>>5917682
I toss a thermobaric grenade down the hallway that we came from.

>>5917699
Please don't kill us incapped peeps!

HIT THE CABLES WITH MY THUNDER RIFLE!

If that doesn't work, I begin tossing my grenades into the hallway. EMP first, then the rest.

Once I'm out, I start full blasting with my thunder gun and fire stick.

"KILL IT! KILL THE FUCKER! HURRY!"

>>5917682
The drones have lasers, actually. They can probably cut through the cables with those.

>>5917682
I'm at the door with my EMP gun

>>5917682
I'm trying to hold back the assassin/crab bot hoard with my lightning gun and gravity gun, hurling back any plasma shots I can catch.

"I AIN'T 'FRAID OF NO BOTS!"

>>5917723
Grav the bots into the bots.

Have you guys tried closing the door from where the plasma drones are coming from? And make sure the zone where are landed drones out side the facility are safe and/or attacking the virus if it is too close.

Is everyone in the generator room, or are some people still at the fusion batteries?

>Grav the bots into the bots.
Could you perhaps grav the incapacitated people over to me, so that I could apply medical attention to them? I'm not certain if they're still anywhere near us, but...

>>5917723Dude, we are incapped mate, like, unconscious with wounds and our suits are a wreck. Lets not be a target, eh? Man, that SuperCancer sounds amazing right now.

>>5917736

we're at the fusion room, ACTIVLEY being incapacitated.

>>5917737
I'd say trying to move a couple dudes through a hallway that's full of deadly deadly bots as well as lightning and lasers and fire is a bad idea.

Covering the door with occasional bursts of cleansing fire.

>>5917682
>>5917691
No, they're currently outside of the metal hallway, being held off by the swarms of plasma crabs and assassin drones.

In any case, Thatcher, Theta and Helus stand by the entrance to hold off the approaching drones. Lightning sparks between them and they fall down, trembling and twitching before finally being scrambled and deactivated by the EMP guns. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty - you lose count of how many you're taking down. They have to climb over their comrades. However, you're gaining your own injuries.

A stray powered blade glides across the face of Thatcher when it gets too close, tearing out an eye and leaving a scar down a cheek before another blade comes from the same drone, to impale him through his shoulder.

Helus recieves a ball of molten plasma to his leg. Nothing is felt. It simply glides through effortlessly and the useless limb falls to the floor, with Helus falling back.

Another powered assassin blade strikes Archer, impaling him through a lung once it gets too close.

More and more injuries mount up while the others desperately tear and cut at the cables with lasers. Eventually, one of them snaps but - nothing happens. As far as you can see, the field of black light remains, an ominous sphere covering something, even though one of the two cables has been cut.

Helus has been INCAPACITATED
Archer has been INCAPACITATED
Thatcher has been INCAPACITATED

Seven more drones have been lost.

>>5917739
You are in the room BEFORE the room I'm shooting into. You guys went down firing the heat ray in the room that leads to the room where the assassin bots first came out of, bushwacking me and Archer.

>>5917753

I try to accomplish this from my position, leaning beside the door.

Also, I salgaved a couple of fusion batteries right before the shit got real.

>>5917754
Well shit. I'm down one leg then lads. I'm probably in shock though, so I don't feel a thing. I keep shooting from a prone position on the floor until I pass out from blood loss. Maybe toss my final EMP grenade into the room the bots are coming out of.

>>5917754
THE ENERGY SHIELD REMAINS BUT THE KINETIC SHIELD IS DOWN.
PUNCH THE ORB.
PUNCH THE ORB.
PUNCH THE OOOOORB.

>>5917754
"MOTHERFUCKER I CAN"T SEE FUCK FUCK FUCK!"

I'll stumble away from the door as best I can to get out of the line of fire and hopefully get the blade out of my shoulder. Otherwise I'm down.

>>5917754
Ok, guys, lets break to the two outer rooms. Cutting the cables seems to do nothing. Lets try to shut this down THE RIGHT WAY.

>>5917754
I continue firing my emp gun, and I call for someone to grab Helus and Thatchers weapons

>>5917754
Fuck!

If we can easily see the generators from this room i simply throw both my HE grenade at it along with my last thermobaric. If not I say;

"Fuck! Split up!" Then i run down the right hallway (or left if others have already gone down the right hallway).

Well

Pierced through the lung.

Things aren't looking too good for Subcontractor Archer.

I fall back and fire for as long as I can, holding them back until I fall unconscious.

AVENGE ME!

>>5917780

By laying on the ground with third-degree burns and shrapnel?

>>5917782
Wait no. Forget that. That's not what I do. I toss all my grenades down the hall way we came from, and keep firing.

"CUT THE OTHER CABLE!"

>>5917772
yeah, let's get into physical contact with the virus orb that can infect anything.

>>5917770
Also, I just realized that the plasma would probably cauterize the wound. I throw my EMP gernade, and then start pulling my self backwards across the floor with arm as I shoot wildly with my other arm at the droid horde.

>>5917796
THERE ARE TOO MANY CABLES, GET TO TEH ROOMS!

>>5917754
FYI

The kinetic shield was the transparent one.

We can assume the black shield is energy.

TRY TO FUCK THAT CORE UP!

>>5917797
The shock might knock you out though.

I keep firing streams of electricity and fire until I can shoot no more.

Finish the job boys. Finish the job.

>>5917801
There are two cables, one has already been cut. There's only one left.

>>5917807
I suspect I'm so full of adrenaline right now you couldn't make me pass out with an elephants' load of sedatives. I keep pulling my self back, shooting at the droids.

>>5917804

GRENADES, FAGGOTS, DO YOU HAVE THEM?

>>5917792
Squaddie with a HE PACK
BACKPACK FULL OF HE PACKS!
CHAAAAAAAAAAARGE!
*sprints towards the hallway all the 'bots are coming from*

>Helus has been INCAPACITATED
>Archer has been INCAPACITATED
>Thatcher has been INCAPACITATED
I will grab their bodies and desperately attempt to prevent death using my medkit, remaining within our kinetic shield if possible.

>>5917835

Are you nuts, you'll get Darius and Supernova killed!

I missed the two threads, so i've had no opportunity to have inserted myself in this delicious madness.

Plasma, can i be put in a robot body with Decon, EMP and stun, and lead the reinforcement wave? (Carrier, 1000-odd drones)

>>5917835
by god that's crazy enough to work. Charge on, brave rookie. Watch out for supernova on the way there though.

>>5917835

"Goddamnit, squaddie."

"I want . . . to see the stars . . . one more time . . ."

"If we die down here, I want you all to know..."

I pause for a second, firing once again into the hallway.

"I'M A HERMAPHRODITE!"

I'm maintaining a wall of flame on the entrance from the side of the door.

"Get those shield drones here, these goddamn blades are screwing us over!"

Do we have the approximate location of the brain? If all else fails we can bombard the place with the heat ray satellites. And see if we can send some drones from the carrier inside to help out.

>>5917849
(oh god I almost cried like a little girl)

>>5917839
>I will grab their bodies and desperately attempt to prevent death using my medkit,

Good idea. We need the cover.

I'd like to take cover to the sides of the doors, leaning round to shoot at the incoming drones, from a kneeling position.

>>5917842
>>5917848
*Squaddie rests at the Fusion Battery-side entrance to the hallway, having pre-cleared the room with the help of everyone else from the Fusion Battery room*

... 10 Bravery.
LET'S DO THIS!

*Picks up Darius* *Fucking throws him to the Generator room*
*Picks up Supernova* *Fucking throws him to the Generator room*

And I'm out of Turn units.

Each room contains dozens of turrets, blasting at anything that even steps near the entrances - cloaked or otherwise. It appears that their sensory equipment is truly wonderful.

The second cable is slowly being cut, by lasers - you can already see the field of black light shimmering.

Joanna recieves a sphere of plasma, unfortunately - an attempt to dive to the side saves her from certain death but instead, her arm is taken off. After a reasonably respectable kill count of seven, she's down and out.

More and more and more grenades are thrown down the corridor, more and more drone corpses pile up, dozens upon dozens upon dozens of them - but they just keep on coming, eliminating more and more of you.

Irony manages to successfully pull back the incapacitated - thanks to his intervention, you are sure to live through this day!

But things turn for the better when the squaddie makes his suicide run. One sphere of plasma slams into his side, leaving a gruesome hole. Another into his shoulder and another into his leg. The rookie falls over and then.

BOOM.

Just as the cable is cut, too. The black field flickers one last time and drops completely, revealing a brain in a floating glass case, filled with preservative fluid. There's no more plasma fire. There's no other attacks, the corridor's too clogged with corpses for any panels to open - all that is left is to finish the brain.

>>5917904
SQUADIE.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

BASH THAT METROID!

>>5917904
Having cleared the blood out of my other eye: "...does anyone remember that rookie's name?"

>>5917904
"FOR ROOKIE!"

I punch the glass.

>Joanna receives a sphere of plasma, unfortunately - an attempt to dive to the side saves her from certain death but instead, her arm is taken off.
Apply MEDICAL SCIENCE immediately!

>>5917904
Finish the job.
. . .
. . .
Finish
. . .
the
. . .

>>5917839
I push the man away.

"What do you think y... your doing? I'm fine, I'm fine. Just can't get up. Probably some magnetic tech. Gonna have to... remember... to loot that when all this is over, huh? Bloody useful thing to have... h... huh? Bet it could increase our metal production by... twe...twe... twenty percent. Damn things just keeee... keee... keep coming don't they? Hope these things don't run out of ammo soon. What kind of ammooooo.... amooo... amunitions those freaky prawn use anyway? My leg feels funny... hey, doc, is there something wrong with my leg? My leg feels funny..."

>>5917904
Goddamn it, let's just finish this, we need some medical help, quickly.

>>5917904
Was I able to throw Darius and Supernova clear in time?

>>5917904

If anyone is still alive, SHOOT THE FUCKING BRAIN. Gamma rays if we still have them, but anything will do.

>>5917928
Also, I stay alert at the door, to make sure that nothing makes it through our makeshift barrier of the dead.

>>5917917
The glass simply shatters, a million shards scattering to the floor.

The brain clumsily drifts out of the air and lands on the floor, twitching briefly as impulses are sent through the air, sending signals to the nano--

Squish.

A gigantic, synthetic boot has suddenly crushed the brain into nothing more than a red smear. Samson 70. and Sangeyla together finished off the brain.

The entire facility goes quiet.

A third of a continent goes quiet.

Everything falls quiet as the virus suddenly falls inanimate, dead - forever.

>>5917935
Yeah, we got clear.

>>5917935

we were out and a far way back - we might or might not have gotten hit.

>>Joanna recieves a sphere of plasma, unfortunately - an attempt to dive to the side saves her from certain death but instead, her arm is taken off. After a reasonably respectable kill count of seven, she's down and out.

"Nooooooooooooooo!"

I drop my gun and cradle Joanna. "I never got to tell you..."

>>5917919
"Shit! Irony! Joanna's fine, but I think we're losing Archer!"

>>5917940
Fuck yeah. I'm awesome.

I high-five Samson.

>>5917940
Awesome.

I think we might have been far back enough to stay out of the blast. Dunno.

>>5917935
They're clear.

>>5917940
Fuck yes.

Also, who are those other factions? I missed their introductions.

>"My leg feels funny... hey, doc, is there something wrong with my leg? My leg feels funny..."
"Helus, don't worry about your leg. Either shoot the drones or stop moving."

It's a pity we don't have combat drugs, or I'd be injecting all these incapacitated people into fighting trim. Ah, well. These will do.

Get our drones in there to rescue our people to get medical attention. Also can we get a heavy constructor on site soon to set up base? And call in Lemington, since we saved their asses they may provide medical help to those that are injured. Also good work guys.

New plan. dispatching Carrier with construction drones to plonk a base down here.

>>5917957
Check the rooms either side of the brain, then try to leave, making sure that we loot everything that we can on the way out.

>>5917940
Fistpump!

"Fuck yeah! Score one for humanity, bitches! Now someone tell Dirk that Joanna's fine, someone else loot this place, and some other guy explain to me why I'm seeing two of everything."

"Doc? Doc? My leg feels funny. Is there something wrong with my leg? Hey, doc... Doc, look, the... the... shield... thingy is gone from the orb. Hoo... hoor... hooray. Now we just smash it and allll... all go home now, right? Smash it and all go home, back to the base where... where we'll team up with Lemmington and Alpharange, and then we're fight against Tradestar, and we'll win to and... and... the bots will stop shooting and sta...staaaa...stabbing at us and... and...

Doc, I think I'm feeling a lit... litt... little sleepy, Doc. Doc, I think I'm going to take a nap now. Doc, tell the men I'm taking a little nap. Nothing to... wor... worry about. Just... a little... na... nap.

..."

>>5917951
Joanna's has gone into shock and has fallen unconscious.

Whether Archer survives is up to him - Irony can give him medical care right here and now and later on, he can get a synthetic lung. Or, he could bleed out and die.

>>5917968
Seconding this.

>>5917918
Damn my connection reset.

>>5917962

"Unipeace...Lemmington..something something who helped us out. Can't really recall at the moment."

>>5917968
okay, i'm shit at MS paint, so by "here", i mean "On that easily defensible chokepoint of land a bit below where my arrow actually points. :D

Okay, regroup. We need to start building a HQ on this island. Heavy production facilities, the work. We can truck stuff in from 6 if we have to. Cntact Alpha, ask for sitrep, don't tell them anything, standard procedure.

Oh, and medical attention. That's important too.

>>5917976
What do you guys think? Should Archer die?

>>5917966
NO.

NO.

NO.

We do not contact TradeStar. They wanted this thing taken alive, we're dead people walking, hell we probably were before all this happened.

>>5917974
IRONY! Helus needs some help! You better get up man. Or I'm gonna have to kill ya. Ha ha.... ha.

>>5917973
"And someone else tell everyone to stop channeling old military movies."

>>5917994
I said Lemington as in Lemington Pharmaceuticals, the sea green faction. And we should get a base on the island where you guys are to help speed up research and cataloging of what's in the former Tradestar research lab.

Also, tell everyone else how far they'll be bending over. They owe us. They ALL owe us.

>>5917989
From a lung wound? In this era of medical technology? Naaaaaah.

>>5917994

"We had no choice."

Remember, the Alpha Range contractors said they wanted to team up with us in the formation of a new group.

I say it's about time that happened.

>>5918013
Fuck, I dunno how I read that as TradeStar. Sorry, my bad.

Anyways, reposting my plan from earlier:
A plan for surviving after this ends.

This relies on several things;
1) The Ability to buy clones of ourselves from Lemmington
2) The Ability to buy new identities from some other faction (My preference is the Martian Navy, but Uni-Peace might go for it (We have Joanna))
3) Blowing up all our facilities in a single gigantic explosion when the Head of Hajjar affairs comes to collect the core
4) Getting said Head actually into a facility
5) Getting the fuck off this rock

Now, the plan is as follows: We buy clones of ourselves, get some new identities, wait for the Head of Hajjar affairs to get here,then get him down to one of our facilities. After that, we need to remotely detonate all our shit in a pattern that looks enough like a concentrated attack, our clones in the base gives enough evidence that we died too. Then, we get Uni-Peace to take the credit.

>>5918019
We can't deal with TradeStar.

We need to get started on our evac plans.

Was I incapped?

Let's cart over a Heavy Sampler to drill a hole straight into the brain chamber, so we don't have to go back through the damn drones. Set up a HQ here, and plunder and loot all the tech we can find.

Eventually, you collect your wounded and your dead and you carry them out of the facility to recieve medical attention on the transport, while you loot and search the research facility. You find:

27 Fusion Batteries
Nanovirus Schematics
Central Brain Schematics
Fusion Battery Schematics
Power Field Schematics
Plasma Gun Schematics
Crab Drone Schematics
Pulse Laser Schematics

>>5917976
>>Joanna's has gone into shock and has fallen unconscious.

I work with Irony to stop the bleeding.

Compress on the wound, followed by bandages. If the blood's too much, we'll wrap the gun's strap into a tournaquet.

Unless there's a miracle blood stopper in that kit.

>>5918039
Delete Nanovirus.

DELETE.

DELETE.

>>5918039
Define 'Central Brain' and 'Power Field', if you would.

I'm also all for Sangeyla's plan, btw.

>>5918020
And me without a Horatio Caine macro.

ARCHER WILL LIVE!

Use the grav guns to clear the way. I'm breathing blood over here.

Contact Lemmington about them making us some clones. FAST PRODUCTION, FREE OF CHARGE FOR SAVING THEIR ASSES!

The AlphaRange contractors join us, we form Plasma Limited.

We start reverse engineering the FTL drive from the pirate ship.

We design and build a MASSIVE escape vessal for us.

>Whether Archer survives is up to him - Irony can give him medical care right here and now and later on, he can get a synthetic lung. Or, he could bleed out and die.
Medical care for everyone... Archer, Helus, Darius, Supernova, Joanna, anyone else bleeding after the critical cases are taken care of.

Also, let it be noted that someone else should have brought a second medkit.

>>5918032
I also was thinking about this.
Even for a giant super-corporation, the one guy that's been setting all of this up has to have been breaking SO MANY laws. If we can grab him when he arrives and rat him out to his higher ups, we might be able to live, AND collect on the huge reward we came here to win.

>>5918058
PLASMA LIMITED, YES.

>>5918049
I am unsure whether we should follow through with this but precaution is the better part of valor. That and I memorize the fusion battery and nanovirus schematics, hopefully.

>>5918020

"Irony, get on Archer Helus and Joanna asap. I don't think supernova and I got hit anywhere lethal." Checking myself and supernova.

>We design and build a MASSIVE escape vessal for us.
I am definitely very into this plan. And now we can build endless stacks of fusion batteries for it. All right!

>You find:
>delicious technical candy
Aw yeah.

I say we delete nanovirus and central brain.

We don't need that shit.

Also, any tech we can't develop before we have to leave this planet, we take with us.

>>5918053
Central Brain is a hyper intelligence that is capable of deciphering and controlling a hivemind.

Power field is the field of energy that surrounded the assassin drones' blades - it's a piece of fancy Martian military technology that basically disintegrates whatever the power field comes into contact with.

>>5918039
If anyone has died, recover their brain and create a brain jar thing using the central brain schematics, and let them LIVE

>>5918081
You're practically covered with shrapnel and burns and you look fucking hideous. You're scarred all over. It's a miracle you're standing after that.

>>5918086
I'm all for deleting nanovirus, but I kind of want to keep Central Brain.

>>5918087

Ooo, so we can make power blades from that.

Begin production on a huge fleet of carriers since we have the motherlode of batteries, and full speed ahead on starship research.

>>5918087
Could the central brain be modified to assist in researching and examination? And we should get all our harvesting operations back in gear if we are going to eventually get off planet. I imagine a spaceship will cost a ton of metal.

You know, I kind of like this planet.

What if, instead of fleeing it, we fortified it? Set up enough space attack platforms and ships to take out anything that comes our way. I don't think we're worthy of chucking an asteroid at.

>>5918091
Rookie kind of 'sploded and that was the only casualty that I can think of.

Other than:
Archer needing a bionic lung
Joanna needing a bionic arm
Helus needing a bionic leg
Thatcher possibly wanting a bionic eye or not

>>5918087
Awesome, yeah, delete Nanovirus and Central Brain schematics. Also we should contact Lemington about getting some replacement limbs here.

I dunno about any of you guys, but I want a cybernetic eye to go with my new bad ass scar.

>>5918085
Thirding "GET OUT GET OUT NOW".

I can't remember the exact details from when Plasma listed the space capabilites.

But from what I can imagine:

We develop the FTL drive first.

The ship we build will use the FTL drive and the Kil'thweq propulsion system. It will be large, large enough to house all of our drones. WE DONT WANT TO TAKE OUR GAMMA WEAPONRY WITH US, SINCE IT IS HIGHLY ILLEGAL, but we can keep the knowledge of how to produce it. Lots of storage space for all the metal we can take. Research labs, tech labs, construction facilities, hab facilities, science facilities: we put everything that we can into this motherfucker.

Power it with the fusion batteries.

Mount it with the most advanced version of the heat beams, grav beams, lightning, plasma, et cetera.

A fortress.

>>5918112
I agree with this

>>5918104
S70: "Are you seriously thinking of creating another one of those things? You do that and I will kill you with these hands of mine."

>>5918097
Heh, time for extensive skin grafts from clones, eh?

>>5918087
So who are all these factions?

We got us, in Blue, Former tradestar employees
Alpharange in Orange
Lemmington Pharma to the north in bluey-green
Uni-peace to the south in light green
Natives in Purple, to the southeast

To the northeast we have Grey with 2 red X-es, dunno who they are
Brown with 3 waves, also no idea
And green with 4 red diamonds, also no idea.

>>5918104
Oh, yeah. Plasma, you mentioned a standard spaceship in an earlier thread, can we only build that or can we build a custom ship?

Doing chores kept me out of all the fun bits. :(

Other than starship research, let's also fabricate schematics for missile battery weapons emplacements. My stealth tank idea shall succeed yet!

>>5918086

Do we even know what the central brain can do? lets not wipe out knowledge that can be useful later,

Similarily while we do not want the Nanovirus we might want nanotech, it might be handy for construction and repair.

>>5918133
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

Let's not get rid of the Brain. That's useful.

The nanovirus... less so. I still hate destroying research.

Also, I'm calling up LP about a cloned female arm.

>>5918132
You forgot Red, who are the New Earth guys.

Grey is the Martian Supremacist Movement, I'm voting right now we sell them out for new Identities from the Martian Navy.

>>5918133
We can design any kind of ship we want.

Either way, if we take to the stars, or stay here making it our new home, we need some kind of massive space ship to defend ourselves.

>>5918132
And who's that in red with the white cross?

>>5918132
Grey and Red double X is the martian supremacists. they owe us a tech.

there used to be some pirates, but we seem to have pwned them.

i don't know the others... let's call them "Nationalized Bacon", and "Space De Beers"

>>5918132
The red guy with the cross is the remains of the New Earth Missionaries.
The grey bit with the double X's is the Martian Supremicist something or other.
Don't know the other two.

Waitaminute....what are the odds we build a spaceship and leave the planet only to find TradeStar waiting for us? They kill us, take our knowledge, rape our women and children, and glass the planet.

>>5918119
A better version of the Prawn mothership that we destroyed early on?
Well Samson 70, I was just thinking out loud. If you feel it would not be a good idea, then maybe I should follow my own advice about precaution. BUT we should not delete any information and schematics as they may prove useful as references later on.

I say keep everything, we know how to use the nanovirus and the central brain, or can at least claim we do, and maybe use it to kill everything on planets that we want, just make sure its kept in a very, very, very secure place.

>Grey is the Martian Supremacist Movement, I'm voting right now we sell them out for new Identities from the Martian Navy.
The Martian Navy is run by self-important assholes. They wouldn't give us shit.

>Additional Locomotion Slot: 250 TONS and 500 UNITS
I assume that more of these can be applied to make our ship go faster? Is there a limit to how many?

>>5918147
No.

I vote right now, that we destroy both the nanovirus and the brain.

You try to keep this shit, and I will kill you; even with a lung full of blood.

Okay.

Blue - TradeStar
Red - New Earth Missions
Yellow - AlphaRange
Cyan - Lemmington Pharmaceuticals
Grey - Martian Supremacist Movement
Light Green - Uni-Peace
Purple - Gurruk Empire
Orange - Space Pirates
Brown - Core Mining Inc.
Dark Green - Nebula Estates

>>5918173
I'm with Archer and Samson. No nanovirus, no central brain.

>>5918165
I'll kill you too, man.

This information isn't leaving this bunker.

Right, i'm off, it's 5.20, and I desperately need sleep, but archive this shit, thanks for all the fun everyone.

>>5918147
(By gods, I'm uncouncious and I would still try to kill you if you let either of those things survive. Hell, I'm all for gutting everything we can from the research facility and then glassing it from space.)

I ALMOST FUCKING DIED TO STOP THIS SHIT!

WE ARE DELETING IT RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

NO QUESTIONS!

>>5918170
There's no limit to how many of any slots you have. It'll make your ship gigantic.

Also, here's how I tell what speed is:

Tonnage / (Locomotion Number * 2.5) = Speed Rating

<0: Exceptionally Fast
0-99: Very Fast
100-199: Fast
200-299: Average
300-399: Slow
400-499: Very Slow
500<: Exceptionally Slow

Different types of locomotion do different things by the way.

Also, a new facility you can include on a space ship:

HANGER: 500 TONS and 1000 FUEL

Each hanger can contain a spaceship.

How about this for a ship:

30000 TONS Cargo Space
20000 UNITS Fuel Tank
30 Persons Living Space
2 Locomotion Slots
10 Weapons Slots
6 Fusion Batteries
2 Onboard Construction Facility
4 Onboard Examination Facility
1 Onboard Tech. Lab
1 Onboard Heavy Construction Facility
Reinforced Plating
2 FTL Engine Slot

>>5918184
(We should really try and get in touch with those Missions guys, seeming as how we saved their asses. Also, TRIP CODE OFF)

>>5918214
Updating.

>>5918214
How about you double or triple that.

>>5918214
That sounds incredibly slow, but useful. Maybe add a couple hangars and we can develop some smaller fighter craft or shuttles.

>>5918214
>>5918229
Also, increase the locomotion by a few more.

>>5918214
The ship should have at least one of each option in terms of production and research. And since we may be leaving the planet making it enormous won't hurt.

WAIT, FIRST THINGS FIRST:

Delete the nanovirus and brain.

Medical treatment.

Get Lemmington to work on our clones JIC.

Get our earned booze from AlphaRange. Also, it's time they joined us.

Contact the other factions.

Build a facility here.

START RESEARCHING/BUILDING THE SPACE SHIP!

>>5918270
Yeah, let's set all that up and skip to the next day as well. Our short-time-frame shennanigans are over with.

>>5918270
second all of these.

>>5918278
(i still want a robot body for in case the guy in charge of us gets pissed.)

>>5918278
Definitely. It's time for a day advance. We've earned some time to rest.

Also, memorial services for the ROOKIE.

>>5918288
I think you've got one automatically. You're a synth subcontractor working with a bunch of humans. Hell, we could probably have had someone as a prawn.

>>5918270
Ask Lemington if creating a nanovirus just as we created is illegal. We may get our boss fired and imprisoned for the shenanigans he is willing to put us through.

>6 Fusion Batteries
You meant something more like "60 Fusion Batteries", I trust. Those only knock 500 fuel/day off of upkeep, y'know.

Also, we need more propulsion, weapons, tech labs and construction facilities.

Man, guys, let's take a moment to appreciate how totally badass we are.

Updated.

30000 TONS Cargo Space
20000 UNITS Fuel Tank
30 Persons Living Space
10 Locomotion Slots
10 Weapons Slots
15 Fusion Batteries
2 Onboard Construction Facility
4 Onboard Examination Facility
1 Onboard Tech. Lab
1 Onboard Heavy Construction Facility
Reinforced Plating
2 FTL Engine Slot
2 Hangers

Whoa there. We shouldn't just start building a ship.

Put all those new fusion batteries into colossus harvesters/haulers, and strip the mothership's metal completely. Build new heavy construction facilities, and let's make this new ship MASSIVE.

Delete both debated schematics. Remember, the central brain is what caused the nanovirus to go haywire.

I propose we construct our starship with the following specs:
20000 TONS Cargo Space
10000 UNITS Fuel Tank
100 Persons Living Space
100 Synth Space <-- does this include drones? If so, 1000.
5 Onboard Construction Facilities
6 Locomotion Slots
10 Weapon Slots
2 Examination Facilities
5 Hyperweapon Slots
2 Onboard Tech. Labs
2 Onboard Heavy Construction Facilities
Reinforced Plating
1 FTL Engine Slot

>>5918317
Bump the living space up to 40 people (just in case) and I think we're golden.

>>5918303
I wouldn't count on him getting fired.

If we went to anyone in TradeStar, ANYONE, we would be killed on the spot. Plausible deniability.

>>5918214
If you're adding all of this on to the original template, that would cost...

8375 TONS and 16750 UNITS to make.

13750 fuel/day to maintain, since you're only using 6 fusion batteries.

Oh, it'd also be exceptionally slow.

>>5918305
Actually, yeah. We should put every battery we have into this thing. I don't remember what the exact count is, but now we can build the friggin' things so yeah 60 sounds like a good number.

(How's Alpharange and Lemmington?)

>>5918317
>>5918325
I say we add more locomotion. Speed is the best defense.

Also, energy + kinetic shields to the ship.

>>5918336
If we use a Prawn propulsion engine to power it, it would cost zero if it was just hovering?
>>5918303
Not created, encountered

>>5918336
I updated, also it now should carry 60 Fusion Batteries, if we can.

One last thing before next day.

Tell Martian Navy about MSM or not?

>>5918336
Add in 28 more batteries then, we have plenty! And slow is ok, we've got the weaponry and armor to blow the crap out of anyone coming after us.

>>5918325
FAR too small.

Spend the rest of the month stripping the mothership, building HCFs to speed ship construction, and producing fusion batteries.

>Tell Martian Navy about MSM or not?
No.

300000 TONS Cargo Space
100000 UNITS Fuel Tank
300 Persons Living Space
300 Synth Space
10 Onboard Construction Facilities
50 Locomotion Slots
20 Weapon Slots
2 Examination Facilities
8 Hyperweapon Slots
2 Onboard Tech. Labs
2 Onboard Heavy Construction Facilities
3x Reinforced Plating
4 FTL Engine Slot

Now this is more like it.

>>5918362
Do it. I really don't like those fuckers.

>>5918362
Yes.

>>5918377
Fuck. Also a hangar or two. Kinetic + energy shielding. Escape pods. The works.

>>5918362
Before next day, can we build anything? Like, 2/2 additional colossus harvesters/haulers for the mothership?

>>5918377

This works for me, adding in as many fusion batteries as needed to counteract non-FTL fuel needs.

Also, add 5 hangars.

>>5918380
No. Don't rat them out right now.
They might attack us in revenge, and our Carriers are deployed elsewhere.

>>5918188

I'm with archer. We didn't risk out asses to start this shit all over again. It's too dangerous for anyone to have, especially the virus.

Okay, we have ASSASSIN DRONES.

That means instead of running, we can MURDER THE EVIL BOSS.

And have a massive ship (and 4 light pirate ships) to fuck over anyone who wants to mess with us.

Don't tell the Martians yet.

Maybe later, but not now.

30000 TONS Cargo Space
20000 UNITS Fuel Tank
40 Persons Living Space
100 Synth Space
30 Locomotion Slots
10 Weapons Slots
15 Fusion Batteries
2 Onboard Construction Facility
4 Onboard Examination Facility
1 Onboard Tech. Lab
1 Onboard Heavy Construction Facility
Reinforced Plating
2 FTL Engine Slot
2 Hangers
60 Fusion Batteries

I'm floating this as my final plan.

Also, shore up on our eastern defenses, THEN tell the Martian Navy. They have shitloads more to offer us than the rebels do.

>>5918414
I am wanting more and more to make this planet our own.

TradeStar picked the wrong bunch of mangy subcontractors.

>>5918422
You're thinking too small, man.

>>5918415
Now is our only real chance, telling the MN later doesn't really help, telling them now might buy us some new identities for my plan. (If we end up going with it) Besides, all they've offered us, is some paltry hybrid tech.

>>5918422

A few modifications:
30000 TONS Cargo Space
20000 UNITS Fuel Tank
40 Persons Living Space
100 Synth Space
30 Locomotion Slots
30 Weapons Slots
10 Hyperweapon Slots
75 Fusion Batteries
2 Onboard Construction Facility
4 Onboard Examination Facility
1 Onboard Tech. Lab
1 Onboard Heavy Construction Facility
3x Reinforced Plating
2 FTL Engine Slot
2 Hangers

Also, let me inform you about the three main FTL engines available:

Hyperdrive: Your typical Star Wars thing. It requires no gravitational fields to be present otherwise it messes things up completely. So, you can't jump if you're close to a planet or near the galactic core. This is most popular.

Inertialess Propulsion: You keep on accelerating and accelerating and accelerating and accelerating, going above and beyond the speed of light - however, going through certain obstacles such as suns is still severely damaging.

Horizon Engine: This is highly dangerous and highly unstable Martian technology that takes physics by the horns and fucks it like an animal. It's by far the fastest method of transportation and it tears two holes in reality. One that objects go into, one that objects come out of. The wormholes created are approximately sixty miles in radius - Martians have been known to use this to devastating effect in 'tactical retreats'. Requires ablative plating otherwise it severely damages the ship in the process.

(Alright, I'll probably be passed out for a while game wise. I think I'm done for the night. Thanks for all the fun guys. Peace.)

>>5918443

If metal allows, we can build a small number of these, as well as docked space carrier drones in the hangars for astronautical combat.

>>5918429
Yes. Let's show them just what it means to be surprised.

We'll take any ship they send at us for ourselves.

>>5918447
I think you mentioned a fourth in your first post a few threads back.

>>5918443
I am concerned that such a design lacks sufficient construction/technical capacity. At least five or six heavy tech labs are desired, and construction capacity to build ourselves new parasite craft if it should come to it.

>>5918436
Excuse me, I'm a man-woman.

(I guess no one noticed Sangeyla screaming that he/she/it was a hermaphrodite in the middle of battle).

Also, why do we need space for 300 people? Or 300 Synths (Unless Drones count as Synths)?

>>5918447

>>5918467
Why not?

>>5918447
Lets bargain with the martians to get that horizon tech, and dust this planet with it! Then our bosses, seeing the dusted planet, can write us off as dead! WIN! WIN!

>>5918468

Balls. I meant to type Event horizon thingy drive. We'll get to do the awesome Hell sidequest.

>>5918452
No, not carrier drones. Very small ships loaded down with explosives and giant drill bits on the prow. We shall call them "The Rookies"

>>5918459
The 4th isn't really an engine. Datagates are used to transport FTLless ships. Used to be run by Centauri Synthetics but got transferred to a more neutral company after they sided with the Martians in their supremacy war.

>>5918474
Because it adds tonnage needlessly?

>>5918489
We also don't need more than a couple of each facility. We can always land somewhere and build craploads of construction things on a planet if we ever need a lot of production real quick.

>>5918489
Not much.

We've got to think big.

Whatever, it's not important right this second.

Let's advance the day Plasma.

Contact everyone on the planet. Lemmington needs to get to work on our clones. We demand it.

It's time for the Alpha boys to join us.

>>5918503
Not everyone, just AR and Lemington. We don't care about the others.

If you want drones to patrol your spaceship, yes, you need synth space.
If you don't, cargo bay will do.

Anyway, it seems the general consensus for handing in MSM or not is tied so for now, no. I'll delay that a bit.

Advancing to the next day.

>>5918516
I want to know exactly who those other two corps are in the East.

If we're going to claim this planet as our own, we need to know the situation.

>>5918503
At this point I'm just trying to design something to get us the fuck out of here and onto some other planet, I'm not really trying to create a SUPER SHIP, just something that will give us a good base to start on the next planet.

>>5918524
Even in that case, we need the storage space to make use of all the metal the Kil'thweq mothership provides, as well as enough locomotion to give us a fast as fuck ship.

>>5918521
I still think running is the best idea, but yeah, finding out who they are and if they noticed the whole nanovirus thing might be an ok idea.

This has been a productive day on Hajjar.

ABOUT THAT

IF, that's IF, we take this planet, naming it after a TradeStar CEO seems to be in bad taste.

i need to go to sleep, get some skingrafts, etc. see you guys next time.

>>5918553
And I need a new bionic lung.

Day 12, Month 3

131169.9 tons
71057 fuel

+19020 tons/day
+1115 fuel/day

Active Mines: 54 + Mothership

Active Pockets: 60

Available Mines: 211

Available Gas Pockets: 124

You build another heavy tech lab. for when you want to design your starship - but for now, you decide against it.
You have 4 captured pirate starships and you have 432 captured pirates.
The AlphaRange crew will be unable to join you until their slave quota's met, otherwise their employers will gut them. Still, your technology has reached a level when the natives practically can't harm your slaver colossi.
Lemmington Pharmaceuticals are busying about building your clones.
You make a synthetic body for Father Albert Sharev, who is just hanging about, really.

With the aid of Lemmington Pharmaceutical scientists...
- Helus recieves a bionic leg.
- Joanna recieves a bionic arm.
- Archer recieves a lung transplant.
- Thatcher has the option of getting a new eye.

>>5918580
Let's forward the captured pirates to Alpha Range, and demand our tech from the MSM for not turning them in that day.
(what do we get from AR fulfilling their quota, again, other than more subcontractors?)

Also, I spent about an hour before the game sketching up some rough information about the galaxy you folks live in.

New Earth Republic

A democratic nation with many political parties. It is led by a democratically elected president and a senate. Each system and station has a senator to represent it - who is also democratically elected.

271 Systems
763 Space Stations

---

Core Systems Alliance

A union of systems and stations who resolve situations democratically. Leadership varies between each system and station - the Core Systems Alliance is a melting pot of political systems.

248 Systems
689 Space Stations

---

Terilian Sovereignty

A dictatorship reigned over by the Terilian Emperor, a position that is completely hereditary. Each system or station is lorded over by dukes and barons who all answer to the Terilian Emperor.

211 Systems
682 Space Stations

---

Ul'tek Systems

A system where the lower, working caste ruled over by the leading caste by use of pheromones. Each system and mothership is ruled over by a council of leading caste prawns. These councils form a senate that runs the Ul'tek Systems.

183 Systems
439 Motherships

---

United Socialist States of Mars

A single party system led by a chairman. Each system and space station has a minister who is selected from the party's elite by the chairman's office. The chairman elects his executive office and also elects his successor.

72 Systems
173 Space Stations

---

Brown Space

A completely anarchic area of space controlled by pirates, corsairs and reavers. There's no concept of leadership or order and there's no official political system for Brown Space.

67 Systems
Unclassified number of Space Stations and/or Motherships

I'm confused as to why people want to save MSM, frankly the Martians Proper seem more powerful. Also, given the chance MSM would take us over without so much as a thought; they think they're better than us, that they have some sort of innate right to rule over us.

Let's go ahead and fill that slave quota for them.

What's the status on tech? Reverse engineering, developing, et cetera.

Last I remember, we were Hyper weaponing some things, and we should unravel the pirates' FTL drives.

>>5918580
I WILL GET THAT NEW EYE. It better come with telescopic vision and all sorts of nifty stuff, too.

And let's get our labs cracking on analyzing the pirate FTL drives, as well as shipping the pirates themselves over to AR and setting our slaver drones out to collect them their quota.

>>5918524

Personally, I'd prefer to go with a number of highly defensible and fast ships. We don't need a ridiculous amount of research/construction facilities on board, we can touchdown on planets for that.

>>5918600
"No way. You only get your reward when the Martians are gone. Fuck off."

All further messages are responded to with radio silence.

>>5918604
I just want them to live long enough so that we can take the tech for combat transports, which will make our carriers much much tougher, and then recall the carriers so they can't harm us when we turn them in.

>>5918602
Awesome job man, fantastic.

Where are we located right now?

>>5918602
Where abouts is Hajjar on that map?

>>5918619
Can we please turn these little fuckers in now? Archer, if we want to take over the planet like you want then these guys will only get in our way. Best to have someone else take care of them for us.

>>5918630
We should really think of a new name.

>>5918642
I agree.

We need to fortify our border, get some drones there. Cloaked. Heavy forces. Gotta keep them from retaliating.

I vote that once we do that, we notify the Martians.

"We found those guys. Positive." Show them some recorded video as proof.

Let's get as many harvesters/haulers as possible, and maximize the amount of metal we're getting from the mothership.

Crank up fusion battery production to max.

Get info on Assassin Drones.

Build 10 HCFs.

>Brown Space
>A completely anarchic area of space controlled by pirates, corsairs and reavers. There's no concept of leadership or order and there's no official political system for Brown Space.
>67 Systems
Guys, I think I see our destiny here. It'll be great.

>>5918642
>>5918652
Yes. Yes. YES.

Make sure it's recent video, from the last few hour. Send a probe if we have to.

Plasma, how much would the ship I posted here cost?
>>5918377

Well, we should turn those suckers in, get in good with the Martians, use their awesome jump drives, and take refuge in their territory.

>>5918628
>>5918630
The box.
>>5918610
You get the new eye.

You will gain knowledge of the Inertialess Propulsion Engine by Day 17, Month 3.

You're also currently researching:
Developing Lightning Hyperweapon
Developing Improved Cloaking Technology
Developing Gamma Superweapon
Developing Improved Kinetic Shield

>>5918657

I think we should head for the Core Systems Alliance under the guise of refugees. Since everything we've been doing up until this point has been decided on democracy, we'd fit in there.

>>5918657
We'll carve a little piece out of the stars to call our own.

Lets research a Plasma Hyperweapon too.

>>5918681
lolwut

I think we should keep developing the gamma superweapon, but not build anymore, on account of their illegality.

Once we have some research space, start getting on with the spaceship tech we need.

>>5918657
Let's. We can go forge ourselves a little empire.

>>5918668
Cancel Gamma Superweapon. It's a basically a war crime guys.

>>5918687
Fuck yes.

Also, could we develop a substantially larger fusion battery to use specifically in star ships?

>>5918664

Agreed; our carrier's lack of direct combat capability is easily compensated for by dedicated weapons platforms. The MSM have nothing of value to offer us.

>>5918645
I propose the name "Loci", for absolutely no reason.

Ok, I'm gonna go.

I'll hopefully be back in a little bit, if this session is still kicking around.

Make sure to archive this shit.

And don't do anything I wouldn't do, because I'm awesome, and do awesome things, LIKE HOLDING THAT HALLWAY WITH FIRE AND LIGHTNING, FUCK YEAH!

I'm a hero.

300000 TONS Cargo Space = 7500 TONS and 15000 UNITS
100000 UNITS Fuel Tank = 2500 TONS and 5000 UNITS
300 Persons Living Space = 3750 TONS and 7500 UNITS
300 Synth Space = 750 TONS and 1500 UNITS
10 Onboard Construction Facilities = 1250 TONS and 2500 UNITS
50 Locomotion Slots = 12500 TONS and 25000 UNITS
20 Weapon Slots = 5000 TONS and 10000 UNITS
2 Examination Facilities = 500 TONS and 1000 UNITS
8 Hyperweapon Slots = 4000 TONS and 8000 UNITS
2 Onboard Tech. Labs = 1000 TONS and 2000 UNITS
2 Onboard Heavy Construction Facilities = 1000 TONS and 2000 UNITS
3x Reinforced Plating = 1500 TONS and 3000 UNITS
3x FTL Engine Slot = 1500 TONS and 3000 UNITS

Add it up.

>>5918707
The only hero here is the Rookie.

>>5918694

But it'll be awesome against pirates.

We should develop gamma shielding though. Or energy shields in general.

>>5918718
That's pretty cheap.

We should seriously look to make the fastest ship in the universe.

By the way, can we also salvage some of the advanced sensors from the brain bunker and develop on those?

>>5918725
Reinforced plating is only good against kinetic weaponry.
You can develop reflective plating or lead plating if you like, to shield against energy attacks or radiation.

>Cancel Gamma Superweapon. It's a basically a war crime guys.
No, don't cancel it. We don't ever have to build any, and it might be handy someday.

I would like to order research done on a smaller kinetic shield- one small enough to be installed into a stealth suit, if possible. Construct whatever labs are needed.

Also, a pulse laser superweapon, please. Again, construct labs as necessary.

>>5918733
Good call.

Okay, build 15 colossus haulers, 15 colossus harvesters, and send them to join the ones at the mothership. We can recover fusion batteries from drones, right?

Send the Freeman gun slaver colossi to make a massive native slave run.

>>5918740
Lets rock that shit. Make this bitch impregnable.

>>5918740
...so much stuff we need to research... We need to find someone we can just steal it from.

>>5918728

Agreed. Reduce crew quarters to 100, increase locomotion slots to 100 and increase weapon slots to 75 and 25 (Hyperweapon).

We might as well call Core Mining, Nebula Estates, and New Earth Missions, to say "Hello, we just saved all of you, how was your day?"

>>5918722
Rookie with a HE pack
Backpack full of HE packs
You will be remembered.

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>>5918789

>>5918760
I think the stuff we have is pretty state of the art. We should research a combination of the kinetic and energy shields. That way we can have a shield that protects against both while having the ability to have backup shield generators.