Yes please.

Also, god damn it. I've got way too many files. Running number-crunching based quests requires a fair bit of work.

>>10695160
FUCK YEAH SLEIPNIR!
FOR THE ALL-FATHER AND PROFIT!

DEAR GOD YES! This is the first time I've been online for one of these!

>>10695170

Oh shit. Forgot to remove it.

Fuck yeah, more megacorp! :D

> So, gentlemen, do you want to play a game?

Would love to, but it will probably get deleted.

Vid Odens andra öga! Ja.

(That's a yes)

>>10695309
its megacorp. this is extremely /tg/ related.

ill be logging back in in a couple hours.Remember to read up on the previos thread everyone!

Right. For anyone interested in in depth information on Ares, have a link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UWCW3XZI

First few pages are pure numbers, then the next few pages after that are combination of fluff and numbers, then it's pure fluff about the flora, the fauna and the native intelligent life.

With that out of the way, let's get this going.

Splendid. My advice is to ally with the native species of PAndora, gain their trust and remove Pentex's presence from the planet. After that either force exclusive mining rights on the xenos, or exterminate them- depending on what will be cheaper.

>>10695336
> will get deleted
> /tg/ related

You say that as if those two have anything to do with each other.

Year 2160:

Ares is going along just fine, really. The New People have conquered the Blessed, with your assistance.
Pandora's still rotting.
You own 11% of RDA.
Weyland-Yutani owns majority shares of RDA.
There are no more RDA shares left for purchase.
There are no more Pandorium engines left for purchase.
The Tyrell Corporation has completed its functional immortality research and you recieve it as well, without being detected. Transhumanism is now a reality. Right now, it's still private.
Pentex requests UN permission to euthanize Pandora.

Balance: $6b
Income: $633b

Do you want to hack anyone?
Do you want to do anything with your yards?

With what's happening on the surface of Pandora, have any of our orbital assets been able to figure out what's happening?
Related to this: Has Deirdre Skye's team been able to make any breakthroughs on bio-neural networks, specifically the one found on Pandora? We may need to interface directly with the Pandoran planet-mind soon. If progress has been slow, we may need to forcibly acquire RDA's Avatar Program research data. Having the genetic blueprints for the Na'vi bio-neural interface system might help her research.

>>10695423

Leak all our information about RDA actions on Pandora to mass media, watch the stocks plummet in price and then buy them for cheap.

>>10695387
If you read the last thread, the Na'vi have degenerated into almost mindless, savage beasts.

Negotiations are impossible. Besides, you are in a deal with Pentex that neither of you are allowed on the planet's surface. And from your observation, that deal isn't broken.

>>10695423
Did we get any of the Avatar program data from our acquisition of RDA assets?
Also, let's put in a counter offer to the UN: we send down a research team to find out what happened on the Pandoran surface before Pentex wipes it clean. It would be more 'humanitarian' to try to save some survivors, no? And we can use this to try to find out how Pentex orchestrated all of this and maybe interface with Eawyha directly.

>>10695475

Ohh thats good, leak that too: intelligent native lifeforms on Pandora ruthlessly exploited!

Fuck yes.

>>10695465
We did that years ago. Didn't you read the previous threads?

>>10695438
As a grunt I am looking forward to retrofitting the Pandoran neural interface system for use in our military vehicles. It is advisable to capture either some specimen, or some data.

>>10695423

Ok, we must stop the Euthanization. For one we must convince the UN that we must research what has happened so that we can avoid similar incidents in the future. Given that we have access to some of the best Xenobiologists in the world we will take on the mission.

Does the blockade around Pandora prevent us from landing personnel on the surface, or is there any way to land a team stealthily in order to rescue some Na'vi, either to get the story or at least be able to study them and better understand the cause of their degeneration? I somehow doubt it's all sociological.

>>10695526
Concept for Pentex stealth ship. Doesn't quite fit the description given, I guess.

>>10695438
She's still working on it. Needs more time.
>>10695465
Pentex has already told everyone everything about Pandora and RDA. They've also framed them for what's going on there. You have no proof that Pentex is doing anything, actually - it's just a grudge.

>>10695517
Goddamned, don't you read anything? Pentex already did that to RDA, and we've bought up 11% of RDA, no more shares left to buy.

>>10695423
>Ares is going along just fine, really

Why does this bother me. The tone is too foreboding.
Somehow I think Pentex might be trying some shit on our planet. I propose to increase surveillance. Build a dozen spy satellites with best equipment to search for umbra veil stealth and teleportation.

Ask you colonists to look out if anything is suspicious. See how natives are doing.

>>10695560
We are co-blockading with Pentex, and they have stealthships. They're probably watching all of ours.
I'm thinking we'll have to go through the UN on this. Seeing as how the Na'vi have degenerated so much, maybe we should declare the previous arrangement null and void due to the protection obviously not having worked out.

>>10695620
We don't have anything that can detect Umbra-cloaked vessels, and that tech is in our queue but still a ways away.
I do agree with ramping up surveillance and interviewing personnel for anything suspicious though.

>>10695626
Bringing a case to the U.N. for a humanitarian intervention would be a good idea methinks.

Can we find out anything more about the bioweapon Pentex supposedly bought from another mega corp?
The fact that the Na'vi started to go insane around that time is a little to much of a coincidence to ignore...

>>10695571
As noted by a few others, what does our legal counsel and consultants think about convincing the UN to let us doe a research mission to Pandora's surface before Pentex destroys any evidence of their tampering?

>>10695526
>>10695569
Hell no, bro. I love it and I'll be using it.
>>10695620
Nothing out of the ordinary amongst the native. Some of them are xenophobes and have attempted assault but generally, it's been happening since first encounter and is decreasing in how often it's happening.

>>10695423
>Pentex requests UN permission to euthanize Pandora.

I think we must cut out losses, guys. This not really our problem.
Pentex fucked up the planet and there's nothing we can do. I think they will land on the planet and "find" a cure to the cancer, save the world and become heroes.

I guess the only thing to do is to land and try to save Jake Sully and his tribe (plot narrative and plot armor demand that they have been untouched).
The other thing we could do is to give research on Umbra to RDA and tell them what Pentex is doing. RDA should still have countless trillions of $ we lack to deal with them.

We are making the same mistake again as we did during the Neptune crisis. We are focusing too much on one thing and discarding others.

>>10695670
Pentex is the one bringing the case before the UN to Exterminatus Pandora on humanitarian grounds, considering that the natives 'are in such pain'.
We could offer to try to salvage the situation first, they might go for it. Maybe offer something in return (i.e. Bribe)?

>>10695675
Sure, okay.

If you want to hack Pentex or Tyrell Corporation to find out more about the bioweapon, GIVE ME YOUR ROLL.

"dice+1d100" in the email field.

>>10695696
Still, make couple of advanced satellites/probes to keep everything in check.

Begin producing Attack Drones in Hermes. Small, fast, armed with a single mass driver and maybe some one-shot missile launchers. With those, we could massively increase our coverage, and if we're going up against eight Pentex ships, it'd be nice to have them.

They should be able to attach to our warships for carrying, since they'd be too small to mount interstellar drives.

Can laser point defenses be used against ships effectively, or are there any other beam weapons we can research/use?

rolled 76 = 76

>>10695740
Let's get hackin'!

rolled 23 = 23

Knowledge is power.

>>10695734
Last time you tried to communicate with Jake Sully, something shrieked into the radio before it presumably smashed it to pieces.

>>10695739
It shouldn't be too difficult to argue that euthanasia shouldn't be the first response to it. These are intelligent beings that are obviously suffering from some kind of affliction, and we should have the opportunity to study it and see if it can be resolved in another way.

So I'll put my vote forward for bringing our case before the U.N., in opposition to Pentex.

>>10695765
See, this is why I wanted the macro-carrier portal research. That way, we could convert cheap freighters into missile barges carrying the equivalent of a planetary defense battery by using portals.

rolled 19 = 19

ROLAN FOR HACKAN!

>>10695775
>>10695805

So glad I >>10695766 rolled first...

>>10695826
Yeah, thank god...

>>10695378

Also, great work Plasma on the Ares dossier, interesting stuff. One thing I'd like to see is how the Aresians see on the humans.

Guys, I don't know if you have noticed but there has been an alarming tendency that our rival corporation are forming alliance blocks to gain more power.
Take Pentex for example, they have Tyrell, and MNU (or was it Zork) helping them. I guess Tyrell does all the amoral bio research, they cannot disclose it and don't gain too much profits so they work together with Pentex. MNU provides Pentex with military weapons/starships. And Pentex does all the evil intelligent leader stuff.
The trend is, that all of the most evil corps are banding together.

Now, I am not trying to say that we or other are "goody" corps. We are still a corporation but more in traditionally "moral ambiguous" way.
These other fuckers are clearly mania chaotic evil fucks.

I think we should try to work together with other more "normal" corps, maybe form an alliance. Morgan industries are already a "friend" of ours. RDA hasn't done anything bad towards us (as far as I can recall) and they aren't too evil, just greedy.


What do you think?

>>10695766
You successfully hack. The Lone Gunmen give you the results.

The biological weapon is essentially green goo. It eats, breeds, eats, breeds, eat and breeds at an exponential rate unlike anything natural. It could theoretically consume all biological material on Earth within three days and then consume itself within another two, leaving nothing behind and nothing alive, reducing the planet to a rock.

Judging how Pandora is smaller than Earth, reduce the estimated time taken to reduce it to a barren wasteland to three days instead of five.

Also:
- Constructing two spy satellites.
- Constructing five war drones.

All of your Hermes yards are busy.

Anything else you want to do, or next year?

>>10695792
Maybe we should ask RDA to help in. Their reputation is on the line so they should help us with funds or whatever.

>>10695928
Well, RDA is a loser now, we own 11%. The ones we should go to are Weyland-Yutani, who owns the majority.

>>10695932
Bring the Tau-Ceti Cryo-Freighter back to Earth.

>>10695932
just three day? Probably isn't the bioweapon causing it then, considering the current crisis on pandora has been going on for years.

>>10695932
In respect to Ares, we should begin a program trying to integrate some of the more intelligent Aresians into our research programs, or maybe experimenting more with the possibilities of Human-Aresian hybrids. Are we doing anything like that now?

>>10695932
Oh, bring our request to attempt some Humanitarian aid to the Na'vi and the collection of biological samples before the UN. Point out that we should do it for moral reasons, if not for science, before Pentex wipes the surface clean. While on the surface, we should attempt to interface with the planet-mind, using an Avatar if necessary.

>>10695932
Put Anti-Green Goo research on the queue.

>>10695998
We have hybrids already. They can speak both human and Aresian languages. Or are you suggesting something more advanced?

Plasma, info on the new deal with STFU.

So at the end of the year we will have zero balance no matter what? Do I understand it correctly? But besides that we don't have to pay them anything at all?


If that is so, could you post the positive balance before each update so that we can spend it properly?

While this deal seems bad at first, I think it works better for us. And I don't /really/ think that STFU are being just dicks. I think they are trying to stimulate our growth even more since before we were crippled by the loans, but on the other hand they don't want us to start hoarding the money and want us to invest properly.

>>10695932
Share this knowledge with Deidre, Morgan, and Zakharov. Especially Deidre.

Question.

Does Earth even know that Ares civilization even exists?

>>10696043
Yeah, I was thinking some biological work to maximize the intellectual potential of the combined species. Maybe we could make superior researchers as a result, or bring in alien minds that might offer new perspectives and insights into our work.

>>10695991
Noted.
>>10695998
Got it.

>>10695932
Do we have any info about where this stuff is being stored? Or have Pentex already started mass production?

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>>10696081
Mounted on a Pentex attackship in 2156.
Pentex attackship sent to Pandora in 2156.
Predicted to arrive at 2162.

>>10695932
I would steal some of the goo, bomb Pandora with it and blame the incident on Pentex.

>>10696049
Expansing on this.


Call STFU and ask for minor change in the deal. We are not trying to oppose the deal.
Ask them to give you permission to have "emergency reserve", as in, instead of reducing our balance to 0$ give us a threshold of 200-250bil$ which we can use in emergency situations. Tell them how that save us during Texas incident and Neptune incident. We would really need that money.

>>10696123
Yeah, we'll need a small buffer, just so that we don't need to be running back to STFU when we hit a pebble on the road.

Advancing to Year 2161. Will keep as much of this in mind as possible.

>>10695928
>>10695959

So..... no one has any more thoughts on this?
Do you think we should be a "lone cowboy" type? I think it would be bad idea.

>>10696075
That sounds good. I guess the question is how tight of a leash are we going to put on the Aresians? Right now they're kind of megacorporate property; do we want to give them sovereignty? Or do we keep them as corporate citizens?
In either case, we may want to send more resources with the next shipment out to Alpha Centuari to build a new research facility on Ares. Big communication arrays and lots of computing power and have it connect back to our corporate research network in Sol.

>>10696115
Well, then we just need to convince UN to allow us full access to Pandora for two years. For Science!

How about we inform UN and earth in general about the "green goo" bomb.

Or at least leak it anonymously (as if, one of their researches did it)

>>10696115
No matter what else happens, we must disable or destroy that ship.

>>10696154
Now that you mention it, Morgan Industries and Weyland-Yutani would probably be our best choices. RDA would be useless as an ally at this point, and with the shares they own Weyland-Yutani basically IS RDA now.

>>10696154
Well, I guess we should send out feelers to W-Y. Also, talk with MI about more joint ops (a Pandora operation would be a viable such).

>>10696181
Yeah. Any news on that umbra cloaking detection tech?

>>10696154
I think we can safely ally ourselves with Morgan Industries. We own a share of their stock, and we've been working closely with them on Chiron. And we saved Morgan himself; can't discount that.
RDA was one of the ones behind the whole Texas Incident. I'd prefer not to work with them, but it depends on the situation.

I want to know how much about Ares does Earth and UN know.

>>10696180
They've already been told that Pentex plans to wipe Pandora clean. Everyone probably assumes some kind of viral or nuclear weapon. I don't think it'll cause that much additional outcry.

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>>10696219
>RDA was one of the ones behind the whole Texas Incident.

I see, I must have forgotten that. Weyland-Yutinary hasn't done anything bad yet, but we don't know if they are already working closely together with others or even if they would want to form an alliance as they must be doing fine on their own.

wait a minute... i think i might know what's going on on Pandora. Something may have happened to that 'tree of souls' thing.
I don't know much about avatar but it seems somewhat sensible to me...

>>10696217
Estimated completion date: 2187.
It's in the report. As a member of the Board, you should at least read the executive summaries.

>>10696256
We might always develop an anti- agent for the goo, and sell it to other corporations for their shares.

>>10696256

The weapon they developed surpasses every WMD ever created, I think UN would like to have that info.

But we should try not to anger Tyrell, that is why it is better to make a leak ( even better to blame it on their own scientists )

>>10696283

One thing is sure, just like computer loading bars and subway ETAs they are never right. Luckily, our departments often do it the other way around.

Year 2161:
STFU says that if you are in dire need of cash, they will consider giving you a loan if you request one of them. These loans will have no interest for two years, then it'll be 5% per year. They are not changing the deal.
One of the Lone Gunmen, "Haglund" has been founded hideously maimed and murdered in his own home. He has been placed in such a position that his hands are stretching apart his rectum in a gross, truly horrifying and sickening manner, gore spilling out of the orifice. On his back, a message is carved: "WE KNOW MEMES TOO".
The populations of Hermes and Ares have come to a deal. The population of Hermes has moved residency to Ares in order to save on resources, although they will still go to Hermes via portals for work.
A rising star in the corporate world, "Chrysalis Corporation", has joined the space race and has sent out its first probe.
You get a few of the New Peoples' finest intellectuals to assist you in your work.You're also starting a program to educate the youngest with the most potential in your sciences.
Warship 1, Spy Satellites 1 & 2 and War Drones 1-5 have been constructed.

Balance: $521b
Income: $635b

Also, Plasma, why can we do only 1 hack attempt on one YEAR??

I understand that hacking megacorps is not an easy task but still, only 1??? What the hell?

Can we fund additional espionage cells so that we can do more?


Also, haven't we expanded out R&D yet?

>>10696370
Pentex r mad.

>>10696370
>Haglund is dead

Ambush and puree top Pentex employees. Send the remains to Regent's office via portal.

>>10696370
OH SHI... someone's on to us!
Invest more monies into the security of our hackers!
They are to useful to just let die!

>>10696370
Contact Chrysalis and offer them use of our Earth orbit portal facility.

Where's their probe going?

>>10696386
Fine, you can hack more than once a year.

Also, one thing I missed out on the update:

The UN has approved of Pandoran euthanization under Pentex's authority. You have been give a message to keep an eye on them.

It is schedueled for 2162.

>>10696370
Build War Drones in all inactive Hermes yards. Build two yards on Ares.

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>One of the Lone Gunmen, "Haglund" has been founded hideously maimed and murdered in his own home

I thought we had our own agency thing going on. Like a proper building with staff and what not, secrecy (Charlies Angels/James Bond type of shit). Are you trying to say that we have been employing these guys from inside their homes? WTF?!

>>10696443
Hack Pentex. For anything that could help us convince the UN to stop the fucking bombing. With Haglund dead, the other two better be really, really motivated to screw these bastards over.

Info on Chrysalis

( I never heard of them, where are they supposed to be from? )

>>10696370
Place the other members of the Lone Rangers under protective custody in a secure corporate facility. Make sure all guards are thoroughly screened and that the moving of each member is kept low-key or secret if possible.

Also make sure the new residents from Hermes on Ares have buildings/a site made to protect them against the planet's wildlife, and there should be security personnel in place to prevent any kind of trouble between the two races.

>>10696370
Change two Earth Yards to building superstructures for Cargo ships, only necessary modules, they are to be loaded on with cargo modules created in the yards. Also, can we make the Pandorium engines modular? In that case prep two of them for the cargo ships which we then ship to AC where they are put on Warships.

In Hermes, construct combat drones and one in-system carrier.

>>10696484
Wiki is your friend.

>>10696443
We need as much firepower in the area by the time the Pentex ship arrives.
How long does it take to build a warship? and if it is to long We'll compensate with a large number of war drones like the others are suggesting.

>>10696370
Dammit, I thought we had increased our security budget!
Did we get anything on our monitoring systems? Did he feel like he was being watched at all?
I think we're going to have to up security across the board, and especially for our remaining Gunmen.
I think we should send a message to Regent; that we've been willing to softball everything between the two of us, even after the Texas Incident. This is starting to toe the line. Ask him if he really wants to cross it.
And pour some more money into the portal weapon system. In fact, into all portal weapon research projects.

>>10696459
Seriously.

If we have not done it yet. Make an super advanced espionage department with additional recruits and support staff. Have "Loners" move there, I doubt they would mind leaving their basements in favor of high sci-fi spy home.

>>10696459
His own home, as in, the place he lives when he isn't working. He was murdered there.
Putting cash into security may render you more resistant to being fucked with, but it hardly renders you immune.
>>10696447
Acknowledged.
>>10696432
They accept. In exchange, you get told they are sending a probe to a non-terrestrial star system Lacaille 8760, approximately thirteen light years away.

>>10696507
...

So not only is WoD true. Now CoC is.

We're fucked and I love it.

>>10696512
He was apparently suffering from severe paranoia and xenophobia during that period. Apparently, Haglund himself rigged the system so that any cameras or bugs weren't getting a live feed but instead a loop of him sitting on the computer during the period where he is predicted to have been murdered.
>>10696498
Understood.

Do we have some biological samples of Pandora? Can we clone the natives?
If we don't have samples, we should get some. In one year Pentex nukes the place.

Do we have any colonies on Chiron? If not, why?
Ask Morgan to give you a small territory on Chiron, something like 1/20. Make sure to ask for a good place, above average... or else he might swindle us and trow in North Pole or something.

We need to start researching that shit.

Speaking of Morgan. Call him up and ask whats up.


BTW, Plasma, we explicitly asked you when we steal "technical immortality", to patent it earlier than Tyrell and put it on the marked. Our inside agents should have delayed the patent process just when they made a breakthrough. Even a minute is crucial in that regard.

Of course, have our agent withdraw asap after that.

>>10696644
Mr. Nyarlatothep will be an excellent business partner. Till we don't go IÄ! IÄ! SHUB-NIGGURATH! etc.

>>10696658
Not at the moment.

However, RDA sold samples to Tyrell, who are currently running a program to recreate Pandora in a restricted enclosure on Earth - a tourist attractive and an act of conservation, and a hell of a lot of good PR. You can either hack them or buy samples from them.

>>10696726
Can we acquire samples directly from RDA? We own 11% after all. Perhaps bribe W-Y to let us?

>>10696571
Tell us everything we currently know about Chrysalis. Have our espionage guys investigate them. No sabotage, just info-gathering.

>>10696507
..Yeah.. the problem with wiki is that if you have absolutely no idea what you are looking for it is hard to know if you found the right page. The disambiguation page is rather long and I don't see anything resembling a corporation.

>>10696702
Accepting this for the next year.

>>10696789

Check Cthulhutech

>>10696753
Studying the Navi brain links could lead us to better human-bio-machine linkings.
And perhaps it would be nice to create some navi clones, teach them, and employ them in our corp, after all, alien brains might help overall research by the ability to see some new perspectives.

>>10696759
Chrysalis Corporation is your typical megacorporate affair, really. They run all sorts of businesses, they own two supermarket chains, several fast food chains, a handful of arms manufacturers, the usual. More in depth research reveals that they broke their backs getting their claws on 18% of RDA's shares. On the surface, there's not much too shady about them.

>>10695160
>I wrote out some stuff about Ares

Alright, post it then.

>>10696917
He posted a link to megaupload where you can download it...

>>10696917
See >>10695378

>>10696917
I did.
Link: >>10695378

Now, one last thing before next year:
You have $101 remaining. Do you wish to do anything with it or send it to STFU?

Keep in mind that all of your construction yards are currently busy.

>>10696896
"Yep, that fastfood chain with the king mascot, who is colored in yellow. Their food is insane, the best I have had in aeons!"

>>10695159
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>>10696929
>>10696935
>>10696964

Sorry, I missed that.

>>10696896
We should be amongst the first to greet them, maybe try to get them on our good side in case they end up succeeding or in case we're in need of allies. Hell, we should probably be working towards creating a power-bloc of some kind between Us, Morgan, W-Y(/RDA) and Chrysalis, just to get a jump on the other guys.

Also, has there been any progress on getting UN to approve scientific studies on the ground of Pandora before euthanization? If so devote as much biology personell on Ares/Hermes bases to gather as much data and samples as possible.

>>10696987
Well, together with W-Y and Chrysalis we have more than 75% of RDA accounted for. Enough to make them our bitches (well, mostly W-Y's bitches)

>>10696964

Alright guys what can we do with 101bil$???

Give immortality to all of our board of directors, our best scientists and Deidre.

Maybe genetically modify 20 more people on Ares?

Buy samples from RDA.


Also guys we should have 2 hacks left.

>>10696964
Is our research department busy? if not, then i just got this idea: powerful electromagnetic fields for use in star ship shields

>>10696991
I have to get behind this as well. Appeal the U.N. decision.

>>10696964
Have we hacked Pentex yet? If not, get on that.

>>10696964
Use some of it getting some pandoran dna, and some biological samples. So we could clone some navi.
>>10696753 Can we do as this poster said?

Oh, and give some cash to the orphans, on some charity stuff. We need some good reputation amongst the folk.

>>10696991
No. They have not approved of it - Pandoran life is too degenerate and the moon has become too dangerous.

>>10696964

50 lobbying for >>10696991 and general delay of euthanization day.

25 extra directly into Aperture

15 into obtaining samples from RDA

Leave 11 for STFU.

How much money do we expend to cover up failed hack attempts? Leave sufficient money for that.

>Give immortality to all of our board of directors, our best scientists and Deidre.

Actually I need to get behind this too, that's just a great idea.

Using $20b, you mange to obtain samples of most life forms from Pandora, the Na'vi included. However, you lack a full map of the Pandoran "world mind", Eywa, as the Na'vi called it. Missing samples, really.

>>10697042
>Leave 11 for STFU.

Fuck no. Better throw biggest party ever. (Im jokin, im joking) but still we should spend as much as possible.

Can we start research on creating Na'vi Avatars?

>>10697057

Ok, follow this, but STFU will have to settle with 6
>>10697042

>>10697057
we should see to collecting missing samples before everything is killed. try to either broker a deal that will allow access to pandora or try to stealth in.

>>10697071
That would be pointless, considering Pandora is about to be wiped clean of life by next year...

>>10697065
Well, get on ideas to spend those (6 now) instead of whining.

>>10697082
The problem is, the planets life went batshit insane. Nevertheless, we should get some samples from that too. It would be really interesting to know, what caused the degeneration.

>>10697071
Tyrell already has them, as does RDA.

Hack Pentex.

>>10697048
>>10697046
>>10697042
$20b to get samples.
$40b to push back euthanization date to 2164.
$20b into Aperture.
$20b into rendering the most important persons of the company effectively transhuman.

How's that?

>>10697123
Very good, I can get behind that.

>>10697090
Use them to form a research team to work with acquired pandoran samples.

>>10697120
Okay, you hack Pentex.

Give me your roll and what you want to try and find out.

dice+1d100

>>10697123
Sounds good

>>10697123
Pushing back the euthanization is fine. That gives us more time to hack Pentex and get the UN to cancel it.

>>10697048
>>10697016

Also. Quick! Body and surrounding check!

Are everyone in board of directors epitome of viking body? Does our meeting hall follow all the Viking regulation ( Wooden style, ale kegs, bear rugs, mounted wolf heads, big ass fireplace, etc)? If not redesign our place.

If our bodies do not follow viking tradition, perform 2bil$ surgeries to have bitching viking bodies.

Shit, I just realised, unless Pentex have hyper advanced surveillance equipment (which they are sure to have) we should be able to use our portal guns to open up portals benath the cover of trees so that we can gain samples.

Shit, what about that area that messes up electronics or whatever. Use it there.

>>10697123
I'm not sure about pushing back the euthanization date, though it would give us more time to prepare in case Pentex should try anything funny.

rolled 13 = 13

>>10697147

Which corporation is specializing in AI and Robotics? Because Aperture Science already has a pretty good AI program, and even made some progress with miniaturization.
Also, if we're still interested in making sure as little money come to STFU, we can research making a tractor beam that -isn't- liquid asbestos, and do some tests on Repulsion/Propulsion Gel. ...Both of which are apparently modified fiberglass insulation and were intended as pudding substitutes...
Fuck it, just throw money at the research team and tell them to be creative.

rolled 65 = 65

>>10697147
Rolling for Information Warfare.

rolled 45 = 45

Rollan!

Did Pentex get permission to destroy Pandora?

>>10697168
>13

Looks like we might not save Pandora after all.

>>10697199
Yes they did!

>>10697199
Will you read the thread before posting inane questions, please?
Anyway, we're going to have to either spend money to cover up our hacking failure. How much should we spend? What project will have to get the axe?

>>10697286
Immortality.

>>10697286
Well let's see what happens first.

>>10697299
Yeah, immortality can wait.

God damn guys, seriously, you don't see this?

Release the information to the UN anonmously. Pentex ordered the illegal weapon long before shit went down on Pandora. They knew it was going to happen. Check the dates.

>>10697031
Too dangerous? To who? The Na'Vi have no way of getting off planet, any attempt at 'euthanasia' is clearly a transparent ruse to get the planet cleared for mining. Talk to hippy organizations, sound as bleeding heart about it as possible.
Say that we gave our Viking Oath that the Na'Vi would have our protection and while we couldn't keep that project, we will do all we can to restore the planet, even if we have to pay out of our pocket. Say it's a non-profit thing (Which is a lie, the benefits include delicious research, earning the gratitude of Eywa, and hammering the first nail in Pentex's coffin)
That being said, we need to see what the situation is on Umbral Pandora.

>>10697316
I had that line of thought too, but the illegal weapon is the one Pentex is going to use next year to wipe all life off Pandora. Whatever caused the degeneration on Pandora, it certainly wasn't the weapon.

Oh I remembered something!!

Guys, I propose one of the long term goals!

We should seek to gain independence from Earth general. As the things stand now, we spend money (not resources) to gain new stuff, we need Earth market to supply us with money. But if something happens to Earth (like major disaster) then we are fucked too or if we fall out of favor we will lose money supply and our assets.

Right now, with more investment we could turn Ares into Earth level society and could use it instead. Since we are basically the owners of it, we wouldn't even need to expend money. Only resources from the planet.

But Ares shouldn't be the only failsafe. We must make more colonies. The factor that is holding us back is the population. Earth has 10bil+, our colonies just few hundred. Of course we can't just make more people outright so we should do as >>10697171 said.
And invest heavily in robotics. The we could swarm non-habitable/hostile planets with robots who could turn the planet into a major powerhouse (think terminators running the planet, hopefully without rebelling).

But at this moment, we must keep sending more people and supplies to our established colonies.

Year 2162:
You have constructed two construction yards on Ares.
You have constructed three new warships.
You have constructed six new war drones.
Heavy Freighter 11 has arrived with new construction yard parts on Hermes and has built another construction yard.
RDA has fallen through and is in the process of being liquidated.
Through your share, you have gained possession of five construction yards, Avatar Project research and half of their research team.
Lady Deidre Skye walks in when you're not busy to politely inform you that your Neural Networking research has been completed early and you can now add something else to the research list. Would you like to see a possible list?
Your attempt to hack Pentex failed and you had to burn a lot of cash to get your attempt to go without being noticed.
Pentex will euthanize Pandora in 2164 instead of 2162.
You have sent $1b to STFU.

Balance: $335b
Income: $635b

I swear, if I hear the name "Kerensky" or 'Davion', or "Kurita"- anything like that, I humbly request we dont fuck around and kill them.

Plasma.

We need to start getting our money back. Set up a new corporation in our characters' names, but keep it down low. Slint hires our new company to do the work we would usually do ourselves. This gets around STFU's restrictions, giving us a nice cache of cash, which, once we get enough amassed, can be used to buy our freedom from STFU.

Research list please.

>>10697316
You're right, they sent their warship out a year before they released any evidence of mutations. They probably sent it right after they made a deal with us. There's gotta be something we can do with that.

>>10697388
What I meant by that is, we use the money we stockpile to buy shares of STFU through other dummy corporations, leading back to our new corp.

>>10697358
I have an idea for new research!
>>10697019 here... if not feasible, then show us a list

>>10697358
Let's see that list.

>>10697358
>Your attempt to hack Pentex failed and you had to burn a lot of cash to get your attempt to go without being noticed.

Come on now, we have two hack attempts.
you should have used >>10697182 after the failed one ... sigh.

People for future reference, remember that.

>would you like to see a possible list?
Yes.

Also info on neural networking. Tell us what we can do with it now..... Can we get profits from it?

>>10697355
Yeah, but the point is, they got the weapon, and sent it on the way to Pandora before any of this shit happened. It was already going there before shit got too bad and their got authorization to euthanize it.

>>10697358
Now transhumanism for most important personell.

Shit, this now means that the Board can be present on Ares in one second and on Earth the other! Deidre is definitely going up for this.

One Ares yard should build something that makes us able to produce Morphs there, thus meaning that we won't need to ship large cryo units forever to get personell to Alpha Centauri.

Do we have a construction yard on Tau Ceti? Because we should do something similar there.

>>10697436
Yes it's one big, awful coincidence, and I think Pentex is involved to. But we don't have any hard evidence on them so we'll have to just keep going with the flow.

>>10697358
Okay, I'm proposing to tell the UN that we wish to send a research team down to the surface of Pandora. SLINT will take full responsibility for the safety of the teams. We can argue that the agreement between us, Pentex, and the Na'vi is now void. We want to try to save anything and anyone we can before the Pentex weapons drop from orbit.
What we then do is tell Skye to use the recently finished bio-neural research and try to talk to Eywha, the Pandora-mind. Use appropriate buffers and firewalls, of course.

>>10697436
So lets get going with this. Pentex fucked up when they killed one of our hackers. You don't send a message through horrific murder just when you're upset, you do it when you're threatened.

Have Deidre work on terraforming for our primordial planet in Tau Ceti.

RESEARCH LIST:
- Further Development of Energy Transfer Portals - Allows for increased efficiency.
- Further Development of Modular Starship System - Increase maximum module capacity.
- Further Development of Starship Portal Chassis - Allows for increased efficiency.
- Further Research of the Umbra - Gain increased understanding of the Umbra and the technology of Pentex.
- Macro Sapience - Develop an understanding of "world minds" similar to those on Chiron and Pandora and an ability to recreate them.
- Macro Portal Carriers - Adapt portal technology so starships possessing it can be utilized as carriers.
- Military Applications of Portal Technology - Discover possible applications of this technology in space warfare.
- Military Applications of Portal Edges - Discover possible applications of this technology in space warfare.

DETAILS ON NEURAL NETWORKING:
Essentially, it can be used as a replacement for standard circuitry. It's quite vastly different. In the short term, faster. In the long term, slower. It has higher energy requirements but the energy is obtained from nutrient slush. It's completely green, which adds to PR - but it's also icky and gross and biological and stuff, which takes away from PR.

>>10697473
The fuck do you mean no hard evidence?
We know Pentex and Tyrell designed a bio-weapon
We know that said bio-weapon was put on a ship headed towards Pandora
We know that the ship was launched in 2156, at which point there was no sign of anything being wrong with Pandora.
That seems pretty damn significant to me.

Also, one of our main types of morphs should be the T.R.O.L.L

>>10697477
Pentex is the modern face of an ancient cult dedicated to a god of murder and shit.

I think that if anyone was going to reply to taunts with murder, it would be them.

>>10697476
With transhumanism security for the teams is well... unnecessary. If they die, well, they don't...

My Humble Suggestion to you, Our Fair Advisors and Board Members-

Without having some form of money saved away, we are going to have difficulties when we suffer a set back- without liquid assets saved we may suffer irreparable harm.Indeed, our Agreement with STFU requires we spend the money, but now how.

So, here's my suggestion.

Create various 'dummy' research/study group companies- hire minimal staff, in rented offices.Have them produce tri-annual reports on subjects of low key interest like clothing trends, food trends, ect.

Funnel money into these companies, but keep them off the public market, no open stocks for purchase.

If we need resources, you liquify all the assets, and you have a few billion dollars for emergencies.

Oh also, are we building portal energy transfer on Ares, Hermes and the other colonies? If not, do so.

Have we completed the energy transfer in Sol? Tell us about it, what does populace and Sol in general think about it ( I like exposition )

Also, since it is our major profit stream, I suspect shenanigans will arise soon. I hope we are spending as much as possible to protect our assets.


Oh, since one of our super agents is dead.
Search for a new one. Build the espionage department I have been telling you about. It should increase our spy activities tremendously.

>>10697522
Add AI research to the list? Or has artificial sentience already been discovered?

Put Deidre to working on the Umbra, as that kind of falls nearer her specialties.

>>10697523
Yes to us it might seem so, but in the harsh world of business and law and all that crap, simply accusing someone on grounds of what looks like pure speculation to most, isn't a very feasible thing to do.
Among other it might be bad PR.

>>10697522
Research Macro-Portal Carriers. Only useful in built-up systems, but Alpha Centuari is one, and that's where fighting may break out.

>>10697522
Modular starship systems. Not as cool as the rest, but damn useful.

>>10697562
Artificial sentience is next on the research list.

Let's try to research a way to get us a artificial moon ala 'Deathstar', whitout the fire power

>Essentially, it can be used as a replacement for standard circuitry. It's quite vastly different. In the short term, faster. In the long term, slower. It has higher energy requirements but the energy is obtained from nutrient slush. It's completely green, which adds to PR - but it's also icky and gross and biological and stuff, which takes away from PR.

I still have no idea what it is supposed to be.. Can we gain profit from it.

Also, info on transhumanism/immortality please. Does that mean that the bodies just never age or that the person is transformed into a cyborg and can back up their brains if the body dies?

>>10697358
Is there any way to start moving our construction yards to Ares? Also we should be working towards improving our portal technology further. How is our operation around the sun going?

>>10697609
Fuck no, just hollow out an Asteroid like a normal person. Do you know how much material is needed for such a device?

>>10697557
Already doing it.

You have completed it. It is the source of over half of your income. The population of Earth absolutely adores it and it is the subject of envy amongst other megacorporations. You're making even more dough per annum than the recently discovered Chrysalis Corporation.

Suggestion accepted.

>>10697609
Would require too much time and material to build, and the amount of research required in metallurgy and engineering would be prohibitive. An unnecessary expenture and a foolish propsition at this time.

>>10697609
Why?
That kind of dross wouldnt make us any money- it's a huge expenditure with no need.

If we, instead decided to create a large scale artificial habitat with propulsion capibilities, we could create essentially a refueling depo/city with the added bonus of having the ability to move with the times. As technology advances and speeds increase, we'd only have to move to a more optimum locale.

But making something that gargantuan AND movable?
We'd need some sort of new age genius to build it.

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>>10697476

>What we then do is tell Skye to use the recently finished bio-neural research and try to talk to Eywha, the Pandora-mind. Use appropriate buffers and firewalls, of course.

Maybe we will be able to cure the cancer spread by Pentex and save it altogether?

If that fails we, should evacuate Eiwha and put it on Chiron ... wait, better not on Chiron, it could conflict with Chirons sentience. Send to to earth or Ares.

>>10697642
Essentially, YES, YOU CAN GAIN A PROFIT FROM IT.

You might be playing the role of a board of directors, but there's no need to treat me like a research assistant that you don't understand a word of.

Also, for transhumanism, it's the second option. The consciousness is transformed into digital information that could be put into artificial bodies.

>>10697681
If we research the "Further Development of Energy Transfer Portals - Allows for increased efficiency."
Does that mean more revenue for us?
How long would that research take?

>>10697681
How were our requests to send science teams to Pandora received by the UN? We must either gather evidence showing Pentex's involvement in the Na'vi going feral, or collect as many samples and contact the planet-mind, as soon as possible.

>>10697642
Dude, have you read Sci-Fi at all?
IMMORTALITY is like a HUGE fucking asset, specially to leaders of corporations or ANYONE who's afraid of dying.

People would pay through the roof to get it.

However, for obvious reasons, it SHOULD remain ultra top secret, as having it be known would create massive political shitstorms as well as government interference in the name of long term 'societal damage'.

>>10697693
Ok, thats what I was originally thinking

>>10697775
I suggest: Spend money on this.

>>10697714
What if they did something to Pandora through the Umbra?
Can we somehow check the Umbra around there?
And yes, we should try to talk to the pandoran overmind with precautions of course.

And let's create an artifical habitat for our yet to be cloned Navi. Is there a planet in the Ares system, that has similar gravity as Pandora?

>>10697476
>>10697714
You're given the chance for ONE expedition. One.

An expedition has been sent from Ares to Pandora after quickly building cryo-pods to attach to starships in the Alpha Centauri system.

The shuttle is about to touch down on Pandora.

You want your expedition to:
- Try and talk with Eywa.

Is that correct?

>>10697810
Let's add in examination of samples and whatnot for Umbral contamination.

I say we hack Pentex to try and get a sample of the creatures they are using for the Umbra portals, btw.

>>10697810
Also gather samples on any wildlife we don't already have. And tell the security teams that they can use force at their own discretion, but only for defensive purposes.

>>10697758
Someone is intensely cash obsessed. Yes, it would equal more income. As for how long it would take, the original estimate is about six years with the larger team.

>>10697725
>You might be playing the role of a board of directors, but there's no need to treat me like a research assistant that you don't understand a word of.

Oh, I hoped some anons would help in also.
How much does it cost to make a transhuman?

Ok, gain profit from it, even though I don't know how.
Also, how about the sub-molecular portal blades? Are we getting moneys from that too? How much?
GUYS!!

Our new research priority should be maximum 150% ultra-strong firewalls and protection for transhumans. we don't ever want that shit fucking up on us!

>>10697810
Back up the explorers minds first with our transhumanism.

Use the neural network to try and communicate with the planet.

>>10697810
Yeah, and look around in the umbral regions of pandora if we are capable doing that.
And get samples so we can study the degeneration.

>>10697810
Length of expedition? With portals the expedition should be able to remain indefinite. Find a loophole. also, gain samples en masse. Look for humans, check Na'Vi settlements.

>>10697810
With appropriate safeguards, such as data buffers and firewalls. Assume that we are going to be talking with a person on fire, in a house on fire, being chased by crazed attack dogs on fire. In other words, with extreme caution. And bring Skye in on this; she's the hippy tree-hugger biologist, she might be able to talk with it best.

>>10697837
Give me your roll.

dice+1d100

>>10697681
I say we research increasing the efficiency of this process. Also, seeing how critical it is to the survival of our corporation, we should spend some considerable funds on keeping it safe and secure against any physical/digital assaults. Say 20-50Bil depending on how many facilities need to be taken care of.

Out of curiosity, whatever happened to Black Mesa? They had some pretty neat toys I'd say.

>>10697844
Yes, Portal Edges are making us money. I don't know how much of our profits it is, but we make money from it.

>>10697843

I wish you would allow us to spend tons of money each year to further develop our R&D. Research is taking a long time (well, it should but still). At least put some kind of threshold on how much we can improve R&D before it becomes obsolete.

rolled 13 = 13

>>10697893
Rolling.

I'm not sure where this sudden cash-flow obsession is coming from, but do keep in mind that it doesn't really matter! STFU will take all our spare cash at the end of each year, so there's no huge reason to focus on expanding our budget - we can already barely spend all of our cash before it's co-opted from us.

>>10697908

13 again? Spend some 20 bil to cover it up.

>>10697880
Hold ON!
You want to RISK Skye?
Are you shitting me?

The planet is dying, and the Eywah Mindbeing is likely suffering and seeking alternatives for survival- if it hasnt gone outright insane!

We could LOSE her.

Just got online . read most of it .....

>Besides, you are in a deal with Pentex that neither of you are allowed on the planet's surface. And from your observation, that deal isn't broken.


Do we actualy care?

Blow the fucking exterminationship to pices. use accelerated asteroids to put in the ships path and as a last resort have a mobile gun emplacement as an ensurance.
Aproche Chrysalis and wayland yutani for more meaningfull economic relationships and discounts.


Do a dumy corp to wash some money, say half or 65% of all that should go to STFU


Reaserch combat and infiltration morphs.


Use avatar tech to gain a competent human lookalike and force download someone then take them appart and analise.
Instal said person as memory in infiltration agent then download him into the lookalike- proceed to infiltrate the shite out of unfriendlies

>>10697924
She's immortal. If she goes all crazy and rogue on us we just get a backup working instead.

>>10697893
Don't forget to spend tons of cash for cover up.

>>10697810
Ask Deidre if she would like to transhumanise so that she can help on Pandora. Build morphs for her with intelligence enchantment.

rolled 46 = 46

destroy the fuckers!

Hack'em to death with a hatchet!

How about from now on, rolls have to be fucking visible. God damn.

rolled 21 = 21

>>10697908
>>10697922

Second attempt

rolled 4 = 4

>>10697922
Maybe you shouldn't roll anymore...

Okay. Expedition is underway, will be over 2163.
Hacking attempt failed.
You are researching Macro Portal Hangars. It will take 4 years. You all voted for this before and someone voted for it again so let's finally do this.

You have $295b cash to spend this year.

You have 14 free construction yards in Alpha Centauri.

What do?

After this, moving on to next year.

Wow, our LoneGun Men need to go back to school.

>>10697975
Neither should you.

>>10697981
Fund as much money as we can into espionage. All of it if we can. Get ourselves the best hacking and defense team possible.

Which corporations have acces to the avatar tech?
I think we should start doing some countermeasures against humanlike avatar infiltrators. Somehow we need to block the psychic waves that control the avatars.

>>10697981
Morph construction facility. More warships (4). More drones (the rest).

>>10697981
How long would it take with combined efforts to make something like >>10697693?

It might be a good idea.

>>10698006
RDA.
Chrysalis.
Tyrell, most likely.

rolled 68 = 68

create The failsafe corp!

>>10697927
Do the transhumanism boogaloo

>>10697810
Also take as many corrupted samples as we can, aim for a live specimen. See if our transhumanist/bio-engineering programs are able to undo the Umbral Corruption.
But yeah, I think Pentex's operation is Umbra based, which we really need to disrupt.

If everything fails on Pandora, extract Eiwha. At least we could able to save SOMETHING.

Try to search for unaffected Na'vi. Maybe we'll meet Jake Sully (I still believe he's protected by plot armor and should have survived) and spit in his face. Go all like "I TOLD YOU BRO. I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE STAIRS- PENTEX"

>>10698029
It would need tons of resources (materials, manpower, cash). It would be to costly right now to begin workin on one, and we have other important projects to attend to.

>>10698029
Most likely ten years.

Everyone would also need to be in cryo-stasis during interstellar transport or be minced by the insanely high speeds, too.

>>10698053
>>10698053
HE WENT CRAZY, TOO. GODDAMNIT, CAN YOU FREAKING READ?

JAKE. SULLY. IS. CRAZY. NOW.

WHAT THE HELL, MAN?!

>>10697981
Spend some money on securing our Energy Transfer Stations or whatever they are.

>>10698006
Off-the-shelf ECM, then. It's not psychic control, it's a radio controlled system. Of course, if they miniaturized the quantum entanglement comm system so that it can fit in an Avatar, then I can't think of a jamming system that will work with our current understanding of quantum physics. It may simply be impossible.

>>10698016
>Morph construction facility.

On Ares too.

>>10697522
Dear Plasma,

What about our portal shielding technology? It's currently exorbitantly costly, almost uneconomical really. It's also only supposed to work some of the time.

With our contest researching anti-ordnance technology such as MNU's 'disco' shield I think it's important we give our ships a deterrent of some sort, if not an actual distinctive advantage.

Could we add 'enhanced portal shielding' to the list.

Oh, and we might want to construct goo fallout shelters on both Ares and Hermes. Just in case Pentex is up to no good (which they obviously are).

Everyone, help yourself to a fine cigar.

>>10698092
YOU CANNOT BE ABSOLUTELY SURE THAT IT WAS JAKE WHO PICKED UP THE PHONE!!!

>>10698035
Okay, then put some money into founding a research team to work on human avatars, as >>10697927 said. And on the counter measures too.
We could be able to create bioroids using the avatar tech. Examine this possibility.

>>10698016
Going with this, then.

Right, let's do this.

>>10697981
Slight change to the Pandora expedition. Have Skye undergo the transhumanism process. The copy-Skye will talk with the planet-mind. The original-Skye will remain safe and act as a baseline to check the copy for infection.

>>10698149
Second.

>>10697981

I also propose to dump all the remaining money into creating a self-standing part of Aperture working on Interstellar portals.

Yes. It will take years. Yes. It will take trillions. But we gotta start somewhere. Also, given our energy transfer portal tech we now have an unlimited supply of energy as long as we are in a star system.

>>10698164
If we set up portal energy collection stations around stars, we can use the energy compiled there to power the interstellar portal networks.

>>10698092
He's either crazy or dead.

Probably dead. Maybe even both?

>>10698164
We should make that, and system portal hubs, standard parts of our colony ship loadouts when colonizing new star systems.

>>10698164
True, we need some form of FTL sooner than later.
Also, we might as well begin building some massive construction facilities/mobile starship for these purposes, otherwise that project would take a century.

PLASMA, PLEASE ANSWER THESE.

>>10696067
>>10696224


ALSO.

Our expedition should also search for any kind of Umbra taint. Have our scientists back home work in conjunction. we need to gather all the evidence that it was Pentexes doing.

Colony ships to Eta Cassiopeia, 40 Eridani, and Delta Pavonis. Escort them with warships from Alpha C; we have enough time to build them. Either that, or send them to Alpha C first and fit them with armament.

Expand.

>>10698164
I would like to second this.

Also seconding Espionage and Counter-espionage departments, and increased efficiency energy transfer portal research.

>>10698174
Only if we had interstellar portal research, which we haven't even come close to, yet.

>>10698124
Quick question: we currently have 3 pandorium engines, I know RDA is out of stock (and business it seems) but could we find someone else to buy one from? I know it wouldn't be cheap, but I was just wondering.

>>10698164
Agree.

At the end of each year, we will put all of our excess money into this project.

>>10698213
0.75c, too. Maybe we should look into researching better shields for interstellar craft.

>>10698224
thirdered on departments.

>>10696067
>>10696224
Fine, since someone so desperately asked me to answer the questions, let me say that no, the common people on Earth do not know about Ares. You have not told anyone or advertised about any of your main discoveries. It is likely, however, that Alpha Centauri based corporations know everything that you're doing there.

>>10698211
So far as I know we haven't told them yet.

No doubt Pentex and its Alpha Centuari probe already know, so maybe the other megacorps do as well.

I'm not sure that we should revel details of them to the population at large just yet: conservationists will probably have a go at us, claiming we're making another Pandora, next thing you know *BAM* UN restrictions.

>>10698294
Let's just keep it that way.

Also, by building the additional warships, drones, etc, you're well out of cash for this year, so you don't have to worry about ordering anything else, guys.

Hey, if Pentex can completely and totally corrupt a world in a few years, what makes you think they'll stop at Pandora?

>>10698360
Cool, well, we'll just have to postpone any Interstellar Portal Research.

I think we should be careful with GLaDOS, from what I understand, in under a second, GLaDOS became self-aware and was able to put the whole facility into lockdown. ...We should invest in firewalls.

>>10698360
Timeskip, then, if there's nothing else.

I don't suppose you could follow a general "expansion" order if we don't mandate every single construction and colonization project?

>>10698294


How about we set up a formal meeting? First contact with "advanced civilized" alien race (Na'vi are excluded as they are just glorified tribals).
Of course we will be the ones to arrange it, and we will be the first people that the race will "officially" meet, circumventing UN and other countries. Imagine how smug we would feel :)

This is not really a suggestion, just wanna know what anons will think of it. We can't keep them secret forever. Sooner or later one of the corps will try to fuck us up.


Also, Plasma. How about that colony on Chiron and casual chat with Morgan?

You know, considering how much power these megacorporations are having- it's only a matter of time until just ONE of the bigger Megacorporations goes all "Fuck Earth!" and the Principality of Zeon is born!

You know this, right?

And then a colony gets dropped...

>>10698389
Firewalls won't be too much of a hinderance to an AI, especially if its already inside your facility's network.
What would be more useful are manual overrides and interlocks, things to physically lock the AI out of certain subsystems. Or keep them on a separate network from the beginning.

>>10698329
>>10698342
Oh, ok...


>claiming we're making another Pandora, next thing you know *BAM* UN restrictions.

Ares is independent highly advanced planet, they do not shove away technology like Na'vi, in fact they strive for further development and understanding.
UN could try whatever but the last word stands with Ares.

Alright, we should wait till we uplift them to Earth level. Are we still working on that? Keep feeding them information, have construction yard supply them with .. stuff. Build advanced facilities on Ares, you know, all shebang

>>10698392
It's a distinct possibility.

People on Earth will be interested in discovering new sentient life, we could produce and sell documentation of them and their culture.

The only thing I'm worried about is that people will have a go at us for interfering with them.

I can see it being used as a PR boon "Never again will their be another Pandora, from here on all Humans must attempt to work with and come to an understanding with our alien brothers, I have a dream! A dream that my 4 little human children will be able to play in the valleys of Lacedaemon with other little alien children! I HAVE A DREAM!"

ect.

>>10698392
How about we bring an Aresian delegation directly to Earth, on one of our cryo-ships?

>>10698392
We might not want to advertise it as First Contact; Pentex or some other megacorp might decide to release video showing us as helping them win a world war of unification.
We should get our PR department to think of some good spin, first.

As for Morgan, yeah, let's ring him up. Ask him if we can help on Chiron in any way. Oh, and how's Zhakarov doing?

>>10698403
Pentex is already doing that. The have eradicated entire civilization and are (probably) leaders of one or two other civs in Umbra.

We are also working towards this goal with Ares, Chiron and other colonies.

We should somehow protect Ares from possible attacks through the umbra. Can we do that?

>>10698425


You could also do the Magi System, specially since our wetworks and neural interface technology is quite advanced.

http://wiki.evageeks.org/Magi

Should explain most of it...
A system of three supercomputers running on backup wetware designed to offset any chance of ONE AI going by giving all three equally powerful decision making abilities.

>>10698483
Hmm..spin it as an alien species demanding to be made Humanity's client race? An interesting idea...

>>10698458
Yeah we should be granting sovereignty whenever possible and making it very clear we are acting cooperatively. In fact, we should be thinking about our PR right now, so we're prepared when the public inevitably learns of the planet (and the inevitable attempts by our enemies to wrest control from us through lies and slander.)

>>10698458
This is the UN, they will find a way to sue us or fuck us over if they think we're out of line.

We gave these guys gun, we fundamentally altered their society and future. Think of what people will say about the prime directive.

Ares - God of War
Aresians - Dog like aliens

Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war.

>>10698543
What prime directive?

This isn't star trek, no such thing exists.

>>10698523
Not to mention that two of the three must agree to support a consensus, or nothing happens. Unanimous approval is required for drastic action like a self-destruct. Seemed to work pretty well in the show.

>>10698535
Since it is so likely, it unfair, nay truly unjust to have our research, our development and OUR prize to be wrested away from our hands due to some corrupt bureaucrat, or some simpleton politician !

We discovered it, WE sacrificed for it!

I suggest a massive, top secret militarization program to build our OWN forces, and become our OWN might, to rival any fool that might take our future!

Is a man not deserving of that which he toils for?

Right, sorry for the delay. Had a brief lapse.

Anyway, just checking if this thread is in autosage or not.

>>10698602
We HAVE a cool navy. It doesn't turn invisible like Pentex's, but it's more modular and reusable.

New thread: >>10698641

>>10698574
>Oh U

>>10698576
All I'm trying to say is that people will complain, that's a given. We can't know for certain how far this will go, but we can make an effort to minimise any bad PR and promote any good PR.

But anyway, let's time skip, this is a boring point.

>>10698602

I thought we were already working on that.

>>10698598
Which you know, served them very well, even when faced with massive alien forces that even attacked them at the technological level.

Having a triple support system like the Magi Should be standard issue for any AI Computing we do. It's relatively efficient, safe, and has good PR possibilities- keeping that HUMAN element in the loop of decision making at all times.

>>10698633
Oh, and next year we should start trying to give them Portal Shields. Because seriously, that is our edge (also, our ships are way more armed than Pentex ships)

>>10698602
>Is a man not deserving of that which he toils for?
Is he not entitled to the sweat on his brow?