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>>40747791
>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 9,189,723
Metals: 13,936,924
Credits: ₡2226
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,175,000

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 52325
Queen – 5
Fake Queen (4) – 220
Small Egg layer – 12
Worker (90005) – 180010
Aquatic Worker (5140) – 20560
Vacuum Worker (5200) – 31200
Radiator Worker (5100) – 20400
Warrior (51209) – 256045
Gilled Warrior (100) – 700
Aquatic Warrior (50) – 400
Thinker (3000) – 9000
Quantum Thinker (2000) – 10000
Speaker – (3) – 12
Digger (200) – 800
Refinery (40) – 280
Sniffer (2) – 8
Small Sniffer (200) – 200
Aquatic Sniffer (200) – 200
Fly (1165) – 4660
Wasp (30000) – 150000
Haz-mat Workers (20) – 80
Shock Troops (40) – 520
Parasite (110) – 440
Bio-tank (1000) – 25000
Excavator (1000) – 19000
Colossus (2420) – 36300
Hovertank (200) – 5000
Harvester (5000) – 95000
Support Fluttercraft (2) – 272
Ghost Beetle (30) – 810
Heavy Warrior (1000) – 19000
Chinook (100) – 1800
Air defense drone (80) – 5920
Bomber (160) – 6560
Strafer drone (400) – 6000
Heavy Interceptor (160) – 4480
Light Interceptor (800) – 11200
Advanced disruptor (50) – 3750
Advanced Relay (70) – 7000

>Hive fleet
Space Pod (5000) – 150000
Heavy Fleet Fighter (272) – 18224
Heavy Gunship (36) – 1080
Shuttle (10) – 250
Mining Corvette (336) – 92400
Patrol Corvette (126) – 63882
Scout Corvette (8) – 1800
Lancer Corvette (2) – 450
Missile Corvette (500) – 516000
Fleet Corvette (244) – 54900
Heavy Fleet Corvette (48) – 56256
Light Fleet Frigate (900) – 56256
Heavy Fleet Frigate (36) – 51372
Stealth Frigate (4) – 1952
Vanguard Frigate (850) – 340000
Light Fleet Cruiser (225) – 149625
Missile Cruiser (50) – 118250
Heavy Cruiser (110) – 133650
Heavy Fleet Cruiser (18) – 45090
Carrier Battlecruiser (5) – 99360
Heavy Fleet Battlecruiser (4) – 32548
Heavy Fleet Battleship – 51775

Lee is best waifu

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>>40747805
>Formed fleets and orders
Small Heavy Defense Fleet [Patrolling Leeland space]
Heavy Battle Fleet [Awaiting orders]
5 Missile Ambush Fleet [Awaiting orders]
15 Light Fleets [Awaiting orders]
4 Heavy battle fleet [Building]
5 Light battle fleet [Building]

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
25 Human captives of the USV Hope – 750
[Gemini]
15 Human Hybrids [In production] (900)
3 Taidaren Hybrids [In production] (210)
4 Human flash clone upkeep – 120
3 Human hybrid clone upkeep – 90
Specializations:
>Tech
>Engineer
>Brawler
1 Human Chimera egglayer – 80
[Hive space]
100 Human Hybrids – 3,000
Lyle Rogers – 57
Jackob Eisner – 56
Dillon Reager – 30
Clone/project upkeep – 5,173N

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 3,449,068N

Sorry things took so long to set up. The family ended up eating out for fathers day and things took longer then I had expected.

>>40747805
>that pic
Yes. This will be our symbol.

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>>40747855
>Income
Metals: 2,838,000
Nutrients: 3,901,250
Net: 2,265,260N

Hive Territory
[G-426]
Asteroid mining base: 50,000M per day.

*Leeland (capital)
Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System (750N)
>Anti-orbital batteries: 35/35 (8750N)
Military structures
>Hangar facilities: Room for 4840 Aero/fighter Drones and 2420 Shuttles (3025N)
>Psionic Shroud (1,000N)
>Prison Outpost
Industrial structures
>Docking Pylon: (1969) (98,450N)
[Empty docks: 2000/2000]
Economic Structures
>Smart Mines active: 100,000M per day
>Algae Farm: +2,400,000per day, 24,000 Workers (1 worker per 100N)
>Film harvester dock: +2,500,000N per day, 5,000 Harvesters active (500N per Harvester)

[M-662]
Raligha
Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System (under construction)
>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: 500N
>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)
[Empty docks: 0/4]
>Mining corvette salvage operations +2,688,000M per day (+8000M per corvette)

[Farcast]
Derelict Sensor array

Glassed Hive world
>Hive bunker complex

Deep space waystation
>100 docking pylons (10,000N)
[Empty docks 115/400]

>>40747855
Its all good as long as we can get Elizabeth and Thesus opinions on trying to come out to the union, since there is timer on our asses presumably.

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I am very excite

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>>40747874
[Special Project Finished]
The strange abnormalities discovered within the Obsidian Queen’s ships seem connected to a kind of hive creep, based on what seems to be a highly aggressive form of alien flora. In a manner that seems to be almost reminiscent of the spores of Leeland, but in a far more advanced and weaponized fashion, the ships of the Obsidian Queen contain clusters of potent spores which, when mixed with any non-hive life, will begin to consume, spread, and assimilate any found nutrients into hive structure, spreading creep in a fully autonomous and aggressive manner that seems programmed to automatically overharvest a planet. Integrating this new technology into your own hive would take some time to do safely, but it has also revealed new avenues of research that you thinkers were previously stumped on, or had outright missed.

Finished Research

>Suncaster
By wrapping a metal slug in an envelope of magnetic fields containing a layer of super-heated plasma, this weapon is capable of dealing a tremendous amount of damage. It specializes in armor penetration, but is heavy and unwieldly, inferring penalties to the drone that equips it.

[New weapon unlocked]
>Plasma Cannon
A hybrid of slug thrower and energy weapon, this weapon utilizes a magnetically charged bullet to contain a payload of super-heated plasma, permitting a drastic increase in range over other plasma based weapons. It is bulky and unwieldly in combat, and any drone not equipped with a heavy carapace cannot move while firing the weapon. While it is perfectly adept at obliterating soft targets, it is designed to be most effective against heavy armor, and is considered a support weapon, fired from fixed positions, heavy drones, or from the backs or tails of large drones.
Size: M
Dmg: Medium
RoF: High
Rng: Medium
Acc: Low
Special: Armor Piercing – Attacks with this weapon ignore unit armor. Does not apply to ships or buildings.

I want to give Michael a ghost queeny hug for helping the hive so far...

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>>40747919
>Variable strike weapon
By utilizing a complex and highly compact compartmentalized ammo storage system within a the weapon, a projectile weapon can be made to switch rapidly between multiple different ammunition types. As your thinkers take apart the device, they recover and isolate samples of some of these different ammo types for further study. Projectile weapons can now hold a total of three alternate ammunition types in addition to the default.

>Privy coat
By integrating the technology of the specially designed smuggler device into your own drones and technology, you can adapt the hive to be more difficult to detect with standard security scanners, obscuring cybernetics, mutations, and weapons carried by drones, clones, or agents of the hive. This effect is passive, but stealth oriented adaptations and augments, such as mimetic skin or semi-fluid bone tissue greatly improves the effect. The specialized stealth suit provided with the mimic skin augment now also functions as a privy coat.

>Magnetized slugs
By utilizing a complex array of electromagnets to subtly adjust and polarize the metals within a fired projectile, your weapons are able to reduce the effects of various conditions that impede accuracy, such as recoil, weather conditions, or to help zero in on vulnerable locations in armor. All projectile weapons gain increased accuracy and armor penetration against targets utilizing metal armor. (passive)

>Gravity foils
These metallic wings are able to alter gravity fields directly around the drone, granting a silent, fast, and highly maneuverable method of flight. Large or heavy drones can make equal use of it, although they are slower and less maneuverable. (8N 10M)

>>40747876
I'm game for an alliance with the green party to Fuck the guy over especially since we now know that the reason the bigger queen is weak right now is because our mom wrecked her.

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>>40747943
>Boarding pods
This simple pod launcher is a modified version of the drop pod launcher, and is capable of firing specially designed pods capable of penetrating the hull of a space craft, allowing the drones within to enter and assault the crew within. The target ship’s shields must be down first, and there is a risk of missing the target and losing the drones if the ship’s engines are still operational. An unshielded ship that is tethered to the launching ship via a ship grapple will automatically succeed. The statistics are the same as the Drop Pod launcher, however the boarding pods fired are specialized, and are large sized, making use of thicker armor and specialized internal protection systems to absorb the impact with the target hull. Each pod carries 20 medium drones and costs 50M to fire. Large drones cannot be deployed in this way, as they do not fit within the confines of most ship corridors, and cannot fit within the newly designed pod along with the needed armor and safety systems.

>Ground-orbital mega-construction
By constructing a station in orbit of a planet, and stringing a cable between it and a ground station, you can create a tower spanning from the surface of a planet into orbit. Such a structure is expensive and fragile, but offers a number of excellent benefits.

>>40747943
>Gravity foils
How does this compare to our wings?
Should we give this to our flies, or does it compromise thier stealth?

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>>40747978
[New Construction Project Unlocked]
>Capillary Tower – This massive organic space elevator offers a number of logistical and economic advantages, despite its drastic up front cost and fragile nature. Shuttles or space craft are no longer needed to move resources from the surface to orbital structures, freeing shuttles for more important tasks. The counterweight station serves as a center for construction, with 4 docking pylons included on the structure to repair and build ships, while gaining a bonus to capital ship construction time due to the speedy nature with which resources arrive from the surface. The Capillary Tower can also spread hive creep and extract resources at an increased rate, spreading roots deep into the crust to bring up resources directly into orbit, allowing you to consume a planet much more quickly than normal. A Hive ship can construct a Capillary Tower if given the time and resources to do so, deploying one after 3 full days, after which it becomes the counterweight station, and must remain stationary until it detaches and destroys the tower to move. A Hive ship deployed in this way does not have access to its spinal weapons, but can use other features as normal. A planet can hold a max of 4 Capillary Towers along its equator. For each one, planetary mining or over harvest activities are doubled. (50,000N 500,000M)

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>>40748014
New Research Unlocked

>Plasma Assault Cannon
Fast
Your thinkers believe it would be rather easy to scale up the plasma cannon, using the same principles, but on a similar scale as the Rotary Stinger or Thorn Cannon, turning a powerful anti-armor weapon into a direct fire siege weapon that would likely make for a powerful bunker buster and anti-structure weapon.

>Micro rocket
Fast
A miniaturized, unguided missile that utilizes a small amount of propellant to maintain its trajectory and boost its velocity before embedding itself within the target and detonating for maximum damage. The rocket itself is a form of smart ordinance, and can be set to detonate at a predetermined time, such as after penetrating a wall or door, or within a certain range of a target, or within the target. The rocket deals more damage at longer range, but infers a penalty to accuracy and rate of fire.

>Auto-harvest pods
Medium
A number of pods that can be placed within some ships, allowing them to spread hive spores over an enemy planet when destroyed. These pods could, theoretically, also be launched from drop pods for a similar effect.

>High-altitude spore dispersal
Medium
By spraying modified hive spores from a capillary tower at high altitude, the tower gains the ability to spread hive creep several magnitudes faster than any other method you have, contaminating the surface of an entire hemisphere in a mere day, although the creep itself grows at normal speed. The spores are visible as a greenish fog that permeates the atmosphere, especially around the tower itself, and is toxic to non-hive life, forcing any enemies of the hive to make use of rebreathers or air filters. The spores can be made to carry other chemicals or biological agents.

>Atmospheric static generator
Medium
By utilizing the natural friction of a sufficiently dense atmosphere against the surface of a capillary tower, the tower can be made to generate energy to feed itself and reduce its upkeep cost.

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So I've been thinking that since Lee and/or Elizabeth will be our representatives they need their own Honor Guard while among the treacherous diplomats.

Chimaera's in a vaguely humanoid form given the best of our cybernetics, including those black scales to give the appearance of full body armor.

IT IS TIME TO TERRORIZE

>>40748014
we tyranids now

>>40748014
what are the negatives of this?

>>40748014
Yo, we gotta make one right now on leeland.

>>40748046
Could we also get a research option to make a.. thing to destroy the BQ's own auto-creep?
So that if we find BQ's creep somewhere, we just hose it down with our biological agent and we're done for the day. Or have a sort of benign tumor creep made to hunt down her creep.

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>>40748046
Current Research

>Rip Drive
Medium
A powerful, and accurate drive system, it does not move the equipped ship, but allows the ship to rip open a hole in spacetime, creating something akin to an artificial wormhole that bridges the ship's current location with a location of its choosing within its range. This allows not only the ship to move through the rupture, but also allows it to open ruptures for other craft, allowing for the deployment of sub-light craft over vast interstellar distances.

>Kata
Fast
By studying and testing the data granted by your predictive algorithms and your knowledge of alien biology, your thinkers believe that they can create a number of potent combat maneuvers to bolster the combat potential of your clones and non-drone agents, allowing them to fight with similar instinctive aggression as your warriors, but adapted to the limitations and abilities of the individual’s biology.

>Deep Core Mining
Slow
Taking planetary mining to the logical extreme, your thinkers believe that your hive infrastructure, if spread across the surface of a world and given enough time, would be able to consume the ferrous metal core of a planet itself.

>Ship grapple
Medium
A simple idea at heart; throw a hook at the target and reel it in. When you take into account the relative speeds and raw kinetic forces involved in such an action, however, it quickly stops being so simple. Complex and highly durable cables and pulleys must be developed, as well as specialized bulkheads to prevent ripping the ship in two. The result, however, should be interesting, if a bit insane.


>>40748011
They are better then wings on a planet's surface, worse in deep space (so long as the wings are still not in a vacuum. In a vacuum the wings don't work at all, but the foils still do.)

They could be detected by G-feild sensors, but are otherwise more quiet and in general more stealthy.

>>40748079
you want to get out of hiding?
Since this building basically goes above the cloud cover.

>>40748130
We already stopped hiding

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>Ram
Medium
The concept of ramming in ship to ship combat is simple and straight forward. Doing so without obliterating your own ship, however, is a far more complex skill to master that requires numerous alterations to ship design philosophy and a willful lack of common sense. The Scavengers appear to be insane enough to have thought such a strategy useful in space combat, and are stubborn enough to perfect it. The study and extensive testing of the design of the ram should allow you to develop something similar for your own ships.

>Artificial gravity plating
Medium
By utilizing insignificant amounts of antimatter to create unfocused gravitational fields, and then directing them through the gravity plating into a single direction, the internal structure of a ship can be granted a small amount of artificial gravity. White the direction of the gravity can be changed at will, or turned off, it lacks the resources and energy to project a field capable of directly causing injury

>Gravity thrusters
Slow
Similar in function to your Skid drive, the Gravity thrusters essentially surf along pre-existing gravity fields, increasing their performance when in close proximity to major sources of gravitational pull, be it a large celestial body, a star, a planet, an exceptionally large structure or group of structures, or the core of a gravity drive. While in deep space it becomes less effective, the law of universal gravitation means it never becomes totally useless, and when in close proximity to a powerful gravity source it should outperform most other thruster designs with ease.

>>40748078
It costs a lot, and is about as durable as tissue paper. If an attacker gets even a glancing blow on it, it will shatter.

>>40748130
Dude we already cover the entirety of the planet with our creep. We already showed our fleet. Hiding's ogre man, it's ogre.

>>40748130
We stopped hiding as soon as we built our first pylon

Not to mention aiding the Commonwealth against the Scavs

>>40748158
some anons last thread sounded like they wanted to keep hiding to the point of basically almost revealing ourselves to try and kill killinger.

>>40748171
How is weather tower go along?

>>40748180
>>40748176
Oh i know just surprised you guys are willing to come out of hiding when last thread anons had a completely different attitude.

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>>40748171
>Shield miniaturization
Medium
With your new understanding, previously unknown aspects of standard shield technology can be seen in a new light, indicating a small overlap between it and gravitational manipulation technology. By using newly developed technology, your thinkers suspect that they may be able to create a more compact, but less powerful shield system.

>Psionic reading
Medium
You are already aware of this growing ability in Elizabeth, and with her help, and more research into the remains of the dead relay, you should be able to continue to fine tune your new, more powerful psionic senses to be able to not only detect the presence of sapient thought, but to read it in more detail.

>Photonic microstructures
Slow
The useful applications of manipulating massive photonic molecules are many, and your preliminary studies indicate that you may be able to develop more practical uses beyond the blaster, especially in the field of energy shielding.

>Nausea field
Slow
A rather interesting side effect first noticed with your Blink drive, but now weaponized to great effect as a defensive measure. You should be able to enhance your medium and advanced relays to emit a wave of sickening nausea in a radius around it, causing effected subjects to feel increasing levels of both physical and mental uneasiness, causing feelings of dread and queasiness.

>>40748182
I think we should reveal ourselves too fuck over killinger. Once we reveal ourselves we can selectively let ourselves get ""exploited"" by selling materials/resources at pitifully low prices, this would be done particularly in whatever resources the companies killinger owns, operates, or is funded by sell. This would effectively kill his political campaigning ability and bankrupt him.

>>40748221
My attitude is to stop actively hiding.

>>40747791
Hive quest! Glad I made it, I've missed a lot of threads lately. Sad we didn't get to see the commonwealth communications last thread.

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>>40748223
>Solid State Teleportation
Slow
While standard quantum systems allow for instantaneous transportation of data, this technology would allow for essentially the instantaneous transport of matter. The matter in question would be disassembled into individual particles and transported in much the same way as bits of data through a quantum relay, and then assembled on the other side. Due to the nature of the process, only simple objects such as raw resources could survive teleportation. This should allow for the transportation of resources across hive space without the need to delegate ships to serve as trade vessels.

>Quantum Tuning
Medium
While current quantum computing technology requires the relays be built to accommodate one another, this technology should allow you to quickly attune pre-existing devices for one another when in proximity. Your thinkers suspect more opportunities to open up after further research is done. You suspect Theseus would greatly appreciate such a technology, if he does not already poses it.


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.

>>40748218
Weather spires are going well, and will be built once your workers have finished the missile system. Defensive structures take priority unless you vote otherwise.

>>40748289
you got any info on what gonna finish next time if we include all the new research?

Fffffffuuuuuuucccckkkk yeeeeeesssss! Hive Queen Quest!

>>40748303
Depends on a roll, anon.

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>>40747791
>waiting room

This better not be Michael's doctor's appointment.

We outright planned seeking out and parasiting his doctor a few days ago in anticipation of such a visit, didn't we?

>>40748047
I like it

>>40748360
we did, but the qm might have forgotten.
>>40748289
So did you forget?

>>40748374
Will be really useful once we get Kata researched.

Maybe we can base them off those Kamen Rider holos that Lee has

The Hive will make anime real. Vote Hive!

>>40748406
I'd be down for it. Now all you have to do is convince the anons who don't normally lurk.

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>>40748289
>Add all new research
>Add some (write in)
>Wait for current research to finish
>Other

>>40748303
Not really sure. Psionic reading is decently close to finished, as is grav plating. Kata will probably be finished regardless of what you do or don't add to the que, it's just about done. Otherwise I just give each one a d100 per day and either apply a bonus or penalty based on the roll.

>>40748360
Your parasites can hide from just about anything short of a full MRI. I won't even ask for a roll, honestly. Plus he has a ship to board in a few hours. If you want to stalk the doctor home with some flies, you can do so easily Despite their importance, doctors are not guarded or monitored with the same zeal as government workers.

>>40748460
>>Add all new research

>>40748460
>>Add all new research

>>40748460
All new, baby.

>>40748460
>>Wait for current research to finish
Though I know this won't win.

>>40748460
>Add all new research

>>40747919
Hey, this Plasma Cannon is based on the Suncaster.

But is its plasma ammo really entirely different from what the much smaller variable strike weapon called "plasma rounds"?

>Dillon takes his own weapon out of the holster. "It's voice activated if you want, but it's got a thumb switch as well. It can switch between anti-armor, soft target, micro-rocket, high-ex, and plasma rounds, and the first two have semi or fully automatic settings."

It seemed to be small and not unwieldly like the Compensator, but still had plasma ammo.

>>40747943
>>Gravity foils
>These metallic wings are able to alter gravity fields directly around the drone, granting a silent, fast, and highly maneuverable method of flight. Large or heavy drones can make equal use of it, although they are slower and less maneuverable. (8N 10M)
Neato. QD, how fast can a drone fly with these? Could it reach the same speed as it could with a ramjet engine?

>>40748046
soon

soon we shall become the devourer of worlds

>>40748460
>Add all new research

We should do a full conversion of all our medium drones from standard wings to gravity wings. They are better in every aspect.

>>40748619
No wings can reach the sheer speeds provided by ramjet engines. We could replace advanced aerodynamic wings with these to give stealth aircraft an alternate cruising mode though.

Along that line of thinking, we should hold a vote at the end of the thread to replace the wings on Support Fluttercraft with these.

>>40748625
But anon, those worlds are a tremendously valuable and irreplaceable resource. It is far more profitable in the long run to simply take control of a planet and employ its biosphere to produce a steady stream of nutrients for the hive.

>>40748661
Or just make a variant

>>40748697
This is always proposed as an alternative, but variants hardly ever get the votes to get made.

>>40748460
>Add all new research

>>40748721
I personally think that if we replaced it all with grav foils we'd be better off in the long run, considering the capabilities it has in no-grav. The lo-grav downgrade is not that important.

>>40748661
While that would allow our fluttercraft to be far stealthier at subsonic speeds, that would also raise the cost even higher while rendering its echolocation useless in such conditions.

Still, it was always intended to be the stealthiest airdrone of the hive, it might just be worth it. I'm kinda divided on the issue, personally.

>>40748681
No, no, we devour heavily defended core worlds.

That way once we establish a foothold, we don't have to go through all the difficulty of slogging through multiple layers of defense.

We can just eat their planet.

The only downside to the grav wings is the cost. A full conversion is bad, but operational craft and heavy warriors would benefit. Maybe even standard warriors.

>>40748781
the towers are very fragile

>>40748834
That's why you heavily defend them, and seed their atmosphere with spores.

>>40748760
They are better then wings on a planet's surface, worse in deep space (so long as the wings are still not in a vacuum. In a vacuum the wings don't work at all, but the foils still do.)

They could be detected by G-feild sensors, but are otherwise more quiet and in general more stealthy.

>>40748848
on a heavily defended enemy world?

>>40748764
>Rendering its echolocation useless in such conditions
How?

And it's already so expensive that we might as well give it all the fancy shit we can. The price increase by percentage will be negligible, and we have plenty of nutrients anyway.

>>40748870
What part of 'once we establish a foothold' don't you understand?

>>40748460
Ok then he other thing is, we have to ensure we have a Theseus on hand when Devon gets on board the ship.

I wonder if Theseus can manage to slip into the ship's network and get into the sensor systems while they're still running and transmitting continuously as if nothing happened.

>>40748869
I don't think they'd be detected by G-Field, they're far too small. And besides, they're not for stealth ships, but for drones.

>>40748905
I know just restating what the QM said.
Also are they better than advanced wings?

>>40748781
>Implying any sort of defences could stand up to a protracted zerg rush by the hive

Buddy, buddy, have you been keeping track of just how good our forces have been getting at killing bad thing for mother? Or how many of the damned things we've got? There isn't a land army that could stop us if the gloves really came off.

In any case, our bioweapons can be thwarted with a gas mask, and our nanomachine plague only works to full effect if the planet they're deployed on has already been conquered. If we want to eat a planet, we need to kill its defenders off the old fashioned way first.

>>40748902
what part of profitable in the long run do you not get if we already have a good foothold?

>>40748902
the part where i completely missed establish a foothold.

>>40748873
Echolocation depends on sound waves generated by the drone itself to read how they bounce off of objects it can't see. Like radar, with sound waves.

>>40748927
Actually, we just need to control a small portion of the equator, and have air superiority, once we start sieging we can just build a weather spire or start deep core mining and ""accidentally"" the entire planet. Or ""accidentally"" all life on the planet.

>>40748781
>>40748927
>>40748961
Why not all the things

>>40748869
By "worse in deep space" it means operating in space stations with atmosphere. They actually allow vacuum sealed aerial drones to do some light spacework.

So the only wings we shouldn't replace (theoretically, for functionality) are the ones on warriors.

>>40748960
It's got a screamer mouth.

>>40748927
>In any case, our bioweapons can be thwarted with a gas mask, and our nanomachine plague only works to full effect if the planet they're deployed on has already been conquered. If we want to eat a planet, we need to kill its defenders off the old fashioned way first.
You sure about that?

>>Auto-harvest pods
Medium
A number of pods that can be placed within some ships, allowing them to spread hive spores over an enemy planet when destroyed. These pods could, theoretically, also be launched from drop pods for a similar effect.

>>High-altitude spore dispersal
Medium
By spraying modified hive spores from a capillary tower at high altitude, the tower gains the ability to spread hive creep several magnitudes faster than any other method you have, contaminating the surface of an entire hemisphere in a mere day, although the creep itself grows at normal speed. The spores are visible as a greenish fog that permeates the atmosphere, especially around the tower itself, and is toxic to non-hive life, forcing any enemies of the hive to make use of rebreathers or air filters. The spores can be made to carry other chemicals or biological agents.

>>40748645
>We should do a full conversion of all our medium drones from standard wings to gravity wings. They are better in every aspect.
Except price

>>40749061
Yes, they're sure, because what you pasted is what they based it on.

You have to build a whole dang orbital tether tower to deploy the spores to full effect. Which requires basically already conquering the place.

And yes, the toxic spores are thwarted by rebreathers like it says right there.

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The more horrifying hive structures we can grow the better.

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>>40748460
>Add all new research
Seems to win in a stunning turn of events.


"I should mention I'm in a bit of a hurry." Michael says as the doctor shines a light in his eye.

"No worries," he says, "I don't see any reason to keep you long." He folds his instruments back into a neat little slot in his coat. "In fact, you look better then I've ever seen you. You look like you've spent the past week in a med tank." He pulls off his gloves, tossing them into a nearby atomizer as Michael shifts his eyes to the floor. "But you look more nervous then a Valen on black Friday. I recommend you take a week or two off work. Wind down and get some rest."

"I have to leave town today, that's not going to be an option." Michael says. The doctor sighs and walks to his cabinet.

"Alright. I have something for you then, for the nerves. It's cleared for use in the field for the BFI so you don't need to worry about your performance." He hands Michael a small container of pills. The doctor writes out a few scribbles on the label, and the smart paper shifts it into legible writing. 'Dr. Gustav Litchman: Subscription for Michael Devon: Take as needed, max 5 per day.'

He hands the small canister to Michael. "Here you go. Beyond that, you're by far one of the most healthy looking patients I have ever seen." He lets out a small chuckle as he adds "keep it up and you'll live forever!" Michael nods, pocketing the pills and leaving the office quickly. He swipes his thumb against the counter on his way out as his car pulls up to meet him at the curb. He can hear the sirens in the distance.

cont.

>>40748576
Think of it like a shot gun, I guess. Just a burst of plasma that plumes quickly, but is good for short range.
I actually figured a lot of your short ranged weapons sorta made it redundant, but I can add that in too for research if you'd like.

>>40749095
>drop a hive on a planet
>swarm the area with ground forces and aircraft for area denial
>establish a hive ship in orbit to begin Capillary Tower construction
>annihilate anything that enters our sphere of influence until construction completes

>>40749107
>He lets out a small chuckle as he adds "keep it up and you'll live forever!"

Kek.

>>40749107
That police bomb squad.

Someone else is actually terrorizing the humans that isn't us!

Sweet human-on-human violence. I wonder which extremists it is, or is it a false flag again.

>>40749107
Poor sod, he'll really live forever.

>>40749107
How long does a capillary tower take to grow?

>>40749185
3 days or so. It said in the description.

>>40749198
> A Hive ship can construct a Capillary Tower if given the time and resources to do so, deploying one after 3 full days,
Hive ships buddy, we don't have any hive ships yets so i want to know how long its gonna take planet side.

>>40749095
A word to the wise, if your bio weapons can be thwarted by a rebreather, you need to improve your bioweapons. Hell, steal that shit from "the Andromeda strain" and make a bacteria that ingests organic plastics.

Steal the entire idea behind the fifth wave and put sleeper agents everywhere ever before dropping a kilometer long metal block from orbit into the ocean, annihilating all coastal life (this is usually the majority of life on earth-like planets). Infect the entire planet with Bird AIDs or whatever. We can do this shit!

>>40749237
I'd like to seed hostile world's oceans with our planets cordyceps fungus.

>40748460
> If you want to stalk the doctor home with some flies, you can do so easily Despite their importance, doctors are not guarded or monitored with the same zeal as government workers.

Well a doctor would be useful if he has any other interesting patients, like other BFI agents especially.

>>40749261
I'd like to seed your mom.

>>40749342
I'm still convinced this is a flashback.

>>40749384
What if all of it is a flashback?

>>40749237
>>40749261
If we destroy the biosphere of a planet we loose any hope of discovering adaptations of the local lifeforms.

>>40749107
Michael quickly punches in the address of the space port and swipes his thumb on the pay meter, clearing his car to pay for the right of way from any other automated vehicles. He turns on the radio as the car turns out onto the road.

"And just breaking now, police have closed off the rout-38 up-ramp in the capital district. The up-ramp, which has been shut down in both lanes, is the fastest route for air cars in or out of the district. Local authorities say they received a bomb threat early this morning, hours before the scheduled voting for the controversial new legislation set to be voted on today." As the announcer speaks Michael clicks a small switch on the dash, and the news is superimposed over the wind shield. A sea of flashing blue lights flicker in the halted traffic.

"Hundreds of vehicles have been forced through the narrow rout-87 bridge due to the closure of the ramp. We can see numerous grounded air cars caught bumper to bumper. If you need access to the capital district, it is recommended you take a shuttle, or fly via spinner or other VTOL craft."

Michael turns the channel, flipping it to the public broadcast of the parliament building. It's muted, but it looks like only a fraction of the representatives have arrived. Killinger sits in his seat smiling as he twirls a pen in his fingers.

>Have your flies stalk the doctor and find his residence
>Leave him alone for now
>Other

>>40748905
Well, they would be very hard to detect with ship sensors at the drone level, but not totally impossible. Since they work best close to gravity fields, which is also where G-field sensors are the worst, it all seems to work decently well.

>>40749436
I can't help but doubt a densely populated human world would have many interesting adaptations.

>>40749412
What if all of it is the vision of an autistic Ceph gazing into the void shards?

>>40749444
>>Have your flies stalk the doctor and find his residence
Scoping opportunities is always good.

>>40749444
>Have your flies stalk the doctor and find his residence
We need the medical personnel under our control.

>>40749444
>>Have your flies stalk the doctor and find his residence

>>40749444
>Have your flies stalk the doctor and find his residence
So that's his Plan B? A bomb threat? Really?

>>40749444
>>Have your flies stalk the doctor and find his residence

>>40749444
>Have your flies stalk the doctor and find his residence
>>40749482
No anon its not his plan B.

>>40749444
>>Other
Have your flies identify and stalk one of Killinger's aides.

Wait what? When did we send michael to make a bomb threat?

>>40749482
Its probably space /pol/ trying to do everything they can to stop this.

>>40748447
I'm down for it too.

Throw in some Quantum Brains maybe

Give them chest mounted Plasma Cannon to get the authentic Guyver touch

>>40749502
That too.

Since Michael has seen their faces, I mean he must have seen some of Killinger's bodyguards' faces since he's seen Killinger in person.

>>40749508
Don't be stupid anon. Other characters are allowed to do sneaky things. This is Killinger cockblocking the Green bitch.

>>40749508
We didn't its probably a counter measure to slow down the green party's leader in every way possible.
There might even be a real bomb there.

>>40749482
you do know that he did say in plan A that they are gonna try and slow her down on top of bribing people right?

>>40749523
Hey now that we're throwing our support for it then I'm in as well.

>>40749533
>>40749531
Oh, sorry I was greatly confused.

Also I think we should start our whistleblowing operation to the green party in general, get in contact with that person and start dumping dirt on her political opponents, I refuse to believe she is a fully clean politician who wouldn't abuse it.

We just need to be clever about how we dump info to her.

>>40749574
>>40749523
So am I but we should probably wait until a more proper time. Don't wanna crowd QD

>>40749592
Elizabeth is a good person to do this with since she did used to work with killinger.

>>40749574
>>40749593
I don't mean to presume but I've redesigned the hybrids in the 1d4chan page and the Frontliner seems like a good basis for this.

Maybe I missed it, but what happened to that one psionics research thing that lets us psionically interact with matter to get really janky sorta-telekinesis? I swear that was a thing that happened, but I never did see any results from it and it's not still in the research currently happening unless I went megatard and missed it for multiple weeks in a row.

>>40749620
Whoever we use to deliver it will probably get assassinated, repeatedly. We should probably send custom made humans that repeatedly get disappeared, hell, we can start grave robbing if we want to for the DNA.

>>40749444
Your flies huddle around the doors and windows of the building, just out of view of the various security cameras and sensors, waiting for the doctor to leave.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

>>40749531
if its female its clamjamming

blue beaning

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>40749658
For Mother!

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>40749658

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>40749658
for mother!

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>40749658

>>40749667
Nice.

>>40749652
The doctor should be able to get a good sample amount.

>>40749694
You do realize any living person we impersonate will be tortured and executed, as will there family in all likelihood. Using cadavers just raises a lot of questions, especially if we leave empty graves. Hell, we can use a vampire gimmick too just to scare/confuse them.

Can we do anything to fuck with Killinger's plan, and get the Green representative to the meeting on time?
Or, you know, cause an evacuation of the building Killinger is in?
I'm thinking we put our natural 1 flash clone to use.

>>40749667
There we go.

After our gang of flash clones knocks over a radioshack or whatever they need to make break-in tools, their next job can be quietly breaking into the doctor's house at 4am.

>our one roll clone rolls a one on mission
>its horrifying visage is plastered all over the media planet wide

>>40749748
You know, I've got a good plan actually. We could make a flash clone militia, dress them like an actual terrorist group, arm them like one, and have them raid a major network hub to transmit dirt on killinger, we make sure to hold the airwave open (and use THESEUS's help as needed), and then when its over, killinger will be completely defamed, and the government will instead invest resources into domestic security instead of military.

>>40749748
You could call in another bomb threat to Parliament itself. But from where? Need to find a public-access terminal that doesn't leave you on camera.

Though I guess you could use one of the recent, disposable flash clones to make the threat.

But the Tories might be able to override security protocols for evacuation if they want the vote bad enough.

>>40749748
Other plans. We could get a sample of Killingers DNA, and then get him on video under the influence with a few whores. That'd hurt him. (he'd deny it fervently and come off like another scumbag politician).

>>40749804
Do we have enough time to create our own clutch of terrorists, though?

>>40749811
A good use for our natural 1 clone.
And we could probably fuck with their override by blowing up an acid fly on something important.

>>40749883
This is good in the long run. But we need something short-term.

>>40749883
with todays technology he can easily say its an actor and photoshop.

>>40749804
Not feasible. There's no smoking gun. Nothing that can't be dismissed out of hand as faked or rumor mongering.

Or, worse, would make it obvious that Michael Devon is compromised, since everything we hear from Killinger is things that Devon heard.

> one of the most influential members of the Tory Party, Conrad has held steady at the top of the polls on his planet running term after term on a platform of supporting the working man, family values, good moral conduct, and pro-human manifest destiny that often resonates with the people of Talgo despite a long history of controversy and whispers of corruption, all of which remains unsubstantiated and considered slander on the part of smaller and less popular candidates.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Quest:Hive_Queen_Quest#Conrad_Killinger

People have already tried to air dirt on the man. He's fucking Teflon. Only literal murder can stop him.

>>40749928
>natural 1 clone
You still need to pass for human to go out in public anon. He's due only for recycling.
>fuck with their override
"Ignore it" is not a technical issue, it's them receiving the email and putting it in the spam trap. You can't fry a wire and stop that.

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>>40749658
Your flies vanish against the walls, pressing themselves against the surface as their small bodies contort and fold on themselves.

Meanwhile, deep beneath the streets of the city, in the endless labyrinth of of the sewers and drainage canals, your flies hide as a small stampede of taidarens flee through the water as a monstrous scream echoes through the tunnels.

It gurgles as it manages to pull the last of itself free from the pod, plopping to the ground with a wet thud as it attempts to untangle its assortment of limbs. A half-claw reaches out, probing the air in front of it, unfolding the six elbows that run down the most well developed of its limbs, scratching blindly around it. Its spine is exposed, grown into a carapace-like row of thorns jutting from its back, supporting half a dozen of useless, half-developed tails that writhe about. It has no eyes, its face covered in a chitinous growth that has overtaken its skull, and its jaw splits open into a malformed mandible. It attempts to stand, probing itself on the three limbs that end in hoof shaped tumors, and collapses under its own weight.

You are not sure what it is.

>Recycle the failed clone
>Other

>>40749968
>>Other
Give him cybernetic augs. This child is the most terrifying thing we've ever made. With augs he can become just as deadly as he is horrifying.

>>40749968
>>Recycle the failed clone

>>40749968
>>Recycle the failed clone

>>40750007
supporting

>>40749967
>hey guys we're going to ignore this email
>oh shit the lights have gone out, well better ignore that, totally not related to the terrorist threat!

>>40749968
>Cybernetic Augs

>>40749968
>You are not sure what it is.
Poor poor thing.

>Recycle the failed clone

>>40749968
>>40750007
This!

>>40749968
>>Recycle the failed clone
Rip

>>40749968
>>Recycle the failed clone

>>40749968
>Give him cybernetic augs and reconstructive surgery.

>>40749968
We can fix it! We have the technology.

Oh boy, hive queen quest!
>>40749968
>Recycle the failed clone
RIP in pieces.

Also, call me a retard, but how did we finx out that the bomb threat was killinger's job?

>>40749968
>>40750007
Second this.

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>>40749968
>A half-claw reaches out, probing the air in front of it, unfolding the six elbows that run down the most well developed of its limbs, s
Ahaahahha.

>>40750007
>collapses under its own weight
We have better clones to cyber up.

>Recycle this failed clone

>>40749968
>Recycle the failed clone

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>>40750007
seconded we shall make him our monster.

>>40750082
>call me a retard,
Retard.

Who the hell benefits from making it impossible to get to Parliament today?

Who is grinning smugly like a son of a bitch?

>>40749968
>Other
If possible, do what we can to improve it so it can at least run around and attack. Then, let it loose in the area around that Secret lab.

>>40749968
>Other
Give him augs we shall use him for good.

>>40749968
Supporting this:
>>40750007

>>40750007
This

>>40749968
It seems to be neck and neck between
>Recycle the failed clone
>Attempt to use cybernetics to save the clone (will take at least a day for surgery) (write in which augs)
Other

>>40749968
>>Recycle the failed clone
It's cute but we have better and equally horrifying children as this.

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>>40749968
So can you tell us what you gave him?
Also do any of the other clones look fugly?
>>40750159
>Attempt to use cybernetics to save the clone (will take at least a day for surgery) (write in which augs)

>>40750159
>>Attempt to use cybernetics to save the clone (will take at least a day for surgery) (write in which augs)
Strider legs, reacher arms, sting whips, chemical fabricator, thermal pits, secondary heart, elctro-muscles.

>>40750159
>Attempt to use cybernetics to save the clone (will take at least a day for surgery) (write in which augs)
Everything

>>40750159
>>Recycle the failed clone
simple and clean. Good night absurdly impractical six-elbow-man.

>>40750187
>>40750188
Seconding.

>>40750159
Recycle it, don't listen to the samefags

>>40750187
Thirding >>40750159

>>40750159
>Attempt to use cybernetics to save the clone (will take at least a day for surgery) (write in which augss

>>40750187
Seconding this

But also Echolocation.

>>40750159
>>40750188
This

>>40750187
supporting

>>40750159
I think you need a final destination vote.

>>40750187
>>40750220
Echolocation sounds good, how about the weaver graft as well? Six arms for three times the terror!

>>40750159
>>40750187
Supporting This

>>40750159
>Attempt to use cybernetics to save the clone (will take at least a day for surgery) (Would rather wait to see if Augs win before deciding)

>>40750233
He doesn't do those. It all balances out in the end.

>>40750159
>>Recycle the failed clone
Ahahah I can't believe this of all things became one of THOSE votes.

How about just archiving this horror's DNA to reproduce later if people are so in love with it?

>>40750159
>Recycle the failed clone

>>40750188
>>40750187
Seconded give him everything.

>>40750159
>>Recycle the failed clone

>>40750187
This.

>>40750159
>Recycle the failed clone

>>40750159
>Recycle the failed clone

>>40750159
>Recycle the failed clone

>>40750224
>>40750227
>>40750236
>>40750237
>>40750248
This is extremely silly.

This abomination is absurdly unsuited to a stealth hive in the heart of enemy territory. Every other thing we have here can either:

- pass for human
- disguise itself with adaptive camouflage

This crippled bastard of a broken thing can do neither. Horrifying mistakes can be fun, but only deep in the safety of hive territory.

>>40750301
This is extremely terrifying you mean. But yes I agree.

>>40750159
>>Recycle the failed clone

>>40750159
>>Recycle the failed clone
Jesus christ how horifying

>>40750159
>Recycle the failed clone

>>40750159
>>40750187
Backing

>>40750301
it can be the hive guard

>>40750159
>>Recycle the failed clone
I honestly never expected this to be a point of contention.

>>40750159
>Attempt to use cybernetics to save the clone (will take at least a day for surgery) (write in which augs)
He has six arms.
Lifter – 1 pair
Reacher – the rest of his arms
Strider – to be extra spooky
Second heart
Reactive pupils
Thermal pits
Echolocation
Bio-digital interface
Arm blades
Sting whip
Sting fingers
Chemical fabricator
Fermentation gut
Mimic skin
Semi-fluid tissue
Electrostatic muscle grafts
Endoskeletal plating
Weaver graft

>>40750301
Perhaps, but what it lacks in capacity to blend into a crowd it makes up for shock value. The slightest whisperings of this abomination will scare every beggar and Taidaren squatter in the sewers from coming anywhere near the hive's location. His first words alone caused an entire clan of the little buggers to flee in terror, and they didn't even catch a glimpse of it.

>>40750354
pretty good gonna back this

>>40750159
>>Recycle the failed close.
Last thing we need is this abomination starting urban legends.

>>40750354
Is this all compatible Hive Drone?
>>40750159
If so i'll seconded it.

>>40750353
A nat one can be a rare and miraculous gift anon.

>>40750159

>>recycle the failed clone

>>40750159
>recycle the failed clone

>>40750301
This >>40750378
That thing is terrifying, turn him into a killing machine and release somewhere and you got yourself a distraction/bomb

>>40750187
>>40750354
Okay not that I support saving this thing for basically no decent reason when we can make horrifying things that don't have six elbows and aren't retarded.

Because this thing should be killed with fire.

But if it doesn't get the acid glands cybernetics you're doing something wrong.

>>40750187
>>40750354
Uh, shit, guys, can we also tack on chemical dependent acid glands to this ever growing list. He's going to be carrying examples of all of our cybernetic technology on his body.

>>40750502
that is not cybernetics

>>40750159
>Recycle the abomination against Mother

>>40750513
Sure, i'm game.

>>40750159
>Attempt to use cybernetics to save the clone (will take at least a day for surgery)

>>40750513
Or we could just grind the fucker back into soup. It's not worth it at all. Zero upsides beyond "lol cyber tard baby so funny!" and its existence incurs massive risks.

>>40750159
>Recycle the failed clone

>>40750582
Exactly, its existence is nothing but a giant liability to the Hive's continued operations on Gemini

>>40750159
The clone wheezes beneath the layers of tumors and mismatched plates of scabbed bone as it tries to drag itself across the ground with great effort, tearing the skin as it slides across the ground. One of the arms, a useless, twisted thing, hangs behind it like a tail, twitching its fingers. An exposed lung pulsates with each breath. You ponder how you could save this creature, adapting it to serve some purpose. As intimidating as it is, most of its limbs do not function, or lack muscle to work properly. It carries nearly a hundred pounds of dead weight between its various limbs and massive tumors, and the chitinous horns curl over themselves in thick layers of pointlessly heavy hooks that serve no purpose. You are still unsure of what to do with it...


Good lord why is this such a close vote?

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>40750624
1 Recycle
2 Aug

There

Welp GG guys I wanted this one too win

>>40750624
I think people have been unnecessarily attached to it since last thread.

>>40750624
>Aug

>>40750624
This is literally QD telling us it's useless.

Recycle it and put it out of it's misery

>>40750624
its obvious at this point both sides are samefagging just make it into a vote.
>>40750354
And use this list if auging wins add the acid glands as well.

>>40750631
Well tbh I can get behind that, impartial enough.

>>40750624
Cause it !FUN!
The LEE Fags got lee
So why cant we keep the Abomination

>>40750624
Do a final destination vote.

>>40750582
Since when, at any point in this quest, not salivated over the chance to loose horrifying monstrosities that would give a Space Marine nightmares. This kind of an opportunity for psychological warfare is literally a one in one hundred chance, why waste it? With self destructive glands there isn't any risk of him being dissected, and even if someone did get a hold of him there really isn't anyway for them to trace it back to our hive.

>>40750682
Because its shit.

>>40750631
Sure.

Recycle it.

>>40750624
>Augment it
We can always just get rid of it later if we choose to.

>>40750699
So is Lee
When did that cause a quest to end

>>40750631
Despite wanting to augment it, this is impartial enough for my tastes.

>>40750717
>Implying Lee a shit
>Implying so hard right now
>Holy shit

Whatever, just take scan the more fun parts
> Its spine is exposed, grown into a carapace-like row of thorns jutting from its back, supporting half a dozen of useless, half-developed tails that writhe about. It has no eyes, its face covered in a chitinous growth that has overtaken its skull, and its jaw splits open into a malformed mandible.

And add those on to some chimera later on if you want that special, deliberately crippled but fun look.

Only one that doesn't collapse under its own weight or have its internal organs exposed.

>>40750699
You're shit.

I mean that. Your argument is just shitposting. Give an actual reason why that anon is wrong or stop shitting up the thread, god knows we've pushed it close enough to the bump limit as is.

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>desperate retards blatantly samefagging and replying to non-votes as if it matters

>>40750717
Lee was a fucking joke this is legitmently useless, at-least lee is fucking useful for our diplomat in-case we want to talk to the union

>>40750741
The thing I like about this image is she looks like she's thirty, but has the body of a twelve year old.

I mean... uh, you know, nevermind.

Dear fucking god recycle the thing.

>>40750731
I would be perfectly okay with this instead if we decide to recycle the abomination instead of augmenting it. I just want the delicious fear tactics and nightmarish monsters.

Are chimera able to use Cybernetic Augs? I'm trying to design one of these Guyver/Honor Guards

Or do they have to be hybrids first then warped into Chimera?

JUST KILL THE MUTANT ALREADY JESUS CHRIST THIS IS SUCH A WASTE OF TIME

We're so close to bump limit already. What is with people today?

Do all the retards want to keep the abomination because it's Fathers Day or something?

>>40750750
You guys still trying to justify lee using that diplomat bullshit?

Really lee is a joke and for fun

The abomination is also just for fun

>>40750758
Are you perhaps a pedophile, my friend anon?

>>40750794
It's because they've been sitting around jacking off for a week over how "awesome" and "scary" the critfail clone is going to be.

>>40750794
stop samefagging

>>40750768
Yes to both your questions.

Also can we not go back to the honor guard idea? That's how we came up with those damn shocktroopers, and we don't need a repeat of that shitstorm. Drones and hybrids are best designed for specific role or niche, trying to create a something that apes something cool from another media just doesn't translate well into drone designs.

>>40750624
It does look like recycle is in the lead, if only slightly.

Your new flash clones emerge from the water within your hidden hive, new to the world and all of its wonders and horrors alike. Each is a randomized human hybrid, the first two nearly perfect. The third is missing a tooth, and has a slightly malformed thumb, but is healthy and otherwise perfect. The fourth crawls forth from the waters and stands shakily for the first time. Its skin is pasty white, devoid of pigment, as it its hair, and its eyes are a glossy blue. It is otherwise healthy, but you suspect you should have it avoid sunlight.

As the new clones acclimate themselves to life, your other clones stand over the monstrosity on the ground. You doubt it would live long on its own regardless. Your clone quickly brings its weapon up to the pitiful ghoul and pulls the trigger. It collapses to the ground, still, and a stream of tendrils drop from the ceiling, pulling it into the mouth of a barnacle.

You have four functional clones available for skill imprinting.

>Sharpshooter - This clone will be an adept marksman capable of utilizing and maintaining a wide range of rifles and side arms, especially slug throwers, hand guns, or long rifles.

>Brawler - This clone will be adept at utilizing short ranged or melee weapons, and is an expert at disarming and incapacitating opponents in close quarters. Especially useful with shotguns, CIP weapons, vibro-blades, or thermal cutters.

>Tech - This clone is highly skilled with human networking technology, and can infiltrate and disable security systems, pick electronic locks, falsify credentials, and erase or retrieve data from public or private networks.

>Engineer - This clone will know the ins and outs of every conceivable mechanical device known in Union space, from power armor to ship engines and more.

>Survivalist - This clone will know the various necessary skills to survive in a wild, hostile environment, even one that is unknown in nature.

>>40750832
One Tech.

Three Brawlers.

We need a short-term gang suited for breaking-and-entering, we don't have weapons to do any long-distance sniping from yet.

Not until we steal the tools for the engineer to make some, that is. Which this gang can do.

>>40750832
1 Tech
1 Engineer
2 Brawlers

>>40750832
>It does look like recycle is in the lead, if only slightly.
Why the fuck are you counting the samefag votes why not just hold a FD?

>>40750832
>1 Tech
>1 Engineer
>2 Brawler

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>>40750823
I'm not trying to ape the guyvers. It was just a convenient visual aid for it.

>>40750862
Dude just take the coin flip and shut the fuck up.

>>40750862
Don't do this to yourself, anon. Just let it go. Contain the salt.

>>40750832
One tech
Two brawlers
One engineer

Would a survivalist benefit us at all?

>>40750832
>>40750860
This

>>40750888
Not on this planet at least

>>40750832
>>Sharpshooter
>>Brawler
>>Tech
>>Engineer

>>40750832
1 Sharpshooter
1 Tech
2 Brawlers

I'd like a clone with the necessary skills to perform assassinations if possible.

>>40750875
He didn't take the coin flip he just took the samefag votes.
>>40750877
Not salty just baffled he went with the samefags i would be okay if he took the flip or even flipped it himself or hell did FD, but nope just took the obvious samefags..

>>40750832
>Sharpshooter 2
>Tech 1
>Engineer 1

>>40750913
Just because someone does not agree with you it does not mean they samefag. I am certain there was some degree of samefagging on both sides.

>>40750888
It does apply to some aspects of urban survival, making tools from garbage, catching a rat and cooking over a barrel fire, ect. In a city it essentially works like hobo survival as opposed to wilderness survival.

>Sharpshooter
>Brawler
>Tech
>Engineer

>>40750862
I feel for you anon, I wanted augs too, but you are clawing up the wrong spire.

Also it's always too easy to say it's "obvious" the other side is cheating while your own certainly never did.

>>40750832
>1 Tech
>2 Brawlers
>I don't care what the fourth albino one is

>>40750913
As if the Pro-abomination votes weren't as much samefagging as the Pro-Recycle votes

>>40750888
>>40750960
Four days from now, maybe we can make one of the Taidaren hybrids into one. Not these guys though.

>>40750965
>>40750964
>>40750959
Which is why i said i rather he flipped a coin or did FD instead.

>>40750832
>1 Tech
>1 Engineer
seems to have general consensus

>Add 2 Brawlers
>Add 2 Sharpshooters
>Add one of each
>Other

>>40751022
>Add 2 Brawlers

>>40751022
>Add 2 Brawlers

>>40751022
>>Add one of each

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>>40751022
>>Add 2 Brawlers
We don't even HAVE guns yet.

>>40751022
>Add 2 Sharpshooters

>>40751022
>Add one of each

>>40751022
>>Add one of each

>>40751022
>Add one of each

>>40751022
>Add one of each

>>40751034
Our hive can totally produce their own if we want them to.

>>40751034
Or clothes, really, but you could steal some rather easily, buy some with the credits your clones brought with them from some Taidarens, or make some in the hive, although they would look rather hive-ish.

>>40751022
>Add 2 Brawlers

>>40751022
>>Add one of each

>>40751060
Not ones we could use in public robberies.

>>40751022
>Add one of each

>>40751022
>Add one of each.

Lastly, which one is the albino clone?

>The Tech
>The Sharp Shooter
>The Brawler
>The Engineer

>>40751154
>>The Sharp Shooter

>>40751154
>The Sharp Shooter
It fits.

And as a bonus he'll remain out of sunlight most the time.

>>40751154
>>The Engineer
He's not going out into public.

>>40751154
>The Sharp Shooter

>>40751154
>The Tech
Stereotype, much?

>>40751154
The sharp shooter.

>>40751154
>the sharpshooter

>>40751154
>The Tech

>>40751154
>>The Sharp Shooter

>>40751154
>>The Sharp Shooter

>>40751154
>>The Tech

>>40751154
>The Sharp Shooter

>>40751154
>Sharp shooter

Your clones examine their new surroundings, naked and confused. They do not know it consciously, but they wait for your orders, for the hive to give them purpose.

>Have your clones purchase clothing and equipment using the credits Lyle had given them earlier.
>Find and steal supplies
>Barter with local sewer dwelling Taidarens
>Have the hive produce weapons and clothing itself (they will look strange in appearance)
>Other

>>40751278
>Find and steal supplies

>>40751278
>Barter with local sewer dwelling Taidarens

>>40751278
>Barter with local sewer dwelling Taidarens
Probably best not to go shopping or stealing in the nude when there's a bomb threat in the city.

>>40751278
>Find and steal supplies

>>40751278
>>Barter with local sewer dwelling Taidarens

>>40751278
>Find and steal supplies
>Barter with local sewer dwelling Taidarens

>>40751304
>>40751320
You guys want to steal supplies when the city is on high alert from the bomb threat?

>>40751278
>have the hive produce clothing; and a suicide vest for each clone
>acquire weapons through some other means

We have our suicide bomber/false flag crew.

>>40751278
>Barter with local sewer dwelling Taidarens
Safest option.

>>40751278
>>Find and steal supplies

>>40751346
They're only investigating that one ramp.

We're stealing supplies while traffic is MURDER and responders won't be able to get throug the aircar traffic.

What do you guys think of putting Reactive Pupils and Mimic Skin to the sharpshooter? That's just 4N to make it much more effective at what it does.

>>40751278
>Barter with local sewer dwelling Taidarens
For clothing, at least.

Naked robbers would be weird.

But then
>Find and steal supplies
For other stuff if we can't get all we want from them.

>>40751398
There'll be a vote for augmentations I'm sure.

>>40751398
I think the flash clones are disposable and fundamentally not worth losing days spent augmenting when they could be doing things. We should queue up augmenting the high-quality clones that are in the pipeline instead.

>>40751398
Meh, these are disposable flash-clones. Save cybernetics for the normal ones coming later. They'd have to be put down for a day to have any augments added anyway.

>>40751444
Two days, if you're adding augs that are actually worthwhile like carbon nanoweave beneath the skin and semi-fluid bone structure.

Or even just the skin graft that's needed to cover the limb augs.

Yeah, not really worth augmenting.

Just trying to get a sense before I have to go to bed for work in the morning

but how do people feel about that Honor Guard idea? Chimera Humans equipped with extensive augs to be the bodyguards of Lee or Elizabeth when they have to represent us to the political spacescape. Bodyguards that can follow them and operate inside human sized areas where our normal warrior drones can't fit

Basically our own version of the Smiths

>>40751619
Apprehensive, but I only show up to about a third of the live threads anyway so I don't think my thoughts matter much in regards to what's actually going to go through.