Hive Queen Quest 58

Your ships comb over the surface of Tenebris, your drones pulling apart the wreckage and sifting through rubble. The inner chamber has been reduced to a crater, a dome of cracked, red hot glass simmering in the thin, negligible air with a single black crystal lodged among the shards of glass, its form frozen in an image of fragments like a still frame of a vase shattering against the floor. Bodies are difficult to find, and impossible to identify, but are collected all the same. Your ships scan over twisted metal frames and heaps of slag.

With the facility's defences offline, you have turned to your ships' lances to keep the local lithovores at bay as you pick apart the ruin, your drones plucking some of the more intact bodies of the smaller creatures, while remains from one of the larger beasts is carried away in a passing cruiser, your forces having been forced to kill one with orbital weapons before it devoured the subject of your salvage. It is not long before your fleets are done, having picked the site clean, that the remaining ships of your fleets return to Hive space.

Welcome back to Hive Queen Quest!

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

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 26,787,650N
Metals: 26,758,179M
Credits: ₡602,226
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,175,000

Active trade routes
>Leeland – Lanway: HMS Orphan, Captain John Spreckels
[FormOther brand Fusion Reactors]

>Construction underway
[Citadel Hive ship] – 100%
[Fast Assault Fleet] x5

>Formed fleets and orders
Citadel Hive Ship – [Awaiting order]
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
Net:

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 6,294,510

Here we go

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.

[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]

>[You feel the notice of a Distant Mind]
Fuck. Looks like the Quest is over.

Calm yourself child, the Quest is merely beginning

New ship design that makes use of our Rip drive. Wasn't sure what shields to put on it since it really shouldn't be in combat anyway.
Nexus Class Battleship
Hull: Battleship 4500N 10000M
Capacity: 2000/200
Size: 2060 Meters
Module Limit: 41
Spinal Mounts (x3): Railgun 6180M
Turret (x12): Blaster(Weapon) 300M
Fixed (x18): Ion Canon 360M
Auxiliary (x22): Autocannon 220M
Spinal Hanger: 74160N 37080M
Micro Rip drive: 20600N 41200M
Microfactory x2:200N 600M
Gravity plating 2060M
Cruise launcher X3: 1800N 1200M

Cost: 101260N 99200M
Upkeep: 50630N

Notes: Has a CIC designed for use by nonhive life along with accommodations and medical room for the same. Will frequently find itself in Commonwealth space serving as a transportation node to help out with their limited stores of Canderon.

Finished Research

>Deep Core Mining
By drilling through the crust and mantle of a planet, the hive can devour the ferrous metal core of a world, accessing metals that would otherwise be inaccessible. The process causes vast amounts of damage to the planet, causing it to loose much of its atmosphere if it has one. Geological activity stops, and the crust begins to crumble inward, causing vast fissures across the surface. The planet becomes barren, instantly reducing its Nutrient score to 0 permanently while granting a vast amount of Metals. The drilling project damages the surface, but does not otherwise deplete its metal deposits, allowing for standard metal mining to continue. Damage to local hive installations cause the planet's Development score to reduce by half, and the planet is no longer eligible for terraforming projects.

>Psionic sensors
By utilizing the temporal idiosyncrasies of quantum mechanics interacting under relativity, the behavior of certain subatomic particles can be predicted with surprising accuracy in a laboratory environment. The quantum state of a particle is effected by both observation, and its immediate future. With tachyonic particles, these strange and counter intuitive behaviors can be measured in a controlled and easily interpreted way. The Psionic sensors accomplish this by examining not individual particles, but by measuring the general state of the space arround it, which should be inherently random, with only the tortuous energies of certain FTL drive functions creating a momentary uniformity to the quantum state of surround particles. In this way, a Psionic scanner can predict the arrival of ships utilizing FTL with moderate accuracy, although the incredibly complex nature of it and the inherent unreliability of the involved particles means it is in no way perfect.

No, it means we're now on the level.
Foolish ant, it was always happening and you've only just noticed.

>Tachyonic insulators
Utilizing a modified variation to the materials used in the construction and growth of your own relays, the Tachyonic Insulator disperses incoming psionic signals instead of collecting and interpreting them. The effect is highly effective, rendering any psionic signal that passes through the material inert, meaningless, and harmless. While not a structure itself, the material is cheap to produce and easy to work with, allowing you to include it in the construction of all manner of devices and buildings. While it would be debilitating to your hive to use it on a large scale, they can be easily utilized to shield individual rooms or individuals.

[New Equipment Unlocked]
>Mind Shield
A simple helmet made from tachyonic insinuative material. While it alone offers no physical protection, the mind shield protects the wearer from any and all mental attacks or monitoring attempts, blocking any attempt to detect the user's thoughts, disposition, location, or intentions as well as causing any attempt to manipulate their state of mind to fail automatically. The helmet also prevents the user from using any psionic abilities, including basic telepathic communication regardless of range. The helmet has no effect when the user is observed through non-psionic methods.

>Silence Chamber
Regardless of if it is built as a prison, or a quiet place to think, these chambers are small psionically shielded rooms that prevent the passage of psionic signals in or out that can be easily built at request in your hives for negligible cost, offering both a place for psionically sensitive non-hive allies to rest away from the constant noise of the hive, or a secure place to store psionically active materials and hostile psionic entities where they can do no harm to the hive.

Well that's fine with the glassed hive world, whose nutrient income was 0 anyways.

>And, just like the void entity seemed to feel your observation through the shard the first time, you can sense when you are observed in such a manner.
Fearmongers shut the fuck up.

GAS THE SQUIDS
NUKE THE WHALES
STAB THE MONKEYS
TRUST NOTHING
THE VOID IS WATCHING

Recap of previous thread: Complete Disaster

Seriously, I don't think we could have screwed up the last thread if we had tried. Just to remind you all that at this point Killinger's cheif spymaster has seen our ships using both the blink drive and our cloaking fields. From analyzing the massive amounts of radiation our drives give off everytime they're used, the Union will now be able to easily detect our ships whenever they enter their systems. Coupled with the fact that they are now fully aware our ability to make our ships ivisible, it will only take them a minimal effort to figure out that we were behind the Mirage incident, before which they observed the flash of radiation that characterizes our drives and are well aware of the use of cloaking in the incident. The Union is also aware that we're the same species they encountered in G-426, and of our interest in Lee, which means it will only be a matter of time before they start sending fleets to Leeland.

What I just can't understand is why everyone voted to allow this to happen. Hasn't the Union been the longest running enemy in the quest? Every single direct encounter we've had with them has been antagonistic and now we're acting like their best friends? We gave up all the advantages we had over them by keeping them in the dark about us for basically nothing, why did we let that happen?

Not that even matters much at this point I suppose, because now They know we exist and can see us. This is what all the old queens all fought and died trying to escape. This is what corrupted the Black Queen, and what our mother in part died for to prevent from happening, and we let it happen. The void is inside our head now, what can we do now to actually win this quest? I feel like we've just had our first real test as a true hive queen, and we failed, miserably.

Oh, and we never got our claws on those lithovores, and now never will because the crystals blew up their planet.

Aren't we terraforming Farcast?

>we never got our claws on those lithovores, and now never will because the crystals blew up their planet.
Did you not read the OP? The Hive is literally scooping them up right now and fighting off the surviving ones

ask.fm/QuestDrone/answers/137574204709

>And, just like the void entity seemed to feel your observation through the shard the first time, you can sense when you are observed in such a manner.
user it's just watching us.

Serious calm yourself

All we did is finished the mid game and start the end game

All that sneeki-breaki shit with the union was a waste of time since the union was never our final enemy and them knowing just means we going to have to restrain ourselves from acting like trolls

Shut up fearmonger. We're not as bad off as you want us to be.

We were going to introduce ourselves to the Union soon anyways once Lee finishes his upgrades. The Hive is only watching us but we are watching them as well now. They saw us briefly before when we first tinkered with the Void Crystals and we haven't sprouted Crystal Cordyceps yet

I like the look, but can you put more potent weapons on it? The blaster is well, meh, and the ion cannons are less than lethal weapons useless against shielded craft. Speaking of shields, always use multi layered on ships, it's better in everyway except cost.

>glass hive world at Farcast
>the very same world that people just voted to terraform for no practical reason

[New Construction Options]
Psionic Sensor Tower – A massive spire composed of highly psionically sensitive instruments and material focused on the detection and measurement of wide range quantum states in a vacuum directed at the space around the planet. Grants a chance to predict the arrival of ships approaching the system via certain FTL methods. The effectiveness depends on the method used and the size of the incoming fleet, granting a base chance to detect incoming Blink drive ships at 75%, Space-fold and Rip drive at 50%, Warp drive at 25%, and Flicker drive at 10%. Gatecasting ships from Hypergates and Slip drive is not effected. (20KN, 30KM)

New Research Available

>Human Possessed Disection
Very Fast
While still apparently human, these once-research staff have strange crystallization within the brain, and could hold other interesting alterations within their biology. A brief comparison of their biology and genetic composition with that of a base human should prove illuminating as to what caused these alterations and how.

>Lithovore disection
Fast
Astoundingly, these beasts seem to come in a number of shapes and sizes, living and consuming just as normal carbon based life, only with silicon as a base. You have no idea what further research could hold, or even if you will be able to manage to bring them into compatibility with your hive's genetics, or even what their genetic structure looks like. Before you can even examine each species as individual entities, you must first figure out the basics of their evolutionary structure. As it is, you can't quite tell if they are even all of the same species or not.

To reiterate.
>Fearmongers shut the fuck up.

They would have found the hive with their palantirs regardless of if we destroyed the relay anyway, as they would have seen the bugs in the facility, and immediately started looking for the relevant hive.

It WAS rather silly to reveal the cloaking field and connection with Theseus though.

It's a free planet far removed from the Union and Commonwealth, that's all we need for a terraforming project.

Hey are we done with the Carantaur and Tribble dissection yet?

>Mind Shield
Does it look like tinfoil?

Ooh. I like the psionic sensor tower options. We should build some in our main systems right away.

>Core Rejuvenation
Slow
The inverse of Core Mining, this process utilizing powerful planetary scale electromagnets drilled deep beneath the planet to artificially force the core to begin to spin. The process causes mild geological and ecological damage, but the resulting effects can be maintained for hundreds of years with negligible disruption to the planet's environment to maintain once the core is rotating. Once the planet's core is active, the planet gains a magnetosphere, allowing it to hold a denser atmosphere capable of supporting life, and the surface becomes geologically active. Allows the terraforming of barren planets.

Current Research

>Hive-dusting
Fast
Alternative methods of hive creep spore dispersal is investigated, using a mixture of the semi-automated hive expansion methods already in use and altering the genetic composition to be more autonomous in nature, allowing spores to be deployed from non-stationary sources such as aerial dispersal from drones or spacecraft, as well as air-burst spore bombs launched from orbit, allowing for hive creep to be deployed in a more aggressive manner, effectively weaponizing the self-replicating infrastructure. The process is slower and more localized than the work of a Capillary Tower, however with no need for a tower to be present, the process can be undertaken more readily in the presence of hostile forces.

>Silence Chamber
Yeah lets make some for our Crystal guests, possibly even as a meditation chamber for Lee to rest

Since there's no warning of risk to the possessed human dissection and we just got the Silence Chamber, I'm fine with immediate study. There should be no problem here.

>We were going to introduce ourselves to the Union soon anyways once Lee finishes his upgrades
Who says we are? I'd say the Union has lost any right to negotiate with us after letting FOOKING CRYSTALS out of their detainment.

You guys seems to have turned into a bunch of tards the last couple of threads, fucking disgrace

>For no practical reason.
It can be used for nutrients when we finish mining it.
>Psionic Sensor Tower.
Should build that on leeland and Raligha.

>The void is inside our head now, what can we do now to actually win this quest?
They're only watching us you dumbshit. Nothing some Quantum Relays and Psionic cloaking won't fix.

>Core Rejuvenation
HO-LEE FUCK! This and terraforming means we can create garden worlds wherever we damn well please as long as their is a decent star around.

On the subject of stars, who were the race of people that lived on stars/suns and mined that whosiwhatsits material everyone needs for engines or FTL? Can we get one for study? Maybe make more and start exporting that material

I know. Jesus, it wouldn't be so hard to watch if they hadn't just reversed the positions we've been holding for the entire quest in a single thread.

There is zero practical benefit to terraforming. Creating farms does not require native soil, as proven by how we can make farms out of barren rock underground on Leeland.

Having random biosphere of organisms wasting the energy input of the planet is the opposite of helpful. You can construct vast arrays of photosynthetic satellites in space if you want nutrients generated from sunlight, which is vastly more efficient as there is no day/night cycle leaving you lightless 50% of the time like on a planet.

The enormous amount of Metals we could draw from the planet's core far dwarfs the near nonexistent benefits of terraforming. We need mo metals for dem ship fleets

>Psionic Spores
Slow
While normally the hive spores used to spread infrastructure are little more than genetically engineered nanomachines, replicating and performing their function alone until their built structure is complex enough to receive mental signals, your mixture of psionic research and advancements in spore related genetic programming has made the idea of a psionically sensitive spore seem not nearly as far fetched as it once did. With a mixture of distributed networking and complex cellular reconstruction methods, it could be possible to create a spore strain that would respond to mental signals.

>Complex organ splicing
Medium
While it is easy to pull a string of genetic data from most carbon based life and infuse it into the hive, making the inefficient genetic structure of other life accept the more efficient and deliberately programmed hive genetic data is far more challenging. In an ironic way, much of the solution seems to involve the utilization of controlled flaws, rendering the mutations deliberately inefficient in order to be more compatible with the host life so as to avoid dominating the host's genetic structure in the same way as the Hive hybrids and chimeras. Such subtle alterations could offer better, more difficult methods of infiltrating or manipulating non-hive life.

>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.

Hell we already have literal tinfoil hats and psionic isolation chambers.

K we need to discuss our grand strategy now

the scavs are just a minor distraction and we just need to hold the line unless they get a hold of a void shard

Union has gone into red alert cause of what just happened

There smart enough to figure out that was a speaker and that we have some sort of arrangement with unity

Letting Lee be spokesman plan may need to be abandoned since that was really just a dick move that rub it into their faces about the lab raid

Biggest threat is what OB going to do now? the void may start paying attention to what she been doing and send the ceph to help her in fighting us

I think we're all missing the most important thing here

THE CITADEL IS AT A 100% COMPLETION

I like this plan. It helps The Lee.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

We should start raiding her systems already. If only to get more intelligence on her force disposition and to disrupt whatever she's planning at the moment.

What fucking palantirs. They rely on their mortal followers to interact with 3 dimensional space, they so far been shown to be completely unaware of anything that happens when it doesn't affect their slaves.

We could ask Theseus for information about them.
Pretty sure QD said farms still need good soil to grow on.

>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.

What a shame. We can't do that until scouting pods report back

I'm nervous about what'll happen now that she knows about humans and that we defended them

I agree with this, Lee's usefulness as an ambassador has gone up in smoke since the last thread. Maybe as a poster boy but not as our actual middleman with the Union.

>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.

>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.

>QuestDrone !!tu02dh0DlTY Mon 30 Jun 2014 04:10:22 No.33100344
>
>You reach out with your mind, like you would a drone, and... it twists, but not in any direction. You are unsure how you know, but you can feel it twist through space into somewhere.... else.
>You can see it, feel it even. An endless void, filled with strange motes of light. Not quite stars, not matter even, but twisted nodules of reality. They feel right to you, as if they should be this way, and you recognize them as doorways. You reach out to one and peer in to see a number of humans standing in a line, music plays as a man in a white coat pins a small piece of metal to another human's chest. It is Lee, you realize. The rest of the crew stand at attention, in line to receive similar medals.
>
>You move to another. This time you see a strange object, a large cylinder floating through space above a large gas giant. Bolts of lightning arc from the hull to the atmosphere and back as a funnel of gas pours into the five kilometer wide gaping maw at the front of the cylinder's hull.
>
>You find a third, and see a strange sight. A planet...burning. Its crust being torn apart by something vast. You can feel it shift, shaping itself in space like liquid mercury, and it twists in your direction. You feel an unbearable pain run through your head and seal the doorway, the mote of light vanishing in a moment. The crystal retreats to its normal size with the sound of thunder as the air around it fills in the vacuum left behind, and the crystal grows silent.

The ones we've known about and have had access to since near the beginning of the quest over two years ago?

ask.fm/QuestDrone/answers/137574204709
>Just like you can, and once did, view distant locations and people through the void shard, finding locations or people that were known to your or otherwise tangentially connected to you, so too can other entities do the same to view places or things that are known to exist.

Well, OB's in for a bad surprise when she sees we can partially predict where she's coming from now and shut her down even harder than before, so I'm not worried about her unless she's made some technological leaps.

I thought about building a lab fortress in a remote system for when we decide to begin PC research, but recently I started thinking that having a bunch of cloaked, heavily armored frigates and corvettes that can blink the fuck out if things get hot acting as the lab might be better.

Well i said last thread i wanted to invade the union with Theseus and the commonwealth and use their worlds to support our war effort.
We don't need all the scouting pods to report back, just the ones that have been conveniently sent where we plan to attack.

>[You feel the notice of a Distant Mind]
>>Psionic research has received a small boost
>>Slip drives have a 10% chance to alert you to their usage
So the attention of the void God actually brings benefits in the short term? Like, is this some sort of token of favor(?), or are we talking about something so powerful that it bends the laws of physics just by looking at things?
I've heard it said that the difference between a power and a God is that while a power Does, a God just Is.
I'm scared guys.

>Atmospheric static generator
Medium (is done, but working on how it adjusts the Tower's cost in the new system)
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.

>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.

>Add all new research
>Add some (write in)
>Add none for now

>Begin Psionic Cannon prototype
>Do not

The qualifier 'native' was right there.

We can make our own fertilizer with blackjack and hookers, we've made thousands of farms out of barren rock we then fertilized, we don't need an entire biosphere crashing on our planetary couch, it's redundant with our own nitrogen fixation powers.

>>Add all new research
and
>Begin Psionic Cannon prototype with Theseus and Heretic

>>Add all new research

>Add all new research

>Call together Heretic and Theseus and discuss if they can help with the Psionic Cannon research

>>Add all new research

>>Begin Psionic Cannon prototype

It's time.

Do the cannon research in a Silence Chamber

I like the nomad research fleet idea, especially if Theseus and heretic join.

>>Add all new research

>Begin Psionic Cannon prototype
Can we throw some brains in a Silent Room and have them research it? Would that help negate some of the issue of being detected

That's suicide with them watching.

>>Add all new research
We ain't going to go full retard.

To attack, they must be attacked. We aren't going to do that until we know we'll win.

We know some of her systems so have some fleets set to raiding duty just to harass her

Using lee was always a dick move since it would rub there face into the fact we arranged a raid into a top secret lab and just safer to use a speaker

Would rather raid the union for any other void shards that they could have gotten

Reminds me that we need to secure that void shard that was in the mirage pronto
May need to send a fleet right now regadless

>Add all new research

>Begin Psionic Cannon prototype
Can we make this a joint project with Unity and Heretic?

>Add all new research
>Begin Psionic Cannon prototype
And have the research lab/construction project be built by a nomad fleet composed by Hive/Heretic/Theseus ships.

Oh hell to the no.

>Add all new research
Didn't see any 'dangerous' in there. It's all good.

Also, the list is missing Tribble and Carnotar research.

>Add all new research

>Do not
That would make it even worse.

This is midgame at best.

>Do not
But call Theseus, Heretic and Vaughn together to discuss it being worked on by non-psionics

>Let's panic and commit suicide option
The only reason we haven't is because they don't recognize us as a threat.

>>Begin Psionic Cannon prototype
Ask for a joint research project with Theseus and Heretic though.

>Add all new research

>Begin Psionic Cannon prototype with Theseus and Heretic

Also seconding the guy who said all thinkers involved in this project should be in a "quiet room" at all times.

*we haven't been attacked

And how will you plan on what's actually a priority to attack without knowing what's there first? You can't choose blindly.

>>Add all new research
>>Do not

The Commonwealth are taking care of the Mirage shard for us already. It's alright.

>Do not
Why couldn't we just let Theseus and Heretic handle the dirty work, the Humans weren't attacked when they were working on it.

Hive queen quest 57, end of the thread.

>The Leeland flora uses electromagnetism instead of sunlight, although it still requires an array of soil based nutrients, nitrates, water, ect. All that is just abstracted as turning the stuff plants crave into the stuff growing drones need for strong carapaces.

Meaning that even our supercrop needs good soil.

>Do not
At this point we would fail hard.

>>Add all new research
>>Do not

>>Do not

But the union may send everything they got to retrieve the shard after what they just saw

I forgot
>Do not

Let's not panic. Not when we just got some protection too. We'd still need proper facilities anyways, whether a remote lab, series of ships, or pawning it off on someone else like mom did.

>>Add all new research

>Do not

you guys fucking retarded?

>Add all new research
>Do not
Seriously why not just have Theseus and Heretic but not us working on it?

>At this point we would fail hard.
we have a greater tech tree than any other Queen, including mum, why would we fail?

No, we have a new reason not to. We haven't because they literally cannot attack us if we don't actively threaten them first.


>To attack, they must be attacked.

Ceph, we can deal with without the cannon, and the Ceph are all they can field until we DO have the cannon.

I'll probably ask QD to list where the weakest targets in OQ space and he can write what we vote to raid.

But they may be busy with us for a while, since we just broke cover and all.

Because we're going to be spread thin dealing with the OQ, the Scavs, the Union possibly going berserk as well as the crystals at the same time.

Which we don't need NATIVE soil for, stop being dense. You can provide your own soil without wasting millions of nutrients creating an independent biosphere.

>Do not

>Add all new research
>Do not

Why aren't we researching the psionic cannon?

We just pulled out of the system and yeah they will send something to our capital

But they know where the mirage wreck is and just saw what that shard unleashed

Its importance just skyrocketed, they can't afford not getting it back

It's too late user. It's being terraformed

Because the last two times a Queen started working on it, they called the void gods to the spot and got killed.

So crush the Scavs like a bug to get the Commonwealth on side, and bribe the Jews to start raiding against worst Aunt.

Because samefags are saying not to