Where's Cam?

>>9992118
Cam stirs quietly inside your head before projecting himself into the corner of your room. A neat trick made possible by messing around with your perception senses.

His blue form glows slightly as he bows and summons a virtual chair to take a seat. "Not sleeping well? Something I don't usually have to deal with, thank goodness. Though it does get rather lonely with all that time on my hands."

Basic rundown for newcomers? I might post a bit before going to sleep

>>9992190
"Bad dream. I can't really remember what it was about though. I wonder what we'll do next though. The Seekers were in turmoil before, when they thought that there were only some held up in Heaven's gate, now there's an entire planet of us. And there's still that faction that wants us dead."

I wonder what this quest is about

Summary incoming?

>>9992207
My chunk won't be posted since it "Isn't allowed to."

You are Hannah. Also known as H.A.N.A. <A13> or simply as Thirteen, you are the product of Terran Empire biotechnology and designed to act as a living ship controller interface and as a substitute to Artificial Intelligence.

The planet you are on now is home to a remnant of humanity that did not enter the Void - they've pretty much stayed inside their small section of space and haven't left it since.

>>9992348
Something like that was happening in Frost Giantess quest too. Post it as picture.

>>9992348
Were we activated on that planet or did we come there from somewhere else?

>>9992346
>>9992335
Long story short, you are part of a remnant of humanity that mostly vanished 2000 years ago. You personally have rather friendly relationships with the Seekers, part of a trispecies alliance that has gained spaceflight mainly through reverse-engineered human technology. There is a Seeker splinter faction that is anti-human, and they tried to assault you when you last left Seeker space to find an old friend of yours - Six.

Nineteen you picked up as a ghost in a wrecked computer and she acquired a body when two early AI (from when Humanity was dabbling in creating them) killed each other. Two became your friend after you forced your way inside her head (literally hacking her) and talked to her in that fashion.

Cam is a Seeker-made AI that has taken up residence inside your implants - he's rather friendly.

Okay, long and short of it is this: We're a human that's able to interface with ship systems. About 2000 years ago, Humanity made us because they didn't trust AIs. Humanity went genocide on the first alien speciest they made contact with. However, as a last act of defiance, they unleashed some kind of spore/plague that started to hit our colonies. Because of this, the Terran High Command had everyone evacuate into Heaven's Gate, a pocket dimension where people would go into cryostasis. Now, constantly killing while interfacing with ships does something to a HANA's mind, and our friend, Nineteen, went a little crazy, threatening to kill all of humanity. We convinced her to just walk away, but the human fleet followed us and managed to destroy our ship, causing use to go into stasis while our destroyed ship crashed into the planet below.

Since that chunk of material, you've found a physical body for Nineteen [Pictured], befriended <B2>, found Six acting as part of the military of a human remnant on Utopia, as well as Nickolai Strauss, who designed your implants and worked on the HANA project.

>>9992444
That's Six who went a bit crazy. Nineteen was a ghost in the system.

>>9992426
>>9992444
Cool.

What are our immediate and long term goals (if we have any)?

>>9992444
(Crap, our friend was Six, not Nineteen.)

2000 years later, we wake up since the ship has run out of power. We manage to keep going for a couple of hours before our ship, which had fallen into an ocean, was dredged up by aliens known as the Seekers. They proved friendly, and we decided to work with them to find Six, who we believed to have escaped the battle. We had a few adventures, eventually finding the HANAs Nineteen and Two. Eventually, we found Six, and this planet, Utopia, settled by the remnants of the fleet sent to stop us and Six 2000 years ago. They'd gotten over it, and we decided to take a small break, crashing at Six's place.

>>9992473
Now that we've found Six? Probably try to convince the faction of the Seekers who view humanity as trouble that we're not going to kill them. Maybe go to Heaven's gate to wake up humanity. Though seeing as how that went the first time.... might be better to just kill them all.

>>9992473
Currently you are just taking it easy, but in the long term there is:

-Haven Gate: The entrance to the void that Old Humanity locked themselves behind. You don't know whether to free them, leave them, or simply destroy the gate - trapping them.

-Seeker/Human relations: Humans reemerging on the galactic plane is a scary thought for some people, as Humanity dominated before their fall 2000 years ago. Nickolai seeks Humanity's "redemption" for their past actions with an alien species, and wants to start communication with the other races.

-Two: Find her a wig. Because she's bald.

>>9992547
what happened last time you tried to wake humans?

>>9992596
I meant last time humans met up with aliens. What with the genocide.

>>9992611
Ah, that.

Since they were cry-frozen in the void I guess they are still the same biggots.

Why did they genocided the first species they met?

Well, go back to sleep and tomorrow we can go talk to whoever is in charge of the Seekers and tell them about this planet.

>>9992716
Well, the first species may have communicated by forcefully mutating human colonists and merging with them so that they could hear their hivemind..... But they were benevolent and honestly not aware of what they were doing, since their way of thinking was completely alien to humanity's.

>>9992716
They were afraid of loosing Humanity's genetic purity. Since the alien race communicated by first merging physically with another species, they feared that Humanity would become a race of hybrids if they set up relationships. It was a bad first contact incident on part of the aliens.

So Humanity purged 'em.

>>9992748

Oh. I can see why this might have disturbed them a bit

Supernova? You there?

How well populated is Utopia?

>>9992901
I'm awake. Didn't see the action.

>>9992725
You lie back down and drift off to sleep only to be awakened roughly in the morning by Nineteen, who keeps up with her morning ritual of jumping on your bed.

Six kicks her off rather quickly and quietly gets dressed in something other than a military issued bodysuit. Hell, its so nice to wear real clothes for once.

You link up to the planet's network to find that Nickolai Strauss has left you a message.
"Hannah. We've been trying to put together a sort of delegation in the last couple of weeks to try and make contact with the Seekers. Thanks to the assistance of your Captain Thal'tek and his crew, we believe we might be ready. Since you are already familiar with the Seeker ruling body, would you kindly join our delegation?"

>>9992931
Utopia has almost three billion people on it - not as much as there could be, but a comfortable amount.

>>9993041
Sure

>>9993041
Sounds good. Who will be joining us, if anyone?

>>9993066
>>9993123
You notify Nickolai that you will indeed be going, and he thankfully responds shortly.

"I'll be coming along with Jen - I wouldn't miss this event for anything. Feel free to bring anyone you wish - the more friendly faces we can provide, the better. Its imperative that we can show off the best of Humanity. We must make up for our mistakes."

>>9993184
Let's bring all our friends. Six, Two, Nineteen, Cam.

>>9992097

OH SWEET A HOMEWORLD THREAD!

>>9993235
You turn to Six and let her know that you're ready to return to space.

"Already? Well then... I'll summon a ride."

You head downstairs and notify a rather comfy looking Two - who merely nods at your appearance - and a boisterous Nineteen that you'd appreciate it if they came with you to establish relations with the Seekers.

Nineteen frowns slightly and folds her arms. "Do you really want to go back so soon? Space is rather cold, you know."

Two slowly raises herself up to tower over you and nods. "I'll follow you wherever you want to go."

>>9993278
>Sorry to disappoint. Though Homeworld is awesome but I did not like Cataclysm.

>>9993184

how is the Seeker's disposition in this matter. Do we estimate the success being high?

>>9993359
...how tall is 2?

>>9993430
She is a good foot taller than you.

>>9993396
The current controlling faction in the Seeker Council is pro-humanity, but recently there has been a resurgence of a violent splinter group within the Seeker Council that seeks to defend them from the "genocidal humans" at any cost. This came to a peak when they commandeered five Destroyers and attempted to stop you from leaving the Assura system. You simply jumped past them.

>>9993359

how the fuck do you not like Cata?

nigga you gay or somethin?

>>9993498
The Bentusi dying made me sad. And the Beast trolled me heavily in one level.

>>9993483
Good times. So, I'm guessing that going in an unarmed ship would probably be best then, as a show of good will. Granted, it should be well armored, and fast enough in case something happens, but no weapons.

>>9993483
>Destroyers and attempted to stop you from leaving the Assura system. You simply jumped past them.

I don't know the details (could we have destroyed them?).

But we can work with this. We could tell them that instead of being violent we decided to avoid conflict as much as possible, truly that speaks in favour for humans

>>9993685
>(could we have destroyed them?).

Maybe. But had we chosen to fight, it likely would have just confirmed their opinions of us.

>>9993359
>Though Homeworld is awesome but I did not like Cataclysm.
I keep rereading this sentence, but it never makes any sense!

>>9993752
Well then, we could work with this like I said before.

>>9993569
Nineteen puts on some more close fitting clothing for the trip, and picks a few sunflowers from the garden to take along with her.

Two merely waits next to you until a shuttle arrives and Six charges down the stairs. "I'm flying! Outta the way!"

You shrug as Nineteen picks out a window seat and you prepare yourself for a rendezvous with your old ship. Nickolai has decided to use it since it was originally made by the Seekers, so it would be polite to return on it.

A short trip later and you're walking on the familiar metal deck of the Sixseeker. Come to think of it, it needs a new name now. Your group heads to the bridge to find Captain Thal'tek in a lively discussion with the aging Nickolai Strauss, who is leaning heavily on Jen. She nods at your approach and taps Strauss on the shoulder, who turns his blind eyes instinctively in your direction.

"Hello? Have they finally arrived?"

Thal'tek turns to you and salutes, the silver captain bars embedded in his black shoulders glistening in the rather cold recycled air.

>>9993782
The later it gets, the slower my mind processes things. Homeworld = Good, Cataclysm = Not so Good, Homeworld 2 = Yay? Storyline was "alright".

btw

What kind of creatures are the Seekers? How do they look like?

>>9993847
Their skin is rather leathery in appearance, as well as a sort of shiny black. Their eyes are completely black and their facial features are rather flat and also lacking lips. They have blue blood.

>>9993913
So the Seekers are..... Blue Bloods?

>>9993937
I'm not good with alien types. Someone referred to them once as Black "Greys".

>>9993980
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueBlood

>>9993817
Awesome. Greet the Captain and Nikolai. Oh, and Jen too. Then we'd best get moving. Don't want to be late do we?

>>9993844
Was a joke. I was indicating that not liking Cataclysm was incomprehensible to me, because of my strong level of approval for the game.

Homeworld 2 failed to impress me.

Alright, I'll be going to sleep now.
I'll read the archives and see how much I like this quest, maybe for the next time I'll catch up.

Supernova, good luck and have fun times))

>>9993992
Ah. No, no royalty involved.

>>9994013
You return Thal'tek's salute with one of your own and place a reassuring hand on Nickolai's shoulder.

"I'm here now, Nickolai. Are you ready to get going?"

"Yes, yes I am. I've waited far too long for such an event."

Thal'tek nods next to him. "Its a monumental event that even eclipses when you were first discovered, Hannah. Its going to change the balance of power. Frightening, really."

reposting the ending track http://www.mediafire.com/?mmewbx1um1n

Its was rather short, but at least I'm feeling good about where this is heading now. I'll shoot for doing this again at 5-6 PM EST next Saturday, but who knows how things will turn out.

Need to sleep, cheers.