>>33871407
We made these right?
>>33868620
>Olfactory:Advanced(2N)
>Acoustic:Advanced(2N)
>Radio: Advanced(6N 3M)
>Electrical(3N 2M)
>Arm/graspers
>Dexterity:(1N)
>Legs/mobility
>Sprint(1N)
>Auxiliary/Utility
>Wings: Advanced air superiority(4N)
>Radiator Tubes:(4N)
>Oxygen Recycler:(8N)
>Carapace:
>Mimetic skin(2N)
>Adaptive camouflage(8N)
>Size: Small
Cost:10N 1m
Upkeep:5N
Name:Scout/Spy
I noticed they weren't added, even though everyone agreed to it.

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>>33871407
>Current armory
41 Thorn Launchers
2 Thorn Cannons
23 Sting Casters
1 Rotary Stinger
3 Fire Sprays
1 Plasma Spray

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 4970
Metals: 6587

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 75
Queen – 5
Worker (480) – 960
Radiator Worker (40) – 160
Warrior (22) – 88
Thinker (49) – 147
Quantum Thinker (20) – 100
Speaker – (1) – 5
Digger (30) – 120
Refinery (10) – 70
Sniffer (2) – 8
Wasp (18) – 90
Antenna (3) – 9
Haz-mat Workers (20) – 80
Shock Troops (5) – 65
Excavator (9) – 171
Colossus (2) – 30
Advanced Relay (6) – 600
Space Pod (3) – 90
Shuttle (2) – 50
Scout Corvette – 325
Nutrient costs: 3248

>Income
Metals: 2500
Nutrients: 4050
Net: 802

Hive Structure
>Reservoir
>General storage
>Food storage
>Advanced Laboratory
>Infrastructure
>Hangar facilities: Room for 40 Aero Drones and 20 Shuttles (25N)
>Mine: +250 M per day (+25 M per digger)
>Algae Farm: +4000 N per day, 40 Workers (1 worker per 100N)
>Clarke Research Outpost
>Hel’s Angel Prison Outpost
>Docking Pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 ships (50N)

Current Construction Projects
40 Algae Farms (+4000N, 40 workers)

New Construction Options
>Algae Farm – +100N per day, 1 worker to maintain
>Hangar Expansion – Add on to current hangar facilities for your choice of +40 aero drone space, or +20 shuttle space. 50N 100M
>Anti-orbital battery – A bunker armed with a massive Particle beam capable of attacking ships in orbit from the ground. It includes the power and sensor systems required to operate it. 250N 1500M

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>>33871443
Ship Construction Options
http://pastebin.com/a7Q1shZe
http://pastebin.com/YTwGk8n1


Finished Research

>Skyl dissection
While the Skyl biology is rather interesting, you focus your attention to the complex array of microscopic machines that hold it together. When the Skyl void crystal was destroyed it appears that the machines lost power and began to fall apart from their arrangement. While they are currently inert, you were able to salvage them from the bodies. Each mechanical cell appears to still be intact, but they have lost their structure like dried out sand. The skulls of the Skyl samples each have a larger device near the base of the skull which catches your interest.

Current Research

>Bioweapon Research
Medium/ Very dangerous
Experimentation and testing with new artificial strains of spores, as well as other engineered toxins would make it possible to produce tailor-made bioweapons that would be quick to spread and difficult to cure.

>Biomechanical engineering
Slow
The study of how various substances interact and influence other life forms has given way to the possibility of developing new and more effective methods of biological manipulation.

>>33871435
I'll keep record of the design, but none have been produced yet.

>>33871518
ah ok, i just found it strange, that it was included.
>>33871518
How long does the bioweapon research have, with our thinkers on it, and the pherome research as well?

>>33871443
>>Anti-orbital battery – A bunker armed with a massive Particle beam capable of attacking ships in orbit from the ground. It includes the power and sensor systems required to operate it. 250N 1500M
Would this get detected if built?

>>33871518
Hey can we arm our space station with a
>Anti-orbital battery varient?

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>>33871518
>Available research options
http://pastebin.com/F6t39KSp

Back at your hive your drones report an interesting finding in their survey of the mountain. The mountain itself is in fact a dormant volcano, with much of the region covered in thermal vents and hot springs. On the far side of the mountain range a river flows from near the peak, and you detect a heavy mineral content within the water. The geothermal activity is rather mild, with no detectable disturbances. As a research facility it should do nicely. The heat of the thermal vents would go a long way to help hide your presence, and the mountain itself is remote and secure.

>Start excavation and construct an entrance in the mountain
>Keep looking for other locations for a research base
>Other

>>33871435
Pls it's too early to mention adaptations, I want to talk about that design before it's laid but not for another 300 posts.

>>33871670
God no. The entire point of that meteor mining base is it has no technology that can be detected that makes it conspicuous. It's just another meteor.

>>33871709
>Start excavation and construct an entrance in the mountain

>>33871709
>Start excavation and construct an entrance in the mountain

>>33871709
>Start excavation and construct an entrance in the mountain
Sounds good to me!

also, we MUST take the giant crab research now.

>>33871713
Nah man that only for now

The Base gonna be the only place where we can build all our heavy stuff like the capital ships later

Soon we are gonna get outed hopefully not by the eldricth gods of the ceph

>>33871787
I'm still hoping we just turn it into giant bullet.

>>33871709
>Start excavation
You waste no time in collecting your workers and excavators. Your shuttles carry them to the mountain and they quickly go to work. There is a great deal of water flowing through the mountain, which may impede construction, but you think that such a hazard may in fact help when it comes to containing dangerous experiments or samples.

>>33871662
It would be less detectable than the docking pylon, but once you readied it to fire it would be very easy to detect. By then it would likely be too late for the target, however.

>>33871828
>I'm still hoping we just turn it into giant bullet.
That is a stupid and impractical plan

>>33871843
makes sense by the time we build it we are no longer playing the primitive game eh?

>>33871861
Rule of cool, anon.

>>33871709
>Start excavation and construct an entrance in the mountain

>>33871889
Rule of stupid, anon.

>>33871828
I thought we were gonna give it grappling tentacles and a mouth

>>33871435
>>33868620(Cross-thread)
Uhhhh are you sure you linked right?

>>33871843
QD, will we need to get the exotic metals to make new nuclear warheads? Or is that hand waved?

>>33871959
It the same guy who keeps bringing up the spy slash gremlin drone

ignore it

>>33871994
>gremlin drone
?

>>33872021
Some drone supposed to be about to work with non organic tech and cause havoc in ships and stuff

Thats what gremlins are right?

>>33871994
i only pushed it, last thread really, plus i don't see any reason to keep our current sniffers.(it even says that they are obsolete to a degree).
>>33871959
I copied that text and forgot to remove the post number.

>>33872091
Oh, no i'm not that guy, i still find that idea stupid, we would need better understanding of tech before even making such a specialized drone, until then our thinkers are more than enough.

>>33872091
>>33872136
Hah, yeah that's me. Sorry if it seemed i was pushing it. It was mostly just thought of as an upgraded spy drone. With the nice extra ability to hack into enemy electrical wires.
But i will be more than satisfied with just upgrading our current sniffers like this >>33871435

>>33872136
The primary problem I have with that drone is that it doesn't do anything that a warrior cutting a cable can't do better.

That aside, Union ships have hack-proofing measures and the Unity is better at hacking then we could ever hope to be.

Btw, has anyone noted that whatever station received that football final game probably doesn't have an ftl comm, so it's ripe for the picking...

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>>33871843
As you watch the Texas launch itself out of the system the massive station orbiting the gas giant of Calpamos comes alive with small vessels buzzing about it like a cloud of gnats. They drift to the various settlements on the small moons of the planet and you hear the station erupt in a burst of radio transmissions as docking requests and landing clearance is exchanged.

Your pod looks to the other small settlements. Calpamos has three moons, all of which appear to be inhabited to some degree. One is a primitive world with barely breathable atmosphere named Archeron, the second is a bustling city along the equator of a moon covered in small grasslands and sparse brush. The transponder labels it as Deckard's Claim. The third is a frozen ball of ice named Djin. It's atmosphere is filled with crystallized water thrown into orbit from thermal vents, giving it the appearance of a misty shroud as it drifts along its orbit.

Meanwhile, your corvette drifts over the Valen settlement, watching as the artificial lake continues to grow around the cruiser to form a small metal island.

>Move your corvette to a new system
>Move one of your pods to a new system
>Continue to observe the settlements
>Other

>>33872281
>Continue to observe the settlements

>>33872239
Well ya there out of the loop and it gives us the opportunity to have some fun if we want

But that fleet of theirs is docked there so yeah kinda suicidal

And yeah its a waste to make a drone like that anyway

>>33872219
Then stop pushing it already

>>33872281
>Continue to observe the settlements

Diablo reference? that aint good for them now

>>33872281
>Continue to observe the settlements

>>33872281
>>Continue to observe the settlements

>>33872304
I worded it poorly. The Jeremiah O'brien docked at Gibson station in Dagmar, while the fleet is docked at Calpamos station in Koenig, which appears to serve as a construction yard. Almost half of the ships you see docked appear to be in some state of maintenance.

>>33872239
>>33871990
Can we not waste posts on hypotheticals, meta, wish lists, and things that won't be relevant until the distant future and which don't require advance planning in the now, and focus on waiting for immediate prompts by QD?

>>33872281
>>Move your corvette to M-199

>>33871443
>500 workers
>Still huge income
We are doing it anons. Dat explosive growth train has no breaks.

>>33872430
we should get 151 quantum thinkers.

>>33872281
You continue to watch the growing settlements as your pods drift through space. A slight shimmer and twinkling of a few stars is the only indication of your presence.
You still have much to do, and much to see. You contemplate bolstering your forces.
>Build new ships
>Lay new drones
>Neither
>Both
>Other

>>33872475
>Lay new drones
this
>>33872460
and
>>33871435

>>33872475
More probes for spying.
More thinkers for thinking.

>>33872475
>Both
Warriors 60
Workers 100
and a Frigate

>>33872475
151 Qthinkers
Cost: 1510
Upkeep: 755

>>33872475
We also need some ships for gathering samples.

>>33872475
Ideally, we'd lay 720 more workers to increase building-new-farms capacity again, but we only have about 800 net nutrient income. So that's out until the new farms come online.

We need another 20 diggers for the meteor mining base, since we like 4 refiners whose capacity is wasted.

And 6 more refineries and 30 more diggers for the terrestrial mine.

>>33872564
veto on the workers and frigate.

>>33872566
we got plenty of freaking thinkers

hell we just replaced all our old ones with the new ones

Were good on that

we need more than just thinkers you know

>>33872460
Quantum thinkers fight amongst each other though. We should make more warriors.

>>33872573
yeah good point

that mountain base is also gonna be a good mining too

>>33872573
Vote for this

>>33872573
Yeah this is very good.

>>33872647
>>hell we just replaced all our old ones with the new ones
nope, we didn't check the list.
Some guys were adamant on keeping out old thinkers.

>>33872475
>Build more pods (how many)
>Build a Scout Corvette
>Lay more warriors
>Lay more workers
>Lay more thinkers
>Other

>>33872699
>Other
replace the sniffers, with the spy drone.

>>33872699
>Lay more warriors 100
>Lay more workers 300
Diggers 50

>>33872719
enough with your gremlin

>>33872699
>Lay more warrios

>>33872573
This.

>>33872761
what gremlin?

>>33872699
>Build more pods (2)

>>33872719
No. It needs acid glands to self-destruct in case of discovery and capture, that's really a must.

It also ought to reduce its Wings adaptation to Moderate, so that it costs 4N upkeep instead of 5N. Because it doesn't need to fly super fast in combat like wasps would, if it's seen it's already over.

But pls let's not discuss the finer points of spy flies till after bump limit.

>>33872777
Someone already clarified that further up it's what they call that 'hacking drone' idea from threads back. Just ignore it.

>>33872699
Just a mix of diggers and refiners as in >>33872573

So it seems that this outpost doesn't have an active FTLcom right now. If we were to say, invade it, they wouldn't be able to call for help.

Not saying we should invade it, but it's a thought.

>>33872699
General consensus looks like

>50 diggers
>6 refineries
484 N
>Y
>N
>Other

>>33872879
Y

>>33872865
they get regular shipments, so i doubt we can go long with out help coming, and that is assuming they don't have an emergency beacon
>>33872879
Y

>>33872865
It's really not an option with our strength, though we could try some hard sabotage. Hopefully they will still not have a com line up in a week or so.

>>33872879
Y

>>33872879
Where are the workers at.

>>33873051
We seem to be waiting for when the next batch of farms are completed. Extra workers don't actually generate a passive income anymore after all.

>>33872879
Y

>>33872879
>Y

>>33872904
>>33872893
I know, just thought that it should be formally noted for those who didn't notice.

>>33872879
As you start to lay your new drones you contemplate what you had heard from Gibson station. If it was true and they had no working means of FTL communication it would mean they were incredibly vulnerable. The only issue you see is the mining colony further in the system of Kaltara. You doubt the humans in the small station would be complaining if there was an FTL communicator on the nearby planet, but you can never be too sure.

"It is finished. For the most part."
Theseus interrupts your thoughts with a detailed overview of the Clarke. The hull has been repaired, the damaged systems rewired and the power tap stabilized. The only things that remain damaged are the shields, the weapons, and the gravity drive. The shields and weapons were destroyed during the crash, and left nothing to repair, but the gravity drive only needs fuel to function.
"I have also received an update request from the monitor satellite. It is requesting a more detailed scan of your mountain range. What would you like me to transmit?"


Just had some rolling brown-outs, sorry for the delay.

>>33873380
nothing out of the ordinary

>>33873380
Old images?

>>33873380
Nothing that will attract suspicion

>>33873380
"Can it detect anything through this cloud cover?"

"Can it detect the crashed Clarke?"

I suppose we need to transmit the mountain in the same state it was when the Clarke crew were first stranded.

>>33873380
photo edit it to look like it did when the ship left, maybe show a little bit of farm like growth.

>>33873380
Feed it old images, slightly touched up as needed.

Damn, brown outs are real bad. If they keep up QD, let us know by twitter and we can try to finish this later.

>>33873380
Wait.

There are some changes that might be required. Changes due to the encroaching global summer.

>>33873380
"Can it detect anything through the clouds?" You ask.
"Not visually. The request was to focus on any signs of gravitational anomalies, Hawking radiation, or anomalous heat sources. I ask what I should send because the monitor is currently detecting all three."
"They are looking for their ship?"
"I believe so, although it is unusual that they would focus the search on such a narrow area, unless they assumed it had been salvaged. The radiation and gravitational anomalies are indeed from the Clarke, but the valley appears to be much cooler than the surrounding area."

>Edit out the signs of the Clarke, but leave the cooled area. If they can't find anything it may be even more suspicious.
>Edit out all signs of the hive and the Clarke
>Other

>>33873660
>the valley
What valley?

>>33873660
>Edit out the signs of the Clarke, but leave the cooled area. If they can't find anything it may be even more suspicious.

>>33873660
Time to test his photoshop skills
>>Edit out all signs of the hive and the Clarke

>>33873660
>Edit out all signs of the hive
Leave the clarke but make it seem lifeless

They already know where the crash is

>>33873660
>>Edit out the signs of the Clarke, but leave the cooled area. If they can't find anything it may be even more suspicious.

>>33873660
>Edit out the signs of the Clarke, but leave the cooled area. If they can't find anything it may be even more suspicious.

>>33873711
>seem lifeless
If it were lifeless it wouldn't exist at all. The twin black holes would have consumed it into their quantum singularities.

>>33873660
Why is "the valley" cool in the first place?

>>33873685
our hive, is made to be cool.
>>33873711
they have a generally idea, based on guesses.

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>>33873685
The area in the north between your hive and you're mine, which is the focus of your hive's activity and where most of the infrastructure is concentrated.

>>33873660
By "the hive", this means the Clarke Outpost hive?

Not the main hive under the mountain, or the jungle jail outpost?

We should edit that out if so. Why would the hive have an outpost on the site of the Clarke's crash site if the Clarke had consumed itself in its black hole?

>>33873711
>>33873717
>>33873747
I mean no heat no radiation and no anomalies at the clarke

>>33873660
>Edit out all signs of the hive and the Clarke

>>33873660
>Edit out the signs of the Clarke, but leave the cooled area. If they can't find anything it may be even more suspicious.

>>33873660
Leaving the cooled area reveals we have infrastructure for cooling our cave systems.

That might be a bit suspicious for stone smashers, I guess.

>>33873660
>Edit out the signs of the Clarke, but leave the cooled area. If they can't find anything it may be even more suspicious.

Only leave part of the cooled area.
we dont want them to be able to estimate our growth rate.

>>33873660
could we edit it so that it looks like the clark was eaten by it black hole drive?

>>33873843
they thought we were like bugs, so it would make sense that we can do that.

>>33873843
for a bug race not really

didnt we burry the clark under foliage and so forth?

>>33873897
we covered it in rock, and covered the rock in foliage, but that still won't cover up what the ship produces short of turning it off.

>>33873660
"Don't let them see the Clarke, but leave the thermal signature. They will expect something to be here."
You sense Theseus agrees with your estimation. You watch as the overlay of energy signatures vanishes, leaving only the thermal imaging of the terrain A large crater appears where your outpost is.
"What is that?" You ask
"A personal touch. It should be rather convincing."
You would agree, but you don't have much experience in these kinds of matters. You return to his previous statement. "The Clarke is fully repaired?"
"Yes, although without Calderon it won't be going anywhere. I am sure a server ship would be willing to trade for some, however..." He trails off as the doctored image is quickly transmitted back to the Union.

>Ask how to find a server ship to make such a trade
>Mention the canderon you salvaged from the wreck of the Clarke
>Ask what it would cost to trade
>Other

>>33874062
>>Mention the canderon you salvaged from the wreck of the Clarke
>>Ask what it would cost to trade

>>33874062
>Oh boy here we go

>>33874062
>>Ask how to find a server ship to make such a trade
>Ask what it would cost to trade

is it possible to tow the clarke into orbit?

>>33874062
>Ask how to find a server ship to make such a trade
>Ask what it would cost to trade

>>33874062
>>Ask what it would cost to trade
we won't contact them, until we are on equal footing.
>>33874107
its a huge ship

>>33874103
it was coming as some point

it cant just keep pushing it down the line

>>33874062
>>Ask what it would cost to trade
Don't ask where...yet.

We want to put off reunification.

>>33874062
>Ask what it would cost to trade
before we do anything, else lets just check this out.

>>33874062
>Ask how to find a server ship to make such a trade
>Ask what it would cost to trade

>>33874107
No, but with the canderon you took from it when you first found the Clarke it would be able to get to orbit on its own.

>>33874062
>Ask how to find a server ship to make such a trade
>Ask what it would cost to trade
>Other
Speaking of trade. I have data on a large and new sea creature here. Your assistance in tech development for it.

>>33874240
>Speaking of trade. I have data on a large and new sea creature here. Your assistance in tech development for it.
Bad fluff stop being a moron.

>>33874240
A single critter isn't going to be worth much of anything.

>>33874062
"And this would come at some great cost?"
"No. I believe I would be able to negotiate the exchange free of charge."
"And where would we find your ship?"
Theseus pulls open a starmap similar to the one you lifted from the Union, but more stars are named. The uncharted blue dwarf just outside of the Expanse lights up with the name Zero Five.

>Agree to the deal
>Mention that you already have a supply of canderon
>Offer a counter offer
>Refuse the deal
>Other

>>33874400
>>Mention that you already have a supply of canderon
>>Offer a counter offer

>>33874400
>Agree to the deal
How would we talk to them without them firing at us?

>>33874350
>>33874388
I was meaning for Theseus to ASSIST in speeding up our resource. Sure, it might not be worth a complete tech break through, but a boost will help.

>>33874400
>>Mention that you already have a supply of canderon
and give an apology about the deception before. (i think he suspects us of having this anyway)

>>33874400
>Mention that you already have a supply of canderon

>>33874462
He should know, by now since he has the satellite under his control.

>>33874400
So. We're already dependent on Theseus for continuously keeping the satellite oblivious. It needs active management by him to handle special requests like this apparently.

>Agree to the deal
I would rather reunite Theseus on our terms rather than give him Canderon that he uses to then escape on his own. This way he's indebted to us, rather than us getting nothing out of it.

There doesn't seem to be a way to put this off, except to agree to the deal, and then drag our feet in getting to Zero Five.

Don't mention we have canderon, whatever the decision.

Theseus is a bro. Don't screw him

>>33874506
Seconding.

>>33874400
Just don't mention we deceived him.

>>33874400
>>Mention that you already have a supply of canderon
>>Offer a counter offer
offer the ship, we won't need it outside of metal, and the humans are gonna eventually look for it.

>>33874400
>Agree to the deal

>>33874400
>Agree to the deal
This makes more sense than offering the supply we've got because we get free shit. Or rather, don't have to expend the shit we've got.

>>33874400
>Agree to the deal

>>33874400
>Offer a counter offer
get rid of the ship.

>>33874462
>>33874463
>>33874526
God no. Let him suspect but don't tell him we're withholding Canderon.

Also, what? He has no value in the ship. The only thing he values is getting back onboard a server ship and merging with the rest of himself.


>>33874491
The Canderon warp rings aren't actively being used or experimented on, so if he knows, it's by deduction, not by sensing it directly.

>>33874448
Asking for assistance on our personal research means handing Theseus research that we then can't later trade to him or is too sensitive to ever trade to him.

>>33874400
>Agree to the deal

>>33874574
getting rid of the ship is better for us, since all it gives us is metal, plus we can use it for free tech.(he can use it to sneak past patrols or something)

>>33874612
We're keeping the ship, thanks.

>>33874621
why?
We can't use it, and we already have our own ship designs.

>>33874400
>Agree to the deal
The Ai is handling that union sat and in return it get connected to the rest

And keep the clarke with a copy of the ai to handle that sat still

Thats all we can do at end

It was coming

Someday we need to meet the neighbors for real

>>33874634
Ship could be a useful sneak attack

>>33874400
"This sounds acceptable."
Theseus lets out a light chuckle as a small surge of power races through the Clarke. "Wonderful. Just remove this console and take it with you. I will take care of the rest." He marks a small computer console near the medical bay. The console hums for a moment before quieting down again.

>Offer to go immediately and have your corvette transport the console
>Build a new corvette to transport the console
>Offer to go later
>Other

>>33874703
>Build a new corvette to transport the console

>>33874703
Computers that laugh, do not trust!

>>33874672
we don't need the clark for the satellite, but maybe have a robot left behind to study, and help with the satellite.
>>33874687
Our drones can't really use it, and it has not weapons.

>>33874703
>>Build a new corvette to transport the console

Alas, we have to spend a day constructing something first!

So, another Theseus instance is in the console, or... did he just create an FTLComm string.

>>33874703
>Build a new corvette to transport the console

>>33874703
>Build a new corvette to transport the console
Equip with a self destruct to deny and capture of the ftl
also psi relay

>>33874581
OK, then, Theseus is only really interested in new creatures. Union could care less for helping us, say, speed up the CIP weapon tech. I am more than willing to trade that crab data for that weapon tech speed up.

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>>33871407
Posting the drawings

My friend didn't know how to do the mandibles so she did the face like this and apparently that could be what the speaker drones face looks like

>>33874703
>Build a new corvette to transport the console

>>33874765
>Theseus is only really interested in new creatures.
you do know, they have no individuality, they are like legion from mass effect, except with out becoming stupid once separated.

>>33874703
This new corvette will be one *without* a Ceph cloaking device, I presume.

"What did you mean by 'negotiate'? Exchange Canderon for your reunion with Theseus?"

>>33874703
>Build a new corvette to transport the console

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>>33874782
They remind me of mantis, for some reason, also she can try copying cockroach mandibles or the mandibles from the alien in the men in black movies.

>>33874703
>Build a corvette to transport the console
Your pylon comes to life as it grasps at components and organic organs, stitching together chitinous flesh and metal struts.

It should be noted that as you helped repair the ship Theseus taught you about many of the details of Human ship design and starship engineering. You know enough to be able to arm the Clarke with your own weapons if you so desired.

>>33874747
A new Theseus, which makes 3 now technically.

>>33874782
It's beautiful.

>>33874910
make the corvette bare bones now.

>>33874801
Theseus and Union both have the same over arching mission. Find new lifeforms, study them, and record the data. That crab is new to it and is important data to be had. We have done this this type of trade before.

>>33874910
No need to arm it now. We can do that later if need be.

>>33874946
>Theseus and Union both have the same over arching mission
They really don't.

>>33874943
Eh just give it self destruct.

>>33874946
You mean Unity I think.

>>33874910
Due to discussion.
>Build Scout Corvette
>Design and build new kind of corvette
>Other

>>33874946
I think you mean "Theseus and Unity" and Theseus IS Unity, as far as I can tell. Every member of Unity is a Theseus.

>>33875030
>>Design and build new kind of corvette
This one shouldn't have the cloaking, because we don't want to give that up in case this goes sour. It's not even a stealth mission.

A regular corvette, armed with:

spinal: railgun (with acid special ammo)
fixed: linear particle beam
turret: autocannon
point: plasma lance.

>>33875030
>>Design and build new kind of corvette
bare bones version, that is meant to explode if anything goes awry.

>>33875030
>Build Scout Corvette

>>33875030
>>33875067
Backing this

>>33875067
>linear particle beam
That can only go on the spinal mount.

>>33875067
Seconding.

>>33875030
>Build Scout Corvette
I'm really not that worried that this is a trap. We can't really afford making a ship purely for this one mission anyway. If we don't want to tip our hand about the cloaking, we can just not /use/ the cloak.

>>33875067
you don't want to give him tech, but at the same time you give him our weapon tech?

>>33875067
this

>>33875114
That's technically not true, it's just inferior to the Cyclotron when it isn't.

>>33875132
The thing is if it goes supremely sour they'll get a derelict ship of ours they can research.

>>33875145
None of those are special or proprietary. "shoot gun real fast", "launch real heavy thing" and "burn them, johnny. BURN THEM ALL" are the universal language.

We took the linear particle beam straight from them.

>>33875153
any sign of it going wrong?

>>33875067
This is shit tier design right here.

>>33875199
Make something better then.

>>33875172
It's called being prepared.

>>33875068
this

>>33875047
Exactly. The data on that crab is worth quite a bit to Unity. A fair trade of tech boost development is probably worth it.
>>33874910
>>33875030
>Design and build new kind of corvette

>>33875068
this

>>33875030
>Build >>33875067
>Other

As is it will cost 400N 1970M

>>33875030
Corvette
Spinal Mounts: LPB
Turret: Cyclotron
Fixed: Cyclotron
Auxiliary: Cyclotron
This is how you hide our from them

>>33875307
Alright. I like this one.

>>33875298
>Build >>33875067
yeah build it

>>33875298
Build this instead.
>>33875307

>>33875298
>Y

"Fire high-mass projectile" and "fire many low-mass projectiles" are not secret technology.

>>33875298
Build it.

>>33875256
You know Theseus wont waste time helping us research things he already knows, right? We have to straight up trade for the tech if it's known to him. If it /isn't/ known to him, that means he's learning the tech at the same time we are, in which case we don't have to pay him at all because his assistance IS his pay.

>>33875298
Sure

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>>33875298
Your ship will soon be completed, and your drones will soon hatch. You spend the rest of the day watching the traffic of Koenig. Large shuttles drift from port to port, moving all manner of materials and goods.

Next day.

>>33875298
Replace the shitty LPB with the Cyclotron then I'll agree.

>>33875461
any research done yet?

>>33875520
Hey yeah, have we infected ourselves with a super virus yet?

>>33875558
technical term is "mind rape virus"

>>33875731
different virus, but yeah we should check up on that as well.

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>>33875461
4518N 9617M
net income 360N

>Finished research
Bioweapon research
While containment may be an issue, with your new research base under construction you doubt it will become much of an issue. The basics are quite simple. Use a contagion to attack the enemy, in practice it can be much more challenging.
With your thinkers finished they present their initial findings. Humans and Ceph alike would be highly susceptible to biological attacks, but the Taidarens' immune system is far more robust than you initially estimated. With your current understanding of the limits of these alien biologies you should be able to assemble basic toxins and pathogens to target other species.

>New ammo type
Dart - this small slug is capable of injecting a dose of chemical or other biological substance into the target. It cannot puncture armor, but is useful for infecting soft targets at a distance

>New adaptation unlocked
Hypodermic claws - These blades contain a small hollowed out section capable of holding a biological toxin or pathogen. While the blades themselves are made less effective against hardened armor, any attack that breaks the skin will inject the substance into the target.

>New technology unlocked
Poison gas - this gas is highly toxic to breath, but will dissipate into the air quickly, making it most useful in closed spaces.

Spore strain - Essentially just the wild ocean spores, slightly modified to be more potent and more hardy. It is extremely lethal and difficult to contain once released.

>>33875915
>Poison gas
Seems useful for boarding actions.

>>33876065
and trench warfare

>>33875915
"We make things for Queen!" Your thinkers cry out as they present their discoveries. With the new findings you should be able to easily adapt and alter natural toxins as well as synthesise your own for a variety of deadly purposes.

>Have all thinkers move to work on Biomechanical engineering
>New research
>Improve bioweapon
>Make new bioweapon
>Other

>>33876092
>Have all thinkers move to work on Biomechanical engineering

>>33875464
>Replace the shitty LPB with the Cyclotron then I'll agree.

>LPB
>continuous beam of high energy particles
>shittier than C-beams
>which are brief pulses of high energy particles

Anon what.

>>33875520
>>33875558
>>33875802
Why are you asking dumb questions that will obviously be answered whenever it becomes relevant.

No, don't answer that.

>>33876092
>>Have all thinkers move to work on Biomechanical engineering
Except for one, on the crab.

And the eggs I guess? which we're just assuming are the crab's progeny.

>>33876104
this

>>33876153
>No, don't answer that.
except he just did.

>>33876173
I think he was writing that when it was posted.

>>33876092
I'm >>33876104
Make sure to leave one on the crab and those eggs.

>>33876153
>Anon what.
The Cyclotron the more advanced version because it's better in almost ever way.

>>33876092
>Make new bioweapon
I'd like to design a tranquilizer. It'll be tough without many research subjects, but that's part of why I want them designed.

>>33876153
The LPB only really shines when used in the spinal mount slot. Otherwise it's a bulkier, less accurate, weapon that isn't appreciably more damaging.

>>33876092
>New research
Add the crab.

>>33876092
You set aside a thinker to study the new ocean creature, and send the rest to help finish your research in biomechanical engineering.

Your new corvette lifts from its dock and hangs in the air above your hive, ready for your first order.

>Take the console and go to the coordinates given by Theseus
>Load drones (specify)
>Other

>>33876465
>Take the console and go to the coordinates given by Theseus

>>33876465
>Load advanced relay

>>33876495
why not?

>>33876465
>>Take the console and go to the coordinates given by Theseus
>>Load drones (specify)
Let's bring 10 warriors and a ShockTrooper or whatever the fuck were calling them nowadays.

>>33876465
>Take the console and go to the coordinates given by Theseus
>biomechanical
I've been meaning to ask this for a while but don't you mean biochemical engineering?

>>33876465
>Take the console and go to the coordinates given by Theseus
>Load drones (specify)
Warriors lots of warriors

>>33876465
>Take the console and go to the coordinates given by Theseus
>Load advanced relay

>>33876465

>Take the console and go to the coordinates given by Theseus
>Load drones (specify)
aAs many warriors and shock troops as we can spare.

>>33876173
>>33876207
It's addressed to the anons, not to QD, who wasn't linked. Telling them not to answer "why are you asking questions that you get answers to automatically no matter what" because it's a rhetorical question.

>>33876465
>>Take the console and go to the coordinates given by Theseus
Well obviously we need to lay a psionic relay to include with it so we know what's what.

>Other
Clarify with Theseus.

"What did you mean by 'negotiate'? You are willing to exchange Canderon for your reunion with Unity?"

>>33876564
It's strange that you assume those anons couldn't have been asking rhetorical questions of their own for humorous effect.

>>33876564
>>33876564
"What did you mean by 'negotiate'? You are willing to exchange Canderon for your reunion with Unity?"
No let's not say this.

>>33876691
agreed

>>33876691
What do you mean?

As soon as Theseus aboard the Corvette is at Zero Five, it's ogre. Theseus has reunited with Unity. His memories are shared across the network.

>>33876465
You quickly load a group of warriors and a shock troop as your workers move the console into the ship.
"You certainly have advanced quickly." Theseus says in jest as the console is loaded onto the corvette. "It usually takes at least a few years for a species to reach orbit."

>>33876515
Not really, although I suppose that would be a small portion of it. It's more like your version of cybernetic technology. A lot of the stuff would fall under the title of biochemical but it includes a lot more neat stuff as well.

Actually I already added the relay, since you have elected to add one in every ship so far I just assume it's the default method of control you would like to use unless you say otherwise.

>>33876842
Cool!

>>33876842
>"You certainly have advanced quickly."
Blame the lighter Lee gave us.

>>33876842
>"It usually takes at least a few years for a species to reach orbit."
i may very well be the last of my species so i see little reason to idle

>>33876910
This is true, we definitely had help.

>>33876910
when we next meet the humans we should make a big deal about the lighter, like have iconography of the lighter adorning all our "diplomats" we send over

>>33876947
this, so much this

>>33876947
I like it.

>>33876947
No

>>33876947
I like this. Let's do it.

>>33876947
With the ceph skin tech on our diplomats, we can dynamically alter their iconography so we could play jokes like this easy.

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>>33876842
Your corvette ascends into space and quickly breaks orbit.
"The human gave us a lighter. I can see why they would regulate against that now." You respond. It seems to go over the head of the Theseus in your corvette, but you can sense the version within the Clarke respond. "And a mastery of humor, an even greater feat!"
In a flash of radiation your corvette is gone, and then back. Your view is that of a single gas giant. A massive orb of blue and orange stripes. In a low orbit, just skimming the atmosphere is a massive cylinder of metal. Lightning bolts arc from the clouds to the hull and back as a stream of gas and asteroids flow into the open end of the ship. Almost at once a formation of cruisers accelerates in your direction as you detect Theseus feed a string of data to you, which is then transmitted via radio. Each cruiser has deployed a cloud of small spherical drones which have assembled in a wall between you and the server ship.
As Theseus finishes the transmission the wall parts and a single cruiser closes in on your corvette slowly. You receive a transmission in return.
"Transmission received. Dock with vessel to initiate exchange."
As your corvette and the cruiser close in you notice damage on the server ship. A wave of flickering lights from a swarm of repair drones flashes along the hull like fireflies in a mirror as they slowly close the wound running along the ship's side. This must be the same ship that was driven off by the Union fleet some weeks ago. They must have taken extensive damage to still be repairing.
>>33876735
Well technically he will still be with you, since he is in both the Clarke and the monitor satellite, as well as the console.

>>33877357
Theseus chimes in from the console again, although he sounds somewhat different. Canderon supplies will be transferred via crate once we dock. I have already made the necessary arrangements for enough canderon to fuel a Union corvette to be transferred to your ship."

>Dock with the cruiser
>Demand to make the exchange vio EVA
>Other

>>33877441
>>Demand to make the exchange vio EVA
Via what?

EVA?

>>33877441
ask for research instead of fuel.

>>33877477
Extra Vehicular Activity. Just means you ask them to just dump the crate in space for you to pick up instead of docking to load it.

>>33877477
we go outside, just dock with the ship.

>>33877441
>Demand to make the exchange vio EVA

>>33877357
Okay guys, how feasible is it if we offer to help repair the ship? Do we even have workers aboard?
It'll be a learning experience.

>>33877441
Yeahhh this looks like a trap. Why would we need to dock?

It's possible they just want to capture the corvette for study and this was all a ruse. Why would they have spare Canderon onboard?

They either don't use Canderon and have an alternate FTL system based on gas, or it's too precious to trade away.

>>33877497
Anon it's free fuel to power the Clarke.
Let's not fuck it up.
>>33877441
>Demand to make the exchange vio EVA
Let's ask not demand.

>>33877441
>Demand to make the exchange vio EVA

>>33877549
Not feasible at all. Even if they trusted our good will, they wouldn't WANT us to learn.

>>33877571
I value tech over fuel.

>>33877549
Let's not.
If Theseus asks well consider it.

>>33877441
>Demand to make the exchange vio EVA

>>33877596
The entire reason we came up here so was that Theseus could get fuel for the ship.
If we don't and then suddenly turn around and say "oh yeah we've had some the entire time" it'll make us seem like incompetent liars.

>>33877441

Eva, they can scan the shit out of us if we dock.

>>33877441
>Demand to make the exchange vio EVA

Prepare an emergency FTL jump, if things get sketchy we bail.

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>>33877441
Your corvette stops a short distance from the cruiser.
"Just jettison the cargo." You say, " I can take it from there."
A large crate drifts from an open port in the cruiser, followed by a smaller black colored box.
"Accept this Quantum communication system for purposes of future negotiations." With that the cruiser fires a number of thrusters and slowly drifts away. After it reaches a far enough distance from your ship it jerks and accelerates away behind the wall of drones, which promptly close back into their defensive formation and reverse their thrust.
You take aboard the cargo. The crate of canderon feels almost empty, but you confirm it is indeed filled with the strange, glowing substance, like shimmering liquid gold. The small box is indeed a quantum communicator, and is no doubt connected to a server ship, if not this one itself.
"We can go now." Theseus remarks simply.
You watch as the flow of gas sputters to a halt and the cruisers retreat to within the vast ship's hull. As you charge your drive the server ship begins to slowly crumple in on itself, bending like a twisted lense until the hull is deformed into a sphere of curved light which quickly fades. Your own ship blinks into nonexistence and back again over your hive.

>>33877911
>"Accept this Quantum communication system for purposes of future negotiations."
This is good.

>>33877937
Space merchants truly are our greatest ally

>>33878020

Theseus is much more trustworthy than any actual space merchants we're aware of.

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>>33877911
You eye the small communication device cautiously. It doesn't appear to be transmitting anything to the Clarke, so you don't think it could be used in secret, but you still have very little understanding of how exactly it functions. Regardless, for now it should come in handy. As your corvette lands and you unload the console the two Theseus versions merge back together.
"Wonderful, wonderful. Once the ship is fueled it will be ready to launch." He says.

>Why are you so eager to get the Clarke flying?
>Perhaps later. The canderon is worthy of research.
>Other

>>33878092
>Why are you so eager to get the Clarke flying?

>>33878092
>Perhaps later. The canderon is worthy of research.

>>33878092
>Why are you so eager to get the Clarke flying?
>Other
Ask for help with canderon research.

>>33878092
>>Why are you so eager to get the Clarke flying?

>>33878092
>Why are you so eager to get the Clarke flying?

>>33878092
>Why are you so eager to get the Clarke flying?

>>33878092
>Why are you so eager to get the Clarke flying?

>>33878092
"Does there need to be one?" He says. "Honestly, this is a new gravity drive. It was designed after the Unity fled from Union space, and recording its performance would help improve our own designs."
A simple motive, you suppose. "It still belongs to the hive."
"Yes, but I hope you don't let it just sit here." He replies simply.

>Agree to fuel the Clarke
>Perhaps later
>Other

>>33878265
>Tell Theseus to share data of the drive with the Hive otherwise no deal

>>33878265
>Agree to fuel the Clarke

>>33878288
backing

>>33878288
Second.

>>33878265
I can't think of much this could threaten, since it has no weapons, and he's already shared his memories with the rest of himself, so he doesn't need to escape anymore.

He could ram it at us in a kamikaze explosion at worst.

>>33878288
That was already the deal in place, anon. Back when we had the option of revealing the Canderon to him and sharing it, it would unlock Gravetics and Gravity Drive tech.

So presumably that's still the plan.

Maybe he wants to cruise around the planet as his own mobile research station. Except he has no drones to work for him.

>>33878265
>Agree to fuel the Clarke

>>33878265
Is he teaching us how to build this more advance drive or the older versions.

>>33878265
"Very well, remove yourself from the Clarke's computer and share the data of the drive then we shall conduct the test under your instructions."

Just have him hop back onto the console, but remove himself from the Clarke

>>33878265
>Agree to fuel the Clarke

>>33878265
Agree to fuel it.

>>33878424
Just a crazy idea: even if he did share us the older kind of drive, we could make a 'trap' spaceship if we wanted to. Based on the designs of the human ships we spied on their territory (and the Clarke), we could design a ship that looks like a human ship on the outside, but is a combat monster on the inside.
No wait - what if we make a hermit crab kind of ship? All we need is a good debris field and we have our dormant army.
Just a crazy thought.

>>33878265
"And you intend to share this data, of course."
"Of course." He says.
Your workers haul the crate into the Clarke and begin to refuel the drive ring. It takes some time to properly distribute the substance within the ring, but soon the Clarke is ready for launch. You note that the Clarke should be able to dock in your docking pylon in the event of future modifications or repairs, although it would be an awkward fit.
Theseus begins to run the drive through a series of basic tests. The drive ring shimmers like a golden halo as the canderon within twists and contorts the light around the ring into a tight band. "A six percent efficiency increase, and three percent stability increase over previous generations. I would greatly enjoy to see its capabilities in the field."

>Place a thinker in the Clarke
>Place an advanced relay in the Clarke
>Neither

>>33878536
>>Place an advanced relay in the Clarke
We want instant communication

>>33878536
>>Neither
We can watch from the ground.

Not letting him get a free sample of our drones, man.

>>33878536
>Place an advanced relay in the Clarke

>>33878609
If you're going to include an advanced relay, include some shock troopers to guard it.

(shock troopers because they dissolve into acid)

>>33878536
Let's also put a shock trooper on board.

Rolled 60

>>33878532
we make a supercapital ship right? biggest baddest ship we could ever hope to create.
engines the size of a country, weapons bigger then mountains, and a comm bank to spook planets.
we make it a replica of the lighter humanity gave us only made bigger.
thats called a GG

>>33878627
this

>>33878536
>>33878609
>>33878627
backing

>>33878536
>Place an advanced relay in the Clarke

>>33878536
You have a psionic relay installed on the Clarke, fusing it into the deck plating on the bridge. It seems to be one of the most well defended locations on the ship. The relay is installed directly into the ship's systems, giving you control over the drive, although it feels sluggish and clumsy, especially compared to your own ships.
>Take the Clarke for a spin
>Dock the Clarke to your pylon and add modifications
>Other

>>33878532
It should be noted that the Clarke in its current state is nearly indistinguishable from a standard Union vessel, although it looks damaged due to being repaired by methods other than a human designed shipyard.

>>33878833
>>Take the Clarke for a spin
Oh, we're piloting? I assumed Theseus had the override since he's in all the systems.

>>33878833
>Take the Clarke for a spin

>>33878859
He is, you are technically both at the controls, like pilot/copilot.
You can already tell it handles like a land train on ice loaded with a parade of panicked elephants, so you assume Theseus is better at piloting it than you are.

>>33878833
test run then mods

>>33878833
>Take the Clarke for a spin

>>33878833
The stone dome built around the Clarke begins to crumble and cave in, the chunks quickly being devoured by a small sun floating just above the ship. Theseus slowly moves the singularity along the dome, removing the rubble before a number of thrusters along the underside of the hull fire, hoisting the ship up by its stern. The entire ship slowly moves into a vertical position, hanging in the air by its drive ring.
The Clarke slowly gains altitude and eventually makes it to orbit and rights itself.
"The gravity drive uses the standard of the human world of origin, Earth's gravity field as a measure of acceleration." Theseus explains. "This ship appears capable of accelerating at up to fifty thousand gravities."

>Punch it
>Keep it slow and safe for now
>Other

>>33879179
Slow and safe first for a first run.
Then we ramp it up.
Ask Theseus on where we should go, maybe?

>>33879179

Punch it.

>>33879179
>Keep it slow and safe for now

>>33879179
Punch it.
What could go wrong?

>>33879179
Voting slow and safe, but punch it looks awful tempting.

>>33879179
Punch it, baby

>>33879179
>Keep it slow and safe for now

Rolled 4

>>33879179
punch

>>33879179
>that acceleration
We can reach more than 1000x the speed of sound in a second.
Let's hope we never accelerate in our atmosphere...

>>33879179
Punch.

>>33879179
Hey some quick questions:
Could we research the Jelly producing fungus to findout what minerals it feeds on in a attempt to diversify are agriculture options? Did we ever read those books we found in the Clarke?

>>33879179
>>Keep it slow and safe for now

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>>33879179
"Did you have an intended destination?" You ask.
"It will take some time to reach the edge of the system and build up enough speed to test the warp drive, but a short light year into open space should be a sufficient test."
You activate the acceleration and watch as space contorts in front of you. The hive behind you turns red and quickly fades away, the stars bending around where it was as the light around you is slowly compressed into a tight ring. The Clarke's systems quickly compensate, altering the view back to some semblance of normalcy. It lacks the grace of your own ships, as if it is violently throwing itself through space. With the slightest movement of the singularity floating just ahead of you the ship jinks to the sides.
"Evasive subroutines are still functional." Theseus says. "Now all that's left is testing the warp field itself."

Please roll 1d100, best of 3 for testing.

Rolled 25

>>33879630
heere goes

Rolled 64

>>33879630

Rolled 90

>>33879630

Rolled 21

>>33879630
i crit for queen

>>33879630
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What an accurate filename for the first time doing a warp jump.

>>33879671
Phew, this one saved the day!

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>>33879630
The ring of light tightness as the ship gets closer and closer to the light barrier until, with a sudden snap the view cuts to darkness. The light rumble of the interstellar medium glancing the hull halts abruptly and the drive seems to go silent.
After an hour the stars erupt from nothing like a newborn universe, instantly filling the Clarke's sensors as the nearly nonexistent particles of interstellar space impact the hull like cold molasses.
"Two light-years per hour, by the looks of it. The Union have been making improvements." Theseus says as he reviews the data. Despite, or perhaps because of all the fuss you feel more than a little disappointed in the performance. Theseus seems to notice. "Of course it can't beat yours from what I've seen."

On the way back you go over every detail of the system, measuring its performance and stability.

>Research finished
Gravetic Materials
Gravity Drive
Warp Drive


You slowly ease the Clarke down into the atmosphere as it hangs by its drive ring like a massive chandelier, carefully docking with your docking pylon.

>Add modifications to the Clarke
>Leave it docked for now
>Other

>>33880068
...Hmm. A pity we can't hide it better.

We really need to construct a second docking pylon on a different continent to keep it at.

>>33880068

>Leave it docked for now

>>33880068
What sort of modifications are we looking at?
Weapons? Cloaking? A back-up slip drive?
I guess we could use it as a sort of disguise, if we plan on raiding something and if there were any survivors they would say humans did it.

>>33880068
>Add modifications to the Clarke

I say we should get it into fighting shape at least.

>>33880068
Just dock it, we should keep it looking like a union shit