I'm in, but I have to leave in an hour unfortunately.

>>5885911
You can join in anyway.

In any case, Corp Quest 15? Damn my typing errors, that's meant to be a 16.

>>5885927
That's okay. You spelled Quest right this time.

Interested

I'm with you, Plasma. Missed the last one, and that was a damned tragedy, but ready for this.

>>5885941
Which is fucking awesome.
>>5885948
Okay, that makes it two. Hell, it's enough to start with in my opinion.

Postan gaems.

Day 4, Month 3

6506.1 tons
55302 fuel

+4020 tons/day
+3281 fuel/day

Active Mines: 44 + Mothership

Active Pockets: 60

Available Mines: 184

Available Gas Pockets: 102

You have constructed 26 Construction Facilities nearby your original base so that you may better construct the forces you're designing for your colossal carriers.
Full construction of the drones will be complete on Day 9, Month 3 at this rate.

Tech Lab. 1 is currently inventing Colossal Harvesters. This will be complete on Day 5, Month 3.
Tech Lab. 2 is currently inventing a starship. This will be complete on Day 8, Month 3.
You still need to input the design that you want for your starship. If you want more information, say so.

Your TradeStar list of possible purchases now includes: Attack Platform Schematics.

The Martian Supremacist Movement - or the MSM - wants to discuss something with you.

I'd like to get the options for our spaceship, and a price on the attack platform schematics.

Also, open com with Martians.

>You still need to input the design that you want for your starship. If you want more information, say so.
More information is requested.

>The Martian Supremacist Movement - or the MSM - wants to discuss something with you.
Fascinating. Put them through to my office.

>>5886011
>>5886018
Posting the basic rules I came up with for starship creation:

Each starship starts with:
5000 TONS Cargo Space.
5000 UNITS Fuel Tank.
10 Persons Living Space.
100 Synth Space.
2 Locomotion Slots.
2 Weapon slots.

This beginning starship costs 500 TONS and 1000 UNITS to build and 1000 UNITS per day to maintain.
Fuel is taken directly from the fuel tank.
If you're using fusion batteries, 1 fusion battery replaces 500 UNITS per day.
A weapon slot counts as either a battery of normal terrestial weapons or as a single terrestrial superweapon.
Every time a FTL engine is used, it spends an additional 5000 UNITS of fuel, even if fusion batteries as being used.
You can invent other forms of plating, other onboard facilities and other types of slot at your own whim.
You need to state where you wish to place the weapon slots (port, starboard, topside, underside and prow) and whether as locked or as a turret.
The fuel cost to construct equals the fuel cost to maintain the starship for a day from here on.

Here is what you can add, and for what price:
Additional 5000 TONS Cargo Space: 125 TONS and 250 UNITS
Additional 5000 UNITS Fuel Tank: 125 TONS and 250 UNITS
Additional 10 Persons Living Space: 125 TONS and 250 UNITS
Additional 100 Synth Space: 125 TONS and 250 UNITS
Onboard Construction Facility: 125 TONS and 250 UNITS
Additional Locomotion Slot: 250 TONS and 500 UNITS
Additional Weapon Slot: 250 TONS and 500 UNITS
Onboard Examination Facility: 250 TONS and 500 UNITS
Additional Hyperweapon Slot: 500 TONS and 1000 UNITS
Onboard Tech. Lab: 500 TONS and 1000 UNITS
Onboard Heavy Construction Facility: 500 TONS and 1000 UNITS
Reinforced Plating: 500 TONS and 1000 UNITS
FTL Engine Slot: 500 TONS and 1000 UNITS

Fuck work, it's time for corp Quest.

I'm game.

>>5886011
>>5886018
The incoming message from the MSM:

"A Martian vanguard fleet is going to be scanning this planet for our presence soon - if you know what's good for you, you're going to tell them that they never saw us - besides, if you play along, we might even send you a gift, okay?"

Here is in the image of the updated map - with all factions, as having been discovered by your satellite.

>>5886097
There is a chance that this quest might be continuing when you get back from work. I don't want to be encouraging folks to slack off due to this.

>Every time a FTL engine is used, it spends an additional 5000 UNITS of fuel, even if fusion batteries as being used.
How many uses of an FTL engine are needed to move between systems? Is it just one to go from start to destination?

>The fuel cost to construct equals the fuel cost to maintain the starship for a day from here on.
>If you're using fusion batteries, 1 fusion battery replaces 500 UNITS per day.
Guys, it seems apparent to me that we need to stack our spaceship with as many fusion batteries as we can cram onto the damn thing. When we leave this planet, it should be in a flying interstellar superfortress that is also a factory and laboratory and has a very nice fully stocked bar.

>"A Martian vanguard fleet is going to be scanning this planet for our presence soon - if you know what's good for you, you're going to tell them that they never saw us - besides, if you play along, we might even send you a gift, okay?"
"We'll take that under advisement. If you care to expand a bit on the nature of your gift, we might even consider it worthwhile."

>Here is in the image of the updated map - with all factions, as having been discovered by your satellite.
Please identify the heretofore-unmentioned factions by name and give a description of their operations based upon basic satellite observation.

>>5886074
I'd like the first two weapon slots to be forward mounted, stationary. Add 2 more weapon slots as turrets, one on top, one on bottom.

Increase fuel tank, and supplement it with 1 battery. (We'll have several extra if we abandon our bases on Hajjar.) Onboard construction facility... And how much do our Colossi weigh?

>>5886124
You only really need one FTL engine - well, you can go with multiple but there's really no advantage to it besides versatility depending on the situation.

Also, once a spaceship is constructed, it can't really be changed - in order to build a spaceship with a different structure, you need to design it at a tech. lab and then you're able to build it.

You can change the engines and weapons in FTL, locomotion and weapon slots, but you can't change anything else about the ship once it's built.

>>5886142
"We've been looking at your operations. It appears your transports are a little... fragile. Defenseless, even, if you exclude the thousands of drones you're building for them.
"You keep your mouth shut, we give you combat-transport technology. Hell, we'll even turn your two existing transports into combat transport units. What do you say about that?"

Do we actually have access to an FTL engine? I thought that the mothership propulsion units that we captured were for atmospheric/sublight propulsion only.

>>5886236
"What do we say about what? I don't even know what the MSM is."

>"You keep your mouth shut, we give you combat-transport technology. Hell, we'll even turn your two existing transports into combat transport units. What do you say about that?"
"I say that it sounds like you'll have a deal unless the Martian fleet is prepared to be exceptionally generous in paying for information."

>>5886247
Dammit, mate, get away from the transmitter if you're going to make us look like fools.

>>5886270
That was meant to come off as more of a "I have no idea you guys are here or what you are doing or what you are talking about so I will say nothing to anyone about you being here" than making me sound stupid. Sorry if that didn't come out right.

>>5886143
The resulting starship would weigh 1250 TONS, cost 2500 UNITs to build and 2500 UNITS per day.
One fusion battery would lower the daily cost to 2000 UNITS per day.

This ship you're proposing would move at an average speed - unless you use Kil'thweq propulsion thrusters which would make it faster than average.

Also, Colossi weigh 250 TONS.

>>5886282
Oh. Alas for the lost subtleties in the language when rendered into text format. My apologies.

Is the satellite weapons research already done, or was it never started? If it's done, can you tell me about the operation of heat rays in space?

>>5886297
Word is, they depend upon atmosphere to function correctly. Unless I misremember, in any case.

>>5886243
Currently, you lack any method of FTL technology and you cannot invent any methods of FTL technology.

There are four methods:
Horizon Engines
Hyperdrives
Inertialess Propulsion
Datagates (not an engine type, but rather, a gate - any ship can pass through a datagate and come out at another location)

Plasma, does the map show the entire surface of the planet, or is it just one continent and the surrounding ocean?

>>5886326
Could you please clarify which factions are known to favor which methods of FTL? Additionally, are all of the first three types something that we could only put in an FTL Engine starship slot, at a cost of 500/1000 on top of the base starship cost?

>>5886247
>>5886257
"Good that you know your place, offworlders. Keep your promise and we'll send that technology your way."
>>5886297
>>5886305
Atmosphere is required for heat rays to function - they're devastating, but only in an atmosphere.

Also, for weapn slots, you also have these available:
- Missle Silo
- Ramming Spike
- Defensive Spikes
You also have this as your only available hyperweapon at the moment:
- Impaler (gigantic ramming spike)

>You also have this as your only available hyperweapon at the moment:
Clarify: Could we research hyperweapon versions of any of our currently possessed military technologies?

>>5886384
Would low orbit atmosphere be enough for them to function? There is a gaseous atmosphere there, but not enough for a human to breathe.

>>5886420
You can research a hyperweapon from any superweapon you currently possess, just like you can research a superweapon from any current weapon you possess.
>>5886360
This map shows the largest collection of landmass on the planet. The rest of the planet only has tiny islands scattered here and there.

>>5886373
The vast majority of factions favour hyperdrives.

The MSM follows the Martian tradition of using the devastating, physics-smashing power of horizon engines.

The Kil'thweq used inertialess propulsion, but their drive was destroying when you destroyed their central engines.

Centauri Synthetics created and endorses the use of datagates - but when going to areas that lack datagates, like so many other factions, they use hyperdrives.

>>5886074

Does the onboard heavy construction slot render the standard construction slot useless or does the standard slot perform tasks that the heavy cannot perform?

>>5886534
No. Heavy construction slots can only build gargantua, colossi, satellites and space capables.
Construction slots can build any variety of drones from light to supermassive.

Construction slots, heavy or normal, use fuel from the fuel tank unless powered by fusion batteries.

Okay, guys, based upon what I'm hearing about starships, I don't think we actually want to design ourselves a starship yet. We need to have the weapons, FTL drive, and so forth that we actually want to put on the damn thing researched/in possession first, not to mention that a dozen or so fusion batteries would be extremely helpful if we don't want to go through our entire onboard fuel tank in about three days. Hell, maybe more.

Any objections to scrapping the starship project in favor of some other related project?

>>5886602
I'm in favor of scrapping it for a few weaponized, cloak-equipped satellites. Lower costs for more immediate returns.

>>5886602

It does seem like we would benefit from some more research and resource gathering.

>I'm in favor of scrapping it for a few weaponized, cloak-equipped satellites. Lower costs for more immediate returns.
Okay, let's get a quick feasibility study, then. What satellite technology do we currently have, what satellite-related infrastructure do we currently have, and what of each will we require in order to make weaponized satellites a reality?

Sounds good. We should wait until after our first meeting with the martians before we do anything else. Especially if they don't believe our lie about the MSM.

Speaking of which, if it comes to fighting the martians and turning in the MSM, which would we do?

>>5886630
>>5886602
Two votes for the scrapping of the project. Any further requests?

Also:
Your current cloaking technology only bends visible light. It doesn't conceal your drones from any other sort of sensor unless you develop other forms of cloaking.
Also, right now your drones only have visible light sensors as well.

>Your current cloaking technology only bends visible light. It doesn't conceal your drones from any other sort of sensor unless you develop other forms of cloaking.
How difficult would it be to develop more extensive cloaking technology? Would those forms of cloaking come with additional costs, on top of those which cloaked units already have to pay for their operation?

>>5886676
You have the schematics for observation satellites.
You currently have one observation satellite.
Weaponized satellites are rather easy to develop. It'd take twenty days in a tech. lab, ten days in a heavy tech. lab.

Or, ten and five respectively if you buy the schematics for TradeStar's attack platforms.

>>5886759
Begin weaponized satellite research in a heavy tech lab. If we don't have a spare heavy tech lab, build one and then begin research.

Also, is the lightning gun usable out of atmosphere?

>>5886739
Twenty or ten days in a tech lab. or heavy tech. lab respectively.
You should be able to upgrade your current cloaking technology without having it cost any extra on individual drones - you and Uni-Peace are using rather poor cloaking technology currently.
>>5886873
Disabling starship research, enabling weaponized satellite research.

The lightning gun does work out of atmosphere.

>>5886916
Build a new heavy tech lab. Research improved-spectrum cloaking technology.

Build a new heavy tech lab. Research superweapon lightning guns.

>>5886873

Unless our resource situation is strictly linited, i agree about building a heavy tech lab.

Also if we actually want a cloaked satelite, we should look into better stealth tech, a purely visual cloak is not very usefull.

>>5886916
With that, we're ready to move on to Day 5, where research of the Colossal Harvester will be finished and where three Colossal Harvesters and three Colossal Haulers will be built.

You guys okay with that?

>>5886953

Sure.

>With that, we're ready to move on to Day 5
Sure, pending confirmation of >>5886941.

Day 5, Month 3:

9226.1 tons
58583 fuel

+4020 tons/day
+3281 fuel/day

Active Mines: 44 + Mothership

Active Pockets: 60

Available Mines: 191

Available Gas Pockets: 109

You have finished research of the Colossal Harvester.
You have stopped research of your starship.
You have begun research of Weaponized Satellite, to be completed on Day 9, Month 3.
You have begun research of Improved Spectrum Cloaking, to be completed on Day 9, Month 3.
You have begun research of superweapon variant of the Lightning Gun, to be completed on Day 9, Month 3.

You are currently spending 6 of your 11 remaining fusion batteries on constructing 3 Colossal Harvesters and 3 Colossal Haulers.

No other event worth mentioning.

>You have finished research of the Colossal Harvester.
Please remind me of the characteristics of the Colossal Harvester as they compare to our harvesters in current use.

Discussion with fellow players: Should we send our gravity snatchers on another slaving run? Should we attempt to contact the primitives with regards to their attempts to do something about the nanovirus?

Requesting more detailed satellite scans of the nanovirus-infected regions, particularly the island to the southwest.

>>5887055
Skip until Day 9 unless anything important happens. That's when all of our important shit takes place.

>>5887101
The reason why colossal harvesters are usually considered pointless is because of how effective they are. Sure, you might gather reasons exceptionally fast - but you're also stripping the land bare and before you know it, you're out of resources.

Of course, not everyone has access to a fallen mothership like you.

Each colossal harvester paired with a colossal hauler should increase your metal income by...

+5000/day.

With three pairs, that makes:

+15000/day.

Of course, your other harvester and hauler drones will have to move to other sites to avoid being crushed in the process.

>>5887055
Set the Colossal Harvesters working on the Mothership. We're the haulers meant to be the Carriers, or was that another type?

>>5887101
The virus appears to be spreading quite rapidly now - heavily reinforced infected areas are forming what appear to be cannons, launching clumps of the virus into the ocean in all direction. On the mainland, the virus is attempting to spread into AlphaRange and New Earth Missionary territory, attacking their fighters in the form of crows made from the virus, splashing into them and infecting them. The corpses of the dead fighters are being reanimated and do not respond to being shot. The only effective way they've got of dealing with the virus is with EMP shells and missles.
>>5887167
You originally intended to build 6 Colossal Harvesters, but that wouldn't work - So 3 Harvesters, 3 Haulers.
>>5887109
Any agreement with this?

>>5887257
God damn it. That nanovirus is spreading way to rapidly. We need to sneak into the Land of the Gorillas and break the iron seal.

Anyone else agree with forming some type of comando squad and breaking the iron seal?

>>5887257

Taking into account the current speed of the virus, just how long before it reaches our borders?

Also unless anything particularily interesting happens we might as well skip to day 9.

>>5887257
Go to day nine, fag.

do it.

>>5887299
If we do want to try and break the iron seal, we might want to enlist the aid of Lemmington and Alpharange. Just a thought.

>>5887257
First answer my question in >>5886431, please. If the answer is no, ;_;

Focus our observation satellite on the western island. We need to find the controller.

>>5887329

Sure, allies would be good, however it might be good to have some orbital bombardement backup.

So should we wait for some weapon satelites to be brought into orbit?

>>5887299
You're currently constructing drones to inhabit your two carriers. So that'll be possible after Day 9.
>>5887301
Computers can't quite calculate that.

They can calculate, however, the virus will be present on approximately every shore on the planet by...

Day 21.
>>5887309
Day 9 it is. Sorry for delays.

>>5887397
So I'm guessing that means the virus will have started to infect the shores by day 21.

Which most likely doesn't account for the horrible sea abominations that would most likely be assualting us long before that. We need to take care of this shit NOW.

>>5887332
Yes, it's enough for them to function in.

>>5887299
>Anyone else agree with forming some type of comando squad and breaking the iron seal?
How about this: We have cloaking technology, an expert combat synth, and a synthetic body. We back up Samson 70, put him in a cloaked power armor with the best stealth we can hack into it, give his humanoid shell cloaking too so that he can ditch the armor if necessary, then send him in.

>So I'm guessing that means the virus will have started to infect the shores by day 21.
Perhaps we should create some amphibious/submersible units and keep them on patrol. We've got EMP which should be effective against the nanovirus for now... when it becomes resistant to that, we have gamma rays. When it becomes resistant to that... well... have we tried lightning guns on it? Could we develop some sort of gravatic repulsion field, so that even if we can't destroy it we could move through it without becoming infected?

>>5887428
I love you. This game is awesome.
Anyway, stats for weaponized satellites, please.

Day 9, Month 3

55296.1 tons
70376 fuel

+19020 tons/day
+3931 fuel/day

Active Mines: 54 + Mothership

Active Pockets: 60

Available Mines: 198

Available Gas Pockets: 116

Each of your two drone carriers now has:
2000 Light Laser
500 Light EMP
500 Light Gamma
500 Medium Laser/Gravity Gun
250 Medium Lightning Gun/Gravity Gun
250 Medium Gamma/Gravity Gun
300 Heavy Laser/Laser/Gravity Gun
200 Heavy Thermobaric/HE/Gravity Gun
100 Heavy Tear/Snatcher/Dart
40 SH Heat 'copter

All of the drones listed all take their energy from the carriers' fusion batteries and can function for a day without being plugged. All of the drones have stealth functions. All of the drones move via VTOL unless listed.

Weaponized Satellite research complete.
Improved Cloaking research complete - your drones capable of cloaking have been updated with this research.
Superior Lightning Gun variant has been developed - it needs you to name it.

HQ6 is observing strange phenomena - there are several masses of ugly, black, crawling and twitching seaweed floating by, following the ocean tide. So far, it hasn't come into contact with the virus yet. It is also certain, however, that it will be contaminated very soon.

Do we have AA that can reliably take down the crow sized nanite carriers?

Taking away or at least inhibiting vectors of infection will be vital.

>Improved Cloaking research complete - your drones capable of cloaking have been updated with this research.
Can we improve our cloaking yet again, to apply to further spectrums/methods of detection?

>Superior Lightning Gun variant has been developed - it needs you to name it.
Superweapon Lightning Gun name: Lightning Cannon.
Initiate research into hyperweapon lightning gun in a heavy tech lab.

>>5887514

We probably want to investigate the seaweed, do we have some handy maximum quarantine lab handy?

Also we probably want to keep it away from the Nano-virus, should we put up a seaweed picking detail?

>>5887514
Have HQ6 build a dozen or so light amphibious EMP combat drones and have them interdict any virus that comes near.

>>5887423
Incorrect. By every shore, it means the virus will have arrived on every shore of the planet - yours might be earlier.
By 21, the situation will look something like this - at the best:

>>5887565

Lightning cannon is good, but currently the Nano-virus is putting pressure on us should we try to improve our defenses?

Blowing up the seal, or starting to build more EMP weaponry, we might also want to contact the factions that have battled against it for some information.

>>5887656

I don't know if anyone commented on this yet, but that map looks like Yoshi.

Guys, with the completion of our first carrier task force, it might now be possible to strike directly at the heart of the nanovirus. There's a center somewhere, and if we can but locate it, its destruction must be possible. We can spend another day or so building a massive wave of EMP and gamma missiles, plus a few more drones, then send them all charging in and hopefully manage to locate and destroy the core.

Thoughts? Objections?

>>5887656
Do the orange pirate people have some special immunity to the virus, or is that just a mistake?

I vote that we begin researching superweapon heat rays to mount on our Wep. Satellites.

>>5887656
yeah, this is bad. Also, what is the skull and cross bones? Can we get our satellite to start scanning for the core?

>Also we probably want to keep it away from the Nano-virus, should we put up a seaweed picking detail?
This is brilliant. We can build hundreds of flying drones with gravity snatchers and gamma/EMP guns- they suck the nano-seaweed up wherever it is found and pummel it with EMP until it's nothing more than sludge.

We need to get as much thermobaric and emp stuff down there as quickly as possible and bomb the shit out of the Uni Peace territory

>>5887656

That is rather bad, perhaps even cataclysmically bad, should we make preparations for evacuation? Anyways with the situation as it is i guess we should talk to any other faction that will talk to us and try to coordinate a response against this blight.

>>5887674
Oh dear god, cannont unsee.
>>5887617
Done.
>>5887589
S70: "Are you dense? Are you retarded? That seaweed probably is carrying the nanovirus - it's probably what it inhabits and what it spreads in. Whatever handles the seaweed will probably be infected too."
>>5887565
One more time, yes. At that point, your cloaking technology will be top of the line and you will have no defense against any remaining technology that can still locate your drones.
Developing lightning cannon hyperweapon.
>>5887551
Lightning guns and lightning cannons make for relatively effective AA.

>>5887656
I have a proposal: I say we send this picture, the picture of the possibility to every faction we can saying this is what will most likely happen if we don't do something right fucking now, and suggest a massive team up to find this damn core and destroy it, or make a mass charge on the iron seal.

>That is rather bad, perhaps even cataclysmically bad, should we make preparations for evacuation? Anyways with the situation as it is i guess we should talk to any other faction that will talk to us and try to coordinate a response against this blight.
We ARE making preparations for evacuation. Or at least, we're planning on doing so- the purpose of the hyperweapon lightning gun is to provide a main battery for our planned starship. We just can't make a starship until we can secure an FTL drive or the technology to build one. The Martian Supremacists might have one...

>Blowing up the seal, or starting to build more EMP weaponry, we might also want to contact the factions that have battled against it for some information.
We know that the nanovirus won't remain susceptible to EMP forever. Sooner or later, it will develop an immunity. When that happens, there will be serious problems all up and down the line, and we'll be pushed into using whatever other form of weapon we have on hand that might work.

>>5887718

Sound good, it is probably only a delaying measure but it ought to buy us some time at least.

>>5887768
>>5887718
I feel like this will just cause the nanovirus to develop a resistance to EMP faster.

Ask Joanna about the Iron seal again. Ask her to give you as much details as she can- the supposed Armageddon happening, the thing that is supposed to stop it, where it is, god damn everything.

>One more time, yes. At that point, your cloaking technology will be top of the line and you will have no defense against any remaining technology that can still locate your drones.
Order a heavy tech lab to begin another cloaking technology upgrade.

Order a heavy tech lab to begin developing a superweapon gamma ray. If we have no spare heavy tech lab, build one for the purpose.

Order a heavy tech lab to begin developing an improved kinetic shield. The improved version should be able to provide complete spherical protection against incoming objects of as small a size as we can manage- up to and including nanites, if possible. We'll worry about suffocation later, if at all. Again, build a heavy tech lab for this if we don't have a spare.

>>5887715
Your satellite can't find any trace of any distinguishing landmark beneath the thriving virus. In order to locate anything of importance, you'd need to disable all of the virus, all over that island.
>>5887696
Your heat rays are superweapons.
>>5887796
Satellites images show that it appears to be... well, nothing corporate. Several landed spaceships reside there and... It looks like pirates. Space pirates, making it a small base.
Also, like I said, it's going to look like that - at the best. Pirate folks are probably gonna be infected too.
>>5887749
All you know about the Iron Seal is that it's in the Cave of the Father inside the heart of the Gurruk Empire.

>I feel like this will just cause the nanovirus to develop a resistance to EMP faster.
I doubt it. The nanovirus has already been fighting against people primarily using EMP weapons for some time, and they've been mostly holding it back across a front stretching hundreds of miles. It must already be highest on its priority list to evolve against/overcome.


Requesting all available information on the New Earth Missionary faction, including their current holdings and status.

>>5887826
Right inside the heart? In the middle of it all? God damn it, well it is in a cave, maybe we fired a bunch of rockets at ot we might 'accidentally' break the seal. But then we might make something else collapse on it as well, possibly sealing it all over again...

I say we build 6 Heat Ray/Gamma/Missile (EMP+other) armed satellites and get them into orbit. Then we bombard the fuck out of that island and see what happens. If it doesn't work, we need to find a way to evacuate.

>>5887826
I think it's time we investigated that seal ourselves a little more closely.

Also, would it be possible to use our Examination labs in order to develop fusion batteries of our own?

>Satellites images show that it appears to be... well, nothing corporate. Several landed spaceships reside there and... It looks like pirates.
>landed spaceships
Guys, I think I see the potential to get our hands on one or more FTL drives here. All in favor of opening up a trade offer with these guys?

>>5887900
what could we give them? And do we really want to risk communicating with pirates? That sounds like a good way to get raided by pirates, letting them know you're there. But still, we need to find some way to GTFO of here if we can't find a way to fight back this virus.

>>5887900
First we offer to trade. If they refuse, we take it by force, using our carriers or satellites.

>>5887822
You can develop a kinetic shield that stops every physical object, no matter the velocity - which should stop the nanites.
The problem with that, is, it won't be able to function on the ground and if the object was biological, it'd suffocate.

Anyway:
Developing Lightning Hyperweapon
Developing Improved Cloaking Technology
Developing Gamma Superweapon
Building HTL to develop Improved Kinetic Shield? Yes or no?
>>5887807
"The Iron Seal is hidden inside the Cave of the Father, inside the Court of Cold, behind where the Father stands for eternity. Once the Iron Seal is broken, the Father's chosen will uncover a weapon that will destroy the black tide forever. That's the only reference to the Iron Seal."
>>5887839
New Earth Missionaries are a religious sect. They believe that Jesus shall be reborn and that he shall spread his wrath throughout the universe, slaughter the alien, the synthetic and the unfaithful. Despite that, they try to teach aliens and synthetics to be faithful so that they may be forgiven. They're probably on the planet to indoctrinate the natives. They use AlphaRange weaponry and they also utilize mind control technology and combat drugs.
>>5887895
You've been told specifically not to try and replicate fusion batteries by your superiors.
Do you still wish to attempt?

You know what? Fuck everything that isn't dealing with this goddamn nanovirus. Nanovirus takes priority, because if we don't deal with it we are supremely fucked. Now is not the time to be thinking about trading with pirates.

For this purpose we should do two things; investigate that seal, and investigate that skull and cross bones patch. The questions are how do we do this?

>what could we give them?
Weapons, supplies... whatever the hell they want.

>And do we really want to risk communicating with pirates? That sounds like a good way to get raided by pirates, letting them know you're there.
I am inclined to think that they'd be more inclined to raid people who don't sell them valuable supplies, but even if that's overly optimistic, we have some serious firepower of our own on hand, should it come to it.

>First we offer to trade. If they refuse, we take it by force, using our carriers or satellites.
And that.

So all are agreed that we need to get a pile of weapon satellites up, yes? Both as insurance against pirate treachery, and to cover for an assault force going onto the main nanovirus island.

>>5887971
Skull and crossbones patch is space pirates, or so your satellite says, with four light starships. They are not immune to the nanovirus, so don't worry. That was just laziness on my part.

>>5887951
I'm still sort of convinced TradeStar has bugs all over this place, but when we scanned for them nothing came up. Ask S70 what he thinks of the likelihood that they've somehow been hidden from us.

>>5887975
Do we really need a ground assault? These satellites >>5887865 would do everything a ground force could without the risk. We could use ground forces to be sure, but it might end up being a bad move.

>>5887951

Ok so if we are to belive the myths then we will find a countermeasure to the nanovirus behind the iron seal.

I guess getting our hands on that is priority number one now, not only will it save our bacon but whomever have that countermeasure will have a lot of clout.

>>5887990
Oh, sorry I misunderstood.

>Building HTL to develop Improved Kinetic Shield? Yes or no?
Yes, develop this.

>You know what? Fuck everything that isn't dealing with this goddamn nanovirus. Nanovirus takes priority, because if we don't deal with it we are supremely fucked. Now is not the time to be thinking about trading with pirates.
Yes, nanovirus takes priority. But do not be so foolish as to think that we should limit ourselves to only one path of options! Even as we push offensive operations against the virus forward, we need to continue efforts to secure a line of retreat offworld, to continue diplomacy with our neighbors, and to constantly research ever better technology.Limiting ourselves to only doing a couple things means that we'll have nothing to draw upon when our efforts against the virus begin to fail us.

>Do we really need a ground assault? These satellites >>5887865 would do everything a ground force could without the risk. We could use ground forces to be sure, but it might end up being a bad move.
We need a follow-up ground assault because, according to our superiors, the nanovirus has some sort of central core. We need to locate it and ensure that it is destroyed- you can bet that it won't go down to a simple orbital bombardment.

>>5888010
Yes, we do. Satellite are basically just artillery with, well a range of an entire planet, Ground troops are still very useful for actually dealing with stuff on the ground.

Hey, would it be possible for us to start a mining operation in the asteroid field (depending on the composition of the asteroids obviously)?

>>5888001
S70: "So far, there's been no mention of the virus except from the person who is leading the operation - your employer. The primary traders who you communicate with appear to be aware of the quantity of metal you have in your possession - but that's about it. Besides, I think you might be able to disable that anyway. I've used the satellite myself while you weren't - I have observed the entire star system. There's no trace of any TradeStar vessels. Since they appear to take three days to get here, I would think that if you do anything dreadfully wrong, it'll take them at least three days to get here.
"The point is, you're a small contract firm. They probably think you need the cash you can get from this and they probably think it's enough of a lure that you'll do what they say, no questions asked."

>>5888070
to hell with them then. We need to smash this virus, and quick. Do Alpharange and Lemmington know about the Iron Seal? If they don't, we should possibly be considering telling them.

>>5888010 here:
Fine, Orbital Bombardment followed by ground assault it is. I agree with the new Heavy Tech Lab too. And we still need to get our Wep. Sats. into the sky.

>>5888040
I wasn't advocating forgetting about everything else, but frankly everything else is a secondary concern at this point (except for securing an escape route for ourselves).

>>5888070
Ok. Question; have the TradeStar ships been coming into the system from a single vector (or cluster of similar vectors) or have they been popping all around the system when they come in at the end of the month? Or do we know this?

>>5888083
Lemmington: yes. AlphaRange: no.

We're selling slaves to Alpha, no reason to tell them the coordinates of a huge cache.

Constructing:
1 New HTL
3 New HCF

9x Attack Satellites (one superweapon or one weapons battery of your choice)

You've got 42 Construction Facilities that can construct other stuff - so is there anything else you'd like to construct?

>>5888096
there is probably a datagate around here somewhere, if only because 137 was here. Of course he could have come in by hyperdrive, but who knows. I still say a datagate is a possibility.

Hmm, so break seal, get gizmo, kill virus.

Seems simpls, probably is not, but still if there actually is something that affects the virus it would be very good to have.

And of course we can have the other factions mortgage their grandmothers souls for our disinfection services.

>>5888116
I'm pretty sure they already know about Gorilla Island. They mentioned we were next to a landmine of slaves.

>>5888116
AlphaRange needs everything they've got to currently contain the virus anyway - they're on the verge of being overrun.

>>5888138
well, that's not good. That's not good at all. Could we support them somehow? Fire a few gamma rockets into the enemy lines or something? We really need to get cracking on that seal guys.

>You've got 42 Construction Facilities that can construct other stuff - so is there anything else you'd like to construct?
Double the number of attack satellites.

Ask Samson 70 about the feasibility of making VTOL units with EMPs and gravity snatchers for search-and-destroy on the nano-seaweed. I am thinking here that if they use the snatchers, they can pull it up to where it'll be more vulnerable to EMP; either turning off the snatcher before it brings the target all the way in, or possibly having multiple units with snatchers rapidly pass the target between them should enable this to be accomplished in relative safety. If he thinks it's feasible, design an appropriate unit and create however many we'll need to choke off the flow of the virus towards the shores of our continent that they don't control already.

>>5888161
S70: "No. Exposing them to gamma radiation will make the virus aware it's being used against it and it will probably attempt research a variant of itself that it can produce - one that's not affected by such things. Stick with EMP until EMP no longer works - then move on to something else."

>>5888123

Perhaps start constructing an orbital station? Would probably be good to have anyways, and if we need to evacuate it would be good to have some infrastructure in place to facilitate this.

>>5888178
We don't even know if EMP works anymore. By the way, this... thing, this sample of the nanovirus 137 found: Could it have been the core? I was just wondering.

>>5888178
Let's start producing a lot of EMP missiles and just use those to support AlphaRange.

>>5888174
Hell, build 36 satellites. 12 with heat ray, 12 with gamma, 12 with missiles.

>>5888174
>>5888181
Construction facilities can make weapons, superweapons, light to supermassive drones and light to supermassive vehicles.
(Keep in mind you don't have supermassive schematics - so make that superheavy)

So, no attack satellites or orbital space stations there.

>>5888161

AlphaRange needs support, they are resources that cannot be coopted by the virus, we should at least offer some fire support missions and possibly some resources too.

Unless they are hopelessy compromised and we only feed the virus.

>>5888190
No, 137 got a chunk off of the hull of the mothership. The blob that infected the mothership was launched from that island in the southwest.

>>5888190
Also, thinking along the lines that it was the core that shot the Xeno ship, and the xenos were trying to land just about where our first base is and were forced to land about where our second base is, that means that, unless the virus has extreme long range capabilities, the shot probably would have come from either our owned lamd, Alpharange's, Lemmington's land, or the south.

And in other news today: The Epileptic trees are in full bloom this season.

>Construction facilities can make weapons, superweapons, light to supermassive drones and light to supermassive vehicles.
>(Keep in mind you don't have supermassive schematics - so make that superheavy)
My mistake. In that case, EMP-based combat drones, and lots of them. Amphibious, VTOL, whatever we can use to throw back the encroaching tide.


Requesting background/satellite information on the two factions in the northeastern portion of the map.

>>5888221
The island in the southwest. I don't suppose we can try and send an EMP rocket at it to see what would happen?

>>5888199
Heavy Construction Facilities can only build one thing per day.
Heavy Construction Facilities are the only facilities that can construct satellites.
Tomorrow, you will have nine HCFs which will have made nine satellites.

I'm sorry, that's the absolute maximum at the moment.

I cannot make this any clearer. So please, stop requesting for the construction facilities to make something construction facilities cannot make. Construction facilities can make standard weapons, missiles, superweapons and light to superheavy drones.

>>5888275
I'm sorry, didn't know.

>>5888275
Plasma, makes sense that you're frustrated, but it's not like the only construction orders have been invalid ones. >>5888196 >>5888174 >>5888265

Nonspecific, yes, but perfectly viable.

>>5888275
We know the red is the religious group. What's the brown and green?

>>5888256
Here's the line of approach, really. Ignore shitty copy pasta islands, had to fill up space.
>>5888336
Sorry.
30 additional EMP missles, 300 Medium EMP/Grav Snatch
Got it.
Day 10 coming up.

>>5888414
Alright then, we have an idea now of how it all started. As such, I say there's a good chance the core could be on that island. So now we have a target.

>Alright then, we have an idea now of how it all started. As such, I say there's a good chance the core could be on that island. So now we have a target.
We had that target before. It's just a matter of getting enough firepower together that we can be relatively confident of our chances in launching a decisive strike.

>>5888463
We do, but let's focus mostly on that seal. The easiest way is just to bombard Garruk with Gamma Missiles, but that deprives us of slaves to trade to Alpha. So I guess we need to go about this the hard way.

What are everyone's thoughts on a force composition?

>>5888496
Ultimately the problem is that we have no confirmation that the core is actually there, and beyond that slight hunch there's really not much to point to it being there or that it couldn't have been moved.

>>5888522
>What are everyone's thoughts on a force composition?
Cloaking, cloaking, and more cloaking? Unless we have the resources for a massive campaign, and we don't, we're not going to be able to get through them all without a bloodbath. We don't even know how to make whatever it is work, if it will actually do anything, or if it's somehow linked to the natives in functionality.

We might consider talking to them about the matter. Or talking to Uni-Peace, sending them some footage of the virus consuming everything, and asking them to talk to the natives and fill us in on what the hell, with the penalty for noncompliance being another instance of what we gave their people around their Gaia mech.

If that fails, we send in the ninjas. Come to think of that, we should research techno-ninjas.

>>5888414
That map would imply that the weapon can only work within the atmosphere, as such, our satellites will be safe, and it may also be worth investing in some spacefaring technology, is VTOL powerful enough to launch something into space and have enough force to cushion the landing safely?

>>5888535
we know two things
1- something shot the mothership from that island
2- the legends say that behind the iron seal there's something to stop the "black tide"

If we assume the black tide is the goo, then whe should make an assault and open the seal, i recommend a double attack, with a strike force to break the seal, and a distraction force of slavers taking monkeys

>>5888580

Well we might want to talk to the natives, we might be allowed to get the item if they too are threathened by the virus.

If not then we go for the smash and grab.

Day 10, Month 3

74106.1 tons
68175 fuel

+19020 tons/day
+1915 fuel/day

Active Mines: 54 + Mothership

Active Pockets: 60

Available Mines: 203

Available Gas Pockets: 119

You now have nine attack satellites armed with heat rays up in the sky. Since attack satellite have ammunition, these attack satellites have 20 charges.

Your research:
Improved Cloaking
Improved Kinetic Shields
Lightning Hyperweapon
Gamma Superweapon

Note: Gamma weaponry is highly unethical. In this galaxy's society, it's extremely illegal and even military organizations caught with it get severe questioning.

You now have 50 EMP missles and 300 VTOL Weed Snatching drones.

Nanovirus has been detected on your territory.

You've got a message from a faction declaring itself to be the Martian Navy.
Want to view it?

>>5888617
put them in screen, also, start patrolling our shores with the VTOLs, and send EMP to our infected shores

In a reevaluation of our proceedings, i think we might have to stop monkey captures, since AlphaRange don't seem really able to stay until we get them those 50k

Of course, if we start massive slaving runs now, we might be able of getting it, but i'm not sure it's in our best interests

>You've got a message from a faction declaring itself to be the Martian Navy. Want to view it?
Yes, of course.

>Nanovirus has been detected on your territory.
KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL
Send tons of EMP drones at it until it is gone. Push it into the ocean, then push back the oceanic infestations as far as we can manage.

Have we tried any of the thermobaric stuff, and what about fire? It worked on the stuff in Kil'thweq territory, maybe it will work again.

>Note: Gamma weaponry is highly unethical. In this galaxy's society, it's extremely illegal and even military organizations caught with it get severe questioning.
Son of a bitch, mate, it would have been nice to know that before we started slapping it all over our drones.

>>5888669

Well the "we got a grey goo scenario heading our way" explanation is pretty good.

Also it is better to have the stuff, survive and get censured than not having it and being eaten.

>>5888646
>>5888656
"Hello, this is a representitive of the Martian Navy speaking - we would like to question you as to the presence of the Martian Supremacist Movement in this area? Unfortunately, we've tracked their movements through this system - could you please provide us with any information of the Movement's actions that you possess?"

You can send your recently built 500 light EMP drones from each transport over there to deal with the situation, resulting in 1000 light EMP drones. Would you like to send them to deal with the situation?

>You can send your recently built 500 light EMP drones from each transport over there to deal with the situation, resulting in 1000 light EMP drones. Would you like to send them to deal with the situation?
Do not leave the transports undefended- only send, say, 700 of the EMP drones. If they are having difficulty we can reinforce them.

>>5888705
Ask them what that sort of information might be worth to them.

>>5888669
Apologies.

Also, another piece of research is complete! Apparently you've finished researching a humanoid structure for your drones.
Apparently you're constructing a heavy humanoid drone in one of your facilities right now, with cloaking and VTOL abilities - as well as a gamma gun, a lightning gun, several energy batteries for ammunition and a pair of integrated laser pistols.
S70: "Sorry. Thought I would build myself a little body of my own. Hope you don't mind me snooping about on your system a bit."

>Ask them what that sort of information might be worth to them.
NO! That reveals that we have information to sell!

((Assuming no one pre-empts me with a response here))
>"Hello, this is a representitive of the Martian Navy speaking - we would like to question you as to the presence of the Martian Supremacist Movement in this area? Unfortunately, we've tracked their movements through this system - could you please provide us with any information of the Movement's actions that you possess?"
Greetings, Martian Navy. Unfortunately, we are unable to assist you; we have been quite preoccupied of late with this rampaging nanoplague. We wish you the best of luck in your search."

>>5888766
What benefits does this drone have over our typical ones?

>>5888755
"... What are you, mercenaries? They're criminals - you should be reporting them. Look, what sort of reward are you after?"
>>5888722
Who agrees with this?

>>5888755

Would that not be an admission that we have knowledge about where they are?

At the very least any information we provide them after that would be suspect.

I say we either spill our guts immedeatly or feign ignorance.

>>5888775
Not necessarily. WE could say something like this.

"If we were able to get you information on these Martian Supremacists what would that be worth to you?"

Besides, what the hell do we owe to the fucking MSM?

>>5888778
None, really. It's more humanoid, due to its shape it's much more flexible - after all, a humanoid's more flexible than a metal box.
However, it's less heavily armoured and more fragile than a standard drone, even if it's more mobile.

>Besides, what the hell do we owe to the fucking MSM?
Well, they did promise us a tech if we don't report them. That's something.

>S70: "Sorry. Thought I would build myself a little body of my own. Hope you don't mind me snooping about on your system a bit."
Samson 70, you could have just asked, and we'd have done the research and construction. Sneaking about was not necessary. Please do not do it again.

>>5888780

Crap, ok just how big is that navy task force?

Perhaps we could get them to bombard our suspected virus HQ on the island for us?

If we get some naval support for a few days as a reward for the information it might be worthwhile and taking our current situation into account it would be harder to take affront at this.

>>5888833
2 Torpedo Rams
2 Troop Transports
1 Prison Freighter

Currently in orbit above the planet.

>>5888833
We could use that in a "false confession" method, saying: Look, all we know is there's something with anti-ship capabilities in this island, it might be what you search, or might be not, we don't know

>>5888819
Oooh, a piece of tech.

Combat-Transport hybrid tech doesn't strike me as all that shiny and I'm betting the Martian Navy has some damn good surveillance tech that might get us better information on the nanovirus. I'm a hell of a lot more worried about it than MSM.

>>5888780
'Look, I'm sorry sir- mr.- who am I talking to? I mean, what is your name? Or just give me a rank, it doesn't really matter- we're in some deep shit here. We have a... problem. Not Martian Supremacists that is, but a definite problem. A problem that may be rapidly attempting to overwhelm this world, and may be rapidly becoming more and more resistant to anything we can throw at it. So excuse us if we rank some god damn martians with an uppity attitude and a penchant for breaking the law as not our top priority, okay?'

This is the message I want to send out. Do all my fellow subcontractors agree with this message as vague enough to get them to help us but not let out any information we don't want to let out freely?

>>5888902
Actually, yeah, I like this,

>>5888902
"... Handing you over to the commodore. Please hold on."
The screen switches. No longer is it the professional looking young man. Now, it's a gargantuan, implant-riddled bear of man covered in scars, one of his eyes obviously synthetic. He's practically screaming at you.
"What the fuck do you think this is?! Do you think we care about some fucking common cold?! No! We do not! We only concern ourselves with traitors and scum! And if you are defending them, then God help you, because you'll be recieving the same fucking lethal injection as them! I will ask you one more time and I want a straight answer - no fucking about.
"Have you come into contact with the Martian Supremacist Movement?"

>>5888962
What an asshole.

>>5888962
Plasma, for reference, what if anything do we have that can shoot these people if it comes down to it?

>>5889008
Batteries of standard weaponry or superweaponry works.

>>5889034
And our estimated odds of successfully bringing (one/all) of them down with said batteries without dying ourselves are...?

>>5889050
You brought down a mothership with ten missles - sure, it was a mothership built for exploration and it was severely damaged, but you brought down a mothership. In your first month on this planet - and these things are a fraction of its size.

Have we sent 700 EMP drones to deal with the virus yet?

>>5888962

Perhaps something like "Apparently we have something in common then commodore as we currently dont have much time to care about the criminals that trouble you so much, since our common cold is currently eating it way across the planet. Make us an offer that help us out or fuck off, if we die today or in two weeks is largely irellevant. You want the rebels, you aid us."

>>5889115
Not this. Because that basically tells them we know they're here.

Needs to be a little more vague.

>>5888962
Ask Samson 70 the possibly back lash we could receive for killing these motherfuckers, and the possibility of succeeding should it come to a clash of metaphorical blades.

I've already begun drafting a response in case we do have a chance of killing of these assholes, but I just what to know the odds first. We don't have to take this shit.

How about this?

"And we don't care much about criminals. What we care about is an all consuming plague set to sweep across all of known space and end life as we know it. Promise to help us and we'll see what we can find out about helping you find your runaways."

>>5889115
I vote against this response. Reveals too much.

>>5889153
also, I'm going to go take a shower now. Be right back.

>>5889112
Sorry.

You send in the 700 cloaked EMP drones that soar over the infected shore and almost immediately, they begin to shock down the crawling, shuffling virus. Patches of it become inanimate - but the patches of the virus that still move suddenly begins to gather in egg-like lumps. Almost immediately, these hatch into crows formed from the virus, that soar into the air, flying randomly through the air, trying to hit your drones. Despite the cloaking technology, dozens are hit by the swarm - and then they're hit by more, and more. Yet the drones don't fall. You suddenly lose control of the infected drones - and they spin around, flying back towards your others, unleashing the EMP to knock them out of the sky.

TradeStar:
666 EMP Drones

Nanovirus:
1756 Crows
24 Hijacked EMP Drones

>>5889129

But they already belive we do know, we waffled to much when contact was initiated and now the commodore is pissed, if we tell him no he wont belive us and will probably put us under the "actively aiding rebels" header, if we try to avoid confirming anything he will still disbelive us and probably wont help us.

>>5889179
Tell the drones over the water to dive as close to the water as possible and then self destruct.

>>5889205

How will this benefit us? Unless the seldestruct is truly massive we will loose drones, to little benefit.

I say that we put 50 or so drones on a mercykilling detail to gank any converted drones and continue to kill crows.

>>5889153
S70: "On one hand, you recieve the aid of the Martian Supremacist Movement. On the other hand, the Martian Navy probably knows of this patrol's visit to this system. You eliminate this threat, they're going to send a much bigger one and there's a chance they might glass this planet. Mars has possibly the most terrifyingly awesome military strength in the entire galaxy - they and their handful of colonies practically forced back the Kil'thweq single-handedly, proceeded to declare war on the rest of the galaxy and even after losing, still claim ownership of a vast number of systems.
"You've got a chance of succeeding but the backlash from this... I'm not sure if it'll be worth it. I can't make this choice for you - the Martians hold pretty bad grudges and if it's discovered they died at your hand, you're going to be hunted just as these rebels are being.
"Just claim you know nothing about the situation - even if we're discovered to be lying, if we retreat, the chances of being hunted are unlikely."

>>5889258
Who agrees with this?

>>5889313
Me.

>>5889268
what's so bad about them glassing this planet at this point? Hell, that could probably be the best thing that could happen right now. But I see your point. I still say we shouldn't have to take this shit, but if these guys are as tough as you make them out to be we don't want to be bashing heads immediately.

We should at least wait until we get some more anti-navy equipment up there to protect us in space.

That doesn't mean we should help them though. The commodore is being a complete asshole. Fuck him. If they want to try and take the Supremacists, let them do it themselves. Also, I hope the virus makes the commodore eat his words out his own asshole.

>>5889313
I do but we should also send some more troops. Long range sniping drones for support.


We should have HQ6 start pumping out defense for its self. Turrets and drones

Do we have anything like EMP artillery? Because if we do we might as well try that.

>>5889268
To the Martian Commodore: Sir, I ask you to direct your sensors toward the westernmost quarter of this continent and observing the unnatural substance covering that area. That is the threat we are currently dealing with. It infects everything that it comes in contact with, and it is rapidly becoming immune to our weapons. We've come in contact with numerous other factions during our time here; none of them have explicitly identified themselves as members of the Martian Supremacists, and many of them have attacked us. Furthermore, there is currently a potentially disastrous situation occurring in the north of our territory- we must resume contact later.

>>5889349

While he is annoying is there any real benefit in protecting the rebels? Their tech dont seem all that impressive and having some aid in getting rid of the virus would help a lot, also if the martians are that big a power we might as well suck up to them a bit.

>>5889349
He's not asking us to help them do the deed.

Hell, let's just tell them we don't know because we're too busy dealing with the nanovirus.

>>5889333
Fuck it. That's enough.

The battle continues to rage, with more and more clones flying into more and more of your drones, hijacking more and more of them. Your drones have an advantage of being invisible - but that still doesn't promise victory.

TradeStar:
612 EMP Drones

Virus:
1341 Crows
36 Hijacked EMP Drones

Commodore ΣΦΔB-TΠ-Mars: "I don't trust you, so fucking hear this - if we find any trace of the MSM near your territory, your heads are going to be on platters."

The Commodore cuts off the signal.

>>5889405
Are the crows/hijacked detonate an EMP missile behind their lines and leave our own drone compliment relatively intact? drones evenly mixed in with our own drones or could b

Dear comrades, what steps are we currently taking towards breaking this "iron seal"?
It seems like something of the absolute highest priority right now.

How about we begin by opening communications with the city of natives, and see if we can work out a deal? Perhaps out prisoner could be of use here.
Let us also contact the various corporations, and ask them for any further information they might have regarding both the virus and this aforementioned seal.

Can we have a run down on our current military forces, and begin speculating on the composition of a task force designed to enter the city and the caves?

>>5889359
You've got EMP Missles.
50 of them.
>>5889357
What drones would you like to send?
HQ6 already has 15 Light EMP Drones zapping anything nearby.

>>5889405
Do we have MSM near us? What are the factions near us currently.

>>5889439
The following drones are not active IN UNI-PEACE TERRITORY:
47 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with thermobaric and napalm artillery and grav and flamer)
45 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with fragmentation artillery and grav and flamer)
37 Light Combat Drones (armed with flamers)
35 Medium Combat Drones (armed with lasers)
32 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers and grav and flamer)
29 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with lasers, lightning, shockwave, grav and flamer)
15 Superheavy Combat Drone (armed with lightning guns, pulse artillery and gravity guns)
11 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with tear-gas artillery and stun guns)
9 Light Combat Drones (armed with lightning guns)
7 Light Combat Drones (armed with gravity guns)
6 Heavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)
6 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with heat ray)
3 Superheavy Combat Drones (armed with pulse and herbicide artillery and flamer and grav)


10 Superheavy Combat Drones (Jericho)

---

2 Slaver Colossi (2x Kinetic Shield, 2x Freeman Gun, 1x Heat Ray, 3x Laser) with cloaking capabilities

---

2 Carrier Colossi with cloaking capabilities, each with:
2000 Light Laser
500 Light EMP
500 Light Gamma
500 Medium Laser/Gravity Gun
250 Medium Lightning Gun/Gravity Gun
250 Medium Gamma/Gravity Gun
300 Heavy Laser/Laser/Gravity Gun
200 Heavy Thermobaric/HE/Gravity Gun
100 Heavy Tear/Snatcher/Dart
40 SH Heat 'copter

All of these have cloaking capabilities and are VTOL except for the SH 'copters.

>>5889457
Martian Supremacist Movement is the grey.

>>5889457
At the moment? We share a god damn border with them. With our third base not to far away.

So, I really think we should take a shot at that seal now. We might not have to many chances afterwards. How much shit can we have flying monkey side to make a charge on the seal? Oh, might as well tell the neighbors what we're doing as well.

>>5889450
Double that so we have 30 Light EMP Drones zapping everything near by but this can be part of the next day.


As for the fight we could send a cloaked carry and have it keep outside the battle area (read far from the fucking nanocrows but near enough that its units can assist the fight)

>>5889481
AR: "We're really, really fucking busy over here!"
LP: "You'll need an elite ground-based taskforce for this - it's in a cave from what you've said, so anything air-based won't work. Even worse, no artillery. The worst part of all? It's holy ground, so that cave's definitely swarming with gorillas - probably with Uni-Peace technology, too."

Fuck it, let's tell the Martians where the MSM is, I don't particularly want to risk pissing them off.

Ask for some identifying information and pretend like that identifies them for us.

>>5889459
Alright, thanks.

Ok, how does this sound -
First, we contact Uni - peace and the native city, and start making some deals. Tell them we want whatever is inside that iron seal, so we can stop the plague. Offer them something - no more slaving, food and medical supplies, etc - but remind them their survival is on the line as well. See if we can use our prisoner to facilitate this negotiation.

>>5889514
I'm with him.

>>5889498
It takes a while - but eventually, the crows are eliminated, the virus is pushed back to the ocean that it came from and all of the hijacks are destroyed. Any drone with any chance of being infected self-destructs. All that you have left is piles of scrambled nanites lying motionless on the earth, like black sand.

TradeStar:
398 EMP Drones remaining - can be replaced by tomorrow.

Meanwhile, how about we pump some ground forces, to be loaded up onto those Colossi Carriers?

I suggest a varied mix of PA, Superheavies, heavies, mediums and lights, all with cloaking.

>>5889514
Does anyone object to this?

>>5889563
Is there any way to improve the reaction speed of our self-destruct systems? Maybe place it under it's own control so that a subverted drone can't prevent itself from exploding.

>>5889578
The carriers are full.
>>5889593
I'm checking this too.
Does anyone object to handing in the MSM?
>>5889598
Tech. Lab.

>>5889514
>>5889593

We don't need to tell them right now. Let's keep our options open - and besides, we have bigger problems at the moment.

>the virus is pushed back to the ocean that it came from
Purge it from the ocean. See that bay bordered by us and AlphaRange? We need to clear it out of there; it can use that position to flak both us and AlphaRange, potentially even cutting us off from one another by the direct route. Order all spare construction capacity to produce light drones- VTOL, amphibious, submersible if we've got it- with EMP armament, rigged to self-destruct in the event of infection, intended to go out and attempt a sweep of this region.

Unless there is substantial objection by other subcontractors, of course.


Two new research projects. In previous threads, it was noted that we can research an extra-fast drone scheme; build a heavy tech lab and do so.

Also, I would like a design for a scaled-down power armor model, constructed with stealth and speed in mind, for infiltration/commando-type operations.

>>5889627
They're in system now, so they'll probably be here in the next day or two.

>>5889514
Sounds good but lets try to word it so we arn't really sure it is MSM but they fit the description.

>>5889627
If we don't tell them now they're going to leave or find the MSM themselves and then be very, very pissed at us.

Tell them the MSM is here and we have one less thing to worry about.

>>5889626
What are we tech-labbing right now?

>Is there any way to improve the reaction speed of our self-destruct systems? Maybe place it under it's own control so that a subverted drone can't prevent itself from exploding.
Sounds like a new Heavy Tech Lab and research project to me. Let it be done.

>>5889649
Improved Cloaking
Improved Kinetic Shield
Hyperweapon Lightning
Superweapon Gamma
>>5889655
Building a new heavy laboratory.
>>5889635
I can build an extra 14 SHConstructors so you can build another heavy lab for this.

Man, our scientists must be freaking the fuck out. They just got out here and its like fucking Ragnarok. I think we should really think about doing some mass sucicide charge as a last ditch effort if it comes to it. I mean, a real big charge. We send fucking everything out there to break the seal. Harvesters, samplers, anything that can soak damage and charge thing with pure weight. We should go out with style. Also, tell the Supremiscts near us that we tried to stop the Martians, but they're probably going to go after them. And then us next. So maybe we could give them support against the martians in exchange for them giving us support breaking the seal.

Also, get on the phone with the monkeys and Uni-Peace. Let's see if we can get them to break the seal for us.

>>5889645
Agreed.

For fuck's sake. I don't think we can hold this off any longer, guys.
We need to build something to break open that fucking seal.
NOW.
We want to be opening it up tomorrow. The sooner, the better. We can't leave this to the last minute.

>I can build an extra 14 SHConstructors so you can build another heavy lab for this.
Yes, if you would.

>Also, get on the phone with the monkeys and Uni-Peace. Let's see if we can get them to break the seal for us.
This! Everyone's talking about massive armies and crap, we haven't even asked. Uni-Peace first.

>>5889692
Monkeys lack phones.

Uni-Peace don't.

What would you like to say to Uni-Peace?

>>5889704
I agree whole heartedly.

So: Who's up for calling Uni-Peace to see if we can negotiate some shit. Failing that, let's put those weapon satellites to use. Preliminary bombing, anyone?

>>5889686
No no no. Just replace the Gamma Superweapon with our Anti-Subversion Self Destruct.

>No no no. Just replace the Gamma Superweapon with our Anti-Subversion Self Destruct.
Don't abort our research projects! Continually add more!

>What would you like to say to Uni-Peace?
Explain that while we may have had our differences in the past, we have heard that they may have access to some sort of weapon against the nanovirus, and since according to our projections it will consume the planet in a month or two if not stopped, now might be a very good time to start working together against it.

>>5889733
It just consumes an additional 400/fuel per day and 1000 tons in the construction process - it's not that expensive. Besides, what else could your constructors do?

Anyway, you call Uni-Pea--
"WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE WITH FREYJA?!"

>>5889719

"Hey, Uni-Peace. Its time to stop dicking around fighting each other and shit. That nanoplague is going to eat this whole planet alive, and we're going to have to cooperate if we want to stop it.

"Our genetic analysis of the natives indicate that they are a genetically engineered species, and their mythology surrounding the Great Father seems to predict the coming of the nanoplague with great accuracy. We need to get inside the Cave of the Father if we want to figure this shit out."

>>5889756
"No fuckin' way, man. The only person they let into the city was Freyja and her guard - and you've killed her or tortured her, or something - fuck you, man! Fuck you!"

>"WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE WITH FREYJA?!"
Who? You mean Joanna? I think she's in our spa. Why, do you need to talk to her?

>>5889758

"She's with us. Alive, unharmed, in good health."

Also, this: >>5889770

>>5889758
"She's fine. We're not here to talk about her, there are bigger problems."

>>5889758
Ok, yeah, sorry. The feeling of haste is a bit strong.

How long will it take to make and then research said upgraded device?

>>5889758
'Don't worry, she's fine. Joanna! Get in here! Your friends are calling!

So anyway, there's a bit of an apocalypse plague going on. We think the cure for it is in the Iron Seal that the monkeys have. Would you mind trying to get them to open it for us? I mean, normally we'd just go in guns blazing but between Joanna's good influences and us having to, you know, fight back the apocalypse plague, we thought we'd go the diplomatic route this time?

So, how will it be gentlemen? We'll be willing to pay you.'

How is this for a response to send back, my fellow Subcontractors?

>>5889773
"We assure you she is alive, in our custody, and being treated with utmost care. We'll be so generous as to allow you to speak with her - hold the comms"

Where should we work from here?

Hey, once we built those two Slaver Colossi, did they get sent to the natives' island to grab them all? It'd make it really easy to check out what's behind the iron seal that way.

>>5889780
He probably won't believe us unless we have Joanna speak to him. We should probably bring her over to say something.

If you guys think she'd go along with it, that is.

>>5889784
>>5889777
>>5889780
"What..? Freyja said you came here to use the nanovirus... It's what corps do... What... Fuck, this is hard to take in... God, I need some reefer." The speaker lets out a sigh.
"Fuck it, listen... What are you guys thinking of doing..? Without Freyja here, this shit is in chaos. Half of us wanna leave the planet, half of us wanna shoot you to pieces, half of us want to find the virus and kill it dead. We're fuckin' disorganized, man but... We might be able to do something, man. What do you need?"

>>5889773
Ok, then, fuck off.

Ask Joanna if she'd be willing to get one of us into the City to see the Seal.

Also, if no one objects let's ask the Martian Navy for some identifying characteristics of the MSM.

>>5889808
Oh shit, i completely forgot about those.

Send the colossus slaver combat-haulers with the Freeman guns. Grab boatloads of natives, bring them back to the habs, but don't sell them to AR yet. Coincide it with an attack by our previous gravity gun slaver team. Escort the two with a carrier.

>>5889808
No. They haven't moved yet.

>>5889773
Oh for the love of- she is FINE. And her name is Joanna. In fact, you know what- Joanna! Would you mine getting in here please? Your friends want to talk to you!

I mean, really, who do you take us for? It's just- really- do we even have the tech for torture? I mean, honestly? Someone check up on this shit. I'm not even sure if we have a torture chamber available. I mean, we could probably make one if it made you guys feel better -you know, get one of our scientists on it- but really between the world ender plague going around and everything else, I'm not even sure we have the specs for one of those.

>>5889817
"We need you to help us kill the virus dead. What methods do you have for doing this?"

>>5889831
If we're going to negotiate with Uni-Peace, kidnapping more natives is a damned stupid idea. Leave the slaver teams deactivated.

>>5889828

NO.

Do not do this. Do not do ANYTHING to the natives.

God...

>>5889831
Well, send them. We don't need Uni-Peace to get us onto that island, we'll clear the natives out ourselves. Then Uni-Peace can focus on virus fighting.

"We can send you a great deal of footage- and for that matter, satellite intelligence- on the current spread of the virus, and rest assured that we are spending a great deal of energy on halting its expansion. Regardless, we are most certainly losing. If you could communicate with the natives and get them to deploy whatever weapon they have available against the nanovirus, that would be most appreciated."

>>5889840
"Uh... I guess we were just gonna kill it, really. You know, grow shit over it with that crazy terraforming technology, shoot it and stuff, you know."

>>5889848
It's not harmful, it just gets them out of our way so we can get to the iron seal. If need be, we can bring them back or release them or whatever.

As well as providing slaves for later sales if we choose.

>>5889850
Uni-Peace is allied with the apes, you idiot! If we attack the apes then they won't work with us, they'll start attacking us INSTEAD of the virus!

>>5889850
No! Don't touch the natives until we're sure that Uni-Peace can't get us their superweapon, whatever the hell it is, without fighting. The last thing we need is thousands of natives charging us from the east while we fight off the fucking nanoplague on the west.

>>5889861

"You want to use TERRAFORMING weapons on it? You do realize that the virus has a particular affinity for infecting living organisms, don't you?"

"We need to get into the cave. That's it."

>>5889861
From what we know, pretty much everyone wants the damn virus dead, including us. We think there's something inside the Iron Seal that can kill it. Is there like a head monkey you guys could possibly talk to? Is monkey even the right term? You know what, who cares- we need the Iron Seal open. It might be our last chance. I mean it. We could be dealing with some heavy only-the-wielder-of-the-mystical-sword-can-save-the-day fantasy type shit here.

Also, that plan... that plan wouldn't work. The virus contaminates anything it touches. Anything. This is some bad shit. We need the Iron Seal open.

Guys, we have Joanna the Monkeys let her into the city. If we build some Cloakable PA suits we could probably just sneak into the room with the Seal without having to go through the whole bitch of fighting our way to it.

>>5889861
"Please contact the natives and find out what their mythical Iron Seal hides, and open it if possible. We'll have a chance at getting many of you off this planet alive if you're willing to help us on this."

Aside to other subcontractors: This is proving somewhat less fruitful than I had hoped.

>>5889861
"This will be entirely ineffective. What we require from you is information and access to what is known as the "Iron Seal", and whatever it contains. We are willing to lend your leader - Freyja - to this cause."

New Thread:
>>5889898

>>5889886
We can send Samson in his suped up drone with her to open the seal and have a small army of cloaked drones waiting by just in case they need a fighting extraction.

Of course first we need Uni-Peace being ok with this AND the collaboration of the apes, which we can probably get by mentioning the black destroyer plague and how we need the help of their Father to destroy it.

>>5889886
>Guys, we have Joanna the Monkeys let her into the city. If we build some Cloakable PA suits we could probably just sneak into the room with the Seal without having to go through the whole bitch of fighting our way to it.
Agreed, but neither our improved cloaking technology nor our stealth-aligned power armor research is yet completed. Both will take days that we may not have to freely spend.

>>5886106
>pirates
YO, HO, FIDDLE DEE DEE
BEING A PIRATE IS ALL RIGHT TO BE