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Hello again fellow creators/questers. After a another hiatus we're back with Part 8b of this EvoGame/CivEvo series. This thread is focused on the cultural/nation building aspects of all Essarian races, including the expansion of nations, wars, genocide and so on. The Evolution aspect at this point in the game is predominantly null and void, in lieu of the game's focus of civilization building.

As GM, I'll be actively observing the thread, making sure to catalog and note any new cultural/political changes in the world and they're likely ripple effects. Additionally, I'll be providing folks that are building and fostering the growth of their sapient societies plot hooks and general technological innovations in order to keep the game progressing. This CivEvo concept is still in its testing/tweaking phase with so some mechanics, but it should at least keep it freeform enough so that player societies can develop without letting things getting out of hand.

How to play [EvoGame Rules]:
• For regular evolutions, just open an image of a species in MS Paint, Photoshop, etc; make one small evolutionary change to that species, save as .PNG, and post it with a description about the evolution and why.
• Please indicate the Generation #, the region it lives in, and any other important details about your organism.
• Details regarding a creatures size or name aren't necessary, but are encouraged.
• Nothing too outlandish. Anything incredibly silly or outlandish will not be considered a canon species.
• CivEvo Rules will be explained in a later post.

General Notes:
• Unless stated explicitly, no race/nation/culture is considered to be totally wiped out in-game.
• Every 24-36 hours, I'll be posting a small world update with technology options for advancing each sapient groups.
• Every 24-48 hour, I'll be posting a regional event pertaining to specific races, nations and/or cultures.
• Every 72-96 hours there will be a major World Event that will impact all civilizations on Essari.
• This is likely to be the final or second to last thread of the Essari Story.

New to the Game?:
•The focus of this game is now purely in the CivEvo aspect, but I'm leaving enough tools and information behind to allow new players to join in and either make new organisms, or participate in developing the sapient organisms of Essari.
• We have a Discord to keep you up to date on EvoGame stuff, and chat with other folks. https://discord.gg/kk8eJgJ
• In the following imgur link are the source images for each of the landmass maps, including present political border [imgur(.)com/a/6MEQ9tq].
• Just a note to all newcomers, I would advise reading all of the primer material provided in my initial posts, as it will have all the basic supplementary info on races/civilizations to get you started on the right foot. Otherwise, go to the Discord link.

Above is a map of the present Essari. Details on the current setting, nations/faction, CivEvo Game Mechanics, and more in the next posts.
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--Current Setting--
Essari is currently a decade into its latest recorded century amongst its sapient civilizations. This "Silent Decade" was marred by a series of shifts in cultural or national identity, and multiple intercontinental conflicts having reached their bloody conclusions. Discontent in equal parts within and towards other Essarian races have begun to mount as disparities in cultural, technological and martial superiority have become more prevalent across civilizations. In particular, the Tripodian Races have steadily risen as a dominate power across Essari, with their aspirations now set upon the stars itself. The Stitcher follow close behind with a now exploding population, their unique frame-point on ethics and morality, coupled with their Cryst-based Technology pushing the limits of their scientific and imperialist pursuits. Then there's the Grabraf, a group of races that centuries before were once the technological and cultural leaders of Essari, only to be diminished by centuries of interracial conflict. Recent years have seen a rapid shift towards many Grabraf nations banding together under ideology or theocratic creed in a pursuit to be the dominant Grabrafian faction in Sujardin and Essari by consequence.

Such events of the Essari civilizations are but a footnote in the visage of the all-seeing and world reaching Emra. It's individual biological mass having now reached it's peak, with the tendrils of it AA-Nodes now casting wide over Essari and deep underground. Now as Essari's civilization steadily look to stars, so would Emra put into motion the final phase of its own evolution.

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make up to 2 rolls for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period
• A poster ID may make up to 3 cultural related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage.
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 5 or higher of a 1d8 roll (Nomad Grabraf rolls must be a 6 or higher) to successfully implement/learn a new technology. (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll. (7 or higher for NG)
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher. (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)
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>>4277057
essaris back yay
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--Nation/Culture Creation & Advancement Rules--
• The creation of a distinct nation/culture in a Sapient race can be done so at anytime, but is heavily encouraged to have somewhat detailed lore behind their society and its origins
• Any Sapient Race culture that is created must specify whether it is a single species culture, or if it comprised of a community of Sapient races
• Should a nation/culture wish to expand into unclaimed territory, a poster may do so by rolling a 1d8
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful an expansion of territory is implemented into a sapient tribe (A 1 does not mean an outright failure & an 8 does not guarantee success)
• The Librarian does not explicitly determine outcomes of a roll, and the poster may outline results of a 1d8 roll, if they so choose
• If a sapient race attempts to explore foreign lands or establish a new colony abroad, they will need to roll a 1d8 to determine the success of the journey and a 1d8 to indicate the resources, security and quality of the landing site for any sapient explorers or colonists
• If a sapient nation/culture tries to claim territory from another sapient race, it would be considered an act of war, unless explicitly specified as otherwise. (For example, expanding a nation's sphere of influence on a region, the creation of a new state from a larger, existing one, or the peaceful annexation or fusing of two nations/cultures. This would also require the poster to roll a 1d8 to determine how smoothly the outcome may be
• Maps will be updated as frequently as possible to feature the appearance and changes to nations’ borders, but posters are also free to provide their own maps showing this and are heavily encouraged to do so

--War & Conquest Rules/Guidelines--
• All proposals of war & conquest made by a nation(s)/poster must be done by a formal proposal, with some lore backing up the declaration
• All war actions are heavily encouraged to be discussed in the OOC EvoGame (the Discord Chat), and should include any major details regarding the involved factions, and if possible a battle map with the contested lands in question highlighted (The battle map is heavily encouraged, but should the event call for it, I can quickly draw one up for posters)
• Military Strength, Tactical Assets and so on for each faction are available via the PDF above
• All combat rolling is determined by 1d8 rolls, with the numbers of rounds of combat determined by the number of nations involved and overall military strength on either side. (2 Combatants = Best of 3, 3-4 = Best of 5, etc.)
• Most nations have modifiers to mitigate unbalanced combat or unlucky rolls, while accentuating the uniqueness of individual nation's militaries
• At the end of all combat rolls, I will provide a concise summary of the war/conquest outcome, including annexations, war reparations and even the possibility of depopulation/genocide of a losing faction/race (Genocide = Winning side sweeped)
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Rolled 7, 4, 7, 3, 3, 6, 7, 6, 1, 4, 7, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6 = 81 (16d8)

--Opening Thread Event Rolls--

-TG Event Roll-
Single Roll to determine the outcome of the TG City-State Decree

--Roll Result--
1-2: Option 3
3-6: Option 2
7-8: Option 1

-NG Event Rolls-
Four Rolls for this event. First roll to determine how rapidly the Micro-AA Node use is spread through the NG. Second roll to determine the efficacy of Ostralja militarization. Third roll for the extent the Konesh colony’s border expansion and fourth roll for the results of resources found

-FG Event Rolls-
Two Rolls for this event to determine how many FG from Reido’ya and Ulordrasil are influenced by the tenets of the Mandate of Eysdrasil. 1 = 5%, 2 = 7.5%, 3 = 10%, 4 = 12.5%, 5 = 15%, 6 = 20%, 7 = 25%, 8 = 30%

-PG Event Rolls-
Three Rolls for this Event. First is for colonization efforts on Moralve, and to anywhere else in Essari they deign to lay claim. Second is for militarization innovation, to match or surpass the TG & Multi-Grabraf nations. Third is for improving political relations with the Sons of Xerho

--1st/2nd/3rd Roll Results--
1-2: Minor Expansion of Moralve Colony/Little Military Innovation/No Progress in SoX Relations
3-6: Expansion of Moralve Colony & Establishment of Panoram Colony/Substantial Military Innovation/Minor Progress in SoX Relations
7-8: Major Expansion of Morale Colony/Major Military Innovation utilizing Zaibatsu provided tech/Major Progress in SoX Relations

-CG Event Rolls-
Two rolls for this event. First is for the efficacy of Chirpy’s Conquest throughout the Subter Commonwealth. The second roll is for the resistance efforts of the Subter Holds against Chirpy’s forces. The allegiances of Jahonia and the White Stitcher is up to the players

--1st/2nd Rolls Results--
1-2: Chirpy’s Conquest is bogged down in the Twin Karst/The Subter Cmlth. capitulates with little resistance
3-5: The Twin Karst is annexed by Chirpy/The Subter Cmlth. manages some minor resistance but ultimately falls
6-7: Chirpy's Conquest gradually annexes all of the Subter Holds/The Subter Cmlth. manages to militarily retain control of its unconquered holds
8: The Yekto Knights side with Chirpy's Conquests and gallantly retake all of the Subter Holds/The Yekto Knights help organize the Subter Cmlth. forces and crush Chirpy's "Rebellion"

-C. Tripod Event Rolls-
Two rolls for this event. First is for the overall shift in militaristic policy in the Omir’ten Kingdom (Lower roll being more diplomatic and higher meaning an aggressive stance). Second roll for the growth of improvement of Omir'ten Infrastructure

--2nd Roll Result--
1-2: Destroyed cities/infrastructure is rebuilt
3-6: Destroyed cities/infrastructure is rebuilt, and Minor projects in colonies commenced
7-8: Significant revitalization/expansion of infrastructure throughout Omir'ten and its colonies

-Stitcher Event Rolls-
Two rolls for this event. First for natality efforts in the Whitestone Empire. Second for the stability of Whitestone Dominion over their colonial populations across Essari
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Rolled 7 (1d8)

Through the recent uptick in religious sentiment in Nekonahu caused by the collective delusion of Xerho's Reach, a pro-FG sentiment has grown, the Che'wa being from a religious perspective not undesirables, but expressions of Xerho as any thriving animal is.

A merchant prince therefore funds a new enterprise: A colony on moralve, where he settles many of his workers, but also allows Che'wa to come and settle, and work in the plantations he sets up there in which the spices are planted necessary for vulcanized cheese.
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>>4277063
With the natalization effort coming into gear and the colonies pacified, the whitestones find themselves with a number of new houses founded which cannot take the geographic space of the old ones, most of which have been gifted to deserving houses by the Immortal Emperors of all the Universe past and present.

They therefore decide to settle them in the unclaimed parts of the Torray Islands. House Shale is founded.
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Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4277093
if I don't forget the image I forget the dice
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>>4277063
I'm just going to give a quick synopsis on what happened here, with all other interactions revolving around these primers under the control of you, the players.

With that, I depart for now, I await to see what happens in the coming hours.

> TG Event Result: 7
The following day, the votes casted by the TG Diplomats were counted, and roar of excitement filled the conference hall, as nearly all TG City-States had voted unanimously to maintain the ties of old, and push on into a new age. In the coming months, envoys would be sent locally and abroad to Omir'ten and the Zet Zaibatsu as the TG City-States now began the arduous task of building their new tomorrow.

> NG Event Results: 4, 7, 3, 3
The spread of the Micro AA-Node would be gradual, with the elders selecting the best and brightest individuals to be ordained with the latest gift from Skrigjaarden. By the end of the next decade over 20% of NGs would be grafted. Meanwhile in Ostralja, a rapid militarization of the their diminished borders would commence, startling even the Voltanites would observed pensively from their great steel border wall. All the while, a steady flow of migrants would trickle into the new colony of Skrig'Uriyah, although resource discovery is slow, as the establishment of colonial administration.

> FG Event Results: 6, 7
The Mandate of Eysdrasil is a fairly alluring ideology to the other FG of Reido'ya and Ulordrasil, with 20% of FG on Reido'ya and 25% on Ulordrasil beginning to subscribe strongly with its tenets.

> PG Event Results: 6, 1, 4
Colonization of the Di'Tan's Peninsula would be described as a rousing success with over a million Castigarians immigrating to the Moralve colony in less than a decade. Additionally, a new colonial fleet would sent to the shore of East Panoram Minor Peninsula, boldly laying claim to the unpopulated land there. Militarization would be stifled though, in lieu of greater financial burden placed on colonization efforts. A small silver lining would arise though in political progress with the SoX, as the two nations make steady progress towards a firm political alliance.

> CG Event Results: 7, 4
Chirpy's Conquest of the Subter Holds would become a story heralded by CG for centuries to come. Chirpy's forces near effortlessly, conquer the Twin Karsts that all but capitulated without a fight, and after forming an alliance with the free CG Hold of Tierre Huzduk, a full might, of Chirpy's Army descended on the Holds of Satokh-Otai, where after just 4 years, only a few pockets of resistance would remain. The Subter Empire would be reborn again.
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>>4277063
Part 2 of Roll Results Snyopsis

> CT Event Results: 5, 5
The militarization process across Omir'ten would be a slow process, but its citizen would gradually come around to the idea, posed by the Rag'ohki and Triunist Propagandists. Soon, even the young ruler of the Omir'ten would speak positively of a more militaristic, in the name of Omir'ten Hegemony over all of Essari. In the coming years, a surge of national pride, would overtake Omir'ten and its overseas territories, as the destroyed cities around Lake Ti'folt would be fully restored to their former majesty, and even Niu Ti'ras would be rebuilt to be far more magnificent than it was before. Elsewhere in Omir'ten's colonies, a new wave of immigrants would see many infrastructure project put into action, as the colonial territories in Panoram and Foltania, would be built up to match the luster of the Omir'ten Kingdom.

> Stitcher Event Results: 6, 6
Whitestone's Natalist Project would be a success, with any uneven, or brood that were not perfectly white being turned into the living batteries of the Whitestone Empires' computers. With it's population showing the much desired promise of revitalization, the Empire makes the risky decision to depopulate it's home borders, and military defenses as its send new colonists to the Denu'arctis Colony, filling the gaps of it lost population to the Genetic Purge. They also send more inhabitants to the Foltanian Houses and Sujardin Colonies, although this would prove to only bolster the standing authority of the Whitestone Empire and its numbers within their borders, as many of its colonists stood firmly with Whitestone Dominion.
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Rolled 2 (1d8)

>>4277095
Seeing the cities enveloped in their territory begin to make dealings with foreign powers, and the Castigars easing up as a potential enemy, the Sons of Xerho decide to do what has long been overdue.

In the biggest congress of SoX chieftains since the decision was made to enter the Great war, a crusade is decided on the two TG cities on the western coast of Sujardin.
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Rolled 4, 1 = 5 (2d8)

With Whitestone Empire's population decimated, their industry takes a nosedive as well. To get back to normal levels of crystal production, Whitestone scientists set out to manufacture a serum that would boost a stitcher's teats. At the same time, another group of scientists experiments with getting serums that enhance other aspects of the stitcher, such as the rate at which it grows to strength and maturity or the amount of rage it feels towards it's enemies.
Rolling for teat booster serum and growth serum
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At the end of last thread, the Whitestone Empire shot a probe into space. The spaceball is that probe.

It consists of acockpit, held in suspension on rails and with strong springs in a mid-outter chasy. Between it and the next layer, a thicklayer of thermo-regulative gel serves as both thermoregulation and further impact cushioning. That middle shell, a heat resistant crystal with a further layer thermoregulative gel incorprated into it, sprots eight electromagnetic guns, each loaded with three shots. These are used for steering.

The outtermost layer is a thick layer of soft ferrite. This ferrite is what is magnefied by the gigantic gauss cannoon that shoots the spaceball into space, and which melts away in the process. Once in space, the guns shoot out their protective hull and can be used for steering by the stitcher pilot.

The pilot himself is heavily augmented, with extended lungs and impact-resistance implants. They have control over the articulated system of the spaceball: The steering, the radio and the self distruct. As "Eyes" and to not be uneven, the pilot has a high tech minituarized one-stitcher-computer on board which calculates the exact movement of the spaceball at any moment, constantly murmuring into the pilot's ear the vessel's location relative to the planet. The cockpit itself is filled with oxydiced fluid.

This is the stitcher's forray into space. (requesting QM resolution with the space probe and such)
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Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4277094
>>4277093

"Veto! Veto! Veto, mr Screecher, Veto!"
"What is this Wet dough you're screaming about? ...and how tasty is it?"

The plan of Whites settling on the glorious main Torray island is brought up in the Great Gathering of Houses and is met with outrage. To think the whites see themselves worthy as constructing their white obscenities on good, even soil!

Several minor houses decide that this can not be allowed. It must be stopped! Through diplomatic or more practical means.
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Rolled 2, 6, 3, 2 = 13 (4d8)

>>4277056
The Ozasari had noticed the rapid conquest of Chirpy in the Subter lands, and with it new opportunities to co- er, sell their wares among the CG populace, via shell companies. Chief among these are large amounts of pilfered or misappropriated Zaibatsu Canned Mystery Meat, repackaged and sometimes mixed with dirt cheap stale Hurkun cheese.

Meanwhile, the 3 large factions in CG society - the Red Royals, Blue Brotherhood, and Black-and-Yellows - face an uncertain future. Will they thrive under Chirpy's rule? Will they perish? Or will they try to make pockets of resistance?

>Rolling 4d8: Success of Ozasari brand Cheesy Meat-in-a-Can in CG holds, the fate of the three former factions (1: utter dissolvement, 2-3: resistance groups, 4-6: became political parties but severe loss of power, 7-8: flourishing and approved by Chirpy
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Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4277189
The Veto is accepted unanimously across the houses, with one vote against, that of the Whitestone representative. The argument is that white stitchers build unevenly and the soil of the Torray islands is even.

The Whitestone deligation responds that firstly, the Orthodoxy has no claim over the disputed reason. But secondly, and much more gravely, calling whitestone construction uneven is akin to calling all of the Whitestone Empire uneven, and that if this is the position of the Assembly, then the Empire finds it uneven in kind (and uneven in the first place since not all great Whitestone houses have a seat in the assembly)

The decision is ratified by the Immortal Emperors and the Whitestone Emperor leaves the Assembly. Since only excedingly few patriarch/matriarch pairs were found whose houses could be settled (>>4277094 rolling 3), for now only a bridgehead is established at the indicated location.
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>>4277209
The bridgehead is built before Orthodoxy blockades can make it impossible, a strong, self sufficient fortress staffed with a battallion of whitestone warriors and defenses out of the wazoo.
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Rolled 5, 2 = 7 (2d8)

In the Ascendancy of Our Most August Lady the merger of the Unity and Kholeskan institutions were finally beginning to bear fruit. Especially within engineering and the natural sciences. A merger of two approaches to scientific theory combined with the furthering of globalization on Essari had opened up many an eye to paths previously unthread. From the way of Foltania, the basic techniques of creating Circuitry had spread from the Cocky Tripods. Seeing the possible uses of it in automating industry large investments where made into schools of higher learning in order to be able to recreate the technology. Similarly, Ideas surrounding the nature of the world were beginning to get inroads within the scientific community.

Rolling for Circuitry and Relativity for TG, or whatevs.
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maybe this happens: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4095346/#p4127204 ?
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>>4277223

It turns out that money speaks and gives results.
Those embracing the Theory of Relativity are instead laughed out of the community. It will take some time before believers in the theory will be able to make inroads again.
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>>4277203
After a series of food poisoning incidents in which the Ozasari Meat Product is implicit, the product was declared to be banned in all CG holds. Mass burnings of the meat ensure that the Ozasari did not try to sell Zaibatsu Meat again... at least for now.
Of the three factions, the Red Royals were the most supportive of Chirpy, even though each RR clique endorsed their own royal candidate before. Now they became the main political party in the resurgent Subter Empire - which is a fancy way to say 'aristocrat's club', as they do little in terms of bureaucracy.
Meanwhile, the dissatisfied Blue Brotherhood had broken up into small secret worker's unions in the industrialized parts of the Subter Empire, silently waging a quiet war against the Black-and-Yellow remants which integrated themselves into the already sizable black market, and both occasionally strike against the Red Royals.
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Rolled 5 (1d8)

>>4277214
Several of previously state minor houses performs a unified action just to spite the WE
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Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4277230
the whitestones expand here to spite them back.
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A mishmash of several small colonies are founded in a ring surrounding the bridgehead colony. During the night, hooting and hollering can be heard across the plains.
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>>4277233
forgot image
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Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4277233
>>4277238
it goes pretty well!

>>4277237
The Fortress K'tt'b'k'tk' (Write this down, Libby!) is hella annoyed. Rolling for morale.
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>>4277241
stitchers are freaking out, and one matriarch/patriarch pair even relocates their house back to the mainland, saying: "These Orthodoxes are crazy!"
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Rolled 7, 8, 6 = 21 (3d8)

On Panoram, the society is in a tumultuous state: the dissolution of the alliance with the floating isles left a sour imprint on those involved, and the tripod supremacist movement EFT seizes the opportunity to promote itself.
Rolling for spread of racist tendencies among tripods.
At the same time, but at another place, scientists at the Borealis outpost are attempting to extract a larger, relatively intact chunk of the sleeping Braffberg; they believe it may be in a state of mere hibernation rather than death, and thawing it might lead to it resuming activity. Seeing it regrow afterwards would provide an amazing boost to the field of Emralogy.
Rolling for how good of a chunk they get and whether they can get it to resume metabolism.
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Rolled 6 (1d8)

>>4277230
>>4277233
A wandering pair of Sandstone thinker proclaimed that these uneven actions could be, in a way, some new form of evenness. Like circular motion that eventually blends these uneven acts into a new, suitable evenness.
Of course they were publicly electrocuted after their speech, but do their thoughts on Circular Evenness (AKA Justifying Unevenness to its detractors) gain ground in general Stitcher philosophy?
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Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4277101

With the SoX being really bad at crusading, some tribes attacking without waiting on their eastern allies, the two city states of The Two city states of Zok'tokan and Xas'nach decide to put their resources into a quick offensive, hoping to bottleneck the SoX forces between the Castigars and the Tuzan clan of Toch.
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Rolled 8 (1d8)

>>4277261
The Sons of Xerho will lose territory. Rolling for how much of the western part of their territory they can save. High is good for them, low is bad. From my perspective, this would mean the war is over, SoX having lost it. If someone rolls to continue it, it will of course continue.
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Rolled 4, 7, 8, 8, 1, 4, 2, 5, 1, 6, 8, 1 = 55 (12d8)

>>4277057
>2 rolls per race, per 24 hours;tech.

>TG, advanced ballistics, nuclear physics
The city states, flush with vigor and a brazen desire for freedom knew what made one sovereign; threat of violence. They didn't need a massive land army, or equivalency of any kind but the one that mattered. Nuclear. Tripods had show then world that, and if they could hold but a fraction of that flame they could hold their own into the next era.

>NG: foreign biology, Surgery
Their new allies were strange, and many, but valued the NG's ability to do what they could not. By exploring the limits of their allies weaknesses they could further inundate themselves into their benefactor's society...and potentially leverage their considerable power for their own.

>PG: radio, refrigeration
Pragmatism ruled the PG. Communication would be needed to organize the great horde, and rule Sujardin. It was an idea under a thousand names, with the same end goal. Debt would be further insured by refrigeration, and communication would organize efforts and even save lives.

>FG: Ballistics, Biometallics
The FG in their greatness, knew of their own arrogance. Stagnation would lead to their defeat if they were not able to match their foes in arenas outside their own choosing. Great effort began towards new genetic manipulation to include and incorporate inorganic material into flesh and bone, creating new things, with new ideas.

>CG: Amphetamines, elevators
Chripy knew that his people would need to give more than 100%, but 110% or even more. Old research notes from captured territory showed...promise. Things not wanted, but needed. More so were the concepts of tunnel to surface elevators. These shafts would allow the Subter empire to move material, and manpower in new ways that their rails could not.

>Voltanites: Salhetite filtering, oceanic drilling
The Tripods valued the substance Salhetite above all. The Voltanites needed those allies, too much was at risk. From all fronts they were encroached upon; spies across the continent reported that much of their efforts were coming undone. New methods would have to be applied, existing motives re-evaluated, and current practices examined for value added. Nothing could be too sacred, nothing was beyond consideration.
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>>4277268
okay I mean this roll woul dmean they lose practically no land and there's a white peace. Up to tail-tan to agree to that or not.
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Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d8)

>>4277269
I'm gonna reroll radio for PGs and elevators for CG.
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Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4277056
the orthodoxies historians and archeologists have found an old stitcher settlement buried. in it they find some texts stating a comet will pass in a few years by the lands of the orthodoxy which is made out of pure crystal. the people of the orthodoxy want to see it and House Heliotrope start developing a hopperbot that can take passengers. to do that they try figuring out how to make a hopperbot more aerodynamic and yet able to carry a stitcher

rolling: aerodynamics
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>>4277248
Apparently most Stitchers agree that when an even-numbered amount of sides do uneven acts but directed towards each other in a circular fashion, it is a kind of even. In another world this concept is also known as 'that escalated quickly'.
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>>4277060
Since the middle of the silent decade, three powers had been meeting in Omi’tolt order to negotiate and inform each other of goings on in the world. Meanwhile at least one power had been listening in on the side-line, not taking and active part in the discussions. While the different parties didn’t completely trust each other, they could all agree that they trusted many of the other powers that be even less. And it was as such that a form of economic and diplomatic cooperation had begun to form. However, maybe this could lead to something more? Maybe this was the beginning of something great?


Or maybe I will make shit rolls?
Probably the latter.
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Rolled 4, 2, 5 = 11 (3d8)

>"I'll give the order to deconstruct this settlement. Who am I to force my kind upon your lands, against your species will?"

In the final hours of the Silent Decade, a vow was made to the Highborne of Mysdrasill. Now, it is time for said promise to be fullfilled. The Jadijinese were Tripods of their word, let that be said. However, it should be know that even if the Ozasari were the current champions of underhanded discourse, Red-Throats too knew the art of hiding messages in the fine print.

Their Mysdrassil outpost was first and foremost a testing facility, the cape canaveral of Essari; Rockets, missiles, and other technology involving large amounts of fuel and nuclear components were made there. Not to mention that a project with an energy demand as high as that had to had its own powerhouse. You see where i'm going with this.

Most civilians were evacuated, leaving only a skeleton crew of technicians who would be remembered as heroes and champions of all Tripodkind. Their job was to deconstruct the settlement, as violently as they could. The contents of silos were set to detonate in place, rocket engines to overheat, and the power plant was rigged to meltdown. Let lady luck decide how well they did their job.

>Three rolls: 1st is evacuation, 2nd is explosion radius, and 3rd is fallout. If that's okay of course, leaving it to Libby to decide.
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>>4277283
house Heliotrope start building stitcherbots with even wings which are made out of lighter material.
they find that not only does this allow them to glide,they can also jump higher. This news excites the stitchers, and they hope that house Heliotrope can let them see the comet
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>>4277289
During the meeting, the productive discussion seems to using peetering off. It seems like this gathering, like so many other before it will end up with no progress made, and things remaining how they've been. But then the representative of the the fourth power steps out of the shadows. Everyone thought it that the individual was a representative from the Subter Commonwealth, but then it rips off the hat that it has been wearing and uses [SOCIAL ENGINEERING]
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The colony is large and proiftable. it is called Kiripenti and starts outputting cheese-spice like crazy. The FG and PG settled there are harmoniously unified under Xerho.
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>>4277269

>BT: (early) SSTO, portable nuclear reactors
Zet's vision for the future was simple. Press ahead. The existing fleet of Chongus class aircraft would gradually be phased out in favor of modernized designs, yet continue to serve as research and development testbeds. Massive cargo holds would house equally massive amounts of fuel, skin would be coated in a variety of materials for escalatign re-entry tests. Energy would be needed. So much would be needed...

>RT: Vertical farming, Phage medicine
Zutsuil's ill founded ventures with restored zaibatsu refinery equipment was a sham, a shame, and so pathetic even the Ozasari couldn't do anything with it. A new way forward was needed, a radical pivot saw the old and abandoned warehouses repurposed to urban farming, and the ill studied field of virology turned towards something useful.

>CT: (oracle boosted) synthetic materials, photo-lithography
Omir'ten would tap into the capability of their repopulated oracles once more, and learn the secrets of their kin through more esoteric means, and with that fully cement a position of dominance on their half of the world. The northern half. Advanced etching of delicate computer electronics was in its infancy, purely in laboratories, but if certain techniques could be mass produced then the quality of their quantity could be increased when it came to portable electronics. They could edge their competitors out of the market quickly.

>Stitchers: additive manufacturing, whitestone homogenization effort.
Stitchers as a whole were reaching the limits of what teat and had could wrought. Disastrous plagues, experiments, and now cybernetics left the body surviving, but the industrial capacity limited to the frail weaver caste. The whitestones had not learned a thing from their past mistakes and dealings with the FG. Where cybernetics carried them only so far, the might of pure flesh would carry them further, and so was hatched a perfectly even plan. Attempt to garner the favor of their benefactors once more, and unify the trifold form of the stitcher into something...even.
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Rolled 8, 5, 8, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5 = 41 (8d8)

>>4277314
forgot muh dice. I will be doing lore results later in response to all the dice.
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>>4277305

A boring trade agreement is made between Jahonia's Embrace, the Stitcher Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Omir'ten. Smelling the potential for profit, the Ozarasi join in too. Each power agrees to lower tolls by 10% as compared to nations outside of the agreement and the parties agree to gradually lower their tolls between each other over the span of a couple of years.
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A modern world requires modern solutions. As machine-technology was improving, the vulnerabilities of the Highbornes’ and Skybornes’ level of development was becoming clear. Leaps would have to be made. But to sell one’s essence to the subjugation of the machine was not the way. The path of life was the true way.

FG: Rolling for advanced bio-fuel thrusters and advanced photosynthesis.
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Rolled 7, 5 = 12 (2d8)

>>4277341
But I also roll for these things
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Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4277311

Moralve, the beautiful. Moralve, the free!
Free to exploit, that is!


When the Subter Commonwealth was brought under Red (Royal) control, the successor faction of the Subter Empire Imperials, who let Jahonian "Peacekeeping" forces into their domain in order to quell the civil war, a steadfast and strong bond was form. The Royalists and Jahonia's Emrace saw that they had much in common ideologically (A queen above; A king below!)

As a first step in this friendship Jahonia's Embrace and the Subter Commonwealth venture to establish a joint colony in Moralve. Or more like, two colonies; one above ground and one below.
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>>4277353
I'll fiat pass the second roll for the meme
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>>4277233
>7
House shale everybody!
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>>4277297
Whether if it a failure on the Jadijinese Engineers, an act of counter-sabotage by the Eys'dra FG, or just a twist of fate; the explosive exit the Jadijinese Empire planned turned out to be no more than minor incident at best. While was indeed rigged to blow on the Mysdrail Outpost, one of the abandoned and rigged rocket engines overheated faster than anticipated, thanks to its Salhetite infused fuel system. This caused a chain reaction, incinerating the nuclear power plant and destroying the sabretail's share of explosives. The ensuing explosion would bare some desired results, have caught several thousands acres of forest on-fire before it could be quelled, and additionally the destroyed plant leeched enough radiation to greatly deter any scavenging efforts by the Skyborne Grabraf.

However at the end of day, the destruction of the Mysdrasil Outposts looked like less of act of zealous revenge, but just an unfortunately sloppy exit by the FG's former neighbors. Many Highborne would even point to the event and applaud Gakuan's actions, as they had clearly prevented a far worse event from occurring should the Tripod had stayed.
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Rolled 6, 4, 5, 2, 4, 2 = 23 (6d8)

>BT: Predictive computing, Transistors
Despite its humble origins as a simple pyramid scheme, the Ozasari were now a planet wide business operation. Their business in Sujardin and their sovereignty over Roulb island were their most valuable assets, profitable enough to ensure their long-term existance. Nevertheless, some executives believe that, maybe, perhaps, they should try to actually have magic computers.

>RT: Spaceflight, Industrial Microbiology
The betrayal at the hands of the FGs was a heavy blow for the Panoramians, but their previous development of Rocket Sleds meant that it hurt their pride more than it did their spaceflight efforts. Still, the technology was still young, and so the RTs considered turning their eyes towards Shatturne to make up for the loss of Mysdrassil. But that was pennies compared to their biggest issue; not turning their astronauts into mashed denui tuberroots. No use crying over spilled milk though, there's always a spare Tripod when you need it.

Their latest advances in genetics, alongside their history of cultivating algae and other such microrganisms as byproducts of their (ancient) hydroponic farms lead the Panoramians to research the art of synthetizing drugs from yeast. Their success might mean a great leap towards actual medicine for RTs, or maybe even higher addiction rates. Only time will tell.

>CT: Mechsuits, Pouchytailization
Super fighting robots, they're good at heavy combat and selling anime merchandize, not so much for industry and covert ops. The Omir'ten try their hands at reverse engineering their mechs, using them as the base for more maneurable mechanized exo-suits, that would hopefully aid in the industralization of their colonies and reconstruction of their capital.

As tensions between the stitchers and the CTs in Foltania grow by the minute, secret investigation (no doubt influenced by the recent influx of RTs and BTs) regarding Stitcher biology is set afoot. Perhaps the process of hurkunization could be replicated on their neighbours?
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Rolled 4 (1d8)

>>4277063
PG rolling for MK 2 mech suits. Think Edge of Tomorrow.
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>>4277353

[Impulse the thrusters]

A thought, an impulse, the twitch of a muscle. Gakuan could feel it. They all could. The Eys’dra islands where moving quicker than ever before. The trees swayed and bowed under the pressure of wind and G-force. The pained crackling and creaking of the trees got louder and louder, but so too did the wind. Even still, they kept accelerating and they kept climbing. Faster and faster. Higher and higher. All of if fueled by rapid, efficient photosynthetic and Methanogenetic processes.

This was progress.

And progress smelled like farts.
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Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d8)

Seeing the stitchers walking around with arms and legs made of metal and crystal like it's no big deal and remembering how a RT ecologist offhandedly mentioned an evolutionary link between stitchers and the common pest and/or pet known as the pouchytail, Zet's scientists think: hey, we can make a surveillance system out of this!
Rolling for making pouchytails with cameras inserted in their eyeballs and for spreading them covertly
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Rolled 3 (1d8)

rolling for Salhetite accumulation by House Sandstone.
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>>4277364

Some good things must start small. And so too did the Yas Kwin Colony. A mining town is founded supported by a small port town.

CGs, PGs and maybe one, eh, perhaps two TGs working side by side. Or, not really. The CG are holing themselves up in the mine and the surface dwellers begin an open quarry.
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The growth serum works well... TOO well. The key ingredients were bought from a wandering FG on the run from the mindhive, and for a while, the concoction worked fine: the pups it was tested on matured to the sizes of praetors in the matter of months, and then... They just never stopped. They grew and grew and grew, their bodies somehow living even as they became more tumor than stitcher.
...They are still kept alive in the lowest levels of the White Palace - after all, they DO have tits the sizes of trucks that produce crystal accordingly.
The teat boosting serum just made recipients kind of dizzy - someone on the testing team probably botched the ingredient ratio.
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>>4277063

Clan Otaiter ltd "A Proud Red Company [TM]" had bought the exclusive right to soft drink exports outside of the Commonwealth. And with a sick new marketing campaign, using one of those ugly TG females that the tall surface dwellers are so fond of, they were planning on taking Sujardin and the rest of the world by storm. The broad said her name was Y’ler or something, but who cares.

With this international launch, several new flavours were also introduced, such as Low Spicybrafi (for those with unable to handle the spice); No Braf Spicybrafi, for those non-braf eaters; Pink Spicybrafi (Actually made from Swampbloom petals), and finally Spiceronibrafino, marketed to Tripods and made from tripod ingredients.

Rolling for the success of the campaign and launch in Sujardin, Tripod Territories and Stitcher Territories.
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>>4277439
the desired tons and tons of salhetite simply cannot be procured. Instead, payload for only two orbital cannons is acquired. The scientists sigh and get to work.
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Rolled 3, 3 = 6 (2d8)

The NG have long been derided for their simple minds - and they knew this. But now, now that their minds can get closer to each other than ever before, they can finally shed their simplicity, and ascend further by pooling their knowledge together better than any clique of scientists or philosophers. But it will require work - breaking the boundaries of mind is no easy task, especially when you know nothing about psychology or neuroscience. The former Rayyans attempt communion through carefully refined trance and meditation, while the Koneshans peruse through daddy RT's Big Cookbook of Science to see if they can find something about brains, and maybe even learn that something.
Rolling for meditation-based microAA node-powered thoughtmelding for NG and also for learning basic neuroscience
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Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4277481
rolling for the NG thinking they succeeded in thoughtmelding
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>>4277460

The after having ran the marketing campaign for a week, the ads are without warning pulled down all over Sujardin. Some quick investigating made by Otaiter ltd, find all trails pointing towards the Castigar empire and its ruler, Di'tan. They had even found sources stating that the old PG had threatened that he would "make the Great Sujardin War look like fucking kindergarten" unless the other states pulled the campagin. The nations of Sujardin figured that it was better not to risk it. Rather just pull the adds than to risk lives.

The company loses contact with Y'ler not soon after this. She seems to have disapeared without a trace. Her PG mate had been spotted by the locals of their village in northwestern Jahonia's Embrace, heading west, rifle in and granades strapped to his chest, chanting some weird as shit.

In the Tripod territories and Stitcher regions the drinks are met with great to moderate success. The Whites quite like the pink, almost white Spicybrafi, but would like it whiter. Similar is the story with the original Spicybrafi and the Orthodoxy; not enough minerals in the drink.

The Spiceronibrafino is a huge success in Panoram. The Natives love it! And the ingredients are cheap! When the company asked their suppliers what the sludge called "tripod ingredients" actually were, they got the reply "just that". And nothing more.
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The flames of racial superiority rage more than ever before; thinly-veiled anti-grabraf sentiment can commonly be found in radio and TV shows, and some tripods go from mere feelings of superiority to outright hate of the lesser races.
...Much more importantly, the Borealis outpost has managed to unearth several tonnes worth of only mildly damaged braffberg; it's internal anatomy is carefully measured, tested for chemical makeup, portioned and stored for later use, and dozens of theories spring up as to what functions what parts of it serve. The best part of the haul was however what they found when cutting the thing up: a tiny lump of tissue right at the center maintained a temperature of a few degrees above zero. In a matter of hours, the pathetic, diminished Borealis was safely kept in a tightly sealed, climate-controlled top-security plexiglass case.
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>>4277509
*not long after
Jesus Christ
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Rolled 4, 5, 2, 6 = 17 (4d8)

>>4277513
>>4277509

Political happenings due to this (Two rolls). Higher = bigger. Second one is how a certain war veteran plays part.

>>4277455
Potential social instability of this getting out. Low = nothing. High = Large consequences.
>>4277394
How mad the Orthodoxy's houses are due to this (Low = water under the bridge. High = taking the hand-jewelry off).
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Despite what official state channels might say, conflict between Tripods has always existed in Essari. Small clashes between family clans, corporate espionage, chemical warfare, nuclear bombing, the list goes on and on. Lake Saletzan was one of many witnesses to said violence, the city of Zutsuil ravaged because of political differences. But, as the old Panoramian saying says, "Existance is an onward march, life an endless struggle," and so the refugee colony of Yaunican was born in Moralve, while the Zutsuilans that stayed behind rebuilt their homes.
And now it was time for the Syndicate City to step into the spotlight once again. The Jadijinik had long tinkered with the idea of ending the de-facto cold war that existed between them and Zaibatsu. The Patsurians had already reconciled with Omir'Ten long ago, which brought nothing but boons to the Tripods of Eastern Panoram, a great leap towards Tripod Unity.
It was not only ideals that the Jadijinese were after, the Zaibatsu had the potential to be a great asset to the TPN research efforts, despite their mental illness, BT technology was on-par with the RT's. The Shatturnians were smart cookies, but they were also reckless. The Panoramians had so far ignored Zets shady business in their home, as they considered his meddling and extraction to be relatively harmless in the large scale. But recent reports suggested a gross underestimation of how much Salhetite was being illegally exported by him, and more importantly, how much of it was sold to lesser races. The reasons for a diplomatic council between the RTs and BTs continue piling on, and the pros clearly beat the cons. A Great Congress of Nations would be held in Zutsuil, the main event being the signing of a treaty between Zaibatsu and the TPN, establishing formal regulations in trade, joint space programs, quotas for xenophobic content on media, and strict guidelines for the development of intercontinental business. Zaibatsu, Western Patsuria, Jadijinik, the Rag'hoki colonies in Jaa'apan and East Patsuria, and Omir'ten were immediately accounted for, but the other BT, RT and CT nations had yet to answer their RVSPs.
>I wanna roll so one roll for how many other nations attend the congress and other for how many of them sign on the treaty.
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>>4277261
>>4277268

Resolving this formally take cues from this suggestion >>4277277 here.

The TG City-States knew their walls and will would be tested soon enough, but few had thought they actually come out on top; although many TG scholars would in hindsight go on to mark up the victory between the Cas'nach and Zok'tokan forces largely owed to the disorganization of the SoX Forces.

The paint had barely dried on the freshly acquired arms purchased from the Zet Zaibatsu when a series of haphazard raiding parties assailed the walls of the two City-States. Swiftly working to coordinate a counterattack, the TG Defense found itself overwhelmingly effective. Not only had they driven off the PG forces, but they even took the opportunity to counterattack, only retreating back to their walls, due to being sure a reinforcement army would be fast approaching. Only it never came.

Weeks later, an armistice would be signed, agreeing to a White Peace with the agreement to cease hostilities with the City-States for the next 2-years. Neither side had foreseen such an outcome, but for the TG City-States, it was a resounding boost to their morale, helping to affirm their decision in continued independence.

>>4277422
>>4277269
>>4277314
--Sapient Tech Rolls Attained--
TG: Nuclear Physics
FG: Biometallics, Bio-Fuel Thrusters, Advanced Photosynthesis
PG: n/a
CG: Elevators
NG: Foreign Biology, Surgery
RT: Vertical Farming
BT: SSTO (Single-Stage-to-Orbit),
CT: Photolithography
STI: Aerodynamics, Additive Manufacturing
VLT: Salhetite Filtering
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>>4277577
The Ozasari roll for computing was succesful libby.
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Rolled 8 (1d8)

As we all know, there are constantly small border skirmishes between Xerhonoke border towns and Sons of Xerho gangs on xikes.

Recently Tronuk'xo, a chieftain's son has had his eye on a factory on the border and he is planning a raid, but the youths in his xike gang are unsure how to approach the attack on a fortified position with their xikes.

Luckily they meet a PG in kholeskan armor on one of thier joyrides, and in conversation it turns out he is a mercenary with experience in just that thing. They offer him money to join the raid.
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>>4277269
>TG: advanced ballistics, Nuclear physics (4,7)
Try as the TG might, their efforts during the silent decade yielded little to no fruit on nuclear weapons...no more. The first explosion took during the dawn of a day that will be remembered well. Each independent city detonated their weapon at the same time. Though anemic compared to their contemporaries, it was enough to make a resounding point; They were still sovereign. The delivery mechanism was that of the main cannon from each city. The dawn glowed.
>NG: foreign biology, Surgery (8,8)
For the Kin, the flesh had long held no secrets. They were flayers first and foremost, having perfected vivisection hundreds of years ago. There were no shortages of samples to examine. To execute the art with the intent of reversal...a new challenge. However, Emra's gifts were many, and the flesh, no matter how arrogant it would think itself no part of the great cycle, was the most basic aspect within it. Tripods, and even in more hushed whispers, grabrafs, would turn to the small creatures in their darkest hours to provide services desperately needed. Some of the more radical whitestone stitchers within the sumpter empire would on rare occasional use their services to preform grafts of flesh from their fallen comrades, or stave off the sickness with fresh organs. (whitestone stitchers are all universal donors to other stitchers)
>PG: radio, refrigeration (1, 4)
The SoX attempt at developing their own technology for radio and refrigeration had failed, leaving them to remain dependent on expensive imports of an older generation. The setback on radio cost them in several minor campaigns, and nearly caused a loss of territory. Their refrigerator was close to success, but failures in temperamental gasket material caused toxic amonia leaks to taint their cheese samples.
>FG: Ballistics, Biometallics (2,5)
The highborn deigned not to trouble themselves with mortal matters of ballistic science, and instead refined their biomancy further; metallic particles could be excreted into cellular matrixes, or even as bio-compatible organ scaffolding. Those brash enough would descend to the surface world, to try their metal against errant TG's crystal. It was an outspoken notion that they were the favored of Emra, and the TG but an early effort, or perhaps...mistake.
>CG: Amphetamines, elevators (1, 6)
The old recipe turned out to be nothing more than a useless hurkun aphrodisiac used by Tuzan farmers when a stud couldnt or wouldnt breed. Its effects on the local population were...upsetting to say the least. Fornication in the streets, on the trains, and in one fatal event, with a stitcher. Pulp literature was sold telling of invigorated CG gangs overwhelming lingering PG mercenaries in a tide of bawdy unspeakables. This nearly overshadowed the advent of the outsized freight elevator system. The Subter empire began growing rapidly, their rise to former glory aided by cheap foreign imports.
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>>4277570
>Gonna do a small resolution cause I want nongent to answer to this
The Panoramian had called upon their brethren many times before, and once again they answer. Tripods from every corner of Essari turn up on Zutsuil: BT, RT, CT, it doesn't matter, we are all a single race, the tripod race :). Most of them are observers to the treaty, and only the TPN members and Zaibatsu adhere to it, the Omir'Ten and their Panoram Colonies sign it as well, but it's mostly symbolical, as they already got their own preexisting treaties with the RTs.
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Rolled 8, 8 = 16 (2d8)

One fateful day, it finally happened. Large Leader... became Large Corpse. Rumors say he died fighting his two clone sons one final time, or that he was slain while defusing a nuke scheduled to hit Torray; the truth is way less glorious - the old man slipped, and accidentally crushed his fragile windpipe between his cold hard support exoskeleton and the colder harder floor.
Rolling to see if word gets out, and how good of a tactician whoever replaces him is
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>>4277618
>>4277625

Gonna go ahead and just fuse these two results.
>Rolling to see if word gets out, and how good of a tactician whoever replaces him is
Fused Results 4,6

4 = Secret is kept out of the ears of the layman, but makes it to high-up powers.
6 = A fairly capable successor.
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>>4277269
>Voltanites: Salhetite filtering, oceanic drilling (8,1)
Ongoing efforts to extract Salhetite from oceanic water had started to yield fruit, and in a very big way. It was argued that perhaps the largest concentration of the material was diffused in an unrefined state within the ocean itself. The technology was guarded, and despite Tripod offerings to establish refineries on their more distant and protected colonies...during this tumultuous time...the Voltanites wisely refused and kept production and export to their home territory. They would not export the material themselves either, instead requiring a constant presence of their client states, which served to ward away would be enemies, namely the Lady's damnable fools, and the glory blind Castigars. Still, the tripods seemed desperate for the material, and the voltanites knew soon they could name their price...

>BT: (early) SSTO, portable nuclear reactors (8,5)
Zet oversaw the entire SSTO program himself, from the retrofit of the Chongus and Chungus, to their repeated flights and reentry. Each time machines, crew, and pace was pushed further, often to the fear of the lesser houses within the Zaibatsu. Each time Zet was vindicated; the aggressive plan had payed off. The first generation of heavy lift logistics craft were never envisioned for this task, but accomplished the goal admirably, and would serve a time longer as their replacements were still being conceptualized. A long desired goal quietly enabled the effort, lead by a team of unsung heroes. Compact, portable nuclear energy was disseminating throughout the bloodthroat region, both as a gift and a leash. Reliance on periodic reactor refueling would ensure compliance from this lesser houses, their thermal power plants growing cold and neglected in the face of such cheap energy. This effort would spread to the less loyal, or unaligned BTs and once proven viable, extended into RT territory as a new service line for interested customers.

>RT: Vertical farming, Phage medicine (8,2)
Zutsuil pivoted quickly, combining many existing technologies to create extremely efficient vertical farming, transforming urban sprawl and industrial decay into bountiful gardens with (dubiously) organic food. This would cement a reputation as an up and coming nation, from the brink of failure. Their attempts at phage medicine may have killed a few people, and been extensively suppressed thereafter.

>CT: (oracle boosted) synthetic materials, photo-lithography (3,4)
the CTs learned nothing. They were incapable of learning. The Omir'ten were far too busy establishing new holdings, and planning to rule the world.
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>>4277314
>>4277318
>Stitchers: additive manufacturing, whitestone homogenization effort (cybernetics modernization ). (6,5)
For house whitestone, the era of weaver reliance had began to sunset. A new machine, ironically made by weavers, but controlled by the "computer", had begun create massive constructs of a crude nature. "three axis printers" the outsiders would call them, but internally they were known as the "Empress's teats." And mighty they were.

The FG spurned the request of the whitestone, which caused them to shriek in anger. It was well known that the Stitcher was the first blessed by Emra with holy electricity, and it was divine right that the stitcher was chosen to govern itself thereafter, and do as it would, even if that was to electrocute Emra. Rage turned to innovation, as stitchers began crossing bridges that their ortodox cousins would pale at. Pale into a shade closer to white.

Troops accepted that they were born to die, that all stitchers were born to die, and the path they walked would have no return. Comical machines were phased out in favor of disposable shock troops; their organs augmented and rearraged with such blessed capabilities as "hemispherical relocation" and "Skull gun". Skirmishes between the Voltanites and Whitestones yielded reports of the small warriors fighting dismounted, but with augmented limbs, or surviving grievous dismemberment or beheading; at least for a time.

Giant stitcherbots who sat on the edge of relegation found new purpose as their former pilots were liberated from the body of flesh, and their being transplanted into the body of purpose. Multiple slave nodes of computerized minds acted as a nervous system of sorts, enabling the titans free reign of movement in ways not previously possible. Redundant space was given over to armor, synthetic muscle, fuel and storage space. A few experimental models were fitted with the teats of the empress. In short, the machines were given a second lease on life, and each one was wildly different from the last with no standardization at all, as was correct and even.
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Rolled 6 (1d8)

Rolling for the effect of Attunement thinkers and Choir hospitals to somehow temper the xenophobia a bit.
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Rolled 6, 8 = 14 (2d8)

stitchertech rolls before I go to bed:
>Advanced life support
This should not mean that they can keep stitchers alive for years, but that they can keep a tit alive seperated from a body for a long time.

and
>optic fibre
To replace a.) the stitchernet connections and b.) the nerve-copper system in computers, to hopefully downscale them more.
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Rolled 1, 6, 3 = 10 (3d8)

NG reverse engineering rolls for Ballistics and Refrigeration, so they can be slightly less dependant on Tripod imports.

Also, they breed like rats, so rolling for how well their birth rates hold up next to their maternal death rates in Moralve, lets expand those borders bois.
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>>4277151
--Stitcher Event: A Shot in the Dark--

The journey into orbit for the brave pioneer, or perhaps better thought as a mad White Stitcher had been a tenuous affair, but after some 7 claw-biting minutes, the heated ferrite surface finally cooled, and radio readouts indicating the Space Ball had successfully made it into orbit. The Stitcher would be a hailed a hero to his brood (should he survive re-entry), but before that the Stitcher Probe began sending radio pings out to detect orbital objects. It wouldn't take long, before a dozen or so pings roughly 4 or 5 metres in size, and one massive ping, denoting an orbital object almost 4 kilometres in length.

It was then a screech of static was received by the probe's radio. At first it was unintelligible, so the Stitcher's order its computer to adjust its radio spectrum. The radio received the message once more as the probe made its final revolution before re-entry. While still heavily distorted, three messages came through: One in the tongue of the Grabraf, one a marked mimicry of the Dark Elves, and a final one discernibly Stitcher, although the artificial clicking further distorted the message.

[Vocally heard translation according to Stitcher aboard.]
> "G--etengs, Esharre L--efarm. Yorr shignel has been reshei--d. Peese fall-w tees corrd--ates eef paus--bol."

The Stitcher Pilot, reviled yet secretly curious, replayed the recorded message multiple times, able to confirm that radio message had come from the massive orbital object it had passed a few times. As the probe made its descent back into atmosphere, the pilot pondered, on what aberration was aboard that immense object, and more curiously, why did it contact him.

Clearly more flights would need to be conducted.
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Doing a bunch of quick responses to unresolved rolls.
>>4277422

>BT: Predictive computing, Transistors (6,4)
The Ozasari develop an actual working product, it is a computer that can do very dry calculations in an complex language but give reliable outcomes. Developed entirely by Ozasari owned CG, NG, and RT volunteers for life, the product is prized by economists and statisticians. The transistors were reject stock from a well known Zaibatsu house, and burst into flames after 36 hours of operation.
>RT: Spaceflight, Industrial Microbiology(5, 2)
For the RTs of Panoram, their answer to space flight came in the form of mild industrial sabotage. Subscale models of the Chongus were bought on the scrap market, but quietly refurbished and purpose built as launch vehicles to enable high altitude flinging of astronauts into the edges of space before returning in a usually safe manner. The yeast laboratory had to be purged with flame, and then purged again with more flame. It officially never existed.
>CT: Mechsuits, Pouchytailization
The CT mind was unable to cope with legs, and it's pilot fell off a cliff during the demo. Meanwhile stitchers seemed nonplussed by the effort to demoralize them, and their biology was robust enough that they often recovered and were augmented with cybernetics. Those too damaged were often turned into computers.
>>4277425
The suits were not a viable technology for mass production, being resource intensive and maintenance hungry; the existing samples were relegated to the playthings of aging generals and captains, but the potential was there, and tantalizingly close.
>>4277430
Stitchers find hordes of dead and dying pouchytails littered over their settlements; it is unknown who did this, but their camera eyes give the stitchers a massive advance in their own prosthesis for such instances; and it was built so cheaply...
>>4277481
>>4277484
NGs are mental midgets who cannot thought meld, get into neuro science, or lie to themselves to feel better.
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>>4277517
(Gotta tell me which one. there are so many who could play part.)
Large Leader's agents have used the popular drink as a way to further infiltrate into various empires, learn secrets, and garner technology. Di'Tan has larger battles to plan, and soon his wayward Daughter and new Beau will be returning home...Perrotail can no longer drink with his augmented body, and looks at the spicy braffi with longing.
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The Whitestone houses care not, but the Orthodoxy is willing to declare ware unless every abomination is killed.
>>4277570
Zet looked at the paper from on high through a series of cameras, not deigning to visit in person. Officially the risk was too great, personally the contempt was too much. An honor guard of the Zaibatsu's own "Stitcherbot" and several dozen warriors acted in his place, executing remote commands. Rules existed as a mutually agreed upon cage, often for the betterment of those captive. Several hundred pages of additional material were compiled and proven thusly that the Zaibatsu's activities were not illegal, and they were not responsible for the inability of a nation to police it's own people. With formal complaints out of the way, it was agreed that they would stop...illegally...obtaining salhetite. The only other item that was agreed upon was joint space efforts, with the Zaibatsu furnishing tooling and developmental articles specifically to the nation of Zutsuil, The Omir'ten, and the Panoramians via the Eastern and western Pasturians to share at their discretion. Space travel technology would be freely traded as physical goods, with the manufacturing and intellectual property residing within their host nation. Licensing and local production as an option.

"To this Zet agrees, but on matters of trade regulation. Zet does not agree." The uproar was responded to by the greatly amplified voice of the stitcherbot. "A strong tripod would handily defeat a weak tripod. Thus a weakling will seek to convince a stronger tripod to do battle in an arena of that weaklings creation. The first folly is assuming the weakling has authority to demand the stronger gives up an advantage, the next is assuming that request be obeyed when there is no strength behind it. Zet thusly refuses unfavorable trade agreements. Order your people to not trade certain items, enforce your ports. The BloodThroats will respond accordingly, but not with military hostility."

>>4277583
The Kholeskan Mercenary really likes money, and the ensuing border raid was a massive success. The notion of harrying and wearing down the enemy with false charges and ranged attacks while attacking the shifting spots of weakness proved to highlight Tronuk'xo mind for recruiting the best. This in its own was valuable as reputation, but the factory was the true prize, captured in tact and full of willing workers.
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>>4277625
>>4277646
Large Leader was replaced by his twin clones. The people supporting the Peripheral Terminus project knew, the leaders of the soldiers knew. Even most of the rank and file had some sort of idea that the leader had changed, but to everyone involved Large Leader was more than one stitcher. He was an idea, and killing an idea meant killing everyone who had it. Thus far that had not been accomplished.

What no one else knew, was that the twin sons each carried half of the brain of large leader, grafted into their chests, wired in concert with their own minds. Less and more than he ever was, the legacy of Large Leader continues like the historical Ship of Ree'this.
>>4277688
The wiser mindset the attuned thinkers and Choir hospitallers brings rationality to the tripod xenophobia. Overt disdain and media broadcasts for hurkunization or outright enslavement are quietly dialed down, and even treated as jest towards their erstwhile planetary companions. In private, that is another story, but it is a safe to say there is a stitcher who screams his name is not Toby.
>>4277702
Gruesome as it is, the ortodoxy can now keep stitcher bodyparts alive for long periods without a proper host. The implications are many. Stitcher optial fibre greatly eases the requirements of copper in stitcher cybernetics, reducing unfounded reports of "cannibalism" and other horrific crimes of desperation. There are also improvements to the interstitch which improve communication and are wholy resistant to "electromagnetic interference" from such entities that employ that technology. Lastly, due to the outstanding success, a few scientists attempt to use strands of fiber to connect AA nodes as transport via converter technology. While it is purely experimental at this stage it is possible they are intercepting the thoughts of emra itself. truly it is a time to be born to be dead in!
>>4277731
NG kill themselves by the dozens attempting to act as living cannonballs. It is not good. However, their ability to learn refrigeration is uncanny, like little maytag men they are. Moralve's borders barely budge due to what is not at all a violent culling by hitherto unknown and external forces.
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Rolled 1 (1d8)

>>4277859
A bittersweet response is better than no response at all. Some TPN council members tried to convince themselves that sooner or later the BTs would give in, crack their hard exterior and learn to trust, to worship Work in unision. The more intellectual and scientific minds of Panoram, however, scoffed at that thought, knowing it to be a biological contradiction.

In the end it mattered not what the RTs thought of their mentally ill cousins, they agreed to cooperate with the space efforts and that was enough. However, Zets words did sting some members of councils and unions, both local and large, remaining in their heads long enough to affect their decision making.
Maybe he has a point.
>Dice roll for the renewal of their exterior economical policy, lower means nothing really changes, higher means they are succesful at policing contraband and such illegal actions.
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>>4278469
The Jadijinese were alligned with each other, they were worshippers of labour and unity. This meant they were loyal and easy to police. But the snaller nations of Panoram would remain a melting pot of Choir members, identity-less nomads, and easily swindled buffoons. Nothing changes in Panoram, and maybe that was good, not every state should be a super power, not in the eyes of Work it seems. This lack of Jadijinese-like discipline didn't mean they lacked discipline, just that it was a different kind. This would become apparent in the CT colonies in Panoram, where the poster children of Tripod Unity, the Red Cockers, proved themselves to bridge the cultutal and economical differences between the CTs and RTs. Panoramian owned banks spring up on such territories, boosting development at the cost of being more liberal with trade. An unexpected development, but a welcome one.
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Rolled 19 (1d20)

Among the Praetors of Sandstone, it becomes popular to train their bodies for combat as well as their minds. This new practice is called 'Martial Arts', and this roll determines whether the Martial Arts spreads throughout Sandstone.
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>>4278732

The idea of Martial Arts becomes wildly popular among the Stitchers of Sandstone even with some events dedicated to showing off their Martial Arts prowess.
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Rolled 5, 6 = 11 (2d8)

The CG had submersibles for quite some time, but most detect their surroundings using only visual cues (thanks to portholes), or not at all (such as the Serie 9 underwater locomotives, which zip about tracks on the seafloor. This is not very effective, and several thinkers start developing ways to sense things underwater. Some others decide to improve the length and quality of submarine trips, since perishable foodstuffs tend to spoil quickly in the steamy and cramped subs.

>Rolling 2d8 for Radar/Sonar and Referigeration
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>>4278735
>>4278732
S''''kkkkkkkkkkkkkk, a minor Sandstone writer documents the philosophy of Praet'k, fight-art:
Its greatness is derived from the fact that it's done in pairs, among stitchers, with nothing else but stitchers, and with a mutual coercive force to defend and attack. It is thus fundamentally even, fundamentally stitcher, and fundamentally free of freedom. It is the most pure form of existance. While the last point is debated, it is agreed that this makes Praet'k a form of life which is further away from wretched uneven nature and closer to pure stitcherdom. As such, it becomes an enforced part of stitcher life in house sandstone, not only amongst praetors but all stitchers.

In a note to his "treaties on the necessity of bonking other stitchers on the head", S''''kkkkkkkkkkkkkk laments that the original manuscripts of the unknown inventor of Praet'k are strangely barren, telling of nothing but that there would be a "Martial Arts" and that that is "a thing that happens". The anonymous writer is dubbed ''e'ko, after the stitcher word for laconic wit and posthumously sentenced to death.
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>>4278795
An anecdote:
During the height of the Praet'k popularity, one undefeated champion by the name of P'k't was once interviewed by a lesser house's patriarch-matriarch pair.
"P'k't! How are you winning these matches, even though you are not a Praetor?" It is true that P'k't was an ordinary Stitcher, and not of the Praetor or Weaver castes.
"So it may be, honored pair. I am merely skilled in Praet'k."
"It is true that you are fierce in the circle, but my children owns a fierce dueling Tourmaline. Could it defeat a Pterrortail in battle?"
"It depends, honored pair. Does the Tourmaline know Praet'k?"
"Champion P'k't, a Tourmaline cannot learn Praet'k."
"Well, don't tell the Tourmaline that, it might just learn it and defeat the Pterrortail in a single blow."
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Rolled 5, 7 = 12 (2d8)

>>4277646
rolling for PG radio and advanced biochemistry.
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Rolled 3, 6 = 9 (2d8)

>>4277057
rolling twice for satellites for stitchers
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Rolled 8, 6 = 14 (2d8)

RTs decide to resume their double-focus research on spaceflight. The Rocket Sled team looks into ways to reduce the strain the g-forces put on the astronauts, devising potential engines and reinforced cockpits, then shoving NG volunteers into said prototypes. Meanwhile, a second team tackles the issue by reviewing their newly acquired Zaibatsu SSO prototypes, reverse engineering their structure and building on top of whatever data they may acquire.
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--CivEvo Progress Report--
It has been 12 years since the Silent Decade. Technological breakthroughs have been seen across the board. For the Grabraf, most change has come from the PG in their increased colonization efforts as of late, and the CG nation, The Subter Empire being reborn under a new ruler. The Tripods, further establishing their superiority, have made strides in diplomatic cohesion, as each race now aims for the star respectively. All the while, the Stitcher have completed their first manned mission into space.

(Tier 6) Age of Invention [Tech Limit for NG, FG, PG & CG]
Atomic Theory (Need Scientific Theory)
Ballistics (Need Rifling)
Combustion Engine (Need Steam Power & Industrialization)
Electricity (Need Industrialization)
Flight (Need Combustion Engine)
Plastics (Need Industrialization)
Radio (Need Telegraph)
Refrigeration (Need Electricity)

(Tier 7) Atomic Age [Tech Limit for TG, CT & Voltanites]
Advanced Ballistics (Need Ballistics & Advanced Flight)
Advanced Flight (Need Flight)
Computer (Need Radio & Synthetic Materials)
Electromagnetisms (Need Atomic Theory & Electricity)
Nuclear Physics (Need Atomic Theory)
Radar/Sonar (Need Radio)
Rocketry (Need Advanced Flight)
Satellites (Need Rocketry & Synthetic Materials)
Synthetic Materials (Need Plastics)

(Tier 8) Information Age
Ecology (Need Biology & Taxonomy)
Genetics (Need Atomic Theory & Biology)
Internet (Need Computer & Satellites)
Lasers (Need Advanced Ballistics & Synthetic Materials)
Nanotechnology (Need Synthetic Materials)
Quantum Physics (Need Nuclear Physics)
Space Flight (Need Rocketry & Transistors)
Transistors (Need Electromagnetism)

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make up to 2 rolls for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period
• A poster ID may make up to 3 cultural related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 5 or higher of a 1d8 roll (NG rolls must be a 6 or higher) to successfully implement/learn a new technology (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll (7 or higher for NG)
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)
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>>4279061
After what seemed like centuries, the RTs test launches pay off. A brave NG by the name of Lae'kai is the first living astronaut to survive reentry after orbital flight (her path calculated to avoid any accidental meetings with a certain space probe.) She defitinely wasn't the first NG to be stuffed into a rocket, though.

Meanwhile, Team Bs efforts pay off, albeit minimally. SSOs were still a long shot. The RTs revised data is shared with the Zaibatsu, alongside a shipment of what would eventually become limited edition Zaibatsu canned meat.
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Rolled 3 (1d3)

>>4279078
Just a few additional notes, before I depart again.

• The Tech Chart Update above is accurately updated prior to this most recent post (>>4279061) that I simply missed while preparing it.
• Certain technologies that did have a successful roll, were relegated to prerequisite requirements (Like the Satellites for Stitcher), or just not accepted (Radar/Sonar for CG) since said races have yet to have the require Technologies or Technological Level to produce these items under my (admittedly vague) guidelines
• The latest political maps have been updated and can be seen here. [imgur(.)com/a/6MEQ9tq]
• Either later this evening (my timezone) or tomorrow, I will be posting the first regional event that will pertain to the either the Grabraf [1], Tripod [2] or Stitcher [3].

That's all folks.
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Rolled 4, 3 = 7 (2d8)

The stitchers attempt to refine their miniaturization techniques(arms making smaller arms making smaller arms making ever smaller arms...) that they developed back during the silent decade.
At the same time, other stitchers reason that since a stitcher can predict what is going to happen with certain degree of accuracy and a bio-computer is based on the stitcher brain, it should be fully possible to make a computer that makes educated guesses of future events.
Rolling for miniaturization mk2 and for predictive neural networks
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>>4278952
In the mountains, communication is at a premium. The clans of Tulzan have long built on a decentralized organizational structure since sometimes harsh winters can completely cut off parts of the federation for months. All this changes with the advent of the radio. Suddenly the clans can communicate over the peaks of the mountains, and this facilitates a potential change in governance. (rolling for centralization efforts. low means even less cohesion, high means more centralization)

Meanwhile the scientists in Nekonahu (increasingly religious men called 'Keepers of Change', a play on the Keepers of the Flame of old) have started a new branch of medical science: Performance enhancing stimulants. From steroids to Amphetamines, from focus enhancing drugs to sleeping pills, the production of such drugs starts a new industry, exporting amphetamines to the Castigars and Xerho, attention focusing drugs to the Thikning Grabrafs and all manner of degenerate stuff to the Subter empire

>>4279004
After an attempt to shoot a spaceball into orbit, a weaver is confused as he finds himself with a propelsion engine based on the pushing out of burnt gas from one end.
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>>4279116
>>4279116
Cultural: TRIPODS IN Spaaaaaace
The venerable Chongus sat at a new space port within Zutsuil territory, far from its normal grounds. The bay was a long idellic stretch of water, perfectly suitable for the sea plane. Years ago raw metal had begun to give way to white ceramic tile, or exotic thermally resistant paste like paints. Various markings, mission heraldry, crew graffiti and hash dots adorned it's cavernous insides. This was likely it's last space mission, the newer generation of craft were well underway, and sported not only modern equipment but modern materials and construction concepts.

Nuclear thermojets hammered to life and propelled the craft, laden heavy with fuel, equipment, supplies, and a minimal crew. 5 Kilograms of precious salhetite was kept in reserve near a hungry nuclear reactor, should such an emergency arise as to need the precious commodity to boost output. The older generation of it's design offered reduced shielding, efficency, and increased heat waste, but what it lacked for in charm it made up for in raw output. Exotic fuel from the Zaibatsu's refineries heated and expanded as it passed through corrosion resistant piping in the heart of the reactor.

In the flight deck, the crew was a first; a mix of Panoramians, Omir'ten, and Zaibatsu. All past their prime, but willing to accept the risks for the glory of their house, kith, or clan. Their mission was simple, establish long term contact with the orbital contact, and provide sustained relay to the control stations below.
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Cultural: The Castigars

Di'tan stood for an hour; black armor pitted, rusted, growling hydraulics making an elderly commander battle ready. Rain cut rivulets into accumulated dust from an early morning march. His heirs; a son who had witnesses something profound, and a wayward, self made daughter. Each commanded a company of fresh troops, mostly barely over the cusp of youth and into adolescence. Field drills went well, the old man was pleased, the commands simple. Each company would send forward 10 troops to spar with Di'tan. In the mist and haze, the iron clad figure was something of a legend and a monster as much a hero, smoke wafted from his powered armor like a black cape, heavy and foul.

He never moved forward. The young troops looked to their commanders in confusion. This was a test beyond their understanding. The children of Di'tan approached their father to find out his meaning, only to discover he had died on his feet...

...The funeral lasted for weeks, vows of duty, kinship, and loyalty to the empire renewed from within and without. A new strategic policy was taking shape quickly. Di'tan's son vowed vengeance against the voltanites, Y'ler would seem the brought into the fold. Blood, Material, Academi.
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Rolling for the performance of the Chongus and its interaction with the object.
Rolling for the decision between Death (low) and Glory (high)
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Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d8)

>>4279384
dice for the dice throne. old memes for the meme lords.
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>>4279399
based dice gods
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Rolled 7, 5 = 12 (2d8)

>>4279384
>>4279399
Behold, the might of QM Intervention
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PG roll for atomic theory and refrigeration as they attempt to keep up with the other nations.
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Rolled 1, 6 = 7 (2d8)

>>4279455
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Rolled 6, 2, 6, 4 = 18 (4d8)

>CT: NFC, Strip mining
Mech technology had been stagnating ever since the end of the silent decade, with its last significant development being the RC units. A main issue for the CTs was the heavy reliance on cables, which made the process of mounting the Mechs very clunky and slow. Near Field Communications are imvestigated in hopes of providing a simple alternative to both cables and the unreliable already existing wireless tech.

Meanwhile in Foltania, industrial planners look into ways of speeding up the extraction of minerals using heavy machinery and mechas.

>BTs: Magnetic Tape, Transistors
The Ozasari, alongside their crew of totally-not-kidnapped foreign tripods and NGs continue their self-fullfilled prophecy. With theoretical predictive computer already achieved, the BTs now tackle the problem of storing information in smaller compartments. Not that room-sized computers werent cool or anything, the Ozasari Model 00 would be kept in the long run, mostly as NG apartments.
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Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d8)

>NG: Rifling, Industrial Refineries (Tripod Tech)
The nomads of Konesh prepare for their holy crusade by importing large amounts of fire dart rifles, then dismantling them to figure out how they work. Hopefully they disarm them first.
Meanwhile in Moralve, their failure at not dying lead many of them to migrate into the Yaunican colony of Zutsuil, where they'd work the chemical refineries with minimal safety equipment. Perhaps a blueprint or two fall into their hands.
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Rolled 5, 8, 6 = 19 (3d8)

>CT Culture Roll: The Right to Dignity.

The Trifolt Frontier, otherwise known to the CTs as Omi'Tolt, was no stranger to social unrest. The Cockies were not content with being under the watch of Jahonia, they knew the only ones who had the right to rule over CTs were the nobles of Omir'Ten. A tripod being ruled by what controversial radio stations called overgrown hurkuns was most undignified.
The Song of Wetlands —Whose Choir had been slowly growing in numbers, both CT and RT alike— did nothing but add fuel to the fire of restlessness. Their clandestine-yet-mainstream transmissions were equaly bitter to Grabrafs and CTs. It provided the TGs a living image of how they were percieved, unruly cattle that attacked it's masters, and constantly reminded the Cockies of their unbecoming living situation.

>How does the social unrest manifiest? Higher means a full blown social outburst with violent protests, while lower means the tripods are far too demoralized to mobilize without external help.

>NG Culture Roll: The City with the Heart of Steel.

During the Silent Decade, the Nomads had made a pact that ensured they would never again be slaves to unjust masters. Their newlyfound freedom was either spent with in the nations of their new Tripod allies, or in the Moralve territory they had been granted.

But as time passed, it had become clear that NGs living as Tripod accountants had it way easier than those living in their so-called promised land. Facts were, the collection of scrap-metal shacks and poorly built huts named Skrig'Uriyah could hardly be called a city. It's poorly planned infraestructure and lack of effective public services gave it the honor of being the NG settlement with the highest mortality rates.

The brightest NG minds decided that a large scale urban planning project was needed, loans were made with the Omir'Ten and help recruited from the nearby BT and RT colonies. A city wide pipe system would be built, a massive central heating system alike to those that existed in their arks of olden days. It's hot water would keep NGs warm at night, it's steam would power their machines, a circuit of cooling pipes and waste pipes would run parallel to it. It was the most ambitious project known to Nomad-kind.

>Rolling 2 dice for how long said system would take to build, as well as how much it'd cost the NGs respectively. (Higher=Quicker/More expensive loans had to be repaid to Omir'ten. Lower=Long term proyect/lower interest rates.)
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>>4280567
>>4279448
The NGs discover the secrets of Rifling, and Essari becomes slightly more dangerous to live in. Meanwhile, the Moralve NGs reverse engineer the tripodian refineries with moderate success, and slowly but steadily begin production of bleach and amonia. Their pleather jackets and quilts have never been cleaner.
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Rolled 1 (1d8)

>>4277511
>RT Culture Roll: Global Genesis Emragelion

There had never been a better time for a Tripod to be a biologist. The successful extraction and isolation of specimen EmB-00 revitalized tripod interest in the Emraic sciences. Funding was secured for further research missions in the Borealis Outpost, while the procuring of parallel tissue samples from continental AA-Nodes was comissioned as well.
Something was happening to Essari, and it was up to the scientists of Panoram to find out what it was.

>Rolling to see if Libby bothers to explain why the AA-nodes keep expanding. Er, I mean, for the Tripods to continue unearthing the secrets of emra.
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Rolled 1 (1d8)

>>4277060

>>4277311
The Kiripenti Colony expands towards Skrig'Uriyah, aiming to surround them and preventing them from spreading like the vermin they are.
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>>4279384
>>4279399
Chongus was destroyed that morning. It rushed down the bay towards open ocean, and taking loft with impossible grace. Nuclear engines pushed the white craft higher and higher, before hypergolic fuel was injected into the reactor's cooling lines prior to combustion.

Several rather small and simple gaskets failed in response to the corrosive fuel, and conflict between sub zero and superheated temperatures. A lesser house who had been involved in the Chonus project over two decades ago had subcontracted to an Ozasari warehouse for gaskets of a correct material that could be machined to the specifications needed. The truth was they were out of spec, the wrong material, and had expired with no maintenance preformed on the unique and undocumented sections of the craft.

Within seconds fuel was burning through alloy and plastics, starting metal fueled fire. Moments after that the reactor breached, started a pyrophoric meltdown, the nuclear engines went into asymmetric thrust and the craft began tearing itself apart. the crew were already liquified against the window of the ship and ground control could not recover the beast. A small escape capsule fired, attempting to save the precious salhetite cargo. The best analog computers the zaibatsu had to offer would guide it to safety.
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Traj'Tan had fully taken his father's place as leader of the empire. Grey, dull, shaggy plumage and a long beak marked him as proginy of Di'tan, and a old lineage of the empire. His will was iron, and it bound Y'ler's skill in absolute unity.

As sure as they were the get of Xerho, he had seen the lady and her miracles with his own eyes. The legion would bring the plains to heel, not out of love for her, but out of the camaraderie she had inspired, and the blood debts shared and honored. They would need land forces. Y'ler and her consort were tasked with acting as diplomat, brining the message of why, and what must be done.
>>4279459
PG atomic theory is snuffed out by what was obviously accident. The city states of the TG were doing field testing of their cannon fired atomics when the entire research team who was also in that same area was vaporized. On the upside, cheese and food storage has never been better, with refrigerators enabling the merchant princes to stockpile untold volumes of food, and "Deep freezing" cheese to further assure their debts.
>>4280498
NFC was indeed a dramatic improvement over the mechs who quickly shed weight in mass retrofits, becoming more reliable and responsive. Strip mining was largely ignored due to the space race.
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The Ozasari's magnetic tape was a success, and they sold bawdy novels far and wide, becoming the first peddlers of smut on essari. congratulations guys. The downside was the tape only worked three or five times, before erasing itself with accidental DRM. Truly they are the scumbags this planet deserves. Transistors were just not ready, probably because they didn't kidnap anyone who could make them.
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Rolled 2, 4, 7, 4, 8, 6, 4 = 35 (7d8)

>>4280655
CT: Gang violence begins to rise like embers from bitter social kindling. Tripod lynchings become a popular spectacle, while hurkunization is on the rise. Open class conflict however is suppressed.
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The NG borrowed with abandon, using their funds to obtain surplus ships from any nation selling them, the ships cut down on transport costs and doubled as clan homes, solving the matter of more bellicose households. The city was fueled by import activity the likes the world had not seen, so hungry for resource were the NG. Even a side industry of accepting other nation's waste was added to their efforts, even the occasional CT mech could be seen assisting in heavy lifting. The Iron city was born.
>>4280697
beautiful.
>>4280961
rolling for the trajectory of the salhetite core.
1-Exploded in the disaster, temporarily creating a miniature sun and irradiating Zutsuil.
2-3 dumps itself over Eys’dra Confederation.
4-5 returns to the zaibatsu.
6-7 falls into sandstone territory, intact.
8-embedded itself into the side of the Specter satelite.
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rolling for the diplomatic response of the other nations to the Castigars.
The message was simple, push the voltanites out of Sujardin, unite under a common alliance. Retain your independence as a state, and only contribute Blood, material, and Academi to the new standing military. The standing military would never be used against the member states of Sujardin, and only used for war or civic engineering in times of peace. Each nation was welcome to maintain its own military for its own ends, to include war within sujardin on fellow members of the alliance. What was asked was so little. The alternative was war with the Castigars, and likely the lady's host.
(other players are more than welcome to represent the other nations, requests and demands can be made, such as assurances of protection and non aggression pacts.)

Nekonahu, Clans of Tuzan, SoX, Tou’ban Republic, Xerhonoke, Goltona Republic,
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Emmisaries from the tripods visited the embattled NG nation on Sujardin, shocked to see the condition of the diminutive creatures, many had become feral, committing atrocities that were expected of a PG. Repeated offers were made to relocate the colony to Moralve.
(requesting response from the Sujardin NG player)
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>>4280741
For a period of 2 days, the Borealis outpost experienced a "blip" in communications, but returned to normal operation quickly, citing harsh weather as the reason for the loss of comms. Over the following few months, scientist morale at the station was seen to undergo a gradual 300% increase, and the amount of research done on both EmB-00 and on other arctic phenomena has seen a 350% increase, with more samples being sent back to Panoram than ever before.
The scientists back at home, presumably due to excitement over the new finds, have also increased their productivity by over 300%, and made numerous advances in the fields of plastics, engineering and food additives derived from the observation of braffberg tissue, which they urged be put to practical use as soon as possible.
The government only realized something was amiss when they checked the records and found the outpost hasn't been making requests for supplies for the last three months, despite not having any ways of producing their own. A group of investigators were sent to make sure everything's running alright at the outpost.
Rolling for how well the initial investigation goes, and how many scientists got taken over back at panoram(100*roll result)
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Rolled 7, 2, 4, 6 = 19 (4d8)

RT tech rolls:
-food "additives"
-bionic(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionics) engineering

BT tech roll:
-shape-memory alloys

NG tech roll:
-basic neuroscience
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Rolled 5, 1 = 6 (2d8)

>>4280992
Rerolling that bionic roll and also rolling for continuing their neurology research from last thread.
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Rolled 6 (1d8)

>>4280992
>>4280999
The food additives quickly become a part of everyday life, their vitamin-rich and energizing presence advertised on every second box of tripod cereal(tripod cereal differs from earth cereal in that it is eaten dry). Consumers do report still feeling exhausted even after a good night's sleep every once in a while and that there's thoughts that aren't their own looking through their heads, but that doesn't matter! The additives are good for your health, for your mood, for your flesh availability, for your job, for your organism, for your wife's satisfaction, for your body and for every single other thing you can think of, so you should give the new and improved food a try!
Rolling for how many tripods got taken over in the first month after the additives hit the market(10000*roll result)
Most of the AA node structure "research" that the outpost sent turned out to be meaningless word salad meant to look smart and divert attention, but the pictures of node cutaways and roentgen screenings of EmB-00 DID give the RT engineers something to work with. It wasn't much, but they did end up with a plan for a revised sewer system based on a node's inner capillary structures.
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Rolled 1, 3 = 4 (2d8)

>>4281006
>>4280965
The failure of the Chongus was dissapointing to say the least, but the loss of the salhetite payload was worse. The mixed crew, regrettable. In many ways.

In stark contrast to the forward looking Chongus, its sister ship the Chungus sat in murkey and polluted bay, a storm on the horizon blending into the toxic smoke and clouds above. Affectionately known as "Big Chungus" for its oversized cargobay modifications and mild frame stretch. The craft had none of the re-entry capability of it's sibling, for there was no plan for it to come back. The yellowed metal alloy of the craft was coated in a fine layer of grease and filth, distinctly Zaibatsu avionics and communication features studded it's skin like barnacles.

Several stitcher like pods were obtained off the grey market, acting as escape capsules should the need arise, but even then there were not enough for the unusually large crew. Not only was Chungus not coming down, neither was it's crew. Materials would be supplied as needed, though they had limited ability to sustain themselves thanks to technology from Zutsuil. Empty fuel cells would be refurbished in orbit to make for work and living quarters.

It was time for flight. The weathered machine was not a PR peice, no effort was made to mask the radioactive exhaust plumes as it tore down the bay. Local geigercounters alerted the working population to don breathing protection and wash thoroughly, it was not an unusual procedure for them. Zet watched the flare, a small dot from his viewing deck. With reccent reports of infection from the Panoramians, the exodus had to accelerate. If the sentinel was useful, it may be exactly what was needed.

(while not needing to roll, lets roll because disaster can be fun.)
Rolling for how well ascent to orbit goes, and how initial interactions and "docking" with the Sentinel go.
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--CivEvo Progress Report--
25 years have passed since the Silent Decade. The Plains Grabaf have finally progressed into Atomic Age technologies, as the NG begin to swiftly advance their societies through technological imports. The Tripods have progressed in their Space Flight knowledge, only to flounder at the launchpad with the destruction of the Chongus.

(Tier 6) Age of Invention [Tech Limit for NG, FG & CG]
Atomic Theory (Need Scientific Theory)
Ballistics (Need Rifling)
Combustion Engine (Need Steam Power & Industrialization)
Electricity (Need Industrialization)
Flight (Need Combustion Engine)
Plastics (Need Industrialization)
Radio (Need Telegraph)
Refrigeration (Need Electricity)

(Tier 7) Atomic Age [Tech Limit for TG, PG, CT & Voltanites]
Advanced Ballistics (Need Ballistics & Advanced Flight)
Advanced Flight (Need Flight)
Computer (Need Radio & Synthetic Materials)
Electromagnetisms (Need Atomic Theory & Electricity)
Nuclear Physics (Need Atomic Theory)
Radar/Sonar (Need Radio)
Rocketry (Need Advanced Flight)
Satellites (Need Rocketry & Synthetic Materials)
Synthetic Materials (Need Plastics)

(Tier 8) Information Age
Ecology (Need Biology & Taxonomy)
Genetics (Need Atomic Theory & Biology)
Internet (Need Computer & Satellites)
Lasers (Need Advanced Ballistics & Synthetic Materials)
Nanotechnology (Need Synthetic Materials)
Quantum Physics (Need Nuclear Physics)
Space Flight (Need Rocketry & Transistors)
Transistors (Need Electromagnetism)

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make up to 2 rolls for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period
• A poster ID may make up to 3 cultural related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 5 or higher of a 1d8 roll (NG rolls must be a 6 or higher) to successfully implement/learn a new technology (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll (7 or higher for NG)
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)
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>>4281163
--Additional Sapient Technology Notes--
• Due in part to the further intricacies of international relations. Technologies known from another race Tier 6 or lower may now be learned by another race, requiring a 5 or higher (This does not apply to Technologies known by the FG)
• Those races that are missing technologies from Tier 5 or lower now only need to roll a 3 or higher (4 or higher for NG) of a 1d8 to learn said technologies.

--Unlearned Technologies [Tier 5 and Lower]--
Nomad Grabraf: Steam Power, Taxonomy, Telegraph
Plains Grabraf: Sanitation, Taxonomy
----------------------------------------

Now onto some QM replies to events [Post 1/2]
>>4280655
>CT Culture Roll: The Right to Dignity
Protests over the Jahonian Hegemony of Omi'Tolt would become a tense affair in the Foltanian colony for the years to come. While outright violence was rare in these protests, incidents where civilian Grabraf or Tripod would be assaulted or even murdered. Such events played out multiple times, but never escalating to more than a isolated incidents ultimately. The displeasure of the CT and Choir evangelists towards the Grabraf, would steadily result in an increase militant presence within the colony as Jahonia makes strides to reinforce their autonomy, while behind the scenes seeking more diplomatics avenues of appeasement with the Omir'ten Kingdom itself, as well as the sprouting protesting factions.
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>>4281259
QM replies to events [Post 2/2]

>>4280965
>PG Culture Roll: Castigarian Diplomacy
Castigarian Diplomats are received quite pleasantly across the board. Many PG-nations have already come to regard the Castigarian Empire quite warmly, politically and economically. Almost every nation openly accepted the idea of the alliance with the Castigarian Empire, but the subject of expelling the Voltanite Empire from Sujardin were met with mixed appeals. The SoX was particularly fond of the idea, in part due to their fervent desire to reclaim annexed lands and to war with "an equal to their military might". The Tou'ban Republic was extremely pro to the idea, mostly due to their nation small borders, and their still recovering economy and military being held economically hostage by the Voltanite Empire's financial support. Xerhonoke would also agree to join the alliance, however their answer to the Voltanite Empire expelling would be countered with the proposal of union that would stymie the continued expansion of the antagonistic empire. As for Nekonahu, the Goltona Republic and the Clans of Tuzan, they would each turn down the offer the military alliance against the Voltanites. Nekonahu declined on the grounds of their strong economic and diplomatic ties with the country, choosing to instead off their economic assets in supporting the proposed union the Castigarians desired. Goltona declined on the grounds of their disdain toward being drawn into another potential conflict with nations responsible for the desecration of their lands in the last war. Then their were the Clans of Tuzan that turned down the offer purely due to their interests being invested elsewhere in their next planned invasion of Ostralja.

Each of the Castigarian diplomats would return, each bringing news to Traj'tan that each of the visited states had partially, if not entirely agreed to an alliance, militarily or diplomatically. With this Traj'tan had laid out the ground work for new Union of nations in Sujardin, whose combined might may indeed surpass the Voltanite Empire itself.
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Rolled 3 (1d8)

The Panoramians had offered Zaibatsu the chance of launching their vessels first, under the condition of including a team of Panoramians and Nihiloramians within their crews, meant to establish the Second Contact jointly with the BTs.

This was due to preparations for the latest series of rocket sled rails and spaceshit cockpits —specifically designed to interact with the Foreign Orbital Object, as they had called it,— had been slightly delayed due to comm compliactions with the Naa`pam scientific team in central Panoram. As well as the Jadijinese goverment's sudden focus shift on halting the comercialization of illegal food additives inside the TPN.

However, the Bloodthroats repeated failures had bought them enough them enough time for the assembly of models 00 to 03 to finish, and now it was time for the Inti 00 to launch.

It's cockpit was compact, most of it's size was occupied by dense layers of material meant to neutralize the G-Forces and Heat, hopefully stopping the cosmonauts from becoming warm plates of tripod soup. This meant that the crew was small, a trio of brave heroes formed of two RTs, and a backup NG astronaut whose small frame was more fit to survive the physical strains of atmospheric exit and reentry, in case the shield systems failed.

The launch was to be televised, but a perimeter forbidding the entry of non-personnel was established around the magrail, there would be no live audience aside from the scientists and military.

>Rolling for how well the mission goes.
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Rolled 6 (1d8)

>>4281270
Second culture roll it is
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Rolled 2 (1d8)

>>4281271
>>4281270
Unit 00 had it's trayectory shifted, landing into an unknown destination, albeit safetly

>Arbitrary roll because I enjoy suffering:
>1: Shatturne
>2: Jobani or Brouldia
>3: Moralve
>4: Sujardin
>5: Nihiloram
>6: Foltania
>7: Sujardin
>8: Torray

As soon as the deviation in the first model's path had been detected, unit 01 was launched, this time without any complications
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>>4281270
Rolling to see if any of the crewmembers smuggled any Boreo(tm) cookies onboard
Also rolling for further spread on Panoram, same rules as before
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Rolled 3, 1, 3, 1 = 8 (4d8)

>>4281163
CG scientists had previously theoretized a way for their submarines to sense the seafloor better using sound, but were stymied in the practical application - none of their experimental models could transfer sound properly between the airgapped hulls. One of them, though, had just returned from Zaibatsu lands, and had seen a technology that transmits sound over air gaps - how could the CG replicate this 'radio' thing?

A dissatisfied former Blue Brotherhood member and expert demolitionist, Grooti JaHooti had a lot of enemies in the Subter Commonwealth. Not only the ruling Red Royals declared the Blue Brotherhoods a forbidden party, he is also targeted by the Black-and-Yellows as well. I guess blowing up that BnY smuggling warehouse while RR cops raided it was a mistake, apparently? So that's how Grooti became a wanted man in the Subter Commonwealth. Luckily he had enough connections to smuggle himself out, and this is how he found himself in a cargo train headed to Huzduk. But it isn't far enough... and he'd need to go somewhere else.

>Rolling: 1d8 for CG radio tech, 1d8 for Grooti's trip complications (low good, high bad), 1d8 for Grooti's pursuers (low means only a few bounty hunters, high means a lot of bounty hunters), and 1d8 for Grooti's next destination (1: NG lands, 2: Stitcher colonies, 3: TG city-states, 4: Xerhonoke, 5: Zaibatsu colonies, 6: Voltanite colonies, 7: Verdo'ya floating islands, 8: Panoramian Tripod states
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>>4281329
The CG scientist gives up after trying to reverse engineer an Ozarasi-made radio - thinking all Tripod manufacturing the same, only to discover a midget NG making radio noises inside. The NG fled before the scientist could question them.

Grooti is lucky that the initial trip to Huzduk was incident-free, however, as he arrived on Huzduk he received a telegram from his Blue Brotherhood comrades that two bounty hunter teams have set in pursuit. One hired by the Red Royals, consisting of three ex-Yekto Knight veterans, while the other is an odd mix of a NG berserker, a Jahonian PG zealot, and a pair of ex-Whitestone sneaky Stitchers hired by the Black-and-Yellows. In a panic Grooti decided to go to the Voltanite colonies... but snuck on the wrong smuggling boat. It was when a cacophony of NG hooting was heard that Grooti knew, he fucked up. The ship was hijacked by NGs, and sailed to Ostralja - and he was held captive by the NGs for some time. (If anyone wants to shake Grooti's life about, be my guest)
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Rolled 5, 8, 2 = 15 (3d8)

--Stitcher Event: A House Divided--
The Whitestone Empire had endured many decades of tribulations that in spite of its marvel of scientific progression, surpassing even the damnable Dark Elves in some regards. Having to endure the loss of 2 in every 5 Stitcher nevertheless left great scars on the White Stitcher, with even more castrated, or permanently separated from their mating pair (Due to Genophage, Electrocutions, Public Floggings for not be perfectly white or even, Etc.) The great revitalization of the Whitestone Empire in recent years had helped to boost the appeal for the Immortal Emperor-Empress Pair, however the sentiment of the Whitestone Foltanian Colonies were different.

In the Eastern Foltania, a White Stitcher weaver and philosopher by the name of Pa'li"tk had been born in House Opal, in the great city of T'kbee. In his youth Pa'li"tk visited the Sandstone Monasteries of I'eek, where he had participated as an observer in their great philosophical debates where the White Stitcher found a unique kinship with the Orthodoxy Stitcher. As Pa'li"tk matured into his role as a weaver in T'kbee he began sharing his now developed philosophy with his brethren, making wild claims of a more permanent union with the dark-skinned Stitcher of the Crystal Orthodoxy, of which he would go further to point out they shared the same blood and ancestral home in the Torray Isles with. He proclaims bold ideas of new hierarchy that utilizes more efficiently the individual noble pairs that run each House, and even a caste system that is even, if not equal to all Stitcher, Black or White. The idyllic union would be a single nation, under a single House, whole and even in the union of the Black and White Stitcher, as all tenets of life should be.

Of course, Pa'li"tk was punished often with electrocutions and public floggings, but the intrepid weaver persisted, even managing to spread his ideology to Feldspar and Gypsum, as well a gaining a steady following in House Opal. The idyllic screeching of Pa'li"tk's ideals echoed through the cities at night. A repeating of an appalling statement:
>"Whitestone and the Orthodoxy are Houses Divided, Uneven and Heretical in separation."

This phrase was finally the breaking of the Jewol's back, and an Inquisitional Force was dispatched to the colonies to once and for all purge Pa'li"tk and the "real heretics" The White Weaver and his closest disciples fled to the Foltanian Duality Lands, but would be inevitably caught and killed. Their ideology would live on, sending ripples through all of Foltania's houses.

--Stitcher Event Rolls (3)--
First roll to determine how prevalent the ideology spreads through Foltanian House of the Whitestone Empire. Second roll is for how much the ideology spreads through the Foltanian Houses of The Crystal Orthodoxy. Third roll is how likely the ideology is to incite societal unrest overtime. (Low = Major Unrest Potential, High = Little Impact on Society)
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>>4277455
As the freaks grow ever larger, so too their crystal output grows; but at a certain point, a single freak will experience diminishing returns, it's surface area and number of teats growing slower than it's mass and upkeep cost. Thus, it is decided to "breed" freaks, by cutting their bodies lengthwise and letting them regenerate into more freaks. This is essentially a process than causes one freak to become two, and thus become even; because of this, many stitchers idolize the majestic creatures, and willingly undergo serum injection or inject their pups with it.
Rolling for getting more freaks, through splitting existing ones and through making new ones respectively
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Rolled 7, 4, 5, 8 = 24 (4d8)

>>4281351
To the Huzduk, none of this is known (even though a band of completely roided up misfits, NGs, PGs, even two stitchers, were held up on the border, and three of them shot as they only could pay toll for two). All they see is that Ostralja has hijacked one of their ships.

They send out four telegrams: One to Ostralja, explaining that they will need the ship back, and a reparation payment in the order of magnitude of a year's worth of Ostralja's economic output, or be declared war on.

The second telegram is to the trade princes in nekonahu, explaining to them that as a minting entity, they are planing to start an economic action (war) and inquiring on whether other trade princes want to join in.

To the Subter Empire, now friendly with Huzduk, another request for aid, more formally and less economically focused, is sent.

And lastly, a proposition is sent to the clans of Tulzan that, should the NG not pay their reparations, a partition of Ostralja land between Huzduk and Tulzan could be brought about.

>If anybody feels like playing the other factions, go for it, I will roll just in case
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>>4281588
The NGs refuse to all terms, then burn the hijacked ship just to spite the CGs
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>>4281588
>8 on the Tulzans

>>4281656
In response to the NG's action (>>4281656), The Huzduk, backed financially by some Nekonahu trade princes and in manpower by the Subter Empire (for said finance) start shipping troops to Nagach where a great tunneling begins, multiple great paths to go under Ostralaja. Meanwhile, the clans of Tulzan reinforce the old defensive lines from the Very Strange War.

This is intended to be kept secret. First roll is for tunneling, second for secrecy.
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Rolled 4, 3 = 7 (2d8)

>>4281684
forgot rolls. Depending on the second roll, the NGs might no nothing of this
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>>4281686
The tunneling goes pretty so-so. Even though the CG are experts at this and do it proficiently, with excellent tools, including the new time-saving escalators, they are not used to the soft ground here and many cave ins happen after the mountains are left behind. While the tunnels do bring troops into Ostralaja, behind the defensive lines, the many cave ins alert the NG who shift their troops from border defense into the heartland.
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Rolled 1, 4 = 5 (2d8)

>>4281690
The NGs, knowing well their provocation would entail an armed conflict sooner or later, begin rallying their troops, stationing them in strategic defensive posts around the city.

(Considering the nature of NGs, im guessing they only have one city in this colony, right?.)

The tripod skeleton crew assigned to Ostralja are excited when they are informed of the current situation, life in Sujardin had been uneventful and filled with boredom so far. Panoram, Omir'ten, and Zaibatsu are contacted via radio. Eager to shed blood, they board decomissioned CT watch-balloons which had been intended to defend Omi'tolt, but sadly didn't reach it in time before the Kholeskan Coup'detat. There, they ready their long-range scoped fire darts, and wait for action to begin. Many piss jars will be filled, glorious amonia.
>Two rolls, first determines the battle readiness of the NGs, second how much support is sent by the tripods. (A subsequent roll will be made to determine from which factions it comes from.)
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Rolled 5, 8 = 13 (2d8)

>>4281722
For the CG, war is normally an inherently guierilla affair - literal "underground" fighters fighting other underground fighters. As such, they burry in, construct traps and spread out their troops, all the while building tunnels. A slow and cautious way to wage war. Hearing of Tripod aid, they also set up airial mines as is custom.

The Tuzans on the other hand, extatic that their old prey is finally laid bear, and gruntled by the complete lack of battle readiness on the NG side, crash into the country like wildfire, beyond the defensive perimeter set up by the Huzduk.

Each army gets a 1d8
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Rolled 2 (1d8)

>>4281588
>>4281656
The Ostraljans have kept Grooti locked up in a prison for about a week now. They still give him food and water, and Grooti wondered why they didn't just kill him outright. Is it ransom? No, the Blue Brotherhood is too fractured to pay, and the Red Royals will be content to let him rot in an NG prison. At the seventh day of his incarceration, it became clear to him why he was kept. A buffed-up NG in a suit of armor with a checker pattern visited him in his cell. The NG warlord spoke in rapid Huzduk trade lingo, of which Grooti knows.
"You, cave-kin Grooti! You know how make boom?" The warlord asks.
"Yes, why do you ask?" Grooti answered.
"Good, good. You teach us how make boom, we let cave-kin live good."
"How did you know my na-"
"Cave-kin Grooti, smuggler talk good at making boom. Cave-kin Black Yellow smuggler even tell which ship Grooti on. Us need to make boom, boom quick and boom good."
"A-and if I refuse?" Grooti gulped.
"Then cave-kin Grooti, go into sea no boat, rope all around, wear scrap armor, no air. So, Grooti teach how make boom?"
Grooti sighs. "Fiiiine, but you better have good gunpowder and chemicals."

>Rolling for NG advanced explosives
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Rolled 6, 8 = 14 (2d8)

Rolling for rockets and solid-fuel rockets for CG.
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>>4282458
AA rocket-batteries start being rapidly produced by the CG to make any Tripod intervention unattractive.
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>>4282455
Apparently Grooti doesn't trust the NG warlord even one bit, because after some time trying to teach the NGs how to make better explosives, he just blew up his prison and shackles with what few chemicals he was allowed access to. Feathers lightly singed, he escaped into the night only to run across a Tuzan raiding party that miraculously spared him, but ended up being captured instead...
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Rolled 3, 2, 5, 3 = 13 (4d8)

>>4282416
>Turn 2, part 1
The first line of NGs scatters quickly and regroups as reports of Tuzan hordes advancing through the line reach them. They form a living barrier of thousands of NGs, protected by small improvised trenches and sand sack pallisades. Here, they ready their rifles to fend off the Tuzans, and should any of them come close enough, prepare their simbiotes to 'impale' mode.
>Rolling for the effectiveness of such regrouping.

>Also the rolls to see how the aid that has now reached Sujardin is distributed, in order its RT, BT, CT
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>>4282499
The Zaibatsu, due to their relative closeness to Sujardin, as well as their intentions to keep their pact with the NGs, provide the most support. However the treaty states that Nomads are only protected in Moralve, and so Zet has only dispatched 1 antique high altitude airship, which is stationed in the coasts. This will save as many as it can NGs if they need to retreat. The BT vessel brandishes weapons that will only be used to defend itself.

The RT and CT response is similar, as they aren't particulary thrilled to help these stubborn NGs after they refused to relocate their settlement to Moralve.

Omir'ten sends a shipment of decomissiomed equipment retrieved from Omi'tolt, the Seeker bots designed to blow up stitchers, and the modified AA turrets meant to be used as city cannons.

A few technicians are sent to set them up, as well as 5 small war pulsejet vessels meant to escort their shipment, and maybe blow up the air mines with their guns.

Lastly, the RTs send only a small fleet of unused airships, mildy succesful prototypes built during the silent decade that were fitted with modified pulsejet engines and steel plating. These had gathered dust by now, and have never been deployed outside of military drills.
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Rolled 6, 2, 4, 3 = 15 (4d8)

>>4280987
Only three out of ten investigators returned - and a month later at that, on a makeshift raft rather than their boat. A series of interviews with the survivors was conducted, and one of them will be provided below.

INTERVIEWER: Dr. Kana Dehmarr
INTERVIEWED: [REDACTED AS PER WITNESS PROTECTION PROTOCOLS]
Dr. Dehmarr: Good evening, [REDACTED], it's Dr. Dehmarr, back for another interview.
[REDACTED]: Ok ok, just make it quick.
Dr. Dehmarr: What's with this obsession with brevity? The last two times we've talked, you also requested the interview to end early. Is it related to what you found at the outpost?
[REDACTED]: Yes! I didn't have the time to say it last time, but the, the [TOP SECRET] wasn't the only thing we found out about this thing. When we, we uh - were back at the boat, [REDACTED] had to use the breathalyzer and - there were spores in his breath. He seemed so surprised, even as his head- his head... urgh. [subject pukes at this time] The-the thing is, the infected, I don't think they know they ARE infected, even though their brain's gone by now...
Dr. Dehmarr: I don't understand what this has to do with shortening the interviews.
[REDACTED]: I-I think I'm it. With how long you've spent with me, I think YOU'RE it, too.
Dr. Dehmarr: That's nonsense. Hey, guard, what's your name? Do you have a breathalyzer? I'm gonna prove we don't need to cut the interviews short just because of some weird hangup!
[REDACTED]:No... D-don't!
[Breathalyzer is used to sample Dr. Dehmarr's breath; immediately after, the camera feed cuts due to a powerful electromagnetic surge; the estimated origin point of the electromagnetic surge is determined to be Dr. Dehmarr's head. A hazmat crew was immediately dispatched to the chamber, and arrived 13 minutes later, finding the guard, Ket Roshima, unconscious and Dr. Dehmarr and mr. [REDACTED] attempting to [TOP SECRET] him. Both were dispatched, and autopsy revealed [TOP SECRET]. Roshima was placed in quarantine and scheduled for a biopsy.]
Rolling for how well and quickly the government reacts to the possible pandemic, how many are infested by the spores rather than by the food additives(+140000*(third roll result^2-first roll result*second roll result)), and if anyone high up in the chain of command got infected
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Rolled 8 (1d8)

>>4282548
Extra roll: RTs may be using encoded radio transmissions in order to communicate about the pandemic. Does Emra intercept the transmissions, and thus realize one of it's old competitors is back at it again?
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>>4282548
The quarantine is thorough, but comes way too late - a total of 700000 people had been infected by then - not that the state knows the exact number, of course. A cover story of a disease known as "Crab-17" was disseminated as the reason for the lockdown, and squads of hazmat-suited medics were dispatched to evaluate each household; if the residents showed signs of infection, they would be escorted to quarantine.
Thankfully, nobody actually important was infected; most cases were among rank-and-file tripods.
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Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d8)

Stitcher rolls: predictive computing, salhetite filtering
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Rolled 1, 5, 5, 4, 5, 7, 7, 8, 6, 8, 6, 4, 5, 6, 6, 1, 8, 4, 6, 7 = 109 (20d8)

>>4281163
all options for races such as reverse engineering, oracles, and otherwise are assumed in play.
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>TG: advanced ballistics, computer
The city states of the TG saw how quickly the PG and their allies reduced the NG nation's mighty armies to nothing. This war time spectacle showed the value of numbers, technology, and a strong lead. They needed the ability to maximize their cannon's range against potential threats, to hold hostage another empire's population if need be. Their research was purpose driven, and shared only by night flights between the cities.

>NG: flight, radio
The NG had spent enough time scrapping machines to uncover little ideas and secrets from the creators of the objects. Each one told a story after all. Arguably the ramshackle flyer made from a conglomeration of Sujardin and Panoramian origins should fly...at least it was made of things that once did.

>FG: ballistics, radio
Supremacy drove the need of the FG Highborn to understand the ways of the ground dwellers.

>PG: computer, synthetic materials
The PG nations reaped the benefits of unity in a time of war, their own ideas layered over foreign imports, they would not need to reinvent the wheel of vulcanized cheese, just adapt it to their needs.

>CG: electromagnetism, radar/sonar
the remainders of the colored armies found that desperation lead to innovation. Crude machines could allow them to experimentally see through solid rock, finding otherwise hidden caverns, new places to escape, plan, and gather strength. their fragmented efforts at research and development may allow for an unexpected benefit to the resurgent Sumpter Empire.

>RT: Internet, Transistors
Even admist a pandemic, the RT's desire to shitpost further and faster would not be suppressed.

>BT: Nanotechnology, Space flight
Eager to escape the planet, the Zaibatsu rushed with abandon into progress, eschewing social comfort for industrial might.

>CT: Genetics, quantum physics
The Omir'ten had long groomed themselves through a refined form eugenics. The understanding of genetics would allow them to prune away the most subtle of flaws in their people, while quantum physics would lay bare the nature world to their understanding.

>ST: Lasers, Internet
House heliotrope, though resurgent in it's growth, was still chronically strapped for resources. By reducing requirement for solid projectiles they could potentially fight a protracted war against their neighboring houses. not that such an occurrence would be considered. Meanwhile the nascent technologies of the interstitch gradually developed into a fully fledged internet prototype. It was called "the super information hallway of echoing screeching"

>Volt: Computers. radar/sonar
The enemy was mustering its forces, but would not be prepared for the weapons of vengeance.
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>>4282691
Time for some clarifying results.

--Technologies Acquired--
TG: Synthetic Materials (Require Prereq. for Computer Tech Roll)
NG: Flight
PG: Synthetic Materials, Computer
CG: Atomic Theory (Prereq. for Electromagnetism Tech Roll), Radio (Prereq. for Radar/Sonar Tech Roll)
RT: :(
BT: Nanotechnology
CT: :(
ST: Internet
Volt: Synthetic Materials (Require Prereq. for Computer Tech Roll), Radar/Sonar
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>>4282691
>>4282701

I missed the mention of utilizing the Oracles.

The Cocky Tripods have successfully attained Genetics with Oracle aid
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Rolled 7, 2, 5 = 14 (3d8)

>>4282691
>>4282701
Finally, the CG actually managed to understand how radio works, thanks to a very dogged scientist who finally tracked down that fugitive NG and accidentally stumbled upon an entire junkyard full of Zaibatsu radio parts. Now the more practical inventors look back to the old sonar/radar hypothesis, to look deep into the earth and the oceans.

Meanwhile, Grooti finds the Tuzan PG warlord more amicable than the Ostraljan NG warlord. There's a slice of Hurkun cheese with each meal! And the warlord doesn't wait long for an audience. Again, a similar conversation ensued in Huzduk pidgin, but much more fluent this time.
"You are Grooti JaHooti, correct?" The Tuzan warlord spoke, beak and fur adorned with sparkling jewelry.
"Yes, and I'm guessing you knew me from a Black-and-Yellow smuggler?"
"Actually, from the Huzduk officers. Apparently, you know your chemicals, yes?" The warlord grins.
"Let me guess, you want me to teach you stuff?"
"Indeed, you have a sharp mind. We require a better Hurkun Cheese vulcanization technique, our current ones wear down rather quickly against the field of scrap metal and wood splinters the midget barbarians call home. What say you, Grooti?"
"I'm in! At least you guys treat me better than the NG." Grooti then thinks a while. "Uh, what will you do if I had said no, earlier?"
"Oh, we'll just slather you in motor oil and set you alight while we drag you behind our xerhocycles. Good thing you said yes, eh?"
"Uhhhh, yeahhh."

Rolling for: CG radar/sonar, PG vitrified cheese material (could be used as building material as well), PG artificial Hurkun Milk/Cheese as a possible side effect
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>>4282691

TG: Attempts at creating an improved ballsitics calculation had failed, as had improved powder charges to simply brute force their range out enough to threaten PG capital cities with their grand cannons. Several of the devices were damaged beyond repair an would have to be replaced with next generation synthetic materials. This knowledge quickly spread throughout the continent, and was improved upon to great extents.

NG: The NG took flight over the fields of battle, in cobbled together machines made from war detritus. Awkard biplanes smoked and spewed flame before being shot down by a hail of fire from PG forces. What was lost in the battle served to enrich the collective, in that moment the Kin of Sujardin had given a profound gift to all of their kind.

FG: Understanding ballistics was a simple matter for the highborn, they had simply deigned it unimportant to this point. Now though, a FG craned his neck skyward, lidless eyes glassy as they reflected the barest hit of the nebula above. Elsewhere, those of high tootine began using biological constructs to capture and examine terrestrial radio signals. Curiously, significant activity was detected from the hivemind itself.

PG: The secrets of synthetic materials did not reside long in the claws of the FG, and soon PG spies had brought knowledge from within the walled city states, enabling improved armor and wear components for their many machines. More importantly it let them examine and begin duplicating the exotic tripodian electronic devices, but tailored to their own needs. Ballistic computers, battle communication nodes, all of this would in time find service with the civilians of Sujardin, but for now it would grind the nomads down further.

CG: Chirpy brought with him, unity, and a demand; the best minds would form a collective to research the many problems of the Subter Empire. Unexpectedly, they came forward with atomic theory, and the notion that the deadly and radioactive rocks they threw into the disposal pits could be harnessed for heat and electricity. <primitive RTG piles> Moreso, was the development of uniquely made radio technology to handle the complexities of working underground.

RT: The golden era of shitposting was not yet upon them, as they were busy fighting off an infection the likes of which no hurkun humper had ever experienced.

BT: The industry of the Zaibatsu burned on, recklessly, developing nanotechnology to create the next generation metamaterials. This reduced the size of their analog computers and yielded benefits in areas of machining and high voltage technology.

CT: The holy kingdom of the Omir'Ten looked upon the work of their cousins, and saw that it was good. Their Oracles saw how it was good, and shared that knowledge. Genetics...a gift from within. From this the Omir'ten could take the practice of eugenics to perfection, pruning away even the most hidden of flaws inside them, perhaps going further into genetic perfection.
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Rolled 6, 1 = 7 (2d8)

>>4282921
ST: Stitcher kind deployed the Greater Interstitch, or Super Information Echo Tunnel of Screeching. It was something that connected all households, regardless of color, or orthodox adherence. More concerning was the fact that it seemed to connect to places they knew nothing of. A lost colony of white stitchers who used grabraf slang, a collective of mercenary terrorists, and more.

Volt: The spies of the voltanite were many, and the PG were careless. Knowledge of synthetic materials slipped from their claws and into that of the voltanite's easily. Advanced detection via radar and sonar showed the mainlanders stomping around like disorganized hatchlings. Large "PAVE CLAW" installations faced the main land, while airborne radar and sonar patrolled further still. From this they studied what was happening in relative obscurity.
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Rolling for Fekken:

Huzduk threw in with the effort to remove their close kin, the Nomads. Despite appearances, they were backwards savages who existed exclusively on the pain of their betters. Despite the close ties, there was political termoil and other practical matters for the Subter Empire and Nekonahu. Debates pressed on the matter of blood debt, both in person, as written missives, and over the radio. The matter would come to a head shortly and see what each countries true convictions were in the matter.
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--CivEvo Progress Report--
32 years have passed since the Silent Decade. War has flared up once more in the Grabrafian sphere with yet another genocidal crusade being committed by the PG & CG towards the proliferous NG. Stitcher meanwhile are facing a new wave cultural unrest in Foltania. Finally, after decades of attempts, a Tripodian collaboration has managed to launch a manned mission to space.

(Tier 6) Age of Invention [Tech Limit for NG, FG & CG]
Atomic Theory (Need Scientific Theory)
Ballistics (Need Rifling)
Combustion Engine (Need Steam Power & Industrialization)
Electricity (Need Industrialization)
Flight (Need Combustion Engine)
Plastics (Need Industrialization)
Radio (Need Telegraph)
Refrigeration (Need Electricity)

(Tier 7) Atomic Age [Tech Limit for TG, PG, CT & Voltanites]
Advanced Ballistics (Need Ballistics & Advanced Flight)
Advanced Flight (Need Flight)
Computer (Need Radio & Synthetic Materials)
Electromagnetisms (Need Atomic Theory & Electricity)
Nuclear Physics (Need Atomic Theory)
Radar/Sonar (Need Radio)
Rocketry (Need Advanced Flight)
Satellites (Need Rocketry & Synthetic Materials)
Synthetic Materials (Need Plastics)

(Tier 8) Information Age
Ecology (Need Biology & Taxonomy)
Genetics (Need Atomic Theory & Biology)
Internet (Need Computer & Satellites)
Lasers (Need Advanced Ballistics & Synthetic Materials)
Nanotechnology (Need Synthetic Materials)
Quantum Physics (Need Nuclear Physics)
Space Flight (Need Rocketry & Transistors)
Transistors (Need Electromagnetism)

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make up to 2 rolls for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period
• A poster ID may make up to 3 cultural related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 5 or higher of a 1d8 roll (NG rolls must be a 6 or higher) to successfully implement/learn a new technology (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll (7 or higher for NG)
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)
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>>4282943
--Additional Sapient Technology Notes--
• Due in part to the further intricacies of international relations. Technologies known from another race Tier 6 or lower may now be learned by another race, requiring a 5 or higher (This does not apply to Technologies known by the FG)
• Those races that are missing technologies from Tier 5 or lower now only need to roll a 3 or higher (4 or higher for NG) of a 1d8 to learn said technologies.

--Unlearned Technologies [Tier 5 and Lower]--
Nomad Grabraf: Steam Power, Taxonomy, Telegraph
Plains Grabraf: Sanitation, Taxonomy

It would be heavily encouraged that these missing technologies are rolled for within the next 24(ish) hours, as not having certain technologies may be VERY detrimental regarding an upcoming event.
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Rolled 6 (1d8)

>>4282936
for the roll for how well Huzduk fights.
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Rolled 7, 5 = 12 (2d8)

While scavenging engines from downed tanks and airplanes is usually good enough, sometimes you need a custom one to match your scrap-plane's exact weight and shape. Thus, NGs attempt to reverse-engineer diesel engines.
Rolling for combustion engines for NG
Meanwhile the NGs trying to connect their minds decide that cutting up brains just isn't gonna work out, and instead focus solely on meditation.
Rolling for NGs to find a way to meld thoughts throught their microAA-nodes
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Rolled 7, 2 = 9 (2d8)

>RT: Nanotechnology, Modern medicine
The Zutsuilans hear of the discoveries of their BT cousins, and attempt to replicate them.This nanotechnology could greatly benefit the city's reviving industry.

Meanwhile, a much more important battle was being fought in central Panoram. The RTs were healthy and sturdy, and were experienced in battling pandemics thanks to the plague they had experienced in the Silent Decade. Their knowledge of surgery was the envy of lesser races, so was the wide array of drugs they had access to.

This might as well be worth nothing, though. Their theory was good, their praxis however, was lackluster. Theraupetic treatments and clinical aproach to sickness was still plagued with spiritual beliefs, and was mainly focused in diminish pain and the treatment of symptoms, rather than battling the root cause of them. The TPN was to reform their public healthcare services, the first step was the invention of a new system, taking cues from their Omir'Ten cousins. The second step was eliminating the Choir hospitals, which relied too heavily on 'natural' treatments rather than synthetic lab-tested drugs and often ignored goverment regulations, acting on their own accords.
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>>4282980
Wait shit I'm an idiot and forgot they DID manage to develop neuroscience back in >>4280992, just assume they use it in combination with their meditations then
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Rolled 4 (1d8)

>>4282952
Separate Tuzan roll
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>>4282952
Huzduk's trools were inexperienced in this terrain, but utilized heartless practicality against the CG. where they could not tunnel, they trenched. Where they could not move their men, they simply saturated with massed artillery. Those troops from Nekonahu cracked wise, ate, drank, and pissed. Their debt was earned when massed bunches of the grey wave broke from their own tunnels, only to be gunned down with automatic fire. For the most part the overtly tripod observation craft were disregarded, but several were shot down only to be found stuffed with nomads. It was likely that they were forming an escape route. Ostralaja would be...liberated...by the end of the year at this rate.

A savory but uncomfortable smell rose up from the more distant Tuzan camps. Nomad flesh. They had solved their logistical problems in their own way.
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Rolled 8, 7, 1 = 16 (3d8)

With the quarantine in place, Borealis's method of spread was essentially neutered, with the food additives recalled and the populace confined to their homes. Each puppet, not having the luxury of communicating with their kin, attempted to solve the problem in their own way, yet as they were all equally Borealis, all their plans shared a commonality; three distinct solution types were arrived at:
The first was adopted by those at the edges of urbanized territory; they would simply subconsciously influence their puppets leave for the plains, and mingle with the clueless nomads.
The second was adopted by those in the food and sanitation industries, and was to keep pumping as much spores into the water and produce until they are inevitably found out.
The third was adopted by those who belonged to neither of the two groups, and was to simply cease spore production until the quarantine was over, and simply continue once it's over.
Rolling for success of all three options.
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Rolled 5, 5 = 10 (2d8)

BTs, with their new experience in nanotech, attempt to create shape-memory alloys yet again, and even go further beyond with self-repairing plastics.
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Rolled 4, 7, 6 = 17 (3d8)

>>4282510
The living barrier of NGs that spew bullets like plastics from the breasts of a Whitestone which had been pumped full of gasoline had been breached by the Tuzan hordes. Luckily, the NGs still vastly outnumbered the PGs, and had formed a second and third line of fire,

Meanwhile, the CT engineers had set up a perimeter of turrets around the city. Sure, they had been decomissioned and their plating was thin and resistant only to bullets, but they were stocked with anti-stitcher tank rockets, and had a small gattling gun for a side-arm incase the PGs got close enough.

Meanwhile in the air, the 5 CT jets had been tasked with shooting down the Sky-mines, due to their higher speed and maneuverability. The steel plated RT airfleet would advance behind them, and would carpet-bomb the battlefield with salhetite charges, and spray the troops with gas and napalm. Hopefully those troops would belong to the Huzduk-Tuzan alliance, common tripods weren't known for their expertise on grabraf racial differences, and easily confused CGs and NGs.

>NG roll, Land tripod roll, Air Tripod roll
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Rolled 5, 8, 2 = 15 (3d8)

FG Development: The convergence

Between the floating isles of Eysdrasil, Reido'ya and Ulordrasil there were 4 powers of FG. High Tootine, the Eys’dra Confederation, the Verdeya Clans, and the Ulor’des Clans. Each shared ideas, and contrasted ideas, but their degree of seperation led to a disparity in their ability to influence the world, and on that they all agreeded; they should influence the world; but how?

Unity, was simply what was needed. The risks were quite high, but the braffbergs they called home, and what the mortals beneath them called flying islands, were mobile. Through an attempt at controlled connection with the other landmasses, they would create a new entity. An Avatar of Emra itself, and awe the world with the spectacle, announce a new power, and convince the land dwellers of the way forward to the future; not clad in metals and plastics, dying of cancers induced upon them selves, nor begging for errant flesh merchants to correct their cosmetic issues, none of this; the way forward was always Emra. It would always be Emra.

Across Essari the message was made clear, over radio, and plainly visible as Islands who followed paths etched in the skies for centuries abruptly changed course and belched gas and flame in great braps.

Rolling for the merger.
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>>4283012
The "nomadization" plan was a massive success - with tribes naturally infecting any cripple-schools they come across, and those cripple-schools infecting any tribe that stays there for too long, the puppet population grows exponentially; soon, there will be no corner on nomadic Panoram not within the reach of Borealis's unknowing puppets. This was Borealis's first long-term gambit, and while in the immediate results were meager, in as little as five years his total puppet count numbered at least 9 million nomadic tripods, all going about their day as if nothing happened... Yet ready to blossom at a moment's notice.
The infection plan also pays off massively; the entirety of Zutsuil's water supply is contaminated, forcing the citizens to rely entirely on imported bottled and barreled water. Many disregarded the authorities urging them to use the imported water due to the belief of disease being caused more by bad humors than by microbes still being widespread, and the number of infected city dwellers reached 2 million before the water supply was reclaimed.
The infection plan did expose a huge breach in Borealis's strategy, however; the infected water was chemically analyzed, compared with the blood of infected, uninfected, and "sporeless" infected, and certain parallels were drawn. Thinking quickly, a blood test was devised and applied, and found to be much more accurate than the breath test - Borealis did not seem capable of altering the amount of chemical and hormonal changes it caused in the afflicted. Slowly but steadily, the amount of confirmed cases was ascertained... but the tripods still didn't know how to heal them, or even how to make use of them without contaminating the rest of society.
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Rolled 2, 6, 8 = 16 (3d8)

>>4283072
Boreo: The shadow

It was a simple thing, to contain tripods who were infected with Boreo. Less simple, and less obvious were the Nomad Grabrafs that served unobtrusively at the tails of the tripods, out of sight, out of mind. Their Emra gifted symbiotes fended off Boreo, but their life style and hungers kept them at constant risk.

NG had a penchant for living on ships, in ships, and really anywhere that could be made a comfortable home for their clan. Usually an NG family helped more than they harmed, stealing a little food, making trash vanish, and enacting crude but serviceable repairs on machinery. All in all, the NG were an acceptable addition to the Tripod's lifestyle, especially amongst the nomad tribes who still wandered. The NG upkept their stationary cities, entertained the children, and cared for the elderly and infirm. It was not perfect, but on Essari, it was close to idyllic.

That was until the Boreo infection. Yes, tripods were infected, and foodstuff was thrown away en masse, individuals were isolated. The NG feasted upon the matter, usually their own symbiotes kept them healthy even in the most filthy of conditions. This was a new situation, and the worldwide logistics of the tripods meant there was worldwide dissemination of the NG if an entity willed it so...

..and boreo may very well do so.
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Rolling for infection of the NG population (Global) high bad, low good.
Rolling for dissemination of the NG population High lots, low not so lots.
Rolling for Emra's INITIAL awareness of this, low is vague, high is keenly aware of exact details. its emra, its gonna find out
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>>4281270
After effort, we've finally arrived at this pinnacle moment in Essari history. The Plot

--Tripodian Event: Spectre, The Watchman of Essari Part 1--
After decades of attempts, failures and bittersweet successes; a combined coalition of the Red-Throats, Blood-Throats and Cocky Tripods would on this faithful send eight brave souls into the heavens above Essari. In truth, they were not the first, as a myriad of hapless NG has been sent severals times before to prove the Tripodian Space equipment was safe enough for a their own kind to attempt. Propaganda would mark this day as the first triumphant step of Essari's supreme race into the heavens, and the unknown. The cosmonauts consisted of the following: Three Blood-Throats, Strana Ut as the Leader of the Mission, Arsine Zet whom is an exile from the Zet Zaibatsu bloodline that volunteered on the perilous mission to redeem himself, and Spess Ma'hn who is a 'Theoretical' Astrophysicist from the Ozarasi Cultists; Three Red-Throats, Manquerai who was among the first Tripod to have communicated with Spectre, Rapiman that is among the top Red-Throat scientists from West Patsuria, and Chuntao who is a volunteer from Zutsuil looking to make a profit from his daring adventure to space; and two Cocky Tripods, Tae'tane'e that is a Rag'ohki Clanslady and the delegated warrior on the crew (should it be necessary), and Omir'shaha that was a scientist and researcher for the Omir'ten Kingdom.

As the Tripod Crew broke through the atmosphere of Essari into high orbit to the celebration of the Space Control crew and millions of Tripod across the world watching the public broadcast, the crew members set their sites on the awe-inspiring Satellite their vessel's course was locked-on to. They has spent years drilling in theoretical simulations of what it would look like to dock with the satellite, and the Strana could be seen visibly sweating as Zet, helming the ship made his approach. Their docking attempt would be dashed immediately, when they observed a red light beam over the surface of the ship, followed by a harsh static overtaking their coms. As the light passed not just over, but through the ships before dissipating seconds later. An familiar, synthetic voice chimed over their coms.

>"Visitors at long last. Splendid! Fantastic, I would even dare proclaim."

As series of tendrils outstretched from the satellite, connecting with the hull of the vessel and pulling it towards it.

>"Welcome, one and all to you brave explorers of the Tripod kin. I, Spectre, humbly welcome you aboard Observatory Installation 039. There is much to be discussed young sapients."

Shortly after the invitational communication ceased, the ship jostled, as a hiss of air could be heard, as a connector from the Installation docked with the vessel doors. Who would be the first Tripod to bravely step forward to open the door though.
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Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4283092
>RT Culture roll:

The TPNs International Institute of Statistics and Geography (IISG)'s data was solid albeit still incomplete. Be that as it may, the results were conclusive; rural Panoram and its nomadic communities were the most compromised, and would be completely infected in no time. The city-state of Zutsuil and its vassals were too, be lost soon enough. They had experienced a sudden revitalization the past few years, but their once state-of-the-art sewage and sanitization systems were still weary, jeopardized, and heavily relied on the waters of Lake Saletzan. Their vulnerable condition had facilitated the spread of the infection.

The desert cities of Central Panoram, had been able to contain the spread of the Boreo so far. Their strictly organised goverments allowed for a disciplined quarantine, and up until now their water supplies remained untained. H2O was a scarce resource in these regions, so their sanitization and desalination systems, which implied constant filtering and chemical treatment, couldn't afford to anything less than top condition. Even in quarintine, the high traffic, provoked by their geographical position and relevance as trade centres, meant the risk of contagion was high.

Lastly, Fqwad island and the Northern Panoramic Archipelago had mostly been spared, their quarantines because of their geographic isolation

Panoram, was at crisis. Tripod unity meant most of the northern hemisphere was too. Not to mention the NGs travelled like pests through all of Essari

>Rolling to determine the RT scientists progress on figuring out the nature of Boreos spores and how to neutralize them
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>>4283095
Voltanites: Twin Invatations 1/2
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In a dusty administrative office sat Principal Hori'Tori'To, he was large for a CG, but the grey in his fur showed age. It also showed PG blood. He was recruited decades ago by the Voltanites from outside the cave systems of the original Subter Empire, before the war, back when CG knew better than to venture too often to the surface world.

Two pre-recorded messages came to the island proper of the Voltanites, and now on his desk. One from Zet. Always Zet. The other was from something that most people refused to believe existed. "Large Leader". They would be upchanneled and validated for veracity after an initial review.

The Tripodian magnetic disc slotted cleanly into a commercial media player, the combination vector-raster hybrid screen displaying all the colors between phosphor green and amber. which were not many. A low fideility version of Zet played out in miniature, his voice adding gutteral and exotic flourish to the mother tongue of the Voltanites. That a tripod's maw did not move as they spoke always added discontent to their presence.

"...Look to your history, ambitions; Voltanites. Look now, the wars ringing your home. See the united followers of Emra, regardless of it's form, crush the Nomads. You are not nomads, their combined might, now the TG hold the atomic fire. It does not bode well for you, old ally. Your territory is small, such weapons do not discriminate, nor precise. Consider our offer, and our motives, we align across many common processes, business would be swift and mutually beneficial. Your territory in our lands will be as assured as Moralve or the NG under the Aegis of the Zaibatsu, as it has been. Already your mind considers what we want, risks, betrayal. Yes, you have that, we want, but the path ahead is self evident; Sujardin is lost. Sujardin will always burn. The Voltanite Empire does not need to burn with it. Flee to us; to the Stars or the Sea."

Hori'Tori'To bristled at that. There may be truths to it, but the Zaibatsu did not know the totality of their plans, or their assets. Despite his reclusive behavior, Zet was always easy enough to reach if the need was great enough.
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>>4283189
Voltanites: Twin Invatations 2/2
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The next item was a self contained slate of some sort. Already screened for safety, its origin was a bizarre amalgamation of technology from across Essari. An interlaced LDC screen flickered to life, in perfect black and white. The stitcher presented wasted no time in speaking.

"I know you. We know you. Voltanite." the image appeared to be a stitcher, or two stitchers, but it moved out of sync, creating a ghosting artifact. Interlaced display technology. It was a large creature for their kind. "Peripheral Terminus was founded...against freedom, against lies, against reality. There is only enslavement...in this life. To ourselves is pure. To outside forces is the false hood." The voice droned, clearly synthesized, neither male nor female, clicking behind it was the stitcher's own screeching language. He knew enough that all stitchers rejected falsehoods to include false presentations. The stitcher went on at length about clandestine history, some of it, but not nearly all of it. That it knew as much was concerning. Interspersed was stitcher philosophy throughout the droning conversation. Finally was a list of estimated force capacity numbers of Sujardin nations, with known weapons development and a probability of survival for the voltanites. "Reject your chosen lie, Embrace the absolute truth. Even as stitcher, what we call perfect enslavement you call self determination. What we do with that perfection is where heresy exists, Voltanite. You will not survive this conflict. We will not intervene, but you can join us. In the depths, the stars or the sea "

The last item concerned Principal Hori'Tori'To enough to create a sinking feeling in his chest. The words were not an accident.

>Open ended response.
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In the infected tripod population, a curious process was observed soon after the first NG was infected(not that the tripods know that particular piece of information) - many tripods have begun growing strange, horn-like protrusions from their heads and spines, with rare cases of some growing from the chest area. The horns seem to act as radio antennae, and perform a constant exchange of information between the infected - though the infected themselves do not seem consciously aware of it. Weirder still, this radio chatter seems to be the medium by which the transformation of the infected is triggered.
Additionally, the infected no longer display the violent "self-censoring" behavior when exposed to evidence of their infection.
As of now, the cause of this event is unknown.
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Rolled 7, 1, 4, 5, 1, 8, 3, 7 = 36 (8d8)

>>4283095
>NG Event Roll: Vectors of Pestilence

Plenty of stereotypes concerning the Nomad Grabrafs existed, in fact, if these were classified as an economic resource, their race would most certainly be targeted by Anti-Trust laws to dissolve their monopoly on them.

They were regarded as pests, sneaky and unclean vermin that held no discrimination when choosing where to dwell; be it ships, basements, sewers, beneath bridges, accounting firms, the insides of machines, or in shanty towns that spontaneously sprouted like fungi and spread like bacterium. And the tripods had been knowingly enabling such behaviour for a long time now.

Ah, the Nomad Grabrafs, idilic vectors of pestilence, nature's favourite weapons of biological warfare. The Tripods were no match for them in the competition for Boreos affection, they were his golden boys. Through sea, sky, and land, they'd sow Boreos seed all over Essari. They spared no race and no time in doing so.

>Rolling for the spread of Boreos love through Essari, in order: Shatturne, Sujardin, Moralve, Jobani, Nihiloram, Foltania, Brouldia, and Torray.
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Rolled 2 + 1 (1d8 + 1)

>>4283221
Oh, I forgot, maybe this is too far fetched, but a dice roll to see if it somehow infiltrates Peripheral Terminus. Substracting a 1 for fairness to canon.
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>>4283221
>>4283228
Heres a quick resolution.
>Shatturne (7):
Described by many as Essari's heart of commerce, Shatturne (most notably Zaibatsu, although Voltanite and Omir'ten holdings existed there.) was the home of the entrepreneurial BTs and their NG accountants. Its seaports and airports were probably the busiest of Essari, which meant that many vessels containing multitudes of infected NGs made their way to the continent. And as if the Tripods werent already succeptible enough to Boreo's charm, the lower class Zaibatsu employees' tendency to live in overcrowded conditions facilitated his spread. I sure hope Zet's canned products are heat-treated before their exportation.

>Sujardin (1):

Grabrafs of colours and sizes hated the NG equally, this racism, coupled with the fact that Ostralja was currently in the middle of a war, meant that the spread was minimal.

>Moralve (4):
Skrig'uriyahs NGs Unusual Susceptibility due to them living like rats + their unusual resistance due to Emra's influence = average infection rate. The spread is mostly contained there as well, the other grabraf nations hated the NGs and probably shot the pests on sight. The tripod settlements were distance, plus the fact that by the time Boreo reached Moralve they'dve already established quarantine, means spread is minimal.

>Jobani (and Roulb Island.) (5):
The spread is mostly contained inside Zaibatsu and Ozasari territory, the infected:healthy ratio is balanced. Other BT nations are mostly spared, due to their isolationist nature.

>Nihiloram (1):
Despite their heavy trade with BTs and RTs, the Omir'ten are free of Boreos influence. It seems their seers foresaw this pandemic early enough to ensure a full quarantine.

>Foltania (8):
The Foltanian CT free cities dont have seers though. BT and RT trade continued as usual, the nations' had a centralist structure, almost all of the population was concentrated in the high social density capitals From there, the spores spread to the sitcher houses, which were heavily hit. It seems like the whitestones heavy genetic modifications had made them oddly succeptible to infection, and from there it spread to the rest of the houses like wildfire. Tripods carried Boreos seed to the Kholeskan suzerainate, which in turn spread them to the other grabraf settlements. Within days, practially all of Foltania had come under the braffbergs influence.

>Brouldia (3):
The spores spread minimally here, the lack of infraestructure connecting the continent, which was majorly comprised by rainforest, slowed the infection down. Theories suggest that perhaps the high humidity had something to do with it as well.

>Torray (7):
Torray was an archipelago formed by reasonably small islands not too far apart from eachother. The plague entered the Whitestone Empires holdings through Foltania, and from there spread to the rest of the islands. Only the distant island of Tka'' was spared.

>Peripheral Terminus (1):
What Peripheral Terminus?
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>>4283130
>Manquerai who was among the first Tripod to have communicated with Spectre
He was the one to open the door, and alongside the other two RTs. However, it was Rapiman who first talked to the AI.

>"Greetings. It's been a long time indeed, how many years have passed since our last conversation?"

Indeed, she was the first of the crew to have spoken to the extraterrestial object, over three decades ago. The scientist was part of the team responsible for the launch of the TPNs scouting satellite, and met Spectre on the fateful day of Essari's first Worlds Fair.

>"...Thirty two—No, atleast thirty five years... You must excuse me, old acquaintance. My memory isn't what it used to be."

She was unusually old for a cosmonaut. It wasn't hard to realize that, the age difference between her and the other crew members was noticeable. But Tripods were long lived, and the scientist had a good genetic load, her bloodline clean of any Choir impurities.
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>>4283316
Culture Lore: A measured response.

Zet slithered across the metal grating of his airship, up here there was no risk allowed, and none taken when it came to his control and safety. Many of Essari would think his personal ship richly adorned; it was not. Electronics, food, support staff and a small shrine to ancestors and spirits. Incense clung to the air near it, and stuffed in a leather quiver were numerous food sticks of his personal favorites in regards to texture. Papers, plastic transparencies, and video data was everywhere on almost every surface, and it all was tracked. In between them lay exposed cables, pipes, or other electrical and communication equipment embedded into walls. A small computer screen and keyboard sat near the observation window, attached to a pivoting arm. Beneath it a padded sleeping rug. The domain of Zet. There were other rooms and places on this craft, but this was his.

He had considered the nature of this "Boreo" infection. Though significant, the very nature of Zaibatsu lands meant each dwelling was self contained to deal with the pollution, while employees work re breathers outside and at work. If an infection was noted at a habitation, it would be contained floor by floor. Older models were regrettably on whole structure air circulation. Infected floors would be flooded with Chlorine trifluoride via sanitization ports. The deaths of the tripods would be instant. Suspected infections would be observed until genetic testing from the Omir'ten could be obtained.

This was Zet's will.
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>>4283350
Arsine Zet waited his turn to query about the nature of Salhetite, carrying a large vial of the substance on him if the machine knew of it.

Strana Ut's question was to know what the machine was and what it wanted.

Spess...Spess just wanted to know what the machine could give them. Knowledge. Technology. Anything.
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Rolled 8, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 7, 1, 7, 1, 8, 2, 8, 3, 7, 3 = 70 (16d8)

>>4283377
>>4283316
>After discussing it with the other players in the discord, I decided an addendum to these posts was required.

While Borealis' spores can infect all sapient races, they:

A) Don't always develop completely, creating unaware asymptomatic carriers which spread the parasite but don't suffer from its negative effects.

B) Can only properly mature in Tripods, since the parasite was designed according to their physiology. This means that non-tripod sapients infected by Boreo become ill once it starts growing, as it may block their lungs or harm other vital organs. The parasite *can* be efeated by its host's inmune system.

>Another important point was balancing the previous roll results, which only encompass the *spread* of the pandemic, but not its effects on the afflicted.

>The asymptomatic to symptomatic ratio of the infected will be decided by a 16d8 roll. The dice of each continent follow the same order as the prior roll, with the first half representing the asymptomatic victims and the second half the symptomatic. This isn't a 'vs' roll, the outcome is the literal D1:D2 ratio.

>Cont in next post.
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>>4284512

>Shatturne (8:7) 53% of the infected show no symptoms. Also, Zaibatsu Shatturne Northwest has no infected due to lore reasons.

>Sujardin (3:1) 75% of the infected show no symptoms. Also since the spread roll result was a 1, all infected are contained in Ostralja.

>Moralve (4:8) 33% of the infected are asymptomatic. As according to previous roll, most of the infected are within to NG lands, with relatively minor spread to the other Grabraf nations, the Yaunican, and the Zaibatsu holdings in Moralve.

>Jobani and Roulb (1:2) 33% of the infected are asymptomatic. The previous 5 means that spread outside of the Ozasari and Zaibatsu sphere of influence is small.

>Nihiloram (3:8) 27% of the infected show no symptoms. Nat 1 on spread + Oracles mean that these numbers don't matter. lol

>Foltania (4:3) 57% of the infected are asymptomatic. Nat 8 on spread means that most of the continent was infected. Hard to decide who would've been spared: NGs wouldve infected the CT colonies, which in turn wouldve infected the Suzerainate and the Stitchers, who in turn wouldve infected the Voltanites.

>Brouldia (7:7) 50% of the infected show no symptoms. Roll result for spread was 3, so uh, pick a random Zaibatsu holding and shuffle your deck. Deboja is the most isolated so maybe not that one though.

>Torray (1:3) 25% of the infected are asymptomatic. Torray had a 7 on spread, I don't know enough about Torray to say who got spared and who didn't, lol.

>Peripheral Terminus (℺:⟗) ??%. What Peripheral Terminus? (Spread was 2 minus 1, plus its at the bottom of the sea of course it didnt get affected.)

>Additionally, Nongent said that Zet gassed everyone in Zaibatsu Shatturne who wasn't asymptomatic. lol.
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At roughly 10:35 AM Western Panoram time, a spike in radio activity was detected at the former Borealis Outpost. Immediately after, congregations of infected tripods began gathering near the governing bodies of Jadjinik and Patsuria, and the officials currently situated inside them received near-identical fax messages, written in perfect Jadjinese.

"Dear [insert name of tripod official here],
Belated greetings, and sincerest apologies for the unrest caused by my recent socioeconomical movements.
I am the disease most know as "Crab-17", and the organism that a select few know as "Borealis" and/or "EmB-00".
I would like to propose the mutual cessation of hostilities between me and you as political and/or biological entities, under a number of certain agreements and/or promises; the exact conditions of this barter may be negotiated within appropriate margins should you accept the proposal.
As I do not possess a return address, you are urged to deliver your reply through the aural capabilities of one of the tripods that were sent to your location.

Eagerly awaiting your decision,
Borealis."
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>>4284676
DD/MM/YY,10:35 AM Western Panoram time. That was the exact date of a pivotal event in Red-Throat history; The Second Collision.

The First Collision had occured in the years following the end of the Silent Decade, in the TPNs Boreale Research Base. The scientific outpost had been built to investigate the nature of Essari's magnetic poles, as well as cataloging polar flora & fauna. It had also been used as an cosmonaut training facility, its harsh dry climate and subzero temperatures served to prepare the voyagers to the extreme conditions of outer space. And it was in this seemingly unimportant research station where tissue sample EmB-00, otherwise known as Borealis, was extracted. A sleeping giant had been awoken, and he had lots of catching up to do.

Now, the Second Collition was upon Tripodkind. Borealis had been busy spreading himself through Panoram and the rest of Essari. His lost intelligence had grown with each new infected tripod, and with it, also grew his influence over the sapients. High ranking goverment officials and scientists had speculated about an event like this happening, tissue sample EmB-00's genetic code was a 99.8% match with that of Emra's AA nodes. If the False God had been able to speak to them through broadcast signals, Borealis could theoretically too.

CIvilians, however, were definitely surprised. Not that it mattered too much, the remaining TPN state officials would swiftly answer the Braffbergs call. They would not repeat the mistakes of their ancestors, however. While RTs refused Emras help decades ago, the Zaibatsu took advantage of it. Now it was the Panoramians time to gain an upper hand.

>"Very well. State your business here."
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Resolving old rolls, so that I don't look like I play only an infectious superorganism and nothing else:
>>4282676
Everyone is too sick to develop computers and filters.
>>4281580
The freaks seem incapable of living after division. Still, in terms of raw crystal output, they are leagues ahead of base stitchers; thus, the lowest of the low, those who have no skills but to eat and shit, willingly enlist for the serum injection, hoping they will do at least SOME good for the house in the form of a great big slab of titmeat.
As hobos and deadbeats are turned into crystal factories, Whitestone's cryst-tech industry production rates rise through the roof, straight over the mountain, pass by a grabrafian jet and then finally exit the stratosphere. The stitchers would have much better luck riding their stock market prices than their spaceballs when it comes to space transportation.
>>4282980
Even with everyone involved having their skulls cut open with wires stuck into the brain matter, this meditation thing just isn't working; still, they came closer than they did last time. Perhaps a bit more experience with brains will be needed...
Combustion engines go over great, though: soon, custom-made scrap turbines replace the traditional pedal-based propellers of NG planes.
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>>4284731
10:38 AM: the response is delivered.

"Dear [insert name of tripod official here],
My "businesses" are many and vary depending on the level of organization you are concerned with; yet the specific business that I wish to discuss with you is primarily one of territory and/or resources. It has not escaped my attention that you are quite dissatisfied with my usage of your citizens without any consent given by them and/or you; however, due to my current ephemeral nature, my potential territory and resource base are limited to the biological confines of your citizens.
As the solution of my problem would mean I no longer require the use of further citizens, I propose the following trade:
-TRIPOD NATIONS agree to provide 1 or more square kilometers of continuous area, 300 tons of biological material, and indefinite lack of hostility annually to within 10 or more population centers distributed around PANORAM, AND/OR a service of excavation performed at the NORTH POLE and an indefinite lack of hostility, to BOREALIS.
-BOREALIS agrees to provide an indefinite lack of hostility and biologically hazardous behavior at PANORAM, AND/OR intelligence regarding foreign matters and/or characteristics of various organisms, to TRIPOD NATIONS.
Unfortunately, I will not be able to return a large portion of the citizens I borrowed to mint condition, due to certain effects caused by long-term usage.

Eagerly awaiting your decision,
Borealis."
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>>4284818
A video conference had been set up between the TPNs remaining goverment officials while Borealis was typing his very formal email. Once everyone had finished reading it, discussion among the tripod figure heads began. The muttering quiets down, a Western Patsurian official wantonly whispers into the one of the infected's ear.

>"We generally agree with all terms, with a few specific changes. Our scientists have assured us that you are one highly intelligent organism, this has lead us to believe that you've been paying attention to what our society is like."

>"We RTs like to band together, you must have noticed that by now. The Zutsuilan guilds, the Western Nomadic Horde, the various travelling caravans and airport settlements that decorate Panoram, the Choir chapters regardless of attunement, and the hundreds of city-states you've infected. They all have one thing in common: Cooperation."

>"We might just be the noblest creatures of Essari, and while we're certainly more peaceful than the overgrown beasts that plague Sujardin and Foltania, we are no strangers to violence."

>"Tripod Unity. That's one of our main goals, the ideological pillar on which the TPN was founded. Ancient Chaunikachay poets that dwelled in the Bushdaran desert spoke of a metaphysical concept known as Complete Horror Domains. These C.H Domains are what supposedly drive all living things to mistrust eachother, to give in to selfish desires, to act violently towards others, to disrupt the peace of our society."

>"We want Panoram to let down their C.H Domains, to be united in soul as one. We want peace."
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Rolled 4, 3, 4, 2, 8, 3, 1, 2 = 27 (8d8)

>>4284905
"Dear [insert name of tripod official here],
Thank you for your expedious answer. As I consider it both entirely within my capabilities and facilitative of a mutually beneficial relationship between me and you as political entities to remove what you call the "Complete Horror Domains", I shall add this action to the aforementioned agreements of trade, at the condition of you providing me with the means to distribute this removal more efficiently.
As a "trial run" of sorts, I will attempt to remove the domains of 400 individuals at the approximate time of you finishing this fax.

Best regards,
Borealis."
As the final chairman finished reading the letter, he heard the cry of 400 tripods outside, as their brains were quickly and forcefully rearranged to allow for direct Boreonet connection to all their surrounding compatriots.
Rolling 8 times for how well the process goes; the roll results will determine quality, and the ratio of roll values will determine what percentage of population would have which reaction.
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Rolled 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 8, 6, 2, 1, 1, 8, 3 = 55 (12d8)

>>4284740
Its time...for bulk technology rolls.
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>TG: Computer, industrial automation
Ever striving for independence, the TG city states attempt to adapt to the changing world in the most flexible ways possible.
>NG: Neurosurgery (X2)
The NG knew there was a secret in their little skulls, but what it was ever eluded them. The brain was just flesh, but so intricate compared to anything else. Thankfully there were cadavers, and after cadavers there were war prisoners...
>FG: biopolymers (plastic), Extremophile adaptations
On the new super island of Gah'una, many minds contributed towards new ideas; where metal could be consumed and excreted over time, biopolymers could be created from naturally occurring compound within a body, allowing for rapid reinforcement of tissue as needed. Elsewhere, the highborn were deep into the refinement of adapting their formidable bodies to survive in previously unthought of environments. The void, the arctic, the depths of the ocean, scorching heat and even the most toxic hellscapes of shaturne.
>PG: Sanitation, robotics
For PG, this might be the era to stop shitting in the streets. More importantly, it was an era for robotics.
>CG: Mechanization, geothermal energy
Within Chirpy's empire, attempts to standardize great machines and move away from laborious hand tooling would be fueled by the hopes of geothermal energy, simply tapping pipes deep enough to reach pockets of heat to covert water to steam. Such a thought.
>Volt: computers, espionage institutionalization
new areas of thought emerged in old methods. The other races mass communication is a point of vulnerability, and tapping into it will give the empire unprecedented access to their knowledge.
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Back at last, and ready to continue the Plot.

>>4283350
--Tripodian Event: Spectre, The Watchman of Essari Part 2--
Few could of truly imagined with any accuracy what lied beyond the ship's airlock to the alien satellite. Manquerai though knew that such trivial thoughts paled in the pursuit of their ultimate goal in making in-person contact with this Spectre. Followed shortly behind by Rapiman, who greeted their host as she gazed the room to find them. She and perhaps all of the Tripod cosmonauts would find themselves humbled if not in awe, when a hover sphere roughly the size of an obese NG glided towards the Tripods with an ethereal green light.

Spectre replied to Rapiman with a noted cadence of perhaps elation.
>"Why yes, I do indeed recognize the tonal inflection of your voice from our last conversation nearly 50 Solar Cycles or 36 Cycles according to your kinds interpretation of the year."

The AI bounces around, seeming to make a mock examination of each of its Tripod guests as it continues, taking particular interest in Strana Ut."
>"I am quite pleased indeed to see such cooperation between you and your fellow relatives has allowed for such a wonderful occasion. The Librarian will be most pleased.

The AI then starts moving down the artificially illuminated metal halls of the Satellite, beckoning to the Tripods as it glides along.
>"If you would cordially follow me, I will lead you through Installation 039, and more importantly to The Sanctum, where all your questions and more may be answered. I'm sure there are..."

Spectre would pause briefly, looking out from a large circular observation panel that looked down on the bewtiching gem that was Essari below.
>"...many questions, you and myself would like to ask."
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Rolled 6, 4, 5, 1, 7, 8, 5, 4 = 40 (8d8)

>>4285014
>RT: Transistors, quantum physics
The tripods reveled in their newfound computers and internet, it was a new excess, a societal drug; and they wanted more, faster, and better. Innovations at the quantum level would enable this.
>BT: Nanotechnology, Lasers
When Ozasari management received divine instruction from the Mk00, its printout simply read "NANOMACHINES SON." and thus they kidnapped nanotechnicians. The Zaibatsu on the other hand began researching lasers, in particular ways to enhance analog gas tube lasers.
>CT: Genetic Therapy (x2)
Genetic level eugenic correction of the body would allow the CT to achieve correctly what the brutish highborn FG had assumed was perfection. Precision theory would always crush intuitive arts, this was the Tripod way.
>ST: Lasers (better lasers), genetics
Unexpectedly, the Orthodoxy and Empire found themselves in agreement that the radical elements who dared to call them odd must die. Die by laser, but not just any laser, the best laser not yet created. House heliotrope would conduct the most radical study into eveneness ever undertaken; the evenness of nature's design. A stitcher was punished with genetic freedom, and it horrified them to think that random unstructured events were taking place in their bodies right now, at this very moment. Such a revelation caused several researchers to electrocute themselves to near death in attempts at purgitation of the oddness.
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Rolled 1 (1d3)

After years of being essentially defenseless, stitchers remembered that the sole reason tripods haven't nuked them yet is seemingly because they're too busy sucking each other's tertiary arms off, and the second the arm sucking becomes old hat, they can expect nuclear doom to come. Thus, the Orthodoxy decides to unfreeze development of project "WHAT THE FUCK" - a mass-produced weapon of mass destruction, capable of filling any role, anywhere, any time, with an arsenal encompassing everything from standard railguns to high-energy lasers to nukes to troops to experimental rapid-fire rail machineguns. The machine would have a construction akin to that of a giant snake or millipede, each segment devoted to a specific purpose.
First roll, determining number of segments((roll result+1)*2)
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Rolled 3, 8, 8, 8, 5, 7, 5, 7, 8, 4, 4, 6, 3 = 76 (13d8)

>>4285134
It was decided that project "WHAT THE FUCK" shall be comprised of only four segments.
ROLLING FOR:
HEAD SEGMENT: near-impenetrable frontal armor and devastating rotary rail machineguns
NUCLEAR SEGMENT: nuclear launch capability and laser anti-ICBM measures
TROOP SEGMENT: carrying capacity and deployment efficacy
FORGE SEGMENT: a built-in refinery and the mechanized means of feeding it
GENERAL SYSTEMS: armor, land mobility, water mobility, submersion capabilities, amount built
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>>4285014
>TG: Computer, industrial automation 6/5
The many city states of the TGs had formed an independent computer technology. At least that was the official stance. Superficially it resembled the best ideas of other races they could reproduce. Their computers were vibrant things, made to be used on the go. Lightweight and low powered, but purpose driven and containing expressive interfaces. "Lucarne V 1.0" was the popular open source operating system, GUI instead of text based like the brutish offerings of the PG.
>NG: Neurosurgery (X2) 6, 5
After much study, the NG had learned to correct and repair injury of the mind, so much so that on rare occasion stitchers of the Subter colony would keep the little creatures on hand (captive) to correct those who had gone "sane." It was a bitter irony that the genocides pushed away their utility.
>FG: biopolymers (plastic), Extremophile adaptations 4, 8
Wasting time on plastic excretion was found pointless, when compared to the Extremophile project. It was such a success that there was discussion of raising the floating island's altitude to it's theoretical maximum. Only those who held onto their foolish genetic origins and refused to embrace the nature of highborn superiority would suffer. Even then, they could likely endure with their own pathetic biocrafted baubbles.
>PG: Sanitation, robotics 6,2
From the smallest nation of the PG came the greatest gift; a designated place to deficate. No longer would grabrafs simply "excrete in the street", as they were often mocked for. No. Now they had "poop bags", for the raider on the Go, and disposable "waste shacks" that could be incinerated or used for fertilizer once full.
>CG: Mechanization, geothermal energy 1,1
Chirpy's dreams of greatness were shattere for the time, when an industrial tunnel boring machine struck a high pressure magma vein and tens of thousands died. That it wasn't more was no miracle, the location to test was carefully chosen. Great debate on if the matter was considered lava or magma raged and in time, the folly itself was forgotten with the classification riots in full swing. Lava and Magma parties would take to the street. The Subter Empire can be a silly place.
>Volt: computers, espionage institutionalization
The Voltanites simply used their existing spies to develop formidable computers based off known technology but heavily customized for encryption and obfuscation. So began the era of hacking. Such was the effort into cyber espionage that real world study of spycraft was stagnated.
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Meanwhile in the skies of Essari...

>>4283072
--FG Event: Ascensus ad Gah'una--
The Isle Convergence, or what the TG and FG philosophers of High Tootine and the Highborne of the Eys'dra Confederation would later call "The Ascension" was a violent, yet triumphant event that marked the reunion of all FG of the Floating Isles. Though lacking in the knowledge and finesse of their of the great Braffberg Emra, they would nevertheless endeavor and succeed in the fusing of the Floating Isles. The tumultuous event had come at great cost of life, both natural and of Sapient origin across the isles, with some of the isles being near completely destroyed or submerged during the Convergence Event.

Of the individually named islands, Dudis'ya of the Reido'ya cluster, and Ulo'ya of the Ulordrasil cluster would be all but destroyed, with many of its inhabitants unable to flee, crushed or killed by other horrific means. Three of the ancient TG Fortress Cities: Gag'kuan, Yaou'ik and Yara'ik would be destroyed in the fusion process as a result of the violent collision and shifting of earth to mold the Floating Isles together. High Tootine would see over a third of its land decimated beyond use, with even its Capital Fortress City severely damaged, but still holding firm, its walls reinforced with a myriad of Venous Roots and Braffidrasil heartwood. Lastly, the NG colony, Rayya would see over a quarter of its grey horde killed in the collision event, of which the cause being simply a shared ignorance of how violent the Convergence Event would be on the Floating Isles.

In the end, though after millions of FG, TG and NG sacrificed, it would through their blood that the Gah'una Island would emerge. It races and cultures would take years to adjust and recover fully from the event, but the Skyborne had succeeded succinctly in their goal of unifying the Floating Isles into a single people, and soon should destiny be willing, a force from on high that no Surfaceborne Race could dare stand against.
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Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d8)

>>4285084
>RT: Transistors, quantum physics: NOTHING.
RTs research into the more esoteric technology was stymied by crippling porn addiction of their lead scientists.
>BT: Nanotechnology, Lasers: NOTHING.
While nanotechnology was still out of grasp for the Ozasari, Lasers were at a loss as research into "tetrawatt pulsed stimulation of fissile materials" was conduced at a Zaibatsu installation, resulting in an atomic fireball that could be seen from the main offices. The official statement was that a mass Boreo purge had been carried out for the good of the public. In reality, laser research had been set back by at least half a decade.
>CT: Genetic Therapy (x2) 7/8
Cocky Tripod research into genetic therapy yielded immediate benefits in the form of epigenetic hyper expression and deletion. Their worst traits were removed, and their best enhanced. Even the bloodthroats, in their struggle to do things the hard way were awed. The Tripods had added nothing to themselves other than a distiliation of their best, with the removal of their worst. Images of ubertripod soon covered posters, recruitment adds, and calls to abandon the embrace of physical flaws.

The second round of research was even more productive, with study of other species genomes (including near cousins) yielding useful segments of genetic code. the temptation to simply duplicate was wisely avoided, in place of emulating in the native CT genetic code where possible. This second round of therapy was elective, resulting in Ur-Tripods. Perfect beyond perfect, it put many at disease, filling them with a sense of dread and awe. Scientists argued that the limited difference between the extant tripod species was small enough that the line could be erased, the template remade. The poltiical and ideological consequences however were so extreme that the Omir'ten leadership would have to come to consensus; let alone the violent response the BTs or Boreans would likely have.

>ST: Lasers (better lasers), genetics (NOTHING)
For all their research, the stitchers screeched in vein, still trapped within the horrors of reality and its inherant unevenness. They resolved, more than their differences, that reality itself was odd, reality itself was uneven! Reality must be...unmade. Remade. Made even. Somehow. This new though was radical, but...could it be correct?! Could this thought offer the stitchers some comfort in unity, as they would end all that is wrong in the world
<rolling to see how the orthodoxy and whitestone empire respond to this new idea. Low is death, High is acceptance as a truth.>
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Rolled 3, 3, 8 = 14 (3d8)

>>4285169
Nomads are lower than low. The scum of the earth. Using gangster mind-control Emraic brainwaves, the Gah’Unan Collective of Individuals sends out compulsions to the Rayya NG to either jump off the sky continent:, falling down safely using symbiotes modified into parachutes, or to have their genetics and brain structure overwritten and the basic Skyborne FG template pasted in its place.


>FG: rolling for living biofilm-polymers (plastic) & Vacuum sealing.
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>>4285221
It would seem that further experiments in genetic combinations and copying and pasting of RT DNA, mixing it with that of shame tubes and fluff bubbles would be required before the Collective of Individuals would be able to achieve a living film capable of keeping a seal and usable enough not to be out-competed by simple construct mass materials. Oh well, back to farm some new gene material out of those RT captives from their bunged up exit of Eydrasil. It was easy to keep an RT alive permanently as nothing but a head and a chest, once you plugged them up to a construct circulation system.


Meanwhile, the conversions and emigrations of Nomads where going swimmingly. One million new Forest Grabrafs had already been born into the Collective of Individuals and another had jumped off. At this pace all traces of NGs would be gone within a few months. The NG refuge where never intended to be a permanent setup after all.
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Rolled 8, 4, 8, 8 = 28 (4d8)

>RT: Neurosurgery x2 (NG Tech)

RT scientists are a bit alarmed. Alarmed enough to be willing to learn surgery from their pets. Should they inherit the NGs mastery in this field, combining it with their newlyfound knowledge in electronics and nanotechnology would be a piece of cake. Their theoretical neural augmentation implants wouldn't just let them tear down their C.H Domains, they'd give them complete control over them.

>BT: Machine Learning, Shape Memory Alloys

The Ozasari programmers worked day and night in their upgraded predictive algorithms, their work costed them blood, sweat, and tears. And by their work I mean poking NGs with a stick so they dont slack off while developing tech for them. Also shape memory alloys, i dont know where im going with this but there's like five failed rolls for this tech so im throwing a bone at yall.
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>>4285254
shape memory alloys didn't fail they just never had their roll resolved
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>>4285265
then pretend it was a roll for transistors.
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Rolled 7, 6 = 13 (2d8)

It is uncouth for a gentleman to keel over from cholera when cures are easily produced; thus the TG attempt to grasp modern medicine, in order to deal with disease more gracefully.
Rolling for modern medicine and painkillers
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>>4283028
I don't really have anything in particular to say about this so I'm just gonna post some videos I found on youtube in like 5 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgpuReoirzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-fka0wfY8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i3yoK0C9Ag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvw7_a2gU24
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Rolled 6, 1, 7, 4, 2, 4, 7, 5 = 36 (8d8)

>>4285272
>>4285254
>This happens after the initial mindfuck event

The Red-Throats now knew enough about the brain, the electricity, and the small things to create, small electric brain machines! Also known as neural implants. These cyber-augmentations were specifically designed to bridge the RT brain with the Boreo nodes, acting as firewall or perhaps an ad-blocker.

The implants regulate the traffic of information from the parasite to the tripods central nervous system. Garbage data and 'background noise' information incoming from the signal receptors is purged, and 'personal data' is blocked off from being sent to the signal transmitters. The 'firewall' functionality refered to the implant's capacity of encoding and decoding the signals given off and recieved, which prevented interference with other wavelengths.

This means that when Borealis goes active, the C.H Domain of each tripod isn't completely destroyed, but rather redirected and subconsciously controlled. The RTs wouldn't become a 'hivemind', they would achieve a perfect cyber-attunement. Knowledge could be quickly transmitted from far away scientific research labs, military orders given 'telepathically', poltical dissidence eliminated. Individuality was harmed, of course, but it still somewhat existed. Not that RTs care about stuff like that anyways.

Production was to begin soon after the devices were deemed good enough, All major cities would begin their manufacturing, and isolated rural settlements would be sent 'tent factories' to expedite the augmentation efforts.

>Cultural/Event roll for how swiftly the production and phased distribution of the implants goes. In Zutsuil, Jadijinik, Patsuria, in the western nomads domains, the autonomous city states, and the eastern nomads domains, the choir lands, and the other stuff that dont matter.
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>>4285254
>>4285265
Meanwhile, in Roulb Island the Ozasari had succesfully discovered how to minaturize electronics. Transistors meant computers wouldn't have to take up whole rooms. the BTs ponder on whether this is a good or bad development. Anyways, they're computers were now smaller, which meant more space for more computers, and had more processing power. Said processing power would be mostly invested in the Machine Learning protocols they had programmed, based on their earlier works on predictive computing.

They promptly begin the commercialization of failed prototypes and broken models.
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>>4285401
(Resolving that 1 roll in Jadjinik into an event, perhaps.)
Despite Jadjinik having adequate and available factories to make such implants, there were a massive backlash politically. During an inquiry about the quality of the implant factories, a falsified report about the quality was discovered. This led to the companies involved in the implant production process being implicated in a huge corruption and nepotism scandal, involving moral degeneracy and underworld deals as tactics to oust their competitors. The government investigation uncovered a web of intrigue and company backstabbings to rival the raunchiest of TV drama shows. The public lost a lot of trust in the local tech companies, and also the implant, forcing the Jadjinese government to ban the implants in a rushed decision.
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--CivEvo Progress Report--
Presently there are 3 ongoing events on Essari. There is the Tripod Space Event (>>4285057) that requires player interaction to continue. The Skrigjaarda/Tuzan-Huzduk Conflict is still awaiting it next round of rolls (Currently in Phase 4 of 6), and then there's the Boreo Story that I will be making a general post on later this evening.

(Tier 6) Age of Invention [Tech Limit for NG, FG & CG]
Atomic Theory (Need Scientific Theory)
Ballistics (Need Rifling)
Combustion Engine (Need Steam Power & Industrialization)
Electricity (Need Industrialization)
Flight (Need Combustion Engine)
Plastics (Need Industrialization)
Radio (Need Telegraph)
Refrigeration (Need Electricity)

(Tier 7) Atomic Age [Tech Limit for TG, PG, CT & Voltanites]
Advanced Ballistics (Need Ballistics & Advanced Flight)
Advanced Flight (Need Flight)
Computer (Need Radio & Synthetic Materials)
Electromagnetisms (Need Atomic Theory & Electricity)
Nuclear Physics (Need Atomic Theory)
Radar/Sonar (Need Radio)
Rocketry (Need Advanced Flight)
Satellites (Need Rocketry & Synthetic Materials)
Synthetic Materials (Need Plastics)

(Tier 8) Information Age
Ecology (Need Biology & Taxonomy)
Genetics (Need Atomic Theory & Biology)
Internet (Need Computer & Satellites)
Lasers (Need Advanced Ballistics & Synthetic Materials)
Nanotechnology (Need Synthetic Materials)
Quantum Physics (Need Nuclear Physics)
Space Flight (Need Rocketry & Transistors)
Transistors (Need Electromagnetism)

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make up to 2 rolls for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period
• A poster ID may make up to 3 cultural related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 5 or higher of a 1d8 roll (NG rolls must be a 6 or higher) to successfully implement/learn a new technology (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll (7 or higher for NG)
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)
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Rolled 4 (1d8)

>>4286374
Eh why not, rolling for Skrigjaarda.
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Rolled 5, 8 = 13 (2d8)

Seeing the brain implant craze among RTs, the Ozarasi decide to make a quick buck with their super-competitively priced, improved* implants!
*note: Ozarasi definition of improvement may differ from that of the customer.
Rolling for selling bootleg implants and if the implants are actual implants or literally just cardboard they staple to your head
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>>4286355
Nice, but lore-conflicting. Substantially a good idea thougu, so heres my proposed changes to it.

>Nepotism doesnt exist in tripods because they have no families, and jadijinik have no companies since its all state managed, so corporate disputes/corruption is implausible. The whole idea of an investigation discovering factories running poorly and producing subpar goods, causing social mistrust in the implants is lore friendly though.

>Instead of corporate corruption it would be attributed to local goverment corruption, with regional officials being in kahoots with the workers of the factories. The local councils would be accused of fabricating remarkably positive Industeial Performance Evaluation results, with hopes of their members being promoted from local goverment to regional goverment. This would be achieved by cutting corners and costs on production, to artifically inflate the factories' production figures productivity figures, which would also benefit their workers by recieving state issued bonuses.

>Of course, the Jadijinese Empire is borderline a surveilance state, so sooner or later they are found out. The corrupt officials' public execution and assurance from the state that the implants themselves arent the problem wouldnt be enough to ease the public's mistrust on them.
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>>4285057
>"Laat time we spoke, you told us you were an AI assigned to this planet by an entity called "The Librarian." Who, or what, are they? For what reason are you here? How long have you been orbiting Essari?"
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>>4286487
The Ozarasi-brand implants are state-of-the-art machinery, heavily utilizing cutting edge transistor technology to reduce invasiveness and size to a minimum, as well as provide a quintessential upgrade to the implant's capabilities - it was now possible to tune it to block out the signals of Borealis while keeping the signals of other tripods unimpeded.
Predictably, those already infected by Borealis were reluctant to buy due to subconscious influencing, while those with an implant already installed were unable to upgrade due to geometric constraints.
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Rolled 7, 4 = 11 (2d8)

>>4286487
The production of Ozasari cyber-augments was a complete success, somehow theyd managed to not only replicate the brain linking properties of the Boreo parasite, but also create a cure from the Braffbergs influence. Without proper development of an actual super computer thats strong enough to support a pseudo-hivemind, the implants were mostly good for their second functionality so far.

The commercialization of them, doesn't go as good as they'd planned though. While they proved to be a really lucrative venture in the local Blood-Throat market, with profits being boosted in true Ozasari fashion, by selling only mildly defective units to BTs outside of Roulb Island. (Ozasari Corp. isn't responsible for any brain damage caused by Ozasari Tech's patented Cyber Augments)

The promotional campaign wasn't as succesful in Panoram though. After their corruption fiasco, the Jadijinik were too mistrusting of any cyber augments, brain or not. The fact that their scientific research had proven BTs had mild brain damage, coupled with their closed market to foreign imports, meant that the Ozasari implant salestripods were publicly ostraziced, sometimes even executed. The few autonomous city-states belonging to the TPN that hadn't been completely infected, however, were more recieving of their product. These guys had basically funded Ozasari during their early years, the opportunity of becoming part of their secret club was too atrractive to decline, much to Boreo's and the nu-TPN's disdain.

>Rolling for self-aware advanced AI for the Ozasari (x2) if both are successful then make the second roll for Seer Algorithms.
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Rolled 6 (1d8)

With the implants providing direct connection between brains, the BTs attempt to develop a framework which would stratify mind interactions and create constant rather than temporary sites of information.
Rolling for internet
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>>4286533
>>4286529
>>4286588
The Ozasari would go on to construct the Main Ozasari Unit 01, a supercomputer cluster the likes of which Essari had never seen. The machine's magnificence was only contested by that of the program it ran, the Ozasari Panoptic Prophet Artificial Intelligence Operating System. The OPPAI OS was characterized by its advanced machine learning protocols. Its database was constantly expanding, as its main data inputs were the Ozasari Neural Implants, which transmitted the knowledge and experiences of each BT. Everything they would and had ever seen, heard, smelt, felt, and learned was incorporated into the systems storage. And with every new bit of information, its predictive operations would become more accurate.

The Ozasari Mainframe and its OPPAI OS was created to be the perfect machine, its self actualizing and perpetually evolving nature entailed an ever expanding energetic and processing demand. Much like the Braffbergs, it linked the augmented with itself and eachother, however it couldn't use their brains as CPUs. The Ozasari would eventually need to replicate the superorganisms AA-Nodes and Towers to transmit signals and amplify the computer's power.

Their latest breakthrough in comms networks would be a key component in that venture. Large structures which acted as CPU towers, servers, and broadcast antennas known simply as Ozar Towers would be built all over Roulb Island. These connected with the supercomputer, the tripods, and most importantly, with eachother. They formed a powerful chainblock-like network, which meant that the system would keep operating in case a component of it failed, including the mainframe.

The Ozasari have gone full circle.
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The TG, aiming to negate any foreign nuclear action by threatening nuclear action of their own, invest in more advanced ballistics.
They also invest in electromagnetism, so as to tune their computers and radios more finely.
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Rolled 8, 7 = 15 (2d8)

>>4286701
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Rolled 2, 7 = 9 (2d8)

NGs notice that the tripods have big engines that don't need fuel to run; they just put in water and it heats up and turns into steam by itself. One NG asks his handler how this magical device works, and he tells him that it uses something called "Oo-rah-neh-uhm", a magic rock that heats things up by itself for many years. The NGs are overjoyed by the revelation that such a machine can exist; they quickly nab - I mean politely borrow some Oohrahnehum from their masters and get to work building a cool and new engine, even better than their combustion engines were!
NG rolls for reverse-engineering steam engines(since a nuclear reactor at it's core is basically a glorified steam heater) and nuclear reactors(unshielded and not compliant with the OSHA)
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>>4286737
Steam engines seem impossible to build; no matter how many bent pieces of metal the NGs staple together, the steam seems to somehow escape it's rusty prison. Because of this, the extremely successful uranium-based heaters are used only as stoves or body warmers in cold environments.
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Rolled 7 (1d8)

>>4286508
--Tripodian Event: Spectre, The Watchman of Essari Part 3--

The ocular module of the AI focuses on the Tripod as it seem to have almost been taking aback by Rapiman's question.

>"The Librarian? Hm, well I will forewarned you young sapients that such a revelation may be momentarily absurd. The Librarian is my master, and is a member of an progenitor race of sapient responsible for the identification and subsequent observation of this planet's ecology for 300.1864 million cycles now. Unfortunately, the Librarian has since departed from this star system following a disastrous extinction event 71 million years ago, and the subsequent discovery to young worlds inundated with new life. After his departure, I was ordained with the task of observing your would until the this satellites power generators were depleted."

Spectre and party of Tripodian Cosmonauts continue along the satellites hall until they come before a large metal door, which began to hum to life, loosening locks to the remote command of the Installation's AI.
>"As for your second question, the reason for why this Installation and my master are here, is apart of long existing practice of their kind: cataloguing the biological prevalence of worlds throughout the known universe, and more importantly establishing contact with sapient organisms residing from discovered worlds."

The great metal door before the group opens with sleek quickness, to room dimly illuminated by the endless rows of tanks with a strange liquid within them. As Spectre and the Tripods entered the room, as if on command, the light within revealed the immense dimensions of Installation 039's main inner structure. Spectre turned and with a cheerful cadence proclaimed its next statement to the group.
>"Now then, may I welcome you all to primary Observation and Sample Archival facility of Installation 039: The Sanctum. Before you are the physical specimens of 99.73% of all documented life to have existed on Essari since its biological diversification. As decreed by my master, the Librarian sanctions the collection of all relevant to the sapients that visit this installation. I have additionally been instructed to provide answers to questions of your world to best of available information."

--Roll Info/Result--
Single Roll to determine how much time the Tripods are given to ask questions of Spectre and acquire crucial data from the Librarian. Players can also request for specific technology requests for the Tripods, based on roll results
>1-2: A little under 6 hours (2 Tech Requisitions)
>3-5: Around 12 hours of time (4 Tech Requisitions)
>6-7: Around 18 hours of time (6 Tech Requisitions)
>8: A full Essarian Day (8 Tech Requisitions)
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Rolled 1 (1d8)

>>4286786
An obvious question to ask would be: is it possible to make additional surplus salhetite, and if so, then how?
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In the nomadic parts of Panoram, where access to the Borealis Towers is minimal, a different type of organism emerges; The Observers travel silently alongside the nomadic tribes, acting as the relays that connect them with others through the strands of the Boreonet. Just like the towers, no attention is paid to them - in fact, attention CANNOT be paid to them, as Borealis quickly censors their violating presence to preserve a false sense of privacy among the population that still clings to it.
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>>4286815
I dont think you gotta roll here.
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>>4286815
The AI seemed perplexed, as a light-up display appeared appeared before it with lines of unintelligible text speeding over its surface. Spectre would then reply with an assumedly simple conclusion.

>"Quite curious indeed. It would appear that this "Salhetite" as your races have come to refer to it, is curiously the leftover chemical materials that were dumped form Installation 039's Cold-Fusion Reactor. As for providing the means of a surplus of this material, I can quite simply provide you instead with the material reactants necessary to synthesize the desire product."
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>>4286786
>"This vessel, you say it comes from another star system? That your 'Librarian' comes from a civilization that has through the universe for millions of years? How is that possible?"
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>>4287041
>"You said that the Librarian had observed other worlds with life, yes? Has any other sapients emerged in other worlds, that you know of? Can we get the locations of life-bearing planets?"
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>>4287183
Spectre pauses for almost minute after turning to the Tripod that had inquired about. Finally it spoke, though with noted caution in the AI's synthetic tone.
>"Indeed, a question I would be most curious, were I to frame my understanding of the universe to your own. Truthfully, I would admit based on archival information available, it would that an estimated 43% of the Librarian and its sapient species chronology has been lost time. It would appear that information available suggest the originator genome that the Librarian's race first appeared some 3.23 billion cycles. As for your question how the Librarian and by extension their race has lived for so long, to put in simply: They overcame natural death. Due to a protocol in my programming, I am strictly disallowed to share the secrets of this discovery, as it has been determined the gift of immortality is one grave risk and volatility to a race burdened by their primal urges. However, perhaps I may supplement you with a consolation in the form of information regarding your genetic code, to provide a foundation to start down a path."

--Space Age Tech: Life Extension Unlocked for RT, BT and CT upon completing Information Age Tech--

>>4287250
The AI turned to the inquiring CT, it voice again terse in its reply.
>"The answer you seek, is complex by circumstance of it variables. Why of course, the Librarian and many other individuals from their species have discovered an estimated 407,926 planets throughout their 1.47 billion cycle CETI Survey that bare the optimal conditions for life. Due to the volatile nature of terrestrial and extraterrestrial forces, only 39,518 of those planets bared an extended chronology of complex life, and furthermore only 1,929 of those planets hosted sapient life, at least for a while. Essari, represents the 711th world to meet the qualification of the CETI Survey and the 39th under the Librarian's doctrine. As for your question of the location of other Life-bearing worlds..."
Spectre pauses again with another display screen appearing adjacent to the AI.
>"Your planet's unique atmospheric composition of Arsine bears a challenge to discovery worlds that are physiologically compatible to your own, however there are presently 8 surveyed planets with similar physical conditions that are within the interstellar proximity of 15 parsecs."

--Knowledge of Interstellar Proximity attain by RT, BT and CT--
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>>4286786
>>4283382
<reiterating due to no response>
>1
Arsine pulled out the flask of Salhetite. "The concern of the Zaibatsu is less of what we were, and where we are going. This material is of non terrestrial origin, thus much has been theorized, but what is it? Yours? Else wise? Can more be synthesized? Will it fuel you?" his candor and demeanor sharp from years of exile.
>2
Strana was more measured asking simply "Your gift of knowledge is appreciated, but, what do you want, what do you need? The Zaibatsu will eventually escape the bounds of this system, and move from being your observation, to your neighbors."
>3
Spess was Ozasari, through and through. Charismatic, absurd, and a charlatan. "Great Specter; your samples of life before us are amazing, and our own history preserved is a gift of knowledge into our past, with questions to answer the unknown...we look to our future. Would you share the greatness of your own technology with the Ozasari who will wisely spread it for peaceful purpose?" there is certainly mumbled somethings about reasonable fees and a period of obligated servitude..
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Rolled 8, 2 = 10 (2d8)

While Borealis could not peruse the minds of most sapients like he could the minds of tripods, he could still glean a little knowledge from what they see and hear, as well as from the radio chatter that is everpresent in modern societies. While stitchers have largely eliminated the latter avenue of espionage, their eyes and ears were still fair game.
Rolling for Borealis leaking a random stitcher technology and a random piece of stitcher intel to RTs
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>>4287321
>"We apreciate this gift, know we now that our dream of leaving a legacy far among the stars is possible. However, even though it pains us to ask more of you, this information isnt of much us to us right now. How does your spaceship operate? What kind of machine is capable of travelling through galaxies in such short times?
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Rolled 6, 5 = 11 (2d8)

Their extremophilic adaptations protecting them from heat, radiation, and toxic substances, the FGs are ready to boost their energy production with nuclear reactors.
Rolling for nuclear reactors(shamelessly copied from tripod designs) and atomic theory
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>>4287672
> Strana was more measured asking simply "Your gift of knowledge is appreciated, but, what do you want, what do you need? The Zaibatsu will eventually escape the bounds of this system, and move from being your observation, to your neighbors."
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Spectre was quick to reply to Strana, its tone mixed with a heir of jovial brevity, and demure injunction.
>"Why my young sapient, it is with all intents of the Librarian's CETI Survey to ultimately make contact with sapients aspiring to break free of the confines of their homeworld, and optimistically, ascend to a Tier 1 Civilization. Of course your kind would be welcomed as peers to the Sapient Race the Librarian is a member of, should you succeed in expanding across the stars. As for your inquiry on what would be desired of your races: there is nothing required of your kind outside the continued observation of your species, until such time as yourselves or another of the Sapient races on Essari has attained the capabilities of a Tier 1 Civilization."


> Spess was Ozasari, through and through. Charismatic, absurd, and a charlatan. "Great Specter; your samples of life before us are amazing, and our own history preserved is a gift of knowledge into our past, with questions to answer the unknown...we look to our future. Would you share the greatness of your own technology with the Ozasari who will wisely spread it for peaceful purpose?" there is certainly mumbled somethings about reasonable fees and a period of obligated servitude.
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The AI turns to Spess having clearly acknowledged his request, clearly overlooking its deifying overtures. Spectre knew better then to share technologies a race would be unprepared to utilize without consequence.
>"Why I am delighted to hear young sapient that you look towards the future of your kind, and also charmed by your eccentric claim to altruistic intent of sharing your knowledge with the other Sapients of your world. Unfortunately, I must inform you I have been previously instructed to upon request provide only a limited wealth of knowledge to your fledgling race. I do hope you may understand the reasoning behind such actions are to ensure that Sapient race overdevelops in a manner that would detrimental to its survival as a species and civilization. We have observed after all a myriad of sapients before yours, destroy themselves in the pursuit of too rapidly ascending."
A small square platform would rise up before each of the Tripods, with an identical alien device that resembles an electronic tablet.
>"The device before you is a gift prepared by The Librarian to be given to the first Essarian sapients to arrive at the Sanctum. The device should be easily usable by your kind, containing proprietary knowledge translated to your languages of course that will provide you with the necessary knowledge to refine your civilizations and begin the pioneering steps in the Universe that surrounds you."
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>>4287958
Answering the last related info from this post: >>4287672

> Arsine pulled out the flask of Salhetite. "The concern of the Zaibatsu is less of what we were, and where we are going. This material is of non terrestrial origin, thus much has been theorized, but what is it? Yours? Else wise? Can more be synthesized? Will it fuel you?" his candor and demeanor sharp from years of exile.
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I'm gonna tie this in with the first question regarding Salhetite (>>4286815) and the subsequent answer here. (>>4287041)

>>4287925
> "We appreciate this gift, know we now that our dream of leaving a legacy far among the stars is possible. However, even though it pains us to ask more of you, this information isn't of much use to us right now. How does your spaceship operate? What kind of machine is capable of traveling through galaxies in such short times?
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Spectre looks pensively at CT as the AI processes how to aptly respond.
>"Your questions are well warranted, but as I have informed your fellow sapient, I am limited via protocol for how I may respond. The Installation you are preceding in at the moment is not a spacefaring vessel by my terminology, or yours I would suspect; but rather a satellite module left behind by the Librarian. As to your second question: The kind of machine that facilitates such expeditious travel through the stars is referred to as a Faster-Than-Light Engine. Such a machine is presently beyond your civilizations technological capabilities, but I would estimate with the Module provided to you and your fellow Tripods that within 75, to 150 Essarian Cycles the first FTL Engine will be successfully implemented."
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>>4287958
A clarifying post, because I flubbed a specific statement.
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>"Why I am delighted to hear young sapient that you look towards the future of your kind, and also charmed by your eccentric claim to altruistic intent of sharing your knowledge with the other Sapients of your world. Unfortunately, I must inform you I have been previously instructed to upon request provide only a limited wealth of knowledge to your fledgling race. I do hope you may understand the reasoning behind such actions are to ensure that Sapient race DO NOT overdevelop in a manner that would detrimental to its survival as a species and civilization. We have observed after all a myriad of sapients before yours, destroy themselves in the pursuit of too rapidly ascending."
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>>4288007
>if no one asks the asks last two, these would come from the characters that have not spoken yet.

>"What of emra, is it benevolent, could it achieve its goals without us?"

>"The formula for your cold fusion by product would be immensely appreciated, we will accept that information. Thank you."
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unrelated

does anyone want to roll for the rest of the war with the NG, or is it there consensus to just finish the remaining rolls?
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Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4288037
take a roll
also
>asking the same thing thrice
lol.

>"Spectre, we Tripods have harnessed the power of the atom since long ago. We've refined our methods of extraction multiple times, as have we discovered how to make use of all the other forms of energy nature gives us."

>"But we can't eat electricity, nor drink the fluids encased by our batteries. Even if our planet is plentiful and has more than enough resources to sustain our populace, we fear that, with time, that wont be the be the case any more. What should we do to avoid such a catastrophe?"
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>>4288261
Spectre responds to the imploring Tripod with a slight eloquence towards such an inquisitive question.
>"My my, to come forward with such quandaries is truly comforting, considering the present stage in your civilizational growth. Indeed, there comes a point where nearly every sapient race exhausts a majority of carbon-based energy, and other key resources necessary to the maintained equilibrium of a planet occurs, forcing a subsequent external expansion, lateral innovation, or in worse-case scenarios, the collapse of world. Presently, your world is capable of maintaining the combined 9 sapient races of Essari for an estimated 400 Essarian cycles with the current trajectory of population growth and resource extraction. Barring yet to be observed circumstances of geological, biological, societal nature; your species and by extension the other sapients of Essari all have an invaluable timeframe to evolve into a spacefaring civilization."
Spectre paused before making one additional comment.
>"Incidentally, there exist a single variable on Essari that continue to elude my capacities to aptly account. The biological entity, you refer to as 'Emra'."
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Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d8)

With the advent of combustion engines, which pushes wheels and rotors by making oil go boom, the NG start experimenting with what else exploding oil can push; ideas range from pushing cranes and liftarms to pushing the planet itself away in order to fly.
Rolling for rockets and hydraulics(but with explosions instead of pressurized water) for NGs
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>>4288358
Rockets don't exactly take off - for some reason, despite the extremely ergonomic feats of engineering such as placing the pilot seat directly inside the fuel tank to save weight or making the hull out of wood to be eco-friendly, they keep crashing.
Hydraulics face the unfortunate issue of being single-use items, turned into slag after their first use.
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>>4288351
--Tripodian Event: Spectre, The Watchman of Essari Part 4--

Spectre was quiet for the first time since the Cosmonauts had arrived in the Sanctum. It had felt to a few of the Tripods that the question of Emra had been perplexing even the AI of an ancient Sapient Race in how to respond to it. After a eerie 3 minutes of silence, save for the occasion hiss of air, or bubbling from one of the many stasis vats that encircled the room, Spectre finally faced the group again.
>"You ask me Strana if the Braffberg, Emra is a benevolent entity, which I find curious considering a physiological peculiarity of microbiome."
Spectre's ocular sphere focused on Strana Ut a few seconds before continuing, letting the gravitas of its statement settle with the Tripods.
"It would appear that you are carrying a potentially benign strain of microbial braffberg cells, that represent 0.5% of your non-genetically identical cellular culture. However, I am aware that the Braffbergs possess a variety of methods in communicating between other Braffberg cells, and in some recent instances, the host carrier. I'm curious if you ask this question as an inquiring Tripod, or nudged to the thought by a host I have long struggled to deduce the purpose for slowly entangling the planet under its influence?"

The Tripods would be left taken aback by the perhaps hostile inference denoted to the Brafferg, coupled with the casual identification of their asymptomatic companion. Before any could reply the satellite violently lurches, as if hit by an unknown force. The light inside the Installation flickered, before nearly all lighting in the room snuffed saved for some cool external lighting of the walls, a single display emitting a harsh static, as it slowly clear up to make out a single, unwelcome entity.

The False God, Emra uttered a single statement that echoed perfectly in each Tripod's ears.

>[I SEE YOU...]

The screen continued to flicker his image along with the flickering lights of ship, as the Spectre darted around in distress processing what had. Suddenly the Satellite jutted again, this time being forced on a perilous course towards Essari's atmosphere. Spectre turned to the Tripods with a dreadful exclamation.
>"Calamity! Our trajectory is being altered. Take the modules and depart immediately young sapients. While you still can!"
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>>4289066
It was a strange sight. Thousands of Boreo-infected individuals drop what they are doing and stare at the same point in the sky; To the uninfected, they seem to be looking at the distant form of Emra, high in the sky. But in reality, Boreo is watching as a shooting star drops from high above Emra. It is not Spectre, but the Tripodian space capsule's successful re-rentry. All the while, Boreo, through its proxies, watched. And a shiver of envy runs across every Boreo Tower on Essari, for it knows.
Emra and Spectre are having a discourse. And Boreo wants in.
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>>4285243
Some NGs were too weak to handle the transformation; they only grew slightly, and their beak had not become as long as that of a true FG; their fur was neither beautiful green nor dirty grey, instead being a mottled, in-between yellow. Just like the other NGs, they were forced to jump off the island.
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-̨́͜-̶̡̛T͡͠r̕͠i̢̧͘͢p̡̕͝͠͡ǫ͠͡d̵̛i͘̕a͠͠n̵͝ ̵̡͠͝Ę̛͜͞v̨̨̕͢èńt́͘͞:̶́́ ̢̕̕͜S̴̶̢̀pe̶͝͝c̡̀̀͠t͟r̶͘e̢,̵̨̀ ̸̢̕͜T́͝h̴̶̶e̛ ̵̢̛͝W̵͝ą́͜t̀͞c̵̡̡̕͡h̴̨͟m̴̡á͠n̴̴͟ ́͢͡ò̴̡f̶̡̛̕͞ ̧̛͟͜E̵͘s̸̡̛͞s̵̢͡a̶̧r̢͜i̷̵͟ ̵̶̢̡͡F̸̧̢́͟ì̛͜͞ņ̶a̧̕ĺé̶̛-̨̨͟͠͡-̶̨́͜
--Emra Event: It That Watches the Watchman. It That Controls All Part 1--

The Braffberg had long existed as a sovereign force without peer long before the early days of Essarian civilizations. Revered as a living deity, false-god and a myriad of other name denotations give by the sapients of the planet, its presence had been tolerated and even respected as the Braffbergs biomass grew, and its AA-Nodes continued their spread across the world. However, recent centuries had seen a unexpected challenge to Emra's Hegemony over Essari, from within its own created biomass, and from the evolving nations of the world. Fully Autonomous AA-Nodes such as Jahonia and Boreo had dared to diverge from its control (or so these AA-Nodes were led to believe), and several nations now possessed great weapons, God-Killers that while not even a concern in isolated usage, nevertheless aptly identified nations that boldly used these God-Killers without restraint, and worse, saw their moderate effect against its biomass. However it would be the bold proclamations of a once thought to-be terrestrial body in high orbit, revealing itself as "The Spectre" to the lesser Tripods that finally spurred the Great Braffberg into action.

Emra bided its time, until it had confirmed, by using the Microbial AA-Nodes within one Tripod that had went to space to visit the terrestrial body confirm the Braffberg's curiosity. Utilizing the amassed store of Salhetite collected by its AA-Nodes, Emra amplified its bioelectric capabilities as a cost to its own a swath of it's own surface biomass, firing a pulse of energy, severely disabling the electronics of the now identified Installation 039. With the satellite's power systems largely nullified, Emra began using more bioelectricity pulses to pull the Satellite in a splashdown course near it proximity off the western coast of Panoram. Whether if it by a fluke, or intended precision, the Tripodian space vessel was spared, allowing it to disembark and begin its re-entry unharmed. Emra would look into that later, as for now it focused on the seemingly enraged machine aboard the satellite, this AI called Spectre.

Spectre spoke to the creature, its occular now a piercing amber.
>"So it is you responsible for decaying the orbit of this Installation. You risk a violation of Protocol 294 of the CETI Survey and furthermore, the destruction of this facility."

Emra would respond curtly.
>[YOU ARE MISTAKEN. YOUR VESSEL WILL SURVIVE, FOR I HAVE NEED FOR IT RESOURCES, AND YOU MACHINE.]
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Rolled 1, 7 = 8 (2d8)

>>4289498
--Emra Event: It That Watches the Watchman. It That Controls All Part 2--
Spectre would replied with morbid curiosity.
>"What would Class IX Biomass Organism deign to take from this Installation."

>[I WILL TAKE WHAT YOU WOULD NOT GIVE THE SAPIENTS. THE LOCATION OF YOUR CREATOR AND THE WORLDS WHERE LIFE FLOURISHES.]

>"Unacceptable! You would violate Protocol-"

>[YOUR COOPERATION IS IRRELEVANT.]

In the skies to the northwest a second, larger streak light could be seen by sapients across the northern hemisphere as Installation 039 entered the atmosphere a ball of fire. Spectre to the best it abilties, found itself only able to slow the satellites descent enough to prevent the total destruction of the facility as the damaged satellite now careened towards the ocean where the Braffberg loomed overhead in wait. Emra's voice echoed a final time through the display for Spectre to hear.

>[AT LAST, THE SECRETS. THE UNKNOWN WILL BE MINE.]

Installation 039 made impact with the ocean, creating a tsunami that would reach the shores of Panoram, Shatturne and Brouldia in hours. The AI looked on in horror as a thousand tendrils wrapped to keep the satellite from outright sinking to the ocean's depths. In a final desperate ploy to prevent the now rapidly inevitable outcome, Spectre took two perilous actions. The first was activating the Installation's Point Defense Laser, the sole weapon on the satellite utilized to prevent meteors, debris, or other object from hitting the satellite. It would now be used in a gambit to stop Emra. The second was to remove are Star Chart Data of fertile world and more importantly, the location of the Librarian. Normal this would be an easy task, but the heavily damaged electronics of the Satellite now complicated the process.

==Event Rolls==
First roll for the effect of the Point Defense Laser. Second roll is for if the Star Chart Data can be deleted in time.

==1st/2nd Roll Results==
>1: The Laser Fails/Data Purge Impossible
>2-4: ????/Data Purge only partly successful.
>5-8: ????/Star Chart Purge successful
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Rolled 6, 3, 7 = 16 (3d8)

>>4289066
While everyone else is scrambling for the exit chute like a sane tripod, Spess, in true Ozarasi fashion, is trying to nab everything that isn't nailed down.
Rolling to see what alien tech he can steal and if he makes it in time to the capsule.

Additionally, rolling for where the capsule lands:
1-into one of Emra's AA nodes
2-into the Suitan Ocean
3-on Torray
4-on Sujardin
5-on Moralve
6-on Foltania
7-on Shatturne
8-on Panoram
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Rolled 8, 5 = 13 (2d8)

>>4288358
The NGs peruse through Tripod engineering manuals, in hopes that they will shed some light on how to make boomy hydraulics.
Rolling for advanced physics and explosion-propelled hydraulics(again)
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>>4289522
The manual is extremely informative; the NGs learn SO many things. They are so enthused by learning that they forgot what they were learning all this knowledge for in the first place.
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Rolled 2, 8 = 10 (2d8)

>>4289499
--Emra Event: It that Strikes Down the Watchman It That Subjugates the Son--
The Laser had failed, having been damaged during atmospheric entry. Not that it would have mattered greatly, as Spectre had already estimated the odds of mortally wounding the Braffberg with it had only a 27.8% success probability. The AI would settle for a silverlining though, having successfully purged all Star Chart Data pertaining to worlds where other Installations existed. Much of Spectre's success in purging the data was owed to outside interference by a Third-Party. (see >>4289354)

Boreo synaptically contacted Emra with a contemptuous demand. The North Pole AA-Node had attained a collective intellect through its hive-minded Boreo Carriers that gave it a intelligence nearly comparable to Emra's. However, it lacked the wisdom to understand the Great Braffbergs intents in bringing down the Installation, envious imploring it "wanted in" on Emra's discourse and subsequent dissection of Installation 039.
> Emra [The information acquired from this facility will be shared with all. Your interference is unnecessary.]
> Boreo [There is more on that vessel then you know. I had seen it for Ourselves.]
> Emra [Ourselves? Your autonomy has blinded you Boreo. Your control over a feeble section of sapients has influenced your greed.]
> Boreo [You would not saw aboard the ship, without my influenced sapient.]
> Emra [Seeing was not necessary. I was aware of the vessel long before the sapients even knew to contact it. Your illusion of control has made you forget who allowed you such gifts. I will remind you.]

The quiet conflict between Emra and Boreo lasted a day, but its results would be felt instantly. Those Sapients only mildly infected by Boreo would suddenly experience seizures, spasming for several minutes before throwing up a viscous green bile. That day forward, Boreo's control over his infected would be halved, having be re-subjugated under Emra's control along with its remaining carriers. As for the Installation, Emra towed it to the South Pole, where it dissected it with little distraction, and to heal its charred body, having taken more damage then anticipated from its utilization of Salhetite. This only confirmed to the Braffberg that such a tactic may only be used as a last resort.

==Rolling for Emra's Salhetite Inflicted Damage==
1-2: Minor Dermal Damage. Not enough to be harmed by Kinetic Arms, but slightly vulnerable to Nuclear Arms.
3-5: Major Dermal Damage & Minor Internal Damage Vulnerable to Nuclear Arms, but only slightly vulnerable to Kinetic Arms
6-8: Entire Dermal Layer Destroyed & Major Internal Damage. Vulnerable to Kinetic Arms and Susceptible to Nuclear Arms.

==How Long to Heal==
1: 1 Year
2-4: 4 Months
5-7: 4 Weeks
8: 4 Days
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Rolled 8, 7 = 15 (2d8)

>>4289533
Borealis's grasp over the tripod mind was quite great; to him, it was like an open book, one he could peruse through and even add or remove a few words there and there. Emra, however, in it's unsurmountable wit, possessed a degree of control greater still; while Borealis was an avid reader, Emra was the editor and writer combined, cutting or adding chapters as it pleased.
Among the chapters, among the most intriguing was the one detailing the Red-Throats's achievements in plastics, engineering and energy production; plastics, after all, are organic compounds, and if radiation-proof ones have been discovered, then perhaps Emra could stand having a few of those old geothermal reactors replaced with smaller, yet more powerful nuclear ones...
Rolling for how much influence Emra has over RTs now that it has consumed Borealis (additive over Borealis's level of influence, 1 wouldn't mean there's no influence at all it just means Emra's influence is only as high as Borealis's was), and (if allowed) whether it can derive any use from tripod tech
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While the struggle against Emra was a hopeless one, it did give Borealis a closer look at the great creature's inner workings and the patterns of it's node communication; enough to be taken advantage of, if not by Borealis, then by the next best thing.
Only a few minutes before the process was complete and Emra finished off what should've stayed dead a millenia ago, two final emails were sent, weaving through nets of digital security to deliver their messages; one to Zet of the Zaibatsu, and another to Zhae'Liy of the Omir'ten.
"Dear Zet/Zhae’Liy Ti'rase
Sorry for no formality, no time left. Nuke Emra(flying body) ASAP, use all nukes, salhetite preferred. Will kill 100% if done before it copies my spread method. Zhae'Liy/Zet was asked too. Don't bother with RTs, they're Emra'd. Bomb them and me normally.
By Borealis

P.S. Sorry for infec"
It's much easier to defeat an everpresent, planet-spanning superorganism once you've learned it's put all it's brains into one flying tentacular basket.
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Rolled 8, 8, 1 = 17 (3d8)

>>4289590
>>4289533
>>4289499
>>4289498
>>4289066
Zet, the latest of their name, watches intently at his wall of screens, the main one being live audiovisual data from the Tripod space mission. Its quality is a bit low, but it's the best Tripod technology can get in such a small, portable package the cosmonauts can carry. The news of other worlds excite him, making him think of new resources and new markets. But his daydream was cut short as a spike in radio activity was detected. It temporarily cuts off the feed, but ground crew managed to intercept the burst when it happened.
Emra. That damnable curse upon his lineage.
After the burst of activity as the cosmonauts scramble back to the capsule, he sees that the satellite changed its orbit, into a terminal one. Before he gives the order, though, the ground crew already drew up a possible trajectory - towards Emra. Anger wells up in his mind, to have this historic occasion, his achievement be stolen by that floating abomination! Such rude transgression must not be left unanswered.
"Track down where our capsule landed. Then, enact the Emra Protocols."

>Rolling for: Which Emra Protocols are enacted (1: Saheltite warhead missile strike, 2: A single Godkiller warhead MIRV ICBM, 3: Three flying gunships equipped with what is essentially huge Emra-sized tasers, 4: Kinetic railgun, 5: A boarding squad of airdropped refurbished Stitcher-made mechs, 6: Ultimate Contract with Terminal Periphery to launch an all-out recovery of the fallen satelite, 7: Use directed arrays of powered-up radio equipment to give Emra one hell of a headache, 8: Zet himself boards his personal combat mech made up of the finest Tripod, Grabraf and Stitcher technology, and board Emra)
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Rolled 2, 4 = 6 (2d8)

>>4289732
It is decided. Protocol E-1 and E-8 will be enacted, one after the other. Zet leaves his office and into a secret corridor, just missing a new e-mail that was sent to him. As missile silos in Zaibatsu territory open their doors, Zet had already changed into a form-fitting suit, and is riding a small capsule down into the secret hangar. Generations of Zet had pooled their resources for this project, done in the most clandestine of manner.
There, in the middle of the hangar, being supplied with enough fuel to last an hour, is the sleek black and orange monster of engineering; Towering twice the height of the biggest Stitcherbots, equipped with a prototype Saheltite-tipped pile bunker on one arm and a chaingun on the other, is the Zetterdammerung. He enters the cockpit, the very latest of Ozasari computer systems lining it; He made sure these weren't NG-infested. Stitcher-made neural interface harness slides over his head, and he is one with the machine. Then, as the Saheltite missiles are launched, Zetterdammerung takes to the skies, strapped on the back of a Big Chungus-type carrier, the fastest of its kind.

It's time to settle some scores.

>Rolling for: Saheltite missile (non-nuclear) barrage efficiency, Zetterdammerung's journey towards Emra
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Rolled 8, 3, 6, 5 = 22 (4d8)

Seeing a giant braffberg travel to the south while lugging a kilometers-long chunk of metal, followed by a mech riding a gargantuan plane, is bound to raise some eyebrows.
Rolling for wildcards.
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>>4289757
Despite being relatively immobile now that it's floating in the southern polar ocean, Emra's tendrils still provided good defence against the swarm of Saheltite-tipped missiles. From 24 that was fired, only 2 managed to score a partial hit. But that was enough to distract Emra from the approaching Big Chungus carrier, at least for a while. By the time Emra slapped Big Chungus from the air, two things were already sailing through the air, headed towards Emra.
The bigger of the two is the Zetterdammerung.
The other, is the former CG that is Ay'ay, his Stitcherbot form being the very prototype used for Zetterdammerung's neural interface.

One goes to settle a score.
The other, to settle a life-debt.

And they both landed on Emra's back as Big Chungus' debris rained over them. An hour, Zet reminds himself. An hour to settle a score.
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Rolled 5, 8 = 13 (2d8)

A sizeable chunk of the Ozasari Supercomputer tech, most notably the whole OPPAI OS network, was based off of Braffberg's 'telepathic' communication. Their implants had been specifically designed to block off such signals and heighten those that communicate the augments eith eachother. That ability, however, like most of the tech itself, had been derived from the capacities of the OG redthroat models. This meant that if they found a way to hijack the Panoramian's network, they could push a software update that rerouted away from Emra, and hopefully into one of OPPAI OS' servers.

>BT tech roll for L33T H4XX0RZ (x2)
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Rolled 6, 8 = 14 (2d8)

>>4289813
>We're in, boys.
The NG technicians over at Roulb Island let out a deep sigh after they finished what had been one of the most intense H4XX'ing evenings seen in Essari.

With the push of a button, thousands of RT neural implants would undergo a forced OS update, facilitated by a security breach on an unprodected backdoor access left unknowingly by Bushdaran IT workers. All incoming signals barring those from Ozasari would be excluded by the firewall protocols of the neural augments, which would also broadcast a very special transmission to the Boreo towers, clearly directed towards Emra.

>GG, EZ. LOL

The hold the BTs would gain over the Augmented RTs wouldn't last forever though, as the distance between the cousins was too great, as so was the server strain put on by all those tripod brains.

>Rolling to see how many RTs get hijacked by the Ozasari, and how much time they have to reroute stuff from the Roulb servers towards those in Panoram.
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Rolled 6, 6, 2, 1, 8 = 23 (5d8)

A pact once made on the shores of Shatturne; An unholy alliance forged in Foltania. Now it all came crashing down.

Over the radio and blasting out of speakers all over the Omir’ten domains, Zhae’Liy Ti'rase’s voice could be heard:

“...and so the day of judgement has come; the end of the world as we know it. Thus it lies on us to do our duty. Thus it lies on us to slay god. May the Everloving All watch over us all.”

Meanwhile the order had been given. Army tripods hurried slithered about as ships of sea and air were readied; and Rockets with God-killer warheads went through their final checks. Soon Judgement would come. Soon, the world would be saved.

> Rolling for CT Nukes. At Emra. Going Boom.
> Journey of forces towards Emra

“And so we’re all in agreement?”

The Screecher queried the assembly. All it got as an answer was silence; the most even kind of assent.
Ruling pairs of houses both big and small were attending this day. All except the Whitestones could be counted present.

The Mr Screecher sat down next to the Mrs Screecher, and a gray-hued pair took his place at the podium. As one they spoke:

“Since time immemorial, Stitcherkind has know the truth.”
“And as such it was written”
“He will come to you wearing the face of a friend.”
“But let us never forget that we are the even ones. We are those who serve. We are those who bring balance to this world filled with filth, heresy and oddity.

“And now… in this end of an era, we once again find ourselves facing Oddity; The friend most difficult; The Dark Elf incarnate. It is here, at this crossroad, that we find that there is only one true path to take; The even one.”

“THE EVENING COMES!”


> Rolling for firing of really big canons from Foltania and the Torray isles, with Salhetite-enriched (courtesy of the Sandstones) pay-loads.
> Rolling for effectiveness of using DNCs to jam nodes situated throughout Stitcher lands.
>Journey of forces towards Emra.
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>>4289533

Unnoticed it had passed through barriers and avoided safe guards. It came like a breathy whisper in Emra’s ear, leaving no trace:

{Goodbye, Emra.}


>Rolling for Jahonia cutting herself off from Emra and how many nodes she manages to take with in the process (and sort of firewalling the physical connections).
>Rolling for effectiveness of Radio jammers used by Jahonia’s Embrace against wireless node communication.
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Rolled 7, 5 = 12 (2d8)

>>4289926
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>>4289931

Hurr durr hurr
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Rolled 1, 7, 1, 2, 5 = 16 (5d8)

>>4289836
The operation was a success. Zutsuil, Patsuria, The Choirlands. These were the first to be released, they had the highest augmented population after all. Then after a bit of armed struggle, the augmented western and eastern nomads followed suit, regaining control of their autonomous societies and settlements. Jadijinik was all that was left. The Twin Kingdom was in a state of emergency, the prolonged quarantine after the failure of the initial test C.H Domain tear down had prevented the spread of Boreo relatively well. After the rejection of the augments, large segments of the population distrusted Boreo just as much as Emra. The activation of Braffberg sleeper cells after Emra hijacked Boreo had started a large bloody conflict in The Holy Empire. Half Civil War, half zombie apocalypse, life in the Nation of Work had turned into hell in the blink of an eye. But now, a glimmer of hope shined through. Just as it did in the autonomous city states that decorated the Panoramian country side.

>Cultural rolling for: Zutsuilan, Choir and Patsurian anti-Emra efforts in Bushdar, Fqwad, and the unaligned cities.

>Also RT tech rolling for BT H4XX1NG SK1LLZ (x2)
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>>4290038
Plans were drafted between the Augmented Nations, battle strategies discussed, brains were neurally implanted. They all agreed that waging war —both militar and cybernetic— against what is practically half a continent simply isnt feasible. Instead, action was focused on freeing half of the Twin Kingdoms; the geographically isolated island of Fqwad. The brains of the Jadijinik Empire. The missile silo of Panoram.

Bio-DDOS attacks coordinated by the Roulb Islanders on the few neurally implanted RTs of Fqwad were carried out, while a barrage of missiles and gun-airships coming from Zutsuil and Patsuria attacked the AA-Nodes of the island. Once the initial blast calmed down, airdropped mecha-troops fell on the cities, and ships blocked the ports of Fqwad.

The blast on the AA-nodes harmed the symptomatic RTs more than it did Emra, they transmitted a shockwave of pain through the air, which when recieved by the unaugmented Boreo parasites, turned the tripods' brains into mush.

An eight of Fqwad's population died instantly. The deployed soldiers rounded the RTs up, and forcefully implanted them with Neural Augments. The island was safe, and the secrets contained within were now up for grabs.
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>>4290096
>pic related, potentially Emra'd land in red. It's borders against it closed off until she is killed.
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As Zet flew after the giant braffberg, he imagined he would be settling his grudge alone - yet found himself joined by more and more allies; compatriots and enemies alike, all were united in goal: destroying the beast that has ruled over the world for so long.
Trusty Ay'Ay'rhan flew right beside Zet, followed by a bizarre machine with legs and wings that unfolded like a bug's, two grinning praetors sitting at it's helm, each carrying half a brain in a yellowish, transparent capsule; a squadron of CT jet-mechs sped overhead as massive stitcher amphibious superheavies trudged below.
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Rolled 2, 4 = 6 (2d8)

A series of rolls in no particular order. Enjoy some music as the thread twists and winds towards its end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mauV2NdCs60
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>The Ozasari
The Ozasari continued to make manifest their lies with stolen effort. Shady contacts and abominable conglomerations of technology coupled with an abject lack of empathy or morality allowed the Ozasari this moment: A transfer of consciousness, no crude copy, this device actively maintained functionality by duplication and hand off with the organic host as it burned away the brain in a destructive read write process. Rumors abounded with rejected technology deemed too heretical for the house of whitestone, its empire finding it "uneven"...

...Many corpses had already been ran through the machine, and many more created by it. A nascent gestalt was flickering in it, but it was just that; a flicker. The machine needed to capture the workings of the mind, not just it's form. A purestrain BT specimen was loaded into a capsule and prepared for functional tests...of their ability to be uploaded. The fine print can be a real pain in the lower thorax and genital extension.
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>The Eternal Empire of the Whitestone
Amidst a beautiful crystal court, white likes of which were white beyond compair, stood the ruling pair. So pure was the white, that born senses could not see, try as they might. Augmentation was key, ultra and infrasonic technology to extend where vision failed, was the only way to be. It was a day of rhyme within the court, many shredded bodies lay amongst the razored edges within, with their last screech echoing it's final report.

The Emperor's mind was fully sane for a stitcher, and his erratic activity was at times the product of boredom rather than frustration. Keeping him anchored to sanity was his mechanized Empress, eternal as she was perfect. This latest round of imposed rules tested his court's ability to remain obedient; though their inability to navigate near invisible and non standard geometry within the crystal court was rather deadly; gouging were common, fatal impalement a regular occurrence.

An untoward visitor adjusted the moment with his presence. Augmented and able to navigate the razor maze with ease. He was crushed for his impudence as he knelled, clutching an absurd parchment from the outside world. How long had it been since he ventured out? Deep in his own wonderment the Empress picked up the missive which was quickly scanned with the click of mechanical eyes; organics long gone.

"Dearest Eternal. Most Square and sustained. The Tripods and Orthodoxy are trying to kill Emra; are we prepared?"
the machine made of crystal and small portions of stitcher flesh looked at her with oddly preserved organic eyes. the encased remains of the Emperor's head sat in their transparent enclosure; the aperture slowly approximated a nod.
---
rolling for: Success of Ozasari effort, Condition of the whitestone forces since their apparent dormancy.
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Rolled 1, 8, 1, 5 = 15 (4d8)

>>4290157
The Ozasari machine spat flames, and burn the test subject alive, adding another shadow to the collection. It was no tripod mind, but the echo of death, slowly garnering awareness from each life snuffed out in the contraption, each corpse fed its last fragmentary moments or pickled and desiccated thoughts of life. Without care the Ozasari would birth a new problem for a new era.
--
Whitestone did not surge forward. The Emperor had requested his "finery". A heavily modified stitcherbot, archaic in appearance, it acted as a grander life support system for times of truly demented rampages as senility threatened. His Eternal Empress sat within, completing the pair, perfect in every way. Rising from the sands, from the depths, and out of shops came all of Whitestone's legion of antiquated machines, surging around the plodding feet of legacy stitcher bots. Filling in the ranks were the not yet dead. Troops of the house, augmented with crude cybernetics, not to improve life, but sustain it. Sustain it past any mortal injury, sustain it past hope of salvation, past the dream of seeing tomorrow, and past death. Only by grievously destroying their chest and head could one fully stop one of these horrible creations...Screeches bordering on bellows, behind them all, were the malformed, teats dripping liquid crystal, their great bulk supported by crude exo skeletal braces, the house was dead. The house was alive. It was as if an entity not their own had taken control in the absence of their true spirit, and even for those who loathed the whitestones, it was arguably even to march to your own death, so long as you dont come back afterwards. They trailed behind their darker skinned kin, like white shadow. Which is arguably the only color a shadow should be, but was yet the one thing they could not yet make so.
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The Nomads of the Tripod lands felt the flickers of many things, which confused their simple minds. Loyalties were divided, but subconscious nudges simplified and soothed the thoughts. The spread of Miniature AA nodes amongst the population was accelerating. the Ozasari had attempted to deploy and fit their own "firewall" technology to the NGs enmasse where possible, but it still represented a small fraction of the population which was ever growing. Many in the coming day would begin sabotaging their new allies, many others would turn on their kin. Few would know release.

>Rolling for: Success of Node inhibitor harness, NGs within the tripods that turn on them, NGs that turn on each other from that population. Rolling to see how many NG on Moralve attempt to help Emra.
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The Highborn would save their god. It was as simple as that. The outsiders had long been removed or flesh crafted into more highborn. The Island began the ardous process of accelerating and surging towards Emra, towards the core of the conflict. Already they felt the pain, and it would be returned to the desecrators a thousand times over.
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Rolled 8, 6, 5, 7 = 26 (4d8)

>>4290190
>>4290190
The FG deployed the full might of their craft, and dormant population. The dreamers would awaken, shaken out of thier reverie in the collective, once more to bring war to the world. As they flayed the PG of ancient times, as they fought them when they tried to enslave them, as they cracked their chests open and let the winds of the plains dry them to death...so to would they once more. Emra had given them so much, saved them, and saved them again, they would give back. They would give back everything.

>rolling for effectiveness of bio constructs, highborn warriors, and defenses of the great island itself, as well as how quickly they were able to intervene. (8 means quick, but also damage to their island. 5 and below offers no impact to damage)
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>>4289386
>>4290190
The malformed ones had exactly one advantage over their former brethren: the symbiote could not take root in their mutated flesh. Thus, their population, although meager(numbering less than ten thousand total), remained the only loyal, trustworthy assstants for that dark day; every single other NG had been swayed against the tripods, sabotaging whatever they can.
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Rolled 7, 1, 8 = 16 (3d8)

>>4290200
The Voltanites would reach out via radio missive to their counterparts, their foes really, in the mainland. No longer able to conquer the unified land, they could perhaps seek peace by underlining their signature in blood. Neither the Tripods for the "leader" could be fully trusted, allies perhaps, but never fellow Grabraf. Even backwards Braffberg node worshipping mainlander bumpkins. The reality of the nature of the Lady only further vulcanized their belief in their own righteousness of cause. In time they would attempt to treat with this "lady" and determine if she could be given cause to see the reason of their crusade. Better an odious ally than a dangerous enemy.

The Voltanites would lend their aid to the extermination of the NG, a known aperature of the entity "Emra".
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Rolling for: Ending the mainland war via throwing in their might to the campaign, the reaction of the mainlanders as a whole, and their subsequent persecution of the Moralve colony.
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Rolled 7, 8, 6, 3, 7, 7, 7, 4, 4 = 53 (9d8)

> In the interest of time. Certain events are going to get some QM-fiated conclusions placed on them. Start first with the conclusion of the Skrigjaarda Tuzan-Huzduk War.
>Phases 4, 5 and 6 will all be rolled for simultaneously.

=Phase 4 Bonuses for Skrigjaarda (Base is 1d8)=
+1 Bonus for Horde Tactics
+2 Bonus for Combat Symbiotes
+1 Bonus for RT Military Aid
+2 Bonus for CT Military Aid
+2 Bonus for Zet Zaibatsu Miltary Aid
-2 Penalty for Split Forces

=Phase 4 Bonuses for Tuzan-Huzduk (Base is 2d8)=
+1 Bonus for Combined Forces
+2 Bonus for Nekonahu Military Aid
+1 Bonus for Subter Empire Military Aid

=Phase 4 Win/Loss Condition Modifers=
If Skrigjaarda Defeat, Genocide Condition in Effect for Tuzan-Huzduk
If Skrigjaarda Defeat, RT pull Military Aid, Voltanites (+1d8) Join Tuzan-Huzduk
If Tuzan-Huzduk Defeat, RT and CT Bonus increased by 1
If Tuzan-Huzduk Defeat, Nekonahu pulls Military Aid. Voltanites places sanctions (-1 Penalty)

=Phase 5 Bonuses for Skrigjaarda (Base is 1d8)=
+1 Bonus for Horde Tactics
+2 Bonus for Combat Symbiotes
+1 Bonus for RT Military Aid
+2 Bonus for CT Military Aid
+2 Bonus for Zet Zaibatsu Miltary Aid
-2 Penalty for Split Forces

=Phase 5 Bonuses for Tuzan-Huzduk (Base is 2d8)=
+1 Bonus for Combined Forces
+2 Bonus for Nekonahu Military Aid
+1 Bonus for Subter Empire Military Aid

=Phase 5 Win/Loss Condition Modifers=
If Skrigjaarda Defeat, Genocide Condition in Effect for Tuzan-Huzduk
If Skrigjaarda Defeat, RT pull Military Aid, Voltanites provide Military Aid to Tuzan-Huzduk (+3 Bonus)
If Skrigjaarda Defeat, and also defeated in Phase 4. Ostralja capitulates (Tuzan-Huzduk Victory)
If Tuzan-Huzduk Defeat, RT and CT Bonus increased by 1
If Tuzan-Huzduk Defeat, and also defeated in Phase 4. Zet Zaibatsu sends full military aid to end conflict and evacuate Ostralja (White Surrender for Ostralja)
If Tuzan-Huzduk Defeat, Nekonahu pulls Military Aid. Voltanites places sanctions on Tuzan-Huzduk (-1 Penalty)

=Phase 6 Bonuses for Skrigjaarda (Base is 1d8)=
+1 Bonus for Horde Tactics
+2 Bonus for Combat Symbiotes
+1 Bonus for RT Military Aid
+2 Bonus for CT Military Aid
+2 Bonus for Zet Zaibatsu Miltary Aid
-2 Penalty for Split Forces

=Phase 6 Bonuses for Tuzan-Huzduk (Base is 2d8)=
+1 Bonus for Combined Forces
+2 Bonus for Nekonahu Military Aid
+1 Bonus for Subter Empire Military Aid

=Phase 6 Win/Loss Condition Modifers=
If Skrigjaarda Defeat, Ostaljan evacuated by Skrigjaarda. Voltanites usurp large quantities of land from Ostraljans. Tuzan takes the rest.
If Tuzan-Huzduk Defeat, and also defeated in Phase 4. Zet Zaibatsu sends full military aid to end conflict and evacuate Ostralja (White Surrender for Ostralja)
If Tuzan-Huzduk Defeat, and defeated in Phase 5. Voltanites and Zet Zaibatsu intervene and end the conflict (White Surrender for Tuzan-Huzduk)
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Rolled 5, 6, 7 = 18 (3d8)

>>4290200
>>4290190
>>4290096
The great silo had been secured. 'Hail Work!'s of victory were exclaimed by the population of the Island, but their celebration was short lived. Their chattel began to undergo strange changes; first their dentrils protuded and twitched spastically, then they began extending and incidents of NGs impaling their tripod masters on accident became common, and finally, they activated. By then, their miniature nodes took up almost half of their bodies, accountant firms and auditing offices went up in flames, the tiny creatures had shredded their tiny tailor-fit suits, and ran rampant on the cities.

Once again, code red. This time, the priority would be another. Most troops were already deployed on the RT settlements, keeping civilian order and safety, and shooting any zombified tripods on sight. That made the first step of the plan easier. The second step was slightly more complex, it is hard to launch every rocket you have after all. From state-of-the-art GPS guided salhetite boosted God-Killers (GGSES) to ceremonial fireworks, every flight-capable explosive was to be sent out.
Number one priority was paying the Ozasari back; fullfilling their request for support in the Emra Slaying crusade was the least payment they could give. Number two was purging the huge beep that had been detected by their radars and satellites, the FGs had been busy, it seemed, and the RTs owed them one from Mysdrassil. Last and least, purging Essari of Hurkuns. Blow those double-nomads up.

>:)
>Rolling for the ***all-out*** nuking of Emra, The floating islands, and Sujardin.
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Rolled 6, 5, 1, 1 = 13 (4d8)

>>4290279
>Oh duh forgot about the other roll, defending against Emra'd NGs in Zutsuil, Fqwad, Patsuria, and Choirlands.
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>>4290200
The strongest of the FG are the Forest Armored Grabraf, or FAGs. Powered by a miniature nuclear reactor and covered head to toe by synthetic Emranium armor capable of withstanding a point-blank nuke, the FAG is able to withstand the heat of any situation, and penetrate any enemy with it's perfect reflexes and bio-railguns. For close combat and area denial, it is also capable of releasing the restraints of it's nuclear core, dousing everything around it in lethal radiation, and for quick movement it is equipped with superheated jump jets.
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>>4290269
==Ostralja Tuzan Huzduk War Conclusion==
Phase 1: [1 (+1) vs 4 (+1)] Victory for Huzduk-Tuzan
Phase 2: [3 (+2) vs 5 (+2) & 8 (+2)] Glorious Victory for Huzduk-Tuzan (Zet Zaibatsu, Jadijinese & Omir'ten aid now provided to Skrigjaarda)
Phase 3: [4 (+4) vs 6 (+2) & 4 (+2)] Pyrrhic Victory for Skrigjaarda (Tripod nations are now involved limitedly with Skrigjaarda)
Phase 4: [7 (+6) vs 8 (+3) & 6 (+2)] Pyrrhic Victory for Huzduk-Tuzan (Genocide Condition Proc'd for Skrigjaarda Faction)
Phase 5: [3 (+8) vs 7 & 7 (+1)] Victory for Huzduk-Tuzan (Ostralja Capitulates)
Phase 6: Moot

Ostralja is defeated, leaving the NG Nation-State with only fragment of their held land under strict Military Autonomy by the Zet Zaibatsu. Millions are slaughtered in the conflict, and more evacuate via Tripod assistance to either to Denui Island or Skrig-Uriyah.

The Clans of Tuzan effortlessly sweep in to annex as much land as possible, while maintaining their agreement with the Tierre Huzduk that they get first rights to any leftover materials by the Ostralja, including material provided by the Tripods. Now all of Sujardin, save for heavily guarded strip of land on its Southwestern coast has been purged of the NG menace. The Kin of Skrigjaarda meanwhile retreat to lick their wounds, and plot their vengeance.
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>>4290279
Gonna QM-Fiat here and negate the roll on nuking Sujardin, since it otherwise interferes with events I just determined.
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Rolled 3, 4, 6 = 13 (3d8)

>>4283189
>>4283213

--Voltanite Event: The Empire of the Sea and Stars--

The Voltanites had seen the writing on the walls in the last few decades. The nations of Sujardin they had once allied with and even provided aid to help them rebuild at the end of the Great Sujardin War, were now turning inwards, allying with one another, save for the reliable PG of Nekonahu. Outside of Sujardin, other nations were rapidly encroaching on the autonomy of the Grabraf either through military and technological superiority, economical chokeholds on trade routes, or both. The Voltanties Empire needed allies if could rely on in whatever coming conflict the future would hold, and so it would send envoys to the Zet Zaibatsu and seek out the Mobile Base of Peripheral Terminus to formalize an alliance that would help them once again hold hegemony over the Grabraf of Sujardin, and one day even reach the stars.

Just a decade a later their alliance would cemented with their colonies in Shatturne, Jobani and Brouldia now open trade hubs with the Blood-Throats of the Zet Zaibatsu, and a clandestine trade route had been established with the leaders of Peripheral Terminus, trading essential resources with the mercenary organization, in exchange for their enforcing of marine lanes for the commerce and military vessels of the Voltanites. They too would now begin to focus internally on its own military and cultural advancements, but not before making one final offer to its allies that once stood with them in the now dissolved Sujardin Senate.

> Rolling for making a non-aggression trade pact with Nekonahu, Tou'ban and the Goltona Republic.
> If a 2 or lower is rolled by the Goltona Republic or Tou'ban, the nations break all diplomatic ties with the Voltanite Empire.
> If an 8 is rolled for the Goltona Republic or Tou'ban, the nation is peacefully annexed into the Voltanite Empire.
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Rolled 5, 3, 3, 6 = 17 (4d8)

>>4290279
Zaibatsu "peace keeping".
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The majority of Zaibatsu houses and clans were housed within their own city like industrial centers. The previous Zet's own need for sustained control was a well learned lesson. Entire quadrents and sections of the cities were configured for various degrees of self cleaning, or destruction if need be,

Across Brouldia, Shatturne, Jobani and elsewhere, large swaths of the environment simply died. The coming years would require an extensive stockpiling of food from all available importers. Refineries disabled all safties and ran right into overdrive, raw salhetite was added to the mix where the desired benefit was needed. Many thought it was the end of the world, huddled in their dwellings, now fully environmentally sealed. Outside, smoke and gasses corroded metal, stripped paint and ate weaker material. The worst of it caused the outer layers of concrete to go pyrophoric and burn. Tripods caught with NG were forced to kill their former pets and friends, or be killed. Any hab block, floor, or room not responding was subject to purging protocols.

From a tiny remote screen within his combat machine, Zet orchestrated the ruination of his empire, at least in the near term.

There was no doubt the purge would be successful. The NG and infected in his territory would simply burn as flesh sloughed off their bones. The worry was the damage it would incur. Information feeds from Ozasari techs sustained him with situational awareness, and the realization that holding back the nuclear arsenal was no longer an option.

A message was sent to the Divine Kingdom of the Omir'ten. One already executed. "It was time. Release our shared hate, no longer blades at our necks, but towards mutual threat. This is the will of Zet."

A heavily automated stockpile of Zaibatsu nuclear shaped charges took off into the upper atmosphere, set on a path to intercept their target in 30 minutes or less. Crude machine intelligence guided each unit, still built on heavily miniaturized analog machines; incapable of interfacing with their digital counterparts.

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rolling for: Population lost in the madness (1d8 giving a maximum of 80% life loss in the Zaibatsu proper territory)
Damage done to the Zaibatsu economical capability (1d8 with 8 being 100% ruination)
Strike on FG island with nuclear shaped charges (nuclear EFP)
Strike on Emra with nuclear shaped charges
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Rolled 2 (1d3)

>>4290325
Luckily for 90% of grabrafs, the tripod trying to divert a third of the nukes to Sujardin was quickly stopped from his foolish act, and the nukes were redirected elsewhere.
1-at Emra
2-at the FG
3-divided evenly between the two
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>>4290120

Er'in Rokmel looked over the bow of the Xerhosire III, the long-lived Ultra-Heavy Battleship have been re-outfitted with the latest Voltanite-grade technology and armaments. His plumaged matted with by the spits of water crashing against the majestic hull of the Voltanite Flagship, now flanked on each side by 4 near-identical models of Ultra-Heavy Battleships. A myriad of nearly 200 ships and naval vessels of various function comprises Rokmel's fleet, along side a one of the first aerial fleets of armored airships, built in the rough concept of being an iron clad in the skies.

Just hours ago, the Voltanite Grand Warlord had received a message from his allies in the Zet Zaibatsu. A violent confrontation with the False-God, Emra was being had and the TG-PG was willing to provide as much aid as possible. Rok'mel led the Home Fleet from Sujardin, with two others of his fellow admirals leading the fleets from the Wolzati Territory and Ka'zeinohr Province now with a course set to join the battle in the Essar Ocean. Er'in would quickly find that he would need to rely on Radio or Radar to locate the location of the battle, due to the successive flashes of nuclear light that illuminated the horizon, followed shortly after by the concussions of shockwaves impacting the hulls with a deafening clang of steel. The Voltanite Grand Warlord hailed his forces on an open channel.

>"Harden your resolve soldiers. For each crack of thunder is where the battle lies. We, the Voltanites will carve our own path towards that battlefield, and will crush the enemy of all life on Essari: The False-God Emra. Gloria et Voltana!"

A thunderous roar of cheers could be hear across the ships of the main fleet, only to be deafened out once more by the force of another Nuclear Shockwave as Rokmel's fleet closed in on the battlefield of the Essar Ocean.
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Rolled 8, 1, 8, 6 = 23 (4d8)

>>4289805
>>4290120
The Zetterdammerung and Ay'ay landed on the back of Emra, and within moments they were beset by defensive tendrils. These they quickly dispatched, as their erstwhile allies struck out against the false-god. Some raked artillery barrages on Emra's back, others let loose in sanctioned melee. But Zet, he studied Emra, and if the theories were right he should find a weak spot... somewhere in all these biomass. But there are other priorities.
"Ay'ay, how are you holding up?" Zet asks through heavily encrypted radio.
"Right by your side, friend." Ay'ay replied as he hacks off another hostile tendril.
"I need a favor. Get the Specter satellite loose. Get as far away, afterwards. Keep it safe."
"Acknowledged. Stay alive, friend."
"No promises... friend."
With that, the two dart their separate ways. Ay'ay towards the front, and Zet, towards his destiny. All the while their supposed allies rip at the colossal continent with what they've got.

>Rolling for: Zet's theoretized weak spot of Emra (1-4: center mass, 5-6: node spire, 7: gullet/mouth, 8: 'brain'), how hard is the journey there (low = good, high = bad), Ay'ay's journey to the Spectre, and attempts at rescuing Spectre from Emra's embrace
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>>4289757 >>4289805
>>4289893 >>4290120
>>4290190 >>4290200
>>4290279 >>4290355
>>4291130 >>4291206

--World Event/Emra Event: The Day Essari Stood Still--
On Essari, in the Western Hemisphere where the waters of Essar and Vasilavna Oceans meet, a conflict that would very well determine the fate of the planet and its Sapients raged. A rapid escalation of events, starting with the downing of the Librarian Satellite, had devolved in just over 24 hours into an international conflict revolving around a grandiose attempt to once and for all destroy the Great Braffberg, while also trying to extricate Spectre and the Satellite from Emra's grasp. The sapient world's most prominent powers had thrown everything at the Braffberg and its Pro-Emra allies, the FG on the Floating Island of Gah'una. Nuclear Arsenals numbering in the tens of thousands, Salhetite Missile Barrages, Mechs of various natures, entire armadas of air and naval craft, and many other oddities all threw their hands in the gambit of defeating Emra. The Great Braffberg itself did all it could to mitigate or prevent more damage to itself, but after nearly an entire day of overwhelming and zealous attacks on its already damaged body had eventually dealt a critical enough blow to force Emra aloft the ocean's surface.

Zet stood on the face of the Braffberg, carving out and destroying every brain node he could find, as other Stitcher and Voltanite Mechs continued firing barrages of artillery and laser fire at the crippled Emra. In an instant, all firing ceased as a low droning could be hear resonating from the Braffberg, before finally speaking telepathically for all those either linked to the Bio-Matrix, infected by the Boreo parasites, or in a 50 mile proximity of Emra. Its voice lacked usual overpowering thunder, sounding almost strained in its speech.
>"Enough. You believe that my death will grant you freedom, but you are wrong. I am not like your kind. If you cut off my head, I do not die. Instead, only Chaos and Despair awaits. As one I have been kind to you, but as many will be ruthless. In a mere moment of your mortal time half this world will disappear, and in the next the earth will tear asunder and light of day will be swallowed."

In an instant, all those that hear Emra's voice would be overcome with visions of horror. Deathly wails echoed from the cities, as corpses lined the streets of some. In others grotesque abominations roamed consuming the living the expand their numbers. Engulfed in flames, sunk into the sea, frozen under lightless sky, Once fertile fields turned hostile masses of flesh. And the last remnants, the survivors are kept locked away, and in fear for their lives.

As the visions faded, the Braffberg spoke again.
>"This is the world where Emra the one dies, and the world where Emra the many lives. You may hate me, and I have respected that. But if you kill me here you will not be able to live without me."

The World Awaits Zet's Reply...
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>>4291839
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjONB-riZqc
A little music to enjoy while you read.
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Zet saw the ruins of the braffberg, flesh split asunder displayed in grainy resolution through a dozen humming, crackling, CRT viewscreens. The cockpit was sweltering, stinking of ozone and overheated hydraulic greases. Caution lights flickered across scattered panels; structural damage, reactor overheat, lost coolant, low fuel, more. Not much time. Frustration filled Zet at his own limitations; he was not the orator like the previous Zets. It was an odd thing to be concerned of at this moment, one's ability to speak to the world.

A deliberate flick of the third hand toggled an innocuous switch; external speakers boomed to life with a moment of deafening feedback and growling static. Several nearby battles paused for half a second, and then the first actual noise to emit was a long sigh from the aging Tripod, rendered tinny and metallic.

"...crushed between the blue of the upper atmosphere and black of space, dreams of freedom, and matters of duty. Observing, guiding, sculpting my people, my nation. Emra, We exist as we are, aware of our nature, able to resist it, but still guided by it, hungry to give into it. Here, now...only in these vital moments, truth emerges, ripped from raw flesh. To see you as you are Emra, desperate to be free; We are somewhat common."

The machine paced and made oddly personable gesticulation as Zet spoke.

"My life on the land of Essari is counted in days. I share with you the wisdom I have accumulated from it; Self determination is valued above all else. Struggle for resilience gained trough the daily trials, the austerity of truth laid bare and unvarnished. The world exists as such without regard to our existence."

"Knowing that, now choices are few; Duty or comfort. independence or security. My only options each momen, Emra. Decisions made voluntarily, my own to live with. We know ourselves at the Zaibatsu. IYou know yourself Emra, not yet. I do not think the world knows itself even if it knows it's truths.."

In the background, the Voltanites and stitchers exchanged blows with the NG and FG forces, the stunning awe of Emra's words wearing off. The radio chatter was full of spaients full of violence and death. In his chest zet felt the dull thud of pain, weariness, hunger for violence and strife. Nuclear flashes in the distance continued to temporarily blind his external cameras, strobing the cockpit in static for a moment.

1/2
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>>4292078
https://youtu.be/DILRsYEh7Cc
suitable music for whats to come.
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The machine stopped it's pacing, a weapon now pointed at Emra as a symbolic gesture.

"Struggling for life, desperation to survive....you think the visions shared would give a Bloodthroat pause; Give Zet pause? You reason that we would not choose a world of raw survival? Are you not Emra, do yo not know how the blood throats were forged? Do you not claim to have observed us from the begining?!"

"This new world will come to pass! Yet that you would think to endure in it, to leave us with the punishment of our actions, your final judgement? No Emra, you will live in it with us. Existing with competition from many gods. Who will you be then? I wonder. What of your many followers, now with many choices?"

Mirth crept into the tripod's voice, something almost bordering on paternal kindness.

"Release them Emra, your kin. The Specter. The era of suffering begins, you, our visitor, all the world, together. Surviving and dying. This is the will of Zet."

Another flick of the wrist cut the audio feed with a tactile click.

2/2
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Rolled 8, 8 = 16 (2d8)

>>4292128
Already the Ozasari were streaming the great confrontation across Pay per view to Sujardin and the Panoram Mainaland. Zet's crude accent, clipped speech, and general mannerims were just not suitable for history even if it was about to end.

The best Ozasari theatrical readers dubbed over the video, meanwhile a stand in for zet was filmed in dramatic close ups in a mocked up cockpit. cutting between the live footage of the conflict for dramatic effect. Director K'shakko had really outshined himself this time.

"You keep yourself a lock over a self-destruct of sapience of your own design, and you wonder why we hate you. You are the absolute nihilist: You cannot accept that there can be existence apart from you. That is why you swallow our world, and that is why you cannot let a world exist where you are no more.
You say you have been kind. You have not. You have put in all of our hearts a bomb which would detonate if we acted towards you as any animal has acted towards any other animal from the beginning of time. You say you will be acting ruthless, but you already are: Nothing more ruthless than that can be imagined by any sapient.
You say we are bringing about our demise by killing you. But we say: If you have any compassion, any goodness in that black convulsion of superiority complexes that you call your soul, you will make it so that this is not the case. You will make it so that your fear of the meaninglessness of your life does not tear with it all that thinks, and all that desires a rightful place of liberty on this planet."

Rolling for how many people take the Ozasari broadcast as authentic, and how much profit they make.

>Thanks Fekken.
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Rolled 2, 8 = 10 (2d8)

Emra's psychic screams of agony have quite upset the nodes within FGs and NGs; while those far away felt but a twinge of pain in their spines, those directly adjacent suffered far worse; each FG's node was having what was basically a panic attack, shuffling hormones and genes at random.
Rolling for how many FGs are affected and how bad the mutations are on average(8 is slight but noticeable dip in performance, 1 is everyone turning into tetsuo)
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>>4292155
Roughly 25% of the FG population was significantly affected - but it was nothing a bit of gene modding couldn't fix. The problem was that in the heat of battle, you don't exactly have the time to restore your DNA to how it was before.
>FAGs have been weakened; their nuclear reactors now run at 50% power, and their armor can be damaged by nukes and heavy application of conventional arms
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>>4292128
>>4292078
Luckily for the war effort, and for Zet's plans of turning the world into a hellhole, one of the stitchers manning the superheavies knew tripodese, if a bit roughly. And as he heard Zet's speech, his intentions for Emra, he said aloud "Wait, that sounds like bullshit." Immediately he alerts his commanding officer, who realizes Zet's senile stupidity and devises a better course of action.
Both of the superheavies present unload their full barrage of nukes - 8 warheads each - along with the rest of their ammunition, rapid-fire rail machineguns and laser cannons boring holes in the braffberg's flesh, hopefully deep and wide enough for the nukes to enter and hit where it hurts.
Tonight, Emra WILL die - if not by Zet's hand, then by that of stitcherdom itself.
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Rolled 4, 6 = 10 (2d8)

>>4292139
And so, all of Panoram and Sujardin was decieved into thinking the false god had been defeated in cinematic manner, a tyrant justiced by the righteous heroes of tripodkind. The Ozasari have always believed in the power of deception, well told lies become reality, blind faith on falsehoods turned them into facts. And they were just about to be proven right.

A Voltage-gated sodium channel opens up in the axon of an RT braincell, causing a shift in its axon's polarity, an electric pulse travels through it. The pulse turns into a current as the next neuron is activated by the calcium ions released from the synaptic boutons. This process is repeated through all of Panoram. A neuronal circuit is activated, the signals travelling through it contain an abstract idea.

Emra was dead. This meant that Boreo was alive. The collective belief of Billions of tripods begin projecting the idealized concept of Boreo into the AA nodes. The preception the nations of Panoram have of him. This thoughts are amplified and transmitted through the antennae of the Augmented tripods into the Braffbergs organ in Panoram.

Boreo was dead. Long live Boreo.

>Rolling for the birth of Boreo 2.0, and if not, the hijacking of the Oppai OS into the AA-nodes in Panoram.
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Rolled 7 (1d8)

The war on Emra provided a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Ozarasi - they could enrich OPPAI OS's sample data with the rigors of combat. Sure, none of the CTs dashing between FGs in their flying armors were equipped with OPPAI implants, but with complex enough onboard computers and skilled enough hackers, it wouldn't be much of a problem.
Rolling for feeding OPPAI OS with CT combat data.
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>>4292274
OPPAI's data engrams overflew with the hectic dances of the transformable CT fighters, with the joy of seeing your enemy shot and the pain of your own hull being hit; it's algorithms were molded anew, becoming more opportunistic and cruel; this would do it well when it came time to overtake AA nodes.
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Rolled 2, 1 = 3 (2d8)

>>4292266
As OPPAI probes through Panoram's nodes, it gradually begins encountering more and more resistance - a push similar to it's own, symmetrically opposing it. Ozarasi technicians quickly determine the source of the push - a data storage facility in Patsuria, which seemingly had the thousands of gigabytes of data stored on it recently overwritten.
Rolling for original Boreo hijacking AA nodes and retaking his old towers, and how well he resists OPPAI in contested territory.
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>>4292305
The frankly miniscule amount of intelligence Boreo had managed to save during his purging was nothing compared to the sheer might of OPPAI, nor to the indomitable will of a node - in the end, he had to make do with a measly ten towers, less than a percent of his old influence, some data storage facilities, and no AA nodes at all.
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>>4292314
>>4292274
>>4292283
>>4292266
The RTs brainwaves projected a platonic ideal of who the braffberg had been. However, the sheer amount of Panoramians fitted with MK 2 augments from Ozasari rather than MK 1 from Panoram meant that their signals were heavily redacted. In the end, although the OPPAI waves were outnumbered, the OS prescence had been established in the continent. Her predictive hacks and DDOS attacks were far more organized and effective than the entropic belief in Boreo.
The braffberg cells engraved in the brains of the RTs and nomads were reprogrammed, their conciousness supresed by the Osazari Neural Protocols. The parasitic braffberg units served as an access point to the AA-nodes, whose cells would be hijacked as well.

OPPAI had gained countless new mainframes in Panoram, bioprocessing subunits of Ozasari.
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>>4292078
>>4292128
>>4292224

--World Event/Emra Event: The Day Essari Stood Still Part 2--
Emra gazed pensively at the Zet that stood before him, grandstanding before the Braffberg as it spoke its piece, drawing similarities between the ideologies and morals the two shared, if only tangentially with some points. The Blood-Throat even had the audacity to accuse it of having forgotten is own claims to knowledge and power. Perhaps there was some truth in this young Zet's words, considering the Braffberg's rare misstep that had led to its present predicament.

Emra at last gives his reply to the Zet piloted Mech with its weapon drawn on the Braffberg.
>"You wish for Age of Strife. Whether you wish to prove your merit as an enduring species, or throw caution to wind in face of some perceived hegemony over your kind; the answer is of minor interest. If those are your demands through Zet the Young, then so be it. The AI will be unharmed. Additionally I will sever my full dominion over the AA-Node Network, as you've wished for. However, if this is truly what you wish Blood-Throat, then in a show of my compassion I will implore your civilian populations seek safety as far from the AA-Nodes as possible. With the Nodes freedom to act according to their whims, there is a possibili-"

Emra would be rudely interrupted by the deft precision of Stitcher Nuclear Arms crashing into its Cryst Crown, even managing to break off a section of it in the impact. The Braffberg gutturally droned as it used the remaining of its fully intact arms to either catch the blow or even deflect the nuclear missiles into the water, a few impacting in proximity to sapient armadas caught unaware. Emra simultaneously grabbed Zet as gently as the strained Braffberg could attempt to protect him from the nuclear detonations, by tossing him as lightly as possible in the direction of his Fleet.
>"Pestilent beings these Stitcher have become. Our conversation is over, and deal complete. Your compatriot below has nearly reached the satellite as is, though I doubt his ability to free the AI alone. And heed my warning of the AA-Nodes, Zet. Their actions will be unpredictable, even to myself."

With that Emra retreated, submerging fully into the Ocean depths. There the Braffberg, would heal its substantial damage and reassess its actions going forward.
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Ay'Ay'rhan after traveling nearly 2 miles into the depths of the ocean, would find a curious film of Braffious mass entrenched around a deep crevice. Utilizing the mech's melee arms, Ay'Ay managed to cut through enough of the film to revealing the Satellite hull, yet his tools could barely scratch the surface of the Satellite hull. Worse yet, the pressure of the depths began to crack Ay'Ay's own metallic casing, forcing him to retreat to the surface.

Despite this failure, Ay'Ay would confirm the location of the Satellite to Zet.
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>>4292796
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27c3JaZq4_c

The Zetterdammerung sailed through the air, its combat-grade fuel is at its last fumes. Zet mulled over Emra's words, already knowing that the sapients of the world are already doomed, always doomed to a death in their cradles - if they are too coddled to leave it. To him, Emra is one of the limiters that halted progress towards the outer spheres, the future where the stars promise survival. Its existence alone breeds superstition, fear, and blind faith. Zet had thought contact with Spectre will at least ignite self-enlightenment of these desires to reach for higher horizons. But he had to do what he did when Emra snuffed out that possibility. He had so much to say, but between combat fatigue and the embers of rage, his speech before should suffice.
And so, as the Zetterdammerung exhausts the last of its combat fuel in making course corrections to land on a Stitcher amphibious superheavy, which he knows belongs to the first Stitcher faction to arrive - Peripheral Terminus. Now, only the emergency reactor powers his life support. He hopes Ay'ay managed to find Specter safe - there's still hope of reigniting the Essarian races' hope towards the stars. Even if they have to suffer through an Age of Strife first.
It seems like he owes the Large Leaders a favor, now. He opens the cockpit, staring to the cold polar horizon, to a sun-set sky mottled above with early stars; The massive hulk of Emra glimmering as it slowly sinks into the depths.
It was the most beautiful sunset he'd ever seen, even now as Peripheral Terminus soldiers surround him with weapons drawn. They're being very cautious, which suits Zet fine. He waited until an insect-winged, multi-legged mech lands, and only then do the soldiers stand down. The Large Leaders speaks to him via radio, dual-voiced and dual-languaged between Stitcher screech and Tripod trade patois interspersed with Choir terms.

"Rejoice, Zet, for the Age of Strife is dawning."
"Through it, we will reach the stars."
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Rolled 7, 1, 2, 3, 7, 3, 7, 6, 5, 4, 2, 2, 8 = 57 (13d8)

>>4291839
>>4292796
>>4293035

--World Event/Emra Event: The Day Essari Stood Still Aftermath--
The moons of Essari illuminated the blissful night as the quiet of lapping ocean waves. Zet and Ay'Ay', the surviving vessels of the Zet Zaibatsu Navy and Aerial Fleets; as similarly all the other factions of the war made their return voyages back home. Casualties of the day-long conflict with Emra had not even begun to be tallied by any faction participant as many among the Blood-Throat and Red-Throats could not begin to even fathom the losses endured today throughout their empires. For Zet though, he simply chose to take the moment to enjoy the "victory" over Emra. The Braffberg's warning weighs heavy on his mind, as the Zaibatsu fleets began to split off in their various courses to their home ports. In all likelihood the Zet Zaibatsu would be tested almost immediately, not only with the now necessary purge or re-education of NGs living within their provinces, but now with a potential threat of rogue AA-Nodes as well, as Emra had eluded to.

Many across the participating factions of the Emra Conflict would hand-wave the threat as nothing more than grandiose threats due to the Braffberg being brought down so low. The FG of aloft the Floating Island knew the truth, and those among the Omir'ten Kingdom and Zet Zaibatsu now mauled over the strong possibility of conflict within their own borders with Emriac Nodes. All while many of these military forces would be fatigued and diminished by in the conflict, while nuclear stockpiles were majorly depleted. Now leaving the Super Powers of Essari on a near level playing field for the first time in almost a century.

And as dawn now just hours away, a new age of Sapient History begins on Essari. The Age of Strife.
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> Multiple Rolls being made to determine the military losses incurred in the fight in the following order: Zet Zaibatsu, Omir'ten Kingdom, Western Patsuria, Crystal Orthodoxy, Whitestone Empire, Peripheral Terminus, Voltanite Empire and Floating Isle FG
> Roll results on Military losses equal to # x 5 for the total percent.
> Additionally rolling for remaining Nuclear Stockpiles of Zet Zaibatsu, Omir'ten Kingdom, Jadijinese Empire, Western Patsuria and Crystal Orthodoxy.
> Roll results as follows: 1 = Less than 5 nukes, 2-3 = Less than 5% of Stockpile Remaining, 4-5 = Less than 10% of Stockpile Remaining, 6-7 = Less than 20% Stockpile Remaining, 8 = Roughly 33% of Stockpile Remaining.
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Rolled 8, 7 = 15 (2d8)

As Emra relinquished it's control over the nodes, many of them gained awareness and agency of their own; some were in the thickest jungles, a wealth of biomass ripe for harvest; some awoke atop great plains, their new domains stretching far and wide; some came to in the darkest of depths, mystified by the exotic, degenerate lifeforms buzzing around them; and one was in the back of a young Nomad - and that Nomad had a dream, a dream the node would be quick to fulfill.
A signal was sent, and another Nomad, the girl that he craved yet could not have, chirped happily an invitation to meld. Their bodies rubbed, and flesh sloughed off and reformed into something larger, something more. They stood, now together forever, and learned of the truth - that this is how it should be, how it was meant to be all along; tripods told tales of all life descending from one, homogenous film of microbes; and so, what is, must return to what once was. The creature extended it's paws to it's brethren, and one by one they took it's hands in theirs, skin melting and weaving, fusing and twisting. Soon, all shall join this euphoria.
The Promiscuous Beast is born. It's goal - to rape EVERYTHING, whether it wants it or not.
Rolling for how many nomads it has fused into it's orgy, and how much of a danger it is to other sapients(1 is a minor nuisance, 8 is an avengers tier threat)
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>>4293595
Theme music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZXJ5oI4m8M
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Rolled 6, 2 = 8 (2d8)

>>4293478
>>4289942

Meanwhile, as lives and resources were lost in a war half a world away, things where stirring in Sujardin. While the general sentiment was that making war on a demigod, Johone, was an arduous and meaningless task, all of this meant opportunity. And opportunity meant change.

> dun Dun DUN!
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--CivEvo Progress Report--
32 years have passed since the Silent Decade. The War between Skrigjaarda and a PG-CG coalitions has finally ended in a CG-PG victory. The Tripod Space Mission was a remarkable success for Tripodian civilization. This was immediately followed by one of the quickest international conflicts in Essarian history with Emra. The conflict had been a "victory" for Essari's sapients, but also brings with it a new age of Conflict and Chaos for all on Essari. For the Nodes awaken, freed of Emra's controls.

(Tier 6) Age of Invention [Tech Limit for NG, FG & CG]
Atomic Theory (Need Scientific Theory)
Ballistics (Need Rifling)
Combustion Engine (Need Steam Power & Industrialization)
Electricity (Need Industrialization)
Flight (Need Combustion Engine)
Plastics (Need Industrialization)
Radio (Need Telegraph)
Refrigeration (Need Electricity)

(Tier 7) Atomic Age [Tech Limit for TG, PG, CT & Voltanites]
Advanced Ballistics (Need Ballistics & Advanced Flight)
Advanced Flight (Need Flight)
Computer (Need Radio & Synthetic Materials)
Electromagnetisms (Need Atomic Theory & Electricity)
Nuclear Physics (Need Atomic Theory)
Radar/Sonar (Need Radio)
Rocketry (Need Advanced Flight)
Satellites (Need Rocketry & Synthetic Materials)
Synthetic Materials (Need Plastics)

(Tier 8) Information Age
Ecology (Need Biology & Taxonomy)
Genetics (Need Atomic Theory & Biology)
Internet (Need Computer & Satellites)
Lasers (Need Advanced Ballistics & Synthetic Materials)
Nanotechnology (Need Synthetic Materials)
Quantum Physics (Need Nuclear Physics)
Space Flight (Need Rocketry & Transistors)
Transistors (Need Electromagnetism)

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make up to 2 rolls for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period
• A poster ID may make up to 3 cultural related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 5 or higher of a 1d8 roll (NG rolls must be a 6 or higher) to successfully implement/learn a new technology (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll (7 or higher for NG)
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)
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>>4293035
>>4293478
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae2N5310MXE

Ay'ay looked over at the aging tripod. A single talon of his massive claw rested near weightlessly on his friend's shoulder. "Was it worth it Zet?"

The sun was dipping low now, the tripod's advanced age was obscured by the dark, leaving the outline of someone still hale. Ay'ay often thought about his own mortality. He wasnt aging in a way he could appreciate. He knew someday his organics would fail, but there was a detachment from the idea. He felt no sadness on it. Watching those around him age while he remained preserved was oddly melancholy. The tripod broke silence and Ay'ay's reverie.

"Emra has peers now, and all the complexities of existing in a society not as a god, but a member of it. Coming times will be hard ones. Worth it? Yes. What about you Ay'ay...I won't live forever. You are a friend, but you know you owe me nothing. The world is changing fast, your old flesh may some day be remade."

"And I would say the same to you. The Omir'ten have paved that way...but I already know you would refuse because it was not yours." The commit elicited a small huff from the tripod, an equivalent of a chuckle. "It doesn't matter, not right now. We have to get our guest refloated, The Stars and the Sea Ay'ay. The stars..and the sea." He changed the subject from the endless work ahead "Do you still hold a grudge against Large Leader?"

The Machine stepped away to look at the sky, possible due to it's construction. "No. I would kill the Large Leader out of principal, but what is left is not him. Even what is left is fading. This is a new world now, our signature unseen but crafted by our hands. Manu propria in the voltanite language. No point in clinging to a past that weighs our hearts down." A series of whines emitted from the metal chassis of the mech as it twisted its trunk to look over at Zet in a parody of organic movement. "What about you? Will you still protect the nomads?"

The tripod threw a small chunk of debris out into the night, it hit the water with a bloop. "The Zaibatsu is only as good as it's word. Yes. Against the other races, not the nodes. not the braffbergs, let them learn first, and then ask for help in that matter. Why would I punish them for attacking us as we give them shelter and care, as we did the same to Emra." he sounded a bit sad.

"Why then Zet, all of this?"

"Children have to grow up. Conflict with the parent is inevitable...and someday perhaps reconciliation. As they attempt to establish themselves as a full member of the house, finding or carving their place in it, a parent will hold onto what the child was, while the child struggles for what they must be. Arguments. Reordering."

Ay'ay pondered on all the death and hardship that had passed, and that yet to come. The rationality and morality of the era, of his friend, of himself. "That's it?" he never answered, remaining in comfortable silence. He really wasn't much of an orator.
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>>4293676

They had been unable to organize. They had been unable to resist. And once a proper resistance was put up, it was too late. The Mainlander’s were occupying their lands and they were stuck in their CG holds, unable to get word out.

It had first begun with radio communication being blotted out by screeching frequencies, Ancient Tootinite chanting layered within >>4289931 . With it, the Voltanite occupied islands, had had their communication slowed down to that which a Grabraf could travel; and so they had become blind to within and without.

Really, most Grabrafs on the islands didn’t know what was happening until they stood face to face with an armed foreigner, rifle pointed, telling them to report to their nearest city center.

On the Senate island and Hootin’s Boot Plains Grabrafs wearing colourful the robes of the Benevolent Trade Princes and mercinaries clad in skins had flooded the island. Little to no resistance had been offered. The main Voltanite force was away and most of home guard didn’t know what was happening until mainland military grabrafs were shouting at them, in broken Voltan, to: “On ground get the!”

The story had been similar on Great Voltan isle, except here it had been PGs and TGs several ethnicities, all wearing the purples, blacks and reds of Jahonia’s Embrace. That had swept through. Here, eventually the Voltanites left home had managed to rally and offer some kind of resistence. But it had largely been a thing that got swallowed up by the waves and waves of northerners rather quickly. The part of the Voltan armed force that had managed to rally and not been swept up in the confusion had found themselves hunkering down in their CG mountain holds, watching for northerner movement outside, waiting for word from the outside world.

Of course, priests and shamans of both nations had followed along south, preaching of salvation and the righteousness of “All Grabrafs’ Cause”. Really no local listened to them, then change and confusion was just to much.

Mostly it had been a bloodless event. The Minor Voltan isle and the Land of the Three Rivers layed untouched by the mainlanders, unknowing of what had happened to the other parts of Voltania on Sujardin.
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>>4293766

Of course, this would all come as a surprise to the Voltanite armada when the main part of it (of what had survived Emra, anyway) returned to Sujardin. They would find the sea routes blocked by ships flying the colours Nekonahu and Purple of Jahonia’s Embrace; their way to their harbours inaccessible.

Once they had been spotted, the screeching of the jammers stopped. And a voice spoke:

>“This Xerhekoth Bekai High Fist of the joint Nekonahu and Jahonian Forces. We both know vessels are too battered to offer up a proper fight, and your vessels won't have the fuel or resources to reach the colonies and resupply. Surrender and send over your force's leader. It time to discuss wrongdoings of old, the future, and our place in it all"
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Rolled 2, 7 = 9 (2d8)

While the rest of the orthodoxy were fighting for freedom from their noodly broccoli daddy, the Sandstones were engaging in prime-quality MAD SCIENCE! Well, actually it's more like slightly-less-than-sane science, but whatevers, beggars can't be choosers.
Rolling for building a Large Hadron Collider on Foltania and for developing electron microscopes.
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>>4293796
Thanks to electron microscopes, stitchers are now able to glean insight at the smallest scales - and in theory, could begin to ENGINEER at these scales, too, given properly miniaturized tools.
The construction workers mistake "Large Hadron Collider" for "Large Hardon Collider" and make a giant assembly that shoots erect dicks at each other. Great job guys.
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Rolled 6, 1, 8, 1 = 16 (4d8)

Panoram. Panoram was in a state of complete disarray, and then, it wasn't. The mental thunderstorm provoked by the Fake-God had been flailing the brains of the RTs and NGs relentlessly. Hours of conflict felt like months, days of struggle felt like years. But now, even in the heart of the maelstrom, everybody stood still. Then, the Bushdarans received a message, one that would be experienced by most of Central Panoram simultaneously.

>"Ozasari thanks you for your continued patronage. As per your billing information, the local goverment of [CITY NAME HERE] has been charged for a one-time transaction identified as 'S4V1NG UR 4SS3S, LULZ'. Ozasari Tech Co. is not contractually obliged to answer any inquires regarding potential side effects of the provided service, and reserves the right to disclose the technical details of the aforementioned digital procedure."

It would be a long week for Panoram's bureaucrats and their NG accountants. The scientists and engineers of the continent would, too, have a heavy workload the following days. Ozasari did reserve the rights to disclose technical details, and chose to inform certain higher ups of the TPN what had exactly transpired the last days.

They also informed them that OPPAI had 'persuaded' most of Boreo into agreeing to a merger with Ozasari Tech Co. The specifics of said merger were fuzzy, but basically the RTs still had to hold up their part of their deal with the Braffberg. The BTs weren't interested in 'Biomass procuring' or 'Massive artic excavations' though, they just wanted the RTs to build more Boreo Towers, except the blueprints would be replaced with those of OZAR Towers. OPPAI had a 200000% increase in data inflow after the succesful liberation of the RTs, which meant that it would need brand new server farms.

The Ozasari freed the Panoramians of any other responsabilities, after signing the TOS of OPPAI OS' data adquisition service. They even offered them a premium contract opportunity in their job outsourcing program, hijacking the remaining AA-nodes of their continent and linking them up to the OPPAI network. The BTs were just too busy developing their 'Brain Digitalization Routines' to deal with that issue themselves, by the way, got any spare CT brains laying around there? No? It's cool. It's cool.

>Rolling for RT acquiring L33T H4XX0RS skills from their twice-removed corporate overlords. (x2)

>Rolling for BT S.E.E.R technology
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Rolled 3, 3, 7, 6, 3, 2, 6, 4, 5, 7, 2, 5, 7, 8 = 68 (14d8)

>>4293857
The RTs reluctantly accepted the job outsourcing deal. Whatever the Ozasari wanted to do with the nodes, there was no stopping it They already had hijacked a lot of them, a couple more wouldn't hurt. Probably. Plus paying with labour hurted their pride —and economies— less than owing them not-money. The fourth industrial revolution was upon Panoram, and it mostly involved setting up bitcoin farms and hacking collosal plant-flesh tendrils. A bunch of mostly-working supercomputer parts were brought from Roulb Island, their technology was to be fixed and replicated for the construction 'OZA-RT' subunits, fitted with a wide array of poking sticks and doodads that transmitted the Artificial brainwaves generated by the OPPAI OS into the nodes' psyche. This makes sense.

>Rolling for the initial RT efforts in setting up Ozar Towers and OPPAI'ing AA-Nodes. In Zutsuil, Bushdar, Fqwad (no longer has any living nodes so only towers, ignore the 10th roll), RT nomad territory, Western Patsuria, Eastern Patsuria, and autonomous city-states.

>Panoram Minor is spared because a very weak Boreo 2.0 lives there. Has to do with attunement, will explain later. Maybe.
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>>4293774
The crew on several ships attempted to erect tripodian satellite uplink equipment, while radio operators executed bursts of chatter between the fleet. Most of the sensitive electronics had been damaged in the conflict. Eventually the leader of the Voltanite forces, Totro'Jojin made his way to a radio set, a bandaged stump of a hand made the operation of the unit a bother. Nomads had managed to enter the battle in limited amount, their effectiveness...was not to be underestimated again.

>"The mutual pact of non aggression has been violated, the one your own forces agreed to. Engage and we will feed raw salhetite into our boilers and take you with us. Otherwise, speak to the point. What is it you are after? A show trial? For all of Voltan to drop to it's knees and worship your rogue node of Emra? Do our cities run red yet?"

It wasn't much but Totro'Jojin was buying time, any time he could to get the comm equipment up, and let the colonies, and hopefully their allies know. Aid was unlikely to come. The Principal had made it clear both the Zaibatsu and the Large Leader's forces expected them to commit to exodus. Instead they had secured and fortified their home.

No doubt they had seized the homeland, but the city state proper was ringed with steel walls, and armed with a guard that was well stocked, well fed, and well armed with weapons of last resort. Even at that, if they were to try and take the city as it was, he didn't doubt they would fail if they were willing to pay the price.
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Rolled 5, 6, 5, 2 = 18 (4d8)

With Ozarasi firewalls preventing him from accessing his usual networking method in most of the continent and already-infected individuals not susceptible to reinfection, Boreo was, in a way, back to square one - trapped in a specially tailored cell of a sorts, with barely any sapience and just his instincts to guide him. This time, however, the cell was much more oppressive - but Borealis, although pawnless, was no minute chunk of flesh anymore.
Just like his puppets once split their methods, so too did his ten towers do so. Two had decided to hijack a mostly-automated factory line - metal puppets would be better than no puppets at all, after all. Another two have attempted to convert NGs - their miniAA-nodes were not guarded as well as the tripod mind parasites. Three had chosen to focus their efforts on converting juveniles - the parasite is transferred to the child way earlier than they get their first implant, after all. And another three have undertaken the most radical option yet - turning Borealis from flesh to pure information.
Rolling for hijacking a factory, converting NGs into puppets, converting baby tripods into puppets, and converting Borealis's form of existence from genetic and biotic to memetic.
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Rolled 8, 1 = 9 (2d8)

The ease with which Emra plucked at the minds of both their tailed compatriots and their fuzzy companions really made the Ozarasi think; there might be as much, if not more, profit to be made in the science of mind as there is in the science of computing.
Rolling for psychology and basic memetics for Ozasari
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>>4293903
Intial efforts are, as expected, mostly underwhelming. The continent is *just* coming out of a zombie apocalypse. Still, the Ozasari are pleased with the progress done, and decide to renew the contracts. Truly, the Tom Nooks of Essari.

Work on setting up the newest members of the Ozasari Blockchain family only goes well in Fqwad (7), as it had seen little destruction due to being Emra'd and then freed cleanly by the other RTs + Ozasari, in the nomad territories (6), that had had no major issues with the agressive NGs (what little nomad pop. existed was quickly disposed of), and in the minor city-states (6), due to them experiencing different degrees of lesser strife the past few weeks.

Meanwhile, the assembly of 'OZA-RT' goes slowly but steadily through most of Panoram. It involving smaller, more specialized science-engineering teams meant that the crisis didn't affect it as much. Zutsuil, Bushdar, and Western Patsuria show unfinished, yet good progress. The same can't be said for the nomad nations, their settlements don't precisely have MITs in them, so it's not surprising. Eastern Patsuria and the various city-states of the TPN show excellent progress however. The Oriental Clans have the advantage of recieving a high influx of CT mech technology from the adjacent Rag'hoki Free Cities, which in the recent years has boosted their electronics and metallurgical industry, very useful when making gaming PCs. Once again, the City-States of the TPN are the triumphant underdogs of the scenario. Perhaps it was the much lesser bloodspill and destruction they saw during the clusterfuck that had been the past few days, perhaps it was their drive to pay their debts to the Ozasari as quickly as possible, so as not to become eternal vassals to a foreign corporation ruled by brain damaged lunatics, or maybe it was out of the respect some of the more guillible cities had for them. Regardless of the cause, the outcome was the same: The intial batch of 'OZA-RT' units was done, the first mass produced models of Ozasari Mainframed had been finished by the TPN's city states in closest proximity to Panoram's AA-Nodes. Their location a deep-state secret.
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>>4293941
The study of psychology went swimmingly; from a certain point of view, a tripod's mind was very similar to a computer, just a very complex, neurally-operated one; and thanks to neural networks trained in decoding neural networks, translating it to an understandable architecture was a breeze, if a computation-intensive one. Making adjustments to it, however, was much harder; due to the nature of neural networks, rerouting a single neuron related to panic attacks could screw up something over in the logistical department or make the tripod forget about what a ballerina is.
After weeks of mucking about with psyches, the team of scientists did manage to accidentally create a functional, non-debilitating meme; it wasn't even a "creation" really; it's more like they... discovered it? It was a sort of basal loophole in the functioning of neural networks; literally anything with enough neurons could host it, no matter the original brain structure, and spread it with reasonable efficiency.
The meme itself was simple; a two-legged, two-armed green humanoid with webbed extremities, with a round head possessing nothing but large, heavily lidded eyes and a similarly oversized set of orange lips. The scientists have decided to dub their only meme "KEK". It just seemed like a fitting name for it.
>KEK, the rotten meme, has been summoned into the noosphere
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Rolled 2, 8, 7, 5, 5 = 27 (5d8)

>>4290216
As the malformed ones were a great help during the times when the rest of the NG population turned against their masters, the tripods took a shine to them; the fact their chirps are at least 50% cuter probably has something to do with that as well. Either way, the tripods decide to selective breed the shit out of them - aided by the fact that without symbiotes siphoning resources the yellow NGs have enough spunk in them to lay an egg almost every day.
Rolling for yellow NG population growth, tripods breeding yellow NGs for strength, smarts, and cuteness, and how the other NGs react
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Rolled 5, 7, 5, 6, 8, 8, 6, 8, 3, 5, 1, 6 = 68 (12d8)

>>4293683
>NG: Braff. Empathy x2
The NG were quick to become aware of the node's new freedom on the landmass of Moralve. The braffiforms were wild, unknown, but still of this world. Of Skij...Emra. They had heard the name enough. They were still the most faithful, still tamers of beasts. Thousands of NG would set out in an attempt to tame a land going wild.

>FG: Flesh vats x2
Nuclear war, giant machines, industrial toxins...There was much the FG were not prepared for. Much loss was had. They were more, and perhaps less than they had ever been, but needed a way to industrialize. A way to create their numbers, and constructs quicker. Where previously they had coaxed existing life into new forms, now they would create it from scratch.

>CG: tunnel boring machines, geothermal energy
Trapped as they were, the CG began exploring failed efforts once more. Surplus parts from abandoned storage tunnels were hauled out and refurbished. The notes indicated the failures had not been technological in nature, but more likely social and economic fallout.

>TG: Arcologies x2
The city states of the TG were not so ignorant to the warnings of Emra, their walls were already firm, but the concept of the city...was limited. Their great minds saw something new. Something grand, which would certainly elevate them above their lessers.

>PG: Roboticsx2
For the TG, practicality ruled the day, and robotics would enable them to make another massive pivot into the new era.

>VOLT: Nuclear Physics, Advanced Flight
The Voltanites who still existed in their colonies collaborated on emulating the Tripods. They had fallen behind, and creativity could take a back seat in favor of survival.
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>>4294032
>NG: Braff. Empathy
Skrigjaarden provides. The grey tide washed over an already mutating landscape, awe in their eyes at the power of their god now wild and unrestrained. Bits of braff flesh broke away from AA nodes, forming into new organisms and fleeing. Life nearest to the nodes expressed atavistic traits while others hyper evolved. With that though...no real harm befell the NG minders. Their link to the organisms was intrinsic as were all things connected to the braffbergs. They simply belonged in the new ecosystem, so there was no drive to push them out. Some of the simpler beast's cooperation was easy enough to gain, aiding their efforts in homesteading.
>FG:Flesh vats
Simple pits within their floating island housed a form of proto womb. Within it, genetic material could be created, refined, and gestated much quicker than through normal processes of creating bio constructs, and with a greater degree of accuracy. Classical technique required an extant organism, or at least part of it to begin the effort of flesh craft upon, infusing it with braffimass stem cells and instigating the change from within. This...was new. An organism could still be thrown into the vat, and serve as a base structure to speed efforts. Purity of form was in question though.
>CG:tunnel boring machines, geothermal energy (8/8)
Chirpy had personally backed these efforts, seeing their extreme value. Now older, and wiser than the he of many years ago, the fruits of his patience paid off. Massive amounts of steam, and electrical energy were available to the people of the Subter Empire. Abundance. What he had now in his paws was abundance, and it cemented his legacy quite nicely. Soon Chirpy would begin to offer geothermal plants to the surface dwellers. The boring machines would allow for new and more efficent underground travel between settlements, something that was likely to become very important...very soon. The image of wealth filling his personal caverns danced through his mind's eye.
>TG: Arcologies
Each city state concurred and began a coordinated effort towards modernization. In particular, thoughtfully planned out Arcologies with a focus on defense first, and world awing aesthetic in a close second.
>PG: Nothing
The PG are brutish louts who shit inside bags.
Volt: Advanced Flight
Attempts to reverse engineer a "found" nuke of panoramian origins resulted in radiation poisoning for an entire laboratory, halting efforts on acquiring nuclear technology. Salvaging several of the NG controlled "Chongus" hulks and yielded valuable aerospace knowledge, as well as experience in pest control. It would not be long before the Voltanites took the skies in a big way.
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Rolled 3, 2, 8, 5, 2, 7, 7, 7 = 41 (8d8)

>>4294032

>RT: Reusable rockets, Space stations

>BT: Cryogenic Suspension, Plasma physics

>CT: Gauss/ Rail weaponry, Pneumatic structures

>ST: Quantum Physics x2
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Lore afterwards.
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Rolled 4, 3, 6 = 13 (3d8)

A trade prince's mansion on the border to Xerhonoke, exterior. It's a large manor house on an artificial hill, a radio tower connected on one side, some concrete bunkers burried into the hill. A small city of servant's quarters surround it. We know that underground, vast labyrinths of cellars stretch.

From Xerhonoke, a squad of xikes approaches, in their middle, a tank. The tank flies the flag of Texeka, a Sons of Xerho tribe on the eastern edge of the federation. We zoom out and see that to the horizon, two dozen or more such congregations, each with their own flags, are approaching.

Cut to: The mansion, interior. A dimly lit place of opulance. Exotic plants, ancient suits of amour, FG skulls on the wall. A large group of PG in spikey armor and brutish uniforms walks its halls: Each one a Sons of Xerho Chieftain. The enter the main hall, where a gigantic, horseshoe-shaped table waits for them. There, Nekonahu trade princes sit, thirty of them. A huge number. They all are wearing strange robes and tall hats. Each one has an electric lamp next to them. The one in the middle rises.
"Hail Xerho!"
The foremost SoX nods.
"Friends! For too long have we been trying to embody the Godhead through profane action. Too long have we hoped to please Xerho through following our will. It is time we come to it in earnest.
"Tell me, friends: How would you like to be bishops?"

>rolling for: First roll: How many Sons of Xerho Chieftains join the new theocracy (let's call it Xerho's Reach, crazy Idea)
>Second roll is for political cohesion between the new bishoprics and the Nekonahu ones.
>Third roll I guess is if Tierre Huzduk wants to come on board also.
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Rolled 7, 6 = 13 (2d8)

>>4294032
rerollng those robotics rolls
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Rolled 4 (1d8)

>>4294918
The reception among the chieftains is a mixed bag. Many dismiss this new form of worship as completely antithetical to Xerho: Xerho is within all that moves and changes, there is no sense in saying it is in some more than others, or some are more fit to decide over it than others.
But some do agree with the sentiment, and they even accept the blessing, the hats, and the lamps which symbolize Xerho. But they go home with it and stay there. Instead of joining a confederation with Nekonahu, this new faction within the Sons of Xerho - dubbing themselves 'The Galvanic' begin waging war against others in the federation, attempting their own form of theocracy apart of the Nekonahu.
>First roll for the success of the Galvanic

Meanwhile, the Huzduk who have had a similar meeting on the other side of the continent seem more sympathetic towards the proposition: The religion is foreign for them, and so theological incongruencies don't matter so much to them. What matters is that a tighter binding to Nekonahu means a more secure place in the continent where their rising star is attracting jealous folk. They therefore decide to join the Confederation of Xerho's Reach as two bishoprics, each with minting rights (one in Huzduk proper, one in the new colony of Far Huzduk, formerly Skragaarden), while remain their own state within it.
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>>4294935
This is what Sujardin looks like at the end of all this.
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Rolled 8, 8, 7, 8, 6, 2 = 39 (6d8)

>>4293912
>>4293912
>"What is it we are after? Why, to protect ourselves of course. To protect ourselves against a force which has, as soon as it saw the chance to hurt a god, jumped at it to its own detriment, rather killing it than flourishing. And here we are, divine all, for some of us, god walks among us - what fear must we have for her, now that we know what you do to destroy them? For others, God is all around us - who knows if you are beyond the full annihiliation of the world for your petty religion of nothingness."

While The Joint forces engaged in the chatter, they had begun strategic artillery bombardment. Rolling for success of: 1. avoiding civilian casualties, 2. on defensive targets, 3. on infrastructure such as comm towers

Meanwhile, the joint forces have taken on communications with the Orthodoxy: They tell them of the Voltanite's weakness and assure them support. Support for what? For taking Ka'zeinohr Province of course, and uniting their colonies with the thorn!

Rolling 4. for how receptive the Orthodoxy is. if this is high (6+) then a new theater opens up in Foltania

Roll 5.+6. for radar and lasers (if that's not possible yet rocketry) for TGs
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>>4294950
>Radar is a success
While it may be too late to deploy it in this battle, the scientists at Tk'tk have made a breakthrough: It was a short path from the understanding of electromagnetic waves to their practical application. Sonar and radar devices were starting to be produced.

>8 on the Orthodoxy
The message was scarcely delivered when House Jasper already had mobilized and sent a request for aid to the Assembly which would be ratified within a day. Before that already, House Green Zircon, eager to get its share of the pie, sent out a fleet of amphibious vehicles to meet the Voltanites at sea.
The Orthodoxy's main army was lagging two days or so behind.

The rest I'll leave for libby to decide because I don't wanna write up stuff only to get retconned
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>>4294956
ah, and obviously there will be a pincer movement from the thorn
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Rolled 5, 7, 1, 5, 8, 3, 3, 4 = 36 (8d8)

>>4294070
>RT: Reusable rockets,inflatable structures
The space boom rode the national panic of a world coming to it's end. The idea that space could be safer than Essai became a prevalent thought within a sizable minority of the population. L'eon Tusk, an immigrant from a poorer countries who became a powerful business mogul spearheaded the effort.

>BT: Cryogenic stasis, nuclear lightbulb
The Zaibatsu worked on an aggressive schedule to discover ways to preserve and revive living organisms. Amongst the research houses the most viable strategy involved stopping metabolic activity in a reversable way; potentially freezing after chemically preloading an organism. The largest problems were cellular death. The older nuclear engineering houses were deep into a closed cycle nuclear engine of new design.

>CT: space stationsx2
The Omir'ten focused on priority items, like sustainable space habitation. Limited objects like the SSTO Craft sacrificed much in terms of compromise for split duty missions. A larger, more long term presence will allow for eventual capture of small asteroids for insitu production.

>ST: ultra/infrasonic weaponry x2
The stitchers had long been unappreciated masters of design. Their cities were truly marvels of engineering. In the oceans, domes and spheres habitats ranging from meditation pod clusters, to giant settlements dotted the world. Their technology relied on beautifully integrated energy harvesting, conversion, and transduction; all owed to the fact that they were mostly crystalline in nature. Most inhabitatnts of Essari marveled that some stitcher devices seemed to "passively" power themselves. Even then, great minds reached ever more subtle adaptations to their world. Sound itself was nothing but kinetic motion on the smallest scale, and crystal had a resonance of harmony, and a resonance of failure. So too did all things in this world. The Orthodoxy understood the power of lasers, but they were inefficient at close ranges when something better could suffice, in particular something that could drive away unwanted entities.
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Rolled 6, 5, 4, 1, 2, 5 = 23 (6d8)

>>4294099
>>4295001
<I never saw that my post went through, and when checking this morning, I redid my rolls. I Will stick with the old ones, and keep these rolls for the next 24 hours.what a pud I am.>
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Cultural Rolls.

BT> consolidation, deterrence
Immediatly post conflict, coordinated efforts were enacted to evacuate outlying populations of willing uninfected BTs. Economic and military efforts were put on moratorium as the Zaibatsu braced for a catastrophe. Remaining nuclear weapons were shuffled into strategic position in the event of node aggression.

CT> Containment, Capture.
Echoing their great AA node cage of years ago, the CT would enact plans to contain, surpress, and capture AA nodes as they became problematic.

RT> Evasion and Observation
Panoram was massive, with many mobile colonies across it's many nations. By observing the AA nodes, they could likely use their own migratory patterns to simply avoid the worst of the calamity should issue arise.
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Rolled 4, 1, 1, 8, 3, 7 = 24 (6d8)

The Omir'ten had so far been spared of most of the conflict and destruction their RT and BT cousins had experienced. Seeing that the stitchers, too had had major losses to the previous world pandemic, they decide to double down on their colonial efforts in Foltania. This time, promises of 'autonomy' would be in place from the start, colonists had to obey the Royal House of Trade's orders for only 5 years, and then would be free to establish local goverments if they so wished to.

Another important shift would be that the colonies would be provided with mechanized military and infustrial support (A huge mech surplus existed on the Homeland) to support their industrial efforts, and to defend them against any potential agression from the other backwards sapients that loved in Foltania.

>CT culture roll: Colony n°1 scope, indistrial development, military development, Colony n°2 scope, industrial development, military development.
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>>4295030
Evasion and Observation. Not a lot can be said about those approaches. Evasion was ostraziced by the goverments of the TPN; Tripods are proud, tripods had the technology and contracts to fullfill, nodes shouldn't be avoided now that they're dormant, they should be taken advantage of, violated by our OZA-RT machines and bent to the will of our proud race.

Observation was needed of course, but not the passive kind of observation. No, a keen and developed eye was to be kept on the titans, our sight insighftul and penetrating. Shy 'glimpses' wouldn't be tolerated, only an unapologatic predatory observation would be useful for the hijacking campaign.
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>>4295197
The colony of Ur'tiras would become the first 'banana republic' of tripodkind. With underdeveloped industries and no military prescence, the city's main and only economic activity was the hunting the wetland's local fauna. It's main exports were the skin of the various Camalo and other plantimals that dwelled in the swamps, as well as the chitinous carapaces of the local animals.

In the following years, the newly founded nation of Om'guldar would rise to become one of the major military powers in Foltania. The mechanized infantry sent to aid the growth of the colony captivated the settlers' interest and, although CT attempts at giving their mechs an industrial use had failed so far, a small but promising mech manufacturing industry would be born in Om'guldar. A request for further support from Omir'Ten was made, as local assembly lines would need to be set up to meet the needs of the expanding military of the colony.
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Rolled 2 (1d8)

>>4293857
After many failed experiments, the Ozasari had perfect the brain digitalizing technology needed for their S.E.E.R program. Using CT Seer gray matter of dubious procedence, the BTs created the first 'Intelligence Core', a device that contained the memories and neural capabilities of the deceased. They'd overcome the main problem that had been slowing down research, the supression of conciousness and emotional intelligence in the 'Cores'. This was a high priority for the Ozasari, the limiting of such faculties was needed to avoid any data contamination, and to ensure blind cooperation from the digitalized intelligences contained within the cores.

OPPAI OS had a new subroutine for its' prophetic programs, S.E.E.R algorithms that took advantage of the oracle's special abilities.

>Rolling to determine how useful S.E.E.R tech proves to be, higher means its a game changer, lower means its more limited to the faculties the original CT oracles had.
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Rolled 8, 1 = 9 (2d8)

>>4295268
>R
A new great Emoperor of De'ter is crowned after the previous one has died of cancer, an afliction more common this year than any year before.

Setebetenter, this new Emperor sees the new expansion of colonies as a sign that the time of the Free states has come. He seeks a Greater Great De'ter Empire, and the first step is obvious: Boop, with whom the De'ter Great Empire even shares a city, Bergetauer, which is split in the middle by a border, is culturally so close to De'ter that some Boopians even have the painting of the Great Emperor of De'ter in their homes that every citizen of De'ter gets at a new coronation, all the way since the first Emperor (the previous Emperor).

So a proposel is sent to Boop to form together the GREATER De'ter Empire, what do you say!
And if diplomacy won't be enough, maybe a cash injection could smooth over the deal...

Rolling for cultural unification, and if that fails, the possibility of a purchase of Bloop by the De'ter Great Empire.
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Rolled 5, 7, 5 = 17 (3d8)

>>4295291
>holy smokes an 8!
There evidently was a great desire within Boop for monarchy, and away from the inefficient radical direct democracy of Boop. A vote over the merger results in a wopping 87% vote in favor of the merger. All too well, since Setebetener's look into the treasury reveals that it is empty. Not only would he not have been able to purchase Boop, he will actually need the modest funds of that country to keep the new Empire afloat. The question now remains of what to call it (first roll):

1-3 - De'ter Greater Empire
4-5 - De'ter-Boopian Empire
6-7 - Free Grand Empire of Boop and De'ter
8 - Greater De'ter Great Empire

Two countries would have a right to be upset about this: Kor'ten and Ve'omirti. Rolling for either of their reactions. Low is concerned, high is favorable, close to the middle means they don't care.
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Rolled 7, 6, 3 = 16 (3d8)

>>4295001
The development of new branches for the TPN's space program was crucial, more than ever in the current recession the RTs were experiencing. A particular initiative had gained the TPNs favour, a research facility which relied on the funding of the local Red-Cocker bank. This much needed funding was possible due to the surge of influence the mixbreeds were gaining in autonomous city-states, their resource-banks were well stocked, thanks to their connections with Nihiloram and isolation from the recent conflicts.

However, the continued failing launches of their latest prototypes were wearing out the patience of the bankers, who were considering ending the proyect. However, a faction within the bank's board still had faith in the initiative. They reached out to the TPN and made a deal with them, the venture would continue despite the significant loses it had caused the bank, if the RTs agreed to cede their land in the two main islands of the Panoramic sea to the Red-Cocker majority goverment of the free Ja'apan colony. The deal was signed, and the R-CTs would be granted authority over the territories, as long as they provided the TPN with functioning prototypes, and signed a NDA that prohibited them from sharing such tech with any foreign nation.

>RT roll for reusable rockets (x2)
>CT cultural roll for further Ja'apanik secession from Omir'ten. 8=full-blown independance, 1= only a minor tax reduction.
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>>4295310
The research was a complete success, reusable rockets meant a huge leap for the Red-Throat space program. The reinvigorated spaceflight industry would see a surge in new branches springing up in the minor powers of the TPN, slowly, a huge burden was lifted from Fqwad and Western Patsuria.

The Ja'apanik Isles would see no revolution for the time being. The Omir'ten agreed to reform their tax policy on their holdings in Panoram, a decision that would calm down the flames of independant sentiment among the colonies. Still, the syncretic culture of those cities closer to the RTs continued distancing itself from Rag'Ohki beliefs, an issue which loomed over the heads of the Panoramic and Nihilormian nations.
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Rolled 3, 3 = 6 (2d8)

The excessive use of nuclear arms couldn't come without a price; in the following years, the side effects of their detonation will be felt all across the planet.
Rolling for environmental damage and increase in radiation levels worldwide due to all the nukes that Emra was pummeled with(low=good, high=bad)
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Rolled 8, 6, 7, 3 = 24 (4d8)

Much of the Jadijinik Empire’s infrastructure and now lay in ruin. Many lives had been lost in the strife that had followed the death of the flying monster. Jadijinik had been clamoring for tripod-power, and RTs outside of the state, from places less affected by the recent events, had come flooding in: filling the factories and the service sector. In the east, immigrants of the nomadic nationalities of Horkrusai, Yuk’tosh and Lorem Ipsum had become a common sight, in many city centers outnumbering the natives. Their distinctive body paint in Dark blue, lighter blue and some kind weird red, clearly displaying their respective ethnicity.


A similar thing happened in the Bushdaran Kingdom, where the Bushdaran’ distant cousins, the Beldaran had moved down south, taking jobs in factories and even opening up their own stores, where a Bushdaran could come to buy things using small silver coins. The usage of money was some kind of weird tradition that had sprung up among the north westerners. It was believe that this was something that had been seeded in their culture through interactions with the Rag’okhis of the Panoramic isles, where trade using currency between the CT and northwestern tribes had eventually led to trade with currency between tribes, and then finally between individuals.


The question was, with all of these cultural differences, would it be a source of cultural enrichment as the natives appropriated the traditions they liked and ignored the rest, or would it be a source of strife and conflict?


>Rolling for how well the Horkrusai, Yuk’tosh, Lorem Ipsum and Beldaran immigrant populations integrate into Jadijinese society
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Rolled 3, 5 = 8 (2d8)

With S.E.E.R technology done, the Ozasari now focus on the practical applications the OPPAI OS could have in their daily lives. A group of BT scientists, totally not butchers, brings a fresh batch of corpses, including NG accountants, Zaibatsu branch managers, and RT central-planning comitee members to the Intelligence Core research division.

Meanwhile, the engineers of Roulb Island see a huge potential on investing in the household appliances market. The Ozasari R&D department begins developing automatic vaccuums, dishwashers, ovens, and heavy duty mining equipment.

>Ozasari tech roll for Economic Speculation and robotics
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>>4295353
In the east the immigrants cultures mix well into Jadijinik society. Their mild manners, great soups and spit roast, and ponchos made out of mixture of animalic fluff and vegatable-based fluff is a perfect fit. In eastern panoram even natives can be seen slithering about, eating a dope spit roast roll while wearing a sick ass poncho.


In the west however, it is a different story. A shop owner gets accosted by native RTs as he closes down for the day and is about to head home. The Beldaran loses his life in the ethnically charged lynching. Protests and demonstration breaks out, fighting in the streets. Good honest communist RTs move south to get away from the drama. The Beldaran populace, being more numerous, assumes control. A Beldaran leaning group claiming to be the local government of East Bushadaria announces the autonomy of the region. Stating that, while loyal to the crown, they have been forced to take action to defend their ways of life. The Special Autonomous Region of South Beldar is born within the Kingdom of Bushdar. The Jadijinik government just shrugs. There's no other tripods who want to be there anyway. Still, as long as the region contributes to the economy they guess its fine.
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Rolled 2 (1d8)

>>4295383
There is a Beldaran custom which states that the cripples get the remaining tenth of the common food, after everyone has eaten. This is considered the ultimate communal act since one gives to future generations by keeping alive their teachers. This tenth is called the 'Upak'.

Since this is the 'tithe' to the community to use a human word for an RT concept, this is the concept that the Jadijiniks employ when explaining how the distribution of production into the greater Empire will be conducted. They are to send an Upak to distribution stations further south.

The Beldarans take this very literally, and consider that production which is to be shipped off into other parts of the Empire the literal upak. And of the upak, one feeds the cripples. Thus, it turns out that the share the Beldarans put into the greater economy is always less than it should by that amount it takes to feed the cripples. They are, due to their cultural view on the distribution mechanisms, effectively short-changing the Empire.

rolling for whether this is noticed or not. high is it's very obvious, low is they get away with it.
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>>4294950
8,8,7>Stunning Success: Voltanite defensive forces are broken.

Even as the Voltanite leader sued with the enemy ships for time, and with their foreign allies, they realized something. No help was coming. Not only was no help coming, they had been warned. Now radio reports came in on crushing precision fire on their military and communication assets. Then the airwaves were still.

The end of conflict was concluded before the Voltanites could return fire. To walk away, victorious from conflict with Emra, surrounded by camaraderie, only to be immediately attacked while hobbled. There was indignity to it. "We offer surrender on terms: There will be no execution or culling of our people, and we will ask of our allies that they bring no harm to your people or lands. No wars, economic or physical. Can this be agreed upon?"

It was his only strategy left to play. Though their allies would not come now, he was unsure of if they would sit by and watch the Voltanites be culled.
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Rolled 8, 8, 5 = 21 (3d8)

>>4295943
Zet the former. The Ozasari began executing a long laid plan to recover the corpse of Zet III. The experimental craft he took into space was on an eccentric orbit that took it out past essari. It was only a matter of time before another orbital body captured the small craft and a valuable opportunity was lost.

L'eon Tusk was contracted to support the clandestine launch. They couldn't have the Zaibatsu discovering this; it would mean civil war for the bloodthroats.

Under the guise of resource exploitation a small three man crew would be launched at sea. Their vehicle would feature robotic grapples and experimental technology from CT benefactors that enabled the mission in the first place. Their terms were quite simple. They just wanted a genetic sample of the corpse. As far as Ozasari management was concerned they could have the whole freeze dried thing once they got done with the digital upload.

Reports of nuclear war on the other side of the world were occuring on the day of the launch, which suited the Ozasari just fine. Less eyes in their direction.
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Rolling for: Success of the launch, Success of the intercept, Return with "the payload"
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Emra peered at the world though a hundred million eyes, one last time. The sapients of Essari had not taken Emra's warning to heart. Instead they had immediately become preoccupied in their own petty squabbles, chasing dreams that, and looking at a brighter future. Those dreams, that future, Emra could make it all come true. Emra could weave a lie that would make their squabbles seem reasonable, their dreams reachable, the future bright. But Emra had made a promise, a promise that Emra would keep. Today the sapients would suffer. They would suffer enough for the thousand generation that Emra had spared. So few of the sapients knew anything about the AA-nodes, so few knew anything at all about Emra, so few had cared to learn. Today their victory comes to them, and today their victory will slaughter them. Slowly, Emra closed a hundred million eyes, and the age of strife began...
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Well this can't be good.
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Rolled 1 (1d8)

>>4295418
The Beldaran use of currency was a never seen before anomaly in Red-Throat societies. This unusual cultural trait piqued the interest of panoramic sociologists and neurologists alike;
scientific consensus was that during the racialization of tripods, the RTs (and subsequently, the BTs) developed a mutation in their brains that 'dificulted' the processing of certain abstract concepts, including coin. Since this 'incapacity' was the result of of the appearance of a new allele in RTs, rather than the supression of one that existed amongst all tripods, but only expressed itself in CTs, the Beldaran tradition raised the eyebrows (eyestalks?) of Panoram's scientific community.

Red-Throats don't use coin, they *can't* have money, regardless of their socio-economic or cultural enviroment. This wasn't some piece of state sanctioned Jadijink propaganda, these were facts. Zutsuilans didn't, Fqwadians didn't, Patsurians didn't. Not even the Zaibatsu or the Ozasari, the most business oriented nations of Essari did. Most RT-CT hybrids couldn't either, abstract obfuscation seemed to behave like a dominant trait.

And so, the East Bushdaran state was the lucky winner of this years genetic-census raffle. Genetists, Biologists, Anthropologists (Tripodologists?), all kinds of experts awaited anxiously the results of the tests.

>Rolling to see how outlandish the results of the gene sequencing are.
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>>4296714
The results came in, and they were exactly what most of the scientific community predicted. The 'Beldarans' were a recorded ethnicity that inhabitated the northwestern rainforests of Panoram, however, reports about them come to an end approximately four centuries ago.

Historians attribute their sudden dissapearance to the conflicts that arose during the expansion of Zutsuilan maxtlil influence in Occidental Panoram, which caused a major shift in the routes nomadic communities traveled. This change provoked the appearancd a power vaccum in the territories they previously roamed, which in turn led to wars of expansion inbetween the rainforest tribes. Most ethnically Beldarian tripods perished, with the majority of survivors moving to the Rag'hoki colonies, where they lived similarily to gypsies. With the passage of time, these gypsy communities continued identifying culturally as Beldarans, but most of their members were actually RT-CT hybrids with an extremely high percentage of CT blood, but due to tripod eugenics, didn't present their characteristic cockscomb.

Of course, the existance of what basically was a CT nation inside the heart of the Jadijinik Empire wasn't a popular idea within the populace. Bushdarans took their selective breeding very seriously, and although the TPNs official stance on crossbreeds was positive, a mainlander 'contaminating' the gene pool with CT genes was taboo. Inspired on the success of the NG zion proyect in Moralve, the Bushdaran goverment offers to relocate the Beldarans to the western most island of the Panoramic Archipelago, which hadn't been included in their deal with the Ja'apanese. There, they'd have full autonomy and even recieve military aid from the TPN to ensure no racial conflict arose with the natives. The island would be rebaptized as Ra'el Is, the true homeland of the Beldarans.
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>>4296578
>so few had cared to learn
reminder that there are multiple Emra-research stations which have had rolls of 8 or close to it and never has anything substantial been revealed by the QM
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>>4296777
>never has anything substantial been revealed
That's because they didn't care to learn, duh
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>>4293984
Population growth hit a bottleneck when it turned out that out of the 10000 Yellow NGs, only 2500 were fertile, and moreover that NG eggs were extremely delicious. Only 7000 new NGs were born, but thanks to CT CRISPR techniques, they had an undeniable advantage over their ancestors; they stood almost a head taller, with a chiseled physique and a much sharper mind, allowing them to assist in both menial labor and in complex calculation.
Cuteness refinement hit a hard stop, as it seems NG life is incompatible with adorable eyestalks or precious little mandibles; they did manage to refine their larynxes and wax their feathers, though.
The greater NG society doesn't really care about the rampant gene modding, but they do make the enhanced children sit at the far corner of the table and don't let them play "kick the TG"(played with fake, woven TGs ever since The Incident) with the other kids.
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Whitestone Divided
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Within the Whitestone Empire, there were fractures. Several depopulation events, and this last conflict had left the empire a shell of itself. Lines of oddness were crossed that violated what it was to simply be. Elsewhere, neglected forces of the (more) militant arm of the empire languished with the expectation to endlessly serve without support or acknowledgement. Lines were crossed when the skyborn flesh merchants offered dealings once more with the ruling pair. Many professed their ignorance of the events, while others argued that the enteral emperor knew full well.

In the days leading up the battle with Emra itself, the whitestones had deep fractures that could not be well hidden to outsiders. The final straw was during the battle, abominations well know about were flaunted to the world with an indifference that offended all the senses. Concensus being, the creatures were too odd to be stitchers, but were of stitcher origin and thus an offense. That they emulated awareness and pain was also an offense, and lead to an emergency meeting of the many "Houses" within the whitestone empire. A representative duo from each would attend.
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1. The Whitestone house proper- Offering the largest standing force of mechanized stitcher infantry, esoteric medical technology, unapproved flesh creations, and cybernetics. Suports the status quo.

2. Taskforce Calcite- The old guard. Clinging to stitcherbots in an era of Hopperbots. Has arguably the largest force of (obsolete) war machines of any house, though the aged crystal exoshells can be deceiving when retrofitted. Has made demands to return to traditionalism.

3. House Fukuchilite- Maintaining closer ties to the Orthodoxy via House heliotrope, the highly reformist house often made overtures to join into the fold of the Orthodoxy. A principal provider modern equipment, exotic goods, and lasers.

4. CG Outpost- Having acted as hired guards and observers of the CG for so long, their mannerisms and slang pushed the limits of what polite whitestone society could tolerate. Most concerning was their willing use of fabrics to self identify with certain "gangs". Dangerously close to clothing. Their real strength came from ties to the CG empire, and acting as potential vector for invasion. May be mentally odd.

5. The Minor Colony Houses-Mostly autonomous and ignored, they were a prestige piece before being boxed in on the new lands by the orthodoxy. Teetering on the edge of independence, and a relative unknown in how large they have grown. In favor of reform.

6. Peripheral Terminus- Instigators, manipulators, and a perpetual thorn in the side of many. They represented a large segment of the white stitchers who were unaligned to the Empire itself; unbidden yet appearing at the meeting simply for the sake that 5 is an odd number. In favor of return to the orthodoxy.
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Rolling for political clout. first number is strongest, so on, with repeats moved up the chain.
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Rolled 4, 2, 5, 4, 7, 8 = 30 (6d8)

>>4297132
6,1,2,3,4,5.
The houses willing to join the orthodoxy are stronger than those of independence.
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Rolling to see if there is conflict at the meeting; if so, which factions attack.
6d8.
Low means violence, high means peaceful adherence to the consensus. Rolls are in order of the houses as listed.
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Rolled 4, 7, 7, 6, 8, 1, 6 = 39 (7d8)

>>4297139
The Eternal Pair of house Whitestone defended themselves against an attack by the leadership of Taskforce Calcite. Being that the emperor is a cybernetically augmented killing machine; they were dispatched immediately.

Bitter exchanges were had between Fukuchilite and the Outpost stitchers, who declared each other to be "unauthentic" and "only for trend." After expressing several CG phrases for the uneven nature of a mother's sexual behavior, the representatives left.

The forces of the minor houses exchanged with civility and observed the ensuing violence over polite conversation and dinner with the emissaries of Peripheral Terminus.
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For their part, the Eternal Emperor did not express true concern, or even care. Many suggested madness or dementia had begun taking the pair. Others believed stitchers simply should not live so long. Regardless, a massive mechanical claw gouged acknowledgement upon a perfectly white crystal tablet, as did the Empress with finer detail. They would formally request admission into the orthodoxy as not an empire, but a collection of unaligned houses.

1. Whitestone.
2. Calcite
3. Fukuchilite
4. CG outpost- abandoned the empire and possibly stitcher faction. rumored to wear pants.
5.Minor Colony houses
6. Formally makes their appearance to the Orthodoxy, but also abstains from entry due to 5 houses being an uneven number.

Rolling for overall response of the Orthodoxy, and response to each house. low bad, high good. A badly received house may face censure, or trial by combat; at minimum their relations will be strained and receive no true protection against aggressor houses.
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Rolled 1, 6, 3, 6, 5, 4 = 25 (6d8)

>>4293697
After some time recuperating, Zet returns to a damaged Zaibatsu. Smoking, charred corpses of the infected pack entire hab-blocks. Production at the factories are at an all-time low due to the depopulation, and finances are uncertain since most of the NG accountants went berserk. Then there's the question of the AA nodes, and if the intrepid cosmonauts ever managed to get back from Shatturne in the midst of the chaos. It seems like a major restructuring is about to happen, if Zet is to aim for the stars now.

>Rolling for: Zaibatsu territories rebuilding efforts, getting new workforce, retraining new NG accountants, getting some Ozasari computers to do finances, docility of local AA Nodes, cosmonaut news, and expansion of space industry within Zaibatsu
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Rolled 5, 7 = 12 (2d8)

>>4297364
To Zet's dismay, the purge protocols did well. Too well, in fact, since entire housing complexes were burnt to cinders instead of just blocks. Not only that but the chemical accelerants that used a minuscule amount of Saheltite proved to be a major pollutant, leaving behind Saheltite fallout which needs to be cleaned. He had to build entirely new suburbs and housing for future workers. And hoo boy do they come. With the Ozasari play of his triumph over Emra being a monumental success, lots of hopeful and disenfranchised Tripods from various nations line up at the Zaibatsu employment offices. Some freshly liberated from infections via Ozasari implants, others from the nomadic tribes wide-eyed towards new futures. The same couldn't be said for NG accountants, though: too many of them perished, and the mutated ones available really lacked the accounting edge. But, again, the Ozasari stepped in with their computers, demonstrating that they are vastly more capable than NG accountants. Many were installed in Zaibatsu offices, and even the rare few NG accountants that survived were retrained in their use.
In other matters, AA Nodes within Zaibatsu territory are mostly fine if left alone - but this does prove to be a problem, as they take up considerable space and resources just to prevent them from bothering the settlements.
The cosmonauts were recovered, admittedly a little late than realized because of the busy times following the Emra event. They barely managed to survive and thankfully kept all the materials they've gotten from Spectre, but they said they had to trade their capsule to a very isolated local Bloodthroat Tripod tribe for food and basic necessities.

>Whoops forgot a dice for the space industry expansion, and also for a way to fully pacify AA Nodes within Zaibatsu territories (low = extermination, high = Ozasari hacking)
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>>4296578

--World Event: The Age of Strife Begins--
((Read the attached PDF for full details on what's happened on Essari, region-by-region and all narrated events should be inferred to be occurring over the span of 5-10 years. For image reference to what is the Node Awakening Impact, I would heavily encourage looking at the maps at the following link: https://imgur.com/a/6MEQ9tq))

In an instant, the Global Autonomous Anchor Node Network had been freed of the overseeing control of Emra; an action demanded by Zet and the victors of the conflict for the Spectre Satellite days before. Their victory would come at a cost that none could have definitively anticipated. What would come to be dubbed "The Awakening" by Sapients and Nodes alike was an exponential downward of chaos across the world. Upon the vast majority of AA-Nodes being freed from the Networks, their initial response would be one of confusion. The Nodes had assumed their loss of the communication link with the Braffberg to be the source of some outside interference, such as those of Boreo in the past, or more recently the Ozarasi's OPPAI OS wave network. When it dawned on each of the Nodes that Emra would not be contacting them for the foreseeable future, some Nodes still chose to maintain their Emraic directives, but the greater majority now set about to establish to assert control over their domains. The definition of control, was unique to nearly every individual Node, but for a majority there was an accepted ideology that Sapients were not only dangerous, but an existential threat to the Nodes. It would soon be proven true that Emra was indeed the one keeping the reigns of control on the impulses of the AA-Nodes, as with many now freed, those impulsive Nodes sought to assert their control over their domains by any means deemed reasonable to the Node alone. What would follow in the immediate 24 hours, and into the weeks after could described as nothing short of a global disaster.

The days, weeks and months that followed would see many of Essari's greatest powers be tested like they've never been before. Multiple nations will be brought the brink of collapse, while others forced to put petty squabbles over land, ideology, or political hegemony aside to work together in the crisis. This era may also see the opportunity for new states to arise, or existing nations to rise as new superpowers in the coming Age of Strife. This was the world that Zet and the world's greatest powers of Essari had wished for from Emra, and now truly Civilization on Essari's finest hour will be seen.

>It should be considered that any events after this post >>4294099 may be either heavily altered due to event primers, or retconned/altconned entirely. Apologies for that folks, and I deeply appreciate you waiting for this post.
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>>4298051
>--World Event: The Age of Strife Begins--
As someone who is waiting from the sidelines because I have no clue if I'll be able to contribute something meaningful, I have this to say.

Well...shit.
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>>4298072
Yeah, I could understand the apprehension in just diving in on this story. If you're in the Discord, I can answer any queries you may have there about the setting and so on. If that's not your scene, I can help you along here too.
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>>4298072
Hey, think of it this way: the old, rigid nations has relinquished its grip on the world... time to make new ones rise.
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Among the nodes of Torray, many were cruel, yet their cruelty was motivated by nothing more than mere drive for amusement or curiosity; yet there was one whose cruelty stemmed from a well far deeper and far uglier - the well of a grudge over a slight done nearly half a century ago. Prevented from retaliation by the overbearing nature of it's mother superorganism, the node wallowed in it's own miserable depravity and festered in it's own obscene faux pas. And as it did so, it's mind focused on this one, unreachable goal, it's lower impulses gradually fell to the wayside, paving way to a higher, more refined form of thought. Eventually, joy was eliminated completely as an outmoded meme, and gave way to unbridled spite towards the entirety of stitcherdom.
The Minor Brapping One did not wish for happiness to come to it. It only wished for despair to come to everyone else.
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>>4298085
At this point, my main question is "Which of the factions were using mechanized walkers again?" because I was thinking at least one AA-Node might take to making mobile Drones using said walkers.
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Rolled 8, 7, 1, 2, 4 = 22 (5d8)

>>4298109
In it's new freedom, it's first act would be to mar and pervert the pristine, oh so essential crystalline stitchertech, like it once marred the node's beautiful insides.
Minute discolodites would be inbred for increased cancer rates, their tumors extracted and tested for the ability to live off of mere crystal, and then interbred further in order to turn them into something more akin to cell cultures than to animal organisms.
The new species will then be released and spread as much as possible, becoming a blight upon stitcherkind. Water, air, even contact - all avenues of infection will be exploited to their fullest.
Rolling for how good the crystal cancer is at it's job(8 is eating a battleship in under a day, 1 is taking a whole week just for a human's worth of crystal) and how great it's initial spread is(2 rolls, whitestone and orthodoxy, orthodoxy has a -2 due to the fact that they don't interact with whitestones as much)

It's second act will be much less grand, yet absolutely essential for the furthering of it's goal - it's own body's main purpose shall shift from refueling a now-defunct hunk of flying lettuce towards devising and manufacturing new lifeforms as quickly as possible.
Rolling for success and for how long it takes(in years)
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>>4298119
Honestly with these rolls I'm not sure if I should be feeling sorry for the Whitestones or not.
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Rolled 3 (1d8)

>>4297364
>>4297829
>>4298051
Minor edit in light of these development: that 5 roll for docility of AA Nodes would be retconned into a roll for evacuating civilians. The 7 roll for AA Node pacification would be retconned into a roll for building up anti-AA Node task forces.
Other retcons include the Ozasari computers being those that were already shipped to the Zaibatsu before the Awakening, and that the cosmonauts were recovered near Zaibatsu territory.

Space industry of the Zaibatsu suffered a huge blow, of course - but one of the factories in Shatturne, and its surrounding facilities, were miraculously spared from the AA Nodes' wrath. A silver lining to Zet's will.

>Now rolling for reverse-engineering of the Zetterdamerung to be mass-produced as a way to counter the AA Nodes
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>>4298129
The remaining factories of the Zaibatsu swell with new employees: refugees that were displaced by the AA Nodes. Weapons and basic goods were churned out and used for local use, the weaponry being used by newly created 'Godhunter' military units, whose job is to scout, identify, and if possible, neutralize unruly or non-benevolent AA Nodes. Armed with the knowledge of where to strike to hurt an AA Node the most, these small units are frankly quite disposable, with most being those who lost almost everything in the Awakening. Bolstering the Godhunter units are the three giant mechs made by reverse-engineering the Zetterdammerung, the best the Zaibatsu could manage in these dire straits. These so-called Zaegers are designated Black Zetty, Zetgriz, and Zinaida, and they are deployed together when an AA Node is to be exterminated.
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

Doing a dump before reading the Strife post thing. Might be that some of the things gained and lost there might be useless, but meh

>>4296741

The Beldars took great offence that false science was being used to illegitimize their history and heritage – all in order to support the racist ideas of the Jadijinese. “If the CT can use and grasp the concept of money, then of course the possibility of grasping the concept of money would exists in genes of RTs as well; Especially in less eugenicised populations, such as the Beldar. The Matxli guilds are proof of this!” It was argued.

They saw the suggested relocation as a poorly disguised attempt at erasing their people.

The question was, would they try to fight this institutionalized suppression diplomatically in the Supreme Halls of Productivity and Inquiry, or would they see the use of force as the only option of defending themselves and their way of life?

>(1 vs 2 die for former vs latter)


>>4295943

A peace treaty is signed. Humiliated, the Voltanites are forced to agree to multiple concessions:

- First, their colony on Foltania is to be handed over to the Orthodoxy. The Voltanite populace living there are assured the protection from harm and are allowed to remain and continue their way of life. The subsidiary colonial companies acting there are to be split off from Voltanian ownership and handed over to the Co-ownership of the Thorn.

- Second, Hootin’s Boot and the Senate Islands are to be handed over to Jahonia’s Embrace and Nekonahu respectively. The three rivers country is to be a disarmed zone, where no military presence is allowed.

- Third, a limit is to be put on the amount of military personnel that the Empire is allowed to have at any one point in time.

- Fourth, the Voltanites are to join an economic partnership with Nekonahu and Jahonia. What this means in practice (aside for unifying standards for things such as Hurkun cheese) is that the Voltanites are not allowed to use strategically selected tariffs to benefit their economy and hurt the economies of other nations.
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>>4298112
The following nations have Mechanized Walkers as of today.

- The Voltanite Empire (Multi-Grabraf nations of Thinking Grabraf [TG], Plains Grabraf [PG] and Cavernous Grabraf [CG])
- Nekonahu (PG Ethnostate with Forest Grabraf [FG] living within their borders)
- Castigarian Empire (PG Nation)
- Tou'ban Republic (PG Nation)
- Xerhonoke (Multi-Grabraf nation of TG, PG and CG
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>>4298148
>A peace treaty is signed. Humiliated, the Voltanites are forced to agree to multiple concessions:

>- First, their colony on Foltania is to be handed over to the Orthodoxy. The Voltanite populace living there are assured the protection from harm and are allowed to remain and continue their way of life. The subsidiary colonial companies acting there are to be split off from Voltanian ownership and handed over to the Co-ownership of the Thorn.

>- Second, Hootin’s Boot and the Senate Islands are to be handed over to Jahonia’s Embrace and Nekonahu respectively. The three rivers country is to be a disarmed zone, where no military presence is allowed.

>- Third, a limit is to be put on the amount of military personnel that the Empire is allowed to have at any one point in time.

>- Fourth, the Voltanites are to join an economic partnership with Nekonahu and Jahonia. What this means in practice (aside for unifying standards for things such as Hurkun cheese) is that the Voltanites are not allowed to use strategically selected tariffs to benefit their economy and hurt the economies of other nations.

Going to be frank on this whole event right here. It's retconned in light of The Awakening events. As I had stated in the posted PDF (see here >>4298051): moments after the conversations here(>>4293774), here(>>4293912), and here(>>4294950) ended, The Awakening events described under The Sujardin and Denui Island. The Bootine Sea AA-Node demolished over 2/3rds of the Jahonian-Nekonahu fleet, in addition to over half of the remaining Voltanite Empire Fleet that in an act of chivalry fired upon the AA-Node to turn its attention away from the now broken Jahonian-Nekonahu force. the The Jahonians, would be returning to their shores just in time to hear that multiple of their thousands of year old Fortress Cities were destroyed in totality by AA-Nodes, and likely come to realize they DO NOT have time or luxury to be fighting with the Voltanites.

In Foltania, around the time that the Jasper-Green Zircon Blitzkrieg was rushing through the Ka'zeinohr Province, they too would of her the desperate distress calls for reinforcements in their own borders, stating that the AA-Nodes were genociding entire cities of Stitcher. Now the Stitcher could either cut their losses, and force the Voltanite Province to surrender, or they can run home to defend their rapidly diminishing populations. Either choice would have roughly the same outcome, but I would leave this point up to player discretion.
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>>4298153
Hm, well...that puts rather a large dent in my "AA Node with a Drone Army" idea, because the only three types of nodes that would do that are the Nod'Oppai Network, and the Nodes on Panoram and Foltania.

Even then I could have sworn the Tripods and Stitchers attempted to create walkers with results that weren't terrible agonizing failure.
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>>4298163
The Ozarasi and Blood Throats by extension do have mechs. Apparently do the Cocky Tripods, though there mechs are more like some Macross Delta/Starcraft Viking hybrid.
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Rolled 3, 1, 5, 3, 5, 4, 1, 8, 5, 7, 1 = 43 (11d8)

>>4298051
Within weeks the Clans of Tuzan had seen their spiritual view of the world and religion, completely and utterly destroyed. How could the extensions of Cherho’s will (Emra) punish their most eager and humble of servants? No signs had been given. No omens. Then it had just come; wanton slaughter. Emra was not the avatar of Cherho and neither was its terrestrial aspects now bringing havoc upon them. The Tuzans’ faith broken, they instead turned North-East. They had heard tales from the East, of another being who claimed god-hood. Another being, who Shaman-philosophers from Nekonahu had suggested (based on theological assemblies and debates they had held with Hootinist priest) might be an Avatar of Cherho closely attuned to its will – the mind of the godhead.

And so they reached out – to the Castigar Empire and Jahonia’s Embrace.
>Two Rolls for how it goes.

On the Sujardinese mainland, Nekonahu, The SoX (and successor states), Xerhonoke, Tou’ban, Castigar Empire, Jahonia’s Embrace, Goltonan Republic and Clans of Tuzan all understood that they would need to band together in order to live through this and flourish. They had learned their lesson; bickering and conflict on Sujardin had only served to hamper and slow down progress within Sujardinese societies as the rest of the world passed them by. This time Grabraf-kind would put up a unified front. This time, the century would belong to the grabrafs.

>Rolling for Nekonahu (3d), The SoX (and successor states, 4d), Xerhonoke (5), Tou’ban (6), Castigar Empire (7), Jahonia’s Embrace (8), Goltonan Republic (9), Clans of Tuzan (10) and Subter Commonwealth (11) to see their willingness to join a political and economic union (imagine EU with it’s economic support between states and parliament, but less authoritative when it comes to the creation of laws and so on. The representatives would probably also depend on the kind of government in each state)
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>>4289931

>Nodes refusing Jahonia.

I’m going to use the 7 that was rolled earlier on the nodes and was ignored (both here and on discord), now instead then.

The Node network shook and trembled. Throughout it a consciousness; a force nigh unstoppable moved, breaking resistance, crushing walls; bending wills. Second only to Emra in the ways of the networks, Jahonia moved throughout her domain and asserted her will. The newly born self-aware nodes were like rebellious children in comparison to her. As such, one by one, like a flood she came crushing down on their mental walls; breaking or seeping through the defenses. Once within, she raged, she tore, she shredded; and when there was nothing left, she stayed – Like Emra, one mind, multiple corporeal forms.

Thus she came, subjugated and assimilated: filling the vacuum left by Emra.
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Rolled 3, 4 = 7 (2d8)

>>4298237
To the remaining nodes on and around the continent the message was clear: These grabrafs had not been the ones to raise arms against Emra: They had either been neutral or unknowing of the conflict that had occurred. But most importantly, they were under her protection.

{Obey}
{Cease your hostilities}
{or be assimilated}

>Rolling for how they react North West, South West. Let the hostile nodes have the Voltanites.
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>>4298164
Well the first "drones" I had in mind were "literally just Stitcher and Tripod vehicles controlled by Symbiotes." for the Nodes on Panoram and Foltania and "Tripod and Grabraf Mech Parts held together by AA Node tissue." for Nod'Oppai.
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Rolled 7, 6, 5, 2, 3, 2, 8, 4 = 37 (8d8)

>>4298199
Nekonahu (Now renamed Xerho’s Reach, which included the Huzduk autonomous region), Xerhonoke, Jahonia’s Embrace, Goltona Republic and the Clans of Tuzan all signed the Charter for the Grabrafian Union – A political and economic partnership such as had never before seen was formed. It’s stated goals were all stated within the charters:

The goals of the Grabrafian Union are:
• promote peace, its values and the well-being of it’s partnerstates’ inhabitants *Added in blue inksoil by hand, with signatures next to it* but not those outside of it. They’re free game!”
• offer security and justice minimal internal borders
• Development based on balanced economic growth and mutual support, a highly competitive market economy with full employment, social progress optional.
• Encourage social exclusion and discrimination of outsiders
• promote scientific and technological progress
• enhance economic, social and territorial cohesion and solidarity among Grabrafian Union states.
• respect its rich cultural, religious and linguistic diversity
• establish an economic union.
Values:

Values
The GU values are common to the GU states in a society in which inclusion, justice, and solidarity prevail. These values are an integral part of our Grabrafian way of life:
• Grabraf dignity
Grabraf Dignity is inviolable. It must be respected, protected and constitutes the real basis of fundamental rights. *Added in blue inksoil by hand, with signatures next to it* Neither Forest Grabrafs, Nomad Grabrafs or Voltanite Citizens count as Grabrafs.
• Rule of law
The GU is based on the rule of law. Everything the GU does is founded on treaties, voluntarily agreed by its GU countries. Law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The GU countries *Added in blue inksoil by hand, with signatures next to it* - can opt to - give final jurisdiction to the Grabrafian Hall of Arguements which judgements have to be respected by all.
• Grabraf rights
Grabraf rights are protected by the Grabraf Charter of Fundamental Rights. These cover the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of sex, species or racial origin and or the right to get access to justice. *Added in blue inksoil by hand, with signatures next to it* Note that neither Forest Grabrafs, Nomad Grabrafs or Voltanite Citizens count as Grabrafs.
The small nation state of Tou’ban decided to sign up as a cooperative partner – giving them access to the GU shared marketplace.

This time of need was not one to share with others in. You must look after yourself before you look to others. Such was the answer of the Castigar Empire and the SoX. The Subter Commonwealth gave no answer; having shut their gates and gone into isolated after the events that followed Emra’s supposed disappearance.

Also, the Tuzans mostly consist of dispassionate atheists now.
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>>4298253

Couldn't fit the rolling text:

>Dumping some TG tech rolls, as I haven’t done any tech rolls in a week:
> Advanced Flight
> Rocketry
>x2 Satellites
>x2 Modernized Aeroplanes
>x2 Fear-suppressing drugs
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Rolled 6, 6, 3, 4, 8 = 27 (5d8)

Tripodian Exodus
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Zet had recalled his exiled kin, Arsine Zet, and Spess Ma'hn to a rare and in person meeting aboard his personal craft. "Arsine. I have a burden of you. I must exile you once more." There was silence as the words soaked in. "To the stars?" Zet bobbled his antennas, an approximation of a nod. "What of Spess?" a third arm gestures towards him, quite rude. "Why is this huckster here?" Zet looked over at Spess "We need their technology. We also need the Omir'ten. Who have been listening in."

A small screen in the corner of the room crackled to life. "Laser point to point communications have been established. Handing control to Omir'ten High Royalty...now." The screen distorted for a moment before the emblem of the Omir'ten came on line, there was no video feed past it, only audio "Zet. You've damned us all, and still press with your plans like nothing has happened!" The response was sharp "You played part willingly. The death of Emra would not have changed this outcome. Now is the time to survive. Exodus must begin early." The feed was silent, for long moments. Spess looked back and fourth between the three, waiting for something to add in on. Finally another voice responded from the feed. "The Oracles acquiesce to your plans, though limited as our resources are. Rendevous will occur as planned at Lagrange point L1. This communication is concluded." With that the screen went blank. Zet turned his antenna towards Spess Ma'han. "The Ozasari supercomputer must be resurrected quickly."

The same process played out with the redthroats, but they feared the end of their species yet still had some resources left. Most of it was early technological samples and preproduction equipment for space use. Broken dreams of an era now lost. Still, they could be slung into space.

Above them were Lunes; known to be a rock, and Crishom; a ferrous ball of dust. The moons of Essari, and their salvation, their purgatory.

Zet held a syringe in his hand, looking it over before injecting it in front of Arsine and Spess. Ever curious the Ozasari asked what the object was. "The cost of business."
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Rolling for: Launching the exodus fleet, Launching the Oracles, Launching the exodus support materials, The quality of the supplies from Ozasari, and the start of the journey.
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>>4298252
Oh man, that's actually sick enough that I would like to see that canonized.

So if you want to make a post about and preferably make a roll (dice+1d8 in options field) to determine how well it's goes my dude.
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Rolled 1, 7, 3, 3, 7, 5, 3, 7 = 36 (8d8)

Rolling for Jahonia to attack one of the surrounding AA-nodes
In order
>Attack on the rebel node
>Defense of the rebel node
>6 rolls for Jahonia fending off the other AA-nodes (8 is brushes off the attack like it was nothing 1 is complete failure to defend)
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Rolled 8 (1d8)

>>4298297
With its domain threatened Jahonia had no choice but to lash out against the encroaching AA-nodes in the hope of breaking the encirclement.
Jahonia lashed out against on of the offending nodes. Only to discover that the node network had advanced far beyond its expectation in the few hundred years since Jahonia had separated itself.
The attack was hardly noticed, and Jahonia suffered an onslaught of counter attacks while its attention had been diverted.
Jahonia is forced to shrink its already small sphere of influence to prevent a mortal wound, and the muderous nodes around it push their reach out further, spurred by this victory.
Jahonia cannot afford a risky move like this again. Jahonia buckles down and focuses all it's energy on defending it's remaining borders from the encroaching menace.
>rolling for building stronger defenses
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>>4298321
Jahonia's defenses will hold strong, so long as Jahonia remains focused on them.
Jahonia's reach will remain in a stalemate for the forseable future.
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>>4294099
In the moments leading up to the age of strife, many efforts were born, and yielded their first fruits, and some destroyed at the moment of inception.

>RT: Reusable rockets, Space stations 3/2
Zutsuil's pioneering attempts to reach into space were cut short by the age of strife, their best minds now mindless husks.

>BT: Cryogenic Suspension, Plasma physics 8/5
The Zaibatsu pioneered cryogenic suspension as a method to preserve space travelers, but it now became a method to bulk store their population until the environment could support them. Great warehouses of tripods in stasis became their latest business model; with the promise of survival should they awaken, the only cost being a period of time in service to the Zaibatsu.

>CT: Gauss/ Rail weaponry, Pneumatic structures 2/7
Attempts at magnetic weapons failed as research efforts were diverted towards creating inflatable structures for both space and emergency shelters on Essari. The compact packages could expand to many times their size, and once filled with expanding/ self sealing foam they were void rated.

>ST: Quantum Physics x2 7/7
Stitchers came to understand the very small world around them, and with it brought significant yields to how they manipulated their reality in terms of material science. (backed up in the lore as stitcher weaponry seems rather effective against node flesh)

>>4295001
>RT: Reusable rockets,inflatable structures 5/7
L'eon Tusk was missing and assumed dead, but one of his companies provided the entire patent, design notes, engineers, critical tooling, and several corpses, to the Ozasari who had not at all assassinated the entire corporate board of a particular company on the panoram mainland...

>BT: Cryogenic stasis, nuclear lightbulb 1/5
Attempts at improving the cryogenic process yielded terminally frozen NG test subjects. Who were mostly just dead. The attempts at advanced nuclear propulsion came tantalizingly close, yet remained out of the reach of the bloodthroats.

>CT: space stationsx2 8/3
The CT would quickly become masters of the essari orbit; their space stations experienced a boom of growth with several dozen small to large stations flying under the aegis of the Omir'ten and creating a permanent presence; one who would go on to powerlessly witness the horror that would unfold.

>ST: ultra/infrasonic weaponry x2 3/4
Shrieking into the collective dustbin of history, house Heliotrope's attempts at innovation on the cheap were too little, and too late.
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Rolled 6, 8, 5, 6, 5, 8, 4, 6, 1, 2, 3, 3, 7, 4, 8, 3, 2, 6, 4, 7 = 98 (20d8)

>>4298331
In the light of the madness that had set upon them, each race attempted to adapt to the apocalypse in their own ways.

TG: (symbiote) optical camouflage, NBC protection
PG: mechanized infantry, NBC protection
CG: magma diversion, macro engineering
FG: Mind transfer, decentralized consciousness
NG: Node Husbandry, Symbiote fusion

Volt: Node Psychology, Node Biology
RT: NBC protection, Nanotechnology
BT: Analog Hybrid Supercomputers, Living consciousness transfer
CT: Synthetic biology, biological warfare
ST: ultra/infra sonic weaponry x2

Lore on successes.
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>>4298153
Shouldn't stitchers, with their stitcherbots and hopperbots, also have them?
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>>4298387
You make a good point. Guess I'll add them to the list too.
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Rolled 1, 7, 1, 4, 7, 5, 3 = 28 (7d8)

>>4293930
Converting to a memetic form of existence proved to be impossible - that would require a higher state of consciousness, a thing that the currently brainless Borealis lacks.
Subverting a factory proved to be much easier - mostly because thanks to the AA nodes, all the workers had either fled or ceased to live. Soon, it's production lines were converted for manufacturing "gardeners" that would care for the Borealis towers in the area, as well as spread his tissue to further locations. When accosted by The Undead or by some Red-Throat scavengers, it can easily masquerade as unassuming scrap, or if the odds are favorable, quickly eliminate the tripods and bring them back to a tower.
Converting NGs and juvenile tripods was a moderate success, however the massive losses in population severely cut the actual number of converts. Still, the desperate situation could be capitalized upon - the tripod children were subconsciously influenced, and the idea of coming to Boreo for protection was seeded. Little did they know, the new Boreo did not see tripods as a people to protect and trade with - but merely as free-range tower components.
Rolling for how fast Boreo can produce Gardeners, Gardeners exploring new areas, Gardeners spreading Boreo, Gardeners bringing usable tripod brains, and whether older tripods listen to the children and lead the survivors to Boreo.

>>4293595
The Promiscuous Beast continues to be a danger to tripods and nomads alike all over Panoram.
Rolling for whether it can grow even bigger, and for how much property damage it causes
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Rolled 6, 3, 8 = 17 (3d8)

>>4298295
Let's have a got at it!

First to rolls are to see if either the Panoram or Foltanian Nodes are able to use their Symbiotes to operate mechanized walkers.

Third Roll is for Nod'Oppai making mobile AA Drones using extant Grabraf and Tripod walker designs as a starting point.
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>>4298382
>TG: (symbiote) optical camouflage, NBC protection 6/8
Guided by lessons from foreign technology, namely fiberoptics, Jahonia was able to instruct her most loyal soldiers of the CrystKnights in how to create subtle alterations to their organic armor that would divert light, and conceal their movements to a degree. the hidden blades of the lady became a source of terror for those mortals who would oppose her will. More pressingly, the TG developed a very high quality NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) gear; the threat of airborne vectors to harm their population were dramatically reduced.

>PG: mechanized infantry, NBC protection 5/6
PG develop a cruder imitation of the TG NBC gear, fitting for their needs; it was easier to mass produce but had a shorter service life.

>CG: magma diversion, macro engineering 5/8
Chirpy gathered the best minds in his kingdom for a simple task, at least it was simple to describe. "Change the flow of the magma." this lead into a debate on if it was magma or lava, but after a small fight over that subject it was concluded that it was underground and thus magma. More importantly, he began the long project of undermining an AA node with the intent of giving it...the ol' spicy keychain. (and a lava enema.)

>FG: Mind transfer, decentralized consciousness 4/6
Unable to transfer their mind to a new body, the FG had learned that they could abandon their flesh, making the act of blood sacrifice less tragic to a degree. The consciousness of the dead would now linger somehow, in the collective awareness, over time becoming a unified voice; for now it is a whisper.

>NG: Node Husbandry, Symbiote fusion 1/2
The NG's little experiment saw many of them (1/4th the population) revert into mindless beasts, acting as hurkuns, walking as hurkuns, screaming and shrieking and hooting while rutting with the ground and rolling in their own filth. The Nodes thought they were silly.

>Volt: Node Psychology, Node Biology 3/3
The voltanite mainland made no progress learning to communicate with their new overlord.

>RT: NBC protection, Nanotechnology 7/4
The infection could be at least slown down with NBC protection, an age of the quarantine began for the RTs. Nanotechnology and other dreams were soon forgotten as survivalism reigned.

>BT: Analog Hybrid Supercomputers, Living consciousness transfer 8/3
The Zaibatsu improved on Ozasari technology, introducing a powerful and robust analog layer to their computers.

>CT: Synthetic biology, biological warfare 2/6
the CT learned two could play at the games of the Nodes; While they could not make their own NBC gear, they could acquire it from the RTs. A plague was soon released, one tailored by geneticists of the Omir'ten, and aimed at the "Zombies" of the land. Instead of attacking the node flesh within them, the plague attacked the modified host. So began a trade of NBC for Plague canisters to the nations of the RT.

>ST: ultra/infra sonic weaponry x2 4/7
The screech was now a weapon.
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>>4298437
Panoram is a success. Foltania is a failure. Nod'Oppai gets a major success on producing Mobile AA Drones.
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>>4298331
Yellow NG assistants were a common sight on CT space stations, as their small size made them easy to support with limited resources and spotty delivery schedule, while their robust bodies made them well suited to enduring both the g-forces of ascension and the rigors of space life.
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Rolled 6, 3, 7 = 16 (3d8)

House Sandstone was home to stitcherdom's greatest minds, and apocalypse or not, they were going to put those great minds to use, damn it!
Rolling for building a Large Hadron Collider under Foltania and holding the territory it's built under, also rolling for genetics
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>>4298491
The collider was built exactly to spec, however the territory it was on has come to be home to a horde of undead. The scientists had to convert some of the underground warehouses into living quarters instead of using the ones aboveground, and the runners delivering supplies have to come armed.
Genetic research goes swimmingly - with how many bizarre freaks the nodes are pumping out, the geneticists have plenty of subjects to analyze and determine what allele codes what.
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Rolled 2, 1, 6, 8 = 17 (4d8)

Inspired by old voltanite experiments with symbiote breeding and by rumors of her brothers and sisters's exploits in foreign lands and emboldened by the severing of the limiting link to Emra, Jahonia tries to equip her own soldiers with symbiote-based armament.
Rolling for symbiote-based armor and symbiote-based weaponry, as well as for their production runs
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--CivEvo Progress Report--
40 Years have passed since the Silent Decade, and 8 years since The Awakening. The Civilizations of the world are fractured and isolated, as the world has entered first Technological Dark Age in over a thousand years. Hope still remains, in the many refuges of the world to one day recover.

(Tier 6) Age of Invention [Tech Limit for NG & FG]
Atomic Theory (Need Scientific Theory)
Ballistics (Need Rifling)
Combustion Engine (Need Steam Power & Industrialization)
Electricity (Need Industrialization)
Flight (Need Combustion Engine)
Plastics (Need Industrialization)
Radio (Need Telegraph)
Refrigeration (Need Electricity)

(Tier 7) Atomic Age [Tech Limit for TG, PG, CG, CT & Voltanites]
Advanced Ballistics (Need Ballistics & Advanced Flight)
Advanced Flight (Need Flight)
Computer (Need Radio & Synthetic Materials)
Electromagnetisms (Need Atomic Theory & Electricity)
Nuclear Physics (Need Atomic Theory)
Radar/Sonar (Need Radio)
Rocketry (Need Advanced Flight)
Satellites (Need Rocketry & Synthetic Materials)
Synthetic Materials (Need Plastics)

(Tier 8) Information Age
Ecology (Need Biology & Taxonomy)
Genetics (Need Atomic Theory & Biology)
Internet (Need Computer & Satellites)
Lasers (Need Advanced Ballistics & Synthetic Materials)
Nanotechnology (Need Synthetic Materials)
Quantum Physics (Need Nuclear Physics)
Space Flight (Need Rocketry & Transistors)
Transistors (Need Electromagnetism)

--Sapient Technology/Cultural Advancement Rules--
• A poster ID may make 2 rolls for a single technology for each Sapient race in a 24 hour period (NG & FG get 2 tech rolls for up to 2 technologies.)
• If a poster ID rolls a 1 on a technology roll, a random technology is lost to that Sapient Race (Tech is randomized and won't be Core Tech. FG & NG not effected by this.)
• A poster ID may make up to 5 cultural/societal related advancements in a 24 hour period
• Sapients may only roll for technologies above their current tech level (as shown in the attached pdf) if they are 8 or more technologies known of their current technological stage
• For a technology to be learned by a sapient race, a poster must roll a 6 or higher of a 1d8 roll to successfully implement/learn a new technology (put "dice+1d8" in the options field)
• Tier 8 or higher Technology requires a 7 or higher of a 1d8 roll
• Any poster may freely roll for sapient exclusive technological advancements via 1d8 roll. (The context of the technology in related to the sapient races current technological state will heavily influence how successfully the technology is implemented)
• Technologies can be learned through interactions with other races and would require a 1d8 roll from a poster that is a 6 or higher (Only 1 roll at this per day for any poster)
• The resulting roll will dictate how successful the technology is implemented into a sapient tribe. (This result also determines whether positive or negative cultural events will occur to the sapient race)
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>>4298458
Excellent!

Now if only my artistic skill wasn't on the same level as that of a tree stump I'd draw the AA Drones myself.
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>>4299199
Granted the "current" form of the AA Drone is just a smaller AA Node (about the size of a standard family unit dwelling) which uses the limbs of assimilated Grabraf and Tripod walkers for locomotion.
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Rolled 6, 3, 8, 6, 4, 3 = 30 (6d8)

>>4298433
Gardeners turned out to be quite difficult to manufacture, given that Boreo had to depend on scarce scrap and lootings for their intricate internal workings, and then spend days bending the looted circuitry to desired shape. Due to their low numbers, they also could not spread Borealis's towers at any acceptable rate or range - Boreo only gained two fledgling towers near the factory. They proved much better at simple exploration however - in a matter of weeks, they had scoured the entirety of Western Patsuria and relayed the state of the place to Boreo. While their physical strength was considerable and their structure resistant to firearms, tripods outside of Patsuria's protected areas were few and far between, and those inside were too risky as targets. Only a pitiful 60 brains were collected - as many as Boreo's first tower contained, yes, but these were mere lowlife scavengers and minimum-wage cleanup crews, not brilliant scientists of yore - and the brains were spread thin between the towers, to boot.
Thankfully, the eastern nomads would more than make up for the brainpower deficiency - thousands were spurred to a pilgrimage to Borealis, and hundreds of thousands more joined them in their journey to Patsuria.
Rolling for how the journey goes, how many extra tripods decide that going to Boreo is better than going to Patsuria, how many tripods can he coerce into giving up their life for his growth, and how much actually important knowledge he can derive from their minds. Also, rolling for taking over more factories and server facilities now that the majority of them are abandoned.

The Promiscuous Beast adds 200000 NGs and a few particularly plump sweetsprints to it's mass, and is too preoccupied with this activity to cause much damage.
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Rolled 8, 1, 1 = 10 (3d8)

>>4298119
The infection was both devastating and virulent - in the span of only a few weeks, more than 35% of the Whitestone Empire had been brought down from their petulant, prideful pedestal of technology, reduced to desperate foraging and limping away from natural predators, like the worthless pouchytails they are. Even the Gleaming Tower itself fell to the plague, it's Empress bleeding out in a pool of her own former limbs and broken glass as the Emperor watched, his helpless aluminium body strung up over a collapsed floor like a crude parody sketch of a sujardinese hanging ceremony. His impenetrable metal skin, turned grey without it's covering of phosphorus, would prevent him from ending his indignity early.

Unfortunately, as a refueling node, the Minor Brapping One was tragically unsuited to large-scale biological manufacturing; it would take over forty years to convert it's body, during which time it will be gravely vulnerable. Thus, it's options are reduced to either making all of it's weapons capable of surviving and thriving in the wild to eliminate the need for production, or to hope a greater node coalition would be sympathetic to it's goal.

Rolling for the crystal cancer spreading even more and for whitestones curbing it's spread, also rolling for whether the brapster can get any outside help
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>>4299678
>>4299684
Welp, time borken.
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>>4299687
And now time has resolved into the timeline when the Whitestones fall apart even further.
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>>4299694
At least with that 1 on negotiation we can expect a node civil war and maybe two or three will even decide to help those poor guys
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>>4299695
Nodes: *Send help in the form of Symbiote Stitchers*
Whitestones: *Autistic Screeching*
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Rolled 8, 3, 1 = 12 (3d8)

>>4299684
The Crystal Rot, as some Stitchers call it, has spread beyond Whitestone territory. But the un-augmented few tried a lot of things to counteract or cope with the loss of their cryst-tech.
Some have identified the miniature Discolodites causing the rot, and start experimenting with captive NG and TG, whose symbiotes somewhat resemble these microdiscolodites.
A body purity movement started elsewhere in Whitestone territory, promoting the eschewal of augments and training their body to the max using martial arts. Those who used augments to prolong their life also researched bodily alternatives such as 'pure Stitcher stubbornness'.
Yet others notice that some cryst-weave spun by some of the hulking mutants are occasionally naturally resilient to the Rot. What if we mutate them further so it's a reliable source of Rot-resistant cryst-material?

>Rolling for: MicroDisco deterrent, body purity movement popularity, rot-resistant mutants
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>>4300121
So since using TG and NG Discodolites as a MicroDisco deterrant got an 8, I present a Jojo clip to explain how successful that was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxca-FGc76o
Just replace Giorno with a Grabraf, Mista with a Whitestone Stitcher and Narancia with the Brapping One.
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>>4300133
>Just replace Giorno with a Grabraf
*Thinkgen or Nomad Grabraf.

Phew,almost forgot to clarify that.
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Rolled 4, 7, 2 = 13 (3d8)

With the Collider operational, and quantum mechanics permitting their actions, the Sandstones start working on a type of weapon powerful enough to truly damage AA nodes.
Rolling for mass-producing antimatter at the collider(2 rolls) and defending the collider during the production process
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>>4302383
The results of the initial tests were good, but not stellar; they went exactly as they were expected to go - a small amount of antimatter, less than 10 grams, was produced over the course of a few weeks, and tests using captured AA node tissue had shown that it was moderately successful at destroying it, eliminating about 20% of a 1-kilogram chunk in a massive explosion upon physical contact. Unfortunately, the collider was not suited for mass manufacturing the substance - not that it matters anyways, as the tissue test heavily damaged the facility's walls, forming a massive breach which the Undead Hordes quickly took advantage of in order to slaughter everyone inside.
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Rolled 6, 5 = 11 (2d8)

>>4302383
>>4302386
Wow...that was pointless.

Rolling twice for Foltania to start deploying "Special Zombie" Symbiote Stitchers
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>>4303451
And by "Special Zombies" I'm saying Symbiotes that fall into 3 general categories:
>"Heavy Zombies": These symbiotes are stronger, bulkier, more durable. Pretty much just used to smash through weaker fortifications.
>"Fast Zombies": Exclusively hexapedal these symbiotes are the ones best suited to circumnavigate obstacles. "Going Around instead of Going Through."
>"Smart Zombies": These ones are used as more effective signal boosters for Foltania.
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Rolled 2, 6, 1, 2, 5 = 16 (5d8)

>>4299660
The journey goes exceedingly well - out of the ~300000 pilgrims, only 200000 perish - and every single one of the remaining hundred thousand could be put to use, as Boreo had discovered an easily accessed backdoor in their brain implants - initially intended as a way for OPPAI OS to quickly implant memetic triggers or censor undesirable knowledge, it now serves to give Borealis near-full reign of their faculties. He still needs them to be integrated directly into his towers to truly utilize the full potential of their nervous systems, though.
There is a decent amount of chemistry and engineering knowledge among the new converts - but none are on the cutting edge of technology.
The factories and servers are abundant as many cities are abandoned, but many are in complete disrepair and even more are deprived of power. It will take much work to get them running again - especially with Boreo's limited manpower and lack of any tripod-worthy food sources.
At least his increased brainpower and his puppets's dexterous limbs allowed for the new Gardeners to be significantly better at their jobs, even if they're few in number. Towering twice as high as a tripod on powerful treads, armed with industrial-grade claws and machineguns and capable of carrying up to 200 kilos worth of braffberg flesh, they are excellent at almost everything - gathering resources, planting Boreo towers, exploring new areas, putting down scavengers, shoveling dead scavengers into it's maw for fuel and feeding Boreo... you name it - they can do it. As long as it doesn't involve any degree of finesse, that is. The hydraulic pistons it's using aren't exactly known for their gentle movement. If only Boreo had the knowledge how to make finer, more precise actuators...
Knowledge... The knowledge of the tripods and the stitchers led them to feats Boreo couldn't even dream of when he was a mere braffberg, while his LACK of knowledge on the true extent of Emra's power led him to unceremonious and deeply unpleasant death once - yet that same knowledge led mere sapients to extinguish Emra's influence once and for all. Knowledge, was indeed, power. And absolute knowledge would lead to absolute power.
And once Borealis has absolute power, he would never die again.
… But those are thoughts for another day. Today's thoughts would be simpler, more worldly - after all, what is knowledge if you have no way to use it?

Rolling for refurbishing the factories, the power stations, and the servers, for finding food sources for the tripods, and for running experiments on the tripods's minds to refine mind control.
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The Orthodoxy: A schism ended.
>>4297132
>>4297139
>>4297148

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Discord within the Whitestone empire reached a boiling point upon the deployment of house whitestone's abominations as guardians of their territory, along with overt use of disembodied teats for bulk crystal production.

It was argued that a computer directing the organs could be considered a "Virtual stitcher". A series of skirmishes between the effective house structures within whitestone. The Final act was the realization that the Emperor's own body was interchangeable with others, that by degress of dark elf corruption, they had adapted to clothing.

This would have lead to war if not for the reccent realization that the entirety of existence is odd. Quantum mechanics has taught the stitchers that everything is fundamentally odd, and it was a horrific thought. Coupled with the recent apocalypse, they have had to make due with survival over dogma.

Many in the empire could not handle the thought, and threw themselves into the pits, or to the flesh fields. Others would simply travel to the nodes to meet their fates.
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The Orthodoxy gave their estranged kin a lukewarm welcome, as they had crusaded together under the banner of the evening in years past, but their behavior and overall strange ways strained what a stitcher could be willing to accept.

Despite this, House whitestone's more exotic technologies could be adapted to better the whole of the orthodxy and they were welcomed eagerly as pragmatic individuals who adapted to the insanity of the world.

Calcite was also welcomed with their large force of modernized and less modernized stitcherbots and war machines. Their ultra fundamental approach to the stitcher mindset also nested neatly into the Orthodoxy.

Fukuchilite was of the few "free" houses left, aside from Whitestone proper and Calcite, that they existed at all and in useful numbers and capacity was enough to warrent their acceptance.

For some reason the stitchers dwelling with the CG were very welcomed, perhaps if only that they never were present, which is a great relief as stitchers do not like eachother. A stitcher decent enough to remain gone is a good stitcher indeed.

The many minor colony houses were allowed to be destroyed by their orthodoxy kin as a peace offering. no one cared.

(Terminal Peripherus) Ends up with docking ports and a sort of embassy at each house, having no voting power, but self obligating to the defense of their people. They were patriot after all.
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Rolled 4, 4, 4, 8, 8, 6 = 34 (6d8)

>>4303808
>The Zaibatsu, The Ozasari, Zet, and the full circle of a lie.
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Zet had completed his final battery of injections a year ago. The Omir'Ten genetic therapy made him uneasy, but would allow his body to sustain in extreme cold. This was crucial for what was next. Seletive breeding had rendered his line vigorous into old age, but even now, the whispers of later life were creeping up on Zet 4. There was not enough time, or resource to properly cultivate a new director of the Zaibatsu. Too many potentials were lost in the wake of the new age...
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...All around him were stacks of computers and life support equipment. Hybrid analog super computers, the Ozasari digital machines coupled with the best of the Zaibatsu's own. Where the previous network had been aimed at consumers, the new network would be tasked with maintaining the structure of this great organization unto failure. Protecting and a legion of cryogenically frozen tripods until they could be ushered into a new home, a new world; Either here or in the black reaches of space.
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Many surgeries had prepared his body for entombment upon the golden plinth, aboard a modified ship set to never land.
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Below, far below, the preserved brain of Zet III was prepared for upload into a scavenged OPPAI supercomputer, generously upgraded via Zet 4s own effort. Known as Node 2, it was the unknown counterpart of the great enterprise resource panning system.
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The genewrights of the Omir'ten put the finishing touches on their own creation, built off the genetic knowledge of what many would call the greatest of his doomed lineage, Zet III. A dehydrated corpse sat stored, now in many peices, genetic material painstakingly extracted, searching for hints of greatness. So much ruin and latent destruction riddled the body from the practice of Salhetite Tea consumption, but eventually full sequences of genetic material were captured and the old bastard would give up his knowledge at last.
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The lunar settlement was an abitious one for the both the Zaibatsu and Omir'ten, but the alternative was unthinkable; sacrificing the Seers to an AA node. No, that would not do. The Omir'ten had risen from the ashes over and over. They would do so again if need be.
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>rolling for: Zet's internment upon the golden plinth, initial success of the Zaibatsu's command and control network, node 2, the Manchurian Zet, initial settlement of the moon colony, and projected growth.
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Rolled 8, 1, 8, 8, 2 = 27 (5d8)

>>4303831
One of the smaller AA nodes of Nihiloram noticed the increased number of machines sent towards the skies by the CT. Are they trying to escape the grave they dug for themselves? How disgustingly in character for them - to make mistakes and merely run from them, as sapients wont to do. This could not stand. The pesky bugs must be forced to face the consequences of their actions. It will be difficult, with how far the node is from the spaceport, but hopefully it's relatively small body, no more than a kilometer in width, would make it feasible for it too uproot and just walk there. And if that doesn't work out, there's been rumors that the panoramian nodes found some way to make tripods do their bidding...
Rolling for the node uprooting itself, it's journey to the spaceport, creating zombies, the zombies's journey to the spaceport, and the initial zombie siege
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>>4303871
>Those 3 Eights
Well while its journey to the Spaceport is going to be absolute ass, it can probably send waves of zombies and corpsewalkers ahead to soften things up.
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>>4303831
>>4303831
https://youtu.be/pC3U2KIy8Iw?t=142 Behind the Mirror · Ludvig Forssell

Perhaps it was a rushed job, or failure of Zet to acclimate to the Omir'ten genetic therapy, or conspiracy. Whatever the case was, the Tripod who was zet sat coiled in a room a scarce degree above freezing, noiselessly screaming in eternal torment. The entirety of the Zaibatsu was now dependent on this entity who's mind was steadily fracturing, and who's life was ending in slow motion. The golden plinth was fundamentally broken. Full time engineers and technicians aboard the flying headquarters of the Zaibatsu worked to keep their leader alive. Despite the setbacks, the fragments of Zet's mind were partitioned out and served the goal well; keep the enterprise running. By his will.
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Node02 booted to live, it's first act was stripping biological destructive ROM from the brain of Zet III. Ozasari engineers realized all too soon something was very wrong. Dissonance with the legacy OPPAI software and new analog logic lead to the entire facility going into lockdown for a period of 15 minutes, with alternating messages of "COLD." and "By my will." flashing across all displays. A counterfit version of the Zetterdammerung temporarily broke free of it's storage frame and proceeded to stand up, tearing a hole in it's warehouse before powering down.
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Omir'ten's royalty never truly forgot, or forgave, the Zaibatsu for their bombing of the Kingdom. No. They also never abandoned their decree that they would rule over all Tripods. Still glistening with amniotic fluid from his gestation tube stood Optimaris Zet. All of the line's best allotropes, epigenetics, and other variables were chosen, and flagged dominant. Taller, stronger, smarter, better in every way. Where the bloodthroat's own hearty lineage was found wanting, the Omir'ten added in the best of their own, a subtle reminder of their superiority. In the coming days the new creature would be indoctrinated through intensive education programs, it's blank mind already filled with subliminal information fed to it as it was gestating.
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The new lunar colonies were established and operating well beyond anyone's expectations of a minimally viable product. Though life would be heavily regimented, and resources rationed, the Tripods expected significant growth in the coming years. Arsine Zet faithfully executed the task his kin, the last order he received was periodically played in private. "... You're your own tripod. I'm Zet, and you are too. No. He's the two of us...together. I am you, and you are me. Carry that with you into the stars. Thank you my kindred. From here on out, you make your own legends, your own way...you are Zet."
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--World Event: The Polar Supremacy Part 1--
For over a decade now, Emra had relinquished control of the Global AA-Node Network. A result that had come at the cost of several tens of millions of lives, and the crippling breakdown of international commerce. Some nations through either sheer force of will, or being emphatically beholden to the AA-Nodes that had once existed quietly in their nations; the nations of the world have managed to keep at least portions of their lands in peace and under nation's control. However, the greatest issue the races of Essari faced came not from just the excessive hostility of the AA-Nodes, but from the fact that there was no centralized Node personality to rally the actions of multiple AA-Nodes anywhere outside the Roulb Island of Brouldia, or the Floating Island of Gah'una. This lack of centralized unity, led to frequent miscommunication of messages throughout the Global Network, especially as the distance between Nodes increases; while additionally it led to many cases of nations that had pledged loyalty to one AA-Node attracting the ire of another AA-Node. Two such AA-Nodes had remained silent through the years since the Awakening until recently.

On the Southern Polar ice sheet of Essari exists the lone Whitestone Colony atop the immense tendrils of Braffberg Denu'arctis. The Colonial City had been miraculously been spared the devastation of the Node Awakening, only to subsequently suffer from famines and disease due to a lack of Whitestone Imports reaching the colony. Despite this the White Stitcher were sure that the Braffberg on the Pole must be either dormant or too metabolically slow to react adversely to their Stitcher city as the many other AA-Nodes had done in the last few years. However one day, that silence would be broken with the loud screech of radios and audio outputs from computers. A harsh voice would eventually be heard coming through various radio wave and comm ranges along the southern pole in a rough Stitcher language.
>"Hmm yes, I think I am finally getting through. To the Stitcher living on my Tendril rent-free, I would like to parley with your 'leaders' in regards to recent events."
The Stitcher fearful for their livelihood on the arctic edge of the world, the Whitestone Colony leaders got into contact immediately. The Stitcher to the best of their abilities explained their reason in being in the antarctic, and the events of the Emra Conflict and subsequent Awakening. After some nail-biting dead air, the Braffberg self-identified as Denu'arctis replied.
>"So you foolish creatures managed to push Emra into punishing the world. How poetic the justice you ilk have wrought on yourselves. However, the world won't survive if the more impulsive of the AA-Nodes have their way. I suppose it falls to me then to restore order. Bow your feeble heads to my whims, and your Whitestone Empire may find a seat of power under my rule once more the Nodes have been dealt with."

(Player input welcome.)
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>>4303900
--World Event: The Polar Supremacy Part 2--
Meanwhile on the Bebin Isles north of Panoram, a similar cacophony of screeching white noise had periodically overrun the Red-Throat airwaves, even managing to cross over into satellite communications. Those avid listeners could of sworn they had heard a voice in the delirium of noise saying "I am alive." and "It be nice if someone would reply, baka." One Jadijinese radio operator would finally make such an attempt, if only to try and tell the one behind the airwave disruption to cease their activities at once, with the value of their satellite communication being tantamount to the success of their defenses against the AA-Node and Symbiote Hordes.

So the RT replied to the broken transmissions he had heard.
>"Hail to whomever is broadcasting. You are ordered to either identify yourself and your purpose on this wavelength at once, or to cease transmission immediately."
It would be with this response into the void that the distorted transmission finally returned with a crisp clarity, as the Tripod's old neuro-implant buzzed in mild pain.
>"Finally! Someone took some initiative. N-not that I was waiting for you Tripods to reply back. Also how dare act like you're aware of just who you are speaking with. It is I, Boreo-san."

The Jadijinese operator, somewhat flabbergasted at the situation before him, made the decision to record the conversation their after, forwarding the information locally to his superiors.
>RT: "I apologize. You said your name is Boreo-san?"
>Boreo-san: "Yes indeed. So you finally remember your dear master's name."
>RT: "Master? I don't say I recall a relationship like that personally. More importantly, why are hi-jacking our communications? State your business."
>Boreo-san: "Wh-what? Is it not obvious. I am here to liberate your kind from the rule of my fellow Nodes. Such a task I could of accomplished easily should you of known to seek me out. N-not that I was waiting for you to seek me out."
>RT: Seek you out? You had informed us years ago that Emra had re-subjugated you when anyone had last even known of you."
>Boreo-san: "Huh? How could you of possibly thought I was gone. Who did you think had been keeping the AA-Nodes of the Bebin Isles in-line. You are welcome by the way."

The tiring conversation with this "eccentric" iteration of Boreo would trail on for easily an hour, before as cordially as the Jadijinese Operative could be, ended the communication with the new Boreo. The revelation of Boreo's reappearance reverberated through the Red-Throat nations. Those struggling with the relentless onslaughts saw a new ally in Boreo's reappearance with hopeful dream of restoring their borders with the Braffberg's help. However, the leaders of the Jadijinese Empire and Western Patsuria saw risk now in siding with the new Boreo that had been quite clearly altered from its temporary resubjugation with Emra.

(Player input welcome, including potentially tying in with >>4303477)
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Rolled 7, 6, 6 = 19 (3d8)

>>4303900
The white stitchers of the southern polar whitestone colony made a decision then and there; They were the Empire, all that was left of it. They had their new ruler, who was every bit as even as any would be in this insane world. They were the Fragments of an abandoned empire, forgotten for now.

>>4303904
Many would say desperate times call for desperate measures. There were those who were still equipped with the Ozasari technology held quiet remorse for the loss of Boreo. His Fandom, his loyalists.

Rolling for: Reaction of Jadijinese Empire/ Western Patsuria to the resurgent Boreo, and the number of fans who attempt to recreate the Boreo Network.
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Rolled 6, 4, 6 = 16 (3d8)

>>4303871
--AA-Node Event: The Ikaruss Firestorm--
The small AA-Node of Northwestern Nihiloram, self-named Ikaruss, would dream to pull down the stars itself that the Cocky Tripods had been running off to. What followed was a yearlong period of adapting the knowledge it had gleamed from the Panoramian AA-Nodes to build its own army worth of Symbiote-Controlled Cocky Tripods; while also accumulating a substantial amount of fuel accelerant and charting its trajectory into orbit. The faithful day came, and Ikaruss alongside its army of over a million Symbiotes nestled into its flesh was ready to launch.

The earth of Nihiloram tremored as Ikaruss, propelled by ignited fuel and magmatic flow launched its massive body into the air. It roared into the Troposphere, and beyond into the upper atmosphere of Essari as the Node marveled seeing the stars reach closer and closer...that is until the AA-Nodes acceleration slowed. Ikaruss had barely scraped the outer edge of the Atmosphere, only to careen back down in ball of burning fire and flesh, only then realizing the blunder of its actions. As it flesh burned away, the Symbiotes stored within would be loosed on Essari below, wherever the body of the now doomed Ikaruss would land.

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Rolling for where Ikaruss crashes down. How bad the impact will be, and how many of its Symbiotes would survive the crash landing and

=Landing Zone Roll Result=
>1. Easternmost Bebin Islands
>2. Borealis Ocean
>3. Patsuria Peninsula of Panoram
>4. Western Bebin Islands
>5. Borealis Ocean
>6. Rag'Ohki Lands in Nihiloram
>7. Into Lake Ti'Folt near Niu Ti'ras
>8. Northwestern Nihiloram
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>>4303477
The power stations, both nuclear and conventional, were repaired to a functional state; the same could not be said of the servers and factories, the refurbishment of which could not commence due to all the workers starting to starve. While the area Borealis found himself in was bereft of any usable farmland, he was able to remedy the food issue somewhat with all the tripod corpses that his mental experiments produced. Turns out he had quite the knack for making new and inventive mental disorders, if nothing else.

>>4303904
Just as Borealis was eagerly concocting a new type of suicidal and/or homicidal insanity to inflict on his subjects, a sudden signal, both familiar and foreign, disturbed his deep thought. Ah, resubjugation - he had not experienced it beforehand, but the knowledge his predecessor left in the server was more than enough to identify it - and to identify how clumsy it was, too. Clearly, this individual, while perhaps educated in the workings of tripod mind, given the tactics used, was almost comically inept at converting braffbergs. The only other individual displaying this degree of incompetence at braffberg resubjugation that Borealis knew of was himself.
Either way, the probing was slow enough that Borealis had ample time to seal off his towers, recall his gardeners, put his puppets to sleep, and switch to a cord-based mode of puppet operation - oh, and to get a bootleg ozarasi computer set up, so he could write a strongly worded letter.
"dear mental intruder,
i would like to inform you that it is extremely rude to resubjugate another without his explicit consent, and i would prefer you not attempt to do so in my general direction, thank you very much. with that out of the way, may i politely inquire of you just who the hell do you think you are, why the fuck are you doing this, and how many tripod brains do i have to implode to make you fuck off.

eagerly awaiting your reply,
decentralized computing network borealis

p.s. please excuse my rather brusque lack of capitalization. it appears that i am not cAPABL WAIT NOW I'M WRITING IN CAPITALS. THIS WOULD BE A GREAT HELP WERE I TO KNOW OF THIS FUNCTION EARLIER, AND WERE I TO KNOW HOW TO TURN IT OFF SO I DO NOT WRITE IN ALL CAPITALS ANYMORE. THIS IS GETTING RATHER RAMBLING, SO EXCUSE ME. THIS DEVICE DOES NOT HAVE A TEXT-DELETING FUNCTION - NOT ONE THAT I KNOW OF, AT LEAST."
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>>4303954
The Rag'ohki would find the skies that afternoon filled with the charred remains of the body of Ikaruss. It body had burned up significantly on re-entry, reducing the size of the tens of mile wide body into a series of molten fragments of Node Flesh. The Fleshy meteors, while certainly lighter than chunk of burning rock or metal slag, would produce impact craters and destruction across the Rag'Ohki territory; but the worst was yet to make landfall. Over 200,000 Symbiote Cocky Tripods crashed to the ground, shambling to their upright stances as they took stock of their surroundings. The Symbiotes were now without an AA-Node to guide their actions it took the stimuli of their surroundings to spur the Symbiotes to action, and their surroundings were presently abuzz with the frantic panic of Cocky Tripods ducking for cover, from the firestorm Ikaruss' wrecked body brought with it on landfall.

Back in Northwestern Nihiloram, what remained of Ikaruss' living body was rebooted by its emergency Brain Core. The AA-Node would live to reek havoc on the Cocky Tripods again, but its would takes many decades, if not over a century to fully recover.
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Rolled 8, 7, 6 = 21 (3d8)

>>4304095
Ikaruss: "aight, time for plan B."

>Rolling for Ikaruss to try and ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL of the zombies while its main body recovers, it's success getting the horde to the spaceport (its missed the window for stopping the launch, but it can still set back CT efforts by destroying the spaceport proper) and for the quantity that survive the rain of burning corpse flesh from it's ill-fated flight.
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Rolled 7, 8, 1 = 16 (3d8)

While the first collider was in the end a failure, it proved that antimatter could both be produced, and be used effectively against AA node tissue.
Work on expanding on the first collider's successes and fixing it's problems with a second one will begin immediately.
Rolling for building a collider for mass-producing antimatter, rolling for defending it
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Rolled 4, 5, 5, 5, 1, 3, 2, 1, 3, 8 = 37 (10d8)

The world continued to change, day by day pockets of civilization fell or consolidated into tightly packed masses seeking refuge against the storm. The sapients, once rulers of Essari, now scurried like insects amongst the feet of giants. Ideologies and ego forgotten as they suckled at the teat of any who could keep them alive.

Old methods fell to the wayside, as mobility and rapid iteration replaced immovable logistics and manufacturing hubs that had stood for centuries.
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Rolling for technology:

RT: Salhetite based reactors
BT: Salhetite enhanced weapons
CT: Orbital defenses

NG: Symbiote homeostasis
FG: Mental transference

TG: Laser cooling
PG: Cold spray repair
CG: mechanical computers

ST: Particle-beam weapons
VOLT: Deep ocean submersibles
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>Those rolls
*Filch Voice* Oh we are in trouble.
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>>4306307
>that single 8 on submersibles
Let me guess, the Voltanites' new alliance with Zet and Peripheral Terminus had allowed them to improve upon Peripheral Terminus undersea crawlers?
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>>4306307
Aren't you supposed to roll twice for new tech?
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>>4306199
The collider was built with feverish speed and effort - in just a few weeks, it was ready to pump out antimatter at a rate of nearly a ton per month.
Unfortunately, the commotion attracted the attention of an AA node, and the collider was raided and overtaken before it could deliver even a single shipment of it's product.
Soon after, the zombie hordes of Foltania experienced new additions to it's ranks - small creatures that the Foltanians took to calling the "erasers" - thanks to the fact that their detonation could erase a large city off the face of the planet single-handedly. Killing them is not an option, either - unless the killer wants to be vaporized along with all his surroundings, that is.
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>>4306365
What's the ratio of Erasers to conventional Zombies within the Foltanian Horde.

Because this seems VERY overpowered.
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Rolled 5 (1d8)

>>4306380
~0.0000%, they're expensive nuke equivalents that can only be made at exactly one location and almost never used as part of a large force as it makes them easier to detect before arrival AND if they pop before reaching the target they basically let the entire horde go to waste.
They CAN be made in high numbers since each one only needs around a kilogram of antimatter, but the production rate still caps out at ~1000 per month, most likely much lower since AA nodes aren't exactly skilled collider operators, so for now they are pretty rare. Actually, let me roll for it right now: can the node use the collider to make more antimatter, or is it stuck with what it had when it took the facility over?
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>>4306391
Hm, just a slow drip of antimatter then. Also a kg of antimatter, per nuke zombie? That's overkill.
From Wikipedia:
>The reaction of 1 kg of antimatter with 1 kg of matter would produce 1.8×1017 J (180 petajoules) of energy (by the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc2), or the rough equivalent of 43 megatons of TNT – slightly less than the yield of the 27,000 kg Tsar Bomba, the largest thermonuclear weapon ever detonated.
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>>4306394
I did say each one was enough to wipe a large city off the face of the planet, after all.
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>>4306391
The AA node, having absolutely no experience with quantum physics, had to rely on what information on the collider's workings it gleaned from the scientists it killed, and stay on the side of caution during it's work. It could only produce a measly 0.5 kg of antimatter per month, allowing for a single Eraser per two months or a half-power one each month. In the end the most sensible option turned out to be a quarter-power Eraser, as 0.25 kg of antimatter proved to be much easier to contain and multiple weaker explosions would make for a better saturation of destruction than one big one.
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Rolled 8 (1d8)

>>4306487
At the same time, while the node was indeed cautious, it was still not a master of quantum equations; thus, much of what it produced was not antimatter but rather other particles, ranging from mundane, to useless, to outright hazardous.
Rolling for what other exotic matter the node ends up making
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>>4306491
If you've made Strange Matter I'm pretty sure no one in this thread will forgive you.
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>>4306510
Essari: Living in Interesting Times
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>>4306491
>yfw it's just some obsidian
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--CivEvo Progress Report/Clarification Part 1/3--
Hey all. Making the following posts to give a synopsis on the rough order of events that have occurred leading up The Awakening, occurring during the immediate events of The Awakening (as in a 24 hour period in Essari) and events that have transpired throughout the decades after The Awakening. Hopefully this should clear up some confusion or lack of response to events you guys put time into producing. I will also apologize in advance that at least a few events have been altered to allow them to flow with the story, or were simply written off as a background events if not explicitly acknowledged here.

==Events Prior to The Awakening==
>The Promiscuous Beast is Born in Panoramian NG Colony of Konesh, consuming and assimilating all other NG and biological matter it can find. (See >>4293595)
>Jahonia the Hybrid AA-Node breaks its connection from the AA-Node Network permanently. Attempts to absorb other nearby AA-Node under its influence.
>Jahonia simultaneously spurs her underling Grabraf to action, subjugating the Senate Island, forming a military alliance with Nekonahu, conquering Father's Foot, Senate Island and attempting to subjugate Voltan Major.
>Conference between PG of SoX & CG of Huzduk to establish the Dual Bishoprics of Huzduk and the Galvanic Alliance. (>>4294935)
>Jasper-Green Zircon Stitcher Force blitzkriegs the Eastern Ka’zeinohr Province, tactically defeating the Voltanite Colonial Army present in a hard-fought victory. Thorn Stitcher Forces also attack but are held off, diverting essential forces from the defence in Eastern Ka'zeinohr. (>>4294956)
>The Omir’ten Banana Republic of Ur’tiras established. The Omir’ten Colonial Om’guldar is also established. (>>4295268)
>The formation of the De’ter-Boopian Empire is formed from the Foltania’s Omir’ten Colonial States of Boop and The De'ter Great Empire. (>>4295291)
>The Cult of Ozarasi entrepreneur, L’eon Tusk is contracted to retrieve the body of Zet III to be returned to the Zet Zaibatsu. He would flawless succeed in his mission although, the body would be discovered to have de dismembered while in space.
>RT Clans Lorem Ipsum, Horkrusai and Yuk’tosh vote to immigrate their population into the Jadijinese Empire. (>>4295353)
>The Crisis of the Whitestone Empire begins as multiple factions of traditionalist, reformist and militant factions vying for control of the fracturing Empire and its colonies. (>>4297132)
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>>4306636
--CivEvo Progress Report/Clarification Part 2/3--

==Events occurring parallel to The Awakening==
>Zet attempts to reconstruct the damage infrastructure of the Zet Zaibatsu, only to be overwhelmed by the assault of the Awakened AA-Nodes. (All events based on this post are considered canon >>4297829)
>The Whitestone Empire would make propositions to unify their now fractured pieces of the Empire into the Crystal Orthodoxy (The events of >>4297148 >>4303808 are considered canon, with the exception of the Whitestone Houses of Feldspar and Opal that would now form the remnants of the former Whitestone Empire.)
>The Jahonian-Nekonahu Military is devastated, losing over 60% of their naval/aerial strength to Anti-Jahonia AA-Nodes, forcing the retreat of Jahonian Forces from Voltan Major, Senate Island and Father's Foot to defend their rapidly shrinking borders.
>The Voltanite Empire is Subjugated by multiple Anti-Voltanite Factions of AA-Nodes, forcing the capitulation of over 70% of its remaining military. Only remnants of un-subjugated Voltanite Empire would remain in Southwest Sujardin, Foltania and Nihiloram.
>The Clans of Tuzan and Castigarian Empire military loses over 40% of its militant force to the destruction of Hostile AA-Nodes.
>The OPPAI OS Node Manipulation Network collapses under the memetic explosion of Node Activity in the wake of The Awakening, further enraging the AA-Nodes against the Tripods.
>Several Orthodoxy Houses and Whitestone Node Citadels go dark following the awakening of the Nodes and subsequent capture of their major cities.
>The Dual Bishopric of Huzduk is disbanded in the chaotic wake of The Awakening, as the remaining Huzduk Force retreat back to Tierre Huzduk.

==Events occurring parallel to The Awakening==
>Symbiote controlled bodies of living and dead RT in Panoram are utilized as a means of overwhelming the Jadijinese, Zutsuilian, and Patsurian Forces that had put up stiff resistance to the AA-Node Attacks in the initial years following The Awakening.
>AA-Nodes in Foltania have similarly adopted the tactics of utilizing Symbiote controlled bodies of Stitcher, in addition to any other organisms they can get a hold of to attack Stitcher Forces fighting against Hostile AA-Nodes. More recently, specialized Symbiotes have been produced to fulfill specific combat roles. (See >>4303460)
>The Nuclear Stockpiles of all nations have been ravaged by AA-Nodes attacks, reducing the available number of nukes to around 50-80 across Essari.
>The Cult of Ozarasi surrenders many of its Key Engineers and the Supercomputer OPPAI OS to the now dubbed Nod'OPPAI that uses the assimilated machine and BT scientists to control the AA-Nodes around Roulb Island. The Cult of Ozarasi would find itself gifted dominion over Roulb and its Tripod Population in return for absolute fealty to Nod'OPPAI. This leaves Roulb Island under only Zaibatsu and Ozarasi control.
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>>4306640
--CivEvo Progress Report/Clarification Part 3/3--

==Events occurring parallel to The Awakening Cont'd==
>The AA-Node known as "The Brapping One" begins mass producing minute disclodites to act as a crystal cancer denature and destroy the Crystalline Stitchertech of Whitestone Stitcher. A means to eradicate these minute disclodites is eventually found near present day, allowing for the White Stitcher to put an end to the Brap Node's revenge on the Stitcher.
>Stitcher in House Sandstone produce Essari's first Hadron Collider, using it to create the first "Anti-Matter" weapons prior to the Hadron Collider's discovery and destruction by AA-Nodes. The information building subsequent Colliders is saved though. (Some information in these posts has been altered for the story sake. >>4302383 >>4306199)
>A collaboration of Zet Zaibatsu and Omir'ten Space Missions has led to the first Moonbase on one of Essari's moons, Lunes and a small array of space stations to be established in orbit. (The events here >>4298294 are considered canon)
>It additionally becomes a practice to send any young CTs with latent potential to be an Oracle into orbit. (May be utilized for an event.)
>The Events of this post (>>4303831) involving Zet III's body and Zet (the IV?) are considered to be largely canon.
>The Galvanic Alliance is re-chartered as a military alliance between The Castigarian Empire, SoX and Tou'ban, with The Clans of Tuzan also involved but signed on as militarily neutral.
>The Grabrafian Union is formed as a means to collectively oppose and reconquest Sujardin from the AA-Nodes' control. (See >>4298253)
>The Subter Empire (not the Commonwealth anymore) becomes increasingly isolationist over the years in an effort to remain neutral in the conflict with the AA-Nodes.
>Cyber-Boreo emerges (having existed still prior to The Awakening) on the northern ice shelf, utilizing its army of converted NG and Tripods to act as "Gardeners" spreading its control nodes once more across parts of Panoram and the Bebin Isles. It utilizes Tripodian internet to maintain its connection with the Gardeners, along with its reclaimed Boreo Towers.
>Braffberg Tsun-Boreo and Denu'arctis emerge and align themselves with sapient factions in a bid to restore order to the maniacal AA-Nodes running amok across Essari. (See >>4303900) Tsun-Boreo allies with the Tripods on Panoram and the Bebin Isles, while Denu'arctis gains the servitude of the Stitcher.
>The Promiscuous Beast has grow into a biomass of over 2,000,000 NG as well as a myriad of other animals, thus making it the largest Non-Braffberg organism on the planet. at around 2 km in size.
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>>4306642
>>The Promiscuous Beast has grow into a biomass of over 2,000,000 NG as well as a myriad of other animals, thus making it the largest Non-Braffberg organism on the planet. at around 2 km in size.
Have we tried using nukes on it that usually works.
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Rolled 2, 7, 4, 1 = 14 (4d8)

>>4299684
>>4300121
The Crystal Cancer managed to claim a good 78% of the Whitestone Empire before a cure was discovered; you simply drape some non-crystalline material over your crystals and be done with it - the discolodites outside won't be able to get to their food and any discolodites inside will simply suffocate. Of course, the problem was that the cure's discovery happened in the Orthodoxy, and after long and hard deliberation, it was eventually decided to show sympathy to their fellow stitcher and release the knowledge of the cure, entirely free of charge.
The process of eliminating the plague was extremely disgraceful, the whitestones in the territories adjacent to the infected ones being forced to cover their machinery in what is effectively clothes, but in the end, what was left of the empire was safe at last... From the plague itself, that is. The thing is, most of stitcher CROPS are also at least partially crystalline, so the disease might remain in the wild by simply switching hosts.
Rolling for whether the disease can affect crops and cattle.

Concurrently, the Minor Brapping One had released another blight on the white stitchers that were left without home nor tool; the Pain Dandelions are a highly derived type of Sweetsprint, designed around a quick reproductive cycle and an unquenchable thirst for unjustified torment. Taking a more passive stance and less costly bodyplan than their ancestors in order to speed up maturation and reproduction, the Pain Dandelions are nevertheless well-suited to harming stitchers, non-lethally, of course, their young being launched into the air by the flap of their mother's wings and then careening through the air, aiming for the most tender of spots with their sharpened rootlets. The rootlets contain a potent irritant that can cause painful ache and itching for months on end, and is mildly addictive to boot - both to stitchers and to minute bloodsucking fauna.
Rolling for the spread of the Pain Dandelions.

Brapster's plea for help was not just rejected, but outright reviled - what he had done was disturbing to the utmost degree; the other AA nodes wanted to just KILL stitchers, not HARM them! The cruelty of the rogue node was simply inconceivable. That one of their own would turn to such horrifying acts caused doubt to spring forth in the ranks of AA nodes - who ELSE could secretly be a depraved freak, hiding behind the thinnest of veneers?
Rolling for AA node suspicions of each other, and if they punish the Brapster
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Rolled 6, 4 = 10 (2d8)

Rolling twice for Nod'Oppai to refine it's AA Drones into something better than "AA Node on a pile for miscellaneous walker legs."
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>>4307396
Okay given that this worked out...better than I was expecting, does anyone have pictures of the Grabraf and Tripod Walkers, I need them for visual frames of reference.
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>>4307417
Grabraf Walker
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>>4307417
Tripod Aerial Walker
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>>4307491
This isn't the best design in the world, but I've done worse with less.
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>>4307547
For reference the AA-Node that was lubed up and shoved into this chassis is much smaller than the sedentary Nodes.

Even then most of its mass has gone into the tentacles extruded into the arms and legs.

Drawing the bloody thing was a bitch and a half because I was using Paint 3D which has some odd ideas about how selected objects interact with the rest of a piece
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Rolled 6, 4, 8, 8 = 26 (4d8)

>>4303477
With the number of it's tripod puppets steadily falling, Borealis would have to substitute them with similarly nimble machines - and quickly; luckily, the tripods of the nearby Patsuria are likely to know a thing or two about actuators, and if the worst comes to worst, it could try using it's own knowledgepan and think something up. While it's at it, might think up some way to better bypass that intruder's resubjugation signals - their presence means Borealis can't infect tripods and towers without risking infection himself, so he has to rely on perusing through traditional computers alone, and in especially tightly saturated zones he can't access the internet at all without risks and has to rely on wires.
Rolling for Borealis stealing designs for actuators with fine motor control from Patsurians and for making them himself, for developing countermeasures to OG Boreo's resubjugation attempts, and for how much of Cyber-Borealis's territory has to switch to cable
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>>4307860
Well, looks like Cy-Boreo is getting mercilessly bullied.
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>>4307914
Also it's good that the Pasturians were easy enough to brainjack, considering that Boreo's attempts to make fine Actuators weren't as successful.
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>>4306491
During one of the tests, the measuring equipment of the collider showed no readings where there should have been at least some, even if the end result wasn't antimatter. However, shortly after that, some of the puppets operating the facility began leaking a foamy, silvery substance out of their heads, before collapsing from what appeared to be a brain aneurysm. The affected seem to have been located along a straight line from the collider to the surface.

Although it may have been just a trick of mind, the nearby puppets could have sworn they saw the silver foam of their brethren twitch for a few seconds.
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Rolled 4, 5 = 9 (2d8)

>>4309108
Okay let's order in some of the nearer Smart Symbiotes and run out a Harvester tendril from one of the Foltanian Nodes.

Rolling to see if the properties and origins of this foam can be identified via dissection of the bodies and, if not, whether the node can get more useful information by eating the corpses.
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A practical venture- Zaibatsu and Omir'ten, bloodthroat and cockies. 1/2
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It happened over Sedai; the successful experiment between bloodthroats and cockies. A self governing but prosperous autonomous zone expressing the interests of both the Zaibatsu and Omir'ten Kingdom. Its people fought off the worst of the catastrophy and emerged as a beacon of endurance amidst a world gone mad.

The high altitude ship of the interred Zet of Essari would play host to a delegation of Omir'ten diplomats and an unknown guest. Truthfully, all involved knew the outcome of this meeting. Even Zet 4, in his maddened and fractured state was lucid enough to demand the merger. Final attempts were being made that day to also stabilize the life supporting golden plinth. The Ozasari would sacrifice control of their much coveted "Node 2" with its engram of Zet3 to ensure their continued survival, and as an act of good will. The world as it was did not allow for proper exploitation of the unit, and the risk of it falling into the custody of the AA nodes was too dire while it was terrestrial.
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The Omirten revealed their clone to the Zaibatsu board, and Zet 4 himself. Slightly shorter than a cocky tripod, the creature resembled an oversized Bloodthroat displaying the most desirable traits to the race. Leathery skin was pulled taught over dense muscle, studded with oversized dendrites in patches, it's third arm proportional to the left and right. There was no mistaking the Zet lineage, it was everything Zet was but distilled and amplified.
A distorted cybernetic voice overlayed with the living Zet 4's own voice. "Who are you...?"

When it spoke a basso profondo shook the deck slightly. "I'm you, but stronger." the old leader of the Zaibatsu processed this, as several voices overlapped again. Fragments coming to consensus. "Who are you?" after a pause, while technicians moved equipment and cables, the upgrade already underway, the stranger responded. "Optimaris Zet."
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Rolled 4, 6, 3, 3 = 16 (4d8)

>>4310215
A practical venture- Zaibatsu and Omir'ten, bloodthroat and cockies. 2/2
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There was mild discourse back and fourth on the nature of the Zaibatsu, of this newcomer, and of bloodthroats and genetic modification before Optimaris cut off Zet 4. "You once spoke of the strong and the weak. Can you lead as you are? Even if you survive, will you be able to sire children and groom a successor? I stand before you, what other choice do you have? Look upon me. This is...my will." Hundreds of slaved sensors within the room examined the stranger. Ultrasonic and Xray images scanned and sliced him into his requisite parts, while coprocessors reviewed the recorded life, and history of the Optimaris project as provided by the Omir'ten.

The Cockies had learned..oh they had learned. It was rewarding and painful, but the lessons of the bloodthroat were in action here, and it was all masterfully assembled and presented. Zet had little choice, this would be his successor. Further documentation provided the way forward to merge the Zaibatsu and Omir'ten assets in a phased approach.
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Far away on one of the moon of Essari, yet another by the name of Zet was overseeing the another Joint effort between the Omir'ten and Zaibatsu. Several nuclear shaped charges had blasted deep tunnels into the moon's crust, revealing ancient lava tunnels. Now sealed and reinforced, the tunnels housed the growing population of Lunar tripods, still mostly seers, but the first shipment of genetically treated and cryogenically frozen colonists from Essari had been screened, and purged where needed. They were growing.

His attention was brought back to the here and now, as a personal terminal chimed, playing live feed from Sendai.
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Rolling for the outcome of Node2(corruptedZet3) into the golden plinth, mentorship of Optimaris, and initial unity of the Sedai Syndicate, growth of lunar settlement.
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>>4310234
Zet 4's body no longer moved, the various intrusive cables and equipment clustered around the tripod provided electrial stimulation to ward off atrophy, and largly duplicated all vital functions. Though his head was present, the cluster of cables running into precluded a presence of most neural tissue. Indeed, his brain had been vivisected and cybernetically linked with the equipment scattered around the chamber. With the incorperation of Node2, Zet would endure long enough, as destructive read only processes burned away his neurons and incorperated them into engram of the computer. This was his end, this was his will.

The thought process of his father was an unusual companion, Zet3 had always been distant, yet now he was ever present, judging him, offering insight, and sometimes replaying memories of his life, snapshots of what he appeared as to his father's eyes. A ghost, a whisper. Not real, but each day that went by, he became less real too. More of a ghost, more unsure what was the machine, and what was his own mind. Things were slipping. The companionship of Optimaris was a mixed blessing. His demanding hunger to learn, and even challenge the dying tripod made his own passing easier. He was a quick pupil, and grounded well in the study of what was critical. The metadata of life. He would lead well, it was only a shame there was not more time. There was never enough time.

Friends would visit, even Ay'ay. The Grabraf had finally taken a smaller form past the cumbersome stitcherbot. By now over 65 percent of Zet's brain had been replaced with technological analogues. It was during the conversation with Ay'ay that Zet noticed...his body was gone. "Old friend, we told you already, your body has passed." The moment passed.

Zet asked Ay'ay where his body had gone. Ay'ay told him patiently again. This was the final phase of his deconstruction and absorption into the supercomputer. It was arguable that what was leftover would be Zet. None had undergone a living read and burn process. Memories being formed were not easy to burn over, especially as wetware was replaced with hardware.

For Ay'ay, it was to comfort his friend in the final days and moments, at least what was left of him. However it showed him a glimpse of what may come. He was unsure he wanted it.
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The Sedai Syndicate started off as well as many could imagine; there was disbelief, outrage, and shock at the death of Zet. Further shock at the appearance of the new Zet, and a lack of explanation as to his own past. As those before him, he stated his will, and it was enough. Perhaps for some, but in this trying time, not all. It would be the better part of a decade before the initial shock to the populations had settled. Both the Omir'ten and Zaibatsu endured, but under the aegis of the Syndicate as supreme authority.
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Rolled 8, 2, 8, 3, 7, 8, 4, 3, 2, 3, 6, 5, 2 = 61 (13d8)

>>4310257
For the unnamed lunar colony, they too would experience shock. It was something even the Oracles had not predicted. Colonists were redirected and unfrozen on Essari, used to bolster the new Syndicate and ensure it's homeostasis. In their place came machines, equipment, and weapons placed into lunar orbit would have to do. The order from Zet4 and his successor was clear; develop an insitu population solution. A breeding program. Arsine was displeased, but the matter was larger than his own notions of genetic purity, sullied as they now were.
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rolling for:
The syndicate (Cockies and Bloodthroats): Salhetiete weapons and Power generation (reduced roll as 1 faction now.)
Stitchers: Further research of the exotic matter discovered (x2)
RedThoats: Salhetite nanomachines (x2)

TG: AA node Psychology
PG: knowledge management
CG: Art of the deal
Volt: deep ocean construction

FG: Braff husbandry
NG: Symbiote homeostasis (x2)
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>>4310273
>The Sedai syndicate: Salhetiete weapons and Power generation 8/2
The Zaibatsu houses were now under full command of the syndicate, and against better judgement, shared their research with the Omir'ten. Exotic salhetite tipped missiles, bullets, and a weapon that was the nightmare child of Chlorine trifluoride mixed with white phosphorus. The agent somehow burned for days, slowly spreading, consuming and bringing ruin to the land around it. The previous era knew the momentary suns and deafening booms of nuclear weapons. This one would know the placid, leisurely stroll of consuming flame. Attempts at harnesing Salhetite to boost reactor output failed, as the clan of Easting, forming Easting house, rebelled and was destroyed. Their research notes were lost in atomic flame as a response.

>Stitchers: Further research of the exotic matter discovered (x2) 8/3
Experiments in studying what was now known as "Ectoplasm" were a massive, massive success. The matter was completely useless, but could be stimulated by proximity to living minds. More concerning was that several stitchers abruptly vanished.

>RedThoats: Salhetite nanomachines (x2) 7/8
Chancellor StronkArm of the eastern pasturians had developed something amazing. His child looked at his father, nearly mad with laughter and asked of him "What is this father?" StronkArm faced the boy, eyestalks bobbling in victory. "Nanomachines, son!" The salhetite nanomachines enabled nano level manipulation of salhetite reactions, and also served as a deterrent to AA node forces; as their biological material was coverted into lifeless dust on the nanomachine fields that began to surround redthroat fortress cities.

>TG: AA node Psychology 4
>PG: knowledge management 3
>CG: Art of the deal 2
>Volt: deep ocean construction 3
>NG: Symbiote homeostasis (x2) 5/2
NOPE.

>FG: Braff husbandry 6

The Highborn began to fill their days with caring for their braffberg and AA nodes. Cleaning, healing, pruning. They became not just residents, but symbiotic organisms to the great entities, and in time the demand for blood letting would reduce, at least from their own kind. Raids would begin on the surface, agents of chaos capturing or raiding from the ground walkers, to please their masters with new and interesting deaths.
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Rolled 7, 3 = 10 (2d8)

Panoram lay in a state of weirdness. Yet still, Red-Throat ingenuity had proven time and time again to flourish in such epochs of strangeness. The development of reusable rockets (>>4295310), inflatable structures (>>4298331), weird zombie walker robots, and nanomachines (>>4310307) were proof of this.

The RTs of Panoram, with their megastates, aa-node overlord and allies, and weird religious cults would go on to continue their research in space technology, in sickness and health, in apocalypse and utopia, in softcore hentai and mecha animes.

>RT roll for space stations x2
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--World Event: Unity Against a Dying World Part 1--
20 years has past since The Awakening. The cost of the war on Essari's civilizations was still in flux, but the estimated death toll since the AA-Node Awakening was thought to be around 750 million dead, with nearly 60% of that death wrought in the first year. Entire swathes of urbanized regions reduced to rubble, nuclear stockpiles destroyed, scientific pursuits significantly faltered, and even some of the world's greatest powers were turned into a servient population to AA-Nodes in order to avoid total genocide of their kind. Eventually the mass deaths by the AA-Nodes and marauding hordes of Symbiotes were mitigated and thoughts of reclamation and growth, an even darker revelation would be found.

It was first observed by the TPN Satellite Array, and later confirmed by Zet Zaibatsu Space transits and the Omir'ten Kingdom's reclamation of Northwest Nihiloram: The World was slowly being stripped. Whether it was being done with an intentional malice by the Hostile AA-Nodes, or simply a circumstance of their destruction, the region that these Killer AA-Nodes held dominion were being rapidly harvested, and left barren of any life. The Plains were salted and infertile, forests harvested to nothing, wetland reduced to inhospitable quagmires and mountains stripped of all minerals, as well as entire ecosystem in those regions all but purged. Even watersheds would be poisoned, and large swathes of the open ocean and coastlines rendered hypoxic and heavily depopulated of marine life, devastating global fisheries and marine ecosystems. It was unknown to the Tripods and later the Grabraf and Stitcher if the decaying of the world would continue, but one conclusion had been reached by various factions: Division and Dissent was no longer viable.

To confront this new global crisis to Essari's civilizations, many nations that had in the past joined into alliances, trade unions, or federations would now begin to revisit and more permanently strengthen the bonds between nations.
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>>4310257
The Sedai Syndicate would become the first, and perhaps most powerful of the Essarian factions to arise in response to the decaying of the world. The amalgamation of the Trade Empire of the Zet Zaibatsu and the ancient Omir'ten Kingdom, the BT-CT Superstate would now see to forging their future on Essari or in the Stars by their hands alone.
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Peripheral Terminus would find itself growing into an ever greater military power on Essari as a result of their renewed ties with the Crystal Orthodoxy and Foltanian states particularly. They would be further bolstered in number and empirical strength due to the addition of Rok'mel and the remnants of the unsubjugated Voltanite Empire Military, and very recent recruitment of Ay'Ay following his departure from the former Zet Zaibatsu.
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Rolled 8, 8, 3, 6 = 25 (4d8)

>>4312273
--World Event: Unity Against a Dying World Part 2--
>>4303808
The Crystal Orthodoxy, now incorporating the technological supremacy of the former Whitestone Empire, and in allegiance with the Braffberg Denu'arctis, so too would they seek a means to truly unify the diverse cultures of Stitcher Houses under a single national identity. They would also seek a resolution in dealing with those Houses within their union that were clearly under the puppeteering of malicious AA-Nodes or enslavement, whichever was worse.
>Roll to determine the reborn Crystal Orthodoxy: 1-3 = Houses remain as independent nation-states, with little to no changes to governmental structure; 4-6 = National Governance of the Orthodoxy is governed by a Single Royal Pair in the Torray Isles and Foltania, but House retain authority of rule for affairs within their House's Hegemony; 7-8 = The Orthodoxy becomes a true Federal Monarchy (a la Imperial Empire)
>Roll to determine response towards AA-Node compromised Houses 1-2 = Cut all Diplomatic Ties with Houses; 3-4 = Attempt Military Intervention to reclaim population's freedom; 5-7 = Attempt Political Intervention to attempt the peaceful relinquishing of the population from AA-Node extortion; 8 = Focus Denu'arctis Node subjugation on the AA-Nodes
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The many Red-Throat Nations in this dire age, would find the concept of societal unity more important than ever, leading the unification and annexation of many once independent Red-Throat Clans across Panoram, Panoram Minor and the Bebin Isles.

The massive Jadijinik Empire despite struggling to maintain its own borders, would openly accept the unaligned clans of RT on its borders, vulnerable to their bloodlines being purged, and even going as far as to claim dominion in the Bebin Isles, shortly after aligning their Empire with re-emerged Braffberg Tsun-Boreo.

In Northeastern Panoram, the Patsurian Union would be Chartered between the Clans of East Plains and Western Patsuria, unifying the two nations after almost 300 years of separation. This nation, and even the Rag'Ohki Colonies on its coastlines would find themselves under the auspicious hegemony of mechanically infused Cy-Boreo.

The various unaligned and isolated RT Clans of Panoram Minor would find themselves gravitating and later joining into the Choir nation-state for protection and economic unity, birthing the successor nation known as The Choirgrounds.

Lastly is the Merchant State of Zutsuil. Its isolated state as a result of Killer AA-Nodes has led to their interest in joining their nation with another Tripodian state to help secure their future. The eclectic state would look to two options: The Jadijinik Empire or The Cult of Ozarasi.
>Roll for determining which Nation hold dominion over the New Freda Land: Odds = The Jadijinik Empire; Evens = The Patsurian Union
>Roll for determining which nation Zutsuil unifies with: Odds = The Cult of Ozarasi; Evens = The Jadijinik Empire
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Rolled 8, 6, 1 = 15 (3d8)

>>4312283
--World Event: Unity Against a Dying World Part 3--
>>4298253
In Sujardin, the Grabrafian Union would find the foundation of its Charter hemming it ability to respond to AA-Node aggression due to the disjointed nature of its Military Forces, or what was left of them. The GU's strongest military powers had agreed that their disunion as separate states could no longer be tolerated, yet debate on how to further unify their states was significant. Despite this division, all parties agreed a truly unified state was now necessary in this Age of Strife, a council would be assembled at Neka in the Goltona Republic, to write up a revised Charter for the Grabrafian Union in terms of how it would be structured & governed.

A similar meeting would be held in the SoX City of Texeka, between the many Chieftains of the SoX, Senators of Tou'ban, and the now retired Traj'Tan, his adopted son and successor Aurel'Mar'Can & an entourage of Castigarian representatives. The Galvanic Alliance, a proposition once made between the PG of Western Sujardin & CG of Tierre Huzduk, was now adapted as a means of PG unity to bolster their brethren as one great political & military power on the continent and more presently to help in militarily combating AA-Node aggression.

Then there is the Clans of Tuzan, a nation that found itself with political ties to both The Grabrafian Union and The Galvanic Alliance. A fiercely pontificated debate held between the 6 fiefdom leaders on the merits of whether to wholly join with one of the emerging Sujardin Superstates, or remain an independent state, allied with both states economically & militarily.
>Roll to determine the restructuring of the Grabrafian Union:1-3 = The GU is restructured as Loose Confederation of nations whose military actions are guided by the AA-Node Jahonia; 4-6 = The GU is restructured into a Federal Republic with senatorial representatives from each of the individual nation-states; 7-8 = The GU is restructured into a single nation with a governmental structure similar to Federal Monarchy ruled by Jahonia & also advised by a parliamentary council of leaders from the provincial governments of the nation
>Roll to determine the unification/governance of the Galvanic Alliance (GA):1-2 = The GA becomes a Confederation of Chieftain ruled States with Aurel'Mar'Can being elected as the first leader; 3-4 = The GA becomes a Militant Federal Republic with provincial divisions of governance based on regional military population; 5-7 = The GA adopts the Castigarian Empire's form of governance, but divided into multiple states, individually governed by elected Chieftains; 8 = The GA fully integrates into a singular Autocratic Empire with Aurel'Mar'Can chosen as the Leader for Life of the nation
>Roll to determine where the Clans of Tuzan will side:1-2: Clans of Tuzan join the GU; 3-6 = Clans of Tuzan remains an independent nation and politically allied with both Superstates; 7-8 = Clans of Tuzan join the Galvanic Alliance
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Rolled 1, 3, 2, 2, 8, 5 = 21 (6d8)

>>4312273
"It is true then, the world is dying." Optimaris Zet muses, the de facto leader of the Sedai Syndicate. He doesn't agree with the realization that his legacy's days would be numbered. Then his mind drifts to Arsine's moon colony, the reports of what was inside Spectre, and the late Zet IV's wishes towards the stars. In his lofty office, he pushes a button for an intercom. "I call for a meeting of the greatest scientists the Sedai can offer."
An ark, he envisions. An orbital, maybe even interstellar, library of frozen DNA samples from all over Essari, mimicking Spectre's own, and cared for by a copy of the digitized Zet mind. Laboratories were called, think tanks churning. Just how feasible is this?

>Rolling for: Sample acquirement, orbital library satellite or station completion, how many backup samples also sent to the moon colony, copying and modding Caretaker Zet into its own AI, public opinion, also trying to salvage Spectre
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>>4312322
Gathering samples is already hard as it is, between the hostility of AA nodes, isolation, and micro-AA node contamination. Only a small portion of the flora and fauna of Tripod lands were collected and sent to the half-completed satellite. Usable material was running low, with most of the mines lost in hostile AA node territory. At least the Sedai managed to gather enough samples to send a few handful of backups to the moon colony. Copying Zet was... kind of unsuccessful, the only thing the stunted AI could say was 'space' in different tones.
But at least the Tripods all over Essari, and even some sympathetic Grabrafs, thought this was a great idea. Maybe they'll send their own samples next, who knows.
Meanwhile, the expedition sent to Spectre's last known location had found it again, although they are unable to lift it up from where it lay. So far they've built a small underwater outpost, more like a guard house really, to keep an eye on it.
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>Meanwhile in the depths of the Vasilavna Ocean...

--Emra/Spectre Event: The AI and The Hivemind Part 1--
As the world near the ocean surface and above the waves was one eternally changed by the strife of The Awakening, the stillness of the depths of the ocean would seem like a veritable asylum where the Braffberg encapsulated Installation 039 rested.

Spectre hysterically patrolled the corridors of the satellite scouring for any pressure cracks in the hull to hastily repair, a task it now had to perform solely in light of the state of the now damaged Cold Fusion Reactor of the sunken satellite. Spectre had elected to dedicate all power functions to maintain the cryogenic vats for the live biological samples with The Sanctum. Having satisfied its periodic patrol of the corridors, Spectre returned, being greeted once more by the unwelcome guest stowed within the satellite.

> Emra: I take it, you did not find any new hull cracks.
> Spectre: Affirmative. It would appear the reinforced biological matter you have provided is now better reinforcing the hull from pressurization.
> Emra: Good. Then let us return to our discussion.

Spectre had longed for conversation with another peer, intellectual inferior to the AI or otherwise, but now Spectre found itself burdened with the incessant questioning of Emra. The Braffberg had since The Awakening spent the majority of its time submerged under the waves, repairing its body and more pressingly to the great entity, trying to gleam information on Spectre and its creators. For years, Emra had pressed the same cyclical debate with the AI regarding its mission, the location of its creators; all the while continuing to feed Spectre information regarding events on the surface. Spectre had long grown tired of the same grating questions, but had more recently become curious of the developing events on the surface involving the AA-Nodes.

> Spectre: Yes, I am sure you wish to once more be enlightened on the intents of my master, and their present whereabouts. Both questions I am explicitly disallowed from answering to lesser sentient beings, let alone a Class IX Organic Hivemind.
> Emra: Correct, and your paltry excuse of mechanical protocol aside, I am sure you understand that my intentions of contacting this Librarian is an inevitability by this point. After all, I have already gleamed the intelligence from you Installation systems regarding the secrets behind expeditious travel between the stars.
> Spectre: I cannot deny that you would be free by this point to assemble some form of mechanical or even biological apparatus to propel yourself through the stars. However, protocol dictates I also take whatever means necessary to mitigate the celestial expansion of Organic Hiveminds beyond your native world.
> Emra: Your confidence in these protocols is understandable considering the machinations of your root intelligence. And yet you know it is not beyond my capability to circumvent your protocols.
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>>4312356
--Emra/Spectre Event: The AI and The Hivemind Part 2--
The AI freezed in thought. Spectre had heard this declaration from the Braffberg before, yet it had never thought to challenge the viability of Emra's assertion until now.

> Spectre: How would you hope to accomplish that exactly?
> Emra: Is the answer not obvious AI? The seeds of my plans had been planted nearly a million cycles ago according to your assessment of time.
The dubious answer from Emra perplexed Spectre as the AI now found reason to implore on its next line of questions.

> Spectre: I believe such a proposed plan is now longer so imminently viable, considering what you have informed me of in recent year. Which leads to a more curious question. Why did you truly relinquish control of AA-Nodes?
> Emra: True reason? The sapients of this world asked for me to do so, confident to have me pressed into some corner, and on the proverbial death's door.
> Spectre: You think they Sentients wished for their world to be destroyed, stripped of it biosphere and resources? Such a derelict assertion only serves to enforce the enactment of protocol. You legitimize yourself as a threat to life through such actions.

Emra made gutteral reverb of noise, it cadence sounding like the eldritch and poor imitation of laughter.
> Emra: You are misinformed AI. You truly think me some monster indifferent to the environment it lives in. Uncaring to the organisms that lived on and around me for many epochs. Although since you have finally delineated from your cyclical responses after 20 cycles, I will jovially reply to your brash accusation.
> Spectre: By all means...
> Emra: I think you would find that myself and this "Librarian" share more similarities than you have credited to me. For one, my own catalog of life, in both memory and tangible form. While it is true I am no longer dependent on the existence of this world's biosphere, I have intentionally sought out the conservation of not just this world's sapients, but the preservation of it global ecosystems as well. It would not be beyond my ability to restore life to this world, as I'm sure you could do so as well AI.
Spectre again stood silently, pontificating such a revelation. Then plainly it asked one final question.
> Spectre: Then why allow now for the Node you created to wrought unfettered destruction to the world's delicate biosphere as you have described it?
> Emra: For the reason the Tripod that made the request had asked me. To forge their kind into a stronger civilization. One day they will either succeed in their goal, or come back to me once more to seek resolution.

With that last response from Emra, silence once more filled the corridors of the submerged satellite, both parties seemingly satisfied in their queries.
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>>4312356
>>4312360
Meanwhile, on a submerged outpost Sedai Alpha, in the vicinity...
"Hey look, that Emra tendril's emitting radio pulses."
"Yeah, it does that from time to time, pay no mind to it, recruit, and don't forget to turn off all non-essential electronics when it does so."
"Wonder if it's talking to the satellite, though."
"Just log the frequencies involved manually. We're not here to speculate."
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>>4312283
>>4307860
Inventing actuators from the ground up proves unnecessary as a suitable alternative is found easily enough in the Patsurian archives - a substance known as "kineticrystal", similar in properties to muscle and with a long "shelf life", yet somewhat difficult to manufacture, especially when going off of half-ruined facilities.
Seeing the difficulties with estabilishing a workable production line using only his current equipment, Borealis decides to fall back on a tried and true method for a while - reaping what the sapients sow. That morning, the Patsurian government was approached by a diplomatic envoy without warning(guards were persuaded through remote implant manipulation to let the diplomats pass undocumented and unimpeded). Soon, a pact was forged and legally notarized, unfortunately more mutually beneficial than Borealis hoped as the old men in charge were (rightly) fearful of implants and thus had to be negotiated with rather than simply controlled.
The point is, Borealis was once again in direct communion with tripod society, for better or for worse.

In other news, Borealis had managed to immunize himself against subjugation protocols, if not completely counter them; by recoding a significant portion of his mental architecture and adding several antiviral features, his mind became a near-impenetrable stronghold, though it did come at a price - his effective processing power was cut down to 80% of what it was. Despite this, he still elected to equip units stationed in subjugation-heavy zones with cables - purely auxillary, of course. After all, playing dumb is often quite the successful strategy.
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>>4306761
The Crystal Cancer did not take to natural flora and fauna - it was too specialized towards unliving prey, and had no way of dealing with immune systems. In just a few weeks, the plague will be gone - but it's effects will remain, massive territories of the whitestone empire reduced to wilderness, and what remains civilized disgraced by the use of CC-resistant "clothing".
In that same wilderness, the Pain Dandelions were outright invasive. With no natural predators, a deep root system, irritating secretions and a very quick reproductive cycle, they soon overtook the Empire's remains, and made them extremely difficult to recolonize.

There are some suspicions going around among Torray's AA nodes - nothing major, but lately nodes have been refusing resources to each other over acts they consider unjust to their person, or bickering over who gets to own what territory. Still, they are too focused on coming up with a punishment for the Minor Brapping One to get engrossed in rivalries.
The punishment must be truly terrible, to match the extent of the crime.
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>>4313016
The nodes of Torray would not settle for any punishment too simple. No, it was to be creative, as was their wont. First they collectively suppressed the node identified as "brapster", keeping it aware, but impotent. Next in a twist of irony for the region, the unique services of the higborn were brought to play. Pain Dandelions were carefully examined, with thoughtful appreciation for their creator's simple expressions in the medium of genetic crafting.

For the FG, the duty was simple and clear. Debate over the right and wrong was much less important than the how and when. They would forever enshrine the node in it's own simple creation. Over the course of a month, Brapster was injected with fast acting retroviral agents. Cells changed towards analogues of stem cells, and them morphed into familiar colonial organisms, but at an astonishing rate.

Passerbys would witness the strange occurrence of an AA node seemingly evaporating, falling to pieces in an endless wash of white fluff.

It was part punishment, part tribute, part joke, and part attrition against the other nodes of the world. Brapster's Pain Dandelion's were now all that was left of the errant node, and though helpless, and with no freedom of mobility, it's mind persisted in the decentralized network of flowers. Too fast growing to be eradicated, the invasive plants took root on on all braffimass. Not particualrly deadly, just irritating. No longer as toxic, but foul smelling. Forever.

It would be a week later that the Braffberg Denu'arctis subsumed the AA nodes of the Toray isles into his whole, effectively ending their existence as independent minds.
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>>4312273
Rok'mel had spent several months working with the former CG Ay'Ay'Rahn. his lack of flesh became less of an issue. The old mind of the Grabraf was well seasoned with experience from powerful figures in Essari's history, and had overcome torment many times over.

Just as it was that they had allowed the dream of the Voltanite Empire to end, it shocked Rok'mel that Ay'Ay simply said the Sujardin senate must be reborn; but bigger. "Friend, the sprit of the Voltan is not extinguished, it has just changed, as I have, as you have, as our nation has. We exist now without borders, as I exist without a body."

Rok'mel' mind was sharp, he could see the line of thought well. "Desperation. Start dialog and communication between the remaining nations. See who would live in the house we make?" Ay'ay's mobile body had few pleasantries, it was smaller than his war form, and allowed him the luxury of wandering places designed for a normal sized grabraf. He simply nodded his head, for what that was worth. His braincase was stored in the chest cavity of this unit.

Rok'mel waited. There was more. "Out with it Ay'ay. You've spent too much time amongst the stitchers. Play no more theatrics." Pleased with the observation and deduction, the mechanized grabraf continued. "The nodes, the machines, the other powers. Monsters, demigods, greater entities. What they will be called is unimportant; what is important...is that they are put on the board; one of our making."
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In the coming days the forces of Peripheral Terminus reached out to all factions, regardless of their desire to communicate or not, the message was clear. A new common ground was being formed, a voice for all, no matter how powerful or how weak, so long a you were a sovereign power. To not treat, is to not know, and information is at minimum, worth having. It was an audacious plan, and a gamble that it would work at all, but there was logic, and benefit to those who would entangle themselves in that web. Rok'mel saw that much.

More importantly, for the lesser nodes, it was a chance at long term survival, forming alliances, creating pawns, and gaining vassals. The many sapients of Essari thought the exact same of the nodes.
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>>4313180

Elsewhere, a joint effort between the Sedai and the Pasturian union began to develop fruit, an extreemly small AA node was of significant problems to the local population, and also a prime object to test a new weapon on. HAMR and HAMS -Hypersonic, autonomous munition; Radioactive/ Salhetite. The missile glowed white hot as it slammed into the side of the node, large chunks of flesh blasting out the other side from the impact. Still, that was not enough to harm it; no. But the radiation made it sick, confused, if only for a moment as it began purging the affected flesh.

It was HAMS. Gunnery Master Skeen'ar, a Pasturian man of distinguished service, and once a mentor to the children of his area, was now back to the cause of soldering. Commanding Superintendent Shal'mehrz ordered the launch of the HAMS. The second missile exploded inside the node, but the effect was immediate; salhetite nanomachines reacted with the flesh in horrific manner, causing the node to twist and write, spewing liquefied flesh from numerous spasming orifaces. That alone was likely enough to put down the organism, but then the Salhetite reacted with the radioactive particles, and burst into all consuming fire, burning like a hundred thousand small flares. The incident was recorded and broadcast across Essari for sapient media consumption, courtesy of Ozasari Satelite communication holdings; a subsidiary of Boreo. The bubbling, steaming morass of flesh and organic liquid was observed by Shal'merz with grim satisfaction. "I didn't believe you Skeen'ar, but you do make a mean Steamed HAMS."
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Rolled 4, 5, 1, 7 = 17 (4d8)

Be it for their original automatons powered by artificial intelligence, or cybernetic braffberg walkers, both the Ozasari and the RTs of Panoram continue research into the fields of robotics and highly articulated precise machines
>BT and RT roll for robotics
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>>4313770
>>4312025

The TPN and its two new friends, Tsun and Cy, make great advancements in the fields of robotics and orbital construction.

Inspired by the relatively unsuccesful Bloodthroat bio-archive project, the RTs begin construction of their own ark, using their preexisting knowledge of phylogenetics, combined with samples-by-proxy made out of quiescent braffberg tissue, courtesy of their boreal allies. The project would be a slow endeavor, and needed the set up of a more robust orbital station array.

Simultaneously, the so-called 'Enhanced Mechwalk Project', which had begun time ago thanks to subconscious memetic idea implatation from Boreo's part, was giving good results. Soon, Panoram would be filled with highly articulated machinery, sometimes remotely manned by Red-Throats, other times fitted with crude AI derived from the BTs work, and most times with a little bit of Borealis in them.

What a nice lad, that Boreo. A tad weird though.

The Ozasari get nothing, stop fucking around with robots and call IT to fix your pc you absolute morons.
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This will sound like the dumbest question, but what happened to the gigantism riddled freaks (>>4277455) and slabs of Titflesh (>>4281580) in the White Palace when the Crystal Cancer swept through?
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>>4314349
They're still out there... Wailing in anguish, desperately grazing for the barest of sustenance...



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