THE INFINITE BROOD (Starcraft/Supreme Commander Crossover Quest!)

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THE SWARM SHEET
  • Informational
    • The Brood of Blades
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    Cerebrate Prime: Samantha Clarke
    LEVEL: 5
    XP: 205/210
    TRAITS
    Strategic Genius: Once per structured encounter, Sam can create a piece of the environment that is in her favor as a sticky spark. Roll a d3 for its value.
    Empathetic: upon meeting an NPC, learn their motivation!
    Legendary Commander: Gain 4 Command sparks at the beginning of each mission/combat. Command sparks may be spent to give NPCs orders, which they may either obey or refuse to obey (doing nothing instead.) Command sparks may not be regained via skills or powers.
    Hunted: Something wants her - but for what? +1 Danger to all scenes​
    SKILLS
    CLOSE COMBAT (2): Brawling, Edged Weapons
    PERSONAL (2): Awareness, Resilience
    SOCIAL (4): Charm, Empathy, Leadership, Taunt​
    MASTERY
    ACU Pilot (2): Nanofabrication [Mass], ObSat Operations [Range]
    The Hilt (4): Biomorphic Spawning (People), Regeneration (Durability), Physical Perfection (Speed), Telepathic Dominion (Range)​

    POWERS
    The Living Swarm
    Vent: 4-0
    Effect: Gain 1 Living Swarm spark, +1 per vent reduction.​
    The Living Swarm: While this swarm exists, move in three dimensions and through anything smaller than a keyhole, reforming at will. You may expend these sparks to cause 3 Hit Sparks in a Area 2 radius.​
    Area Upgrade: +1 to Area Characteristic​

    Biomorphic Reinforcement
    Vent: 4-0
    Effect: Create 1 Biomorphic Reinforcement spark, +1 per vent reduction, which can be given out to anyone within Range 2, or to yourself
    Biomorphic Reinforcement: +1 to Damage or Mass characteristic for the purpose of raw physical strength/feats.

    Back to Back
    Vent: 4-0
    Effect: Choose 1 ally (+1 per vent reduction), within Range 1. Each can take one action using one of your skills, any of them that you wish. Once they have done so, you may make a free attack with your melee weapon, getting +1 to your skill per ally that acted.​

    Adaptation
    Vent: 4-0
    Effect: Create a number of sparks equal to the enemy's difficulty, narratively based on turning their abilities against them. Works on enemies of Diff 2>, +2 per vent reduction.​

    Just as Planned…
    Vent: 6-0
    Effect: Vent 6 heat and create 1 Planning Spark for her or an ally, +1 Spark per vent reduction.​
    Planning: The person holding this Spark can expend this to get +1 to a skill check as a free action. Using this Stack counts as you are helping for the purpose of relationships.​

    GEAR
    Zeratul's Psi-Blades
    Adds: +0 (Edged Weapons) | Characteristics: Damage [Speed] (4)[1]​
    Shadowstep (3): Can expend as a free action to move without crossing intervening space.
    Guarded Space (3): Can expend to use Damage as a secondary characteristic for Durability, reducing incoming Damage characteristics.​

    GALACTIC WAR
    Victory Points: 5    ​
    RESOURCES​
    TERRAN DOMINION [Background] (1)​
    The men and material of the Dominion - limited, but they're mustering as we speak. ​
    ALLIANCE EXPEDITIONARY FORCES [Mastery] (1)​
    While you have access to several ACUs of every faction, they lack economic and technological support to be fully effective. ​
    ZERG HIVE [Mastery] (1)​
    The scant few Zerg you control that are free of Amon's influence. Mostly Zerglings. ​
    AEON FLEET [Background] (1)​
    While half a dozen CZARs seem impressive, they're not actually well made for ship to ship combat. ​
    ALLIED COHESION [Motivation] (1)​
    The alliance is fragile and weak.​

    FRONTS​
    Trade Sector-34-51 [Pirate Activity]
    Pirates Raiding 6 (Supply Lines in Disarray 1)
    COMMAND: Jim Raynor | ARMY: Raynor's Raiders
    RESULTS: Pending

    Braxis [Zerg Invasion]
    Borealis Siege 6 (Zerg Rampage1)
    COMMAND: General Samantha Clarke | ARMY: Brood Clarke
    RESULTS: Pending

    Typhan II [Active Xel'Naga ACU]
    Typhan II Occupied 6 (Xel'Naga ACU Spotted 1)
    COMMAND: Lt. Colonel Mathew Horner | ARMY: UEF Armored Command Unit
    RESULTS: Pending

    Deep Space Sector 981 [Hive Fleet Identified]
    Zerg Hive Fleet Spotted 6 (Kerrigan? 1)
    COMMAND: Citizen-Commander Dostya | ARMY: CN Armored Command Unit
    RESULTS: Pending
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    ENEMY ASSETS (Currently Known)
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    THE GOLDEN ARMADA
    ACTIVITY: Unknown | Threat Level: 6​
     
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    • [] Ask what the Terran Dominion wants out of this

    The only option we're actually willing to accept might be the Dominion's unconditional surrender, but the difficulty of getting that might be reduced with sufficient rapport development before making demands.

    DragonCobolt said:
    (I have been trying to make her...like, super biased and blind to her faction's flaws while still feeling like an actual human being, hopefully it has worked!)
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    I think so, yeah. :D

    @Avangelion:
    Ooh, good idea, thanks!

    [X] Ask what the Emperor wants out of this
    -[X] Follow up by asking what the Crown Prince wants out of this

    @SweetJackal:
    And that, thanks!

    [X] Ask him if that is his conviction and he would be better for the Terran Dominion, why hasn't he gotten his father to retire over it?

    Mailstrome said:
    Oh and Sam being a good old-fashioned antifascist.
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    Ehhh. Is she, though? She's fighting militant abolitionists mind-controlling cyborgs, theocratic-monarchists (with exactly how cultish and hardline about their religion they actually are unknown to me), and now just basic authoritarian monarchists and a biotech hivemind species that currently has a (semi?-)broken hivemind. ...And I'm not sure about the Tal'Darim counting as fascists or not, but she's not actually fought them much. I guess the Dominion is kind of fascist... but the UEF is also kind of fascist, so I'm not sure it really has all that much of an advantage in lack of fascistic aspects.
    (I'm not saying the Dominion is good, to be clear, but there are a lot of non-fascist ways governments can be terrible.)
     
    Reese said:
    Ehhh. Is she, though? She's fighting militant abolitionists mind-controlling cyborgs, theocratic-monarchists (with exactly how cultish and hardline about their religion they actually are unknown to me), and now just basic authoritarian monarchists and a biotech hivemind species that currently has a (semi?-)broken hivemind. ...And I'm not sure about the Tal'Darim counting as fascists or not, but she's not actually fought them much. I guess the Dominion is kind of fascist... but the UEF is also kind of fascist, so I'm not sure it really has all that much of an advantage in lack of fascistic aspects.
    (I'm not saying the Dominion is good, to be clear, but there are a lot of non-fascist ways governments can be terrible.)
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    The Aeon routinely murder entire populations of UEF or Cybran nationality if they wont convert without a second thought. The Aeon campaign directly focuses on how the Princess of the Aeon cannot stand this & acts to stop it (through psychically appealing to everyone's better natures, which screams mind control).

    The zerg turn humans into unthinking weapons, which is enough for Clarke (she saw them in a briefing but didn't see them detonate which would probably seal the deal on her wanting them destroyed).

    The Tal'Darim follow the Great Chain of Ascension fanatically and felt that refugees presence on a planet of theirs needed to be corrected by killing the refugees and removing every trace of Clarke's tech from the planet.

    The Dominion has an emperor, uses propoganda to control its citizens, it's generals are basically charicatures of various generals from American and European history, warts and all, they still use Confederacy Marine tech without reservation (the mind-controlly kind & the kind that can hardwire someone into their exo-suit).

    So far, Raynor's group and the Auirites are the only not ethically questionable factions she's met. And I say that because even the Aeon & the Cybrans (and the UEF) don't use armies of people as soldiers. [Edit: She's killed more people in any single battle here than in her whole career before coming here, she even has empathy for the Zerg, and she tries to save lives wherever she goes, even putting herself into extreme danger to do so.] The Koprulu sector is ~800+ years socially behind what Clarke sees as the UEF's social climate and her ignorance of the UEF's flaws is so incredibly human. I could not see Clarke that this stage of her life still being a whole person if she seriously questioned what she was fighting for and that is kinda incredible, and despite everything she's been through, she's a big godamn hero.
     
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    DragonCobolt said:
    The Cybran use brainwashing programs and enforced cybernetic controls to turn people into their slaves.
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    I find the compartmentalization of information in the UEF really funny and pathetic. Like, she's a General, and a personal friend of the UEF's president, and even she thinks that there's a 'Brackman virus' that controls people to join the Cybrans. Like, they're literally pushing a modern drapetomania as their propaganda explanation for the Cybrans. It's such a fragile lie and they're so paranoid about it they conceal it even from high ranked members of the military who it's not sustainably possible to conceal the truth from.
     
    Mailstrome said:
    [X] Ask what the Emperor wants out of this
    [X] Follow up by asking what the Crown Prince wants out of this
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    Twei said:
    [X] Ask what the Emperor wants out of this
    [X] Follow up by asking what the Crown Prince wants out of this
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    Just a heads up, but because they're missing the dash in before the "Follow up..." part of the plan, your votes are being picked up by vote tally software as separate from the following:

    [ ] Ask what the Emperor wants out of this
    -[ ] Follow up by asking what the Crown Prince wants out of this
     
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    Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Dec 8, 2023 at 3:18 PM, finished with 22 posts and 15 votes.
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    Can you believe i'm 80k in and we're almost at the one third point???

    Also, it looks like first we ask the emps, then we ask the prince what their deal is!
     
    Reese said:
    @Avangelion:
    Ooh, good idea, thanks!

    [X] Ask what the Emperor wants out of this
    -[X] Follow up by asking what the Crown Prince wants out of this
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    I should clarify I changed my vote after some people wrote out the idea, not me.
    deadcrystal said:
    I find the compartmentalization of information in the UEF really funny and pathetic. Like, she's a General, and a personal friend of the UEF's president, and even she thinks that there's a 'Brackman virus' that controls people to join the Cybrans. Like, they're literally pushing a modern drapetomania as their propaganda explanation for the Cybrans. It's such a fragile lie and they're so paranoid about it they conceal it even from high ranked members of the military who it's not sustainably possible to conceal the truth from.
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    I mean, I guess they've got the resources to hide it- as much as people have the resources to find out about it,
    What's the canon behind things? Like, I vaguely know they have legitimate grievances/mainly kinda want to be left alone, but other than that I can't remember.
    Would be interesting to think about how it meshes with the Zerg hivemind thing even early on,

    Hm, would we be playing the Zerg (Sarah maybs) or the Cybran (someone new/not yet introduced here) character? Mrrrp
     
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    ACT ONE, MISSION SEVEN: Smash and Grab the Uraj (0.2)
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    • You shifted in your seat, clasped your hands together, and leaned forward. You looked right into the eyes of Prince Valarian, and weren't sure if you were impressed by his nerve or irritated by his arrogance that he didn't quail, not even a little bit. "Before we get further into this...I want to know one thing," you said, quietly. "What does the Emperor want out of these talks?"

    "The Emperor. Not the Dominion?" Valarian asked.

    Your grin was slightly wry. You felt it tug on some of your scars.

    "There's a difference?" you asked.

    "Legally, no," Valarian said, his voice soft. "Very well. My...Emperor..." He sighed, quietly. "My father. He founded the Dominion at the end of the civil war - the Confederacy had proven it was unsuited to the task of protecting humanity from the forces arrayed against it. You have been a part of the United Earth Federation for, how long? Your whole life?" At your nod, he continued. "Then you've never known what it was like to be a citizen of the Koprulu Sector. Until you arrived, we weren't even sure if Earth was still habitable."

    You nodded, listening intently.

    "So, when faced with threats like the Zerg and the Protoss, without any...other space for us to fall back to, or to call for aid? We were quite literally on the brink of extinction. So, my father wanted to create a society that could weather the attacks: A single Emperor to manage things, without the distractions of capital or competing business interests."

    "A new Martin Greene or Triplan Yaets," you said, a bit sarcastically.

    "I...I'm afraid I don't follow," Valerian said. You tracked back, then tried for something before the supercarriers had left Earth.

    "A Napoleon," you hazarded.

    Valerian frowned, slightly. "Without the megalomania. My father has never taken a decision that wasn't practical."

    "The uniforms," you shot back.

    "Required to instill in the people of the Dominion a confidence in our soldiers and an understanding of the chain of command, you have gold braid as well," he said, maybe a little defensively.

    "Quite," you said. "But I'm not entirely convinced that I buy the defensive necessity argument. The Zerg seem to be dangerous if you let them reach capacity - but their infestations have to start small, like any biological situation. The exponential curve can't be instant."

    "You have only fought feral Zerg," Valerian said, firmly. "My father, he..." He paused.

    "Yes?" You watched his face and saw that he was doing some of his own calculations. He stood from the table, surprising you. His hands clasped behind his back and he turned away from you, walking to the window. Snowflakes were beginning to dapple against the window, gentle tick tick tick sounds against hardened glass. His breath fogged the glass with the strength of his sigh.

    "The Zerg have a leader that is still alive," he said. "Though we have yet to see her...operations."

    "The Queen of Blades," you said, slowly.

    He turned to face you. "I see you watch our news broadcasts."

    "She's some kind of hive mind focus or something?" you asked. "Like-"

    "No. No she's not." Valarian frowned. HIs face was grim as he watched the snow swirling. "My father has given me the classified documents on her - her dossier. The Queen of Blades is...was...a human being." You sat up at that, brow drawing in. "A Confederate Ghost, captured by the Zerg and infested. Her genetics were rewritten, her psionic abilities were enhanced so much our researchers needed to rewrite the damn classification systems. She's engaged us in open combat once." He held up his hand, turning to face you. "The after action reports are appalling. General Duke and his forces barely escaped with their lives."

    You frowned. "What makes her so dangerous?"

    "Human tactical and strategic planning, psionic potential and training combined with the Zerg's adaptive abilities, regeneration and who knows what other biological abilities that the hive mind put into her," Valarian said. "And she hates fa...she hates the Emperor. Some...twisted fragment of Confederate loyalty programming, surviving the infestation and transformation to become an justification for the overwhelming Zerg desire to consume and destroy." He looked grim as he put his hand on the back of his chair. "That's what the dossiers say."

    You saw, in those eyes, a moment of doubt.

    "You don't buy it," you said, quietly.

    "Oh, I'm quite sure she's human," he said, frowning. "It's just...there's some details that have always bothered me. The Confederates didn't have ghost agents deployed at New Gettysburg, where the Zerg first broke through. The surviving ghosts were all accounted for - I was a part of the...the clean up..."

    You remembered a grim voice. Stuttering gunfire. Scientists, collapsing against a wall.

    Valerian shook his head. "But where she came from matters a little less than the fact she's out there. Our special operatives haven't been able to find her - but that just makes me more concerned. Char has an active and growing brood upon it - if she takes control of it, then we're all in a hell of a lot of trouble. I need to make sure that my people are safe from that."

    "That's what you want, isn't it," you said, regarding him.

    It was hard to not blurt out what you were thinking, it was so...preposterous.

    This unelected, untrained child who had been thrown into a uniform purely because he came out of the right exowomb...was carrying on his shoulders the lives of several hundred million people. And it wasn't even ego or bragging rights or temerity, he was actually responsible. If his father died tomorrow, he would give orders that meant life or death for people, without those people having a single say in it. It was ridiculous. Or, at least, it would have been ridiculous if it hadn't been so damn dangerous and sad. Still, you had learned a lot - and all of it was bouncing around inside your head.

    What to tackle next?

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    HEAT: 0/6

    [ ] Ask him who he thinks the Queen of Blades is - he clearly doesn't trust his father (Charm check, diff 5 - 3 heat)
    [ ] Push him on the defenses: How can the Terran Dominion protect humanity better than the UEF? (Charm Check, diff 5 - 3 heat)
    [ ] Write In
     
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    • [X] Ask him who he thinks the Queen of Blades is - he clearly doesn't trust his father (Charm check, diff 5 - 3 heat)
     
    I do wonder who we'll be playing as in part 2. Part of it is determined by the direction things develop, but, let's say that Clarke was infested, would we wind up the Cybran commander, or keep following Clarke as a Zerg, or do we get a choice?

    I mean, I will say it'd be tough sell with 100k word investment into a character and their relationships to uproot focus to someone we haven't even seen in the fic, even if they're someone otherwise familiar from Supcom. There are many easy ways to transition Clarke between factions anyway, without feeling contrived, depending on the situation.
     
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    [X] Ask him who he thinks the Queen of Blades is - he clearly doesn't trust his father (Charm check, diff 5 - 3 heat)
     
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    [X] Make a deal with Valerian. As much as he may try to say otherwise, the story he's been given regarding the origin of the Queen of Blades troubles him. Offer to give him access to the Confederate adjutants you recovered from Tarsonis and the data they recorded during the planet's fall. In exchange he has to share everything he learns with you.

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    I think this makes sense as a course of action Clarke would take.

    She's taking advantage of Junior's distrust of his dad to gain actionable intelligence on the capabilities of non-feral Zerg, potentially sow discord within the ranks, and maybe learn some of Senior's dirty laundry.
     
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    DragonCobolt said:
    This unelected, untrained child who had been thrown into a uniform purely because he came out of the right exowomb
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    Among many other things I like about this post, I like that Sam doesn't even think about natural birth here, because why would she?

    [X] Make a deal with Valerian. As much as he may try to say otherwise, the story he's been given regarding the origin of the Queen of Blades troubles him. Offer to give him access to the Confederate adjutants you recovered from Tarsonis and the data they recorded during the planet's fall. In exchange he has to share everything he learns with you.

    EDIT for Spart's write in because it IS an advanced/specific form of talking about QoB and DC saying it's a strong argument is really all the convincing I need. It makes sense!!!
     
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    Cookiesndip said:
    I do wonder who we'll be playing as in part 2. Part of it is determined by the direction things develop, but, let's say that Clarke was infested, would we wind up the Cybran commander, or keep following Clarke as a Zerg, or do we get a choice?

    I mean, I will say it'd be tough sell with 100k word investment into a character and their relationships to uproot focus to someone we haven't even seen in the fic, even if they're someone otherwise familiar from Supcom. There are many easy ways to transition Clarke between factions anyway, without feeling contrived, depending on the situation.
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    Yeah, pretty much on the latter- maybe it'd depend on how we end Act 1? Having a choice I mean. I'm not so sure if we'll keep playing as Clarke if we're gonna get all our abilities turned in for new abilities (if I remember what DC said right), so I'm guessing it'd be Sarah? Though how the Cybran faction gets involved then becomes the question- maybe it'd be her in the Cybran ACU working with cybran minds? Though then I'd wonder how she'd incorporate the zergies in that, so I'm not entirely sure on that either
    Spart117MC said:
    [X] Make a deal with Valerian. As much as he may try to say otherwise, the story he's been given regarding the origin of the Queen of Blades troubles him. Offer to give him access to the Confederate adjutants you recovered from Tarsonis and the data they recorded during the planet's fall. In exchange he has to share everything he learns with you.
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    Hm, information exchange and hopefully we both learn more about the QoB IC,- well I suppose we have a little bit of time to ask stuff like that, I'd hope we could ask about who he thinks the QoB is- maybe we could make sure to ask/do both of these depending on the order?
    Depends how much heat it costs I guess,
     
    Spart117MC said:
    [X] Make a deal with Valerian. As much as he may try to say otherwise, the story he's been given regarding the origin of the Queen of Blades troubles him. Offer to give him access to the Confederate adjutants you recovered from Tarsonis and the data they recorded during the planet's fall. In exchange he has to share everything he learns with you.

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    I think this makes sense as a course of action Clarke would take.

    She's taking advantage of Junior's distrust of his dad to gain actionable intelligence on the capabilities of non-feral Zerg, potentially sow discord within the ranks, and maybe learn some of Senior's dirty laundry.
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    I'd say this is a good enough argument to bump the diff down by one!
     
    DragonCobolt said:
    "So, when faced with threats like the Zerg and the Protoss, without any...other space for us to fall back to, or to call for aid? We were quite literally on the brink of extinction. So, my father wanted to create a society that could weather the attacks: A single Emperor to manage things, without the distractions of capital or competing business interests."
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    No one to call for aid.

    Oh, btw, I did grow up in this other human polity, why do you ask. (To be fair, the Umojan are pretty small, they'd probably be little more than a speedbumb). But it's kinda telling that Mengsk went "build more statues of me", rather than any kind of appeal to unity with the other polities.
     
    [X] Make a deal with Valerian. As much as he may try to say otherwise, the story he's been given regarding the origin of the Queen of Blades troubles him. Offer to give him access to the Confederate adjutants you recovered from Tarsonis and the data they recorded during the planet's fall. In exchange he has to share everything he learns with you.
     
    Avangelion said:
    Though how the Cybran faction gets involved then becomes the question- maybe it'd be her in the Cybran ACU working with cybran minds?
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    Eh, I can think of many ways, given the Aeon and Cybran are already fucking around in this muck, if memory serves. Think about it this way, if Cybrans find her, and de-infest her with cybernetics (or manage to otherwise keep the infestation in check), and Clarke winds up stranded with the Cybrans, she'll be long presumed dead/infested/brainwashed/traitorous, as most of her old crew see Cybrans/Aeon as puppeted enemies or outright cults due to lifelong propaganda and disinfo. Hypothetically, it'd also be a good mirror with Kerrigan, just with tech instead of bio. Leads into the Aeon arc to get her zerg infestation, cybernetics, and humanity under control and fuse them all together.

    Everything really depends on how things actually go down in the end. At the moment, Clarke can wind up on any faction by the end at this point, and we could easily wind up controlling Kerrigan in the second part if she somehow manages to stay with the UEF.
     
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    Avangelion said:
    Hm, information exchange and hopefully we both learn more about the QoB IC,- well I suppose we have a little bit of time to ask stuff like that, I'd hope we could ask about who he thinks the QoB is- maybe we could make sure to ask/do both of these depending on the order?
    Depends how much heat it costs I guess,
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    If the adjutants in the quest picked up everything the one in Starcraft 2, then Clarke won't have to ask. They'll contain recordings of signal intercepts from the entire battle, from Mengsk confirming that he authorized the use of psi emitters to him ranting at Jim that he would rather burn the sector than let it be ruled by anyone else.

    It'll also contain recordings of Sarah and of her being left behind.
     
    DragonCobolt said:
    I'd say this is a good enough argument to bump the diff down by one!
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    So like- is that a different decision or one that goes under one of the things/is a different version of the "who do you think the QoB is"?
    Spart117MC said:
    If the adjutants in the quest picked up everything the one in Starcraft 2, then Clarke won't have to ask. They'll contain recordings of signal intercepts from the entire battle, from Mengsk confirming that he authorized the use of psi emitters to him ranting at Jim that he would rather burn the sector than let it be ruled by anyone else.

    It'll also contain recordings of Sarah and of her being left behind.
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    Got it

    Cookiesndip said:
    Everything really depends on how things actually go down in the end. At the moment, Clarke can wind up on any faction by the end at this point, and we could easily wind up controlling Kerrigan in the second part if she somehow manages to stay with the UEF.
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    Yeah, sounds fair. Well we'll just go for completionism I suppose, hopefully ending with a lot and the best we could do in Act 1 doesn't bite us too badly while giving us a lot of flexibility for later acts lmao.



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    Ah- so it is possible to follow both of them through the whole thing? Would be funsies lmao
     
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    DragonCobolt said:
    Biased??? General Samantha Clarke??????

    (I have been trying to make her...like, super biased and blind to her faction's flaws while still feeling like an actual human being, hopefully it has worked!)
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    You know I'm kind of surprised they don't have a loyalty-program installed in their generals. You'd think the single human point of failure on a robot army would have that kind of safeguard.
     
    DragonCobolt said:
    It's called a lifetime of indoctrination
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    Societies that don't even trust their generalship not to defect don't tend to be terribly functional, either.

    [X] Make a deal with Valerian. As much as he may try to say otherwise, the story he's been given regarding the origin of the Queen of Blades troubles him. Offer to give him access to the Confederate adjutants you recovered from Tarsonis and the data they recorded during the planet's fall. In exchange he has to share everything he learns with you.
     
    [X] Make a deal with Valerian. As much as he may try to say otherwise, the story he's been given regarding the origin of the Queen of Blades troubles him. Offer to give him access to the Confederate adjutants you recovered from Tarsonis and the data they recorded during the planet's fall. In exchange he has to share everything he learns with you.

    I like the fact we are using that stockpile of resources we gained. Would be sad to go to Act 2 and not use any of our 'loot'.
     
    [X] Make a deal with Valerian. As much as he may try to say otherwise, the story he's been given regarding the origin of the Queen of Blades troubles him. Offer to give him access to the Confederate adjutants you recovered from Tarsonis and the data they recorded during the planet's fall. In exchange he has to share everything he learns with you.


    I always liked Val.
     
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