>>2958920
It's alive.

YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAA!

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aww yeah hive queen quest time

>>2958920
Anderson better hope he doesn't have a real purdy mouth.

Not so Daily reminder

>Raid OQ
>Board a scav vessel for their FTL.
>Send a diplomacy team to earth.
>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.)

Remember Drones,

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

Good to have the Hive back together after so long.

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>>2958920
A quick note, while I have updated the resources for this day, I will be doing a more complete audit along with the general update. I only partially have done that update as of now because I wanted to make sure you all were able to be informed of the overall changes, and offer feedback. I got quite a lot of quality feedback for the espionage system, which I will be using to tweek general balancing for it in time. As such, some things in this new day pasta may be wrong, or may otherwise have calculation errors, this is just temporary and likely due to placeholder or old holdout chunks of info from the old and cumbersome system, but please point them out all the same if you find any.

You feel the notice of a Distant Mind
>Psionic research has received a small boost
>Slip drives have a 10% chance to alert you to their usage

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 32,037,030N
Metals: 24,923,114M
Credits: ₡3,752,206
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,175,000

Active Commercial trade routes:
>Leeland – Lanway HMS Orphan, Captain John Spreckels
[FormOther brand Fusion Reactors]
Estimated per-day value: ₡2,500,000

>Construction underway

system adjustments needed
[Heavy Fleet] x15
[Ambush Fleet]x10
[Fast Assault Fleet] x5

>Formed fleets and orders
Citadel Hive Ship – [Awaiting orders]
Small Heavy Defense Fleet [Patrolling Leeland space]
25 Heavy Battle Fleet [Supporting Commonwealth Liberation]
5 Missile Ambush Fleet [Awaiting orders]
30 Light Fleets [Supporting Commonwealth Liberation]
25 Light Fleets [Awaiting orders]
10 Fast Assault Fleets [Awaiting orders]
10 Ambush Fleet
6 Carrier Battle groups

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
[Gemini]
3 Taidaren Hybrids (105)
4 Human flash clone upkeep – 120
18 Human hybrid clone upkeep – 540
Specializations:
>Tech
>Engineer
>Brawler
[Hive space]
100 Human Hybrids – 3,000
Lyle Rogers – 57
Jackob Eisner – 56
Dillon Reager – 30
Clone/project upkeep – 3,908N

>Income
Metals: 2,950,500
Nutrients: 7,636,000
Net:

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 6,675,390

(Nutrient stat + structures) * 1k * dev score + modifiers = Nutrient income total
(Metal stat + structures) * dev score + modifiers = Metal income total

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>>2958942
Espionage Activity

Gemini: This planet holds an embassy, random chance to gain intelligence each day, +1 Active Operation available. This planet's population is highly irritable and aggressive to Hive influence. All failure and detection chances are increased. Increased rate of psionic resistance in the local populace. Any attempt to increase unrest will receive a bonus to success chance and increased detection rate.
[Covert Infiltration] Resources: 1 sleeper cell planted in maintenance and sanitation department. You have a very high ranking source of information within the government. A taidaren lobbyist with connections to local taidaren clans is friends with your representative.
>Beggars and Taidarens

Gemini Beta: This is a sparsely populated military world. Low population increases the abilities to conceal a hive, while its large military presence increases the failure rate of operations. This world is under military lock down, dramatically increasing failure rates of attempted actions and operations.
[Maintain Concealment]

Path: This planet is currently under military lock down, dramatically increasing failure and detection chances. The local population is anxious and afraid of the future due to recent events, increasing the population's psionic vulnerability to influence.

Huron: This planet's condition is unknown, no monitoring effort is under way.
[Maintain Concealment]

Hive space: All worlds within Hive territory are able to perform espionage without resource cost, and all actions and operations have a dramatically increased chance of success and decreased odds of detection, but discovery brings with it a much greater risk of major public backlash and public discontent when performing events not linked to counter-intelligence.

Bedrock: This colony is suffering from widespread panic, dramatically lowering detection chances of hive agents, but making the results of operations far more unpredictable, and making gathered data unreliable.
[Maintain Concealment]

It's happening!!

>>2958945
Hive Territory
[G-426]
Leeland (capital)
N 60+40
M 45
Development 50

Income:
4.861MN
112.5KM

Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System: Uses long range missiles to attack enemy ships in the system (1KN)
>Anti-orbital battery grid: Directly attacks enemy ships in orbit (8KN)
Military structures
>Hangar facilities: Deploys atmospheric and orbital drones to intercept attackers, uses aerodynamic and fighter drone designs (4KN)
>Psionic Shroud: Conceals hive activity from psionic senses (1KN)
Industrial structures
>Docking Pylon: (2000) (100KN)
[Empty docks: 8000/8000]
Economic Structures
>Capillary Tower (25,000N)
>Smart Mines active: Calculates development stat twice for metal income
>Algae Farm: +25N
>Film harvester dock: +15N
Asteroid mining base: [Depleted] This hollow asteroid provides an excellent location to construct a Space City at low cost.

[The Garden]
Raligha
N 90+50
M 10
Development 25

Income:
3.5MN + 1.75MN
250M

Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System (1KN)
>Anti-orbital battery grid (8KN)
Economic structures
>Bloodroot collectors: Pipes running from Bloodroot trees extract nutrient rich sap +20N
>Greystalk farms: Bio-engineered native super-crop offers easily maintained farmland +30N
>Greenwall pit: Genetically engineered plant efficiently recycles waste material, +50% N income
>Temple alter: A place for the Ralighan locals to worship and bring offerings to your hive, built in the likeness of your local fake queen, +500N per day, allows recruitment of Ralighan Elite Agents.

[M-323]
>Orbital docking pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 sub capitals or 1 capital ship, (50N)
[Empty docks: 0/4]
>Mining corvette salvage operations +2,688,000M per day (+8000M per corvette)

[Farcast]
Derelict Sensor array

Glassed Hive world
N 0
M 100
D 10

Income:
0N
100KM

>Smart mine mantle excavation: Calculates development stat 3 times for metal income

Deep space waystation
>100 docking pylons (10KN)
[Empty docks 400/400]

Undergoing sovereignty transfer, local inspection pending
[New Port]
N/A

[Koenig]
N/A

[Telarum]
N/A

[Juric]
N/A

[Sentinel]
N/A

[Dagmar]
N/A

[A-295]
N/A

[Desmond]
N/A

[Tannhauser]
N/A

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>>2958920

>>2958932
*Land a stealth hive in Earth's ocean.

Infiltrate the wild men with Covert Infiltration to find out about that mechanical leader they got. No need to speak to the primitives when we can read their minds.

Also, in that vote about what planets to land new stealth hives on places like, we forgot to land any on even a single Valen world like Deep Song's oceans.

>>2958920
[Excited, frantic chittering]

>>2958949
Are we done teaching the Ralighans farming so we can teach them other stuff?

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>>2958945
>This colony is suffering from widespread panic

Oh man it's good to be back.

>>2958920
Holy shit what? Hey QuestD

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>>2958949

Vassals
Scarred Queen – Refuge

New Construction Options

Defensive structures
>Anti-orbital battery grid – A network of anti-orbital batteries scattered across the planet, each situated in a fortified bunker complex fitted with stationary gun positions and intense hive creep fortifications. Each battery is a capital ship class particle beam capable of attacking enemy vessels in orbit of the planet, each situated in relation to the others to provide overlapping fire over any location above the planet. 8,000N 48,000M
>Surface to Orbit Missile System – This massive bunker complex houses a wide range of warheads and a nigh limitless number of missiles within its protective walls, allowing you to launch missiles against approaching invaders from the safety of your hive. The facility uses the ship missile stats and comes equipped with a single Cruise missile silo that can target any detected object within the system, five Stinger missile silos capable of targeting any craft within high orbit, and ten Swarm missile silos specialized in targeting high altitude aircraft and low orbiting targets. The facility itself is a massive complex spread out over several miles, and includes guidance and launch equipment, as well as the means to construct and maintain a stock of warheads and missiles. (1500N 2500M)
>Shield dome network – An overlapping network of bunkers crisscross the landscape of a planet offering emergency shelters for any local inhabitants to survive orbital attack, as well as shield emitters placed in overlapping layers set around important infrastructure and planetary installations. Like all shields, heat quickly becomes a problem as it sustains fire, as such a mixture of ventilation towers and subterranean heat sinks, turning a small facility into a massive, sprawling network of infrastructure. If the planet suffers orbital bombardment, this planetary installation will absorb all damage first. 8,600N 50,000M

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>>2958951
Problem is that the Space Snails are paraniod enough for that not to work.

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>>2958957
Military Structures
>Military Spaceport – Extensive fortified maintenance bays and hangars are built across the surface of the planet, as well as infrastructure and manufacturing centers to support the production and maintenance of a planetary strike craft squadron. Swarmer fighters are produced at a constant rate with suitable range to intercept orbiting vessels or approaching dropships, while more advanced fighters and gunships of the most suitable design are produced and maintained for system wide defense and patrol Aerodynamic drones are also maintained in scattered hangar facilities to provide air support in the event of ground attack, and intercept enemy dropships. All craft are held in hibernation to reduce costs, allowing an entire planet's worth of strike craft to be maintained for a relative low cost. 500N 1000M
>Psionic Shroud – A single building built around the shattered remains of a Void Shard, the shroud amplifies the unnatural mental silence of the broken crystal within to mask an entire planet from potential detection, preventing outside forces from easily detecting the thoughts of a hive. (2,000N 5,000M)
>Psionic Sensor Tower – A massive spire composed of highly psionically sensitive instruments and material focused on the detection and measurement of wide range quantum states in a vacuum directed at the space around the planet. Grants a chance to predict the arrival of ships approaching the system via certain FTL methods. The effectiveness depends on the method used and the size of the incoming fleet, granting a base chance to detect incoming Blink drive ships at 75%, Space-fold and Rip drive at 50%, Warp drive at 25%, and Flicker drive at 10%. Gatecasting ships from Hypergates and Slip drive is not effected. (20KN, 30KM)

>>2958945
>Huron: This planet's condition is unknown, no monitoring effort is under way.
>[Maintain Concealment]
>Bedrock
>[Maintain Concealment]

Those things aren't accurate at all. >>1925092

And Mentan, Talgo, Arnim, and Coral aren't listed yet. They probably haven't finished establishing themselves?

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>>2958963
Economic Structures
>Docking Pylon – A large spire or station that contains space for docking and construction of 4 ships, or a single capital ship if placed in orbit. By default is used to produce hive vessels, but can be made to offer repair services to passing ships in return for credits or other acceptable transaction fees. 100N 300M
>Weather Spire network – A networked collection of spires spread across a planet capable of studying and altering a planet’s climate and atmosphere. Construction includes the building of all spires needed to function. While the spires can manipulate a planet's climate towards any desired effect, by default the spires will attempt to optimize a planet's fertility and habitability for hive life and its primary crop strains, increasing a planet's base N score by 5. Alternatively, the spires can work to create intense storms and thicken the local ionosphere, reducing N score by 5 and imparting a penalty to enemy craft within the atmosphere and blocking enemy communications to and from orbit, as well as disrupting sensors of orbiting ships. This option is not available for planets with naturally turbulent and disruptive climates. (8,000N 20,000M)
>Orbital solar array – A station placed in orbit of the local star equipped with a membrane of photosynthetic cells several kilometers in diameter capable of producing a steady stream of nutrient income. Due to practical constraints of logistics, a star system can support up to five solar arrays. Must be built around a main sequence star. Provides 1500N per day total (5,000N 5,000M)
>Harvester Dock – A large pier built along the shore overlooking the spore-producing ocean film that serves as an unloading area for Harvester drones, and contains pipelines to pump collected raw nutrients to the hive’s awaiting processing facilities, includes a single Harvester which is covered by the cost and upkeep of the dock. Provides 500N per day total (38N 50M)
>Orbital electroponic station – An orbital instillation built near a large source of hydrogen used to fuel a large fusion core, which in turn provides electrical power to a contained algae farm facility. Must be built in orbit of a gas giant. Provides +2000N per day and doubles as a gas mining facility, refueling the tritium stores of any ships in the system. The station itself can serve as the hub of a space city with additional investment. (3000M)
>Algae Farm – A carved out space used to utilize Leeland’s natural electrical field to cultivate food. +100N per day, 1 worker to maintain.

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>>2958970
>Hydroponic platform – A floating greenhouse platform used to grow farmland through hydroponics that can only be built on or near water with open access to plentiful sunlight. Each greenhouse platform supports roughly one hectare and requires a single worker to tend the crop and maintain the platform. Multiple platforms can be connected together to create fields of floating farmland. +200N per day, 1 worker to maintain.
>Filter towers – A large underwater pylon built to extract raw nutrients from the microbial life of the surrounding ecosystem. Can only be used on planets with bountiful biospheres and deep oceans capable of supporting large amounts of microbes. Provides between 100 and 500 N per day, depending on the local environment. (500M)
>Capillary Tower – This massive organic space elevator offers a number of logistical and economic advantages, despite its drastic up front cost and fragile nature. Shuttles or space craft are no longer needed to move resources from the surface to orbital structures, freeing shuttles for more important tasks. The counterweight station serves as a center for construction, with 4 docking pylons included on the structure to repair and build ships, while gaining a bonus to capital ship construction time due to the speedy nature with which resources arrive from the surface. The Capillary Tower can also spread hive creep and extract resources at an increased rate, spreading roots deep into the crust to bring up resources directly into orbit, allowing you to consume a planet much more quickly than normal. A Hive ship can construct a Capillary Tower if given the time and resources to do so, deploying one after 3 full days, after which it becomes the counterweight station, and must remain stationary until it detaches and destroys the tower to move. A Hive ship deployed in this way does not have access to its spinal weapons, but can use other features as normal. A planet can hold a max of 4 Capillary Towers along its equator. For each one, planetary mining or over harvest activities are doubled and its Development score increases by 10, this bonus can surpass a planet's maximum development, and will not effect its biosphere. Upkeep is reduced by half on planets with an atmosphere. (50,000N 500,000M)

Mother has returned, glorious!

>>2958975
>It's been a year since we had the last thread
GOTT

So just to note:
We should really look into cloak tech for our anti-orbital missiles. Being able to launch ordinance into orbit around the planet from one side, cloak the missiles and let them slam into the attacking fleet undetected would be a great way to bypass point defense measures and make sieging our worlds a minor hell with anything less than total global space coverage.

Another factor we should look into is asking our freindly neighbourhood AI for his grav detection tech, since thats the only thing we know of so far that can spot our cloaked ships. If we have that sensor tech we can figure out a way to cloak against it using grav/anti-grav generators on the hull plating. Even if it doesnt help conceal the larger ship varients we have it could still be a deciding factor in support and fighter craft ship fights. Any edge we get will be well worth it in the casualty savings department.

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>>2958975

This is some of the new bits I was referencing, we can take our time to go through some of it and make adjustments where needed.

Current Research
Your thinkers assemble themselves to focus on a number of different research topics, allowing you to choose one as your primary topic, and two as secondary research projects. The primary research project will receive three rolls per day for progress, while secondary projects receive two. In addition to your thinkers, you may gain additional research rolls from other sources. Vassal Hives shall offer their own thinkers to you as tribute and non-hive allies specialized in research all can be used to run their own Auxiliary research projects, granting one roll per day each. Multiple Auxiliary rolls can be assigned to the same research subject, and if left alone, will choose a topic of their own interest. A vassal hive may research anything, while non-hive allies possess specializations in their fields of study, and offer special bonuses when researching subjects in their fields.

Additional rolls can be purchased from external sources through trade or political treaties with Theseus and other factions. Such external rolls can be assigned to any research project, including your Primary or Secondary projects, and all participating factions will receive the research upon its completion.

>>2958951

Support for this. As long as we work very hard to keep it on the hush hush

>>2958990
That's not practical on any level.

>>2958990
Literally the moment G-sensors was mentioned to exist it was bought instantly anon. There has never been a moment in the quest when it was known to exist and we didn't have it. Jesus it's in the ship builder pastebin.

>If we have that sensor tech we can figure out a way to cloak against it using grav/anti-grav generators on the hull plating.

Logically, seemingly. But nothing like that has been unlocked in the gravity reflection tree yet.

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>>2958994
+++Primary
>Empty

++Secondary
>Empty
>Empty

+Auxiliary
Scarred Queen
>Artillery Spore – Your vassal has examined your genetic adaptations and has found many of them far outstripping the more traditional and widespread technologies of the old Queens, however there are a small number of more specialized adaptations kept within certain Dynasties and its allies. Her thinkers have begun teaching one such technology used by her old dynasty to your own thinkers.

Elizabeth Vaughn
Specializations: Xenobiology, Quantum Mechanics, Psionics
Bonus: Zealous – Rolls twice and takes the highest result. Cannot negate critical failures.
>Scavenger Brood Mother vivisection
Very Fast
The matriarchal caste of the Scavenger species, the Brood Mother is a large entity which serves as both the biological linchpin of the Scavenger reproductive cycle and the most powerful political figure in their culture. Individual brood mothers function as high ranking commanders, quickly rising from lower Alpha ranks during times of expansion, and engaging in deadly Machiavellian infighting during periods of contraction. Because you have obtained a live specimen, your study is not limited to biological study, but also the detailed study of the subject's memories, thought patterns, and its reaction to certain neurological and chemical stimulation in addition to scouring the subject's mind for strategic information and military intelligence.

Adam Seiner
Specializations: Xenobiology, xenopsychology, Void Crafting
Bonus: Reticent – 50% chance of turning a Critical Failure into a regular failure.
>Void Projection
Medium/Dangerous
You begin to realize the methods by which Seiner's mind has been expanded. The process can be replicated, although without a human subject to receive it, any attempt at such a projection comes at great risk of unwanted attention. A Queen's mind is far too vibrant and powerful to remain hidden in the Void, but, with this understanding, you realize it is possible for a human's uniquely designed psyche to survive unseen while projected within the void. Further study of this process on your part will hopefully not only allow you to gift such powers to other humans, but also to assist Seiner and any other such individuals to master these abilities.

External
Theseus
>Joint Research Project
This joint research agreement shares all pertinent data regarding the Obsidian Queen and her forces. This project grants Theseus access to basic Hive biological technology and automatically assists in reverse engineering Obsidian Queen technology. All rolls made for relevant technology is rolled twice and uses the best result.

>>2958997
Well lets hope it comes up. Its not like the tech is locked only to whats listed. See: overlapping minaturized hull shielding for layoring effect. That was a suggestion.

>>2958990
No arguments from me on either proposal, although I thought we already had the cloaking detection stuff from Theseus. However, we might want to invest in researching how to add our gravity manipulation technology to our cloaking to remove that detection vector.

>>2958995
Hello the Valen are more paraniod and cautious than the humans. Stealth landing a ship is not going to work.

>>2959003
Eh, its been a while and I never involved myself in the pastebins and so forth.

>>2958951
Support infiltrating wild men on earth. However, we should really recruit capture and mind rape at least one Valen first so we can attempt to understand their biology BEFORE infiltrating a major settlement.

>>2959001
Here's a list of what we were researching before the change for everyone.

Gas Giant Superstructure Construction
Medium
Using a mixture of space station technology and modified, miniaturized capillary towers, it may be possible to create semi-permanent or fully permanent hives within the upper atmospheres of gas giants, where a mixture of atmospheric static, wind farming, and gas mining can provide a more constant and bountiful resource income while providing a more robust frame with which to construct infrastructure.

Swarm Drive Tuning
Slow
By configuring the gravity thrusters to respond to the foils of other ships within the same formation, performance can be increased outside of a gravity well by taking advantage of a kind of gravitational slipstream created from the foil's unique gravitational effects.

Gravity Thruster Optimization
Medium
Miniaturization to the gravity thruster itself, as well as optimizing the layout of the foils across the hull allow for smaller strike craft sized ships to make use of the thrusters both when operating in atmosphere and when performing evasive maneuvers.

Psionic Thermokinesis
slow/mildly dangerous
An even more finely tuned execution of known tachyonic physics, thermokinesis is the practice of altering the energy state of atoms, but instead of altering their velocity, it utilizes a less uniform alteration to increase or decrease atomic vibration, quickly increasing or decreasing the ambient temperature of the target. It may take some time for your thinkers to successfully accomplish this feat, however, without also igniting the laboratory.

Psionic Conduction
slow/mildly dangerous
While altering the physical nature of particles has become possible, using highly controlled tachyonic signals it may also be possible to use the projected psionic energy to subtly alter and transfer other forms of energy in a more direct process than kinetic force. Your thinkers believe it may be possible to use alternate sources of energy outside of the target and potentially use tachyonic signals in order to carry that energy to the target. The early experiments have already proven promising, however it may be some time before the thinkers are capable of producing results without causing spontaneous detonations within the laboratory.

P1

>>2959013

Memory Seed
Slow
By creating a miniaturized and less overtly useful memory crystal similar in overall function to the white crystals used to record thought by your elders, and modifying it into a neural implant, you believe it may be possible to create a kind of constantly updating backup memory for clones, agents, and even drones that would potentially hold its information after death. The memory seed would theoretically be capable of retaining the full memories of the host individual up to and including the very moment of death, and be able to preserve those memories long after the brain itself has physically deteriorated, a process that typically drastically limits the time frame in which memories can be gathered.

>Psionic Spores
Slow
While normally the hive spores used to spread infrastructure are little more than genetically engineered nanomachines, replicating and performing their function alone until their built structure is complex enough to receive mental signals, your mixture of psionic research and advancements in spore related genetic programming has made the idea of a psionically sensitive spore seem not nearly as far fetched as it once did. With a mixture of distributed networking and complex cellular reconstruction methods, it could be possible to create a spore strain that would respond to mental signals.

>Advanced Psionic Imprinting
Slow
With the application of psionic imprinting you are able to influence and alter the state of matter using only focused and precise mental signals. Your thinkers believe this can be taken further, using more accurate signals and more precise manipulation methods to imprint more complex thoughts and ideas more quickly and easily, and at a greater range.

>Personal shielding
Slow
By further shrinking the emitters, your thinkers believe they may be able to eventually make them small enough to be equipped to the carapace of a drone, or to the surface of an armored suit. At this time it is mostly speculation and an eagerness to please mother beyond all reason, and you cannot be sure what the limitations may be, but the thinkers are sure they can do it.

>Data decryption
Medium (Very Fast with Theseus assistance)
While much of the data within the Smith mind was corrupted during the experimental extraction process or the trauma of the agent's death, there is still a good deal of encrypted data still intact. The data itself could be anything, from a revolutionary discovery to the agent's personal preference in music, or anything between. There is now way to know without decryption of the data, and the total randomness of the mystery has your thinkers begging to go to work.

P2/3

>>2959013
now that we are deciding research are we gonna start with the psi cannon now that there is a imminent threat of crystal attack or no?

>>2959021
Bit early for that, I think.

>>2959012
Well the plan put forth on infiltrating the Valen was stupid. We're better off sending "merchants" working under the hive to facilitate infiltration rather than flying a hive ship into the oceans they live in.

>>2958920
Welcome back. Glad to see you're still breathing.

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>>2959001
Available Research Options

Multidimensional Physics
Slow/Slightly dangerous
Until now you have been entirely ignorant to the workings of the Void and the self proclaimed gods that rule this mysterious space. Now you realize some semblance of the truth, although any proper understanding comes with its own inherent risks of attracting unwanted attention, such understanding, you realize now, was the backbone of the galaxy spanning civilization of the ancient Hives of the Golden Age, long before the Schism began. Regaining such lost knowledge would be a great step towards rebuilding your race as the galactic superpower it once was.

Non-euclidean Architecture
Very Slow/Dangerous
The basis of the very crystal you now posses, as well as the hostile Void Shards, the process of compressing spacetime along the axis of a fourth spacial dimension is a key component to many technological devices of the Ancients in their prime. Such technologies explain the process by which the void shards function, as well as allow for the vast complexity of the memory archive you hold, compressing vast amounts of energy and matter into a pocket space where such terms are interchangeable and largely meaningless.

Psionic Thought Construction
Very Slow
The brief understanding granted to you by your examination of the contents of the white crystal given to you by your late mother, you realize that tachyons, like nearly any other form of particle, can be used in the construction of physical objects. Such constructs are inherently unstable outside of the multidimensional space of the Void, however, but allow for the construction machines of immeasurable complexity with relatively little effort by constructing them in a space where thoughts can be projected as concrete materials.
>>2959008
I can respect that. I try to give something for everyone, I know a few people just really love minmaxing horrific doom ships, so I always try to avoid making things too abstract when trying to streamline things.

>>2959021
Well we do have Seiner now. I say we let him finish researching his biology changes incase shit goes south when researching the canon. Once we have a firm grip on all that we can start the cannon due to his Reticent trait.

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>>2958949
>[Telarum]
>N/A

Well let's go turn their star drill platforms inside out already. For totally not reverse engineering purposes.

>Asteroid mining base: [Depleted]

RIP, Metals income that dates to back when we still had eyeless blind digger drones instead of metal trees.

>>2959021
We aren't under threat of an attack and if we were we'd lose in our current state.

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>>2959026
Empathetic Compulsion
Slow
A step further from the disruption of the nervous system, with additional fine tuning it may be possible to exert some limited control over an individual mind without the use of direct contact.

Gas Giant Superstructure Construction
Medium
Using a mixture of space station technology and modified, miniaturized capillary towers, it may be possible to create semi-permanent or fully permanent hives within the upper atmospheres of gas giants, where a mixture of atmospheric static, wind farming, and gas mining can provide a more constant and bountiful resource income while providing a more robust frame with which to construct infrastructure.

Swarm Drive Tuning
Slow
By configuring the gravity thrusters to respond to the foils of other ships within the same formation, performance can be increased outside of a gravity well by taking advantage of a kind of gravitational slipstream created from the foil's unique gravitational effects.

Gravity Thruster Optimization
Medium
Miniaturization to the gravity thruster itself, as well as optimizing the layout of the foils across the hull allow for smaller strike craft sized ships to make use of the thrusters both when operating in atmosphere and when performing evasive maneuvers.

Psionic Thermokinesis
slow/mildly dangerous
An even more finely tuned execution of known tachyonic physics, thermokinesis is the practice of altering the energy state of atoms, but instead of altering their velocity, it utilizes a less uniform alteration to increase or decrease atomic vibration, quickly increasing or decreasing the ambient temperature of the target. It may take some time for your thinkers to successfully accomplish this feat, however, without also igniting the laboratory.

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>>2959031
Psionic Conduction
slow/mildly dangerous
While altering the physical nature of particles has become possible, using highly controlled tachyonic signals it may also be possible to use the projected psionic energy to subtly alter and transfer other forms of energy in a more direct process than kinetic force. Your thinkers believe it may be possible to use alternate sources of energy outside of the target and potentially use tachyonic signals in order to carry that energy to the target. The early experiments have already proven promising, however it may be some time before the thinkers are capable of producing results without causing spontaneous detonations within the laboratory.

Memory Seed
Slow
By creating a miniaturized and less overtly useful memory crystal similar in overall function to the white crystals used to record thought by your elders, and modifying it into a neural implant, you believe it may be possible to create a kind of constantly updating backup memory for clones, agents, and even drones that would potentially hold its information after death. The memory seed would theoretically be capable of retaining the full memories of the host individual up to and including the very moment of death, and be able to preserve those memories long after the brain itself has physically deteriorated, a process that typically drastically limits the time frame in which memories can be gathered.

>Psionic Spores
Slow
While normally the hive spores used to spread infrastructure are little more than genetically engineered nanomachines, replicating and performing their function alone until their built structure is complex enough to receive mental signals, your mixture of psionic research and advancements in spore related genetic programming has made the idea of a psionically sensitive spore seem not nearly as far fetched as it once did. With a mixture of distributed networking and complex cellular reconstruction methods, it could be possible to create a spore strain that would respond to mental signals.

>>2959001
>>Scavenger Brood Mother vivisection
How is that still not finished? It's Very Fast and the specimen arrived at Leeland in thread 64.6, 3 days ago. >>1615665

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>>2959036
>Advanced Psionic Imprinting
Slow
With the application of psionic imprinting you are able to influence and alter the state of matter using only focused and precise mental signals. Your thinkers believe this can be taken further, using more accurate signals and more precise manipulation methods to imprint more complex thoughts and ideas more quickly and easily, and at a greater range.

>Personal shielding
Slow
By further shrinking the emitters, your thinkers believe they may be able to eventually make them small enough to be equipped to the carapace of a drone, or to the surface of an armored suit. At this time it is mostly speculation and an eagerness to please mother beyond all reason, and you cannot be sure what the limitations may be, but the thinkers are sure they can do it.

>Data decryption
Medium (Very Fast with Theseus assistance)
While much of the data within the Smith mind was corrupted during the experimental extraction process or the trauma of the agent's death, there is still a good deal of encrypted data still intact. The data itself could be anything, from a revolutionary discovery to the agent's personal preference in music, or anything between. There is now way to know without decryption of the data, and the total randomness of the mystery has your thinkers begging to go to work.

>Planetary Shielding
Slow
By adding further scale to the shield dome, it is believed that an overlapping network of shields can be expanded from a series of clustered protective areas defending a planet's critical infrastructure to a vast, near total coverage shield stretching entire continents so as to protect a planet's biosphere and widespread population in addition to its military and industrial zones.

>Psionic Cannon prototype
Very slow/Very dangerous
Detailed accounts of several experiments show the slow progress of Project Godsplitter. The cannon itself is highly volatile, and even the smallest miscalculation often results in the destruction of the ship, as well as any nearby craft. It can only be equipped to a Hive ship's spinal mount, and requires a functional Void Shard as ammunition. At least a dozen testing sizes were atomized in testing the weapon, and in the end it appears The Gardener never quite perfected it.

>>2959039
It sorta is, but I wanted everyone to be able to see what the general research fields look like overall and not just have a bunch of empty slots. I've even updated the map with the information taken from the Broodmother's mind during the process.

>>2959028
For fucks sakes. THE CANNON IS ONE THE ONLY TWO THINGS THAT ARE KNOWN FOR TRIGGERING THEM TO ATTACK DIRECTLY THE OTHER BEING ACTUALLY ATTACKING THEM.

>>2959045
You know you would have a much better blood pressure if you didn't act like the world insulted you every time someone didn't memorize everything you did.
Politeness might even make a difference.

So we can only pick 3 to focus on for the Thinkers.

It's hard to choose.
>Advanced Psionic Imprinting
>Psionic Spores
>Gas Giant Superstructure Construction

We need to improve our manipulation abilities for espoinage, we need more income from gas giants, and I have genuinely no idea what psionic spores unlocks (growing drones from spores instead of a singular egg?) had to pick the mystery box option.

Should really only research the dangerous Void Crafting topics using Seiner, not general Thinkers.

Vaughn can focus on Psionic Conduction.

>>2959053
The Psi Cannon has always been this divisive from the moment we had the choice to research it. And he still has a point.

>>2959062
Of course he does. Hes just being a dick about it. Which is really damn pointless for everyone involved.

>>2959054
Well if youve watched big hero 6, then I imagine that psionic spores would allow something akin to the actuators which flowed with mental command.

It could potentially make building construction and renovation extraordinarily fast, at least for things that are not overly specialized or require special materials.

>>2959066
Some thinkers are louder then others. However Mother loves us all the same. We should redouble our efforts into finding new and glorious ways to overcome the void menace then just one weapon. Please assist dear thinker.

>>2959054
Sounds good.

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>>2959044
Regional map updated.

Research fields are currently empty.

+++Primary
>Empty

++Secondary
>Empty
>Empty

Your workers have allerted you that the experimental construction project has nearly finished, all that is left is the final finishing touches, but the station is habitable already and prepared to begin operations. It certainly has taken a while, and you've nearly forgotten where you ordered it built.

The Hive has built its first Space City! Where shall you place it, and what design will you give it?
https://pastebin.com/juEWVM5M

Also do you want me to just dump the construction info here directly for the sake of archive readers?

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>>2959066
Is there any point in fretting over anon's tone either?

is there any point to anything?

>>2959054
sounds good to me too

>>2959066
How am I being a dick? Because feels you're a dick for pushing for the DO OR DIE thing when the quest just returned.

>>2959001
>A Queen's mind is far too vibrant and powerful to remain hidden in the Void, but, with this understanding, you realize it is possible for a human's uniquely designed psyche to survive unseen while projected within the void

So since humans are psionically 'blind' they make good Void Crafters.

Does this mean Phantoms, with their ability to go unseen, would also make ideal Crafters?

I kinda want to recruit some Phantoms and Ralighans for agent purposes. We already have the option to recruit elite Ralighan soldiers who, if we upgrade with Hive cybernetics, would probably do REALLY well fighting against Scavs whenever we attempt boarding and capturing one of their ships.

>>2959079
Dump away QD

>>2959079
>those names for the scav stars.
Oh shit either they have a fuckton of names to give to systems as they travel or they might not be nomatic anymore.

+++Primary
>Psionic Spores

++Secondary
>Gravity Thruster Optimization
>Swarm Drive Tuning

may be a good idea ti increase our fleet mobility

>>2959082
Meh.

>>2959054
>>2959071

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep2-W1X65KI

>>2959086
Don't the phantoms go unseen by creating a mirage of thought to cloud themselves?
That could be ramped up akin to humans, but you risk allot on the starting population being noticed. Could potentially get very scary if done right.

>>2959079
Well that was faster than I had expected...

+++Primary
>Advanced Psionic Imprinting

++Secondary
>Psionic Spores
>Gas Giant Superstructure Construction

>Y/N?

>>2959089
VERY WELL

>>2959097
>Y

>>2959097
Y

>>2959097
>Y

>>2959079
>New Map updates
>neat.jpg
>Scav systems
>Old One's Promise
>uh-oh

Uh, what does the captured Matron's memories say regarding Scav religion?

>>2959097
Sure

>>2959097
Y

>>2959071
They are spores, anon. Psionically sensitive so they can receive commands, but they have no means of propelling themselves through the air.

They can only receive commands on what to grow into, as individual spores, instead of being preprogrammed in their DNA when they were created.

If you pick what they can sprout into based on their physical location, then they can become individual organs of a greater whole, at far higher granularity than currently.

So we might be able to poison someone with spores and make them sprout and grow into a small drone inside them.

>>2959097
Uhhh, what happens when the primary topic is finished in one roll instead of three? Are the unused rolls added to the secondary topics?

We have been doing Imprinting for a long time it's probably 90% done.

>>2959106
The wiki was updated with some interesting tidbit like fucking WORLDSHIPS but makes no comment on religion.

>>2959086
>I kinda want to recruit some Phantoms and Ralighans for agent purposes.

This

>>2959079
>The Hive has built its first Space City! Where shall you place it, and what design will you give it?
I want a Promenade as a base.

>>2959097
I'm not so sure about Psionic Spores, would prefer a faster research topic in there like Data Decryption.

>>2959097

>Y

Central Hub module
The Central Hub of a space city features a number of standard features in addition to its specialized functions. All central hub designs include a hollow docking chamber within the center, accessed via a pair of open access docking corridors on either side of the hub module set on the city's axis of rotation. The entire city spins, granting cheap access to gravity, and providing a mild .2 Earth gravity within the docking bay for easy ship maneuvering and cargo hauling. The interior facility can accommodate all known ship designs up to cruiser size, with additional docking piers for larger ships to tether to the outer shell. The Space City comes standard with the most advanced shield tech available, and a large number of auxiliary weapon points, as well as a full wing of fighter drones and swarm drones. Additional weapons are included in small number, depending on the design. The outer torus layer of the hub is dedicated to the hub's specialization, with transport capillaries running to any wards build onto the city and a nervous system of interlinked ship grade sub-thinkers dedicated to controlling and maintain the city's functions, drones, and an egg layer to replace them.

Star Hive
1 Strategic Trade Route
+0 Pop Cap
+0 Dev
+10 Docking Pylons
A powerful and purpose built military facility dedicated to force projection and rapid repair and resupply of military ships. The hub does not spin, allowing for larger military ships to dock more easily, but the rigors of zero gravity render the city largely uninhabitable to non-hive life. The armor of the hub and all wards is made of heavy plating, cutting down on internal space for non-essential systems, removing the luxury of spacious internal compartments most non-hive species consider a necessity for comfort. The hub is covered in particle beam cannons graded for anti-orbital fire, allowing the space city to fire on any approaching hostile with devastating effect, and a planetary missile defense system has been installed in the hull allowing the city to attack enemies almost anywhere in the system. In addition, additional fighter bays and swarm drone bays are included, as well as additional and improved micro-factories to replace them more quickly, allowing the space city to continuously replenish lost strike craft even in battle so long as there are resources available. Amid all of these emplacements are additional weapon hard points, sacrificing the multi-design compatible docking facilities to make room, severely limiting the number of non-hive ships that can dock, and preventing larger non-hive ships from docking at all.

>>2959115
>fucking WORLDSHIPS
Wait... wat?
(Frantically pulls up wiki)

>>2959113
>So we might be able to poison someone with spores and make them sprout and grow into a small drone inside them.
That's small time. We could just straight up turn them into hive lifeforms.

>>2959079
Orbital Anchor for the capillary tower on Leeland.
Wards:
1 Thermal Regulator
4 Refineries
1 Laboratory

Since we can convert the human space cities at Koenig and Bedrock and shit into Promenades and a Presidium, the one we build from scratch should be here and for un human-related purposes.

>>2959113
If the spores can self modify to suit the needs of the psionic commands, then movement becomes possible. Even a simple sea sponge can reassemble itself distinct from other sponges blended in with it, why would we have problems?

Besides, you don't need air transportation, just enough biomass in one place to start building. So think of a capillary network running along the ground, shooting biomass and nutrients to a construction site instead of having to be flown in or grown from local supplies as we have to now.

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>>2959113
The unneeded rolls are just applied to the next topic to use that slot

>>2959118

Macrofactory
+1 Trade Route
+0 Pop Cap
+25 Dev
+75 Docking Pylons
Exploits all local resource sites
Allows export of Development score
A sprawling collection of manufacturing facilities, molecular assembly vats, protein sequencing vats, refining facilities, and resource extraction facilities all dedicated to the fast and efficient collection, refining, and distribution of needed resources, component organs, and starships. While there is a standard number of docking facilities that can accommodate non-hive vessels, the hub lacks any location for visitors to stay within the hub itself. The hull is plated with typical combat armor plating with reflexive armor beneath to protect against accidental collisions with mining ships, cargo vessels, and asteroids and other targets of resource extraction. The Macrofactory is dedicated to sourcing, extracting, and refining resources and moving them to where they are needed most, as well as producing finished military and industrial products at a rapid pace and facilitating their distribution across the greater Hive. The Macrofactory will automatically extract and refine all non-planetary resources in the local system that the Hive has the technology to exploit at a development score of 25. In addition, it may export its development score's effect either in whole or in part to any planet within the local system, with a 25% penalty, to any Hive-owned planet with a 50% penalty, or to any willing planet with a 75% penalty. Much of its internal docking facilities and large swaths of its outer shell are dedicated shipyards, granting the equivalent of 75 Docking Pylons capable of ship construction.

>>2959123
and Utility Wards:
1 Slipway
3 Secondary Capillaries

>>2959123
Can we at least debate first? I want to figure out our options.

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>>2959130
Promenade
+3 Trade Routes
+70 Pop Cap
+20 Docking Pylons
+1 Mega-corporation HQ
Exploits all local tourist attractions
A facility dedicated to catering to the delicate and highly specific needs of non-hive life forms, this hub module is designed to maximize docking space, allowing for a large number of non-hive ships to dock at once. The interior space is coated in gravity plating to grant the appropriate gravity level for visitors, and space is dedicated to real estate patches rented to non-drone hive citizens when possible, or those otherwise deemed worthy of renting the space, as well as hive-run facilities that include restaurants, hotels, trading posts, communications services, and other economic functions to provide a steady stream of credit income, as well as capitalize on any natural attractions the system may have. The hull is plated with standard armor, with additional space dedicated to merchant docking facilities and cargo handing equipment. A promenade will not extract or refine resources itself, but instead collects an amount of credits equal to the station's population multiplied by the sum of all Tourist Attractions in the system, in addition to the sum of all trade routes linked to the station: (Pop * Tourist attractions) + Trade routes. A Promenade can serve as the local headquarters for a single mega-corporation. The station technically could accommodate more than one, however such organizations tend to be territorial, and forcing them to share office space is typically unwise.

>>2959139
Presidium
+1 Humanitarian Trade Route
+40 Pop Cap
+1 Mega-corporation HQ
X2 bonus to Exploited Tourist Attractions
Grants large credit income at irregular intervals
Grants random intelligence and espionage opportunities
A vast expanse of offices, communications arrays, psionic relays, and luxurious living facilities dedicated to tending to the care of foreign dignitaries, government officials, and influential individuals. Trade docks are sacrificed for additional protection, allowing the fitting of multiple layers of combat armor to provide good protection against all but the most dedicated of attacks, and extensive weapon hard points cover the outer hull in addition to an additional wing of fighters and swarm drones, all not as numerous or plentiful as the Star Hive, but still suitable for the protection of politically important individuals. In addition, gravity plating along the internal compartments provide finely tuned gravity to suit the needs of visitors, and channels of water, pools, and a drain system allows for the easy maneuvering of aquatic species, while an open and spacious interior far away from the floor's gravity plating allows for easy maneuvering of more avian species capable of limited or greater flight. A moderate amount of space is reserved for extremely high quality services, including hotels, restaurants, and recreation facilities all micromanaged by hive workers to painstakingly recreated specifications that suit the needs of visitors. In addition, the architecture is made to conceal a large number of moderate relays capable of covering every inch of the facility, allowing for total surveillance both physically and psionically, as well as all the other bonuses that includes. The Presidium emanates political and cultural pressure in all respects, and functions as a kind of embassy to the rest of known space. A sizable but irregular credit income is earned from high class tourists, celebrities, and political and corporate leaders, all tourist attractions in the system being exploited by the Presidium provide double the credit income, and random intelligence and espionage bonuses are gained periodically, as well as random events that may offer chances to capitalize on unique opportunities. The Presidium can function as the local headquarters of a mega-corporation.

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>>2959121
I can only imagine how the rest of civilized space will react to that

Wait a minute.

>Eye of Sorrow – A Red Giant star of the M spectral type near the border of Commonwealth space, it's name is used by the Scavengers for navigation, but it's origin is that of the star charts of the civilization whose homeworld the Migrant Armada previously departed from. The constellation seemed to have held some level of significance to their astronomers, and the astrographic data seems to have been pilfered along with everything else.
>• Fool's Glamour: This world was likely once a gas giant, but has since had its atmosphere blown away as the star exited its main sequence and expanded to engulf the inner system. It is composed of compressed materials that have formed into diamond and other such structures, with layers of ice overtop. It would be incredibly valuable were it not so easy to synthetically reproduce carbon structures. As it is now it is worthless, but pleasant to look at.
>• Mire: A primordial world that has taken too long to bloom and missed its chance. It lacks the much critical water to hold life, and highly toxic chemicals in the atmosphere would burn away any that could form.
>• Forlorn Remembrance: Once a lush world with plenty of water, it is now a highly radioactive wasteland, toxic even to the hive’s robust nature.

Shit that's the system i wanted to colonize to research better radiation tech and maybe get a free planet too boot!
God damn scavs.

>>2959120

By mother I wanna research that

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>>2959140
Orbital Anchor
+1 Logistics Trade Route
+1 Trade route
+5 Dev score
+4 Utility Ward slots
Gains small credit income
All station statistics, bonuses, and income are applied to connected planet
The anchor station of a Capillary Tower expanded, inhabited, and built into a full Space City, the Orbital Anchor offers a rather unique opportunity in the field of space station architecture in that it does not need to spin to enjoy affordable and reliable artificial gravity. Due to the nature of orbital tethers, only the geostationary point of the tether rests in zero gravity. Everything bellow that point is pulled by the planet, and everything above is pulled by the centripetal force of the planet's spin. Because the geostationary point is equidistant to both the ground and the anchor station, the centripetal force felt on the anchor station is typically close to or equal to the local planet's own gravity. As such, the anchor station is instead built similarly to a terrestrial city, but hung upside down from the tether. The Orbital Anchor is thus a massive structure of interconnected vertical towers concealed in a protective shell of chitinous armor plating and coated in hangar bays and docking ports for visiting ships, With the layers furthest from the planet serving as dockyards for merchant vessels. The majority of the rest of the hub is devoted to logistical systems to facilitate the passage of cargo and passengers through the Capillary Tower, allowing the station to function as the planet's space port, while at the 'top' of the station is the anchor itself, consisting of the primary orbital tether, as well as four secondary tethers serving to stabilize the station's position which run from four small Utility Wards to the geostationary station at the main tether's halfway point. All resource stat altering Wards instead effect the planet, and the planet gains a small Credit income score from credits earned through tariffs and fees for use of the tether's lifts. The planet's statistics can surpass the default maximum values using this effect. The Orbital Anchor is capable of supporting 4 additional Utility Wards in a zero-gravity environment which can be configured with a range of specialized functions.

>>2959120
Where is that? I can't find it.

>>2959134
Well I would build a Macrofactory that exploits all local resource sites, but we have no idea which star system is optimal to place that in.

Because none of the systems are statted up yet with what local resource sites exist.

A Macrofactory exploits all resource sites, while other hub types fill one of their 6 Ward slots with a Refinery, and a refinery exploits *one* resource site.

So the first Macrofactory only makes sense to build in the system we have with the greatest number of resource sites. Is that Leeland's star? The Garden's? M-323? We just don't know.

But we definitely know we have a capillary tower to attach a space city to.

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>>2959149
Wards
Space Cities are vast structures, and as such their hubs are only a small part of their full layout. While hubs offer a core specialization to the space city, wards offer a way to generalize a space city to best take advantage of the local environment, allowing space cities to either focus in and excel at a specific function, or to diversify into a number of services and abilities. A space city is capable of maintaining up to 6 wards, which extend from the hub's external torus to take full advantage of its spin to provide a cheap and effective gravity to its inhabitants, while other hubs allow for additional Utility Wards to be added, which are smaller and more specialized wards not available to most hubs. A ward has no inherent construction cost, but simply modifies the properties of the Space City itself by granting it additional features or statistics.

Sprawl
+20 Pop Cap
Increased Pop growth rate
A sprawl is as close to a slum as is possible in space without compromising structural integrity. While a hive drone cares nothing for comfort and desires only to fulfill its duty, non-hive life require more motivation than the satisfaction of a job well done for Queen and Hive, and a part of that natural structure is the economic strife of the underclasses and the struggle of the teeming masses. Without a Queen to determine where populations are most needed, the single-minded species function in a more simple manner akin to the physics of fluid dynamics and pressure differential as populations move from places of poorer quality and fewer resources to places of higher quality and greater resources. By providing efficient habitation units at scale, you can in effect create a low pressure area and attract a large population of moderately to low skill workers in a very small span of time. The fact that such large numbers of individuals flock so quickly to such modest living spaces is somewhat concerning, but they will soon find that the Queen cares for all her children, no matter how inefficient they may be.

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>>2959158
Resort
+10 Pop Cap
Allows exploitation of +1 Tourist Attraction on station
Gains random intelligence and chances to obtain Sleeper Agents
While more dedicated Space Cities are able to accommodate the tourism of entire systems, some must relegate such luxury services to smaller, more niche districts in order to focus the bulk of the city on more critical matters. In such cases, this relatively modest but still vast and luxurious ward offers a carefully crafted experience for tourists from all across known space of all species and cultures, exploiting whatever strange attraction the single-minded have taken a fancy to so as to better separate them from their credits. Cheaply made novelty goods spat out of hidden vats sell for prices that make you almost feel shame, shuttles take visitors on leisurely rides over breathtaking horizons, and state of the art entertainment facilities boggle their tiny minds with haptic holograms and gravity that can be adjusted as easily as the temperature, all under the friendly guide of each tour group's own personal Speaker.

Customs
Increases income from Trade Routes
Increases Detection and Failure risk of enemy Espionage activities on station
Only one Customs can be built per station
An administrative formality, to be sure, but an important one. While nothing enters or leaves the Queen's domain without her knowledge and approval, consolidating the process of inspecting and taxing goods and civilian traffic into a single massive facility of security offices, medical pods, warehouses, and carefully and deliberately assembled bureaucratic labyrinths allows the process of weeding out troublemakers and illicit goods to be streamlined and made both more efficient, and more effective. The result is a more robust and thorough layer of security, and the added benefit of increased trade profits is certainly a bonus.

>>2959155
Even if we do not know which system is best resource wise, we can easily build auxillary teleportation arrays for raw material transport to keep it fed. Its more a concern to build it somewhere safe since it will be one of our major production hubs.

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>>2959145
We need special tech to colonize those planets. Hell the native lifeforms on Arcadia (Commonwealth) could work for that.

>>2959155
We can also build a city out of the hollowed out asteroid in our home system for a lot cheaper if we want to turn it into a Star Hive to help defend our home from the inevitable attacks whenever the Void or Obsidian Queen track us down

>>2959152
>https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Quest:Hive_Queen_Quest#Nomadic_Spacers

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>>2959161
Trade port
+1 Trade Route on station
Can use the Infest Action on station's Trade Route targets
A Space City's true obstacle to additional trade is not docking facilities for ships or even physical space for goods, but the streamlined logistical systems needed to avoid inefficient buildup of inventory. In theory, the perfect warehouse should be capable of shipping goods at an equal pace as it receives them, and thus only need room enough for a single item of each kind. Perfection is often impossible, but the Hive shall reach as close as possible. Worker drones moving in perfect lockstep pace under the guidance of thinker concerts and a predictive logistics network functioning as a single individual along psionic networks allows for goods to flow in and out of storage like blood through a body's veins, minimizing storage time, and thus maximizing the number of merchant ships that can unload their goods at any given time, and in turn increasing the number of trade routes that can be organized from the Space City. The fact that some of those merchant vessels may carry certain unknown passengers is of no real concern...

Barracks
Adds additional weapons to station and allows the deployment of Gunship class strikecraft
Increases strength against boarding actions
Increases Failure and Detection risks of enemy espionage
While every Space City holds room for security and even military staff, not all have a full ward dedicated to military functions. A Warrior Drone needs neither shelter nor ammunition to be a major threat, but knowing who the enemy is the first step in killing them, as such, the Barracks are far from being simple Warrior storage. With living space for clone and recruited agents, dedicated training holo-chambers, weapon and armor microfactories, and dedicated medical facilities to heal battle wounds, the Barracks is a combination of armory, dojo, field hospital, fortress, and military academy all rolled into one and dedicated to the security of the Space City and the system at large, offering first responders deployed to accidents, smuggling, and even acts of piracy or outright invasion by deploying both gunships and interplanetary transports laden with both Heavy Warriors and skilled Clone commando teams.

>>2959097
Hey QuestDrone good to have you back. A big thank you for all the effort you have put into this and all that you and the people that have participated have done to make this quest what it is today. Sadly i cannot stay for long as it is very late here, so have fun and good luck for the future.

By the way didn't some people propose (a very long time ago it seems) to build a tourist attraction space city in the system with the flaming gas giant?

>>2959170
Yup.

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>>2959168
Refinery
Allows the exploitation of +1 resource site in system
Grants the Space City a Development bonus of +10
While most civilizations are forced to separate the processes of refining metals and organics, the Hive's advanced biological mastery has rendered the processes for both largely identical. Far from the noisy furnaces and clanging steel tankers of other refineries, the Hive's industrial and agricultural sector is combined into a singular facility of acid vats and digestive chemical baths. In effect, a massive, district sized stomach with which the Space City may consume even more resources than it otherwise could.

Star Drill Platform
Allows the exploitation of Canderon from a local star
[LOCKED: RESEARCH REQUIRED]
The extraction of Canderon from the surface of a star is an expensive, dangerous, and logistically demanding process and as such requires a dedicated and advanced platform above and beyond the typical industrial equipment to do so. As such, the Star Drill platform offers an entire ward devoted to the maintenance, repair, and deployment of these advanced resource extractors across the surface of the local star. The platform itself does not perform any extraction, but instead serves as the command center of the mining operation, controlling swarms of automated prospector probes to find and track major canderon supplies across the star's surface, and remotely command the star drills to effectively extract the resources, as well as servicing a number of dedicated tanker transport drones to ferry raw canderon to onboard refineries, and a number of dedicated repair bays specialized in the maintenance of the star drills and the specialized drones used in the operation. Because of the platform's function as a logistical command center, it does not need to be located in orbit of the star, and may exploit the star's deposits from any location in the system.

Also I work nights now, so I will be up and running literally all night long.

>>2959170
Yes, but I also recall a few other locations being floated around.

>>2959175
Laboratory
+5 Pop Cap
Permits Cooperative Research ventures
Improves safety of assigned research at the cost of speed
Critical Failures become regular failures except on a natural roll of 1
regular failures do not reduce research progress
Only one Laboratory may be built per station
A dedicated research facility intended for use by non-hive science personnel. Both recruited Hive Citizens and foreign researchers working under diplomatic scientific exchange programs are given all the equipment and resources needed to further the fields of scientific discovery, including ample space for experiments, the storage of test materials, assembly of experimental products, and living space for the researchers themselves, and all with the added benefits of additional layers of security made possible by the Space City's remote location in high orbit where atmosphere, temperature, and gravity can be manipulated to contain any threat, spillage, explosion, or sudden and uncharacteristic religious inclinations.

Zoological Reserve
Functions as a Tourist Attraction
+10 Nutrient Score on selected planet in system
Automatically performs Dissection research subjects when available
Only one Zoological Reserve may be built in the same System
A dedicated section of the Space City devoted to the collection, study, and preservation of interesting, rare, potentially useful, and otherwise unique life forms found all across known space. Gravity plating offers perfectly matched gravity for any and all life held within, while atmospheric systems maintain a custom atmosphere for every environment, with multiple isolated sections devoted to simulating a wide range of planetary landscapes. Biopods and laboratories are spread throughout the ward offering a constant vigil on every creature and it's behavior and biology, and as an added bonus, the single-minded will flock from all across known space to see such a rare and extensive menagerie of beasts.

>>2959162
That isn't how space cities crunch works. It's pretty abstracted, and Macrofactories can't exploit other stars' resource deposits, apparently. No way around it.

>>2959165
Well yeah, but this first space city seems to be a 'freebie,' it's already finished, so we may want to put it someplace that would otherwise be expensive, since we don't benefit from any savings on this one.

>>2959166
Damn i want one to research now, just to see if it provides any upgrades for our hive ships.

>>2959180
Well first we have to take one, though we already know where the closest one is so that's half the work done.

>>2959175
Could we modify our Tachyonic Drill to pull resources from a star?

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>>2959177
Tachyonic Drill
Increases income from Trade Routes
Grants local ships use of Rip Drive to a range of 20LY
Can connect directly to any other Drill within 35LY
What could only be described as the big brother to the Rip Drive, it is a drive core that has been built on a grander scale. While the entire ward is not totally devoted to the Drive itself, it does make up a moderate proportion. The rest of the ward is composed of dedicated navigation systems, intricate long range navigation sensors, and facilities to perform repairs and maintenance, as well as heat ventilators to accommodate a more rapid and intense firing rate of the drive than would otherwise be normal. The result is that the Space City is capable of projecting tears in spacetime within close proximity, allowing for departing ships to pass through to distant systems in an instant star systems up to twenty light years away, and if connecting to another Tachyonic Drill directly, both drills can cooperate to bore a tunnel in spacetime up to thirty five lightyears across.

Thermal Regulator
Greatly boosts all shields on station
Boosts rate of fire of all weapons on station
Reduces all Thermal damage on station
In space, heat kills. It is always more easy to gain it than to get rid of it, and any action taken in combat brings the crew that much closer to a painful death roasting within their own vessel like a potato cooked in a wrapper of foil. The most effective methods of venting heat are also the most cumbersome in combat, taking the form of vast radiators that make for a prime target and display the vessel like a vibrantly glowing bullseye. Other methods of venting are either unable to overcome the rate of heat buildup, or require the expenditure of resources such as dumping coolant or heat sinks, reducing the vessel's endurance in combat. While certain technologies such as cooling lasers can help to compensate for this, it remains a reality that most warships can only maintain combat conditions for hours at a time before being forced to retreat or suffer damage. Space Cities cannot retreat, yet they still suffer the heat buildup that can make any protracted siege a short event. To solve this problem, an entire ward is devoted to this singular function, operating as the city's beating heart, quite literally in fact, distributing a near never-ending stream of coolant and heat sinks processed from recycled waste products to overheated sections before taking them back to be cooled again by powerful arrays of cooling lasers, or in the event of an emergency, dumped altogether. This circulatory process allows for the city to not only maintain its shields over a longer period of time and against greater damage, but also allows it to maintain a general battle ready stance for longer. Weapons are freed to fire almost constantly, and the damage of direct thermal weapons is mitigated at a moderate, increasing both survivability and defensive damage of the city at large.

>>2959179
Well bummer. I imagine its to cut down on the logistics simulation and keep the quest flowing.
Still, I am looking forward to building such a place, the dockyards will be perfect for mass production of some of our larger ship designs.

>>2959187
Utility Wards
In order to better stabilize an orbital tether, additional secondary tethers are required to prevent noticeable sway and stress to the structure. An added benefit of these stabilizers is that the additional space can be made to serve as smaller, more focused wards devoted to a smaller, yet still highly useful duty. As such, Utility Wards are smaller, more focused wards devoted to certain functions, granting small bonuses to an Orbital Tether. An Orbital Tether possesses 4 such wards.

Armory
+1 Strategic Trade Route
A secure, isolated, and well guarded facility provides a place to securely store military materials for export or import, providing space to either pack outgoing materials or assemble incoming materials away from the prying eyes of civilians or spies, allowing for a more efficient and unobtrusive military logistics network to be maintained.

Merchant Docks
+1 Commercial Trade Route
Dedicated dockyards offer a purely utilitarian docking facility suitable only for bulk freight, with little accommodation made for actual visitors. These facilities are devoted towards the transport of a specific form of commercial product with specialized loading and unloading systems dedicated to rapidly loading, unloading, and distributing bulk commercial products intended for market.

Construction Oversight Center
+1 Logistics Trade Route
Concerts of thinkers devoted to organizing workers drones and managing material shipments, as well as devoted ports loaded with prefabricated construction materials and bio-mechanical nano-constructor packets serve to export vast amounts of local resources to rapidly develop distant construction projects

Emergency Aid Center
+1 Humanitarian Trade Route
Shelters, medical centers, and streamlined shipping facilities allow the rapid response to remote disasters and humanitarian crises by preparing and distributing care packages, and importing the most critical of individuals for medical care and shelter to those displaced from war damage, natural disasters, poverty, or temporary relocation as a part of a wider urban sprawl renovation project.

>>2959179
Well consider these current rules to be a bit of a beta at the moment, if you think something is unbalanced or largely useless let me know, also please pitch any ideas for new wards or hubs you think would be useful. The only real hard rule I tried to follow was to make it so that a space city is always useful, but can't have everything at once.

>>2959177
That's right...

Location: Orbiting Pegasean gas giant, Desmond system
Hub: Presidium
Wards:
1 Zoological Reserve
2 Resorts (to exploit hot jupiter burning gas giant, and zoological reserve)
1 Thermal Regulator
2 Trade ports

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>>2959194
Corporate Field office
+1 Industrial Trade Route
A small, humble office for a mega-corporation is established on the station with a dedicated logistics center devoted to the management of local corporate mining permits and the distribution of extracted resources. The corporate entity involved must have an HQ within the region, but it does not need to be in the same system.

Slipway
+10 Docking Pylons
A devoted shipyard provides for construction duties for new ships, with an internal structure that allows for the rapid assembly of new vessels in an area that facilitates a wide range of construction methods at once, allowing for the construction of multiple ships at the same time within the same facility.

Secondary Capillary
+5 Dev score
This secondary tether is reinforced and lined with additional transport capillaries, allowing for additional resources and passengers to navigate between the Anchor station and the geostationary station bellow, increasing the station's overall logistical capacity.

Electrostatic Capacitor
+5 N score
Electrostatic generators mounted along the stabilizing tether farm energy from the planet's atmosphere and are fed into power capacitors within the ward which are then used to improve the overall efficiency of the power grid of both the station and the planet by removing stress from the bio-mechanical infrastructure systems during peak operational hours, improving overall performance.

Orbital Recycling Center
+5 M score
Mounted Consumption Beams gather passing space debris, collecting chunks of natural stellar metals, discarded and lost trash, and components from damaged or destroyed ships, and recycles them for base metals in a central chemical forge before shipping them planetside.

Rest Stop
+5 Pop Cap
Small, cheap, and efficiently structured living facilities offer short term residence to passing merchants, civilians, and allied military servicemen whose short term stay in the area does not require anything more extensive than a single small room with a bed and shower. Such living conditions are rarely tolerable for long, but are often better than a ship's zero-g bunk, making them a welcome sight to weary interstellar travelers.

>>2959186
Not with any real accuracy or control. It would mostly just spew flaming hot star plasma all over the station. Such things requires the far more delicate and precise star drill to do safely.

>>2959196
I think the Promenade would be better there.

>>2959201
"spew flaming hot star plasma all over the station"
So your saying we could rig one of these things up as a station mounted flame thrower?
I kid, probably only useful for station self destruct if we needed it, but im still amused by the idea of using a star to burn a fleet that gets too close (fried scavanger for all!).

>>2959205
We have formerly human run stations in Koenig and other systems to retrofit into trade hubs.

We want to put our Presidium, because we definitely need at least one for all that mind-reading, someplace truly stunning looking.

>>2959187
>Tachyonic Drill.
>When we already have the rip drive.
>Valensweatingintensifies.jpg

>>2959208
I think the intent is that the Tachyonic Drill is a "stationary RIp Drive" that functions as a Valen gate.

>>2959214
Exactly

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>>2959206
>So your saying we could rig one of these things up as a station mounted flame thrower?

If you want one that is always aimed exclusively at yourself.

>>2959214
I know, and it's hilarious that we now have something that completely copies the valen's FTL gate monopoly while using a completely different FTL.

WAIT I JUST REMEMBER M-323. It's the perfect place for a shipyard.
>>2959208
Those space slugs can't get a break.
>>2959207
I'm mostly fine either way.
>>2959201
What if we got the late game tech for energy/space manipulation? Would it be an option then or am just chasing a dead end here?

>>2959201
So it looks like the current options are:

Location: Orbiting Pegasean gas giant, Desmond system
Hub: Presidium
Wards:
1 Zoological Reserve
2 Resorts (to exploit hot jupiter burning gas giant, and zoological reserve)
1 Thermal Regulator
2 Trade ports

Orbital Anchor for the capillary tower on Leeland.
Wards:
1 Thermal Regulator
4 Refineries
1 Laboratory
1 Slipway
3 Secondary Capillaries

so,
>Option 1
>Option 2
>Other

>>2959227
>>Option 1
I want more rich powerful sleeper agents.

Let's invite the head of the Guild of Transportation here before we're willing to finalize the Tannhauser gate deal.

>>2959226
>WAIT I JUST REMEMBER M-323. It's the perfect place for a shipyard.
Aye, and we might be able to use the remains of the skyl dison ring to make it.

>>2959227
>Option 2

>>2959227
I'd rather have a Customs and a Tachyonic Drill on option one for obvious reasons.

>>2959226
Anon for all we know the metals deposit there is one singular deposit. Also we are technically already harvesting it with a fleet of corvettes.

I'm not sure if we're still gonna be allowed to just eat metal with a fleet of corvettes in the new system, actually... or if the new system will genuinely somehow provide a superior option.

We're still in beta and have no actual numbers to compare yet. How much income each currently known resource deposit will provide to Refineries or a Macrofactory.

>>2959227
if I may:
Leeland:
Macrofactory
1 Refinery
1 Laboratory
1 Thermal Regulator
1 Secondary Capillary (+5 Dev)
1 Electrostatic Capacitor (+5 N)
1 Orbital Recycling Center (+5 N)

>>2959234
Drop a resort and a trade port maybe?

Though I don't know if the valen will manage to survive the collective heart attack of seeing a tachyonic drill in operation after first contact was only established mere months ago (?) if that.

>>2959234
Put Customs and Tachyonic Drill on a Promenade, and Promenades should be in Koenig because more star systems will be in the Drill's range, anon. Gotta think about optimal location.

>>2959227
>>Option 1

>>2959234
I agree with the customs being traded in.

>>2959241
We need at least one Zoological Reserve to do dissection research for free, and it doubles as a Tourist Attraction, and we need the 2nd Resort in order to exploit the ZReserve as a tourist attraction. Can't do it without a matching Resort.

Could drop a trade port, yeah, but without a 2nd trade port, Customs is much less valuable.

Customs and Drill are best when you have lots of trade routes already, not just 1 or 2.

>>2959227
>Option 1

>>2959242
We should consider redundancy as well. When we do get invaded we will more than likely be hit at our main transport hub first.

Though the cost of these things may prove too prohibative for such.

>>2959251
Fair point.

>>2959242
The Tachyon Drill is nonnegotiable. It's massive statement to how much power we have.

Remind me guys, what’s in Desmond again?

>>2959254
I do wonder if we could fit one on our big ass capital ship, or a variant thereof.

Being able to park it somewhere for use, then move it before a retaliatory strike would make our raiding fleets a much bigger headache to catch.

>>2959255
Flaming gas giant.

>>2959255
Gas giant that's on fire, pretty to look at so great for a space resort.

>>2959254
And we will make that powerful statement!

In Koenig. Where it can reach more human stars from. And make the Valen sweat more.

Desmond system is utterly lacking in habitable planets. Our enormous Drill in the heavens should be in sight of highly populated planets like Deckard's claim if we want to show off.

>>2959227
Orbital Anchor for the capillary tower on Leeland.
Wards:
1 Thermal Regulator
4 Refineries
1 Laboratory
1 Slipway
3 Secondary Capillaries

Leeland:
Macrofactory
1 Refinery
1 Laboratory
1 Thermal Regulator
1 Secondary Capillary (+5 Dev)
1 Electrostatic Capacitor (+5 N)
1 Orbital Recycling Center (+5 N)

Location: Orbiting Pegasean gas giant, Desmond system
Hub: Presidium
Wards:
1 Zoological Reserve
2 Resorts (to exploit hot jupiter burning gas giant, and zoological reserve)
1 Thermal Regulator
2 Trade ports

>1
>2
>3
>Other

Also, as the Expanse changes hands, you will gain ownership over a number of space cities, including Bedrock, Brandenburg, Calpamos station and others. You are currently surveying your new region, and will have a better understanding of your new territory quite soon.

Wait, hang on, you can't build the Utility wards on the base Macrofactory because you need an orbital anchor instead.

In that case:
Location: Leeland
Base: Macrofactory
4 Refinery
1 Laboratory
1 Thermal Regulator

+65 Dev score total.

>>2959265
This.

>>2959266
>3
>1

Why not both

>>2959266
>3

>>2959259
You don't understand. Mounting it on our main resort is a massive display of power.
>>2959266
>1 Thermal Regulator
Replace with the Drill. Otherwise I vote for the other options

Tadeki Station and Calpamos Station can both be retrofitted into a Macrofactory and a Promenade, respectively. We should do that as soon as we finish transferring sovereignty.

Since it's cheaper to retrofit than to build from scratch.

>>2959266
>>3

>>2959276
Cause we only have one big as fuck space station right now anon.

>>2959276
You get only one right now.

>>2959279
No no i get it, but like
>>2959265
says, its better placed elsewhere.

Im more wondering if this thing could be used to aid our raiding fleet designs. Since it would allot much shorter range and upkeep reliant designs to be used alongside or instead of the dedicated raiders.

>>2959276
We get ONE (1) free space city, built from scratch, already completed.

The next one will cost a great deal, unless we retrofit a human space city.

>>2959279
We will make it illegal for people to arrive at Desmond EXCEPT via a Drill wormhole sent from Koenig. Everyone visiting will experience it first hand.

>>2959289
It benefits ALL systems to have at least one per system.

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OH FUCK IT'S HERE.
I MISSED IT

>>2959266
1 or 2 it is then I don't care which.

>>2959266
>>2959276
Then change mine to

>3

sorry about that I should focus more

>>2959294
It doesn't much benefit a civilization with the blink drive which is just as instantaneous over a slightly longer range of 25 lightyears that only uses 50% of the ship's fuel.

Mechanically, its main benefit is increasing credits income, so it's good for heavily human-inhabited systems where we charge them money to use it.

>>2959266
3 makes the most sense for the uniqueness since it gives us things that we can't get elsewhere.

Gotta put a drill somewhere too, though...

>>2959293
I think we had a discussion before on making using the Rip drive to control travel through our system.
>>2959306
It gives us an excuse for controlling all travel through our space.

>>2959312
>Gotta put a drill somewhere too, though...
In koenig, like >>2959265 says.

>>2959312
Replace the thermal regulator since it's unnecessary.

>>2959316
>It gives us an excuse for controlling all travel through our space.
No it doesn't? Don't we already have a multitude of excuses like it being a cultural thing or checking for artifacts?

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>>2959266
>Option 3

Location: Orbiting Pegasean gas giant, Desmond system
Hub: Presidium
Wards:
1 Zoological Reserve
2 Resorts (to exploit hot jupiter burning gas giant, and zoological reserve)
1 Thermal Regulator
2 Trade ports

>keep as is
>Replace Thermal Regulator with Tachyonic Drill
>Replace Thermal Regulator with Customs
>Other alterations

Also you can retrofit existing space cities to suit your own needs as they change. The cities you will be getting may have faction exclusive wards or hubs that require human citizens to function, and you can replace them with more efficient Hive versions quickly and easily, including adding in Tachyonic Drills to any city in a good position for it.

>>2959325
>Desmond
>potentially in range of the Scavenger fleets' expeditions

Well,

>>2959266
Got to go for 3 I think. Pretty good location for trade hub in middle of the empire, and we can build the drill another time.

>>2959325
I say it's plenty necessary, it allows the station to survive for longer in case it's attacked.

>>2959328
>keep as is

Man i forgot how cute our drones are.

>>2959328
>keep as is

We need the therm reg for the shielding. If and when the scavs catch wind of this place they are going to throw everything they have at it for the prestige alone.

>>2959328
Keep

>>2959328
>Tachyonic Drill
>>2959327
We can force people to take shuttles from place to place rather than ftl ships we don't control.

>>2959316
Then we only need it in systems where we plan on allowing legal human traffic.

And technically, we could have a Rip Drive equipped battleship in a picket fleet at Desmond, which can then connect with the future Drill at Koenig, we don't need a dedicated Ward in Desmond, if we want travel in both directions to be via wormhole.

>>2959336
It already fortified though as a part of it's design. Also the Scavs have to get through M-323 first which honest should be more heavily defended.

I want a bigger armada. Let's put more ships in production.

>>2959342
>We can force people to take shuttles from place to place rather than ftl ships we don't control.
What's the difference between those methods of travel? Why are FTL capable ships that we don't control a problem?

>>2959328
>>keep as is

>>2959328
>keep as is
Scavengers, yo

>>2958920
Questdrone, I-I thought you were dead!

>>2959351
Thinka please. We ain't even covered the upkeep of the LAST ship order we made. They're in hibernation or shit. We gotta wait until the new resource income crunch is out of beta so we know what the numbers are.

Unless you want to order some very small and specialized fleets.

>>2959351
Tried that, we can't afford the upkeep.
Speaking of that can anyone go archive diving for what ships i recommended we build?

>>2959333
If we are getting attacked there we have bigger things to worry about.

>>2959352
Well for one they can escape on their own if we were turning on them for some reason that would make sense at the time.

Also if we limit people to sublight vehicles using wormholes we can charge them money.

I assume is the logic. More control all around.

>>2959351
Lets build up our new planets so we can afford the ships first.

Do we have a station or building option for long range scans and surveillance?

If we build a dedicated sensor post we might be able to spot any hidden resources in the vast void of space between systems if there are any, or spot other fleet movements. Hell we know the nomad queen had a place in our local, maybe she made more before biting the proverbial dust.

This thinker is just vibrating in excitement until the meat of the shenanigans start up again. It's been far too long since the last post.

>>2959373
>Do we have a station or building option for long range scans and surveillance?
Yes but only for fleets, no resource detection i think.

>>2959352
I have multiple reasons. Massive display of power, gives our ships a massive boost in where they can go (fighters become god tier), better control over movement of civilian ships, etc. I want one Drill per system for all these reason and more.

>>2959381
>I have multiple reasons. Massive display of power, gives our ships a massive boost in where they can go (fighters become god tier), better control over movement of civilian ships, etc. I want one Drill per system for all these reason and more.
Sounds good to me but not enough to justify replacing a ward for it right now, definitely later though when we don't have scavs right next door to the station.

>>2959381
I agree we need the drill, but we don’t need it right here right now. It doesn’t even take us that long to build a new city if we have to. And we can use battleships with Skyl drives for moving fighters or other ships if we really need to.

>>2959385
My inner perfectionist is screaming in frustration but I okay with this position as long as it gets built eventually.

This may sound odd, and maybe this should be a discussion for another time, but in an effort of goodwill (and to gain some favors from their own intelligence service), maybe we should share some of our new intel about the scavs (including the worldship) with the Comminwealth. We want them to back off attacking the Union and scaring the hell out of them (and impressing them with our intelligence gathering abilities) is a good way to do that.

>>2959394
>My inner perfectionist is screaming in frustration
I perfectly understand that feeling.

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>>2959328
Also just to specify, the Drill can already work in both directions, as it can be called upon to project a tear at a certain location for incoming ships from other systems within range.

>Keep as is

Location: Orbiting Pegasean gas giant, Desmond system
Hub: Presidium
Wards:
1 Zoological Reserve
2 Resorts (to exploit hot jupiter burning gas giant, and zoological reserve)
1 Thermal Regulator
2 Trade ports


Your workers make the final touches on your new shining jewel of your growing empire, a vast structure that is truly worthy of carrying on The Builder's legacy. She would be proud to see what you have done with her construction techniques, and the ways in which you have expanded upon them, incorporating both human design elements and a few twists of your own. You expect visitors, and so the entire city is set in motion. Now that construction is complete you don't need to worry about the efficiency of zero gravity construction, and thousands of thrusters set along the outer hull flicker to life, illuminating the surface like candles lighting a dark temple dedicated to your own majesty. You allow yourself the moment of vanity, you think it is well deserved.

Slowly, the workers within drift to the walls, and then slide to the floor as the spin accelerates, until eventually you record a proper earth gravity along most of the tourist intended ward sections, and the thrusters cut off. The wards themselves open from their defensive position, the outer hull splitting open like a dark red lotus flower of truly vast proportions and revealing the vibrantly illuminated cityscape within. Docking lights pierce the darkness of space, directing any arriving traffic to the safety of its docks like a flower luring in a passing honey bee, and the lights of countless structures, hotels, restaurants, and observation decks shine like a glittering chandelier, sparking as the station spins.

Within, your workers finish the plumbing, and waterfalls and lakes begin to flow freely and fill into tranqui rivers and reflecting pools to allow any valen guests a better experience navigating your new city, and special skylanes of focused gravity plates create highways of airflows and synthetic drafts for any winged guests. Fountains, holographic displays, and semi-living kinetic statues reflect the soft lighting of your partially decorative hardlight ceilings, creating a synthetic, and highly realistic day-night cycle as worker drones, both squat and adorable, and tall, bipedal, and majestic, mill about their stations ready to provide devoted hospitality just as eagerly as any warrior would seek the throat of your enemies. Considering the human saying 'kill them with kindness' you suppose the relation is more apt than first thought.

How do you intend to allow your guests to enjoy your gift unto the universe, and what will you call it?

>Allow open and free traffic
>Run hive passenger ships directly from other Expanse worlds
>Other (write in)

>Name (write in)

>>2959381
That can be accomplished with regular Rip Drives for the most part anyway. Wards on the other hand are a scarce resource.

We should build some battleships with dedicated Rip Drives instead of blink drives for that.

>>2959398
Sounds like proper Thinker thinking.

>>2959400
>Allow open and free traffic

>>2959400
>Allow open and free traffic

>>2959400
>>Allow open and free traffic

>>2959400
>Allow open and free traffic

>>2959388
But those are expensive ships whose cost could have went to cheaper, more combat-focused designs. It also means we could make our entire picket fleet small craft and transport them where ever we want in our territory.

>>2959400
>Allow open and free traffic

Call it 'Builder's Gift', after all, we wouldn't have gotten it in the first place were it not for her, seem right to honor her.

>>2959403
Agreed, we should build battleships with Rip drives asap

>>2959400
>Allow open and free traffic
Better intel gainz
Didn't we promise to search every ship entering Hive space, though?

>>2959417
>Builder's Gift
I like this one

>>2959422
Yes, but that just means anyone wanting to not be checked has to get past the hive fleets.

Thats not a gamble they will win.

>>2959400
>>Other (write in)
Would like to make traffic Koenig Drill exclusive but it doesn't exist yet...

We could require everyone to pass through Koenig now though, to check in with the hive, and announce their plan to visit the Desmond space city first.

That will get them accustomed to the limitation. Then, when we construct the Tachyonic Drill, the increased speed and convenience will be an IMPROVEMENT instead of being worse. Human psychology.

>>2959422
My biggest problem is that everyone forgot that "free travel" is a really bad idea. The Enemy's homeworld is in the middle of the Expanse and free travel might have people run into it.

>>2959400
>>Allow open and free traffic

>>2959417
>Builder's Gift
I like it.

>>2959431
That is quite literally astronomically unlikely. You can't hit that black hole by accident, and you can't come out of a warp bubble by accident and live to tell the tale.

I was gonna say that wouldn't leave open traffic allow the terrorist and the Squids that hate us appearing start to miggle into our area and cause chaos?

But then i remember we have high security and can easily spin this as a attemp from xenophobics groups.

>>2959400
>Allow open and free traffic

>>2959431
>The Enemy's homeworld is in the middle of the Expanse
What? no it isn't.

>>2959417
I like that name as well

>>2959414
They’re not THAT expensive, especially compared with a city. They can also move to other locations as needed. It’s a great boon to our allies and allied fleets.

>>2959425
Sounds about right. The only thing we really need to worry about significantly are Ceph void cultists getting on.

Also, that one terrorist we worked with may eventually betray us, although I think he is with Hive agents in space at the moment. We may be able to interdict him assuming I’m remembering right.

>>2959417
“Builders gift” is good.

>>2959436
>>2959437
Oh wait the black hole! Is that in the expanse? i thought it was at the edges of it.

>>2959437
There is a black hole somewhere in the Expanse, around which an impossible planet made of crystal makes an impossibly tight orbit.

The First Queen said that this region of space contained both the Skyl homeworld and "Their Anchor."

Seiner glimpsed the black hole, and felt it pulling at him.

>>2959440
If you mean Kent, I think he's still on Path but I could be mistaken. It's been literally a year since the last threads

>>2959431
Well, this is only free travel to this one Space City, not all of Hive Space

>>2959434
Did you forget about warp jamming thing Theseus mentioned?

>>2959425
Meh, that just means that Anderson will get more friends helping him in his underworld business if someone is dumb enough to try that.

>>2959440
Right. Per our announced policy, we search every ship.

So we just search and board Kent's rented ship with that experimental grav flight suit in it, swarm it with tons of Speakers to speak to every passenger. Speakers can do Empathetic paralysis on Kent's brain and the brains of all his associates so they can be dumped in medical pods and parasited.

>>2959453
Free Travel means smugglers and that means there wil be ships looking for smuggling routes.

>>2959448
I’m not sure where the black hole is, although it’s probably in the Expanse yeah. We can’t really keep anyone from going there, though. Obviously having any patrols in the system is suicidal (to us) and having allies secure it poses extreme risk as well. Even Theseus is at risk since we know the Void was once sillicate. I’m afraid we can’t do much better than security through obscurity. It would not be difficult for someone to bypass all inhabited systems and reach the black hole anyway if they knew where they were going, even if we locked down the entire expanse.

>>2959458
Oh shit, I forgot about the Canderon Iron Man suit

Lyle needs this upgrade before we send him to fight some Scavs leading a group of Ralighan-hybrid Spiral Warriors

>>2959451
I “thought” Kent had left Path with the fancy armor and our guys with him, but I honestly don’t remember either. It’s been a long time.

Meanwhile, also from Path, we have a dead half of a Cluster coming to our dissection medical pods.

The Cluster has been scavenging Skyl and hive ship casualties from both sides of the war for millennia. It's only fair we get to scavenge one of the Cluster's dead for once.

We just gotta hope we get to it before it decays like the human possessed samples decayed.

>>2959463
I think we have a few tricks available to us in stopping ships from traveling through our space but they involve use our poorly utilized grav sensors.

>>2959458
Sounds good to me. The hardest part might be doing it quietly, but the Iron Man suit alone is far too valuable for us to leave in the hands of anyone but ourselves.

>>2959400

Builders Legacy
>Allow open and free traffic
>Other

If we're reserving the right to search every ship, should we dedicate some corvettes and warriors and flies for boarding parties, along with a speaker purely for the purpose of contacting the vessels we'll search?

>>2959400
>Allow open and free traffic

Well, perhaps not 'free', after all you do intend to make some credits from the use of your docking facilities, but any system meant for tourism should indeed be open to traffic, though you do intend to keep a close eye on them all the same. You will need to star advertising immediately, a few high profile visitors and the city will be packed with eager spenders. You doubt such a thing will be easy with the Union's current political climate. Perhaps you could use that to your advantage, and use raw partisan sentiment to help, rather than harm your popularity? Or perhaps it would simply be more wise to extend your invitation to the elites of the Commonwealth instead.

As you mull this over, the news of your construction is distributed across the standard public information feeds across all of known space. You can offer a well structured advertisement later, for now it is good enough to simply let others know it is open for visitation. Almost instantly you begin receiving responses, curious news agencies and journalists demanding details on this new facility, and, with some surprise, request by various corporate entities. You let them sit in the standard channels of communication, you figure it will give you time to think of a proper response, and give them time to squirm.

>Advertise to the Commonwealth nobility
>Advertise to Union cultural elites
>Pander to pro-xeno Union political factions
>Other

>Builder's Gift
>Y/N?

>>2959427
You will be able to adjust that specification later.

>>2959471
You never watched the Thing have you?

>>2959471
Oh that would be a juicy prize. If nothing else we may be able to develop counter measures to cluster infections (even if its just organism level suicide). Which should be something to keep on a back burner incase we ever have to fight them seriously.

>>2959480
>Advertise to the Commonwealth nobility

>>2959480
>Advertise to the Commonwealth nobility

>>2959475
Since we board every ship it won't be out of the ordinary, and all the speakers' psionic powers will make everyone completely fugue out and have no memory or perception of what's happening around them, it will be extremely quiet.

>>2959481
Well previously we were able to overwhelm a minor segment of the cluster via psionic force. Provided the chunk is small enough and none gets away we might be able to salvage something from it.

>>2959480
>Advertise to the Commonwealth nobility

>Y
to Builder's Gift

I wonder what'll happen if the Union public finds out we're giving slightly preferential treatment to Commonwealth citizens?

>>2959482
Um, didn’t we already tell the big cluster we were going to reunite it with the remaining fragment?

I agree the rewards could be huge, but the risk is, frankly, much scarier. The cluster will have at least hive tier genetic encryption and any leak could lead to war with another of the big 3 when we’re already losing against the void

>>2959480
>Advertise to the Commonwealth nobility
"GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! THE RESORT IS NOW OPEN!" Suddenly screams the speaker, startling everyone.

>>2959482
We already figured out some of his most basic weaknesses though.

>>2959480
>Advertise to the Commonwealth nobility
This will strengthen ties to the Commonwealth, which should make the Union a bit more eager to fix things with the Hive since they are sorta a little at war with the Commonwealth
>Builder's Gift
Y

>>2959480
>Advertise to the Commonwealth nobility
>Y

>>2959480
>Advertise to the Commonwealth nobility

They get first pick because at least they didn't started first contact by shooting us.

>Builder's Gift
>Y

>>2959480

Honestly, all 3 imo. Speak it up as a NEUTRAL area that is open to all non-hostile groups.

>Y
Builder's Gift is a fantastic name

>>2959480
>>Advertise to the Commonwealth nobility
>>Other (Advertise to Valen)
The Valen love trade and the station will give them a way to trade with the CW without violating Union sanctions

>>2959487
We also have hardlight containment fields, and cryo spray, we know it freezes at least.

>>2959492
There's no contradiction. The rescued Cluster discarded its dead half, and left it behind. It didn't even go retrieve it when it wanted to go home. He abandoned it. It's salvage material, as legit as hive ships were in the war at least.

>>2959480
>Advertise to the Commonwealth nobility
>Advertise to Union cultural elites
Why not both? This is a neutral and safe space.

>Builder's Gift
>Y

>>2959492
>at least
Cluster is the one and only master of biology. We are still a mere learner.

>>2959492
Ah thats the fragment we are returning?
Well damn. Can't go back on our word.

>>2959490
Maybe they will stop planting nukes over other planets orbit. But i doubt that would happen.

>>2959480

>Advertise to the Commonwealth nobility
>Pander to the pro-xeno Union political factions
Unless we don't intend to try and bridge any relations between Union and Commonwealth, although it would be fun to mess with Killingers political campaign by giving the pro-xenos an opportunity to angle 'ending the war' in the election.

>Builder's Gift
>Y

>>2959480
Supporting this >>2959501 too
Hive-backed Commonwealth black market Ho!

>>2959508
No it's not. Don't just believe random anon's ramblings.

>>2959504
From previous examinations, it should be chock full of genetic material of numerous species some of which we have never seen before or already use. The lore dump alone makes me want to salvage it.

>>2959480
>Asvertise to everyone

Why in the name of Mother would we want to keep people away from our trade hub?