My failure to post on time has alienated everybody here!

Cerebrate Anon loses Juice!

gibberish, now I'll read. Don't lose hope... or juice.

So, how bad is our position relative to the rest of the sector? Are the protoss still unified? Is Cerebrate Street still teaching children about protoss stellar-cartography?

>>15280866
News out of the Confederates is spotty and propaganda-filled as ever. For all the news reveals, they could have conquered a hundred worlds, or they could still be hunkered down on the big three.

Kerrigan tells us that the Protoss are mostly unified, and she has been blocked out of their leadership. Tassadar and his lieutenant, Fenix, have secured Aiur and begun a massive movement for reconstruction and rearming, but she confirms that less than ten Dark Templar yet live. She can't say for certain how many less.

We have heard nothing from Dyles or the UED.

>>15280931
That doesn't answer the question of whether or not we're teaching terran children about the geography of the protoss empire, but I digress. Ask the SciCore if they can build a dingus to detect dark templar across systems. Also, let's have cyberbrate start picking through what we still have of voidgate's data. I think it's time we do something with the protoss.

Come to think of it, ask Accountbrate about the long term economic impact of adding terminators into general use? I'd say they'd be better then infested terrans, but worse then thumblings.

>>15280983
Actually, Indiana Gorn is having wild success right now.

The Dark Templar are different from the regular Protoss. We might be able to modify the Zerg Compass to detect particularly strong Protoss, but we doubt the Dark Templar would even register as a blip.

>>15281044
Androids are not very cost-efficient. Internbrate believes that we could use the artificial skin production process to incubate humans faster than previously possible. Human cloning for independent production of infested Terrans may be feasible, now.

>>15281045
Dark templar have severed their connection with the mindlink the rest of the protoss share
They attune their minds to the void rather than to the Kalah

>>15281089
Oh axlotl tanks, how I find thee peculiar. Now if be build a really sensative Protoss compass, and looked for null spots in the background noise, would that work for finding DTs?

>>15281110
(Yes. This is what I meant)

(After a week blasting through the archives, now I get to join in :D)

I agree, have Cyberbrate see if he can dredge anything up. Whatever happened to the VoidWorld, did we do anything about that or did we just leave it hurtling through space?
Other than that, perhaps it's time we check out what's been happening with Kingston. Send some cloaked overlords to the Confederacy worlds, see what's up.

>>15281124
No more than it would lead us to Kingston.

What about the "Breaking News! Zerg Special Forces recover AI-manufactured Kingston lookalikes! Is the Chancellor a machine puppet?" ZergTV special news bulletin idea?

>>15281124
Since I mentioned tanks.
> It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and
become one with all the people. -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"

>>15280730

ZOIG QUEST!

So far we know that our forces are depleted, but we've utterly destroyed one of our most implacable foes. To commemorate this, let us have Artisanlord work on an appropriate project related to this (a memorial or a play or whatever he can cook up).

Notify Kerrigan about VoidGate's destruction. Also, ask Kerrigan about the general status of her brood, and if she has any other plans in the works as of now. The Zerg Swarm may be heading toward inevitable war, now that the Protoss have caught on to her machinations.

>>15281139
(Welcome! Yay!)
VoidWorld is a dead rock in dead space. There's nothing there.

Anybody else wanting to send somebody to Confederate space?

>>15281159
Curses, I screwed it up, oh well.
>>15281145
Are you implying we could make a Kingston compass? Please say yes. How about we think back to the whore Fenschal and the ship she used to kill dad. Can we remember anything unique about it's energy signature?

>>15281164
I'm down with sending some feelers into Confederate space.
Cloaked Overlords or Protoss Observers (we don't want Kingston to figure out the Dropserver trick) to do long-range scans and pick up Confederate transmissions.
Also, I think using Terminators would be a good way to infiltrate Confederate space. The Confederacy is already on-guard for Zerg-infected infiltrators, but I don't know if they're able to pick out a T-800. Something that bears looking into.

>>15281164
Might as well quietly poke around in ConFed space. It's not like everyone knows that ConFedTV is just as biased as ZergTV.

>>15281164

Throw my vote in for Cloaked Overlord into Confed. space. They might be up to something. Or having huge politicking and infighting over who will be the next Chancellor. Either way, it's best if we know.

>>15281161
Kerrigan reports that her Brood is small, but she also has several infested Protoss and has used them to take after us: she has a small armada of carriers.

Curse you SMAC blurbs for giving me an idea,

War is war; destruction is destruction. You think this is obvious. But war is not destruction, it is victory. To achieve victory, simply appear to give the opponent what he wants and he will go away, or join you in your quest for additional power. -- Datatech Sinder Roze "Information Burns"

Maybe we should look into causing the Confederacy to fragment, the former Kel-Morian Combine seems like a good idea.

>>15281218
I am tempted to send a psionic head pat/rub to her, it's just cute. And now I'm seeing an anime version of this.

>>15281230
Thinking more on this idea, at the very least we could work out a deal to sell minerals at a discount to the fKMC, then allow kingston to discover that the mining company is really zerg. Might cause him to kill What's his/her face to install one of his lackeys.

>>15281188

Not to mention that most of the VoidGate infiltrators probably shut down rather abruptly (and possibly violently) after VoidGate's main HQ planet asploded into itself.

>>15281183
(I'm saying the opposite, actually...)

Feneschal's ship was confusing. It gave off very little energy at all, which is part of why we couldn't detect it sooner. It was psionic in nature, but it didn't register that way.

>>15281188
>>15281200
>>15281202
The first observer enters the space over Tarsonis. The space is cluttered with traffic. There are two makeshift shipyards, obviously working on battlecruisers. There is one on patrol.

Plenty of ships are coming and going, but all of the comm chatter is encrypted.

>>15281281

Let's send our infested Overlord around what used to be KMC worlds, as well as the core Confederacy worlds (the territory that was always in the Confederacy prior to the Zerg emerging). Maybe we (or Kerrigan) can see if there are any signs that the Confederacy is fracturing.

>>15281298
Oh, if it's not fracturing we'll make it fracture. The fKMC could very well break away from the Confederacy for a large enough bribe.

>>15281218

INFESTED PROTOSS?!?!?

Ask Kerrigan if she's doing anything with them right now. If not, then approach her gently about possibly trading/exchanging/donating them for the ZergSciCorp. to experiment with. Between Internbrate, Nargil, and Labbrate, they could sure as hell would be able to use them to enhance Kerrigan's Brood and our Brood.

>>15281328
(It's been a long time, yes, but we did that. She copied us)

>>15281328
Remember the Psi Lash and enhance physical attributes? We can wait on chopping up her IPs, we can get our own me thinks. But, asking for one so we can properly calibrate our protoss compass would be fine.

>>15281296
If we can, forward the encrypted traffic to Internbrate for decryption.
As I recall, Cyberbrate is still working on repairing much of the computing and manufacturing infrastructure on Dagobah, Internbrate is working on turning the Alman Station into a StarForge, and Labbrate is working on other projects.

I want Cyberbrate to continue repairing its damaged systems.
Internbrate to continue working on the StarForge.
Labbrate to work on Axlotl Tanks (using the Terminator synthetic skin growth process to clone humans to create more Infested Terrans) and making a small Terminator factory.
Our strength has been in finding new uses for enemy technology; Terminators will be no different.

>>15281340

I was thinking more along the lines of additional experimentation and such to see if we can yield any new mutations for the Swarm by getting our hands on more infested Protoss. Our units got an across-the-board psionic attack and enhanced stamina, but we might be able to "unlock" more evolutions and/or zerg species if we had more Protoss to experiment on; we can already construct carriers without any protoss aid (infested or not), if Kerrigan needs those protoss to construct her carriers, then maybe we can share construction information with her to alleviate that problem.

>>15281358
Add a second ridge scratcher?

>>15281358
Actually, Internbrate has got the Aleman Station's systems mostly operational. We can try to use it for production of specialized machinery, or just use it to convert solar materials into usable capital for Accountantbrate (who votes quite loudly for this).

Labbrate begins working with the synthetic skin, which I won't call Axlotl tanks because the latter half of the Dune series made me very cross.

>>15281381
I was thinking of infiltration units, for both infiltrating the Confederacy as well as on the battlefield sneaking in and commandeering enemy vehicles.
But also, 1 which is skinned to look like Kingston, who will wear a butler's uniform and be stationed in our lair.

Also, I believe we still have a few Infested Ghosts. Those should be the first strains to be cloned, to attempt to create more Zerg Ghosts.

>>15281361
We understand that she uses the Protoss to fly the carriers. She seems fond of them.

>>15281358

If we have any info. on the T-1000 types of Terminators (the liquidy melty goopy ones), maybe we can look into that as a method of expediting construction of our Terran assets. Or maybe working it into a type of quick-repair system.

>>15281381

More ridge-scratchers are never a bad thing. However, they will need smaller pauldrons than our current one to signify their lesser status in the imaginary hierarchy we have set up for our ridge-scratchers.

>>15281415
Latter half meaning God Emperor to Chapterhouse, or everything after Chapterhouse?
>>15281417
I completely forgot the implications this will have for our ghost breading program we set up.

>>15281415
I vote to have Aleman Station be used for the conversion of stellar material. Also, Internbrate is to attempt to build a Terminator factory there; use components and modules from VoidWorld if necessary.

Oh, and before anyone forgets, send a flight of dropservers, a cloaked battlecruiser, 2 squadrons of Wraiths, a flight of Cloaked Overlords filled with ground troops and drones enough to create an medium-size outpost to the Lutrious system, to wipe clean Dyles and to begin probing the UED.

>>15281456
I thought it was just a space station, and we blew that up. While I do support the idea of probing the UED, I do not thing we need to take them on unless we have to. We still have to avenge dad, and I will not rest until we've become... perfect.

>>15281447
God Emperor to Chapterhouse. I haven't read the son's stuff. I understand it's essentially Skynet vs ASSLOADS OF CLONES, or something.

Wow. I forgot we had that entirely. Well, this could be interesting.

>>15281456
Raw materials: 1
Build stuff: 0

Go get Dyles: 1
Do something else: 0

>>15281477
(There was a groundward colony in the Lutrious system. We got a map from Dyles' men before we trashed the colony)

>>15281480
Use the StarForge to FORGE THE STARS INTO A DRILL THAT WILL PEIRCE KHALA!

>>15281415
>>15281456

Seconding. Never hurts to have a more efficient way of getting resources. Also never hurts to have a listening post of sorts in the border of UED/UEDyles space.

Also, what's up with that Ghost breeding program? Since we can essentially hatch/create new infested terrans, could this mean that we could possibly cycle through a hundred cycle of human evolutions to try to coax that stubborn psionic potential out from it?


>Scouting in Terran Space

So they're obviously busy trying to recoup their drastic losses from the Battle of Tyrador. Like that one poster said before, forward the messages to Internbrate and see if he can decrypt them.

Dispatch a second observer/cloaked overlord to the KM-Combine space. Let's see if we can intercept any messages near there that'll give us a better idea of how the Confederacy is faring.

>>15281480
What is our brood strength right now, compared to re-VoidHome battle levels? Would using the station to create raw materials speed up our zerg production? Also, would using it to create different parts significantly speed up carrier or battlecruiser production?

I vote we DON'T go off to get Dyles just yet. We just took out one superpower, let's not go pissing off another one just yet. Especially if he has the entire UED behind him.

>>thrents mean
That's right captcha. Thrents are very mean things indeed.

I just had an idea for all of the Terminators we salvage and reprogram: spambots.
We turn them into spambots and have them infiltrate the Confederacy equivalent of the Internet, in order to get a feel for what's going on in a general sense, how the Terrans are feeling, and to annoy the shit out of them with the implacable trolling that only a machine can do.

>>15281553
Kingston: Are you a bot?
Terminator: Hah, are you?

>>15281545
Dyles already knows we're here, and we already trashed the listening post he had set up in the Lutrious system.
Currently we have absolutely no assets monitoring the UED or its growth, even though we know that our direction of expansion will inevitably come into contact with their borders.
We need at least one listening post to try to intercept UED transmissions and to get a better idea of where their borders are expanding to.

>>15281525
Raw materials: 2
Build stuff: 0

Go get Dyles: 2
Do something else: 0

The cloaked overlord we send to Moria finds a similar situation to to Tarsonis, but the shipyards are working on wraiths and mining vehicles. The chatter is enrypted, but the not all of the encryptions are the same as on Tarsonis. In fact, a few minutes after we arrive, we notice a small armed convoy land, after which all of the ships that land using the Tarsonis encryption switch to a third, different encryption. Our observer over Tarsonis notices that the same third encryption is now in use there, as well.

Cyberbrate isn't quite sure what to make of it.

>>15281584
Scan the convoy, I think it's bad.

>>15281584
It could be something as simple as Kingston changing the encryption keys as a security measure.
Or, it could indicate that there's more distrust between the Combine and the Confederacy than was originally let on.

Let's have some Cloaked Overlords or Observers check out Protectorate space, and see what's going on there.

>>15281601
(Your name is different)

It's a battlecruiser surrounded by wraiths. Aside from that, we're not detecting anything peculiar.

>>15281611
Our cloaked overlord arrives at the edge of the Umoja system, and discovers the third encryption dominating communications. The second one, previously only found over Moria, is here, as well, but it seems to be used by only a few ships and a few locations on the ground.

>>15281584

>Encryption wtf am i reading

Let's go to other systems and see if this phenomenon is repeating itself. This could be indicative of a conspiracy or paranoia over transmissions. Although it's very odd that they switched at the exact moment the convoy landed. Have our observer in Tarsonis scan the other ships' transmissions. Are ALL of the ships in Tarsonis now using the third encryption? Or just a select few?

rolled 435 = 435

>>15281656
Yeah, I misspelled it once, and wouldn't you know it that's the one that pops up. The fact that the fKMC, fUP, and Confed have different encrypt ions isn't surprising, but I still want to know what they're saying. I'm rolling a d1000 to see if Artisanlord is able to savant the protocols.

>>15281694
Clearly decyphering is not his strong suit.

>>15281671
As soon as a ship using the first encryption lands, it switches to the third.

Ships using the second encryption do not appear to be affected.

Can our science team or Cyberbrate (is he part of the science team?) break the encryption?

>>15281656

This could mean that the Confederacy is becoming more unstable.

On the other hand, this could also mean that the formerly separate sovereign nations that now form the Confederacy are still sending internal communications that they don't want other formerly-opposed nations to see (not unusual at all).

Can we take a closer look on the Protectorate's activities in the Umoja system?

>>15281699
That's alright. He has a bad history with doing things that involve Moria, anyway.

So...the plan?

>>15281763
See if those ships that initially used the third encryption key go anywhere.
Also send and Observer or three to random other systems in the Confederacy, to see what encryption they use.
Forward everything to Internbrate and Cyberbrate to see if they can crack the encryption.

Also, guys, we need more votes on what to do with the Aleman Station, and if we're going to set up a listening post near the UED.
If you're against the listening post, then you have to offer up an alternative plan.

>>15281763
Try to puzzle out the encryption protocols, use the starforge to extract resources, investigate the UED, build a gynoid terminator ridge scratcher, build the protoss compass, work on the neuwomb, build more nukes/carrier/bcs/everything

>>15281763

We're one vote away from establishing a forward base//listening post on that one planet that we encountered Dyles/UED forces using a moderate force of Terran units & some Zerg to start a hive cluster.

I'm not entirely sure what we can do about the Confederacy right now.

>>15281777

Seconding all this. If we can speed up the Ghost evolution/breeding/cloning/whatevering program using the VoidGate technology we've discovered, do so. Creating infested ghosts would be great.

>>15281777
Female-model Terminator ridge-scratcher to be subservient to our original ridge-scratcher in the esoteric ridge-scratcher hierarchy we've constructed.

I also want a butler-Kingston, but it's not absolutely necessary.

>>15281804
Yes, butler Kingston. Also, there was an idea at the end of the last thread to use Kingstontrons on Zerg TV, I thin having one doing PSA would be fun.

>>15281773
>send and Observer or three to random other systems in the Confederacy

A bit of clarification: As far as we know, there ARE no other systems in the Confederacy. We worked with VoidGate to destroy a huge chunk of it, and mass evacuations were underway. They could have expanded again, but we wouldn't know where.

>>15281777
Internbrate turns the Aleman Station over to Accountantbrate. Accountantbrate, after a little experimentation, releases a psionic cry of glee. For the first time in a long, long, time, it seems really happy. Several of the other cerebrates don't seem to understand the idea of Accountantbrate being happy.

Warbrate sends forces to Lutrious to establish a forward base. They will take a long time to arrive, as before.

Cyberbrate suggests that we pick an encryption method and focus on breaking that, rather than trying to break them all at once. Which one should we work on?

>>15281804
>>15281829
Internbrate thinks it could rig up an android to resemble Kingston, though it would obviously lack any scars, dyed hair, etc. Do we want it as a robot butler, or for propaganda purposes?

If we want it for ZergTV, how should we use it?

>>15281829
From the last session:
Have Artisanlord do it as a "Breaking News Bulletin" to interrupt regular programming, and have a round-table conference call between Artisanlord, thumbling-proxy for Cyberbrate, thumbling-proxy for Labbrate, thumbling-proxy for Warbrate, and an uncomfortable looking Protoss Archon from that colony of archons as a 'special guest expert from the Protoss Empire'. Have the thumblings all wearing specially tailored suits and ties as they discuss the possibilities that the AI may have already replaced Kingston, possibly other high-ranking members of the Confederacy, and what this bodes for the safety of the Koprulu Sector for organic life.


The only problem is that the Confederacy will be on the lookout for Terminator infiltrators after that.

>>15281832
Break this third, new encryption key, since many forces appear to be switching to it.

>>15281849
Have the first one set up as a butler.
Once Internbrate is better at creating infiltration model Terminators, we may use a dozen or so Kingston-models for the PSA, but that depends on if our desire to troll Kingston outweighs our desire to infiltrate the Confederacy with Terminators.

>>15281849
I want a butler, and if we use a Kingston on Zerg TV make sure that it doesn't look/move right. If we do show off our robokingston lets make it seem crude and easy to spot.

>>15281873
Better yet: Infiltrate the Confederacy with a ton Kingston terminators. A, for the lulz, B, because it will freak them out, and C, so they won't be on the lookout for our other, non-Kingston termies.

>>15281894
>if we use a Kingston on Zerg TV make sure that it doesn't look/move right. If we do show off our robokingston lets make it seem crude and easy to spot.
I understand that if we do that, then it would lull the Confederacy into a false sense of security. But we would lose the trolling potential of forcing Kingston to submit to ever more invasive tests to prove that he's human.

>>15281873
>>15281894
Internbrate constructs it and skins it, while Cyberbrate programs it. After a bit of technological wrangling, Cyberbrate is able to rig up a relay system so the Kingstonator Butler can respond to its direct commands from Xenta.

It is slightly disconcerting to us that we must relay orders to the unit through another being.

>>15281919
A side-project for Internbrate: the creation of a small Zerg organism, like a leech or eel, which can be implanted in a Terminator, and hooked up with a cybernetic interface, to act as an intermediary between the Terminator's CPU and the Swarm.
Sure, it's not direct control of a Terminator, but it's a nice psionic backup communication network in case the normal radio communications are jammed.

Things seem pretty quiet, here.

Do we want to break until next week?

>>15281981
First let's see if Cyberbrate finished breaking that third encryption cipher.

>>15281981
I've been mildly distracted, but have we started to figure out the third encryption?

>>15281985
(...how did that slip my mind? Clearly, I am going senile)

After a few minutes of devoting its considerable computing power to the task, Cyberbrate believes it has broken the third encryption system, though there is still a 13.25% loss rate.

That's close enough for now, really. After running a cross-section of the comm traffic through the decryption algorithm, we discover...regular comm traffic. Most of it is mundane, though there are hints that the Morians may be talking of secession, and Cyberbrate estimates that several of the conversations are indicative of limited Terran expansion away from the three major planets.

It appears that the Terrans are using the encryption to ensure that none of our ships can infiltrate their systems undetected. Clever.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/15280730/

Next week: Lutrious outpost go! Kingstonator butlering! Maybe we do something with the Protoss or whatever! Who knows? I sure don't!

>>15282056
Damn. Forgot my image.

Could be sanity cancer. Can sanity get cancer?

>>15282056
So you enjoyed the idea of robot butlers did you? And is the Kinstron in a tux?

>>15282081
He wouldn't be much of a butler otherwise...

>>15282056
>>next week

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