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>>34042647
>Current armory
41 Thorn Launchers
2 Thorn Cannons
23 Sting Casters
1 Rotary Stinger
3 Fire Sprays
1 Plasma Spray

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 2604
Metals: 11447

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 75
Queen – 5
Worker (480) – 960
Radiator Worker (40) – 160
Warrior (488) – 122
Thinker (49) – 147
Quantum Thinker (20) – 100
Speaker – (1) – 4
Digger (30) – 120
Refinery (10) – 70
Sniffer (2) – 8
Small Sniffer (40) – 40
Fly (10) – 40
Wasp (68) – 340
Antenna (3) – 9
Haz-mat Workers (20) – 80
Shock Troops (15) – 195
Excavator (9) – 171
Colossus (2) – 30
Advanced Relay (6) – 600
Space Pod (3) – 90
Shuttle (2) – 50
Scout Corvette – 325
Lancer Corvette – 200
Nutrient costs: 3782

>Income
Metals: 2500
Nutrients: 4050
Net: 268

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

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

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>>34042672
Finished Research

>Giant Crab dissection
This large armored predator is capable of using its single long claw to attack from almost any direction. It possesses a single, large lung capable of filtering oxygen from water as well as breathing air to a limited degree.

>Biomechanical engineering
The science and art of grafting and altering your drones is a well-practiced and simple task, grafting and altering other forms of life is far more difficult and unpredictable. With your new understanding of alien life you now feel confident in the potential of manipulating alien life to suit your needs. Instead of changing your drones to suit the situation, you can now force the situation to change to suit you.

>New adaptations unlocked
Gills: These sensitive organs extract oxygen directly from water, permitting a drone to function under water as well as on land. (4N)

Tail: A long, whip-like tail formed from the end of the abdomen that can be used as a third claw. It can equip a single blade or melee weapon, as well as function as a rudimentary grasper. The resulting consolidation of body organs in the drone’s thorax results in a more easily injured drone, but the increase in balance and added utility make for an excellent ambush weapon.(6)

Biological interface: These sets of small spines are similar in function to your computer interface, but with organic life. The interface lets a drone attach itself to other organic beings, be it a drone or alien, and either sustain itself or sustain its host, as well as monitor vital signs and administer chemicals as needed. (20N)

>New technology unlocked
Sedative pheromone: This mild mind altering substance is designed to block the chemical impulses that often result in a violent fight-or-flight response, easing panic and helping to calm the subject. While it is most effective on humans, it should show some limited effect in other life forms, although it remains untested.

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>>34042647
>>34042672
>>34042742

AWWWW YEAH

>>34042742
>speculativeevolution.wikia.com/wiki/Alternative_biochemistry#
OP will we be seeing lifeforms with alternative biochemistries like these?

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>>34042742
Available research
http://pastebin.com/F6t39KSp

>>34042809
Well, there are several reasons that you have yet to find such life. First, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen are all very common in the universe, and second, such life would be so alien that you may not recognize it as life at first and dismiss it as a natural formation or interesting anomaly. You do know of the Canians, which according to the data you retrieved from the Clarke computer, are plasma based life held together by looping electrical fields that live on the surface of the star of the Wolf system.

>>34042672
Didn't the sniffers get replaced?

>>34042742
>Biological interface: These sets of small spines are similar in function to your computer interface, but with organic life. The interface lets a drone attach itself to other organic beings, be it a drone or alien, and either sustain itself or sustain its host, as well as monitor vital signs and administer chemicals as needed. (20N)
can some one explain this to me, for its practical uses.

>>34042672
Warrior (488)
Typo much QD

>>34042742
>>34043050
>Biological interface: These sets of small spines are similar in function to your computer interface, but with organic life. The interface lets a drone attach itself to other organic beings, be it a drone or alien, and either sustain itself or sustain its host, as well as monitor vital signs and administer chemicals as needed.
Mind-controlling parasites basically.

>>34042929
Can we trade research, with unity first, before researching anything.

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>>34042929
Your forces move into the jungle as you watch the server ship high above you enter orbit. The vast vessel can be seen clearly from beneath the quickly darkening sky as it catches the last few glimpses of the star's light.
"Union response will likely be incoming within the week." Theseus says, "Our forces must leave before then."

The human camp is several miles through the jungle to the north of your landing site, while the temple should be just north-east of the camp.

>Send your sniffers to scout the camp
>Send your sniffers to scout the temple
>Split up your two sniffers
>Other

>>34043079
Its not one yet, its step towards it, but its more like a symboate that helps/hurts its host on the mothers order.

>>34043118
>Split up your two sniffers

>>34043118
>>Split up your two sniffers

Rolled 2

>>34043118
Split up your two sniffers

>>34043118
>>Split up your two sniffers

>>34043118
>Split up your two sniffers

>>34042742
Research these, also lets trade tech with unity real quick.
>Lyle’s Combat armor
Medium
Not as powerful or complex as the drop suit, the combat armor appears to be a delicate mix of survivability and combat capabilities, with many similarities to the Union environmental suit. It appears to contain a number of devices designed to be useful in the field.

>Magnetic Levitation
Medium
The small human buggy uses a series of superconducting magnets to glide along a planet’s surface a short distance from the ground. Apparently based off of Ceph technology, this device grants a great advantage to mobility.

Carbon liquid
Medium
This strange substance appears to be alive, and reshapes itself by assembling itself into various crystalline structures as needed. You're still not sure if it was trying to attack your ship or if it was simply reacting automatically in some fashion. An extensive battery of tests should reveal more regarding the substance.

Space dust
Medium
While it was too minute to analyze in the field, this space dust contains trace amounts of nutrient contents. Testing should reveal if it is a form of life, or simply some strange natural phenomena, as well as how to make use of it.

>>34043118

>Split up your two sniffers

Here's what I want...I want to drive the humans towards the temple and then open it up with a psychic command so THEY can get eaten by whatever is lurking in there instead of us.

>>34043050
Well at the moment it can't do much, although with more research it can gain more utilities. At the moment you have the ability to implant a small drone into another creature like a parasite, and use it to administer chemicals, monitor vital signs, and keep track of its location.

>>34043126
Correct.

>>34043190

I can approve of all of these.

Did we ever research the CIP pistol?

>>34043228
Nah, and its a slow research, so it was always left behind.
It and a few of the other slow research are some of the tech i would like to buy.

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>>34042809
>asking about the future, aka spoilers
>wasting posts asking meta questions at the start of the thread instead of waiting till the end
I seriously hope you guys don't do this.

>>34043264
We aren't trading for the slow researches because we don't have enough to trade *for* them that we should be giving away.

More importantly, we have a number of humans down here. Some of them may have expertise that will accelerate a few of them:

- technicians to help with CIP Pistol
- medical/bio types to help with the Regeneration Tank -- which with medical tech, could help to accelerate our research of Lyle's cybernetics in turn.
- engineers to help dismantle and explain atomic bombs to us, or else we eat them.

>>34043203
Implant EVERYTHING. Bodysnatch EVERYTHING

Nobody is safe.

>>34043375
>>34043362
We'll have warm bodies for the live-specimen testing soon enough. If they won't cooperate we can remind them that Unity has no use for human survivors.

>>34043118
>Split up your two sniffers

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>>34043118
>Split up your sniffers

Your sniffers take to the air. You first find the camp site. The four towers each hold a large manned turret. The walls are made of a metal alloy held up from the ground on a series of short struts to keep the foundation level. Your sniffer keeps its distance, easily blending into the dense foliage. You can hear voices from over the walls.
"Sir! It's a server ship in orbit!"
"Move the supplies into the shelters! Distribute the ammo and get ready to defend! Gaston, word on the survey team?"
"Nothing yet, we lost radio after the Hope blew."
"Damnit!"

Your other sniffer quickly makes its way to the location of the temple, although it's difficult to find the entrance. Eventually you find a small collection of lights and portable generators stacked along a small patch of smoothed stone. Standing in the center is a small outcropping of a marble structure covered in worn carvings and wrapped in vines. The humans are nowhere in sight.

>Charge the campsite with your shock troops and have them jump the wall
>Bombard the camp with artillery
>Charge the walls with your colosi
>Surround the camp and wait
>Other

>>34043550

Can we retroactively have a Speaker be present?

>>34043550
>The humans are nowhere in sight.
Dark temple, what did you do?

>Charge the walls with your colosi
No kill like overkill.

The ship can attack the towers from a distance with its cyclotron beam.

>>34043550

>Other

Dispatch the Shock Troops with the Temple Sniffer to hunt down this 'Survery Team'. I want to see what those motherfuckers can do finally.

>>34043550
>Other
Dig into there shelters then attack

>>34043624
As long as they aren't storm troopers then its fine

>Surround the camp and wait

>>34043550
>Bombard the camp with artillery
>Split the shocktroops from the regular warriors
>have the warriors engage from the treeline
>once the humans are distracted have the shocktroops charge in from the flanks

>>34043550
>>Charge the walls with your colosi
Destroy their defenses.

Time to capture and interrogate/experiment horrifically.

>>34042742
Bioweapon research.
We unlocked poison/spore clouds, lets unlock more cool shit.

Is Lyle still in that chamber?

>>34043756
Damn well hope so

>>34043756
yes

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>>34043550
>>Bombard the camp with artillery
then
>Charge the walls with your colosi
followed by shock troops

Artillery strike followed by tanks which are closely followed by infantry. Classics!

>>34043816
>>34043822
So we can use him as a live test subject, aye?

>>34043550
General consensus seems to be
>Charge with colosi

Additional options
>Have all your drones focus on the camp
>Send your shock troops to hunt down the missing expedition
>Other

>>34043605
I'll just assume you take a speaker with you wherever you go. Would you like to lay a new one?

>>34043756
No, he spontaneously mutated an ability to teleport.

Of fucking course he's there, he has no arms and legs. Don't ask stupid questions.

>>34043854
>Have all your drones focus on the camp
We get survivors just as fast after we are done with camp.
Also, lets try to get prisoners! Researching their biology, we can assume humans to be easy hostages without limbs.

>>34043854
>Have all your drones focus on the camp
The temple can wait, they can't even do a thing about it.
Don't lay a speaker yet unless the one on the ground gets gibbed.

>>34043854
>Have all your drones focus on the camp

>>34043873
Who stuffed a sniffer up your ass?

>>34043847
Uh dude? Tanks were made to SUPPORT Infantry attacks, not the other way around. And today with Main Battle Tanks we separate Infantry and Tanks.

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>>34043912
>>34043873
We are damn effective at taking prisoners I think.
Imagine how far would imprisoned rebels go on a death star, if they got their limbs cut off AND also restrained.

>>34043854
You send your colosi charging through the forest. The two drones plow down trees and level a path of forest as they go, sending strange creatures running for cover. At first you think you see a number of birds fly away, but as you look you see each one is a small oval covered in a ring of flaps. They spin like a top and lift themselves into the air like tiny helicopters as they shoot themselves away in all directions. A number of larger creatures roll along the ground on their center axis like living wheels.

"Incoming. Something big on the sensors." You hear from the camp. A human on top of the wall is manipulating a small device connected to a rotating dish. He drops it as the snap of a falling tree startles him, and he looks up to see a swarm of fleeing creatures filling the air.
"The fuck is that? That's not Unity!"
The ground begins to tremble with each footstep.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3

Rolled 68

>>34044090

Rolled 37

>>34044090
Rolling for the first time in this GLORIOUS quest.

Rolled 43

>>34044090

Rolled 8

>>34044090
Should've started with arty

Rolled 79

>>34044090
Pls

>>34044114
A 68 should still win this fight. We brought a lot of firepower.

Rolled 10

>>34044245
All depends on our beloved QuestDrone

>>34043636

They might have an FTL emergency beacon.

>>34044317
They would have used it by now.

A thought just entered my head, i think we can still turn this around and be friendly, if you guys want by making it seem we are protecting them.
I'm not for the idea, but i thought it should be siad before and real damage is done.

>>34044385
Why though?

>>34044385
We were attacked by humans on our home planet. That's all the justification we need to attack them.

>>34044396
Improve relations and have them indebted to us, and shit.
It can work easily if we talk to unity(the robots), but then again we can try to attack them and hope help doesn't come.
I figured it can be an idea to be thrown around.

>>34044362

It's only been a few minutes/hours since we shot down the Hope, and from what we saw with the Clarke they're pretty sophisticated things.

>>34044385
It's too late for that anyway, though it's something to consider for later.

>>34044423

A human*. That's hardly justification though.

The satellite with fucking nukes in it is stone cold provocation though.

>>34044423
Nah, your enemy is the weird scientist dude, if it was the real union we would have died a long time ago.
>>34044427
True, i just figured it might as well be said, even if the majority of players aren't pivy to have relations with the humans.

>>34044385
Consider this idea. For future dealings with humans where we can pursuade them to be imprisoned rather then spend drones fighting them.
We need to get a sort of speaking drone inside a human battlesuit. So it says that "My name is Doctor Giger and these bugs are my beloved pets controlled by chips. Please, come aboard my ship because reasons and otherwise doom approaches ".

>>34044476
That works as well, or we can advance our special new drone.

>>34044476

What's with your bug-humanoid fetish man? Stop it.

>>34044476
I like the idea of getting a fat bug to be our diplomat and have it swallow a warhead and a detonator.
Just, y'know, for fun.

>>34044504
A bipedal bug would probably be worth researching though don't think this >>34044476
is a smart idea.

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>>34044504
What the hell are you talking about?
I say we need to get a puppet figure that could be our mask in case we want to do diplomacy. That way we can diplomance while hurting our secrecy much less then going "hurr queen of the hive welcomes you through this drone".

>>34044564
Yeah we finally have.
>Biological interface: These sets of small spines are similar in function to your computer interface, but with organic life. The interface lets a drone attach itself to other organic beings, be it a drone or alien, and either sustain itself or sustain its host, as well as monitor vital signs and administer chemicals as needed.

>>34044583

We had the beginnings of a mind control parasite presented to us at the start of this very thread, you twit.

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>>34044090
Your drones break through the dense foliage and open fire from their cannons. One of the towers breaks in half and collapses as the others turn and open fire.
"Jesus Christ, what are those?"
"Take cover!"
The walls bend inward as your drones close the distance and slam into the gate. The closest tower to the wall is engulfed in flames as your colosi sprays the turret with plasma. Your other spins its rotary and in a short moment several of the flimsy shelters are reduced to a fine powder.
Your drones slam the gate again, warping the hinges and bending the gate downwards as the air fills with lighting and wasps.
Your shock troops land with a great thud as they leap the gate, catching several humans under them as they land.

The scene quickly descends into chaos as your drones swarm over the camp. With a third mighty push the gate buckles and a flowing sea of warriors pours from the breach. The humans open fire with lighting and projectiles, quickly cutting down as many as they can, but for every drone they bring down another takes its place. They quickly scatter in panic, running to the small pre-fabricated lab they had dropped from orbit, some others abandon the camp and flee into the dense jungle. As the last few humans seal the doors to the lab you regroup your drones.

14 warriors
15 wasps
5 shock troops
2 colosi
2 sniffers
15 workers

>Destroy the lab
>Siege the lab
>Send drones to capture the fleeing humans
>Other

>>34044592
So we need to just make a few human puppets who will pretend to control bugs if we want to talk to humans. Same thing with other races.
They will rather easily believe it as long as it looks like them and talks like them.

>>34044659
>Send drones to capture the fleeing humans
No one must escape. Target the limbs.

>>34044659
>Siege the lab
>Send drones to capture the fleeing humans

>>34044659
>>Send drones to capture the fleeing humans

It's a prison for them, we can deal with them later.

>>34044659

>Send drones to capture the fleeing humans
Shock troops are good for this.

>Siege the lab
And open up a line to Theseus asking him if he would like the lab intact or anything like that.

>>34044659
>Siege the lab
>Send drones to capture the fleeing humans

>>34044659
>Siege the lab
>Send drones to capture the fleeing humans

Rolled 7

>>34044659
>>Send drones to capture the fleeing humans
>>Siege the lab
>Bring out the speaker and demand surrender

>>34044476
>People wanting to CONTROL all humans
Please anons.
Lets just blow shit up. Why does this have to turn into mind control infestation shit?

>>34044659
>Siege the lab
>Send drones to capture the fleeing humans

We need that lab as intact as possible! They may have data we need!

>>34044659
Could we study the portable lab to make our own?

>>34044659
>>Siege the lab
>>Send drones to capture the fleeing humans

>>34044659
>>Siege the lab
>>Send drones to capture the fleeing humans

>>34044659
>>Siege the lab
And by tyhis I don't mean sit outside and wait them out, find a way in without breaking everything.

>>34044820
I for one won't mind to take them alive so we can have test subjects to use later on.

>>34044820
I have no idea where you saw an idea of infestation there. What I proposed is a battlesuit controlled by us that pretends to be human and can be used to try and trick humans into submission. Or to otherwise interact.

>>34044820

>Wanting to waste valuable materiel and people

We're still too young and fragile to do scorched earth tactics. We need all the advantages we can get.

So are we gonna meet another queen?

>>34044957

Possibly? Who knows?

>>34044916
>>34044917
Cunning hive-mind.

>>34044957
Maybe we'll meet what ever made our race?

>>34044659
One of your colosi looks through a window. You can see a number of humans within, welding doors and vents shut as others check their weapons and equipment. One of them looks up to the window and falls backwards screaming. A wall of metal blast doors seal over the windows.

Your shock troopers fan out, quickly running after the fleeing Union soldiers. You can already spot several of them struggling to make their way through the dense vines and shrubs.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3 for capture.

Rolled 86

>>34045051

Rolled 98

>>34045051

Rolled 58

>>34045051

Rolled 86

>>34045051

>>34045075
Well shit

>>34045075
Nice

>>34045051
Oh yea, We need to gather up every CIP weapon we can find here as well as any other new ones. We can use them to help our research later on.

>>34045075
Welp. They dun got caught.

Rolled 32

>>34045051
If we got means, lets try and signal them after a while that threat is over. Make warriors stay in ambush just near the door so they will rush in if they open.

>>34045051
>One of your colosi looks through a window.
Aww isn't he a cutie patootie.

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>>34045147
Forgot muh image.

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>>34045147

>One of them looks up to the window and falls backwards screaming.
I wonder why, personally I think that it sounds 3cute5me. Big guy just checkin' in to make sure they're okay after slaughtering all the rest of them.

>>34045238
whoever did this with poor toads is a horrible person

>>34045308

At first it was funny, but then...yeah.

>>34045275
Lol

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>>34045308
BLOOD FOR THE LIZARD GOD.

>>34044820
Survival is about adaptation, and our race does just that. It was built to adapt to whatever climate, whatever trials and tribulations the universe throws at us.

And nothing is taboo when conquering the universe. Never stay predictable. One moment, we're beating their gates down. The other, we're spreading disease and viruses carried by our brood into their sewers and air.

Later on, we become them. Brother versus brother, neighbor versus neighbor. Paranoia and terror. Have you ever seen The Thing? It's kind of like that.

We are the most horrifying thing in the galaxy because the Hive adapts and evolves faster than anything known, given the resources from whatever planet and civilization we touch.

But we are young. Patience and secrecy will keep us from being blasted from the face of the cosmos, and patience and secrecy will be our silent conquerors.

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>>34045051
Your drone leaps into the air with a mighty beat of its wings and comes down on top of the fleeing solder. You hear a bone snap with the impact and your warriors quickly drag him back to the camp. Your drones continue, converging on them as they trip through the dense vegetation. As you give chase one of them turns to face your drone and opens fire. As he does a bold of chitin punctures his leg with a wet crunch and the stream of plasma leaps to a tree, splitting it in two. Another two are found in a large pit, and another hanging from a tree by a vine. They are quickly all accounted for, six in all. You counted another eleven in the lab, and the bodies of seven others litter the camp.

>>34045346
>>34045308
Google frogs legs cooking.
Its usually done to them, when alive and fresh.some are so fresh that the legs still kick when people eat them.

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>>34045398
Well said. We will be them, saving them from themselves. While increasing our resources and diminishing theirs.

>>34045421
Now guys, guys what we do here is take everything, and i mean everything and then slag the rest and we make it look like Unity did it, we take all the people and bodies and do what we came here for and then slag it, no evidence

>>34045560
Good thinking, this should be our standart procedure, yes.

>>34045537
>>34045398
Can we have a daughter yet?
or are people still paranoid as shit.

>>34045560
Of course anon.
We also need to nuke the temple when we're done with it.

>>34045582
Yea we just need to make sure there are no drones or anything left and then use Unity tech to burn the rest

>>34045560
I think we should jump the other corvette here to help with carrying the loot, since the first on was damaged.

>>34045583
A daughter queen would not be controllable unlike regular drones.

>>34045583
No, at the very least none until we are discovered

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>>34045612
with electronic implant stimuli it would (the daughter)

>>34045583
When we have conquired this part of the galaxy and grow tired of this physical realm, yes.
Why the hell would be make ourselves a direct and most dangerous enemy right now. We might get prisoners to scratch our chitin body and socialise with whenever we want. We migh even let them have some of their limbs.

>>34045421
Your drones carry the soldiers back to the camp while your drones continue to work on opening the door to the lab.

>Try to find a way inside quietly
>Attempt to break down the door and charge in
>Blast down the walls to the lab
>Leave them for now and clear out the camp
>Other

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>>34045308
Well, from the look of it...

>>34045604
Oh yea, we find out what the temples about then Boom>>34045646

>>34045646
Knock on the door, get em to surrender

>>34045646
>>Try to find a way inside quietly
>>Try to get them to surrender

>>34045635
Why should we be making another queen exactly?

>>34045612
Good idea, anon. That reminds me, do we know how much time and resources will it take to repair the ship? Can it be repaired on this planet or will it have to limp back to the docking pylon first?

>>34045646
>>Other
Speaker tells them to come out and surrender weapons or the lab gets plasma'd. (Empty threat)

Summon the corvette to the camp and herd them in.

>>34045646
>>>Try to get them to surrender

We need more than one test subject for our mind control project.

>>34045646
>>Try to find a way inside quietly
>>Leave them for now and clear out the camp

>>34045646
>Try to find a way inside quietly
Make captured soldiers understand that we either capture those inside or make ashes out of whole lab. Also tell them that they will be realised to their government in a week after a negotiation. Start torturing them for motivation if no one wants to cooperate willingly.

>>34045646
>Try to find a way inside quietly
>Leave them for now and clear out the camp

Rolled 23

>>34045697
double the drone output (and possibilites with MORE BASES!)

>>34045646
>>Try to find a way inside quietly
>>Leave them for now and clear out the camp
Doors are probrably booby trapped, also this gives us a chance to scavenge.

>>34045646
>try to get them to surrender
>Blast down the walls to the lab

>>34045646
>Try to get the to surrender
You want to avoid wasting any more of your drones if you don't have to, but you wonder what could get them to come out peacefully?
>Sneak in and flush them out
>Speak with them and demand surrender
>Have your prisoners negotiate on your behalf

>>34045842
Egg sacks can lay eggs
Only thing new queen can bring is competition and creativity, including creative ways to take all of our things.

>>34045697
More drones, More allies, quicker spread,a second personality for us to see grow(we could even partially play as our daughter for important decisions).

>>34045842
>>34045895
Which we can do with remote egg-layers, without the possibility of them ignoring our orders.

>>34045865
>>Speak with them and demand surrender

>>34045842
Or we could just use the remote egg sac.

>>34045882
Actually we automatically give her info, and the like and everything else she earns herself.

>>34045865
>Have your prisoners negotiate on your behalf
Recently captured humans I assume
Otherwise,
>Speak with them and demand surrender

would like to use this >>34045756

>>34045865
>>Speak with them and demand surrender

>>34045583
Nay, anon. There can be only one.

I think our reason for being out in that cold expanse of space, far from home and further from our purpose was an emergency wherever we came from. A big, extinction-level event kind of emergency.

We were laid and sent off as a final hope of future survival and a furtive hope we won't make the same mistakes as our predecessor. Quiet, alone, and undetectable. We fell asleep to visions of our world burning and our people dying.

Anon, we're all that's left and I don't think there's enough room in the universe for two of our kind.

At least, that's my headcanon for the moment.

>>34045928
She would decide what she earns and where to kill us. Queens can't be psionically controlled. Seriously, what's up with all this faggotry.
Only good thing would be sending a queen egg in a pod FAR away, like, another galaxy away.

>>34045980
>I think our reason for being out in that cold expanse of space, far from home and further from our purpose was an emergency wherever we came from. A big, extinction-level event kind of emergency.
This was disproved when you first said it anon.

>>34045865
>Speak with them and demand surrender

>>34045980
Well, if we think we are last, we should send eggs with pods into other galaxies, so they will travel for thouthands of years but our kind would not go exctinct in case we die.

>>34045994
By given, i meant genetically like us, and i never said she would be in the same map, but a far away system where we can check her progress.

>>34045980
I think your head cannon is far fetched, and cliched as hell.
Especially considering what we learned in the first thread, and how we might be finding another queen in this planet.

>>34046057
Eventually, we'd bump into one another again, whether we like it or not. Why take the chance forr the future?

>>34046059
And what will be the benefit?
Cons of doing that:
inevitable future competition
risk of queen exposing us
risk of queen exposing our kind' technology and whatnot
usage of attention and resources we could use to spy on other enemies/competitors

Rolled 99

>>34046161
okay then we should then worry about the fleshy things and the temple

>>34045865
You think you have had enough battle for today. Wasting more resources seems fruitless when you still have so much to do here.
Your speaker moves to the lab door. You see a small radio device mounted to the wall.
"Drop your weapons and exit now." You say simply, the voice is raspy and filled with clicks, but it is clear enough. You hear yelling erupt beyond the blast shields on the windows, too muffled to make out.
"Who are you?" The intercom replies.

>>34046138
Cos there is no such chance. This will not go past galactic domination. In-game and metagame both.

>>34045583
You. This is all your fault. Why couldn't you keep your trap shut and not spark a completely pointless argument that has nothing to do with the situation at hand?


>>34046209
"Irrelevant. Exit or the lab will become very, very hot."

>>34046161
>inevitable future competition
>risk of queen exposing us
I concede towards, this but the idea is something to consider later on when fully exposed.
>risk of queen exposing our kind' technology and whatnot
If you mean how adapt, that is also a problem, but i doubt she is retarded anon.
>usage of attention and resources we could use to spy on other enemies/competitors
If it helps us, there is no reason not to spy on her.

>>34046128
Probably. It's pretty much Superman. I already understand.

But the beauty of
>head cannon
is that you don't really have to like it.

I'm satisfied, however it turns out.

>>34046209
"A force which can and will kill you if forced to. Come out now and you will not be harmed."

>>34046209
This:
>>34046232

We've pretty much established our Queen is a cheeky one.

>>34046209
We are the ones who want to take you alive and as unharmed as possible.

>>34046209
>There is a Unity servership in orbit and your Union will send help far too late. Unity does not take prisoners. We however, do. Come out and we will guarantee your immediate survival.

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>>34046209
>We are forces of a famous archeologist and xenobiologist Dr Hiveminger. Your expedition is suspended by Union's government. Local ruins were decided to be left as they are for now and I've been sent here to carefully probe them with equipment you do not posess.
>Surrender immedeatly and you will be able to see your families in a few days

Then, we capture them and cut off their limbs.

>>34046305
This

>>34046331
me liek

>>34046331
Dude, if we were sent by the union why would we have killed all those guys at the start instead of help against the robots? Never mind that if this dude was famous the scientists in there would be suspicious seeing as they never heard of him.

>>34046305
This is pretty much everything we need to said.

Rolled 45

>>34045560

If we deploy a hivh yield nuke from our stash (presuming they don't include coded isotopes in order to have practical 'serial codes' for nuclear explosions.) and leave some fabricated evidence of the temple...being hostile or something then it'll appear that the temple blew the Hope out of the sky and posed such a massive threat that they decided they needed to deploy a nuke to neutralize it.

>>34046414
You understimate the power of blatant lies.

We could just pretend this is a separate hive right?

Its not like they know really how we operate

>>34046331
no lies only demands

>>34046468
Did they win Mitt Romney the election?

>>34046468
But we are bugs. Why would they send bugs?
>>34046488
We don't have to pretend about anything because no one will be able to tell anyone anything.

>>34046509
It won Obama's.

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>>34046488
No way. We do not tell these guys about us and we will never release them.

>>34046528
Because reasons. I am still sure those stressed people will rather believe someone pretending to be human controlling bugs. Then believe bugs.

Rolled 26

>>34046305
That's pretty fucking retarded, anon. Get out of here.

>>34046232
>>34046331
I approve.

>>34046488
I mean we can make up some bullshit about how they desecrated our temple or something

At like this is an independent colony with no relation to the other hive

>>34046580
Bugs that they saw kill their guys literally two minutes ago. No one is that stupid.

>>34046604
Please, explain what you are trying to tell us, because, honestly, it sounds very retarded on many levels. Starting with that these humans have no idea about us and our hive and what are these creatures.

Rolled 48

>>34046588

Hah, switched the bottom and top quotes. Fucking phone, but pretending to be some bullshit doctor with....bug control? Is retarded.

>>34046588
Are you sure you didn't call the wrong post retarded?

Sure you weren't aiming for "i am totally human guise trust me"?

>>34046654
Better yet, they don't explain and stop posting about this entirely. And so do the rest of us. And just wait for QD instead of clogging up the thread any more than we already have about pointless shit.

>>34046532
>>34046509
It won't matter either way since The Democrats decided that Hillary is gonna win, even though she is the same type of president as Obama.

>>34046629
"Whoah, my bugs surely made a mess out of it! My apologies, everyone!"
Alternative is "We bugs who just have killed many of you demand your surrender"

>>34046209
"Irelivant. Exit and surrender before you suffer heat stroke."

Your colosus lightly sprays the far wall with plasma, bringing the sealed windows to a reddish glow. You can tell the building was designed with heat shielding, but only along the bottom of the structure. After several minutes you hear the glass on the other side crack from the heat.
You hear the yelling resume in the building, and after a short while longer the door opens. Several humans fall out of the door gasping for breath. They are quickly tackled and taken away from the door as several others emerge, their faces red and covered with sweat.

You now count seventeen humans in you care, placed in the center of the small camp in a circle of warriors. You can make out several rank insignias based on your experience with the Clarke's crew. Most of them Spacemen, five Senior spacemen, three sergeants of various kinds, a lieutenant, and a captain. Once the lab cools back down you manage to retrieve nine CIP pistols and six conventional rifles. Your workers quickly pile the materials together on the far side of the camp.

>Address the humans (write in)
>Send drones to the temple (write in)
>Comb the jungle for the missing expedition
>Other

>>34046711
Will someone take this retarded monkey off the keyboard?

>>34046711

Yes, the latter makes more fucking sense. Real people demand surrenders after killing people's comrades all the time, and they're in no position to argue.

>>34046711
I like the alternative better. Mostly because its not the most easily seen through lie I have seen in a long ass time.
>>34046771
Oh and because it works.

>>34046772
>I can't argue back so I better call an opponent retarded

>>34046771
>>Comb the jungle for the missing expedition

We can find out if any of the humans are useful later.

Summon the Corvette. land it hear and start consumption beaming the scrap metal, and load the lab and humans onto it.

>>34046772
Alas, if only I had that power.

>>34046771
>Comb the jungle for the missing expedition
>Other start grabbing their equipment and moving it somewhere else

>>34046771
>>Comb the jungle for the missing expedition

>>34046604
>>34046488
Alright, the humans know that there is a race of intelligent bugs, which are primitive and planetbound as far as they know, but they have their doubts, that's why they had their monitoring satellite armed with nukes.
One human colony is attacked by bugs, which look suspiciously like the ones that are suspicious about. Where do you think they are going to check first?
Of course, all that is moot because they wouldn't know it was us attacking since we would leave no trace behind and slag everything and we have our Unity friends to help take the blame.

>restrain the humans and have a couple of warriors and wasps watch over them
>call the corvette
>send all other drones to the temple
I think someone should make a headcount of the humans so we dont miss anything.

>>34046771
>Address the humans
"You will be will be given food and water in due time. Any resistance from you will result in your deaths. Stay put till we speak with you again."
>Send drones to the temple (half of our forces)

>>34046771
>Comb the jungle for the missing expedition

>>34046771

Send Shock Troops and Warriors out to search for the missing expedition.

Address the Prisoners
"If you require nourishment then request it, you will be permitted to tend to your injured, obey all commands or the penalties will be harsh."

>>34046771
>Comb the jungle for the missing expedition
>Other: check lab for FTL communication

>>34046869
Better, the system attacked is right next to the bug system.
I say we wring all the use we can out of them and then kill them.

We should offer some water, free of charge.
Plus the usual don't do anything stupid and you can stay alive.

>>34046997
agreed

>>34046771
>>34045421
6 from running, 11 from the lab, we counted 17 prisoners. No one is missing, but our headcount when we were attacking the lab might be off. If the humans act a bit too helpful they might be hiding someone.

>>34046997
Wring them out, agree. Kill them? Nope.jpg

We need live test subjects for some of our research, remember?

>>34046771
You summon your corvette with a thought and it slowly floats over the camp. A ramp flexes open and your warriors drive your new captives into the ship. Several small compartments make for effective holding cells, and your workers move to salvage the rest of the camp.

>Roll 1d100, best of 3 for salvage results

>>34046997
nah, leave some alive so we can work on our pheromones and min control.

>>34046997
>>34047029
Or we could use them for test subjects.

>>34046827
>>34046896
>>34046936
Yup, pretty much. Search them too, to make sure they're unarmed and don't have any communications devices.

Rolled 85

>>34047081

Rolled 12

>>34047081

Rolled 99

>>34047081

>>34047080
>>34047086
Research? Sure. Mind control? You guys can make all the arguments you want but I know where that road leads and I'll never be voting for it.

>>34047080
>>34047086
Kill after using them is what he said. Which means keeping them alive for tests...

>>34047134
My nigga

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>>34047134
Time to loot the whole continent.

Rolled 19

>>34047081

>>34047134
Nice to see I rolled well.

>>34047134

Damn, son.

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>>34047134

>>34047137
What road exactly?>>34047102
>>34047102
>>34047086
>>34047080
This post >>34046997 includes exactly that and you somehow disagree with it while proposing the same.

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>>34047134
Ah yes!

I have to say, rolling a 99 on salvaging a outpost/camp is one of the better times to roll a 99.

>>34047134
>we find Union's President inside the lab

As for mind control there is a very method for that.
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_center

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>>34047353
Image, what we would had gotten with rolling a 100.

>>34047382
It's simple. We make dick-symbiotes.

>>34047414
...5 black people?

>>34047359
Better yet, we find MORE LIGHTERS!! The universe is ours!

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>>34047414
niggers? what kind of biological research would that lead to?

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>>34047432
>>34047454
Welp, i meant to say Imagine.

>>34047421
The pleasure center is more about motivation than anything else.

>>34047454
Dark elves, hopefully.

>>34047246
We need to make a drone like that mascot

Have it eat everything and combat tail blade equipped

>>34047512
>Dark elf bug hybrids
I mean, they both live mostly underground...

>>34047512
More like orcs and morlocks.

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>>34047607

>>34047607
>>34047631
We could if wanted to, make a vagina drone meant to suck men and women dry of their seeds and grow drone hybrids of that species and views the queen as their mother.

>>34047692
Okay, that's too far.

>>34047699
Why, its a great way to increase our numbers and study a species.

>>34047692
And this is the point where we need stop.

>>34047631
Is that fresh? It looks pretty good.

>>34047717
>>>/d/
Leave.

>>34047717
I'm as upset over this bodytakeover branch people are looking over but at least I'm not shitposting. Get over it.

Have we selected a new research subject to study, yet? Because, if not I want to study that foam that was used on one of are wasp when we trying to steal the light orbs the twins were using and maybe have some thinkers read those books we got from the Clarke.

>>34047081
Nearly everything in the camp is made of some form of usable metal. Your workers sift through the wreckage for anything of more delicate value. Despite all that has happened the lab is still almost completely intact. Half-finished experiments and tests litter the tables, and shattered beakers litter the floor. You find several papers and documents covering a desk, and several empty spaces where it appears some field equipment has been removed. In total you find a dozen small cultures unknown varieties.

You quickly gather the test samples and look through the notes scattered about on the table.

"Preliminary results are inconclusive, but rock samples around the site dates back at least fifty thousand years. What is most interesting is the carvings themselves, however. Not only do they depict creatures that do not match the local life forms, but they appear to be involved in some sort of collective ritual. I am sure Seiner will enjoy looking over the samples in detail once we begin excavation." It is dated just three days ago. You find another.
"The dig site is proving more difficult than anticipated. The stone is far more durable than anything we have seen before. It is completely uniform wherever we search with no seams or indications of conventional construction. It's has if the entire site is carved from a single stone. Tonight we will return to the camp and make a request for more sturdy digging equipment, although I hate to desecrate such a priceless piece of xenoarchaeology."
Finally, the last one is dated yesterday.
"An astounding discovery! Just after we had filled our report we discovered something. Some alternate entrance, perhaps, or damage leading into the site itself. Once the data has been sent back and a larger team is dispatched we should be able to quickly dig out the ruins! With any luck, by this time tomorrow--" The page ends with a large mark of ink and a small hole punched in the paper.

>+783 metals
>New research - microbial cultures

>>34047778
Add Magnetic Levitation and the data cubes to that.

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Sensible tier:
A talker that has the outward appearance of a human.

Insensible tier:
A monster girl

/d/ tier:
>>34047692

>>34047776
Funny thing is, i'm all for parasite and was just giving out an idea for the hybrid guys, i wasn't shit posting.
>>34047767
Not really a fetish, there just thinking of a new drone idea, based on what the guys wanted.
Like the drone forcibly takes their seeds and them either devours the alien or forcibly makes a symboatic relationship where they tend to the eggs.

>>34047786
Do all the research!

Should we let the humans have a little community of their own under our control?

I think biting the legs off that merc was a good idea, but these guys are just scientists. They could be useful.

>>34047786
Research these
>Lyle’s Combat armor
Medium
Not as powerful or complex as the drop suit, the combat armor appears to be a delicate mix of survivability and combat capabilities, with many similarities to the Union environmental suit. It appears to contain a number of devices designed to be useful in the field.

>Magnetic Levitation
Medium
The small human buggy uses a series of superconducting magnets to glide along a planet’s surface a short distance from the ground. Apparently based off of Ceph technology, this device grants a great advantage to mobility.

>Carbon liquid
Medium
This strange substance appears to be alive, and reshapes itself by assembling itself into various crystalline structures as needed. You're still not sure if it was trying to attack your ship or if it was simply reacting automatically in some fashion. An extensive battery of tests should reveal more regarding the substance.

>Space dust
Medium
While it was too minute to analyze in the field, this space dust contains trace amounts of nutrient contents. Testing should reveal if it is a form of life, or simply some strange natural phenomena, as well as how to make use of it.

>>34047880
Nah. Best use for them is test subjects.

>>34047786
Your drones find several crates scattered across the camp filled with various food stores of varying quality.
>+1403 N

>>34047786
And more CIP guns. Do we have a safe number of them to work on with out excessive worry of losing them all?

>>34047880
This is an army crew so they are pow
>>34047851
And just go back to d man

Rolled 60

>>34047895
this

>>34047851
There is no image, no words I can use to express the amount of WHY I'm feeling right now.

>>34047924
I don't see it as a /d/ idea, but a realistic view of what those guys wanted.
Honestly i don't see how any one would find that arousing.

>>34048007
You're either lying or new.

>>34047918
Yes, you have collected quite a few operational weapons from the camp. Enough to effectively remove the risk of destroying all of them while testing, although you would still need to start the research over with another sample if one is destroyed.
Technically, I suppose you could go through all of them, but it's statistically very unlikely.

>>34047917
Save that for the humans. It is likely the only stuff they can eat. Besides, we need to test out if the humans can eat the fungus stuff we have been eating all this time.

>>34048041
>It is likely the only stuff they can eat
What is a lyle and what is he eating?
Hint, it's a nutritional paste we made. They can have the same.

>>34048019
Neither, i have gone to /d/ a few times, but for mostly monster girls.
I'm just surprised that people find that shocking or weird when in other alien quest before such ideas were thrown around like nothing.
>>34048041
What research do we have locked in?

>>34048072
Good thinking.

Maybe we could find out how to reproduce it? Some grain seeds or something.

We could make bank by trading it to human colonies.

>>34048041
What is the server ship doing, just flying in orbit doing nothing?

Also, meant >>34048112
to quote >>34048072

>>34048112
We have been feeding Lyle food rations from hel's Angel and the Clarke we've found so far.

>>34048124
trade for what?

We just need food and raw metal to build stuff and thats it

It not like the drones require creature comforts or the own personal hives with a suv

>>34048112
>What is a lyle and what is he eating?
>Hint, it's a nutritional paste we made. They can have the same.
No? We are starving and dehydrating him, we're researching how to duplicate other species' food later when their reserves run low. Next week.

>>34048124
It's not 'good thinking' it's the bleeding obvious that we were already gonna do, we aren't deciding shit about that right now. It's insignificant minutiae for next thread.

Right now we have to find the last humans who got eaten by the dark temple. Or rather, wait for a QD update and not eat up bump limit so early.

>>34047917
Your workers quickly load all of the materials of interest into your corvette and it slowly rises into the air as the bulk of your force spreads out around the temple site in search of the humans.

>Obliterate the camp remains
>Send your drones to the temple site
>Both
>Other

>>34048119
Hell i was even thinking of having something similar to chest busters or the giant spider bugs(similar to chest bursters except they make the body their host for as long as possible) from a horror movie i saw years ago.

>>34048206
Nah we hooked him to a nutrient and water iv on the wall

It not comfortable but hey hes alive

>>34048206
>>34048228

Really? I could have sworn we did away with it. I'll take a quick look at the archive

>>34048235
>>Send your drones to the temple site

>>34048235
>Both

>>34048235
>Both
With the cyclotron.

>>34048235
>>Obliterate the camp remains
>>Send your drones to the temple site

>>34048235
Get Unity to slag the camp.

>>34048207
He wants to diplomance the universe. Doesn't matter if we don't have much to gain from trade.
Anything we can gain from trade like research we can just take anyway.

>>34048206
>>34048228
No we have been giving him nutrient paste, read the last few threads again niggahs.

>>34048124
Have you thought of a way to do this trading without revealing are facade as a non space faring race?

>>34048235
>both

>>34048170
The server ship currently appears to be collecting animal, plant, soil, and rock samples from across the planet. Essentially trying to grab as much as they can before the Union investigates.
Also, you can synthesis food for other races, but so far your current guests have been living off of captured rations, which you just refilled your stock of.

>>34048235
>Send your drones to the temple site

We could use that camp for our own use later on if need be.

>>34048235
>Both

Don't want them to find any conclusive evidence that it might have been us.

>>34048314
That facade is eroding swiftly.

>>34048335
hell no

This is gonna be the first place that union patrol gonna search

>>34048235
>>Both

>>34048326
I was right. We need to learn how to create more of it for our long term guests. Besides, our hive has been eating nothing BUT pasty fungus gruel. A little variety in our diet wouldn't be a bad thing.

Rolled 10

>>34048427
>variety
the only people who care would be like the queen

>>34048427
We're like cockroaches we don't need much to survive.

So who here thinks it'd be a good idea to build a few noticeable outposts in the different regions of the world to give the illusion of small pockets of civilization across the planet instead of having the only trace of are race on this planet be where are space pod landed?

>>34048427
We don't care about taste and it provides all the nutrition they need. And we apparently can make their stuff.

>>34048427
This is unnecessary. One of the major benefits of our race, and one of the main reasons we can grow as fast as we can is that this is unnecessary.

>>34048358
Care to provide examples?

>>34048366
I was thinking of a future colony site when we take to getting this planet under our control and occupation. But this is way down the road anyway.

>>34048518
Probably no one because they weren't there in the last reports the satellite sent.

>>34048518
I mean, we live almost entirely underground so it's not to surprising for visitors. That aside we are in the process of building other bases made or research, and the underwater thing is probably in the works once this is done.

>>34048427
>>34048124
>>34048314

We are the freaking zerg man

Our "economy" is that of an rts game

All we need is nutrients and metal that it

We don't need to trade man and our tech tree is a hell lot different than the others

>>34048561
Our dealings with the unity, our ships, our raids on humans on the planet, our manipulation of data, our expanding infrastructure.

We can hide it now, but one day we will no longer be able to.

>>34048563
But we can just make a hole in the ground and use that.

>>34048235
Your corvette ascends into the air and unleashes a column of fire as its weapons obliterate the clearing and the surrounding patch of jungle. As your ship moves to the site of the alien temple you feel a ping of radiation emanating from the jungle. The gradual tone sharpens quickly and you detect an object erupt from the surface towards you. You still detect the beam of radiation directed at your ship from within the jungle below.

>Shoot the missile
>Obliterate the jungle below you, targeting the source of the radiation
>Evade
>Other

>>34048513
She should eat what she wants. She is the queen after all.
>>34048515
>>34048525
>>34048544
There is also another reason. When we move to other worlds. The fungus farms we have here might not do so well on other planets. That and some worlds are VERY barren of the massive amount of water our farms need. A different food stock that we have ready to be farmed will be needed.

>>34048639
>Shoot the missile
>Evade

>>34048639
>Shoot the missile
>Obliterate the jungle below you, targeting the source of the radiation

>>34048639
>Evade

>>34048639
>>Shoot the missile

>>34048639
SHOOT DOWN THAT MISSILE
and also that radiation source

>>34048639
>>Shoot the missile

>>34048639
>Shoot the missile
>Call out to them.

>>34048649
Then we can try researching that edible space dust.

>>34048639
>Shoot the missile
>Evade
>Other
Land and send in ground forces to find who fired at us!

>>34048639

>Shoot the missile
>Evade

>>34048639
>Shoot the missile

>>34048639
>>Shoot the missile
>>Evade
Our drones should be closing in.

>>34048605
Yeah your right
We prob need at least to buy us a months worth of time and get a fleet started because we can not hide what we built on the home hive