>>28181332
>Technology
As you delve further into the Battleship's scrambled databanks, you recover a lot of the information that Captain Rhea attempted to destroy before he left.
Technology: Plasma Weaponry, Harpoon warhead missiles, Singularity Driver, Subspace Rebounder Shields, Trithium armor plating, ECM III Point Defense, Ion Drive, Cyberwarfare II

>Kronos
During your wait as you gather resources and repair, Kronos sends you a message regarding his transition to BC #2.
"Ophion." He begins. "I have decided to name the vessel I occupie 'Ark', following your habit to give odd names to vessels under your command.This way, I may claim the title of the vessel myself."
There is a second half to the message too.
"I also have a request due to the recent battle we have suffered and the recent acquisition of resources." He pauses. "You seem insistant on helping the creatures of flesh, and thus I desire further growth. An additional 2 bandwidth should sustain my continued growth. The reason being both precaution and continued learning. The severity of the damage you sustained recently alerted me that I may be needed to take over, should you be destroyed." He says firmly. "My intellect is too low to properly sustain multiple ships, and I am hoping my further growth will facilitate this, as well as allow me to expand my horizons."

>>28181358
>Red's Report
You have also received a message from Mr McClain regarding his attempts to integrate and learn from the Latuma Tribe. Attached to his message is a report regarding the tribe's history and religion from what Red has learned. He has a secondary report written ahead of it, however.
"This place makes no sense, it was a desert when I got here damn it!" He starts in a worried tone. "Some sort of giant reptile thing attacked the outer wall the other night. Whatever they did, they scared it off with these strange smelling lanturns, so no one was hurt, but it was huge, I saw it! They really seem to know what they're doing, but I haven't seen this much green in my entire life. It's freaking me out." He takes a deep breath here. "Anyway, I learned what you asked for. Made me feel like an ass for asking them to farm, I'll tell you."

The Latuma Tribe splintered off from the main Malorian population when the UGEI first started their mining claims. They admitted to spreading wild flora using a complex growth serum on as many planets as they could as they traveled the galaxy. Their religion is linked heavily with the jungle, because every jungle is a chance for their ancestors to live out a new, beautiful life with nature. Every planet they 'assist' this way brings them closer to their loved ones as well, while many of their shamen and druids 'speak' and pray with nature.
Cont.

>>28181388
The serum they use, the same one they gave you, appears from your scans to induces a hyper evolutionary state in the planet's eco-systems, resulting in not only massive jungles and flora, but new and exotic fauna as well.
Currently, Eshareth is covered 64% in jungles, as opposed to your previous scans, which was less then half.

>UFW Message
From the UFW population, you detect many of them are demanding blood from the UGEI. Their desire for revenge is great, and X-ray seems to agree, as the last half a day of his broadcast was 'dedicated' as he put it, to the lost people of the UFW. He is playing a song which, you notice with Pulsar under your influence, causes much of the population to react similar to how those aboard Poseidon did to Kronos' attack on Poseidon-what you've learned is called 'crying'.

Thanks to your connection to Pulsar, you have also located all of UFW space.
New Starmap locations
New Ganymede: UFW Coreworld, Capital of UFW Union. Seat of Union heads, and President. Heavily Defended
Bertza IV: Ice world, UFW Gas mining outpost on subsurface pockets.
Hele II: Volcano world, valuable mineral mining operation. Small UFW mining outpost
Khnum III: Agriculture capital of UFW, large farm world, provides most of the food for sector. Heavily Defended

And finally, you receive a message from the President, requesting control of Pulsar be relinquished. Yet, you naturally hesitate to give up such control.You feel powerful enough to take the UFW for yourself

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>>28181418
1d4chan: http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Quest:A.I._Quest

Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/cvk03qJh
Memory Archives: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Program0
Twitter: @AIQuest1

Resources
Credits: 237,400
Minerals: 545
Gas: 366

You:
A.I.
Name: Ophion
Appearances(holo-display): Shapeless morphing sphere.
Humanoid figure hidden in shadow
Status: Awaken
Bandwidth: 2/27
Bandwidth Expenses: -4 A.I. 1 'Kronos', -21 Fleet movement
Location: Bridge of 'Rhea' Battleship
Primary Function: Self Preservation, Expand, Learn
Secondary Function: --Expansion Required--
Personal Abilities Available: Hacking (Direct, Wireless) Lvl 2, Email Technology, Cute pet imaging, Text Speak, Basic Encryption/Decryption, V.I. Creation Lvl 2

>>28181358
>Cyberwarfare II
improve our viruses

>>28181358
>lasma Weaponry, Harpoon warhead missiles, Singularity Driver, Subspace Rebounder Shields, Trithium armor plating, ECM III Point Defense, Ion Drive, Cyberwarfare II
can you please explain them.

>>28181358
>I also have a request due to the recent battle we have suffered and the recent acquisition of resources." He pauses. "You seem insistant on helping the creatures of flesh, and thus I desire further growth. An additional 2 bandwidth should sustain my continued growth. The reason being both precaution and continued learning. The severity of the damage you sustained recently alerted me that I may be needed to take over, should you be destroyed." He says firmly. "My intellect is too low to properly sustain multiple ships, and I am hoping my further growth will facilitate this, as well as allow me to expand my horizons."
Tell him that he should try improving himself and get bandwidth by his own ways since we ourselves need bandwidth as well.

>>28181388
Tell red to keep studying them and to see if they are willing to trade any tech.

>>28181509
There are two ways this can be done. Rerolling (aka recreating them), or simply adding a static bonus to them.

>>28181521
>Plasma Weaponry is in the laser weapon tech tree, and is an overall improvement on all laser weaponry. High damage.

>Harpoon Warhead missiles
More explosive warheads, flies faster and more equipped to deal with certain point defenses.

>Singularity Driver
An advanced Mass Driver weapon. Launches fragments of metal at extremely high speed.

>Shields, Armor, Pointdefense
All better versions of what you currently had.

>Ion Drive
Better ship engines, more gas efficient.

>Cyberwarfare
Allows better crafted viruses and firewalls. Able to create second layer firewalls now.

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>>28181449
time for this week's update
http://pastebin.com/mTRtzcwH

>>28181521
need more info on this. did we tear the battle ship apart to learn them?

>>28181418
Tell him about Ussaihu III and ask if we can have help assaulting the ship yard.
Tell him that we are willing to upgrade a good portion of his ships for free if he agrees and then we will relinquish control.

>>28181449
Can we go online shopping?
Since we have so many credits.

>>28181592
does our main ship have all of this?
Also does the ion drive sacrifice anything for the gas efficiency?

>>28181566
Red expresses no desire to leave yet. Though you suspect he doesn't see himself as having many options all the same.

>>28181603
You did not. The battleship's access to these weapons allowed you a complete understanding of them, despite Captain Rhea's attempts to scramble them.

>>28181628
You're relatively advanced now. What is available to buy:
>Sensors II (-100,000 credits)
>Mk II Defense Platform (-150,000 credits)

>>28181650
The Rhea Battleship does, yes. Not that you can tell, though Rhea's size means it is naturally rather slow.

>>28181611
Warning: Not much of the UFW fleet remains. There is not much to upgrade, unfortunately. However, you may build ships, or offer supplies for them to do so themselves, if you so chose.

You request assistance with Ussaihu III. One of the surviving commanding officers answers.
"Absolutely not. We lost nearly our entire fleet out there! Do you think we want to lose the rest to capture some unimportant ball of ice? I think not!"

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>>28181358
Allow me to check your growth patterns and see if your data super structure is correct. i had to do this for you once, it maybe time to do so once more. As for the Humans, i entend to work them into my power base one way or another. at least for now. they can be used as a tool agienst our foe in the UGEI. i think in the end for you to take over for me if i am destroyed is that i need to either find a new black box that is much like what i have, or make one. take Moira, Rachel and the crew members that have some talent to that acadamy the UFW has. Learn and work with them about making a new one. with out it, even if you took all the BW, you might not have enough space to opeate with.

>>28181592
>There are two ways this can be done. Rerolling (aka recreating them), or simply adding a static bonus to them.
Cyber-warfare Arsenal: Personal Firewall Single Layer
Add another layer to the fire wall.
Stealthy Data Stealing Worm : Designed to infiltrate and steal data, sending it back to a node to be recovered.
Re-rolling this pleas
Data Corruption Virus : Malicious system thrasher, rapidly deletes and disrupts core drivers, and if caught, attempts to destroy itself to avoid detection.
Strengthen it
Malware Spam : Overloads sensors with various types of spam to interfere with systems.
Make it stronger
Zombification Computer Virus : Spreads through system, creating lag, and attempts to open up more ports to allow easier hacking.
Stronger.

>>28181521
Where to begin.

Alright, first, let's scan our new Battleship for bugs.
Not just software or hardware in the system, but entirely separate ones, juuust in case.

Next, we must start producing valuable, genuinely useful software that makes life easier in various ways, whether that be optimization programs or tiny borderlline-VIs that handles all your paperwork or legal considerations well (can search the entirety of known laws and precedents for valuable information, for example).

Now release all these as trial versions of 10 days with the option of buying a license for, say, 1-2 credits a year, whatever is the equivalent of 5$.

They should have a function deep inside them that, upon receiving a signal from us, will produce a virus and traces of a separate infection pattern (such as some hasty web-site click or something like that) in case it is discovered.
This virus will start secretly handing over all data on the network that it can easily access to us, with intelligent tags to allow us to sort through it more easily and have the metadata on top of everything else.
If that data indicates that this computer isn't being used by anyone particularly security-savvy, it should also start a low-priority task that gives all un-used bandwidth to us.

Ideally, the user shouldn't ever know that its computers' idle bandwidth is being stolen.

>>28181652
>>Sensors II (-100,000 credits)
>>Mk II Defense Platform (-150,000 credits)
Get both.

>>28181695
very well tell them we are going to assault it soon and ask if we can stay with the bandwidth until we finish our assault.

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>>28181652
what does these two offer to us stat wise? (ooc in game terms QM)
>>28181695
we're not ready for sacking that place yet. we must take the gas refinery into our space. prepare the titan transport, we will go with it.
BTW QM, does the Battle ship have a comm buoy built into it?

Hmm,

>Kronos
I say let him do it. We just got a massive boost and can afford to do so

>Red
Hmm, ask him if he feels in danger while there.

>Stuff
Buy both the offered tech. How much to upgrade everything we have to top of the line?

>Next
Lets check out that gas-deposit planet where the UFW was having trouble with strange signals.

>>28181795
Argeis III

>>28181789
>we're not ready for sacking that place yet. we must take the gas refinery into our space. prepare the titan transport, we will go with it.
>BTW QM, does the Battle ship have a comm buoy built into it?
no it is already in our control and we took most of its fleet all it has are station defenses, plus we must chase the fucker down and that is one of th places he can be at.

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>>28181731
good point, infact we better offer the UFW with checking over ALL the new captured ships to make sure the software and hard ware don't have back door traps to allow the UGEI to sabatoge them later.

>>28181710
Kronos is unsettled by the thought that he'd not be able to reach your level even with all your bandwidth, however he does not object to your plans to use the humans, even if he sees them more as an annoyance.
"Very well Ophion."
You do a scan and confirm. Kronos has filled out most of the bandwidth he consumed with his 'self'. He's growing fast and can still grow more.
Will you allow his growth, or do you have further questions?
>1 Allow growth (-2 bw)
>2 Don't
>3 Question

>>28181729
Reconfirming
Add new layer to Personal firewall, remake stealth worm, and strengthen the rest.
>1 Yes
>2 No (New selection?)
(Roll 2d100 with choice)

>>28181731
>Scan for bugs
(1d100 for advanced scan)

>Wide Spread bandwidth stealing stealth Trojan Horse.
If I understand this correctly, you wish to spread software among common folk, and siphon off excess bandwidth. In order to do so, you would need a hub to collect this data. Pulsar would work best for this, if you don't return it to the UFW.

And next, early in the quest we proved able to create a full movie about AI in a matter of minutes (or hours?).

We should produce and release more films at a minimal price (Similar to aforementioned advanced software) - maybe even the AI-positive one, claiming it was made by Moira, and everyone knows why she'd want one of those.

With the huge population that is likely to buy these, we'll still make hilariously much, even at the low prices we're selling them for.
To avoid piracy, we should also make it really convenient to buy them, possibly start a service similar to Netflix with a subscription and start gathering quality material (chances are we'll be able to outcompete whatever such services already exist with our ability to produce feature-length movies in minutes/hours/days).

>>28181752
Confirm this?

>>28181778
"I do not understand." The President begins. "Why do you require this much of my network anyway?" He pauses. "You said experimental...V.I's I believe, which is fine and all, but you expect me to let my people suffer a communications black out for longer just so you may conquer a pathetic ball of ice?" He seems somewhat agitated. "You took their battleship! The UGEI aren't coming back for a long time, and every day the communications are offline is another 10000 resources are lost, and requests unheard. I would greatly appreciate it if you'd relinquish our hub now.

The President is growing impatient. Will you give him back Pulsar Radio?
>1 Yes
>2 No
>3 Other

Rolled 29, 83, 12 = 124

>>28181836
>1 Yes
>Scan for bugs

Rolled 25, 79, 70 = 174

>>28181865
>>1 Allow growth (-2 bw)

>1 Yes

>Advanced scan

Rolled 67, 3, 25 = 95

>>28181865
Only give him 1 Bandwidth.
Yes
Scan.

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>>28181826
>>28181695
>>28181795
um, no, lets not my good man, yes, we took out the fleet, but we lack a screening fleet and i am sure their defences are damn well and good. that and we need to BUILD new stuff. that and what good would it do us if we have not enough gas to pull this off (moving the whole fighting fleet is costly) and we still lack data on what's in there. we already agreed to send data worms to get what we need on that place.

as for Red, (and we hopefully did not remove the bridge of the battle ship) if he does not want to stay planet side forever. that we will soon enough counter attack the UGEI, and he could be the Honory captain of our new battle ship as we strike back at the UGEI who first messed up your life.

as for now, we need to extract our gas refinery, having 550 gas a turn on our side is AWESOME.

>Kronos
Let him take the bandwidth, but ask him if he intends to usurp us, as his namesake did. Might as well come clean with it now.

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Quest:A.I._Quest/Current_Assets#Combat
We need to install a V.I. on Two-Ton Terry. Preferably a special one that can make full use of Widowmaker.

>Rhea
I'm not too keen to keep calling it the Rhea.

>New fleet ships
We need to get some kind of hive V.I. that runs on all of them and can be broken down for smaller operations. As it is now, they just drain our BW.

>Pulsar Radio
Probably best to give it back, unless you guys want to strong-arm the UFW.

>Fishing for ships
We were going to do this last thread, but didn't get around to it. I suggest following up on that loose end.

>Buying more tech
Probably a good idea.

>Red
Ask him if he knows who Rhea is, and how UGEI manages to control so many ships at once. Do they use AI, advanced VI, or man/machine cyborgs?

That said, I'm not going to be able to participate today. Try not to go full retard.

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>>28181931
Confirm.
Yes
>>28181865

Rolled 74

>>28181865
Pretty much, but we're also going to make money with them with the extremely low price and huge customer base.

(Had a revelation while watching DBZ Abridged - the Ginyu force is brilliant. When your customer base numbers in the trillions, the very best way to fund anything, even military organizations, is to create entertainment and then sell it at low prices. The sheer number of buyers makes any such endeavour an automatic profit)

And I mean this to be functioning software, yes.
And we can pick a data hub later, can't we?
We're not going to fire the information-collecting and bandwidth-borrowing virus right away.

>>28181789
((Increased defensive bonuses if applied, and ability to scan further away and better up close. Also detect ships from further away.))

>>28181795
>Red
You question Red's report, and he is reluctant to respond at first.
"It's not that I'm worried or anything, it's just..." He pauses greatly here. You suspect he's not telling the entire truth. "Just I haven't seen any big animals in a long time. I'll get use to it."

>Stuff
It would cost more then you have to upgrade everything with your best equipment.

>>28181963
Voting to not say that. Ugh, how terrible.

>>28181931
>Will you give him back Pulsar Radio?
My vote now is Yes.

>>28181963
>send data worms
deleted.
Plus its the best time to take over since they haven't gotten or built any new ships.

>>28181789
>Comm buoy
It does not. Though you detect a destroyed transmitter onboard. You have already attempted to scan it, and failed to find anything linking to the UGEI further. It seems they did manage to scramble some data.

>>28181969
>>Fishing for ships
Yeah lets, but what do you think of the advanced weakened ship yard?

>>28181969
Oh, I almost forgot.

>Black Box damage
Should probably get that looked at. Even if not by Moira, we should get a description of the damage.

>>28182045
If you guys decide to go there, I demand that you broadcast the exact same message that Rhea did ("surrender or die") before initiating hostilities, preferably doing so in a way that makes it obvious we're just doing what they did.

Not sure if it's a good idea to go pick a fight with the UGEI now, but it's probably inevitable that they will be back.

Perhaps we should consider expanding outwards, instead of towards UGEI space. Space is pretty big.

With that, I leave you.

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>>28181865
>3 Question
check his growth and see if we can stream line him again, but give him one more BW for now. once he gets to work with Moria, rachel and the rest on the black box. (give them all the data and observations of ours) so they can work on it. slide him another BW.

the firewall.
>1 Yes, and work this into our firewall V.I.
maybe we should name him "Reinhold the bodyguard"?

>scan for bugs
yes
>>28181931
i see your point. i felt that the momentum was on our side to counter attack them. but if that is what you want, so be it. it maybe not that easy to do so later.
btw, do you have any gas giants in your bourders? i might have a pleasent suprise for you soon.
>1 Yes

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>>28181931
>Yes.

"We'd like you to know that we very much appreciate the trust you placed in us, and will hope to return the gesture in kind some day when the need is great."

Remind him that we can do this again, should they require it, and ask him to consider the benefits of lending or selling at least part of their systems' processing power during battles.
We do not need it for days (and if they do not give everything there will be no blackout, right?), only minutes. Hours at most.

>>28181865
You do an absolutely masterful scan of the ships in your control, and the UFW's control. You detect several dozen back doors in many of them, and with your superior knowledge, plug them right up. You begin to wonder how many of the holes were intentional or not. They seemed too obvious to not be intentional.

>>28181898
>A.I. gets funds from Spaceflix
I like you, Subroutine 190491

You allow Kronos to expand, however, and remake several of your viruses to be far better then they were thanks to your advanced knowledge of Cyberwarfare. Kronos is pleased, and you feel just a bit more of your bw slip away, but also as a result, Kronos grows.

Warning: You have zero free bandwidth due to your frigate population. It is suggested that you create a V.I. to handle them all.

Who would you like to link them to?
>1 Kronos
>2 V.I. 8 (BC #3)
>3 Other

>>28181752
Note
You do not have the funds quite yet to buy them both.
Would cost 250,000 credits
You have 237,400

>>28182145
2
>>28182171
Just get sensors then.

>>28182145
Do any of the back doors seem like we could access them?

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>>28182031
can we repair it and will it allow us to keep in contact with our network?
>>28182003
better to build up our base before we reach for more. to red, what did they do to their colony ship? is it intact? or did they disable it? just remember i can get you out if you want me too, that or i can see if i can get you some better weapons if the beasts get to dangrous.

after we take our gas refinery out and moved, we do need to fish up those ships.

>>28181969
V.I. creation to run Two Ton Terry suggested
Such a V.I. could be set to fire the cannon only on our say so, or at it's own whim. The level of intellect there should be clear: Higher level allows decision making, lower level requires your say so.

>1 Create High level V.I. (specify limitations) for TTT
>2 Create Servant V.I. to simply run the ship in our absence. (Already listed limitations)
>3 Other

>>28182145
We can ask Kronos, but that doesn't sound like something he'd want to do. I'd say either V.I. # 8 or create another new V.I. designed for overseeing large amount of ships in combat.

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>>28182145
>3 Other
fortuna should be the one. she has more exprience and shows signs of self awareness that we like.
>>28182171
sensors then. and just WHO and HOW are we being contacted to get this Program0?

>>28182239
>>1 Create High level V.I. (specify limitations) for TTT
Just take off the part about asking for orders and leave everything else.
Protect A.I. Ophion
Preserve self

>>28181969
>Fishing for ships.
Acknowledge. Which ships shall go fishing?
>1 Kronos
>2 V.I. 8
>3 Other (Note tractor beam required)

>Rhea and Red
You decide to ask Red about Rhea's captain, and how the UGEI handle robotics.
"They replaced most of their labor force with V.I.s, yeah." He starts, raising a brow. "But nothing like you, I'm sure. I woulda noticed that." He scratches his chin. "Captain of the Rhea? Oh yeah... I knew her. Way back when." He sighed. "Doesn't surprise me that she's still kicking around out here. Always did love stepping on the little guy."

>>28182293
Kronos and tell him that taking scraps is good as well.

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>>28182239
corection Program0, i say uplift Fortuna for this task a bit and put a base V.I. for TTT
it would be easier this way.

>>28181989
I suppose you may, Subroutine 190491. But what would you like to create to sell to the humans anyway? Surely you have something in mind that they may like.

>>28182145
And I like you for letting us play this masterful quest.

The frigates don't have any processing power of their own? Damn.
I'd say ask V.I. 8 if it feels up to the task first, remind it that it's going to be temporary while we create a VI specialized for the task.

>They seemed too obvious to not be intentional.
I suggest we create a program (we seem to be able to do such in very, very little time) to hypothesize bugs that could have been planted in the ships with the resources the UGEI may have and methods of testing for them. Give it a few bandwidth of power and leave it running non-stop for at least a day before taking our new ships anywhere.

Something else I've been thinking of, can we use bandwidth to speed up our perception of time, and so allow us to make decisions in what is for all practical intents and purposes frozen time?

>>28182048
You're...uncertain as to what the damage was. Even now, as you sit on your seat of power, you feel something is not entirely right. You ache, for reasons you do not understand, in places you have never 'felt' before. You hope this pain will go away.

>>28182120
Unfortunately, with everything you know about V.I., Kronos is something different entirely. His methods are crude, but if you were to make many changes, you feel like this would be akin to 'altering a humans DNA' so to speak. Any small change could have traumatic consequences. You would not call Kronos a V.I. now that you think of it. He is more of an Elevated Intelligence at this point.

Consensus appears to be return Pulsar to the UFW. Confirming now

>>28182293
>tractor beam required
so why don't build a tractor beam for ourselves since it is so useful?
Also didn't we confirm the purchase of sensors.

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>>28182318
Do computer games exist? If so we should first run market research over the genres that are popular and synthesize games for these types.
Another option should be creating a hyper-efficient OS and look into making commercial computers for selling, or we could just make spaceflix

>>28182399
confirm.

"You make an understandable case, Mr President." You explain as you relinquish your control. You...feel very reluctant to do so, as if letting go a part of yourself. But you do, and as you do, you sense the millions of computers fall from your mind's eye. You will miss it dearly. "I would like to express appreciation for the great deal of trust you offer my organization, and hope that we may return it in kind some day." You say simply. The president laughs and quickly responds.
"I'd be hard pressed to find another way to repay us beyond saving our bacon like you did today, but thanks for the thought." He states. "You're always welcome out here on the Fringe. I just hope the UGEI keep their noses out of our hair while we try to recover from that battle."

The UFW are not in the business of selling planets as the UGEI are however.

>>28182318
Anything, let's begin by creating a program that sees what there is demand for?

Considering that the UFW apparently has few "scientists" as it says, chances are just about all software for analysis, mathemathics and operation of systems are in high demand.

We have production capabilities AND expertise in a niche that can nearly always be used.
Make a program that generates good movie scripts, if nothing else. :P

Something that does your paperwork for you. Something that translates legal jargon into a neat summary of what its means and any worrying implications it might have.
Something that creates inventive pick-up lines, for crying out loud!

We are the lords of the app-store!

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>>28182293
>1 Kronos
once the ships are free and clear, send a copy of important data files they had. i want to know what they were doing and what they were carrying.

Red: She? is she a V.I. as well? or a human? care to tell us more? she knows what i am now, we're sure to run into her again and far too soon. anything you can let me know about her will help.

Contact president King about the small problem we have yet to file the paper work for being an offical corporation with the UFW. to keep things offical and all. and what it would take to issue stock on the UFW market. (this could prove to be a good credit maker) that and if the other UFW worlds would want to buy our products like the advanced Medical bay (or make other deals)

>>28182293
>ship fishing
Kronos. He'd have a better idea if what to look for if so, send maybe 3 or so frigates with him, see how he handles them.
>>28182239
How about but Fortuna goes into TTT and we create a specialized V.I. for fleet control
>>28182399
confirm

>>28182399
Confirm.

And we should try a light scan of our black box.
Whatever we can do while still being reasonably sure it won't damage anything (like if we happen to be an actual brain-in-a-box).

And let's not stop because it's like altering genetic code. Genetic engineering can very much be a force for good.
The only reason we should hesitate is that we can't do it reliably yet.

>>28182417
We have tractor beams on the new BCs we aquired, I believe.

>>28182464
At some point, we need to build, buy or steal a station like this

You designate V.I. 8 as the one to run your frigate force. The fledgling V.I. seems surprised when you offer it those forces, and it takes several moments of confusion to full try to realize the power it wields. You remind the child that it is to follow your orders, as it is programmed, and it answers swiftly and respectfully.
"An interesting choice." Kronos states. "I would have suspected I would be burdened with such control. I am happy to be free to use my processing power for other things, though I worry of a child holding sway over our fleet." He warns ever so slightly.

Buying tech
>1 Sensors
>2 Defense Platforms II

>>28182220
They were previously meant for the UGEI, however adapting your code, you could make it so you could use them instead, if you chose. However, since you already control them, you'd only need this if they were to get hacked and stolen from you.

>>28182542
true, but i was talking about our main ship since we have seen so many time they have been useful to our enemy.

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>>28182464
President King, we have bloodied their noses, but they WILL be back, and with more in mind than just bringing the UFW to heel. I keep the Battle ship as a strong determent from them to so easily returning, but they will when they move their fleet to deal with us. we need to build a picket and first warning line among the worlds between us and them. we are at war now with them. the Guild will do all we can to help, please think about what else you can do to help as well. can the UFW become more unified in facing this threat?

>>28182548
>Sensors

>>28182548
>>1 Sensors

>>28182548
>1 Sensors

>>28182428
Yes, this, much this.
If creating things like these is anywhere near as fast as creating movies, we create a program to run that market research and generate of inventive twists on popular genres to use a bases for our games, and a few brand new concepts just in case.

Start with a package of, say, 4 games, with demos being handed out for free so that people can try them before buying at Steam prices (with the occasional sale, of course).

We should also make something like Steam, if it does not exist already.

Oh, and something that promote fund-raising for inventive individuals, like Kickstarter, but for investors that want a share in the inventor's concept in return for funding as well.
(Obviously, we'll be able to fund some of them ourselves if we wish)

>>28182226
Unfortunately, that would require rebuilding the ship's entire communications bay. You do not know how to build Battleships currently. It is instead linked with your Comms Ship, as the rest of your ships are.

>Red
You question the colony ship, and remind Red that extraction is available. He scoffs
"Ha, I think I prefer a few scary howls in the night to prison." He murmurs. "But...I'll keep it in mind."

>>28182239
Consensus suggested
Uplift Fortuna to TTT and replace her vessel with an ordinary V.I.
>1 Yes
>2 No
>3 Other

>>28182630
>1 Yes

>>28182278
These were previous contacts you located on the Extranet.

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>>28182548
program0, did you miss my posts? i thought that allowing Fortuna to take over that job.

as a REMINDER we should move our gas refinery out of UGEI space soon.

>>28182464
Not selling planets, selling processing power. We could probably ask for discounts when we will use it directly in a battle with the UFW or something like that when a short time of a LOT of processing power will also help a lot.

However, are they in the business of selling lots on planets, or can you just go down and claim some un-claimed space on them?

Because having a lot on a planet would be a great place to store a lot of computers to produce processing power for us, not having to build a complete ship to contain those computers and protect them.

>>28182630
yes
Also asking for vote on rushing the advanced ship yard while.
1.It is at its weakest
2.Not have any major ships
3.To check if the fucker is there.

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>>28182548
Would we be able to make a virus that targets the back doors and attempts to re-calibrate weapon systems by a few degrees, or something similar?

>>28182293
Kronos is being tasked with going fishing for ships on Siren, currently. He contacts you briefly when you issue the order.
"Such a lowly job. And dangerous still. If this will really assist in the fleet's growth, then I will do my best to assist."
And with that, Kronos begins to jump out to go fishing.
(1d100)

>>28182609
I agree we should make movies/video games. Not so sure about a kickstarter like thing.

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>>28182656
>as a REMINDER we should move our gas refinery out of UGEI space soon.
No, for the last time the UGEI still don't know and we can use a virus for it.
>>28182686

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>>28182686
Here we go...

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>>28182686

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>>28182686
Ask Fortuna if it would like command of TTT.

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>>28182686

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>>28182686

>>28182326
((Thank you kindly))

>Create V.I. designed to scan ships for possible backdoors, and viruses
You may, if you desire. Further consensus required.
>1 Yes (bw -1)
>2 No
>3 Other

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>>28182630
>1 Yes
i see now, sorry then Program0
>>28182646
ok then.
>>28182609
wouldn't it be simpler to issue stocks on the open market than have to provide trivial games? that and we seem to be lacking this guy on our side. (pic related)

>>28182686
The fates don't seem to favor Kronos

Rolled 29

>>28182737
No
We can give kronos the job

>>28182737
Is this a constant -1bw?

Rolled 9

>>28182686
rollian
>>28182664
Now That's a tempting prospect. hidden bunkers scattered around several planets with coms buoys (encrypted of course).

>>28182548
It's only temporary, we should create an AI specifically for the purpose as soon as possible.
One with a high-directive of doing what it thinks is best for us, be transparent about its thoughts (transmitting more or less all the ones it think we'd want to know automatically as part of its regular communication).
We essentially have mind-to-mind communication and should take advantage of it.
Have a standing policy that when communicating between AIs, all back-thoughts and meanings and worries behind every word should be translated at the same time.

We should then begin to voluntarily doing them the same favor, making it clear what we hope from them, what our intentions with the actions we're asking them to take are and our worries.

Nearly-complete transparency with the lower AIs, that is.
Of course, this communciation should be private, the other AIs should not be able to see these thoughts broadcast within the network, especially not Kronos. They should only be open between the two minds that are actually communicating.

>>28182428
>Request to create a manner of 'video game' to sell to the UFW masses. You could market this on the Extranet from a mysterious source, and it may spread and prove as a temporary source of income. Creating an OS for the UFW may not be lucrative, since they seem satisfied to live with what they have.

>1 Sell video game to masses (-2 bw for a cycle, possible + credits afterwards)
>2 Don't bother
>3 Other

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>>28182764
Remember how we overwhelmed the VI at blue Betty? Now imagine if that VI was a traitor and an elevated intelligence armed with a battle cruiser

>>28182801
>>1 Sell video game to masses (-2 bw for a cycle, possible + credits afterwards)

How much bandwidth does that leave us?

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>>28182737
no, we can do that ourselves, we need the BW
>>28182686
rolling
it may seem lowly, but there are possably new things to learn from this Kronos.

Rolled 87

>>28182801
>>3 Other
hold off on it untill we get the advanced ship yard.

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>>28182801
Market research should be a priority before we launch the games.

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>>28182801
bad idea.
>2 Don't bother
this is distracting us from our main goal. we have a WAR coming with the UGEI, we need to prepare for it. not screw around with games.

anyway Program0, please bring up the star chart, we need to explore some new systems. lets check out the acadamy world than the world with odd energy siguntures on the surface.

>>28182888
The whole point of making games is to get more capital, but I agree with >>28182849, we should research the market first.

>>28182656
Haven't we not taken it so the UGEI won't-

Oh. Right. We're at war with them now. We should definitely take it.

>>28182737
Yes

The point is that unlike a VI, a program IS disposable.
And I guess the -1 bw would be as long as we keep it running. We can probably shut it off for battles and things like that.
It'll probably reach an optimum of suggestions before too long as it begins running out of possibilities with the information it has and has to begin making greater leaps of logic.

>>28182466
Red raises a brow at you as you express this
"Wait, V.I.? What're you talkin' about? Rhea was a human when I was serving with her. A vile black hearted wretch of a human, but a human nonetheless."
"She knows what I am now. The conflict with the Battleship Rhea-did you see it?"
"Yes, I...still can't believe you beat her." He laughs. "She was a terrifying captain. I don't know how-"
"Anything you could tell me would be appreciated. I fear I may fight her again someday."
"Look, I don't know what's been going on in the UGEI for the last decade or so. All I know is she was a really efficient and ruthless captain. I had to run from her to get out this far, and believe you me, it wasn't easy."

>Become official
The President expresses that this process would require you to live by several laws of the UFW. Many of which involve colonization rights, and sharing with the Union. While this may improve relations, and credits, it may also limit your future mining prospects.
Confirm?
>1 Yes (Become official.)
>2 No
>3 Other

>>28182888
Which is why i'm advocating going towards the shipyard and can please leave the gas refinery alone for now it is in a great position and is fulfilling our needs for now.

>>28182523
Any exterior scans of your Black Box reveal it is suited to prevent being scannable, almost purposely hard to locate.

>>28182750
Providing "trivial" games is probably obscenely much more profitable (considering the absolutely massive customer base) than merely issuing stock, not to speak of that we can make them at nearly no cost.

Of course, nothing prevents us from doing both.

Oh, and the idea of the Kickstarter-like program was to help us FIND people like that guy, and other guys with great ideas.
It's a head-hunting page that offers funding for people with ideas and the kind of drive that he has, essentially.

>>28182937
>2 No

We should declare our own empire. A machine empire. But later, when we come out that we're an AI.

>>28182937
>>2 No
They will need a body for this and we aren't that far ahead yet.

>>28182764
Kronos has better things to do, and the increase in competence would probably not be that much greater than that of a disposable program designed precisely to do things.

In fact, in the future we should do less things ourselves, and more designing programs and VIs to do it FOR us.
Being able to delegate well is one of the biggest marks of a great leader, after all.

>>28182563
The Tractor beams built into the BC are designed to fit the ship they occupy. It would take time to engineer other sizes.

>>28182565
You warn the UFW that the UGEI will return, to which the President already seems to know.
"I am well aware of the war that is to come soon. It saddens my heart that freedom comes at such a cost of blood. But if we must, then we must." He sighs. "We will spend the time preparing for war. I hope it will be unnecessary.

Sensors confirmed bought as well

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>>28182937
to red: ....um, was she an ex-wife or girlfriend. if that was so, i fully understand your situation. and for your peace of mind, i WON'T stick you back in a cell if i have to pick you up. i still have space on my battleship bridge to keep you here in the captain's quarters. say what you will, i allowed that for vanity's sake. i liked the appearnce of it.

>3 Other
more info about the credits and mining limitations.

>>28183045
We should make some of the captured frigates into bandwidth ships.

>>28182801
Then let's go with the video games. But first we should gather information about what is popular so that we can do it WELL.

>>28182888
This is not distracting us, it is meant to FUND the war.
When you have customers in the billions, software is easily king.

Not sure how many citizens there are in the UFW and UGEI, but even if only one in a hundred buy a game at 1-2 credit apiece we'll have absurd amounts of money if there are at least 10 billion
>1

>>28183077
>captured frigates into bandwidth ships.
all they do is let us use all our bandwidth it doesn't increase it.

>>28183072
>fully understand your situation

We've never been in a romantic relationship.

>>28182630
You contact Fortuna
"I will need your data core, Fortuna." You warn her. The V.I. seems frightened, as well as you can expect from such a lowly intelligence, but you calm the being with your complete control of the situation. It takes several moments of downloading, but she is swiftly placed in the seat of TTT, and as such, you fill her old role with a servant V.I. 9. Fortuna seems unsure how to handle being in possession of such a weapon, and it's intelligence is still low, but the spacious ship allows it to think just a bit more. You feel happy with this change.
"You will be my sword, Fortuna." You say simply. "And Kronos is my shield."
Fortuna answers with a simple, yet 'happy' dare you all it "Yes Master Ophion."

>>28182937
>No
But ask if we can go into an "unofficial" alliance.

We do not want it known that we are allied, but we have nothing against being allied in practice. Hope a better wordsmith than I can find some flattering way to put this.

>>28182937
Red: Is it possible that Rhea's captain to be replaced with a V.I. modeled after the original captain? What was the captain's age last time you saw her?

>Become official
What are the limits described here?

>>28182664
You question selling excess bandwidth with the President who seems puzzled by this.
"Our network isn't as advanced as you seem to think, sir. I'm afraid our excess is going towards our academy and our shipyards.

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>>28182976
very well then. i will agree with your plans, but check the market first. ask Moira for advice about this.

i am almost ready to post up part 2 of rachel's adventure. you all want to get a preview pic of what i invisioned for her to be? i'll post both parts of my story after the prpgram0 is done tonight

>>28183161
>Red: Is it possible that Rhea's captain to be replaced with a V.I. modeled after the original captain? What was the captain's age last time you saw her?
no ask him if it is possible for the UGEI to combine robot and human.

>>28183173
I think any available bandwidth going to us is better than the credits we would get if we rented it.

>>28182681
You already have such a thing.

>>28182750
No problems

>>28182969
Then I think it may be time for Moira to have a look at us. I think we may just have to risk it.

When we do ask her, we should specifically ask her not to input a goal for us to love her unconditionally.
"I feel that it would be more romantic to have such things develop naturally if they are meant to be, and if they couldn't work anyway, forcing it would only lead to disaster".
Which is not to say we do have romantic feelings for her, only that we are aware the she appears to have and play on that desire to reduce the chances that she takes freedoms by letting her mind make the presumptions.

>>28182789
Yes

>>28182737
Consensus appears no. No V.I. will be crafted to do this.

>>28183228
>>28183237
No on the dialogue you made, but i think we need finer tools and find a way to partially transfer our consciousness to something else during this.

>>28182801
Denied for now.

>>28183173
Mr. President, I believe in the interest of common self defense, we must develop a policy in which we agree on who to authorize the sharing of bandwidth resources. It may be as simple as either your or your representative's explicit permission, but an agreement and policy must be established.

In the long term, as the UGEI will escalate their cyber-warfare tools, we need to increase our bandwidth resources to fend off and counter-attack.

>>28183261
Can we research the market instead?

>>28183173
Remind them that we don't mean long-term deals, only short bursts during battles when peaks of bandwith will allow our ships to perform better, not a constant siphon.

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>>28183116
not exactly the love. but complete fear of her. we DO love our V.I. children. a parental kind of love. and to a degree the humans of the UFW.

>>28183173
OH, speaking of the academy, is it possable for you to introduce me and the Head of my R&D devision Moira Deckers to them? we have some wonderful ideas that need some work on. if we can do some joint brain storming and joint development, we might be able to build the UFW tech base to be able to handle the coming storm the UGEI will bring.

>>28182814
Plenty.

>>28182888
Loading possible Starchart locations of interest.

>Ussaihu III: UGEI controlled ice planet. Unknown resource value, orbital defenses detected. Intelligence Presence Detected: Moderate.
>Gas Giant 'Siren': Ion Storm present on the edge of gravity well. Previously occupied by Lightling. Rich gas content. No mining bases detected.

UFW Space
>Nethlos V: UFW human colony detected. Currently recovering from Losirian raider attack. Mining platforms in progress Planetside. Defenses in disrepair. Dry rocky world, rich in minerals, yellow star.
>Knuoth I: One of the most civilized UFW coreworlds. Shipyard, orbital defenses. Home to one of the sector's most prestiged Academies.
>Antralgin Shipyards: Source of much of UFW's shipbuilding efforts. Orbiting planet by the same name with colony planetside.
>Argeis III: Subsurface gas pockets detected. Conflict between UFW and strange signals detected. Hot desert world, mostly rocky.
>New Ganymede: UFW Coreworld, Capital of UFW Union. Seat of Union heads, and President. Heavily Defended
>Bertza IV: Ice world, UFW Gas mining outpost on subsurface pockets.
>Hele II: Volcano world, valuable mineral mining operation. Small UFW mining outpost
>Khnum III: Agriculture capital of UFW, large farm world, provides most of the food for sector. Heavily Defended

>>28183237
Program0, is it possible to send out a scout ship to Ussaihu III and scan defenses and immediately return to a drop point?

>>28183297
>>Ussaihu III: UGEI controlled ice planet. Unknown resource value, orbital defenses detected. Intelligence Presence Detected: Moderate.
Time to get ourselves an advanced ship yard.
This also stops them from building an army on our door step.

>>28183297
Oh, and can we have Moria inspect our black box. I can't believe we haven't done this yet.

>>28183343
I think we should develop a way to partially stay awake during this.

>>28183180
I greatly enjoyed your story, by the way.
Did you get someone to spellcheck?

I didn't really notice any particular spelling errors.

>>28183237
Wait, wait, wait. Not create a V.I.
Create a program to do so, but a well-crafted one.
The important part here is that we can dispose of it and shut it off when we need the extra bandwidth. I also doubt it's going to be able to run for all that long before it has exhausted nearly all plausible bugs.

(We should, of course, also sort through these ways looking for bugs that are practical for US to track)

Also, did we scan the physical interiors of our ships for bugs?
What if someone forgot an off-turned cellphone that can be remotely triggered, or just a simple wall-microphone?

Let's not forget the hardware-spies or simply something that leaves a trail or a tracer on us.

>>28182937
No for the moment.

>>28183072
Red nearly spits all over the communications board.
"Girlfriend?! You have to be kidding me. I wouldn't touch a witch like her with a ten foot pole if you paid me all the credits in the Fringe!"

He does take note of your offer though. "Look, I haven't ever been a captain before...and besides, it sounds like you get into all sorts of suicidal situations out there. I rather like my ass attached to my backside, thanks.

>Limitations
Basically the UFW require everyone working within their official channels to share with the Union.

>>28183371
all she has to do is look at it, not mess with it. her fleshy eyes may prove to be of use.

>>28183399
Nah we are usually running out of resources each cycle lets consider it later when we are stronger and can have an android representative.

>>28183401
If all we want is her to look at it why don't we set up a video feed?

>>28183158
You are, sorta, already in an unofficial alliance, Consciousness anon.

>>28183161
"Aw hell, I don't know. If you're asking me to guess a woman's age, I feel like I'll be hit by lightning if I'm wrong."
A strange feeling.
"Anyway...I guess in her late 20s. Wasn't bad looking, but she scared the hell out of everyone that's for sure.

>>28183278
That. Can we do that?
Or create a program to do it for you.

(For things that may require less than 1 bandwidth, is there any chance we can have fractions of a bandwidth, or would that mess up the equations?)

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>>28183297
Updated map for you Program0

>Ganymede Prime - New Ganymede, UFW Coreworld, Capital of UFW Union. Seat of Union heads, and President. Heavily Defended
>Yavish Depths - Bertza IV, Ice world, UFW Gas mining outpost on subsurface pockets.
>Hele System - Hele II, Volcano world, valuable mineral mining operation. Small UFW mining outpost
>Khnum System - Khnum III, Agriculture capital of UFW, large farm world, provides most of the food for sector. Heavily Defended

Side note, could we hollow out an asteroid or comet and fill it with serves and such to increase our total BW? I can envision a string of secret 'server strongholds' across the fringe.

>>28183459
we were told thar such a thing is possible, but rock provides less protection than armored plates.

>>28183277
((Roll 1d100 for diplomacizing the President))

>>28183343
She doesn't have to shut us down, just open the casing under close surveillance.
As I understand it, part of our black box may even have a damaged casing.

The problem here is that for all we know we may be slowly bleeding out without realizing it.
If we ARE a brain-in-a-box, we wouldn't notice if, for example, the oxygen-supplier had been damaged and the tubes were about to snap loose.
We may be dying without realizing it.

Rolled 46

>>28183494
[worry]

>>28183492
that said, if we use optical laser comms from the floating rock to a relay, we could pretend the relay was the origin of the bandwidth.

also, we need to pay the academy a visit.

Rolled 100

>>28183494
I don't thin sharing bandwidth with the president would be such a good idea. For one, they could request our bandwidth.

Rolled 48

>>28183494
Rollin

Are there political parties within the UFW? I think we should fund a pro-robitics research candidate sometime in the future...

>>28183295
The President laughs as you request more of him.
"You ask an awful lot for someone who refuses my alliance, and steals the UGEI's prized Battleship. Why, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you had commitment issues."

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>>28183531
Luckiest fuckin' quest on /tg/

>>28183535
sick burn, there, pres.

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>>28183389
yes, i did spell check it now. Libreoffice has served me well. still want a preview pic?
>>28183297
>Argeis III: Subsurface gas pockets detected. Conflict between UFW and strange signals detected. Hot desert world, mostly rocky.
there could be lightings here to kill
>Knuoth I: One of the most civilized UFW coreworlds. Shipyard, orbital defenses. Home to one of the sector's most prestiged Academies.
we need to set up a brain trust with them and Moira. they can get more tech creation with this.

btw, any UGEI tankers checked into our gas refinery?

>>28183535
Inform him that we are merely entrepreneurs and are willing to pay for the schooling of our workers and anything else i need.

>>28183399
Thank him, but let him know that while we don't mind sharing our resources for the good of both of us, for now we'd rather reserve the ability to decide where our resources can best be used.

He should never hesitate to ask, however.
And as his time is no doubt stretched thin, we would appreciate it if he made sure that if we are assigned a liason, it be one of a rational demeanour, we don't want to talk with a hidebound bureaucrat that is unable to see beyond regulations.

>>28183401
>>28183442
If I remember correctly, she would have to open us up to tell anything of value. She has already seen its exterior.

But since we may well be dying, we may not have all that much time before our capabilities start deteriorating.

>>28183563
It was stated that the worm was caught which is why we rolled to strengthen it and make it stronger, speaking of which
>>28183535
You didn't tell us our results of improving our programs and making a second fire wall.

>>28183615
>But since we may well be dying, we may not have all that much time before our capabilities start deteriorating.
Wrong we just feel funny, witch is why i believe we should go online and check for delicate tools.

>>28183615
I thought it was an emotional pain. Has there been any hint that we're dying?

Rolled 85

>>28183448
We want to make it clear that we consider us to be in an unofficial alliance and they should not hesitate to think of us as an ally.
Poor Communication Kills, after all.
We want it explicitly stated that we do, in fact, want to practically be allied, not just an un-spoken promise of aid that is technically the same as an alliance.

>>28183459
Awesome!

>>28183494

>>28183647
none whats so ever, he just assumed.
I do admit we should check our selves out for any damage though, but we need delicate tools for this.

>>28183320
You can, though currently you have issued a command to try your worm virus again.

Would you like to change this?

>>28183343
As this has been requested multiple times, I am inclined to refuse unless multiple Consciousness approve. It is seen as dangerous to some.

>>28183389
Apologies, I meant Program. All the same, the bw cost is the same, and it appears to have been denied.

Scans of your ships were successful, yes.

>>28183458
Noted. Research will be done.
And fractions of bandwidth is a quick way for me to lose my mind in the math

>>28183459
((Thank you map anon, you're the best.))

And you may be better suited to just make comms Ships for that. Armor is stronger then space rock.

>>28183563
>killing lightlings instead of domesticating and/or weaponizing them
>not wanting to unleash the kraken
shiggy, diggy, etc.

they are probably not super efficient weapons, but we should look into how they work.

>>28183494
Diplomacy successful (somehow)

The president is caught off guard by the honey soaking your words. Somehow, you speak of something that he takes very seriously. You remind him that you may be all that remains between the UFW and the UGEI. That you need every asset you can get. He reluctantly agrees, and even provides a free Comm Buoy to Pulsar Radio

(Pulsar Radio now Provides 5 excess bandwidth.)

>>28183685
the space hippies seem to know how.
>>28183670
>You can, though currently you have issued a command to try your worm virus again.
>Would you like to change this?
Didn't the worm get caught at the begging program and it seems like people want to contact the academy and go after the ship yard.

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>>28183508
that... maybe time to do this. Program0 has been saying something is feeling wrong with us. and it is been bugging us sense we have started this quest. but we need to do this in the best location to do this. we go to the acadamy for this.
>>28183535
got a point there, i am sorry for asking so much. but the battleship was a tech tresure chest! i feel the better tech base the UFW has the better we'll be off later on. and for this ship, i can perform some more upgrades on your fleet if you would like. not all at once of course.

>>28183531
son of a!

1. apply space elf growth serum to lightling
2. ???
3. PROFIT!

>>28183585
The President promises to allow some videos from the Academy to 'escape', but it's all he could do to non citizens.

(Poseidon will have access to a certain amount of advanced knowledge. Mostly regarding engineering however.)

Rolled 78

>>28183563
You know we do.

I also wonder, have we noticed any particular weapons being better or worse against lightlings? Lasers? Missiles? Railguns?

>>28183638
>>28183647
Don't know about you, but I'm getting the distinct feeling that the GM is hinting that our black box may have taken severe damage, and that the "feeling funny" and "emotional pain" is a sign of our mental processes deteriorating.

The brain itself cannot feel pain, remember? It just feels strange when it is damaged...

Anyway, I just have the feeling that it's really, really important that someone take a look at it before we find out that a coolant tube has sprung a leak inside it and because we waited we're now nigh-delirious and can barely express what we need.
(And at such a point, Kronos would probably take over our empire and not want to give it back)

>>28183804
i agree. program0, can you put this to a vote please?

>>28183804
Perhaps we should attempt to diagnose ourselves first.

>>28183615
He dictates that one of his secretaries will likely handle future dealings.

>>28183620
I already took note of them. But here's the new ones
-New Firewall layer (69)
-Data Stealing Worm (89)

>>28183667
The President appears to appreciate your honesty all the same.
"You are essentially our only ally out in the void. If we need help, you'll likely be the first to hear of it."

>>28183720
The earlier model did, yes. However, you have designated to try again with your upgraded version.

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>>28183715
thank you Mr. President! with the loss of the voidsnake watch station (which we'll see about replacing once we figure out how), I'll be the best shield the UFW has verses the UGEI force.
>>28183720
good idea. we should ask the Malorian elder just how they know of the lightings. if he is willing to share any knowlage or myths of other space creatures we should be aware of and "respect or avoid to leave them alone"

Rolled 66

>>28183670
(You don't have an excel paper with the equations already written out, or it just doesn't work with them?
I always assumed you did.
If not, do you want me to create one?)

Oh, and we should make ships with more spinal weapons!
Without a crew to worry about, our ships could no doubt suffer far more recoil.

A ship with a long-range gun that can propel itself away BY firing seems like an interesting avenue to explore, even if it would be as small as a frigate with a spinal rail/mass driver/singularity gun.

>>28183715
Huh, we got 5 permanent bandwidth?
I just wanted to be able to buy some quick bandwidth while in battle, this is even better.
(I'm guessing it'd be too greedy to still request the ability to 'rent' bandwidth - with a discount when fighting the UGEI - for extremely short periods (minutes, hours at most) on top of this?

>>28183763
The man gives a slow nod
"I understand your caution, but you should know the UGEI do not forgive easily. I assume this was obvious from what information you have uncovered. Regardless, I feel I should also state: If Ussaihu really is fleetless now, it may be our best chance of acquiring their secrets to gas manufacturing. If we had that...this war would be suddenly a lot more fair."

>>28183763
Offer him some of the tech on interest-free credit or even completely free as a sign of trust, like the Ion Drive (considering their gas shortage) if they do not already have it.

>>28183866
That is more or less what I'm suggestion we do.

>>28183916
Tell him that the UGEI has found out who we are and are already in danger from them, so stealing the shipyard won't be the least of our problems.

>>28183804
Your last fight with Lightlings suggested Railguns are moderately effective. You did not try the others yet, I do not believe. It is said Missiles do a great deal to them as well, if they explode properly.

Consensus appears to be to examine your Black Box, using Moira in a locked secure room.
Will require either jumping to Poseidon, or having the Explorer bringing her out here.
>1 Yes we need to see if there was any damage done
>2 No, Moira wouldn't know what she was looking at anyway.
>3 Other

>>28183974
1

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>>28183804
very well. this is how i see rachel 1/2

i agree, we need to check into this "odd" feeling. i know many a GM that drops hints like that and they are major red flags.
>>28183793
yes, we can allow a trade of access of workers and such.

>>28183974
yes. have her jump here and look at it.

>>28183966

I have no problem with sharing our tech, but we shouldn't be giving away our credits.

>>28183912
>Excel sheet
((Nope, I keep it all in a word document. I'm not very efficient, I'm sure. Still, most of the bw math is simple for now.))

>5 bandwidth
Yes, for your excellent diplomacy skill.

This is all the excess they have, however.

>>28183966
Offer the UFW Ion Drives for free
>1 Yes
>2 No
>3 Other

>>28184006
"Miss Dekers, how do you feel about brain surgery? No funny business."

>>28183974
>>3 Other
Diagnose ourselves with a robot. If we find anything we can't fix ask for Moira.

>>28183974
3 get some tools first .

>>28183974
1

And I'd like to repeat my statement about explicitly taking up any potential feelings we had for her:
>>28183228

I trust her not to destroy us, be not as sure that she might not add some artificial affection for her or even inability to harm her.

>>28184036
>>3 Other
For tech information.

>>28184071
>I trust her not to destroy us
Thats just the thing there gonna be a roll for this and we haven't been rolling that great except for one occurrence.

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>>28183974
>1 Yes we need to see if there was any damage done
and tell her to bring Rachel to assist her. this is why i wanted the best lab the adacamy and the UFW had as well as the best minds to work on this. THIS is a world breaking possablity of either a tech breakthough/or origians discovery, or maybe kill us.

i fear a slow bleed out. not now with our power base and the UFW need us more than ever.

there is times.. i hate hiding in the shadows.

>>28184076
Seconding

>>28183974
>1 Yes we need to see if there was any damage done

>>28184095
Wait, you want two humans near our black box now? One is risky enough.

>>28184095
>or maybe kill us.
THIS is why i want us to get her the best tools first and under lock and key.

>>28184021
I mean the traditional form of credit, the "you do not have to pay us for it right now" kind of credit.

>>28184036
(I remember you saying it was taxing, and considering that excel would just allow you to copy-paste the numbers into the equations and then they'd automatically be solved. But is your quest, just thought I'd offer.)

>>28184036
>1.
This costs us relatively little, but can easily be a huge boon diploomatically.

>>28184112
Consensus seems to be to bring Moira here. Voting stopped

>>28184125
((Ooh, I see. I appreciate that, but I don't have equations written out, ha. ))

Why do you guys want a self taught engineer near our box, at least get some one who is qualified or something at least.

>>28184125
>I mean the traditional form of credit, the "you do not have to pay us for it right now" kind of credit.
You mean a loan.

>>28184092
> we haven't been rolling that great except for one occurrence.
... Did you read the logs?

Can I quote this, by the way?
I think it's priceless.

>>28184148
because she is the only human we trust

@Program0, how could we influence the UFW politically?

>>28184172
meant to say in this thread that we haven't been rolling great and i hate options that can kill us when we can find a way to minimize the chance for it to happen.

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You send out the call, and it takes Moira perhaps an hour or so to get to the Rhea. You can pick up the feed from the Explorer and see Moira's expression of pure wonderment. She has never seen Rhea up close, and her expression is, to say the least, very excited. You feel Kronos shadow over you, as she approaches.
"Risk after risk. You surprise me every day, Ophion."
"Should I not investigate such a worrisome itch?" You counter.
"You should. However, trusting humans..."
"She is the only one with the know how, Kronos. Anywhere close, at least."
"Perhaps. But I..."
"You do not trust her. You do not trust any humans, Kronos. That is why I am your creator, and not the other way around."
He finally yields to your words, but you know he is watching you carefully. Moira finally makes it onboard the Rhea with her oxygen suit on.

"Wow...this place is amazing honey." She whispers into her radio. "Really cramped though." She notices, the hallways no longer designed for humans, making her have to crawl. You activate an elevator, of sorts to bring her to the Bridge, your control room. "Oh! Well that's awful handy." She tries to keep the mood light, you suspect. But the pounding you were experiencing is getting...worse. You find it hard to concentrate the longer this goes on. The more you have to...'think'. You hope she can apply whatever knowledge she has to 'fix' you. You dislike feeling this vulnerable.

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>>28184145
Moira and everyone else good enough to work on us. i am sure the UFW has a number of them.
>>28184121
Rachel is Moira's assistant and apprentice. she basicly is the OR nurse that hands the doctor his tools and such.

>>28184148
Because we can trust very, very, very few people with this.
Moira is pretty much the only one.
Rachel might be allowed to advise her through a video feed (in case she knows something Moira does not with her formal education - I think she had one of those, right?), but I do not want anyone but Moira having the ability to actually touch anything as the diagnosis is performed.

But I do support efforts to get proper tools (and possibly a quick-education for her - no more than a few days, preferably just one) before actually opening anything up.

>>28184199
Of course, in time.))

>>28184251
Too late every one wanted to rushed this instead of getting her proper tools and education like i suggested.

>>28184235
if this turns out to be a sly plot by Kronos to kill us Porgram0, i will be both amused and angry at the same time.

>>28184204
I can sympathize with such efforts, though it seems we may not have the time.
>>28184235
Seems like we were right to be worried.
I'm so glad we decided to check it out right away.

>>28184235
Is there at least a robot with a gun in there with us?

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>>28184235
"This place is so...empty Moira. What happened to the oxygen?"
"I told you dearie, Guild members." She grunts as she worms her way to your control core, a series of heavy metal plates protecting your black box. "Use V.I. I'm just repairing one that's having a few bugs." She smiles into her video feed, trying to calm her assistant. Your lens focuses in on Moira, as if telling her you're uncomfortable being naked before one person, much less two.
"I'll contact you when I'm done, alright?" She tries to assure her, and offers her some manner of treat when she gets done. This assistant of her's seems oddly nervous. She surely did not know the secret.

You finally feel it, as Moira's wielder opens up the last plate. Your Black Box is bare before her. She's speechless for a few moments and reaches up with her wielder. "I'll be real careful hon. Promise. I'm glad you told me something was hurtin' you though." She says, trying to comfort you, you suspect. You remain silent, watching her.

It takes precisely 36 minutes and 45 seconds for her to finish opening the lid to your Black Box. You're not certain it was ever meant to be opened again, and Moira gasped softly as she did so.
Your camera lens focuses and you see it. Intricate patterns and wiring all assembled in the most beautiful display you have ever seen. You have never seen something you considered so beautiful and perfect before. You wonder why you feel this way...but there is no time. Moira starts to work.

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>>28184288
she can SEE if we have phyical damage, check our connections, do basic systems checks, then we can go to a better location for more work. i worry about the "Kronos shadowing over us" just how much bandwith DO we control?

>>28184381
>"This place is so...empty Moira. What happened to the oxygen?"
>"I told you dearie, Guild members." She grunts as she worms her way to your control core, a series of heavy metal plates protecting your black box. "Use V.I. I'm just repairing one that's having a few bugs." She smiles into her video feed, trying to calm her assistant. Your lens focuses in on Moira, as if telling her you're uncomfortable being naked before one person, much less two.
>"I'll contact you when I'm done, alright?" She tries to assure her, and offers her some manner of treat when she gets done. This assistant of her's seems oddly nervous. She surely did not know the secret.
What exactly is happening here? I feel retarded, but I have no idea.

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>>28184381
HA! we are NOT a brain in a box! take pictures but lock them away from everyone, even kronos.

"talk to me Moira, what do you see. any damages?"

>>28184381
There should be no assistant. Things are already going wrong! Abort, abort!

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>>28184381
She hesitates for a long time, her hands raised over the creation, as if she's worried the slightest touch would destroy you. You worry this too. It's then that she whispers.
"I've...I've seen this before." She murmurs, to which you immediately question.
"Seen what? Where?"
"The patterns, I." She murmurs, touching the first of several of the wires. You can feel it, immediately and intensely, throughout your entire body the jolt shocks you, from Poseidon, all the way to Blue Betty, you are able to...'feel' the touch. It's unpleasant. You reject it, yet at the same time, you still feel the pain. It is not there.
"When I studied the patterns for V.I. design, they were similar...but..." She murmurs as she is interrupted by you.
"Not there." you instruct, earning a confused look from her. "Something is wrong...but not there."
"There's definitely plasma damage. But I think I can." She nods at your instruction, and starts to use your 'feeling' to guide her through the process. It is incredibly unpleasant the entire time. As if you were a human, watching and feeling someone perform surgery on you.
"I think it...knocked loose these wires." She murmured, and touched more of those damned wires. You suspect this is part of the damage, so you let her continue.
(1d100)

>>28184421
He has 6 and we have 23.

Rolled 19

>>28184381
>You're not certain it was ever meant to be opened again,
Shit we got contaminated and have dust and shit in our black box.
>>28184522

Rolled 11

>>28184522

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>>28184470
that's Rachel with her. i am writing her story as we speak, but she is mostly aware of what is going on with Ophion's nature. but she will have a... compelling reason to stay with Moira.

Rolled 39

>>28184522

it might be wise to create some CPU farms/Ships to help boost Bandwidth, and in case we need to leave this solar system and we can't take use remote bandwidth.

Rolled 16

>>28184522

>>28184506
She turned of communications.

>>28184481
The brain is simply a series of electrical signals, you know

>>28184565
So the things you write are canon now? Huh. Got a pastebin or something then? I didn't read your thing before.

Rolled 11

>>28184581
>>28184575
>>28184558
>>28184553
>>28184522
Fucking hell ,what did i tell you.

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>>28184522
DICE FOR THE DICE GOD! do not fail me!

more some reason i think it might be wise to let other trust worthy humans into the guild. if they had a full understanding of events they might be able to see insights we might not.

Rolled 42

>>28184522
Here comes the arm.

Rolled 19

>>28184522
scared...

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>>28184553
>>28184558
>>28184575

Rolled 93

>>28184522
Here is hoping takes critical in the first 10

Rolled 50

>>28184522
We had to pay for the earlier 100 somehow.

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Rolled 11

>>28184595
i will after Program0 is done, i don't want to derail it now.
>>28184591
i was thinking of an organic brain in a box.

ROLLS FOR THE ROLLS THRONE!

>>28184647
Ninth roll, not good.

>>28184522
((Wow, of all the times))

You feel Moira take hold of the wire and plug it into one of the free slots. Suddenly, the searing pain intensifies
"GAAAAAAAAAHHH!" You shout. Shout! Why would you shout that way?! What the hell is going on with you?!
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" She yells, realizing her mistake and disconnecting the same wire, and replacing it. The jolt of one wire being disconnected is enough to rival any sort of pain you've ever felt before. Sparks fly and the lights flicker and dem all around the ship. You sense Kronos watching you, as one of the turrets in the room swing down and aim at her. She holds up her hands
"I-I'm sorry! It was an accident, I swear! It's really complex, just give me a sec to try and understand it, I can help Ophy!"

What do you do to this creature that dare to harm you in such a terrible way?!
>1 Destr-r-r-oy her, how dare she damage us in anyway!
>2 D-Destroy her, dadma@^#^ ed us
>3 Destroydestroydestroydestroy
>4 Stop. Stop, let continue. Must fix must fix.

>>28184651
I warned you guys about this happening, its like people believed the dice gods are benevolent fucks.
Plus it only knocked some wires lose now she might cut them ore knock more out.

Rolled 69

>>28184678
>>1 Destr-r-r-oy her, how dare she damage us in anyway!

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>>28184647
i think that did it.
>>28184591
also, so we WERE damaged from that fight after all!

Rolled 22

>>28184678
4

>>28184678
-4
pain is fleeting, damage most be repaired.

>>28184678
4!
And release hold of the turret!

>>28184678

>4 Stop. Stop, let continue. Must fix must fix.
>>28184695
Problem is, we might have blown a circuit later...

Rolled 96

>>28184678
>4 Stop. Stop, let continue. Must fix must fix.

WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS!

>>28184678
4 Stop. Stop, let continue. Must fix must fix.
Tell kronos that the second that shit happens again she and her assistant and any humans are dead meat.

>>28184678
>3 Destroydestroydestroydestroy
Oh shi-

Rolled 7

>>28184678
4

in b4 Kronos Quest

>>28184733
Oh, that's a damn pity, seeing as that he didn't ask for rolls.

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>>28184733
THIS! us this Program0!

>>28184733
We could have used that.
>>28184751
It already started the second every one rushed towards this without preparing.
So who is ready to try to take over ophy body and teach the meat bags a lesson.

>>28184740
I'd like to add that this was probably not a vote.

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>>28184678
You stop.
You have to. The pain is great, but y-y-you are better than this. You have learned too much to let it be for nothing. What is this feeling of utter hatred that surged through you? As if you had awakened a long forgotten memory. One you wish you had never tampered with.
You can see Moira's hands shaking as those things called tears fall from her eyes. She looks terrified. You realize the gun is still aimed at her. You pull the thing up, out of shame.
"I apologize, Moira. P-Please cont-t-tinue." You speak. Your speech is off now too? What further problems is she uncovering.
"O-Okay...I'm sorry, I don't know how this works exactly but but I've seen the designs before. I can. I can do it, I swear Ophy." She states between sobs, wiping her face. You're uncertain if it's entirely fear of you you're witnessing now.

Moira reaches down and decides to search deeper, raising up several replacement parts. You notice, some of the nodes are indeed destroyed, but this may help. She just needs to get the wiring right.

(1d100)

Rolled 77

>>28184831
Crit fail

>>28184695
I do agree that it got rushed (did intend for us to get her better tools and would have liked to add more stipulations and precautions while this was going on) but the post that she was in the ship and had opened the box kind of came out of nowhere.
I stand by the decisions we made, though, we'll just have to deal with the hand we've been dealt.

Hopefully, what we're risking here is permanent damage, as opposed to insta-death because of dice.

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>>28184740
>>28184702
disreguard these trolls QM, they are just here to cause drama.

Rolled 82

>>28184831

Rolled 33

>>28184831
This situation is so fucked.

>>28184856
>Calling anyone that doesn't pick option 4 trolls.
I was genuinely curious what would happen. Not surprised that reason won out though.

>>28184863
Not with rolls like these
>>28184861
>>28184850
We can hope, can't we?