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>>36766468
>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: 535508
Metals: 295134
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
Mining Corvette (4) – 800
Scout Corvette (6) – 1350
Lancer Corvette (2) – 450
Fleet Corvette (4) – 900
Stealth Frigate (4) – 1952
Heavy Cruiser (4) – 4860
(Under construction)
Mining Corvette (2)
Vanguard Frigate (4)
11402N

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: 39237

>Income
Metals: 56500
Nutrients: 100050
Net: 60813

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>>36766483
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 (3): Space for docking and construction of 4 ships (150N)
>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 [no trade active]
M-323
>Orbital docking pylon (under construction)
>Mining corvette salvage operations +4000M per day (+1000M per corvette)

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

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>>36766497
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

Haha, Yesss! It feels like it's been so long since the last thread!

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Hey guys i think we should research a way into making Thermobaric weapon.
They are basically highly explosive missiles that can do alot of damage and suck in air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdu_fLb8ISc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon

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>>36766516
Finished research

>Nanomachines
Based on the scattered notes and few remains of skyl technology, these microscopic biomechanical devices are capable of being programmed to fulfill a wide range of tasks.
[Smart Scabs – All drones heal from wounds in 1 day if within a hive and all subcapital ship damage is repaired in 1 day if given access to a pylon]
[Gray Goo – Excess nutrients can be processed into metals at a rate of 2N to 1M]
[Hive Creep – Hive infrastructure now spreads autonomously without the need for workers to cultivate or build]
[Overharvest – Hive infrastructure can now be ordered to supplement nutrient income by spreading and devouring the surrounding landscape. Growth and income peak at 50% planet consumption.]

>Grenade launcher
This simple yet effective weapon system contains two components, an explosive device that can fit in the hand or claw, and a tube that can launch it reliably at a distance. The grenade can be thrown, tossed, rolled, or simply placed as opposed to shot from the launcher if needed. The grenade deals explosive damage, as well as an additional damage type depending on the type of grenade.

>>36766522
I know, and to make up for it I can stay for a double thread if you'd like.

>>36766550
Yaaay.

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>>36766550
New research unlocked

>Rapid nano-assembly
Fast
Advanced construction techniques utilizing nanomachine filled paste to bond materials together on a molecular level allows for the construction of ships and buildings at a much more rapid pace.

>Molecular disassembler warhead
Medium
This nanomachine filled warhead releases a cloud of semi organic disassemblers that quickly and voraciously feed on any and all available carbon or silicon based substances, reducing any and all sources of nutrients and metals into dust, which is used to construct more disassemblers. Each disassembler has a short lifespan, but with a rich enough target a chain reaction can be created with the potential to deal immense devastation to ships, station, and cities alike.

Medical nanomachines
Fast
Uses injectable nanomachines to assist in healing wounds or performing surgery, reducing the time required for medical procedures and allowing for far more advanced medical care in the field.

FUCK YEAH, HQQ!

>Finished research
>>Nanomachines
Oh god yes.

>>36766550
>Hive creep
Ooooh god yes.
We'll give the goddamn zerg a run for it's money.

>>36766550
yes

>>36766581
All of us new about this since last week, here is hoping the QM can last for a while.

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>>36766577
Current research

>Ultrasonic Sledgehammer
Slow
Designed to be used to breach doorways and walls, this fist-mounted device uses a burst of ultrasound to annihilate a physical object. While it is intended for use in demolition, it is frighteningly effective against live foes as well.

>White Crystal
Very slow
This strange crystal gives off a slight glow, and a sense of warmth. It seems to react to your presence, although you can’t be sure. Sending it through a series of tests may yield some level of understanding, or at the very least give you an idea of what it is.

>Skyl controller chip
Slow
This small chip in the Skyl skull sample seems to be of some great importance. It no longer shows any sign of activity, but a full battery of tests should reveal something as to its nature.

>Broken Crystal
Very slow
This black crystal seems to be suspended in time, as if it was a still image of shattering glass. It gives off no signals or emissions of any kind, not even reflections. It has no measurable weight or mass, and does not react to your efforts to contain it within your vaults. Until you can examine it with more scrutiny it has been sealed away deep underground.

>Drop pod
Medium
An aerodynamic heat shield equipped with a mixture of disposable retro rockets and airbrakes designed to allow a drone to survive being dropped from orbit to a planet bellow. Each pod is a single use, and is fired from a dedicated pod bay within the parent ship.

Laser cooling
Very Slow
This concept uses a laser to bounce particles in an object back into place, effectively nullifying the energy within the object, cooling it to potentially extreme temperatures at a distance.

>>36766601
neat.

>>36766543
>so thermobaric weapons are significantly more energetic than conventional condensed explosives of equal weight. Their reliance on atmospheric oxygen makes them unsuitable for use underwater, at high altitude, and in adverse weather. They do, however, cause considerably more destruction when used inside confined environments such as tunnels, caves, and bunkers - partly due to the sustained blast wave, and partly by consuming the available oxygen inside those confined spaces
So basically a good drone weapon that is useless for our space fights/underwater fight, unless we have a boarding party.
>>36766614
Can we add things to que up?

You know, I didn't need sleep anyway. I mean, who needs sleep? The queen doesn't, at least.

>>36766497
Build 10 large Bio tanks.
Can large bio tanks hold more than 1 person if they are normal sized?

>>36766614
I'd like to add some two research options to the researching list.

We should eventually analyze Gardener's DNA to obtain the tech she had since a hive's technology is written into a queen's DNA.

>>36766661
Nope, but allows us to preform medical procedures on large drones and creatures.

>>36766728
I'd be up for that. Let's do it now.

>>36766661
That would be absurdly costly with very little practical use. I think we'd be better off just laying more ordinary bio tanks.

>>36766728
>70 thousand years old
>got a life obliterating superweapon dropped on them
>DNA
Don't think anything is left.

>>36766774
Well, a large biotank could be used to clone a hybrid apex predator centipede to use as a stealthy, totally-not-the-hive defense system in the jungle.

>>36766774
How about 1?
We still have large drones.
>>36766743
If it can't hold more than 1 person, than building 1 or 2 should be enough.

>>36766728
If we're going to make a project out of cloning dead queens, why don't we send a stealthy mission to Reprieve and track down our mother's remains? If nothing else we'd likely find valuable intel.

>>36766780
Isn't it a lot fresher then that?

>>36766780
We managed to DNA from the Skyl there and IRL we found on dinosaur fossils your argument is invalid.

>>36766825
Our mother's DNA is fresher, the gardeners is ancient.

>>36766780
>>36766827
>We managed to find DNA on the Skyl there and IRL we found DNA on dinosaur fossils your argument is invalid.
I fucked that up.

>>36766827
We had bodies to study from.

>>36766860
When did we found our mother's corpse?

>>36766827
>We managed to DNA from the Skyl there
Citation needed.

On both things, in fact.

>>36766878
And we have fossilized remains of Gardener to work with or did you forget?
>Preserved sample – Preserved remains of the original. Bone, tooth, or fossilized skin or hair. (Hard)

>>36766903
Its been a part of previous threads to offer to make clone skyl and revive the race. So yes, we do have their DNA.

>>36766886
We never did, but we could try searching again, though it could be in even worse condition since we failed last time to find it.
I believe they think we can gleam info from the dead drones and ships from our mother.

>>36766903
We got the DNA from the data cube and I think from the remains in the gardeners hive.

>>36766886
We didn't. We rolled a nat 1 when searching for her, and subsequently evil bitch queen showed up and scared us out of the system. I'm saying we should sneak back and start looking for her.

>>36766921
Which came from the data cubes. Anon is making shit up. Salvaged Skyl bodies weren't even made of biological matter, they were nothing but nanites all the way down.

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>>36766614
Elizabeth sits in front of one of the white crystals, thinking ferociously at it. Your speaker stands beside her inquisitively.
"I'm trying to interact with it." She says. "I've taken the Skyl computer apart and know it inside and out at this point, and it leaves me with the theory that it's a method of communication between your species and theirs. Like a translator. I think the crystal is similar to those cubes they left around, but built to use your mental communication." She doesn't break her gaze from the crystal, and continues to think at it with an unwavering determination. Eventually she leans back in her seat and rubs her temples.
"I think I'm just giving myself a headache. From what I know of the terminal, it seems designed to use a similar signal as your drones, but it all seems focused on that port, which I can only assume is for a crystal." She picks up the small crystal and turns it in her hands, looking into the strange, flowing interior. "Your race and them seemed to have some kind of alliance at some point, so it would make sense for them to develop a way to talk more naturally. In fact, my guess is that my own condition was the result of either a perfected version, or some new prototype built along this same field of research."

She places the crystal back on its stand and gets up to pace the room. Her thoughts quickly loose focus and drift into various other ideas and unrelated theories as she crumples a small food wrapper and looks to your speaker. "That jerky was really good, where did you get it?"
Your speaker shrugs.

>Que up new research
>Activate the skyl device
>Cue new construction/drone production
>Other

>>36766601
I have a pair of two liter bottles of soda and nothing to do in the morning. Two weeks without running felt terrible.

>>36766661
No. Not because it doesn't have the room, but because it needs to isolate the subject to perform surgery. Valen are quite large, and would only fit in a large tank.

>>36766946
The one at Gardener's hive was flesh and blood.
>>36766951
>Activate the skyl device

>>36766951
>>Que up new research
>>Cue new construction/drone production
>>Other
>try searching for mother's corpse again

>>36766937
Then why did you tell me about the freshness of are mother's corpse when I was asking about the gardener? Made it sound like we found her. When I knew we didn't.

>>36766951
>Activate the skyl device

>>36766951
Hmm, if we could reproduce the process that gave Elizabeth her mental ability's, we could bypass allot of shit with other races by using it to put important info in their brains.

That and its a cool card to use on a trusted ally if we want to.

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>>36766951
We still have a number of other research to work on in the Que, we should clear those out first.
>Activate the skyl device

Oh yes, here is the map.

>>36766951
>>Cue new construction/drone production
I say we get this out of the way now.

>>Other
Make a mental note to get Lyle to bring back some groceries for Elizabeth.

>>36766951
Could we attempt to analyze Gardener's DNA?

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>>36766951
>>Activate the skyl device

>>36766994
I was talking about her drones and ships, we can do that, or we can search for her body agian.

>>36766951
>Que up new research
>>Activate the skyl device
>>36766543
Seconded.

>>36766951
>Que up new researchs
>Activate the skyl device
>Cue new construction/drone production
Make some Film harvesters

>>36766951
>>Other
Send Corvette with tons of worker drones that can actually breathe underwater to Earth.

>>36766951
>>Que up new research
>>Activate the skyl device
Part of me really wants to see what comes out of that gene therapy research. I'd Que that up, along with the nanomachine research. All of them.

Also thermal blades. Because thermal blades. Those sound neat.

>>36766994
Apologies if I derailed your argument. Since cloning is such a time consuming and costly affair (it's taking our human clones 10 threads to reach maturity) I figured we would be better off in the long run using the freshest possible sample. The fresher the sample the lower the roll needs to be successful, and I figured we ought to be heading back to Reprieve and finishing what that shit roll stopped anyway.

But while I'm on the subject, are you sure now's a good time to be making new queens? If she's a clone, this gardener will lack any memories and experience of the original, so it'd be like laying a brand new queen. We're still trying to keep our existence discreet from everyone else right now, and sending infant queens to known planets in the expanse could jeopardize that. Might want to hold off on starting a new bloodline until we make ourselves known to the humans.

>>36766951
>"That jerky was really good, where did you get it?"
>Your speaker shrugs.

I laughed at that. We should tell her about Lyle. It was his jerky after all.

>>36766951
>>Send scouting party into Union Space

With our drones being shuttled off to the heart of Union Space, I'd like to propose starting up a dedicated espionage mission and scout out a few of their worlds in a little more depth. A good place to start would be the Eridanus System, being directly adjacent to both the Union's capital and the Valen's homeworld. Every world in this system is a sparcely populated (by Union standards) death world, making it easier to get drones in and out undetected, and are chock full of extreme and deadly wildlife, according to the pastebin.

http://pastebin.com/0SEZcPP6

I mean just look at this crazy shit:

>Huron: deep oceans filled with all manner of strange and terrifying creatures

>Corbin: home to strange and terrifying creatures that seem too different to be from the same planet

This is exactly what Hive could always use; new lifeforms whose bizarre features can be rapidly replicated as new drone adaptations, and these beasts sound exceedingly deadly. Plus, our bio ships are submersible in shallow waters, so we could send a scout corvette with our untested aquatic drones to Huron and have them sample the local fauna right under the local's noses. Almost literally.

>>36767164
we dont want to clone the new queen, we want her DNA so that we can take her gene tech designs.

Even salvaging 10% of her terraform tech would be hugely beneficial.

You know, I really feel like we should be scouting the commonwealth territories. We know almost nothing about them, do we? We've been so focused on space Texas.

>>36767218
>terraform tech
Not him, but why that?
Most queens usually just adapt to their environment.though we can use the tech for politics.

>>36767164
Who said anything about cloning her? We just collecting genetic samples and possible accessing data, if the hive has DNA digital data storage as a technology. Don't know if they do, but it really seems like something they would have.

>>36767223
Because space Texas is best Texas, plus space america sounds crazy politics wise.

>>36767223
We have to buy a map from Space Switzerland first.

>>36767164
The cloning part is unimportant, analyzing their DNA is what we want you know FOR THE TECH IN THEIR GENETIC MEMORY!
>>36767250
We could use it to colonize the ice planets in OM-759.

>>36767250
that was mainly an example.
Terraforming also has millitary uses. e.g. changing the gas concentrations of a globe to unbreathable for the inhabiting foe, drastically limiting them and potentially killing many.

Not to mention: Lots of dead worlds around us. If we get strong, we could terraform them to our own personal biomes etc. Expanding the empire peacefully.

>>36766951
"You trust it is safe to use?"
Elizabeth looks to your drone blankly for a moment before she regains her train of thought. "As much as I can, I mean, I'm still not sure if all this brain speak is safe, I could have a tumor the size of a fist right now, but that's the risk of research, isn't it?"
Your speaker chitters with concern. "If the risk is minimal, then perhaps it is worth an effort."

Elizabeth grabs one of the crystals and walks to the console. "Then lets see how this thing really works, shall we?"

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>36767322

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>36767322

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>36767322

Rolled 73 (1d100)

>>36767322
Oh jeez

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>36767300
That and make uninhabitable worlds viable to us and others
>>36767322

>>36767354
>uninhabitable worlds viable to us
>>36767300
Thats the thing, we don't need to make them vaible to us, since its cheeper to change our selves.
>>36767320
Though makes a good point.

>>36767322
Speaking of brain tumors, we should probably give her a body scan to observe any biological changes compared to standard human.

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Found this on devianart. Our mindcontrol larvas?

>>36767354
>>36767374
The ice planets are better since they are immune to Immolator Warhead but are normally uninhabitable.

>>36767395

>>36767395
I think we did that when we first picked her up. The med tank detected slight scarring on her frontal lobes and unknown, microscopic particles in her blood.

Basically, nanomachines in her brain.

>>36767374
A planet that has no Atmo to one that does helps. It would pay for it self in the long run if we don't have to go out of our way to make a colony on a place that his more inclined to have life grow on it naturally.

But that tech is for later, much later. We need focus on more important things.

>>36767374
>since its cheeper to change our selves.
Speaking of which, should we colonize earth?
Its abandoned and shit, and what is on there are mutants.

>>36767446
Damnit, I could have sworn I put that in the text box

>>36767450
Concurrent scans will tell us if there is a long term or ongoing change. Its just a safety precaution.

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>>36767322
Does this represent the crystals well?

>>36767497
The Dark Crystal was one of the best movies from my youth. Anyone agree with me here?

>>36767434
No, Parasite drones are still standard, 4-legged drones just like everything else, just with camouflage abilities and probably frightening set of spines for mandibles for stabbing veins and nerves.

>>36767485
Would making cloning her easy. If we don't already have a scan for that purpose.

>>36767599
Just how big is a standard drone? The parasites have to be small enough to fit inside a human being, and I thought it was implied drones are more human sized.

>>36767618
>Just how big is a standard drone?
Small, medium, or large.

>>36767587
Yes, it was in fact the best movies of your youth.

>>36767322
Almost immediately a spark erupts from the interior, and a holographic display wraps itself around the crystal, then unravels into a set of panels covered in symbols.
"Ha!" Elizabeth says with glee. "Keyboards, they weren't so different after all. Not very ergonomic, though.
The graphic wraps around in a set of loops that appears to require several sets of hands. Elizabeth moves her hands through them before returning to the crystal. "I wonder..." She focuses her mind on the device and pictures what she knows of the Skyl in her head. A moment later a holographic diagram of a Skyl body is displayed in the air. "Aha! I knew it!" She yells, and in her celebration the display disappears.

Several more displays appear, and you translate them with your knowledge of the Skyl language. As is usual in Skyl culture, they all have very dramatic and religious names and titles. You note with interest that their word for "research" translates directly as "Heresy".

Among the various displays are archives and data recordings, including a number that appear with no title but a small error report "cannot display perception."

>Look through research notes
>Look through untitled archives
>Other

>>36767696
>Look through research notes
>Look through untitled archives

>>36767696
>>Look through research notes
>>Look through untitled archives
>>Other
Get our thinkers attention on this, we need those autist paying attention.

>>36767696
>Look through research notes
Do this first. Then look through the other.

>>36767696
>Look through research notes
>Other
Round up all the freed up thinkers on this for them to absorb.

>>36767696
>>Look through research notes
>>Look through untitled archives

>>36767696
>>Look through research notes
>>Look through untitled archives

>>36767696
Your speaker moves over to the device and you can sense an aura about it, as if it were a drone. You quickly command it and move through the various research notes. They are beamed to your mind even as they are displayed in the air, each page flashing by too fast to be seen.
"Hey, hold on, I'm interested in this too, you know!" Elizabeth says as the hologram blurs with passing data.

There are a number of experiment results, as well as partial designs. A great deal appears to be missing, or damaged.

New research options
>Psionic Cannon prototype - Detailed accounts of several experiments show the slow progress of Project Godsplitter. The cannon itself is highly volatile, and even the smallest miscalculation often results in the destruction of the ship, as well as any nearby craft. It can only be equipped to a Hive ship's spinal mount, and requires a functional Void Shard as ammunition. At least a dozen testing sizes were atomized in testing the weapon, and in the end it appears The Gardener never quite perfected it.

>Weather Spire - A specialty of The Gardener, which was apparently shared with the Skyl to solidify their alliance. It is a massive spire capable of analyzing and altering the atmospheric composition of a planet over time, as well as altering localized conditions to alter weather patterns.

In addition there are several notes left by the Skyl agent. There are several years worth of entries, many consisting of observations of the hive, and the Gardener's character.

>>36768123
Holy shit, add both of these to the research list IMMEDIATELY. Also stop by and let heretic know of our find.

>>36768237
There's no reason to share any of this with Heretic.

>>36768286
Is there a reason to not share with him?

>>36768237
I'd rather look at the other crystals first. Especially the one from mother's ship. Also, Rapid nano-assembly and Medical nanomachines. make surgery and hive ships and building construction faster.

>>36768286
Ignore Stupid Thoughts

>>36768237
Yup. I bet Heretic can help us understand and perfect the technologies.

>>36768323
Both are useless to him, and one makes him ask questions we don't want to answer.

>>36768349
Okay, thank you!

>>36768123
All this and we just find a crystal flash drive of notes so far. Still no explanation for this usage from the memories?
>They are arranged around a strange device of moving crystal. You feel them think to the device, projecting their will all at once, and the crystal turns inwards on itself and expands into unnatural shapes. The crystal twists and controls, twitching into knots of spacetime. >>35038790

>>36768349
Have you read his dialogue in this quest? He has pretty much devoted his existence to completing project Godsplitter and breaking Their hold on this plane of existence. This could completely change the nature of our relationship with him/it.

>>36766550
>hive creep
>overharvest
hahahahaha

Some research Ideas I'm posting here because 1d4chan hates my IP:

Tool: Gunsight
This tool is designed to improve the accuracy of weapon grafts. This growth takes the form of a spade shaped buckler that fits over a weapon graft to place an eye in line with the firng oraface. If the drone has improved acoustic or radio sences, apropriate sensors are added to the gunsight tool.
On lagre drones, weapon hardpoints are modified rather than arms.

Arm: Impailer Colony
Orbs of carbon-fluid tissue with chitin spikes floating in them replace the drone's arms. Standard drones sacrafice the ability to utalize weapon grafts in return for the carbon-fluid's capacity for explosive force to impale enemies of the hive.


Speacial Ship Weapon:
Directional Psionic Distruptor Amplifier
*requires advanced psionic distruptor organ
While we do not have the ability to overcome psionic disruptors,
we can direct the jamming signal in a cone. This 'weapon' directs the signal from an psionic disruptor into a narrow cone and passes it through a set of amplifiers to increase its range.
Although it can now miss a target, it can allso miss our own ships.
(this also might give us some insight into the psionic canon)

>>36768348
>>36768405
The Engram literally cannot use it, it can only be equipped to a Hive Ship--and also, you know, requires void shards. He's also an annoying rival for resources. The salvage he's taking could be used to build more hive fleets.

>>36768405
My bad, i thought heretic was a nickname for the other AI(unity?).

>>36768449
I had the Same problem, but went away when i log on to my account.

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>>36768123
"Is the device recording?" You hear a speaker screech out the words. You recognize them, but it is the first time you have properly heard the Skyl language. It is a harsh one of chirps and shouts, and you see the speaker's trumpet like beak rattle with the volume of its statement. A short grunting howl is let out in return.
"Yes." The Skyl agent says, its limbs working over the holographic display.

Your view from the archive is in the center of the Gardener's throne room. Crystallized amber hangs from the ceiling, bouncing the light from above in all directions and sending it streaking down on the reflecting pool around you. The Gardener sits atop an immaculate carved slab of stone that has been painstakingly shaped to appear as the twisting, gnarled root structure of a local elder tree, bits of cast off carapace have been delicately shaped and woven into the knitted branches like leaves. A worker sits nearby with its blade unsheathed, and it slowly peels at the Gardener's carapace, pulling back thin layers that crackle and rattle as she moves like a rustling bush. In her claw is the white crystal, transmitting her perceptions to the recorder in the other room.

Her workers report the landing of the shuttle, and to her surprise and yours the White Queen emerges atop a row of light gray workers. The workers manning the fields above can see her Hive ship clearly in the sky, the countless tiny dots of her armada casting a light shadow over the land. They mingle along the edges of the Gardener's own picket fleet, dwarfing it in size.

The bark covered warriors of the Gardner's personal guard lead your mother to the throne room itself. She looks about with her own eyes stoically. "Beautiful as always, sister."
cont.

>>36768501
>auntie Gardener

>>36768552
>We've got an extended family now!
>Well, had, anyways.

>>36768472
Thanks, I'll try to register at taco bell tomorrow.

Some more designs for your consideration:
Stealth Plasma Boat
Hull: Fighter 50N 50M
Cloacking Field 5N 15M
Standard armor
Fixed: 2 X Plasma Lance (40M)
Cost: 55N 105M
Upkeep: 27N
Size: 10 Meters
This Small spaceboat relies on speed and stelath to enter close range with enemy ships and unleash a barrage of plasma.

Escort Boat
Hull: Fighter 50N 50M
Energy Shield 5N 15M
Reflex armor 50N
Fixed: 2 X Autocannon (40M)
Cost: 105N 105M
Upkeep: 52N
Size: 10 Meters
This spaceboat acts as an elite interceptor for defending the fleet from other smallcraft.

Moth Insertion Craft
Hull: Shuttle 50N 150M
Cloaking Field 15N 45M
Standard armor
Cost: 65N 195M
Upkeep: 32N
Size: 30 Meters
While larger than a space pod, this insertion craft is still smaller than a Corvette making it an ideal tool for landing a large number of drones on a planet without being noticed.

>>36768449
>>36768608
For crying out loud, if you're going to give us a barrage of ship designs, at least wast until the end of the thread. It'll just get sidelined otherwise.

And check your spelling, please.

>>36768501
In the grim darkness of the far past, insectoid queens make scathing remarks about beauty, fashion, and whatever else bugs talk about.

>>36768552
>>36768574
>Implying all queens aren't family.
>>36768762
I swear our human hybrids need to be like jojo's or something.

>>36768123
>Psionic Cannon prototype - Detailed accounts of several experiments show the slow progress of Project Godsplitter. The cannon itself is highly volatile, and even the smallest miscalculation often results in the destruction of the ship, as well as any nearby craft. It can only be equipped to a Hive ship's spinal mount, and requires a functional Void Shard as ammunition. At least a dozen testing sizes were atomized in testing the weapon, and in the end it appears The Gardener never quite perfected it.

Isn't that the weapon our mother used? Looks like she got the research data from her sister and managed to finish the work.

Although it looks like it took her ~70000 years to do so; Hopefully we can do it faster.

>>36768812
We got the quantum thinkers, our mother and aunts did have them. I'm sure we can remake it faster.

>>36768812
>>36768839
Why not just, y'know, go find her ship and gnaw on the cannon?

I mean, assuming it's still intact.

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>>36768762
>Honey, you call those new carapaces jobs on your honor guard vibrant, I call them tacky.
>Bitch, please, you know they're absolutely fabulous.

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>>36768501
"Why are you here?" The question is twofold, the obvious matter of why the White Queen would call upon the Gardener, and the more interesting question of why she would deem it necessary to actually speak in person.

"I am leaving." She says in response. "I would hope you would join me."

"Now, of all times? After we have finally developed a weapon to truly stop them? You would abandon our sisters, our new allies and our new homes?" There is a sing of betrayal, and bitterness in the thoughts.

"They are all already lost." Your mother thinks coldly to the Gardener. "As such they no longer matter."

A quick glance is given to the Skyl nearby. It sits in the same spot behind the console, ignorant of the conversation's subject matter but apparently well aware of the growing tension. It slowly backs through a door to the small living space beyond, and the Gardener turns back to face your Mother.

"You think I would abandon my garden so easily? That I have so little hope in what we have learned and accomplished?"

"Vanity and hope will not help you or them."

The Gardener lets out a verbal hiss in anger. "And your pride will be your own! Just as it was to the Old Mothers! Me and my children will stand and fight with our new allies, and you can freeze in the depths of oblivion!"

Your Mother simply sits there, her white figure ghostly in the light of the throne room. "Very well." She finally says. "But one final word. Do not trust the Black Queen's line, her knowledge is dangerous, and will do more harm then good."

"And your own is not? She at least has offered to help, not flee after our first real victory." A pair of warriors step forward. They make no show of threat, but it is a rude and obvious display. Your Mother's workers carry her away and back to her shuttle. As the lookouts watch her armada blink away the Gardner simmers in her throne, her mind going over fleet strength and ship numbers.

"There will not be enough."

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Hope you guys like shitty artworks.

>>36768927
Damn, it, mother, why didn't you explained yourself? Surely she would have understood if you explained strategical situation?

And now Black Queen betrayed everyone (shouldn't she be called Obsidian Queen now, for shards growing on her?) and your sister died trying to contact you, most likely. :(

>>36769072
>Shitty

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Got this done in a drawthread, since we love Lee so much.

>>36769072
>Wop it out!

>>36769083
>Surely she would have understood if you explained strategical situation?

She already knows. "There will not be enough." She knows staying here is a losing proposition. She's not being pragmatic enough to leave with WQ, nonetheless.

>>36768927
The image flickers as the recording stops. The Gardener turns her attention to other matters and the senses of the archive pick up only small details. Pods are sent to distant hives, each with messages for distant queens. The Yellow Queen, the Gray Queen, the Shaper, the Nomad, the Spotted Queen, the Builder, and the Black Queen. A moment later ships begin to blink into orbit, not all of the Queens posses a Hive ship, but the sky quickly darkens with their respective fleets.

The shuttles touch down and the emissaries of dozens of queens emerge. The Gardener stuffs the crystal in her claw into the crevasses of her throne and the archive ends, although it appears there are several others.

>Look through the others
>Save them for later and attend to other matters (write in)
>Other

>>36769142
I love it.

>>36769248
>>Look through the others

>>36769072
>>36769142
These are great.

>>36769248
>Look through the others
Maybe we will find something about Nomad.

>>36769248
>>Look through the others

>>36769248
>Look through the others

>>36769248
>>Look through the others
Man, Look at all those names.
If we could have a title other than "The Red Queen" What would you guys want it to be?

>>36769303
I wonder what our daughters names will be.

>>36769303
Godslayer.

>>36769303
Something to do with manipulation

>>36769330
I was going to say something about revenge or retribution, but I can get behind Godslayer.

>>36769303
The cheeky Queen.

>>36769303
Ideally, we wouldn't need a name beyond "Mother," because once we kill the Obsidian Queen bitch we will be the last of our kind, or the mother of all future hives.

>>36769331
Puppetmaster?

>>36769341
>>36769330
Please no, that name is way too corny.

>>36769303
The Blood Queen wouldn't be too bad. Seeing that we had some nasty fights before we even got our hive started, those other queens might never had any fights up close and personal in their lives.

>>36769358
That's a good one

>>36769341
We'll have to earn that name though.

>Look through the others

Power is but the lock, Information is the key.

>>36769354
I like mother.

>>36769248
>>Save them for later and attend to other matters (write in)
Send all the aquatic workers and vacuum workers to earth, along with some bio-tanks and freshly laid parasite drones. We can save this tale of the Day the Black Stars Fell for later.

>>36769303
What about 'Orphan', 'Refugee', or 'Survivor', or the like? We're the last of our kind not fallen to the Obsidian Queen, here.

>>36769394
>>36769354
>>36769358
If we end up "Adopting" a bunch of other species like we did Lyle, we could be the Foster mother.

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>>36769273
I'm working on another one, but I don't have a good reference for the Queen. The one I drew is not satisfying to me, mind posting some references for me?

>>36769248
>Look through the others

>>36769429
Also, fuck drawing those void gods! they are a bitch to get looking good.

>>36769429
Look up Ender's Game faggot.

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>>36769429
Hang on, I got a few.

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>>36769429

>>36769528
Welp, looks like I'm using this one. Fuck that's cute

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>>36769565
Yeah, that's just about the only full body shot pic of a formic queen I could dig up across the entire internet. Here's the last one that might come in handy.

yeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!! this quest is fucking AWESOME!!! I ended up reinstalling sword of the stars to hiver binge while waiting for more since I finished the archives!

>>36769565
>Fuck that's cute
Try looking here for a second
>http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Thri-kreen

>>36769603
Welcome to the quest my good anon.

>>36769603
Welcome to the party, fledgling. Grab a refreshing can of nutrient paste and relax, enjoy the show.

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>>36769593
Oh, my mistake, one very last one, possibly of a different queen this time.

>>36769593
You know what the best thing about that pic is?

I don't have to draw the head mantle, because I'm just going to replace it with the top queen hat.

>>36769429
These are a good references:
>>36769510
>>36769528
>>36769593
>>36769646

But, the hive is different read this as it provides written information about the hives anatomy:
http://pastebin.com/ucjHL4Tq

Also, look through the ask as some information about the queens appearance like her red splotchy coloring, her healed broken leg, and her four fingers. I'd link them, but I would need to search through all of it.

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>>36769248
The meetings have ended. The emissaries remain stuffed in the meeting hall where they shall remain as a quick method of communication. The memories of the events are still fresh in the Gardener's mind, and flickers of it filter through to the recording. With the White Queen gone, the Gardener has become the leader of their empire. The notion had caused panic among many. Scouting pods had been sent, and it was confirmed that every world of the White Queen's was left empty. Its hives devoid of life, and their picket fleets missing. Despite the magnitude of the situation, the debate quickly centered on who would take the newly abandoned worlds. Several skirmishes break out in their orbits as a dozen egg layers are sent hurdling into their atmospheres.

It is the Black Queen that quelled the commotion.

"The matter is pointless. Only one weapon matters at this point, and it must be given priority over all else." Her effigy is a black obelisk of chitin covered in eyes and twitching claws. The workers carrying it each a sleek black beetle with barbed limbs linked into the base of the obelisk like shackles.

The Gardener thinks nervously for a moment before her own effigy speaks. It may not have been necessary with them all in her own hive, but it was considered polite custom. The small tree wreaths in its place, the leaves and blossoms of specially mutated eyes and limbs wave in a simulated breeze. "Testing has spent much of our reserves. We will require more samples to continue."

The Black Queen responds simply. "I will provide them.
cont.

>>36769429
I had pictured the general shape to be something like this, although you have picked up a more vibrant coloration. Your own coloration ranges from red trim to light pink accents, although the base carapace is still mostly white.

>>36769646
The weird mind game dream sequences actually helped inspire the whole Lyle mind sequence, actually.

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>>36768123

>Weather Spire

Holy shit, is it like this, although a bit more organic in nature?

Why is Queen such a qt?

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>>36769739
"How can we trust these creatures and their ideas? This device has never been able to function, why do they think they can help to solve it?" The Nomad's effigy teeters on a carefully balanced leg, its upper body consisting of a central sphere of chitin attached to another that spins slowly on a rotating joint like a moon orbiting a world.

The Builder's scaffold-like effigy twitches in response. "The Old Queens died to free them, would you dismiss the trust they placed in them so quickly?"

The Gray Queen's shifting blob responds. "It was their misguided ways that brought us to the brink of extinction! I place no trust in their judgment."

The room erupts again. Artillery fire rains down on closing warrior formations on several distant worlds as the opportunistic lesser queens fight over the empty worlds your Mother left behind.

"They show promise, and we will tend to them as they help us, it is the only option we have!" The Gardener manages to silence the room, although the warfare continues across a dozen worlds. Several cruisers, the largest some of the minor queens posses, open fire on the temporary bases as the egg layers desperately attempt to secure a bomb shelter.

"Then I will continue to provide resources." The Black Queen says, and the effigies grow still as the queens place their attention to other things, the matter settled.

It is several weeks later that the Black Queen sends a new thought. A shipment has been prepared, and something new has been developed and is ready for testing.
cont.

>>36770056
We're just simply the best mother. Lee would be lucky to have us!

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>>36770070
The new development the Black Queen made was really a sabotage device sent from the void gods wasn't it?

>>36770072
We should plan a proper human wedding ceremony for Lee and Queen. Being a single mom is hard.

>>36770234
>>36770072
Please stop this bullshit.

>>36770234
I doubt the queen even really understands the concept of couples. She has no need for a male, she can reproduce on her own.

That just means Lee will have to teach us the meaning of love

>>36770070
>The Builder's scaffold-like effigy twitches in response. "The Old Queens died to free them, would you dismiss the trust they placed in them so quickly?"


"Them" being the Skyl, freed from the crystal overlords. But. They were only liberated like 1000 years or less before their extinction? Are all the 1000-year-old queens really already dead now to the point of being called "Old Queens"?

>>36770286
Yeah lets develop some sex organs once lee comes back.

>>36770251
This anon is right, Lee is not for using like Lyle or workers or as a husbando, he must remain pure!

>>36770295
you should reread things you have the timeline totally wrong

>>36770295
I get the impression they're called the old queens because they arrived in this area via the ark and served as a previous generation of queens to this group.

>>36770343
>he said, utterly oblivious to the irony
stupidanon pls go and stay go
>>36215048
>>Wait, how much time passed between rebellion and extermination?
>About a thousand years or so. When you have seventy thousand to work with, a few centuries here and there doesn't seem all that important.

>>36770251
And you are no fun. I am being partly serious. Depending later on when the human worlds learn of us, AND if we make peaceful relations with them, we might do this as a PR stunt to get them to work with us better. Or at least something to it.

>>36770322
>>36770319
>>36770251
>>36770234
In all seriousness, whatever Lee is to us, he obviously holds a special place in our hearts. But we're not about to fuck or marry him. The feelings we have about him are way different then sexual attraction or romantic attraction.

What happened to our 'kidnapped' drones? Weren't they about to be put in a human military base when we left off?

>>36768858
Its not it blew the fuck up and took half the ship with it.

>>36770430
We're multitasking. They got put into containment. Humans haven't bothered them again yet probably.

>>36770427
Tell that to fluff, i swear i will be pissed if these fuckers try to bring in romance and smut into the quest.

>>36770322
>>36770286
>>36770234
>>36770072
If I could kill you all with hate I would do so immediately.

>>36770430
Whatever happens to them, it doesn't really matter.

We programmed them to dissolve themselves if anything close to research is attempted on them.

>>36770399
ya she died 70k years ago

>>36770451
It broke in half. There should be still enough of the intact to study the psionic cannon.

>>36770461
They're not really being serious anon.
Though all this talk does make me wonder what ever happened to that smut fic featuring the Queen and Theseus...

>>36770513
But we already have all the design documents from the Skytl computer.

>>36770453
>>36770461
Relax, relax, all in good fun yeah? It's an ongoing joke.

>>36770503
We are talking relative to the the 'now' of the vision, just before extermination occurs, in which they refer to Old Queens, and figuring out the deal there. Stop saying irrelevant things.

>>36770453
No need for that here and now. If I feel like it, I'll make a side story fic about it if I can find the time. Besides, getting Lee back is way down on the list of things to get done.

>>36770546
>>36770561
Indeed. Some anons are just too serious.

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>>36770070
"What have you developed?" The Gardner asks as the Black Queen's Hive ship drifts into a closer orbit. A number of shuttles drift down to the surface.

There is no response.

The shuttles touch down, and as they slowly open warriors march out, their black armored shells like glassy marble, blasted with radiation and baked with heat like black porcelain. Their joints creak as they slide over one another like grating metal. Of of the shuttles contains an object, like an effigy but larger and rounder. It's black surface cracks as the warriors drop it to the ground and it swells up from within, the thin membrane revealing a gnarled object held within like a cage.
It is an effigy, a relay apparently salvaged from long forgotten meeting hall.

The pain is agonizing, even through the recording. The orbiting ships open fire, sweeping the picket fleet aside in a single volley. The drones drop where they are, twitching in agony and confusion, and the Gardener rocks to the side, breaking the fragile branches of her throne as she collapses to the floor under her own weight. The warriors continue to march through the hive to the meeting hall, where the drones quickly take the effigies and drag them away. The Builder's detonates as it leaves the room, coating the black warriors in acid, although they seem unaffected.

The Gardener twitches in pain on the floor of the throne room, the small crystal dropping from her grasp. The vision blurs as the Gardener reaches for it in desperation. A squawking is heard behind her as the warriors drag out the Skyl agent. The burst of several thorn launchers followed by silence. You only see the crystal as the Gardener reaches out for it, her grasp only inches away as her vision fades. The archive stutters to static as either the life leaves her or the mental connection with the crystal fades. You are unsure which happens first.

As you bring your attention back to the hive you see Elizabeth looking at your speaker, visibly worried.

>>36770561
>>36770546
You don't let /tg/ go with an ongoing joke, they usually run it down to the ground, and i can see this end with lee saying its weird that we want to fuck him and shit.

>>36770513
If you read it again you will see that the cannon misfired and took half the ship with it. I read this about 20 minutes ago.

>>36770546
Haha, well the truth is I made it and left it on a friends laptop right as final month studying came around and I forgot to ask her for it. She e-mailed it to me after finals a few days ago and was thinking about posting it in this thread but I want to add a tad to the end before then.

>>36770586
>>36770137

Fucking called it.

>>36770586
"Is everything okay? The little guy started twitching a bit there."

>Inform Elizabeth of the recording
>It's not important
>Say other (write in)

Anyone mind explaining the effigies?
And why they are different?

>>36770636
>nform Elizabeth of the recording

>>36770636
>Inform Elizabeth of the recording

Well then, that was a masterful betrayal there. We need to understand what sort of weapon she just used there.

>>36770636
>Inform Elizabeth of the recording
It seems Gardener was betrayed.
>>36770647
>Anyone mind explaining the effigies?
>And why they are different?
Representatives.

>>36770586
>It is an effigy, a relay apparently salvaged from long forgotten meeting hall.
And it acted as a psionic jammer? But the Black Queen's warriors remained alive. Did she develop a counter to jamming, or had she independently discovered quantum brain adaptation equivalents?

Also this explains why it seemed like a hive weapon killed the Skyl. Duh. It wasn't the Gardener turning on him or vice versa. That was an early hint that there was a Queen on the enemy side.

>>36770670
We already have one anon.

>>36770636
>>Inform Elizabeth of the recording

>>36770636
>Inform Elizabeth of the recording.
>Say other.

Don't trust other hives.

Jesus fuck, the plot thickens.

>>36770636
>>Inform Elizabeth of the recording

>>36770636
>>It's not important
We can tell you a bedtime story later.

>>36770670
We experienced it before, remember the first time diplomacy failed with the AI, well imagine that full force right next to your hive.

>>36770636

>Inform Elizabeth of the recording

>>36770636
>>Inform Elizabeth of the recording

>>36770647
They are advanced relays placed in the eldest queen's hive to serve as representatives in negotiations. Their appearance is considered to be a visual representation of the queen's personality or nature, and is a purely artistic choice.

>>36770688
Shouldn't a psionic disruptor affect her drones too? If it is a variant, we should look into that.

>>36770739
What do our relays look like?

>>36770611
Please do upload it when the threads done. I don't even plan on getting my rocks off to it, I'm just that curious as to how you would write something like that. Sides, the premise sounds kek-tastic.

>>36770739
So the White Queen, being the eldest queen at the time, wouldn't have or need one, since they're at her hive. Her autism not caring about frivolous things like aesthetics.

>>36770769
A smartass

>>36770800
They were all at the gardeners place. Whitey showed up in person to say she was going it alone.

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>>36770874
>All the Queens relays a look like an insect version of this.

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>>36770903
....Well played.

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>>36770903
>We become known amongst other Queens as 'that cheeky bugger'.

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>>36770970
Jesus fuck, my sides.

>>36770878
The effigies were clearly only just sent to the Gardener's place when Gardener assumed the position of eldest after White Queen left.

Logically, before that, they weren't at the Gardener's place.

>>36771046
Speaking of that,I'm amused with the image that all of the Queens are being polite to each other at the meeting but are having their armies and fleets murder each other for lebensraum at the same time.

>>36771046
I was responding to
>So the White Queen, being the eldest queen at the time, wouldn't have or need one, since they're at her hive.
Specifically "since they're at her hive" As I assumed that what was meant was that the two queens present were at the white queens hive.

>>36771097
Yeah QD mentioned that if we had any daughters they would likely be loyal to us and our decisions but fight actual open conflicts between themselves over territory and resources. War is a very casual affair for a hive queen, it seems.

>>36771152
>>36771097
It's because drones are so disposable. War is a much bigger deal for other races because they put so much more value in the people actually going to go fight them.

>>36770636
Your speaker explains the situation and Elizabeth slumps in her seat. "I'm sorry to hear that. I'm not sure what would be worse, being the last of my kind, or having the only other trying to kill me."

"The hive grows regardless." Your speaker says, Elizabeth gives a wary smile. "Well that's good, but you should be careful. We should be careful, one way or another, I have a feeling this war will be coming to a close soon."

Your speaker clacks its mandibles in agreement.


The lights hum within their metal cages as your speaker stairs into the blank eye of the security camera. It has remained still and silent since it was dropped into the small room, and your flies have done their best to infiltrate the base. A man looks board on the other side of tinted glass, your fly sitting in the air vent behind him as he drifts in and out of sleep with a set of headphones over his ears and a number of recording equipment set up around him.

Not far away, your workers sit in a sealed and reinforced chamber. A similar glass wall separates them and a small lab. A small corporate logo in the corner of both windows read "Hammer-tech™ Transparasteel©"

>Speak with your speaker (write in)
>Detonate your drones (write in)
>Other (write in)

>>36771286
>>Speak with your speaker
Demand human social interaction

>>36771286
>>Detonate your drones (write in)
For the hive

>>36771286
>Speak with your speaker
"Where is Lee?"

>>36771286
Do nothing, wait them out. cause the workers to fidget and act like cats

>>36771286
>Speak with your speaker
Ask for the boss.

>>36771286
>>Speak with your speaker

We know you study us, it is useless.

>>36771286
>>Other

Lets play the waiting game, I'm pretty sure the Queen is more patient

>>36771286
>>Speak with your speaker (write in)
"Hammer-tech" is the tech made from the one who hammers?

>>36771330
Not yet, we haven't messed with the researcher's heads yet. Once the surgical stuff starts coming in, though, detonate.

>>36767587
fucking loved that movie, and that strange shark jawed furball dog thing.

>>36771286
No visible human = no speaker activity

>>36771286
>Speak with your speaker (write in)
We will die if no human will come talk to us.

>>36771286
>Other (write in)
Do nothing.
Have the drones fidgit and act like cats, get anxious.Have the speaker drone do nothing. At all.

>>36771382
Second'd.

>>36771382
Can it at least smile creepily at the tinted window, using the fly to tell us his every movement so we can follow it?

>>36771352
>>36771366
>>36771376
>>36771382
this plan

>>36771286
>Wait. Unless they plan on dissecting us.

>>36771413
Can't really do that unless he moves. So, probably only following the entrance of a human or their exit.

>>36771348
>>36771366
>>36771376
>>36771382
Oh yeah i remember that was stated last thread right?

Have the workers start chewing the walls till someone starts talks to the speaker in person right?
>>36771286
Backing these guys

>>36771286
supporting these things:
>>36771382
>>36771376

>>36771382
>>36771366
Yep

>>36771382

This.

>>36771114
Right, "they" meant the effigies there, yeah, not the Queens.

>>36771286
>since it was dropped into the small room,
What are the walls of the room made of, if the window is Transparasteel?

>>36771286
The workers move to the walls and seem to sniff at them, then they gnaw on the metal, their mandibles sliding back and forth against the smooth reinforced walls. One of them reaches the window, and the others quickly follow suit until they are all clawing and gnawing on the transparasteel, their open jaws grinding on the window in front of the researchers. One of them takes a quick photo and the workers all drop to the ground.
"Shit, are they alright?"

One of them leaps back to its feet, and the others quickly claw their way back up and they resume their attempts to eat the room from the inside out. Several small grates are torn at in an effort to find a weak point, but it remains sturdy. Despite this, scratch marks and dimples begin to appear along the walls, and the researchers show some concern. Eventually a small door opens and what appears to be a foam lever emerges from the opening.

>Attack the lever
>Attempt to eat the lever
>Ignore it
>Other

>>36771682
>Attempt to eat the lever

>>36771682
>Chop the foam lever into artful shapes and stack them

>>36771682
>>Attempt to eat the lever
Whatever works

>>36771682
>Other

Pull the lever!

>>36771682
>Ignore it.

They're trying to distract us from destroying the room, don't fall for it.

>>36771720
>>36771732
Either of these pls.

>>36771682
>>Other

STAB IT!

>>36771682
>Ignore it.

>>36771682

>Ignore it

continue whatever you are doing. Gnaw the transparasteel, make them do nothing.

>>36771720
You know what, that sounds fun. Do this.
Supporting.

>>36771682
>Attempt to eat the lever

>>36771682
have the workers bat at the lever like cats

>>36771732
I feel stupid for just noticing the clever is for gathering their saliva.

>>36771720
this

>>36771682
>Ignore it.

Fuck these guys.

>>36771682
Wait. Are they testing for sentience? We should probably like. Pull the lever, guys. We want to do things that make it harder to get funding for future kidnapping attempts.

>>36771682
>>Attempt to eat the lever

>>36771777
Becuase of this
i'm changing my vote from this
>>36771699
to this
>>36771732

>>36771682
>ignore it

>>36771720
I like this, but we don't need them ALL to do it.

>>36771682
>>Ignore it
Metal tasty foam not so much

>>36771682
React with shock to the level and beat at it with arm blades.

>>36771777
Oh shit! There trying to get samples. Don't eat the lever, it's a ruse!

>>36771720
>>36771732
Fourthing/thirding.

If we do try to eat it have a drone chop it off and eat it completely no saliva for them

>>36771682
>Ignore it

>>36771777
Fuck he's right, they can get DNA like this.
>>36771732
>>36771720
Seconded

>>36771682
>>Ignore it

>>36771682
>Ignore it

Fuckers think that will stop us.

>>36771682
>Ignore it
Not happening

>>36771682
>>Ignore it

>>36771682

I support this one.>>36771720

>>36771682
>Ignore it

>>36771720
>suggesting we act autistically

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>>36771682
Ignore it.

>>36771967
>Implying we aren't

>>36771967
Well, we could scratch creepy messages into the walls about people our flys can see but our drones can't. But that would be telling them more than they deserve to know.

>>36771682
The workers continue to claw at the walls as the small foam pole sits in the center of the room. A researcher shares a bland look with another, and with a click of his pen writes something on his clipboard. Another flips a switch and the lights go out, leaving your workers in total darkness.

>Continue to have them claw the walls
>Have your workers halt
>Other (write in)

>>36772031
>Other (write in)
have them all explode

>>36772031
>Continue to have them claw the walls

>>36772031
>Have our speaker say "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

>>36772031
>Other (write in)
They should all lay down and sleep

>>36772031
>>Continue to have them claw the walls
Maybe have one explode from "Shock."
Just one. Maybe.
That might be a terrible idea though.

>>36772031
>>Continue to have them claw the walls

>>36772031
>>Have your workers halt

>>36772031
>Continue to have them claw the walls
They're testing for stimuli.

>>36772031
>Have our workers halt, look around confusedly for a bit, then continue being cats

>>36772081
I like this idea. Have the workers continue to claw while our speaker says this.

>>36772031
>Other
Write cryptic things on the walls with their claws.

>>36772109
Actually, I like this idea.
Take
>>36772088
And add the idea of them halting, before continuing.

>>36772123
>more than they deserve to know

>>36772031
>Other (write in)
Have them all fall over and then recover, like when the photo was taken. This will convince them sudden changes in light have some kind of effect on the drones.

>>36772031

>Claw at where the lights were.

>>36772031
Supporting this >>36772081

>>36772031
>Continue clawing at the walls.
>Write 'Who's studying who?' on the walls.

>>36772154
Seconding.

>>36772031

Write cryptic things/pictographs on the walls, when light goes up have them do nonsensical clawing/scratching on the wall.

>>36772031
I'm voting for this. Possibly have them scurry around in mild terror once they recover.
>>36772154

>>36772154
This is perfect