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>>38251896
>Current armory
269 Thorn Launchers
20 Thorn Cannons
123 Sting Casters
30 Cyclotrons
15 Rotary Stingers
3 Fire Sprays
5 Plasma Spray
22 Particle Cannons

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 1798605
Metals: 507743
Credits: ₡2226
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,177,450

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 24725
Queen – 5
Fake Queen (3) – 66
Worker (85005) – 170010
Aquatic Worker (5140) – 20560
Vacuum Worker (5200) – 31200
Radiator Worker (5100) – 20400
Warrior (1209) – 6045
Aquatic Warrior (100) – 700
Thinker (1300) – 3900
Quantum Thinker (355) – 1775
Speaker – (3) – 12
Digger (200) – 800
Refinery (40) – 280
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 (12) – 300
Excavator (1000) – 19000
Colossus (20) – 300
Harvester (50) – 950
Support Fluttercraft (2) – 272
Ghost Beetle (5) – 135
Heavy Warrior (5) – 95
Advanced Relay (69) – 6900 (set as default method of ship control)
Upkeep: 310070N

>Hive fleet
Space Pod (10) – 300
Shuttle (10) – 250
Mining Corvette (36) – 9900
Patrol Corvette (20) – 10140
Scout Corvette (8) – 1800
Lancer Corvette (2) – 450
Fleet Corvette (44) – 9900
Stealth Frigate (4) – 1952
Heavy Cruiser (10) – 12150
46842N

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
25 Human captives of the USV Hope – 750
3 Human hybrid clone upkeep – 90
Specializations:
>Brawler
>Tech
>Engineer
10 Skyl replicant clones in production – 600 [1 day remaining]
Lyle Rogers – 47
1487N

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 358,399

>Income
Metals: 356,000
Nutrients: 1,951,250
Net: 1,592,851

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IT BEGINS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-D9D_LzwA

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>>38251916
Hive Territory
[G-426]
Asteroid mining base: 5 Excavators, 20 Diggers, +2250M per day (+50 M per digger, +250 per excavator)

*Leeland (capital)
Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System (750N)
>Anti-orbital batteries: 35/35 (8750N)
Military structures
>Hangar facilities: Room for 4040 Aero/fighter Drones and 2020 Shuttles (2525N)
>Psionic Shroud (1,000N)
>Prison Outpost
Industrial structures
>Docking Pylon: (29) (2900N)
1990 under construction
[100 Vanguard Frigates]
[16 Heavy fighters]
[180 Heavy fighters queued]
[5,000 Shuttles queued]
[Empty docks:0/116]
Economic Structures
>Mine: 245 Excavators, 180 Diggers, +65750 M per day (+25 M per digger, +250 per excavator)
>Algae Farm: +1,200,000per day, 12,000 Workers (1 worker per 100N)
>Film harvester dock: +750,000N per day, 1500 Harvesters active (500N per Harvester)

M-662
Raligha
Defensive structures
>Anti-orbital batteries: 35/35 (8750N)
Economic structures
>Bloodroot collectors: A series of pipes and veins running from the roots of several of the nearest Bloodroot trees provide a passive and low maintenance source of nutrient income, +250N per day (5)
>Greenwall pit: Variable income (average harvest provides net gain of 500N, thinkers report testing not yet complete)
>Temple alter: A place for the Ralighan locals to worship and bring offerings to your hive, built in the likeness of your local fake queen, +500N per day

M-323
>Orbital docking pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 sub capitals or 1 capital ship, (50N)
[4 Heavy Fighters]
[Empty docks: 0/4]
>Mining corvette salvage operations +288000M per day (+8000M per corvette)

Deep space waystation
>100 docking pylons [under construction]

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>>38251896
>Thread's up, sorry for being late again.
It's okay so long as we get to run!

Finished reading through the entirety of the archive a few days ago, finally catching my first live session.

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>>38251984
New Construction Options
Defensive structures
>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
>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)
Military Structures
>Hangar Expansion – Construct fortified hangar facilities of +40 aero/fighter drone space and +20 shuttle space. 50N 100M
>Psionic Shroud – A single building built around the shattered remains of a Void Shard, the shroud amplifies the unnatural mental silence of the broken crystal within to mask an entire planet from potential detection, preventing outside forces from easily detecting the thoughts of a hive. (2,000N 5,000M)

>>38251919
I'm kind of disappointed that we don't have ships that look like that.

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>>38252022
Industrial Structures
>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
>Weather Spire – A networked collection of spires spread across a planet capable of studying and altering a planet’s climate and atmosphere. Construction includes the building of all spires needed to function. (8,000N 20,000M)
Economic Structures
>Orbital solar array – A station placed in orbit of the local star equipped with a membrane of photosynthetic cells several kilometers in diameter capable of producing a steady stream of nutrient income. Provides 1000N per day total (5,000N 50,000M
>Harvester Dock – A large pier built along the shore overlooking the spore-producing ocean film that serves as an unloading area for Harvester drones, and contains pipelines to pump collected raw nutrients to the hive’s awaiting processing facilities, includes a single Harvester which is covered by the cost and upkeep of the dock. Provides 500N per day total (38N 50M)
>Orbital electroponic station – An orbital instillation built near a large source of hydrogen used to fuel a large fusion core, which in turn provides electrical power to a contained algae farm facility. Must be built in orbit of a gas giant. Provides +500N per day and doubles as a gas mining facility, refueling the tritium stores of any ships in the system. (1000M)
>Algae Farm – A carved out space used to utilize Leeland’s natural electrical field to cultivate food. +100N per day, 1 worker to maintain.

>>38252009
Welcome aboard!

>>38252038
Maybe we can, anon. Maybe we can.

If only we could recruit a drawfag in here.

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>>38252054
Finished research

>Cellular acceleration has had a critical breakthrough!
By using advanced medical technologies to assist and boost the cellular metabolism of an organism, clones can be made to develop much faster than normal. All cloning projects require half the time. In addition, the critical breakthrough of your thinkers has resulted in the boosting of related research efforts. The time requirement for Genesis Project and Genetic Tapestry have been reduced.

New Research Unlocked

Medium
Flash Cloning
While it may not be healthy for the clone in question, your mastery of biological technology allows you to accelerate the normal growth cycle of a clone, growing it to maturity within a single day, however clones are not as genetically robust as your own drones and doing so may cause undesirable genetic defects that may take time to reverse and result in a lower quality final product.

Microfactory chambers
Fast
Improvements in culture growing and bio-forming should allow you to create more compact shipyards, allowing for specially designed ships to construct shuttle or pod sized craft within their hulls. This process is still highly inefficient, however, and research is required to develop a more feasible method of design.

>>38252038
We're the bug kind of hivemind, not the zerg/tyranid tentacley kind.
Though we can probably genetically engineer your ships to look like that.

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>>38252092
Current research

>Crystalline neural structure
Medium (requires 500 N for testing and experimentation)
Further research and experimentation regarding the strange white crystals could lead to the ability to reproduce them, and even incorporate them in your hive’s biology.

Thought muffler
Slow
While you are still unsure how to build replicas of the void shard remains needed to build the psionic shroud, you do think you may be able to recreate a similar effect. While the result would likely not be nearly as effective, it could be employed by individual drones or ships without the need for built infrastructure to support it.

Solar collector miniaturization
Medium
This bloated and fragile module is a miniaturized application of the orbital solar array that can be mounted on a ship as a module. The ship is highly vulnerable to attack, making it a poor choice for a combat vessel, but it becomes a highly efficient mobile nutrient farm, capable of either supporting itself or a small fleet of others. Each module slot allows for a single solar collector dish. They must be retracted beneath the hull to perform a Blink or high-G maneuver, and while deployed the ship is treated statistically as unarmored and unshielded, regardless of design. A ship with a deployed solar collector cannot cloak.

>Smart Mines
Medium
Replacing digger drones with programmable seeds of nanomachines allows the hive to effectively create metal trees. The nanomachines spread roots through the ground to locate ore veins, break them down and assemble them on the surface as metallic fruit-like bulbs for workers to gather.

>Carbon nanostructure construction
Medium
By using the ancient Raligha ship as a basis, and new construction techniques, you can implement more sturdy nanotubes and carbon based diamond filaments to slightly improve the stability and durability of your ships without impeding maneuverability or increasing cost.

>>38252092
>Microfactory chambers
Wait wouldn't that allow a ship to build its own fighters?

>>38252085
I've wanted to start drawing the Hive's ships for months, but my lack of skill in 3D perspective and classes doesn't allow me to do anything about it.

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>>38252117
>Genesis Project
Fast
By studying the practices and techniques on top of the dedicated technologies of the Gardener's hive, you can develop a method that can be used to rapidly spread foliage and life on a planet to develop a new biosphere. The process is time and resource intensive at the start, but with the use of weather spires the biosphere quickly takes root and becomes self-sufficient.

>Genetic tapestry
Fast
With the development of your recent clones, you have gained experience and knowledge in organizing alien DNA into effective and desirable formations to not only reproduce an alien subject, but also improve upon it. Now you feel you are ready to go even farther with your experiments in mixing and matching alien and drone DNA.
[Unlocks Chimera clone type]

>Laser cooled superconductors
Medium
Utilizing powerful cooling rays to maintain a temperature of near absolute zero, superconductors can be constructed and maintained out of cheap and easily replaceable materials and nearly no cost. This would allow for the construction and maintenance of various mass transport and logistical systems that would improve the efficiency of hive activity.
The first set of prototype transport tubes have come online. A test canister was sent through the new system, reaching speeds of Mach 3 within seconds. The device reminds you of a railgun, especially when the test canister erupted from the transport tube and wiped out a small forest. In light of the setback your thinkers are placing more focus on braking systems.

>Quantum Entanglement engineering
Slow [50,000N 50,000M development cost, paid once]
Experimentation with the behavior of entangled particles could reveal potential uses beyond simple communication. Your thinkers have several tests ready to proceed to test the interaction of quantum entanglement with your own technology, although the tests will require the construction of multiple prototypes and test devices that will likely not survive the experiments.

>>38252140
I know that feel.

I can't draw for shit. It's frustrating when you can't put your designs to paper.

>>38251916
What is that thing at the bottom called Drift?

>>38251916
Have we sent a pod to Proxima and Virgo yet?

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>>38252144
Available research options

>Psionic Cannon prototype
Very slow/Very dangerous
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.

>>38252192
A planet in deep space, similar to the Skyl Waystation location

>>38251916
I'm happy that you somehow managed to overcome the Hexograpoher issue QD.
Look at all these new systems to explore and exploit

>>38252358
It will all be ours.

The hive will consume all.

>>38252252
We very clearly need to have a war party. First things first, you guys know that metallic atmosphereless planet that we have that is absolutely not worth our time to do anything with?

Who thinks that a certain metallic ally of ours who doesn't need an atmosphere to survive would appreciate basing out of it?

Also lets find a place to get heretic and the skyl set up on, now that we can rapidly clone them we should start producing skyl for him somewhere, set them up a nice colony. We'll need them as a face for heretic (the human species will NOT appreciate another unshackled AI being around en mass, however, an intelligent species of bird people might just go over better).

>>38252358
Where to first? the unknown systems to 'South' (being in space where you can navigate three dimensionally, this word has little value)?

Who's yellow border by the way?

>>38252419
>intelligent species of bird people
Bird snake thing.

>>38252372
I was hoping to send pods into the four uncharted systems coreward of the map. As well as the other named systems coreward of the nebula.
I'm cautious about exploiting the other named systems other than Drift, since if they were mother's former worlds, then Black would know their location.

>>38252440
The yellow is presumably for Heretic

>>38252468
Close enough, what matters is they are organic and not a fucking AI, humans seem to really hate AI.

Let's talk about military
I think we should set up several swarms which would be individual fleets
They could have standardized ship types and numbers
There's bern some discussion of them on the discussion page, but I think it would be prudent to establish a respectable standing military at this point

>>38252419
There is literally zero point in cloning more Skyl. Resurrecting a dead race is epilogue material, when peace is established. Also, Theseus is fine just where he is.

I think, before we do anything, we should have a nice sit down with Heretic and Theseus, about the obsidian queen. Just tell them everything, perhaps in exchange for their allegiance with us. Everything about what we know about our ancestors, the black queen, and the black crystals. No specific technologies of course, but general information is sorely needed, especially since they just accidentally dragged themselves into our war.

>>38252440
I talked with QuestDrone about it earlier, I want to smuggle some drones to a human controlled world.
Get them under a city, in the sewers and quietly build up a hive. Could be used either as a distraction should a fleet come our way, coming up and attacking indiscriminately. Or, if we get powerful enough, use that hive to spread out to other areas around the planet and work on a hostile takeover.

>>38252506
>>38252518
>>38252480
Seconding all three of these

>>38252518
Well, maybe not accidentally. Pretty sure Heretic wants to annihilate her.

>>38252506
>>38252518
Save the planning for after bump limit. Please.

Yes, this really.
The whole shebang with Black and Theseus could have been avoided had we warned him about the Obsidian Queen.

>>38252515
Yes, but which do you think the humans would prefer to discover, that a formerly dead races Artificial intelligence have begun to rebuild a force and are now significantly developed and a potential threat to them, or that a formerly dead race of alien are now forming up a fleet and coming back in mass as a force in the galaxy.

Both are scary, I can guarantee you the first one cannot be spun in any way positively towards us.

Also Seiner, fucking revive him already!

>>38252519
This is a huge act of aggression and would sabotage any chance of diplomacy with humans, destroy any goodwill amongst the public

>>38252519
Not bad, but how do you reach the sewers.

Come up from the oceans?

>>38252562
Concerning how the Union treats races other than their own, and their previous act of putting a nuclear capable satellite in orbit around our planet, I figured diplomacy would always remain shaky at best.

>>38252549
This isn't planning, this is an immediate concern. We just had our first open space battle with the enemy hive. We need to get our allies on board and informed of the dangers before they screw up anything, and we need our military up to snuff for future engagements,

>>38252552
We kinda did. He was curious and tried to meet the Obsidian queen.

>>38252549
Isn't now the time? Before the thread really starts?

>>38252580
Growing more clones and using them to smuggle eggs and material into the sewers.

Also getting some of those space cordyceps spores down there to grow that orange fungus as a food source and potential biological weapon.

>>38252562
Like they haven't performed a few huge act of aggression already.

>>38252595
That isn't remotely so urgent it needs to happen now instead of 300 posts later. We multitask. First we concern ourselves with something simple.

Like Huron exploration. And Lyle's investigations.

>>38252616
At least, I think the film is orange... not sure why I think that.

>>38252598
"Why did you just go and try to speak to them? Why didn't you ask me first? That was incredibly reckless. If I found some other artificial intelligence around, I would've asked you fist before- Oh, Wait."
We need to include that in the confrontation. Sassy queen is the best.

>>38252598
No, we told him about our history. We didn't tell him NOT to contact other hives.

>>38252621
Humans are irrational and we see us doing anything to one of their inhabited worlds as a grounds for war. We don't need a fight with the monkeys now at this crucial time.

>>38252595
I agree, it's an immediate concern. We need to speed up and ramp up military production, and set the parameters of our military

While we're doing some talking, I suggest that we have our drones on zero one take samples of the wildlife, and get our ships to investigate what's left of the enemy ships. We'll need to know more about our enemy to develop even more effective weapons and counter-measures. There's already evidence that suggests relays and thinkers are placed in the larger ships like cruisers and not corvettes. We could develop a personal jammer to stick on those ships and prevent them from sending out signals, as an idea.

Can...can we uhm... can we not prepare to commit genocide before we even know that we have no other choice but to do so?

>>38252595
Well first off we should check the destroyed ships to gauge what tech the enemy has.

>>38252610
No, that is the worst possible time for talking about something.

>>38252668
It's just ideas for the future, anon. For all we know the humans might become aggressive at the wrong time and see the obsidian queen as our ally.

They might think we were just a scouting party for the larger invasion force.

>>38252654
>No, we told him about our history. We didn't tell him NOT to contact other hives.
Said history included that the black queen was a genocidal maniac.

>>38252621
We can point out that they started it, as we have evidence that they sent a mercenary to capture some of our drones. Say you could bring it up to the media at any time, and they'll backpedal.

>>38252694
Why

>>38252717
Hive history was not told to Theseus yet, you are both stupid.

Only Skyl history.

We need a prompt to distract us QD help

>>38252709
Then we play some fancy recordings.

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>>38252252
Your flies creep through the halls of the cheap hotel as Lyle makes his way inside. He finds beer in the fridge and takes a seat on the couch. The hotel room doesn't even have a decent holo-screen, just a cheap projector screen likely bought from a cred-store, but it gets the local news just fine all the same.

"Officials are claiming the event to have been the remains of a satellite, however no evidence of debris was found by the local source. The owner of the farm, who wishes to remain nameless, claimed to have heard a loud sound coming from the crash site just after the impact, like that of an aircar."
The screen shows a view from the air of the landing site of your pod as officials in protective suits comb through the empty crater. The screen switches to a local official, an elderly man in a police uniform. "My office has been informed by members of the Union that the object was in fact a defective satellite belonging to the Bureau of Foreign Intelligence. The satellite itself was still partially operational upon landing, and had attempted to right itself using maneuvering thrusters before running out of propellant. All remains have been recovered by the Bureau, and they will be departing by the end of today after verifying no crops have been contaminated." The man slowly turns to leave and is bombarded with questions, and the screen cuts again quickly to another story.

Not long after Lyle grows board of the news the door opens as Dillon and Jackob enter. "I think I have good news." Jackob says.
cont.

>>38252358
I didn't, I just had to remake it by hand. It took a while but it was worth it.

>>38252440
Yellow is the Skyl. Theseus prefers to exist at least semi-nomadicley, apart from Zero One which is mostly dedicated to information warfare against the Union, and so he does not have proper boarders.

>>38252736
We showed him Mom's death. That included the Obsidian Queen's forces IIRC

>>38252717
Look, we should just all have a talk to set things straight about what to do and what not to do.

>>38252727
Point is, dont needlessly provoke the humans when we've got much bigger problems.

>>38252693
Still using projectile railguns, apparently doesn't have quantum thinkers otherwise her corvettes wouldn't just stop after her larger ships fled. Has her relays situated in her cruisers and larger.

>>38252717
>Said history included that the black queen was a genocidal maniac.
We didn't know that about at the time.
>>38252736
>Hive history was not told to Theseus yet, you are both stupid.
We did tell him about that. How do you think we got clearance for build an outpost on his planet?

>>38252794
Don't you want to check if she made any breakthroughs in ship design?

>>38252767
Damn does it feel good to be the aliens leaving cropcircles.

>>38252837
Uh that too, and ask Theseus about where he encountered the Obsidian Queen so that we may have at least a rough estimation of the location of her territory.

>>38252842
I am almost tempted to use our pod to screw with the locals and make more crop circles.

>>38252882
Honestly, theres no reason we can't do this, so long as we do it far away from that search.

It'd piss the hell out of the Unions cover up attempts too.

>>38252767
Question, what does the x marks on some stars signify?

>>38252882
Speaking of which, last thread there some heavy discussion on weather we should reveal our selves to the humans, since the evil hive should know our presence by now.

>>38252882
>>38252905
Cheeky queen goes full cheeky.

>>38252923
Negative.

Maybe we can get the humans to bear the brunt of obsidian queenies fleet.

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>>38252085
Hey, I've been here for ages. I even finished this last night.

>>38252923
We should do this, but sfter we have established at least two fleets

Which should be done rapidly

>>38252923
I'm leaning towards yes

>>38252923
Fuck no.

Now let's focus on Lyle's shenanigans.

>>38252923
We should try contacting the Valen. We could offer the crabs native to our planet and terraform the planet they're on so they'll owe us.

>>38252955
The downside there is that the humans may associate us with Obsidian and decide to take is on too. At least tell them "hey we exist also another of my species is xenocidal and will probably kill you all if you talk to her."
Humans are familiar having different polities among a single species so hopefully they'd buy that.

>>38253014
They might just turn on us too.

My mind keeps flashing back to that nuclear satellite.

>>38252923
I don't think now is quite the right time for that. We should focus on expanding ourselves a bit more, maybe get a few more planets under our belt and a bigger military.

But when we do introduce ourselves, I feel like we should accept any humans who wants "Citizenship." Offer it up, even. Immortality, free from disease and poison, a stronger, better body if you do well for the hive. I mean, just ignore the bit about losing your free will and privacy and it's great. Just to bring in some more pawns for the chessboard, I dunno.

>>38252923
No, we still need to mass produce our fleet to fight not only against the Black Queen, but to force them to behave so they don't get any ideas about nuclear satellites... Oh wait. Yeah, no fuck the Humans.

>>38253047
Honestly I think that one was just for security, since they had suspicions from day one that we weren't the primitive native race that we claim to be.
The nuke part was stupid and provocative, but if I were the union, I would keep an eye on a species like us too.

>>38253009
sounds like a plan.

>>38253047
>>38253063
I mean, if you think about it, if they noticed anything about our development before we could make it to space, we might have just suddenly and unexpectedly caught a salvo of nuclear missiles to the face.

Blot out the stars with the swarm first. Anything else comes after.

>>38253063
Yeah really. The humans are horrible racists who need a few corrective brainbugs implanted on their spines.

>>38252923
I say we should do it soon. First of all, we need to get Lyle's quest done and a few other things first. Maybe make a full scale battleship as well.

>>38253172
We need more infiltrators within their systems first.

That way we can indirectly cause shitstorms without danger to our troop reserves or fleet.

>>38253172
>Maybe make a full scale battleship as well
We should focus on making a shitton of smaller ships. Battleships are not a good idea right now.

>>38253192
That too.
>>38253224
More of everything then.

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>>38253192
I like that, let's do that.

>>38253224
Just one capital ship that the rest of our fleet can build around is all I'm asking.

Do you enjoy watching the clusterfuck of ideas and arguing, Questdrone?

>>38253272
Not QD but sometimes I feel that a quest without constructive argument (not shitposting or waifuing mind you) inbetween story posts is boring.

So, to sum up, we need a lot more preparation before revealing ourselves to the union? A bigger military, more infiltrators and agents all through their stuff. Maybe replace some politicians with clones. Prepared for shit.

we need a Hive ship and atleast 5 battleships before we announce ourselves to the Humans.

>>38253304
So are we going to pick lee or theseus as our husbando?

>>38253304
Same here, hope you didn't think I didn't enjoy it when I posted that.

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>>38253261
>Only one capital ship
Please, we can build as many as we want and push the galaxy's shit in. Especially when we can produce our own crystals, then we can mount a psionic cannon on each capital ship.

This is gonna be a good plan.

http://pastebin.com/0SEZcPP6
>M-199
>Alternate names: Wellbuilt – Red dwarf (Space pod located here)
>• Dense debris field and nebulae shell around star
>• Cracked barren planet. Once the capital of the Builder's hive, nothing remains but boiling rock.
This is new.

But I thought the unknown queen of M-199 perished in a test fire of the psionic cannon when the planet was destroyed.
>>35195165
>The crust of the planet below begins to crack, and just before the image cuts out you see a shadowy shape twist space around itself behind burning enemy formations, and in that moment you feel a command reach the ship. A single thought sent out in desperation.
>"It failed."
>You have no way of knowing to know it was sent, or it it managed to reach its destination, but the thought came from the planet below, and it came from a queen.

But the Builder survived long enough to be exterminated by the Black Queen, in the Gardener's flashback in thread 32.

>>38253337
Battleships ARE capital ships.

>>38253337
But first to get back through that bigass backlog of construction projects we queued up.

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>>38252767
"So, I had a talk with Pete, turns out he's just as much a moron as ever, but it's a bold moron. Says he was approached by a spook, but doesn't know anything about him. Said the guy just shows up every now and then to give him info."

"Spook? Any details on that?" Lyle asks.

"Pete thinks the guy's high end. Maybe a member of a mob, or an agent for one of the Banking Clans, something important enough to have people in the government on their payroll."

Dillon goes directly to the window and checks the street and neighboring buildings. "I also found some papers from our dead guy's apartment. He had a passport for himself, his new self, and one for Lee, so he had all his bases covered, but he also had some papers that detailed Lee's movements. All his known accounts, his usual places, copies of all his keys, even sheets on his favorite foods and products. It looked like the guy was meant to live Lee's life, at least publicly." He hands a small stack of papers to Lyle, each sheet containing a list of locations, items, or numbers.

"What's this place, on the corner of thirty fifth? He spends almost every weekend there until he joins the Space Forces." Lyle asks.

"It's some kind of game store I think. I look it up, a bunch of nerd stuff but it's decently popular in the area. Some people there are sure to know him, but I can't say if any of them will know anything useful. As for Jackob's spook, I'll have some people from my office look into it, but if you want we can round up the usual suspects. There's only a few organizations in town with that kind of money to push."

"I bet I could find him." Jackob says. "Pete's gonna be scared, he's gonna try to arrange a meeting, we could tail him and see what he does, he may end up leading us right to him."


cont.

>>38253328
Nah, Theseus qualifies as a drinking mate more than anything.

>>38253318
The first part yes.
The second part is much more dangerous though because things like that usually cause war.

>>38253328
I'm more of a Theseus guy myself

>>38253331
Its all fun anon.

>>38253370
This is sounding worse and worse for lees current status, please tell me he is still alive.

>>38253359
The post suggests that the Builder herself died when the cannon went awry, but the rest of the planet was either destroyed by the Obsidian Queen or the Crystals themselves. Or maybe the Psionic Cannon just has a really big boom.

>>38253426
Here's an idea. Stake out the nearest gameshops. There's only so many of them and Lee's inner nerd can't possibly resist being away for so long.

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>>38253370
>Inb4 it's a future Games Workshop and Lee plays 'nids.

>>38253370
I always read Lyle's lines in Agent Kruger's voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLIXdmPSCvk

>>38253454
>The post suggests
> the rest of the planet was either destroyed by the Obsidian Queen or the Crystals themselves
No it doesn't.

> the Psionic Cannon just has a really big boom.
No freakin' duh it cracked the planet in two when it failed.

The point is that was clearly not the builder, because the builder is alive years later.

>>38253465
We already know he plays nids, his apartment were covered in the figurines.

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>>38253467
>Not as glorious Steve Irwin.
Step it up, mate.

>>38253562
On this note, I have a very important question. Has half life 3 come out yet in this setting?

>>38253604
Never!

>>38253465
>>38253562
Boy is he gonna LOVE our hive.

>>38253623
He read the ender games. He played nids. inb4 he has a copy of starcraft laying around and played zerg all the time.

>>38253651
We can integrate and engineer Lee into a hive super soldier.

>>38253491
>>35195165
>You see a fleet arranged before you, black, organic ships moving in on the planet in perfect unison. As they close in on the defending fleet a ship pulls from the center, its weapons unfolding like a blossom as its hull twists and warps. The ship cracks in two, and a pillar of energy erupts from within, engulfing both fleets at once in a firestorm of destruction.
The crust of the planet below begins to crack, and just before the image cuts out you see a shadowy shape twist space around itself behind burning enemy formations,

This was obviously after the Obsidian Queen betrayed the other hives. But you are right about the part where the cannon destroyed the planet.

>>38253370
>>38252910
"Or," Dillon says, "he could just be left high and dry, or even have a hit put on him. I'm not sure if it's all that smart to get mixed up in that."

"And going around asking mobsters isn't dangerous?" Jackob asks, his face curling in a wry smile.

"I'm a member of SecCom, and they know it. You don't shoot an anti-terror agent unless you have a death wish, so no, I don't think it would be that dangerous."

>Agree with Jackob and help him tail Pete
>Agree with Dillon and help him question local criminals
>Investigate the local "Game Factory" for potential leads
>Other

>>38252910
The white x marks that a Valen gate is in that system.
I probably should have mentioned that...

>>38253272
It's healthy, a good and productive way of making a plan. I also don't have work monday so no need to worry about time.

The builder's relays self-destructed in time. The flashback over planet takes place after the Gardener's flashback.

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>>38253604
At this point Gaben has made himself into an ai using Steam as his housing.

He's actually a major political player in the Union because he refuses to release it.

>>38253682
He's gonna be our human liaison we don't put ambassadors on the front line

>>38253690
>>Investigate the local "Game Factory" for potential leads

There's no way we're going to miss this.

>>38253690
>Investigate the local "Game Factory" for potential leads
>Have our flies tail the other two like last time

>>38253690
Agree with Dillon, and don't we have a remaining fly or two? Maybe just one, send the one fly we have to tail Pete.

>>38253682
Not a super soldier, what this guy said>>38253712

And if we're going to integrate Lee into the hive we should kerrigen Elizabeth.

>>38253712
>>38253754
We want him able to protect himself, don't we? Protect himself and have a psionic link with the hive.

>>38253690
>Investigate the local "Game Factory" for potential leads
Start with the easy one first, then work our way up.

>>38253690
>Investigate the local "Game Factory" for potential leads
It's hard to drop hobbies overnight. Very very hard. He might be showing up with a different face.

Lewdbin soon fellow thinkers.

>>38253754
But Elizabeth is a scientist not a fighter either.
Hell the best candidate for Kerrigan is Lyle, and we're already partially doing that with the augmentations we're giving him.

>>38253794
Uh oh, whats this one about?

>>38253772
We can augment him, just not extreme enough that it's noticeable without looking really closely.

>>38253690
I thought the X meaning Hyper Gate was obvious, since there was an X at FG-883 and Virgo.

And you know this investigation would be faster if we had dived the memories of that Fake Lee's brain. Less fun and less footwork, but faster.

Then who was phone? I mean who was left forBuilder to send a message to?

>>38253816
Probably dead crystal dildos.

>>38253690
>>Agree with Jackob and help him tail Pete

>>38253690
Wait how come you never told us they were building a Hypergate?

>>38253801
Elizabeth is also the only one with psiconic abilities. And Kerrigan WAS zerged like she was because she was the most power terran psychic. And Elizabeth being the ONLY terran psychic counts!

>>38253690
>Investigate the local "Game Factory" for potential leads
Let's do it.

>>38253690
>Agree with Jackob and help him tail Pete

You don't actually think there's going to be any leads at a known Lee hangout do you.

It's just another trap. We already knowingly walked into one of those. We don't need another.

I doubt lee is currently doing anything by his own volition. He is either captive or dead, and I refuse to believe the QM would give us all this build up to find a grave... (I refuse to believe he is that evil)

>>38253898
How come you don't read the freakin' quest?

>>38253816
The most forbidden of loves.
300 views on the last one? T-That's too many. Even if 100 people looked at it 3 times that's still 100 people. Even if 30 people looked at it 10 times that's still 30 people...
Or maybe three people saw it and someone read it 300 times...

>>38253869
It was obviously the Queen that was found on the moon, since obviously the Crystals by themselves alone would never teach humans about something as harmful as the Psionic Cannon probably mother, since she appeared to have kept tabs about the other queens after she left.

>>38253901
She really doesn't have that much psionic power, if I remember right. Just enough to communicate with us and fiddle with the crystals a little bit.

I might be wrong though.

>>38253952
Well I am 2/300 if that counts for anything.

>>38253914
Do you really not want to see how neckbeards have evolved in this much time?

>>38253943
I did QD never mentioned it. They built it without us noticing it.

>>38253960
Well hey, Maybe we can change that! We should study her anyway, see what the stuff in her brain actually is. And if we can somehow give her a powerboost that might be useful to us!

>>38254010
It was mentioned several times in multiple threads as well as in the ask.fm
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt since those were spread out and usually after the thread was finished.

>>38253690
>Investigate the local "Game Factory" for potential leads
Writing.

>>38253898
It is still technically being constructed, I just went ahead and marked it on the map.

>>38253869
You don't know.

>>38254014
I suppose... I'm just scared that if she gets more psionic power she might get greedy and try to find a way to take over our drones. I might be shadowrunning a little too hard here, but it seems like a very real possibility. If she does we can just use the shroud.

>>38254010
No, you missed it.

The only thing QD messed up is that we had a pod in FG-883 the entire time.

Like, we've had a pod in it continuously since >>35184684

But sending a pod to it in >>37027901 was treated like there wasn't one there before. And that is when we first noticed the Hyper Gate under construction.

So far as I can tell, we should have been watching them the whole time it was being made, since the pod never left in between.

>>38254140
We need to parasite their leader soon. If we do that we can steal their Hypergate since only their leaders know to make them.

>>38254200
Or we could negotiate a deal properly to assist on it or some bullshit, we know a lot of things they don't, and right now we can put ourselves in a position of "mediator" between the big scary monster that is The Unity and the poor innocent humans, which could, if played right, go very well for us.

>>38254272
They're not going give it up that easily. If you want it you have to force it out of them.

>>38254061
"Well I can check out this shop then while you two are busy." Lyle says as he finishes a beer.

"You're lucky. If it weren't for the fact that I need to follow up on this spook anyway, I wouldn't keep helping out for free like this." Dillon says. "As it is, some guy running around hiring armed thugs is the kind of thing I need to double down on anyway." He makes for the door. "But you watch yourself. You'll stand out like a sore thumb in there."

Jackob shrugs. "Well it isn't like I have anything better to do." He says. "We should hit up a bar later, though, my treat." and tosses him a small card with the address of a local pub. He backs out of the doorway and closes it with a creak.
Cont.

>>38254092
She can control your drones if you allow it, much like how two related queens can send drones to each other, but there is no known way for a queen to "steal" another queen's drone, as the drone would simply panic and shut down in response to any such attempt.

>>38254322
>much like how two related queens can send drones to each other
So if we were able to somehow replicate the technology use to empower Elizabeth with psionics, we would be able to "gift" them drones to do their bidding? Like huge insect-like trained servant?

>>38254322
So basically Elizabeth does have to required powers to become a mini-hive queen if we allow it. Fun times! If we wanted we could adopt her and teach her how to handle drones!

>>38254461
Eh, why not, lets just rename her kerragin and get it over with already!

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>>38254461
>>38254401
I suppose she is more trustworthy than a queen we birth, but we aren't giving her anything more than workers and thinkers. That's all she needs.

Also, thinking of doing something based on this. Thoughts?

>>38254545
You intend to replace her heart with a baked potato?

>>38254545
Well, she's definitely more reasonable than a freethinking queen, but I doubt Elizabeth is fully capable of controlling even a small hive. Remember she still has a mostly human brain rather than a specially evolved brain for controlling trillions of drones at once.

>>38254586
Well what else would we replace it with?

>>38254545
...you realize we've been told REPEATEDLY that a daughter would be almost entirely trustworthy?

>>38254401
>>38254461
That would be exceedingly silly and pointless.

Our children are our own, anyway, no one else's.

>>38254592
With the research we have, we could totally mess around with her biology a bit. Make she changes to her brain. Might help her multitask a bit! But really, the smallest of hives is probably the most she'll be able to handle. But we'd be proud all the same.

>>38254609
No, it was that they would be loyal while doing their own thing. Elizabeth has already proven that she's loyal to our purpose.

>>38254609
>>38254635
>>38254649
Elizabeth certainly won't start wars with anyone for resources, thats for sure. Still. NO ADDITIONAL QUEENS.
I thought we already had that out of our systems.

>>38254649
For what purpose.

>>38254674
Yes no queens. But also what the fuck, no Elizabeth either.

>>38254674
Not really. I'm just waiting for a good time.

>>38254674
I vote Elizabeth as second best queen, with us as first. To be honest it isn't that hard to get second place when Black Queen is currently being a shit.

>>38254674
I'm actually considering we spawning a queen. We just don't have a good location.

>>38254674
Giving Elizabeth a few drones to control on her own isn't making her into another Queen.

>>38254733
She isn't a queen.

>>38254799
I'm actually considering shut up, you're dumb.

>>38254674
I think it would be better to hold off on having kids until we reveal ourselves to the union. I don't want to have to worry about any daughters of ours blowing our cover accidentally.

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>>38254799
No, just no. We don't need another blow up over that again.

>>38254828
She's a better queen than Black Queen, and she isn't even a queen. Goes to show how much of a shit she's being.

>>38254839
This website is for 18+. You might like this place instead.
http://www.reddit.com/r/rpg

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>>38254880
>This person who isn't a queen is better then this other actual queen because she doesn't want to kill us
Ok. But she's not a queen.
I don't disagree with the whole queen issue, but this is waifuing levels of retarded.

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>>38254897
Yes, because if it's one thing 4chan is known for, it's its rational, calm disagreements.

What were they thinking, being uncivil and childish.

>>38254322
Lyle makes his way to the store, taking several trains into the district. It's a decently high end commercial district, clean streets, neatly washed windows, and well maintained decorations makes the area glisten in the light of the streetlamps, which only turn off in the short few hours just before and just after the daily eclipse, only to come on again with nightfall. The scattered overcast clouds periodically obscure the ominous view of Gemini Beta as it hangs close overhead.

The store is a small, three story building in the middle of a small building complex, lodged between a Pathian restaurant and an ice cream shop. A large statue of an armored solder stands outside with a hilariously disfigured proportion. Lyle walks past it with a hint of disgust. "We actually have the fuckin' power armor, why do people still need to make it look so dumb?"
Your parasite has to pump several small doses of sedatives when he glances at a poster containing various made up weapons, thinking of no method any of them could avoid detonating the moment the trigger is pulled.

As he makes his way in he is hit with the smell of cheese powder and baking soda, and a bearded man behind the counter looks up at him from a box of mismatched dice. He seems to hesitate to say anything.

Lyle moves up and down the floor, looking at the myriad of products lining the shelves and looking over the shoulders of various patrons of all shapes and sizes, but mostly round. He finally spots a cork board on the far wall where Lee appears on a small piece of paper along side several others marked "GF District Championship". his face appears several times.

>speak with the owner (write in)
>Speak with the patrons (write in)
>Other

>>38254943
I wasn't waifuing Elizabeth, I just wanted to empathize how shit Black Queen is.

>>38254969
>speak with the owner (Write in)

"Hey, isn't he that guy from the news, the one that botched that alien encounter or some bullshit?"

>>38254969
>Speak with the patrons (Assuming direct control)

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>>38254969
Even in the grim darkness of the future, GW is still as full of bullshit as ever. I love your quest, QD.

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>>38254969
>various patrons of all shapes and sizes, but mostly round
Oh god.

>Speak with the patrons
Ask what they think of the new Necron codex.

>>38255081
>Ask what they think of the new Necron codex.
I think that would be a bit meta.

>>38255010
I like it.

>>38254969
So... how about that GF huh. I read on Spacetaku that it's better than Civ 5,000 with the Brave New World expansion pack.

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>>38254969
>Speak with the patrons (write in)
What do you guys think of 5e.

>>38254969
Okay backing this>>38255010
but let's do a bit of small talk with the patrons first to get them to open up a bit. Talk about the game mechanics and whatnot.

>>38255359
Lyle is going to fucking murder someone if we do this.

>>38255081
No, ask them when the new DE codex is slated to arrive.

>>38254969
Ask owner about the championship.

>>38254969
Ask about half life III

>>38255373
Yeah, yeah don't do this. He just might overwhelm our parasite with his burning rage.

>>38255373
Yeah. His cover story is, he's here to, see about some...birthday present for his nerdy son he doesn't understand.

Which edition should he buy him?

>>38255359
Let's bring in the clone. The female one.

>>38255146
But think of it. Since it's so far into the future they'd have to change them from robot Egyptians to something just as stupid, but equally old compared to the time frame. I.e:

>I'm so pissed they changed Necrons from soulless killing machines to dumb robot cowboys!
Something like that.

>>38254969
>>Speak with the patrons (write in)
Ask them who's better, Gork or Mork?

>>38255432
Just because she's a genetically modified clone who technically isn't human doesn't mean that wouldn't constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

>>38255432
Hah.

Smart.

>>38254969
Are we gonna have the oppurtunity to do any planning this thread? Why are we even so concerned with lee in the first place?

>>38255654
Irrational obsession with individual NPCs. Some anons imprinted and just can't let go.

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>>38255432
A female, in Games Factory? A Leman Russ tank would be less suspicious.

>>38255654
I'm pretty sure we've been over this in several threads now.

He's to be the face of the hive for diplomacy. That way we can't get shafted by the Union giving us a diplomat that's looking for ways to screw us.

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>>38255699
A diplomat says what he's told and has no decisionmaking power that isn't subject to the approval of the assholes in charge.

There is literally no motive to pursue Lee except irrational sentiment.

The fact that someone kidnapped him and is pulling all these strings to some end is a reason to get to the bottom of things, but that's obviously not the motive people have.

>>38255654
Just be glad he's a nobody. The stupidity is getting directed towards him rather then someone like Theseus.

>>38254969
Lyle looks over some of the tables as he makes his way to the front desk. Various armies of small plastic figures are arranged on the edge of the tables within small cubes of holocamera-lined wires. On the tables themselves holographic versions of the same figures fight turn by turn. Several other tables appear to lack the functionality, or at least they are not being used. You hear several people complain about digital game boards, calling them 'casual'.

The man behind the counter appears nervous, but looks to Lyle with a smile. "Can I help you with anything?"

"Yea, do you know that guy?" Lyle points to the cork board and the man's face looses what small amount of color it had.

"Well, that would be Ryan, he used to come here often." He clears his throat. "Haven't seen him for the past few years though, until he showed up in the news. He was probably one of the best players here, w-we have a deal on the new codex, actually..."

"Yea, no thanks. Did he know anyone here I could talk to?"

The front door rings as it's opened.

"Yes, I suppose, I mean not really but... Follow me." He motions to the stairs and leads Lyle to the second floor, there is a small collection of patrons around one of the analog tables. A pale Ceph sits along the corner, its tentacles latched to the side as it carefully positions a small black robot on the table, then spits several dice from an air jet.
"Suck my hectocotylus." It drones in a robotic voice from a small plastic on the side of its head. The human at the other side of the table plucks several of his own figures up and tosses them in a nearby box.

"Yea, keep talking." He says, "I'll sell you to the kitchen next door."

The bearded man from the counter walks up to the table. "Sorry to interrupt, but this man was asking about Ryan, he used to play in your group, correct?"
They look to the owner, and then to Lyle, and immediately appear nervous.

>Speak with the group (write in)
>Let Lyle handle the questioning
>Other

>>38255771
>>Let Lyle handle the questioning

>>38255749
The entire point is that we will have a diplomat who isn't reporting to the union at every opportunity and fucking us over in political talks because the union asked him to.

>>38255771
>Let Lyle handle the questioning

>>38255771
>Let Lyle handle the questioning

>>38255771
>>Other
Let Lyle handle the search for Lee and and focus on more productive endeavors

>>38255771
>>Let Lyle handle the questioning

>>38255822
That doesn't make sense. it doesn't matter who the guy is. the policy of who he represents is the same.

A guy who doesn't obey orders is not fit for the job.

>>38255822
We could just fucking clone one

>>38255771
Let Lyle handle it.

This could be potentially hilarious.

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>>38255771
>"Suck my hectocotylus." It drones in a robotic voice from a small plastic on the side of its head.
I'm starting to love the Ceph.

>Speak with the group (write in)
Ask if Lee ever brought the snacks.

>>38255870
All who don't give a particular shit about Lee say aye and don't want to spend another thread searching for him say aye

>>38255994
Rye!

>>38255994
Too late, we're already looking for him.

We don't go back until we have him, or have the ones responsible for his death.

>>38255994
Sorry anon, I like Lee and at the very least our quest to find him has been quite fun and interesting.

>>38255994
Aye
>>38256019
It's taking too long

>>38256033
It's not as if we haven't been multitasking. Jeez, anon.

>>38256055
This thread has been literally nothing but Lee

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>>38255870
The point is if we don't have a diplomat, they give us one. If we already have one, they can't send us one who is certain to fuck us over

>>38255883
Lee carries weight in the Union because they gave him authority, even if it was just so he could take the fall. If we make a clone of Lee they're probably going to bring the real Lee forth to show it's bullshit. So we need Lee for this.

>>38256073
Or you could not engage with literal space racists by pandering to their racist policy.

>>38256069
So what, this thread has been interesting to me so far, and lee is an awesome guy, besides, rule #1 of quests, your waifu or husbando is always the first applicable individual you meet, in this case Lee.

>>38256069
Impossible, there is no Lee here.

>>38256069
And last thread had a bigass close call space battle.

>>38256073
We could clone a random person to be our ambassador

>>38256106
>>38256098
>
>>38256092
>>38256073
>>38256069
>>38256055
Why can't lee be friends?

>>38256092
That's what we're doing. We found a loophole in their shit system, which we need Lee to exploit.

>>38256098
We're in a fuckinggame shop on a random planet with people who haven't seen the guy for years

>>38256153
you sound quite salty about it.

>>38256141
We actually don't need Lee. At all

>>38256141
That is the exact opposite of what I just said. Can you read?

You are pandering to their racist policy by having a human representative instead of a Speaker.

>>38256092
see
>>38256141

Also, we can rape them with legions of drones and biological weapons at a later date.

>>38256173
All the buttsalt anon, all of it.

I guess I was the only one looking forward to finding a dead Lee so we could devote ourselves to more espionage missions against our covert foes.

>>38256191
Different anon here, you really fail to grasp the finer points of Union xeno policy as laid out in earlier threads.

>>38256186
Who the hell else are we going to get, lee has quite a bit of charisma behind him (even after they tried lynching him, part of why they seem to have buried him), if we get lee, we have a very nice figurehead, Elizibeth would just cause problems and all the prisoners we have would run at first chance. We COULD use Seiner but thats destined to go badly.

>Lee fags
Brings to mind that saying about pretending to be something and idiots thinking the're in good company.

>>38256245
It's not a fine point.

It's a literally racist policy. I don't see what's so hard to comprehend about this.

>>38256264
You either get Lee, get a diplomat of THEIR choosing, or you don't get diplomacy.

>>38256191
Yes but we're preventing them from fucking us over with a shit ambassador, which will make their attempts to fuck us over seem much more obvious when our ambassador actually argues against it instead of giving in immediately.

>>38256186
Lee holds political power in the Union. If we just make a clone they're going to try extra hard to fuck us over because the only thing representing us is a nobody.

>>38256194
Of course we're going to fuck them super hard at a later date.

>>38256207
We have an invasion looming we haven't developed an effective army yet we have no diplomatic relations with the largest regional and we have dozens of worlds to explore and develop.

We've spent this thread investigating a marginally useful character (at best) in a game store.

I'm sorry Id just be having more fun doing different things

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>>38255771
"I trust you can speak with them without burning the building down?" You ask. Lyle glances to you in annoyance and approaches the table.

In the depths of Huron your drones continue to uncover the remains of the ship wreck. The plateau itself appears to be a nursery of sorts, with a wide range of small and somewhat frail creatures. Several creatures have been found with interesting capabilities, although nothing that you don't already understand. The sensors of your ships have periodically picked up various large creatures, but they have yet to move close to the plateau, and appear to avoid it as they swim around the small patch of shallow waters in what is otherwise a dark abyss.

The salvage work of the ship goes well. It appears to be a relic of the Colony Wars, equipped with the destroyed remains of a fusion reactor. The hull has been shattered across a kilometer of the plateau, and is in very poor shape. All in all, it would make for excellent metal salvage, or could be used as cover for the start of a new hive on this planet.

>Break down the hull and load the scrap aboard one of your corvettes
>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter
>Other

As your drones finish their excavation they return to scouting the area. The plateau is safe, but that safety has made its local life soft and unappealing to you. There are plenty of places for creatures to hide, but you doubt you will find anything groundbreaking here.

>Have your drones scout the trenches around the plateau
>Have your drones scour the plateau for useful adaptations
>Other

>>38256284
Corvettes & Frigates are better diplomacy anyways.

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>>38256284
That's.

My fucking.

Point.

They are literal racists with a racist policy and we are not going to pander to their racist requirements you dense motherfucker.

>>38256294
>"I trust you can speak with them without burning the building down?" You ask. Lyle glances to you in annoyance and approaches the table.
CHEEKY QUEEN STRIKES AGAIN

>>38256284
We could get any other human of our choosing

We can literally clone people and make hybrid ant people

>>38256294
>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter
We can always use more hives. An aquatic one would be nice.

>Have your drones scout the trenches around the plateau
Lets see if we can find cthulu and bring 10,000 years of darkness upon our enemies.

>>38256320
Then you have a massive fucking aggressive empire at your doorstep that already doesn't trust you.

Good luck with that.

>>38256294
>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter
>Have your drones scour the plateau for useful adaptations

More like see if there is any sunken ship parts left to salvage.

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>>38256294
>>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter
>>Have your drones scour the plateau for useful adaptations

We're going to fucking research the shit out of these fuckers.

>>38256294
>>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter

>>38256294
>>Have your drones scout the trenches around the plateau

>>38256294
>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter
>>Have your drones scour the plateau for useful adaptations

>>38256294
>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter
>Have your drones scout the trenches around the plateau

>>38256294
>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter
and
>Have your drones scout the trenches around the plateau

>>38256294
>>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter

>Have your drones scout the trenches around the plateau

Adaptations adaptations adaptations.

>>38256294
>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter
>Have your drones scour the plateau for useful adaptations

>>38256294
Yesssssss
Time for best planet.

>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter
Somehow I doubt metal will be an issue. The ship is interesting in any case, I don't remember how large it is suppose to be though.
>Have your drones scout the trenches around the plateau
Spooky time

>>38256294
>Use it to hide your hive, and begin construction of a shelter

>Have your drones scout the trenches around the plateaU

>>38256322
Yes, because the Union is going to our equivalent of The Fly.

>>38256294
Can we send an egglayer to that planet QD? It seems like we are setting up a base there so we might as well.

>>38256435
We usually put fake Queens on colony worlds, don't we? More versatile

>>38256320
It isn't racist you daft bastard it's expansionist. You know what the difference is? One is an attitude in which all life aside from humans is inferior and/or untrustworthy, and the other describes the exclusive drive to conglomerate more political and economic power within a given government. The Union is perfectly happy to coexist with alien powers as long as they get something out of it. QD has mentioned this on multiple occasions.

>>38256435
I can get behind this. Each base should have an egglayer so we don't have to ferry drones back and forth all the time.

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>>38256458
No, we only did it on the planet with the Ball of Arms Man type creatures so they would have something to give resources to.

We don't need to here.

>>38256458
Fake queens are generally for presentation aspects. I don't particularly care whether we send a fake queen or an egglayer though, fake queens are essentially just egglayers made up to look like us.

>>38256524
Those guys are still pretty creepy. What would their houses even look like? Holes in trees? I can't shake the image of them swinging around on vines.

>>38256435
Sounds like a smart idea. That way we can rapidly integrate new adaptations we find into drones without having to bother with ferrying them about.

>>38256294
>Use the hull to conceal your hive
>Scout the trenches around the plateau

Your Huron expeditionary force currently consists of
80 Gilled Warriors
100 Gilled Workers
2 Medical Pods
2 Scout Corvettes

>Send half your workers
>Send half your warriors
>Send all your warriors
>Send a mix (write in)

>>38256524
>>38256566
We have 3 fake queens
I thought they also helped control the drones, and I thought egg layers could only lay the default breeds

>>38256458
>>38256435
We could grow one using the regen tanks.

>>38256584
I love them though. I really want to make a ball of arms drone to interact with them just to see the shit that would happen.

>>38256610
>>Send half your workers
>>Send half your warriors

>>38256610
By the way, what ever happened with all those ships we queued up last thread?

>>38256610
>>Send half your warriors

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>>38256613
Three? Really, I thought we only made the one? Where did we put the others?

>>38256610
>Send half your workers
>Send half your warriors

>>38256610
>Send half your warriors
No splitting up the party now.

>>38256663
different hives, better to swap around and delegate power from place to place.

>>38256610
Send thirty warriors and thirty workers.

Warriors to tackle anything nasty and provide overwatch for drones while they drag back whatever nasty thing the warriors kill.

>>38256663
Read the list of drones up top. We have one on each world we've expanded into

>>38256643
You are still working through your build queue, but have just completed construction on a large number of combat ships, as well as your first batch of G-sensor equipped patrol ships.

>>38256663
One is on Leeland, one on Raligha, and the third on Zero One.
The one on Leeland was placed in your old location, with you being moved to a distant mountain fortress at a location unknown to the Clarke crew at your request.

I feel a roll coming up.

Prepare your crits, people.

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>38256736
Better get this 1 out of the way

>>38256610
>>>Send half your workers
>>>Send half your warriors

>>38256610
>Send half your workers
>Send half your warriors


>>38256613
As far as I was aware they don't really do anything different than egglayers. Though they may have advanced relays implanted in them.

BUT they aren't in the pastebins for some reason.

>>38256610
Hey QD, are the fake queens supposed to be in the Drone design details http://pastebin.com/EyHX9rZu ? because I'm not getting any hits on egg, fake, or queen in that pastebin.

>>38256736
Oh dear. Knock on wood and get the virgin sacrifices ready everyone.

>>38256675
No I mean where, as in the planets. Because I don't think we made any after the one for worship on Raligha.

>>38256781
Well, never mind me then.

>>38256610
>Send half your workers and half your warriors

Please roll 1d100, best of 3 for scouting the dark abyss of Huron's sunless trenches

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>38256838

>>38256731
Do they have advantages beyond being egg layers that look like us?

Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>38256838
Oh dear

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>38256838
FOR THE SWARM!

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>38256838
Hello darkness my old friend...

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>38256838

What once was happy is now sad...

Meh result.

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>38256838

>>38256882
Well... I guess we might find something interesting, maybe.

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Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>38256838
Be very very quiet...

>>38256882
Thats... not too bad. It could have been worse.

>>38256914
Ha

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>38256838
pls

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>38256838

>>38256877
Not really, that's essentially what it is.
Writing.

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>>38256889
>>38256887
>>38256882
>>38256869
Goodbye, sweet drones...

>>38256929
pls indeed.

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>>38256462
>one race can do a job and another can't
>not racist
It can be both things, you realize.

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>>38256902
I'VE LOST EEEEVERYTHING, EVERTHING THAT MATTERS IN THIS WORLD

>>38256983
It's not racist if there's different species. Then it's speciesist or xenoist

>>38257008
It all returns to nothing.

IT ALL COMES
TUMBLING DOWN,
TUMBLING DOWN,
TUMBLING DOWN