Death Among the Stars Quest 46

>>Wednesday check twitter
"Sorry try again Thursday
>>Thursday check twitter
"sorry no thread today"

Mfw

Eh, that fine with me.

All this!

Also once we make a nonlethal nid (do we have that yet?) can we download the minds of everyone. And I mean everyone in to the new batch of thinktanks?

Looks good, but I'd like to note we've already constructed AOMBS systems and sheilds on Horizon's Drop an our capital, but we should add enough power stations to this order to power all of our cities and biomass farms.

10 Solar Powerstations (existing Biomass Farms): 20000B 15000
6 Solar Powerstations (planned Biomass Farms): 12000B 9000M
6 Solar Powerstations (Iti'a'Ropku): 12000B 9000M
20 Void-Nova Bombs: 20000B 4000M

Also, regarding the current number of active pylons, I believe we have the following in action.

10,000 small craft: 500 pylons
3,000 sub capitols: 600 pylons
500 capitols: 250 pylons

>we've already constructed AOMBS systems and shields on Horizon's Drop an our capital
Huh, we did? Totally missed it then.
Yeah, those looks good.

Can we start work on ambient crystal sponges?

Designed to absorb the excess ambient energy of living creatures that would normally be wasted we can capture store as use for training necromancers etc

Possibly weaponise it to drain living essence at range or a bomb design for draining life while leaving material unharmed

Uh, dude, I think you miscalculated the cost of the ships there. It looks like you took the base cost of the hull without using the costs of the pre-made ship designs further down in the pastebin. A fully equipped common nail costs 10B 55M for example, with a piercing nail costing 30B 65M. Sorry to be a buzzkill, I still like the balanced look of the order.

While on the subject of ship construction, the discussion of torpedo boats in the last thread inspired me to come up with a new ship design, how's it look?

Torpedo Ship
Battlecruiser: 200B 500M
4 Pike Missile Bays: 240M
6 Jammer Missile Pods: 120M
3 Hull Spine Cannons
8 Fixed Voidflayers
10 Turret Chain Flensers
8 Auxiliary Molten Scrapguns
2 Boarding Pod launchers
Weaponized Tractor Beam: 60B 60M
Reinforced Shielding: 40B 40M

There is a flash of light as the Wick, corvette of Confederate make, exits it's wormhole in the Veraga system home to one of the most populous of the Confederacy's planets. A yellow star burns bright, its light reflected by the host of planets and a thick asteroid field from a pair of ancient planets that ground each other to pieces.

Buddy sits in the bridge with his partners, a male Netu named Clud and a Vorh woman by the name of Eigha. The Vorh steers the ship toward a world surrounded with heavy traffic, the world of Veraga Prime. A Confederate fleet floatis in orbit and surrounds the heavily industrialized moon where scaffolds surrounded the frames of new ships being built by swarms of drones.

A patrol of Confederate fighters and a corvette slowly approach as the Wick drifts on momentum alone and a hail comes over the line asking for identification and reason for visit. Buddy clears his throat and they send over the randomly generated ship identifier code and claims to be potential traders looking to visit one of the many markets on the surface.

There is a moment as sensors alert them to scanners being swept across the ship and there was a long concerning silence from the patrol as fighters moved to glide alongside with the Corvette looming over them. Finally after several nerve-wracking moments a message comes through wishing them well before the ships resume their patrol.

Buddy sighs and slouches in the command chair, glancing at the Demi-Think Tank floating beside him and projecting a holographic bust of a tired looking Jor who nods, wishing them luck before the connection cuts.

The Wick continues its journey to Veraga Prime with its payload of narcotikelp hidden within its floors and walls.

Did you wish to send along an escort?
>Send Reconstructed, hide them in smugglers hold limiting load of Narcotikelp
>Send Reconstructed, stay in regular hold, chance of discovery by intensive scanning
>Send Necrolyte Legionnaires with Confed weaponry

>Send Necrolyte Legionnaires with Confed weaponry

The last option

>>Send Reconstructed, hide them in smugglers hold limiting load of Narcotikelp
The Necrolytes are tough, but they're not anywhere near as stealthy as the looms or shadows.

Yeah, I knew something was not right there. Let me redo those a bit.

Necrolyte legionnaire with armament
In these time of war we all need someone about who knows their way around a gun

I really like this idea. Passively drawing power from the living through ambient crystal sponges without harming them would be a breakthrough in our relationship with the living.

Send necrolytes

Within Bastion the Ahkam fleets have mainly been routed but they have placed many forces on the ground and seas. Lavafather ships made of stone carve a fiery path through Ahkam ships that skip into the system as reinforcements, Agona leading from the cramped cockpit of a stone ship the Lavafather had loaned her. The Destroyer sized ship was a heavily armed spire of stone, the largest of the Lavafathers fleet, launching stalactite missiles and melting through hulls with splattered magma. Obsidianborn crafted into fighters and host to Stonestar pilots duel with Ahkam teardrop fighters and Essat Gunships, obsidian blades glowing with heat carving through them or riddling them with burning bullets of semi-molten metal. Stonestar warriors and lumbering Obsidianborn Colossi of molten stone hunting down and exterminating the Ahkam with the help of Gargoyle and Cyclops sentries.

Punisher Muic leads from her battleship in the skies of Rukor, defending against ships attempting to break her blockade while dispatching troops to fight against the Ahkam already on the ground attempting to free their indentured comrades. Reconstructed fight bitter battles with the Ahkam troops as the prisoners are knocked out by their domination spikes and hidden in the underground tunnels of the ructu. Several villages burn, smoke filling the air as the metropolis of ructu is attacked by strafing runs of suicidal fighters shot down by Crawlers and a pair of Terrordrome halves hovering over the city.

Neither of the Punisher sisters call for aid, too proud of their skills and fleetes, but the Ahkam reinforcements seem endless, ships appearing by Skip drive by the hour. To their relief there had yet to be the arrival of a proper Ahkam or another fleet by Storm Gate but they knew it could be only a matter of time.

Send reinforcements or let them continue their battle on their own?

Why not both?
Send necrolytes with couple of looms hidden in compartments

Send reinforcements

Send reinforcements

Someone wanted Jaydk on the throne and someone wanted Angona

Here's a mediocre image if both

Nice

looks like
>Send Necrolyte Legionnaires with Confed weapons
>Send a few Looms or Shadows

Send Reinforcments
Roll me 3d100 best of first 3 for fighting off the Ahkam and routing them from the worlds

The Dagger fleet remains in Horizon's Drops system and sends a message requesting an audience with Jor when he is available.

Rolled 28, 6, 24 = 58 (3d100)

Rolled 67, 13, 27 = 107 (3d100)

Rolled 22, 91, 93 = 206 (3d100)

For Mother!

67, 91, 93 nice

Arrange a meeting with the Daggers. If they agree, invite them to our city and have a proper official reception.

Idea. We were able to develop combat tellaconeses could we develop combat telepathy?

I was reading through the most popular archived threads on the suptg, and I finally know where you got the name for the Deep Rot.

Could we send Necrolytes and two looms?

Alright, I did it. Should I post updated order now or later? And is resources gathered in between the turns go there or in the new order in this thread?

Jyoti, does it make difference to have more than one planetary shield built in single location.

Post now.

So,
>200 Battleships 56,000B 160,000M
>100 Destroyers 22,000B 60,000M
>100 Battlecrusiers 20,000B 50,000M
>200 Heavy Cruisers 18,000B 52,000M
>200 Light Cruisers 16,000B 44,000M
>100 Frigates 6000B 15,000M
>50 Corvettes 2250B 5000M
>50 Bloat Carriers 3250B 11,000M
>1000 Nail Fighters 10,000B 20,000M
>1000 Piercing Nails 10,000B 20,000M
>500 Gunships 12,500B 25,000M
Becomes
>200 Battleships 76,000B, 220,000M
>50 Destroyers 14.000B 38,000M
>50 Void Destroyers 17,000B 42,500M
>70 Battlecruisers 14,000B 59,500M
>30 Hangar Battlecruisers 11,700B 24,300M
>100 Heavy Cruisers 9000B 53,000M
>50 Boarding HC's 11,500B 23,500M
>50 Plasma HC 7500B 31,500M
>200 Light Cruisers 16,000B 84,000M
>70 Common Frigates 4200B 17,500M
>30 Boarding Frigates 3000B 6600M
>40 Support Corvettes 3400B 7200M
>10 Standart's 450(!)B, 3500M
>50 Bloat Carriers 3250B 11,000M
>1000 Common Nails 10,000B 55,000M
>1000 Piercing Nails 30,000B 65,000M
>300 Common Coffins 7500B 33,000M
>200 Support Coffins 7000B 20,000M
>500 Gunships 15,000B 70,000M
Bringing our total to
>2,574,500B 2,753,600M
If we need to build AOMBS and shields, or to
>2,124,500B 2,153,600M
otherwise.

Oh, and if we include powerstations and Nova Bombs
>10 Solar Powerstations (existing Biomass Farms): 20000B 15000
>6 Solar Powerstations (planned Biomass Farms): 12000B 9000M
>6 Solar Powerstations (Iti'a'Ropku): 12000B 9000M
>20 Void-Nova Bombs: 20000B 4000M
It is
>2,638,500B 2,790,600M
or
>2,188,500B 2,190,600M

Looking good, I'm in full support. Say, am I the only one who thinks things would be easier if our disguised ships were put in the same category as our captured ships in the OP? Just wondering.

Despite the protests from Agona and Muic Necrotic ships soon begin appearing in the Bastion system, launching themselves into battle with the Ahkam. Predator Eiton, disappointed at the mostly peaceful interaction with the Confederate fleet, arrives with a fleet gathered from Horizon's Drop joined by Jareth and several of the Voidknight Disciples in their Void-Terrors.

The Ahkam fleets struggle against the new onslaught as ships appear seemingly at random through the system to attack from all angles against them. Void-Terrors slice through the hull of a cruiser, soldiers vented out along with the atmosphere before the ship ignites when the reactor detonates. Several of your sub-capitols are swarmed by Esat wearing atmospheric suits, the insectoid soldiers using what looked like construction and mining tools to bore through the hulls and swarming in to overwhelm the skeleton crews of Talons and Stingers to reach the cores. There they detonate the explosives they carried to destroy the ships in suicidal attacks.

Likewise, boarding ships ensnare several of the Ahkam capitols with their harpoons and send their boarding pods burrowing into their sides. Obsidianborn send their own boarding parties, ships latching on and melting through the hulls to unleash their Stonestars to fight alongside Reconstructed. The Stonestars found themselves uniquely suited to fighting in low and zero-gravity environments. Their bodies allowing them to spin and swing through the air with uncanny speed and attack from nearly any angle with their multitude of arms, natural sting whips zipping them along the hallways into deadly melees with Tyrre and Epikor soldiers. No longer relying on stone armor and obsidian blades these elites wore armor and wielded advanced weapons replicated from your own necrotic technology, the sleek echinoderms a new nightmare for the invaders. It was easy to see why the Ahkam had originally tried to recruit them into their fold.

>cont

On Rukor aquatic Reconstructed launch ambushes against the Ahkam that attempted to establish bulwarks and landing zones on the planet. Leaping from the waters aquatic Talons and Stalkers charge from beaches and rivers as Cyclops pop up among the breakers, firing their spine casters before disappearing once more below the waves. The heavily armored Crawlers march across the islands, their cannons bombarding the camps from a distance or shooting down passing fighters.

Even the ructu attempt to fight back, several groups gathering the weapons of slain invaders and Reconstructed to fight back despite their frail forms. They had been slaves to the Ahkam once before and they were not content to merely let the Reconstructed hordes fight for their freedom alone. Several Ahkam patrols fall under ambush as they enter ructu villages, the crustacean natives attacking then disappearing into the numerous tunnels that run under their settlements.

The General watch as the Ahkam fleets begin to disappear with flashes of light, skipping out of the system. As Jareth and Eiton both loomed in on the battleships that had generated Storm Gates, intent on capturing the actual Ahkam on board one manages Skip away as boarding cruisers closed in on it leaving behind it's fleet that quickly falls into disarray with its abandonment.

The other attempted to escape as well but Jareth and his Disciples slice through it's engines leaving it an easy target for the boarding ships that quickly descend on it. Angered by the escape of his initial prey Predator Eiton rushes to board the battleship alongside Jareth and the Disciples, a similar boarding party to their patrons Lorgul and Nekris.

Roll me 3d100 best of first three for capturing the battleship and it's Ahkam commander.

Rolled 52, 64, 69 = 185 (3d100)

Rolled 71, 73, 78 = 222 (3d100)

For Mother!

Rolled 10, 7, 8 = 25 (3d10)

come on

Rolled 22 (1d100)

Rolled 7, 87, 25 = 119 (3d100)

So I need to take an emergency break for a bit. WOuldve have that out faster but sister just called and I need to go pick up my niece from the baby-daddy. Some random drama happening with his family and the police. Hopefully I shouldn't be too long but I do plan on running late into the night

Alrighty Jyoti. Hope that goes well

Sounds fake but okay

Sorry to hear that Graves, hope this ends well.

That was shitty, sorry folks. Back and writing.

Please tell me that these kind of things happen to you on other days, when you are not running threads, too.

Great. Let's do this.

More than I'd care to admit. Sister is convinced family pissed off some demon or witch

This is what you get for being a QM on Veeky Forums.

Don't worry, we've got a resident necromancer!

Have you tried dumping then into a cauldron?

Can Demi think tanks create cauldrons?

Just wondering if buddy will be able to start creating his own on site undead once he gets set up as opposed to boxing them up and hiding them under the floor boards

If we send a loom or two we should be able to have them create a cauldron on site, it might take a bit but they could do it.

The hallways of the Ahkam ship fill with smoke and fire, illuminated by pulsing emergency lights and muzzleflash from an array of weapons. A Tyrre glows with sickly green light, screaming in untold agony as a pair of trolls focus blasts from their Flayers to melt the armor and flesh underneath. Stonestars accustomed to the darkness of their eternally dim world have no trouble working their way through the halls and enemy troops, lit by the glowing edges of their blades and the light of their blasters.

Talons grapple with Kosda and Epikor, teeth and claws tearing at flesh and armor with crimson and blue blood splashing across their faces marring the warpaint made from black Osjiic blood. Essat dart about with their buzzing wings filling the air with barbed flechettes that shatter and fragment into cruel pieces of shrapnel against the shields of Stingers and Trolls only for them to turn to using small flamethrowers against them, the fires rolling like liquid in the low gravity to engulf the screaming undead. The cheers of the bugs were quickly turned to shouts and screams as Stonestars and Shock Trolls rush through the flames with a Disciple at their head to splatter them against the walls with great swings of their Reaver Hammer.

Predator Eiton's cyclopean eye glows with Arc light as he leads his own pack of Stalkers and several Stingers through the corridors, following the sensation of a great source of Arc-power. Thumpers fire smoke and riot grenades and the undead dash through the irritating fog with sonar pulses guiding their way. Stalkers spit up clouds of venomous shardspitter flechettes from their wide toothy maws or drag screaming prey to them with their sting whip tongues to be set upon by the pack. Eiton's bone rifle fires thick bullets crackling with energy that punches through armor and exosuit with ease, his blades slicing through any Tyrre that managed to make it through the clouds of smoke.

>cont

Jareth walks calmly through flames and bulletfire, protected by the telekinetic bubble of the pair of Dirges floating behind him. A Void Flayer rests on his shoulder and he blasts away the automated turrets that drop from the ceiling or emerge from walls the the floor, the powerful weapon tearing the devices to pieces. A pair of Epikor elites wait at the end of a hallway leading to the source of Arc power further in, their exosuits elaborate and decorated with a large weapon held in their hands, spinning metal arms crackling with electric energy that they aim toward the Voidknight and his soldiers. Static fills the air as they fire their weapons, twin beams of electricity arcing to connect against Jareths Reaver Hammer and the Shock Trolls that rushed forward to absorb the blows.

The Voidknight calmly motions with a wave of his hand and the Cyclopes clustered behind him unleash a volley from their spinecasters. The Epikor screams are cut off as the barbed bolts of bone lodged in their limbs and torso suddenly explode, sending bits of armor and gore spinning in the low gravity. Nodding in satisfaction the Revenant continues his march toward the command bridge where he knew the Ahkam would be waiting.

Much like their predecessors the pair of Generals break through to the barricades to the main command hall that counted as bridge and living area for the Ahkam nearly at the same time. Under hail of gunfire blocked by shield and Dirge the Generals link up to discuss their plan of attack with the Disciples but a sudden cease in the weaponsfire makes them look into the room.

>cont

Coiled in a heap at the end of the great hall was a blue-scaled serpent swaying from side-to-side, hood flared in anger with crackles of arc energy flashing along its body. Its maw opens with a loud hiss, fangs like blades glowing with energy as it calls out, "Foolish aberrations! You have tarnished the sanctity of the Ahkam and you wi-" it's proclamation is cut short as the Generals and Disciples rush firing as their soldiers flooded in behind them.

Rearing back it inhales deeply as its body pulses with Arc energy then unleashes a powerful bolt of lightning against the crowd of Reconstructed, blasting several apart and cooking others in their own armor. Its second blast curves unexpectedly away from a Disciple dueling with a pair of Tyrre in bladed armor, the lightning striking the trio of Arc attuned Dirges that floated into the room. Their crystal bodies glowing bright as they drank the power of the attacking titan.

Revenant Jareth finds himself facing off with an Epikor in a heavy exosuit armor that pulses with Arc power, a large halberd light as a feather in its grasp as it chased after the undead. A leaping Talon is cut clean in two by a swing of the weapon, afterimages of its glowing blade distracting to the eye as it feints and thrusts. Jareth cackles as his own blows and strikes were deflected or dodged by the skilled warrior. Hearing a bellow of pain from the Ahkam he glances to the side to see his Disciples scorching its scales with pillars of Voidflame and the Epikor takes advantage of the distraction.

>cont

A hiss of mini-rockets regains Jareths attention as they launch from a pod on the exosuits back, a voidshield thrown up barely in time to absorb the blasts. Yet as the shield faded the spear point of the halberd thrusts through to pierce his black armor. Shouting in pain as his bones crackled with the Arc energy the Epikor poured into his weapon as he drives the undead back. The Voidnight grasps the shaft of the weapon and a swing of his hammer snaps the handle, Voidflame roaring off him in anger as he swung his hammer at the startled warrior to send him crashing into the wall. Dazed they don't resist in time as Looms drag him back with their sting whips into the waiting grasp of Trolls and Talons.

The great blue serpent bellows out another roaring hiss as their bolt of Arc energy cracks then shatters a Dirge into a shower of bone and red crystal dust as they overload their capacity. The other Dirges react by picking up several of the spears and axes dropped by downed Tyrre and Trolls, launching them at the Ahkam with frightening speed. Screaming in pain Eiton takes advantage of the distraction, flashes of blue light marking his path as he teleported across the bridge to run up the neck of the lashing serpent. The Ahkam feels him and it twists, attempting to knock him free but he drives the sword made from their slain sisters tailblade into their back and clings to them, firing round after round of his bone rifle point blank into the snake.

>cont

Lashing out with their tail, crackling blades slice through several Reconstructed as they dash with wide open maw for Eiton but the Disciples and Jareth thrust their hands forward, blasts of rippling void energy launching from their palms to strike with explosive force against its jaw. Its scream of pain was gurgling, its mangled jaw working uselessly as it's remaining eye roiled with pain. Arc energy surges off the beast, frying its own troops along with any Reconstructed that neared too close, the fury of its last desperate attack likely to destroy the ship if it was allowed.

The Ahkam was crippled and entering it's death-throes but it appeared ready to sacrifice itself along with its entire crew to kill its attackers.

>Dominate
>Drain
>Kill

>Drain

>Drain

>Dominate

>>Drain
We still have one live akham back at Horizons Drop for Jadyk to drain, right?

>Dominate
I always wanted a pet giant snek

Pretty sure that became one of the predators.

Here, Change my vote to
>>Dominate
Just realized this dude probably knows more about their base and whatnot than the mook we already have

Nope

The "mook" we captured was the mate of the leader

Looks like
>Dominate

Roll me 2d100 best of first three for getting a new pet snek pls

>>Drain

Rolled 92, 85 = 177 (2d100)

Rolled 74, 64 = 138 (2d100)

For Mother!

Rolled 48, 24 = 72 (2d100)

Every male akham is the mate of a leader; their females are the supermassive ones and I assume they'd likely have harems., given their whole 'we're totally gods' schtick

Rolled 41, 62 = 103 (2d100)

Rolled 34, 48 = 82 (2d100)

Looks like a weak willed snake we got here.

>Every male akham is the mate of a leader; their females are the supermassive ones and I assume they'd likely have harems., given their whole 'we're totally gods' schtick
Pretty much. They select only the best of the males traded between dynasties that must constantly prove themselves or be replaced. Greenscaled are males, blue are female juveniles before they pupate and grow into the colossal white scaled winged form

Wait. Wait. Wait. Did we just Dominate a baby Female akham?

Can... Can we study her for arc/massive bioship research?

Can we make her fully grown form into a Hero Unit Bioship?

It'd probably take a long ass time, since I don't think the Ahkam have exactly the shortest maturation.

Neither General willing to let such a powerful potential source of power go to waste through death they silently agree on their plan. Eiton lets out a hiss of his own as he begins to drain off the latent power of the Ahkam through the sword embedded in its back, clinging to it to avoid being thrown off in its throes. Jareth and the Disciples rush forward, the spear like points of the Reaver Hammers opposite ends plunging into the beast as they leap at it with ripples of Voidlight propelling them through the low-gravity.

The Void-powered undead could not assimilate the Arc energy but with their Reavers they could sap its power and try to prevent its attempt at taking them all out with it. Electricity arcs off their black armor with great bolts, Voidflames erupting from them as they consumed the power, Eitons form flickering and twitching as he glowing white-hot with the new source of energy.

As the undead feasted on the raw power of the serpent the remaining Dirges cracked open a bone case hauled by a Stinger and a collar much like the one sealed around Dne'tec's neck back on Horizon's Drops moon is lifted, Glutton Spheres pulsating when struck by the Arc lightning as it's flown close, suddenly parting into several pieces and snapping into place around its neck.

The Ahkam bellows in pain as the undead rip their weapons free and leap away as she finally collapses in a heap on the floor. The remaining Ahkam troops still managing to hold out watch in horrified disbelief even as the Reconstructed swarm over them.

>Ahkam Juvenile Subdued and captured

>Bastion is secure!

Roll me 1d100 best of first three for looting and capturing pls

The Dagger send another message to the Armada, their voice annoyed with the delay.

How shall Jor meet with them?

Rolled 47 (1d100)

Rolled 51 (1d100)

Rolled 2 (1d100)

Invite them over to one of our ships, less likely to try and murder Jor when they figure out we're responsible for capturing their clanship.

Rolled 4 (1d100)

Y'know, we could always offer the daggers we have a chance to go back to their people as a show of good faith to the Daggers; Might help in any diplomacy with them we attempt. We can always just say the reason their captain is dead/gone is because they attacked us when we were still starting out or some shit.

I don't know if I'd be okay with parting with such a substantial chunk of the Necrolytes though. That, and they're pretty cool guys.

Invite them to our city, have official reception with all the necessary fanfare.

They have their choice of honor. We captured them, now they serve slave debt.
They won't ask them back.

We can use the clanship and captured ships of Ahkam and osijic as negotiations material to improve our chances at establishing friendly relations. They could also serve as reparations.

Captured:
>Female Juvenile Ahkam
>General Vinjo, Epikor
>155 Ahkam Troops (The Stonestar are quite vindictive)
>1 Battleship
>1 Battlecruiser
>3 Light Cruisers
>4 Frigates

Research unlocked:
>Heavy Exosuits: Medium

Possible locations for a meeting:
>Necrotic ship
>Horizon's Drop/Iti'a'Ropku
>Dagger ship

Please choose.

(We will get to Jadyk after this meeting)

>>Horizon's Drop/Iti'a'Ropku
Might as well wow 'em a bit. Meet them in our home base as a show of good faith or something