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Shepard Quest Mk VII, Age of Revy (ME/MCU)
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Sections of your post are written in white font so parts of the post look blank (like the parts around drug trials for one).
Large chunks of the update are colored white rather then the forum's default color. You can see this by all the
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[/color]Oh and since it is now really relevent; @tri2 have we got anymore details on that offer to use the Hanar's shipyards for their order?
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The Reapers are increasing their support for the Batarian war effort. Also, Batarian ships are now being built with more advanced materials than PI? That is unacceptable! Revy can not let that stand. PI has the most advanced superalloys. Not the four eyes. Unobtainium is a must.
In any case, it seems that we need to improve SA infantry equipment as well as somehow improve SA ship tech and increase SA ship numbers.
In any case, it seems that we need to improve SA infantry equipment as well as somehow improve SA ship tech and increase SA ship numbers.
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actually it is 24+, since not all ships require a full 3 months to be repaired as they suffer from various levels of battle damage, some are less severe.
you can request it this turn, and I gotta figure out how many shipyards they actually have, which is probably not much.
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not more advanced than PI, just more advanced than what the Batarians have been shown to have before.
Going for crypto + brain shielding is probably the best plan for getting the rest of the council to join (via some decrypted information to give the push to join) and defending against the potential incoming set of reapertech that the alliance will be trying to reverse engineer from the batarians.
Also the batarians have the numerical advantage, it might be worth aiming for swarm networking, construction VI and then construction drones (Maybe networked construction drones is another tech that could pop-up?) next turn, since that should be a useful boost for construction rates and building the factories and shipyards. Then aiming to try and mitigate the number advantage by building more factories & shipyards with the drones.
For war tech, UV + High GW is the best bet as TIR is expensive and we want a quick boost. But it might be better to push construction rate and breaking the crypto first.
Also the batarians have the numerical advantage, it might be worth aiming for swarm networking, construction VI and then construction drones (Maybe networked construction drones is another tech that could pop-up?) next turn, since that should be a useful boost for construction rates and building the factories and shipyards. Then aiming to try and mitigate the number advantage by building more factories & shipyards with the drones.
For war tech, UV + High GW is the best bet as TIR is expensive and we want a quick boost. But it might be better to push construction rate and breaking the crypto first.
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This must be frustrating to the Batarans in the field.
"We have the equipment to beat them, but not in a way that let's us enslave them! What are we even doing here?"
The council will likely only get up and support us under the table like lend lease or something. If they join then the traverse races will likely unite behind the four eyes and they don't want to escalate the war.
Honestly, I'm kinda curious what the other Council races think of this. The Batarian's have basically been a puppet/barrier between Council space and the rest of the Terminus, weakening any potential rivals with constant 'pirate' and slaver attacks, while always being too self-destructive to rise up themselves. But getting a tech-boost by being Reaper pawns shoots their effective military up considerably. Probably still not enough to be a real threat to any of the Council (who are all older, more advanced, and just plain bigger), but the fact that it happened without them knowing would be...concerning.
On a seperate note...is there a particular reason we haven't gotten a Biotics instructor again yet? We exhausted Human expertise a while ago, but there is plenty of money and reputation to get premium Asari/Krogan/Turian services.
On a seperate note...is there a particular reason we haven't gotten a Biotics instructor again yet? We exhausted Human expertise a while ago, but there is plenty of money and reputation to get premium Asari/Krogan/Turian services.
Hm. How much infantry is the Alliance deploying? By this point we have supplied them with at least 425,013 Legionaries with another 100,000 coming this quarter for 525,013.
That figure doesn't include the 567,154.3pr we spent on Misc Military Equipment last quarter. If we split it three ways (PI goods, HK goods, CHA goods) then (assuming HK could keep up) they should have received another 126,034. That would put them at 551,047 Legionaries and 651,047 Legionaries by quarter's end.
Running the numbers yeah; that definitely isn't enough to keep up with demand. Even if only 10% of the Alliance's ~12 million soldiers are infantry we'd still be at only half coverage.
@tri2 - I'm guessing the Alliance is asking for the Soldier Sets outlined on the front page?
As strange as it may sound we can't actually produce a meaningful number of them. At 0.2pr/unit we can produce at most 158,094.9 unless we sacrifice one of our LLPs which bumps us up to 769,873. Enough to cover the Alliance's normal military, combined with our Legionaries, but probably not enough for whatever mass recruitment drive has likely been going on in the background.
We are actually better off, again assuming HK can keep up supply, building more Legionaries. The only part we make for them are Arc Reactors at 0.3pr/unit with HK building the rest. An extra 105,396.6 Legionaries is worth far more then ~158k enhanced hardsuits. Probably worth five or even ten times as much given their combat performance.
That is already the plan. Unfortunately they've got a fair amount of lead time and by the time they are ready they won't actually be as urgent.
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This has seriously been bugging me so while been a while feel like I need to clear things up. I literally just re-read the past updates and you are flat out wrong. The Asari didn't steal anything from us, they got the information from a Prothean generator that Liara found with the Prothean relic earlier in the quest.
I call bullshit on the Reapers not having anything better than the suits. We literally saw them send a super powered mech able to go through every unit we had and Hoyr outright admitted that unless we got the best tech that we still would have had trouble with it. The fact that you are saying that a super advanced race that is around a billion years old wouldn't already have tech equivalent to the basic Mk2 is ridiculous in my opinion. The only thing that Revy created that can be considered truly unique would be the Arc Reactors with it being noted that nothing like it was seen in the galaxy. So the argument that the Reapers want Revy because she outtechs them in areas is also ridiculous since it seems pretty obvious that they want Revy because she is literally supernaturally smart.
Also as noted we literally took Flawless Blackboxing to stump even the Reapers for years for any of our products.
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At least it looks like they aren't using the blacboxed PI-derived tech (update would indicate if so). At best, they may be using bootleg arc reactors the Council races already has access too.
Taking the long view, a more advanced batarian enemy and knife-edge war is to our overall advantage. It's a huge incentive to keep everyone innovating, and a huge wakeup call to the Council races to upgrade their forces and stop obstructing progress. Perfect for preparing the galaxy for the upcoming apocalypse. Of course, we still need to, well, win this war.
Personally, I think the Reapers are actually limiting the level of advanced tech that they are providing to the Batarians (The Reapers can provide more advanced tech to the Batarians but they are not). They want the Batarians to be able to keep fighting the Systems Alliance which will put pressure on PI so that Revy Shepard will make even more interesting inventions. The Reapers don't want the Batarians to actually win the war. Overall, the purpose of their support for the Batarians is solely to see what PI/Revy Shepard will do. Not to provide the Batarians with even more advanced tech than PI.
Also, I imagine that the Reapers are supporting the Batarian war effort through the efforts of the Collectors. That Super-Powered Mech as well as other tech was likely provided by the Collectors/Reapers to the Batarians.
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First off need to stress that the whole 'Council races are stagnant' thing is pretty BS and they do show the ability to innovate numerous times. It's just that after a point advancing tech becomes harder and on top of that they have had had peace for years so there isn't that much need to innovate. Also need to point out that Revy is a terrible example with her being something like a one in a billion years genius.
Second think they are using our reactors or rather our earlier ones which has been mentioned previously. Which isn't that surprising since when we started selling the reactors we only had the low levels of blackboxing.
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@Red Bovine if you don't think they stole it then post the quote. I did a few pgs back during the argument. If you feel like revisting it you can do that but I'm not going to get into a multi post argument with you.
Second what makes you think it took the reapers years? We have no idea when they first started to get interested in Revy. As for the suits I'm pretty sure your missing the point. The Arc Reactor is the beating heart of the suit. They don't need the rest of it in conduction with the tech they have that's more advanced. For example the way they combined it with mass effect tech they were ahead of with during the collector invasion.
The whole reason why they are interested in Revy isn't because she's advanced in a field but her innovation speed and the way her tech goes off their predetermined tech tree. The reactor is something they didn't conceive of.
Returning to your tech point does it matter if they take years to crack it when it'll take an equally long time for SA to adopt it? The Reapers will still have the advantage die to being able to adopt it faster once they have cracked it. Again your ignoring things that are inconvenient to your argument. The mech as I've pointed out is basically showing what will happen when you wheel out the MK2.
Edit: thinking about things what would we have to do to find the locks reapers put on ME tech? In ME3 they had code on ships that stopped suicide rammimgs.
Second what makes you think it took the reapers years? We have no idea when they first started to get interested in Revy. As for the suits I'm pretty sure your missing the point. The Arc Reactor is the beating heart of the suit. They don't need the rest of it in conduction with the tech they have that's more advanced. For example the way they combined it with mass effect tech they were ahead of with during the collector invasion.
The whole reason why they are interested in Revy isn't because she's advanced in a field but her innovation speed and the way her tech goes off their predetermined tech tree. The reactor is something they didn't conceive of.
Returning to your tech point does it matter if they take years to crack it when it'll take an equally long time for SA to adopt it? The Reapers will still have the advantage die to being able to adopt it faster once they have cracked it. Again your ignoring things that are inconvenient to your argument. The mech as I've pointed out is basically showing what will happen when you wheel out the MK2.
Edit: thinking about things what would we have to do to find the locks reapers put on ME tech? In ME3 they had code on ships that stopped suicide rammimgs.
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I'm referring to the ongoing treaty negotiations - if that goes south, that's a huge progress obstruction.
I'm aware that low level reactor tech is available to the galaxy. I just think that the main Council races have earmarked most of the production of them (or reverse engineered bootleg versions), and if I were in their or SA shoes, I'd be surprised if the batarian have sufficient quantities of mk1 arc reactors to retrofit much of their fleet.
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Well, this is a must for me for getting better evidence on the origin of the batarian tech upgrade would likely get the council more interested in getting in as well as hopefully get firm evidence of the reaper threat right now.
Thats in addition to its use in war right now.
Well, this is a must for me for getting better evidence on the origin of the batarian tech upgrade would likely get the council more interested in getting in as well as hopefully get firm evidence of the reaper threat right now.
Thats in addition to its use in war right now.
Hopefully this idea gains traction before things get worst. If we had done it a few turns back we could have avoided the escalation happening.
Edit: Have we thought about hiring Citidal mercs to even up the numbers advantage?
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Here is the update and even the exact section of said update that goes into detail about it.
Right there. Putting it in now so people don't let that misconception set in. Otherwise it might pop up later.
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Mercs that can make a difference in a fight between the 4th and 5th best militaries in known space basically doesn't exist.
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@tri2 How much did reputation with the Salarians increase?
I think this may be due to the blackboxing thing where we make it a point to blackbox all our best stuff. That said after having our shipyards filled up I'd suggest from now on being more open to licensing out more stuff for others to make so that we don't end up eating too much production. Honestly seriously regretting not licensing the new ship blocks due to this. Especially since we don't really need the money and rather we not get greedy.
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Can we just lobby the SA military to mothball their damaged ships and transfer the crews to newly built Pydnas?
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right, that's what I was forgetting. Salarian rep increased by 10, Salarian reputation point is now 66