I say we try and secure the power core for now, and look for a way to stop it from powering the cannon without blowing it up.

>>15202034
Cyberbrate and Labbrate examine the core as Warbrate's ground forces secure the room. From the look of it, the core is designed to run hot for approximately two weeks, then fall into a cold cycle where it produces no energy. It has four days left before it is scheduled for a cooldown.

VoidGate has locked out the controls, and shut down all interfaces. Cyberbrate begins inspecting the circuitry for a way to block VoidGate's access to the controls. Labbrate warns that if we try and fail to initiate a cooldown cycle, the drive will definitely explode. No question.

>He doesn't use Easymodo!
>Laughing Hive Queens.jpeg

http://archive.easymodo.net/tg/thread/15129382

>>15202000
We need to deactivate the self-destruct mechanism. In these circumstances, there's ALWAYS a self-destruct mechanism.

If all else fails, I suggest we warp our cerebrate SELF in and try to hug the thing until it blows up.

Sorry, I have no idea which damn PLANET we're on, so I'm basing this on the three lines of information provided.

>>15202215
See >>15202182

Previous thread.

>>15202182
Well, hey! That's awful convenient.

>>15202215
Whoa. Slow down. I've already broken the fourth wall a little and explicitly stated that VoidGate doesn't do self-destructs. No worries, there.

We're on Brullant, the final stronghold of the robot menace.

>>15202000
>>15202120

Like explode within the next hour or so, or explode within the week? Could our forces conceivably still try to secure a control room for this cannon?

If we're not picky about losing technology to scavenge (which seems to be very difficult with VoidGate stuff), we could depart from the system and leave behind a sabotage group to make sure that the reactor goes critical while we watch the fireworks from a few systems away. Then send in a clean-up force.

>>15202238
No problem.

For future reference, just search for your name (or a phrase you distinctly recall).

>>15202261
Ah. Okay then. I take everything back. Sorry.

>>15202294
Improper tinkering with the core would likely result in an explosion that would definitely destroy any life within approximately 3,000 miles. The orbit of the planet would be noticeably changed, and seismic disturbances would be substantial for the entire planet.

This is not something we will likely outrun.

>>15202120

Consult the Zerg science corp (with new addition Cyberbrate to the group). Is VoidGate still "alive" and manipulating stuff from within the planet, or is this just a last "screw you" before it shut down for good?

>>15202337
No harm, no foul. Welcome.

>>15202372
Labbrate theorizes, and Cyberbrate confirms, that VoidGate is a network intelligence, extending its vital computing processes over most of its available systems.

Currently, its systems appear to be very limited, and isolated to Brullant.

>>15202000

Can we still send an attack force to search and secure/destroy the processing centers? Or are the locks that VoidGate put on the interfaces within the power-core containment room not dependent on a constant flow of commands from VoidGate?

Is Voidgate willing to reconsider it's position?

The only reason that we attacked it was because it broke it's pact with us (and killed our 'diplomat'!).

As a generally logical being, Voidgate should realise that surrender (possibly even unconditional surrender) is it's best chance of survival. The lack of efforts to surrender up until now only leads me to suspect that he's got ANOTHER hidden base somewhere.

>>15202487
The internal processing centers are the systems VoidGate has in place to control the core. Disabling them would remove the cannon and all of its subsystems from VoidGate's control. Labbrate reminds us that the processing cores are inaccessible except through tearing out certain walls, which could collapse the structure and detonate the power source.

It suggests EXTREME CARE.

>>15202493
We haven't actually communicated with VoidGate at all since the outbreak of hostilities. We don't know.

>>15202543
I say we keep up the attack and sweep the plant and make sure none of voids forces can stop us from doing what we want

So, the highly dangerous and nifty core will turn off in four days? So, let's just take out all of VoidGate's terminators and the production facilities, and wait for things to shut down automatically. Then we can take it apart and build them on asteroids that we gingerly push at the Protoss/Kingston.

>>15202543
>>15202493

VoidGate put us on its "To kill all humans" list with an asterisk. Since not all zerg are human. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to try to get it to "surrender" as it managed to hack into foreign technology (protoss stuff) without any prior exposure to it. If we let it live, it'll just slip into something else and bide its time.

Perhaps the Zerg Science Corp. have gleaned enough knowledge from constructing carriers and tinkering around with that Arbiter we have to know how the protoss usually control reactors of similar construction? If Cyberbrate can get the schematics and other scientific details about the power-core, perhaps we could figure out a way to safely defuse it using our own knowledge of Protoss technology.

Also, didn't we contact the Jael'aten again sometime in the past? If we have a channel with them, it might be worth trying to talk to them and seeing if they can lend us any expertise in disabling hilariously dangerous jury-rigged bastard protoss power sources.

>>15202757

We DO have a few drones that was sent down with the attack force (if they didn't get themselves killed, that is). Perhaps we could try this the classic Starcraft way and start construction of a hive cluster, then begin to take control of the planet.

>>15202780
We will have time I suppose.
>>15202758
How about we clear an area near the front, say a 1 mile circle, place a table and chairs in the center with ice tea, and have an infested terran sit in one of the chairs, pull back our forces and see what VoidGate does. If that's not taken as an offer for negotiation then VoidGate clearly isn't in the mood for surendering.

>>15202757
This one shuts off in four days. We haven't even checked to see if the other one we found is on, or in cooldown mode...or if there might be more than just the two.

>>15202758
The Protoss don't build drive cores this size, because they are dangerous and unstable. The carrier's drive core is the largest they employ, and even that is considered a necessary risk, depending on the engineer.

Any Protoss engineer's advice for dealing with this situation would be to leave and let the inevitable explosion take care of those foolish enough to use it.

>>15202780
We could. VoidGate has consumed most of the resources, but there are always minerals and gas to find if you're willing to look hard enough.

>>15202543
Please open channels of communication. I don't care if it's via morse code using ultralisks as tapping sticks or overlords or leaflet drops from overlords. Turning on the radio might be a good idea too (nothing that can be corrupted by Voidgate codes though).

Even if Voidgate is determined to resist until the last fuse, we can still spend it's last hours gloating.

>>15202830
Well, let's clear out the rest of the cannon installation, guard it and check the other one, and the rest of the planet for that matter. Doesn't creep also leech organic matter from ground, it would make it possible to recycle our corpses, Zergcycling is the new initiative on Cerbrate Street if I recall, or was that fiscal responsibility?

>>15202851
>>15202828
You'll have to choose how to open the lines of communication. VoidGate has used standard comms signals in the past. We have basic access to its internal information-sharing frequencies, as well.

TUCAMP's suggestion is also possible, if a little unorthodox.

>>15202851
So my idea with the tea, but add a two way radio.

>>15202874
Better idea, semaphore. I can't decide if overlords, hydralisks, or ultralisk would be better with the flags.

I just realized the Cheetos I've been ignoring in the kitchen aren't the big, puffy ones. They're the badass gnarled crunchy ones. I am now eating Cheetos and feeling REALLY FAT.

My arteries are clogging already!

Voidgate has proven to only look out for itself in the past. If we try to negotiate with it I doubt it would go for becoming our subordinate as it would not believe its survival was guaranteed.

Remember its main goals are surviving and killing all humans.

>>15202908

Hey guiz, look what I found.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/15129382/

I blame that fuck weird date ordering system. Damn thing makes no sense.

>>15202921
>>15202182
My failure is now complete.

>>15202913
>Destroying all humans

As a FUNCTION of surviving, even!

>>15202908
For some odd reason your mention of Cheetos is making me want a beer. Curse you Cerebrate Anon and your beer association.

>>15202874
>>15202884

Let's do the two-way comm signals thing.

Also, let's start scouring the surface for a defensible area and/or mineral/vespene sites for a base.

Consult with Cyberbrate and the Zerg science corp. Are there any seismic disturbances, geographical abnormalities, or temporal signals associated with the power cores?

>>15202955
As it turns out, Zerg Quest is just a very, very elaborate ad campaign for Miller High Life.

If I've gotten a single one of you to drink Miller, even once, I'm more effective than a weeklong media blitz of graveyard-shift commercials.

>>15202982
You mean besides the normal crazy readings from Protoss stuff, right?

>>15202874
Standard comm frequencies it is then, but directed at obvious terrestrial Voidgate receiving devices only. If we establish communications, switch to encoded frequencies as soon as it can be arranged.

We don't want and cloaked wraiths or observers in orbit or cloaked dark templar listening in our attempts at diplomacy (Kingston would have a field day tearing apart the journalistic reputation of Radio Free Zerg).

First message: broadcast every 30 seconds, "Surrender. Lay down your arms, power down your defences and we will permit the continued existence of Voidgate. Destruction of a potentially valuable ally is irrational. Negotiations to commence at coordinates [insert coordinates here]."

Continue the offensive until we get a response.

>>15202987
I's grab a Saranac or a Guinness, so your MIller ad is a failure, and I was in the mood for a beer anyway, but back to the matter at hand! Walkie-talkies to talk to VoidGate? I still want the infested terran using it to be at a table with ice tea.

>>15202982
Now that we're looking for it, Labbrate is detecting some odd signals that could be consistent with a temporal disturbance. It's not coming from the power core, though.

It's coming from a facility near the planet's southern pole. A cloaked wraith flyby reveals a facility unlike anything we've ever seen. The closer scans reveal evidence of another unstable power core, and a lot of equipment we simply cannot identify.

>>15202987

>>15203020
Blast! Dozens of ad dollars, wasted!

>>15203008
Nearby the cannon, we broadcast the message. There is no immediate response from VoidGate.

We set up a small table with a parasol at the coordinates indicated, and land an infested Terran in a business suit. He begins making a pot of tea.

>>15203036
(I...may have just pointed the quest in an ENTIRELY different direction than previously planned)

>>15203036

That's... not good. A power core at the South pole of the planet, which is presumably snowy and cold like the polar caps of Earth.

Either there's another cannon located near there or that power-core is meant for something else. A planetary warp-drive maybe? Or some sort of black hole generator?

Let's get a team of Zerg down there and get a closer look. Or some Dropbservers.

>>15203036
Oh dear. I hope that Voidgate isn't trying to pull off a Terminator.

This quest is complex enough (7 factions!) as it is without throwing time-travel into the mix and I don't think the Zerg have any defenses to time travel.

>>15203036
SEND IN THE ZERG! I don't like it. And have a cloaked wraith ready to blow the place up at a moments notice. I don't like time travel plots.

>>15203036
I don't like the sound of time travel. Prepare to missile the blasted thing into oblivion.

Strap some ultralisks to the missiles, just to make sure.

>>15203083

The more we discover about VoidGate, the more I'm convinced that the best way to handle this situation is to rig the power cores to go all the way up to 11, then somehow make them disintegrate the planet. Or collapse the entire system upon itself.

>>15203115
>>15203102
>>15203079
2 - Send in units!
1 - Nuke it!

I harvest more vespene gas and then I do some bad roleplaying

>>15203126
I haven't had to whip this old thing out since the third or fourth thread!

Nostalgia!

>>15203123
can we send a scouting force and ready the nukes in the event of shit hitting the fan?

>>15203102
I'll make a correction to the statement of "I don't like time travel plots." I don't like VoidGate traveling back in time. I like the idea of us traveling back in time and killing Kingston on the Magellan.

>>15203067
>>15203120
>>15203102

I concur. It's time for some Zerg diplomacy. On that southern power core.

>>15203144
It's a science facility in the middle of the southern tundra.

They'll see any scouting party coming a mile away. They'd see it farther out, but it's all snowy and ominous.

Send in units, ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!

>>15203123
Both!

Incredibly wasteful and likely to make Accountabrate cry? Yes! Necessary? Maybe!

If Voidgate has time-travel tech, or even the means to escape (star-gate), then all resources spent on this war to date is wasted and we'll all be boned LITERALLY before we know it.

Pull all assets away from the cannon and drop a nuke on it. There's no value to analyzing the thing considering how dangerous it is.

Focus everything on the southern facility. It's either time-travel or VG's "main computer."

If it IS time travel, I suggest we get our captured arbiter over there and start fucking with time fields in order to throw a wrench into any teleportation attempts.

>>15203173
>>15203123

Nuke it into oblivion. Send a strike force afterwards to sift through the remains.

>>15203123
send in units!

>>15203123

Hell, at this stage, I'm willing to crash carriers into the damn thing (although crashing arbiters would be interesting).

>>15203279
If by interesting you mean tear a whole in the universe, then yes it is.

Is there any less vague info on the outpost?

How strong are the readings? How big is this thing?

>>15203336
would that be like dividing by zero?

>>15203255
>>15203209
>>15203211
(Well, I just can't see how that seems like the better option, but I'm not the one voting)

Realizing the danger any tampering with the timeline by a rampant AI determined to exterminate us, we react by turning to Gorn. It may be crazy, but nobody can organize and transport an army as quickly and on as short a notice as it can.

Sure, a few of the overlords don't arrive, and a few more don't arrive alive, but most of them get through. We have forces on the ground as soon as possible. They rush toward the southern pole of Brullant, trampling the ancient snows.

As they rush toward the facility, an energy spike registers from our aerospace assets.

The approaching hordes witness a bright light, and see...

Roll 2d100. Hope for a critical success or two.

rolled 76, 37 = 113

>>15203421
Oh damn.
VoidGate dumped all of its power into an oversized Arbiter Temporal Distortion Field generator, didn't it?

>>15203421

rolled 87, 4 = 91

>>15203421

>>15203450
(You know, I may have given it a 30% chance of happening in my head, but I never really thought this would be what happened. It seemed too...well, see for yourself. I'm ignoring the second roll for this reason)

The Swarm sees...Kingston. Corvus Kingston, the Supreme Chancellor of the Terran Confederacy, completely naked, is walking toward a large globe of energy at the center of the complex.

We almost stumble over a billion feet at the sight. Almost. Our forces are nearly upon the facility. How utterly should we destroy it?

rolled 66, 60 = 126

>>15203421
>>15203421

Rollin'

>>15203556
>>15203517
>>15203450
2/3 of /tg/ dice want the Kingston Retcon. Really, /tg/ dice?

>>15203546
Clearly it's a hologram to confuse us. Press forward!

rolled 87, 63 = 150

>>15203546
Keep the facility. Kill the machine.

>>15203546
>>15203546

Have the Zerg science corp. attempt to pinpoint where the temporal disturbance is. Have our mutalisks/guardians tear open/dissolve the roofs of the buildings where the temporal disturbance is. Have Gausslisks tether down from overlord tendrils and rake the area with dense gauss fire to cover our ground units, then send in the rest.

If we have any queens, have them hovering about ready to shoot some broodling spores at Kingston.

>>15203562
To tell you the truth I went to my kitchen and got me some soup, and I wondered what might happen. The first thing that came to my mind was Kingston is/was/will be a terminator... so now I'm loling.

Anyway if we have any battlecruisers/carriers/nukes nearby, initiate orbital bombardment on the spot.

>>15203546
We must capture this facility utterly. Gorn did a great job getting our forces here in time; now, Warbrate is needed for his precision.

Swarm the facility, we must have it. Ignore all costs and losses.

>>15203546
Do we have an frozen turkeys we can throw through the light before 'Kingston' gets through? The point is that if we can throw enough organic matter through the portal (being an insane drain of energy) first, then there won't be enough energy for kingston.

If there's no way that this can be stopped, film the entire thing so that we can relieve Kingston as the robot he is.

>>15203611
Or considering that all our bigger troops have psychic attack powers, which is something we seem to forget a lot... Lets see if we can harm it. If it wouldn't work, attack it with anything we can,

rolled 98, 93 = 191

>>15203594
alternatively, Send a massive amount of zerglings into it.

>>15203562
This is why you shouldn't play with time in a quest. It fucks everything up

>>15203634
>>15203682

Zerglings, broodlings, anything. Maybe even a few grenades. Hell, even drones would work. Although it would be a headache to see how present-day zerg traveling back to whenever that time is would affect the quest.

>>15203611
My thought process basically went from "he's asking about temporal anomalies?" to "Well, it's SkyNet. Now I have to have it send somebody back, but who?" I came up with it trying to fuck up the Xel'Naga to prevent the Overmind, it going to Xenta to prevent us, or it sending Kingston back to...be Kingston. 90 - 100 on the dice had the core going critical and blowing a hole in all your shit. That was the happy ending.

Anyway, can /tg/ dice handle 1d1000? Somebody roll that and don't get a 1. Contingency die.

Also, decide amongst yourselves how you're dealing with the situation, tactically.

>>15203657

Zerg gestalt consciousness attack!

All of our hate, sorrow, and being fed up with VoidGate and KINGSTOOOOOON shenanigans!

Hmmm.. I just realised that saving the Terrans from an unseen robotic take-over might be just the thing needed for us to win the next election.

rolled 55, 15 + 1 = 71

>>15203739
Send in something cerebrate-ish, and enough overlords with resources to stop Voidgate and kingston.

We will we will rock you.

rolled 197 = 197

Go!

rolled 576 = 576

>>15203739

How about 20 broodling implant attacks from some queens? The kingston-robot counts as infantry, so it may just work.

That or make it so fat with organic matter that only parts of kingston makes it through.

>>15203777
>>15203799
>>15203818
You have NO IDEA how relieved I am that none of these was a 1.

rolled 191 = 191

>>15203739
Crash one of our battlecrusiers into it, that's my suggestion. I'd prefer a carrier, but we only have bc and wraiths there.

>>15203820
>>15203835
Pump Kingstonator with broodlings: 1
RAMMING SPEED: 1

Still open to suggestions.

>>15203820
The problem is that the Terminator's organic skin-sheath doesn't provide any way to take control of its neural functions.

As others have suggested, I think our best bet is to try to send so much organic matter through the time machine that it shuts down before the Terminator can make it through.
But...if we send them back, what if they're captured and analyzed by the Confederacy, giving the Terrans a boost in Zerg psionic research and allowing them to deploy the Psi Disruptor earlier than originally planned?

>>15203739

Have Warbrate & Gorn control the ground forces. Warbrate gets control of the Ultras & Gausslisks and other auxiliary/support units; have the Zerg Science Corp. on a direct line with Warbrate as well.

Warbrate will direct the super hueg units of destruction to clear a swath through the major defenses, and ultimately to the facilities where the Zerg Science Corps detect the temporal anomaly. Gorn will then do his thing and drown the facility's defenders with huge swaths of zerglings & other ground units; Warbrate's gausslisks will act as a precise strike unit. Warbrate will also handle any available aerospace units that are on site, directing them as he sees fit.

The Zerg Science Corps will advise both of our 'brates on priority targets and targets of opportunity, as well as what stuff that looks valuable and might be of use later (i.e. do not smash too hard).

>>15203831
Wait a tic.
Wouldn't alteration of timeline cause alternate realities to form, not modifying our current one, since what has happened has already happened, again causing the circumstances which brought something to occur be rendered null, forming a paradox?

Pants theory. Also the dimensions of reality.

So, is time travel something we really need to worry about?

>>15203871

Divebomb with extra-strength explody/acidy infested terran. If it does enough damage to level a command center in 5-6 hits, I think it'll take out a human-sized titanium robot.

>>15203877
Ok. Land invasion...but you didn't say what to do with the Kingstonator or the time machine.

>>15203884
I've never put any stock in that theory, because A) it defeats the purpose of sending a murdering robot into the past if doing so does not save your murdering robot empire in the present, so why would Skynet do it? and B) it creates an entire universe without destroying a universe in the process, which kind of violates the laws of thermodynamics about as thoroughly as possible.

If shit goes through this bime tubble, shit will change accordingly.

Wait a second. Are we SAVING organic Kingston by trying to destroy robo-Kingston or is robo-Kingston the real Kingston all along?

If given the choice, I'd much rather have been facing an organic Kingston who was a worthy opponent rather than robo-Kingston, who is a cheat that was created by a sore loser.

Time travel really, really sucks.

>>15203947
Very well.

Eat the terminator. (With an overlord, or whatever. Hell, even having cyberbrate take him over, shoving an EMP up his ass, anything.)
Insert massive wave of zerg, and a cerabrate with orders to colonize at certain quadrants so we can expand our operations at present time.

>>15203871
>>15203947

D'oh!

Let's try RAMMING SPEED! then. With all the systems cranked up to 11 to try to cause a huge explosion.

Broodlings might not work so well seeing as how Kingstonator is only wearing imitation skin. Great for looking trim and powerful, but not so much nutritious goo for Broodlings to grow from.

>>15203947
We need to destroy the time machine. Rendering it inoperative is of the utmost priority. Kingston is the lesser threat at this point in time compared to whatever Voidgate has planned.

>>15203975

Even if the broodlings don't spawn that's still at least a few kilos of extra mass that Void-gate didn't account for.

>>15202000

Did you mean XLIV? That is not a Roman Numeral.

Counter sage bumpage. Damn, I forgot.

rolled 906 = 906

>>15203947
Blow up the crazy protoss reactor at the cannon and hope it blows up the planet in time.

>>15203965
Depends. If he gets through, I'll have to make that decision. If he doesn't, I won't. The Ret in Retcon is for Retroactive.

>>15203975
>>15203902
Kingstonatorlings: 1
RAMMING SPEED: 2
RIP AND TEAR AND LET GOD SORT 'EM OUT: 1
LIVE FOR THE SWAAAAARM: 1
Forget Kingston! Blow the machine!: 1

Wow. Opinions are varied, here. Way more plans than normal.

Nuke it! Nuke with everything we got!

>>15204022
Yeah. Not being able to find the previous thread got me all messed up. Then it turned out I just wasn't looking hard enough. Off to a bad start, it seems.

>>15204026
Kingstonatorlings: 1
RAMMING SPEED: 2
RIP AND TEAR AND LET GOD SORT 'EM OUT: 1
LIVE FOR THE SWAAAAARM: 1
Forget Kingston! Blow the machine!: 1
BLOW THE PLANET: 1

>>15203993
Also, I'd like to see robo-kingston bluff his way to Emperor-hood with half his skin digested and robot bits sticking out.

>>15204061
All but the last two

>>15204101
seconded

>>15204061
Yes. I see no reason why we don't use a combined approach.

>>15204101
>>15204143
>>15204159
(Despite knowing full well you didn't really intend to vote for it, I notice that this means crashing a battlecruiser into the facility in order to detonate the core and destroy everything there got to 3 votes before everything else. That's convenient. Somebody roll 1d100. 1 - 10 means the Kingstonator makes it through before the cruiser hits)

>>15204061
Combined approach using options 1, 3, and 4.

>>15204101
>>15204159
Man do I love a good comprise. FOR SWARM CHARRRGE!!!

rolled 91 = 91

>>15204180

>>15204180
>>15204208
A nice 3 mile blast radius, yay.

>>15204208
I wish VoidGate could feel emotions, just so I could relish its frustration as its every plan and contingency is blunted by our actions.

>>15204208
Worried that our forces won't arrive in time, we direct one of our battlecruisers into the atmosphere.

Kingston steps closer to the light. Closer to destiny. Time seems to slow at the pole, as if the universe itself is resisting. It flows fine above, however, The ship barrels down through the atmosphere, diverting all power to shields to mitigate the heat. Still, the pressure eventually torques the entire starboard engine off of the ship. It doesn't matter, as the craft still careens into the polar outpost just as the Kingston machine's right leg passes into the sphere.

The explosion is massive and instantaneous. All of our ground forces converging on the pole are instantly disintegrated. Their very atoms are torn asunder in a flash of bright blue light visible from almost anywhere in the system.

Our forces holding the cannon feel a massive earthquake. Cracks appear in the architecture of the building. The entire world shakes, as large slices of the pole begin to orbit the world.

>>15204224
Wait... Accountbrate is going to be furrious.

>>15204302
Accountantbrate would weep tears of frustration if it could cry.

Fall back all forces to a safe distance from the plasma cannon.

>>15204308
It was necessary in the face of an immediate existential threat.

On the plus side, maybe Voidgate is willing to surrender now that he's got no more aces up his sleave.

If not, he's probably still up to something...

>>15204338
>A safe distance

If you're thinking that the cannon will explode, you should re-read >>15202367

>>15204358
>Safe distance = Full scale evacuation of any resources which we could not replace, i.e. Data.

>>15204358
A safe distance is off planet.

>>15204358
Speaking of cores exploding: guess what was powering the time-travelling device that we just crashed a freakin' battlecruiser into?

>>15204377
>>15204382

If the Zerg Science Corp. think it is safe, have our Arbiter recall any irreplaceable assets. Have the safe end of the recall zone secured by copious amounts of defense forces (air, ground, and patrolling subterranean areas underneath the area) in case we get any unexpected visitors.

>>15204377
Try to unplug the cannons power core and take that too.

>>15204410
Shouldn't we wait to see if the quakes will quiet down and the automated cooldown cycle begins?
The chances of successfully initiating a shutdown on the drive so it can be recovered are pretty slim.

>>15204400

By "irreplaceable assets", I mean any particular equipment we might have brought along that would be very difficult to replace. Or even the largest amount of Zerg that we can warp off-world.

>>15204400
(You, sir, are a genius. Gold star.)

Our forces in the cannon's power station gather closely together as a blue light swirls around them. A moment later, they appear safely on Xenta. Not many are here, compared with the number of troops we landed on Brullant, but they are here.

Our other battlecruiser, still in orbit, notices a substantial buildup of energy on the planet. Moments later, four explosions of similar apocalyptic scope as the last rock the planet. For a few moments, all scanners and sensors are overwhelmed, and the light is too bright to watch, even through a nictitating membrane and three feet of polarized transparent steel.

When it is over, Brullant is no longer a proper planet. Its core is bare, ejecting pressurized magma into space, where chunks of its crust hover. Some float rebelliously away from the dying planet. Others hover, uncertain of whether to return home or strike out as a new moon. Still others dive back to where they once sat, their impacts unwittingly intensifying the death throes of the world.

This world is no more. Even if, by some miracle, VoidGate's minions had dodged the explosions that tore the surface of the planet free, they would have been pulverized by the tectonic events that continue to end this celestial body.

VoidGate is no more. Its threat is ended. Our victory is final.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/15202000/

(Talk about going out with a bang, guys! Next week, we can find out what the rest of the galaxy has been doing while we terminated the terminators)

(Also, I'm formally apologizing to the archivists. Obviously, I just don't understand the newfangled sorting algorithm. My bad, guys. Keep up the good work)

I have a question: have we recovered enough Terminator parts by now, that we could construct our own Terminators with synthetic skin if we wanted to? And that with Cyberbrate, we could reprogram them to to be loyal to the Swarm, rather than VoidGate?

Because I'd like to doctor up a couple Kingston-Terminators, and display them prominently on ZergTV as 'recently captured AI research facilities reveal disturbing development: Is Chancellor Kingston a robot in disguise?"

>>15204613
To summarize the rest of the galaxy, hell in a hand basket.
>>15204616
I like it.

>>15204616
Better idea, build a Kingstontron, and have it show up in our ZergTV programing to warn people about the evil plant monsters (Protoss) that eat planets and other such hyperbole.

>>15204661
We could even let Artisanlord do it as a "Breaking News Bulletin" to interrupt regular programming, and have a round-table conference call between Artisanlord, thumbling-proxy for Cyberbrate, thumbling-proxy for Labbrate, thumbling-proxy for Warbrate, and an uncomfortable looking Protoss Archon from that colony of archons as a 'special guest expert from the Protoss Empire'. Have the thumblings all wearing specially tailored suits and ties as they discuss the possibilities that the AI may have already replaced Kingston, possibly other high-ranking members of the Confederacy, and what this bodes for the safety of the Koprulu Sector for organic life.

>>15204702
So a zerg version of the McLaughlin Group?

>>15204616
Lets have Artisanlord write an epic saga to commemorate our victory.

Send EXCESSIVE gifts and copious amounts of praise to all cerebrates involved (even Nargil, for the effectiveness of his new strains).

Ridge-scratchers for EVERYONE!

Send flowers and chocolates to accountabrate with a small 'I'm sorry' card attached.

Spend an hour or so in conference with Artisanlord to ensure that we get as much positive PR as we can squeeze from the situation. I want to see if we can lobby for a seat in the Confederacy.

Finally, speak to Accountabrate about the feesibility of launching an Initial Public Offering of shares in Zerg-corp-mining.

>>15204804
>>15204702
I second these. But not the part about wanting a seat on the Confederacy, cold ally at best, me thinks.

If Cerberate anon reads the archived threads, then I'd like to ask whether or not it would've been possible for us to get our arbiter in there and use its own temporal fuckery to disable the portal, or cause some kind of failsafe shutdown.

>>15204922

Picture this: Kerrigan in a business suit with glasses.

We'll be shoe-ins as President-for-Life.

>>15205086
Baby sis, in tight three piece suit, sure why not.

>>15205086

>>15205139
And it's things like this that make me drink.

>>15205122
We shall make this happen.

>"Sis! Hey big sis! We found something that may help your diplomacy with the Toss and Humans! Here you go!"
>Give her a slightly too-small three piece suit
>Confused Kerrigan

>>15202182
>>15202238

in the short run, yes, and only if you don't care about images.

searching can be a bitch and a half.