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>>3008202
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: 34,002,853N
Metals: 30,620,392M
Credits: ₡8,752,206
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

Fleet info – [s]We still need to assign designs to the different roles. We can do that later tonight or maybe Monday, but most are obvious enough for me to keep your ships behaving properly.[/s]

[Recon]
[Stealth]
[Boarding]
[Line ship]
[Carrier]
[Artillery]
[Support]
[Picket]

>Income
Metals: 2,952,854 – 2,746,854
Nutrients: 7,636,202 – 7,680,702
Net: 1,005,110

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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>>3008211
Espionage Activity

Gemini
Agitation – **************_
Suspicion – ***********____
N 48
M 18
Development 70

[Covert Infiltration]
>Beggars and Taidarens
BFI authorities have begun an investigation into possible Hive influence
Resources:
Locally coded holoprinter capable of creating authetnc ID cards for local security: Grants 1 free Professional Equipment supply per day. May be rendered inoperable by counter-intelligence actions.
1 Sleeper Cell within local civilian infrastructure
A high ranking source of information within the governmnet
Close ties with local Taidaren clans

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.

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>>3008222
[Full infrastructure roster unknown]
Union Parliament Building – Unique: The primary seat of Union political authority, this structure organizes the humans and various xeno entities within the Union into a semblance of order, collecting taxes and passing laws, all things the Hive has little need for, but the single-minded cannot function without.
BFI HQ – Unique: The center of Union counter intelligence, the Bureau of Foreign Intelligence is devoted to rooting out espionage across the Union, as well as infiltrating enemy or possibly hostile planets and organizations. Allows recruitment of BFI agents and deployment of espionage cell networks on other planets.
Space Elevator [Under construction] – This space elevator is nearing completion, however political corruption and recent unnatural inclement weather patterns have caused delays.
ISGM launch facility – Launch facilities for ISGM's, or Interstellar Gravitic Missiles. In effect high-yield MIRV warheads fitted to corvette sized automated vessels capable of short range warp travel and the deployment of many dozens of independently targeting nuclear, kinetic, or gravitic warheads. Nicknamed 'planet busters' the very existence of these warheads are typically reserved as a deterrent, and are too large to be effectively used against anything other than planets or space cities.
Union Customs Authority – Unique: Large scale government oversight of import and export activity creates a demand for a greater level of traffic be diverted through the capital system when dealing with interstellar multi-national corporations so as to allow said corporate travel more rapid movement through local bureaucracy. +2 Commercial Trade Routes
[Detected Economic Activity]
Commercial Trade routes:
Gemini – Librae
Librae – Gemini
Lanway – Gemini

Gemini Beta
[Maintain Concealment]
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.

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>>3008230
[Hydra]
Path
[Maintain Concealment]
This planet has been recently struck by interplanetary weapons of mass destruction. The surface is in a state of anarchy with multiple cities suffering grave infrastructure loss. Widespread looting, rioting, and mass crime has broken out and the local authorities are unable to maintain control in many areas. Many authorities have resorted to martial law and summary violence to maintain order, making acts of espionage more risky to the agents involved, but also more easy to avoid Hive implication, greatly reducing Discovery risk but slightly increasing failure chance.

Talgo
Agitation – ********_______
Suspicion – ******_________
[Passive Observation]
Invasive Research

Full infrastructure roster unknown
House of Farmers – A quasi-political branch devoted to expressing the political grievances and interests of the planet's oldest family owned farms which make up the bulk of the planet's traditional economy and consisting of individuals whose lineage is traced back to the founding of the colony. The house has no legally binding power, but motions passed are entered into the record of the local legislature and can have great sway over public opinion, and as such enjoy some level of deference by local politicians, although growing interstellar corporate farm ownership is reducing this influence.
Privatized PDF Militia – The right to bear arms is not only codified in Talgoan law, it is mandatory. All land owning families are required to own and maintain a minimal armament, and are expected to use said armament in the event of invasion. The planet's government maintains very few weapon systems directly, but instead subsidizes local land owners to build and maintain privately owned defensive structures up to and including anti-orbital batteries whose fire-control system is leased to the colonial government, increasing morale of local troops and decreasing upkeep costs of all defensive structures.

Elite Hive Agent Anderson: Spin Doctor – Allows minor passive influence of local politics, increasing or decreasing Agitation or Suspicion by one point per day. Requires at least Covert Infiltration.
This planet is undergoing an infestation from non-native insectoid life forms. Discovery chance is decreased as locals dismiss your flies as part of the infestation, but failure rate is increased as local anti-infestation measures inadvertently kill your drones periodically.

Aww yeah, so much HQQ I'm going to overdose.

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>>3008235
Coral
Agitation – *******________
Suspicion – **_____________
[Passive Observation]
>Invasive Research

Full infrastructure roster unknown
Deep Ocean research facility – Studies local life forms and environmental history of the planet.
PDF wet navy
Silicate Nature Reserve – Attracts both tourists and scientists to examine the many different species local to the planet, providing a bustling tourist industry and assisting in research of silicate biology.

This planet's native biosphere is silicon based, limiting the capacity for your drones to disguise themselves as native life forms and forcing them to siphon off food from local settlements, increasing detection chances until the local hive grows to a size capable of importing resources or becoming self-sustaining.

[Eridanus]
Huron
Agitation – **_____________
Suspicion – *______________
N 78
M 25
Development 65
[Passive Observation]

[Full infrastructure roster unknown]
Huronese Fishers' Guild – Exclusivity laws and carefully organized mass-branding gives locally caught specimens artificially high value, translating 25% of local N income to Credits.
Island Resort – Strings of small island chains domed against the frequent storms offer mock-traditional entertainment and themed luxury events to the ultra-wealthy, increasing Credit income
Wet Navy – Floating and submersible platforms make up the majority of the planet's anti-orbital battery locations, allowing for the rapid relocation of PDF forces on short notice. Improves firing arcs of anti-orbital weapons.

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>>3008202

>BFI authorities have begun an investigation into possible Hive influence

Fucking knew it...but that was kinda obvious from the things we caugth from the security circle meeting with Devon, plus the gravitic missiles.

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>>3008240
[Sirius]
Mentan
Agitation – **********_____
Suspicion – _______________
[Passive Observation] – Growing to [Covert Infiltration]

Full infrastructure roster unknown
University of Mentan – Despite the singular name, the University is in fact a corporate conglomerate of multiple colleges devoted to a range of fields of study who have organized into an efficient centeral structure to prevent competition and optimize funding. The Mentan University has become the gold standard of education in known space, with entire planetary districts devoted to facilitating the research of its resident professors and arcologies devoted to housing students and classrooms devoted to specific fields of study. To both encourage a broad spectrum of understanding in students, and to assist the different component colleges, the University encourages, and to some extent requires its students obtain multiple degrees spread across a range of semi-related fields, and does not offer programs for single degree specializations – Recruits Scientists from all owned planets and allows additional research.

Elite Hive Agent Decker: Tech – Is able to gather additional information, reduces detection risk of local espionage.
This planet is currently in a state of mild unrest due to regular protests and small riots regarding upcoming local elections. Such activity is considered normal for the planet's relatively unstable political landscape.

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>>3008247
Arnim
Agitation – **************_
Suspicion – *******________
[Passive Observation] – Growing to [Covert Infiltration]

[Full infrastructure roster unknown]
Union Central Bank – A conglomeration of private banking entities whose oligopoly of the money lending infrastructure of Union space has resulted in the granting of de facto authority over a large aspect of the Union's monetary policy.
Central Unionized Atemportal Financial Exchange – The central hub of the Union's massive, heavily automated Quantum Comms powered stock exchange network, providing instant economic data to billions, even trillions of investors across known space and facilitating the rapid exchange of quintillions of credits worth of stocks, bonds, debt notes, and other investments related to every conceivable industry.

This planet is currently reeling from a sudden and sharp rise in interstellar economic instability, resulting in widespread panic among the economic elites and a local pension crisis among lower class employees as a result of the sudden flash-crash of a number of megacorporations' stock values, a sharp rise in interest rates, and the reduction of a number of Expanse prospecting related market trackers to penny-stock status. The lower classes suffering from the sudden loos of pensions and savings are demanding answers, and protests have broken out, with riots outside several major banks. Anti-xeno sentiment is growing rapidly, against both Valen banking clans and Hive territorial claims.

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.

>>3008222
>Agitation – **************_
Only one away from riots.

>Privatized PDF Militia – The right to bear arms is not only codified in Talgoan law, it is mandatory.

Well now i can only imagine Richardson as the HQQ Kane.

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>>3008258
With so much happening in so little time, the political landscape has shifted rather heavilly. You wonder if your own espionage efforts should shift with them.

>Adjust Espionage policies (write in)
>Maintain them as is
>Other

>>3008222
>beggars and Taidarens
>BFI authorities have begun an investigation into possible Hive influence

Ummm, maybe we should have them lay low for a while (aside from the mission to help Devon)

>>3008266
If we upgrade Talgo to Covert Infiltration, Anderson can lower the somewhat high Suspicion stat on that planet.

Perhaps we should put Beggars and Taidarens on pause on Gemini while BFI investigation heat is on, and shrink back to Passive Observation?

>>3008266
Start working on covering up the parasite thing as discretely as possible. Maybe even mindfuck some BFI agents. If people are feeling bold we could cause world wide riots.

>>3008260
Both Arnim and Gemini. Wonder what we could do in Arnim to make things more interesting. But maybe we should just keel low and continue our covert operation.

>>3008266
>>Other
We've never done any Espionage Actions.

Do a Smash an Grab, with the target of getting not only credits but as the bonus equipment, a nerve stapler or two.

After that, then try to stay on the downlow. But we need to better understand the parasite problem we have in order to solve it.

>>3008281
>>3008268
I agree with that.

>>3008266
>>Adjust Espionage policies (Change Gemini to concealment and have Talgo tranfer into Covert Infiltration)

>>3008266
Proposals:

>Increase Talgo to Covert Infiltration
>Decrease Gemini to Concealment (will lose current cultural intel)
>Stop Beggars and Taidarens on Gemini
>Perform Smash and Grab - Nerve Stapler
>Do none
>Other (write in)

>>3008266

>>3008281
>>3008290
Seconding an operation for nerve staplers and upgrading Talgo infiltration for Anderson's bonus, and then putting Gemini to passive. I think that's the right order, I can't imagine getting a stapler would wind up being too noticeable.

>>3008299
>Increase Talgo to Covert Infiltration
>Perform Smash and Grab - Nerve Stapler

>>3008297
Problem: We can't deal with concealing parasites if we shrink back on Beggars and Taidarens. We need them to do something about the issue.

We can shrink the hive tomorrow. Today we have to act. We can't help Devon if we shrink now.

>>3008284
Jesus it actually went up a lot on Gemini since yesterday.

>>3008299
>>Perform Smash and Grab - Nerve Stapler
>Increase Talgo to Covert Infiltration

I assume Smash and Grab is mutually exclusive with both stopping Beggars and Taidarens and shrinking.

>>3008299
>Do none
At this point I stopped caring. We can detonate the parasite before they are found.

>>3008299
>Increase Talgo to Covert Infiltration
>Perform Smash and Grab - Nerve Stapler

Of course, a stolen stapler right after Jack's conversation is a potentially notable coincidence, if they ever find out.

Weekly reminder

>Raid OQ
>Board a scav vessel for their FTL.
>Board and take over a scav world ship.
>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.)

>>3008299
>>Other (write in)
Deploy espionage drones to Tadega

This is the world where Union records indicate labratory testing of Void shards is still ongoing. If anything funky goes down on this planet we need to know about it IMMEDIATELY.

>>3008303
>>3008311
Yeah, we'll have to steal lots of drugs at the same time.

But fortunately it can be blamed on the sky-high Agitation on the planet.

I kinda feel like we should have initiated Smash and Grab yesterday in game time desu.

>>3008290
Yeah but any operations we do will be caugth maybe doing a burn and getting rid of as many agents getting caught would be a good idea.

>>3008320
A hard second.

>>3008320
There aint no civilian population on Tadega is there. It's a little high risk to land something there.

As for new espionage planets... well, the gators don't live in the cold waters. They're sensitive and stick to the tropics.
>>3008299
>>Other (write in)
Land a concealment hive in the colder latitudes of Deep Song.

>>3008320
Tadega is a facility i believe and a military one. So i think that would be in Gemini Beta but as it was said in one of the posts we don't know the complete infrastructure of every world. As far as we know they could be testing the thing on Coral.

>>3008240
>This planet's native biosphere is silicon based, limiting the capacity for your drones to disguise themselves as native life forms and forcing them to siphon off food from local settlements, increasing detection chances until the local hive grows to a size capable of importing resources or becoming self-sustaining.
Living rock would negate this penalty wouldn't it?

>>3008299
>Deploy espionage drones to Tadega
>Prefirm Smash and Grab - Nerve Stapler
>Increase Talgo to Covert Infiltration.

>>3008337
actually the rock candy crop I think.
the living stone was more for programming buildings to grow like our creep does

>>3008299
>Increase Talgo to Covert Infiltration
>Perform Smash and Grab - Nerve Stapler

>>3008299
>Increase Talgo to Covert Infiltration
>Perform Smash and Grab - Nerve Stapler

Additional proposals:
>Begin espionage on Tadega
>Bagin infiltration of Deep Song
>None
>Other (write in)

>>3008306
Since Gemini is the capital, major events that affect the entire Union will tend to affect Gemini more than normal.

>>3008333
The file on the void shard being actively tested specified it's location as on the planet Tadega, which is the same world Siener tried to dissect our drones on incidentally.

And just because it's military owned doesn't at all mean we can't infiltrate it. Our pods got in and out of there totally undetected when transporting Sieners severed head.

>>3008332
Yeah that's not going to work since they will notice the attempt at infiltration. The Valen are paraniod enough to check the poles.

>>3008306
>Jesus it actually went up a lot on Gemini since yesterday.

The power of having your capital bombarded by gravitic missiles.

>>3008349
>>Begin espionage on Tadega
>>Bagin infiltration of Deep Song

Oh hell yea, time to figure out how deep the rabbit hole goes fellow thinkers.

>>3008349
>>Begin infiltration of Deep Song

>>3008356
We had nuclear explosions as a distraction at the time.

Also funny, at the time, players spurned the option to send some drones scurrying into the moutains to hide out on Tadega, and instead evacuated all of them from the planet. Hindsight.

>>3008356
Fair enough but infiltrating a military base during a time of war will be pretty hard. Maybe we can do that once Union start trying to recruit people?

>>3008349
>Begin espionage on Tadega

>>3008356
Orbital bombardment tends to hide bright flashes and explosions.
>>3008361
>>3008364
Deep Song infiltration is going to be noticed. THEY WILL CHECK THE POLES

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>>3008211
>You feel the notice of a Distant Mind

>>3008358
That doesn't make any sense.

And they may look out for any deception, but searching the entire world's freezing cold oceans for something that has never happened before, unlike lying toeach other which happens all the time, is ridiculous sounding.

>>3008349
>Begin espionage on Tadega

I wonder if it would be possible to just plop an embassy on Deep Song. I figure we'd want one there eventually, but the timing is important.

>>3008349
>Begin espionage on Tadega
>HELL NO to infiltrating the paraniod Valen
>>3008374
We were told by a BFI agent that the Valen are one of the most paraniod alien out there. You think they won't send robots to check?

>>3008349
Alright so for confirmation:

>Increase Talgo to Covert Infiltration
>Perform Smash and Grab - Nerve Stapler
>Begin espionage on Tadega

>Y/N?

And because it is contentious, it gets its own confirmation.

>Bagin infiltration of Deep Song

>Yes, infiltrate it
>No, do not

>>3008382
What would possibly prompt them to check? What would they be checking for? When would covering the entire planet at all times with innumerable patrols of robots, which sounds expensive to maintain, have become a custom of theirs?

>>3008387
>Y
>DO NOT

>>3008387
>Y/N?
Y

>Begin infiltration of Deep Song
No, do not

>>3008387
>>Y

>Yes, infiltrate it
I mean, even if they do find it what are they going to do about it?

>>3008394
Paranioa and the fact a "meteor" conveniently got past their sensors.

>>3008387
>>Yes, infiltrate it
At least at [Maintain Concealment] it can remain basically undetectable.

>>3008387
>Y

>Bagin infiltration of Deep Song


>No, do not

Let's not infiltrate the Valen okay?

>>3008406
Join the enemy? I don't want to know what paraniod race of warlike carnivorous space snails will do.

>>3008387
>Y

>No,do not

>>3008387
>Y

>Bagin infiltration of Deep Song
>No, do not
We need to do something less risky to learn more about infiltration of valens first

>>3008415
No it won't. Even that is potentially detectable.

>>3008409
So move from the impact site. Very far away. We landed in a cornfield on Gemini, we can handle landing in ocean wilderness.

There are no craters left or footprints to follow in the oceans.

>>3008428
I would rather not risk it and have a deeper and better way to infiltrate the Valen. If we offend then and they decide to support the Union we will need to redo all the political stuff we did so far.

Going after their people to have a talk and visit so we can get a look at what they can give us, is a better approach in my opinion.

>>3008428
>There are no footprints underwater
>Nothing to tie one to a crashsite
>And if you seek evidence of crystals
>All you need is a nerve stapler

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

>>3008428
The fact there is a "meteor crash" but no meteor is only going to raise suspicions and prompt an through everything. They likely that paraniod.

>>3008424
I'll join in on the 'more information required' train.

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>>3008437

>>3008438
*an investigation through everything.

>>3008387
>Y/N?
Yes
>Bagin infiltration of Deep Song
>Yes, infiltrate it

>>3008438
There are a lot of rocks to sift through and catalog at the bottom of the ocean, and the thing would have drifted in the currents after hitting the surface. How wide an area of rocks would you have to search exhaustively to find one meteor based on where it probably hit the surface?

>>3008373
Ecks dhee

>>3008450
It's not like technology is a thing. Am I right?
The Valen have basic shit like sonar and computers. That speeds thing up quite a bit.

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>>3008387
>Y

>Do not

>>3008438
>They expect one of us in the wreckage!

Domain of the Red Queen

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

Income: Reduced due to Space City Construction
4.861MN – 2,430,500
112.5KM – 56,250

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)
Shield Dome Network – Under construction
Spore Caster Network – Under construction
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)
Economic Structures
Docking Pylon – (2000) (100KN)
[Empty docks: 8000/8000]
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.

Asteroid belt
M 57
A sizable belt of metal rich asteroids containing a large, hollowed out Hive mining base in the process of conversion to a Space City.

Gas giant
A hydrogen gas giant that contains a bounty of usable gas fuel, such as tritium and hydrogen for FTL navigation and fusion power generation, making it a common pit stop for passing hive fleet patrols. Research on methods of further exploitation of its atmosphere is underway.

>P1
N 0
M 75
Development 1+
Income:
0 N
75 M

>P2
N 75
M 21
Development 1+
Income:
N 75
M 21

>P3
N 24
M 7
Development 1+
Income:
24 N
7 M

>>3008438
Okay even i have to admit we would have to roll pretty low or the Valens would have to roll pretty high to figure that out.

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>>3008464
[Dagmar]
Kaltara
N 0
M 100
Development 20
Pop 0

Income:
0 N
2 KM

This planet's small corporate population has evacuated with the Union forces, taking what supplies they can and leaving the rest.

Economic Structures
Magma wells – Mostly automated magma pumps extract liquid metal resources from subterranean volcanic rivers for further filtration and refining, Allows extraction of resources relative to Development without a civilian population center. [offline]
PDF Field repair depot – The remains of a military facility devoted to the assembly of field repair kits and equipment for local military forces. [ruined and offline]

Gibson
Nitrogen ice giant with a a number of resource rich rings

>Gibson Station
A mostly automated mining facility, the station has been evacuated and stripped of most of its equipment. What remains is a large, yet empty husk of a refining facility, little more than the rough equivalent to an empty parking garage stripped of all valuables, but the husk itself would make it more easy to construct a larger and more dedicated mining facility in the form of a Space City in the otherwise dangerous construction site of the planet's rings.

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>>3008473
[Koenig]
Accretion disc
N 15
M 30
A large field of asteroids, gas, and small dust particulate combined into a thick soup of exploitable resources.

Calpamos
N N/A
M N/A
Development [Unavailable]
This hydrogen gas giant provides a bounty of water and hydrogen to fuel passing starships, and was the last stop of most evacuating fleets as they left the Expanse during sovereignty transfer. The planet has three moons, each of them habitable to some degree.

>Calpamos Station
A station tethered to the local gas giant linking to gas mining facility within the upper atmosphere. Most of the facility has been abandoned, scrapped, or otherwise rendered inoperable due to the rapid evacuation of local Union and corporate entities. Research into gas giant superstructures are required perform proper repairs and bring the facility back online, allowing the colonization of Calpamos itself.
>Hub
[Orbital Anchor]
1 Logistics Trade Route
1 Trade Route
5 Development
>Wards
[Customs] + Trade income
[Trade Port X2] +2 Trade Route
[Frontier Outpost] Increases Pop migration from overpopulated human worlds to worlds in local system Union only
[Barracks] Increases security, station weapons, and allows use of gunships
[Union Post Center] Reduces costs of shipping infrastructure in local system Union only
>Utility Wards
[Merchant Docks] +1 Commercial Trade Route
[Corporate Field office] Van Den Broek Superluminal Closed
[Rest Stop] +5 pop cap
[Slipway] +10 Pylons

>>3008464
Fucking well Leeland gonna have so much Dakka that no one will even try to poke that place.

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>>3008479
Acheron
N 34
M 23
Development 5
Agitation ******_________
Suspicion ***********____
>Mother Knows Best
A small number of frontier settlers have begun initial terraforming efforts. Few have evacuated, and many seem to be forming village militias to establish an ad hoc planetary defense force. Whether this militia is intent on resisting hive rule, or accepting hive sovereignty is yet to be determined, but they have made no overtly hostile gestures yet beyond the acts of entrenching their homesteads and looting the local armory.

Income:

Deckard's Claim:
N 65
M 22
Development 15
Agitation ************___
Suspicion ********_______
>Mother Knows Best
The planet consists of a number of small farming camps built around a paramilitary base commanded by ex-ship commander Lucas Deckard, who has since assigned himself the title of Lord and renounced Union citizenship and demanding those who would remain loyal to the Union to leave. While many did, public discontent is running high, and while many seem to believe the recent events to be Lord Deckard's rather over-zealous way of retaining power under a new government, some believe there to be some foul play at work on the Hive's part. Either way, the population of just over a hundred thousand is growing increasingly at one anther's throats over the matter.

Djin
N 15
M 11
Development 0
The planet is under a mandatory general evacuation order from the Union, and Union marines have forcibly removed the remaining scientists and miners on the surface under the claim of a possible disease outbreak, transferring the small population of several thousand to a number of military hospitals at undisclosed locations for observation under short term quarantine.

>>3008470
The Union isn't even the "paraniod and psionic" faction and they're good at figuring shit out. So I'm willing to expect some outlandish jumps in logic from the Valen.

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>>3008485
[New Port]
Callahan
A hydrogen gas giant with multiple layers of rings and small dwarf planetoids of irregular shape containing sources of metal, water, and frozen gases, and was previously a major refueling station for corporate and merchant fleets.

Callahan Station
A sizable industrial facility devoted to organizing mining drones and facilitating repair and refuel of passing commercial ships. The station is mostly offline, and only a small skeleton crew remain to keep it in orbit as the owning corporation attempts to determine the state of the Hive economy.

Asteroid belt
N 0
M 22
A moderately rich belt containing precious and heavy metals

Bedrock
Agitation *********______
Suspicion ******_________
>Mother Knows Best

>Hub
[Promenade]
3 Trade Routes
70 Pop Cap
20 Pylons
1 Megacorp HQ [Rutherford Industries Extraction and Assembly Inc.] Closed
Exploits all local tourist attractions at normal value
>Wards
[Sprawl X2] +40 Cop Cap
[Customs]
[Trade Port]
[Barracks]
[Refinery]
[Red Light District] +20 Dev score applied only to credit income, decreases detection risk of espionage activity, cannot be built, has a chance to grow in empty Ward slots when Pop Cap is above 100

This colony is suffering from widespread panic, dramatically lowering detection chances of espionage agents, but making the results of operations far more unpredictable, and making gathered data unreliable.

Darwin
N 88
M 25
Development 1 – Growing indefinitely until halted
Income:
88 N
25 M

>>3008461
That still doesn't add up to enough for the sheer scale of the problem. Sonar doesn't have limitless range at the accuracy and level of detail they'd need to say "been here a while" vs "brand new." So many robots sweeping over leagues and leagues of rocks. Endless rocks.

And that's ignoring the last null hypothesis, that the meteor just plain burned up in entry and was dust and ash on the wind by the time it hit the ocean. That happens all the time.

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>>3008493
[Juric]
Brandenburg

Billiard
N 21
M 0
Development 0
>Mother Knows Best

This planet is currently settled by nomadic gas harvesters

>Norfolk
N 12
M 28
Development 0
A corporate 'shake and bake' colony devoted to terraforming, the corporate sponsors have pulled out, and evacuated the small population of engineers on the surface, leaving the planet a barren rock as they found it.

[Telarum]
Krasnikov Interstellar corporate outpost

[Sentinel]
Sentinel Post

>>3008493
Right we need to plan some expeditions to search Darwin.

>>3008485
Oh yeah need to investigaye Deckard Claim since the Eco-terrorist group has a compound there.

Lyle wanted to go to a more civilized place? Now he can go there and take Dillon and Jackob with him.

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>>3008495
[Tannhauser/Kerik Ashka]
Aral
N 48
M 65
Development 0
This planet's population consists only of Valen construction workers applying the finishing touches to the Tannhauser hypergate. No permanent settlement exists, and no effort to extract local resources had been made.

>Tannhauser Gate [Valen Controlled]
>Ward
[Hypergate] Allows hypergate travel
>Wards
[Barracks]
[Refinery]
[Traffic Control] Improves traffic capacity of Hypergate
[Merchant Guild office] Valen only
[Trade Port X2]

Debris field
M 89
The remains of the Skyl homeworld, the field holds a wealth of minerals, ice, and metals.

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>>3008503
[The Garden/Wayward Hope]
Barren rock
N 0
M 3
Development 0

Asteroid belt
A small belt of asteroids in a semi stable orbit arround the star holding some amount of precious metals.

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 tended by both drone workers and native ralighans +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.

Ice Giant
A super-massive ice giant mostly composed of inert gasses with few usable resources.

>>3008503
Oh right. We should formally colonize Kerik Ashka. That was an oversight.

We can visit the Valen pools and offer complimentary additional organs as a traditional interspecies greeting gift.

>>3008494
Fair points but I'm still assuming that the Valen are still pretty jumpy and paraniod enough to check and you're assuming there is nobody at the poles (which I doubt).

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>>3008480
I wasn't exaggerating when I mentioned that Leeland is one of the best defended planets in the universe in the last thread.

>>3008473
I can't remember if we agreed to, but we're totally mining Kaltara for all it's worth right now, right?

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>>3008509
[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)

[A-295]
Frozen Ice planet
N 20
M 1
Development 0
A small frozen planet covered in various forms of ice

Binary volcanic planets
V1
N 0
M 100
Development: 1+
V2
N 0
M 100
Development: 1+
Income:
200

Barren radioactive planet
N 0
M 6
Development 0

>>3008499
We should probably send normal human clones. Because this is a place with artifacts and we need to watch out after what happend in P2

>>3008518
The best defended place in the universe is the ball people's homeworld.

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>>3008520
[Desmond]
Accretion disc
N 23
M 35
A thin ring of stellar debris orbiting the two native stars containing a microbial substance able to feed on local metals

Pegasean Gas Giant
Advertised as “the Inferno” by the travel agency organizing the local band performance, this giant is unusable for resources due to the simple fact that it is endlessly engulfed in flames, a fact that makes it useless for mining, but quite attractive to tourists visiting the orbiting Space City

>Builder's Gift
>Hub
[Presidium]
>Wards
[Zoological Reserve]
[Zoological Resort]
[Inferno Resort]
[Thermal Regulator]
[2 Trade ports]

>P1
N 0
M 0
Development 0
A small frozen ball of ice and rock

>P2
N 15
M 26
Development 1+
Income:
15 N
26 M
A primordial world with a thin atmosphere and high levels of oxygen, as well as geological activity and a surface covered in shallow pools of a strange animated liquid carbon substance.

Asteroid belt
N 16
M 5
A sparse field containing a small amount of metals, but mostly ice and rocks.

Ice planet
N 7
M 2
Development 0
A small planet on the edge of the system containing mostly ice and negligible sources of metals.

>>3008516
Why don't we let the valen have it or at least a part? Show that we're willing to share and all that, we can also make a cool space city connected to a capillary tower on it offering access to the hypergate network.

>>3008518
It says
>2 KM

But it is missing mantle mining. The nanomachines aren't earning their keep.

>>3008521
These are likely Skyl/Hive collaborative stuff.

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>>3008529
[Wonder]
Debris field
A thick and widespread layer of micro-particles and debris spread across the system, granting a penalty to the ability of ships within to dodge incoming attacks.

Ancient Dockyard
The site of the Builder's ancient laboratories and experimental shipyards, now little more than a vast tombstone marking her passing. The massive structure could be easily and cheaply retrofitted with your own advanced construction techniques to create a space city.

[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]

[Refuge] – The Scarred Queen
An unusually dense and reflective ort cloud makes it unusually difficult to accurately blink deep into the system and disrupting sensors attempting to penetrate the cloud.

Frozen metallic world
N 5
M76
Development 0

Rocky temperate world
N 52
M 35
Development 0

Binary moons
>P1
N 5
M 20

>P2
N 12
M 24

>Forest Moon
N 78
M 13
Development 15

Defensive Structures
Spore Caster Network – A network of Spore Castors placed across the planet's surface capable of targeting orbiting enemy vessels in conjunction with additional anti-orbital weapon systems.
Anti-orbital battery grid – Under construction
Surface to Orbit Missile System – Under construction
Temple of the Unseen – A grand temple devoted to the Matron Queens, the gods of the Phantoms, tended to at all times by the planet's most revered elder matrons and patriarchs, they focus their abilities in tandem through the temple as an amplifier, projecting a blurred sense of incomprehension over the planet's surface, preventing enemy forces from accurately bombarding surface targets during combat. Requires a native Phantom population, and allows recruitment of Phantom Elite Agents.

Military Structures
Hangar Facilities – 50% replenished

>>3008531
They don't want it. They never wanted it. It is dry and miserably oceanless and they probably hate it very much.

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>>3008541
We haven't had this in a while

Finished Research
>Advanced Psionic Imprinting
More a matter of careful practice than deliberate scientific discovery, careful examination of the interaction between tachyonic waves and the neurological activity of living beings has lead to the improvement of your psionic imprinting, allowing for the standard effects to be applied to a target at up to 20 meters with a direct line of sight, or 10 meters without a line of sight, even through solid objects. In addition, willing minds who accept the imprinting of the hive's mind upon their own can receive or transmit information as if connected to the hive network directly, including sensory information. The effects become more potent at shorter ranges, and within 5 meters, the hive may attempt to force the Queen's will upon an unwilling or unaware target, briefly commandeering the target's somatic nervous system, or enforcing a potent but simple delusion or compulsion, so long as it is in some way within the individual's capacity to do and is not too far outside the individual's character. Such internally conflicting orders grant the target a much higher chance of resisting the psionic imprint, while imprints that are more in line with the target's normal thoughts and actions are more likely to suceed.

>Psionic Spores
By improving the hive's spores to be psionically conductive, not only can they be used to spread hive creep via airborne means and attack enemies with toxins, but they also now become a potent psionic medium for the hive network, extending the range of any relay to include any area covered with the same contiguous spore cloud. In addition the cloud serves to amplify existing psionic abilities, meaning any range-limited psionic powers are removed against targets that have inhaled or are otherwise are effected by the spores. Inhaling the spores also provides direct effects to a living creature, as the psionic spores influence the target's nervous system, temporarily connecting the individual to the hive network. While this connection does not offer direct control over the individual, the hive may use this connection as a substitute for a medium or advanced relay, so long as a basic relay or other hive network connection is within range. In addition, Psion agents who inhale the spores enjoy a drastic improvement in their abilities for a short duration, although using the spores in this way for extended periods at its full potential is taxing to the body and mind.

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>>3008547
>Gas Giant Superstructure Construction
While gas giants have been colonized by the single-minded using small, roving airship settlements for many generations, these small, often makeshift mobile structures are not capable of economic scale production, and thus despite being a decent choice for non-hive settlers living in small numbers, are not economically viable for a hive's more efficient industrial scale organization. In response to this, research has been done to produce far larger city-sized mega-structures held within the upper atmosphere of a gas giant consisting of interconnected floating platforms in which all manner of planetary infrastructure can be built. With this technology, gas giants can now be more properly surveyed and colonized on a large scale. A gas giant's Development score will represent the construction of these platforms spread across the planet and connected via cables supported by floating way stations as needed, providing places for both non-hive life to live, and room to build planetary facilities.

New Research Available

>Neural Reconfiguration
Medium
The potent abilities of your psionics and the precise and efficient capacity of your biological medical technology has begun to merge more fully, blurring the line between where one ends and the other begins. As a result of this, your thinkers have conceived of the possible ability to utilize very short range tachyon micro-pulses in order to use psionics to examine, rearrange, or remove aspects of an individual's memories without the use of an invasive parasite or other neural connection.

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.

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>>3008557
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.

+++Primary
>Empty

++Secondary
>Empty
>Empty

+Auxiliary
Scarred Queen
>Psionic cloak amplification
Fast
Your vassal has proposed a new scientific effort to study a means to more accurately replicate the psionic cloaking of the Phantoms in order to potentially mimic their capacity to focus their cloaking abilities over larger areas, potentially allowing a Hive world to mimic the planetary scale mental blurring caused by their population centers' major centers of worship.

Elizabeth Vaughn
Specializations: Xenobiology, Quantum Mechanics, Psionics
Bonus: Zealous – Rolls twice and takes the highest result. Cannot negate critical failures.
>Empty

Adam Seiner
Specializations: Xenobiology, xenopsychology, Void Crafting
Bonus: Reticent – 50% chance of turning a Critical Failure into a regular failure.
UNAVAILABLE

External
Theseus
>Silicate Computing
Medium
A far cry from the rudimentary silicon computer chips of the single-minded, proper silicate computing seems to comprise of a sentient or near-sentient mind on a similar level to that of a hive thinker housed within an efficient solid state slab of living silicate flesh using the DNA analog mesh it is composed of as circuitry. The power efficiency is near perfect, allowing it to function as its own battery for extended periods of time while giving off almost no waste heat. Despite being entirely at odds with your own biology, Theseus claims his recent study of hive biology seems to 'click' when compared to this new technology, granting some manner of epiphany into the silicate research you seem to have missed. [Research speed increased]

>>3008518
I don't remember anythi g about Kaltran but we should colonize Aral and start to build a space city or something else to mine the asteroid field.

>>3008517
I mean in theory maybe some weirdo hermit Santa Claus Valen is holed up there in his deep ocean facility but the pastebin notes

> less due to necessity and more due to valen physiology being overly sensitive to even the slightest cold, preferring year long tropical climates.

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>>3008547
>>Psionic Spores
>By improving the hive's spores to be psionically conductive, not only can they be used to spread hive creep via airborne means and attack enemies with toxins, but they also now become a potent psionic medium for the hive network, extending the range of any relay to include any area covered with the same contiguous spore cloud. In addition the cloud serves to amplify existing psionic abilities, meaning any range-limited psionic powers are removed against targets that have inhaled or are otherwise are effected by the spores. Inhaling the spores also provides direct effects to a living creature, as the psionic spores influence the target's nervous system, temporarily connecting the individual to the hive network. While this connection does not offer direct control over the individual, the hive may use this connection as a substitute for a medium or advanced relay, so long as a basic relay or other hive network connection is within range. In addition, Psion agents who inhale the spores enjoy a drastic improvement in their abilities for a short duration, although using the spores in this way for extended periods at its full potential is taxing to the body and mind.

>That feeling when you've just realized you've created a terrifying bio-weapon of mass destruction

It's been too long since I felt that in this quest.

>>3008543
Space Capillary tower city it is!

>>3008540
Yeah but you never know. I just don't want to risk what happend last thread.

>>3008564
Available Research Options

>Silicate hybrid study
Slow
This obelisk remains would seem to be composed of semi-organic psionically conductive carbon polymer fused with a silicate genetic lattice, in effect making it a kind of hybrid between two, as yet diametrically opposed forms of life. A detailed study is required to determine its qualities with any certainty, but its nature is truly confounding.

>Living Stone
Medium
Structures made of living silicate matter has never occured to you, but it makes sense, as despite being applied to the natural inverse of organic life, it would seem to apply similar benefits to any structure using the material. All the same, you are not by far not an expert on silicate life forms, and anything it the field will be difficult to make headway with.

>Silicate Defenders dissection
Medium
A clearly artificially designed silicon based life form, this devout defender is capable of projecting hardlight constructs in battle, as well as possessing multiple blasters within its body. Its internal organs are arranged in a gyroscope, allowing for rapid movement with or without the use of its projected limbs. In many ways, they seem almost purpose built for countering traditional hive tactics and weaponry.

>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.

>>3008578
>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.

>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.

It's time.

Primary
>>Silicate hybrid study
Secondary
>Silicate Defenders dissection
>Neural Reconfiguration

>>3008587
>Primary
>>>Silicate hybrid study
>Secondary
>>Silicate Defenders dissection
>>Neural Reconfiguration
I'll second this.

>>3008587
I'm not sure he's even done posting yet.

>>3008570
You mean another one? Now imagine mixing our creep with those mind controlling spores from our world.

Or did we do that already?

>>3008564
Oh hey theseus crit on his computing research, sweet.

Can I make a motion to colonize the gas giant in our home system? It has existing stations around it we could use to make it faster probably

>>3008584
>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.

>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.

>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.

>>3008598
>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.

You have empty research slots

>Add research (write in)
[Primary]
[secondary X2]

>>3008587
>>3008589
easy giys there is more on the list.

>>3008598
>>Data decryption
>Medium (Very Fast with Theseus assistance)
Is there no way we can research this, even if slowly, along with another subject with Theseus? I don't think we'll ever get a chance to research this if we can only pick three subjects at a time.

>>3008479
>Calpamos
>N N/A
>M N/A
>Development [Unavailable]

>Research into gas giant superstructures are required perform proper repairs and bring the facility back online, allowing the colonization of Calpamos itself.

Not anymore it's not.

I say we get those personal shields! Would really make our children really fuck shit up.

>>3008604
>Primary
>>Silicate hybrid study

>Secondary
Memory Seed
Gas Giant construction

>>3008604

Primary
>Silicate hybrid study
Secondary
>Silicate Defenders dissection
>Neural Reconfiguration

Actually, have live lithovores arrived at the Zoological Reserve yet

>>3008604
Primary
>Silicate hybrid study
Secondary
>Silicate Defenders dissection
>Neural Reconfiguration

I want the new stuff my dudes.

>>3008604
>Add research (write in)
[Primary]
>Silicate hybrid study

[secondary x2]
>Personal shielding
>Silicate Defenders dissection

>>3008604
Primary
>silicate hybrid study

Secondary
>Personal shielding
>Silicate defenders dissection

And QD can we colonize that gas giant in our system using our existing orbital stations there?

>no one wants to research the thing that was created to counter hive tactics even with us possibly bei g even more close to have to face worst aunt soon.

How do we greentext vote again?

>>3008615
It and Swarm Drive Tuning are superb passive buffs to our military power, we should definitely get them before we go full space war. That said, silicate technology is something we need more know how of for... planetary control reasons.

>>3008604
Primary
>Silicate Hybrid Study

Secondary
>Silicate Defenders dissection
>Personal shielding

Secondary
Personal shielding

>>3008604
>Primary
>>Silicate hybrid study
Secondary
>Silicate Defenders dissection
>Personal Shielding

>Y/N?


>>3008628
Yes, I'll lump them in to your other silicate dissection project since they are both silicates, and the comparison of the Defenders to the living organisms should help you with your research.

>>3008648
>>3008656
click the post number to reply to people specifically

use > to green text like
>this

>>3008656
Put a ">" Next to your vote

>testing

>>3008661
>Y

>>3008661
>Y

>>3008661
Is Coral's operation Invasive Research counting as dissection of yet other silicates for comparison?

>>3008661

>Y

>>3008661
>Y

Titan-kun can finnaly have shield. It will be a glorious day!

>>3008598
Huh i just realized:
Our spores can act like a relay, couple that with psionic Thermokinesis and any invading force that gets our spores on them will be vulnerable to being exploded in a fireball.

>>3008661
>>Y

>>3008661
>>Y/

>>3008661
>Y

>>3008677
ganbare titan kun

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>>3008547
>>Psionic Spores
>By improving the hive's spores to be psionically conductive, not only can they be used to spread hive creep via airborne means and attack enemies with toxins, but they also now become a potent psionic medium for the hive network, extending the range of any relay to include any area covered with the same contiguous spore cloud. In addition the cloud serves to amplify existing psionic abilities, meaning any range-limited psionic powers are removed against targets that have inhaled or are otherwise are effected by the spores. Inhaling the spores also provides direct effects to a living creature, as the psionic spores influence the target's nervous system, temporarily connecting the individual to the hive network. While this connection does not offer direct control over the individual, the hive may use this connection as a substitute for a medium or advanced relay, so long as a basic relay or other hive network connection is within range. In addition, Psion agents who inhale the spores enjoy a drastic improvement in their abilities for a short duration, although using the spores in this way for extended periods at its full potential is taxing to the body and mind.
Haha, time for TYRANIDS

>>3008681
Exploded into a fireball or instantly freezed into a popsicle!

>>3008661
>Y

Writing (and also the delivery guy is at the door, one sec)

>>3008672
It may lead to helping your research in time, yes.

>>3008681
But anon, you could go two steps further.
Silent instantaneous pyrokenesis at any percentage of global saturation desired.

Any invasion would be too dead too fast to feel regret.

>>3008547
>extending the range of any relay to include any area covered with the same contiguous spore cloud.

So, what does it take to produce spores in mid battlefield. We have never had a specific adaptation for 'produce spores.'

These psionic spores allow maintaining contact even under psionic jamming. We need spore producers flooding the battlefield when doing such an op against OQ if we activate the jammer. Can it just be assumed we have that capability at all times?

I just realized the psionic spores may actually save our operations on Gemini.

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>to spread hive creep via airborne means and attack enemies with toxins,
>attack enemies with toxins,
>having our creep pouring that cordyceps spore on OQ planet or drones or even into the scavs.

>>3008714
We could probably just coat the back of our drones with creep and have them be like fungal offgrowths. Everywhere the drones go some spores are let off (like orks in 40k) and when the creep develops in the area passed through it'll create spores of its own.

>>3008661
Hey QD, how does something like personal shielding affect our actual rolls? Especially in large scale combat scenarios?

Guys you are missing the most important use of psionic spores.
LIMITLESS RANGE PSIONIC IMPRINTING

>>3008723
Well, slipping spores into unknown BFI agents' drinks would be nice but we don't know where or who the agents assigned to the case are.

>>3008723
Yeah but we will need ask permission tot he humans to use our spores to counter OQ spores. Which if everything goes as bad as it might go to the search teams we might actualy need to use our spores for the first time.

>>3008731
>cordyceps

Oh I have an evil plan. That silicate biology is not compatible with normal hive lifeforms right?

So if we make a cordycep silica hybrid we could probably bypass obsidians drones immune systems and just neural spike them into slavery.

>>3008738
All dose adoptees.

>>3008738
Its range is still limited to how close you can get a small drone with a basic relay to the target.

Which is pretty close to unlimited for most ordinary people yeah.

Now if we could make small drones also PRODUCE the spores...

>>3008742
Maybe? Imean when the drone ate the alien cordyceps he was unpluged from our control and it wasn't silicate at the time.

Maybe we can change it or mix into the creep and male so our creep spore has a way to "mind jack" some drones.

>>3008760
Why make the drones produce spores?
Just grow a thin layer of spore producing hive creep on their back, like a layer of moss.

>>3008760
I mean Obisidian Queen managed to male her drones and ships produce the spores. That was how she did against Barren Queen and Theseus dropping ships to reach the surface so her spore would make to the planet.

>>3008738
You still have to roll for imprinting. That is a lot of chances to fail.

But there's perpetual, constant, low level surface thought and intent reading, risk free.

>>3008764
That's the same thing anon. That's the same thing. One isn't any harder or easier than the other. Hive infrastructure is just drones all the way down.

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>>3008738
I cannot wait to unleash this on some fools.

>>3008742
Given that nothing, absolutely nothing sends Hive Queens into frothing bouts of uncontrolled rage like having their children forcibly stolen from them by their rivals, I support this endeavor fully.

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>>3008764
I think he is trying to steal OQ idea and when our drones get killed they will work as a area denial effect creating creep on a planet so we can have a beach landing for our troops and estructures.

>tfw one more step closer to make blood rain into our enemies

>>3008774
Well if the organism has our psionics as part of it, we could even use the thermo tech when we eventually get it to make the infected into suicide troopers, who when they explode spread more cordy spores.

>>3008708

The first of your guests are beginning to arrive at Builder's Gift, a trickle of early arrivals from the closest of the Union worlds. Corvette sized passenger liners begin to fill your city's docks, and your speakers gleefully greet them as they disembark. Many are confused at your lack of paperwork, but you note that over time they seem to get used to having every host know them by name without any need for passports or visas. Your drones make a token effort to appease the typical expectations, stamping the presented Union passports with your stylized adopted symbol.

Already your many restaurants, bars, and stores are filling with traffic. Like your drones, you find that humans tend to enjoy sweet things, although taidaren have a more... savory palate. In fact, they are exceptionally efficient to feed, as anything that may somehow spoil can simply be sold to taidaren visitors.

You are already collecting a wide range of data regarding cultural norms and societal expectations. While you were able to prepare well enough, you still lack some of the more high class 'exotic' features some visitors seem to expect. Those of a higher level of sophistication than the typical metal-head seem disappointed when they realize you have no cultural cuisine or traditional music of your own, but as you continue to gather data, that may soon change. As it is, your food's naturally high sugar content has made your local candy shops more popular, offering especially orders custom made in a range of flavors from white, rose, and salted dark chocolates.

cont

>but you note that over time they seem to get used to having every host know them by name without any need for passports or visas.

Well that ain't scary at all...

>>3008825
Huh, I guess we could make the best candy shops. Spore laced chocolate with extra goodness in every bite.

>>3008825
>bugs making chocolate

heh

>>3008838
We could make a special spore flavor just for our psionically awakened children! Psionic cordyceps are so much more useful than regular cordyceps.

>no cultural cuisine or traditional music of your own

What kind of Music would a Hivemind enjoy?

>offering especially orders custom made in a range of flavors from white, rose, and salted dark chocolates.
>range of flavors from white, rose, and salted dark chocolates.
>salted dark chocolates.
Oh queenie you are so cheeky

>>3008825
I mean, we sooooorta have cultural cuisine, it's just all very basic and sweets focused.

As for music...I mean, we're a hive mind, but I gotta imagine there's something out there that's at least kinda pleasing to us.

>>3008838
>>3008841
I'm telling you guys either candy or pasteries. Time to open the Hive Bakery goods!

So sweet you will want more!

>>3008825
We should stock it with the rock sugar

>>3008852
It's ominous chanting of drones yelling that they are doing things For Mother! That's music to queenies ears.

>>3008849
Probably something similar to the hum and buzz of hive communication. So nothing that has to much of a beat, like drums. Im thinking something like a violin,; an uninterpreted note that fluctuates all over the place that fluctuates.

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>>3008857
Oh or even better yet: "As sweet as a Mother's love!"

>>3008852
Hive chocolate factory when?

>>3008852
I mean, there's probably a genre of music the queen and hive enjoys. We just haven't been exposed to much besides taidaren music which we heard through a clones ears, making it real grating.

>>3008868
I hate to say if, but if you're talking buzz, something dubstepish or heavy electronica might be nice. Maybe industrial?

>>3008865
>>3008868
I get it! Lyle said the hibe sounded like one of those christmas special right? So what kind of music is that?

>hive's favorite music
>not drone

Come on now.

>>3008868
>>3008876
Nah man, you want blues and the saxophone.
We are the last independent Hive in existence, or well, of the last lineage anyway.

>>3008825
>traditional music of your own
Okay they've heard other species' music before, they gotta know it's almost entirely miserable to human ears.

But they want to suffer anyway.

>>3008876
What I meant to say was that the music would mimic the psionic communication of the hive, not the sonic noise our hive makes. The sonic noise has what you said. I suppose a better way to describe what I mean could be something like humming, a raise and fall in pitch, similar to a violin.

>>3008852
There's the ambient rhythm of the pulsing heartbeat of a planetwide hive.

The ASMR inspiring noise of hive creep spreading and sprouting across the ground.

The chorus of Thinkers thinking "RESEARCH UNLOCKED!"

Although I can totally see our speakers doing Korean pop.

>>3008886
apparently Valen isn't, it just sounds like a Organ

>>3008885
Other instruments can convey sadness, melancholy, nostalgia and the like. I still think something like a violin would be the best all around bet. While a drone playing the saxophone amuses me somthin fierce, I like the mental image of a drone somberly holding a violin and using its legs to to carefully play it in ways no human ever could.

>>3008852
Pretty sure the Hive likes metal actually.

related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg6tI3MJPLk

>>3008903
It wouldn't really be "traditional" though, we're not old enough to have traditions and the old hives didn't have such customs for us to pretend they were ours.

Same for the food, I guess that's what happens when it's all work and no play.

>>3008903
Or maybe pull like, a grasshopper thing and use our own bodies to play it.

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>>3008825
Beyond your space city, beyond your borders, your fleets ready the last leg of their journey, and on the outskirts of Aquarius spacetime tears asunder with a sudden thunderclap of radiation, like a flickering star in the night sky of the local worlds. The tear widens, yawning open so expel its contents as an armada of hive vessels drift out from the funnel of energetic quantum chaos as bolts of electrical discharge leap between your ships and the rim of the spacial rift. As the ships fully emerge, their formations tightening for interplanetary navigation, the rift seals behind them with a flash of electromagnetic energy likely picked up on every radio in the system, and your fleet accelerates together towards the planet of Fairweather.

The arrival does not go unnoticed, as picket fleets shift in their orbits and local traffic control diverts civilian vessels away from your path, providing your fleet with a direct course to orbit, without even the pretense of giving directional orders from orbital traffic control.

You watch the system's broadcast streams as footage of your arriving fleet is shown from the surface as countless dots flicker above with the faint outlines of your capital ships glowing in the night sky as their drive wings cool from their rapid deceleration like burning crescent shaped knives and their ventilation ducts trail coolant like the smokestacks of a great steamboat.

Finally, you receive a transmission offering clearance to land, designating an entire parade ground along the lower terraces of Castle Reuenthal as the landing point.

>Land a few shuttles with Ambassador drones and a sizeable drone escort
>Land a corvette with your ambassadors and a massive drone force
>Land several corvettes and larger sub capitals with an entire parade's worth of defencive drones
>Other

>>3008222
>Locally coded holoprinter capable of creating authetnc ID cards for local security: Grants 1 free Professional Equipment supply per day. May be rendered inoperable by counter-intelligence actions.


>1 free Professional Equipment supply per day.

How many days have we had this so far now?

>>3008849
>Salted Dark
Oh QD, this is truly amazing, well done.

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>>3008871
>Hive chocolate factory when?
NOW FELLOW THINKER

>>3008916
>>Land a few shuttles with Ambassador drones and a sizeable drone escort

>>3008916
>>Land a few shuttles with Ambassador drones and a sizeable drone escort

>>3008916
>>Land several corvettes and larger sub capitals with an entire parade's worth of defencive drones
Fuck it, these are people who appreciate a good show.

>>3008916
>>Other

>Land a single shuttle with an Ambassador drone + our most impressive dangerous looking drones with a pair of titans as escort in their own ships.

These guys respect strength, let's show them some of our toys. (But nothing that we're keeping secret)

>>3008910
Well, I didnt mean an actual violin, just music that is similar to it. And yes, we dont have anything traditional yet, but we can start experimenting and look for something we like.
>>3008916
>Land several corvettes and larger sub capitals with an entire parade's worth of defencive drones
We've just won, or helped guarantee several victories. Lets live a little.

>>3008916
>an entire parade

Well if they want something to celebrate the Pope's Crusade we better go big.

>>3008916
>>Land several corvettes and larger sub capitals with an entire parade's worth of defencive drones

>>3008916
>Land a few shuttles with Ambassador drones and a sizeable drone escort
Match what the Union got.

>>3008916
>>Land several corvettes and larger sub capitals with an entire parade's worth of defencive drones

>>3008937
They didn't throw a parade.

>>3008920
I honestly forgot about it, so just tell me how many you want.

Holoprinters are however a local asset, as they are coded with security measures that are only suitable for that planet's ID laws, so it will only apply to Gemini.

>>3008916
Should we bring severed Scavenger alpha heads? They're probably not that medieval are they.

>>3008916
>Land a few shuttles with Ambassador drones and a sizeable drone escort

>>3008949
We could bring the Scav Matriarch in chains and parade her down the street like a Roman Triumph.

>>3008949
still waiting for our draw guy's scav pic he hinted about on twitter

>>3008916
>>Land several corvettes and larger sub capitals with an entire parade's worth of defencive drones

>>3008962
She is going to be our adoptee, see if we cant convert her into a useful force.

If nothing else if we can't redeem her then we can at least use her for experiments.

Triump is cool but a little pointless really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCl1gwX_CVA

Ah I've found the Hive's theme

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>>3008963
Enjoy

Skyl are next on the menu.

>>3008931
Yeah but making a parade may male it look like we are supporting the Commonwealth in his war against the Union. Which we don't want but we did say that the number of ships and drones show the importance of the meetings and this IS their royal capital so it makes sense to be a little bit showy.

>>3008916
>Land several corvettes and larger sub capitals with an entire parade's worth of defencive drones

Show Time.

>>3009006
That's actually awesome. Thanks mate!

>>3009006
That's pretty sweet.
Almost looks like a Reconstructed

>>3009006

That scav is looking badass. why the heck don't you accept commissions dude, fark

>>3009006
Nice, thanks for your work.

>>3009007
I agree

We already showed off like hell with our massive fleet. We really don't need an entire parade of drones. We don't want the optics of holding a massive military parade with the Commonwealth right when the ""Commonwealth"" appears to have attacked the Union. It just looks terrible. A relatively small number of drones will be plenty.

Plus, a large number of drones will piss off Magnus. We can do plenty of showing off at the metal concert.

>>3009006
Awesome, it's just as horrifying as I imagined.

>>3009035
Oh yeah i forgot about that. Even if we know that it wasn't the Commonwealth that droped the gravitic missiles.

>>3008916
>Land a few shuttles with Ambassador drones and a sizeable drone escort

>>3008916
>Land a few shuttles with Ambassador drones and a sizeable drone escort

Yeah better not start losing the popularity pool in the Union while Gemini and Path are almost breaking into riots.

>>3009035
We're going to send them off to the front lines after this is over anyway.

>>3009017
>>3009030
>>3009041
Glad you all like it

>>3009024
Distant relation perhaps?

>>3009029
Various reason I suppose. Main one being laziness

>>3009051
Wut? What you talking about? No better just give a couple of drones or else people gonna start getting afraid and humans do stupid shit like voting for Killinger and believe in lies when they are afraid.

We need to show to be as neutral as possible. Don't want the royals thinking we will support then in a war specialy if people in the Union think the Commonwealth droped gravitic bombs into the Union capital.

>>3009062
When's the skyl

:^)

>>3008916
>Land a few shuttles with Ambassador drones and a sizeable drone escort

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>>3008916
>Land several corvettes and larger sub capitals with an entire parade's worth of defencive drones

Your corvettes begin their descent to the clearing lead by one of your destroyers, flanked by two frigates as they drift along their gradual path of descent. Local atmospheric fighters quickly take up formation around your ships, guiding them in for a landing and diverting local air traffic.

Bellow you, as your ships pass over to the day side of the planet, you can see the vast tracts of jungle and farmland bellow you as villagers halt their work to gaze up to the sky as their towns are enveloped in your fleet's shadow, the low hum of your drives rumbling across the landscape with a drumming vibration of an approaching train.

The castle is a vast structure, enough to hold most of the planet's required administration, as well as serving as an exceptionally large fortress. Your ships are guided towards its base, where the lower terrace extends out to encompass entire city districts, among which is a great parade ground cleared of all obstacles or decoration.

Cont.

>>3009077
Oh well..Guess we will have to deal with the fall out later.

>>3009077
WHY?

>>3009077
I thought we voted for the smaller option...

Oh well, I guess the parade could be fun too.

>>3009077
welp
At least they'll get impressed.

>>3009097
He was already writting when the other votes were casted.

>>3009077
I’m so glad we decided to go with the flashy entrance

>>3009110
You'll quickly regret it.

>>3009097
It looked like it was in the majority at the time of posting.... and also that one anon seemed to vote like, three times, on multiple sides. Made things quite confusing to count to be honest.

>>3009103
I mean if the Union complaing we can just tell then that we sended much more ships to talk with then (Union) and don't understand why they are thinking we support the Commonwealth.

But people will try to spin that against us anyway so. Nothomg to do the die was cast.

>>3009113
Sorry...i know it was me iforgot a lot of stuff and only realized after what the consequences of doing the parade would result.

so what if the union thinks we're throwing in with the commonwealth? no skin off our dick, might even make them more likely to agree to a cease fire.

>>3009118
That's a shitty excuse and makes us look like a bigger cunt than if we kept our mouth shut.

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>>3009072
Soon