>>38100870

Putting this here.
>>38100866

>>38100870
Reminding anons its better to sell the parasites with the help of thesus than to make a monster that forces it down peoples throats.

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>>38100854
Here's the thing... I don't want them to accept it, I want them to be slowly snuffed out as our abominations multiply. And when the last human is gone our parasites burst from their flesh carriages and flood the cities, While one parasite lives in the skeleton forever.

>>38100906
A bit much, but okay.
>>38100893
Thats a good option.
>>38100886
>Union or somehow sending up a medical partice without the government or anyone discovering the bug behind the curtain.
True, but i figured we can use thesus and maybe Elizabeth for that.

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>>38100930
Are you implying the biggest and spookiest scare in the galaxy isn't worth it?

>>38100930
Like have them make up some mumbo jumbo about how they found a species that tries to make its host live as long as possible by developing way to keep it alive, and once the host dies the parasite will try to find a new host through different means.
You can even say that the side affects are minor like increased eating and some nightmares.

>>38100962
Does that sound like something that anyone will want? This is literally banner-ads on porn sites tier.

If you guys want parasites everywhere then we need cults that have small egglayers hidden somewhere to supply the parasites. Cult members (probably clones) inject people with our amnesiac, implant them, and then send them out again. Preferably this goes down at a night club or a rave so the amnesia isn't suspicious.

>>38100962
"so there we were, our ship just crashed into this planet and we thought we were all dead. half of our crew did die in the crash and the other half looked like it would soon join them. As I was blacking out I saw this thing crawling towards me and then nothing but black. When I woke up I was good as new and the only side effect I was seeing was dollar signs in my eyes after i released what happened. No shit true story."

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>>38100906
Shit Anon, are you crazy? Let's do it.

>>38101002
"Dick grew 6 inches too. No shit true story."

>>38100962
Holy shit, that's the most feasible idea anyone has come up with in their sleep deprived, caffeine addled state yet.

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>>38100988
You, I like you.

>>38100870
Lets do this.

>>38101014
the fun thing is we could easily make that a real feature too just to fuck with people.

>>38100870
Lyle senses the movement of the sniper as your fly follows unseen, and he quickly moves to the side of the building, a skinny ally filled with discarded trash, dumpsters, and the remnants of a car set on blocks. Lyle runs up the car and leaps into the air, grabbing hold of the ladder of the fire escape and pulling himself up. A moment later, just as expected, several rounds shatter a window not far up, and the human leaps to the ladder. Lyle gives the support a firm kick, snapping the metal bar in half beneath the small platform the sniper landed on. It jerks and falls several feet before stopping sharply and sending him tumbling down. He lands on the lid of the dumpster bellow and bounces, impacting the far wall of the ally and landing in a pile of trash.

Lyle lands on the ground in front of him in a three point stance, the pain of his wounds making him halt for a moment as he contorts his face in pain, and a dapple of blood escapes the hole in his chest. The man shuffles in the pile of trash, eventually reaching for his sidearm. Lyle calmly steps on his hand with a heavy crunch and a splatter of synthetic blood, then Lyle brings his other foot to the man's jaw, sending several teeth ricocheting against the ally wall.

The sound of sirens becomes closer as several police aircars can be seen in the distance.

>Question him here (write in)
>Find a place to hide and take him with you
>Have your clones steal a nearby car and leave with the sniper
>Other

>>38101028
The point is that no one's going to buy that bullshit story. You can't do this shit in public, period, without drawing governmental attention and testing. Unless you want our parasites getting genome sequenced, dissected, and ran through all the testing apparatuses that the Union and Commonwealth's best medical scientists can muster.

>>38101037
>>Find a place to hide and take him with you
>>Have the clones jack a windowless van.

>>38101037
>Find a place to hide and take him with you
>Have the clones steal a van.

>>38101037
>>Find a place to hide and take him with you
>>Have your clones steal a nearby car and leave with the sniper
These two are fine. Just get him to the pod.

>>38101028
If we develop a means of actually extending male human genitals, we aren't going to be able to lay enough parasites to fulfill the demand for them throughout the Union.

>>38101037
>Find a place to hide and take him with you

>>38101037
>Find a place to hide and take him with you
Tell Lyle to dump any equipment that he suspects that might have any tracking devices.

>>38101037
>Find a place to hide and take him with you

As glorious as a car chase would be, let's not have one right now.

>>38101042
Yets millions of people still pay and buy that shit, now image what would happen once its proven real.

>>38101037
>>Find a place to hide and take him with you
>>Have your clones steal a nearby car and leave with the sniper

We can do both at the same time.

>>38101037
>>Find a place to hide and take him with you
>>Have your clones steal a nearby car and leave with the sniper

>>38101070
>>38101054
Are you already sexualising these parasitic abominations we're creating?

Don't you fucking idiots.

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>>38101058
What you're saying is...
>Chop off the guy's arms

>>38101037
>Both

Please roll 2d100, best of 3. First one for Lyle finding a place to hide, and the second for your clones finding a getaway vehicle.

Rolled 55, 97 = 152 (2d100)

>>38101102
Oh baby.

Rolled 24, 21 = 45 (2d100)

>>38101102

Rolled 85, 91 = 176 (2d100)

>>38101102
Rolling

Rolled 92, 30 = 122 (2d100)

>>38101070
Firstly, not enough people buy that shit (by percentage of total population) to make it worth it.
Secondly, buying some acai berries or dick-growth pills or getting a nose job is not the same as having a major intrusive surgical procedure.
Thirdly, government testing for any drug/medical service that hits the market.
Fourthly, the sort of people who buy that shit aren't worth infecting with parasites anyway.
>>38101102

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>>38101108
Looks like we get the fastest getaway vehicle.
Pic related.

>>38101108
>>38101115
Well shit, looks like while we're holing up in the hilton while the clones bring a Ferrari out front.

>>38101117
Which is why i want the good doctor and thesus to help us fudge our way through.this is of course assuming we can stay hidden since our presence is all over Leeland now.

>>38101102
Don't forget to disable any communication devices on our captive. Can't have a bigger cavalry than the police showing up.

>>38101153
That's not going to happen, The government will not turn a blind eye to this sort of shit.

>>38101153
Theseus has little access to government computers in the Union, let alone the Commonwealth. Now if you'd like to talk about this idea further after thinking on it a little longer we can do so...but please refrain until after the bump limit or QD concludes for the night.

>>38101166
What if we do it in the Commonwealth?
From what we know, it's a complete laissez faire over there.

>>38101157
Also check for explosives.
>>38101166
We can easily grease a few palms and use either elzibeth or thesus to help cover our tracks.

>>38101183
No, we really can't. You're even starting to contradict yourself.
>Millions of people buy that shit
>Wonder product that makes you immortal

>We can easily grease a few palms
>help us fudge our way through

>>38101172
>>38101166
We could always discuss the idea with Elizabeth/thesus and see their input.

>>38101176
>>38101183
I don't think you understand, no government will turn a blind eye to someone whose entire body is made of alien parasites. No matter how much money we give them, nobody would ever agree to let this go past them. It's not going to happen legally. The only way we MIGHT be able to pull this off is the whole cult idea.

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>>38101102
rolling to search for traps

>>38101211
I was distracted when i wrote that, which is why i said lets ask Elizabeth about it and see what she thinks.
>>38101213
This cult idea is meh really.

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>38101223
You call THAT searching for traps?
Step aside, anon.

>>38101224
It may be shit, but it's better than show our parasites to the government and shove money at them. Why would they take our money after seeing what the fuck that shit is?

>>38101223
>>38101238
whelp we're dead it seems.

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Does anybody else remember that small colony by a small lake we found on that nearby planet way way back in the first few threads after we gained space travel? If you ask me that sounds like the perfect place to try all these parasite ideas, or at the very least give us a controllable populous to test infiltrating parasites/clones/hybrids into a society without arousing suspicion.

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>>38101240
That was an idea thrown out, not a real argument.

>>38101264
That was a Valen colony. Valen are like giant fish jew-things.

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>38101223
>>38101238
you're doing it wrong, search for INVISIBLE traps

>>38101264
>>38101272
>giant fish jew-things.
>jew-things

Ah, no one will mind then. So no problem.

>>38101264
That's a Vahlen colony, so yes, we should absolutely start infiltrating it.

Those shifty bastards have escaped the Hive's attention for far too long...

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Why don't we use the prisoners we have on our own planet to test all this shit?

>>38101264
I'm certainly in favor of it.

The Valen present several unique challenges that we aren't quite ready to deal with just yet. Mainly they're almost certainly better adapted to operating in their underwater home-environment than we are.

>>38101281
It's... better I suppose.

>>38101272
It bugs me that they're the only ones we haven't met yet and don't know their biology, even though they're the friendliest space-faring species so far (even if it's because they're so business-minded).

>>38101272
>Valen are like giant fish jew-things
>giant jew-things
so no one will care if they all disappear, if we can pull on over on space jews we can fool anybody

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>>38101309
MY BROTHER!

>>38101102
Lyle grabs the man by the arm and hoists him up over his shoulder where he shuffles about deliriously. He quickly makes his way to the far end of the ally as the sound of sirens intensifies from the park behind him. He quickly runs across a street to another ally and drops the man behind a pile of boxes as Lyle looks about to try to find out the extent of the police activity. Several air cars swoop in from above and descend over the park, slowly circling the apartment building. A police gunship drops off several troops above, and another group moves in bellow.

"Damn, they don't fuck around."

There is the squealing of tires behind Lyle, and a van drives up to the far side of the ally, plowing through several trash cans in the process. It is marked with the logo of a local exterminator business, with a large plastic mold ant bolted to the roof. The back doors open and your clones exit, quickly grabbing the semi conscious human and unceremoniously tossing him into the van. Lyle jumps in after them and the van speeds off with your engineer at the wheel.

>Take him back to the safe house
>Find an isolated location and have Lyle question him
>Question him immediately while en rout to the safe house
>Other

>>38101309
We must kidnap six gorillion of them.

>>38101309
Except these Jew-things are also like the oldschool jews, in that they're warlike as all fuck and their physical description leads me to think that they aren't a species we want to try messing with without doing some preparatory work..

>all these anons wanting to get in the way of the bank
>>38101327
>Question him immediately while en rout to the safe house

You know, I was going to write a little fanfiction for this about some humans forming a cult around the hive. But I don't know if it could live up to a swarm of parasites attached to a skeleton. Got the cloaks figured out and everything. Thing layered white silk, to look like and symbolize insectoid wings embracing them.

>>38101272
>>38101300
>>38101304
the question is how to go about it, in a perfect world we'd capture one for a live test subject to learn all we can about them before starting. if not we could always "crash land" a ship with a clone human to seek their aid and distribute a handful of parasite and flies to start

>>38101327
>It is marked with the logo of a local exterminator business, with a large plastic mold ant bolted to the roof
Oh QD.
>Question him immediately while en rout to the safe house

>>38101349
If anyone is willing to sell your shit, its the jews.
But honestly lets run down these ideas with Elizabeth.

>>38101327
>Find an isolated location and have Lyle question him
don't want to risk being followed back to our only real safe house (at least it is for now)

also
> a van drives up to the far side of the ally. It is marked with the logo of a local exterminator business, with a large plastic mold ant bolted to the roof.
you cheeky bastard. I love you.

>>38101327
>>Take him back to the safe house

>>38101349
Guys, remember that bankers DOUBLE-CHECK things, they'll surely notice a missing colony.

>>38101338
Why don't we purchase a Valen specimen? They want trade, if they're Ferengi enough they could sell us a suicidal Valen, right?

>>38101346
Just write that, but under the cloaks their skeletons with parasites attached to them.

Embrace the spooky Anon.

>>38101346
I honestly I have a hard time seeing it end up in a way that doesn't look like an Junji Ito story.

>>38101349
If we're going to do this then I'd suggest...

>Lay Planetary Raiding Fleet
>Deploy stealth units for observation and scouting
>Flies acquire DNA sample of a household's occupants
>Start growing hybrid-clones of occupants
>Abduction and replacement when clones are ready

Then we can begin parasite implantation from there. What people seem to be forgetting is that parasites can't /erase/ memories, so if you want to implant someone in secret and have them be willing and useful to us you have to hit them with the amnesiac chemical before you do sketchy shit.

>>38101327
>Take him back to the safe house

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>>38101327
>>Question him immediately while en rout to the safe house

>It is marked with the logo of a local exterminator business, with a large plastic mold ant bolted to the roof.

If that shit isn't ironic nothing is. Well played QD, well fucking played.

>>38101383
Oh shit! Anon, do that! Do it. Yessssssssssss.

>>38101372
>Guys, remember that bankers DOUBLE-CHECK things, they'll surely notice a missing colony.
We can squeeze into human territory through the jews!!!

>>38101372
which is why we start small, find one with a particularly dangerous job and have him "disappear" in a way that they won't question. once we have enough info to clone and adapt to how they work we start with a low level clerk, then 2, then 5, then the tellers, then the bank manager, then we run the bank and no one off planet knows that anything has happened

>>38101327
>Find an isolated location and have Lyle question him

>>38101327
> isolated location
he might be tracked

>>38101383
Well, for the sake of the story, I was going to have it happen in a way that doesn't involve hive mind control. A bunch of scientists or something learning the existence of the hive, becoming obsessed with the hive, and eventually lobotomizing random people and implanting crude imitations of the relays trying to gain access to the psionic network.

But yeah, shit would get really freaky once that actually start figuring stuff out, or if the hive actually steps in.

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Why don't we just use the prisoners we have at home to test on?

>>38101418
Hmm, good point.

>>38101393
Rescinding, isolated location.

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>>38101423
Please anon... Do it, I need it. It's got all the story elements I love.

>>38101427
Because we don't need to 'test' anything. It all works, we don't need prototypes of parasites. We need to actually do something with them now.

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>>38101454
No I mean test if we can make a being entirely out of parasites. We need genetic tapestry to make it even work, so we WILL need more tests to iron out the kinks.

>>38101487
>kinks
Read that as kikes. I think this talk of jew fish is getting to me.

>>38101487
Look, that's simply not a feasible idea. Creating a clone carrying parasite eggs or a means of producing them on it's own is feasible, but not replacing all of the internal organs with parasites.

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>>38101513
Sounds like you need Space/pol/

>>38101518
You know what we've been talking about, you know what I mean by now. We're doing it.

>>38101518
Best to stop eating up the useful posts arguing with them/him. Daylight and sleep will show the errors of that plan well enough on their own.

>>38101327
Looks like
>Find an isolated location to interrogate him

The sun has risen and now, after only a short few hours of sunlight, begins to recede behind the shadow of Gemini's sister world in its daily eclipse, bathing the city in an eerie darkness until late in the evening.

The van is parked under a small bridge stretching over a local river. The sound of gushing water muffles out the van's engine as the cite's drainage system dumps the runoff into the river from the morning's rainfall.

Lyle lightly pats the man's cheek as he slowly comes to, then gives him a firm backhand as he opens his eyes.
"You're quite the shot, you know that? Put one right on the mark." He points to the blood encrusted wound on his chest with his thumb. "Stings like hell, you fuckin' cunt."

The man spits out blood, and a piece of tooth. "Who the hell are-" Lyle punches the man, nearly knocking him out again. He falls to the ground dazed for a moment. He tries to get up, and promptly collapses under his own weight.

"Your augs are shit, mate. Snapped the main servo before you came to."

Your clones move back from the front seat and gather around in silence.

>Ask (write in)
>Other

>>38101327

Find an isolated location

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>>38101538
>No stopping our cult army of skeletons made of parasites

This is getting dangerously spooky anon.

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>>38101553
Not wanting to make "Worms That Walk" but with parasites.

>>38101560
>Why were you staking out Lee's house?

>>38101568
Bit slow there, mate.

>>38101560
obvious question to start with would be why the fuck they shot at us when we entered the building. B&Es are illegal and all but not shot on sight bad.

>>38101560
>>Ask
Why were you staking out the house

>>38101560

"To start with, I'm going to know /everything/ you know eventually. Whether or not it's pleasant for you depends on how well you answer my questions right now.

Got any trackers on you? Why were you watching that apartment? Who's paying you? Where'd you get the shitty ass henchmen?"

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>>38101574
More like dangerously FUN!

>>38101560
Let's get the obvious out of the way.
>Who sent you
>Who were you sent to kill

>>38101560
>>Ask (write in)
"Why so much effort to keep one guy hidden, this Lee guy was a nobody before that fiasco on some backwater rock and now it seems I can't take two steps without finding someone willing to put a slug in me to keep him gone. The people I work for just want to find him so he can stop being a problem for everyone else, what makes him worth the lives of you and the rest of your team that you'd stop a hardworking guy like me go thru so much hassle just to find him?"

>>38101560
>Ask
-Who he and his buddies are.
-Why they tried to kill him. What was his job.
-Who they work for.
-How does he contact his boss/Where do tey meet.
-Location of any bases of operation or the like.
-What he knows about Lee.

Am I missing anything?

>>38101635
What do you think about parasites?

>>38101644
Definitely a good ending line.

>>38101560
Lyle squads down to meet his gaze. "Now, before we get to any conversation, you should know I have a bit of an anger management problem. Now you shot me square in the heart, so I'd like to keep my blood pressure nice and low until that grows back. So..." He leans over and rifles through a pile of items, then pulls out a metal poison wand. "If you don't answer my questions truthfully, and quickly, I'm going to have one of my friends over here beat the shit out of you with this stick. Okay?" He tosses the wand to your brawler.

"Okay. First question. What's your name?"

The man stares back in silence.

"Really? This is an easy one. Just start with your name. You know what? Who the fuck cares, I sure don't." Lyle stands up and pulls out a cigar, quickly lighting it with a practiced motion.

"Why was there a sniper staking out the apartment of some random little cunt that's supposed to be dead anyway?"

"Why were you look for a-" Lyle backhands the man again, then opens the back door and walks out.

"You're not taking this seriously." He says "I'm going to enjoy a smoke while you get the shit beat out of you with that stick. Be back in a bit." He closes the doors.

The sound of gushing water has abated slightly, only slightly masking the sound of deep wet thumps coming from within the van. Lyle breaths deeply from his cigar and speaks to you out of instinct. "This is guy has training, It's going to take a while."

Please roll 1d100, best of 3 for lighthearted conversation.

Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>38101697

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>38101697

>>38101711
Based dice be blessing us with INTIMIDATION.

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>38101697

>>38101711
you just rolled us a new best friend

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>38101697

>>38101711
>>38101712
Do we even need to roll anymore?

>>38101711
the big guy is fucking scary it seems

>>38101711
hehehe

>>38101711
>It's going to take a while.
no its not

>>38101728
inb4 our parasite temporarily re-arranges a few bone structure on the big guy.
Time for Beetlejuice face!

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>>38101697
It is difficult to follow the path of Tau Ceti as it traces along the sky behind the planet above, but the glow has shifted slightly as the hours go on.

"So you're telling me someone paid you to hang from the side of a building and what, shoot at looters? And you have no idea who this person is?"

"That sounds familiar, actually." You whisper. Lyle grimaces.

"I told you. Was told to... watch the place..." the man strains to swallow between labored breaths. "until the demolition."

"By who?"

He attempt to shake his head, but only manages to wiggle his jaw. "Don't know." He says, the air whistling through missing teeth and split lips. He shudders with a brief muscle spasm as he tries to cough, sending a light mist of blood from his mouth. "Said someone would be coming. Looking. Lay a trap for em."

"So how did they tell you that? Dead drop, shitty phone line? Does he show up in a raincoat with a poped collar in an abandoned parking garage, what?"

"I know a guy, at a local joint. Finds jobs. Names Pete." He tries to open an eye, managing only to squint from one of his swollen buses.

Lyle leans in closer. "Alright then, tell me about Pete."


Elsewhere, on the other side of the district, your flies watch as Jackob continues to drink at the bar of a club. He swirls the drink in his hand. He quickly brings his finger to his ear and clicks the radio.

"Yea?"

"Found a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy. Tried to shoot me at Lee's place." Lyle says.

"Shit, you okay?"

"Yea, but I was wondering if you know a guy named Pete? Hangs out in your district apparently."

"Yea, actually, he's known for arranging jobs and fencing the goods, you know, robberies, smash and grabs, small time stuff usually. Hell I could probably find him right now." He seems to eye various tables in the club as he speaks.

"Might as well, it sounds like he's a bit in over his head though. See if you can find out what he knows, figure out who wanted Lee's apartment looked over."

cont.

>>38101924
>"That sounds familiar, actually." You whisper. Lyle grimaces.
Still the cheekiest.

>>38101924
"Apparently someone was expecting me to show up, and put a sniper and a good squad on watch duty. They weren't told much, but they were pretty well trained. Not quite military, but they had better equipment then your standard street gang."

"I'll look into it, you try to stay out of trouble though." He clicks the radio off, swigs his drink down, and moves to leave, his eyes locked on the back of the head of a tattooed patron exiting the club.

Lyle clicks the radio off as your clones exit the van. One of them leans into the cab and sets it to neutral, and they give it a quick push, sending it rolling into the river. Lyle tosses a handful of credit chips to your clones. "You need to go find yourself a place to stay." He says through puffs of his cigar. "Plenty of cheap hotels around. Let me know when you found a place."

They nod and make to leave. Lyle stands at the edge of the river for a while longer watching the bubbles break the surface until the river grows calm, and then makes his way to a tram station.


Elsewhere, your corvette has landed on the surface of Zero One. Above you you detect several server ships twist light around them and vanish, and there is a sudden increase in the activity of the server city, although nothing you detect seems to hold any valuable data with regards to why. Something about detected supernovae.

Your drones disembark and fan out to secure the area. The gravity is harsh, nearly breaking your drones as they simply walk along the ground. It will take more drones to perform even the most simple of tasks here, at least for now.

>Have your drones begin construction of a new hive
>Have them search the region for new samples
>Other

>>38102085
>Have your drones begin construction of a new hive

>>38102085
>>Have your drones begin construction of a new hive

>>38102085
>Have them search the region for new samples

>Something about detected supernovae
This could be either very bad, or QD rusing us.

>>38102085
>Have them search the region for new samples
Did he give us permission to set up a hive?

>>38102085
>Have your drones begin construction of a new hive
need a base first, then we can start dicking around.

>>38102085
>Have your drones begin construction of a new hive

>>38102085

>Have your drones begin construction of a new hive

>>38102103
Yes, we're just not to do any volatile testing near the server facility.

>>38102128
Well full hive ahead!
>Have your drones begin construction of a new hive

>>38102085
>Have your drones begin construction of a new hive.
Once we have a lab set up, they can go find samples to study.

Just a thought, but does anyone think w could combine the rejuvenation serum with Genetic Tapestry to gradually turn someone from another species into a hive drone? I'm thinking the new cells are Hive cells instead of the organism's cells. It would probably take years as the the original cells slowly die one by one and are replaced.

>>38102085
Your drones begin excavation immediately. Under normal circumstances, mountains make for prime locations, however this planet lacks anything greater then a hill, and even you fear digging very deep under the stress of such gravity. Your workers process the soil into cement, and soon a semblance of a structure is underway.

Several kilometers away you spot a swarm of drones moving out from the distant server city and begin digging into the ground. As your workers form the shape of your new hive outpost you can see the foundations of an anti-orbital battery under construction on the horizon. Several more server ships vanish from orbit.

You have already elected to introduce Theseus to the Skyl engram known as Heretic, although you are still unsure of how exactly to go about it.

>Offer Theseus the location of Heretic's Drive ship
>Offer to relay communication
>Other (write in)

>>38102259
>>Offer to relay communication
>>Ask Theseus what about any increase in supernovae

>>38102259
>Offer to relay communication

>>38102259
> offer relay communication, at first

>>38102272
>>38102283
Support.

Also ask him what all this fuss is about. If Zero One is about to be moved away from then we'd like to know.

>>38102259
>Offer to relay communication.

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>>38102259
>>Offer to relay communication
When we know they get along we'll let them meet screen to screen.

>>38102272
Sure I guess.

>>38102292
>you can see the foundations of an anti-orbital battery under construction on the horizon.
This doesn't sound like something someone who's about to move would do.

>>38102304
I'm no shadowrun anon, but I can think of ulterior motives. Anyway, it's a reasonable question and we should be notified if he expects to come under attack.

>>38102259
Wait Why are we doing this? This seem completely fucking pointless.

>>38102317
I'm no shadowrun either, but blink drives leave distinct supernova-like flashes of radiation whenever their used, and the increase in activity has me worried

>>38102334
Lifeforms.
and its like a slumberparty with our besty

>>38102334
Build trust with Theseus, establish another base of operations and production, acquire interesting genetic samples from the creatures here.

You know, the reasons we do most things. Sorry you couldn't grasp that on your own.

>>38102340
I agree

>>38102259
>>38102272
Supporting

>>38102371
>Build trust with Theseus
>We got as much trust as we're ever going to get from him.
establish another base of operations and production, acquire interesting genetic samples from the creatures here.
Neither of those apply here.

So why aren't we being intelligent about this?

I'm wondering is the Regalia colony has been collecting samples of lifeforms, unique minerals, and observing interesting phenomenons. Stuff that we could study and maybe gain something from. As far as I know, it's just those crops that they analyzed.

>>38102433
No. Remember the giant birds?

>>38102259
You send a ping to the Clarke and Theseus quickly responds in kind.

"The hive had informed of the existence of an alien machine intelligence. Would you like the hive to facilitate an introduction."

He sends a burst of data back to Zero One, and it takes a long time to be sent back. The air around the server city is filled with ciphers and encryptions, as well as strange hyperbolic radio signals. Eventually a response is sent back.

"That would be agreeable." There is a pause.

"I do apologize" He says after some thought, " but there is a very small likelihood of you being native to your current world, we were also wondering if you knew, in general terms, where your evolutionary home world may be."

>Answer (write in)
>Speak with Heretic (write in)
>Other

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>>38102433
>Neither of those apply here.
Bitch, we're establishing a research base here. They absolutely apply here you fucking dolt.

>>38102449
You meant the we're about to get without Theseus's help? Remember his help costs us shit.

>>38102462
Do we actually know where our homeworld is?

If so, just tell him. I don't think there's anything to be gained from what is now probably a blackened hunk.

>>38102462
>Answer
On the opposite side of the galaxy mostly likely. Beyond that we are uncertain.

>>38102462
>>Answer (write in)
Uh no, you wouldn't happen to have any info on that, would you? And did you also happen to find another hive who have very somber design choices?

>>38102462
>>Answer (write in)
We may not be native to this world, but the Hive was born here. We do not know.

>>38102462
>Answer (write in)
"The hive wish it knew as well, but such knowledge has been lost for many thousands of years."

>>38102464
>Bitch, we're establishing a research base here. They absolutely apply here you fucking dolt.
It doesn't apply because we already have established base there. Jackass.

>>38102462
>Answer
"I'm afraid not. We were born of another queen and it is unknown if she hatched us on her homeworld or not, and even then maybe her homeworld is one she was sent to colonize and build a hive upon. It would be nice to know though. I am certainly willing to trade for such information if you come across any."

>>38102516
>>38102462
Seconding this. If he finds out before us somehow, I'd definitely like to know.

>>38102513
We just got here.

>>38102513
Previously I think it was just a pod in orbit

>>38102462
"That would be unknown." You say, "Although such data would be of value to the hive."

"That is unfortunate. Regardless, we would very much appreciate the facilitation of communication between us and this alien intelligence."

>Ask (write in)
>Speak with Heretic (write in)
>Other

>>38102583
>What would you like to ask Heretic?

>>38102583
>Speak with Heretic
Ask if it would like to communicate with another machine intelligence in hopes to facilitate the exchange of data that may further it's goal of stopping the void crystals

>>38102583
>Ask if heretic is interested in communicating with Theseus.

>>38102583
>Speak with Heretic (write in)
Inform heretic of Theseus and ask if he is interested in any particular form of technology ubiquitous to Theseus.

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>>38102583
>how do you like your steak?

>>38102583
You quickly have your pod drifting not far from the growing Skyl fleet break its silence. The weapons of several dozen patrolling craft train on the pod immediately before it is recognized as an ally and the fleet disperses.

"The hive is aware of an artificial mind, similar to yourself. Would you be interested in communication?"

The response is immediate. "Does this intelligence wish to facilitate the defeat of servile races and the destruction of their masters?"

You actually not entirely sure how to respond. "Most likely." You say.

"Sufficient. Communication is acceptable."

You quickly return your attention to Theseus, who has assembled a cipher of sorts, similar in nature to the first contact data given to you by Lee. You pass it back to Heretic, who very quickly returns it. The two begin humming and chirping, passing streams of machine code and programming. The conversation lasts all of a quarter of a second, and you detect the drive ship come to live. It tears a rift ahead of itself and nearly a hundred small craft pour through, each slightly smaller then a corvette.

"What did you say?" Your thinkers have trouble decrypting the data. It does not appear to be deliberate, but it is rather obtuse to your drones, and there is a lot of it.

"We initiated several trades of knowledge, local map data, personal schematics and objectives, and facilitated a small military enlistment in exchange for resource and industrial provisions. We both also appreciate the effort in facilitating the arrangement, and agree to repay the debt however possible."

Interesting.

In orbit over Zero One a tetrahedral server ship exits a fold in space, tumbling end for end as it trails igniting gas and molten armor plating. There are various foreign chunks of matter lodged within, and a number of surrounding cruisers open fire into the exposed hull, burning out whatever is within. You are unable to get a clear indication of what it is from your position on the ground.
cont.

>>38102840
Please tell me you didn't discover the Flood, Theseus.

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>>38102840
I'm not sure what we can actually do about that...

>>38102840
There goes a bunch of tech we'll never be able get.

>>38102840
probably decided destroying it in orbit was preferable to letting it hit the planet as a whole

We just let two rogue AIs handshake everybody! God help whoever or whatever they decide to delete from the universe.

>>38102884
Why? Nothing prevents us from negotiating for it later. Tech trading isn't one time and that's it. Plus we're deciphering the exchange anyways.

>>38102911
Thankfully, those also happen to be our enemies, so good for us.

>>38102918
Probably because the server ship is tumbling out of control and has just been assploded.

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>>38102911
It's not going to be us so who cares?

I like how Theseus acknowledges the fact that we have been in contact with Heretic for awhile now and isn't offended that we keep things from the Unity.

It's almost like the AI trusts us.

>>38102926
I thought he meant the exchange between Heretic and Theseus, also, I think this server ship came from wherever Theseus sent those earlier batch of ships.

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>>38102933
It's almost as if we have fostered a positive relationship that isn't as fragile as a fucking snowflake. Funny how not being a shithead works huh?

>>38102926
Oh that. I missed it. oops. We'll see if there's anything to recover I suppose, but with caution since there's a reason they destroyed that server ship.

>>38102946
oh. Something just rocked theseus's shit big time. He NEVER sacrifices server ships as they contain valuable data. Something just went very badly and I don't think it was humans.

>>38102956
Yes, there was a reason. It was tumbling out of control, filled with an exotic material, probably ammunition of some enemy, and also at risk of colliding with a planet.

>>38102955
Beat me to the punch anon. This just goes to show fostering the relationship with Theseus was a good investment. One that I expect will continue to bear fruit.

>>38102840
After you watch the stream of craft flow through the rift, the Skyl drive ship opens another, and another formation of skyl craft flow through, this time appearing in orbit over Zero One. They quickly mingle with the nearby cruisers and promptly intercept the recovering server ship. Your mind is stabbed with an aching pain as the wing of attack craft blast the server ship with a psionic jammer for several minuets before dispersing into a wider orbit.

A moment later you detect a server ship enter space near the Skyl drive ship. It unfolds itself into a dockyard and the skyl craft begin piling resources into its unfolding armatures and scaffolds. You note an obvious improvement in the space efficiency of the new skyl craft being produced, with each one smaller and faster then before.

>bring your corvette back into orbit of Zero One
>Keep your corvette on hand at the new hive
>Other

>>38102955

It's almost as if the AI and Us have goals that either flow along the same path or do not come into conflict in any large way.

Sadly, this more than likely will not work for other organics.

>>38102976
>>bring your corvette back into orbit of Zero One
>>Ask Theseus about the burning servership

>>38102976
Keep your corvette on hand at the hive.

Also

Theseus

Look at all of these newfags, I bet they can't even triforce.


Heretic

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>>38102976
>bring your corvette back into orbit of Zero One
>Ask Theseus about the burning servership
>Ask Theseus if he desires assistance

>>38102976
So that was obviously something belonging to either the void gods or the ceph, otherwise they wouldn't have needed to jam that fucker into oblivion. The question now is; will they want it back?

>>38102976
>>38102986
Supporting.

I'm guessing they had a slip drive or crystal to study all along and Heretic warned Theseus to destroy it, maybe.

>Theseus and Heretic will eventually go to war over who gets to Waifu Red Queen instead of spitroasting her like she secretly desires

Perfect Union of Immortal Flesh and Eternal Technology when?

>>38103013
Would neither suprise nor offend me. In fact, I'd be terrified if Theseus wasn't keeping secrets, because that would mean us doing so is an EXTREME offense to his kind. Since he keeps them to, we don't need to worry about it.

>>38103013
The melted servership parts and the foreign objects in it would suggest that Theseus was already considering that part even before he finished talking with Heretic

>>38103025
Where's smutanon when you need him?

>>38103025
Do not waifu the Queen, or the two AIs with no sexual urges.

Fucking deviant.

So, is heretic like those redditors who go on 4chan to be edgy now? Or is he from that other conspiracy chan?

>>38103025

>millennia from now, The AI Unity and the Red Hive will wage eternal war, stars will be born and die in the expanse, worlds shattered forevermore, species once studied are driven to extinction.
>The result will determine who wears the Fuzzy cuffs.

>>38103044
Someone already did, with theseus brainfucking the queen with a data transfer.

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>>38103044
>Mfw you aren't waifuing Queenie and AI.

>>38103074
Shove it up your ass faggot.

>>38103073
What.

>>38103044

>Not shipping RedQueenxElizabethxTheseus

What is wrong with you?

>>38103096
http://pastebin.com/YyrXa3TR

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>>38103089
pls Theseus

>>38103112

I never got sauce on that and it drives me mad.

>>38103112
You do realize I was talking about your disgust right?

>>38102976
Your corvette takes off, with great effort, and begins to ascend into orbit. As you break orbit you detect a faint signal.
Several light-hours away a small burst of radiation catches your attention, for the briefest moment.

You detect the serverships in orbit shift their position, and several open fire with their railguns as they shed formations of cruisers from within their hulls. A moment later the front end of a server ship ignites from the impact of a railgun. Several more bursts of radiation appear, and you can sense something, a seething anger, emanating from the edge of the system.

>Blink your corvette away
>Reinforce Zero One
>Move your corvette away from the planet and cloak
>Other

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>>38103109
That has no right to be that arousing. Stop arousing me you filthy, filthy deviant.

T-thanks Anon.

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>>38103144
Shove it deep anon-kun


>>38103129
I know your pain anon

>>38103167
>Reinforce Zero One

Guess it was good timing that we decided to introduce Theseus and Heretic

>>38103167
Uh

Well shit.
>Move your corvette away from the planet and cloak

>>38103167
>Other
Inform the AIs of the seething anger and offer to build a Psionic Shroud in the system.
Get some jammers over there as well.

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>>38103167
>Blink your corvette away
Oh shit we pissed off Void God big time.

>>38103167
>Reinforce Zero One

We dun fucked up.

>>38103189 No, don't you get it anon, this is happening BECAUSE we introduced Theseus and heretic. We just put theseus up another threat level.

>>38103195
We need those samples first, anon.
Get it together, there is still time.

Rolled 100 (1d100)

Rolling for anal circumference. Lets get our war fleet there ASAP, also I vote we build ALL of the warships now too.

>>38103167
"What. Did. You. Do?"

>>38103167
I just had an idea. A big one. Ask Theseus and Heretic to return the favor by helping with the Cannon.

With all three of us working on it from our unique angles... things could happen.

>>38103167
>>Move your corvette away from the planet and cloak
Oh fuck, hide, don't let it know that we're still alive.

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>>38103207
This counts right?

Have my babies.

>>38103220
It fucking knows, the only solution is killing it with fire!

>>38103167
>>38103217
Also,
>Reinforce Zero One

>>38103207
Oh boy...

We could ask for a remote uninhabited planet to build a testing facility on as well.
We may need that psionic cannon sooner then expected.

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>>38103167
>Reinforce Zero One

>>38103207
what does the opposite of pic related even look like...

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>>38103207
what

>>38103167
>Other
Theseus did you just destroy a void shard?

>>38103199
What?
If you haven't noticed anon, the specific lines about supernovas and Theseus moving fleets before we talked to him bout Heretic, this would still happen independent of whether or not we introduced them to each other.

>>38103207
Oh my

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>>38103240
Like this.

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>>38103255
That face, this unknown... Its too much!

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>>38103267

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>>38103267

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>>38103281
Cheer up.

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>>38103267
Saved.

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>>38103281
Saving that btw

>>38103167
The other ships opening fire on the first Server ship suggests boarders- which doesn't fit the Void Crystals MO. And given Theseus' earlier question about our home planet, he most likely encountered the Obsidian Queen and has royally fucked up. Just my two cents though, could be wrong.

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>>38103298
Stay away from my skele wiafu.

>>38103304
That's the most likely scenario. I'm advocating that we hide the fuck away because if she even gets a whiff at us, she might do the same thing to mother and send a thousand-strong fleet at us.

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>>38103304
>And given Theseus' earlier question about our home planet, he most likely encountered the Obsidian Queen and has royally fucked up.
>Didn't even consider that
...Fuck.

>>38103304
My god... That is why he asked about our home world, he knows what it is doesn't he. We should panic and send everything at her now. Everyone will know of us soon anyway.

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>>38103310
Fuck off! I already have my own.

>>38103167
>>Blink your corvette away

>>38103316
We need to make the Psionic Shroud.

>>38103335
>We should panic and send everything at her now. Everyone will know of us soon anyway.
We need to bide our time.

>>38103167
>Reinforce Zero One

Actually if we help with defending then black queen will go all in since she wants to eradicate all other queens and by doing that we'll reveal our presence. Just saying.

>>38103361
We gotta save our husbando though! Also this will make it clear we are allies.

>>38103333
>>38103335
I was wondering why anons didn't pick on on the clues that Theseus has been interacting with another hive that have been dropped since the start of the thread.

>>38103349
We need more dead void shards for that. We have at least one. Since I don't remember we salvaged any from Mom's ship So we can only make one Shroud.

>>38103370
LISTEN TO THIS ANON SINCE WE'RE GONNA GET OUR ASSES ROYALLY FUCKED IF THE OBSIDIAN QUEEN KNOWS WE'RE ALIVE.

>>38103370
Do we have any form of stasis? If so we should make a true queen, stick its larvael form in stasis, shove it in a pod, and keep it as an insurance policy.

>>38103388

We don't even know if it IS the Black Queen.

It could just be the FUCKING CEPH, y'know the PIRATE VOID SQUIDS?

I HAVE THE BEST IDEA.

WE FUCKING ASK THESEUS WHO IS ENGAGING.

>>38103370
We should communicate this to Theseus.

"Shit, yo Thece, that bitch cray. If she find me, she goan end me. Sheeet." Think blink away on the double.

>>38103167
>Reinforce Zero One

>Hive fleet
Space Pod (80) – 2400
Shuttle (10) – 250
Mining Corvette (16) – 4400
Scout Corvette (8) – 1800
Lancer Corvette (2) – 450
Fleet Corvette (4) – 900
Stealth Frigate (4) – 1952
Heavy Cruiser (10) – 12150

You do not currently have any formed fleets.
What would you like to send to reinforce

>Everything (not including the two corvettes at the bottom of Huron, or any mining corvettes)
>Send your frigates and cruisers
>Form fleet from your current ships (write in)
>Other

>>38103405
Don't help at all, instead tell theseus why we're not helping. Offer covert assistance instead. Shroud tech maybe?

>>38103374
>husbando
Really?
But no that will make things worse. Especially since she is going to be
>>38103405
>Other
Don't.

>>38103394
Ceph use energy weapons, ballistic exotic munitions suggests hive weaponry.

>>38103405
The space pods, shuttles, and mining corvettes are all worthless here, as are any scouts already doing something important, send everything else, start constructing more heavy ships.

>>38103167
>Move your corvette away from the planet and cloak
They'll detect the burst of radiation if we jump. Prepare the fleet though, depending on the scale of fleets, we could either be a successful surprise attack or just a drop in an ocean of ships. If the latter, we may need to leave Zero One to its fate.

>>38103405
Is it too late to just hide?
And scold Theseus a bit.

>>38103405
>Everything
Killer, killer, killer
The code we live by
Don't wait for later, do it now, boy it's do or die

>>38103433
Fuck you anon, I want to actually win this quest.

>>38103422

Hive weaponry as dated by what? A thousand years or more? and were used by NON Crystal-Soul fucked Queens?

Just accept the fact that you don't know dick about how the Void Crystals affect races technologically, it's very likely that by this point the Void Queen could have Entirely Organic superdeathlasers if she is still alive.

>>38103435
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic8boSI_C8k
Battle music

>>38103405
Don't even try.
>>38103412
>Molecular disassembler warhead
The only worth useful thing in this situation.

>>38103405
Send everything except the Space Pods, Shuttles, and Mining Corvettes. Maybe two Space Pods to act as cloaked sensors.

>>38103394
Yeah let's ask Theseus if they know who's engaging.

In the meantime, how do we build our armada?
We'll need lot's of nutrients, but we have new building options for that. We'll need to build it to have lots of options for an offensive. Get some nukes, some immolaters, laser cooling, Swarm missiles to serve as buffer for larger missiles and find and expose weak spots to capitalize on, ect...

>>38103436
In Mom's flashback, the descriptions said nothing about energy weapons being used by the Obsidian Queen's forces and that was around only a year ago.

We have chemical and biological weaponry, lets prepare to use it.

>>38103453
Fuck yes, also we can get large nutrient quantities from orbital solar farms around the gas giants.

>>38103405
>Don't help
Only one system is danger.

>>38103405
before we send anything, we should ASK THESEUS what he just pissed off. if its not the Black Queen we can do something

>/tg/ panicking over the thought that it MIGHT be the Void Queen when there has been literally zero evidence that it is

The only evidence is a spike of aggression over a psionic / tachyon magic bond.

Elizabeth has a psionic / tachyon magic bond, the SKYL had one, the Ceph MIGHT get one or have a really localized one.

>>38103468
Ceph have one for sure, its just artificial in nature and pretty shit.

>>38103405
>Build up the fleet in preparation with new warships instead.
>Build some solar collectors for the nutrient cost as well.

>>38103468
The only ones using that bond right now is:
Black queen
Servants of black queen

Paranoia is justified, anon.
In any case, it'd be prudent to ask theseus first, if it's nothing related to black queen then send all warships.

Lets find out what kind of beehive theseus poked quickly.

>>38103464
We don't have the numbers to fight any of them..

>>38103394
We detected them entering the system by the burst of radiation- the only way we've been able to detect the Ceph jumping into a system is by a telltale shimmer in space, not a burst of radiation. It's most likely the Obsidian Queen, unless Theseus managed to piss some other Hive Queen who also happens to be relatively nearby.

>>38103473

Elizabeth's is artificial in nature to be fair.

It's just Elizabeth got hers from ancient Skyl / Hive ruins where as the Ceph got theirs from being the slaves to crystals.

>>38103487
Hive not Skyl.

>>38103486

But Hive based FTL doesn't really leave radiation unless I misread something horribly.

How does an almost entirely organic method of FTL travel make radiation?

>>38103405
>>38103476
Same guy here. Also, we should talk to Theseus about all this before anything.

>>38103484
Time to lay a bunch of giant space eggs than.

>>38103500
Our body naturally produces Infrared radiation, its not nearly as complicated as you think it is.

>>38103405
>>Form fleet from your current ships (write in)
Cruisers, Frigates and the Lancers

>>38103484
We can offer servership-cleaning service.
As in, send our counter-boarders, since Theseus values server ships, right? Better have one that's badly damaged rather than getting one destroyed, or compromised by enemy forces.

>>38103468
>The only evidence is a spike of aggression over a psionic / tachyon magic bond.
NOPE
Theseus has detected "supernovae" and dispatched forces to investigate them. Do you know which FTL creates supernovae-like signature? Hive Blink Drives.
Who else has Hive Blink Drives other than us? The Obsidian Queen

You know, this actually explains why Theseus requested military aid from Heretic. I was wondering why that sorta came out of nowhere.

>>38103519
Lets just set everything on fire and go from there.

>>38103500
It leaves radiation the same as supernova.

>>38103519
Still not worth since it will reveal our existence.

>>38103540
Lets fucking reveal it, they can't attack us until they find us still. Fuck hiding and fuck cowardice. My life for Aiur!

>>38103500
Every time we jump and arrive, there's a flash and a burst of radiation. Why do you think we've been so meticulous to jump at least a light day distance from any human system we enter? It's because they'd see a random burst of light and radiation in space with no explanation. As to how- fucking biotechnology

>>38103565
Blink drive can be tracked. That's how the White queen was found.

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You guys do realise we have the superior firepower right? Think this through logically, she's been without competitors for a while right? So obviously she wouldn't think about upgrading her weaponry. And the only reason our mother lost her battle was because the Void God saved her ass, she was getting decimated before he showed up. All the evidence points to her being shit, we CAN beat her. Just have faith in yourselves.

>>38103586
Hell yes! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULLS THRONE!

We shall win this day!

>>38103586
Were you here for the flashback.
Did you see the numbers of ships?
I don't think you have friend.

I'm lost, did Thesus just tried to destroy a void crystal he had been studying/kept in secret, thus announcing to the evil void god of his location?
or was there a rogue section of him that didn't like heretic that revolted?
>>38103586
>not remembering how much the canon helped.

>>38103565
>>38103586
Anon, we don't have much to fucking defend ourselves with, last time i checked, the Obsidian Queen still has at the very least a couple hundred ships that our mother didn't manage to destroy in her mad blaze of glory.

>>38103601
Theseus doesn't have rogue sections, they don't function in that manner, they all work towards a consensus. Kind've like the geth.

>>38103586
We can beat an initial engagement at the moment, but future engagements will require more firepower, manpower, and military advancements and applications.

>>38103611
Yeah the geth had that anon.

>>38103586
>You guys do realise we have the superior firepower right?
Superior firepower doesn't mean shit when they have 100000 ships.

>>38103601
I think Theseus found the Obsidian Queen, likely at the old homeworld of the original Hive. Probably said something rude or something about other surviving queens, which made blacky very mad.

>>38103611

The Geth had divisions and factions within their consensus anon.

That was kinda the entire point of Legion.

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>>38103405
Several high velocity impacts rip into the hulls of orbiting server ships, and you begin to see the bulk of the assaulting fleet. A hive battleship, flanked by four cruisers, two battlecruisers, and at least a dozen frigates. Corvettes huddle near the hulls of the larger craft like fish to the belly of a whale, and the entire formation is decelerating towards the planet, firing railgun rounds as it slows into an orbit.
You note at least half of the frigates continue with their velocity, breaking ahead of the rest of the fleet.

You feel conflicted in your actions. Your fleets are eager with battle-lust, but you hesitate to give the order.

>Speak with Theseus (write in)
>Send in your heavy combat ships (frigates, cruisers, and your lancers)
>Send in all armed ships
>Cloak your corvette and avoid the flee
>Othre

>>38103611
Do you not know geth lore?
>>38103625
Maybe, also shows that he was trying to form other alliances and shit.

>>38103636
>Cloak your corvette and avoid the flee

>>38103636
>Send in your heavy combat ships.

For freedom, for Theseus, for Scotland!

>>38103636
>>Speak with Theseus
>Cloak your corvette and avoid the flee
WHAT DID YOU FUCKING DO?
We're definitely outgunned here.

>>38103636
>Send in all armed ships

>>38103586
Not to mention all the fucking industry tech we got.

We shit out ships in a day, and her forces were mostly depleted recently.

>>38103651
We have ten cruisers, in theory enough to break his vanguard. We need to make more, and fast.

>>38103636
>Cloak your corvette and avoid the flee
Let's not be stupid.
>>38103655
That 1 year ago.

>>38103636
>Speak with Theseus (inform him of the futile of action, and to retreat, and save themselves, at any way possible)
>Cloak your corvette and avoid the flee
>>38103648
>trying to go against Hive battle ship
>flanked by a lot of cruiser, when we only have 10
>not remembering a hive battle ship is basically a mobile hive

>>38103625
>blacky

>>38103636
>Speak with Theseus
"Why is the obsidian queen here? What did you do?"
>Offer tactical support and analysis.

>Cloak your corvette and avoid the flee
>Other: Have the drones on the planet hide and initiate psionic silence until we call for them.

>>38103636
>>Cloak your corvette and avoid the flee
Fuck this.

>>38103668
Flanked by literally 6 cruisers.

>>38103636
>Speak with Theseus (write in)
Ask Theseus what in the name of science he did. Flee.

>>38103655

>We shit out ships in a day
>Not acknowledging the fact that she is the same fucking species of us, is the Elder by a number of centuries, and is apparently in bed with a fucking Pseudo-God that had enslaved the Skyl who were vastly technologically superior to the Old Hives and has had at the very least a year or several to build back what she lost from her already developed worlds.

Dear Anon, Sweet Anon, quit being a fucking retard for once in your life, it's unhealthy.

>>38103668
Seriously, read what >>38103636 wrote, that battleship has a dozen frigates, 4 cruisers, 2 battle cruisers, and a lot of corvettes. In theory we can take that.

>>38103659
Cruisers take a day at least with the latest improvements.
If we send everything barring the mining corvettes, that's
10 Cruisers
4 Frigates
14 Corvettes
Vs
1 Battleship
2 Battlecruisers
4 Cruisers
12 Frigates and a load of corvettes
These do not look like good odds.

>>38103677
gotta call her something shorter than "Obsidian Queen"

>>38103680
Supporting this, offer whatever data can be gleamed from mom's flashback to Theseus

>>38103636
>>Send in your heavy combat ships (frigates, cruisers, and your lancers)

Gotta help our bros and if we don't help now future diplomatic relations may be strained