Why must these be done on Sunday nights.

Now I won't find out what happens until tomorrow.

>>38260904
>It is not hail, but remains. Larger pieces slowly appear in the night sky as shooting stars
That's a pretty sight

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>>38260904
>Current armory
269 Thorn Launchers
20 Thorn Cannons
123 Sting Casters
30 Cyclotrons
15 Rotary Stingers
3 Fire Sprays
5 Plasma Spray
22 Particle Cannons

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 1798605
Metals: 507743
Credits: ₡2226
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,177,450

>Hive population and upkeep cost
Hive maintenance – 24725
Queen – 5
Fake Queen (3) – 66
Worker (85005) – 170010
Aquatic Worker (5140) – 20560
Vacuum Worker (5200) – 31200
Radiator Worker (5100) – 20400
Warrior (1209) – 6045
Aquatic Warrior (100) – 700
Thinker (1300) – 3900
Quantum Thinker (355) – 1775
Speaker – (3) – 12
Digger (200) – 800
Refinery (40) – 280
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 (12) – 300
Excavator (1000) – 19000
Colossus (20) – 300
Harvester (50) – 950
Support Fluttercraft (2) – 272
Ghost Beetle (5) – 135
Heavy Warrior (5) – 95
Advanced Relay (69) – 6900 (set as default method of ship control)
Upkeep: 310070N

>Hive fleet
Space Pod (10) – 300
Shuttle (10) – 250
Mining Corvette (36) – 9900
Patrol Corvette (20) – 10140
Scout Corvette (8) – 1800
Lancer Corvette (2) – 450
Fleet Corvette (44) – 9900
Stealth Frigate (4) – 1952
Heavy Cruiser (10) – 12150
46842N

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
25 Human captives of the USV Hope – 750
3 Human hybrid clone upkeep – 90
Specializations:
>Brawler
>Tech
>Engineer
10 Skyl replicant clones in production – 600 [1 day remaining]
Lyle Rogers – 47
1487N

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 358,399

>Income
Metals: 356,000
Nutrients: 1,951,250
Net: 1,592,851

Wow. Poetic intro.

>>38260963
It's raining corpses.

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Time to research that big fish fucker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M

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>>38260985
>the corpses are shining brightly as they burn through
even prettier

>>38260985
Bodies, floor, etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04F4xlWSFh0

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>>38260976
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
>Surface to Orbit Missile System (750N)
>Anti-orbital batteries: 35/35 (8750N)
Military structures
>Hangar facilities: Room for 4040 Aero/fighter Drones and 2020 Shuttles (2525N)
>Psionic Shroud (1,000N)
>Prison Outpost
Industrial structures
>Docking Pylon: (29) (2900N)
1990 under construction
[100 Vanguard Frigates]
[16 Heavy fighters]
[180 Heavy fighters queued]
[5,000 Shuttles queued]
[Empty docks:0/116]
Economic Structures
>Mine: 245 Excavators, 180 Diggers, +65750 M per day (+25 M per digger, +250 per excavator)
>Algae Farm: +1,200,000per day, 12,000 Workers (1 worker per 100N)
>Film harvester dock: +750,000N per day, 1500 Harvesters active (500N per Harvester)

M-662
Raligha
Defensive structures
>Anti-orbital batteries: 35/35 (8750N)
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 (average harvest provides net gain of 500N)
>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

M-323
>Orbital docking pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 sub capitals or 1 capital ship, (50N)
[4 Heavy Fighters]
[Empty docks: 0/4]
>Mining corvette salvage operations +288000M per day (+8000M per corvette)

Deep space waystation
>100 docking pylons [under construction]

>>38261005
Nah, I'm more of a calmer dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KNuo72QuYk

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>>38261005
Can we count them like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums?

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>>38260985
>It is not hail, but remains. Larger pieces slowly appear in the night sky as shooting stars

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>>38261036
New Construction Options
Defensive structures
>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
>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)
Military Structures
>Hangar Expansion – Construct fortified hangar facilities of +40 aero/fighter drone space and +20 shuttle space. 50N 100M
>Psionic Shroud – A single building built around the shattered remains of a Void Shard, the shroud amplifies the unnatural mental silence of the broken crystal within to mask an entire planet from potential detection, preventing outside forces from easily detecting the thoughts of a hive. (2,000N 5,000M)

>>38261039
Love me some Zach Hemesy.

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>>38261062
Industrial Structures
>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
>Weather Spire – A networked collection of spires spread across a planet capable of studying and altering a planet’s climate and atmosphere. Construction includes the building of all spires needed to function. (8,000N 20,000M)
Economic Structures
>Orbital solar array – A station placed in orbit of the local star equipped with a membrane of photosynthetic cells several kilometers in diameter capable of producing a steady stream of nutrient income. Provides 1000N per day total (5,000N 50,000M
>Harvester Dock – A large pier built along the shore overlooking the spore-producing ocean film that serves as an unloading area for Harvester drones, and contains pipelines to pump collected raw nutrients to the hive’s awaiting processing facilities, includes a single Harvester which is covered by the cost and upkeep of the dock. Provides 500N per day total (38N 50M)
>Orbital electroponic station – An orbital instillation built near a large source of hydrogen used to fuel a large fusion core, which in turn provides electrical power to a contained algae farm facility. Must be built in orbit of a gas giant. Provides +500N per day and doubles as a gas mining facility, refueling the tritium stores of any ships in the system. (1000M)
>Algae Farm – A carved out space used to utilize Leeland’s natural electrical field to cultivate food. +100N per day, 1 worker to maintain.

>>38261073
My nigga.

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>>38261087
Current research

>Leviathan dissection
Very fast
Picking this vast creature apart should reveal insights into its strange capabilities.

>Crystalline neural structure
Medium (requires 500 N for testing and experimentation)
Further research and experimentation regarding the strange white crystals could lead to the ability to reproduce them, and even incorporate them in your hive’s biology.

Thought muffler
Slow
While you are still unsure how to build replicas of the void shard remains needed to build the psionic shroud, you do think you may be able to recreate a similar effect. While the result would likely not be nearly as effective, it could be employed by individual drones or ships without the need for built infrastructure to support it.

Solar collector miniaturization
Medium
This bloated and fragile module is a miniaturized application of the orbital solar array that can be mounted on a ship as a module. The ship is highly vulnerable to attack, making it a poor choice for a combat vessel, but it becomes a highly efficient mobile nutrient farm, capable of either supporting itself or a small fleet of others. Each module slot allows for a single solar collector dish. They must be retracted beneath the hull to perform a Blink or high-G maneuver, and while deployed the ship is treated statistically as unarmored and unshielded, regardless of design. A ship with a deployed solar collector cannot cloak.

>>38261062
>New Construction Options
I always read that in CABAL's voice.

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>>38261112
>Smart Mines
Medium
Replacing digger drones with programmable seeds of nanomachines allows the hive to effectively create metal trees. The nanomachines spread roots through the ground to locate ore veins, break them down and assemble them on the surface as metallic fruit-like bulbs for workers to gather.

>Carbon nanostructure construction
Medium
By using the ancient Raligha ship as a basis, and new construction techniques, you can implement more sturdy nanotubes and carbon based diamond filaments to slightly improve the stability and durability of your ships without impeding maneuverability or increasing cost.

>Genesis Project
Fast
By studying the practices and techniques on top of the dedicated technologies of the Gardener's hive, you can develop a method that can be used to rapidly spread foliage and life on a planet to develop a new biosphere. The process is time and resource intensive at the start, but with the use of weather spires the biosphere quickly takes root and becomes self-sufficient.

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>>38261133
>Genetic tapestry
Fast
With the development of your recent clones, you have gained experience and knowledge in organizing alien DNA into effective and desirable formations to not only reproduce an alien subject, but also improve upon it. Now you feel you are ready to go even farther with your experiments in mixing and matching alien and drone DNA.
[Unlocks Chimera clone type]

>Laser cooled superconductors
Medium
Utilizing powerful cooling rays to maintain a temperature of near absolute zero, superconductors can be constructed and maintained out of cheap and easily replicable materials and nearly no cost. This would allow for the construction and maintenance of various mass transport and logistical systems that would improve the efficiency of hive activity.
The first set of prototype transport tubes have come online. A test canister was sent through the new system, reaching speeds of Mach 3 within seconds. The device reminds you of a railgun, especially when the test canister erupted from the transport tube and wiped out a small forest. In light of the setback your thinkers are placing more focus on braking systems.

>Quantum Entanglement engineering
Slow [50,000N 50,000M development cost, paid once]
Experimentation with the behavior of entangled particles could reveal potential uses beyond simple communication. Your thinkers have several tests ready to proceed to test the interaction of quantum entanglement with your own technology, although the tests will require the construction of multiple prototypes and test devices that will likely not survive the experiments.

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>>38261160
Available research options

>Psionic Cannon prototype
Very slow/Very dangerous
Detailed accounts of several experiments show the slow progress of Project Godsplitter. The cannon itself is highly volatile, and even the smallest miscalculation often results in the destruction of the ship, as well as any nearby craft. It can only be equipped to a Hive ship's spinal mount, and requires a functional Void Shard as ammunition. At least a dozen testing sizes were atomized in testing the weapon, and in the end it appears The Gardener never quite perfected it.

Flash Cloning
Medium
While it may not be healthy for the clone in question, your mastery of biological technology allows you to accelerate the normal growth cycle of a clone, growing it to maturity within a single day, however clones are not as genetically robust as your own drones and doing so may cause undesirable genetic defects that may take time to reverse and result in a lower quality final product.

Microfactory chambers
Fast
Improvements in culture growing and bio-forming should allow you to create more compact shipyards, allowing for specially designed ships to construct shuttle or pod sized craft within their hulls. This process is still highly inefficient, however, and research is required to develop a more feasible method of design.

>>38261181
Let's hold off research until we've become sustainable

>>38261208
We're still currently researching a shitload of things though.

And researching doesn't really cost anything except time, does it?

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>>38261160
>Genetic tapestry
>Fast
Can you hear that? That's the sound of a drone made entirely of arms, and it's coming soon.

>>38261251
What if... what if a drone made entirely... out of blades.

I spinning ball of death.

>>38261251
Why not eyes?
Those eyes, whose eyes are they?

>>38261289
We already have eyes, they're on the palm of every hand.

>>38261302
fuck you anon. I had to look just to make sure they weren't there.... and now my palms itch.

>>38261311
Now mine do too... I'm scared.

>>38261251
Nightmare inducing drones when?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBsdWW7MOew

>>38261344
When genetic tapestry is done. We gonna have some fun with that.

>>38261374
Oh man, I can't wait to design some eldritch horrors.

We're going to have some great terror weapons to use on population centers.

>>38261181
"Thing is done! Done thing for Queen!"

The thinker placed on Raligha shouts with glee as it reports its findings from its experiments with the dangerous and hostile plant known as the Greenwall. While the substance is fast to grow, it is parasitic in nature, gathering most of its own food from whatever it can get its roots into while only gathering small amounts from the local star. Despite this, it does offer several interesting adaptations of note. It is, in fact, more hostile and aggressive then your own hive creep, and your thinker, at your request, has isolated the genetic code responsible. You have already gone to work weaving the newly found aggression into your hive creep, allowing it to not only spread, but to do so more quickly and more aggressively than ever before.

As well as making your hive creep more potent, the weed's rapid growth has been incorporated into many of your selected crops of choice, and while it was not without some difficulty to do so, your algae now grows far faster then any natural plant on Leeland.

You also note several markers indicative of a hive's tampering in the past. You had already suspected, but now it is certain, the Greenwall is not a naturally evolved plant, but an engineered experiment left behind by the Gardener. It speaks to her skill that it had outlived her.

Fortunately, now that you have incorporated its own genetic structure into your own, your hive walls are able to contain it safely, as well as allow it to spread in a controlled manner. As it is, your Raligha hive keeps a large pit of the weed were refuse can be tossed in to be recycled. Outside the pit, the Greenwall continues to be a pest to the locals, and your local warriors have driven it back in many areas.

[Algae farms now grow in 1 day after construction is finished]
[Hive creep now damages hostile units attempting to rest nearby]

>>38261374
Think of how much we're going to fuck with people with those things.

>>38261387

Or terrorize some Union research station in the middle of bumfuck nowhere.

>>38261392
Ooooh cool.

>>38261392
>[Algae farms now grow in 1 day after construction is finished]
Holy shit thats amazing

>[Hive creep now damages hostile units attempting to rest nearby]
SO ITS THAT

>>38261406
That might have been some of the most fun I had, going full Alien on those fuckers.

>>38261392
THE ENTIRE HIVE IS A WEAPOOOON!

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>>38261392
>[Algae farms now grow in 1 day after construction is finished]
>[Hive creep now damages hostile units attempting to rest nearby]
Now this is delicious.

>>38261392
Holy shit.

Could... could we hivecreep bomb a city? Could it sustain itself with the nutrients it basically gets from it's victims?

>>38261392
Let's set the thinkers to research Graystalk now.

Wonder if we should give Liz an opportunity to design one to suit her needs instead of giving her stock drones. (Not a lot of course. Just a couple.)

>>38261392
Man we are scary

>>38261463
I like the way you think anon. Though maybe we should combine it with the cordyceps fungus we ran into back in the day so there's a few people seeking to rest on the creep so it doesn't fight for EVERY meal.

>>38261406
This quest is about to get sooooo much fun.

>>38261463
We probably could deliver it via swarm missile type packages.

>>38261463
>>38261495
>>38261502
I like where this devious thread is going.

>>38261463
take over a city and build a hive at the same time. Good idea if we ever need a quick forward base and need to remove an enemy's

>>38261463
Add it to the research que! Hmm. I wonder if we could custom design a corvet that's meant to imbed itself in the center of a hostile population center and act as a hive and spreads a mile or so of creep upon impact with the planet. A literal hive bomb.

>>38261513
Holy shit... Its fucking hiver gameplay all over again. Only instead of gates its colonizers...

>>38261495
You know we've already weaponized that, we've just never got a chance to use it. But yeah we could incorporate it as one of the plants spread by hive creep.

Did we ever build that pool for the human captives we have?

>>38261510
Carpet bomb a base with these and let the whole thing sort itself out.

>>38261513
Mix it with a weaker version of our grey goo and metal trees for best affect in urban areas we want to keep

>>38261532
Hope so.

>>38261392
Your thinker beams with pride at its accomplishments.

>Have your spare thinker study Graystalk, a benign and common plant that shows signs of once being used as a crop, but has since reverted back to a wild plant in the many years since the Gardener's demise.
>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopies of other trees across the planet, and possesses a trunk filled with viscus, nutrient rich sap.
>Have your spare thinker join the rest of your thinkers in research
>Other

Fill pods with brain fungus generating creep and just slam them into planets. They'll bury themselves and spread from there.

>>38261532
Oh shit, we didn't. Let's do that this thread why don't we. Also get some movies and porn and shit from Theseus, and build a holograph thing. That'll keep them happy.

>>38261532
We still need to build a speaker designed to drone on and on about health and safety procedures around the pool to them.

>>38261550
>>Have your spare thinker study Graystalk, a benign and common plant that shows signs of once being used as a crop, but has since reverted back to a wild plant in the many years since the Gardener's demise.
>>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopies of other trees across the planet, and possesses a trunk filled with viscus, nutrient rich sap.
I think we have more than enough thinkers to spare

>>38261550
>>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopies of other trees across the planet, and possesses a trunk filled with viscus, nutrient rich sap.
>Lay new thinkers on Raligha to aid it.

>>38261550
>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopies of other trees across the planet, and possesses a trunk filled with viscus, nutrient rich sap.

Can we reinforce that thinker?

>>38261550
>>Have your spare thinker study Graystalk, a benign and common plant that shows signs of once being used as a crop, but has since reverted back to a wild plant in the many years since the Gardener's demise.
>>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopies of other trees across the planet, and possesses a trunk filled with viscus, nutrient rich sap.

>>38261550
>>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopies of other trees across the planet, and possesses a trunk filled with viscus, nutrient rich sap.

>>38261554
If we ever do this, we'll need to do it with overwhelmingly.

Try to position pods or corvettes with fungus creep missiles over every planet, and let loose at once.

That way they can't save all their worlds.

>>38261550
>Have your spare thinker study Graystalk, a benign and common plant that shows signs of once being used as a crop, but has since reverted back to a wild plant in the many years since the Gardener's demise.
>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopies of other trees across the planet, and possesses a trunk filled with viscus, nutrient rich sap.
Can we just add this to our normal research? If we do that it should go a good deal faster.

>>38261550
>>Have your spare thinker study Graystalk, a benign and common plant that shows signs of once being used as a crop, but has since reverted back to a wild plant in the many years since the Gardener's demise.
>>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopies of other trees across the planet, and possesses a trunk filled with viscus, nutrient rich sap.
>>Build a pool for the humans.

>>38261550
>>Have your spare thinker study Graystalk
>>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot
Lets do these and lay some Thinkers to help him out.

>>38261550
>Have your spare thinker study Graystalk, a benign and common plant that shows signs of once being used as a crop, but has since reverted back to a wild plant in the many years since the Gardener's demise.
>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopie

Get them back to work. Hells bells. Have the workers scour the planet looking left overs that the Gardner might have still alive.

>>38261539
If we had a false queen and a thinker or just general controller imbedded inside the bomb ship, and a cadre of warriors and shock troopers tailored for the mission ready to hatch upon impact (maybe making a specialized egg that can withstand the impact and will only hatch when ordered?) it would be a hell of an opening salvo to get a foothold in the center of enemy territory.

>>38261581
Whoops

*we'll need to do it overwhelmingly.

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QD look at what you have done.

I don't regret one thing.[.spoiler]

>>38261581
We don't even need to do it just as a weapon. It's a rapid way of generating a hive planet. Especially if we teach creep to release smart mines when it hits metal veins.

>>38261550
>>Have your spare thinker study Graystalk, a benign and common plant that shows signs of once being used as a crop, but has since reverted back to a wild plant in the many years since the Gardener's demise.
>>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopies of other trees across the planet, and possesses a trunk filled with viscus, nutrient rich sap.
>>Assign more thinkers to speed it up
>>Build a pool for the human captives.

>>38261550
>Have your spare thinker study Graystalk, a benign and common plant that shows signs of once being used as a crop, but has since reverted back to a wild plant in the many years since the Gardener's demise.
>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopies of other trees across the planet, and possesses a trunk filled with viscus, nutrient rich sap.
Try to do both maybe? If not then do Bloodroot.

>>38261513
I love this quest and everyone in it so much.

>>38261550
>Build a pool for the prisioners
>Weave a speaker head into the pool wall and give it the instructions of "No Fun Allowed"

>>38261550
Bloodroot please.

>>38261550
>Have your spare thinker study Graystalk, a benign and common plant that shows signs of once being used as a crop, but has since reverted back to a wild plant in the many years since the Gardener's demise.
>>Have your spare thinker study Bloodroot, a massive tree that grows high above the canopies of other trees across the planet, and possesses a trunk filled with viscus, nutrient rich sap.
I have a feeling we're going to need all the food we can get if we're going to war.

Also, I agree with building a pool.

>>38261550
>Study both Bloodroot and Greystalk

Your thinker is fully capable of running the experiments alone, but you suspect some assistance would be helpful.

>Divert thinkers from Research subjects to Side Projects
>Keep your thinkers tasked on your current Research
>Other

>>38261607
Creep is made of the same thing as your infrastructure. Your hangars, anti-orbital batteries, docking pylons, and other such construction projects are all pieces of your hive creep, so yes, you could do so easily.

>>38261687
>>Keep your thinkers tasked on your current Research

>>38261687
>Divert thinkers from Research subjects to Side Projects

>>38261687
>Keep your thinkers tasked on your current Research

>>38261687
>Keep your thinkers tasked on your current Research

>>38261687
>lay more thinkers

>>38261687
>>Keep your thinkers tasked on your current Research
>>Other
Lay more thinkers on Raligha. He needs some buddies to think with.

>>38261687
>>Divert thinkers from Research subjects to Side Projects

>>38261687
>>Other
Lay more thinkers. Nigga's lonely.

>>38261687
>Other
Lay more thinkers on Raligha. That fellow needs friends.

>>38261687
>Divert thinkers from Research subjects to Side Projects

Bring us up to the ideal ratio of 1k Quantum Thinkers to 2k Thinkers.

And then we can stop having to worry about adding anymore thinkers.

>>38261687
>Give him more thinkers to think with.
This is why we put an egglayer on Raligha.

>>38261762
GENIUS

>>38261754
That's the same damn thing as diverting thinkers to help him.

We are well into diminishing returns on research, diverting some helps him a lot and impacts the research very little.

>>38261762
Supporting.

>>38261762
No we need those guys on our main projects, that's why we need to lay more to help him.

>>38261687
>>Keep your thinkers tasked on your current Research
>>Have egglayer on Raligha lay more thinker eggs.

Seriously, she's built a whole damn hive she can lay 10 more thinker eggs.

>>38261762
>ideal
You mean excessively wasteful. The high end of diminished returns, for miniscule gains.

>>38261776
Yes, on the subjects we are researching, not these ones.

>>38261797
I think of it as a good place for a hard cap.

>>38261687
>Lay more thinkers

>Increase thinker population to 2k thinkers and 1k quantum thinkers
>Other

The sun rises slowly in the north west of Zero One, and your drones emerge from the shelter of the small hive outpost, shaking under the strain of the local gravity. You can hear the sound of distant creatures, and the periodic shadow of one of the gargantuan living kites move across the plains, mixing with the clouds above.

Your workers quickly move out to secure the area, making sure no structural weaknesses have revealed themselves. On this world, even a minor roof collapse would be certain death. Even a minor trip could snap a leg or worse. As they reinforce the hive structure your drones spot several moving figures through the morning fog, squat and slow on the plains.

>>38261620
>B-baka it's an exercise pool not a recreational one
>I mean it! If I hear you were having fun, no more chocolate flavored nutritional paste for a week
>Ok... three days then
>Yes you can still have the vanilla flavor, but it's not because I like you or anything... baka...

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>>38261807
Is there anything like pic related on the planet?

>>38261807
>Increase thinker population to 2k thinkers and 1k quantum thinkers

>>38261823
When she isn't being cheeky, the Red Queen has been known to be a total tsundere to human she interacts with.

>>38261807
>>Other
It's only one thinker at the moment on Raligha. So 199 thinkers will be fine for two research projects. Plus this way we have a nice division of thinkers working on each project.

>>38261807
>Increase thinker population to 2k thinkers and 1k quantum thinkers

>>38261807
>>Increase thinker population to 2k thinkers and 1k quantum thinkers
This way we can just leave it

>>38261845
No, it's a speaker with a quantum brain. So it just shouts autistic commands at them to stop.

>>38261846
Supporting this.

>>38261807
>Increase thinker population to 2k thinkers and 1k quantum thinkers

>>38261807
>Other
I think 199 thinkers is a good idea, leaves us with 100 on each project.

>>38261807
>Increase thinker population to 2k thinkers and 1k quantum thinkers

You send out your drones out to scout the edges of your small patch of claimed territory and find the odd creature grazing on the thick grass. It appears similar to a massive slug, fat and bulbous, but supported by a hard shelled dome that helps distribute its weight. It leaves a depression of packed and barren soil behind it as it feasts on the grass.

>Search the plains for adaptations
>Send your expedition to search the tundra
>Send your expedition to search the forest
>Other

>>38261827
Not that you can detect. The high gravity creates a dense atmosphere, allowing for incredibly large flying creatures to exist that would seem counter intuitive at first glance, but can fly due to dramatically improved wing lift. If they were to land, however, you suspect they would crumble under their own weight in most situations and appear to spend most of their time riding wind currents.

>>38261971
>>Search the plains for adaptations

>>38261971
>>Search the plains for adaptations

>>38261971
>>Search the plains for adaptations

>>38261971
>>Search the plains for adaptations

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>>38261971
>>Search the plains for adaptations
Let's do what we came here to do, finally.

>>38261971
>Search the plains for adaptations

>>38261971
>Search the plains for adaptations

Hey, moocow.

Or mooslug in this case.

>>38261971
Your workers spread out and scour the plains. While the strange slug is interesting, it does not appear to have any revolutionary adaptations, although you do have a few workers stay in case a more interesting predator comes along.

Please roll 1d100 best of 3 to search the area.

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>38262083

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>38262083

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>38262083

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>38262083
moo

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>38262083

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>>38262094
Oh baby...

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>>38262109
>>38262113
>>38262136

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>>38262170

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>>38262191
Steel beams, you say?

>>38262207
Fucking, space /pol/.

Holy shit, I'm dying.

>>38262207

>The Ceph couldn't have attacked us, they have no backbone.

Errytime

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>>38262083
Your drones cover a wide area as quickly as they can, although the heavy gravity is hard on them, slowing them to a glacial pace. You suspect a human would snap in two on this planet just from the act of attempting to stand, but your workers soldier on.

As they continue your drones detect a series of seismic disturbances, and in the fog you find a large creature lumbering across the land, leaving deep impressions in the ground as it moves. Its back is covered in the thick grass stalks that cover the rest of the landscape, and its stride is rather awkward, leaning into each step in a manner you would think would cause it to topple. In the distance you see another as it leaps from the top of a small hill and appears to float to the bottom. Their bodies and heads are bloated, and their head drifts in the air as if anchored by the neck, not supported.

After several hours of observation, you suspect they are filled with a buoyant gas to aid in their movement, and not long after that your suspicions are confirmed.
Cont.

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>>38262297
we're totally researching these fuckers.

>>38262297
What are those things hanging around it?

>>38262297
>pic
I loved that show!

>>38262297
This sure is a lot of effort to go through just to discover helium balloons.

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>>38262413
Someones opinion is awfully wrong...

>>38262413
And what the skin and tissue is made out of, and how it is arranged may yield improvements to our drones.

High gravity worlds have to produce adaptions to deal with the strain. Said adaptions are going to be make our drones even hardier.

>>38262413

It's not as if we can come up with those adaptations in leeland.

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>>38262413
>mfw this shitty attitude

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>>38262431
>>38262443
>>38262460
>>38262476

>thinking that post is serious

sasuga

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>>38262495
>>38262413

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>>38262495
>I was only pretending to be retarded, I wasn't serious!

Sure you were faggot, sure you were...

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>>38262297
The buoyant herbivore seems to detect the predator before you do, which you suspect is good, as it is far slower than your drones. It begins to run with a strange skipping motion that appears to almost mock gravity itself, but despite its somewhat whimsical appearance you do not mistake the urgency in its movements. A moment later another creature quickly moves in from over a small hill, its gait an awkward and delicate series of motions more like a power walk than an actual run, which you suspect would be a lethal action on this planet.

The hunter quickly gains on the floating creature, and you hear a strange snapping sound as a cloud of spindly thorns erupt from the creature's back. What once you thought was grass are now clearly some manner of natural missile, and they arc behind the creature as it runs and embed themselves upside down into the soil. Their roots, now clearly a series of razor sharp barbs, stick up into the air in wait.

The hunter slows, and you suspect it has lost its meal, but it quickly protrudes a strange appendage from beneath its head, uncoiling like a drill bit. The animal puffs up its body and with a great gust of breath, hurls the spiked barb clear over the razor-filled minefield, landing it clean into the side of the fleeing beast with the sound of a tremendous pop, followed by an anticlimactic wheezing whine of escaping air. The creature stumbles, and its leg snaps under its full weight as it collapses, rumbling the ground beneath it as its hollow torso slowly deflates.

The hunter, victorious, slowly moves around the mine field of razors and begins to eat its morning meal, and your workers watch with fascination.

You didn't think I'd just give you a balloon for a 70, did you?

>Have your drones attack the hunter from behind
>Surround the hunter and close in from all sides while it eats
>Other

>>38262557
>>Surround the hunter and close in from all sides while it eats
inb4 we roll a fail

>>38262557
>Surround the hunter and close in from all sides while it eats

>>38262557
>>Surround the hunter and close in from all sides while it eats
Aw shit nigger, this fucker be serious.

>>38262557
>Surround the hunter and close in from all sides while it eats
oh we need this shit. But god damn it's going to be a pain to fight this thing in this gravity. Hopefully it does fuck with our projectile based weapons.

>>38262557
>Surround the hunter and close in from all sides while it eats
Two for one.

>>38262557
>Surround the hunter and close in from all sides while it eats
Man this shit is soooo fucking cool

>>38262557
>>Surround the hunter and close in from all sides while it eats

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>>38262557
We can still salvage the corpse, right?

>>38262532
Sounds like somebody takes shit too personally.

>>38262557
>>Surround the hunter and close in from all sides while it eats

>>38262557
>Surround the hunter and close in from all sides while it eats

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>>38262609
>Defending your bad taste this hard.

>>38262557
>Surround it and close in while it eats.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>38262633

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>38262633
woop woop

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>38262633

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>38262633

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>38262633

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>38262633

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>38262633

>>38262651
not bad anon

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>>38262651
Now that's some good shit.

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>>38262651
Woop woop indeed, Anon...

>>38262633
Your drones move in slowly as the creature eats from the dead beast's underbelly. All in all, it is surprisingly small now that its large gas membranes have deflated, but it is still far too large to move without them..

Soon the creature seems to notice you. It sways its short, bushy tail back and forth in a show. From the back, the color appears to be similar to that of the front, giving a slight illusion that the creature is facing you as it eats. Clever, but not quite a technological leap. Your drones continue in, and the beast tears out a chunk of flesh as it rears its head to your drones and lets out a bellowing roar. Its stance, you note, has not changed, but its legs tense as you move closer.

Its chest mounted spine erupts forth and bellows out a harmless puff of air. As you suspected, it can only fire a single barb. You are unsure how long it would take to grow back, but you suspect that they do not use them lightly. You have your drones charge in, and the creature makes a break for it, almost entering an actual run, but your drones are already surrounding it, and as it attempt to pass a worker it extends it blades, slicing into the creatures leg. Under normal circumstances it would be a moderate wound, giving the animal a limp at worst, but that limp is a deadly problem on this world, and as the animal contorts its leg in pain you hear the crack of bone, and it slams to the ground, its head breaking open as if it had fallen several stories instead of half a meter.

cont.

>>38262920
Jesus, high gravity is a bitch

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>>38262920
Wow... We basically just stuck our leg out to trip it. Fucking brutal.

>>38262920
[new research unlocked]

>Blimp Walker dissection
Very Fast
This strange creature not only uses organic helium balloons to aid its movement, but is also capable of deploying a mine field of razor sharp spines to cover its retreat. Dissecting this animal should help you learn more about its interesting defense mechanism.

>Minesweeper dissection
Very Fast
An endurance hunter, the minesweeper is built for low speed, long distance moving. While incapable of high speeds, it can track a target to exhaustion, likely over several days. Despite its normal moda operandi, it possesses an ace up its sleeve in the form of a powerful gas-propelled barbed projectile that can be launched from a hollow tube running from the base of its throat, likely connected to its lungs. A detailed study of this animal should reveal more as to the nature of its strange trump card.

>Add Blimp Walker dissection
>Add Minesweeper dissection
>Add both
>Not now

>>38262920
damn, now we just got to drag this thing and the big fucker it brought down back to came and see what makes them tick. Oh that alone is going to be a bitch and a half.

>>38262959
>Add both
>>38262966
never mind

>>38262959
>>Add both
They're both very fast, it should take a day at most to research it.

>>38262959
>Add both

>>38262959
>>Add both
Oh yeah

>>38262966
Well, this isn't going to be like Beta where the weather will kill you and you have a nigh-invincible super-predator watching your every move.

>>38262966
Just use more worker's, it should help distribute the weight and make it easier to carry.

Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>38262959
>Add both

>>38262959
>>Add both

>>38262959
>Add both

>>38262988
Is Beta still running? I never checked it out.

>>38263088
Hasn't updated in a while. We might assume that that Hive was tragically destroyed by the Keeks.

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>Add both

It takes some time for the rest of your workers to arrive, and it takes all of them to carry the horrendously heavy creatures. As your drones labor away you can hear rapid footsteps in the distance. A drone crones its head to look, and you see a pair of large metallic devices moving across the land. One shifts its view to you, and you can see an ocular lens shift with a click as it brings your drones into focus without slowing its stride. It gives you a long look, and then shifts its head back to look forward as the two drones continue over the horizon.

Your drones spend the rest of the day dragging back the new samples. They were easy to claim, but dragging them to your hive outpost is proving more difficult then it was to kill them.

Meanwhile, your first proper patrol craft continue on their rout.
Please roll 1d100, best of 3.

>>38263088
No, I think once they saw Quest Drone started running again he realized his job here was done.

Rolled 28 (1d100)

>>38263088
Hasn't run last week but the QM said he could run this week.

>>38263111

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>38263111
They look so cute.

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>38263111
Oh spider drones

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>38263111

>>38263118
>>38263129
>>38263132
Don't tell me, a raid by either the Obsidian Queen or the Ceph? Or the humans stumbling onto us?

>>38263118
>>38263129
>>38263132
Ouch. That's distressing.

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>>38263118
>>38263129
>>38263132
Oh nooooooooooo...

>>38263150
Why not all three?

>>38263150
or we hit an astroid field.

>>38263173
That'll be a clusterfuck of epic proportions. But it's still not a 1

>>38263193
Don't call Fluff over! Are you trying to kill us?

>>38263118
>>38263129
>>38263132
Oh god this like our search for mother all over again. Weep, for the dice gods hath abandoned us.

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>>38263204
If Fluff shows up everyone gets blown up.

>>38263247
"Around Fluff... You're stuffed!"

>>38263279
Oh god we need a drawfag to get on that.

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>>38263111
As your patrol drifts through the rings of M-323 your patrol ships detect an unusual gravitational signal from the edge of the system. You signal your ships to hide and your mining ships cloak, although they are all already deep within the densest parts of the debris ring.

Your patrol ships creep to the edge of the rings and train their sensors on the detected source of the gravitational disturbance. Several hours later the light reaches you, and you see a flash of movement as an object appears on your scope without warning. Brief rings of radiation emanate from it and spines begin to extend from the hull, glowing vibrantly.

Whatever it is, it appears to be accelerating into the system towards the debris ring at a leisurely pace, and will reach the edge of the field in several hours.

>Contact the unknown craft
>Move in and attack the craft
>Ambush it as it enters the field
>Bring in additional ships (write in)
>Other

>>38263314

>Ambush it as it enters the field

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>>38263247
>Mfw people saved my art
Feels good nigga.

>>38263314
> Contact the unknown craft

First Contact with the union seems to be happening, whether we like it or not. Still, best to make sure before we open fire.

>>38263314
>Contact the unknown craft
This appears to be an unknown class of spacecraft, possibly a new alien species

>>38263314
>Other
ready weapons and get ready to ambush but see if you can't follow it undetected and see where it goes.

>>38263314
>Contact the unknown craft

>>38263314
>Ambush it as it enters the field
But ask it to identify itself before we open fire.

>>38263314
>Contact the unknown craft
>Have some ships cloak and prepare an ambush in case things go South.

>>38263290
I should have it done by next thread.

>>38263314
>>Other
Wait for it to get closer and analyze it from a distance/under cloak. Compare to existing ship designs.

>>38263314
No. No contact. Send a cloaked nuke pod to detonate it.

>>38263314
>>Move in and attack the craft

>>38263372
That's a good plan. I switch my vote to this.

>>38263373
You're doing god's work anon.

>>38263314
>Contact the unknown craft
but prepare
>Bring in additional ships (write in)
this for in case of emergency

>>38263314
Do this >>38263372

>>38263314

Switching vot to this one too. >>38263372

>>38263314
>>Move in and attack the craft

Alternatively:

>Other
cloak fucking everything, and watch what it does.

>>38263314
Supporting:
>>38263372

>>38263314
Supporting this >>38263372

>>38263314
Wait for it to get closer, observe and see if it matches any Valen or other known alien designs.

>>38263314
>Send Theseus an image and ask if he can identify the ship.

>>38263314
>Contact the unknown craft

As the vessel approaches you have your ships move into position to ambush it at the edge of the debris field in the event it may be hostile, but you have one of your corvettes move out of the field to allow for a clearer transmission without the reflected static of solar wind scattered by the debris field.

>Transmit a language cipher (allows target to learn Hive's constructed language)
>Transmit a message in Esperanto (Union official language)
>Other (write in)

>>38263492
>Transmit a language cipher (allows target to learn Hive's constructed language)

>>38263492
>Transmit a message in Esperanto (Union official language)
>Transmit a language cipher (allows target to learn Hive's constructed language)
First in esperanto to find out it is human/valen and the hive cipher if it doesn't legibly respond

>>38263492
I bet we have a fucking awesome language

>>38263492
>>Other (write in)
A simple sequence of radio waves to hail it, and then study it's reaction.

>>38263492
>>Transmit a language cipher (allows target to learn Hive's constructed language)
It's probably going to be the Valeen.

>>38263492
>>Transmit a message in Esperanto (Union official language)
If no response then try the cipher, no need to reveal ourselves just yet since they might be Union or Commonwealth.

>>38263505
I support this.

>>38263492
>>Transmit a language cipher (allows target to learn Hive's constructed language)

>>38263510
It is the language you discovered from study of the Gardener and her allies, and uses the Skyl alphabet, although it does not share any similarities in grammar, spelling, or sentence structure, and has not proper spoken form.

>>38263492
>Other (write in)
Transmit an image of Lyle's dick.

>>38263492
>>Transmit a message in Esperanto (Union official language)

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>>38263534
Oh fuck yeah we're sending them that. That sounds fucking awesome.

>>38263492
>>Transmit a message in Esperanto (Union official language)

>>38263492
>>38263534
Definitely sending them it then.
>Transmit a language cipher (allows target to learn Hive's constructed language)

>>38263492
>Transmit a message in Esperanto (Union official language)
Better to start off with this. The other language could arm them to translate works left behind by our ancestors, and we don't know their aims.

>>38263552
>>38263559
Why does that make it more suitable for transmission? If whatever faction this ship represents has found ruins of our people, this could be the key to unlocking them. It seems foolish to give such a thing away for free.

>>38263571
They would need psionics to really do anything meaningful. And if they do we may have found a potential ally.

>>38263492

>Transmit a message in Esperanto (Union official language)

>>38263492
>>Transmit a language cipher (allows target to learn Hive's constructed language)
Oh yeah. we found some shit.

>>38263534
So it's reverse-Navajo. Written but not spoken in a sense.

>>38263492
this >>38263505

>>38263492
>>Transmit a language cipher (allows target to learn Hive's constructed language)

>>38263492
>>Transmit a message in Esperanto (Union official language)

>>38263492
>Transmit a language cipher (allows target to learn Hive's constructed language)
I got a good feeling about this.

>>38263492
>Transmit a message in Esperanto (Union official language)

>>38263492
>Transmit a message in Esperanto (Union official language)
So nobody has these guys in their records? First contact, neat.

>>38263685
Wait, no. I meant
>Transmit a language cipher (allows target to learn Hive's constructed language)

>>38263685
We have no idea who these guys are anon, could be the Obsidian Queen for all we know.

>>38263732
They didn't use blink and if it was Obsidian you'd think we'd recognize her ships.

>>38263732
We have had contact with her ships before. Queens usually don't change their... Sort of theme, ever.

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>>38263492
>Transmit a language cipher

Your corvette emerges from the field and sends out a quick series of pings, then beams the language cipher, similar in nature to the packages sent between Theseus and Heretic, or the first contact package granted to you by Lee, it offers a quick lesson in the basics of the constructed language once used to facilitate communication between your ancestors and non-hive life.

The ship's radiator fins have slowly stopped glowing and retract back within the hull, and you see a set of large antenna extend from the front of the craft. It continues to drift, and you detect a pulse of gravitational anomalies as the craft adjusts its course to intercept your newly designated envoy. A torrent of radar, ladar, and a wide range of other sensors erupt from the ship directed at your craft, then sweeping along the edge of the debris field.

You detect several small objects fire out from the hull, directed above and bellow the stellar ring, each one bombarding the area with active multi-frequency scans. After several hours of silence, the craft transmits to you.

"Board. Trade."

"Friend."

The craft halts several light seconds from the edge of the field, expectantly.

>Move your corvette out to dock with the alien ship
>Bring in drones in a separate ship and dock with the alien ship (write in)
>Transmit response (write in)
>Other

>>38263617
Yes. Essentially it was built solely for speaking with non-psionic races, which is why all of the characters are plagiarized from the Skyl alphabet, but are used at random to express basic but decently useful concepts in ways designed to be easy to translate. It doesn't have a spoken form because the language itself is essentially a made-up code, not a naturally evolved method of communication.

>>38263753
>Transmit response
Who are you?
What are you doing here?
>Move your corvette out to dock with the alien ship
Do we have a speaker conveniently onboard due to plot?

>>38263753
>>Bring in drones in a separate ship and dock with the alien ship (write in)
10 workers and 10 warriors should be fine if anything goes down.

>>38263753
>>Move your corvette out to dock with the alien ship
>>Send another ship carrying your speaker and any supplies that they might be interested in trading.

>>38263762
They're clearly here to trade, anon.

>>38263788
For all we know man they could be prolific liars and backstabbers and live a by a raider lifestyle. Never hurts to be cautious.

>>38263753
>Board. Trade. Friend.
Board and trade your friends.

>>38263798
Hedonistic space slaver market ship?

>>38263753

Inb4 they use something similar to a mass effect drive

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>>38263797
But what if we miss out on that leather sofa we've been looking for at the low, low price of $160!?

Do you really want to take responsibility if that happens?

>>38263753
>Transmit response (write in)
LIke >>38263762 ask for info
Meanwhile, also ask Theseus if he is familiar with them.

>>38263753
Do we actually have any trade goods whatsoever? I have a feeling it'd be a bad idea to board without any.

>>38263827
Later that day in the queens throne room...
"Are you sure this is the best sofa they have? I mean, its hardly regal is it?"
"My queen you look magnanimous oh which ever sofa you acquire"

>>38263836
Information is always worth something

>>38263753
This >>38263762
>Move your corvette out to dock with the alien ship

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Guys... I don't think they're going to sell us a sofa...

>>38263926
I don't think so either. But they're surrounded, so whatevs.

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>>38263753
It has been some time since you last had to use this language, and it is the first time you have ever actually used it to communicate, but it is a purposefully simple language. You sift through the archives for the proper words. Without inflections or proper sentence structure, the language relies on simple and direct statements. Crude, but very difficult to misunderstand.

"Identify self: Identify purpose."

You wait for a long while. The craft's probes continue to cast their sensors over the debris field around you.

"Traveler: Seek resources." It finally says. You doubt whatever name they call themselves would be able to translate. Even well known species often simply invent their own terms for each other instead of going through the headache to translate names.

As it speaks the probes systematically scan the surrounding area, until they are trained on your lone corvette.

"Board. We are friend." It repeats.

>Bring in a ship to dock with the craft (write in drones to bring)
>Dock with your patrol corvette (single lone speaker for convenience)
>Other

>>38263836
Why not load up another ship on Leeland with trade goods and a speaker, and send it rendezvous with them.

>>38263926
That is because they sell couches

I'm warning you guys: If it turns out they sell slaves, I'll vote to buy the ones who's biology we don't know or have never encountered. That includes variations of biology we do know, like a pale Ceph to study their genetic disorder.

>>38263941
They never were going to sell us that sofa, were they?

>>38263949
>>Dock with your patrol corvette (single lone speaker for convenience)
>>Send another ship filled with resources and goods they may want to trade such as couches

>>38263949
>>Bring in a ship to dock with the craft (write in drones to bring)
>>30 Warriors
>>15 Heavies
>>1 Speaker

>>38263941
Surrounded three-dimensionally, right? FTLing 'up' or 'down' to escape is completely valid in space.

>>38263964
You forgot to bring stuff to trade! Unless you are thinking of livestock.

>>38263949
>Dock with your patrol corvette (single lone speaker for convenience)
This carries the least amount of risk. If they sell slaves, can we buy the ones we haven't studied already?

>>38263949
>Other
Write-In: "Inquiry: Resources: Preferred type."

>>38263949
supporting this >>38263985

>>38263960
No, we want the couches. They probably have them... That or slaves, I'm fine to buy both.

>>38263949
Trade resources for couches, please.

>>38263996
Maybe there's a discount if you buy in bulk pairs.
Slave's ain't no good without couches or sofas, as far as I know.

>>38263985
>>38263989
We could always ask them in person over a nice cup of tea from the comfort of their quality sofas, you know.

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Whoever this new race is, can we just call them Couch Traders? I think it's great.

>>38264003
>Hi, I'll take two vahleen and a leopard print please.

>>>38264034
Fuck, that's tacky. Bugga, you just went full human.

>>38263949
>Bring in a ship to dock with the craft (write in drones to bring)

Bring things to trade.

>>38264021
>Immediately asks to trade
How could this not be the Ferengi.

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>>38264059
>Around the galaxy, Humans are known to have the worst taste.
Yes.

They were coming towards the rings of M-323, right? So it would make sense that they perhaps intended to get resources from the rings?

>>38264101
And trade some couches, yes.

>>38264129
God damn it what is it with you people and couches?

>>38264161
Board friend. Trade couch.

>>38264161
I think it might just be one guy who gets really fixated on things. Maybe cut him some slack.

>>38264161
>>NOFUNALLOWED.jpg

>>38264161
Do you not like couches? If so, get out of my, and my couch salesmen friends face.

>>38263949
>Dock with your patrol corvette (single lone speaker)

Your corvette slowly moves out and its umbilical extents, attaching to the alien craft's hatch. It is a poor seal, but your ship oozes a small amount of reactive paste to make up for the lack in compatibility. As the umbilical pressurizes you feel a light thump and a probe flies out from the back of the ship. You detect a sudden gravitational disturbance and its form stretches, the front accelerating faster then the back. It continues to stretch, and the gravitational anomaly continues to increase around it until it rapidly compresses into nothing near the edge of the system, heading core ward towards the unknown systems.

The doors open, and you see the crew emerge. They are bipedal creatures, but the similarities to humans end there. They swing out into the umbilical on hooked feet, each ending in two long, curved toes on digitgrade legs. Their bodies are slender in build and clad in plated suits that hide most of their features while their arms and legs show hints of pale flesh beneath. Their arms are equally slender, ending in a wrist covered in a set of long claws on one hand, and a cylindrical mechanism on the other that hums softly with streaks of wires running into their forearms.

They flip by their feet and land onto the walls, where they quickly scale along the soft umbilical interior on all fours. Their heads are obscured by helmets, but manes of bone rattle in brightly painted crests across the tops of their skulls, each one holding a different pitch. They sound hollow, like carved wooden chimes shaking against each other.

The door to your corvette opens, and your ship broadcasts another request.

"Identify resource request."

Their response is much faster this time.

"All."

The creatures move in, their helmets appear grafted to their faces, fused with the bone and pale skin like a blank beak shaped face of glossy metal.

cont.

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Guys. I think I found their spaceship.

>>38264161
>>38264161
Hey!I like couches! They're comfy and easy to lounge on.

We should get on for our human prisoners, if they'rr really good.

>>38264206
>Their response is much faster this time.
>
>"All."

We are getting mugged. Quick explode into an acid cloud and cut the cord.

>>38264206
Those feet and personal decorations are not couch friendly. I demand a retcon.

>>38264206
>"Identify resource request."
>Their response is much faster this time.
>"All."
Well this isnt ominous at all.
I keep getting reminded of that one species in the last Star Carrier book.

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>>38264206
Muggings are not couches. I demand a refund.

>>38264206
Looks like we found the token Craver race, the Hun's of space.

Pfft, what are they gonna do? Can't mug us for shit. Our ships don't have crews, they ARE crews.

Well shit. Next thing you'll know they won't have any couches either.

I say keep a mental finger on the psychic murder-death-kill button.

>>38264269
Can't we vent plasma from the lances out of the airlock?

>>38264275
I'm still pretty partial to the acid cloud myself.

>>38264275
We should let them board then abscond with their crew if things turn sour.

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>>38264206
All our resources seems like a lot for a couch...