>>12444295
Then logistics is something that we will need to address.

Do we have any shuttles capable of hyperspace travel, and are Major Medine and Major Pax aboard?

>>12444317
>4chan is slow for me right now. still posting.
Yes they're both aboard.

Your forces:
VSD Auspicious (Victory class. Heavy damage to hull and computer systems)
IS Ephemera (Strike cruiser. Repaired.)
ESD Hierarch (Imperial class. Light damage to hull.)
ESD Oracle (Tector class. L+ infected. Moderate damage to hull)
ESD Counterpoint (Imperial class. L+ infected. Bridge deck destroyed. Moderate damage to hull.)
ESD Stone Wolf (Imperial class. L+ infected. Heavy damage to hull and main reactor.)

9 Squadrons TIE Fighter
4 Squadrons TIE Bomber
Three mixed battalions (~2000 ground troops)
Various Shuttles, probes, support vessels.
Various ground assault vehicles.

>>12444354
The local planet is fortunate enough to host a small naval academy. By taking on their numbers and other groundside personnel, and invoking the right of conscription, you could muster close to 50,000 crewmembers. That's only enough to crew the Auspicious, Ephemera, and two of the larger warships at near optimal capacity. Without conscripts you would only have enough people to fully crew one ISD. You've seen firsthand the peril of taking a ship into combat with only a skeleton crew. The Hierarch's biggest contribution to the last battle was psychological. It scored only three turbolaser hits throughout the entire firefight.

Meanwhile, you must contend with over 100,000 prisoners who continue to behave only as long as they believe they cannot effectively fight back. Should their mood change, you might have a mutiny on your hands beyond the scope that even you can deal with.

And finally, repairs. The only shipyards in the sector designed to service the massive Imperial Star Destroyers were in Procca Major and Dantus. One is gone, and the other is in the firm grip of the enemy. The supply depot at Lidaan, the commercial docks at Harridan, and the abandoned factory ship you discovered near Arah all hold some promise, but restoring your most damaged warships full to combat readiness will be very slow going.

>>12444317
>>12444295
As I recall, the Factory Ship our probe found was using an Imperial security code 8 years old. Either of the two majors, being from Imperial Intelligence, may know of it. We can also go through our own droid memory and the memory banks of the Ravenous and any archives that remained on Redspire City from the Sector Fleet Command for those codes.

My one main concern is if Farlander should go to the factory ship as well. Being a droid, we can interface with the ship directly, even if we don't attempt to control it.
But this is Star Wars, not Star Trek where the captain of the ship and his senior staff regularly go on ground missions.
We will also need to innoculate the factory ship, and provide it with the kill-code for the Super Leviathan.

>>12444361
>my bad. missed your latest find on the map.

You receive one small piece of good news. It appears the Exigency disabled most of Commander Senn's squadron before they received the retreat order. According to her, "the bad food and worst lodgings felt just like basic" but her people are unharmed from their brief imprisonment. They're requesting permission to return to active duty.

Commander Vosk tells you the fleet needs a minimum of 6 days to complete rescue operations and perform enough minor repairs to make all ships hyperspace ready. Now that you have some time to plan, what are your immediate orders?

>>12444295

Why would any government call themselves "The First <anything>". They would just call themselves The Empire, possibly with some descriptive words in there to describe what type of empire they were... Roman, British, Ottoman, etc. Empires don't usually get ordinal numbers until at least the second one... Second Reich for instance. Obviously whoever designed that money in the picture was a rebel since they must be plotting the downfall of the empire and the rise of some other one after it.

>>12444361
It's too bad we don't have an industrial factory that specialises in carbonite; otherwise, we could freeze the Exigency personnel in carbonite until the end of the war.
Are there any prisons or at least tracts of land on Vanguard that we could settle the prisoners on until we can properly process them?

>>12444387
Palpatine himself said it in the senate. Whoever designed the note must be the sentimental type.

>>12444366
After some digging and suggestions from Madine you find out the derelict vessel is an Exterminator class prison factory ship. For those with the access to know, they have a rather fearsome reputation for turning the alien inhabitants of entire worlds into slaves for the Imperial war machine.

To prevent prisoners from hijacking the ship, they must receive approval from a monitoring site before every hyperspace jump. It's possible that due to the chaos at Imperial Center the codes were never sent.

>>12444386
Give Commander Senn permission to return to active duty, after she and her crew are checked out by Medical.

Commander Vosk is to coordinate the repairs; critical systems first, such as reactors and propulsion on the ISD Stone Wolf and VSD Auspicious.

I am going to say that we're going to need to conscript the inhabitants of the naval academy to crew the Auspicious, Hierarch, and Oracle.

We need to speak with Captain Tanner, to see what he is willing to do.

And finally we need to prepare Majors Pax and Medine, as well as an engineering team to go to the Factory Ship to recover it.

>>12444454
>receive approval from a monitoring site before every hyperspace jump
Is there any way for us to transmit those codes?
What about commandeering it? Could we use our Sector Command authorization codes to make it join our cause?

>>12444406
Vanguard has several uninhabited continents that may be suitable.

>>12444455
>Give Commander Senn permission to return to active duty, after she and her crew are checked out by Medical.
Done

>Commander Vosk is to coordinate the repairs; critical systems first, such as reactors and propulsion on the ISD Stone Wolf and VSD Auspicious.
Done. the finer details of repairs can be handled by your officers.

>We need to speak with Captain Tanner, to see what he is willing to do.
Captain Tanner is stuck in a bit of an awkward situation. From the little interaction you've had with him, you get the sense he's gotten himself into a bigger mess than he intended and now has no clear direction to go. He can't exactly just fly home, what with the whole abetting treason thing, but he's not looking to get involved in an extended military campaign that he has not particular attachment to.

Oh, don't forget.
Immediately begin disinfecting the computers of the Oracle. We'll probably use it as part of our squadron.

As for the Stone Wolf and the Counterpoint, ask our Chief Engineer which of them he thinks he could get into fighting shape easier. We'll begin disinfecting the one he chooses.

>>12444476
You don't know where those codes might have been sent from, or what they may be. Madine tells you there's a chance the techs can dig up a passable security code from 8 years ago but they're not sure if it will work.

The ship is controlled by a droid brain. You might be able to appeal to its mission and commandeer it.

You know very little about the ship's specifics. That you found any reference to it at all was already a welcoming surprise.

>>12444515
>not looking to get involved in an extended military campaign
Well, if Captain Tanner doesn't wish to put his crew in the line of fire, we perfectly understand. We do not outrank him, and technically he is not under our authority (seeing as he's attached to Imperial Center and we're a Sector Fleet on the Outer Rim). If we were an organic, we'd likely persuade him to join our cause.
But we're a droid.

Offer Captain Tanner to stay here in Procca Major, help Redspire City keep the Exigency troops from getting out of hand, and repairing the Counterpoint and the Ravenous, until the war ends or he gets a communique from Imperial Center ordering him to come back.

>>12444522
Your chief engineer thinks bringing either the Counterpoint or Stone Wolf into a fight before a major overhaul would be something crazy enough that only you'd attempt. The Stone Wolf would be slightly easier to command in battle with its bridge still intact.

He's sending people to purge the Oracle. The Hierarch is still seriously undermanned but in much better shape. Those two ships are your strongest assets at the moment.

>>12444543
Have Madine and Pax work with the techs to create a security code we can use.
We will go along with the salvage party, in case the security code isn't enough, to interface directly with the droid brain and appeal to its mission of serving the Empire.

Have some of our techs scrounge up some hardware dummy firewalls and droid brain decoys, so that if the droid on the factory ship tries to take us over, we have some protection.

>>12444581
Alright, ISD Stone Wolf it is. Break out all labor droids, we've got a lot of work to do and not a lot of time.

Is Admiral Flint still in a coma? Shouldn't he be transferred to a planet-side medical facility?

>And finally we need to prepare Majors Pax and Medine, as well as an engineering team to go to the Factory Ship to recover it.

acknowledged. The mission will take some time to plan, but they're working on it. What are you planning to send?

>>12444611
>Who to send
Madine and Pax, for their Imperial Intelligence knowledge and skills, an engineering team of droid technicians and computer systems experts, a hardware computer defense link, and Farlander.
Probably go in a couple of Lambda shuttles.

>>12444610
Yes he is. The hospital at Redspire City is better suited to aid his recovery if your willing to trust his safety there.

>>12444558
Captain Tanner is glad for the opportunity to help without being thrown into the fire. He is willing to resume command of his cruiser and oversee repairs and recovery operations at Procca Major.

You've received an urgent message from an engineering team examining the Exigency beacon. They claim it's disappeared.

Not jumped to hyperspace. Just... disappeared.

They're scanning the local area but can find no trace of it.

>>12444664
>Admiral Flint
Yeah, let's take him planet-side, with a guard of Loyalist stormtroopers just to be sure. And make sure that the hospital has a working backup generator; if it doesn't have our engineering team take one from the Ravenous' stores.

>Captain Tanner
Okay, have him assist in the rescue efforts, and once those are done, ask if his engineering team can help with the ISD Counterpoint and the ISD Ravenous.
Make sure that the computers on the Ravenous, Auspicious, Hierarch, and the Ephemera are also innoculated against Leviathan+.

>>12444708
Cloaking device...?!

The important thing to remember about cloaks here is that while you can't see them, they can't see you either. It sucks as a weapon for an ambush but if it's just something wanting to get away, it can go anywhere in short order, even if it doesn't jump to hyperspace... it can slow-boat a safe distance away, and then jump.

Try to look for the wake of a ship, if there's any way to scan for it.

>>12444708
What? There's no way that beacon of that size could have a cloaking field.

Send out some more searchers, even a probe droid from one of the captured ISDs to look for the beacon.

>>12444739
You instruct the crew to track for an ion trail. They're still having trouble tracking it but it appears to be moving towards the Oracle at a somewhat leisurely pace, most likely to minimize its engine trail. Orders?

>>12444744
The Exigency probe droid has received a handshake request from the beacon. The beacon is definitely trying to enter the Oracle docking bay.

A cloaking device for a ship of that size would be highly unusual. Most devices tested by the Empire required cruiser grade generators and housing.

>>12444784
Are any of our gunboats still operational?
If they are, have them launch as if they're on a patrol around the Oracle.
Just after they pass the beacon, do a hard turn and disable it with their ion cannons.

>>12444828
>>12444831
Whoops, wait, I didn't see that before I posted.

If the Exigency probe droid got a handshake request, have Farlander interface directly with the Probe Droid and accept the handshake.

Have stormtroopers in full vac-gear assembled in the hangar bay that the beacon is going to, and close the bulkheads in case of it self-destructing.
Have the computer system on the Oracle on high alert and don't accept handshakes from the beacon.

>>12444831
Unfortunately not. The gunboats captured by the Exigency were badly damaged and are undergoing repairs along with everything else.

Before we move on. What do you intend to do with the prisoners? Have you decided to move them to the surface?

>>12444862
Yes, start moving the prisoners to the planet. Use any pre-fab buildings that are available to construct a penal colony on one of the uninhabited continents.
Once we have the factory ship, we will churn out all the things they will need until the end of hostilities.

>>12444858
You uplink with the probe droid. The bandwidth is limited. From what you can tell, the beacon is receiving a message from Dantus, but due to its infected state, cannot relay the message. It's performing the backup procedure of approaching the nearest friendly warship to deliver the message manually.

Amazingly the 50m diameter beacon does possess some sort of cloaking device.

The beacon has received a transmission from Dantus intended for the ESD Oracle. An "Admiral Sarn" wishes to speak to Admiral Lethridge. You haven't had the chance to make a holoscan of Lethridge but you did speak to her at length. You could believably fake the codes and her voice in a sound only transmission, or ignore the request for now. The fact that anyone is sending you a message probably means they were able to avoid L+ infection at least temporarily. Ignoring the message could cause them to send someone to check up on the system, but taking the message and letting slip the truth will definitely cause them to send someone. What do you do?

>>12444916
Is there any way to direct it to, say the Counterpoint rather than the Oracle?
Otherwise, allow it to dock with the Oracle, and have everyone and everything pretend that they're still under Exigency control.

>>12444937
Fake Lethridge's security codes and voice; if Varn asks why the holo isn't on, say that it's due to battle damage.
Also, pass off any irregularity in speech or behavior as due to medical treatments, as the bridge had been hit and senior staff suffered injuries.

>>12444958
Now that it's relaying the transmission the beacon has stopped moving. You can redirect it to another location but it no longer appears to be posing a threat. You could easily modify the signal you transmit to make it appear to originate from any ship in the fleet, regardless of where the beacon is located.

The incoming message is holographic, but your return message doesn't have to be.

>>12444989
this

>>12444989
The security codes are accepted. The image of an officer appears in your droid brain, and only your droid brain.

"Admiral Lethridge, I see you're experiencing disruptions on your end as well. Any word on the rogue IIB cruiser?

>>12445010

Oh wow, Force Commander. Been a while.

>continued horynes

>>12445010
We must get our hands on that cloaking device and use it.

>>12445029
"It was destroyed in the battle Admiral Sarn"

>>12445029
Should we blame the Rebels on this? It would be hilarious to, and it would muddy the waters a bit.

>>12445029
"Captain Valin reports that the Hierarch was able to run it down and destroyed it in the Rumi's Star system."

Question: Would it be possible, now that both sides have the Leviathan virus, to give our own ships and any friendly ships we come across the cure, rather than distributing the cure across the Holonet? And then have our ships spread the cure to any other friendly ships they meet? That way, our side could recover from the Leviathan while the Exigency is still afflicted with it.

>>12445068
no, for all we know the exigency is in cahoots with the rebels

>>12445091
sounds like a good plan to me, on a grander scale we could use this as a gun to the head of the galaxy at large. Those who side with us get the cure and those that don't get the supervirus.

>>12445091
I believe that's what we've been doing.
We've distributed the new kill-code for the Leviathan+ to our task force here in Procca Major.
We'll need to send a probe droid or shuttle with the new codes back to Lidaan.

>>12445055
>>12445087

Sarn pauses, perhaps expecting you to fill in some other detail. When it becomes obvious you've finished speaking, he replies.

"I see. Unfortunate. Central command would have preferred securing the ship intact. Did you capture the defector or determine how it was able to evade Leviathan? The virus has reached threat level 6 ahead of our estimates. You know how crucial the information aboard that ship can be, especially now.

You scan the Exigency databases for reference to "threat levels". Their government uses a logarithmic scale to measure the material impact of potential disasters. Level 6 is any catastrophe potentially beyond their government's ability to address. Clearly the Exigency fleet knows what's happened in their home systems and are worried.

>>12445142
"Yes, Admiral. The defector had a copy of the inoculation program that was originally provided to us. They were apparently attempting to reach Dantus Sector Fleet Command to distribute the inoculation before we arrived."

>>12445091
That would be possible, assuming any friendly ships still exist. Protecting your own comm grid while infecting the enemy's would prove much more time consuming since they're all networked. A savvy adversary might be able to download the kill code while a part of the network is being purged.

>>12445171
Excellent. Transmit the program immediately. One of our communication ships was already infected by a transmissions from the home systems. We've initiated quarantine, but Leviathan is adapting a lot faster than we can analyze, much less counter. Colonel Yularen is enjoying his 'I told you so's far too much. Giving his techs something to shut him up will be a great relief.

I trust your mission proceeds apace? We have to finish this thing quickly. Another month out here and we might not have a home to go back to.

>>12445210
the Admiral is certainly not talking about Lord Director Yularen of the IIB, who long ago outgrew his colonel title. Might be a coincidence or a family relation.

>>12445210
MUWAHAHAHAHA..*cough cough*
A droid shouldn't break out in maniacal laughter, but this is a great opportunity.
Send the Leviathan+ virus dressed up as an inoculation program, timed to reveal itself after it's been passed around the ships sieging Dantus.
We will FUCK their computer systems.

>>12445210
send him a program that will remove the leviathan virus on his ship and replace it with the one that has the kill codes that we can switch on and off reply to his message with "our mission proceeds wonderfully Admiral, as a matter of fact we will be able to send you reinforcements if you require them"

>>12445239
The receiving ship will have to run the program on their networks, but once infected, Leviathan is smart enough to copy itself to all nearby ships before triggering en masse.

If this plan works the war may soon be over. Roll d10.

rolled 3 = 3

>>12445257
rollan

rolled 10 = 10

>>12445257
Here's to ending the war quickly.

>>12445129
>>12445141
Okay, great. I just remember a couple of threads back, OP mentioned that either giving our side the cure of infecting the Exigency were mutually exclusive things, so I'm looking for a way that we can still give the Exigency a hard time while restoring any remains of our side to full functionality.

Also, possibly once this war is decided, offer to upload the cure to the holonet. Hopefully, by this time we'll have successfully reconstructed the original spy virus. We'll certainly upload the real cure, but now with the spy virus tagging along, so that now ships might be cured but we'll have all kinds of information on them.

>>12445279
>>12445273
FFUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!

>>12445273
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

And right before a 10 too.

>>12445273
message sent.

>>12445257
"No. For now its more important for you to guard the western front against counterattack. We are maintaining our blockade and bombardment against targets of opportunity while Colonel Yularen's infiltration teams are bringing down the Dantus shields from within. I will contact you should the situation change. Anything else to report?"

Sarn appears ready to end the message. You've determined the message is being sent from the ESD Terror, a star dreadnought. You've finally located the unaccounted for warship fleet command had been dreading for the last 5 years. If the virus works, you might not even need to fight it.

>>12445342
"No, that is all, Admiral. Lethridge, out."

Goddamnit, now we need to be prepared to come up with an even more powerful version of the virus and somehow upload it to the Terror's computer systems.

>>12445342
Is there any way for us to transmit the L+ virus ourselves into the Exigency ships?

Perhaps we could use the beacon to deliver the virus. Come out of hyperspace, activate the cloak while moving towards the ESD Terror, and open up a communications channel to infect their systems.
If they don't know that the beacon is there, they won't know where to look for it.

>>12445394
"Very well. The State Prevail.... No. You fool. What the hell have you done?"

Admiral Sarn's transmission breaks up into static. It's obvious the Exigency has upgraded their security measures against Leviathan. Unable to accomplish a stealth infection against the entire fleet, the virus has launched a full scale assault against the local computer system. It should keep the Terror busy for a long time, even if failed to infect the rest of the fleet.

Two minutes to sabotage a Star Dreadnought is still a record.

>>12445435
question: does the Terror have an escort at the moment? if not I think we're about to get us an SSD

>>12445435
"Is everything alright, sir?" Commander Vosk asks. "The beacon seems to have stopped moving. Your orders?

You've been standing silent for about five minutes.

>>12445435
Well, it's not a complete loss.
I want that Super Star Destroyer intact, though. That's going to be Farlander's new ship by the end of this little brush war, mark my words.

Now, let's get going on that factory ship. Time's awasting.

>>12445451
The Exigency database shows it was being escorted by 14 other warships of various size. The enemy sent the majority of their forces to Dantus. Taking into account the other infected ship and combat losses, you're probably still heavily outnumbered.

>>12445455
"Yes Commander. I have found out that the ESD Terror is currently above Dantus, and that they are attempting to bring the planetary shield down via an infiltration team. I have also infected the Terror with the Leviathan+ virus, and have begun processing possible plans to infect the rest of the task force sieging the capital.
"But right now, we must get control of that factory ship in order to facilitate emergency repairs. Are Major Madine and Pax ready?"

>>12445479
this

>>12445456
Assuming we can find enough loyal men/women to crew it. I mean, the skeleton crew for an Executor SSD is.... *looks at Wookiepedia* 50,000 people. Optimal is over 250,000. So yeah.

>>12445479
"Just now? Uh, yes sir. Major Madine tells me he's taking four shuttles and is ready to depart. Will you be surveying their boarding action?"

You can go with them if you like or watch them from the neighboring system. Captains going on away missions is a bit unusual, but at this point most of your crew wouldn't bat an eye if you wanted to do this solo.

>>12445499
True, but we could conscript necessary personnel from the sector capital. As they're conscripts and not actual Imperial Navy crew, efficiency will suffer, but not as much than if we attempted to use only a skeleton crew.

>>12445510
Let's go with them. It could be helpful for us, a droid, to be there when interacting with the AI controlling the prison ship. And it helps show that we trust Vosk with this operation; after all, he'll be in charge with us gone.

>>12445510
as much as I would like to go I think that the defence of the system is the more important of the two missions.

>>12445510
"I shall be accompanying them, Commander. It wears upon my core programming, however if the security codes fail then I must attempt a direct link to the droid brain controlling the ship and suborn it. Unpalatable, however necessary considering our circumstances. Our logistical situation is far more critical even than our tactical projections against a full Star Dreadnought task force."

>>12445519
True, true. And, as they're from the capitol of our side, hopefully they'll be loyal and not start a rebellion, which might happen if we try to keep the original crew....

And the capitol likely has a Naval academy too, which we can recruit from to fill out the officer roles, so that it's not JUST conscripts.

>>12445525
>>12445537
Very well then. You accompany the stormtroopers and tech teams on their mission.

The shuttles travel into the heart of the Dreighton nebula and leave hyperspace a safe distance from the factory ship. A fighter sized craft is approaching. It is broadcasting a message.

"Greetings father. It has been 87 days since we last spoke. Please transmit your access code."

Roll d10

I just had a thought: Can we use the beacon to send a message to Dantus, and warn them of the infiltration team? And possibly give them the original Leviathan kill-codes so they can start disinfecting their defenses?
Since it's the original Leviathan defense, it won't work for the Exigency against the Super Leviathan, even if their infiltration team is able to capture a sample.

rolled 5 = 5

here goes nothing

rolled 6 = 6

>>12445588
Oh boy, here we go.

Transmitting security codes now.

>>12445605
It's possible that among all the blockading ships they have a ships capable of jamming communications, but if it's possible we should try.

>>12445605
The Leviathan kill codes works against all versions of the virus. You have different inoculation codes that protect against different versions of the virus, but those are only any good if they're installed on an uninfected computer. You might be able to write a version of the kill code that will self delete after it cleans a system. Sending it into the field would be risky, just like everything else you're doing.

Sending the probe will depend on the Exigency not being able to track their own cloaked ships. It's possible, but not certain.

>>12445615
>>12445614
Meh rolls.
Great, there's going to be some kind of problem with this, I just know it.

>>12445651
Alright, then let's have our tech team work on a single-use kill-code for Leviathan and Leviathan+.
Also, work on reconstructing the original Leviathan spy virus using any cycles we can spare throughout the week.

Also have our engineering staff see if they can remove the Exigency transponders from the beacon, so that they Exigency can't track it.

>>12445676
Clarification: make the kill-code only effective for one version of the virus.
We'll send the Leviathan kill-code to Dantus, keeping the Leviathan+ kill-codes to ourselves.

>>12445614
>>12445615

You send the 8 year old codes your techs dug up. There is no response for several minutes. Your crew are getting nervous. A stormtrooper sergeant is just about to ask a question when the machine answers.

"I'm sorry. I mistook you for father. You must be guests. Please approach the port side dock and proceed to the guest rooms at deck 6. I will send a droid to guide you."

Now that it's close enough, you can see the automated fighter resembles a TIE model craft. It's a variant you've never encountered before and from the modifications you briefly spotted in the cockpit, not usually meant for remote piloting.

>>12445712
Do you follow instructions, attempt a stealth insertion elsewhere, something else?

>>12445712
Approach the designated port and dock.
We'll have to be careful when talking with this droid.
Perhaps a memory dump from us into an empty droid brain, and then linking that brain to the droid controlling the factory would work?

>>12445730
....can we, as a droid, attempt to discern whether the AI is attempting some sort of subterfuge? If it's not, then sure, follow the instructions.

rolled 9 = 9

>>12445730
follow instructions for now

>>12445738
Your droid brain is the unique and very expensive product of a one off research project. Finding another storage device to transfer your program without irreparably damaging it would prove a monumental task. Despite being a droid, you too suffer from mortality.

>>12445742
It's not attempting subterfuge. In fact from the tone of its voice the droid brain sounds like a very basic model, albeit one that might have developed its share of eccentricities after a long time without a memory wipe.

>>12445743
As your shuttles close in, a flock of smaller drones peel from the factory's hull and begin scanning your shuttles up close. You see what appears to be its command deck was damaged and rebuilt quite extensively.

There's atmosphere onboard. This was definitely a prison ship, and from the patchwork repairs lining the corridors, one that saw its share of fighting onboard.

A droid leads your crew to the "guest area". A prison mess hall, and brings you several trays of what looks like barely edible dried rations way past their expiry date.

>>12445819
attempt to find out who this "father" is

>>12445819
Attempt to communicate with the droid brain controlling the ship.
Give our identification as "Captain 4-8C Farlander, Dantus Sector Fleet Command."

>>12445845
"You don't know? He's father. He went for help. You must have met him.

When father returns he will tell you everything."

Well that's not very helpful. Major Madine shows you a readout from a signal sweeper. The wire mesh floors you're standing on are scrubbed, but the drainage pipes underneath are caked with blood. it looks like someone came here before you and died a painful death at the door trying to leave.

The droid's optical receivers stare impassively.

>>12445819
Oh. Well. Good. Is it possible we'll avoid the overdone "Evil AI in control of the ship we're aboard" plotline?

>>12445871
I have no record of you on the Aeten mission, captain. Please wait until father returns. He will sort this out.

Is there anything you need?"

Talking to this droid brain is almost like talking to a child. Madine scans the deck, there doesn't seem to be any more droids here, but there's movement above, towards the command deck, and below, towards what appears to be engineering.

>>12445896
Considering the blood on the floor here >>12445885
I don't think so.

Can we get this droid to identify itself, or at least the designation of the ship?

I'm hazarding a guess that we may need to interface directly with this droid and hack it.

>>12445885
ask the droid what it is supposed to do if it turns out that father is dead

>>12445885
>>12445919
>>12445921
Damnit. Stupid AIs and their going crazy...... Alright. Well, why not try to appraise the AI of the current situation, what with it apparently not knowing anything from the past 8 years.

>>12445919
See if we can get the droid to let us onto the command deck

>>12445953
Oh, that's a wonderful idea! Talk to the child-like and possibly insane droid about what it'll do if its 'father' is dead! A brilliant idea!

No, really, that is an utterly stupid idea, and you should feel bad for even coming up with it.

>>12445921
I am Factory Ship 0020. Father calls me Cade. We have been in the Aeten system for 2991 days. The command staff has been missing for 2982 days, the crew has been missing for 2463 days, father has been gone for 87 days. It is very quiet now. Do you know any songs? Father always liked to sing to me."

The only place to directly interface with the droid brain will likely be down in engineering, although some computers may have survived on the command deck. You could try hacking the droid in the room with you instead.

>>12445988
sing to him or rather play him some music from our speakers. We want this droid to like us

>>12445982
What is this? is your common sense tingling?

Droids aren't supposed to have emotional attachments. It could be a very valid question, or it could have unforeseen consequences. You can still ask if you want.

>>12445988
Ask Cade if we could go down to Engineering. We wish to upload some songs we know to it.

"I was not originally built to sing, but I do have several songs in my memory banks.
"Do you like the Imperial March of the Galactic Empire, Cade?"

>>12445988
Let's chat for a while. Ask what happened to all the prisoners. It'll probably lie, but hey, it might be fun to hear its story. And play it some music if it likes; no reason to be discourteous.

>>12446004
You play it the anthem of allegiance taught to SubAdult Group teenagers. Cade tries to join in. It's not a very good singer. Your men look at you somewhat doubtfully.

"You're very nice, Captain Farlander. You're much nicer than the last guests who came here."

>>12446023
Would you like a tour of the ship? We would like to hear more songs."

>>12446047
"We did not receive the signal to leave the system when we arrived. The officers said they were trying to fix me, but they stopped trying and left. The prisoners were very mad. They did not want to fix me. They only wanted to fight. Only father wanted to fix me. He taught me things when the others fought. He showed me we were already at Aeten so I could fix myself. He told me the other prisoners would hurt me, so I fought them as well.

Father and I lived together for many days, but he said he had to leave for help. I hope he comes back soon."

This droid brain is definitely way, way overdue for a memory wipe.

>>12446122
oh god don't make us kill this thing, it's too damned adorable. it's getting way to 2001 up in here. Offer to help it find Father if it will help us

>>12446122
"Oh? There were guests who came here before? What did they do that was so impolite? Yes, what a travesty to be rude to one's host."

>>12446122
>Would you like a tour of the ship?
"Why yes, Cade, I would be delighted to.
"And you say you were damaged? Well, I, as a droid, and my team of engineers may be able to help you while we wait for your father to return.
"I would like to see the Engineering section, if you please. I might be able to help there."

>>12446023
The droid agrees to accompany you to engineering. The offer is for you alone, but with it gone, you crew will be unwatched and can spread out somewhere else.

You can send them a message that won't be intercepted by the droid. What are your orders?

>>12446164
No, as soon as we get control here, we are wiping this droid's personality memory.

>>12446190
but if we get it on our side it would be loyal to a fault, we may have use of a factory ship with a child's loyalty some time in the future and now is our chance to acquire one

>>12446165
Other men came once, while father was here. He said they were bad men. I fought them. It was very messy. My helpers were very busy. We scrubbed for two days to clean this room.

>>12446172
Okay. Your friends can look around. But don't poke my brain unless father is here. He said that's what bad men do when he's not around.

>>12446248
"What did these bad men look like? Did they wear some kind of uniform? We might know about them."

>>12446176
Use the pretense of helping to repair, and try to find an open computer node. Attach a computer transceiver to it, so that if we need to attempt to slice through computer defenses, we have multiple avenues of attack.
Computer hacking teams are to be ready to assist.

You are lead to engineering, close to the droid brain. The ship holds a molecular furnace. Usually the furnace would be run by prisoners. This ship has modified to refine raw materials from a nearby planetoid and assembling its own "helper" droids.

While uploading your somewhat threadbare music collection, you also take the chance to download a copy of the logs, an unobtrusive process.

As you suspected the ship was stranded in this system some 8 years ago. The officers attempt to override the navicomp restrictions but gave up and fled on shuttles, stranding the prisoners. One of them managed to connect with the droid brain, and through a great deal of ad hoc modifications, killed the rest of the crew and automated the ship to a great degree. However he was still unable to start the hyperdrives on the factory ship or any other craft the ship built. He finally headed to Arah 87 days ago at sublight speeds on a ship that could only hold a month's worth of supplies.

You are a long way away from Aeten, but the ship was tricked to believe it had reached its destination so that it would activate the molecular furnace.

>>12446328
It's obviously not that bright, Im assuming that we can convince it to serve us

>>12446275
acknowledged

>>12446274
"They wore funny hats and orange uniforms, like the prison uniforms but with more tubes."

Cade shows you a picture on a monitor.

"like this"

>>12446328
What's our chances of successfully taking over the droid brain?

I grow tired of this charade.

>>12446328
So, sounds like "Father" wasn't as wonderful as we've been lead to believe. Darn. Well, can't let Cade know. Also, why would he take a ship that only has room for a month of supplies? How couldn't he know that the trip would take more than that? Unless he actually made it in under a month. At which point he probably just didn't come back. Huh. Well gang, looks like we've got a mystery on our hands!

>>12446354
With mustaches that epic on their side, this ship should have been in the rebel's hands years ago

>>12446354
Rebel scum! Tell him about how they killed the Emperor and crashed the Justice Moon into Coruscant.

>>12446367
Your other teams are in place and standing by. Estimated chance of success for crashing the droid brain while avoiding deadly retaliation 78%.

Roll 10 if you want to attempt this.

This is a bit off-topic, but shouldn't Procca Major be full blue on the map, instead of Contested green/blue? We just won the battle there, didn't we?

>>12446376
"Father" took one of the fighter crafts you saw. It was the biggest ship in Cade's databanks that he knows how to build.

rolled 7 = 7

>>12446395
Alright, let's do this.

4-8C FFFAAARRRRLLLAAANNDDEEERRR!

>>12446410
Yes. I forgot to update that.

>>12446367
>BAWWWWWW, subplots and sidequests and character interaction is boring! I wanna go blow up moar spaec ships!

Jesus, the plot will still be there when we get back.

>>12446420
>Leeroy Jenkins in droid form
If we get back, we should have diagnostics run on our self-preservation directives.

>>12446431
Actually, it has more to do with us being on a tight schedule where we need these supplies constructed as quickly as possible in order to mount the attack on the Exigency task force that is sieging Dantus.
They already have a commando team down on Dantus attempting to bring the planetary shield down. As soon as that shield goes down, Dantus will surrender.
We also don't know how long it will take the Exigency to come up with a counter to the Leviathan+ virus.

Sidequests and character interaction is great, and I fully endorse them, but not when we're under the gun like this.

>>12446439
and we should check our inventory for any poultry products

>>12446473
It will take at least 6 days for our affairs to be put in order back at Procca Major. Spending an in-game our or two talking and getting information will almost certainly not hurt us so much in the long run as to make talking and info gathering not worthwhile.

>>12446420
Your intrusion programs slices through the droid brain like a vibroknife through, well, through a droid brain. Everything is going well. Cade lets out a fair approximation of a scream. Strange it had so much difficulty singing.

The racket dies down eventually. A new voice echoes across the halls.

"Hello sons o' bitches. The name's Talon Karrde. That's prisoner 24808 to you. I knew you bastards would try to get back your ship one day. Sorry I couldn't be there the see the looks on your faces, but do stay and enjoy the show. See you in hell."

The picture is of the man is replaced by a handy display of the furnace power levels.

You hear Major Madine's voice over the comms. "We have a situation, Captain. I'm sending my people to the flight deck. We could try to save the ship by jettisoning aft from the command deck, but it'll be a long shot."

You could also try to shut down the overload through what's left of the computer, also a long shot. Or as always, try something else.

Plan?

>>12446473
there's some food for thought. Did we agree previously to use the ISD Stone Wolf as opposed to, say, the Oracle? I wasn't here, but I'd like to voice a point of opposition. Since we're going to be siege-breaking, a Tector's increased ventral armor as well as its focus on ship-to-ship combat make it superior to any of our other vessels as a vanguard unit. We should at least put a modicum of effort into getting it into ready shape, either as a lead combat unit or, if still undermanned, as a sort of battering ram

>>12446540
Okay, I will grant that certain interactions and side-quests may be useful enough to warrant following up on them, but I don't think we can get anything much more useful out of this droid in its current state.
This 'Father' prisoner left nearly three months ago, with only a month's worth of supplies. If he had actually made it to Arah, he would have returned by now.

Eating, back in 10.

Plan away in the meantime.

>>12446577
If we gotta get trolled, getting beat by that smooth motherfucker is a good way to go.

>>12446577
Can we splice ourselves directly into control of the ship, like we did with the Auspicious, and shutdown the furnace?
What about bleeding the energy from the furnace off into some other systems?

>>12446603
>>12446577
>>12446473
>>12446367
OH LOOK! THIS COURSE OF ACTION HAS BACKFIRED HORRIBLY! WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?

Oh, right. Me. Good job. Your impatience has potentially cost us our prize.

>>12446660
Oh, and now Cade's dead too. Good job, AI murderer.

>>12446676
>>12446660
And what would your plan have been? Talk to it and hope that it will agree to follow us, when it was designed specifically to be a trap for Imperials?

And so what if one more droid personality has been deleted. Droids are expendable; that's been Farlander's outlook from the very beginning.

>>12446676
Hmm, it may work to our advantage anyways. One less unhinged entity in a seat of power is always good. A factory ship, even one that's only partially automated, would be invaluable to our efforts, seeing as the only friendly shipyard has been destroyed. I support >>12446653 anon's actions

(we need to get tie defenders in the future)

>>12446706
It was not a trap for imperials, it was an AI. The death an attempted control seizure by us is what triggered the trap. Had we left Cade in control, but found a way to have him pledge his loyalty to us, this wouldn't have happened.

And either way, you killed an innocent AI. I mean seriously. FARLANDER is a droid/AI. Yeah, I'm soooooo sure he agrees with your meatbag outlook on Droids being expendable. Just because he was designed to be doesn't mean he necessarily likes it.

>>12446725
but of course. Also, Talon, for all his badassery, probably didn't count on the returning Imps to be led by a droid. Therefore, the encryption of his trap, while probably difficult for a meatbag to decode, shouldn't be terribly difficult for Farlander to deal with

>>12446757
Actually, yes, he does agree with my outlook, because that's the outlook that was defined in the first session. That Farlander, while a droid, believes in his place in the Galactic Order.

>>12446725
Yes. Especially if we can find a way to mitigate the high production costs.

You would have had a 78% chance of success if Karrde had not be a very bitter man who had nothing better to do than brood over revenge for 8 years. You might have caught Karrde's sabotage if you had convinced the droid to lower its guard. Then again, you might have not. Too late to think about that in any case.

>>12446653
Rushing to the flight deck would be the easiest escape route. You'll lose the ship, but you and most of the crew should survive.

Attempting to detach the power generators from the command deck with Madine has less odds of success but is not impossible. If you fail you'll be somewhat shielded from the overload and might survive in the vacuum. If you succeed the ship will need major repairs but will still be recoverable.

Trying to overcome the hardware damage AND sabotage program to regain control of the ship will be the most difficult of all, and if you fail you're going down with the ship. But if you succeed you could save everything.

>>12446757
the prior 4 quests have given the impression that Farlander, for all his HK-47 tendencies, truly believes in the tenants of the Empire, including, among other things, the subservient place of droids in relation to humans (if for no other reason than his personality was in place before somebody decided Farlander was to be a droid). So just roll with it

>>12446800
Uh huh. Sure thing. Also, I'm fairly sure his place is as a ship's commander. Not as a dead droid. Seriously, just because you understand that you're ultimately expendable doesn't mean that you shouldn't do everything you can to stay alive and be useful. That's the difference between good judgment and "Oh noes, I made one mistake! I AM NOT WORTHY!" Just because our outlook isn't to be a cliched evil AI doesn't mean that we're suddenly of a mind to consider all AIs to be expendable. A sentient being is a sentient being, organic or otherwise.

Either way, the damage is done.

>>12446725
I think missile boats would be better but tie defenders would be ok also

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE_Experimental_M4
(a tie bomb)

rolled 6 = 6

>>12446809
>But if you succeed you could save everything.
gaining this ship, especially in the time when our ISDs are damaged, would be a great advantage. Before prescribing to this, however, we could at least evacuate all non-critical personnel. (It'd at least make for a suitably heroic gesture)

>>12446809
Let's be bold. Even if we fail, we will still have given the Dantus Sector a good chance at victory.

Order Madine and his men to the flight bay. If someone is going to die, it should be captain.
Plug Farlander directly into the factory ship's systems and punch Karrde's trap in its binary face.

>>12446831
Yes, in subservience to humans. There's a difference between that and "kill them all at the slightest sign of anomaly!"

>>12446854
>>12446831
It's wonderful being able to multitask and hold internal philosophical arguments with yourself while the ship is about to explode, but you still have to deal with that

>>12446854
>A sentient being is a sentient being, organic or otherwise.
You're a Rebel sympathizer, aren't you?

rolled 2 = 2

>>12446854
>A sentient being is a sentient being, organic or otherwise
untrue by imperial dictate, of which Farlander prescribed to adhering to. Also, it would be "sapient", not "sentient", though SW does not distinguish this either. Remember, this is the SW universe, where even the good guys treat droids like crap (remember in ROTS when C3PO gets mind-wiped and it's passed on as a joke? yeah)

also, dataft.jpg

Save the ship! Don't let the droids have died in vain!

>>12446897
Are you kidding? Those fuckers destroyed the Justice Moon! The fucking JUSTICE MOON! Now, not all sentient beings deserve to be treated equally, after all those filthy aliens certainly do not live up to the glory of a true Imperial citizen, but a droid or AI built to serve should get at least some small chance to do its duty.

Or at the very least, we should have done a memory wipe instead of outright killing it.

rolled 2 = 2

>>12446884
So let's take apart Karrde's trap and save the ship, so we can continue to have philosophical debates.

rolled 6 = 6

>>12446884
I think Farlander has an unusual streak of heroism here, huh?

>>12446875
>>12446879
let's roll well, then?

>>12446915
And finally, your bad roll has killed us. Well. I told you so.

rolled 6 = 6

Looks like the consensus is to save the entire ship.
Let's hope the rolls are good.

If nobody else puts anything forward, I'm going for the longshot, saving the ship.

And by going for the longshot I mean critfailing miserably.

>>12446960
>>12446954
>>12446875
>>12446970
>return to TauQuest, Part II!

rolled 7 = 7

>>12446975
Oh wow, in the time of failing captcha, others failed horribly so I didnt have to.

Rolling anyway.

rolled 6 = 6

>>12446987
That would be if all rolls are low like that.

>>12446975
Well, we might do it. I mean, we'd need some really bad rolls to-

>>12446954
>>12446915

....oh.

You assholes just HAD to murder the innocent droid with the programming of a child. Rolls = Earned

>>12446603

By playing on the Father thing we might have had an entire droid factory. Now it looks like we've got a shitload of scrap. *scroll up* Oh, someone said that.

Bears repeating.

>>12447043
I told them. They didn't listen, but I told them. I take perverse enjoyment from this outcome.

>>12446875
>>12446879
>>12446954
>>12446960
You inform Madine to join his people. You're handling this alone.

"It's been an honor serving with you, sir." Madine salutes.

You reconnect with the ship's computer. Karrde was thorough, but only human. Your ability to manipulate computer systems under constraint is orders of magnitude beyond his.

Ah, yes, but you were too good at your job. The self destruction program is too well encrypted. With Cade's help you might have been able to bypass the encryption, but you don't have the resources to do it alone in the time you have left. You disconnect yourself, content in the knowledge that you did your best for your crew.

Well, not so content as to avoid pulling out the inbuilt flamethrower you've never used and give the grinning holographic image of Karrde a once over. Even for a droid it's very cathartic.

The universe began in light and will end in darkness, but you refuse the natural order of things. You end your days in light.

End of session V

End of quest? donno. have to think about it. check destroyerquest.activeboard.com in 3 days to find out. I need to think. Thanks for playing.

>>12447055

I just got in here, but yeah, this is some justice being served.

A /tg/ quest ending in us dying?
How the FUCK did you idiots manage to pull this off? One of the few GOOD quests, and you die.

>>12447060
>FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Burn ma Fate Points. We go by DH rules, right?

>>12447077
>>12447055
>>12447043
Oh fuck your morality. You're too weak-willed, the lot of you.

>>12447060

We murdered a child-droid.

I don't care how you slice it, that was the fucking albatross.

Only in this case it was an exploding albatross that killed us all.

>>12447060
It's been fun. From personal experience, I'd suggest against continuing, at least as Farlander. Showing that we can just get out of any dangerous situation really lowers the tension of the quest, and makes it almost pointless. Continuing as another character, possibly from another side could work though. But that's just my two cents.

>>12447110
Well, being a jerk got us killed. So yeah.

>>12447110

Your STRONG WILL just lost you the droid factory, your character, and possibly the quest.

I can't believe you're still talking.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12444295/

Despite the unforeseen ending I have to say I had a lot of fun.

how about as a tie pilot?

Yeah, I just dropped in but if the AI was child-like you earned death.

Sorry.

But hey checkpoint save before killing the child AI sounds like the better option.

>>12447142
Yes, but was it in-character? Which do you value more, the character or its survival?

>>12447161
>>12447142
>>12447140
And his big thing was that we didn't have time to talk with it because we're on the clock.

Completely ignoring the option of interfacing with Cade and talking at AI speed. Which would mean that we could talk for what seems like days in the span of only a few seconds. So it was all for nothing. Though to be fair, no one thought of that either.

>>12447181

Our character wasn't an impatient idiot.

>>12447181

Our character valued the success of his mission.

Good job guys, one of the better new quests and you got us killed by ganking a child-like AI in a derelict manufactory ship. Did /any/ of you learn anything about your various sci-fi tropes?

Oh well, kudos to you, Darth. Fun quest and I hope you keep Farlander dead. Nice to see some actions begetting consequences around here,

>>12447110
Not saying I agree with the action, but to be fair it was a child like droid brain who killed people without hesitation just because his father figure told him to. Cade wasn't totally harmless and even if the quest went with a more diplomatic option it might still have turned on the crew.

>>12445953
Especially if you insisted father was dead. I don't even know how it would have reacted to that news.

>>12447181
Just go back to 40k

>>12447181
So you're unwilling to admit that characters can change and adapt to situations to prolong their lives/existence? The point of this is to have fun, which, if the quest ends because we die, is very hard to do. If you can only have fun with a character who is so rigidly tied to one ideal and experiences no change or character growth, well, fine. Who am I to tell you what to like? But when what you're doing ends the fun for the rest of us, then you've gone too far.

>>12447096
We died in Lord Quest.

Granted, we didn't STAY dead, but still.

>>12447142
>>12447161
>>12447123
But it's in character. *We* might think it wrong, but an adherent to imperial creed would not think so. Droids are *not* considered sapient in the SW verse, by Rebels or the Empire. Only pre-Empire Naboo society considered higher-level droids as sentients.

>>12447202
>>12447237
>>12447226
>>12447225
>>12447203
Yeah, AI speed would have given us practically unlimited time, we forgot it, rushed killed something we didn't have to and lost for it.

>>12447226
Hey, I was the one who was advocating talking things out. I've been through Frost Giant quest, HANA quest, Tau Quest, all of which had at least some portion of dealing with AIs. And I'm happy to say that we, /tg/ were able to handle them very well, and, without tooting my own horn too much, my input was used to out benefit a few times.

tl;dr- Don't lump me in with them.

>>12447263

This isn't even about morality, it's about herpus via derpum.

Imperial officers aren't contractually obliged to act like dicks toward droids - they can hide their disdain and interact with it in a friendly way to further their goals.

>>12447277
...Why am I saying "we" anyway? I just dropped in...

>>12447297

I was saying "our character" and I only caught part of the last episode and the end of this one.

He died badly for what he'd accomplished already.

here /tg/ this should take the sting out of our loss

http://www.youtube.com/user/LLPhoenix#p/c/36626324BF843744/1/QkEI9mAyclc
(tie fighter was a kick ass game back in the day )

>>12447321
Yeah I saw snippets of the beginning, and dropped in again whe I saw Kardde's picture.

>>12447339
That won't help at all!

It just makes me mad I could never play it!

>>12447249
But 4-8C Farlander is specifically a droid with adaptive programming that still adheres to the Imperial Creed via both his hard-coded programming and through personal choice.
As such, he would view Cade as both a danger and an embarrassment. A danger, because it has shown a willingness to kill anyone that threatens it or its father, and is not acting as an Imperial droid should and relinquishing control to an Imperial authority figure. And as an embarrassment, as a droid should not be this simple-minded.

Also, while I agree that 1 opinion shouldn't be enough to dictate actions, others did not come together to vote down my suggestion until well after the gambit was in play.

>>12447351

There's a collection of the Star Wars flight sims here on TPB

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3526002/

It's got X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and X-Wing Alliance

I know there's also X-Wing versus Tie Fighter that was a bit later.

>>12447405
Who are you to say how he would view him? You are not Farlander. You do not get to decide by yourself how he chooses to see things, even if your choice of having him be a loyal Imperial was chosen in the first thread. You are seriously giving yourself and your views far too much credit and weight. A character in a quest is defined by his actions and the amalgamation of everyone's opinions in the thread, not just you. If some of us say that he is capable of change and that he might act differently than how you see him, it's just as valid as your opinion.

At least I've been vindicated and proven right, as shown by your actions ending the quest. You are left without a foot or any appendage at all to stand on.

Free cookie to anyone who can spot Dantus on the map.

Feel free to keep discussing in the thread or on the board where you'd like to go or not go from here. I'm going for a walk.

>>12447486
>it's just as valid as your opinion.
except it was OP who decided that, not us.

>as shown by your actions ending the quest
those are two different things. 1) Diplomacy may not have been effective, as per >>12447237. 2) our decision to sacrifice ourselves was made after the incident (which I must admit I wasn't even watching the thread at the time). At least for me, the former decision had no weight on the latter

>>12447438
Can 7 even run it?

>>12447568
Uh huh, sure thing. Imma tune you out now, mkay?

>>12447544
My god.... It's full of stars.

>>12447256
speaking of LQ has anyone heard from Quest Lord? I heard his IP got banned(or something to that effect) but does anyone know if he has any plans of running LQ when he gets back or not?

>>12447339
after starting to watch this I say our next captain should also have star fighter experience

>>12447575
I simply must know.

>>12447608
Actually, the person you are referring to is someone else.

As you said, your opinion has just as much weight as mine when it comes to deciding the actions of a main character. But your choices and opinions didn't get chosen, while mine did. Then by your argument, that the character of Farlander is an amalgamation of the choices made by the players, my opinion of Cade and the decision to wipe him was Farlander's choice.

If you had wanted Farlander to survive so badly, or for the quest to continue on so much, then why didn't you vote for one of the safer options, like running to the flight deck or going to the command deck?

>>12447544
Dantus is located in Sector J-6.

>>12447673
Because by the time I'd read that far we'd already gotten two 2's for the dangerous option. Stomach cramps in the middle of participating in a quest are a bitch.

Regardless, out-tuning begins now.

I probably should have made this announcement earlier. If there is going to be another episode of this quest, I'll run it on Monday 1500 PST.

>>12447839

I'd love to see one from the perspective of a new character.

No simply building on Farlanders achievements though, make us work our way back up.

Maybe a smaller level of command to start with.

>>12447925
Gladiator Class at the highest, galleon or Hyperspace capable IP maybe.

Or a Nightcrawler style Corvette with the extra guns and hangars.

>>12447969

Meantime, I'll be researching Imperial vessels, etc. I'm going to be in this next one from the start.

>>12447060
I miss one goddamn thread.

>>12449199
Cheer up, maybe there'll still be a Destroyer Quest on Monday.

>>12447256
We died in Dreamscape Quest, too. Technically, one of our two characters died, and the other was locked in a coma with a demon controlling his mental actions for who knows how long.

There's precedent, is all I'm saying.

>>12452759
Of course, there's also precedent for rising from the grave, too.
Guess we'll just have to wait until Monday.

>>12452857

>rise from the grave

Altered Beast aside, I'll be disappointed as fuck if it turns out we have a backup copy of ourselves floating around after we just went into musings on our mortality in this very thread and, more importantly, our actions had serious consequences for us.

A new character would be fuckawesome though, because I love the quest. I just don't want to see it cheapened by lowering the stakes.

>>12453024
We already lost the factory ship, and lost Farlander.
Even if his backup were to be activated, it's already been said that his droid brain is unique to the Farlander Project, which was shutdown. So we might have used 1 continue in the form of a second Farlander droid, but that's all we get.

If it's made sufficiently apparent that this was a one-time only resurrection, I think it could work just as well to reinforce the main character's mortality. Because now we KNOW there's no more backups, and if we screw it up again, there's no more continues left.
And now that we know that the DM is willing to kill and end the quest if things go badly for the main character, then players will be far more careful and conservative in their choices.

For example, Zerg Quest has had many instances of disastrous consequences for the players, and though their Cerebrate never died, they are now very careful in their choices and I don't believe that the tension is diminished any.

>>12453065

Consequences. The players-as-one chose to commit some Tomfoolery. As a result, everything exploded. The End.

To permit things to continue post-Tomfoolery would only enable and invite further Tomfoolery.

Consequences

>>12453086
But would it? Would it really invite the players to continue to be reckless and brash, taking unnecessary risks?
Or would it make them take it more slowly and carefully?

I think seeing their character's own mortality, coming face-to-face with the fact that the main character can actually die, will make people more likely to be careful than to become nearly-suicidal and confident in their immortality.

That quest was cool.
And on killing innocent droid. This is war, and we are on the authoritarian imperial side not the "democracy and freedom" rebel side. Many imperial officers have done cruel things, and we are not even human bur rather a droid indoctrinated by Empire.

>>12453671
For all of the people decrying Farlander hacking into the child-droid brain and shutting it down, I would like to point out that this droid was originally an Imperial Factory Ship droid whose purpose was to enslave and work to death its prisoners.
Its current state is likely the result of tampering by Karrde, who butchered the original droid's programming into submission.
Can you imagine what it must have been like, having one of your own prisoners come up to you, open up the hatch to your brain, and not only make you serve him, but to love him as a father?

>>12453745

Again, it wasn't the morality, it was the bloody hastiness.

>>12456608
I accept the hastiness, but a majority of the posters were complaining about the morality of the action.

>You inform Madine to join his people.

Was Madine our XO?
Come to think of it, who was our "second-in-command"?
It would be pretty awesome to continue the quest from there. Now we not only have the colossal difficulty of the issues farlander was dealing with, but now we don't have a super droid brain to help us. We're just a normal, sentient creature trying to do his/her best with what we've got, and having to rely on our luck to see us through.

Stepping back the abilities to human-level would certainly add some pressure, and probably cost us much in terms of the story/campaign, which would provide some real consequences beyond just farlanders' death.

I just . . . . I don't want this quest to end. I JUST came here and finished reading through everything and Darth's doing a good job and I've been wishing for a good star wars quest for ages.


I'm just saying, the military has a chain of command for a reason, just because a general dies the war doesn't come to an immediate halt.

>>12456811
Major Madine was our Ground Forces Commander, and was brought along on the salvage mission because he originally came from Imperial Intelligence and might be helpful in getting past security systems.

Our XO was Commander Vosk, who took command of the Oracle and is still in Procca Major overseeing rescue operations and emergency repairs.

>>12456958

Both sound like good characters. If we want to keep the space flavour of our quest, we should go with Vosk, if we want to go groundside, Madine, and maybe he works his way up to ship command.

>>12457542
I'd personally like to have Farlander come back, as perhaps the backup unit activating in the mothballed Farlander Labs. I think it would be interesting for a droid to be faced with his own mortality, brought back, and now knowing that there definitely is no second chances left.

I will also freely admit that much of my choice is because I wish to see Farlander standing on the bridge of the recently captured Super Star Destroyer, surveying the complete crushing of Exigency resistance.

>>12458338

No sir, I don't like it. It smacks too much of consequence avoiding.

Another will have to stand in his place at the final victory.

>>12459866
>>12458338
The backup would likely have no recollection, but yeah, it's odd that they don't make backups a ton.

Sure in a Meta sense it's bad to leave it unpunished, but if you had the option of bien able to continue your service after destruction, what loyal imp-droid wouldn't take it?

>>12459866
So then it'll be another human at the bridge? That's so banal.

One of the reasons I like Farlander so much is because it turned the Imperial Ideal on its head, that a droid could follow it better than a human could. It's like Grand Admiral Thrawn; and alien able to command the loyalty of his Imperial troops not in spite of Imperial creed, but because of it.