The ships of the Union picket force rocket through space towards the advancing hive fleet, the shimmering globe of Path glittering behind them. Something skims the sensors for a brief moment, its presence masked by its speed and size, and before it is possible to react a chitinous ferrous slug slams into the aproaching Union picket force, bouncing off the corvette's shields as it flickers and dies from the impact. A second shot shreds the shield cap of the ship like tinfoil and spilling a cloud of gas and water into space like a bleeding animal. Debris scatters out as the strike craft spread out, scattering in all directions as they move to intercept as missiles unload from their hulls.
Vibrant flashes fill the void of space, and a moment later a new fleet opens fire.
I think the Salt Queen was the initial attacker and all the flashes were our fleet appearing
Grayson Moore
GAS THE SQUIDS NUKE THE WHALES STAB THE MONKEYS TRUST NOTHING THE VOID IS WATCHING
Hunter White
Salty queen. This would be our fleet currently negotiating with the Union capital, which had OQ ships coming in for some fun. most of our ships are here.
Justin Bell
YEEEES WE SHALL DROWN THE OBSIDIAN QUEEN IN A SEA OF SALT
Daniel Baker
Salty Queen I think?
No relations to her.
Jeremiah Wright
Anyone else annoyed at the shilling for another quest last thread?
David Smith
What are you talking about? Pretty sure the guy was simply posting previous art of a potential artist for this quest.
Grayson Scott
Since HQQ is the only thing worth visiting Veeky Forums for anymore, not really.
Carson Davis
New Athens does have a literal sea of salt...
Colton Morales
Wait... Is this our fleet moving in to defend or worst auntie bringing in backup?
Robert White
No, especially not if it encourages fan art for this quest.
Jaxson Powell
Pretty sure that's us moving in to intervene, user.
Christopher Rivera
Pretty sure QD and Graves are friends The same person maybe? Who knows Besudes It was just Artwork and we we're already WAY past the bump limit and page like 4-6? So nothing of value was lost.
Brandon Torres
You fleet emerges from a series of miniature supernovas, their forms flinging forth on an intercept course with the converging fleets.
"Reinforcements, incoming! Pivot, pivot, get guns on targets!" You hear from the scrambling fighters. Your fleet response with a crackling of static.
"The Hive has detected the enemy within human space. We will remove these drones from human space." The static cuts out, and after a short moment of silence that feels all too long, perhaps due to the tension, or perhaps due to the relativistic speed of your ships, you hear a response go out in a general broadcast.
"Hold fire on new targets. Repeat, new targets are designated unknown intentions, avoid contact."
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships >Focus on destroying the Obsidian Queen ships >Other (write in)
Matthew Sullivan
Not really. It's not like they were the other board shitters.
Eli Russell
>>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
Evan Gomez
>>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
Ryder Carter
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
Brody Ward
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
Jason Roberts
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships Can't afford contamination.
Logan Bailey
>>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships PR points are what we're here for.
Jeremiah Smith
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships Good PR and gives us a bargaining chip.
Parker Price
>focus on destroying the OQ's ships We're here to save ALL of the Union, not just a few of them.
Aaron Clark
>Focus on destroying the Obsidian Queen ships
Bentley Phillips
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
Colton Lee
The quest you are referring to is dead.
Ayden Hernandez
>>Focus on destroying the Obsidian Queen ships
She must get no samples blinked back.
Jack King
>The same person maybe >running two of the most complex crunchy quests on the site Me and QD may be crazy but we're definitely different people
Carter Brown
>Destroy all trace of the OB!
Owen Edwards
It was more like I was shilling for Mr Smiles the artist
Adam Wood
>>Focus on destroying the Obsidian Queen ships No traces.
Quite simply, if there's a temporary spore infection planetside, it will just show them that dealing in samples of the OQ's biology is a bad idea by example.
Bentley Long
>Focus on destroying the Obsidian Queen ships
Can't have that slut spreading her Creep.
Joseph Gray
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships >inform picket fleet that Union reinforcements are inbound, relay composition/approach/ETA so that they can plan accordingly
Isaac Howard
>>>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
We can't let the OQ get even any human wreckage. Defend them.
Gavin Young
more like UNdead, amiright?
Lucas Adams
I'm afraid what kind of nasty bioweapons she could develop for eliminating humans if/once she gets some human test subjects
Sebastian Torres
This.
Adrian Allen
>Focus your ships on defending the Union colonies from incoming stray fire and the approaching ships
Your fleet pivots in its course, moving on a slowly arcing intercept with path just ahead of the Obsidian Queen's own ships, firing your own salvos as you pass.
Please roll 1d100, best of 3.
Levi Murphy
Rolled 96 (1d100)
FO' BIG MAMA
Kayden Hall
SHIT NIGGA
Jacob Jenkins
Rolled 9 (1d100)
k
Hunter Sanchez
GOD DAMN IT WHERE'S MY FOR MOTHER IMAGE MACRO
Cameron Wright
Rolled 52 (1d100)
Hudson Nguyen
MAMA IS THE BIGGEST.
Ryan Martinez
White knight now Sup rolling!
Ethan Hill
>ForMother.pngif
Jose Ortiz
Where's my salty obsidian queen macro you mean.
Hudson Clark
AWW YEEAAAH
Daniel Williams
BIG BOTTOMED BUGS
Jacob Cook
In the time between this new thread beginning and I making an omlette, this glorious occurence. Resplendant.
Camden Davis
>picket commander's face when he sees us casually wipe out half the attackers as we zip past on our way to vaporize everything larger than a breadbox that even comes CLOSE to hitting them
Charles Kelly
I really wish I didn't know what that image was from.
Oliver Gutierrez
Their president really played hardball when we were diplomancing him a few threads back.
>'well, secretary of defence, what's you're opinion on these dastardly bugs eh?'
>'Please. Please don't piss them off anymore. Oh god. please.'
Hunter Lewis
care to share?
Jordan Gonzalez
source?
Sebastian Adams
Man I hope we get to do a land battle soon. It's been ages and I wanna test our new toys.
Specifically the plasma assault canon and our fuck mothering Kaiju drones.
Benjamin Richardson
But why? It's high-tier fluffy vanilla incest, what's not to like.
Carter Evans
I now really wish to know what that image is from. Please tell.
Nathaniel White
Graves you slut, I didn't expect you in here.
>When the Drone is just right.jpg
Brody Kelly
Fap material aside, did we ever figure out a decent build for the Ultra large sized drones?
Mason King
No, I like it. It's just...jarring to see it here.
ne~ niichan by OOISHI Nakani
Jackson Clark
I thought we had 2 that were decent build, One for Melee and one for Long range Art/support?
Charles Stewart
>cropped porn reaction images are jarring I take it you don't read Banished Quest.
Angel King
There's a whole bunch of them, quadrupeds mostly. They're improvements and different loadouts of the original colossus.
The bi-pedal one on the wiki is called the Titan and it looks pretty decent.
These are all on the 1d4chan wiki page
Kayden Williams
Yes. But now that we have SHIELDS, we should add a MASSIVE SHIELD DRONE.
Jordan Watson
I'm always here for HQQ. HQQ inspired me to give running a sci-fi quest that lead to DAtS
Benjamin Fisher
Oh damn it might be worth it to have a large Drone (maybe even the Titan) with a photonic shield
Austin Green
Yes, let's ruin this thread together!
Hudson Hall
Ah, I knew we had some but i thought we had 2 main ones. I'm behind again. Thanks for the heads up.
That sounds kinda useful, but we should leave that for the end of the thread like usual.
Good drone. I won't lie for the longest time I thought you were QD. Then again I'm usually half a bottle of whiskey in before his or your quest.
Andrew Cox
Sweet. Sorry then, I think I only saw the arty one. Can't wait to see them in use.
Kinda sad the colossi never really got to see much screentime in the thread. I mean, burning some scientists out of a bunker was all that I can remember.
And again, source please. For the love of god.
Julian Morgan
I made a thing.
William Rivera
Muh Drone.
Thomas Martinez
It is extremely easy to find any perfectly tailored to your tastes porn you wish to, yet you choose to follow reactionary impulses to end up disappointed with subpar result.
Easton Ortiz
They sell overlord plushies? That's adorable as shit.
Hunter Gomez
That's the label we use on our "EXTREME" nutritient paste.
Nah, that one was custom made by someone on DA by commission. As far as I know the only official ones you can buy are Zergling and Baneling.
Ian Collins
Forgot the damn, but it's a Prison School doujin. There aren't many of them so it should be easy to find.
Asher Cooper
Flawless.
Subpar huh. I'm still gonna ask anyway. I'll trade an awesome fly x girl preg doujin.
Brandon Anderson
user, you're making me want to tease you~ No scans, don't even bother
Justin Watson
Thank you drone, I was only produced to make Salt. I cannot read sadly but i thank you for this gesture. We just have that one design? I thought we had another approved/voted on.
That saddens me deeply as a Zerg player. Overlord drops ftw.
Blake Thomas
Do you guys have a moment to talk about our one true waifu Lee?
Luke Diaz
You know, a part of me kind of wishes he somehow snuck onto the fleet we sent to defend Virgo. I figured he would want to participate in the battle to defend his homeworld from the Obsidian Queen.
Ayden Martinez
Not enough paste outta/Hive. He needs a smile user, he loves the Hive now. Poor live, he isn't with us for this op.
Parker Martin
Your fleet hammers out round after round from their spinal mounts as they skim past the enemy hive fleet, catching a smattering of fire as you pass. The shields of your own ships flicker as they deflect the light bombardment of chitinous rounds, and a moment later your own salvo hits, shattering six of the corvettes like dead leaves crumbling underfoot. The shrapnel of shattered drive wings flips end for end, tumbling forth into one of the cruisers as it slices through the ship's flesh. Frigates burst open like gutted animals as railgun fire punches clean through their hulls, and several become engulfed in flames as various internal components ignite in the sudden burst of fire, reducing another three of the frigates to tumbling ruble.
A corvette of your own explodes, its hull deliberately placed in the path of a stray impactor from the rival queen's careless salvo. Your thinkers predict its trajectory to the center of New Tokyo. You realize, with some level of pride, that your shattered corvette has likely saved possibly millions of human lives. Another round, slower, deflected from a shield, erupts on contact with Path's atmosphere, harmlessly spreading into a ball of flame high above terraced farmland along the outskirts of the city.
Your fleet comes about quickly, bleeding off its velocity in the upper wisps of atmosphere of Path as your vessels shift the gears of their skid drives, locking their drives to Talgo and entering a wide arcing path across the incoming fleet. The Union picket forces hammer into them, but quickly back off to lick their wounds, their missiles trailing behind them as they pass the attacking fleet in a sudden and momentary eruption of atomic fire and kinetic force that flashed in the dark of space with only a momentary scream of electromagnetism. cont.
Hunter White
Well he's on our hive ship that's in planetary orbit of the place now, just watching as we defend a union settlement from total annihilation.
That's got to count for something.
Not our /d/ickgirl friend but I think it'll be better if you just post the source if you keep this up. Google's best guess for this image: Line art.
Thanks, Google. Never woulda guessed.
Carson Reyes
WE GETTING GOOD PRESS TODAY BOYS
Julian Russell
Awesome. Just hope that asshole of a president is thankful instead of going the whole
>But you brought them here!
route.
Brody Rivera
>6 Corvettes >3 Frigates? >1 Cruiser
and we lost a fucking Corvette then nukes. Oh god, I love naval warfare.
Gabriel Carter
Anybody ever wonder that maybe the Nigger Queens ships are garbage compared to ours is because these are the old outdated ships she no longer cares about? Like maybe she has better ships somewhere and this is just a smattering of essentially spare parts and trash.
Gabriel Jackson
You figure that she'd at the very least recycle them into 'better' ships. She honestly might not have better ships yet due to the whole nobody challenging her in X-amount of time. If i'm wrong tho, please correct me.
Jaxson Taylor
WE LOST A CORVETTE! TIME TO DEMAND COMPENSATION!
Anthony Lewis
>spare parts and trash Those are unnecessary in a Hive fleet due to exceptional recycling programs and logistics only being limited by how much food and metal you have. These are the standard in her shitty navy because she hasn't had the chance to stealthily steal human tech like we have.
Camden Edwards
Hives are typically known for quantity over quality, but yes. She's probably trying to come up with some way to counter us. She's already countered our nuke pods by holding her fleets in tight formation for better point defence.
Remember White queen tasked millions of thinkers with finishing the psionic cannon and the builder had pretty much the same with thinkers throwing ideas to the wall to see what sticks.
