AW SHIT ITS TIME FOR SOME GALACTIC CONQUEST

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>>49171303
[You feel the notice of a Distant Mind]
>Psionic research has received a small boost
>Slip drives have a 10% chance to alert you to their usage

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 33,077,540N
Metals: 36,844,679M
Credits: ₡602,226
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,175,000

Active trade routes
>Leeland – Lanway: HMS Orphan, Captain John Spreckels
[FormOther brand Fusion Reactors]

>Construction underway
[Light Fleet] x5
[Heavy Fleet] x15
[Ambush Fleet] x10
[Fast Assault Fleet] x5

>Formed fleets and orders
Citadel Hive Ship – [Awaiting 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 [Awaiting orders]
-5 Fast Assault Fleets [Awaiting orders]

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

>Income
Metals: 2,950,500
Nutrients: 7,636,000
Net:

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 6,294,510

>>49171309
Holy crap that was fast.

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>>49171323


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
>Capillary Tower [under construction]
>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:
2.75MN
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]

>>49171323
You know it baby.

>>49171323
>Holy crap that was fast.
You underestimate our dedication.

>>49171323
You forgot the three carrier battle groups that are under construction.

>>49171323
>Fast Assault fleets are awaiting orders.
IT'S TIME!

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Best time of the week. Aw yeah.

>>49171440
Time to stick it up worst aunts cootch?

>>49171479
It is time.

>>49171479
Yes.
>>49171355
QD, can we have our ships raid OQ automatically?

You guys do realize the Black Queen is attacking the system with the planets Path and Talgo.

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>>49171355
Finished Research

>Lithovore dissection
Astoundingly, these beasts seem to come in a number of shapes and sizes, living and consuming just as normal carbon based life, only with silicon as a base. Frustratingly, your thinkers have hit a wall unlike any previous research attempt. All methods of genetic decryption and analysis have met with failure, and all attempts to deconstruct the component materials into a properly researchable pseudo-protein compound has also met with failure. The closest thing to a genetic structure, something more similar to a series of interconnected chemical laden viruses and bacteria, offer no real hints to their internal code commanding them. Structurally, the chemical compounds react in a manner that results in a similar behavior as genetic code, but through a more complex process of relaying chemical compounds from one substance to another. A strain of virus-like cells transfer substances back and forth between a more complex chain of silicon bacterium which seems to perform cell division on behalf of the smaller cells. The process is convoluted and confusing, and you are still unsure of the reasoning behind their actions on a cellular level, or even if there is any. As it is, the dead beasts offer little clues, and their genetics, if you can call it that, is glaringly incompatible to your own.
If you are to study these beasts further, you fear you will need a live subject.

>Photonic armor
While weak and quick to decay, the photonic armor still offers a potent defensive capability in that it is capable of rapidly repairing itself and any damage it sustains, making it an invaluable tool for maneuvering over terrain with poor cover for short periods, or offering additional protection from attacks to nearby units.

>>49171421
My bad, copy and pasted them over from your orders but with so many sub-threads I must have missed one. Sorry.

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>>49171531
>Hive-dusting
Alternative methods of hive creep spore dispersal is investigated, using a mixture of the semi-automated hive expansion methods already in use and altering the genetic composition to be more autonomous in nature, allowing spores to be deployed from non-stationary sources such as aerial dispersal from drones or spacecraft, as well as air-burst spore bombs launched from orbit, allowing for hive creep to be deployed in a more aggressive manner, effectively weaponizing the self-replicating infrastructure. The process is slower and more localized than the work of a Capillary Tower, however with no need for a tower to be present, the process can be undertaken more readily in the presence of hostile forces.

New Research Available

>Isolation fields
Very fast
A simple application of known technology, photonic armor projectors are installed in ships and hive facilities to permit the rapid deployment of fields to stop the progress of attackers and assist in damage control, isolating contagions, momentarily halting decompression, and stifling fires and other potential dangers just long enough for a more measured response to solve the issue. In theory, such a collection of simple stop-gap temporary solutions would drastically improve a ship's survivability in combat, allowing it to sustain far more damage than ever before and still continue to function.

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>>49171560
Current Research

>Crystal neural jack implant
Fast
While you doubt it will uncover any new fundamental technology, a more detailed and in depth study of the remaining cerebral implants found within the possessed humans should at least grant you insight into its design, function, and hopefully, weaknesses.

>Smith disection
Medium
A cyborg of still largely unknown details and specifications, the "smith" as they are referred, are among the most potent black ops agents within the Union, using advanced robotics technology that is otherwise highly illegal for civilian use.

>Core Rejuvenation
Slow
The inverse of Core Mining, this process utilizing powerful planetary scale electromagnets drilled deep beneath the planet to artificially force the core to begin to spin. The process causes mild geological and ecological damage, but the resulting effects can be maintained for hundreds of years with negligible disruption to the planet's environment to maintain once the core is rotating. Once the planet's core is active, the planet gains a magnetosphere, allowing it to hold a denser atmosphere capable of supporting life, and the surface becomes geologically active. Allows the terraforming of barren planets.

>Psionic Spores
Slow
While normally the hive spores used to spread infrastructure are little more than genetically engineered nanomachines, replicating and performing their function alone until their built structure is complex enough to receive mental signals, your mixture of psionic research and advancements in spore related genetic programming has made the idea of a psionically sensitive spore seem not nearly as far fetched as it once did. With a mixture of distributed networking and complex cellular reconstruction methods, it could be possible to create a spore strain that would respond to mental signals.

>>49171531
THE QUEEN LIVES!

Also build a moth colony with fake queen moth and cute month talkers.

Yes or not?

>Yes

>research posts
muh dik

>>49171421
Which thread was that in?

>>49171531
>My bad, copy and pasted them over from your orders but with so many sub-threads I must have missed one. Sorry.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/48446300/#p48450457
I assume the rest of its been overwritten by the new construction.

>>49171591
>No

Make me forget the dumb things I did in my life prior to now

>>49171594
It's been too long.

>>49171591
No

>>49171599
We really should start taking screen captures and just link those when we wsnt to reference something. To don’t make the poor Quest Drone rummage over old threads.

>>49171531
Wonder if we can make a more powerful version of photonic armor. If so, installing generators in sections of our ships could act as emergancy bulkheads vs the vacuum of space and help a ships survivability. Not to mention the uses vs boarders.

>>49171636
>>49171599
see >>49171613
Also https://twitter.com/HiveQueenQuest/status/762507471931871232

>>49171640
And on the next post. Heh.

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>>49171586
>Complex organ splicing
Medium
While it is easy to pull a string of genetic data from most carbon based life and infuse it into the hive, making the inefficient genetic structure of other life accept the more efficient and deliberately programmed hive genetic data is far more challenging. In an ironic way, much of the solution seems to involve the utilization of controlled flaws, rendering the mutations deliberately inefficient in order to be more compatible with the host life so as to avoid dominating the host's genetic structure in the same way as the Hive hybrids and chimeras. Such subtle alterations could offer better, more difficult methods of infiltrating or manipulating non-hive life.

>Advanced Psionic Imprinting
Slow
With the application of psionic imprinting you are able to influence and alter the state of matter using only focused and precise mental signals. Your thinkers believe this can be taken further, using more accurate signals and more precise manipulation methods to imprint more complex thoughts and ideas more quickly and easily, and at a greater range.

>Psionic Telekinesis
Very Slow
With the development of psionic imprinting it is now clear to the hive that tachyons can effect real matter in a very real way. While normally so minuscule in nature the forces of tachyonic radiation offers no force whatsoever, a focused, maintained wave of psionics could, in theory, impart a real and measurable physical force. The success of Psionic Imprinting seems to offer prove of the concept in theory, and the only limiting factor now is how efficiently the imparted force from tachyonic particles scales up from the molecular level.

>>49171613
But we didn't vote for that, so it doesn't get in. You can't just throw up an order at the end of the thread after everyone has left and claim that we all agreed to start building it anon.

>>49171640
Seems useful enough as it is. We could equip say, 1:10 of our warriors with it. Could help a lot in firefights or boarding actions.

>>49171531
>If you are to study these beasts further, you fear you will need a live subject.
Great.

>>49171660
Howdy QD and the fuck is that .webm? Is that a mantis?

>>49171673
Except there were plenty of votes for it.

>>49171640
True, although anyone stupid enough to board us is already dead and/or adopted. It'd still be really cool to create hard light bridges, containment, etc in addition to our armor, though. Nothing says "I'm way more advanced than you" like photonics structures.

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>>49171660
>Psionic Cloaking
Medium
A complex practice naturally accomplished by the Phantoms under the care of the Barren Queen, you have been instructed in the basics, and now all that is left is practice and application. In theory it is simple, using carefully woven mental signals to broadcast a sense of non-existence. While this process is most effective against being sensitive to tachyonic radiation, it can be used against virtually any organic being. A psionic race may find entire patches of planet voided from their minds like a mass-induced psychosis, while less attuned or mentally blind species find details of the cloaked unit impossible to remember or describe, or may simply not notice the unit unless it is alone and obvious in appearance. Simply turning around or standing among a small crowd is enough to become virtually invisible. Unfortunately, this invisibility comes at a cost, as it is omni-directional, and any unit enveloped in such a shroud would be unable to mentally communicate with others, effectively cutting itself off from any hive network. This ability requires at least a moderate relay or implant to accomplish, although no drone would do so willingly and cut itself off from the Queen without a direct command to do so.

>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.

>>49171681
Wasp pattern mantidfly. It cannot sting, the wasp colors are all bluff.

It's also more or less the same general shape of your typical small drones, although the drones are a bit bigger (a fly would fill up most of the hand.)

>>49171682
Yes but it was never confirmed by QD in an actual vote. There have been plenty of times multiple anons voted for something after QD left a thread, but he doesn't usually count that unless he confirms it at the time, typically immediately after the thread concludes.

Maybe we could finally give Unity and Heretic artificial gravity in exchange for something, since that's the only thing we agreed about that tech in the past thread?

>>49171743
He confirmed it was valid via twitter at least once. So... yeah.

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>>49171736
>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.

>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.

>Atmospheric static generator
Medium (is done, but working on how it adjusts the Tower's cost in the new system)
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.

>>49171775
Damn, looks like we don't need the Commonwealth's planetary shield generators after all.

Still, might be nice to finally send some ships to assist them if they want to gift us their shielding tech and some of those scav drop suits.

>>49171531
>We need a live Lithovore.
Maybe we should make it a joint research with Theseus and the scarred queen.

>>49171743
To be fair, its not like we are exactly hurting for resources. In fact, we clearly can't spend our resources fast enough as is. So getting worked up over it is silly.

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>>49171775
>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 Isolation fields to research
>Add Psionic Cannon prototype
>Add both
>Add neither

>>49171806
>>Add Isolation fields to research

>>49171806
>add isolation fields
>get a few live lithovores
Doubt that this needs focus, it can be done off-screen

>>49171806
>Add Isolation fields to research.

>>49171806
>Add both

Also that Mantis is terrifying.

>>49171806
>Isolation field only

So, should we give Unity nanotech in exchange of something or a lot of somethings, or just save to give it to him later if it looks like the Void Gods got a freaking army of nowhere?

Because the Void Gods will eventually get something BIG and the only way they can percive unity and Heretic is second hand by piggibacking on us and their slaves.

>>49171736
Combine psionic cloaking and studying the social and heirachical structures of singular civilizations may lead to a plan for function in the event of a crystal attack. It'll be way less efficient, but having functional drones during such an event should not be underestimated.

>>49171806
>Add Isolation fields to research

>>49171806
>>Add Isolation fields to research

>>49171793

Yeah, get Theseus in on it-- and a live sample. We obviously can't understand it, so maybe he can help. Not sure what the scarred queen could do with it though.

>>49171806
>>Add Isolation fields to research only

>>49171806
>>Add Isolation fields to research
grab a few lithovores as well

>>49171806
>>Add Isolation fields to research

>>49171806

>Add Isolation fields to research
Expedition to grab some Lithovores please!

>>49171793
What is with the fetish for joint research. It's not like we don't have a high enough metaphorical Relationship Stat with those guys already, and we aren't hurting for Thinkers of our own anymore, since we don't even count them now.

It's not like when we needed the initial spore research done urgently back when it was still a threat to the fledgling hive.

>>49171806
>>Add Isolation fields to research

>>49171834
>Wanting to commit suicide
Seriously we can't risk research the Psionic Cannon yet.

>>49171855
I just want the scarred queen there because she said rocks aren't alive.

>>49171826
This.
Also we could use Unity help with thise things, what we can give him? Everyone seemed to agree it was okay for Unity to get artificial gravity before. And going for that to fully nanotech life form is not something even Unity could do easily.

>>49171806
>>Add Isolation fields
grab some lithovores

So uh, do we get a photonic armor module or something?

>>49171885

It's not a fetish. We can't understand the Lithovores, maybe Theseus can. We're practically allied now. Remember each race might get different tech options on each item.

>>49171901

Hah! I like you.

>>49171678
Coral is also full of silicon-based life, might as well send some hybrids to turn into a stealth hive there for dissection research.

>>49171845
Actually what I'm interested in Heretic's and Unity's computer tech since it seems like it would unlock a lot of tech for us.

>>49171989
Isn't heretic's and Unity's computer tech a racial tech?
I don't think we can research unity's computers more than what we already have.

>>49171989

Not really much point I think, we already have biological computers in thinkers. Though that reminds me, we parasitized that hacker in the anti-Lyle group didn't we? we should be able to get his specialization soon I think.

>>49171971
Would probably need to minimise it.
Could be a cool alternative to a hard shield thats currently a research option. Something that acts more like the halo spartan II's shielding.

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>>49171826
>it can be done off-screen

Nowhere is in high alert and Tenabris doubly so, getting a stealth mission to do some poaching would be of non-zero challenge. Not that hard, as we can land anywhere on the planet this time, but not instant-success either, as they may be more paranoid about flashes in the nebula.

>>49171989
The only way to do that would to have an AI to do the work on the computer... and that's more or less what we have with Unity.

But really we have to many thinkers and Q thinkers alredy that we are our own supercomputer. What would Quantom Crystal Thinker do anyway? Call our daughter mommy?

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

>>49171921
Oh I almost forgot. Artificial Gravity might reveal tachyons since it would imply certain particles exist which cannot exist without tachyons.

>>49172081
Hence why we agreed only Unity and Heretic could have it. Since the Void Gods cannot watch them directly.

>>49171974
We're still infinitely more capable of understanding the function of life, no matter the form, than Theseus. His knowledge of biological manipulation is basically limited to spraying plants and animals with different compounds and seeing what happens, we should just get a live specimen and do it ourselves.

>>49172081
Unity already knows about tachyons when he met heretic.
We should ask him how's he doing with that knowledge.

>>49172081
He's been talking to Heretic
>>49171921
Multi layered shields

>>49172026
I dunno, he usually has a tool/weapon/module post after that kind of stuff.

Nothing this time

>>49172081
At this point we should probably just gift all the computery-tech to Theseus and ally with him.

I mean, he did give us the recipe for black hole guns.

>>49172130
But that takes the fun out of bartering and trading.

>>49172130
QD said we're already allies.

>>49172052
I'd rather faff about and shoot the shit with theseus than go on some backwards ass planet to capture some pets.

>>49172125
Again, we would probably need to minimise it, which means research.

Just cause the QM aint thought of it dont mean we cant suggest it. Pretty much how we got the idea for multilayer shielding through.

>>49172018
>>49172025
>>49172061
You do realize that the old hives had research project to combine Skyl light-based computers with psionic tech right? And Theseus's AI research could just be applied to our clones.

>>49172109
If we decode the lithovores, we might be able to work with thesus to create a silicon based lifeform suitable for his computer intellect to inhabit.

Shit woud get weird fast. And interesting.

>>49172178
The way he said that it was already usable in some form.

I dunno man

>>49172200
Then we should just give him the nanotech first.

That alone will make him go happy with all the posible options.

>>49172200
THAT IS GENIUS.

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>>49171806
>add isolation fields

In a lab somewhere on Gemini's twin, Gilliam runs over various papers and reports as armed guards pillage his laboratory. He shouts at the frantic activity around him, yelling over the rushing panic of lab technicians running from place to place as military police rummage through desks and shovel through paperwork. The sounds of beakers breaking and instruments shattering against the floor is simply too much when a technician grabs his arm.

"There is a call for you, sir, it's urgent." He says, and Gilliam rushes to his office where his desk beeps methodically. He seals his office from the rest of the chaos outside , reducing the sounds of the barbaric book burning to a low rumble.

"What?" He says abruptly as Winsor's face appears on the screen.

"You're being transferred. As of this moment your lab division is being shut down, permanently. I'd like to thank you for your work up until now, but we've all decided that it would be in the best interest of everyone to adjust our research focus." He says. "A shuttle will be leaving within the hour. You're needed on Darwin, and it's urgent."

"You mean like all of this was urgent?" Gilliam asks indignantly.

"No." Jack replies. "Worse." He clicks a button on his console and an image of a blurry hive corvette appears on his desk. Weapons fire lances out and rips at its hull as the image blinks to darkness, flickering from the nearby ship to a distant long range sensor that watches the ship be torn apart by several others.

"Are those..."

"We've confirmed they have the same silhouette as the hive fleet in orbit of Gemini at this moment. They are the same."

"But they're fighting."

"I'd say it looks too one-sided to be called fighting," Jack says, "but yes, that does seem to be the gist of it. The victors spent the next hour or so blasting the wreck into dust, and then collected most of the dust and left. Still-"

"You want me to study the dust."

"Good man." Jack says.
cont.

>>49172182
Why? We can do it all organic anyway. And artificial pyschic boosters are a bad idea with the void watching anyway.

We should do a few crystal Quantom Thinkers for our daughter instead.

>>49172200
Come to think of it silicon-based lifeforms either look like rocks or crystals and we have a planet in our system that looks like a crystal forest which we assumed were just crystals. Shouldn't we go check and make sure they are just crystals?

>>49172257
I hope we didn't leave anything of worth, even if it was just metaphorically styrofoam ships.

>>49172257
Damn good thing we vaporized all we could before we left.

>>49172324
We have crystal tech already. Why haven't we made a few crystal Quantom thinkers already to see how they react to our daughter?

>>49172257
Hah. Glorious. Give Gilliam a nice warm HQ hug.

>>49172333
>>49172339
Yeah. IIRC was a pretty average roll though. Not like humans could work up any bio-heresy though.

>>49172257
Wait, is this footage of the fight on virgo or bedrock.

>>49172354
Might as well lay some and prod them a bit.

>>49172339
Damn good thing hive biotech is nigh on uncrackable.

Most theyll realise is that for looking simular, the DNA looks utterly different, showing another strain of the species.

>>49172356
They can still try to clone from the DNA... hope not even that was left.

>>49172354
Daughter
Daughter
Daughter
Is that all you can talk about?

>>49172200
This is fucking great

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>>49172257
"So far our salvage teams have described it as 'a radiated and radioactive soup of slag and plasma-roasted flakes of unidentifiable composition' so nothing much to work with, but we've got a lot of laboratories closing down right now, so I figure it would be a good project to keep you occupied."

"Why are you so interested in it? It sounds already like they went through a lot of trouble to-"

"That is why!" Jack says suddenly. "It is painfully obvious they went through a lot of effort to blast every inch of the wreckage with some kind of high focu plasma weapon. I want to know why. If you can't figure out what they are, you can at least work on figuring out that."

"Yes sir." Gilliam says as the screen flickers and dies. He hears something shatter beyond the door of his office and he winces in pain.

cont.

>>49172393
Yeah. We should have done that already when we decide to upgrade our daughter.

But well, we know more about crystal tech now. Like the white one was made by mother and the dark one by the void gods.

>>49172295
I don't think you get it. We can't emulate it until we research it or get it from someone who has already researched it. Also what the old hives were researching was most likely farseeing if that interests you at all.

>>49172403
Clonings a shit tone more difficult than just copying the DNA, cell, and giving it nutrients.

For a start, most multicelular organism cells are rigged up to die on their own. Theres a few theorys on why.

>>49172439
Just wait. One spore gets loose, Human world infected with BQ creep.

>>49172403
Hive Genes are designed to be uncrackable to other hives-- and queens are masters of biological stuff.

>>49172424
I also agree to give artificial gravity to Unity and Heretic. And people vetoed the Moth stuff. What more do you want? Another ship design argument this early on the thread?

>>49172503
I am conflicted, on one hand letting BQ creep grow is bad, on the other letting it happen let's us get more power over the union.

>>49172424
People did veto the months. Maybe we could give the nanotech to Unity already and see what haopens?

>>49172503
So the BQ is essentially the Flood.

>>49172538

Our own creep however, should totally be spread across all the human worlds. Diplomancing is weak. Learn to love thy neighbourhood neighbourbugs from now on, space mans.

hive queen quest!!!! MY FAVORITE OF FAVORITES IS HERE!

>>49172538
Not if she starts to spread dark crystal infection somehow. Remember she is literally made of the stuff.

>>49172511
I'm just pissed at the guy that won't shut up about daughters.
Seriously, how is daughter stuff relevant to the silicon research discussion?

>>49172595
Anon are autistic
Anon are autistic
Anon are autistic

>>49172595
It isn't. He's just being a retard.

>>49172584
Hive creep kind of is and is not.
Flood is like Hive creep cranked up to 11 and given special bonuses to fucking shit up.

>>49172595
Crystals are artificial life forms in this quest. Al least the dark ones and the white ones mother made.

We already have one artificial life form to research and we studied it all we could. Now is time to create some hive life forms with the white crystals and see what happens.

>>49172625
Are you calling me autistic or daughter anon autistic?

>>49172661
What?

>>49172662
Daughter anon

>>49172661
We've already integrated crystal formations into our own biology you retard.

>>49172661
Not really? Black Crystals are some form of 5th dimensional being overlaying our reality and trying to come through and corrupt things mentally iirc.

White crystals are brain storage iirc.

>>49172661
You sound like a retard right now. At least me wanting photonic thinkers and ridiculous bullshit they bring makes some sense.

>>49172595
It doesn't matter. We're soon to adopt a step-daughter when the Broken Queen decides to take a medipod bath

>>49172778
Show some respect

She more like our aunt

>>49172685
Remenber when we wanted to do White Crystal Quanta (Plural of Quantum) Thinkers? Any reason to not do that now that we know Mother created the white crystals?

Also is been two threads and we STILL haven't read the hidden memory of that Thinker that used to belong to mother.

>>49172806
>Also is been two threads and we STILL haven't read the hidden memory of that Thinker that used to belong to mother.
Thank you for reminding us, we need to get on that. At the very least, we should ask the Barren Queen about it and ask her if simply observing past memories can put a queen at risk of Void corruption.

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>>49172593
Can't without a void shard.

And no, she's not. As we saw with the 'possessed' humans dissection, the dark crystal growth is not actually the same as a void shard. It's just crystals. It's evidence of corruption, but can't corrupt others in itself, it can't even produce tachyons.

>>49172778
I know but you don't need to mention it in an unrelated discussion, especially three times.
>>49172806
SHIT I FORGOT!
>Reminder to read the thinker's locked memories.
Also no i don't remember the white crystal Quanta idea, can you post it?

>>49172843
Not worth risking right now.

>>49172854
>I know but you don't need to mention it in an unrelated discussion, especially three times.
Me talking about the Broken Queen adoption >>49172778 here is my first post in the thread.

I think you might be butthurt, or an idiot

>>49172806
>Remenber when we wanted to do
Anon.

Thinkers already have the 'crystalline neurostructure' passive upgrade. You just described our existing Quantum Thinkers.

And if quantum is an adjective you don't turn it plural. This is English.

>>49172851
Yeah I think the crystal brain growths are tachyonic receivers

>>49172879
But we can at least ask the Barren Queen about it. If anyone would know about how the void corrupts queens and what can open them up to that, it's her. Worse case scenario she just tells us that under absolutely no circumstances are we to view the memories in question, which would end the argument full stop.

>>49172890
My apologies.

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>>49172439
Confetti rains from the sky over a loud, brightly lit street. Military transports slowly rumble in formation flanked by grav-bikes. Robed humans wearing brightly colored sashes and golden jewelry walk behind them, murmuring into their folded hands or waving simmering thuribles from chains as they leave a wafting air of incense as they make way for the marching platoon of human troops behind them, each holding a slender, meter long weapon ending in a thermal blade with a large energy pack on their backs, their marching mechanical with their move-assists rushing them along ahead of the rumbling quadrupedal tanks behind them, and the drop-troopers behind them, each with ornate decorations over their armor emblazoned with various nobility titles and family crests.

Your speaker is unimpressed as you watch the presession on the holoscreen with Admiral Yogesh. A ticker beneath slowly scrawls across the screen with the local news of Aurora, all sounding more important than the parade, as in large letters emblazoned over the screen reads the headline "Pope Donovan Aquinas VI announces Crusade. Crown Prince Augustus Reuenthal embarks to war with alien menace."

"They do not seem to be making haste to their ships." Your speaker says.

"They just want to make sure everyone gets a good picture of them." Yogesh says. A gaunt man in a drop suit, too frail looking to ever possibly make use of the suit itself, sits on a large transport, his suit's blast guard almost hiding the oxygen tube running into his nose. "And that would be the prince off to ride into battle. Wonder how many bones he broke getting into that chair." Yogesh adds. He clears his throat as he turns to your speaker. "I apologize, I should not speak ill of another admiral. My own fleet has gathered here. Sensors are already picking up your forces closing in from the edge of the systems, if we leave now, we may be able to join your fleets in combat."

Cont.

>>49172928
I agree.
We also need to ask her about hive history pre- and post-exodus.

>>49172928
I REEEEEEEEEALLY doubt that QD would have a ticking time bomb from the first thread that would spell immediate Gameover corruption.

Also not something WQ would do. Let's take a look at those memories sometime soon

>>49172903
From Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus (“how much”).

source: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/quantum

>>49172969
>Space Pope Donovan Aquinas announces crusade.
Best thing I've hear all day.
>>49172999
The thinker with the locked memories is from a bunker the white queen left us. Don't remember the thread.

>>49172969
Finally, we can assist the commonwealth and steal some scav tech! Do we have any forces there, I thought everything was busy sitting over the Union capital.

>>49172999
He didn't mean a ticking timebomb dumbass. He meant it might trigger the endgame early and we only just started the midgame.

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>>49172969
>Pope Donovan Aquinas VI announces Crusade
DEUS VULT

Yeah, our first thinker already got it's memories unlocked. It was basically our mother last moments.

>>49172969
DEUS VULT

DEUS VULT
VS
VOID VULT
WHO WILL WIN?

>>49173176
>Implying the White Queen isn't humanity's god

>>49173176
MATER VULT

>>49173135
The void is literally watching us already. Unless that Thinker has the exact instructions to build the cannon it won't make much difference. And that's not something our mother would be careless enough to leave inside a Thinker or written down.

>>49173234
Well even if it did have those instructions it wouldn't matter the cannon is a failed weapon it's pretty much usless

>>49173135
I'd say we've already triggered as much plot progression as we can without straight up poking the void gods in the eye with a burnt stick.

>>49173276
Yet it still made the Void gods go right after Mother with a whole army.

>>49173176
>implying the void isn't God
Technically speaking there is no reason to think they're lying when they tell people they created and architected this 3-dimensional universe.

>>49173276
It was being refined, its was not a failed weapon, just incomplete.

>>49173234
You are a dense mothfucker. Why wouldn't she leave the completed Psionic Cannon research for us to find when we're ready?

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>>49173276

>>49173205
I didn't say she wasn't
>yfw Jesus was psychic and a child prophet of WQ

>>49173276
It made them them bleed. It could kill them but it still needs work.

>>49173276
Get out of here void slave.

>>49173333
It would explain how he could be born from a virgin at lest

>>49173294
Actually I don't think they are gods so much as ascended lifeforms.

>>49173333
Healing the sick and "resurrecting" the dead? All in a day's work. We've already made the blind see...

>>49173305
Because it's the equivalent to summoning a whole army even Mother failed to defeat?

We don't if the squids and the OB are the extent of the Void Gods forces on this plane. Sure we haven't seen much more but I wonder what else can they bring if we really piss them off?

>>49173276
>mother rolled low therefore the only weapon proven to hurt the void entities is useless

>>49173357
Sorry anom mom was an autist slut

>>49173357
>Jesus was born from a virgin birth.
>And lesbian sex.
>That was also inter species.
This is getting more absurd by the second.

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>>49172969
Your own ship, the battleship that brought your diplomat drone to the Commonwealth system, watches as a massive obelisk of metal and synthetic alloys drifts into dock. A bit larger than your own battleship, the craft is covered in the unmistakable scorch marked hull segments of missile launch tubes, far less modular than the ejectable pods of Union ship design, these are incorporated into the hull, keeping the sensitive payload beneath the armor. As the dock reaches out to the ship its armor opens like a pinecone, revealing dozens, hundreds of missile tubes of varying sizes as instruments and loading arms prod into them with sensors and robotic claws. The ship itself looks like two mostly cylindrical silos, the hull tapering in the middle where a small hab ring rotates beneath a retractable armored bulkhead. a flickering of lights beneath the layers or armored hull along the widest parts of either hull sections shows the existence of at least two hab rings within, rotating in the relative safety of the armored shell of the ship. The drive rings of the ship quickly retract beneath its hull as its chemical thrusters slowly guide it into dock, and the funnel like empty cone in the nose of the craft open up into a docking bay as shuttles quickly ferry cargo back and forth and umbilicals reach the distance to the station.

The ship comes to a halt as it is embraced in the station's cradling docking arms, its hull illuminated by the floodlights aimed against its hull along either rim of both hull segments, plainly illuminating the hull ID number and the name "IFS Khalsa" in bold paint.

"Please, follow me, if you wish you may observe the battle on my flagship, the Khalsa." Yogesh says proudly as he examines a notification on his data pad. "It has just arrived."

>Have your speaker join the Admiral on his ship in the conflict
>Keep your drone at the Commonwealth command station and observe from here
>Other

>>49173400
>Mother created the spaghetti monster who saved us with the gift of pasta.

Welcome to /tg/ Anon.

>>49173410
>>Have your speaker join the Admiral on his ship in the conflict

>>49173400
> Cure human aging in an afternoon.
> Tells followers to eat body and blood.

Yep, WQ pawn confirmed.

>>49173410
>Have your speaker join the Admiral on his ship in the conflict
please

>>49173400
More absurd than a giant mantis ant with access to infinite energy

>>49173410
>>Have your speaker join the Admiral on his ship in the conflict
It's important to keep our face there for real time communication and observation, not like we lose anything if it gets killed.

>>49173410
>Have your speaker join the Admiral on his ship in the conflict
>Other
Send those fleets that are lying inactive at home to assist.

>>49173431
Yeah this.

No reason not to.

>Have your speaker join the Admiral on his ship in the conflict

>>49173410
>>Have your speaker join the Admiral on his ship in the conflict.

>>49173410

Sweet I finally made it to one of these.

>Have your speaker join the Admiral on his ship in the conflict

Can we go bigger than a hive ship?
Maybe later on when we have a much more powerful resource base we can figure out something that dwarfs a hive ship.

I think people really overestimate our capabilities compared to the humans when they decide to get serious

If the white crystals are merely "storage" how come the Void gods cannot see out daughter directly?

>>49173505
Engined space city weapons platform when

>>49173505
Anything bigger is a space city

feeling inadequate anon?

>>49173505
At the rate of technological progression we're at it's going to be HiveStar Remina Quest in about another 10 threads.

>>49173525
Our capabilities compared to the humans are actually pretty ridiculous.

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>>49173410
>Have your speaker join the Admiral on his ship in the conflict

I can't fucking wait to genocide space gypsies with our galactic empire friends

>>49173525
>>49173582

We can grow space ships in a day. We could literally have our combined fleets wiped out in a day and rebuild them in time for monday.

>>49173588
Space Huns.

>>49173618
More or less accurate.

>>49173618
This actually fits. Huns also stole tech and used it against their owners. Chinese armour, catapults and trebuchet? Not anymore.

>>49173588
Space Roma would be peaceful travelers who have been unfairly persecuted.

Scavs are closers to space Mongols

>Have your speaker join the Admiral on his ship in the conflict

>>49173671
Travelers was what they identified themselves as initially, hence the nickname.

>>49173618
http://youtu.be/ZSS5dEeMX64

>>49173579
You say that as if it was a bad thing.

>>49173671
>peaceful
non eurofag detected, gypsies are anything but.

>>49173410
>>Have your speaker join the Admiral on his ship in the conflict

Also offer to allow wise or human diplomats to observe the battle from the information/entertainer center on our battleship

>>49173748
It's a bad thing because some dumbass anon singlehandedly killed that meme in a span of two threads

>>49173546
This is probably something that should never happen, Wonder Station is approximately five million times as massive as a hive ship.
Although personally I want to get it into orbit around Leeland somehow.

>>49173792
>gypsies
neo-nazi detected

>>49173808
I don't follow, can you tell me more about what you mean by meme, why it was killed, how it was killed, why is it a meme, what is the meme?

>>49173410
>Other
Put a speaker at both locations

>>49173826
tbf, in my country nobody likes gypsies. They are more descriminated against than blacks.

Of course, this relates to how gypsies segregate themselves. They are known to do stuff like pulling their own kids from school and put them to beg or steal, or marrying off their underage kids.

>>49173833
Long ago in the early days of HQQ someone made a joke about how eventually we could make Hellstar Ramira and everyone had a good laugh and for a time, it was good.

Then a single anon started spamming the threads with with Hivestar Ramira, over and over until everyone who thought it was a decent idea never wants anything to do with it again

>>49173903
And no one cares. Go hug a fluffy mini speaker that squeaks when you hug it.

>>49173919
I can see why people'd be upset.

>>49173826
>anyone mugged by gypsies is a nazi

you cannot live next to an encampment of these people and maintain such deluded views of these nomadic people. regardless of what you call them their behaviour will change your mind whether you like it or not.

if you're sympathetic to them then you will likely be even more angry about their situation since it forces their children into a lifestyle that furthers the division between them and the host country they steal from, forcing them into a life of crime.

>>49173946
I want to make swarms of Small sized speakers to swarm Parliament

>>49173919
>>49173947
That was a single thread. It died as a meme after that and we've had (mostly) sane and grounded discussions about it after that.

>>49173948
So what I'm getting from this is gypsies are like gangsters

>>49173946
Seems like you're the only one that does mate.

If you want to make discussion about how not all gypsies are thieves and anyone that hates jews is a nazi, >>>/pol/ is that way.

Now, if everyone is finished, please stop shitting up the thread.

>>49173998
>anyone that hates jews is a nazi
Well that's not wrong

>>49173988
Actually, according to my memory. Aren't we in a process of creating a space city? It was voted on and passed, it's just that QD did not have any rules for it at the time so it was postponed, to be counted retroactively once the rules were made. I think we were hollowing an asteroid for it?

>>49173998
Oh ya thats right. You can't make jokes anymore or else its 'Ree back to /pol/'.

God damn it children

>>49174041
Yes. Also any reason we didn't make any cute mini speakers?

>>49173410
"Yes." Your speaker says simply. "That is sufficient." The admiral gestures with his hands to follow, and begins to lead your drone down the halls to the outer docking facility. The two of you glide through the umbilical as you hear a faint crash and a murmured curse as Wise scrambles to keep up with the both of you, flying through the umbilical before the loading bay doors seal behind him. He scrambles through the umbilical before your speaker raises a clawed foot and reaches out to grab him.

"You were nearly left behind. This is not very wise." Your drone says with concern in its voice as it releases him and turns back to the Khalsa' boarding tube. The umbilical reaches into the gaping maw of the ship's fore docking bay. Several tubes, each covered in magnetic coils, reach out from the inside of the hangar surrounding another in the center, the obvious spinal mounts of the ship. You count five in total. The interior of the armored shell seems largely hollow, a honeycomb of opening and closing docking bays where you see shuttles drifting into dock.

cont.

>>49174041
Yeah we're using the hollowed out asteroid in the Leeland system we mined out for the basis

Then I think there was another vote for a tourist space city over that burning pegasian giant in one of the recent demithreads

>>49174063
Lolicon is a sickness to be purged.

>>49174065
>"You were nearly left behind. This is not very wise." Your drone says with concern in its voice as it releases him and turns back to the Khalsa' boarding tube.

We have the best children.

>>49173991
it's kind of like being born into a gangster life, yeah. BBC did a surprisingly accurate documentary on it if you're interested, it's focused on how the children are used as resources and fucked for life as a consequence, all for the profit of a select few crime lords.
https://youtu.be/THInODdvvMQ

>>49173998
>everyone that disagrees with me is hiltler!
your mewling only makes my shitposts shitter

>>49174086
What does that have to do with anything? Absolutely fuck all.

>>49174065
>that's not very wise

Goddamit love our kids so much

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>>49174041
If you're talking about the asteroid in G-426, we've already extensively mined it, although last I heard we've only gone through a fraction of the overall object. What I was thinking we could do was to deploy a couple thinkers and an egglayer onto a small, metal rich planetoid and have them expand exponentially right throughout. Establish enough farms on to generate the biomass needed to build the infrastructure to fill the planet, and then use our core taping technology to redistribute the metal in the core to the upper levels of the lithosphere, creating armor plating over the organic bits. This way we can fortify an entire small planet and turn it into a nigh impregnable holdout, and while this is happening research FTL travel of super massive objects to make it possible to move the whole damn thing.

>>49174147
Well your autism blinds you to jokes, for one.

>>49174172
And then we mount a really big weapon on it. Cause why not?

>>49174172
Yes.

YES.

>>49174172
That sounds horribly inefficient and by the time that comes to fruition we'll have finished the quest

Also we can't attach FTL capabilities to space cities or planetoids

>>49174172
You do realize building farms on anything other than a planet is inefficient right?

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>>49174213
That's no moon

>>49174253
We could probably use the rip drive, but it only opens a rift up a rift for things smaller than itself.

Solution: Build rip drive into a planet, transport smaller planetoids as weapons.

>>49174253
Giving it a big gun still helps if we lure our enemies to it.

>>49174172
I only approve of this if we also place an enormous number of weapons on it too.

Bugs: No sense of right and wrong.

>>49174172
Didn't OQ already have access to a planet destroying antimatter missile though? Against antimatter more mass isn't good.

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>>49174065
"The Khalsa is equipped with five spinal railguns, each capable of accelerating a sixty kilogram slug to nearly eight percent c." Yogesh says quietly. "In addition, the hangar facilities can carry several wings of our most advanced grav-fighters." He points to a small vessel as it drifts into a docking port, its hull a shimmering, polished silver mirror, perfectly smooth in appearance, save for the small bulbous growth where an opaque cockpit it grappled by a docking clamp that quickly carries the fighter away. Its wings, more for holding weapons, folds inward, the armor rippling like soft putty as its wings retract into a ball. "I assume you have some similar manner of sublight acceleration, but for us the grav-fighter is our primary method of system-wide sublight combat. The long range F-88 Silverhawk is our latest design. It utilizes a special non-lattice to provide a dexterous, ferrofluid armored hull capable of limited self repair." Yogesh says as you reach the airlock.

The interior is surprisingly ornate in design, although on close inspection the decorative golden decals all seem to be made of plastic, or some manner of rubber. The admiral seems to notice your examination.

"The trim is not only decorative. It contains a chemical compound which, when released, quickly expand to fill breaches in the hull or stop fires detected in the hall." He says. He continues to lead the way into the center of the ship, where the central hab ring slowly rotates. A nearby holo-map indicates it is a flight deck, and you arrive in a large chamber, the outer boundaries all vanishing into endless space, the walls covered in holo-projection of the space around the ship.

cont.

>>49174302
Yeah, why not? But we still need a way to make it self sufficient.

>>49174289
Are you stupid or something? The rip drive allows the drive ship itself to travel through the rip it creates.

>>49174315
See? The Humans have some impressive tech when it comes to their big ships

>>49174305
The annhilator warhead operates by creating a big enough explosion to disrupt the tectonic plates of planet to the point where massive volcanic damage occurs. This would be less of a problem on a planetoid that has had it's magmatic core replaced with hive infrastructure, the tectonic plates and outer crust would work more like armor plates for such an object.

>>49174289
You're thinking of the mini-rip drive that replaces a ships spinal mount. It's a mini version of the proper rip drive dedicated to launching fighters

>>49174289
I was thinking the space fold drive the unity uses might work, it moves the biggest space craft in the quest no problem. Could you imagine a planet sized rip drive though?

>>49174356
he's talking about the mini rip drive module

>>49174380
It would still cause massive damage and how the hell we make it self sustainable?

Quick add research : Photosynthesis

>>49174430
We already have that.

>>49174365
Impressive I guess, but they were still getting their ass beat by the Union and had half a planet infested with scavs.

>>49174365
What are you even referring to. All of that is either matched or surpassed by hive battleships, which can be mass produced without the production bottleneck of Canderon.

We have spinal mounts, fighters and places to store them in, and their golden decals are basically their attempt at rapid damage control fluid.

>>49174449
We have a whole hive that can live just from solar energy? Since when?

>>49174430
It makes me cringe when people ask to do research we've already done.

>>49174315
do we have ferrofluid tech?

>>49174365
I'm more impressed with Thierry fighters if you think about all the micro impacts they would suffer from in fights do to shrapnel and other space debris a self repairing hall is incredibly important
The best part is do to having living liquid carbon we could probably copy the design with little problem

>>49174467
Just mad that we aren't the most advanced faction around huh?

QD has said that other factions all have their strengths

>>49174490
We have the blue carbon goo we found on that one moon

>>49174479
Since like forever. It was one of the first things we researched.

>>49174479
That's actually inefficient.

>>49174490
No, but our ships can repair themselves anyway. Might be worth acquiring for trade with Theseus.

>>49174315
>ferrofluid armour
Ooh shiny! Maybe we can trade that for photonics then trade the ferro tech to Theseus for something

>>49174479
One, the hive as a singular star-spanning superorganism is already self-sustaining.

Two, don't move the goalposts moron. Photosynthetic cells were researched fucking ages ago. It's strictly less efficient than fusion farms anyway.

>>49174490
>>49174513
The funny thing is we can't put it on our fighters.

>>49174489
What stops us from making a whole hive planet live from just solar energy?

That way we can make weapon planet have auto sustenance.

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>>49174513
Feel free to actually say something concrete instead of just vaguely shitposting 'u mad' any time.

>>49174513
>>49174529
I know we have liquid metal forming tech I wonder if we could incorporate that into our hive dusting for nanobot action bonus?

>>49174548

Wasn't our clotting tech an evolution from the nanobot tech? We can totally use it on any ship we want, where are you getting this?

>>49174538
So we make our not death star fusion powered gotcha. Do fusion reactors create nutrients like photosynthesis does? Otherwise since is a whole planet we could have both.

>>49174550
Because it's insufficient. All other forms of biomass generation bring in more nutrients than our solar panels, and the passive upgrade we got from making all aboveground hive infrastructure photosynthetic was negligible. Please read the past threads and the pastebins before you start trying to brainstorm tech.

>>49174592
Rapid damage control is a module and fighters don't have modules on them they are able to have shields though

>>49174592
No, it was the liquid carbon lifeform, stop making things up. And its price is per 100 meters, of course it's limited to minimum 100 meter and larger ships.

>>49174632
IIRC some weapons need power taps to be fully effective (which need canderon). For everything else we use a network of mini-fusion reactors.

>>49174641
Then how you suggest we make weapon planet self sufficient?

>>49174699
How about we don't.

>>49174564
Practice what you preach bucko

or for you intelligence level: No u

>>49174658
>>49174656
Aight, thanks for the correction

>>49174669
And what would be the consequences of turning that death planet core into a big fusion reactor? I mean the only lifeform would be hive life but still sounds bad...

>>49174632
Alright, QD seems to have removed the relevant info from the pastebins so I'll give you an abridged version. Most of our biomatter is derived from electrosynethetic lifeforms derived from plants that use electrical currents instead of light to generate nutrients. This is our de facto crop on Leeland and also used in certain space stations, namely the gas planet refueling depots.

These depots draw the necessary water and other compounds needed to sustain life from the upper atmosphere of the planet they're stationed over, and use electricity from fusion power to grow the crops. Unfortunately the use of this technology is mostly limited to these gas station depots, as using them elsewhere is less efficient than creating/adapting an entirely new crop on a different planet that is better able to generate nutrients in that particular environment. But in theory they could work anywhere there is an ample supply of water and a source of large amounts of electrical power, but you would need to fuel that power source one way or another (unless it's a power tap).

>>49174699
>muh self sufficiency

This is a pointless and nonsensical goal. It doesn't matter where you build the nutrient-income farms. The entire hive spans many star systems, which pass nutrients between them freely with quantum teleportation.

Adding enough infrastructure to bring in X nutrients a day as well as enough weapon infrastructure that consumes X nutrients a day doesn't even have to be in the same system, let alone on the same planet. The math cancels out the same either way.

>>49174592
http://ask.fm/QuestDrone/answers/120840276005
>The listed cost of ship components also indicate the minimum amount of space needed to equip them, so a fighter would be too small to utilize a damage control module, although it would be able to utilize armor, shields, or cloaking devices due to them only being priced by 10 meters.

My dudes and dudettes, I think we're focusing too much on the rather impractical battlestation planetoid

>>49174793
Its only impractical if it does not work Anon.

>>49174757

Power tap = black hole with chains. You don't want to get it damaged in battle, although at planetary sizes I'd wager you'd be pretty safe from that unless we start combatting void gods.

If the chains snap, it gets sucked into itself and anything nearby does too, although it's not permanent.

>>49174779
>The entire hive spans many star systems, which pass nutrients between them freely with quantum teleportation.
QD has actually stated this multiple times, but teleportation can only transport small quantities of any given resource at one time. Most of our biomass that isn't grown on site is moved by space ship.

>>49174757
Power taps! Infinite energy forever, as long as you don't throw anything into the black holes.

>>49171531
Anyone else wanna outfit our fleets (and especially the Hive Ship) with photonic armor?

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>>49174730
>ask someone to clarify 'what is impressive about this, we already have X,Y, and Z'
>'hahahaa u mad'

What was vague about that.

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>>49174315
A man operates a large terminal near the center of the bridge. He clicks over various displays before turning to Yogesh.

"Admiral." He says with a subtle salute, the muted gesture intended to prevent sending oneself careening away in zero-G. "We've finished loading our payload." He quickly hands a display to the admiral.

"Thank you, captain." Yogesh says. "What's the general overview?"

"Three hundred and thirty seven short ranged rattler PD missiles, two hundred and sixteen viper K-30 short range assault missiles, one-hundred and twenty Sidewinder medium ranged kinetic warheads, five hundred sandbags, and thirty seven long range Fer-de-lance gravitic cruise missiles. In addition we have three wings of Silverhawks and another two full wings of GF-37 raiders, along with six tugs, sir."

"Gravitics? And a full payload this time, excellent." Yogesh says. "Now if only we could get every ship this well armed." He mutters. "Status of the fleet?"

"The battlecruiser Amor Fati has just joined the group, along with the Gobind and the dreadnaught the Zarathustra. Each have brought their own compliment of subcapital support ships, and have transferred command to you, admiral. We are ready to take the fleet underway on your order." The admiral nods.

"Very well." He says. "You are relieved of fleet command. Please assume command of the ship and take her out. We will have the rest of the fleet follow our course." The man gives his subtle salute again and drifts through a large doorway to a second, smaller bridge. Yogesh turns to your drone as the door seals shut.

"This is the flag bridge. The communication center of the fleet. The ship's command bridge is there, they are separate to prevent confusion in the heat of battle. It is the duty of everyone in the command bridge to command this ship, but the flag bridge is where I command every ship in the fleet."

"A sensible hierarchy." Your speaker says.

cont.

>>49174842

They're taking a deadnaught too? Damn, no brakes on this crusade.

I think we really might want to send some more reinforcements later. I don't think we've seen the larger scav ships yet.

>>49174903
AHH, A CRUSADE THEN

>>49174841
Only proving everyone's point you're upset anon. Give it a rest and stop wasting bumps

>>49174837
Well, let's see... power taps don't accidentally connect to the Void Gods dimension do they?

>>49174842
I just realized how much the Commonwealth Military is like old-fashioned feudal warlords contributing their military to their liege lords.

>>49174842
"I thought that would be something you could appreciate. Humans fully understand the necessity of a chain of command. We have developed a complex hierarchy for our military to make sure we are able to coordinate ourselves properly."

The starfield surrounding the flag bridge adjusts itself as the ship lurches out of dock with a firm nudge. It drifts for several minutes until someone chimes in over an intercom.

"Clear of dock, ready for gravity drive."

"Roger, begin acceleration, forty thousand gravities."

The station vanishes from view, falling into the distance in less than a second. A muffled hum drones in the distance, reverberating from the walls of the bridge as the unfolded drive rings glimmer like iridescent gold.

>Speak with the admiral (write in)
>Ask a question (write in)
>Other

>>49174922
Not even slightly, they're a pair of black holes orbiting one another at speeds just shy of light speed.

>>49174922
....Nigga

>>49174957
>>Speak with the admiral (write in)
>>Ask a question (write in)

How many Ships do you need for assistance?

>>49174957
>Ask a question (write in)
Where is the rest of your fleet?

>>49174922
That only worked on Tenebris because the Void Crystals needed a significant gravity well to weaken reality and break through. It took five of them arranged in a pentagram with some complex processes to cause that to happen

>>49174838
Yes and holo-projectors unless we can combine the tech.
That way we can have our ships look however we want them to like an asteroid or even a damaged dialect or what ever old abandoned ships are called

>>49174957
>>Speak with the admiral (write in)
>>Ask a question (write in)
How can the hive assist in this battle?

>>49174985
Let's just sent most of them anyway.

>>49174957

>Speak with the admiral (write in)

Information on the enemy please, what do you expect to be facing, roughly how many opponents-- have you seen anything larger than a raiding corvette or shuttle. What was that about the rest of your ships not being fully armed?

Also offer them medical help after the battle. Free spinepals and immortality for everyone!

>>49174957
>Are all of your ship designed to explode incase the Scavenger attempt to capture them?

>>49175027

That's a thing. Maybe we should see if he'd let us station some warriors onboard his ships in case of boarding.

>>49174997
And a power tap big enough to power our not death star wouldn't be big enough?

Somehow a core sized fusion reactor sounds less dangerous. Worst case the Hive Star just explodes.

>>49175017
>>49174985
Don't we have more information on the scavengers then they do, like cloaked pods observing them?

>>49175089
Yes

>>49174957
>Speak with the admiral (write in)
Feed him all relevant information on observed space gypsy fleet tactics and capabilities along with our sensor reading.

Mutter manically about how we're going fucking skin these cunts alive.

>>49175089
>>49175099
Perhaps we should start sharing that information as well as the projected arrival points of our own fleet?

>>49175103
Most people voted for Space Huns.

>>49174985
We already decided on how many we were sending.

>>49174957
>>Ask a question (write in)
What the hell is a Pope Crusade.

And just how many Reuenthals do you have.

>>49175089
>>49175133
>>49175103
Also supporting sharing anything we know about them with the good admiral.

>>49175103
Mumble mumble...make convenient seating out of their flayed hides....for mother....

>>49174957
>Speak with the admiral (write in)
Warn him that for the duration of the trip this speaker will likely be out of range of the hive. It will be harmless, but its intelligence will drop dramatically. Please do not try to kidnap it or attack it with a Smith like the Union did. The Hive finds such shenanigans rude.

>>49175151
They have more experience fighting them than we do at this point. We don't know anything to change the space tactics in use.

>>49175151
Add my support.
>>49175175
Also this.

>>49175175
We could also avoid revealing that information, and just say we'll be resting until we arrive at our destination.

>>49175175
Also the drone has a self destruct mechanism that is pretty nasty

>>49175103
They're Space Huns dummy

>>49175175
And why we didn't give that Speaker Quantum brain? We are getting careless.

>>49175133
>projected arrival points
Anon... the fleets are already there. They already have our ships on their sensors.

This literally just happened.
>Sensors are already picking up your forces closing in from the edge of the systems, if we leave now, we may be able to join your fleets in combat."

>>49175242
Did we? Its intelligence is still going to drop.

>>49175218
>>49175175
Not sure we need to bother at the moment, would be bad form to kidnap and dissect the only known diplomat of the ally that's about to pull your ass from the fire.

>>49175179
We're better at processing information than they are. we also have predictive combat algorithms and thinkers n shit. So at the end of the day we're still much more experience than they are, even though they have move hours logged fighting these cunts or whatever.

>>49175223
>>49175140
Space fenians detected.

>>49175242
They didn't say go comatose. Obviously it has a quantum brain.

>>49175242
I thought we did.

>>49175242
Don't worry it dose all the ambassador class do
On another note how long till we unlock battle meditation

>>49174999
I'm just the imagining the reactions from the various factions as the hive ship is coated in a layer of pure light as a defence mechanism...

>>49175259
Hah, you're right. Silly me.

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>>49174915
>believing bump limit can be saved

>>49175272
Oh, I don't expect them to actually do that. I was just dropping that the Union was that dumb to them.

>>49175335
That works.

>>49175319
>We've nearly hit 350 posts
>We're not even 4 hours in
This is starting to get ridiculous

>>49175389
Is the weekend.

>>49175335
Ah, gotcha. Good point.

>>49175417
Actually now it's Monday.

>>49174957
Those gravatic weapons are impressive and something we don't have. Must get.