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Inheritance Of Man (A Mass Effect Empire Quest)

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vaaliant said:
Sadly I think the diplomatic scene has been cratered, nuked, cratered again, had the remaining rubble nuked and then salted for good measure. Did no one tell the Batarians this was an extremely bad idea (tm)? Oh wait...all the people that might have warned the Batarians due to first hand knowledge are dead.

So anyone else looking forward to the Covenant and Eventide response?
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I believe this is the response
 
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But yeah, it wasn't until I started writing Catastrophic Revelations that I realized if I wanted to show everything that happened, I'd have to write this long ass short story. Like, 50,000 words or so.

Hence why it's so abbreviated.
 
I just checked: We still have a Pit free. What do you good folks think about introducing Khar'shan to it next turn/whenever the war goes active?

Oh, and @Crystalwatcher ? Did you roll the re-rolls for failed actions thanks to Worst-Case Modelling last turn? Asking because I don't think you/we did, and it might have effected the need for omake bonuses...

-Just checked, looks like everyone forgot that we get to re-roll failures once, and then re-roll any crit-fails again.
 
Crystalwatcher said:
Things that happened but didn't make it in:​

  • Saren fighting his way across the colony like an action hero wearing nothing but his pants before being captured because he was standing too close to a fuel refiner when it blew.
  • Shia flipping her shit because her daughter is missing.
  • The arrival of the Lucid Sea's outer colony defense forces and their curbstomp of the Batarian raid party.
  • Shepard turning the cruiser into a setting fit for a saw movie.
  • E.V.E. finding the cruiser dead while the last living batarian is begging her not to open the airlock which lets Shep through.
  • Saren's "We Can Rebuild Him" scene.
  • Shia praising Saren for being a hero.
  • Shep being adorable visiting Saren in the hospital.
  • And Saren commenting to Nihlus not to go drinking with dustlings, otherwise it won't be until after you're out of the hospital and back to work that you realize it wasn't actually your idea to have sex on the beach the following morning. Regardless of how good it was.
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Mind if I uh...borrowed, one or two of these?
 
vaaliant said:
Sadly I think the diplomatic scene has been cratered, nuked, cratered again, had the remaining rubble nuked and then salted for good measure. Did no one tell the Batarians this was an extremely bad idea (tm)? Oh wait...all the people that might have warned the Batarians due to first hand knowledge are dead.

So anyone else looking forward to the Covenant and Eventide response?
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I do worry, though, just how much the reaction might strain relations with others. For the most part, in the eyes of the Citadel species, the Covenant and especially the Eventide are this ominous, looming entity of terrifying but relatively inactive potential, something that could prove a nightmarish catastrophe beyond anything faced thus far, yet thankfully doesn't seem to be intent on actually turning that potential into very real consequence. Now the Batarians may have set of the metaphorical spark that ignites a conflagration. Everyone else may see this unfathomable AI wrought by Human hands leading an army of zealots in a crusade against the Batarians. They fear AI already, and tensions are decidedly sub-optimal between the main polities. Those fears becoming realised could prove quite unnerving, and all the more with the Protheans delivering dire portents of a different machine army coming to purge them all; if the Covenant and their AI goddess decide to utterly erase and subsume a faction that used to be "one of us" to the Citadel alliance, then they might fear all the more. Who would be next? What might set Eve off? Is the AI secretly readying to take over Sur'Kesh to seize artifacts by force? Will the next trade agreement to turn sour incite a holy war dragging in the Eventide? Or might Eve and its slavishly loyal minions deem the other races more useful to the future war effort subjugated and assimilated like some of the other races? Presently, people are scared of what they think that the Covenant and Eventide might be able to do, but they may also come to fear what they can and will do. Granted, stomping on the Batarians may still be for the best, but fear is hardly a rational problem. I think the Council is going to be very grateful indeed in the coming days that their best man happens to be right where they need him, because need him they likely will.
 
Crystalwatcher said:
The only things that failed were the Database rolls I think. And those don't get re-rolls.
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Uh, does this mean that Worst Case Modelling only applies to actions that failed after Omake Bonuses are done with? Because there were I believe four actions that failed before Omake Bonuses were added in. I'm wondering because that's changed from what happened when you rolled Turn 19's actions last year... Which would explain any confusion/mistakes I'm guess. XD

Also: What category would our recently gained ability to terraform any type of 'habitable' world we desire fall under? … Oh gods, with our hopefully-soon-to-exist ability to fabricate even 'impure' materials such as Eezo, we're going to be able to make some seriously weird worlds, aren't we?
 
Pyro Hawk said:
Uh, does this mean that Worst Case Modelling only applies to actions that failed after Omake Bonuses are done with? Because there were I believe four actions that failed before Omake Bonuses were added in. I'm wondering because that's changed from what happened when you rolled Turn 19's actions last year... Which would explain any confusion/mistakes I'm guess. XD
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I simply forgot to re-roll those.

Pyro Hawk said:
Also: What category would our recently gained ability to terraform any type of 'habitable' world we desire fall under? … Oh gods, with our hopefully-soon-to-exist ability to fabricate even 'impure' materials such as Eezo, we're going to be able to make some seriously weird worlds, aren't we?
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Pretty much anything, and yes.
 
Crystalwatcher said:
"You do realize you're going to have half the precinct after you right?"

Saren simply looks at Kyon's adorable pout before nodding firmly. "Worth it."
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Totally worth it.
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"Hey kid." He groans out, rolling onto his arms and knees so he could look about. The cell itself is small, a massive gilax -who looked to be female, but he could never tell for sure with their species, much like many others- and a group of sabin and brambier. And next to him, the child that had woken him up.

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Crystalwatcher said:
The child nods somberly, "It's o... Mr Eyes was lying wasn't he? About bringing my mommy here."

"'Fraid so. They're the badguys that were attacking the colony."

And for the first time in his life, Saren knows how it feel to watch innocence die.

He's not sure how to describe it, aside from the fading of light in the child's eyes, but somehow he knows that is what it is. Her tears still flow, even as her sobs peter off through her too-small hands trying to hold him together from the wounds he got in his attempt to help her. And as he watches, he sees a resolve overcome the child. Something as indescribable as watching her innocence die changes her from an adorable child into a living reminder that her species were made by the Covenant's Gods.
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Batarians are gonna have a bad time.

Crystalwatcher said:
Three feet of nothing with long white hair.
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FTFY
Crystalwatcher said:
Covenant Codex: Interstellar War:
Sparkler: Sparkler Storm Front
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A little known tactic that is favored by Sparklers as a species along the frontier. Military-wise it is known that Sparklers prefer to deploy in small "Sparkle Clouds" in support of fellow Covenant units.

"Sparkler Storm Fronts" are these clouds brought to their logical conclusion in the defense of Sparkler Colonies. Whenever a Covenant World comes under attack, the local Sparkler population normally swarms into a single massive super-colony referred to as a "Sparkler Storm". These "Storms" commonly range from several quadrillion on frontier planets, to several septillion on more developed worlds capable of sustaining such populations.

Easily living forces of nature under sapient control, these vast storm fronts are guided by their Sparkler conjurers in an attempt to utterly annihilate an invading force, or to forcibly ground bombarding vessels from orbit by using combined biotic techniques commonly strong enough to tear apart and reshape entire regions.

A mixture of logistical limitations of transporting the required populations and the near-suicidal nature of the technique from the raw energy being discharged within the Storms render this a purely defensive formation among Sparklers and restricted to planetary counter-invasion.
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[X] One Year Plan
 
... Hopefully for the final time this update, @Crystalwatcher Whatever happened to the options to investigate Elcor miniaturization and omnitech to see if we could get any benefit from that?
 
Crystalwatcher said:
I think that's on the list of things I never considered.

I'm willing to take write-ins, but I'd have to think over what exactly you can get from it.
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Just found a comment after the final Rome update explaining what happened to them. Namely, we're waiting on the Council AI Laws being revised such that it's legal for the Eventide to actually trade/contact the Elcor.

The fact we're trading resources and data now suggests that it's either been solved or is currently suspended under 'Emergency Wartime Provisions'.
 
Why am I getting alerts again from CW's latest threadmarked posts?
 
So um. @Crystalwatcher you know how I said hopefully last time was the last time? I was wrong. You forgot this bit from turn 19's results.
Crystalwatcher said:
Forward Unto Twilight gains a second Roll per turn!
The Database difficulty levels have all been reduced by 3!
Manually focusing on The Database will roll twice!
Extra hidden End Game Techs have been revealed!
Ion gains the Metatron trait!
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Or at least partially. I'm assuming that you did reveal the hidden End Game Techs, just as you decreased The Database's difficulty levels and gave Ion her trait. But you only did two rolls for The Database Turn 20. The first manual roll, and the first Forward Unto Twilight roll. You missed the second roll from manually focusing and the second automatic roll due to Forward Unto Twilight.

Also, you haven't updated Forward Unto Twilight's description which is why I suspect you forgot about it.

Don't expect anything to come from it, if only due to the sheer difficulty, but you might want to look at things...
 
Crystalwatcher said:
His partner's head is no longer on his, but then again he wasn't really paying attention to that. "... But I'm vacationing on Mind's Door." It was actually recommended for you by three different people. The beaches were already one of the best tourist attractions in the Lucid Sea, and it's position as a relay to a vast section of the rest of the said Sea meant travel to and from it was cheap. It was also in the outer reaches of Covenant space almost entirely opposite of the direction of the Citadel and thus so far out of your jurisdiction the Council would have zero clout to 'call you in' on a 'local problem', and potentially cut your vacation short.
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@Crystalwatcher, you slipped into 2nd person instead of 3rd person a few times in this paragraph.

Also, do we know what species Shep's father is? I wanna say it was a Thresher Maw, but it's been so long that I can't remember if that was real or just a joke someone else made.
 
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