>>4941199

With Gildur and Treg trailing behind and the bug-man "Kezel" slung over his shoulder, you make your way back to the ship and head towards medical.
However, you pass by Kyla in the hallway, who's furiously smacking a bent pipe with her hammer.

She turns to look when she hears you stomping through the ship, and narrows her eyes at the pirates you have in tow.

"...A Jek'na?" Treg asks as you pass.

You watch in amusement as Kyla sticks her leg out, tripping Treg and causing Kezel to fall forwards, smacking his face against the floor.
Kezel groans sleepily, but doesn't wake up. He's bleeding from his nose, now.

"You assholes owe me labor and damages." She states matter-of-factly, kicking Treg in the fat several times.

"Yes ma'am, sorry ma'am... OOF" He cries.

"Get off your ass, Treg. Hurry up." You demand.

He does as he's told and you head into medical... where you find Cylia, still just sitting around. Possibly waiting for you.

"These the guys?" She asks.

"Yeah," You respond. "How's your arm?"

"Sanig applied some painkillers and bone gel, then set it. Should be healed up in a couple days, but i can't lift anything heavy with it until then."

"Alright. In the meantime, i have some new friends for you. Watch out for the bug, he's violent."

"Okay. I'll have a chat with them... by the way, how did the suit fare?"

"Really well. I'm looking forward to seeing Gron again."

"Huh? You know Gron?" Treg asks.

"...Do you?" You reply.

"Not personally, no... but he comes by every once in a while, looking for recruits."

"Oh really, now? Interesting."

"Hey, you didn't hear that from me, alright!"

"Sure, sure. And i'm certain we won't hear anything else by the end of this, either."

Treg chuckles nervously and stares at the ground, looking like he's panicking on the inside.

"Have fun, Cyl." You say, waving to her as you leave.

Back in the cargo back now, you dock the armor back to it's cargo container and briefly check the energy usage... it's still at 99%. Not bad, you'd say.
Stepping out, you load everything back into the crate and sigh out, the air feeling extremely thin in comparison to the suit's environment.
You had asked the crew about it, but apparently not only is earth-levels of oxygen a fire hazard, it's also poisonous. Great.

Sanig isn't in here, so you're not sure what he's up to.

"SHODAN, do you know where Sanig is?"

"He appears to be ripping replacement parts out of the opponent's ship, Captain."

"Alright. Tell him not to disable anything important. That ship's a piece of shit, but it's still functional. I'm gonna sell it, too."

"You are quite the entrepreneur, Captain."

"Hey, operating costs ain't cheap. Anyways, i'm gonna go take a look at this interdictor they've got. I've read up on them, but i've never seen one."

"They are highly illegal after all."

"Nothing's illegal if you don't get caught."

What about the other ship we disabled?

Surely there are people onboard worth ransoming.

Now that I think about it, why don't we try ransoming these people back to family and friends? They might pay more, or we might like them enough so long as they committing war crimes.

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>>4941634
>Gron goes to the station for recruits
Hello, my name is overwhelming firepower and American grit. This surprise attack is unexpected, but enthusiastic.
Run away button stopper: GET
>>4941665
You mean the one we are currently looting the shit out of?

You mean the dumbasses we just dragged in and are going to cash the bounties of? Don't skip reading.

>>4941665
It's drifting with a giant hole in the side.
Chances are, the people inside became outside when the hull depressurized.

Ah shit! I just realized i accidentally numbered this thread #3 instead of #4
This is why you don't do shit right after waking up, lads.

>>4941676
nothing you can't fix when archiving it.
You've been doing it right?

>>4941678
Yep. The last thread's archive is in the OP.

>>4941676
Just make sure its labeled properly in the archive, should be fine after that. Maybe make a note before the new thread to make the next number 5 so you don't mislabel again.
>>4941680
Based

>>4941634
So the station is an ally to Gron and the Drak Stars?
Fuck recruiting and making deals with them, we are taking it over, interrohating them and getting their bounties.

>>4941686
No, it's just one of the places he goes to recruit new members. The pirates are mostly independent, although they live (and sometimes work) together.

>>4941688
Doesn't matter QM, it's a thin enough of a excuse to invade and take all that they got, and put puppets in it's place.
It's the true american way.

>>4941680
oh, it's right there. Speedreading is one hell of a drug

>>4941634
So we grabbed the bigger of the two ships. Did we bother to investigate the smaller one? Was it small enough that we could literally tow it back?

>>4941672
Can we find the dead corpses to claim the bounty still? What about taking parts from the ship, like fuel, the shields, the A.I. core, lasers, armor, drugs, etc.

>>4941753
We blasted the smaller one to pieces

>>4941761
All I remember was something about it turning off after five of our six shots hit its weakened shields. Theres still a chance to find some decent salvage, or at least confirm the deaths of the bounty targets.

>>4941671
We took out 2 ships dude.

>>4941776
I made the assumption he knew the other was slagged.

>>4941775
Anon, we obliterated it. the only thing we could find would be its blackbox, or AI core.

>>4941753
You could potentially do that, yes.

>>4941775
It's shields weren't weakened, they were just weak in the first place.

>>4941779
Plenty of stuff to salvage on a slagged ship.

Heck we could turn the ship into a kinetic weapon and have it fly into the pirate base.

>>4941822
wait, not yet. depending on how we're going to jump on gron(basically how saida is going to do it), we might need the base as a bait of sorts, or to make it our base of operations.

>>4941796
>>4941822
>>4941826
Confirmed, let's loot it lads.

>>4941634

Your enemies dealt with for the moment, you take some time to think about things while walking back over to the enemy ship.
That second ship, while heavily damaged is likely worth looting. You need to speak with Clang, search the ship for any valuables and get the interdictor out of there.

"Oh, David? Good timing, help me get this panel open, would you?" Sanig asks.

You dig your fingers under the aluminum panel and simply rip it off the hinges with a firm tug.

"It's still shocking how you can do that, even without the armor on." He remarks.

"Gron could do it too. I'm sure that kind of strength isn't all that special."

"Boy... if species like you were common, the galaxy would be overrun with them by now. I should be thanking the gods every morning that those damned Chondrites only breed once a century at the most."

He pauses, looking you up and down.

"How frequently can you humans breed, by the way?"

"...About once every ten months at the quickest. Sometimes we have multiple offspring, as well."

"...I see. Well, when the conquest comes, just remember that ol' Sanig has been good to you... Seriously. Put in a good word for me, will you?"

"Hey, no worries, chief. We're good to our allies, so long as they don't try to fuck us over. In that case, we do horrible, horrible things to them, because there's nothing worse than a traitor."

"I'll be sure to remember that. Forever."

"Great! So then, what are you looking for?"

"Ah, right... Let's see, where was it?"

Sanig digs through his pack for a moment, pulling out a burned... something. It looks electronic, you don't know what the hell it is.

"We're looking for one of these, a half-megawatt rectifier. That damned interdiction caused some damage to our black box reactor's assembly, and we'll need to repair it before we can leave."

"Alright, i'll get to ripping panels open."

"It should be around here somewhere..."

You end up finding it rather quickly. It looks a bit rusted, but Sanig assures you it doesn't matter in the slightest.
Apparently the weapons system on this ship is disabled as a result of removing it, however.

"Hey Sanig, let SHODAN drive the hovercart back. I want to take a look at the interdictor. I NEED this thing on my ship."

"Heh," He chuckles. "Figures. Fine, let's get a look at it. Damned thing is probably a barely-functional scrap heap if the rest of this ship is anything to judge by."

SHODAN marks the location on your map, and you find it right next to the reactor room. You'd guess it takes a lot of power, and needs access to dark matter and energy to function.
The machine is surprisingly small, and it stands out like a sore thumb on this rusted old bucket of a ship. Clean, gleaming metal and seemingly in perfect condition.

"Now that's odd..." Sanig remarks.

"Yeah, no kidding. Either they just bought it or it's it was just given to them. Look, there's not even any dust on it."

>>4942058
>get to removing it, and ask Sanig about Eugenics

>>4942058
All this talk about population and Cylias reaction to casualties last thread makes me wonder what their population numbers are like, let’s ask and compare.

>>4942058
+1 this >>4942078
Big question is who gave this to them. I'm betting it was tiny dick rock man. Does Sanig or SHODAN have any ideas if anything beyond the interdictor is worth adding onto our ship? Additional Lasers? Additional thrusters? Armor? Shields?
Do they have any physical capital (drugs, loot, salvage, documents, etc.)

>>4942058
Better tell Sanig to not worry too much about a Human Galatic Crusade, humanity favorite pastime is splintering.

>>4942094
i feel that everyone's numbers are really low. maybe humanity is one of the few species that pops out babies relatively fast and really dumb, instead of having them kinda capable of dealing with existence like most babies in the animal kingdom.

>>4942094
Also supporting this

>>4942108
I think part of the numbers game here is that carnivores tend to have large solitary territories and as such would have a lower general population.
The herbivore populations on the other hand are evolved for dealing with much lower/weaker predators than one finds on Earth. If earth predators were to be in the same environment the aliens would need 100x or a thousand times more offspring. If we went full Predator (movie) we'd tear through thousands of them practically by accident.

>>4942104
most -if not all- the other things in the ship are incredibly shitty(due to belonging to pirates) so the answer is no.

>>4942262
We wont know until we check it out, and we still need to cash in those bounties on the corpses freezing in space.

>>4942058
Humanity would have probably remained united if they had any actually dangerous opponent out there in the galaxy, as it is, we’ll probably remain our own opponent, so we’ll splinter again x)

>>4942518
China. And Feminists. And furries.

>>4942518
We have to be splinters so that the cyclos of civilization does not extinguish all human civilization at the same time.

Emprace decentralization.

>>4942543
No. I want all the eggs in one basket so when we go we all go together. Like one big space family.

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>>4942531
>proving his point by choosing human enemies

>>4942551
Cancers on the inside need to be cut, it is the only way. Shit, I forgot Africa too, thanks Chinaman, if you don't go down from CCP executions for not protecting them, I hope to see you.
>>4942543
>>4942548
We get rid of communists, the jews, honestly just leave all of Africa but South Africa if it still stands, and take everyone else. Should be fine.

>>4942555
The problem with Africa is the extremely combative and regressive nature of local culture. If you could just get them to sit down and stop fucking murdering each other literally all the time you could probably manage to make the place into a genuinely nice (if hot) place to live. Africa can be quite stunning to see.

Of course we aren't Hercules. So undertaking a task even he'd struggle to accomplish is pointless.

Also lately South Africa has been going to shit. Well more than usual. Maybe get some care packages to the good people who still live there. See if they can't pull through.

>>4942555
Easy there lil hitler.
We can probably just make it viable for those ideologies to die out both competitively and economically over time if we get rid of elites who use it to divide people and keep themselves in power.

>>4942568
They seemed to behave under colonial rule, when whites were in charge.

>>4942568
>Destabilize the region for centuries and continue to do so to this day

>Shell oil literally assassinates anyone trying to improve things because it might make it cost them more to drill oil.
>It's the African's fault everything is messed up
You need to bring Africa into this anyway because not doing so leaves China a functional place to exploit resources from and survive like it's best Korea while they slowly get their spies to steal tech.

>>4942575
I don't know how David will resolve the issues, all I know is that he must kill. Kill the dictators and warlords in Africa. Maybe get SHODAN to do a lot of hacking to real all the skeletons the dirty poloticans are hiding in their closets.
Uh. Big oil bad or something.

Didnt Africans try to chase away white farmers, then starved because they didnt know how to farm.

>>4942577
We should absolutely kick the asses of the biggest shell oil CEOs and board member or some shit.

>>4942578
We don't have to every get our boots dirty.

Just open up a super 4chan with true anomality and let the truth come out and nature will take its course. We help the people fight for truth and justice. Allow information of corruption and immoral behavior come to light to the masses, create our own social media from space. They can't really stop that if we set up our own networks and infrastructure from space.

On top of all that we can always tip the scales a bit buy doing stock market trading stuff and ensure equal and fair opportunities to people who are oppressed and censored.

>>4942610
I feel like it would be faster and more in character to just invite farmers, marines, and normal people to space whle leaving Jeff Bezos alone in his penis jet because we decided the greedy megacorps and any subsidiaries aren't allowed in space

>>4942612
>The Terran Foreign Legion wants you! Remember, service guarantees catgirl waifus! Would you like to know more?

>>4942058

"No, boy. More than that, this is grey tech. More modernized than what i'm used to, and clearly built cheap... but i know it when i see it."

"Their station also has a stealth tech, including an optical cloaking field. That would explain why, but not why the greys are there."

"It could be an outpost. In which case, we should be careful. It'll be more difficult to take out than you would think, just by looking at it."

"What do you mean by outpost?" You wonder.

"Mmm. Well, grey scouts have to go great distances without refueling and operate for long periods of time without resupplying. But there's a limit to that, so what do they do?"

"Ah." You realize. "That's why they never seem to show up in regular stations?"

"Exactly." He confirms. "Hives like this are perfect as resupply stations, and they can even pick up extra test subjects by putting out bounties the pirates can collect on."

"Damn, i would have expected them to have their own high-tech stations in super secretive places, like in the spaces between stars."

"They do." Sanig confirms. "But out here, in the far reaches of civilization? It's much easier to just quietly take over a pirate station, to make use of what's already there. It makes less "noise" that way, you know?"

"I get you. Just blending in amongst the populace, right? Nothing to see here..."

"Well, it doesn't matter either way. There's likely nobody there at the moment, or indeed most of the time. We should still keep our distance, however. Now come, this interdictor should come out quite easily."

"Alright, but hey... why doesn't this ship come with one in the first place?" You wonder.

"Because it's a long-range scout ship, you fool. It was barely even armed before you got your hands on it. Why in god's name would they ever break protocol and directly engage with an enemy ship?"

"Huh. Oh yeah, this is supposed to be a scout ship. I forgot about that. Oh well! It'll have even more lasers strapped to it soon enough."

"We're going to need an extra supercapacitor bank..." Sanig grumbles.

Work on the interdictor goes quickly, like Sanig said. It was clearly designed to be easily installed and removed from almost any ship.
Once that's done, you both start looking around the ship for loot. Drugs, salvage, documents, physical currency, free nutrient paste, spare energy cells, tools and equipment, whatever you can find.

There are some drugs apparently, but only enough for personal use, and according to Sanig they'd be about as strong as a stiff cup of tea for you, so you decide to just toss them.
There is actually quite a bit of salvage in the ship's cargo bay, although you're not sure what half of it's for. It seems valuable, and probably stolen from actual salvagers.
As for documents... well, there's not much on the ship's computers, unless you're interested in their browser history. A few sales records, some notes to their families... nothing.
What they do have a lot of is tools and equipment.

>>4942621
Does David know the chemical structures of meth, cocaine, thc, etc. See if Sanig likes them, albeit in nonlethal doses

>>4942633
He has to know meth at least. Everyone has watched Breaking bad.

>>4942621
>"Well, it doesn't matter either way. There's likely nobody there at the moment, or indeed most of the time. We should still keep our distance, however. Now come, this interdictor should come out quite easily."
Sanig if that were the case then why do these guys have this brand new interdictor module? Clearly someone's been here recently at least. The most likely scenario is that some Grey ship drifted by before Kyla scrambled the tracking stuff in ours, but then by the time they could get reinforcements she'd done the deed.

>>4942621
Well, this just makes the station an even juicer target to take over.
If only we could strap some truster to it, relocate it to someplace else so we don't have to deal with greys and pirates coming to check on it, and tgem we get our very own Outer Heaven.

>>4942684
Were in a scrapyard, we could just cobble one together.

>>4942705
And our space goblin knows a lot about guetto engineering, together with David's knoweldge of welding, it might actually be possible.

>>4942621
I wonder if it would be possible to modify a laser to be super charged, like a one shot disposable laser that's strong enough to punch up its tonnage class. What does Sanig thing? One shot replaceable cheap lasers? Dont forget about their personal shields, firearms, and the Plasma launcher. With all the shields we're collecting I'm wonder if we can sell them for mass cash back on earth, or trade them for additional capital back on the station.

Hey dont forget about needing to upgrade or stack on shields. No way we're gonna deal with adition damages to our shipfu.

>>4942705
>>4942715
We just need to beat the shit out I'd the greys, and weed out the pirates for potential conscripts in our "Soldiers without Borders" merely entry group.

>>4942834
I don't think single-shot lasers are very practical on account of how lasers actually work. Unlike explosive weaponry where you can just crank up the power of the propellant charge past the strength of whatever's containing it with lasers you've got a very finely balanced dance of putting the appropriate amount of energy into special materials in order to get them emit exactly what you want to emit and nothing else.

There are a couple of designs that avoid this (or rather, accumulate the light in a different way) and could theoretically be 'overclocked' to make something single-shot like you're talking about, but I'm still not sure it's a good idea.

Or maybe I'm totally misunderstanding how lasers work and an actual physics-anon will push my shit in.

>>4942846
This is space age alien shit. Letw just say your both right and wrong in some aspects.
I bring up the "one shot use laser" idea because I'm pretty sure if you're overclocking a laser weapon to fire more intense laser, the weapon will wear down faster. Which was why I thought, "instead of several powerful shots, why not one bug powerful shot"? So we can sneakily K.O. some battle grade ships.
We could even make the laser weapon mount modular so it takes less time to swap them out.

>>4942846
>>4942858
You could overclock a laser. It just wouldn't be very effective. Unlike guns or bombs where you just upscale the container a laser at some point will start to damage the space around the weapon through heat bleeding. Like if you could blast straight through a battleship in a single shot you would turn your entire ship into slag because you're closer to the beamy death ray.

The reason why properly tuned lasers don't do this is because they aren't trying to pump out maximum damage with no regard to safety. Everything is within tolerances and focused correctly to make sure 99% of the energy is going forward. If you're firing above spec the lensing doesn't work the way it should.

Guns might explode if you push them too far but if you're stuffing them with particularly hot ammo they still work perfectly fine. This is because guns are actually super simple. There's a hole on one end and the gasses/explosive pressure shoves the bullet out of it. Lasers have this dumb lenses and shit which all need to be in certain positions at certain angles and they can only take so much energy before they just stop working.

Overclocking a laser too much would just be effectively strapping a thermal generator to your ship that glows really fucking bright.

Of course I have no idea what I'm talking about.

>>4942633
doubt that. he barely remembered msg after all.
>>4942834
if you want to have a oneshot weapon, wouldn't it be better to have a railgun/coilgun then? same effect, less hassle

>>4942887
Maybe, but we have a shit ton of lasers now. Reduce, reuse, and recycle as they say, or we could sell them I suppose.

>>4942888
we can also just not add anything else to the ship. i mean, we already saw what the new lasers are capable of.

>>4942858
Space age alien shit doesn't change the fundamentals of how some things are accomplished. Projectile weapons will still accelerate projectiles, either via chemisty or magnetism. Lasers will still produce consistent wavelengths of light through excitation of specific compounds and then using mechanisms of focusing to concentrate the energy.

>>4942834
You could actually make a laser that uses chemical capsules to temporarily generate massive bursts of laser light.
None of the penetrating power of a bullet, and all the hassle of a cartridge-based firearm!

The only place it would actually be useful is as a backup weapon for ship to ship combat, because it could keep running just off battery power when the lights go out.

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>>4942846
>>4942876

The main issue with making a stronger laser tends to be focusing the beam.
Glass is pretty clear, but it's not perfectly clear, you see. And that tiny, tiny, TINY amount of light the glass absorbs is still enough to make it explode past a certain point.
So either you need a larger focus, or clearer, stronger glass.

Waste heat is also a big issue, but space society has figured out how to pump heat really, really efficiently.
There is no threat of melting your ship by being near the beam though. That's very specifically not how lasers work, at all.
Not in a vacuum, anyways.

You also won't be blasting through a ship in a single shot.
When a laser gets powerful enough, it vaporizes the material it hits into an expanding cloud of hot gas.
That cloud of gas then obscures the target, preventing more energy from being dumped into it. The already-vaporized material acts as a shield.

Between that and the massive energy draw of a continuous laser beam, that's why pulse lasers are the way to go.
You release as much energy as possible in short bursts, causing small explosions at the impact point and cratering out holes in the target.

So no, you aren't likely to be doing any of video related.

>>4943025
Dont mess with us QM, are you a Theoretical Physicist? Or just a genius?

>>4943029
This is all basic level scientific education, he may be those things but this is a level of knowledge any hobbyist could have. What are you, a middle schooler?

>>4943032
Never forget that we live in a world where tiktok exists and children eat tide pods for fun and profit.

>>4943032
are you saying I could have learned about Lasers in highschool?

>>4943035
The basics you could've learned about in elementary school if you were so inclined. By highschool you could've bought a kit and built a laser.

>>4943038
What the fuck dude. fucking counselors dont tell anyone shit.

>>4943035
>>4943040
thankfully you can learn and make a laser right now

>>4942578
>Didnt Africans try to chase away white farmers, then starved because they didnt know how to farm.

I general terms, yes. Took white people's farms then ran them into the ground due to incompetence and corruption.

Also fun story I heard: One young African eventually got tired of working for peanuts so he managed to save up and buy a small cart and clay oven and began making bread to sell on the street. Halfway through his 1st day, an older family member found him. The man said, "You have bread. The family needs bread." Then took nearly all of it leaving him with only a few loaves. The kid couldn't make enough to cover the cost for buying what he needed for ingredients the next day, so he had to sell off his cart and go back to menial labor. Their culture is shit like that.

>>4943038
>>4943048
Well during Highschool, I designed and 3d printed a Bird House.

>>4943060
Sounds like you had the opportunities but lacked the will to power necessary to make a laser. You should remedy this deficiency of yours immediately.

>>4943067
yeah, add a laser to that birdhouse

>>4943077
Oh god a fucking bird house with a laser PD

>>4943080
No, a birdhouse that equips the tenants with laser beam helmets you dummy.

>>4943082
That would require a complex dispenser machine with pullys and arms and shit to attach it to the birds head. besides once that shit even turns on, it would scare the bird away, or make it peck the machine, possibly damaging it.

>>4943106
I see you still lack the capacity to walk the tightrope.

>>4943077
With AA defenses

>>4943077
Do it, for the Dodos.

>>4943116
I have the capacity to do it, I know it, but I lack the motivation.

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>>4943132
>I-I could do that if i felt like it...

>>4943032
When I was in middle school they were trying to teach me how to square dance and the only sciences they taught were biology and chemistry. The only physics they covered were newton's laws and the thermodynamics was only included insofar as what stuff you shouldn't mix in a beaker or it'll burn/explode.

High school was much the same, just with more numbers and "scientific" names for bones/bodily structures.

So yes, I will admit I know less than whatever school you find these laser children at.

>>4943150
>>4943035
>>4943029
You guys don't actually think lasers are complicated do you? Like they're hard to develop and advance in terms of actual engineering but they're not hard to understand in concept.

>Have substance (usually a chemically weird crystal or gas mixture) that will emit light if you electrify it, just like a lightbulb does
>Because it's chemically weird though it puts off super specific wavelengths
>Since you've got super specific wavelengths you can use chemically weird and specially engineered mirrors and lenses to get all this light moving in one direction
>Then once you've got that just open the mirror pointing at what you want to burn
That's a tremendous ovesimplification but it gets the core concept across.

>>4943159
Yeah I knew about refractions and glass and shit. Its lasers on the level of 40k lasguns, or Turbo Lasers from Starwars that I think is complicated.

>>4943165
Oh, so things that don't exist.

>>4943159
I get the concept behind it. I don't get how any of that shit works. What I do know is that if you fuck up the lenses it'll diffuse the beam and cause heat/light to escape how you don't want it to. Everything is a tight construction with exacting specifications.

But these are -space- lasers. Makes about as much sense to me as phasers do. Could you use a big enough fan to blow the "projectile" off course? Fucked if I know. Space tech. I can only imagine.

>>4943170
yes. But years of not thinking about lasers and how they work tend to degrade your neural pathways. Just like how I learned how to make Spaghetti.

You could just say, Im Smart, but retarded at the same time.

>>4943159
I mostly just remember that you essentially use mirrors to combine all the light beams into a shiny laser and even then I suspect I wasn't taught that in the school itself because they simply told us the definition of what a laser was instead of the process to make one.

>>4943173
in space no because there is no atmosphere, but the physics behind a laser are the same in space as in the earth, only that in space they take way longer to happen because there are no atmosphere or atoms that can disrupt a beam

>>4943173
In an atmosphere a fan could blow the air and somewhat change its lensing effects such that a laser wouldn't travel in a straight line, but it would hardly be noticeable.

>>4943188
I think you got mixed up anon, or you know something I don't. What's being in a vacuum got to do with the speed with which the physics behind a laser happen?

>>4943188
>>4943197
I was talking about blowing the phaser blast off course. But yeah. Cool.

>>4943197
yeah, i got it kinda mixed up. i read the post as a fan disrupting a laser instead of a fan literally moving a laser to a new course

>>4943204
Well I forget what OP's specific explanation for phasers here was, but typically the concept of a lightning gun dictates that you use a laser to create an electrically conductive path between you and your target then you discharge electricity.

So if you were blowing air with a really strong fan then it might move air fast enough that as the gases were ionized they would be blown away before they could form a full conductive loop between target and gun. However if the wind wasn't blowing fast enough then the laser would just continually re-ionize gas along the line it's pointing as the other gas was blown away.

As for how you actually ionize air using a laser without turning it into full on plasma...I don't actually know. I think we can do it now under lab conditions, but I'm not familiar with the mechanism by which it operates.

>>4943223
Shit man I thought the phasers shot a ball of electrified gasses. Damn I guess I never learned how to read, either. Maybe I really am el tardo.

>>4943230
That might be part of OP's explanation for how they work (but then why wouldn't they work in space?). Dispensing their own conductive gases that then got propelled towards the target via sci-fi and lasers would be a fairly efficient way of doing it.

>>4943235
Like I said. I am not an educated or particularly smart man. They could be using fart gas from the sluggoids of Ssjunj IV to power their weapons for all I know. All I got to go on is our periodic table which is more than likely woefully inadequate in comparison to the space one.

>>4943223
It does in fact create a plasma channel for the electricity to travel down.
Only, it's a very small channel. Just enough to guide the electrons down, but not enough to cause burns on it's own.

High speed winds could in theory disrupt the channel, but at that point you'd be lifted off your feet and tossed around anyways.
The whole process happens very rapidly in order to keep the amount of energy used low, which doesn't give much time for outside forces to interfere.

>>4943050
and I know one where a british teacher/researcher/white person was baffled because a certain people didn't had "compromise" in their language. Literally, it was foreign to them and the closest word they had was "to bind one's feet", of course, introduced thanks to slavery.

>>4942621

After collecting all the crap you can, you quickly find that you're starting to run out of places to put it all.
Honestly, your ship isn't big enough to be hauling all this stuff. It's as big as a small merchant vessel, sure, but most of it is filled with scientific equipment and shit.
Not to mention you lost one of your cargo bays when you got nuked.

"Man, this is starting to become an actual issue..." You complain.

"Why not just do what the pirates do?" Kyla asks.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, you've got two ships here... one admittedly in better condition than the other. We could weld them together into a little living space, then just let the AI drag it along with us."

"Yeah, but the fuel costs... and what if it gets targeted in battle?" You ask.

"So? We can just leave it in port somewhere. As long as you pay the docking fees, nobody cares how long it sits there."

"I guess that could work. I'd still like to have something a little more private, though. Honestly, i'd love to have a station around my home planet..."

"Oh yeah. You called it "Earth", right? Who names their planet after dirt?" She asks.

"Well, that's what it is. It's where we came from, and where we'll all return to someday. I think it's fitting." You respond.

"Ahhh. Some there's like, some religious connotation to it?"

"I guess."

"Do you miss it? Your home, that is?"

You answer without hesitation. "Yes, absolutely. I want to go home, to see my friends and family. To find my dog, if he hasn't run off somewhere yet. Just to breathe the air and see the sky again..."

"So why don't we look for it? After we... or you, rather... take care of Gron?"

"...Yeah, that sounds good. I have some ideas on how to find it. I still know the rough area to start looking, thanks to the star map and my own understanding of where earth is in the galaxy, but it might still be difficult."

"I'm sure it'll be no problem with SHODAN helping. They're pretty damn good at quantum math, you know."

"Here's hoping, huh?"

"Captain, i have calculated the likely trajectory of the smaller ship's cargo after the hull breech. Please confirm visually using viewing port A-5.

"Speak of the devil..." Kyla remarks.

Looking outside, you see a spray of twinkling glitter, as well as some slowly rotating cargo... and at least one body in the distance.

"Do we have a suit we can use to go out there and grab that shit?" You ask.

"No... but i could probably print up a simple RCS pack in no time. Then someone could put on a tether and reel it back in."

You think about it for a moment, and something comes to mind.

"Hey, SHODAN. How far can you push the gravity field from the ship?"

"Depending on the output, far enough. I believe your plan will work, Captain."

"Alright, looks like i'm getting back in the armor. Kyla, you tie a rope around me."

"Wait!" She exclaims. "Your suit doesn't have any RCS built in!"

"I don't need RCS." You tell her. "I've got magnetic boots."

>>4943303
Ah yes, the old astronaut method of just walking around connected by a tube.

>>4943307
If we get cut or untethered at least SHODAN or our VI can sing us a song.

>>4943311
I have a very simple solution.
We just bring our shotgun with us. If we somehow start drifting in space, we can use it as a ghetto propulsion module.

>>4943317
>True human thinking.
Based

>>4943317
we can also use our O2 supplies. we should have more than enough to return to the ship/

>>4943317
Definitely! And if we run out of bullets we throw the shotgun!

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>>4943366
>run out of bullets
>throw the shotgun

>>4943369
Reminds me of that stupid question about how to get moving on really smooth ice. They say stupid shit like "take off your gloves or shoes and throw them the opposite direction. You'll start to slide just a teeny tiny bit" and I'm sitting here thinking "Hey fuckwit, just lean forward and bellyflop onto the ice.". Like people have never seen ice before.

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>>4943025
Does the focusing lens have to be made out of something?
What if it's nothing?

I mean, the cloaking tech works on redirecting light from point A to point B, giving the illusion of invisibility. That means that the tech itself is something that can alter the path of a photon very precisely and at very specific wavelengths.
Couldn't this tech be used in reverse? Instead of diverting and diffusing light, we use it in focusing and magnifying?
I believe in the monster laser dream.

>>4943505
that's if it works like that. for all we know the tech could be made of video screens and cameras

>>4943369
The crayon eater is strong with this one.

>>4943012
WE NEED TO MAKE CASABA HOWITZERS

>>4943012
We need a minimum of two of these then.

>>4943303
I am 100% for welding the two ships and paying docking rent for them at the station.

I have an idea I'd like passed through you. Could we have pop out mounted missile pods with smart rockets to deliver a c4 based or greater payload? I suggest c4 since lasers might not detonate them, but an explosion might. Would they detonate from a direct laser hit/when they get vaporized?
perhaps the missile pods could be armored and have their own independent shields.

>>4943698
>We need a minimum of two of these then.
No we don't. If you're after backup weapons then let's buy self-contained railguns with single use overcharged capacitor banks.

Actually that's dumb too. We have single-use weapons in the modern day that don't rely on a ship's reactors being running or anything. They're called missiles.

>>4943700
We could need those if we have to rely on back up power during a dogfight with other space ships. Capsule laser ammo and missiles will probably be our bread and butter then.

>>4943701
I'm saying capsule railguns > capsule lasers but missiles are better than either. For the most obvious part, whereas railguns or lasers would both have to be aimed (which would surely be more difficult if main power was off) missiles just have to be launched.

>>4943701
Nah you set one up around the airlock so when they demand you power down you oblige them, wait til they get close and either blast the connector be it umbilical or tether or just blast their ship. Or use it straight from ambush. Any time you need to power down but still want to zap something.

Way I see it if you're in a dogfight and you get hit bad enough to not have enough juice to shoot your primaries you should probably just run away. Any back-up weapons you have at that point should just be used to dissuade pursuit.

Casaba Howitzers fix any and all problems in space, no matter the issue, it can be solved by a spear of nuclear fire and radiation moving the speed of light launched by missile.

>>4943714
This might be valid if the interstellar community didn't regard use of atomics as warcrimes.

>>4943714
No. Just stick with missile batteries.

>>4943731
They are the warheads that go on missiles in your missile batteries you daft buffoon.

>>4943733
Clearly he was referring to non-nuclear warheads because he said to stick with missile batteries contrary to your suggestion of casaba howitzers, where do you get off calling HIM a daft buffoon?

>>4943707
I we want something thats disposable, we go for a missile or a torpedo battery, but otherwise if we're in a situation where we're out of energy, or we can't shoot our primary batteries, we're either seconds away from being killed, or we should focus on getting the hell out of the combat zone.
We're a goddamn scout ship, not a fighter craft ffs. Lets play our strengths ere instead of bastardizing the ship any more.

MAN THE TORPEDOES
HARHARHAR

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>>4943788
GET THE BOARDING AXES

>>4943792
no no no
¡¡Get the SPACE boarding POWER axes!!!!

>>4943303

It doesn't take long before you step out of the airlock into hard vacuum, protected by your power armor and, in a pinch, your skinsuit.
A rope is tethering you to the ship, but ideally you won't need it.

Your boots are fitted with electromagnets that allow you to walk along the outside of the ship, although their grip on the metallic foam armor isn't that great.
It's still enough though, and now it's time for SHODAN's half of this job.

"I am extending the gravity field, Captain. Please prepare to make the catch."

"Roger that."

You feel an ever-so-slight tug as the weakened gravity field pulls down on you.
It may be weakened, but thanks to that it now extends far beyond the ship, and is slowly pulling in the cargo floating around in space out here.
The various boxes and smaller items fall towards the ship one by one, and you walk around grabbing them as they do. Then you simply load them into the airlock.

"You know, this is why we need a cargo scoop."

"What do you mean, captain?"

"A cargo scoop! You know, a literal scoop that just pops open, so we can fly forwards and scoop up floating cargo like this without having to actually go out and collect it."

"I am in agreement. That would be a functional addition to the ship."

"Only problem is, where the hell do we put it... The design of this thing is just awful for what we're actually doing."

"That is true. Reactor specifications aside, this was inherently a science vessel meant for long-range scouting missions. It was not designed for combat, nor to haul cargo."

"I'd love to design my own ship, but who knows how much it would cost to actually make the damned thing."

"A normal ship capable of housing 10 crewmembers would cost around 100k credits. Given your likely modifications, you could expect to pay more."

"What the hell, that's not too bad! I could have bought a ship for the price of this damned armor!"

"You could also say that your armor has the value of an entire ship, Captain."

"Yeah, that's true. Still, damn... I want something purpose built, but for the right purpose! I'm thinking i should get back to earth before that, though."

"Why is that, captain?"

"Well," You say, grabbing another crate as it falls. "I'm kind of limited by materials out here in space, as funny as that sounds. Sure, you've got some crazy, exotic stuff, and the nanofabs are great, but... everything i know of comes from earth."

"But you don't necessarily understand the chemical makeup of the materials, which is a requirement for printing them."

"Exactly. But if we get back to earth, i could have access to kevlar, aerogel, better types of steel, special plastics like teflon and so much more. I might need to get you a second storage crystal, just so you can download everything. Er, assuming you can interface with our computers..."

>>4943801
Oh no, SHODAN is going to find the internet.

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>>4943797
YOUR RIGHT!
>>4943801
OOOOOH, YEEEEAH, SHODAN IS GOING TO FIND THE EARTH INTERNET!
>>4943815
Lets be fair, she watched tentacle porn with David, she'll just notice humans have a tendency to be...degenerates. Also, may drop our computers search history for shits and giggles in Cylia and Kyda's pads.

>>4943801
>teflon
Bullshit, QM, Bullshit. You said David only knows to how to cook on hard iron pans

>>4943401
fucking texans just walk? like who the fuck does not know how to walk on smooth ice its naother thing if its a hill but then just crawl or stomp with your heel

>>4943841
It matters if its thin Ice or Thick. Stomping can cause you to fall in.

>>4943815
we definitely have to change her name before that

>>4943827
that doesn't mean he is unaware of what teflon is

>>4943853
dude, david was holding a frying pan it teflon in it and he was like "what is this slippery surface"

>>4943897
huh. i thought he was like that because these were space pans with space materials that made them way more slippery than normal teflon pans

>>4943852
Not till she does something cool and earns a cool name from us.

>>4943827
Teflon is used for a lot more than just cookware, anon.

>>4943931
we owe her the name change regardless of what cool things she does, anon

>>4943841
The idea as presented in the question is that the ice is somehow so smooth that you cannot actually move normally on it.

It's just a really dumb question. Like I'm pretty sure it's there to display physics but the way they word it just makes it sound like retards standing on lubed up ice or something.

I guess that's how they teach nowadays though. There is only one acceptable solution. The "right" one which happens to be whatever they want. Like that common core shit.

>>4943845
was thinking land ice but water ice just fucking sit and use your hands or crawl and ice actual has a thin layer of liquid water ontop of it that are basically the free ends of the ice crystals and why they can fuse when pressed against each other and the fact that pressure causes ice to melt its also the principle that ice skates functions on

>>4943938
Not unless we own her.

>>4943801

"They use binary machine code at the most basic level, correct?"

"Yeah. It's all ones and zeroes in the end. Logic gates printed in silicon. We use encrypted radio signals in the 2.4ghz and 5ghz ranges, but there are unencrypted signals you could use as well."

"In that case, i believe that i will be able to manage."

"Well, that's good news. And i think this is the last of the cargo... or at least, the last of what we can fit."

"It may be prudent to pay a sorting company to go through it all."

"Yeah, we got a lot on our plate already... but what if there's something illegal in there?"

"Given the state of the station, i believe a bribe would suffice to keep things quiet, Captain."

"So you'll take responsibility if they stiff us, right?"

"That was not my intention."

"Yeah, i bet... hey, do you think you could hold that ship in place with the gravity generator?"

"It will take some time to slow it's rotation, but there is no reason i could not."

"Great. The docking port is gone, but i could slip in there through the breach if it was stationary."

"If you insist, Captain. However, i must warn you that there is little room left inside the ship. Gathering more spoils of war would impede daily life."

"Yeah, i got that."

Heading slowly back inside, you close the airlock and get to work loading up all the surviving boxes and shit, wherever possible.

The two bodies you recovered are bloated and bruised from the vacuum, but you toss them into a cryopod anyways.

"Hey, David." Kyla greets you. "Did you get a look at the stuff we tied down to the hull? Did we lose anything?"

"I was wondering myself, but it doesn't look like it. There were some near hits, and a couple of ropes started coming loose from the g-forces, but that netting kept everything in place, fortunately."

"Yep, i figured something like this would happen. I'm glad none of it got slagged, otherwise we'd be digging another system out of one of those other ships."

"Good looking out, Kyla."

After replacing your suit for the second time this trip, you head back to the medical bay to see how Cylia is getting along with the prisoners.
Upon opening the door, bug-man immediately charges you, screaming something about his honor. You thrust your palm into his face, knocking him backwards and causing him to crack his head against the floor. He's out cold, again.

"Damn it, David..." Cylia groans.

"That's him! That's what he looks like without the armor!" Treg screeches in fear.

"He's too strong... we're screwed." The other one comments. Gildur was his name, you think?

Cylia grabs Kezel off the floor and applies some sort of gel to the back of his head.

"What's that?" You ask.

"It medicine that stops bleeding and swelling in the brain. He's got to have several concussions by now."

"He'll learn. Or not, i don't care."

"I can tell. Anyways, i guess you're here for info? We've had plenty of time to chat while you were out."

>>4944273
Ok, the bug needs to be restrained, this is getting ridiculous now.
Or at least film him failing so we can laugh at it later.

>>4944298
we can always freeze him. i actually thought we were gonna do that form the start.

>>4944305
I agree on freezing him. Maybe we should freeze all of them

>>4944298
I can respect the drive to be honest

>>4944305
Nah. Fucker never learns. I say we fab up a small jail cell and/or straight jacket combo instead of letting him get off easy.

>>4944332
you just want to torture him. freezing him is way better than actually using precious space to make a jail.

Hey, squash the bug.

>>4944338
I didn't say I was going to torture him or that id be making a decent sized jail cell. He's basically getting shoved in a metal box barely bigger than himself and being left to stew. So long as he isn't a social species like humans it shouldn't have any adverse effects outside of some hunger or thirst unless we take too long to get back.

just strap him to the hull of the ship, sheessh

>>4944350
Knowing aliens, all we need to do is print up one of those foldable puppy pens and put a sign that says gay baby jail on it.

>>4944273
So is this bug a literal drone being told to be a fuckup?

>>4944387
sized to an appropriate height, of course

>>4944422
Probably from a warrior caste if they are ant like, to justify the obssession with honour.
Or he is a predator like a mantis, but just a shitty one, and feels a biological need to prove himself.

>>4944332
A straitjacket is overkill, let's just put some chinese fingertraps on him and laugh at his struggles.

>>4944358
Let's save the keelhauling for a somebody we don't want to be sane enough to give people info about our capabilities.

>>4944471
So you want this guy to be sane enough to give away our capabilities?

That was a very strange way of wording that.

>>4944545
Power armour is just the beginning and he doesn’t know how it works. By the time galactic police get info on the secret base we’ll have strapped some engines to it and blasted away.
All that’s left is to kill rock man in a timely manner.

>>4944611
>>4944545
and that is IF they believe the bugman. which they won't, because no one is retarded enough to put themselves inside a power armor.

>>4944613
Or use a melee weapon, specially one that is a hammer with a pick.
What kind of insane barbarian would do something so stupid?

So in addition to killing all the Kim Jongs plus their corrupt politicians, most of the dog eating chinese bug people, and a fist full of African warlords, who else should we target? Mexican drug cartel leaders? Kill osama bin-laden? Some corrupt US senators?

Should we use the alien tech to recruit crippled war vets like us?

>>4944954
>Some corrupt US senators?
So what like 80% of them?

>>4944954
If any of you anons unironically think assassinating world leaders is a good idea, I have bad news for you.

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>>4944962
wipe the slate clean.
Push for eugenics.
Deny the nignogs and poo people, but keep the good ones.

>>4944977
give me your solutions!

>>4944977
It's not an assassination if you declare open war.

>>4944979
>give me your solutions
Solutions to what issue?
>>4944981
That's an even worse idea. If we openly declare war on a bunch of countries we don't like, the international community will condemn us as a terrorist and all our shit will get fucked. We'd lose any chance of ever living on earth again.

>>4944979
There are no solutions. Only tradeoffs.

>>4944987
>We'd lose any chance of ever living on earth again.
Only if we lost.

And you wouldn't be declaring war on the countries you don't like. You'd be declaring war on the entire planet. Don't puss out halfway through.

>>4944987
then what's the plan? what's the end goal?

>>4945004
He probably doesn't have one. Unfortunately no matter what road we take there will be pushback. Power is never readily relinquished by those who hold it. If you try to muscle in economically the markets will become hostile to you. If you try to do so technologically the scientists become your enemy.

He knows it. Too many actually competent people on Earth who will notice the patterns and move to stop the balance of power from shifting as much as they can.

Drastic action will be necessary to change the world. Always has been.

>>4945013
Whatever, we're gonna take our soldiers and fuck off, maybe plant our flag on the moon and Mars just to flex on everyone back on earth.

>>4944954
Put a concrete sarcophagus over the middle east, except for israel and jordan.

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>>4945015
>not doing anything to save the world from itself

>>4945018
You're sending me mixed messages. Do you or do you not want to save earth from it's own bullshit?

>>4944611
>>4944545

They literally can't tell the difference between you wearing power armor or not, because you kicked their ass equally regardless of whether you were wearing it.
All they know is that you have some sort of armor, not that it's power armor.

>>4944422
He got his shit pushed in before he could really even do anything, and he's not happy about it.

>>4945033
>Mad he got his shit pushed in
>To stupid to wait it out
Lower bugforms swerve, this bugga bout to act up and learn sumfin

>>4945015
yes.

>>4944273

"Yeah. What'd you get out of them?" You ask.

"Well... Kezel wasn't very talkative. The other two were, though."

Cylia goes over everything she managed to get out of them.
They aren't particularly notable pirates, with meager bounties and nothing much to their names.
Treg and Gildur were both driven to crime by debt, while Kezel is just a damned troublemaker. You can see that.

Apparently several groups of pirates saw your reactor signature when you jumped into the area, but they didn't attack you because of your ship. They thought you were a grey.
Next time you'll be sure to jump nearby, but not inside the system and spend some extra time reaching your destination.

But then, you spent hours collecting scrap and tying it to the outside of your ship with ropes and netting.
Not exactly something a grey scout ship is likely to do.

"So wait, you were watching us? Since when?"

"It was when you came up to the hive, and then just turned around... You guys were acting really weird, so we followed you."

"I believe their reactor signature was so weak that it simply did not register on our sensors while not in active use, Captain.

"Huh? Who was that?" Treg asks.

"Well, that's one kind of stealth, i guess." You respond, ignoring him.

Cylia and Treg then both go into detail about the station together.
Apparently it's as you expected, a bunch of smaller ships welded onto a much larger ship which serves as the core and provides life support to the rest.
Not quite a garbage ball, but still a complete mess of excess metal. Destroying it with your ship will be impossible.

Apparently it does have shields, but they're usually kept off to preserve power.
The reactor and optical camoflage are both always on however, and are managed by the greys who occasionally come by to check on things.
Likewise, the interdictor they had was part of an available stock inside the station, along with lots of other items which would be useful for piracy.

"We had just purchased it about a week ago... after pooling everything we had, and taking on some debt. We would have been able to make it back, if we could just drag a single merchant vessel out of warp..."

"Easy come, easy go." You tell him.

"Haha... yeah..."

He's screaming on the inside.

"So what i'm hearing is that this is basically a de-facto grey station. There are even sections of the ship that only they can enter, correct?"

"Y-Yeah, i guess..."

"Interesting. Very interesting. And how frequently do they come along to do maintenance?"

"It seems pretty random to us, but they never go more than five months without showing up."

It's about this point that Kezel starts to wake up. Again.

"David, please don't go for the head again. He's going to die, seriously." Cylia complains.

"Fine."

He seems really groggy when he wakes up, but still takes note of your presence.

"You... bastard! Come at me...! Urgh... i feel sick..."

"Just sit down, idiot. I don't want to have to brain you again."

>>4944613
>Get this guy some medical attention. He's been hallucinating and screaming incoherently from al the concussions he's been getting.
>>4944977
>>4944962
>>4944954
Shodan just has to air ALL of the dirt and let the people's anger handle it. Epstein isn't gonna have time to kill himself this time.

>>4945062
God this guy is a real dumbass, we can maim him right? Probable brain damage not withstanding.
>>4945064
Epstein is going to have so little time it'll be hilarious. We set up Space Chan Server Farm and then watch the outcasts set up the downfall of the Elite.

>>4945062
>"It was when you came up to the hive, and then just turned around... You guys were acting really weird, so we followed you."
Does this mean their stations has s9me means of detecting us/seeing us when our stealth systems are active? Cause they were when we tracked that pirate to the station.

>>4945085
Yes, you can see out but not in.

>>4945062
>Grey Station
>Grey ship
>Grey alien onboard.

Guys we can totally infiltrate the station with Sanig as our front guy.

We just got to ask what they normally see the greys do so we don't act out of place and what gets brought in and how often. We just go in a day or two after some other Grey ship leaves.

Course Sanig might need to operate alone but in armor, and we just hang out in the station buying whatever we want. We can offload a bunch of our cargo this way on the black market and the dead greys can be put to use.

>>4945125
>>4945127
Isn't Sanig a bit famous and at odds with the Grey goverment? It might not be such a good idea.
I say to just take over, expand the dead grigger burial, and puah the station somewhere else.

>>4945186

Would they even recognize him? He got youth treatments and various changes over time, who would remember his face let alone know about him, what he looks like, what he MIGHT look like after all these years, and what are the chances that despite all this any of the greys there care? Especially since they are doing black projects more than likely without the support of the government.

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>>4945216
The grey goverment is the one that does the shady shit, they are without the support of the galactic goverment (probably, maybe one of tge shadow council is a grey that disrupts any investigation)
And I don't know, the greys must have a way to identify eachother given that they are genetically modifies to look alike and have acess to youth serums and who knows what else.
We should discuss it with Sanig first, he is the one with the knowledge on how to avoid the greys.

All this talk of greys made me think, are there also the greens?

>>4945091
Wut?

>>4945335
the stealth field works as a one way mirror of sorts. you can see from inside the field, but the people outside can't see inside the field

>>4945127
Just stay in the power armor and pretend to be an armorer drone.

>>4945239
Only when they get really drunk and high. That or giant incest baby.

>>4945239
And yeah ofc we talk to sanig about it first before we try it.

>>4945239
Sadly the little green men of Mars were utterly wiped out in the color wars of the early galactic grey expansion. Along with the blues, dabba-dee.

>>4945091
With SHODAN's scanners could we possibly scan all moons and planets in our solar system for potential alien ruins?

>>4945186
I figure we could disguise him pretty easily. The skinsuits themselves come with helmets after all.

>>4945345
Not at all addressing my question, which was how did THEY see us when WE were stealthed?

>>4945442
It could be that they know what to look for when tracking Grey scout ships. That or they had some help from some enterprising Greys on the station.

>>4945442
When we warped in directly into the system, before turning on the stealth.
They detected the reactor heat signal, but didn't fire immediatly because the ship is of Grey design. Since we went a different way to salvage instead of going to the station and docking, they notices something was odd.

>>4945442
>>4945450
Here the quote
>Apparently several groups of pirates saw your reactor signature when you jumped into the area, but they didn't attack you because of your ship. They thought you were a grey.
>Next time you'll be sure to jump nearby, but not inside the system and spend some extra time reaching your destination.
Remember, don't speedread.

>>4945442
they could also track us by the material we displace. space is mostly empty, but there are still particles lying around and we still need to burn fuel to move from place to place

>>4945452
>Remember, don't speedread.
No spreeding got it

>>4945453
We were specifically going through the trail the other ship made and the pirates mentioned seeing us leave WHILE WE WERE CLOAKED.

>>4945459
Anon. We also need to burn fuel to move and that means heat coming out of the ship; this isnt an inertialess ship after all. And again, we were salvaging for a fucking long time. The pirates would have noticed them even of the ship itself is invisible.

>>4945459
You don't have optical camouflage like the station does, only a cloaking device which makes you invisible on sensors by hiding your reactor signature.
You were also running cold, which hid your heat signature from any thermal cameras. However, you were fully visible to someone looking out of their window.

And several people were, although you couldn't see them.

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>>4945401
Well to be fair, the greens never had much of a chance. There might still be some blues left somewhere though.

>>4945473
I didnt know that was how it worked. Bo2 I now. Now we need to invest in an actual cloaking device.

>>4945506
More like we'll steal the one on the station to slap on the custom ship we'll be making soon.

>>4945526
that's gonna be a big ship then. a flagship even.

>>4945529
Who knows how big the actual device is? And as for necessary reactor output, that will probably be reduced if we change its range to a more reasonable size.

>>4945062

"Damn it..." He whines. "DAMN IT! DON'T YOU DARE TELL ANYONE I LOST! I'll...! I'll kick your ass if you do!"

"Sit your ass down, boy." You threaten.

He acts pissed for a second, until you stare him down. Then he quickly breaks eye contact and sits down in a huff.

"I don't know what your problem is, but if you try anything again we're going to have a problem. Your life isn't valuable enough to risk my ship or my crew."

He doesn't respond, just crossing his arms and refusing to look at you. He's trying to act tough, but you can tell he's afraid.

"Good. Now then, time for cryosleep."

"Wait, what?" Treg asks, confused.

"See those pods over there? When you wake up, we'll be back at the station. I'm turning you in for the bounty."

"Woah, woah, woah! Hold on man, please! Anything but that! We owe a lot of people a lot of money, it won't end with just jail time for us!"

"Oh yeah? What are they gonna do with you?"

"We'll be sold as slaves if we're lucky. If not, we might end up in a pit, fighting wild animals from some godforsaken death world. I don't want to get ripped apart by a slyvern, man!"

"Alright, i feel you on that. So let's say for a minute i let you go. Now what? You gonna go back to your pirate buddies and tell them what happened? You gonna come after us since we took your ship? You're not getting it back, by the way."

"No, man! I just... shit, i'll work for you if you want! If i work off my bounty, will you call it even?"

"Even?" You chuckle. And then your chuckle turns into a full-blown belly laugh. "Hah! Holy shit, not a chance! You dumb bastards tried to kill us, remember? No amount of money is going to satisfy me after that."

"Wha- NO! We absolutely did not!"

"Who do you think you were shooting at, dumbass? You're not fooling anyone."

"We were just trying to scare you! But instead of surrendering, you dodged almost every shot at point blank range and killed half my crew!"

"So what? Is it supposed to be fine just because i fought back? Nobody died so nothing happened, right? Is that it?"

"Well..." He starts.

"I don't want to hear another word out of you. If Cylia wasn't here, you'd already be in pieces you little fucking cunt. Say one more goddamned word, i dare you. Fucking say it."

"Okaaaay, David?" Cylia interrupts. "Can we uh... can we calm down a little? Just... take a breather? Alright. Okay."

Your fists are balled up, your teeth are clenched and your body feels hot. You didn't really notice until Cylia said something.
Fuck. That guy pisses you off.

"Oh, it's fine because you didn't die. My name is Treg and i'm a fatfuck retard who thinks he's invincible, so i can just do whatever i want and not get my asshole gaped open."

"David, we can hear you mocking him from over here." Cylia moans.

"Good. Fuck him." You reply.

"Is he always like that?" Treg asks.

"Not... always." Cylia tells him.

>Try to calm down
>Just shove his stupid ass in the cryopod and be done with it

>>4945552
>Try to calm down
I only really dislike the bug, the other two just seem like idiots.

>>4945552
>Try to calm down
No gutting, not today.

>>4945552
>Missed out on a Samuel L Jackson reference, MOTHERFUCKER
You were so close. Poor Cylia, she's the therapy catgirl for a very violent Marine. We should make her hot chocolate.
>Try to calm down, by going in and picking up Cylia.
>Pet her with calming intent.
>Grumble like your drill sergeant taught you.

>>4945552
>Try to calm down
>Fail to calm down
>Begin shadow-boxing to fight off inner-demons

>>4945552
Can we put him in the cryopod and then try to get our anger under control? If not, I vote for trying to calm down.

>>4945578
Did we ever switch out our toilet so it's proper? We could give the little shit a swirly.

>>4945552
>Just shove his stupid ass in the cryopod and be done with it
The other two can stay unfrozen for now.

What if we milked them for information and used them as proxies? If mutual interest is there for both to benefit they would be willing to work for us. They don't seem devoted to their shitty leader. I bet he mistreats his crew.

We should "interview" the two for all the information on the other parties, ships, pirates, and personalities.

Maybe start building our own pirate fleet. Any pirates not part of our fleet can be turned in for bounties by us.

>>4945552
>Try to calm down

>>4945573
+1

>>4945573
>>4945600
that's just creepy

>>4945605
And you're very gay, but it is easy to ignore when your quiet.

>>4945552
>Yell drill instructor tier insults at Treg until we run out of fumes, or he passes out. Which comes first.

>>4945585
+1

>>4945552
nah nah nah, fuck that and this. There is no way they are going to be of any good. The only thing they are good at is getting deeper and deeper into debt. Cryopod this and cryopod that.

>>4945552
>Try to calm down
Going off every time something irritates us is bad for our health.

>>4945573
Not this way, though. Even wild animals understand boundaries better than this anon.

>>4945640
Anon can't handle being around (any) women, shocker.

>>4945675
>>4945608
damn anons, stop projecting so hard

>>4945685
I don't need to project. I'm not into chicks. Get rekt, fag.

PETA really hates Therapy animals apparently.

>>4945552
>Cage the fucker

>>4945739
PETA hates animals, why would the therapy ones be any different?

>>4945752
What's PETA doing in this thread then.

Because now they are bullying the mentally ill which have more victim points.

>>4945739
>>4945752

PETA is a terrorist organization

Someone call the FBI!
Wait do they support terrorists or stop them these days? Hard to tell.

>>4945813
You seem slightly miffed.

>>4945817
Too many miffles.

>>4945829
Did someone say "MILF"?

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>>4945855
>horny activated

>>4945813
CIA supports, FBI stops

>>4945813
If it's hard to tell to you, then you're probably the terrorist.

>>4945552
Changing from>>4945600
to
>> calm down
We dont even have to try. we are just calm now.

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>>4945873

>>4945552
>Try to calm down
NEED DOG

>>4946018
Sorry, best we can do is a Space-Dodo.

>>4945552
>Try to calm down

>by asking Kyla for a piece of worthless scrap we can destroy to our hearts desire
>then calmly placing the bug on the cryo pod before continuing the conversation

fuck the bugman

>>4946043
>fuck the bugman
hmmmmm.....

>>4945552
take the bugman to your room and gape him

>>4946057
this is a blue board anon

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>>4946073
No it isn't.

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>>4946136
holy shit

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>>4945552
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scc9XBIDk_s
When will we encounter a giant monster alien lady?

>>4945452
Except the alien specifically said they saw us approach the station when we discovered it, which was when we had our stealth active. Dont speedread anon.

>>4945552
>Try to calm down

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>>4945004
>>4945013
My end goal? Coom in ayylium bitches. That's it.
>>4945552
>Try to calm down

>>4945552
>>Just shove his stupid ass in the cryopod and be done with it
i would suggest that we use chinese water torture to put him in his place and drive him insane

>>4946336
>his end goal is a mid goal
Damn bro you need to get your priorities straight. You don't want your end goal to be fucking an aliurm. It's to fuck all the different types of aliurm.

Your dreams should be at the mountain's peak not some random cliff along its flank. Now get out there and fuck like at least twenty ayyy bitches.

>>4945552

You breathe in slowly through your nose, and then out through your mouth.
Once, twice, three times... and promptly bottle up your rage to unleash on some poor, probably deserving bastard in the not too distant future.
A creepy smile creeps it way across your face as the headache sets in, undeniable proof that you've gone against everything you stand for, purely for the sake of not murdering someone today.

You hadn't experienced this in a while. Not since you left earth and stopped giving a fuck, actually.

"Treg..." You say, still smiling despite your clearly gritted teeth underneath. "I'm going to forgive you for being a stupid bastard today. But i can't look at you until i've slept this off, so you need to get in the pod."

Treg chuckles nervously. "I uh... heh... i'd really rather no- HEY! Put me down!"

You grab Treg by the shoulders and heft him up, fat and all. Kicking the bottom of the cryopod at just the right spot pops it open, and you shove him inside silently.
He bangs against the glass, and then wrestles against the needle arms for a moment before they finally stick into him from behind.

Treg's eyes roll back into his head as the color drains from his face. The pod starts to frost over, and you sigh out, feeling a deep sense of satisfaction.

"Well... alright then." Cylia comments.

"You, the quiet one." You demand.

"Me?" He asks, nervously.

"Yeah, you. Who were you again? Glizzie? Gretzel?"

"I'm-"

"Yeah, whatever. Look, Gretzel. I need to know about the robot. Can you do that for me? Can you tell me about the robot?"

"Er... well, yeah? It's like the boss said, we found him in a wrecked ship. When we turned him on, he asked us a bunch of questions, but then he just started doing whatever we asked."

"What sort of questions did he ask?"

"Uhm... like, where we were, what year it was, who we were... stuff like that. It asked for some kind of code at some point? But we had no clue what it wanted."

"Alright. So the robot... what does it do?"

"...Like, generally?"

"Yes, generally. Does it cook? Does it clean? Can it make repairs? Can it even hold objects properly?"

"Y-Yeah, it can do pretty much anything a person can. It seems kind of dumb, but it's really advanced at the same time. It won't speak unless spoken to, but it can fight and do basic ship repairs. We were using it to keep the ship maintained, actually..."

"Alright, that's good. Good answers. Next question. Say we want to get a little more friendly with the fellas on the station, what's our best bet?"

"Uhm... well, you'll need an invitation, basically. From someone who's already on the inside. They'll give you an IFF beacon that marks you as friendly, and then you can just enter..."

"...And your ship has one of these beacons?"

"Y-Yeah. It's on the navigation console, i think. A little metal box with some engravings on it."

"Good, good... that's wonderful. Any uhhhhh... "pirate etiquette" that we should observe once we're inside?"

"Not... really?"

>>4946411
a sleeper agent like agent hk-47?
hell yeah

>>4946411
So would the robot be cool with us putting his annoying boss on ice?

>>4946411
Damn David's got issues.

This turned out well, I'm glad we controlled ourselves.

>>4946411
Yeah, David needs Mutt to help him calm down.
Everything has a time and a place.

>>4946516
We should probably just pet Cylia to calm down until we get Mutt back.

>>4946411
>A creepy smile creeps it way across your face as the headache sets in, undeniable proof that you've gone against everything you stand for, purely for the sake of not murdering someone today.
The things that we do for a catgirl

>>4946411
Dammit I thought SHODAN was wife, not cat girl.
I'm liking this guy more than lard ass. The fat guy is definitely going to jail, but this guy is alright.

>>4946514
Kind of disappointed we didnt at the very least dislocate his arm.

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>>4943815
And porn will be made of her with in an hour and she will have shitty malware from now on.

>>4946683
>gets a virus from shady porn site
>now starts trying to fuck david using the toaster
Damn you internet!

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>>4946717
>>4946683
What can a man do? AIs just makes the best waifus.

>>4946411
Always possible they're trying to bait us into a fight by messing up protocol. Seriously doubt it's just IFF alone. Money says there's a call response.

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>>4946717
>>4946726

With the capabilities of nanofabs, SHODAN can create fucking port with arbitrary ease, one programed with with all the sex knowledge of all humanity.

Never though I would type that sentence fyi.