Miles of tunnels honeycombed the moon of Horizon's Drop connecting the temples of your Generals orders, each one dedicated to a new branch of the reborn Necrotic Armada. Halls of black glass and braziers of ultraviolet flames marked the territory of the Voidknights, a large, heavy door slowly swinging open as Revenant Lorgul emerged. Greeted by Jareth and his Disciples the first of the reborn Voidknights grips in his hands a massive mace of black metal, jagged glass and bone. Voidlight ripples along the weapon and Lorgul raises it into the air and names it, "Cor'a'Ghul" the Fist of Ghul.
Predator Nekris emerges from his own inner sanctum, his body flickering and distorting the light around it as he was greeted by Eiton. Arc-lightning crackles off the blade he holds in his grasp, the mirrored surface reflecting his gaze. Forged from the bones and blood of the Ahkam he could feel the hunger within it, the serrated edge seeming to grind against itself. "Blight," is all he names it, the Predator finding its simplistic name appealing.
Deep in a cavern unconnected to the others was a large spherical room, its walls blasted to a mirror-like sheen as Dominator Valresko hefts his own bonded weapon. Just as he was a corruption of the Sunscales and the power Solar, so too was his weapon a corruption of the Sunscales holy Rods of Ruin. A six-sided staff of gnarled bone flares with flame in the airless void of his would-be temple as Valresko decides on a name to match power inside it, the smooth bone of his face cracking into a cruel grin as flames roiled within, "Anathema."
Your Generals grow in power, their loyalty to your cause the only reason you do not fear their might. No, you relish it, wondering if this pride you felt as you watch them was what the Wormstar felt as you and your siblings in Lichdom and undeath swept across the cosmos.
Completed Research: >Heavy Exosuits: Commonly deployed by drop-pod into combat these heavy exosuit armors are veritable walking tanks allowing a single operator to bring a large amount of firepower. Too big to be deployed in a ship these were found in the holds of Ahkam Battlecruiser. >UON Wardrones: Simplistic drones consisting of little more than propulsion, targetting and weapon systems are deployed en masse from ships for both attack and defense >Assault Drone: War machines sporting an impressive amount of both non-lethal and anti-personnel weaponry and used for ship defense and boarding, utilizing a complex array of thrusters to maneuver in zero-g along with complex hoverpads for encounters on a planets surface.
Current Research >Mental Reading: Slow >Arc Blink: Slow >Orbital Platform: Slow >Space Elevator: Slow >Advanced Void Reactor: Medium >Advanced Skip Drive: Medium >Virus Bombs: Slow >Ambient Energy Collection: Slow >Sunscale Cloning project: Slow
Henry Long
Battleships Whoa, that's a lot of battleships.
Isaiah Phillips
Unlocked: Heavy Exosuit: Consisting of a series of powerful mechanical and reconstructed systems these large exosuits sport heavy plates of armor rivaling tanks and Large Reconstructed. Boasting a considerable strength they are able to tote heavy weaponry that would normally require a vehicle or a large reconstructed, advanced jump-packs allowing for impressive leaps through the air. Boosting the natural speed, strength and stamina of its operator beyond their normal capabilities the Heavy Exosuit comes with an array of emergency medical equipment should it's pilot become injured. A Demi-Think Tank integrated with the suit handles the various targeting and weapons systems while providing the pilot with an updated feed of battle-field conditions.
Swarmer: Consisting of a shell of chitin containing simple thrusters, an auxiliary weapon mount and a sensor cluster these simple Reconstructed are deployed in large swarms.
Swarm hangar (50 fighters) – A hangar filled to the brim with dormant Swarmer Reconstructed drones, which are awoken and released when needed for combat. They are linked directly to the parent ship, and cannot function away from it. The swarmers themselves are each a cheap and disposable craft designed to pose a threat with sheer numbers, and can each be equipped with a single auxiliary weapon. Together, they can form complex maneuvers to intercept attacks with themselves, attack hostile targets, ram into targets and perform patrols in close proximity to the ship. When not in use they are kept in hibernation. Cost represents the cost of a single hangar bay and its associated swarm. (300N 150M)
While the Assault Drones are impressive feats of engineering and weaponry they do not offer much in the way of available upgrades. Research of them has revealed several weakpoints, chief among them their susceptibility to Ion damage though a good number of them do sport conductive armor to offset it. >Bonus gained for combat against UON forces.
Sebastian Robinson
Too many. By saturday ship pricing will be updated and fixed along with changes to the pylons to better reflect their size and impressiveness.
Tyler Torres
Sad!
Austin Cook
How many spooky pics did you have saved for this thread user?
Joshua White
If you consider anything with a skeleton spooky then I have 44 new ones
Chase Watson
Oi where you go QM?
Xavier Flores
It must be to spooky for him
Parker Davis
That's a whole lot of spooky.
James Jackson
Excavations into the tomb of Ruscuv progresses, albeit slowly as they clear out collapsed tunnels while trying to preserve the markings and carvings still undamaged by the Confederacy's hasty exit. Think Tanks sent to investigate sense traces of necrotic energy but they are faint and still on the other side of tons of rubble. The Reconstructed work tirelessly though, groups of Brutes and Trolls hauling out rubble to be lifted off by Dirges and Requiems, the Think Tank in charge promising to contact you immediately should something turn up.
Your Eyegore continues to watch as the planet is prepared for the arrival of the Eldertrees, a thick haze filling the air for miles around the meeting place where the treeships took root. On the edge of the system your Eyegore sense a significant gravity well and moments later you are treated to the sight of a truly colossal craft entering the system. Drifting to the planet this grand ship was even larger than your Charnel Vault, resembling more a chunk of a planet overgrown with plantlife. Ships swarm around it like a school of fish following a larger creature, their message of greeting sent to the Eyegore announcing the arrival of the Eldertrees and that they will be ready to see Jadyk once they are set up on the surface.
Pestilence, the Blackscales flagship, fades from sight and sensors before it disappears to travel to the frozen world the cloning project was to begin. Raakah stayed behind in Iti'a'Ropku as Beqor and Guir travel, eager to begin their joint experiment for the Armada.
>cont
Christian Perry
Pretty sure Graves is either a lich or a lizard, possibly a lich lizard. He has a natural immunity to spook.
Julian Williams
Muic stands on the shoreline of the same lake of molten stone Agona had emerged from days before. Her pyroclastic sister stands nearby, watching as the tank of a Reconstructed General steps forth, her telekinetic gifts letting her walk unscorched to the center where a platform of stone awaited her. Seating herself Punisher Muic nods silently to Agona before slabs of obsidian glowing with heat rise from the lava to seal around her like a chrysalis before submerging once more to begin her reforging.
Buddy and his crew wait with varying levels of patience to hear back from the cartel. Clud, the former Dagger Netu, walks the slums stashed in the lower levels of Veraga Prime at the behest of the Demi-Think Tank that followed after him. A Necrolyte Legionnaire, an Epikor wearing disguised armor and carrying Confederate weaponry travels with them while eyeing those around them suspiciously. Seeing the poor state of those that lived there you wonder how the Confederacy could pride themselves on equality for all when the poor and neglected are forced to live in such squalor.
On a distant plain of Horizon's Drop where the Necrolyte Legion had requested a training area, your Voidsinger Commander and his officers inspect their new recruits. The Osjiic Roktir and the Vorh Dretst wearing the uniforms of the Legion as their former comrades were inducted into the Necrolytes.
Now freed from the ritual Jareth speaks with Lorgul about your order to decide the fate of the Deathshead Guardians. Lorgul just begins to laugh as he holds Cor'a'Ghul in his grasp before ordering a Large Cauldron to be crafted in the belly of the Voidknight Temple.
There was much to be done and tend to in your New Necrotic Armada. What shall you do first?
Levi Bennett
Speak with the trees.
Samuel Carter
On one hand I want Jadyk to meditate on the solar.
On the other hand, I am kind of interested to see how Buddy's little drug running adventure is going.
Could we do both?
Jayden Miller
You could. As Jadyk meditates on the Solar you could watch Budy and Eigha's meeting with the Cartel.
Landon Myers
>Speak with the Eldertrees >Meditate on the Solar (Will occupy Jadyk) >Watch the meeting between Buddy and the Cartel >Speak to Lorgul about his plans >Create ships >Create troops >Diplomacy (who?) >Other
Hudson King
>>Speak with the Eldertrees
Caleb Anderson
>Speak with the Eldertrees
I've been fucking waiting on them for awhile now. God damn trees taking forever to show up.
Levi Robinson
Trees aren't exactly known for their haste
Evan Nguyen
>>Speak with the Eldertrees Might as well get it out of the way before we hole ourselves up to invoke the solar.
Zachary Cox
We are Jadyk, and we will speak to the trees. >Speak with the Eldertrees
Jaxson Lopez
I am the lorax I speak for the trees
Henry Torres
No fuck off lorax, we've been waiting long enough to speak to the trees ourselves.
Evan Howard
The trees say fuck you
Blake Sanchez
The flagship of the Eldertrees stays in orbit over the desolate world but a portion of it detaches when trunks and thick vines detach to descend slowly through the weak atmosphere and disappear into the smog created by the treeships. You are already on board your own Flagship when they send the signal they are ready and it disappears into a knot of twisted light and time as its new, colossal Combi-drive fires up.
By the time you arrive in the system the fleet of treeships were in place surrounding the meeting world with patrols drifting through the system as a precaution. The Charnel Vault exits from FTL in a flash of light, countless weapon mounts turning briefly to aim at you for a tense moment before they relax and retract into their hulls once more after verifying your arrival.
You descend to the surface, light refracting off the Dirges crystalline forms before you were swallowed up by the haze of thick pollen and spores. So thick it would've been hard to see through, not to mention deadly suffocating to any "fauna" species that tried to breath the temporary atmosphere. Through the haze you spy the ruined arena, overgrown with vines and grasses and as the air clears somewhat you are shocked by the dazzling display of color as carpets of flowering buds bloom in an impossible array.
In the center of the former arena loom three massive, twisted tree. Their bark was pale but rough, knotted and gnarled with age but their leaves were richly verdant and as your Throne neared you could see simple animal life moving among their branches. Alien birds and slithering creatures dwell among and within them without care it seemed but the chorus of animal song goes silent as the trees groan and shift, their leaves shivering as your mind was suddenly filled with a booming voice that growled like the shifting of continents.
>cont
Jack Gomez
Sapling Slrrt stands at the base of their roots with a collection of other floral species, several of the same lumbering cactus-like creatures Jor and the Voidsinger had encountered standing nearly completely still around the edges of the arena. A mound of vines you thought was a mere shrub lifts itself up on a collection of spine-like limbs and shuffles closer and lifts a handful of vines ending in an array of eyes and flower-like organs to inspect you from a distance.
You almost wonder if you should've brought your own entourage but you wanted the Eldertrees to know that you took personal interest in this would-be alliance. Leaving your throne behind you drift forward, your robes of spun chitin and glutton crystal sweeping the plant-covered ground as Kyn'tk twists slowly in your grasp. Bowing low you lift your gaze to the Eldertrees, spotting a multitude of eyes hidden in the whorls and knots of their bark.
"It is an honor to meet you. I pray this meeting will seal the friendship between our two factions," you say as you straighten and hover before them.
Jadyk has met the Parliament of Trees. What shall you discuss?
Ayden Cook
Well there is the reason we called them here to begin with. As a show of trust. We could destroy them but they came, so we can trust them with what can destroy us. The crystal tech
We give it all. We share it all. We are one plant and corpse
Mason Roberts
what their goals are really, how bad their feud with the osjic is, what the know of the necrotic armada, Show of friendship.
Jose Gutierrez
Okay first off let's make our alliance official. Tell them of our relationships with the various factions we've encountered and how we plan on dealing with them, to help ensure neither party in this alliance drags the other into a conflict they don't want to fight or were seeking to avoid somehow, followed by an affirmation that we will both support each other militarily.
Then we can move on to tech trades, give them the compound we developed that we give our living members to help them Necrotic energy's toxic effects on life, in the hopes that it will help them develop a resistance of their own. Offer to trade knowledge of solar power generation for very cheep, and ask them if there is anything else they want to trade for. Do not offer to teach them necromancy or other forms of primal energy manipulation unless they ask for it themselves.
Gabriel Hernandez
I vote against giving them crystal tech. That's ours, sharing it with others would be a mistake unless they earn a lot of trust with us.
Mason Ross
The point of this meeting was trust. They sent there elder trees to talk with something that could kill them in a thought. They trust us, we should trust them
Connor Turner
After the lavafather I'm not keen on freely handing out tech that could kill us easy. If they trusted us 100% they would have let us visit the world tree in person, or at least allowed us to visit their own worlds. This planet is lightyears away from their actual settlements, and is deserted when not holding diplomatic functions for liches.
Furthermore with the firepower they brought with them to this shindig they just might be capable of stopping Jadyk from killing the elder trees if he tried. That is hardly a sign of total trust.
Charles Wright
...true... Dammit I'm never going to get my plant waifu
Lincoln Lewis
i'll vote this
William Johnson
Give it time user, just got to let the romance happen naturally.
Noah Fisher
I figured the security was more like how the secret service canvas an area that might be unprotected before allowing the president through
David Torres
Man I almost missed this thread
I'm all for firmalising our alliance with the trees and the. Discussing energy manipulation and future research perhaps joint efforts and trade
Also an update I used the thing to practice colour work I still don't feel Jaydk looks right but the face will do for now
Luis Fisher
Folding your legs underneath you so you sit floating in the air, Kyn'tk slithering to its resting place in your ribcage and you look up to the strange trees, "First I suppose we should discuss this alliance of ours. It would not do well if we went to war with each others allies," you say with a small chuckle.
Their voice booms in your skull, feeling like it would rattle your bones if you let it.
You speak with the Armatocere Eldertrees, detailing your encounters with the Osjiic and the Dagger upon your freedom. You tell of how you await word from the Dagger Clan about your offer of peace and the Eldertrees seem nearly shocked. They had attempted to extend peaceful relations to the nomadic pirate clans but time and again they thought it was a trap and attacked or continued to attempt raids against them. To find they would speak with you and your faction was quite a surprise to them but they are intrigued by what may unfold with your discussions with the pirates in the future.
They agree the Osjiic are a blight against them, the imperial tyrants viewing all life as inferior to them and destined to serve the Empire. You gather that they have no love for the Osjiic, only wishing to be left in peace but more than willing to exchange blows with them. They remark how the Empire seemed to have a personal grudge against them after the death of an important leader in one of their larger conflicts but the Eldertrees seem ignorant of the true importance of the slain Emperor.
>cont (Sorry for delay there, damn)
Hunter Rivera
I can see why the plants offers of peace would be turned down by the pirates, it would seem too good to be true, and it is hard to get a feel of the plants fighting power
Us on the other hand seen more normal and comparable in power to them so they trust us easier
Luis Torres
You tell them of your encounters with the Ahkam and liberating a system with two primitive cultures enslaved by them. They commend your efforts against the serpents, seeming to find particular joy in the fact you wounded a full grown Matriarch and captured alive two of the lesser Ahkam. They tell of how the Dynasties have pledged a blood-oath against them, vowing to steal their worlds to feed their teeming masses of subjects yet constantly leave behind their faithful and enslaved when they flee from retaliation. On several worlds the Armatocere presided over a population of those left behind, disillusioned soldiers and citizens welcoming the life of peace the floral faction provided them.
The Eldertrees ask of your relations with the Confederacy and if anything has come from your claiming the system. You reveal you've only had encounters with their long abandoned war machines and during the conflict to seize the system. Upon the news of finding legitimate proof of the old Armada's presence on the world Station 88 orbited they tell you that will only further solidify your claim over it. The New Necrotic Armada would be viewed as reclaiming a lost world rather than conquering an enemy system. After some questioning they speak of how the Confederacy have launched raids and covert operations to steal their biotech or conquer resource rich systems. Time and again the Confederacy had sent offers of peace only for years or decades later to turn on them in powerhungry displays. You both lament the short lives and the ever changing politics of the other races.
>cont
Brayden Butler
Pointless bone posting as I wait
Camden Stewart
You question them about the United Outer Nations and you watch as several branches curl, perhaps a display of anger. They say the UON had a long history of raiding the Armatocere yet their efforts had increased in recent years. They seemed to share the same desires as the Confederacy and Pirates in an effort to claim their technology or worlds but were much more willing to pursue it through conflict. At Sapling Slrrts encouragement they tell of how during the war of secession between the Yuyut led UON and the Confederacy they had given refuge to a UON fleet after they'd been stranded behind enemy lines and their ships running drastically low on resources. Yet despite this altruistic gesture and helping them return to their people the UON attacked the same worlds mere years later in their first significant assault against the Armatocere.
There is brief mention of the Wraiths, both sides admitting they are a pestilence and significant threat. The Armatocere admit they've had some success in combating them with technology based off ruins found of an ancient race of crystalline beings and you tense. The Eldertrees seem to sense your unease and they ask if you knew of this technology.
Reveal your knowledge of the Crystalline Minds?
I REALLY need to stop composing the posts in the post box. I lose entire posts muuuuuch too easily
Brayden Turner
Yes... And mention them being the ones to seal us.
John Sanchez
Yes.
If revealing our crystal tech means getting more I'm all for it
Gabriel Cox
They already have crystal tech? I suppose that simplifies things.
I'm fine with telling them of the existence of the crystalline minds and our own conflicts with them as long as we don't give them any really sensitive information. Seems like it would be detrimental to hide it if they're already aware of the tech.
Jordan Ward
Yes and do this.
Kevin Butler
We should be brutally honest about our past present and future just so they are aware of what exactly we are and how our new mind set is compared I then as masked whispers could be problematic
Tyler Cook
Agreed
Jordan King
Quietly you think over the risks of revealing your connection to the Crystalline Minds and your own uses of their technology. Finally you speak, knowing truthfulness during this meeting was important.
"I spoke of my imprisonment and the Grand Necrotic Armada's destruction. This crystal tech you've discovered belonged to the faction that was responsible for this. They were called the Crystalline Minds and existed seemingly as extradimensional entities that manifested in this reality as sentient mineral formations. They allied themselves with the living and dedicated themselves to the destruction of the Armada and in the process defeated and sealed me away," the leaves of the Eldertrees rustle, small bird-like creatures flitting from branch to branch as you continued, "To my knowledge they no longer reside in local space. Either not in this galaxy or even this state of reality.
I have also begun researching into their technology," you say, motioning vaguely to the crystal shrouded forms of the Dirges fused to your throne, "I was uncertain if it would have an effect against the Wraiths but I am glad to know there is potential in that path."
You bow your head to them in thanks while wondering if they knew of the potential the crystal technology could unlock for them. Before you could speak Sapling Slrrt points a tendril to a group of fleshy, orange pods planted in the earth to the side of the Arena, "We return those you wished preserved," he drones out in his synthesized voice. You could feel the faintest flicker of solar power from one, the same Yuyut female you'd captured from the UON, "Their comrades were quite helpful in their knowledge about the UON."
>cont
Dominic King
The Armatocere are returning the potential energy users you detected among the UON ranks after their interrogations. They are also sharing their knowledge of anti-wraith measures.
Was there anything else you wished to speak to them about?
Nolan Cooper
Did we tell them of the wraith's past with us? If not, do so now. Also tell them that the new necrotic armada's ways are different from the old one, now. Life and Death go hand in hand.
Wyatt Morgan
Ask them to let us know if they find any fragments or signs of the old Aramada.Not the wraiths for obvious reasons but other less maniacal kinds. Anything related to the Wormstar especially. Also give them the procedure to check themselves for Solar energy. Ask them if they have any goals that are giving them issues?
Brayden Robinson
Yes do this
Luis Reed
Let them know about our past with akkator and her part in your fall
Invite the sapling to visit our capital as an emissary
Tyler Gray
Okay I'm kinda pissed off. Gotta go rescue a drunk friend who sounds pretty panicked.
It's tuesday, I thought she'd learn better than this by now.
I hope this shouldn't take long but since I'm still unemployed I'll be up for a while tonight
Jaxon Ortiz
wtf, come on man what the hell it's tuesday night
Carson Perez
What do you mean rescue?
Aaron Richardson
Akka-tor strikes again!
Jayden Mitchell
GOD SPEED GRAVE. You better get a sloppy head or else we'll be mad at YOU.
Brody Torres
Have you tried reconstructing them in a cauldron.
Bentley Thompson
Just asking because i live in a bad area and This woman has been screaming bloody murder in the street for the last hour, only reason i have not called the cops is my neighbour already did like ten minutes ago
Caleb Ward
>YFW a skeleton and a lizard pull up to drag the screaming woman into a van made of skin before burning rubber down the street
While we wait might we suggest some trade ideas
I was thinking we could ask for schematics in building such collossal ships and in exchange work on searching their kind for energy users
PerhPs offer to trade void infused bone and void drive technology
Heck they would probably dig solar generators and hard light tech
Dylan Green
We already agreed to give them our energy research in exchange for the captives brah
Christopher Phillips
How does this keep happening to you? Do you and everybody you know live in a constant state of crises or something?
Michael Rogers
Where did you read that? Trading info on energy manipulation is kind of a huge deal for us, thats like the keystone of all our power, that's not the same as exchanging technical information about a particular technology we possess or anything like that.
Juan Hall
We said we would show them solar powers an unlock t if any of them have the potential
Solar reactors are a technology we unlocks from the sunscale the two do not I hand in hand but understanding if one helps with research in the other this way we can help them skip some steps and look good at the same time
Landon Green
I really like the idea of trading energy infused materials void bone or solar scales to our allies. It allows us to share the benefits of the technology with our friends while at the same time maintaining our monopoly over the technology and the capacity to produce it. If we can produce such materials and show others how to use them, it will allow them to equip their own soldiers and ships with exceedingly potent weaponry without creating the risk of other galactic powers stealing it from them.
Henry Ortiz
Hey IG, you going to update Per Abyssa quest any time soon?
Yeah but we didn't promise tech like solar generators ect the we got from the sunscale.
Also we an unlock the potential but they will still require training
Samuel Cox
reminder that we are bad guys conquering the galaxy with an iron fist and are only playing nice for politically expedient purposes
Aaron Thomas
They don't even know we have those, but it would be so incredibly useful to them that it would be practically malicious of us to keep it from them.
Camden Hughes
Dude that is literally what was promised, not just that but that we would teach them in person. also where do you keep getting the unlock their potential bit, They have shown no evidence of having potential to awaken.
Justin Powell
Thread should start back up in just a bit!
Aiden Walker
Why don't we make rods from God that are carved with wormtongue so we have massive 'fuck you, join us' weapons
Lincoln Howard
Random idea for another way if spreading our influence narcotikelp coffee
Taste the full power of the necrotic armada
Itl bring you back from the dead
When regular coffee won't cut the grave yard shift
Owen Ross
I hate loading stuff from my phone... Pic related
David Thompson
Guys GUYS Exosuit Trolls Think about it, It is not Neccesary But it is cool as hell.
Ryder Harris
why the hell do I live in a soap opera where I'm the dependable one?
Anyways, back to the quest. Sorry about that folks, did not mean for that to take so long, fuck.
Seems like the agreed upon choice is >Tell about your history with and betrayal by Akka-Tor >Explain the Armada's new motivations
Other options seem to be >Invite Sapling to Iti'a'Ropku >Sharing tech (Which)
>>Tell about your history with and betrayal by Akka-Tor
>Sharing tech (Which) The compound we feed our living subjects to stop them getting cancer from us, and the solar generators.
Luis Williams
Seconding and add in hard light shields
Ask for giant ship blueprints and anything they feel makes for a fair trade
Caleb Cooper
Also I think it's time we rebuilt the chitin choir make a big announcement if iur joining the alliance to the general populace while tweaking the new choir statue around the city
I also felt we should make "pilgrimise stops" on the way to our capital with nearby food groves and space to rest comfortably with some statues singing softly the praises if the worm star
Asher Kelly
Supporting and also invite Slrrt to the capital city for a tour
Cooper Nguyen
Also welcome back man, reality is a bitch who is neediest when your busy. Sometimes you just need to be prepared to fix other peoples shit, I find steel cap boots are great for getting your point across to repeat offenders though
We will make everything necrotic lay friendly
Also this
Angel Hill
Wait, I nearly forgot to add, ask them to keep the knowledge that we are aware of Akka-Tor's betrayal a secret for now. We have not yet come into direct conflict with her yet and would rather wait for a time that suits us before engaging her forces, in the event a surprise attack is possible.
Charles Harris
"I suppose I should reveal history with the Wraiths and the Suneater," you watch as the limbs of the Eldertrees rustle sending thick leaves to drift to the ground as you continue, "In the old Armada she was much like me, the field commander of our respective faction. No one knows who her patron was, just that she and her Wraiths served the Undying Court, the old leaders of the Armada. It was her betrayal that that weakened the Armada and lead to my imprisonment and the destruction of my patron the Wormstar.
I met her, face to face recently," you say almost as an afterthought but those gathered tense and you can feel their unease, "The Wraiths seem to exist on an alien reality we cannot yet fully touch ourselves. It is quite frustrating debating ways to combat them."
The being composed of a mass of vines speaks, its voice surprisingly human, "The tales we have learned about the old Armada are not flattering. How do we know you can be trusted? You are undead, after all."
"That is a matter of faith. Yes, I was a scourge against the living eons past, consuming everything I could at the behest of my patron," you look down at your hand then the array of life surrounding you, "With my time imprisoned and my freedom from the shackles of my old god I have come to understand that my old ways, and the ways of the Armada, were folly. Life and death are immutable truths of this universe. There is no meaning to undeath without life or death, only stagnation and a surrender to entropy. I do not wish for oblivion, but rather a future where the living and undead can coexist peacefully."
You can sense the Eldertrees conversing together and you speak up once more, "To prove my intent, I would welcome ambassadors to my home of Iti'a'Ropku to see how I have begun to enact my vision of a unified galaxy. I hope the Armatocere can be a part of that vision."
Charles Torres
They previously expressed interest in our ability to control elemental energies. The ability to wield Solar energies would be a real boon to a plant-based species. What can we do to teach them to use it, and what can they give us in return?
Wyatt Barnes
finally home so i can focus on the quest. Happy to take quest related draw requests if anyone has any while Jyoti is writing up the next chapter
Evan Young
I'd rather just keep it to the generators and other tech before for now. That alone is a big enough boon to redefine their entire civilization.
Aiden Jackson
Can they produce Solar generators on their own without having Solar-wielding people to ignite them?
Oliver Johnson
Evidently, and if they can't we can always provide the solar infused materials so they can do it themselves.
Adam Ortiz
The Eldertrees are silent for several moments before Slrrt seems to shiver then speaks, his synthetic voice droning out, "I shall be departing when this meeting is over to accept your offer and join you, Lord Jadyk," their central stalk bending in their version of a bow and you nod your head in return.
>Armatocere are sending Sapling Slrrt to see Iti'a'Ropku at the Eldertrees behest
"I know of your kinds susceptibility to Necrotic energies so I wish to offer a recent development of my studies into it," as you spoke a data packet was sent from the Charnel Vault to the Eldertrees flagship, "This is the supplement my living subjects ingest daily to counteract the harmful effects. While it is not an immunity or protection against the weaponized forms, it should help counteract the negative effects ambient exposure entails. I am unsure if it will have the same effects on the floral that it does on my animal subjects but," you are cut off as another Sapling, a nearly neon green colored being interrupts.
"The compound has the potential for modification to replicate the results, this will help greatly in dealing with the aftermath of the UON's attacks," they say and bow their stalk before shuffling back to their original spot.
Satisfied the offer was well received you send another data-packet on a whim containing the basic technology behind hard-light shields and a simple form of the solar reactor and you would've smiled had you face at their reactions.
The neon Sapling seems to quiver in place, "This reactor technology is quite remarkable! We did not realize it could be miniaturized this far, this will be quite a-" they almost continue before a rustling from an Eldertrees branches causes it to trail off and calm itself.
Instead the voice of the Eldertree reverberates in your skull,
>cont
Brandon Gonzalez
That's fair, we can provide or enable the creation of the generators. And if they want to wield Solar powers themselves too, we can just push for equal trades. If we're going to give something civilization-changing to them, they should find something of equal value they can give us in return. Let them work on that if they need to.
Jose Cruz
create a supply, but first make sure there is a demand.
