we have to own Aperture Science?

>>11274405
Na'vi got wiped out by some virus.

If we have some money to burn, build one of those super-probes in our Kuiper Belt CY and send it off to one of the systems we haven't explored yet (pick one at random) and set it to auto-explore.

>>11274429
But we have their genome on file, so we can build new ones in our cloning tanks or try to create hybrids in our labs.

>>11274310
>>11274312
>>11274333
WY:
You've discovered that they apparently sent along an expert on the alien species with them, who first encountered them in an event involving a mining vessel. She most likely died in the explosion.
UN:
The UN are actively monitoring the anomalies. They have been for longer than you have and they've decided not to interfere since their trends seem to hint towards an avoidance of the solar system and nearby systems.
ODIN has discovered nothing new.
LOKI is being a tricky fucker, as always, but generally harmless.

>>11274436
You've sent probes to all terrestrial systems already.

>>11274452
>She most likely died in the explosion.

Not bloody likely.

>>11274405
Na'vi are dead, Garou are unaccounted for, but probably extinct.

A few Garou might have survived, though it's not likely, but they were all over the place so kill them all seems unlikely to me. If we could find them then we could greatly increase our knowledge of the Umbra.

Time skip seems like the only move.

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>>11274464
Lets find So... er, Ripley.
Give her a job.
Do not put her in charge of any aliens.

>>11274452
Can we build an AI to go along with a Master Colony Ship? So that once it arrives in-system, it can immediately begin construction of robotic mining operations, colony domes, automated construction yards, and cloning tanks to build new bodies for colonists?

>>11274471
Garou tissue is an integral part of Umbral gates, which we have access to. But yeah, the Garou are extinct.

>>11274450
But why would we want to? We've got our own soldiers, we don't need a bunch of Na'vi hybrids, we could just enhance our own with Gene therapy.

Anyway, spend loads of money on something big and then timeskip.

>>11274509
it can do that from afar. FTC is available after all.

>>11274509
Where do you wish to send this super colony ship?

>>11274525
need a list of available systems and the basics about them to decide that

>>11274471
The Garou have been genetically engineered to the point where they only exist as neural networks for the Umbral gates - their brains, if you will.

Cloning one would just give you a big stinking pile of nervous tissue. They don't exist as humanoid creatures any longer.

>>11274512
I'm pretty sure that the samples we recovered are altered beyond repair, I don't think we could clone a Garou from them.

>>11274514
Yeah, the Na'Vi part is unnecessary, but I feel that we make some Garou, their intrinsic connection to the Umbra could speed of the Umbral Terraforming process immensely.

Right, time skip.

>>11274540
IIRC, there are a few terrestrial worlds in AC, I think there are two relatively unexplored planets that only have primal soup on them.

Oh, that reminds me, build a few crawlers and start mapping and categorising the life there. Just for the sake of doing something.

>>11274558
So no werewolf commandos? Ah well.

As far as we know, our corporation is the only one in contact with intelligent life, the Aresians.

>>11274525
Let's send it to Delta Pavonis. Eta Cassiopoiea already has one on the way.
I think we should consider sending an automated mining ship to Eridian 40. The planet is broken, so mining should be easy.

>>11274590
yeah, but we've already got a massive presence in AC we really don't need to send anything new there, there are on the other hand something like 20 other systems that have been listed, we've got a base in 3 and a somewhat active probe presence in two others. while we've sent probes to al of them i don't know what we've seen.

>>11274631
We haven't seen anything inhabited, any ruins, or any Unobtanium.

>>11274648
...Have we found any ruins/wrecks, any relics made of advanced technology, etc?

>>11274610
Unless you'd call Aliens intelligent, then yes.

>>11274620
Eta Cassiopoiea is uninhabitable, unless you wanted to build space habitats there. Which would be pointless.

While Delta Pavonis only has two gas giants and three asteroid belts.

>>11274675
Nope. Aresians are the pinnacle of our alien contact.

>>11274648
I'm aware of that, but we have seen several terrestrial planets, and spreading our construction ability would help preven the UN from locking our ships in system like they did to Alpha Centauri.

Plus we can do research on gas giants for pontential good stuff well out of reach of any prying eyes.

>>11274677
Well compared to the other things we know about, Na'vi and various forms of parasites, I think the Aresians should be treated with respect.

rolled 48 = 48

>>11274692
Make a stipulation in our AI's programming. If the UN ever attempts to shut them down, they need to purge every file not owned by us that the UN is involved with.

And then we make war on the UN.

>>11274707
roll was unnecessary, it was left over from something else.

Sorry.

>>11274677
Eta Cassiopeiae is where we test out Umbral Terraforming. Reverse what Pentex did to Pandora to turn the terrestrial planets around Eta Cassiopeiae into living worlds.

>>11274706
I think that's the basic principle we decided to use when interacting with the Aresians

>>11274677
Has planets that we can experiment on with terraforming technology.
As for Delta Pavonis, I fully intend for space habitats to be created. That's what W-Y mostly has, and they're able to bring in ungodly amounts of money with the metals and minerals that they mine.

Year 2176:
Advertising campaign was relatively successful.
Market survey reveals that most people feel quite resentful towards your corporation and the other major organizations looming over them. Hatred of the system is a fad, after all, and once that won't fade with time. However, they are more than happy to purchase products designed by you that don't have your name on them. Essentially, slight subtlety is requred with the general public.
Remenants of advanced organic life located on 40 Eridian planet.
Remenants of advanced artificial structures located on 40 Eridian planet.
Remenants of a relatively advanced civilization located on 40 Eridian planet.
Nothing is alive. It's too cold. The atmosphere is falling apart and bleeding air into space. Almost no water is to be located - it has been drained away by the endless fissures in the surface. The planet has been rendered completely uninhabitable.
Hundreds of thousands of angry rioters have poured into the radioactive remenants of New Shanghai and are blockading themselves in the half-repaired ruins of the city, executing UN resistance. They are well equipped and obviously well funded. The number of dead Peace Keepers has risen from 324 to 3957 in one year.

Balance: $310b
Income: $310b

>>11274735
>>11274719
Oh, not only that, but after researching Macro-Intelligence and World Minds, Eta Cassiopeiae is far enough away that we could try it there without risking some of our more prized operations, either.

>>11274755

>>11274755
FUND THE RIOTERS!

but do it secretly.

Hmmm... ask our marketing division if making superyachts/luxury cruise starships like the Axiom would be a profitable venture.

>>11274707
>And then we make war on the UN.
No. That's just retarded.

>>11274719
Well we could do that in AC, with the two barely habitable planets there; but it might be good to do this away from prying eyes, I agree.

The only problem is that we don't have any Umbral terraforming yet, so I'd rather we held back on production until we at least had the tech queued.

>>11274755
Time to loot 40 Eridian and get R&D on any of this Alien tech. First establish some kind of base, which means colonists.

>>11274789
Asked in a previous thread. I think the answer was no.

>>11274789
Generally, interstellar travel requires cryosleep if you don't want your bones to be rendered into jelly.

Also, such cruises are only appreciated if they're allowed to get off and go on to planets. Looking at worlds through a window stops being so enticing after a while.

All in all, no. Not very effective or profitable.

>>11274755
Construct 3 more AI's which will eventually be tasked with running our automated mining facilities and remote control of robotic operations in other systems.
Create 1 additional AI to assist in R&D.
Prepare for the colony ships which will be returning next year. Make sure that they are upgraded to make the trip to Tau Ceti, and begin preparations of all of the Martian citizens who wanted to buy safe passage from us to Tau Ceti.

>>11274785
No, find out who is funding the rioters.

Make them accountable for the deaths that they have caused, think of the families that they have ruined, think of the destruction that they have wrought, think of the profits we've lost due to people being all rebellious and not buying our shit.

Set the lone gunmen on them, get to the button of this.

>>11274755
Quietly move our assets (AI in particular) away from Mars. I think that it's time we cut short our involvement in this enterprise.

>>11274847
They are fucking with the UN.
That is a good thing!

Protect their interests!

>>11274785
I also say we should move one of our idle spy satellites around Pandora over to Mars, see if we can keep detailed info on new developments. Covert funding is always a good idea.
I say we commit some of our research budget into improving our company image, see if we can improve our standing in the public eye. Maybe establish a variety of local-level charities on Earth and Mars like scholarships, feeding the hungry, providing homeless shelters, etc etc. Shouldn't be very expensive and might give us an edge over the other companies.

>>11274755
Do we have any more details on the crashed ship? I'm hoping for photos.

Or were those advanced structures you mentioned already stationed on that planet? Like they had been build there... Well, I did say this looked like an interstellar war of some sorts.

>>11274755
Investigate 40 Eridani more thoroughly, including anything we can find on the dead civilization.

And the planet should be collapsing back into a sphere shape, given that there's still lots of mass in extremely close proximity and without enough velocity for it to be flying apart.

>>11274847
If it helps, the number of Martian deaths since the uprising is estimately to be around 65,000, excluding the 91,000,000 who died in the New Shanghai bombing.

>>11274847
Not only that, but I hate rioters for their stupidity. THEY'RE RIOTING IN A HOT ZONE! THEY'RE GETTING THEMSELVES IRRADIATED!
Oh well, at least we can point and laugh as they succumb to radiation sickness.

Also, use one of our Kuiper Belt CY's to begin construction of an automated mining ship with lots of robotic probes and maybe an onboard lab to be sent to Eridiani 40, along with a Heavy Freighter that will bring back any useful metals and minerals.

>>11274831
For in-system trips, however, I expect there'd be a market.

>>11274868
That may be, but I want to know who they are and why they're doing it. If this is part of some Skeletor-like ploy to destroy the UN, and then take over the universe (I don't know, it could happen) then I'd like to know about it.

>>11274873
Moving our spy sats would take years to go from AC to Mars, not to mention that they're satellites and not interstellar spaceships.
It would be cheaper and faster to just build them on Earth.

>>11274868
And they will lose. They won't beat the UN and if the UN gets the slightest hint of our involvement we are fucked. If we declare of Earth it is game over for us, I don't know what other people are smoking. We are small time in comparison to the other corporations and there are no other markets besides Earth to buy our shit.

>>11274901
Also, let's start making ourselves a population of Outsters. Anybody who's read the Hyperion series knows what I'm talking about.

The only requirement we have is that they send data back to us. Scientific, cultural, whatever; the real goal is to just allow a massive variety of social experiments and then see what develops from them.

rolled 25 + 10 = 35

>>11274897
Boo-fucking-who!


Pic related, it's my caring face.

Rolling to get to the bottom of all this.

>>11274937
*declare war on Earth sorry.

We should probably put our involvement with Mars to a vote, since it looks like we're divided on the issue.

Personally I vote for supporting the rioters covertly.

>>11274937
The political situation on Earth is that they dont LIKE megacorps.

So lets use that to our advantage.

Declare that the rioters will be removed from Earth, and anyone that so chooses, so that they may be free of the influence of earth.

Put them on mars until we can move them further.

Then we destroy the mega ship thing.

I vote for cutting our losses. There is no way this can end well for us.

>>11274937
I basically have to echo this, while pissing of the UN isn't a good thing but sometimes can't be ignored, all of our most important assets are located on Earth. And cutting ourselves of form them won't help us. Yet at least.

>>11274930
Good point, let's do that instead.

Sorry, folks.

Think I might have to cut off here.

I need some shut-eye and have a job interview tomorrow.

It's been fun, SLINT.

I'd like to know who convinced the rioters to set up in a hot zone.

>>11275039
Always fun, good night

>>11274982
My vote is for no more involvement than what we've had before: Information, humanitarian aid and goods, and a ticket off the planet if they want to get away from the war.

>>11275039
Have a good night Plasma.

>>11275039
See you next week, Plasma.

Did anyone archive this thread?

>>11275039
good night and thanks for a great thread like always.

>>11275039
Well thanks anyway, we got some good stuff done this session.

I was worried we wouldn't get anything at all done this week actually. But you came through for us in the end.

The previous thread was archived, I'll get this one done in a minute.

>>11275159
Out of curiosity, did we have Megacorp Quest last week? Just wondering.

>>11275267
No, because sup/tg/ was down and archives of the previous sessions weren't available for Plasma to consult.

>>11275420
Ok thanks.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

Both threads have now been archived.

>>11275610
Don't forget to vote them up. Sup/tg/ sounds like they'll be taking purging more seriously now since bandwidth caps have started to be enforced.