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>>47632547
>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 16 MN
Metals: 10 MM
Credits: ₡2,226
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,175,000

Active trade routes
[establishing] Leeland – Lanway: HMS Orphan, Captain John Spreckels

>Construction underway
[Citadel Hive ship] – 50%

>Formed fleets and orders
Small Heavy Defense Fleet [Patrolling Leeland space]
10 Heavy Battle Fleet [Awaiting orders]
5 Missile Ambush Fleet [Awaiting orders]
25 Light Fleets [Awaiting orders]
20 Light Fleets [Under construction]

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
25 Human captives of the USV Hope – 750
[Gemini]
3 Taidaren Hybrids (105)
4 Human flash clone upkeep – 120
18 Human hybrid clone upkeep – 540
Specializations:
>Tech
>Engineer
>Brawler
[Hive space]
100 Human Hybrids – 3,000
Lyle Rogers – 57
Jackob Eisner – 56
Dillon Reager – 30
Clone/project upkeep – 3,908N

>>47632547
YESSSS I JUST CAUGHT ITSD START!!! but i cant type much due to left hand surgery. Welcome back QD!

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>>47632573
Disclaimer: resource management has changed drastically, and has likely gone down in many places, but so has costs. Income and costs may continue to change based on your feedback and balancing issues that may arise. Please forgive any horrible issues that may arise as we switch over to Hive Queen Quest second edition. As a quick introductory course, here are the basic rules.

Every planet has a stat for every resource ranging from 0-100 representing quantity, availability, and ease of extraction and processing of that resource, as well as a development stat that represents the level of infrastructure present on the planet. Drone population will rise automatically with the development score, automating worker production as well as maintaining a basic but competent militia of drones of a balanced variety chosen from your designs.
To calculate a planet's income, you add the planet's resource stat to the stat bonus of any structures, then multiply by the development score. Due to balance issues, nutrient income is multiplied by 1k as well, using the following equations.

(Nutrient stat + structures) * 1k * dev score + modifiers = Nutrient income total
(Metal stat + structures) * dev score + modifiers = Metal income total

The upkeep of planets and their structures are no longer given as hard numbers, but are taken from the planet's income total or infer penalties to one or more of the planet's stats. Some may have other effects or special costs or effects, both good and bad, and in general is all subject to change based on feedback.

>>47632547
Second verse, same as the first.
ITS BEEN SO LONG.

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>>47632597
Hive Territory
[G-426]
*Leeland (capital)
N 60+40
M 45
Development 50

Income:
4.886MN
162.5KM

Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System: Uses long range missiles to attack enemy ships in the system (1KN, Additional costs per launch)
>Anti-orbital batteries: Directly attacks enemy ships in orbit (8KN)
Military structures
>Hangar facilities: Deploys atmospheric and orbital drones to intercept attackers, uses aerodynamic and fighter drone designs (4KN)
>Psionic Shroud: Conceals hive activity from psionic senses (1KN)
Industrial structures
>Docking Pylon: (2000) (100KN)
[Empty docks: 8000/8000]
Economic Structures
>Smart Mines active: Calculates development stat twice for metal income
>Algae Farm: +25N
>Film harvester dock: +15N
Asteroid mining base: 50KM per day added to nearest planet.

[M-662]
Raligha
N 90+20
M 10
Development 25

Income:
3.75KN
0M

Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System (1KN)
>Anti-orbital batteries: 35/35 (8KNN)
Economic structures
>Bloodroot collectors: Pipes running from Bloodroot trees extract nutrient rich sap +20N
>Greystalk farms: [under construction]
>Greenwall pit: Genetically engineered plant efficiently recycles waste material, Extra N income x2
>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
N 0
M 100
D 10

Income:
0N
100KM

>Smart mine mantle excavation: Calculates development stat 3 times for metal income

Deep space waystation
>100 docking pylons (10KN)
[Empty docks 400/400]

New Construction Options [Coming soon: Something that isn't the text equivalent of a Crunch Bar]

>>47632573
so that MN is million nuets and million metals I take it?

>>47632658
Speaking of constructions: Has our hive come across any new structure types that we simply never asked to make? Like suicide drones added to the drone hanger, docking pylon cannons, etc? Because I feel like our building pool is a bit underwhelming.

NUKE THE WHALES
GAS THE SQUID
STAB THE MONKEYS
TRUST NOTHING
THE VOID IS WATCHING

>>47632547
bare->bear

Hooray Hive Queen Quest!

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>>47632666
Correct. Looking at all those zeroes was like gazing into the gaping maw of the void itself.

>>47632658
Finished Research

>Photon blade
A beam of massive photons arranged in a linear pattern and emitted from a palm sized projector, creating a semi-solid line of photons that quickly return to their normal, non-massive state at an adjustable distance of a meter or less from the projector. The result is a glowing beam capable of being used as a blade. Upon contact with matter, the beam has a similar effect as a blaster, sublimating or melting the material nearly instantly. While it actually has less overall cutting power when compared to the larger and more damaging thermal and vibro blade options, the photon blade is smaller, lighter weight, and cannot be broken by virtue of not actually being made of solid matter to begin with. The blade can be easily used by non-hive life, where the light weight nature of the blade can be used to its full advantage.

>Holographic haptic feedback
With a mixture of basic hard light technology application and minor advancements in holographic technology, this new holo projector is capable of creating holograms capable of providing the sensation of touch. While the image itself is still an obvious projection, the provided haptic feedback offers a number of advantages in entertainment, usability, and training potential.

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>>47632750

I've been waiting for this!

>MN
>KM
Can I request that we please use the same units for both types of resources? It just confuses me otherwise, and it's not a big difference, you'd only drop the period in this case.

>>47632658
>Raligha

>Income:
>3.75KN

Shouldn't that say 'MN'. is the 1k multipler missing.

I find it doubtful it has 3 order of magnitude less income than Leeland, when it has only half its development score.

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>>47632773

[New Equipment unlocked]
Photon Saber – An adjustable beam of hard light emitted from a small hand held hilt shaped device. The saber is capable of penetrating most armors with relative ease, although thicker and more heavy armor requires sustained contact with the blade. While it deals less damage compared to more time tested melee weapons, its small size and light weight mean it can be wielded by individuals without a full drop suit, and can be concealed easily when not in use. Due to the dangerous nature of the weapon, the user must either have extensive specialist training, or a hive parasite to assist in its use to avoid injury.

New Research Available

>Holo-simulation training
While the hive is fully capable of imprinting false memories or running mental simulations within an individual's mind, there is still some level of fidelity lost in translation. By combining mental imprinting with an immersive holographic simulation, non hive life forms can be made to quickly gain and test new skills and abilities, greatly boosting performance as well as running simulations for specific missions to increase the odds of success.

>Entertainment Holo-suite
A technology that offers no real value to the hive itself, a dedicated entertainment system built from the advanced holographic technology of the hive could prove greatly profitable during inter-species relations.

>>47632750
I blame google for that one. I checked it myself not a moment ago.

>>47632773
>Photon blade

So, we invented light sabers?

>>47632851
I'd undress with you nonetheless.

>>47632773
oh hell yes now we can get some holobooths for our human pets and to sell for more dosh!
>>47632851
and here is the tech in question. Now can we find a way to create holodecoy devices for subterfuge?
>>47632875
I am thinking something like a protoss psi blade only made from light. Lightsabers are basically plasma swords but powered by crystals and space science. But basicly yes we did

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>>47632851

Current Research

>Photonic armor
Medium
While it is not nearly as robust as what your thinkers promise from the miniaturization of shield technology, these small plates of massive photons are solid enough to deflect weapons fire and absorb energy for a brief period of time. Less a portable defensive shield and more of a temporary deployable cover, this technology, in theory, would offer drones or agents a way to quickly protect themselves during a momentary lack of cover before the photons dissipate.

>Personal shielding
Slow
By further shrinking the emitters, your thinkers believe they may be able to eventually make them small enough to be equipped to the carapace of a drone, or to the surface of an armored suit. At this time it is mostly speculation and an eagerness to please mother beyond all reason, and you cannot be sure what the limitations may be, but the thinkers are sure they can do it.

>Shield dome
Slow
The opposite way of thinking as personal shielding, by scaling the shield emitters up further to a size that would be impossible to hold and power on a ship, your thinkers suspect they should be able to construct a defensive perimeter around a hive center protected by a powerful defensive shield. The thinkers that have proposed the idea seem to be certain in the failure of the other project, as they are of this one, and you have had to separate the quantum thinkers as they attempted to disprove each others’ theories more than develop their own.

>Complex matter reconstruction
Slow
Your thinkers suspect that by utilizing and combining advancements in quantum theory with your teleportation technology it may be possible to increase the threshold of items that can be transmitted from pure substances and elements, to more complex alloys and objects of more complex shape and size, potentially allowing for the transmission of equipment, weapons, or mechanical components.

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>>47632773
Aw yeah, research!
And Photon Blade finally. Now I can post that ambassador design.

>>47632851
>>Holo-simulation training
>>Entertainment Holo-suite
It feels like these are pretty much the same thing. I mean, if we take sim, we can still market it as entertainment.

>>47632897
Im just thinking of all the "X, I am your mother" shit we could pull.

>>47632813
One is Kilo, another is Mega.
What's confusing about this?

>>47632851
Can we install the Entertainment Holo-suite on our battleship in Commonwealth space? Giving a full audio-visual presentation with them(like with regards to history and battles, etc) would probably be more impressive than having our speakers merely talk about events or verbally give evidence.

>>47632903
The Photonic Armor could be quite useful on strike craft (fighters and bombers) hulls as alabative armor. Absorb blows and shred away, taking the bite out of anything hitting the craft.

>>47632914
About that? Nothing. It's just hard to separate them at a glance.

>>47632851
Guess our newly purchased 'pets' have not arrived yet.

>>47632773
>Photon blade
I can't wait to show lee, his reaction will be great.

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>>47632903
>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.

>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.

>>47632827
The development score makes quite the difference. Plus, despite Raligha's lush nature, you have done little to exploit it in preference of leaving the locals their space.

>>47632911
One is America's Army, the other is Call of Duty, essentially. The research is mostly in tuning its marketability.

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Have salvaged the Obsidian Queens Hive Capitol after it crashed and are we searching for the psionic signal?

OQ must have a good reason to direct such a large force there considering her repeated losses

>>47632933
I had the idea for combining it with the Ramming ships as a regenerative crumple shield

>>47632933
And the shield dome could be mounted on a station or fortress defense as a wide screen projector to put infront of a defending fleet. Have multiple stations in a certain array and you could copy our current ship's multi layor shielding tech but on a truely grand scale. Take the bite right out of any alpha strike.

>>47632919
Good idea, a movie theater will be a great diplomacy tool.

>>47632957
>One is America's Army, the other is Call of Duty, essentially. The research is mostly in tuning its marketability.
Yes, but what we'd be researching is the underlying technology. A modern PC can run both those games, and a lot more. The "games" themselves should be trivial in comparison.

>>47632903
All those defensive techs. We could make the tankiest drone there ever was. Literally a moving wall.

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>>47632957
>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.

>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.

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 Holo-simulation training
>Add Entertainment Holo-suite
>Add both
>Add neither

>>47632907
Oh god I just had the best/most horrifying idea! We could use the tech to hide a really nasty combat drone to make it look "human" or atleast non hostile, like your image...only it would have a shit load of arm weapons and the like. >>47632912
It shall be glorious
>>47632942
inb4 nerdgasm
>>47632903
PERSONAL SHIELDING MUST OBTAIN NOW!!!!! also complex mater reconstrction sounds like our gateway to becoming true hivers, gate network and all!

>>47632957
Can we copy what the gardener had in development?

>>47632990
>Add both
Why even ask?

>>47632990
>>Add Holo-simulation training
What even is research speed determined by now.

>>47632981
That could work. Works on smaller craft as a disposable regenerating armor, works on larger craft as a ramming prow, which uses some tech we got from the pirate hook people.

>>47632990
>>Add both
SCIENCE!

>>47632990
>>Add both
The research time for both should be almost the same as for either on their own, right?

>>47632907
I like the wings and the general design idea. The central body coloring is a bit too, eh, random for my liking. It's a bit like a 5 year old kid dumped every color of paint together in a can and poured it out randomly. I like the idea of a mimetic skin, but let's have it be a bit more uniform and a little less seizure inducing.

Still a really neat design/artwork, though.

>>47632942
We can only give one to Jackob, he's the only one who can benefit from it.

Lyle already has stronger, tougher blades in his arms, and Jackob and Lee lack the parasites to let them use it without killing themselves.

>>47632981
Nice idea. Also I think were where searching for it while salvaging at the same time..

>>47633024
inb4 nazi bug uniforms

>>47633035
You mean Dillon and Lee lack the parasites, right? Jackob has a parasite.

>>47632990
>Add both

>>47632990
>Add both
Also how has the retweak affected thinkers/research?

>>47632957
omg everything about these sounds fucking good!!! We become zerg/hiver/nids/scrin in no time! Old mother would be so proud of us.
>>47632990
WHy is that cannon prototype not put onto a special "black projects" list that is simeply stated we have x of at the start ofa thread?? I feel that keeping it in the list of potential sci projects is a disaster waiting to happen.
>>47633035
I dont think he ment "giving" lee one so much as just showing him "look what mother has made!" and listen to him nerd out.
>>47633073
GAS THE SQUIDS now?

>>47633024
I think the author did this to represent mimetic skin. It can be whatever color the ambasador needs it to be.

>>47633024
Well, it's supposed to change colors, though I imagine in practice it won't actually be that psychedelic and instead be more stable and calming.

>>47633073
no

>>47633073
It doesn't have to be that bad. lol. The wings are totally fine, for example. But they aren't totally random/distracting in the same way that the current body scheme is. At least adding a bit of symmetry to the body colors (which can be changed at will into random things if we need/want to due to mimetic skin) would be less confusing at first contact and distracting during diplomacy.

Reminder to let the twins and Coil travel with Lyle again.

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>>47632990
>Add both

Now before we get started, I just wanted to make sure everyone know's what's up with the drones themselves. You are no longer paying a direct upkeep cost for any actual drones, that includes workers, warriors, wasps, ect. They are all now tied into the "Development score" of the planet. You can choose to increase it and expand your colony, which will increase the drone population and with it the size of the local defensive swarm. The local defensive drones will be composed of a balanced mixture of your drone designs. In addition, buildings like the hangars no longer only offer space for drones, but will automatically maintain and deploy swarms of aerodynamic drones in a balanced mixture of your designs.

So your drone designs do still matter, but the laying of them is now tied into the development of the planet. Likewise, all ships will be assumed to be carrying a decent supply of drones at all times.

Now, writting.

I saw an idea last week for reaching out to the Pale Ceph in Union space and giving them Mimetic skin and adaptive camouflage to cure their defects as a charity thing. Should we invest in that?

>>47633168
Hey boss

When is the next union supply ship coming to our home sector again?

Is it in a few weeks or going to happen soon?

>>47633178
It would be better to use a retrovirus (perhaps put it into Union water supplies - it does nothing to non-Ceph. we reach more this way.) to do what we want (that also changes their reproductive organs, so the changes are passed on), as opposed to having to manually modify each one.

Alright, here are my plans regarding last thread's events.
>build self destruct pods and send them to scout as much of OQ's territory.
>Increase construction of ships, specifically raiding ships.
>begin plans for an invasion of OQ's industrial wolds.
We also need to prevent OQ from attacking the union and taking their tech. i suggest this plan from last thread.
>Any ship that comes here will receive a broadcast telling them to get out of here, any further attempts to communicate will trigger the same message, any attempts to board or attack shall be met with weapons fire and reinforcements.
>>47633119
I want Coil to meet heretic or at least learn skyl history.
Since I'm mentioning heretic can we open contact with the valen in the Tannhauser system and buy the skyil planet?

>>47633178
Sure, once we let ourselves be known, it sounds like a great way to undermine their societal norms.

We need to find out why OQ went into union space?

Was she just looking for any other hives we could have there and a weakpoint?

Or did that free void crystal send out a signal to her specifically to tell her to rescue it?

Since the Valen a currently building a Gate at their colony (formerly the skyl homeworld), we should send a cloaked pod to spy on the construction.

>>47633119
Reminder they are having more fun rolling around in fungus and don't need to be sent into Mauser's warpath of death and destruction.

>>47633233
Reminder that as fun as random designs and clever ideas are we are burning precious bump limit and we'll hit it before 10pm at this rate unless we focus exclusively on the contents of QM's posts instead.

>>47633178
The value of surreptitiously copying their memories in case they learned more about the smuggling routes than Coil did is certainly there.

But this is an idea for far in the future/to talk about at the end of the thread.

>>47633233
How exactly do you anticipate that plan preventing the OQ from attacking the Union and taking their tech?

From the standpoint of not wanting the OQ to have Union tech it would be better to initiate first contact and, you know, warn them.

>>47633178
I don't mind selling our services for healing and upgrades

But it seems we are getting ahead of ourselves cause i doubt that union officials will allow us to offer our services in their territory without making us give them the tech base involved

>>47633270
She might have tried to find a route to blindside us with. Unfortunately for her, we're almost surrounded by other civilizations and she has to go through them first.

Reminder that the OQ ships we encountered last thread seemed to be prototype stealth ships.

Did we recover the wreckage?

>>47633233
Here's a better idea. Let's go find her Capital planet and try to capture her. Capture her planets and resources is effectively impossible due to her tech.

>>47633270
OQ was just doing some standard scouting, probably has ships poking around dozens of systems. She isn't hampered by thread time or QM inattention.

>>47633283
I want to patrol the border between the union and OQ, and even if we warn them OQ can salvage their tech from destroyed ships. Also the union will probably do something stupid to spite us.

>>47633330
No we destroyed them because of a union picket fleet was closing in

>>47633330
We recovered some wreckage before we had to flee. But not a lot.

>>47633338
We may need to warn the Union.
Even if only as a cryptic message attached to an anonymous campaign donation.

>>47633330
No we had to destroy the evidence, i would also like to mention the ships could have been and alternative attempt at scouting us, since if they succeed the thinkers will tell OQ everything they saw and if they fail OQ will know we might be there.

>>47633233
>>47633338
Why are we worried about OQ getting tech?

She already has sample of unity ships so she probably already started research on them

We should be worried about where her fleets are being positioned

And if she contacted the ceph yet

>>47633357
That's why i want the message broadcast, get them spooked.

>>47633330
We just need to trade with our AI buddy for gravity sensors.

And then promptly develop something to counter it and park a stealth ship around him again until he notices and makes more tech we can trade for.

>>47633283
No, from that standpoint the best thing is to distract the OQ and occupy her forces.

The Union is already quite cowardly when it comes to exploring space after the recent disasters, they aren't going to go stick their dick in that beehive.

'Warning' them does nothing but give them a reason to look at OQ's systems which is the opposite of what we want.

>>47633338
What 'border'.

It's space, the blink drive fucking teleports right past anything, and the warp drive easily goes around anything.

All we have to do is a) chart out every one of OQ's systems b) launch a molecular disassembler warhead attack on every single planet at once, with the warheads on board cloaked pods, to crash onto all the ship producing areas.

Then we begin operation mopup and make any exploration of human space too costly for her.

But first we have to actually view all the systems we sent pods to, which might never happen.

>>47632907
As the anon who posted that design on the wiki, I love it. Disarming in all the right ways and perfect for communicating directly with races that may be suspicious of us.

>>47633357
>>47633388
The union going to send a ship to our capital soon remember

We probably use that for first contact then

>>47633231
You may not know what a retrovirus is.

>>47633378
When did she get Unity ships? He nuked any ships that got infected and she sure as hell didn't mount a salvage op in the middle of a space battle.

Also the Ceph view the Hive as the antichrist, that's unlikely to change just because OQ has a crystal motif.

>>47633396
>We just need to trade with our AI buddy for gravity sensors.
How new are you? Seriously.

>>47633378
You have a point but i believe Theseus already has added self destruction capabilities to most of his ships because we have researched so fast.
I just want to remove her industry capabilities before she closes the tech gap.

For the time when we actually introduce ourselves to the humans and they start asking questions about the speed of our research and taking over our homeworld, What if we say that we had simply rediscovered a wild colony and took it over?

Basically, we say that we allready had the tech due to being old empire, we built up the planet because we had people on the ground so why not, and we get to talk to humans without scaring them more than neccessary.

>>47633330
It was just her spending less resources to make more ships.

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>>47633168

The hive churns with activity. Your drones scurry through the Hel's Angel as you fine tune the ship's systems, solidifying the links between the human tech and your own as the taidaren twins run after them in a panic, unsure of what they are doing but concerned all the same of the status of the ship they have so carefully maintained for so long. Much of the repairs and new systems are entirely alien to them, appearing as pulsing veins coiling through the conduits, mixing with the wires and circuitry of various subsystems.

Deeper in the tunnels of your hive, Lee leaps back, stumbling slightly before regaining his composure and ducking to evade a jab. A swift kick to the inner thigh sends him to the floor.

"That's twenty two seconds before kissing the ground." Dillon says as he looks at his watch. "That's a new record." Lyle stands over Lee as he wryths on the ground in agony, and extends a hand.

"Quit the bitchin. That's better than most." He says with some attempt at sympathy. "Those little bastards should have the ship ready to go by now." He says. "We just need a location at this point, and we should be good to go crash that Union spy party."

Lee stumbles his way to a seat and drops his head to the table as he lets out a subtle wheeze.

"The plan is still to wait for them on Aral, right?" Jackob asks.

>Have Lyle and the crew wait on Aral, and lure the Cortez there
>Set up a trap on another world (write in)
>Other

>>47633423
No the ceph came to her aid when killing mom remember, the crystals are giving the orders

And of course she got some samples

She forced unity to retreat and attacked so many different sites at the same time

It obvious to think she destroyed unity ships and got there wreckage for research

>>47633429
He detected our ships by using refined grav sensor arrays right?
My memory is foggy on the details, but he can detect us. Should work just fine vs the new OQ ships she is making.

>>47633336
>QM writes her scouting
>QM inattention
You're one of those bastards who always chew on QMs aren't you.

>>47633499
>>Have Lyle and the crew wait on Aral, and lure the Cortez there

>>47633499
>Have Lyle and the crew wait on Aral, and lure the Cortez there

Stick to the plan then?

Cause problems between union and the valen clans then?

>>47633499
>>Have Lyle and the crew wait on Aral, and lure the Cortez there
>Send Coil to pilot the ship

>>47633499
Yes yes, and I hope the drones made high-quality human-style flying digital holo-recorders for the Lyle vs. Mauser showdown.

Maybe a personal communication device or two for making teleconferencing taunting.

>>47633499
>>Have Lyle and the crew wait on Aral, and lure the Cortez there

>>47633499
>Have Lyle and the crew wait on Aral, and lure the Cortez there
Let's have Lyle tell us what kind of drop suit he wants. Let's also have him set up a hive on Aral and make some deals with the local Valen on Aral.
>>47633507
We had that tech for a long time.

>>47633499
>Have Lyle and the crew wait on Aral, and lure the Cortez there.
Have the twins join them, but coil needs to learn skyl history.
Also give them light sabers.

>>47633499
>Have Lyle and the crew wait on Aral, and lure the Cortez there
Do we have the new power suit for Lyle made yet I can't remember

>>47633499
The cortez has an A-class relay, have the angel connect to it and break the link.

>>47633601
The one on 1d4chan talk page is absolute shit we could ask what he prefers.

>>47633633
I just want to know if we made it yet plus I'm pretty sure it had tech on it we don't have yet like personal shields

Guys. Can we focus on QM's posts only please. We get little enough HQQ as it is.

>>47633499
>Have Lyle and the crew wait on Aral, and lure the Cortez there
Meanwhile Lee has to prepare for possibly teleconferencing with the Lee Fanclub tomorrow.

>>47633555
Coil can't pilot a fucking blink drive you mong. It has a mind of its own that listens only to Mother.

>>47633507
Apparently really foggy, the queen bought G-field sensors as soon as the hive learned it existed.>>37628075 How can you remember Unity showed they had it but not Theseus trading it away literally right after.

>>47633501
So the Ceph came to her aid once the crystal were involved, fair enough but we don't know they'd cooperate with her unless they were ordered to and by that point we'd already be fucked since that'd mean the crystal gods themselves have declared jihad against us.

I forgot that she attacked multiple systems at once, my bad. It's reasonable to assume she's got a few Unity techs unlocked, then.

>>47633499

"That's the plan." Lyle says. "I can hide the Angel in the desert and put up a cloak, but I'd like a pilot to keep her ready to move, in case they start dropping nukes."

"That's doubtful." Dillon says. "You have any idea what kind of shitstorm it would cause for a Union ship to start bombarding a Valen colony?"

"You're assuming they think I can't make one bigger." Lyle says. Dillon seems to ponder on the statement, then shrugs.

"That's... actually a good point."

>Let Coil pilot the ship
>Keep Coil in the hive
>Other

>>47633651
>>47633633
>>47633601
Enough time as passed to have built a heavy carapace for Lyle, and a medium one for Jackob and Dillon if you would like to provide one.

>>47633662
Actually I'm pretty sure the celph attacked both of them the crystals don't seem to care about thier slaves

>>47633499
Oh yeah lee is getting some holo combat training, it will be just like a game to him I bet.
>>47633658
Hmmm the banter is what gives the thread life, but yess I do think people should atleast make larger post. >>47633671
Hrmm how has our squid taken to the "new" ships? I dont remember if he has flown it since, though I supose the alternative would be a clone . >>47633703
Whats the cost?

>>47633671
>Let Coil pilot the ship

>>47633671
>Let Coil pilot the ship
>Other
send the twins along

>>47633671
>Let Coil pilot the ship
Ask the twins if they want to come too.

>>47633703
Yes pls.

>>47633658
You can't stop the shitposting. Don't even try.

>>47633671
>>Keep Coil in the hive
Lyle, my son... the ship is alive. The ship IS a pilot.

>>47633750
Plus I'm pretty sure the ship has a non sentient A.I. on it.

>>47633671
>>Keep Coil in the hive
That said, a variety of flies and a virginal winged egglayer will probably be stowing aboard the Angel to at least colonize Aral a little bit.

>>47633671
>Let Coil pilot the ship

>>47633710
No its obvious that the ceph were called in to back up OQ once mom kick the crap out of OQ fleet

And once we kicked the ceph the Masters themselves came onto the field to finish the job

>>47633671
>Let Coil pilot the ship.
But give him lessons on skyl history while the ship drives itself.

>>47633852
>WOOOOOW IT TOOK 3 ALIEN RACES TO KILL ME LMAO

>>47633703
Do it.

>>47633882
Mom was tough

>>47633703
>>47633886
Yes do it

>>47633852
We might have to start development of the Psionic cannon when we invade OQ.

>>47633671
>>Let Coil pilot the ship

>>47633882
Old Mom was pretty boss, shame we didnt manage to retreive her remains. Our genetic compatability would probably have made deciphering her tech much easier.

>>47633671
>>Keep Coil in the hive

>>47633949
If she's actually dead and not just hiding out somewhere licking her wounds

>>47633914
I don't know the crystals were damaged in the fight we don't know if they can recover from those injuries ( normal crystals don't) they might not risk it

>>47633671
>Let Coil pilot the ship

>>47633671

>Keep Coil in the hive

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>>47633671

"Well you still have that squid, don't you?" Jackob says. Lyle scrunches his nose.

"That little shit? Yea, he's somewhere." He seems to think on the idea for a moment as he chews on his cigar. "He's a goddamn little shit, but an alright pilot." He turns to a passing worker. "Hey, make sure Coil's strapped in and ready to go when we get to the ship." He says. The worker continues on its way, while elsewhere in a small lab, several workers enter the room with your speaker, and carry Coil down the hall has he protests with vibrant strobing colors while your speaker gives him his mission briefing.

Your hive has worked diligently on your new equipment for your human allies. Your drones have prepared a suite of new weapons and armor for this occasion, gleaming design choices from your guests' subconscious input. You have already put in the resources, all that needs doing now is finalizing the equipment and presenting them to your guests.

http://pastebin.com/z4yZdEbK

>Customize Lyle's Heavy carapace
>Refit it as it was previously
>Other

>Provide Dillon and Jackob custom medium carapace suits (write in)
>Provide unfitted suits and have them customize them I just stat them out myself
>Other

>>47633974
I was the anon who rolled a 1 looking for her remains. so. Shes probably obliterated

>>47633671
>Keep Coil in the hive

>>47634001
>Refit it as it was previously
>Provide unfitted suits and have them customize them I just stat them out myself

>>47634001
>Refit it as it was previously
>Provide unfitted suits and have them customize them I just stat them out myself

>>47634001
>Other
Let him choose what he wants.
>Provide unfitted suits and have them customize them

>>47633949
Right? I was so sad/mad on that roll.
>>47634009
it wasnt that low, it was like 24-32 really low when the number needed was 80+
>>47634001
Lets customize it out later after the thread is done.
>Provide unfitted suits and have them customize them
sounds fine to me.

>>47634001
>Provide unfitted suits and have them customize them I just stat them out myself

>>47634001
Only Lyle and Jackob get a suit. Jackob is our son now after all.

Dillon will have to deal with it like the glorified stepchild he is.

>>47634001
>Let him choose what he wants.
>Provide unfitted suits and have them customize them

>>47634001
>Provide Dillon and Jackob custom medium carapace suits (I would suggest grav coil wings, mimetic skin with medium armor with thier choice of weapon

I just remembered that when we meet the commonwealth/union leaders we will have to decide if we send a fake queen or one of those diplomacy drones we saw in the garden flashback.

>>47634186
>grav coil wings
No. Those are shit without shields.

>>47634250
Thier jump packs thier awesome

>>47634152
heh the red head step child of the bunch.
>>47634237
lets save that for the end of thread discussion friend, have limited time.
Keep it relevant to the GM post please
>>47634250
How so?

>>47634001
>>Customize Lyle's Heavy carapace
Plasma cannon
Photon Blaster
2 swarm missile pods
Thermo-vibro blade
Sonic sledgehammer\

>Provide unfitted suits and have them customize them

>>47634284
>>47634271
They break easily.
>>47634271
>thier
Learn to spell.

>>47634285
This looks good

>>47634285
>Thermo-vibro blade
This should be a Sledgehammer.

>>47634347
Hmm we really should look into using photons for flight assist then, I dont remeber if we have a anti grav tech or not.
>>47634313
sorry mate, this wouldnt fit in there, unlike some of the anime ones but I digress.
>>47634285
Well since typing halfway through the design I had caused my hand to hurt ill go with this one

>>47634001
>Refit it as it was previously
>Provide unfitted suits and have them customize them

>>47633330
It seemed to me like they were specially designed to be less dense and less massive than normal ships so as to avoid our G-Sensors, nothing more really.

Oh, on the other hand those Taidaren the Valen was yelling at to GTFO last thread were definitely trying to sell our parasites to the ugly whale motherfucker.

>>47634579
Um, no they weren't

>>47634579
No, the valen was insulting them by calling them parasites and useless fucks

>>47634579
We'd know if that were the case because we ARE our parasites.

>>47634517
>>47634389
>>47634354
>>47634285
You guys do realize this design has several glaring flaws right? Like the Photon Blaster is mediocre unless you have a bunch of them shooting at the same guy and the blade will be shit against the hammer so there is no point in including it on the armor.

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>>47634001
>Provide unfitted medium carapace suits and have them customize them

Your workers emerge from the darkened halls of your hive, their limbs linked into a carpet beneath the large, chitinous crate they carry. Jackob and Dillon get up from their seats as the workers heft the crate up and place it on the floor, and then two others quickly follow. A speaker is perched precariously atop one of the large crates chittering incessantly.

"The Hive has gifts! Good things made my Mother!" It shouts. The crates unfold, flexing open on hinges of muscle as armatures reach out and unfold, each holding a component to a suit.

"Sweet baby Jesus." Jackob whispers. Lee props himself on his chair, one hand still pressing on what is likely a massive bruise on his inner thigh as he gawks at the suits. Lyle steps forward into the large boots on the floor, and the armatures reach out and begin attaching the various components, fusing and flexing them to a perfect fit. Jackob looks over the two others, and steps into one of them, holding his back to the interface that quickly links with your parasite within him.

"So what exactly are these things? They're smaller than a drop suit."

"Yes." Your speaker says. "And faster."

Jackob steps forward from the crate and flexes the arms. Fins ripples along the arms where the carapace flexes in layers over the extendable muscle beneath. He looks over his limbs as his helmet flexes open.

"You need to try this!" He says, grinning ear to ear. "Hey, what's this thing?" He asks as he finds the small cylindrical device lodged in a port in the forearm. With a loud buzz a beam of light erupts from the hilt and flickers in the air. Lee stammers for a moment.

"Is that a..."

"Fuck yea!" Jackob interrupts as he twirls the beam in circles around him.

cont.

>>47634681
See >>47634665
You wouldn't know a good design if it grabbed you by the dick.

>>47634674

Mother gives the best gifts.

Agree with >>47634733 and >>47634665. Bad setup.

...I love Jackob, though.

>>47634665
The photon blaster weakens armor which is useful, you need several to kill someone, the blade is good at cutting things and we don't need 2 hammers.

>>47634665
The photon blaster is useful because it's balanced, while still packing enough of a punch to knock a heavy drone off it's feet, which will be handy when facing off against that jacked up Marine Michael brought along. And you clearly have no idea how those blades work.

>>47634733
We don't need two hammers but I'm sold on changing the blaster out, maybe just install a standard heavy kinetic weapon.

>>47634665
I honestly prefer the sonic hammers over the blades. Photon doesnt need ammo though right?
>>47634674
Let the nerdgasm comence

>>47634815
>The photon blaster weakens armor which is useful
So does our flamerthrower.
>the blade is good at cutting things and we don't need 2 hammers.
>>47634861
>We don't need two hammers
Lyle is a Melee character and the other guy will be packing two hammers which are more effective against armor.
>>47634872
None of our energy weapon require ammo.

>>47634919
The other guy will not be packing two hammers, he will be packing a hammer and a blade as we've already seen him attach to his suit, because he's not a twit with no sense of a balanced armament.

>>47634674
"I get one of those too?" Dillon says as he looks over his own suit. Your speaker chitters.

"No. The Dillon would cause self injury." Your drone says firmly. Jackob chuckles.

"I think you need one of those parasites to use it without chopping an arm off. I feel like I'm almost not even holding it. I'll tell you I sure as hell never learned how to use a sword." Dillon leans back into the open suit and it begins to fold around him. He jumps in place as the neural interface pierces the skin and begins integrating itself with his mind.

"Shit shit shit!" Dillon says in a moment of panic as his limbs cycle through moments of tingling pain and paralysis while the suit folds around him. The helmet slides shut as the eyes along the exterior open for the first time. "The hell, man."

"Relax." Jackob says calmly. "Just let it handle the basics. Same principals as running a PD turret. Leave the little things to the equipment."

"Little things my ass, this thing's getting in my head."

"Well yea, that's how Union suits work too, dumbass." Jackob says with a smug grin as his helmet slides shut again.

It looks like some customisation is picking up interest.
>Customize Lyle's Heavy carapace
Plasma cannon
Photon Blaster
2 swarm missile pods
Thermo-vibro blade
Sonic sledgehammer\
>Let Lyle decide on any changes
>Other

>>47634919
So I could see the use in having a photon blade in meele, though I would think one of our thermo vibroblade things would be meaner. The unbreakable part about the photon blade is nice though.

>>47634964
>Let Lyle decide on any changes
He knows dropsuit combat best

>>47634815
Oh wait, I'm reading the paste bin and it says a single blaster does not gain that effect.
>>47634919
I still don't think we need two hammers even if the other guy does.

>>47634964
>Let Lyle decide on any changes
Give intel on the other guy.

>>47634964
>>Let Lyle decide on any changes

>>47634073
>it wasnt that low
Yes it was. >>36076591

>>47634517
>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)

You've been losing things in the conversion to crystalline neural infrastructure, Thinker Thirty-Seven.

>>47634964
>>Let Lyle decide on any changes
His layout was good already. Didn't he already have missile pods and such?

Have you listed out his original layout specifically?

Until we unlock personal shielding, we don't have a silver bullet to add.

>>47634964
>Let Lyle decide on any changes

>>47635019
Links don't work, it would be better to green text the post and thread it was in.

>>47634964
>>Let Lyle decide on any changes
It's his kit

>>47634964
I'm fine with this
>Let Lyle decide on any changes
But I still think they should have wings on the suits for the extra mobility

>>47635019
what about toxic spore grenades or other such horror inducing bio weapons we can produce?
>>47634964
could we get his original layout please?

>>47634964
Wait. Plasma Cannon was the Suncaster, right.

Mauser has one of those. >>41634441

So yes, Lyle needs one of those too, he never had one on his original suit.

>>47634964
>>Let Lyle decide on any changes

>>47634964
>>Let Lyle decide on any changes

Just like how you should leave tank customizations to tank operators. You should leave drop suit shit to drop suit users.

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>>47634964
>Let Lyle decide on any changes

The suit steps forward, the clawed feet digging into the floor as it steps forward with a loud thud. The helmet seals around him, leaving just enough open along the mouth for his cigar to poke through. He holds out his arms and the armatures attach his selected armaments, largely similar to his original setup with a few minor alterations and upgrades. In one hand, where he once held a chain gun, the relatively similar sting caster is attached and loaded with explosive and armor piercing ammunition, while in the other, where a flame thrower would be the more mission appropriate Plasma Cannon links to the firing controls as it hums with life, the sub-brain of the suit testing its power flow for irregularities. The rest is largely the same as his old suit, with two swarm missile pods, one on each shoulder, and a sword sized thermal enhanced vibro blade strapped to the right arm and a sonic sledge on the left.

He flexes his muscles, and the suit's muscles. The humming blade emerges from its place in his arm with a sound like a tuning fork scraping along a plate. He examines it approvingly, and it slides back.

"So... uh, do I get... anything?" Lee says, unsure of himself as he looks over the suits from his place near the table. Lyle points at him.

"You're staying right here." He says, his voice augmented from the suit's own deep booming voice layered over his own. He flexes his shoulders and wings sprout from his back. He tests them, beating them with the sound like an engine's roar before folding them back beneath the layer of protective chitin. Lee nods quickly.

"O-ok, right." He says, and sits back down promptly. Lyle turns to leave, the bulk of his suit forcing him to almost crawl through the doorway despite its size. Jackob turns back to Lee as he follows the others out.

"Sorry kid, too dangerous. Maybe next time." He says.

cont.

>>47635510
Fucking awesome!

>>47635510
Well, can't say the job doesn't pay well.

So uh, are we going to deal with that potential hive presence on Refuge this thread?

>>47635510
Holo booth training for lee when? Heh maybe make him a field swarm lord aka a disposable mini swarm head, I mean he loves those table top wargames as the nids.
>>47635550
Mother's gifts are best pay

>>47635510
Badass. I'm kind of surprised he went for the sting caster, I always viewed it as the hive's equivalent of the sub machine gun, not a anti armor chain gun.

>>47635559
Yea i would like to finish that, and begin preparations for kicking OQ's ass even further then our mother did.
>>47635564
General lee for president of the union.

so what is our speaker currently doing with the common wealth representative?

>>47635559
I'm hoping so, I've been dying to figure out what was down there for months now.

>>47635559
No, jamming weird shit into Wise's body takes priority.

>>47635632
Improving him.

>>47635632
Trolling him probably beating him at poker

>>47635647
I want to give him thermal vision.

>There was some space left over in his face so we expanded his visible spectrum.

Second heart is mandatory during all Hive surgeries of course.

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>>47635510
The Hel's Angel hums to life as Coil straps himself into the complex set of flexible armatures, grumbling with flashes of muted greys and dark browns. The firm grip of the controls wrapped around his limbs are all that keep him from leaping through the air as Lyle walks to the cockpit to the sound of rolling thunder with each step.

"Coil." He says. The ceph's skin flashes vibrant yellows as his limbs struggle to free themselves from the controls.

"Yes?" His translation equipment says blandly.

"Don't run away this time."

"Yes."

Lyle continues to cast his gaze over the quivering blob of boneless flesh as Coil nervously averts his eyes. Lyle eventually turns to leave.

"Plot a course for Aral. New FTL will do most of the work."

"Yes." Coil says again, the only word he can get the translator to recognize between his vibrantly colored jibbering.

The ship's engines spool up, and it takes to the air, guided into orbit by the many patrols covering the sprawling hive spires of Leeland.

Lee sits at the table, twiddling his thumbs for lack of a better activity. The speaker standing across from him murmurs softly as it breaths.

"This speaker does not believe 'here' was meant this literally."

>Turn your attention to the Commonwealth and your surgical procedure for Wise
>Turn your attention to the planet in the Obsidian Queen's space
>Other (write in)

>>47635681
"Two hearts is normal! One is bad design!"

I fucking love our speakers.

FUG
I forgot you were questing again.

>>47635681
I kinda want to ask him were his god is I mean humans always say "oh my god" when hurt it must be a painful organ

>>47635689

>Turn your attention to the Commonwealth and your surgical procedure for Wise

I'll happily jump into the GM's trap.

>>47635689
Fuck you for making me choose
Let the dice roll
1.Commonwealth
2.Obsidian Queen's space

>>47635689
>>Other (write in)
>Have a powow with Theseus and Heritic. A unified foreign policy seems like a good idea right now.

>>47635689
>Turn your attention to the Commonwealth and your surgical procedure for Wise

What could go wrong?

>>47635689
>Turn your attention to the planet in the Obsidian Queen's space.
We have delayed this long enough.

>>47635689
>>Turn your attention to the Commonwealth and your surgical procedure for Wise

>Other (write in)

Can the Gemini hive say [NEW RESEARCH UNLOCKED] yet?

Or can those implanted Taidarens start spreading the word of how awesome these parasites are to their brothers and mother?

>>47635689
>>Turn your attention to the planet in the Obsidian Queen's space
There be research to be unlocked on this planet!

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>47635713

>>47635689
>>Turn your attention to the Commonwealth and your surgical procedure for Wise

>>47635689
>>Turn your attention to the planet in the Obsidian Queen's space

>>47635689
>Turn your attention to the Commonwealth and your surgical procedure for Wise

>>47635689
>>Other (write in)
LOOKING AT PODS WHEN

>>47635689
>Turn your attention to the Commonwealth and your surgical procedure for Wise

>>47635689
>Turn your attention to the Commonwealth and your surgical procedure for Wise

We need to make him better. Two hearts sound good. Should we remove his appendix while we are at it and replace it with another liver?

>>47635689
>Other (hook up some DSL in there or what ever the hive equivalent of TV is we can steal all the human changes he could want)
>Turn your attention to the planet in the Obsidian Queen's space ( time to meet the maker or her daughter mom couldn't have been the only one)

Hey uh it's been a while and things are kind of blurry for me

Who's wise and why are we doing surgery on him?

>>47635729
Am currently working on a proper set of espionage mechanics, actually, so that infiltrating planets isn't something that takes a dozen threads to get started on.

I can get what I have into a pastebin for feedback in a bit.

>>47635689
Can we do both? With the commonwealth being first?

>>47635792
Hes the human diplomat and he's blind

>>47635792
A diplomat.
We're doing surgery on him to give him new eyes (and a heart; but they wont know that until we tear open his chest in the middle of replacing his eyes).
As a form of gunboat bio-tech diplomacy.

>>47635792
He's the commonwealth rep

We offered to upgrade his eyes

His higher ups told him t take the offer since they plan to research and steal whatever tech we do to wise

We want to do this to build a rep

>>47635792
Commonwealth diplomat, in thread 53 we offered to improve his cyber eyes.

>>47635815
No heart

It would be rude and make us look bad to do that without permission

>>47635792
we have made first contact with the common wealth and now we are showing off our medical tech

>>47635835
We also hinted at immortality but they decided to take the eyes.

>>47635845
The heart is mandatory, we don't need permission to improve.

>>47635721
We're all individuals, we don't need to hammer this shit out with them the way we do with nation states. They're leaving the major decisions to us seeing as we're the resident hive warfare expert and they're ready to commit forces whenever we ask. They're fine.

>>47635815
That reminds me, we promised we'd let their scientists watch. I imagine a pod with the lid off is quite the sight mid surgery. Dis gon b gud.

>>47635824
And the reason we want to build rep is that we hinted to them we can make thing immortal

And want to use that for leverage in future dealings, but we need to show we know our stuff

>>47635865
The took the eyes because they want to study our biotech and they understand the political leverage we have

>>47635879
Yes it is rude

Make us look bad and untrustworthy cause what else did we put in wise

>>47635879
This.

>>47635896
It's not rude. We're simply doing him a service. It's like upselling, except in this case he really does need it.

>>47635792
You should just reread the quest if you're that fuzzy. It's a very simple matter of ctrl-f Wise. You don't need spoonfeeding when you have a search function.
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/42339024/#42342404

>>47635888
>We're all individuals, we don't need to hammer this shit out with them the way we do with nation states. They're leaving the major decisions to us seeing as we're the resident hive warfare expert and they're ready to commit forces whenever we ask. They're fine.
I meant how to deal with the Humans. Having a unified strategy to avoid war would be a good idea.

>>47635865
>>47635879
>>47635851
>>47635845
>>47635835
>>47635824
>>47635815
>>47635813
Is there really this many indviduals posting? Can we please keep our post longer unless the thread is in the 10+ page range please?
>>47635896
agreed, we preform services as agreed, if they want more of mothers gifts they must earn it through trade or service.
>>47635938
avoid war for NOW, we will adopt them at some point, wither or not they like it.

>>47635919
No it is rude

We want to show we can do the job as promised, if it look like were fucking with them or acting funny then they wont trust us

Then they will send agents just to steal our tech

There not idiots, they run a government and know how to do espionage and diplomacy

Let's not put the second heart in. It's funny, but it's just not practical at this point.

>>47635938
Heritc wouldn't care if theyou would help us get his revenge he'd agree other wise he would scold us for shifting our attention and the unity would have mixed feelings about it

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>>47635689
>Turn your attention to the Commonwealth and your surgical procedure for Wise

Your diplomat drone stands at its full height in the shuttle as Wise straps himself to a seat. A large cushioned slab of curvy padding sits in the center of the shuttle's space, covered in straps. One of the two humans in sealed suits offers to help your drone in, and carefully pull the straps into place, snuggly securing your drone to the seat. Your drone looks to them with surprise as it shimmies its body into the almost perfectly formed gel padding and wraps its legs around the customized and adjustable grips. The drone chitters with satisfaction as the two humans take their seats on either side of Wise.

The shuttle quickly docks with your ship, and the umbilical seals along the hull. A cluster of workers line the tunnel beyond, holding out their claws to lead the guests down the pitch black twisting labyrinth of tunnels expanding uniformly in all directions. The medical pods are at the ready, the lid open and prepaired to receive the patient.

>Provide new eyes only
>Provide new eyes and other sight based enhancements (write in)
>Add a second heart
>Other

>>47635988
>>47635980
Offering it is a reasonable compromise, no?

>>47636002
Heretic wouldn't be so presumptuous to chastise us, he's pretty content to let us do things how we see fit. What's the point in trying to micromanage an ally as opaque as we are?

>>47636027
>>Provide new eyes and other sight based enhancements (write in)
Fuck it, give him the full suite! Everything we've got, pile it on, blow it out of the water!

>>47636027
>>Provide new eyes only
>>See if we can sell him on the heart, only having one is a flawed design.

>>47636027
>Provide new eyes only
>>47636029
To late, he would need to ask his superiors for permission

>>47636027
>>Provide new eyes only

Let's stick to what was promised. I don't want them to get too greedy too soon.

>>47635689
>>Turn your attention to the Commonwealth and your surgical procedure for Wise

Make sure to give him cool eyes. Sneak in some radar capability or something.

>>47636027
>Provide new eyes and other sight based enhancements (write in)
Give him less efficient reactive pupils
They want to reverse engineer it so let's trow a bone.
>offer second heart.

These new eyes will be able to record things right? I remember wise saying that his eyes need to do that for his job

>>47636051
We could just act appalled that humans only have one

>>47636027
>add a second heart
>to go with the eyes

>>47636027
>Provide new eyes only
>Other
try and sell him on a second heart but don't force it.

>>47636083
I can get behind that.

>>47636027
Heh they worked fast on that new chair...Maybe the humans can sell us the couch that the pirates couldnt!
>Provide new eyes only
>>47636050
We should offer it to him, give him a first free sample then offer the upsale anon.
>>47636063
This anon gets it

>>47636027
>Provide new eyes only

I just don't want to let them take to close at our tech capability

I accept that we are giving up secrets with the eyes but i dont want to give them to much

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>>47635970
>mfw at your incessant bitching at anons about banter.

>>47636027
>>Provide new eyes only

>>47636027
>>Provide new eyes only
That's all we told him we'd add, might not react kindly if we just added stuff willy nilly while we're in there.

>>47636027
>>Provide new eyes and other sight based enhancements (write in)
Thermal shit I guess, it's the only other sight based one I see.
>>Add a second heart

>>47636083
Backing

>>47636084
We could offer to give photogenic memory to him

>>47636027
>Add a second heart

>>47636027
>>Provide new eyes and other sight based enhancements (write in)
A basic set of "human eyesight plus". Polarization vision, and a broader band of frequencies (IR and UV light in addition to the regular stuff), and night vision adaptations such as predator mammals tend to have, but make sure they are only present when needed and not interfering with daylight vision.

>>47636027
>>Provide new eyes only

>>47636093
>>47636063
We offered to fix his eyes, thermal pits are a kind of eye.

>>47636027
>Provide new eyes only

It's gonna be pretty fun when he looks at his hands and freaks out at all the stuff crawling on them

>>47636176
What?

>>47636027
>Provide new eyes and other sight based enhancements (write in)
>Add a second heart

>>47636181
What eyes would the best if they couldn't be used as a microscope

>>47636176
Can't he see normally? Aren't these new ones just more flesh like

>>47636027
>Provide new eyes only
For Mother!

>>47636096
Nope, Ill drop the name though if it will make you feel better.
>>47636212
For mother!

>>47636236
Dropping the shitty name is step in the right direction, atleast.

>>47636027
>Provide new eyes
>Add a heart son

>>47636027
>Provide new eyes only
Here we go

Rereading Thread 53 and it seems his mechanical eyes have better range and definition while also being able to slightly see in low light conditions, we offered to grow better eyes so we at least need to slightly improve from the original pair.

>>47636348
Everyone is voting for the non-writein option because they can't think of a write in, so it was a foregone conclusion.

>>47636294
Your welcome fuckface.
>>47636316
No heart, make them earn that shit.
I wonder if QD ha seen the house and dominion threads with it's surveys. Those tend to deal with these kind of deadlocks.
>>47636348
that would be a given I thought, maybe not multi spectrum vision but certainly better then the best human eyes.

>>47636372
>>47636373
I just hope that
>Provide new eyes.
means we copy the mechanical eyes functions and make the organic equivalent, would suck if we added regular human eyes when we offered improvements.

>>47636373
>guys stop shitposting you're sliding the thread!
>i'm not bitching, you're a fuckface!

Oh yeah? Well you're a BIGGER fuckface!

>>47636417
Really no one wants the zoom function sigh ok...

>>47636417
>Rip out old eyes
>Stick new eyes in
>Realize not better
>Rip out and replace again
>Guys watching freaking the fuck out.

Its better trust us!

>>47636027
>Provide new eyes only

The pod illuminates the small chambers softly as pulsing bioluminescence grows into the veins and capillaries around them.

"I take it you don't normally rely on the visual spectrum." One of the humans says. The other takes down some notes.

"We appreciate your understanding, and letting us view the procedure." The other says. "I'm sure there are many things you could teach us." They look at Wise, their faces illuminated with the soft blue lights of their helmets.

"Ambassador." They say. Wise looks at each of them.

"Doctors." He replies with a subtle nod. "Excuse me." He floats past them up to the pod where your speaker's body hangs in zero G, held aloft in a standing position like seaweed drifting in the current. "So, how do I do this, exactly?"

"Remove useless fake skin and enter." Your speaker says. Several spindly arms reach out from within the pod. Wise looks back at the two doctors, and they nod quickly, goading him on as they hold up their notepads with fascination.

cont.

>>47636466
There isn't going to be any direct watching, we're putting him into a giant eldritch cunt first.

>>47636436
>shitposting.
The only shitpost was the QTS bait, everything else was actual discussion you whined about fuckface.

>>47636236
Namefag all you want m8. Your bitching is what bothers me. If/When we start to fall off the board QD will make a new thread if he still has runtime available. He has never, ever, told us he dislikes discussion in the thread so cool it.

>>47636497
>>47636436
Will you fuckfaces just fuck already?

>>47636473
Quest Drone, you really should value write-ins as having more weight than simple votes, otherwise none of them will ever be chosen.

>>47636473
"I'm sure there are many things you could teach us."

There ONLY AFTER OUR SWEET SCIENCE

>>47636517
IN THE FACEEEE sorry that was funnier in my head

>>47636523
It's fine man, no need to bother questdrone.
>>47636517
I will never fuck that fuckface, his face is too fucking ugly.

>>47636473
>"Remove useless fake skin and enter." Your speaker says.
I've always loved how our speakers word things.

>>47636529
We drop two globs of hive steem cells in and thirty seconds later we let him out

>>47636498
Fine.
I just wanted to avoid 4 threads taking up 1 ordeal.
>>47636473
I imagine the look on Wise's face to all of this should be recorded for our other children to laugh at.

>>47636589
>It's fine man, no need to bother questdrone.
Not bringing real issues forward is worse than just offering mindless praise. I hate it when my readers do that.

Sure, it's fine in this instance, what's done is done and it wasn't a big deal in the first place. But it's a fact that no write in will ever win against a regular vote if they're weighed equally.

>>47636523
Not when they are retarded.
>>47636596
They will have to earn that.

>>47636597
Questdrone didn't mind multiple threads, as long as we were thinking up good ideas.

>>47636589
>It's fine man, no need to bother questdrone.
You best be fucking joking. He raises a valid point.

>>47636629
I don't know he's pretty good at incorporating write ins with what the vote is even things that people ignore

>>47636597
>Fine.
>I just wanted to avoid 4 threads taking up 1 ordeal.
Mate are you fucking new to this quest or something? Multiple threads are pretty common and not a single person has complained about it. Until you.

>>47636661
Only valid in the abstract. QuestDrone already has a strong track record of making sure to turn write-ins into non-writeins and ensuring a fair vote over them is had-- like that 'admit hive is immortal?' bit in thread 53.

This one was just both retarded and not important enough.

>>47636597
If that's the case then one wonders why you indulge in petty school yard tier name calling. It's only going to get us to the bump limit that much faster.

>>47636723
>>47636705

Agree with both. QD's pretty solid with including writeins.

>>47636723
I think it isn't completely trivial if we go back on the promise we made to the dude about giving him improved eyes.

>>47636629
The options from the past few posts have been plucked directly from our discussion.

>>47636739
Oh right, the promise.

Well you know what they say about promises, anon.

>>47636739
This is our first diplomacy attempt and we need a good first impression, can't go back on the promise or we will end up looking like the valen.
>>47636466
This would be hilarious if QD added it

>>47636765
They get forgotten during hiatuses?

>>47636765
We better not fucking be jewing him. I'd feel bad.

>>47636771
It'd be cool, God damn I remember when we first made/ran into the bug. God bless its sassy mouth.

>>47636473

The pod's arms reach out and swiftly jab a needle into Wise's arm, he jumps with fright, his legs stumbling in the zero gravity as his body seeks something to jump off from.

"That is to prevent pain." Your speaker says as the arms reach out, dragging Wise's body into the pod as he loses consciousness.

"You mean an anesthetic? Would we be able to get a sample, to compare it with our own?" One of the doctors says. Your speaker chitters as it feigns relief.

"Humans know this. That is good." Your speaker says as the arms within the pod, illuminated by the subtle glow, unfold into scoop-like claws and plunge into Wise's skull.

"Very simple. Improvement will not take long." Your speaker says over the muffled grinding sound as the components of the synthetic eyes rattle their way down the hollow tubes of the surgical arms. "Very simple."

The pod produces the new organs, a pair of small, oblong spheres of unformed goo, and thrusts them into the sockets where the unformed cells within quickly begin adapting to the new body, growing muscles to connect to the head, and creating nerves and blood vessels to link with the body. The iris begins to form, flexing open and closed, testing the new muscles as electricity runs through the nerves as your pod links into Wise's nervous system to run a proper diagnostic. His memories pour out like water, sloshing about without order or purpose as his mind drifts freely in unconsciousness.

Please roll 1d100 to quickly memory dive and grab what you can as the procedure finishes.

>>47636629
>Not bringing real issues forward is worse than just offering mindless praise.
I can agree with that for sure. I always try to incorporate write-ins, especially if they're not exclusive to the other option, and if they seem to be closing in on a vote I try to give it extra time or even ask for a re-vote with the write-in added. If it looks like I ignored something, I honestly just missed it and am very sorry.

>>47636794
>We better not fucking be jewing him
but that would mean not providing the very best of our services

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>47636808

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>47636808
For Mother

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>47636808
NO JEW FOR HIM!

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>47636808

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>47636808
For mother?

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>47636808

>>47636821
Niiiiiice.

>>47636821
Fuck yes

Good Drone

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>>47636821
Most excellent!

>>47636821
YOINK!