CONQUEST SOON

>>49177848
>Angry clicking noises.

>>49177846
O snap which hive is it, ours or Salty Queen?

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>>49177886

>>49177846

DEATH TO OQ
SPEAKER FOR THE SIHKER

>>49177932
I think the Salt Queen was the initial attacker and all the flashes were our fleet appearing

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

>>49177932
Salty queen. This would be our fleet currently negotiating with the Union capital, which had OQ ships coming in for some fun. most of our ships are here.

>>49177947
YEEEES
WE SHALL DROWN THE OBSIDIAN QUEEN IN A SEA OF SALT

>>49177932
Salty Queen I think?

No relations to her.

Anyone else annoyed at the shilling for another quest last thread?

>>49178013
What are you talking about? Pretty sure the guy was simply posting previous art of a potential artist for this quest.

>>49178013
Since HQQ is the only thing worth visiting 4chan for anymore, not really.

>>49177974
New Athens does have a literal sea of salt...

>>49177846
Wait... Is this our fleet moving in to defend or worst auntie bringing in backup?

>>49178013
No, especially not if it encourages fan art for this quest.

>>49178077
Pretty sure that's us moving in to intervene, anon.

>>49178013
Pretty sure QD and Graves are friends The same person maybe? Who knows Besudes It was just Artwork and we we're already WAY past the bump limit and page like 4-6? So nothing of value was lost.

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>>49177846

You fleet emerges from a series of miniature supernovas, their forms flinging forth on an intercept course with the converging fleets.

"Reinforcements, incoming! Pivot, pivot, get guns on targets!" You hear from the scrambling fighters. Your fleet response with a crackling of static.

"The Hive has detected the enemy within human space. We will remove these drones from human space." The static cuts out, and after a short moment of silence that feels all too long, perhaps due to the tension, or perhaps due to the relativistic speed of your ships, you hear a response go out in a general broadcast.

"Hold fire on new targets. Repeat, new targets are designated unknown intentions, avoid contact."

>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
>Focus on destroying the Obsidian Queen ships
>Other (write in)

>>49178013
Not really. It's not like they were the other board shitters.

>>49178097
>>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships

>>49178097
>>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships

>>49178097
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships

>>49178097
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships

>>49178097
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
Can't afford contamination.

>>49178097
>>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
PR points are what we're here for.

>>49178097
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
Good PR and gives us a bargaining chip.

>>49178097
>focus on destroying the OQ's ships
We're here to save ALL of the Union, not just a few of them.

>>49178097
>Focus on destroying the Obsidian Queen ships

>>49178097
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships

>>49178013
The quest you are referring to is dead.

>>49178097
>>Focus on destroying the Obsidian Queen ships

She must get no samples blinked back.

>>49178092
>The same person maybe
>running two of the most complex crunchy quests on the site
Me and QD may be crazy but we're definitely different people

>>49178121
>Destroy all trace of the OB!

>>49178013
It was more like I was shilling for Mr Smiles the artist

>>49178097
>>Focus on destroying the Obsidian Queen ships
No traces.

Quite simply, if there's a temporary spore infection planetside, it will just show them that dealing in samples of the OQ's biology is a bad idea by example.

>Focus on destroying the Obsidian Queen ships

Can't have that slut spreading her Creep.

>>49178097
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
>inform picket fleet that Union reinforcements are inbound, relay composition/approach/ETA so that they can plan accordingly

>>49178097
>>>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships

We can't let the OQ get even any human wreckage. Defend them.

>>49178151
more like UNdead, amiright?

>>49178235
I'm afraid what kind of nasty bioweapons she could develop for eliminating humans if/once she gets some human test subjects

>>49178219
>>49178097
This.

>>49178097
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships

Your fleet pivots in its course, moving on a slowly arcing intercept with path just ahead of the Obsidian Queen's own ships, firing your own salvos as you pass.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>49178275
FO' BIG MAMA

>>49178304
SHIT NIGGA

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>49178275
k

>>49178304
GOD DAMN IT WHERE'S MY FOR MOTHER IMAGE MACRO

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>49178275

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>>49178304
MAMA IS THE BIGGEST.

>>49178304
White knight now
>>49178320
Sup rolling!

>>49178304
>ForMother.pngif

>>49178322
Where's my salty obsidian queen macro you mean.

>>49178304
AWW YEEAAAH

>>49178304
BIG BOTTOMED BUGS

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>>49178304
In the time between this new thread beginning and I making an omlette, this glorious occurence.
Resplendant.

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>>49178304
>picket commander's face when he sees us casually wipe out half the attackers as we zip past on our way to vaporize everything larger than a breadbox that even comes CLOSE to hitting them

>>49178447
I really wish I didn't know what that image was from.

>>49178447
Their president really played hardball when we were diplomancing him a few threads back.

>'well, secretary of defence, what's you're opinion on these dastardly bugs eh?'

>'Please. Please don't piss them off anymore. Oh god. please.'

>>49178474
care to share?

>>49178474
source?

Man I hope we get to do a land battle soon. It's been ages and I wanna test our new toys.

Specifically the plasma assault canon and our fuck mothering Kaiju drones.

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>>49178474
But why? It's high-tier fluffy vanilla incest, what's not to like.

>>49178474
I now really wish to know what that image is from. Please tell.

>>49178212
>>49178158
Graves you slut, I didn't expect you in here.

>>49178304
>When the Drone is just right.jpg

>>49178508
Fap material aside, did we ever figure out a decent build for the Ultra large sized drones?

>>49178509
No, I like it. It's just...jarring to see it here.

>>49178500
>>49178506
>>49178512
ne~ niichan by OOISHI Nakani

>>49178549
I thought we had 2 that were decent build, One for Melee and one for Long range Art/support?

>>49178549
>>49178572
There's a whole bunch of them, quadrupeds mostly. They're improvements and different loadouts of the original colossus.

The bi-pedal one on the wiki is called the Titan and it looks pretty decent.

These are all on the 1d4chan wiki page

>>49178572
Yes. But now that we have SHIELDS, we should add a MASSIVE SHIELD DRONE.

>>49178520
I'm always here for HQQ.
HQQ inspired me to give running a sci-fi quest that lead to DAtS

>>49178651
>>49178642
Oh damn it might be worth it to have a large Drone (maybe even the Titan) with a photonic shield

>>49178642
Ah, I knew we had some but i thought we had 2 main ones. I'm behind again. Thanks for the heads up.

>>49178651
That sounds kinda useful, but we should leave that for the end of the thread like usual.

>>49178656
Good drone.
I won't lie for the longest time I thought you were QD. Then again I'm usually half a bottle of whiskey in before his or your quest.

>>49178572
>>49178642
Sweet. Sorry then, I think I only saw the arty one. Can't wait to see them in use.

Kinda sad the colossi never really got to see much screentime in the thread. I mean, burning some scientists out of a bunker was all that I can remember.

>>49178616
And again, source please. For the love of god.

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I made a thing.

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>>49178711
Muh Drone.

>>49178709
It is extremely easy to find any perfectly tailored to your tastes porn you wish to, yet you choose to follow reactionary impulses to end up disappointed with subpar result.

>>49178711
They sell overlord plushies? That's adorable as shit.

>>49178711
That's the label we use on our "EXTREME" nutritient paste.

>>49178678
>>49178701
>>49178709

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Quest_talk:Hive_Queen_Quest

edumacate yourselves

>>49178751
Nah, that one was custom made by someone on DA by commission. As far as I know the only official ones you can buy are Zergling and Baneling.

>>49178709
Forgot the damn, but it's a Prison School doujin. There aren't many of them so it should be easy to find.

>>49178711
Flawless.

>>49178742
Subpar huh. I'm still gonna ask anyway. I'll trade an awesome fly x girl preg doujin.

>>49178767
Thank you drone, I was only produced to make Salt. I cannot read sadly but i thank you for this gesture. We just have that one design? I thought we had another approved/voted on.

>>49178826
That saddens me deeply as a Zerg player. Overlord drops ftw.

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Do you guys have a moment to talk about our one true waifu Lee?

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>>49178980
You know, a part of me kind of wishes he somehow snuck onto the fleet we sent to defend Virgo. I figured he would want to participate in the battle to defend his homeworld from the Obsidian Queen.

>>49178980
Not enough paste outta/Hive. He needs a smile Anon, he loves the Hive now. Poor live, he isn't with us for this op.

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>>49178275
Your fleet hammers out round after round from their spinal mounts as they skim past the enemy hive fleet, catching a smattering of fire as you pass. The shields of your own ships flicker as they deflect the light bombardment of chitinous rounds, and a moment later your own salvo hits, shattering six of the corvettes like dead leaves crumbling underfoot. The shrapnel of shattered drive wings flips end for end, tumbling forth into one of the cruisers as it slices through the ship's flesh. Frigates burst open like gutted animals as railgun fire punches clean through their hulls, and several become engulfed in flames as various internal components ignite in the sudden burst of fire, reducing another three of the frigates to tumbling ruble.


A corvette of your own explodes, its hull deliberately placed in the path of a stray impactor from the rival queen's careless salvo. Your thinkers predict its trajectory to the center of New Tokyo. You realize, with some level of pride, that your shattered corvette has likely saved possibly millions of human lives. Another round, slower, deflected from a shield, erupts on contact with Path's atmosphere, harmlessly spreading into a ball of flame high above terraced farmland along the outskirts of the city.

Your fleet comes about quickly, bleeding off its velocity in the upper wisps of atmosphere of Path as your vessels shift the gears of their skid drives, locking their drives to Talgo and entering a wide arcing path across the incoming fleet. The Union picket forces hammer into them, but quickly back off to lick their wounds, their missiles trailing behind them as they pass the attacking fleet in a sudden and momentary eruption of atomic fire and kinetic force that flashed in the dark of space with only a momentary scream of electromagnetism. cont.

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>>49179043
Well he's on our hive ship that's in planetary orbit of the place now, just watching as we defend a union settlement from total annihilation.

That's got to count for something.

>>49178957
Not our /d/ickgirl friend but I think it'll be better if you just post the source if you keep this up.
Google's best guess for this image: Line art.

Thanks, Google. Never woulda guessed.

>>49179073
WE GETTING GOOD PRESS TODAY BOYS

>>49179073

Awesome. Just hope that asshole of a president is thankful instead of going the whole

>But you brought them here!

route.

>>49179073
>6 Corvettes
>3 Frigates?
>1 Cruiser

and we lost a fucking Corvette then nukes. Oh god, I love naval warfare.

>>49179073
Anybody ever wonder that maybe the Nigger Queens ships are garbage compared to ours is because these are the old outdated ships she no longer cares about? Like maybe she has better ships somewhere and this is just a smattering of essentially spare parts and trash.

>>49179165
You figure that she'd at the very least recycle them into 'better' ships. She honestly might not have better ships yet due to the whole nobody challenging her in X-amount of time. If i'm wrong tho, please correct me.

>>49179073
WE LOST A CORVETTE!
TIME TO DEMAND COMPENSATION!

>>49179165
>spare parts and trash
Those are unnecessary in a Hive fleet due to exceptional recycling programs and logistics only being limited by how much food and metal you have. These are the standard in her shitty navy because she hasn't had the chance to stealthily steal human tech like we have.

>>49179165
Hives are typically known for quantity over quality, but yes. She's probably trying to come up with some way to counter us. She's already countered our nuke pods by holding her fleets in tight formation for better point defence.


Remember White queen tasked millions of thinkers with finishing the psionic cannon and the builder had pretty much the same with thinkers throwing ideas to the wall to see what sticks.

>>49179165
Better ships like the styrofoam ones we killed? Or the hive ship we shattered over Refuge?

The OQ's ships, at least the ones she has anywhere near the front lines, are shit. She may have good ones in reserve, but we have no way of knowing that. The problem we face, I believe, is that she just has many, many, more ships than we have before even accounting for the fact our ships are far more costly to produce than OQ's really cheap ones are.

She probably has other ship designs, you're correct. We just have no reason to believe she's made enough advancements in a year or so since she last fought our mother to make her ships better than we've seen. Hives are terrible at innovation (at least before quantum thinkers) even without a crystal lobotomy. She may have prototype ships, but I'm not sure they'll be too much more effective than the styrofoam ships we already destroyed. If she gets access to human or scav tech, however, we may have a lot more to worry about.

>>49179165
She's the Salt Queen now

>>49179290
Every single encounter with us she's gotten spanked.

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>>49179073
Shattered chitinous hull fragments flow forth from the atomic hellfire, and your fleet hammers into the few craft that still think, their dying minds crying out for direction, confused at the sudden turn of events. The last few ships cling to the battlecruiser as it plunges through the igniting warheads and hammering railguns, its hull pockmarked with irradiated scorch marks and truck-sized holes as it continues through to Path. Your fleet closes the distance, and your own weapons open up, chewing into the remaining craft.

The battlecruiser slows, the corvettes behind it hiding from your wall of fire. It closes in on the planet, passing the first formation of your fleet as you turn to target the hiding sub capitals as the capital ship attempts to barge its way through your impromptu blockade.

Elsewhere, on the surface of Path, a skyscraper tilts. The lights of the city flickers, and darken, and with a sound of thunder a lance of light reaches into the heavens, the air itself ionized by the normally invisible particle beam. You see it from orbit, like a finger reaching out from the surface, and it strikes into the capital ship, piercing its hull from bow to stern. You hear it scream. The corvettes flee from behind it as it begins to bleed out, and more lances lurch forward, slicing into the ship as it breaks apart, your own fleet hammering into its nerve clusters to silence it, certain it is likely the only ship here with a relay, and sure enough, as it grows silent, you feel the others lose their purpose.

"Where is Mother?"
"We fight, what do we fight?"
"Mother is not here. Where is Mother?"

You crack open several more of the corvettes, and others are gutted by more lancing beams from below. The debris drifts slowly into the atmosphere, and you watch, carefully, as the charred pieces burn to nothing.

>Have your fleet leave quickly to avoid further political complications
>Have your fleet stay and attempt to track down any remaining debris
>Other

>>49179244
I sincerely doubt she has anything better at the moment-- or if she does, it's not the majority of her fleet. YET. She'll be doing what we are-- building up our forces like mad in preparation for the hammerblow.

Re the last few threads she's been pushed onto the back foot, seeing the disparity in our tech levels she's trying to scout us out to find out our force levels and if we have millions of ships or just a handful.

Also that hive ship of hers got blatted in the most hilarious fashion possible. We literally dropped an armada on her ass, nuked the everliving shit out of her entire fleet and then began boarding the hiveship.

>>49179309
>Have your fleet stay and attempt to track down any remaining debris

We just saved there lives, state they could have bio-weapons or something of that nature to affect them so we're ensuring they are extra safe?

>>49179309
>>Have your fleet stay and attempt to track down any remaining debris

>>49179330
>Have your fleet stay and attempt to track down any remaining debris

>>49179309
>Have your fleet stay and attempt to track down any remaining debris

We don't want any OQ hive creep springing up anywhere.
Burn it all.

>>49179309
>>Have your fleet stay and attempt to track down any remaining debris
Can't let any spores or psionic tech fall to the Union world.

>>49179309
>>Have your fleet stay and attempt to track down any remaining debris.
If the picket fleets ask what we're doing.
"containing and removing bioweapons."

>>49179309
>>Have your fleet stay and attempt to track down any remaining debris

They won't shoot us (probably) unless we do something hostile, and even if they do shoot us it gives us diplomatic leverage later if we don't fire back.

Although even if we do botch this roll we've infiltrated the human scientists enough we'll get to see how they react to studying OQ fragments.

>>49179309
So I take it the Union rolled high as well?

>Have your fleet stay and attempt to track down any remaining debris

We really need to tell the humans how important our Coloration is when making distinctions between hives. Maybe a little rhyme?

>>49179384
Looks like.

>>49179379
Good call. It sounds like something they shouldn't interfere with, and has the added benefit of being true (while also giving the humans less to study about us).

You know, I wonder how our agents (and the human anarchist/terrorist cells) are feeling about seeing a battle in the skies over the city and the hidden anti-orbital batteries opening up.

>>49178856
Oh I do not know what it is, I was referring to general attitude in regards to those random cropped pics which many people have.

>>49179309
This is incredibly nit-picky, but why do we never hear about cyclotrons or plasma lances anymore?

Always with the kinetics.

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>>49179309
>a relay

>OQ actually sent a relay for once

Fugg.

That is both bad news, in that she learned stuff from this mission, and a missed opportunity to capture one.

>>49179381

Human scientists tend to have bad luck with us. One tried to dissect us and ended up covered in acid, another one was burned out of hiding with plasma and is now our kerrigan and the last is an unwitting pawn.

>>49179424
Better tell the union they've been found by a slave of the void god and that we're gonna spend a lot of time together fixing their mess.

>>49179413
I didn't notice. Now that you mention it though, kinetics tend to have a longer range, so they are usually the first things fired. I guess I focus too much on the spinal mounts in describing things?

>>49179468
Nah you're fine.

It's just been the focus of the last couple of space fights.

To be fair they make sense in this one because of the range. Although I'm pretty sure cyclotrons have a similar range.

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>>49179468
Listen not to the Naysayers Battle-Brother, You are doing The Emperors work.

What if we made cloned Human thinkers with the knowledge of several doctorates to augment our thinkers? Considering the Hive isn't very good at innovation, this seems like a good way to circumvent that without trying to "recruit" them from other species.

>>49179309
>Have your fleet stay and attempt to track down any remaining debris.

Please roll 1d100 to sift through the atomic radiation cloud and various rapidly moving high-orbit metal chunks for scraps of hive fleet.

>>49179494
I admit I have a bias for loving railguns. I guess I call attention to them more often.

>>49179468
You're doing fine. If anything ever survives our initial broadside to get to close range it'd be nice to hear from the aux/turrets and subweapons though.

so if I'm reading this right, Union just shot the salt queen's battlecruiser with the anti-orbital battery, right?

Rolled 92 (1d100)

>>49179516

I said you're fine man. I love kinetics too

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>49179516
This is just silly overkill. Not like we'll find a relay.

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>49179516
I GOT U SENPAI

>>49179516
For Mommy Dearest.

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>49179516

FOR MOTHER YOU BASTARDS!

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>49179516
PURGE IT ALL

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>49179516
>I admit I have a bias for loving railguns.
I can relate.

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>49179516
You make it sound hard.

Has been a while since critfail

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>>49179533
Yoooooou motherfucker.

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>49179516
FOR LEE

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>>49179533

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>>49179533
NO WAT

>>49179533
uh....

>>49179533
Way to jinx it FAGGOT.

>>49179547
This is your fault.

>>49179533
>>49179547

Speak of the devil and he will appear.

>>49179547
>Has been a while since critfail

Well the worst that can happen is a bit of spore fun in New Tokyo.

>>49179533
sigh

Well...could've been in the battle and not the cleanup.

We can still warn them in general, I think. Not a stretch to be like 'Okay, if you guys find anything, do NOT fuck with it, PLEASE.'

>>49179578
Should be fun. Maybe we'll get to go planetside and burn the infection away, much like the covenant did on Earth in the Halo series.

I am new and confused. That looks like a 92 to me, which appears to be a high roll.

>>49179516
The funny thing is we looked into the future in the last thread and already saw the aftermath of grinding things into dust.

So now we'll see what we leave for Gilliam.

>Union gains Heretical OQ Relay intact
>Spinepal scientist gilliam isn't allowed to go near it for a judicious ALLAHU AKBAR
>Union Allies with OQ against the evil space bugs that are currently in orbit trying to dictating terms of surrender to them

>>49179598
Look at >>49179533

>>49179566
>>49179573
>>49179578
Actually I've added that after I noticed the critfail.

>>49179598
Best of three, crits override. So the 1 takes precedence.

>>49179598
Crits take precedence.

>>49179578
In all honesty, this isn't that bad. It'll show the humans just how badly they fucked up, how they are in no way fit or equipped to fight another hive (even one that we can beat easily), and that they need to listen to us from now on.

Ah who am I kidding. New Tokoyo is utterly, royally fucked.

>>49179598
It's best of 3. Crits take precedence, be it nat 100 or 1.

I'm gonna go watch cute bird videos to relieve myself

>>49179604
This isn't BQ where you die due to a single critfail.

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>>49179623
Just after we saved it from judicious kinetic bombardment too. A shame. No matter, you're entirely correct.

guess we might have an excuse to try out some of our ground troops if its a city that needs purging, though just nuking the spot's usually good.

>>49179507
So you're saying we should clone a Seiner Chimera finally

Wait, guys, is there any chance OQ learned relay stealth or that her relay could have survived impact with the planet? We don't want her to actually be able to establish some kind of intelligent outpost or control on a human world, she'd get a huge tech boost. Maybe she ordered her ships to just pretend to lose all communications as part of a cunning ruse. We might do something like that, after all.

Normally I'd think it'd be "impossible", but since we have a crit fail...

>>49179648
No no, they ain't letting alien troops on the ground. That's silly.

They're capable of something like 'burn it all'. They have fire.

Also our hybrids down there will enjoy this all first hand.

>>49179668
No the relay was destroyed by the orbital laser that New Tokyo shot. It's why the smaller ships started faltering and asking wheres Mom

>>49179658
Pretty much. Have them all grovel to Elizabeth and be available for any murderous "stress relief" she may have.

>>49179674
We'll just have to drop our drone from orbit then.
Remember, the union can't be trusted, they will most certainly try to get samples.

>>49179680
OR MAYBE IT WAS A TRAP

>>49179674
>They're capable of something like 'burn it all'. They have fire.
>implying its that easy

>>49179698
Calm down there, I hear stress isn't good for Mon Calamari

>>49179639
No worries.

I'm just wondering why their BC was guarding their corvettes. Standard fleet doctrine is the other way around folks-- typically you defend your capital ships with light combatants like destroyers and corvettes.

The only reason to hide corvettes behind their BC if they were trying to break through our formation, probably to get those corvettes into atmosphere.

>>49179516
After you watch the ships of the Obsidian Queen burn to nothing as they fall from orbit, your ships perform a scan of the upper atmosphere. After orbiting several times in search of additional debris, and burning away several discovered chunks, you feel confident in your coverage of the battlespace.

As your clear the surrounding space of debris your forces regroup, quickly leaving Path orbit to the obvious relief of those below.

>Return your fleets to Gemini
>Have your fleets return to hive space and resume idle patrol patterns
>Other

>>49179522
With several, yes.

>>49179700
>OQ aligned not-Feral Orks start popping up

>>49179718
I cannot wait to discover how many spot checks we missed.

>>49179718
>>Return your fleets to Gemini

>>49179718
>Have your fleets return to hive space and resume idle patrol patterns
I have a very bad feeling about immediate invasions

>>49179700

Well, Lee gave us fire. A few months later we're slapping the Union across the face in a diplomatic show of force and showcasing our capability to generate gravity to order.

>>49179718
>Other
Send them to reinforce the commonwealth attack. What's left sitting in orbit can be intimidating enough as it is.

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>>49179718
>you feel confident

Let's see how long that lasts.

>>49179718
>>Return your fleets to Gemini

>>49179718
>Scrub the hulls clean of her Filth.
>Return to Gemini

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>>49179718
>no obvious results of the critfail
DEPLOY AN IMMOLATOR WARHEAD IMMEDIATELY.

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>>49179718
>you feel confident in your coverage of the battlespace.
I'm sure absolutely everything is A-Okay and nothing got through the atmosphere at all.

>Have your fleets return to Gemini

>>49179713
The reason is QD Doesn't know the standard doctrine

>>49179718
>Return your fleets to Gemini

>>49179718
>quickly leaving Path orbit to the obvious relief of those below.

THEY WILL RUE THE DAY WE LEFT SOON.

RUUUUUE.

>>49179718
>>Other
Tell the picket fleet to alert the hive should they notice any aberrations on the planet's surface.

>>49179718
Keep the fleets in the system in case OQ invades again.
"border control."

>>49179718
Can we do two?
>Return your fleets to Gemini
>AND warn humans about dangers of spore contamination, maybe offer to clean it up ourselves?

>>49179782
That makes no sense. We can arrive instantaneously as long as we're not too many lightyears away to make it a risky blink. No need to agitate the humans with out presence except at Gemini.

>>49179753
By the way lads, Fun fact relating to orbital mechanics: if the OQ could deploy spores from orbit (similar to our own hive spore dusting) she could literally coat an entire world in spores in about one and a half hours if it's got a similar orbital speed to earth. Three hours for a good double-dusting.

>>49179770
She's already learned to use light ships to defend bigger ones from our cloaked nuke pods.

>>49179718
>Return your fleets to Gemini

>>49179799
QD, not OQ

>>49179821
>Return your fleets to Gemini

>>49179837
OQ = Obsidian queen.

>>49179851
And I was referring to QD. Pretty sure I know what I was doing.

>>49179851
I just call her OB for Obsidian Bitch, less confusing.

What would a drone we designed to quest look like?

>>49179718
>Other
>>49179744
Seconding this guy. Let's send this fleet to support the Commonwealth attacks.

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>>49179858
Not being sarcastic but can you spell it out? It's morning now and I'm half asleep here.

>>49179882
I meant that QD, when writing his description of battle, did not take into account what the standard military doctrine is. That is my assumption as to why the big ship covered smaller ships in the battle.

>>49179718
>>Have your fleets return to hive space and resume idle patrol patterns

>>49179907
Too be fair, Space combat 'currently' is theoretical in all aspects because we haven't had a chance to test it in real life. So Large ships screening small and small ships screening large could be right or hell might both be wrong.

>>49179907
....You're shitting me right

She was using the big ship as cover to slip the escorts closer to the planet.

>>49179935
.....You are right I am shitting right in your nose.

>>49179935
Maybe the OB got smart and slipped a relay on one of the small ships and just deactivated it when the big one was destroyed...

Oh dear.

>>49179953
You fucking moron, there was nothing standard about that tactic at all. No doctrine to adhere to.

The BC was fucked, it was little more than a hulk and expendable, she was trying to get her small ships to the planet for some reason.

>>49179907
Thanks for explaining. Okay but I don't think you're giving QD enough credit here. One reason for the proposed description would be to break through our forces to escape or get the corvettes to the planet.

>>49179928
Again I think QD's actually given a pretty good representation. He's given a good description of C-fractional strikes that would be feasable IRL whenever we decide to get around to exploring the stars and declaring war on ourselves there too.

>>49179718

Your ships begin to charge their drives, their wings sweeping forward as a static crackle emanates from their hulls.

"Humans will alert the Hive of any future hostile contamination." And with that, and a burst of hard radiation, they are gone. A moment later, not far from Gemini orbit, your ships emerge back into reality.

I suppose now we have two options, I suppose I'd be good for either. Since it's labor day, I figure we can keep on running through the night, or we all get some sleep and I come back fresh this evening and we keep running with the Commonwealth battles.

What would you prefer? Either way we'll get about the same amount of quest.

>>49179907
I can think of a couple possible reasons.

1. She was planning to suicide dive into the planet, and protected the smaller craft so they could act as a pseudo-MIRV.

2. The large craft was sufficiently armored that, by subjecting it to the worst of the incoming fire, her fleet list fewer functional weapons per second than if the escorts were torn apart, allowing them to squeeze out a few more parting shots.

3. Hoped to crash at least one ship reasonably intact to deploy a bioweapon from, knowing that the large craft's wreckage was certain to be atomized first.

>>49179979
Let's take a breather, I think.

>>49179973
Wew you probably should not get mad over opinions on the internet. I like your opinion, but I think mine is better.

>>49179973
Well obviously she failed completely. After all, we circled the planet several times and are "confident" we didn't see anything.

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>>49179979
SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK

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>>49180000
Cute

>>49179979
I vote to keep going.

>>49179979
Get a breather, QD. Don't drive yourself into a crash.

>>49179979
I'd prefer that you run until 6-7 then take a break.

>>49179979
Go again later, we'll get more out of it that way.

>>49179979
Take a nap bud

So were we cloning us some human hybrid thinkers?

I know not real thinker hybrids, I mean cloning Seiner or creating some scientist assistants for Elizabeth

>>49180009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKTtUpDfj4Q

>>49179979
Might as well nap.

>>49180004
SIX HUNDRED ACTIVE EGGLAYERS ALL OVER THE PLANET PUMPING OUT MILLIONS ACID WASPS RIGHT THIS VERY SECOND.

HUMAN ERRADICATION WITHIN FOUR HIURS

>>49180017
This is the optimal pausing point though. Scene transition.

>>49180036
Hey, free planet.

>>49179979
I say get some sleep.

>>49179979
Take a nap QD. We all know how you get when your crashing and i don't want to miss anything.

>>49179979
Dinner Break

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>>49180028
>see link
>expect fish
>click link
>receive fish

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>>49179983

Let's say she managed to get a spore-producing piece of debris in a equatorial planetary orbit similar to that of the ISS, i.e once around the world every 92 minutes, producing spores all the while.

Catching every single outbreak would be insanely hard. Could be done if caught early and we removed the spore-spreading debris, afterwards it's going to be a zerg hive creep invasion. After 3 hours, that's two passes it's had to spread spores across the entire equator. 3 passes, 4 1/2 hours. You'd need an army of people burning away the creep.

>>49179979
Get some rest man. You done good. Gives me time to get back to the Dark souls all-nighter I was going to have until I saw your post.

>>49179983
I can think of a couple possible reasons too, but in the opposite direction.

1) It gets close enough to fire some sort of spore bombardment weapon.

2)It lets you keep command over your forces as your relay is intact.

3)It lets you dish out more damage as by the inherent nature of its bigger size, it packs more punch.

4)By not blowing up, and letting you disperse spores normally you get better coverage(similar to 1)

5)In the event of explosion, BC due to its bigger size would better spread remaining spores, as there is more ship to rain down onto the planet.

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>>49179979
Alrighty then, let's take a nap, and I'll get a thread up this evening. Will post in twitter the time, but should be about 7 eastern.

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>>49180012
You're moe

>>49180104
I miss Ed Edd n Eddy.

>>49180076
It's even worse if it's a non equatorial orbit. Instead of just spreading spores along a single line the tilt of the planet and the rotation of the planet against the spore dispersal would make it spread contamination in a wide and unpredictable fashion. What you said may, in fact, be one of the best possibilities in terms of knowing where the spores are landing...

Maybe we should come up with a plan to get our clones off world.

>>49180104
Best bed. Sleep good QD. Night everybody else as well

>>49180104
Thanks man. Have a good rest. This has been a really fun run and tomorrow should be great. I'm especially looking forward to the Commonwealth battle and what shenanigans our speaker may have gotten up to.

Hopefully we can turn the crit fail to our advantage (eventually) by demonstrating to the Union just how much they need us. Of course, first we must convince them this isn't just some false flag operation (cause that's what they'd do).

Thanks again. I hope you're feeling better after that sickness after last week.

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>>49180121
It would have to be launching intact missiles that can survive the atmosphere.

Odds are it's just a number of pieces of ship with spores in them at worst. Something that survived the crash, not that can produce an infinite number of things that can also survive a crash.

>>49180121
Why bother, really? They're already quasi-immortal since we can just make fresh clone bodies and stuff their previous memories in. Further, if the planet does go tits-up it'll be easy to explain away why they don't have any of their documentation; it was lost in the confusion of trying to get offworld in a hurry.

QD can we vote to increase the development level of our human planets with hidden colonies if you're still here?

At this point I'm thinking we might need for some troops on the ground as it were.

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>>49180211
>increase the development level of our human planets with hidden colonies

>hidden colonies
>development level

That isn't very hidden.

Also all our hidden colonies are already at the troop-producing phase of producing hybrid clones. All two of them. Gemini and Bedrock.

The Path one we haven't heard from, it just got started.

>>49180121
>>49180076
I think it is sliiiightly more likely that debris from a bunch of ships that got blown up while heading for the planet would not end up in orbit at all. It would end up falling down the well fucking off into space.

>>49180278
I'm just thinking we may have triggered OQ to start going after human settlements, since we've shown to actually care when she does. She could make a false flag op to pull our forces in, then ambush us.

From what I remember we've got a tiny colony of no real importance in bedrock, another slightly bigger and more useful one sitting around sewers with some parasitized taidaren producing hybrids supporting our espionage and another under the sea on another world.

So I made an Aquatic collossus design a while back. Is it okay?

Lobster

Sight: Basic
Olfactory: Basic
Acoustic: Basic
Electrical: Basic 1N
Psionic: Basic
Mandibles: Combat 1N
Blade: Sledgehammer 6N 10M
Arms: Strength 1N
Legs: Sprint 1N
Wings: Basic Glider 1N
Missile Pods: Stinger missiles (torpedoes) 20N 50M
Utility: Gills 4N
Utility: Honey Pot 4N
Forward Hardpoint: Acid Spray 30M
Dorsal Hardpoint: Particle Cannon 30M
Gun Ports (x4): Heavy Thumper 60M
Carapace: Heavy 5N 20M
Chassis: Hydrodynamic 2N 5M
Size: Large x2
Cost: 92N 410M
Upkeep: 46N

For heavy power during aquatic campaigns. Like a (naval) gunboat/submarine. The weapons chosen are for effectiveness underwater. Particle Cannon seemed like it would work well, and acid spray could cause something like a corrosive cloud. Stinger missiles and seeker thumpers act like torpedoes.

>>49180362
If she attempts that form of bait we could send heretic and a few of our ships while we send a counterattack.

>>49180406
tail instead of wings mate

>>49180406
>Use rift engine into planet ocean
>Bitch Queen wakes up to find Monstrous Kaiju invading from the depths of the ocean, contaminating everything with our poisonous sea spores
> Literally pacific rim

Also tail instead of wings. Glider wings won't help with large stuff unless we literally drop it from an airborne corvette. Aside from that it looks great. Maybe swap the particle cannon for a plasma cannon.


Also would you like to design one of the ultra-large drones for hydro use as well? That's something we might be able to use later.

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>>49180362
>She could make a false flag op to pull our forces in, then ambush us.

That's. That's not what false flag means.

>>49180477
>ultra-large
That isn't a thing mate, there's only large.

Also
>plasma
>in water

>>49180362
And what are we gonna clone under the sea. Mermen?

We are making all the troops we can already.

>>49180508
Pasrtial falseflagness is automatic with any engagement against humans. We will HAVE to warp in and fight to prove that it's not us fucking them.

>>49180528
Why, hermit crabsmen that sing, of course!
>UNDA DA SEA
>UNDA DA SEA
>IT'S BETTA WHEN IT'S WETTA
>UNDA DA SEA

>>49180508
oops. Okay, my bad, used the wrong term. Should have said decoy.

What I mean is, she could warp a fleet in to attack the humans, wait until we send our fleet in, and then send another fleet in and have both attack us.

>>49180528
we don't need to clone anything, just having our hive presence there we could send warriors out to fight any invaders.

>>49180610
A better term is bait, like i have said here >>49180422

>>49180610
>What I mean is, she could warp a fleet in to attack the humans, wait until we send our fleet in, and then send another fleet in and have both attack us.
Yes but we ALSO can send our ships in.
It'll basically be infinite sandwiching until one of us stops or runs out of ships.

>>49180525
double oops. Thought that huge thing we traded for would give us more than a large/bipedal leg improvement.

As to plasma/water, plasma takes a while to charge up to full strength after which it could level a city block and probably any human city block or battleship we hit dead on. I was thinking it could charge submurged, then surface to fire. Would make for a decent ambush fighter.

>>49180627
Yeah, my bad.

>>49180610
The point of hidden colonies is that they are Hidden.

We are not loading them up with obviously-hive drones solely to then deploy them out of nowhere and ruining the secret of their existence.

>>49180678
>city block and probably any human city block

Seems I forgot how to inglesie as well. Oh well, night chaps.

Don't forget to add your drone design to the suptg page, whatever you decide. Looks like it would be useful whenever we need our submersible shenanigans.

>>49180678
That's Plasma Assault Cannon, Plasma Cannon is a piercing weapon. Though it's an interesting use for it, PAC discharges enough heat after each shot to kill anything too close and would boil the water around it. In those conditions it would cook itself without radiator tubes and/or conductive armour.

>>49180705
I've also dabbled with some Titan designs, and a near useless 'Ambulance'. I'll add them all later.

>>49180732
The Plasma Cannon is the Hive version of the Suncaster right?

I remember QD saying that it would be perfect for a Large Drones tail since they would not get the negatives that a medium sized drone would get by using it and moving.

A Large Drone can mount a Medium sized weapon on its tail so Heavy Thumpers (the Hive version of 40k Bolters), fire/cryosprays, plasma cannons, or lightning guns would be the best option for them I think

So, er... why are we returning to Gemini, aren't we done over there?

>>49181780
Still waiting for their decision on our demands over the Expanse

>>49181780
Maintaining our gunboat diplomacy.

Further, we can be certain that the Union has people analyzing ever aspect of our craft as they come and go. When they notice that they returned with combat damage and one ship less than they set out, we could get some brownie points with the populous for visibly making sacrifices on their behalf.

>>49182661
You guys are forgetting the most important question.

Fuck did our speaker start saying.

>>49182953
Probably muttering on about crystals and inefficient couch distributors.

>>49182953
Death Grips - Takyon (Death Yon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89F5fpvwPr0

>>49183077
FUCK YA I FEEL IM KILLIN IT

>>49177846
ah goddamnit you always run when I am asleep. Welcome back QD!

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>>49182953
>>49183077
>>49183273

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>>49183867
This is funnier than it has any right to be.

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>>49183867
>Those facial expressions
>Those lyrics
>That filename
Goddamn IG, you fucking nailed everything about this pic, I've been tittering madly for the past 5 minutes.

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>>49179043
Reminds me I keep forgetting to post this OC.

Favorite scene from thread 4.

>>49183867
Ha! Yogesh is disappoint

>>49183867
10/10 cheeky

>>49183867
Absolutely beautiful.

>>49183867
FANTASTIC

So how is the Shield Giga Drone design coming along? Because we need a giant shielder more than we need a underwater tank. Unless you guys want to explore every inch of that water planet we got a hive in?

But even then we still need a Giga Shielder.

>>49185298
We're waiting on the shield dome research to finish first.

>>49185371
How come we got microshields but not the big ones? The tech was originally designed to be big after all.

Our Quantom Thinkers are still arguing what big shield design to use, right?

>>49185430
I think, we were originally interested in personal shielding first and that seeing the big shields gave us a boost in that research.

I found a quote about when we first saw/started researching big shields:

"Among the chaos, however, you find something that instantly gains your full attention. Across the surface, rings of undamaged land surround some of the larger military installations. Command posts, major silos, sensor stations, all unharmed and untouched by the bombardment and rain of debris. You wonder why, and as you do you watch as a high velocity impactor hits with the force of an atomic bomb. It detonates half a kilometer above the ground, and as the blast fades you spot the slight shimmer if a shield covering the area with a dome of faint energy. Along the rim you can find strange looking projectors, previously dismissed as radio towers or sensors of some kind. You are unsure of how they managed to perfect shielding for the surface of a planet, but your thinkers already have theories, especially those working on shield miniaturization."

So it seems like we were already working on shield miniaturization when we started on the big shields. My guess is we'll unlock big shields sometime in the next "day" or two.

>>49185525
Yay!

Also, any plans what to do with the data we got from those fast breeding things? Someone mentioned making cute fluffly things to sell as pets?

>>49183867
God damn IG. I just got up. I didn't need that laughing fit.

>>49185687
A spray that makes tribbles emit a chemical that neuters any other tribble it comes into contact with? Humans have a lot of trouble with these things so they'd pay big for an easy method of getting rid of them.

>>49185687
>>49186399
Alternatively we could have our clones set up a tribble removal/eating service whilst spreading tribble spores via our flies.

I wonder why the canderon power taps allowed the voidfags to project themselves into reality.

What if powertaps aren't making energy from nothing? What if they're drawing energy from voidland?

>>49186432
Or just go with the cute mascot option. Give them away for free on the planets we claimed that have humans on ot and use them as spies.

Alternatively.make them a better food source.

>>49187200
Different flavoured tribbles? We could have the flavour written onto their skin.

>>49187192
Because black holes and void shards. Hence why I prefer a core fusion reactor for our weapon planet. Worst case we just lose the planet instead of opening a permanent tear on reality the size of texas.

>>49187200
Don't forget we can have them metamorphize into egg layers to create stealth colonies.

We should get this thread to bump limit so QD can start a fresh thread in an hour and half

>>49190058
It would have happily died on its own, we were so close until this guy came in.

>>49189702
That would only work for small drones and cloned creatures large enough to contain a parasite and be turned into chimera.

>>49190218
Also the whole point would be to make them different enough from Hive life for the humans to not suspect foul play, but still able to be controlled by the Queen. Or just stick a parasite in them.

>>49191691
you fucker, thread was supposed to die off so QD could start a new thread in...7 minutes

>>49191802
This lets him link to the new from the old?

>>49186432
>>49187200
>>49187287
But what do we do when the Tribbles reveal their true genetic prowess and evolve to be more suited against the selection pressures we've introduced and develop a countermeasure against getting eaten by drones? What would we do if the humans or scavs got ahold of such technology? A sobering thought indeed.

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>>49191877
Makes sense.

>>49191936
New thread's up!