The War of the Worlds; Lets Play Aurora

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Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Affi posted:

Dude. We actually need to stop the IC from taking and holding Triton base.

If they achieve orbital superiority above the base to land troops then any ground based assets are just going to be nuked from orbit.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2017 09:23

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 08:15

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Affi posted:

If they want Triton base intact then they won't use orbital strikes.

Furthermore given distances involved if they get on with a ground assault I doubt our Mobile Infantry are going to be able to hold them off long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

Also consider, if we did hold them off long enough for the cavalry to be spotted (3 weeks out), they could well just slag the base from orbit at that point to deny it to us.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2017 12:22

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

xthetenth posted:

I think you mean "disrupt the warfare market by pursuing synergies with the civilian sector."

Are the IC Randian liberal shitlords a la the Free State from Strike Command?

Edit also can I be dwarfed please to command the Left Obturator Foramen?

# ¿ Jun 30, 2017 18:45

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Sit Tight. Their objective is behind us. No sense charging into the jaws of death just yet.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2017 02:24

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Aethernet posted:

In tribute to the downed Zuckerburg, MSS Status Update.

MSS Poke surely?

# ¿ Jul 14, 2017 10:54

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Which body is closer to Neptune at this point in time? Both look about the same wrt defenses so proximity to our base should be the deciding factor.

Saros, are we able to cold launch missiles? I was thinking maybe we could pre-launch a ton of them on a kinetic trajectory towards a harvester or civilian facility then time our actual strike to coincide with impact. Or does the Aurora system need active sensors to paint the missiles in?

# ¿ Jul 18, 2017 17:05

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Operation Sherman's Vengeance . I'm sure our marines could arrange for an unfortunate Sorium tanker "accident" on Titan.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2017 03:54

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

If we had shot at the planet instead would we have landed enough hits to destroy all the infrastructure there?

# ¿ Aug 2, 2017 21:37

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Burn, Burn

Deny the enemy. Minimize the risk to our own forces.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2017 11:36

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

GunnerJ posted:

I feel like the Terrans, if they really wanted to, could just take Saturn outright but they probably need the pretext of a friendly coup in order for it to not look super sketch. So if they get here and find IC still in control, but just a faction of it that happens to favor a peace favorable to us, what do they do? If they find IC technically in charge but with no infrastructure, what do they do?

In the first case, I think they back off (because an outright attack and war on IC is clearly not what they want primarily), in the second case I think they take over (because at that point IC is clearly so crippled and the system so useless to IC without rebuilding that gently caress it).

Then we want them to take over a burning colony which will act as a deadweight and force them to waste resources rebuilding it.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2017 13:29

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Saros posted:

I mean, maybe? It's several square kilometers of facility under a whole shitload of ice. Perhaps if you used your plasma cannons to 'gently' boil off the ice you'd be able to asess.

Let's gently caress it with plasma cannons. :v:

Or could we caress it a little harder with some nukes.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2017 17:05

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Azathoth?

# ¿ Aug 16, 2017 15:00

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Crazycryodude posted:

Nothing's more fun than kicking up enough dust that the oceans freeze and the temperature runs away to like -60 and kills everyone. So much cheaper and easier than having to manually bomb all the people to death or pump chlorine into the atmosphere, too.

Can terraformers work quickly enough to be used in battle?

# ¿ Aug 17, 2017 22:30

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Time to rename the Atrocity Exhibition to plain ol' Atrocity when it gets upgraded to its final form.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2017 13:43

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Get the Triumvir to show us evidence of one failsafe and we'll get the TFS to back off.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2017 14:34

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Crazyeyes24 posted:

Unconditional surrender.

Mars does not negotiate with terrorists. Letting this one guy get out doesn't mean the other IC big wigs won't detonate the nukes on their own anyways once he is clear. This isn't a surrender that will save us many lives, only a shot for him to save his own. We'll own Titan completely in another couple rounds of combat.

We put him and his cronies on a ship we command and they can stay there until we find and disarm all the bombs.

Also, do these people have families? We can let them go but keep their families as insurance s aboard the harvesters as insurance.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2017 15:25

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Saros posted:

Never gently caress with goons.

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A request to reveal the location of a device as evidence was refused, the Triumvir simply stated he has limited devices and leaving you half the production capability means he loses most of his leverage.

Maybe I've watched too much Game of Thrones...

# ¿ Aug 30, 2017 16:01

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Saros posted:

Civilian casualties are around three million at the moment. About 2/3 from Triton fleet scattering 100kt warheads around and the rest from the ground fighting/misc other war related stuff. This comes to about 1.5% of the Titan population. Massive destruction but not the tens of millions people are slinging around.

This is quite true about the powerful escaping consequences though its a fairly safe assumption that if there are in fact nukes and you let him go they wont be set off. Special Branch has a habit of finding and paying people visits who cross the Martian Republic in that sort of way and he's smart enough to know this.

The leadership of the TFS wants him bad and cant quite bring themselves to believe there is actually an insurance plan. In their minds stringing up (literally or otherwise) the previous administration would both please the masses and legitimise their own leadership so they would emphatically support any option which ends up involving a Triumvir in their hands.

Don't we have some Spec-Ops Ninjas than can make him 'accidentally' disappear?

# ¿ Aug 30, 2017 18:48

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Unconditional surrender with conditions as per nickesasky

We'll promise that the TFS won't hang, draw and quarter him, and that's it. He should feel lucky to get out of this alive.

If he blows the harvesters we declare open season on him and all his colleagues and let the mob at em.

Also seconding vent and secure harvesters.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 12:19

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Looks like Snark's about to get his promotion!

# ¿ Sep 3, 2017 09:38

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

silentsnack posted:

The navy's flags could have a space for killmarks and/or something to represent significant battles and foes defeated... though it might eventually need to be extended to make room for more. Eventually it'll just be a mile-long tapestry of abstract art, but who cares.

Like the average 40k flag then.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2017 21:47

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Sic semper capitalism (sic)

# ¿ Sep 6, 2017 23:38

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Saros posted:

Almost, the still standing spires are generally out of the fall zones of the major debris rings. Anything in the strike zone of the two major bands is long gone.

Did the probe die of natural causes or did something else happen to it.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 17:33

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Nevets posted:

I'm hoping it was some sort of mass transcendence event a-la Stargate ascension and any badguys are late arrivals picking over what they left behind, rather than the sleeping conquerors of the galaxy's greatest civilization.

Let's not kid ourselves. From the description of their adversaries, the not-Federation was totally eaten by Azathoth.

I wish to petition that our insignia be replaced with the Elder Sign ~~at earliest convenience~~now.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 22:50

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

F'thagn!

# ¿ Sep 15, 2017 18:04

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

pthighs posted:

If they kidnap me, kill them. My wife left me, my dog died, why do you think I volunteered for this mission anyways?

To get eaten by Azathoth.

I love this twist.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2017 19:37

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Veloxyll posted:

Welp. Looks like we've gone both Machine Cult AND Event Horizon.
At the same time.

RIP Humanity. It was good while it lasted.

_{please send more skulls}

Is Vladimir Putin the Emperor?

# ¿ Sep 21, 2017 00:00

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Do the orbital detonations coincide with known Terran warhead yields?

# ¿ Oct 7, 2017 19:47

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Can't we build automated jumpships with only basic AI routines to do the jumping to minimise exposure of our crews until we.figure out the mechanics of jump psychosis? Basically cargo modules strapped to an engine to carry matériel, it could have a crew module to fly it out to the JP, the tender then shoves it through. We could even work a ferry system in where the detached crew module then latches onto an oncoming transport to take it back. At least then we can keep exploiting Ranganui and only need expose the crew twice per tour of duty there.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2017 16:25

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Saros, I got shot out of my ship, am I automatically back in rotation for another or will I have to reapply?

Also would love my traits as well if you have the time.

Zaodai, fluffwise it doesn't seem to me like we need a massively complex guidance system to push a ship through a jump field. Why don't we try to jump some missiles? If those work then we can scale it up to make our cargo haulers.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2017 17:02

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

The Coldest War had Raw_Beef, an unholy human/aliendroid hybrid. Paradise Lost has Asherak/h, an unfathomable ancient horror of hunger trapped beneath the sea.

This thread has... a parrot?

# ¿ Oct 11, 2017 12:14

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Anta posted:

Could the OCD that the jump-immune are exhibiting be the reason for their immunity, not a symptom. A lot of OCD symptoms are safety behaviors used to reduce fear or anxiety. If they were performing some kind of safety behavior to cope with the jump effects, maybe we could try using these on purpose?

I propose sending someone that already has OCD through, as well as regular subjects, with orders to perform various safety behaviors. Tell them that they need to keep switching the light on and off or the airlocks will open. "Weird glitch, that. Well, good luck!"

e: Or even telling them that squeezing a ball or pushing a button helps against the jump sickness. Maybe if they believe that it will actually work? It's a brain thing so let's use placebo?

I know we've tried to sedate people going through, but have we tried altering their brain chemistry? Try jump tests with subjects on antipsychotics, anticholinergics, LSD and every other combination of upper/downer/sideways-er we have.

Also try sending some psychopaths through and see how they respond.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2017 10:52

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

VanSandman posted:

Democracy is not a natural good form of government. It�s better than most, but AI-controlled socialism might be more in line with our Fully Communist Future.

Would you prefer the Demarchy, the Conjoiners or our new Mind overlords?

# ¿ Oct 16, 2017 15:27

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Yes but with the caveat that whatever we jump with is a fork of the main facility AI and the Facility is well aware of 'Jump Psychosis'.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2017 23:45

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Yay I'm back in command.

Looking forward to the incoming jump psychosis and getting noodled by Azathoth.

Fthagn!

# ¿ Oct 20, 2017 14:44

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Saros posted:

Made up of surviving veterans of the war who lost their ships the 1st Cruiser squadron is an elite unit with great expectations. It also has the first jump compatible carrier attached commanded by Lt-Gen Z the IVth.

Small request Saros, could I be on the Right Obturator Foramen now please?

# ¿ Oct 20, 2017 21:01

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Have we tried looking down the other end?

I mean if we are seeing things disappearing down one end of the cylinder, are they coming out the other?

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 17:48

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Graveyard I always preferred archeology.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2017 01:23

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

If we have 3 of the drives couldn't we turn 1 into a jump tender, 1 into a jump battleship and disassemble the last one?

We don't need all of our big ships to be able to jump, one to push/pull them through the network is sufficient, and we can keep a second around as a backup. This of course assumes that there is significant benefit to be gained from disassembling just one of the drives.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2017 13:03

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 08:15

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

HiHo ChiRho posted:

WATCH MARS START AN INTERSTELLAR WAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Pre8iaHYA

On a more relevant note, I assume our xeno teams are competent enough to have covered all reasonable first contact communication methods and we don't need to suggest things like pulsing our sensors in the order of primes?

Also another vote for do not shoot first!

# ¿ Nov 6, 2017 19:17

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