But what are the chances that we actually pick up certain melodies?
Because lacking it blocks a handful of song ideas.
A handful of song ideas that could be very effective if they pan out.
Sterbelicht - One Sacrifice At A Time Against The Galaxy (40K)
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A handful of song ideas that could be very effective if they pan out.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
I'll commit to promising Paths in the next Melodies push then. And there's a lot of will to do that now.
But I want to upgrade all of our core infrastructure Songs while we can.
Next time we do melodies we include paths?
Works for me.
[X] Plan: Prepping for a Golden Age
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
I promise, I'll lead the charge for it if needed.
[X] Plan: Prepping for a Golden Age
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I kinda want to see if we can do some dev next turn. Agriculture is mighty tempting to just rush to X because of how close it is. It will depend on how many actions we have though
Edit: Or this one
[] [Faith] The Penitentia Rite
Implicitly allowed by a Conclave of the Droman Creed, it is time for the priests and Hymnals of the Federation to learn about and put into practice the safe creation of Penitentias, those whose soul and body have been entirely given to the judgment of the Star Child for crimes unforgivable by mortals, yet judgeable by their willingness to repent and be potentially erased by the disgust of the Unborn Divine.
(Gain: Penitentia Rite.)
This one may not be useful but it is something we did promise to look into and legitimized so might as well gain it for...well I am assuming it's gonna be a new type of unit that can be recruited(Cerberus is still hunting cults after all and boy howdy they might use it for that)
Edit2: Actually the rite is interesting because there is a lot of crimes that people commit that for dumb laws or things out of their control. Like being a "unstable psykers" is a crime but how is that their fault? Or even accidentally being part of the cult? This could let our execution laws be less execution-esque because those souls could just now become a "Penitentias" and just live about in the Federation rather than go and die
@HeroCooky would that be such a use case?
Edit: Or this one
[] [Faith] The Penitentia Rite
Implicitly allowed by a Conclave of the Droman Creed, it is time for the priests and Hymnals of the Federation to learn about and put into practice the safe creation of Penitentias, those whose soul and body have been entirely given to the judgment of the Star Child for crimes unforgivable by mortals, yet judgeable by their willingness to repent and be potentially erased by the disgust of the Unborn Divine.
(Gain: Penitentia Rite.)
This one may not be useful but it is something we did promise to look into and legitimized so might as well gain it for...well I am assuming it's gonna be a new type of unit that can be recruited(Cerberus is still hunting cults after all and boy howdy they might use it for that)
Edit2: Actually the rite is interesting because there is a lot of crimes that people commit that for dumb laws or things out of their control. Like being a "unstable psykers" is a crime but how is that their fault? Or even accidentally being part of the cult? This could let our execution laws be less execution-esque because those souls could just now become a "Penitentias" and just live about in the Federation rather than go and die
@HeroCooky would that be such a use case?
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I don't disagree either. We have gotten a lot of breathing room thanks to some of the songs we got. We absolutely should do more(Find more STCs song)
Soooo close. it was TWO. TWO off from a Holy Turn. that 53 ahhhhhhhhhhhh.
Yahhh it is different from the name and vibe when I wrote that down in the Song Combo list. and Songs are good, we just negelcted it and only do the Songs people ask the QM for in terms of 'what kind of song would do X?' when we were grasping at straws or looking for any advantage. Songs are a Core mechanic that can affect a lot more areas.
sounds about right and what we can expect for songs upgraded. I wonder how that would make the Travel and Communicate songs?
Awwwww, that would have been great. Oh well, lets see what we got and what it does.Oops, missed that. The Devouring Mechadendrite doesn't affect Research. Fixed that. Thanks for pointing that out!
Ohhhh nice Art of it very mechanical and feeding into the Name of the song with looking like circuits and nodes.
Industry must expand to meet the ever-increasing demands of industry.
Technology must match the stride of progress to support frames rotting under the march forced upon them.
Idle hands cannot exist when work abounds.
All things increase when the feed is bountiful enough.
and the text associated with it, I kinda forgot each level up of the Melodies changes the image and text as well so I'll do those another day, but it does match a Song focused on Industry, Industries feeds Technology, Technology improves the base of Industry, and elevates the workers to do more so long as the Feed is there. Always love seeing this mechanic in action and what images and text you come up with for them.
...Oh. OH that is a lot. And Damn! I guess we can't expect that to stack with Research but it would have been amazing. Still the fact of Fifty Percent increase and stockpile for general actions.
Alright so because I never went and saw we could just use this to check the Melodies that make up a song. I'd rather get Web Of Song and Bound To The Stars to Level Two first before anything else, like seriously just get some basics up. For that we need to get do Humanity, The Home, and Unity. so its within an Action to do. Other Melodies for songs to be upgraded would be Silence, grounding, Perception, Struggle, and Logic.
LOL. We have finally reached Imperium levels of Paperwork and Bureaucracy, where rounding errors and one Zero removed or added cause far reaching and mind boggling consequences of knock on effects. or heaven forbid we lose a document or spreadsheet and it results in a SBG or Several SAG's not receiving any supplies or the wrong shipments or the 'So THAT's where all our X were going to' due to people stopped checking and tracking resources and current standing forces or ships.
I do feel that is something people need to take into account with that it takes a hundred or two hundred years to train these choirs and then they live for a few hundred more but they do die. it is a slow replenishment rate and based on population in the billions to one ratio. Also the fact it takes choirs stationed on each planet or station in a system as well the choirs on the ships to guide the fleets. It's not surprised as before we had a big surplus of these.... Wait did we ever put that The Celestial Orrery on the Scout ships? You know, the ones that showed the planets and major bodies of a system from a few systems over?
Okay wow, they managed to build themselves up a bit. So those systems to Low Imperial Level are the ones below Brauns and damn, considering how they were before and the freighters or large ships that weren't under the Black Ash Clan being 'free cities' they had to negotiate with to move their forces around to now being able to make Light Cruisers on the regular each turn with escorts but also able to make Heavy Cruisers if need be? they've improved and put a LOT of effort, or maybe just paid the Black Cats to, in maintained and keeping that Grand Cruiser intact and it IS something we want to try to keep that way if we absorb them or have to war with them.
Okay why is changing the Micro cannons up a number or grade a Heresy? at least they stopped being completely against change or modifying stuff. Oh so not a flak frigate but they are including Anti-Voidcraft on it. not a bad frigate honestly.
I... that's bit odd but if you feel the ships as animals or steeds it makes sense? it would certainly fit the culture if some ships are designed to be paired up to cover their weaknesses or support each other, it would be a neat little cultural thing for them.
Ohhh, interesting and thank you QM for throwing us a bone. It does make sense if there is a Right of Succession and a border world that has seen what the Federation has to offer and has something similar enough to their way of life in the shape of the Knight Orders, add in the amount of Karnivores we can seemingly give away of course it would make sense for some nobles to do that.
Hah, 'Metaphors' so the QM can do fun things or just cheese it to write less. but yah when put like that with trying to contact a not-yet-born Entity in the present...yah.
Oh boy that already is off to great start, still constructing the HQ and having the office workers doing their job as it still is being built and the Branch Manager.... I don't think that's the Star child but interesting the boss of the workers aren't there yah. So Workers in a Office still being built, that is hell for a lot of things and annoyances like you don't know if they will need to cut the water or electricity at all and all the noise and half finished rooms you are using.
HAH, the top five clients being Iconoclast factions and one of them phoning in for customer support, kept kicking up the chain, did a all hands meeting..... and ended up in the same situation we did and this time the Branch Manager isn't there or can be contacted. Andddd there is return to monkey, didn't see that coming, did we throw a fire bomb into the plans and structure of the star Child's stuff due to that?
Oh lovely, that works out fine.... So just keep those 11 spirits to the moths only but what about the Mashan Temple Authority.... what exactly is their religions again?
Oh boy they've repaired to done enough to move around now.... in space which you kinda need coordinates and know where you are heading. Should we worry about the Fact they're out looking for the ships we looted and the Hidden World Engine we know of? I just hope the Ashan families didn't do something to the thing as we are absorbing them.
oh sweet, that would be a good QoL improvement for them. Maybe leads into something else, not sure what that would be though.
haha, I get it. It would seem like a generous gift or just being rich assholes and flaunting the well in a 'look how much I can give away as a gift and its nothing to me ohohohoho'. Still given warpacks are....I think 3 or 5 per pack and there are 5 packs inside a warpack and we can create 15 warpacks with one action, that's about 225 for the 3 per pack one and 375 for 5 per pack? Am I right on that or did I mess up? fucking hell that would be less then an action's worth. Yah given we have the Knight Orders working on new equipment I would say to either help speed that up and then do this or do it the turn after they finish the new equipment.
Oh shit, it IS getting better and them just Malding like 'damn it why aren't you massing on the border so we can justify you being a threat and attack right away and do this already'
I still say this is worth a Write-in, if not for setting up Iconoclast Break away state to use as a buffer then to keep up relations as we just keep things as is.
Oh shit, Autoticker almost done here and we just need Logic to upgrade another one of the songs. then again we do have Four melodies per one action... ahhh a bunch of choices but I'd like to complete the Kil'drabi and Secret trees just to have them.
Yah that's good, and I'd be behind that. I want to get the Web Of Song and Bound to stars up to see if that speeds up the messages and travel time or what.
agreed and we should get those Anti-Dutchy fleets ready sooner then later, just in case. Maybe use an write in to do more diplomacy with the Dutchy.
My worries as well, thing is this was for Warp Spirits having a religion and followers, Not sure of the Mashan Temple Authority and what their religion is exactly. Something to keep in mind but might be something to not poke.
awwww, well its still something. General Actions include Terraforming, Colonizing, Development, the Planetmaw, and the diplomacy or subversion actions. So we will have something to do.
yah we were so close with a 53.Did so. No Chaos or Faith proc.
HAH, and here we thought it was a one time use only or something big happened.
Hah... That does check out for 40k and it could make complete sense depending on the context.
Sounds about right with how easy it is to do.
it really does and we will be doing a lot of diplomacy or developments. hell even the terraforming are an easy way to grind it.
Oh right.... those. WAIT.
Nah, as much as it would be the dice goblin way to do that, lets have some standards, that said this is the fate of a lot of QM after a certain point where the bookkeeping becomes a monster in itself.
1. Hold on Qm, Do we have to spend an action to make sure those equipment we have for our Karnivores are compatible and work with their Knights? or rather would we have to upscale it and train the pilots siding with us on how to use it? or would that choice in the Duel be taken care of by the two actions?
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Sorry to pop your hopes, but becoming a Penitentia would be...very much an undesireable state of living. You will turn those souls too far gone for other methods into a Penitentia and then put them into a time-freeze box to unleash upon your foes as suicide-chargers later. It will not allow them to live as people. It is a, literal, repentance with their life to guard their immortal souls.
It would be handled in a sub-turn before the duels.
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Damn never mind. We will take this...later. Much much later
Probably after making a song to make sure that nobody with survivor guilt abuses the system
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
There is a distinct difference between "We literally cannot save you from Chaos, unless you put your soul into the hands of the Five United Yet Divided" and "Mental State that'd immediately get noticed before any preparations for the rite begin."
Yeah, we already have decent mental healthcare (at least in comparison to the Imperium) and in Cerberus' first century of the 100,000 cultists they busted, only 5,000 had to be killed. If we had this Rite back then, this Rite would only be available for those 5,000.
For the people who get offered the Rite, it's literally this or death.
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Worse. It is the Rite or straight to Chaos.
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"Look. It's this or Chaos and trust me you don't want Chaos"
Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves
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Oh yeah just realized. Not this turn but next turn our coup of Malusian will go off. +1 planet get.