>>1588109
BEST. INTRO. EVER.

>Oh.” Lee says. “Well, glad to hear you missed me enough to pick my apartment clean.”

Lee is the best human speaker.

Daily reminder

>Raid OQ
>Read the locked memories of that thinker.
>Board a scav vessel for their FTL.
>Send a diplomacy team to earth.
>Build that new FTL prediction building.
>Take Reprive (I think that is the system that our mother made her last stand and it only has mining corvetts, it would be a great test for our raiding fleet.)
How long have i been doing this for?

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>>1588109
can we have our hero sniffers retired to the embassy?

also
>gas the void
>spacewar now

>>1588126
>spoiler

Keep doing it. It tradition already.
Just like our moto of
"Gas the squids
Nuke the whales etc..."

>>1588137
which reminds me;

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

>>1588143
Best moto ever.

Lee has the best friends, really, how many people would miss you so much to be troubled to go gather your things.

>>1588160
They're Taidarens. They were there to take all his stuff and sell it.

>>1588165
Hey Lee was, suposely, dead. Besides it would have being better they sellung it then leaving it be destroyed in the apartment demolition.

Reminder to not go near 4-dimensional crystals, no matter how their mysterious angles seduce and beguile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZp0ETdD37E

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>>1588109
"Hold fire!" General Cunningham says, and you hear the order echo from other humans until a klaxon sounds in the base and a voice blasts over the facility.

"Atomic artillery holding fire. Return to standard operations per ambient radiation level." You watch as shuttles and short range gunships land one after another as human troops load in quickly, each lifting off just as another lands in its place. It is a well rehearsed and well organized system sending hundreds of human troops into the air in moments. The General watches it with scrutiny, finding any and every misstep even from this distance and devising drills in his head to run the men through to fix each one. He turns to your speaker.

"I'll leave the subterranean attack up to you. Your gestalt intelligence will be able to coordinate that better than we could hope to. While I don't want to leave the entire fight to you, I don't want a bunch of outsiders throwing off your cohesion. Let me know when to send in troops so they don't get in your way." He says. "We can mop up and let you move on to the next-"

"Icoming!" Someone screams as a number of thunderous booms echo across the horizon and a siren begins to sound. Lights flash brightly marking the entrances to bomb shelters as PD guns along the walls extend from their armored housings.

"Bring up the shield!" Cunningham shouts, and he turns to your drone. "I doubt there is time to bring your forces back under the projectors, but while we're taking hits we won't be able to give any covering fire or deploy our forces."

>Charge the enemy position with your titan
>Have airborne drones attempt a bombing run on the scavenger artillery
>Deploy your subterranean attack forces

>>1588207
>>Have airborne drones attempt a bombing run on the scavenger artillery
use them as a distraction to
>Deploy your subterranean attack forces

>>1588207
>Have airborne drones attempt a bombing run on the scavenger artillery

Because this also gives us the option to do some areal recon.

>>1588207
>>Have airborne drones attempt a bombing run on the scavenger artillery
>>Deploy your subterranean attack forces
Tunneling is a hive specialty.

>>1588207
>Have airborne drones attempt a bombing run on the scavenger artillery
>Deploy your subterranean attack forces

We keep Titan-kun for the final push.

>>1588207
>>Have airborne drones attempt a bombing run on the scavenger artillery
>>Deploy your subterranean attack forces

soon my glorious Titan, soon

>>1588207
>Have airborne drones attempt a bombing run on the scavenger artillery
>Deploy your subterranean attack forces

Save the Titan for when we know it will break them, rather than dying shamefully halfway across the open field. Maybe once the other attacks are already engaged.

Can i just say that i love the fact that this war is basicaly turning out to be the humans trying to not look as if they had a ineficient army in the hive eyes?

>>1588267
I know anon, but we need to lower the scav batteries so Titan-kun won't be kockned out by the focused fire of it.

Ah now that im in a live thread:

Idea for the psyonic cloak: Make our creep generate the cloak thoughts and line nodes along the drone routes that are minor simple relays, marking out paths through the obscufation. Having the nodes be destroyable to prevent enemy useage. Would make seiging us a real damn pain in the ass, like trying to punch fog.

>>1588207
The triplets quickly adjust their figures, scooting them into position as they orient a number of large, haphazard looking guns and one of them flashes a small laser measure from its base to the targets. One after another, the triplets quickly pull out small paper circles as they calculate the drift of their units attacks.

"Rockets first!"
"Many!"
"Make things gooey pulp."
"Tasty pulp... yes tasty." They chirp as they bob their heads in small circles to examine the distance between the figures and begin tossing dice. Lee grabs a number of small winged figures, and clicks a switch on their bases that makes them float into the air on a field of magnetism, and the table pulls their base forward.

"Good thing too." Lee says. "With all that activity you made it a lot easier to get in a deep strike." He places several large roughly worm-like creatures in the midst of the plastic cannon figures, and he tosses a set of dice.

Please roll 2d100, best of 3, first for your airstrike, second for tunneling drones to attack.

Rolled 62, 23 = 85 (2d100)

>>1588303
For Mother!

Rolled 48, 40 = 88 (2d100)

>>1588303

Rolled 97, 89 = 186 (2d100)

>>1588303

>>1588314
Thank you, Glorious Anon!

>>1588314
YEEEAH BUDDY.

This is a good start.

>>1588314
Praise mother

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>>1588314
Scavs are about to get ganked hard.

>>1588314
Thkse poor scavs...also excelent idea QD using Lee's pass time to give a ample view of our battle field.

On a side note can Lee become the hive strategist? I bet a lot of quantum thinkers are already plucking ideas from his head since he became psionic sensitive.

>>1588351
We are better strategist than he is.

Gotta say QD, I love the juxtaposition of Lee and his friends with their minis and us with our real forces helping the Commonwealth. Great job!

>>1588363
>>1588351
It was Grave's idea, actually

>>1588296
Not sure what you mean. The only psionic cloaking I'm aware of also cuts off the cloaked thing from the rest of the Hive.

>>1588373
Doesn't matter still a great idea and you are doing pretty well.

>>1588378
The queen who we rescued lived with those xenos who used overlapping psionic thoughts to mask the very existance of their part of the planet.

We are researching psionic spores, which are a part of the hive creep. The idea is to mix the two in a fashion that does not disable our own drones.

>>1588397
> in a fashion that does not disable our own drones.

Yeah, that's where you lost me.

The psionic cloaking cuts off Hive communication.

>>1588296
I like this idea

>>1588378
That's what the small relays are for, to allow our forces to "see" through the fog.

>>1588296
I'll support a research project if QD says it's feasible.
I'm a bit skeptical it will work like that, though.

>>1588473
Normal thoughts send out psionic signals that require being close to detect, it should fit within the framework of possibility of the setting.

>>1588373
I love that you two work so well together....wonder how the hive would fare if they ran into the new necrotic armada...

>>1588303
"Reaction rolls!" The triplets squeak as they toss their dice, and then clatter their bone plates in disgust.

You find several dozen artillery cannons set up along the industrial facility, or what is left of it. The radiation makes it difficult to find the target at range at first as they fire from fields of hot glass, and a sudden swarm of blaster fire takes down several of your drones as they close in, diving from the sky towards the gun emplacements until you manage to make out a proper look at their position. They are small, compact cannons set on wheeled trailers. Some have been drug out by alphas in power suits, while others are hitched to vehicles both scavenger and human in design, military and civilian both. They seem to have been hauled out of their shelters the moment the artillery stopped.

Your drones unleash their volley of weapons fire and begin to rip into the guns as anti-air shells burst in the air around them. Several more drones burst open from the incoming fire, but you are losing fewer than you had anticipated, and as the dust begins to settle and the drones swoop back up into the air, you find more hits than you had initially hoped for. The ridgeline of guns have been decimated, and your drones begin to swoop back for a second run on the survivors, tearing into the AA positions as scavengers scramble in a mad panic at the echoing screech of your diving aircraft.

The lights flicker in the bunker as scavengers sprint along corridors and shake the debris of falling rubble and dust from their armor. The walls crack and crumble, and several scavengers watch with a spreading chemical signal of unease, until the floor collapses, and several grunts fall into the sinkhole of dirt and compacted clay bellow. They try to claw their way back up, when one of them is pulled waste deep into the mud with a sickening crunch as it lets out a panic signal and its spines clamor in a cacophony of agony. Its body begins to thrash from side to side as it is drawn deeper into the soil, its arms clawing at the ground as it sinks away into the mud as neon blood seeps up from where it vanished. The others scramble all the more fiercely, crying out for help. Another's foot sinks down and bends sharply to the right as it trips, and something quickly drags it back down into the sinkhole as it rattles in a panic to the others. A pack alpha watching from the edge quickly places several bolts into the grunt's torso as it the body slips beneath the soil, and orders the others to open fire into the dirt. The soil rumbles, and then rushes forth in a sudden eruption of mud and clay that sends the surrounding scavengers flying back as a colossus erupts from the ground and crashes into the ceiling. Burning plasma licks from its mandibles, and it sprays a formation of scavengers as they quickly melt apart, their bodies dissolving into chunky puddles of burning slag and crisp, brittle bones.

cont.

SUP BITCHES WE HEARD THERE WAS A PARTY

>>1588548
Wow gettung a Starship Tropper/Tremors vibe from this underground attack. Glorious carnage

>>1588522
I doubt that would turn out well, graves is a passable story teller but an almost hilariously terrible QM.

>>1588573
Pretty damn sure if there are any survivors from fighting this battle, they are going to make PTSD look like a cake walk.

>>1588572
Not saying: "Were is the convenient seatting!!!"

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For mother!

>>1588548
Oh boy.

Welp guess we are getting some good PR today boyis!!

>>1588522
I've been curious to see who would win in a fight

A Reconstructed Troll or a Hive Warrior

>>1588574
Really? Thought he was decent enough

You know what is the scariest part of this post?

this one
>cont

>>1588495
That's a total non sequitur.

Psionic cloaking is not 'obscufation'[sic], it acts as a complete, absolute seeming-nonexistence-field. Relays only generate the cloaking field, no amount of power or relays can penetrate it or 'mark out paths' through it once it's active.

>>1588607
The Troll. A heavy warrior would be a tossup though, but I'd still bet on the Troll if it was melee only 1v1.

>>1588618
Well until QM states either way, im going to push the idea.

I dunno if you guys had some little chat in the wikki about it, but ill keep popping out ideas. Far as im aware the field is generated by the combined thoughts, but if we have something that stands out for the drones to look for, they could just ignore the field all together.

If possible i imagine itd be expensive and upkeep heavy.

>>1588628
I dunno, I'm pretty sure the Heavy Warrior would wipe the floor with a Troll even in a melee only.

Heavies are pretty dang big

>>1588628
I like to think that the troll would be able to relatively easily break through the Heavy Warrior's carapace,but the warrior would be just a bit faster/more nimble(relative to the troll). While it wouldn't save its life,it would make groups of them more troublesome.

>>1588609
By what metric? He's dumbed down the crunch in his quest to the point where anything quantified by numbers no longer holds any meaning or impact to the actual outcome of events. Combine that with the fact that he basically makes every significant political decision himself instead of giving the players control, and you're left with a situation in which the players themselves have no real impact on the direction or outcome of the quest anymore. I mean, he went ahead and provided the armatocere with that elemental power unconditionally...after the players voted not to give it to them unconditionally.

What kind of a QM does that sort of thing? DATS might make for a decent enough story, but it can scarcely be regarded as quest at this point, much less the sort of civ-lite graves keeps selling it as.

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Hey neat I almost forgot it was HQQ night

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>>1588663
Yeah, I am pretty shit when you put it that way

Oh gee, I swear whenever Grave is in the quest he gets shat on

>>1588684
lmao right?

>>1588674
Isn't your name a little bit redundant?

>>1588663
I have never seen any of Grave's quests, but even if everything you said is true there's no need to shit up other quests by complaining. Especially since QD is grave's friend.

>>1588712
Why would it be redundant? I keep my name up because I like it.

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>>1588678
NO BULLY

>>1588749
No no, what he means is that a QM calling themselves a cursed qm is like a witch calling themselves a filthy heretic witch. Redundancy in meaning, I believe.

>>1588548
Several ghost beetles emerge from the mud, skulking low to the ground like panthers as they lunge forth and rip apart several stragglers as the others flee to the doors and seal them shut. Warriors pull themselves from the mud, clawing forth to the shattered concrete as they rush to the steel doors, bashing them in as the metal slowly gives way with each impact and a flood of panic pheromones seeps in from the cracks where they huddle in a defensive position.

The first door gives way, and the warrior is peppered with a hail of blaster bolts that seer its carapace and blisters its joints as its legs crack and pop with boiled blood as its armor sublimates away layer by layer. It opens fire, ripping into the scavengers as its tail plucks one of them and bashes it to the ground behind it, only for it to be drug back into the room of drones where several warriors tear it apart while more ghost beetles rush in between their legs. They sprint in from side to side, evading what blaster fire they can as their tails whip out and slice open several scavengers in passing as they lunge at their targets. The scavengers rip at them with their own claws in a desperate panic as the drones rip open their torsos with their mandibles and shred their neural clusters with a spray of neuro-fluid that sends them into brief spasms as their claws slide down the sides of your drones in a vain and autonomic last attempt to claw them off, and the ghost beetles quickly turn to the others, their mandibles dripping with blood and neuro-fluid as they lean forward on their forelimbs like a predator ready to pounce, their blades digging into the floor as blood splatters lightly in small streaks off them with the faint vibrations of the micro-muscles and wisps of smoke swirl from the tips from the growing heat.

The first takes a blaster bolt to the shoulder, sending it rolling back as its carapace cracks and simmers, and the other lunges forward with its blades outstretched, sinking deep into the scavenger's armor. A scavenger pup dives for it, knocking it off the grunt as it grips its arm and presses against the hanging chunk of flesh. It glances back up, twisting its arm to aim its blaster as two warriors descend upon it, fighting over its body as they tug on either end until the grunt is torn in half and the drones crack open its armor like a steamed shellfish.

You can hear alarms begin to sound. Human in design, but the audible alert seems to work just as well for the aliens as the lights flicker with more airstrikes on the surface.

Zippo knocks their heads together in frustration.

"No fair!"
"Lucky!"
"No more deep striking!"

The three quickly adjust their figures, bringing a number of their larger units into the fray, large, tin-can shaped machines with scrapmetal crab claws and sawblades swinging from their sides.

cont.

>>1588767
Ah. I don't know why I picked CursedQm as my name. I just liked how it sounded.

>>1588643
Exactly, your drones get a massive benefit from their hive tactics since they are able to function together perfectly. Alone, a hive drone is mostly just a suicide attacker. The only real question I think would be if the warrior could deal a lethal amount of damage before it inevitably gets killed or not.

Now two drones could take one on much more reliably.

>>1588749
QMs are already cursed.

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>>1588785

Titan-kun!! It's time to go kill for mother!

>>1588770
>The three quickly adjust their figures, bringing a number of their larger units into the fray, large, tin-can shaped machines with scrapmetal crab claws and sawblades swinging from their sides.

Are we about to encounter the scav equivalent of a deff dread?

Isn't a troll more of an equivilant to a heavy warrior rather than a normal one?

>>1588770
>larger units

TITAN WE NEED YOU

>>1588825
Basically, yeah.

>>1588847
Ah, they think they can intimidate us with "larger units." Lets show them how it's really done.

>SEND FORTH THE INSECT-KAIJU

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>>1588770
The ghost beetle rolls on the ground with the pup as it tears at its carapace in a blind rage. Its head is unaltered and natural in form, revealing its smooth, beak-like head to be an almost arrow shaped beak of thick hide, covered in small dimpled dots while the underside holds an almost hollow cavity covered in spined, finger-like mandibles rippling in a waving motion as if to pull in whatever it can find and pack it down its gullet. It thrashes at the drone, its gullet making snarling gargles until your drone pulls it off with its tail, sending it rolling to the floor where two more ghost beetles lunge towards it and rip through its shell-like armored hide.

You can hear the sudden whirring of servos and a dense fog of pheromones permeates the air, driving the remaining grunts to turn back from their retreat and fight with suicidal fervor as you see a sudden flood of reinforcements rush into the bunker. Following quick behind are several large pack alphas, each cocooned in a large armored power suit. Their shoulders unfold, and racks of small microrockets set in hexagonal mounts emerge, quickly tracking your drones as they fire a rapid volley of explosive projectiles.

A ghost beetle sprints forward, and one of the alphas hoists its weapon with a rapidly growing whine of built up energy, and with a loud pop of expanding ionized air, the drone explodes into a spray of blood and chunks of chitinous gore. In its other arm is a large mechanical fist, more similar to a human hand in appearance, possibly to better use salvaged equipment, and its forearm unsheathes a large curved serrated blade that shimmers with heat as it runs from wrist to elbow.

>Have your flying units provide cover for your titan as you attack on the surface while the ground units distract
>Have your ground units continue to push the attack and clear the bunker area
>Have your hive Titan charge the facility
>Other

>>1588884
>Have your flying units provide cover for your titan as you attack on the surface while the ground units distract
OVERWHELMING FORCE, GO!

>>1588884
Have your hive Titan charge the facility

>>1588884
>Have your flying units provide cover for your titan as you attack on the surface while the ground units distract

>>1588884
>Have your flying units provide cover for your titan as you attack on the surface while the ground units distract

Lets go boyos

>>1588884
>Have your flying units provide cover for your titan as you attack on the surface while the ground units distract

Squish ALL THE THINGS

>>1588884
>>Have your flying units provide cover for your titan as you attack on the surface while the ground units distract

>>1588884
>Have your flying units provide cover for your titan as you attack on the surface while the ground units distract
This keeps either front from being able to bring forward a meaningful resistance.

>>1588884
>>Have your flying units provide cover for your titan as you attack on the surface while the ground units distract

>>1588884
>Have your flying units provide cover for your titan as you attack on the surface while the ground units distract

>>1588884
>Have your flying units provide cover for your titan as you attack on the surface while the ground units distract
Let's go.

>>1588884
"You suck at this." Sushi says flatly, his eye stalks looking to each of the three taidarens. They hiss at him.

"Suck salt."
"You did no better."
"Attacking, attacking!" They squeak. Lee examines them as the triplets roll their dice, and he cracks his fingers before he grabs the massive insectoid figure and slides it across the table.

Your titan's thermal vents flair with steam and wisps of fire as it's body leans forward. Its first step pounds into the ground before it sending several burnt cars flying through the air to either side. Its next step grinds into the ground several meters deep as its clawed foot rips up concrete and asphalt in a deep gash across the ground as it plants its foot back into the street. A pillar of mud erupts along its heel as it uproots its leg from the dirt as its torso continues to lean forward into a run until its forelimbs hit the dirt, throwing its body forward as it leaves deep gashes in the ground several meters deep, hurling debris behind it in wide arcs as it builds speed. Burning plasma seeps from its mandibles like drool from an animal's jowls, leaving a trail of flames and simmering smoke in its wake as its ventilation tubes flair like smoke stacks with a deep roar of rushing air. Swarms of wasps shed from its back like birds from a tree, casting a shadow across the ground before it as they swarm through the air.

Please roll 3d100, best of 3 for your three pronged attack, for air, ground, and titan respectively.

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>1588989
FOR MOTHER!

Rolled 95, 87, 95 = 277 (3d100)

>>1588989
FOR MOTHER BUT WITH THE CORRECT DICE!

Rolled 87, 15, 42 = 144 (3d100)

>>1588989

>>1588998
AYOOOOOOOOOO

Rolled 15, 97, 57 = 169 (3d100)

>>1588998
This is beautiful

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>>1588998
Rest in peperoni, scavs.

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>>1588998
>>1589007
Its almost sad.They never stood a chance.Oh well. KICK THEIR ASS LEE/MOTHER!

>>1588998
>>1589007

>95 97 95
I feel bad for the Scavs at this point honestly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ61HNR3M5k
>Titan's theme song

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>>1588998
>>1589001
>>1589007

>95, 97, 95

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>>1588998
>>1589007

Is having an entire Hive mind with dedicated tactical thinkers behind you while playing a war game considered cheating?

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>>1588998
DAT GODLY ROLL

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>>1588998
Mother is the best at war games

>>1589051
TBF, the taidarens are pretty gestalt on their own. And isn't Sushi's species made up of separate parts working in tandem as well?

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>>1588998
>>1588989

This gon be good

>>1589125
>the taidarens are pretty gestalt on their own.
They aren't.

>>1589165
>They aren't.
They aren't psionically linked, but they're a triplicate species(at least lee's friends who are male are) that works together right?

>>1589165
Yeah they just have a VERY tight knit community.

>>1589174
>>1589165
My mistake, I could have worded that better. I meant that they're working together. If they can work as a triplicate why can't Lee enjoy some thinker power?

>95, 97, 95

Wow, we rock.

>>1588998
MOTHER SAYS OF GET REPRODUCTIVE MECHANISM!

Scav is back on the menu boys!

>>1589247
Don't be silly. Scav is always on the menu.

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>>1589098
The best.

>>1589328
Until they finally crack, beg for mercy and give us the couch.

>>1589328
Scav: It's what's for dinner.

>>1588631
The point is it doesn't fit with the framework as established at all, which is what you said.

It's not even clearly laid out what the idea even is, because it makes no sense with what psi cloaking even does.

>>1589333
nice picture and nice trips too

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>>1589333
awesome

Does scav even taste good?

>>1588989
QD's captcha is dying again isn't it.

>>1589356
We're the Hive, everything tastes good as long as it's got chemical energy or useful elements.

>>1589333
Would we be able to make hive minis? Like a 'dumb' miniature worker that could move as a game piece?

Or hell could we make large scale models with actual functional stuff just for fun?

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>>1589378

>>1589358
Of course.

>>1589378
Good art.

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>>1589378
bretty good anon

>>1589378
STRONG

>>1589378
Nice Anon. Very nice

>>1589358
Sorry, had to step away for a bit to change my bandages. Need to change them three times a day.

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>>1589378
Pretty much exactly what's happening in the scav lines right now.

>>1589413
Take care of yourself, QD.

>>1589413
Aw shit. Take care of yourself QD.

>>1589413
Blood or pus?

>>1589413
pls no die

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>>1589413
Take as much time as need be man, your health always comes first!

>>1589463
God Skyl are mildly horrifying

>>1589445
Neither. It's a ruptured pocket of white blood cells that thought a suture knot was an infection. The knot was removed after the pocket ruptured, and so I just had to keep it stuffed with gauze while it drained. It's stopped leaking for a few days now, and it's almost closed up entirely, but I still need to change the gauze to keep it clean.

>>1589469
Oh god this image is great.

>>1589469
>scav filth in a seating

their crimes know no boundories do they?

>>1589469
Never stop drawing.

>>1589489
I still can't believe how lucky you were.

>>1589463
>>1589469
these are awesome

>>1589463
This one is super cute.

>That triple nineties
What a good way to start my monday morning at work! Scavs gonna give us couch or be turned into some!

Which makes me wonder. What would a Titan-size couch look like?

>>1589542
Pretty confy. And it would be a new dize on it's on. Like there are King and queen sized beds? It would become a titan sized.

>>1589542
>Scav furniture
Hold on now, you might be onto something. We could fashion furniture out of their skin and bones and sell them to the Commonwealth.

>>1589542
It'd look like a mound of scav bodies so large and dense our titans could use it as convenient seating.

He's gonna update soon, I can feel it

>>1589571
Right about...

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glad you guys enjoy them here's some more scribbled filler material

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>>1589476
>mildly horrifying
>mildly
I chitter my pharyngeal jaws in your direction.

>>1589605
Are those supposed to be Taidarens?

>>1589605
Thought they were lizard centipedes

>>1589628
>>1589635
He's newish

>>1589605
Don't really look like Taidarens, sorry. Your other art is great. There's good art of Taidarens in the Quest somewhere. I'll try to post later if I can find it.

>>1589628
>>1589635
>>1589643

This essential

>>1589653
That'd be great thanks.

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>>1588989

Scav gun emplacements open fire as rockets fly from their housings and looted commonwealth anti-tank guns fire vibrantly glowing rounds through the air. Plasma flak illuminates the skies with momentary flashes of your drones' silhouettes as they dive in on their attack runs. The ground rips apart with impacting munitions as scavengers rupture into a fine mist of blood and shrapnel, others diving for cover as wasps pluck them off the walls and into the sky before back down in pieces.

You spot a number of commonwealth armored vehicles, looted and jerry rigged with scavenger technology to turn them more into a kind of semi-stationary pill box as their cannons open up. Larger scavenger vehicles emerge from the sheltered garages, a mixture of hovering attack vehicles and armored walker tanks. They are built almost like shuttles, clearly intended for speed as they drift over the mud. Their fronts are mounted with rotary canons, with blaster turrets set along their sides and each with a large railgun set atop. The walker tanks are more robust, with thick armor and small shield emitters set into the sides of their hulls. They are each fitted with rocket launchers that send streaks of fire into the sky after your approaching titan, the launchers flanking a large artillery cannon as its legs dig into the dirt for stability. Along the front is a large cluster of sensors and a drone controller holding a small spotter drone in its housing, and flanked by several blaster turrets.

The cannon shells whistle as they fly through the air, glancing off the armor of your titan as it continues its sprint. Its back arches as its particle cannon unfolds into firing position, and it opens up a consecutive volley across the field where the hover tanks attempt to flank. They burst into fire, their armor melting away as scavengers flail about in silent screams as they try to flee the burning husks, the armor caving in as they melt to slag. More artillery shells bounce from the titan's armor, glancing off and detonating in a nearby hillside as it rolls its shoulder to swing its arm into the air for a moment, firing its heavy thumper as a truck sized shell of complex ordinance arcs its way over the blown out industrial facility. It bursts, its chemicals igniting like a small sun in the sky as liquid fire falls down on the facility, burning everything with a white hot glow. Scavengers flee the flames, leaping from walls.

The titan examines the results, scanning for more enemies, as rockets arc into its shoulder and detonate against its carapace. Its thermal vents flair with a sudden burst of heat, and the plasma seeping from its mandibles glow brighter as it opens its maw with an echoing roar of rippling fire. You can see scavengers flee their tanks, abandoning them entirely as a wave of plasma engulfs the field, burning it to glass. The flames part as the titan lurches forward, its body singed with a momentary sheath of plasma across its carapace.
cont.

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>>1589673
>everything about this post

>>1589673
nice

>>1589673
This is beautifull. Go for it Titan-kun.

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>>1589665
Here's what I could find for Taidarens.

>>1589673
I wonder what the faces of the commonwealth people look like at this moment.

>>1589729
"Hoo boy, glad THAT's on our side!"

>>1589729
"lets never ever ever piss off the bugs"?

you can bet your ass at our next diplomatic meeting there will be a abundance of convenient seating.

>>1589673
I'm crying


It has every detail I added, I love you QD

>>1589673
>The walker tanks are more robust, with thick armor and small shield emitters set into the sides of their hulls.
Huh, the commonwealth have shield miniaturization too.

>>1589756
Scavs more likely

>>1589463
You're nice to QD but you bully Grave.

Asshole

>>1589729
>>1589747
>>1589750
Can't wait to see the Union reaction once the recordings of this war end up on their laps.

>>1589756
Didn't worked much againsy a giant breath of plasma did it?

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>>1589795
>tfw reading the report

>>1589790
chill dude, just enjoy the glorious carnage

>>1589814
"Huxwell, did you slip in your kai-joo fanfic in your reports again?!"

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>>1589728
I have been imagining those little bastards all wrong since forever

>>1589826
I mean the face is accurate, with the plates, whiskers and cyclopean eye. It's just the body that was wrong.

>>1589795
It could be funny, but I always worry that pressing the Union too hard will make them try to turn to the Void out of desperation.

>>1589852
Well then we have a perfect reason to go hard on them and ravage their asses, eh?

>>1589852
Nothing worse than a monkey desperate to deny that it's a monkey.

>>1589859
It won't really end well for anybody involved.

>>1589826
If you ever want to ask for any details, I'm just about always available on twitter or discord. I've had people chat on both asking for specifics that are either not so clear or hidden in some unknown thread somewhere. Or just to talk.

>>1589867
But we'll finally get to test those fancy biological weapons and planet killers.

Maybe. Depends on how 'collateral damage' Anons are feeling.

>>1589859
>>1589886
Yeah, until all their surviving worlds erupt into crystal portals and the endgame kicks off way too fucking early.

If they turn to the Void, we both lose.

>>1589894
Agreed, we don't want to risk scaring them into a worse position.

>>1589859
>>1589852

Yeah, I don't get why so many people seem to think that scaring the Union is a bad idea.

We have such military/surveillance superiority over them that the literal second we get any inkling they're stepping into the shit we specifically warned them against, we can vapourize their capital planet and glass a good portion of their military infrastructure. Then leave them as easy pickings for the Commonwealth.

No matter what some anons seem to think, the Union is not a viable threat against the Hive, let alone the five-way assault they'd be facing from the Hive/Unity/Commonwealth/Skyl(potentially)/internal dissident forces.

>>1589886
If significant portions of the Union start actively seeking to ally with the Void due to fear of the Hive, collateral damage will be the least of our concerns.

>>1589883
wait you have a discord server?

link?

>>1589923
it's the /qst/ discord from the QTG

>>1589910
A small band of researchers in the ass end of Nowhere came seconds from opening a portal to the void.

If the order goes out to the survivors, or they just independently decide that they're fucked if they don't try the other side, those portals will be opening up left and right.

I know it pains your supremacyboner, but attempting extermination of the Union is just too risky considering their likely course of action.

>>1589923
No, I just hang out in the QTG discord and the questing podcast discord where I occasionally shitpost with the other QMs and have guested I think twice on the podcast.

>>1589934
>>1589939
and all my enthusiasm is gone, sigh

>>1589910
Right? Heretic himself was fully prepared to jump in and start decimating their worlds once he learned of their void tampering.

>>1589935
Last I checked Nowhere was far closer to an exception than the norm. The knowledge for Void contact has to be tightly restricted and limited to a few select locations for the same reason that the nuclear football is handcuffed to the President. If it was as simple as "Break glass to summon Cthulhu" then there would have already been multiple portals opened long before we even landed on Leeland.

>>1589939
Podcast? I dont see anything about a podcast brev. Is there some thread or something we should all be aware of?

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>>1589883
Will do. I already regularly harass grave for details so I can get all the creepy crawlies painted just right

>>1589968
It was openly stated that they were learning stuff about the Void alarmingly quickly, while growing more erratic all the while. It's heavily implied that the Void aids those who try to learn about it, and there's no reason to suppose that it'd be any different for other secret Union research facilities.

>>1589990
Agreed. Although the Void (probably) requires crystals to really fuck with people. And indoctrinating humans takes longer than it does for other species because of their genetic psionic blindness. They can still fall, but it takes time, resources, and bad luck. A few crazies in some backwater doom cult probably won't even be able to get its attention unless they stumble upon an artifact.

>>1589990
>those who try to learn about it

Again, knowledge of it HAS TO BE RESTRICTED. Given how quickly Nowhere managed to go ploin-shaped, if it wasn't the only station (or the furthest along of a very select few) actively researching the Void, then portals would already have opened up BECAUSE the Void pushes its investigators along. As such, there CANNOT be very many sites researching it, and those that are CANNOT be anywhere near what Nowhere was, because if they were then a portal would ALREADY BE OPEN.

>>1589673
>and small shield emitters set into the sides of their hulls.

Soon we too will have the secrets of miniaturized shielding. Soon. it's been a long time coming.

>>1590011
How much of a stretch is it from "They say these artifacts are dangerous and are hellbent on keeping us from researching them" to "But they just annihilated our capital, so it's our only hope"?

And I really hope you aren't naive enough to believe that they actually got rid of *all* the artifacts.

>>1590025
Maybe even next week!

>>1590026
I agree, we need to toe a fine line here. We need to be scary enough that the Union thinks "We better not fuck with these crystals anymore because we have no how powerful the Hive is and if they find out they could kill us all" but not so scary that they think "It is only a matter of time until we all become mind slaves of the Hive or they kill us all, making a weapon from those artifacts they obviously fear is our only chance of saving ourselves and our way of life."

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>>1589673
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arus_8spQyk&index=
The thermal vents along its neck flair, singing the soil beneath it to glass and melting down what metal remains standing as it moves over them, swatting several tanks to the side and crushing another beneath its claw. The flames covering its hide die to a simmer as explosions cover its carapace. Its tail arcs forward like a scorpion, striking down on a walker tank with a swift movement as its sledgehammer fires, and the tank flattens into a metal pancake as its munitions detonate within, and the ground around it impacts into a deep crater. The tail flies back up from the recoil as it hammer resets, and a dozen missiles are catapulted into the air where they lunge forward in seemingly random directions, arcing back and forth as they spiral towards their targets and detonating over a dozen more tanks and retrofitted gun positions.

Several remaining anti-air guns pivot away from your aircraft and begin peppering your titan's carapace with plasma flak, pelting its thick armor with searing bolts of plasma as it charges the defensive perimeter of the bombed out factory. A massive superstructure, once some kind of containment wall for the storage of explosives, remains standing like the wall of a great keep. The outer positions are covered in guns and mobile artillery that lash out in a constant stream of munitions and energy bursts. Your titan drone marches forth, scrambling on all limbs as it charges the wall and impacts with a thunderous crash that shakes the foundations of the entire facility. A massive crack splits down the center of the massive wall. Your drone leans back, placing its weight on its hind legs as its clawed feet sink into the ground, cracking the reinforced cement as it sinks into the atomic-graded blast wall planted in the ground by a meter and a half. Its blades unsheathe, each one a colossal blade of simmering metal chitin reaching several stories in length, as the blades sink through the wall several meters before they burst forth in a cascade of flowing, molten rock that quickly splits walkways and ruptures pipes, sending steam and melting steel flowing down on fleeing scavengers below.

The blades slowly carve their way upward through the reinforced concrete and stone, trailing molten rock and metal as they slowly burn to the top of the wall. Its carapace is riddled with pockmarks from cannon fire from the pillboxes and trenches set about its feet, and your drone's ingrown turrets find their targets, unleashing a torrent of focused plasma bolts as their plasma cannons open fire. Several scavengers are reduced to burning cinders as they operate a stationary gun, and a looted APC turned anti-armor cannon explodes from within as the plasma bolts plume within its armored shell.

cont.

>>1590026
Agreed they probably didn't dispose of all the artifacts, although they are probably so scared of us at this point that they ones they are keeping are deep in frozen storage and the facility is equipped with multiple redundant nuclear self-destructs for plausible deniability. They won't be putting one inside a black-hole pentagram hell-gate any time soon unless the government completely collapses.

>>1590055
YEEEES GOOD TITAN, WHO'S A GOOD BOOOY YEEES YOU AAARE

>>1590055
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m-rsgHEDLk

>>1590055
Jesus. What the fuck did we make, and how can we upgrade our Queenly self into a similar form?

>>1590055
Fucking hell this is starting to remind me of the cloverfield monster and all other giant monster movies.

>>1590055
It's so beautiful....
I might be crying

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>>1590055
goddamn

>>1590066
sit,good.. now stay... now roll over... oh shit wait... uhh we didn't need that city right?

>>1590026
They haven't gotten rid of any of them yet. They haven't handed over a single goddamn one yet.

Let alone given us an inventory of how many they found and where. And there's a simple way to be sure of their honesty. Meeting in person.

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>showed up 7 hours late
>still running

>>1590055
Your drone pushes against the melting chunk of carved out stone, sliding it along the groove of melted stone and concrete as the wall begins to collapse, burying several buildings set up against the interior as your titan props itself up against it, standing upright to its full height, its carapace a deep glowing crimson as it reflects the light of the fire beneath it and the sea of molten stone and twisted red hot steel. You detect several aircraft quickly approaching in the darkness of the night, and several missiles impact your drone and send it lurching forward to catch itself. It swings its arm up, bringing it massive blade arcing up and catching one of the pulse jet bombers as it passes, slicing it in two as the halfs careen through the air and into the ground with a small plume of fire and kicked up dirt, while another skims by its head, glancing off its armor and tumbling into the ground. Your drone ducks as another wave of blaster fire and missiles streak by and land into the wall beside it as its particle cannon unfolds into position and opens fire, catching three of the craft in a ball of fire that sends metal chunks scattering across the facility while your own aerial drones dive after the remaining craft as they scatter.

Walker tanks march forth from the rubble, stepping over burning chunks of metal and pools of flaming plasma as they pivot their cannons into position, and your drone swings its bladed arm, carving into their armored formation as it drags the tanks off their feet, sending them tumbling into the air where they detonate against a distant hillside in the darkness. It turns to the others with its mandibles outstretched, and rips into them, hoisting them in its maw and shaking them like a fresh kill in the jaws of a hungry pitbull before it tosses them aside, their dead, twisted frames scattering like dead leaves in a strong wind as they send chunks of shrapnel and armor plating scattering as they spin and roll across the ground.

Cunningham watches with a set of binoculars at the titan, glowing a deep crimson from the reflection of the flames and sea of molten slag at its feet, as it lets out another mighty roar of plasma into the facility, sending plumes of fire jetting up in great pillars of white and blue fire dozens of meters into the air around it. He has a smile stretched across his face.

"That's the ticket. Make them run to hell to escape the heat!" He says, and he hands his binoculars to a nearby staff officer. "It looks like the surface is secure. Have a fireteam clear it out once the fires die down and see what it looks like bellow the blast layer." He turns on the heel of his good leg, and walks back into the building. "We have more work to do now that that little nest of rabble has been burned out."

cont.

>>1590125
What is the full height of the titan?

>>1590129
About 20 meters at its tallest, usually it is hunched over a bit more, so typically something more like 15.

>>1590125
The commonwealth commanders are a fresh change of pace from the Union politicking. I realize we just havent dug as deep into their governments underlying machinations as we have the Union, but still, its refreshing.

>>1590136
Bare in mind the Commonwealth has had the option of only putting its best face forward, and they're so pressed by the invasion they don't really have time for political bullshit. It's probably even more corrupt than the Union since it doesn't even have a pretense of democratic rule of law. We'll likely see more of that once/if the current conflict winds down. However, as a corrupting entity ourselves we can certainly make this work for us.

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>>1590129
Big

>>1590125
>>1590125
The scavenger alphas are surprisingly nimble, swatting one of your ghost beetles away mid lunge, but their armor is weaker than the drop suits of human make. You are unsure if this was deliberate, or the result of cost saving measures. Perhaps both, but the result is the same as your warrior's blades sink deep within the first of them. Flames lick the walls as your colossus crawls up from its hole and into the cramped chambers, sending burning plasma plumbing ahead of it and funneling it down several corridors to the sound of searing flesh and cracking hides as their rattling spines crack open like popcorn kernels and the burning figures of scavengers sprint out from their holds, rolling along the floor as they melt away. Your drone's cannon pivots into position, and fires down another hall, gutting it with the shock wave along as the far wall explodes, sending chunks of stone and scavenger remains scattering in all directions.

Behind the line of alphas, more scavengers dive in from above as plasma plumes down in great flowing arcs like crashing waves on a shoreline. Bodies and simmering remains flie in as the last few seal the doors behind them as their arms melt from the heat and the reinforced doors begin to glow softly and bend inward. The armored alphas continue to open fire into your drones as they pour forth from the sinkhole, but their weapons cannot fire fast enough, and your heavy warriors slam into them as their armor shreds chunks of layered chitin with every absorbed blast. Your drones drag one of them into the swarm, carving open the suit and pulling the scavenger out part by part as they fish for flesh with their blades and mandibles in the slowly widening gaps in the armor.

More drones crawl forth in an endless stream of chitin from the sinkhole, crashing over the scavenger resistance like a wave of flesh, ripping at them as more sinkholes form beneath others, pulling them into the earth suit and all as more of your drones emerge from their tunnels.

Lee plucks the last of the small figures from the table, and places it in a basket set on the side. The triplets squeal as they fall back, rolling on the floor as their tails thrash back and forth.

"Good for another?" Lee says.

"Lee cheats!"
"Dice loaded!"
"Unfair!"

"We're using the same dice." He says. The three chitter their bone plates with agitation as sushi gurgles with amusement, his grip slipping as he flops to the floor with a wet thud and his air sacs deflate with a sharp, long squeal.

"You are so terrible. It is impressive." He says flatly, his mechanical voice masking his alien laughter with its calm, synthetic human voice.

cont.

>>1590177
We should give him a better synthesizer

>>1590185
Heck no, it what makes it so funny

>>1590177
The scavs being orks amuses me to no end

>>1590187
Sushi's deadpan personality is what makes him so hilarious.

I mean, sure, we could fix his colors and synthesizer, but only if he really wants it. Changing such a drastic thing about him could result in a major personality change and he seems happy enough as is.

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Got to call it early for me cause I got an interview tomorrow, so good night!

>>1590177
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooz2i9fIoko

Time for appropriate victory music?

>>1590193
Sleep tight little anon
Let the bed bugs bite
They're Mother's good night kiss

>>1590195
Damn it feels good to be Zerg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-D9D_LzwA

>>1590190
Actually the analogy makes me wonder how much of an effect we're having on scav numbers, after all, the orks constantly remain a threat even after they're all dead, what with constantly farting out spores.

>>1590203
The Scav fleet is huge, and they reproduce in large enough numbers iirc. The alphas lay eggs on the grunts and they then hatch into the feral young.

When not at war I bet their feral young numbers get stupid huge.

>>1590177
Can some of the Scavengers be dragged into the sinkhole mostly-intact?

Gotta see what we can learn from their neuro-fluids, if any are the ones who jerry-rigged stuff together.

>>1590205
Probably what lead them to being so consumption happy

Reproducing too fast to sustain themselves, easier to steal from your neighbors

I wonder what their homeworld looks like, if it's still in one piece that is

>>1590208
We still have 1 scav in a medpod on Leeland I believe, but yeah, these battles will give us some good chances at getting some more

>>1590177
If Sushi could change color, he'd be showing purple spots too, right?

>>1590208
Of course no reason to let the humans know we took prisoners, or intact bodies. Just pretend we ate them and get them onto a spare shuttle.

>>1590205
>>1590209
It doesn't seem they have free breeding going on, seems to be completely planned so overpopulation is not a problem for them,

And the have been bio-engineering themselves ever since they fled from there homeworld so they must be drastically different as they engineered themselves to survive on a fleet based society

>>1590214
>"Hey, I was sure there where a few more tanks and pulse jet bombers too."
>"They, huh, melted, human. Completely melted into slag. Now look over here instead of at our shuttles for a minute or two."

Bed time

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>>1590177

The hologram projector shows a myriad of data displays in Cunningham's office. Live feeds from a number of officers in the field, satellite images of areas of interest, a high level map of the planet, updated with estimated enemy movement up to the second, and several video feeds from drifting gunships following your titan as it marches into the darkness to its next target, trailing fire in its wake as the ruins of the industrial facility crumble into a sea of molten slag behind it.

"Now that that little nest is out of the way, we can start shipping our gear and manpower to where it's needed most." The general says. You notice the ornate dropsuit is missing from its housing as your drone enters after him.

"The hive is closing on the enemy at your weapon platform." Your drone chirps.

"Indeed it is, and we have troops moving on the rail yard as well. Once we have both, we can use the railway to hit every major point of interest from there to the spaceport, and just as well, we've cut off their supply lines connecting the fortified city centers to the protein farms. On the downside, knowing their barbarity they'll be likely to take to eating civilians before long." He claps his hands, as if marking an obvious solution to a mundane problem. "So you'll just have to eat them first." He adds. "There won't be any time for a protracted siege. We'll be full speed the whole way in." He brings one of the video feeds up with a swipe of his hand.

"Sir Hughes, do you read?" He says.

"I read you, Lord General." He replies with some emphasised formality, quickly saluting nobody in particular as the video feed of his helmet shows his hand quickly touch his forehead.

"Is that the hive speaker?" Cunningham asks as a blur of red and white fur and chitin flashes on the screen as Hughes quickly scans over his men.

"Yes sir. It requested to follow along to maintain contact with commonwealth leadership. It may be unarmed, but I've requested it stay behind cover."

"The speakers are disposable." Your drone says. "Including this speaker. They are for communication. Communication is important." Cunningham nods to you.

"Very well, so long as you know the risks involved." He says.

Hughes nods quickly.

"Yes sir. I'll be sure the speaker stays as safe as can be in a combat zone." He looks to the others in the gunship. "We'll be over the drop zone in five. Check your gear and get ready for ziplines. Once we're on the ground we'll secure the perimeter and mark a landing zone for the gunship to drop off the speaker."

"That is unneeded. This speaker does not require assistance. Disregard this speaker's presence." Your drone chirps over the wailing of the engines.

"Alright then, cancel that. Pilot, no dustoff, stay on overwatch and keep distance." Hughes says. The doors to either side of the gunship slide open, revealing the embattled landscape beyond as cannons flash in the distance and plasma bolts arc through the night air.
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>>1590249
>"That is unneeded. This speaker does not require assistance. Disregard this speaker's presence."
"IGNORE ME"

>>1590249
So... the humans are all going in on zip lines, right?

This is a great chance to show off our fancy telekinesis as we stop falling and float right below the ground. Nice.

>>1590254
Could we make a titan speaker?

>>1590257
>below the ground

I thought you were on about telekinesis, not phasing.

>>1590259
YES!
We can have them stand besides the giant doors of our embassy.

>>1590259
because the screeching from regular speakers wasn't loud enough: **FOR MOTHER**

>>1590260
Shows how tired I am. Obviously I meant to say we use telekinesis to stop just above the ground when the speaker falls...

That's about it for me. Goodnight all. Please don't wake the Void God while I'm asleep.

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>>1590249
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ce-4UR06Hk
You see additional gunships flanking yours on either side as plasma bolts and missiles streak up from below as the gunships shed glowing flairs and scattering packets of reflective shrapnel from their hulls. One of the gunships takes a hit on its side, its armor falling away in sheets as it rocks to the side from a missile detonation, and its engines along one side fall away, sending it into a tumble as it slams into the ground below, the expanding fireball quickly sweeping back into the distance behind you.

"Ready the tethers!" Hughes shouts, and one of the humans swings themselves over to the side of the gunship, his armor hooked to a short cable linked into a rail on the ceiling. He quickly unfolds some manner of mounted gun, unfolding it from the ceiling. It contains a massive harpoon looking object protruding from the barrel, with a tether running from it to the ceiling of the gunship where a large spool hangs on the side of the craft. The gunship jerks to the side, sending everyone knocking against their own safety tethers as they lean into the maneuver with a practiced motion placing their collective lives in the trust of the gunship's equipment as your drone holds fast with its clawed feet into the surface as the two rows of humans link together to secure your drone in place. As the gunship settles, the tether gun fires, eventually latching onto some distant, unseen object. The spool quickly reels in the slack until the gunship lurches to the side ever so slightly, and a green light flashes along the forward wall with a loud buzzing noise. The human tosses the harpoon gun to the side as it coils back up on its armature out of the way, and he reaches up, testing the wire with a firm tug before leaning to the side. You can see other gunships doing the same as humans figures quickly slide down the ziplines, and the troops with your drone begin to slide their tethers from the safety rail to the wire in a practiced motion, giving it a quick tug before leaping from the platform as the human at the side shoves them along. Hughes is the last to take the leap, followed only by the human checking the tethers as they go, who quickly sets up his own and falls away backwards.

"Gunship clear!" He shouts as he falls away, and entire zipline apparatus falls away, detaching from the gunship with a sudden jerk of movement as a small balloon sudden inflates and sends it drifting further into the air as the squad zips along the growing slack. Your speaker hunches back, and quickly lunges forward into the air, diving through the fields of flack as the gunship flies off, and your drone pushes itself forward, following the zipline as best it can. You can see other squads falling in as they use small metal grips to slow their descent and quickly drop off their lines as they hit the ground, most dropping directly into combat as they rush to cover and open fire on enemy forces spread across the area.
cont.

>>1590293
You see the line for Hughe's squad run into the wall of a large warehouse. The squad itself have already entered combat, taking cover behind a set of metal cargo containers and damaged autoloaders as several scavenger packs pin them down with heavy blaster fire. A hovering scout vehicle drifts into position as a scavenger pivots a gun turret along its back, opening fire on their position as another pack begins to flank them.

Your drone quickly slows its descent, landing with a thud on a nearby rooftop overlooking the battlefield as a human launches a rocket from a shoulder fired recoilless rifle. A small spinning disc set along the roof of the scout craft lets out a momentary burst of energy with a loud buzz and the rocket detonates in the air several meters from contact, only for the gunner to return fire, ripping into the cargo container as the human dives back behind it.

>Have your speaker attempt to disable the vehicle
>Attempt to ambush the flanking pack before they can attack
>Other (write in)

>>1590307
>>Have your speaker attempt to disable the vehicle
>Other (write in)
Have our speaker attempt to seize control of the gun and fire it upon the flanking packs.

>>1590307
>Have your speaker attempt to disable the vehicle
Harass them about their choice of seating, and then punch the driver into an Ottoman.

>>1590307
>Attempt to ambush the flanking pack before they can attack

also, do we still have air support?

>>1590307
>>1590308
Supporting

>>1590307
>Have your speaker attempt to disable the vehicle
Sneaky breaky

>>1590307
>>Attempt to ambush the flanking pack before they can attack

I dunno about using mysterious powers in public yet.

>>1590307
>Have your speaker attempt to disable the vehicle

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>1590324
It was a malfunction. Such shoddy worksmanship.

Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>1590324
REEEE

Also right, new research subject to capture on the way.

>A small spinning disc set along the roof of the scout craft lets out a momentary burst of energy with a loud buzz and the rocket detonates in the air several meters from contact,

Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>1590324
FOR MOTHER

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>1590324
FOR MOTHER!

Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>1590324

>>1590327
Hmm, not bad.

>>1590328
Probably just some sort of active Point-Defense system.

>>1590327
Mediocre. This is a D-.

>>1590334
Correction, an entirely novel KIND of point-defense system never before seen.

>>1589974
Here's the podcasts QD was in
Anonkun Community Podcast - Episode 09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMxjEoxSoJs
then
Questing Community Podcast - Episode 03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es9NozQOzZE

I find them enjoyable.

And here is the page for info on the Podcast and such if you're interested. If the quest is live so is the podcast. Discord link on the page.
https://fiction.live/stories/questing-community-hub/rqwJ3jp5PErS4QmkQ

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I wonder what Lyle and co are up to right now.

>>1590324
Your speaker drops to the ground with a gust of displaced air sending discarded papers and cargo packaging flowing into the air around it as it slows itself before landing, and you quickly examine the surroundings. A scavenger grunt turns with surprise to face your drone, and holds up its blaster to fire when your speaker lets out a chittering squawk as it hunches itself over towards the grunt, and a wave of concussive force sends it flying back into the wall where it impacts with a splatter of blood bursting from its armor, leaving a large dent in the sheet metal wall as it collapses to the ground. Your drone turns to face the others as several look back at the sudden noise. The speaker swings its claw as if swiping at them from a distance, and the grunt furthest to the left jerks into its packmates, scattering them to the ground as they scramble to right themselves.

The gunner on the back of the scout vehicle turns to see you as the air floods with the scent of heightened alert, and the grunt quickly pivots the gun around to face your drone. You quickly turn and pull at a nearby loader, dragging it forward on its flattened wheels as your speaker rushes to the side, ducking behind the automated vehicle as it slides to a stop just in time for a burst of blaster bolts to rip into its chassis. You sense the others quickly approaching from both sides, flanking your position, and you examine the stacks of crates and cargo. There is a large bundle of steel rods held within a nearby container, the doors torn off and the boxes within ripped open and looted, and you focus your mind on the securing straps, enough for several of the bars to slip out. Three fly through the air as the first of the grunts turn the corner and open fire, singing your drone's fur as it ducks out of the way, and the three five meter long steel rods pin the grunt to the back of the loader. You focus your mind again, finding the next grunt as it stumbles back from the flying rods, and you pull it forward, slamming it into the rods with the other grunt.

A third scavenger turns in from the other side of the loader and lunges at your speaker, blades outstretched. You duck, planting your drone on all fours before slamming it into the side of the loader. It bounces off and lands on the ground as your speaker rights itself back onto its hind legs, the grunt looking up at you with a mixture of fear and confusion, and your drone lets out another chittering squawk. The cement cracks, and the grunt snaps in half as it is pressed into a shallow crater in the ground, its bones splitting with a sickening crack as the fresh pothole pools with the grunt's blood.

cont.

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>>1590358
All this is from the hive equivalent of door to door salesman.

>>1590367
I forgot we could do that.

>>1590358
Our Speakers are becoming space-wizards.

I wanna see what Elizabeth can do now if her implant is the same as the Speakers medium relay

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>>1590358
Lyle may want telekinetics once/if he ever sees a demonstration

>>1590358
Ah.
When reports of this get out our speakers are never going to be let into an assembly again.
Its going to be funny because they are fluffy and cute and fairly (for the hive) harmless looking.

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>>1590358

>>1590358
imagine something better was rolled
Damn

>>1590358
You turn your attention back to the vehicle, the gunner still pelting blaster bolts into the loader, quickly ripping it to pieces and melting its flimsy frame intended for light industrial work, not withstanding mounted weaponry. There is a quick burst of railgun fire, and the gunner pivots again, but not before it snaps back, a trail of blood splattering over the blast shield of its turret as it clings to the controls, swinging the blaster around wildly before another burst of projectiles shred its torso, and it falls back to the ground, thrashing out at the air in pain. You feel a sudden rush of violent thoughts as a human rushes the vehicle, diving into the open roll cage with a combat knife and a sidearm. Several gunshots ring out and a scavenger attempts to drag itself out of the side door, flopping to the ground in a growing pool of blood as the human leans out, placing three more projectiles into its chest before leaning back and doing the same to the gunner. He clicks the side of his helmet to pull back his visor and looks over the controls with frustration.

"How the hell do you run this thing? All the controls are blank." He shouts. One of the other humans runs up to the vehicle, rolling over the hood before ducking behind it on your side for cover. He plunges a finger into the dead grunt's wound, feeling for the neuro-cluster heart to ensure it is dead, and leans over and does the same for the gunner's body.

"They see heat. Check thermals, see if they're heat pads." He says, and he leans up, looking back at the flanking second pack. He fires several sustained bursts with his rifle as the rest of the squad rush to the vehicle under the cover, blaster bolts ripping into the cargo containers and kicking up chunks of cement into the air.

"I see it. Now how the fuck to I read their language?" The human in the seat shouts.

"Fuck if I know. Cover me while I try to get the gun working!" The other shouts back, and the first human rolls out of the seat to the floor and pulls a short submachine gun from his side, sending several quick bursts towards the attacking pack as the other human mounts the vehicle's blaster.

"Alright, these fuckers got one good arm. There's a port for the gun arm and a handle. Come one, please let them believe in the power of analog controls." He mutters as he runs his hand over the console, searching for the controls until a bolt of condensed photons erupts from the barrel into the sky. He shouts a blessing to some mythical being and swings the turret towards the scavengers, opening fire as they scramble for cover. The human guns down several with the turret, blasting a crate into splinters as the others scramble for a nearby cargo container as they attempt to close the distance.

cont.

>>1590375
But speakers ARE harmless. If you compare then with a hive heavy warrior that is. After all speakers are for speaking they aren't designed to fight.

>>1590381
Back at the warehouse, you see Hughes leap from his position wielding a powered sword as he fires a machine pistol into the scavenger pack as he charges towards them. He swings the blade, the first grunt catching it with its own, and he swiftly kicks it in its chest before placing several rounds in its throat and another three in its chest. It falls back, and he leaps over a stack of pallets next to the container, running up them like a ramp as he dives over to the other side just out of view as the human gunner pulls the blaster turret up and away from Hughes's position.

You see a number of blaster bolts fly up from the far side of the container, and several bursts of machine pistol fire as neon blood splatters along the ground. An arm flies out, flopping to the ground as it simmers with heat, and a pack alpha stumbles out as it grips the bloody stump where its blaster arm once was. Hughes is quick behind it, running it through with the sword as he twists the blade and pulls it up with a quick jerking motion, dragging the blade up into its neural cluster before he pushes it off with a kick and places two more rounds in it for good measure as it drops to the ground.

"Good distraction." He says as he makes his way to your speaker. His armor is smeared with alien blood, and singed with the heat of blaster bolts. "It's a good thing you got that gunner off us or we'd still be fighting them off."

"The speaker suspects the human warriors would have been successful regardless." Your drone chirps with a curt nod.

"Either way, the anti-air is nearby. We take that out or capture it and this is as good as done. Everything here is run from the control tower." He points to the large tower near the center of the facility. "All squads regroup and converge on that point."

I think this is a good stopping point. After I get some sleep we shall resume this thread tonight at about 7pm eastern. I'll announce on twitter once we're getting set to run.

Till then, let's get some sleep. I'll stick around for a short bit for any immediate questions, feedback, ect.