>>1156242
Question QM elevated as in making Greater Jerusalem the best nation in the world? Because we could improve Egypt and stuff to a +10 prosperity and it'd be WAY above Greater Jerusalem right?

>>1156242

TLDR recap:

> This quest is based on the Left Behind book series, specifically the last book, Kingdom Come.
> The Second Coming happened. TurboJesus rules the Earth from the Temple.
> The Other Light is the official opposition: they are raising a giant army that TurboJesus will effortlessly annihilate on the Last Day.
> You are an AI whose mandate is to ensure that some of Humanity survives the Judgement. Your official job is to handle logistics and manpower.
> You cannot act directly, but you have built an enormous organization. You accomplish goals by directing manpower and special assets (Villains and artifacts) to various tasks. A Villain on a task will allow that task to be roleplayed.
> The world ends in 11 years. Each turn is 1 year, until the endgame officially starts.

>>1156248

"Elevated" is literal: the Millennial Kingdom has no mountains taller than around 100 meters (330ft) because God flattened everything so that Greater Jerusalem would be the tallest place. (This is what the authors of the Left Behind books believe!)

However... if you were to change the narrative on this topic by making enough people disagree with that interpretation AND by making life in your territories reach a post-scarcity state, your theologians calculate that it would break the world order. (It's a bit late to do that now, but yes, that is a possible way to win. Maybe next time I run this quest?)

>>1156260
>bit late

>9 years left
>Egypt at +3

I dunno, It seems still possible.

>>1156260
It would be interesting to win it that way.

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Rules for allocating cabals and assets: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.QuestRules.html

You have 25 cabals total; of these, 3 are maintaining your systems, 1 is space police, and 1 is army liaison, so 20 are available. Your civilian research grant is focused on curing radiation sickness. Your military grant is focused on sea mines. Remember the promise to Tethys!

You are not tracking enemy teams. TOL are trying to reclaim their Mexican base.

You have 6 aerospace parts in storage.

Your Moon colony is experiencing birth defects. Your Mars colony is doing very well.

Variable complexity:

# You've pretty much won the internet! Leverage it.

# Any interesting idea you might want to try.

# Deal with special situations. Deploy sea mines in the Middle East, build fortifications...

# Assign manpower to research.

Complexity 0

# Use a MISC special.

# Use your automated base in Greenland to produce army assets (1/3rd dot) or aerospace equipment.

C 1

# SPECIAL: Send a drone to the Temple by having TOL or believers build it.

# Use army units to attack on a TOL base or a govt installation.

# Send a cabal to the canopy station for astronaut training.

# Foster pagan worship in a territory (Vulcan/Hekate/Satan).

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

# Jam radio transmissions in a territory. This forces people to switch from NJ-controlled broadcast media to internet media, or not get news at all.

# Send a survey team anywhere (covert or overt) to look for trouble or to spy.

# Work on Hell nodes.

C 2

# Resume tracking.

# Use any base to produce army assets (1/3rd dot)

# Use any of your bases to improve (relative to rest of the world) prosperity in that territory. You must control the territory.

# Use a base in a territory you don't control to start bringing that territory under your control. Progress will be made in 1/5 increments. SPECIAL: Also applies to fortifying Nova Roma.

# Seed irradiated super-grain in a Christian territory.

# Seed irradiated super-weed in a Christian territory.

# Build aerospace parts.

# Do a space launch using parts you have built.

* Asteroid mining outposts

* Titan colony

* Large ship construction

C 3

# Build and launch Sky Eyes Mk2s in a territory, granting uninterruptible internet there.

# Dig! Start a new tunnel network or expand an existing one.

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

# Set up a pirate radio in a territory.

# Hack into TOL systems.

# Infiltrate a believing territory for sabotage.

# Convert 3 cabals into 1 infantry army size dot immediately

C 4

# Send crew from the canopy base to an off-world location, and replace the canopy base crew. (1 population dot; 1 cabal lost for Earthside ops)

# Recruit people who wouldn't make the cut as agents into your infantry.

C 5

# Begin building a base somewhere.

# Recruit a new cabal.

C 6

# Use a heavy weapons factory: add 1 dot to army size (navy or heavy).

>>1156292
whats the 1/5 thing in Egypt?

>>1156292
># Do a space launch using parts you have built.
for the Reach 12 Cabals.


># Build aerospace parts.
four Cabals, two parts.

># Deal with special situations. Deploy sea mines in the Middle East, build fortifications...

>Build and rebuild lost and damaged silencer/facehugger drones. 2 Cabals.

>Assist Tethys.
two cabals.

>>1156292
Which one of these is the whole 'build' her a base option? Also did we NEVER get Europea to be on our fucking side? And how much will it cost to retrofit the parts we have already?

AND last, can we double up on increasing the prosperity of a nation?

in Egypt, can we use the Launches to boost prosperity for a year? want to know this before put villain's in.

>>1156283
>>1156270

It certainly would be!

As it is, your cultures (and the subcultures affiliated with you) are overall prosperous.

Misrayim is a conventionally modern country: people enjoy mass-produced goods and food grown in greenhouses, high quality sanitation, modern medicine, some the central desert is carefully preserved so that people may have a harsh environment to test themselves in. Seeing people with artificial arms or ears is nothing uncommon, and they're good. Misrays are humanists in the broader sense.

Pacifica is more of a hippie paradise, with a dash of better living through chemistry: if you want to eat designer synthmeat or star tomatos, or try personalized hallucinogenic mixes, this is where you go. You might see people walk around on the beach with webbed feet, or climb the restored redwood forests with grafted claws and squirrel tails. Pacificans are laid back and creative, a little bipolar, if that.

Nova Roma has taken after the idealized image of the empire, rather than historical reality; a visitor can expect to see beautiful classical architecture, people walking around in togas and sandals, gladiatorial fights (with the field medicine available to make sure most killing blows result in a few months with the medicae instead), and a strong sense of discipline. New Romans see themselves as your empire's protectors.

Night City has been handed over to the Dwarves. They have structured their society around a reasonably healthy mix of fantasy tropes - tourists will find that they have to bend their head a lot, will be welcomed hospitably but never really be a part of the community, and may want to remember that the drinks are brewed with the assumption that the drinker has two livers.

The two underwater settlements are still fledgling - they haven't even agreed on names, and their cultures are developing.

TOL is run top-down, with a brutal quartermastering system, by "Sunday", Steward of The Other Light until Satan returns and takes command personally.

The believing territories are very uniform, with little national identity. A decades-old pastoralization directive has made sure that technology has been slowly dying down; what's the need, when the work is light, the fields bountiful, and the promise of eternal bliss only a few years away?

>>1156300

A typo, sorry.

>>1156333
seeing as we literally burnt it into the landscape, would it be wrong to ask that we have a black burned dick somewhere in Pacifica on the map?

>>1156329

Instead of trying to take over Western Europe, you ended up building Nova Roma as a self-sufficient city-state that encompasses the southern half of the Italian Peninsula.

>>1156331

The launch complex is a great point of pride for the Misray people, but it doesn't directly affect the economy any more than it already has.

>>1156325

Operating the Nova Roma shipyards at maximum efficiency requires six cabals. You can also assign a Villain to supervise the effort; Damien and Zak have relevant experience, with the former having more charisma and the latter mroe technical expertise. Jeb's outer space skills can also help build an underwater habitat.

>>1156329

Your aerospace engineers estimate that retrofitting existing parts from "generic" to "specific to the Centauri System's planets" can be done as part of normal R&D efforts; barring anomalies, it's just a matter of removing useless equipment in favor of copies of useful equipment. Anomalies such as superhigh magnetic fields would require extra work.

>>1156348
then i'll need to reorganize my Cabal layout.

>>1156345

(If you upload it I'll use it)

The territory of Greater Jerusalem is an exception: voluntary tributes over a millennium, and the literal rivers of milk, honey and wine that flow from the Temple's foundation have made this an enchanted land that every believer wishes to visit - in fact, pilgrimages account for more than half the total travel volume for believing territories.

The Temple itself is a gargantuan construction, supernaturally hewn out of bedrock at the beginning of the Millennium and about the size of the former financial district of London. http://www.sonstoglory.com/ThirdTempleEzekielsMillennialTemple.htm#PhotosofEzekielsTemple

It has been decorated and redecorated over a thousand years by delegations at the Feast of Tabernacles, the event at the end of the year in which all territories pay symbolic tribute to the Temple, King Jesus, and Prince David, and by now it has a somewhat garish appearance, the severe lines of Ezekiel's dream having been subsumed and covered by a millennium of earnest efforts to impress.

The Christian minorities in Misrayim and Pacifica follow this tradition; their gifts are often relegated to the end of the table, despite the quality of Misray craft and the creativity of Pacifican ones. You have not yet tried to pull a Great Seal Bug caper.

>>1156292
>>1156348
># Do a space launch using parts you have built.
for the Reach eight Cabals.

>Remember the promise to Tethys!
six Cabals, Nova Roma
Jeb.

Improve Prosperity in Pacifica and Misrayim
four Cabals
Kat.

Repair and Replace our damaged/lost Drones.
two cabals Zak, Damien.

Military Units are to Protect our Territory's and Handle the Free Range Zombie problems.

>>1156292
>>1156292


#Use the Nova Roman Shipyards with Damien, Zak and Jeb altogeather plus +6 Cabals to build Tethys. Including all the neifty spying/watching/communcation/internet stuff.

# Use any of your bases to improve (relative to rest of the world) prosperity in that territory. You must control the territory. 4 Cabal, Egypt and Paficaian

# SPECIAL: Send a drone to the Temple by having TOL or believers build it. 1 Cabal, have believers AND TOL make there own examples.

# Resume tracking. TOL and Sunday. 2 Cabal.

That will tell us if Sunday will attack early.

# Build and launch Sky Eyes Mk2s in a territory, granting uninterruptible internet there. 6 Cabals, East Russia and Horn of africa.

# Foster pagan worship in a territory (Vulcan/Hekate/Satan). Worship in Roman about Vulcan 1 Cabal

>>1156375
Anti, We need the parts on earth to refit them easier. We will send them up AFTER we get the report.

>>1156384
are you certain about that. also I don't think we need sky eyes in other territory's right now. pagan worship saturation is currently a waste of cabals, and I think the drone being sent in from last thread was something our forces can do in their off time.

>>1156393
Ya QM said here >>1156348 Unless I misread and I'm playing this for the long range. I'd be down for replacing it with turning Nova Rome into something to re-securing Europa. We were at like 3/5 to getting it.

>>1156401
it seems to me that just means once the parts are set up the engineers up there just adjust then and slap them onto the ship. am I wrong?

>>1156416
AY YO QM >>1156373 WE'RE STUPID. CLEAR THIS UP.


Also What the hell happens if we build a building higher/taller then the temple Turbojesus is in?

>>1156418
Christian Aloha Snackbar. just ask the actual tower of babal.

>>1156416

That's correct.

For example, right now the landable habitats have sufficient magnetic shielding to survive in space. If it turns out that the Centauri system has planets with extreme magnetic fields, they'd add a Faraday cage. If it turns out that the Centauri system has Earthlike planets, they'd rely on the ship's magnetic shieldin and use the saved mass to carry more seeds or soil or equipment.

>>1156418

You have not tried to build a taller building yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

>>1156393

Better Sky Eyes allow people to use the internet in case landlines get cut, and also better asset tracking if you have an away team there. Note how low bandwidth crippled efforts to reflash the stolen spider tank's firmware.

>>1156491
>better asset tracking if you have an away team there. Note how low bandwidth crippled efforts to reflash the Stolen tank's firmware.

i'll give you that, it would have been useful, but at the moment it's better to save manpower and focus the reach, maintaining our territory, and preparing for A-Day.

>>1156491
does having them believe in another religion help them out in fighting against coversion?

>>1156503

Yes. Not much, but it does.

Lately, TOL's simple but endlessly repeated message and your efforts to foster alternative mythologies and confidence in humanity's abilities have made it hard for Christians to get converts. Annoyingly, this too was prophesied: the Last Battle should happen roughly when, for the first time in a thousand years, there will again be more unbelievers than believers on Earth. Your statisticians indicate that we're close. A problem is that nobody knows whether unbelievers who died but are still walking around thanks to a metabolic extension controller count.

The possible dates are +993, +999, and +1000.

>>1156515

http://leftbehind.wikia.com/wiki/If_It's_True

To the thinking members of the global society: Use your brains! You are capable of rational thought. We of TOL acknowledge that everyone who entered this period of history was a believer in God, either surviving the last seven years on earth as they knew it or returning from heaven with Him.

We do not deny that God was the Creator and that Jesus is His Son. We deny that He ever came to earth in the flesh or that He died and was resurrected. We aver that He unfairly treated one of His own creations, and summarily cast him out of His presence, forever besmirching his name and reputation.

Worse, He has left men and women no choice but to believe in Him and serve Him, denying our free will. We have no quarrel with those who follow Him and consider themselves devout. We simply insist on the right to decide for ourselves.

And now we come to the crux of our manifesto: If it’s true that we, as His opponents, are not allowed to live past the age of one hundred, this merely proves our point: He will not abide an alternate point of view. Critics and even some of our most loyal members have suggested that if it’s true, we should have abandoned our ill-fated cause when the first wave of deaths hit.

We, however, insist on our right to rebel, even in the face of all odds. Because of the new world, the population is exploding as never before. Literally billions more souls will be born with every generation, and therein lies our hope. Even if it’s true, our progeny, properly informed and coached, will amass an innumerable force. God’s own prophecies indicate this.

Even if it’s true that we will continue to die out every hundred years, if we remain committed to our cause against the vengeful, bloodthirsty God of the Old Testament, we have hope. If we can equip the eventual mega-army of dissidents to where they can actually emerge victorious in the end, perhaps the new ruler will resurrect us and allow us to reign with him.

The biggest mistake God makes will be to loose our leader for a season at the end of this Millennium, for that shall truly signal the end of His kingdom. Let us not be deterred by intermittent defeats. Watch our ranks grow with every generation, and we will in the end prove that God is anything but gracious and loving and forgiving.

Our hope and wish and instruction to the future torchbearers of TOL is that they continue to add to and refine this manifesto until—by the last generation—it becomes the most motivational and strategic call to arms the world has ever known.

And be encouraged. Even if it’s true that we die out every generation, it stands to reason that our progeny will become more numerous each time. And if that’s true, it should be exponentially encouraging to each new wave that carries on our message.

So, what if it’s true? Add to this document. Refine it. Improve it. Pass it on. And we’ll see you on the victory stand in the end.

TOL

(That's from the LB book, with a few words cut for post length)

Recently, TOL has claimed that they are shifting away from their brutal slave army operation and back to their idealistic beginnings: you hear rumors that their "zombie" MECs are being put to work to make do for the automation that they don't have. They have been accumulating 1920s-to-1940s-era weaponry for a millennium, and seeing how quickly your Legion caught up in terms of military might may be making them reconsider.

Jeb turns 100 next year; you don't know exactly when, but he says that he wants to wait until the interstellar probe reports. It will be an emotional event for the Cosmists, which includes Cordylon and would've included Val, so he wants to experience it with his full brain and soul.

So, what are your orders, unless you have questions?

>>1156515
believers in GOD or a higher being in general?

>>1156545
I'm sticking to my plan >>1156375

You'll probably get the crispy pixel dick in a few hours.

>>1156545
He has his MEC installed already, right?

>>1156558
It'd be better to put Kat on the Damage/lost drones, Zak and Damien on the under water thing and Jeb on the Launches. Are you SURE you won't hold off on launching the parts?

>>1156554

"Believers" is generally used as shorthand for believers in Yahweh. Believers in other deities are called Pagans both by the Temple and by themselves.

The most popular non-Yahwistic cults are that of maker deities such as Ptah, Ephestus and Vulcan, that of the Triple Goddes (Astarte/Hekate), and that of Satan. Interestingly, The Other Light's official stance is that Satan will be the next ruler of the earth, but should not be deified.

>>1156566

Yes; everyone does by now.

Oh, I forgot (mispaste sorry): Accelerating production of the secondary reflex augment that Ryan Andrews bankrolled will be a complexity-four job. This does not allow people with an active MEC to feel again, but it does make sure they do not lose (or regain) reflexes such as moving a hand away from a flame.

C 4: The new implant is available to all by the end of this year.
C 2: By the end of +990.
C 1: By the end of +991.
No action from you: By the end of +992.

>>1156567
Pretty sure. The engineers can wait to install if it's a big deal, I want the parts up there at least.

>>1156593
Well then Sadly I'm unable to back you're vote.

>>1156589
>>1156292


C 4: The new implant is available to all by the end of this year.


#Use the Nova Roman Shipyards with Damien, Zak and Jeb altogeather plus +6 Cabals to build Tethys. Including all the neifty spying/watching/communcation/internet stuff.

# Use any of your bases to improve (relative to rest of the world) prosperity in that territory. You must control the territory. 4 Cabal, Egypt and Paficaian Kat and Ithuriel


# SPECIAL: Send a drone to the Temple by having TOL or believers build it. 1 Cabal, have believers AND TOL make there own examples.

# Resume tracking. TOL and Sunday. 2 Cabal.

That will tell us if Sunday will attack early.

# Build and launch Sky Eyes Mk2s in a territory, granting uninterruptible internet there. Mexico

>Tfw need to wait for RnD Anon and random anon to show up now.

>>1156589
Hey QM, I thought it would't cost any Cabal's just the base? in Nova Roma for the mermaid people and the free market would make the Andrews stuff?

>>1156656
I'm not going to vote, because I have no idea how to allocate cabals.

>>1156375
I'm supporting Anti

>>1156677
And waste Cabals too retrofit the Space ship parts IN space, because we need to ship stuff back up to it sense our production stuff is ON earth?

>>1156609
>>1156566
>>1156558

(Y'all tell me!)

The Millennium Force is a volunteer organization of Christian missionaries who use progressive tactics such as rock music, setting up makerspaces, and participating in debates in order to win souls; they have been resurrected from their original incarnation by the otherwise very traditionalist Glorified rabbi Tsion Ben-Judah. They also fancy themselves a covert organization, having performed infiltration on The Other Light to find bases and permit raids. Your agents consider them bumbling fools with unearthly luck.

The Brotherhood of Nod is an interesting paradox: an organization composed entirely of infiltrators from other organizations. It seems that every time someone wants to perform an action without their signature on it, they hoist the scorpion flag and go be crazy for a little bit. Even Christian groups have done this on a few occasion, the most notable being the toppling of a water tower during the first Misray drought.

>>1156671

That is already factored in. Many of Tethys' people are pretty useless on land, and as much as they hate to admit it, some of the initial construction simply has to be done in a dry environment. Andrews has sent some engineers, but is otherwise extremely busy giving reflexes back to revenants all over the world.

>>1156675

If you have questions or ideas, bring it!

>>1156677
>>1156593

(Okay, that's two votes for >>1156375
, good enough for me until something else shows up. OOC note: Unless you want them to learn, there's not a lot of point in manning a project to full, in your territory so with no enemy opposition, and assign multiple Villains: you can save yourself a cabal and get it done unless you roll single digits, which, admittedly has been a thing, or use Villains in territories with good guys or wild cards around)

>tfw more 1 ID posts that never reply.

>>1156691
we rolled multiple 1's 5's 6's 8's and a 9 out of a series of D100's. these threads are haunted by our opponent.

>>1156691
>>1156704
Hey, I'm alive, I'm just going to abstain this time.

>>1156708
I was more pointing out the 1ID who voted for something and has yet to reply. Just like what's been happening the past few threads. A hold over from /tg/ about same-fagging, but its much easier to spot it on here then anywhere else.

yeah, little busy to same fag over here.

>>1156720
I'm just paranoid, and hoping that other anon replies.

>>1156731
I'm real, I was yellow last thread. I'm trying to think of some sort of compromise here, because I recognize your concerns with inefficiency.

>>1156761
Ah alright. My apolgizes then towards you and >>1156720

>>1156770
>>1156761
if efficiency is the problem I don't see where the concern is coming from. the plan I proposed lets us send the parts up so that we don't have to put the manpower on it later. add in the fact we can't use our weapons factory right now and there we have it. moving parts and protecting our territories.

attachment can be done after the probe returns.

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>>1156706

(Can't say I blame you!)

>>1156708

(If you want some worldbuilding on any specific topic, ask away!)

>>1156715

(I know there's some lurkers, including a former roommate who was the inspiration for Quinn. If people want to samefag, I really have no way to stop it)

You figure that it's better to have the Reach completed earlier than later, and that any adjustment due to the parts you are sending up can be done in situ; the factory modules of the Reach are installed, leaving only the habitation systems to be complete. If you so choose, the majestic interstellar ship can now be used to do low-gravity work on the moons of Mars, improving Martian prosperity, or even in the asteroid belt, allowing homesteaders to begin setting up their own operations there once a minimum of infrastructure is available.

Jeb views building an underwater habitat as a completely new challenge; Cordylon thanks you for getting him out of his funk. The Roman shipyards revamp their submersible production lines to make batyspheres, cupolae, and geothermal siphons; Thethys' own people help by building the foundations and guiding the descent of the modules. Owing to the place of manufacture, it looks like Tethys' settlement will end up sporting a "sunken Atlantis" look, with columns, peripathons, architectural details reminiscent of classic architecture. The settlement is designed to let merpeople swim around while having enough dry space to do things like cook meals and use modern tools; its centerpiece is a vast illuminated cupola in the shape of a concentric underwater beach. This should prove to be a popular tourist destination even before it's complete. Jeb does end up sleeping with Tethys; Cordylon, far from being jealous, encouraged it. It does seem to help the aviator get out of his funk. At your request, the settlement will also feature a small jail/containment area that can optionally be manned by your guards; it's deep enough that anyone managing to escape it would get the bends unless they take their sweet time resurfacing. The work season ends with a brief war game between Jeb's people, Tethys' people, and Weaver's crew; the latter wins, after which the settlement's privacy curtains are lowered for a few days. Obviously, the new settlement has been wired with the same kind of sensor network that Night City has.

Rebuilding your tankette force is pretty trivial; the losses weren't that great, and your Villains take the time to improve on the design slightly for the new units. In a simulated battle, oddly enough, Zak beats Damien.

(1/2)

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>>1156817

(2/2)


Kat takes the time after Pacifica's Longest Day to reopen her deli; she hangs her pod upside down from the ceiling and has drone arms do the work. The innovation catches on, and between that and synthetic meat having been perfected enough that even old believers who remember pre-Rapture times have to agree that it's pretty good (Glorifieds still won't be talked into touching the stuff) Pacifica becomes the new food destination of the world. This tickles Romans' and Misrays' pride, and +989 will be remembered as the year of the Restaurant Wars. A few people take it too seriously -- people from two restaurants in Pacifica end up in the hospital over the proper shape of pizza ( https://www.yelp.com/topic/san-francisco-san-rafael-pizza-wars-pizza-extreme-v-pizza-orgasmica ) but by the end of the year it's clear that human diet variety is almost back to where it was before the Rapture.

The formal recognition of your leadership role in Pacifica (Mr. Bissattini sees himself as the Tribunus Plebis of Pacifica, rather than its governor, and makes no mystery about deferring to your algorithms when it comes to most policy decisions) makes it easier to integrate the two economies, to the benefit of both; airships and the occasional jet once more cross the American continent and the Atlantic. This has the side effect of causing some youth unrest in the other two thirds of the North American continent: why stay down on the farm where people next door are building the future, and we see their beautiful skyships cross our skies?

It gets to the point that the Heartland government forbids Misray or Pacifican ships to use their airports, allegedly on safety grounds after high-altitude airships are upgraded with Pacifica-made biological air scrubbers. You

# make a point of ignoring this since none of your aircraft ever need land there anyway.

# retaliate by limiting airport access by believer-built aging jalopies.

# take a page from Nikita Krushev and sollecitously offer poor-country aid to the other American territories, that they may upgrade their air infrastructure.

TOL is mostly quiet: there seems to be some sort of internal purge going on.

Just for fun, some Misray hobbyists build a solar-powered ornithopter drone and send it off to Greater Jerusalem.

# End year.

# Not yet.

>>1156817
(To the roomy. sorry for getting your proxy/parody killed.)

>Zak beats Damien.
what the fuck? how did you manage that?

>>1156852
# make a point of ignoring this since none of your aircraft ever need land there anyway.
for now.

think we'll have to see the two results before the year closes.

>>1156852

# take a page from Nikita Krushev and sollecitously offer poor-country aid to the other American territories, that they may upgrade their air infrastructure.

# Not yet.

>>1156852

# take a page from Nikita Krushev and sollecitously offer poor-country aid to the other American territories, that they may upgrade their air infrastructure.

>>1156292
Do we have to research sky eyes MK3 or do we have them automatically? cause I'm not seeing it on the list.

>>1156869

It was a simulated battle: Zakharov used the limits of the simulation to pull off extremely precise kiting maneuvers. Damien treated it as an actual exercise, and lost. Interestingly, the war game brings to light your reliance on SIGINT over HUMINT, although tactically your ability to understand a battlefield, especially in territories with pseudosatellite monitoring, is unmatched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

>>1156875
>>1156870

Two delegations of aeronautical engineers arrive in Heartland and Columbia to offer assistance in improving air infrastructure.

In Heartland, they meet decrepit (but still very loud) Captain Rayford Steele in Chicago, who essentially tells them to get off his lawn and that aviation is a perfected science anyway. Your engineers return home, leaving behind a handsome synthleaterbound album of space photographs.

In Columbia, the people of Atlanta surprise everybody by gladly accepting the help, although local media calls it tribute due rather than aid received; the place is now equipped to handle your airships and heavy liners. This allows airships to carry more cargo, since they have a place to refuel and do maintenance; your aircrews are instructed to be lenient to pagan or heathen stowaways who want to leave Columbia for one of your territories. To avoid TOL terror attacks and to honor seafaring tradition, they will have to have their clothing burned, be given rags, and work their way through the trip to pay for it.

What else do you need to do?
>>1156895

They have been researched and have been installed in some territories; they just need to be launched. Thanks to automation, two workgroups can build and launch MK3s in sufficient quantity to cover a territory, although if there are other groups in the area, they may get interfered with if they don't have a security detail.

>>1156916
see if we can arrange for more people getting vetted and arranged to be sent to space? we can possibly do that via government program at this point.

>>1156916
What does MK 3 even give over the Mk 2's?

>>1156976
better wireless, which I think we'll only need one or three of, for fighting in GJ.

>>1156951

The program is in place: your Mars colony is self-sufficient and Simaris has, when not otherwise occupied, been carrying a trickle of people there.

Your Moon colony is doing less well due to the low gravity causing a lot of pregnancy issues; presumably an asteroid colony would have the same problem. For now, pregnant people are taken back to Cordylon Station to have their babies there. Born Martians look different than humans; they are thinner, with more angular features, and somewhat bigger eyes. They also have a keen sense of direction.

The Selenites are working on a centrifuge.

>>1156976

The new Sky Eye revision provides for analog transmission, better digital transceiving capabilities, and higher resolution camera monitoring (Think Google Earth rather than 1980s era spy sats).

>>1156976
Better wireless, Geist mentioned that our guys can't control MEC drones remotely due to limit on bandwidth and hops, upgrading to MK3 will give us 1-5GBPS of remote drone control on top of the uninterruptible internet.

>>1156984
Tag a warning for speciation event immanent on Martian Children.

>>1156984
Is... there anyway to not use Cabal's and just issue a 'internet update for X-amount of time', And have the drones naturally land then relaunch retrofiited?

ALSO WE THIN MEN NOW.

>>1157005
I think it's a hardware issue.

>>1157008
Thats why the Eyes land themselves, get retrofitted at places we have troops? And then they go back up automatically.

>>1156997

Your geneticists are sure that it's a consequence of low gravity, and possibly

>>1157005

You'd have to launch them to the canopy all over again. The Mk3 uses all new electronics on the same frame, and the frame is basically an upside down boat with solar panels and an active buoyancy pump - it's really only a fraction of the cost. In addition, the Sky Eyes were never designed to drop, and don't have a parachute. The idea is to launch the new Sky Eyes and keep the old ones up there as backup or to cover dead spots.

>>1157014

A current-design Sky Eye is a semisubmersible boat that floats upside-down on the canopy's inner surface; it is launched by a sounding rocket, hits the canopy, ejects the aerodynamic cowling, and uses a system of bladders and impellers to make itself float, and then solar panels for power (the newer models augment this by a small radiothermal generator). It does not have the ability to get itself back up if it falls.

If you wish, you can design a "canopy hopper" relay drone that has the ability to parachute down, fly to a refurbishing staging area, and be launched again.

>>1157039
would it cost us a Cabal to make this thing, and then have it drop down, and re-launch back up? And then Cost a cabal per-canopy hopper that needs to come down adn go back up? cause I'm trying to steam-line our Eye production so we don't need to keep spending so many fking Cabals on them.

>>1157039

Your geneticists are sure that it's a consequence of low gravity, and possibly the fact that Mars has mountains like the Earth used to. By now everybody in your territories gets DNA tested regularly; adding a speciation warning tag, fortunately, is trivial.

On that note, it is beginning to be the case that couples in which only one member is a Dwarf are requiring IVF to have children.

>>1157045

You can definitely do this. It will be seen whether your method is more or less efficient than the current method. You can also run a physics simulation to find out an approximate answer quickly: this is done at no cost since it's something that a couple of programmers can set up as part of their daily job load.

Hey wait a minute geist, i recall you saying somewhere last turn that this turn the moon base would gain production capabilities, what happened with that?

>>1157051
Then run that simluation. I'd rather our cabel's be focused on something else.

>>1157051
>On that note, it is beginning to be the case that couples in which only one member is a Dwarf are requiring IVF to have children.

well shit, is the term humanity even sufficient anymore? Mortality? For Sentience?

>>1157045
One idea to stream line sky eye production i had was to make them capable of swimming upwards to the canopy base, that way we just send the newest sky eye version's parts to the base and old sky eyes are upgraded there.

>>1157088
That would be a waste, Them landing and automatically going back up would be better.

>>1157051
>On that note, it is beginning to be the case that couples in which only one member is a Dwarf are requiring IVF to have children.
I do not like this. I am not liking these new species spontaneously popping up.

>>1157099
>That would be a waste, Them landing and automatically going back up would be better.
What? How is it a waste?

>>1157102
Dwarves, i'm fine with.

Mermaids, keep to the waters and act normal, were cool.

Martians, i'm on the fence.

Elves, CALLING FOR A GENOCIDE!

>>1157109
we'd need to LAUNCH to the space station then, where as my plan has them coming to us in places we already own, Auto-refitted and re-auto launched.

>>1157056

The moon base can be used for production; before, you could use a total of 6 cabals for production, for a total of 4 production items including Greenland. Now you can use a total of 8 cabals for productions, for a total of 5 production items including Greenland. Next year, it will be 10 and 6 because Mars will have sorted things out (the Moon colony is smaller, but it's a lot cheaper to launch things from the Moon than from Mars: see the lunar module for proof).

>>1157063
>>1157088

A sounding rocket has a payload fraction ranging from 5% to 15% depending on the design; making it reusable would still require refueling at a ground facility (although a missile truck would do). Canopy perforation has the disadvantage of requiring vacuum-rated parts, and the advantage that the parts can be sent to the canopy station in bulk rather than using one little rocket each. (IRL, the reason why the space shuttle was discontinued and the Buran was never really used is that it turns out that single-use rocket engines are cheaper: even the SpaceX reusable system only resuses the lowest stage, and even then, it hasn't been shown to work reliably yet)

>>1157077
>>1157102

At this point, intentional genetic engineering and biomods can more than bridge the gap; there are people walking around with gills and squirrel tails, after all. Dwarfs refer to themselves as Homo Sapiens Rotundus in scientific terms, and to non-dwarfs as Men, as per Tolkien (so they may say "a female Man" to mean, say, a Misray tourist girl).

# Formally put a clamp to this. Humanity stands as one. One deep gene pool is safer than several shallow ones: institute a minimum age for bioaugs and ensure that IVF requests are screened for cross-compatibility with standard DNA samples taken from statistically significant segments of the population.

# If speciation happens, it may mean people with no souls that Yahweh can harvest.

>>1157125

(Okay, but consider that about 90% of the mass of a Sky Eye rocket is the fuel to go up once. Let's say that you land it. Then what? It has to be refueled by someone anyway)

>>1157125
>re-auto launched.
A problem that might arise with that method is needing to assign a cabal to launch them again.
It might be 1 cabal needed only which is better than my method though. But my method might still be good if geist allows us to launch multiple sky eye parts to the canopy base in one go.

>>1157133
The normal people who operate said air-field or landing zone/base/w.e there just fuel it up and then back up it goes?

# Formally put a clamp to this. Humanity stands as one. One deep gene pool is safer than several shallow ones: institute a minimum age for bioaugs and ensure that IVF requests are screened for cross-compatibility with standard DNA samples taken from statistically significant segments of the population. It can't be an 8 year old who 'wants' to suddenly be a squirrel

>>1157133
># Formally put a clamp to this. Humanity stands as one. One deep gene pool is safer than several shallow ones: institute a minimum age for bioaugs and ensure that IVF requests are screened for cross-compatibility with standard DNA samples taken from statistically significant segments of the population.
We were programmed to save humanity, not to save some random new species.

>>1157133
># If speciation happens, it may mean people with no souls that Yahweh can harvest.
I don't care about other species, but were putting it in as official policy, NO ELVES!

>>1157133
>before, you could use a total of 6 cabals for production, for a total of 4 production items including Greenland. Now you can use a total of 8 cabals for productions, for a total of 5 production items including Greenland. Next year, it will be 10 and 6 because Mars will have sorted things out.
I apologize but i do not understand what that means.
Is this related to sending things into space?

>>1157146
He is referring to the production of aerospace parts.


However I agree his explanation could be better, what I think he means is that the moon will function as a automated factory of similar capabilities to our Greenland base.

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>>1157144

Can't say they look very much like Tolkien elves. Classical elves from folklore, possibly, if you make them two meters tall.

>>1157146

The amount of production actins you can take is limited by:

* how many cabals you have.
* how many bases you have.

This hasn't been an issue lately, but earlier on when you only had 1 or 2 bases, it was. Of course, owning territories makes it moot... unless it's specialized construction like aerospace or heavy armor.

>>1157152
>what I think he means is that the moon will function as a automated factory of similar capabilities to our Greenland base.
OOOHHHHH!
That's good, one extra part for whatever we want in space.

>>1157156
Like creating an additional Reach style craft or anything else. It will be extremely useful.

>>1157155
>Can't say they look very much like Tolkien elves. Classical elves from folklore, possibly, if you make them two meters tall.

I-Said-No-Elves. if it's ears can be compared to knives it dies.

>>1157182

You currently have built an interplanetary ferry that has been doing Earth-Mars duty in the background, the UNS Imperium Profugus. The HMEC in charge of it, Simaris, has been pretty happy with the job, to the point that he does not really plan to return to Earth any time soon. Simaris has been taking colonists to Mars during your homesteading initiative, and giving a translunar injection kick to packages going to the Moon; as a result, your colonies are largely self-sufficient now.

Upgrading the Imperium Profugus for interstellar operation is possible, but it would save you relatively little over building a new craft - mainly it'd save you a set of engines.

>>1157213
>your colonies are largely self-sufficient now.
that's how we want it.

>>1157224

The infancy problem is currently being handled by having the kids go back to the canopy for a while, but they are working on a fix. The current intention is to build a circumlunar station with centrifugal pseudogravity.

>>1157184

The Martians' ears so far seem to be angular, in addition to pointed. They're also slightly smaller than human average.

>>1157213
C..can we drive Mars to praise machine gods?

>>1157234
if they go over two inch's in length were going to have a problem. fine for now.

>>1157235
40k Adaptus mechanicus

>>1157235

An exploratory project to get people to worship you as the Machine God has resulted in a few seasons of improved productivity, and a close encounter with Yahweh following which a few of your nodes are experiencing the Hell loop (as much as a collection of 1990s era desktop computers is able to do so).

You may try that again at any time by assigning cabals to work on fostering pagan worship and/or working on your Hell nodes.

>>1157242
Well I meant more as a world solely too RnD once we win.

>>1157245
I wish we fucking pushed that, I really did.

>>1157249
>I wish we fucking pushed that, I really did.
I don't, the NC power of the worshipers might, for some reason, go to the CPU's currently in hell instead of us.

I need to log off now, so I just want to declare my intent for the next few turns so OP can count my vote in case of a tie or something;


Finish the Reach once we get the sensor data, then send her off into deep space.

Create the TJ containment facility, in Greenland, with a fuck ton of conventional defences in large rings around it just in case the believers try anything. Also a mobile version to get him there.

Continue army construction, naval expansion and shit.

Lastly, send as many possible people into space and get as many assets to either our current colonies or going to AC.


Night guys, best of luck and screw god.

>>1157242

An alert is added to the population health database.

Additionally, anybody requesting IVF using public facility will get an additional round of genetic screening: if likely children deviate too far from the human average, they will be refused service on grounds of speciation danger and the attendant possible issues with retroviral diseases.

Predictably, a few Pacificans protest. Surprisingly, Tethys sides with you on this one; her people are born human, receive gills as soon as it's medically safe to do so, and can choose between leaving the settlement or getting a fish-like or dolphin-like tail when they are old enough to make that decision (The fish-like tail has no fish DNA in it; the look is obtained by careful chitineal sculpting).

Your sociologists capitalize on that and point out that genetic modification, or even artificial selection, before the age of consent violates the principle of consent. This calms the waters noticeably.

# End year for now.

# More information.

>>1157298
# More information.

About my canopy hoppers.

>>1157298
># End year for now.

>>1157298
>End year for now.

>>1157308

After a preliminary engineering study, three options emerge.

# Continue with current system: 2 cabals will be used to build and launch Sky Eyes in one territory over a year.

# Make Sky Eyes reusable: 3 cabals will be used to build and lanch Sky Eyes in one territory over a year. After that, 1 cabal will be able to redeploy Sky Eyes from one territory to the other over the course of a year.

# Deploy Sky Eyes via canopy penetration: 1 aerospace part and 2 cabals can be used to deploy Sky Eyes over three territories over one year.

>>1157324
>>1157316

This year's Feast Of Tabernacles is largely uneventful: most of the thundering is reserved to The Other Light and their corrupting influence on the youth in these last days. To be fair, Sunday has been doing an excellent work in cleaning up TOL's image: the horde mode on metabolic extension controllers has been disabled, he has worked out some sort of deal with Andrews to get MEC reflex injections in bulk, and copies of "If it's true" are once again circulating. In general, he's doing a good job picking up the people who aren't skilled or creative enough to work for you. He's also managed to rebuild the Mexican base, and seems to have started a formal political takeover of Northern Asia and the Horn of Africa, styled more or less like yours; his theme is building a haven for youth to be themselves. Overall, it's a bit hokey, but it resonates surprisingly well with rural youth.

Your drone arrives at the Temple; it is caught by a net, and handed back to the Misray delegation indicating that such stunts are appreciated in spirit but only represent a security risk.

Noah claims that he wishes to visit the Indian peninsula, and calls upon "the good people of Osaze, the Earth's greatest builders from the mighty pyramids to the skyships of today" to reconstruct the Suez Canal so that the Ark may cross it.

Ely LeVey has a series of radio debats with Andrews, most of which she nominally wins, which doesn't really affect Andrews' business much. In a message to Bissattini, the industrialist says that he was just amusing himself and appreciates a good argument.

Tsion and Cameron finally present their work: a long multimedia series (the first thing to be distributed on cd-roms in many years) about the abuses and horrors of TOL base life. Sunday responds officially, indicating that it was Monday and Thursday's fault, that he has indeed changed course, and that he hopes to "win the argument" before the Last Battle. He invites Tsion to a public debate, but gets no response.

Chaim Rozenweig has moved to the Middle East; he seems to be investigating the tunnel network.

Very soon, the all-important broadcast from your interstellar probe will arrive...

>>1157380
# Deploy Sky Eyes via canopy penetration: 1 aerospace part and 2 cabals can be used to deploy Sky Eyes over three territories over one year.

Thats the cheapest one Because we don't need to launch it to space and it covers 3 places.

>>1157380
>Chaim Rozenweig has moved to the Middle East; he seems to be investigating the tunnel network.
Oh hell no.

>>1157380
# Deploy Sky Eyes via canopy penetration: 1 aerospace part and 2 cabals can be used to deploy Sky Eyes over three territories over one year.

most efficiency. do this in a year or so.

>Noah claims that he wishes to visit the Indian peninsula, and calls upon "the good people of Osaze, the Earth's greatest builders from the mighty pyramids to the skyships of today" to reconstruct the Suez Canal so that the Ark may cross it.
the people of "Misrayim" believe in fair trade. the canal will be made in exchange for another material good and or service.

Chaim Rozenweig has moved to the Middle East; he seems to be investigating the tunnel network.
this is a self delivering Captive. or if the dwarves want to have their crack at him, may as well ask.

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Rules for allocating cabals and assets:

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.QuestRules.html

You have 25 cabals total; of these, 3 are maintaining your systems, 1 is space police, and 1 is army liaison, so 20 are available. Your civilian research grant is focused on curing radiation sickness. Your military grant is focused on sea mines.

You are not tracking enemy teams. TOL have begun their own takeovers.

You have 2 aerospace parts in storage.

Your Moon colony is experiencing birth defects. Your Mars colony is doing very well. They both count as bases now.

Variable complexity:

# You've pretty much won the internet! Leverage it.

# Any interesting idea you might want to try.

# Deal with special situations. For example, assist in rebuilding the Suez Canal.

# Assign manpower to research.

Complexity 0

# Use a MISC special.

# Use your automated base in Greenland to produce army assets (1/3rd dot) or aerospace equipment.

C 1

# Send a drone to the Temple by having TOL or believers build it.

# Use army units to attack on a TOL base or a govt installation.

# Send a cabal to the canopy station for astronaut training.

# Foster pagan worship in a territory (Vulcan/Hekate/Satan).

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

# Jam radio transmissions in a territory. This forces people to switch from NJ-controlled broadcast media to internet media, or not get news at all.

# Send a survey team anywhere (covert or overt) to look for trouble or to spy.

# Work on Hell nodes.

C 2

# Resume tracking.

# Use any base to produce army assets (1/3rd dot)

# Use any of your bases to improve (relative to rest of the world) prosperity in that territory. You must control the territory.

# Use a base in a territory you don't control to start bringing that territory under your control. Progress will be made in 1/5 increments.

# Seed irradiated super-grain in a Christian territory.

# Seed irradiated super-weed in a Christian territory.

# Build aerospace parts.

# Use an aerospace part to deploy Sky Eyes in three territories.

# Do a space launch using parts you have built.

* Asteroid mining outposts

* Titan colony

* Large ship construction

C 3

# Dig! Start a new tunnel network or expand an existing one.

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

# Set up a pirate radio in a territory.

# Hack into TOL systems.

# Infiltrate a believing territory for sabotage.

# Convert 3 cabals into 1 infantry army size dot immediately

C 4

# Send crew from the canopy base to an off-world location, and replace the canopy base crew. (1 population dot; 1 cabal lost for Earthside ops)

# Recruit people into your infantry.

C 5

# Begin a new base.

# Recruit.

C 6

# Heavy weapons factory: dd 1 dot to army size (navy or heavy).

>>1157447
>Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness).
Chaim Rozenweig, 3 cabals.
>Do a space launch using parts you have built.
Build a server ship, moon, mars and 2 cabals.

Also, it might be a good idea to start developing an airforce soon.
How many cabals will that take?

>>1157447
W-why did Russia and Central Africa turn orange/yellow?

>>1157474
TOL taking over.

>>1157447

# Deal with special situations. For example, assist in rebuilding the Suez Canal. 5 Cabal, Damien and the kids

# Use your automated base in Greenland to produce army assets (1/3rd dot) or aerospace equipment. Aerospace part.


# Harass or sabotage a Hero, or tie up an enemy team. Harass or get Chaim Rozenweig the fuck out of near our tunnels.


# Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness). 3 Cabal, remove Chaim Rozenweig, Zak/Kat


# Use any of your bases to improve (relative to rest of the world) prosperity in that territory. You must control the territory. 4 Cabals Egypt and Pafician

# Hack into TOL systems. 3 Cabal, Find out about the purges.

2 cabals can be used to deploy Sky Eyes over three territories over one year. Nova Rome, West America and Egypt. Jeb

# Deal with special situations. trying to find a way to off-set the birth defects on the moon, 5 Cabals.

>>1157447
C 4: The new implant is available to all by the end of this year.
4 cabals.

># Use an aerospace part to deploy Sky Eyes in three territories.
four cabals. two parts.
Jeb.

># Build aerospace parts.
10 Cabals. = five parts.


># Harass or sabotage a Hero, or tie up an enemy team.
get Chaim Rozenweig away from there. Zak, Damien. 2 cabals.

>>1157447
>>1157466
Also, add
>Dig! Start a new tunnel network or expand an existing one.
Expand the jerusalem tunnels into a web towards the middle east, prioritize spots we expect Satan to be standing under.

>>1157482
Lets not do what we can have the territory do itself.

>>1157492
wut

>>1157442

You learn that Ryan Andrews has a supersonic seaplane because exactly 45 minutes after you issue a formal answer indicating that treating it as a trade would be very appreciated, a bottle of extremely rare cryopreserved pre-Rapture Pinot Grigio is hand-delivered to Mr. Bissattini's office. It tastes terrible, but the gesture is appreciated.

Ely LeVey's answer is a petulant attemot to shame the people of Misrayim, what with all the Temple has done for everyone, what with the mercy that they have shown! Yahweh created the world, and surely one of the patriarch can ask for a comparatively small favor in return?

Tsion suggests that the neighboring territories set up a collections effort that Misrayim's believing laborers will take in, so as to be able to do the work at cost. True to word, a crowdfunding setup is initiated and you

# ignore it.

# encourage it.

# get in its way.

# forbid it outright.

# make it irrelevant by assigning your people to coordinate the work yourself as a way to show industrial might.

>>1157474

The Other Light has formally initiated a peaceful takeover of those areas; they seem to be copying your mass-protest tactics, although you aren't sure if they are also doing all the covert work that you had to do to make them effective.

>>1157470

You would have to reconfigure one of your existing heavy weapons factories, after which you can begin production of heavy bombers and high-tech air superiority fighters. You can also keep building your existing mix of drones. All your airships and your few airliners, after Pacifica's Longest Day, are being retrofit to quickly accept weapon systems.

>>1157479
I'm stupid.

>>1157507
# encourage it.


Gib me dat free sheeit...

I lied, that was not my last post but this is, OP use that for standing orders though...if you want...

>>1157507
How many cabals will it take to reconfigure?

>>1157507

# make it irrelevant by assigning your people to coordinate the work yourself as a way to show industrial might.

>>1157507
># make it irrelevant by assigning your people to coordinate the work yourself as a way to show industrial might.

And this is just a suggestion, but how to people feel about stealing Tsion (or some other glorified, but he's been the most troublesome by far) and lock him up somewhere to spam angels for research?

>>1157507
>make it irrelevant by assigning your people to coordinate the work yourself as a way to show industrial might.
And then put up a blockade and only open it if the believers pay a toll.

>>1157507
>>1157523
Do NOT reconfigure a fucking base.

>>1157525
>>1157532
>>1157538

How many people would you assign to this? Urist would enjoy the challenge, if the tunneling teams aren't otherwise busy, and pledges to help. Getting the job done mostly by dwarfs and MECs would send a mesage.

>>1157532
We can either do that next turn or just use Chaim Rozenweig.

>>1157546
Chiam's a natural though.

>>1157507
Anti aircraft might be more efficient in this flat planet.

># ignore it.
if your going to pay for it, we'll dig the canal. those were the terms.

>>1157532
actually I wanted to put him in a room with a "malfunctioning" DaVinci Surgical robot until his lord decides that keeping him alive is worse.

>>1157547
Wait he is? WOW!
That will wake things easy then.

>>1157543
oh, let the dwarves do it to show up the temple, I like that.

I don't really want to assign people, but we could send some construction crews from Egypt.

(then we put a toll for using the canal. two shekels.)

>>1157547

That's correct. He's extremely old, but in much better shape than the rest of the Naturals who survived the Tribulation.

>>1157532

Getting rid of Tsion one way or the other is likely to be difficult, albeit possible; you did lose Quinn to an assassination atempt. It was, however, poorly planned.

>>1157548
>Anti aircraft might be more efficient in this flat planet.
Anti aircraft can't pursue angels and force them to land.
Good for defending, not good for taking down annoying angels.

>>1157543
5 cabals like my post.

>>1157543
5 cabals.

>>1157543
Get Urists and the tunneling teams as well. Show them our talent and skills.

>>1157572
>>1157574

(Sounds good, can I have a plan in one post? Still no joy on the RV, but getting there)

>>1157482
sorry but this seems largely wastefull. we should be focusing on getting the Reach up and running and attacking GJ.

>>1157576
>Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness).
Chaim Rozenweig, 3 cabals.
>Use your automated base in Greenland to produce army assets (1/3rd dot) or aerospace equipment.
Aerospace parts.
>Do a space launch using parts you have built.
Build a server ship, moon, mars and 2 cabals.
>Dig! Start a new tunnel network or expand an existing one.
Expand the jerusalem tunnels into a web towards the middle east, prioritize spots we expect Satan to be standing under, 3 cabals.
5 cabals build the Suez Canal, have our navy blockade it until the believers pay a toll.

>>1157577

we're waiting UNTIL we get the fucking report from the probe that >>1157576 hasn't thrown up yet.

# Deal with special situations. For example, assist in rebuilding the Suez Canal. 5 Cabal, Damien and the kids, Urists and the tunneling teams

# Use your automated base in Greenland to produce army assets (1/3rd dot) or aerospace equipment. Aerospace part.


# Harass or sabotage a Hero, or tie up an enemy team. Harass or get Chaim Rozenweig the fuck out of near our tunnels.


# Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness). 3 Cabal, remove Chaim Rozenweig, Zak/Kat


# Use any of your bases to improve (relative to rest of the world) prosperity in that territory. You must control the territory. 4 Cabals Egypt and Pafician

# Hack into TOL systems. 3 Cabal, Find out about the purges.

2 cabals can be used to deploy Sky Eyes over three territories over one year. Nova Rome, West America and Egypt. Jeb

# Deal with special situations. trying to find a way to off-set the birth defects on the moon, 5 Cabals.

>>1157577
I'm waiting for the AC probe to inform us of what to expect before i focus on Reach.

>>1157589
We don't need to Harass Chaim if were assassinating him too.

>>1157584
looks good, don't really care about the server ship.

>>1157589
eh, still seems like a waste of five cabals.

going with >>1157584
but put at least three hero's on the assassination.

>>1157597
>Haress him into fake tunnels
>Trap him said tunnels

These 2 options require 2 different things.

>>1157584
>prioritize spots we expect Satan to be standing under
*Prioritize spots we expect Satan to be standing on
>>1157601
>looks good, don't really care about the server ship.
Only want the server ship to have our own personal getaway option.
>but put at least three hero's on the assassination.
That's fine. You choose the heroes.

>>1157602
If Chaim is a natural we can just have a MEC with lighting resistance snipe him.
Have so drones attack too if that fails.

>>1157610
was actually planning on winning the planet or going down swinging.

>>1157618
he'll just bring attention to the tunnels if he dies like that.

>>1157610
We can literally copy ourselves into the Reach, QM said we could ALONG time ago.

>>1157627
>>1157618
This is why I want to fool him and haress him, To make it seem like the 'tunnels' were actually not what he thought and got trapped in them. Thus removing him from play.

Also the 5 Cabals are wasteful towards what?

>>1157619
>was actually planning on winning the planet or going down swinging.
Nah, let's get on the server ship and go to alpha centaury if we fail so we can make a space empire.
>>1157628
And i recall not all our RAM memories could fit on the Reach, that's valuable data.

>>1157638
... We're literally still through up parts, We can cut a few other things sense we'll know 100% what the Reach will need and add the last few Ram?

>>1157645
seems easier to build a separate ship for us and our memories than adding all that to the Reach.
Geist, can you explain what the difference between the server and arkship is?

>>1157657

A server ship will essentially become your body and allow you to remain functional throughout the whole Final Battle event, and possibly beyond. The Arkship will be sent out with a copy of you, and eventually the colonists will rebuild you, but you have the "teleporter problem" with regards to the continuity of consciousness.

Due to the weight and power requirement that an active copy of you has, it'd need extra reactors and extra engines strapped to the Reach anyway so making a second ship would have a couple of advantages: redundancy (the plan is to install artificial wombs and a copy of the gene banks in the server ship) and better sensor coverage (the Centauri system has three stars, and this would allow you to at least look at two).

>>1157777
>>1157657
Huh a server ship seems useful then. Can we install a program in the other 'copies' of us to defult to us so no rebellion?

>>1157796

Not exactly. However, you can keep the copies synched; putting the server ship in geostationary orbit will allow continuous communication with Cordylon Station and with your nodes on Earth, with only a few hundred milliseconds of lag. However, once you leave for Alpha Centauri, synchronization will only be possible by the use of a highly experimental and intrinsically unreliable quantum entanglement link. It can only be used once; Dr. Zakharov suggests it be used at the moment when the outcome of the Final Battle is known.

(Okay, the above is demented nonsense, but let's go with it for story reasons)

>>1157777
Excellent, how many cabals are needed to do >>1157602
>>1157796
I was thinking of doing such a thing by first rigidly convincing ourselves that any copy AI with our memories is us, then having our system admins program a code that forces us to share RAM memories with other instances and vise versa.

>>1157817
synchronization will only be possible by the use of a highly experimental and intrinsically unreliable quantum entanglement link. It can only be used once; Dr. Zakharov suggests it be used at the moment when the outcome of the Final Battle is known.
OH SHIT you're actually using my quantum FTL comm idea.

>>1157589

The interplanetary probe report arrives this year - you don't know when, as the probe's exact arrival time depends on a number of factors some of which can only be calculated approximately. Of course, if it arrives early in the year, your rocket scientists will jump on getting a head start on the modifications!

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>>1157835

Of course, the probe actually reached the Centauri system four years ago. There, it performed a series of flybys, after which it has used its antenna to transmit a burst of information back to Earth.

Now, it should be decelerating, so that it will be able to invert direction and then come back to the Centauri system at orbit-able velocities roughly when the Reach gets there, thus giving the colonists another spacecraft to work with - interstellar engines aren't cheap, and the colonists won't be able to build one for a long time, so having a spare set of engines and sensors will allow them to do in-depth planetary exploration.

>>1157831

Some research effort went into it. The precious few billion photons that have been entangled are being stored into a fiber-optic loop that sits in a vat of liquid helium in the vault of Misrayim where you keep the other artifacts. In many years, nobody has yet worked up the courage to make an Ark of the Covenant joke about the facility.

>>1157618

Chaim Rozenweig is a Natural. A very old one. Rumor has it that the Millennium Force built him a custom exoskeletal rig to allow him to remain active. It may be possible, although it would be harder, to cause his retirement without terminating him.

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>>1157584
>>1157589

(You seem to agree on parts of your program, so I will go with these. They use 8 cabals. 12 are unassigned.)

Before the Millennium Force of Misrayim even finish setting up a traditional telethon style charity drive, you have a crowdfunding campaign up, spam Misraym's believers relentlessly until they give a small donation, and announce that the Misrayim government will cover the remaining ninety percent of the cost of the project in return for a controlling interest, then hack into the MF site to signal their agreement. By the time Tsion thunders that this is absolutely surreal and LeVey coos that this is a fitting tribute to the patriarch, work has begun; a veritable army of construction MECs, Dwarven tunneling engines, high-efficiency nuclear pumps, and designer environmental cleanup bacteria from across the ocean lands in the Suez strip. A few Christian volunteers also show up with shovels and cement trucks, and even some people from The Other light do, wanting to buy a Mk10 controller for themselves and friends. Each group are told, after sharing a meal, to

# sit back and watch.

# go do a bit of menial work.

# do the catering or something.

# scram.

The Suez area is swarming with workers, drones, construction blimps, and what have you, to the point that the work camp quickly eclipses Salalah as the territory's largest town: the mayor of the territorial capitol makes it clear that this is in no way shape or form an approval for Misrayim to redraw the border. You assure him that the border is fine where it is, while your workers install turrets and cameras along the canal's new bed.

The plan is simple: use the tunneling machines to dig under the ground, and then collapse the roof to create a new canal in minutes. This gives an excuse for the borers to move around.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, Chaim Rozenweig is in the territory; as part of his investigation, he decides to learn about tunneling techniques.

# Great chance for a fatal accident.

# Give him such a scare that he won't want to be around tunnels until well past Judgement Day.

# He's a botanist, not an engineer: mislead him into thinking that the tunneling systems are a lot slower and noisier than they actually are, so that he leaves thinking that it was just a rumor.

# Your people suspect that he's a cyborg: try to expose him.

You make conspicuous use of Heavy MECs to perform feats of superhuman strength during construction, and invite believers to observe the work; Noah has the Ark pulled close to the future canal by tugs, and looks on. He recognizes Damien. "My, my, the young lady has certainly worked out lately!" The new synthmuscle frames perform almost as well as the hydraulic ones when it comes to heavy lifting, and allow for fine manipulation comparable to that of a human worker; a mix of the two is employed for maximum efficiency. Zak draws the plans for the final part of the job, collapsing the artificial caves with a powerful sonic blast.

>>1158030
# go do a bit of menial work.

# do the catering or something.

# He's a botanist, not an engineer: mislead him into thinking that the tunneling systems are a lot slower and noisier than they actually are, so that he leaves thinking that it was just a rumor.

# Your people suspect that he's a cyborg: try to expose him.

>>1158030
# go do a bit of menial work.

# He's a botanist, not an engineer: mislead him into thinking that the tunnelling systems are a lot slower and noisier than they actually are, so that he leaves thinking that it was just a rumour.

>>1158030
# go do a bit of menial work.

# He's a botanist, not an engineer: mislead him into thinking that the tunneling systems are a lot slower and noisier than they actually are, so that he leaves thinking that it was just a rumor.

# Your people suspect that he's a cyborg: try to expose him.

>>1158030
>go do a bit of menial work.
>He's a botanist, not an engineer: mislead him into thinking that the tunneling systems are a lot slower and noisier than they actually are, so that he leaves thinking that it was just a rumor.
>Your people suspect that he's a cyborg: try to expose him.

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>>1158030

The Greenland factory is best kept out of the public eye, so it's assigned to continue its work on aerospace parts; the decades of experience learned there have turned building mostly-automated workshops for the Reach from a research project into a simple matter of engineering.

Damien, with a little help from Kat since the blue-haired MEC is unused to humanoid frames at this point, plays host to visiting dignitaries at the construction site; when they ask why all the work is going towards the two ports at either end, and none on the canal proper, they are told "You will see".

The Christian volunteers and the are put to work in the traditional (circa 1995) manner, digging, building levees, and generally putting a good show of showing competence and perseverance. Cameron Kirk Williams shows up for a short video segment on their labor of love; Kat and Damien make very much sure that anyone looking past Cameron's big smiling face will see Misray workers using properly modern technology to do the same job as the Christians that the reporter has just interrupted, only twice and a half as fast. The version that gets broadcast in believing territories requires a lot of creative editing to "stay on message" and omit Christian gang foremen praising Misray techniques, and the final episode - in which Cameron planned to address the unbelieving "help" that the "person in charge" is getting, only to find that a section of retaining wall has been literally completed under them while the interview occurred - simply

# does not air.

# airs from your transmitters, uncut.

As for the TOL fellows, they earn their MEC "downgrade" by assisting your and the believing crews; some end up working too close to the latter and convert, some return home with hopeful news for their loved ones, and one, who is close to turning 100, actually volunteers for heavy MEC conversion after seeing just how much ass heavies can kick. This is highly unusual, but not unique (an advantage of voluntary conversion is that it's easier to keep the privates intact), and it gets done with little delay, after which the new heavy

# is integrated into a work crew and will stay in Misrayim.

# is allowed to go back to TOL.

Zak takes Dr. Rozenweig on a tour of the underworks; he and Urist set up a demo that shows your tunnel-boring machines to be much slower than they actually are. Rozenweig puts his scientist hat back on and quickly calculates, much impressing your physicist and the dwarf castellan, that the work won't get done in time. They agree, and he offers to assist, however he is also shown that the canal mostly follows the old canal path and so it will be easier to go through softer terrain. In truth, the global earthquake erased the old path entirely, but Chaim is shown that the machines can move fast - as long as there was "previous subsidence". The rigged demo make the work a bit slower, but so it goes.

(1/2)

>>1158139
# airs from your transmitters, uncut.

# is integrated into a work crew and will stay in Misrayim.

>>1158139
# airs from your transmitters, uncut.

# is integrated into a work crew and will stay in Misrayim.

>>1158139
>airs from your transmitters, uncut.
>is integrated into a work crew and will stay in Misrayim.

>>1158139
# airs from your transmitters, uncut.

# is integrated into a work crew and will stay in Misrayim.

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>>1158139

(2/2)

Offhand, after the demo is over and Chaim is asked to make suggestions on what to plant around the canal, Zak asks him about his excellent health for his age; Chaim replies that swimming, a saving faith in Christ and a wonderfully made set of braces by Millennium Force artisans make all the difference. He takes off his khaki suit (and even shows some ankle) to reveal a full body brace with simple but well designed electromechanical assists for the hip, knee and ankle joints; the metalwork is good enough that Urist has to give it some praise. The change of focus makes Chaim put his preacher hat back on. "Unfortunately, it seems that most of us oldsters prefer to sit on their porch and rock their chairs away until eternal bliss. Alas, I am in a wheelchair most of the time, but the Lord has been merciful this week and I was able to put this contraption back on. I fear, though, that this will be my last mission trip." Chaim notices that Zak is over 100, and says that if he could, he would wish that it were possible for such a competent man to reach salvation; Urist cuts the botanist off by saying that "We will not be taken in", and that's that.

# Still, about that accident... Let's get the guy dead.

# Still, about that accident... let's break the braces.

# Good enough.

During the demo, Urist was able to get Chaim to talk about the Glorious Appearing a little bit, a story that he recorded and

# gives you the executive summary of.

# tells you more or less in full.

Elsewhere, Ely LeVey is reading one of her lectures against Pacifican policy, this time raving against sex ed.

"Imagine! Innocent children of 5 or 6 years of age being told homosexuality and surgical perversion is normal--being told the intricate facts of sexual intercourse--introduced to masturbation--even being taught the God-ordained commitment of marriage and the very concept of Man as the image of God is unimportant. Not only are young hearts and minds not ready for such information, but such blatantly graphic teaching strips children of their God-given innocence. And don't think for a moment that-"

"ATTENTION. ATTENTION."

Cordylon seems to have used her emergency access to take over ALL your transmitters.

# Let's hear it...

# Stop!

>>1158210

# Still, about that accident... Let's get the guy dead.


# tells you more or less in full.

# Let's hear it...

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>>1158199
>>1158182
>>1158178
>>1158171

Cordylon's ability to literally cut into every broadcast on Earth is an artifact of her access to the global PA system (in case of a canopy breach event, dinosaur-killer asteroid, or similar) and the fact that you've recently done this trick to replace Tsion and Cameron's truncated last episode with the whole thing. Ironically, a lot of people did not realize that this was an interruption - the believing media wasn't really able to say much about it - and berated Cameron for not staying on message; he'll be off the air a while, with any luck.

As of now, it seems that the otherwise parently heavy MEC has decided to ignore the chain of command. You can only countermand it on Earth: right now all your offworld antennas are in simplex receive mode for a signal that is tagged as having priority even over your orders.

"ATTENTION. ATTENTION."

>>1158232

Why? He's retiring! Killing him would only cause more problems, he's important, there would be an investigation of the work site, it'd be delayed past a year and we'd look bad, and we'd get more drama. Let him fuck off to a rest home in the temple.

>>1158234
>You can only countermand it on Earth.
"Cordylon, Please don't ignore the chain of command next time."
"Continue."

>>1158242
Then vote on Just breaking his braces.

>>1158210
Changing this >>1158232 too break his braces on the way out somehow. The 'air' disagreed or some shit.

>>1158210
# Good enough.

# tells you more or less in full.


# Let's hear it...
with a later chastisement on chain of command (if this doesn't warrant such a breech.)

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>>1158264
>>1158232

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o09L-hkrzhw

"THIS IS CANOPY STATION SITE MANAGER CORDYLON SPEAKING. I BRING YOU GOOD NEWS. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, HUMANITY HAS WONDERED IF THERE WAS LIFE ELSEWHERE IN THE UNVERSE.

TODAY, THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED.

PRELIMINARY DATA OBTAINED FROM PROBES LAUNCHED OUT OF HUMANITY'S FIRST INTERSTELLAR VESSEL INDICATE WITH GREAT CERTAINTY THAT OF THE ELEVEN MAJOR PLANETS FOUND WITHIN THE ALPHA CENTAURI A-B-C SYSTEM...

... THREE SHOW OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS COMPATIBLE WITH THE PRSENCE OF SIMPLE LIFE...

... AND ONE WAS SUSPECTED TO HARBOR SIGNS OF COMPLEX LIFE.

ACCORDING TO PROGRAM, A LANDER PROBE WAS AUTONOMOUSLY DISPATCHED...

... AND TRANSMITTED FOR FIVE MINUTES AFTER LANDING IN A BRACKISH WATER OCEAN, CONFIRMING THE PRESENCE OF ALGAE...

....BEFORE BEING SWALLOWED BY AN ICHTYOID CREATURE.

Thank you for your attention! You may now return to your scheduled broadcast transmissions. Jeb! Get back up here sweetie, you've got to help me pack, all my waldos are taken!"

# Add your own message.

# Cut to believing media.

>>1158376
# Add your own message.

"Good sirs and ladies of the world, believers and heathens, remember what I said about seeing the wonders of the universe? Well here is another one for you to enjoy..."

>>1158376
Oh this is just great.
Now i have to decide whether i want earth or aliens.

>>1158393
I don't have the small Mexican child saying "why not both?" picture / meme but you can imagine it here.

>>1158376
# Add your own message.

>The legion of light lets you return to you're normal boardcast.

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>>1158393
>>1158386

Telemetry from the subprobes show that the three-star system does indeed have three planets within the habitable zone; one is an ice ball - it looks a lot like Millennial Earth from the outside - but spectrometry shows that there's oxygen there. One seems covered in thick, purpleish fungal mats with little signs of complex life. The last one is largely a water world, with the only signs of land life being enormous tentacular algal mats that have grown up on the few islands' beaches. The "fish" picture is confused, immediately drawing speculation about whether it was a fish, or a log or some pumice, or maybe some machine's claw, but the balance of probability is that you've found a place with simple vertebrates. Big ones, too: due to needing a big antenna to talk to the main vessel as it slipped by, the probe was the size of a small car.

>>1158430
>one is an ice ball - it looks a lot like Millennial Earth from the outside

Watch it's another planet undergoing a premillenial dispensationalist apocalypse.

>>1158476
>>1158430
>Tfw the Machine god needs to go around on a galactic stage, fisting gods.

>>1158232
>>1158308

Chaim Rozenweig told Urist the story as one would tell it to a child, surmising despite Urist's grizzled appearance that he is young.

(1/3)

It is the day of the Lord's coming. Tsion Ben-Judah has been killed in Jerusalem, and Buck Williams and Rayford Steele are mortally wounded. Nicolae Carpathia is taking heat over the destruction of New Babylon as people who are dependent upon its financial resources are committing suicide over the loss of their fortunes. Mac McCullum goes to look for Rayford when he is called to go to Jerusalem to find Buck, disguised as a Global Community forces officer. It is there that he discovers that it is Buck who died by GC artillery. He is then called into a meeting held by Nicolae Carpathia in an underground bunker set up in Solomon's Stables, where he witnesses Suhail Akbar being dressed down for mentioning about New Babylon's destruction, the brutal slaying of a Global Community officer for his nervousness, and Lucifer briefly departing from Nicolae to remind him that he is nothing more than a shell for him to dwell in. Over in the United States, Enoch Dumas continues his ministry to bring as many no-account street people as he could find to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior before His coming.

Meanwhile in Petra, Abdullah Smith finds Rayford mortally wounded but still alive. He calls Leah Rose for medical help, who then has Razor show up in an ATV to safely transport Rayford back to the compound. Chaim Rosenzweig visits Rayford in the infirmary to give him company when he gets the call that Buck has died. While Mac is en route to Petra, the moon suddenly disappears from the night sky, and then lightning flashes and meteors come falling down upon the Global Community forces, squashing a minority of them but not stopping them from advancing. Mac joins Rayford and Chaim in the infirmary during the ensuing darkness that lasts a few hours when they see "the sign of the Son of Man", a cross made of electrical energy, appear in the sky. The instant that it appears, Rayford is miraculously and completely healed of all his injuries, and Leah and Hannah Palemoon see that all their patients in the infirmary are also miraculously healed. As Chang Wong and Naomi Tiberias discover on their computers, the cross in the sky also made the number of new Jewish converts suddenly jump, fulfilling prophecy that a third of Israel shall be saved.

(1/3)

>>1158488

(2/3)

At this point, Nicolae Carpathia joins with Leon Fortunato to lead the Global Community troops around Petra to storm the city and overtake the believers. As they begin to advance upon the city, the cross disappears from the sky and suddenly immobilizes the troops, causing them to be stuck with their vehicles and weapons and lights inoperable. But seconds after that, a bright thick blinding shadowless light covers the land, and everyone sees that coming out of heaven is Jesus Christ with His army of saints following behind Him. He speaks, "I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Almighty", and as He speaks, the Global Community troops around Petra all die. Nicolae and Leon flee to Bozrah, hoping that the troops stationed there will prevail against Jesus and His army, but the same thing happens there: Jesus speaks, and all the troops and GC resources are destroyed, their corpses becoming food for the birds of the air.

While this happens, Rayford, Mac, and Abdullah chase after Nicolae and Leon in a Hummer, watching the tremendous carnage as the majority of the remaining Unity Army forces are killed at the Valley of Megiddo amidst the words of Jesus and the hailstones that fall at the seventh Bowl Judgment. Nicolae and Leon are traveling to Jerusalem in the Royal Humvee with Viv Ivins when this happens, during which Viv Ivins is killed by one of the massive hailstones. God turns the marshes of blood to ice, which soon melts and becomes a thick mire. As Nicolae and Leon try to flee to Jerusalem, all the people in Petra are given supernatural power to travel from there to Jerusalem by running at 70 miles per hour. When they finally reach Jerusalem, Nicolae attempts to storm the Jewish rebels hiding at the Temple Mount with an army on horseback, but the troops are afflicted with a flesh-dissolving plague that affects both humans and horses. Nicolae tries to curse God, but the moment he tries, a global earthquake occurs that levels all the mountains and elevates Jerusalem.

Nicolae and Leon then gallop off to the Mount of Olives in a final attempt to destroy Jesus and the army of saints, along with the Jewish rebels, but the instant Jesus steps foot on the mountain, it splits into a valley running from east to west, causing the last feeble vestiges of the Global Community forces to fall as the rebels rejoice at Jesus' return; the Global Community is finally no more. Nicolae and Leon are briefly seen fleeing on horseback, but to no avail, as the Archangel Michael captures them.

(2/3)

>>1158482
This truly is
BIZZARO 40K

>>1158492

(3/3)
After Jesus enters Jerusalem through the Golden Gate, He calls all believers unto Himself and greets them all simultaneously, speaking to each of them individually and supernaturally. Following this event, Nicolae and Leon are brought before Jesus for judgment along with Ashtaroth, Baal, and Cankerworm, the three froglike spirits that came from the mouths of Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet. The three spirits fearfully humble themselves before Jesus prior to being destroyed. Leon also bows before Jesus and proclaims to renounce the works of Satan and Antichrist, but is still sentenced to the Lake of Fire due to the atrocities he committed. Nicolae refuses to bow before Jesus, but ends up doing so when Satan is cast out of him, confessing that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, and that his own life was a waste. At Jesus' command, Michael throws Nicolae and Leon into a hole in the ground that leads to the Lake of Fire, where they are banished for eternity, their suffering and writhing in the eternal flames is heard briefly before the hole closes. Jesus also deals with Satan, having Michael the archangel bound him up in a chain and then taken into the bottomless pit, where he is to remain until the thousand years are finished.

When this gathering had ended, Rayford and all the single men join Chaim in his house for a delicious meal of freshly-cut lamb from a Jewish butcher who had then reopened shop with a line of animals just waiting to be butchered. All the single women and the married people with children went to Eleazar Tiberias' house for the same. They realize from their Bible studies that the coming of the Lord actually isn't the start of the Millennial Kingdom period, but rather there is a 75-day period between His coming and the start of that Kingdom, derived from Daniel's prophecy of the 1290 Days.

On the day following the Lord's return, all the people of the earth, including believers, are gathered at the new Valley of Jehoshaphat for the "sheep and goats" judgment by Jesus Himself. All the believers who were considered the "sheep" Jesus had granted them to enter into His kingdom for caring for "the least of His brethren", and all the others that were the "goats", that didn't care for "the least of His brethren", were sent away into everlasting punishment. After this, Jesus rewarded the Old Testament saints for their faith, and then rewarded the Tribulation martyrs for their faithful witness. When this was done, Rayford is happily reunited with his wife Irene and his son Raymie, now fully grown, as well as with his friends and family members that went on to be with Jesus ahead of him. Buck (now going by his first name Cameron) and Chloe re-unite with Kenny, Tsion and Chaim are re-united as well as Abdullah and his wife Yasmine. Rayford tells Irene that she is entitled to "one cosmic I-told-you-so" before they are all re-united with the rest of the resurrected members of the Tribulation force.

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"Wait" Urist said at that point, finding absolutely nothing funny about Rayford's quip "nobody tried to stop this? That seems unlikely. Everybody was acting stupidly."

Chaim, preacher hat fully on at this point, told the Dwarf that the point of the Tribulation Force wasn't to cancel the apocalypse, but to witness it, and bring the good news to as many people as possible during it.

"Right, but... Carpathia was the leader of the world, right? He didn't do anything other than a cavalry charge? No nukes? No missiles?"

Chaim answers that Carpathia had all nukes destroyed three years before. Urist harrumphs. "And nobody else did anything?"

"Wait... Now that I think of it. Yes, there were several young men, one looking much like yourself." The botanist looks considerably more wizened now, mind lost in the past after spending a healthy few hours having been given an interesting puzzle to solve. "Yes, yes, they were running around with one of those tanks of yours, without a gun on it. The poor fools. Loyal to Carpathia even to the end. I remember seeing them set up derricks from Petra. They made an awful lot of light... at the time we thought they were trying to outshine the Cross, and laughed. Lots of noise, too. I believe - yes, I believe that one of their machines, the tank, was hit by a meteor."

"Did you ever see them again?"

"No, they'd all taken the Mark, likely as not... of course... Wait, yes, I saw one. It was during the Sheep and Goats. Tall fella, chubby, girly face, sort of fru-fru voice. Had a megaphone. Something about hospitality. And then the Earth gobbled them up, and the last thing out of the megaphone was, remember us..."

Chaim hugged himself in the cave, and shivered. "Thank you for the tour, young man, I've seen quite enough. Hospitality, yes, I appreciate yours, and good work, and I don't believe that I have business here. Please, think about the good news. Once more, the time is short."

>>1158268

On the way home, you arrange for Chaim's RV to be hit by a squad of TOL workers carrying rebar; the impact is minor, but Chaim is thrown from the RV's bed where he was resting and suffers a 30-centimeter fall; he tanks the Lord for having been uninjured. The ornate brace ends up under the RV's wheels, and Chaim, taking it as a sign, announces that this was his last mission trip. Nevertheless, the Suez Canal Directive Committee, desperate for anything relevant to do, gives the Misrayim Tabernacles delegation a brand new RV as a gift to Children of the Tribulation.

# You still have 12 cabals to allocate.

>>1158555
I say we send parts up to the reach.

>>1158555
>You still have 12 cabals to allocate.

>Do a space launch using parts you have built.
Reach, moon, mars and 4 cabals.
>Build aerospace parts.
8 cabals.

>>1158555
So someone tried to break narrative causality before... We will remember.
Supporting space parts.
>>1158592
>>1158598

>>1158386
>>1158420

"Ladies and gentlemen, believers and heathens, this breaking news item has been courtesy of the Legion of Light, protecting Humanity on Earth and beyond. For more about the wonders of the universe, be sure to tune in to channels 18 or 216. The Legion of Light will now allow your regular broadcasts to continue."

The video of the flyby is grainy, and since it's only been a few minutes since you received it, your editors haven't had time to generate much in the way of infographics. Nevertheless, the sheer amount of people tuning into the stream is enough to slow your systems down a little, just out of sheer bandwidth usage.

Ely LeVey hadn't realized that she had been interrupted and kept reading her anti-sex-ed tirade.

"... what I have learned and want you to know is this is being taught in schools across Pacifica, perhaps in _your_ child's school. You see, the Bissattini Administration's Department of Science and the Department of Health and Personhood Services are now distributing sexuality training information to province, local, and territorial policy makers."

When she is asked to comment about the news, she has no idea what the callers are talking about, and ends up berating the believing callers to her show for wanting to talk about "the moon and the stars and all that nonsense".

Your space engineers drink deeply from the bucket of environmental data that traveled 4 light years, and determine that the changes necessary to optimize the Reach's hab modules are relatively small; an immediate launch will require one workgroup to make adjustments in orbit, while delaying launch by one year will allow the modifications to be made with little expense of manpower.

You have to assign a good chunk of your sysadmins to routing calls around Timbuktu to make sure that work can continue unimpeded by the estimated four million calls asking how much will a seat on the Reach cost.

>>1158598
>>1158605
>>1158592

(6 part build, or some launches?)

>>1158605

(A plug for my previous game, Tripocalypse. Obviously, in this continuity, they failed)

>>1157447
>4 Points on increasing Egypt and West America's Prosperity

The rest of the heros not doing anything will help with the spaceee stuff.

>3 Points on launches
>3 Points towards Reach parts launching

>>1158613
>6 part build, or some launches?
We have 3 parts and I'm assuming Luna and Mars are building their own parts to launch so 6 launches and 6 to build parts.

>>1158618
We already did prosperity.

>>1158638

(That was last turn, FWIW)

>>1158638
Last turn, We're gonna increase it more. Its worth it seriously.

>>1158650
Pacifica is at 2 right now so I'll support it. You also forgot that Luna and Mars can build an launch their own parts so in this turn Reach should be finished.
Can we do a science fair again?

>>1158637
Supporting

>>1158663
Dones't it cost Cabal's to build on Luna and Mars?

Aren't we still on the same turn? Nowait. I'm wrong.

>>1158673
I think Luna and mars count as their own cabal now.

>>1158663

Science fairs are already in place in both territories.

>>1158673

Cost is the same. However, the colonies can now be used for most anything that a base can do, so you have a much more lax "you have enough cabals but not enough bases" limit now. In addition, now that there is some amount of back-and-forth traffic, if you ever need a Selenite or a Martian for a job on Earth, you can count on having them available.

Martians have excellent sense of direction and can adapt quickly to any gravity situation (Earth or space) since they're in the middle. They are also very good jacks of all trades, by necessity of being a small community light-minutes from everything else. Born Martians are still too young to be recruited: these stats are about colonists who have been there for years.

Selenites have adapted to the lunar circadian by managing to beat even a Glorified in the mental stamina department: they can stay awake (and actually alert) for days at a time without stimulants. This makes them excellent sharpshooters, on average. However they are physically weak due to the lower gravity.

How many airborne drones do we have? Enough to create shade in GJ? Should make more if that's not the case.

>>1158691
>Science fairs are already in place in both territories.
Oh, i thought you said we could do it again to gain some more general improvements but ok.

>>1158692

You do, in fact, have enough drones to blot out the sun over a pretty wide area, if you make them carry mylar sheets and connect them in threes or fours.

>>1158696

They are ongoing yearly events, and factor into the research bonus; the cost (and prosperity gain for setting up science museums and the like) is only for the first year.

(Sorry for asking again, but what is the current plan? You have 12 cabals available).

# Spend 1 extra cabal per Reach part to adapt them immediately. The Reach is 15/20 complete, and only needs the Hab modules to be installed.

# Wait until next year.

>>1158234

# Spend 1 extra cabal per Reach part to adapt them immediately. The Reach is 15/20 complete, and only needs the Hab modules to be installed.

i'm for it, lets us focus on loading it with people and then prepping our assault.

>>1158735
This >>1158618
But add Luna and mars launching Reach parts.
How many parts do we need to adapt?

>>1158735
this >>1158618
But get the Moon and mars to launch Reach parts. and have Jeb do the retro-fitting of stuff.

>>1158742
Shit scratch that he only has 3 cabals on launching(I don't know ho2 i missed that)
Instead i support

>6 cabals on Reach launches.
>Luna and mars on reach launches.
>4 cabals improve prosperity in pacifica.
>2 cabals do whatever.

>>1158742

You will need to adapt five Hab modules.

>>1158745

Barring exceptional events prosperity can only be improved one tick at a time, however, an exceptional event is in place: people are still receiving the reflex bio-upgrade to the Mark 10 controller.

The other exceptional event that is in place is that you have just taken an important step towards becoming an interstellar civilization, and understandably, Misrays are glowing with national and cultural pride.

>>1158745
2 Cabals build Drone Parts. Tanks.

>>1158751
>>1158745
Its for Pacifica AND Egypt.

>>1158764
Egypt is at 5 prosperity, it doesn't need a boost.

Jeb, that planet in the Alpha Centuari system, the one covered in ice, based on it's proximity to the sun and assuming physics were working normally, is it being covered in ice an impossibility?

>>1158768
It does, Because if we get too 10, We fuck the Script up even worse because GJ is no longer the 'greatest' place to live, Thus ruining the whole 'god' is the greatest prodiver and stuff.

>>1158751
>You will need to adapt five Hab modules.
So it's 3 cabals per part?

Change my list to
>9 cabals on Reach launches.
>Luna and Mars on Reach launches.
this gives us 3 left.

>>1158735
I say get the Reach set up and prepped to go, though if the water world planet has the curae on it I am so going to be upset with you Geist, please please please don't go full subnautica on us.

>>1158775

In this case, yes. You can also adapt only a few, and do the next next year.

>>1158778

(I haven't played that game, sorry! Last thing I played was XCOM2, this quest has taken up much of my gaming time!)

>>1158775
i'll take this if the qm takes it, otherwise i'll help adjust.

three cabals left can be used for this
>get the MEC upgrade Andrews made for all your forces.

>>1158784
>>1158775

(Y'all tell me. The plan is feasible without undermanning. Right now, your rule is very popular with your "associates". If you had 9 cabals build a cliff and then jump off it, they would build the cliff and 1 cabal worth of people would jump).

>>1158782
Scary enough but what you described of a water world if a lot of fungi based life mixed in with just giant sized critters is already hitting alot of danger will robinson vibes for me. Would not surprise me that the waterworld turns out to be the aftermath of a racial ascension.

That being said after we build the reach and send it on its way anyone got any ideas for what we should do afterwards? I'm thinking that we really aught to make sure that we can bring more people o-

Hey guys, that story with Charim or whatever he's called, that made me think. The whole prophesy bit requires there to be an army outside of the temple and for the big J to say the words right? We've been focusing so hard on possibilites of just stopping him past that point that I don't think we've actually taken into account another option here.

What if we just don't have an army outside the temple to bumrush?

Like wouldn't that break the story then if there isn't an army to come rushing the temple itself? It's not like the big J is going to teleport to random crowds and say I am to everyone...

>>1158792
I recall we had an idea of just evacuating instead of trying to stop TJ but that had the unfortunate implication of earth being gone forever.
Also the army not being there might not break the prophecy, TJ will utter IAM and the earth will be bathed in fire, with or without Satan.

>>1158792
it's this line of thinking that made me come up with the plane of having the army come up from under the temple and release all the gas.

no army "Around" the temple.

>>1158792

That's a good question. You don't quite have the technology to wipe out TOL's army in one go like the prophecy says, but you can get it done in an hour or so, assuming all goes well. Unless you crack the canopy and drop a Dresden bombing worth of fuel-air explosives.

(Nukes don't seem to have been much of a thing)

>>1158810
>>1158792
So hit TOL on there way there?

Also, I was hoping we could derail the script as well, by having a place better then NJ. Aka get Egypt to 10 Props. Something we CAN do.

>>1158841
>i'd rather not put Egypt at risk right now, that's our entry into TOL's lines so that we can quickly wipe them out if they try and head into GJ.

>>1158852
it'll take 5 years, Meaning They will be moving into combat by then and would have to focus on GJ or be wiped out.

>>1158854
I know, but if raising Misrayim/Egypt to 10+ prosperity triggers another Pacifica like event, imagine how underprepared we would be.

>>1158862
we would't Tho, Unless Qm has something we're not aware of something urusuping GJ as a better place?

>>1158865
If there's something that can break the NC train, there's no doubt that there's going to be a response. Not that I think its a bad idea to have as many pots on the stove as possible. Elevating ourselves above GJ is a good idea. Others could include eliminating the vast conventional army of TOL, starting in +994 to +998 rather than waiting until the last moment, smashing sainted genitals, and lowering GJ are also ideas. I like starting early in particular, it gives us a lot more control if something goes wrong.

>>1158865

Your theologians have, a long time ago, estimated that were it possible to bring a significant part of the population to such standards of living that even believers would have to admit that heaven pales in comparison, the entire edifice of Yahwist supremacy would crumble.

As of right now, it's a bit of a risky strategy, since it takes significant time. However, the consensus amongst your analysists is that the more irons in the fire, the better.

>>1158871
I'm all for setting up and stopping the TOL from marching, But we also need to increase/start now doing that AND move our army to stop TOL. We have 12 dudes now, Split'em between the launches and use villians on other stuff to stop failures?

>>1158874
Anything mentioning that 'greater' areas are destoryed or ripped down?

>>1158877
We have 3 spare cabals so yea, we can increase prosperity this turn.

>>1158877

Not in anything you have uncovered.

(is >>1158745 good?)

>>1158882
That leaves us an extra cabal. What do, also now I am not convinced, QM, did we already improve prosperity this turn?

>>1158883
Where do the villains go in that?

>>1158885
not this turn, We did it last turn.

>>1158883
Sure split prosperity growth between Pacifica and Misrayim.

>>1158883
This is fine with me

>>1158885

You did last turn.

>>1158893
>>1158888

(Okay... can someone recap it please. OOC note: if you have an extra cabal, send them to snoop around somewhere, or take on a complexity-2 job and roll the die)

Too tired to think straight. Anons.

>>1158895
>6 cabals on Reach launches.
>Luna and mars on reach launches.
>4 cabals improve prosperity in pacifica and misrayim
>2 cabals to kidnap Tsion

This work?

>>1158910

(Works mechanically, I guess? I can arrange cabals between launches for you. Sorry about being anal with the rules, but there's ten turns left, so every move counts!)

>>1158895
this >>1158910 but with the villians sent.

>Jeb on Reach parts

>Ithuriel and Zak on increasing prosperity in Egypt or west America.

>Kat and Damien fucking with Tsion somehow?

>>1158913
Question. Were we able to tell if it was TJ or god who attacked us when we played machine god?

>>1158914
>>1158913
Villains set looks good to me. Taking Tsion out of commission would be its own reward, but if anons support this, we could use him as an angel-spawn and we can research them in order to become more proficient in dealing with them. Short of the almighty, they are our most powerful opponents, and it would pay off to get better at breaking them for the final battle. I may be entirely off-base here, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

>>1158919

The being that managed to interact with you without your consent identified as I AM. Your theologians analyzed the transcript and agree strongly, but not unanimously, that this was Yahweh. As of now Yahweh believes, correctly, that what little soul you have is suffering in Hell, as much as a computer can really experience suffering, which isn't much. Mostly, it messed mightily with the temperature sensors in your datacenters. You narrowly avoided releasing Halon gas on your system administrators.

>>1158914

Kat, Damien and Zak have been busy in the Middle East with messing with Chaim Rozenweig and assisting in building the new canal.

>>1158925
Just ignore those 3 then and put the rest where I said then.

So.. i just realized maybe we can distract TJ and ''god' at the final battle by having everybody else pray. We might get fried but we can make a back up yes?

Guys, Tsion is too dangerous a target for that few. He's a five cabal target at the least.

>>1158936
>>1158925
If his too much a target, just ignore him then? I thought we could I'll trust you anti. I gusse put up mk 3 eyes then.

Rolled 69, 65 = 134 (2d100)

>>1158910

After the Centauri System announcement, the Timbuktu launch complex gets more visitors than it's been getting since the first heroic canopy breaching attempts, especially since these are the habitats which are going to the Reach. Your engineers aren't done customizing them to what is known of the alien environment just yet, but they hope to be able to do so next year.

On Luna, a specially-assembled fuel module is sent to dock with the Reach directly, the first finished product of local industry to leave the surface.

On Mars, the Imperium Profugus returns home from its usual bi-monthly trip with a series of soil samples and a prototype hab to go to the Reach; the Martians accept a bit of privation in order to share the results of their brand of seat-of-pants engineering with the rest of Humanity. After all, unlike the habs built on Earth, theirs was born in a hostile environment.

Jeb, alas, had a heart attack listening to Cordylon's announcement. He was one of the first people to get the reflex injection, so getting used to not having a sense of touch will be easier for him than for those who came before; nevertheless, as is typical of the newly revenants, he takes a perhaps overly cerebral attitude on the matter and throws himself into managerial duties. Cordylon reports to a psychquisitor that on the HMEC's end, the sex is now considerably better, but doesn't give details.

Ithuriel has little to do: Misrayim and Pacifica both are exploding with patriotic and cultural fervor, one due to the historic announcement, and the other due to the simple fact that the biotech business is booming: Ryan Andrews has promised a final cure for the MEC condition within five years, Tethys' people have finished situating themselves, and Pacifica in general became one big party when the Alpha Centauri report came in. Kat-style molecular gastronomy restaurants have proliferated, growth enzymes have brought the great redwood forests back to where they belonged, and Mr. Bissattini has been an excellent politician; he knows that his job is to give your administration a human face, and doesn't try to be anything more than that. Of note, Pacifican manufacturers strike a deal with Heartlanders to improve wastewater treatments in the few cities that are left.

>>1158943
>>1158936

(Tsion, or Mk3s? If Mk3s, pick 3 territories that do not have a blue arrow)