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>>425436

Previously, on LBQ:

> The person who wrote Left Behind died IRL.

> The QM disappeared.

> Omega's squads captured an Angel; the critter (who, incidentally, is smooth as a Ken doll but is genetically male) is currently under sedation.

> Omega's squads offed a Glorified; cutting her up for an autopsy returned some information, at the price of a dead corpsman. The body is now in cold storage.

> Tsion Ben-Judah has vowed to turn the Millennium Force into something organized again, and has begun coordinating with the government of Osaze again.

> Tree Of Life has taken over Omega's botany program.

> A plan to colonize Mars has been hatched.

>>425436
(S)/HE'S BACK FROM THE GRAVE!

lol, but really. Welcome back.

>>425474
>>425469

http://boards.4chan.org/qst/thread/400826/

You have 21 cabals total; 14 are available.

You are actively tracking enemy teams where you have assets (see picture). Rules: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.QuestRules.html

Tsion Ben-Judah has been exhorting the Millennium Force to become more active in handling those who are beyond salvation, presumably meaning MECs and drones. He has set up a sort of military style training camp in northern Israel and their first graduates have moved into Osaze; so has he.

TOL has authorized using Last Army assets against you, but they have been repealed.

Variable complexity:

# Launch an attack on a TOL base or government installation.

# Work on global data network infrastructure, incidentally making sure that you control more of it.

Complexity 0

# Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.

Complexity 1

# Permanently station a cabal to defend an installation. This removes them from the roster, but allows them to become familiar with the territory, set up static defenses, and so on, raising their effectiveness. This counts towards repealing physical attacks, and also legal attacks (they will prevent arrests, bust people out of jail, do counterhacking, and so on)

# Set a cabal to cultivate Glorified cells from Bahira's body, which needs to be disposed of.

# Set a cabal to try and wake up Ithuriel.

# Foster pagan worship. Little need at the moment.

# Improve morale. Little need at the moment.

# Harass or sabotage a Hero, or tie up an enemy team.

# Perform a covert operation (such as scouting Antarctica or Greater Jerusalem).

Complexity 2

# Produce MECs at any base.

# Produce drones at any base. Current focus: Medium-sized land drones. Current army size is marked on the bottom of the map. (Each will give you 1/3rd of a tick)

# Produce a station part at any base. Current station structure: 1/8

# Work your Osaze, Night City, or Pacifica base overtime to improve prosperity.

# Use the Australia base, or Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (1/5) (2/5)

# Seed super-grain in a territory.

# Seed super-weed in a territory.

Complexity 3

# Spring the Angel trap by kidnapping a Hero or a Glorified. 3, 4 or 5 cabals can be used for this.

# Continue pursuing space research. Space Race rules, but the Cosmists will assist your efforts here, counting as one cabal regardless.

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness).

# Use a launchpad for a canopy-breaching launch. Station structure: 1/8

Complexity 4

# Continue AI, nuclear or sonic research.

# Begin building a base in the Middle East, South Africa, or American Heartland.

Complexity 5

# Recruit. This has gotten considerably harder across the board.

# Take over a TOL base by force.

# Kidnap a Glorified individual and prepare another Angel trap. You're getting good at this.

ok, I can do this. . I think.

># Set a cabal to cultivate Glorified cells from Bahira's body, which needs to be disposed of
one cabal. Zak.

># Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.
canopy parts


> Use a launchpad for a canopy-breaching launch. Station structure: 1/8
three cabals with jeb and kat. eastern Russian launchpad

how many would it take to test if the sounds removing environment is what kills the glorified? not after the angel just the glorified getting hit with a soundless environment.

and we have to figure out why Quinn's effectiveness is going way down. so I'm guessing she's off for the year.

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>>425618

What do you intend to do with Bahira's body? It's in surprisingly good shape; actually it doesn't seem that it decays at all.

# Burn.

# Dump at her home.

# Dump somewhere.

# Very public funeral.

# Cut up.

Various cell cultures have been taken from Bahira, confirming that their telomeres are intact and they have enhanced neuroplasticity, as well as absolutely no radioactive elements within them (despite the Angel Trap having featured a number of neutron sources which were used to tire out Ithuriel). Zakharov is enthusiastic about doing a bit of Pure Science, and makes sure that the cultures are well cared for. This may prove useful for your colonization efforts.

>>425618

The Cosmists have kept the Baikonur launchpad in usable shape; the base is not set up enough for Kat to go to space herself - although once a bit of infrastructure is in place, there are obvious advantage to using MECpods and swappable bodies - so Jeb goes up with Valentina. They install a small experimental nuclear reactor that will suck up the canopy water and produce hydrogen and oxygen to be used for rocket fuel.

There is no reaction from the government for this launch, although you notice that TOL propagandizes it widely, as if it was them who performed it.

Quinn has been somewhat under the weather lately; she's not getting old, as such, but she definitely looks more patchwork than she usually does. She complains about not being unique anymore.

The Millennium Force's presence in Osaze has increased noticeably; so far, you are still firmly in control of the economy of the territory, but they're everywhere and seem to be trying to figure out what to do about that. They're being unnervingly polite, so far, looking around and giving the psalties a hand enforcing vice laws and so on and occasionally tipping the regular police or revenuers about financial irregularities, but haven't been aggressive yet.

The day after the canopy launch, a badly redubbed cartoon resurfaces.

>>425676
># Dump somewhere.
but where? little bit of time on that?

we have to do something about TOL taking credit for our work. is it possible for any of our affiliates to denounce them?

>ontinue AI research.
Damien. four cabals.

>Produce MECs. 2 cabals three bases.

>produce drones. 2 cabals two bases.

># Work on global data network infrastructure, incidentally making sure that you control more of it.
the last two cabals. if we can focus on Christian infanstructure over TOL's.

almost forgot about weaver. she can patrol Australia for a while right?

>>425726
>>425712

Capt. Weaver is actually pretty interested in keeping an eye on the South Seas; if there's anyone coming from Antarctica, she can provide advance warning. The arctic regions are among the few places on Millennial Earth where the weather is anything other than bland, and she would welcome the challenge.

>>425712

A good spot would be her home; alternatively, the middle of the Sahara or Rub-Al-Khali, to see if she mummifies.

Denouncing TOL is definitely doable; on this one, the Cosmists take charge of the matter, taking responsibility for the launch and disseminating educational videos about the station, emphasizing...

# the beautiful starscapes photographed by the automated telescope there.

# the Mars plan.

# the intent to build a permanent habitat above the canopy.

>>425712

Damien has gotten remarkably good at controlling groups of drones by himself (herself?) to the point where your CPUs and a heavy MEC can time-share many dozens of semiautonomous tanks and flying wings; this is an excellent force multiplier should you decide to deploy your growing drone army.

(You have only four bases available; the Greenland base was busy building the station component)

>>425712
>># Dump somewhere.

#Funeral. Propaganda machine could use it.

>>Produce MECs. 2 cabals three bases.

>produce drones. 2 cabals two bases.

No. Don't do this. Drones produced with human labor are basically useless against believers. It NEEDS to be greenland that does it.

>>425770

># the beautiful starscapes photographed by the automated telescope there.

I'd prefer to keep the mars option quiet.


Do we have any cabals left at this point?

>>425776
heya Sara!
yeah, was about to say.

I'm thinking
# the intent to build a permanent habitat above the canopy.
or
the Mars plan.

the starscapes wouldn't get us much.

>>425781
in the intent of keeping mars quiet I guess putting people outside of the canopy in general would be better. but it might have a similar impact.

sorry, I think I burned through the cabals.

>>425783

True, but they also might delay a ton of believers praying for our mars colony to explode before it exists.

If you want to emphasize those, I'll concede however.


>>425786


It's fine. But next turn we really need to deal with the dudes in Osaze. And we need to build drones in greenland.

>>425796
hmm. alright, lets put focus on leaving earth but not specify for where, and if we can, make it sound like were just putting people on top of the canopy.

>>425809

Sure. That works.

Rolled 78, 86, 24, 62 = 250 (4d100)

>>425809

The mini-documentary turns out fairly well, and intersperses ongoing work by Jeb and Valentina with old space station images. People seem to get the point that The Other Light is taking credit for something they didn't do; their claim was some sort of paraorbital weapon.

>>425796

The Osaze situation is getting at the very least annoying, yes; the MFers haven't been aggressive, but they have been in the way...

>>425823
well, at least the dice are trying to play fairly now.

>>425839

Unfortunately, the Millennium Force manages to severely disrupt Colossus' operation in Misrayim, by and large by making ordinarily lax law enforcement considerably stricter by acting as informants. Unsurprisingly, this gets a few of them beaten up. Also unsurprisingly, this gets a few people struck by lightning. Somewhat surprisingly, open-sourcing the Mark X pays off; a good half of the people who get struck get up, flip everyone the bird, and go home.

>>425889
ouch, at least they will live. hmm. . wonder how this is going to turn out.

sara, remind me what the five most dissentious countrys were. I think its time to start flipping the status quo.

>>425913

Osaze
Pacifica
Eastern Europe
Australia
Northwestern Asia

nevermind. found em, still gotta come up with a plan though.

>>425961
>Eastern Europe

Convenient.

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>>425961
>>425913

The "civilian" Mark X is intended to prevent people from dying of unbelief, but it will also one-off against a lightning strike in some cases.

>>426047
>>426078
wanna wake up Ithuriel next turn? after wing surgery that is.

>>426090

You have 21 cabals total; 14 are available.

You are actively tracking enemy teams where you have assets (see picture). Rules: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.QuestRules.html

Tsion Ben-Judah has been exhorting the Millennium Force to become more active in handling those who are beyond salvation, presumably meaning MECs and drones. He has set up a sort of military style training camp in northern Israel and their first graduates have moved into Osaze; so has he.

TOL has authorized using Last Army assets against you, but they have been repealed.

Variable complexity:

# Launch an attack on a TOL base or government installation.

# Work on global data network infrastructure, incidentally making sure that you control more of it.

Complexity 0

# Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.

Complexity 1

# Permanently station a cabal to defend an installation. This removes them from the roster, but allows them to become familiar with the territory, set up static defenses, and so on, raising their effectiveness. This counts towards repealing physical attacks, and also legal attacks (they will prevent arrests, bust people out of jail, do counterhacking, and so on)

# Set a cabal to cultivate Glorified cells from Bahira's body, which needs to be disposed of.

# Set a cabal to try and wake up Ithuriel (includes wing reattachment).

# Foster pagan worship. Little need at the moment.

# Improve morale. Little need at the moment.

# Harass or sabotage a Hero, or tie up an enemy team.

# Perform a covert operation (such as scouting Antarctica or Greater Jerusalem).

# Scout the Middle East or the Midwest.

Complexity 2

# Produce MECs at any base.

# Produce drones at any base. Current focus: Medium-sized land drones. Current army size is marked on the bottom of the map. (Each will give you 1/3rd of a tick)

# Produce a station part at any base. Current station structure: 1/8

# Work your Osaze, Night City, or Pacifica base overtime to improve prosperity.

# Use the Australia base, or Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (1/5) (2/5)

# Seed super-grain in a territory.

# Seed super-weed in a territory.

Complexity 3

# Spring the Angel trap by kidnapping a Hero or a Glorified. 3, 4 or 5 cabals can be used for this.

# Continue pursuing space research. Space Race rules, but the Cosmists will assist your efforts here, counting as one cabal regardless.

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness).

# Use a launchpad for a canopy-breaching launch. Station structure: 1/8

Complexity 4

# Continue AI, nuclear or sonic research.

# Begin building a base in the Middle East, South Africa, or American Heartland.

Complexity 5

# Recruit. This has gotten considerably harder across the board.

# Take over a TOL base by force.

# Kidnap a Glorified individual and prepare another Angel trap. You're getting good at this.

>>426104
heh heh heh. good job Ben, lets see. . . two or three cabals should stop an attack or two, or stop a few convertions if they are not going to get violent.

guess we can start convincing people in east Europe to rebel. maybe a little more forcefully than in ozase. one cabal to start?

what about villians, Sara?

>>426117
guess I'm on my own.

>two cabals to produce station parts
one base two cabals

> Continue pursuing space research. Space Race rules, but the Cosmists will assist your efforts here, counting as one cabal regardless.
three cabals and a Jeb.

>one cabal to further instigate a rebellion in east Europe.

>scout the Midwest
one cabal and Quinn.

># Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.
drones

>two cabals in Ozase/Misrayim to react in case Ben decides to get violent, Kat and Damien.

guess I want to resolve that before finishing the turn, sorry. if it puts a strain on ya, I can try to figure out what to do with the rest first.

Rolled 71, 51, 56, 57 = 235 (4d100)

>>425776

Bahira's funeral takes place in San Francisco after her body is found in her home; it is widely decried to be a hoax... especially since Bahira herself, a couple of days later, is back to updating her blog. The new entry is written in a slightly different style, a bit more childish, describing a failed mugging, an Angelic rescue, and a group of kindly folk who helped her recover; you don't have IP geolocation, but your sysadmins estimate that it was posted from Greater Jerusalem.

Bahira's cultured cells are otherwise doing well.

# Dig up the body.

# Don't bother.

>>426202

The next space station part is a permanent habitat for three or four people, to get them used to working in the absence of air and in lower gravity. It's built according to specification and prepped for quick shipment to Timbuktu or Baikonur for launch. While supervising that work, Jeb and the Cosmists continue their research, managing to shoot up a sounding rocket that can then dock semiautomatically with the station - small shipments of necessities, particularly food, will not require a launch ramp. The hope, of course, is to make the station self-sufficient, which will be a requirement before heading for Mars.

>>426202

Quinn takes a survey team, and quickly locates the area where nuclear fuel can be harvested from the soil; you already have a source for the stuff, so it's not a priority, but it would come in handy if Australia is compromised.

# Plant superweeds to make sure that the relevant land can be bought for cheap.

# Plant supergrain to make sure that any local farmers get lazy enough to not want to get in the way.

# Have Quinn intimidate the locals into leaving.

# Neither.

>>426202

The situation in Osaze is slowly deteriorating; Colossus is having a hard time keeping the place manageable now that the police and psalties have Millennium Force helpers to coordinate raids on pubs, shame or bully people into using official courts rather than arbitration, and so on. Interestingly, Tsion seems to have finally figured out just how Colossus works; fortunately, his plan to prevent it from working involves mandatory debit card usage in the territory. The nominal Christian government is split between obeying the theologian and protesting what looks like a return to the ways of the Antichrist, and the measure ends up stalled.

Damien and Kat, being heavy MECs, have a bit of a problem trying to do advocacy: the government considers them demons and has instantiated a formal ban on heavy MECs, meaning that they can be killed with impunity. While this isn't much of a problem (a heavy MEC in his or her frame is not particularly killable) it does make it hard to even try to argue for de-escalation.

# Focus on Damien's drone skills to impede MFers by mechanized sabotage.

# Focus on Kat's desolators and just nuke the bastards already.

# Focus on Damien and Kat's people skills to do a PR tour amongst the nonbelievers, who are still a majority in Misrayim.

>>426246
># Plant superweeds to make sure that the relevant land can be bought for cheap

no takeover needed, and we can send it to Pacifica.

># Focus on Damien and Kat's people skills to do a PR tour amongst the nonbelievers, who are still a majority in Misrayim.

># Focus on Damien's drone skills to impede MFers by mechanized sabotage

nothing like mechanized security for a PR campaign. although I'm surprised that the MF isn't using violent force against people on the streets. besides, we want a coup.

and thanks for running this. most fun I get to have sometimes. lol.

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>>426281

Before leaving, Quinn's survey team plants the superweeds; they stand a chance of displacing useful veggies (and their farmers) and will leech the nuclear fuel from the soil. You'll need specialized harvesters to get them out, but for now, let's have ourselves a valley of thorns, as Quinn put it.

>>426281

Even set to nonlethal, your drone tanks can do a lot of damage - mostly with their drums and pneumatic rams. Mostly, the drone tanks are driven under vehicles that MFers have rented or commandeered, and the engine or transmission gets smashed from underneath. Eventually, the Millennium Force people catch on, but their efforts to protect their assets against yours with similar drone tanks are met with failure and ridicule. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vavB0vFgOX8 Damien and Kat, of course, are wise enough to play these incidents up and make sure that any confrontations are kept, if not friendly, at least nonlethal; a few drone tanks are confiscated, put in prison, and in at least one case there's a fairly spectacular jailbreak when the machines mysteriously turn back on and carve a hole out of the stone building; the next day, Kat and Damien unveil a modified two-podded MEC frame that lets the former move around and the latter ride along and control a drone swarm. Of course, they deny having participated in the jailbreak and provide ample evidence that they were elsewhere...

The PR tour finishes with a formal Battlebots challenge, from the Omega Initiative to the Millennium force; no prize, but Misrayim culture is still sufficiently into unrelenting nerdery that the winners would walk home with a lot of respect.

Tsion is, of course, furious, and announces draconian measures to come; as it is, the Millennium Force efforts in Misrayim have been largely frustrated this year.

>>426310
nice battle bots match. epic win XD

>>426318

(Don't waste your weight allowance on ornaments!)

You have 22 cabals total; 14 are available.

You are actively tracking enemy teams where you have assets (see picture). Rules: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.QuestRules.html

Tsion Ben-Judah has all but assumed lordship of Osaze, and has threatened severe measures should the people there not repent.

TOL has authorized using Last Army assets against you, but they have been repealed so far.

Variable complexity:

# Launch an attack on a TOL base or government installation.

# Work on global data network infrastructure, incidentally making sure that you control more of it.

Complexity 0

# Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.

# Release the cabal cultivating Bahira's cells.

Complexity 1

# Permanently station a cabal to defend an installation. This removes them from the roster, but allows them to become familiar with the territory, set up static defenses, and so on, raising their effectiveness. This counts towards repealing physical attacks, and also legal attacks (they will prevent arrests, bust people out of jail, do counterhacking, and so on)

# Set a cabal to try and wake up Ithuriel.

# Foster pagan worship, improve morale, or both. Little need at the moment.

# Harass or sabotage a Hero, or tie up an enemy team.

# Perform a covert operation (such as scouting Antarctica or Greater Jerusalem).

Complexity 2

# Produce MECs at any base.

# Produce drones at any base. Current focus: Medium-sized land drones. Current army size is marked on the bottom of the map. (Each will give you 1/3rd of a tick)

# Produce a station part at any base. Current station structure: 1/8

# Work your Osaze, Night City, or Pacifica base overtime to improve prosperity.

# Use the Australia base, or Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (1/5) (2/5)

# Seed super-grain or super-weed in a territory. American Heartland is ripe for this.

Complexity 3

# Prepare and spring another Angel trap by kidnapping a Hero or a Glorified. 3, 4 or 5 cabals can be used for this.

# Continue pursuing space research. Space Race rules, but the Cosmists will assist your efforts here, counting as one cabal regardless.

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness).

# Use a launchpad for a canopy-breaching launch. Station structure: 1/8

Complexity 4

# Continue AI, nuclear or sonic research.

# Begin building a base in the Middle East, South Africa, or American Heartland.

Complexity 5

# Recruit. This has gotten considerably harder across the board.

# Take over a TOL base by force.

Typing something. I won't leave you alone for this round.

>>426349
oh good, I thought I would mess something up. . . can we wake Ithuriel up?

>>426325

Also, you can allocate individuals and/or cabals to winning the Battlebots tournment.

>>426357

You can certainly try!

># Foster pagan worship, improve morale, or both. Little need at the moment.

Can we get some sort of hybrid option for this and;

> Use the Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (2/5)?

Like, using 2 or 3 cabals to try to import pagans into night city and hopefully turn the nonbelievers in the area? Another pocket of non-believer friction would be helpful.


>>426357

>can we wake Ithuriel up?

Yeah, that.


># Permanently station a cabal to defend an installation. This removes them from the roster, but allows them to become familiar with the territory, set up static defenses, and so on, raising their effectiveness. This counts towards repealing physical attacks, and also legal attacks (they will prevent arrests, bust people out of jail, do counterhacking, and so on)

Anti, how do you feel about putting a cabal in Misrayim? If anywhere is worth it at this point, it's Egypt.

How do you feel about dropping a dirty bomb on the training camp? It'd be interesting to see what happens. I think it's important data at the very least.


># Construct an additional launch pad.

Pacifica, 2 cabals. Jeb and Val.


># Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.
Drones.
Did we pass along Bahira's cells to tree of life yet?
This isn't really a summary, just some ideas. But I'm thinking drones stationed at a few bases for security, prep for more launches by building another pad, MEC parts and a possible strike on the training camp. Some dudes keeping them busy in the middle east.


Spirit, Would internet dominance allow colossus to cheese debit transactions better?

Also, nuclear research maybe. Reactors would help space and the sooner we can actually build a breeder reactor, the sooner we can make the stuff we need for real bombs.

>>426366
id look for another target besides the training camp. the anti-tyrant sentiment the militant activity would sow will be glorious.

maybe a dirty bomb somewhere amidst the fight in Australia against the psaltys.

>>426372

>id look for another target besides the training camp. the anti-tyrant sentiment the militant activity would sow will be glorious.

It's a fair point. How about we let them hang themselves ? Assign some cabals to put them into shit positions and set them up to commit some acts that will enrage public opinion. If we paint them as clear bad guys here, then we could either fight them openly in the region or consider a bomb.

>>426376
exactly. nothing puts down tyrants like public discord.

lets use the misrayim Launchpad in another illegal launch. have kat on this ones defense team. three cabals right?

then have the rest of the bases produce more MECs with two cabals and anything else you can think of before we organize this Sara?

>>426385
>>426376

(gotta go for now! Definitely, )

>>426385

>lets use the misrayim Launchpad in another illegal launch. have kat on this ones defense team. three cabals right?

I suppose it's one way to force a confrontation. Misrayim hopefully isn't too bored of launches yet. Televise it maybe? At worst, we make some martyrs.


>then have the rest of the bases produce more MECs with two cabals and anything else you can think of before we organize this Sara?

I'm thinking idle bases for this, yeah. I just want Spirit to answer my questions up top before I commit to a vote summary.


Maybe we could set up another temple at the actual mount olympus site. If we want another fight, that's one way to get it. That's for later though, I really want to wake our angel up and get some information. We need better options for knocking out angel wings. We also need to test guns built with 3 degrees of separation. Maybe have some of the drones built with guns for once?

>>426392

Bye.

In that case, I'll just get a summary of some kind put together and we can hope for the best.

>>426366
>Spirit, Would internet dominance allow colossus to cheese debit transactions better?

No, the Colossus systems is pretty much a done deal. Internet dominance allows for more effective propaganda, and shields against hacking attacks.

>>426395
>>426392
ok, good night spirit/geist.

ill type up the summery as well, make sure we both know what were putting down and all.

>Also, you can allocate individuals and/or cabals to winning the Battlebots tournment.
one cabal and Damien.

>illegal launch in Ozase.
Kat and Jeb. three cabals

>base production.
Greenland on drones. three bases on MEC parts. and were putting the last one producing another canopy part. should cost us 6 cabals

>make some dissent in eastern Europe and start bringing it under control. two cabals. weaver and Quinn.

>wake up ithuriel
one cabal put Zak on it .

>bring pagans to night city and foster worship there. this synergizes with promoting dissent.
one cabal. Weaver and Quinn here also

how does this work Sara?

>>426325

># Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.
Drones. Include a couple with machineguns to test 3 degrees of separation with guns.


>#Pass samples of Bahira's cells along to tree of life, quietly.
Let's see if they can make anything of it.


># Set a cabal to try and wake up Ithuriel.
1 cabal with drones and Zak on standby.


># Produce MECs at any base.
2 Cabals, idle bases.


># Use the Australia base, or Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (1/5) (2/5)
2 cabals, Night city. Weaver.

Try to foster pagan worship in the region while they're at it. Import pagans to night city, especially people interested in Hecate, Janus, triple goddess, etc. I'd like to lay the ground work for a strong local pagan culture once we announce that the city is there. Having these early residents building that local culture should help to that end.
># Seed super-grain or super-weed in a territory. American Heartland is ripe for this.
2 Cabals and Quinn. Seed the weed in the American heartland aggressively. Ideally I'd like to set up a major local famine and I want it pinned on TOL. I want millenium force teams distracted and hopefully drawn out to this region.


># Construct a launch pad in Pacifica.
2 Cabals. Jeb.


># Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness).
It's not exactly the above but...

2 Cabals in Misrayim with Damien (I'm hoping harmless daycare MEC is remembered), try to bait the MF into doing something stupid and turning public opinion very much against them. Get in their way but always be the victim.
># Turn on the Australian transmitter.
Fallen angels, evolution, propaganda, dead glorified and anything that goes over well for us and breaks the narrative for them. After the message gets out, and once they start to come up with rhetoric on all stations in full damage control; jam them and keep them jammed.

3 cabals and some drones. They can help provide security for our angel. Kat.


How about this?

>>426424

I think it's a good idea to get one more pad up instead of a launch, then we can do multiple safe launches in one year, or we can rotate as pads pick up heat from the fuzz.

The transmitter got built at some expense, and it'll draw a LOT of attention. If there's ever a time to bring the heat off of osaze and onto Australia...


Oh and,

># Make sure quiet bases have some drone security. Spread the MEC cabals around so no one is literally a skeleton crew.

Also, in terms of dealing with Tsion at some point.

I'm thinking we kidnap him and shoot him into fucking space. That should hopefully keep him knocked out for so long that we don't need to worry about it until way later.

>>426436
I don't know Sara, we have a deadline to throw people into space. Not to mention the dissent we need to foster. I support the Australian transmission, but let's try not to leave the battlebots competition alone and ignore a space launch.

>>426453
Too soon. Maybe next few turns.

>>426460
># Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.
Drones. Include a couple with machineguns to test 3 degrees of separation with guns.


>#Pass samples of Bahira's cells along to tree of life, quietly.
Let's see if they can make anything of it.


># Set a cabal to try and wake up Ithuriel.
1 cabal with drones and Zak on standby.


># Produce MECs at any base.
2 Cabals, idle bases.


># Use the Australia base, or Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (1/5) (2/5)
2 cabals, Night city. Weaver.

Try to foster pagan worship in the region while they're at it. Import pagans to night city, especially people interested in Hecate, Janus, triple goddess, etc. I'd like to lay the ground work for a strong local pagan culture once we announce that the city is there. Having these early residents building that local culture should help to that end.


># Use a launchpad for a canopy-breaching launch. Station structure: 1/8
3 Cabals, Misrayim. Jeb.

Let's have the 2 cabals from Damien attempt to run interference to ensure this goes off, too.


># Battlebots.
1 Cabal. Quinn.


># Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness).
It's not exactly the above but...

2 Cabals in Misrayim with Damien (I'm hoping harmless daycare MEC is remembered), try to bait the MF into doing something stupid and turning public opinion very much against them. Get in their way but always be the victim.


># Turn on the Australian transmitter.
Fallen angels, evolution, propaganda, dead glorified and anything that goes over well for us and breaks the narrative for them. After the message gets out, and once they start to come up with rhetoric on all stations in full damage control; jam them and keep them jammed.

3 cabals and some drones. They can help provide security for our angel. Kat.
How about that?

>>426461
I don't think ithuriel will need security.

The reason I wanted Damien on the battlebots was because she's good with drones. Maybe have quinn run interference.

The MF in Misrayim are going to get bad publicity soon regardless. I don't think we will need to force their pants down. On the subject of specialty's quinn excels at baiting people into bad situations, publicity, and can change her face completely now. (We should also make sure she's not acting depressed again. Last time she lost both arms to weak ithuriel.

># Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.
Drones. Include a couple with machineguns to test 3 degrees of separation with guns.


>#Pass samples of Bahira's cells along to tree of life, quietly.
Let's see if they can make anything of it.


># Set a cabal to try and wake up Ithuriel.
1 cabal with Zak and some drones just in case.


># Produce MECs at any base.
2 Cabals, idle bases.


># Use the Australia base, or Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (1/5) (2/5)
2 cabals, Night city. Weaver.

Try to foster pagan worship in the region while they're at it. Import pagans to night city, especially people interested in Hecate, Janus, triple goddess, etc. I'd like to lay the ground work for a strong local pagan culture once we announce that the city is there. Having these early residents building that local culture should help to that end.


># Use a launchpad for a canopy-breaching launch. Station structure: 1/8
3 Cabals, Misrayim. Jeb.

Let's have the 2 cabals from Quinn attempt to run interference to ensure this goes off, too.


># Battlebots.
1 Cabal. Damien.


># Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness).
It's not exactly the above but...

2 Cabals in Misrayim with Quinn. Get in their way and run security for the launch. If they see a good chance to bait the MF into doing something dumb that will piss off the public, go for it.


># Turn on the Australian transmitter.
Fallen angels, evolution, propaganda, dead glorified and anything that goes over well for us and breaks the narrative for them. After the message gets out, and once they start to come up with rhetoric on all stations in full damage control; jam them and keep them jammed.

3 cabals and some drones + Kat. They're even in the area to help Zak if need be.


I agree on Damien/Quinn. A cabal needs to be assigned to the angel to try to wake him up anyway. Zak is there because SCIENCE, and I want drones around because a lot could go wrong. Maybe god sends another angel, maybe he wakes up disoriented and pissed. Who knows.

alright, I guess this is the end result. kind of feel like were missing out on something but that feel will pass. lets have a good next session.

also, I imagine the transmission in video form ends in omega telling everyone to think and find the answers to the questions the broadcast brings up themselves before Jamming all the airwaves.

>>426484

Probably something along those lines, yeah. I'm going to go ahead and trust the dudes that worked on the packet to have some idea of what they're doing.

>>426490
well, then again. our sysadmins did draw up a picture of a space station riddled with machineguns when we first met the seven. . . I guess a little oversite might have too happen lol.

>>426499

Fair point. Let's give it some thought, then.

What if....

We turn Jeb into a reality TV star? A fucking madman running an underground space program, dodging the authority so he can breach the canopy over and over.

Shit, do you think that'd go over well? I'm kind of tempted to make it a running documentary of sorts.

>>426520
Eh, a running documentary might work. It would be fun to see people lose their minds over their favorite good boy scientist go bad and actively go against tyrant. Only thing is would he get smote?

Also, do you think we're going to be able to pull off a CATS at the end game. I really want to be able to try that before year zero hits. Even if we don't have a full military we just need to do a fast enough snatch and grab on Jesus. With that said. Containment system engineering competition before the endgame?

>>426530
>Also, do you think we're going to be able to pull off a CATS at the end game. I really want to be able to try that before year zero hits. Even if we don't have a full military we just need to do a fast enough snatch and grab on Jesus. With that said. Containment system engineering competition before the endgame?

It's worth trying. I also want to attempt a ragnarok. We need to get on attempting to inspire more divine events.

>>426530

Perhaps creating the grid or some other transit pocket dimension?

>>426534
I think that's what we're doing in the mine. Establishing a connection point with flipside.

>>426533
I don't think we're going to get a ragnarok without going into the zed reality(tripocolypse) or some other alternative reality. So we should definitely should keep establishing the salt mine as our bridge to it.

>>426543

May as well.


I think it might be doable without, but it requires lots of people and lots of people believing in a coherent prophecy resulting in an end times show down.

That said, zed would help a lot I'm sure.

>>426552
It also requires them believing it comes a year or two earlier than 1000. Because of the single sentence rule.

OP is alive! Yey.
Have fun fighting the space octupi?
>>426552
>>426564
Ragnarok has some interesting implications upon the human race. But it could work, continuing to establish a bridge may not be a bad idea though.

I couldtry looking into some Wicka and Pagan stuff if you guys want? Like 2 thirds of my close family is pagan, so they'll probably be willing to tell me some stuff about protection rituals and the like.

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>>426647
Cool. Also could come in handy during the late game, When pic related happens.

>>426647

Sure. Why not?

I'll take what I can get.

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>>426475

A few standard machineguns are put on the drone tanks' weapon mounts, for variety: the standard ends up being a small Maxim gum chambered in 5.56mm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRO5W7uxZfw

>>426475

Bahira's cells are shared with Tree Of Life, who seem to be very excited about it, more than your guys - they wish they had had access to this 900 years ago. Just pre-Rapture, a lot of work was being done with stem cells; having a completely clean human sample looks like it would allow for much easier work in resuming that research.

(OOC: I wish I had added a proper genetics track to the science counter....)

Interestingly, a few of your people dig up Bahira's body - remember, she's supposedly still active in Greater Jerusalem, although her blog has changed focus and lost quite a bit of its audience - and find nothing but dry bones.

>>426475

MEC production continues apace; by now it's safe to say that everyone in your organization who wants a Mark X has it. A few people even go the extra step and pre-install the heel grounding; a minor fad develops by which the copper-gold wire that goes from the controller to the heel is traced on the skin with tattoos or even piercings.

>>426475

Capt. Weaver had not been to Night City yet; she's surprised to find it a thriving community, and takes up work up and down the Vistula to ferry people in and out - mostly in. She loves the fireflies blinking about in the main chamber, enjoys the planetarium, and isn't too surprised to discover that some the shrines to Hecate that some people have erected at crossroads and cross-tunnels depict Jenny in a peplum for an effigy of the triple goddess. Night City is by no means self sufficient yet, but if it was better advertised - it's not really hidden, per se, just not on the tourist guides - it'd be a midsize industrial center by now; as it is, Eastern Europe has started to rever its pastoralization trend, although you wouldn't say from overground.

Capt. Weaver checks on Urist to find a growing young child, perhaps a bit shorter than average but in great health otherwise.

# Encourage her to advertise Night City.

# Encourage her to keep Night City hidden.

# Neither.

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>>428115

>>426475
>>426520

Quinn is asked to be a host for some of the local Battlebots games, and accepts gleefully; her events get shut down a few times, mostly for alcohol and weed sales on the premises, and have to be made up later or in a couple of instances canceled. The regional final happens using one of the launch complex's warehouses for the arena (and, in intent, for the afterparty) and ends up happening with almost more MF "chaperones" in the bleachers than paying audience; it goes off without a hitch, and the MF team wins it handily. The space launch happens during the medals award ceremony, and prominently features Jeb, face painted green, screaming the whole way up. The actual mission is simple: get to the canopy, then launch a sounding rocket from there to see if it can enter actual orbit without supernatural interference. Jeb plays it up for the camera and challenges the psalties to come and get him, since he's not coming down for a while.

Unsurprisingly, the launch goes off without a hitch; Jeb confirms that there are still satellites up there (they're all dead, sadly - 960 years of micrometeorites have at one time or another taken out everything out there with a working transmitter) and for the first time in centuries a satellite, a quarter-scale copy of Sputnik with an imaging camera, is orbiting the Earth again. The planet looks like a giant snowball from the outside.

# Let Jeb stay up there until his supplies run out.

# Just finish the tests and installation.

Quinn ends up with two dozen guns pointed at her when the launch happens, taps a pedal on the arena floor, and is promptly eaten up by it; the "nerve gas" that the speakers suddenly warn about is just the smoke machines all going off at the same time, but it does a good job of clearing the venue. The local tribunal confirms the MF team's win at the event, not wanting them to be eliminated, so the whole thing isn't even canceled. Quinn has little issue sneaking off, and spends the rest of the year on the lam, changing her face frequently and occasionally showing up on state TV for photobombs; the following chases don't even need your intervention to be ridiculed, as sped-up versions with vaudeville music show up on OmegaTube within days.

A week later, a MF expedition to demolish the launch complex returns to Amman with mixed results, having cut power to the whole complex and drained the fuel tanks; at minimum you'll have to retake the facility by force or guile.

After mapping Snowball Earth, the satellite's camera is aimed at the sky and returns the first good pictures of Mars in a very long time; the planet is still there and doesn't seem to have grown its own ecosystem in centuries of neglect.

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>>426475

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

The Battlebots tournment is the talk of Osaze for this year; the games are structured with a series of double-elimination local tournments and then a territory-wide single elimination. To prevent the government from having any excuse for shutting the games down, Colossus is not used to organize them; this gives believing teams a considerable advantage in terms of money, since the Christian managed gift economy is working at capacity otherwise.

Damien's cabal enters as one team, with the rest of your organization being asked to provide some assistance to unbelieving teams; surprisingly, a red-vs-blue narrative does not take shape until the nationals happen; Damien, like all MECs, is not allowed to sign up, so another member of her cabal has to be team captain. Her pod is put inside a cylindrical container with VR equipment, tagged as support equipment, and the bot is operated in this fashion, which would be somewhat of a penalty if it wasn't for the fact that Damien has been doing this for years. Team Omega easily makes it to the single elimination phase, using...

# A modified drone tank that will be used to improve battlefield performance.

# A completely different design focusing on robustness and reliability, that can be operated by anyone.

# A completely different design that is built for speed and maneuverability, around Damien's piloting skills.


>>426475

Waking up Ithuriel (after his wing has been stitched back on) is done with the utmost carefulness: the hospital bed is taken to a single-wide in the middle of the quarry and has about as many automated weapon systems aimed at it as the original trap did. A shot of adrenaline later, Ithuriel's eys open.

And that's all they do for quite a while; Zak's initial assessment is that the lights are on but nobody is home. A number of tests are made that confirm that this is indeed the case; Ithuriel is the picture of health, save for the stitches on its back, but shows no response other than reflexive actions such as pupillary contraction or the hammer-on-knee test. This helps create a reflexology map for Angels, confirming that they have a very close physiology to that of humans, save for the extra pair of shoulderblades and the wings. Cross-correlation with Bahira's data shows that an Angel is basically a Glorified with a particularly clean case of supernumerary limb, and no external genitals. A MRI shows that the brain is fully active, and in what seems to be a sort of ready loop. It does not match that of Hell-pain although the pain sensorium has been disconnected when the Mark X was installed, mostly because the system does that automatically and the procedure had to be done quickly.

# Try various stimuli.

# Keep it fed intravenously for now and see if it wakes up naturally.

>>428115
>Interestingly, a few of your people dig up Bahira's body - remember, she's supposedly still active in Greater Jerusalem, although her blog has changed focus and lost quite a bit of its audience - and find nothing but dry bones.


Do we have her DNA on public record?


># Encourage her to advertise Night City.


>A week later, a MF expedition to demolish the launch complex returns to Amman with mixed results, having cut power to the whole complex and drained the fuel tanks; at minimum you'll have to retake the facility by force or guile.

Anti? I'm thinking there's still some more testing we could do with believers.


># A completely different design focusing on robustness and reliability, that can be operated by anyone.

I'm thinking it benefits non-believers more than believers, and it lays ground work for allowing police forces to adopt these things in our territories.


># Try various stimuli.

>>428225
Send the angel a nurse with some food.

>>428127

# A completely different design that is built for speed and maneuverability, around Damien's piloting skills.

Let me get to my computer I have something to write in.

>>428242
>Let me get to my computer I have something to write in.

My thought process on

>># A completely different design focusing on robustness and reliability, that can be operated by anyone.

Is that the police were interested in drones. This lays groundwork to make it easier, and some more eyes and ears around would be nice.

>>428115
># Encourage her to advertise Night City.

Urist, who was he again? the baby we have growing up there?

>Just finish the tests and installation
no mistakes.

>see if we cant get a violent action out of the MFer's at the game, by the psaltys under bens control preferably.

>>428274

>Urist, who was he again? the baby we have growing up there?

Yeah.

>Just finish the tests and installation

Sure.

I have self inviting assholes over, sorry. >:(

>>428282
>>428274

Urist is the first child born in Night City, even when it was under construction. He (assumed) is growing well, and hasn't seen sunlight yet.

>>428245
>>428242

Going heavy or fast? There's a weight limit of 300lbs either way, but they can be used for armor or motors.

>>428274
>>428282

Jeb finishes setting up the station component and making sure that the mapping satellite is operating to capacity, puts on the MOOSE suit, and parachutes down while Quinn trolls the police a few hundred kilometers away.

>>428296

Shall we wait for your explanation on why you want fast rather than the modified design? I agree it'd probably be better for winning this, and I could maybe come around to the idea if you really want.

Spirit, how much work is there to be done in order to produce drones for the police?

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>>428242

While the year goes by, Ithuriel's problem remains without solution until one morning Zak walks into the trailer to find the Angel quietly breastfeeding from one of the nurses. Ithuriel had been disconnected from IV feeding to see if it would start reacting to hunger or thirst, and indeed it did. "Wot, he was crying like my baby back home, what was I supposed to do?"

Indeed it looks like Ithuriel has the personality of an infant.

# Go with it.

# Try to hasten development.


>>428320

Giving them older drones with wubbers only shouldn't be much of a big deal. Ensuring their loyalty isn't much of a big deal either, unless someone clues into the fact that they only take commands via radio that you mediate and replace the radios.

>>428336
>While the year goes by, Ithuriel's problem remains without solution until one morning Zak walks into the trailer to find the Angel quietly breastfeeding from one of the nurses. Ithuriel had been disconnected from IV feeding to see if it would start reacting to hunger or thirst, and indeed it did. "Wot, he was crying like my baby back home, what was I supposed to do?"
>Indeed it looks like Ithuriel has the personality of an infant.
FUCK.

># Go with it.
Break open the child care books, look at the pre-rapture research and give him the best we can, I guess.

>>428336

>Giving them older drones with wubbers only shouldn't be much of a big deal.

Sure. If we work on this and send out some drones to our territories, I'm fine with Anti's go fast option for the battlebot.

>>428336
># Try to hasten development
as soon as it can speak human the better. I want to know what it knows.

>>428310
Make use of the weight with an effective design. Let's go heavy, let Damien design it.

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>>428377
>>428352


As far as your experts can tell (which isn't much), the whole "angel" thing was flash-fried into Ithuriel's brain; after it was gone, what's left is a body with no memories. At least, it's bonded with the nurse.

You've got to decide whether to try to get it to talk, or allow it to, well, grow up.

>>428359

You rotate in this year's crop of drones and distribute older models to your security forces in Misrayim and Pacifica, which makes it easier for people to call them instead of police. Given that all territories nominally try to keep a small-government platform that emphasizes the sanctity of private contracts, you and the Colossi more or less get away with it... in Pacitica it works pretty well, but in Osaze, it seems that Tsion has other ideas.

>>428359
>>428242

The 'bot is called Minotaur, it's a very precisely machined vertical drum spinner, and everyone sort of assumes that it's a lot more autonomous than its competitors, given its "reflexes" and the fact that the team carries around an external control unit; in truth, while the bot does have some autonomy, Damien is doing most of the work from inside the control unit - this particular heavy MEC doesn't particularly mind being confined for the matches (Damien in general doesn't spend that much time in a standard frame). Since Minotaur is underweight, the extra weight is used by quadcopters, minibots and nuisancebots that generally only last for one fight; Damien's team becomes a crowd favorite by allowing audience members to drive or fly these when it looks like they have an easy match coming.

Lari Burkhart heads the Geeks Under Grace team; they are flush with resources and have been using a variety of bots to fight, and they're expected to be the ones that Damien will have to beat, barring a miracle. They are not with the Millennium Force and haven't made a big deal of being believers; they pray before each fight, but for a fair match, not for victory.

>>428401

Damien prefers something fast, small, and hard to hit. Using minibots means that s/he will have to win by KO every round, but so far, it's worked out.

>>428377

Zak instructs the nurse to help Ithuriel regain its memory by pushing it to start solving problems; effectively, the attempt is made to speed it along the neurocognitive process.

>>428423
>You've got to decide whether to try to get it to talk, or allow it to, well, grow up.

Well, talking is good for infants anyway; talk to it. At least it might start learning language.

Alright, whatever puts Damien in her comfort zone.

Guess we can get the angel along on cognitive development while giving the nurse some time to help "raise" the damned thing.

If things go well, the MF will do something violent this year.

What does Zak think about having the nurse raise ithuriel? (Not important, just curious)

>>428444
>>428401

A small team is tasked with trying to speed up Ithuriel's (re)development in the hope that it might remember something of its time in Yahweh's service.

>>428500

Zak thinks that it is an unexpected development, and a welcome one. As much as he intends to exterminate the Angels if they show up en masse, as soon as he figures out how, knowing one's enemy is a necessity. "Of course, we can always cull it later."

>>428423

The Battlebots championship proceeds well, and is big enough news that there are plans of a world tournment in the next few years, to be held in Greater Jerusalem; it is good clean fun, although hardline pastoralization advocates do not like the emphasis on high technology in what should be a time of quiet contemplation as the end of the world draws near.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgY0BRrEsxw&index=17&list=PLDe0CguuqcMD6Ee3rQfJBkUCKzilzx1lF


With popularity comes oversight, and with the government of Osaze effectively following Tsion's cues, it's a lot of oversight. Nonbelieving teams are penalized for having evolution fish on their bots. One Christian team is disqualified for excessive brutality when they annihilate a competitor after KOing it, even though the losing team had signaled their okay to see extra distruction. Once it becomes clear that having a match go to the judges means seeing Levitical law applied to robot combat, all competitors become more aggressive, resulting in more knockouts, which makes the games even more popular. The last part of the tournment, intended to be single elimination, is moved to an European point system by executive edict from Tsion, presumably so that judges have a bit more control on the outcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dISgsYI5py0&list=PLDe0CguuqcMA-fu_fwgE1vIFA0IA2PsTP

The final result is a three-way tie between Minotaur (maneuverable drum spinner, piloted by Damien), Tombstone (aggressive horizontal spinner, piloted by Lari), and Kairos (armored flipper that looks a lot like one of your drone tanks, piloted by Zeke, of the MF).

The three teams meet with the host about whether to do a three-way rumble, three bots enter one bots leave, or have a round-robin. Damien is safely hidden in what looks like a tank of welding gas; her "pod" actually contains a bog standard PC, in case of inspection. The brief discussion, used as filler, is interrupted by Tsion Ben-Judah marching in and saying that the solution is simple - disqualify Team Omega and have the two Christian teams duke it out in the final match...

# Let it happen, it's guaranteed to piss everyone off.

# Have Damien show up and make a speech.

# Have the formal team captain do so instead.

# This is on live TV, it's the sporting event of the year, it would take an inch of effort to spark riots all over the territory!

(OOC: A bit of Battlebots etiquette: After a KO, the winning team is supposed to quickly ask the losing team if they want to see their bot smashed/humiliated, or not, and abide by the losing team's decision. Not a rule, but it's generally done.)

>>428607
># This is on live TV, it's the sporting event of the year, it would take an inch of effort to spark riots all over the territory!

don't these guys know what happens when you piss off the sports fans?

>>428637

I suppose we can take it. Just be careful about it such that we're victims here. I just want some ground up pushback against MF, to keep them occupied so we can stop devoting so much to this shit.

>>428637

A few well-placed phone calls ensure that security detachments will be unavailable, regular police will be impeded, and psalties and MFers will be prevented from getting anywhere. Barring a miracle, there WILL be riots. If the sort of miracle that people expect happens, there probably will be a civil war. What has changed from ten years ago is that most of Misrayim's unbelieving population has been fit with at least a basic metabolic extension controller, and quite a few of those who are likely to riot also spent the extra whuffie for the lightning rod.

Tsion announces that disqualifying Minotaur under the Unequally Yoked clause of the law is the most equitable solution, and suggests that the other two teams make arrangements for the final as soon as the arena is repaired. He notes that he's personally curious to see the outcome, and praises the Christian teams for showing tech leadership and sportsmanship. He acts as if Damien's team leader wasn't even there.

# Let it happen, it's guaranteed to piss everyone off.

# Let it happen, but try to have Minotaur (in "autonomous" mode) invade the arena - enough of the show's workers are on your payroll to give this a chance.

# Have Damien show up (on video or in person) and make a speech.

# Have the formal team captain do so instead.

>>428660

Getting the MFers to come out of this looking like dirt would accomplish that, at least in Misrayim; their association with the battlebot Kairos is, fortunately, something they spent a lot of effort on.

The important thing is that they lose the metagame, whatever happens to the game. To their credit, the Geeks Under Grace team don't seem very happy about having Minotaur out of the fight either.

>>428679

(Of course I didn't mean so much time to this shit in terms of the writing or events, I just mean so many cabals on keeping this place from sliding back).

Anti, do you have any thoughts on a choice? I'm thinking A or B. C could be decent if people happen to remember her from the documentary a while back.

>>428689
# Let it happen, it's guaranteed to piss everyone off.

We will see broken bones soon. All according to plan.

>>428702

Sure.

>>428667

# Have Damien show up (on video or in person) and make a speech.

Would be interesting, let's try it once things get to civil war status.

>>428689

Damien isn't a household name (Quinn is, in some households) but people will remember her; she helped defeat Azrael and was shown to have "retired" to help at a daycare afterwards.

>>428702
>>428712
>>428734

(Let the match happen, have Damien make a video address before the match, or have Damien make a video address during the match?)

>>428743

>(Let the match happen, have Damien make a video address before the match, or have Damien make a video address during the match?)

#After. Have Damien just play a big softie. Did her best to protect innocent firstborn, fired from trying to care for kids, thrown out of the finals of her hobby, etc. She's got a pretty good sob story in the making.

>>428765
Hell, she already lost her drinking body, the fact you can lose more should piss everyone off. Add the fact she's been condemned to death by the NJ government and you have yourself a second source of riots.

Have her apear during. The amount if momentum it would have would be insane.

>>428765
Ah, I mean after not during. Fuck my fingers.

I assume we have an escape plan for her? Quinn's interference cabals standing by?

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>>428785


Your team lodges a formal complaint and leave, Damien being quickly secured into the "real" control rig because there will be a need for a drone fleet pretty soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIy_zsO2clA

The fight happens. Kairos' weapon ends up being lost almost immediately, and despite Tombstone scoring the most hits, the heavier tracked bot pushes the spinner around for about half the match. Despite many having requested that the final be an endurance match, Kairos runs out the timer and, to the surprise of absolutely nobody, is awarded a win on points. There aren't even any boos; the arena is silent. Tsion summarily takes the Giant Nut from the host and enters the arena to deliver it to Zeke and his team.

And that's when people lose it. The arena is pelted by shoes, phones, and whatever debris the audience can muster; there are cries of "Rematch!" and "Minotaur!" all over the arena. The ballistic glass walls are built to block battlebots weapons, of course, so Tsion and Zeke are in no danger, but that's all the excuse Tsion needs. Riot police converge on the arena within seconds, urticant gas is thrown in, and several people are shot - before the cameras go dark, one poignant image is that of a fan being shot in the face, getting back up when the Mark X kicks in, and being shot again right through the medulla. Tsion is evacuated by armored van.

If the Battlebots final didn't do it, the police retaliation definitely did; there are riots and fights all over the territory. Millennium Force teams spread out among police and psalties to document what's going on as the latter quickly get their riot gear and charge protesters. People who fight back are executed by lightning, sometimes twice. From the armored van, Tsion makes a quick televised announcement declaring that martial law is in effect, all civilians are to return to their homes, and all believers are to mark their front door with an ichtyos in red paint, tomato juice, or any acceptable blood substitute. The amount of clear-sky lightning is enough to slightly ionize the atmosphere in both Cairo and Amman, which telemetry survey shows to give an unexpected boost to plasma-type wubbers. Your drones deploy, where possible, to disrupt riot police charges - a few are turned over by protesters who note the resemblance to Kairos, but the tactic is successful.

# Have Damien call for calm, with her story and your media mastery behind her.

# Have Damien call for revolution, with a frickin' army of drone tanks behind her.

Quinn, in all this, is having the time of her unlife; her cabal helped Damien get away and get wired into the drone command system, after which she split, did some pole dancing on one of the big flags in Cairo, and has been punching through riot shields since.

Alright, Anti?


I see two approaches here:

1) Kill as many police and religious enforcers as possible in the chaos. Even if the country goes back to nominally being under the control of the religious government, if we kill enough gestapo, their hold on the region should be tenuous for a good long while.


2) Revolution. The problem is it circles right back around to S&G and I still don't have a good solution for that.
In the meantime, try to get some measurements of the lightning. Response times from the events that triggered the bolts, strength of the shock, etc. See if that changes at all over the course of this, and later on we can compare it to 'baseline'. Also, if we can get some instrumentation looking at the canopy, that could be nice too. I'd like to see what's happening in there.

>>428852

# Have Damien call for calm, with her story and your media mastery behind her.
# Have Damien call for revolution, with a frickin' army of drone tanks behind her.

Why not both, were taking the capital.

It's time to mobilize military force. There will likely be angels, an attempted genocide. So warn people about that.

"And if your not fighting. Paint your door."

>>428892
If we do both. We get to take the country and install ourselves as the head honcho. Once the S&G is averted by people not fighting but an army of MECs and drones, while a majority of the population stays behind and let's us take the region.

>>428897

(Not sure how you mean by both. Damien is in a unique position to either stop the riot, possibly giving her negotiating power if not with Tsion then at least with saner people, or inflame it into something like the french revolution, putting your guys in charge if you win it)

>>428897

I'm not sure they synergize very well. We need chaos for a takeover to be easy.
Would you rather a stable small government situation and we can force them to repeal some of the religious laws and the territory keeps on being somewhat useful to us, or a total takeover where it'll burn twice as bright until it explodes?

>>428892

Telemetry so far indicates that the clear-sky lightning is triggered by a serious or fatal wound on a non-Glorified believer, that it is invariably lethal (unless a MEC unit kicks in), and that in the cases when it's redirected by a faraday cage, lightning rod or tesla coil, it will repeat every six seconds until it accomplishes its objective. Strength seems to be stable.

As it is, you do know that there is nothing supernatural about the immense amount of static elecricity between the canopy and the surface; shorting them together with a thick enough rod, or a powerful enough magnetic field, would likely cause enough heat transfer to melt the icy part of the canopy. It would also create an enormous plasma storm in the affected area. Some of your theologians believe that this is how TurboJesus will defeat the Last Army.

>>428924

Zak notes that this "six seconds" thing keeps showing up. The value is not perfectly accurate, but it's consistent across various phenomena.

>>428924
Interesting. Find a way to diffuse that so he can't kill the last army. Then have Damien tell people to get Indoors and wait out the hostile takeover for a few days. And paint your door. This will let us take the country and let the people avoid the conflict for the most part.

Then we take back the country by force. Somewhat bloodless revolution.

>>428938
Every six seconds. Why do I feel like that is something significant?

>>428938

Any differences from the usual lightning that strikes? Reaction time/strength?


>>428938

That would probably be because 6 is representative of man/satan/human weakness/sin, if memory serves.


>>428960


Well, the issue is that's going to mean more losses in general. A takeover is probably going to be MORE bloody if the police are free to concentrate on stopping us.

>>428969
>>428964

The second is not a Biblical unit, but the timing is consistent. The main difference between the usual lightning and the Divine lightning is that the latter has to travel about 70km, from the canopy, rather than a few hundred meters. The difference in electric potential is enormous, easily in the gigavolt range. An initial guess of 1.21 gigavolt turns out to not be accurate, but hit the ballpark.

>>428969
>>428964

As it is, Misrayim is currently in a state of unrest; people are rioting, the police and psalties are cracking down hard on it, your drones are physically disrupting riot police charges when they can to give people time to regroup or run. This is the sort of problem that you can take your time pondering about, fortunately; it's only been a few minutes and Damien can still defuse the situation, or inflame it, just with words. Of course, if Damien calls for revolution, best if the heavy MEC is then left alone to drive drone swarms...

>>428969
We're attacking with a fleet of drones with three degrees of separation, MECs resistant to lightning and lightning rods. And we are also going to find a way to defeat the lightning for once.

What does Zak think about either forcing the canopy to break over Ozase or removing all the electricity in the area?

>>428996
Well, we are revealing ourselves and taking the country. Sara. I would ask for luck but I'm just unsure how luck works here anymore. It's time for a revolution.

>>428998
>What does Zak think about either forcing the canopy to break over Ozase or removing all the electricity in the area?

Well, it's pretty unlikely you're going to be able to remove all the electricity. A canopy break would probably require big bombs that we do not have, nevermind have on hand.

If you want a revolution, and you honestly want to see what happens with S&G, I'm willing. It's something we need data on in order to have some capacity to deal with eventually; just consider the consequences.


Spirit, how many of the police are non-believers? After inflaming things, what are the chances we could have some of the police turn and assist/get out of the way?

>>428998
>>429012

Zak thinks that it'd be a hell of a project. Maybe by dropping a line from the canopy station... It'd destroy the canopy station, of course, but then again it'd possibly destroy the canopy. "You know, Omega, when men first built the atomic bomb, they figured there was a chance it'd set the sky on fire and burn the Earth. And yet we went ahead."

>>429012

Official police are all believers; some of the youngest ones may be false converts. Note that Tsion's hardline approach has left him unpopular with some believers; they'll obey a direct order, as they must, but absent that they'd prioritize their and others' safety.

>>429008

... Oh, wow. This should be interesting O_O

>>429008

I really do believe that calming this down and using it as a political maneuver for negotiating power is a much better idea. But if you REALLY think this is going to end in some kind of favorable outcome, I won't deadlock things.

Just, consider, what is the best possible outcome you see from this scenario?

>>429019
"Zak, records also indicate It was to shorten a war that threatened to kill most life on the planet. If we fail, it will this time. I trust you can Develop our 'nuclear bomb'?"

>>429023
We take the territory and called an illegitimate government. The people don't get smote (or S&G) because we are the tyrants, not chosen leaders. And we get to recruit a massive army out of Ozase and other places we take over.

>>429033
>"Zak, records also indicate It was to shorten a war that threatened to kill most life on the planet

I don't disagree with the sentiment, but threatening most life on the planet is most certainly an exaggeration!

In any case, yes, ask if he has any ideas for that. It's something to consider.


>The people don't get smote (or S&G) because we are the tyrants, not chosen leaders

Or maybe god kills them anyway for not stopping us. Most people in S&G didn't do anything to the angels, they just didn't abide by god's will. That's all it took; a lack of believers.

In any case, if you want to really go ahead, alrighty.

>>429019

>... Oh, wow. This should be interesting O_O

Did I just freak out the QM or catch em off guard or something?

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>>429041

How do we keep TOL off our back after that, if it works?

>>429104

No, but I'd have to recalibrate somewhat (and study Risk quests a little to avoid making a pig's ear of it).

>>429108

They wouldn't commit their entire army, since it's needed for the Last Day, but they definitely have more boots on the ground than Omega does, even if they're poorly equipped and trained.

>>429108

>How do we keep TOL off our back after that, if it works?

Nukes would help.

The truth is that a lot of that hardware is just WWII era gear. Mecha cyborgs and drones shred infantry, and if they do employ armour, we have a whole archive of pre-rapture gear that's designed to kill stuff a lot nastier than WWII tanks.

Our bases are armoured to some degree, most of them underground and too many TOL dudes driving around in tanks on the surface would hopefully bring Jerusalem down on them for us. TOL isn't going to make itself much of an issue in Misrayim, I suspect. They'll probably be happy to let us take the heat and just try to poach recruits from the territory.

>>429108
Simple, don't fight them directly. Make them run around at ghost.

>>429135
We arnt going to engage directly, were not idiots. We are however. Going to give them a fight to remember.

>>429136
Bingo, which is hard to do when the real government is actively recruiting.

If you want time to consider the ramifications of a takeover, OP, we could do the transmitter stuff right now. Just, y'know, time it so we don't jam Damien.

>>429153
Lol, that works. Heck, throw in the images from the riots for effect.

>>429153
>>429160

(I kinda do, yeah)

The Magnifying Transmitter has been tested before, but not used in anger yet other than the occasional messing-with-Ely burst of snow. It can, definitely, be used to override Tsion, either with Damien's message or anything else.

>>429257

Ehhh, may as well give you time to consider your options.

I'd like to try to not do Damien through the transmitter if possible, keeping her separated politically from the jamming that's to come seems like something worth considering. Are there any other means of getting her speech out?

>>429279

Putting it online would work; however it'd take longer to get out than if it was broadcast.

>>429279
Eh, we could just have her broadcast before the jammer goes on.

>>429304

May as well, I guess. If we're going to do something goofy like this, might as well go all the way.

>>429308
Goofy? Why do you think my trick with the phone back on the second thread worked?! Goofy is a literal law of physics in fiction that increases probability of success! (Also the QM being a nice guy/gal about it.)

Part role-playing game part strategy and part something else. This quest truly is a monster.

>>429294

># Have Damien call for calm, with a frickin' army of drone tanks behind her.

Now I what I should have actually put. Thanks hindsight.

>>430039

That's definitely an option. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" is something authoritarians like Tsion may be able to understand.

>>430639
(Morning)
Sounds good then. Idea I had last night, remember the second iorn man movie where the guy with the whips turned the suits into drones? Is it possible to do that with the heavy frames?
(Damn I need coffee.)

>>430647

Not immediately. A drone tank has relatively few actuators, some heavy MECs have trained themselves to control a bunch of them at the same time; a heavy MEC frame is intended to emulate a human body. While a "dummy plug" for heavy MEC frames has been in the works, it's nowhere near ready.

So, Damien is going to appeal for calm, but do so pointing out that she does in fact have an army?

# Use the jammer to force this on the air.

# Internet only.

>>430649

# Use the jammer to force this on the air.

Guess we can block communications for the next few weeks after.

>>430649
And yes. Should have noticed the second part. My bad. show of force and asking for calm.

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>>430651


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI2ddIUhk_g

Seconds after Tsion's announcement goes through, everyone watching any sort of streaming video online, as well as pretty much everyone watching TV from an antenna, has their image replaced by Damien's face. Damien's still rocking the blue hair and the half-shaved head to show off the scar got while fighting Azrael. Through a simple bit of green screening, behind the MECpod are shown clips of the two Angel fights, large-scale drone tank maneuvers, and videos of your space launches.

"Tsion Ben-Judah! I have a counterproposal." Damien self-introduces as Minotaur's pilot ("Big surprise, right?"), and explains to the young-looking old man that this is not about a sporting match. "For years you've oppressed those of us who refused to lay down and die. You call us demons, and like the Antichrist himself did to you in times past, you deem us unfit to buy and sell, to exist in society. You force us to hide, those who can. Look at me! I obviously cannot. But the truth is? I don't have to. I never did." The camera pans back to show Damien's pod, connected to all sort of wires some of which are actually functional. Damien's VR helmet is lowered on top of the pod. Behind her, the screen switches to a RTS-like interface showing warehouses full of drone tanks and platoons of heavy MECs all across Misrayim. "I was being kind."

"Now listen, and listen well! If you want a fight, you've not got it. Yet." The video switches to a live feed; a group of protesters clash with a police line, and one of them throws a rock right through a psalty's helmet. A bolt of lightning strikes the attacker, and he gets right back up as his Mark X metabolic extension controller trips; having been shielded by his companions, he resumes the fight. (A second bolt of lightning actually killed this particular guy, since he didn't get the lightning rod option, but you cut away before that shows).

"You killed our children, and we forgave you." A cut to Azrael's elimination.

"You demanded to rule us, and yet we broke bread with you." A cut to Tsion's takeover of Parliament.

"People of Misrayim, believers and nonbelievers, this is your oppressor! Not the poor bastards who have no choice but to obey him." Tsion has indulged in a lot of posing when delivering his judgements, so finding a picture of him looking like Mussolini to project behind Damien isn't exactly hard.

"Today you wanted to see the robot fight of the ages! You still can."

All your drone tanks, quadcopters and heavy MECs that weren't already deployed march out into the street, wubbers thundering like war drums, just for effect. They get between protesters and police, and stare down the latter. A few are attacked with batons and riot shields, and their synthesized laughter booms down the avenues.

"But I have a better proposal. You know the story, Tsion."

# Damien quotes David and Goliath. Duel.

# Damien quotes Judges 1:19. Chariots of iron, unless you walk away.

>>430661
# Damien quotes Judges 1:19. Chariots of iron, unless you walk away.

Welcome to the valley. Also I can see something going wrong if we go for the duel option.

>>430661
Fricking amazing on the whole scene you laid out. Ever written an actual book?

>>430661
>>430674
Woah, shit happened whiles I was AFK,
# Damien quotes Judges 1:19. Chariots of iron, unless you walk away.
This could be interesting to say the least.

>>430683
Hi nutter.

>>430687
Aloha, any plans on what comes next?

We may want an advisory that people who don't have lightning rods get inside, would hate to have half our populace smote because we won fair and square.

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>>430674

The video behind Damien pans down to what is still known as the Nile Valley even after the global flattening; it's a live feed from a Sky Eye, and there is already smoke in a few places. Despite the recent setbacks, it's still the high-tech hub of planet Earth; recently, the still-dry Nile riverbed has been festooned with two strips of extremely bright LED lights that are visible in the unending day.

"Test your might, Tsion. Leave the people alone, and test your might against our chariots of iron. You just had to interfere in our robot fight, didn't you?"

All the speakers and wubbers under your control in Misrayim switch over to Damien.

"Believers! Listen! This is your one warning. And the LORD was with Tsion; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron."

The drone tanks clang their pneumatic rams in near-unison.

"Go home. Stay back. You came here to see a fight, not get into a fight. Leave this dirty business to the machines. As for you, Millennium Force! Hello. We are Omega. Basically, RUN."

There are maybe six seconds of heavy silence, Damien disappearing from the feed while focusing on steering the tanks, and the image cutting to a live shot of Tahrir Square.
In some places, they charge, and are plowed through by a moving wall of steel and titanium.

In some places, they realize that there is no way for riot police to enforce compliance on that which has no breath and feels no pain, and they break, running back to their vans and driving away as they're pelted with shoes and rotten fruit.

In Tahrir Square, Cairo, things haven't come to a head yet. The riot police, psalties and MFers bang on their riot shields, as a warning. The drumming is returned threefold from heavy MEC feet stomping and pneumatic rams clanging. Two of the three Jumbotrons in the square are still operational.

# Show the fighting.

# Show the running away.

>>430693

Show two with running and one with fighting?

Also where we dont have a fight let's divert some of our forces to the capital. Just in case we have to push them out.

>>430691
I'm hoping this has a domino effect. Once misrayim rebels. I'm expecting more and more territories to fight back. With our assistance of course.

As for Tsion if he trys to bring death to the entire continent we hit him with the silencing wub that I suspect killed Bahira.

>>430693
Screen split between the two. Don't persue those that are retreating, stating that if they don't want to fight they don't have to. The sort of "stand down and live" message used during WW 2.

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>>430695
>>430717

Some of the people who bought "civilian" Mark X's are reported entering or even breaking into workshops and makerspaces, turning motorcycle helmets, copper wire, kneepads and sheet metal into makeshift lightning rods; within minutes your sysadmins hijack the printers in these shops and publish a schematic that is quick to make and will hopefully work at least some of the time.

In Tahrir Square, you try to juxtapose the results of fighting versus running; the police and psalties waver, the MFers not so much. Your line advances slowly, wubbers making an ancient rumbling sound to underscore the ponderousness.

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

Your sysadmins notify you that Tsion is praying for a miracle even as his convoy quickly leaves Cairo, headed for the Holy Land; there was no time to organize air evac, so he's leaving with an armored motorcade.

# Intercept the convoy.

# Broadcast their retreat.

# Ignore.

For almost a thousand years, there had been no wars or rumors of wars; this may well end today.

>>430727
# Intercept the convoy.

Terminate Tsion, sound neutrazing wub. There will be no "Sodom and Gomorrah" here today.

(Heh heh heh. The old thread lives up to its name.)

>>430727
# Intercept the convoy.


Welp, it was a long time coming. Let's deal with this annoying cunt.

>>430727
I have only one thing to say about your taste in music. Moar.

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>>430748
>>430737

Something eventually had to give, and something does: somebody throws a bottle at the police line in Tahrir Square, the riot police charge, and your mechanized assets countercharge. Within seconds, its' a medieval stile melee, except with more robots. Your drone tanks are bogged down somewhat, and easy to flip over unless they go full lethal; your heavy MECs shine in a melee, each having the size and heft of a mythological troll. The lightning over Cairo reaches such a point that the fire department is quickly overwhelmed, and fires start to spread across the city. You estimate hundreds dead just from the first charge.

Elsewhere, the butcher's bill is considerably less; other cities didn't have nearly as much police presence, and watching a heavy MEC throw a man clean across a town square and shrug off lightning is a good incentive to pack it in. While you broadcast reminders to give quarters, they aren't necessarily heeded, and quite a few MFers are killed by frenzied youth.

In an hour, Cairo is a war zone, although so far most of the territory has been spared major destruction; you've lost a couple of Sky Eyes just to the electrical noise that the electrical storm above the city is creating, and Valentina warns that there may be something happening with the canopy.

A fast strike team is assembled in minutes, and they are sent after Tsion's convoy; the plan is to send aircraft ahead to bomb the road leading to the Holy Land, thus giving your intercepting force a chance to catch up. You send your fastest airplanes ahead, packed with explosives and caltrops; the pilots parachute out while the vehicles crash into the causeway.

Tsion is riding in an armored van, with a bus full of Millennium Force operatives following and a pickup truck mounting a medium wubber leading.

The intercepting force is lead by...

# Quinn, with mostly infiltrator MECs trained in covert ops.

# Kat, with Desolators - most are defending your installations, but some could be spared.

# Captain Weaver, with a mixed force of light infantry on fast buggies and bikes. She's vulnerable, but maybe Tsion will talk to a human.

>>430775
Shoot... sending all three if we can. If not and two are allowed I'd prefer kat and Weaver for mixed unit tactics. And if only one is allowed. Quinn for the benifit of being a balance.

>>430775
Ask Valentina what we will need to do to either dissipate the storm or stop it in general. I don't like the looks of things.

>>430782
Sounds 'bout right, do that!
Sorry I'm not to active.

>>430782

I really think it's got to be Kat or Quinn. You WILL be encountering an angel by doing this, and honestly I'm not sure how we're going to prevent that running off with Tsion or worse. I guess your best bet is probably going to be wrestling the fucker, given the circumstance. If you really do want to stop him, you're going to take losses; understand that.

>>431762
The way I see it. It's stop Tsion or S&G. So we're stoping Tsion. Let's hope this goes well.

>>431788

Maybe. I'm not really sure what will happen, but yes, it's probably worth attempting.

Do we have an angelic weapon on hand that we can send? How many people can go after Tsion?

Also, when we do go for him; the priority needs to be drugging him to get him knocked the fuck out ASAP. If we're fast enough, maybe we can dodge the worst of it/an angel. If we do get an angel on us, I wonder how a fighting retreat would go while packing Tsion?

>>432210
Nah, I just planed on hitting the punk with the silencing wub then knock him out chemicaly if he doesn't drop like Bahira.

>>432261

Well, I hope you brought drones. Now is a pretty spooky time to test what happens there if a person does it; at least if we can avoid it.

But yes, chemically knocking him the fuck out would be ideal.

>>432401
Here's hoping things go off without a hitch. Should we let them know that their lives and everyone in Misrayim could hinge on their success?

I would prefer to send Weaver and Quinn now. I have a very good feeling that im going to need Kat for something. Probably with the canopy.

>>433024
ignore this for a moment to ask a question.

Jeb is on the canopy, correct. he has his support team still inside the base right? if Kat were to vacate, would his group be able to handle any emergency action while Kat takes her team to intercept?

>>433192

Most likely; the whole territory is in disarray, and MFers are generally staying away from your installation because, hey, there tends to be deadly stuff there.


# Improvise a plan of action to intercept Tsion if you want.

>>432401

This is an interesting operation: unlike the others, there's been no advance planning.

# Quinn leads. She's great at improvising and will get there the fastest. She's also likely to spontaneously pick up a posse.

# Kat leads. They'll take a bit longer to reach the target, but her team is trained to deploy neutron sources quickly.

# Weaver leads. She's unaugmented, but she's in great shape and has grit; if it comes to a straight fistfight between her and a Glorified or Angel, she actually has the best chance.

>>434061
Quinn sounds best. If we can throw Weaver on there too.

>>434061
I think we're going to have to break the canopy before we lose the entire region. Send a message to Jeb and Kat. Have Zak in a mission control position where he can get and relay information. We're putting a crack in the sky to save Misrayim.

>>434061
I wonder how long it will take to send the Wubbing modules that can produce the silencing effect to them?

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>>434083

Quinn gets to the site in record time; she's picked up a number of volunteers armed with guns, wubbers, and whatever they could find. They quickly surround Tsion's convoy as they were trying to replace the tires blown up by the caltrops - the armored car has run-flats, but the bus didn't.

# Shout demands.

# Attack.

>>434126

The main issue is that this was achieved in an enclosed space, with your scientists having time to measure it precisely and install speakers in exactly the right spot, then tune the waveform. Getting the same effect in the field would require a lot of work.

>>434118

Zak is rushed to the secondary mission control center in Amman. Jeb notes that cracking the canopy may be possible if he allows the newly installed nuclear reactor to go supercritical; this would lose all the work done so far on the canopy base, of course, but it'd definitely make a hole in it. Would the hole be big enough, is the question.

>>434140
Attack. Tsion WILL receive back up and if we can't silence him he must be captured. Focus fire on his escorts and the vehicles.

We're going to have to sacrifice the canopy station. We can always rebuild. Plus it gives us the opportunity to launch from land.

>>434149

Jeb takes the instruction to set the reactor to go supercritical with an astronaut's efficiency; it's just another procedure, albeit one that he was hoping would never be needed.

"People of Misrayim, there's your dictator! Let's get him once and for all!"

One of the art cars borrowed by Quinn's posse is quickly rigged to blow and driven towards the MF bus; the driver, an amateur stuntman, jumps off at the last minute and walks away with a lot of scrapes but no real damage. As he stands up shouting for his friends to witness him, middle finger towards the sky, a bolt of clear-sky lightning strikes him; in a few seconds, the Mark X has activated and he's crawling to safety.

On the other thand, the bus blows up like it was in a Hollywood movie; Tsion gets out of the armored car to flames and screams. The people on the pickup truck try using their wubber to deny air to the flames, but that's an advanced trick and would only work with a lot of small emitters, not one big one.

Tsion, dressed to the nines in a traditional robe, climbs the burning bus even as some of the MFers try to crawl away from it; he raises his hands, and calls out to the rebel contingent that has him surrounded.

"God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies."

Storm clouds are indeed starting to gather; the car bomb driver got hit by lightning, but got right back up.

"He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein."

"You already tried that, asshole! It didn't work!"

"Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him!"

One of Quinn's crew has been lining up a shot; let's see how Tsion likes a RPG to the face. FOOOM! An arrow of fire and smoke hits the Glorified theologian right in the chest, throwing him off the bus. The shooter bursts into flame without saying a word; his augments fall on the ground with some clatter. The believing wubber team has engaged in a beam war with some of Quinn's posse, who have handhelds, and seem to be slowly winning it - except that Quinn vaults over the beam, slides under the truck, and cuts enough wires to shut down the engine. The wubber goes through the truck's battery in a matter of seconds, and powers down.

Tsion seems unscathed, save for the fact that his robes are burned through and he might as well be wearing a loincloth now. "I see you've managed to get your shirt off" someone deadpans in a British accent.

"There's nothing you can do to me, monster. Walk back, and enjoy what little time you have left on Earth."

Quinn grins at Tsion. She's been rocking the Borg Queen look lately. "You know the good thing about me? The monster's on the outside."

>>434203
>As he stands up shouting for his friends to witness him, middle finger towards the sky, a bolt of clear-sky lightning strikes him; in a few seconds, the Mark X has activated and he's crawling to safety.

WITNESSED!!

>>434227

"Jeb here, we're ready to blow the canopy. Everyone near the hole, brace for a lot of water, would be my best guess."

While her team captures the wubber crew and start work to reactivate the weapon, Tsion and Quinn circle around each other. Quinn puts down her gun and cracks her whip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxyIQTy3hn0

"Come on, old man! Here's your demon. Smite me!"

"Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."

"Yeah, yeah, cute. I got Jacobite armor. Much better." Quinn shakes her posterior, and the titanium chainmail jingles. "Maybe that's why an Angel hasn't come to your rescue yet? Maybe they're scared! Bawk bawk!"

Quinn cracks her whip again, landing it very close to Tsion; it's enough to leave a shiny mark on a sheet of soot-blackened sheet metal.

"Creature, one way or another, I will be going home today." Even so, Tsion has taken a fighting stance.

Quinn's posse have made a circle around the two. Someone's banging on a car trunk as if it was a drum.

In Cairo, the riot is continuing; a good chunk of your forces are having to deal with the electrical storm that has focused in the middle of the city - the sheer amount of canopy lightning has ionized the air and attracted natural storm clouds, and the city is riddled with barely-contained fire even as the fighting goes on. The MFers and psalties are steadily losing ground, but you may end up ruling a cinder. Elsewhere in the territory, the situation has largely calmed down; your Sky Eyes, those that are still transmitting anyway, are tracking convoys of former missionaries and morals enforcers bound for Central Africa, Sicily, or the Red Sea. You wonder if it'll part to let them through or if the barges there will be sufficient.

# ?

>>434281
If anyone has it. Shoot Tsion with pepper spray. It's time for an arrest, so let's see some people trying to hold him down. And if all else fails, Hold him off until the drones arrive.

Let's set off the canopy bomb once we can. I would like to keep the lightning from creating an electric nuke.

>>434312
Does anyone have anything that would be able to render him unconscious without physically attacking him? Fingers crossed for that knockout gas.

>>434312

Tsion and Quinn keep circling; someone tosses Quinn a can of pepper spray, which she snatches out of the air effortlessly.

"Tsion Ben-Judah, in the name of the people of Misrayim, you are under arrest!"

"Oh? And on what charges, prey tell?"

The Misrayim Colossus system has a full database of civil and criminal law, of course, as much as one can be kept when official sentencing tends to ignore it and use Leviticus instead; the expert system uses it to make sure loopholes that allow the existence of a modern contractual, intellectual property and arbitration system are found and used to the fullest. You quickly consult it, and from its search returns tell Quinn to invoke:

# Inciting a riot; this whole thing started because Tsion interfered with the Battlebots tournment.

# https://oldtestamentaslit.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/strangest-levitical-law/ Some obscure bit of priestly law that is technically on Osaze's books.

# Human rights violation, namely, discrimination against MECs.

# Feh. Tell Quinn to yell something in bad Latin and just jump the guy in case it gains her half a second.

>>434734

# Inciting a riot; this whole thing started because Tsion interfered with the Battlebots tournment.

# Human rights violation, namely, discrimination against MECs, and having people shot in the face.

And

# Feh. Tell Quinn to yell something in bad Latin and just jump the guy in case it gains her half a second.

Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>434778

"Throw the book at 'im!" someone heckles.

And so it went that someone picked up one of the half-burnt Bibles that had spilled out of the exploded bus, and threw it at the back of Tsion's head.

And so it went that with a loud feral shriek, Quinn leaped at Tsion, turning on her rebreather and spraying him right in the face with the most concentrated capsaicin that your greenhouses have been able to produce.

>>434815
Lmao

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>>434823

>>434815

And so it went that, a couple of heartbeats after Tsions fell to the ground coughing and choking, a bright white flame consumed both the heckler and Quinn.

The former immediately turned into a puff of ash that wafted in the breeze. Quinn's demise ended with a clang, as her armor and cybernetic components fall on the burnt tarmac, and bounce a couple of times in the silence.

Tsion points at the people holding the surviving MF captives, finishes coughing, and rasps out "Let my people go", which Quinn's posse does, in obvious fear. The group jump on one of the art cars, drive around the ambush scene, and resume their trek towards the Holy Land.

# Attempt another intercept.

# Broadcast what happened.

# Let them go.

Above and away from all this, Jeb confirms that the reactor is ready to go off, and asks for confirmation - he'll do a HALO jump if he can, but is prepared to sacrifice himself.

# Get to safety and blow the station.

# Blow the station NOW.

# Abort.

Outside of Cairo, the revolution has more or less been won; the city itself would be in your forces' hands, with the MFers having retreated to a a few churches, if it wasn't for the fact that several fires risk going out of control and most of your people are too busy with damage control to fight; the Cairo desalinators osmotic membranes have been bypassed so that their pumps can work at full blast to provide enough water pressure for firefighters to do their job. With the Nile completely dry, it's the best that could be done.

>>434855
damn. . . welp. Damien, the drones are authorized to use lethal force.

# Let them go.
cut our losses. its going to be one hell of a funeral.

# Get to safety and blow the station.
lets try and save what we can.

>>434815
>>434864
so if 72 was a failure roll, what was a succeeding roll?

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>>434879

(Given no advance prep, no control of the arena, no angelic weapon, etc. ? Quinn would have needed a natural 20 (95) to succeed in bagging Tsion and dealing with whoever the Angel was going to be, and had one chance in four to make it home in a repairable number of pieces (75), which she JUST missed)


>>434871

"This is an ultimatum! Surrender, and you will be ferried to Greater Jerusalem under a flag of truce. Refuse, and we will use lethal force!"

The voice calling the last Millennium Force members to give up is distorted, synthetic, and is played for their benefit three times just by shaking what windows haven't been boarded up almost to the point of shattering using distant wubbers.

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

When the Millennium Forcers defiantly raise a Christian flag on top of Osaze's parliament building after disabling the Tesla coils that were still on top of it, a swarm of drone tanks make their way into the place; the government building is fully wheelchair accessible, so even the drones that cannot climb stairs have an easy time taking control of the building. In fully autonomous mode, the drone tanks shoot their rifles center-of-mass at anything that moves that isn't another drone tank; Damien's only action is to turn lethal mode off as soon as the differential movement map goes grey. Damien plugs into the parliament building's security systems and efficiently guides first responders through it; they recover a handful of heavily wounded zealots.

# Deploy metabolic extension controllers.

# Conventional treatment only.

# Let them die.

Above and away, Jeb takes the last snapshot of space, sets a timer, and puts on the combination scuba gear and wingsuit used to leave the canopy, then swims faster than he's ever done. A gross of seconds later, with Jeb still falling to Earth, the newly installed reactor goes supercritical.

>>434944
># Conventional treatment only.
I'm really hating the dice in here. I mean really hate'n them.

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>>434944

Quinn's funeral service is a surprisingly sprightly affair; she wills what of her cybernetic remains are still functional to her fellow MECs, her personal effects to her most die-hard fans, and asks for a live band (rather than a DJ) to play at her remembrance party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN9bcHoThNU

Her farewell message hadn't been updated in a while, but says that while she is now likely in Hell, she plans to do something awesome with the place, after busting some heads there, so keep up the fight!

For a beautiful moment, the people who had reached the Timbuktu launch facility to secure it get to see a glimpse of the night sky as the supercritical reactor melts the canopy sufficiently to create a hole in it. There's no nuclear explosion; rather, there is a lot of bubbling and then for a brief moment, a hole in the sky that as luck would have it some stars manage to shine through.

The shockwave of the quick vaporization and overpressure travels down the canopy like an inverted stone impact, and the territories of Osaze and Central Africa meet the first unscheduled rain in centuries as the canopy rejects the now-radioactive water. The wave of heavy rain reaches as far as Cairo, and helps bring the fires under control, although the damage is significant.

>>434958

Your EMTs do some of their best work, but only one MF member survives. This person politely thanks the paramedics, but states having nothing to say to anyone after that. "My brothers and sisters died as martyrs. I will stand witness to your atrocities until the day I die. Let me join them, or let me go home."

# Figure out who this person is (player pick, if desired).

>>434981
># Figure out who this person is (player pick, if desired).
huh. . . call em Pico. lets see what we get.

>>434981
Now I'm really curious. . . search through some of quinns journals and personal affects? by drone if possible for privacy reasons.

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>>434958

Overall, the butcher's bill is not terrible, although you've sustained some losses. Misrayim is yours again. Much to Jeb's annoyance, the canopy takes little time to freeze over, although the data gleaned from the explosion was interesting; you'll have to replace some Sky Eyes this year, but it won't be difficult or taxing.

The revolution was a while coming, the Battlebots thing just a casus belli.

Tsion left with no video of what happened to Quinn, but he and his gun crew repeat the story all over believer media.

>>434993

Pico is fairly young; Damien takes the initiative and asks to house him with the MF members that turned out to be false converts, most of which have integrated well into society. As it is, it looks like this guy mostly joined the Millennium Force for utter lack of anything else to do with life other than till the fields until the Judgement. He's been taught about MECs being demons, all sort of debauchery going on in your territory, and so on, but doesn't seem to be a hard liner.

# Allow internet access and good living conditions, it's just a kid, sheesh.

# As above, but use indoctrination methods to balance his worldview out.

# Harsh treatment; this is a small fish but some of your people are wanting a show trial.

>>435018

With Quinn's death, her privacy agreement with you expired; you have full access to her data. What will you look for?

>>435023
># Allow internet access and good living conditions, it's just a kid. but I'm going to be giving him a serious public spanking.

look for anything like a diary or a journal she kept, or something that had details about her plans for the future or plans and ideas about fighting the current authority.

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>>435023

Jeb and Valentina do nothing to hide their frustration. Discovering how to make it rain definitely has its uses, and it would make sense to work on a canopy-seeder rocket for emergencies or if Pacifica is also hit by a drought, but it took setting the space program back years to discover this. Most, but interestingly not all, of the believers that had attached themselves to the space program quit in protest. Jeb vehemently vetoes harassing either group in any way.

>>435038

Pico is allowed to tell his family that he is safe, and does so. Obviously, there are calls for him to be repatriated (he's originally from Southern Europe) immediately. The rest of the world is somewhat in shock; nobody expected a violent revolution. The ion storm that briefly engulfed Cairo is shown outside Misrayim as if it was a second burning of Sodom, although fortunately the damage wasn't nearly as extensive.

>>435041
not the result I wanted from the canopy cracking but . . . damnit. will have to take it.

throw some facts about MF's actions at the kid, the dirty and gritty stuff. lets see what happens.

>>435038

Quinn's diary is... pretty rambling, actually.

She did a lot of cursive writing in a script that she made up, apparently for muscle retraining and for relaxation; it's about as decipherable as the Voynich Manuscript.

Her long-term plan was to secede and create a lesbian utopia somewhere, as far as your analysts can tell. Her personal belief about the Judgement was that the Goddess would kick Yahweh's ass for her if it became necessary.

The Posthuman Postergirl's story ends with a mix of wishful thinking, philosophy, mysticism, and enough unrelenting nerdery that she posthumously finds a second audience fairly distinct from the party crowd. http://aeternalae.wikia.com/wiki/Tesayon

>>435046

Pico finds no reason to believe anything shown to him by your people, but eventually looks things up on his own, and finds himself conflicted about his role there. Mostly, he wants to go home, but he's no longer proclaming that he will speak for the righteous dead, or suggesting that he's OK with being martyred.

>>435053
leave Pico to his own devices in confinement, I'm not letting him out for a good while.

pretty odd Quinn, but that's what we kinda expect. however the fact that she has made up a script that's severely illegible is very. . interesting. definitely going to look into that later.

and I was literal about that public spanking. xb

>>435023

You have 19 cabals total; 13 are available.

You are actively tracking enemy teams where you have assets (see picture). Rules: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.QuestRules.html

Your tracking is imprecise, many Sky Eyes have been damaged.

Tsion Ben-Judah has returned to Greater Jerusalem and has been in conference with the Temple Tribunal ever since. Maybe he's even in trouble for failing to keep the territory, who knows.

TOL has authorized using Last Army assets against you, but they have been repealed so far. They are rather terrified about how effective your warriors are in urban combat.

Variable complexity:

# Launch an attack on a TOL base or government installation.

# Work on global data network infrastructure, incidentally making sure that you control more of it.

Complexity 0

# Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.

# Release the cabal cultivating Bahira's cells.

Complexity 1

# Permanently station a cabal to defend an installation. This removes them from the roster, but allows them to become familiar with the territory, set up static defenses, and so on, raising their effectiveness.

# Repair the Sky Eye network.

# Foster pagan worship, improve morale, or both. Little need at the moment.

# Harass or sabotage a Hero, or tie up an enemy team.

# Perform a covert operation.

Complexity 2

# Produce MECs at any base.

# Produce drones at any base. Current focus: Medium-sized land drones. Current army size is marked on the bottom of the map. (Each will give you 1/3rd of a tick)

# Produce a station part at any base. The station will have to be rebuilt (0/8).

# Work your Osaze, Night City, or Pacifica base overtime to improve prosperity.

# Use the Australia base, or Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (1/5) (3/5)

# Seed super-grain or super-weed in a territory. American Heartland is ripe for this.

Complexity 3

# Prepare and spring another Angel trap by kidnapping a Hero or a Glorified. 3, 4 or 5 cabals can be used for this.

# Continue pursuing space research. Space Race rules, but the Cosmists will assist your efforts here, counting as one cabal regardless.

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness).

# Use a launchpad for a canopy-breaching launch if you have also built a station part.

Complexity 4

# Continue AI, nuclear or sonic research.

# Begin building a base in the Middle East, South Africa, or American Heartland.

Complexity 5

# Recruit. This has gotten considerably harder across the board.

# Take over a TOL base by force.

>>435078

Pico is given an actual public spanking, which is seen as petty by some of the population and enlightened by others. It certainly throws believers for a loop, given their stance on child discipline! Ely LeVey finds herself in the uncomfortable position of defending your policy on this one action.

People are being encouraged to pray for the Lord's vengeance upon Egypt (yes, Egypt) to the point where Cameron Williams hosts a Creation Science Special featuring mediocre CGI of what could happen to the territory if it was hit by various Old Testament plagues. Internet remixes splicing that with footage of Azrael and Ithuriel biting the dust take a bit longer than usual to show up, due to Misrayim's damaged infrastructure.

Things in Pacifica are remarkably quiet, although the Directorate has started encouraging believers to move away from the former Los Angeles area.

# Make changes to Misrayim's constitution, or restore the one it had before the takeback.

>>435102
Sara is going to be fucking pissed.

># Release the cabal cultivating Bahira's cells.
let Lifetree handle it.

># Continue AI, nuclear or sonic research.
AI we need Heavy MEC Chassis Drones. 4 cabals


># Repair the Sky Eye network.
we need eye's 1 cabal

># Produce MECs at any base.
three bases. 2 cabals.

># Work on global data network infrastructure, incidentally making sure that you control more of it.
3 cabals

># Continue pursuing space research. Space Race rules, but the Cosmists will assist your efforts here, counting as one cabal regardless.
3 cabals

># Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts
Greenland makes drones again.

# Produce a station part at any base. The station will have to be rebuilt (0/8).
the last cabal unless I miscounted.

>>435113
#install ourselves as the new government. announce it. and make the preparations with whatever assets we have in the area. I'm guessing were going to be called into New Jerusalem for that.

>>435138
>>435113
were going to have to ask a laundry list of community leaders to come for a civics meeting to draft up a constitution for this dictatorship.

>>435138

(Hey, setbacks exist. Don't go after Tsion with no prep!)

(This allocation gives a 50% chance of failing at making the station part to standards)

(what will your Villains do?)

>>435148

# Actually get all the community leaders and listen to their concerns; you will be in control most of the time, but there will be inefficiency.

# Exclude Christians from the above.

# Go full Colossus-from-the-movie, inform them that you are now in charge and they better live with it. Misrayim people got used to some political freedom, so you better deliver a lot of social freedom and a lot of prosperity if you take that away.


Special interest groups include:

* The manufacturing sector. They will likely ask for focus on their industry.

* The biotech sector. They will likely ask for focus on their industry.

* The agricultural sector. They will likely ask for focus on their industry.

* The desert-dweller revivalists. They will likely ask to be left alone and given room to roam, decreasing overall efficiency.

* The Christians. They might ask for secession of part of the territory, or might do something stupid like try to blow up your central CPU core if you let them think you have one.

* The Pagans. They will likely ask for freedom of religion (for themselves and for the Christians) and time/resources off for it, decreasing overall efficiency but giving a chance of NC discoveries.

>>435165
ehh.
# Actually get all the community leaders and listen to their concerns; you will be in control most of the time, but there will be inefficiency.

I kinda want to go full Colossus-from-the-movie, seeing as there will be massive social freedoms, but I'm not sure how to say they can run their own show except when we say otherwise and they have the right to bring their concerns to the table.

Jeb on space research. Kat and Zak on space componets production. Damien on AI research. And weaver on Sky eyes.

and a brief check in on Ithuriel the baby angel. because that is too cute, despite the creapyness.

"ok, the first conference to establish the New Misrayim charter is in session, make your cases, and lets start writing this document up."

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>435216

(Well, you just said it, it's always okay to do a write in!)

Ithuriel is alert, has learned to walk, has been weaned off breast milk on Zak's insistence (he and the wet nurse were fine with the current arrangement) and been provisionally assigned male. Developmentally, you're pushing his schedule a bit, on the chance that he may remember something. So far, he seems to show strong aversion to most music except for chiptunes and instrumental classical; anything in it with people singing sends him into fight-or-flight. He can move his wings, but hasn't tried to retract them or fly with them.

>>435138

You release the Bahira cell line to Lifetree's responsibility; they'll let you know if anything shows up. Within the year, they announce a scale-back in blood drives due to new availability of a blood substitute.

The mass drone deployment during the revolution resulted in your Heavy MECs who are training for swarm control getting a lot of field experience; that, coupled with analysis of the drones autonomously slicing the pie in the parliament building, gives your researchers a lot of raw data to work with. They proudly show off a two-headed heavy frame in which one head controls the body, and the other is wired into a local master transceiver allowing for fast control and switchover of a large drone swarm and smart weapons, the advantage being negligible lag at the price of some exposure for the controlling MEC; by now one MECpod can control a good hundred drones, doubling that for Damien. Your quadcopters now have enough onboard AI to patrol autonomously like the tanks do and use essentially the same interface; you're very close to being able to give every one of your vehicles a common NAVCOM AI.

Your Greenland production facility suffers from a few minor setbacks due to low availability of parts from Misrayim, but the systems compensate with no local human intervention.

Your sysadmins spend some time on mediatic damage control, making sure that even if your side of the story about what will be known as the Robot Rebellion isn't believed, it is at least familiar. Most believers seem to think that with a dumb machine in charge, as seems to be the case, Misrayim will soon collapse by itself and be receptive to missionary efforts.

Rolled 8, 9, 87 = 104 (3d100)

>>435359

Your space program resumes in earnest; while the Sky Eye network is repaired, secondary payloads are attached to the deployer rockets, to study what is most efficient to elicit water from the canopy; various bits of different chemicals are sprinkled by the new Sky Eye upon deployment, and the resulting rainfall if any is measured.

Valentina voices her annoyance at being unable to do direct testing past that, but her efforts bear fruit; using the data collected by the telescope and the satellite in years past, she updates a chart indicating low-energy trajectories for interplanetary transfer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Network "Now we just need to build a launch system!"

The current plan is to rebuild the canopy station with an east-facing catapult, basically a larger version of an aircraft carrier's assisted-launch system. This will act as a 0th stage for interplanetary vehicles and significantly reduce their delta-V requirement.

Unfortunately, the construction team gets overexcited and starts working on this instead of focusing on replacing what was lost in the explosion, ultimately getting neither done.

>>435380
Fuck these dice. *Headbangs.*

MEC production is delayed somewhat by the happenings in Misrayim, but some work gets done. After the riots, a lot more people are willing to pay for the "extended warranty" Mark X which also features an internal lightning rod, although the lighning rod helmet will remain a symbol of the uprising.

>>435216

You sit every interest group representative at a table, and let them talk amongst each other for a while. Surprisingly, the Christian rep is basically apologetic for Tsion's actions when he was in charge, and announces his intention to try and minister to MECs. While annoying, it's a pretty good step up from considering them demons. "Oh, we'd minister to demons too. It is how we interpret the Great Commission."

The elected pagan cenobiarch simply states that by now various deities have a following and it would be good for disputes between people of the same faith to be handled internally - this would include Christians, of course.

The agri lobbyist points out that Misrayim might as well be under embargo already, and if it's not it will be soon, therefore, self sufficiency is a must; if there's no food what's the point of anything else?

The mfgr lobbyist wants to rebuild as fast as possible so that the territory can lead by example and, incidentally, drill holes in anyone or anything that has a problem with it. Of course, Fortress Misrayim would require everyone to become a workaholic for a few years, it's not like Greater Jerusalem would pay for building a wall!

The biotech lobbyist is a member of Lifetree. Her pitch is that many things that are currently being made can instead be grown. This can be spun as buying into the end-time pastoralization story, if desired, while in fact it would mean trading fast linear growth for slow but exponential growth. Veggiebacon bushes, anyone?

The revivalist points out that Misrayim's might is in her people, and desert life produces great warriors and disciplined citizens; an army of robots is mighty, but stiff. People used to a harsh environment would know when to bend in order to never break.

>>435412

(Yeah, that has been kind of a theme for this quest, eh? Almost as if you're fighting destiny... Not my fault, I swear.)

>>435429
in order.
Ministering is fine, but it must be consensual. secondly, we wont be allowing missionarys in the country anymore because of the Millennial Forces current direction.

Agreed, and granted, so long as we don't have to stop another riot. once is decidedly enough.

Agreed heavily, I can handle acquiring some outside assistance while we make the necessary preparation. should be done in well less then two years if all goes well.

workaholics indeed. were going to have to work as a unified nation to get it done within a minimum of 2 year while working on agriculture. that means high efficiency, low downtime. consider extra incentives for the overtime, ill look into quality of life improvements that can be offered.

it would be a good research project but please make them sound feasible during presentation, I had to work on that mistake myself. project is approved.

And great warriors and disciplined citizens it produced. also great thinkers and amazing engineers, and architects. Glory to the people of the desert then, but will you help those in the city's and suburbs? we will need all the workers we can get.

>>435436
its fine, random number generator's have always aimed for my sack. honestly the game would be boring if things always went our way.

>>435484

The representatives seem to be mostly satisfied, although there's the matter of what about missionaries who are from Misrayim.

# Prioritize their proposed directions (if you don't care about any of them and want them at default, don't list them)

From: Provost Prokhov Zakarov, University of Cairo
To: Omega
Re: Night City Health Report

I prefer to concern myself with the physical sciences, as you know, but this is a matter worthy of our attention. Night City is relatively prosperous, and there are no public health issues of note. Except for one. All the children born in Night City exhibit a preponderance of traits that cannot be abscribed to genetics or known environmental factors. We are seeing:

- facial hirsutism;
- mild muscle and bone marrow hypertrophy;
- long-bone hypoplasia;
- mild metabolic inefficiency.

The last indicator led to the discovery that the only Night City child native not thus affected was in creche custody for possible alcohol poisoning after the parents admitted to spiking his milk to help him sleep. No symptoms of alcohol poisoning were detected.

Provisionally, I have requested extra medical examinations for the oldest children born in Night City, Urist in particular. The parents have been cooperative.

Okay. Give me a minute.

>>435532

Much stuff happened.

>>435525
I would prioritize self sufficiency and rebuilding infrastructure so focus on the Agricultural sector and the Manufacturing sector. then bio>Desert dwellers>pagans=Christians

"what your describing sounds like a Tolkien Dwarf. if your requesting research grants and *almost* anything else consider it approved. just run it by me first."

>>435542
Understatement extraordinaire.

>>435532
err. we lost Quinn. my bad, hindsight is giving me a headache.

Okay, maybe a few minutes. It's going to take me a bit to collect my thoughts here.

Obviously, mistakes were made. Quinn is dead, that's life. Just try to learn a lesson from the matter in that, preparation is key. The rules apply to everyone, and chasing him without any drones, containment cell or prep just simply wasn't going to end well. Even if you had clunked him over the head and not vaporized, you'd presumably have an angel to contend with too.

We're down 3 cabals, in effect 1 since some stuff got freed up. I'm not going to rail you on blowing the canopy station, maybe it helped and maybe it didn't; I really don't know. Right now we're pretty far behind on the space program and being realistic, it's 955 or 956. It's going to take time just to recoup losses and make up ground we lost. I'm not really certain that we can deal with the end times and make it to mars, or at least not succeed at both. If we want to try we really need to do the following:


We failed to make the territory do more for us last time. Egypt/Misrayim NEEDS to pull weight this time. Whether that's by forming a national guard that we can use to take hits for us, or by opening a national space program to handle this shit for us, I don't know. But we cannot repeat last time. Liberating this territory is worse than useless if it doesn't contribute towards either end goal, because it'll be burned flat in 40 years anyway. Government R&D would be good too.


I suggest we open both a national space program and form a national guard, equipped with drones, wubbers, Jacobite, etc. We need to handle the R&D and let the nation do the actual manufacturing lifting for us, for the most part. We need systems working for us, not against us. Right now we're trying to pop up too much stuff and handle way too many obligations with far too few people. We need allies.

The sky eyes need to be repaired next turn and we need an eastern Europe takeover with a night city opening.


I'd suggest getting a message out to the people that they will not be left alone. Jerusalem will keep trying this over and over again until they get what they want. They're going to need to prepare to do something about it. The Christian government needs to go.

At this point the territory is doing not all that much for us and requiring a lot of attention, we've already gone this far, might as well set everything on fire.

Actually, no. Small secular militias and forcing the government to unband space launches is probably a better idea.

>>435585
>doing not all that much for us and requiring a lot of attention, we've already gone this far, might as well set everything on fire.

the plan is basicly set the other countries into the domino effect, make the Omega government more appealing and push up recruitment, next turn we might get a bonus if the population likes the results.

>>435592
why force the unbanning if you can just sneak in a Launchpad and fire quickly in multiple countries.

we just need to get the work force to sneak those pads in. then switch it to multiple launches a year.

>>435592

You have assumed direct control of the government now; it means that production efforts in Misrayim will give bigger returns. However, it also means that it's on you to keep people happy. That means they have to survive, but past that it means that they have to find Misrayim more INTERESTING than the rest of the world. For some people it means building space rockets. For some people it means being able to express their gender identity without fear. For some people it means living like a Fremen.

A good thing is that the canopy station was only 25% built. If you want to focus the economy on space for a while, it worked pretty well in 1957-1969.

Ministering is fine by the way, I just feel we need to ban the MF at this point.


>the plan is basicly set the other countries into the domino effect, make the Omega government more appealing and push up recruitment, next turn we might get a bonus if the population likes the results.

My issue is that you're fundamentally misunderstanding this planet. A lot of the population is religious and doesn't want to be free. Most of the ones that did, moved in with us already; at least as far as I can tell. That sort of change my be possible later but, Spirit chime in here, I don't think believers are in minority yet, so the dominoes aren't really in position.

>why force the unbanning if you can just sneak in a Launchpad and fire quickly in multiple countries.

Because we need the nation to do some of this lifting for us. We're WAY behind, and recruitment has not gotten any easier. We need a group like tree of life handling some of these launches for us.

>>435607
might be a good idea for the next few years.

>>435612
were in the mid to late game, the population is experiencing a shift and we moved the date up.

in addition, even if they like their slavery, nobody like's being murdered in the street.

>>435607


In that case,


#Form a national guard of sorts structured more like local militias. Wubbing infantry with a focus on force de-escalation and policing would be a good place to start. I want a disaster response/internal peace keeping force, foremost. Having the police working against us made everything that happened infinitely worse. Swear their loyalty to the constitution, not ruling government in the event we get tossed out again.
>in addition, even if they like their slavery, nobody like's being murdered in the street.

If it's MECs being murdered in the streets, plenty of people love that.

>>435631
why do you think the violence exploded at this last point, Tsion shot HUMANS in the face!

we just have to have that incident repeat a couple times In other countries.

>>435612

The prophecy says that on the Last Day there will once again be more unbelievers than believers. You expect this to be fulfilled with the minimum disadvantage possible for the believers, so call that 49/51. Right now your population estimates are very precise and give you around 65/35, with youth on your side. In most territories, believers are definitely still the majority.

>>435607
You have 19 cabals total; 13 are available.

You are actively tracking enemy teams where you have assets. Rules: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.QuestRules.html

Tsion Ben-Judah has walked into the Rub-Al-Khali as a personal show of repentance. The Greater Jerusalem government has formalized an Interdict towards Egypt.

TOL has authorized using Last Army assets against you, but they are still very scared.

Variable complexity:

# Launch an attack on a TOL base or government installation.

# Work on global data network infrastructure, incidentally making sure that you control more of it.

Complexity 0

# Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.

# Give a general direction to the Misrayim government, this will give a significant boost to the relevant program (treat it as a super-cabal).

Complexity 1

# Permanently station a cabal to defend an installation. This removes them from the roster, but allows them to become familiar with the territory, set up static defenses, and so on, raising their effectiveness.

# Foster pagan worship, improve morale, or both. After the rush of winning the revolution, morale could use a boost.

# Harass/sabotage a Hero, or tie up an enemy team.

# Perform a covert operation.

Complexity 2

# Produce MECs at any base.

# Produce drones at any base. Current focus: Medium-sized land drones. Current army size is marked on the bottom of the map. (Each will give you 1/3rd of a tick)

# Produce a station part at any base. The station will have to be rebuilt (0/8).

# Work your Osaze, Night City, or Pacifica base overtime to improve prosperity.

# Use the Australia base, or Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (1/5) (3/5)

# Seed super-grain or super-weed in a territory, with extra rain if warranted.

Complexity 3

# Prepare and spring another Angel trap by kidnapping a Hero or a Glorified. 3, 4 or 5 cabals can be used for this.

# Continue pursuing space research. Space Race rules, but the Cosmists will assist your efforts here, counting as one cabal regardless.

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness).

# Use a launchpad for a canopy-breaching launch if you have also built a station part.

Complexity 4

# Continue AI, nuclear or sonic research.

# Begin building a base in the Middle East, South Africa, or American Heartland.

Complexity 5

# Recruit. This has gotten considerably harder across the board.

# Take over a TOL base by force.

>>435631

Good idea. Any theme for them?

>>435635

That'd definitely move the undecided.

Can we get a detailed look at the canopy data? Can we stick a team on that at some point?

We need to understand it, we need to know how to counter it without cooking off our only station.


At this point, I'm half inclined to move the space program over to rock falls, everyone dies and the like. But we'll see how the next few years go.
#Construct a NASA analogue, start hiring and taking what we know to put them to work.


Is this an action that can be done without a cabal?


>why do you think the violence exploded at this last point, Tsion shot HUMANS in the face!

You're talking about Misrayim, a country that has been collecting dissidents and non believers for 60 years and even before we came onto the scene. It is the exception not the rule.
Spirit, can we get population and religious demographics for various nations that we don't control?