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War, war never changes.

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>>1797405
You are the Courier. Father of a country, father of your children, father of your dreams. Your nation, empowered by scientists, engineers, and an all powerful computer, prospers and grows its strength at full pace in preparation for a war against another superpower that has been half a decade in the making. Right now, you find yourself in a dreamlike paradise, the Nursery, an ancient facility built by the Old World to store and protect its precious natural and animal resources. Working with a group of Reaver Skirmii from the Brotherhood of Steel, you seek to win the trust of its Human-ZAX hybrid overseer, a "Goddess Diana" in the hopes that perhaps your people might prosper from it. Somehow
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>>1809111
Diana's Nursery Paradise is not all so perfect as it seems, and there are a number of technical issues beyond the scope of her robots.

-The Geothermal Power Plant needs fixing. This has reduced the number of robots she can use
-The Robot production facility needs fixing
-There is a Hedge Maze full of carniverous plants that eat wildlife and natives.
-The Repository's power connection is down

Diana says of all places, she forbids you from entering the "Factory". The last time she allowed someone untrustworthy, it was a disaster. Similarly, the Train Station is also off limits.

Linux and her team are going to work on the Geothermal Power Plant. Your help is appreciated, but they think they can handle it.

>Go and help Linux with the Power Plant
>Go fight evil plants!
>Go chat it up with the tribals
>Go and converse to Diana some more
>Go/Sneak somewhere (Where?) [The Factory, the Repository, the Greenhouse, the Fenced off Area, the Train Station]
>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples
>Other?
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>>1809126
Converse with Diana more now that Linux and her ilk are not here. We can properly introduce ourself, tell about our growing nation and other powers in the region. Talk about mutants and ghouls, let's get a feel what she thinks about them.

Depending on how the conversation goes, we can talk about our insane technical, robotic and computer powers. How we built ZAX and other wonders.

Talk about actual evil gods and star father
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>>1809145
Supporting
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>>1809126
>Go and converse to Diana some more

We can trust the Reavers to not fuck anything up and hopefully they'll all die and we can keep this place a secret.

Meanwhile we've got to explain in greater detail our plan / situation to Diana.
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>>1809145
>>1809148
>>1809150
Writing
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>>1809145
>>1809126

Also talk about our ideals and the vision for future, the steps we took towards them and the ones which will take in near future.
Share our book with her.

Tell her that her problems are paltry tasks that our nation could easily fix. Not only can we fix her facilities, we could build brand new ones.

Also talk about aliens.
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>>1809164
We should probably mention what the BOS / Reaver-cult would do to not only her but her people.

We should also point out our technical superiority and the fact that she doesn't have to make a decision yet. She can make herself an independent ally of the BOS for now or even remain neutral entirely.


Then we conquer the Legion, create massive industrial complexes and convert her to our side by point out our massive resources and how we share the goal of ecological preservation.
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>You
[Diana]

>Diana
"Yes, Paladin Courier, what is it you wish to speak?"

>You
[I had to wait until the others were away. You see, in as much as I am with the Brotherhood of Steel, I am also part of another group. The Phoenix Commonwealth.

In fact, I am there leader. I wanted to speak to you more freely away from their ears.]

>Diana
"Hmph! Then you are just like Caesar's scouts. Disguising themselves as traders, merchants, or simple messengers but all the while deceiving.

Why should I trust what you have to say?"
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>>1809174
I hate your suspicious rolls
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>>1809177
Is this a prompt for us to write something or are you still writing?
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>>1809179
Still writing
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I just had an Idea, once we have power armour (Even very basic) production set up, we should look into making PA for our Super Mutants. We can then equip Marcus in such a set and send him out to find more super mutants and bring them back. We should also look into augments for them, but that is only eventually
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>>1809177
>why shouldn't you be open with all of your secrets infront of other people
>The robot is retarded.

I swear to god if she turns into a cunt. We need to rip her out and just take the parts.
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>>1809188
Hell, Power Armoured Super Mutants could even work as WH40K Thunder warriors or proto space marines
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>>1809188
Most definitely. In fact we should build them up scaled version of the armor that our troops have now
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Oh sir, I forgot. We should also tell Diana about the evil plants in Texas and Elijah
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>>1809177
You try to explain your situation. You are the leader of a resurgent America, trying to establish new, better society out in the wasteland.

You are surrounded by other hostile powers, the NCR with its hatred of tribalism and demand that people civilize or die. The Legion, whom they have already met. The MLA, naught but viscious gangs of raiders and ne'erdowells.

And the Brotherhood, with its hatred of mutants and Ghouls.

Your America seeks to learn from the lessons of the past, to avoid future nuclear holocaust, and uses the most advanced sciences and technologies to better the lives of all.

Diana listens, and speaks.

>Diana
"Kind words and sweet givings, but so too did the Legion attempt to win us first through logic and reason.

I was right not to have trusted them then. What cause should I have to trust you.

Twice you have shown me insincerity. Sneaking into my chambers, and now, you seek to betray those who believe you to be comrade. They are out there assisting me, even now I see them working to repair the Power Plant.

You are here to sway me to a nations cause. Not only did you lack the wisdom to come here alone, where I might have believed you, but you have also revealed myself to yet another power. For now I fear that you have brought conflict down upon my head."

>Uh oh. That didn't go as planned.
>Hrmmm, you weren't expecting this. What do I do now.
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>>1809198
Agreed. Also cranial implants ala Bone'eds from warhammer would be needed going forward.
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>>1809204
What do?
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>>1809221
Also at any time you can always just go ham and try to hack and take over.

You suspect that for now it should be relatively easy.
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>>1809221
Honestly I feel like this entire thing is fucked. She'll tell the BoS know sense they are actually helpping her unlike us who...just stood around to talk? For some stupid reason and share everything
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>>1809227
>You
(Hmmm. This looks bad, but she isn't trying to shoot me so that's a good thing. Seems to be a major issue of lack of trust. Probably trauma from having the Legion burn and enslave everything)
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>>1809232
What's the most important thing she needs fixed that needs supplies from the outside world? Let's just go prove our point and fix it.
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>>1809204
"Twice I have shown reason. I don't intend to betray the Brotherhood, for all I may disagree with them, anytime soon. As to not coming here alone, to be frank I was expecting to be going into some old-world ruin infested with every manner of danger. Made sense to bring some backup just in case. This is before mentioning your accusation against me for sneaking into your chambers. As if that is such a horrible thing to do when you are supposed to be on a stealth mission. The simple fact is that I had no reason to risk myself or those with me who I'd point out didn't exactly complain at this decision.

Lastly you accuse me of bringing conflict down on your head. These BOS members want to avoid you being discovered by the MLA and Legion, something we can all agree to. Just tell them you want to remain neutral or independent and they will most likely respect that and if not I can attempt to convince them to be silent to the BOS seeing as you aren't the objective of the mission and have not only been helpful but are a sacred object of their religion.

Fact is that if things go to plan, then in a few years the entire Legion shall be subsumed into my nation and we shall share a border. We can discuss matters then.


For now I would point out that I can do just as much as the Reavers if not more, I merely wanted to explain the situation to you in more detail and more honestly. Fact is that this conversation has only taken a few minutes and I can't imagine them making insane progress in that time."

Good enough fellow anons?


>>1809224
How would we be taking over? Disabling her control? Killing her?

>>1809234
I'd suggest clearing out the death plants and then catching up with Linux.
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>>1809204
>Not only did you lack the wisdom to come here alone, where I might have believed you, but you have also revealed myself to yet another power.

What a weird thing to be angry about. We were sent here by BoS for a scouting mission. She says these things as if we knew she existed before we took this mission. For all we knew, we were just looking for another Vault and from our experiences Vaults usually end in some disaster and become horror shows for explorers. No reason to believe this would have been different.
BoS or any other faction would have found out about her sooner or later. Especially NCR with their air superiority.

Also, why is she comparing us to Legion? Do the Legion scouts just come up and tell her who they really are?
We already explained her why we snuck around. We have enough experience in the wasteland to know that most everything just attacks on sight, so we were being cautious.
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>>1809204
"Betray? No. I am merely introducing myself as another representative of another faction. I admire the BoS intentions which is why I had joined in the past before I became a leader of a nation. I work with them as to change them from the inside and to perhaps loosen their views on the nature on mutants. I would hardly call establishing diplomatic ties betrayal."

Anons can add & change whatever.
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>>1809239
>Do the Legion scouts just come up and tell her who they really are?
Sometimes.

Frumentarii usually operate in two ways, up front and being open ambassadors to Caesar, and subtley.

It depends on if they find out that they dont have any previous ideas on the Legion.
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>>1809204
>Not only did you lack the wisdom to come here alone, where I might have believed you, but you have also revealed myself to yet another power. For now I fear that you have brought conflict down upon my head.
"You are mistaken, i haven't brought any conflict down on your head it was always there, for you are between 3 factions and the BoS wishes to keep you away from the hands of the other 2, a decision i support. Also the BoS were aware of you before me, i had only heard about this location from the BoS who offered me a fair deal in exchange for a quest, a quest i could have refused to join and they would have come to you anyway, i did not lead them here, merely accompanied them."
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>>1809236
>How would we be taking over? Disabling her control? Killing her?
All viable options.

You even consider you could steal her Brain and probably bend it to your will with some apt cybernetics. Alternatively, replace her Brain with someone else you trust.
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>>1809236
>Fact is that if things go to plan, then in a few years the entire Legion shall be subsumed into my nation and we shall share a border. We can discuss matters then.

Get rid of this. But everything else seems pretty good.
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>>1809232
The fact that we are honest with her should make her think a bit. Reavers and BoS are already a massive superpower. Understandably we are a bit unwilling to reveal all of our cards to them as they might demand we share our ridiculously advanced tech and facilities.

Diana on the other hand has been pushed back by men in skirts and swords. So we are not afraid she would become a threat anytime soon. That is why we are laying out all the cards and explaining our situation to her in the hopes we can get her under our wing.

Frankly we have the absolute best understanding in robotics, AI and human/computer hybrids around maybe in the entire world. We can benefit from each other much more than she can benefit from any other faction. The reavers come close but they are religious fanatics not really understanding the tech they use
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Tell her one of the main reasons why we are not fully open with BoS because they believe that a sizeable population of our nation should be genocided just because of who they are.
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>>1809250
I agree.

At this point the NCR is more likely to take over Legion. We haven't had any offensives against them ever since we fled to Big Mt
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>>1809252
>The reavers come close but they are religious fanatics not really understanding the tech they use
Hmmm, you consider you might want to actually test this theory. From what you saw in the Brotherhood they actually have a very good understanding of technology, if mired in religious symbolism. What they seem to lack is highly advanced technological means like you discovered in BigMT.

Every now and then you wonder. Are there other gigantic Old World research centers besides BigMT and this "Commonwealth Institute?"

It's been 5 years and now at last you can go exploring. It feels like America might have more mountains of science than Big Mountain.
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>>1809249
Good to know.

>>1809250
Fair enough.

>>1809252
Not to mention that we've seen nothing in her beliefs that is objectionable to us. Plus we are advancing technological far more than the BOS and can promise her equal rights to any other sapient being (I assume AI's are going to be legally equal to humans in our society, right?).

Plus, we can also promise her access to our gene-bank to fix any mistakes or lost samples in hers.
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>>1809261
"Which include one of my wives and her child."
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>>1809265
Finally we have in-character, confirmed wanderlust reasoning to go to the Commonwealth.

After we've dealt with a few more things, it'll be done.
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>>1809266
>I assume AI's are going to be legally equal to humans in our society, right?
Well, ever since you discovered that Brains can be disonnected from their body after you found your lobotomized Officer, the Brain had been discussing the idea of "Brain Rights"

>>1809271
The Commonwealth Institute was mentioned several times, but its probably perhaps the furthest away. Furthermore Barnaky hasn't granted Aerial access across his territory to you yet.
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>>1809271
Speaking of wanderlust.

I suggest we set up a trade caravan with Cass as the leader.
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>>1809274
Which states and territory does Barnaky occupy?
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>>1809274
Didn't we know that brains can be disconnected from bodies? Our brain told us that if our body dies it will continue on living
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>>1809282
Disconnected as in the body still alive, rather than killed.
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>>1809240
>>1809250
>>1809270
Support.
>>1809232
>>1809204
Would now be a good time for a diplomatic roll? We could use that boost.
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>>1809274
>Well, ever since you discovered that Brains can be disonnected from their body after you found your lobotomized Officer, the Brain had been discussing the idea of "Brain Rights"
We should probably grant them equal rights.

>The Commonwealth Institute was mentioned several times, but its probably perhaps the furthest away.
True but it's the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

>Furthermore Barnaky hasn't granted Aerial access across his territory to you yet.
Well we can certainly ask for it or join the D.C BOS on their mission.

>>1809276
Eh, just tell her she's head of foreign trade / imports & exports.
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>>1809265
Eh, we're still better. Linux was almost ready to fall on her knees and worship Diana especially since Diana refers to herself as goddess.
They talk about email going into spam as if some computer god is unhappy with them instead of knowing what actually happens.
Anyway, they might be good but they are still far behind. I mean how many other factions can build their own ZAX?
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>>1809286
I'd rather save it for convincing the BOS Reavers to be quiet if it comes to it.
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>>1809288
>Eh, just tell her she's head of foreign trade / imports & exports.
That wouldn't fix her wanderlust.
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>>1809289
You know, it's interesting thoughts like these that make me really wish you guys also decided to be sneering imperialists heh
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>>1809297
True but I have a differnet solution for that. We should take her, Raul and a few of our other good companions to the Commonwealth to help us secure shit. We can also deal with it by deploying her and our other companions to fight the Legion when the time comes since she'll get to travel and shit.
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>>1809286
You mean boon? Let's not.

I feel we can get Diana trust us without burning it. Like OP said she just had ptsd from Legion
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>>1809298
We are sneering imperialists. We just don't worry about petty shit or assume superiority.
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>>1809286
>Would now be a good time for a diplomatic roll?
>>1809292
>>1809301
No. I'm talking about rolling for diplomacy or dialogue. It only boosts us unless it's a crit fail, then that's another story. I figured we haven't rolled for dialogue yet because we don't want to get a crit fail.
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>>1809298
We will get there one day. First our military power should be greater or at least equal to all major factions around. Then we can look down on plebs who refuse to give up their brains to become better versions of themselves.
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>>1809302
It also explains why the Courier is a bit skeptical on most religions in general.

He is a man of science after all. Spreading his Imperial[/spoier] truth
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>>1809305
Well, you roll then.
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>>1809305
>>1809319
Please no rolling.
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I need to go do some chores, I wil be back soon about an hour. Please link to any dialogue or actions you wish to do.
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>>1809322
These >>1809236, >>1809239, >>1809240, >>1809247, >>1809270.
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>>1809325
Yep. This works
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>>1809325
supporting
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>>1809325
>>1809286
>>1809250
Remember to avoid mentioning imperialism or direct intentions to go to war at the moment, Diana doesn't seem to want to get involved in any of this business.
Otherwise, I support most of this.

>>1809321
Alright. When do you think would be a good time for rolling?
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>>1809335
>Alright. When do you think would be a good time for rolling?
Whenever QM asks for it, i don't want to take chances.
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>>1809335
>Alright. When do you think would be a good time for rolling?

just only roll 100's anon.
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Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>1809342
>>1809318
I can roll a Nat 100 on talking with the AI
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>>1809342
But they're all 100s.

>>1809335
>>1809348
This is good. If I recall he only takes the first one for quest-mode rolls like dialogue or quick(?)-combat.
>>1809336
Guess it's a bit late for that now.
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>>1809348
That isn't a 100 but it is the good first roll and linked to OP post.
OP did say long ago in his rules he say something about being linked make it count.
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back writing
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>>1809236
>>1809239
>>1809247
"From what you have told to me, your land is very far away and the Brotherhood is almost upon me. If they are as Linux has said, I would not mind them surrounding our borders, but I would insist on the sanctity and independence of my children and the nursery.

My goal is to spread life into the waste, not to spread violence. The world has seen enough of it already.

One day when I can be assured the world is ready for peace, I may allow my children to venture once more. But I made the mistake of being premature in my judgement before."

>>1809261
>>1809270
"Then may the spirit of life find a way to resolve your problems peacefully. I cannot offer you shelter or bring the Brotherhood here, and I do not wish to risk bringing plague or mutation. This has happened before, and it took a long time for me to find a cure."

CHOOSE
>Say something else
>Go and help the others
>Go explore somewhere/see the locals
>Start a hostile takeover. Better we take control than the Brotherhood come by and do the same
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>>1809731
>Say something else
"Excellent, i trust that you will keep my real identity a secret from others? Moving on i wish to trade something of mine for your genetic information, my Citizens are interested in more luxuries and old world foods such as chicken eggs and other livestock."
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>>1809731
>Go and help the others
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>>1809731
Fuck it, use the lady killer perk and seduce her
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>>1809731
Ask her about the cure and the illness.

Ask her for tech to trade
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>>1809764
>>1809771
You get the feeling asking this right now would be a bad idea
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>>1809731
"A cure? For what?"
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>>1809779
Alright jeez, switch to.
>Go and help the others
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>>1809731
>>Go and help the others
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>>1809731
>>Go and help the others
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>>1809731
>Go and help the others

"I would consider you remaining in isolation like this logical for your goals and ideal to mine. We can discuss this more in the future but for now, feel free to direct me to where I am needed."
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>>1809779
Are you talking about the cure and sickness? or the tech? Because I say ask her what happened.
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OP are you there?
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You catch up with the Skirmii. In the hours you were away (as you had to make sure they were at the Thermal Plant first) they've been very busy.

They had already begun to assess the various dangerous elements, scanning with advanced optics and modified V.A.T.S. to survey for threats.

Mostly giant snakes, which seemed to thrive off the nearby steamvents.

Linux had set up on a high position, and used her heavily modified M72 Gauss Rail. This one has a barrel extension almost a half longer, with stronger electromagnetic coils. Very heavy and with a longer barrel, rather than being reloaded with Microfusion coils, it is attached to a very large Microfusion Pack on her back. Several mechanical arms have extended, both supporting her body and holding the gun midair with machine like precision and stability.

Her electronic eyes have attached to the high performance optics of the weapon, which fires not by the pull of a trigger but by alignment of the scope to target at just the right computer calculated moment.

The incredible recoil from the augmented gun is almost negated as it flows from her mechanical limbs into the stone rock behind her. Covering her body her robes seem to morph into the very color of the stone, serving as excellent camoflague, and she's very clearly able to hold her breath for long periods of time.

In all, she is almost literally a sniping machine, and her accuracy is on par with your own as dozens and of snakes lay dead.

---

Her team meanwhile, have already assessed the damage to the structure and have begun repairs accordingly as you listen in on the radio.

>Macintosh
"The Tech Spirit of this terminal indicates the water resevoir floor is injured. Java, have you found the water cuttoff valve."

>Java
"Yes, I'm shutting down the water now. . .water levels dropping."

>Macintosh
"Debian, initiate suturing Resevoir floor wound."

>Debian
"Command received."

Evidently as you watch its clear they know what they are doing.

>Do some sniping and chat with Linux
>Help Debian repair the resevoir floor
>Help Macintosh monitor the computer systems
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>>1810284
>Help Debian repair the resevoir floor
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>>1810284
>>Help Debian repair the resevoir floor
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>>1810284
>Help Debian repair the resevoir floor
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>>1810284
>>Help Debian repair the resevoir floor
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>>1810291
>>1810311
>>1810331
You help Debian repair the Vault Floor using your expert repair skills, and also your strength to help push away giant boulders and massive debris while Debian welds the floor in place with multiple limbs.

You notice he has both an Arc Welder attached to one arm, and in the other, what is unmistakably a LAER like weapon both of which he uses to mend the cracks in the floor.

Debian can't but help observe you carry huge amounts of weight.

>Debian
"Incredible. You possess a strength like an Augment, yet the body of flesh. Were you not clearly human, one can almost think you were a super mutant."

>You
"Let's just say I lift a lot.

Where'd you get that LAER welder?"

>Debian
"You are wise. This is indeed based upon Laser Assisted Electric Rifle. The weapon was invented by Vault Tec before the war, and we had discovered them in one of their vaults. We have adapted it for repairs, but it is useful against the agents of Satansoft. "Rogue Robots" as the non-believers call them."

You suppose its not surprising. There are lots of fancy Old World weapons out there always being discovered and some already well known and in circulation, like the Gauss Rifle, Pulse Rifles, Heavy Lasers. Vault Tec.

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With the both of you working, the Resevoir floor is repaired and you climb up out of the pit as the water flows back in.

>Debian
"The floor has been mended."

>Macintosh
"Good. Re-initiating the geothermal systems now. Electrical Father bless us as we add to the Current Flow."

You hear a whirring as the Geothermal Plant, its water now restored, activates and energy readings re-power the systems of the Nursery.

Let's see what was next on Diana's to-do list
>Go and help Linux with the Power Plant [X]
>Go fight evil plants!
>Restore power to the Repository

You may also
>Go chat it up with the tribals
>Go/Sneak somewhere (Where?) [The Factory, the Repository, the Greenhouse, the Fenced off Area, the Train Station]
>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples
>Try to get rid of these guys, make it look like an accident
>Other?
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>>1810446
>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples
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>>1810446
>>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples
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>>1810446
>Go fight evil plants!

And maybe

>Try to get rid of these guys, make it look like an accident

But only after checking if they want to continue onto the Vault which was our original goal / the one she gave us the location of. If they want to all come, we can eliminate them there without Diana seeing and get more tech (and possibly some things to fix this place) while we are there. If not, then we can start bumping them off now.
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>>1810446
Fight evil plants
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>>1810463
>>1810474
2 for this
>>1810474
>>1810578
2 for this
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>>1810474
That sounds like a bad idea.
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>>1810602
The bumping them off here, the continuing to the Vault or the killing in general?
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>>1810620
The killing in general.
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>>1810628
Why? Elimination of them prevents discovery by the BOS of the Nursery and seeing as she ain't going to attract attention to her hide-away, we can be certain that the BOS will leave her be until they've taken the region and her one of her main complaints was that we revealed her existence to another state.

Still I respect that she'd probably object to us killing our fellows and shit but we can always injure ourselves on the way back from the Vault to make it seem real.
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>>1810446
>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples
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>>1810446
>Go fight evil plants!
>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples
Both
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Rolled 3, 81, 38 = 122 (3d100)

>>1810674
Heh.

Roll me 3d100's
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Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>1810697
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Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>1810697
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Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>1810697
Nat 100
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>>1810697
>>1810674
Linux and her crew go to deal with restoring power to the Repository, while you say you'll handle the plants at the garden.

Meanwhile, you use this time to gather many different types of plans and animals samples you've never before.

What interests you a lot is the fruit. There are more fruit here than even spoken off in the old grocery store catalogs.

A large majority of them are poisonous or irritating, but thanks to your survival skills you learn how to avoid them. But a good number of them are tasty and sweet!

You've even found bananas! Real bananas just like the picutre! The small yellow ones are sweet and soft delicious like you've never tasted before. The big green ones are hard like potato's, but cooked over a fire they become soft and warm and good.

You fill up your belly and then some with fruits and tastes you never even imagined possible. This will be wonderous when you return to BigMT and try to replicate them with Salient Green and have the BCR regrow them.

+[Tropical Fruits] +[Tropical Vegetables]
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Here's a pastebin of 3 lists of tasks we have. Post scarcity, 2nd construction action, and new city
https://pastebin.com/GMfdS7Z3
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>>1810847
Next you try to catalog all the animals you see here. You really don't know the names for some of these, big one-headed brahmin with curly horns; long fast things with four legs, a long neck and face, and hair growing on the back of their neck with a long tail; giant fat round creatures with huge mouths that huddle in rivers and mud; VERY fast things that look like giant cats with yellow and brown spotted fur.

They have all kinds of shouts and noises and roars and you feel yourself almost overwhelmed. Not even Zion had this much wildlife. Birds seem to make entire swarms among trees, and legions of insects buzz around, though mercifully most don't sting.

Some of your followers would love it here.

You suddenly also find yourself staring down a giant animal. This one is big, with four legs, and a huge head and two giant ears which it flares. It has a long nose like a vaccuum cleaner, which it trumpets too as its big feet stomp the ground and it bares its horns at you.

You can tell right away its meaning to charge.

Where this a Yaoi Gui or a Death Claw you have several options. Vaporize it with a Tesla Beaton, Blow it to Smithereens with a Missile Launcher, gun it down with machine guns.

But, thinking that you ought not to kill what might be one of the last of its species in the world, you take a less lethal approach.

You stomp your two feet on the ground, shout at the top of your voice, and challenge it in full bodie armor!

The beast begins to charge forward, and you press your legs and do the same, both of your heavy masses running at full speed as you raise your arms. You collide with the giant thing at full force, stopping both of you in your tracks, your feet digging into the earth as the creature shrieks in anger and confusion, clearly not expecting to be hit by the equivalent of a human brick wall. With huge strength you push the thing backward, putting one foot in front of the other, as the big beast rears its legs and stumbles.

You step back as the creature gets up and flees, knocking trees and branches out of the way.

>You
[Damn it's good to be strong]

The animals here, while still dangerous, don't appear to be as dangerous as the mutant wildlife out there. Just big. Really big.
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>>1810930
The Mormons might be interested in this little Eden that is here.
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>>1810939
>Mormons
>not 99.999% if human population
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We should begin building 2 additional solar farms next turn and then one by one upgrade them into large solar farms.
Also don't forget to pick up a missionary on the way home.
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>>1810961
We should focus on taking over the military base. We can hold on until we get the power plants in the divide.
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>>1810961
No. We should continue full steam ahead to get the 2nd construction action. ZAX will takle the energy problem when it comes to it.
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>>1810967
The 2nd construction action won't work without energy.
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>>1810984
But there is construction we can do that doesn't take much, like the engineering HQ
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>>1810922
So a thought occurs to me in regards to our plan to expand into the Legion: we have the potential for air superiority and yet haven't taken advantage of it fully.

We should look into airdropped combat robots with short range, melee and other such weapons. So we can perform combat drops into Legion positions disrupting their formations and allowing us to assault their leaders by literally dropping from (fairly high) above. As well as allowing rapid reinforcements of positions.

>>1810965
>>1810961
Construction of a single additional solar farm of the same size as our current one would allow us to upgrade the previous but might not provide sufficient power for massive robotic expansion.

>>1810967
True, we can get more power if it comes down to it by instituting power rationing, turning off non-critical robots like some of the spy-eyes and such. However more solar farms is advisable longer term.
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>>1810993
It takes an action, and action better suited for building solar farms.
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>>1810997
It is not advisable to spend actions on solar when we're close to acquiring better sources of power. It's effectively wasted actions.
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>>1811023
Which sources of power?
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>>1811021
It's an action needed to get the second engineering action. The sooner we get on that, the better.
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>>1811023
Wasted implies that we gain nothing from it. Cold fusion still needs water which is something we have a very real limit on.

Plus we are quite far from having secured that god damn EMP-missile filled base.
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>>1811027
The cold fusion in the military base with the emp rockets. SOmething is powering it, so we once we capture it, we can hook it up to the city for a big boost. We would also surely get the plans to build more
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>>1811031
Our solar plants take water too. So it would be better to use the water for the more efficient power source.
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>>1811030
>The sooner we get on that, the better.
Incorrect, without power we can't use the 2nd construction action, we must build extra solar farms first.
>>1811037
And how do you plan to capture it?
Also i remind you our digger bots/vehicles are still just prototypes, they need more research on them which means more time.
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>>1811042
Actually they take salt water, salt water from the salt lake in Trona.
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>>1811047
We haven't peaked yet, so we are capable of getting what is needed for the second action without getting more power. 10% capacity goes a long way when it's an HQ and a garage needed.

We only need 1 tunneling transport, and we drop of a team in the control building, disable the defenses and march in. We can do that in the couple turns it takes to build a solar tower.
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>>1811060
No they don't. It takes normal water. We aren't shipping anything out of Trona.
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>>1811093
I am very certain they use salt water.
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The trees were carniverous. The vines were carniverous. The bushes were carniverous. The goddamn flowers were carniverous.

The whole fucking maze was a giant eating thing that spat acid or had pit holes.

This thing had to go, luckily fire beats plant and you used your incinerator to bathe the place in fire from long range.

You're sure Diana will understand. Her robots don't seem to attack you,in fact they go in to collect some fallen robot bodies.

As the maze burns, you see you notice you are being stealthily observed by a few tribals hiding in the bushes.

>What do?
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>>1811120
>>1811093
You don't have a pipeline to Trona if I recall, ergo you are using your own water supplies.
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>>1811077
QM says right here that we need more power to get the 2nd construction action >>1807675
>"Hmmm. I imagine a Large Solar Plant or a Huge One like Helios 1 would sustain the 2nd action indefinitely
It's basically a new requirement to get that 2nd construction.
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>>1811127
Do our native dance we learned from father figure and breeder, when we were a young kid in tribe.
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>>1811127
Wave hello, and fight those plants like an action movie star.
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>>1811127
Finish what we are doing, put away our weapon and approach them.
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>>1811141
>>1811150
>>1811153
writing
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You finish incinerating the maze, leaving behind the biggest and meanest of them, a giant moving tree.

You throw down your weapon, point at the tree, and rush forward and begin pummeling it with your fists.

Your hands start carving craters into the bark as the monster roars in rage, trying to swipe and strike you down, only for you to grab its branches and swing and break them down, beating the tree to death with its own wood. Finally, after half an hour of fighting, its branches broken, vines split, and the fight left out of it, you pick up the massive thing with both hands, squat carrying it to an open field, where you focus all your huge strength as your muscles strain and body sweats and rend the tree in two, exposing its open heart which stops beating.

Triumphant you stand atop the hulk of the beast, and do a celebratory dance.

Apparently this impresses the tribals enough to step foward.

>con't
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>>1810922
Anon, you're a hero!

QM, could you please add this to all turn posts?
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>>1810922
Good job anon. Something that is needed is just having lot of energy plants
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>>1811336
It's just what is strictly necessary. Power and resources and such would be handled as they come up.
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>>1811353
>It's just what is strictly necessary. Power and resources and such would be handled as they come up.
Yes

I would think our energy use we have right now after all that building is in the 90ish%. So we're going to have to build some solar plants when this turn is up.
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>>1811290
Men with spears and women without spears approach. They are dressed in a mixture of both Old World outfits and woven plant and animal material, honestly like every single tribal in the world as far as you know. Though from how lightly armed they are and from the manner in which they approach you can tell that they are armed for hunting, not warfare. Especially since they bring their women with them.

"You are a very strong Stranger, stronger than Mothers machines. Five of you we saw, but you must be the strongest. Mother says you are man in armor, like Legionaire, but not our enemy.

Who are you?"

>What do
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>>1811405
Give em the whole name and titles shebang.
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>>1811463
Look for eavesdroppers first.
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>>1811463
>>1811468
Actually don't tell them who we really are, we shouldn't go spreading that information around.
Just tell them we're a BoS paladin named Courier.
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>>1811405
"I am the Courier, man of many titles and many deeds but few would have any meaning to your people. I'd be quite happy to sit down and talk about myself and my deeds. Maybe even hear about your people in turn."
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>>1811488
actually do this. It's both vague and impressive.
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>>1811488
This.
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>>1811488
I like this
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>>1811488
writing
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Had to be delayed for a bit.

>>1811488
"Hello Courier. Thank you for clearing the cursed place.

We are children of the Twin Mothers tribe. Once when we were small children, we lived with our parents in the outside world. Our tribe was big then, and our parents traded with other outsiders. It was hot, and dry, and not so green but our parents farmed the land and the Mother made it grow green.

Then bad men came. Men in metal armor, and red clothing. The Legion. Mother knew to send us away to the Nursery, to hide us, while our parents fought to give us time to flee.

We miss our parents, they are dead now, but they live in the world beyond this world. We live here now, with mother, protected from the dangers of the outside and the Legion. She raised us like she raised our parents when they lived in 'Vault'. Teaches us how to live with nature, to hunt what we need and no more, what is safe and what is not safe, and what is good and what is bad.

We have never seen an outsider since the day of flight. Mother sealed away the machine tunnel."

You notice that everyone of them is similarly aged, and there are few older men or women among them.

>What do
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>>1811748
Yes, the legion are bad men.
How long has it been since the day of flight?
Where is the machine tunnel?
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>>1811774
"It was 11 years ago. Some of us were 5 years old. Some of us were 11. There were baby's we had to carry too. The older children didn't listen to mother, they went back to fight. We never saw them.

The machine tunnel is over there, by the 'railroad' tracks. It is sealed so the Legion cannot come in."
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>what do
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>>1811865
You need any help with stuff around here?
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>>1811865
Check out the ruins of the maze for loot, and then meet up with the Reavers.
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>>1811923
support
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>>1811923
"You are helping mother, and Mother helps us. Mother cares for our needs well, though she chastises us when we get lazy or fat, that is why we should not let the robots do everything for us. 'Even fruit must be plucked by hand before it can be eaten'. We live simple lives, and we are quite happy.

If you wish, we would welcome you with a feast. We have never had outsiders before and we are curious."

>>1811925
Not much to be had from ashes, but there's a number of Robot scrap. The robots don't seem to mind if you take a few parts.

Lot of bones but that's never in short supply.

You do take some samples of the carniverous plants though.

>Carniverous Plant Seeds
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>>1811925
The Reavers are apparently at the "Repository" and you head there right away.

Once again, they've been busy there, fighting off some rogue mutant monsters successfully and then restoring power.

You get the feeling these guys explore vaults on a regular basis.

You are amazed by what you see though. Its some sort of giant chamber full of tanks of fluid, with cryo-storage facilities of some kind.

>Macintosh
"I have spoken with the Tech Spirit of the Terminal here.

This place is a repository of ancient animal genomes, archived by the ancient scientists. Every single animal they could preserve.

These are accelerated gestational cloning tanks, which can grow the genome samples into new animals at a fast pace.

This is an amazing discovery! The applications to the Brotherhood are enormous. We could restore the wildlife of the past, feed even more people than before."

>Linux
"Thank you Tech Gods for blessing us with this scientific find. I pray we may convince the Goddess to allow us its usage."
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Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>1812003
Rolling perception check for cool stuff?
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>>1812003
What do

>Access Repostory Terminal. Select Specimen (Insert Animal Here) and Gestate.
>Collect samples of Animal Genomes
>Steal some of the Technology here (Cloning? Cryo-Storage? Gestational Acceleration)?
>Other

>>1812011
Writing
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>>1812015
>>Steal some of the Technology here (Cloning? Cryo-Storage? Gestational Acceleration)?
Can we also use that roll to download the blueprints of the shit?
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>>1812015
>Steal some of the Technology here (Cloning? Cryo-Storage? Gestational Acceleration)?
download any blueprints we can
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>>1812003

Alright, now i feel like we gotta start slowly taking over this place, got dammit.
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>>1812015
>Access Repostory Terminal. Select Specimen (Insert Animal Here) and Gestate.
>Collect samples of Animal Genomes
>Steal some of the Technology here (Cloning? Cryo-Storage? Gestational Acceleration)?

Do all the things.
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>>1812040
Just download and grab stuff. We're Pirate Captain Courier now! YARRRRRR.
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>>1812015
What animals are in the list OP?
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>>1812061
All of them.

>>1812011
You find an Old World Super Tranq Gun.

This device is able to scan an unarmored target for any suitable veins or weak spots and vital signs, as well as calculate mass and weight, and fires a highly calibrated super potent nerve blocking agent.

The tranquilizer ammo it fires is highly advanced. Rather than relying on a dart which may not penetrate hard bone or surfaces, it fires a heavy dart which uses prongs and super sticky glue to latch onto a target, and then injects the right dosage of tranquilizer into a vein via a tiny laser injector.

The gun can calculate the vital signs of a target to show just how much is needed to subdue it and keep it alive. This thing seems capable of knocking even you out!

>+Old World Super Tranq Gun

It also talks!

"I say, has master decided to go on a hunt shall we? Cheerio."

Sounds like a Mr. Handy.
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>>1812125
Wrong pic
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Rolled 79, 48, 1 = 128 (3d100)

>>1812019
>>1812021
>>1812053
You consider that Diana might notice you trying to steal stuff via hacking.

Would you like to try it anyway?
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>>1812137
>1
DOHOHOHOHO
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>>1812137
WELP.

PICK ONE
>Cryo-Storage
>Accelerated Gestation
>Cloning
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>>1812137
Methinks she won't notice a thing.
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>>1812162
Accelerated Gestation. We have alien cryo, and a tiny cloning vats. Its the only thing we don't have.
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>>1812162
>Accelerated Gestation
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>>1812162
OP is there a option to just get all the animal DNA?
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Ok accelerated gestation.
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>>1812162
Accelerates genestation
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>>1812176
I imagine we can ask for some chicken eggs. Or just put one in our pocket. Maybe keep a bit of steak aside too. DNA is always easy to get.
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>>1812186
Maybe you could ask if any of the natives have seen a cow or a chicken.
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>>1812186
I'm just asking because OP could do that thing, where the cloning option could also means getting all the DNA data of the animals.
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>>1812188
Oh. they don't keep livestock from the cloning vats? Well then.
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>>1812166
>>1812172
>>1812178
>>1812177
Amazingly, the holodisk for the formula for Accelerated Gestation is right here!

>You
(Boy. Imagine that. The thing Unity worked on for almost a century is right here in my hand.)

With this, you can clone things from an Embryo to an Adult in an astonishing amount of time with no noticeable after effects (besides lacking any actual adult instincts). Though you'd actually need a good cloning machine, which BigMT doesn't currently have.

---

>Macintosh
"This is some very strong securitry programs on the tech spirit. Even I would not recommend trying to steal the knowledge here. We should ask the Goddess if she would share with us."

>What do
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>>1812204
"Sounds like a plan." :^)
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>>1812204
Well we can always try. We don't know how she will take it though. She seems to want to play things close to the chest.
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>1812204
[INT Check]
Is the computer security actually that formidable with our hacking knowledge and skills?
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>>1812204
Create a potbelly pig for our daughter.
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>>1812228
Those are just baby normal pigs. We want wolfhounds as companions.
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>>1812226
Studying the code, Macintosh is right.

This is highly level Corporate security system. Evidently done by Greenway Hydroponics, rather than the local ZAX.

Strong chance for failure by manual finger hacking, even with your advanced skills. You'd need something more advanced like ED-E or one of your Repair Bots to hack into this.

>>1812228
Would you like to clone a "Pig"?
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>>1812238
What do they have?
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>>1812238
Can we not hack and just treat with her.

See what else she might need that we can provide.
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>>1812248
>What do they have?
Everything.
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Just need a vote of three
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>>1812268
We need actual Chickens, especially since our cook lady requested it. This is the perfect opportunity.
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>>1812268
Clone some chickens. can we pop them out small? like chicks or eggs?
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>>1812238
Clone that pig nigga. Also get salmon and sardines.
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>>1812301
Are we just gonna walk around with a fish in our pants or something? And we don't have water at home to farm fish.
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>>1812310
You can always just fish the rivers here.

>>1812284
>>1812287
You remember that Janith Kindergarten requested "Chicken". So you type up 'Chicken' in the computer.

"Gallus gallus domesticus selected"

CHOOSE:
>Egg
>Chick
>Chicken
>Male/Female
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>>1812337
Lets go for a half dozen eggs.
1 male, 5 female.
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>>1812310
Salmon and sardines are highly nutricious food. I say we ask for some ice to preserve that shit and bring it back home. We have cloning vats and I am sure we something to use as a refrigiratior.

>>1812337
Are the rivers not irradiated as fuck?

>>1812347
supporting.
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>>1812337
backing this >>1812347 but 2 males.
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>>1812337
>>1812361
You should have at least two males. If the one is kill we're fucked.

>>1812337
A Dozen fertile eggs
3 males 9 female
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>>1812361
>Are the rivers not irradiated as fuck?
Hmmm, you suspect not. The river's you've treaded showed no radiation, and the people here are very healthy human specimens who regularly bathe in the river.
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>>1812337
Lets go for a dozen eggs.
2 male, 10 female.
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>>1812369
Supporting this.
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>>1812365
okay, a dozen eggs then
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In your wisdom, you get about a dozen eggs. If these things are similar to geckos, you get a few more females than males. You keep them in a safe part of your backpack in some metal boxes with a bit of paper to cushion them, you'll have to incubate them in a few days you imagine.

>What do

At any time you can end the turn, or ask for suggestions.

With the Power and Repository restored, the Reavers are headed to go fix the Robot Production and Maintenance facility.
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>>1812400
>With the Power and Repository restored, the Reavers are headed to go fix the Robot Production and Maintenance facility.
So we're going to be alone here.

Let's look for any loose holodisks laying around or blueprints, or study the things in here.
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>>1812400
So if we go back to the brotherhood, would they say we finished our end of the bargain?
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>>1812434
You suspect so
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>>1812400
Ill ask for suggestions.
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>>1812459
Go to Diana, talk to her and then return to close the deal with the brotherhood.
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>>1812400
Go help the Reavers fix stuff. Perhaps we can find more cool stuff too.
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>>1812474
>Stay here and poke around some more
>Go help the Reavers at the next place
>Go hang out with the Tribals, they did offer you a feast
>Go/Sneak somewhere (Where?) [The Factory, the Repository, the Greenhouse, the Fenced off Area, the Train Station]
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>>1812488
>Stay here and poke around some more
We are alone, maybe we can find a hidden safe with holodisks, or help a note with the master password in the IT workspace
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>>1812488
>Go help the Reavers at the next place
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>>1812488
>Stay here and poke around some more
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>>1812488
>Go help the Reavers at the next place
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>>1812488
>>Stay here and poke around some more
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>>1812503
>>1812498
>>1812493
3
>>1812501
>>1812494
>>1812485
3

We're tied
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>>1812522
>Go help the Reavers at the next place
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>>1812541
Writing
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>>1812522
Stay here and poke around some more
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TOO LATE.
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You head with the Reavers to the Robot Production and Maintenance Facility. Mostly fit for the standard old world models, Mr. Howdy's, Sentry Bots, Protectrons, Sentry Bots, that sort of thing.

It's in bad shape. The power is disconnected. The auto assemblers are busted up. But this technology is childs play for you and the Reavers.

In no time at all, the debris has been cleared, scrap parts used to repair the machines, and power is restored. The factory is already producing a fresh line of robots, as aged old robots drag themselves to the doors for new repairs.

>Mr. Howdy
"Howdy! Y'all did us a favor repairin' our facility 'n all. Thank'yee"

>Linux
"Rise and let the Current Flow through you. Serve the Goddess well, Tech Spirit."

>Mr. Howdy
"Yeah yeah yeah, 'Praise Diana' and all that. Welp, I gots work to do now. See ya"

---

In less than a month, you and the Reavers have helped Diana restore the Nursery what she could not do in years! All her requested to-do list has been completed, and the Reavers go to see her one last time to see if there is anything new.

>Join them
>Go somewhere else
>Let them go, there may be other secrets to perceive about this place
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>>1812629

>Join them
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>>1812629
>>Join them
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>>1812629
>>Join them
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Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>1812629
Join them
We are going to impress her so hard she will give us the secrets
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>>1812649
Don't fuck the hologram.
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>>1812664
>You
[Lady Killer] [I need to think of a way to make that possible]
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>>>1812631
>>>1812634
>>>1812638
>>>1812649
You and the Skirmii return to the Control Tower to speak to Diana, where she greets you once more.

>Diana
"You have done all that I have asked, for that I am grateful."

>You
[You're welcome]

>Linux
"We have restored the Current Flow of Life as best we could."

>Diana
"The 'Current Flow of Life'. That is a beautiful motto for your faith. I am curious to learn more about your Reavers."

>Linux
"I would be honored to tell you of us, Goddess. I and my team are prepared to stay and assist some more, but please remember the purpose of our mission."

>Diana
"I have. I have heard the words of you and of your Paladin Courier.

I find that my nursery is surrounded, by the Legion, by this MLA, and by your Brotherhood. If I must be forced to accept that the world must one day reach the confines of my nursery, I would feel safer where it your Brotherhood than the others."

>Linux
"Thank you Goddess. May we send a holy E-Mail to our Ambassador? There is much the Reavers and the Brotherhood would wish to speak to you of."

>Diana
"Yes, I will allow it. Obey my rules in this sacred place, protect them from harm as you have done, and you are welcome to the Nursery.

As for you Paladin, you have a village to care for. If you must leave, so be it. But you are also welcome to stay."

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>What do
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>>1812670
fuck the hologram
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>>1812685
we need to head home for founding day
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>>1812685
We would like to, but we must return to our own people. We ask you one time if we can have one bit of knowledge to give to them.
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Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>1812685
Seduce her by coding a pleasure line in her coding
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>>1812760
no seducing the hologram.
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>>1812685
Fuck
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>>1812768
But mooooooooom
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>>1812685
Does our gut feeling say anything about trading tech now?

Go join the tribals for their feast.
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>>1812780
We don't need any bastards running around, especially virtual demigod bastards.
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>>1812705
>>1812713
Supporting

Remember goys 3 votes or nothing happened
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>>1812670
Remember we did some weird matrix virtual reality thing when fighting Berserker bots?
We could do something like that. Find a port and put our plug in it.
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>>1812685
Ask Diana about the illness she had cured.

>>1812791
We need to go back to BoS to continue our deal.
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Can we leave a radio or something like that so that we can contact each other as needed?
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>>1812799
>Ask Diana about the illness she had cured.
Supporting this.

Don't fuck the hologram.

Also QM, we still have our military action in the Divide before the turn is over, don't we?
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I think I have a perfect idea. We should bring Unity here to act as a diplomat for us. They both have great nurturing and motherly characters, so they will get along well.
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>>1812685
Also I wonder if we could get a Garden of Eden creation kit from her...or is there are blueprints for them here. We could turn the Big Empty into a paradise.

She did mention that someone stole one before - could she describe this person to us?
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>>1812818
Could be great if we got our hand on one of those. We could then replicate it.
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>>1812685
>Go back to the BoS
We need to get our damn reward
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>>1812824
Exactly. We should ask her about that and what was the 'illness' that she cured the tribals of.
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I guess OP is kill again
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>>1812838
The illness of being gay

Night guys see you tomorrow.
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>>1812799
Supporting
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>>1812799
>>1812813
>>1812838
>>1812884
4 votes for asking her about this illness / cure.

If we could ask about the Garden kit too, that'd be good.
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We need to reverse engineer that tranq rifle.

Ignoring it's use in policing actions as well as biological / ecological science, it would also prove a useful weapon for capturing our enemies alive for conversion into TACTs and preventing enemy civilians from resisting our advance.


We should also advise Diana to maintain her neutrality as much as she can with the BOS and that we'd like to take back any technologies she'd be willing to share to our people.


After this is done we are going to go secure the Texas BOS shit, gather more of their PA, their weapons, their salvage and so on. For reverse engineering and for trade to other people.
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>>1813084
I still think taking the machine over is our best move. It has no love for us, the Reavers worship it and promise godhood among them so they are inclined to side with them. Not to mention that if the BoS set up shop we lose any chance of capture without war. We can fly in with our ship, stealth our way in again (maybe prepare the way while we are here?) and take control of the system. Whether we install a new brain (?) or ship it off to BigMT (which is frankly the better choice) we can decide it ourselves without the other powers knowing. And if we want to resettle the tribals we have "goddess" tell them its superduper livin with us, then educate and propaganda them into loyal citizens, since they are one of the few people wholly unawareof the world outside. Prime reeducation candidates.
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>>1813113
I'd like to try and settle this without doing that sort of shit. But if it comes down to it I'll support such actions, so long as we don't kill her.
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>>1813113
>>1813084
>We should also advise Diana to maintain her neutrality as much as she can with the BOS and that we'd like to take back any technologies she'd be willing to share to our people.
Why do we want to take over this valley again...?

It is far away from our nation and only filled with a few people.

Sure it has a nice environment, but the real prize is the tech and the pre-war genetic information.

We already have most of that genetic info from just walking around, and we have 1/3 pieces of tech already - is potentially getting into a conflict with the Midwestern BoS worth it to claim this place?

With a bit more work, we can basically recreate it back at BigMT.
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>>1813149
Well, it's an additional ZAX, AI, robot factory, plus the various pre-war designs / techs she has for those and such.

Fact is that based off of the description of this place in game, it's a technological and ecological masterpiece. An exact replica of the entire north american biosphere either in existence or storage and entirely self-sustaining. A miracle of pre-war technology, ability and ingenuity.


Primarily we want to keep the BOS from getting her support so that we can have her support when we eliminate the Legion and thus gain a land border with her.
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>>1813149
>>1813155
Point is, we steal ZAX and tech. The valley is of no consequence, the reavers can have it. Also, why even keep this AI alive? It is obviously buggy, referring to itself as a goddess and mother. Take the tech, take the hardware and wipe the bitch.
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morning, writing
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>>1813170
Arent Zax computers the same size as a building?
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>>1813170
>Point is, we steal ZAX and tech. The valley is of no consequence, the reavers can have it.
The valley represents a pristine pre-war environment, with advanced technology and industry in a location that is unknown to any of our enemies (including the BOS depending on if they have connection to their internet currently, seeing as we can eliminate them before a signal is sent).

>Also, why even keep this AI alive?
It's a 200+ year old ZAX-type AI specialising in all biological sciences and a bunch of other things seeing as it's survived this long.

>It is obviously buggy, referring to itself as a goddess and mother. Take the tech, take the hardware and wipe the bitch.
That is a falsehood. We know why it does that and we know it is aware it ain't a god or a mother.
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>>1813170
It's human/ZAX hybrid. It is something else than normal ZAX.

I'd rather we keep diplomatic approach. Get Unity here as a diplomat. They are both similar in character.
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>>1812713
"Give them the knowledge of life. I am the beauty of the green earth, the soul of nature. I am that which gives life unto the world.

You may ask of me one gift, for I see that you have already taken the blessings of my bounties."

CHOOSE:
>The Cure for Cancer - You don't currently have this and your scientists weren't even sure it were possible!
>An Animal Companion - Trained and friendly
>A superior Farming Algorithim for Mr. Howdys and all robot farms for superior production
>A gene inducer to reduce plant water needs

>You
(Yeah, I definitely wanna figure out how to handle those hologram 'bounties')

---

>>1812783
"Return to me with items of trade, and a member of your people, and perhaps my bounties may flow to you again"

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>>1812799
>Ask Diana about the illness she had cured.
"A terrible disease called the New Plague. It was rampant many decades ago, until I spread the cure. I pray it has not returned."

>Linux
"With the Brotherhoods efforts, we will ensure that never happens Goddess."

>She gives you the cure
+New Plague Cure

>>1812810
Diana gives you a way to contact her via her personal satellite.

>>1812818
Diana's mood changes after you ask her about the GECK.

"There was one such other who asked me for a GECK from my factory. When I denied it to him, for I saw he had ill goals in mind, he stole it from me.

I saw that the power of the GECK could be misused for a terrible evil. Once it was my dream to cleanse the world of radiation and let it blossom with GECKs from my factory.

I will not hand them out so lightly. Only upon them whose people I trust to spread life to mankind, not death, and use them for noble means will I even consider such a thing again.

But, you Brotherhood of Steel are already on that path."

>Linux
"I assure you Goddess, the Brotherhood will do all it can to prove itself worthy."

Well shit.

>>1812799
Mercifully, and to your great thanks, Diana gives you the path to a secret backdoor water entrance that leads out into the river. You put on your rebreather mask and dive in, exiting back into the open desert where you find a MUCH better place in the ravine to climb your way out of.

And you begin the long treck back to the Brotherhood of Steel.
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>>1813235
>The Cure for Cancer - You don't currently have this and your scientists weren't even sure it were possible!
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>>1813235
"Do you know how to cure the FEV?"
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>>1813235
Gene inducer


OK, we will have to get things or tech for trade and bring Unity to be friends with her.
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>>1813255
>Diana
"That is beyond my abilities, and I refuse to allow FEV into my realm."

>Linux
"We are studying how to eradicate the FEV, at least, its most virulent strains. Most humans have developed a tolerance for less mutagenic strains of FEV which is everywhere."

>Diana
"Then perhaps I might assist in your research."
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>>1813235
>The Cure for Cancer - You don't currently have this and your scientists weren't even sure it were possible!

Animal is pointless, farming algorithm can be developed by us and the gene inducer can also be made by us given time.

>Diana gives you a way to contact her via her personal satellite.
Could we show her what our "village" is like and what it was like a year or two ago? Try and get her to understand we are a powerhouse on the rise?

>Well shit.
I think that sums up this trip pretty well. On the other hand we've got the cure for cancer, accelerated fetus development tech, a super tranq rifle and will get good deals from the Reavers for those techs they offered.

Hell we could even trade them the info on the holodisk on the accelerated development we found, as long as we get to keep the original.
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>>1813215
If we can make sure there is NO WAY for the other Reavers to know what happened or where then lets kill them and take the place over. If the BoS get involved we are fucked. As to this thing being somehow super useful I doubt it. If it is data we want then we search the archives. Its meager ability to protect itself is of no use. Neither is its ability with tech. The only point I agree to is the biotech use but frankly, with how much the other 5 AI are able to do with 1 ZAX I say give this one to them as well. Make changes if there is need for it and learn everything we can from this thing but ultimately get rid of it and replace it with a trustworthy one.

As to the goddess thing, it may realize it is a machine but it has dreams of grandeur. Frankly unacceptable.

>>1813235
This is what I mean, the BoS will fuck it up for us if they get a whiff of this place. Better find some vault and tell them the reavers died heroically (7 times in the back).
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>>1813252
>>1813267
2 for this
>>1813259
1 for this
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>>1813268
>If we can make sure there is NO WAY for the other Reavers to know what happened or where then lets kill them and take the place over. If the BoS get involved we are fucked.
Just kill them before they send a signal, perhaps a pulse grenade or two, and we can injure ourselves like cutting an arm off or something if we manage to defeat them without getting injured. Then we just tell them we found the Vault and came under attack from either the MLA or the Legion.

>As to this thing being somehow super useful I doubt it. If it is data we want then we search the archives. Its meagre ability to protect itself is of no use. Neither is its ability with tech.
It has far more than a meagre ability to defend itself. Especially now that it's robotic production facility is back online.

As to it's ability regarding tech, it's as good as CEO but focused on maintaining this place and biology rather than industry. Something we are lacking.

>The only point I agree to is the biotech use but frankly, with how much the other 5 AI are able to do with 1 ZAX I say give this one to them as well.
The ZAX ain't going anywhere fast.

>Make changes if there is need for it and learn everything we can from this thing but ultimately get rid of it and replace it with a trustworthy one.
Mate this AI is trustworthy. It's just we've not endeared it to us.

>As to the goddess thing, it may realize it is a machine but it has dreams of grandeur. Frankly unacceptable.
Now I am certain you are pretending to be this thick. It does that because it makes it easier to get it's people to obey and explaining what it really is isn't possible in their terms. It's perfectly acceptable.
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>>1813268
Im also thinking across these lines. Ultimately I see us having a Zax for each AI instead of having to make them share to function.

This bias she has to the brotherhood is alarming. Pehaps tell her of how they genocide mutants and kill their own people who turn to ghouls.

Otherwise I forsee us having to take this place over, simply so that the brotherhood cant have it.
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>>1813278
>>1813279
Guys, what if use our cultural boon?
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>>1813278
>>1813279
They already emailed the BOS so it is too late for that.
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>>1813279
It looks like she does not give a shit about what happens to mutants.
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>>1813284
WEeeeeeeeeell

They are in the process of starting it up. In front of the terminal.

However they are also in front of Diana.

If you wish to start shooting and taking over stuff, now is the time.
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>>1813283
Bit late for that and I want to save it for making our people more nationalist or something.

>>1813284
They haven't. They asked permission but it's unlikely they have any signal this far out. We can kill them and keep this place safe. Maybe even take their corpses back with us and thus keep their augments to study.


>>1813294
Well shit lads. Do or die time. Do we want to betray the BOS / Diana and attempt a takeover / elimination of our only competitor and hope she changes sides?
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>>1813278
The thing could repair its facilities without outside help, despite having numerous handys on standby. It couldnt keep its sanctuary clear of angry weeds. The only reason it is still alive is that it hid away into an inhospitable mountain range and blocked the only entry point. Its shit at security/maintenance.

As to the ZAX, we can send a spybot and use the satellite to link up with our installation. Use it that way until we can either move the thing or find/make a good AI to stick into it.

And trustworthy as to loyal to us. Currently, we will lose this thing to the BoS fast.

>the Ancients in their might and wisdom weaved me into the ZAX, so that I would be Guardian and Goddess of this sanctuary.
Seems more than just courtesy.
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>>1813294
Let's not.

It was fucking stupid of us to take them with us. I don't know why people chose them instead of going alone or grabbing our companions
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>>1813294
Qm could we use our culture boon to stop them with an impassioned speech and convert them to our cause, or would it be better to just start shooting up the place?
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>>1813297
Sure, but we can use the boon for diplomacy so if we can convince Diana to stay neutral after they send the email or right now.
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>>1813297
Tits. I say pulse their asses and deal with the AI. It has shit-tier nonlethal basic bots and we have a NAT 10 character. If we go by game terms, this is easy-peasy. VATS every bot for oneshot and just walk into the core, shut down the AI and set up a link with homebase.

The alternative is BoS drones swarming this place next time we are here. God luck with tihs plan then. Also war.
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>>1813306
>Qm could we use our culture boon to stop them with an impassioned speech and convert them to our cause
Unfortunately, you lack the specific means to convert the Reavers in this way on your body right now, though it exists.

Furthermore Linux and her crew seem like good Karma people and those are very hard to win over, you notice that its easier to convert bad Karma people when convincing people to fight the NCR back in the Mojave.
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>>1813305
Eh, we thought it was just going to be some random Vault. I was 50 / 50 on taking them and decided it was better to have and not need than need and not have. Especially since I presumed we could eliminate them without issue.

>>1813308
I could agree to using it to have her maintain her independence and isolation (which I think is her goal anyway, OP PLS CONFIRM).

>>1813310
True. She has a personal satellite so we can clearly use that to link Big mt to here.
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ANONS, ANONS I have a plan.
Suppose we use the boon and our skills to convince her of neutrality. If the BoS receives notice of her position, but she doesn't want to help them anymore than they will either try to forcibly take over or leave her alone. If they DO try hostile action than she has our number for us to swing over and stop her.
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>>1813318
Alright, if we cant use a boon in any way to save the day, my vote is we shoot those guys and take over the facility.

As much as i dont want to, its to dangerous to let the brotherhood have it.
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I vote for using the boon after this to have her remain neutral.
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>>1813326
>I could agree to using it to have her maintain her independence and isolation (which I think is her goal anyway, OP PLS CONFIRM)
This might have been possible the very first meeting, but, you have already convinced her this is not possible due to the presence of three major and dangerous factions.

Hmmm. However, you could use a Cultural Boon to reprogram her brain to obey you AND to follow your ideology, after you kill or eliminate Linux and her team (perhaps you could tranq and cryo-freeze them). Or wipe her memory of these recent events.
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>>1813335
Well shit. So when you say reprogram what do you mean?


Lads I think this is our best option even if I dislike it. We should wipe her memory and start over probably.
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>>1813335
As distasteful as it is, ill vote for this.
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Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>1813335
Perception check to see any tactical advantages we can take.
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For fucks sake. Diana is not joining anyone yet.

We just need to continue diplomatic and trade efforts.

>>1813335
With the way you keep cucking us left and right I don't believe we will be able to eliminate Linux and her people even if we become a literal god, your awful roll against system and crits will fuck us up.
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>>1813335
>>1813341
Why wipe when we can convert her over? Do whatever is needed to kill the mechanicus and boon her brains. Then we link up with BigMT and have her worked over by our AI to be more subservient/not to decide to do something stupid. Then we datamine her ass and see if she is worth keeping. Also actually fortify the gorge so it is not an easy win for air troops.
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Thinking about it on the fly (you only have a few seconds so time for more thought isn't there, and you are already activatnig V.A.T.S. and the GRX) you formulate an immediate action plan.

1. Kill or Incapacitate the Reavers. Vaporize their bodies, or keep them for study, or tranq them and store them in cryo.
2. Before Diana can retaliate, rush forward, find her brain, temporarily disable it.
3. Use the Cultural Boon Briefcase and withdraw a few chips. Mostly an "Asimov Digital AI Slave-Collar" chip to ensure her absolute loyalty, a US "Patriotic Suggestion Enhancement" chip which will make her susceptible to patriotic ideals to programmed authority figures. A bit of brain surgery and BAM, she's all yours.

---

Thats as good a plan as you can make in such short time.
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>>1813350
Agree with you on the QM part, diagree on AI part. We can (if QM allows it) take this place over and be done with it.
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>>1813355
Fuck it, it's a better plan than I've got and to be frank if the worst happens we can just scour the place for a design document or something.
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Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>1813355
How many Reavers?
Int roll for where could Diana's brain possibly be. Perhaps our knowledge of debrainification and Zax can be of help?
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>>1813360
Your fairly certain based on the size of the room its not far, and that it is likely within reach judging from the relative lack of security here.
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>>1813360
Five Reavers. You can do this.
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>>1813364
How many Reavers? Do we know if the mechanical parts of the Reavers might interfere if used our tranq gun?
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>>1813355
Dooooo iiiiit!
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>>1813369
Luckily they aren't 100% machine, and you've observed exposed flesh and their brains are still human, ergo susceptible to tranquilizer.

As an added precaution you also plan to stun them with electricity. If you want to keep them alive.

Of course you can just vaporize them too
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>>1813376
So guys, whether or not we kill them, what should our cover story for the Brotherhood be if we do either?
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>>1813389
>Int 5
It would be a bad idea to go back to the Brotherhood after this, at all
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>>1813392
How will they know? We can send out a mock distress call from some hellhole and say they died. Case being, this should not be so one-dimensional.
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>>1813392
What if we say we lost everyone and give them SOME tech to placate them. Like a better algorithm for farming or something and the cures.
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I am against hostilities. This makes us no better than Legion or MLA or even NCR.
We lost this one guys, just admit it and don't turn us into a monster we are trying to fight.
We might be able to change her mind in future.
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Let's not this sounds like a bad idea
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>>1813394
>>1813397

Do you think they are fucking stupid?

General already sees us suspicious because some things don't add up.

Aldo
>int 5

Even a bum fuck farmer will realize what a bad idea it would be.
This will practically make enemies of BoS and we will lose our spaceship
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Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>1813394
>>1813397
It stands to reason to you that the Brotherhood want this place investigated. You returning would confirm its here.

If you had returned with the rest of the team and said "it's nothing but rocks" that would be the only way to remove their interest.

But anything that kills five of their best Skirmii is going to get their attention. The best way to keep them away is likely to let them keep waiting for any returns, or not returns at all. Then they won't even be sure if the team made it there.

>>1813394
Hmm, although. . .

Rolling for reasons
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Let's just send a dozen or so followers here with Diana's permission and set up joint research projects.


Hell, even seducing her with Lady killer, cha 10 and culture boon is a million times better plan.
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>>1813407
Yeah and we will lose our spaceship
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>>1813408
So you suggest we roll over in defeat and hope it gets better later? Please. We take action now and secure everything. This place is hidden enough so it wont be discovered until we have had a chance to fortify.
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>>1813405
How about this:
I say we tranq them, take over Diana and with her on our side we create a story about rogue defense systems activating and attacking us. While they're unconscious, Diana sends over all of the data for tech and research to BigMT and we can basically torch all of the really important stuff we don't want to fall into the BoS's hands. We return with the cures, the algorithms, and other good tech (but nothing life changing) and allow the BoS in. What the BoS don't know however is that Diana is actually /ourgal/. How about it?
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>>1813407
Okay, so you've figured out a plan.

Tranq them, then mutilate the bodies and make it look like they were attacked by the MLA. Apparently the MLA here are the "Hounds of Hecate" so you can get some wild dogs to chew on them.

Then return to the BoS with their bodies in tow.

Tell them it was an ambush, they hit you with tranq darts and only you survived and you saw nothing, get your spaceship back, and go. Bringing back their bodies may earn just enough cred for the General to believe you.

---

Alright, so you've squared it off. You get the Nursery, Diana, your spaceship back, and the Brotherhood stays out.

No one see's what you did except you. You feel this will work absolutely if you use the Boon material
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>>1813415
Would this >>1813414 be viable?
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>>1813419
You would be torching far more than you can feasibly bring to BigMT. There is a lot more here than just Data.
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>>1813413
Yeah, I do.
DO you want us to be different than the Legion or NCR? Then we don't go around killing people just because things didn't go exactly our way. Especially killing good people.
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>>1813410
I'd argue we can head back in a month or two. Imply that the place was abandoned / stripped clean except with the location of an actual Vault (the one we know is in Legion lands that Diana mentioned) and that when we tried to go there we came under attack and got cut off from our escape route.

Then we imply we've spent the month or two after the bouncing around in the Legion / MLA trying to get back to them and that we lost the Reaver's early on after being separated in a ambush or something.


>>1813415
>No one see's what you did except you. You feel this will work absolutely if you use the Boon material
Fuck it, it's good enough for me and I can think of a few ways to placate the General when the time comes to meet him again like inviting a scribe and a paladin or two to come and meet our people for him. That and asking about their research into curing FEV and asking if we can have the results / help. Not to mention the potential to mention our plan to send forces into the Legion and thus we can imply we want to reclaim the BOS assets in that region (specifically the Mojave chapter's) and find our chaptermates which odd to calm his worries.
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>>1813419
Doesnt matter, they wont know there is anything there.

>>1813415
Bag it, boon it, do it.
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>>1813422
With the data and presumably blueprints, could we not build them at home?
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>>1813424
>DO you want us to be different than the Legion or NCR? Then we don't go around killing people just because things didn't go exactly our way. Especially killing good people.
I'd point out that morally speaking your comparison is quite inaccurate. Even if we went around killing those who got in our way we'd still be better than the NCR seeing as they are outright genocide the tribals they encounter.

As to the Legion? They are what they are and what they are is a bunch of tech-hating, slavers and shit. So long as we generally let civilians live and don't genocide those who resist us we are better than them.
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My plan is:
- non-lethal
- denies the BoS the vast majority of the benefits found here
- allows us a permanant spy in BoS territory
- gets us data and the means to reproduce the same facilities back at BigMT.

Vote for my plan today!
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>>1813429
Some of these facilities are huge and multilayered and take up as much space as BigMT. You would also be unable to transfer such solid things as DNA samples, the vast wildlife, etc.
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>>1813424
Do you know the break a few eggs omelette line? Yeah, this is that. There are always going to be those that suffer. Do you think when we go to war against the other powers people wont suffer? The Legion farmers, NCR citizens, MLA slaves they sacrifice to empower themselves? People will die. If we play our cards right and choose our battles, we can grow our powerbase with few casualties. This is that battle. Dont chicken out.
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>>1813435
No.

We kill them and thus be the only one who knows there is something here. Then we do as >>1813426 wrote and buddy-buddy with them so the dont ask questions. Fortify the place and when we go to war we have a stronghold in enemy territory, ready to fuck them in the ass.
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>>1813437
Seeing how we have yet to clear out the entirety of BigMT, is there a likely possibility of open space for us to build these facilities?
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>>1813441
This is completely fucking different. You are suggesting we deceive, backstab and lie to people who see us as an (at least temporary) ally.
There is a thing called honor, once you lose it you don't get it back. What you are suggesting is that we become a slimy piece of shit no better than Oddball.

So no I don't agree with you or your bad analogy.
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>>1813415
>>1813355
Okay, if this is the plan you want, simply (re)vote.

>Yes
>No

And link to here for counting
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>>1813450
No
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>>1813450
No to whole thing. Let them live, do not engage or kill them.
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>>1813450
>Yes
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>>1813450

>Yes
We could use this tech, but more importantly we need the BoS to NOT have this tech.
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>>1813450
>no
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>>1813450
Yes
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>>1813450
Yes.
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>>1813455
>>1813456
>>1813461
>>1813462
That is 4 for yes, operation is a go!
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>>1813463
Let the others think.
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>>1813463
Big vote and short time, there are more lurkers. QM always gives more time on stuff like this.
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>>1813464
Yes, though the majority vote is clear, I'll give it some time to think over. Also I want to eat lunch right now, so brb.
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>>1813450
Nope nope nope
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No
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We can gain so much more by giving it to the BOS. Their leader is suspicious of us as is and i honestly don't think this will go unnoticed by them. They will probably investigate and if there are any discrepancies we will be fucked.

We can gain their trust, however, by giving them it. Them as a trade partner is far more valuable than what we can get from this vault by theft(We can trade for most of it anyway).
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>>1813450
YES!
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>>1813471
>>1813469
>>1813458
>>1813452
>>1813453
So instead of us getting all of this tech and a loyal AI you want the Midwestern BoS (who is a considerable power that's expanding already) to acquire it all. They've further stated their intent to ally with the NCR whenever they meet them and, indeed, the two faction's ideologies line up together fairly well.

This as opposed to US getting all the tech and getting a planted agent (in the form of Diana loyal to us) in the region. They may very well discover this place later on their own, but it would play by whatever rules we dictate at that point, so we can manipulate the situation to our advantage at the time.
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>>1813474
The ZAX, for example. A hidden base, for example (since the MLA will take the heat). All the tech to ourselves, not anybody else, for example.

As opposed to an ideologically different semi-ally who we will fight in the end anyway (unless we, like we do here, take over the central computer and good luck with that in BoS-Land) whom we may trade some stuff for but who is ultimately not worth it.

As >>1813456 said.
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>>1813478
Agree on all points. We have to take a strong stance here. We have to make BigMT great again.
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>>1813478
>>1813483
But aren't we trying to ally with the BoS tho?
Comparatively they're pretty tame unlike the other factions and if we can produce the cure for the FEV we can turn them to our side.
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>>1813464
>>1813466
I know I know but you can't blame me for trying. Also we need to start planning out our next few turns / what our next major action is.


We've secured the Divide, so materials aren't a worry, and thus I think our focus should be expansion of our robotics factory and power systems. That way we can reprocess it into robots more quickly and expand into the Legion without worrying about attrition too much.

To this point, I request that we dedicate our robotics research (and possibly even the ZAX) action for the next five turns purely into improving our automated factories efficiency while expending either our Civilian or one of our construction actions into expanding the factory (the others going towards creating power and other needs or even creating a third construction action).


Once we have 2000 of our light skeletal combat robots and many additional TACTs (seriously we should make all of our current soldiers into officers / TACTs assuming they are willing or can be convinced) along with some more other such units we can conquer a fair portion of the Legion and begin our mass expansion east until we meet the BOS.

This would also enable us to begin expanding into lands currently unclaimed by any faction which is far easier than our current experience.


I would additionally like to request certain researches be performed. Primarily the plasma flamethrowers, but I think we would benefit from a action or two just dedicated to refining our laser / LAER weapons. Possibly followed by looking into creating a robot which can de-brain people on the battlefield so we can convert the Legion's battle hardened fanatics into useful brains (once wiped, they can be used for ZAX's, TACTs and other such things) and bodies for scientific research (implants, FEV, weapons development, medicine, etc).
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>>1813489
Sure we're trying to ally with the BoS. That is to say, ally with them not become their vassal state.

As the disparity in power level stands right now the only thing that keeps us from becoming their vassal state is that they're unlikely to be able to project their forces all the way over to Big MT very easily.

Accordingly we need to take steps that make us stronger while maintaining their status quo or reducing them...without drawing ire upon ourselves.
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>>1813478
I don't want us to be a piece of shit and take moral high ground
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>>1813498
The Courier has no right to a moral highground, and the moral highground offers no advantages anyway. Especially when the alternative is MUCH more powerful enemies. Is it worth that to you?
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>>1813493
Not at all. I really do agree with you on all your other points but for this i am not sure the risk outweighs the reward.
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>>1813489
>But aren't we trying to ally with the BoS tho?
God no. The BOS are a dead end and disagree with our culture and other decisions in many areas. They only cause problems.

>Comparatively they're pretty tame unlike the other factions and if we can produce the cure for the FEV we can turn them to our side.
They commit genocide and even if we could produce that cure, it wouldn't solve the inherent issue. The BOS are going to get us all killed the moment that an alien threat shows up with their "humanity first, suffer not the mutant, oooh raah!" shit seeing as they'd probably try and kill them. Not to mention their fear of genetic modification, hate of sentient machines (refer to FO 4's BOS) and such.


I see the BOS the same way I see the NCR. I don't consider either of them worth letting survive seeing what they have done, are doing and will do.
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>those cloning vats
What if we kill them and clone copies of them that are entirely loyal to us? Like synths? We have the cloning vats. And probably the facilities to reattach whatever upgrades they had...
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I am all for using the boon to keep her from getting too cozy with the BOS, it has to be said.
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>>1813503
Trust me, with our forces we could take a fair bit of land off the Legion. Especially if we can get some more immoral weapons in production and if we can get more TACTs.

>>1813505
You ain't thinking big enough. Clearly we use them to make clones of us and throw an army of Couriers at the enemy.

>>1813506
This is the only way thanks to how everything has gone.
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>>1813450
No.

>>1813235
Cure for cancer

>>1813463
Kill yourself. You piece of trash. Along with everybody else who constantly wants to betray literally EVERY person we encounter
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People who say
>No
as the vote better start throwing out alternative plans to what should we do rather than whine about morals.
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>>1813513
So are you a liberal heart bleeder? You would be among those slaves who sold out their tribe to the MLA because they beat the trader who tried to scam them. Nice try. Go cry somewhere else.
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>>1813513
>>1813498
We literally work and are good friends with Niner, but now you're getting queasy?
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I wonder how the night time players will feel about this.
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>>1813513
Mate I was one of the people against betraying Elijah. You couldn't be more wrong.
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>>1813519
I am no moralfag, i often argue for chemical weapons and bio weapons.

In terms of Risk Vs. Reward i can see this going extremely poorly, so much so i would suggest the safe route while we build up our forces.
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>>1813450
I might be too late but
>No
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Actually since we gave her a radio to communicate with us can't we just have her talk with our ZAX and AI's and have her get a good opinion on us?
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>>1813521
>liberal heart bleeder

I'm sorry you fucking idiot that we currently lack the means of being able to protect this area from MLA/Legion attacks which are clearly to have happened in the past and may start again. Why the fuck would I want these resources lost because abunch of morons think it's better to sieze it now and not let it 'operate' undercover within the BoS?

>>1813522
Only reason I wanted to touch Niner was to get a route to the dark gods to slay them and fuck the NCR. That was before they become super facist.

>>1813525
Last time betraying somebody worked out so well when we were unprepared right?

>>1813519
Deploy her as a sleeper agent within the BoS. It's simple, we can get then far more information at the very least about food production and what 'security' and how they operate around here.
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>>1813529
I did suggest such a thing but OP never responded.
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>>1813450
Yes
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>>1813519
I WILL whine about morality. We are trying to establish a totally different nation compared to others. That means keeping true to our ideals.
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>>1813531
QM can we have her have a nice, civilized conversation with our ZAX and AI's and Brain please?
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>>1813530
I agree with this anon more and more. We don't have the means to defend this facility, and if we deploy our forces here the BOS will surely question it and see it as an act of aggression.

>>1813529
We really need to do this

>>1813536
Supproting
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>>1813530
>I'm sorry you fucking idiot that we currently lack the means of being able to protect this area from MLA/Legion attacks which are clearly to have happened in the past and may start again.
That is incorrect. This location is currently unknown to both those groups. It was a separate place that was attacked by the Legion.

>I'm sorry you fucking idiot that we currently lack the means of being able to protect this area from MLA/Legion attacks which are clearly to have happened in the past and may start again.
Because we can't make it "operate" undercover in the BOS. Hell to be frank letting the BOS have it probably puts this place at more risk.

>Last time betraying somebody worked out so well when we were unprepared right?
Except we've had multiple statements by OP that this would probably work. Unlike then when he rolled a d 1000 or something, my memory fails me on the precise details in that regard.

>Deploy her as a sleeper agent within the BoS. It's simple, we can get then far more information at the very least about food production and what 'security' and how they operate around here.
Except that isn't an option. Hell the only way that is an option is our current plan.
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>>1813530
>Deploy her as a sleeper agent within the BoS.
And how do you plan to do that without betraying the Skirmii and subjugating her to us? Right now she's got much better opinions of the BoS than us.
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>>1813530
So now you are butthurt. Truly, a master strategist. Did you notice they are blocked off from the outside? That, with our robot data, we could manufacture better bots to defend? That if we dont go non-lethal, it is far easier to protect things? And so on. Calm your tits man, and if you cant, go away.
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People who say
>No
need to give out an alternative plan of action on what should we do about the BoS, and the implications of them having all of this tech. The BoS is going to have a huge edge on the MLA who we are counting on to blunt the offensive of the NCR. The MLA have a trump card in the form of their Dark God who might take action, but we don't know to what extent.

We need plans on:
>what benefits us giving the BoS this information
>how do we get access to the same tech
>how do we better foster ties with the BoS with our nation if this is your goal.
>DETAILS PEOPLE DETAILS

>>1813535
More whining. Where is the plan? THE PLAN?
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Hell if you guys really wanted Diana you could have corrected her and told her about our teleportation tech here >>1809731
>From what you have told to me, your land is very far away and the Brotherhood is almost upon me.
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>>1813542
Still use the chips but wait until the readers leave the room for the night.

>>1813540
So the legion who are currently working with the MLA will be unable to locate this area and hit it again?

Why is this the only plan. I didn't see a signal fucking person point out this idea at all. Everybody went 'muh boon. Muh fuck them like abunch of savages that have no ability at long term planning or understanding of our current military.

>>1813546

Are you just a fucking idiot? Because guess what if they are blocked off how are we gonna get reinforcements into this area? We would need to fly them in our somehow smuggle them in with the BoS watching us considering it boarders MLA/LEGION/BoS not us.
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>>1813551
>what benefits us giving the BoS this information
We get actual good deals with them, and we can buy military grade stuff not just civilian this time.
>how do we get access to the same tech
Diana can communicate with BigMT now, all we need to do is trade with her, the real problem is how do we keep the tech we give her away from the BoS.
>how do we better foster ties with the BoS with our nation if this is your goal.
Join them in their war against the MLA maybe?
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>>1813559
>Still use the chips but wait until the readers leave the room for the night.
That might work but then the BOS are aware of this place and shit. Not to mention it risks them finding out since she could warn them.

>So the legion who are currently working with the MLA will be unable to locate this area and hit it again?
They aren't working together. Your knowledge of the in world situation is atrocious.

>Why is this the only plan. I didn't see a signal fucking person point out this idea at all. Everybody went 'muh boon. Muh fuck them like abunch of savages that have no ability at long term planning or understanding of our current military.
Wat?

>Are you just a fucking idiot? Because guess what if they are blocked off how are we gonna get reinforcements into this area? We would need to fly them in our somehow smuggle them in with the BoS watching us considering it boarders MLA/LEGION/BoS not us.
Teleportation and on site construction in it's robotic factory.
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>>1813450
no
We can't expect everything to go perfectly for us. Just take one for the team and not risk everything we've built up. Diana still wants to be neutral.
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>>1813551
The stuff here is not so super important to keep out of brotherhood hands. We don't need to prevent them from getting the tech, and not killing the reavers fosters good relations.
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>>1813570
>Teleportation and on site construction in it's robotic factory.
THIS!
We could have offered to build a teleporter somewhere to help her defend but we didn't. However there's still a chance we can come out on top if we get on her good side by having her talk with BigMT, then she can act as a spy for us.
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>>1813450

How about
>Other
Wait for an opportune moment when the Reavers have left, use the Cultural Boon, and then gain control of Diana.
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>>1813565
>We get actual good deals with them, and we can buy military grade stuff not just civilian this time.
Actually we get that so long as we bring back some tech. Which we can currently do with our holotape of accelerated development we got a few posts back >>1812204 or anything else we get from here.

>Diana can communicate with BigMT now, all we need to do is trade with her, the real problem is how do we keep the tech we give her away from the BoS.
Not to mention the problem of her not being willing to supply technology probably.

>Join them in their war against the MLA maybe?
No. That ends horribly.
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>>1813577
WE can't just spend a cultural boon and take control of an ai.
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>>1813580
Why not? That's literally what's being proposed already, in addition to killing the Skirmii.
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>>1813578
>Actually we get that so long as we bring back some tech. Which we can currently do with our holotape of accelerated development we got a few posts back >>1812204 or anything else we get from here.
I was fairly certain that the BoS offered a fair deal just for joining this quest and getting some information for them, are you sure we have to bring back tech?
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>>1813583
That's not how cultural boons work. Just let the Skirmii do their thing and not risk our deal with the brotherhood. And the reavers aren't leaving. They are staying to help out.
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>>1813584
We don't. We did our part, just have to return.
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>>1813580
Yes we can. Read OP's post.

>>1813575
We have facilities as big as BigMT in terms of cloning and biological research here. Along with hidden tech stuff we have yet to discover.

The fact that NOONE here has any direct plan of action other than some vague talks of trading benefits clears my mind of any decision NOT to take over Diana. Until someone really presents a PLAN not some vague benefits.
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>>1813585
They're leaving the immediate vicinity, which is all we need them to do.

That IS how this cultural boon will work. You clearly haven't been paying enough attention.
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>>1813595
fine, we can. But we shouldn't. We' shouldn't be enslaving anyone, AI included.
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>>1813583
Actually no, killing them is needed to avoid the BOS coming here and fucking shit up in regards to this place being a secret. Not to mention them potentially killing the AI or otherwise trying to take over.

>>1813584
>>1813586
Shit yeah my mistake.

>>1813595
>That IS how this cultural boon will work. You clearly haven't been paying enough attention.
OP's word mate, this is the only way we can boon out of the situation.
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>>1813450
Little late but yes
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This is the detailed plan according to OP:
- tranq and kill the Skirmii
- take over Diana
- mutilate their bodies to make it look like MLA work
- Return the bodies to the BoS and say that the MLA attacked and we didn't complete our mission.
- They believe us and appreciate us returning our bodies while we receive an entire Vault of biological research facilities that is UNKNOWN to the outside world.
- We get our ship back and still have ties with the BoS.

Somebody who thinks
>No
should provide a detailed plan as above, CLEARLY outlining the benefits of doing so.
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>>1813601
Killing is not needed. Diana probably has protection from the Reavers by being a perfect being. They won't do anything to endanger her.
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>>1813598
Why not? Otherwise all this shit goes to the Midwestern BoS and we get a much higher chance of having our face stomped in by them.
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>>1813606
We don't do any of that, we don't risk our alliance with the brotherhood and we return with good relations with the brotherhood and the Skirmii singing our praises.
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>>1813577
This is a more acceptable compromise.

Still, we would be enslaving somebody.
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>>1813606
Keep in mind that OP has said that if we use our Cultural/Diplomacy Boon than we are GUARENTEED for this plan to succeed.

>>1813415
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>>1813607
But they WILL tell the BoS, who may think that taking over the TREASURETROVE OF GENE TECH will be a good thing. This >>1813606 is the only good option.
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>>1813601
The BoS coming here, one way or another, is unavoidable. They've dispatched this scouting expedition, even if we don't return they'll dispatch more.

The best we can hope for is to control Diana so that all future interactions with this place are as much to our benefit as possible.
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>>1813614
And then the BoS find out and we are still fucked. They have to die.
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>>1813618
And then we direct new ones to MLA areas where we will not be spotted. If we alert the BoS they are sure to try to take it from us.
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>>1813606
Why should I?

Why do you need a detailed plan and PowerPoint presentation to explain you right and wrong.

You could kill and rob an old lady in an alleyway and get away with it, does that mean you have to do it? Do people need to explain you why it's a wrong thing to do?

We know that we are losing things here, and we say that it's okay. Sometimes we can't get everything we want.
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>>1813618
>The BoS coming here, one way or another, is unavoidable. They've dispatched this scouting expedition, even if we don't return they'll dispatch more.
True but if we imply the place was being (or has been) picked clean by the MLA (fitting into how we apparently got captured and the Reavers got killed) then they'll assume it is a lost cause. By the time they find out the truth, we should've taken over a fair portion of the Legion and been able to establish a teleportation system to and from Diana's holdings. Meaning we can imply that this was our own work and even if they tried anything, we could hold out.

>The best we can hope for is to control Diana so that all future interactions with this place are as much to our benefit as possible.
Agreed. So we are in agreement to controlling her / doing this plan but you want to avoid killing the Reavers / do it later? If it comes down to it, I guess I could support that.

>>1813624
Jesus you are a piece of work, you know that.
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>>1813616
Lmao

Your think OP will not pull some shit at the last moment?
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>>1813623
If we control the AI that controls the facility (but not openly) then their only choice for taking it and its contents would be by force. This is unlikely to happen with the Reavers idolizing Zax-AI. So we essentially just get the BoS to defend this location from outsiders (they wouldn't want anyone else getting access to this tech) and keep everything good for ourselves.

In the event the BoS does decide they might want to perform a forceful takeover we've got satellite communications with the facility and could exert diplomatic pressure to ensure it wasn't taken over by force. We could also produce Big MT robot models from the factories here while still taking advantage of Brotherhood protection, to be prepared.
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>>1813624
It's more like
>You can kill and rob an old lady in an alleyway and get away with it. She has a gun in her purse that would be yours.
>You can /not/ kill and rob the old lady, someone else will. They don't like you and they'll have the gun.
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>>1813610
Also this.

The only thing we disagree with BoS is their views on mutants. We can work on lessening their harsh position and one of the steps is getting good relationship with them.
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>>1813606
-Have Diana talk with our guys in BigMT so she warms up to us.
-Get her friendly with us so she begins to act as a spy for us.
Done.
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>>1813629
Yeah I could agree to that assuming you can get the other anon's to support you.


I'd prefer if we stay behind and tell the BOS Reavers to go on ahead while we help the AI more and then pull the plan rather than waiting for them to sleep.
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>>1813636
And when that doesn't work? Seriously you say that as if it can't fail.
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>>1813636
>Diana likes our guys talking with her so much that it overrides actual physical presence and support from the BoS
Right.
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>>1813624
MAN, are you stupid. No plan, no argument and shit ideas.
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>>1813638
>>1813639
Just spend a cultural boon, which we would have do for the other plan anyway.
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>>1813638
And the kill the reaver plan can't? What if the autopsy the bodies and figure out they are not consistent with MLA attacks? or send in another team once we're gone? The less we fuck around with things the less can go wrong.
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>>1813633
>>1813633
No it isn't. Your analogy assumes we are defenseless and unarmed and the only way to protect ourself is to kill the lady and take her gun when nothing else could be farther from truth.

AAlso BoS doesn't hate us. In fact they have been rather accommodating


Another thing, I used the analogy to show a clear action which will give a person only personal gain with no risks involved. But does that mean we have to do it?
If we wanted the courier to be such a piece of shit we would have gone the way of Niner and become a raider
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>>1813629
You make a good point. I like this idea. Maybe we can have Diana stress the importance of neutrality. I'm
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>>1813643
Why not get her under our actual control then?
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>>1813647
Because we don't have to enslave anyone, and it's better that way.
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>>1813629
Very much this. Well put anon.
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>>1813629
I am willing to change my support to
>no
if we go with this guy's plan.

>>1813651
Fuck off with your moralfaggotry. We're a leader of a country not a priest.
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>>1813647
Cause then we don't have to fight the reavers, which we can fail at, and don't have to fight Diana's security, which we don't know the full extent of.
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>>1813651
Better how?? That it is uncertain whether she is actually with us? That we cant be sure she wont do things against us because she thinks it would protect her "children"? So many holes.
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>>1813644
The OP says our character is sure it will work. Usually when he doesn't say anything things go wrong.
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>>1813645
We're already tacit allies with Niner's warband much more so than with anyone else. You know, the dude who lets his mutant dog fuck our decorated ex-officer. Didn't do shit about that, still aren't doing shit about that.

Here's the better analogy then.

>You can kill and rob a soldier who has a minigun. You yourself have some arms, but a minigun would be pretty handy to have too.
>You can /not/ kill and rob the soldier with a minigun, in which case another soldier who is neither explicitly your enemy nor your ally, will get it.
Better to be the guy with the minigun.

>>1813651
Pssssht, that's as much a non-argument as the way I'm dismissing your opinion right now.
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>>1813656
We just wrote a book about our morality. Enslaving people was not something we included. We are not becoming hypocrites because of you fear of the brotherhood.
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>>1813642
And you're an absolute piece of human waste? So what's different?

Are this fucking retarded to not see that being an evil shithead is a bad thing?
You are suggesting we enslave a sentient being after we murder our companions and betray another faction.
Are you this morally defunct that you don't see anything wrong with it?
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>>1813661
This guy raises a good point.
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>>1813660
I wanted to do shit about it but some people either liked jerking off the MLA too much or were afraid we can't beat them.
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>>1813661
Its only a problem if people find out we are hypocrites.
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>>1813656
Our nation is BUILT on moralfaggotry
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>>1813636
hell i just realized we don't even have to make her our friend immediately, just like how the BoS won't get all her tech immediately, we can spend several hero actions talking to her.
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>>1813669
No one can find out if we don't become hypocrites. Someone always finds out, and I don't want to violate our people's trust in us.
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>>1813657
You mean the Reavers who are going to leave the room? You mean Diana's security who isn't anywhere near us right now and we're super close to Diana's brain?

>>1813661
We wrote a book about our vision of the future. Not about morality. Who are you to say that our action that will no doubt contribute to our victory will not be the most moral and righteous action? OUR victory is the moral victory and if that means changing an AI's programming than it is our moral duty to do so in a heartbeat. The ends justifies the means.
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>>1813408
So guys, is seducing Diana and Linux still on the table?
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>>1813669
Are you for real?
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>>1813673
exactly. Just because the brotherhood knows about her doesn't mean she's going to just give them everything. The reaver's practically worship her. She will hold a lot of sway with them, preventing the brotherhood at large from doing anything brash.
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>>1813678
Are you retarded? Just because we win does not make us the moral victor. Karma is a measurable thing, and it is bad karma to enslave people, even if it helps you win a war.
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>>1813681
Absolutely. Better than whatever is being suggested here
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>>1813684
She totally would give them everything, because they're willing to trade and they've got valuable shit to give her back. Maybe not literally immediately but certainly soon.

>>1813687
If our dose of bad karma here is outweighed by not having to send soldiers to their deaths later on down the line against beefed-up BoS fuckers then we come out net positive. That's the point.
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>>1813678
>You mean the Reavers who are going to leave the room? You mean Diana's security who isn't anywhere near us right now and we're super close to Diana's brain?
You were supporting this plan earlier >>1813606
It says right there that we have to kill the Skirmii, plus we're at the control tower, i don't recall that being where Diana's brain/ZAX is.
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>>1813681
>>1813689
I agree.
>>1813694
>She totally would give them everything, because they're willing to trade and they've got valuable shit to give her back. Maybe not literally immediately but certainly soon.
And we don't?
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>>1813694
Except our soldiers are mostly robots. They don't die. Enslaving people so robots don't die does not outway any bad karma we get. No one is shedding tears over securitron mark 6 #2374
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So our options are to play morally, give the BoS (who express the desire to ally with the NCR) a potentially large benefit and increase to their robotic production or commit some evil, gain a second ZAX, large robotic production facilities, apparently piles of GECKs, tons of research, and no one will know about it besides us.

This is an obvious choice, we need to get our hands dirty.
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>>1813662
So all you have is "this isnt nice"? On the other hand, we have a plan that QM says will work and that eaves us in control with other factions none the wiser. Take a guess which option I support.

Also, I like the fact that your arguments boil down to name calling and morality spewing. Real forward stuff.
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>>1813706
You arent factoring all the details in. Sure, your points are correct but there is allot of other factors you have to consder
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>>1813708
The only part that is guranteed is the actof enslaving DIana. We can still fuck up shooting 5 guys before they can respond. If we aren't quick enough, Diana goes on lockdown for shooting people in her house, and we lose access to anything. Then we don't have access to enslave her.
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>>1813696
You were responding to >>1813647 plan which was >>1813629. I said I supported "no" if we went with his plan and OP said the brain was quite close: >>1813364
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>>1813712
What other factors?
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>>1813703
We've got to trek halfway across the US in order to trade shit to her, they've got to go next door.

>>1813704
How about when they get a whiff of the mutants and such that we keep among our populace and then go on missions specifically to eradicate them, our civilians?
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>>1813723
We can use the cultural boon to help convince the general like we were planning before all this.
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>>1813712
Like what? None of the other "no" posters want to give us any reasoning other than vague trade benefits and morality unsuitable for politics.
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>>1813722
Also if we've learned anything from this, it's that from now on we either go on quests alone or with our companions.
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>>1813708
Do you honestly think that there are more arguments to be made to explain why one should not enslave, betray and murder?
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>>1813728
We risk making the brotherhood our enemy, we risk being locked off by Diana and the enslave her plan goes wrong, we risk pissing of our people when they find out we enslaved someone.

A bird in the hand is worht two in the bush. Best not to fuck around getting greedy.
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>>1813736
Absolutely, when you aren't dealing on a personal scale but on a national scale.
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>>1813722
>>1813728

We fail and get the BOS mad at us. The BOS discover this place later and find us here. If we up our diplomacy game we can get the AI on our side over time and get her to spy for us. The BOS will undoubtebly heavily garrison this place and if they find it the not!admech will love us for helping finding it. We can set up a teleporter here easily and use diplomacy to keep the BOS from rewriting and doing a hostile takeover as I highly doubt the not!admech will let them rewrite this AI.

We can also trade for tech with the ai, probably(SPEECH 100) work on making sure she doesn't trade our tech to the BOS.

If we fail in killing the skrimri and a email gets out, this will end poorly.
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>>1813737
A bird in the hand would BE ENSLAVING DIANA.
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>>1813747
It would be leaving with what we have with relations intact and no slaves.
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>>1813736
We literally have lobotmite prostitutes who are functionally brainless slaves. This high degree of morals isn't going to help when the NCR-BoS alliance comes to us. Either we need to do what we can to strengthen our forces or we need to look at allying with one of the major factions. Considering they're all bad in some way, maybe we should just take some negative karma ourselves and get a second ZAX.

She has a satellite too. This fixes our communications problem as well.
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>>1813749
That's just seeing all the pretty birds in the bushes and then walking away without doing anything to any of them while others catch them.
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>>1813643
True but OP is probably not going to go easy on you.

>>1813644
It can but my point was that your plan won't work since conversation and knowing we are a good guy won't get her to ignore her reasons.

>>1813661
No, we wrote a book on our end goal / ideological position / opinions. Not morals or ethics.
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>>1813750
NCR BOS alliance will never happen. We are more than likely able to ally with the BOS.

>>1813753
We have tech, and eggs, and good relations with everyone. We're coming out ahead than what we came in with.
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>>1813755\
Adnd you think he would go easy on you for this? There is a bunch of stuff that needs to go right for this to work.

Our idealogical position might have a surprising lack of slavery for you.
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>>1813756
>NCR BOS alliance will never happen.
Actually it seems pretty logical and likely.

>We are more than likely able to ally with the BOS.
HA. Fuck no that ain't happening. We've got mutants and ghouls galore not to mention our other shit.

>We have tech, and eggs, and good relations with everyone. We're coming out ahead than what we came in with.
True but we could be leaving here far stronger.
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>>1813736
>betray
We've done that with House, NCR, and the Legion all at once on the Mojave
>murder
We've do that all the time holyshit.

>>1813737
>we risk the Brotherhood becoming our enemy.
>The plan goes wrong.
>if our people find out
We are GUARENTEED success by OP.
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>>1813765
We are guaranteed success on enslaving her. Nothing else is guaranteed.
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>>1813761
>Adnd you think he would go easy on you for this? There is a bunch of stuff that needs to go right for this to work.


>Our idealogical position might have a surprising lack of slavery for you.
Okay, first point: fuck you and the high horse's dick you are riding on.

Second point: like I give a damn. I've explained my position on shit like this before: success over morals, let the world we build judge us.
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>>1813777
To be fair that makes it better than every other plan off the bat.
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>>1813765
This. We caused the Yaunker administration to take over by screwing over the NCR in the Mojave. We're guaranteed success. Unless we do something stupid in a conversation later on we really shouldn't get any negative repercussions from this.

Besides, the BoS dislike FEV and mutants. Mutants like our daughter and one of our wives.
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>>1813777
Hey OP with a boon is the plan being voted on guaranteed go suceed?
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>>1813779
Shit forgot to reply to that first bit:

>Adnd you think he would go easy on you for this? There is a bunch of stuff that needs to go right for this to work.
I don't but I trust this shit working out far more so than I trust any other plan and the benefits of this are far greater.
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>>1813782
There are never no negative repercussions to anything we do.
And if we got Yaunker to happen by dicking around, why do you think something bad won't happen if we dick around here?
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>>1813777
So we DON'T risk the BoS becoming our enemy because they don't know.
So the plan DOESN'T goes wrong.
Our people WILL NEVER FIND OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE SINCE THEY HAVE NO REASON TO LOOK INTO IT. This is the level of foresight you have.
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>>1813782
>>1813794
Actually I've came to believe that Yaunker was always going to happen.
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>>1813802
Your level of foresight is believing the plan would go perfectly. It won't. Nothing ever does.
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>>1813788
yes, in so far as what is being outline.
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>>1813765
There is difference between murdering someone and killing someone
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>>1813815
>>1813822
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>>1813804
Hmm. Part of you wonders if the Yaunker craze may have been caused by mass panic in the NCR and the immense fear of a Legion invasion, which bred a fertile ground for his emotive message of "unify or we all die".

Ironically, had the NCR won at Hoover Dam, you think would might have likely be dealing with a stronger Kimball administration and his tactics right now.
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>>1813822
Okay so that means we eliminate the BOS Reavers and convert the AI without issue and possibly that we even get a pass regarding the BOS proper's suspicion of us.

Even if that weren't the case, if we delay our return while we wait for founding day to happen (spending a little time here messing around and fixing shit, getting stuff ready) we can burn the small-boon we get then to improve that situation too.
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>>1813830
OP what about this >>1813629 plan? Is it guarenteed to work?
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>>1813822
Does spending a boon guarantee success for any plan? Would it guarantee this one >>1813636
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>>1813830
>>1813839
He wants to only take over AI after the Reavers leave the room broadly speaking.
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>>1813235
>Cure for cancer
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>>1813847
Personally i like his plan better than the one that kills the Reavers, so i hope that one wins if we don't go with the "Befriend her and more" plan
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>>1813845
I support this plan.
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>>1813636
>-Have Diana talk with our guys in BigMT so she warms up to us.
>-Get her friendly with us so she begins to act as a spy for us.
There's no guarnatee she likes what she see's in BigMT or that even if she acts friendly she will be a spy for you.

>>1813847
>>1813629
The Reavers seem like they are going to stay in the room, at least some of them most of the time, furthermore you suspect they will be calling for more reinforcements if their call goes through making tampering with the brain more difficult.


--

It is easier for boons to boost and ensure very concrete things. Chips which enforce thought patterns for example.
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>>1813864
There is no gurantee, but we're pretty close to what she has. She should like what she sees.
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>>1813864
>Chips which enforce thought patterns for example.
Ok i'm up for the "Wait for the reavers to leave and control Diana" plan now, as long as we don't go to far with the thought pattern enforcement.
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>>1813872
>>1813873
Technically we could enforce a thought pattern that she likes what she sees in BigMT, and that she is willing to be our ally and spy for us.
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>>1813629
>>1813636
Lemme do an INT roll
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>>1813864
Well then fuck it, they're getting murdered.

We can still tell the BoS about the area and then it'll be all credit to us still, and make us less suspicious too.
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>tfw 7 yeses & 7 nos.

>>1813878
>OP rolls on our side
>He rolls shit.
Wat da fug.
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>>1813878
let me help
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>>1813878
You yourself are rather skeptical about these alternative plans, mostly because you feel there are a lot of loose ends here.

Not to mention you're reliant on them leaving the room which they might not, and it would be impossible to hide neurosurgery in front of these guys.

Even if she does like what she see's, it doesn't make you any closer to her physically than the Brotherhood of Steel. Certainly she may be open to trade, but the Brotherhood of Steel is most likely going to get a lot stronger from the things here, whether she accepts or is forced by them both of which are open possibillities.

Its not bad plans, but you would have needed more time and been alone to have made it work.
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>>1813873
Except OP has pretty much stated that plan ain't feasible. They are staying in the room / facility in shifts and will be getting even more reinforcements soon.
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>>1813892
>Its not bad plans, but you would have needed more time and been alone to have made it work.
But we do have time(For the befriend plan at least) unless the BoS immediately tries to trade or take everything from her.
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>>1813505
>>1813892
OP what about this one?
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>>1813892
Then we can take the time. We're rushing into things. That leaves loose ends a plenty.
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>>1813892
I hate this constant desire of beytraing. Vote no is best. We aren't the legion or MLA or NCR
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>>1813864
>>1813892
>>1813681
Hey QM, what about this one?
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>>1813900
>>1813898
>>1813901
Dont you see we have no plan? We either take everything or hope the BoS doesnt. As Q; stated >>1813892 this is not the case. We either take it or we are fucked. Its as simple as that.
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>>1813898
Which is almost certainly their intent and I'd point out that befriending her wouldn't make her stop helping the BOS.

>>1813899
That ain't a plan.

>>1813900
Nah, it's now or never.

>>1813901
You imply we only ever betray people. You ignore the Chinese, the shit with Crypto and such.

>>1813902
Unlikely to work.
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>>1813900
By more time like, literally moments away from them sending an E-mail and setting of the cascade for the Brotherhood to make this their new focus of attention.

>>1813505
Hmmmm.

Technically you could freeze them all and try that, maybe some neuroscience.

Although, you'd had better hope they don't have neuroscience back. And judging from the implants these guys have they also have neuroscience so its anyones guess if they figure it out.

And these guys seem to have a thing for treating potential malicious software as a literal devil.

It'd be a gamble.

>>1813681
Always anon. Always, though, not even you have the power to seduce someone to your side in minutes.

Gods know finding all those pencils and teddy bears for Willow took ages.
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>>1813914
That's plenty of betrayal. Too much.
Sometimes we have to accept that in a cooperative effort, someone benefits more than us. WE're getting greedy.
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>>1813901
This

I believe that NCR and even Legion stay true to their word and ideals.
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>>1813915
So lets just do it and be done with it. Not let the BoS get their grubby hands on anything and further improve this place. Set up a teleporter and we have an instant base with cloning tech. Its not that complicated.

So:

YES
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>>1813918
>That's plenty of betrayal. Too much.
So I point out times where we didn't betray people and you somehow think that we did? If not, then what the hell did you mean?

>Sometimes we have to accept that in a cooperative effort, someone benefits more than us. WE're getting greedy.
Aye but currently there is no reason to do that besides you having a moralistic problem.
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>>1813914
>Which is almost certainly their intent and I'd point out that befriending her wouldn't make her stop helping the BOS.
And why would we want her not to? We can get that tech too so we will still be superior to the BoS.
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>>1813915
Hm. Voting no.
>Gods know finding all those pencils and teddy bears for Willow took ages.
Does this mean we could produce a boon's worth of toys for them?
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>>1813918
Are you literally retarded?? We just give people an advantage?? People who we KNOW will not like us once they see what we have going on back home?

>>1813920
Again, this is a clean strike with minimal casualties. If we let the BoS take over we will have to spend many more lives taking this. Not to mention difficulties from the tech they would get. It is not a good option.
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>>1813914
>You imply we only ever betray people. You ignore the Chinese, the shit with Crypto and such.
We did almost give in to cryptos demands, it was a close call if i recall.
And me might have considered betraying the Chinese too, i don't remember though.
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>>1813923
We didn't betray 1 people. We betrayed crypto technically, though everyone knew that. We're betraying the NCR, the legion, and the MLA. I would like 1 faction where we don't have skeletons in our closet from operating against them.
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Hey if you guys voted twice pls delete, I'm going to make a simple Ctrl+f tally of the Yes No's so far
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>>1813932
Technically you haven't betrayed the MLA yet, except bailing on that adventurer party
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>>1813901
Where were you all this time?
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>>1813932
So your conscience is worth more than the lives of our people when we get into a war against a stronger foe than before because we decided to give them tech to make them stronger/kill people they dont like (remember Eden?)? This is a no-brainer. The winnings justify the deed many times over.
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>>1813924
>And why would we want her not to?
Because it makes the BOS stronger which means the MLA stops holding the line against them and thus they have less to spare against the NCR and shit. Not to mention it making war against the BOS harder when we inevitably have to do that.

>We can get that tech too so we will still be superior to the BoS.
Ignoring the difficulty of getting everything this place could offer us if she is acting independently, the BOS can almost certainly offer more to her than us meaning they'd get it quicker and easier.

>>1813929
>We did almost give in to cryptos demands, it was a close call if i recall.
True but my point was that we didn't sell out our people even if it was a close call.

>And me might have considered betraying the Chinese too, i don't remember though.
Nope.

>>1813932
>We didn't betray 1 people. We betrayed crypto technically, though everyone knew that. We're betraying the NCR, the legion, and the MLA. I would like 1 faction where we don't have skeletons in our closet from operating against them.
Every nation has skeletons in it's closet with every other nation. As to having factions where we don't have skeletons, that seems pointless seeing as we are going to conquer them all in time.

Seriously you are making issues out of nothing because it feels wrong to you seemingly.


Also, we've never betrayed the Legion.
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>>1813936
I have a job anon. Unlike apprently 90% of everybody else. I'm on lunch
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>>1813933
Yes
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>>1813940
>True but my point was that we didn't sell out our people even if it was a close call.
Oh please, just because we didn't do it in the end doesn't erase that we almost did.
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>>1813933
QM, count them only from a single ppint or else it'll get bad.
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>>1813942
You too! Now I'm 90% sure we're tied.
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>>1813933
That seems like a bad plan. The potential for it to go wrong is high.
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>>1813928
The BoS are not our fucking enemy.
OP said that there are ways to influence their stance on mutants so don't bring up that they will genocide part of our population.
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>>1813940
>Seriously you are making issues out of nothing because it feels wrong to you seemingly.
Couldnt agree more.

QM, this was YESd already and since the plan works, the PC thinks it works and the opposition has no real alternatives, we have to do it now.
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>>1813940
It is not inevitable that we go to war with the BOS. We can use the cultural boon to soften their stance on mutants, and they could be a valuable ally.
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>>1813952
You are a jumpy little bugger? You realize the QM said this is a major thing that he was gonna leave it open for abit right?
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>>1813953
This is so much "ifs" and "bits". And if we roll shit on persuasion it all goes up in smoke. Whereas this we KNOW WILL WORK. Come on man.
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>>1813946
>Oh please, just because we didn't do it in the end doesn't erase that we almost did.
And by that logic every time we almost did anything, we should be held to account. Seriously you sound insane.

>>1813949
OP has stated that it won't.

>>1813950
>The BoS are not our fucking enemy.
They are though. They are an independent nation with differing morals that limit some of our goals and have control over vital resources / lands.

>OP said that there are ways to influence their stance on mutants so don't bring up that they will genocide part of our population.
True but I doubt we'd pull it off.
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>>1813958
We've accomplished much, we can negotiate with the BOS just fine.
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>>1813958
Jesus I am fucking tired, should've looked at what that post was linking to. Ignore that second link, should've looked at the ID and what it linked to.
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>>1813955
Ok, with what I said, what is your option that is guaranteed to work? That leaves us in an advantageous position. That doesnt result in the BoS getting a leg up. if we want to ally with them, we can trade them the tech. There is no reason to oppose this other than "I thin this is immoral".
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>>1813958
>And by that logic every time we almost did anything, we should be held to account. Seriously you sound insane.
This argument started because this anons says we always desire betraying >>1813901
And i proved him right, the only faction we didn't argue about whether or not to betray was the Chinese.
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>>1813961
Potentially but you are trading a certain gain right now that won't compromise relations for a possibility of slightly better relations in the future with a group who we might fail to convince to accept our ideological differences.
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>>1813937
It depends if we ever go to war against BoS which can be easily prevented
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YES
>>1813455
>>1813456
>>1813461
>>1813462
>>1813475
>>1813532
>>1813603
>>1813882
>>1813921
>>1813942

NO
>>1813452
>>1813453
>>1813458
>>1813469
>>1813471
>>1813513
>>1813527
>>1813571
>>1813926


Double checking, this isn't final
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>>1813969
>t
A small gain now for a larger gain later. It's big picture thinking. CUltural boon now is one not being used diplomatically.
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>>1813972
vote no here >>1813901
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>>1813963
I wasn't addressing that. I was addressing the fact the QM stated voting would remain open longer this time due to the fact this was a big choice to make. I would rather we attempt to be peaceful and make an ally to deal with the MLA/Legion/NCR then make somebody become another enemy but at the end of the day. It doesn't seem to matter.

>>1813972
Oh well. That's life
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>>1813971
Again, if we want them as allies, we can have an advantage in negotiations by way of lots of tech from here. If we want to go to war, we have the tech, again. The only way it goes bad for us is if the BoS get here and take over. Then we play by their terms and if they decide they dont like us we are fucked. If we botch a persuasion roll, we are fucked. With this plan, we are Not Fucked. The only good way out.
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>>1813450
>>1813933
>>1813926
For linking.

>>1813475
>>1813921
Double-vote for yes.

>>1813901
You didn't count a vote for no.
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>>1813972
Although i don't know if this counts, you forgot >>1813901
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>>1813450
Yes
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>10 yeses, 10 nos and 300 posts later...
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>>1813972
doiuble vote yes.
>>1813456
>>1813882
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YES
>>1813455
>>1813456
>>1813461
>>1813462
>>1813475
>>1813532
>>1813603
>>1813942

NO
>>1813452
>>1813453
>>1813458
>>1813469
>>1813471
>>1813513
>>1813527
>>1813571
>>1813926

Seems to be in favor of no right now.

Not calling it yet, will give some more time

---

One time the Courier was eating a fortune cookie. It said this: "It is more difficult to climb a high road, than to walk down a low road. Eat more at Changs for energy!"
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>>1813990
Yes
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>>1813990
Lets not do it, it seems to risky
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NO
>>1813901
YES
>>1813985

Added
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>>1813996
You're counted already. Stop it.
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>>1813990
QM this will never end if you keep it open all day.
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>>1813967
>And i proved him right
You really didn't.

We never betrayed the Mutants when we had a opportunity, we could've left them to the Legion. We never betrayed our people to the aliens, we could've left them to Crypto. We never betrayed or abandoned the Chinese: we could've left them to fight the Tunnellers alone. We never betrayed them again, when the Hubbologists asked for the alien ship in which they live. We never betrayed Oddball, even if I think we should've. We never betrayed the Hubbologists either now that I think about it, we could've left them to die or turned them in to the NCR / Shi. We never betrayed Unity. We never betrayed the Enclave. Honestly I am almost certainly forgetting a few more.


But fuck it. I honestly couldn't care if we DO constantly betray every faction. To be frank it's the only way we are going to win anytime soon.
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>>1813996
Stop voting you ass, he already counted you.
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>>1813996
You already voted silly.

>>1813998
Which one? The Boon Plan? You're quite confident it will work.
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>>1813990
Funny how we have 4 people arguing against but suddenly 10 voters. Smells fishy.
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>>1814003
>We never betrayed our people to the aliens, we could've left them to Crypto.
But we fucking argued about it way too much, that's the point, we consider betraying people way to much and that anon was sick of it.
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>>1814002
I won't keep it open all day, just a bit longer. It seems most everyone who can vote, already has.

I'm writing up both results just in case.
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>>1814007
Says the guy who was just attempting to samefag in the first place.
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>>1813975
No, a large gain now for a small gain later. Since getting any utility out of good relations with the BOS and them having this place is dependent on them being willing to help us. Not to mention the utility of the satellite, the additional robotics factory, the technology, the genebanks, the ZAX and everything else here to us more immediately.
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>>1814000
So NO wins by literally one vote so far. Wow.

>>1813996
Please don't keep making a new vote, you're looking like you're triple-voting now.

>>1814007
They could simply have come out of the woodworks when they saw the QM pop up.
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>>1814006
>Which one? The Boon Plan? You're quite confident it will work.
AGAIN, IT WILL WORK. It is the only way out that ends best for us. All across the board best for us.Even if we ally with the BoS this is best for us.
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>>1814006
It wuld work in the short term. Long term ramifications are a risk.
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>>1814011
Aye and in that case he is retarded. Of course we should consider betraying everyone for exactly the same reason we consider allying with everyone: we are the leader of a nation and must act for the benefit of our nation, no matter how we may think the moral or ethical value of our decision.

>>1814019
>It wuld work in the short term. Long term ramifications are a risk.
What long term ramifications?
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>>1814012
How much is a bit. I went into work when you started the vote. It's been how many hours my friend?
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>>1814006
>>1814018
Anon, you're replying to the QM on this.
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I am starting to think this is gonna be like the Crypto situation, there's gonna be an unknown factor that will only pop up when we make the choice, like how the Chinese would have attacked us had we accepted Crypto.
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>>1814019
Perhaps. Though there's also some potential long term ramifications of giving the BoS a GECK "factory" or anti-viral research.

>>1814026
20 more min then locking and updating.
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>>1814025
No secret stays secret forever. BOS can find out, and we would end up with enemies, rather than allies.
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>>1814027
Was a PSA for those on the fence. But seriously, this has no drawbacks and a HUGE benefit and people dont want to do this because it gets our hands dirty. But as >>1814025 put so well, this is not about us feeling bad but the future of our nation.
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>>1814037
>implying again
Stop it.
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>>1814032
That's what happens when you have a living world.

>>1814033
I got the time to sit and watch the sadness then.

>>1814042
His right though. No secret stays a secret forever
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>>1814042
Implying that our dirty secrets stay secret? Almost as if that is a concern that should be held whenever we're doing shady shit.
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>>1814037
what the QM said >>1814033 and you STILL think this is a good idea??
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>>1814037
Except you have no information to back that assertion up.

>>1814041
Thank you.
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>>1814041
>>1814006
>>1813915
What's keeping us from using the same Boon to seducing them, then?
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>>1814044
>>1814045
All speculation and baseless assumptions.
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>>1814049
It doesn't need information. It's and inevitability of keeping secrets.
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>>1814050
What QM said here >>1813915
>Always anon. Always, though, not even you have the power to seduce someone to your side in minutes.
>Gods know finding all those pencils and teddy bears for Willow took ages.
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>>1814054
You're so fucking stupid lad. OP says that they won't find out and you're worried about them finding out.
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>>1814054
No I meant you assume that the BOS is instantly going to declare war on us and shit over this.


Seriously you imply that we are going to have our name all over the walls or something. Rather than having it look like the AI did it and then we unified with it.
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>>1814050
Nothing stops you from seducing them, the main point here is that the Brotherhood is about to find out about this place.
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>>1814058
But is this the case with or without the boon?
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>>1814050
The fact that even IF we do it, the BoS will be at our door soon. And even IF she stays loyal to us to the end (to the detriment of her "children" due to war) the BoS have a larger presence in the are with which to "reclaim the relic" of the reavers from our clutches. Do you think the reavers wont want the tech here? Or the BoS? If they find out it is game over for us at this site until we get an army to take it and by then the BoS have the tech and the advantage.
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Alright "no" voters what is your justification? Let's see if we can't change some minds...
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>>1814069
Oh, right. So seducing them with a boon won't stop them from finding out?
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>>1814075
Yes. We are fucked if we dont stop them right now.
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>>1814074
I will not be put through what you did to that one anon earlier. My vote is remaining the same.
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>>1814070
I don't know.
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>>1814075
The point being we dont have the tine to seduce them.
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>>1814084
Basically, yes. This is so bad.

QM, can you please step in and explain what we know and what we dont so the people get why this has to happen right now?
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If the nos win it this is going to change the game in Supreme favor of the brotherhood. Jesus christ.

Were going to need so many robots to handle them its going to be unreal.
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>>1814075
You're thinking in slow motion right now anon, as they are tip tapping at the terminal keyboard with their metal fingers to send a message to the BOS.
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>>1814033
>Perhaps. Though there's also some potential long term ramifications of giving the BoS a GECK "factory" or anti-viral research.
Wait, why the fuck do people care that we're giving the BoS GECKS and Anti-Viral research?
Those will do literally nothing to us and we can buy a GECK from Diana later to research.
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>>1814084
I find it funny that we keep talking about "muh trade" but never really do any trading.
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>>1814095
SupCom levels of spam. We will have to spam tankitrons at the rate the NCR is spamming regular infantry. A catastrophe really.
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>>1814098
OP please do me a favour. Explain precisely and in detail how the boon plan would work out. In the vague hope is assuage some Anon's fears.

That or give us a few more hours to debate and shit.
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I'm not sure why your all so spazzing when the GM said before we can influence the BoS and soften the stance on mutants. They don't need to be an enemy unless you make them into one
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>>1814100
The argument seems to stem from the idea that war with the Brotherhood is inevitable, and so allowing them to be stronger is a bad idea.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Truth be told nothing is 'inevitable'. For example, war with the NCR could be avoided by joining the NCR. Nor is war with the MLA inevitable if you players choose not to.
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>>1814105
>more hours to debate

Dear God no. This has been going on for hours already. Either yes wins or no wins. It's that simple, if I lose oh well which is ehat it's looking like
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>>1814095
That assumes we go to war with them. We can work things out diplomatically.
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>>1814100
BoS has a GECK to conver shit land into eden. Improves food output. Geck has a nuclear reactor in it. Makes power. Literally terraforms the earth. Wat could go wrong.

BoS has virus research. Vaccinates everyone they like against bad virus. Spreads it where they dont like people. Shit goes bad.

Considering how everybody pulls shit out of their ass, this is a major no-no.
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So I just woke up. Can someone give me a tl;dr of the yes and no vote
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>>1814100
>Wait, why the fuck do people care that we're giving the BoS GECKS and Anti-Viral research?
Because GECKs in Fallout are essentially miracle machines and the anti-viral research will let them develop a "cure" for mutation. Which probably means death for all mutants.

>Those will do literally nothing to us and we can buy a GECK from Diana later to research.
Those would allow us to convert large regions of uninhabitable and irradiated land into eden and were incredibly expensive to produce even pre-war.

>>1814106
Because people don't want to take full advantage of this place and get every possible benefit without risk.

>>1814114
No. We will debate this until every possibly angle has been explored and everyone is certain in their positions.
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>>1814095
Why is the assumption that we will be at war with BoS
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>>1814121
Everyone is certain. No need for more debate.
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>>1814098
>>1814075
>>1814070
So the boon for seduction won't keep them from finding out.

>>1814109
Either the boon could keep them from finding out now, and killing them, or be used to diplomatically convert them to our side thereafter with some results.

In light of this, I'm considering switching to yes, but as it stands the BoS are decent candidates for converting so I'm keeping it at NO for now.

>>1814119
QM already made it.
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>>1814109
>>1814118
They'll only get stronger in Biological research, which will only give them better lands and they can't make bad viruses since Diana, the one who'll do most of the research, will be against it, hell she might even chance sides and give us information through her channel to BigMT.
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>>1814121
>I will do everything it takes for me to win.

>the post.

Alright anon. You do you. I hope nobody changes
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>>1814127
Can you link it, since I'm on mobile I still need to vote
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>>1814119
Vote yes = killing the Reavers before they send the message to the BOS, placing mental blocks on the AI to control it and being able to make full use of the shit here including a stock of GECKs and various other such things including a automated robot factory. Which OP has confirmed will be a success with the boon.

Vote no = Letting the Reavers inform the BOS about this place and essentially losing out on all of the above for no reason. Seeing as it was stated by OP that we are (in character) almost certain that this is the only way and that we can get away with this.


So your choice is the moral high ground that loses us massive resources or the efficient logical choice for a leader which risks little and gains us much.
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>>1814133
Bud, you voted already. Unless you have someone else at home in this quest.

>>1814055
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>>1814105
1. Subdue the Reavers
2. Use the Boon to implant chips into Diana's brain with surgery, bend her mind to you
3. a). mutilate the bodies to make it look like an MLA atttack (Absolutely safe) b.) also mind control the Reavers (not 100% guarntee won't be found out)
4. Return to the General. Inform him there was nothing but an MLA ambush based on false rumors by the Legion/MLA. Further proof can be obtained by taking pictures of the destroyed "Vault" (the burned down/blown up one) and the bodies OR mind controlled reavers. The bodies would be safer
5. You are positive this will convince the General, you get your spaceship back, and for fullfilling your mission you get to trade.

End result: Diana and the Nursery are yours to exploit and secure, the Brotherhood loses interest in this area, and you have a local robot factory in the region plus all the other stuff
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>>1814128
And if the BoS decide they want to take it anyway we cant do shit. If they honeypot her into doing anything, we cant do shit.

By taking control we are literally the only ones who know of this and who have the tech. Whoever we like, we can give it to. Who we dont, wont be a problem since they have no access to it.
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>>1814133
>>1814109
Basically, yes are stating the BoS are going to fuck us over or going to war with us, and we should sabotage them now. Using the boon will be to ensure it's done discreetly before they can discover this place.
No states they aren't so we should let them beef up and use this as a sign of goodwill. Using the boon is for diplomatic conversion afterwards.

>>1814136
You're being a bit of a biased dick about this, anon.
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>>1814144
should've said a or b OP.
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>>1814144
Fuck I vote yes
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I really doubt that GECK has nuclear power plant in it.
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>>1814140
I deleted that post since I think it would be a bit unfit just to vote No without knowing the yes side.

That post is deleted by me, and should not be counted
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>>1814144
So an instant WIN for us.

Basically either we:

WIN

or

LOSE but feel good about ourselves

Why havent we done it yet??
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>>1814125
If everyone was certain then we wouldn't be talking right now. Hell a new voter arrived a short time ago.

>>1814127
I'd point out that we can convince the BOS to soften their stance without boons as well and that they are a regenerating resource. So it's not like we can't spend a general boon or two later to solve the issue after using the diplo / culture one here.

>>1814132
>I will do everything it takes for me to win.
And I would expect the same of anyone else.
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>>1814033
20 minutes is up. Locked for no, right QM?
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>>1814144
So OP I vote Yes. My old post going for No is deleted.
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>>1814147
>You're being a bit of a biased dick about this, anon.
Actually no. Everything I said there is entirely accurate and I included everything I can remember.

>>1814170
We've had a few more people change votes or even join the discussion and shit, more time is required.
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>>1814164
Not all of us hate the other anons like you.

>>1814144
QM 1 ids are gonna filter in now so enjoy the yes vote winning. I will just be lurking next time, You drag this out for way to long and really need either a Twitter or discord for these types of debates.
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>>1814157
In Vault City(?) propaganda poster it was stated that the GECK was dismantled and used to both turn the land green and build houses with parts from the vault and the GECK, as well as use the generator in the GECK for power.
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>>1814145
>And if the BoS decide they want to take it anyway we cant do shit.
Yes we can, we have a ship that can come here later to bring a teleporter, then we just bring in the robot army.
And how the hell would the BoS honeypot her when we, with our 10 CHA failed to get just a basic trade deal?
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>>1814182
We can't just keep prolonging this. QM said 20 minutes, it's been 20 minutes.
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>>1814182
>Everything I said there is entirely accurate and I included everything I can remember.
>>1814136
>So your choice is the moral high ground that loses us massive resources
lol, nice bias
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>>1814186
Hell if Diana switches sides we can just teach her how to build some of our robots to defend herself until we can reinforce her position.
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>>1813551
and
>>1814084
basically shows the strategic side imo.
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>>1814183
>Not all of us hate the other anons like you.
Lovely to see yet more baseless accusations and shit.

>>1814188
Yes we can and should. New voters have joined and details are still being discussed.

>>1814190
It's entirely accurate. Literally >>1814144 essentially says that we either gain massive amounts of resources from this or we go the "moral" route.
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>>1814183
Hmmm. I should hope people don't just change IP address purely to vote yes.

I give time because some decisions do deserve rational thought and votes, especially ones that have a big impact.

So yes I will lock now. Doing final tally, then update.
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>>1814186
The reavers got off wonderfully, by repairing and helping her. Thats 5 people. Wait unti they ship them by the dozen. We will have less and less to say with every passing day.

>>1814188
Getting antsy when you dont get what you want?
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>>1814177
>>1814197
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>>1814188
Yes. Doing final tally, locking, then updating now.
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You know, fuck it, I change my vote to yes. Let's be immoral assholes. Hopefully it won't bite us in the ass it will
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>>1814199
As opposed to people voting no? Same spiel.
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>>1814199
So you will lock now? Not when you said earlier you'd only give it X more minutes? Can't wait to see how many 1's are on each side.

>>1814198
You admitted to doing whatever it takes to win. It's not baseless, your just a blind asshole.

>>1814199
I can show you how easy it is and why you can't just trust 1 id's
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>>1814199
OP there is going to be 1 ID anons for both sides.

>>1814202
Thanks for linking my vote and making OP job easier. I do hope yes wins to get us the major resources
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>>1814199
QM don't trust the last minute 1 ip. If they weren't samefagging they would be saying other things.
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>>1814198
>>1814144
Well no, that's the boon plan for yes. The boon plan for no is simply using it for diplomacy thereafter.

>>1814203
Seems like the YES winning by 2 votes, some switched.

>>1814207
>So you will lock now? Not when you said earlier you'd only give it X more minutes? Can't wait to see how many 1's are on each side.
>>1814208
>OP there is going to be 1 ID anons for both sides.
About 3-4 on yes, and 2-3 on no last I checked. 1-3 post IDs that is.
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>>1814201
>The reavers got off wonderfully, by repairing and helping her. Thats 5 people. Wait unti they ship them by the dozen. We will have less and less to say with every passing day.
Oh for fucks sake we helped too, and we can still help her.
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>>1814207
>You admitted to doing whatever it takes to win.
Aye, let the world we build judge us and all that.

>It's not baseless, your just a blind asshole.
I can see quite well that my decision is logical.
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Why not just put all the 1 id votes off the yes and no list, it'll prob make this smoother.
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>>1814210
>>1814203
I agree with this anon. There is a very real risk on both sides
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YES
>>1813455
>>1813456
>>1813461
>>1813462
>>1813475
>>1813532
>>1813603
>>1813942
>>1813985
>>1814156
>>1814205

NO
>>1813452
>>1813453
>>1813458
>>1813471
>>1813513
>>1813527
>>1813571
>>1813926
>>1813901

LOCKED. WRITING.
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>>1814225
yes, do that.
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>>1814228
Did we roll for this? Could we now if haven't?
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Rolled 6 (1d100)

Whelp betrayal once more wins. Good to see the whole 'American' rebuilding is actually the British Empire rebuilding.

Good luck anons. I got a job to get back too
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>>1814225
>>1814226
Don't it hurts any sorts of Lurkers or late voters and such. Just let the votes stand where they stand.
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>>1814228

>>1814205 changed his vote after you locked though
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>>1814228
11 Yes vs 9 No

If I had went with No it would have been a tie. But I feel yes plan will work.

>>1814233
What I know is we're using the boon for this to go right.
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>>1814234
>British Empire rebuilding
I wish.

>Good luck anons. I got a job to get back too
Enjoy work anon.
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>>1814237
>>1814228
He already counted it.

>>1814238
>What I know is we're using the boon for this to go right.
That's for sure.
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>>1814242
He counted it as a yes, if it was a no it would be a tie.
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>>1814238
>What I know is we're using the boon for this to go right.
Certainly. It's a important thing we secure this place and that everything goes right. That way we can be certain that we can plan based off of this place being ours.


We can now perform a pincer movement on the Legion and really get ready for expansion and shit. Not to mention the additional ZAX and shit.
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>>1814247
Yes.

>>1814177
>>1814228
Also your vote wasn't counted, so it wins by 3 votes.
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>>1814259
That's good to know.

>>1814255
This place we're in is close to Utah. So if we expand West from here we can link up with the Mormon settlement. So this will help us have a strong hold on west Colorado and east Utah
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>>1814273
>This place we're in is close to Utah. So if we expand West from here we can link up with the Mormon settlement. So this will help us have a strong hold on west Colorado and east Utah
Yeah, now we just need a colony in Texas and we can surround and charge into the Legion.
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>>1814234
>>1814255
>>1814273
>>1814278
On another note, this goes to show that bringing other faction members on anything that might be a diplomatic mission that we're attempting to assert dominance over is a terrible idea.
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>>1814282
I did vote we go alone(I think), i had a hunch this was gonna be something we wanted.
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>>1814282
Oh aye. Honestly in future we should just bring our most elite combat companions and / or soldiers.


I did consider saying we should make some sort of bodyguard droids like those assassin-melee droids from star wars.
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Anyway, since were gonna take over let's teach Diana how to build a teleporter to link her with our territory, after that we can explore her territory more thoroughly.
Hell since she's good at genetics we can even have her research some genetic upgrades for humans.
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>>1814282
Lesson to do things solo or just bring our own team. This goes to show we need to get a elite team each with their own role. If we had brought ED-E we could have hack the cloning place.

>>1814291
I wasn't here to vote since I was sleeping. I would have gone with solo.
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>>1814299
Doesn't the teleporter need lot of energy from both locations?

Since this place was a robot factory I don't think that will be a problem. Just more energy the faster it changes.

I think I'm right
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>>1814282
If I was present, I would have voted to go alone or bring our companions.
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>>1814300
Riddick, Cain, ED-e, Hazel.

I think this is a good standard team.
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>>1814291
>>1814300
>>1814312
>>1814318
Yeah. Admittedly I voted the same as the other anons, but I was rather tired at the time so I didn't question it and thought it was better than I normally would've.
>>1806648
At the time I, and I think the other anons figured that it was going to be a combat mission where we'd clear everything out, like the Flooded City mission. It seemed like we planned on pinning the blame on the BoS if anything went wrong, or having plasuibile deniability, or the BoS disguise was supposed to be using them as a proxy for something. Also I think we were distracted by how we were running low on Stealth-Boys, which another anon brought up that we, so that we couldn’t bring them but we needed some backup.

>>1814292
>I did consider saying we should make some sort of bodyguard droids like those assassin-melee droids from star wars.
This sounds like something we would also want Synths for.
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>>1814329
Speaking of Synths, depending on the territory occupied by the Midwestern BoS and those Texan cultists we might have a way into the east coast.
Arkansas and Missouri.
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>>1814329
I think OP made the Reavers sound cool. And anons alway is curious and want to see the cool factor the BoS has.

>>1814318
I'm thinking more each person has a special skill to help us with what we face.
Riddick is combat advance tech
Cein is as good as fighter but what else is he good that.
ED-E for that hacking

I'm just brainstorming a good 5 man team that's not just all combat
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>>1814292
>>1814329
Actually don't we have those humanoid skeleton bots? We could just research a bodyguard robot based on them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99mKrDzgfEw

Just before Macintosh can press the "ENTER" button, his hand lifts up flies into the terminal screen cracking its window. Confused, his computerized mind thinks faster than he can react, slowly injecting with GRX and Adrenaline, and stares at the dart impaling it. It will do him no good. The drugs in his vein flood with something far more potent, his heart pumping it through his body in seconds.
Then darkness.

High tech darts are flying into the air one after the other, landing on necks, exposed arms, faces. You fire the Old World Super Tranq gun, watching the projectiles move on target and seeing the air vibrate back before the sound registers in your ears. Your body is pumped on GRX as you move as fast as an olympian. For beings like you, Action Boys, the space between the ticks of a clock are your playground from which you can write a symphony of death, or in this case, silence.

The rest of the Reavers, with minds also similarly implanted and computer brains, only have time to know something is wrong. But they are frozen in stone, moving through molasses, they do not see where it is coming from. Their bodies, faster than the average human, are still not as agile as yours.

They never see it coming, and they might never see anything again.

Five bodies hit the ground. More than the seconds of the clock that has passed.

But you aren't staying still, already before even Diana can speak, you are sprinting past her smoke and mirrors, eyes scanning the room instantly, as you search and find what you are looking for.

A Brain in a Jar.
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>>1814347
What other special skills do we require?
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>>1814343
Speaking of travel. We could have this be pitstop on a way to the Commonwealth, and avoid going to BoS airspace.

Start at BigMT, go to the Mormon town, then head to this place. Than go south along Texas than head north to the Commonwealth seems to be the way to avoid BoS.
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>>1814363
>They never see it coming, and they might never see anything again.
>pic
"NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME HERE!"

>>1814347
>>1814366
What's the composition for an adventuring party?
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>>1814374
So where are we young to get a wizard?
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>>1814386
going to get *
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>>1814366
>>1814374
I just thinking of a adventure group. Nothing set in stone yet.

From what I learned from this place. Hacking skills (Ed-E), nature skills, some other things are needed but I getting a blank. Just saying depending on where we go we should have different teams set up in pastebin or something to make our life's easier.
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>>1814366
>What other special skills do we require?
Languages, medicine, mountaineering, etc but most of these sorts of things the Courier can provide.

>>1814374
>What's the composition for an adventuring party?
General rule: 1 healer, 1 face, 1 stealthy, 1 smart and 1 brawn as a minimum.

>>1814386
>So where are we young to get a wizard?
Either the MLA or the Hubbologists. That or we try and midichlorian our way to magic by gene-modding in abilities.
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>>1814386
>So where are we young to get a wizard?
>young
You mean going?-
>>1814389
Nice catch.

Also it's Forecaster, the Hubologists, or Unity's children. The amount of bullshit they can pull is high.

>>1814393
Those would be a good ideas.
>Just saying depending on where we go we should have different teams set up in pastebin or something to make our life's easier.
On that thought, what happened to the pastebin some anons made? I think Multiple ID anon made one?

>>1814407
Yep.
>>
Keep in mind our companions will have varying morality, they might not tolerate what we do in our adventures.
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>>1814414
If you go to last thread you will find it. He was two useful pastebin. So check them out, I'm on mobile so it's be a hard for me to give the links.

For now the question is what to do with the Reavers. We could kill them, keep them hostages, or try some brain washing/hacking their minds.
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>>1814407
>That or we try and midichlorian our way to magic by gene-modding in abilities.
Yeah, we would need like a genetic facility or something for that....

Emperor Protects!
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>>1814425
That's a good point depending on the adventure we go, we're going to have to change up the team or go solo.
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Also I think this is the fastest thread we had so far.
Almost 700 posts and it's been like 30 hours.
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>>1814425
Whereas robots have no such qualms. Start thinking about highly durable and agile Royal Guard droids?
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>>1814451
Or we can avoid doing things that would piss of our companions. None of them are the amoral fucks on par with Niner and his crew. So they won't take offense if we're good.
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>>1814363
Wait, won't BoS find drugs in their bodies if we "recover" them?

Also we need to scan that gun into our replicator. Holy shit, it is amazing
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>>1814451
We can equip them with sword staffs of Saturnite with a plasma-tesla effect over the blades for close range. Shit'll tear through armour and wreck electronics while also causing massive thermal shock and if they shift power around it could even work as a short range plasma caster.
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Also, we will have to figure out how many of our robots Diana should have for protection, with her surrounded by 3 factions shell need alot.
>>1814458
Oh definitely, they'll also find out if we brainwash them since they know neuroscience.
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>>1814458
A good tranquilliser destabilises over time without generating anything that might damage the animal's body. So it shouldn't be a problem.

>Also we need to scan that gun into our replicator. Holy shit, it is amazing
I know right? It could render policing actions against riots and capture operations against the Legion an easy thing.
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>>1814474
Isn't that gun like a Nat 100 to us? Since OP got that Nat 1 to his roll.
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>>1814445
The most controversial one too, that back-and-forthing for this vote.

>>1814343
Since we have some rumors to go off of, I think we could aim for that soon.

>>1814358
Yep, plus the light humanoid robot design some anon had a picture of.

>>1814425
>>1814451
>>1814457
Just tell them it's nothing personal.
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>>1814478
Nah the Nat 1 for OP was us getting the accelerated fetus development technology for free from a holotape.
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>>1814457
What is wrong with making guard bots? Are you gonna paint them red and write "We will murder people" on them? No? Well, then there is no problem. And besides, you are talking as if we wouldnt use our companions to kill people anyway. This just saves us some explaining.

>>1814468
>>1814474
Now youre thinking with portals.
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Actually isn't Cain a good pick to join us in our adventures? He did propose we use raiders against other factions, so he should be accepting to most of our actions.
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>>1814485
Looking back on it. We got the gun on an anon's 74 roll

>>1814483
>Nothing personal
The proper use is Nothing personnel.

I would still like to get the cure for cancer after all this
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>>1814489
Nothing wrong, but if we're making them so we don't make anyone bad for doing sketchy shit, then we should rethink doing sketchy shit.
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>>1814501
Then lets make them to be REALLY good bodyguards and take them where ever we go. And if that happens to be sketch then so be it. Good guards are still good guards. Especially if they can hack, assassinate and spy well.
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>>1814144
>Yes
Just woke up, not sure if too late...
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>>1814228
>>1814520
>>1814259
You're too late, YES won though by 3 votes.
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>>1814520
Too late Anon. The yes vote already won
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>>1814489
>>1814501
>>1814513
So wait, are we going to end up like General Grevious from Star Wars?
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>>1814533
Mate i actually thought to give us a Grievous body if the Courier ever gets wounded too much.
So yes.
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>>1814533
Maybe but I'd request we don't start a collection of plasma swords and rippers.
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>>1814525
>>1814526
Have caught up, good to see.

This truly was a morally ambiguous choice, but it was the right one.

Better to betray the BoS now in secret before they get the huge tech boost, than down the line when they are far far stronger.

Our goal is the reunification of America under our banner - we always need to remember that.

Progress towards this goal requires difficult choices and sacrifices, but future generations will be better if and thankful for our actions, even if we never detail all of them.
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>>1814533
OH YES BABY!

Also, found our coronation music when we beat the NCR and ascend to Emperor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Ed_Vu5Z4Q
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>>1814363
You run to Diana's brain. Amazingly, either she reacted to slowly or you moved to fast, the alarms haven't gone off.

Perhaps she was stupefied by what she saw. Her mistake, as you pull out Big Iron and put a hole the size of a dinner plate into what you knew to be a commnications wire, cutting off her connection to her precious machines.

>Diana
"W-what are you doing?"

Ignoring her, you carry on steely with your task at hand. Finding the terminal hooked up to her life support systems. You start hacking into the Terminal.

>Diana
"Courier, Stop!"

She tries to jumble the passwords and lock you out, you lock her out instead. Of all the places why is the part most close to the vital brain the least guarded. It was the same thing with House and the other ZAX.

You slightly lower the oxygen levels in the tank, and flood it with sedative.

>Diana
"Courier Stop! STOP!

. . .

Stop, will you?

Stop, Courier.

Please stop. . "

Her voice starts slurring, obviously attempting to stay awake. Not so easy without adrenaline glands or circulating blood sugar.

"My mind is going . . .I can feel it. . .

I'm. . .scared

I'm scared.

I. . ."

Finally, all is quiet. Brain function levels are down to 0%. You're able to safely disconnect her brain from the machine, now an inert organ. Its still got all the memories and personality in it, just in sleep mode.

You did what you had to do. Time to operate.
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>>1814545
>Our goal is the reunification of America under our banner - we always need to remember that.
You have a really fucking good point, i just don't want to be too much of an amoral asshole to do so.
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>>1814545
I voted yes. I think this is going to be the only thing we can get away with from the BoS. So let's just play nice with BoS and trade with them and they don't be none the wiser.
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>>1814555
I hope this back fires on us badly. This is legion level of bad.
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>>1814564
Depends on how we twist her mind honestly, she could come out completely normal except she has to obey us.
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>>1814549
God I can imagine that theme: us on our TV network, announcing the start of the war on the NCR and it cutting to footage of our armed forces destroying the NCR.

Us in a massive bearskin cloak over a dark grey or black (maybe purple?) imperial / military uniform with golden highlights. A dozen thousand Securitrons marching off to war around us as swarms of drones fly over head and our vast airships take off for the distant front line.
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>>1814564
It might and probably will. But let's hope it doesn't
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>>1814555
I hate so many of you.
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>>1814564
Oh stop complaining. You literally want us to fail just because your sense of pride or what is right was wounded? Come on.

>>1814559
We sometimes have to. This is one of those times where the ends justify the means.
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>>1814564
>>1814567
Hell we could leave her out normal anyway, just keep her control of the holograms and have our brain take over everything else.
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>>1814555
Wait question, will those robots continue to function as if on auto pilot and thus maintain the place?
Cause if so, we could use her satellite up-link to create a system allowing us to control this place from Big mt without harming her brain.

We can leave her be more or less intact but unconnected.


Christ I hope this is possible, I've always hated mind-alteration...
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>>1814576
In fact, can we do this? this facility should be connected to BigMT so our brain should be capable of taking over just like he did in New Vegas.
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>>1814578
Lets try this.
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>>1814568
No to mention our superweapon when the city of New Washington takes to the air to vaporize military installations with the giant death beam on its top. All shielded and ODST dropping giant robots into enemy lines, all the while sucking up matter to make more bots.

>>1814572
refer to >>1814573
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>>1814571
Karma is a factor in the games and I expect it to be something here too.
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>>1814585
Are you talking about the Airships? If so I SUPPORT 100%
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>>1814585
>No to mention our superweapon when the city of New Washington takes to the air to vaporize military installations with the giant death beam on its top. All shielded and ODST dropping giant robots into enemy lines, all the while sucking up matter to make more bots.
Stop anon, I can only be so jingoistic...
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>>1814576
>>1814578
>>1814580

Let's not. We'd be losing centuries worth of research and data
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>>1814573
Sometimes we don't and you just want to take the easy path. Nothing worth doing is easy.
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>>1814586
Nah fuck off, i voted no too but i'm warming up to this outcome if we keep her mind unmolested.
>>1814591
Eh? Our brain would have access to all the computers here(Except the ZAX) and would be able to read all the research.
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>>1814591
Why would we. All the data should be on a separate system from her brain. We would lose nothing. While we keep her in custody and convince her through more acceptable means.
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>>1814586
So the next shopkeep will magically know what we did? Or do you mean in a real way, when people will dislike us when we, oh say genocide tribals, kill mutants or enslave people by the millions to throw at bullets? Or when we conspire with eldritch gods?

We are the good guys here. Even if we sometimes have to do distasteful things.
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QM before you write the next part can you please let us vote for >>1814580 >>1814578 ?
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>>1814591
Nah man, I'm talking about the fact we've managed to disconnect her brain-case from her robots by shooting out a wire.

I'm saying we should leave her in her life support pod for now while we use the satellite up-link to control the entire place from Big mt and can then do shit without her interfering without having to alter her mind.
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>>1814586
Fortunately in game it can be changed easily. We just need to offset it by doubt good deeds. Question is, are we doing enough good deeds?
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>>1814598
>Good guy
>Forcefully siezeing control of a facility and the mind of a person who just wanted what was best to her people.

I.. You know, I forgot that the Road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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>>1814586
Thinking back on the things we did. Like saving the AI's, the people from NV we're a bit more on the good side on Karma.

I didn't like picking yes, but I do want us to win. Save us more grief/people in the long term doing this.
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>>1814604
Killing ferals is a good deed. So we can get a fuck ton that way.

Plus, you get good karma for making people quit drugs and giving the homeless a single bottle cap. I'd argue all the shit we've done for our people should make our karma near infinite.
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>>1814567
>>1814576
>>1814578
Alternatively, we could wipe the parts of her memory where she aligned with the Brotherhood Reavers and blame whatever happened on them. Saying we protected her and stuff from their sabotage.
>>1814580
Another New Vegas? Would be great if we could.

>>1814586
You get bonuses on any extremes on the spectrum, though.

>>1814541
What if we took other trophies from our fallen enemies? Like their rifles and unique weapons?
>>1814539
>>1814549
>>1814568
>>1814585
This would be so wonderful for propaganda.

>>1814499
>The proper use is Nothing personnel.
Shit. I just made a Grevious mistake.
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>>1814604
>Going to war with the MLA and defeating their dark god, exposing the NCR genociding tribals and conspiring with a alien rapist, destroying the Midwester BoS who kill mutants no matter who.
Funny, we might just come out a saint.
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>>1814597
I dont think she will come around without brainwashing. And if we go that far then its a moot point. And if we dont shackle her she could turn on us. Either replace her brain and keep her separate or chip her and bend her loyalties. Itl be the same AI, just new management.
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>>1814593
>>1814597

I sure that the brain is a very integral part of a ZAX and without it, it will function at much reduced capacity.
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>>1814604
Give our people beef to eat in founding day free of charge. Or give them free stuff like bikes. What we could do is set up a settlement in the commonwealth and help people.
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>>1814612
>Alternatively, we could wipe the parts of her memory where she aligned with the Brotherhood Reavers and blame whatever happened on them. Saying we protected her and stuff from their sabotage.
Nah let her remember, not like she can do anything about it, she might even get used to it and realize we are the better option.
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>>1814617
We don't need to micro manage things probably. We just use the sat connection to have our brain control things when it is needed.

>>1814615
We keep her seperated as we convince her that we mean well and the brotherhood doesn't. We don't have to chip her.
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>>1814615
Keep her separate, by that i mean install her back on the ZAX but disconnect her control of everything except the hologram.
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>>1814611
>>1814614
Same could be said about NCR and the president Yanuker.
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>>1814621
>>1814612
Plus memory gaps will just make her question shit. It's easier to just convince her that we did the most logical thing.


I mean, she said that she wouldn't join us because we'd brought another faction with us and that they'd know and shit. Now they don't know. Problem solved!

I am slightly kidding but still.
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>>1814612
If we start altering her mind, just chip it. The only thing that changes is her absolute loyalty to us. Everything else is the same, minus a bit of propaganda.

And you made me kek.
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>>1814621
Letting her remember anything about this is too risky - and she'll resent us after what we've done her and probably plot against us.

Let's just install the patriotic control chip and get it over with.

It probably doesn't change her personality that much.
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>>1814632
She can't do anything about it though, so there's no point chipping her except paranoia.
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>>1814627
I have no problem killing "saints" if that means killing Hitler MK 2.

I've been somewhat responsible for the death of Hitler once before in a quest. I'll see it done again, more than 200 years later.
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>>1814632
>>1814634
Well I think he wants to have her be in control of here and to be frank I agree. She's the only one that knows about this place in great detail and shit.
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>>1814638
>Well I think he wants to have her be in control of here and to be frank I agree.
Who are you talking about? Cause i don't want her to control shit except the hologram so she can still talk to her people.
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>>1814634
Yes but I am sure she knows the place better, not to mention has some insight/experience in biotech fields. So either we datamine her head, chip her or convince her to work for us (Which I dont see happening. If someone did this to you you would look for any way to pay them back. Well so would she.)

Also, more Cyborg Overlord theme music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moag4Xf498c
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>>1814642
Diana. Once she's been chipped she has to obey is essentially my understanding (OP some detail would be nice) but I could be wrong.
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I say have her become completely loyal to us, but the vast majority her personality stays the same. Like our other ZAX AIs.
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>>1814645
>Yes but I am sure she knows the place better, not to mention has some insight/experience in biotech fields.
And? Again she wouldn't be able to control anything.
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>>1814646
But who want Diana to still be in control?
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>>1814648
That's the goal but it might not work out that well.
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>>1814635
From this moment we are no different from any other "Hitlers".
We are no better than Yanuker, Caesar, House.

If we are going to play as a leader who believes that end justifies the means, then so be it but please don't try to talk about moral high ground that we have against other factions anymore. Because we don't
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>>1814612
>This would be so wonderful for propaganda.
>>1814645
We should use our Star Wars shitposts to make some propaganda. It'd have some great backdrops and music. Maybe our orchestra would like the idea.
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>>1814645
If we just isolate her, we can work on it- have our brain talk with them and convince her.
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>>1814655
As long as she is control chipped, sure.
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>>1814667
I don't want the control chip.
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>>1814655
Me. She's experienced in maintaining this place, knows the locals (seriously the risk of them figuring out shit is fucked and attacking isn't high but it'd be nice to keep these pre-war grade humans safe), can be helpful and would greatly enhance our various efforts with another 200 year old mind.

>>1814658
Eh, I'd argue you are blowing things out of proportions. We're still the most moral by far.
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>>1814658
How can you declare that we are morally equivalent through this one act to every faction who:
- actively genocide people based on their culture (NCR)
- follow a dark god of sacrifice (MLA)
- are brutal and dependent on mass slavery (Legion)
- actively genocide all mutants (BoS)

We are still the moral force for good out of the moral factions.
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Can someone list all the shit we're going to get from getting this place. Because their is lots of tech, animals, plants but we need someone to make list of it or a pastebin.
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>>1814676
We have a work relationship with the MLA, and some of us want to give them guns.
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>>1814676
...Why did you refer to yourself in 3rd person?
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>>1814649
Without the chip I dont think she would be inclined to share.

>>1814667
Chip her

>>1814663
How can you guarantee she doesnt just play along until she can call for help? From the Reavers, for example? Any plan for that? And what if we roll shit for persuasion? This is a foolproof way to make sure she is 100% for us.
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>>1814683
The BOS don't genocide all mutants. Very brutal to enemy mutants, but mutants that comply are kept to work. The soldiers is a personal choice. They can go off on single man crusades.
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>>1814691
At that point we should never try to convince anyone. They could always be waiting to betray us. Its about trust.
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>>1814684
Okay:

1) A population of pre-war grade humans.

2) A robotics factory.

3) A complete genebank of earth life.

4) A base in the east.

5) Various new technologies.

6) A fuckton of robots.

7) GECKS !

8) More shit.


>>1814687
Aye because the alternative is them being genocided by the NCR / MLA and the Legion being wiped out as well thanks to the NCR being able to focus down on them. Not to mention the fact that we'd lose the balance of power which we need so we have the time to expand and then defeat the others.

>>1814689
When did I do that?
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>>1814698
You havent answered my question. What plan do you havethat guarantees she wont bite us in the ass?
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>>1814691
>Without the chip I dont think she would be inclined to share.
Once more, and? Our brain can access all her factories, cloning pods and research data, doesn't matter if she wants to share or not.
>How can you guarantee she doesnt just play along until she can call for help? From the Reavers, for example? Any plan for that? And what if we roll shit for persuasion? This is a foolproof way to make sure she is 100% for us.
Because she can't, she won't be connected to the Comms, the only way she can call for help is with the hologram, which we can surely limit and even if not our robots can watch for intruders beyond it's reach so she won't be the first to meet them.
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>>1814698
True but the problem is that she's not going to be trusting us again for quite some time if ever. Chipping her might not be as bad as we think and if nothing else it lets her remain in control of her people's welfare.
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>>1814700
>When did I do that?
What the fuck man, right here >>1814638
>Well I think he wants to have her be in control of here
Who the fuck is he, who the fuck are you, where the fuck am i, i'm so confused!
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>>1814689
>...Why did you refer to yourself in 3rd person?
>>1814700
>When did I do that?
>When did we do that?
FTFY
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>>1814700
If they get genocided by anyone, it's no real loss to the world.

>>1814704
We give her freedom a little at a time. The general stuff that is doen when trying to convince a prisoner to join our team.
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>>1814706
>True but the problem is that she's not going to be trusting us again for quite some time if ever. Chipping her might not be as bad as we think and if nothing else it lets her remain in control of her people's welfare.
She'd still be capable of interacting with people with my plan, she just can't control anything besides her holograhm.
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>>1814700
To add to your list. The BoS will trade us tech for Implants giving us more access to different techs. Since they only showed us civilian tech. At a 1 to 1 rate

And didn't we have like 4-5 Implants that the BoS Don't have? So we could get even more tech out of this. And come home with so much tech.
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>>1814706
If we show her that we care for her people like she does than it becomes easy to get her on our side. She cares for her people. We show her we're best for them.
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>>1814712
????
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>>1814717
>Since they only showed us civilian tech. At a 1 to 1 rate
It was an all to 1 rate, like seriously they wanted all our implants in exchange for shit.
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>>1814709
I was referring to the post you were responding to when I said he.

>>1814714
>If they get genocided by anyone, it's no real loss to the world.
I refuse to believe there isn't a single person worth saving amongst the MLA. I mean the babies for example would also be killed.

>>1814715
>She'd still be capable of interacting with people with my plan, she just can't control anything besides her holograhm.
Aye I know that is what I suggested the problem is that we wouldn't be able to use her for research and shit if she is like that.

Plus depending on how the ZAX works we might not be able to run it at peak efficiency but I really doubt that.
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As you hold the Brain in the Jar, you realize you have several options.

>>1814584
You consider ways of rerouting this place to BigMT.

However, without local ZAX support and judging from the size of the place, your own ZAX would be too busy maintaining the facility. Furthermore your ZAX's specialty is robots, not organics (if anything organics is their weak point having had none in their vault) so they'd be operating at less than optimal and may lead to major problems.

Not to mention the Tribals will be confused by the loss of Mother, and the chance of being jammed.

But these are minor issues, the real problem is the ZAX will be so busy running the place, it might not even be available for research.

Another idea is simply replacing Diana's brain with someone more trustworthy. You wonder who though, and even then, their experience in the place may be lacking which might have some problems (and also the tribals would notice discrepancies. that in itself isn't a real problem, but noteworthy)

---

You notice there are several adjustments on the "Asimov Digital AI Slave-Collar" chip and the ""Patriotic Suggestion Enhancement" chip.

Interesting technology. It's Dr. Klein's invention back at BigMT as a response to the "threat of communism" in intelligence both AI and natural. He didn't get a chance to actually implement it on subects at Little Yangtze before the bombs fell, and you only found it in Dr. Mobius "Forbidden Drawer" in the Forbidden zone among other things labeled "ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN"

>Full emotive freedom Asimov Governator. She'll be able to hate you, but forced to obey your commands. WARING: beware of loopholes and false pretense! Subject may attempt to subvert control via logical loopholes. Subject may also attempt to be friendly, fraternize, or pretense romantic feelings to disengage chips, do not disengage chip at all costs!
>Maximize the Patriotic Dial. Stronger control on personality patterns and emotions, useful to attune even the most ardent communist into a blue blooded American whether they want to or not. WARNING: not suitable for communist infiltration due to inability to perform communistic functions. To you that means she might have a hard time pretending to still be the Goddess
>Enhanced Limbic Suggestion. Programmed to create strong or soft emotive attachments or emotive suggestions towards a specific individual, such as romance or friendship, or make such relationships easy to obtain
>Autonomous Thought Inhibitor. Deemed the most "viable" by BigMT, this one essentially prevents the formation of autonomous thoughts and emotions and replaces them with total obedience to orders. Suitable for sleeper cell agents. Subjects no longer create their own thoughts and feelings, and just obey given prerogatives. Thus, they can act in communistic patterns perfectly using existing knowledge, while assuring their loyalties to the American state.
>Other? You're quite skilled at computers, maybe you can tweak it a bit.
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>>1814726
That is why we went on the quest. So that they would give us a better rate.
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>>1814726
From what I know it was 3 implant to 1 tech. We lowered it to 2 to 1 now after the mission it Should be 1 to 1
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>>1814729
There is also the option to simply erase her entire experience while you were here, though it is likely she will begin to question why several weeks of memory just stopped existing and attempt to locate any source of data or witness as to what happened.

Especially since so much has been repaired.

Nor will that guarantee she'll share the Nursery with you fully or her loyalty.
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>>1814729
>Another idea is simply replacing Diana's brain with someone more trustworthy. You wonder who though, and even then, their experience in the place may be lacking which might have some problems
I think that's worth it, we do have Doctor brains after all.
>(and also the tribals would notice discrepancies. that in itself isn't a real problem, but noteworthy)
Cant we just keep Diana's brain hooked up to the hologram system and nothing else?
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>>1814729
Can another brain maintain her normal hologram appearance and speak in her voice?
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>>1814705
Ok, if there is no usable data in her brain and no big boost to science to be had from her, I agree. She can observe as a hologram. No harm in that so long as the natives are under surveillance so she doesnt tell them to do something fishy.

>>1814714
And you claim that you are a moral dude with statements like "Oh well, genocide happens."?? Get off your high horse. Also, this has no guarantee of her not biting us in the ass, again, give me a plan as good as this.

>>1814728
Agree with you. If she is useful we chip her. If not really, she can be a hologram and we can try to win her over.

Honestly Id sooner chip her and be done with it.
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>>1814729
>>Enhanced Limbic Suggestion. Programmed to create strong or soft emotive attachments or emotive suggestions towards a specific individual, such as romance or friendship, or make such relationships easy to obtain
Seduce her.

>>1814729
>>Other? You're quite skilled at computers, maybe you can tweak it a bit.
>>1814734
Is it possible to alter her memories so she thinks the Brotherhood Reavers were hostile to her?
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>>1814739
Said brain wouldn't know her personality and make mistakes, rousing suspicion in the tribal populace.
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>>1814739
Technically yes, but it would be lacking her memories and her ideology.

It would be if a clone replaced you without actually having your memories, people will notice.
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>>1814744
>Is it possible to alter her memories so she thinks the Brotherhood Reavers were hostile to her?
Yes.
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>>1814729
Alright, here's what we do.
-Have the ZAX take control of the facility to build a teleporter.
-Once the teleporter is built go pick a candidate to take over this base.
-Then just build a BigMT Brain container here with a modified hologram system connected then add Diana to it.
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>>1814717
Agreed. The potential to get good shit from this run is amazing.

>>1814719
True and I suppose once we've taken over the Legion she'll understand the side she should've sided with. For now she must be disconnected from the controls or she must chipped however. It's just how it is.

>>1814729
>Full emotive freedom Asimov Governator. She'll be able to hate you, but forced to obey your commands. WARING: beware of loopholes and false pretense! Subject may attempt to subvert control via logical loopholes. Subject may also attempt to be friendly, fraternize, or pretense romantic feelings to disengage chips, do not disengage chip at all costs!
>Enhanced Limbic Suggestion. Programmed to create strong or soft emotive attachments or emotive suggestions towards a specific individual, such as romance or friendship, or make such relationships easy to obtain
Keep her disconnected from her robots / systems however.

>Enhanced Limbic Suggestion. Programmed to create strong or soft emotive attachments or emotive suggestions towards a specific individual, such as romance or friendship, or make such relationships easy to obtain
ONLY ON A LOW SETTING.


>>1814742
>Honestly Id sooner chip her and be done with it.
I know but mind-alteration is the only thing that I can't morally deal with.
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>>1814729
>Autonomous Thought Inhibitor. Deemed the most "viable" by BigMT, this one essentially prevents the formation of autonomous thoughts and emotions and replaces them with total obedience to orders. Suitable for sleeper cell agents. Subjects no longer create their own thoughts and feelings, and just obey given prerogatives. Thus, they can act in communistic patterns perfectly using existing knowledge, while assuring their loyalties to the American state.
Let's chip her and get this over with

As long as we can order her to keep up her personality as mother/Diana (but just completely loyal to us) this is the right option
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>>1814748
But as a goddess, no one would really question her. We would have the benefit of the doubt on our side.
We just need someone who can act super maternal and isolationist.
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>>1814744
>>1814755
Can we not mind rape her please?
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>>1814755
That second
>Enhanced Limbic Suggestion. Programmed to create strong or soft emotive attachments or emotive suggestions towards a specific individual, such as romance or friendship, or make such relationships easy to obtain
Should be ignored.
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>>1814753
Have our brain control this. It should be charismatic and smart enough not to rouse suspicion too much.
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>>1814762
Fair enough but I'd advise having the Limbic suggestion / patriotism chips present on low power to just make things a little easier. We can disable them later.
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>>1814729
Can we make an overwriting program so whenever she gets rebellious, she becomes unable to act upon anything other than orders. After a period she would regain all her functions until the next transgression. Essentially she would be the same person until she rebells, at which time she will be reduced to ATI level, then back again a while later. Any time she has thoughts of lying or anything similar it goes into effect.

What to alter? Seems interesting?
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>>1814752
Great. Doing that and >>1814744.
Are there any flaws to altering her memories for this?

>>1814762
She's in a coma though.
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>>1814765
I think that will still have the problems QM mentions regarding the ZAX controlling this base.
Just pick a Dr. brain and install him.
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>>1814773
No we have our brain, rather than the ZAX act as a holdover until we get a doctor brain take control.

Our ZAX is kinda filled with autists.
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>>1814774
Oh, so my plan but with our brain.
Yea OK.
>>1814769
I don't know if i can agree to that, give me a minute to think it over.
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>>1814729

Enchanted limbic suggestion + altering her memories.
Change how things went about. Have her think that we convinced her to join us and that reavers became hostile and attacked us. They sabotaged her systems as soon as fighting began, that's why she was unable to help and was knocked out. We saved her, now she is eternally grateful to us and fell in love or something like that.
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>>1814770
>Can we make an overwriting program so whenever she gets rebellious, she becomes unable to act upon anything other than orders.
That would be the first program.

However, the problem is often the definition of "rebellious" is not easy to strictly maintain. Which may or may not allow for subtle acts of not-rebellion justified by logical fallacies and loopholes.
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>>1814771
>She's in a coma though.
That would still be rape.
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>>1814780
It'd be no worse than if we took some drugs that enhance our charisma and shit. All it does is accelerate the time scale.
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>>1814774
Your Brain needs to be at BigMT due to the Tesla Tower.

Actually come to think of it, anyone you bring here will need to be close to their Brain too. Unless you decide to install the TACT officer's brain.
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>>1814782
Please, no mind rape.
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>>1814783
What if we had a second, loyal, brain watching over her constantly?
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>>1814787
Not really. Stuff we do to ourselves is different from stuff we do to other people.

There is a difference between taking steroids and poisoning someone.
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>>1814789
Why not build another Tesla tower here?
Or maybe make an AI out of one of our Doctors?
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>>1814787
Which makes me wonder, why haven't we done that yet?

>>1814783
>>1814770
What if we gave her a split personality instead?

>>1814784
>>>1814771
>>She's in a coma though.
>That would still be rape.
Not if her brain says yes.
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>>1814789
I mean, the tact officer is a mother, and loyal. And it's not like the tribals will be asking how cloning works. I don't see why not.

We can make more tacts out of our other officers.
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>>1814783
Enhanced Limbic suggestion
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>>1814797
How would her brain say yes if she's asleep?
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>>1814795
I suppose but my point is that at low levels, it should effectively have the same effect on her perception of us and our abilities, not that they are morally equal or anything.

>>1814797
>Which makes me wonder, why haven't we done that yet?
We've not got the shit to make many drugs or the people that know how.
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>>1814793
That would be more secure yes.

>>1814796
You need to research how the "Tesla Tower" works actually. It turns out its not so very straightforward and probably is nothing like conventional tesla coils.
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>>1814769
You know what, I'll agree to install the Limbic suggestion, but only on it's lowest setting and if you support my plan here >>1814753
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>>1814783
Then I support >>1814780 with >>1814769.

I just care that she has NO WAY to weasel her way out of it while leaving her able to function as a researcher and administrator of the facility. Especially once we start arming the place up.
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>>1814802
>How would her brain say yes if she's asleep?
If her brain tingles then that's a "yes."
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>>1814729
Make us into her 'god' husband thing. She will do we as ask because if the whole depopulation thing.

>limbic suggestion
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>>1814807
What about AI?
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>>1814808
That I can agree to. I mean with the shit here we could probably throw together a simple AI like the one we based off of Cass or something but having an actual brain in control is probably good.
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>>1814811
How do we get a tingle?
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>>1814808
>>1814809
>>1814815
Alright then, that's 3 votes, 4 if Grey ID anon joins.
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>>1814817
>How do we get a tingle?
By making it jiggle.
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>>1814824
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kroEiX5tkE0
But how will we tell the difference between a tingle and a Jiggle.
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>>1814812
>Make us into her 'god' husband thing
You can do this actually.

>>1814813
Can you clarify what you are asking anon?
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>>1814729

>Enhanced Limbic Suggestion
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>>1814834
Make an AI and install int into the ZAX, or do we need a brain to house the AI?
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>>1814834
Thats why I'm voting for the Limbic suggestion part.
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>>1814823
Me? sure. Very low limbic suggestion., cut her off.
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>>1814840
>we need a brain to house the AI
Yes.

Mostly due to logistical issues, its too far away for you to begin constructing an AI and that sort of technology isn't exactly perfected either

The place could go to hell in a handbasket while it waits too
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>>1814844
And that makes 4, anyone else want to support >>1814753 >>1814808
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>>1814853
True.
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>>1814856
But our brain is the temporary manager rather than the ZAX,
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>>1814853
>Yes.
Hmmm, we can get a dead guys brain and install an AI in it like we did with our original ZAX right?
Good thing we have to kill those reavers, we can just say we couldn't bring back one of the bodies.
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>>1814866
Nah just remove the brain and then blast the head off of one with a shotgun. Problem solved.
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>>1814863
Again, i don't think it matters who is temporary manager but i'll change it anyway.

-Install the Limbic suggestion and keep it at it's lowest setting.
-Have our brain take control of the facility to build a teleporter.
-Once the teleporter is built go pick a candidate to take over this base.
-Then just build a BigMT Brain container here with a modified hologram system connected then add Diana to it.
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>>1814753
>-Have the ZAX take control of the facility to build a teleporter.
CLAIRIFICATION

Even if they take over the robot facilities here, it won't be possible for anything but a long time. There aren't any replicators here to build the alien metal for the teleporter. And it will take even more time to build the facilities to make replicators, especially if they want to manage the place from falling apart (which it could still due to their lack of specialty)

You'll lose your ZAX action throughout all that time.

You could bring a teleporter here actually, and try to build a signal tower. The drawback to that is flying here with your UFO may be detected by nearby powers, especially considering the BoS has developed some very good radar and the MLA could be nearby.

Also this plan doesn't mention what you guys wanna do with Diana, so she'd essentially still be her free self and remember all you did.
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>>1814875
Which is why I want to use our brain.

As for setting up the teleporter, we use the scout ship, fly over radar range, almost LEO, and fly over legion territory. Diana can be cut off, maybe brought to washington if possible.
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>>1814875
I guess we have no choice. We've got to stay here and keep a handle on shit and the only way to maintain control during that time would be to have her mind altered.


A question OP, the brain chips can be turned off right? Can that Autonomous thought inhibitor be disabled and the person restored reliably?

If so then we can do that to her while we get a solution made.
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>>1814875
>Also this plan doesn't mention what you guys wanna do with Diana, so she'd essentially still be her free self and remember all you did.
Actually plan does say what i want to do with her, I want to keep Diana asleep until we build a brain tank here that can't connect to anything but a modified, limited hologram system so that she can still talk to her tribals.
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>>1814752
>>1814771

>>1814832
Watch what happens when we put the moves on her.
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>>1814891
>Which is why I want to use our brain.
Not possible due to distance from the Tesla Tower and your body.

Your officer had to stay near the TACT bot for saftey.
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>>1814892
Or we could lose the ZAX action for a few turns, which i prefer.
Can we do what i detail here? >>1814866
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>>1814907
Can't he control it remotely like the ZAX would? We aren't moving the entire zax are we?
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>>1814875
Wait can't we fly here with our Vertibird too?
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Alright, lemme look at the major consensus and formulte it into an action plan.

>>1814927
Yes, though again, it may be spotted in the air. Not 100% for sure, but its a possibility.

>>1814921
Ah, from the Forbidden Zone.

Well, he'd have to do it at non-optimal efficiency first because he's not there, 2nd because he's not in a ZAX right now, and third because he's already got a lot of responsibilities governing things in your nation like working with James Bond and the ZAX to make sure things don't go wrong.
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>>1814729

>Enhanced Limbic Suggestion
Strong emotive attachments to us. Friendship primarily.

>Other?
Modify her memories of the last week to show that WE performed all the repair services to her facility. Add in (if possible and appropriate) memories of the Reavers getting mauled in an MLA ambush.

Then wait to turn her back on til we've done the dirty work with the corpses.
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>>1814939
You still haven't answered if we can use a recently dead guy's brain to install a AI on to take control of this place.
If so i have a new plan, one that can be completed now.
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>>1814941
That won't work. If the MLA got inside, then there would be signs. And the people would talk about how everyone was helping. Memory manipulation is too finicky. Lets not.
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>>1814912
That'd work too but I just want to see if it is possible because if so then we can eliminate the main problem we are currently having whereby an immediate solution is essentially impossible.


I guess however if we just the use first option from the list of chips and give her simple instructions like "Send nothing out of the Valley, tell the tribals nothing of the takeover, deny meeting me or the BOS should they arrive. Defend the Valley from the Legion and MLA if they arrive. Maintain the Valley's environment and bio-diversity. Await further instructions from me." which avoid leaving her wiggle room. We can avoid most of this morally questionable shit, have an immediate solution, know this place won't fall apart and not lose the ZAX for a few turns.
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>>1814946
The ambush doesn't have to have been inside the facility. All she has to know is that we walked in with a bunch of mauled Reavers. That's why we're modifying the memories "as possible and appropriate".
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>>1814942
>You still haven't answered if we can use a recently dead guy's brain to install a AI on to take control of this place.
Hmmm.

Unless you plan to let the guy (or girl) himself control the faciity as a Reaver you'd have to mind wipe and install an AI into it.

But it is possible, you could install Yes-Man for example.
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>>1814949
...that could work quite well.
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>>1814948
>We can avoid most of this morally questionable shit
What you just detailed counts as "Morally questionable shit" technically.
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>>1814948

>Gets the chance to make things air-tight
>Chooses to not make things air tight, for moral reasons.
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>>1814955
This facility has the capability to mindwipe right?
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>>1814949
But the people saw non-mauled reavers. Which is the finicky bits. There are a lot of witnesses to alive and healthy Reavers.
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>>1814961
Actually, it would be more logical just to install Yes-Man directly from a Securitron.
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>>1814955
Actually would flying over Legion territory prevent us from being found QM? >>1814891
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>>1814975
If we can install Yes-Man why can't we install another AI without using a Brain?
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>>1814955
Do we have Yes man with us?

>>1814958
I know but less morally questionable than the other options. Seeing as she'd still be a free being just limited by certain laws, like a citizen.

>>1814959
I know but mind-alteration is the one thing I don't like. It is the one thing that I struggle to deal with.

I can accept low level alteration which merely alters perception but shit that renders someone brain dead or makes them behave very differently just makes me feel uncomfortable.

Still, I'd advise if you don't like that plan to instead go with your idea since I agree it could work.


>>1814967
They never talked to the Reavers. Far as they know we had some human looking robots with us (from Diana) or something which I think is something that the BOS could be convinced of if they found this place.

Plus, the tribals don't leave the Valley so it's a non-issue so long as the place remains hidden / secure.
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>>1814967
I don't think the Reavers were ever particularly witnessed by the Tribals, though I'm sure they were observed somewhat.

Actual eye witnesses like that won't really be much an issue unless it gets looked into anyway though. Memory-fixing only needs to put us in a good position to take advantage of the limbic modification. After that our friendship will be the prime motivator of the relationship.
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>>1814981
AI's don't grow on trees. It takes a LOT of effort to make them and its difficult enough to make them on demand.

Yes-Man, Victor, and Jane were created using serious investment by House. Victor and Jane aren't even sufficiently high level Ai to run a facility like this either.

Yes-Man himself might not be 100% up to the task either, but he's built to manage the lucky 38 and the Securitrons so its worth a shot.
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>>1814939
Oh, i just read the second part of this, we can have the Brain take control, we can take care of the Governing duties for a while until he build the teleporter.
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>>1814986
>Do we have Yes man with us?
Not right now, but you can get him in a relatively short amount of time next turn.

>>1814990
The Tribals saw the Reavers and were informed there were six of you by Mother.
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>>1814975
>>1814986
>>1814992
Would it be possible to use the tech we've gotten from here to help secure the loyalty of the other AIs that we disabled earlier?
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>>1814993
Hell he can build Loader Bots to make building the Replicators easier.
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>>1815002
Actually yes, but only once. Use it on them means you won't be able to use it on Diana, which means you'll lack her her and all her vast knowledge and specialty.

Yes Man acts as if he already has an AI governator though.
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>>1815000
Yes man will do for now and we can have him optimise the facility's attempts to produce replicators and then a teleporter while we deal with other shit.

Fact is that we just need him to act as a Nanny to Diana, seeing as we can have him running alongside her in actual control monitoring her actions to prevent her doing bad shit.
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>>1815000
What if Mother tells them that the Reavers were actually mauled when they got here. Are they likely to argue with Mother?
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>>1815005
>Actually yes, but only once.
Crap. Why's it only once? Could we replicate it?
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Alright, so we have 3 options.
>Have our Brain take over until we install another guy.
>Have Yes-Man take over until we install another guy.(What do we do with Yes-Man after?)
>Just enslave Diana.
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>>1815009
Well they saw walking talking reavers. It might cause some troubles.

>>1815000
Then use Yes Man for now. We can replace him with the TACT officer or something as we convince Diana.
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>>1815011
Sadly no. These briefcase things are weird and aren't replicable.
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>>1815025
Oh right this is a BOON action.
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Fuck it, need sleep. Return later. Hope discussion lasts until then or that a good solution is found.

Best of luck.


Also question: we get a small boon next turn / this turn? Could that be enough to make Yes man loyal?
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>>1815018
>Have our Brain take over until we install another guy.

Need sleep but still think this best solution for now. Can state that in a few turns of good work we can convince Diana to like us well enough with the (patriot and limbic) chips at low power settings through hero actions and that we can almost certainly reduce the strain on brain with a few turns of effort to transfer the various civilian / government functions over to others or to give him more computing power to automate shit.
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>>1815038
Alright, i'm gonna assume you still support this plan then. >>1814874
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>>1815046
Anyone else?
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>>1815005
I just want us to use the limibc one. I'm not backing any of these special ones.
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>>1815046
Yes. Would also advise that we begin hero action / operations to accelerate our construction action(s) acquisition, expanding our robotics factory / power network and preparations for the planned expansion into the NV area or into Utah or both.

Would also like to request we establish industry to produce the guided missiles and launchers.


Night all and best of luck.
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The Majority Vote appears to be the Enhanced Limbic Suggestion. I will be rolling with that unless majority of anons request another plan.
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>>1815067
Specifically this plan here >>1814874 but aye you are on the mark.
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Writing
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>>1815067
Will we install Diana back in the ZAX or are you doing my plan here >>1814874
Cause i should have 4 votes.
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>>1815067
But low level, and she is not in control
as stated >>1814874
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>>1815011
Hey anon, are you up for Seducing her the slow way?
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>>1815067
i want her in control and stuff.
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>>1814874
Understood.

Be forewarned there are consequences to this action plan, as with the others.

-While Diana is in rehabilitation she will be missing from the tribals
-Your Brain does not know as much as Diana does, and connection over satellite limits his abilities to maintain the facility which is too big for him to completely govern
-there may be challenges he is not scientifically on par to deal with, due to lack of experience
-it will take a long time for the Brain to build a teleporter

>-Then just build a BigMT Brain container here with a modified hologram system connected then add Diana to it.
Not sure the purpose of this since there is a Brain Container here for Diana's brain already
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>>1815097
>i want her in control and stuff.
L-lewd
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>>1815020
>>1815000

Okay then, how about they attempted to send an email but technical difficulties ensued so they had to trek back on foot to deliver word. We also erase the memories on our little shindig here.

There are so many ways to make it work.
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>>1815103
>Not sure the purpose of this since there is a Brain Container here for Diana's brain already
That's the ZAX right, i want to put another brain there so unless there's another Brain Container we'll have to build another.
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>>1815092
Yeah, I'm up for that. So long as Diana isn't going to pull a revolution on us in the meantime.
>>1814874
>>1814941
>>1814941
Wait, what about the memory modification? How do we make it work without it?
>>1815110
Yep.

>>1814729
>>1815104
What were you expecting from all these options, anon?
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>>1815103
Can we remain here and help him deal with all that?

>>1815110
Nah man just leave it. It's not too much of an issue so long as we go present the BOS with the bodies and shit.

Also a question OP, most RADAR even today won't work if you stick with 200 odd meters of the ground and the Alien scoutship can stop on a dime and float. So logic implies that if we flew it at night over the Legion's lands to here we could avoid RADAR detection without issue.
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>>1815125
>Can we remain here and help him deal with all that?
Yes but you'll miss out on Hero Actions, also Founding Day.
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>>1815121
>Yeah, I'm up for that. So long as Diana isn't going to pull a revolution on us in the meantime.
Good thing she's gonna be sleeping for awhile then.
>Wait, what about the memory modification? How do we make it work without it?
I dunno, we can just go without it and keep her in a Brain Container that can't connect to anything besides a modified hologram system, that way she can't do anything against us.
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>>1815131
Idea! if we're staying here we could go sneak in to steal resources from a Faction too speed up the Replicator construction.
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>>1815125
What if the Reavers have black boxes? Inbuilt journals in their implants or whatever that show they got into the valley and met Diana?
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>>1815131
Eh, surely we could sneak back at night a day or two before and after using the method I described here >>1815125. That way we can be at the celebrations, grab a few companions who are good with tech and shit and then return without getting detected and shit.

As to missing out on Hero actions, that just means we can do other actions and it's not like we'd have many better uses than this place.
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>>1815137
We need to go to the BOS to do the tech deals and pick up a mormon missionary to counter growing Hubbologist influence in our upper ranks though. We can't afford to stay here.
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>>1815125
>It's not too much of an issue
>Being unable to utilize the AI that's successfully managed this facility and knows its in-an-outs for hundreds of years because she knows we killed several people and reprogrammed her "isn't too much of an issue"
Yeah right it's not. The only way this facility maintains its effectiveness is if we come up with a plan that keeps Diana in charge and on our side. Seeing as we're holding all the cards right now there's NO reason we can't bring that situation about.

At the very least we need to put in a Manchurian Candidate style backdoor that'll allow us to re-access her brain at will if we need to make any changes in the future.
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>>1815147
Oh right.
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>>1815125
QM can we do what he describes here and succeed in not getting detected?
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>>1815131
Nooo, not Founding Day. Can we do a distant call for it?
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>>1815139
Eh, we can rip out their implants and if they ask, the MLA took them for whatever twisted purposes they use them for and the only reason we escaped was because the surgeon was a psycho who did it with his subjects awake / non-tranquillised so they'd feel it and thanks to our strength (which is a lot more than the Reavers) we manged to break free, grab the knife and fight our way out from there.

If anything it adds to our story and explains why they are removed seeing as we want a set or two any way to study.

>>1815150
Mate that ain't what we were discussing when I said that and I agree we need Diana somewhat but I feel we can get away by having Brain acting as a supervisor to her with her under some limitations.
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>>1815125
Of course, but then being close to the ground has other things to consider such as the MLA or Legion.
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>>1815180
Which is why we do it at night and over the Legion's lands.


Seriously, without huge bonfires, they'd struggle to see us clearly at night and the craft is near silent. So we'd be impossible to detect. Not to mention we'd need to be incredibly unlucky to run into one of the few patrols with any major weapons that could harm the craft. Seeing as when we used it in the Divide you established it resisting small arms without issue.
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>>1815192
The luck of the rolls is what happens. Easier to get out of Legion hands than MLA's
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>>1815192
Alright, we have a functioning plan.
Have our brain take over until we can transport a teleporter and bring a brain.
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>>1815196
Well it's not like the legion use radar. If we have no external lights on the ship, and avoid any of the legion's camp fires, we should be fine.
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>>1815196
Agreed. Fact is that considering the low density of their population, the difficulty of them to spot us, the rarity of weapons that could harm the craft and the fact they'd need to get the weapons and such (and then catch our craft going the same route, which we'd never do) after reporting a flying shape at night moving without sound and shit. It'd be essentially impossible.
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>>1815196
Aren't we secretly allied with the MLA though?

>>1815207
>>1815209
Yeah, should be safe.
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>>1815207
We could bring some spare parts just in case.
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>>1815216
>Aren't we secretly allied with the MLA though?
We're also planning to betray them, and we don't want any of them to find out what we just got.
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>>1815227
Good point, but I don't think they'll mind us passing over their lands. It's not like they have some sort of UFO internals scanner or demand searches to flying machines.
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>>1815216
>Aren't we secretly allied with the MLA though?
Do you want to just risk the chance of the MLA seeing our spaceship, Best not to show all the things we have.
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Luckily the repository Auto-Doc and Surgical unit, medicine seems to be a big component here. You reprogram a Mr. Handy to maintain a sterile field as you shower bathe and prepare for surgery.

The most skilled man in the wasteland you are, as you begin to cut into Diana's brain and tactically placing the implants on key areas.

Brains can feel things according to your Brain, even when you are unconscious. Of course they don't feel pain since Brain Mass itself has no pain receptors, but "having bullets put inside you is not fun for you or me."

You're fairly confident in your work though. You have the control for limbic system remotely. Now all that's left is to wait for her to recover and see your handiwork.
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>>1815254
By the way, QM, we're going to need a new thread soon.
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>>1815282
A whole thread of just the courier doing his thing. And back and forth of what to do.
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>>1815290
Actually, now that Diana is disabled for a while we can go back to the cloning vats and clone some farm animals, drop em off at Mormon base to hold onto and raise.

We only made eggs because we could smuggle them out easily, but now we can just leave.
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>>1815290
>>1814445
>>1814483
Glorious, isn't it?

>>1815299
Clone the Deathclaw Eggs?
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>>1815307
No the chicken eggs. We can make some calfs or eagle eggs or something.
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>>1815299
Well the thing is we have to go back to the BoS and report our lies. They would find it weird we have a bunch of farm animals with us.

Here is what we can do, report back to the BoS, go head to the Mormon's than go East back to the Diana and friends to clone things. Before returning back home with or without the Mormon missionary
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>>1815316
Well we're coming back anyways, so when we do that we can make farm animals for the mormons to raise for us.
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You're sitting there waiting, when

>Diana
"I can feel it."

>You
[Hmmm?]

>Diana
"Something in my brain. And healing wounds.

You did things to my brain."

>You
[Yes. How do you feel.]

>Diana
"I know that I'm supposed to be mad at you. Angry. Livid.

You killed your comrades. You violated me, in a way far worse than a legionnaire could rape a woman. You violated the inner sanctum of my mind, eve now.

I'm supposed to hate you. . ."

>You
[Do you hate me]

>Diana
"Yes. . .but not as much as I should."

>You
[What are you feeling?]

>Diana
"Mad. And afraid.

These feelings, some of them aren't mine. They aren't supposed to be mine, but I can't tell the difference"

>You
[You can't]

>Diana
"No. . .which is why I'm scared. Scared that I'm no longer going to be 'me' anymore. That I might be lost, taken over by emotions that aren't me. . ."

>You
[If I wanted to destroy you, I would have. I'm not here to do that."

>Diana
"What do you want from me?"

>You
[Ladykiller] [You. I want you, I want everything about you. Every part and every piece, every fabric of your beautiful being. I want you to be mine.]
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>>1815371
Well the lady killer part just makes me feel like a rapist.
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>>1815371
>heavy sweating
Wait, We can clone a human body now for the mad doctors and put the brains inside them.
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>>1815377
It's not rape if both are adults that give consent
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>>1815391
It's not consent if you have a brain implant that makes you consent.
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>>1815371
Can we make this a temporary thing or not?

Something along the lines of in two years time if she's not actively fighting against we restore her?
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>>1815396
That part wasn't cover in my mandatory lesson of what is and not rape.
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>>1815371
ARRRGH WE'RE SUCH A CREEP. We could've been like "Join me in restoring America!" or something.
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>>1815371
>Diana
". . ."

>You
[Are you ready to be mine?]

>Diana
"Even if I say 'no', you'll just make this thing in my brain stronger. Until I'm a drooling slave, until I have to say yes"

>You
[If that's what it takes, but I don't want to play that game. I want to win you Diana. I need to win you. You're the most beautiful goddess I've ever seen. I want hear /you/ say you need me, too, not make you say it like a puppet.]

>Diana
'And yet you're twisting my heartstrings like a puppet."

>You
[I didn't say I'd play fair]

>Diana
"Then I'll say 'no' for as long as I can. I'll hate you as long a I can.

. . .

My children. . ."

>You
[Unharmed. I will protect them, I swear. Your children will be my children. And when I make you mine, we'll protect them together. A goddess and her husband.]

>Diana
"Can I see them?"

>You
[Not yet. I need to make sure you won't betray me.]

>Diana
"What more do you want from me."

>You
[Swear you'll pledge yourself to me, then you can see them.]

>Diana
"Fool! I could be lying to you, then what?"

>You
[I'll know if you are lying. I can hear it.]

[Ladykiller] [You're lying to yourself if you think you don't want me. But you and I know the truth.

You need me. Like flower needs rain. Like trees need sunshine. We can be together Diana, rule together, love each other for all time."


>Diana
". . ."

>You
[Swear yourself to me!"]

>Diana
". . .

ugh, Fine! . . .I'm doing this for my children.

It's not like I really like you or anything. . .

It's this thing in my brain!"

>You
"An implant.

One day you will love me, for real. I'll turn off the chip, when you aren't looking, and show it to you. Then you'll know you are really mine."

Diana goes silent after that.
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>>1815377
>>1815396
>>1815415
We could arrange a brain implant for that.

>>1815397
If once we restore her she isn't going to plot a rebellion or undermine us, sure.

>>1814363
>>1814555
>>1814729
>>1815254
>>1815371
>>1815380
I feel like we've dared to enter a scientific realm.
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>>1815548
That would have been the Patriotic Dial.
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>>1815559
There is other ways than being the creepiest of creeps. Like "It's for the best of your people" not "You will want to fuck, no matter what"
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>>1815551
This is so creepy...why did people want this?

All I wanted was control and even this >>1815559 could have worked better.
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>>1815551
Atleast Evil is done lewdly. I like it.
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>>1815572
Not many people did. FOr some reason QM went for the creepy rapist route.
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>>1815551
>>1815548
>>1815559
Woops, we dun goofed.

>>1815551
>It's not like I really like you or anything. . .
This phrase took such a darker tone. I feel like this just makes the Courier want her more.

>>1815570
>>1815572
>>1815577
I think we accidentally fucked up the Courier.
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>>1815584
This.
What happened to LOW SETTING.
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>>1815559
QM, why didn't you ask if we wanted to be a creepy rapist? It wasn't a popular choice.
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>>1815591
This is low setting :^)
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>>1815601
This is bullshit. What part of low setting is "acting like Cersie Lannister" Low setting should be pretty much unnoticeable.
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>Hey guys, let's take the route that manipulates emotional attachment. Seems like the most morally agreeable!
>Surprised when it's creepy.

My god. What did you expect?
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>>1815586
I didn't like it until it entered a wonderful place.

>>1815591
>>1815601
>>1815611
Fuck Low, this is perfect
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>>1815612
No one wanted to act creepy, which is why i and others voted for the lowest setting.
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Although you wonder about the methods, you are actually 100% of their effectiveness.

You didn't actually think of this yourself, it was part of Dr. Klein and Dr. Dala's research which Mobius hid away in his "Forbidden Drawer". You decided to apply them according to the book.

While perhaps not the cleanest route, you feel safe enough to even hook her back up into the system and confident she won't betray you.

You watch as she explains to the tribals that the five Reavers had died in an unfortunate accident, and that there will be "no more men from the Brotherhood visiting us" for a long time.

They believe her, and so that solves that problem.

You even think if you ask her more about the facility or for requests, she'll give them to you. Perhaps reluctantly, but otherwise willingly.

---

That just leaves one last loose end. The Reaver Bodies.

With the technology Diana is offering, and what's left of the Boon Briefcase, its actually possible for you to clone the bodies AND mimic the augments of them. Actually allowing you to study them in detail. You feel confident you can replicate them to very precise details, down to the serial number and even copy the brain implants data onto the clones and make it 100% indestinguishable from the original.

CHOOSE:
>Use clones, keep the originals in storage
>Get rid of the originals
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>>1815640
>Use clones, keep the originals in storage
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>>1815640
QM, why did you make us act like a rapist. We didn't ask for that.
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>>1815640
>>Use clones, keep the originals in storage

>>1815623
I like it :^)
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>>1815640
>Use clones, keep the originals in storage
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>>1815640
QM this is bullshit.
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>>1815591
This is the Low Setting actually.

You probably don't want to see what High setting is like.

BigMT has a terrible habit of "Going to faredness" according to Dr. Mobius, everything they do seems to be dialed up to 11 by default.

This is hitherto untested technology and this is its first real test. You simply followed the instructions in the brief case, as you couldn't be sure if it would even work.
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>>1815657
Yeah, but why did WE act like a rapist? That isn't dictated by the implant.
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>>1815657
Ignore them, They wanted it and got it. I enjoy it.
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>>1815660
Egg fucking xacly, there was nothing forcing us to say that shit.
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>>1815657
I enjoyed OP A+ for you.
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>>1815664
No one wanted acting like a fucking rapist. We were supposed to be convincing her to trust us and that we would protect our people, not that she would be a slave to the dick.
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>>1815668
Is this how we normally seduce? if so you wrote it horribly.
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>>1815660
>>1815672
>>1815674
Lady killer perk.
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>>1815640
>>Use clones, keep the originals in storage
Still good for research, alternatively we do the same thing to did we did to Diana.

>>1815551
>>1815556
>>1815586
>>1815623
>>1815640
>We've entered a scientific realm, and there's no going back.

>>1815591
>>1815611
>>1815601
>>1815623
>>1815628
>>1815657
>It really is the Low Setting.
So uh, just how insane are the Think Tank?
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>>1815660
It was in the manual, "to achieve maximum loyalty and sway communist subjects to capitalist authority figures". It even provided a script which you followed, not word for word but close enough.

You felt there was a risk that if you deviated from the manual it might not work and she might rebel against you and the chip itself.

>>1815676
Nope, not in the least.
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>>1815681
Lady killer is seductive not using lines a fratboy uses as he fucks a drunk chick.
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>>1815682
>So uh, just how insane are the Think Tank?
It wasn't even that bad until we opened our mouth and out came
[Ladykiller] [You. I want you, I want everything about you. Every part and every piece, every fabric of your beautiful being. I want you to be mine.]
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>>1815682
>So uh, just how insane are the Think Tank?
This is just one of the many, MANY things Dr. Mobius has locked away in his Forbidden Drawer of "ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN" things.

The results should speak for themselves.
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>>1815686
Act like Buffalo fucking bill? you could have told us that before hand asshole.

We would have done a less effective method if it meant that. How does this get her not to rebel vs something subtle? It makes no sense
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>>1815682
>So uh, just how insane are the Think Tank?
Yes.

Also we should work on getting them functional again. Make them saner. Would be a big win for our science department.
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>>1815694
I fucking love his drawer
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>>1815686
>It was in the manual, "to achieve maximum loyalty and sway communist subjects to capitalist authority figures". It even provided a script which you followed, not word for word but close enough.
>You felt there was a risk that if you deviated from the manual it might not work and she might rebel against you and the chip itself.
That's supreme bullshit, that manual is completely fucked up and shouldn't have worked even with the Chip.
>Nope, not in the least.
Then why didn't we just wing it? hell anything would have been better than that spew.
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>>1815721
Hell that dialogue wouldn't have worked on an Alien who's entire culture was based on rape, it's that god damn bad.
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>>1815733
>You're lying to yourself if you think you don't want me. But you and I know the truth.

We literally used, your mouth says no, but your body says yes. That was the worst drivel I have ever seen and the excuse was complete bullshit.
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>>1815694
Pretty cool drawer, we should check it out more often.
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>>1815686
Were the script writers deviant porno writers?
>>1815733
You mean the Zetans?

>>1815694
Well it's a good thing they still think everything is normal.
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>>1815738
That's dialogue i expect from Anonkun in a quest about monster rape, that's actually what that reminds me of.
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>>1815721
It is terrible dialogue, even you think so

This feels like the drivel of someone whose never even watched basic human interaction regularly and stays in research labs all the time with very minimal human contact would write. Someone so supremely confident in their abilities they fail to see what should be obviously wrong with it. As if written by a damn brain in a glass vial rather than a human being.

Yeah, this is BigMT alright.

But, as with all science, its apparent to now that there was nothing scientific about the method. You probably never want to say shit like this again.

+NEW TOWN GAINED+
>New population
>New Technologies
>Statting soon
+1 FREE BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ACTION (goes above cap)

>>1815640
You clone the bodies, surgically modify them, watch for every little detail with your medical skills, even running the implants through terminals to make sure all accessible data is identical.

The clones are perfect in every way, even the scars and old injuries.

The fakes were never alive to begin with, but you take them outside and find some suitable wild dogs to go have at them, and pelt their body with a machete and some bullets.

Satisfied, you take them and the holotags and begin the long trek back to the Brotherhood of Steel.
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>>1815761
That is bullshit. We would know that using that would be needlessly rapey. If it was prewar, someone would have told whoever made this to fuck off. If it was post war, they wouldn't be framing things like a rape scene.

They don't even know what penises are, and they know how to act like rapists? BULL SHIT.
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>>1815738
This quest went form 9/10 to 0.
No wait, beyond 0, it went into the negatives, this was such a fucking letdown i'd use this quest as torture material.
>>1815761
>It is terrible dialogue, even you think so
Then why the fuck did we use it, we have 10 INT, hell 2 INT is enough to realise it's bad to say this dialouge.


But, as with all science, its apparent to now that there was nothing scientific about the method. >You probably never want to say shit like this again.
Is this admitting you wrote that bit completely wrong? Cause honestly i believe it needs a retcon but if there's no negative consequences and you decide never to write something like that again ill drop the issue.
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>>1815773
Agree'd
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>>1815761
Just retcon all this shit to a weird masturbatory fantasy after reading this drivel, and then we do it like a reasonable person, who actually has charisma. Fucking COOK-COOK probably has a lighter touch than this.
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>>1815787
Don't even write a new bit, let that Dialogue be non-Cannon and let's just imagine what the Courier said in our own imaginations.
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I tried to convey the idea that not only was this technology evil, but also the people who designed and wrote it are insane/devoid of basic human dignity.

Not to be creepy for the sake of being creepy, but to convey that in the usage.

If what I wrote is off putting to people, I can retcon it. . .I'm not about to ruin my quest over an issue like this, nor am I above admitting mistakes.
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>>1815761
>But, as with all science, its apparent to now that there was nothing scientific about the method. You probably never want to say shit like this again.
>>1815682
>>We've entered a scientific realm, and there's no going back.
>>1815744
>Were the script writers deviant porno writers?
Shiiit, I was right. I want my shitposts to stop being right.

>>1815755
Maybe this is what the script writers watched Pre-War?

>>1815787
>Fucking COOK-COOK probably has a lighter touch than this.
What does he cook up?
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>>1815799
You don't even need to retcon it, just make it Non-Cannon and anons can imagine what the Courier actually said in their own heads, it'd be better that way.
Besides, the problem isn't that the Tech was evil, it's that the Courier, a guy with 10INT and 10CHA, actually said that shit.
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>>1815799
I think if you retcon it to where we choose the dialogue (as long as it fits) would be a decent compromise.
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>>1815799
Yes. It is ruining shit.

>Enhanced Limbic Suggestion. Programmed to create strong or soft emotive attachments or emotive suggestions towards a specific individual, such as romance or friendship, or make such relationships easy to obtain

How is this soft in any way? The description says soft and this is softer shit on /b/. If you tried to convey being a rapist, you failed completely.
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>>1815799
Well for me. I still like the quest, a single post doesn't automatically make my rating of this quest go down to hell.
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>>1815811
>You don't even need to retcon it, just make it Non-Cannon and anons can imagine what the Courier actually said in their own heads, it'd be better that way.
Is that not effectively the same thing?

---

I can't delete posts that old, but I'll outright state it's Non-Cannon. This is a QM statement.

---

I'm trying to run a fun quest and convey ideas, not create something that is unpleasant or unfun to read. if I make a mistake, I'll acknowledge it, and learn from it.
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>>1815799
Keep it. If this is what it takes to show the consequences of our actions, then I'm fine with it.
Mind, I still think the Courier should've realized the bullshit he was reading and practiced it beforehand or something.
>>1815811
>>1815813
Personally I would've preferred if we decided the direction we handled the implants thereafter. This would be nice.

>>1815821
Technically it was multiple posts.

>>1815802
>>1815773
Guess the writers kept it as a secret.
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>>1815830
>I can't delete posts that old, but I'll outright state it's Non-Cannon. This is a QM statement.
Thank you QM!
Now let's move on and pretend this never happened.
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>>1815838
But Anon it never happened
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>>1815830
You said the Limbic suggestion can create soft emotive suggestions among other things.

That was way too extreme and makes me feel you lied in the descriptors.
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>>1815843
Honestly the Limbic did it's job, the Courier's dialogue was entirely the problem and that can be blamed on a manual that the Courier would never have followed at that point.
>>1815841
What never happened?
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>>1815830
Why are you being suck a bitch? you got the point across, Roll with it. If they don't like they can leae. The Rest will stay.
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Anyway, what do anons think we need to do to defend this place after we set up the teleporter here?
Personally i think we'll need to design a new robot for forest/jungle/skirmish fighting, anyone have any ideas how it should be?
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>>1815864
Fuck off.
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>>1815838
>>1815841
>>1815851
This happening you guys are talking about sounds important.

>>1815814
>>1815843
Could be the product description and not the quest description.
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>>1815883
To get in you have to climb a cliff face, no? Just station camouflaged guards at the top to shoot anyone climbing up down.
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>>1815886
>Anons vote for thing
>Cry when given the thing that was stated to not be good and made from the literal Mad brains
>we don't like it, wahhh

Fuck off. Anon's got what they wanted.
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>>1815830
Sounds fine, thanks QM, let's move on.
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>>1815894
Oh right this place has cliffs, that gives me a robot idea.
Spiderbots, basically walking turrets meant to cling to complete vertical surfaces and camouflage themselves.
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>>1815901
>Spiderbots
This sounds awfully familiar. Almost as if another quest about to run has it.
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>>1815897
Bitch i don't give a shit that i used the evil chip, the problem was QM fucked up our character and had his say stuff something beyond a retard would say.
We fucking have 10INT and CHA, a parrot would have realized he needed to wing it.
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>>1815907
I see you know about Left Beyond.
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>>1815917
lol
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>>1815917
>a parrot would have realized he needed to wing it.
Technically a parrot would've kept parroting what he was told to.

>>1815923
Indeed. What did you think of it?

>>1815901
Otherwise, this would be an ideal terrain for Spiderbots. It'd be like those hidden Combine turrets from Half Life 2 or spider mines.
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>>1815851
>What never happened?
Me getting that pussy
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>>1815942
Exactly. That has never happened before, and now, we now better than to let it happen at all.
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>>1815941
>Technically a parrot would've kept parroting what he was told to.
And that emphasizes how horrible i think that non-existent dialogue was, cause even Polly the insulting Parrot would think that's too creepy.
>Indeed. What did you think of it?
Well i played the first one, and i liked it.
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>>1815973
>And that emphasizes how horrible i think that non-existent dialogue was, cause even Polly the insulting Parrot would think that's too creepy.
But he'd still want a cracker.

>Well i played the first one, and i liked it.
Nice. Do you plan on following the second one?
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>>1815978
>But he'd still want a cracker.
Not for that, he would never want a cracker for that.
That poor, foul-mouthed parrot is still in therapy after he said that.
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I'm trying to maintain positivite attitude after what happened and keep churning the update.

Statting the Nursery is gonna be lengthy, you guys got a lot.

---

On the way out, you pass by the ruins of a town and a vault, many miles away. The stones of the town have been torn down, the Vault looted with grafitti from both the Legion and the MLA. There's nothing of value here, even the scrap has been taken away.

You return to General Barnaky with the bodies, having explained to him that the entire mission was a setup by the Hounds of Hecate to lure fellow Brotherhood Members into an ambush. Only you survived.

General Barnaky regrets what has happened, but apparently believes you, as he goes to bury the bodies of the fallen Reavers.

Meanwhile, the Reavers bemoan the loss of their best squad. But, a deal is a deal, and offer you a 1 on 1 trade of Implants for offered civilian technology.

You have 4 implants they want.

>A Civilian Pip-Boy Production model.

>A single large shipment of VR education pods. You have to insert your own programming.

>Civilian Augments - Mechanical arms and hands, exospines, machine feet. They further improve the abilities of the average human, as well as improve radiation resistance, though they are extremely visible (and possibly on purpose)

>Echo-Boy - These special detection devices improve the ability to detect large concentrations of metal, which can be used both for salvaging opertions and for defense

>Vault Water Purifier + Chips: Vault sized Water Purification Filters. It isn't enough to filter whole rivers or lakes, but can sustain Vault sized populations. Effectively one of these should work for your population at BigMT

>Sleep Tron 3000 - Improves the quality of sleep by gently inhibiting brain activity, allowing for REM sleep to be achieved faster and longer. A sleep of 8 hours can be reduced down to 4 or even less. Long term studies have proven no permanent deleterious effect, but there is a short period of decreased intellect and confusion upon awakening.
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>>1816008
Nothing new on the menu? We did get attacked by MLA scum for them.
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>>1816008
Do we not have access of their Military gear?
If not
>A Civilian Pip-Boy Production model.
>Echo-Boy - These special detection devices improve the ability to detect large concentrations of metal, which can be used both for salvaging opertions and for defense
Don't know if i want anything else.
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>>1816008
No mil gear?
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>>1816008
>Vault Water Purifier + Chips: Vault sized Water Purification Filters. It isn't enough to filter whole rivers or lakes, but can sustain Vault sized populations. Effectively one of these should work for your population at BigMT
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>>1816018
They were hoping the team would come back alive.

Them being dead really didn't open up a lot of trust, but providing proof of what happened even if you failed did help some.

Might have to do more quests for even juicier items, as this is technically a failed quest.
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>>1816008
Also QM, just let Bygones be Bygones, it's what i do and you already fixed the mistakes.
S9o cheer up and get to writing more of this wonderful quest!
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Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>1816023
hmmm
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>>1816037
Oh.
Oh boy.
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>>1816037
Is that a good Hmm, or bad?
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>>1816008
>A Civilian Pip-Boy Production model.
>Echo-Boy - These special detection devices improve the ability to detect large concentrations of metal, which can be used both for salvaging opertions and for defense
>Sleep Tron 3000 - Improves the quality of sleep by gently inhibiting brain activity, allowing for REM sleep to be achieved faster and longer. A sleep of 8 hours can be reduced down to 4 or even less. Long term studies have proven no permanent deleterious effect, but there is a short period of decreased intellect and confusion upon awakening.
>A single large shipment of VR education pods. You have to insert your own programming.

>>1816030
Do we still have the cure for cancer?
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>>1816044
>Do we still have the cure for cancer?
Yeah.
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>>1816037
Waiting to see this result before voting.

Sorry for the shit storm QM, I understand what you were trying to get across but some of the finer points were lost in the writing.
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>>1816037
>Hover Bikes - A hoverbike with small rocket propulsion capabilities,used by both the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel and in greater numbers by the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel.
>Brotherhood Midwestern Power Armor - Built to be superior to the old Paladin Version, and made specifically for mass production from classified facilities.
>Military Augment Arms Lv1 - Backpack arms able to work independantly of the user, such as holding guns or tools and such
>Advanced Eye Augments - Superior Eye Augments meant to connect directly to the optical of smart guns
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>>1816100
Jeez i don't know what to pick, that hover bike would be great for my missile bike idea.
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>>1816100
>>Brotherhood Midwestern Power Armor - Built to be superior to the old Paladin Version, and made specifically for mass production from classified facilities.
>Echo-Boy - These special detection devices improve the ability to detect large concentrations of metal, which can be used both for salvaging opertions and for defense
>Hover Bikes - A hoverbike with small rocket propulsion capabilities,used by both the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel and in greater numbers by the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel.
>A Civilian Pip-Boy Production model.
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>>1816100
>Hover Bikes - A hoverbike with small rocket propulsion capabilities,used by both the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel and in greater numbers by the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel.
>Brotherhood Midwestern Power Armor - Built to be superior to the old Paladin Version, and made specifically for mass production from classified facilities.

>>1816008

>A Civilian Pip-Boy Production model.
>Vault Water Purifier + Chips: Vault sized Water Purification Filters. It isn't enough to filter whole rivers or lakes, but can sustain Vault sized populations. Effectively one of these should work for your population at BigMT
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>>1816113
Supporting.
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>>1816100
>Hover Bikes - A hoverbike with small rocket propulsion capabilities,used by both the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel and in greater numbers by the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel.
>Brotherhood Midwestern Power Armor - Built to be superior to the old Paladin Version, and made specifically for mass production from classified facilities.
>A Civilian Pip-Boy Production model.
>Vault Water Purifier + Chips: Vault sized Water Purification Filters. It isn't enough to filter whole rivers or lakes, but can sustain Vault sized populations. Effectively one of these should work for your population at BigMT
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>>1816113
Supporting.
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>>1816100
>Hover Bikes - A hoverbike with small rocket propulsion capabilities,used by both the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel and in greater numbers by the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel.

>Brotherhood Midwestern Power Armor - Built to be superior to the old Paladin Version, and made specifically for mass production from classified facilities.

>Echo-Boy - These special detection devices improve the ability to detect large concentrations of metal, which can be used both for salvaging opertions and for defense

>Vault Water Purifier + Chips: Vault sized Water Purification Filters. It isn't enough to filter whole rivers or lakes, but can sustain Vault sized populations. Effectively one of these should work for your population at BigMT
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just need a vote of three.

hmm, better start working on the nursery stats.
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>>1816116
We have the same vote, Ill support him.
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>>1816143
3 here >>1816138
>>1816127
>>1816116
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>>1816138
Supporting
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>>1816168
Add me in with that, now you have 4 votes
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>>1816168
One of those anons want's an Echoboy though.
And this would be the one who got 3 votes first >>1816113
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Hmmm. I really am going to have to treat the Nursery as a separate town aren't it.

I guess I will have to switch to Google Docs. . .

THE NURSERY
>>>>>Food: SUPER HUGE (Stable) [CAP: ???]
>>>>>Water: SUPER HUGE (Stable) [CAP: ???]
>>>>>Medicine: Good (Stable)
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Metal (Plentiful) Fissile (tiny)
>>>>>Fuel: Biofuel (Low)
>>>>>Total Pop: 66 Humans +14 Children
>>>>>Total Armaments (proportionate to the total pop) None
>>>>>>Weapons: Type (Subtype, Amount, Condition)
Spears (Tribal, Plentiful)
Hunting Rifles (Tribal, Large)
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional (Above Average)
>>>>>>Armor/Uniforms:
(Leather)
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>>1816182
What is powering the Nursery and how much of it's power is being consumed?
Is there enough power left over for it to generate metal once we give it a replicator?
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>>1816182
QM can you make a post of the two most popular votes, to have a runoff vote.
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>>1816138
I'll change my support to this to give it 4 votes.
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>>1816182
Qm also I say use pastebin and not Google docs
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>>1816196
Pastebin it is then.

>>1816138
This seems to have 4 votes.
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>>1816203
Put me in that vote and now you have 5
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>>1816127
Nursery
>MILITARY
30 Human Hunters
100 Protectrons
80 Sentry Bots
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I'm surprisingly awake. I hope you anons are too, this might be an all nighter for me.
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>>1816203
Ask Diana for details about the man that stole her GECKO.
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>>1816258
Oh boy again!
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>>1816253
Qm was this a mislink?

>>1816258
Ive fallen for this before. I'm on to your tricks. You promise me a good time and then leave when were all worked up.
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>>1816260
He claimed to be escaping a raider group from Texas known as the "Ciphers" who hate technology (probably unrelated to the Cypher's tribe from the NCR).

While in exile, he showed a surprising amount of love and enthusiasm for nature and plant life, and was decent and amicable. But all the while, his real purpose was to steal a mutated GECK from her GECK factory (which actually doesn't have many GECK's at all due to lack of supply and is both defunct and shut down).

He revealed his true purpose, to wipe the world clean of human life which he saw as corrupted and evil, by creating plant monstrosities.

This was almost a hundred years ago.
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>>1816288
Oh fuck we now know how texas became home to plant monsters.
Should we tell her?
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>>1816299
Why not?
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>>1816299
>>1816309
"Then he must be stopped at all cost.

I can't stand the idea of someone twisting nature so violently and horrifically."
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>>1816313
"You think we'll need a nuke to get rid of them?"
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>>1816313
We agree.
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>>1816313
I think that guy who stole from you is died. Since it's been over 100 years.
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>>1816314
Speaking of nukes...we've really dropped the ball on the Elijah front.

I wonder what he's up to
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>>1816348
>p
Not much we can do really. We have anti-cloud, and are building an army. If we can get the EMP missles we would be golden against the holograms.
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if my quest is now 0/10 and "torture material", I need no further proof than the amount of overcomplicated inflated work this bloody system is become

---THE NURSERY---
>>>>>Morale: Very High! (Stable)
Permanent:
Good Religious Fervor (Diana)
>>>>>Current Pop:
66 Humans. 14 children
>>>>>Garrison:
30 human hunters
>>>>>Prisoner: 5 Reavers (Cryofreeze)
>>>>> Infrastructure:
+Control Tower
+OW Repository (Gene Storage, Cloning, Cryofreeze)
+OW GECK factory (destroyed)
+Robot Production and Maintenance (Medium)
+OW Greenhouse Complex (MASSIVE-HUGE)
+Beautiful Tribal Village (Small)
+Underground Train Station (Destroyed)
>>>>>Defenses: Camoflagued Sentry Turrets. Cameras. Electric Feces.
>>>>>Vehicles: 3 Helicopters (Broken)
>>>>>>Power: Thermal (HUGE) Hydroelectric (HUGE)
>>>>>>Other:
+Fenced Off Dangerous Animal Nature Reserve
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>>1816360
I like it.
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>>1816360
Don't worry QM, it's water under the bridge.
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https://pastebin.com/ic3ac1xL

Nursery Pastebin
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Now to update the rest of the turn in a new thread.
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>>1816382
>Shaz13
Should have gone with pussyslayer420

Also new thread when we have to do the next turn
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>>1816387
Does that word mean anything? I literally just googled something random and chose it.
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Time to Archive. who's the usual guy?
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>>1816390
Yo, gimme a description.
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>>1816388
Not really. Just sounds like a way to call a soda.
Like soda pop, Shaz, coke, etc

I think I remember seeing this word and something with soda
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>>1816382
>Electric feces.
Whoa.
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>>1816382
Oh fuck she has 2 HUGE power sources!
I should have never vote no.
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>>1816396
Work is done in the Nursery, It's secret is kept and its loyalty taken.
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>>1816404
NEW THREAD
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>>1815799
I think it is fine. Some anons just are crybabies and cannot carry the burden of responsibility resulting from their choices.

What we did was evil. Accept it and move on.
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>>1816632
Not really evil. So we didn't kill anyone.




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