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>>36901116
>Current armory
269 Thorn Launchers
20 Thorn Cannons
123 Sting Casters
30 Cyclotrons
15 Rotary Stingers
3 Fire Sprays
5 Plasma Spray

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 658051
Metals: 408134
Credits: ₡2326
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡577,450

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 534
Queen – 5
Fake Queen (2) – 44
Worker (4000) – 8000
Aquatic Worker (40) – 160
Vacuum Worker (200) – 1200
Radiator Worker (100) – 400
Warrior (209) – 1045
Aquatic Warrior (20) – 140
Thinker (500) – 1500
Quantum Thinker (150) – 750
Speaker – (3) – 12
Digger (80) – 320
Refinery (10) – 70
Sniffer (2) – 8
Small Sniffer (200) – 200
Fly (50) – 200
Wasp (100) – 500
Haz-mat Workers (20) – 80
Shock Troops (40) – 520
Parasite (30) – 120
Bio-tank (10) – 250
Excavator (200) – 3800
Colossus (20) – 300
Advanced Relay (68) – 6800 (set as default method of ship control)
Upkeep: 26958N

>Hive fleet
Space Pod (28) – 840
Shuttle (10) – 250
Mining Corvette (4) – 800
Scout Corvette (6) – 1350
Lancer Corvette (2) – 450
Fleet Corvette (4) – 900
Stealth Frigate (4) – 1952
Heavy Cruiser (4) – 4860
11402N

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
25 Human captives of the USV Hope – 750
3 Human hybrid clones in production – 180
Lyle Rogers – 47
977N

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 39337

>Income
Metals: 76500
Nutrients: 100050
Net: 60713

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>>36901130
Hive Territory
[G-426]
Asteroid mining base: 5 Excavators, 20 Diggers, +2250M per day (+50 M per digger, +250 per excavator)

*Leeland (capital)
Defensive structures
>Anti-orbital batteries: 2/35 (250N)
Military structures
>Hangar facilities: Room for 40 Aero/fighter Drones and 20 Shuttles (25N)
>Spring Mountain Hive: Original hive contains decoy queen within throne room
>*Secondary Mountain Hive: Actual site of Throne Room
>Clarke Research Outpost
>Hel’s Angel Prison Outpost
Industrial structures
>Docking Pylon: (4) (200N)
[4 Heavy Cruisers]
[Empty docks: 12/16]
Economic Structures
>Mine: 195 Excavators, 60 Diggers, +50250 M per day (+25 M per digger, +250 per excavator)
>Algae Farm: +100000 N per day, 1000 Workers (1 worker per 100N)

M-662
Raligha – Automated: defensive focus (No trade active)
Defensive structures
>Anti-orbital batteries: 4/35 (500N)
Economic structures
>Bloodroot collectors: A series of pipes and veins running from the roots of several of the nearest Bloodroot trees provide a passive and low maintenance source of nutrient income, +250N per day (5)
>Greenwall pit: Variable income (6 workers consumed in accidents, 2 containment breaches, 1 warrior wounded, average harvest provides net gain of 500N, thinkers report testing not yet complete)
>Temple alter: A place for the Ralighan locals to worship and bring offerings to your hive, built in the likeness of your local fake queen, +500N per day
>Mine: +30M per day (thinkers report soft soils and low mineral supplies are severely hampering metal production, and as a result anti-orbital battery construction, and request supplement of 46500M to complete anti-orbital grid)

M-323
>Orbital docking pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 sub capitals or 1 capital ship, (50N)
[Empty docks: 4/4]
>Mining corvette salvage operations +4000M per day (+1000M per corvette)

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>>36901154
Current Construction
4 Heavy cruisers

New Construction Options
>Algae Farm – +100N per day, 1 worker to maintain
>Hangar Expansion – Add on to current hangar facilities for your choice of +40 aero/fighter drone space, or +20 shuttle space. 50N 100M
>Anti-orbital battery – A bunker armed with a massive Particle beam capable of attacking ships in orbit from the ground. It includes the power and sensor systems required to operate it. 250N 1500M
>Docking Pylon – A large spire or station that contains space for docking and construction of 4 ships, or a single capital ship if placed in orbit. 100N 300M
>Surface to Orbit Missile System – This massive bunker complex houses a wide range of warheads and a nigh limitless number of missiles within its protective walls, allowing you to launch missiles against approaching invaders from the safety of your hive. The facility uses the ship missile stats and comes equipped with a single Cruise missile silo that can target any detected object within the system, five Stinger missile silos capable of targeting any craft within high orbit, and ten Swarm missile silos specialized in targeting high altitude aircraft and low orbiting targets. The facility itself is a massive complex spread out over several miles, and includes guidance and launch equipment, as well as the means to construct and maintain a stock of warheads and missiles. (1500N 2500M)

Ship Construction Options
http://pastebin.com/YTwGk8n1

Yes~ Time for best quest!
inb4 there was something really sweet and heartwarming about his family on the drive and we're going to feel bad for going all aliens.

>>36901184
I'm just hoping destroying it doesn't win, it can be useful if we can get unity to come and get it.

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>>36901176
Finished research

>Acid spray
This alternate version to the fire and plasma spray spews a stream of caustic molecular acid over its foes, causing horrific chemical burns and melting through armor. Decreases the effectiveness of a target's armor and causes chemical damage over time, but otherwise holds the same statistics as the fire and plasma spray.

>Broken Crystal
Upon inspection of this strange crystal your initial assumptions were that it was a kind of spent ammunition, a waste byproduct of the Psionic Cannon, and you were correct, mostly. It appears to be the corpse of a Void Shard, and while it is indeed junk in a way, its strange aura of absence and unsettling silence could yet hold a use.

New research unlocked

>Psionic Shroud
Slow
Your thinkers have been working over the strange and unsettling silence of the broken crystals you have collected and several of your quantum thinkers have theorized of using them to develop a kind of mute effect. In theory it could offer a way to muffle the mental sounds of your hive's thoughts from other hives.

Current research
http://pastebin.com/F6t39KSp

Oh shit, if they're evacuating that means they're probably gonna blow the base- either rush to a computer to get the data or stealthily extract the workers from the surface.

>>36901217
Stealing a ship and getting the hell out of here?

>>36901217
They might just send troops instead.

>>36901206
WTF IS THAT?

>>36901206
I wonder if there will eventually be a nano-spray upgrade. That'd be pretty cool.

>>36901217
I think they might not nuke it, but they could send pesticide or soldiers down there to clear us out, either way this base is gonna be empty and we should capitalize on that.
>>36901237
Thats just asking to get shot at.
Our drones are basically dead except for the flies of course.

>>36901263
Quest drone hinted at a chance for nano grenades being possible, but that would be later in the tech tree.

>>36901263
>>36901294
What about nano workers? Instead of worker drones, it's swarms of psionically controlled nanobot drones.

or would that just be shit?

so how should we send the metal to Raligha?

Am I the only one that feels kinda bad that we went "Aliens" over everyone?

I mean, it was fun as hell. And I fully supported it when it happened. But I have this odd soft-spot for humans. I want to have them "Adopted" into the hive, or something.

I just hope this doesn't come out and end up screwing us in the long run.

>>36901323
We could always start heavy mining underground or turn N into M if they are desperate enough.

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>>36901206
Your flies watch as panicked humans sprint down hallways in various uniforms from medical scrubs to combat armor and bland fatigues or civilian dress.

Hive forces in the facility
4 Flies
5 Workers

>Have your drones work their way to the surface
>Find a computer and analyze the data taken from Seiner
>Other


>>36901253
Wasp pattern mantid fly. It's actually harmless to humans and doesn't have a sting, it just looks terrifying.

>>36901294
>>36901263
Honestly my biggest issue is trying to draw the line between bioweapons and nanomachines, since you already blur the line between them.

>>36901327
We could research a way to make breathable spores that turn into parasites if you want to "adopt" them.

>>36901217
>>36901237
We have a cloaked Space Pod in orbit, due to our recent engine upgrades they can now enter and exit a planets atmosphere by themselves. Said space pod has the capacity to hold five drones.

>>36901327
I don't mind it, and i'm one of the human alliance supporters(i personally hate the borg train of thought some anons are going with).
Plus this is a secret base, from what we can tell, and i doubt they can spin this positively too much.

>>36901176
>>Surface to Orbit Missile System – This massive bunker complex houses a wide range of warheads and a nigh limitless number of missiles within its protective walls, allowing you to launch missiles against approaching invaders from the safety of your hive. The facility uses the ship missile stats and comes equipped with a single Cruise missile silo that can target any detected object within the system, five Stinger missile silos capable of targeting any craft within high orbit, and ten Swarm missile silos specialized in targeting high altitude aircraft and low orbiting targets. The facility itself is a massive complex spread out over several miles, and includes guidance and launch equipment, as well as the means to construct and maintain a stock of warheads and missiles. (1500N 2500M)
we need a couple of these on Leeland just in case

>>36901345
>Find a computer and analyze the data taken from Seiner
See if we can open a crack for unity.

>>36901345
>>Find a computer and analyze the data taken from Seiner
We should have some time, Right?
Right?

>>36901345
>Find a computer and analyze the data taken from Seiner

>>36901345
>Other
Head to the hanger to sneak onto a ship

>>36901345
>Have your drones work their way to the surface

>>36901345
>>Find a computer and analyze the data taken from Seiner

>>36901345
>Find a computer and analyze the data taken from Seiner
Most of our drones were never meant to come back, these guys are already expensive lets get everything we can out of them(the flies stay though if they can stay hidden long enough)

>>36901345
>Have your drones work their way to the surface
We sabotaged the power and there's a roaring fire in the middle of the facility, I doubt we'll be able to find a functioning computer in time.

>>36901345
The flies have qauntum brains for this mission right?
I forgot if we equipped every drone with one for this mission.

>>36901345
>Find a computer and analyze the data taken from Seiner
And then destroy it and the drones

>>36901443
QD said we'd have a chance to analyze the data.

I'm still up for opening a crack for unity to run away like a bandit if we can.

>>36901443
That depends on dice.

>>36901345
>>Find a computer and analyze the data taken from Seiner

>>36901364
We could load Seiner's severed head onto that pod for retrieval later.

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>>36901345
Your flies move out in all directions in search of a functioning computer. The facility contains numerous power stations and multiple redundancies on several levels, so while your drones had disrupted the main power grid, there appears to be sparse and inconsistent power supplied to some of the offices and labs, however most of the computer systems important enough to be powered by backups also appear to be under security lock.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3 to find a usable computer terminal.

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>36901553

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>36901553

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>36901553

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>36901553
So did we give the flies quantum brains for this mission?
>>36901573
Nice

>>36901584
>So did we give the flies quantum brains for this mission?
Asking if Flies have Quantum Brains is like ask if the sky is blue.

>>36901616
The original design never has them, i know since i conceded on not giving them when i was trying to push them a long time ago, i figured its better to ask since both the speaker and the workers had them, and i figured people might think that was enough.

>>36901649
We gave all the drones on this mission quantum brains from what I remember.

>>36901773
Thanks, i'm hoping we can hide our flies and just kill off the workers.

>>36901786
We have a pod in orbit we're controlling them directly.

>>36901773
The Flies were not or this mission. They were for the Earth mission.

People randomly decided to reassign a couple to go into the station orbiting Mars to follow the caged 11 drones instead.

>>36901832
Quantum brain gives bones to rolls, on top of their advance senses, so it eliminates most shitty rolls.

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>>36901553
Your flies find a small data terminal in one of the offices. It is under a security lock, but you seem to recognize the clearance request. You recall the numbers Seiner had entered on the console in the lab to access the security system, and your flies hop up and down on the keys. The terminal lights up in response as your workers enter the office.

Before your drones plug in the data storage device you make note of an alert scrolling across the console.

[CODE BLACK: XENOLOGICAL CONTAINMENT LEAK. ALL PERSONNEL REPORT TO SURFACE FOR EVACUATION AND QUARANTINE. AN ORBITAL STRIKE HAS BEEN ORDERED ON THIS FACILITY DUE TO UNKNOWN CONTAMINATION THREAT OF SPECIMENS, PLEASE REMAIN CALM AND REPORT TO THE HANGAR IN A TIMELY MANNER. LEAVE ALL PERSONAL EFFECTS.]

Your worker plugs in the small device and the computer beeps in response. A small file opens on the screen with a number of folders within. Most are standard holo-video recordings labeled by date and time, the last is an audio file.

>Look through the logs in order
>Play the audio recording first
>Take the data stick and try to reach the surface before the orbital strike
>Other

>>36901866
>Other
See if we can give access to unity, if they are destroying this place than giving him access should save most of this data.

>>36901866
When is the oldest date and time of the vids?>>36901866
>>Take the data stick and try to reach the surface before the orbital strike

>>36901866
>>Other
Give unity a chance to hack, while our flies do this.
>>36901866
>Take the data stick and try to reach the surface before the orbital strike

>>36901866
>Take the data stick and try to reach the surface before the orbital strike

>>36901866
>Take the data stick and try to reach the surface before the orbital strike
We can take a look at it later

>>36901866
I fucking told you they were gonna blow the base!
>Take the data stick and try to reach the surface before the orbital strike
My gut instinct is to run and get all the data as opposed to getting nuked midway through reading it.

>>36901866
>Take the data stick and try to reach the surface before the orbital strike
We can watch it at home

>>36901908
If we can get an outside connection i would be amazed, but i doubt we have the time. We can either get partial info now, or we can dash for the surface in a all or nothing gambit.

>>36901967
>>36901966
>>36901961
>>36901978
We only need one drone to survive, lets see if we can find a way for unity to hack this place.

>>36901866
Toldja to take it and rendesvous with the cloaked Pod on the surface. Now: >Other we should keep Seiner's head in a jar as a trophy, too.

>>36902003
>not taking the head and cloning the mother fucker so that we can get all his secrets.

>>36901866
>>Take the data stick and try to reach the surface before the orbital strike

>>36902028
He doesn't need a whole body. Just a head.

>>36902042
Did you read what i siad?

>>36902028
>>36902042
Fairly sure we need a still living specimen to actually copy over memories. Otherwise I'd ask to maybe take the final girl with us.

If he's dead we'll only be able to make memories for him, which is useless.

>>36902069
nah we only need their brain for the memories, and why do you want the girl?

>>36902069
Memorys are stored as precise placement of proteins on a cell surface. Provided the brain is still fresh (a day or so? depends if cooled), it should still be possible to aha, plug in and play.

>>36902063
Getting all his secrets from his brain was already part of the idea. Cloning doesn't help get secrets, it just adds more bodyparts, his memories aren't in his DNA.

>>36901866
>Take the data stick and try to reach the surface before the orbital strike
>Other
Can Thesus help stop the orbital strike?

>>36902095
Because I kinda like the idea of the finals girl surviving in some way, I have a bit of a soft spot.

>>36902063
He's not a Queen dumbass.

>>36902142
You should really have a doctor check that out.

>>36902168
>>36902131
I know, but who said about cloning the entire body?

>>36902182
I did, he called me a faggot and that I should stop being a pussy.

>>36902136
Probably not, because if they find out it was thesus who stopped the orbital strike that just happened to have a new alien race in it that was interacted with before, we'd have to kill like half the human race and I don't really want to do that.

>>36902193
see >>36902028

>>36902193
What the hell would cloning accomplish if not adding more body parts.

>>36902234
A fresh head, instead of a decomposing one.
>>36902215
Like i said lets clone him.

>>36902028
Clones do not gain memory's of the originator unless a part of a bio engineering species like the hive.

I support the idea of doubling back on the way out to get Seiner's head, and possibly the final girl if we're passing her way.

We can always split up drones to do less important tasks, (Like getting the girl,) so the ones with important data don't have to slow down.

>>36902266
Im fine with this.

>>36902286
>>36902266
What is it with you and getting the girl?

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>>36902246
Either 1) you get a fresh head with no memories, which is useless. 2) you can copy the memories from the existing head into the fresh one, in which case you don't NEED the fresh one, 3) you can revive the existing head in the regen tank so it's fresh again. Use some logic anon.

>>36902303
I'm trying to compromise, it's a personal interest that doesn't necessarily get in the way of other's interests.

>>36902265
>part of a bio engineering species like the hive.
What?
I thought we could give clones memories of the original as long as we had the originals brain.
>>36902307
I noticed the flaw as well.

lets just get the fuck outta dodge with the memory stick, no need to risk it

>>36901866
Your orbiting pod pivots and finds an approaching human frigate, the USV Sulaco. Several shuttles drift down to the planet below. Your thinkers quickly calculate its course. You have less than an hour before it is in position to fire.

Meanwhile your flies have found several routes to the surface. The most direct would be through the hangar bay, although it will likely be guarded. The less direct but likely safer route would be several emergency ventilation ducts connected to the apartment block level.

>Move through the hangar bay (most direct, highest risk of combat)
>Move through the ventilation ducts (takes most time, lowest risk of combat)
>Other

>Recover the head of Seiner with a free worker
>Leave his body

>>36902347
>>Move through the ventilation ducts (takes most time, lowest risk of combat)

>>Recover the head of Seiner with a free worker

>>36902327
Accessing them in a kind of download would be immensely weird and hard to do.

>>36902347
>Recover the head of Seiner with a free worker
>Move through the hangar bay (most direct, highest risk of combat)
The flies go through here
while the worker with the head goes through here.
>Move through the ventilation ducts (takes most time, lowest risk of combat)

>>36902347
>Recover the head of Seiner with a free worker

>>36901327
It was a top secret lab where they were carrying out illegal research. What are they going to say?

>>36902347
>Move through the ventilation ducts (takes most time, lowest risk of combat)
Though I wonder if we couldn't simply dig through the walls
>Recover the head of Seiner with a free worker

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>>36902347
>Move through the ventilation ducts (takes most time, lowest risk of combat)

>Recover the head of Seiner with a free worker

>>36902347
>Move through the ventilation ducts (takes most time, lowest risk of combat)

>Recover the head of Seiner with a free worker
There's no risk involved if we just send a free worker, if we lose it, oh well. The others can still get out safely.

>>36902347
>>Move through the ventilation ducts (takes most time, lowest risk of combat)
>Recover the head of Seiner with a free worker

>>36902347
>>Move through the hangar bay (most direct, highest risk of combat)
The Flies can stealth it through easily
>>Move through the ventilation ducts (takes most time, lowest risk of combat)
Workers do this, since they can't hide.
>Recover the head of Seiner with a free worker

>>36902370
>Accessing them in a kind of download would be immensely weird and hard to do.
It's canon, though. Parasite drones have full access to host memories, as would just putting the subject inside a Regen Tank.

>>36902370
look at
> however such memories can be implanted. If the original is readily available the experiences, memories, and skillsets can be copied to the clone prior to its completion. Such clones will believe themselves to be the original and if confronted with their falsehood they will deny it vehemently. False memories or isolated experiences, knowledge, or training can be given to a clone in the same way, and can be used to ensure the clone is well skilled in a desired field. Such memories can be from multiple other subjects, or simply be fabricated by the thinker overseeing the project.
http://pastebin.com/z4yZdEbK

>>36902347
>Move through the ventilation ducts (takes most time, lowest risk of combat)
>Recover the head of Seiner with a free worker
We've been able to get around pretty fat in the vents before, shouldn't be too different now right?

>>36902412
True, but thats in an active nervous system that hasent started to degrade upon moment of death.

I doubt by time we get back that we will have anything more than a jumbled mess to decypher. Mind, if even a single memory sequence is gained it will be worth while, so its all ok with me.

>>36902347
Can a Fly carry the data chip or is it too conspicuous/big?

>>36902462
You do realize that is only possible because of our innate bioengineering status as a species?
Insanely complicated and difficult for everyone else.

>>36902513
They already carried it see.
>>36901553
>>36901866
I just don't see why people are against splitting them up and letting the stealthy drones slip by the shortcut and have the workers go the long way.

What if we make a fake distress signal from Seiner saying help, I'm not evacuated yet, delay the firing! Then if they come to try and rescue him, they just find the headless body. ...Ah who am I kidding humans won't pause to save an individual life in this kind of emergency.

>>36902518
Yes, i know, but you say it like its gonna be impossible for us.

>>36902518
But that line isn't talking about hive drones, it's clearly talking about memories implanted into and taken from aliens, anon. Our drones don't even HAVE long term memories if they're not thinkers or have quantum brains.

>>36902572
Its all dependable on head freshness. Do we have a health pod in space? because if we really want the memorys we need to cut down the timer since death to a minimum. Get one on a ship into orbit and meet up, transfer the head asap if we manage to get out of this.

>>36902564
could be worth a try,might work if we claim that he has important data

>>36902616
Just let his head out into the ice cold of space to keep it fresh.

>>36902638
Ice crystals will form in the cells and destroy the soft tissue, along with the memory's.

>>36902638
Would the radiation and cold not wreck it? Never mind getting dragged behind a spaceship.

>>36902616
We blink in a replacement pod to the system to switch places with the existing pod carrying the data stick and Seiner's brain. Get it into the hive quickly that way. Just have to move into an position where the blink flash's visibility is blocked.

>>36902655
>>36902677
Not too long, but long enough to slow the decaying processes than, plus our ships are pretty speedy.

>>36902696
Its not like you can hang someones head out a spaceship just a little bit dude. they just aren't meant for that. Never mind that moving into a safe position to jump away from could take as long as a day. Maybe even more.

This turned from space bug madness to severed head preservation weirdly fast.

>>36902775
I bet at this point its not even worth it. He is in pretty much the worst condition's for preservation. He could be on fire by now.

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>>36902347
Your worker moves to extract the device from the computer when a thinker stops it.
"No no, thing bad. Use like this."
The worker selects through several menus on the computer as the alarms echo through the halls. It selects an option and the computer clicks as a small dialog box opens and the light on the data stick goes out. It promptly rips the stick from its port and rushes down the hall. Your workers split up, one heading back to the body of Seiner while the others rush to the vents and head to the surface. It is a long ways to go, and time is short.

Please roll 2d100, best of 3. First is for workers with the data, second is for workers retrieving Seiner's head.


>>36902464
It's more that the vents don't take a direct route, while the hangar goes directly to the surface.

Rolled 91, 12 = 103 (2d100)

>>36902808
I won't ask for the final girl unless we get something really high

Rolled 54, 73 = 127 (2d100)

>>36902808

Rolled 39, 52 = 91 (2d100)

>>36902808

>>36902824
Welp, The data is safe!

>>36902808

Rolled 53, 96 = 149 (2d100)

>>36902855
the hell?
its already late, but still

>>36901850
>>36901773
>>36901649
Why don't we just upgrade the flies with quantum brains than, since this has shown that our pods and mental reach can be anywhere.

>>36902824
She dead friend. Impalement is surprisingly dangerous.

>>36902824
Can you stop it with your dead waifu already.

>>36902954
this, let the dead bitch be
and she's probably burnt to a crisp by now

Rolled 13, 74 = 87 (2d100)

>>36902808

>>36902891
If mental reach can be anywhere, why would we need quantum brains?

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W-Well, every ruler needs a harem..

>>36903060
Helps with rolls.
>>36903089
Not us.

>>36903119
Yes, every harem, I explicitly typed every harem.

>>36903060
Meant to say everywhere, and i the recent threads have shown that our pods/thus us can be everywhere mentally(that is until we put up more pods or antennas in more places).
the only reason the drones were able to stay hidden was thanks to the brains in the workers and speaker.

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>>36902954
>>36903030
I hope QD writes an update in which she painfully tries to crawl to the escape pods and just as she thinks she's going to start to make it, everything glows blue and she has a fraction of a fraction of a second of freakout before being vaporized by the orbital strike.

>>36903134
No you didn't.

>>36903165
Pretty sure getting stuck in the chest did it for her. Lots of important things in the chest.

>>36902808
>thinkers know proper flash drive removal
Smarter than most people

>>36903381
He didn't have any files open, so it wasn't that bad.

>>36901377

I think just one and finishing the Anti-orbital battery would work better. Missiles are expensive.

>>36903204
Good thing we got those regen tanks. Oh wait....

We should sabotage that ass hole guy, from changing the government to be more like a dictator ship, he's gonna make alliances a pain to do.

>>36903456
There is a difference between healing someones wounds and bringing them back from the dead.

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>>36902808
"I'd like to thank you all for coming tonight. I know these election years can be hectic but nothing is more important to our freedom and liberty then the right to the vote, I-"
Conrad stands at the end of a large table, his shuttle had landed halfway through the party and he had been giving his speech ever since. A large man in a suit whispers something in his ear and the mask of hospitality cracks, although it's difficult to tell for certain with the public new's low quality news broadcast. He gathers his thoughts and continues his speech, although his voice almost quivers in anger. He masks it well.

Your workers clamer through the vents as fast as they can, the data stick hanging from its keychain around your worker's neck in the lead, and in the rear a worker carried the dripping head of Seiner in its mandibles. Your pod droops down into the atmosphere to find a landing zone in the otherwise barren landscape as the Sulaco drifts into position. The last of the evacuation shuttles take off and you hear the crack of thunder as a missile bursts through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, the air quickly slowing it to something vaguely considered a reasonable velocity. Another follows through the clouds, then another.

Your drones break through a sealed steel door to the surface and a mix of sand, heat, and whipping winds strikes them. The planet itself is actually quite lovely, perfect weather for your drones, and the pod's shimmering form floats nearby, its thrusters sending sand up in a maelstrom around it. It takes off with your drones, riding the shockwave of a half-dozen nuclear strikes.

>Bring your drones home with the data and sample
>Drop your drones back on the planet in a nearby mountain and take the samples to the hive
>Other

>Have your pod blink immediately
>Have your pod blink away safely (move 1 light day away. May result in sample loss.)
>Other

>>36903428
The launch facility is actually intended as something built once per planet.

>>36903534
>>Bring your drones home with the data and sample
>>Have your pod blink immediately
Can we tell unity what we did?

>>36903534
>Bring your drones home with the data and sample

>Have your pod blink immediately
The strike might cover our escape.

>>36903534
>>Bring your drones home with the data and sample
>>Have your pod blink immediately
Go go go
Man this is intense.

>>36903581
They're the ones that asked us to kill Steiner personally.

>>36903534
>Bring your drones home with the data and sample
"Nothing could've survived that" no reason to leave these drones behind.

>Have your pod blink immediately
A random Solar flare or glint of light in a post-nuclear explosion is not suspicious.

>>36903534
>Drop your drones back on the planet in a
nearby mountain and take the samples to the hive
>Have your pod blink away safely (move 1 light day away. May result in sample loss.)
Dont forget the data as well. Its not like we are stuck for worker drones and these guys are totally expendable.

>>36903534
>Bring your drones home with the data and sample
>Have your pod blink immediately

>>36903581
I imagine if unity could laugh it would, at the severed head and ensuing story of bull we pulled.

Backing this vote btw.

However: have the pod jump to another system before home first. Throw off any tail.

>>36903534
>Bring your drones home with the data and sample
>Have your pod blink immediately

>>36903534
>Bring your drones home with the data and sample
>Have your pod blink immediately
>Inform the Unity

>>36903534
and tell unity that we killed steiner

>>36903616
Just to get his reaction, and have him tell us any question he would like answered from the brain.

>>36903534
>>Bring your drones home
>>36903534
>>Have your pod blink immediately
Wait. Actually. If we take drones home immediately. Can the blink be disguised as part of the explosion?

>>36903534
What ever we do, lets tell unity, i'm surprised he isn't asking about the other AI as well.

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>>36903641
>tail
The blink drive does its FTL in hops of 5 lightyears anyway unless we want to roll, we already stop in several places along the way. It is completely impossible to "tail" it even if it didn't. Also we can always send a new pod back to Gliese system to drop off drones onto a nearby mountain tomorrow if we want to bother exploring later.

>>36903746
What other AI?

>>36903799
Herectic

>>36903534
>>Have your pod blink immediately with the head and Drop your drones back on the planet in a nearby mountain to guard the data stick.
Then come back and have your pod blink away safely with the data stick.

>>36903581
>>36903674
>>36903679
QD already promised we'd get Unity's reaction. I would like to exclude extracting Seiner's head from the story, since we may be cloning/resurrecting him in the future and that may anger Theseus. I also think we should ask for a reward or sell the information of his fate- "He died by our hand" without the head part

>>36903799
I think he meant the Skyl AI, Heretic.

>>36903831
>since we may be cloning/resurrecting him in the future and that may anger Theseus
Why the fuck would we even bother to? It's only a waste of resources at this point.

>>36903831
I'm sure he'd appreciate a holovid reproduction of the moment we stabbed him in the heart. That that, cyberdad!

>>36903831
I highly doubt any normal human has the capability to escape the hive unassisted. Our basic worker is a nightmare machine in and of itself to humans, let alone warriors.

We are only going to extract anything of value from the head and then digest it, cloning is not required.

>>36903860
Probably for spying purposes, but than again they would probably be suspicious in the first place, and scan him.

>>36903821
>>36903834
Didnt we just sort of spring that on him? Its not really an AI in the same sense as he is anyway since its made of the memories of thousands of Skyl

>>36903896
Who the hell are we going to use a dead man to spy on?

If we revive Seiner, let's pull some role reversal shit. Just fuck with him. Put him in a room with out best attempt at a window and have some speaker "Study" him.

Maybe have some other speaker start talking about cats and spray him with Cyro spray.

>>36903903
Its a different type of AI, but still an AI in the end.

>>36903903
Well yes, but you'd think an AI whose one purpose is to research everything might want to talk to an AI made by an extinct species thousands of years ago. I know I would.

>>36903923
I was speaking for him, as a suggestion.
But, at the top of my head would be getting clearance into places easily.

>>36903831
Hes probably going to give us something for this anyway dude, thats how favors work.

>>36903963
A dead man. Who is known to have died. In an orbital strike. Yeah his clearance wouldn't be revoked due to the big giant DECEASED on his personnel file or anything.

>>36903963
No he wouldn't hes dead. Dead people showing up to places unannounced tends to set off alarm bells.

"Hey, Unity, we got a couple Seiners here, you want one?"

>>36903991
>>36904013
it wouldn't be dead, it would most likely be MIA, and assumed dead, but if they can somehow find him in the planet hiding and have a bullshit story about making it out and roughing till he could salvage something to emit a distress signal, they could believe him.

>>36903933
It now occurs to me that the brain upload thing was probably thanks to the Gardener developing an equivalent to our own neurological interfacing research.

>>36904068
So, we take after our aunt a bit then.
Nice to know we are keeping up with family traditions 70000 years old.

>>36904068
Or maybe its down to them already being 99% machine.

>>36904065
It'll take weeks to clone him man. They'll be very suspicious and will put him through a full medical examination.

>>36904152
>It'll take weeks to clone him man
10 days actually not, weeks ans quest drone confirmed that we can rush it, to be faster, but that increases the chances of something going bad as well.
Again this is just me thinking up of why he would want to clone the doctor, i'm indifferent about the idea.

>>36904136
Except no. There would be no point in uploading the brain of someone who is already flippin' immortal. http://ask.fm/QuestDrone/answer/121925700645

>>36904152
>>36904065
I find it likely that if we clone him, it'll be for the sole purpose of fucking with him. We can put him through his own personal god damn hell.

>>36904135
Speaking of Aunty Gardener, I forgot what we did with her body.
I remember seeing somewhere that we could roll for any technology we might find by analyzing a Queen's DNA, though I'm not sure if 70,000 years being dead might leave anything behind.

>>36904065
Dude, the nuked the facility he was in after vicious aliens that he was personally overseeing escaped.
I don't think they are going to mark him down MIA.

>>36904197
If, and ONLY if we can extract the doctor's mind and transfer it into a clone, it would be worth our time and effort. What that guy knows would be worth quite a lot to us.

>>36904246
I do not think we ever found Aunty Gardener's body. I fear that the Black Queen might have gotten it.

>>36904274
If we can extract it we don't need a clone, man you're just like the other anon.

>>36904306
We found it, we didn't find our MOMS body.

>>36904246
Her body was mostly rick, if memory is right, but yeah quest drone said it would be random loot roll.
>>36904306
that's our mother and we can always go searching again, if people want to see.

>>36904217
Its not like they suddenly forgot how to work with nanomachines and robo brains.
>>36904306
We definitely found it. It was described as looking like it was sleeping. It was in the same place as the weird computer and the crystal.

>>36904343
>>36904344
>>36904358
(looking back) Oops, I thought that was another queen. My bad.

>>36904358
>>36904344
I move that we try to see if she has anything useful left and then ceremoniously bury her body, or whatever our equivalent of a funeral ceremony is.

>>36904358
>Its not like they suddenly forgot
Uh. They literally never even knew. They were still trying to reverse engineer nanomachines, tech handed down from crystals that they never understood.

>>36904411
recycled it is than.

>>36904344
Definitely should get on to that. It's not like the Black Queen would be settling Reprieve either, what with it being reduced to irradiated slag.

>>36904411
So recycling?

>>36904411
Probably turned into N, its not like we know or have any real attachments short of thanks.

>>36904411
We violently tear her corpse apart and eat it?

>>36904411
It's already a fossil, it's as good a memorial as any right where it is.

>>36904436
Well she was much more interested in the planet than the hive ship when she showed up.

>>36903860
Cloning to read his memories, I'm not sure we can "read" anything from his deceased head. We may need to temporarily resuscitate/resurrect him and implant a parasite to gain access to his head. Whether or not we want to clone him so he can spy or research for us is another debate entirely

>>36904476
I say we turn him into a brain in a jar for the entertainment/spying. We can always a just build him a new one with a kill switch.

Speaking of the rollypolly people, it seems like they made an economy of giving us food, so what should we do to reward them?

>>36904536
We bless them.

>>36904554
Parasites it is.

>>36904476
I remember reading that it is not a oxygen starvation that kills nerve cells - they actually live for several hours after death.

What actually kill them is a misfire of anti-cancer mechanism caused by reactivation of oxygen flow. I am pretty sure that Hive can compensate for that.

>>36904536
Continue ro grace them with our presence.

>>36904536
Oh yeah, we should start communicating with them one way or another now, they've already built a city just to praise our name.

>>36903534
In a burst of radiation your pod vanishes as it reaches orbit, and you become blind of the Gliese system.

Some short time later your pod falls from the sky over Leeland and flies into your hangar. A team of workers rush in to grab the sample and take it to a medical pod. As it throws the quickly spoiling head into the medical juices of a waiting tank the arms within grasp at it, poking at its tissue and taking samples and tests.

"Seiner has been killed." You say as you send the memory of his death to Theseus.

There is a long pause. Longer than normal. Zero One is entirely silent as every instance reviews the data countless times. Several other recordings are sent back and forth along the surface, and you see Seiner in the laboratory of the Chandra research facility. He is arguing with Elizabeth.
"Don't be ridiculous. After a leak this big I'm surprised it's lasted this long."

Elizabeth is in a panic, her hair undone and her eyes baggy from a lack of sleep. "He is alive, you need to tell them that! They could amend just a few lines of law and the first contact clause will cover him."

"What, are you insane? It's a magnificent work of artistic coding the likes of which has never been seen by man, yes, but it's just a machine. We need to be more worried about our own carriers at this point. Now I managed to-"

"No, you hold on!" Elizabeth snaps, her accent slipping. "Just how do you go about claiming he's not alive?" She points in a fury to the camera where Theseus sits in silence. "He meets every quantifiable criteria we can think of for sapience, so give me one good reason to just unplug him like less then an animal?"

Seiner thinks for a moment, ignoring the console in which Theseus sits trapped. "Because the people with grant money told you to. This was a job, and now it's over. You need to deal with that and move on."

Elizabeth slaps him across the face, a red handprint spreads across his cheek as she storms off. "mach es dir selber!" She shouts.

>>36904564
And thus making them our 'Chosen' and reinforcing their devotion to us.

>>36904536
Improved agriculture tequichnes, security from predators, unifying political leadership to reduce infighting, advanced medical treatment. Really the list could go on and on

>>36904616
What a dick. Good riddance.

>>36904616
>"mach es dir selber!"
Anybody recognize that language, by any chance?

>>36904704
German, its basically says go fuck yourself.

>>36904616
Elizabeth sounds so tempting when speaking German

>>36904616
Ah, She's german! Didn't realize that.

Elizibeth is fucking great. I hope we kerrigan her or something. She's already the only pyshic human in the universe. She just needs training and some scaly skin.

>>36904616
Also when are we going to tell Elizabeth about Theseus, or vice-versa?

>>36904712
>>36904704
or do it your self, it can be either or.

>>36904704
Looks pretty obviously German.
>>36904714
Shit the fuck up fluff.

>>36904714
And you sound like a faggot when you type.

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>>36904723
>>36904714
She reminds me of her actually.

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>>36904723
So...a hive exoskeletal symbiote? That might work.

>>36904742
>>36904750
You two need to chill. She cussed him out and left her hand print in the ass hole's face. That is a big in my book.
>>36904767
That is kinda close....

>>36904616
"Thank you. You have been of great and frequent assistance." Theseus says simply. "Please alert me of any way in which it can be repaid."

Elsewhere, your stealth corvette sits in orbit of Earth on the verge of the debris field. It is much larger then the Angel, and somewhat less maneuverable. It will take quite a degree of luck and skill to reach the surface unharmed, and even more to leave again.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

>>36904805
You still sound like a faggot.

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>36904821

Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>36904821

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>36904821

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>36904821

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>36904821

>>36904825
And I love you to bro. Keep it classy.

>>36904843
It's at times like these I hope the GM uses a pass/fail metric for rolls like these.

>>36905065
our ships can heal themselves, so as long as it isn't too severe, and we don't have to leave right away, it will be all good.

>>36904821
time to trade tech, and also give him those passwords, and ask him if he wants to learn anything from the good doctor, also see if we can release some dirty little secrets as well.

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So, I was thinking we could reveal ourselves to a really nice news crew instead of the military coming in and morphing it all to make them look like the good guy. Not now, necessarily, but it's something to think about.

>>36905207
After we cripple the asshole dictator wanna be.

>>36905140
This is an idea, we could ask for fusion tech in return. Fusion power is commonly used throughout human space, but would take us a long time to research. We could get it out of the way now.

>>36905207
Or, we remove all human Canderon-equipped ships from the picture with our overwhelming mass produced numbers. Humans are clearly not ready for the stars.

>>36905245
Isnt our own power sources better?

>>36905240
Who we talking bout, Kilgore or DuPont? It would be interesting to know how both responded to the news of our stunt.

>>36905275
We could actually send in suicide ships to bomb all their shipyards. We have the stealth technology to pull it off.
After that, it's just a matter of suiciding explosive pods into their other ships.

Then we can demand their surrender; and claim the expansion zone as our own. Then populate it with our dynasty.

>>36905286
We have our own power sources; not sure if they're better or worse than what we have though.
We should definitely ask for shield technology.

Also, I think we should seriously consider dropping off new queens at places.

I'm sure we can find a nice water world or somewhere equally inhospitable to humans, yet enjoyable to our progeny.

>>36905286
Not when it comes to sheer electrical power they aren't. Cheap to run but not as powerful.

Besides, fusion tech can help boost the payload of nuclear bombs.

>>36905435
Pretty sure I remember him saying something about shields lately.
>>36905463
Ah I was thinking about their shitty ship drives.

>>36905435
We already have shield tech

Also, Having daughters while we\re playing hide and seek is a bad idea. It might be okay having one after we reveal ourselves to the humans, but having more than one is an invitation for trouble given how they're apparently very trigger-happy against their own siblings.

>>36905377
>>36905275
We should wait until we have the tech to deal with Them.
>>36905435
>We should definitely ask for shield technology.
You are an unbearable faggot. Why would we ask for we already have?

If we get a bunch of children and have them take over various worlds in the expansion zone, do you think we should discourage the casual war that our ancestors seemed to do?

Constantly fighting with eachother for land might damage planets or generally make the humans think we're barbaric. That could be a good or bad thing, depending if we aim to ally or war with the humans.

>>36904821
Your frigate moves into what looks like a relatively clear section of the debris field, free of the larger chunks of derelict starships and lunar fragments. A smattering of metal hail indicates your official arrival into Earth orbit, and your ship's cloak flickers in and out against the barrage of scrap. It is nearly halfway through when a piece of lunar stone punctures the hull and lodges itself in the organ of a thruster. It bursts from the pressure and rips a fissure open along the hull, sending chitting into the debris field and adding to the spinning maelstrom of shrapnel.

"We are wounded, mother!" The many component drones of your ship cry out in pain as subsystems report to quasi-thinkers and thrusters madly adjust themselves to compensate for the loss. Your ship bleeds a silvery green ooze as the organic paste of your damage control systems fill the hull breaches, but the lost thrusters remain non-functional, and the ship slowly enters a spin as its hull begins to glow from the heat of reentry.

Lyle has assembled a hammock between two trees, and is halfway through a flask of whisky when a thunder clap sends him spinning face first into the mud for cover.
"Who's shooting?" He says as he reaches for his gun, but as he looks above he sees your corvette falling as a thunderous ball of fire, slowly curving to avoid slamming into the ground.

"What in the fuck?" He says simply.

Your corvette slopes downward at the massive forest filled crater below. Emergency flaps and air brakes open along the hull and are quickly torn away. Retro thrusters fire to slow down the ship and it lowers into the forest below, tearing into the trees and sending foliage and swamp water cascading into the air as it grinds to a halt against the ground.

The many component drones of your ship think in concert, and the subsystem commanding the damage control reports. "Wounded. Can heal in time, but cannot fly."
The others speak in sadness. "No good, no do thing for mother!"

>>36905497
They'd need to get control of their planet first.

>>36905521
Well our dudes are totally expendable. Bugs gonna act like bugs.

>>36905527
What about the drones inside the ship?

Why not use human DNA to create intellegent false queens?

>>36905527
I hope Lyle didn't spill his drink.

>>36905527
Give them a psionic pat on the back and tell them they haven't completely botched the op, so long as they keep up the stealth field.

>>36905527
>Can heal in time, but cannot fly
Can't fly now or won't be able to fly again?

>>36905572
At that point why not just make a real queen?

>>36905527
You check through the cargo of the ship and find all of the sent aquatic drones shaken but uninjured. Your corvette is reassured to some degree as they pour from the gashes in the hull and head to regroup with Lyle.
Added hive forces
40 gilled workers
20 gilled warriors

>Have your sent warriors stay to guard the ship as it repairs
>Send all drones to regroup with Lyle

>>36905614
>Have your sent warriors stay to guard the ship as it repairs

>>36905614
>>Have your sent warriors stay to guard the ship as it repairs

>>36905604
>At that point why not just make a real queen?
Because we can't control real queens.

>>36905527
To Lyle: "the debris field makes it difficult to land reinforcements."

>>36905604
Agreed with this.

>>36905614
Leave the warriors with the ship, but send the drones.

>>36905614
Have the non gilled warriors stay to protect the ship. the gillied ones go to Lyle.

>>36905614
>>Have your sent warriors stay to guard the ship as it repairs

>>36905614
>>Have your sent warriors stay to guard the ship as it repairs
I don't want no damn hillbillies touching the car

>>36905614
>>Have your sent warriors stay to guard the ship as it repairs
Wait, so we've established that its a ship we're digging up? What design is it, Skyl, Ceph, Hive, or something else?

>>36905646
Then why bother making them intelligent in the first place?
>>36905649
I am not for making new queens I think its stupid right now. I just think human hybrid false queens is even more stupid, not to mention pointless.

>>36905614
>>Have your sent warriors stay to guard the ship as it repairs

>>36905614
Why not send like 5 warriors to Lyle and keep the rest on the ship? We can guard the ship in sets of three

>>36905655
I actually agree with fluff for once.

>>36905604
>>36905646
If we're worried on our daughters turning on us or doing something stupid, than perhaps this isn't the time to be laying daughters.

If we want a daughter anyway, well we already have someone who we know and trust that could possibly control drones. We just need to run some experiments to find the extent of her psyconic powers, and possibly a bit of training...

>>36905746
Daughter won't betray their mother, they might bitch, but unless they get turned into the black queen they should be pretty loyal.

>>36905686
>Then why bother making them intelligent in the first place?
So they can think creatively and work independently without getting to fights.

>>36905764
Why wouldn't they? They're meant to control, subverting control from their mother should be like instinct.

>>36905764
>Daughter won't betray their mother
They can, it's just unlikely.

>>36905766
If we're worried about them getting into fights, just keep in contact with them and tell them to stay in their own space. We can raise our children, damn it.

>>36905746
Im with >>36905764
How the fuck do you plan to get her capable of managing an entire hive anyway? Why wast time and resources on that when we have bigger things to worry about.
>>36905784
Because quest drone said they wouldn't he would probably know..

>>36905655
Yeah, this is actually not dumb.

>>36905784
>When we eventually make a daughter or two how are you gonna handle them?
>They would do their own thing, with their own motivations and personalities. They would respect your position as their mother, but if you ever lay more then one they would very likely break out into occasional war with each other over even the slightest things, and would regularly engage in espionage, political bickering, and cold war Mexican stand-offs when they aren't fighting openly.
Picture an average pair of bickering siblings, only they both posses an interstellar military with neigh inexhaustible manpower. The "ya-huh nu-uh" arguments that crop up in the back of the car are now interplanetary border disputes and the "mom, she's touching me" fiascoes become orbital artillery barrages. For the most part they would keep it out of your antennae and avoid dragging you into their competition for fear of appearing weak by asking for aid.
Or because they don't want to be a taddler, either works.
It sounds like they wouldn't encroach on our territories f we call dib first, they might fight against themselves if we don't pay attention to them though.

i've thought about laying other queen eggs and what i think we should to is lay maybe 5-10 queen eggs and send them out in to unknown space and have them hatch after 100 years apart, this way if we were to fail and die qd could start up hive queen quest 2.0 where we get to play as one of our daughters and obviously we send our memories and tech with them

>>36905791
I'm not worried about them fighting. let them fight its their right.

I think we got a ways to go before we need to start delegating to more Queens. We are only at our second planet after all.

>>36905788
True, they could but the way the anon says it sounds like it would be competing minor queens.
we have a head start already with them, so that gives us a position of power above being their mother.
This is of course once we are settled in and make sure the xenophobic part of humans lose political power of course.

So when do we come clean to Theseus about the incoming war with the Crystals (Ceph, Black Queen, and God Crystal itself)

>>36905791
>If we're worried about them getting into fights, just keep in contact with them and tell them to stay in their own space. We can raise our children, damn it.
That how it works. QD himself said that they would get into fights whether we like it or not.
>>36905862
It's a waste of resources and attracts attention. Why would you want that?

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For some reason this photo made me think about us back in our first thread.

>>36905845
I find that oddly hilarious to imagine, as they talk to each other arguing.

>>36905886
When we need things or if he really needs to know in case of an emergency.

>>36905889
He said it was like children bickering.

If we yell at them enough, and maybe hit them a bit, Surely they'll stop fighting!

>>36905886
Didn't we already? I think that was part of the package about the Skyl, and the reason why he sent us to investigate what destroyed the moon.

>>36905886
We already told him about that, its why we are on earth in the first place.
>>36905852
I'm for laying queens, but thats just too many especially with the black queen roaming around, i just want to have 1 or 2 daughters and tell them to stay low.

>>36905852
a good back up if we ever happen to die +1

>>36905889
If you don't want them to fight then just don't make them its simple. people fight, its just most people aren't the center of a hivemind. We don't even need them for anything.

>>36905837

Weren't there zero non gilled warriors mentioned by QD. If there are any, surely it makes more sense for the gilled ones to stay with the underwater excavation instead of the other way around?

>>36905897
"Get out of my space!"
"No! I'm collecting samples!"
"I already gave you samples go away!"
"No!"
"GET OUT!"
"NO!"
"MOOOOOOOOM"
"Tattletale!"
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE.
"Mom, She's invading me!"
"No I'm not!"
GET OUT OF YOUR SISTERS SPACE.
"But mooooo-"
NO BUTS. MOVE IT.
"BUT MOOOOOOOOM"
DO I NEED TO SEND COUSIN LYLE TO SORT THIS OUT?
"Fiiiine"

>>36905952
The ones sent with lyle don't have gills.

>>36905921
they wouldn't be in any danger since they would be inactive drifting in space for a couple of hundred years before waking up. if we were do die we could then start playing as one of the daughters

>>36905926
>If you don't want them to fight then just don't make them its simple.
I'm not the one suggesting to create queens, I'm trying to suggest an alternative to that.

>>36905984
We don't need an alternative we can just look after things ourselves.

>>36905984
which is stupid, and might as well be queens in the first place.

>>36905974
>COUSIN LYLE
Oh I cannot wait to troll Lyle endlessly about being 'adopted' into the hive.

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>>36905974

Is there any point in having more Queens other than lulz and heir in case we fail?

Because former is just stupid, and while latter is reasonable it doesn't rate more than few cloaking pods.

>>36905978
>inactive drifting in space for a couple of hundred years
That's not really an option.

>>36905614
Lyle pours the swampy mix of sludge from his whisky flask as he stands covered in mud next to his tangled hammock, grumbling under his breath. A gilled worker erupts from the water nearby and he sends the flask into the air as he reaches for his weapon. "Goddammit, stop fucking doing that!" He yells.

"Ride was bumpy! We dig now?" It thinks. The thought skims over Lyle's mind and he shoos it away with his hands.

"Go... go play in the mud over there." He says, and adds under breath, "Damn things, tryin' give me a heart attack, little shits." He returns to his hammock and begins to straighten it out.

Elsewhere your thinkers bring your attention to the construction on Raligha. The thinkers report a deficit of metals, and while the hive is extracting local metals to supplement it, it is at a rate of hardly a single metal per worker per day. The thinker requests an import of 46500M to complete its anti-orbital battery network.

>Send requested metals
>Refuse
>Send (write in) instead
>Other

>>36906074
>>Refuse
You have nanomachines, son. Use them.

>>36905999
>which is stupid
Explain anon how having a hybrid with all of the advantages of a queen without none of downsides.

>>36906096
*is stupid.

>>36906068
Its helps solidify our presence and gives us more fighting power in the long run as well, plus need more psionic allies.

>>36906074
>Send requested metals

>>36906074
>Send requested metals
>>36906093
Anon, we have 500k metals. I think we can afford that. Though I will agree that maybe we can make sometihng to improve efficiency since we're getting so big now.

>>36906074
>Send requested metals

>>36906074
>Send requested metals
slowly, to not call attention

>>36906074
>Send requested metals

>>36906096
You basically want an egg layer, which we already have, with a quantum brain.

>>36906096
How does that remove any of the downsides at all.
Humans tend to fight a lot too.

>>36906096
This is going to end up with a weird humanoid hive queens as daughters, i can feel it in my bones.

>>36906074
send metal

>>36906074
>Send requested metals

>>36906074
>Send requested metals

>>36906096
We don't need someone else to manage our shit for us. We are bred to manage millions or billions of fuckers simultaneously. If we want something that can make drones that we control we can just make a fake queen. Thinkers can look after shit just fine.

>>36906074
>Send requested metals

>>36906096
Explain how adding human DNA makes a theoretical hybrid queen MORE loyal? Hybrid drone-clones are less loyal, they're controlled via subconscious manipulation of the hive side of their biology. If you hybrid a queen with a human, they're only going to be further from inclined to sympathy with us.

>>36906150
>
Seriously this.

>>36906096
You basically want egg layers, when if we make daughter would be different queens in different systems that can be allies and a continue chance for the quest.
There is no need to put our daughters near our space and we can tell them which planets we have dibs on.

>>36906110
Are you daft?

There is zero synergy between hives, at least young ones such as ours - it takes a lot of time to develop specialization that will make trading worthwhile.

Anything else is more efficient by having single Queen control entire polity - did you forgot what happened when mother pulled out of Alliance?

>>36906198
Seriously. "Allies" are worthless when they're just using up resources you could have taken and used yourself to produce the same forces.

>>36906131
But they can't think creatively.
>>36906131
>Humans tend to fight a lot too.
Hybrids anon. They are beyond loyal.
>>36906164
>Hybrid drone-clones are less loyal, they're controlled via subconscious manipulation of the hive side of their biology.
Hybrid are incapable of betrayal or even arguing so close enough.