SHIPS
FLEET

SHOW ME THE FLEET

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>>41486352
>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 4,957,114
Metals: 5,527,079
Credits: ₡2226
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,175,000

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 52,325
Queen – 5
Fake Queen (4) – 220
Small Egg layer – 12
Worker (150,000) – 300,000
Aquatic Worker (5,140) – 20,560
Vacuum Worker (5,200) – 31,200
Radiator Worker (5,100) – 20,400
Warrior (75,045) – 375,225
Gilled Warrior (100) – 700
Aquatic Warrior (50) – 400
Thinker (8,000) – 24,000
Quantum Thinker (3,000) – 15,000
Speaker – (3) – 12
Digger (200) – 800*
Refinery (40) – 280*
Sniffer (2) – 8
Small Sniffer (5,000) – 5,000
Aquatic Sniffer (200) – 200
Fly (1,165) – 4,660
Wasp (30,000) – 150,000
Haz-mat Workers (20) – 80
Parasite (110) – 440
Bio-tank (1000) – 25000
Stealth Bio-tank (30) – 900
Excavator (1,000) – 19,000
Colossus (5,000) – 75,000
Hovertank (2,000) – 50,000
Harvester (5,000) – 95,000
Support Fluttercraft (500) – 71,000
Ghost Beetle (1,000) – 27,000
Heavy Warrior (10,000) – 190,000
Chinook (1,000) – 18,000
Air defense drone (500) – 37,000
Bomber (1,000) – 41,000
Strafer drone (2,000) – 30,000
Heavy Interceptor (1,000) – 28,000
Light Interceptor (2,000) – 28,000
Advanced disruptor (50) – 3750
Advanced Relay (70) – 7000

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>>41486352
IT BEGINS!

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>>41486394
>Hive fleet
Space Pod (5000) – 150000
Heavy Fleet Fighter (560) – 37520
Heavy Gunship (132) – 3960
Shuttle (10) – 250
Mining Corvette (336) – 92400
Patrol Corvette (150) – 76050
Scout Corvette (8) – 1800
Lancer Corvette (2) – 450
Missile Corvette (500) – 516000
Fleet Corvette (244) – 54900
Heavy Fleet Corvette (176) – 206272
Light Fleet Frigate (1200) – 534000
Heavy Fleet Frigate (132) – 188364
Stealth Frigate (4) – 1952
Vanguard Frigate (850) – 340000
Light Fleet Cruiser (300) – 199500
Missile Cruiser (50) – 118250
Heavy Cruiser (110) – 133650
Heavy Fleet Cruiser (66) – 45090
Carrier Battlecruiser (5) – 99360
Heavy Fleet Battlecruiser (16) – 130192
Heavy Fleet Battleship (4) – 207100

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

Hello, ship designs soon

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>>41486423
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: 5,245,770

>Income
Metals: 2,838,000
Nutrients: 9,801,250
Net: 4,555,480

AFTER ALL THIS TIME

>>41486423
>Heavy Fleet Battlecruiser (16)
>Heavy Fleet Battleship (4)
THE HIVE WILL GROW LARGER

>>41486352
>government black ops stealing from other government black ops

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>>41486459
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: 1713/2000]
Economic Structures
>Smart Mines active: 100,000M per day
>Algae Farm: +4,800,000per day, 48,000 Workers (1 worker per 100N)
>Film harvester dock: +5,000,000N per day, 10,000 Harvesters active (500N per Harvester)

[M-662]
Raligha
Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System (750N)
>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 0/400]

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>>41486504
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)
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)

>>41486426
On that note:
Hive Flagship:
Length 6200
Spinal Mounts: Railgun
Turrets: Cyclotron Particle Beam
Fixed: Linear Particle Beam
Auxiliary: Auto Cannon
Armor: Heavy and Heavy
Shields
Rapid Damage control
Microfactory (Built-in)
Fusion Core X52
Modules: Max 124
Swarm hanger X 30
Docking bay X 10
Swarm Launcher X 3
Stinger Launcher X 4
Cruse Launcher X 5
Bulkheads X 73
G-field sensor x1
Cost:
68600 N
332140 M
And

Hive Destroyer(Hive ship):
Length 6200
Spinal mounts: Railgun
Turrets: Linear particle beam
Fixed: Blaster
Auxiliary: Autocannon
Armour: Two Heavy
Power: Fusion core
Utility:
Defensive shields
Rapid Damage Control
Microfactory(Built-in)
Modules(124 slots):
G-field sensors x1
Swarm hangar x40
Drop pod launcher x10 (boarding)
Swarm launcher x25
Stinger launcher x25
Cruise launcher x15
Bulkhead x8
Cost:
99700N 318840M


Can change one heavy for ballistic, as it has no negatives aside from having less overall protection than heavy.
-15500 N -62000M from removing heavy
+31000N + 15500M from adding ballistic

Here's hoping I did not fuck up the paste

>>41486459
Interesting. I wonder why Jackob and Lyle consume so many more nutrients than Dillion does. Maybe it's the augs?

Speaking of Jackob, before we wake him up I was wondering if we could have a little chat with him telepathically through the bio-tank neural interface. We could offer him a symbiote then if he's interested, which he was earlier, and that would do a lot to ensure he stays in one piece mentally and physically when we let him go.

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>>41486523
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 5,000M
>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.
>Hydroponic platform – A floating greenhouse platform used to grow farmland through hydroponics that can only be built on or near water with open access to plentiful sunlight. Each greenhouse platform supports roughly one hectare and requires a single worker to tend the crop and maintain the platform. Multiple platforms can be connected together to create fields of floating farmland. +200N per day, 1 worker to maintain.

>>41486423
yessss
this pleases me

>>41486527

Dude.

This is what the 1d4chan page is for.

Not only are you posting something unnecessarily long, you're also going to start a shitstorm from the getgo when we haven't had any Hive Queen Quest in a month.

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>>41486560
>Filter towers – A large underwater pylon built to extract raw nutrients from the microbial life of the surrounding ecosystem. Can only be used on planets with bountiful biospheres and deep oceans capable of supporting large amounts of microbes. Provides between 100 and 500 N per day, depending on the local environment. (500M)
>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)

>>41486476
The wonders a decentralized democratic government.

>>41486527
Why don't we hold off on discussing this until later in the thread.

>>41486527
>On that note:
Save it for later, the crunch sperg is not time sensitive and should happen at the end.

>>41486552
No, no revealing the existence of our favorite little children to people who have the option of refusing.

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>>41486617
Finished Research

>Psionic reading
By further tuning your senses to ambient tachyonic fields and focusing small bursts of psionics, you can actually gather meaningful data from a creatures mind from a distance. Any creature you are aware of within 50 meters of a medium or advanced relay can be targeted, gathering surface thoughts and emotions from the creature. There is a chance the target will sense the reading, manifesting as a feeling of paranoia and the illusion of distant sounds and voices. The more aware the target is of your attempt, the greater the chance for the target to sense the reading. If the target is fully aware of your capability and intent, it may attempt to resist the reading.

>Kata
Using the data gathered from your thinkers observations of enemy actions, your clones and non-hive agents implanted with a parasite or connected to your network can now respond instinctively to a wide range of combat situations with the same reflexes and devastating efficiency of your warriors, granting a boost to general performance in combat.

New Research Unlocked

Advanced Psionic Reading
Slow
With your new abilities growing, you continue to hone and develop more advanced methods of using your psionic network. Your thinkers believe that with more practice they should be able to delve deeper into the minds of non-hive life, digging past surface thoughts and emotions and into more detailed pieces of information without resorting to invasive neural interfaces.

Psionic Imprinting
Medium
The next logical step from psionic reading, your thinkers believe that if you can detect the thoughts of others, you may be able to alter them as well. Further study is needed to determine the extent of this potential ability.

>>41486593
>>41486627
>>41486632
Said I'd do it next thread. I do it next thread. No crying now.

>>41486352
Woot Hive queen quest, and finally I can present my conspiracy, may I present operation Sherlock.

We currently have killings suspecting 3rd party involvement, and a detective looking for some convicts were protecting. Also killinger knows of a unknown 3rd party attacking the confederation. We can use this to give the scavengers on a silver platter.

We just need a few things

3x scav soldier clones (with gear)
1x scav leader (with gear)
1x scav station
Assorted wanted clones (lee and co)
Lyle
1x nuclear WMD
1x scavenger jump drive
We need to fit the scavenger drive to lyles ship and construct this base.

Our compromised union guy will find this base in the expanse. He will board and find resistance from turrets and the scavenger guards. At the end of this will be Lyle and the refugees. They will attempt to escape as Lyle makes his stand. As soon as things go against lyles way he will set the station to blow and escape into his ship. They will use the scav drive to escape towards scavenger space, which they'll win the flight from because of the superior tech.

The only risked asset is Lyle. The intended outcome will raise our agents rep with killinger and paint the scavengers as the mysterious third party.

>>41486523
>New Construction Options
I always read that in CABAL's voice.

What happened to that one research thing that was basically telekinesis? Did we complete that?

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>>41486652
Current Research

>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.

>>41486632
Who would he reveal that information to at this point? Hell, we wouldn't even need to explicitly tell him what it is. Just an additional implant that keeps him in constant telepathic contact with the hive (in a connection not unlike he is currently experiencing) and can heal gaping wounds in real time.

>>41486696
>You still have 2 normal sized sniffer

Poor little guys.

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>>41486692
I'm curious about that too. I want out telekinetic superbugs.

Biotics here we come

Really need to look into making a hive equivalent of shielding.

when we fight obsidian, we will lose in numbers, so we must have higher quality and efficiency.

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>>41486696
>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.

>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.

>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.

>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.

>>41486668
Adding onto this, this constructed station should be somewhere remote in a gas giant system, it should be a small gas harvesting station/ "monitoring post", it will be scavenger in everything except actual ownership and function. They will be able to salvage very little and as such be unable to look deep enough to actually find anything compromising, but should be able to loot just enough to confirm that scavengers are behind this all. If we pit killinger into a shadow war with those enemies we do everyone a solid. We can even start using scavengers to run our errands for us, so if they get caught they reinforce killingers conspiracy theories.

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>>41486765
>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.

>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.

>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.

>>41486668
Clever. Very clever. I can get definitely get behind a plan like this. The only problem with it is that we don't have any access at all to scav FTL drive, but we could fix that while the clones are maturing. So why don't we get our captured scavs to infiltrate their fleet for us? We could start a new genestealer cult there!

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>>41486696
>Auto-harvest pods
Our creep automatically grows mines I know, but does can it grow puffball mines that spray the superversion of the Leeland cordyceps mushroom?

It could do some incredible damage against the OB if we can get stealthed bombers to launch simultaneous attacks, shelling as many of her worlds we can find at the same instant so we can inflict the most damage before she is able to develop an immunity?

>>41486729
Those are the OG sniffers that served when Lyle first came to us. They won't go until he does.

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>>41486782
>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.

>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.

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>>41486696
>>Auto-harvest pods
soon
>High-altitude spore dispersal
SOON

>>41486627
>>41486476
You know he's just feeling the subconscious knowledge of the hive that he helped three flies smuggle themselves onto Gemini Beta, right?

>>41486692
You made it up. It wasn't real last time you mentioned it, it isn't real now.

>>41486660
No one asked you to. And there's no need to do it at the start instead of after bump limit. Use the wiki if you're impatient for crunch.

>>41486668
>>41486775
>>41486800
That's not clever and is also not time for it now. It's also retarded to associate "the one who did the Leenapping" and "the one who blew up the Mirage" as the same party. This doesn't fit the scavs' MO whatsoever. >>41333579

>>41486692
Are you talking about psionic reading? Because that's the closest thing to what you're talking about, and we just knocked that research off.

>>41486742
The hive reverse engineered shielding ages ago bro, we traded with Theseus for it.

>>41486740

So how will we stop this meeting, letting killinger win is not acceptable, but the fucker has something planned.
It seems he was expecting an attack.

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>>41486813
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.

>Add Advanced Psionic Reading
>Add Psionic Imprinting
>Add neither
>Add both
>Add all (including Psionic Cannon)
>Other

>>41486847
you're a cunt m8

>>41486847
You seem a tad salty there anon.

>>41486668
>>41486775

I support this wholeheartedly. If it comes up it has my vote.

>>41486800
We already have the skid drive, which is the tech I'm referring to. The big problem is that the station has to actually look like a scavenger station. The good news is with the nuclear bomb that lyle will ""have"" with him (supported by the intel on him), they will only get scrap metal and electronics, which will be mostly fried anyway. We should leave just enough scavenger shit in the open for them to grab while running. Also unlike the former clone plans.

>>41486847
Killinger doesn't know the scavengers MO. If we run the scavenger "black ops" division we can easily kick there ass.

>>41486865
Thats my plan, if we can give killinger an enemy to strike against, we also can give a justification to start using scavenger death squads to solve our bidding.

>>41486874
>>Add all (including Psionic Cannon)

>>41486874
>>Add all (including Psionic Cannon)
One of these days we'll get around to starting the endgame trigger.

>>41486874
>>Add both

>>41486874
>Add both

>>41486874
>Add both

Anyway, in short killinger is shadowrunning like mad right now, we'll give him something thats just difficult enough to not be an obvious trap and just easy enough that he'll feel he can win this shit.

>>41486874
Both. I don't think we're ready for a Psionic cannon yet

>>41486874
>>Add neither
They're both good but it takes so long to research stuff these days 'cause of how much we're researching.

>>41486782
>Shield miniaturization
I wonder if we could couple this with a ship adaption:

Basically protrude nodules across a ships hull (since it does not need to be aerodynamic) and in each of these armor nodules we have a miniaturized shielding array. By using overlapping and segmented shielding generators we can trade a big strong shield that goes down all at once for localized shielding failure, while overcoming the reduced strength by clustering these nodules together at the right density. When a part of the shielding is about to fail, we can simply turn the ship and allow those shields to regen while others bear the brunt.

Verses low tech or sized weapons fire this should make it all but impervious. A possible adaption for the larger cruiser and above class ships.

>>41486917
>>41486874
Fuck I meant excluding the psi cannon
changing >>41486917 to
>Add both

>>41486897
The skid drive is the ceph's drive of preference, that uses four crystals to operate. What the scavs use is called a skitter drive or something like that, that functions in a completely different way.

>>41486943
Nah man we're not bottlenecked by the amount of research. It's just that they genuinely take that long, I mean we haven't had a thread in ages so it feels longer than it really is.

>>41486961
Fuck I'm mixing shit up. I could've sworn we had that tech.

>>41486874
>Add both

>>41486897
>Thats my plan, if we can give killinger an enemy to strike against, we also can give a justification to start using scavenger death squads to solve our bidding.
thats what i mean, i think the attack is what he wants, he could use it as a reason to unifies the government, hell he could also have some select politicians killed and make it seem like it was the alein menace.

>>41486954
This is a good idea.

>>41487002
We're not using them first, he will find them with his agent that we own. So he can't reveal that he found this wonderful alien race we can unify against without actually having hard proof, which he can't quite get from this instance. It will pit him against an enemy we couldn't give a fuck about anyway and allow the whatever there called to benefit while we stay in the shadows.

>>41486800
You have one Scav parasited, everyone else is only bloodsmears on the floor.

Also it's infinitely more believable to blame the Mirage blowing up on secret Commonwealth stealth capabilities and Leenapping on his dissident 4chan terrorist group buddies that Killinger wanted to infiltrate with Fake Lee. We even have a motive: Lee had an offline backup of the Darwin photo leaks.

>>41486874
>Add both


Your thinkers leap to the task, which with their pitiful legs results in them jiggling in their seats as they take to the new research subjects.

Meanwhile, your pod is finishing its augmentation of Jackob.

>Speak with him in the tank (write in)
>Finish the procedure
>Other

>>41487106
>>Finish the procedure

No revealing mind-to-mind fuckery.

>>41487106
>Finish the procedure

>>41487106
>Finish the procedure
I don't have anything clever to say.

>>41487106
What aug did Dillon get?

>>41487060
anon we can't stay in the shadows any longer out fleet scare a group of humans shitless on how large it is, and our home planet is full of us now.

>>41487106
>Finish the procedure

>>41487106
>Finish the procedure

>>41487106
>don't finish the procedure
>melt jackob into a pile of goo

>>41487155
We're not staying in the shadows to them. I meant we're staying in this shadow war with killinger while he thinks another groups responsible. In the meantime we also need a plan for how the commonwealth will actually make 1st contact with us. Lets face it, they're going to be pissing there pants until they do. Especially since the last attempt got them nothing but incoherent screeching in response.

>>41487170
Supporting.

>>41487106
>>Speak with him in the tank (write in)
"Before we improved you, you expressed interest in the improvement Lyle recieved that allowed him to rapidly recover from wounds. This augment also allows us to remain in contact with him anywhere through a connection not unlike the one we are currently employing. Are you still interested in such an augmentation?"

How else is he going to learn Kata or survive a shitty dice roll?

>>41487170
This!

>>41487197
Not a big fan of the common wealth.

>>41487219
Thanks hitler
gas the squid

>>41487259
Well we can't just ruthlessly exterminate ALL the humans.

>>41487170
thirded lets do this.

>>41487106
>Finish the procedure

>>41487106
Changing vote from >>41487145 to >>41487226

>>41487072
We totally did capture a bunch of lackeys with non lethal ammo before the couchfuckers detonated the charges they planted in the ship.

>>41487283
Union is a better group in my opinion, they are more welcoming of aleins.

>>41487139
>Implying he would be able to repeat knowledge of mind to mind fuckery with a parasite in his brain
>Implying we couldn't just remove the memories of that knowledge if we were that worried about it.

>>41486352
thanks god HQQ is running tonight, something to bring my mind of the possible horrible truth

>>41487283
Says who?

Copy their brains. Recycle the bodies.

>>41487226
Doubt it'll go through, but I'll support it

>>41487197
Fuck first contact

We should just send a fleet in whenever it looks like the scavs our union are winning a fight over a commonwealth planet and leave it at that

let all 3 fight each other and only interfere when it looks like there may be a winner

>>41487226
I'll second this

>>41487106
The pod opens and pours Jackob to the floor. He coughs up phlegm and medical fluid from his lungs as he gasps for air in the dark of the hive tunnel. He slowly gets up as his new eyes adjust to the darkness, and he examines his arms. He looks to his side, where his clothes have been set out by a worker, and his arm extends out nearly twice its natural length to reach them. He nods to himself approvingly, and a speaker approaches him.

"Did you brighten the lights recently?" He asks.

"No. Eyes are better now!" It says proudly. "Hive eyes much better!" Jackob looks around as he quickly dresses himself.

"That they are."

"This way to others. Follow!" Your speaker chirps and it leads him back down the darkened passageways of the hive to the others.

Cont.

>>41487226
Fo sho

>>41487395
Nah man, only fight scavs. When the union is concerned, just warp in a large amount of ships that continuously broadcast the first message that the commonwealth sent us with some screeching mixed in, but don't actually fight.

>>41487496
That would be quite lulzy. I'd support it, except that it might give them the information to deduce that all the recent supernovae are related to us.

>>41487496
Nah that's weak

If we are going to use the commonwealth as a buffer zone then that's means we cant allow anyone to topple them

scav, union whatever

>>41487440
Goddammit. This is what I get up for getting up just as a vote comes up and taking too much time writing up a write in.>>41487226

>>41487544
Okay then.

Jump in a handful of pods to encircle their planets and just have them faintly whisper it into their communications outlets.
They'll faintly hear it over every single transmission.

>>41487572
who siad about using the commonwealth as a buffer zone?
Wasn't the union the buffer zone( since its in the space between us and the black queen)?

>>41487544
And said information would freak them out. Because we've been warping about always a few light-days away from wherever we're going, so those supernovae are gonna seem like near-constant bombardments.
Hell, even their lower estimates of how much we dwarf their numbers would be astronomically huge.

>>41487597
dw anon you win in our hearts 4evertim

>>41487619
unity our buffer zone with the betrayer

the commonwealth is the buffer zone before the scavs and they are barely holding their own

if the union hits the commonwealth then the scavs will break through

and if the union starts hitting the unity harder then we are all alone against the betrayer and wont last long

>>41487714
Which is why we should unite with the union.
Right now they aren't fighting anyone, and would be willing to help.

Original Speaker
Olfactory: Basic 0
Acoustic: Basic 0
Psionic: Basic 0
Mandibles: Vocalizer 2
Blade: Combat 1
Arms: Dex 1
Legs: Endurance 1
Utility: Acid Glands 1
Carapace: Mimetic skin 2
Size: Medium
Cost: 8N
Upkeep: 4N

Improved Speaker

Olfactory: Basic 0N
Acoustic: Basic 0N
Radio : Advanced 6N 3M
Psionic: Moderate 50N
Mandibles: Vocalizer 2N
Blade: Combat 1N
Arms: Dex 1N
Legs: Bipedal 4N 2M
Utility: Acid Glands 1N
Carapace: Mimetic skin 2N
Peacock 0N
Size: Medium
Cost: 67N 5M
Upkeep: 33N

What do you guys think about this update to the speaker? I'll go though the shit I added.
>Radio - People we have an interest in speaking with or vice versa could possibly be in communication with others, the ability to pick up such signals is a worthy adaptation for our speakers.
>Moderate Psionic - With our improved psionics we can read the intent of intelligent aliens using moderate or above.
>Bipedal legs - The drone builder described them as being ornate and elegent, made for form over function. These feel like a natural fit for our speakers.
>Peacock Carapace - Fluffy speaker best speaker. Also it's free.

While it's quite a bit more expensive, the extra expense doesn't really matter that much given the small amount of speakers we use and our massive income. At the end of the day most of that expense comes from the moderate psionic relay, which allows us a limited mind reading ability on whoever we're speaking to. Even if my other suggestions end up being unpopular I think putting moderate relays in our speakers is a no-brainer.

>>41487757
The Union is the worst choice. They aren't as desperate as the Commonwealth and they're even more prone to backstabbing due to their nature as a republic.

>>41487757
We are allied with the unity remember?

And we been launching covert raids on union targets

They are not our friends alright

I would remember keep our alliance with the unity then rely on the union

>>41487797
put that on the discussion page

>>41487827
Also I'm a fan of the commonwealth as a fan of both space station 13 and starcraft.

>>41487835
put that in your ass

>>41487797
i think we should research a way to let our speakers have the voice of Morgan Freeman, imagine that diplomacy bonus

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>>41487598
That's more like it.

>>41487623
A fair point, you've convinced me. I want to have fun.

>>41487797
I think that this speaker should be on the 14chan page, not here.

>>41487797
Why would you give them blades at all? What is the point of that?

>>41487923
Anon, we just combine this >>41487623 with >>41487598 and then we can have all the fun we would ever want, silently laughing at the Commonwealth's/union's panic over the "voices in space".

I'd still go for the "announce ourselves as one part of the triumvirate" plan that came up a few threads back, I think. It was when we jumped in and cleared those scavs that were fighting the union.

>>41486352
Oh my god it's back. And tonight is the one night I can't stay up because I have to get up early for work tomorrow, and won\t be back for two days. Fuck.

>>41488004
Do this, but also jump a massive fleet in when any scab are present and fucking destroy them.

>>41487440
The others are gathered around the table eating nutrient paste, and the door flexes open. Jackob steps in, his face contorted into a crude facsimile of Lyle.

"Holy shit, what in the hell!" Dillon shouts. The others look from the table as Lyle gets up to turn towards the door.

"Check it out, I'm Lyle!" Jackob says as he fine tunes his face with an unnatural popping sound. He waves his arms over his head and they wave like noodles. "I'm a giant asshole that gets off to having the shit beat out of me, quick, someone punch me in the face!"

Lyle promptly catches his jaw with a right hook. Jackob falls to the ground, laughing as he feels his jaw. It is bent and misshapen, and slowly bending back into shape as he shakes his face back to normal.

"I think you chipped a tooth." He says with a grin.

"I think I chipped a knuckle." Lyle replies as he helps Jackob back to his feet. "Also, that looked nothing like me."

"I was being generous."

Dillon looks over the scene as Jackob's face contorts back to its resting position.
"What in the fuck, man?"

"Neat, ain't it? You can't deny it's goddamn useful. Did you pick anything out for yourself yet, or are you still being a cry baby about it?" Dillon crosses his arms and glares back at the two.

"Well..." he says, "I did, yes, but we really should get going soon, we can't just sit here forever."

"Well that's perfect." Jackob says as he twists his nose. "Lyle's got a tank in the ship, you can just recover in that to save time." Dillon grumbles and looks back to the tablet.

"Yea, yea I picked out two that seemed the most useful. Nothing fancy or, uh-"

"Fun, nothing fun you mean." Lyle says. Jackob laughs.

"Sure, whatever you want to call it."

[Requested augments]

Electrostatic muscle grafts – (8N 15M)
Endoskeletal plating - (5N 20M)

>Approve
>Recommend
>Other

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>>41486352
>It returns

>>41488004
Why tell them about a triumvirate? that's giving them too much info

You always play your cards close to your chest in negotiations

>>41488074
>Approve

>>41488074
>>Approve

>>41488074
>Approve

>>41486352
>Hive queen quest is back.
i am so happy right now i had an orgasm.

>>41488074
>recommend

Second Heart, Dillon. You need it. Trust us.

And Sting Fingers are a nice and subtle touch.

>>41488074
He really should get that second heart.

>>41488074
>approve
And recommend a second heart

>>41488074
>>Recommend
Second heart. All humans should have one.

>>41488116
The triumvirate plan was telling them that this seemingly omnipresent force of beings they couldn't detect, which could jump in at any time for any reason, was only a third of some hidden empire in the depths of space.

So... fear and panic for everyone?

>>41488216
>>41488166
Yes.

>>41488074
>Recommend
Second heart

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>>41488074
>>Recommend
Don't be a square, give in to peer pressure.

>>41488216
Humans were meant to have second hearts! That's why their only heart is offset toward one side.

>Recommended: Second Heart

>>41488225
Yes.

Fear and panic for humans translates into shits and giggles for us.

>>41488225
Eh

Just jumping and smashing the scavs while acting totally indifferent to the commonwealth fleet had a greater effect i think

I hate to say it but the triumvirate talk seems pretty lame and reminds me of bad trek episodes

>>41488283
ph33r and the evil penguin of dOOOOm xDDD
shitposting aside it's a fun idea

>>41488283
This.

>>41488074
Changing >>41488140 to >>41488216

IT'S BACK FINALLY YES.

I'm said I missed out on any votes.

>>41488074
>Approve, reccommend second heart.

>>41488074
"You're gonna wanna go for that second heart." Lyle says as he jabs his chest with his thumb. "Took one in the thumper and went on to beat the piss out of the guy who did it."

"Why do humans have only one? It is bad design!" Your speaker chirps as it stamps a foot.

"That seems a bit-"

"No, not even improve." Your speaker says again. "One heart is broken. Two is standard."

"Well, actually most species only have-"

"Standard in things built well, like hive!" Your speaker says as it nearly picks Dillon up, showing a surprising level of strength as it leads him out the door, almost carrying him in the process.

"Well I'm just not sure-"

"Hive is sure. You like it better. Humans need two hearts, one is too few. Bad design."

[Requested Augments]
Second Heart (4N)
Electrostatic muscle grafts – (8N 15M)
Endoskeletal plating - (5N 20M)

>Approve
>Other

>>41488074
>Approve
>Install second heart, whether he wants it or not. And a parasite, in case we need to patch up both hearts.

>>41488435
>>41488447
This.

>>41488355
>>41488328
>>41488274
>>41488260
>>41488241
>>41488232
>>41488216
>>41488201
>>41488194
>>41488166
When we come out to the humans, we should offer free second heart augmentations to all. It's just simple decency.

>>41488435
Approve

>>41488435
>Approve

>>41488435
>Approve
>Suggest emergency-repair organ and hive communicator (parasite)

>>41488435
>Approve

>>41488435
>>41488447
Sensible.

>>41488473
Agreed. It's the neighborly thing to do.

>>41488435
>>41488493
Supporting this.

In another land, in current time...
>20 metal consumed
>25 metal gained
>2 slots on Mainframe used
>1000 Space Dicks now cover the Mainframes surface equipped with Advanced Mining Lasers

>>41488493
It should stay a happy surprise.

>>41488435
>Offer parasite to Dillon and Jackob
>Offer parasite to Dillon
>Parasite Dillon
>Do not
>Other

>>41488582
>>Do not

>>41488582
>Offer parasite to Dillon and Jackob
Be VERY clear on what it actually does and allows. These are some of the best good will we have going for the hive and I don't want us to fuck it up.

>>41488582
>Do not

>>41488582
>Parasite Dillon and Jackob

>>41488582
>parasite to Dillon and Jackob

>>41488582
>>Offer parasite to Dillon and Jackob

Make it VERY clear on what it is, make it sound great. And that if they say no, we're cool with it, we're just wondering.

>>41488582
>offer parasite to dillon and jackob

>>41488582
>>Parasite Dillon
Or if this doesn't win, do not mention it.

>>41488582
>>Offer parasite to Dillon and Jackob

>>41488582
>Do not

>>41488582
>>Offer parasite to Dillon and Jackob

>>41488582
>>Parasite Dillon

>>41488574
oh you.

This is a breakpoint in Hive history, right here. I don't want us to be too rash...

>>41488582
>>Do not

>>41488582
>>Do not

>>41488582
>Do not
Have manners

>>41488582
>Do not

>>41488582
>Offer parasite to Dillon and Jackob
Tell them clearly what they do and what it means.
Damn, I nearly forgot this is back

>>41488582
>>Offer parasite to Dillon and Jackob

>>41488582
>Offer parasite to Jackob

>>41488582

We can offer them without much issue really.

>>41488435
I love our drones.

>>41488582
>>Offer parasite to Dillon and Jackob

>>41488726
Pointless human construct compared to Hive Security, which requires keeping strict tabs on all field assets and information kept on a strict need-to-know basis.

Especially field assets that are a little too Union-loyal in attitude, even if the Union has betrayed him.

>>41488582
>>Parasite Dillon

>>41488582
>Offer parasite to Dillon and Jackob

>>41488726
How is it rude to at least give them the option of getting the compact augmentation equivalent of biotank that allows them to survive nearly any injury, and functions as an FTLComm cell phone

>>41488782
This

>>41488582
>Do not

>>41488582
>Offer parasite to Dillon and Jackob

>>41488582
Big vote right out of the gate it seems. Looks like it's
>Offer parasite to Dillon and Jackob

>Have your speaker attempt to "sell" the offer
>Be frank and straightforward with the offer
>Other (write in)

>>41488870
>Be frank and straightforward with the offer

>>41488870
>>Be frank and straightforward with the offer

>>41488870
>>Be frank and straightforward with the offer
You might even want to make sound this is THE Queen talking, not the Speaker and his usual quips.

>>41488870
>>Have your speaker attempt to "sell" the offer

>>41488870
>>Have your speaker attempt to "sell" the offer

if we have to do this you can do it right.

Mention only its healing benefits.

>>41488870
>Be frank and straightforward.

>>41488899
Yes.

>>41488870
>Be frank and straightforward with the offer

>>41488899
seconded

>>41488870
>Be frank and straightforward with the offer

>>41488899
Seconding.

>>41488870
>>Be frank and straightforward with the offer
But do not actually say precisely what the device is.

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>honesty is always rewarded in video games, absolutely nothing can go wrong here

>>41488899
Seconding.

>>41488870
>>Be frank and straightforward with the offer

>>41488870
>Be frank and straightforward with the offer

>>41488870
>Be frank and straightforward with the offer

>>41488899
This.

>>41488962
Of course

>>41488899
I agree.

ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL

>>41488899
Seconding this!

>>41488870
>Be frank and straightforward with the offer

>>41488962
we're already locked in to telling them about it so the least bad option is for us not to appear to be tricking them into anything

>>41488962
But Anon, lying requires a skill check, and lying always results in better gains!

Also
>Be frank and straightforward with the offer

>>41488870
>Have your speaker attempt to "sell" the offer

>>41488962
When the sovereign of an interstellar nation offers you something, personally, and you're surrounded by their army...certain things are implied.

>>41488870
>Be frank and straightforward

Writting.

Obviously, you can offer any desired write-ins.

>>41488870
>>41488967
Seconding this >>41488899 Also

>>41489027
'Certain things.'

Hmm, yes.

>>41488899
I can go for it.

>>41489041
"yo nigga i got deez bugs man"

>>41489041
If you are ever in trouble, the hive's agents will rescue you.

We have many.

>>41489041
Nigga jus put this shit in yo stomach, it make you reeeeeeal good. Reeeeeeeeeeeeeal good.

Anyways, I'm heading off for the night, gotta get some sleep before I ship off tomorrow. Don't know if I'll be able to participate in another instance of this quest, but I love the shit out of it. You're doing a great job QD, never stop.

>>41489132
>in another instance
HA FINALLY CANCER GO HOME
GO HOME

>>41489132
Best of luck out there in the real world. I hear it can get pretty dicey...

>>41489041
Feeds you combat and targeting data on the fly, and if you like hacking it will crack codes for you.

>>41489183
Sounds more like he's off to join the military.

>>41489191
Ha. I'm pretty much the physical embodiment of Lee. Goodbye everyone.

>>41489041
Also, it will make them biologically immortal won't it? Selling point.

>>41489274
Nah, we have the means for that, but parasites themselves don't do it.

>>41489263
I had thoughts of many bait posts in response to that but deep down I think he's a fun dude

>>41489305
Pretty sure he said they can excrete the serum.

>>41489274
That is a pretty huge selling point. Like, that's probably the biggest selling point you could ever offer any human ever. Let's do it.

>>41489350
Really? I was pretty sure he said they do.
Well damn we're at an impasse here

>>41489041
"It's dangerous to go alone! Take this."

Seriously though no one is safe unless they're Mother's children.

And if they refuse they're not leaving.

>>41489305
But they totally do.

>>41489350
Oh. Can they? Hm.

>>41489387
Our children die by the hundreds

>>41489380
The parasites are just tiny chemical factories.

>>41489350
>>41489380
Oh wait lol. I thought you were saying they don't. Sorry about that.

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Someone shop the queens head on ole Bernie

Symbiote
Mandible: Biological interface 20N
Claw: Hypodermic 2N
Arm: Dexterity 1N
Legs: Sprint 1N
Quantum brain 4N
Oxygen Recycler 8N
Carapace: Adaptive camouflage 8, Mimetic skin 2
Carapace: Bio-electrical 8N 15M
Size: Small
Total Cost: 13N 3M

I'll just leave this here then.

>>41489415
Actually most of them don't die.

>>41489041
Seconding this >>41488899

>>41489489
Speaking of, we need to get to work on a Hive cult.

>>41489489
Are you trying to cheat me here. The costs ain't right

>>41489405
Duh.
http://ask.fm/QuestDrone/answer/120573053733

Their whole point is to manufacture drugs on-the-fly. You saw them inject some liquid confidence hormones into Michael. Of course they can.

>>41489415
Still better than humans!

>>41489387
If we were going to give them an ultimatum we should have done so BEFORE turning one of them into the terminator.

>>41489532
Well lookie there. I'm a dumbface.

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>>41489456
Ere ya go.

>>41489509
We totally should. Space Florida already has cults dedicated to Theseus, and he ain't even trying.

>>41489544
He's just Mr. Fantastic, he's nothing the Heavy Warrior standing guard in the hallway can't handle.

And it's not an ultimatum if they don't know it's an ultimatum.

>>41489631
fucking amazing

>>41489525
Really? What'd I get wrong, I just double checked and the numbers seem right.

>>41489489
>>41489695
Whats this supposed to be for? Our general parasite implantation or implanting targets "secretly"?

>>41489631
I thought those cults were foreshadowing the crystals taking over humanity

>>41489717
For hive members.

>>41489695
total cost of 13 nutrients when bio interface alone is 20

>>41489041
Your speaker grows still as it turns in the threshold of the door as you direct its words carefully.

"The Hive can also offer another option. Not quite improvement, but a service." You say.

"What kind of service?" Dillon asks with obvious hesitation.

"The Hive can connect to you. Improve healing, improve communication, improve immune system, fix aging-"

"wait, what was that last one?" Jackob asks.

"-and the Hive will always be with you." You finish.

"That's... one hell of a catch." Dillon says. Lee adjusts his collar quickly.

"Um, when you say that, you mean, like, you give us a phone that looks like a liver, or like... in the creepy ex-girlfriend way?"

"Wait," Jackob says, "Lyle, is that the 'special' thing you have? It doesn't happen to be like that time the Unity put that micro-thermobaric bomb in your skull and had you running around doing their errands, is it?" Lyle curses under his breath.

"It's slightly similar, I guess, and I thought we agreed not to talk about that?"

"Sorry, but it is relevant." Jackob says. "So what is it, exactly, an implant?"

"Tiny drone that attaches to the spine. Connects you to the rest of the hive's thoughts." Your spectral figure jabs at him in silence. "It can be, uh, useful, some of the time. I guess." He admits.

"What do you mean, exactly?" Lee says. "I can kinda hear them already, but it sounds like a bunch of nonsense, what do you hear?" Lyle shakes his head.

"Nothin at the moment." He pauses, "well, not noise. It's more like a feeling. They feel, I dunno, happy I guess. There's no sound or anything, but it's as if the hive's in one of those holiday specials where everyone's singing about working on building toys and shit."

"Sounds annoying." Dillon says.

"Not really. It's not distracting, just there. Plus you can hear the Queen a lot. Not like the little speaker shits, it's... I dunno, hard to explain."

Cont.

>>41489132
Good night, and be safe.

>>41489717
Implanting agents we want to keep alive. It's identical to our stock parasites except with additional oxygen recyclers and bio-electric carapces, which allow the host to hold his breath for long periods of time and can serve as defibrillator if need be.

>>41489768
Do you not know what small drones do?

>>41489768
And the small size reduces the total cost by a quarter anon.

>>41489789
>but it's as if the hive's in one of those holiday specials where everyone's singing about working on building toys and shit."

We are Santa Clause

>>41489816
>>41489821
ah

>>41489821
by three quarters.

to one quarter.

>>41489789
Don't forget to shill the biological immortality. Also maybe the healing factor.

>>41489789
You guys are too nice. /tg/ was not meant to rule an empire.

>>41489870
You're too late, the majority already voted "frank." This is not a hard sell.

>>41489890
Good thing we don't have to worry about loyalty

>>41489789
Now form a contract with me and become one of Mother's undying children!

TIme to adopt.

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>>41489839
HO HO HO and a merry hivemas to all, and parasites for every good boy and girl!

>>41489904
Regardless, it puts our one actual way of fucking them on the table, they are fully aware of that we are capable of this and that we will not do it to them without consent. So they can at least not have to be worried about being anally raped by us into servitude. Also that Lyle opted out of the consent plan by attacking the hive. So long as neither of them do that they're home free!

>>41489964
Everyone look under your chairs!

>>41489839
What's the clause?

>>41490018
"By the way, you get a parasite."

I can't wait to see how our Taidaren parasites are doing.

>>41490066
Sold.

>>41489789
Quick, demonstrate Lyle's new super reflexes we just unlocked with Kata that interfacing with his spine allows by having a drone jump at him playfully.

>>41490092
TL/N: attempt to tear his throat off

>>41490135
brotherly love

>>41490066
And you get a parasite, you get a parasite, you get a parasite, you get a parasite, everybody gets a parasite, everybody gets a parasite, everybody gets a parasite!

Every other quest is just a rip off of this quest. thank you hive queen, for being the original.

>>41489789
"Well I'm glad you brought this shit up before I got in the fucking tank. "Dillon says. He looks to Jackob expectantly, but Jackob seems to be mulling things over.

"Hey, I mean, they had a chance to shove one in me, and Lee even, and they didn't."

"So what, they could be making you say that right goddamn now."

"Then why did they mention it at all?" Jackob says. "All I'm saying is that instead of assuming sinister intentions, try to think of things from their perspective."

"I can't fucking believe your shit, Eisner. You're just used to the idea of some space-thing watching you shit. Somehow I doubt Lyle asked to be given goddamn strings!"

"Now I say this as a man who had a bomb in his brain and still went back for more contracts, but I did try to kidnap a pile of drones, and may have killed quite a few of them while I was at it. They ate the mercs I hired so I honestly can't complain."

"Oh don't you fucking talk, Lyle." Dillon snaps.

"Uh, if it means anything, I can't feel one in anyone but Lyle." Lee says.

"You were in a tank too, you could have one for all I know."

"Goddamn it Dillon stop being such a jackass." Jackob says. "They're offering the thing, that means you get a choice. Just tell them no thank you and be done with it. If they never said anything then you wouldn't even have a chance to throw a shit fit, and if they wanted one in you they'd just jam it on in."

"So why are they even asking, then? Who'd say yes to that?" Dillon says. Jackob glances over to Lyle for a moment and then back.

"Well, maybe I would." Lyle looks at Jackob.

"What?"

"It's got a lot of pros, and the fact that their asking, honestly, means a lot in my book. I think they're putting forth a lot of effort to accommodate our morality. To them it probably looks like you're throwing a fit over someone offering you a slice of goddamn cake." He looks at your speaker angrily. "Well I'll fucking take a slice."

>>41490366
I just ripped off A.I. Quest.

>>41490366
shhhhhhhh no shitstorm bait man. I love hive quest more then most other quest on the board but your words are...far reaching and uncalled for. Opinion at best id say.
>>41489789
we really should have lyle tell us that story about the unity bomb one of these days.

>>41490398
Fuck yeah, Jackob.

>>41490398
As expected.

I doubt Dillon would be convinced by showing that we turned Lyle into super ninja.

>>41490398
I am really starting to like Jackob more and more.

>>41490398
"Also, we could have implanted you while you slept."

>>41490398
Holy shit, Jakob actually understands the hive species. In that being part of the ""family"" is considered a pretty great honor actually, I mean it gives you free reign of the entire empire and means you'll only die a violent end at some point in the very distant future. As opposed to of something lame like old age or ebola.

>>41490512
>As opposed to of something lame like old age or ebola.
I'd take that deal pronto.

>>41490512
Hell, with them being worked on and having a parasite in them we could actually resurrect them from a violent end. We pretty much have EVE cloning, and all its benefits, after all.

>>41490558
and youd only get better with every death, more wise each time " well X fucked me up real bad last time mom, ill avoid that next time unless you tell me to dive at it, I mean hell worse that happens is you give me a new shiny implant right?"

>>41490558
Well holy shit when you put it that way it really is immortality.

>>41490602
I wonder what happens to the "soul" though when they get revived a whole bunch.

>>41490558
Hot shit your right.

>>41490558
Except so far only one person in EVE has been mindfucked by the cloning system into oblivion. Not to forget that in EVE all those immortal geniuses are complete psycopaths that would give Lyle a run for his money.

>Thunderdome at the sun!
>Welcome to the bonus room!
>Every Jihad Squad Ever.
>Suiciding Dreadnaughts.

Lets not forget that for each capsuleer captain theres potentially dozens to thousands of crew under there command.

>>41490644
>soul
>implying

>>41490644
Nothing as souls aren't real.
*tips fedora*
>>41490673
Well that's a good thing it's 'like' EVE and not EVE.

>>41490602
It's discontinuous immortality, which isn't really immortality at all.

>>41490706
It's close enough. The clone can't tell the difference

>>41490689
>>41490695
no evidence that it does NOT exsist, and unless QD states otherwise im going to question it when resurrection through cloning is going on. Might make for an interesting topic for the thinkers or queen in training liz to mull over while in between research topics.

>>41490745
pls let's not get metaphysical here friend

>>41490730
Sure, they might not know, but we know, and it's not really continuous immortality. They can still die. It's more like infinite resurrection than immortality. Yes they are different, come on.

>>41490706
Its not total immortality but its certainly biological immortality.

>>41490706
>>41490779
So do you just not sleep then?

>>41490772
fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee But I want to hear QD's stance on the "soul" and cloning when the quest is going to end for the night.

>>41490872
As a fan of Quantum immortality I'd like to imagine it transfers over instantaneously upon death from one body to the other.

>>41490745
No it mightn't. The Queen is from a self-biologically-engineered species and one of the first things she researched is how intelligent beings tick so as to mess around in their minds.

There is absolutely no reason for her to take seriously the entirely undetectable human myths like "galactic harmonics" and "souls" that that self-help book mentioned.

>>41490779
I don't think I ever said that they aren't different.
You are right, they are different. I suppose I should've been more verbose. What's important here is that once they die once the persona, their identity and their being does not cease to exist with death. They can still pick up from where they left off with their most recent memories intact due to hive network.

But, let's agree to not go into deep philosophical debates here? What matters is that they can continue to be useful and act independently even if they die once.

>>41490917
see your no fun, you should add something like this guy >>41490899
instead of just being obstinate and closed minded.

>>41490918
My idea is to actually let Jackob be. He is actually more useful operating independently on his own as he seems to hear a LOT of classified and confidential information through his job normally. Also since hes highly wanted by a corrupt government anyway his natural actions will be in our favor anyway. We have no reason to manipulate his thoughts as hes already quite an awesome catch as is. However, we can occasionally ring him up and check in on him, or passively listen in.

>>41490996
Actually I don't think we manipulated anyones thoughts much. Only one that I can think of is ceph. Lyle was just a weird trip down memory lane, but he doesn't seem indoctrinated in the least.

>>41490398
There is a long and uncomfortable silence as everyone snapped confused, angry, and nervous glances to one another for several minutes. Jackob stands with his arms crossed, looping over each other like woven cables.

"The Hive also could have implanted you in your sleep. It does not take long." Your speaker says. Jackob points a hand to your drone as if emphasizing the point.

"Refuse if you want, but don't shit on the courtesy." Dillon makes several sounds, as if attempting to start a new argument, but he cuts himself off and pinches the bridge of his nose.

"Hey, you've seen it first hand, you know how all-encompassing modern intelligence work is."

"This is way different." Dillon says, looking up. "That's security on the net, cameras in the streets, this is a bug in your spine reading your mind."

"It really isn't all that different if you think about it. I've seen the shit you can pull when you really need to follow someone, and lord have mercy if they have cerebrals it's as close as you can fucking get, but here, it's one thing you can talk with that asked nicely instead of a committee you've never met." Dillon hooks his thumbs in the loop of his pants and grinds his teeth in silence.

"Okay, I'll admit the offer is genuine, but I'm still not interested." Dillon says finally. Jackob nods.

"So how about those other augs, then?" He asks. Dillon taps his foot against the floor rapidly.

"Fine, fuck it, I'm good as dead without 'em any way." He says and walks out the door in a huff. The speaker quickly walks out to lead the way in the darkened corridor. Jackob looks over to Lyle and nods slowly.

"I'm sure he'll come around on the augs at least. This stuff is damn good."

A speaker walks up to Jackob.

"You wanted to join the Hive, yes?" It says, holding out the squirming parasite. Jackob jumps back slightly.

"Jesus, you shouldn't have shown me the damn thing. Sweet lord, just put me under and don't mention where you put it. Not interested in knowing."

>>41491035
what about michael and his doctor friend?

>>41491035
We mindbroke the agent

>>41491035
We don't manipulate him anymore, but he got a thorough mental scrubbing. Either way, I mostly figure that >>41490996 is the intent anyway- we're basically just placing a marker on him.

>>41491058
>>41491073
Oooh right those two. Well fuck em, they weren't allies.

Ah man this exchange is hilarious

>>41490979
There are as likely to be souls in organic beings as there are machine-spirits in refrigerators, they're all fundamentally machines that we understand how they work perfectly. There aren't any gaps here to fill in with magic.

>>41491052
>"You wanted to join the Hive, yes?" It says, holding out the squirming parasite. Jackob jumps back slightly.
>"Jesus, you shouldn't have shown me the damn thing. Sweet lord, just put me under and don't mention where you put it. Not interested in knowing."
kek

Honestly, it's fine that Dillion gave the no, IMO. If he still agrees to help us, he's our designated 'plausible deniability' agent. We have nothing connecting him to us that's not heresay, so if something happens, he is officially an independent entity. A spook until the end, really.

>>41490398
>>41490398
You know, we could probably sell a version of our parasite as a designer drug in alien space- have a clone peddle it in a faux synthetic frame like an aug that dispenses happy feelings and euphoria, while giving us a massive organic botnet.

>>tfw your first time posting in hqq after lurking for the last five threads
For Mother!

>>41491052
and thus lyle got a new brother to reek untold havoc upon the humans territories with!

>>41491219
It fits his personality really. Would not expect him to act any other way.