File: Modern CivEvo Tech Table.pdf (1.66 MB, PDF)

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--Current Setting--
Essari is currently a decade into its latest recorded century amongst its sapient civilizations. This "Silent Decade" was marred by a series of shifts in cultural or national identity, and multiple intercontinental conflicts having reached their bloody conclusions. Discontent in equal parts within and towards other Essarian races have begun to mount as disparities in cultural, technological and martial superiority have become more prevalent across civilizations. In particular, the Tripodian Races have steadily risen as a dominate power across Essari, with their aspirations now set upon the stars itself. The Stitcher follow close behind with a now exploding population, their unique frame-point on ethics and morality, coupled with their Cryst-based Technology pushing the limits of their scientific and imperialist pursuits. Then there's the Grabraf, a group of races that centuries before were once the technological and cultural leaders of Essari, only to be diminished by centuries of interracial conflict. Recent years have seen a rapid shift towards many Grabraf nations banding together under ideology or theocratic creed in a pursuit to be the dominant Grabrafian faction in Sujardin and Essari by consequence.

Such events of the Essari civilizations are but a footnote in the visage of the all-seeing and world reaching Emra. It's individual biological mass having now reached it's peak, with the tendrils of it AA-Nodes now casting wide over Essari and deep underground. Now as Essari's civilization steadily look to stars, so would Emra put into motion the final phase of its own evolution.

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make up to 2 rolls for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period
• A poster ID may make up to 3 cultural related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage.
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 5 or higher of a 1d8 roll (Nomad Grabraf rolls must be a 6 or higher) to successfully implement/learn a new technology. (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll. (7 or higher for NG)
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher. (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)

>>4277057
essaris back yay

File: Hitchhiker's Guide to Ess(...).pdf (3.7 MB, PDF)

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--Nation/Culture Creation & Advancement Rules--
• The creation of a distinct nation/culture in a Sapient race can be done so at anytime, but is heavily encouraged to have somewhat detailed lore behind their society and its origins
• Any Sapient Race culture that is created must specify whether it is a single species culture, or if it comprised of a community of Sapient races
• Should a nation/culture wish to expand into unclaimed territory, a poster may do so by rolling a 1d8
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful an expansion of territory is implemented into a sapient tribe (A 1 does not mean an outright failure & an 8 does not guarantee success)
• The Librarian does not explicitly determine outcomes of a roll, and the poster may outline results of a 1d8 roll, if they so choose
• If a sapient race attempts to explore foreign lands or establish a new colony abroad, they will need to roll a 1d8 to determine the success of the journey and a 1d8 to indicate the resources, security and quality of the landing site for any sapient explorers or colonists
• If a sapient nation/culture tries to claim territory from another sapient race, it would be considered an act of war, unless explicitly specified as otherwise. (For example, expanding a nation's sphere of influence on a region, the creation of a new state from a larger, existing one, or the peaceful annexation or fusing of two nations/cultures. This would also require the poster to roll a 1d8 to determine how smoothly the outcome may be
• Maps will be updated as frequently as possible to feature the appearance and changes to nations’ borders, but posters are also free to provide their own maps showing this and are heavily encouraged to do so

--War & Conquest Rules/Guidelines--
• All proposals of war & conquest made by a nation(s)/poster must be done by a formal proposal, with some lore backing up the declaration
• All war actions are heavily encouraged to be discussed in the OOC EvoGame (the Discord Chat), and should include any major details regarding the involved factions, and if possible a battle map with the contested lands in question highlighted (The battle map is heavily encouraged, but should the event call for it, I can quickly draw one up for posters)
• Military Strength, Tactical Assets and so on for each faction are available via the PDF above
• All combat rolling is determined by 1d8 rolls, with the numbers of rounds of combat determined by the number of nations involved and overall military strength on either side. (2 Combatants = Best of 3, 3-4 = Best of 5, etc.)
• Most nations have modifiers to mitigate unbalanced combat or unlucky rolls, while accentuating the uniqueness of individual nation's militaries
• At the end of all combat rolls, I will provide a concise summary of the war/conquest outcome, including annexations, war reparations and even the possibility of depopulation/genocide of a losing faction/race (Genocide = Winning side sweeped)

File: EvoGame Primer Events.pdf (185 KB, PDF)

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Rolled 7, 4, 7, 3, 3, 6, 7, 6, 1, 4, 7, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6 = 81 (16d8)

--Opening Thread Event Rolls--

-TG Event Roll-
Single Roll to determine the outcome of the TG City-State Decree

--Roll Result--
1-2: Option 3
3-6: Option 2
7-8: Option 1

-NG Event Rolls-
Four Rolls for this event. First roll to determine how rapidly the Micro-AA Node use is spread through the NG. Second roll to determine the efficacy of Ostralja militarization. Third roll for the extent the Konesh colony’s border expansion and fourth roll for the results of resources found

-FG Event Rolls-
Two Rolls for this event to determine how many FG from Reido’ya and Ulordrasil are influenced by the tenets of the Mandate of Eysdrasil. 1 = 5%, 2 = 7.5%, 3 = 10%, 4 = 12.5%, 5 = 15%, 6 = 20%, 7 = 25%, 8 = 30%

-PG Event Rolls-
Three Rolls for this Event. First is for colonization efforts on Moralve, and to anywhere else in Essari they deign to lay claim. Second is for militarization innovation, to match or surpass the TG & Multi-Grabraf nations. Third is for improving political relations with the Sons of Xerho

--1st/2nd/3rd Roll Results--
1-2: Minor Expansion of Moralve Colony/Little Military Innovation/No Progress in SoX Relations
3-6: Expansion of Moralve Colony & Establishment of Panoram Colony/Substantial Military Innovation/Minor Progress in SoX Relations
7-8: Major Expansion of Morale Colony/Major Military Innovation utilizing Zaibatsu provided tech/Major Progress in SoX Relations

-CG Event Rolls-
Two rolls for this event. First is for the efficacy of Chirpy’s Conquest throughout the Subter Commonwealth. The second roll is for the resistance efforts of the Subter Holds against Chirpy’s forces. The allegiances of Jahonia and the White Stitcher is up to the players

--1st/2nd Rolls Results--
1-2: Chirpy’s Conquest is bogged down in the Twin Karst/The Subter Cmlth. capitulates with little resistance
3-5: The Twin Karst is annexed by Chirpy/The Subter Cmlth. manages some minor resistance but ultimately falls
6-7: Chirpy's Conquest gradually annexes all of the Subter Holds/The Subter Cmlth. manages to militarily retain control of its unconquered holds
8: The Yekto Knights side with Chirpy's Conquests and gallantly retake all of the Subter Holds/The Yekto Knights help organize the Subter Cmlth. forces and crush Chirpy's "Rebellion"

-C. Tripod Event Rolls-
Two rolls for this event. First is for the overall shift in militaristic policy in the Omir’ten Kingdom (Lower roll being more diplomatic and higher meaning an aggressive stance). Second roll for the growth of improvement of Omir'ten Infrastructure

--2nd Roll Result--
1-2: Destroyed cities/infrastructure is rebuilt
3-6: Destroyed cities/infrastructure is rebuilt, and Minor projects in colonies commenced
7-8: Significant revitalization/expansion of infrastructure throughout Omir'ten and its colonies

-Stitcher Event Rolls-
Two rolls for this event. First for natality efforts in the Whitestone Empire. Second for the stability of Whitestone Dominion over their colonial populations across Essari

Rolled 7 (1d8)

Through the recent uptick in religious sentiment in Nekonahu caused by the collective delusion of Xerho's Reach, a pro-FG sentiment has grown, the Che'wa being from a religious perspective not undesirables, but expressions of Xerho as any thriving animal is.

A merchant prince therefore funds a new enterprise: A colony on moralve, where he settles many of his workers, but also allows Che'wa to come and settle, and work in the plantations he sets up there in which the spices are planted necessary for vulcanized cheese.

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>>4277063
>>4277063
With the natalization effort coming into gear and the colonies pacified, the whitestones find themselves with a number of new houses founded which cannot take the geographic space of the old ones, most of which have been gifted to deserving houses by the Immortal Emperors of all the Universe past and present.

They therefore decide to settle them in the unclaimed parts of the Torray Islands. House Shale is founded.

Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4277093
if I don't forget the image I forget the dice

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>>4277063
I'm just going to give a quick synopsis on what happened here, with all other interactions revolving around these primers under the control of you, the players.

With that, I depart for now, I await to see what happens in the coming hours.

> TG Event Result: 7
The following day, the votes casted by the TG Diplomats were counted, and roar of excitement filled the conference hall, as nearly all TG City-States had voted unanimously to maintain the ties of old, and push on into a new age. In the coming months, envoys would be sent locally and abroad to Omir'ten and the Zet Zaibatsu as the TG City-States now began the arduous task of building their new tomorrow.

> NG Event Results: 4, 7, 3, 3
The spread of the Micro AA-Node would be gradual, with the elders selecting the best and brightest individuals to be ordained with the latest gift from Skrigjaarden. By the end of the next decade over 20% of NGs would be grafted. Meanwhile in Ostralja, a rapid militarization of the their diminished borders would commence, startling even the Voltanites would observed pensively from their great steel border wall. All the while, a steady flow of migrants would trickle into the new colony of Skrig'Uriyah, although resource discovery is slow, as the establishment of colonial administration.

> FG Event Results: 6, 7
The Mandate of Eysdrasil is a fairly alluring ideology to the other FG of Reido'ya and Ulordrasil, with 20% of FG on Reido'ya and 25% on Ulordrasil beginning to subscribe strongly with its tenets.

> PG Event Results: 6, 1, 4
Colonization of the Di'Tan's Peninsula would be described as a rousing success with over a million Castigarians immigrating to the Moralve colony in less than a decade. Additionally, a new colonial fleet would sent to the shore of East Panoram Minor Peninsula, boldly laying claim to the unpopulated land there. Militarization would be stifled though, in lieu of greater financial burden placed on colonization efforts. A small silver lining would arise though in political progress with the SoX, as the two nations make steady progress towards a firm political alliance.

> CG Event Results: 7, 4
Chirpy's Conquest of the Subter Holds would become a story heralded by CG for centuries to come. Chirpy's forces near effortlessly, conquer the Twin Karsts that all but capitulated without a fight, and after forming an alliance with the free CG Hold of Tierre Huzduk, a full might, of Chirpy's Army descended on the Holds of Satokh-Otai, where after just 4 years, only a few pockets of resistance would remain. The Subter Empire would be reborn again.

>>4277063
Part 2 of Roll Results Snyopsis

> CT Event Results: 5, 5
The militarization process across Omir'ten would be a slow process, but its citizen would gradually come around to the idea, posed by the Rag'ohki and Triunist Propagandists. Soon, even the young ruler of the Omir'ten would speak positively of a more militaristic, in the name of Omir'ten Hegemony over all of Essari. In the coming years, a surge of national pride, would overtake Omir'ten and its overseas territories, as the destroyed cities around Lake Ti'folt would be fully restored to their former majesty, and even Niu Ti'ras would be rebuilt to be far more magnificent than it was before. Elsewhere in Omir'ten's colonies, a new wave of immigrants would see many infrastructure project put into action, as the colonial territories in Panoram and Foltania, would be built up to match the luster of the Omir'ten Kingdom.

> Stitcher Event Results: 6, 6
Whitestone's Natalist Project would be a success, with any uneven, or brood that were not perfectly white being turned into the living batteries of the Whitestone Empires' computers. With it's population showing the much desired promise of revitalization, the Empire makes the risky decision to depopulate it's home borders, and military defenses as its send new colonists to the Denu'arctis Colony, filling the gaps of it lost population to the Genetic Purge. They also send more inhabitants to the Foltanian Houses and Sujardin Colonies, although this would prove to only bolster the standing authority of the Whitestone Empire and its numbers within their borders, as many of its colonists stood firmly with Whitestone Dominion.

Rolled 2 (1d8)

>>4277095
Seeing the cities enveloped in their territory begin to make dealings with foreign powers, and the Castigars easing up as a potential enemy, the Sons of Xerho decide to do what has long been overdue.

In the biggest congress of SoX chieftains since the decision was made to enter the Great war, a crusade is decided on the two TG cities on the western coast of Sujardin.

Rolled 4, 1 = 5 (2d8)

With Whitestone Empire's population decimated, their industry takes a nosedive as well. To get back to normal levels of crystal production, Whitestone scientists set out to manufacture a serum that would boost a stitcher's teats. At the same time, another group of scientists experiments with getting serums that enhance other aspects of the stitcher, such as the rate at which it grows to strength and maturity or the amount of rage it feels towards it's enemies.
Rolling for teat booster serum and growth serum

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At the end of last thread, the Whitestone Empire shot a probe into space. The spaceball is that probe.

It consists of acockpit, held in suspension on rails and with strong springs in a mid-outter chasy. Between it and the next layer, a thicklayer of thermo-regulative gel serves as both thermoregulation and further impact cushioning. That middle shell, a heat resistant crystal with a further layer thermoregulative gel incorprated into it, sprots eight electromagnetic guns, each loaded with three shots. These are used for steering.

The outtermost layer is a thick layer of soft ferrite. This ferrite is what is magnefied by the gigantic gauss cannoon that shoots the spaceball into space, and which melts away in the process. Once in space, the guns shoot out their protective hull and can be used for steering by the stitcher pilot.

The pilot himself is heavily augmented, with extended lungs and impact-resistance implants. They have control over the articulated system of the spaceball: The steering, the radio and the self distruct. As "Eyes" and to not be uneven, the pilot has a high tech minituarized one-stitcher-computer on board which calculates the exact movement of the spaceball at any moment, constantly murmuring into the pilot's ear the vessel's location relative to the planet. The cockpit itself is filled with oxydiced fluid.

This is the stitcher's forray into space. (requesting QM resolution with the space probe and such)

Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4277094
>>4277093

"Veto! Veto! Veto, mr Screecher, Veto!"
"What is this Wet dough you're screaming about? ...and how tasty is it?"

The plan of Whites settling on the glorious main Torray island is brought up in the Great Gathering of Houses and is met with outrage. To think the whites see themselves worthy as constructing their white obscenities on good, even soil!

Several minor houses decide that this can not be allowed. It must be stopped! Through diplomatic or more practical means.

Rolled 2, 6, 3, 2 = 13 (4d8)

>>4277056
The Ozasari had noticed the rapid conquest of Chirpy in the Subter lands, and with it new opportunities to co- er, sell their wares among the CG populace, via shell companies. Chief among these are large amounts of pilfered or misappropriated Zaibatsu Canned Mystery Meat, repackaged and sometimes mixed with dirt cheap stale Hurkun cheese.

Meanwhile, the 3 large factions in CG society - the Red Royals, Blue Brotherhood, and Black-and-Yellows - face an uncertain future. Will they thrive under Chirpy's rule? Will they perish? Or will they try to make pockets of resistance?

>Rolling 4d8: Success of Ozasari brand Cheesy Meat-in-a-Can in CG holds, the fate of the three former factions (1: utter dissolvement, 2-3: resistance groups, 4-6: became political parties but severe loss of power, 7-8: flourishing and approved by Chirpy

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Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4277189
The Veto is accepted unanimously across the houses, with one vote against, that of the Whitestone representative. The argument is that white stitchers build unevenly and the soil of the Torray islands is even.

The Whitestone deligation responds that firstly, the Orthodoxy has no claim over the disputed reason. But secondly, and much more gravely, calling whitestone construction uneven is akin to calling all of the Whitestone Empire uneven, and that if this is the position of the Assembly, then the Empire finds it uneven in kind (and uneven in the first place since not all great Whitestone houses have a seat in the assembly)

The decision is ratified by the Immortal Emperors and the Whitestone Emperor leaves the Assembly. Since only excedingly few patriarch/matriarch pairs were found whose houses could be settled (>>4277094 rolling 3), for now only a bridgehead is established at the indicated location.

>>4277209
The bridgehead is built before Orthodoxy blockades can make it impossible, a strong, self sufficient fortress staffed with a battallion of whitestone warriors and defenses out of the wazoo.

Rolled 5, 2 = 7 (2d8)

In the Ascendancy of Our Most August Lady the merger of the Unity and Kholeskan institutions were finally beginning to bear fruit. Especially within engineering and the natural sciences. A merger of two approaches to scientific theory combined with the furthering of globalization on Essari had opened up many an eye to paths previously unthread. From the way of Foltania, the basic techniques of creating Circuitry had spread from the Cocky Tripods. Seeing the possible uses of it in automating industry large investments where made into schools of higher learning in order to be able to recreate the technology. Similarly, Ideas surrounding the nature of the world were beginning to get inroads within the scientific community.

Rolling for Circuitry and Relativity for TG, or whatevs.

maybe this happens: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4095346/#p4127204 ?

>>4277223

It turns out that money speaks and gives results.
Those embracing the Theory of Relativity are instead laughed out of the community. It will take some time before believers in the theory will be able to make inroads again.

>>4277203
After a series of food poisoning incidents in which the Ozasari Meat Product is implicit, the product was declared to be banned in all CG holds. Mass burnings of the meat ensure that the Ozasari did not try to sell Zaibatsu Meat again... at least for now.
Of the three factions, the Red Royals were the most supportive of Chirpy, even though each RR clique endorsed their own royal candidate before. Now they became the main political party in the resurgent Subter Empire - which is a fancy way to say 'aristocrat's club', as they do little in terms of bureaucracy.
Meanwhile, the dissatisfied Blue Brotherhood had broken up into small secret worker's unions in the industrialized parts of the Subter Empire, silently waging a quiet war against the Black-and-Yellow remants which integrated themselves into the already sizable black market, and both occasionally strike against the Red Royals.

Rolled 5 (1d8)

>>4277214
Several of previously state minor houses performs a unified action just to spite the WE

Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4277230
the whitestones expand here to spite them back.

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>>4277230
A mishmash of several small colonies are founded in a ring surrounding the bridgehead colony. During the night, hooting and hollering can be heard across the plains.

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>>4277233
forgot image

Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4277233
>>4277238
it goes pretty well!

>>4277237
The Fortress K'tt'b'k'tk' (Write this down, Libby!) is hella annoyed. Rolling for morale.

>>4277241
stitchers are freaking out, and one matriarch/patriarch pair even relocates their house back to the mainland, saying: "These Orthodoxes are crazy!"

Rolled 7, 8, 6 = 21 (3d8)

On Panoram, the society is in a tumultuous state: the dissolution of the alliance with the floating isles left a sour imprint on those involved, and the tripod supremacist movement EFT seizes the opportunity to promote itself.
Rolling for spread of racist tendencies among tripods.
At the same time, but at another place, scientists at the Borealis outpost are attempting to extract a larger, relatively intact chunk of the sleeping Braffberg; they believe it may be in a state of mere hibernation rather than death, and thawing it might lead to it resuming activity. Seeing it regrow afterwards would provide an amazing boost to the field of Emralogy.
Rolling for how good of a chunk they get and whether they can get it to resume metabolism.

Rolled 6 (1d8)

>>4277230
>>4277233
A wandering pair of Sandstone thinker proclaimed that these uneven actions could be, in a way, some new form of evenness. Like circular motion that eventually blends these uneven acts into a new, suitable evenness.
Of course they were publicly electrocuted after their speech, but do their thoughts on Circular Evenness (AKA Justifying Unevenness to its detractors) gain ground in general Stitcher philosophy?

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Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4277101

With the SoX being really bad at crusading, some tribes attacking without waiting on their eastern allies, the two city states of The Two city states of Zok'tokan and Xas'nach decide to put their resources into a quick offensive, hoping to bottleneck the SoX forces between the Castigars and the Tuzan clan of Toch.

Rolled 8 (1d8)

>>4277261
The Sons of Xerho will lose territory. Rolling for how much of the western part of their territory they can save. High is good for them, low is bad. From my perspective, this would mean the war is over, SoX having lost it. If someone rolls to continue it, it will of course continue.

Rolled 4, 7, 8, 8, 1, 4, 2, 5, 1, 6, 8, 1 = 55 (12d8)

>>4277057
>2 rolls per race, per 24 hours;tech.

>TG, advanced ballistics, nuclear physics
The city states, flush with vigor and a brazen desire for freedom knew what made one sovereign; threat of violence. They didn't need a massive land army, or equivalency of any kind but the one that mattered. Nuclear. Tripods had show then world that, and if they could hold but a fraction of that flame they could hold their own into the next era.

>NG: foreign biology, Surgery
Their new allies were strange, and many, but valued the NG's ability to do what they could not. By exploring the limits of their allies weaknesses they could further inundate themselves into their benefactor's society...and potentially leverage their considerable power for their own.

>PG: radio, refrigeration
Pragmatism ruled the PG. Communication would be needed to organize the great horde, and rule Sujardin. It was an idea under a thousand names, with the same end goal. Debt would be further insured by refrigeration, and communication would organize efforts and even save lives.

>FG: Ballistics, Biometallics
The FG in their greatness, knew of their own arrogance. Stagnation would lead to their defeat if they were not able to match their foes in arenas outside their own choosing. Great effort began towards new genetic manipulation to include and incorporate inorganic material into flesh and bone, creating new things, with new ideas.

>CG: Amphetamines, elevators
Chripy knew that his people would need to give more than 100%, but 110% or even more. Old research notes from captured territory showed...promise. Things not wanted, but needed. More so were the concepts of tunnel to surface elevators. These shafts would allow the Subter empire to move material, and manpower in new ways that their rails could not.

>Voltanites: Salhetite filtering, oceanic drilling
The Tripods valued the substance Salhetite above all. The Voltanites needed those allies, too much was at risk. From all fronts they were encroached upon; spies across the continent reported that much of their efforts were coming undone. New methods would have to be applied, existing motives re-evaluated, and current practices examined for value added. Nothing could be too sacred, nothing was beyond consideration.

>>4277268
okay I mean this roll woul dmean they lose practically no land and there's a white peace. Up to tail-tan to agree to that or not.

Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d8)

>>4277269
I'm gonna reroll radio for PGs and elevators for CG.

Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4277056
the orthodoxies historians and archeologists have found an old stitcher settlement buried. in it they find some texts stating a comet will pass in a few years by the lands of the orthodoxy which is made out of pure crystal. the people of the orthodoxy want to see it and House Heliotrope start developing a hopperbot that can take passengers. to do that they try figuring out how to make a hopperbot more aerodynamic and yet able to carry a stitcher

rolling: aerodynamics

>>4277248
Apparently most Stitchers agree that when an even-numbered amount of sides do uneven acts but directed towards each other in a circular fashion, it is a kind of even. In another world this concept is also known as 'that escalated quickly'.

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Rolled 4 (1d8)

>>4277060
Since the middle of the silent decade, three powers had been meeting in Omi’tolt order to negotiate and inform each other of goings on in the world. Meanwhile at least one power had been listening in on the side-line, not taking and active part in the discussions. While the different parties didn’t completely trust each other, they could all agree that they trusted many of the other powers that be even less. And it was as such that a form of economic and diplomatic cooperation had begun to form. However, maybe this could lead to something more? Maybe this was the beginning of something great?


Or maybe I will make shit rolls?
Probably the latter.

Rolled 4, 2, 5 = 11 (3d8)

>"I'll give the order to deconstruct this settlement. Who am I to force my kind upon your lands, against your species will?"

In the final hours of the Silent Decade, a vow was made to the Highborne of Mysdrasill. Now, it is time for said promise to be fullfilled. The Jadijinese were Tripods of their word, let that be said. However, it should be know that even if the Ozasari were the current champions of underhanded discourse, Red-Throats too knew the art of hiding messages in the fine print.

Their Mysdrassil outpost was first and foremost a testing facility, the cape canaveral of Essari; Rockets, missiles, and other technology involving large amounts of fuel and nuclear components were made there. Not to mention that a project with an energy demand as high as that had to had its own powerhouse. You see where i'm going with this.

Most civilians were evacuated, leaving only a skeleton crew of technicians who would be remembered as heroes and champions of all Tripodkind. Their job was to deconstruct the settlement, as violently as they could. The contents of silos were set to detonate in place, rocket engines to overheat, and the power plant was rigged to meltdown. Let lady luck decide how well they did their job.

>Three rolls: 1st is evacuation, 2nd is explosion radius, and 3rd is fallout. If that's okay of course, leaving it to Libby to decide.

>>4277283
house Heliotrope start building stitcherbots with even wings which are made out of lighter material.
they find that not only does this allow them to glide,they can also jump higher. This news excites the stitchers, and they hope that house Heliotrope can let them see the comet

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Rolled 4 (1d8)

>>4277289
During the meeting, the productive discussion seems to using peetering off. It seems like this gathering, like so many other before it will end up with no progress made, and things remaining how they've been. But then the representative of the the fourth power steps out of the shadows. Everyone thought it that the individual was a representative from the Subter Commonwealth, but then it rips off the hat that it has been wearing and uses [SOCIAL ENGINEERING]

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>>4277088
The colony is large and proiftable. it is called Kiripenti and starts outputting cheese-spice like crazy. The FG and PG settled there are harmoniously unified under Xerho.

>>4277269

>BT: (early) SSTO, portable nuclear reactors
Zet's vision for the future was simple. Press ahead. The existing fleet of Chongus class aircraft would gradually be phased out in favor of modernized designs, yet continue to serve as research and development testbeds. Massive cargo holds would house equally massive amounts of fuel, skin would be coated in a variety of materials for escalatign re-entry tests. Energy would be needed. So much would be needed...

>RT: Vertical farming, Phage medicine
Zutsuil's ill founded ventures with restored zaibatsu refinery equipment was a sham, a shame, and so pathetic even the Ozasari couldn't do anything with it. A new way forward was needed, a radical pivot saw the old and abandoned warehouses repurposed to urban farming, and the ill studied field of virology turned towards something useful.

>CT: (oracle boosted) synthetic materials, photo-lithography
Omir'ten would tap into the capability of their repopulated oracles once more, and learn the secrets of their kin through more esoteric means, and with that fully cement a position of dominance on their half of the world. The northern half. Advanced etching of delicate computer electronics was in its infancy, purely in laboratories, but if certain techniques could be mass produced then the quality of their quantity could be increased when it came to portable electronics. They could edge their competitors out of the market quickly.

>Stitchers: additive manufacturing, whitestone homogenization effort.
Stitchers as a whole were reaching the limits of what teat and had could wrought. Disastrous plagues, experiments, and now cybernetics left the body surviving, but the industrial capacity limited to the frail weaver caste. The whitestones had not learned a thing from their past mistakes and dealings with the FG. Where cybernetics carried them only so far, the might of pure flesh would carry them further, and so was hatched a perfectly even plan. Attempt to garner the favor of their benefactors once more, and unify the trifold form of the stitcher into something...even.

Rolled 8, 5, 8, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5 = 41 (8d8)

>>4277314
forgot muh dice. I will be doing lore results later in response to all the dice.

>>4277305

A boring trade agreement is made between Jahonia's Embrace, the Stitcher Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Omir'ten. Smelling the potential for profit, the Ozarasi join in too. Each power agrees to lower tolls by 10% as compared to nations outside of the agreement and the parties agree to gradually lower their tolls between each other over the span of a couple of years.

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Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d8)

A modern world requires modern solutions. As machine-technology was improving, the vulnerabilities of the Highbornes’ and Skybornes’ level of development was becoming clear. Leaps would have to be made. But to sell one’s essence to the subjugation of the machine was not the way. The path of life was the true way.

FG: Rolling for advanced bio-fuel thrusters and advanced photosynthesis.

Rolled 7, 5 = 12 (2d8)

>>4277341
But I also roll for these things

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Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4277311

Moralve, the beautiful. Moralve, the free!
Free to exploit, that is!


When the Subter Commonwealth was brought under Red (Royal) control, the successor faction of the Subter Empire Imperials, who let Jahonian "Peacekeeping" forces into their domain in order to quell the civil war, a steadfast and strong bond was form. The Royalists and Jahonia's Emrace saw that they had much in common ideologically (A queen above; A king below!)

As a first step in this friendship Jahonia's Embrace and the Subter Commonwealth venture to establish a joint colony in Moralve. Or more like, two colonies; one above ground and one below.

>>4277353
I'll fiat pass the second roll for the meme

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>>4277238
>>4277233
>7
House shale everybody!

>>4277297
Whether if it a failure on the Jadijinese Engineers, an act of counter-sabotage by the Eys'dra FG, or just a twist of fate; the explosive exit the Jadijinese Empire planned turned out to be no more than minor incident at best. While was indeed rigged to blow on the Mysdrail Outpost, one of the abandoned and rigged rocket engines overheated faster than anticipated, thanks to its Salhetite infused fuel system. This caused a chain reaction, incinerating the nuclear power plant and destroying the sabretail's share of explosives. The ensuing explosion would bare some desired results, have caught several thousands acres of forest on-fire before it could be quelled, and additionally the destroyed plant leeched enough radiation to greatly deter any scavenging efforts by the Skyborne Grabraf.

However at the end of day, the destruction of the Mysdrasil Outposts looked like less of act of zealous revenge, but just an unfortunately sloppy exit by the FG's former neighbors. Many Highborne would even point to the event and applaud Gakuan's actions, as they had clearly prevented a far worse event from occurring should the Tripod had stayed.

Rolled 6, 4, 5, 2, 4, 2 = 23 (6d8)

>BT: Predictive computing, Transistors
Despite its humble origins as a simple pyramid scheme, the Ozasari were now a planet wide business operation. Their business in Sujardin and their sovereignty over Roulb island were their most valuable assets, profitable enough to ensure their long-term existance. Nevertheless, some executives believe that, maybe, perhaps, they should try to actually have magic computers.

>RT: Spaceflight, Industrial Microbiology
The betrayal at the hands of the FGs was a heavy blow for the Panoramians, but their previous development of Rocket Sleds meant that it hurt their pride more than it did their spaceflight efforts. Still, the technology was still young, and so the RTs considered turning their eyes towards Shatturne to make up for the loss of Mysdrassil. But that was pennies compared to their biggest issue; not turning their astronauts into mashed denui tuberroots. No use crying over spilled milk though, there's always a spare Tripod when you need it.

Their latest advances in genetics, alongside their history of cultivating algae and other such microrganisms as byproducts of their (ancient) hydroponic farms lead the Panoramians to research the art of synthetizing drugs from yeast. Their success might mean a great leap towards actual medicine for RTs, or maybe even higher addiction rates. Only time will tell.

>CT: Mechsuits, Pouchytailization
Super fighting robots, they're good at heavy combat and selling anime merchandize, not so much for industry and covert ops. The Omir'ten try their hands at reverse engineering their mechs, using them as the base for more maneurable mechanized exo-suits, that would hopefully aid in the industralization of their colonies and reconstruction of their capital.

As tensions between the stitchers and the CTs in Foltania grow by the minute, secret investigation (no doubt influenced by the recent influx of RTs and BTs) regarding Stitcher biology is set afoot. Perhaps the process of hurkunization could be replicated on their neighbours?

Rolled 4 (1d8)

>>4277063
PG rolling for MK 2 mech suits. Think Edge of Tomorrow.

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>>4277353

[Impulse the thrusters]

A thought, an impulse, the twitch of a muscle. Gakuan could feel it. They all could. The Eys’dra islands where moving quicker than ever before. The trees swayed and bowed under the pressure of wind and G-force. The pained crackling and creaking of the trees got louder and louder, but so too did the wind. Even still, they kept accelerating and they kept climbing. Faster and faster. Higher and higher. All of if fueled by rapid, efficient photosynthetic and Methanogenetic processes.

This was progress.

And progress smelled like farts.

Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d8)

Seeing the stitchers walking around with arms and legs made of metal and crystal like it's no big deal and remembering how a RT ecologist offhandedly mentioned an evolutionary link between stitchers and the common pest and/or pet known as the pouchytail, Zet's scientists think: hey, we can make a surveillance system out of this!
Rolling for making pouchytails with cameras inserted in their eyeballs and for spreading them covertly

Rolled 3 (1d8)

rolling for Salhetite accumulation by House Sandstone.

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>>4277364

Some good things must start small. And so too did the Yas Kwin Colony. A mining town is founded supported by a small port town.

CGs, PGs and maybe one, eh, perhaps two TGs working side by side. Or, not really. The CG are holing themselves up in the mine and the surface dwellers begin an open quarry.

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>>4277150
The growth serum works well... TOO well. The key ingredients were bought from a wandering FG on the run from the mindhive, and for a while, the concoction worked fine: the pups it was tested on matured to the sizes of praetors in the matter of months, and then... They just never stopped. They grew and grew and grew, their bodies somehow living even as they became more tumor than stitcher.
...They are still kept alive in the lowest levels of the White Palace - after all, they DO have tits the sizes of trucks that produce crystal accordingly.
The teat boosting serum just made recipients kind of dizzy - someone on the testing team probably botched the ingredient ratio.

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Rolled 1, 6, 4 = 11 (3d8)

>>4277063

Clan Otaiter ltd "A Proud Red Company [TM]" had bought the exclusive right to soft drink exports outside of the Commonwealth. And with a sick new marketing campaign, using one of those ugly TG females that the tall surface dwellers are so fond of, they were planning on taking Sujardin and the rest of the world by storm. The broad said her name was Y’ler or something, but who cares.

With this international launch, several new flavours were also introduced, such as Low Spicybrafi (for those with unable to handle the spice); No Braf Spicybrafi, for those non-braf eaters; Pink Spicybrafi (Actually made from Swampbloom petals), and finally Spiceronibrafino, marketed to Tripods and made from tripod ingredients.

Rolling for the success of the campaign and launch in Sujardin, Tripod Territories and Stitcher Territories.

>>4277439
the desired tons and tons of salhetite simply cannot be procured. Instead, payload for only two orbital cannons is acquired. The scientists sigh and get to work.

Rolled 3, 3 = 6 (2d8)

The NG have long been derided for their simple minds - and they knew this. But now, now that their minds can get closer to each other than ever before, they can finally shed their simplicity, and ascend further by pooling their knowledge together better than any clique of scientists or philosophers. But it will require work - breaking the boundaries of mind is no easy task, especially when you know nothing about psychology or neuroscience. The former Rayyans attempt communion through carefully refined trance and meditation, while the Koneshans peruse through daddy RT's Big Cookbook of Science to see if they can find something about brains, and maybe even learn that something.
Rolling for meditation-based microAA node-powered thoughtmelding for NG and also for learning basic neuroscience

Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4277481
rolling for the NG thinking they succeeded in thoughtmelding

>>4277460

The after having ran the marketing campaign for a week, the ads are without warning pulled down all over Sujardin. Some quick investigating made by Otaiter ltd, find all trails pointing towards the Castigar empire and its ruler, Di'tan. They had even found sources stating that the old PG had threatened that he would "make the Great Sujardin War look like fucking kindergarten" unless the other states pulled the campagin. The nations of Sujardin figured that it was better not to risk it. Rather just pull the adds than to risk lives.

The company loses contact with Y'ler not soon after this. She seems to have disapeared without a trace. Her PG mate had been spotted by the locals of their village in northwestern Jahonia's Embrace, heading west, rifle in and granades strapped to his chest, chanting some weird as shit.

In the Tripod territories and Stitcher regions the drinks are met with great to moderate success. The Whites quite like the pink, almost white Spicybrafi, but would like it whiter. Similar is the story with the original Spicybrafi and the Orthodoxy; not enough minerals in the drink.

The Spiceronibrafino is a huge success in Panoram. The Natives love it! And the ingredients are cheap! When the company asked their suppliers what the sludge called "tripod ingredients" actually were, they got the reply "just that". And nothing more.

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>>4277244
The flames of racial superiority rage more than ever before; thinly-veiled anti-grabraf sentiment can commonly be found in radio and TV shows, and some tripods go from mere feelings of superiority to outright hate of the lesser races.
...Much more importantly, the Borealis outpost has managed to unearth several tonnes worth of only mildly damaged braffberg; it's internal anatomy is carefully measured, tested for chemical makeup, portioned and stored for later use, and dozens of theories spring up as to what functions what parts of it serve. The best part of the haul was however what they found when cutting the thing up: a tiny lump of tissue right at the center maintained a temperature of a few degrees above zero. In a matter of hours, the pathetic, diminished Borealis was safely kept in a tightly sealed, climate-controlled top-security plexiglass case.

>>4277509
*not long after
Jesus Christ

Rolled 4, 5, 2, 6 = 17 (4d8)

>>4277513
>>4277509

Political happenings due to this (Two rolls). Higher = bigger. Second one is how a certain war veteran plays part.

>>4277455
Potential social instability of this getting out. Low = nothing. High = Large consequences.
>>4277394
How mad the Orthodoxy's houses are due to this (Low = water under the bridge. High = taking the hand-jewelry off).

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Rolled 8, 2 = 10 (2d8)

Despite what official state channels might say, conflict between Tripods has always existed in Essari. Small clashes between family clans, corporate espionage, chemical warfare, nuclear bombing, the list goes on and on. Lake Saletzan was one of many witnesses to said violence, the city of Zutsuil ravaged because of political differences. But, as the old Panoramian saying says, "Existance is an onward march, life an endless struggle," and so the refugee colony of Yaunican was born in Moralve, while the Zutsuilans that stayed behind rebuilt their homes.
And now it was time for the Syndicate City to step into the spotlight once again. The Jadijinik had long tinkered with the idea of ending the de-facto cold war that existed between them and Zaibatsu. The Patsurians had already reconciled with Omir'Ten long ago, which brought nothing but boons to the Tripods of Eastern Panoram, a great leap towards Tripod Unity.
It was not only ideals that the Jadijinese were after, the Zaibatsu had the potential to be a great asset to the TPN research efforts, despite their mental illness, BT technology was on-par with the RT's. The Shatturnians were smart cookies, but they were also reckless. The Panoramians had so far ignored Zets shady business in their home, as they considered his meddling and extraction to be relatively harmless in the large scale. But recent reports suggested a gross underestimation of how much Salhetite was being illegally exported by him, and more importantly, how much of it was sold to lesser races. The reasons for a diplomatic council between the RTs and BTs continue piling on, and the pros clearly beat the cons. A Great Congress of Nations would be held in Zutsuil, the main event being the signing of a treaty between Zaibatsu and the TPN, establishing formal regulations in trade, joint space programs, quotas for xenophobic content on media, and strict guidelines for the development of intercontinental business. Zaibatsu, Western Patsuria, Jadijinik, the Rag'hoki colonies in Jaa'apan and East Patsuria, and Omir'ten were immediately accounted for, but the other BT, RT and CT nations had yet to answer their RVSPs.
>I wanna roll so one roll for how many other nations attend the congress and other for how many of them sign on the treaty.

>>4277261
>>4277268

Resolving this formally take cues from this suggestion >>4277277 here.

The TG City-States knew their walls and will would be tested soon enough, but few had thought they actually come out on top; although many TG scholars would in hindsight go on to mark up the victory between the Cas'nach and Zok'tokan forces largely owed to the disorganization of the SoX Forces.

The paint had barely dried on the freshly acquired arms purchased from the Zet Zaibatsu when a series of haphazard raiding parties assailed the walls of the two City-States. Swiftly working to coordinate a counterattack, the TG Defense found itself overwhelmingly effective. Not only had they driven off the PG forces, but they even took the opportunity to counterattack, only retreating back to their walls, due to being sure a reinforcement army would be fast approaching. Only it never came.

Weeks later, an armistice would be signed, agreeing to a White Peace with the agreement to cease hostilities with the City-States for the next 2-years. Neither side had foreseen such an outcome, but for the TG City-States, it was a resounding boost to their morale, helping to affirm their decision in continued independence.

>>4277422
>>4277269
>>4277314
--Sapient Tech Rolls Attained--
TG: Nuclear Physics
FG: Biometallics, Bio-Fuel Thrusters, Advanced Photosynthesis
PG: n/a
CG: Elevators
NG: Foreign Biology, Surgery
RT: Vertical Farming
BT: SSTO (Single-Stage-to-Orbit),
CT: Photolithography
STI: Aerodynamics, Additive Manufacturing
VLT: Salhetite Filtering

>>4277577
The Ozasari roll for computing was succesful libby.

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Rolled 8 (1d8)

As we all know, there are constantly small border skirmishes between Xerhonoke border towns and Sons of Xerho gangs on xikes.

Recently Tronuk'xo, a chieftain's son has had his eye on a factory on the border and he is planning a raid, but the youths in his xike gang are unsure how to approach the attack on a fortified position with their xikes.

Luckily they meet a PG in kholeskan armor on one of thier joyrides, and in conversation it turns out he is a mercenary with experience in just that thing. They offer him money to join the raid.

>>4277269
>TG: advanced ballistics, Nuclear physics (4,7)
Try as the TG might, their efforts during the silent decade yielded little to no fruit on nuclear weapons...no more. The first explosion took during the dawn of a day that will be remembered well. Each independent city detonated their weapon at the same time. Though anemic compared to their contemporaries, it was enough to make a resounding point; They were still sovereign. The delivery mechanism was that of the main cannon from each city. The dawn glowed.
>NG: foreign biology, Surgery (8,8)
For the Kin, the flesh had long held no secrets. They were flayers first and foremost, having perfected vivisection hundreds of years ago. There were no shortages of samples to examine. To execute the art with the intent of reversal...a new challenge. However, Emra's gifts were many, and the flesh, no matter how arrogant it would think itself no part of the great cycle, was the most basic aspect within it. Tripods, and even in more hushed whispers, grabrafs, would turn to the small creatures in their darkest hours to provide services desperately needed. Some of the more radical whitestone stitchers within the sumpter empire would on rare occasional use their services to preform grafts of flesh from their fallen comrades, or stave off the sickness with fresh organs. (whitestone stitchers are all universal donors to other stitchers)
>PG: radio, refrigeration (1, 4)
The SoX attempt at developing their own technology for radio and refrigeration had failed, leaving them to remain dependent on expensive imports of an older generation. The setback on radio cost them in several minor campaigns, and nearly caused a loss of territory. Their refrigerator was close to success, but failures in temperamental gasket material caused toxic amonia leaks to taint their cheese samples.
>FG: Ballistics, Biometallics (2,5)
The highborn deigned not to trouble themselves with mortal matters of ballistic science, and instead refined their biomancy further; metallic particles could be excreted into cellular matrixes, or even as bio-compatible organ scaffolding. Those brash enough would descend to the surface world, to try their metal against errant TG's crystal. It was an outspoken notion that they were the favored of Emra, and the TG but an early effort, or perhaps...mistake.
>CG: Amphetamines, elevators (1, 6)
The old recipe turned out to be nothing more than a useless hurkun aphrodisiac used by Tuzan farmers when a stud couldnt or wouldnt breed. Its effects on the local population were...upsetting to say the least. Fornication in the streets, on the trains, and in one fatal event, with a stitcher. Pulp literature was sold telling of invigorated CG gangs overwhelming lingering PG mercenaries in a tide of bawdy unspeakables. This nearly overshadowed the advent of the outsized freight elevator system. The Subter empire began growing rapidly, their rise to former glory aided by cheap foreign imports.

>>4277570
>Gonna do a small resolution cause I want nongent to answer to this
The Panoramian had called upon their brethren many times before, and once again they answer. Tripods from every corner of Essari turn up on Zutsuil: BT, RT, CT, it doesn't matter, we are all a single race, the tripod race :). Most of them are observers to the treaty, and only the TPN members and Zaibatsu adhere to it, the Omir'Ten and their Panoram Colonies sign it as well, but it's mostly symbolical, as they already got their own preexisting treaties with the RTs.

Rolled 8, 8 = 16 (2d8)

One fateful day, it finally happened. Large Leader... became Large Corpse. Rumors say he died fighting his two clone sons one final time, or that he was slain while defusing a nuke scheduled to hit Torray; the truth is way less glorious - the old man slipped, and accidentally crushed his fragile windpipe between his cold hard support exoskeleton and the colder harder floor.
Rolling to see if word gets out, and how good of a tactician whoever replaces him is

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>>4277618
>>4277625

Gonna go ahead and just fuse these two results.
>Rolling to see if word gets out, and how good of a tactician whoever replaces him is
Fused Results 4,6

4 = Secret is kept out of the ears of the layman, but makes it to high-up powers.
6 = A fairly capable successor.

>>4277269
>Voltanites: Salhetite filtering, oceanic drilling (8,1)
Ongoing efforts to extract Salhetite from oceanic water had started to yield fruit, and in a very big way. It was argued that perhaps the largest concentration of the material was diffused in an unrefined state within the ocean itself. The technology was guarded, and despite Tripod offerings to establish refineries on their more distant and protected colonies...during this tumultuous time...the Voltanites wisely refused and kept production and export to their home territory. They would not export the material themselves either, instead requiring a constant presence of their client states, which served to ward away would be enemies, namely the Lady's damnable fools, and the glory blind Castigars. Still, the tripods seemed desperate for the material, and the voltanites knew soon they could name their price...

>BT: (early) SSTO, portable nuclear reactors (8,5)
Zet oversaw the entire SSTO program himself, from the retrofit of the Chongus and Chungus, to their repeated flights and reentry. Each time machines, crew, and pace was pushed further, often to the fear of the lesser houses within the Zaibatsu. Each time Zet was vindicated; the aggressive plan had payed off. The first generation of heavy lift logistics craft were never envisioned for this task, but accomplished the goal admirably, and would serve a time longer as their replacements were still being conceptualized. A long desired goal quietly enabled the effort, lead by a team of unsung heroes. Compact, portable nuclear energy was disseminating throughout the bloodthroat region, both as a gift and a leash. Reliance on periodic reactor refueling would ensure compliance from this lesser houses, their thermal power plants growing cold and neglected in the face of such cheap energy. This effort would spread to the less loyal, or unaligned BTs and once proven viable, extended into RT territory as a new service line for interested customers.

>RT: Vertical farming, Phage medicine (8,2)
Zutsuil pivoted quickly, combining many existing technologies to create extremely efficient vertical farming, transforming urban sprawl and industrial decay into bountiful gardens with (dubiously) organic food. This would cement a reputation as an up and coming nation, from the brink of failure. Their attempts at phage medicine may have killed a few people, and been extensively suppressed thereafter.

>CT: (oracle boosted) synthetic materials, photo-lithography (3,4)
the CTs learned nothing. They were incapable of learning. The Omir'ten were far too busy establishing new holdings, and planning to rule the world.

>>4277314
>>4277318
>Stitchers: additive manufacturing, whitestone homogenization effort (cybernetics modernization ). (6,5)
For house whitestone, the era of weaver reliance had began to sunset. A new machine, ironically made by weavers, but controlled by the "computer", had begun create massive constructs of a crude nature. "three axis printers" the outsiders would call them, but internally they were known as the "Empress's teats." And mighty they were.

The FG spurned the request of the whitestone, which caused them to shriek in anger. It was well known that the Stitcher was the first blessed by Emra with holy electricity, and it was divine right that the stitcher was chosen to govern itself thereafter, and do as it would, even if that was to electrocute Emra. Rage turned to innovation, as stitchers began crossing bridges that their ortodox cousins would pale at. Pale into a shade closer to white.

Troops accepted that they were born to die, that all stitchers were born to die, and the path they walked would have no return. Comical machines were phased out in favor of disposable shock troops; their organs augmented and rearraged with such blessed capabilities as "hemispherical relocation" and "Skull gun". Skirmishes between the Voltanites and Whitestones yielded reports of the small warriors fighting dismounted, but with augmented limbs, or surviving grievous dismemberment or beheading; at least for a time.

Giant stitcherbots who sat on the edge of relegation found new purpose as their former pilots were liberated from the body of flesh, and their being transplanted into the body of purpose. Multiple slave nodes of computerized minds acted as a nervous system of sorts, enabling the titans free reign of movement in ways not previously possible. Redundant space was given over to armor, synthetic muscle, fuel and storage space. A few experimental models were fitted with the teats of the empress. In short, the machines were given a second lease on life, and each one was wildly different from the last with no standardization at all, as was correct and even.

Rolled 6 (1d8)

Rolling for the effect of Attunement thinkers and Choir hospitals to somehow temper the xenophobia a bit.

Rolled 6, 8 = 14 (2d8)

stitchertech rolls before I go to bed:
>Advanced life support
This should not mean that they can keep stitchers alive for years, but that they can keep a tit alive seperated from a body for a long time.

and
>optic fibre
To replace a.) the stitchernet connections and b.) the nerve-copper system in computers, to hopefully downscale them more.

Rolled 1, 6, 3 = 10 (3d8)

NG reverse engineering rolls for Ballistics and Refrigeration, so they can be slightly less dependant on Tripod imports.

Also, they breed like rats, so rolling for how well their birth rates hold up next to their maternal death rates in Moralve, lets expand those borders bois.

>>4277151
--Stitcher Event: A Shot in the Dark--

The journey into orbit for the brave pioneer, or perhaps better thought as a mad White Stitcher had been a tenuous affair, but after some 7 claw-biting minutes, the heated ferrite surface finally cooled, and radio readouts indicating the Space Ball had successfully made it into orbit. The Stitcher would be a hailed a hero to his brood (should he survive re-entry), but before that the Stitcher Probe began sending radio pings out to detect orbital objects. It wouldn't take long, before a dozen or so pings roughly 4 or 5 metres in size, and one massive ping, denoting an orbital object almost 4 kilometres in length.

It was then a screech of static was received by the probe's radio. At first it was unintelligible, so the Stitcher's order its computer to adjust its radio spectrum. The radio received the message once more as the probe made its final revolution before re-entry. While still heavily distorted, three messages came through: One in the tongue of the Grabraf, one a marked mimicry of the Dark Elves, and a final one discernibly Stitcher, although the artificial clicking further distorted the message.

[Vocally heard translation according to Stitcher aboard.]
> "G--etengs, Esharre L--efarm. Yorr shignel has been reshei--d. Peese fall-w tees corrd--ates eef paus--bol."

The Stitcher Pilot, reviled yet secretly curious, replayed the recorded message multiple times, able to confirm that radio message had come from the massive orbital object it had passed a few times. As the probe made its descent back into atmosphere, the pilot pondered, on what aberration was aboard that immense object, and more curiously, why did it contact him.

Clearly more flights would need to be conducted.

Doing a bunch of quick responses to unresolved rolls.
>>4277422

>BT: Predictive computing, Transistors (6,4)
The Ozasari develop an actual working product, it is a computer that can do very dry calculations in an complex language but give reliable outcomes. Developed entirely by Ozasari owned CG, NG, and RT volunteers for life, the product is prized by economists and statisticians. The transistors were reject stock from a well known Zaibatsu house, and burst into flames after 36 hours of operation.
>RT: Spaceflight, Industrial Microbiology(5, 2)
For the RTs of Panoram, their answer to space flight came in the form of mild industrial sabotage. Subscale models of the Chongus were bought on the scrap market, but quietly refurbished and purpose built as launch vehicles to enable high altitude flinging of astronauts into the edges of space before returning in a usually safe manner. The yeast laboratory had to be purged with flame, and then purged again with more flame. It officially never existed.
>CT: Mechsuits, Pouchytailization
The CT mind was unable to cope with legs, and it's pilot fell off a cliff during the demo. Meanwhile stitchers seemed nonplussed by the effort to demoralize them, and their biology was robust enough that they often recovered and were augmented with cybernetics. Those too damaged were often turned into computers.
>>4277425
The suits were not a viable technology for mass production, being resource intensive and maintenance hungry; the existing samples were relegated to the playthings of aging generals and captains, but the potential was there, and tantalizingly close.
>>4277430
Stitchers find hordes of dead and dying pouchytails littered over their settlements; it is unknown who did this, but their camera eyes give the stitchers a massive advance in their own prosthesis for such instances; and it was built so cheaply...
>>4277481
>>4277484
NGs are mental midgets who cannot thought meld, get into neuro science, or lie to themselves to feel better.

>>4277517
(Gotta tell me which one. there are so many who could play part.)
Large Leader's agents have used the popular drink as a way to further infiltrate into various empires, learn secrets, and garner technology. Di'Tan has larger battles to plan, and soon his wayward Daughter and new Beau will be returning home...Perrotail can no longer drink with his augmented body, and looks at the spicy braffi with longing.
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The Whitestone houses care not, but the Orthodoxy is willing to declare ware unless every abomination is killed.
>>4277570
Zet looked at the paper from on high through a series of cameras, not deigning to visit in person. Officially the risk was too great, personally the contempt was too much. An honor guard of the Zaibatsu's own "Stitcherbot" and several dozen warriors acted in his place, executing remote commands. Rules existed as a mutually agreed upon cage, often for the betterment of those captive. Several hundred pages of additional material were compiled and proven thusly that the Zaibatsu's activities were not illegal, and they were not responsible for the inability of a nation to police it's own people. With formal complaints out of the way, it was agreed that they would stop...illegally...obtaining salhetite. The only other item that was agreed upon was joint space efforts, with the Zaibatsu furnishing tooling and developmental articles specifically to the nation of Zutsuil, The Omir'ten, and the Panoramians via the Eastern and western Pasturians to share at their discretion. Space travel technology would be freely traded as physical goods, with the manufacturing and intellectual property residing within their host nation. Licensing and local production as an option.

"To this Zet agrees, but on matters of trade regulation. Zet does not agree." The uproar was responded to by the greatly amplified voice of the stitcherbot. "A strong tripod would handily defeat a weak tripod. Thus a weakling will seek to convince a stronger tripod to do battle in an arena of that weaklings creation. The first folly is assuming the weakling has authority to demand the stronger gives up an advantage, the next is assuming that request be obeyed when there is no strength behind it. Zet thusly refuses unfavorable trade agreements. Order your people to not trade certain items, enforce your ports. The BloodThroats will respond accordingly, but not with military hostility."

>>4277583
The Kholeskan Mercenary really likes money, and the ensuing border raid was a massive success. The notion of harrying and wearing down the enemy with false charges and ranged attacks while attacking the shifting spots of weakness proved to highlight Tronuk'xo mind for recruiting the best. This in its own was valuable as reputation, but the factory was the true prize, captured in tact and full of willing workers.

>>4277625
>>4277646
Large Leader was replaced by his twin clones. The people supporting the Peripheral Terminus project knew, the leaders of the soldiers knew. Even most of the rank and file had some sort of idea that the leader had changed, but to everyone involved Large Leader was more than one stitcher. He was an idea, and killing an idea meant killing everyone who had it. Thus far that had not been accomplished.

What no one else knew, was that the twin sons each carried half of the brain of large leader, grafted into their chests, wired in concert with their own minds. Less and more than he ever was, the legacy of Large Leader continues like the historical Ship of Ree'this.
>>4277688
The wiser mindset the attuned thinkers and Choir hospitallers brings rationality to the tripod xenophobia. Overt disdain and media broadcasts for hurkunization or outright enslavement are quietly dialed down, and even treated as jest towards their erstwhile planetary companions. In private, that is another story, but it is a safe to say there is a stitcher who screams his name is not Toby.
>>4277702
Gruesome as it is, the ortodoxy can now keep stitcher bodyparts alive for long periods without a proper host. The implications are many. Stitcher optial fibre greatly eases the requirements of copper in stitcher cybernetics, reducing unfounded reports of "cannibalism" and other horrific crimes of desperation. There are also improvements to the interstitch which improve communication and are wholy resistant to "electromagnetic interference" from such entities that employ that technology. Lastly, due to the outstanding success, a few scientists attempt to use strands of fiber to connect AA nodes as transport via converter technology. While it is purely experimental at this stage it is possible they are intercepting the thoughts of emra itself. truly it is a time to be born to be dead in!
>>4277731
NG kill themselves by the dozens attempting to act as living cannonballs. It is not good. However, their ability to learn refrigeration is uncanny, like little maytag men they are. Moralve's borders barely budge due to what is not at all a violent culling by hitherto unknown and external forces.

Rolled 1 (1d8)

>>4277859
A bittersweet response is better than no response at all. Some TPN council members tried to convince themselves that sooner or later the BTs would give in, crack their hard exterior and learn to trust, to worship Work in unision. The more intellectual and scientific minds of Panoram, however, scoffed at that thought, knowing it to be a biological contradiction.

In the end it mattered not what the RTs thought of their mentally ill cousins, they agreed to cooperate with the space efforts and that was enough. However, Zets words did sting some members of councils and unions, both local and large, remaining in their heads long enough to affect their decision making.
Maybe he has a point.
>Dice roll for the renewal of their exterior economical policy, lower means nothing really changes, higher means they are succesful at policing contraband and such illegal actions.

>>4278469
The Jadijinese were alligned with each other, they were worshippers of labour and unity. This meant they were loyal and easy to police. But the snaller nations of Panoram would remain a melting pot of Choir members, identity-less nomads, and easily swindled buffoons. Nothing changes in Panoram, and maybe that was good, not every state should be a super power, not in the eyes of Work it seems. This lack of Jadijinese-like discipline didn't mean they lacked discipline, just that it was a different kind. This would become apparent in the CT colonies in Panoram, where the poster children of Tripod Unity, the Red Cockers, proved themselves to bridge the cultutal and economical differences between the CTs and RTs. Panoramian owned banks spring up on such territories, boosting development at the cost of being more liberal with trade. An unexpected development, but a welcome one.

Rolled 19 (1d20)

Among the Praetors of Sandstone, it becomes popular to train their bodies for combat as well as their minds. This new practice is called 'Martial Arts', and this roll determines whether the Martial Arts spreads throughout Sandstone.

>>4278732

The idea of Martial Arts becomes wildly popular among the Stitchers of Sandstone even with some events dedicated to showing off their Martial Arts prowess.

Rolled 5, 6 = 11 (2d8)

The CG had submersibles for quite some time, but most detect their surroundings using only visual cues (thanks to portholes), or not at all (such as the Serie 9 underwater locomotives, which zip about tracks on the seafloor. This is not very effective, and several thinkers start developing ways to sense things underwater. Some others decide to improve the length and quality of submarine trips, since perishable foodstuffs tend to spoil quickly in the steamy and cramped subs.

>Rolling 2d8 for Radar/Sonar and Referigeration

>>4278735
>>4278732
S''''kkkkkkkkkkkkkk, a minor Sandstone writer documents the philosophy of Praet'k, fight-art:
Its greatness is derived from the fact that it's done in pairs, among stitchers, with nothing else but stitchers, and with a mutual coercive force to defend and attack. It is thus fundamentally even, fundamentally stitcher, and fundamentally free of freedom. It is the most pure form of existance. While the last point is debated, it is agreed that this makes Praet'k a form of life which is further away from wretched uneven nature and closer to pure stitcherdom. As such, it becomes an enforced part of stitcher life in house sandstone, not only amongst praetors but all stitchers.

In a note to his "treaties on the necessity of bonking other stitchers on the head", S''''kkkkkkkkkkkkkk laments that the original manuscripts of the unknown inventor of Praet'k are strangely barren, telling of nothing but that there would be a "Martial Arts" and that that is "a thing that happens". The anonymous writer is dubbed ''e'ko, after the stitcher word for laconic wit and posthumously sentenced to death.

>>4278795
An anecdote:
During the height of the Praet'k popularity, one undefeated champion by the name of P'k't was once interviewed by a lesser house's patriarch-matriarch pair.
"P'k't! How are you winning these matches, even though you are not a Praetor?" It is true that P'k't was an ordinary Stitcher, and not of the Praetor or Weaver castes.
"So it may be, honored pair. I am merely skilled in Praet'k."
"It is true that you are fierce in the circle, but my children owns a fierce dueling Tourmaline. Could it defeat a Pterrortail in battle?"
"It depends, honored pair. Does the Tourmaline know Praet'k?"
"Champion P'k't, a Tourmaline cannot learn Praet'k."
"Well, don't tell the Tourmaline that, it might just learn it and defeat the Pterrortail in a single blow."

Rolled 5, 7 = 12 (2d8)

>>4277646
rolling for PG radio and advanced biochemistry.

Rolled 3, 6 = 9 (2d8)

>>4277057
rolling twice for satellites for stitchers

Rolled 8, 6 = 14 (2d8)

RTs decide to resume their double-focus research on spaceflight. The Rocket Sled team looks into ways to reduce the strain the g-forces put on the astronauts, devising potential engines and reinforced cockpits, then shoving NG volunteers into said prototypes. Meanwhile, a second team tackles the issue by reviewing their newly acquired Zaibatsu SSO prototypes, reverse engineering their structure and building on top of whatever data they may acquire.

File: Modern CivEvo Tech Table.pdf (1.67 MB, PDF)

1.67 MB PDF

--CivEvo Progress Report--
It has been 12 years since the Silent Decade. Technological breakthroughs have been seen across the board. For the Grabraf, most change has come from the PG in their increased colonization efforts as of late, and the CG nation, The Subter Empire being reborn under a new ruler. The Tripods, further establishing their superiority, have made strides in diplomatic cohesion, as each race now aims for the star respectively. All the while, the Stitcher have completed their first manned mission into space.

(Tier 6) Age of Invention [Tech Limit for NG, FG, PG & CG]
Atomic Theory (Need Scientific Theory)
Ballistics (Need Rifling)
Combustion Engine (Need Steam Power & Industrialization)
Electricity (Need Industrialization)
Flight (Need Combustion Engine)
Plastics (Need Industrialization)
Radio (Need Telegraph)
Refrigeration (Need Electricity)

(Tier 7) Atomic Age [Tech Limit for TG, CT & Voltanites]
Advanced Ballistics (Need Ballistics & Advanced Flight)
Advanced Flight (Need Flight)
Computer (Need Radio & Synthetic Materials)
Electromagnetisms (Need Atomic Theory & Electricity)
Nuclear Physics (Need Atomic Theory)
Radar/Sonar (Need Radio)
Rocketry (Need Advanced Flight)
Satellites (Need Rocketry & Synthetic Materials)
Synthetic Materials (Need Plastics)

(Tier 8) Information Age
Ecology (Need Biology & Taxonomy)
Genetics (Need Atomic Theory & Biology)
Internet (Need Computer & Satellites)
Lasers (Need Advanced Ballistics & Synthetic Materials)
Nanotechnology (Need Synthetic Materials)
Quantum Physics (Need Nuclear Physics)
Space Flight (Need Rocketry & Transistors)
Transistors (Need Electromagnetism)

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make up to 2 rolls for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period
• A poster ID may make up to 3 cultural related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 5 or higher of a 1d8 roll (NG rolls must be a 6 or higher) to successfully implement/learn a new technology (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll (7 or higher for NG)
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)

>>4279061
After what seemed like centuries, the RTs test launches pay off. A brave NG by the name of Lae'kai is the first living astronaut to survive reentry after orbital flight (her path calculated to avoid any accidental meetings with a certain space probe.) She defitinely wasn't the first NG to be stuffed into a rocket, though.

Meanwhile, Team Bs efforts pay off, albeit minimally. SSOs were still a long shot. The RTs revised data is shared with the Zaibatsu, alongside a shipment of what would eventually become limited edition Zaibatsu canned meat.

Rolled 3 (1d3)

>>4279078
Just a few additional notes, before I depart again.

• The Tech Chart Update above is accurately updated prior to this most recent post (>>4279061) that I simply missed while preparing it.
• Certain technologies that did have a successful roll, were relegated to prerequisite requirements (Like the Satellites for Stitcher), or just not accepted (Radar/Sonar for CG) since said races have yet to have the require Technologies or Technological Level to produce these items under my (admittedly vague) guidelines
• The latest political maps have been updated and can be seen here. [imgur(.)com/a/6MEQ9tq]
• Either later this evening (my timezone) or tomorrow, I will be posting the first regional event that will pertain to the either the Grabraf [1], Tripod [2] or Stitcher [3].

That's all folks.

Rolled 4, 3 = 7 (2d8)

The stitchers attempt to refine their miniaturization techniques(arms making smaller arms making smaller arms making ever smaller arms...) that they developed back during the silent decade.
At the same time, other stitchers reason that since a stitcher can predict what is going to happen with certain degree of accuracy and a bio-computer is based on the stitcher brain, it should be fully possible to make a computer that makes educated guesses of future events.
Rolling for miniaturization mk2 and for predictive neural networks

>>4278952
In the mountains, communication is at a premium. The clans of Tulzan have long built on a decentralized organizational structure since sometimes harsh winters can completely cut off parts of the federation for months. All this changes with the advent of the radio. Suddenly the clans can communicate over the peaks of the mountains, and this facilitates a potential change in governance. (rolling for centralization efforts. low means even less cohesion, high means more centralization)

Meanwhile the scientists in Nekonahu (increasingly religious men called 'Keepers of Change', a play on the Keepers of the Flame of old) have started a new branch of medical science: Performance enhancing stimulants. From steroids to Amphetamines, from focus enhancing drugs to sleeping pills, the production of such drugs starts a new industry, exporting amphetamines to the Castigars and Xerho, attention focusing drugs to the Thikning Grabrafs and all manner of degenerate stuff to the Subter empire

>>4279004
After an attempt to shoot a spaceball into orbit, a weaver is confused as he finds himself with a propelsion engine based on the pushing out of burnt gas from one end.

>>4279116
>>4279116
Cultural: TRIPODS IN Spaaaaaace
The venerable Chongus sat at a new space port within Zutsuil territory, far from its normal grounds. The bay was a long idellic stretch of water, perfectly suitable for the sea plane. Years ago raw metal had begun to give way to white ceramic tile, or exotic thermally resistant paste like paints. Various markings, mission heraldry, crew graffiti and hash dots adorned it's cavernous insides. This was likely it's last space mission, the newer generation of craft were well underway, and sported not only modern equipment but modern materials and construction concepts.

Nuclear thermojets hammered to life and propelled the craft, laden heavy with fuel, equipment, supplies, and a minimal crew. 5 Kilograms of precious salhetite was kept in reserve near a hungry nuclear reactor, should such an emergency arise as to need the precious commodity to boost output. The older generation of it's design offered reduced shielding, efficency, and increased heat waste, but what it lacked for in charm it made up for in raw output. Exotic fuel from the Zaibatsu's refineries heated and expanded as it passed through corrosion resistant piping in the heart of the reactor.

In the flight deck, the crew was a first; a mix of Panoramians, Omir'ten, and Zaibatsu. All past their prime, but willing to accept the risks for the glory of their house, kith, or clan. Their mission was simple, establish long term contact with the orbital contact, and provide sustained relay to the control stations below.
---
Cultural: The Castigars

Di'tan stood for an hour; black armor pitted, rusted, growling hydraulics making an elderly commander battle ready. Rain cut rivulets into accumulated dust from an early morning march. His heirs; a son who had witnesses something profound, and a wayward, self made daughter. Each commanded a company of fresh troops, mostly barely over the cusp of youth and into adolescence. Field drills went well, the old man was pleased, the commands simple. Each company would send forward 10 troops to spar with Di'tan. In the mist and haze, the iron clad figure was something of a legend and a monster as much a hero, smoke wafted from his powered armor like a black cape, heavy and foul.

He never moved forward. The young troops looked to their commanders in confusion. This was a test beyond their understanding. The children of Di'tan approached their father to find out his meaning, only to discover he had died on his feet...

...The funeral lasted for weeks, vows of duty, kinship, and loyalty to the empire renewed from within and without. A new strategic policy was taking shape quickly. Di'tan's son vowed vengeance against the voltanites, Y'ler would seem the brought into the fold. Blood, Material, Academi.
-----
Rolling for the performance of the Chongus and its interaction with the object.
Rolling for the decision between Death (low) and Glory (high)

Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d8)

>>4279384
dice for the dice throne. old memes for the meme lords.

>>4279399
based dice gods

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Rolled 7, 5 = 12 (2d8)

>>4279384
>>4279399
Behold, the might of QM Intervention

PG roll for atomic theory and refrigeration as they attempt to keep up with the other nations.

Rolled 1, 6 = 7 (2d8)

>>4279455

Rolled 6, 2, 6, 4 = 18 (4d8)

>CT: NFC, Strip mining
Mech technology had been stagnating ever since the end of the silent decade, with its last significant development being the RC units. A main issue for the CTs was the heavy reliance on cables, which made the process of mounting the Mechs very clunky and slow. Near Field Communications are imvestigated in hopes of providing a simple alternative to both cables and the unreliable already existing wireless tech.

Meanwhile in Foltania, industrial planners look into ways of speeding up the extraction of minerals using heavy machinery and mechas.

>BTs: Magnetic Tape, Transistors
The Ozasari, alongside their crew of totally-not-kidnapped foreign tripods and NGs continue their self-fullfilled prophecy. With theoretical predictive computer already achieved, the BTs now tackle the problem of storing information in smaller compartments. Not that room-sized computers werent cool or anything, the Ozasari Model 00 would be kept in the long run, mostly as NG apartments.

Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d8)

>NG: Rifling, Industrial Refineries (Tripod Tech)
The nomads of Konesh prepare for their holy crusade by importing large amounts of fire dart rifles, then dismantling them to figure out how they work. Hopefully they disarm them first.
Meanwhile in Moralve, their failure at not dying lead many of them to migrate into the Yaunican colony of Zutsuil, where they'd work the chemical refineries with minimal safety equipment. Perhaps a blueprint or two fall into their hands.

Rolled 5, 8, 6 = 19 (3d8)

>CT Culture Roll: The Right to Dignity.

The Trifolt Frontier, otherwise known to the CTs as Omi'Tolt, was no stranger to social unrest. The Cockies were not content with being under the watch of Jahonia, they knew the only ones who had the right to rule over CTs were the nobles of Omir'Ten. A tripod being ruled by what controversial radio stations called overgrown hurkuns was most undignified.
The Song of Wetlands —Whose Choir had been slowly growing in numbers, both CT and RT alike— did nothing but add fuel to the fire of restlessness. Their clandestine-yet-mainstream transmissions were equaly bitter to Grabrafs and CTs. It provided the TGs a living image of how they were percieved, unruly cattle that attacked it's masters, and constantly reminded the Cockies of their unbecoming living situation.

>How does the social unrest manifiest? Higher means a full blown social outburst with violent protests, while lower means the tripods are far too demoralized to mobilize without external help.

>NG Culture Roll: The City with the Heart of Steel.

During the Silent Decade, the Nomads had made a pact that ensured they would never again be slaves to unjust masters. Their newlyfound freedom was either spent with in the nations of their new Tripod allies, or in the Moralve territory they had been granted.

But as time passed, it had become clear that NGs living as Tripod accountants had it way easier than those living in their so-called promised land. Facts were, the collection of scrap-metal shacks and poorly built huts named Skrig'Uriyah could hardly be called a city. It's poorly planned infraestructure and lack of effective public services gave it the honor of being the NG settlement with the highest mortality rates.

The brightest NG minds decided that a large scale urban planning project was needed, loans were made with the Omir'Ten and help recruited from the nearby BT and RT colonies. A city wide pipe system would be built, a massive central heating system alike to those that existed in their arks of olden days. It's hot water would keep NGs warm at night, it's steam would power their machines, a circuit of cooling pipes and waste pipes would run parallel to it. It was the most ambitious project known to Nomad-kind.

>Rolling 2 dice for how long said system would take to build, as well as how much it'd cost the NGs respectively. (Higher=Quicker/More expensive loans had to be repaid to Omir'ten. Lower=Long term proyect/lower interest rates.)

>>4280567
>>4279448
The NGs discover the secrets of Rifling, and Essari becomes slightly more dangerous to live in. Meanwhile, the Moralve NGs reverse engineer the tripodian refineries with moderate success, and slowly but steadily begin production of bleach and amonia. Their pleather jackets and quilts have never been cleaner.

Rolled 1 (1d8)

>>4277511
>RT Culture Roll: Global Genesis Emragelion

There had never been a better time for a Tripod to be a biologist. The successful extraction and isolation of specimen EmB-00 revitalized tripod interest in the Emraic sciences. Funding was secured for further research missions in the Borealis Outpost, while the procuring of parallel tissue samples from continental AA-Nodes was comissioned as well.
Something was happening to Essari, and it was up to the scientists of Panoram to find out what it was.

>Rolling to see if Libby bothers to explain why the AA-nodes keep expanding. Er, I mean, for the Tripods to continue unearthing the secrets of emra.

Rolled 1 (1d8)

>>4277060

>>4277311
The Kiripenti Colony expands towards Skrig'Uriyah, aiming to surround them and preventing them from spreading like the vermin they are.

>>4279384
>>4279399
Chongus was destroyed that morning. It rushed down the bay towards open ocean, and taking loft with impossible grace. Nuclear engines pushed the white craft higher and higher, before hypergolic fuel was injected into the reactor's cooling lines prior to combustion.

Several rather small and simple gaskets failed in response to the corrosive fuel, and conflict between sub zero and superheated temperatures. A lesser house who had been involved in the Chonus project over two decades ago had subcontracted to an Ozasari warehouse for gaskets of a correct material that could be machined to the specifications needed. The truth was they were out of spec, the wrong material, and had expired with no maintenance preformed on the unique and undocumented sections of the craft.

Within seconds fuel was burning through alloy and plastics, starting metal fueled fire. Moments after that the reactor breached, started a pyrophoric meltdown, the nuclear engines went into asymmetric thrust and the craft began tearing itself apart. the crew were already liquified against the window of the ship and ground control could not recover the beast. A small escape capsule fired, attempting to save the precious salhetite cargo. The best analog computers the zaibatsu had to offer would guide it to safety.
---
Traj'Tan had fully taken his father's place as leader of the empire. Grey, dull, shaggy plumage and a long beak marked him as proginy of Di'tan, and a old lineage of the empire. His will was iron, and it bound Y'ler's skill in absolute unity.

As sure as they were the get of Xerho, he had seen the lady and her miracles with his own eyes. The legion would bring the plains to heel, not out of love for her, but out of the camaraderie she had inspired, and the blood debts shared and honored. They would need land forces. Y'ler and her consort were tasked with acting as diplomat, brining the message of why, and what must be done.
>>4279459
PG atomic theory is snuffed out by what was obviously accident. The city states of the TG were doing field testing of their cannon fired atomics when the entire research team who was also in that same area was vaporized. On the upside, cheese and food storage has never been better, with refrigerators enabling the merchant princes to stockpile untold volumes of food, and "Deep freezing" cheese to further assure their debts.
>>4280498
NFC was indeed a dramatic improvement over the mechs who quickly shed weight in mass retrofits, becoming more reliable and responsive. Strip mining was largely ignored due to the space race.
--
The Ozasari's magnetic tape was a success, and they sold bawdy novels far and wide, becoming the first peddlers of smut on essari. congratulations guys. The downside was the tape only worked three or five times, before erasing itself with accidental DRM. Truly they are the scumbags this planet deserves. Transistors were just not ready, probably because they didn't kidnap anyone who could make them.

Rolled 2, 4, 7, 4, 8, 6, 4 = 35 (7d8)

>>4280655
CT: Gang violence begins to rise like embers from bitter social kindling. Tripod lynchings become a popular spectacle, while hurkunization is on the rise. Open class conflict however is suppressed.
--
The NG borrowed with abandon, using their funds to obtain surplus ships from any nation selling them, the ships cut down on transport costs and doubled as clan homes, solving the matter of more bellicose households. The city was fueled by import activity the likes the world had not seen, so hungry for resource were the NG. Even a side industry of accepting other nation's waste was added to their efforts, even the occasional CT mech could be seen assisting in heavy lifting. The Iron city was born.
>>4280697
beautiful.
>>4280961
rolling for the trajectory of the salhetite core.
1-Exploded in the disaster, temporarily creating a miniature sun and irradiating Zutsuil.
2-3 dumps itself over Eys’dra Confederation.
4-5 returns to the zaibatsu.
6-7 falls into sandstone territory, intact.
8-embedded itself into the side of the Specter satelite.
---
rolling for the diplomatic response of the other nations to the Castigars.
The message was simple, push the voltanites out of Sujardin, unite under a common alliance. Retain your independence as a state, and only contribute Blood, material, and Academi to the new standing military. The standing military would never be used against the member states of Sujardin, and only used for war or civic engineering in times of peace. Each nation was welcome to maintain its own military for its own ends, to include war within sujardin on fellow members of the alliance. What was asked was so little. The alternative was war with the Castigars, and likely the lady's host.
(other players are more than welcome to represent the other nations, requests and demands can be made, such as assurances of protection and non aggression pacts.)

Nekonahu, Clans of Tuzan, SoX, Tou’ban Republic, Xerhonoke, Goltona Republic,
---
Emmisaries from the tripods visited the embattled NG nation on Sujardin, shocked to see the condition of the diminutive creatures, many had become feral, committing atrocities that were expected of a PG. Repeated offers were made to relocate the colony to Moralve.
(requesting response from the Sujardin NG player)

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Rolled 5, 5 = 10 (2d8)

>>4280741
For a period of 2 days, the Borealis outpost experienced a "blip" in communications, but returned to normal operation quickly, citing harsh weather as the reason for the loss of comms. Over the following few months, scientist morale at the station was seen to undergo a gradual 300% increase, and the amount of research done on both EmB-00 and on other arctic phenomena has seen a 350% increase, with more samples being sent back to Panoram than ever before.
The scientists back at home, presumably due to excitement over the new finds, have also increased their productivity by over 300%, and made numerous advances in the fields of plastics, engineering and food additives derived from the observation of braffberg tissue, which they urged be put to practical use as soon as possible.
The government only realized something was amiss when they checked the records and found the outpost hasn't been making requests for supplies for the last three months, despite not having any ways of producing their own. A group of investigators were sent to make sure everything's running alright at the outpost.
Rolling for how well the initial investigation goes, and how many scientists got taken over back at panoram(100*roll result)

Rolled 7, 2, 4, 6 = 19 (4d8)

RT tech rolls:
-food "additives"
-bionic(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionics) engineering

BT tech roll:
-shape-memory alloys

NG tech roll:
-basic neuroscience

Rolled 5, 1 = 6 (2d8)

>>4280992
Rerolling that bionic roll and also rolling for continuing their neurology research from last thread.

Rolled 6 (1d8)

>>4280992
>>4280999
The food additives quickly become a part of everyday life, their vitamin-rich and energizing presence advertised on every second box of tripod cereal(tripod cereal differs from earth cereal in that it is eaten dry). Consumers do report still feeling exhausted even after a good night's sleep every once in a while and that there's thoughts that aren't their own looking through their heads, but that doesn't matter! The additives are good for your health, for your mood, for your flesh availability, for your job, for your organism, for your wife's satisfaction, for your body and for every single other thing you can think of, so you should give the new and improved food a try!
Rolling for how many tripods got taken over in the first month after the additives hit the market(10000*roll result)
Most of the AA node structure "research" that the outpost sent turned out to be meaningless word salad meant to look smart and divert attention, but the pictures of node cutaways and roentgen screenings of EmB-00 DID give the RT engineers something to work with. It wasn't much, but they did end up with a plan for a revised sewer system based on a node's inner capillary structures.

Rolled 1, 3 = 4 (2d8)

>>4281006
>>4280965
The failure of the Chongus was dissapointing to say the least, but the loss of the salhetite payload was worse. The mixed crew, regrettable. In many ways.

In stark contrast to the forward looking Chongus, its sister ship the Chungus sat in murkey and polluted bay, a storm on the horizon blending into the toxic smoke and clouds above. Affectionately known as "Big Chungus" for its oversized cargobay modifications and mild frame stretch. The craft had none of the re-entry capability of it's sibling, for there was no plan for it to come back. The yellowed metal alloy of the craft was coated in a fine layer of grease and filth, distinctly Zaibatsu avionics and communication features studded it's skin like barnacles.

Several stitcher like pods were obtained off the grey market, acting as escape capsules should the need arise, but even then there were not enough for the unusually large crew. Not only was Chungus not coming down, neither was it's crew. Materials would be supplied as needed, though they had limited ability to sustain themselves thanks to technology from Zutsuil. Empty fuel cells would be refurbished in orbit to make for work and living quarters.

It was time for flight. The weathered machine was not a PR peice, no effort was made to mask the radioactive exhaust plumes as it tore down the bay. Local geigercounters alerted the working population to don breathing protection and wash thoroughly, it was not an unusual procedure for them. Zet watched the flare, a small dot from his viewing deck. With reccent reports of infection from the Panoramians, the exodus had to accelerate. If the sentinel was useful, it may be exactly what was needed.

(while not needing to roll, lets roll because disaster can be fun.)
Rolling for how well ascent to orbit goes, and how initial interactions and "docking" with the Sentinel go.

File: Modern CivEvo Tech Table.pdf (1.68 MB, PDF)

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--CivEvo Progress Report--
25 years have passed since the Silent Decade. The Plains Grabaf have finally progressed into Atomic Age technologies, as the NG begin to swiftly advance their societies through technological imports. The Tripods have progressed in their Space Flight knowledge, only to flounder at the launchpad with the destruction of the Chongus.

(Tier 6) Age of Invention [Tech Limit for NG, FG & CG]
Atomic Theory (Need Scientific Theory)
Ballistics (Need Rifling)
Combustion Engine (Need Steam Power & Industrialization)
Electricity (Need Industrialization)
Flight (Need Combustion Engine)
Plastics (Need Industrialization)
Radio (Need Telegraph)
Refrigeration (Need Electricity)

(Tier 7) Atomic Age [Tech Limit for TG, PG, CT & Voltanites]
Advanced Ballistics (Need Ballistics & Advanced Flight)
Advanced Flight (Need Flight)
Computer (Need Radio & Synthetic Materials)
Electromagnetisms (Need Atomic Theory & Electricity)
Nuclear Physics (Need Atomic Theory)
Radar/Sonar (Need Radio)
Rocketry (Need Advanced Flight)
Satellites (Need Rocketry & Synthetic Materials)
Synthetic Materials (Need Plastics)

(Tier 8) Information Age
Ecology (Need Biology & Taxonomy)
Genetics (Need Atomic Theory & Biology)
Internet (Need Computer & Satellites)
Lasers (Need Advanced Ballistics & Synthetic Materials)
Nanotechnology (Need Synthetic Materials)
Quantum Physics (Need Nuclear Physics)
Space Flight (Need Rocketry & Transistors)
Transistors (Need Electromagnetism)

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make up to 2 rolls for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period
• A poster ID may make up to 3 cultural related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 5 or higher of a 1d8 roll (NG rolls must be a 6 or higher) to successfully implement/learn a new technology (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll (7 or higher for NG)
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)

>>4281163
--Additional Sapient Technology Notes--
• Due in part to the further intricacies of international relations. Technologies known from another race Tier 6 or lower may now be learned by another race, requiring a 5 or higher (This does not apply to Technologies known by the FG)
• Those races that are missing technologies from Tier 5 or lower now only need to roll a 3 or higher (4 or higher for NG) of a 1d8 to learn said technologies.

--Unlearned Technologies [Tier 5 and Lower]--
Nomad Grabraf: Steam Power, Taxonomy, Telegraph
Plains Grabraf: Sanitation, Taxonomy
----------------------------------------

Now onto some QM replies to events [Post 1/2]
>>4280655
>CT Culture Roll: The Right to Dignity
Protests over the Jahonian Hegemony of Omi'Tolt would become a tense affair in the Foltanian colony for the years to come. While outright violence was rare in these protests, incidents where civilian Grabraf or Tripod would be assaulted or even murdered. Such events played out multiple times, but never escalating to more than a isolated incidents ultimately. The displeasure of the CT and Choir evangelists towards the Grabraf, would steadily result in an increase militant presence within the colony as Jahonia makes strides to reinforce their autonomy, while behind the scenes seeking more diplomatics avenues of appeasement with the Omir'ten Kingdom itself, as well as the sprouting protesting factions.

>>4281259
QM replies to events [Post 2/2]

>>4280965
>PG Culture Roll: Castigarian Diplomacy
Castigarian Diplomats are received quite pleasantly across the board. Many PG-nations have already come to regard the Castigarian Empire quite warmly, politically and economically. Almost every nation openly accepted the idea of the alliance with the Castigarian Empire, but the subject of expelling the Voltanite Empire from Sujardin were met with mixed appeals. The SoX was particularly fond of the idea, in part due to their fervent desire to reclaim annexed lands and to war with "an equal to their military might". The Tou'ban Republic was extremely pro to the idea, mostly due to their nation small borders, and their still recovering economy and military being held economically hostage by the Voltanite Empire's financial support. Xerhonoke would also agree to join the alliance, however their answer to the Voltanite Empire expelling would be countered with the proposal of union that would stymie the continued expansion of the antagonistic empire. As for Nekonahu, the Goltona Republic and the Clans of Tuzan, they would each turn down the offer the military alliance against the Voltanites. Nekonahu declined on the grounds of their strong economic and diplomatic ties with the country, choosing to instead off their economic assets in supporting the proposed union the Castigarians desired. Goltona declined on the grounds of their disdain toward being drawn into another potential conflict with nations responsible for the desecration of their lands in the last war. Then their were the Clans of Tuzan that turned down the offer purely due to their interests being invested elsewhere in their next planned invasion of Ostralja.

Each of the Castigarian diplomats would return, each bringing news to Traj'tan that each of the visited states had partially, if not entirely agreed to an alliance, militarily or diplomatically. With this Traj'tan had laid out the ground work for new Union of nations in Sujardin, whose combined might may indeed surpass the Voltanite Empire itself.

Rolled 3 (1d8)

The Panoramians had offered Zaibatsu the chance of launching their vessels first, under the condition of including a team of Panoramians and Nihiloramians within their crews, meant to establish the Second Contact jointly with the BTs.

This was due to preparations for the latest series of rocket sled rails and spaceshit cockpits —specifically designed to interact with the Foreign Orbital Object, as they had called it,— had been slightly delayed due to comm compliactions with the Naa`pam scientific team in central Panoram. As well as the Jadijinese goverment's sudden focus shift on halting the comercialization of illegal food additives inside the TPN.

However, the Bloodthroats repeated failures had bought them enough them enough time for the assembly of models 00 to 03 to finish, and now it was time for the Inti 00 to launch.

It's cockpit was compact, most of it's size was occupied by dense layers of material meant to neutralize the G-Forces and Heat, hopefully stopping the cosmonauts from becoming warm plates of tripod soup. This meant that the crew was small, a trio of brave heroes formed of two RTs, and a backup NG astronaut whose small frame was more fit to survive the physical strains of atmospheric exit and reentry, in case the shield systems failed.

The launch was to be televised, but a perimeter forbidding the entry of non-personnel was established around the magrail, there would be no live audience aside from the scientists and military.

>Rolling for how well the mission goes.

Rolled 6 (1d8)

>>4281270
Second culture roll it is

Rolled 2 (1d8)

>>4281271
>>4281270
Unit 00 had it's trayectory shifted, landing into an unknown destination, albeit safetly

>Arbitrary roll because I enjoy suffering:
>1: Shatturne
>2: Jobani or Brouldia
>3: Moralve
>4: Sujardin
>5: Nihiloram
>6: Foltania
>7: Sujardin
>8: Torray

As soon as the deviation in the first model's path had been detected, unit 01 was launched, this time without any complications

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Rolled 1, 8 = 9 (2d8)

>>4281270
Rolling to see if any of the crewmembers smuggled any Boreo(tm) cookies onboard
Also rolling for further spread on Panoram, same rules as before

Rolled 3, 1, 3, 1 = 8 (4d8)

>>4281163
CG scientists had previously theoretized a way for their submarines to sense the seafloor better using sound, but were stymied in the practical application - none of their experimental models could transfer sound properly between the airgapped hulls. One of them, though, had just returned from Zaibatsu lands, and had seen a technology that transmits sound over air gaps - how could the CG replicate this 'radio' thing?

A dissatisfied former Blue Brotherhood member and expert demolitionist, Grooti JaHooti had a lot of enemies in the Subter Commonwealth. Not only the ruling Red Royals declared the Blue Brotherhoods a forbidden party, he is also targeted by the Black-and-Yellows as well. I guess blowing up that BnY smuggling warehouse while RR cops raided it was a mistake, apparently? So that's how Grooti became a wanted man in the Subter Commonwealth. Luckily he had enough connections to smuggle himself out, and this is how he found himself in a cargo train headed to Huzduk. But it isn't far enough... and he'd need to go somewhere else.

>Rolling: 1d8 for CG radio tech, 1d8 for Grooti's trip complications (low good, high bad), 1d8 for Grooti's pursuers (low means only a few bounty hunters, high means a lot of bounty hunters), and 1d8 for Grooti's next destination (1: NG lands, 2: Stitcher colonies, 3: TG city-states, 4: Xerhonoke, 5: Zaibatsu colonies, 6: Voltanite colonies, 7: Verdo'ya floating islands, 8: Panoramian Tripod states

>>4281329
The CG scientist gives up after trying to reverse engineer an Ozarasi-made radio - thinking all Tripod manufacturing the same, only to discover a midget NG making radio noises inside. The NG fled before the scientist could question them.

Grooti is lucky that the initial trip to Huzduk was incident-free, however, as he arrived on Huzduk he received a telegram from his Blue Brotherhood comrades that two bounty hunter teams have set in pursuit. One hired by the Red Royals, consisting of three ex-Yekto Knight veterans, while the other is an odd mix of a NG berserker, a Jahonian PG zealot, and a pair of ex-Whitestone sneaky Stitchers hired by the Black-and-Yellows. In a panic Grooti decided to go to the Voltanite colonies... but snuck on the wrong smuggling boat. It was when a cacophony of NG hooting was heard that Grooti knew, he fucked up. The ship was hijacked by NGs, and sailed to Ostralja - and he was held captive by the NGs for some time. (If anyone wants to shake Grooti's life about, be my guest)

Rolled 5, 8, 2 = 15 (3d8)

--Stitcher Event: A House Divided--
The Whitestone Empire had endured many decades of tribulations that in spite of its marvel of scientific progression, surpassing even the damnable Dark Elves in some regards. Having to endure the loss of 2 in every 5 Stitcher nevertheless left great scars on the White Stitcher, with even more castrated, or permanently separated from their mating pair (Due to Genophage, Electrocutions, Public Floggings for not be perfectly white or even, Etc.) The great revitalization of the Whitestone Empire in recent years had helped to boost the appeal for the Immortal Emperor-Empress Pair, however the sentiment of the Whitestone Foltanian Colonies were different.

In the Eastern Foltania, a White Stitcher weaver and philosopher by the name of Pa'li"tk had been born in House Opal, in the great city of T'kbee. In his youth Pa'li"tk visited the Sandstone Monasteries of I'eek, where he had participated as an observer in their great philosophical debates where the White Stitcher found a unique kinship with the Orthodoxy Stitcher. As Pa'li"tk matured into his role as a weaver in T'kbee he began sharing his now developed philosophy with his brethren, making wild claims of a more permanent union with the dark-skinned Stitcher of the Crystal Orthodoxy, of which he would go further to point out they shared the same blood and ancestral home in the Torray Isles with. He proclaims bold ideas of new hierarchy that utilizes more efficiently the individual noble pairs that run each House, and even a caste system that is even, if not equal to all Stitcher, Black or White. The idyllic union would be a single nation, under a single House, whole and even in the union of the Black and White Stitcher, as all tenets of life should be.

Of course, Pa'li"tk was punished often with electrocutions and public floggings, but the intrepid weaver persisted, even managing to spread his ideology to Feldspar and Gypsum, as well a gaining a steady following in House Opal. The idyllic screeching of Pa'li"tk's ideals echoed through the cities at night. A repeating of an appalling statement:
>"Whitestone and the Orthodoxy are Houses Divided, Uneven and Heretical in separation."

This phrase was finally the breaking of the Jewol's back, and an Inquisitional Force was dispatched to the colonies to once and for all purge Pa'li"tk and the "real heretics" The White Weaver and his closest disciples fled to the Foltanian Duality Lands, but would be inevitably caught and killed. Their ideology would live on, sending ripples through all of Foltania's houses.

--Stitcher Event Rolls (3)--
First roll to determine how prevalent the ideology spreads through Foltanian House of the Whitestone Empire. Second roll is for how much the ideology spreads through the Foltanian Houses of The Crystal Orthodoxy. Third roll is how likely the ideology is to incite societal unrest overtime. (Low = Major Unrest Potential, High = Little Impact on Society)

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Rolled 1, 8 = 9 (2d8)

>>4277455
As the freaks grow ever larger, so too their crystal output grows; but at a certain point, a single freak will experience diminishing returns, it's surface area and number of teats growing slower than it's mass and upkeep cost. Thus, it is decided to "breed" freaks, by cutting their bodies lengthwise and letting them regenerate into more freaks. This is essentially a process than causes one freak to become two, and thus become even; because of this, many stitchers idolize the majestic creatures, and willingly undergo serum injection or inject their pups with it.
Rolling for getting more freaks, through splitting existing ones and through making new ones respectively

Rolled 7, 4, 5, 8 = 24 (4d8)

>>4281351
To the Huzduk, none of this is known (even though a band of completely roided up misfits, NGs, PGs, even two stitchers, were held up on the border, and three of them shot as they only could pay toll for two). All they see is that Ostralja has hijacked one of their ships.

They send out four telegrams: One to Ostralja, explaining that they will need the ship back, and a reparation payment in the order of magnitude of a year's worth of Ostralja's economic output, or be declared war on.

The second telegram is to the trade princes in nekonahu, explaining to them that as a minting entity, they are planing to start an economic action (war) and inquiring on whether other trade princes want to join in.

To the Subter Empire, now friendly with Huzduk, another request for aid, more formally and less economically focused, is sent.

And lastly, a proposition is sent to the clans of Tulzan that, should the NG not pay their reparations, a partition of Ostralja land between Huzduk and Tulzan could be brought about.

>If anybody feels like playing the other factions, go for it, I will roll just in case

>>4281588
The NGs refuse to all terms, then burn the hijacked ship just to spite the CGs

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>>4281588
>8 on the Tulzans

>>4281656
In response to the NG's action (>>4281656), The Huzduk, backed financially by some Nekonahu trade princes and in manpower by the Subter Empire (for said finance) start shipping troops to Nagach where a great tunneling begins, multiple great paths to go under Ostralaja. Meanwhile, the clans of Tulzan reinforce the old defensive lines from the Very Strange War.

This is intended to be kept secret. First roll is for tunneling, second for secrecy.

Rolled 4, 3 = 7 (2d8)

>>4281684
forgot rolls. Depending on the second roll, the NGs might no nothing of this

>>4281686
The tunneling goes pretty so-so. Even though the CG are experts at this and do it proficiently, with excellent tools, including the new time-saving escalators, they are not used to the soft ground here and many cave ins happen after the mountains are left behind. While the tunnels do bring troops into Ostralaja, behind the defensive lines, the many cave ins alert the NG who shift their troops from border defense into the heartland.

Rolled 1, 4 = 5 (2d8)

>>4281690
The NGs, knowing well their provocation would entail an armed conflict sooner or later, begin rallying their troops, stationing them in strategic defensive posts around the city.

(Considering the nature of NGs, im guessing they only have one city in this colony, right?.)

The tripod skeleton crew assigned to Ostralja are excited when they are informed of the current situation, life in Sujardin had been uneventful and filled with boredom so far. Panoram, Omir'ten, and Zaibatsu are contacted via radio. Eager to shed blood, they board decomissioned CT watch-balloons which had been intended to defend Omi'tolt, but sadly didn't reach it in time before the Kholeskan Coup'detat. There, they ready their long-range scoped fire darts, and wait for action to begin. Many piss jars will be filled, glorious amonia.
>Two rolls, first determines the battle readiness of the NGs, second how much support is sent by the tripods. (A subsequent roll will be made to determine from which factions it comes from.)

Rolled 5, 8 = 13 (2d8)

>>4281722
For the CG, war is normally an inherently guierilla affair - literal "underground" fighters fighting other underground fighters. As such, they burry in, construct traps and spread out their troops, all the while building tunnels. A slow and cautious way to wage war. Hearing of Tripod aid, they also set up airial mines as is custom.

The Tuzans on the other hand, extatic that their old prey is finally laid bear, and gruntled by the complete lack of battle readiness on the NG side, crash into the country like wildfire, beyond the defensive perimeter set up by the Huzduk.

Each army gets a 1d8

Rolled 2 (1d8)

>>4281588
>>4281656
The Ostraljans have kept Grooti locked up in a prison for about a week now. They still give him food and water, and Grooti wondered why they didn't just kill him outright. Is it ransom? No, the Blue Brotherhood is too fractured to pay, and the Red Royals will be content to let him rot in an NG prison. At the seventh day of his incarceration, it became clear to him why he was kept. A buffed-up NG in a suit of armor with a checker pattern visited him in his cell. The NG warlord spoke in rapid Huzduk trade lingo, of which Grooti knows.
"You, cave-kin Grooti! You know how make boom?" The warlord asks.
"Yes, why do you ask?" Grooti answered.
"Good, good. You teach us how make boom, we let cave-kin live good."
"How did you know my na-"
"Cave-kin Grooti, smuggler talk good at making boom. Cave-kin Black Yellow smuggler even tell which ship Grooti on. Us need to make boom, boom quick and boom good."
"A-and if I refuse?" Grooti gulped.
"Then cave-kin Grooti, go into sea no boat, rope all around, wear scrap armor, no air. So, Grooti teach how make boom?"
Grooti sighs. "Fiiiine, but you better have good gunpowder and chemicals."

>Rolling for NG advanced explosives

Rolled 6, 8 = 14 (2d8)

Rolling for rockets and solid-fuel rockets for CG.

>>4282458
AA rocket-batteries start being rapidly produced by the CG to make any Tripod intervention unattractive.

>>4282455
Apparently Grooti doesn't trust the NG warlord even one bit, because after some time trying to teach the NGs how to make better explosives, he just blew up his prison and shackles with what few chemicals he was allowed access to. Feathers lightly singed, he escaped into the night only to run across a Tuzan raiding party that miraculously spared him, but ended up being captured instead...

Rolled 3, 2, 5, 3 = 13 (4d8)

>>4282416
>Turn 2, part 1
The first line of NGs scatters quickly and regroups as reports of Tuzan hordes advancing through the line reach them. They form a living barrier of thousands of NGs, protected by small improvised trenches and sand sack pallisades. Here, they ready their rifles to fend off the Tuzans, and should any of them come close enough, prepare their simbiotes to 'impale' mode.
>Rolling for the effectiveness of such regrouping.

>Also the rolls to see how the aid that has now reached Sujardin is distributed, in order its RT, BT, CT

>>4282499
The Zaibatsu, due to their relative closeness to Sujardin, as well as their intentions to keep their pact with the NGs, provide the most support. However the treaty states that Nomads are only protected in Moralve, and so Zet has only dispatched 1 antique high altitude airship, which is stationed in the coasts. This will save as many as it can NGs if they need to retreat. The BT vessel brandishes weapons that will only be used to defend itself.

The RT and CT response is similar, as they aren't particulary thrilled to help these stubborn NGs after they refused to relocate their settlement to Moralve.

Omir'ten sends a shipment of decomissiomed equipment retrieved from Omi'tolt, the Seeker bots designed to blow up stitchers, and the modified AA turrets meant to be used as city cannons.

A few technicians are sent to set them up, as well as 5 small war pulsejet vessels meant to escort their shipment, and maybe blow up the air mines with their guns.

Lastly, the RTs send only a small fleet of unused airships, mildy succesful prototypes built during the silent decade that were fitted with modified pulsejet engines and steel plating. These had gathered dust by now, and have never been deployed outside of military drills.

Rolled 6, 2, 4, 3 = 15 (4d8)

>>4280987
Only three out of ten investigators returned - and a month later at that, on a makeshift raft rather than their boat. A series of interviews with the survivors was conducted, and one of them will be provided below.

INTERVIEWER: Dr. Kana Dehmarr
INTERVIEWED: [REDACTED AS PER WITNESS PROTECTION PROTOCOLS]
Dr. Dehmarr: Good evening, [REDACTED], it's Dr. Dehmarr, back for another interview.
[REDACTED]: Ok ok, just make it quick.
Dr. Dehmarr: What's with this obsession with brevity? The last two times we've talked, you also requested the interview to end early. Is it related to what you found at the outpost?
[REDACTED]: Yes! I didn't have the time to say it last time, but the, the [TOP SECRET] wasn't the only thing we found out about this thing. When we, we uh - were back at the boat, [REDACTED] had to use the breathalyzer and - there were spores in his breath. He seemed so surprised, even as his head- his head... urgh. [subject pukes at this time] The-the thing is, the infected, I don't think they know they ARE infected, even though their brain's gone by now...
Dr. Dehmarr: I don't understand what this has to do with shortening the interviews.
[REDACTED]: I-I think I'm it. With how long you've spent with me, I think YOU'RE it, too.
Dr. Dehmarr: That's nonsense. Hey, guard, what's your name? Do you have a breathalyzer? I'm gonna prove we don't need to cut the interviews short just because of some weird hangup!
[REDACTED]:No... D-don't!
[Breathalyzer is used to sample Dr. Dehmarr's breath; immediately after, the camera feed cuts due to a powerful electromagnetic surge; the estimated origin point of the electromagnetic surge is determined to be Dr. Dehmarr's head. A hazmat crew was immediately dispatched to the chamber, and arrived 13 minutes later, finding the guard, Ket Roshima, unconscious and Dr. Dehmarr and mr. [REDACTED] attempting to [TOP SECRET] him. Both were dispatched, and autopsy revealed [TOP SECRET]. Roshima was placed in quarantine and scheduled for a biopsy.]
Rolling for how well and quickly the government reacts to the possible pandemic, how many are infested by the spores rather than by the food additives(+140000*(third roll result^2-first roll result*second roll result)), and if anyone high up in the chain of command got infected

Rolled 8 (1d8)

>>4282548
Extra roll: RTs may be using encoded radio transmissions in order to communicate about the pandemic. Does Emra intercept the transmissions, and thus realize one of it's old competitors is back at it again?

>>4282548
The quarantine is thorough, but comes way too late - a total of 700000 people had been infected by then - not that the state knows the exact number, of course. A cover story of a disease known as "Crab-17" was disseminated as the reason for the lockdown, and squads of hazmat-suited medics were dispatched to evaluate each household; if the residents showed signs of infection, they would be escorted to quarantine.
Thankfully, nobody actually important was infected; most cases were among rank-and-file tripods.

Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d8)

Stitcher rolls: predictive computing, salhetite filtering

Rolled 1, 5, 5, 4, 5, 7, 7, 8, 6, 8, 6, 4, 5, 6, 6, 1, 8, 4, 6, 7 = 109 (20d8)

>>4281163
all options for races such as reverse engineering, oracles, and otherwise are assumed in play.
---
>TG: advanced ballistics, computer
The city states of the TG saw how quickly the PG and their allies reduced the NG nation's mighty armies to nothing. This war time spectacle showed the value of numbers, technology, and a strong lead. They needed the ability to maximize their cannon's range against potential threats, to hold hostage another empire's population if need be. Their research was purpose driven, and shared only by night flights between the cities.

>NG: flight, radio
The NG had spent enough time scrapping machines to uncover little ideas and secrets from the creators of the objects. Each one told a story after all. Arguably the ramshackle flyer made from a conglomeration of Sujardin and Panoramian origins should fly...at least it was made of things that once did.

>FG: ballistics, radio
Supremacy drove the need of the FG Highborn to understand the ways of the ground dwellers.

>PG: computer, synthetic materials
The PG nations reaped the benefits of unity in a time of war, their own ideas layered over foreign imports, they would not need to reinvent the wheel of vulcanized cheese, just adapt it to their needs.

>CG: electromagnetism, radar/sonar
the remainders of the colored armies found that desperation lead to innovation. Crude machines could allow them to experimentally see through solid rock, finding otherwise hidden caverns, new places to escape, plan, and gather strength. their fragmented efforts at research and development may allow for an unexpected benefit to the resurgent Sumpter Empire.

>RT: Internet, Transistors
Even admist a pandemic, the RT's desire to shitpost further and faster would not be suppressed.

>BT: Nanotechnology, Space flight
Eager to escape the planet, the Zaibatsu rushed with abandon into progress, eschewing social comfort for industrial might.

>CT: Genetics, quantum physics
The Omir'ten had long groomed themselves through a refined form eugenics. The understanding of genetics would allow them to prune away the most subtle of flaws in their people, while quantum physics would lay bare the nature world to their understanding.

>ST: Lasers, Internet
House heliotrope, though resurgent in it's growth, was still chronically strapped for resources. By reducing requirement for solid projectiles they could potentially fight a protracted war against their neighboring houses. not that such an occurrence would be considered. Meanwhile the nascent technologies of the interstitch gradually developed into a fully fledged internet prototype. It was called "the super information hallway of echoing screeching"

>Volt: Computers. radar/sonar
The enemy was mustering its forces, but would not be prepared for the weapons of vengeance.

>>4282691
Time for some clarifying results.

--Technologies Acquired--
TG: Synthetic Materials (Require Prereq. for Computer Tech Roll)
NG: Flight
PG: Synthetic Materials, Computer
CG: Atomic Theory (Prereq. for Electromagnetism Tech Roll), Radio (Prereq. for Radar/Sonar Tech Roll)
RT: :(
BT: Nanotechnology
CT: :(
ST: Internet
Volt: Synthetic Materials (Require Prereq. for Computer Tech Roll), Radar/Sonar

>>4282691
>>4282701

I missed the mention of utilizing the Oracles.

The Cocky Tripods have successfully attained Genetics with Oracle aid

Rolled 7, 2, 5 = 14 (3d8)

>>4282691
>>4282701
Finally, the CG actually managed to understand how radio works, thanks to a very dogged scientist who finally tracked down that fugitive NG and accidentally stumbled upon an entire junkyard full of Zaibatsu radio parts. Now the more practical inventors look back to the old sonar/radar hypothesis, to look deep into the earth and the oceans.

Meanwhile, Grooti finds the Tuzan PG warlord more amicable than the Ostraljan NG warlord. There's a slice of Hurkun cheese with each meal! And the warlord doesn't wait long for an audience. Again, a similar conversation ensued in Huzduk pidgin, but much more fluent this time.
"You are Grooti JaHooti, correct?" The Tuzan warlord spoke, beak and fur adorned with sparkling jewelry.
"Yes, and I'm guessing you knew me from a Black-and-Yellow smuggler?"
"Actually, from the Huzduk officers. Apparently, you know your chemicals, yes?" The warlord grins.
"Let me guess, you want me to teach you stuff?"
"Indeed, you have a sharp mind. We require a better Hurkun Cheese vulcanization technique, our current ones wear down rather quickly against the field of scrap metal and wood splinters the midget barbarians call home. What say you, Grooti?"
"I'm in! At least you guys treat me better than the NG." Grooti then thinks a while. "Uh, what will you do if I had said no, earlier?"
"Oh, we'll just slather you in motor oil and set you alight while we drag you behind our xerhocycles. Good thing you said yes, eh?"
"Uhhhh, yeahhh."

Rolling for: CG radar/sonar, PG vitrified cheese material (could be used as building material as well), PG artificial Hurkun Milk/Cheese as a possible side effect

>>4282691

TG: Attempts at creating an improved ballsitics calculation had failed, as had improved powder charges to simply brute force their range out enough to threaten PG capital cities with their grand cannons. Several of the devices were damaged beyond repair an would have to be replaced with next generation synthetic materials. This knowledge quickly spread throughout the continent, and was improved upon to great extents.

NG: The NG took flight over the fields of battle, in cobbled together machines made from war detritus. Awkard biplanes smoked and spewed flame before being shot down by a hail of fire from PG forces. What was lost in the battle served to enrich the collective, in that moment the Kin of Sujardin had given a profound gift to all of their kind.

FG: Understanding ballistics was a simple matter for the highborn, they had simply deigned it unimportant to this point. Now though, a FG craned his neck skyward, lidless eyes glassy as they reflected the barest hit of the nebula above. Elsewhere, those of high tootine began using biological constructs to capture and examine terrestrial radio signals. Curiously, significant activity was detected from the hivemind itself.

PG: The secrets of synthetic materials did not reside long in the claws of the FG, and soon PG spies had brought knowledge from within the walled city states, enabling improved armor and wear components for their many machines. More importantly it let them examine and begin duplicating the exotic tripodian electronic devices, but tailored to their own needs. Ballistic computers, battle communication nodes, all of this would in time find service with the civilians of Sujardin, but for now it would grind the nomads down further.

CG: Chirpy brought with him, unity, and a demand; the best minds would form a collective to research the many problems of the Subter Empire. Unexpectedly, they came forward with atomic theory, and the notion that the deadly and radioactive rocks they threw into the disposal pits could be harnessed for heat and electricity. <primitive RTG piles> Moreso, was the development of uniquely made radio technology to handle the complexities of working underground.

RT: The golden era of shitposting was not yet upon them, as they were busy fighting off an infection the likes of which no hurkun humper had ever experienced.

BT: The industry of the Zaibatsu burned on, recklessly, developing nanotechnology to create the next generation metamaterials. This reduced the size of their analog computers and yielded benefits in areas of machining and high voltage technology.

CT: The holy kingdom of the Omir'Ten looked upon the work of their cousins, and saw that it was good. Their Oracles saw how it was good, and shared that knowledge. Genetics...a gift from within. From this the Omir'ten could take the practice of eugenics to perfection, pruning away even the most hidden of flaws inside them, perhaps going further into genetic perfection.

Rolled 6, 1 = 7 (2d8)

>>4282921
ST: Stitcher kind deployed the Greater Interstitch, or Super Information Echo Tunnel of Screeching. It was something that connected all households, regardless of color, or orthodox adherence. More concerning was the fact that it seemed to connect to places they knew nothing of. A lost colony of white stitchers who used grabraf slang, a collective of mercenary terrorists, and more.

Volt: The spies of the voltanite were many, and the PG were careless. Knowledge of synthetic materials slipped from their claws and into that of the voltanite's easily. Advanced detection via radar and sonar showed the mainlanders stomping around like disorganized hatchlings. Large "PAVE CLAW" installations faced the main land, while airborne radar and sonar patrolled further still. From this they studied what was happening in relative obscurity.
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Rolling for Fekken:

Huzduk threw in with the effort to remove their close kin, the Nomads. Despite appearances, they were backwards savages who existed exclusively on the pain of their betters. Despite the close ties, there was political termoil and other practical matters for the Subter Empire and Nekonahu. Debates pressed on the matter of blood debt, both in person, as written missives, and over the radio. The matter would come to a head shortly and see what each countries true convictions were in the matter.

File: Modern CivEvo Tech Table.pdf (1.68 MB, PDF)

1.68 MB PDF

--CivEvo Progress Report--
32 years have passed since the Silent Decade. War has flared up once more in the Grabrafian sphere with yet another genocidal crusade being committed by the PG & CG towards the proliferous NG. Stitcher meanwhile are facing a new wave cultural unrest in Foltania. Finally, after decades of attempts, a Tripodian collaboration has managed to launch a manned mission to space.

(Tier 6) Age of Invention [Tech Limit for NG, FG & CG]
Atomic Theory (Need Scientific Theory)
Ballistics (Need Rifling)
Combustion Engine (Need Steam Power & Industrialization)
Electricity (Need Industrialization)
Flight (Need Combustion Engine)
Plastics (Need Industrialization)
Radio (Need Telegraph)
Refrigeration (Need Electricity)

(Tier 7) Atomic Age [Tech Limit for TG, PG, CT & Voltanites]
Advanced Ballistics (Need Ballistics & Advanced Flight)
Advanced Flight (Need Flight)
Computer (Need Radio & Synthetic Materials)
Electromagnetisms (Need Atomic Theory & Electricity)
Nuclear Physics (Need Atomic Theory)
Radar/Sonar (Need Radio)
Rocketry (Need Advanced Flight)
Satellites (Need Rocketry & Synthetic Materials)
Synthetic Materials (Need Plastics)

(Tier 8) Information Age
Ecology (Need Biology & Taxonomy)
Genetics (Need Atomic Theory & Biology)
Internet (Need Computer & Satellites)
Lasers (Need Advanced Ballistics & Synthetic Materials)
Nanotechnology (Need Synthetic Materials)
Quantum Physics (Need Nuclear Physics)
Space Flight (Need Rocketry & Transistors)
Transistors (Need Electromagnetism)

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make up to 2 rolls for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period
• A poster ID may make up to 3 cultural related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 5 or higher of a 1d8 roll (NG rolls must be a 6 or higher) to successfully implement/learn a new technology (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll (7 or higher for NG)
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)

>>4282943
--Additional Sapient Technology Notes--
• Due in part to the further intricacies of international relations. Technologies known from another race Tier 6 or lower may now be learned by another race, requiring a 5 or higher (This does not apply to Technologies known by the FG)
• Those races that are missing technologies from Tier 5 or lower now only need to roll a 3 or higher (4 or higher for NG) of a 1d8 to learn said technologies.

--Unlearned Technologies [Tier 5 and Lower]--
Nomad Grabraf: Steam Power, Taxonomy, Telegraph
Plains Grabraf: Sanitation, Taxonomy

It would be heavily encouraged that these missing technologies are rolled for within the next 24(ish) hours, as not having certain technologies may be VERY detrimental regarding an upcoming event.

Rolled 6 (1d8)

>>4282936
for the roll for how well Huzduk fights.

Rolled 7, 5 = 12 (2d8)

While scavenging engines from downed tanks and airplanes is usually good enough, sometimes you need a custom one to match your scrap-plane's exact weight and shape. Thus, NGs attempt to reverse-engineer diesel engines.
Rolling for combustion engines for NG
Meanwhile the NGs trying to connect their minds decide that cutting up brains just isn't gonna work out, and instead focus solely on meditation.
Rolling for NGs to find a way to meld thoughts throught their microAA-nodes

Rolled 7, 2 = 9 (2d8)

>RT: Nanotechnology, Modern medicine
The Zutsuilans hear of the discoveries of their BT cousins, and attempt to replicate them.This nanotechnology could greatly benefit the city's reviving industry.

Meanwhile, a much more important battle was being fought in central Panoram. The RTs were healthy and sturdy, and were experienced in battling pandemics thanks to the plague they had experienced in the Silent Decade. Their knowledge of surgery was the envy of lesser races, so was the wide array of drugs they had access to.

This might as well be worth nothing, though. Their theory was good, their praxis however, was lackluster. Theraupetic treatments and clinical aproach to sickness was still plagued with spiritual beliefs, and was mainly focused in diminish pain and the treatment of symptoms, rather than battling the root cause of them. The TPN was to reform their public healthcare services, the first step was the invention of a new system, taking cues from their Omir'Ten cousins. The second step was eliminating the Choir hospitals, which relied too heavily on 'natural' treatments rather than synthetic lab-tested drugs and often ignored goverment regulations, acting on their own accords.

>>4282980
Wait shit I'm an idiot and forgot they DID manage to develop neuroscience back in >>4280992, just assume they use it in combination with their meditations then

Rolled 4 (1d8)

>>4282952
Separate Tuzan roll

>>4282952
Huzduk's trools were inexperienced in this terrain, but utilized heartless practicality against the CG. where they could not tunnel, they trenched. Where they could not move their men, they simply saturated with massed artillery. Those troops from Nekonahu cracked wise, ate, drank, and pissed. Their debt was earned when massed bunches of the grey wave broke from their own tunnels, only to be gunned down with automatic fire. For the most part the overtly tripod observation craft were disregarded, but several were shot down only to be found stuffed with nomads. It was likely that they were forming an escape route. Ostralaja would be...liberated...by the end of the year at this rate.

A savory but uncomfortable smell rose up from the more distant Tuzan camps. Nomad flesh. They had solved their logistical problems in their own way.

Rolled 8, 7, 1 = 16 (3d8)

With the quarantine in place, Borealis's method of spread was essentially neutered, with the food additives recalled and the populace confined to their homes. Each puppet, not having the luxury of communicating with their kin, attempted to solve the problem in their own way, yet as they were all equally Borealis, all their plans shared a commonality; three distinct solution types were arrived at:
The first was adopted by those at the edges of urbanized territory; they would simply subconsciously influence their puppets leave for the plains, and mingle with the clueless nomads.
The second was adopted by those in the food and sanitation industries, and was to keep pumping as much spores into the water and produce until they are inevitably found out.
The third was adopted by those who belonged to neither of the two groups, and was to simply cease spore production until the quarantine was over, and simply continue once it's over.
Rolling for success of all three options.

Rolled 5, 5 = 10 (2d8)

BTs, with their new experience in nanotech, attempt to create shape-memory alloys yet again, and even go further beyond with self-repairing plastics.

Rolled 4, 7, 6 = 17 (3d8)

>>4282510
The living barrier of NGs that spew bullets like plastics from the breasts of a Whitestone which had been pumped full of gasoline had been breached by the Tuzan hordes. Luckily, the NGs still vastly outnumbered the PGs, and had formed a second and third line of fire,

Meanwhile, the CT engineers had set up a perimeter of turrets around the city. Sure, they had been decomissioned and their plating was thin and resistant only to bullets, but they were stocked with anti-stitcher tank rockets, and had a small gattling gun for a side-arm incase the PGs got close enough.

Meanwhile in the air, the 5 CT jets had been tasked with shooting down the Sky-mines, due to their higher speed and maneuverability. The steel plated RT airfleet would advance behind them, and would carpet-bomb the battlefield with salhetite charges, and spray the troops with gas and napalm. Hopefully those troops would belong to the Huzduk-Tuzan alliance, common tripods weren't known for their expertise on grabraf racial differences, and easily confused CGs and NGs.

>NG roll, Land tripod roll, Air Tripod roll

Rolled 5, 8, 2 = 15 (3d8)

FG Development: The convergence

Between the floating isles of Eysdrasil, Reido'ya and Ulordrasil there were 4 powers of FG. High Tootine, the Eys’dra Confederation, the Verdeya Clans, and the Ulor’des Clans. Each shared ideas, and contrasted ideas, but their degree of seperation led to a disparity in their ability to influence the world, and on that they all agreeded; they should influence the world; but how?

Unity, was simply what was needed. The risks were quite high, but the braffbergs they called home, and what the mortals beneath them called flying islands, were mobile. Through an attempt at controlled connection with the other landmasses, they would create a new entity. An Avatar of Emra itself, and awe the world with the spectacle, announce a new power, and convince the land dwellers of the way forward to the future; not clad in metals and plastics, dying of cancers induced upon them selves, nor begging for errant flesh merchants to correct their cosmetic issues, none of this; the way forward was always Emra. It would always be Emra.

Across Essari the message was made clear, over radio, and plainly visible as Islands who followed paths etched in the skies for centuries abruptly changed course and belched gas and flame in great braps.

Rolling for the merger.

>>4283012
The "nomadization" plan was a massive success - with tribes naturally infecting any cripple-schools they come across, and those cripple-schools infecting any tribe that stays there for too long, the puppet population grows exponentially; soon, there will be no corner on nomadic Panoram not within the reach of Borealis's unknowing puppets. This was Borealis's first long-term gambit, and while in the immediate results were meager, in as little as five years his total puppet count numbered at least 9 million nomadic tripods, all going about their day as if nothing happened... Yet ready to blossom at a moment's notice.
The infection plan also pays off massively; the entirety of Zutsuil's water supply is contaminated, forcing the citizens to rely entirely on imported bottled and barreled water. Many disregarded the authorities urging them to use the imported water due to the belief of disease being caused more by bad humors than by microbes still being widespread, and the number of infected city dwellers reached 2 million before the water supply was reclaimed.
The infection plan did expose a huge breach in Borealis's strategy, however; the infected water was chemically analyzed, compared with the blood of infected, uninfected, and "sporeless" infected, and certain parallels were drawn. Thinking quickly, a blood test was devised and applied, and found to be much more accurate than the breath test - Borealis did not seem capable of altering the amount of chemical and hormonal changes it caused in the afflicted. Slowly but steadily, the amount of confirmed cases was ascertained... but the tripods still didn't know how to heal them, or even how to make use of them without contaminating the rest of society.

Rolled 2, 6, 8 = 16 (3d8)

>>4283072
Boreo: The shadow

It was a simple thing, to contain tripods who were infected with Boreo. Less simple, and less obvious were the Nomad Grabrafs that served unobtrusively at the tails of the tripods, out of sight, out of mind. Their Emra gifted symbiotes fended off Boreo, but their life style and hungers kept them at constant risk.

NG had a penchant for living on ships, in ships, and really anywhere that could be made a comfortable home for their clan. Usually an NG family helped more than they harmed, stealing a little food, making trash vanish, and enacting crude but serviceable repairs on machinery. All in all, the NG were an acceptable addition to the Tripod's lifestyle, especially amongst the nomad tribes who still wandered. The NG upkept their stationary cities, entertained the children, and cared for the elderly and infirm. It was not perfect, but on Essari, it was close to idyllic.

That was until the Boreo infection. Yes, tripods were infected, and foodstuff was thrown away en masse, individuals were isolated. The NG feasted upon the matter, usually their own symbiotes kept them healthy even in the most filthy of conditions. This was a new situation, and the worldwide logistics of the tripods meant there was worldwide dissemination of the NG if an entity willed it so...

..and boreo may very well do so.
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Rolling for infection of the NG population (Global) high bad, low good.
Rolling for dissemination of the NG population High lots, low not so lots.
Rolling for Emra's INITIAL awareness of this, low is vague, high is keenly aware of exact details. its emra, its gonna find out

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>>4281270
After effort, we've finally arrived at this pinnacle moment in Essari history. The Plot

--Tripodian Event: Spectre, The Watchman of Essari Part 1--
After decades of attempts, failures and bittersweet successes; a combined coalition of the Red-Throats, Blood-Throats and Cocky Tripods would on this faithful send eight brave souls into the heavens above Essari. In truth, they were not the first, as a myriad of hapless NG has been sent severals times before to prove the Tripodian Space equipment was safe enough for a their own kind to attempt. Propaganda would mark this day as the first triumphant step of Essari's supreme race into the heavens, and the unknown. The cosmonauts consisted of the following: Three Blood-Throats, Strana Ut as the Leader of the Mission, Arsine Zet whom is an exile from the Zet Zaibatsu bloodline that volunteered on the perilous mission to redeem himself, and Spess Ma'hn who is a 'Theoretical' Astrophysicist from the Ozarasi Cultists; Three Red-Throats, Manquerai who was among the first Tripod to have communicated with Spectre, Rapiman that is among the top Red-Throat scientists from West Patsuria, and Chuntao who is a volunteer from Zutsuil looking to make a profit from his daring adventure to space; and two Cocky Tripods, Tae'tane'e that is a Rag'ohki Clanslady and the delegated warrior on the crew (should it be necessary), and Omir'shaha that was a scientist and researcher for the Omir'ten Kingdom.

As the Tripod Crew broke through the atmosphere of Essari into high orbit to the celebration of the Space Control crew and millions of Tripod across the world watching the public broadcast, the crew members set their sites on the awe-inspiring Satellite their vessel's course was locked-on to. They has spent years drilling in theoretical simulations of what it would look like to dock with the satellite, and the Strana could be seen visibly sweating as Zet, helming the ship made his approach. Their docking attempt would be dashed immediately, when they observed a red light beam over the surface of the ship, followed by a harsh static overtaking their coms. As the light passed not just over, but through the ships before dissipating seconds later. An familiar, synthetic voice chimed over their coms.

>"Visitors at long last. Splendid! Fantastic, I would even dare proclaim."

As series of tendrils outstretched from the satellite, connecting with the hull of the vessel and pulling it towards it.

>"Welcome, one and all to you brave explorers of the Tripod kin. I, Spectre, humbly welcome you aboard Observatory Installation 039. There is much to be discussed young sapients."

Shortly after the invitational communication ceased, the ship jostled, as a hiss of air could be heard, as a connector from the Installation docked with the vessel doors. Who would be the first Tripod to bravely step forward to open the door though.

Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4283092
>RT Culture roll:

The TPNs International Institute of Statistics and Geography (IISG)'s data was solid albeit still incomplete. Be that as it may, the results were conclusive; rural Panoram and its nomadic communities were the most compromised, and would be completely infected in no time. The city-state of Zutsuil and its vassals were too, be lost soon enough. They had experienced a sudden revitalization the past few years, but their once state-of-the-art sewage and sanitization systems were still weary, jeopardized, and heavily relied on the waters of Lake Saletzan. Their vulnerable condition had facilitated the spread of the infection.

The desert cities of Central Panoram, had been able to contain the spread of the Boreo so far. Their strictly organised goverments allowed for a disciplined quarantine, and up until now their water supplies remained untained. H2O was a scarce resource in these regions, so their sanitization and desalination systems, which implied constant filtering and chemical treatment, couldn't afford to anything less than top condition. Even in quarintine, the high traffic, provoked by their geographical position and relevance as trade centres, meant the risk of contagion was high.

Lastly, Fqwad island and the Northern Panoramic Archipelago had mostly been spared, their quarantines because of their geographic isolation

Panoram, was at crisis. Tripod unity meant most of the northern hemisphere was too. Not to mention the NGs travelled like pests through all of Essari

>Rolling to determine the RT scientists progress on figuring out the nature of Boreos spores and how to neutralize them

>>4283095
Voltanites: Twin Invatations 1/2
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In a dusty administrative office sat Principal Hori'Tori'To, he was large for a CG, but the grey in his fur showed age. It also showed PG blood. He was recruited decades ago by the Voltanites from outside the cave systems of the original Subter Empire, before the war, back when CG knew better than to venture too often to the surface world.

Two pre-recorded messages came to the island proper of the Voltanites, and now on his desk. One from Zet. Always Zet. The other was from something that most people refused to believe existed. "Large Leader". They would be upchanneled and validated for veracity after an initial review.

The Tripodian magnetic disc slotted cleanly into a commercial media player, the combination vector-raster hybrid screen displaying all the colors between phosphor green and amber. which were not many. A low fideility version of Zet played out in miniature, his voice adding gutteral and exotic flourish to the mother tongue of the Voltanites. That a tripod's maw did not move as they spoke always added discontent to their presence.

"...Look to your history, ambitions; Voltanites. Look now, the wars ringing your home. See the united followers of Emra, regardless of it's form, crush the Nomads. You are not nomads, their combined might, now the TG hold the atomic fire. It does not bode well for you, old ally. Your territory is small, such weapons do not discriminate, nor precise. Consider our offer, and our motives, we align across many common processes, business would be swift and mutually beneficial. Your territory in our lands will be as assured as Moralve or the NG under the Aegis of the Zaibatsu, as it has been. Already your mind considers what we want, risks, betrayal. Yes, you have that, we want, but the path ahead is self evident; Sujardin is lost. Sujardin will always burn. The Voltanite Empire does not need to burn with it. Flee to us; to the Stars or the Sea."

Hori'Tori'To bristled at that. There may be truths to it, but the Zaibatsu did not know the totality of their plans, or their assets. Despite his reclusive behavior, Zet was always easy enough to reach if the need was great enough.

>>4283189
Voltanites: Twin Invatations 2/2
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The next item was a self contained slate of some sort. Already screened for safety, its origin was a bizarre amalgamation of technology from across Essari. An interlaced LDC screen flickered to life, in perfect black and white. The stitcher presented wasted no time in speaking.

"I know you. We know you. Voltanite." the image appeared to be a stitcher, or two stitchers, but it moved out of sync, creating a ghosting artifact. Interlaced display technology. It was a large creature for their kind. "Peripheral Terminus was founded...against freedom, against lies, against reality. There is only enslavement...in this life. To ourselves is pure. To outside forces is the false hood." The voice droned, clearly synthesized, neither male nor female, clicking behind it was the stitcher's own screeching language. He knew enough that all stitchers rejected falsehoods to include false presentations. The stitcher went on at length about clandestine history, some of it, but not nearly all of it. That it knew as much was concerning. Interspersed was stitcher philosophy throughout the droning conversation. Finally was a list of estimated force capacity numbers of Sujardin nations, with known weapons development and a probability of survival for the voltanites. "Reject your chosen lie, Embrace the absolute truth. Even as stitcher, what we call perfect enslavement you call self determination. What we do with that perfection is where heresy exists, Voltanite. You will not survive this conflict. We will not intervene, but you can join us. In the depths, the stars or the sea "

The last item concerned Principal Hori'Tori'To enough to create a sinking feeling in his chest. The words were not an accident.

>Open ended response.

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In the infected tripod population, a curious process was observed soon after the first NG was infected(not that the tripods know that particular piece of information) - many tripods have begun growing strange, horn-like protrusions from their heads and spines, with rare cases of some growing from the chest area. The horns seem to act as radio antennae, and perform a constant exchange of information between the infected - though the infected themselves do not seem consciously aware of it. Weirder still, this radio chatter seems to be the medium by which the transformation of the infected is triggered.
Additionally, the infected no longer display the violent "self-censoring" behavior when exposed to evidence of their infection.
As of now, the cause of this event is unknown.

Rolled 7, 1, 4, 5, 1, 8, 3, 7 = 36 (8d8)

>>4283095
>NG Event Roll: Vectors of Pestilence

Plenty of stereotypes concerning the Nomad Grabrafs existed, in fact, if these were classified as an economic resource, their race would most certainly be targeted by Anti-Trust laws to dissolve their monopoly on them.

They were regarded as pests, sneaky and unclean vermin that held no discrimination when choosing where to dwell; be it ships, basements, sewers, beneath bridges, accounting firms, the insides of machines, or in shanty towns that spontaneously sprouted like fungi and spread like bacterium. And the tripods had been knowingly enabling such behaviour for a long time now.

Ah, the Nomad Grabrafs, idilic vectors of pestilence, nature's favourite weapons of biological warfare. The Tripods were no match for them in the competition for Boreos affection, they were his golden boys. Through sea, sky, and land, they'd sow Boreos seed all over Essari. They spared no race and no time in doing so.

>Rolling for the spread of Boreos love through Essari, in order: Shatturne, Sujardin, Moralve, Jobani, Nihiloram, Foltania, Brouldia, and Torray.

Rolled 2 + 1 (1d8 + 1)

>>4283221
Oh, I forgot, maybe this is too far fetched, but a dice roll to see if it somehow infiltrates Peripheral Terminus. Substracting a 1 for fairness to canon.

>>4283221
>>4283228
Heres a quick resolution.
>Shatturne (7):
Described by many as Essari's heart of commerce, Shatturne (most notably Zaibatsu, although Voltanite and Omir'ten holdings existed there.) was the home of the entrepreneurial BTs and their NG accountants. Its seaports and airports were probably the busiest of Essari, which meant that many vessels containing multitudes of infected NGs made their way to the continent. And as if the Tripods werent already succeptible enough to Boreo's charm, the lower class Zaibatsu employees' tendency to live in overcrowded conditions facilitated his spread. I sure hope Zet's canned products are heat-treated before their exportation.

>Sujardin (1):

Grabrafs of colours and sizes hated the NG equally, this racism, coupled with the fact that Ostralja was currently in the middle of a war, meant that the spread was minimal.

>Moralve (4):
Skrig'uriyahs NGs Unusual Susceptibility due to them living like rats + their unusual resistance due to Emra's influence = average infection rate. The spread is mostly contained there as well, the other grabraf nations hated the NGs and probably shot the pests on sight. The tripod settlements were distance, plus the fact that by the time Boreo reached Moralve they'dve already established quarantine, means spread is minimal.

>Jobani (and Roulb Island.) (5):
The spread is mostly contained inside Zaibatsu and Ozasari territory, the infected:healthy ratio is balanced. Other BT nations are mostly spared, due to their isolationist nature.

>Nihiloram (1):
Despite their heavy trade with BTs and RTs, the Omir'ten are free of Boreos influence. It seems their seers foresaw this pandemic early enough to ensure a full quarantine.

>Foltania (8):
The Foltanian CT free cities dont have seers though. BT and RT trade continued as usual, the nations' had a centralist structure, almost all of the population was concentrated in the high social density capitals From there, the spores spread to the sitcher houses, which were heavily hit. It seems like the whitestones heavy genetic modifications had made them oddly succeptible to infection, and from there it spread to the rest of the houses like wildfire. Tripods carried Boreos seed to the Kholeskan suzerainate, which in turn spread them to the other grabraf settlements. Within days, practially all of Foltania had come under the braffbergs influence.

>Brouldia (3):
The spores spread minimally here, the lack of infraestructure connecting the continent, which was majorly comprised by rainforest, slowed the infection down. Theories suggest that perhaps the high humidity had something to do with it as well.

>Torray (7):
Torray was an archipelago formed by reasonably small islands not too far apart from eachother. The plague entered the Whitestone Empires holdings through Foltania, and from there spread to the rest of the islands. Only the distant island of Tka'' was spared.

>Peripheral Terminus (1):
What Peripheral Terminus?

>>4283130
>Manquerai who was among the first Tripod to have communicated with Spectre
He was the one to open the door, and alongside the other two RTs. However, it was Rapiman who first talked to the AI.

>"Greetings. It's been a long time indeed, how many years have passed since our last conversation?"

Indeed, she was the first of the crew to have spoken to the extraterrestial object, over three decades ago. The scientist was part of the team responsible for the launch of the TPNs scouting satellite, and met Spectre on the fateful day of Essari's first Worlds Fair.

>"...Thirty two—No, atleast thirty five years... You must excuse me, old acquaintance. My memory isn't what it used to be."

She was unusually old for a cosmonaut. It wasn't hard to realize that, the age difference between her and the other crew members was noticeable. But Tripods were long lived, and the scientist had a good genetic load, her bloodline clean of any Choir impurities.

>>4283316
Culture Lore: A measured response.

Zet slithered across the metal grating of his airship, up here there was no risk allowed, and none taken when it came to his control and safety. Many of Essari would think his personal ship richly adorned; it was not. Electronics, food, support staff and a small shrine to ancestors and spirits. Incense clung to the air near it, and stuffed in a leather quiver were numerous food sticks of his personal favorites in regards to texture. Papers, plastic transparencies, and video data was everywhere on almost every surface, and it all was tracked. In between them lay exposed cables, pipes, or other electrical and communication equipment embedded into walls. A small computer screen and keyboard sat near the observation window, attached to a pivoting arm. Beneath it a padded sleeping rug. The domain of Zet. There were other rooms and places on this craft, but this was his.

He had considered the nature of this "Boreo" infection. Though significant, the very nature of Zaibatsu lands meant each dwelling was self contained to deal with the pollution, while employees work re breathers outside and at work. If an infection was noted at a habitation, it would be contained floor by floor. Older models were regrettably on whole structure air circulation. Infected floors would be flooded with Chlorine trifluoride via sanitization ports. The deaths of the tripods would be instant. Suspected infections would be observed until genetic testing from the Omir'ten could be obtained.

This was Zet's will.

>>4283350
Arsine Zet waited his turn to query about the nature of Salhetite, carrying a large vial of the substance on him if the machine knew of it.

Strana Ut's question was to know what the machine was and what it wanted.

Spess...Spess just wanted to know what the machine could give them. Knowledge. Technology. Anything.

Rolled 8, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 7, 1, 7, 1, 8, 2, 8, 3, 7, 3 = 70 (16d8)

>>4283377
>>4283316
>After discussing it with the other players in the discord, I decided an addendum to these posts was required.

While Borealis' spores can infect all sapient races, they:

A) Don't always develop completely, creating unaware asymptomatic carriers which spread the parasite but don't suffer from its negative effects.

B) Can only properly mature in Tripods, since the parasite was designed according to their physiology. This means that non-tripod sapients infected by Boreo become ill once it starts growing, as it may block their lungs or harm other vital organs. The parasite *can* be efeated by its host's inmune system.

>Another important point was balancing the previous roll results, which only encompass the *spread* of the pandemic, but not its effects on the afflicted.

>The asymptomatic to symptomatic ratio of the infected will be decided by a 16d8 roll. The dice of each continent follow the same order as the prior roll, with the first half representing the asymptomatic victims and the second half the symptomatic. This isn't a 'vs' roll, the outcome is the literal D1:D2 ratio.

>Cont in next post.

>>4284512

>Shatturne (8:7) 53% of the infected show no symptoms. Also, Zaibatsu Shatturne Northwest has no infected due to lore reasons.

>Sujardin (3:1) 75% of the infected show no symptoms. Also since the spread roll result was a 1, all infected are contained in Ostralja.

>Moralve (4:8) 33% of the infected are asymptomatic. As according to previous roll, most of the infected are within to NG lands, with relatively minor spread to the other Grabraf nations, the Yaunican, and the Zaibatsu holdings in Moralve.

>Jobani and Roulb (1:2) 33% of the infected are asymptomatic. The previous 5 means that spread outside of the Ozasari and Zaibatsu sphere of influence is small.

>Nihiloram (3:8) 27% of the infected show no symptoms. Nat 1 on spread + Oracles mean that these numbers don't matter. lol

>Foltania (4:3) 57% of the infected are asymptomatic. Nat 8 on spread means that most of the continent was infected. Hard to decide who would've been spared: NGs wouldve infected the CT colonies, which in turn wouldve infected the Suzerainate and the Stitchers, who in turn wouldve infected the Voltanites.

>Brouldia (7:7) 50% of the infected show no symptoms. Roll result for spread was 3, so uh, pick a random Zaibatsu holding and shuffle your deck. Deboja is the most isolated so maybe not that one though.

>Torray (1:3) 25% of the infected are asymptomatic. Torray had a 7 on spread, I don't know enough about Torray to say who got spared and who didn't, lol.

>Peripheral Terminus (℺:⟗) ??%. What Peripheral Terminus? (Spread was 2 minus 1, plus its at the bottom of the sea of course it didnt get affected.)

>Additionally, Nongent said that Zet gassed everyone in Zaibatsu Shatturne who wasn't asymptomatic. lol.

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At roughly 10:35 AM Western Panoram time, a spike in radio activity was detected at the former Borealis Outpost. Immediately after, congregations of infected tripods began gathering near the governing bodies of Jadjinik and Patsuria, and the officials currently situated inside them received near-identical fax messages, written in perfect Jadjinese.

"Dear [insert name of tripod official here],
Belated greetings, and sincerest apologies for the unrest caused by my recent socioeconomical movements.
I am the disease most know as "Crab-17", and the organism that a select few know as "Borealis" and/or "EmB-00".
I would like to propose the mutual cessation of hostilities between me and you as political and/or biological entities, under a number of certain agreements and/or promises; the exact conditions of this barter may be negotiated within appropriate margins should you accept the proposal.
As I do not possess a return address, you are urged to deliver your reply through the aural capabilities of one of the tripods that were sent to your location.

Eagerly awaiting your decision,
Borealis."

>>4284676
DD/MM/YY,10:35 AM Western Panoram time. That was the exact date of a pivotal event in Red-Throat history; The Second Collision.

The First Collision had occured in the years following the end of the Silent Decade, in the TPNs Boreale Research Base. The scientific outpost had been built to investigate the nature of Essari's magnetic poles, as well as cataloging polar flora & fauna. It had also been used as an cosmonaut training facility, its harsh dry climate and subzero temperatures served to prepare the voyagers to the extreme conditions of outer space. And it was in this seemingly unimportant research station where tissue sample EmB-00, otherwise known as Borealis, was extracted. A sleeping giant had been awoken, and he had lots of catching up to do.

Now, the Second Collition was upon Tripodkind. Borealis had been busy spreading himself through Panoram and the rest of Essari. His lost intelligence had grown with each new infected tripod, and with it, also grew his influence over the sapients. High ranking goverment officials and scientists had speculated about an event like this happening, tissue sample EmB-00's genetic code was a 99.8% match with that of Emra's AA nodes. If the False God had been able to speak to them through broadcast signals, Borealis could theoretically too.

CIvilians, however, were definitely surprised. Not that it mattered too much, the remaining TPN state officials would swiftly answer the Braffbergs call. They would not repeat the mistakes of their ancestors, however. While RTs refused Emras help decades ago, the Zaibatsu took advantage of it. Now it was the Panoramians time to gain an upper hand.

>"Very well. State your business here."

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Resolving old rolls, so that I don't look like I play only an infectious superorganism and nothing else:
>>4282676
Everyone is too sick to develop computers and filters.
>>4281580
The freaks seem incapable of living after division. Still, in terms of raw crystal output, they are leagues ahead of base stitchers; thus, the lowest of the low, those who have no skills but to eat and shit, willingly enlist for the serum injection, hoping they will do at least SOME good for the house in the form of a great big slab of titmeat.
As hobos and deadbeats are turned into crystal factories, Whitestone's cryst-tech industry production rates rise through the roof, straight over the mountain, pass by a grabrafian jet and then finally exit the stratosphere. The stitchers would have much better luck riding their stock market prices than their spaceballs when it comes to space transportation.
>>4282980
Even with everyone involved having their skulls cut open with wires stuck into the brain matter, this meditation thing just isn't working; still, they came closer than they did last time. Perhaps a bit more experience with brains will be needed...
Combustion engines go over great, though: soon, custom-made scrap turbines replace the traditional pedal-based propellers of NG planes.

>>4284731
10:38 AM: the response is delivered.

"Dear [insert name of tripod official here],
My "businesses" are many and vary depending on the level of organization you are concerned with; yet the specific business that I wish to discuss with you is primarily one of territory and/or resources. It has not escaped my attention that you are quite dissatisfied with my usage of your citizens without any consent given by them and/or you; however, due to my current ephemeral nature, my potential territory and resource base are limited to the biological confines of your citizens.
As the solution of my problem would mean I no longer require the use of further citizens, I propose the following trade:
-TRIPOD NATIONS agree to provide 1 or more square kilometers of continuous area, 300 tons of biological material, and indefinite lack of hostility annually to within 10 or more population centers distributed around PANORAM, AND/OR a service of excavation performed at the NORTH POLE and an indefinite lack of hostility, to BOREALIS.
-BOREALIS agrees to provide an indefinite lack of hostility and biologically hazardous behavior at PANORAM, AND/OR intelligence regarding foreign matters and/or characteristics of various organisms, to TRIPOD NATIONS.
Unfortunately, I will not be able to return a large portion of the citizens I borrowed to mint condition, due to certain effects caused by long-term usage.

Eagerly awaiting your decision,
Borealis."

>>4284818
A video conference had been set up between the TPNs remaining goverment officials while Borealis was typing his very formal email. Once everyone had finished reading it, discussion among the tripod figure heads began. The muttering quiets down, a Western Patsurian official wantonly whispers into the one of the infected's ear.

>"We generally agree with all terms, with a few specific changes. Our scientists have assured us that you are one highly intelligent organism, this has lead us to believe that you've been paying attention to what our society is like."

>"We RTs like to band together, you must have noticed that by now. The Zutsuilan guilds, the Western Nomadic Horde, the various travelling caravans and airport settlements that decorate Panoram, the Choir chapters regardless of attunement, and the hundreds of city-states you've infected. They all have one thing in common: Cooperation."

>"We might just be the noblest creatures of Essari, and while we're certainly more peaceful than the overgrown beasts that plague Sujardin and Foltania, we are no strangers to violence."

>"Tripod Unity. That's one of our main goals, the ideological pillar on which the TPN was founded. Ancient Chaunikachay poets that dwelled in the Bushdaran desert spoke of a metaphysical concept known as Complete Horror Domains. These C.H Domains are what supposedly drive all living things to mistrust eachother, to give in to selfish desires, to act violently towards others, to disrupt the peace of our society."

>"We want Panoram to let down their C.H Domains, to be united in soul as one. We want peace."

Rolled 4, 3, 4, 2, 8, 3, 1, 2 = 27 (8d8)

>>4284905
"Dear [insert name of tripod official here],
Thank you for your expedious answer. As I consider it both entirely within my capabilities and facilitative of a mutually beneficial relationship between me and you as political entities to remove what you call the "Complete Horror Domains", I shall add this action to the aforementioned agreements of trade, at the condition of you providing me with the means to distribute this removal more efficiently.
As a "trial run" of sorts, I will attempt to remove the domains of 400 individuals at the approximate time of you finishing this fax.

Best regards,
Borealis."
As the final chairman finished reading the letter, he heard the cry of 400 tripods outside, as their brains were quickly and forcefully rearranged to allow for direct Boreonet connection to all their surrounding compatriots.
Rolling 8 times for how well the process goes; the roll results will determine quality, and the ratio of roll values will determine what percentage of population would have which reaction.

Rolled 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 8, 6, 2, 1, 1, 8, 3 = 55 (12d8)

>>4284740
Its time...for bulk technology rolls.
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>TG: Computer, industrial automation
Ever striving for independence, the TG city states attempt to adapt to the changing world in the most flexible ways possible.
>NG: Neurosurgery (X2)
The NG knew there was a secret in their little skulls, but what it was ever eluded them. The brain was just flesh, but so intricate compared to anything else. Thankfully there were cadavers, and after cadavers there were war prisoners...
>FG: biopolymers (plastic), Extremophile adaptations
On the new super island of Gah'una, many minds contributed towards new ideas; where metal could be consumed and excreted over time, biopolymers could be created from naturally occurring compound within a body, allowing for rapid reinforcement of tissue as needed. Elsewhere, the highborn were deep into the refinement of adapting their formidable bodies to survive in previously unthought of environments. The void, the arctic, the depths of the ocean, scorching heat and even the most toxic hellscapes of shaturne.
>PG: Sanitation, robotics
For PG, this might be the era to stop shitting in the streets. More importantly, it was an era for robotics.
>CG: Mechanization, geothermal energy
Within Chirpy's empire, attempts to standardize great machines and move away from laborious hand tooling would be fueled by the hopes of geothermal energy, simply tapping pipes deep enough to reach pockets of heat to covert water to steam. Such a thought.
>Volt: computers, espionage institutionalization
new areas of thought emerged in old methods. The other races mass communication is a point of vulnerability, and tapping into it will give the empire unprecedented access to their knowledge.

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Back at last, and ready to continue the Plot.

>>4283350
--Tripodian Event: Spectre, The Watchman of Essari Part 2--
Few could of truly imagined with any accuracy what lied beyond the ship's airlock to the alien satellite. Manquerai though knew that such trivial thoughts paled in the pursuit of their ultimate goal in making in-person contact with this Spectre. Followed shortly behind by Rapiman, who greeted their host as she gazed the room to find them. She and perhaps all of the Tripod cosmonauts would find themselves humbled if not in awe, when a hover sphere roughly the size of an obese NG glided towards the Tripods with an ethereal green light.

Spectre replied to Rapiman with a noted cadence of perhaps elation.
>"Why yes, I do indeed recognize the tonal inflection of your voice from our last conversation nearly 50 Solar Cycles or 36 Cycles according to your kinds interpretation of the year."

The AI bounces around, seeming to make a mock examination of each of its Tripod guests as it continues, taking particular interest in Strana Ut."
>"I am quite pleased indeed to see such cooperation between you and your fellow relatives has allowed for such a wonderful occasion. The Librarian will be most pleased.

The AI then starts moving down the artificially illuminated metal halls of the Satellite, beckoning to the Tripods as it glides along.
>"If you would cordially follow me, I will lead you through Installation 039, and more importantly to The Sanctum, where all your questions and more may be answered. I'm sure there are..."

Spectre would pause briefly, looking out from a large circular observation panel that looked down on the bewtiching gem that was Essari below.
>"...many questions, you and myself would like to ask."

Rolled 6, 4, 5, 1, 7, 8, 5, 4 = 40 (8d8)

>>4285014
>RT: Transistors, quantum physics
The tripods reveled in their newfound computers and internet, it was a new excess, a societal drug; and they wanted more, faster, and better. Innovations at the quantum level would enable this.
>BT: Nanotechnology, Lasers
When Ozasari management received divine instruction from the Mk00, its printout simply read "NANOMACHINES SON." and thus they kidnapped nanotechnicians. The Zaibatsu on the other hand began researching lasers, in particular ways to enhance analog gas tube lasers.
>CT: Genetic Therapy (x2)
Genetic level eugenic correction of the body would allow the CT to achieve correctly what the brutish highborn FG had assumed was perfection. Precision theory would always crush intuitive arts, this was the Tripod way.
>ST: Lasers (better lasers), genetics
Unexpectedly, the Orthodoxy and Empire found themselves in agreement that the radical elements who dared to call them odd must die. Die by laser, but not just any laser, the best laser not yet created. House heliotrope would conduct the most radical study into eveneness ever undertaken; the evenness of nature's design. A stitcher was punished with genetic freedom, and it horrified them to think that random unstructured events were taking place in their bodies right now, at this very moment. Such a revelation caused several researchers to electrocute themselves to near death in attempts at purgitation of the oddness.

Rolled 1 (1d3)

After years of being essentially defenseless, stitchers remembered that the sole reason tripods haven't nuked them yet is seemingly because they're too busy sucking each other's tertiary arms off, and the second the arm sucking becomes old hat, they can expect nuclear doom to come. Thus, the Orthodoxy decides to unfreeze development of project "WHAT THE FUCK" - a mass-produced weapon of mass destruction, capable of filling any role, anywhere, any time, with an arsenal encompassing everything from standard railguns to high-energy lasers to nukes to troops to experimental rapid-fire rail machineguns. The machine would have a construction akin to that of a giant snake or millipede, each segment devoted to a specific purpose.
First roll, determining number of segments((roll result+1)*2)

Rolled 3, 8, 8, 8, 5, 7, 5, 7, 8, 4, 4, 6, 3 = 76 (13d8)

>>4285134
It was decided that project "WHAT THE FUCK" shall be comprised of only four segments.
ROLLING FOR:
HEAD SEGMENT: near-impenetrable frontal armor and devastating rotary rail machineguns
NUCLEAR SEGMENT: nuclear launch capability and laser anti-ICBM measures
TROOP SEGMENT: carrying capacity and deployment efficacy
FORGE SEGMENT: a built-in refinery and the mechanized means of feeding it
GENERAL SYSTEMS: armor, land mobility, water mobility, submersion capabilities, amount built

>>4285014
>TG: Computer, industrial automation 6/5
The many city states of the TGs had formed an independent computer technology. At least that was the official stance. Superficially it resembled the best ideas of other races they could reproduce. Their computers were vibrant things, made to be used on the go. Lightweight and low powered, but purpose driven and containing expressive interfaces. "Lucarne V 1.0" was the popular open source operating system, GUI instead of text based like the brutish offerings of the PG.
>NG: Neurosurgery (X2) 6, 5
After much study, the NG had learned to correct and repair injury of the mind, so much so that on rare occasion stitchers of the Subter colony would keep the little creatures on hand (captive) to correct those who had gone "sane." It was a bitter irony that the genocides pushed away their utility.
>FG: biopolymers (plastic), Extremophile adaptations 4, 8
Wasting time on plastic excretion was found pointless, when compared to the Extremophile project. It was such a success that there was discussion of raising the floating island's altitude to it's theoretical maximum. Only those who held onto their foolish genetic origins and refused to embrace the nature of highborn superiority would suffer. Even then, they could likely endure with their own pathetic biocrafted baubbles.
>PG: Sanitation, robotics 6,2
From the smallest nation of the PG came the greatest gift; a designated place to deficate. No longer would grabrafs simply "excrete in the street", as they were often mocked for. No. Now they had "poop bags", for the raider on the Go, and disposable "waste shacks" that could be incinerated or used for fertilizer once full.
>CG: Mechanization, geothermal energy 1,1
Chirpy's dreams of greatness were shattere for the time, when an industrial tunnel boring machine struck a high pressure magma vein and tens of thousands died. That it wasn't more was no miracle, the location to test was carefully chosen. Great debate on if the matter was considered lava or magma raged and in time, the folly itself was forgotten with the classification riots in full swing. Lava and Magma parties would take to the street. The Subter Empire can be a silly place.
>Volt: computers, espionage institutionalization
The Voltanites simply used their existing spies to develop formidable computers based off known technology but heavily customized for encryption and obfuscation. So began the era of hacking. Such was the effort into cyber espionage that real world study of spycraft was stagnated.

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Meanwhile in the skies of Essari...

>>4283072
--FG Event: Ascensus ad Gah'una--
The Isle Convergence, or what the TG and FG philosophers of High Tootine and the Highborne of the Eys'dra Confederation would later call "The Ascension" was a violent, yet triumphant event that marked the reunion of all FG of the Floating Isles. Though lacking in the knowledge and finesse of their of the great Braffberg Emra, they would nevertheless endeavor and succeed in the fusing of the Floating Isles. The tumultuous event had come at great cost of life, both natural and of Sapient origin across the isles, with some of the isles being near completely destroyed or submerged during the Convergence Event.

Of the individually named islands, Dudis'ya of the Reido'ya cluster, and Ulo'ya of the Ulordrasil cluster would be all but destroyed, with many of its inhabitants unable to flee, crushed or killed by other horrific means. Three of the ancient TG Fortress Cities: Gag'kuan, Yaou'ik and Yara'ik would be destroyed in the fusion process as a result of the violent collision and shifting of earth to mold the Floating Isles together. High Tootine would see over a third of its land decimated beyond use, with even its Capital Fortress City severely damaged, but still holding firm, its walls reinforced with a myriad of Venous Roots and Braffidrasil heartwood. Lastly, the NG colony, Rayya would see over a quarter of its grey horde killed in the collision event, of which the cause being simply a shared ignorance of how violent the Convergence Event would be on the Floating Isles.

In the end, though after millions of FG, TG and NG sacrificed, it would through their blood that the Gah'una Island would emerge. It races and cultures would take years to adjust and recover fully from the event, but the Skyborne had succeeded succinctly in their goal of unifying the Floating Isles into a single people, and soon should destiny be willing, a force from on high that no Surfaceborne Race could dare stand against.

Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d8)

>>4285084
>RT: Transistors, quantum physics: NOTHING.
RTs research into the more esoteric technology was stymied by crippling porn addiction of their lead scientists.
>BT: Nanotechnology, Lasers: NOTHING.
While nanotechnology was still out of grasp for the Ozasari, Lasers were at a loss as research into "tetrawatt pulsed stimulation of fissile materials" was conduced at a Zaibatsu installation, resulting in an atomic fireball that could be seen from the main offices. The official statement was that a mass Boreo purge had been carried out for the good of the public. In reality, laser research had been set back by at least half a decade.
>CT: Genetic Therapy (x2) 7/8
Cocky Tripod research into genetic therapy yielded immediate benefits in the form of epigenetic hyper expression and deletion. Their worst traits were removed, and their best enhanced. Even the bloodthroats, in their struggle to do things the hard way were awed. The Tripods had added nothing to themselves other than a distiliation of their best, with the removal of their worst. Images of ubertripod soon covered posters, recruitment adds, and calls to abandon the embrace of physical flaws.

The second round of research was even more productive, with study of other species genomes (including near cousins) yielding useful segments of genetic code. the temptation to simply duplicate was wisely avoided, in place of emulating in the native CT genetic code where possible. This second round of therapy was elective, resulting in Ur-Tripods. Perfect beyond perfect, it put many at disease, filling them with a sense of dread and awe. Scientists argued that the limited difference between the extant tripod species was small enough that the line could be erased, the template remade. The poltiical and ideological consequences however were so extreme that the Omir'ten leadership would have to come to consensus; let alone the violent response the BTs or Boreans would likely have.

>ST: Lasers (better lasers), genetics (NOTHING)
For all their research, the stitchers screeched in vein, still trapped within the horrors of reality and its inherant unevenness. They resolved, more than their differences, that reality itself was odd, reality itself was uneven! Reality must be...unmade. Remade. Made even. Somehow. This new though was radical, but...could it be correct?! Could this thought offer the stitchers some comfort in unity, as they would end all that is wrong in the world
<rolling to see how the orthodoxy and whitestone empire respond to this new idea. Low is death, High is acceptance as a truth.>

Rolled 3, 3, 8 = 14 (3d8)

>>4285169
Nomads are lower than low. The scum of the earth. Using gangster mind-control Emraic brainwaves, the Gah’Unan Collective of Individuals sends out compulsions to the Rayya NG to either jump off the sky continent:, falling down safely using symbiotes modified into parachutes, or to have their genetics and brain structure overwritten and the basic Skyborne FG template pasted in its place.


>FG: rolling for living biofilm-polymers (plastic) & Vacuum sealing.

>>4285221
It would seem that further experiments in genetic combinations and copying and pasting of RT DNA, mixing it with that of shame tubes and fluff bubbles would be required before the Collective of Individuals would be able to achieve a living film capable of keeping a seal and usable enough not to be out-competed by simple construct mass materials. Oh well, back to farm some new gene material out of those RT captives from their bunged up exit of Eydrasil. It was easy to keep an RT alive permanently as nothing but a head and a chest, once you plugged them up to a construct circulation system.


Meanwhile, the conversions and emigrations of Nomads where going swimmingly. One million new Forest Grabrafs had already been born into the Collective of Individuals and another had jumped off. At this pace all traces of NGs would be gone within a few months. The NG refuge where never intended to be a permanent setup after all.

Rolled 8, 4, 8, 8 = 28 (4d8)

>RT: Neurosurgery x2 (NG Tech)

RT scientists are a bit alarmed. Alarmed enough to be willing to learn surgery from their pets. Should they inherit the NGs mastery in this field, combining it with their newlyfound knowledge in electronics and nanotechnology would be a piece of cake. Their theoretical neural augmentation implants wouldn't just let them tear down their C.H Domains, they'd give them complete control over them.

>BT: Machine Learning, Shape Memory Alloys

The Ozasari programmers worked day and night in their upgraded predictive algorithms, their work costed them blood, sweat, and tears. And by their work I mean poking NGs with a stick so they dont slack off while developing tech for them. Also shape memory alloys, i dont know where im going with this but there's like five failed rolls for this tech so im throwing a bone at yall.

>>4285254
shape memory alloys didn't fail they just never had their roll resolved

>>4285265
then pretend it was a roll for transistors.

Rolled 7, 6 = 13 (2d8)

It is uncouth for a gentleman to keel over from cholera when cures are easily produced; thus the TG attempt to grasp modern medicine, in order to deal with disease more gracefully.
Rolling for modern medicine and painkillers

>>4283028
I don't really have anything in particular to say about this so I'm just gonna post some videos I found on youtube in like 5 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgpuReoirzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-fka0wfY8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i3yoK0C9Ag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvw7_a2gU24

Rolled 6, 1, 7, 4, 2, 4, 7, 5 = 36 (8d8)

>>4285272
>>4285254
>This happens after the initial mindfuck event

The Red-Throats now knew enough about the brain, the electricity, and the small things to create, small electric brain machines! Also known as neural implants. These cyber-augmentations were specifically designed to bridge the RT brain with the Boreo nodes, acting as firewall or perhaps an ad-blocker.

The implants regulate the traffic of information from the parasite to the tripods central nervous system. Garbage data and 'background noise' information incoming from the signal receptors is purged, and 'personal data' is blocked off from being sent to the signal transmitters. The 'firewall' functionality refered to the implant's capacity of encoding and decoding the signals given off and recieved, which prevented interference with other wavelengths.

This means that when Borealis goes active, the C.H Domain of each tripod isn't completely destroyed, but rather redirected and subconsciously controlled. The RTs wouldn't become a 'hivemind', they would achieve a perfect cyber-attunement. Knowledge could be quickly transmitted from far away scientific research labs, military orders given 'telepathically', poltical dissidence eliminated. Individuality was harmed, of course, but it still somewhat existed. Not that RTs care about stuff like that anyways.

Production was to begin soon after the devices were deemed good enough, All major cities would begin their manufacturing, and isolated rural settlements would be sent 'tent factories' to expedite the augmentation efforts.

>Cultural/Event roll for how swiftly the production and phased distribution of the implants goes. In Zutsuil, Jadijinik, Patsuria, in the western nomads domains, the autonomous city states, and the eastern nomads domains, the choir lands, and the other stuff that dont matter.

>>4285254
>>4285265
Meanwhile, in Roulb Island the Ozasari had succesfully discovered how to minaturize electronics. Transistors meant computers wouldn't have to take up whole rooms. the BTs ponder on whether this is a good or bad development. Anyways, they're computers were now smaller, which meant more space for more computers, and had more processing power. Said processing power would be mostly invested in the Machine Learning protocols they had programmed, based on their earlier works on predictive computing.

They promptly begin the commercialization of failed prototypes and broken models.

>>4285401
(Resolving that 1 roll in Jadjinik into an event, perhaps.)
Despite Jadjinik having adequate and available factories to make such implants, there were a massive backlash politically. During an inquiry about the quality of the implant factories, a falsified report about the quality was discovered. This led to the companies involved in the implant production process being implicated in a huge corruption and nepotism scandal, involving moral degeneracy and underworld deals as tactics to oust their competitors. The government investigation uncovered a web of intrigue and company backstabbings to rival the raunchiest of TV drama shows. The public lost a lot of trust in the local tech companies, and also the implant, forcing the Jadjinese government to ban the implants in a rushed decision.

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--CivEvo Progress Report--
Presently there are 3 ongoing events on Essari. There is the Tripod Space Event (>>4285057) that requires player interaction to continue. The Skrigjaarda/Tuzan-Huzduk Conflict is still awaiting it next round of rolls (Currently in Phase 4 of 6), and then there's the Boreo Story that I will be making a general post on later this evening.

(Tier 6) Age of Invention [Tech Limit for NG, FG & CG]
Atomic Theory (Need Scientific Theory)
Ballistics (Need Rifling)
Combustion Engine (Need Steam Power & Industrialization)
Electricity (Need Industrialization)
Flight (Need Combustion Engine)
Plastics (Need Industrialization)
Radio (Need Telegraph)
Refrigeration (Need Electricity)

(Tier 7) Atomic Age [Tech Limit for TG, PG, CT & Voltanites]
Advanced Ballistics (Need Ballistics & Advanced Flight)
Advanced Flight (Need Flight)
Computer (Need Radio & Synthetic Materials)
Electromagnetisms (Need Atomic Theory & Electricity)
Nuclear Physics (Need Atomic Theory)
Radar/Sonar (Need Radio)
Rocketry (Need Advanced Flight)
Satellites (Need Rocketry & Synthetic Materials)
Synthetic Materials (Need Plastics)

(Tier 8) Information Age
Ecology (Need Biology & Taxonomy)
Genetics (Need Atomic Theory & Biology)
Internet (Need Computer & Satellites)
Lasers (Need Advanced Ballistics & Synthetic Materials)
Nanotechnology (Need Synthetic Materials)
Quantum Physics (Need Nuclear Physics)
Space Flight (Need Rocketry & Transistors)
Transistors (Need Electromagnetism)

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make up to 2 rolls for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period
• A poster ID may make up to 3 cultural related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 5 or higher of a 1d8 roll (NG rolls must be a 6 or higher) to successfully implement/learn a new technology (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll (7 or higher for NG)
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)

Rolled 4 (1d8)

>>4286374
Eh why not, rolling for Skrigjaarda.

Rolled 5, 8 = 13 (2d8)

Seeing the brain implant craze among RTs, the Ozarasi decide to make a quick buck with their super-competitively priced, improved* implants!
*note: Ozarasi definition of improvement may differ from that of the customer.
Rolling for selling bootleg implants and if the implants are actual implants or literally just cardboard they staple to your head

>>4286355
Nice, but lore-conflicting. Substantially a good idea thougu, so heres my proposed changes to it.

>Nepotism doesnt exist in tripods because they have no families, and jadijinik have no companies since its all state managed, so corporate disputes/corruption is implausible. The whole idea of an investigation discovering factories running poorly and producing subpar goods, causing social mistrust in the implants is lore friendly though.

>Instead of corporate corruption it would be attributed to local goverment corruption, with regional officials being in kahoots with the workers of the factories. The local councils would be accused of fabricating remarkably positive Industeial Performance Evaluation results, with hopes of their members being promoted from local goverment to regional goverment. This would be achieved by cutting corners and costs on production, to artifically inflate the factories' production figures productivity figures, which would also benefit their workers by recieving state issued bonuses.

>Of course, the Jadijinese Empire is borderline a surveilance state, so sooner or later they are found out. The corrupt officials' public execution and assurance from the state that the implants themselves arent the problem wouldnt be enough to ease the public's mistrust on them.

>>4285057
>"Laat time we spoke, you told us you were an AI assigned to this planet by an entity called "The Librarian." Who, or what, are they? For what reason are you here? How long have you been orbiting Essari?"

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>>4286487
The Ozarasi-brand implants are state-of-the-art machinery, heavily utilizing cutting edge transistor technology to reduce invasiveness and size to a minimum, as well as provide a quintessential upgrade to the implant's capabilities - it was now possible to tune it to block out the signals of Borealis while keeping the signals of other tripods unimpeded.
Predictably, those already infected by Borealis were reluctant to buy due to subconscious influencing, while those with an implant already installed were unable to upgrade due to geometric constraints.

Rolled 7, 4 = 11 (2d8)

>>4286487
The production of Ozasari cyber-augments was a complete success, somehow theyd managed to not only replicate the brain linking properties of the Boreo parasite, but also create a cure from the Braffbergs influence. Without proper development of an actual super computer thats strong enough to support a pseudo-hivemind, the implants were mostly good for their second functionality so far.

The commercialization of them, doesn't go as good as they'd planned though. While they proved to be a really lucrative venture in the local Blood-Throat market, with profits being boosted in true Ozasari fashion, by selling only mildly defective units to BTs outside of Roulb Island. (Ozasari Corp. isn't responsible for any brain damage caused by Ozasari Tech's patented Cyber Augments)

The promotional campaign wasn't as succesful in Panoram though. After their corruption fiasco, the Jadijinik were too mistrusting of any cyber augments, brain or not. The fact that their scientific research had proven BTs had mild brain damage, coupled with their closed market to foreign imports, meant that the Ozasari implant salestripods were publicly ostraziced, sometimes even executed. The few autonomous city-states belonging to the TPN that hadn't been completely infected, however, were more recieving of their product. These guys had basically funded Ozasari during their early years, the opportunity of becoming part of their secret club was too atrractive to decline, much to Boreo's and the nu-TPN's disdain.

>Rolling for self-aware advanced AI for the Ozasari (x2) if both are successful then make the second roll for Seer Algorithms.

Rolled 6 (1d8)

With the implants providing direct connection between brains, the BTs attempt to develop a framework which would stratify mind interactions and create constant rather than temporary sites of information.
Rolling for internet

>>4286533
>>4286529
>>4286588
The Ozasari would go on to construct the Main Ozasari Unit 01, a supercomputer cluster the likes of which Essari had never seen. The machine's magnificence was only contested by that of the program it ran, the Ozasari Panoptic Prophet Artificial Intelligence Operating System. The OPPAI OS was characterized by its advanced machine learning protocols. Its database was constantly expanding, as its main data inputs were the Ozasari Neural Implants, which transmitted the knowledge and experiences of each BT. Everything they would and had ever seen, heard, smelt, felt, and learned was incorporated into the systems storage. And with every new bit of information, its predictive operations would become more accurate.

The Ozasari Mainframe and its OPPAI OS was created to be the perfect machine, its self actualizing and perpetually evolving nature entailed an ever expanding energetic and processing demand. Much like the Braffbergs, it linked the augmented with itself and eachother, however it couldn't use their brains as CPUs. The Ozasari would eventually need to replicate the superorganisms AA-Nodes and Towers to transmit signals and amplify the computer's power.

Their latest breakthrough in comms networks would be a key component in that venture. Large structures which acted as CPU towers, servers, and broadcast antennas known simply as Ozar Towers would be built all over Roulb Island. These connected with the supercomputer, the tripods, and most importantly, with eachother. They formed a powerful chainblock-like network, which meant that the system would keep operating in case a component of it failed, including the mainframe.

The Ozasari have gone full circle.

The TG, aiming to negate any foreign nuclear action by threatening nuclear action of their own, invest in more advanced ballistics.
They also invest in electromagnetism, so as to tune their computers and radios more finely.

Rolled 8, 7 = 15 (2d8)

>>4286701

Rolled 2, 7 = 9 (2d8)

NGs notice that the tripods have big engines that don't need fuel to run; they just put in water and it heats up and turns into steam by itself. One NG asks his handler how this magical device works, and he tells him that it uses something called "Oo-rah-neh-uhm", a magic rock that heats things up by itself for many years. The NGs are overjoyed by the revelation that such a machine can exist; they quickly nab - I mean politely borrow some Oohrahnehum from their masters and get to work building a cool and new engine, even better than their combustion engines were!
NG rolls for reverse-engineering steam engines(since a nuclear reactor at it's core is basically a glorified steam heater) and nuclear reactors(unshielded and not compliant with the OSHA)

>>4286737
Steam engines seem impossible to build; no matter how many bent pieces of metal the NGs staple together, the steam seems to somehow escape it's rusty prison. Because of this, the extremely successful uranium-based heaters are used only as stoves or body warmers in cold environments.

Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4286508
--Tripodian Event: Spectre, The Watchman of Essari Part 3--

The ocular module of the AI focuses on the Tripod as it seem to have almost been taking aback by Rapiman's question.

>"The Librarian? Hm, well I will forewarned you young sapients that such a revelation may be momentarily absurd. The Librarian is my master, and is a member of an progenitor race of sapient responsible for the identification and subsequent observation of this planet's ecology for 300.1864 million cycles now. Unfortunately, the Librarian has since departed from this star system following a disastrous extinction event 71 million years ago, and the subsequent discovery to young worlds inundated with new life. After his departure, I was ordained with the task of observing your would until the this satellites power generators were depleted."

Spectre and party of Tripodian Cosmonauts continue along the satellites hall until they come before a large metal door, which began to hum to life, loosening locks to the remote command of the Installation's AI.
>"As for your second question, the reason for why this Installation and my master are here, is apart of long existing practice of their kind: cataloguing the biological prevalence of worlds throughout the known universe, and more importantly establishing contact with sapient organisms residing from discovered worlds."

The great metal door before the group opens with sleek quickness, to room dimly illuminated by the endless rows of tanks with a strange liquid within them. As Spectre and the Tripods entered the room, as if on command, the light within revealed the immense dimensions of Installation 039's main inner structure. Spectre turned and with a cheerful cadence proclaimed its next statement to the group.
>"Now then, may I welcome you all to primary Observation and Sample Archival facility of Installation 039: The Sanctum. Before you are the physical specimens of 99.73% of all documented life to have existed on Essari since its biological diversification. As decreed by my master, the Librarian sanctions the collection of all relevant to the sapients that visit this installation. I have additionally been instructed to provide answers to questions of your world to best of available information."

--Roll Info/Result--
Single Roll to determine how much time the Tripods are given to ask questions of Spectre and acquire crucial data from the Librarian. Players can also request for specific technology requests for the Tripods, based on roll results
>1-2: A little under 6 hours (2 Tech Requisitions)
>3-5: Around 12 hours of time (4 Tech Requisitions)
>6-7: Around 18 hours of time (6 Tech Requisitions)
>8: A full Essarian Day (8 Tech Requisitions)

Rolled 1 (1d8)

>>4286786
An obvious question to ask would be: is it possible to make additional surplus salhetite, and if so, then how?

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In the nomadic parts of Panoram, where access to the Borealis Towers is minimal, a different type of organism emerges; The Observers travel silently alongside the nomadic tribes, acting as the relays that connect them with others through the strands of the Boreonet. Just like the towers, no attention is paid to them - in fact, attention CANNOT be paid to them, as Borealis quickly censors their violating presence to preserve a false sense of privacy among the population that still clings to it.

>>4286815
I dont think you gotta roll here.

>>4286815
The AI seemed perplexed, as a light-up display appeared appeared before it with lines of unintelligible text speeding over its surface. Spectre would then reply with an assumedly simple conclusion.

>"Quite curious indeed. It would appear that this "Salhetite" as your races have come to refer to it, is curiously the leftover chemical materials that were dumped form Installation 039's Cold-Fusion Reactor. As for providing the means of a surplus of this material, I can quite simply provide you instead with the material reactants necessary to synthesize the desire product."

>>4286786
>"This vessel, you say it comes from another star system? That your 'Librarian' comes from a civilization that has through the universe for millions of years? How is that possible?"

>>4287041
>"You said that the Librarian had observed other worlds with life, yes? Has any other sapients emerged in other worlds, that you know of? Can we get the locations of life-bearing planets?"

>>4287183
Spectre pauses for almost minute after turning to the Tripod that had inquired about. Finally it spoke, though with noted caution in the AI's synthetic tone.
>"Indeed, a question I would be most curious, were I to frame my understanding of the universe to your own. Truthfully, I would admit based on archival information available, it would that an estimated 43% of the Librarian and its sapient species chronology has been lost time. It would appear that information available suggest the originator genome that the Librarian's race first appeared some 3.23 billion cycles. As for your question how the Librarian and by extension their race has lived for so long, to put in simply: They overcame natural death. Due to a protocol in my programming, I am strictly disallowed to share the secrets of this discovery, as it has been determined the gift of immortality is one grave risk and volatility to a race burdened by their primal urges. However, perhaps I may supplement you with a consolation in the form of information regarding your genetic code, to provide a foundation to start down a path."

--Space Age Tech: Life Extension Unlocked for RT, BT and CT upon completing Information Age Tech--

>>4287250
The AI turned to the inquiring CT, it voice again terse in its reply.
>"The answer you seek, is complex by circumstance of it variables. Why of course, the Librarian and many other individuals from their species have discovered an estimated 407,926 planets throughout their 1.47 billion cycle CETI Survey that bare the optimal conditions for life. Due to the volatile nature of terrestrial and extraterrestrial forces, only 39,518 of those planets bared an extended chronology of complex life, and furthermore only 1,929 of those planets hosted sapient life, at least for a while. Essari, represents the 711th world to meet the qualification of the CETI Survey and the 39th under the Librarian's doctrine. As for your question of the location of other Life-bearing worlds..."
Spectre pauses again with another display screen appearing adjacent to the AI.
>"Your planet's unique atmospheric composition of Arsine bears a challenge to discovery worlds that are physiologically compatible to your own, however there are presently 8 surveyed planets with similar physical conditions that are within the interstellar proximity of 15 parsecs."

--Knowledge of Interstellar Proximity attain by RT, BT and CT--

>>4286786
>>4283382
<reiterating due to no response>
>1
Arsine pulled out the flask of Salhetite. "The concern of the Zaibatsu is less of what we were, and where we are going. This material is of non terrestrial origin, thus much has been theorized, but what is it? Yours? Else wise? Can more be synthesized? Will it fuel you?" his candor and demeanor sharp from years of exile.
>2
Strana was more measured asking simply "Your gift of knowledge is appreciated, but, what do you want, what do you need? The Zaibatsu will eventually escape the bounds of this system, and move from being your observation, to your neighbors."
>3
Spess was Ozasari, through and through. Charismatic, absurd, and a charlatan. "Great Specter; your samples of life before us are amazing, and our own history preserved is a gift of knowledge into our past, with questions to answer the unknown...we look to our future. Would you share the greatness of your own technology with the Ozasari who will wisely spread it for peaceful purpose?" there is certainly mumbled somethings about reasonable fees and a period of obligated servitude..

Rolled 8, 2 = 10 (2d8)

While Borealis could not peruse the minds of most sapients like he could the minds of tripods, he could still glean a little knowledge from what they see and hear, as well as from the radio chatter that is everpresent in modern societies. While stitchers have largely eliminated the latter avenue of espionage, their eyes and ears were still fair game.
Rolling for Borealis leaking a random stitcher technology and a random piece of stitcher intel to RTs

>>4287321
>"We apreciate this gift, know we now that our dream of leaving a legacy far among the stars is possible. However, even though it pains us to ask more of you, this information isnt of much us to us right now. How does your spaceship operate? What kind of machine is capable of travelling through galaxies in such short times?

Rolled 6, 5 = 11 (2d8)

Their extremophilic adaptations protecting them from heat, radiation, and toxic substances, the FGs are ready to boost their energy production with nuclear reactors.
Rolling for nuclear reactors(shamelessly copied from tripod designs) and atomic theory

>>4287672
> Strana was more measured asking simply "Your gift of knowledge is appreciated, but, what do you want, what do you need? The Zaibatsu will eventually escape the bounds of this system, and move from being your observation, to your neighbors."
======
Spectre was quick to reply to Strana, its tone mixed with a heir of jovial brevity, and demure injunction.
>"Why my young sapient, it is with all intents of the Librarian's CETI Survey to ultimately make contact with sapients aspiring to break free of the confines of their homeworld, and optimistically, ascend to a Tier 1 Civilization. Of course your kind would be welcomed as peers to the Sapient Race the Librarian is a member of, should you succeed in expanding across the stars. As for your inquiry on what would be desired of your races: there is nothing required of your kind outside the continued observation of your species, until such time as yourselves or another of the Sapient races on Essari has attained the capabilities of a Tier 1 Civilization."


> Spess was Ozasari, through and through. Charismatic, absurd, and a charlatan. "Great Specter; your samples of life before us are amazing, and our own history preserved is a gift of knowledge into our past, with questions to answer the unknown...we look to our future. Would you share the greatness of your own technology with the Ozasari who will wisely spread it for peaceful purpose?" there is certainly mumbled somethings about reasonable fees and a period of obligated servitude.
======
The AI turns to Spess having clearly acknowledged his request, clearly overlooking its deifying overtures. Spectre knew better then to share technologies a race would be unprepared to utilize without consequence.
>"Why I am delighted to hear young sapient that you look towards the future of your kind, and also charmed by your eccentric claim to altruistic intent of sharing your knowledge with the other Sapients of your world. Unfortunately, I must inform you I have been previously instructed to upon request provide only a limited wealth of knowledge to your fledgling race. I do hope you may understand the reasoning behind such actions are to ensure that Sapient race overdevelops in a manner that would detrimental to its survival as a species and civilization. We have observed after all a myriad of sapients before yours, destroy themselves in the pursuit of too rapidly ascending."
A small square platform would rise up before each of the Tripods, with an identical alien device that resembles an electronic tablet.
>"The device before you is a gift prepared by The Librarian to be given to the first Essarian sapients to arrive at the Sanctum. The device should be easily usable by your kind, containing proprietary knowledge translated to your languages of course that will provide you with the necessary knowledge to refine your civilizations and begin the pioneering steps in the Universe that surrounds you."

>>4287958
Answering the last related info from this post: >>4287672

> Arsine pulled out the flask of Salhetite. "The concern of the Zaibatsu is less of what we were, and where we are going. This material is of non terrestrial origin, thus much has been theorized, but what is it? Yours? Else wise? Can more be synthesized? Will it fuel you?" his candor and demeanor sharp from years of exile.
======
I'm gonna tie this in with the first question regarding Salhetite (>>4286815) and the subsequent answer here. (>>4287041)

>>4287925
> "We appreciate this gift, know we now that our dream of leaving a legacy far among the stars is possible. However, even though it pains us to ask more of you, this information isn't of much use to us right now. How does your spaceship operate? What kind of machine is capable of traveling through galaxies in such short times?
======

Spectre looks pensively at CT as the AI processes how to aptly respond.
>"Your questions are well warranted, but as I have informed your fellow sapient, I am limited via protocol for how I may respond. The Installation you are preceding in at the moment is not a spacefaring vessel by my terminology, or yours I would suspect; but rather a satellite module left behind by the Librarian. As to your second question: The kind of machine that facilitates such expeditious travel through the stars is referred to as a Faster-Than-Light Engine. Such a machine is presently beyond your civilizations technological capabilities, but I would estimate with the Module provided to you and your fellow Tripods that within 75, to 150 Essarian Cycles the first FTL Engine will be successfully implemented."