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>>3119880
You feel the notice of a Distant Mind
>Psionic research has received a small boost
>Slip drives have a 10% chance to alert you to their usage

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 35,008,165N
Metals: 33,367,246M
Credits: ₡11,252,206
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,175,000

Active Commercial trade routes:
>Leeland – Lanway HMS Orphan, Captain John Spreckels
[FormOther brand Fusion Reactors]
Estimated per-day value: ₡2,500,000

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
[Gemini]
3 Taidaren Hybrids (105)
4 Human flash clone upkeep – 120
18 Human hybrid clone upkeep – 540
Specializations:
>Tech
>Engineer
>Brawler
[Hive space]
100 Human Hybrids – 3,000
Lyle Rogers – 57
Jackob Eisner – 56
Dillon Reager – 30
Clone/project upkeep – 3,908N

>Income
Metals: 2,952,854 – 2,746,854
Nutrients: 7,636,202 – 7,680,702
Net: 1,005,110

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 6,675,390

(Nutrient stat + structures) * 1k * dev score + modifiers = Nutrient income total
(Metal stat + structures) * dev score + modifiers = Metal income total

Sorry, a bit late.

>>3119880
>martial law
That's how you know shit is fucked.

Builder's Gift should have Mother Knows Best implemented and we should consider switching out the Trading Ports since it doesn't look like anyone is look to open routes on them any time soon.
Dream Catchers, Greatest Ally, and Cults and Collaborators are some of the best options besides Mother Knows Best to implement in our territory.
We should perform Mother's Favor on Raligha to get some Elite Spiral Warriors.
Also a few musings. The cost of vanilla clones of each race seems to not be connected to the value of the adaptions connected to them (proof Ralighans and Skyl) but rather the overall racial advantages/disadvantages which we should spend time looking into. Resorts seem to be limited to creativity rather preset attraction like Inferno or the Zoo we have, but it's a toss up whether such attraction work (evidence is that it was mention that the hard light holograms are as big an attraction as the Inferno due to the novelty of it).

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>>3119880
my duty remains

>>3119891
Espionage Activity

Gemini
Agitation – ***************
Suspicion – ***********____
N 48
M 18
Development 70

[Covert Infiltration]
>Beggars and Taidarens
BFI authorities have begun an investigation into possible Hive influence
Resources:
Locally coded holoprinter capable of creating authetnc ID cards for local security: Grants 1 free Professional Equipment supply per day. May be rendered inoperable by counter-intelligence actions.
1 Sleeper Cell within local civilian infrastructure
A high ranking source of information within the governmnet
Close ties with local Taidaren clans

This planet holds an embassy, random chance to gain intelligence each day, +1 Active Operation available. This planet's population is in the beginning stages of open revolt, and local authorities have lost control of multiple regions to various conflicting partisan groups and criminal organizations. The odds of success for covert actions are unpredictable at best, while discovery risk is greatly lowered in regions no longer controlled by the government, and increased in loyalist regions due to martial law.

Special Event: Infiltrated assets within the taidaren underworld indicate many rival criminal and political partisan groups are currently attempting to make gains in various regions, and are using taidaren clans to attempt to buy spies, resources, and intelligence to further their ends as they attempt to out-bid one another for clan support. By controlling the clans, the final choice of which groups to support rests with you.

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>>3119880
This isn't good, how can we broadcast the cultural event of the millennium if the human war keeps cutting peoples view time with emergency alerts.

Also boo martial law, fight the power!

We have hives on 3 of the 4 worlds in the Virgo system. The third one is Talgo's moon, Dharius. We should complete the set and infiltrate that too.

Corbin seems like a nice target.

We gotta infiltrate the wild men on Earth too so land a stealth hive there.

>>3119904
>Resources:
Uh, some stuff seems missing here. Like a lot of stuff.

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>>3119904
The choice of who to support is yours, and while it may seem somewhat obvious at first, you realize that there is always a potential gain with any faction in the convoluted political game of human government, even when it is failing.

>Support Xeno separatist groups (increase intelligence of non-human factions within the Union)
>Support left wing pro-Green groups (potentially infiltrate opposition party factions while increasing their potency)
>Support right wing pro-Tory groups (potentially infiltrate establishment party factions while increasing their political potency)
>Support anti-establishment groups (increase local chaos and potentially spread revolutionary sentiments beyond Gemini, the results of which cannot be predicted)
>Support criminal groups (bring in a large credit income per day until the end of the local anarchy)

>>3119891
>Sorry, a bit late.

No need to apologize mate. How’s the heart holding up?

Holy fucking shit, ive been looking forward to this for weeks. Your work schedule is harsh. Makes it hard to get my fix!

>>3119918
Okay time to discuss.
Should we try to infiltrate the Torres and steal Killinger's party out from him or go for one of the other factions.

Best time of the week is here
>>3119904
Ooh we can guide the underground groups growth

>>3119880
Poor Lee, all his friends left and here he is alone, stressed, and bored. Maybe we *should* send him to Builder’s gift after all, he could use a break.

>>3119918
>>Support left wing pro-Green groups (potentially infiltrate opposition party factions while increasing their potency)

I suppose this or spreading revolutionary sentiments are most likely to be helpful to the main questline, undermining the consolidation bill. But the revolution sentiment might also let the establishment spin it to their own advantage on a law and order angle.

To do list:
- Capture more scavenger technology
- launch a raid on a Scavenger worldship and capture a Matron.
- Negotiate with the Valen for an exchange of hypergate technology, in return for basic psionic knowledge (likely valuable to them since they have a poor understanding of their natural psionics), a new superluminal drive technology, a non interference policy in their business and/or military contract with them.
- Exchange technology with the commonwealth, offer the Flicker drive or something in return for knowledge of the power tap and gravity drive.
- Expand our relations with Theseus, uplift him to have a real soul and gain the Space Folder.
- search for more research specimens, perhaps Earth would offer creatures with better peripheral ocular eyesight, as well as high end Human Augmentation technology.
- See about negotiating with the Cluster, we haven't seen them much, but they seem relatively benign for what they are, exchange Blink drive for knowledge of their "Navigator Organ", maybe offer to introduce the Cluster to Thesseus.
- Recruit more scientists
- Expand our economy

>>3119931
Fuck off. Most of that is undesirable.

>>3119926
It's a tempting gamble going for the Tories, because you might or might not infiltrate them, but you will definitely empower them.

>>3119918
uh QD, which of the groups was the alien lovers?

>>3119931
>>3119932
Well at least the "give tech" shit. Seriously why do people want sell off our biggest advantages.

>>3119935
The literal aliens, or the Greens, which are the left wing xeno lovers and Unity apologists.

>>3119918
>Support left wing pro-Green groups (potentially infiltrate opposition party factions while increasing their potency)

Normally I’d be against overt support as being counter productive, but this type of support seems more secretive and likely to actually help.

The big driver here is the Greens are mostly against the war with the CW and we really want the Union and CW to stop exhausting all their strength against each other before the real threats arrive.

Besides, the establishment parties are already really powerful; we shouldn’t make them any stronger and we already have infiltrators in some of them.

>>3119918
>Support anti-establishment groups (increase local chaos and potentially spread revolutionary sentiments beyond Gemini, the results of which cannot be predicted)
Chaos is good.

>>3119918
>Support anti-establishment groups (increase local chaos and potentially spread revolutionary sentiments beyond Gemini, the results of which cannot be predicted)
>Support criminal groups (bring in a large credit income per day until the end of the local anarchy)
Grass roots movements like the one the Lee family supports since Tory are done and Green are week especial with the loss of the Cycleists. Criminals in order to take advantage of the current situation and then to feed them to our new governmental allies to sure up their legitimacy when things calm down.

>>3119918
>Support anti-establishment groups
Panic in the streets of New Prescott

>>3119936
For more advantages. Valen may be bastards from our perspective, but ultimately their moral system is predictable.

>>3119941
Cyclicists are limited to one planet out of dozens, anon.

They are irrelevant on all other planets. They only lost Talgo, which they were unlikely to win normally anyway since it's so conservative.

>>3119940
If the Union collapses altogether there will be a lot of leaking intel about the Void and Ceph artifacts, though. They’ll also not be at all effective as military support against our enemies. I think it’s easier and less risky to manipulate them as a cohesive entity.

>>3119931
Don't just post a list of what you want as OUR to do list you presumptuous queer, at least the daily reminder guy or whatever had the decency to only list widely agreed upon stuff.

>>3119937
Thank you.

>>3119918
Voting for this

>Support left wing pro-Green groups (potentially infiltrate opposition party factions while increasing their potency)
>Support Xeno separatist groups (increase intelligence of non-human factions within the Union)


>>3119943
That could cause the uh, OQ to spread her influence or another agent of the void can't it?

>>3119951
Fair enough.

>>3119945
Just take them over like a nonfaggot. Seriously I'm for better relations but selling advantages is stupid.

>>3119918
>Support anti-establishment groups (increase local chaos and potentially spread revolutionary sentiments beyond Gemini, the results of which cannot be predicted)

This seems like fun.

>>3119918
>Support Xeno separatist groups (increase intelligence of non-human factions within the Union)

>>3119949
If the union collapses the commonwealth will absorb them.
As to knowledge about voidshit very few people actually knew anything.

>>3119918
>Support left wing pro-Green groups (potentially infiltrate opposition party factions while increasing their potency)

>>3119952
>That could cause the uh, OQ to spread her influence or another agent of the void can't it?
Not how it works from what we've seen. OQ will only try to destroy everything she can (thus not subtle) and cultists while a threat are limited in what they can do without a void shard.

>>3119918
>Support left wing pro-Green groups (potentially infiltrate opposition party factions while increasing their potency)
missed one

>Support left wing pro-Green groups (potentially infiltrate opposition party factions while increasing their potency)

>>3119918
>Support left wing pro-Green groups (potentially infiltrate opposition party factions while increasing their potency)

>>3119952
You are right. QD straight up says we have no idea what will happen if we support chaos. Too risky with void shit going on.

>>3119918
>>Support right wing pro-Tory groups (potentially infiltrate establishment party factions while increasing their political potency)

EVERYONE, STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT, THAT THE KING BILL GOES UP FOR VOTE, KILLINGER HAS COUNTED HIS EGGS NUMEROUS TIMES, AND DECIDEDLY FOUND ENOUGH SHALL VOTE HIM INTO POWER.

BAM, NONE OF THE CORE BASE ALLOWS THE BILL TO PASS.

GET RID OF THIS CAT FUCKO

>>3119947
Cyclists are a major religious group across the union and Talgos cyclicists were the back bone of the Green party making it an easy exploitable weakness in the current Union two party system. They may not be a political force but they aren't the only third party group we can leverage.

>>3119949
No human fleets are useful against our enemies.

Humans don't have the self-sacrificing nature of a drone willing to self destruct the ship to prevent the Obsidian Queen from having anything to salvage and research. Their help would become a hindrance even in the astronomically unlikely event of them willingly stepping into an alien-on-alien civil war after being bloodied from a human-on-human one.

And they aren't useful against Ceph void cutters either, because simply all you can do is wait for Ceph to ambush you and then they withdraw into the shadows of the Void again.

>>3119918
>Support left wing pro-Green groups (potentially infiltrate opposition party factions while increasing their potency)
Left, Tory or criminals.
Union is more useful as a single entity, chaos brings in too many unkown factors that we can't take afford

>>3119981
Really why don't we don't make our own religion where the lesser races worship us?

>>3119918
Support seems to be:
>Support left wing pro-Green groups

>Y/N
just to confirm.

>>3119917
Hmm, you're probably right. I'll be doing an audit of everything this week since I've got some extra days off work and add any missing stuff in after the fact.

>>3119919
Just fine.

>Y

>>3119986
>Y

Glad you're doing alright QD

>>3119985
Thats long game we are just talking about current crisis management. which with the anti-xeno sentiment and how fuck scary we are in orbit of Gemini introducing a religion right now would work against us.

>>3119986
>Y

>>3119986
>Y
Yeah okay, sure.

>>3119986
>Y

>>3119986
An innumerable number of civilian weapons and equipment and credit caches from the Taidarens and a fuckton of Resources from >>3013375 that were obtained from all the Professional Equipment traded away on the black market.

Plus, y'know, uh... the free Professional Equipment from today's use of the holoprinter which didn't get added either.

>>3119982
We shouldn’t count them out and we don’t know what weapons they have. Human ships using hive jammers could be extremely effective against the OQ or the Ceph. They can take advantage of jammers without us necessarily sharing the tech.

>>3120002
We do know because we've literally refined their weapons into the ones we use today.

>>3120002
The humans and other species strength comes from their individuality and creativity. If we want it so bad, we can simply grow some clones.

>>3120002
At that point why not just steal control of the Scavenger fleet? Seriously.

>>3119986
>Y

>>3119986
>Y

>>3120000
Ah, that's right, no problem I'll get those in when I do an audit this week then, sorry.

[Full infrastructure roster unknown]
Union Parliament Building – Unique: The primary seat of Union political authority, this structure organizes the humans and various xeno entities within the Union into a semblance of order, collecting taxes and passing laws, all things the Hive has little need for, but the single-minded cannot function without.
BFI HQ – Unique: The center of Union counter intelligence, the Bureau of Foreign Intelligence is devoted to rooting out espionage across the Union, as well as infiltrating enemy or possibly hostile planets and organizations. Allows recruitment of BFI agents and deployment of espionage cell networks on other planets.
Space Elevator [Under construction] – This space elevator is nearing completion, however political corruption and recent unnatural inclement weather patterns have caused delays.
ISGM launch facility – Launch facilities for ISGM's, or Interstellar Gravitic Missiles. In effect high-yield MIRV warheads fitted to corvette sized automated vessels capable of short range warp travel and the deployment of many dozens of independently targeting nuclear, kinetic, or gravitic warheads. Nicknamed 'planet busters' the very existence of these warheads are typically reserved as a deterrent, and are too large to be effectively used against anything other than planets or space cities.
Union Customs Authority – Unique: Large scale government oversight of import and export activity creates a demand for a greater level of traffic be diverted through the capital system when dealing with interstellar multi-national corporations so as to allow said corporate travel more rapid movement through local bureaucracy. +2 Commercial Trade Routes
[Detected Economic Activity]
Commercial Trade routes:
Gemini – Librae
Librae – Gemini
Lanway – Gemini

Gemini Beta
[Maintain Concealment]
This is a sparsely populated military world. Low population increases the abilities to conceal a hive, while its large military presence increases the failure rate of operations. This world is under military lock down, dramatically increasing failure rates of attempted actions and operations.

>>3120007
There is one thing we can't easily get through clones though. Elite Agents. I really wonder what an elite ship commander would be like compared to ships controlled by our drones.

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>>3120018
[Hydra]
Path
[Maintain Concealment]
This planet has been recently struck by interplanetary weapons of mass destruction. The surface is in a state of anarchy with multiple cities suffering grave infrastructure loss. Widespread looting, rioting, and mass crime has broken out and the local authorities are unable to maintain control in many areas. Many authorities have resorted to martial law and summary violence to maintain order, making acts of espionage more risky to the agents involved, but also more easy to avoid Hive implication, greatly reducing Discovery risk but slightly increasing failure chance.

Talgo
Agitation – ********_______
Suspicion – ******_________
[Passive Observation]
Invasive Research

Full infrastructure roster unknown
House of Farmers – A quasi-political branch devoted to expressing the political grievances and interests of the planet's oldest family owned farms which make up the bulk of the planet's traditional economy and consisting of individuals whose lineage is traced back to the founding of the colony. The house has no legally binding power, but motions passed are entered into the record of the local legislature and can have great sway over public opinion, and as such enjoy some level of deference by local politicians, although growing interstellar corporate farm ownership is reducing this influence.
Privatized PDF Militia – The right to bear arms is not only codified in Talgoan law, it is mandatory. All land owning families are required to own and maintain a minimal armament, and are expected to use said armament in the event of invasion. The planet's government maintains very few weapon systems directly, but instead subsidizes local land owners to build and maintain privately owned defensive structures up to and including anti-orbital batteries whose fire-control system is leased to the colonial government, increasing morale of local troops and decreasing upkeep costs of all defensive structures.

Elite Hive Agent Anderson: Spin Doctor – Allows minor passive influence of local politics, increasing or decreasing Agitation or Suspicion by one point per day. Requires at least Covert Infiltration.
This planet is undergoing an infestation from non-native insectoid life forms. Discovery chance is decreased as locals dismiss your flies as part of the infestation, but failure rate is increased as local anti-infestation measures inadvertently kill your drones periodically.

>>3120022
Coral
Agitation – *******________
Suspicion – **_____________
[Passive Observation]
>Invasive Research

Full infrastructure roster unknown
Deep Ocean research facility – Studies local life forms and environmental history of the planet.
PDF wet navy
Silicate Nature Reserve – Attracts both tourists and scientists to examine the many different species local to the planet, providing a bustling tourist industry and assisting in research of silicate biology.

This planet's native biosphere is silicon based, limiting the capacity for your drones to disguise themselves as native life forms and forcing them to siphon off food from local settlements, increasing detection chances until the local hive grows to a size capable of importing resources or becoming self-sustaining.

[Eridanus]
Huron
Agitation – **_____________
Suspicion – *______________
N 78
M 25
Development 65
[Passive Observation]

[Full infrastructure roster unknown]
Huronese Fishers' Guild – Exclusivity laws and carefully organized mass-branding gives locally caught specimens artificially high value, translating 25% of local N income to Credits.
Island Resort – Strings of small island chains domed against the frequent storms offer mock-traditional entertainment and themed luxury events to the ultra-wealthy, increasing Credit income
Wet Navy – Floating and submersible platforms make up the majority of the planet's anti-orbital battery locations, allowing for the rapid relocation of PDF forces on short notice. Improves firing arcs of anti-orbital weapons.

So let's deploy Mother Knows Best on Builder's Gift.

>>3120021
Fair, but we have to decide if we just want them for their individuality or for their individual experiences and creativity as well.

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>>3120026
[Sirius]
Mentan
Agitation – **********_____
Suspicion – _______________
[Passive Observation] – Growing to [Covert Infiltration]

Full infrastructure roster unknown
University of Mentan – Despite the singular name, the University is in fact a corporate conglomerate of multiple colleges devoted to a range of fields of study who have organized into an efficient centeral structure to prevent competition and optimize funding. The Mentan University has become the gold standard of education in known space, with entire planetary districts devoted to facilitating the research of its resident professors and arcologies devoted to housing students and classrooms devoted to specific fields of study. To both encourage a broad spectrum of understanding in students, and to assist the different component colleges, the University encourages, and to some extent requires its students obtain multiple degrees spread across a range of semi-related fields, and does not offer programs for single degree specializations – Recruits Scientists from all owned planets and allows additional research.

Elite Hive Agent Decker: Tech – Is able to gather additional information, reduces detection risk of local espionage.
This planet is currently in a state of mild unrest due to regular protests and small riots regarding upcoming local elections. Such activity is considered normal for the planet's relatively unstable political landscape.

>>3120033
Arnim
Agitation – **************_
Suspicion – *******________
[Passive Observation] – Growing to [Covert Infiltration]

[Full infrastructure roster unknown]
Union Central Bank – A conglomeration of private banking entities whose oligopoly of the money lending infrastructure of Union space has resulted in the granting of defacto authority over a large aspect of the Union's monetary policy.
Central Unionized Atemportal Financial Exchange – The central hub of the Union's massive, heavily automated Quantum Comms powered stock exchange network, providing instant economic data to billions, even trillions of investors across known space and facilitating the rapid exchange of quintillions of credits worth of stocks, bonds, debt notes, and other investments related to every conceivable industry.

This planet is currently reeling from a sudden and sharp rise in interstellar economic instability, resulting in widespread panic among the economic elites and a local pension crisis among lower class employees as a result of the sudden flash-crash of a number of megacorporations' stock values, a sharp rise in interest rates, and the reduction of a number of Expanse prospecting related market trackers to penny-stock status. The lower classes suffering from the sudden loos of pensions and savings are demanding answers, and protests have broken out, with riots outside several major banks. Anti-xeno sentiment is growing rapidly, against both Valen banking clans and Hive territorial claims.

Hive space: All worlds within Hive territory are able to perform espionage without resource cost, and all actions and operations have a dramatically increased chance of success and decreased odds of detection, but discovery brings with it a much greater risk of major public backlash and public discontent when performing events not linked to counter-intelligence.

>>3119981
>a major religious group across the union

Cyclicism has only existed since the Colony Wars, when the Psionic Cannon blew up and Project Moonraker began collecting void shards from the wreckage. It started on one historically fundamentalist planet and nothing indicates it got much of a hold elsewhere.

>>47984955
>"It started around the time of the Colony Wars, actually, the idea that the wars marked the end times was a big thing on Talgo, and after the Earth's moon comes crashing to earth, everyone has an interpretation. The one that won out in the end was that it was the conclusion of the second fall of man, and the first appearance of the pale horseman."

And no religion seems to be truly major in the Union. Talgo is barely Union, Talgo is Talgo.

>>1338814
>"Like when you just said Jesus, but have you seen the average rate of atheism in the Union lately?

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>>3120037
Domain of the Red Queen

[G-426]
Leeland (capital)
N 60+40
M 45
Development 50

Income: Reduced due to Space City Construction
4.861MN – 2,430,500
112.5KM – 56,250

Defensive structures
Surface to Orbit Missile System – Uses long range missiles to attack enemy ships in the system (1KN)
Anti-orbital battery grid – Directly attacks enemy ships in orbit (8KN)
Shield Dome Network – Under construction
Spore Caster Network – Under construction
Military structures
Hangar facilities – Deploys atmospheric and orbital drones to intercept attackers, uses aerodynamic and fighter drone designs (4KN)
Psionic Shroud – Conceals hive activity from psionic senses (1KN)
Economic Structures
Docking Pylon – (2000) (100KN)
[Empty docks: 8000/8000]
Capillary Tower – (25,000N)
Smart Mines active – Calculates development stat twice for metal income
Algae Farm – +25N
Film harvester dock – +15N

Asteroid mining base [Depleted]
This hollow asteroid provides an excellent location to construct a Space City at low cost.

Asteroid belt
M 57
A sizable belt of metal rich asteroids containing a large, hollowed out Hive mining base in the process of conversion to a Space City.

Gas giant
A hydrogen gas giant that contains a bounty of usable gas fuel, such as tritium and hydrogen for FTL navigation and fusion power generation, making it a common pit stop for passing hive fleet patrols. Research on methods of further exploitation of its atmosphere is underway.

>P1
N 0
M 75
Development 1+
Income:
0 N
75 M

>P2
N 75
M 21
Development 1+
Income:
N 75
M 21

>P3
N 24
M 7
Development 1+
Income:
24 N
7 M

>>3120022
>[Passive Observation]
This was raised to [Covert Infiltration].

The Elite Spin Doctor can now lower Suspicion by one dot.

>>3120033
>>3120037
Should these have reached [Covert Infiltration] by now? They were already growing before. Doesn't it take only one day?

>>3120044
[Dagmar]
Kaltara
N 0
M 100
Development 20
Pop 0

Income:
0 N
2 KM

This planet's small corporate population has evacuated with the Union forces, taking what supplies they can and leaving the rest.

Economic Structures
Magma wells – Mostly automated magma pumps extract liquid metal resources from subterranean volcanic rivers for further filtration and refining, Allows extraction of resources relative to Development without a civilian population center. [offline]
PDF Field repair depot – The remains of a military facility devoted to the assembly of field repair kits and equipment for local military forces. [ruined and offline]

Gibson
Nitrogen ice giant with a a number of resource rich rings

>Gibson Station
A mostly automated mining facility, the station has been evacuated and stripped of most of its equipment. What remains is a large, yet empty husk of a refining facility, little more than the rough equivalent to an empty parking garage stripped of all valuables, but the husk itself would make it more easy to construct a larger and more dedicated mining facility in the form of a Space City in the otherwise dangerous construction site of the planet's rings.

>>3120037
Wait where is the Tadega hive?

Where's dat nerve stapler we were gonna test out? >>3008387

>>3120048
[Koenig]
Accretion disc
N 15
M 30
A large field of asteroids, gas, and small dust particulate combined into a thick soup of exploitable resources.

Calpamos
N N/A
M N/A
Development [Unavailable]
This hydrogen gas giant provides a bounty of water and hydrogen to fuel passing starships, and was the last stop of most evacuating fleets as they left the Expanse during sovereignty transfer. The planet has three moons, each of them habitable to some degree.

>Calpamos Station
A station tethered to the local gas giant linking to gas mining facility within the upper atmosphere. Most of the facility has been abandoned, scrapped, or otherwise rendered inoperable due to the rapid evacuation of local Union and corporate entities. Research into gas giant superstructures are required perform proper repairs and bring the facility back online, allowing the colonization of Calpamos itself.
>Hub
[Orbital Anchor]
1 Logistics Trade Route
1 Trade Route
5 Development
>Wards
[Customs] + Trade income
[Trade Port X2] +2 Trade Route
[Frontier Outpost] Increases Pop migration from overpopulated human worlds to worlds in local system Union only
[Barracks] Increases security, station weapons, and allows use of gunships
[Union Post Center] Reduces costs of shipping infrastructure in local system Union only
>Utility Wards
[Merchant Docks] +1 Commercial Trade Route
[Corporate Field office] Van Den Broek Superluminal Closed
[Rest Stop] +5 pop cap
[Slipway] +10 Pylons

Acheron
N 34
M 23
Development 5
Agitation ******_________
Suspicion ***********____
>Mother Knows Best
A small number of frontier settlers have begun initial terraforming efforts. Few have evacuated, and many seem to be forming village militias to establish an ad hoc planetary defense force. Whether this militia is intent on resisting hive rule, or accepting hive sovereignty is yet to be determined, but they have made no overtly hostile gestures yet beyond the acts of entrenching their homesteads and looting the local armory.

>>3120046
...shit, I think maybe I forgot to save one of my prep sessions or something, or maybe I have it in a separate note pile and forgot to merge them.

I have very chaotic notes all over. It's the main reason I was planning on spending my free days doing a proper audit on everything. Also I was planing on running a midweek thread and using at least one of those days for another crunch session just to deal with any odds and ends left over.

>>3120046
>infiltrating a society is quick
It really depends on a variety of factor as far as I can see. Like if people have strong anti-xeno sentiments infiltration will be harder and slower while pro-xeno sentiments would cause the reverse.

>>3120055
Income:

Deckard's Claim:
N 65
M 22
Development 15
Agitation ************___
Suspicion ********_______
>Mother Knows Best
The planet consists of a number of small farming camps built around a paramilitary base commanded by ex-ship commander Lucas Deckard, who has since assigned himself the title of Lord and renounced Union citizenship and demanding those who would remain loyal to the Union to leave. While many did, public discontent is running high, and while many seem to believe the recent events to be Lord Deckard's rather over-zealous way of retaining power under a new government, some believe there to be some foul play at work on the Hive's part. Either way, the population of just over a hundred thousand is growing increasingly at one anther's throats over the matter.

Djin
N 15
M 11
Development 0
The planet is under a mandatory general evacuation order from the Union, and Union marines have forcibly removed the remaining scientists and miners on the surface under the claim of a possible disease outbreak, transferring the small population of several thousand to a number of military hospitals at undisclosed locations for observation under short term quarantine.

>>3120048
Man, remind me why we haven't started exploiting this world yet? We could build a fleet of hive ships with that much metal.

>>3120056
And the hyper-caution of the Valen.

>>3120058
[New Port]
Callahan
A hydrogen gas giant with multiple layers of rings and small dwarf planetoids of irregular shape containing sources of metal, water, and frozen gases, and was previously a major refueling station for corporate and merchant fleets.

Callahan Station
A sizable industrial facility devoted to organizing mining drones and facilitating repair and refuel of passing commercial ships. The station is mostly offline, and only a small skeleton crew remain to keep it in orbit as the owning corporation attempts to determine the state of the Hive economy.

Asteroid belt
N 0
M 22
A moderately rich belt containing precious and heavy metals

Bedrock
Agitation *********______
Suspicion ******_________
>Mother Knows Best

>Hub
[Promenade]
3 Trade Routes
70 Pop Cap
20 Pylons
1 Megacorp HQ [Rutherford Industries Extraction and Assembly Inc.] Closed
Exploits all local tourist attractions at normal value
>Wards
[Sprawl X2] +40 Cop Cap
[Customs]
[Trade Port]
[Barracks]
[Refinery]
[Red Light District] +20 Dev score applied only to credit income, decreases detection risk of espionage activity, cannot be built, has a chance to grow in empty Ward slots when Pop Cap is above 100

This colony is suffering from widespread panic, dramatically lowering detection chances of espionage agents, but making the results of operations far more unpredictable, and making gathered data unreliable.

Darwin
N 88
M 25
Development 1 – Growing indefinitely until halted
Income:
88 N
25 M

>>3120056
Beginning an operation that gradually does so is definitely quick. All it takes is starting to make some flash clones.

>>3120060
Because we have to come to consensus, which takes a lot of time.

>>3120055
>Suspicion ***********____
Wait is it actually going up

>>3120063
[Juric]
Brandenburg

Billiard
N 21
M 0
Development 0
>Mother Knows Best

This planet is currently settled by nomadic gas harvesters

>Norfolk
N 12
M 28
Development 0
A corporate 'shake and bake' colony devoted to terraforming, the corporate sponsors have pulled out, and evacuated the small population of engineers on the surface, leaving the planet a barren rock as they found it.

[Telarum]
Krasnikov Interstellar corporate outpost

[Sentinel]
Sentinel Post

[Tannhauser/Kerik Ashka]
Aral
N 48
M 65
Development 0
This planet's population consists only of Valen construction workers applying the finishing touches to the Tannhauser hypergate. No permanent settlement exists, and no effort to extract local resources had been made.

>Tannhauser Gate [Valen Controlled]
>Ward
[Hypergate] Allows hypergate travel
>Wards
[Barracks]
[Refinery]
[Traffic Control] Improves traffic capacity of Hypergate
[Merchant Guild office] Valen only
[Trade Port X2]

Debris field
M 89
The remains of the Skyl homeworld, the field holds a wealth of minerals, ice, and metals.

>>3120060
>remind me why

Because QD cannot into notes.

>>3120069
[The Garden/Wayward Hope]
Barren rock
N 0
M 3
Development 0

Asteroid belt
A small belt of asteroids in a semi stable orbit arround the star holding some amount of precious metals.

Raligha
N 90+50
M 10
Development 25

Income:
3.5MN + 1.75MN
250M

Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System (1KN)
>Anti-orbital battery grid (8KN)
Economic structures
>Bloodroot collectors: Pipes running from Bloodroot trees extract nutrient rich sap +20N
>Greystalk farms: Bio-engineered native super-crop offers easily maintained farmland tended by both drone workers and native ralighans +30N
>Greenwall pit: Genetically engineered plant efficiently recycles waste material, +50% N income
>Temple alter: A place for the Ralighan locals to worship and bring offerings to your hive, built in the likeness of your local fake queen, +500N per day, allows recruitment of Ralighan Elite Agents.

Ice Giant
A super-massive ice giant mostly composed of inert gasses with few usable resources.

[M-323]
>Orbital docking pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 sub capitals or 1 capital ship, (50N)
[Empty docks: 0/4]
>Mining corvette salvage operations +2,688,000M per day (+8000M per corvette)

[A-295]
Frozen Ice planet
N 20
M 1
Development 0
A small frozen planet covered in various forms of ice

Binary volcanic planets
V1
N 0
M 100
Development: 1+
V2
N 0
M 100
Development: 1+
Income:
200

Barren radioactive planet
N 0
M 6
Development 0

>>3120067
No Acheron was always in the red zone. They'll learn in time to trust Mother.

>>3120073

[Desmond]
Accretion disc
N 23
M 35
A thin ring of stellar debris orbiting the two native stars containing a microbial substance able to feed on local metals

Pegasean Gas Giant
Advertised as “the Inferno” by the travel agency organizing the local band performace, this giant is unusable for resources due to the simple fact that it is endlessly engulfed in flames, a fact that makes it useless for mining, but quite attractive to tourists visiting the orbiting Space City

>Builder's Gift
>Hub
[Presidium]
>Wards
[Zoological Reserve]
[Zoological Resort]
[Inferno Resort]
[Thermal Regulator]
[2 Trade ports]

>P1
N 0
M 0
Development 0
A small frozen ball of ice and rock

>P2
N 15
M 26
Development 1+
Income:
15 N
26 M
A primordial world with a thin atmosphere and high levels of oxygen, as well as geological activity and a surface covered in shallow pools of a strange animated liquid carbon substance.

Asteroid belt
N 16
M 5
A sparse field containing a small amount of metals, but mostly ice and rocks.

Ice planet
N 7
M 2
Development 0
A small planet on the edge of the system containing mostly ice and negligible sources of metals.

[Wonder]
Debris field
A thick and widespread layer of micro-particles and debris spread across the system, granting a penalty to the ability of ships within to dodge incoming attacks.

Ancient Dockyard
The site of the Builder's ancient laboratories and experimental shipyards, now little more than a vast tombstone marking her passing. The massive structure could be easily and cheaply retrofitted with your own advanced construction techniques to create a space city.

Wait why don't you just port this stuff to World Anvil and update it there when it needs to be?

>>3120055
>Research into gas giant superstructures are required perform proper repairs and bring the facility back online, allowing the colonization of Calpamos itself.

We unlocked that yesterday, so it's renovating time.

This place'll be the ideal trade hub.

>>3120080
Archival readers wouldn't be able to see the state of the planets at the time of the thread.

>>3120076
Hey QD, will there be research into human and other Xenos social sciences?

>>3120076
[Farcast]
Derelict Sensor array

Glassed Hive world
N 0
M 100
D 10

Income:
0N
100KM

>Smart mine mantle excavation: Calculates development stat 3 times for metal income

Deep space waystation
>100 docking pylons (10KN)
[Empty docks 400/400]

[Refuge] – The Scarred Queen
An unusually dense and reflective ort cloud makes it unusually difficult to accurately blink deep into the system and disrupting sensors attempting to penetrate the cloud.

Frozen metallic world
N 5
M76
Development 0

Rocky temperate world
N 52
M 35
Development 0

Binary moons
>P1
N 5
M 20

>P2
N 12
M 24

>Forest Moon
N 78
M 13
Development 15

Defensive Structures
Spore Caster Network – A network of Spore Castors placed across the planet's surface capable of targeting orbiting enemy vessels in conjunction with additional anti-orbital weapon systems.
Anti-orbital battery grid – Under construction
Surface to Orbit Missile System – Under construction
Temple of the Unseen – A grand temple devoted to the Matron Queens, the gods of the Phantoms, tended to at all times by the planet's most revered elder matrons and patriarchs, they focus their abilities in tandem through the temple as an amplifier, projecting a blurred sense of incomprehension over the planet's surface, preventing enemy forces from accurately bombarding surface targets during combat. Requires a native Phantom population, and allows recruitment of Phantom Elite Agents.

Military Structures
Hangar Facilities – 50% replenished

The seeds of your new hives have finally sent back their initial reports, along with a range of local resource samples for study, and under your command they will begin to spread. While you are unsure if you wish to fully exploit each one, your new hives will inform you if they discover any local life form that may be threatened by your expansion. In the meantime, the hive creep has become adapted to their worlds, and will soon begin spreading across the surfaces of your new worlds.

In addition, your new technology allows you to colonize the gas giants within your space, although you suspect that the construction efforts needed to build up a base infrastructure level may take a bit longer than the typical colony seed of a planetary hive structure.

>Begin colonization of Gas giants (write in locations)
>Other

>>3120085
Well yeah that is a good point but... QD could do both. Nothing is stopping him and it would work as a back up.

>>3120089
To some extent yes, at least beyond what you are able to learn instantly from infesting members of the species.

>>3120092
Mother Knows Best on Builder's Gift to spread sweet propaganda across the stars.

>Other
If we can, move in and colonize Dagmar.

>>3120080
I wanted to, but when an anon mentioned that he couldn't post comments to it without making an account, I decided the wiki was still the best place to keep notes, at least for now. I did lobby for anonymous comment posting in their discord server, but I'm not holding my breath.

Also I used to do that for research, but we ran into the issue mentioned here>>3120085
and I decided it would be best to just post it all each new day thread for the sake of archive readers.

>>3120092
Billard, Calpamos, Callahan, Gibson, the gas giant in Leeland's system, the ice giant at The Garden.

The human stuff on Calpamos and such, does that make it faster to colonize since it already got started?

>>3120105
We literally already voted for colonizing Kaltara, which orbits Dagmar, two days ago already.>>2995120 QD cannot into notes.

>>3120092
Backing the list here>>3120108

>>3120108
I’ll be honest, I just got online and I can’t remember even half those planets.

Supporting anyways because colonizing shit is dope.

>>3120107
Why not have one copy on World Anvil as for your bookkeeping and copy and paste the change to the full number threads? World Anvil was explicitly made with GM's in mind as well as writers and artists.

>>3120108
Supporting as well.

>>3120108
I'm fine with this but
>>3120122
>>3120123
>>3120130
How do you guys feel about adding Mother Knows Best on Builder's Gift? It should reach most of the Union if put there.

>>3120092
>Billiard
>Calpamos
>Callahan
>Gibson
>Leeland gas giant
>Garden gas giant

While you give the orders to begin construction, you also contemplate giving your worlds their own names. While the hives of the past would often forgo such formalities, you admit you are unorthodox for your species in many ways, and your frequent interactions with non-hive species may make naming them for their sake if not yours worth the effort.

>Name the planets (write in)
>Do not bother
>Other

>>3120108
Yes. While the human settlements are small and would not be economically viable for your species, they do offer a decent trade base from which to collaborate on construction efforts, exchanging your refineries and trade docks, and helping to repair their airships in exchange for them using their vessels to assist in initial colony construction.

>>3120124
I may end up doing that. It all depends on what's faster to do, but again, first I need to run through all of my notes, audit them properly, and get them situated and consolidated together.

>>3120124
Made with them in mind doesn't mean much or make it much better for this particular use case than pastebin or a wiki or such.

Although QD could make a subpage on the 1d4chan wiki. Quest:Hive Queen Quest/PlanetStatus or something. And then include the URL for the 'Permanent link' to the latest revision at the start of the thread. Then that URL's contents will never change for archival readers.

(Also oversights would be easier to spot via diff between revisions)

Ex. https://1d4chan.org/index.php?title=Quest:Hive_Queen_Quest&oldid=523463

>>3120146
I agree as well. The growing Xenophobia in the Union is undesirable, to say the least.

>>3120152
>Do not bother

>>3120153
That's a perfect idea.... and I have no idea how to do that.

>>3120146
There's no permanent local population there to win over is there.

Also it was never spelled out, but I guess space cities must be treated identically to separate planets in espionage crunch since Bedrock has its own stats and operations.

>>3120152
>>Do not bother

What is the "Mother knows best" thing? Don't remember seeing talk about it before.

>Name the planets (write in) Leeland 2, Forsaken Arcadia for home system and The Gardeners home system respectively.

>>3120165
It’s one of the espionage options.

>>3120152
>>Do not bother
>>3120161
>implying that negates it's effect
Mother Knows Best affects everyone in the Space city or planet as well as travelers that pass through and the people that meet the travelers.
That's why it's so good.

>>3120158

Well step one is obviously https://1d4chan.org/index.php?title=Quest:Hive_Queen_Quest/PlanetStatus&action=edit and there is a link labeled 'Permanent link' on the side of every page listed under 'Tools'.

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>>3120067
We got to get on that, stroke their ego a bit at how good they are at anticipating the hives needs and supply the militia.

>>3120152
>Do not bother

New Construction Options

Defensive structures
Spore Caster Network – A network of Spore Castors built within the most critical components of the local planet's surface infrastructure surrounded by heavily fortified flak and anti-air weapon systems devoted to intercepting incoming landing craft or low-orbit attackers. The spores themselves use a modified skip drive to propel a tachyonic warhead into or near the enemy target before exploding in a burst of hard radiation that damages nearby targets and scrambles sensors and psionic senses, in effect serving as a kind of orbital flak weapon. 6,000N 12,000M
Anti-orbital battery grid – A network of anti-orbital batteries scattered across the planet, each situated in a fortified bunker complex fitted with stationary gun positions and intense hive creep fortifications. Each battery is a capital ship class particle beam capable of attacking enemy vessels in orbit of the planet, each situated in relation to the others to provide overlapping fire over any location above the planet. 8,000N 48,000M
Surface to Orbit Missile System – This massive bunker complex houses a wide range of warheads and a nigh limitless number of missiles within its protective walls, allowing you to launch missiles against approaching invaders from the safety of your hive. The facility uses the ship missile stats and comes equipped with a single Cruise missile silo that can target any detected object within the system, five Stinger missile silos capable of targeting any craft within high orbit, and ten Swarm missile silos specialized in targeting high altitude aircraft and low orbiting targets. The facility itself is a massive complex spread out over several miles, and includes guidance and launch equipment, as well as the means to construct and maintain a stock of warheads and missiles. (1500N 2500M)
Shield dome network – An overlapping network of bunkers crisscross the landscape of a planet offering emergency shelters for any local inhabitants to survive orbital attack, as well as shield emitters placed in overlapping layers set around important infrastructure and planetary installations. Like all shields, heat quickly becomes a problem as it sustains fire, as such a mixture of ventilation towers and subterranean heat sinks, turning a small facility into a massive, sprawling network of infrastructure. If the planet suffers orbital bombardment, this planetary installation will absorb all damage first. 8,600N 50,000M

>>3120191
Military Structures
Military Spaceport – Extensive fortified maintenance bays and hangars are built across the surface of the planet, as well as infrastructure and manufacturing centers to support the production and maintenance of a planetary strike craft squadron. Swarmer fighters are produced at a constant rate with suitable range to intercept orbiting vessels or approaching dropships, while more advanced fighters and gunships of the most suitable design are produced and maintained for system wide defense and patrol Aerodynamic drones are also maintained in scattered hangar facilities to provide air support in the event of ground attack, and intercept enemy dropships. All craft are held in hibernation to reduce costs, allowing an entire planet's worth of strike craft to be maintained for a relative low cost. 500N 1000M
Psionic Shroud – A single building built around the shattered remains of a Void Shard, the shroud amplifies the unnatural mental silence of the broken crystal within to mask an entire planet from potential detection, preventing outside forces from easily detecting the thoughts of a hive. (2,000N 5,000M)
Psionic Sensor Tower – A massive spire composed of highly psionically sensitive instruments and material focused on the detection and measurement of wide range quantum states in a vacuum directed at the space around the planet. Grants a chance to predict the arrival of ships approaching the system via certain FTL methods. The effectiveness depends on the method used and the size of the incoming fleet, granting a base chance to detect incoming Blink drive ships at 75%, Space-fold and Rip drive at 50%, Warp drive at 25%, and Flicker drive at 10%. Gatecasting ships from Hypergates and Slip drive is not effected. (20KN, 30KM)

>>3120152
>>>3008387
>>Increase Talgo to Covert Infiltration
>>Perform Smash and Grab - Nerve Stapler
>>Begin espionage on Tadega

Testing out nerve stapler on a parasited clone and the same clone when un-parasited when?

Also regret not suggesting Theseus to corrupt all the files from Decker's interrogation while he was in there, creating trails of a fake virus that Decker wrote. That could've prevented the leak to Windsor.

Could've stolen a stapler from some random health center back then in thread 59 too.

>>3120194
Economic Structures
Docking Pylon – A large spire or station that contains space for docking and construction of 4 ships, or a single capital ship if placed in orbit. By default is used to produce hive vessels, but can be made to offer repair services to passing ships in return for credits or other acceptable transaction fees. 100N 300M
Weather Spire network – A networked collection of spires spread across a planet capable of studying and altering a planet’s climate and atmosphere. Construction includes the building of all spires needed to function. While the spires can manipulate a planet's climate towards any desired effect, by default the spires will attempt to optimize a planet's fertility and habitability for hive life and its primary crop strains, increasing a planet's base N score by 5. Alternatively, the spires can work to create intense storms and thicken the local ionosphere, reducing N score by 5 and imparting a penalty to enemy craft within the atmosphere and blocking enemy communications to and from orbit, as well as disrupting sensors of orbiting ships. This option is not available for planets with naturally turbulent and disruptive climates. (8,000N 20,000M)
Orbital solar array – A station placed in orbit of the local star equipped with a membrane of photosynthetic cells several kilometers in diameter capable of producing a steady stream of nutrient income. Due to practical constraints of logistics, a star system can support up to five solar arrays. Must be built around a main sequence star. Provides 1500N per day total (5,000N 5,000M)
Harvester Dock – A large pier built along the shore overlooking the spore-producing ocean film that serves as an unloading area for Harvester drones, and contains pipelines to pump collected raw nutrients to the hive’s awaiting processing facilities, includes a single Harvester which is covered by the cost and upkeep of the dock. Provides 500N per day total (38N 50M)
Orbital electroponic station – An orbital instillation built near a large source of hydrogen used to fuel a large fusion core, which in turn provides electrical power to a contained algae farm facility. Must be built in orbit of a gas giant. Provides +2000N per day and doubles as a gas mining facility, refueling the tritium stores of any ships in the system. The station itself can serve as the hub of a space city with additional investment. (3000M)

>>3120199
Algae Farm – A carved out space used to utilize Leeland’s natural electrical field to cultivate food. +100N per day, 1 worker to maintain.
Hydroponic platform – A floating greenhouse platform used to grow farmland through hydroponics that can only be built on or near water with open access to plentiful sunlight. Each greenhouse platform supports roughly one hectare and requires a single worker to tend the crop and maintain the platform. Multiple platforms can be connected together to create fields of floating farmland. +200N per day
Filter towers – A large underwater pylon built to extract raw nutrients from the microbial life of the surrounding ecosystem. Can only be used on planets with bountiful biospheres and deep oceans capable of supporting large amounts of microbes. Provides between 100 and 500 N per day, depending on the local environment. (500M)
Capillary Tower – This massive organic space elevator offers a number of logistical and economic advantages, despite its drastic up front cost and fragile nature. Shuttles or space craft are no longer needed to move resources from the surface to orbital structures, freeing shuttles for more important tasks. The counterweight station serves as a center for construction, with 4 docking pylons included on the structure to repair and build ships, while gaining a bonus to capital ship construction time due to the speedy nature with which resources arrive from the surface. The Capillary Tower can also spread hive creep and extract resources at an increased rate, spreading roots deep into the crust to bring up resources directly into orbit, allowing you to consume a planet much more quickly than normal. A Hive ship can construct a Capillary Tower if given the time and resources to do so, deploying one after 3 full days, after which it becomes the counterweight station, and must remain stationary until it detaches and destroys the tower to move. A Hive ship deployed in this way does not have access to its spinal weapons, but can use other features as normal. A planet can hold a max of 4 Capillary Towers along its equator. For each one, planetary mining or over harvest activities are doubled and its Development score increases by 10, this bonus can surpass a planet's maximum development, and will not effect its biosphere. Upkeep is reduced by half on planets with an atmosphere. (50,000N 500,000M)
Planetary Core Rejuvenation network.

>>3120204
>Planetary Core Rejuvenation network.
!!!

Can we build Electroponic stations in Gas Giant colonies with compatible fuel?

>>3120204
Finished Research
>Silicate Hybrid Study
By utilizing a series of carbon based polymer materials formed using organic compounds, a small level of psionic potential is established, and by infusing these root organs into a silicate life form, the silicate in question in effect gains psionic potential. The resulting psionics is weak, predicable, and uninspired, but as a tool more than capable of fulfilling whatever parameters it was designed for. The resulting organism is less a hybrid, and more a symbiosis of conflicting engineering principals. The greatest issue you have is that the alien technology goes to great lengths to apparently avoid utilizing any genetic encoding, instead encoding its biological compositions and commands into the silicate genetic analog lattice, while the carbon based psionic component is left as only an organic compound which lacks its own genetic structure, but is instead built with a series of interconnected chemical chains. It is in effect a non-living device built from organic substances, relying on the surrounding silicate cells to replace worn out components instead of utilizing any cellular reproduction. A similar comparison would be that of a virus in reverse, relying on an outside structure to reproduce instead of invading hosts itself. What is more interesting is that this function does not seem to be a requirement of its design, but a deliberate complication, as if made to be deliberately obtuse to Hive thinkers. In replicating the technology, it would be just as easy to reverse the engineering, and in fact more easy for yourself, as you still lack the understanding to “grow” silicate life. Instead, your thinkers have proposed a method of utilizing a core of psionic organs to assemble and maintain a shell of sorts made of silicate components capable of additional functionality. Without further understanding of silicate technology, the vast potential of this merging is limited to existing silicon based technology of more simplistic design, such as digital or mechanical devices, improving the overall capacity of interaction between organic psionics and non-hive technology, but this is also a foundational milestone that will hopefully unlock further possibilities with further study of silicate technology. Until then, however, you are left with what is in essence a faster data cable. Your own mental interactions with digital and quantum based technology should be improved, and you suspect that any faction that more widely uses digital and quantum technology in their infrastructure would benefit greatly from its implementation.

>>3120207
Current Research
Your thinkers assemble themselves to focus on a number of different research topics, allowing you to choose one as your primary topic, and two as secondary research projects. The primary research project will receive three rolls per day for progress, while secondary projects receive two. In addition to your thinkers, you may gain additional research rolls from other sources. Vassal Hives shall offer their own thinkers to you as tribute and non-hive allies specialized in research all can be used to run their own Auxiliary research projects, granting one roll per day each. Multiple Auxiliary rolls can be assigned to the same research subject, and if left alone, will choose a topic of their own interest. A vassal hive may research anything, while non-hive allies possess specializations in their fields of study, and offer special bonuses when researching subjects in their fields.

Additional rolls can be purchased from external sources through trade or political treaties with Theseus and other factions. Such external rolls can be assigned to any research project, including your Primary or Secondary projects, and all participating factions will receive the research upon its completion.

+++Primary
[EMPTY]

++Secondary
>Silicate Defenders Dissection
>Personal Shielding

+Auxiliary
Scarred Queen
>Psionic cloak amplification
Fast
Your vassal has proposed a new scientific effort to study a means to more accurately replicate the psionic cloaking of the Phantoms in order to potentially mimic their capacity to focus their cloaking abilities over larger areas, potentially allowing a Hive world to mimic the planetary scale mental blurring caused by their population centers' major centers of worship.

Elizabeth Vaughn
Specializations: Xenobiology, Quantum Mechanics, Psionics
Bonus: Zealous – Rolls twice and takes the highest result. Cannot negate critical failures.
>Empty

Adam Seiner
Specializations: Xenobiology, xenopsychology, Void Crafting
Bonus: Reticent – 50% chance of turning a Critical Failure into a regular failure.
UNAVAILABLE

External
Theseus
>Silicate Computing
Medium
A far cry from the rudimentary silicon computer chips of the single-minded, proper silicate computing seems to comprise of a sentient or near-sentient mind on a similar level to that of a hive thinker housed within an efficient solid state slab of living silicate flesh using the DNA analog mesh it is composed of as circuitry. The power efficiency is near perfect, allowing it to function as its own battery for extended periods of time while giving off almost no waste heat. Despite being entirely at odds with your own biology, Theseus claims his recent study of hive biology seems to 'click' when compared to this new technology, granting some manner of epiphany into the silicate research you seem to have missed. [Research speed increased]

>>3120209
Available Research Options

>Neural Reconfiguration
Medium
The potent abilities of your psionics and the precise and efficient capacity of your biological medical technology has begun to merge more fully, blurring the line between where one ends and the other begins. As a result of this, your thinkers have conceived of the possible ability to utilize very short range tachyon micro-pulses in order to use psionics to examine, rearrange, or remove aspects of an individual's memories without the use of an invasive parasite or other neural connection.

>Living Stone
Medium
Structures made of living silicate matter has never occurred to you, but it makes sense, as despite being applied to the natural inverse of organic life, it would seem to apply similar benefits to any structure using the material. All the same, you are not by far not an expert on silicate life forms, and anything it the field will be difficult to make headway with.

>Multidimensional Physics
Slow/Slightly dangerous
Until now you have been entirely ignorant to the workings of the Void and the self proclaimed gods that rule this mysterious space. Now you realize some semblance of the truth, although any proper understanding comes with its own inherent risks of attracting unwanted attention, such understanding, you realize now, was the backbone of the galaxy spanning civilization of the ancient Hives of the Golden Age, long before the Schism began. Regaining such lost knowledge would be a great step towards rebuilding your race as the galactic superpower it once was.

>Non-euclidean Architecture
Very Slow/Dangerous
The basis of the very crystal you now posses, as well as the hostile Void Shards, the process of compressing spacetime along the axis of a fourth spacial dimension is a key component to many technological devices of the Ancients in their prime. Such technologies explain the process by which the void shards function, as well as allow for the vast complexity of the memory archive you hold, compressing vast amounts of energy and matter into a pocket space where such terms are interchangeable and largely meaningless.

>>3120209
Wait a second. YOU FORGOT TO CHANGE THE RESEARCH

>>3120216
>Psionic Thought Construction
Very Slow
The brief understanding granted to you by your examination of the contents of the white crystal given to you by your late mother, you realize that tachyons, like nearly any other form of particle, can be used in the construction of physical objects. Such constructs are inherently unstable outside of the multidimensional space of the Void, however, but allow for the construction machines of immeasurable complexity with relatively little effort by constructing them in a space where thoughts can be projected as concrete materials.

>Empathetic Compulsion
Slow
A step further from the disruption of the nervous system, with additional fine tuning it may be possible to exert some limited control over an individual mind without the use of direct contact.

>Swarm Drive Tuning
Slow
By configuring the gravity thrusters to respond to the foils of other ships within the same formation, performance can be increased outside of a gravity well by taking advantage of a kind of gravitational slipstream created from the foil's unique gravitational effects.

>Gravity Thruster Optimization
Medium
Miniaturization to the gravity thruster itself, as well as optimizing the layout of the foils across the hull allow for smaller strike craft sized ships to make use of the thrusters both when operating in atmosphere and when performing evasive maneuvers.

>Psionic Thermokinesis
slow/mildly dangerous
An even more finely tuned execution of known tachyonic physics, thermokinesis is the practice of altering the energy state of atoms, but instead of altering their velocity, it utilizes a less uniform alteration to increase or decrease atomic vibration, quickly increasing or decreasing the ambient temperature of the target. It may take some time for your thinkers to successfully accomplish this feat, however, without also igniting the laboratory.

>Psionic Conduction
slow/mildly dangerous
While altering the physical nature of particles has become possible, using highly controlled tachyonic signals it may also be possible to use the projected psionic energy to subtly alter and transfer other forms of energy in a more direct process than kinetic force. Your thinkers believe it may be possible to use alternate sources of energy outside of the target and potentially use tachyonic signals in order to carry that energy to the target. The early experiments have already proven promising, however it may be some time before the thinkers are capable of producing results without causing spontaneous detonations within the laboratory.

>>3120217
Wait, which ones changed? I thought I did when you swapped out for the topics from the alien structure in your home system.

You literally rolled a critical on the primary too.

Now that we have Elite Agents, we may want to research
>Memory Seed
just to make sure even if you kill them, there's a chance they won't die.

>>3120217
Yep. What are the odds of a ghost attack two days in a row?

>>3120223
Anti-Tachyon weapons my dude.

>>3120223
>>3027434

>>3120224
I can support this, the sooner we unlock memory seeding the sooner we can ensure all our agents are completely immortal.

>>3120223
>Crit on anti-tachyonic weapons
What happens?

>>3120233
Either a special post or QD encountered problems with his notes again.

>>3120224
On the other hand,
>Neural Reconfiguration

is real nice as an MIB flash thingie.

>>3120238
...This is also a good point. If we unlock this quickly enough we might be able to clear Devon of suspicion without having to parasite all the doctors administering the neural probes.

>>3120228
>>3120226
Fuck it, we got a crit anyway so lets just roll with the mistake and choose the anti tachyonic weapons again, they'll likely be done by the time we need them again.

>>3120245
Like blinking to the wrong star system Librae, I do kind of love this mistake.

One Thinker just had tunnel vision on his pet project and critted it and didn't notice Mother's order.

>>3120226
Ah, okay I found it. Damn, my bad.

One sec, let me swap this out real quick. I got the unlock for those.

>>3120245
It's my mistake, I'll give ya both. One for the crit, the other for compensation, just let me get it set up, the formatting is in horrible shorthand scribbled on a piece of paper stuck to a cork-board on the wall.

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>>3120248
>Giving us more delicious tech
Have I ever told you you're a cool dude QD?

Because you're a cool dude.

>>3120248
W-whoa. Thanks QD, I hope you make more mistakes soon!

To actually get things done on the new espionage planets Arnim and Mentan, we'll need to

>begin Beggars and Taidarens on both
>begin a series of Smash and Grabs to get the Resources required to perform Recruitment
>start Recruitment to gain Sleeper Agents
>use sleeper agents perform acts of Sabotage on Arnim to lower the Suspicion level

Maybe the sabotage can be 'accidentally' exposing a rich executive's corrupt slush funds and distributing it into some working class pension, to both assuage the rising anti-xeno attitudes that are causing the anti-hive sentiments / Suspicion, and maintain anger at local elites.

>>3120248
Thank you for your humility and the juicy KNOWLEDGE.

You're a pretty cool person, especially considering all the stuff you've been going through lately!

>>3120209
>Psionic Thermokinesis
I want my psionically cooled Plasma Assault Cannons.

>>3120252
I don't know, Mothers Favour may be enough. But yes, we should consider contingency's should it not be enough...

>>3120256
I do too, but we should hand that research off to Elizabeth since Psionics is one of her research specialtys.

>>3120248
QD the generous, PRAISE HIM, PRAISE!

>>3120265
We must begin the blood sacrifices!!

>>3120257
Mother Knows Best leaking cultural influence probably too slow and gradual, and xenos are still too good of a scapegoat for the crashed Expanse stocks. In the short term probably gotta do both. If not, we need the sleeper agents anyway for simple information.

Also some Humanitarian aid to Path and Eridani, being all torn up by humans' violence-prone nature that is sorta kinda hives' fault since it was engineered into them thousands of years ago.

>>3120271
Agreed.

Hey QD, if we attain the Scavengers anti-matter power core technology, do we have the basic knowledge to harvest anti-matter from particle accelerators or do we have to research that manually?

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>>3120248
>the formatting is in horrible shorthand scribbled on a piece of paper stuck to a cork-board on the wall.

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>>3120248
Q-Thinkers with cork-boards

>>3120283
retaining sanity between running a 4chan quest, having major medical issues, and business mixed with family problems is difficult I'd imagine.

>>3120220
You ponder which research subject to focus on next, when you suddenly find a new sensation of scientific revelation from a familiar, yet currently unavailable mind.

>Research Unlocked
Anti-Tachyonic weapons
White at first simply modified standard weapons made to fire psionic insulative material, the brittle material and complex nature of the modification makes it quickly apparent that such designs are simply not tenable. Instead, a more simple, elegant, and rustic method has proven the most efficient. Railgun technology is simply not feasable with anti-tachyonic munitions, at least not without some consideration. The result is a callback to ancient earth technology taken on new life, with the development of the anti-tachyon shell, a small, disposable, single use electromagnetic device capable of catapulting the munition held within at extreme velocity. The same breakthrough in engineering that lead to its development also lead to a number of other improvements, including a method of efficiently merging powered blade technology with insulative material, as well as more crude, yet effective equipment. Unfortunately, the common thread between all of the resulting weapons is that their anti-tachyonic nature is inherently disruptive to your drones, causing mild discomfort with their handling, and throwing off their aim due to their reliance on data input from nearby drones observing combat from different directions. As a result, your own drones suffer from drastically lowered combat effectiveness when equipped with any of these weapons, meaning for all practical purposes, they are limited in use to your agents. Just as well, since you suspect it would be unwise for you to engage in combat with any Void related entity using your drones in open combat anyways, at least for anything other than a distraction.

>New Equipment Unlocked

Void Sword
A standard powered sword lined with tachyonic insulation along its bladed edges, which gives the blade a black, almost obsidian look to it. Standard powered sword technology is less effective when applied to tachyonic material due to its brittle nature, and as a result this sword's design has been altered to "grow" new material, utilizing the micro-servos within to instead of vibrating the weapon to cut through the target, maintain a mono-molecular edge. Under normal circumstances such an edge would be impossible to maintain between cuts, but due to the semi-organic nature of the insulative material in the blade, the weapon in essence sharpens itself over time, breaking off microscopic fragments into the target at deliberate angles so as to expose equally dangerous cutting edges as the blade wears down, and then build itself back up over time outside of combat.
cont.

>>3120280
You already do, you just lack the technology to contain the material in a way that is conducive to exploiting it. Your Immolator warheads already utilize anti-matter.

So, all of our adopted children will be getting a Void Sword if they need it, but the question is, do we want to deploy mass Chimaera guards with how our regular drones are unable to use Void Swords?

Hmm, this is tricky...
Put Living Stone into Primary
Have Elizabeth research Psionic Conduction when she's finished at builders gift.

>>3120207

>>3000820
>Your clones hold up their weapons and release a torrent of chitinous slugs, particle beams, and plasma bolts. The slugs twist and bend, curving around the pillars and impacting the wall behind them as the plasma plumes too early, the flames bending around the pillars as if stopped by some unseen wall, and the particle beams twist like swinging rope, curving enough to just graze the surface of the pillars.

>>3008578
>>Silicate hybrid study
>Slow
This obelisk remains would seem to be composed of semi-organic psionically conductive carbon polymer fused with a silicate genetic lattice, in effect making it a kind of hybrid


Guess there was no way to find out what the obelisks were doing to protect themselves by just researching what they were made out of. Blast.

It accomplished what's currently impossible for telekinesis as we know it, deflecting bullets.

>>3120293

>New Equipment Unlocked
>Void Sword
>Void. Sword.

God damn...

>>3120304
Hybrids would be better for all the nonhive races we are dealing with.

>>3120327
It might not be direct telekinesis, it might be Psionic Gravity manipulation.

>>3120324
Fuck it supporting so we can move on.

>>3120293
Thought-dusters
A more elaborate version of Lyle's own home-made knuckle dusters, these anti-tachyonic gauntlets are fitted with micro-muscles capable of folding or unfolding the weapon over the fist or onto the forearm. When fully deployed, the weapon functions along a similar principal to an industrial jackhammer, firing its muscles to impact the target with additional force upon contact, however due to this feature, it must be mounted to a medium or heavy carapace to prevent breaking the arm of the user.

Void knife
A shortened version of the void sword, this knife is a standard issue weapon for any who expect to face void related phenomena, and can be equipped to any and all non-hive agents without detracting from their standard compliment of weapons.

Crossbow
Surprisingly, the more simple the weapon, the less modification is needed. Lyle's personal crossbow has proven to be perfectly capable of firing specially made anti-tachyonic bolts without modification, and as such the design as been pushed into full production with only minor improvements, such as variable muscular pivots to improve accuracy. The crossbow can fold itself up into a small, compact form for travel, allowing it to take up no more room than a typical sidearm.

Blunderbuss
A crude, ancient weapon given new life, this large bore shotgun uses a disposable electromagnetic shell to catapult a large chunk of fragile anti-tachyonic insulation, filling the space in front of it with a wall of razor sharp fragmentation that disrupts tachyonic activity painfully and quickly. The weapon is breach loaded, and requires reloading after each shot, however it comes with two barrels, allowing it to be fired twice before reloading, a feature common in the ancient era of earth, but fell out of common use as caseless ammunition became ubiquitous with the use of railgun technology. The weapon's barrel is incredibly short, allowing it to be strapped to the leg like a sidearm, and making up for its lack of accuracy and range with the fact that everything in the room ahead will likely be hit, and anything within short range will likely no longer exist.

Breach Pistol
A crude and simple pistol which fires anti-tachyonic shells from a breach loading barrel. The weapon is single shot, but fires a massive slug of tachyonic insulation designed to break up upon contact with the target.

Certainty Grenade
A crude explosive designed to scatter fragments of anti-tachyonic material throughout the air, sending fragmentation in a wide radius and filling the atmosphere around the site with tachyonic insulative powder. To Void Crafters, the explosion appears like a massive collapse of quantum probability, collapsing the passageways in spacetime with which a void crafter manipulates the environment, and establishing a temporary area of quantum certainty. In addition, anyone within its radius is certain to have a very bad day.

>>3120343
It didn't seem gravetic at all either.

>One of your clones tosses his weapon aside and charges forward with his combat blade, quickly running into a wall of psychokinetic force.

>>3120358
It's clearly the same they use to detect us entering their systems. Basically Psionic Shields.

>>3120355
You contemplate your subjects of research. You have so much to learn, and what seems like so little time.

>Add Living Stone to Primary research slot
>Add Psionic Conduction to Primary research slot
>Other

>>3120369
There were other suggestions besides those two earlier.

>>Other

Add
>Neural Reconfiguration
The infiltration must go smoothly.

>>3120369
>Add Living Stone to Primary research slot

>>3120369
>>Other
Add Neural Reconfiguration to the Primary slot

The need for this technology is more pressing than the other two.

Elizabeth is still busy? (Research slot says she's free).
Anyways
>Add Living Stone to Primary research slot

>>3120369
other options are being proposed.

>Add Living Stone to Primary research slot
>Add Psionic Conduction to Primary research slot
>Neural Reconfiguration
>Other

>>3120369
>Neural Reconfiguration

>>3120378
>Neural Reconfiguration

>>3120378
>>Neural Reconfiguration

For the sake of decreasing dissent, I change my vote
>Neural Reconfiguration

>>3120378
>>Neural Reconfiguration

The other one floated was Memory Seed for elite agent immortality but I gotta go with this first.

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>>3120355
>Thought-dusters
>Certainty Grenade
>Crossbow
>Blunderbuss
I am now getting this vision of our hive agents decked-up like 18th-century vampire hunters in techno-organic armor.

>>3120378
>>Neural Reconfiguration

>>3120400
Vampires during the middle ages were believed to be corpses possessed by demons.

>>3120400
The ones going after void/corrupted hive agents kind of are.

Next comes espionage votes.

>hive on Earth
>hive on Dharius
>hive on Corbin
>Begin Beggars and Taidarens on Arnim, Mentan
>perform 4x 'Smash and Grab: civilian transport' on Mentan
>perform 2x 'Smash and Grab: civilian transport' on Arnim

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Should QD make a noticable mistake please refer to the attached document

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Maybe we need a stealth hive on Freeshare next. This Data Wars guy is clearly the ultimate threat/the one all the conspiracy nuts will email evidence to.

https://ask.fm/QuestDrone/answers/151435204901
> Its most popular personality, and the founder of the organization, however, Jonas Alexander, broadcasts from Freeshare, a planetoid moon of Darin's Deep in the Procyon system.

The only research paths I can think of that will allow us to transcend the current limitations of Anti-Tachyon munitions are research into Silicates or Multidimensional Physics and Non-Euclidean Architecture.

>>3120378
>Neural Reconfiguration

As you watch the Union descend into chaos, you ponder your next move. You already have a number of espionage activities unfolding, although such things take time, but with each new day comes a new situation to take advantage of.

>Add or remove espionage activities (write in)
>Keep as is
>Other

>>3120425
Mother Knows Best on Builder's Gift
Maybe use Dream Catcher on Armin.

>>3120425
>>Add or remove espionage activities (write in)

Add hives on Freeshare, Earth, Dharius, and Corbin.


Begin Beggars and Taidarens on Arnim, Mentan, and Talgo.


Perform 'Smash and Grab: civilian transport' on Arnim twice.

Do 'Smash and Grab: civilian transport' on Mentan x4.

We need a getaway car to parasite a target.

Hey QD, are the humans nuclear artillery and Laser weapons technology that we already have?
If not, did we notice anything regarding their capabilities?

>>3120426
The one flaw with Dream Catchers is the increasing the activity of the psionically resistant which is troublesome. Sabotage actions at least lack that negative side effect which could bite you later.

>>3120429
Supporting. Where the heck is Freeshare, incidentally?

>>3120437
The Procyon system apparently. Should probably check that pod one of these days.

>>3120425
Oh forgot.

Raise Tadega to [Passive Observation].

...If it's not under some special event that raises discovery risks anyway, like Gemini Beta is. Is it under an effect like that? It isn't in the copypasta.

>>3120426
But Mother Knows Best is great of course.

In fact
>>3120425
>Add Mother Knows Best to Raligha
>Perform "Mother's Favored" on Raligha

I just realized, Laser weapons probably aren't very hard to buy in Union space. We should buy one for reverse engineering.

>>3120455
Seconding.

>>3120456
Isn't that just the cyclotron?

We could also buy quantum scramblers, gravetic warheads, tons of things but QD needs to let us go on a shopping spree on Space Amazon again like we did a long time ago.

>>3120436
>Sabotage actions at least lack that negative side effect which could bite you later.
And sabotage can fail increasing suspicion and agitation.

>>3120460
Nope, I just checked the pastbin - Cyclotron is a particle accelerator.

>>3120448
Any military planet has increased difficulty to infiltrate.

>>3120207
>you suspect that any faction that more widely uses digital and quantum technology in their infrastructure would benefit greatly from its implementation.
We should probably send this Silicate stuff over Theseus' way.

>>3120467
He's already getting silicate computing. Unless he has some kind of tech we'd want there's no sense in just gifting him the tech.

>>3120425
One more

>begin Invasive Research on Raligha

>begin Invasive Research, Mother Knows Best on the Phantoms' forest moon

Uh, or I guess, we just order the Scarred Queen to do that?

Invasive Research increases the potency of Mother Knows Best so we really know how to optimize their lives.

>>3120467
Or should we save up such technologies for the Space Folder?
>>3120473
I second this as well.

>>3120425
>Activate Mother Knows Best on Builder's Gift
>Activate Dream Catcher on Arnim
>Deploy Espionage Hive to Freeshare
>Begin Beggars and Taidarens on Arnim, Mentan, and Talgo
>perform a Smash and Grab: civilian transport' on Mentan x4.
>Raise Tadega to [Passive Observation]
>begin Invasive Research on Raligha
>begin Invasive Research, Mother Knows Best on the Phantoms' forest moon
>All above
>None
>Other

>>3120448
I would back this measure as well.

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>>3120425
>Mother Knows Best
Everywhere we are openly active.

I was binge reading the archive while 4chan was down yesterday and kind of over did it. then had a dream where there was a HQQ anime where all the drones were little lolis/shotas in bug themed footy pajamas working together as a team.
>Workers basically being Platelets from "Cells at Work"
>Little thinkers with their lab coats
>Warriors being slightly older brothers and sisters
>The queen being an overworked single mother figure.
>Lee pretty much being Sporticus in his classic spaceman aesthetic.
>the neighbor kids where Ralighans who were basically too cool for school Schroder's playing drums in their back yard.

Theseus and Lyle and others didn't show up in the episode but man too much quest can be fun.

>>3120476
Space Fold isn't really that valuable to save up for. However Theseus joining the hive is worthwhile considering all critfail on research rolls are negated with him.
Also we need to use Hover Mom on the Phantoms and Ralighans.

Should we land a hive on Mercy? We could eventually control the food supply of most of human space.

>>3120482
>>Activate Mother Knows Best on Builder's Gift
>>3120482
>>Deploy Espionage Hive to Freeshare
>>Begin Beggars and Taidarens on Arnim, Mentan, and Talgo
>>perform a Smash and Grab: civilian transport' on Mentan x4.
>>Raise Tadega to [Passive Observation]
>>begin Invasive Research on Raligha
>>begin Invasive Research, Mother Knows Best on the Phantoms' forest moon

You forgot
>Mother Knows Best on Raligha

>deploy hive to Earth
>smash and grav: civilian transport x2 on Arnim

>>3120482
>>All above

>>3120485
I wish my dreams were that moe.

>>3120482
>Other
Hover Mom and Mother's Favor on the Garden.

>>3120482
>>Activate Mother Knows Best on Builder's Gift
>>Activate Dream Catcher on Arnim
>>Deploy Espionage Hive to Freeshare
>>Begin Beggars and Taidarens on Arnim, Mentan, and Talgo
>>perform a Smash and Grab: civilian transport' on Mentan x4.
>>Raise Tadega to [Passive Observation]

>>3120482
And I'll agree with
>Hover Mom on Raligha

>>3120482
>All above

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>>3120485
>slice of life HQQ anime

>>3120482
>>Other
Can Anderson start lowering Suspicion on Talgo by one point per day now?

>>3120491
>>3120485
Allow me to ruin your sleep for the night.
https://mangadex.org/title/29187/hataraku-saibou-black

>>3120482
>all of the above

>Add Mother Knows Best on Raligha
>Do not
>Add other

>>3120505
>>Add Mother Knows Best on Raligha

>>3120489
>>deploy hive to Earth
Yeah, that's a good idea. We still have those two swamp natives from Earth Lyle picked up, don't we? We should probably think of something to do with them...

>>3120505
>Add Mother Knows Best on Raligha
>Add Hover Mom on Raligha
>Add Mother's Favor on Raligha

>>3120505
>>Do not

>>3120505
>>Add other
Espionage hive on earth.

Those wild men know something and have a metallic voice giving them orders.

>>3120505
>Add Mother Knows Best on Raligha

>>3120505
>>Add Mother Knows Best on Raligha

>>3120505
>>Do not
If we turn Raligha into a post capitalist dream state where we do everything for them, they will completely stop developing as a society. That would be robbing them of potential and self determination in a way I can't get behind.

I'm just going to blame /qst/ for this one, but I'm not sure why we're not letting the Ralighans develop naturally like we decided to do ages ago.

It just seems out of left field

>>3120505
>Add Mother Knows Best on Raligha

>add other
>deploy hive to Earth.
Even if we restrict it to small drowns and keep it hidden a small hive here would be beneficial

>>3120505
>>Add other
Raise Path to [Passive Observation], Discovery risk is greatly reduced now.

>>3120516
I don't get it either dude, but apparently we're the only two who care.

>>3120517
Yeah same. I don't know if it's the board itself making anons completely stop thinking about the direct consequences of their actions, but it seems like most people since the switch just kind of want to do everything just because they can.

>>3120516
Nah man, we will give them symbionts as well.
That way stagnation is impossible, since their progress is tied to ours.

>>3120517
Because it'll literal years and it's a waste of time.

>>3120505
>Do not
Why should we? No good reason to interfere.

>>3120505
>Activate Mother Knows Best on Builder's Gift
>Activate Dream Catcher on Arnim
>Deploy Espionage Hive to Freeshare
>Begin Beggars and Taidarens on Arnim, Mentan, and Talgo
>perform a Smash and Grab: civilian transport' on Mentan x4.
>Raise Tadega to [Passive Observation]
>begin Invasive Research on Raligha
>begin Invasive Research, Mother Knows Best on the Phantoms' forest moon

and in addition:
>Deploy espionage hive to Earth
>Add Hover Mom on Raligha
>Add Mother's Favor on Raligha
>Other

And a bit of contention for this one:
>Add Mother Knows Best on Raligha
>Do not

>>3120520
And well Invasive Research will definitely help locate the OQ spores.

>>3120516
That's Hover-Mom. Mother Knows Best isn't post-scarcity.

>>3120530
>other: do nothing
and
>do not

>>3120530
>Add Mother Knows Best on Raligha
>Deploy espionage hive to Earth
>Add Hover Mom on Raligha
>Add Mother's Favor on Raligha

>>3120529
A civilian population to uplift and introduce to the greater galaxy.
Also info warfare, as we didn't exterminate relatively helpless natives.

>>3120530
Don't interfere with the development of Raligha or the Phantoms. Invasive research is fine, but leave the primitives be.

>>3120530
>>Add Mother Knows Best on Raligha
And well you don't "add" mother's favor, it's not an ongoing operation it's recruiting random Elite Agents once.

>Deploy espionage hive to Earth

>Other
Raise Path to [Passive Observation]

>>3120530
>Do nothing

Reading the entry on these options does not make me think they are appropriate for a society that is only just being introduced to agriculture

>Hover-Mom: Drone labor is offered freely to all who accept Hive rule as full citizens, and the implantation that such membership implies, rapidly expanding critical and luxury infrastructure and providing free welfare to any hive citizen who lack the expertise to perform tasks that hive drones are less efficient at than non-hive life. To the typical everyman, the planet becomes a post scarcity utopia free of work, rent, or tax, all under the ever-watchful and ever-present eyes of the Hive Queen. For as long as this is maintained, the percentage of the local population who are implanted rapidly increases up to a maximum determined by the population's overall culture and percentage of psionically resistant individuals. Maintaining Mother Knows Best can increase this max percentage by shifting local culture.

This is going to completely wipe any independence and progress for the Ralighan people.

>>3120536
That's retarded though. We are the descendant of their literal gods and creators. To complain about us uplifting them is retarded.

The fact that we interacted with them and accepted their tribute so much, we've already interfered with their cultural development, thoroughly.

>>3120529
>>3120536
It's a prerequisite. You can't recruit Elite Agents until you start such a social engineering operation, it's beneficial to us.

>>3120530
>Deploy espionage hive to Earth
>Do not

>>3120535
>introduce to the greater galaxy.
There is no greater galaxy. I had given some thought to starting a "galactic council" but who would even be on it? We going to include Cluster too? How wouod the human worlds be represented? And Taidarens? Playing the long game with Raligha should be fine.

>>3120516
Ralighans already love us,Mother knows best isnt hover-mom or Its because mother loves you.
They will still do their own thing they just get a dose of pro hive propaganda (which they were already doing on their own) it just gives us a vector to introduce ideas in a subtle way to spur on their progress without actively doing it.

>>3120545
No it wouldn't. We lose any advantages we could get in trying to play the long game.