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>>1954680

You are the Courier. A man of many things and many words, though right now in the immediate you are doing your best to find the words to fix a lapse in judgement in Zion, and prevent the breakdown of social order after a religious mishap, employing Joshua to assist you in this endeavour.

Currently, you walk with him and a host of Dead Horses toward Zion. You wonder if as a show of force, or as something else entirely.
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>>1958571
It takes several days, but eventually the Dead Horse arrives at the Sorrows. Thankfully, it still looks peaceful, but at the sight of you clanking around in your armor the Sorrows amass to.

"Where is the Holy Mother?" they ask "Where did you take her?" "Do you know where she is."

Joshua calls out to them in the tribal tongue (you're able to understand it, mostly through empathy, though you don't know the very fine details often and some words escape you)

Behind you the Eyebots deploy, as the crowd hushes and Joshua speaks in english.

"Sorrows. Dead Horses.

But a few days ago, some of you have seen traveling with the Courier, a goddess. Some of you asked her if she was the Holy Bride, wife of the Father in the Caves, and she told you yes.

But listen to me. A goddess she may be, but not the Holy Bride, nor the Heavenly Mother Daniel has preached of."

A great murmur in the crowd and a raising of voices, but Joshua shouted for silence, and all the crowd became still. Looks like banking on Joshua's influence was a good call here.

"You ask how I know this. How I would know this. I will tell you.

I have met her before. When I was still the Malpais Legate.

And I will prove to you, her true identity."

He signals you to summon her. This time, it's you going along with Joshua's plans.

>con't
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>>1958616
The eyebots silently project Diana again, and all look upon her with awe and wonder, Sorrow and Dead Horse alike. She is displayed in all her grace and grandeur, greenery and a halo of light surrounds her as she stares down while people begin to kneel or pray or prostrate themselves.

Joshua steps up on a rock to speak with her, staring her face to face.

"Hearken to me," he says "what is your name."

"Diana, Goddess of Nature, Mother of Life, from whom all things are sourced and to whom all things will return."

The crowd murmurs again, but stays quiet as Joshua is speaking.

"And are you not also Diana, Goddess of the Twin Mothers tribe, who dwelled in the city carved in the stone?"

Diana's mood shifts, as she hears him recognize her lost tribe.

". ..I am."

Joshua once more turns to the people.

"This is Diana, of the Twin Mothers tribe. She is NOT the Bride of the Father, or the Heavenly Mother that Daniel speaks of. She herself, was confused when you asked if you were her lost children.

For she has lost her children, her tribe. They were taken from her.

I know this, for I am the one who did it."

The crowd whispers again, wondering what he means.

"I was the Malpais Legate, who ordered the destruction of the Twin Mothers tribe. I ordered the males to be crucified, the women to be raped and sold as wives, and the children enslaved. I ordered the burning of the city carved in the mountain, and the burying of the Vault which she dwelled in."

At this there is a visible shock echoing through the crowd, and even among Diana.

"Reddite ergo quae sunt Caesaris Caesari et quae sunt Dei Deo.

These were the words I spoke to you then. Do you remember me now?"

Diana suddenly has a flash of remembrance on her face, which turns into an angry, furious glare and tears.

>con't
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>>1958684
Did the sorrows and dead horses know Joshua was the ex-legate, or ex-legion, or is this a complete surprise to them?
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>>1958684
"Yes" Diana says, in anger. "I remember you. You were the leader of the soldiers who butchered my tribe. You cover your body in bandages to try and hide but I could never forget that voice and those words."

Joshua nods. "I cover my body in bandages to cover the burns I sustained from the Legion, and a reminder of my past sins. Every day I bear the pain of them, the fires that have not yet burned out of my flesh, that I might not forget. And every day I seek atonement from the Lord and from those I have wronged.

That is why I was thankful that you were still alive.

Diana of the Twin Mothers, I offer you my apologies for all that I did to you and your people, and for your forgiveness. And that if you cannot forgive me, then think of those who are here. Confusion has been sown, and only you may clarify it.

If you truly are a peacemaker, then I humbly ask you, help maintain the peace here and explain to them who you are."

Diana looks at Joshua, an array of emotions on her face, including hesitancy. You think this could all go very good or very bad right now.

>con't

>>1958731
They know. He tells them about Legion tactics all the time and how to defeat them.
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>>1958803
Well played Joshua.

Still going to have a stern seeing-to with the AI.
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>>1958803
Diana says something so soft, but says it again louder.

"I forgive you" tears in her eyes.

Even after all that happened to her, the destruction of her tribe and all that was done, she finds it in herself to forgive.

Now Joshua is the one with a few tears in his eyes. "Thank you, Diana."

After that, Diana raises her arms high so that all can see her.

"Tribals of Zion. I am not the Holy Bride of the Father in the Caves. I am not the Heavenly Mother preached by Daniel. I am Diana, a goddess of nature.

My lands, and what Children of mine remain, are far away. I thought to make you my own children, that you would accept me as your mother to teach you how to live in peace and what forgiveness means. But I can see, it is I who have been taught a lesson in forgiveness by this man. Heed him well."

That sounds about the right time to make Diana vanish, and you turn off the Projectors.

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There was some commotion after that, but things started to clear up. The Sorrows faith(s) have been shaken up a little, Daniel intends to rebuild where he left off. He's somewhat impressed that you chose to choose Joshua, and glad that you didn't go through with the ruse.

>Daniel
"It will take time to rebuild, but we Mormon's consider missionary work a necessary element of our faith.

I think, Joshua made a very good example of forgiveness. Something we can teach, and hopefully get the right message across."

>con't
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Hey OP question are you still giving bonuses for fan art / propaganda posters?
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>>1958918
Kind of yes. Depends on the type of art and I try to make something relevant.

>>1958914
Now that things have settled down, you are certain that Joshua will help keep the peace and that Daniel and the Mormons are satisfied.

You're actually amazed it went down like that, it could have completely blown up. Joshua doesn't seem like much of a gambling man.

>You
"So Joshua, how did you know she would forgive you?"

>Joshua
"I didn't. Forgiveness is not something you can force or demand. It is given, just as the Lord forgives all our sins from his eternal love for mankind if only we ask."

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Looks like you're free to relax a bit.
>What do?
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>>1958930
Go back home, continue with science.
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>>1958930
First off, thank Joshua and ask if he would mind coming with us to our town to discuss the future and stuff.

Secondly, get back on our ship and get back to business like >>1958934 says.
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>>1958930
Continue our date with Dianna in a more secluded area that wont cause religious issues.
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>>1958969
Honestly, considering weve wasted a thread and a half on this we should just go home and get on with it. This is obviously a point of different opinions and not that much good (I am very happy we managed to actually chip her in the first place despite the whiteknights). Lets just move on with the turn.
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>>1958930
QM, out of curiosity, how bad would it have been for us if we hadnt taken control of the Nursery when we did and the Reavers had sent the message?
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>>1958950
Seconding this.
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>>1958993
In my opinion, Chipping her to begin with was the correct decision to make. To much hinged on it, and it was the best outcome in a list of bad choices.

I am hesitant to alter the chip / remove it for either good or bad until we have a better understanding of her character and how she will react to our goals in the future.
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>>1958950
Yeah sure. Had lots of exitement. Diana Probably wants some time to think on things.
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>>1958996
Well, the BoS would likely have the Nursery or at least Diana's ear.
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>>1958993
That is more my fault due to my slowness of posting.

>>1958950
>>1959037
>>1959059
Joshua again, politely declines. His role is here in Zion, his time influencing the outside world is over.
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>>1959076
I'd ask if we can try a speech check, but I don't want to negatively impact the relationship if we fail...
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>>1959054
Agreed.

>>1959076
>His role is here in Zion, his time influencing the outside world is over.
And he is entirely aware of the situation the world is in? He doesn't want to come and see if we have anything useful to offer? Or to discuss matters regarding Zion / Utah?
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Damn, I just realized I linked the wrong thread.

>>1933120
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>>1959243
Are you playing Evola's quest?
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>BIG MT
https://pastebin.com/jAXYFRB1

>THE NURSERY
https://pastebin.com/ic3ac1xL

>MONTANNA
https://pastebin.com/hNDfikF9

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It wasn't the date you were hoping for with Diana and it could have gone a lot better. But at least she got to see more of the outside world, has some samples, and has gotten something off her chest.

>Diana
"Thank you for helping me to find some closure Courier."

You see her grasp your hand for the rest of the trip. Maybe it wasn't a complete waste after all.

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5 more squads of Assaultrons (5R) are Passively Produced.

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NEW TURN

4 Action Cap.

Available Actions: Civilian, Construction, Military, Research, ZAX, Hero
+Robotic Research does not count toward cap.
+Biological Research does not count toward cap
>>>>>Turn: 120
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OP, can you make end of the date something quick? Like we spend another day or two in quest but in real life it's just a paragraph?
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>>1959273
>HERO
- Final date
- Assist with the CIV action
-Look around the military base for interesting intel or fun goodies
-scout elijah

>CONSTRUCT 1 + 2
Large cold fusion plant under BigMT

>CIV
Clone the think tank bodies and put them in it- take a DNA sample from some of the connective tissue in their brain so its them

>ZAX RESEARCH
Take a look at all the new weapons we captured with the military base- the emp rockets, pop-up missles, plasma defeders, etc.

>ROBO-RESEARCH
Box-assembly replicator equiped behemoths- like those old WW2 jeeps- make it fit through as small a portal as possible

>BIO RESEARCH
cures for post-war diseases

>PASSIVE PRODUCTION
more securitrons

From last thread
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>>1959273

>HERO
- Final date
- Assist with the CIV action
-Look around the military base for interesting intel or fun goodies
-scout elijah

>CONSTRUCT 1 + 2
Large cold fusion plant under BigMT

>CIV
Clone the think tank bodies and put them in it- take a DNA sample from some of the connective tissue in their brain so its them

>ZAX RESEARCH
Take a look at all the new weapons we captured with the military base- the emp rockets, pop-up missles, plasma defeders, etc.

>ROBO-RESEARCH
Box-assembly behemoth, make it fit through the Montana teleporter.

>BIO RESEARCH
cures for post-war diseases

>PASSIVE PRODUCTION
Bix-assembly behemoth, teleport it to Montana.
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>>1959276
If you wish. I can timeskip it. My schedule is fucked up and I have midterms right now, so if anon's want quicker turns I will comply.
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>>1959276
End of the date right there >>1959273.

>>1959273
Okay, first off OP, as a question what sounds better to you lyrically: should I follow "Step by step, the longest march..." with the traditional "can be won, can be won" or with the more inspirational "can be won, will be won"?

>>1959297
>Bix-assembly behemoth, teleport it to Montana.
We can't do that currently.
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>>1959312
>We can't do that currently.
But we can research it, then produce it in the same turn with another action. I recall we did something like this before.
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>>1959315
That implies they end up fitting into the teleporter, which they may not.
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>>1959312
hmmm. I wasn'tmuch of a song writer myself and I don't know the reference. I'd like "we will win" over "can be won"
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>>1959297
>Box-assembly behemoth, make it fit through the Montana teleporter.
This does not require an action, and would be a simple case of dissasembly and reassembly on the otherside
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>>1959331
Of course, you need to actually build the Montanna and This Side's large scale teleporter too.
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>>1959315
I retract my statement given what OP just said.

>>1959327
It's a work song / poem from a 19th century Mining Union rulebook but I've always liked it.

>>1959331
Wait, really? Well shit, let's get to it. I want to get Montana at least partly underway within the year so we can focus on other things.
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>>1959324
QM said we can research box-assembly versions for our bots and...
>>1959331
Oh, that's gre...
>>1959334
Oh, that's not great, i want to make the behemoth fit through what we have by making a box assembly version, is that not possible?
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>>1959334
OP that is specifically what we are saying, we want to make a variant that can fit through the Human sized teleporter by sending through individual components like upper / lower legs and shit.
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>>1959338
Unfortunately no, certain parts, such as the Fissile Reactor or the Alien Energy Cell variant would be far too big for it even if other components could fit through (and there are a number of other individisble parts)
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>>1959369
Two questions:

1) Could we carry a fully assembled Mobile replicator (can we come up with an actual name for it please?) to Montana using our Scoutship?

2) Can we carry the fissile reactor / energy cell for a disassembled one to Montana using the scoutship?
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>>1959369
>>1959377
Could the mobile replicator make a fissile reactor/energy cell by itself?
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>>1959377
Phone post.

1. In at least three trips. But only the medium sized replicator.

2. Yes but it glows in the dark and is noticeable on radar.
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>>1959386
>1. In at least three trips. But only the medium sized replicator.
What limitations does this medium sized replicator suffer? Could it, with sufficient time and resources / energy, produce the parts of a larger mobile replicator? How about a non-mobile one?

>2. Yes but it glows in the dark and is noticeable on radar.
Would it fit in the cargo hold?
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>>1959394
Thanks to your efforts in wireless transmission of power the main drawback is either investing enough power to convert pure energy into mass or figuring out a more effective way to ferry or harvest steel resource. The main drawback Is time especially if done only by humans and small robots without your large infrastructure from home

Nope it would have to be strapped under the hull and flown at low speed.
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>>1959410
Is it feasible to combine the mobile replicator and omni-constructor designs into one C&C MCV like unit?

Would having art help?
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>>1959410
I see. A few more questions:

What can a medium replicator produce? Would it be able to construct bases and such?
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Sounds like the behemoth is already built in parts, so

>HERO
- Final date
- Assist with the CIV action
-Look around the military base for interesting intel or fun goodies
-scout elijah

>CONSTRUCT 1 + 2
Large cold fusion plant under BigMT

>CIV
Clone the think tank bodies and put them in it- take a DNA sample from some of the connective tissue in their brain so its them

>ZAX RESEARCH
Take a look at all the new weapons we captured with the military base- the emp rockets, pop-up missles, plasma defeders, etc.

>ROBO-RESEARCH
Better robo-processor cores

>BIO RESEARCH
cures for post-war diseases

>PASSIVE PRODUCTION
securitrons
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>>1959419
Could always just make a new and dedicated robot using both designs. As it stands the behemoth variant is solely a robot squad producer but not much else.

>>1959424
Faster than if you had none. A medium sized replicator can assemble securitrons.
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>>1959428
Alright, supporting this seeing as we can't teleport a Mobile War Factory easily.
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>>1959428
>Better robo-processor cores
We did this previously and OP implied that we'd maximised the amount of computing power we could get into a robot without expending additional resources. E,g the maximum refinement for our tech level.

I would thus advise making use of this for another purpose like a purpose built agricultural robot to replace our Mr farmers or, redesigning all of our robots but made of alien metal and refined where possible since we are beginning to transition to replicator industry and replicating alien metal should be cheaper than steel given it's lower mass but OP'll probably balance it.

>>1959450
>Faster than if you had none. A medium sized replicator can assemble securitrons.
Give me a timescale for producing a small / tiny cold fusion reactor and what effect attaching itself to and receiving more power that would have on it's ability to replicate.
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>>1959428
Why not, Ill support this.
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>>1959472
>like a purpose built agricultural robot to replace our Mr farmers
Already have a design, Omni-farmers or Omni-agriculture, something like that.
>redesigning all of our robots but made of alien metal and refined where possible since we are beginning to transition to replicator industry and replicating alien metal should be cheaper than steel given it's lower mass but OP'll probably balance it.
Actually isn't alien metal more expensive to replicate? Even if not i'd at least wait until we got the Universal-disintegrator built before switching to it.
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>>1959490
>Already have a design, Omni-farmers or Omni-agriculture, something like that.
That was a reward from a boon, not something we can reproduce easily or possibly even at all.

>Actually isn't alien metal more expensive to replicate? Even if not i'd at least wait until we got the Universal-disintegrator built before switching to it.
I know but it doesn't cost anything to have the designs at the ready, plus the Behemoth replicator model can produce them so it'd be a good test bed.
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>>1959472
Did he? what additional resources would we need? We have atom scale printing. We solved the Silicon Lottery.
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>>1959499
>That was a reward from a boon, not something we can reproduce easily or possibly even at all.
I thought we could, QM can we make more Omni-farmers?
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>>1959510
Eh, I know but to be fair he has to balance our shit out somehow.

Generally the implication is that if we advance our tech in any area, it becomes easier to advance in associated areas since your tools, production methods and all that shit are more refined. Better glass means better telescopes means better stellar navigation for a simple example.

So, general rule just do some research in other areas and the ability to advance will regenerate. That or invest in developing bigger / better facilities to research it or bigger teams of scientists and shit.
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>>1959511
Yes.
>>1959472
A tiny one at your level you could probably produce one a month and it would power a large robot forever. Connected to a replicator you could produce an abundance of small parts or a squad of robots in about a month

Just add water.
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>>1959544
>Yes.
Well that answers that, no need to research a design.
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>>1959544
I just want to make sure you understand my question:


If we were to send a medium sized mobile replicator to Montana and have it produce / construct a tiny cold fusion plant and then make use of the power it provided what effect would that have on it's ability to replicate? How long would it take to produce this initial reactor?
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>>1959553
Yeah, that does change things.
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>>1959544
How fast could a Omni-contructor build a small/tiny cold fusion reactor?
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>>1959580
Your rate and ability to build Tiny/Small Cold Fusion reactors in a month takes into account all of BigMT's efforts put into one action.

>>1959562
That would take longer, at least two turns or more depending on how you do it, but feasible given time.
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>>1959428
>>1959468
>>1959473
LOCKED

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>HERO
- Final date
As you go to approach Vanessa, you suddenly find yourself ganged up by (almost) all your wives. With the exception of Dandan and Unity, they all want to know something.

"Hang on Courier." says Veronica "You've been putting a new baby in all of us, starting with Wendy, for the past month on schedule. By the time you reached Sonia we all knew each of us were going to get it.

Except last month. And now you're going after Vanessa.

Are you seeing someone else we don't know about? We saw you take the UFO and the ZAX isn't telling us where you've been!"

oh crap

>What say?
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>>1960212
Welll...

Maybe mumble something about a super secret dangerous mission to...Texas?
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>>1959428
>CONSTRUCT 1 + 2
Large cold fusion plant under BigMT

Jacob Miles and the the Construction Tact organizing two entire Engineering Divisions and almost all the effort of BigMT's multiple factories and facilities, begin the long and arduous task of laying the deepest foundations of the twin super fortified underground structures.

"What we're doing here would have taken the same effort Vault Tec would do for a whole entire Vault and then some."

Everyone's spirits are raised to learn that we are more than rivaling even the mighty Old World companies in such an arduous and unforgiving task, as the giant crane starts lowering crew and machines and pipes to pour the masses and masses of hexcrete.

It was decided to not use Steel Reinforcing this time, thanks to Hexcrete's fantastical properties it was feasible. The idea is that unreinforced concrete does not suffer internal corossion from the steel reinforcing, and thus the ancient concrete structures of antiquity have lasted thousands of years. Most Vault-Tec Vaults are also similarly, plain concrete and designed to last. Even so, steel and metal are still going to be necessary for the vast amount of pipes and wiring. No expense was spared, and many of the components are to be made of Alien Metal which while astonishingly expensive, will also last through the ages.

We have been amassing hexcrete for nearly a year since we turned on the mines, but at the rate we are using it we're going to be depleted in the forseeable future. But not the near future at least.

We are rapidly expending resources.
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>>1960283
Might want to get the Universal disintegrator first, it'll help stave off resource depletion and we got a pile of dirt to give it.
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>>1960212
"It's a long and complicated story but essentially I was dealing with a pre-war ZAX with delusions of being a god and it all boils down to me really not considering that I shouldn't bring the glowing fake-god to a bunch of impressionable tribals while gathering samples of plants.

Trust me, one day I'll introduce you all to it...her...whatever you should call a ZAX under the control of a Woman's brain."

>>1960294
Agreed. Hell we can deactivate the robotics factory for it since the replicators could produce robots if we really needed them.
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>>1960311
Any anon's object/support?
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>>1960334
Wait for at least two others would you? I don't want to accidentally fuck this up.
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>>1960311
Yeah, that sounds good.

Perfect amount of truth and vagueness.
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>>1960311
fuck it why not
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>>1960311
"Why don't you introduce 'her' to us right now?

You don't really refer to computers as "she" at all. Are you sure its just a computer and not like, a real woman controlling it or something?

*sigh* Why do I get the feeling I know exactly how you dealt with 'her'."
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>>1960410
>"Why don't you introduce 'her' to us right now?
"Because she's a being which for the last 200 years hadn't had a single moment of interaction where the other side didn't think she was a god. Trust me, it gets a little annoying how she acts.

Not to mention the fact that the place is on the other side of the MLA-Legion lands unless you want to go by teleport in which case it'll take a fair bit of time for all of you to get there thanks to the need to recharge on either end. There's also the fact that I am uncertain most of you would get along with her."

>You don't really refer to computers as "she" at all.
"Hey, don't let SPI here you say that or she'll be unhappy."

>Are you sure its just a computer and not like, a real woman controlling it or something?
"Seeing as the tribe she is protecting talks about her being around for their grandfather's birth and such, probably not. Also the fact that I've seen her brain in the ZAX."

>*sigh* Why do I get the feeling I know exactly how you dealt with 'her'."
"I can do many things, I can't dick a computer."


Good?
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>>1960444
"I can do many things, I can't dick a computer."
>... yet
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>>1960444
"SPI was a created computer program. Whatever computer this is, it is a created program right? Not like a real person put into a machine or something like the Think Tank are right?"

>You
[Wasn't ARES also a created program and not a former human though? If you were okay with her. . .]

They fume at this but are unable to reply.

>>1960449
"ARES would beg to differ if she were around.

You don't have to take us to it, just wanted to see exactly what it is that made you miss one of us. We're only worried your seeing another person we don't know about. If its just a computer program that you had to deal with that'd be okay, I guess."

"At least back in the Mojave you introduced us to the next girl you wanted to add to the posse!"

"Its not that we mind sharing Courier, or none of us would be here right now. But just like, be honest with us okay."

Since when did the women get so clingy.

Oh right, the pregnancy thing.
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>>1960468
>Since when did the women get so clingy.

>Oh right, the pregnancy thing.

thinking women are only like this because pregnancy...

the turks used to have sayings about their multiple wives.

Emperors with harems often found them troublesome.

Six my friend, polygamy is nice in theory, but the more wives you have the worse their jealousy becomes.
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>>1959428
>ROBO-RESEARCH
>Better robo-processor cores

Efforts to break through the dimished returns of trying to get more powerful cores that aren't just exponentially larger are frustrating, and slightly futile.

Not man, or machine, available are able to adequately approach the issue. The majority consensus is almost that its impossible, that technology has peaked. To expect a decent and actually useful computer to not be the size of a room and what? Fit on a table, like a mere monitor whose only use is to serve as a glorified typewriter? Preposterous!

The only one to come up with a solution is actually AHS-9 and RND. Both of them deduce, correctly, that an example of a sort of 'microcomputer' device does exist. And its in your pocket.

The Platinum Chip.

The one which stored enough information to fit entire rooms worth of holotapes. They ask to study it and you hand it over.

Yet once again, you are met with a brick wall.

>Zax(RND)
"The technology presented in this tiny chip is so complex it makes my processing core ache. This is actually more potent than the human brain, which is currently the go to for microscopic processor ability.

I don't even think we have close to the necessary scanners to fully comprehend this thing, otherwise we could just replicate it."

>Zax(CEO)
"There is some very VERY advanced anti-corporate espionage attempts to prevent reverse engineering of this chip. I suspect this House fellow was responsible for that. It is beyond my capabilities to breach, and mine are the best."

>Zax(SPI)
"Second best, dearie."

>You
[Is it impossible?]

>Zax(RND)
"No. . .maybe. . .I /think/ we can do it but. . .it's going to take time. A lot of time."

>You
[How much]

>Zax(RND)
"Gross estimate? Anywhere between 1 year and 10. This . . .'computer chip' technology is leagues ahead of anything, Old World or New. Nobody even conceived the idea that computers could be so small."
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>>1960499
>You
[Is there anyway to speed this up at all]

>RND
"Well. . .if House invented it, why don't you go wake him up and ask him instead"
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>>1960499
"what if we had House?"
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>>1960510
>if House invented it, why don't you go wake him up and ask him instead"
DO NOT DO THIS UNTIL WE GET VEGAS BACK!
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>>1960510
Well now we have to go liberate New Vegas, because he is a desicated husk and will die in transit.
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>>1960468
>"SPI was a created computer program. Whatever computer this is, it is a created program right? Not like a real person put into a machine or something like the Think Tank are right?"
"She's a real person or at least was at some point in the past but I fail to see what difference that makes."

>"At least back in the Mojave you introduced us to the next girl you wanted to add to the posse!"
"If or when, I decide she is suitable for and more importantly capable of such activities and closeness, I'll make sure to mention it but currently she is just a very fancy light-show with a brain."

>"Its not that we mind sharing Courier, or none of us would be here right now. But just like, be honest with us okay."
"Fair enough. Well, look at it this way, you found out the truth of the matter and I've not done anything untoward so this resolved nicely."


>>1960495
In this case though the jealousy was kinda well founded given we didn't inform them what we were doing when in past we apparently did.

>>1960499
See. A waste of time with our resources. If we refine our sensor systems, develop better replicators and possibly get a few more ZAX's to throw their heads together we'd be able to get this shit done.

>>1960510
Or we do that...actually yeah we really should get round to waking him up.

>>1960525
Yeah that's the problem but if we can prove to him that we'll be able to get it back then he odd to be willing to listen to us. Worst comes to worst we surgically remove his brain / install the memory reading implants and look for the appropriate memories.
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>>1960533
>Yeah that's the problem but if we can prove to him that we'll be able to get it back then he odd to be willing to listen to us.
No, he's already mad at us for causing the big fuckup at the battle, but he'll be livid to learn that we lost New Vegas to the Legion.
At least wait, wait until we kicked the Legion out before waking him up.
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>>1960540
We don't even need Chip computer tech right now, focus on building ourselves up and making our robot army.
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>>1960533
"At least with a computer program its okay because they are just programmed to like you like ARES, and she didn't even actually like you she was just a sex bot. With a real person its different!"

"Someone doesn't stop being a real person. Your brain is hooked up to a computer but you're still real. Right?"

"See, he IS seeing someone."

Hmm, this isn't going so well.

>>1960540
That and 90% of its former structure has been replaced.

Also the loss of function to Hoover Dam.
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>>1960552
It's a real person, except she's connected to a computer. I apologize for not telling you, and it was sort of a date, but mostly about getting her to experience more of the world.
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>>1960566
Not to mention it being an excellent opportunity to get some nice gene samples to expand her collection and check up on Utah at the same time.
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>>1960552
If you want to meet her you can, but im telling you now its gonna be a hassle.
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>>1960552
"I guess you could say I'm seeing someone, but unlike all of you, I don't sleep with it.. because it is an ancient insane brain hooked up to a Zax that thinks it's a god, how are we going to have sex? Shove its power cable up my ass? Maybe I'm trying to do something big here, maybe you all haven't known for a reason? But you know what? Fuck it you can all come and see, just try not to fuck this all up, it's huge. Remember the real live turkey? Yeah, that huge. I'll take you guys but I'm disappointed in the lack of trust"
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>>1960610
Getting a bit hostile there. They just want to be kept up to date on the women we're having relations with.
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>>1960614
Should we get a bulletin board?
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still crunching the actual turn.

>>1960566
"So you were lying to us then. Fine. Again, if you want to add another girl to your little presidential "harem" at least tell us. It hurts if you treat us like. . .like breeding sows!"

"

>>1960582
"I don't know if we can even trust you. You're having a date with someone behind our backs, and didn't even tell us."

---

It took a while but you managed to placate them with assurances that they will meet the computer. It was hard to convince them she wasn't yet able to be seen, /despite/ the fact that you are dating her. Which you pass off as a tactic to get closer and ultimately get in better control of her.

Which you manage to sell. At least the ones who were most angry.

Lucky for you, you remember that whenever Vanessa get's angry she also takes to drink. And once she takes to drink, she's into make-up sex. Funnily enough the others told her to stand her ground, but that went out the door.

Looks like you've completed your little goal of getting that second batch.
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>>1960614
Seems we are surrounded by a pack of angry well trained women, that was me trying to roll to intimidate.
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>>1960635
Yes, because marital problems are best solved through intimidation and getting belligerent.

We need a therapist. Like one just for us.
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>>1960620
>"It hurts if you treat us like. . .like breeding sows!"
I'll be honest I fail to see where this is coming from. I mean, we've dedicated an entire month to each of them where we essentially go out of our way to fulfil whatever request they can imagine. When there is so much shit to do that is far, far more pressing in just raw material terms. Yet they feel like we mistreat them?

Screw it. We'll just remember to get a bulletin board of important shit for them to know we can update as needed.
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>>1960643
It's coming from the fact we went on a date with a person and didn't tell them. It speaks of our trust in them, or lack thereof, which means they can't really trust us.

That's why "healthy" open relationships involve telling your partner who your going to be with before hand.
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>>1960643
You suspect it was a heat of the moment thing. As your brain would say "nothing but hormones and too much adrenaline"

You imagine they probably didn't take too well to also admitting you were lying to them and also dating someone, even if it was, as you see it at least, just a computer.

They seemed a lot less like themselves and more an angry pack, probably gossiped together as well.

Hopefully it all calms down later. You did your best to try and spend time with them after all.

Gods this was easier when they were all just traveling companions and not psudo-wives.
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>>1960648
I know and I respect that but it's just the way they are phrasing it and everything. Calling us a liar when, at least in the case of what I said, I made it absolutely clear that she was once, and arguably still is, a "human" mind.
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>>1960656
Though that might have been your intent, to start with you made it seem a lot more like you treated it as a "pre-war ZAX" rather than as a person, specifically a female you went on a 'date' with

The impression was heavily that you saw it more as an 'it' until you slowly started calling it 'her' and mentioned a woman's brain at the helm. 'Dealing' is also a lot different from 'dating' as that practically gives away sentience and attraction.
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>>1959428
>>BIO RESEARCH
>cures for post-war diseases
You practically have all of them to be honest, with your incredible and amazing medical knowledge and technology coupled with Diana's research.

The ones you don't have are mostly the far flung and unconfirmed diseases. . .or perhaps, diseases you have not encountered yet.

Or almost impossible to cure diseases like Ghoulism. Efforts were attempted to try and graft new skin on a Ghoul, but the skin just rotted and became like the rest of the Ghoul.

>Rolling for reasons
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>>1960687
I just realized, we never rolled for the action
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>>1960691
Now would be a good time. Most of the other actions are now less roll based due to stocked up assets and abilities.
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Rolled 38 (1d100)

>>1960692
here we go, set sell for fail.
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>>1960671
Yeah I can see how that'd do it...

>>1960687
Well that is good to know.
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Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>1960692
Third roll to move things along
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Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>1960692
time for a nat 1
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Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>1960784
>time for a nat 1
Ill give it my best.
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Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>1960692
Watch This Nat 100 roll
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Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>1960844
Pft, watch this Nat 100 roll
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>1960692
losers
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>>1960687
The idea is proposed, rather than cure every individual disease (and have no response to new diseases of which there currently is no cure) why not invent some kind of "universal cure"

Several approaches are being made toward this:

RND considers it might be possible to theoretically design a chemical based "universal cure". One that, if not cure ghoulism, also prevent it. Diana would like to support such a hypothesis, but the implication of the research is that it would take time and "a lot of animals" which she isn't too fond of but will provide. This could take at least five years..

However, it would be sped up if we acquired a number of normal human test subjects, subjected them to diseases and cures, and figured out. Then it might only at most 3 years. Maybe.

RND also thinks there may be a Vault out there working on a cure-all too with research already available.

AHS-9 and the forecaster propose a different solution. According to him there are several "legendary artifacts" out there:
-The Elixir of Life may be held by the BoS according to rumors he's ordained from the free'd MLA slaves
-There is a group out there searching for the "vessel of life giving water". They both don't know where they are, but can suggest a potential path to find them.

AHS-9 has a particular interest in the cure. Every day he faces the risk of Ghoulism through regular exposure to Zeta Radiation, though he takes his Rad-X and Radaway.

Ghoulism has long been thought of as an incurable, preventable disease. Microbes can be killed and bodily organs rejuvinzed, but degregation to the DNA structure of the individual is particularly difficult. Diana even ponders if either the Cure or the Elixir of Life would work.

Unity proposes a third option: more FEV reseaerch. The FEV is the ultimate of diseases, rendering every other disease moot to both super mutants and herself. Her strain causes mass deformation, but if it could be cured. . .

These are the options currently proposed for some of the diseases you are currently not able to cure.
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>>1960986
>but degregation to the DNA structure of the individual is particularly difficult.
If the DNA structure is damaged, why not repair it? Is that not a potential path?
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>>1960988
In the case of Ghouls, it's like an intense version of cancer. You might cure some of the DNA cells in one place, but the rest of the body will corrupt it.

And its not currently feasible to rewrite every single piece of DNA inside a person at the same time.

FEV does have the strength to override the bodies own DNA and rewrite it, as a vessel of change.
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>>1960986
I got a fever. And the only prescription is more FEV research.

This is literally the end-all be-all solution. Might as well get on with it.

>>1960988
With DNA degredation you are talking about fixing brakes and missing info you have no way of knowing. The only solution would be to try and piece together the full sequence of every patient individually and go from there. And even if we were to do that you end up with the FEV anyway. Except you have to make specific alterations for every individual patient (it gets really complex really fast).
This is also the problem with the FEV itself (remember all the mutants look the same?) so if we do broadband alterations it has to be somehting small and not that ifferent from the normal host (morphologically speaking) or you end up with everybody looking the same or altering the virus for every single individual. Not to mention the virus not being big enough to do it all at once so you have to go through multiple treatments (you can see where this is going).

So, to summarize, go with FEV and figure out the PanImmunityVirus aspect and enjoy disease-free life until your immune system has no more things to react to and you develope autoimmune diseases and allergies. #FUN
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>>1960986
I vote for more FEV research
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>>1960986
The NCRs Doctor hologram might have a unique insight on the matter.

FEV was originally meant to be a retro-virus feedback loop to accelerate evolution. And it’s a good idea, in theory. Unfortunately the actual effects of the virus are somewhat negative.

But if it could be limited, and controlled to produce specific effects based on conformational changes to small effector molecules it could be enourmously useful.

Unfortunately in Fallout this type of research requires DNA undamaged by radiation or airborne FEV exposure. Which means vault dwellers.

We have a potential work around in that Diana has cloning tanks capable of producing pure strains of any animal or plant.

An option not yet discussed is the Children of the Atom, some of whom display complete immunity to radiation. I personally suspect this to be a latent psionic effect. Still it’s worth looking into.

Another idea for ghoulism is taking our best guess of the subjects dna after cutting away the ghoulifying sections and replacing them with pure stock dna. You then clone that individual and perform a brain transplant. It’s clunky, but it might work.

In summary I support FEV research, but with the caveat that it’s a bleak rabbit hole to fall into. It has after all lead to the ruin of many a faction, and is none to popular.
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>>1961019
>But if it could be limited, and controlled to produce specific effects based on conformational changes to small effector molecules
Dude, did you diagonally read a wiki and put words down that seemed cool to you? :)

This is so random it hurts. The conformational changes to a molecule can have an effect but that is not the only way. Changing the length or data of an mRNA (DNA) can have just as much if not more of an effect (the active binding site no longer functioning despite the same conformation). Likewise, the introduction of new peptides is just as much an option.

Nice try for bonus points though.
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>>1959428
>>CIV
>Clone the think tank bodies and put them in it- take a DNA sample from some of the connective tissue in their brain so its them

>Klein
"WHAT! THIS IS PREPOSTEROUS! WE COULD NEVER AGREE TO SUCH A THING"

>Borous
"Lobotomite forms are OBSOLETE! They need to SLEEP, and EAT, and are unable to see their own brains!"

>Dr. Dala
"Although the idea intrigues me, I'm not sure how I'd react. My brain, being in a body full of. . .organs again. Living breathing organs, in such close proximity. . ."

>Dr 0
"Gross. Put me in a robot body instead, like the one I have right now!"

>Dr. 8
[Dr. 8 Noises] (that means "why?")

>what do?
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>>1960986
The FEV option matters the most.
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>>1961060
Think about it. A brain can only do a set amount of research at a time. If you add a body, you effectively double the SCIENCE™ you can do (assuming we are setting them up like the Courier himself is)!

DOUBLE THE SCIENCE!!
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>>1961035
... with all due respect I am very much aware of all of that.

I just didnt want to write a giant essay concerning all the many and varied ways to alter DNA and RNA. Especially since we are talking about a fictional super virus where all or none of those methods might apply.

Binding custom protiens to specific promoter regions of FEV to block their expression just seemed like the easiest and most attainable way of isolating its specific functions without delving too deeply into it.

Its also useful to bear in mind that FEV (according to the wiki) acts nothing like a traditional virus.
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>>1961060
Spin it in such a way that they will be able to interact with the world more easily. Iirc we never fixed their interface issues after alien crash. That way they will be able to more closely conduct their experiments and conduct science
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>>1961070
We probably arent though becayse their brainstem is gone, and that is needed for the seperated brain&body.

>>1961060
As scientists, are you just going to reject a unique opportunity for a whole new perspective? I thought science was about discovering the unknown? Are you just going to ignore the fact you don't know what its like to be human?
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>>1961082
Making knockouts is an okay way to find out what every gene (or combination of them) does but considering the fact that the FEV recombines so many regions (multiple times over the lifespan, appearantly) it is a futile effort. How the hell we are supposed to approach this besides starting fresh I dont know but trying to map it seems a waste of time when it constantly shifts.

Also, glad to see another appreciator of the finer points of biology.
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>>1961060
ah sweet kek my sides.

"oh, i didnt realize you were all so scared of an experiment. nevermind. I suppose we will leave the shoals of neurologocal bi locality unexplored. A shame, if only we had the courage to face these questions head on..."
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>>1961104
The brainstem is also needed for important things like breathing and pumping blood, so I dont see the body working without it. Ergo, two entities for the price of one.
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>>1961110
May not be brainstem, but for the seperate body thing, there needs to be a connection with a bit of brain left after brain removal. That bit is gone, and we cant make a connection with a different persons bit of brain.

Would have to be full human.
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>>1961105
yeah, its clunky and slow.

but it might be the nest we can do atm. unless we somehow find a treasure trove of existing research. which is indeed out there. Mariposa, The enclave, the institute, and others have all researched it before us.

yeah, Biochem is my field. Masters degree never ;_; been stuck with a shitty aliquoting position that makes me want to die. permanent temp position. meanwhile my cousin learns welding and pulls down 3x my pay as a boilermaker. fuck this gay earth.
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>>1961070
>Borous
"Hmmmm. To keep the Brain Stem in the body, while the rest of the brain remains independant?"

>Dr 0
"That would mean our consciousness would primarily be in the meatbags, while the rest of our brain would act on a more processor basis."

>Klein
"IT'S STILL DISGUSTING. IMAGINE, FUMBLING AROUND OUR LAB EQUIPMENT WITH THOSE PENIS EXTREMETIES. GIVE ME A PAIR OF MECHANICAL CLASPERS ANYDAY!"

>Dr. Dala
"Dr. Klein, it does have some obvious benefit. You'd be able to reach around and adjust the dials on your back for instance. A fault of our current arm designs."

>Klein
"THAT IS NO FAULT! OBVIOUSLY THERE IS A PURPOSE TO OUR ARMS HAVING A MAXIMUM RANGE OF MOTION. OTHERWISE WHY WOULD THEY BE ANY DIFFERENT?"

>con't
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>>1961211
"Who's to say you can't have Mechanical claspers while in an organic body Dr. Klein?"
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>>1961104
>>1961109
Hmmm
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>>1961211
Klein, is it really the scientific way to dig your heels in when considering other possibilities, beliecing the way thigs are are perfect by the fact that that is gow they are? Im sorry but that attitude is nore in line with what I expect from a beurocrat.
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>>1961254
Dude, that's not how you convince scientist.
Ya gotta go
"Guys! Guys, i got a great idea listen."
"What if... we put robot parts... on an organic body?"
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>>1961141
Biomed masters here. Can confirm shit pay but at least I am working on cancer targeting so its intresting.
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>>1961262
Well that doesn't attack the root of the problem, which is Klein's "this way is right because its how its done" circular reasoning.

If you want to convince a scientist, call him a beurocrat. An administrative stooge who exists only to chain down proper, inquisitive scientists.
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>>1961232
Dr. Dala, Dr. 8, and Dr. Borous are convinced.

Dr. 0 states he wishes to remain in his robotic form, to be closer to the very machines he holds dear.

Dr. Klein refuses, stating that he can't well be "Chief Scientist" if he's not a robot.

3 out of 5 is not bad. Your Brain feels Dr. 0 is the least disturbed of them all.

But your Courier pride just won't allow you to not get all 5!

>Settle for 3 out of 5. Maybe the other two will come to terms
>Figure out a way to convince Dr. Klein or Dr. 0.
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>>1961351
Well, once we put Klein into organic body we can upgrade it with cyber augments as needed. Maybe show reavers as an example?
Best of 2 worlds
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>>1961351
>settle

perhaps the other two will be convinced after they get left behind in terms of productivity
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>>1961351
>Figure out a way to convince Dr. Klein or Dr. 0.

Point out to Dr. Klein that by having his brain separate and form / display it's own consciousness, he'd have someone on his level of thought who understands his theories and he can debate with. Basically appeal to his pride and imply that it is the only way he'll find an equal in this world and that it would help him do more science since he'd be able to bounce ideas off his brain.

Explain to Dr. 0 that if he becomes human then he'll be able to engage in new experiences that would help him think up new robot designs and innovations...also that being human and having his brain separate would give him another person that sees the world in the same way and can help him develop new ideas / robots.


Lastly, point out that we aren't going to force them to remain in these forms. We just want them to try it for a month and see how they feel about it. If they don't enjoy it, we can put them back in their bodies or perhaps even some new, better body.
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>>1961351
>Settle for 3 out of 5. Maybe the other two will come to terms
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>>1961362
>>1961372
>DR KLEIN
"DO I STILL GET TO BE HEAD OF RESEARCH? NOT THAT YOU HAVE ANY SAY IN THE MATTER, BUT HYPOTHEORETICALLY SPEAKING!"

>Dr 0
"I'm quit content in my current form. I actually feel becoming a lobotomite would be more of a distraction, even if I get the extra help. . .but I suppose I could give it a test. A small one. Temporary."
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>>1961351
>Figure out a way to convince Dr. Klein or Dr. 0.
Convince klein by appealing to his sciebtific pride- a true scientist would try to experience the ubkown like this, and refusing for with an aministration excuse is anti-science.

0 is fine i guess. He was never that crazy, just a bit neurotic.
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>>1961386
>"DO I STILL GET TO BE HEAD OF RESEARCH? NOT THAT YOU HAVE ANY SAY IN THE MATTER, BUT HYPOTHEORETICALLY SPEAKING!"
"You would still be head of research, yes."

>"I'm quit content in my current form. I actually feel becoming a lobotomite would be more of a distraction, even if I get the extra help. . .but I suppose I could give it a test. A small one. Temporary."
"That is all I ask."
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>>1961386
Yes. Klein will still be head researcher.
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>>1961386
Of course, Klein.
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Before we go ahead with this, can we experiment on raiders and psychos from Montana first?

Speaking of which, what's our rep among raiders there? I know we go there for samples whenever we need to do some unethical research.
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>>1961060
I'm actually a bit confused. Are we putting the brains into the bodies or are we connecting them with tesla coils.
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>>1961411
>Before we go ahead with this, can we experiment on raiders and psychos from Montana first?
Certainly, I assume you are talking about developing a universal cure? Fact is that if we can make a universal cure, and have it be replicator-producible, then we can have our mobile replicators cure entire towns of diseases.

>Speaking of which, what's our rep among raiders there? I know we go there for samples whenever we need to do some unethical research.
They don't know it's us yet but they know someone is wiping out groups and ain't leaving any corpses from their side. Probably think it's the BOS but still.

>>1961417
Tesla coils. The majority of their brain will still be separate (and might develop it's own inteligence) but their consciousness will be centred over their human bodies.
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>>1961425
Well we pretty much have a cure for everything as is, so we already have the capabilities for goodwill tours. If needed, we can do some research for anything new that pops up, but refular stuff is handled already.
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>>1961425
No, I mean experimenting with raiders if debraining them, then cloning a body and connecting with tesla coils works. Or have we done so already?
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>>1961462
I think we have a pretty good idea how the tesla coils work.
If we werent sure if this was possible, the qm would say something.
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>>1961440
I know but it's far easier to just mass produce one drug / chemical to cure everything than it is to identify, produce and distribute the correct drug for every disease.

>>1961462
Nah that ain't needed as far as I'm aware.
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>>1961472
If we were making it traditionally, yes. But if were replicating it, a vial full of cure A costs similiar materialz as a vial of cure B, so it would be pretty cheap regardless.
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>>1961476
Nah my point is that with traditional drugs, we need to know what is wrong with the person and that'd require either our medical personnel or a local knowledge of the disease's true nature for us to identify it from. Whereas with a cure-all, we just need to make that one drug and everything else is fine.

Also another way we could improve our medicine: we need to sequence the genomes of our citizens and figure out what the data relates to. As this would allow us to personalise treatment: diet, drugs and more or less anything else around their actual physical needs.

It would also help us identify genetic diseases, beneficial mutations and such to either extract or treat by retro virus.
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Dr. Klein and Dr. 0 agree.

That makes five of the original think tank members.

There is a sixth one. . .and he has been most helpful, but you want to get it right with these five first.

Now begins an effort to actually clone their bodies. Previously, this would have taken significant research. But not with Diana's nursery.

Wisely you realize the first part is kicking your companions out of their homes in the Higg's village. With what's left of the construction crews not at work on the major giant project, you just build them superior housing somewhere else.

You clone their five bodies, using their genetic material from their brain and the genetic data given to Diana, she makes adult sized clones of them back at the nursery. With the one modification: empty skulls. As the Think Tank would say, the "skinvelopes" are then cryogenically brought back to BigMT via your UFO.

Next comes the surgery.
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>>1961721
>inb4 they fuck each other to death.
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>>1961733
>Brain
"If things go wrong, we turn them into lobotomites, and that is the 4th most likely possibility"

>You
[What's the first?]

>Brain
"They eat each other."
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>>1961739
That's not disturbing at all. I'm excited about having them integrate better with our scientists, im hoping this will lead to that.
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>>1961739
Exactly how much do we pay therapists?
Cause we need to pay them more.
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>>1961816
Well seeing as our psychs and docs are the same people, probably pretty good.
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>>1961721
There is only one man more qualified than all the Auto-Docs and Medical Robots of BigMT combined.

And that is the goddamn Courier.

Thanks to your abdunance of medical staff, advanced and partly alien equipment, and the input of Diana, you pull off the surgery without a hitch. Making sure to implant both the Teleportation Wireless Transmitter as well as the Tesla Coil emergency backup system, you separate the small parts of brain and spine from the rest of the Grey Matter, placing them back into the robots while attaching the smaller bits to the body and suturing.

And now you wait, allowing their bodies to fully heal before awakening them.

---

The reactions were interesting to say the least. Like babies who had just been born, they learned how to breath again, taking in gasps fulls of air with open mouths, as instinct slowly kicked in. Moaning, groaning, trying to find their voices and eyes frantically searched the room.

You help them up, legs wobbly like newborn Brahmin, trying to find their bearing.

They slowly relearn everything, and when the shock wears over, it's Dr. 8 who figures out how to speak again.

>Dr. 8
"Heh. . .looow? Hellloooo? Hello. *ahem* I . . .feel . . .I don't know"

>Dr. 0
"M-mehhh. .My throat. . .it feels odd. I need something."

>You
[Water. You're thirsty. Drink]

You give them small sips of water. Not a lot, in case they choke on it (a few of them do, and you teach them how to cough again).

---

It takes a day, but eventually the forgotten memories of times long past return. Basic muscle memories and activities of daily living. The Think Tank's shock wears off, and soon they become intrigued at the feeling of being in the human body again. Particularly Dr. Dala, who you watch, almost sensually, savoring every sip of water, every bite of food, every breath, touching things and her own body.

>Dr. 8
"I never knew how much we were missing, until we were whole again"

>Dr. 0
"This is a very surprising experience, but I can't say its unpleasant."

>Dr. Borous
"I can feel it. My mind is expanding. I remember. . .we were scientists! Yes, even before the Think Tank. Before the. . .the. . ."

>Dr. Klein
"The war. The war that destroyed the world. I remember now"

You stand by and help the Think Tank adjust.

>Dr Dala
"You don't look like Dr. Mobius. He had a beard, and he was shorter than you. And he didn't have so much muscles. . ." without hesitation Dr. Dala begins rubbing on your chest, feeling your almost steel like abdominal muscles.

>Dr. 0
"Something seems . . .off Dr. Dala"

>Dr Dala
"Why" she says "I've studied skinvelope interaction. This is exactly what they do, using tactile touch to. . .get a physical dimension of other skinvelopes"

>Dr. Klein
"I seem to remember a distinct difference between the interactions of skinvelopes and, what's the word, oh yes 'people' Dr. Dala."

--

>What do?
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>>1961956
"Well it's good to see my theory that restoring your physical forms would fix the mental recursion loop.

Now, I feel you are all owed an explanation as to what has and is happening so ask your questions and I will attempt to answer them as well as I can. Starting with Dr Dala, you are correct in your assessment: I am not Dr. Mobius."


Good?
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>>1961994
Ill support that.
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>>1961994
How about we consult with brain first in case we start saying things that could be harmful for us.
Not saying I don't like your suggestion, just as a precaution
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>>1962039
Fair enough.
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>>1962039
>Brain
"Tough question. There are so many unforseeable things here that could feasibly go wrong. My suggestion is whatever you do, keep the Think Tank on your side, as always."
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>>1961994
Supporting. Honesty is the best policy here.
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>>1962085
Thanks.

Eh, let's go with >>1961994
explain them why we did what we did
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OP are you there?
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>>1961994
You explain to the think tank in little bits. About what you found out, that they were prewar scientists from the United States of America, which helps to unlock their memories. Each of them survived the war in the robot bodies they had become so familiar with, to the point that they had lost their "humanity".

Yes, the war. The Great War. The War between the Commonwealth and China where the nuclear missiles destroyed the whole world.

The pieces seem to fall in place, and despite their lapses in memory, their skill as as some of the most brilliant scientists shines as they slowly make deductions. Correct deductions for the most part, fitting in the missing pieces.

>Dr. 8
"I suspect that you are not the real Dr. Mobius"

>You
[Correct. I'm sorry. The real Dr. Mobius felt that, with your complete dislocation from humanity, you might have presented a huge threat to the world with the power you wielded. Keeping BigMT isolated prevented what he saw as a major catastrophe.]

>Dr. Klein
"How dare he! Science should never be bounded even by such paltry things as 'ethics'!"

>Dr. 0
"Um, maybe I'm alone here guys but what if Mobius was right. I mean. . .Klein, and I'm not sure if those are our real names, now that I think about it, we sort of did go a bit crazy."

>Dr. Klein
"Bah! The only one who went mad was him of course! Him and his schemes to take over the Dome"

>Dr. Dala
"But if that was all a ruse, then that would perfectly support the sudden shift we've seen in his methods. Relying on this. . ."

>You
[Courier. President Courier. You no longer have to touch me if you wish]

Dala doesn't. "'President' Courier. I like the sound of that."

>Dr. 0
"Wait, so are you actually the President of the United States?"

>You
[Actually . . .it's a long story . . .]
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>>1962456
Im hype
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gonna be away for a bit
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>>1962699
What a tease.
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>>1962456
Technically Executor Courier

We do have the 'official' US President kicking around though - at least if you follow the Enclave's order of succession
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>>1962699
When the QM is gone for over 4 hours
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For now, you allow the Think Tank some time to recover, live in their old homes, regain some of their memories.

Dr. Dala says she doesn't remember her home smelling so, distinct. . .you send in the cleaner bots a second time.

Slowly they'll hopefully regain all their memories or at least most.

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Meanwhile
-Look around the military base for interesting intel or fun goodies
>ZAX RESEARCH
Take a look at all the new weapons we captured with the military base- the emp rockets, pop-up missles, plasma defeders, etc.

You start by investigating several of the available defenses and military units already present in the Divide. Starting with the Robot Drone Tanks.

According to technical details, though its armor, armament, and size are less than those of the standard American Tank, it is still a tank (or a tankette) in its own right. It uses some very advanced constructive materials, like the kind the rest of the Divide base is made of. Chemical analysis indicates a definitive connection to alien metal.

That seems to imply the Old World governments had a knowledge of alien technology.

The Drones themselves are hovercraft particularly resistant to corossion from acid, rust, radiation, and even have a slight emp advantage (though not invulnerable) over your typical robot. Its cannon is a force to be reckoned with, but it is only armed with a cannon. Its tactical mode was to use strength of numbers, expendability, and speed and mobility to match the Chinese Tanks far superior armor strength and numbers. A cannon fodder for tanks if you will, but not so easily ignored.

They are fully automated with basic combat programming.

>con't
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>>1963918
The Enforcer MK2's are a bit more interesting.

Larger than the "Robot Tanks" they are also slightly more well armored, and have a much more powerful cold fusion reactor in each one. This powers the extremely advanced plasma technology housed within the unit.

Its by far the biggest plasma weapon you've ever seen. An entire plasma cannon, not a rifle, able to fire a big burst the size of a man at tremendous speeds. Or, a shorter range continous plamsa-thrower 10 times more effective than mere flame, though far more localized than fire and with less spread.

But the most notable test came from the group exercise. When five or seven plasma shots strike the exact same target, at the exact same time, under the right coditions . . .

"RUN! GET OUT OF THE WAY MOVE!"

The resulting phenomenon is known as a "Plasma Storm". This temporarily sustained plasmic reaction manifests in a huge, devastating sphere of Plasma which rolls on the ground in a chaotic and unpredictable manner. Lasting for a few terrifying seconds, the intense heat can burn man and material even without actually touching the sphere of death, until it vanishes in an almost blinding light.

That explains the bizarre scorch marks and craters, and why there was practically nothing left during the initial divide base probes.

>con't
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>>1963965
The Lockdown MLRS is a "mobile defense platform". A lightly armored, but highly effective unit able to transport extremely powerful ordnance. It has two modes, one which fires a succession of many EMP Rockets, or two extremely powerful HE Rockets from very long range with incredible accuracy. The main drawbacks are its relative vulnerability to heavy enemy arms fire, and that the missiles do not track targets so are more effective on static positions.
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still here still writing
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>>1963965
>>1964063
Very nice.

These vehicles are manned, correct?
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>>1963918
>According to technical details, though its armor, armament, and size are less than those of the standard American Tank, it is still a tank (or a tankette) in its own right. It uses some very advanced constructive materials, like the kind the rest of the Divide base is made of. Chemical analysis indicates a definitive connection to alien metal.
How does it compare to the NCR's tanks? How easily could we produce them and are there any regards in which we are superior to it? E,g the fact we have actual alien metal and shit or our research into better computers?

>That seems to imply the Old World governments had a knowledge of alien technology.
We need to find that one signal's source...get ourselves an alien tech expert from pre-war from cryo and whatever shit is left in her facility.

>Its cannon is a force to be reckoned with, but it is only armed with a cannon.
What kind of shells can it fire? What calibre? How does this compare to the NCR's tanks? Does it replicate it's own ammo or does it have a limited number of shells?

>>1963965
>That explains the bizarre scorch marks and craters, and why there was practically nothing left during the initial divide base probes.
Well this seems like a potential superweapon in the making...maybe an entire air-cruiser built around supercharging the effect into some sort of beam or cannon? Maybe a wave...

>>1964063
Does it have any AA abilities?

>>1964211
The base used them all against us so I suspect they are entirely automated or at least can be used remotely.
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Friendly reminder we need to get to Hawaii before the NCR does to prevent them from accessing that military base thats located there.

They have already retrofitted / repaired a battleship to make the journey.
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>>1964221
Its a plasma cannon. It shoots plasma. From the fusion core.
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>>1964249
Agreed but we can't go by air as we saw with the satellite we tried to send that way.

Easiest method that I can think of would be to get a dozen replicator behemoths through the Legion using our relations / potential alliance with the MLA as a cover. If we make these dozen waterproof, they could walk straight into the ocean and get to work building a concealed sub-marine / underwater dock and base from which we could construct an entirely automated submarine(s?) equipped with an infantry sized teleporter and replication ability to make the journey.

Then it's just a matter of teleportation across as the Courier and dealing with the situation. Depending on if there even is one, as it is entirely possible that Hawaii has been nuked to shit, that our sub gets intercepted or that the base is entirely deactivated / derelict in which case we just assume control.

This would also be an excellent time to mention that we'd probably want to do this either way since the potential utility to "terror from the deep" the shit out of the NCR's coastline can't be denied in terms of material, morale, logistical and other forms of damage. Such as offering an easy way to send forces to attack the Shi and secure their emperor / ZAX.

>>1964255
I fail to see what you are on about.
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>>1964286
I mean, I'm still partial to the idea of us grabbing our own battleship and putting in our airship engine into it and create a flying battleship yamamoto style, but that's not really practical.

Subs seem cool.
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>>1964340
I want to do that too and would point something out: There are numerous warships that were sunk in real life and never reclaimed or salvaged. Such as, for example, the Japanese battleship Yamato which, with modernisation by us could certainly outperform the NCR's especially when backed by all the other ships we could get.

Subs are also useful because they are intended to not be detected which suits us since we don't want to reveal us having naval assets before we are firing on their cities or turning their battleship into scrap.
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>>1964286
>Easiest method that I can think of would be to get a dozen replicator behemoths through the Legion using our relations / potential alliance with the MLA as a cover. If we make these dozen waterproof, they could walk straight into the ocean and get to work building a concealed sub-marine / underwater dock and base from which we could construct an entirely automated submarine(s?) equipped with an infantry sized teleporter and replication ability to make the journey.
>Easiest

Dude, how about we just take our flyer, strap a portal to it and thread the proverbial needle and get there ourselves, at which point we fire up the portal and bring in the bots. You are not using the advantage we have.

As to subs and the like, why even bother? Make a few bots to attack underwater, sure, but why a sub when we are capable of making flying weapons platforms with relative ease. As to modernizing ships, the exact same point. Why make a ship if we can make a flying transport craft. And why retrofit a naval craft when we can make a new and better one ourselves?
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>>1964286
>What kind of shells can it fire? What calibre? How does this compare to the NCR's tanks? Does it replicate it's own ammo or does it have a limited number of shells?

It fires plasma, not shells
its the size of a man, but its a glob of plasma, no calibre
man sized plasma is better than WW2 tank shell
It shoots plasma- as long as there is energy in the reactor it keeps shooting.
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>>1964286
The legion territory is to the West. How will sending behemoths through there get them under water on the west coast?
Not even getting into the fact that replicators might not work underwater, or the weapons don't function.
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>>1964483
*to the East
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>>1964432
>Dude, how about we just take our flyer, strap a portal to it and thread the proverbial needle and get there ourselves, at which point we fire up the portal and bring in the bots. You are not using the advantage we have.
Sure and while we're at it why don't we go and destroy the NCR battleship too? Cause that'd be easier and safer than defeating whatever AA system detected and eliminated our satellite during it's pass over head.

Fact is we could attempt what you are suggesting but it is too risky given we'd potentially lose the Courier and the Scoutship.

>As to subs and the like, why even bother? Make a few bots to attack underwater, sure, but why a sub when we are capable of making flying weapons platforms with relative ease.
Subs allow for far heavier weapons and utility than any bot could. Also we can't produce flying weapon platforms "with ease" seeing as they require a large power source which is generally either expensive or not something we are happy to let our enemies know we have.

>As to modernising ships, the exact same point. Why make a ship if we can make a flying transport craft. And why retrofit a naval craft when we can make a new and better one ourselves?
Ships are cheaper to power, don't use tech we want to keep a secret and in regards to retrofitting: it doesn't matter if we can make better if our goal is purely to get to the Hawaiian islands and to combat the WW 2 level navy of the NCR by dragging hulks from the depths to throw at them. We can make better shit later if we genuinely need it but all we need is some slug throwers to bombard the coast, destroy ships and transport stuff.

>>1964477
I am talking about the drone tank, not the plasma tank. Your reading comprehension is entirely useless.

>>1964483
>The legion territory is to the West. How will sending behemoths through there get them under water on the west coast?
If you had so much as referred to the map OP provided recently you would be aware the Legion has a border with the western sea to our south.

>Not even getting into the fact that replicators might not work underwater, or the weapons don't function.
The replicators will function underwater. Or else they wouldn't function in air.

As to the weapons, that matters why? They would be being escorted by their squads of robots which could almost certainly hold their own against anything they'd likely face.
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>>1964497
You realize that ends up on the wrong side of the Baja peninsula right? So getting them from the legion territory to the place where the battleship is would take forever, assuming they don't run out of power or something.

And how would something not work in water, mean it doesn't work in air?
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>>1964510
>You realise that ends up on the wrong side of the Baja peninsula right?
Yeah and it's an additional 1,220 (roughly) km on a 4,346 km journey. It's a significant increase on any sorts of potential travel time but to be frank an acceptable compromise compared to the only alternatives which are leaving Hawaii until we've got a connection to the sea or tunnelling under the NCR.

>So getting them from the legion territory to the place where the battleship is would take forever, assuming they don't run out of power or something.
Two things:

1) Essentially every model of our robots can be left on for 200+ years if it has the fission battery.

2) The battleship ain't the goal right now, Hawaii is. The battleship was just an example of something else we could hit with the facility once we have it set up.

>And how would something not work in water, mean it doesn't work in air?
Well, how about you explain why water is different from air for whatever reason? What makes YOU think that it would prevent the replicator working?
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>>1964527
>Well, how about you explain why water is different from air for whatever reason? What makes YOU think that it would prevent the replicator working?
Water can mess with the calibration of the atom laying part because of it's different heat capacity or viscosity or the fact it's a liquid can interfere with any number of things
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>>1964539
> Water messes with the calibration of the part that places the atoms down, because it was designed to work in air?
Why would water mess with it's calibration? What logic is there to assume it would beyond your belief it would?

>Or water messes with a hot element or something with it's different specific heat.
If that was the case then it wouldn't work in air or literally any material either.

>There are a lot of ways that high tech items can work in air and not in water.
There are also loads that do.
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>>1964527
Ok dude, shit arguments and plain browbeating.

What you want to do is waste resources on some pet project, the goals of which we can accomplish with the flyer and a portal in a month. The resources and time you want to throw at this are far better spent on development back home. As to your point on "subs are better than robots", why is that, exactly? We can load up a few small bots with the exact same weapons and they are not only far cheaper but far more disposable than a hulk 50 times the size. Might be a good thing for the NCR but isnt for us. And you have to realize that us making a flying carrier for the same amount of resources is a far better use. Especially since the sub is confined to the sea, whereas a flying unit has no such restriction.

And you want to go around the south to do it? Dude, useless waste of resources. Get over it.
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>>1964544
Take a 3D printer, and turn it on in a pool, and come back to me on how very precise things operate under water just the same as in air.
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>>1964543
Then by that logic the replicators shouldn't have worked in the Cloud.

>>1964546
>Ok dude, shit arguments and plain browbeating.
I fail to see how I threatened you and I fail to see how my arguments are "shit".

>What you want to do is waste resources on some pet project, the goals of which we can accomplish with the flyer and a portal in a month.
At great risk for no apparent reason...

>The resources and time you want to throw at this are far better spent on development back home.
Mate where did I imply that this would stop development at home? How would it stop development at home when all it would take is a turn or two of passive robot production?

>As to your point on "subs are better than robots", why is that, exactly?
Subs are larger and generally more aqua-dynamically shaped.

>We can load up a few small bots with the exact same weapons and they are not only far cheaper but far more disposable than a hulk 50 times the size.
Ignoring the problems with powering those weapons, the fact that you are spending far more on engine systems / propulsion, the need for more computing power, the repeated sets of communications systems and all that stuff that makes it much more expensive? Yeah, I suppose that would make them more disposable.

>Might be a good thing for the NCR but isn't for us. And you have to realise that us making a flying carrier for the same amount of resources is a far better use.
Except it'd be far from the same amount of resources given the fact you'd need to power whatever is lifting your flying carrier.

Weight = mass x gravity is an immutable rule of the universe and you can't really get around that.

>Especially since the sub is confined to the sea, whereas a flying unit has no such restriction.
Except in the cases like it going to Hawaii, where we know something destroyed the thing we had flying through the air, or near the NCR / MLA-Legion / BOS, since we don't want them to know about us being able to do that yet or in places like Texas which has nuclear tornadoes that would rip it apart.

>And you want to go around the south to do it? Dude, useless waste of resources. Get over it.
And you want to fly a unknown gauntlet of the best pre-war AA weapons? "Dude, useless waste of resources. Get over it.". At least the only problem with mine is that it could take a fair bit of time, compared to you who wants to fly a literal suicide mission.

>>1964563
You are the one who claimed that a replicator wouldn't work underwater, the burden of proof lies with you. Also, a 3 D printer is so far from a replicator that I actually want to laugh at you for the mere concept.

However, I point you to this 3d printing method:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3TgmvV2ElQ

Seeing as it works off of light, assuming the density of the resin is greater than water, it wouldn't be effected.
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>>1963918
>The Drones themselves are hovercraft particularly resistant to corossion from acid, rust, radiation, and even have a slight emp advantage (though not invulnerable) over your typical robot. Its cannon is a force to be reckoned with, but it is only armed with a cannon. Its tactical mode was to use strength of numbers, expendability, and speed and mobility to match the Chinese Tanks far superior armor strength and numbers. A cannon fodder for tanks if you will, but not so easily ignored.
Damn, that was my idea for a light tank.
At least we don't have to research it now.
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>>1964774
Yeah I know right? I mean I'd like to try and improve it where and if we can but still this sounds like a pretty solid vehicle.


I mostly want to know how it compares to the NCR's current tanks.
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>>1964775
>Yeah I know right? I mean I'd like to try and improve it where and if we can but still this sounds like a pretty solid vehicle.
No i mean it's EXACTLY the light tank design i was gonna recommend we design in the future, it's Speed and maneuverability superiority and it's strength of numbers.
I'm spooked, QM took my idea.
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>>1964775
But yea, this is a pretty good tank design to have, we should build it alongside some of these.
http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_bike_(Tiberium_Wars)
http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Raider_buggy_(Tiberium_Wars)
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>>1964776
Well it's a fairly simple concept. Like making a robotic T-34.

>>1964777
Eh, attack bikes can probably be replaced with air drones and raider buggies probably would be pretty good.

>>1964777
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>>1964778
>Eh, attack bikes can probably be replaced with air drones and raider buggies probably would be pretty good.
But we already have the BoS hoverbike we can research, just slap some MLA missile launchers and we got an excellent cannon fodder anti-air vehicle to accompany our hovertanks.
Why not have it?
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>>1964779
Because it seems like it might be risky to deploy our troops using it but I see what you mean, for light / scouting units it would be pretty nice.
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>>1964782
>Because it seems like it might be risky to deploy our troops using it
Why not just make it a robot controlled vehicle like the hover tanks?
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>>1964784
because at the point it's like one of our air force drones but it can't fly.
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>>1964788
I don't see how they are the same.
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>>1964793
They both hover, are entirely robotic / automated and are designed to perform a combat role with similar weapons.
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>>1964795
>with similar weapons.
This is the part i disagree with, the Attack bikes have anti-air missile launchers, which are very different from the Eyebot's lasers.
I do see how everything else is the same, so if you can put a missile launcher on an Eyebot I'll scrap the attack bike design.
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>>1964799
On an eyebot? No. On our air force drones that are roughly the size of a securitron? Certainly.
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>>1964799
Raider buggies have to be kept though, if we can make them truck sized and have modular weapon mounts they can not only be multi-purpose escorts and cannon fodder, but also have enough room to fit a Dr. Mobois teleporter variant.
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>>1964801
We don't have Airforce drones, i do remember an anon posting designs but i don't think we can make them until we research them.
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>>1964803
We did research them. Everything about them was fine except for a bit of miscommunication resulting in the bomber design becoming essentially a guided missile.
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>>1964804
Oh, alright then.
Kinda weirded out by the air drone serving a recon and cannon fodder role for both air forces and ground forces. I think it's the C&C fanboy in me that's causing that.
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>>1964805
Eh, technically speaking the "scout" drone would probably be the sensor carrier but those are not only the size of an actual jet / plane but also more expensive (they make up for that by essentially being outfitted with our best sensors and relaying that data back to either a tending craft or base for processing).

However as to cannon fodder, that is what the "fighter" air drone is for: local air superiority, ground support, interception and, in theory, anti-missile work.
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>>1964587
>Mate where did I imply that this would stop development at home?
The time on the replicators and multiple constructors worth of material, thrown into the sea for kicks and shiggles.

>>1964587
>Subs are larger and generally more aqua-dynamically shaped.
Wow, "its big and speedy-shaped"? Considering powering and maneuvering a smaller craft is far easier, small wins out.

>>1964587
>Ignoring the problems with powering those weapons, the fact that you are spending far more on engine systems / propulsion, the need for more computing power, the repeated sets of communications systems and all that stuff that makes it much more expensive?
We can, in fact, make fewer robots than the subs amount of matter permits. We can, in fact, make just a few and use them far more effectively than a submersible dildo that cant maneuver for shit, as opposed to small nimble bots that punch far above their weight and we dont care if one gets hit (vs the sub likely going down).

>>1964587
>Except it'd be far from the same amount of resources given the fact you'd need to power whatever is lifting your flying carrier.
>Weight = mass x gravity is an immutable rule of the universe and you can't really get around that.
Well, mister math, if you noticed in the last thread where I proposed the amount of power needed to overcome gravity, its actually very little if you are not using engines or other means to mediate the effect. Since our propulsion lifts do just that, I can comfortably say they are cheap enough to be useful. Especially when we sink more research into them.

>>1964587
>Except in the cases like it going to Hawaii, where we know something destroyed the thing we had flying through the air, or near the NCR / MLA-Legion / BOS, since we don't want them to know about us being able to do that yet or in places like Texas which has nuclear tornadoes that would rip it apart.
Then we send in the small sub bots wit the portal in tow, or, again, fly in ourselves. And by this comparison, the sub does remarkably worse in a tornado.

>>1964587
>And you want to fly a unknown gauntlet of the best pre-war AA weapons? "Dude, useless waste of resources. Get over it.". At least the only problem with mine is that it could take a fair bit of time, compared to you who wants to fly a literal suicide mission
Because it i obviously impossible to use a few drones to scout out the AA AOE, strenghts and weaknesses and likely access points instead of going straight for the door in a straight line. Think with your head man.
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I am on the side of the ones who want to build the airship.
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Also wans't our satellite destroyed after it passed the NRC and got to the Sea? where our brain said there might be giant monsters?
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>>1964817
Was probably some AA defence from the Hawaii base (if the thing got that far). The thing is we are woefully lacking in intelligence of all kinds so we are pretty blind to things outside our borders (something SPI should come up a plan for).
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>>1964221
>How does it compare to the NCR's tanks?
From the Tanker's knowledge, the NCR has many different Tank varieties. It is definitely superior or equal to the NCR's light tanks at least. Depending on the type of medium tanks its either equal or slightly inferior in regards to armor and hitting power (it was never meant to be a standalone MBT) but makes up for it in superior speed AND terrain climbing. Against Heavy Tanks its advisable to find some cover, or to outflank them with more numbers.

Of course, this is purely a guesstimate based on the Tanker's stored memories, and you'll actually have to test them in the field.

> are there any regards in which we are superior to it
Surprisingly, no. It's the Creme of the Old World military hardware, the very best.

Luckily for you you just healed the Creme of the Old World's genius'.

>What kind of shells can it fire?
Only AP, standard ammunition like the kind used in Old World and NCR tanks.

>What calibre?
Eh, I'm going to avoid misleading you by giving you a calibre number only because that doesn't also take into account barrel velocity. It's considered a bit lighter than the standard US MBT Cannon, but not significantly so.

>Does it have any AA abilities?
No, it's particularly weak to Aircraft.

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Psst, if you wanna actually play with these things I recommend. http://www.moddb.com/mods/cc-shockwave
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>>1964822
Could definitely be AA for Hawaii.
However the Sea monsters are still there, it'd prefer dealing with AA in an airsip than monsters in a submarine.
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>>1964827
Agreed.
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>>1964826

Could we feasibly fit an ammunition-replicator inside these things, or is that impractical due to power restraints?
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>>1964826
Now the actual hard hitting questions....

How many can we make?
How much air support, considering NCR capabilities, do they need?
How many, based on pre-war records, do we need to field a mobile assault/harassment force?
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>>1964826
Alright, so the Drone tanks are good cannon fodder, support and anti-light vehicle, maybe add a small rocket pod to offset it's AP only rounds.
What it/we need is a medium MBT, the Enforcer MK2 looks to be the perfect contender for the spot but the Chinese might have something or we can research own design.
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>>1964830
That's the beauty of these fancy schmancy old world techs. They have ammunition replication inside them already.

You could try to fit a better one though, but these robot tanks don't have particularly excessive generators for it. But then you could upgrade those as ell.

>>1964835
>How many can we make?
I'd need to calculate that with an actual action + rolls. Currently, you can only produce them in the Divide War Factory too due to high level military anti-design theft, which is offline due to you diverting power from the base for your MASSIVE construction projects.

>How much air support, considering NCR capabilities, do they need?
Depends on whether you invest in AA or your own Air Fleet.

>How many, based on pre-war records, do we need to field a mobile assault/harassment force?
They are effective for harassment individually, but much more so as a squad or a platoon.
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>>1964836
Actually, you know what would be an interesting MBT? A sound/sonic tank. We haven't researched the best the Sonic emitter could offer and with Doctor 8 now partially sane we could make some great progress.
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>>1964838
Obviously you can attempt to crack their blueprints, but it will take time.

Or you could go and search for their ultimate source, which is indicated to be Hawaii. That is also where you will find the strategy center to unlock some of the other units.

Currently, without authorization, you can only produce:
-Small Robot Hover Tank
-Mortar Humvee
-Medic Drone
-Sentry Drone
-Plasma Avenge
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>>1964839
Funnily enough there IS a Sonic Sound Tank template in the War Factory, but its currently not available and the details need to be sent in by the Strategy Center at Hawaii.

The MLA are reported to have Sonic Weapons as well.
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>>1964810
>The time on the replicators and multiple constructors worth of material, thrown into the sea for kicks and shiggles.
Yeah and? Fact is we aren't going to be needing more robots in NW anytime soon, so this ain't an issue as we also have a surplus of materials. We are in the rare position of having the ability to do this without impacting our overall plans and it's not like these units are destroyed the moment construction is done. They can head back or go somewhere else and start construction there.

>Wow, "its big and speedy-shaped"? Considering powering and manoeuvring a smaller craft is far easier, small wins out.
Powering a bigger craft is easier given the square-cube law works in our favour, giving us more volume for the same (relative) area trying to push through the water. As to manoeuvring: that barely comes into play since this thing is going to be a glorified cargo and artillery vessel to get Hawaii under control and provide an immediate basing point on that end. Maybe a few torpedoes or a laser but that is it.

>We can, in fact, make fewer robots than the subs amount of matter permits. We can, in fact, make just a few and use them far more effectively than a submersible dildo that cant maneuver for shit, as opposed to small nimble bots that punch far above their weight and we dont care if one gets hit (vs the sub likely going down).
Why in gods name would the sub be going down? Why in gods name does it matter if it can't turn on a dime? It's to get enough of our shit to Hawaii to secure the place and after that it'll probably be a scouting vessel and trade raider.

>Well, mister math, if you noticed in the last thread where I proposed the amount of power needed to overcome gravity, its actually very little if you are not using engines or other means to mediate the effect.
Yeah, I'm gonna call bullshit on this being relatable until OP says either way. My main point was that inherently a flying craft, by whatever method of propulsion you want to use, is going to be less efficient than a boat since a boat has buoyancy working in it's favour.

>Since our propulsion lifts do just that, I can comfortably say they are cheap enough to be useful. Especially when we sink more research into them.
Except they don't. I mean, we've got no fundamental reason to believe that they are cheap to make or use.

>Then we send in the small sub bots wit the portal in tow, or, again, fly in ourselves.
Small bots that'd be far worse off in terms of speed, resistance to currents and ability to power said portal? Assuming they could even move it effectively.
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>>1964844
How will the Sub deal with sea monsters?
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>>1964844
>And by this comparison, the sub does remarkably worse in a tornado.
And it ain't a comparison. It was to show just how insanely flawed your statement of it's greater mobility was since realistically we can't or wouldn't currently deploy the craft in the regions I listed, not that it matters anyway since the primary purpose of this craft ain't combat to begin with.

>Because it i obviously impossible to use a few drones to scout out the AA AOE, strenghts and weaknesses and likely access points instead of going straight for the door in a straight line. Think with your head man.
And how do you suggest doing that? We have no access to the other side of the NCR with any sorts of drones as of this moment in time so they'd need to head over the NCR which most likely would get spotted and eliminated. This is before mentioning that the most you are probably going to get is the fact that your crafts were destroyed at X ranges and possibly what by. Not exactly useful.

>>1964817
Yep

>>1964842
What are the medic and sentry drone designs like?
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>>1964842
Can we not just move the factory and all the better machinery over to BigMT so we have all the valuable tech in one place and secure?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9RuaB3c9FQ

Also, what is the most powerful weapon a tank-sized machine can carry as a frontline weapon? In the military base archives, I mean.
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>>1964842
>Obviously you can attempt to crack their blueprints, but it will take time.
Will it be faster if we produce some to reverse engineer?
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>>1964845
Well, considering the known species of aquatic life form there are the following threats:

1) Mirelurks - primarily live near the shores, are based off crabs = safe so long as we aren't too deep or near a coast. Worst comes to worst deploy a squad or two of assaultrons from the replicator / through the teleporter.

2) Mutated / "ghoul" dolphins - unknown abilities, unknown intelligence, unknown behaviour. Logical conclusion: potential threat but most likely unable to pierce a metal hull.
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3) "Ghoul whales" - entirely legend as far as we know, similar to the dolphins except more dangerous. Could be detected and avoided by possible sonic emissions, e,g whale song?
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>>1964853
I refuse to believe there are only 3. This just sounds like you are trying to push you submarine by severely underestimating the Marine threat.
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>>1964855
No, these are just the ones we are aware of. I'd probably also add the various species of squid but the simple fact is that in the oceans there are few species strong enough to actually threaten a well designed sub.

Fact is that anything which could fuck up the sub could fuck up a smaller robot just as easily given they'll not exactly be built like tanks or anything.
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>>1964858
>but the simple fact is that in the oceans there are few species strong enough to actually threaten a well designed sub.
Our brain disagrees with you, he told us to avoid the Ocean IN OUR ALIEN SHIP because of sea monsters, A submarine will not survive.
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>>1964844
>Yeah and? Fact is we aren't going to be needing more robots in NW anytime soo
Considering we have literally no realtime espionage, I can think of a few things more useful.

>>1964844
>They can head back or go somewhere else and start construction there.
Except they are way the fuck out nowhere and unprotected, with literally the best piece of tech. Not that smart.

>>1964844
>square-cube law
Meaning the bigger object gets exponentially more massive ergo harder to move. Have you noticed how an elephant is slow but a cheetah is really fast? Yeah. The water friction is largely moot considering our power capability.

>>1964844
>It's to get enough of our shit to Hawaii
Dude, again with this shit. We only need to get one portal to wherever we are going. Thats all it takes. No need for a cargo craft to ferry shit around when you can instantly teleport between two points with ease.

>>1964844
>Small bots that'd be far worse off in terms of speed, resistance to currents and ability to power said portal?
They are faster, more maneuverable and the portal can be powered remotely. A non-issue, in other words.

>>1964846
>We have no access to the other side of the NCR
And neither do we have access to the sea. When we get there or figure out a way to bypass it air is the fast and reliable way. We dont even have a real way to navigate the subs besides periscoping and constant support from drones anyway. Might as well just use the drones. And if it turns out the AA is too OP, we fly in a aquatic bot with the portal and have it swim there and plonck the thing underneath the waves on the beach if nothing else works. Point is, making a sub for this is wasteful and doesnt serve the purpose. You are trying to justify the sub instead of finding the best solution.
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>>1964861
>We only need to get one portal to wherever we are going. Thats all it takes. No need for a cargo craft to ferry shit around when you can instantly teleport between two points with ease.
This.
The submarine idea is stupid.
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>>1964846
The Sentry Drone is a tracked drone vehicle with an AP .50 cal machine gun and stealth capable, with relatively heavy armor for a robot (comprable to Securitrons/Sentry Robots)

The Medic Drone is very similar, but a bit more armored, and essentially a well protected mobile auto doc with a completent of medical drones to heal infantry en masse.
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>>1964847
Without authorization codes that might activate the automated self destruct sequence.

>Also, what is the most powerful weapon a tank-sized machine can carry as a frontline weapon?
Define powerful.

According to the military archives, a magnetized Railgun was being worked on by a General Towns which could pierce "anything".
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>>1964879
And I assume the facility is too big to move in one piece/few pieces?

The railgun is something we can mount on a tank? Even if heavy?

>>1964872
>The Sentry Drone is a tracked drone vehicle with an AP .50 cal machine gun and stealth capable, with relatively heavy armor for a robot (comprable to Securitrons/Sentry Robots)
So is it essentially a securitron-sized cheap and durable AP gunnery platform with stealth? How much cheaper are we talking and how long can they operate without contact/fueling and can SPI incorporate them into the network? The idea being to seed the desert with them to provide security and overview.
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Could we clone a body for Diana and connect her via tesla coil? That way we'd have 2x super biology scientist.
I wonder what are the ramifications of doing this with a ZAX machine.
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>>1964860
I fail to see how this means that any other solution solves the issue since the implication I get from that statement, at least the way you are saying it is that flight is not protection and I doubt your small robots would fair much better if in any way differently.

>>1964861
>Considering we have literally no realtime espionage, I can think of a few things more useful.
SPI got a bunch of assets. Tunnellers and cloaking squads of assaultrons. Thus we should be in theory passively gaining intelligence assuming we tell her to deploy the assets.

>Except they are way the fuck out nowhere and unprotected, with literally the best piece of tech. Not that smart.
Not unprotected, each one does have that squad of robots it commands, which can anything from Securitrons to Loader construction robots.

>Meaning the bigger object gets exponentially more massive ergo harder to move. Have you noticed how an elephant is slow but a cheetah is really fast? Yeah.
An elephant and a cheetah are two entirely different animals. Your comparison is shit on many levels but I would also point out that a bigger object can have the same mass dedicated to weapons systems, sensors and communications but will have them take a smaller percentage over all thanks to it's bigger mass. Meaning it can have a bigger engine, meaning it accelerates faster and goes to a higher speed depending on the interference of outside factors like an atmosphere but that problem can be solved by application of certain design techniques and materials to minimise friction.

>The water friction is largely moot considering our power capability.
Then that renders power a moot point in general.
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>>1964891
>Dude, again with this shit. We only need to get one portal to wherever we are going. Thats all it takes. No need for a cargo craft to ferry shit around when you can instantly teleport between two points with ease.
Except we can't teleport anything bigger than a set size which is incredibly limiting in terms of what we can move across. Which given how hard it was to pierce the base we found in the Divide, god help us with Hawaii. Or do you not understand the problem we are having with Montana currently?

>They are faster, more manoeuvrable and the portal can be powered remotely.
The portal being able to be remotely powered only works if you have enough power to actually activate it, store sufficient power to open the portal again, and then you start being able to draw additional energy into storage for use.

As to them being faster, I've debated that point, and manoeuvrability doesn't matter in either of our cases: in yours because it's performing a single direction trip ending in a beach somewhere on the Hawaiian island chain whereas in mine it's because this thing ain't exactly going to be trying to do some crazy moves.

>And neither do we have access to the sea. When we get there or figure out a way to bypass it air is the fast and reliable way.
I've already explained how we'd get to the sea. You are making an issue out of nothing.

>We dont even have a real way to navigate the subs besides periscoping and constant support from drones anyway.
It's called a map. You might have heard of it. When used in conjunction with this thing called headings, speed-distance-time calculations and the stars people did far more impressive things than getting to Hawaii.

>Might as well just use the drones. And if it turns out the AA is too OP, we fly in a aquatic bot with the portal and have it swim there and plonk the thing underneath the waves on the beach if nothing else works.
Or we cut out your middle stage of throwing yet more resources into a sunk cost fallacy: waiting to see what gives first your stupidity and pride, the tolerance of others for it or the pre-war US military's missile, laser, rail-gun and flak AA defences.

>Point is, making a sub for this is wasteful and doesn't serve the purpose.
The purpose being, get to Hawaii? Right? Because it seems to me like it is perfectly fine in this regard.

>You are trying to justify the sub instead of finding the best solution.
Why would I be trying to justify that? I don't particularly harbour any emotions towards them as a concept or class of vessel.
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There was talk of getting House back. I always wanted to either rejuvenate his body or just clone a new, young and healthy one and put his brain in it before we wake him up.
I'm sure that he would appreciate not being a dry, old husk anymore.

Later he can decide if he wants to debrain to double his scientific capacity.

I hope we can convince him to work under us and that we won't have to kill him.
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>>1964895
That is at least something we can all agree on. Hell I think he'd quite like the society we've built thus far.
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>>1964895
>>1964897
As long as we wake him up after we get New Vegas.
>>1964879
QM please answer >>1964848
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>>1964891
>Then that renders power a moot point in general.
Yes, meaning "Meaning it can have a bigger engine, meaning it accelerates faster and goes to a higher speed " is also moot, since the small craft can output enough power to compensate.
>>1964891
>SPI got a bunch of assets. Tunnellers and cloaking squads of assaultrons. Thus we should be in theory passively gaining intelligence assuming we tell her to deploy the assets.
Having to spend actions to get intel is exactly the problem. We need a passive oversight and we require the actions for other things.

>>1964891
>Not unprotected, each one does have that squad of robots it commands, which can anything from Securitrons to Loader construction robots.
And we cant be certain that something underneath the waves decides to munch on them. We just dont know enough to be reasonably sure (VS land where we have the opportunity to send in aircraft to assist).

Anyway dude, subs are a bad idea when we have the options we do. Furthermore, investing in air power pays off far more in both the short and long term VS marine assets. Just let it be and lets move on to useful things.
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>>1964891
>I fail to see how this means that any other solution solves the issue since the implication I get from that statement, at least the way you are saying it is that flight is not protection and I doubt your small robots would fair much better if in any way differently.
Ok 1) i did not recommend or even support the small robots idea, don't pin that on me.
2) you're right and flight is not protection but it does add a layer of survivability, combine that with some escort airdrones and guns we have a good chance at repelling sea monsters that try to reach at us. On the other hand your submarine idea throws us at the danger, it's suicide to be at the Sea monster's home turf.

Also, can't we just use the Inertia drive to go into medium orbit and then come back down into Hawaii? With that we avoid anything from the sea attempting to grab us.
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>>1964848
Well thats what you'd need to do by default.
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>>1964894
By god man are you daft.

1) We can make the portal bigger and shuffle the robots through. Moot point, we are doing it already.

2)QM stated we can stick a battery to the thing and itd be good for at least a few portal openings, at which point we can recharge/bring the bigger portal through if we didnt bring it directly.

3)And when we get to the sea via the Legion, guess what gets to Hawaii faster.

4)Might work.

5)Air power is something we will develop anyway, might as well use it VS making a one-time hunk of scrap for ferrying limited amounts of crap over a period of months per trip.

6)Giant sub doesnt seem wasteful? Gotcha.

7)Then why the insistance? Can you honestly not see the advantage of making a cheap one-off solution vs a giant sub that we then have to figure out a purpose for? Especialy since we are probably not going to focus on navy as much as air power.

You try to pass off this idea as novel and useful but its shit. Just plain shit. Please come back with a better proposal and learn to take critizism instead of digging your heels.
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>>1964912
Alright that was a stupid question.
How much time will it take then?
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>>1964910
>Also, can't we just use the Inertia drive to go into medium orbit and then come back down into Hawaii? With that we avoid anything from the sea attempting to grab us.
Also very valid point. If we ODST fast enough with some cover we might actually be faster as well as more secure.
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>>1964916
I don't recommend doing that with the scout ship BTW, it's one of a kind and AA might still hit it.
Use a large bomber or Airship with EMP resistance, as long as it an make the landing and turn on a teleporter we're in.
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>>1964916
Actually you give me a better idea, we towed a satellite in orbit using the Scout ship, why not a ODST drop pod with a teleporter inside? Or a Mobile replicator that can start making units once it lands to take over the base.
Why make an expensive Airship just for this mission when we can make a one time use drop pod? I still want to make the Airship by the way.
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>>1964900
Obviously.

How long till we start seriously working towards conquering Vegas. And how?
Imo, we need to build tunnels all over the place and also put teleporters, preferably inside new Vegas.
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>>1964940
We already have a teleporter in New Vegas, don't know if it's still functional though.
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>>1964903
>Yes, meaning "Meaning it can have a bigger engine, meaning it accelerates faster and goes to a higher speed " is also moot, since the small craft can output enough power to compensate.
Except my point was that a large craft can outperform a smaller one in any regard that a design chooses to make it excel in without sacrificing effectiveness in other regards however I see what you mean and will relent.

>Having to spend actions to get intel is exactly the problem. We need a passive oversight and we require the actions for other things.
Honestly I don't know if we even need to spend actions. I think we might just need to tell her and then she'll get started again.

>And we cant be certain that something underneath the waves decides to munch on them. We just dont know enough to be reasonably sure (VS land where we have the opportunity to send in aircraft to assist).
I...I honestly don't follow. We were talking about them being far, far outside of our area of control. Where are these aircraft of yours coming from?

As to them being under threat from something trying to eat them: unlikely, given that they'd have a squad each of highly advanced killing machines or at least moderately effective ones.

>Anyway dude, subs are a bad idea when we have the options we do. Furthermore, investing in air power pays off far more in both the short and long term VS marine assets. Just let it be and lets move on to useful things.
I suppose, to be frank the main reason was to avoid any potential for detection by the NCR and getting the project underway immediately whereas the actual dock being underwater and such was to prevent immediate retaliation against it by the MLA-Legion when we declare war on them or vice versa but once it was down there I realised you'd need a sub to get to it and...well you can see how we get to here.
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>>1964910
>Ok 1) i did not recommend or even support the small robots idea, don't pin that on me.
Yeah sorry, I've not slept.

>2) you're right and flight is not protection but it does add a layer of survivability, combine that with some escort airdrones and guns we have a good chance at repelling sea monsters that try to reach at us. On the other hand your submarine idea throws us at the danger, it's suicide to be at the Sea monster's home turf.
I suppose.

>Also, can't we just use the Inertia drive to go into medium orbit and then come back down into Hawaii? With that we avoid anything from the sea attempting to grab us.
Risks being identified as an ICBM or whatever and being eliminated with impunity by the US defences.

>>1964913
>1) We can make the portal bigger and shuffle the robots through. Moot point, we are doing it already.
That requires a huge building, massive amounts of power and one on either end which would essentially render it impossible. Even assuming the entire volume of what I'd be advising was associated with making this work.

>2)QM stated we can stick a battery to the thing and itd be good for at least a few portal openings, at which point we can recharge/bring the bigger portal through if we didnt bring it directly.
That is for tiny recharging portals. Also how in the hell do you plan on bringing the bigger portal through the smaller one? It's not exactly a flat pack construction set. It's a entire complex of rooms and equipment to sustain huge rends in space time.

>3)And when we get to the sea via the Legion, guess what gets to Hawaii faster.
My plan? I mean the alternative plan essentially involves building a big enough craft to survive whatever measures the pre-war world would be throwing at it on arrival, contain a sizable portal or replication system, methods by which to avoid detection by the NCR and measures to survive whatever is in the ocean.

It doesn't seem like to be honest there is a quick way to Hawaii that isn't a half assed plan where we steal a NCR ship or repair a damaged one to cut down on our provisioning time.
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>Brain
"By the way, if you intend to go by Hawaii or China, the UFO is a more sensible option. It is likely that whatever could strike the satellite at higher altitudes, won't so easily strike something flying lower."
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>>1965010
What about the Sea monsters you warned me about last time?
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>>1964928
Then we agree. The ODST point was for the portal anyway.
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>>1965003
>I suppose, to be frank the main reason was to avoid any potential for detection by the NCR and getting the project underway immediately whereas the actual dock being underwater and such was to prevent immediate retaliation against it by the MLA-Legion when we declare war on them or vice versa but once it was down there I realised you'd need a sub to get to it and...well you can see how we get to here.
Gotcha. Honestly, I dont want to argue on this since we are going nowhere without QM ruling. Lets just move on.
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The Popup Turret is a Twin Armed .50cal AP turret, with stealth capability. Apparently, not only can it be built, it can also be parachuted from altitude and bury itself in the ground.

This poses interesting ideas for our Subterrines.

The Patriot EMP defense system consists of several linked Patriot Batteries firing Tesla Missiles. These are quite devastating, both to infantry but especially to electronics.

The Plasma Avenger is an AA dedicated, relatively fast weapons platform truck. It has twin linked Turbo Plasma Rifle's with advanced coolant systems allowing for continuous fire, the drawback is that the coolant system requires a vertical air intake and plasma fume exhaust system, so it can only fire upwards and at air targets.

Particularly and "extremely" effective against low level enemy aircraft and as an anti-CAS system. Not so very effective against high altitude or stratrospheric craft, but in numbers can fill the sky with a deterrent of massed plasma.

As an afterthought, due to is nigh vulnerability to ground forces, it can also act as a Laser Designator and improve the accuracy of nearby units.
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>>1965068
>Brain
"Just remember the tale if Icarus. Try not to fly too high, or too low. Or along the coast."
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>>1965116
Does the avenger have missle intercept tech?
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>>1965116
How expensive is the popup vs a securitron and how long can it stay in the field?

Can we stick the AA system onto TACT bots? Is it worth it?

How many patriot systems do we need for it to be useful?
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>>1965131
Yes
>>1965135

>How expensive is the popup vs a securitron
Relatively similar

>Can we stick the AA system onto TACT bots
With modifcations. It'd be a more armored, smarter version.

>How many patriot systems do we need for it to be useful?
Like any defensive emplacements, its a matter of investment.
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>>1965139
What sensors do the popups have? Could they be an AA/early sensor type thing in our lovely desert?
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How many turns longer until we've finished the cold fusion reactor in NW by the way? Just a rough estimate...
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>>1965151
At least 4 or 5 but maybe longer, give or take having to completely restock depleted resources.
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>>1965151
Also, how much could it generate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_DqV1xdf-Y
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>>1965156
I think we've gotten a large portion of the concrete work done now but I know what you mean.
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>>1965156
Thats not including the Brain Vault,but after the Fusion reactor is finished progress will speed up progress
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>>1965181
Is there an efficiency advantage to building a larger disintegrator replicaor? How big, with the new reactor, would be most appropriate, considering we want to faze out "normal" resources as much as possible and eventually make a mantle drill solution that feeds the replicator in a Star Forge manner?

How much lager can we make the next fusion reactor and does it scale linearly or logarythmically?
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>>1965232
>Is there an efficiency advantage to building a larger disintegrator replicaor?
Time: Yes
Energy: Absolutely Not
Mass: Yes

Imagine no longer having to rely on the finite resources of Fissile Materials, and saving them for something much more worthwhile like nuclear weapons.

Fusion Reactors thankfully do scale linearly, mostly. At least theoretically. If there's a diminishing return value is unknown.
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>>1965241
So you are saying, outright, that a replicator does not become more efficient as we increase the size of the machine?
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>>1965256
Oh you meant the replicator.

No, that scales up linearly. It cost the same amount of energy to produce the same amount of material. The large disintegrator can just do it more.

However, again, the form of replication also factors in. Pure energy production being the most expensive, but the fastest. Fissile or Non-Fissile Particular Rearangement replication is slower, but less expensive.

By faster or slower, it amounts to how much you can produce a turn.
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>>1965256
Also the bigger replicators do need exponentially more stability in its infrastructure, as essentially you are containing a nuclear reaction of a sort. So the bigger ones need more initial material investment to its design.
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3 squads of MKV Securitrons are passively produced.

ALERT:
Massive Amounts of Hexcrete and Steelworks have taken place at the bottom of the giant hole.

Hexcrete Bags Has Decreased from (HUGE+) to (Plentiful)
Metal Has Decreased from (Plentiful) -> (Below Average)
Water is Decreasing from (Above Average) to (Below Average)

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>BIG MT
https://pastebin.com/jAXYFRB1

>THE NURSERY
https://pastebin.com/ic3ac1xL

>MONTANNA
https://pastebin.com/hNDfikF9

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NEWS:
-This month is your Children's Birthday. Wendy is expecting at the End of this Month.

4 Action Cap.

Available Actions: Civilian, Construction, Military, Research, ZAX, Hero
+Robotic Research does not count toward cap.
+Biological Research does not count toward cap
>>>>>Turn: 121
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>>1965345
~NEW TURN~
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>>1965314
QM, please explain the differences of non-fissile and disintegrator replicators. Also, the big disintegrator can turn any old matter into whatever we want, correct? It is far cheaper than direct energy replication but a bit more expensive than fissile replicators? Where does the non-fissile fit in?

Also, how big of a random-matter-to-robot replicator (disintegrator?) can we comfortably install when the current fusion plant is done?
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>>1965345
>Hero.
-Prepare and celebrate the Children's birthday.
-go get the NCR holodisks from the MLA.
Don't know what else, anyone have any ideas?
>Civ.
I don't know.
>Construction 1+2
Continue cotrusction of the cold fusion reactor.
>Robot research.
Research the BoS robots we got for possible upgrades to add to our existing robot designs.
>ZAX.
Research the BoS robots we got for possible upgrades to add to our existing robot designs.
>Biological research.
I don't know.
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Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>1965351
>>1965345

>>HERO
>B-day party for the younglings
>Get the NCR holodisks from the MLA
>Then head to Hawaii, Don't fly to high or low

>>CONSTRUCT 1 + 2
>Large cold fusion plant under BigMT

>>CIV
>Keep working on fixing up houses around our settlements and improving way of life stuff

>>ZAX RESEARCH
>Combine Alien weapons and Human tech more, in any field possible. Wither it be weapon to doctor

>>ROB-RESEARCH
>Upgrade the behemoths

>>BIO RESEARCH
>FEV research

>>PASSIVE PRODUCTION
>behemoths
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>>1965397
What is
>Upgrade the behemoths
Is it combining the Behemoth replicator and the Omni-constructor?
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>>1965406
I would believe so. Whatever upgrades we can smack on them, I suggest we attempt.
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>>1965397
What exactly are we going to do in hawaii? when its just us?
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>>1965414
That military base?

>>1965397


>>HERO
>B-day party for the younglings
>Get the NCR holodisks from the MLA
>Then head to Hawaii, Don't fly to high or low. military base/naval yard

>>CONSTRUCT 1 + 2
>Large cold fusion plant under BigMT

>>CIV
>Keep working on fixing up houses around our settlements and improving way of life stuff

>>ZAX RESEARCH
>Combine Alien weapons and Human tech more, in any field possible. Wither it be weapon to doctor

>>ROB-RESEARCH
>Upgrade the behemoths with the replicator, and Omni-constructor and/or any other improvements.

>>BIO RESEARCH
>FEV research

>>PASSIVE PRODUCTION
>behemoths
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>>1965413
Alright, was kinda worried you wanted to upgrade the behemoth into a tank unit instead of the Good old giant roboscorpion.
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>>1965421
Supporting.
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>>1965425
This is the BoS thing mate?
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>>1965421
>>Then head to Hawaii, Don't fly to high or low. military base/naval yard
Make sure to bring a teleporter pad with the remote charging feature.
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>>1965421
Yeah, I got that. Go to Hawaii, to get at the military base.
But what specifically do you expect us to do?
Like, if its an island, and every inch of it is coveered with automated defenses, what do you expect us to do?

even if it isnt, do you expect we can take control of it by our lonesome?
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>>1965449
No? What's the BoS thing?
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>>1965453
Also bring Riddick with us.
>>1965458
>even if it isnt, do you expect we can take control of it by our lonesome?
Use a teleporter pad to bring in forces to take over.
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>>1965458
scouting and locating the place. Set up a forward base, all that stuff. I mean by all ahead if you don't like it suggest your own mate.

>>1965461
We got it from the MLA i thought it was the behemoth, that the BoS was using against them?
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>>1965470
>We got it from the MLA i thought it was the behemoth, that the BoS was using against them?
Ok now i'm lost.
Yes this is the same Behemoth robot that the BoS uses.
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>>1965458
If you're worried about Hawaii defenses why not land on a different island close to Hawaii then teleport forces from there to assault Hawaii?
Anyone know if such an Island exists?
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>>1965491
It's Hawaii, so there would be another island. But we don't exactly know which island its on.
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>>1965421
We should develop weapons against the holograms Elijah is going to use. Something to short out the projectors or something.
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>>1965515
Well worst case scenario all the islands near Hawaii have bases too and we have nowhere to easily land.
>>1965523
We already have such a weapon but i agree, we should research upgrades to the pulse gun.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Pulse_gun_(Fallout:_New_Vegas)
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>>1965345
>
>-This month is your Children's Birthday. Wendy is expecting at the End of this Month

I think this is a perfect opportunity to introduce Diana to our family and have a great birthday party at the nursery. Warn Diana first though
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Don't we need to finish FEV lab for FEV research?
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>>1965535
Thats shooting the projector. Which would likely be armoured and shielded. I mean something like the sound gun but it shorts out the hologram by shooting the hologram.
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>>1965540
Don't want to do that right now but if i get outvoted make sure to flesh out what Diana can and can't do and say.
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>>1965549
That gun does short out the hologram, we did exactly that with it when we fought him the first time.
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>>1965548
I think so. Diana is fervently against FEV in her place.
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>>1965555
That was only when shooting the projectors. The pulse gun just went through the actual hologram
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OP, what's the impact on our research capabilities now that we healed the think tank? Also, don't we need to heal mobius too?
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>>1965562
Except we wren't shooting the projectors, we didn't know where they were so we shot at the holograms and it worked.
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>>1965581
werent the projectors glowing lines in the walls? and the glowing nodes they were during the dlc?
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>>1965540
No. We have wasted enough time on this. No need to drag it out and fuck it up some more.

>>1965421
Replace the CIV action with "educating citizens and integrating slaves" and focus ZAX R on alien shield tech and you will have my support.
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>>1965598
I recall those glowing lines and nodes were fake or something, they weren't the emitters.
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>>1965609
They were. He just had lots of them and then On Top Of That they were shielded and hidden.

Smells like Mary...
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>>1965614
I specifically recall us taking one of those glowing lines and discovering they were just lights.
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>>1965628
No, those were micro projectors. He made them really small and stuff.
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QM were the glowing nodes Elijah had all over the place micro emitters cause i specifically remember taking one of them and finding out they were just lights.
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Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>1965421
Supporting
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>>1965614
we could combine the metal detecting sensor with an electro magnetic feild detector and spectrometer to easiky see where the emitters are
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>>1965421
Offering a different version as we have worries closer to home and Diana doesn't like FEV research

>HERO
- Birthday party for the younglings
- Get the NCR holodisks from the MLA
- Scout Elijah with Cain + Riddick

>CONSTRUCT 1 + 2
Large cold fusion plant under BigMT

>CIV
Finish converting the former toxins plant into an FEV lab

>ZAX RESEARCH
Combine Alien and Human tech more, in any field possible.

>ROB-RESEARCH
Merge elements from the new Old World US tech with our current military robot designs

>BIO RESEARCH
Genetic perfection - designing the perfect human

>PASSIVE PRODUCTION
Behemoths
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>>1960687
>>1960499
From these two free actions (bio + robot research) it seems like we're hitting a bit of a creative wall.

Could we gather our assembled scientists / brains and ask them what immediate fields / projects they think we should be delving into - rather than tasks which will take years?
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>>1966362
I'd clarify we're building mobile replicators and not behemoths.
Also that Genetic perfection research worries me.
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>>1966394
That would be good.
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>>1966398
>mobile replicators
For what purpose? Why do we want one of our best techs out in the field?

>Genetic perfection
Why? It's the next logical step. Bio-mechanical augments can only do so much before we need to start working at a genetic level.

>>1966394
Also backing this
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>>1966465
>For what purpose? Why do we want one of our best techs out in the field?
I dunno, why would we want behemoths instead of Roboscorpions or Bastions?
>Why? It's the next logical step.
You tell me what Genetec perfection sounds to you.
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>>1966465
We need a name for the replicator models to make this easier and less confusing
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>>1966482
MWF?
Mobile War Factory.
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>>1966488
If that's what this Behemoth version is, then supporting that.

Does it have enough on-board power to act as a war factory though...?

>>1966474
The absence of genetic defects or disabilities. Peak fitness and mental ability. Improved senses and reflexes. Reduced chance of disease and enhanced natural lifespan.
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>>1966512
Enhanced lifespan to what end?
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>>1966512
>Does it have enough on-board power to act as a war factory though...?
Don't know, it can definitely produce some Squads of robots, check last thread for more details.
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>>1965421
Roll me 3 1d100s!

Still a bit busy, will try to update tonight.

>>1965360
Universal - Energy to Matter. Very expensive. Has energy constraints (some systems have to remain powered like like supports). But faster.

Disintegrator/Non-Fissile - Lower Quality Matter to Higher Quality (Rocks into Steel). Less energy expensive, but takes some more time.

Fissile - High Quality to (usually) Lower Quality (Sierra Madre Chips / Fissile into goods, etc.)

>>1965579
So far the Think Tank is recovering, but you have high hopes for them. You are sort of using them as a guinea pigs before you also try Mobius, in case something goes wrong.

>>1965663
You'll have to help refer me to the post, it those lines were most likely a new form of holo emitter.
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>>1966929
my roll here >>1965397
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>>1966929
>You'll have to help refer me to the post, it those lines were most likely a new form of holo emitter.
Thread 7.
>What the fuck. Impossible, there was no way-
>You turn around and see 10 holograms in the room. Impossible, you cut the wires! How?
I'll try looking for more bits.
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>>1966929
My roll here >>1965840
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Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>1966929
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>>1965549
Also, here's this bit for you.
>Time slows as you activate the GRX implant, the equivalent of Turbo coursing through your mind.
>Everything that can disrupt technology you release, firing the sonic blaster at the holograms.
>It does nothing but make them wobble and fade for a bit, ut pass through.
>The Pulse grenade however, causes electricals and wiring all around you to spark as the holograms stutter and then vanish.
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>>1966993
>>It does nothing but make them wobble and fade for a bit, ut pass through.
So the gun did nothing to the holograms, and we only defeated them by setting of pulse explosives to disable the projectors in the walls.

Which is why I wanted a gun that you could shoot the hologram with. Would be easier than sniping the emitter under whatever armour and forcefields and whatever elijah puts them behind.
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>>1967003
>and we only defeated them by setting of pulse explosives to disable the projectors in the walls.
Unconfirmed that the projectors were on the wall, see >>1966952
Most likely it was just general electronic shit that malfunctioned when the Pulse blast hit them.
>Which is why I wanted a gun that you could shoot the hologram with. Would be easier than sniping the emitter under whatever armour and forcefields and whatever elijah puts them behind.
It's called the Pulse gun, we used it against the holograms and it worked.
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>>1966929
>You make your way through the hallway. You make sure to severe any glowing wires you find, so that there won't be any surprise holograms.
QM did we keep any of these glowing wires on our person?
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>>1966952
>>1967038
>Brain
"In hindsight, it was likely that Elijah had installed a redundancy failsafe where cutting one section of wire is immediately backed up by another."
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>>1967038
The bit you just posted said the sonic gun "does nothing but make them wobble and fade for a bit". Then a bunch of pulse GRENADES went of and fried everything on the walls or in the walls.

I want something that makes the hologram break down, or overload the projectors If you get what I'm saying.
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>>1967064
Except we cut as many Wires we could find, and from the post it sounds like we cut all the wires so Elijah either must have used hidden hologram projectors or something else.
Regardless, did we pocket some of those wires and do we still have them?
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>>1967077
Oh my lord.
>The Pulse grenade however, causes electricals and wiring all around you to spark as the holograms stutter and then vanish.
>AS THE HOLOGRAMS STUTTER AND THE VANISH.
Pulse grenades breaks down holograms, the pulse gun is the same technology and will do the same thing. Even if there were hidden emmiters in the walls it's proven that the pulse weapons can destroy them.
You have your anti-Elijah gun sir, please just take it.

Also, i just found this important bit.
>Meanwhile, two ghosts carrying a hologram projector walk through the door, but are blown to smitherines by the mines. But behind them, a sound like an army crawling down hallways approaches.
So we did manage to clear a room of holograms and the Ghosts had to bring a emitter in.
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>>1967081
Thats what what was implied.

"Alternatively, he knew your previous strategy of tampering with the emitter and the wire system was simply an entire ruse."
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>>1967077
Could always try and research hologram dispersal.
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>>1967131
>"Alternatively, he knew your previous strategy of tampering with the emitter and the wire system was simply an entire ruse."
Which was assumed to be the case by anons after.
So either there are hidden emitters or the Giant emitter theory one anon had is plausible.
Anyway i proved my point.
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>>1967127
Pulse weapons only destroy the emitter when they hit the emitter. Which while an option is not the easiest thing to do in the field of battle. Especially as elijah will be reinforcing and hardening his emitters so they dont just get blown out by pulse weapons.
Im suggesting a weapon that disables the emitter by interacting with the hologram. Which is a completely different thing.
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>>1967137
Yes. Thats what I want.
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>>1967151
>Which while an option is not the easiest thing to do in the field of battle.
See
>Meanwhile, two ghosts carrying a hologram projector walk through the door, but are blown to smitherines by the mines. But behind them, a sound like an army crawling down hallways approaches.
Pulse weapons worked, a room had to have extra hologram emitters brought in cause we broke the original ones. And it's still possible that the pulse gun could destroy holograms without needing to hit the emitter.

How fucking hard is it to understand that we already have the weapon you're asking for?
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>>1967169
Because we dont have it.

Pulse weapons , when they hit the emitter, shut down the emitter. Im not saying they dont.
However, relying on being able to hit the emitter all the time in foolish. They could be hidden or armoured or any number of things that make the emitter itself immune to pulse weapons. What I want is something you can shoot a hologram with to disable them.
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>>1967197
>What I want is something you can shoot a hologram with to disable them.
Yea i just noticed your previous post.
But again, it's possible that the Pulse grenades were shortening out the hologram without actually damaging the emitter. But i understand if you aren't pleases with a "Possible"
Regardless, i agree that we should soon research Anti-hologram weapons and i still believe that the Pulse gun is one such weapon.
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>>1967215
I imagine its more a modification on the sonic blaster, which already shuts down forcefields. So getting it to work on holograms should be a matter of calibrating it right.
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>>1965421
>>>BIO RESEARCH
>>FEV research

>Diana
"Please don't bring that stuff into the nursery.

You have all of BigMT just don't make me do it. I'll do whatever you want but that."

>What do?
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>>1967446
She doesn't want to be apart of those who would help cure FEV from the current people on the world?

Worse case use cloned bodies that are pure-strain from here?

Why the fuck was the Toxic labs not finished being converted yet?
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>>1967446
Dont do that.
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>>1967524
Well accidents are very much a risk that she clearly doesnt want to have in her place of living. And shes not in the wrong for thinking that.

We havent been building the fev lav because weve been busy building necessary infrastructure.
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>>1967524
Exactly what I said in my revised action list...

Don't make her do any research. Let's just clone some pure strain human bodies and place them in cryo - ready for future testing.
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>>1967535
Yeah thats good. She probably knows that human clones are not viable, so she should be okay with that.
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>>1967535
>Let's just clone some pure strain human bodies and place them in cryo - ready for future testing.
Make sure they're brainless.
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>>1967446
Would she be fine working on it in hologram mode within Big Mt?
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>>1967593
Barely anyone knows about her - baring our wives, and even they don't know much.

Given what we've done to her mind, I suggest we keep it that way.
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>>1967593
>>1967733
Thats more acceptable to her.

You don't have any FEV safe labs yet either. You started working on one though, so the progress is still there
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>>1967765
Does it require a construction action to complete, or can a Civ action be used, given that we're converting the existing toxin plant?
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>>1967765
I would say I would like us to finish the labs before we work on the FEV. So a idea for alt Bio research is...

Corps that can grow with less water or faster?

Since that's something Diana can do and will reduce our water use, or increase food supplies.
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>>1967837
Seems like a solid choice.
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>>1967837
Sounds good. We are running a bit low on water at the moment.
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>>1967837
>>1967845
>>1967980
Writing
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>>1965421
Guess who showed up back to work today.

>Dr. 0
"Hello, Courier"

>You
[Dr. 0, good to see you. Come back to the DOME then?]

>Dr. 0
"Yeah. The old house is nice, but it just doesn't quite feel the same though. Might also be I've gotten use to this place, but I can definitely see the perks of being able to venture out of this place."

>You
[How have you been feeling so far? Is everything alright?]

>Dr. 0
"It's a bit difficult, it took a while to remember how to be aware of my body and not trip and bash into things. Wouldn't even begin to know where to cook if it weren't for your replicators. I gotta admit, you've been doing a few things we wouldn't have dreamed of in the old days. That Alexa program sure is useful. The Pre-War days. Getting used to the war and the new world is also a bit of a shock."

>You
[I see. We've had some time to work out on getting people used to the present, after waking up some of the others in cryo. What I've found is getting people to work in the jobs they used to do, really helps cope with the transition.]

>Dr. 0
"Yeah. I think the others are falling into their old habits. Dr. 8 is enjoying his Opera's again, Dr. Borous is playing with Gabe. Dr. Klein seems to be the worst hit, though more irritated than depressed at least. Dr. Dala. . .I'm not sure what to make of her reaction. It's very physical to say the least."

>You
[Say, you are the Robotics and Technical expert of the Think Tank right?]

>Dr. 0
"Are you kidding? The others wouldn't even be able to perform a basic maintenance routine on their units if it weren't for me"

>You
[There's some designs I'd like you to take a look at. Why don't you come here and have a look.]

>con't
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>>1969289
Oh boy i can't wait to see his reaction to the Bastions and other designs.
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>>1969338
He'll have a nerdgasm once he realizes the robotic capacity we have established
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>>1969338
I really want to see this
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If it wasn't for that Nat 1 in the first thread. The first fucking turn.
We would have never gotten the alien spaceship. That spaceship with the alien metals are a Godsend.
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>>1969534
The question is, can we utilize it to its full potential?

move the chinese to Newberry already....
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>>1969576
If that clone of our wasn't made...

I think we should count our blessings. Since shit would have gone way different.

We should
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>>1965421
>>>ROB-RESEARCH
>>Upgrade the behemoths with the replicator, and Omni-constructor and/or any other improvements.
>>ZAX RESEARCH
>Combine Alien weapons and Human tech more, in any field possible. Wither it be weapon to doctor.

>Dr 0
"Interesting designs. These. . .Bastion Robots, TACTS, and ugh. . .Securitrons. Can't believe you replaced my deconstruction factory, but the automated assembly plant was a good choice. Gosh I feel like a. . .like a. . .small human in a confectionery depot.

Kind of a bit backwards though."

>You
[What do you mean?]

>Dr 0
"I mean, the designs aren't bad but you're going about them rather inefficiently"

>Zax(RND)
"I had that feeling as well Dr. 0. But I lack the technological insight to effectively change that"

>Dr 0
"Well. . .for starters"

---

To say you are impressed is understating it. At last, you've met another human individual (besides house possibly) who knows more about robotics and old world technology than you do.

Dr. 0 is a Genius, and that's not a word you take lightly. Sure, plenty of people can score a 10 in a Vito-Matic Machine, but Genius is in the works. As if divinely inspired, he rearranges designs on the holographic blueprint, adjusts material compositions, reroutes circuitry. Even the vaunted Alien Technology he applies.

RND and Dr. 0 get along very well (they have strikingly similar personalities).

>NEW TECHNOLOGIES
-Dr. 0 has show you how to build Omni-Constructors. You may now produce them. And, as a bonus, has also created a Behemoth Armored Variant, the COnstructOr. This one CAN be disasembled and reassembled on a human sized portal! Although it takes at least two months to do so, but thanks to magnetically self linking pieces literally puts itself together.
-Dr. 0 has developed a new type of energy weapon for a human being. It uses the same technology as the Tankitron's beam, using a laser to guide either a constant stream or a massive burst of disintegration particles, but in a far more compact form. Using advanced electronics it has a smart onboard tracking computer similar to the V.A.T.S. found in pipboys, allowing to account for such things as moving targets, air distortion, and human error, and can actually link to either a pair of smart goggles, a Pipboy V.A.T.S. system or a Neural Uplink. It's by far the best Energy Rifle you have currently, and the ZAX(MAJOR) and Moreno recommend making it standard issue

>Dr 0
"Keep throwing me more of these research actions and give me a direction. I'm having a lot of fun here!"

>Zax(RND)
"So am I. Dr 0 really has some amazing insights, and I'm a supercomputer!"
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>>1969473
>>1969338
Dr. 0 is VERY excited. Though, he's not entirely sure where to begin. Klein was always the one giving orders, and so were you. But he'll apply his mind to whatever you put him too.

"Bastion Bots. Like the concept. Could use a Photonic Resonance Barrier.

Wait, you guys didn't figure those out yet? They're easy."


>NEW TECHNOLOGY
+Photonic Resonance Shielding
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>>1969704
>+Photonic Resonance Shielding
Great
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>>1969699
QM, can we upsize the rifle, quadlink it and make it an AA weapon? Would it be better than the EMP option in close range? Thinking anti-COS and bombers.

Whats the difference between this shield and the alien ones? Is this hard light? Can we use it to interfere with Elihjas holograms? Can we make our own holo-troops?
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>>1969699
Also, can we make it into a gatling version for accurate supressing fire? Does Dr.0 have any suggestions now that he has had a look? Any input on antigrav tech and making a giant Dreadnought?

Also, in what ways are the new robots better than the old ones? Can we integrate the shields in panes onto our securitrons too (a pad on the front torso to dissipate plasma/laser fire so they last longer, for example)?

Any other way to further improve our bots? Can we turn the antigrav into a useful alternative to whatever legs our bots have so we could move on to all hover?
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>>1969704
QM I got to ask what happened with the rock star we defrost from the Alien ship?

Did he kill himself from being depressed, or did you just forget about him?

Also I think it's time we could open another person up from sleep.
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>>1969699
>ZAX(MAJOR) and Moreno recommend making it standard issue
I'm personally more in favour of railguns, but this seems cool too. Does standardising it require a Military action, or can we just say it happens?

We also haven't even provided power armour to our troops - just the hazard armour.

>>1969699
>+Photonic Resonance Shielding
That was one of the pre-req techs to New Washington 2.0, right?

If so, sweet!
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>>1969750
I honestly have no idea why we even chose him. Iirc, there was literally not a single line about him except mentioning his name once or twice.
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>>1969781
Iirc, it was about cultural propaganda and new music for the state or something like that. Basically a one-off.

Although, I dont really remember anyone else worthwhile though. Some priest?
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>>1969699
>-Dr. 0 has show you how to build Omni-Constructors. You may now produce them. And, as a bonus, has also created a Behemoth Armored Variant, the COnstructOr. This one CAN be disasembled and reassembled on a human sized portal! Although it takes at least two months to do so, but thanks to magnetically self linking pieces literally puts itself together.
>-Dr. 0 has developed a new type of energy weapon for a human being. It uses the same technology as the Tankitron's beam, using a laser to guide either a constant stream or a massive burst of disintegration particles, but in a far more compact form. Using advanced electronics it has a smart onboard tracking computer similar to the V.A.T.S. found in pipboys, allowing to account for such things as moving targets, air distortion, and human error, and can actually link to either a pair of smart goggles, a Pipboy V.A.T.S. system or a Neural Uplink. It's by far the best Energy Rifle you have currently, and the ZAX(MAJOR) and Moreno recommend making it standard issue
Dear lord...what the hell else is he gonna

>>1969704
>+Photonic Resonance Shielding
WHY DID WE WAIT SO LONG TO DO THIS!

>>1969807
There was a...farmer? With some pre-war seeds. Admittedly made a little redundant by the arrival of Diana's gene and seed banks but his actual skill at farming could be useful.
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>>1969821
>skill at farming
>useful
We have bots that work 24/7, are far superior in any measurable aspect and we have an AI who specializes in biology. I can safely say this dude is useless unless he has a secret degree in genetics or something. But honestly, if its either him or the priest go with the farmer and have him oversee?? Make him the overseer of the soon-to-be Newberry hydroponics farms when we shovel the chinese over there?? Make him cook? Seriously, these people, at face value, are pretty much useless.
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>>1969827
Hey never doubt the utility of a good farmer. Someone with actual on the ground experience with the needs of plants who can tell you what a machine would need to be like to harvest, sow and otherwise farm a crop. Still I know what you mean, he's made redundant by the existence of Diana.

Also, the Hydroponics farms ain't gonna be a thing. We decided on the underground ones.
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>>1969750
He's one of your more popular musicians on the Mrs. New Washington and Mr. New Vegas show and boosting morale, which is already through the roof but still. He's something of a celebrity along with Dean Domino.

According to SPI they're listening to him even in the NCR.
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>>1969719
The Plasma Avenger is actually a very good weapon according to even Dr. 0. BigMT played a role in its design, but he could work on an AA system.

The Alien Shield seems a lot more advanced, though its only effective against Kinetic and Inertial force. Fire, laser, electricity, acid, and plasma seems to be able to penetrate it but still being nigh impervious to conventional bullet fire has its uses.

"It's also possible to make something of holograms too. The fellow who crashed the trains some years back stole a lot of technology, including our data archives on holograms."

>>1969726
He can work on a dedicated suppression weapon.

As well as the Inertial Drive. Just needs actions each.

>Also, in what ways are the new robots better than the old ones?
Far more compact with superior circuitry and more efficient and power saving, ergo, powerful design. He's applying the creme of Old World circuitry tech.

Though nothing like House's Platinum Chip

A shielded variant of securitron can be worked on. As well as a hover, just like the Tankitron.
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>>1969914
In a straight up fight how many MK 2 securitrons like House had for the fight at the dam take to match one of ours? How about a squad of ours?
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>>1969914
>Hybridizing photonic resonance tech and alien shield tech a-go
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>>1969914
>The Plasma Avenger is actually a very good weapon according to even Dr. 0. BigMT played a role in its design, but he could work on an AA system.
The attractive thing was the targeting and in-flight tracking. If the Avenger is a better weapon overall, could we integrate the VATS into that?

>>1969914
>The Alien Shield seems a lot more advanced, though its only effective against Kinetic and Inertial force. Fire, laser, electricity, acid, and plasma seems to be able to penetrate it but still being nigh impervious to conventional bullet fire has its uses.
As >>1970076 mentioned, can we combine the two to get some hybrid vigour going?

Are the holograms better in a warfront setting (long range, artillery and so on, assuming the emitter also has to be on the field somewhere)?

Inertial Drive go!!

Anwser >>1969962 please.
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So, we've now got the ability to send replicator behemoths through our current portal network and thus to Montana, the Nursery (start expanding into the Legion / MLA over there without mentioning it's us?) and elsewhere we expand the network. Then two months later, after they self-assemble, they can be made use of or sooner if we have people / robots on the other side to assist in assembly.

So, if we produce them now with our robotics factory, we can get started in the north and really get kicking without having to create that giant truck-sized portal building.
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>>1970162
Its in "passive build" already, should be good to go, at least one. Start sending them to Montana (fortify the base to hell and back first so we can project power) and the Nursery (same shtick) after that. Then Hawaii? Alaska?
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>>1970179
Well I think we have a teleporter with the Mormon's main settlement and logically speaking we could send one there to help them. After that, it could probably set up some outposts and generally just expand underground in the region. If we are lucky, the Mormons will look at our tech and shit and just agree to join us outright which would secure us a fairly large increase in population who are fairly gene pure and intelligent without being morally outrageous.


Other good locations would be:

1) Mexico - No known competing nations besides the Legion. Significant survivor populations to the southern end that are as of yet thought to be Legion-ised. Would provide access to land seized pre-war by the US and thus potentially stocks of their weapons.

2) Texas - No known competing nations but possibly a plant based mutant cult. No known survivor populations but significant mutant plant forests. Would provide access to the irradiated ruins of the Vault-tec secret vault, the vault we got the ZAX from and various other ruins including entire cities that are unclaimed and could be rendered down for resources.

3) Florida - NASA and a pre-war US general (command!) base. Both important for the technology we might get but also for the fact that they'd almost certainly kick start any expansion here. Risk of giant mutant wild life like crocodiles.

Also another good region for growing Shi-plant given it's nature of being a hugely water logged state.

4) Panama - only water crossing from east to west without travelling all the way south. Useful to have for that reason alone but would also allow us to stop Legion expansion south by securing their southern border with a major defensive line at the canal (using it as a moat).

Plus, all major shipping would've been going through there so we'd almost certainly be able to get something of use from the ships, even if it was only materials like steel.

5) Caribbean - Unlikely to have any sorts of competing nations or significant survivor populations but would provide an isolated area to grow massive amounts of Shi-plant for fissile material, using the radioactive water surrounding the island chains which would in turn begin the process of healing the world.

Not to mention the number of pre-war ships that might've went aground there when the bombs dropped.
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>>1969914
>As well as the Inertial Drive. Just needs actions each.
This is the best news i heard all day.
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>>1970930
Perhaps we could assign Doctor Klein to lead the research project on the Inertial Drive. Seems like he needs some direction to properly recover.
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>>1971066
Exactly what i was thinking.
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>>1970245
Montana first, the Momons require convincing (unless they say yes right away, then ship em one first) while Montana is largely unpatrolled and filled with economically important cities.

1-5) Seems nice and I guarantee you we will face opposition everywhere we go. In case you missed it this is a quest where we dont get shit for free, likewise with the aforementioned locations. The only place that justifies this risk is Florida with NASA and the base which are one-of-a-kind as opposed to every other place. This is especially true since we are soon to breach the resource independance with the new fusion reactors and replicators.

>>1970930
>>1971066
>>1971082
Absolutely agreed!!
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>>1970245
>Caribbean

an excellent idea, especially if we invest some bio research actions to inprove the plants.

Wider root network, biological refinement of fissile material, easier processing...

>>1971066
this is a smart idea.

All these combined with taking over the baronies and alaska would give us a huge nation.
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>>1971120
Texas also is a justifiable risk since the only faction is a bunch of mutant plants.

plus, NASA command is in Houston.
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>>1971155
>Texas also is a justifiable risk since the only faction is a bunch of mutant plants.
I think you're kinda underestimating the mutant plants.
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>>1971155
The plants, which can infest and destroy tech, can form huge masses of fuck-you wood monsters and cover whole swathes of land. Also the implication that some humans are living and leading the things. Not really that pleasant compared to boring farmland with the occasional moving tank-city we can target and bomb to destroy vs an area-covering mass of murder-you.

Lets lay off that place until we can carpet bomb and have plenty plasma "flame"throwers.

Also, then a reason to take a look in Houston.
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>>1971179
>>1971183
our military needs a campaign to shake out the kinks before assaulting a thinking, tactically aware foe.

besides Diana had specimens at the nursery. meaning we can develop countermeasures like a defoliant
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>>1971183
Didnt the walls also start bleeding and the people driven crazy or something? I remeber some psych horror going on.
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>>1969699
What's the difference between a Omani-Constructor and a COnstructOr?
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>>1971286
With Montana we could use our great diplomacy to make grains with the owners of the tank-cities. Also it's closer to us, and we have a teleporter already set up.
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>>1971314
>Great diplomacy
Haha, good one.

>>1971307
The COnstructOr is based on the armored behemoth chassis, so it's probably better suited for combat?
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>>1971286
>our military needs a campaign to shake out the kinks before assaulting a thinking, tactically aware foe.
We can do that next turn, seeing as we need to take a break from building the Cold fusion reactor to let out resources stock up a bit.
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>>1971286
Agreed.

>>1971288
Psychic horror matters less for us, since we'd be relying on robots for the most part if not entirely.

>>1971435
Well we could apply our construction actions to getting started on the underground farms seeing as we never excavated them (I think) so that should be fairly resource cheap.

Or we could use them to salvage the Divide for more resources or something else, like perhaps just assisting our civilian population with their private growth?

This is before mentioning that we can always turn food into that medicine the NCR gave us and sell it to them for metal / Hexcrete.
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Also, we should see what Klein thinks of the Post-scarcity ideology our guys developed, he was the Chief of idea-ology.
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>>1971466
>Psychic horror matters less for us, since we'd be relying on robots for the most part if not entirely.
Psychic stuff still affects robots though, back in the flooded city our robots were being sapped out of power in the sewers, although i think it was discovered later that that was a mind trick and the robots were fine, but the point is the robots aren't invulnerable to Psykers.
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>>1971472
That was something...else. Something that if even close to what it was based off of, we'd be fucked entirely.
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>>1971486
>Something that if even close to what it was based off of, we'd be fucked entirely.
Ok i'm curious, what did you think it was?
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>>1971496
Weeping angel rip-off. OP confirmed it when I asked.
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>>1971502
So something that can only move when you look away.
If it's affected by Robotic observation we can just have a bunch of Assaultrons look at it while we slowly destroy it.
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>>1971467
I dont think he has the sociology or economics degree to really be qualified to weigh in on it.
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>>1971523
I'm pretty sure he has.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Klein
>Doctor Klein is a pre-War doctor and the chief/head researcher of logistical operations and ideology at Big MT.
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>>1971533
Logistics is different from sociology. Nor is it economics.
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>>1971533
>logistical operations
That's great, he'll help us with the transporting of supplies for things.
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>>1971540
>>1971547
>And ideology at Big MT.
How do you think he got to be the head researcher of Ideology if not by being good at it? He couldn't have relied on just his Logistics mastery to get the position.
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>>1971557
I was just commenting on his logistical skills. I'm sure he has a good sense of ideology.
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>>1971562
Ah, sorry.
But yea, he should be useful for getting things organized.
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>>1971557
I dobt think he researches logistics and ideology. Hes just incharge of it for the mountain, like making funding deals and acquisition contracts as well as saying the mountain will focuss on science X. Not research inot if Communism is a viable economic system.
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>>1971591
what he can do is make things run more smoothly.

put people to work on long term projects.

imorove the efficiency of our civ, and passove actions. he might even afford us a free passive action per turn just by keeping people busy
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>>1971512
Wouldn't work. They are immortal against all conventional weapons except theoretically if extremely weak which is unlikely, as that one was fully formed and they can survive off of most energy sources like radiation, electricity, time and it's related paradox's.

Ignoring the fact that any image of a angel (including drawings, paintings, statues (potentially however it is known they can make ordinary statues into more angels) pictures and videos) can, in turn, become an angel. Not to mention that if someone looks into the eye of an angel, they will slowly turn into one.

They are also human level intelligent and capable of breaking through solid steel walls.


Trust me, these are fucking nightmares to fight or even survive. I mean there are things that'd be worse to try and fight if they actually intended to fight us.
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>>1971737
>They are immortal against all conventional weapons
What kind of "Conventional weapons" are we talking here?
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>>1971737
Also what's their energy threshold? It's obvious they can benefit from an electric current and normal laser weapons but can they survive Sun-like temperatures?
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>>1971745
During the 33rd century, flocks of Weeping Angels swarmed human colony worlds and darkened the sunlight to feed on their population; worlds such as New Moscow were asked to take up arms against them. Some said it would not be possible to oppose such powerful creatures.

During an encounter in the 50th century against a single extremely weak and isolated angel, believed to potentially have been injured by a crash onto a planet the christian church (they got crusading again) sent roughly 100 soldiers. They failed to eliminate even a single angel after being caught in the middle of an ambush by multiple hundred angels scattered through the caverns they were taking to reach the angel, that had been waiting for roughly 300 years and were almost entirely starved.

Then there is the fact that, at the literal end of the universe's civilised existence, in the year 50 "squillion" rather than attempting to destroy even a single one, they have a giant "museum" where they exist under constant observation.

>>1971766
Yes. The only known example of angels being killed in massive numbers involved literally throwing them outside of the universe into a tear between realities. It should be noted that beings have previously came back from this place, so potentially they might return.


Only thing worse than these bastards is the vashta nerada but at least they ain't as much of a bunch of dicks.
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>>1971836
That doesn't answer my questions.
Also you said these are Rip-offs, so they won't have everything canon Dr. who weeping angels have, so it's not like all this lore you posted matters.
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>>1971836
Oh wait you did answer the Sun question, sorry.
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>>1971866
My point is that weeping angels ain't nothing to sniff at and to be frank you shouldn't expect the plant-control specialising psychics to suddenly pull some sorts of power leeching bullshit.
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>>1971878
>My point is that weeping angels ain't nothing to sniff at
I can agree to that but still, they're knock offs and we have a wide selection of technology to test against them, from plasma and sonic weapons to disintegration and portal shit.
>to be frank you shouldn't expect the plant-control specialising psychics to suddenly pull some sorts of power leeching bullshit.
But i do and i don't see a reason not to.
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>>1971899
>I can agree to that but still, they're knock offs and we have a wide selection of technology to test against them, from plasma and sonic weapons to disintegration and portal shit.
I say they were knock-offs because they weren't angel statues, not because there was any seeming reason they'd be weaker.

As to plasma, sonic or anything else working: unlikely. Again: at the literal height of human and universal civilisation they found it easier to just place them somewhere than to actually bother to kill them. They could throw them in the sun, into black holes, into any number of deadly places yet they don't because they wouldn't work.

>But i do and i don't see a reason not to.
Then you fail to understand how psychics generally work in Fallout. Specialising or only being able to do one or two things.
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>>1971954
>I say they were knock-offs because they weren't angel statues,not because there was any seeming reason they'd be weaker.
But they aren't angel statues, why would they have the same abilities as canon weeping angels?
>Again: at the literal height of human and universal civilisation they found it easier to just place them somewhere than to actually bother to kill them. They could throw them in the sun, into black holes, into any number of deadly places yet they don't because they wouldn't work.
Honestly mate i refuse to believe QM would add these in without severely downgrading them, i would be worried if they were actual angels but they aren't.
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>>1971973
>But they aren't angel statues, why would they have the same abilities as canon weeping angels?
Never said they did but we didn't see anything that would disprove it. We fired no shots on them, rather we collapsed the tunnel and hoped it would leave them isolated.

>Honestly mate i refuse to believe QM would add these in without severely downgrading them, i would be worried if they were actual angels but they aren't.
Mate my whole point since the beginning of this was that what we'd be facing in Texas would be small problems. You brought up the incident in the Sunken city and my whole point here was that it wasn't and isn't a comparable group or being.
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Qm probably brought in weeping angels as an interesting sidenote to satisfy tge wacky wasteland trait and for fun.

Unless we kick the hornets nest by going look for them we probably wont have to deal with them again.
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>>1971989
>Never said they did but we didn't see anything that would disprove it. We fired no shots on them, rather we collapsed the tunnel and hoped it would leave them isolated.
Fair enough.
>Mate my whole point since the beginning of this was that what we'd be facing in Texas would be small problems.
And i still disagree with that.
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>>1971998
And I understand you still disagree on that but my point stands that the likelihood of the entirely plant control focused psychics in Texas having even the slightest ability to interfere with robotics besides throwing plants at them is insanely low.

Fact is that psychics can generally only do one thing: Forecaster can see the future, Unity can share memories / senses / hive-mind stuff, beastmasters can control animals and the various humans exposed to FEV could do shit like control fire, light and so on but only one or two in any case.

The chance of the plant controlling psychics of Texas having the ability to do anything but control plants (and other plant related things like possibly controlling their growth / accelerating it) is incredibly unlikely in most cases and even if they did, when we assaulted our way to that vault in Texas we saw no sign of them so they are either far away or fairly rare. Not to mention that such powers require awareness of the target so they'd be within range of something like our artillery.
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>>1972025
>The chance of the plant controlling psychics of Texas having the ability to do anything but control plants (and other plant related things like possibly controlling their growth / accelerating it) is incredibly unlikely in most cases.
Didn't Cain describe seeing blood on the walls and hear his dead comrades try to coach him out? That at the very least points to the texan cultists having a illusionist psycher like what we experienced in the Divide tunnels.
>when we assaulted our way to that vault in Texas we saw no sign of them so they are either far away or fairly rare.
Wasn't that because they didn't expect us? When we got out of the vault shit was going down and we barely escaped.
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>>1972059
>Didn't Cain describe seeing blood on the walls and hear his dead comrades try to coach him out? That at the very least points to the texan cultists having a illusionist psycher like what we experienced in the Divide tunnels.
Eh, I can't really remember but to be frank if they had only a single one that is not that impressive. They could've gotten one by chance.

>Wasn't that because they didn't expect us? When we got out of the vault shit was going down and we barely escaped.
We were down there for a decent length of time talking and trying to fight that growing corruption. If there was any within a dozen miles I'd imagine their forest would've gotten them there with speed.
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we could talk to our psychics about it. AHS9 likely has at least a general idea where other powerful psychic forces are located.

But then I also want to talk to them about researching psychic powers.
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>>1972456
Well as much as I agree the simple fact is that without a large supply of psychics and some method to measure their potential we can't really control our development.


The only thing we know is that alien metal acts as an amplifier.
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>>1972468
well we need to do some slaving deals anyway
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>>1972738
Maybe wait a bit more. We don't have to woryy about appearances with the NCR anymore, which is good, but we do have the keep in mind the social cost that comes with bringing in a bunch of psychologically traumatized individuals. It hasn't been that long since we had the last batch.
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>>1972738
>>1972843
Not to mention we've got to build up credit / trade goods. Easiest solution to that I can think of would be more weapons, food / fuel and possibly more tunnels for them.
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>>1972864
We got a massive payout from the NCR for their guys, courtesy of them making bottlecaps not money anymore.
Probably have millions of it when the exchanged everyone's bottlecaps for dollars.
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>>1972948
Oh shit yeah I forgot about those. To be honest, we could also use those to purchase more steel and shit to build our fusion reactor while we are getting some more slaves.
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>>1972948
>>1972985
We also should make sure of that quickly, Since areas near NCR would see the supply of bottle caps increase thus reducing the buying power.

In the East Coast they would be too far away to hear or see the increase of bottle caps, so no worry over there yet.
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>>1973097
Except the NCR doesn't have any trading partners to the East. And the Legion uses Denarius

Unless they want to cripple the MLA economy by dumbing bottlecaps, which might not even work if the MLA is not even a free market.
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>>1973148
Montana is a prime market, and we could alway trade them supplies like weapons or medical drugs for more slaves.

Once we treat our current free slaves, have the houses build, and have a stable food and water supply we can get more. Since I don't want us to just cripple our food and water with such a increase of population.
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>>1973164
For us yes, but I don't think there would be much bottlecap devaluing as the NCR has no one to unload the caps on except us. The NCR can't reach Montanna to buy out everything with the money they don't use.
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>>1973164
>Once we treat our current free slaves, have the houses build, and have a stable food and water supply we can get more.
Aren't the houses already built?
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>>1973186
We should have the houses built.
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>>1973186
Yeah they already have houses.

We should gather more ex-slaves with our hero action next turn.

It's been a few months by this point, enough for the first batch to settle in.

They will act as a natural support group for all future ex-slaves as well, decreasing the magnitude of the transition to free American citizen.
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>>1973694
I do like buying the slaves and freeing them as population.
It's a good thing, morality and ethically, so the karma would be nice to have.
It also allows us to expand and build our cities up. Since most can work in construction or apply themselves in higher fields of knowledge.

I do think we need to expand the School, in the future. Since some of the free slaves could use some education. The food and water supply seems to be stable for now.
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>>1973708
Im all for helping people but doing things because it "feels nice" is the dumbest thing since the Tzar Tank. We can use them and we will buy more of them if they are useful but not for carmic reasons. Furthermore, they are shit at building and will go straight into either education or skilled labour training (engineering and overseeing).
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>>1973741
I like feeling nice
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>>1973756
Watch Disney. Frankly, the way things are going, its gonna get alot worse before it gets better.
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Bloody weekend due paper and homework.

Time to pick up where I left off.
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>>1973694
I think it takes more than a few months for people to really settle in after traumatic experiences, especially long term traumatic experiences. The ex slaves are probably still using a lot of psychological health resources and would for a good while. And we have limited doctors.
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>>1973874
And those are only a minority of the slaves. Really your doctors have it in hand.

The rest are adjusting fairly well and contributing to the human work force. Which is less than 10% of your total output since everything is robots and a few super geniuses but still.

Mostly people are in service and arts.
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>>1973875
They have things in hand now, but can they handle more?
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>>1973866
I know what you feel, just had an exam and spent 8 hours in the lab to top it off.

>>1973875
Thought things were more as >>1973874 describes but ok.

On the topic of people, if we funnel most, if not all, of the new arrivals into high-end engineering and sciences, how long would it take for them to be useful researchers (as in actually faster research or even extra or bonus research actions) or competent enough engineers to speed up the planning/overseeing of buildings (who does that anyway, is it all just ZAX and Miles)? Are the people even really useful outside services and culture or could we realistically carry the whole nation on the backs of ever-expanding computer banks and the few supergeniuses we have?
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>>1973892
funnelling all of them into two disciplines is really stupid.

test them via vitomatic to see where their strength is and go accordingly.

no sense training someone whose highest stat is endurance to be an engineer.
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>>1973919
This is what we call "reason". If they are an idiot we set them up in a cage fight for national TV or something. The point is that any and all intellect will be used by the state for advancement instead of letting it go to waste farming or somesuch nonsense.
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>>1973934
Considering the circumstances it would be a huge waste to put people in less than useful jobs just because they arent geniuses.

High PER? Sniper/investigation specialist

High END? Construction/Shock Trooper/Civilian Freight Loader

High Luck? Special training in card counting, mathematics, systems analysis, then we send them to Oddballs casino to break the bank.
Or make them a special operative.

High AGI? Gunslinger/Assasin/exotic dancer

Lots of options besides just scientist or engineer.
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>>1973954
>High PER? Sniper/investigation specialist
Sure

>>1973954
>High END? Construction/Shock Trooper/Civilian Freight Loader
Absolutely fucking not. We have robots that do twice the work in half the time and dont need to sleep, eat or shit. Add to that the precision and repeatability and a robot can easily outperform a man in any physical task, be it construction or freight work, which has to be one of the worst applications of human resource on the planet.

>>1973954
>High AGI? Gunslinger/Assasin/exotic dancer
Sure

>>1973954
>High Luck? Special training in card counting, mathematics, systems analysis, then we send them to Oddballs casino to break the bank.
>Or make them a special operative.
Sure, assuming they are useful.

The point is the same, if they are of intellectual value they will be assigned to intellectual tasks. This takes presedence over any other trait, since we can easily make robots that shoot, run and jump better than any soldier. What we cant yet reproduce is the ingenuity requiered in science and the drive to figure out solutions to problems. When we have 50 ZAXs to throw around I will happily let everyone do whatever but until we reach that point we have need of these human resources. Especially intellectual ones.
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>>1973954
Sending them to New Reno implies we have an arrangement for holidays in the NCR which we .
Also exotic dancer? Is that a government approved job? And why agility?
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>>1973969
He was trying to prove a point, which I agree with to an extent but yeah, we really have to be smart about using our people and making sure they themselves are smart and useful.
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Also, something that occurred to me: when we last made our implants for our soldiers we had to replicate them because of how high a quality they were and everything. With a non-fissile replication system, we could outfit our entire population with ease given the nature of the implants as rather small things.
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>>1973974
Right you are! Also, with the replicators ability to go atom-by-atom we can incorporate nanolevel structures like carbon tubes, piezoelectric coatings and maybe even passive stealth systems with ease. Best thing? Its just as fast as regular! We can literally kit out our entire population, all our bots and structures with nanoscale improvements at the same cost as making regular bots and buildings!

Just have to get the Big replicator going....
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>>1973972
Yeah. In theory its all hood. But that neglects the fact that people might not want to do what we say is best for them. What do we do about the geniuses who dont want to do intellectual work? The eagled eyed who want to go into music?
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>>1973980
While I believe there is always something people want and we can provide (use vices and other interests to promote work in a field) if all else fails and the individual is valuable enough we can always do some mental touch-ups. Light as not to arouse suspicion but useful so he decides he wants to work at our designated field after all.
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>>1973993
No.
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>>1973995
Because "morally ambiguous"? Or "carmic balance"?
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>>1973993
No. We shall not.
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>>1973998
Because risk-reward analysis.

It takes one person to object and everything goes to shit because that is BRAINWASHING CITIZENS. People find out, object, were overthrown, or we kill them all, both of which is not ideal.
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>>1973998
Mate that is so far from morally ambiguous that I can say with good certainty that most people would call it a crime against humanity and the rest would call it a crime against nature.

>>1974000
That too.

Fact is that we can justify most things: this I can't see any reasonably acceptable justification besides "it was for the greater good" but I'll be honest and say that unless the person is a Dr 0 level genius they aren't going to make that much of a difference and should thus be left alone.
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>>1974000
We have done it before, we know it works and it has blatantly obvious benefits. I am not saying make them scream patriotism or any other drastic things, that raises suspicion, but do small inconspicuous touchups during medical procedures, for example (a dude is smart and is getting implants but doesnt want to do science so we stick in the implants and also make him re-evaluate science as a goal alongside it).

Its not some diabolical moustache-twirling plan to be evil. Its a genuine tool to direct developement in our nation towards a common goal. besides, if we are doing the downloaded education route you run exactly into the same problem and that is a universally good thing.
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>>1974006
>Mate that is so far from morally ambiguous that I can say with good certainty that most people would call it a crime against humanity and the rest would call it a crime against nature.
See, >>1974000 his argument I can understand and am sympathetic to. This shit is just your made-up feely-goody nonsense.

Also, with a population of 400, a single halway decent researcher is a blessing.
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>>1974009
You mean the implant in Diana where she actively is aware of the implant? People going, "something is in my brain messing with my thoughts" gets people very concerned. They go to the doctor, and wow, there is unexplained metal and fresh surgery scars. Opening up a conspiracy that brings everything down.

Its also immoral as fuck. And moral arguments can serve as justification of law and policy.
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>>1974014
I was referring to the NCR soldiers who walked off none the wiser after having all their brains examined, their childhood memories revisited and their memory wiped. Seems to work pretty well to me. The BioAI is another example of how this is useful, seeing as she is fine with it, likes us already and does as she is told (vs all the whitknights whod have "let her be" and, as QM confirmed, basically hand it over to the BoS; I am very glad the few rational anons came to understand that it was necessary and not some wholly evil nonsense).

This morality over everything is just not going to work out. You have seen it happen many times, where the obvious option is not the goody goody option (which often is the shit end of the stick, in fact - eg it would be moral to help the NCR kill the MLA to stop their slaving ways but that would be the dumbest move for us).
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>>1974000
we're not brainwashing American citizens
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>>1974011
>This shit is just your made-up feely-goody nonsense.
If you read the next section down in that post, you'd find I explained it in greater detail but why would I expect you to when you clearly are going to bring this idea up at every chance you get like the insane bastard you are.

>Also, with a population of 400, a single halway decent researcher is a blessing.
No, not really. Fact is these days we rely on our ZAX's for most research.

>>1974019
Mate, I was one of the people in favour of doing that to Diana yet I won't support you here. Because if nothing else I won't do that to my own citizens. Because if nothing else, I must draw the line at some point and I see no reason that this isn't the place to start.
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>>1974019
That was looking through what was inside and deleting some stuff, not rewritting what was there and changing their opinions.

>>1974021
Im not for it. Im just giving an argument not to do it that isnt "its a terrible thing to do" because mind staple anon is completely amoral, occasionally bordering on immoral.
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>>1974022
So again, it boils down to calling names and reverting to "muh morality". The fact is that this works. It is tested and proven in the field and a major asset for us. Not only for educating citicens in days rather than years and creating sleeper cells but re-educating criminals and dissidents, enemies of the state and blatantly hostile men on the other side of the border. It is a godsend (one of many) that people are not willing to use because it clashes with their sense of self and their percieved notion of good and bad. In a world where a raider will fuck you up because he thinks itd make for a nice story I have no problems rewriting some memories and goals.

As to the researcher point, a few good men can work miracles. If we have a few dozen of them we can really speed up our development. In case you missed it, whenever we have significally boosted our capabilities we have gained extra research. What do you think will happen when we finally get a real University going? Also, if the people dont matter, why the fuck are we buying them? Just to pay for their upkeep? Please.
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>>1965421
>>BIO RESEARCH
>FEV research
Before you assign Diana to work on her plants, someone else shows up.

Dr. Klein and Dr. Borous.

>Dr. Klein
"I couldn't stand being in the house a microsecond more. Doing. . .nothing! Nothing but think about all the time, wasted, in that cursed mental recursion loop. All the while. . .all the while our nation burned to ash.

The country I spent my whole life dedicated to. BigMT was the forefront of American research and let no House or CIT tell you anything else! Our work was dedicated winning the War. And as far as I'm concerned, that War is still going on. The enemies might have changed, and we might have . . .Chinese Communists living in an alien spaceship as allies, but by Heisenberg we will make this nation great again. I won't see any NCR wipe us out like they did the rest of the Government! We'll wipe them out instead!"

>Dr Borous
"I'm here because I think I've had enough fun bonding with Gabe for now, and would like to return to some science!"

>Dr Klein
"Now, I hear it you need a scientist capable of doing FEV research. For that, you can turn to Dr. Borous. He would have joined the FEV project had the government not decided his talent was better vested here."

>Dr Borous
"They didn't allow animals at Base M. Said it was a contagion risk."

>Dr Klein
"And as for time, which is always the limited resource, I can promise effective FEV strains within half a year or less. That is, if you follow my timeline and provide me the resources I need. Anything I lack will only amount to more wasted time, and I will have none of that."

>What say?
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>>1974025
Ah, my apologies, I thought you were arguing for it
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>>1974033
FEV strains that do what?
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>>1974033
Klein, you are smart enough to know that we have limited resources, but we do recognize the importance of the FEV research, so within wide reason, you will get what you need.
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>>1974032
Fuck it, I've argued enough against you now and in past. I can't be bothered actually trying to convince you you are wrong because I've got shit to do.

Let it be known, that I will always be against this but in cases like Diana I might relent for the benefits. So general rule: if it ain't our citizens and it does have a provable benefit without significant risk to our popularity? I'm in favour.
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>>1971467
>Klein
"I'm content with the work you and your Hubologists have done on that. Though I think their religion is nothing but a bunch of psudo-science crocs interested in power and influence, their organization shows promise. So long as they continue to keep the civilian populace pacified and separate the actual intelligence I am pleased. There are a few promising scientists among them at least.

As far as I'm concerned let them do as they please so long as the civilian populace no longer interferes with our work from their paltry "ethical commities" and "civil probes". Bah! Keeping BigMT from public eyes and granting us express presidential authority to perform necessary research no matter the need for specimens or cost was one of the better choices made before the War.

I'm glad you have no such qualm in regards to necessary costs for vital research, Mr. Executor."
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>>1974038
But we don't have limitless resources.
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>>1974037
>Klein
"Whatever you need. A vaccine for Ghoulism. Or an aesthetic maintenance gene for those FEV infected mutants you are . . .'allied' with.

Or better still, weapons we can use against this NCR."
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>>1974046
Fair enough.

>>1974047
>I'm glad you have no such qualm in regards to necessary costs for vital research, Mr. Executor."
Excellent.

Ask him about the topic of Inertial Drives and Alien tech in general. Does he have any worthwhile ideas on that or would he rather FEV?
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>>1974038
>>1974050
>Klein
"I have more degrees on Logistics than you do fingers. I know the meaning of limited resources. I won't ask what we can't have, but what I can't stand is willful and unnecessary constraints."
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>>1974051
>Or better still, weapons we can use against this NCR."
Yes please. First, what about taking out their food supply? Brahmin infertility? Crop failures? Salient purple eating bacteria?
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>>1974051
Did we introduce them to Unity? She'd want to participate in any FEV research.

AAlso, name the boy Alex (none of our children are named like that, right?)
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>>1974055
Im in love...
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>>1974058
What boy?
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>>1974057
>Klein
"Excellent ideas. Dr. Borous?"

>Dr Borous
"Oh yes. I can't believe you guys sterilized my Toxin's Plant. . .my precious viral samples! But I suppose it's always a good time to develop new ones."

>>1974058
No Alex yet.
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Honestly, we should have just started the game with the Think Tank and gone from there. All the crazy science bullshit! Gets me giddy inside.

More resources to the Think Tank. Also, give Mobius a body too.
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>>1974047
I mean, civil probes and watch dogs exist for a reason. You wont be getting free reign to do what you wish. And limitations encourages ingenuity.
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>>1974060
Unity is pregnant with a boy. We are yet to name him
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>>1974071
Ah. That boy. We also have the other 5 kids.
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>>1974062
QM Can we give'm each a planet when we enter spaceeee?
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Guys, are we dead set on the "heading to Hawaii" part of the plan? It just seems like it will go wrong and I feel we have other things to be taking care of as of this moment in time.
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>>1974113
Honestly, doing hero quests in Hawaii is one of the better options. What do you propose?
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>>1974113
Anon. It's a fucking race against the NCR. We need it and cannot keep dicking the fuck around
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>>1974114
Well there's the slaves from the MLA, the Boulder dome and Montana as a whole.

>>1974116
So because it's a race against time, we should clearly risk two of our most valuable assets?
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>>1974122
The UFO which is best tasked for this and our strongest HERO, best tasked for this?

Your right. We should just let the NCR have it all because it might be bad
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>>1974116
>>1974123
To be honest, we have no idea if the NCR are even capable of expanding to Hawaii, or even want to.

I say lets focus on Montana right now, make a doctrine for colonizing far away places, then we do it
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>>1974122
save the next round of slaves for after we decode the NCR files.

doesnt one of our teleport capabilities simply pop us over to the destination no receiving station required?

if so porting over to Hawaii would be the best travel option. when we are done call in the ufo to pick us up
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>>1974126
The battleship can reach around the global anon and it was sea worthy. Secure a beach head and come back worse case
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>>1974128
We know it could float around the coast, not go halfway across the Pacific and survive. I agree with securing a beach head, but we need an actual plan and supplies set aside
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>>1974122
Slaves are a thing we can do on the side that in no way hinders our other operations. Montana already has Behemoths on the way and we can do little until they arrive. I will give you that the Dome in interesting but I dont see it being less deadly or more valuable than Hawaii. Ergo, we might as well do it before the NCR do. God knows we need the edge.

And yes, we should, considering these are the best assets for the job.

>>1974126
They know about the C&C Generals tech as well, likely more than we. This means they both know about the base on Hawaii and have the means to get there. Speed is of the essence, especially since we dont need to ferry troops, just fly in a portal.
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>>1974131
>We know it could float around the coast, not go halfway across the Pacific and survive.
We have literally seen nothing about it. It could just as well do the trip to Hawaii as far as we know, considering it is seaworthy. We can not rule out that option. Meaning we are in quite the hurry, considering NCRs "Phase 2".
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>>1974145
We dont actually know about phase 2 though. We dont even know if niner is dead.
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>>1974147
WW2 tanks that kick the ass of the 2 enemies. 1 division of supertanks. "Wait until we deploy phase 2".

Youre gonna have a bad time.
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>>1974123
The Courier ain't a great pilot. If anything you should send Riddick or that one pilot from the Enclave we have.

Hell, if you are so willing to throw away valuable assets in a suicide mission: it can carry six people plus the pilot. Go nuts.

>>1974127
>save the next round of slaves for after we decode the NCR files.
Did we get those? I thought we needed to decide if we are going with the MLA-Legion or the NCR before we'd get those.

>doesnt one of our teleport capabilities simply pop us over to the destination no receiving station required?
Nope, it requires targeting data or something I think. It's the only explanation I can give for why you can't teleport to more than one place with it in the game but I could be wrong, you'd need to ask OP.

>if so porting over to Hawaii would be the best travel option. when we are done call in the ufo to pick us up
That still risks getting the UFO shot down.

>>1974131
This, fact is that training the mentality and skills needed to actually survive the isolation of long sea voyages and shit would take months at least. Not to mention getting it fuelled, restored and it's stocks of ammo and such filled.

Even then they'd need to decide that it was worth risking the battleship with that. Rather than deploying it to their borders in the north or south to fight the Legion.

>>1974141
>Slaves are a thing we can do on the side that in no way hinders our other operations.
Except we'd want to be there. Given we are the best trader we have and most of our people would have moral objections to doing it.

>Montana already has Behemoths on the way and we can do little until they arrive.
Ignoring scouting out towns, eliminating threats, locating power sources / salvage and so on.

>I will give you that the Dome in interesting but I dont see it being less deadly or more valuable than Hawaii. Ergo, we might as well do it before the NCR do.
The Dome has no threat to us: the deadly disease present there we have a cure for and the surrounding area only contains ghouls. It isn't a question of if it is less valuable but rather it being far easier to secure.

>God knows we need the edge.
To be fair we have our edge we just need time.

>>1974147
Actually we know he is alive, we talked to him after the battle.
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>>1974147
why woukd niner being dead matyer one way or the other?

phase 2 is clearly a next level fighting force being developed by the NCR in keeping with their doctrine of "hold the line or advance while our scientists and industry build better armies"
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>>1974163
>Except we'd want to be there. Given we are the best trader we have and most of our people would have moral objections to doing it.
We are in fact not the best, the cockroaches and companions being that. ALso, they had no problem with it last time plus we know have more cash to throw around.

>>1974163
>Ignoring scouting out towns, eliminating threats, locating power sources / salvage and so on.
All meaningless until we can use them ergo until the behemoths get there.

>>1974163
>The Dome has no threat to us: the deadly disease present there we have a cure for and the surrounding area only contains ghouls. It isn't a question of if it is less valuable but rather it being far easier to secure.
When has it EVER been as easy as "go and take"? I guarantee you there is something there we have to deal with and its not going to be quick or easy.

>>1974163
>To be fair we have our edge we just need time.
The fusion plant takes time an the replicator on top of that. Meanwhile, we can bring the warfactory online by going to Hawaii.

Again, the hero quests are something we can use to great effect while our other assets are quite linear in growth.
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>>1974180
>All meaningless
Is this what I think it means?
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>>1974182
?
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>>1974155
Yeah, OOC we know phase 2 is going down. But in game we dont.

>>1974163
My mistake. Forgot about that.
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>>1974192
Fair enough. IC we can still speculate that they have advanced tech hidden away, if not an entire army.
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>>1974185
Did you say that intel was meaningless or did I just misunderstand it
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>>1974194
Im saying we cant make use of it until we get the behemoths online and moving. Meaning its not a priority for two months at least. Furthermore, SPI is better suited for scouting (hence the desire for passive espionage).
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>>1974180
>We are in fact not the best, the cockroaches and companions being that.
Yeah and the cockroaches can't speak English (I think) and our companions are generally moral people.

>ALso, they had no problem with it last time plus we know have more cash to throw around.
And? We want to get the most bang for our bottlecap.

>All meaningless until we can use them ergo until the behemoths get there.
True but having these places identified and cleared means they can move in and make use of them immediately.

>When has it EVER been as easy as "go and take"? I guarantee you there is something there we have to deal with and its not going to be quick or easy.
Potentially but in lore there is NOTHING that could threaten us in the region as it is too irradiated for humans.

>The fusion plant takes time an the replicator on top of that. Meanwhile, we can bring the warfactory online by going to Hawaii.
True.

>Again, the hero quests are something we can use to great effect while our other assets are quite linear in growth.
Eh, I'd disagree. We're approaching the point of exponential growth with the replicators and shit.
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>>1974199
Just because we can't act on all the intel doesn't mean it's not important. I can't even imagine where you're reasoning is coming from. We have the best spybot in the world and we aren't gonna use it?
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>>1974209
I just want to add that too irradiated for humans is not too irradiated for giant monsters. Im fairly certain we have a giant monster in the divide still.
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>>1974222
No giant monsters are mentioned in the lore, even though there were frequent patrols by the people living within the dome.
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>>1974225
Giant monster, many small monsters, stealthy monsters.

Point is, there cab still be threats out there. Also depending on how long ago the lore was looking at the dome, things could have changed.
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>>1974236
>Giant monster, many small monsters, stealthy monsters.
None exist, none exist and none exist. They had fire fights with feral ghouls and nothing else.

>Point is, there cab still be threats out there.
My point is that unless OP is willing to diverge massively from the lore regarding the dome and it's surroundings it is a fairly safe place.

>Also depending on how long ago the lore was looking at the dome, things could have changed.
True but to be entirely honest I still say that we should secure the dome first. It's safer than Hawaii and doesn't exactly cost many resources while securing us an example of a environmentally sealed "space colony" equipped with some of the best of pre-war technology including a ZAX.
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for my two caps we should either spend our hero action starting on the Baronies, or Hawaii.

The baronies are somewhat simple. use our truckload of caps to set ourselves up as a Baron in preperation for a take over. then run around to all the other Barons and Baroness showcasing what we have to offer, using our 10 charisma, and guaging their reactions.

kill the intractable, bribe the bribable, ally with the decent.

Hawaii is another matter.

assuming their weapons wont fire through the planet we should come in at an altitude of 3,500 ft. we won't be visible at all for the majority of the flight. At approx. 100 miles out we angle downward towards the horizon.

staying 100 ft above the waterline we enter their effective range of fire about 27-40 miles out. the lower we are willing to fly the closer we can get.

this is of course assuming their guns are about 500 ft above sea level.

if however they have installed a rail gun on the highest point in Hawaii it will have an elevation of 13,800 ft.

meaning we will be skimming water at 143 miles out and need to power forward to reach land.

however since it is no doubt an anti air installation it is possible that it will have a very limited negative arc of fire and we can quickly pass through it before they can target us.

hope that was helpful.
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>>1974252
You forget the possibility of anti-ship guns, missiles and automated aircraft.
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>>1974209
>Yeah and the cockroaches can't speak English (I think) and our companions are generally moral people.
They had translators last time and they did the haggling, might as well do it this time.

>>1974209
>And? We want to get the most bang for our bottlecap.
And an increase of 10% is nothing to us now. We use the Courier for better things.

>>1974209
>Potentially but in lore there is NOTHING that could threaten us in the region as it is too irradiated for humans.
Again, in lore we would have wiped the slate clean with BigMT but not in this quest. Also moonmen, NCR nazis and Cthulhu.

>>1974209
>Eh, I'd disagree. We're approaching the point of exponential growth with the replicators and shit.
Not for a while yet. I dont see QM giving it to us with only one replicator and large fusion reactor. If he does, great. If not, we should be prepared to build a few dozen more.

>>1974214
We are talking about the Courier. SPI can do its espionage thing there very well, in fact I want it to when we turn our full attention there.

>>1974245
Considering the colossus living in our Divide lake, I can see a few bad things in or near the Dome. We can send SPI to scout it but I wouldnt be surprised if we have to spend a nice while prying the thing open. Although the ZAX does sound mighty nice.
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>>1974252
Honestly, I agree with your assessment. The caps can really give us a leg up in the Baronies even without the behemoths. Might be worthwhile. Although, again, it is important we claim Hawaii before the NCR since they cant really get to Montana yet and the Legion is not that active there. Montana can wait a turn. Hawaii might not.
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>>1974263
>They had translators last time and they did the haggling, might as well do it this time.
Okay I'll concede this point.

>And an increase of 10% is nothing to us now. We use the Courier for better things.
10% more is huge since that could be literal tonnes of steel and fissile to enable us to continue building our cold fusion reactor and other such things.

>Again, in lore we would have wiped the slate clean with BigMT but not in this quest.
To be fair that is untrue since big mt lacks any ability to actual make shit but I know what you mean.

>Also moonmen, NCR nazis and Cthulhu.
One of these is bullshit you have no proof of, another is something is already featured in the lore and the third is a logical consequence of our actions.

>Not for a while yet. I dont see QM giving it to us with only one replicator and large fusion reactor. If he does, great. If not, we should be prepared to build a few dozen more.
Yeah and? My point is that at this point we are approaching the point whereby the Courier is less and less important and our actual industry is more important.

>>1974270
I'd point out to you that it has been quite a few turns since we saw the NCR battleship. If their intent was to go to Hawaii and it was as easy as you all believe then they'd have done it by now.
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>>1974252
Probably wont be as simple as walking in and declaring ourselves a baron even with all the caps we have. The current barons probably have a delicate balance of power and would fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo.
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>>1974260
no, I am trying to plot a course that leaves us invisible until the absolute last second.

the worst case scenario is that we clip waves at 144 miles out.

for various reasons its unlikely that their major AA is at the talkest point so we will likely be undetected for miles past the horizon point.

a height of 500 ft above sea level seems reasonable for an approach. Especially given the speed the scout craft moves at.
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>>1974278
Dude, you are missing the point and argueing about semantics. The point is that the Courier is better used for high risk high reward missions we could otherwise not undertake so easily. The fact that we lose out 50k caps on a 500k deal when we have 5 mil in the bank is a non-issue and QM has shown a tendencie to put obstacles in our way regardless of whether itd make sense in a strictly Fallout setting (C&C base in the Divide, for example). That the NCR could invade Hawaii seems pretty reasonable to me. Doesnt it to you?
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>>1974292
When they have a war going on with the NCR and MLA? And how far Hawaii is? Not really...
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>>1974286
noone fights to maintain a status quo. all of them would fight to improve themselves likely at the expense of the others. or us.

but by using the caps we can make a large enough splash that the weaker barons see an opportunity to advance by allying with us.
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>>1974294
With them wanting a leg up on the legion thrugh high-tech production means and the battleship having no high-value targets to bomb (legion being mostly agrarian and spread out) what do they use it on? Boomer Town already provides a lot of artillery on the mainland so no real reason to keep it for that.

Seems reasonable? Disagree?
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>>1974315
I'm pretty sure that the Battleship has been shelling armies. I can't find the exact the spot it was posted at, but it was something about it's guns booming. As I said earlier though, we have no idea if that thing is even sea worthy, and like >>1974163 said, a lot of things go into planning a very long sea trip
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>>1974288
You are also forgetting about over-the-horizon radar systems which would render flying in low essentially pointless unless you were hugging the waves.

>>1974292
>The point is that the Courier is better used for high risk high reward missions we could otherwise not undertake so easily.
True but as I've stated already there are better pilots than him and I feel we should make use of them too if we are going to risk our valuable scoutship and the courier too.

>The fact that we lose out 50k caps on a 500k deal when we have 5 mil in the bank is a non-issue
Not really since that is still a loss of efficiency: something that we need to maximise.

>QM has shown a tendency to put obstacles in our way regardless of whether it'd make sense in a strictly Fallout setting (C&C base in the Divide, for example).
Except we could've left that base alone and nothing would've came from it. So it wasn't an obstacle.

>That the NCR could invade Hawaii seems pretty reasonable to me. Doesn't it to you?
Not really. A single battleship against a fortified island chain or possibly just a single base filled with the literal cutting edge of pre-war technology: I feel they might just be outmatched.

But hey, I'm in the minority so you feel free to fly into whatever fresh hell awaits us for whatever benefits we might grab.
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>>1974299
Maybe. But if they think that were going to disrupt the system, then the status quo become very appealing as it leaves them in charge. We will never be able to be a baron unless there is a king who we can basically buy the title off of. But if its just barons, then they would resist us for being a foreigner.
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>>1974294
we know that the NCR likely has access to pre war facilities.

their facilities would also refrence the Hawaiian command base.

Yaunkers (correctly) would assume that the command base has prewar resources, plans, and weapons.

Yaunkers is also avidly persuing pre war tech and imitating historical tactics. This is exactly the type of thing he would do. Especially since Hawaii is the only command center the NCR can easily access.

likely the command center is still operational or manned, but we will see
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>>1974322
Even if it was shooting something prior to now, the fronts have shifted so far inland, there is nothing on the Legion coast worth bombing and the Hawaii base is a direct and huge boon if you want to get hightech tanks rolling.

Do you agree that the NCR wants Hawaii for its C&C base?

Furthermore, since we havent been onboard the thing we dont know either way if it can do the trip or not. Im betting it can, considering it is seaworthy enough to sail the coast, meaning it has been worked on (they would probably fix it further when they learned about Hawaii).

Lastly, for a nation as big as the NCR, sending a ship, even a battleship, that far is not that big a deal. Especially considering that if it sails the coast it already has to have most of the supplies on board. Also consider this is a powered vessle so it travels relatively quick.
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>>1974330
>have shifted so far inland
Isn't the enemy like 50 miles from the capitol?

Anyway, I have already agreed the NCR wants the base, it's if they can afford to take it, and if we have a plan. I don't want to just fly over there and hope for the best.
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>>1974323
>True but as I've stated already there are better pilots than him and I feel we should make use of them too if we are going to risk our valuable scoutship and the courier too.
That is fine. We can also take Riddick and Caine for extra backup.

>>1974323
>Not really since that is still a loss of efficiency: something that we need to maximise.
We can and should but its not a tragedy if we dont.

>>1974323
>Except we could've left that base alone and nothing would've came from it. So it wasn't an obstacle.
And then we would have gained nothing. This is exactly what I fear is going on with the Dome.

>>1974323
>Not really. A single battleship against a fortified island chain or possibly just a single base filled with the literal cutting edge of pre-war technology: I feel they might just be outmatched.
They have air drones and other various high tech. They might not win but they will not let it stay there just like that.

This anon has it correct: >>1974327
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>>1974335
The capitol itself is some 100 miles inland as well. No way for the naval cannons to reach it.

And yes, we must go about this carefully but we have to do it as soon as possible.
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>>1974343
>as soon as possible
The NCR wants Hawaii, we can safely assume this, but the resources to not only scout but probably assault an old military island would be huge. We have some time to get prepared
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>>1974339
>That is fine. We can also take Riddick and Caine for extra backup.
Fine then. I still say this is going to get them all killed.

>We can and should but its not a tragedy if we dont.
It is when the amount of resources we could potentially gain might dwarf our income from the Divide.

>And then we would have gained nothing. This is exactly what I fear is going on with the Dome.
I don't follow, what are you saying?

>They have air drones and other various high tech. They might not win but they will not let it stay there just like that.
Yeah but after they lose their sole military ship in this initial assault how in the hell are they going to project force against Hawaii? And even considering all their high tech things they'd be unable to predict what this general would be bringing to the table. Fact is that this command base in theory has the ability to fire the particle cannon which could core their ship in a moment. Then who knows what else they or we'd be facing.
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>>1974349
Likely the NCR has to build landing craft, train marines, build corvettes abd destroyers to support.

A naval invasion is a big thing. A single battleship is not capable of doing that. Probably cant even hold the necessary soldiers.
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>>1974351
>I don't follow, what are you saying?
The base was something we didnt have to do but it had goodies inside we wanted, protected by the defenses. I guarantee you the Dome is a similar setup. What defenses or obstacles I dont know but it wont be as simple as burning a few ghouls.

>>1974351
>Yeah but after they lose their sole military ship in this initial assault how in the hell are they going to project force against Hawaii? And even considering all their high tech things they'd be unable to predict what this general would be bringing to the table. Fact is that this command base in theory has the ability to fire the particle cannon which could core their ship in a moment. Then who knows what else they or we'd be facing.
I agree with >>1974358 but you have to take into account we have not seen much of the NCR navy and only saw that ship once. This doesnt mean the NCR also has a death fleet somewhere (QM, dont you do it!) but we cant discount additional assets. The point is they are very much capable of manning an assault. How successfull we dont know but we cant really rule anything out. What we can do is throw our own hat in the ring.
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>>1974358
they dont need to invade Hawaii anon, they just need to seize one base.

and since they are using an American warship instead of an Alien landing craft there is every possibility that whatever AI or military controls the base will allow them access without firing on them.
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>>1974373
>will allow them access without firing on them
thats very wishful thinking but silly thinking

Seizing one base and holding it against whatever else is on the island it going to be a feat
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>>1974379
Dude, again with this. You cant discount it. It may be very unlikely but maybe they found some IFF devices in their war factory. Whatever. We cant discount any shenanigans because WE cant do it.
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>>1974381
We can't discount that the NCR has some OP device that'll give them the base, but we can't discount that the NCR is gonna attack it in the next months or even years, so all I'm saying is we have time
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>>1974373
That probably wont happen. America probably has protections that include possible hijackings, and so access requires a code from the captains.

Likely it ends up a slugging match between the ship and the shore.
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>>1974386
As you say, may be years, could be months. All Im saying is get a portal there and establish a foothold. We cant wage a surface war anyway, maybe drillers but thats about it. Mainly making sure we are there first, we know whats going on and we can take advantage of the situation if the NCR DOES decide to take a bite of the island.
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>>1974368
>The base was something we didnt have to do but it had goodies inside we wanted, protected by the defenses. I guarantee you the Dome is a similar setup. What defenses or obstacles I dont know but it wont be as simple as burning a few ghouls.
Now that I doubt because as I have stated there were no obstacles within reason to experience. If anything I expect it to be more like the situation with Diana.

>I agree with >>1974358 but you have to take into account we have not seen much of the NCR navy and only saw that ship once. This doesn't mean the NCR also has a death fleet somewhere (QM, dont you do it!) but we cant discount additional assets. The point is they are very much capable of manning an assault. How successful we dont know but we cant really rule anything out. What we can do is throw our own hat in the ring.
So your logic is that, because the NCR might currently be able to afford a invasion into the potentially heavily fortified island chain of Hawaii, we must throw valuable resources into a similar bid without any scouting, back up plans, reinforcements or expendability in terms of the assets we are sending? All in the vague hope that we will prevent the NCR from seizing that military base in the middle of the potentially death spewing island chain?

Fuck it. I'm not going to change your mind clearly but I want it on record that I was against this from the beginning and that I tried to convince you to be more careful.

>>1974373
>>1974381
Ignoring the fact that if IFF devices would save us from the automated defences then surely we'd have noticed something of the sort when we were inspecting the automated weapons and the designs the base allows us to produce? Or how about the fact these are two entirely separate generals in charge of different theatres so their codes and such would most likely be different?


Again though, I've gave up trying to convince you how insane this is. So just ignore me.
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>>1974393
But we still haven't even set up a foothold in montana. We need to have a set amount of resources, and some prior scouting. Also, I don't see why we couldn't wage a below-surface fight, as submersible bots are easy to make.
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>>1974393
>>1974398
Just to interject, we could drop a behemoth replicator into the ocean a fair distance off the coast and have it replicate and travel to the island.
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>>1974387
it doesnt matter what the NCR has. Yaunkers sent the ship, probably to Hawaii. Therefore Yaunkers believes they have a shot at getting the command base.

And even if its only a .1% chance we CANNOT allow them that advantage.

Especially since the command base is linked to ALL the Sub-Bases including the Divide. The last thing we need is the Divide war base suddenly shitting out tons of automated tanks in our back yard.

and since we have to wait on the Montana project I say we send a Companion (or several) up to the Baronies to prepare them for the glorious arrival of Baron Six (especially the women). While we head over and deal with Hawaii.
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>>1974398
We should have a base set up in Montana already (some old military one). We leave the scouting to SPI (far better at it than the Courier) and do something useful ourselves while the behemoths arrive.

You mean submarines or drillers? Montana or Hawaii? If subs in Hawaii I dont think they are that useful vs land fortifications. Drillers on Hawaii are the preferred plan since it worked well the last time. If in Montana, i fear the distances are too big for random driller deployment, targeted is a good idea.

>>1974400
Also a possibility, although the sea is a danger in itself and we must be sure the replicator can blow itself up in a secure and reliable way if need be.
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>>1974404
I can get behind this. About time we use our companions.
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>>1974408
We have found an old military base, but nothing added to it. We wanted to send through vehicles, but we haven't even done that yet
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>>1974421
Then, even more, we need the behemoths there until we can get the show on the road.
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>>1974421
We added a teleporter and a some sentries.
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>>1965421
>>CONSTRUCT 1 + 2
>Large cold fusion plant under BigMT

>Dr. 0
"Hmmm, not bad. . .but its a bit. . ."

>Klein
"Inefficient. And I should know. I did help build the breeder reactor beneath BigMT.

Here, take a look at some of my modified designs. We can build this much faster."

>The Think Tank have reduced the amount of turns needed to build the Fusion Reactor and increased theoretical output
>Construction has been sped up
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>>1974915
I love the think tank so much.

Qm, what are their thoughts on the government / nation weve founded compared to Old America?
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>>1974915
OP have some Propaganda art for this. I know it's shit.
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>>1974927
>Dr 0
"Memories still a bit foggy on our past lives. . .I still can't remember my real name, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't 0 now that I think of it.

So. . .you'r basically a dictator right? But a good one from what I've seen. And if what a lot of the people say is true there's plenty of personal freedom here. Add to that burgers, fries, milkshakes and all you're missing are the green lawns and drive in theaters."

>Klein
"It's American in spirit, and that's what counts. I do have a degree in Americanology after all."
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>>1974950
That's actually great, the dude on the left even looks like a Hub.
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>>1974972
I don't know about that. Looks like old Lenin to me.
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>>1974972
I...I have more...
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>>1974980
There is good reason for that...
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>>1974984
Yeah, I figured. Looks very, Soviet.
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>>1974981
Looks good man!
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Can Propaganda anon post more propaganda with robots? I really liked that one.
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>>1974970
>So. . .you'r basically a dictator right? But a good one from what I've seen.
We Huey long now bois
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>>1974989
>Long's Share Our Wealth plan was established in 1934 under the motto "Every Man a King,"
Oh man, that's the motto i came up with for our book.
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>>1974985
To be fair they've got some good propaganda works. Also some Chinese ones too but they are for actions about fusing our societies like the attached one.

>>1974988
I think you mean the other guy that posted the thing with the robots from Chappie being built. I don't have that image but I do have one or two similar ones...

>>1974989
>>1974996
Jesus this can't just be a coincidence right?
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>>1974989
>Huey long
When you set out for an American Renwal and end up a Communist Dictator.
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>>1975000
To be honest our entire thing is kinda like communist / socialism but with a greater focus on making sure everyone gets a good starting point in life and less so on the hate of the rich, land and industry owning class.
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>>1975000
>Communist Dictator.
Anon....
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>>1975000
Nice Trips

I would say we're more like a Fascist Dictator more than a Communist one.
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>>1975055
Fascism is generally classified by racial ideological positioning. Whereas communism relies on classism.

Arguably we've transcended both: seeing as our society is for the most part classless and racially speaking "diverse" without being separated thanks to the small population ensuring close relations with everyone else.
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>>1975062
>racial ideological positioning
National Socialism maybe, but Italian Fascism and Spanish Fascism was nothing like that, just strong loyalty to the state, and state loyalty to the people
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>>1975070
Okay that is true. However if you asked most people they wouldn't even know that the Spanish had went fascist.
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>>1975062
We're Fascist in the sense we're a state is led by a strong leader ie. Us and we are forging national unity (Americans) to maintain a stable and orderly society. Our economy is mixed, we allow private ownership, but most things the government was a say in it, since we do have a small population.
And we prepare our nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties.

So Fascism in the sense of not racial ideological but national unity with all Americans.
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>>1975101
Well I blame the Western Education system for that one, but that's besides the point, because our education system is the best in history
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>>1975105
Yeah I suppose. We're "fascists" but we draw it along cultural rather than racial grounds. As to the economics thing: that is a state capitalism, literally the best idea ever.

>>1975108
To be fair to the western education system: they've got a lot of shit to cover so they generally try to focus on the major shit and seeing as the Spanish had a civil war and then sat outside of the war, it makes sense they'd try to focus on bigger things.
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>>1975062
Not entirely classes. There is a definitive sectionalism based on occupation going on here, with high intelligence administrators, artisans, and researchers and military men having the most authority (and privileges), while lower level intelligence and service industry workers, while not living uncomfortably by all means (like kings in comparison to the average wastelander) have fewer privelges

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>>1965421
You have found that the ASA and some of the Pioneers of Post Scarcity have enacted a privege system based on the occupation of the individual. More service robots and larger amounts of luxury privileges, such as increased amount of energy credits, or a more luxurious house.

The basic principle is anyone who uses their intellect more, or has a more hazardous job such as the military or certain engineers, can be rewarded with less physical labour in their lives to devote themselves more to their job. Those who are content to work lower level jobs and not advance in education, research, or join the military recieve the basic standards of living. This is one way they are attempting to implement incentive improvement of the human condition.

Signing up to be a construction worker and going to VR school to get educatd is a means to get a free Mr Handy.

>>CIV
>Keep working on fixing up houses around our settlements and improving way of life stuff
Currently, with your construction crews working full time on the Fusion plant, and with certain limited resources, improving the settlement is actually a limited option. The ASA brings to you certain requests voted on by the energy credit bank system.

-The Home Owners Association would like more beautiful landscaping with green lawns, just like in the NCR. However water is being rationed (and depleted) for the Hexcrete pouring in the big Vault. Suggest research on a means to teleportationally transfer water from elsewhere
-The Animal Domesticaation and Husbandry group request more farmland animals for "Authentic Meat" which tastes better than Salient Red but is a limited resource. "Real Meat" and other non-replicated foods are seen as something of an artificial delicacy, as replicators always produce the same thing with pinpoint accuracy, real meat has more variation. People would like to taste more real chicken.
-The Animal Domesticaation and Husbandry group requests permission for "aesthetic and genetic improvements" on their limited and aging lobotomite population. They only have so many lobotomites and can't get new ones, so they seek to make do by keeping them younger and longer through research.
-Many parents are calling for an end to the Freeside Rats, citing the "delibrate and willful indoctrination of child soldiers" as imoral. In contrast, many Freeside Rats would like to request status as citizens able to vote, citing the tradition of Freeside Rats voting for themselves back in New Vegas.
-The Artians' Guild would like both a Museum of the Arts, a VR Theater, or a Music Hall
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>>1975190
>-The Animal Domesticaation and Husbandry group requests permission for "aesthetic and genetic improvements" on their limited and aging lobotomite population. They only have so many lobotomites and can't get new ones, so they seek to make do by keeping them younger and longer through research.
If you turn off the faucet of sex, you turn off the happiness.

-Many parents are calling for an end to the Freeside Rats, citing the "delibrate and willful indoctrination of child soldiers" as imoral. In contrast, many Freeside Rats would like to request status as citizens able to vote, citing the tradition of Freeside Rats voting for themselves back in New Vegas.
Do we even have elections?
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>>1975204
Energy Credit Banking System as a psudo form of election. The more energy credits you can bring together, such as through the ASA, the more you can invest in wider projects.
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>>1975220
So you can vote on what project you want done privately?
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>>1975190
To be honest that sounds like the fairest system I've heard of in awhile.

>-The Home Owners Association would like more beautiful landscaping with green lawns, just like in the NCR. However water is being rationed (and depleted) for the Hexcrete pouring in the big Vault. Suggest research on a means to teleportationally transfer water from elsewhere
Massive waste of energy, time and resources. Promise them that a solution is coming. They can move to Montana or Utah if they want some nice grass when we get colonies there.

>-The Animal Domesticaation and Husbandry group request more farmland animals for "Authentic Meat" which tastes better than Salient Red but is a limited resource. "Real Meat" and other non-replicated foods are seen as something of an artificial delicacy, as replicators always produce the same thing with pinpoint accuracy, real meat has more variation. People would like to taste more real chicken.
Denied. To be entirely honest I want to move away from cattle and to salient. Even if it would mean investing another research action into improving it so it was as good as if not better than ordinary meat.

>-The Animal Domesticaation and Husbandry group requests permission for "aesthetic and genetic improvements" on their limited and aging lobotomite population. They only have so many lobotomites and can't get new ones, so they seek to make do by keeping them younger and longer through research.
Approved. This'll serve as an excellent test bed for anti-aging and healing gene-mods and augments for our population.

>-Many parents are calling for an end to the Freeside Rats, citing the "delibrate and willful indoctrination of child soldiers" as immoral.
Denied. It is an optional organisation and they learn useful skills without being placed at unneeded risk.

>In contrast, many Freeside Rats would like to request status as citizens able to vote, citing the tradition of Freeside Rats voting for themselves back in New Vegas.
Give it a trial period and require that they've been a member for at least a year. If they are able to fulfil the requirements of membership for a year then they are disciplined and trained. Meaning they should be about as responsible as some adults that get to vote in real life.

>-The Artians' Guild would like both a Museum of the Arts, a VR Theater, or a Music Hall
Approved. I'd say music hall or VR theatre but whatever they can get the most support for.

>>1975204
We've in past used the people to decide issues where we felt we shouldn't make the decision. Specifically, the lobo's and their use as sexual relief.
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>>1975236
In a sense, yes. James Bond has all the information about every transaction though.
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>>1975220
So wait the Rat's are asking to be allowed to spend, own and earn money? Shit I see no reason why not given most of our labour for humans is entirely safe or requires education so it's a win-win situation.

>>1975236
Essentially, our society has developed a internet-less version of crowd funding.
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>>1975243
Also OP can we get any bonuses for all the fan art I've dumped in the last few hours?
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>>1975190
Are we voting to approve 1 fron the list of choices. Or just going through them similar to >>1975239 anon?
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>>1975262
It wasn't American enough Anon, your reward is a free trip to the reeducation camps.
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>>1975272
Damn and here I was about to post another one...
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>>1975269
Choose from one for now, more civilian requested projects will open up over time.
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>>1975204
Except they can get sex from each other. Unless we're raising a generation of social retards who turn of other people with brains.

We've moved past the lobotomite whore house as a society.
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>>1975294
I'd say the Freeside rat's request for voting power / ability to spend credits supporting causes.
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>>1975294
>-The Artians' Guild would like both a Museum of the Arts, a VR Theater, or a Music Hall
lets do this then. Since we only pick one.
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>>1975300
>We've
Just because we've got a harem doesn't mean anyone else has one

Why are there restaurants when people can just make food as home? Why do we have movie theaters when they can just watch movies at home?

There is a reason it is still popular with our citizens, and it will stay popular with them. Therefore...
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>>1975305
We don't have to shut it down or anything. but we can let it die a natural death.

If they want emotionless sex with someone, they can go to the bar, chat up someone who strikes their interest, and go bang for 5 hours or whatever.
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>>1975190
I will support either the free rats rights to be considered adults for voting (so long as they are educated enough to be self supportive and are able to with jobs) or the construction of a music hall.
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>>1975190
>>-The Artians' Guild would like both a Museum of the Arts, a VR Theater, or a Music Hall
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>>1975300
The NCR attempted to outlaw prostitution. However they ended up just legalizing it in places like New Reno and New Vegas.

Vault City solved their problem by providing free (mandatory) urge suppression chips and dictating artificial insemination on a genetic engineering and eugenics basis. It worked quite well apparently, although there were some reports of a few breaking the system just so they could exploit the servants.

The Master didn't realize until it was too late that Super Mutants were sterile and had no urges at all. Though according to the slaves, the mutants of the MLA are anything but that.
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>>1975323
>We don't have to shut it down or anything. but we can let it die a natural death.
The whole point that this was brought up was that the people wanted this, not us. Personally, if we could rid our country of this, I would say yes, but we agreed with the people that they will be happy if we have complete control. Until people push for abolishment of this, we'll have to keep up the status quo.

Besides, no one likes fucking elderly prostitutes.
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>>1975339
>Besides, no one likes fucking elderly prostitutes.
More accurately: it's an extremely niche market.
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>>1975344
That I'm in
And unfortunately, we must appeal to the majority

>In contrast, many Freeside Rats would like to request status as citizens able to vote, citing the tradition of Freeside Rats voting for themselves back in New Vegas.
Give them the right to vote, they have already served
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So we are all in agreement? We give the Freeside Rats the right to vote?
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>>1975339
Except we're in charge. And People won't riot because we let the whorehouse die out. It wouldn't make some poeple grumpy, but nothing drastic would occur.
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>>1975323
Funnily enough the people who were previously prostitutes have stopped being prostitutes entirely, increasing demand.

You should see some of the conversations in your bar. When a lot of people have increased CHA and INT, instead of everyone having sex, the game just became a lot more competitive. Now the 5 and 6 CHA folk only go after the 7 and 9 CHA folk statistically. Many of your citizens have become a lot more witty and have higher standards as a result.

Some of the newly integrated slaves have noticed this by how hard it is for unaugmented people to woo augmented people.
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Gonna be away for a few hours, I intend to have a new turn by today.
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>>1975377
But the only reason to get rid of it is because you want to. It only helps us by keeping it, and only hurts us (albiet fractionally) by repealing it
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>>1975382
Well to be fair, you do literally become a better person but we can probably fix this by finally getting the augments to every citizen.
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>>1975389
Except It requires state resources to maintain. Which Is why I'm against getting involved any further into it. We don't repeal it outright, but we let it die.

>>1975382
We can just augment the unaugmented.
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>>1975410
Mate stop trying to get rid of the lobo's, It costs essentially nothing, provides a source of income for the state and provides an easy stress relief source for our people while providing a nice overflow for any research we do that results in lobo's as well as giving us a good body of test subjects to use for experiments on ageing, regeneration and so on.
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>>1975410
It costs almost nothing compared to it's advantages. Letting it die doesn't work in this situation
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>>1975190
Artist thing. Tell the people who go 'muh morals' to fuck off. Kids need these skills still
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when we get a chance we really need to nail down some of the issues that are going to crop up once we have expanded.

like a basic bill of rights including brain rights.

a lot of our societal institutions are fine right now but will become problems in about 200 years. for example extra special treatment for soldiers is fine for now, bit what about when we've been at peace for 5 decades?

of course that can be solved by designating the current situation as a state of emergency.

And that wealth disparity? again not a problem now, but 200 years down the line the justification that "we are doing it so they will improve themselves" could easily be used to stratify society long after post scarcity has been met. ESPECIALLY since the Hubbologists use wealth as a social tool as part of their doctrine.

this could be offset by insuring minimum pay levels. for example, studies show that 75k USD is the point at which "hapiness gains" start to diminish with increased wealth.

thus it is possible to mathematically ensure the happiest possible life for all citizens regardless of employment in a post scarcity society.

just thinking towards the future
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>>1975593
Yeah we should really hammer out a hard constitution. Problem is no one should be above the law, and if we continuously break the laws we lay out, then they become meaningless.
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>>1975622
But if we're the immortal ruler, then there should be an exception for us, as the position we are in is a different one.
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>>1975622
>>1975593
That's a great idea.
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>>1975642
By the very nature of Rule of Law, no one is supposed to be above the law. Even from the rulers. Especially from the rulers. That is what separates a state from being ruled by the whims of an individual and one ruled by orderly principles.
No king rules forever, and establishing actual Rule of law is an important step in making sure the next person in power doesn't go and cock everything up.
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>>1975593
>like a basic bill of rights including brain rights.
I'd advise the following things:

1) The right to freedom of expression in all media and mediums. In return for letting others do the same.

2) The right to education, to housing, to medical care, to sustenance and to live a fulfilling life. In return for fulfilling a minimum work requirement as ascertained by the state.

3) The right to a fair trial in any legal proceeding with the assumption that any suspect is innocent, until proven guilty.

Beyond that other rights would need to be discussed.

>for example extra special treatment for soldiers is fine for now, bit what about when we've been at peace for 5 decades?
Then we'd probably be reducing the size of our military given that we'd not need it as much.

>this could be offset by insuring minimum pay levels. for example, studies show that 75k USD is the point at which "hapiness gains" start to diminish with increased wealth.
Yeah but that is because people are earning enough to purchase everything they need in life and bank enough to be certain they'll be fine in future. Given our nationalised healthcare and everything else that number is essentially much lower if even present in our society.

>>1975622
>>1975642
To be fair, we could just lay out a section that says "ignoring the Courier, long may he reign, because he has too much shit to do and this'd just get in the way."
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>>1975671
"As long as the courier lives and is capable of rule, he does not abide by these rules"

It makes us a complete hypocrite but we just have too much shit to do
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>>1975678
Just because you put a rule in the laws that say you can break laws, doesn't mean you avoid the problem of having the leader of the state break laws.
It's not the legality that is the issue, but the principle of having someone above the law.
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>>1975746
But when you have a living god that the people trust...

This is a different situation than we are used to in our world, so we need to actually think about it
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>>1975746
Look I understand what you mean: if one man is above the law, then many will act as if they are because they believe they should be.


Fact is that I'd argue that, in the same vein as modern day military dark ops, the Courier should be unconstrained and able to act and react as he feels is needed.

>>1975758
That too.
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>>1975758
We're not a god though. We have to recognize we are mortal, we will die, and someone else will be picking up from where we left off. If we Make a stipulation that "the courier is above the law" The next guy might make the interpretation that it means who ever is in office, and take their new found freedom to wreck everything we built up.

>>1975777
Except when black ops operates, the president is still held accountable. Accountability still exists, even if the individual who did the did gets off. It makes one question the actual value of their actions, instead of whether it is the easiest. This accountability is lost when the head that orders it and the hand that does it are one and the same.
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>>1975813
Then we specify that no individual who follows us can ever be above the law like we are. Even though I don't agree that it'd be a problem since our people are going to be strong enough to beat whoever comes after us if they do something truly awful.
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>>1975827
This
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>>1975827
It still sets a dangerous precedent.

It all depends on if we take responsibility for all the things that would be considered crimes- If when the crises are over we step down, and turn ourselves in to face the justice, with the penalties that any other person would experience.
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>>1975827
>>1975831
thats a convoluted and legally messy distinction.

Far better to declare extraordinary powers due to a prolonged state of emergency, then quietly institute limits on the duration of such emergencies AFTER the current suite of crisis are over and we rule America/the world.

that way we can legally do as we need to while preventing any other shmucks from trying it.

or just not tell people
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I could see us doing a yearly debriefing with the nation for transparency. This is all the sneaky dirty shit we did, and here is how it positivley affected your lives. Similar to a state of the union address.

I dont know how other anons would feel about it though.
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>>1975887
I appreciate the brutal honesty, but people are still people and they won't see the "ends justify the means" mentality you need to make and rule a nation

I think having state of the union addresses are a good idea though, because I've always liked them <3
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>>1975897
I mean, a lot of nations were made without subscribing to "ends justify the means" so they would not be wrong to seeing it as a necessity.
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>>1975901
If you have a democratic nation that was made in the flames of a post apocalyptic America that relied on literally one man running around the old us collecting resources, that is the smartest, strongest, most perceptive, agile and charismatic person alive, and maybe to walk the world, then i would love to see that example.

Like I said, this is a different situation
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>>1975865
True but if we do that then we are going to be living out the final years of our life in a high security prison just for the basic shit we've done like the military operations in Vegas or our treatment of Diana. Unless you want to shove those under the carpet and pretend they never happened.

>>1975883
I see what you mean but still.

>>1975887
Yeah we should do something of the sort if nothing else because it'd be good for cultural reasons.
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>>1975912
Minuteman Commonwealth would probably end up a democracy?
Original NCR became a democracy and relied on the Vault dweller for its inception, and the Chosen one to be saved from the Enclave.
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>>1975928
>Minuteman Commonwealth would probably end up a democracy?
They wouldn't. The old form was a autocratic federation. The new form is a anarchist federation.

>Original NCR became a democracy and relied on the Vault dweller for its inception, and the Chosen one to be saved from the Enclave.
They were in a different situation from us to be fair.
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>>1975924
I mean those are some pretty heavy shit. Not at all basic. New Vegas was a fuck up on massive proportions that in universe was our fault. And Diana is something that would get flak from most everyone in our state.

So living the rest of our life in prison for that shit? Fair deal.
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>>1975928
The Minutemen are a weak confederation of settlements rules by a "general", also, I want to highlight the word Weak

The NCR was a different situation

>>1975944
>dude lets spend the rest of our unnatural life in prison for doing what needed to be done instead of doing the pragmatic thing
No thanks
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>>1975958
>What needed to be done
>letting people gas a city filled with civilians we immediately abandoned, while bombing refugee centers we also abandoned.
>Playing around with mind control tech
People are very touchy about personal freedoms. Governments playing with mind control in any capacity makes them very worried, and rightfully so.
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>>1975993
I have never agreed with mind control, and if we ever agree to mind control our citizens, that's probably when I would hit the eject button

Also, I was always leaving the Mojave and it's people behind, so you're griping to the wrong person
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>>1976005
Unfortunately Its what the courier did and what the courier ultimately has to take responsibility for.
I think it would make a goof book end narratively also, as we transition into a new age. New era new protagonist.
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>>1976007
But literally no one but another "hero" can take our place. That's why we must stay in power
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>>1975993
To be fair, the bombing of the refugee centres was a result of a lack of understanding on the part of the Boomers more so than ours. It never occurred to any of us that they'd fire on civilian positions.


As to the gas bombing, that was a result of a terribly labelled decision relating to a side quest I never even did in my time playing the game. The way it was phrased implied that they'd not succeed without our intervention in creating a (non-descriptive) bomb which was only classified later to have been a gas bomb.

Also, it's not our fault we chose not to get involved. We can't be blamed for what we did in that regard.
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>>1976019
We can time skip a bit like at the end of fallout 1, we can take the reins as adult Sam. Or the SS if we don't kill them for whatever reason.

We can also move a bit and be a protagonist in a different location and eventually come into contact with the Couriers legacy. Just because we have to be a "Protagonist individual" doesn't mean we have to stick with the Courier.
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>>1976049
>adult sam
You do know why the courier was able to do all this, right? Because he was a superhuman who was able to have a 10 in everything? And is a catalyst in almost everything he touches

I am just wondering why you would ever want to play a different MC
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>>1976042
The shit show of Las Vegas also had a Nat 1 can't forget that part.
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>>1976060
Two nat 1's. Never forget the fact that I literally screamed at everyone to use some boons to counteract that fact but nooo, clearly it was going to go fineee.
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>>1976049
I would like to keep playing as the Courier until the bitter end. From either getting the whole world. Dying or he is dead from old age.
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>>1976064
That two Nat 1s in a row. Can't forget that.
I was gone from qst for 5 months and I came back on this new thread and rolled a Nat 1.
I have no way of proofing I did the roll, but it was such a roll that changed the future.
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>>1976088
I know the feeling, I was (assuming my memory is correct) the one that rolled the 1 that lost us the final battle of Tundra quest.
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>>1976060
Yeah, but that's out of game. In game, it's on the couriours head what happened.

>>1976058
Like Sam, the mutant shapeshifter blob girl wouldn't have god tier SPECIAL? Unity also had 10 in everything, and SAm is the child of both.
And things happening around the Couriour is a result of him being the protagonist. If we were playing someone who was not a catalyst at all, it would be a boring game. If we played as someone else, they would also be a catalyst for everything.
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>>1976074
We could always cyberize our own brain and keep hoping into meat clones of our original body for as long at that will last us whenever we die.
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>>1975883
I pretty much agree with this.

We institute a Bill of Rights today which details all basic guaranteed freedoms for American citizens.

Simultaneously, we declare a State of Emergency. Under this decree, any/all rights can be suspended by us in the name of national security. The decree will be rescinded when the crisis (see American Unification) is resolved.

That way our people have an ideal future, but our actions are not constrained while we're rebuilding the country.
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>>1976115
>mutant shapeshifter or "natural" human who we built everything around
hmmmmmmmm

I STILL don't understand why you, probably the only one, want to change protagonists. Because he isn't a special person or something?
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>>1976127
Its not so much about changing protagonists, more about coming to a narratively satisfying conclusion to the couriers story.
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>>1976138
And we want to conclude his story why?
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>>1976138
For all intents and purposes, and while I don't speak for QM, there is no quest without the courier, and it's naive to think there is. He is what we made the quest around, and when he dies, the quest ends. Like I said, I don't speak for QM, but I doubt he disagrees with me
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>>1976148
All stories have to end eventually.
I'm not saying rush to the end, or anything like that. I enjoy the courier, and want to savor it as long as possible, and do as much as possible.
But eventually we'll reach a point where series escalation means the courier is a small facet of what we the players control, and a narratively, our control over him doens't make sense anymore.
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>>1976204
But we use the courier as a mouthpiece, as an avatar

I don't think anyone wants to use sam
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>>1976216
It was just an option. We could have the protagonist be anyone. Some new character or some old character.
The point is that though the Courier is currently the avatar for the quest, he need not always be the avatar.
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it is my hope that the quest ends with the Courier waving a cowboy hat as he rides the Doomsday Nuke enhanced with a Beryllium Agitator down to the Home Planet of the Alien Menace.

A scene that will slowly fade to a warm monotone in shades of gold and bronze. Then the camera pans out to show the glorious statue in the middle of Freedom Park, New Washington as children play on the green grass their lives free of the terrible threats their parents knew.

and, as we pan upwards toward the sky we see the AMERICAN Flag flying proudly from the tallest spire of the capitol.

fade to black. The End.
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>>1975391
Once we have opportunity we should build hospital where these things will be done automatically. When we start getting more and more citizens, we shouldn't waste action augmenting them manually.

I wonder if ASA can do this project.
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>>1965421
>B-day party for the younglings
Another year older. It's April, exactly 9 months since last years July and and 5 years since their very first birthday back in 2282.

4 of your children grow up within BigMT, that being Richard, Royce, Samuel, and Christine all who are a tight nit group. Xìnshǐ is also invited from inside the Spaceship, using this as an opportunity to practice her english lessons and spend some time with her siblings.

As always the 5 of them are able to get into a lot of trouble. Royce and Richard are usually the culprit, one suggesting they go out on some wacky adventure into a forbidden place or to do a prank, the other in agreement and both end up swaying Samuel to join them as the muscle. Christine chides them, but ends up going along anyway and Xìnshǐ can't but help resist either.

Richard ends up on his bottom after asking Xìnshǐ to show him some kung fu, and Royce tries to mimic it.

Most of the day is spent in play, either in the VR, out in the desert or trying to impress you. Christine is recieving top marks in kindergarten, as is Xìnshǐ. Richard asks you to teach him how to fight and how to shoot. Royce wants to learn to be sneaky. And Samuel mostly hangs around Christine, who is his favorite sibling and helps him tinker with things.

They're all growing up exceptional compared to other youths their age. Smarter, taller, stronger (espcially Samuel who towers over his other siblings).

They'r growing up so fast. Kyle Riner of the Freeside Rats says he intends to recruit them when they are 7. But Richard and Royce want to join much earlier. Truth be told, during Joeclyn's time they raised orphans from almost infancy but 7 was deemed a better age since there aren't many orphans anymore and much younger was a bit hard to teach.
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>>1965421
>>Get the NCR holodisks from the MLA

>Niner
"Be sure to give these back to us when you can, Six. You would not believe what it cost us to get these!"

>SPI
"I'll get to work on them."

CHOOSE:
>Then head to Hawaii, Don't fly to high or low. military base/naval yard
You have room for one more person in the cockpit, plus small things like EDE. Who do you want to take?
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>>1977256
EDE can hack, create ammo and explosives amongst other things, take him along with Riddick who is a better pilot than us (I think?).


And a question: does having a teleporter attached to the scout-ship effect it's ability to fly / manoeuvre?
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>>1977257
Supporting
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>>1977257
Yeah, it's like having to tow a truck underneath the hull. Luckily with the wireless energy systems you don't have to worry about fuel.
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>>1977256
Well I can't wait for this to fuck us over
Lets take EDE
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>>1977293
would it be possible to have the parts ported to us once we are there without having to drag a portal pad?
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>>1977293
Would taking a teleporter seriously effect the ship's ability to dodge missiles / flak fire?
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We could just make two trips: a scouting trip to identify the weapons present and see if we can even get in and then a trip where we bring a teleporter depending on how easily the scouting goes.
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>>1977321
The most logical option. Supporting.
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>>1977256
EDE, Riddick cause he could possibly fly it better.

Also bring a telaporter
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>>1977357
>>1977321
Also, we can stash it on one of the other islands while we scout out Hawaii.
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>>1977364
Except there is no reason to believe that any of the islands of Hawaii are not built like a fortress.
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>>1977382
If they are less defended than the main island we can still use them as a beachhead. The drillers will just take longer to reach the island. We could probably even set up the first portal somewhere away from the base island and have the drillers transport another portal closer. Might be easier if the main island is too OP.
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>>1977408
We aren't bringing a teleporter on this first run. It will get us killed. Just leave it for our second trip to the island because it WILL get us killed by the AA.
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the problem isnt where to put the portal, the problem is that hauling it makes us fly like a brick.

while approaching a military base with ample reason to shoot an alien scout craft out of the sky.
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>implying we won't be shot down halfway and lose our precious ufo

Take Riddick and ede
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>>1977444
I know right but everyone thinks that clearly it'll be easy as hell to get into a fortified island chain built by the best of the pre-war world with their best tech.
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>>1977464
That's the exact reason we shouldn't go yet
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>>1977472
And I've tried arguing that to them but they don't listen.
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>>1977472
When should we then? The AA isnt getting any weaker but the NCR sure as shit is getting stronger.

>>1977478
And here I thought you had calmed down and were being constructive.
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>>1977464
>the entire island chain is gonna be fortied
>DC wasn't

Mate. The naval yard and MAYBE the airfield.will be locked down. The entire island wouldn't be covered in AA
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>>1977484
No I've just decided that if you succeed then that is great since we get Hawaii and if not I can say I told you so.

It's not worth the amount of effort it would take to get you to drop the god damn mad plan, so I'm just going to let you do this insane idea and laugh if it fails.

>>1977490
And you know this how? Why wouldn't the entire island chain be under the cover of AA?
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>>1977492
The most important location in AMERICA wasn't defended or even the 'attempt' made. There is no logical reason that an ENTIRE island chain is locked down. That's a massive waste of military might, resources and guns they could use elsewhere. Do you understand now?
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>>1977490
Being how close it was to China? It's gonna be locked up tight

>>1977484
All I suggested was sending some scouts first, but for some reason that's a dumb idea
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>>1977496
No. Because D.C wasn't in any way in risk of being invaded or a major outpost for the military.

Meanwhile Hawaii is a command centre for one of their generals, a major basing point for any offensives against the Chinese, an isolated position and a major naval outpost, all the while acting as a major block against any Chinese assaults thanks to it isolating them to either island hopping to the south or Alaska (which they got pushed out of).
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>>1977490
>>1977492
While I have to agree that the entire island chain is fortified (halfway point between China and the US) I dont think the northern islands will have much power. The base and the high concentration of defenses are likely on Hawaii while the other islands are manned so as to hold out until reinforcements arrive, since they likely dont contain any major assets. Likewise, the US navy would be closeby during the war to support defence.

So while I dont think the other islands are safe I dont see why they would be fortified so heavily, considering the rest of the west coast.
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>>1977522
The problem is that "lightly fortified" by pre-war standards considering the scale of the fighting would still be too much for us.
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>>1977533
You have to take into account the amount of fortifications elsewhere. The west coast was lightly armed and the only real point of fortification was Alaska with its resources (which was a direct goal for the chinese). Hawaii holds no real value if the chinese can attack Alaska outright (no strategic value if they can attack and no resource value anyway). Meaning it was most likely defended by the navy and housed secret bases (like the general). So again, while Hawaii is in no way undefended, if the Chinese can reach the mainland then Hawaii wasnt a bulwark and ergo not a priority vs the assault in Alaska.
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>>1977547
>Hawaii holds no real value
What?
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>>1977562
China ignored the island chains to hit Alaska. It held no value to them for most of the war at worse and at best never matter cause of the need to focus everything they had on the resources they could.
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>>1977562
Present your point instead of random exclamation.

My point is that if they can bypass Hawaii and the US navy cannot stop the chinese from attacking the mainland Hawaii loses its importance. It is only actually important if it is a blockade to enemy advances. As we saw in 2066 they didnt care about Hawaii or the US navy, meaning the island was not a priority for them ergo not a defence priority for the US either.

What is your point?
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>>1977522
It was still a residential location. I can see the military coopting some islands in their entirety, but fortifying every island seems a bit much. Oahu or Hono lulu are likely only marginaly more fortified than a normal west coast city.
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>>1977581
Agreed. This is why the northern islands seem a good option if Hawaii itself is really too OP (although Id imagine that the general keeps his base hidden vs balls to the walls fortified; cant hit what you cant see and all).
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>>1977579
Hawaii is the only known US held island even close to China. Therefore it helps keep the US forces in China supplied, has a very large percentage of the US fleet there, that the Chinese would still care about as the war was happening in more places than just Alaska.

While Hawaii has nothing in the way of natural resources, it doesn't need it because it has such a large tactical advantage.
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>>1977596
Im thinking the general probably has1 island that is fortified to the teeth from shore to shore, with a national guard garrison on a close by island for defending the residential parts.

That way she could focus on her tech, while the NG focus on the residents.
The NG is likely dissolved so the residential islands should be pretty accessable.
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>>1977547
>You have to take into account the amount of fortifications elsewhere. The west coast was lightly armed and the only real point of fortification was Alaska with its resources (which was a direct goal for the Chinese).
Because Alaska had the oil. Yet that doesn't mean they wouldn't want to take the island chain of Hawaii and secure themselves the geothermal power it has. Not to mention the strategic importance of it as a major refuelling and supply distribution point for the American counter attack via the Southern islands.

>Hawaii holds no real value if the Chinese can attack Alaska outright (no strategic value if they can attack and no resource value anyway).
Ignoring the agriculture, the industry and the geothermal power generation. Along with it's strategic position

>Meaning it was most likely defended by the navy and housed secret bases (like the general).
Which is enough. Given that the American military understands the need to protect it's fleet in Hawaii from air based attacks.

>So again, while Hawaii is in no way undefended, if the Chinese can reach the mainland then Hawaii wasn't a bulwark and ergo not a priority vs the assault in Alaska.
You do understand that the Bering Strait is a thing right? That is a fair distance north of Hawaii. Ergo, Hawaii could've been a bulkhead and thus they needed to attack that much further north of it.


>>1977606
Wait what are you writing? Are we going with or without a teleporter on this run?
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>>1977601
Guam? Samoa?
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>>1977617
In Fallout China took over numerous surrounding nations, so those two islands would've be in the middle of China's greater territories.
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>>1977617
China would have to have taken them. They're too close to mainland China
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>>1977601
And I agree that when the US invaded china Hawaii became a major logistics post with lots of troops and goods moving about. However, this does not mean it was further fortified when the US was winning and needed more resources on the front.

Also, as was stated by other anons already, the islands were definitely fortified but definitely not to the level some anons are suggesting. I wont be surprised if Hawaii itself starts shooting at us but it is not strategically sound to needlessly fortify a patch of dirt.

Furthermore, since the chinese landed in Alaska, if the islands held them back they overcame the islands and if they didnt and the chinese ignored them they were likely put much lower on the priority list and thus were not further fortified during the war all that much.

The point here is that when you have limited resources you think carefully where you use them. With the chinese in Alaska and ignoring Hawaii the islands are not that important. Especially the ones without a C&C generals base.
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>>1977626
Except thaose are american territories. Taking them would have happened at the beginning of the war, by whixh point they would have been heavily fortified, seing how China would have been grabbing local countries for a while.

Remember that China was losing when the nukes were launched. Guam and Samoa, captured in the early days of the war, would have been liberated and used to stage the naval invasion of the mainland.
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>>1977310
Actually yes.

>>1977309
Unfortunately no, the portal is just that big even for the humanoid sized one.
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>>1977639
Aye so wouldn't america, in the early days of the war, have fortified Hawaii to make sure they held the line?


But again, as I've said, I don't give a shit anymore because I clearly can't get any of you to see reason. So I'm just going to sit here and wait for one of two things: one, you succeed and we continue on as if nothing has happened; two, you fail and get the Courier killed and Riddick, then I laugh at you for not listening.
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>>1977630
The Entire Hawaii chain of islands will not be defended, however the parts we want, the main islands with the military on it, will be. It makes no tactical sense to leave it "lightly defended"

What islands are you talking about then? The Aleutian islands? They have never historically been defended to the level of the Hawaiian islands.

To say that the Hawaiin islands, undoubtedly the primary supplier of the push into China, would not be defended because "we're winning so the Chinese wouldn't try to ruin the reason we're winning" is a silly reason
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>>1977647
Aye then please don't have us bring a teleporter on this run. Just to maximise the chance of this not getting us killed.
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>>1977655
Yes, but we can take the teleporter, land it on one of the residebtial islands, and use it as staging for attacking the island we want.
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>>1977661
>Brain
"Could always Jettison if if you're worried about a fight. You can make a version that floats"
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>>1977668
>You can make a version that floats"
Can we attach a outboard motor and a rudder too?
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>>1977666
If we don't get shot down, as we know nothing about these Islands. No one has answered my question on why we can't scout the islands first

It makes absolutely no fucking sense
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>>1977668
I mean, make sure if we jettison it. It gets destroyed

>>1977673
>Worried about AA
>Not worried about Anti-Ship defenses.
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>>1977610
1) Considering the size of china, a geothermal plant and some bananas are not a win for them. Likewise, since the chinese were kicking ass until the PA troops came along we can safely say that the chinese had ample supply lines and were defeating the US navy. This means that although Hawaii might be an important location when attacking over the sea, there are ports far closer to the north that are better connected and better suited for resupply of ships. This means a priority shift from Hawaii to other ports in the area. Again, Hawaii is not as important as you think.

2)See point 1. The chinese dont give a shit about a few airfields or a geothermal generator.

3)And again, the chinese were beating them and at the mainland shore, meaning that Hawaii, being 4000 kilometers out, is not a high priority.

4) And Hawaii itself likely is, but fortifying a whole chain of islands in not the smart thing to do when you know the enemy wants your oil way up north. Again, Hawaii is not as important as you think it is.
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>>1977673
They probably have sea defenses so we arent going to motor up onto the beach with it.
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>>1977685
How do you want to scout it out then?

>>1977687
Plus points to you anon.
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>>1977704
Having our ZAX spy computer do it for us. I'm sure she has experience in spying on another mysterious territory.
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>>1977707
So question anon, How the fuck is our Spy program in the ZAX actually gonna get over there to do said Recon?
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>>1977709
Did you forget when she spied on the NCR for us? It would be the same shit different tools.
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>>1977711
So you want the AI to take the tunnelers, and dig under the ocean..to hawaii and then pop up, do Recon and then dig back home?
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>>1977707
As >>1977709 mentioned, we have no assets capable of this other than the scoutship and the Courier. We currently have small size, agility and expertise on our side where the NCR has to rely on brute force. If we can take the base we remove an advantage from the NCR and gain a significant asset. Its the best option right now.

Although I can see why the option to jettison the floating portal with the option of nuking it is necessary.
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>>1977687
Hey I'd argue that if you were going to try and secure an island network these days AA is more important than AS seeing as you can just have a few torpedo planes fly around dropping shit on boats.

Also, if we've dropped it then I'd just be hopping to get our safely, if it makes it to the shore then that is great but to be frank if it gets destroyed by the pre-war defences then that is at least a nice way of making sure it's not reclaimed by something else.

>>1977691
Again I've stopped caring. You enjoy the death trap you want to fly into. I've tried to convince you just how insane this is.

>>1977692
True but it's still worth a shot.

>>1977712
Not mentioning the fact it can't get through stone which would severely limit it's speed and ability to get anywhere.
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>>1977712
No one said it had to be tunnelers, as I find it unlikely that the ZAX doesn't have some long range spy drone in her files.

We could literally just ask her
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>>1977714
So you are literally going to throw a tantrum when you dont get your candy?

Be that way then, anon.
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>>1977714
You don't land an invasion force via planes, You land an invasion force via boats. Anti-Ship would be far more important when it came to holding the place then AA in the long run.

>>1977719
Wew
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>>1977719
No it literally used tunnelers and no planes. We literally have no real air assets besides some eyebots.
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>>1977731
So you're telling me that the ZAX has no previous blueprints for anything other than tunnelers?
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>>1977731
We do have some uavs, but they are not exactly built to fly to hawaii and back. Mostly fly in our airspace to make sure its clear. And get a birds eye view of our borders
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>>1977726
No, I've just accepted that you won't believe how insanely dangerous this is and to be frank, I can't be bothered wasting more energy trying to convince the blind to see. So again, as I've already stated. There are two outcomes and either way I don't lose.

>>1977727
Actually arguably you can do it by both. Fact is however that anti-ship shit would probably not be able to detect something only a few meters across at the very most.
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>>1977748
The UAVs need to be built and we dont know if they can make the 4000km to the islands in one piece whereas we know the UFO can and will.
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>>1977754
Anon, I need to ask. How do you think things are detected?
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>>1977754
For somebody not caring you bitch an awful lot.

You are so sure that AA can hit our fast and agile UFO yet be unable to detect a slow and shitty floating metal ring? Be consistent please.
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If you want to ask your characters anything just say so
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>>1977786
A "small hint eh?

Ok, is Riddick a good pilot for these, do our pre-war people know anything about the Hawaii islands?
Does SPI have any input on this? Any NCR info? Propositions for taking the island?
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>>1977786
Does our ZAX have any drone schematics that could make the trip to Hawaii
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>>1977762
Well in the case of AA I'd be expect some sort of either heat detection or radar system.

For AS? Dunno. I can't think of any modern examples of automated anti-ship measures but I'd guess some exist. Probably could do something with a network of sound detecting nodes submerged in water networked together and measuring the difference in detection times for a particular wave / sound to locate a target.

>>1977768
>For somebody not caring you bitch an awful lot.
Mostly because people keep on continuing to argue this point and I keep explaining to them that it's a waste of time (such as here >>1977478 which is where all this came from).

>You are so sure that AA can hit our fast and agile UFO yet be unable to detect a slow and shitty floating metal ring? Be consistent please.
Well seeing as the AA ain't going to be trying to hit the now floating teleporter? Probably fine but even if it did get hit it's no loss for us since that'd drag some of the flak off from us.

As to it being able to hit our UFO, probably. I mean we aren't exactly flying much faster than any sorts of jet fighter and as to manoeuvrability, carrying the teleporter makes it handle like a brick whereas without it we've previously been hit by ground fire from the MLA.
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>>1977814
I'd suppose you could use radar / heat-detection in AS as well. Seeing as missiles in real life can be guided against ships using those.
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>>1977786
Can we ask the think tank to make the scout ship FASTER? radar invisible? or at least paint a bald eagle and flags on it? not a shitty paint job, a "I spend half my drug money on this ride" paintjob.
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>>1977959
oh hey now THAT'S an idea.

we should track down Eagle One and salvage its IFF
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>>1977959
>>1977806
>>1977786
>SPI(ZAX)
"We can upgrade your UFO some more I think. There are new technologies available to us."

>Dr. 0
"Oh yes, I'd love to get cracking at more alien technology."

The ZAX and the Think Tank believe they can upgrade your UFO further if given an action next turn.
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>>1977995
Well It's probably the best I'm gonna get int his argument, so we should upgrade the UFO

Which includes stealth capabilities I assume?
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>>1977995
Can they start the reverse-engineering process too? If so, we can spend the turn buying resources, land and people in Montana or finding a base in Alaska.

Do they have any idea about the Hawaii base? Do they think it will be easy to fly to an island with the teleporter?
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>>1977995
What techs specifically?
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>>1978014
"We'll attempt to figure out anything we can. Anti-Radar and Shield technology being one of them. Maybe some more boosters for extra speed."
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>>1978033
What action do they want and does it clash with FEV/Inertia Drive research? Can they all be done simultaneously if they have the resources they need?
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Also I've put some thought into a potential expansion I outlined earlier, Texas, and the problems others outlined in expanding there.

I still believe that we would not struggle to deal with the locals and their plant wildlife however I have considered what would make this fact more apparent and I want you to consider that we have weapons which essentially cause living tissues desiccate , ignite and melt.


If we were to equip the "heat ray" weapons we've developed onto a elevated platform with a good degree of motion it could clear entire acres of mutant forest without issue by burning them away at a distance. Essentially war of the worlds tri-pods / bi-pods.
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>>1978048
They'll work on several leads at once, mostly because they aren't sure what will work yet. Hence why they want a proper action.
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>>1978092
>we've developed
Iirc its on the UFO and its Zetan tech, not ours.

It is a good way to clear the vegetation (though better just flyers without the vulnerability of spindly legs) but I am still wary of magic hoodo without some scouting. If the heat ray works as intended we can start slowly pushing into Houston, for example.
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>>1978103
>Iirc its on the UFO and its Zetan tech, not ours.
Nah see we've also got microwave based shit like the NCR had on that tank.
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>>1978103
>>1978110
The specific "Heat Ray" on the UFO is Zetan in nature.

Tests indicate it doesn't actually function on either microwaves or lightwaves, but . . ."pure heat" or some form of super convection.
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>>1978126
I know but I'm saying we've got both.
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So to clarify, do you want to go to Hawaii now or have the team work on the UFO a bit? It could go either way
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>>1978154
Work on the UFO.
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>>1978154
Do the work on the UFO, Hell if they can get the blueprints to make us have MORE of them. Fuck ya.


I'll be pissed if the NCR fucking secures Hawaii and its secrets, cause they just need to use the boat and maybe some codes.
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>>1978154
Work then. Can we use our hero action to do it this turn? If not, work in Montana.
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>>1978164
They'll need a lot more than just one boat
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>>1978164
Where would they get the codes? If we didbt get the codes, from our base, they wouldnt either.
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>>1978192
NCR has multiple AI-super computers, access to God knows how many naval dock yards and military bases in there land. I'm sure they could dig up the authoritizion codes there.
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>>1978173
Nah man if we're gonna do something with our hero action I say we should get a behemoth over to Texas to get a basic presence together there.

That or we could use our hero action as a mini-research action and try to make our Salient red meat better than or equal to real meat, that way we solve one of the issues of our citizens that was highlighted to us earlier.


Plus we could look into medical uses of Salient like creating artificial blood, tissues or just straight up stem cells.
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>>1978190
Its a battleship, Depends on how much naval information they have of the 'current' sea
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>>1978224
It's not even about the naval information, but one battleship cannot hold even close to the amount of supplies and troops needed
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>>1978154
work on the UFO
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>>1978229
You do realize they could just use it to get a team over there, Shut or rework the defenses and then fly there forces in via massive cargo planes?

Also who is to stay they haven't been working on getting cargo ships up and running to go up and down the NCR coast line?
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>>1978235
You did see Cargo ships loading and uploading and very active docks in the Boneyard and know of the NCR's naval trade
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>>1978210
Calm down on texas. If the UFO can carry a behemoth we take it straight to Montana to start things up there (and we keep out of Sporeland until we have effective ways of dealing with them).
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>>1978235
Well if you are saying they have cargo ships, then that's another thing entirely than what you said earlier.

However, assuming they have codes that would shut down every single bot on the island, and that ghouls wouldn't be a problem, nor any raiders or tribals on the island, as well as any monsters that might have evolved there, then sure, I suppose they could "just get a team over there"
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>>1978237
Well there you go then. Another reason to go to Hawaii ASAP.

Pimp My UFO and then beeline for Hawaii.
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>>1978238
>>1978210
The UFO is currently being put down to get these upgrades, Its not gonna be able to go anywhere.

>>1978237
Oh fuck
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>>1978242
Why do you think the NCR would invade the island when they could just use 1-3 teams to infiltrate it while making a power play to the tribals? A giant metal floating boat with massive guns would force alot of tribals to submit

They literally just need a beach head and can import the rest using the cargo ships
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>>1978245
I was under the impression we needed next turns action to do the UFO pimping. If we can do it this turn on account of the Hero action super!

>>1978242
They vaporize Legion armies regularly and ghouls are suddenly a problem? Come on man.
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>>1978253
QM said either we go to Hawaii or the UFO gets pimped. Meaning we'd have to either pimp it now and go next turn, or go now and pimp it when we come back.
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>>1978238
>If the UFO can carry a behemoth
It can.

>we take it straight to Montana to start things up there
That requires flying over the MLA or the NCR. People seemingly don't want to do either for some reason. I mean to be fair we could just have them walk through the MLA.

>(and we keep out of Sporeland until we have effective ways of dealing with them).
We already have effective ways of fighting them. Between our hazmat armour's countermeasures and the weapons I've advised.

>>1978237
Eh, that could just be them moving scrap in and steel out or something.

>>1978253
To be fair they vaporise the Legion using near equal numbers equipped with machine guns, air support and tanks.
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>>1978249
But you're under the assumption that they have some wondercode that will deactivate the robots? All of them? Even the random Mr. Gutsy?

The NCR wouldn't send a small team to an island that they have never been to, it just isn't in their character

>>1978253
Sure, a full NCR army, not one battleship with a handful of men.
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>>1978258
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP_nTCluxRw
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>>1978258
Pimp now, go next turn is probably the best choice.
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Also we could always deploy the scoutship to destroy the NCR's fleet / ships if we really wanted to.
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>>1978259
The Legion has much stronger troop concentration, being amassed into a poised spearhead that is constantly reinforced and driving forward. The NCR is still chronically spread out, none the least because of their new enemy in the MLA now pinning them in, but are making up for it with rapid mobility and mechanization.
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>>1978259
>We already have effective ways of fighting them.
We have built no microwave weapons and the spores infest robots easily. We are not prepared for this shit.

>>1978259
>To be fair they vaporise the Legion using near equal numbers equipped with machine guns, air support and tanks.
Laser tanks and plasma weapon supersoldiers seems pretty OP to me.

>>1978261
Dude, they had a division of tanks where rockets did jackall and nukes were the only real solution. And you think ghouls stand a chance against even ONE? Come on.
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>>1978275
>We have built no microwave weapons and the spores infest robots easily. We are not prepared for this shit.
Yeah and? There were huge areas of the state which we empty of any sorts of mutated plant life (of which the spores would be a percentage of at most and almost certainly less given that the vehicle we got out using didn't get fucked by them) where we could set up our inital base to construct robots equipped with these weapons.

Also you completely disregard my point. The Hazmat armour we designed has counter measures that can easily deal with these spores.

>Laser tanks and plasma weapon supersoldiers seems pretty OP to me.
True but their actual on the ground army we've seen up to this point doesn't have that. Only a single division of tanks had anything of the sort.

>Dude, they had a division of tanks where rockets did jackall and nukes were the only real solution. And you think ghouls stand a chance against even ONE? Come on.
Assuming they brought one of those tanks which they lost every last one of seemingly.
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>>1978275
You're assuming they brought one of those tanks. Also the NCR would never an operation like this one one tank like that
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>>1959273
>>BIG MT
>https://pastebin.com/jAXYFRB1
>>THE NURSERY
>https://pastebin.com/ic3ac1xL
>>MONTANNA
>https://pastebin.com/hNDfikF9

---
Work has begun on a new Arts and Cultural Center. Admittedly not much work due to both Engineerin Corps devoted entirely to propelling the Fusion Reactor forward, but the groundwork has been laid and designs planned out at least. Dr. 8 is overseeing the architectural design.

Dr. 8 appears to be a recent addition to the Church of Hubology.

---

Alert. The Huge Cold Fusion Reactor is a Quarter Built, ahead of schedule and with much bigger parameters thanks to Dr. Klein. Its activation will mark a substantial increase in power.

However, our metal is (Exhausted).

>Klein
"Attention! This Divide base has an Automated Resource Collection protocol. Why don't we divert power to activate that. I'd advise building the Automated Scrap Depot as well."

---

NEWS:
Wendy Gilbert has given birth to a girl! What do you wish to name her?

---

4 Action Cap.

Available Actions: Civilian, Construction, Military, Research, ZAX, Hero
+Robotic Research does not count toward cap.
+Biological Research does not count toward cap
>>>>>Turn: 121
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>>1978280
Dude, Im trying to be reasonable but you are so stubborn its unreal.

1) It took one spore to cover the ZAX/Vault in minutes. If they get wind of us they can send one asshole with a bag and wipe our entire base in 10 minutes. And those fancy suits dont help when your robots are clogged up and a 3 ton treetrunk is smashing you. We know jack-shit about it and until we have a reliable way of clearing the fungus/plant we should only do remote observation in Texas.

2-3)They CAN actually send the supersoldiers with a few tanks (Phase 2, also, no way in hell is that all of the tanks) that can easily mop up ANY wildlife or ghouls easily. Unless they wake up the Lochness monster on the trip and make it to the island, the locals have shit to say about them taking over if they have a way of disabling the base (which, considering this anons valid points >>1978235, is eniterly possible).
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>>1978296
Hmmmmmmm, we aren't dying for power, so I guess we could do that

Wait, what does the Automated Resource Collection protocol consist of?
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>>1978269
Not really. They know we have it, and would just pin it on us as an assumption.
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>>1978303
You assume its wildlife and ghouls. And a way to disable the defenses. Access cides arent just going to be laying around. Especially ones valid after 200 years.
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>>1978296
RESEARCH
- UFO pimping and reverse-engineering

CIV
- Divide scavenge and metal extractor powering related business

CONSTRUCTION
- Civ Theatre building hexcrete

HERO
- Integrate slaves and pick out promising ones, start building up science teams and military officer programs.
- Help set up Montana, trade with locals and MLA

BIO
- Help develope anti-NCR measures (crop failures, salient purple bacteria and brahmin infertility)

ROBO
- Further improve Assaultrons, make them more commando and stealth

Alterations?
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>>1978343
Where is the FEV lab being built? Or the Cold fusion plants being finished?

> anti-NCR measures (crop failures, salient purple bacteria and brahmin infertility)

Lolwut?
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>>1978350
Since we have no metal we need to sort that out first. Maybe we can build the FEV lab out of Hexcrete but I was under the impression we would use the toxin building structure for that anyway.

To bring down the NCR logistics. >>1974062
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>>1978033
psst
hey op, our ufo already has cloaking ability
remember when MLA shot us down? It automatically turned on when we crash landed
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>>1978343
We don't want to trade with the MLA through montanna. We want anything of value in Montanna to be ubder the radar.
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>>1978361
We are repurposing it, and if we are gathering it using your...Civ action, Why are we not finishing up the Cold fusion or the repurposed Toxic lab that isn't finished yet?

I'm also confused as to why you are working on anti-NCR measures, Do you have something specific we should be making them?... Why not just improve them in-general?

Also, where the Cracking the code on the NCR holo-tapes that supposedly hold some information?
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>>1978296
>Wendy Gilbert has given birth to a girl! What do you wish to name her?

Jessica
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>>1978369
We dont have to do it through montana. We can buy metal and other goods via the Divide tunnel and Itll seem like we scavenged it. I just wrote it down there along with trading with the locals for resources (now that we have caps to throw around).
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>>1978296
>Hero
Go purchase more slaves from the MLA for the NCR as well as some for ourselves along with as much metal / fissile as we can.

>Civilian
Gather metal / fissile from the Divide.

>Construction
Begin construction of the underground farms, focusing on excavation and hexcrete laying.

>Military
Continue to train our soldiers as engineers as well as recruiting more from our new population.

>ZAX
Improve the Scoutship.

>Robotic Research
General robotics enhancements. Let Dr. 0 take a look at all of our designs and generally just try and make them better. Starting with the Securitron and Loader designs.

>Biological Research
Improve Salient red with a focus on developing it's potential uses in medicine. Artificial blood, tissue replacements (e,g skin for burn victims) and so on. Also see if we can't make the meat made using it be closer to actual meat.

>Passive robot production
Dunno, Behemoths?

Redirect the power from the second construction action's resources to the automated resource collection protocol. Convert some of our surplus food (plentiful to average) into that one medicine the NCR agreed to trade us for and get more steel from them.


>>1978319
Wait, since when?
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>>1978373
The CIV is to set up the automated extractor mentioned and scrap depot (if it is a one turn thing). >>1978296

To start taking down the NCR food supply back home and weaken them through lack of resources. As to specific, immobilizing brahmin would be an easy first step. And what?

We could add cracking the code to the Hero action.
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>>1978377
Sure.
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>>1978397
Since weve been clying in and out of the city with it, and they're watching us from the borders.
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Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>1978296
Civilian - Get Metal from the divide at a faster pace to keep up with construction

Construction - Work on the Toxic lab conversion to FEV lab, anything left goes to the Cold Fusion

Research using Think Tank and ZAX - UFO/Zeta RnD, and Pimp our UFO.

Hero - Go use our Cap supply to get abunch more shit from the MLA, if the UFO, Also Crack NCR holo-taps

>Passive production
Behemoths


QM where the fuck was the passive production from last turn, Did I miss it?
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>>1978410
That is a fair point I suppose.
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>>1978398
Why weaken them now? The balance of power is stable, bith sides are even. I see no reason to interfere right now
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>>1978415
>>1978296

Oh, ya. Add the turning on the Big MT. recollection thing
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>>1978397
Is the ZAX action also free? Otherwise we have 5 actions total. If that is the case throw the military.

Otherwise, add the holodisk to Hero and Ill support.
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>>1978424
The what? Lobotomite maker thing? Why would you do that? It just lobotomises all our people
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>>1978397
>Begin construction of the underground farms, focusing on excavation and hexcrete laying.

why not continue with fusion plant? You did add trading and gathering for metal, it should be enough to continue the project

>General robotics enhancements. Let Dr. 0 take a look at all of our designs and generally just try and make them better. Starting with the Securitron and Loader designs.
I don't think we ever researched the BoS robots we bought. Add them in the mix

Other than that I can support your suggestion
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>>1978429
>>Klein
>"Attention! This Divide base has an Automated Resource Collection protocol. Why don't we divert power to activate that. I'd advise building the Automated Scrap Depot as well."

That isn't the Lobotmite marker you fucking speed reader.
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>>1978430
>why not continue with fusion plant? You did add trading and gathering for metal, it should be enough to continue the project
Actually a good point. If QM lets us do it.
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>>1978436
...Make it the turn and he will?
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>>1978427
Eh, the ZAX action exists in a grey zone whereby we've had it used alongside four other actions so I just do that.

Any way, revised turn:


>Hero
Go purchase more slaves from the MLA for the NCR as well as some for ourselves along with as much metal / fissile as we can then inspect the NCR holodisk and get to work.

>Civilian
Gather metal / fissile from the Divide.

>Construction
Begin construction of the underground farms, focusing on excavation and hexcrete laying.

>Military
Continue to train our soldiers as engineers as well as recruiting more from our new population.

>ZAX
Improve the Scoutship.

>Robotic Research
General robotics enhancements. Let Dr. 0 take a look at all of our designs and generally just try and make them better. Starting with the Securitron and Loader designs.

>Biological Research
Improve Salient red with a focus on developing it's potential uses in medicine. Artificial blood, tissue replacements (e,g skin for burn victims) and so on. Also see if we can't make the meat made using it be closer to actual meat.

>Passive robot production
Dunno, Behemoths?

Redirect the power from the second construction action's resources to the automated resource collection protocol. Convert some of our surplus food (plentiful to average) into that one medicine the NCR agreed to trade us for and get more steel from them.


>>1978430
>why not continue with fusion plant? You did add trading and gathering for metal, it should be enough to continue the project
Because they'll take time so trying to do construction before either group gets back with resources would result in wasted effort.

>I don't think we ever researched the BoS robots we bought. Add them in the mix
We did.
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>>1978441
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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>>1978433
Im sorrt for interpretting "big mountain recollection thingy" as that thing that makes big mountain collect brains.
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>>1978444
By behemoths I mean the replicator / ConstructOR ones.
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>>1978460
Its fine just read the Qm's post more carefully next time. I'm sorry for being austic, You can see the cluster fuck known as turns happening yet again.

>>1978444
Yet again, Why are we working on the underground farms? FEV plant or Cold fusion.
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>>1978444
Support
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>>1978444
If QM lets us do it, will you change the farms to fusion?
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>>1978465
>Yet again, Why are we working on the underground farms? FEV plant or Cold fusion.
Cold fusion needs metal and FEV is something I feel we can leave slightly on the burner.

Whereas underground farms increases our food and water surpluses. Enabling us to sell more of our food refined into that one NCR drug and to support more population in New Washington.
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>>1978444
Actually change the underground farms to FEV lab.
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>>1978477
Sure but if not, will you support the turn?
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>>1978444
Yeah I like that
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>>1978444
>>1978296


Properly Revised turn.

>Hero
Go purchase more slaves from the MLA for the NCR as well as some for ourselves along with as much metal / fissile as we can then inspect the NCR holodisk and get to work.

>Civilian
Gather metal / fissile from the Divide, also turn on the thing Klien mentioned

>Construction
Work on FEV labs and finish them

>Research, Think Tank and ZAX included
Improve the Scoutship and find

>Robotic Research
General robotics enhancements. Let Dr. 0 take a look at all of our designs and generally just try and make them better.

>Biological Research
Improve Salient red with a focus on developing it's potential uses in medicine. Artificial blood, tissue replacements (e,g skin for burn victims) and so on. Also see if we can't make the meat made using it be closer to actual meat.

>Passive robot production
Behemoths


>>1978480
>something we can leave slightly on the burner
>FEV has been unfinished for mulitple topics now because 'it can rest'
Literally the same thing over and over.
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>>1978484
yes
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>>1978487
Actually support this.
Ignore >>1978466
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>>1978487
>Literally the same thing over and over.
It might have something to do with the fact that we have higher priorities.


Also OP could you weigh in, in regards to if we would lose any efficiency in construction progress by trying to continue the reactor this turn immediately (while trying to get metal for it) rather than focusing on something else that doesn't need metal.
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>>1978502
>Higher priorities
>Well Gee Sorry unity, yet again we decided that we should shaft you guys because those of us infront of us matter more.
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>>1978511
And Unity has in past stated that she and her people are fine with that. Seriously do you not remember that?
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>>1978513
She has stated in the past you daft fuck that there is a limit to 'waiting' before they get uppity like they have in the past, That also doesn't include the fact of the possible research options that open up for the Super mutants, Night Kins and ghouls we have wondering around, who we also said we'd help out.
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>>1978511
>Oh Gee Sorry Unity I dont just jump straight in front of a bus to help your useless fleshbag colony of freaks that havent helped us since thread 7 when they sent a band we now feed and keep happy. My mistake

No
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>>1978519
>Useless
No shit, they would be useful if you kept forgetting to get them proper skin and look normal so they could interact with the world like a normal fucking human.
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>>1978487
I'm confused about bio research. As long as the patient is alive, we already have capacity to completely heal them, including new skin and whatnot.

I suggest changing it to rejuvenation and life extension research. Our devil's brigade needs it at least
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>>1978518
Yeah which is lovely and I'll get round to building it when we've finished the fusion reactor alright?


Also OP, an additional point, earlier in thread I posted like 4 propaganda pieces for the first time, if I link to them would you give appropriate bonuses to this turn / to use later?
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>>1978522
>We could gather some resources for you or help you with science since we are literally thousands of people who share experience but we wont.
>Also, give us shit or we will get angry.

No
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>>1978522
Unless*

>>1978525
I don't fucking know I copied it to keep the one idiot happy. His just doing stupid shit and then bitching/moaning when he doesn't get his way.

>>1978526
>When I
Go fuck yourself, This isn't your quest. You also wanted to work on the fucking underground farms instead of the reactor.
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>>1978525
>I'm confused about bio research. As long as the patient is alive, we already have capacity to completely heal them, including new skin and whatnot.
Only by application of a augment but yeah I suppose.


We could change it to that, yeah that would be pretty useful and it would solve that issue our citizens were having with the lobo's at the same time.
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>>1978522
>waste resources for no big reason other than begin nice
Can the "Unity" actually help us? I am genuinely curious about this
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>>1978296
I'll come out of hiding and vote for this >>1978487 so we can do something other then complain for 3 weeks about a turn order
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>>1978538
Yes actually, Atleast in the FEV field. once we get there people..taken care of, we could also move them either in or touch there area and turn it into another base of operations/use all that juicy knowledge
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>>1978538
Yes? Shes very smart and her hive mind and shape sgifting is very useful. Also brings in more people, who are not traumatized ex slaves.
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>>1978551
I'm not talking about the hot one, the other "Unity", the mass of flesh that can sing songs and such

>>1978550
Hasn't the thought of Unity's wanting to "unify" everyone crossed your mind on how that could be a little unsettling?
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>>1978533
>Go fuck yourself, This isn't your quest.
I know but seeing as I am a voter and actually write out turns, I am saying I would INCLUDE it when we've finished the reactor until we manage to get it done.

>You also wanted to work on the fucking underground farms instead of the reactor.
Because, as I am now explaining for the second time, we may lose efficiency trying to build the reactor when we are out of metal and are trading to get more. Although OP has been entirely god damn silent on the issue.

So I chose a construction action which is useful and wouldn't use metal.


Also, fuck you, I ain't an idiot. We have been having a discussion and you are now complaining that I've not just caved to your shitty logic.
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Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>1978487
Supporting and rolling
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>>1978559
We want to unfiy everybody under the same banner? Honestly my only issue with it is that even once within the 'hive mind' They are still separate people. Too ensure its peaceful, you'd need to kill almost every outsider who isn't thankful to you in some fashion.

>>1978562
>and actually write out turns
>we may lose efficiency
We have never lost efficenecy in any thread from switching construction projects.

>I chose a construction action which is useful and wouldn't use metal.
You also made it a point to get MORE metal and we're sitting on an army of caps and can get more if we save more NCR prisoners.

>We have been having a discussion and you are now complaining that I've not just caved to your shitty logic.

Lolwew, You don't like it when people use shitty logic but you used it earlier?
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>>1978559
And now you reach the point that Unity fanboys like to forget. Its a goddam hivemmind. we know jack all and when the all have the ability to take the shape of anyone we either win or we lose hard, depending on who they side with. Could go well but could go as shittily as can be. Hence caution and preparation. Not rushing in to provide for every care of some people who have done very little for us.
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>>1978575
No I mean the way she does it, which is like sucking them into their hivemind, instead of each person being their own individual with their own memories.

I always saw Unity as the "peaceful" Flood. I mean if you don't have a problem with it, then it really just comes down to personal opinion
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>>1978585
as I said, my only issue is how its 'made' to happen, Sense we know those inside can break away.
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>>1978559
Except all unity parts know what the whole knows. So get 1 working in science and the entire mass becomes knowledgeable. Get 3 working on different concepts and they can work mash together concepts better than any individual.

Unity already said she doesnt want to unify people unwillingly. If people want to join the mass, who are we to say no?
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>>1978575
>We have never lost efficenecy in any thread from switching construction projects.
Not from switching. From trying to do a construction action when we HAVE NO RESOURCES TO BUILD WITH.

>You also made it a point to get MORE metal and we're sitting on an army of caps and can get more if we save more NCR prisoners.
Yeah but as it turns out that metal ain't going to instantly teleport into our fucking reserves.

>Lolwew, You don't like it when people use shitty logic but you used it earlier?
What shitty logic? Oh wait of course, if a man thinks a bull's arse smells like heaven then roses smell like shit. So by your "logic" good is bad and bad is good.

No wonder your arguments stink of bullshit.
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>>1978596
Like I said to the other Anon, this really just comes down to personal preference over "which side is right"
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>>1978598
its literally listed to GATHER more metal you fucking twat.

>What shitty logic?
Tell me more about the entire island chain being locked down and how its locked and loaded Anon.
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>>1978596
You are forgetting something. What if they join the hivemind and they are strip from what they are? Then your life is no longer in your hands, you are basically giving up your free will. As you are now in a hivemind.

I never liked Unity Hivemind, it will not end well
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>>1978639
This boils my fears down pretty easily. I'm just afraid when this Unity thing is gonna blow up in our faces
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>>1978630
>its literally listed to GATHER more metal you fucking twat.
Aye BECAUSE YOU COPY AND PASTED MY TURN YOU HALF WIT.

If I thought that you could begin construction or continue construction without any loss of construction time without resources I'd be bloody insane.

>Tell me more about the entire island chain being locked down and how its locked and loaded Anon.
Tell me about how you know it isn't you fucking mad man.
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>>1978654
>Get resources the same turn
>Can't put them right to work
>???

>Points it out
>I don't care.

lolololol Best anon.
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>>1978662
>Can't put them right to work
Do you think the MLA can get the resources from wherever they are storing them to our divide depot and that we can get them to our city instantly? No? Then we lose construction time. Same goes for the NCR.

My point stands twat, in both cases.
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>>1978671
>I don't know how turns work the post.
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>>1978639
Except we know that the people in the hive still retain much individuality. Sam was her own person and eventually broke off. We also encountered that spokesman way in the beginning, who claimed to still be himself, just as a part of something bigger. Unity and Sam also talked about the other voices in a they fashion, implying that there is many individuals, even if Unity the girl has more influence over the whole than everyone else.

Also if she was going to betray us, she likely would have done it when we were alone, far from any help, and naked, in the arctic.
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>>1978487
Revising as we can already do the Bio action and the ZAX action was incomplete.

>Hero
- Go purchase more slaves from the MLA for the NCR as well as some for ourselves along with as much metal / fissile
- Inspect the NCR holodisk with the ZAX
- Convene a research council with all our scientists + Think tank; ask them what we immigrate priorities we should focus our free robotics and bio research options on

>Civilian
Gather metal / fissile from the Divide, also turn on the thing Klien mentioned

>Construction
Work on FEV labs and finish them

>Research
Study and improve the UFO scout ship

>Think Tank and ZAX
Support the study and improvement of the UFO scout ship

>Robotic Research
General robotics enhancements. Let Dr. 0 take a look at all of our designs and generally just try and make them better.

>Biological Research
Human body rejuvenation / life extension

>Passive robot production
Behemoths
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>>1978693
>Also if she was going to betray us, she likely would have done it when we were alone, far from any help, and naked, in the arctic.
Ehhh, there would be much better times in the future
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>>1978693
You realize all the info comes from the hivemind itself and could very well be a ruse. Im not saying they are immediately bodysnatchers but you cant trust them.
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>>1978731
I don't know. If she was the sort to forcible assimilate, when we are miles away from civilization, and in a post coital snooze seems like one of the better times.

>>1978736
Sam is no longer part of the hive, and hasn't said anything to the contrary.
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>>1978677
Fuck you. IF RESOURCES = 0 + 1, THEN YOU CAN'T DO SHIT UNTIL THAT + 1 ARRIVES. WHICH. TAKES. TIME.


Or, and this is an idea which I've stated multiple times (and even asked) OP could weigh in and end this discussion.

SO, OP if you are still reading this thread would you please end our argument.
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>>1978726
If we cant do the fusion reactor then I support. Otherwise change to that and you have my support as well.
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>>1978746
Sure, to kill us, but then how would she explain to the rest of the nation? The companions that know us know that we would inevitably find some way to survive, and some of them that are already hesitant of Unity would definitely begin to question.
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>>1978746
>Implying it cant still be part of the hive since we cant detect anything about it.
>Trusting a hivemind.
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>>1978377
Supporting this name for our new daughter
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>>1978752
>Get the resources
>move said resources
>use them.

Wew, Some hard ass understanding here.
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>>1978760
Or forcibly assimilate. Then she puppets our body to return home, and now she controlls the boss, and not at all subtly encourages the populace to join Unity with the Courier as her mouth piece.

>>1978764
I'm sure the Forecaster has said something about her being separate. Or the Hubb guy.
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>>1978779
But the person being puppeted isn't under direct control, unless she lied about that, so we say that we got assimilated against our will and to please kill unity
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>>1978779
Except everybody would look like sasuage monsters and red flags would be everywhere. Also, just because the drone separated from the hive doesnt mean it doesnt serve it still.
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>>1978779
that seems like its reaching
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>>1978777
You know what, fuck you. Fuck everything you do and stand for because at this point you are just being an obtuse bastard and missing my point entirely.


You see those two stages you outlined:
>Get the resources
>move said resources

They take this thing called TIME which as it turns out we only have so much of per turn. So if we spend TIME here we CAN'T spend TIME BUILDING.


You THICK FUCK.
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>>1978296
QM, have our salvage teams been equiped with echo boys, to make their job easier?
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>>1978791
If you suspect that she's up to something fishy, then you probably are going to assume everything is a lie, and there is no reason to believe her that she can't just force assimilate people.
If you believe her that she cannot do as such, then we have nothing to worry about.
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>>1978756
It would be more efficient to do fusion reactor next turn, as we can spend 2 x construction actions on it when we have the required resources
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>>1978812
That is another good point as well.
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>>1978794
>Anon cannot into reading

Its okay anon, You will get somewhere in life.
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>>1978810
You aren't addressing the problem at hand though, that we don't know for sure.

We can safely assume every other companion is loyal, but Unity is a bit of a wild card
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>>1978819
Fuck you. Now I just know for a fact you are being a cunt, so you know what I think I am outright going to oppose your turn until OP gets back from wherever he's fucked off to.


OP, count my vote against >>1978726.
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>>1978826
Thats fine, mine already has 3 and was the first too it.
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>>1978829
Changed mine from yours to >>1978726, keep in mind.
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>>1978829
Correcting your english, "first too it" should be "first to it".

And more importantly, like I give a fuck. You are still objectively wrong and anyone who reads our argument would be able to see that.


Still, not that it matters because until OP returns I can't have you proved objectively wrong by him.
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>>1978726
This turn list has the new majority, with one anon switching his support

>>1978740
>>1978756
>>1978826
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>>1978850
At this point I'm already fucking with you.

>>1978844
You never backed mine in the first place mate. That doesn't drop it below three.
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>>1978820
There is being suspicious and being paranoid. We've been in close contact with Unity for 6 years or so, with many opportunities to be assassinated or assimilated or whatever, and Sam, who is not a part of the hive, and the forecaster and the hubb guy all don't suspect anything malicious.
I think trust has been earned at this point. We can't keep her in the corner of our eye forever. Remember when we sent her on that spying mission for us?
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>>1978859
This has 4 votes actually
>>1978487
>>1978546
>>1978498
>>1978573
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>>1978862
I am not saying Unity herself is suspicious, but she herself said that her ultimate goal is to assimilate everybody. That's where the bottom line is
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>>1978861
I know but I want OP to state you are wrong so in future in quest when someone argues this point I can just refer them to that and get them to fuck off like you should've 10 posts ago. Again, you are objectively wrong and I just want OP to finally weigh in on this because a bunch of votes have this as a conditional on them.


>>1978859
Aye, in fact I'll support your plan because it ain't that purple cunt's.
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>>1978862
OOC I don't like Hivemind, and problems can arise due to things out of our control or a Nat 1 fuck us up. Or someone pulls a Satan move and rebel against Unity creating there own hivemind.
IC Unity is alright

Is how I sum it up. Since everything can fuck us up one way or another. But use to worrying about it. We'll deal with it if something happens like we have been doing.
>>
OP are you still alive?
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>>1978878
Whats the argument about now?
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>>1978726
I'll support that
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>>1978878
I mean you never fucked off, so why would I feel the need to fuck off? However you do indeed have one point. We're both going off assumptions here and it needs to be addressed trolling aside.

>>1978890
I believe there is one about wither unity can be trusted and also me and dark blue? But that's more of a boredom/spite thing
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>>1978890
He is arguing that if we are doing actions to gather resources because we have none and are doing a construction action which needs those resources, that the construction action won't be less potent thanks to the fact that time is taken to gather and transport the resources before they could actually be used.

This argument stems from the fact he didn't understand why I was building the underground farms (which essentially just need Hexcrete for now) instead of the fusion reactor or FEV lab. His logic being because I had actions gathering the needed resources that I should be using them in the same turn, ignoring the (in my opinion certain, in his opinion nonexistent) loss of efficiency that would cause.

>>1978902
>I mean you never fucked off, so why would I feel the need to fuck off?
By "fuck off" I mean "stop arguing the point" not leave the thread or something.

>However you do indeed have one point. We're both going off assumptions here and it needs to be addressed trolling aside.
Agreed. As you'd most likely lose a large portion of your support for your turn plan if the construction work and shit was proven to be impossible / less efficient.
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>>1978921
Nah, I have time to kill and you do too it seems.Why not have fun with it you know?

>Lose a large portion of support
Oh well you know? I just wish we stopped flipping between construction projects. The Cold fusion is the only real one we focused hard on in a row.
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>>1978921
Ah that makes sense, thank you anon.
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>>1978929
>Nah, I have time to kill and you do too it seems.Why not have fun with it you know?
Eh, if you want to talk fun I'd rather do something constructive. Like fan art for bonuses from OP or coming up with detailed explanations for ways to improve our tech for bonuses. Hell, if any of us have a job that could prove even slightly relevant to an action now is the time to mention it given that OP has gave bonuses for that in past.

>Oh well you know? I just wish we stopped flipping between construction projects. The Cold fusion is the only real one we focused hard on in a row.
I know what you mean but to be fair it's because the cold fusion reactor is a thing that will provide us with massive surpluses of energy (something we are capped out on) without significant costs.

>>1978931
No bother man.
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>>1978942
I mean, I'm Construction anon. My issue with proving any bonuses is that we're using hexcrete now which I haven't personally worked with cause its not real. Once we get out of the relemn of 'real world' stuff, we start losing any useful knowledge we have.

I honestly didn't expect it to take so long and knowing our luck it'll be capped right back up within a turn or two. We also need to work on getting underground tunnels connecting our settlements or more teleporters for personal usage in the future.
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>>1978884
Something can always arise due to Nat 1. Whether it is based around Unity or not, something happens. It would happen if we play with WMDs or genetic therapies or robotics. So avoiding somethign for the Nat 1 consequences isn't going to work to avoiding consequences at all.
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>>1978942
I work as a restaurant manager, but other than the shit restaurant Blueprints i made quite a many threads ago i doubt theres anything I could contribute now that weve progressed so far.
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>>1978960
Im the physicist boon anon and I study genetics. Tells you how useful my chosen field is in this quest. Probably just try to input your ideas or knowledge wherever possible.
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>>1978982
Really? How old are you, if you dont mind me asking? Also what type of restaurant?
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>>1978982
>>1978960
>tfw your political science and economic degrees never come in handy, even in a roleplaying game
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>>1979004
And the best part is that the welder who did a year of school while he wasnt drunk makes double your figures.

Thats LIFE baby!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD2ZGW1NGJo
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>>1978960
I am studying for computer science degree and I like to study history in my free time.

But it didn't come in handy yet. Since I'm learning computer language and coding. Microprocessor are lit is what I can say.
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>>1978994
Im 26.

We are a sports (LSU Louisiana Tigers) themed family restaurant, where the owner DEFINITELY didnt try and copy from the local chain restaurants. Mainly grilled and fried food.
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>>1978960
>I mean, I'm Construction anon. My issue with proving any bonuses is that we're using hexcrete now which I haven't personally worked with cause its not real.
Hey man, Hexcrete is essentially just better concrete: it responds better to stress / strain, doesn't decay as easily from age, survives greater temperatures once set and so on. Yet it is still fundamentally the same basic material in concept which is the important part.

>Once we get out of the relemn of 'real world' stuff, we start losing any useful knowledge we have.
True but we can still extrapolate from real world shit. For example I could've probably explained to OP how a fusion reactor works and gotten a boon / bonus to the design and construction of one.

>I honestly didn't expect it to take so long and knowing our luck it'll be capped right back up within a turn or two.
To be fair we are building a big reactor. The sheer amount of power we're gonna get is probably more than everything else we've got put together.

>We also need to work on getting underground tunnels connecting our settlements or more teleporters for personal usage in the future.
Possibly. Honestly I just wish people would support me when I say we should be sending a behemoth replicator everywhere we can and dealing with issues as they arise. Rather than needing to have a full proof plan before we launch any operations.

>>1978982
Hey man, your skills in management (motivating workers, logistics, etc) can be applied. Hell at worst you can always try your hand at making art / propaganda to get bonuses.

>>1978987
Essentially.

>>1979004
Implying they are ever useful. At least you can be bribed by banks anon to promote investing via them, after all they are too big to fail!

Honest question what the hell do Pol sci students even learn?
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You know what we could do? Bring back American Football, or just normal football. And other sports so we can build a sport arena.

Since we have advance medical we can heal the injuries if gotten from sports. For brain damage American football, we could have the players get brained or we could come up with medical to fix brain damage.

Just food for thought giving people some sports to play.
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>>1979044
Political Science is one of those things that you need to be good at to get a job, and with the minor in Economics, it gave me a pretty /comfy/ gubment job.

Pol Sci students, or at least what my professor pushed, was the history of government, how people react to government, how people react to government policies, and other similar shit.

Unless I plan to proclaim myself emperor of the US anytime soon, I get to sit on my ass answering questions from higher ups to make sure they don't get fired/voted out
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>>1979036
Interesting. 23 myself. Funny how it works.
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>>1979054
Eh, I'd rather invest in developing the next generation of sports. Things like low G fighting and other things to take advantage of our advanced technology.
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>>1979064
Huh. Sounds quite nice.

What it does give you is a fair degree of knowledge in regards to figuring out what our policy should be although I suppose that most of it is common sense shit.
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>>1979075
Most of what we do in the quest it "base ourselves on previous governments" and "make some broad as fuck constitution" which doesn't need a degree.

Unless QM wanted to refine his system and wanted an actual constitution with all the fancy mumbo-jumbo as well as how that would be sustained in a society, common sense is enough to carry us.

My professor also made us do a lot of extra shit with Foreign Policy, so I suppose I thank him for than
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>>1979054
American football would be a great idea for that old time America nostalgia feel.

I'm really interested in the robot fighting league myself. We could organize it similar to mma fights now.

For those of us looking for that culture win, i would even go so far as saying we dedicate a city to all of that, whether it be Newberry or a re captured New Vegas, but thats a long ways off.
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>>1979085
True but to be frank, I've always hated the flowery yet lawyer language of laws. It works in the favour of us that our laws are simple and hard to misread.

Trust me, I once tried to read through my nation's laws regarding the creation of drugs and shit to prove a point and to be frank, I've no idea how they ever actually finished discussion of the law given how long it was.
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>>1979070
But then what are people going to do when the power goes out? Having low tech games makes them more accessible by all. Especially when it gets exported.

>>1979089
Baseball. All the Americanism, with none of the concussions and CTE
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>>1979098
Well you have the same idea as the Founding Fathers, make the words plain and easy to understand.

Unfortunately, the problem is that it becomes too broad and people interpret it differently than what the Fathers wanted. I'm looking at you, Federalists.
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>>1979102
>But then what are people going to do when the power goes out?
To be frank, I don't see that ever happening to our people but I know what you mean. Logically we'd have the facility contain some fission batteries to sustain a strong enough field to let the players descend safely.

>Having low tech games makes them more accessible by all. Especially when it gets exported.
Nah, we want them hard to access so people want to join our civilisation or at least visit for the games.
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>>1979107
>Well you have the same idea as the Founding Fathers, make the words plain and easy to understand.
It worked in Tundra quest and it works for most cases. Only reason for complex words and lengthy descriptions is because they are a rent-seeking bastard.

>Unfortunately, the problem is that it becomes too broad and people interpret it differently than what the Fathers wanted.
True but that relies on words changing their meaning and there being wiggling room. Still I know what you mean.

>I'm looking at you, Federalists.
Oh trust me, you Americans had one of the most beautiful scripts for political and ideological guiding purposes. Yet your people have managed to misunderstand with intent so many parts of it that I must admit I'm impressed they've not been imprisoned.

Not to say that my government hasn't done similar things.
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>>1979112
Thoughts on VR death matches similar to FPS videogames? We could develop esports as a culture item.
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>>1979141
I've been thinking we should at least have them as a part of our military shit and it'd be a decent test for recruits and shit.
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>>1979138
>Tundra quest
Like I said above, something like in depth economics and sociopolitical concepts don't work in a quest because no person could ever account for every little thing that would happen with the passing of a bill. Having some broad constitution would work in a quest, but depending on who you ask, hasn't worked in the real world
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>>1979152
True but to be fair, I bet you we'd be one of the few groups in existence that could write such a law if we could focus our god damn energy on it.
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>>1979158
Well good luck getting anyone else to agree with it. The same argument has been going on for 28 threads, so I doubt we would hammer out an exceptional document with how 4chan works
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>>1979112
I also have ideas of VR. It can be turned into propaganda machine you hook up someone and show them the future of the Nation and what they can do to make it happen. Show them us going into space, the perfect future. To get people to join up in science to make it happen or push for augs for the people.

Also VR could be used for vacation, people stay in the nation but you have people want to stay inside. Just food for thought
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>>1979177
Well good luck getting anyone else to agree with it. The same argument has been going on for 28 threads, so I doubt we would hammer out an exceptional document with how 4chan works

>>1979190
Yeah I see what you mean. To be fair I had an idea to make our people happier while also developing our military theory for a post-scarcity world.

Essentially: Command & conquer but with replicators and all that shit. Have our people fight it out between themselves and our best officers / strategists to develop a tactical and strategic doctrine that works perfectly. Have them figure out new robot designs based off of our own technology and so on to develop the next-gen of war machines.

Throw enough brain power at a problem and somebody will find a crack.
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>>1979217
Shit, forgot to react to you:

>Well good luck getting anyone else to agree with it. The same argument has been going on for 28 threads,
Wait, what argument?

>so I doubt we would hammer out an exceptional document with how 4chan works
Eh, I'd disagree. On occasion 4chan creates something beautiful but generally this fact gets lost in the dross and never gets mentioned outside of those who were there, especially off the board it was made on.

Still, like hell any of us could martial 4chan long enough to make it happen.
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>>1979228
There is this argument over whether we should let everyone "pursue" their useless hobbies or let them work just for the sake of working, even if it produces nothing, just so they have that ethic. Then there was also that argument over how we would structure paying people and if we were going commie or not.

But as I said about 4chan, I mean the interface and how to communicate is shit, especially when getting something done. It is too much chaos and confusion for it's own good, and if something, like a constitution, would need to be made, I would choose a different platform like Discord
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>>1979228
/tg/ used to get shit done.

if you can find a reasonable social policy that /pol/ can agree to thay doesnt involve killing all the minorities/criminals/leftards/right wingers/jews/nazis/etc. ad infinitum I will personally crown you king of the world
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>>1979246
>There is this argument over whether we should let everyone "pursue" their useless hobbies or let them work just for the sake of working, even if it produces nothing, just so they have that ethic.
Hobbies. Creativity is more important than ethic. Hell give me 50 lazy but creative bastards over 50 hard working but uncreative people any day. Fact is we've automated labour where creativity doesn't factor in at least slightly so that sort of focus isn't helpful.

A good rule of thumb: the productive programmer is often lazy.

>Then there was also that argument over how we would structure paying people
To be fair that got resolved fairly quickly and without issue. The current system is working fine.

>if we were going commie or not.
I think we've passed the point where communism and shit are really potential government forms. State capitalism for life!

>But as I said about 4chan, I mean the interface and how to communicate is shit, especially when getting something done. It is too much chaos and confusion for it's own good, and if something, like a constitution, would need to be made, I would choose a different platform like Discord
Eh, I can see what you mean but in past this style of communication and this site has accomplished great things.

>>1979262
>/tg/ used to get shit done.
True but in saying that we also used to be on there. /tg/ is a different place from what it once was, as can be seen from the quality of threads compared to even as short a time as a year or two ago.

>if you can find a reasonable social policy that /pol/ can agree to thay doesnt involve killing all the minorities/criminals/leftards/right wingers/jews/nazis/etc. ad infinitum I will personally crown you king of the world
I've always said that a good social policy would be that anyone on state benefits (e,g not working) can't have children. Another one being state supplied anti-pregnancy drugs and shit.


Doesn't objectively target any group but would probably get their support.
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>>1979300
>has accomplished great things.
Sure, like this quest is gonna be one to remember, but it still doesn't change the fact that way over half of the posts on here are literal garbage and have no substance, but rather repeat the same thing.

As for the payment system, it got resolved finally, and fairly quickly, but the debate over it went on much longer than needed
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>>1979102
100% behind re-introducing baseball

Can't get any more American than the great game

>>1979068
25 here. Guess we've discovered the average age bracket for /qst/
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>>1979319
>Sure, like this quest is gonna be one to remember, but it still doesn't change the fact that way over half of the posts on here are literal garbage and have no substance, but rather repeat the same thing.
True but I never said we'd achieve such perfect legislation quickly or cleanly (to be fair nor do real legislators).

>As for the payment system, it got resolved finally, and fairly quickly, but the debate over it went on much longer than needed
Eh, that is the problem with so many competing visions for our society.
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>>1979322
33... its depressing.
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>>1979352
>competing visions
That wraps back around to my original point. This quest has so many different opinions and views that it is very hard to get something controversial done. Therefore we would need to change something about this current situation we are in in order to achieve a successful legislation
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>>1979372
Yes but that very same number of visions ensures that whatever end product is reached, the legislation is suitable or acceptable for all of those people.
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>>1979372
this begs the question of whether or not "controversial" actions are required to make progress. Are they?

There are lots of ways to debrain a lobotomite. We could as easily have began a new Mormon Crusade to spread the Law of Zion.
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>>1979399
>There are lots of ways to debrain a lobotomite.
Fuck that got a chuckle out of me.
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>>1979387
Sure, when it's reached. A variety of viewpoints makes for a healthier or more "moral" legislation, but it sure as hell slows it down

>>1979399
Well we could have, but no one WANTS to. Rather, people want some money-less economy or who to deal with more harshly out of the main powers
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>>1978444
Roll me 3 1d100s!
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Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>1979491
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>>1979491
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>>1979491
And some fan art for good measure.
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Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>1979491
Nat 100
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Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>1979491
far, far too late
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>>1979521
Wrong format for one thing but also far off. Anyhow we've got 3 rolls.
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>>Hero
>Go purchase more slaves from the MLA for the NCR as well as some for ourselves along with as much metal / fissile as we can then inspect the NCR holodisk and get to work.

SPI was able to crack the holodisk.

Amazing. . .it's a blueprint of Boomertown!

More crucially, it outlines a key weakness left overseen by its designers, a way to cut its vital energy supply and render its defenses and main guns offline. With this information, someone could theoretically launch a succesful attack into the heart of the city and take it over!

The MLA will be expecting this data.

>Give it to them
>Other?
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>>1979642
>Keep our own copy of it, and hand the other over.
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>>1979642
>hand over the true copy but copy it and any other files we get
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>>1979650
This.
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>>1979650
Supporting
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>>1979693
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>>1979653
>>1979650
guys, if the MLA get their hands on this the war is practically over.

Unless you are prepared to ride in and save the NCR after the MLA turns Boomer town on their capital and surrounding environs

tell them what it is, but that we havent cracked it yet.
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>>1979716
>>Other?
I say we just scramble it, or we keep it on the backburner for now
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>>1979650
>>1979642
You head over to Niner. Who happens to be taking up residence these days, near the Divide, so you don't have to cross into MLA lands.

From what you can tell he's been made an unspoken liason between you and the MLA

>Niner
"Aw yeah, is this real? Holy shit mate this is EXACTLY what we need to really give the Legion a breakthrough into the NCR.

Hey, the MLA Warlords are going to have another War Council meeting. You missed out on the last one. Any chance you wanna come again for this one?"

The scantily clad witch covered in more tatoos than clothing whispers in his ear

"Oh right, uh, the contract thing. Aw c'mon Six, we're all enemies of the NCR. Can't you just sign it and be done with it? I could really really use you mate."

>what do?
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>>1979716
Not really. Fact is that the MLA have to get there first which will take some time. Even ignoring that, if "stage 2" is as powerful as some anons believe then the NCR'll push them back either way so making gains now is the important part.

Plus, the implication I got was that the NCR could've lost it's capital and it would've kept on fighting without issue. As seen when the Legion were only 50 miles away.

Not to mention the fact that most of the wartime industries don't seem to be concentrated in their capital. Rather those seem to be elsewhere which makes a degree of sense since we think the Frontier might be where their pre-war C&C factories are where as their steel supply is in the Boneyards and shit.

Lastly, they'd have to actually fight their way through a city which as we saw in the case of the sunken city and in our own fighting in the Divide is a pain in the ass. Especially since we know the NCR has equipped it's citizens with weapons so they'll all be fighting.


Worst comes to worst, we help the NCR a little bit.
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>>1979731
>No can do Niner, Dark gods and bright gods, Evil and good gods. All of them want abit more then i'm willing to pay.

>You mind though if we get a first pick at some slaves though or have them brought in while you head out? We got a shit load of money cause those last ones were fun or anything else really neat and new?
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>>1979731
>No thanks Niner. Need anything else or got anything new from any faction to trade for? If not, mind if we get more slaves before everybody breaks them in?
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>>1979731
I have an Idea.

we wont go ourselves, but weve met someone they might like to hear from

Diana, goddess of the Hunt.

we could just send a holo emitter and have her report whats happening, while also potentially fragmenting the MLA cultists
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>>1979731
Sorry a question, what were the terms again?
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>>1979731
Voting No to contract
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>>1979765
Eh i could see that, but i doubt it would work for diana. Think she would hate them.
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>>1979765
the Dark reavers would pick that apart like crazy, and even then. She and the tech in it would't have any protection from somebody just stealing and disconnecting it.

Ontop of all that...you seriously think the Diana, The goodie goodie lady is gonna be okay in dealing with a council of dark god followers? Even moreso now that they are openly working with the Legion?
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>>1979765
Diana would hate them. THey stand for everything she is against.
>>1979731
no.
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Seriously OP could we get the terms of the contract restated, please?
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Ooc - does niner not realize that we give shit all about their faction and only helping them ouy because hes our friend and it suits our purpose?
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>>1979748
sure
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>>1979880
Niner see's us the same way as we see him. A great pal and good friend. He just wants us on the 'winning' side and prove that we ain't a threat to the rest of the council
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>>1979884
Essentially this. Niner trusts us but the rest of the MLA are wary because we aren't one of them so they want us to agree to that deal so they can be certain we won't fight them. At least until the NCR is kaput.


To be frank it's entirely fair, it's just none of us want to agree to it for some reason beyond a distrust of dark gods.
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>>1979879
Essentially you two can't hurt each other. The first person to do so gets hurt a lot.
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>>1979903
And it ends when again? I think it was the end / defeat of the NCR.
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>>1979903
Same goes for stealing. No stealing from each other, or you get hurt.
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>>1979905
Either the defeat of the NCR, or 10 years. The implication that the NCR ideally should be gone before 10 years.
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I'll be honest, I'm beginning to think that we should agree to it.
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>>1979920
That means we can't attack the MLA for ten years, as I think we all agreed we were saving the NCR until we can deal with hem humanely
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>>1979933
Sure. I agree with that.
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>>1979906
Ill agree to it if they give us any / all of our people "belong" to their dark god like our tact officers body.

But the whole "you cant even negotiate for them" clause is bullshit and I dont like it.
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>>1979939
So how are we going to keep the MLA and Legion at a stalemate for 10 years?
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guys, we are going to break faith with them anyway.

We might as well profit from it and figure out what their doing
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>>1979933
Actually no. We never reached any sorts of universal agreement. I mean, we agreed that the easiest order to defeat the factions would be NCR (with help from the MLA-Legion), Legion (with help from the MLA), MLA (with help from the BOS) and then BOS.

Also it's not 10 years. It's until the NCR is defeated at a minimum or 10 years as a maximum. If the NCR was defeated tomorrow then we'd be free of the deal tomorrow.

>>1979949
Why would we? Chances are we'd invade the Legion, grab as much land as we can and then take advantage of the time where we can't be counterattacked to build power plants, replicators and all that good shit.
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>>1979957
Well we both agree that if the NCR is invaded by anyone other than us it would be mass pillage and rape, right? So we don't want that, is what I am assumign here.

We would then have to somehow surround the NCR and not let the MLA/Legion in so they don't cause immoral havoc
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>>1979956
Not to mention the fact that the MLA ain't in any position to get to the General bases, so them defeating the NCR before they get Hawaii would work out quite well.
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>>1979957
Except you won't get Legion with help from MLA and MLA will have NCR tech that brings them up even higher.

NCR is the last thing to deal with. Legion with NCR help, MLA with BOS and NCR, then NCR.
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>>1979968
Yes, this I agree with completely. Piecemeal
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>>1979962
>Well we both agree that if the NCR is invaded by anyone other than us it would be mass pillage and rape, right? So we don't want that, is what I am assumign here.
Eh, losses are losses. Fact is that the NCR has armed every able bodied adult with an anti-material rifle or sub-machine-gun as well as building entire networks of defences. It might be a mass pillaging but to be frank the number of people I'd expect to get captured rather than killed is tiny especially considering the NCR'd probably be the sort to give out cyanide pills.

Plus, they aren't exactly going to suddenly start gaining massive amounts of land in the instant we support them however if we support them we can get better trade deals, grow quicker and then go on the offensive ourselves to take NCR land.

>We would then have to somehow surround the NCR and not let the MLA/Legion in so they don't cause immoral havoc
Or we don't and just focus on getting our fair share.

>>1979968
>Except you won't get Legion with help from MLA
The Legion wants to kill the MLA. Well more specifically Caesar wants to kill the MLA.

>MLA will have NCR tech that brings them up even higher.
Yet they'll most likely lack the ability to produce and distribute it effectively, assuming the NCR doesn't destroy it to spite them. Plus they'd probably use it against the BOS before they'd use it against us.

Also the fact that even with the NCR's super tech, given a few years we will probably have better weapons and shit.

>NCR is the last thing to deal with. Legion with NCR help, MLA with BOS and NCR, then NCR.
Yeah, no.
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Qm can we ask our companions that "are in the know" what they think?
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>>1979983
Do you really not remember the fall of the mojave? The death? The rape? Having us take the NCR, just us, would let us be the most moral when it comes to it
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>>1979994
Yeah and the most moral thing would be if the world just suddenly achieved world peace and true equality with everyone adopting some perfect democratic system where everyone is equal but, let's be realistic, that ain't happening.


Fact is that your order of attack ain't possible. If we attack the Legion, we attack the MLA who will come down on us like a load of bricks.
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>>1980019
>>1979994
Have we had our general run a risk/assessment on what we need to be able to take out the NCR. on our own?

Im aware we arent their yet, but it would be nice to know what to shoot for.
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The first target is Elijah.

Use power plant recharged shields and photonics screens to walk with impunity through most of his shit. Invent an auto fire pulse grenade launcher for holograms, kill everything else with the new disintegration weapon.

Once that horrible business is through expand the Cloud to “cut us off” From BigMT.

In reality the Think tank will be hard at work at tasks we designate them. But to the outside world it will look like we have suffered a huge setback.

Use our “remaining forces” to capture New Vegas and Hoover Dam.

Then petition to Join the NCR in return for protection.

Then en-fucking-sure Oddball, Yaunkers, and most of his command structure bite it.

Emerge as the obvious choice to lead.

Pour our real army out of the Cloud into The MLA/Legion.

There are other plans, but this one is pretty good.

The other one involves working our way through Texas, across the gulf, up Florida and into the Commonwealth. While also expanding up north, through Alaska.

Take over the institute, grant Synths rights and equal treatment under the law.

March west and push everyone west as well.

A fourth gen synth army would be fairly badass after all.
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>>1979983
Legion is working with the MLA pretty well for people who want to kill each other. War makes for strange bedfellows, and they don't always come apart at the end. Cesear is a smart man. Once the NCR falls, he has Vegas, and has defeated the historic enemy. He might just focus on the south after signing a non0aggression pact. Maybe he signs up with the Dark Gods. You don't know that the MLA will accept us attacking the legion, at which point its us against the world.

>>1980019
The MLA has no access to us if we collapse their tunnels before hand. ANd the NCR can keep the MLA busy while we deal with the legion. The legion would be the easiest target to go after, and the sooner we start making gains the bette.
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>>1980019
>Yeah and the most moral thing would be if the world just suddenly achieved world peace and true equality with everyone adopting some perfect democratic system where everyone is equal but, let's be realistic, that ain't happening.
What the fuck are you talking about? I have no idea where you're coming from. All I am proposing is we save the NCR for last, not world peace. I like you anon, but you have to admit that was a stupid fucking statement.

If we team with the NCR, we could easily take on the MLA and Legion

Once the NCR is exhausted, and we are getting our second win, we eat up the NCR homeland, and their newly conquered territory would be ours
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>>1980052
You really think they would put the new guy in charge? especially as right after they joined, everyone else died of suspicious circumstances, or with suspicious quickness?

And what do you mean "expand the Cloud to “cut us off” From BigMT."?
Do you mean fill Big MT with cloud? our main residential district?
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>>1980052
I dont wish to join the ncr, even if its a ruse.
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>>1980048
Well we'd need roughly force parity, i,e something to counter their tanks as well as enough of everything to prevent them rolling us over like a poorly made house of cards.

So, I dunno, 200 Chinese tanks and a few thousand securitrons? That'd at least hold off their ground forces for a week.

>>1980052
That sounds horribly convoluted and largely impractical if not impossible.

>>1980055
>Legion is working with the MLA pretty well for people who want to kill each other. War makes for strange bedfellows, and they don't always come apart at the end.
Aye but historically speaking they just as often do. Soviets and the allies for example.

>Cesear is a smart man. Once the NCR falls, he has Vegas, and has defeated the historic enemy.
Niner even admitted that Cesar hated them but hated / feared the NCR more. I expect them to fight each other given time.

>He might just focus on the south after signing a non-aggression pact.
Which wouldn't take all that many people given that there is nothing south which could stand up to a tenth of the Legion as far as we know which says a lot.

>Maybe he signs up with the Dark Gods.
Unlikely, if he was going to do that why wouldn't he have done it by now?

>You don't know that the MLA will accept us attacking the legion, at which point its us against the world.
Except my plan ain't to strike against the Legion first, it's to let the Legion and MLA get into a fight then move in.

>The MLA has no access to us if we collapse their tunnels before hand.
That'd be trick. Getting every single MLA tunnel without fail, without being detected by them or their future seers and shit.

>ANd the NCR can keep the MLA busy while we deal with the legion.
Like hell we could deal with the Legion.

>The legion would be the easiest target to go after,
You mean The "oh they killed a million of us? It's okay we have reserves" Legion? The "oh they have tanks, charge!" Legion? Sure, totally the easiest target. It's not like their entire culture renders them impossible to integrate as well.

>and the sooner we start making gains the better.
Then why go the hard route?
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>>1979913
If those are the terms, then no.

I will agree to it if the length is 1-3 years. Ideally only 1.
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>>1980059
>What the fuck are you talking about? I have no idea where you're coming from. All I am proposing is we save the NCR for last, not world peace.
Aye and I'm saying that thinking that we could defeat the NCR anytime but right now is insane given how fast they are advancing. You were all worried about them getting Hawaii yet you aren't worried about giving them another 5 years to build an army of those laser tanks?

>I like you anon, but you have to admit that was a stupid fucking statement.
It was meant to be a mockery of yours. That is just how unrealistic your expectation of our ability is. My route to eliminating the other factions is based off of who we can most easily defeat either through our own strength or by piggybacking on the strength of others in order to get where we need to be to defeat others in turn.

Yours, is based off of "morals" to some degree which are something I must admit I am fond of but hardly so when they would see us throw the best hope for humanity down the drain in a vague attempt to stop our enemy suffering at the hands of our other enemies.

>If we team with the NCR, we could easily take on the MLA and Legion
No we couldn't. Fact is that in the MLA-Legion alliance we can fulfil the technical and high-tech role and get their respect that way allowing us to get boons of land and shit for our support. Meanwhile, with the NCR, all we are is a fairly nice little ally who in the grand scheme of things ain't that important.

This is before mentioning that it is completely impractical to imagine the NCR ever giving us anything good. Fact is the MLA are, for all their bullshit and savagery, honest and fair folk in their dealings. I could sooner see us convincing them to give us all the land south of Necropolis than I could convincing the NCR to give us Vegas or anything similar seeing as what we could effectively contribute would be far less impressive to them.

>>1980144
Why if you don't mind me asking?
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>>1980151
I'm not saying we go to war with the NCR right now, just that when we do, we are, or atleast try to be the lone force in their nation.

It's not even morals to be honest, just decency. Letting a nation get raped and enslaved and pillaged just doesn't make sense to me, when there are other options, albiet they take a little more work.

The NCR was winning before we got involved, so I fail to see how giving them the support of our tech powerhouse wouldn't succeed
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>>1980142
>Aye but historically speaking they just as often do. Soviets and the allies for example.
Soviets and allies settled to making nasty looks at each other from across the Berlin wall while paying other people to fight for them. No direct war between the two powers. And the Soviets and Allies were on completely different fronts. It's different when you fight side by side with them.

>Niner even admitted that Cesar hated them but hated / feared the NCR more. I expect them to fight each other given time.
Maybe, or maybe not. you can't make that prediction with a significant degree of certainty.

>Which wouldn't take all that many people given that there is nothing south which could stand up to a tenth of the Legion as far as we know which says a lot.
South is land, and resources, without dealing with the MLA and their NCR loot. It would be the smart thing to do, splitting the continenty into north and south.

>Unlikely, if he was going to do that why wouldn't he have done it by now?
Because the war isn't over? because they just started working together? Religious conversions take time. It's not without precedence for the emperor to convert to make things easier to rule.

>Except my plan ain't to strike against the Legion first, it's to let the Legion and MLA get into a fight then move in.
A fight that might not happen.

>That'd be trick. Getting every single MLA tunnel without fail, without being detected by them or their future seers and shit.
We have the Echo boys, which can find every tunnel that exists. Then we just have to burrow down with some high explosives and it all comes crashing down.

>Like hell we could deal with the Legion.
We can deal with a part of the legion while the NCR deals with the other part. We go in, we start making gains, because right now its a stale mate. our help tips the scales.

>You mean The "oh they killed a million of us? It's okay we have reserves" Legion? The "oh they have tanks, charge!" Legion? Sure, totally the easiest target. It's not like their entire culture renders them impossible to integrate as well.
We're integrating a bunch of slaves from random cultures just fine. With a little prep, we can handle integrating the legion. And your plan also involves integrating the legion so I don't see the point in this comment.

Then why go the hard route?
It's easier than going after the NCR first.
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>>1980174
>I'm not saying we go to war with the NCR right now, just that when we do, we are, or atleast try to be the lone force in their nation.
And my point is that there is no situation that we can reach from our current one where that is ever feasible. Just thanks to the sheer power of the NCR and how quickly they are getting stronger. If we don't nip them in the bud? They'll surpass the old world and possibly even us just thanks to the amount of brains they can throw at a problem that we can't and how much more industry they have.

Or do you not remember them having trucks that turned fissile material into ammo and weapon parts that OP mentioned some time ago? Or how about their super soldiers? Or their massive industrial base? We can't compete with that!

>It's not even morals to be honest, just decency. Letting a nation get raped and enslaved and pillaged just doesn't make sense to me, when there are other options, albiet they take a little more work.
"a little more work" is what you call it? By god I call it taking a marathon just to obey a one way system of roads rather than taking a single step against it.

>The NCR was winning before we got involved, so I fail to see how giving them the support of our tech powerhouse wouldn't succeed
Because we aren't that much of a powerhouse and even IF we were, why'd they care? They have passed off our innovations in past as their own, so why wouldn't they now? Why wouldn't they try and keep us as their wee pocket ally as they grow fat from the war and then turn on us later?
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>>1980194
Like the MLA is not getting stronger? You seem to be missing out on the fact the MLA runs on magic half the time. Magic that is just going to get stronger. Giving the MLA millions of sacrifices and a bunch of new tech from the NCR is not going to be the smoothest ride possible.

We know the NCR will just annihilate the dark god cultists, which takes that out of the equation of long term planning.
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>>1980194
Also the tech they "stole"? wouldn't have happened if we PATENTED out shit. They have no idea who invented it so rely on who is the first to claim it. If we had Patented it, we'd be seeing NCR bucks flow in.
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>>1980194
Not to argue against it, but qm has mentioned that one of the reasons why they are continually ahead of us is because they are using national actions while we are still using City state level actions.

We may be able to bridge the gap /surpass them if we ever make the switch.
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>>1980194
The tech we have now is just better than everything they have, and our research is next to none, so yes, we ARE a tech powerhouse. You're arguing that it would be easier to ally with MLA and take out NCR then other way around, right?
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>>1980180
>>1980180
>Soviets and allies settled to making nasty looks at each other from across the Berlin wall while paying other people to fight for them. No direct war between the two powers.
That has more to do with the nukes.

>And the Soviets and Allies were on completely different fronts. It's different when you fight side by side with them.
Yeah, for the ground troops maybe but to the guy who hasn't been near the front for years and is fighting for ideological reasons? Doesn't matter.

>Maybe, or maybe not. you can't make that prediction with a significant degree of certainty.
Nor can you make your statement they won't.

>South is land, and resources, without dealing with the MLA and their NCR loot. It would be the smart thing to do, splitting the continenty into north and south.
Except I imagine that Cesar wants a contiguous empire which would require having his northern holdings connected to his southern ones.

Also, as I already stated, spreading south would require such a small amount of his state's resources that he could afford a dedicated war elsewhere without issue because of how little in terms of manpower it would cost. So, sure he'd expand south but he'd also be able to expand north.

>Because the war isn't over? because they just started working together? Religious conversions take time.
And yet you believe that he, who has never actually met with the MLA, would convert.

>It's not without precedence for the emperor to convert to make things easier to rule.
That presumes that his people are of that religion which is highly unlikely.

>A fight that might not happen.
Which would also be fine, because then I'd prioritise expansion elsewhere like outside of the united states or via teleportation into Florida, Texas and building up in our current holdings.

>We have the Echo boys, which can find every tunnel that exists. Then we just have to burrow down with some high explosives and it all comes crashing down.
Hoping that their psychics don't figure out something is amiss and that our damage is significant enough to delay reinforcements while we defeat whatever we have trapped which, might still be too much.

>We can deal with a part of the legion while the NCR deals with the other part. We go in, we start making gains, because right now its a stale mate. our help tips the scales.
Not really. Even if we sent every military asset we have in an all or nothing attack how long do you think it would be before our numbers go worn down? How long before our guns overheat from firing constantly? How long until they push us back? A month at best, assuming they don't deploy entire squads with rocket launchers and pulse grenade style weapons from pre-war or bought from the MLA.
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>>1980210
Pretty much this.

We need a nation. I’m in favor of carving one out of the Baronies, Alaska, Montana, Texas, and the Institute.

Holy fuck. We have a teleporter that energizes us right?

But it needs coordinates.

But, we ALSO have a tech that creates wormholes.

So, what you do is this. Create a man portable portal receiver that opens a dime sized hole.

Then fire the zappy Porter (technical term) THROUGH the open wormhole.

Use a laser to guide the exact coordinates.

There. Instantly teleport anything anywhere.
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Back.

Not seeing a clear vote for yes, so I'll presume that's a no.

>Niner
"Shoot, okay er. . .would you accept a one way hologram? Just so you could be there. I'm really trying to get you to cooperate but you've been colder than a Ranger's cunt.

Don't tell me that slop you feed yer people about us being scum is. . .true to you is it? Come on mate, we both know who the real enemy is! It's the NCR! Like you said!"
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>>1980246
That's. . .not exactly how it works. Its more like a one way system that requires a big teleporter tower to be at the other end. A very powerful one.

It doesn't energize you either, it runs on Dr. Mobius' space folding principle, based, quite obviously, on Zeta Tech from a third party in the US government.
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>>1980251
>Your right the real Enemy is the NCR, But they also see most of those in the MLA and legion as mindless beasts? Long as I'm in charge though, I'll help you out as much as I can Niner.
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>>1980251
God I like niner, too bad he's a raider

"Sure man, a hologram would do just fine."
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>>1980251
What part of it is a lie though? The book tells it like it is. The MLA and the NCR can both be terrible in their own special ways. Helpful too.
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>>1980251
>>1980262
also accept the Hologram.

Also, When the fuck did you guys get Holographic tech?
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>>1980237
>We're integrating a bunch of slaves from random cultures just fine. With a little prep, we can handle integrating the legion.
You mean the slaves we just freed and gave far better lives? Why would they ever be pissed?

Meanwhile, we'd be invading the Legion which would almost certainly make it impossible to work with them.

>And your plan also involves integrating the legion so I don't see the point in this comment.
As I have stated previously, I want to kill everyone in the Legion above the age of 10 and deprogram the rest. Fact is those older are already brainwashed and inducted into the Legion military and religious worship of Cesar. Those younger might still be saved but to be frank I don't hold out much hope.

Honestly, I'd be hopping that every one of them commits suicide or charges our lasers. It'd just make my life easier and their deaths all the less expensive.

>It's easier than going after the NCR first.
Assuming we were doing it without help? Sure. With the help we've got? Not likely.

>>1980203
>Like the MLA is not getting stronger? You seem to be missing out on the fact the MLA runs on magic half the time. Magic that is just going to get stronger. Giving the MLA millions of sacrifices and a bunch of new tech from the NCR is not going to be the smoothest ride possible.
Which is why we let them throw it away against the Legion and the BOS. While we build up and continue to advance.

>We know the NCR will just annihilate the dark god cultists, which takes that out of the equation of long term planning.
Ignoring the fact that they'll almost certainly miss some and that if the dark god wanted to, it can probably find new followers.

>>1980209
>Also the tech they "stole"? wouldn't have happened if we PATENTED out shit. They have no idea who invented it so rely on who is the first to claim it. If we had Patented it, we'd be seeing NCR bucks flow in.
Not likely, given they've used it for PR purposes (they claim that Hexcrete was invented in New Reno, not by Mr Oddball).

>>1980210
>Not to argue against it, but qm has mentioned that one of the reasons why they are continually ahead of us is because they are using national actions while we are still using City state level actions.
>We may be able to bridge the gap /surpass them if we ever make the switch.
I know. However that doesn't really change matters since I think it'd be easier to achieve such a switch with the help of the MLA-Legion supplying slaves and metal.
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>>1980251
Ill support a hologram.
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>>1980251
Do the hologram
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>>1980151
>Why if you don't mind me asking?
It constrains our options too much.

10 years is a fucking long time, and even with the plans to Boonertown, I doubt that the NCR will fall anytime soon.

A few years of guaranteed peace gives them peace of mind and us flexibility.

Side note, should we leak the news of the upcoming attack on Boomertown to the NCR? We don't want them anytime soon after all.

But then again, a bit setback like that would shake confidence in Yaunker's leadership...

We really need to start promoting the true America within the NCR's borders.
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>>1980273
>Which is why we let them throw it away against the Legion and the BOS. While we build up and continue to advance.
Except tech isn't disposable. Once they have the plans, they're just going to make more. There won't be any "using up" and the fighting the legion, if it comes down to it is more sacrifice to juice up Dark God. Which is bad.

>Ignoring the fact that they'll almost certainly miss some and that if the dark god wanted to, it can probably find new followers.
A handful of dark god followers forced to operate in secret is much less dangerous than thousands operating openly, with the MLA's support.

>Not likely, given they've used it for PR purposes (they claim that Hexcrete was invented in New Reno, not by Mr Oddball).
Invented in New Reno, by Oddball. end of the day, Oddball patented that shit, and they accepted it because they have no reason not to. We didn't even confront them.
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>>1980251
Niner is such a bro. Yes to hologram

Maybe we could slowly kill off the other Warlords and the Cult - after which he can rule a small vassal state in the new America.
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>>1980298
Not if he's going to be raider Niner he isn't. He's going to have to be a good boy and follow the rules before we let that happen.
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>>1980298
>>1980301

We could always turn him into an agent similar to kelogs relationship with the institute.
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>>1980338
I doubt that would be necessary. And he's too much of a liability. Kellog was Lawful Evil. He worked with the system. Niner is chaotic evil. He won't.
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Question qm.
Now that the think tank are slowly regaining thrit memories, coukd we ask them if they remember anything about Area 51?
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>>1980375
Or the woman who dealt with alien metal.
I'm sure the top secret research labs had some cross communication- getting fresh eyes on things as needed.
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>>1980225
>The tech we have now is just better than everything they have
Ignoring laser weapons, super soldiers, recon drones, medicine, holograms and whatever else they are cooking up in their endless labs.

>our research is next to none, so yes, we ARE a tech powerhouse.
Which is lovely, ignoring that they have so many more researchers that they can research more things at once, even if their advances are smaller.

>You're arguing that it would be easier to ally with MLA and take out NCR then other way around, right?
Kinda, I'm arguing that allying with the MLA-Legion to take out the NCR and grab a fair share of the land / resources would be easier given the fact that we are more technologically advanced than the MLA and thus can fulfil a very different role resulting in us having bargaining power to get land / resources.

Compared to with the NCR where our tiny force of technically superior robots would almost certainly be considered a small consolation compared to their sheer numbers and although technically inferior, sufficient troops.

>>1980251
"Niner, if you want to hear what I think, when I've got the time to talk in detail and explain? Come visit: we'll go watch a robot fight or catch a concert; have a few beers, maybe a steak and I'll try and explain this shit but trust me you'd need to come to understand. Plus, it'd give me a chance to give you a gift or something for all the shit you've gave the NCR over the years.

I will however take that hologram for the meeting and trust me, I don't think you are all scum: after all you aren't and two of your girls, you know who, are good in my book."
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>>1980532
We're not inviting Niner to hang out. For one thing, he's the guy who sold us a bunch of slaves who now have non slave lives, and would very vocally disagree.
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>>1980575
So your logic is that, even though they've seen us having business with the MLA, the concept of us having a meeting with a MLA leader in our own town and treating him well is impossible and deeply insulting?

Just tell them it was a business meeting which to be fair, it kinda would be.
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>>1980532
I like your write in. Ill support it.
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>>1980592
Its one thing to do some trade, its another to be seen drinking and having a fun time together. It's basically rubbing it in their faces that we're good friends with a slaving rapist.
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>>1980653
And if they've got such a massive problem with us being friendly with our trade partners to get better deals they've clearly never bartered before in their lives.
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>>1980271
>Niner
"Like where we get all the good stuff. Straight from the source. Donated by the Brotherhood of Steel and upgraded by our Reaver friends."

---

You find yourself sitting in front of an old Holotape recording system, essentially multiple camera's all hooked up to an old computer designed to make a very basic holographic image of you in the distance. Its the sort of Old World stuff readily available to anyone who can scavenge it.

You find yourself in a non-descript room surrounded by dozens of people, most of which you haven't seen before. There's a Brotherhood of Steel paladin, with his symbol scratched out and replaced by the MLA, massive supermutants taller than Marcus wearing thick and spiked armor, ghouls, human raiders, tribal chiefs, and even a Death Claw.

There are also what look like some non-raider humans too. At least one scientist looking type, a man in a nice dressed suit, and other seemingly average wastelanders sort of not fitting in the group so well.

There's some chanting going on in the background, and smoke whiffing from a fire that burns in the center of the room. The indistinct chatter and murmuring, and you feel eyes peering at you. Looking at your holographic form. Clearly some of them are surprised at your appearance.

A robed figure walks in, and you see a tall long haired woman in robes carrying a dark book in her hand, and tatoos upon her wrists and forehead. When she walks, the whole room goes quiet.

>Niner
"Psssst." niner whispers. "That's 'Mama Gothic'. She's the head witch of the cult here."

>con't
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>>1980711
"The NCR have made a grave error. That Which Devours grumbles in unfathomable places. The time for attack is upon us.

This data was given to us by the Skin Flayers, now translated by Executor Courier. The data on the holodisk provide's a blueprint for Boomertown, which thwarted the original Legion drive into the NCR capital years ago.

The heavy weapon systems though incomplete are still active, the NCR have extended their lines forward under an umbrella of artillery fire. However in a vain effort to hold our attack from a dozen other fronts, and weakened by our successful destruction of the Ghost Division, they have left the internal garrison depleted and it is relatively unprotected from an attack from within. More importantly, we have discovered General Blackthorne himself is present, and overseeing the ongoing construction of the city.

Many Skin Flayers died to bring us this information."

>con't
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>>1980828
"General Maddock please."

One of the very tall Super Mutants stood up and spoke.

"These plans show us a way to enter Boomerville's central power station. If we can disable this station from within, the large scale cannons and ammunition delivery systems will be unable to operate. This will give us an opening to send in fast moving transports to assault the the city.

If pulled off correctly, we can take over Boomertown under the NCR's noses, restore it to function, and turn it against any counter attacks the NCR makes. We will use their primary defensive installation as a gateway into the NCR capital, even to bomb it to the stone age."

The witch spoke again.

"This will require a massive investment of forces, even more so than we used to repel the NCR's spearhead. The Legion themselves will be timing an assault to tie up more of the NCR to buy us time to pull this off.

It will mean we will need supplies, resources, and equipment. More importantly, we will need allies who can help us to clear the garrison and hold the fortress.

For that, we would like to formally extend this request for support, to Executor Courier."

All eyes now turn on you. You look to Niner, and he seems confused. Guess he wasn't expecting you to be put on the spotlight either. "Say something Six"

>What say?
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>>1980951
No promises. Would have to have more details before a commitment of that magnitude.
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>>1980951
If told we can look into providing supplies, resources and depends on the equipment... Possibly robots as well. Human forces will not be deployed.
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>>1980951
Im fine with trading them supplies and equipment similar to what we have been doing, but I don't want to throw in military support. They succeed or fail on their own merit.
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So Are we planning on screwing over the Boomer's again? lost them one home, now we're getting them killed in the next.
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>>1980978
They've already allied with the NCR...

We might want to give that one guy we met a warning to get the fuck out of dodge ASAP.

>>1980956
Backing this anon. Let's not commit to anything yet. Just tell them that we need more concrete details and emphasise that NCR is a threat to us all
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>>1980951
>"I'll send you as many supplies, resources, and weapons as you need, but I don't have the manpower to hold a city much less take one. Just give me some numbers, what kind of things, and I'll get on it."
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>>1981018
If we're going through this, we can't warn anyone.
Unless you want to tip off entire NCR, then we should contact them directly. Hell, maybe we should do just that.
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>>1980951
"Look, my people are advanced. If you want cloaking Assaultrons with lasers that could cut through steel? No bother, I can have them assigned to assist you in this covert op. However, before committing to anything, I'd need to hear some hard numbers to tell you if I can feasibly support such an effort, as we'd be hard pressed to supply you with many of them thanks to projects we are undertaking consuming too many of our own resources. However if compensated we could certainly construct more to assist you but don't be expecting a thousand of them to arrive anytime soon.

If you want us to actually deploy humans? We can't handle the losses and need the manpower, however we have no problem supplying you with things to get your soldiers back in the fight quicker or better than before or just to equip more people in general. Which reminds me, Niner do you still want those anti-air missiles because I've still got them if you want them, again however I need compensation for the raw resources thanks to the limits of my people's own efforts to gather more.

General rule, if you need something manufactured, designed or hacked we can probably manage it. We just can't afford to risk our actual combat assets because of how expensive and recognisable they are since we use mostly our own designs or things that others don't, at least for now since our people live in a position that the NCR air-force can easily eliminate. For example, I could probably put in a call to a mate of mine and get you some Chinese stealth suits if that'd be something of use to you.

I will state that, in another year and a half, maybe two or three depending on how many things go, my people will most likely be able to start actually deploying our own assets against the NCR at least in rear line roles like radar, AA and artillery systems. Along with drone aircraft to counter their air-force and support your troops on the front-line. Humans however will be far removed from the fighting at least from our current plans.


Any objections, questions or proclamations?"


OP ignore this if most anons oppose.
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Why not just take over Boomertown ourselves?
We can use a Tunneler carrying a Dr. Mobious teleporter variant to bring in a bunch of Assaultrons while Subterranean APCs bring in the heavy hitters like the Securitrons and Bastions.
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>>1981082
No, don't say that.
We're not deploying cloaked bots.
And that's giving too much information
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>>1981094
Because that would be a formal declaration of war against NCR
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>>1981099
Well it's either that or letting the MLA sacrifice the boomers to their dark god, which is also bad.
They'll be also getting all the Boomertown guns and artillery.
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Maybe we could get some time and resources from the MLA, say we can make an army to capture and hold boomertown but only if they give us metal.
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>>1981120
Then we keep Boomertown to ourselves.
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>>1981120
Again. That would be declaring war against NCR.

How about we just don't commit anything or commit very little and tip off the NCR. That way they all make a lot of losses and a stillmate.
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>>1981082
Oppose that. Might as well give them our entire troop composition.

>>1981120
Except that is still declaring war on the NCR on side of the MLA. That is the opposite of the optimal path. Siding with the NCR is safer, and lets us take things more carefully.
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Since balancing this conflict is our goal, as an alternative we can start working on strengthening the Legion instead of the MLA. They both work together, but the difference is that the Legion isn't into crazy Dark Gods shit. In the event that we fuck up and the NCR is destroyed completely than I think it is necessary that we have the Legion in the position capable of sustaining a prolonged fight against the MLA.

Any thoughts?
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>>1981134
>>1981136
My stupid ass forgot to mention that we would use the MLA resources to build defenses to protect us from the NCR.
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>>1981138
The legion *currently* into dark god shit. We will have to see how the MLA cultural inertia plays out.

And the biggest reason we can't work with the legion is that Cesar hates us, so we have no one to work through. ALso Hercules also hates us. And Joshua will hate us for that.
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>>1981138
We are most hostile against the Legion and have been planing to take over New Vegas for a while now.

Just let them be. Don't commit anything much. The witch girl did say that they will make significant losses taking over the boomer town and we know the NCR doctrine is to make fortresses out of any city they have. Even if they take over the boomers, dosn't mean they will have easy time with the rest of NCR.
Besides, we can later help NCR and make a tidy profit.
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Actually why not just refuse to help? Cite "Important business" at home as our reason why we can't help.
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>>1981152
*The legion currently is not into dark god shit. But may get into it in the future.
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>>1981165
We can see more specifics and if we feel like we don't want to we can dip out then.
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>>1981152
Literally everybody will hate us for that, including our companions and citizens.

>>1981149
It's still declaring war against NCR. We will have to ally with the Legion and MLA if we do that.
Is that what you are trying to propose?
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>>1981169
I agree with doing that, just saying not helping is an option.
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>>1981171
>Is that what you are trying to propose?
The declaring war with the NCR, yes cause boomertown is gonna fall.
The allying with the MLA? No, i just want them to give us resources so we get beefed up then stay secluded with our new Boomertown while the MLA and NCR keep fighting.
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>>1981165
Lets just do what we were planning to do this turn, which was trading for more slaves and NCR troopers.

Or what you propose. We can also say that our resources are limited or whatever and that we can't help, we'd love to but really we're very poor and weak.
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>>1981179
*Cause Boomertown is gonna fall regardless.
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>>1981179
you don't understand. If we declare war against the NCR, we wont be able to defend against them. That means we will have to seek allies and the only viable allies are MLA and Legion.

We can't wage war against all 3 of them.


I'd rather not help at all
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>>1981152
>>1981161
C'mon guys. Realpolitiks here. I am sure that the Legion doesn't hate us or even CARE about us considering the things that are going on right now. We literally created Hercules so approaching them again to establish diplomatic ties and perhaps with the promise of improving their military power will be welcomed with open arms.

We haven't fired a shot at them since the battle at that little town all those years ago and at this point that's nothing. Caesar might hate us for betraying them at Hoover Dam, but he has more things to worry about right now. WORKING WITH THE LEGION IS NO DIFFERENT THAN US WORKING W/ THE NCR, MLA, AND BOS.
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>>1981188
>you don't understand. If we declare war against the NCR, we wont be able to defend against them.
Which is why we use MLA resources to build up defenses.
Tunnel networks, hidden Teleporters, Anti-air emplacements, robot defenses, all the stuff we need to keep the NCR away.
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>>1981193
Realpolitik doesn't work when we're dealing with a megalomaniac self stylized god. He isn't working for the best of his state, he gets to be emotional when making decisions.
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>>1981193
Our citizens hate them
Our companions hate
We hate them

Ceaser will probably put his grievances on the side because how the NCR is beating them, but they wont stay that way forever.

>>1981198
.... you think we'll get enough resources to do that AND have enough time and capacity to implement them?

No, I can't agree to that.
again, lets just not help them and maybe tip NCR off
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>>1981223
Honestly, that's my preference.
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Back. Can I get a clear vote? I'm noticing several different options being proposed.

CHOOSE:
>Offer to help them with supplies only, no military investment
>Offer to send (Robots) or robot parts to build robots, to boost their manpower. Or other
>We can't at this time, sorry
>(optional) followed by secretly telling the NCR
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>>1981236
>>We can't at this time, sorry
>>(optional) followed by secretly telling the NCR
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>>1981236
>Offer to help them with supplies only, no military investment
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>>1981236
>Offer to supply them only, no military aid.
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>>1981242
Why would you ever tell the NCR, that we we're in a meeting with the MLA leadership, Cracked there base holotapes and knew about every attack leading up too this?
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>>1981236
>Offer to help them with supplies only, no military investment
>(optional) followed by secretly telling the NCR
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>>1981236
>Offer to help them with supplies only, no military investment
Considering the NCR main military power and production potential isnt anywhere near boomertown we can let them have it. If things go too badly and the MLA swarm from there we can help the NCR but considering they are literally fortifying every city I dont see the MLA making any big gains outside the range of Boomertown.
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>>1981251
Same here question as here >>1981249

Please enlighten about this whole 'tell the NCR, we we're dealing with there sworn enemy' outside of prisoners of war?
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>>1981249
It's not a full story. Just a "spies embedded in the MLA have reason to believe that they are going to attack Boomertown. Something about a secret entrance in the plans."
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>>1981257
How does that sound believable in any fashion? Also who is to say that these Holotapes weren't 'captured' on purpose?
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>>1981254
Tell them our Intelligence officers have determined that their is an impending attack on boomertown.

It helps keep up the stalemate.
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>>1981261
You realize every location beyond boomtown is forfeited to hell and back right? It'll put pressure back on the NCR and also weaken there moral. Though knowing them, it'll only strength it. Besides the NCR industrial heartland will still be fine.
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>>1981212
>>1981223
>t. someone who never talked to Caesar in game.

NOONE HAS TO KNOW YOU DUMMIES. Do you think our citizens know that we had just helped with a MLA offensive that is resulting in the rape and burning of tens potentially hundreds of NCR villages? The answer is no and people don't have to know now. We have connections with Cali Nazis, Raider scum, and genocidal feudal-technocrats but we won't work with the Legion?

On the other hand, his conception of Hegelian dialectics is flawed and his methodology is flawed, but he is a calculating, intelligent old fart and is completely aware of the facade he has created over the tribes he rules. It is a deliberate manufacturing of ideology that he kind of believes in himself. Just like us and the American dream so there is no self-delusion in Caesar's case.
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>>1981261
>>1981257
i'd also want to point out this would turn the WHOLE of the MLA/Legion army who is pressed all along our boarders, hostile against us. They would know who 'snitched' them out and jump at us right away, Thus forcing us to have to team up and possibly end up vasslized/game over to the NCR.

We're the only 'untrusted' element here, And none of them would betray there group's cause they are fighting for literal survival.
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>>1981152
>And the biggest reason we can't work with the legion is that Cesar hates us
Okay, I've seen that posted in every thread since we left for BigMT.

We literally haven't talked to Ceasar in years - we have no idea what his opinion of us is.

Hell, I think we should reach out and talk to him. If he doesn't like us, we lose nothing - if he is neutral, then the Legion is a new source for freed slaves.

>>1981236
>Offer to help them with supplies only, no military investment
>Offer to do more research in exchange for supplies / slaves
>Tell the Boomer families who we know and are on good terms with (like that one guy we met) that they should get out of dodge
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>>1981260
How is it so hard to believe that we have spies? The NCR has spies. Of course we have spies.

And if the holotapes were leaked to the MLA to entrap them, then we tell them what they already know, but prove to be loyal in conveying what we believe is strategically valuable information. I don't see a problem.
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>>1981279
Your assuming that that would be the only option.
NCR seems pretty fine with our independence as is. Siding with the NCR is not automatic vassalization. Just 2 parties working against a common foe.
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>>1981291
..Which is what we DON'T want, we don't want to be dragged into open conflict with any of the 3 super powers around us.
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>>1981236
>We can't at this time, sorry
Let's just not get involved anymore, it's a stalemate and should stay a stalemate.
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>>1981293
We can tell the NCR to try and keep it subtle so we can continue to leak information. Make it seem like an unfortunate accident that the weak point got discovered. We won't necessarily be dragged into open conflict.
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>>1981236
>Offer to help them with supplies only, no military investment
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>>1981236
Fuck it i'll switch to the next best thing.
>Offer to help them with supplies only, no military investment
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>>1981301
So you think the MLA will just go 'wow, Thats really unlucky. The new guy showed up and our attack failed? The guy who didn't want to do the contract to ensure he WOULD'T betray us in some fashion?"

You don't seriously think the MLA/Legion would be anything but hostile after this stunt do you?
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>>1981236
>>(optional) followed by secretly telling the NCR
>>Offer to help them with supplies only, no military investment


if we're not tipping off NCR then
>We can't at this time, sorry
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>>1981317
I ask you the same question as the others with this whole 'tell the NCR' thing. Because i'm very interested in the logic behind this choice.

>>1981313
>>1981249
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>>1981313
Anyone with at half of a brain at MLA knows that we don't want anything good for MLA.
The only exception is Niner and that is only because we used to hang out together back in the mojave
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>>1981323
So you are willing to risk full scale war against 2 super power's that we are unprepared for? Interesting.
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>>1981323
>Anyone with at half of a brain at MLA knows that we don't want anything good for MLA
So you agree the MLA will attack us after the siege of Boomertown fails cause we tipped of the NCR?
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>>1981322
The logic is that MLA fails to take over Boomertown and both sides suffer big losses.

We're not telling NCR we attended secret meeting. NCR knows that we bought slaves from MLA. This turn we are doing it again. When we were trading we learned that MLA is planning attack against Boomertown. They know what a smart and charismatic guy we are so it is not farfetched that someone said too much when talking to us.
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>>1981335
Okay, So my question is how to you purpose to stop the MLA from going

" Our attack failed, because of the stranger who refused to sign an agreement stating he would't be an enemy until the defeat of the NCR. "

Only Niner on the council trusts us, The others firgured we are gonna betray them soon or later. While not wrong, they are in a far more powerful position even if they lose the attack on the Boomertown then we are.
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>>1981328
>>1981329

I don't think that will happen.

Also, war with the Legion is pretty much inevitable.
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>>1981335
>When we were trading we learned that MLA is planning attack against Boomertown.
How? From who?
Honestly i'm pretty sure only the Big cheese of the MLA know about the incoming attack of Boomertown, so i agree with Purple ID anon that tipping of the NCR will only lead us to war against the MLA.
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>>1981344
>I don't think that will happen.
I disagree, and i must convince you to not tip off the NCR cause this is an important decision with big consequences, there is no room for "Let's agree to disagree"
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>>1981344
Yet again here >>1981342

None of them but Niner trust us in ANY fashion, We are the only 'new' face at this meeting. If this attack suddenly fails because the NCR were alerted, who do you think they will blame?

>>1981348
Currently The 'we'll just supply stuff' is winning from the count I've seen. I just want to know this logic, cause its fucking neat.
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>>1981342
They are not even confident their attack is going to succeed, hence the reason why they are asking for our help.

We helped them once massively and didn't betray them. We have plausible deniability. They might trust us a bit less but wont become openly hostile.

None of the powers can afford declaring war on us. Seriously, we can easily tip the war in either way. If MLA decides to wage fullscale war, we might be forced to ally with NCR. And they know that.
All of these superpowers are waiting till they defeat their main enemy before setting their sights on us.
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>>1981359
Okay you seem to be missing the key point here. They currently don't know if it will work or not, but they will be expecting an enemy unprepared for said attack.

Tipping off the NCR will have them face an enemy that is MORE then prepared for them and also know the location of said attack. Which the MLA/Legion will quickly be able to figure out, cause they aren't stupid.

They also do have the manpower/resources to declare war and would give them a firm front without having to tie up resources watching us, not including the tech we have they'd steal and use against the NCR.
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>>1981370


do you think it is possible to give SPI a task to spread a rumor in MLA about this attack? I bet NCR have their spies in MLA and will learn about it that way.
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>>1981386
No. Flat out no. SPI has nothing inside the MLA to do this with, no robots, slaves or raiders, absolutely nothing. And it'll still be suspicious to the MLA leadership how these rumors got out to their underlings.
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>>1981386

Honestly yes, That is completely possible that our METAL assasultron could wonder the MLA wastelands, however I need to be the guy of bad news.

I must ask you this simple thing. Why would they believe one of there own spread this information when they are fighting for survival and not the outsider who has 1. Refused an agreement to ensure there is no violence between one another, and 2. The guy who has chosen to simply do some trading at best and look the other way for a tunnel system?
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>>1981394
>>1981396
oh well, the tip off option doesn't have that many supporters anyway so don't worry guys. I heard your concerns and I think they have merit but I still vote for it even if we risk hostility from MLA.
Mostly I don't want them to take over boomertown and I don't think they will suspect us as much as you guys think.

Also, you guys are giving too little credit to SPI. I obviously not suggesting that a robot goes to a bar and starts spreading rumors.
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>>1981412
I wouldn't put it past that as one of its few options. We'd lose the war.

Anyway night mates. See y'all tommorrow
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>>1981236
>Offer to help them with supplies only, no military investment
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>>1981236
>>Offer to help them with supplies only, no military investment
>(optional) followed by secretly telling the NCR
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>>1980951
I say we take over Boomer town.

Better us than any of these assholes.

At least if Six does it he can limit civilian casualties. It also provides us a position of strength from which to bargain with the NCR.

Send 10,000 robots into Boomer town, and leave the rest in BMT.

As a bonus, we might get to brain scan General Blackthorne himself.

We can do this guys, remember how we used to bullseye womp rats in our T-16 Skyhopper back home? And there not much bigger than Boomer town.

But seriously we don’t have to hold the town forever, just long enough to learn everything Blackthorne knows.
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>>1981762
And then the NCR bombs NW to the stone age. Its not feasable in any way to take and hold NCR territory. You think california hitler is going to negotiate with terrorists? They would just skirt around boomer town and strike us directly.
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>>1981094
Because that'd require an insane amount of resources and luck but to be honest that'd be a pretty ideal outcome. If we only used Assaultrons and Tankitrons then the NCR'd have never seen us using those assets so we odd to get away with it assuming we succeed.

>>1981096
The majority of it is literally saying "hey we can get you shit if you give us resources" with the rest being what we are willing to deploy and a vague time line of when we can get new stuff in. Also a little section to try and get Niner to pick up his order and pay for the bloody things. To be frank, these are going to be our allies for at least a little while and being frank is a good way to build trust.

>>1981134
Because that'd lose us any and all good faith we have with the MLA.

>>1981136
You do realise that they've faced us before, have the reports from the Marked men and have Niner. They'd already have a damn solid idea of what our military would be like.

>>1981138
I've advised it before.

>>1981149
To be fair Niner has in past said that the MLA would help us in getting our people underground and thus safe from the NCR's potential counter attacks. So that'd probably be acceptable to them too.

>>1981165
Because that kills all good will, makes us look like a cunt and probably results in them just saying "fuck the Executor, he ain't getting into these meetings ever again".

>>1981236
>Offer to help them with supplies only, no military investment
>Offer to send (Robots) or robot parts to build robots, to boost their manpower. Or other

>>1981344
You are insane.
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>>1981763
Actually, we do have a few basic ideas for countering their airforce that could probably be thrown together in a few turns at most. Certainly achievable with the MLA's resources.

This is before mentioning that the MLA have, through Niner, in past promised to help us move our people underground to avoid NCR bombing and counter attacks.
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>>1981763
well there is another option.

Courier Six could just take the power station by himself. I mean he is essentially a one man army after all. And being buttoned up in Power Armor noone would know who he was.

its a significant contribution, it preserves our anonymity, the other warlords will respect it as bravery, and Six can grab Blackthorne while hes there.
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>>1981768
Yeah, but we dont have anything close to being able to withstand a blitz. And if its a short detour to get rid of us being a probelm, they are going to take it.
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>>1981771
I'd need at least two squads of Assaultrons supporting him to feel safe about that. Just to handle the raw numbers that the NCR might still have in reserve there.
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>>1981771
Why do you think Blackthorne is there anyways? Most likely he would be at central command with the president, wherever that is.
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>>1981773
how about linking the Nursery Generators to a alien shield, photonic shield combo via portal recharge?

with those the Courier could tank anything short of a superweapon. probably.
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>>1981774
they have solid intel that the general is there overseeing upgrades to the city, likely as part of phase 2
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>>1981772
>Yeah, but we dont have anything close to being able to withstand a blitz.
Arguably we do. If we were to install proper radar arrays in New Washington and multiple missile launchers equipped with proper AA missiles rather than the MLA scrap ones.

Throw in a few squads of our drone aircraft and maybe some laser interception to stop bombs and such? Their airforce would be unable to hit us without significant losses if at all.

>And if its a short detour to get rid of us being a problem, they are going to take it.
That'd require they had their forces near here in surplus. Whereas, apparently, they are being dragged thin by the MLA-Legion attacks elsewhere so I doubt they are exactly going to mount a massive counter offensive and even if they did we could always get help from the MLA. Again, Niner promised to help us get underground and I trust him to do it before it becomes a problem.

>>1981774
Because, they literally stated he is there. It's almost like you missed a huge portion of the important information for this shit.

>>1981775
Might work but that doesn't defend against fire, lasers or plasma. So if we encounter anything too potent (e,g a bunch of sentry bots) we're fucked.
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>>1981767
> giving a single shit about good faith with MLA

MLA is shit
Niner is shit
Legion is shit

They all need to fucking die. MLA has literally no redeeming qualities. Legion at least has security and order in their lands but it is still shit.
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>>1981773
or we could wake up the operating systems and use them.

tjat would shift blame squarely onto the bos
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>>1981778
Yeah true but that doesn't mean we should burn bridges with useful allies before we can fucking kill them without issue. For god sake it's like you have no concept of long term thinking.

>>1981779
>or we could wake up the operating systems and use them.
Wait, what?

>tjat would shift blame squarely onto the bos
You mean the group the NCR doesn't know?
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>>1981762
I love how you don't even put the Boomers into equation with your insane suggestion. Like the people there don't matter and will happily switch allegiances at the drop of a hat.

That, and the inevitable war with the NCR
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>>1981782
>hey guys don't burn bridges with allies/neutrals
> let's get NCR to declare war on us
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>>1981782
>>1981782
the NCR is undoubtedly aware of the BoS midwest since they have assimilated the original BoS.

and no, if need be we can dress them up like the apostate dark BoS. which is entirely believable AND would convince the NCR that it was the DBoS that invented the tunnelers. further defraying suspicion away from Pheonix
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>>1981786
Mate I think you are misunderstanding my point. You are destroying our good relations with the group that we are helping the most. Which, believe it or fucking not, may result in us being left without anyone to support us in future or to help us against the NCR if they work out we are the one who helped the MLA. Especially since the NCR is less of a risk than the combined forces of the MLA-Legion.

Fuck it. You have to realise just how insane what you are suggesting we do is.

>>1981787
>the NCR is undoubtedly aware of the BoS midwest since they have assimilated the original BoS.
True.

>and no, if need be we can dress them up like the apostate dark BoS. which is entirely believable AND would convince the NCR that it was the DBoS that invented the tunnelers. further defraying suspicion away from Pheonix
Also kinda true.
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>>1981784
of course they wouldnt.

in fact we would probably have to confine the vast majority to house arrest.

But, better us than the normal MLA.

And as long as their capital is within range of boomertowns guns the NCR cant afford to make war with us. not without sacrificing millions of lives at least.
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>>1981797
The quest is however would we allow the MLA to advance into the capital uncontested? Or would actually assist them.

In either case, the NCR exits a hostage situation and enters a race against time to cripple and eliminate us.


So, fact is, we must be prepared either way.
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>>1981810
>The quest
That should be the question. I apologise for my atrocious state of existence.
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How about, when the MLA attacks, we send Courier with some stealth bots into the fray to capture Blackthorne and any other juicy bits we desire. We help the MLA infiltrate and they help us take Blackthorne (and get some intel after we scan his ass, since we are the only ones capable of this they probably will agree to it). Furthermore, we can negotiate for the release of select Boomers into our custody when the battle is done. This way we can steal VIPs and some boomers while the MLA takes the brunt of the assault.

whether we take boomers sympathetic to us or to be sold to the NCR is a matter for debate but does the basic idea seem good? Any glaring problems?
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>>1981810
yeah, this is really sub optimal timing. I can agree on that point.

Buts getting close to that tipping point where neutrality doesnt work anymore.

either way we need to take this opportunity to capture the general. Even if we don't assist the MLA, even if this whole thing is a trap.
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Ok i'm hearing some anons supporting my "Take Boomertown ourselves" Plan. How many are supporting it?
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>>1981821
Not me.
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NO
>>1980956
YES
>>1980964
>>1980970
>>1981019
>>1981538
>>1981700
TELL NCR
>>1981242
>>1981251

---

>You
[I'm not yet capable of offering full military investment, but if you send me the resources and scrap I can process them into parts and weaponry faster than any of you can]

>Mama Gothic
"You speak the truth. Our Reaver's were impressed by your abilities to come up with difficult electronics so quickly.

Very well, we shall provide you with the metal we need, and some compensation for your time.

The attack will begin in a few months. May the Elder One be with us."

(Just spend an action on this next few turns, you'll be able to choose your pay in metal, fissile, slaves, or other just like before).

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>Civilian
Gather metal / fissile from the Divide, also turn on the thing Klien mentioned
Diverting power from BigMT, you activate the Supply Center.


Amazingly, a pair of primitive military robots activates, and locked garage doors open up to reveal what looks like an unarmed version of a Vertibird. The supply center computer asks for input, and you type in "Scrap Metal"

>Robot
<Establishing supply route::Resuming supply chain>

Daisy says they're a bit slower and evidently of an older model than the standard Enclave attack bird, but they have a much larger propellor diameter and heavier engines.

The robots take off, and immediately the birds go about, dropping robots by chain and hooking them up to pieces of scrap which they haul back to the Supply Depot.

+OW Supply Center (Automated;Activated) -> passive metal per turn

ALERT:
The Supply Depot acts as an automated supply storage and distribution center. Its exactly what Klein calls for. You can invest resources to build more birds or invest more robots to increase the passive metal per turn

>Klein
"American engineering at its finest!"
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>>1981821
No. We cant hold it and it gets us into open war with a faction very much capable of wiping us out. We will snatch the general and any other goodies but the MLA can have the place.
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>>1981816
I see no initial problems. It seems entirely possible: in terms of supplying the needed forces and minimising risks.

You'd need to convince the anti-MLA / pro-NCR crowd but that is always the bother.

>>1981821
Negative on that. It doesn't seem feasible.
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>>1981828
>You speak the truth.
Aw fuck they had a lie detector. Good thing snitching to the NCR didn't win.
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>>1981828
QM, will you stay for longer than half an hour? If not, when?
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>>1981831
Well yeah. I mean the most powerful of their witches was just in attendance. It's not like this was something that OP failed to mention.

However, that ain't mind or future reading. Rather it's just an objective statement of our superiority in this area.
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>>1981832
I'll try to update a bit more briskly in the morning when I have lots of energy. At night I tend to be tired from the day.
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>>1981836
>That feeling when you live in the UK so if you don't stay up to 4 AM you miss most of the good quests.
Life is suffering.
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>>1981838
>That feeling when you live 2 timezones further east so it exactly lines up with when youre supposed to sleep.
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>>1981831
I mean, its factually true that we can turn resources into weapons and such. Not necessarily a truth detector. Our statemwnt is evidently true.
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>>1981844
It's a shame how few Euro's run quests.
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>>1981854
Meh, I dont really read that much. Besides this (which I have followed rigorously) the last one to really grip me was Lord Quest back in /tg/ (or, the magical land of Teajy) but that was legendary anyway.
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>>1978726
>>Construction
>Work on FEV labs and finish them

Dr Klein says we should finish up on the Fusion Reactor and the Universal Disintegrator first, but there are some things we should do for now. For proper FEV research, he suggests permission and actions to build the following:
-"Specimen Pens": hidden and secured and out of sight from the general populace, preferably large enough to hold at least 500 in cryostorage. Alternatively, build this in the Nursery where Cryostorage facilities exist already
-Hidden Experimentation Laboratory. The FEV lab on the surface will primarily be a viral gestational facility. Where the Virus itself will be stored and modified, but we will need secure testing centers, more surgical rooms.


Some other non-construction things he requests:
Selective Research Departments - Studying the personality files of your scientists, he's outlined which he deems have a "more appropriate fiber of character" to pursue our research

Last but not least, we will need an FEV sample. According to his research this . . ."Unity" has a modified strain of the FEV. While it may work, it is likely to have some unintended side effects. namely, the potentiality that anyone infected by it becomes susceptible to the Hive Mind.

He's since retracted his dismissive stance on Psionics, though he's not all too very trusting of it.

He would suggest going out and searching for an alternative strain of the FEV. Likewise, we will need both wastelander DNA and at least a few Pure human DNA. This also can't simply be cloned either, to ensure genetic diversity but also to prevent skewed results that might be specific only to clones. Which means searching for pure human subjects.

---

The FEV lab is 3/4th completed however, thanks to the hard work of your Engineering Corps and the brilliance of the Think Tank. This would have taken many more turns before you had either. One more action should finish it off. Unity is excited and so is Dr. Borous.
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>>1981864
>"more appropriate fiber of character"
I nominate Dr. Klein for "Best Scientist Ever" award. Also, he can already start compiling teams and handing out preliminary data and goals to brainstorm and form unit cohesion.

On the same topic, can CIV actions be used to start furbishing the lab (workspace, pods and so on) or is a construction action needed?
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>>1981867
Don't worry, basic furniture items are already all part of the construction action, thanks to your advances in replication technology.

Though, if you want to make the labs more comfier to improve scientist morale/efficiency you can do that.
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>>1981872
Was thinking more actual work equipment but I guess you anwsered that. Only advance the FEV lab by CON actions then?

Also, does Dr. Klein have an office and if not, does he want one? Maybe a spire overlooking BigMT with built-in teleporters (the BigMT portalponder kind just without the gun) so he can swoop around? Bling it up and shower the rest of the Think Tank and our prominent scientist with benefits. This might also draw more people into STEM fields.
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>>1981875
You can definitely do this too.
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>>1981881
Turn update mebby?
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>>1981882
I disagree with rewarding klein so excessively. Mobious would be a better head of everything. Klein is a logistics guy. Keep him where he is good at.
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>>1981886
Oh shit, you just reminded me: we've yet to restore Mobious.
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>>1981890
Yeah. Have to do that.
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>>1981886
>>1981890
Agreed. Have them duke it out and then start the showers no homo .
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>>1981881
Qm, how old are the think tank's bodies, biologically? Do they look mid 20? 30?
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>>1981896
Bit older, you sort of copied their pictures as you theorized getting them back to their old bodies might be ideal to help restore them.

Dr. 0 seems the youngest, and Klein seems the oldest. All of them are opting and applying themselves with augments passively over time.
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i say next turn we integrate the chinese fully with civ, upgrade the Scout ship with ZAX, spend one construction on the fusion plant, and one construction on an Air Force based off of the Scout Ship.

use our Hero action to travel to Hawaii, or robotic research on improved resource gatherers (perhaps combining drone tech?) and our Biology research on Shi plants with insanely large root networks so we can get lots of fissile material from them.
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>>1981914
Issue has always been where to put them though. Which hasnt been settled yet.
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>>1981914
The Chinese need to stay separate which is what they asked, they are also one of the last pure strain humans left.
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>>1981925
>The Chinese need to stay separate
Why?
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>>1981923
>>1981925
Take samples of all of them (if that is still a possibility, considering they have lived with us in the wasteland for years now) and ship them to Newberry where they can set up their own little town until we get them more space (it can remain a military base near to the capital after that).
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>>1981914
I feel that you underestimate the difficulty with integrating the Chinese but I agree to investing effort into doing so however I feel it would be more easily achieved by use of our Hero action. Same goes for upgrading the scout-ship (which I think gets in the way of going to Hawaii) and expending a construction (+ the civ action based off my recommendation of using the Hero instead of the Civ for the Chinese) action on the fusion plant.

I would however point out that we've got a functional concept for a air-force already and that we could probably achieve a suitable compromise. As I'd wanted to have the think-tank take a look at the designs and attempt to enhance them with our recent technological advances (better weapons, computers, etc) and material developments.

As to the biology research, I'd argue we should be trying to make them a more stable plant rather than trying to maximise output so we can sow the Divide and leave them to de-irradiate it.
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>>1981935
Can I ask why we are moving them to Newberry again? Rather than our capital or Montana or, when we get it, Hawaii?
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>>1981931
>why

So you skipped my post got it.

>>1981935
Keep them safe inside alien ship. They've already moved in and it's one of the better defended places. We'd need to pack all that stuff up they have, and then ship them out into the polluted air.
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>>1981939
They wanted "their own nice place to settle". Newberry is far enough away as to be "their own" yet close enough and connected to the capital so we can reliably integrate them.
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>>1981945
You realize that since Crypto blew the place up and we have been providing the food, they are already as irradiated and FEV dosed as they are going to get. If we move them to Newberry and provide clean water nothing will change except we can now fully reverse-engineer and scrap the mothership (a shitload of alien alloy).
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>>1981945
>So you skipped my post got it.
Nigga i read your post, i also know they asked to remain their separate state now answer why you want them to stay separated.
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>>1981947
Not really. We know for a fact the Chinese have a large population even compared to us and fact is that Newberry ain't exactly a peachy place to ship them off to given we are constantly draining it for water.

Also, again, what benefit does it offer? You ship them out of the alien ship where they live and then what? You think that they'll be easier to integrate when over in Newberry than their current location? Fact is that I'd rather use the Chinese as a colonisation force to rapidly expand than to just replace our population in an existing town.
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>>1981949
>they are already as irradiated and FEV dosed as they are going to get
Actually they're pure humans.
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The chinese have been living in a supertech wonderland for years now.

we work so closely that integration is the obvious next step.

it will also net us all of their existing research, which knowing the chinese is extensive.

I wanted to start it as a civ action and finish the deal with a hero action next turn, but if we have to delay hawaii then do it this turn.

also, if i remember correctly alien healing arches repair everything including genetic damage.
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>>1981949
We've never provided food to them. It has been stated they are gene pure and that they aren't exposed to FEV. Or don't you remember their factory workers leaving the ship in radiation suits?


As to being to reverse engineer and scrap the alien ship, nothing is stopping us from doing that now. Fact is most of the ship is blown to shit so no one would object to salvaging that.
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>>1981949
Pretty sure they've been growing there own food in the soil like they had been for along time. Where does it say we've been sending them food?

They are pure humans .

>>1981951
Because they are one of the most vital resources we have. A strain of pure human from before the bombs fell and there request and I don't feel like opening that can of worms when we have other stuff to do. They are productive and helpful as is.

>>1981955
We already have access to all there tech and all the healing arches were destoryed weren't they?
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>>1981955
>The chinese have been living in a supertech wonderland for years now.
They have stayed within their town entirely.

>we work so closely that integration is the obvious next step.
Agreed.

>it will also net us all of their existing research, which knowing the chinese is extensive.
It has been previously stated that if we wanted more Chinese tech we just needed to expend actions to decrypt and uncorrupt their databases for them.

>I wanted to start it as a civ action and finish the deal with a hero action next turn, but if we have to delay hawaii then do it this turn.
Agreed but don't expect this to end the issue this turn. We are talking about turning hard core communists into, at best, state capitalists.

>also, if i remember correctly alien healing arches repair everything including genetic damage.
Except Crypto made sure to blow everything up so we'd be working from scraps at best.
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>>1981953
Who have lived in the FEV hellhole of the Wasteland for years. Considering how prevalent the virus is in lore I seriously doubt any of them are still pure after years of interaction.

>>1981952
The idea is to have them do their own industry and R&D closeby so we can still influence them yet support at the same time. While I agree that using them as colonists is good I fail to see why we would want to spread our people thin, seeing as we dont need manpower to gather resources. However, we do need a stronger bond with them and we need them out of the ship asap. Also, we integrate them, not a mutual deal.
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>>1981952
Except using them as a colonizing force means the resulting colony will be culturally Chinese, not Phoenician
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>>1981959
>It has been previously stated that if we wanted more Chinese tech we just needed to expend actions to decrypt and uncorrupt their databases for them.
We should do that.
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>>1981960
>The idea is to have them do their own industry and R&D close by so we can still influence them yet support at the same time.
Which we can do currently so that fails as a argument.

>While I agree that using them as colonists is good I fail to see why we would want to spread our people thin, seeing as we dont need manpower to gather resources.
Yet you want to send them off to Newberry and can't see how that achieves essentially nothing. Fact is we need people for Montana and Hawaii and the Chinese are good for the job.

>However, we do need a stronger bond with them
Agreed.

>we need them out of the ship asap.
Not really.

>Also, we integrate them, not a mutual deal.
Wat?
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>>1981960
They leave the UFO in suits to interact mate.

Why do we need them out of the ship ASAP? 99% of the important stuff was destoryed, only the Cyropods and I think the hanger repair? is still functional

Were you around when we dealt with the mother-ship and the cluster fuck around it/chinese?
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>>1981962
Yeah and? The same goes for whatever town they establish near Newberry or anywhere else. Fact is, we'd outnumber them by continuing to buy slaves from the MLA to then also establish colonies. Not to mention that they'd be "integrating" over time.

>>1981965
We really should but we keep getting distracted.
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>>1981960
>Who have lived in the FEV hellhole of the Wasteland for years.
No they haven't, they've lived in an isolated spot in the mothership for decades without risk of impurities and have merely spent a few 5 or so years free after we rescued them, add the fact that we've been supplying them with radiation suits whenever they have to work outside the mothership and they're pretty clean.
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>>1981973
Id we are establishing colonies, we want them as culturally similiar to the main state inorder to maintain control. Cultural differences, especially far away would encourage independence, as they would be led by one who is not them. People like to self govern.
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>>1981966
1) Mechanically, the are not a thing. If we set them up we can (hopefully) give them tasks to accomplish, seeing as they would constitute a separate city (a step towards the nation level).

2)Newberry is close by vs a location in Montana. I understand that portals but being 50 miles away vs living in snow and the capital being always sunny is something that differentiates them from us. If we have to "integrate" them before we ship them out thats fine but Newberry is a good place for a city when we are as small as we are and it can remain a base after we have expanded. Especially if the chinese actually start doing high end science at some point.

4) Its a giant mound of resources we can use for our projects. The problem is that they wont let us touch it until they gtfo (may hafe changed now, was so before).

5)What I mean is that they become "american" but we wont take commie customs. Their culture is ok (we will change it gradually) but the principal ideals have to be ours, not a mix.
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>>1981969
>>1981975
Is the alien ship still airtight? I was under the impression all tech was blown up. Furthermore, they had suits when operating in the Divide but to they waltz around NW in those as well?

If they are 100% airproof and use only their own stuff I understand. However, I find that highly unlikely,considering every person is a carrier for some form of FEV and the environment is likewise filled with virion particles.
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>>1981983
There area in the should still be airtight. Which is why they've been wondering around in suits the entire time outside of there home.
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>>1981983
>Is the alien ship still airtight? I was under the impression all tech was blown up.
I think most tech was blown up, QM has implied the reactor is still functioning somehow, or that it can at least be researched.
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>>1981985
>>1981986
If all the tech was blown up how is it still airtight? I understand magic forcefields but those are gone. Its basically just a husk. A husk thats been lying around for years. No way is the interior still "sterile" after all this time.
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>>1981957
their scientists are not working with ours. so no we dont know what they do.

>>1981952
we do know some radiation free places they can settle. The Nursery, Somewhere in the fuck huge canyon near Zion.
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>>1981994
It's a big husk, and just because the ship has big holes in it doesn't mean the Chinese town isn't air tight.
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>>1981995
If they are still pure we dont move them until we can guarantee a clean place. The nursery still has open air so thats not an option. Likely build a Vault-like structure somewhere (cough - Newberry - cough) .
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>>1981977
So by all logic then we can't ever let the Chinese expand. That is essentially what you said. Because colonies would always be a different culture. Here's what I'm saying: the Chinese are trustworthy, useful and loyal to us. We should make use of them properly, rather than rushing into an ill conceived attempt to absorb them because you distrust them.

>>1981982
>1) Mechanically, the are not a thing. If we set them up we can (hopefully) give them tasks to accomplish, seeing as they would constitute a separate city (a step towards the nation level).
Are you OP? No? Then you can't state that for a fact and to be frank I don't follow your logic. They are our VASSAL currently so we should have access to their capabilities yet we don't get an additional action. So, and bear with me here, if we access to their abilities and we aren't gaining a free action chances are that merely moving a portion of them and their capability wouldn't change that.

>2) Newberry is close by vs a location in Montana.
And it serves no practical benefit to move them there.

>I understand that portals but being 50 miles away vs living in snow and the capital being always sunny is something that differentiates them from us.
By that logic people in Texas and people in Washington (state) should be entirely different cultures and unable to live together even slightly. This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard because you are failing to recognise just how idiotic is to assume they'll cause problems because they live in the snow or something.

>If we have to "integrate" them before we ship them out thats fine but Newberry is a good place for a city when we are as small as we are and it can remain a base after we have expanded.
We can't integrate them by your standards as I explain in my last point. Also, Newberry is a shit place for a city given that it places population closer to the NCR and thus at greater risk.

>Especially if the Chinese actually start doing high end science at some point.
Implying they haven't already.

>4) Its a giant mound of resources we can use for our projects. The problem is that they wont let us touch it until they gtfo (may hafe changed now, was so before).
No. It was never so. They just want to be able to live in it. They don't give a shit what we do with most of it seeing as huge sections are blown to fuck and useless. Consider: when we built our robotics factory there was the option to restore part of the alien ship.

>5)What I mean is that they become "american" but we wont take commie customs. Their culture is ok (we will change it gradually) but the principal ideals have to be ours, not a mix.
And that is the specific reason they want to remain a separate state, so trust me, that ain't happening.

>>1981995
Aye and we have Shi plants to make more. To be frank I want to reserve them for use in expanding rapidly in the north or somewhere else. However Utah is a good option assuming we could get the Mormons and tribals on board.
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>>1982002
Do you have even the slightest understanding of just how big a project of a vault like structure would be? We're talking the same scale as our fusion reactor.
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>>1981997
You missed the point. What is keeping it airtight? There are no more forcefields, no more cleaning machines. They still have to breathe and no machine is scrubbing CO2 so they probably are breathing outside air some way. Meaning FEV infection.

Im not saying its impossible, just highly unlikely. If QM says they are then so be it but from all the bubbleboys IRL, none have made it completely sterile and without alien magitech I dont see them doing it either. It only takes one mistake or one open hole, a stray bullet.
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>>1982013
Okay, just a point to make by the way, you are assuming:

1) That airborne FEV is actually a thing (it's kinda cannon but honestly I've heard people say it is bullshit)

2) That it is still in the air after all these years.

3) That OP gives a fuck.

4) That whatever level of it that is present is concentrated enough to actually do something.
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>>1982006
No i mean, we should keep the chinese close to the heartland until they reach a cultural equilibrium with the current culture. Sending them away reduces the cultural pressure they feel.
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>>1982006
I thought we could have a nice conversation but you keep sliding back into this agressive bullying tactic. THIS is why purple trolled you yesterday.

1) Since we have had no mention of the chinese since the Divide, it stands to reason we are not using them to their fullest. If this is not the case fine, but we should still move them out.

2)with portal networks and the amount of robots we use we have no need for any citizens outside the capitol except military or research. Certainly no industrial efforts. Moving them to newberry gets us an empty mothership. Moving them to montana gives us the extra issue of them being so far away from us as to be separate, even with portals (mentality thing, think about spain and catalonia).

3) If you know your history you will realize the 13 original colonies waged war on one anoher. What calmed it down was the formation of the US, much like we are trying to do here.

4) Since the MLA is pushing, I dont see Newberry being that much in danger. Especially considering the capabilities of the chinese on the mothership.

5) if they have no problems with it we will start tearing down the useless parts immediately. However I want QM confirmation on this.

6) And this is precisely the reason it has to change.

>>1982011
You realize Vaults were made to survive nukes? We only need an underground facility with airtight doors. This is especially a thing since the chinese can build it themselves, with us only giving the resources - makes it more of a "build your dream" scenario and gets it done without us. We can aid in this ofcourse.
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>>1982024
They currently feel no cultural pressure because that was their sole reason and want for the current state of affairs: to preserve their culture.


They aren't going to americanise, they going to change massively. Hell getting them to drop their economic system? A miracle but I feel that our advances can convince them that ours IS the way forward but that doesn't mean they'll change their culture for us by any means.
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>>1982034
>I thought we could have a nice conversation but you keep sliding back into this agressive bullying tactic.
What "aggressive bullying tactic"?

>THIS is why purple trolled you yesterday.
Nah, he stated he did that because he had nothing better to do himself.
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>>1982024
Agreed.

>>1982016
Since its cannon, yes, I assume its a thing. And yes, since genetic purity and walking around in airtight suits is a thing. And yes, since QM made the chinese walk around in airtight suits (though still doubting they do that in NW). And yes, you dont need millions of particles. Hundreds are very much able to fully infect a body. Considering a single infected cell can produce around 500 particles it is a definite possibility (numbers based on megavirus, what the FEV is supposed to be a derivative of).
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>>1982036
Im well aware they are under no cultural pressure to change, but that won't change if we ship them off to some far off frontier to self govern.
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>>1982041
>Name calling and insinuating low INT
You know, I cant really put my finger on it...

I have been arguing with you for many threads now and I thought I was actually wrong to so quickly assume you are temperamental twat but alas, I was mistaken.
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how about this, let the chinese decide for themselves where they want to live.

Then we fly a CONstructOR to their chosen site and give it a test run.

no doubt they will want sealed domiciles and air scrubbers for whrn they go outside, but its a massive improvement
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>>1982064
We can take their input on this. Also ask our scientist about what course of action is best.
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>>1982034
>1) Since we have had no mention of the chinese since the Divide, it stands to reason we are not using them to their fullest. If this is not the case fine, but we should still move them out.
We had many of them present for the battles against the Marked men in the form of three tanks and multiple artillery pieces. So again, that is not the case.

>2)with portal networks and the amount of robots we use we have no need for any citizens outside the capitol except military or research. Certainly no industrial efforts.
Objectively wrong. Fact is that outside of our hexcrete production, robotics factory and the Divide salvaging our industry (glass, steel and so on) is not automated. It needs human oversight in the form of educated personnel.

>Moving them to newberry gets us an empty mothership.
Great, it's not like we couldn't have left them in there and have harvested huge sections without issue.

>Moving them to Montana gives us the extra issue of them being so far away from us as to be separate, even with portals
It really doesn't. You are creating issues where none exists by your strange assumption that they are going to stop obeying / helping us because they are far away.

>(mentality thing, think about Spain and Catalonia).
That is a very strange comparison and I fail to follow in entirety.

>3) If you know your history you will realise the 13 original colonies waged war on one another. What calmed it down was the formation of the US, much like we are trying to do here.
You mean the wars that took place under the control of foreign colonial masters? Oh of course. I can totally see how that is a comparable series of events.

>4) Since the MLA is pushing, I dont see Newberry being that much in danger.
They have a major airbase literally just a little while out.

>Especially considering the capabilities of the Chinese on the mother-ship.
Which wouldn't be present in Newberry since they'd need to build more or move them.

>5) if they have no problems with it we will start tearing down the useless parts immediately. However I want QM confirmation on this.
Fair enough.

>6) And this is precisely the reason it has to change.
Then you would completely destroy our working relationship to satisfy this strange fetish for a "one culture" state.

>You realise Vaults were made to survive nukes? We only need an underground facility with airtight doors. This is especially a thing since the Chinese can build it themselves, with us only giving the resources - makes it more of a "build your dream" scenario and gets it done without us. We can aid in this of course.
And that seems like a massive waste of resources, time and effort to me compared to leaving them in the giant town they have already established in the spaceship until we have somewhere better for them.
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>>1982050
>And yes, since genetic purity and walking around in airtight suits is a thing. And yes, since QM made the Chinese walk around in airtight suits (though still doubting they do that in NW).
That was last mentioned back when there were still radioactive barrels littering the crater. We'd need OP to pitch in again but as I've stated previously they are wearing them more so for the background radiation than FEV.

>And yes, you dont need millions of particles. Hundreds are very much able to fully infect a body. Considering a single infected cell can produce around 500 particles it is a definite possibility (numbers based on megavirus, what the FEV is supposed to be a derivative of).
Still assuming that there are even any left anywhere near here and again, that is highly unlikely.

>>1982052
And I don't expect it to. Many nations have multiple cultures without issue. We can easily sustain this, just as we sustain the Christian-Hubbologist cultures.

>>1982062
Mate, it ain't my fault that you believe that "If we set them up we can (hopefully) give them tasks to accomplish, seeing as they would constitute a separate city (a step towards the nation level)." which I explained, repeatedly in detail, seems wrong to me before finally trying to dumb it down because clearly you weren't understanding.

Also, "name calling" where in the hell did I ever call you a name, eh? Hell where did I ever insult your intelligence beyond trying to explain something in greater detail that you were FAILING to understand.
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>>1978726
>>Research
>Study and improve the UFO scout ship
>>Think Tank and ZAX
>Support the study and improvement of the UFO scout ship
The Think Tank are having a field day with the repaired UFO, and discovered new technologies as we speak.
CHOOSE:
-Dr. 0 believes the Aliens have some sort of dampener field technology, that both reduces the impact of kinetic projectils while at the same time creates a ripple in the visage of the craft, making it difficult to both spot and detect on radar. Though this consumes a significant amount of power, unless the ship is destroyed it will be continuously active
-Dr. 0 thinks he can also attempt to install a standard Photonic Resonance Shield, rendering it impervious to fire, as long as the shield holds. howevr if power is drained or too much fire is drawn, the shield will go out
-The MAJOR wants to turn it into an even deadlier weapon of war with extra EXTRA armor and more boosters, and use some of the point defense technology discovered in the Divide Base
-RIG'D suggests giving it the ability to tunnel under soft dirt so you don't have to fly so very far out just to bypass the NCR
>Other? Suggest?
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>>1982090
Dr. 0 believes the Aliens have some sort of dampener field technology, that both reduces the impact of kinetic projectils while at the same time creates a ripple in the visage of the craft, making it difficult to both spot and detect on radar. Though this consumes a significant amount of power, unless the ship is destroyed it will be continuously active

Any uh... way to make copies of this ship yet?
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>>1982084
1) Marked men; the Divide
What do you not get? Since the assault in the Divide we have not seen or heard from the chinese.

2) How much oversight do you think it needs? How much oversight do you think we have right now? They are not people driving trucks but literal machines, guided by machines to do work. And the one dude who has to make sure everything is ok when our ZAX cant can hop on over in the morning and go back to his family in NW in the evening. Think with portals.

3) Again, waiting on QM confirmation. Since they are living in it we cant harvest it all and as far as I know we cant really harvest it at all. Hence why I am pushing to get them out asap.

4) They will not be as easy to fold into our culture, which is the point here.

5) A culturally different population living in a certain area and having problems with the central government (culture in our case).

6) No, the wars between the 13 original colonies after they gained freedom but had not yet cemented a unifying government. Again, history.

7) The MLA is pushing and we are not at war with the NCR and when we are this airbase will not be an issue.

8) Yes, it will take time. Time we can use to passively build a fortified city and expand on the "nation" board.

10) As I said, they can have their cultural quirks, however they have to be "americans" first, not chinese under our rule.

11) And where better for them? With this we give them a goal to really strive for while giving us lots of extra resources and another functioning city closeby. VS they squat in the ship some more and we dont get shit.
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>>1982087
>Still assuming that there are even any left anywhere near here and again, that is highly unlikely.
NOW I know you understand shit-all about viruses. Wherever there are carriers the disease will spread. This is immutable. And guess what, everyone here is a carrier. Depending on how the disease works we probably gave it to the chinese ourselves during the wedding already.

>>1982006
>So, and bear with me here,
>>1982006
>This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard because you are failing to recognise just how idiotic
>>1982011
>Do you have even the slightest understanding
>>1982041
>What "aggressive bullying tactic"?
See this? This is not part of a polite conversation.
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>>1982090
can we try for both Dr. 0 options?

if not then

>dampner field
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>>1982112
I think we first have to research the inertia drive further, which has been unlocked now after we made the think tank sane.
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>>1982090
How much power drain are we talking about and how would this manifest? Lower speed? Shorter distance? Can we stick a microportal on this thing to continuosly power it from our NW grid?

Do
>-Dr. 0 believes the Aliens have some sort of dampener field technology, that both reduces the impact of kinetic projectils while at the same time creates a ripple in the visage of the craft, making it difficult to both spot and detect on radar. Though this consumes a significant amount of power, unless the ship is destroyed it will be continuously active
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>>1982113
>What do you not get? Since the assault in the Divide we have not seen or heard from the chinese.
Yeah I misread that, although I'd point out we've not deployed any forces since then so your argument fails.

>2) How much oversight do you think it needs? How much oversight do you think we have right now? They are not people driving trucks but literal machines, guided by machines to do work.
How about we get OP to tell us, HEY OP how many of our people are occupied as engineers and other such things taking care of our non-automated industry?

>And the one dude who has to make sure everything is ok when our ZAX cant can hop on over in the morning and go back to his family in NW in the evening. Think with portals.
The sheer amount of power you'd be wasting...insane.

>3) Again, waiting on QM confirmation. Since they are living in it we cant harvest it all and as far as I know we cant really harvest it at all. Hence why I am pushing to get them out asap.
To be honest, all these arguments would be solved so much quicker if OP would actually post a bit more frequently and get involved.

>4) They will not be as easy to fold into our culture, which is the point here.
They won't fold into our culture full stop. That was the deal we made and you must accept that fact.

>5) A culturally different population living in a certain area and having problems with the central government (culture in our case).
And the Chinese aren't anything like the Catalonians..? They don't want independence, just to preserve their culture.

>6) No, the wars between the 13 original colonies after they gained freedom but had not yet cemented a unifying government. Again, history.
Never heard of it but to be fair, however I'd point out it is hardly an apt comparison to our situation.

>7) The MLA is pushing and we are not at war with the NCR and when we are this airbase will not be an issue.
You've yet to explain how they are going to defend against the NCR.

>8) Yes, it will take time. Time we can use to passively build a fortified city and expand on the "nation" board.
We don't have time or resources currently to conceive such things and in future we will be in a war.

>10) As I said, they can have their cultural quirks, however they have to be "Americans" first, not Chinese under our rule.
Well that ain't happening. Accept it and move on.

>11) And where better for them?
Somewhere new with a surplus of farming capacity? That way they can actually EXPAND their population somewhat?

>With this we give them a goal to really strive for while giving us lots of extra resources and another functioning city close by. VS they squat in the ship some more and we dont get shit.
What the hell do you think the Chinese do for us? They work in our factories, they work in our army and they labour alongside us under a dream (similar to that "goal" you seemingly believe they lack want to provide them with) of restoring China and shit.
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>>1982136
QM doesnt get involved because of this shit. You are so stuck to your ideas you can literally see nor even conceive of no other option. Frankly, I have better things to do than argue with you over things you are unable to accept.
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>>1982123
>NOW I know you understand shit-all about viruses.
Mate I have multiple books on medicine, biological warfare and disease in general in my possession. I know about viruses but this is Fallout: the land where microwaves ain't reflect by metal yet radar still works. Where DNA can be changed by FEV into a quad-helical structure and still function.

>Wherever there are carriers the disease will spread. This is immutable. And guess what, everyone here is a carrier. Depending on how the disease works we probably gave it to the chinese ourselves during the wedding already.
Well that seems unlikely as by that logic, getting the blood of a super-mutant on you would change you into one. Seeing as it doesn't it can't be that infectious.

>See this? This is not part of a polite conversation.
Mate, fuck you. See that? That ain't part of a polite conversation. You know what all that you quote was?

>So, and bear with me here,
You'd COMPLETELY failed to understand me previous time: so I dumbed it down, as it was getting on my tits. I'm not sorry because YOU failed to bring up a single valid argument. You know what pissed me off like that? You disregarded the Chinese as a whole saying that they didn't exist or factor in mechanically (by granting us an additional action) and then acted as if your plan would suddenly make them do so. Which is a very dumb set of statements because, again I'll say this, spreading their population to a new citiy (which is a generous term, it is a town more accurately) doesn't result in any sorts of net increase in actual ability (if anything, it decreases it since they'd need to set shit up), so why would we gain an action?

>This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard because you are failing to recognise just how idiotic
Mate it is the dumbest, most idiotic thing I've ever heard to believe that because someone lives in the snow and you live in the sun that your cultures are going to suddenly become incompatible or ever could be so. These two states of existence don't instantly result or in any terms we are dealing with could result in such a problem.

>Do you have even the slightest understanding
Mate, I was serious. Look at your fucking post! You act as if building a vault for the ENTIRE Chinese population plus some breathing room wasn't going to be a fucking hassle and a half. Hospitals, schools, factories, farms and all the rest and environmentally sealed. Yet you felt it was entirely reasonable? Of course I reacted like I did.

>>1982149
Well I'll stop arguing when you actually have a decent fucking point for once. You know, something I've yet to see.
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>>1982090
>-Dr. 0 believes the Aliens have some sort of dampener field technology, that both reduces the impact of kinetic projectils while at the same time creates a ripple in the visage of the craft, making it difficult to both spot and detect on radar. Though this consumes a significant amount of power, unless the ship is destroyed it will be continuously active
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How about instead of trying to convince each other, you posed questions to characters in the quest?

Hell one of our wives is Chinese, she would be the perfect person to ask about this.
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>>1982174
Ok, fine, have it your way to tantrum-throwing diaperbaby. You are the most stubborn ass I have seen on the internet. All my previous contacts with you are now further reinforced. You have shit ideas. Shit grasp on reality and a Mary-Sue outlook on your plans. You cant take critizism and when somehting comes up that disagrees with your delicate world view you call foul and decree the opinion or statement dumb, instead of actually countering it.

Go shove a cactus up your ass so maybe the stick will come out your mouth you fucking deadbeat.
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>>1982185
Waiting on QM input. Also asked our scientist. Well see what happens.

QM, wheeere aaare youuuuu?
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>>1982187
>Ok, fine, have it your way to tantrum-throwing diaperbaby. You are the most stubborn ass I have seen on the internet. All my previous contacts with you are now further reinforced. You have shit ideas. Shit grasp on reality and a Mary-Sue outlook on your plans. You cant take critizism and when somehting comes up that disagrees with your delicate world view you call foul and decree the opinion or statement dumb, instead of actually countering it.
Mate, that is how I see you. I provided logical arguments and detailed explanations. I conceded points when I was proven wrong such as with the war between the 13 colonies.


You've yet to actually explain how in the hell you expect moving the entire Chinese population to grant us another action. Beyond the logic that it is another city (even though they are already another city...). Fact is I wasn't even trying to be insulting when I wrote those initial statements for the most part. I was exasperated at your seeming inability to explain anything well and to be honest you've done little to garner good will or faith.
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>>1982198
Is your ass jealous of the amount of shit that just came out of your mouth? Because you sure are trying.
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>>1982201
While >>1982198
is often belligerent, overly stubborn, and thinks too highly of himself, in this instance he is right.

You are making an assumption that "integrating" the Chinese will get us an action, but are missing key steps in getting the chinese to where we want them. They can reject offered territory if it isnt up to their standard, or if id they feel they would not get the support they are owed.

And getting belligerent back is not a solution.
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>>1982201
Fuck it, I tried. You can't even justify your argument, so rather than admit it, you just insult the other side. Up to this point I'd only swore at you once directly (e,g at your person rather than referring to a subject matter) yet you feel it is entirely appropriate to speak so foully to me.

You are a pox. You act with no sanity or logic.

>>1982212
I'll admit I can be stubborn and I may think too highly of myself. Hell I agree I am often belligerent (often not intentionally, it's just how I actually talk (write?) in general) but I am thankful for your intervention in this matter.

To be fair though, I've tried to avoid swearing or insulting him too much. To be frank most of what I wrote that he has seemingly taken offence to is just how I talk / argue rather than an actual active attempt at being provocative.
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>>1982212
I dont assume this to be a one-off thing. The intention was to start the process of moving the chinese out and to have them build their own home (something they stated they want to do). With the increase in water we have from the new farms (even though the construction is eating lots of it) we can stop pumping water from newberry, meaning it could be a nice lake town in the sunny desert for the chinese to call their home. Since it is connected to the capital they can rely on our support until they are self-sufficent, at which point they would become another city of their own and do their own R&D and construction. With replicator tech they can also largely negate any resource problems.

This was not intended as a kick them out tomorrow plan but a relocate them so we get a city plan. I regret if it didnt come off that way.

As to darkblue anon, hes been such an ass for such a long time I dont really see the point in it. I prefer a civil conversation but that is oft not the case with him.
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>>1982189
Back, do you guys have a question?

>>1982132
You will be able to divert power from different systems as needed, like life support or weapons. Think like sci fi ship battles.
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>>1982220
With your complete disregard and offhand dismissal of the advantages of keeping the population close while using portals to connect our territories to dismissing the problems of having culturally different people largely separated by long distances and the problems that brings (inter colony wars and the current troubles in spain) and the ludicrous parallels you fail to connect to the topic I dont see you being the voice of reason here. Couple that with your down-the-nose attitude and you might understand why I switch to something you can understand more clearly.

And besides, it is not as if I am unwilling to compromise or explain my stances better but you are certainly incapable of this.
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>>1982224
Okay when it's explained like that, fair enough. The way you put it across though originally made it sound like it was a short term plan: something to rush out in a few months. This sounds more so like a very long term project which I can agree could result in another action potentially just thanks to their population growth and such.

I apologise for being so belligerent but most of that was because of how badly we misunderstood each other. This sounds, although far harder to achieve, far more realistic in expectations for the outcome.


To be frank, I'd support such an attempt but I feel our efforts are going to be elsewhere for the next few years: Montana in general, Hawaii immediately, supporting the MLA especially depending on what stage 2 is and so on. If we can fit it in then sure but I don't see it happening unless it is for the most part done by the Chinese without our involvement.
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>>1982241
What about the portal power solution? Can we install multiple systems at once? Are the chinese still free of FEV or radiation damage? Are they living airtight?
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>>1982248
Gotcha.

The main point is that the chinese can have a few behemoths and pick at it themselves (eg for a year) and then we move them over. This gives us time to soften them ideologically and keeps them close by for further incorporation.
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>>1982224
I would like to get the chines directly under our authority, but it just isnt feasable right now. The material investment takes away from more pressing tasks like the fusion generator, fev lab and disintigrator replicator.

Building brand new cities is no simple task, and wherever we put the chinese, it will take a lot of input before we start getting something out of it. We can open up small lines of communication, ebcourage some promising chinese students get our post secondary education, and such, but moving them all into a new place is not in the cards at the moment.
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>>1982241
Also, ask the more sympathetic chinese and our scientist whether Newberry would be appropriate or if another place would be better? Keep in mind they will get bigger claims moving on. Also, to get another actual city instead a farming lodge with 50 men.
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>>1982265
And it wont be for a while, just another passive thing we let the chinese do with a few behemoths and our occasional help if need be) akin to Montana and any other long-off region.
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>>1982265
>>1982273
Just the sooner we start the sooner we finish and lets face it, we need more actual cities.
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>>1982247
>With your complete disregard and offhand dismissal of the advantages of keeping the population close while using portals to connect our territories
I understand that but the amount of energy used to teleport a person, to and from work in another state, every day of the week? Compared to just having a few locals or something? It seems inefficient. Especially when we'd be getting population in Montana and elsewhere either way so we want some of our original culture there to make sure they align with our "actual" people.

>dismissing the problems of having culturally different people largely separated by long distances
I respect that can cause problems but I want to understand what issues precisely you are expecting to arise. Please.

>(inter colony wars
Why would our people start going to war with each other? If you don't mind expanding on this point please.

>the current troubles in Spain)
Look I'll be entirely frank and say that I've got fuck all knowledge about Catalonia. I think I watched a video that explained it but all I can remember is the map from CK 2 and them being independent then and nothing actually useful. I'd watch some official news network or something but I live in the UK so most of our news these days is either shit or doesn't cover that. What with Brexit, the north Korea situation and so on.

I've got a better understanding of why the Basque want to be independent than the people of Catalonia.

>>1982260
>Okay yeah that is fair enough and fairly logical. Actually you raise a good point: the Chinese have their own power grid we've yet to connect to which could probably relieve our grid enough to get the second construction action up again without making cutbacks elsewhere.
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>>1982250
Dr. 0 will see what he can do about the power, there may be a limit based on the necessary size of portal instrumentation.

>>1982268
The Chinese would like a place just like their own: with water and arable farmland. Ideally a means to facilitate transport of vehicles and/or supplies to and fro the main colony. They can make do with the rest
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>>1982285
>I respect that can cause problems but I want to understand what issues precisely you are expecting to arise. Please.
If we start demanding ideological conversion from people far away who have no real connection with the "mainland" there will be problems. Since we want to merge them we can assume some of them will object. Akin to America vs UK but less dramatic.

>>1982285
>Why would our people start going to war with each other? If you don't mind expanding on this point please.
Not necessarily war but a general conservative stance. When they are set up in a faroff land and independat of us why would they change their culture so (think about it, if you were living in the UK and the french, who saved your life 10 years ago, start suggesting you start singing their anthem, you will not like it much).

>>1982285
>the current troubles in Spain
Similar, yet slightly different culture and an inequal amount of taxation led to dissatisfaction and the central government dont want to change since Catalonia is a rich province whos taxes support the nation, if they lose taxes its bad for everybody but Catalonia.
The chinese wont be an economic thing but certainly a culture thing.

>>1982285
>Okay yeah that is fair enough and fairly logical. Actually you raise a good point: the Chinese have their own power grid we've yet to connect to which could probably relieve our grid enough to get the second construction action up again without making cutbacks elsewhere.
Agreed then. Assign some behemoths and free resources we can spare to them, assuming the Newberry plan is actually a sound one. QM, whats the verdict on this?
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>>1982296
Is there a way to purify an area for the Chinese QM that we currently have researched?
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>>1982296
Since the brain portal can be powered in a skull and it transmits electromagnetic waves power, can he not use it to transmit at a frequency useful for power conversion? Posted a picture of a wireless transformer via the portal some time ago.'

So Newberry is an ok option and they would do it? Are they still genetically "pure" and how long do they think building a decent settlement will take, assuming their own construction capacity, a few behemoths and resources from us as we can spare?
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>>1982323
>Brain
"Depends on how much you want to invest. Technically, the fastest thing would be to use one of Diana's GECKs. You'd just need to go scavenge some ICBM's for their core and detonate it somewhere.

Like Newberry.

Or perhaps you might consider a strategic location for the Chinese to Expand.

Or look for an irradiated water source and plant the Shi vines there. That will take more time but save you on precious Beryllium."
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>>1982325
The UFO already runs on a wireless power system. It will never have to recharge ever again. However, there is a limit to how much power can be safely delivered without melting the components.

>>1982325
With investment of hexcrete, at least one omniconstructor, and a means to get workers there hell they think they can get a basic working colony up in a month.
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>>1982326
The Shi vines and GECKS remove the Airborne strains of radiation and fev?

Also what do you mean a strategic location?
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>>1982331
Can we not just stick more portals onto powerhungry systems (a separate one for the shield, for example)?

Do they need airtight living space? Are they irradiated/FEV infected?

Also hell yeah, if the fusion plant doesnt require more hexcrete we can have them start it next turn.
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>>1982334
Oh, no it would just purify the water. The GECK would actually purify the air, but this is not a permanent solution. .The Chinese will attempt to make do with regular shipments of Rad-X which theoretically should keep their genes pure.

As for FEV. . .they may just attempt to isolate themselves. It's commonly believed that the benign FEV that affects almost all wastelanders is transmitted primarily sexually, but potentially also through piggybacking on common diseases like colds or flu's. Its not proven for sure, all that is known is that after any length of time people who leave Vaults stop being pure definitively after the third generation, but more often during the second or even first.

---

>Brain
"An alternative place to put the Chinese might not be anywhere near BigMT, but perhaps much further away from the threat of retaliation should ever a war occur.

Not that its a bad idea to terraform Newberry Either, it is close to the mines. And it would enhance our ally with a location nearby. It is up to you."
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>>1982340
Portals take up more space exponentially the larger they get, and have to get larger to facilitate stronger power transfer systems.
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>>1982347
What I mean is that we add another small one to power a separate system.

>>1982344
Seems Newberry is ok then and that the FEV is mostly a risk if you fuck around. Rad-X should also help.
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>>1982317
>If we start demanding ideological conversion from people far away who have no real connection with the "mainland" there will be problems. Since we want to merge them we can assume some of them will object. Akin to America vs UK but less dramatic.
Okay yeah I see what you mean but I'd point out that any actual colonists, they'd have family back home and a constant influx of new people with our culture from the "mainland". Not to mention our education system being highly standardised and at least partially directed using AI hologram-teachers meaning that we can direct the messages the young receive to be inline with our chosen values without individual beliefs muddying the message.

Still I see what you mean but given our government stance and method of control chances are that even if they wanted to get rid of us they wouldn't be able to. Chances are they'd just leave or try and form an vassal state or something.

>Not necessarily war but a general conservative stance. When they are set up in a far off land and independent of us why would they change their culture so (think about it, if you were living in the UK and the french, who saved your life 10 years ago, start suggesting you start singing their anthem, you will not like it much).
To be fair, I have distinctly mixed feelings about the french but I get what you mean. However I doubt that we'd be asking anything of them so extreme and sudden.

>Similar, yet slightly different culture and an unequal amount of taxation led to dissatisfaction and the central government don't want to change since Catalonia is a rich province who's taxes support the nation, if they lose taxes its bad for everybody but Catalonia. The Chinese wont be an economic thing but certainly a culture thing.
Okay I see what you mean but I'd argue that the Chinese culture is in many ways ideal for us: it encourages a high birth rate, working hard without receiving rewards directly and generally is stable. If anything we want to create a fusion of American and Chinese values.

>>1982323
Shi plant can clear radiation and is the only method we've currently got unless you want to build a massive disintegration beam and a replicator to remove any irradiated particles by replicating clean soil.

>>1982326
Oh yeah gecks too I forgot about those.
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>>1982344
Fuck, well for now they need to stay put.

the FEV lab is the one required for us to work on FEV strains correct and purge humanity of it?
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>>1982353
That is possible, though it may make the UFO a bit less aerodynamic.
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>>1982371
Add boosters and strap a portal to that as well then...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5uwihWGu-I
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>>1982090
Can we do several or only one?
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Just a friendly reminder that we are on our way to becoming the best robot empire possible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q2e8lnqwwk&list=RD4qGi9ppL34E&index=5
With Pharaoh Six the Immortal leading the teleporting killbots against the enemies of the state.
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>>1982367
It could also be used to develop a better strain of FEV. One that would result in a truly superior human without any downsides.
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>>1982241
QM, can we integrate the energy teleportation tech into the UFO to solve any power issues?
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>>1982585
It has already been integrated apparently. >>1982331
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>>1982591
Yeah, asked the question before I caught up.

>>1982090
>Dr. 0 believes the Aliens have some sort of dampener field technology, that both reduces the impact of kinetic projectils while at the same time creates a ripple in the visage of the craft, making it difficult to both spot and detect on radar. Though this consumes a significant amount of power, unless the ship is destroyed it will be continuously active

>>1981864
>Selective Research Department
QM, can we accomplish this in a CIV action and would it have benefits beyond the FEV lab?

>an FEV sample
Do we or Dr. Borous know where a pure strain sample might be?
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>>1982607
>Do we or Dr. Borous know where a pure strain sample might be?
Well logically speaking there are a few places. But seeing as the Vault-tec secret vault is exploded most of it's samples are probably unusable and we aren't close with the Enclave remnants we met. So that leaves whatever sources the MLA have got, maybe something from the BOS or possibly even the NCR.

One possibility is we'd find some in a command base like the one on Hawaii. At the very least it'd have information of possible locations.


Another idea would be to try and harvest it from the body of someone exposed to it. As FEV supposedly survives in their body and constantly improves / maintains it. So Marcus would be an ideal source.
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>>1982649
I dont thibk we would be getting pure FEV out of anyone. Unity was exposed to pure fev, but it mutated with her. Stands to reason it mutates while other peoe mutate.
We would need to find something like one of the Masters green vats
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>>1982663
Unity wasn't exposed to pure FEV. She was exposed to a strain altered by the Master in an attempt to solve many of the problems with the original like the infertility.

Fact is that unless we can harvest it from an existing mutant? We won't find any more. What with the Enclave most likely not having any even if they would share it and the known samples of good quality FEV are all destroyed.

Hell the only place that MIGHT have FEV left for us would be the Institute or the D.C wastes but we have no reason to know that as the Courier.
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>>1982676
Except for one thing, the Master didnt kbow about infertility. Him learning about it is part of the non-violent resolution and ends with him self destructing.
He thought the supermutants were perfect. I doubt he was fiddling with FEV.

Also as a meta, i doubt QM would have it be so easy as going up to Marcus and asking for a blood sample.
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>>1982682
I know but to be fair OP rewards us for actually thinking and finding logical solutions.


Anyhow, it'd probably need to be more than a small blood sample. A few litres might get us a breeding base from which to get enough FEV for experimentation.
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>>1982685
Still. With supermutant healing factors, a few litres could take a few days. Or we take a pint from every super mutant. I just dont see being able to get the "pure" FEV after its been used.
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I know that the current turn is still underway, but here is a suggestion for next turn which incorporates our actions this turn:

>Hero
- Fly to Hawaii with EDE and Daisy piloting. Once we land, have Riddick and Cain ready to come through the portal
- Convene a research council with all our scientists + Think Tank; ask them what immoderate priorities we should focus our free robotics and bio research options on

>Construction 1
Finish FEV lab (e.g specimen pens + hidden testing facility)

>Construction 2
Parts / weapons for the MLA in exchange for slaves

>Civ
Restore Dr Mobius to a human body and organise our researchers into specific teams based on their skills / personality - each with a team lead

>Robo-research
Improve the sensor suit used by all military robots to incorporate night / heat vision, along with improved sound detection

>Bio research
Pure strain human clones with improved genetic variation, for testing.

>Passive production
Divide scavenger robots equiped with echo boys
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>>1982693
Eh, it's worth a shot and at the very least removes that whole "weak to the hivemind" thing while providing us with something closer to what I need for psychic genetics determination.


Well. That and a lot of expendable raider brains.
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>>1982708
Robo-resarch should change to.
>Research the BoS robots we got for upgrades to add to our regular forces.
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>>1982708
>Parts / weapons for the MLA in exchange for slaves
I'd argue that you should use the robotics factory to do this since the construction actions are needed for so many other things. This for example could certainly be used to finish that music hall we started the foundations of or to get a little further with the fusion reactor. Or just to finish the disintegration chamber to get that out the way.

>Improve the sensor suit used by all military robots to incorporate night / heat vision, along with improved sound detection
I'd advise just saying better sensors for our robots in general but those'd be good places to start if our robots lack them.

>Pure strain human clones with improved genetic variation, for testing.
I'd prefer if we used this action before it gets dedicated to FEV more or less permanently to develop a universal defoliant to counter the shit in Texas as well as any other plant based shit we encounter.

>Divide scavenger robots equipped with echo boys
Eh, I've advised what I'd use this action for already.
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>>1982717
We already researched it. It's the behemoth that we used as the chassis basis for the mobile replicator.
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>>1982726
We only researched the Behemoth, all the other BoS robots remain untouched.
Including this little bugger here that can be used to upgrade Roboscorpions with a burrowing ability.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Scurry_robot
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>>1982726
The other robots. The standard infantry vots and the like. Behemoths are something special.
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>>1982722
>>1982732
>>1982733
All valid points + I forgot the ZAX action, updating now.

>I'd argue that you should use the robotics factory to do this
QM specifically said that we needed an action for this, I doubt passive production counts

Turn:
>Hero
- Fly to Hawaii with EDE and Daisy piloting. Once we land, have Riddick and Cain ready to come through the portal
- Convene a research council with all our scientists + Think tank; ask them what we immigrate priorities we should focus our free robotics and bio research options on

>Construction 1
Finish FEV lab (e.g specimen pens + hidden testing facility)

>Construction 2
Parts / weapons for the MLA in exchange for slaves

>Civ
Restore Dr Mobius and organise our researchers into specific teams based on their skills / personality - each with a team lead

>ZAX
Improved automated supply chain (robots + vertibirds) for Divide scavenging

>Robo-research
Research the BoS robots we got for upgrades to add to our regular forces.

>Bio research
Strong universal defoliant

>Passive production
Divide scavenger robots equiped with echo boys
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>>1982732
>>1982733
I don't think we've got those but even if we did, I'd point out that the BOS robots have in general been described as lower quality / worse than ours. Even before we got the Think tank at 100%.

>Including this little bugger here that can be used to upgrade Roboscorpions with a burrowing ability.
I could've sworn they already did have that but fair enough that could prove useful...except we deconstructed all the non-giant robo-scorpions a long time ago for raw materials.
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>>1982761
You mean...supply and produce the goods we said we would for them using civ?
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>>1982763
We got one of everything. And it doesnt hurt to look through them for some odd subsystem with potential we never thought about.
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>>1982761
>QM specifically said that we needed an action for this, I doubt passive production counts
We've produced weapons for them in past using it. No reason we can't now since it's more or less the same concept.
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>>1982768
True I suppose but to be fair we've got the Thinktank who've surpassed all expectations in their capabilities thus far.
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>>1982777
Yeah. Conventional stuff we have them outclassed. Armour, stopping power, lifespan. Etc. But if one of them can do something unconventional, then thats something we can look into.
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>>1982761
>Restore Dr Mobius
Can you tell me what happened with Dr. Mobius?
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>>1982785
I suppose, at the very least we'll probably pick up one or two tricks in making them easier to control for debrained people.

>>1982792
Nothing, we're talking about getting them back into human bodies as that restores their sanity.
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>>1982792
We never gave him a body in case something went wrong. Hes still a think tank brain in a jar. With alzheimers.
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>>1982769
In theory I agree with you, I'm just going by what the QM said though.

He specified an action, passive production isn't an action.
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>>1982807
>>1982804
Okay, I thought you meant he was killed or something like that. We should give him a body when we can, he'll be useful to have
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>>1982823
Eh, if he says it needs an action, we'll have to do that until / unless he says otherwise.
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This new assualt by the MLA might tip the scales. Are we sure we don't want to do anything to help the NCR? Even a bit?
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>>1983133
We still haven't locked down making them arms. We can naff around with it until we think of a plan on that stops it without incriminates us if we want.
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>>1983133
Entirely certain. The NCR was pushing them back up until now and to be frank their capital ain't their technological, industrial, military or even economic heartland. Most if not almost all of their capacity in any regard to continue fighting exists elsewhere and all their major cities have defensive lines in place to secure them from attack as well as significant civilian militias.

Even if the MLA were to take the guns of Boomertown and turn them on the capital, short of levelling the entire place they would still have a major city fight on their hands against a people who have entrenched positions (reinforced by actual soldiers and defences from when the Legion were almost at the capital last time) and weapons as previously mentioned.

This is before mentioning whatever stage 2 is or the continued push by the BOS against the MLA-Legion elsewhere.
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>>1983196
But this is the MLA/Legion we are talking about. Taking a city wouldn't be a problem because they could easily just drop gas or have their dark lord conjure up some bullshit.

The fact of the matter is that the MLA/Legion are on track to start winning, and we want to keep the balance. So we either need to start helping the NCR or stop helping the Legion/MLA

Also, the way it was described, the capitol was a pretty important part of the nation, even as a propaganda piece. It had amazing infrastructure, and a thriving financial section
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>>1983196
Do you really think The MLA flattening Shady Sands is balance? Morale damage alone would be a massive shift.
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>>1983225
I mean, I think that it is. I also don't think that they're really going to level Shady Sands, AND I suspect that this intel was intentionally leaked.

Bonus points to Yaunkers if the Holodisk was intentionally leaked, knowing we'd decrypt it and not have sufficient military might to actively participate in the assault, so that when the weakness turns out to be a trap and the MLA's best are eliminated they ALSO get pissed off at us thinking that we were in on it. Thereby cutting us off from our only ally and forcing us to ally with the NCR or be in an extremely thorny spot.
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>>1983276
It does sound too good to be true. Blackthorne also happens to be there? Why would the top general be visiting a glorified arms factory.
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>>1983296
Planning stage 2? Well anyway, if this is a trick, then the scales should stay the same. If not, then we'll have to evaluate what we want to do
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>>1983296
We've also, you know, refused to take the oath that says we wouldn't betray the MLA and is enforced magically.

Then mysteriously info we decrypted leads to a loss to rival the NCR's loss of the Ghosts?

I'd declare war on us if I were the MLA.

>>1983318
The scales would stay the same with regards to Legion/MLA v. NCR, but we'd be getting royally FUCKED. Like, existential crisis tier fucked. The MLA controls the Divide, which is our only avenue to natural resources right now.
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>>1983218
>But this is the MLA/Legion we are talking about. Taking a city wouldn't be a problem because they could easily just drop gas or have their dark lord conjure up some bullshit.
True but if that were the case then they'd have ran the NCR over already. Fact is that the MLA lacks a significant airforce especially one equipped for gas bombing (which they'd need to do a large amount of to cover a significant portion of the city) and their dark god ain't some "insta-win" button.

>The fact of the matter is that the MLA/Legion are on track to start winning, and we want to keep the balance. So we either need to start helping the NCR or stop helping the Legion/MLA
They really aren't depending on what stage 2 is and I'd point out that the NCR continues to advance. Given another two years they'll probably be producing those laser tanks by the hundred without issue and be pushing them back again. Hell consider that they've been fighting the Legion on open ground and pushing them back, now they'd be back to fighting in bunkers, trenches and such which actually helps the NCR hold the line.

>Also, the way it was described, the capitol was a pretty important part of the nation, even as a propaganda piece. It had amazing infrastructure, and a thriving financial section
Aye but to the actual war effort? Unimportant and the fact is that the NCR had prepared it's people back when the Legion almost had the castle for the possibility they would get it. So it's not like they don't have plans in place.

>>1983225
No because that was meant to be a statement of a completely unrealistic outcome from them seizing the fort-town's artillery. Which is why I said SHORT OF levelling the entire place but even if they did, it wouldn't seriously effect the balance of manpower, industry or such.

>>1983276
That is a possibility but would it be worth risking the MLA actually managing it? Still.

>>1983296
It is where they get their air-force, a fair portion of their artillery crews and so on. It wouldn't be unrealistic for him to be using it as a secure command base (it was originally a radio post) to deal with the situation caused by the lost of the Ghost division and the MLA-Legion advance while remaining far enough back to not be at risk of capture.

>>1983324
This is part of the reason I want to be more gung ho with the MLA and seriously start helping them. That way if it is a trap, not only do we maintain the balance we also avoid taking any blame.
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>>1983341
Yes it's worth the MLA actually managing it. What do you think "Stage 2" is? Have we already forgotten all of the NCR's ridiculous progress in scant few years?
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>>1983354
>What do you think "Stage 2" is? Have we already forgotten all of the NCR's ridiculous progress in scant few years?
Did you entirely miss the section where I said that we should make sure this is a success BECAUSE of stage 2?

I know what I think stage 2 is. Either Hawaii or beginning production of C&C grade shit.
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>>1983341
>They really aren't depending on what stage 2 is and I'd point out that the NCR continues to advance. Given another two years they'll probably be producing those laser tanks by the hundred without issue and be pushing them back again. Hell consider that they've been fighting the Legion on open ground and pushing them back, now they'd be back to fighting in bunkers, trenches and such which actually helps the NCR hold the line.
NCR gets laser tanks, the MLA responds with more of the giant tesla jet traks. Power levels of both sides are pretty even.

>Aye but to the actual war effort? Unimportant and the fact is that the NCR had prepared it's people back when the Legion almost had the castle for the possibility they would get it. So it's not like they don't have plans in place.
morale is very important. You can't just dismiss flatteneing the capital as iunimportant to the NCR's war commitment.

>No because that was meant to be a statement of a completely unrealistic outcome from them seizing the fort-town's artillery. Which is why I said SHORT OF levelling the entire place but even if they did, it wouldn't seriously effect the balance of manpower, industry or such.
War is not just number of troops, and equipment. Blowing Shady sands up could cripple the NCR's fighting spirit, make them make mistakes. It's not inconsequencial at all.

>This is part of the reason I want to be more gung ho with the MLA and seriously start helping them. That way if it is a trap, not only do we maintain the balance we also avoid taking any blame.
And if it is a trap, The NCR blows us up. We can tell Niner to fuck out of our territory now, that the ghost legion ambush is complete. And then secure our underground.
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>>1983341
Well I apologize for the confusion. Their god isn't some insta win weapon, but they could easily have something like the NCR had, where it has range, but it can release deadly gas in the city, clearing the area.

I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but if the capital falls, as well as boomtown going bye bye, and their shadow divisions being gone, I highly doubt Stage 2 would be put into place.

They have plans in place, sure, but the morale impact would be huge. Also, the capital has to be huge to the war effort, as Berlin was, or Moscow. Is it game over of the capitol falls? No,but it would put the MLA in the lead
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>>1983359
Maybe I did miss it, you're pretty toxic so I try to avoid reading your posts when I can and in the one where you reference me you seem to suggest that we shouldn't risk the MLA taking Boomertown.
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>>1982761
Seems decent.
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>>1983360
>NCR gets laser tanks, the MLA responds with more of the giant tesla jet traks.
Actually, if you remember, Niner said they'd moved away from big vehicles because they were to easy for bombers to eliminate. Since it's harder to hide them underground with any speed I imagine. So they lack such things and even if they did have them, we saw trucks being melted by the laser tanks in a few seconds. It wouldn't help.

>Power levels of both sides are pretty even.
I disagree. Yet even if that were true the NCR was and still is going to push the MLA-Legion back given time thanks to their tanks, planes and such.

>morale is very important. You can't just dismiss flatteneing the capital as iunimportant to the NCR's war commitment.
I can seeing as the NCR is united behind Yaunker beyond any reasonable doubt and more importantly, it's not like they are facing an enemy that they'd surrender to in any fashion. Given their opinion of the MLA and Legion. So they will fight no matter how bad things look because the alternative is slavery and human sacrifice.

>War is not just number of troops, and equipment. Blowing Shady sands up could cripple the NCR's fighting spirit, make them make mistakes. It's not inconsequential at all.
Refer to the above. I doubt it would do as much as you are saying seeing as they recovered from the nightmare that was the Mojave. Also, again, they won't blow the entire city up. At most a fifth of it since they'll want slaves, sacrifices and salvage (as little of all three as I expect them to actually get..).

>And if it is a trap, The NCR blows us up.
Again, I want to invest in AA / an air force just in case and more importantly the MLA are willing to help us move underground according to Niner.

>We can tell Niner to fuck out of our territory now, that the ghost legion ambush is complete. And then secure our underground.
Fair enough but that wasn't part of the deal. The deal was that they'd not attack via the Divide in return for us digging the tunnels. Nothing more or less.
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>>1983364
>Well I apologize for the confusion. Their god isn't some insta win weapon, but they could easily have something like the NCR had, where it has range, but it can release deadly gas in the city, clearing the area.
If that were the case then why'd they not use that in the Sunken city? Or directly on the Boomertown? Their dark god is powerful but I'd argue that so long as no one else deploys gas weapons it ain't gonna pull the trick it pulled last time, after the Ghost's were defeated. I'll admit I could be wrong but still. I trust that if the NCR has held this long they'll hold against whatever the dark god can contribute.

>I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but if the capital falls, as well as boomtown going bye bye, and their shadow divisions being gone, I highly doubt Stage 2 would be put into place.
Possibly true but still why would they avoid engaging whatever it is they expect to win the war?

>They have plans in place, sure, but the morale impact would be huge. Also, the capital has to be huge to the war effort, as Berlin was, or Moscow. Is it game over of the capitol falls? No,but it would put the MLA in the lead
Thing about Berlin and Moscow is they are major industrial and population centres as well as the locations of the military chiefs as well as many of the, during various wars historically, development centres for new military tech. Most of the NCR's population live in the Shi lands or the Boneyards or the frontier. Fact is that generally speaking their industry is in those places too. So their capital mostly remains their capital because it is the old seat of power rather than any actual importance. Many of us think that the NCR's chiefs of war and shit are probably in the Frontier General base or somewhere that they have a ZAX so it's not like this'd decapitate their military.

I'll admit it might make the NCR a bit more pessimistic and shit but I doubt it would be the straw to break their back.

>>1983365
>Maybe I did miss it, you're pretty toxic
Tumblr... All jokes aside, seriously though? That is what you think of me? I've posted about half a dozen pieces of art and tried to generally be a constructive individual so I must disagree.

>so I try to avoid reading your posts when I can and in the one where you reference me you seem to suggest that we shouldn't risk the MLA taking Boomertown.
Nah I was referring to you talking about the NCR risking the MLA actually succeeding and saying that they'd probably not risk it. Especially when they are generally winning and seemingly have a plan in place to introduce new and better weapons to win the war.
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>>1983413
We can take this opportunity to push them to leave. We don't want to forge closer ties with the MLA. Especially since they should be our second target after the legion.
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>>1983449
If you have some secret weapon, usually you use it in an important situation, like taking the capitol of your enemy without the urban combat.

Maybe they would avoid engaging Stage 2 because it would take away the necessary material to defend the now open gaping wound in their nation.Or it required both Boomtown and the shadow division.

And finally, what we know about the NCR capitol is that it is huge, meaning a lot of population paying taxes, it has the capitol building, the legislature, numerous businesses and industries, as well as the rallying point for morale. I am not saying it is the end of the war, but it doesn't make sense that losing the city wouldn't be a sizable blow to the NCR
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>>1983492
Fuck it, we've discussed this all before and I can't be bothered repeating the arguments again at 2 AM. Main fact is this, the MLA has no reason to leave the Divide and we couldn't force them to even if we wanted to probably.

Also, two additional things: I would point out to you that the most effective order of attack / expansion in my opinion is NCR -> Legion -> MLA / BOS -> BOS / MLA and secondly, some of us DO want closer ties with the MLA, at least until we can afford to stab them in the back without piggy backing off the NCR.

>>1983502
>If you have some secret weapon, usually you use it in an important situation, like taking the capitol of your enemy without the urban combat.
Their dark god ain't exactly a secret weapon but I do see what you mean.

>Maybe they would avoid engaging Stage 2 because it would take away the necessary material to defend the now open gaping wound in their nation.Or it required both Boomtown and the shadow division.
That is highly unlikely given that Boomtown is a defensive installation and that their president ordered them to continue with stage 2 after being told the Ghost division was destroyed (where'd you get shadow from?). However I suppose if they needed the additional material...you have a point there I concede but I doubt that the assets they are using to create these new factories to produce better forces would be the sort to be reassigned to creating more WW 2 level shit.

>And finally, what we know about the NCR capitol is that it is huge, meaning a lot of population paying taxes, it has the capitol building, the legislature, numerous businesses and industries, as well as the rallying point for morale. I am not saying it is the end of the war, but it doesn't make sense that losing the city wouldn't be a sizable blow to the NCR
And again, it's far from their biggest or most important city by a long mile. It WOULD be a sizeable loss but to be frank so would any city.

Also, taxes have far less meaning for them currently. Given they've nationalised everything and their currency keeps on getting more valuable and shit.
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>>1983522
I didn't specifically mean the dark god, rather an actual weapon, but we both know what I'm talking about.

Shadow and Ghost seem to be interchangeable for me, but you seen to have known what I was talking about.

I never said it was their biggest, but them losing it could affect things that you and I couldn't even begin thinking about, because QM gives a fair thought into this stuff.

So once again, I state that if the MLA succeed and Boomtown as well as the capitol falls, we either need to start supporting the NCR or stop supporting the MLA
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>>1983539
>I didn't specifically mean the dark god, rather an actual weapon, but we both know what I'm talking about.
Are you worried they have more Divide warheads or something?

>Shadow and Ghost seem to be interchangeable for me, but you seen to have known what I was talking about.
Mostly because you said division and described it as if it had been destroyed.

>I never said it was their biggest, but them losing it could affect things that you and I couldn't even begin thinking about, because QM gives a fair thought into this stuff.
True but so could any number of things. Fact is that we can get tonnes of steel and fissile helping the MLA in this regard to fund military expansion as well as infrastructure like solar arrays, replicator behemoths or additional cold fusion reactors.

>So once again, I state that if the MLA succeed and Boomtown as well as the capitol falls, we either need to start supporting the NCR or stop supporting the MLA
Eh, I'd argue that once the MLA have Boomtown we can focus on Montana and Hawaii / Texas for a year or two depending on how it goes for the NCR-MLA-Legion war. Then once we've built up enough we reenter on the side of either the MLA to re-achieve balance or to outright win depending on how much we've advanced.

However I agree to take a step back after this. Hell I primarily want to just provide weapons, armour, medicine and so on to the MLA in return for raw materials to support our own projects as well as hopefully being able to purchase land off them in some sort of peace deal.


Still we'll see how it all goes.
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>>1983571
Nah, but just some weapon that they could have found in their travels. Some chemical agent or something

Well couldn't we get the same exact thing from the NCR too? Why can't the NCR give us the supplies?

>see how it goes
Alright that's fair. If the NCR starts getting it's shit kicked in, we'll step in. If not, we can focus on ourselved
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>>1983571
If it was about resources, we could probably get tons of stuff making deals with the NCR.

As for balancing the war, letting the MLA get to Boomer down is not maintaining balance, and would end in disaster on the NCR side.
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>>1983620
Once the NCR is hurting in the war, they are more willing to give resources to us to tip the balance of war.

The way I see it, we're making all sides around us war exhaustion.
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>>1983596
>Nah, but just some weapon that they could have found in their travels. Some chemical agent or something
Fair enough. To be honest they've got enough different groups that some sort of airborne agent is possibly within their arsenal.

>Well couldn't we get the same exact thing from the NCR too? Why can't the NCR give us the supplies?
The NCR is far less dependent on us. Whereas the MLA is outright willing to pay just for us to manufacture weapons and shit for them, as they are inferior in this area. Meanwhile the NCR has enough industry and sheer resources to throw at it that they don't need us for that.

To be frank, I'd get deals from both sides but the possibility of either side finding out is problematic. So that limits us to simple things like the metal-meds deal with the NCR which I'd gladly continue.

>Alright that's fair. If the NCR starts getting it's shit kicked in, we'll step in. If not, we can focus on ourselved
Agreed. The balance of power must be maintained until we have grown sufficiently strong to finish two of the factions off at once.

>>1983620
>If it was about resources, we could probably get tons of stuff making deals with the NCR.
Yeah but they ain't as needing as the MLA for fast, high quality manufacturing or RnD and won't offer slaves to expand our population. So in that regard the MLA wins out, just from sheer variety of what they can offer.

>As for balancing the war, letting the MLA get to Boomer down is not maintaining balance, and would end in disaster on the NCR side.
This has been discussed.


Still all these plans hinge on how quickly we can get set up in Montana, if we can get the Utah locals / Canaanites to join us, if the Chinese are willing to fuse entirely and how Hawaii goes as those could all fail or succeed resulting in a shorter or longer time line to the point where we can engage in open warfare on the nation state level.
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>>1983746
If we really want these territories, we can't do it half baked. We need to launch an offensive against the raiders, and meet with all the leaders of the area, as well as giving medical support and food to the people.
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Any thoughts on giving the Chinese Hawaii Sans Millitary base?
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>>1983769
We need them close enough so they can diffuse their culture with ours so they become one of us. The Hawaii territory could be a mix I suppose
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>>1983764
Medical support is easy with our complete bank of cures for pre-war diseases and the ability to build auto-docs. Not to mention our expert doctors who can advise through our robots how to deal with anything as it happens.

Food is no bother seeing as even a few small underground farms will easily outproduce the tundra-like north.

Then there is the offensive against unprepared raiders? Paltry with our ability to replicate reinforcement Securitrons (maybe even Tankitrons?) and Assaultrons using behemoths a few dozen meters behind the front, supported by TACT tendered drone airforces and artilery.

Plus, all those free BRAINS and bodies for FEV testing, making AI-TACTs and just general shit.

>>1983769
It's probably highly irradiated, possibly already populated but besides that probably good. It'd get them closer to China at least...
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>>1983866
Exactly, we would show the people that we get shit done better than anyone, letting them flock to us. We just have to get the forces built
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>>1983888
So wait, what were we disagreeing on?
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>>1983888
Barons won't appreciate anyone muscling in on our turf. We will have to deal with them.
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>>1983900
Nothing, I was just saying we'll need a little preparation to get a surplus of supplies, but this should be a cake walk

>>1983911
The people don't really like being under the barons because of the huge taxes they collect. We don't collect anything
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>>1983911
Hmmm...giant mobile city on treads...how to counter it...


What if we figure out where they are going to be in a week and use a Tunneller to place a fuck-off huge bomb under there? Then detonate that to break their track or get them stuck and then wait a week. Since they rely on moving between colonies to pick up new resources and shit.

Then we get to move in on the colonies that can't supply their own food, offering to keep them stable until their Barons return, then when they see how much better our rule is? We let them have a vote to join.


Fact is that with some anti-air measures / point defence systems to neutralise bombs, shells and planes then they'd basically have no way of attacking us.
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>>1983922
Oh fair enough and you are right about the Barons. Fact is that they have three choices: independence (read: suicide), the BOS (who are at war with the raiders (MLA?) and would force them to fight) or the Barons (who need massive taxes). So if we do the standard shtick we have in New Washington or even slightly worse they odd to be fine with it.
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>>1983928
I would prefer to seize control of a mobile city, for the symbolic aspect.
We have EMP rockets. Make a big one and we have an EMP bomb.
Blow it up to shut it down in the middle of its transit, send in assaultrons to clear it out. redecorate it and fix it up, and we have a symbol and a mobile base of our own.
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>>1983928
Are we trying to destroy the moving cities? We could just follow the tracks with drones and blow it up
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>>1983971
>I would prefer to seize control of a mobile city, for the symbolic aspect.
I agree, refer to the section about the post below yours.

>We have EMP rockets. Make a big one and we have an EMP bomb. Blow it up to shut it down in the middle of its transit, send in assaultrons to clear it out. redecorate it and fix it up, and we have a symbol and a mobile base of our own.
Problem is, I have a theory it is coal / steam powered and possibly extremely primitive. Like: not relying on electronics / electricity besides lights. So EMP's would prove ineffective. However your actual method has no flaws if this is proven to be false.

>>1983972
No, no. The goal is to disable the cities, that way they can maintain defensive actions against the raiders yet at the same time they'll be unable to supply the hugely specialised colonies with what they need: which would result in some freezing, others starving and so on.

Then we pickup the slack, show off our superiority and convince the colonies we are the big boys on the block and that they should join. Which seeing as they are actually independent states that are merely paying for protection isn't something the Barons can stop without losing all support from the colonies.
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>>1983994
Maybe. So the EMP might not stop the mobile city, but it would shut of the internal lights, and fry everyones radio. Unless they use smoke signals, they won't be calling for reinforcements.

So we use conventional explosives on the treads to immobilize it, and an EMP to reduce their home field advantage. We do this at night, so their guys are blind, while our assaultrons just switch to thermal imagining.
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>>1984050
Essentially. Something like that.


Might be the case that the colonies just ask to join us without us having to do this shit but optimism kills good planning.
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>>1984057
With the towns paying fealty to their barons they would likely be too scared to switch sides. And even if they did. the barons would probably gang up to deal with the interloper. After all, they could be next for having their assets taken.
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>>1984078
True but one or two of the more recent and outlying ones might.
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>>1982371
When OP is gone for 9 hours straight
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>>1984384
And I was hoping for some sweet turn updates when I wake up but no dice. ;(
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>>1984759
We still have half the turn left.
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>>1984775
I know. :/
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>>1984817
I'm going to sleep now, maybe in 8 hours there is a update.
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New thread when?
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Do we have a boon in reserve now? What do you anons think about using it to perfect the replicators with the help of our new and improved Think Tank?
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>>1984935
Perfect how? After universal replication, what else is there to improve?
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>>1985036
Make it less energy intensive (so we can entirely switch out gathering any materials besides rock, since there id no more energy cost difference between turning steel into robots and turning rocks into robots) and increase the speed of it (if the current machine can produce 1 unit per hour we have it make 3 and thus instead of having to make more replicators we increase they yield of each one).

If its speed vs cost we make it cheaper. If we can use it reliably and large scale we really only need to shovel dirt (mantle drill goes here) to grow our population.
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>>1985048
Ehhh, if we do have a boon, we should save it for the inevitable 1 we'll get
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>>1985060
We have a boon. We got one last founders day and never spent it.
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>>1985078
So then lets save it. We don't need anything right now, just keep chugging along
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>>1985089
Yeah, things a progressing nicely. Were doing good.
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>>1985089
We get far more from it when we spend it on actions vs negating a 1.

Depends on what it is but we should only keep it for as long as we wait for an opportunity to invest. Like beefing the replicators.

The only real limitation, besides time, we have is resources. This would cut that problem out. Besides, making robots would then be a free action since we no longer need buildings for it, just set the replicator on it overnight. No more assembly time, no more transporting of parts. Just instant bots.
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>>1985102
Do you remember our past 1's? They were horrible and took away from us. The rule of thumb in this quest has always been to save one boon for emergencies.
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>>1985105
The times we have used the boons have more than outweighed the negatives of ones. Especially since the ones usually present a circumstance we can resolve. Not using the boon, however, doesnt allow us to progress "normally".
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If we are going to spend a boon on anything I'd save it either for Hawaii, the fusion reactor, replicator improvements or getting the Chinese more integrated / closely working with us.
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>>1985147
The reactor would also be a good option, assuming the effect can be replicated. Hesitant to use it on the chinese or Hawaii but well see how it goes. Nothing to do until we get to either Hawaii or the end of the fusion construction.

Speaking of.

QM where are you?
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>>1985147
Really? because I would save it to replace Yaunkers or the general with an FEV shapeshifter.

or for a breakthrough on the platinum chip. Because House might be dead, and Sunnyvale if it survived is deep in NCR territory.
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going to make a new thread today
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>>1985313
Eta?
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>>1985307
>Really? because I would save it to replace Yaunkers or the general with an FEV shapeshifter.
The NCR knows about the Institute and their synths. They probably have measures in place against such methods.

>breakthrough on the platinum chip.
I'd agree but as nice as the platinum chip is, at the end of the day we'd need the ability to make use of the massive increase in computing power.
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>>1985407
There is always a need for more computational power.
Get good enough cybernetic cores and we can make command TACT obselete, removing them as a tacticle liability
Imagine if all bots came to consensus on optimal actions. No need for dedicated commanders ro act as lynch pins for the entire army.
Imagine predicting what our enemies do before they do it.
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>>1985414
>There is always a need for more computational power.
I know but the fact remains that it doesn't matter how good our designs are if we can't afford to produce them in good numbers.

>Get good enough cybernetic cores and we can make command TACT obselete, removing them as a tacticle liability
Unlikely.

>Imagine if all bots came to consensus on optimal actions. No need for dedicated commanders ro act as lynch pins for the entire army.
That is a massive weakness. The ease of abuse in terms of hacking is huge, even before we mention the fact that is hugely inefficient. You are wasting resources making expendable frontline forces smarter than they should ever need to be.

>Imagine predicting what our enemies do before they do it.
Depending on what you mean? Incredibly impossible. Assuming you mean squad / individual level predictions.


PAM only managed to make nation-scale / strategic assessments and it was the cutting edge of pre-war predictive technology. House, who was a master of statistical prediction, only managed to figure out to within the decade when the bombs would drop.

We could probably predict that level of things given some time but it's more than just a matter of enough computing power. You need information: parameters. To narrow the conditions possible and thus make accurate predictions.

Given how little we know about the NCR, MLA, BOS, Elijah and even Legion, computing power probably wouldn't allow us to make any good predictions.
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>>1985447
>I know but the fact remains that it doesn't matter how good our designs are if we can't afford to produce them in good numbers.
As long as we arent going full out on the most resource intensive projexts for a good while, we should be fine building robots.

>That is a massive weakness. The ease of abuse in terms of hacking is huge, even before we mention the fact that is hugely inefficient. You are wasting resources making expendable frontline forces smarter than they should ever need to be.
Securitrons are not exactly fodder to be thrown away. They already have a rather laege material investment. A little more for greater combat efficiency is worth it.
And its more efficient when we dont ens up with an army doibg nothing when the TACt gets targetted and destroyed.
The right encryptions and scuttling methods prevents hacking from being too muxh of a threat. And it would be more effective than having a few tacts hanging around. More responsive.

>Depending on what you mean? Incredibly impossible. Assuming you mean squad / individual level predictions.
PAM and Emperor can make pretty large scale predictions. Juat need the right intel. Which we can get with some effort. It wont be magic, but as long as we plug in the data, we would have the advantage.
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>>1985475
>As long as we arent going full out on the most resource intensive projexts for a good while, we should be fine building robots.
Yeah, on our current scale which is far too small to compete with the NCR, MLA, BOS or Legion in an actual war which is what we are building up to.

I know what you mean and I agree that our current abilities are sufficient for our plans but we must assume that our capacity is always less than it should be and that it can be improved.

>Securitrons are not exactly fodder to be thrown away. They already have a rather large material investment. A little more for greater combat efficiency is worth it.
Agreed. Making them smart enough to perform tactical decision making on the level of the TACT platforms? Is not.

>And its more efficient when we don't end up with an army doing nothing when the TACT gets targeted and destroyed.
See, something everyone seemingly forgets is the meaning of the TACT and how many of them there are to meant be. We are meant to have far more in control than we currently do but the bottleneck has always been a mix of construction ability and the actual supply of brains to maximise their effectiveness.

>The right encryption and scuttling methods prevents hacking from being too much of a threat.
True.

>And it would be more effective than having a few TACTs hanging around. More responsive.
And you reach this conclusion how? That rather than having dedicated platforms to make decisions and plan, having our front-line do it would make it more responsive? Please explain the logic behind this statement as I fail to see it.

>PAM and Emperor can make pretty large scale predictions. Just need the right Intel. Which we can get with some effort. It wont be magic, but as long as we plug in the data, we would have the advantage.
Again, like I said, we would struggle as of right now and almost certainly for quite some time to get sufficient data to make them useful.
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i want the chip breakthrough for a number of reasons.

first, it improves every single robot design we have.

second it makes our two ZAX units massively more effective.

Third it minaturizes a vast majority of our equipment.

fourth it allows for extremely sophisticated drones.

those last two on turn cut down on our need for large portals.

Lastly chips allow for implants of ludicrous power. Imagine EVERY CITIZEN being a mini ZAX.

those are just off the top of my head.
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>>1985582
>Making them smart enough to perform tactical decision making on the level of the TACT platforms? Is not.
Individually? No. Waste of resources.
But linked together, as part of a hive, a collective of thousands? It would streamline our command structure, and reduce the liability caused by having dedicated command units.

>We are meant to have far more in control than we currently do but the bottleneck has always been a mix of construction ability and the actual supply of brains to maximise their effectiveness.
We are currently bottlenecked in TACT production and this is one way to skip over the issue entirely. If we are limited by some resource, lets try something that doesnt need the resource.

>And you reach this conclusion how? That rather than having dedicated platforms to make decisions and plan, having our front-line do it would make it more responsive? Please explain the logic behind this statement as I fail to see it.
Instead of having TACTS, we have an interlinked collective made up of all our combat robots, so, they together achieve a sinular processing capability that is greater and more capable than a number of tacts controlling their own battalions.
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>>1985689
Keep me posted when OP posts another thread.
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>>1985689
>But linked together, as part of a hive, a collective of thousands?
To be honest I doubt the feasibility of what you are advising. If OP states that it can be done and that it offers genuine benefit equal to the required investment, I would consider it.

However as of this moment in time you are praying that we can develop something that never existed in the pre-war world or elsewhere and that it wouldn't be a massive liability itself.

>It would streamline our command structure
It wouldn't. If anything it complicates the command structure since it is no longer clear if an order is from a superior, inferior or an equal. Such a system potentially might work in an entirely robotic army but ours isn't intended to ever be entirely robotic.

>reduce the liability caused by having dedicated command units.
Possibly assuming it doesn't cause problems itself.

>We are currently bottlenecked in TACT production and this is one way to skip over the issue entirely. If we are limited by some resource, lets try something that doesnt need the resource.
We aren't. It's just no one ever dedicates an action or the passive production to producing command TACTs.

>Instead of having TACTs, we have an interlinked collective made up of all our combat robots, so, they together achieve a singular processing capability that is greater and more capable than a number of TACTs controlling their own battalions.
Except the idea of the TACTs is that they'd be working together, in conjunction under the command of other TACTs and potentially other designs. So it's not a matter of a "singular" processing power being divided but rather your obsession with having a cloud based command system as well as making our infantry take part.
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Alright, this thread is on page 7 now, give me a description for the archive.
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>>1986023
>It wouldn't. If anything it complicates the command structure since it is no longer clear if an order is from a superior, inferior or an equal. Such a system potentially might work in an entirely robotic army but ours isn't intended to ever be entirely robotic.
It wouldnt be commands per say between units. Just decisions that all units follow. We, as users can input goals and restrictions, the collective decided the optimal solution and executes it. The individual bots are more fingers of a hand than individuals. Like the Geth. Many geth, they quickly each evaluate on a course of action and come to a consensus.

>It's just no one ever dedicates an action or the passive production to producing command TACTs.
It would mean us going out to find brains, which is a risk.

>Except the idea of the TACTs is that they'd be working together, in conjunction under the command of other TACTs and potentially other designs. So it's not a matter of a "singular" processing power being divided but rather your obsession with having a cloud based command system as well as making our infantry take part
The current system is having a bunch of TACTs command a bunch of securitrons each, especially when we have our officers in the mix making their own decisions for the tacts. I'm proposing a method that puts all our forces under 1 command, a virtual intelligence whos existence is spread amongst all our forces, so we dont end up with officers conflicting with each other.
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>>1986073
Courier defuses a religious war, fixes the think tank, researches his new weapons
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>>1986133
Alright, thread archived.
Also what the hell is the argument about this time?
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>>1986139
Something about the robots
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>>1986113
>It wouldn't be commands per say between units. Just decisions that all units follow. We, as users can input goals and restrictions, the collective decided the optimal solution and executes it. The individual bots are more fingers of a hand than individuals. Like the Geth. Many geth, they quickly each evaluate on a course of action and come to a consensus.
What you are suggesting there is a AI suspended in a cloud system between hundreds of separate platforms.

>It would mean us going out to find brains, which is a risk.
Actually it wouldn't. Not only do we currently have a large population we've yet to tap, we could just produce the non-brain version of the TACT. Which uses a conventional computer system.

>The current system is having a bunch of TACTs command a bunch of securitrons each, especially when we have our officers in the mix making their own decisions for the tacts.
Wrong. We have 1 officer TACT that has a human brain from one of our human officers. Under it lies every robot we have produced. If we were to have more command TACTs (which we seriously should!) they'd fit into the system either as equals, superiors or inferiors of this TACT, resulting in one of three things:

1) Higher level planning being taken care of by another TACT - Superior.

2) Lower level planning / control being taken care of by another TACT - Inferior.

3) The two TACTs sharing their functions and associated responsibilities - equals.

Fact is the TACTs make their own decisions. They aren't anywhere near as dumb as you seemingly think. Hell, our human officers are in charge of their squads and receive orders from their supporting robots / their gear from our TACT officer who is in direct communication either with our general in the field (ala the Divide) or via telecommunication.

>I'm proposing a method that puts all our forces under 1 command, a virtual intelligence whos existence is spread amongst all our forces, so we dont end up with officers conflicting with each other.
If that ever becomes a problem then we might consider it a solution but seeing as you are trying to solve an issue which currently hasn't even been a problem predicted by OP via MAJOR (who is the literal expert in robotic warfare) or the Thinktank (who are experts in general), I see no reason to believe that it will ever be. So I'd say we should both wait until OP returns and then you can ask them / him if this would ever be a problem.


Also, on a separate point, we already have such an AI. It wants to kill all humans.


>>1986139
>>1986167
Essentially one of us wants to keep the current system, the other believes that creating a cloud based command system between every robot in combat will be far better and without issue.
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>>1986177
XD Arguments I steer clear off.

Anyway what should we ask from the MLA for the supplies we're giving them?

I think we should get more slaves, since ton of Metal can still come from the divide and slaves allow us to increase our population and our allow more TACT bots.
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>>1986261
Eh, I'd disagree. As seen by our construction of the cold fusion reactor, we can easily run through our supply of metal. So my goal is fairly simple: stock up on as much fissile, metal and other such resources as we can to enable our construction actions to be going constantly.

However getting more slaves would be fine once we've started to get the underground farms constructed given how much of a surplus they are expected to give us.
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>>1986177
>Actually it wouldn't. Not only do we currently have a large population we've yet to tap, we could just produce the non-brain version of the TACT. Which uses a conventional computer system.
We do not have that many officers to cover our needs. It also puts 2 individuals at risk as if the brain dies, so does the body. Loss of a tact means someone drops dead somewhere.

>Actually it wouldn't. Not only do we currently have a large population we've yet to tap, we could just produce the non-brain version of the TACT. Which uses a conventional computer system.
At wgixh point, we might as well disseminate more if the lrocessing onto the grunts. Then we dont need dedicated command units.

>Wrong. We have 1 officer TACT that has a human brain from one of our human officers. Under it lies every robot we have produced. If we were to have more command TACTs (which we seriously should!) they'd fit into the system either as equals, superiors or inferiors of this TACT, resulting in one of three things:
Which results in a bunch of people of the same rank with their own agendas. Put it all under 1 intelligence and every part now workd in perfect synchronicity.

>If that ever becomes a problem then we might consider it a solution but...we havent run into an issue because we have a field command staff of 1. No conflict is possible. And MAJOR is too conventional.he misses out on more eccentric possibilities for what is tried and true. Even if they are inferior.
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>>1986287
>We do not have that many officers to cover our needs. It also puts 2 individuals at risk as if the brain dies, so does the body. Loss of a tact means someone drops dead somewhere.


>At wgixh point, we might as well disseminate more if the lrocessing onto the grunts. Then we dont need dedicated command units.
In your opinion. In mine, I see no reason why we'd attach additional sensitive and valuable electronics onto frontline units where they are more likely to be hit and turned into scrap rather than having them on a centralised platform further back that will have access to 100% of the processing power, that might otherwise to reduced by combat losses, to assign to enhancing their calculations and such.

>Which results in a bunch of people of the same rank with their own agendas.


>Put it all under 1 intelligence and every part now works in perfect synchronicity.

>If that ever becomes a problem then we might consider it a solution but...we haven't run into an issue because we have a field command staff of 1.
Four actually, the TACT and the general along with two "higher officers".

>No conflict is possible. And MAJOR is too conventional.he misses out on more eccentric possibilities for what is tried and true. Even if they are inferior.
MAJOR is not conventional. He made the Tankitron which is a highly unconventional platform in my opinion.
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>>1986380
Shit forgot two:

>Which results in a bunch of people of the same rank with their own agendas.
Not an issue in the military where everyone is working towards the same goal.

>Put it all under 1 intelligence and every part now works in perfect synchronicity.
I've explained why I feel this isn't going to work out as well as you predict.
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>>1986400
Just noticed I failed to fill a third one out, fuck me I'm too tired for this shit.

>We do not have that many officers to cover our needs. It also puts 2 individuals at risk as if the brain dies, so does the body. Loss of a tact means someone drops dead somewhere.
We've received a large population increase recently and certainly could recruit additional soldiers / officers from them. Which I want to do anyway because our soldiers function as our engineers for construction so we want more of them to accelerate our construction and possibly get a third action.

As to not having enough outside of further recruitment? We have as of this time: 1 general, 4 officers from our combat engineers, 8 from our general infantry and two further higher officers from our command platoon that have yet to be made into TACTs. The general is especially advisable given how old his body is getting.
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For gods sake. Its nearly 3am here and QM is still away.

As to the boon topic, if we have the replicator consuming a reasonable amount of power it doesnt matter how good our robots are since we can print them to offset any issue they have. And if we figure out the chip later it only takes the time to send the robots back through the replicator to fix it.

The replicator and dirt to robots option is the one thing we need to be really self-sufficient. That means no matter how big our nation is we have the means to rival any other if we have enough time to build up forces. We would certainly be the fastest growing nation since resource needs would be a non-issue for us. Add a mantle drill and we could quite literally just crap out armies from a nation the size of a few cities.
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>>1986455
NEW THREAD

sorry about the delay, was very busy today




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