>>49191936
HIVE TIME FOR MOTHER!

>>49191936
Time to worry about what we missed

NOICE

>>49192061
It'll be delightful whenever it pops up.

Best Case Scenario: She was just probing to see if we had a defense pact with the humans. It would appear to her that we do indeed.

>>49191936
mother was on time

We'd better either get to hear what the speaker was saying whilst disconnected and/or see the reactions of those around it.

>>49192174
Didn't QD say that drones are in slow motion while in the warp?

>>49192256
IT IS A GOOD PAIN

We are expect in genetics, we just design Tribbles that cannot evolve but that come in different flavors. With the pet version we just make it unable to reproduce, cute, huggable, and incapable of agresion, also we make the pet version taste horrible, even for hive life.

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Time for Diplomacy

>>49192256
>"This speaker is somewhat excited, it has never been through a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpppppppppppppppppppppp bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeffffffffffffffffffooooooooooooooore. Why is everyone staring?"

All the while it's still moving its hands and eyes around like it normally would, just really slowly, and the humans all realize that the entire time it's been there it's been glancing at literally every one of them several times per second.

>>49192256
We can't communicate with them in a practical fashion while they're in warp, however I believe the ambassadorial speaker has a q-brain so he shouldn't be spewing too much shit while he's there.

>>49191936
Your forces skim the planets orbit as they decelerate, firing a salvo as they pass and loop around that shears into the enemy fleet from the side. You see a Scavenger ship catch a slug and spin, its hull warping and fragmenting as it rips itself apart from the impact. Another shatters in half, sending bits of hull in every direction. As your fleet spins as they pass, accelerating hard to give the formation a sweeping curve towards the planet, your ships fire again, the linear particle beams reaching out the astronomically short distance of a half-light second to flay the hull from several damaged ships, and your formation begins to enter the melee, falling into a range close enough for real time communication. You detect comm lasers pinging your ships warily from outdated looking vessels amid the conflict.

A damage report comes to you from the lasers, along with data you already know informing you they had been expecting an allied alien force to assist. The picket force has suffered casualties, nearly a third of their fleet either destroyed or rendered inoperable, but they have made sure the enemy has paid for every vessel. Scavenger ships dot the battlespace, wrecks covered in weapon impact marks and torn to pieces from unrelenting fire. A faint static hints at atomic weapon detonations, and beams of light from the surface below tear at the descending troop transports, burning them down like moths in a flame. Shuttles fall from the orbiting ships and transports, shedding from their bellies like fleas as they scatter to the planet below. You already detect the chaos of combat beginning to spread on the surface.

>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships
>Focus on assisting the picket forces in orbit
>Focus on targeting and destroying the landing ships
>Other

>>49192359
He just sold them two tons of our nutrient paste.

>>49192374
>Focus on targeting and destroying the landing ships

>>49192359
Or he could be spouting all of the shit while he is there.

However if it ends up becoming like >>49183867
that would make me all the more happy.

>>49192374
>>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships

>>49192374
>Focus on assisting the picket forces in orbit
GAS THE SQUIDS
NUKE THE WHALES
STAB THE MONKEYS
TRUST NOTHING
THE VOID IS WATCHING

>>49192374
>>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships

>>49192359
>we regain control of the speaker as it finishes speaking
>"-and human birth is disgusting! All blood and stretching and screaming and weak fleshy babies with single hearts and terminal stupidity! So weird! And-"

>>49192374
>>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships

>>49192374
>>Focus on targeting and destroying the landing ships
Let's see how good we are with bombardment.

>>49191936
FORMOTHER

>>49192374
>>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships
This time we give full assistance, that and I want to our children to get stuck in in a ground war.

>>49192457
>>49183867

>>49192496
Agreed. Our warrior drones have only ever entered ground combat against OQ and Lyle.

Time for some old fashioned zerg rushing

>>49192408
>Focus on targeting and destroying the landing ships

EXTERMINATE!

>>49192374
>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships

Ah yeah, time to see our upgraded ground drones in action. It's been a while.

>>49192374
>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships.

>>49192374
>Other
Full assist, ground and orbital warfare

>>49192496
>>49192571
I just want to see the scavs vs warrior drones matchup, and to show the Commonwealth a few of our Goliaths.

>>49192571
What about the battle in Nowhere?

>>49192374
>>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships
sounds like a lot of transports are making it down unscathed

>>49192374
>>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships

>>49192616
And the Smith.

>>49192374
I think we're too late to stop a lot of the transports. We need to get ahead of them.

Let's go with
>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships

>>49192616
we were the clean-up crew, along with Theseus's hunter-killer drones.
I just really want to see our children fighting once more.

>>49192374
>>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships

YES YES YES

>>49192374
>>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships

HAHA TIME FOR PLASMA ASSAULT CANNONS AND TITANS

>>49192644
And the Scavs on the Builders superstructure

>>49192678
Let's show the commonwealth how truly lucky they are that we approached them on friendly terms and wish to ally with them.

>>49192678
I am honestly curious about how our tank bugs go against the Scavs.

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>>49192374
>Have your corvettes move in and deploy ground forces under the cover of your larger ships

Your corvettes begin to shed their own shuttles as they quickly fall to the surface, their hulls glowing with heat as they smash through the atmosphere. As your shuttles break the clouds their sensors begin to study the landscape below, a bleak world, covered in factories and boxy looking habitation facilities covered in atmospheric filters. The air is nearly breathable, but just slightly too little oxygen, and the air is just below freezing. Your own drones find it somewhat exhaustive, but their respiratory systems are far more efficient. You will have no issue here.

Landing pods fall from the sky along with shuttles and larger dropships flying above. You pick out a number in your way and your shuttles begin to drop your flying drones. They swoop to intercept, screaming through the sky with a chittering whaling as their weapons open up and rip into the Scavenger landing craft. Other shuttles begin to touch down, their holds opening and spilling drones forth like a geyser of chitin.

>Have your drones secure a defensive perimeter and assist the human defenders
>Have your drones find and kill all Scavengers and scavenger-like things on the planet
>Other

>>49192735

>Have your drones secure a defensive perimeter and assist the human defenders

>>49192735
>Have your drones secure a defensive perimeter and assist the human defenders

>>49192735
>>Have your drones find and kill all Scavengers and scavenger-like things on the planet
The most important thing is that no scavs escape back to orbit with samples to study.

Any advancements they make will cost everyone a lot more later.

>>49192735
>Have your drones secure a defensive perimeter and assist the human defenders
>Have your drones find and kill all Scavengers and scavenger-like things on the planet
Pretty sure we can do both, put fast killy drones on scav hunting duty while heavy slow drones help defend humans.

>Have your drones find and kill all Scavengers and scavenger-like things on the planet.

If we give them time, they will steal everything, even the kitchen sink. They are worse than vikings.

>>49192735
>>Have your drones find and kill all Scavengers and scavenger-like things on the planet

>>49192735
>Have your drones secure a defensive perimeter and assist the human defenders
>Both if possible?

>>49192735
>>Have your drones secure a defensive perimeter and assist the human defenders

>>49192735
>>Have your drones secure a defensive perimeter and assist the human defenders

>>49192735
>Have your drones secure a defensive perimeter and assist the human defenders

We are trying to score brownie points for being good allies after all...

>>49192735
>>Have your drones find and kill all Scavengers and scavenger-like things on the planet

Gotta minimize damage the best way we know how, kill them all.

>>49192735
>Have your drones secure a defensive perimeter and assist the human defenders

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

>>49192811
>Vikings
>Bad

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>49192885
GO MY CHILDREN

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>49192885

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>49192874
We are primarily trying to stop the Scavs from improving themselves, that's just a side bonus.

>>49192885

>>49192735
>Have your drones find and kill all Scavengers and scavenger-like things on the planet
>Other
Capture more officers for Intel and chimera subjects.

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>49192885

For Big Momma!

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>49192885
FOR MOTHER

>>49192837
Eh, human reinforcements will arrive in about a hour or two, they just have to hold on until then.

Let's give them the chance to be heroes defending their homes.

>>49192735
>>Have your drones secure a defensive perimeter and assist the human defenders

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>>49192906
HHHHHAHAHAHAHA

GOOD FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE ALWAYS GOOD

>>49192906
YES YES YES

>>49192906
I love how every single time we meet the scavs we just fuck them up immensely. Time to make the Commonwealth impressed with our ground forces as well as our space fleets.

>>49192939
It's the same with bitchy queen.

>>49192888
You also believe pirates were like in Treasure Island don't you?

Go back to read your Olaf comics.

>>49192954
They deserve it

I get that we're focusing primarily on the ground, but that doesn't mean our fleet up in space is just standing by idly, right?

>>49192906
This still isn't making up for that 1 earlier against BQ spore plot

>>49192954
Forgetting the crit-fail yesterday already I see.

>>49192978
That was cleanup detail. Our drones being oblivious after-battle is irrelevant.

>>49192906
we Imperial fists now

I wont lie,

I want to see how BQ spore creep works and also want to see and study how the fight goes between BQ and union ground forces

>>49192998
Nah, it's actually great. More plot hooks.

>>49193085
Yeah, this is more the Union seeing how fucked they are without us. Really, it was one of the better situations (at least from the Red Queen's perspective) to fail to perceive our enemy.

>>49193085
I still can't believe that space Tokyo of all Union worlds was the one that got dusted. Seeing BQ's spores sweep through it's streets is going to be insane.

>>49193132
We HAVE to send our Kaiju down to fight there (assuming things really do get out of control)

So how does the betting pool look lie?

Spore causes zombie rabies?

Spore just creates relay and basic drones?

>>49193171
Our giant bettles are still a tad short to be called Kaijus.

>>49193202
Spores infect and turn hosts into explosive spore bombs which continue the cycle, along with planting aggressive hive creep that devours everything in its path.

>>49192885
I just realized that this is a bad idea are drones are still armed with acid glands were gonna be melting are human friends left and right down there

>>49193259
uh
no

>>49193202
I'm thinking body horror style amalgamation of all flesh and biomatter into giant masses of spores.

>>49193238
So "The Last of Us" style

Thats cool

>>49193259
Dude we stopped using acid a long time ago

>>49193297
Dead Space?

>>49193259
Our drones have thus far been good about not spewing friendlies with acid, and the actual explosiveness of a burst of acid is a semi-conscious decision I think. So we shouldn't have too much trouble with it.

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>>49192885
Your airborne drones begin to sweep the landscape, filling the sky as they scan for the human defenders. Wasps descend like a dark cloud onto the district, spreading out as they begin to take fire, sweeping in on the Scavenger positions. A squad holds their position in a small building, firing from mashed windows at another concrete and metal structure a hundred meters away. A strafer drone flies past, rupturing the ceiling and one of the walls as it releases several concussive grenades and its seekers begin to flutter through the sky, falling in a spiral into the newly opened holes as they home in on the traces of Scavenger genetic signatures, tracing their ever present pheromone trails. They flutter through the building, over debris and shattered walls, and the first pops, swelling with reactive chemicals as it flops itself to the back of the first Scavenger it finds, and it detonates. The windows flair with fire and dust, and others flair after it. The scavs turn quickly at the small seekers, the instinctive munitions flutter like animals, innocent in their intention but devastating in their effect, and several are gunned down as they race to their targets.

You see a squad of humans taking cover in the nearby building, and others ducked into several ditches in a snow covered field nearby. They get up, watching in obvious confusion as a Scavenger dives from the second story window of a building, rattling its back in panic as two seekers dive after it. It impacts with a crunchy thud on the frosted ground, and the two seekers detonate, creating an avalanche of concrete as a corner of the building crumbles away. The humans begin to advance, sprinting up the debris ramp to the building's second level.

cont.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNfPPu4Mrj8

>>49193401
fucking terrifying

>>49193401
WE HUNT. FOR MOTHER!

>>49193401
such adorable children

>>49193401
I didn't know we upgraded our wasps with seekers podd but I'm glad we did

>>49193494
Those aren't wasps.

>>49193401
yay

>>49193401
The scavengers blast away several more of the seekers as your wasps glide in over the building, landing on the shattered rooftop with a cluster of thuds, and they rush inside. You see several pack alphas commanding their respective squads in unison, one ordering another out the window as it trails several more seekers. It dives out as the small leathery balls of wings flutter out behind it, detonating shortly after.

You hear gunfire below as the humans begin to clear the building, your wasps rushing in as the scavengers attempt to react, diving at one of the alphas with blades unsheathed. The surrounding scavenger troops open fire, boiling away your wasps as they detonate their acid over the alien leader. It rattles its back spines in agony as they slowly break off, its face rapidly corroding as its implants sink into the dissipating goo of its flesh. More wasps fly in from the window, decapitating two scavengers as they pass. The two lash out in confusion, reaching for their bleeding necks. One trips, falling out of the window, while the other is quickly filled with a spray of chitinous slugs and drops to the ground.

cont.

>>49193494
Your strafer drone, and aerodynamic light bomber intended primarily for air support of infantry. It is equipped with thumpers and seeker pods.

>>49193671
Our children are brutal as fuck.

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>>49193494
>A strafer drone flies past,

I think I recognize you anon.

>>49193671
Well zog me, looks like some of our drones did have acid glands prepped for use. I'm not complaining mind you.

>>49193708
This is what we get for rolling a 96. Now imagine how brutal it is as this is happening EVERYWHERE our ships are dropping troops.

>>49193835
Wow, we need more than 96 to get more than just one micro scene when there's a battle over an entire world? That's brutal.

>>49193835
>>49192906
Is a 99 not a 96.

>>49193862
Har har. also it was a 99. I was thinking of the 96 we missed earlier because of the nat 1.

>>49193671
The wasps rush the other alpha, sprinting on all six limbs as they dive back and forth to avoid blaster fire, and your wasps return in kind with a mixture of sting casters and their own blasters, ripping into the squad of scavenger troops.

A door flies open with a firm kick and a human charges through with a rifled slug thrower held at the ready. Its design is unknown to you, but as he uses it to place several chunks of ferrous metal into one of the scavenger troops you can tell it is largely similar to your own thorn launcher. He dispatches with the scav at the door with a pair of slugs to the chest and one to the head as it slides down the wall, and he turns to the rest of the room, his opaque helmet hiding his face as he brings his hand up as if to wretch.

Your wasps, their mandibles dripping with the almost neon colored blood of the scavengers, rip into the alpha as its last rattling cries for help fade, their blades scooping and scraping at flesh riveted with metal and wire. The wasps pull their heads out of the wounds, clicking their mandibles as their claws sweep at their eyes to clean off the gore, and they let out a crackling hiss, and most of them dive into the air, their wings spreading as it flings blood along the walls in a fine spray, and they take to the sky with a loud buzz. The last lingers, chittering at the human. He offers a hesitant nod of thanks, and your wasps twitches its antenna as it clicks its mandibles, and takes to the air.

"Bloc sixteen is clear." You hear from the surface. "Continuing to regroup with squad one-oh-seven, the road here is clear now."

More transmissions follow, your drones homing in on the human reports of incursion as squads sit pinned under blaster fire or face dwindling ammunition as they cut down approaching forces. Dropships slowly fall in the distance as your aerial drones cut down the shuttles and troop ships as they land.
cont.

Woah, Sorry I'm late. Been busy these last few days. (catching up and all)

>>49194131
NICE

paint a terrifying image of our race for friend and foe alike

>>49194194
Howdy Fluff.

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>>49194194
>Sorry I'm late.
>apologizing for being late
>on 4chan
>where nobody cares who the fuck you are because anonymous

>>49194131
>his opaque helmet hiding his face as he brings his hand up as if to wretch

I have a feeling that any planet we help is going to become a very strong advocate for greater ties/alliance/appeasement with us, out of a mix of gratitude and pants-shitting terror.

Like if there's ever a debate over one of our demands/requests there'll be the standard spread of delegates across the yes/no spectrum and then a solid bloc of "just give them what they want jesus fuck please we don't want our eyes eaten out from the inside" people.

>>49194194
Oh joy more namefags. Welcome back fluff

>>49194293
And that is one reason why we're helping the humans in the first place.

>>49194293
>standard spread of delegates across the yes/no spectrum and then a solid bloc of "just give them what they want jesus fuck please we don't want our eyes eaten out from the inside" people.

Ah yes... exactly what we want.

But honestly how can they not see how adorable our children are?

eventually they will want to be improved and then all will be well.

>>49194263
I'm just trying to be polite.
>>49194234
evening Salt.
>>49194309
It's good to be back.

Well now! A near crit too! I need to get some popcorn after all.

The dice giveth and they taketh away. 1 incoming on the next roll.

>>49194367
how you been Fluffy?

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>49194452
Test

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>49194452
fuck the dice gods

>>49194486
Whoops.

>>49194486
can..... can we use that for our next roll? Please?

>>49194510
He didn't let us use those four crits in that one thread, doubt he'll let us use that one.

>>49194367
It's been a while faggot, what are you following these days?

>>49194510
No.

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>49194486
MATER VULT

>>49194131
>>bloc
>noun
>a group of voters or politicians who share common goals
How democratic.

>>49194525
a drone can dream... maybe...

>>49194532
Lately Beleaguered Prince and Audit/MAQ has got my attention lately. With planefag being planefag. I don't expect to see him back for awhile.
>>49194460
Busy as fuck, that's what! But the jobs are winding down for now, so I'm back here and writing again.

>>49194131
Your swarm finds a squad pinned in a wrecked building, hiding from the blaster fire as they spray their weapons over shattered walls. A group of your warriors glides in, their wings fluttering to adjust their course as they control their fall, and eventually land on one of the scavengers, crushing it beneath its girth. Several wasps quickly swarm in, carrying away another of the enemy troops as your warriors rip them in half with their claws. A warrior crushing one of the smaller scavengers in its maw as it shakes its head back and forth, tossing the body through the wall where the humans squat for cover. They hoist up their weapons and begin to fire, shooting in short bursts as the scavengers as they struggle to regroup after the sudden attack.

One cleanly slices through a warrior's arm, and is bet with the other, the blade sinking through its torso, another places several blaster shots clean into your warrior's head, cracking a mandible and searing away its eye. It brings up its weapons, the large bolt of chitin punching clean through its body several times before it drops to the ground.

Above, warships lance each other with their weapons in the upper reaches of the stratosphere. Beams of light flash back and forth as corvettes broadside each other as they both fight for landing space, their hulls dumping their shuttle compliment like a flood of metal and chitin.

Your warriors simply look at the human squad, the breathing tubes on their back flaring with steam in an echoing roar, and they leap into the sky as their wings fight against gravity.

"Junction twelve is clear. All enemy xeno elements confirmed dead." You hear an odd gurgling and a gunshot. "Now confirmed dead." The human repeats.

cont.

>>49194652
You write?

>>49194692
See what kind of help putting that extra effort into comfy chairs buys you? If only they knew this all started with the scavs lieing about a couch.

>>49194692
>tfw still not colossus plasma assault cannons and no Titans

sadness

>>49194703
You fool. Do not ask. You know not what you unleash.

>>49194652
Pimpin, wb.

>>49194775
how did the war with the scaves happen again?

>>49194692
>"Junction twelve is clear. All enemy xeno elements confirmed dead." You hear an odd gurgling and a gunshot. "Now confirmed dead." The human repeats.
I'm liking the Commonwealth.

>>49194811
We will adopt them. All of them. Or, at least their sarcastic assholes.

>>49194789
soon anondrone, soon.

>>49194807
They denied diplomacy with a blast to a diplo drones head. Right when it was midway through our eternal need for comfy seating trade request.

>>49194807
We had a bad roll and they tried to steal from us

>>49194807
They tried to steal a ship.

>>49194807
>how did the war with the scaves happen again?
We found them, they said they wished to trade for resources in exchange for comfy seating then tried to steal our ship.

>>49194862
>The scav war started from a craigslist carjacking.

Seriously?

>>49194807
They refused to trade us a couch.

>>49194885
We don't need more.

>>49194807
They're gypsies, that's reason enough for genocide.

>>49194885
The downside of pissing of a hive mind is that they hold a grudge about near on everything.
Didn't help that the scavs kept trying to attack us.

>>49194885
No it started cause they tried to mug a living ship.

>>49194692
We really might want to save some of the alpha Scavs' chest-heart-brain-equivalents as trophies... Maybe one of them was actually smart.

>>49194885
Pretty much. We hate it when someone tries to steal our shit.

>>49194807
We found them, they offered to trade, they came in with fighters, we kicked their ass.

>>49194919
Let our accomplished drones wear their bones as trophies for future conflicts.

>>49194963
>implying any drone is more/less important to Mother
>implying any drone cares or is capable of caring about its own individual accomplishments enough to brag

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>>49194692
Another position, a network of trenches beneath a series of gun emplacements that lash out at approaching shuttles, struggles to keep back a group of power armor-clad alphas. Your own flying drones skim over them, dropping a squad of heavy warriors that rip into their armor as they drop on top of them. Acid seekers fill the sky as passing hive bombers dust the trenches, melting away the armor as your drones peel back the plates and pull the pilots out organ by organ like a bird digging in a tree for grubs.

"AA bank sixteen, hostile heavy xenos eliminated... cancel orbital strike request."

"Friendly xeno force out-bound. No more hostiles on scanners, command, please advice, southern shield projector damaged but still online. Saved our asses just in time."

"Target zone is clear. We've lost a few but the bridge is still here. Enemy armor has been confirmed destroyed by friendly xeno air cover, repeat..."

Sector by sector, your drones dive into the human defenders, eventually following them as they advance on the captured districts, slowly strangling the scavenger footholds as the local human fighters begin to push them back where you see their dropships floating over several neighborhoods of concrete buildings. Your own shuttles dropping down some distance away as your larger and slower drones move across the landscape. Two colossi, each pulling themselves from a shuttle as if molting, march across a slum district, their cannons firing into the large scavenger dropship. Its hull crumples, secondary explosions rippling through its thrusters, and it begins to spin, falling in a spiral to the open clearing of some park bellow.

"Lots of speakers, all speaking, so few speak well, but speaker speaks well, yes, very well, not like round Union speakers. Only one Union human is good at speaking, yes, one. Yes." Your drone chitters softly as the space around the ship ripples into a field of stars. It twitches madly for a moment. "What was it we were speaking of?"

>>49194811
I'm very impressed with their soldiers' professionalism in the face of horrifying alien macrobioweapons. Much better demeanor than even the elite marine strike force that the Union sent to Nowhere, these guys don't even seem to be the least bit fazed by our drones shredding scavs to bits in front of them.

>>49195002
Our drones have just enough childish personality to do silly things.

>>49195002
>Implying we are not the kind of hive to troll our foes.

>>49195002
They may not brag but they certainly try to please mother more.

>>49194929
Hence why we hate the Union. That and the nukes in that satellite.

Are we capable of cloning Scav kings? Whatever the fuck Alphas evolve into?

>>49195002
Well... not to point out any favourites, but all our drones know we love Citadel the most out of all our children, except maybe Lyle or Lizzie.

>>49194929
I think any queen would hate having their shit stolen, don't want to lose unique adaptations and tech to another queen after all.

>>49195019
Because they were briefed on it sooner, it wasn't just a sudden thing.

>>49195027
Not without getting the copse of one of those evolutions.

>>49195013
>"Lots of speakers, all speaking, so few speak well, but speaker speaks well, yes, very well, not like round Union speakers. Only one Union human is good at speaking, yes, one. Yes."

I love our babies

>>49195013
COLOSSI YES

also half retarded speaker drone is there too

Might be an idea to make a quantum brain speaker varient, for cases of human warp trips.

>>49195049
Meh, you can say that and all but even still they're maintaining composure flawlessly. It's like these guys have compensated for lesser tech/less available good tech by being utter hardasses in comparison to the Union.

>>49195013
Okay colossi, but no titans.

RIP

oh well

>>49194703
Yea, Been working on a novel in my sapre time for nearly two years now. the last several months nearly ground it down to a halt, but I think I can get back into it. Gotta pay the bills first.
>>49195013
>"Lots of speakers, all speaking, so few speak well, but speaker speaks well, yes, very well, not like round Union speakers. Only one Union human is good at speaking, yes, one. Yes." Your drone chitters softly as the space around the ship ripples into a field of stars. It twitches madly for a moment. "What was it we were speaking of?"

MY SIDES HAS ACTIVATED THE SKIP DRIVE!

>>49195092
And that is why we adopt them.
And they're not witnessing this shit at the same time whatever the fuck happens to all the people in DOOM is happening.

>>49195060
>>49195013
>yes, one. Yes

That would be our lee, such a good human speaker.

>>49195013
"Connection reestablished."

>>49195106
Not that funny fluffy, not full caps funny at all

>>49195082
That one had a Quantum brain.

>>49195082
The speaker already has a quantum brain.

>>49195082
only reason he wasn't insane or catatonic was he was a quantum brain I think.

>>49195082
They go into a coma if they don't have a quantum brain dumbass. Obviously that one already had one seeing as how it was babblng and not just waking up.

We literally just had this exact conversation last night.

So now that the ground situation is taken care of we need to capture a scav ship intact, without them self-destructing it, and get their Skip Drive.

I also think we should try to trade our Quantum Realignment tech with Theseus in exchange for his Foldspace Drive. Compound this with our political maneuverings to get Valen gate tech and we'll have the most diversified FTL portfolio of any race on this spiral arm!

Also I'm sure we'd get synergistic techs going on if we unlocked the secrets of all those various FTL drives.

>>49195013
Have our speaker suddenly shout "AND I"M BACK LADIES AND GENTLEMEN."

>>49195106
>>49195210
Is the fluff contagious. There is no such thing as a 'skip drive.' It's called the flicker drive.

>>49195169
>>49195174
Ah righto. Must have missed that tidbit.

>>49195201
Go fuck yourself? How dare someone not remember every minute detail. etc etc.
Git.

>>49195013
>all this Scav tech ready for research
I can't wait. Next time we need to grab one of their ships intact.

>>49195210
Why stop at one? Why not get one of each class? Let's get a corvette and a frigate. Hell, why stop there? Let's get a destroyer, a carrier, A CAPITAL SHIP.

TAKE THEM ALL.

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>>49195210
>I also think we should try to trade our Quantum Realignment tech with Theseus
>the thing we already traded away the instant it got unlocked

Anon...

>>49195301
Not that anon but, we traded it away already? For what?

>>49195301
Oh did we? I thought I had remembered some talk of it having been kept as a bargaining chip. It's been quite some time but yeah we did get the singularity projectors for it didn't we?

Oh well, whatever the next tech along that line we unlock is we should trade it for the Foldspace drive.

>>49195053
Surely it's embedded in their DNA if they can evolve into it. Even if that's impossible for some reason, just clone a babby scav and keep it isolated until it transforms into a king scav due to lack of scav chemicals or whatever it is that triggers the transformation.

>>49195372
That's pretty much it exactly, QD said the one we have in a pod would change into one if we let it out.

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>>49195340
>>49195356
We explicitly rejected the spacefold for the slightly more useful singularity projector.

Literally the very same night we got the tech.
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/41631353/#41631577
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/41641753/#41642782

>>49195252
Didn't we already get a scav drop-ship intact during our first raid at Wonder?

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>>49195013
Yogesh scratches his beard, visibly disheveled as he gives your drone a half-smile.

"I believe you were discussing the merits, or demerits, mostly, of the Union's administration. The entire way here." He says.

"This speaker apologizes. It can be too good at speaking."

"So you said." Yogesh says. "Regardless, we have arrived in the Krasnodar system. Q-comm has established real time communication with the local comm network already. According to our sensors the enemy fleet is mostly beginning to disperse, and enemy landing craft has touched down." The admiral clicks several controls and the hologram in the center of the room flickers to several screens of security footage, helmet cams, and orbital sensor data.

"It looks like your forces have already assisted in pushing them back to their initial landing positions." He says, and clicks to the helmet cam of a drop trooper squad. Immediately the projector lets out a number of horrific screams. Fire fills the projector's view, and scavengers run from place to place, diving for cover. The screams, you realize, are not coming from any combatant, the scavengers lacking the organs, but instead from the air, where your circling drones let out the occasional screech as they dive down and rip into the flaming wreck of the crashed landing ship.

The trooper in the projector fires at several wounded scavengers, and takes down another as it leaps out of a nearby doorway, and then turns to advance on the wreck, his armor absorbing a glancing blaster shot to the shoulder. A scavenger sprints by, its body on fire before a warrior drops from the sky on top of it and tears open its torso with its mandibles. Across the street, three human troops advance slowly flanking another hive warrior as its fire spray spills over a small collection of makeshift fortifications. The humans open fire as the scavengers dive out from behind the flaming heap, quickly putting them down with bursts of short range plasma plumes.

cont.

>>49195413
Right, and then those turned out to be utterly useless for requiring canderon. I was asleep at that time for that thread but I remember wondering why there hadn't been anyone interested in the drive. It's damn close to being as good as our Blink Drive.

>>49195453
We did, but it was only a drop-ship so it lacked FTL capabilities.

>>49195516
brutal

>>49195516
Yogesh clicks the controls again and the hologram vanishes, replaced again with a view of the battlespace.

The ground situation looks better than expected. Our own fleet is currently moving in, but the enemy fleet is beginning to scatter." He says.

>Offer to hunt down the stragglers
>Have the Commonwealth fleet hunt down runners and have your own fleet help to finish the battle in orbit
>Other (write in)

>>49195549
>>Offer to hunt down the stragglers

>>49195549
>>Offer to hunt down the stragglers
NO ESCAPE
NO SURVIVORS

>>49195549
>>Have the Commonwealth fleet hunt down runners and have your own fleet help to finish the battle in orbit

Nobody escapes alive.

>>49195549

>Offer to hunt down the stragglers

>>49195453
More or less, but who knows what kind of stuff they have in bigger ships.
Also we could easily crew them with cloned scavs and use for false flag operations and stuff like that.

>>49195549
>Have the Commonwealth fleet hunt down runners and have your own fleet help to finish the battle in orbit
Best minimise casualties. The humans aren't a hivemind after all

>>49195549
>Have the Commonwealth fleet hunt down runners and have your own fleet help to finish the battle in orbit

We dont need to do everything for them. As much as I would love to unleash the no mercy plan it should be better PR for them to just do the mop up and leave us with the grunt work.

>>49195549
>Offer to hunt down the stragglers

>>49195549

>Other (write in)

How well suited are your ships to pursuing theirs? Whoever has the faster ships should go after the stragglers.

Unless, of course, their gravitic missiles are sufficient.

State our desire to board and capture a Scavenger ship intact.

>>49195549
Nevermind, I misread the options (what I deserve from reading too quickly, I'm a bad thinker).

Changing my vote from this:
>>49195574
to this:

>>Offer to hunt down the stragglers

>>49195549
>Have the Commonwealth fleet hunt down runners and have your own fleet help to finish the battle in orbit
They're less likely to get torn to shreds chasing after a fleeing enemy than one that's standing it's ground.

>>49195549
Uh.

Are the stragglers the ones trying to run away and report back to base?

I thought 'straggler' meant 'staying behind'.

Whatever. None must escape to tell the tale.

>>49195598
>>49195618
Changing my vote to support this.

>>49195549
Supporting this>>49195618

>>49195549
>>Offer to hunt down the stragglers

We did design some ships with harpoon launchers and boarding stuff right.

>>49195618
>>49195549
I can get behind this

>>49195618
This works.

>>49195516
>drone has memory of previous events after being cut off from the greater hive mind

1/10 quest
fuckin dropped

>>49195618
We're the protagonist, we're naturally better suited for straggler hunting thanks to the best of 3 system that I don't think the other factions get.

>>49195685
>Implying the memories aren't related to it's role as speaker and as such should be remembered.
>Implying the speaker doing it's job is bad.

>>49195722
The human gravity drive outperforms our skid drive at sub liminal speeds in certain situations though.

>>49195618
I think our ships are probably better suited to go after the stragglers than theirs due to better command and control, but I could definitely support this if we decide to go this way.

>>49195549
>>Offer to hunt down the stragglers
This gives us chance for some intimate boarding action in a lonely corner of space with no other Scavs around, too.

>>49195685
Quantum brain anon. That's what it's for.

>>49195549
>Offer to hunt down the stragglers

"The Hive can prevent their escape." Your speaker says. Yogesh strokes his beard in thought.

"Our interceptors should be able to reach them rather quickly." He says and nods to a nearby officer. The officer nods back and begins barking orders into a microphone.

"All fighters deploy!" He shouts. "Caverly duty. We have runners in the battle. Cut them down." The ship rocks slightly as several of the silverhawk grav fighters fall from slots in the rotating flight deck, and in unison they rocket away, their hulls forming into slender spears before they fanish.

"Of course, we do not have enough fighters to cover all of the fleeing enemy ships, so your assistance is appreciated. From this position I doubt any of our ships short of the fighters would be able to get to them faster than your own ships." Yogesh says. He squints at several red dots on the holoscreen. "Target that formation, it's already in range of our long range munitions." He adds. Several officers let our their affirmations and the ship rocks again with the launch of several cruise missiles.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3 to help in hunting down the fleeing scavenger ships.

>>49195735
It has a Quantum Thinker brain, it would be an awful computer if it's lost its memory every time it disconnected.

>>49195549
>>49195618
this

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>49195778
Here goes nothing, for mother.

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>49195759
I tend to think that our ships are better suited to going after the stragglers too, seeing as they're all modern ships with modern drives and more than a few have fusion cores boosting them.

But the Commonwealth's fighters shouldn't be underestimated.

>>49195778

Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>49195778

>>49195810
Anon, I think you misunderstand the best of 3 system.

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>49195778
for mother

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>49195778
GOTCHU

>>49195810
>Hogging the rolls.
Please leave.

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>49195778

>>49195778

>>49195816
Ah well, could be worse.

>>49195830
You see thinkers?!

Praise mother and get good dice rolls!

>>49195807
>>49195810
>>49195816
>>49195821
Dont praise and we get our shit wrecked! Just dont praise Thesus. He doesn't like it when that happens

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>49195866
Damn it. let me try again for the heck of it.

>>49195816
The fighters are also FIGHTERS.

They are tiny baby ships.

>>49195897
baby ships with top-quality payload

>>49195897
And as QD has stated on multiple occasions, even a fighter in the right place can inflict massive damage on sub-captiol ship.

I don't get why everyone in this quest automatically assumes that bigger ships=deadlier ships, like they've got higher power levels or something. We've seen corvettes go toe to toe with battleships in this quest and anything going fast enough is going to punch through any armor it fires on.

>>49196049
Mostly is bigger equals more dakka.

>>49196049
Indeed. A fighter that can aim it just right can blow out the Bridge of a ship and really screw it over. That or blow out a drive thruster.

>>49196099
Also means a much slower ship, making it harder to actually hit stuff with its dakka. It's a trade off between the two.

>>49196107
Or just kamikaze on the bigger ship.

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>>49196145
That's what our space pods are for.

>>49196191
Like with that stealthship?

If it looks like scav ships might be getting away, maybe we should blink in some reinforcements from our other fleets (like the fleet we have at Commonwealth HQ). It shouldn't be that far so our jump should be accurate and our travel really is instant or close enough. Plus it's a carrier in design which should really help with running down escapers.

>>49195778
Your corvettes and frigates quickly zoom from the furball of the battle, rushing after the fleeing scavenger ships. You identify a number of formations, mostly small, rapidly accelerating ships, but there are some larger craft as well, although their fleets lack any real uniform size or hull configuration, each being constructed from what is available in the best way possible, be that the scrapped hull of an alien ship, several patched-together ship fragments, or simply a new ship made from scavenged resources. You scan the mind of your imprisoned scavenger alpha for answers, finding the fleeing ships to mostly be FTL mail curriers, their primary purpose being to relay information and orders between systems, serving largely as scouts or the messengers of a fleet, as well as possessing a moderately powerful spinal mounted particle beam, at least in most cases, and a fair amount of blaster turrets. You find it not all that dissimilar to a corvette, although it is somewhat smaller, lacking many of the internal compartments and storage bays.

In addition, you find several much larger craft, several Talon class raiders, something similar to your own battlecruiser in size, but more similar to a battleship or even a Commonwealth dreadnaught with regards to firepower. One bleeds atmosphere, likely a sign of more extensive damage, and the reason it flees, while the other two seem to guard an even larger craft, one your captive recognizes personally as the Bloodlust, a Rending class alpha vessel, named for its focus on fleet coordination, typically serving as the flagship of any large planetary raiding fleet. If it is fleeing, the scavengers here likely fully realize the battle is lost, or perhaps the ship's commander was killed in some internal explosion and the crew has elected to egress. Regardless of the reasons, you can see a wing of four silverhawks closing.

cont.

>>49196233
Or.

We can silently blink in a number of stealth pods at their projected destination, the blue giant, far enough in advance that they will have plenty of time to get into position.

To blow them all up inexplicably as soon as they come out of FTL.

>>49196292
>one your captive recognizes personally as the Bloodlust, a Rending class alpha vessel, named for its focus on fleet coordination, typically serving as the flagship of any large planetary raiding fleet.
I want this thing.

Also now I'm really kicking myself for not posting a proposed boarding fleet design in the last thread.

>>49196292
>the Bloodlust, a Rending class alpha vessel, named for its focus on fleet coordination, typically serving as the flagship of any large planetary raiding fleet.

Sooo tempting to capture intact.

Soooo tempting.

>>49196344
Their tech is too similar to be worth it. Not to mention they will probably nuke it before letting it be captured.

>>49196340
Well it would also help if either boarding pod launchers or harpoon launcher were actually on the pastebin.

>>49196397
We haven't even captured an intact Scav FTL drive to reverse engineer yet you fool.

>>49196397
We need the intact heart-brain of a Prime Leader caste to get a better idea of the current high-level strategies the scavs are working from in this region of space.

>>49196340
Can you post the design now?

What do people think about asking Heretic to spare some of his endless swarm of disposable ships to reinforce the Commonwealth picket?

>>49196344
It is tempting, but truth to be said I'd rather capture two talon raiders..more use for raiding sort of things, and scavs are more likely to remember to take care, if they see their captured flagship coming back to "rejoin" with main force, instead of two less important talons.

>>49196471
Very good point, we really need more inside-information about them.

>>49196494
On my phone right now, I'll put it up when I get back to my comp if anyone's interested.

>>49196566
They are not literally endless, he is many rip drive hops away, and this distracts from his unholy crusade of defending against servitor races, not random space vermin.

>>49196609
The leader is obviously onboard the Bloodlust, anon. You contradict yourself.

And using it as an infiltration is obviously only doable if we successfully kill all the witnesses. Either we kill all witness ships and make him a puppet to send back, or we fail to kill all witnesses but still copy all his knowledge for our own.

>>49196471
And who says one would be in that ship? Have we asked our hostage this?

So, how come this quest is being run on /tg/ instead of /qst/?
Is there something wrong with /qst/'s community or rules?

Genuinely curious because I want to try my hand at a quest.

>>49196670
/qst/ is shit.

Also QD didn't want to have the quest split on several different archives. Or have all the archives on /qst/ lost if it turned into a failed experiment.

>>49196292
"Your small craft should avoid direct combat. The enemy command vessel's weapons are not visibly damaged." Your speaker says. "Although it is likely the commander is dead. This will only make the ship more dangerous and unpredictable. Small vessels should refrain from entering weapon range."

"I appreciate your concern for human life." Yogesh says. "But I assure you, it is misplaced. The silverhawk is designed to serve as an anti-capital role, destroying or damaging enemy heavy hitters ahead of the advance of a larger fleet. My only concern is that we lack the numbers to pursue all of the fleeing ships at once." Your drone chitters in affirmation as your own fleet formations begin to rapidly close the distance.

You see as several motes of light flash into existence, leaving the silverhawks as they boost ahead of your hive corvettes. The streaking missiles arc in amid a hail of point defence weapons, igniting with several quick flashes of atomic blasts that boil away the outer hull and shields of several of the smaller craft. They twitch, and begin to fall behind the others as the grav fighters open up with a nose mounted cannon that shreds into the soft half-melted hull of the craft, quickly venting the ship's atmosphere as they dance around the derelict ships before slinging themselves further ahead after the Bloodlust as they release several more nuclear warheads.

cont.

>>49196670
It pre-dates /qst/, all the players are here. I ran another short quest on /qst/, too slow for my taste and it's only gotten slower it seems. To each there own though, I've seen some good things come of the slow nature of /qst/, and I still enjoyed the one I ran there, just prefer being able to run in sessions.

>>49196670
/qst/ is a steaming broken shitpile of a concentration camp/board created by a mod who hadn't seen a quest since Ruby and literally only supported by the faggots who wanted questing to die.

Only a few QMs migrated and 90% of those either came back or died. There are literally no good quests that've started there.

The community is made up of people who followed their QMs there and random shitposters from /b/ and /s4s/, and is so dead threads take upwards of ten days to die.

So yeah, /tg/ is absolutely a better place for quests.

>>49196754
I think this Hive/Commonwealth alliance is going to be glorious indeed. In the future we should definitely see about assisting them on the more social side of their empire as well, maybe set up trial hive clinics to help improve quality of life or something.

>>49196670
/qst/ was stillborn, nobody even wanted it in the first place.

And they failed on the most important part, it should have been named /qt/ instead, maybe I'd go there if that were the case.

>>49196800
>come visit the Human Fixing Station! Making up for Mother Nature's failures!
>purchase an artificial limb and get a second heart and immortality treatment free!

>>49196669
> one your captive recognizes personally as the Bloodlust, a Rending class alpha vessel, named for its focus on fleet coordination, typically serving as the flagship of any large planetary raiding fleet. If it is fleeing, the scavengers here likely fully realize the battle is lost
Do you realize what 'flagship' means. It either holds the grand poobah that commanded all the other ships here, or it holds his corpse, which is just as useful to our bio-tanks if his brain is intact.

>>49196800
That would definitely improve PR to help with whoever in the Commonwealth is xenophobic

That reminds me, are there populations of Taidaren or Ceph among the Commonwealth? I'm pretty certain there must be Valen trading with them of course

>>49196829
Given what its supporters wanted supposed it should have been named /oven/ or /jew/.

>>49196754
I think the Commonwealth is my spirit animal. So many fucking nukes.

>>49196829
too be fair like 8 of the same anon's were the ones who bitched about it loud as fuck to get it made. I feel bad for the guys who post on it.

You know, there's no one who'd be more willing to make a deal with the devil than a 200 year old man on death's door.

Once the procedure is complete, he can just boss away any doctors who insist on medical scrutiny since he's the goddamn emperor of Aquarius.

We'd just have to deal with the uppity princes who were hoping to inherit the throne afterwards.

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>>49196961
Mate, Wut

>>49197009
He means we can parasite the emperor with the promise of immortality.

>>49196979
>>49197009
Pretty sure he's talking about parasiting the Commonwealth Emperor.

>>49196754
Elsewhere, behind your fleet, you sense a sudden burst of radiation. Your sensors pivot to see the impact of the pride of Confederate long range munitions, the Fer-de-lance gravitic missile, impact the leading Talon of a cluster of smaller mail curriers and light raiders like a newly ignited star. The blast flash-boils the hulls of the surrounding ships, the capital talon class vanishing in an instant as the vibrant star of the warhead's blast suddenly falls in on itself, collapsing into a dark spot of nothing. The shriveled, split-hulled ships fracture further, their forms shredding to dust as they rapidly orbit the black hole of the warhead, and spiral into oblivion before the maw begins to evaporate, bleeding away into nothing like a wound in the universe slowly healing itself.

You turn your sensors back to your nearing targets, as the human grav fighters slam impactor after impactor against the Bloodlust alpha ship, nukes detonating against its shields as they flicker away layer after layer. The sudden flash of three nukes ripple over the ship's hull as its shields fail section by section, and a half-dozen kinetic warheads slam into the ship's side like harpoons into the belly of a whale, expelling atmosphere in expanding sheets as the flight of grav fighters spiral around the trailing blaster fire. One catches a round and flickers in the distant light of the star as its hull bubbles and ripples, chunks flowing away from the impact as it spins wildly into the distance while the other three open fire with their rotary cannons, ripping into the gun emplacements scattered over the hull. Secondary explosions begin to go off as munitions detonate in their storage compartments and fall into space. You recognize the sudden burst of radiation of leaking antimatter, and your leading ship alerts the fighter as they drop away in time to evade the Bloodlust's death, erupting into a miniature sun with the violence of a matter-antimatter annihilation event.
cont.

>>49196961
Fuck that, the prospect of giving that bastard immortality is the single biggest reservation for giving the formula to the commonwealth. He needs to die.

>>49197075
>currier
>not courier

I thought it was a typo earlier, but apparently not

>>49196830
I love it. Mother Queen is so much more competent than Mother Nature.

>>49196961
Good point. Although our Commonwealth allies seem to be waiting with baited breath for the old fucker to just die already. Immortality for him could be a problem for our allies.

However, we could potentially sell it to Magnus and Co as THEY are the ones manipulating the emperor. We agree to provide life saving/extending treatment, and in exchange the Emperor promises to do what Magnus wants. It's a nice way to gain a new puppet and a new ally at the same time.

Of course, we should perhaps exercise a bit of caution and discretion about not appearing to be too eager to medically intervene with Commonwealth elites. They only trust us out of necessity, after all.

>>49197093
...why?

Did I miss him shitting down the throat of an orphaned puppy somewhere?

>>49197075
So they use antimatter reactors to power their big ships?

>>49197093
Every single commander on the Commonwealth high command (at least that we've seen) are counting down the seconds until the old fucker dies and stops doing stupid shit like ordering his fleets to attack the Union during the middle of an alien invasion.

>>49197103
my fingers are just dumb.
And spellcheck actually keeps correcting to it, so I'll have to mess with it's settings after tonight because it's actually trying to change the right spelling to that instead.

Anyways, writing.

>>49197122
He is too incompetent , and not usefully so.

>>49197075
I like how we have been able to use teamwork without much issue with the Commonwealth. I really like these guys and am also glad to see us be effective together.

>>49197075
Well, so much for boarding the flagship.

On the other hand, now I want to buy a boatload of those missiles from the commonwealth.

>>49197156

To be fair it is a real word

>A currier is a specialist in the leather processing industry. After the tanning process, the currier applies techniques of dressing, finishing and colouring to the tanned hide to make it strong, flexible and waterproof.

Your autocorrect just hates stolen French, I guess.

>>49197188
Hell yeah to that. Mother only knows we have enough mouthwatering tech to trade.

>>49197177
And you think we can't, y'know, make him useful? Like we did with literally everyone else we've parasited?

>>49197093
>giving the formula
Well good thing we shouldn't do that then.

>>49197177
What? Are you thinking of someone else? He hasn't done jack shit, competent or incompetent, he's too busy clinging to life in a med tank, anon. Adopting him will let us make him instantly more useful as a Commonwealth asset.

His authority and newly found hive-granted wisdom can then override the stupidity of his grandsons like that guy that swallowed Conrad's bait whole and started the war properly.

>>49197188
>buying more than one or two when we can reverse engineer it in a few ingame "days"

>>49197220
>>49197188
We can always make an unlimited amount if we Invade and secure the Wolf system and liberate the Canians under the protection of the Triumvate

>>49197220
We already have the tech, don't we? We just didn't think of using it like that.

>>49197188
Gravitic missiles and all sorts of other interesting warheads are probably already on the Valen black market at Deep Song.

We can probably get more competitive prices there, since there's actual competition.

>>49197264
Wait, fuck. Those use Canderon, don't they? Nevermind.

>>49197267
Honestly, even if we do have the tech (and I think we have grav tech, but not weaponized grav warheads), I'd be fine "trading" for it anyway.

We want the Commonwealth to think they can offer something of value to us so they won't be quite so worried about us turning on them. "Health" treatments, for example, would be an excellent trade item for these warheads. Frankly, I think offering "medical" tech to the Commonwealth for free is likely to make them far more suspicious of us than we want (at least more suspicious of us than they are already)

>>49197267
Also why use stuff that uses Calderon anyway? We can make drone misiles instead of keeping using pods. Give them Thinker brains ( Quantom Thinkers are not needed for that) and have our own misile swarm.

>>49197220
You know instead of a research knowledge trade the commonwealth might be more interested in large numbers of exotic hive made weapons, maybe a couple battalions worth of hive made exosuits

>>49197339
We already have drone missiles, check the pastebin.

>>49197339
I think our standard missiles all have brains of some sort. There was a recent thread I think where missiles were described as feeling elation and excitement as they were launched against the Salt Queens forces

For some reason I have the urge to mother the Commonwealth.

I am become the queen.

>>49197264
The thing is missiles are some of the costliest weapons the hive knows how to produce, and they are one of the few things the commonwealth makes that would be of much use to us.

>>49197361
Then how come we didn't heard a few hundreds of "FOR MOTHER!" in this spacefight?

I just want our Union speaker to say "Literally the only thing we hate about you is Killinger. Give him to us and we can forgive your other stupidity and cure this 'aging' problem you have."

Just to see how everyone reacts

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>>49197340
Have Lyle recruit some Commonwealth veterans and get them trained up in using the Hive Exosuits for cooperative operations against the Scavs and maybe the OQ if she ends up attacking the COmmonwealth as well

>>49197339
Because our missiles don't make black holes capable of swallowing entire fleets whole smart one.

>>49197340
not just weapons, but out Bio-upgrades can be used too. pop people into our pods parasite them and sell them the lest of upgrades, that alone can do wonders for our tech/money income.

>>49197400
All the drones that yell "FOR MOTHER!" are planet side killing stragglers.

>>49197407
Yes, I like this. Lyle will even get to relive his glory days in the name of the hive.

>>49197402
But it would be a lie. We hate their whole government system. Their first contact policies, the sat nuke, the fact they tried to kidnap our drones then sent a smith to outright kill us when that failed... the fact they are so damn stupid as to put several power taps in the same place and so on...

>>49197340
Well, we have several stars. Some of them might have canderon deposits that we can contract a commonwealth company to mine.

>>49197400
Because sound doesn't travel in a vacuum, dumbass.

>>49197429
>parasite them
That would have some disastrous political ramifications when they get invariably put under medical examination.

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>>49197465
>but that would be a lie

>>49197407
>>49197407
>Lyle leading a small army of auged up veteran drop troops in hive armor
Jesus that would be amazing. We could recruit from commonwealth troops too badly shot up to still fight too, that would help demonstrate our absurd medical and biological prowess to the commonwealth even further.

>>49197462
>Implying these aren't the best days of his life

>>49197485
Not if we parasite the medical examiners first.

>>49197480
>Sound
>The Red Queen needs "sound" to hear her drones.

Did you just join this Quest?

>>49197506
Good point.

Lyle loves his bugmom.

>>49197512
No, brain just made a dumb and forgot "hear" can be used for psionics too.

>>49197526
In time, all will come to love their bugmom.

>>49196772
not every quest down there is a steaming pile is shit, some are okay. too bad they started off in /qst/ though.

>>49197075
"Shit, was that us?"

"Negative, no nukes, I'm dry. Was firing kinetics only. We must have hit something."

"Roger. Appreciate the lookout, AX1! I'll fly with you any day." You hear from the fighters as they lance out several more kinetic missiles and several bolts of particle beam fire as they streak away.

"Fleet, we have a streaker, repeat, glancing shot, hull intact, transmitting vector, over." The fighters say as they arc away after their comrade and your fleet rushes in past them, hammering away at the remaining forces. Yogesh looks at the battle scanner floating in the center of the room as your speaker chitters in confusion. The admiral looks over to your drone.

"Oh, it means allied xeno, the number indicates the arbitrary numerical designation the fleet's scanners gave the ship." He says, your drone nods as the red blips on the scanner flash and wink out one by one, until the last one disappears.

"That seems to be it. Our fleet will be engaging the enemy within several minutes, but they are already breaking formation. We should begin plans for our next target." He says.

>Advice the Commonwealth fleet move to Tiberion, where the land invasion has already taken root on the surface
>Advice the Commonwealth fleet head off the enemy fleet at Kalidesh, where the enemy has yet to make landfall, and let the Hive assist in the ground war conflict on Tiberion
>Other

>>49197206
A pretentious auto-correct. Figures.

>>49197339
Your own cruise missiles utilize your hive Skid Drive to home in on their targets, although the canderon warhead itself does seem to offer a dramatic boost to the yield of the warhead.

>>49197407
Don't those suits require a parasite to work best?

>>49197587
>>Advice the Commonwealth fleet head off the enemy fleet at Kalidesh, where the enemy has yet to make landfall, and let the Hive assist in the ground war conflict on Tiberion
They seem to be able to hold their own in space pretty well, but we far outclass them on the ground. We'll take care of surface incursions.

>>49197587
>>Advice the Commonwealth fleet head off the enemy fleet at Kalidesh, where the enemy has yet to make landfall, and let the Hive assist in the ground war conflict on Tiberion

>>49197587
>>Advice the Commonwealth fleet head off the enemy fleet at Kalidesh, where the enemy has yet to make landfall, and let the Hive assist in the ground war conflict on Tiberion
We've proven we can assist infantry, let them feel useful working a spacebattle

>>49197587
>Advice the Commonwealth fleet head off the enemy fleet at Kalidesh, where the enemy has yet to make landfall, and let the Hive assist in the ground war conflict on Tiberion
"Best to play on individual strengths."

>>49197587
>Advice the Commonwealth fleet head off the enemy fleet at Kalidesh, where the enemy has yet to make landfall, and let the Hive assist in the ground war conflict on Tiberion

>>49197587
>>Advice the Commonwealth fleet move to Tiberion, where the land invasion has already taken root on the surface

We want to let the scavs fully commit their forces, then sweep in behind them and give them NO ESCAPE.

>>49197587
> advise for going on the Kalidesh express

>>49197584
The slow pace seems to work wonders for drawquests.

Also there are a lot of quiters, a few quests never went past one or two threads then the GMs were like "Holy shit, this is too fast." and left to never return.

I mean qst is slow but it goes faster on weekends.

>>49197603
Exactly!

>>49197657
>Advice the Commonwealth fleet head off the enemy fleet at Kalidesh, where the enemy has yet to make landfall, and let the Hive assist in the ground war conflict on Tiberion.

Due to our Gemini blockade we don't have enough forces to take vack a planet without hurting humans... yet. Hopefully the new ships will be ready next thread.

And fuck Calderon if we want explosions that bad let's ask Unity about different types of bombs. Anyone wants neutron bombs?

>>49197587
>>Advice the Commonwealth fleet head off the enemy fleet at Kalidesh, where the enemy has yet to make landfall, and let the Hive assist in the ground war conflict on Tiberion

>>49197765
>Thinking shitty bog standard nukes hold a candle to the destructive capacity to gravetic weaponry
Nigga are you even following this quest?

>>49197825
Pretty sure he's new.

>>49197846
not that anon but that would explain a lot

>>49197587
>Advice the Commonwealth fleet head off the enemy fleet at Kalidesh, where the enemy has yet to make landfall, and let the Hive assist in the ground war conflict on Tiberion
proper drone- I mean units, on the proper job.

>>49197657
>"Holy shit, this is too fast."
>/qst/
>fast
I don't even