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>>36357182
>Current armory
269 Thorn Launchers
20 Thorn Cannons
123 Sting Casters
30 Cyclotrons
15 Rotary Stingers
3 Fire Sprays
5 Plasma Spray

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 474798
Metals: 238634
Credits: ₡2326
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡577,450

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 534
Queen – 5
Fake Queen (2) – 44
Worker (4000) – 8000
Aquatic Worker (40) – 160
Vacuum Worker (200) – 1200
Radiator Worker (100) – 400
Warrior (209) – 1045
Aquatic Warrior (20) – 140
Thinker (500) – 1500
Quantum Thinker (150) – 750
Speaker – (3) – 12
Digger (80) – 320
Refinery (10) – 70
Sniffer (2) – 8
Small Sniffer (200) – 200
Fly (50) – 200
Wasp (100) – 500
Haz-mat Workers (20) – 80
Shock Troops (40) – 520
Parasite (30) – 120
Bio-tank (10) – 250
Excavator (200) – 3800
Colossus (20) – 300
Advanced Relay (68) – 6800 (set as default method of ship control)
Upkeep: 26958N

>Hive fleet
Space Pod (28) – 840
Shuttle (10) – 250
Scout Corvette (6) – 1350
Lancer Corvette (2) – 450
Fleet Corvette (4) – 900
Stealth Frigate (4) – 1952
Heavy Cruiser (4) – 4860
(Under construction)
Mining Corvette (4)
Vanguard Frigate (4)
(Queued for construction)
Mining Corvette (2)
10602N

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
25 Human captives of the USV Hope – 750
3 Human hybrid clones in production – 180
Lyle Rogers – 47
977N

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 37560

>Income
Metals: 52500
Nutrients: 100050
Net: 62490

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Awww hell yes it's time for the best time of the week!

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>>36357195
Hive Structure
G-426
>Asteroid mining base: 5 Excavators, 20 Diggers, +2250M per day (+50 M per digger, +250 per excavator)
Leeland
>Spring mountain hive
>Hangar facilities: Room for 40 Aero/fighter Drones and 20 Shuttles (25N)
>Docking Pylon (2) : Space for docking and construction of 4 ships (100N) (1 more under construction)
>Mine: 195 Excavators, 60 Diggers, +50250 M per day (+25 M per digger, +250 per excavator)
>Clarke Research Outpost
>Hel’s Angel Prison Outpost
>Mountain farm complex
>Algae Farm: +100000 N per day, 1000 Workers (1 worker per 100N)
>Anti-orbital battery: 2 (125N per battery)
M-662
Raligha
>Automated Raligha colony
M-323
>Orbital docking pylon (under construction)

Current Construction
2 Docking pylons
1 orbital docking pylon
4 Heavy cruisers

>>36357236
We didn't add more farms then?

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>>36357236
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/fighter 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
>Docking Pylon – A large spire or station that contains space for docking and construction of 4 ships, or a single capital ship if placed in orbit. 100N 300M
>Surface to Orbit Missile System – This massive bunker complex houses a wide range of warheads and a nigh limitless number of missiles within its protective walls, allowing you to launch missiles against approaching invaders from the safety of your hive. The facility uses the ship missile stats and comes equipped with a single Cruise missile silo that can target any detected object within the system, five Stinger missile silos capable of targeting any craft within high orbit, and ten Swarm missile silos specialized in targeting high altitude aircraft and low orbiting targets. The facility itself is a massive complex spread out over several miles, and includes guidance and launch equipment, as well as the means to construct and maintain a stock of warheads and missiles. (1500N 2500M)

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

>>36357271
>Surface to Orbit Missile System

This pleases the Fluff. How ever, we don't appear to have a need of them just yet.

>>36357306
Defenses are always a good investment.

>>36357306
We need more of these and more of the batteries

>>36357306
Construct one on a large asteroid at the edge of an enemy system under cloak. Push it towards their planets. Boom, semi-mobile improvised weapons platform.

>>36357331
We need more warriors, too.

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>>36357306
well, we could always stir up a need for them...

>>36357345
Or we could just make a battleship sized carrier and point 41,000 fighters in the general direction of the enemy.

>>36357346
yep we keep forgetting to add some every time it seems

hell doesn't the colony on raligha have more warriors than us

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>>36357362

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>Research
http://pastebin.com/F6t39KSp

Your corvette watches the Valen shuttle tumble lazily through space as its radio beacon crawls its way outward at the speed of light. It's not much of a beacon, simply broadcasting its own existence to anyone who could hear it, which would be you. The tiny shuttle is almost the size of one of your pods, and doesn't seem to have any windows or crew compartments, or even power beyond the meager amount used to broadcast its beacon.

>Take the shuttle for salvage and retrieve the package
>Take the package and leave the shuttle
>Other

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>>36357402
btw, I found some inspiration for what the relays could look like

>>36357398
That colony on Raligha HAS been told to emphasize defense, so that's unsurprising.

But yes, we need more. More of everything, but expecially more anti-orbital cannons and these missile bunker complexes.

>>36357407
>>Take the shuttle for salvage and retrieve the package
Make sure to disable any beacons too before bringing it in.

>>36357407
>Take the package and leave the shuttle

>>36357182
Get Lyle to buy a copy of 'Liberation Front’. I want to troll Theseus.

>>36357407
>Take the package and leave the shuttle
Doubt they'd like us taking their shuttle.

>>36357407
>Take the package and leave the shuttle
Grab what we came for and just blow up that shuttle if needed

>>36357407
>>Take the package and leave the shuttle
a minor amount of metal isn't worth the risk it has tracking of some sort.

>>36357407
>>Take the package and leave the shuttle

>>36357325
I don't disagree, However I feel a stronger navy build up first will be an effective deterrent for the short term.
>>36357331
In time, I agree.
>>36357407
>>36357407
>Take the package and leave the shuttle

We jack the shuttle, they might come looking for it. The last thing we need is to get any one else looking at our direction.

>>36357407
>Take the shuttle for salvage and retrieve the package
Near lightspeed thrusters would be nice.

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http://pastebin.com/z4yZdEbK
>Warhead types: All missiles contain a warhead of some kind which determines the general effect of the missile itself. The price of a missile is based on its size and warhead. All prices are listed as the cost of a Stinger, with Cruise missiles costing 2x and Swarm missiles costing .25 of listed price. If the warhead is available for both ships and drones, the prices are listed for each.

>Atomic: A multi-kiloton thermonuclear device, the exact payload depends upon the size of the missile. These can only be launched from ships or from silos. The warhead detonates when within proximity of the target and deals tremendous amounts of thermal and explosive damage within its blast radius, and a moderate amount of energy damage to anything in a much wider radius, disrupting sensors and exposed electronics with a powerful EMP that can travel for several million kilometers before dispersing. Detonating over a planet can cause ion storms, dealing damage to exposed infrastructure, while bombarding a planet will douse the impact area with radiation, causing long term damage to the local ecosystem. (100N 100M)

Pod 60N 50M + Stealth field 5N 15M + Cruise-tier atomic warhead 200N 200M + Thinker 6N =

271N 265M for a Kamikaze Pod for first strikes, to catch the enemy unawares.

Wait, how do the Cruise/Sting/Swarm tier atomic warheads map to the Union's classification of 8-, 20-, and 50-megaton warheads?

>>36357407
>Take the package and leave the shuttle

>>36357427
Nah, more excavators needs to be the priority. They mine metal and dig out area's to improve our farms. So get like 500 of them and put them to work making more farms, then once the first batch of farms are up make another 1000 and put them in the mines

>>36357497
Presumably our Cruise is their 50, our Sting is their 20, and our Swam is their 8.

>>36357497
who cares
good design what ya gonna name it?
Fire boat?
or just space mines?

>>36357441

>>36357485
Any ground-based defenses on Leeland are essentially undetectable, all the time, until someone does a proper land-invasion. This is a valuable thing.

>>36357407
>or even power beyond the meager amount used to broadcast its beacon.

Wait, the shuttle surely has FTL capabilities on board. It got here, after all. It didn't arrive at sublight, considering that "burst of radiation in the distance" in OP. Right?

It must have at least a warp drive, even if it doesn't have a quantum power tap to go very fast. It probably has an FTLComm too.

>>36357554
ignore him
There is plenty of support for more defenses by the look of it
We just have to remember when we vote on it

>>36357531
There's no reason we can't get all these suggestions. We're floating considerable amounts of nutrients and metals.

>>36357554
I can see that. But what should we aim for first as our goal here? Build up so we can create our first capital ship (be it a battle ship, carrier, etc) or max out our colony's defense systems?

>>36357570
It's probably got an FTL comm so the customer can confirm receipt of product but sublight thrusters and is carried by a larger ship.

>>36357594
I'd prefer making Leeland a fortress world first. Battleships can be built when we're revealed as a spacefaring species and we need to intimidate people.

>>36357407
>Take package leave shuttle.

>>36357554
>are essentially undetectable, all the time,
That's completely wrong.

We have an increasingly large heat signature with every bit of defense infrastructure added.

>>36357618
>>36357594
Vibe that we gonna get raided soon and need to prep up for it
either by union or ceph
my money on the ceph

>>36357618
Very well then.

I presume the upkeep on the defense systems will be cheaper than a large navy at the moment.

>>36357570
Or those gates can send ships at FTL one-way within a certain radius.

>>36357696
That sounds very likely considering the Valen can't do stealth.

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>>36357407
Your corvette moves in close, and a team of vacuum workers drift quickly to the hull and cleanly slice it open. Within is a single box, and a cheap radio. Your workers smash the radio and take the crate back into your corvette, leaving the shuttle to drift. You do note to your interest that the shuttle seems to lack any FLT drive of its own, although it definitely arrived via some form of faster than light travel. It makes you rather curious as to how Valen gates actually function.

"Brin me an'nther."
Lyle sits at a bar somewhere in the lower wards, where the gravity is roughly equal to an earth gravity. A large man in a jacket walks up with a bottle. "You sure you're up for it, pal?"
Lyle simply nods and points to his shot glass.

"Mother! Bad poison, making things go slow!"
Your parasite struggles to assist Lyle's Liver. Lyle sends another drink down to tell the parasite to stop that.

>Speak with Lyle (write in)
>Order him back to his ship
>Other

>>36357497
Swarm is 8, Stinger 20, and Cruise missile 50.

>>36357750
>Order him back to his ship

>>36357750
You're on the job, Lyle. Freedom has its price.

>>36357750
>>Speak with Lyle (write in)
Enjoying killing your liver?

>>36357750
>Order him back to his ship
> Other
Before he goes, see into what new weapons are being offered for sale and other tech devices we don't have but could use or reverse engineer.

>>36357750
>>Speak with Lyle (write in)
"I trust you have everything you need? I would like it if you got on with the mission before you overwork my gifts to death."

>>36357750
>Speak with Lyle (write in)
"You should purchase 'Liberation Front’."

>>36357750
>>36357906
i like by needs more snark

>>36357906
>Lyle sends another drink down to tell the parasite to stop that.
Does he even consciously know the Parasite is there, or is it subconscious?

>>36357975
He obviously knows we did something with him. He did spend quite a while without any limbs, then suddenly having sword arms.

>>36357649
Have to be under the atmosphere's spore-blanket in order to even begin to detect that.

>>36357750
>Speak with Lyle (write in)
Ask him about who were the crew members so we can do some research to make the Hybrids more accurate.

>>36357975
He a blood knight with a deathwish
This is prob Standard procedure with him

>>36357975
He doesn't know about that, but he doesn't know exactly what sort of systemic changes we wrought on him either, so we can wave it off as saying that we gave him a superliver if he inquires.

>>36357906
I like it.

>>36358010
Again, that's completely wrong. You just made that up.

Visuals don't work from space, but big heat signatures can be detected.

>>36357750
>>36357906
Seconding.

>>36358010
Nah, the atmospheric conditions just make it more difficult to detect stuff. The surveillance satellite, for example, is able to penetrate the spore-cover for the most part.

>>36358051
The atmosphere is bad enough to scramble radio signals, constantly obscure visuals, and you think they're going to detect any worthwhile thermal information from beyond low-orbit?

>>36358010

>>33873660
>"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."

The hive would be the anomalous heat signature.

>>36358098
Yes, the satellite is literally parked very close over our base though.

>>36358088
>you think they're going to detect any worthwhile thermal information from beyond low-orbit?
That's actually quite easy unless we're living underwater.

>>36357750
Speak (If I knew you enjoyed to drink so much I would have given you a Fermentation gut.)

>>36358088
Yes, you moron.

This has come up repeatedly with Theseus.

>>36358098

>>34377234
>"With the dramatic increase in ground activity, the tampering may be obvious even from orbit, if they bother to look close enough."

>>36357750
let lyle be feel drunk for a while, kind mother

>>36357750
Lyle moves to order another, and as he does notices your illusory form sitting on the stool next to his. "Eh fuck." He mumbles, all together as if it was a single word.

"You have pressing matters to attend to. If you are here poisoning yourself and your gifts to death, then you must be finished with your other business here."

Lyle takes a small tablet from a nearby bowl and sniffs it loudly before tossing it into his mouth. The mint quickly dissolves as he tries to speak.
"Yea yea." With a practiced motion so rote, even his stupor doesn't seem to disrupt it he slips a small fake patch of skin over his thumb and swipes it over the counter. There is a small jingle of sound as the counter displays his purchase, as well as the words "Thank you for your purchase, Mr. Forester!"

Lyle moves from the stool, and quickly begins to gain a sober state as your parasite filters out the alcohol. By the time he has reached the middle ward he feels only a light buzz, much to his displeasure.
"What's your deal, following me around like this? I can work fine on my own."

>Direct him to look for [item] on his way to the dock
>Speak (write in)
>Other

>>36358139
>>36358133
>>36358098
>>36358159
Give it a rest guy's
We grown so big that any faction who comes here gonna find out

The ceph high command know what we are so they aren't gonna be fooled and the humans we can just stomp

>>36357750
>Other
Would you like me to send a warrior to give you a safe ride home?

>>36358211
>Direct him to look for [item] on his way to the dock
Liberty Front.

>>36358211
>Speak (write in)
You need a babysitter

>>36358211
>Speak (write in)
"I keep track of all my other children, why should you be an exception? Is it so wrong of me to care?"

>>36357750
Can we knock Lyle into REM sleep? That way, it'll seem to just be alcohol-induced KO, while we can converse with Lyle about what is troubling him via dreams, while our little parasite helps detox his liver.

>>36358254
Adding to this, it can be used to mess with either Theseus OR the doctor.

>>36358211
>>36358286
Seconding.

>>36358211
>>36358286
Backing

>>36358286
Seconded

>>36358211
Speak (It's my nature and a learning experience for me. Also, allow me to provide you up to date Intel.)
>Direct him to look for [a pet store] on his way to the dock.

>>36358286
Man, no. I think we should really play the 'mother figure' thing in subtext only. Act motherly, don't claim to be his mother. Develop stockholm syndrome slowly.

If you just plain spell it out to him and start calling him our 'kid' and stuff it won't be nearly as effective, he might panic.

>>36358353
I believe we've already called him our child before, didn't we?

>>36358211
"You don't have direct access to a distributed biological network who's abilities to hack human computer systems is second only to Theseus. I do."

>>36358286
This
Also we should ask him if he would like access to our weapons and spy network.

>>36358211
"Clearly." You say. Between the link to his mind and your extensive knowledge of the common human language, you think the sarcasm is obvious enough. "Besides, I keep track of all my children, is it wrong for me to care?"

Lyle moves to a skip in the half gravity of the middle ward. The inner ward was used mostly for industry and trade, where the low gravity was useful, the lower ward held most of the habitats, hotels, restaurants, and other daily activities that required or were made more simple with earth gravity. The middle ward contained mostly mercantile business, trade offices, shops, and tourism focused activities that used the half gravity as a kind of attraction for planet-dwelling 'groundhogs', as they were sometimes called. Tourists who have never left the surface of their world and bumble around in the microgravity like drunken sorority girls, giggling at their clumsiness. Several passed by, still trying to maintain a natural gait as they fought against the weight of their oversized fanny packs.

Lyle doesn't respond, but you spot a small entertainment store in the corner of his eye.

>Tell Lyle to purchase something
>Have Lyle look for an animal store
>Direct Lyle to the ship
>Other

>>36358562
>Direct Lyle to the ship
Start the lunar mission

>>36358562
>>Direct Lyle to the ship

>>36358562
>Direct Lyle to the ship
After this mission I'll need you to poach animal to help improve my technology.

>>36358562
>>Direct Lyle to the ship
We'll troll Theseus later.

>>36358562
>>Have Lyle look for an animal store

>>36358562
>Direct Lyle to the ship
>Other
What is it you want Lyle?

>>36358562
QD can we use Canderon to improve the strength of our drone's limbs?

>>36358632
So we can get some easy animal samples.

>>36358658
Why would that possibly work?

>>36358562
>Tell Lyle to purchase something
Liberty Front. ...I'm the only one advocating for this.

>>36358562
>>Tell Lyle to purchase something
>>Have Lyle look for an animal store
Gene samples and examples of human culture, this is a perfect opportunity. And maybe some groceries for Vaughn if he has the time.

>>36358658
I thought we can try to use canderon to make dimensional nuke or something if the psy cannon research stalls

>>36358562

>Direct Lyle to the ship

>>36358671
Do you know how negative mass works? It's similar to how muscle contract.

>>36358684
That is crazy, if you want weaponized black holes, just ask Theseus how he makes them. He used them on the Union camp when he shot down the Clarke, remember?

Here's an idea, for making unique hybrids:
We harvest gametes from the humans under our care, and mix and match em to produce unique gene sequences we then copy, and use to produce full-size hybrids.

>>36358722
That blackhole was from the powerplant blowing up though wasnt it?

And we are facing the equivalent of ctan so fuck it anything that fucks with reality is an option

>>36358731
You just want to fuck humans, you pervert.

>>36358731
This may be playing god, but I kind of want to see what happens if we do the "Mix and match" clones thing to make a human with a unique appearance, and use our own personality and synthesized memories for it. Just to see what happens.

>>36358684
>I thought we can try to use canderon to make dimensional nuke
You do realize that can theoretically be with quantum entanglement right?

>>36358788
Is that capable of fucking with eldritch abominations?

Then yes it would have my support

>>36358765
I'm pretty sure the detachable lab wouldn't be equipped with a power tap, that's something reserved for the mothership, right? I find it more likely Theseus dropped gravity bomb on them.

>>36358562
Can we utilize the Cryo chemicals in a ammunition type, seekers, and Air burst missiles?

>>36358731
We don't need to harvest anything, we already have their DNA on file to mix and match as needed. This was already talked about anyway, as a hypothetical, in thread 28.5. >>35933646

We don't have need of a ton of hybrids yet.

>>36358855
Theseus never used the weaponized singularity device on the Raligha camp. That only works in short range close to the server ship.

>>36358788
That sounds like 'making the universe divide by zero' to me.

>>36358778
Are Hybrids are humans with Drone dna in them. so being able to take the dna of different humans and mixing them together or with animals shouldn't be that hard. We could even take the best bits from every person and make a superior human.

>>36358855
Pretty sure that was their emergency FTL beacon which had a power tap because who knows.

>>36358855
No that was human power supply blowing up
It alerted theseus to where they were

HQ 4
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/31740076/

31746830
31747738
looks like it was the drive then?
And in hq5 theseus attacks

>>36358847
Quantum entanglement can be used to destroy energy. That property alone could be used to collapse space.

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>>36358562
"Return to your ship quickly, you have much to do. The workers will warm up your engines." You say.

"Like hell they will." He snaps back. Your figure simply laughs as it fades away.

"Then you should hurry."

He doubles his pace down the cramped road of plastic and polished steel. It takes him several minutes to move through the various stairways and elevators to reach the central docking ring. He returns to the ship in time to see a worker standing over the flight controls, its claw hovering over several dials.
"You get away from that, damnit!" The worker whips its head to face Lyle as he leaps the distance from the hatch to the seat and shoves the worker away. "Alright, I'm hurrying. Happy?"

The worker clacks its mandibles together. The thought briefly skims over Lyle's mind. Yes, actually, it is rather happy.
"Get back in the hold!" He says with a quick jab of his finger, "and stay there, I don't need any of you little nutters bouncing around during reentry."

Lyle turns back to the console as the worker bounces its way down the hall. With the flip of several switches the canopy clears and the engines come to life with a muffled hum. An automated countdown begins on one of the screens as the ship waits for clearance from the station's control tower. The countdown hits zero and with a tremendous clang the ship is released from its clamps and pushed lightly out into space.
A worker sprawls across a room, slamming into something that collapses from the blow with a crunch. As the ship drifts out it manages to strap itself into a nearby seat.
cont.

>>36359018
Do you think it can hurt invincible crystals?
Y or N?

>>36359036
>Can being thrown into a black hole hurt you?
>Y or N

>>36359020
Our children get along so well. We're such good parents!

>>36359069
N
Because I am your crystal god slave
Now go stomp on some bugs

>>36359107
Then the Canderon plan wouldn't work either because it relies on them being vulnerable to black holes.

>>36359020
I hope we didn't lose a worker.

>>36359148
Then that leave us with the psychic cannon
Fuck that sucks

>>36359020
You watch as the Angel accelerates outward towards Jupiter. As the ship reaches a sufficient velocity Lyle flips a switch and the cloaking field activates, and the Angel whips back towards Earth orbit.

The Earth itself is covered in a dense debris field, making any proper scan of the surface impossible. The planet has a single, thick ring, as well as a dense cloud of scrap and garbage. Pieces of ships, stations, tools, discarded or forgotten equipment, all of countless ages from the dawn of man's voyage into space to the relics of the end of the Colony Wars. A hull chunk drifts by within visual range in high orbit decorated with the crest of the Confederation, an eagle trailing a flowing cape of stars as it carries a bundle of arrows in one talon and a bundle of wheat in the other.

"Ok. What's the plan? We're already close enough to be popped on sight, and any closer and we'll probably need some rad suits, though I'm not pickin' up anything yet, probably blocked by all this shit." Lyle speaks to nobody in particular.

>Move in closer to perform a scan of the sites of interest
>Attempt to land and drop off your drones at the sites of interest
>Other

>>36359263
>Move in closer to perform a scan of the sites of interest
We install a cloak system on this ship?

>>36359263
>>Move in closer to perform a scan of the sites of interest

>>36359263
>Move in closer to perform a scan of the sites of interest
Time to look for more ammo for the Psi Cannon

>>36359283
>install
More like reattach the one that we took off it weeks ago to duplicate. This is the Angel, anon.

>>36359196
Can't we just create a space ebola and genocide the Ceph mindslaves with no warning via cloaked insertion of infection on all their cities? I mean, they killed mother.

>>36359263
>Move in closer to perform a scan of the sites of interest

This will help weed out the false spots of interests.

>>36359263
>Move in closer to perform a scan of the sites of interest
Let's see what information we can get from orbit then
>Attempt to land and drop off your drones at the sites of interest

>>36359263
BOTH:
>Move in closer to perform a scan of the sites of interest
>Attempt to land and drop off your drones at the sites of interest

>>36359319
Good

>>36359320
Mom wasn't killed by mooks, she got ganked by the final boss

>>36359320
>I mean, they killed mother.
That is currently unconfirmed and it wasn't the Cephs they had their ass handed to them it was their masters.

>>36359370
>>36359383
Okay, but we can still initiate biological warfare and kill most of their population right?

>>36359263
>Move in closer to perform a scan of the sites of interest

You impress upon his mind the location of the sites Theseus is interested in. "Scan these areas for anything unusual."

"Can't get a good reading through all the junk."

"Then move closer."

Lyle rubs his temples with his fingers. "Course. Earth orbit is only a radioactive blender, I'll just wander the fuck on in. Sure. Why not? God damn!" He adjusts the ship's course to move closer and it quickly enters a course to put it into a closer orbit. The density of debris quickly increases.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

>>36359404
Fuck if i know
Im not sure if they are even in the our dimension
They been slaves for over 70000 years

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>36359434

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>36359434
Here we go

>>36359434
Oh god please don't screw up

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>36359434

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>36359434

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>36359434

>>36359468
I am so thankful I rolled decently there.

>>36359468
Well its alright then

Especially after our fuck up when looking for moms corpse

>>36359434
The ship moves along as the proximity sensors blair. Hundreds upon thousands of specs and chunks of debris fly past too fast to see with the eye as larger chunks drift by the canopy. Tiny satellites of gold foil tumble like the crumpled refuse of a packed lunch. Bolts, thermal blankets, and bulky screwdrivers speed past, punching fist sized holes into the ancient debris of communication and entertainment satellites, or bouncing off the bulkhead of a Confederate warship and sent spiraling in a new direction.

The ship jerks hard to the side and several more alerts fill the screens along the dash.

"Fuck!" Lyle shouts as he brings the ship back into a stable descent. "That was the goddamn radio!"
The rear camera focuses in on the shattered remains of the radio transmitter as it tumbles away, mangled with the remains of a small fist sized box covered in broken cameras and shattered solar panels.

"Ok, I think we should be better off at this orbit." He says as he activates several thrusters to stabilize the ship in a shallow and unstable orbit. The remains of a small shuttle tumbles down to the ground several thousand kilometers away, igniting like an ember cast from a torch.

The sensors quickly scan the first few sites, each one brings back a similar reading. Low levels of radiation. The Angel drifts over the planet as it scans the rest of the sites until you reach the last one.
"Still got nothin." Lyle says, but he's wrong. Your relay within the ship detects something very faint coming from the largest of the marked craters. You look up its location on a map of Earth given by Theseus. The crater is on the North American continent, near the southern edge of the shor line.

>Inform Theseus you found nothing
>Inform Theseus you detect tachyonic radiation
>Move in to investigate with your drones
>Other

>>36359845
>Inform Theseus you detect tachyonic radiation
>Move in to investigate with your drones

>>36359845
>>Move in to investigate with your drones

>>36359845
>Move in to investigate with your drones

>>36359845
>Move in to investigate with your drones

wish we had some drop ship hazmat sniffers to send down there.

>>36359845
>Inform Theseus you detect tachyonic radiation
>Move in to investigate with your drones

>>36359845
>>Move in to investigate with your drones
We aren't sharing with Theseus until we have all the answers.

So the crystals may have been puppeteering the Confederation, or trying to. From the moon.

>>36359845
>Move in to investigate with your drones

>>36359845
>>Inform Theseus you detect tachyonic radiation
>>Move in to investigate with your drones
It appears it is what we suspected.

>>36359845
>>Inform Theseus you detect tachyonic radiation
>>Move in to investigate with your drones

>>36359845
>Move in to investigate with your drones
Inform Theseus that we found something of interest at that location, but don't specify what it is, and tell him that you'll investigate.

>>36359845
>Inform Theseus you detect tachyonic radiation
>Move in to investigate with your drones

>>36359906
No from earth
So yeah the confederation maybe the crystals doing

Explains the machine men, Humans developed before the crystals could take over then so the crystals are making up for lost time

>>36360028
These are impact craters from pieces of the moon, jesus pay attention. You are so bad at this.

>>36359845
>Move in to investigate with your drones
Don't tell Thesues ANYTHING yet.

>>36359845
>Tell Theseus you detect Tachyon Radiation
>Move in to investigate with your drones

I've been following this quest on sup/tg/. Glad I finally caught it in the works.

>>36360454
Welcome to the party.

>>36360454
What faction are you?
War, Trade or Pervert?

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>>36359845
"Ok, this is weird." Lyle says as he manipulates several sensor controls. "This whole planet is supposed to be an irradiated hellhole, but I'm not really detecting much radiation outside of the impact sites."

"Land here." You say, his finger moving to highlight the center of the massive crater.
"What the fuck is there?"
"That's what you will find out."

Lyle shuts down the thrusters and the ship quickly dives into the atmosphere. The ruins of ancient cities tower over the ground, all of them tilted in the same direction. Eventually the ship reaches a shallow incline, and the forest below dips into a massive crater that seems to stretch across the horizon, long ago filled in with vegetation. The overgrowth slowly tapers to a lake near the center where runoff water has collected and the remains of trees and plant refuse drift along the surface.

The Angel arcs over the lake as your flies dive from the ship in search of a proper landing spot. One is found several miles away.
"God damn parking." Lyle grumbles as he jerks the Angel to the side and brings it into the clearing with a loud squelch as the landing gear is enveloped in swampy mud.

"Fuckin swamps. Nothing but humid fields of shit and swarms of bugs." Lyle says as he finds his environment suit. He looks over to a passing worker in shock.

"What the fuck did you do to my suit?"

"You were stabbed, doused with acid, partially eaten, and shot numerous times. Your suit required repair." You say simply. He continues to grumble as he dons the suit and hits the button to open the cargo bay door. Your drones run off, the warriors leaping from tree to tree with their wings, and your workers skittering through the mud.
Lyle jumps down from the ramp and lands in the waste deep swamp. "Better be something good at the end of this fuckin rainbow of yours."

please roll 1d100 to comb the swamp

>>36360454
Welcome aboard!

>>36360504
Does "Pervert" Include the "Enslave all humans and make them our children" people?

>>36359845
>>Move in to investigate with your drones
Theseus is not aware of our tachyonic affinity and has yet to reach that particular level of trust.

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>36360504
Factions are idiotic and make you liable to make the wrong decision thanks to an existing bias. I'm for what benefits the hive, not for making snap judgements for one 'side'.

>>36360525
Shit that's a fetish on d isn't it?

So yeah it does

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>>36360519

>>36360559
Holy Shit fuck yeah!
We're back in business

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>36360519

>>36360559
Hell fucking yes.

Rolled 73 (1d100)

>>36360519
...The Overlord?

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>>36360519
>"You were stabbed, doused with acid, partially eaten, and shot numerous times. Your suit required repair."
Queenie is the best mom.

>>36360559
Noice.

>>36360559
Yeah and guess what, the players do have a bias and start making sides as we see in wafiu wars or quests derailed in smut fests

The playerbase can get so bad the qm has to things like in khorn quest and declare a chaos god gone to deal with it

Good job with the roll though

>>36360682
Good for them. I'm not going to be a part of factions.

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>>36360559

>>36360559
>Better be something good at the end of this fuckin rainbow of yours
love you too Lyle

>>36360860
What is that a picture for ants?

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>>36360860
The hell kind of reaction image is that?

>>36360869
>>36360907

Yes. It is a picture for ants. Enough dawdling back to questing

>>36360519
Your flies move out in all directions to scout ahead, your warriors quickly follow from treetop, and your workers move with ease through the swamp as they scuttle through the water, their heads poking up above the surface as they move in on the center of the crater.

You watch as Lyle falls into a sinkhole as he gives chase. "I fucking hate swamps, damn piece of shit!"

Your flies quickly zero in on the trace of radiation. It seems to be coming from near the center of the lake, beneath the water and the drifting refuse. Your warriors close in around the lake, their wings buzzing loudly as they leap from branch to branch, and your workers have hauled themselves up to the top of the tangled roots of the trees as Lyle fights his way through the vines. A large scaled creature leaps up from the murky waters, its toothy maw snapping at him. He quickly punches it from simply reflex, and his fist passes clear through the animal's torso and sends it flying, landing with a snap against a tree.

He lightly shakes his wrist in the muddy water. "Well, that's new." He says.

>Have your workers dive down below the water
>Send your warriors below the water
>Send Lyle to the bottom of the lake
>Other

>>36361049
>>Have your workers dive down below the water

>>36361049
>You watch as Lyle falls into a sinkhole as he gives chase

Not sure who I feel more sorry for. Lyle or the gator.

>Send two workers below the water to scout first

>>36361049
>Other
Lyle and a mix of workers and warriors

>>36361049
>>Send your warriors below the water
Well we didn't think about water did we.

Wait.

>Other
Send the Flies under water? They have oxygen recycler.

>>36361049
>animal's torso
have the drones retrieve the body

>>36361049
>A large scaled creature leaps up from the murky waters, its toothy maw snapping at him. He quickly punches it from simply reflex, and his fist passes clear through the animal's torso and sends it flying, landing with a snap against a tree.
>"Well, that's new."
Wasn't punching gators an australian pastime? or were those crocs?

>Other
Send workers and have the Warriors cover the workers, and have someone drag the gators bady back to the ship

>>36361110
I don't think we have the flies with us, do we? We left them on the station, I thought.

>>36361145
Crocs.

>>36361145
punching Gators is not new for Lyle, but punching through them is

>>36361049
>Have your workers dive down below the water
Let's keep the warriors' wings dry for the moment. Not sure that even matters, but whatever.

>>36361152
I find your lack of reading comprehension disturbing.

>The Angel arcs over the lake as your flies dive from the ship in search of a proper landing spot. One is found several miles away.

>Your flies move out in all directions to scout ahead,

>Your flies quickly zero in on the trace of radiation.

You don't send a full swarm of 10 flies into the space station at Mars and expect to stay hidden. Only 4 of the 10 went on the station and then stowawayed on the ship.

>>36361049
> Send some flies into the water
> have some workers collect the creature.
. make note to give Lyle's armor Wings.

>>36361207
We only brought 5 flies to the station in the first place.

>>36361235
>make note to give Lyle's armor Wings.
Let's create something similar to jetpack.

>>36361252
...Huh, there was contradictory information looks like.

>>36217618
>>36219927
>>Flies (5)

>>36221594
>"A few" were requested, so 4. All 10 would actually have a hard time remaining sneaky.

>>36361349
Muh brains.

Captcha: Propagate itthrea

Guess we should make more. Captcha has spoken.

>>36361327
That's what are warriors use their wings as. So putting that on Lyle should be to hard. We may just need to feed his suit from that point on.

>>36361391
We could equip miniature ramjets to give it some additional thrust.

>>36361327
The dropsuit he had back in his military days had a high-powered jump jet. Wonder how his current (dismantled?) one is outfitted.

>>36361430
>>36361391
Wings on the back of his suit, with ramjets as back-up and extra-thrust?
That'd look fucking cool as hell. We're the best parents.

>>36361459
Totally. We can give it to him as his reward for mission completion.

>>36361459
I wish we could spontaneously evolve shit. I know it'd be OP as fuck, but c'mon, how cool would it be if Lyle's suit suddenly sprouted wings when he needed them?

>>36361049
Your workers leap into the lake and dive below. They are certainly not quite the best of swimmers, but even without a dedicated adaptation they can hold their breath long enough.

Their clacking paints a picture of the lakebed. Twisted, gnarled branches fill the space below, and deep under the soft soil you sense a slight psionic energy. Your workers try to find it, digging in the silt as they take turns returning for air. It is slow work.

Lyle finally makes it to the lake itself. Leeches cover the plates of carapace. As he slowly picks at them, ripping them off of the armor plates one by one he snaps to attention, his rifle raised.

"something's watchin us." He says with a whisper.

"And you didn't notice the animal until you stepped on it?" You ask. He hushes you and focuses on several areas with his gaze.

>Send your flies to investigate
>Send your warriors to investigate
>Other

>>36361349
Yea, it's not that bad though since your flies are small enough to not have it make much of a difference. All nighters can have weird effects on how well the brain works.

>>36361430
Maybe we should invest in refining the ramjets. They're fairly crude at the moment.

>>36361499
We could hide them under some thin membrane and have them pop out at a moments notice.

>>36361525
>Send your flies to investigate

>>36361525
>>Send your flies to investigate
Pull your warriors together and out of sight.

>>36361525

>Send your flies to investigate

>>36361525
I was in favor of having a ton more flies, anyway. Like 25. Since they stay so hidden and we need use of them.

So an accidental retcon to say we brought 10 or more is fine.

>>Send your flies to investigate

>>36361525
>>Send your flies to investigate
>> Collect Leeches for Study.

I'm glad we're not in central America. A giant crater with odd psionic noise coming from it in Central America would immediately have me moving to nuke the shit out of it from orbit.

>>36361525
>>Send your flies to investigate

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>>36361525
>>36361581
Fucking this

>>36361603
Why?

>>36361525

>Send your flies to investigate
>other
Take a sample of the leeches.

>>36361528
They are meant to be more of a fighter Jet engine at the moment. That's why a drone has to be made aerodynamic to make up for the bulk of them. Adding Ion thrusters on the other hand maybe the easiest option.

>>36361625
>>36361603
I don't get the reference, Chupacabra? Some sort of ancient aztec vampire god?

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>>36361625
Oh I dunno. Seems like a good idea for some reason.

>>36361525
>Send flies to investigate

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

>>36361658
I think he is referencing the crater that is beleived to be from the impact that killed off the dinos. It is also used in the lore of Dead Space as the location that the first Marker was found, as >>36361675
mentions.

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>36361675
ah deadpsace
the first a good horror
second a good shooter
thrid just nah

>>36361716

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>36361716
Into the breach

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>36361716

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>36361716

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>36361716

>>36361736

Saved.

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>36361716
mother

>>36361716
Aye, that's correct. The Yucatan Peninsula's impact crater.

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>36361716

>>36361736
Thank you

maybe the crystals started uplifting one of the local critters in the swamp

>>36361734
I always described it as having the exact same progression as the Alien series. The first was mysterious horror with an unknown monster, the second was an action filled thriller with a known monster that has changed a little bit, and the third is a large disappointment that makes you wish you could just never got invested.

>>36361770
That's the one. I had forgotten the name.

Anyways, writing.

>>36361653
A hybrid design, maybe? I don't think we have ion thrusters on our drone design doc..

>>36361775
>uplifted psionic raccoons
>uplifted Mountain Lions
>uplifted sasquatch
Am I missing anything?

>>36361827
Sounds like the Matrix series, tbh.

>>36361827
I liked the third one for its story until the DLC made it all entirely pointless.

>>36361857
It a swamp
So maybe turtles, bugs or lizards, snakes or fish then?

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>>36361857
>uplifted cougars

Mother of god.

>>36361857
immigrant Loch Ness monsters who were looking to improve their lot in life in the New World.

>>36361827
>>36361858
Remember mass effect? any word on how dragon age turned out?

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Guise, we have all these poisons from this fucking planet that has only been visited by humans for like a week. Why don't we just put all these things in pods to be later placed in missiles that will spread them when they're hit by counter measures? I'm probably not the first to say this but we should really get the ball rolling if we're going to be interacting at a galactic scale now.

>>36361828
We also don't have it on are ship Doc, but it's replaced all of are chemical thrusters. If we can place the Ion on the suit we can even use the thruster in space, because the Rim Jet don't work out there.

>>36361922
>>36361862
>>36361858
>>36361827
Please guys don't remind me how much gaming sucks these days.

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>>36361895
Sweet Jesus, now we know the real reason Earth was abandoned.

>>36361963
Ion thrusters don't have a ton of punch though, as efficient as they are. A hybrid ion thruster/Ram Jet that has greater thrust when in an atmosphere could be nice to have.

Aerospace fighter drones. Boarder drones that don't require their mother ship to stick around as long to unload them.

while we're on earth, we should scour australia for some samples

>>36361716
Lyle stairs into the treeline of the swamp and several flies zip into the brush. The faint images of their sight floats at the top of his mind. He sends them instructions on where to go without any conscious thought being made to direct them, and they send him data on what they find.
"Wait, go back... shit!" Lyle drops down into the water as a fly passes a simple lump of brush. Only after he dives for cover it seems to get up, brandishing a rifle of some kind, and open fire on your drones.
"Who the fuck actually lives in this shit hole?" He yells as he drags himself under the roots of a tree, quickly moving along the side of the waterline.

Several rounds find their mark and bounce off of your warriors. They turn to the trees as your flies mark several more of the hidden figures as they move through the swamp. You count six in all, likely more hidden elsewhere.

>Charge your warriors into the swamp
>Have your warriors distract them for Lyle
>Fall back to the ship
>Other

>>36362224
>Other
"Well what shall we do, Lyle?"

>>36362224
>Have your Warriors distract them for Lyle

>>36362224
>>Charge your warriors into the swamp
THE BEST WAY TO BEAT AN AMBUSH IS TO CHARGE INTO THEM
Hillbillies? Really?

>>36362224
>>Charge your warriors into the swamp
I wonder if they're armored very well.

This would be a nice time to have some assassin bugs around.

>>36362224
>>Have your warriors distract them for Lyle

>>36362224
>Charge your warriors into the swamp

Plus just still be a redneck cult

>>36362277
Such drones have actually already been designed, we just never got around to laying them.

http://pastebin.com/EyHX9rZu

>>36362224
> cause distractions

>>36362224
>>Have your warriors distract them for Lyle
>>Use are Non-lethal ammo.

>>36362367
>Use our Non-lethal ammo

Didn't think about that. Good idea. Adding this to my vote. They might be insane hillbillies, but that's no reason to be RUDE.

>>36362367
Seconding this. They don't seem like a real threat except for maybe some traps and our warriors are mostly up in the trees anyway. I'd be seriously impressed if they accounted for giant tree-borne flying monster attacks.

>>36362367
Supporting.

>>36362224
Supporting this >>36362367

>>36362394
>no reason to be RUDE.
There is every reason to be rude.

We only need one or two alive in order to attach a parasite to their spine to find out what their Deal is from their brains.

Why don't we improve the Queen? I think QM mentioned in like the first thread that we could ball up into a cocoon and improve ourselves with the adaptions we've evolved. Doing so might improve our overall game, like maybe upgrading psychic sensory stuff or maybe adding a quantum chip.

>>36362435
That's RUDE thinking. For shame.

>>36362481
There is zero reason to change ourselves. Everything that we could change to ourselves we can just build near us.

>>36362481
Most of the stuff we have is really only useful on warriors, workers, or the like. Any other upgrades we have are things that are just less powerful versions of queen abilities for drones.

>>36362481
A what? What even are those things you're proposing? Besides, we can just cut and paste adaptations now so there's no point with the cocooning thing.

There's also no point generally.

>>36362367
Seconding. If we have non lethal ammo, use it, we need to interrogate these redneck cultists.

>>36362481
Not this shit again
No the queen is not to be touched
We gone over this again and again
Give up already will you?

>>36362481
Let's make the queen a throne instead.

>>36362549
There may be upgrades we want to give her in the future. There's just nothing better than she has/practical or useful for her to have right now.

>>36362224
Your warriors open fire, tearing at the trees with their weapons. You clearly have superior firepower, but you also know all too well the value of knowing the terrain. Several more rounds bounce off of your warriors, one of which manages to land in a joint.

"Try not to kill them." You say. Lyle's jaw drops in bewildered amazement.

"Now's the time you want to play nice? Fucking hell." He slings his rifle to his back and the strap tightens, the storage grips latching onto the weapon and holstering it snugly against the armor plates. "Fine, but no promises."

Please roll 1d100, best of 3

>>36362569
We already have a throne. In our throne room. It's majestic as hell.

>>36362481
We've already gone through our larval phase and exited our cocoon. We could surgically augment her but that's completely pointless.

>>36362549
Color Changing fur.

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>36362588

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>36362572
You given us the same reason again and again

>>36360559
see this shit
Always a player who cant wont stop

>>36362588

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>36362588

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>36362588

>>36362549
Psionic: Ability to detect and transmit thoughts, emotions, and sensations instantaneously via tachyon transmission.
Basic: Detect and emit thoughts via tachyon particles. Coverage can cover most of a continent. (free, all drones must have this to be controlled.)
Moderate: The same variant as the queen. Can receive and transmit thoughts over vast distances. Coverage can cover most planets with ease, and reach into low orbit. Is free for the Queen only. (50N)
Advanced: A powerful FTL communication system that can beam thoughts to any other advanced relay regardless of distance. (200N 250M)

I was just looking at this and to me, it implies the Queen has medium and not advanced. If we improved that, it might enhance our over all control. Also, we could add a quantum brain to possibly grant bonuses to our warriors while we watch through them.

>>36362609
>same reason

At this point, he's just a shitposter; we would do well to ignore him.
Also, nice roll.

>>36362609
I'm not even that anon. Also, I can't decipher what your problem is with not picking a stupid side in favor of actually picking the best solution for a problem.

And nice damn roll.

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>36362588

>>36362609
If you're the new guy, you're on fire tonight.

writting.

>>36362609
That would be because their reason is correct.

Or that there are many many anons who can reach the same basic conclusion.

Or do you mean the ones who won't stop are the "upgrade queen" people?

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>>36362597
...Okay maybe.
I still want us to become giant fluffy moth hive.

>>36362644
No, I'm not that rude unless it's a tripfag. I also don't assume anons are the same guy and get egg on my face.

>>36362644
No, I recognize him, he's been here for fucking ever, and is really bad at making sense.

>>36362621
>Also, we could add a quantum brain to possibly grant bonuses to our warriors while we watch through them.
QD confirm this wouldn't work.

>>36362609
>>36362616
Umm, the advanced relay is as big as the queen, that aside, the queen can interface with the Psionic network just fine without needing to upgrade to an advanced relay.

>>36362654
Nah been following since the start

>>36362654
The ones who wont stop trying to upgrade the queen, they give the same reason again and again

And the rest of us tell them to shut up about every time

Sick and tired of that dance

>>36362687
Shit, >>36362687 was meant for >>36362621

>>36362621
>>36362684

Yea, and we also confirmed the queen really doesn't need an advanced relay yet.

>>36362693
>Assuming everyone agrees with you

>>36362621
She was born with an equivalent or superior to the quantum brain, so no.

An advanced relay will in no way give the queen better control because she can seamlessly connect to the one sitting basically right next to her at no penalty. Also consider that the psionic disrupter can affect entire Advanced relay systems if it gets hooked up. 'Upgrading' would actually make the queen more vulnerable to being personally disabled by enemy psionic disruption.

>>36362693
I have no idea what a comment about not picking sides has to do with not stopping anything.

>>36362693
Crap first line was for
>>36362654

>>36362684
Well there goes that idea. I figured this had been brought up several times before and most anons would dislike because bitch, queen is fabulous, but with us buggering into fucking Earth and actually interacting with the outside world, the humans might find out of our involvement and come in with an entire fleet. We don't have many defenses so our chances of survival are somewhat slim

>>36362753
Damn i am bad at typing was for
>>36362644

>>36362754
Messing with the queen wont change that.

>>36362754
Wait what? When did our chance of survival start coming into question? I don't think anyone knows we're hear. Except maybe crystal fuckers.

>>36362657
We can be. But, if we want the entire hive to be cover in fur we'd need to do the queen too. Also, have the fur be red for the hive.

>>36362754
You are new to this quest aren't you.
>>36362825
>Except maybe crystal fuckers
There is actually a good chance they don't know about us. At least not yet.

>>36362754
Nothing short of culling entire colonies is going to provoke the Union into rallying a fleet to wipe us out. They're spread thin as is, and are dealing with Ceph pirates, the Commonwealth, and our homocidal AI buddy. At worst they'd be arsed into sending the Texas and a few frigates, but a couple of stealth pods with nukes would sort them out.

>>36362846
Of course we'd have red fur. We're the Red Queen. Of course, I think historically queens just changed whatever color they were instead of doing anything major. Like, the gardener didn't make herself tree-bark, just her drones.

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>>36362873
Yes, I read all the archives the other day when a friend suggested I read it. Bigger and bigger threats keep showing up and I figured it's better safe than sorry.

>>36362968
What in the world would upgrading our queen do to increase our survival? We need to get a bigger fleet, damn it.

>>36362968
Long story short, the Union won't see us as a threat as long as we don't do anything major like openly attack a colony.
The defense of the hive lies in our fleets rather than modifying the queen.

>>36362996
Protect us against infiltrators?

>>36362928
I know, but just imagine how the queen would look in a coat of red as she sits upon her throne.

>>36362968
>Yes
Then shut up and lurk. If you have questions bring them to QD's ask.

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>>36363067
3edgy5me

>>36363033
Seriously this I won't argue with. I am totally down for cosmetic additions to our queen. Peacock carcapace and memetic skin and all.

>>36363067
Well it's after bump limit. Naive newbie questions aren't nearly as troublesome now.

>>36362996
Yeah.

Docking Pylons are extremely cheap, and we have a planet that is completely off the human's radar, the Waystation world in the nebula.

We can set up a colony there and build probably dozens of orbital docking pylons. They cost a lot less than ships do, and it's best we remove the current production bottleneck of not being able to shit starships very fast.

>>36363031
Luckily, we live in the center of a macroorganism psychically bound to our will. That is also our child. We're kind of weird. My point is, the only way anything gets to the queen without getting shitstomped by warriors is by being so overwhelmingly powerful no matter how we upgraded the queen it wouldn't matter.

>>36363033
>>36362928
As soon as I found there was a corrupted, black colored queen, I became determined that we should make the queen and her drones red. And calling ourselves the Red Queen makes it better. Because chess.

>>36363106
I kind of want to start a hive on earth. They can't scan it worth shit from 'safe' orbit and we'd be underground in a supposedly radioactive environment anyway.

Mostly it would just be funny though.

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>>36363129
Wouldn't that be checkers though?
Still, though. Yeah. I am totally down for the red color scheme with optional moth motifs.

I've been messing around with ship designs. Carriers are very expensive. As a rule of thumb, a a dedicated carrier will cost 4X as much nutrients as a ship of the next size up. Very expensive, and very high upkeep. But with the right mix of fighter armaments they can be very effective; I've been fitting my designs with autocannon for interceptor work and plasma lances for anti-shipping capability.

>>36363151
"They were there the whole time! I bet the Space Jews did this!"

>>36363151
... Start calling our drones from there Earthlings or Terrans.

>>36363164
Originally, chess was also red vs. black, instead of white vs black.

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>>36363129
>Our mother was White
>She lost to a Black Queen
>We are coincidentally Red as we seek vengeance for our Mother and the rest of our species

>>36363151
The Sol system is still a very busy system though, wouldn't take long for some random salvager on the surface to find it.

>>36363172
Theseus, pls.

>>36363108
Didn't our hive get breached my a small task force of marines a few threads ago? I might be remembering it wrong, but yeah, that is what I'm concerned about.