The Hive stirs. Flies swarm after a noise, a disturbance unlike the others beneath the streets of Gemini's capital. Your hive strains to detect it, sifting through nearby minds and finding nothing as it approaches.
Your flies find the disturbance. An intruder already well within the range of your relay's detection as your hive listens in on the activity of the world above. An old man walks awkwardly but with surprising haste, dragging a limp leg ending in a large club foot, or at least a deformity or injury that looks like one, wrapped in worn blankets and covered in surplus military jackets and old hunting coats, giving a puffed up, fat frame that makes it hard to tell where the human ends and the bundling begins. A long, gray beard mixes with a mane of equally ragged hair tangled like a birds nest around his head and over his shoulders, hiding most of his face save for his loose, sagging cheeks and glazed eyes. A large paper bag is held firmly in one hand, which smells overwhelmingly of alcohol, as does the rest of him.
Your flies close in as your hive continues to fail to sense his mind in any way. His march is teetering with each step, but it is driven, rapid, and in a way almost mechanical. His eyes twitch, focusing on different things at once, but clearly and with careful intention as he mutters something about a can of beans, then turns a corner leading towards the heart of your small and secluded hive.
The old man stops just short of the beginning of the mucus like membrane of your outer hive walls, raps his arm against a metal railing so hard you feel certain he shattered his bones, and shouts out a slurred bout of nonsense about a mailman.
Active trade routes Leeland – Lanway: HMS Orphan, Captain John Spreckels
>Construction underway [Citadel Hive ship] – 65%
>Formed fleets and orders Small Heavy Defense Fleet [Patrolling Leeland space] 10 Heavy Battle Fleet [Awaiting orders] 5 Missile Ambush Fleet [Awaiting orders] 25 Light Fleets [Awaiting orders] 20 Light Fleets [Under construction]
Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses 25 Human captives of the USV Hope – 750 [Gemini] 3 Taidaren Hybrids (105) 4 Human flash clone upkeep – 120 18 Human hybrid clone upkeep – 540 Specializations: >Tech >Engineer >Brawler [Hive space] 100 Human Hybrids – 3,000 Lyle Rogers – 57 Jackob Eisner – 56 Dillon Reager – 30 Clone/project upkeep – 3,908N
>Income Metals: 2,950,500 Nutrients: 7,636,000
Owen Reyes
FOR MOTHER
Caleb Parker
(Nutrient stat + structures) * 1k * dev score + modifiers = Nutrient income total (Metal stat + structures) * dev score + modifiers = Metal income total
Hive Territory [G-426] *Leeland (capital) N 60+40 M 45 Development 50
Income: 4.886MN 162.5KM
Defensive structures >Surface to Orbit Missile System: Uses long range missiles to attack enemy ships in the system (1KN, Additional costs per launch) >Anti-orbital batteries: Directly attacks enemy ships in orbit (8KN) Military structures >Hangar facilities: Deploys atmospheric and orbital drones to intercept attackers, uses aerodynamic and fighter drone designs (4KN) >Psionic Shroud: Conceals hive activity from psionic senses (1KN) Industrial structures >Docking Pylon: (2000) (100KN) [Empty docks: 8000/8000] Economic Structures >Smart Mines active: Calculates development stat twice for metal income >Algae Farm: +25N >Film harvester dock: +15N Asteroid mining base: 50KM per day added to nearest planet.
Jackson Sanders
Ah, the psionically resistant. The lost boys of humanity.
WELCOME HOME SON.
You about to get ADOPTED.
Anthony Hall
[M-662] Raligha N 90+20 M 10 Development 25
Income: 2.75MN 0M
Defensive structures >Surface to Orbit Missile System (1KN) >Anti-orbital batteries: 35/35 (8KNN) Economic structures >Bloodroot collectors: Pipes running from Bloodroot trees extract nutrient rich sap +20N >Greystalk farms: [under construction] >Greenwall pit: Genetically engineered plant efficiently recycles waste material, Extra N income x2 >Temple alter: A place for the Ralighan locals to worship and bring offerings to your hive, built in the likeness of your local fake queen, +500N per day
[M-323] >Orbital docking pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 sub capitals or 1 capital ship, (50N) [Empty docks: 0/4] >Mining corvette salvage operations +2,688,000M per day (+8000M per corvette)
[Farcast] Derelict Sensor array
Glassed Hive world N 0 M 100 D 10
Income: 0N 100KM
>Smart mine mantle excavation: Calculates development stat 3 times for metal income
Deep space waystation >100 docking pylons (10KN) [Empty docks 400/400]
New Construction Options [Coming soon: Something that isn't the text equivalent of a Crunch Bar]
Chase Flores
Finally caught one live! FOR MOTHER!
Hudson Garcia
Finished Research
Critical Success! As your thinkers worked on the concept and early prototypes of the applications of haptic holographics they were able to uncover a wealth of data from an unlikely source. The minds of your allies hold many memories of various fictional examples of such technology, offering some well thought out, if not technically relevant ideas on how to approach several usability issues of the holo-suite and training facilities.
>Holo-simulation training An addition to imprinted memory training, but not a total replacement for it, this new holo-simulation training facility allows for agents to practice the skills imprinted in their minds in a high fidelity simulation in relative safety. Weapons that would normally kill are reduced to a painful bruise or burn that can be easily and quickly treated. The addition of simulation training can boost the competence of agents before deployment, or help to speed up the training process of individuals seeking to improve their abilities. The holo-chamber is compact and efficient, and can be easily grown in a hive of almost any size, offering a place for agents and clones to be quickly trained prior to deployment, improving the odds of success for any clone or agent related espionage and improving the quality of clones in general.
>Entertainment Holo-suite While technologically similar to the simulation center, the holo-suite required a number of alterations to ensure a greater degree of comfort and safety for the user, allowing for a wider range of less violent experiences beyond the range of typical combat exorcises. While it could be possible to sell this technology for great profit in non-hive space, your hives could also easily use this as a form of attraction and civilian pacification, improving the morale of any non-hive population living within hive space.
Aaron Howard
HAHAHA IT IS TIME.
TIME FOR HIVE.
Thomas Davis
>>Entertainment Holo-suite
Can we give one of these to our prisoners?
Jackson Watson
Alrighty, I know no one wants to hear this at the start of the thread, but we seriously need to expand our infrastructure. The easiest way to do that at the moment is to start exploiting the glassed world at farcast. It is a vast resource of space where we could be building many pylons and potentially many, many photosynthesis modules and/or fusion fungus farms.
>Greystalk farms: [under construction]
QD is this ever going to be completed? They've been working on it for a while.
Levi Powell
They're unconscious.
Mason Lopez
>Psionic Imprinting Careful and very deliberate pulses of psionic energy can, under the right conditions, slightly alter the properties of real matter on the molecular level. Through this process of slight nudging, and by using Psionic Reading to develop an image of the mind being worked on, you can essentially trigger instinctive mental states or implant simple ideas into the target mind. The more simple the idea, the easier it is to implant, such as the overwhelming notion that something is a bad idea, suppressing a fight or flight response to calm a target down, or confusing the mind's perception of its surroundings to manipulate its perceived navigation of an environment, sending them in circles they could swear is a straight path. Such ideas can be implanted within a range of 5 meters and requires a direct line of sight. More complex ideas require greater effort, requiring some focus or distraction to help nudge the target's thought process, such as a speaker or agent stating the idea verbally in conjunction with the impressed sensation of agreement. Such complex manipulations allow for the adjustment of a target's opinion of a subject or other target, the erasing of a recent memory, or a detailed verbal command instructing the target to perform some non-dangerous action. Failure to imprint on a target may result in the target becoming aware of the attempted influence.
New Research Available
>Advanced Psionic Imprinting Slow With the application of psionic imprinting you are able to influence and alter the state of matter using only focused and precise mental signals. Your thinkers believe this can be taken further, using more accurate signals and more precise manipulation methods to imprint more complex thoughts and ideas more quickly and easily, and at a greater range.
Jordan Rodriguez
So what's the cost of the photon blade, by the way?
Andrew Russell
We also need to terraform the planet.
Aiden Hill
Need to terraform the glassed planet and revive the broken queen.
Elijah Cooper
We're currently mantle mining it, which would de-stabilize it. I'm not sure Terraforming is a good idea.
We really should explore south for more viable colony worlds.
Cameron Lewis
They're in a coma user.
Nicholas Reed
>Psionic Cloaking Medium A complex practice naturally accomplished by the Phantoms under the care of the Barren Queen, you have been instructed in the basics, and now all that is left is practice and application. In theory it is simple, using carefully woven mental signals to broadcast a sense of non-existence. While this process is most effective against being sensitive to tachyonic radiation, it can be used against virtually any organic being. A psionic race may find entire patches of planet voided from their minds like a mass-induced psychosis, while less attuned or mentally blind species find details of the cloaked unit impossible to remember or describe, or may simply not notice the unit unless it is alone and obvious in appearance. Simply turning around or standing among a small crowd is enough to become virtually invisible. Unfortunately, this invisibility comes at a cost, as it is omni-directional, and any unit enveloped in such a shroud would be unable to mentally communicate with others, effectively cutting itself off from any hive network. This ability requires at least a moderate relay or implant to accomplish, although no drone would do so willingly and cut itself off from the Queen without a direct command to do so.
>Psionic Telekinesis Very Slow With the development of psionic imprinting it is now clear to the hive that tachyons can effect real matter in a very real way. While normally so minuscule in nature the forces of tachyonic radiation offers no force whatsoever, a focused, maintained wave of psionics could, in theory, impart a real and measurable physical force. The success of Psionic Imprinting seems to offer prove of the concept in theory, and the only limiting factor now is how efficiently the imparted force from tachyonic particles scales up from the molecular level.
It has been delayed a bit due to the crunch alterations, which turned them from a small farm construction to a large planet wide farming project.
Andrew Green
She's still thinking about it. As a stopgap measure, we should give her some Duchesses.
Andrew Garcia
Current Research
>Photonic armor Medium While it is not nearly as robust as what your thinkers promise from the miniaturization of shield technology, these small plates of massive photons are solid enough to deflect weapons fire and absorb energy for a brief period of time. Less a portable defensive shield and more of a temporary deployable cover, this technology, in theory, would offer drones or agents a way to quickly protect themselves during a momentary lack of cover before the photons dissipate.
>Personal shielding Slow By further shrinking the emitters, your thinkers believe they may be able to eventually make them small enough to be equipped to the carapace of a drone, or to the surface of an armored suit. At this time it is mostly speculation and an eagerness to please mother beyond all reason, and you cannot be sure what the limitations may be, but the thinkers are sure they can do it.
>Shield dome Slow The opposite way of thinking as personal shielding, by scaling the shield emitters up further to a size that would be impossible to hold and power on a ship, your thinkers suspect they should be able to construct a defensive perimeter around a hive center protected by a powerful defensive shield. The thinkers that have proposed the idea seem to be certain in the failure of the other project, as they are of this one, and you have had to separate the quantum thinkers as they attempted to disprove each others’ theories more than develop their own.
Charles Bennett
>It has been delayed a bit due to the crunch alterations, which turned them from a small farm construction to a large planet wide farming project.
Oh, I uh, was under the impression that we were leaving space for the natives.
Elijah Flores
Guess those "pets" we bought haven't reached our thinkers yet.
Josiah Nelson
Why start now? We could have terraformed the planets in Desmond but never did.
Christian Morgan
I thought the worst thing mantle mining does is create sinkhole and stuff.
Christian Reed
>Complex matter reconstruction Slow Your thinkers suspect that by utilizing and combining advancements in quantum theory with your teleportation technology it may be possible to increase the threshold of items that can be transmitted from pure substances and elements, to more complex alloys and objects of more complex shape and size, potentially allowing for the transmission of equipment, weapons, or mechanical components.
>Advanced Psionic Reading Slow With your new abilities growing, you continue to hone and develop more advanced methods of using your psionic network. Your thinkers believe that with more practice they should be able to delve deeper into the minds of non-hive life, digging past surface thoughts and emotions and into more detailed pieces of information without resorting to invasive neural interfaces.
>High-altitude spore dispersal Medium By spraying modified hive spores from a capillary tower at high altitude, the tower gains the ability to spread hive creep several magnitudes faster than any other method you have, contaminating the surface of an entire hemisphere in a mere day, although the creep itself grows at normal speed. The spores are visible as a greenish fog that permeates the atmosphere, especially around the tower itself, and is toxic to non-hive life, forcing any enemies of the hive to make use of rebreathers or air filters. The spores can be made to carry other chemicals or biological agents.
>Atmospheric static generator Medium By utilizing the natural friction of a sufficiently dense atmosphere against the surface of a capillary tower, the tower can be made to generate energy to feed itself and reduce its upkeep cost.
You are, the farms are being built in regions they find inhospitable, such as on floating docks over lakes or along naturally barren but sunny plains. Although it includes an effort to teach them how to farm themselves as well.
Cameron Murphy
I bet the ship is overflowing with tribbles
Tyler Moore
WOO HIVE QUEEN QUEST
Evan Ortiz
>Rip Drive Medium A powerful, and accurate drive system, it does not move the equipped ship, but allows the ship to rip open a hole in spacetime, creating something akin to an artificial wormhole that bridges the ship's current location with a location of its choosing within its range. This allows not only the ship to move through the rupture, but also allows it to open ruptures for other craft, allowing for the deployment of sub-light craft over vast interstellar distances.
>Deep Core Mining Slow Taking planetary mining to the logical extreme, your thinkers believe that your hive infrastructure, if spread across the surface of a world and given enough time, would be able to consume the ferrous metal core of a planet itself.
>Gravity thrusters Slow Similar in function to your Skid drive, the Gravity thrusters essentially surf along pre-existing gravity fields, increasing their performance when in close proximity to major sources of gravitational pull, be it a large celestial body, a star, a planet, an exceptionally large structure or group of structures, or the core of a gravity drive. While in deep space it becomes less effective, the law of universal gravitation means it never becomes totally useless, and when in close proximity to a powerful gravity source it should outperform most other thruster designs with ease.
Available research options
>Psionic Cannon prototype Very slow/Very dangerous Detailed accounts of several experiments show the slow progress of Project Godsplitter. The cannon itself is highly volatile, and even the smallest miscalculation often results in the destruction of the ship, as well as any nearby craft. It can only be equipped to a Hive ship's spinal mount, and requires a functional Void Shard as ammunition. At least a dozen testing sizes were atomized in testing the weapon, and in the end it appears The Gardener never quite perfected it.
Lots of projects right now. Should we lay more thinkers so they can work in shifts and rest once in a while?
Justin Garcia
Terraforming desmond would be completely obvious to the Union though, they're already flying ships through that region of space.
What I'd like to propose we consider doing is deploying pods with egglayers to infiltrate Union Space as soon as possible. Now that the existence of the hive is known to both human civilizations, it is only a matter of time before they realize those deep space supernova they were picking up were in fact our crafts entering their systems. We should deploy egglayers immediately to establish spy networks now before they catch on to us and devise some counter measure to stop us infiltrating their space.
Kevin Lewis
>Add all
You feel unsure of how to handle the situation, but your hive reacts, recoiling reflexively as its inner defenses prime themselves to strike. Your flies watch as the man stumbles his way forward, and find the railing dented visibly where he had brought his forearm down without so much as a flinch of pain. A ghost beetle crawls along the ceiling, waiting for your mental command to strike, as one of your clones shouts from behind the man of his own judgment, hoping to avoid needing the drone, or to distract the man at the least.
“You lost? Maybe need help?” The clone says. The man's head jerks with sudden speed to a frightening angle and his eyes dilate suddenly, then focus again like a camera shutter.
“Got to run my route. Speeshul dl'ivry.” He says, as if his tongue were numb. He hoists his club foot and pivots swiftly on his good heel to face your clone and begins limping closer.
“Deliver from who?” The clone asks. His mind confirms the location of the nearby drones as his body tenses and his hand tightens around the stun stick held in his coat.
“Fru me, corse.” He replies, then seems confused. “Or one'avum” He says finally as he takes the last few steps, and then seems to reach for something in a coat. Your clone brings his stun stick into his chest with inhuman speed and activates it. There is a shattering of glass as his bag drops to the floor and alcohol seeps from the brown paper packaging.
Benjamin Butler
>Add all. Forgive me if I'm wrong QD, but 3 techs are missing from this list that we got from the builder's space dockyard in thread 53.2
Benjamin Watson
>>Add Advanced Psionic Imprinting >>Add Psionic Cloak >>Add Psionic Telekinesis Everything but the cannon. That cannon is death.
Eli Lopez
I've wanted to terraform Desmond for a long time but its never been gotten around to.
Ryan Baker
If it's just sinkholes we can turn them into bunkers.
Jason Lewis
Aren't they already doing that? Besides we don't lay individual thinkers anymore after the restructuring.
Brody Lee
>Terraforming desmond would be completely obvious to the Union though And? According to you it won't matter anyway. >What I'd like to propose we consider doing is deploying pods with egglayers to infiltrate Union Space as soon as possible. Now that the existence of the hive is known to both human civilizations, it is only a matter of time before they realize those deep space supernova they were picking up were in fact our crafts entering their systems. We should deploy egglayers immediately to establish spy networks now before they catch on to us and devise some counter measure to stop us infiltrating their space.
Isaac Robinson
He reaches for the discharging stun stick and wraps his hand around the contact, squeezing it until sparks fly from the crunched remains, and he pulls it to the side, overwhelming your clone's own inhuman strength with the faint whine of servos. His other free hand opens his coat, revealing a mismatch of wires and mechanical components draped in withering fake skin draped across his chest. He pulls your clone in close with a sudden jerk to the stun stick and sniffs the air near his face, looking into your clone's eyes with great purpose as his arm pulls something from the internal mechanics of his torso.
“You got royal blood in you, son.” He says, his voice frighteningly sober in an instant, and he hands the clone a stack of passports and several tickets for a private interstellar charter flight to Path. He releases the stun stick's remains, nearly sending the clone into the water of the sewer with the sudden lack of resistance, and the man wraps his layers of coats back over his shredded, mechanical skeleton as he stumbles his way back down the tunnel. An old, Colony War working song blithering drunkenly and out of tune echoing as he disappears into the distance.
Your clone looks down at the stack of passports and tickets, each holds a fake name, and a photo of each of your small team of clone agents in turn. You would swear they were real if you didn't know better. A moment after the drunkard exits your hive's perimeter of patrolling flies you receive a ping from Theseus with a simple confirmation asking for confirmation of the delivery of the passports. You send a silent thought in affirmation.
Ah, thanks, I'll look into and fix that. I'll consider those techs boosted to offset any inconvenience.
Andrew Wood
That's true. We can assume we have 'enough for our current needs' for any given planet.
Mason Jones
>rest once in a while RECYCLE YOURSELF. THAT IS NOT HOW YOU DO THING FOR MOTHER.
Cybernetically enhanced strength. Typical blue-collar joe fallen on homeless times.
Haha time to reverse-engineer psionic resistance. It's like passive cloaking. That might be useful.
I wonder if someone like him was onboard a ship that entered No Space, if God could even read his mind like it can everyone else who passes through with Psionic Reading.
Zachary Wilson
I SAVED THE RESEARCH! HUZZA!
Brody Fisher
Or he could have just said hi.
Evan Perez
“Aral.” Decker says as Anderson nods beside him. Commander Grey squints at them with mistrust.
“How do you know?” She asks. They interrupt each other before Anderson manages to begin his explanation.
“I have many contacts throughout the Expanse, and the Union at large. With some pulled strings and called in favors, I was able to get some decent answers. Sightings and hearsay, mostly, but with someone like this Rogers fellow that's about all you'll get.” Anderson slips through a bland Geminese newscaster accent, pitches up into the emphatic self aggrandizing speech of a Martian ship salesman, and ends with a distinctive Talgoan drawl, all perfectly genuine in tone and seemingly without any deliberate effort on his part. Grey seems even less convinced.
“Of course,” he continues, “I did have assistance from this fine young gentleman here and his magnificent computational skills surfing the net for clues under my expert direction.”
“I skimmed a few comm channels and followed up on a few possible Ceph cloak wake signatures. Those things are hard to see, and usually only after it's too late, but there's only one other person known to have one in working condition not under direct or indirect Union contract, and among those, the only one actually ready to deploy is Lyle's.” Decker says as he shoots a quick glance to Anderson. “Combine that with some old contacts of mine dropping some hints on his location, and yea, it seems to lead to Aral.” Grey seems to size them up, as if looking for some sign of deception.
“And you know for sure this intel is real?” She asks. The two look at each other.
“I'm a people person.” Anderson says. “Plus I know a liar when I see one. It takes one to know one, after all.” “You'd need an AI with the computational power of a server farm about the size of a decent moon to fake this much data this quickly.” Decker replies.
cont.
Jaxon Martinez
>“You got royal blood in you, son.” Wait what?
Levi Jackson
Shit, a smith!
Tyler Turner
Theseus having a bit of goof?
Ayden Long
Was that one of theseus' boys? He's better equipped to sneak around on Gemini than I realized.
Tyler Bailey
A Theseus Droid
Jayden Ward
>“You'd need an AI with the computational power of a server farm about the size of a decent moon to fake this much data this quickly.” Aren't we lucky?
Jeremiah Barnes
>“You'd need an AI with the computational power of a server farm about the size of a decent moon to fake this much data this quickly.” Decker replies. Damn it, I kek'd
Luis Sanders
>“You'd need an AI with the computational power of a server farm about the size of a decent moon to fake this much data this quickly.” Decker replies.
HAHAHAHAHA
Eli Campbell
I love absolutely everything that is happening in this thread Drone
Carter Foster
>“You'd need an AI with the computational power of a server farm about the size of a decent moon to fake this much data this quickly.” Decker replies. Oh the joys
Grayson Morgan
Should we, at one point, make a complete technological exchange with our allies?
Jeremiah Edwards
“Alright then. That will be all for now.” She says dismissively as she turns to view the star charts floating in the center of the bridge. “Set a course for Tannhauser.” She says. There is a subtle lurching of the ship as the power surges through the damaged components. Something in the air carries the scent of burnt plastic as the ship accelerates back into warp from its short period of reorientation in deep space. She turns to a terminal a holds a button. “How is my ship?” She asks. Calhoun shouts enthusiastically over the hum of machines over the speaker.
“Some dislodged circuits and some micro-fractures, commander. Adaptive conduits have already rerouted past the damaged segments, and the rest can hold the juice, at least for now. Bit of a scrape across the cap cracked the third tank segment, but the water froze before we lost too much.” He says, reading from unseen list as if he were diagnosing a person. “Slug punched a hole clean through the cargo segment, but it was through and through. We lost most of the MREs, and bay twelve and thirteen won't pressurize. Working on getting the breach sealed now.”
“Belay that. What's the status of bay seven?” She says. There is a short wait.
“Few bits a things were sent flyin', some torn packaging, damn civvies didn't exactly give us crates packaged to battle-G standards, but there's no damage.”
“Good, load the contents of crate one-one-eight-six in the drop bay behind Mauser's pod.”
“Aye.” Calhoun replies, and the line cuts off. Grey looks intently at the star map, her thumb picking at a worn scab on her palm as the view of space captured by the Cortez's exterior hull cameras ripples into pitch darkness, and the folding of space envelops the ship and your agent into its own tiny universe.
cont.
William Adams
>but there's only one other person known to have one in working condition not under direct or indirect Union contract, and among those, the only one actually ready to deploy is Lyle's. Color me intrigued, I wonder who else managed to get their hands on a cloak.
Carson Roberts
I came up with the best plan to implant Decker once the Cortez is within range of the advanced relay at Aral.
Have Michael whine at him for tech support. The wireless in his datapad won't turn on. (Theseus can disable it temporarily.) This prevents Decker from diagnosing it remotely, and forces him to come to Michael's room, where there are no cameras. Because Michael's an entitled bureaucrat boss and Decker is his bitch.
So Decker comes, and maybe gets the chance to leave a prank in the datapad as revenge for this pettiness. And once alone, we can talk about how great and overqualified he is for this. About his impressive illegal implants. ask.fm/QuestDrone/answers/136730874149
And maybe he deserves a reward of an even better implant, with access to even more computing power than the most cutting-edge technology, as a reward for his loyalty.
Oh yeah, and the implant is scheduled for being implanted right now.
Colton Martin
>“You'd need an AI with the computational power of a server farm about the size of a decent moon to fake this much data this quickly.” What are the odds that Lyle would have THAT in his sleeves, eh?
James Perry
Not a total one, but would vote to at least exchange a catalog of tech we've unlocked and offer to trade with theseus and heretic if they do the same. Half the problem of trading with those two is that we know very little little about the limit of their technological sophistication.
Ryan Miller
>Psionic Cloaking >Unfortunately, this invisibility comes at a cost, as it is omni-directional, and any unit enveloped in such a shroud would be unable to mentally communicate with others, effectively cutting itself off from any hive network.
This guys. This is why we want to foster a good relationship with humans and why we want to not mindbreak them completely. We need loyal people who are able to act on their own.
Elijah Reyes
I love it.
Carson Parker
user, that's what we have the quantum brain drones for. Quantum brain+moderate relay+gravity foils+camouflage = silent nearly-undetectable drone of independent thought and absolute loyalty to Mother.
Also we can just clone humans with loyalty from an imaginary upbringing if we wanted loyal ones.
Owen Rogers
As the Cortez vanishes into metaspace you look over your small hive on Gemini. The clone agents examine their new passports, finding no flaw in their construction, and the dates on the tickets is scheduled for departure later today.
>Send your Flash clone agents to Path >Assemble a team from your available clones (write in) >Other
I know we briefly went over who to send before the hiatus, but that was a long time ago and I assume you'd like the option of adjusting your plans.
Jose Peterson
You think the ghost beetles should be upgraded to have them? Or is this more of an agent deal ya think?
Josiah Taylor
>>Send your Flash clone agents to Path
Adam Rivera
>Send your Flash clone agents to Path What were we supposed to do at Path again?
Chase Wright
>>Assemble a team from your available clones (write in) The same eight we designed the implants for before. They weren't flash clones, they were regular ones.
Also land a pod and egglayer on Path so it's settled by the time they arrive.
Jeremiah Morgan
>>Send your Flash clone agents to Path
iirc it was the Albino sharpshooter, a tech an engineer several brawlers and a survivalist.
Gavin Morales
>>Assemble a team from your available clones (write in) Give them an egglayer egg to take with them.
>Send your Flash clone agents to Path Unrelated: would still like to know what photon blade costs just to finish a design.
Elijah Carter
Sending flash clones isn't what we voted to do last time at all. We spent like a WEEK growing and implanting higher-quality, perfect hybrids, not the shoddy flash ones we used at first.
Lucas Reyes
>Psionic imprinting
Like the wraith from star gate atlantis?
They used psionics (well, essentially) to induce hallucinations, causing their prey to attack illusionary targets and reveal their location.
Lincoln Cooper
Guys, whatever happen with that one time we had a Smith visiting our hive like ages ago. Did we find out what was the deal with that?
Jaxon Collins
Are you a newfag or something?
Jaxon Wright
It was Killinger being a stupid human, of course.
Jonathan Morales
> He clicks his pen again and puts it down. "It's a shame about Lee, I suppose. Conrad's plan B didn't exactly go down according to plan, but he is very good at crisis control. If it weren't for that bombing he probably would have gotten out once the media buzz died down." He rubs the stubble on his chin and adjusts his glasses. "Price of progress I suppose. But it does offer a good warning. Xeno Formicidae are formidable, and I still have no idea how a queen develops. Hell, it's possible the social caste is a kind of adolescent queen, or even the workers themselves. If even one were to get on a Union world... and if they are advanced. Well, theories for testing, I suppose."
>Conrad's Plan B Lyle failed to return in time with drones. John Smith was sent to do the job they believed Lyle had failed.
Juan Bennett
The quest have been on hiatus a looooooong time. There are a lot of details i have forgotten.
Thanks buddy
Xavier Baker
>Send your augmented clones: 2 Techs, 1 Survivalist, 4 Brawlers, 1 Sharpshooter >Send your flash clones >Other
>Send them with an egg layer >Do not >Other
Yes, those kinds of illusions would be classified as one of the "simple" uses of imprinting, while "complex" uses would me more akin to Jedi mind tricks.
Also I really wish they did more with that in that show. They showed those illusions like, twice, and then forgot about them.
Elijah Davis
>>High-altitude spore dispersal Man does this one excite me.
>Other Land a pod on Path with an egglayer. Smuggling a medium-sized egglayer would be unpossible.
Easier to just have the clones implanted with parasites so they can turn into a chimera later if we need that though. As a backup.
Christian Stewart
>Send your augmented clones: 2 Techs, 1 Survivalist, 4 Brawlers, 1 Sharpshooter >Send them with an egg layer
Ethan Gonzalez
>>Send your augmented clones: 2 Techs, 1 Survivalist, 4 Brawlers, 1 Sharpshooter >>Send them with an egg layer
Carter Ward
It was a good show, but i get the impression they spent more on the looks than the writing script.
Ian Collins
With zoanthropes.
Mason Miller
>Send your augmented clones >Send them with an egglayer
William Rivera
>>Send your augmented clones: 2 Techs, 1 Survivalist, 4 Brawlers, 1 Sharpshooter cant we morph a clone into a part egg layer to lay an egg layer sure we did that once
Christian Foster
Does anyone have ideas for what the raiding fleets should have?
Chase Reed
>Send your augmented clones: 2 Techs, 1 Survivalist, 4 Brawlers, 1 Sharpshooter >Send them with an egg layer
