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Voting stands at 29 for and 13 against. Voting is ongoing for now. The matter has been discussed at some length with Facility and it claims that its mobile unit is able to operate independently but cannot be turned off for the jump due to the structure of the computing manifold required for such a small unit to operate at a sentient+ level. It is also capable of maintaining a real-time Ansible (FTL) link back to the main facility at all times but in light of the concerns voiced by literally everyone it will not do so except for basic informational updates. Furthermore it assures you that it is capable of defending itself from hostile incursions and information attacks and will do everything in its power to minimise the risk to the main facility. Finally a pair of gleaming black ovoids about four meters by three have floated gently up from an unknown region of the facility and positioned themselves by the exit to the surface tunnel. Facility informs us they are restored sub-sentient defensive units and will accompany any expedition as a precaution. When questioned about their exact capabilities it is evasive. Saros fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Oct 18, 2017 |
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Ok So we need to swing by Luna on the way to the jump point and wave our dicks in their faces until they shoot at the ship carrying the defense pods.
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 17 September 2052  As The Eclipse turns to rush home more activity is happening over Mars as two Resolution class Jump cruiser are completed. Mars now has the ability to project cruiser size forces extra-solar. Over in Ranginui basic exploration completes on the Collaboration outpost on the moon of the fourth planet. The installation appears to have been primarily for mining and there are some remnants buried under the surface. A full excavation effort will be required but for now effort is likely to be focused on the fifth planet.  After some discussion the two Xeno Teams are dispatched to explore the first planet and the small ruins there. 19 September 2052  The Eclipse is making its way back towards Sol but is still some way out thanks to the vast distances involved. 24 September 2052  Survey work continues in Ranginui, third fleet largely completes their overhauls and two Glorious class jump destroyers are completed at Triton.  Mars's extrasolar force projection capability is expanding rapidly. 25 September 2052  With great trepidation the two Xeno teams are dropped off on the first planet of Ranginui.  The Eclipse bursts back into Sol with it's news sparking a fierce debate about whether to include Facility in an expedition. It sets course for Titan initially to exchange as much crew as possible. NewFleet  A handful of ships have been constructed already and many more are underway.  
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Oct 18, 2017 11:18
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Saros posted:Mars now has the ability to project cruiser size forces extra-solar.  Could Facility's buddy Col. Autoshades please attend as well, if agreeable to both of them TheWetFish fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Oct 18, 2017 |
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Oct 18, 2017 11:25
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I'd like to sign up. Also I notice that no one has claimed (or looked very hard) at Eris in the Kuiper Belt. Is there truly nothing there or is it just too far?
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Oct 18, 2017 14:05
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We must claim all of outer sol or else the IC will stealthily take it!
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Oct 18, 2017 14:21
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SIGSEGV posted:Also I notice that no one has claimed (or looked very hard) at Eris in the Kuiper Belt. Is there truly nothing there or is it just too far? Eris was briefly surveyed in the early stages of Sol exploration. There were no TN elements present and the body itself was fairly unremarkable so as far as anyone knows nobody's been back since.
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Oct 18, 2017 14:24
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Yeah ok it's 10000000% the secret SB/Illuminati base
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Oct 18, 2017 14:26
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Let the Facility join the team. Worst case is the story gets more interesting.
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Report - MaXCOM Xenoarchaeology team Ranginui V Much of the surface of the planet has been scoured by the falling of TN-enhanced debris from orbit. Many duranium alloys are tough enough to survive re-entry relatively intact and impact across the surface at extremely high velocity. This ‘Silver rain’ as it has been dubbed has obliterated the majority of constructions across the planet except for the largest of the grand spires that are located away from the fall arcs of the rings. These spires range from around 150km to 300km tall and the largest are 15 km in diameter. They extend beyond the planet's atmosphere and the tops were likely some sort of spaceport at one point.  After drop on the fifth of June we began initial explorations of the base of Spire structure designated Spire Alpha. The tallest and one of the more intact structures it was selected for these reasons and there was no sign of Terran presence ear it. They were focusing their efforts on the structure dubbed Spire Beta in the other hemisphere of the planet. Despite some difficulty gaining entry to the structure we eventually breached the outer shell. Once inside we found endless passageways and caverns of purpose unknown. For days we forged our way deeper into the spire and upwards before finally emerging to an astounding sight. The spires are hollow! The structure walls are between 1-2 km thick and appear to contain all sorts of largely decayed industrial apparatus but the central core is an open space which leads all the way up to space!  At present it is pitch black due to the top end being capped but radar measurements show us approximately 241,000 cubic kilometers of largely open space. At some points great structures seem to hang from the walls or across the interior and the bottom of the spire is littered with fallen wreckage from what was likely once similar hanging cities or installations. The architect of the team points out that if one was to stand roughly in the center of the spire in a somewhat elevated position the various hanging structures give rise to the illusion that one is within a forest, albeit an enormous and rather vertical one. An excursion over to the central point finds a massive raised bowl over a kilometer wide filled with what appears to be frozen dirt. The central section is buried under a fallen hanging structure the size of a city but ground penetrating radar indicates that the frozen soil/earth extends all the way to the bedrock indicating that the spire appears to be capped on the top but not on the bottom.  Smashed and broken under the remains of several fallen structures are frozen and fossilised remains of what from all signs appears to be a truly enormous tree of alien origin. The incredulous team members estimate is was over seven hundred meters tall before it was destroyed by the falling debris then the relatively few surviving remnants found were frozen and fossilised by time. There is no sign of war or destruction present within the Spire, only decay. While it’s not quite an empty house with the kettle still on there is also no sign of biological remains anywhere to be found although traces would of course be limited after five million years. Interestingly the interior spaces are generally quite large and what could be seats in some spaces appear to be designed to accommodate multiple physiologies. No active systems or facilities have been found but some of the industrial installations within the walls appear to be in reasonable shape considering their age. Evidence of what appears to be previous archeological efforts has been discovered in the form of long decayed excavation equipment that does not appear to match the technological capability of the structure and ‘native’ installations. Basic dating attempts on the sites pus their ages to four and one million years ago respectively which roughly corroborates the ages of two sets of ruins found on other planets in the system. The Team recommends that training and deployment of large excavation units begins posthaste. The Martian Navy has a number of Engineering units which Extended examination and excavation effort will be required as we proceed level by level examining the Spire but the wealth and technological wonders to be gained here are almost beyond imagining. -------------------------------- The first post has been edited to add a rough listing of the major events in the LP so far. Saros fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Oct 18, 2017 |
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Oct 18, 2017 15:44
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sebmojo posted:we love you mechanical auntie even though you are incredibly terrifying, please fork off a washing machine sized ai to explain stuff for us 
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Oct 18, 2017 16:05
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I think skydiving down the shaft is called for. I’m MaXCOM. I volunteer.
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To play the arsehole for a moment, is there anything that stops us sending one guy over to follow the Terran researchers around and record all their findings? Other than them doing the same to us in return, I suppose. And does this giant fossilized tree have any amber lying around? I've got this wild idea...
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https://i.imgur.com/2IHzncC.mp4
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Oct 18, 2017 17:10
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Amazing.
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Oct 18, 2017 17:22
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Can we send one of Facility's mobile units to Ranginui V?
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Oct 18, 2017 17:27
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What are the armaments on those cruiser/destroyer builds? Is it just a gauss cannon on the cruiser?
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Oct 18, 2017 17:33
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Oct 18, 2017 17:42
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I don't see why we shouldn't just keep the Mobile Unit around with us all the time when we're out and about. Well, assuming it doesn't go Space Insane after jumping or whatever.
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Oct 18, 2017 18:07
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Send me down that shaft, boss! I was born for this!
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Oct 18, 2017 19:01
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HereticMIND posted:Send me down that shaft, boss! I was born for this! I have dibs!
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Oct 18, 2017 19:12
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A better question for facility is can we get our hands on the inter-system communication tech? Or whether it's personal defence cyberdiscs are for the Mobile Unit's protection...or ours? And will the Mobile Unit have control or will they remaiin under the watchful cyber-eye of Facility?
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Oct 18, 2017 20:10
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Also how it plans to secure inter-system communication if the warp drives things crazy, and it's sending a unit (that might go crazy) through the Warp, and then letting it send messages back through the warp to the main unit in Sol. The whole thing seems hilariously unwise, from a networking perspective.
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Zaodai posted:Also how it plans to secure inter-system communication if the warp drives things crazy, and it's sending a unit (that might go crazy) through the Warp, and then letting it send messages back through the warp to the main unit in Sol. Unless it's a majority-vote system, in which case the boring "play to win" option wins more often than not. Unless the GM is clever and the "make things more interesting" option only looks like the risk-averse answer, or both options result in Maximum Stupid
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I don't know that the playing to win option has won many votes in this LP, though we've found ways to turn them into somewhat positives. We're basically playing Xanatos Speed Chess, but against ourselves.
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Oct 18, 2017 21:37
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+/- Fanatics. Fun decisions are much more interesting than right ones.
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Oct 18, 2017 22:47
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VanSandman posted:I have dibs! We can BOTH go down together!
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Oct 18, 2017 23:29
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I think you should race to the bottom. The ultimate test of brinkmanship.
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Oct 18, 2017 23:52
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If that's the MaXCOM team I'm on, I'm just going to be setting up a hoist in the background.
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So countless species have discovered this system, moved in, begun investigating it and then vanished. Cool. Lets do the same.
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Yeah but have the alien horrors encountered a Pollux or Hellas and their 45cm Spinal lasers... well maybe!!! but ours are better damnit!!!
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Veloxyll posted:+/- Fanatics. I said it in the Discord, but this. poo poo send martian kids to the excavations and call it an internship. Just get a whole bunch of bodies until they become dead ones or we unlock the secrets of the universe.
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sebmojo posted:What are the armaments on those cruiser/destroyer builds? Is it just a gauss cannon on the cruiser? Second post has all of our ship stat blocks. Our newest stuff is under Fray posted:Doctrine proposal Most ships are bringing lasers or missiles, aside from our hybrid cruiser the Taiaha class and the venerable Hellas class Dreadnoughts which bring both Our gauss PD Cruiser is the Ark Royal class Escort Cruiser, bringing a triple gauss cannon. It's expected to catch some concentrated fire and was granted defences of 15 shields and an armour layout of 6-41 (6 deep, 41 wide). No gauss anywhere else in the fleet
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HiHo ChiRho posted:I said it in the Discord, but this. poo poo send martian kids to the excavations and call it an internship. Just get a whole bunch of bodies until they become dead ones or we unlock the secrets of the universe. If there's one thing Socialists are good at, it's throwing bodies at a problem until it goes away 
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After our initial new fleet construction we really need to get more TNE extraction going. Definitely blowing through our stockpiles
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HiHo ChiRho posted:After our initial new fleet construction we really need to get more TNE extraction going. Definitely blowing through our stockpiles I said this before but: recycle the old fleet or turn it into a Space Hulk.
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HiHo ChiRho posted:After our initial new fleet construction we really need to get more TNE extraction going. Definitely blowing through our stockpiles Plenty of refined TNEs in the UT fleet, just waiting to be "mined".
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Gridlocked posted:I said this before but: recycle the old fleet or turn it into a Space Hulk. I'm all for Space Hulk. I wanna be the Rogue Trader from Mars
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Oct 19, 2017 06:04
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Don't do it. The Illuminati just want a giant doom fortress to brainworm people from!
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HiHo ChiRho posted:I'm all for Space Hulk. I wanna be the Rogue Trader from Mars Then where eould the techpriests come from ???????
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