Sterbelicht - One Sacrifice At A Time Against The Galaxy (40K)
- Thread starter HeroCooky
- Start date
- Mature Sci-Fi
ConfusedCanuck
Where did it all go wrong?
- Location
- Neverland
[X] PLAN: Simple and Clear
[X] PLAN: Simple and Clear
- Location
- Poland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] PLAN: Simple and Clear
They don't seem too bad. Hopefully Chaos rot is not too deep.
They don't seem too bad. Hopefully Chaos rot is not too deep.
- Location
- Anchorage, Alaska
[X] PLAN: Simple and Clear
[X] PLAN: Simple and Clear
The only thing I'd add is put it on repeat till the language is cracked. Otherwise this is as excellent as it can be.
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
I would like to point out that you are putting an Action into this contact/warning, or around ten years, with eight remaining now.
I do believe that I am not that hostile of a QM to declare that it will take eight years to speak seven sentences.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
I just care a lot, you know? I agonize over things, it's just what I do.
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I understand that. One of the very first quests I participated in on these sites had a hostile QM. There could be no 'intent', every sentence had to be spelled out or it'd go the wrong way. And one time she ignored us and went bad anyway. Got so bad the quest ended early with a vote for Arceus to come in and fix shit. Don't know why I didn't drop it. Colored my voting style onward. HeroCooky is one of the far better GMs though so don't worry.
Professor Vesca
Good News Everyone!
I saw a Tau quest go that way too. We literally saved a species from a plague and they then blamed us for it and became our enemies for life. We once held an anti piracy summit, they showed up, the station manager panicked and wouldn't let them in, and then *they conducted a hostile boarding action and tried to shoot their way in*. To an anti piracy summit.
The incident report was basically "You dont actually know what happened. You have 'he said she said'". So we had no idea what went wrong and how to fix it so we just kept stepping on that particular rake.
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- Pronouns
- They/Them
Honestly I wonder whether we could say more than that in follow-up messages? But I guess that'll be a different turn vote. I admit that diplomacy gets complicated when you're doing ten-year turns, because presumably with travel times we could, like. Literally learn their language in that time and visa-versa, potentially.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
It literally boils down to "This is what we say right this second until we have a better understanding of the language, because holy shit they need to not go into the Warp without protection"
Worst case scenario I imagine is we leave them somewhat confused or slightly offend someone. But I don't think that would be enough to damn us in the Yeens' view.
After all, these were there objectives:
The over-arching objective of this mission was to make contact with us, be it through finding and examining the first ship they sent (R.I.P Bold Explorer, its crew probably made for a yummy snack for daemons) or happening upon our ships directly. And given these people see us as Guardians and think we're directly protecting them from the Imperium (which we still will do) I'd say we're already going into this with some good reputation from the Yeeni.
Also because we aren't going in guns blazing it's safe to assume no matter what happens here these guys are going to want to keep communicating with us and our crew with them (when our people see that these guys mean no harm given the lack of shooting or probes hitting us).
While us leaving a bad first impression would also leave a bad taste in my mouth, I'm sure things won't go too wrong where they see us as a potential enemy.
After all, these were there objectives:
The over-arching objective of this mission was to make contact with us, be it through finding and examining the first ship they sent (R.I.P Bold Explorer, its crew probably made for a yummy snack for daemons) or happening upon our ships directly. And given these people see us as Guardians and think we're directly protecting them from the Imperium (which we still will do) I'd say we're already going into this with some good reputation from the Yeeni.
Also because we aren't going in guns blazing it's safe to assume no matter what happens here these guys are going to want to keep communicating with us and our crew with them (when our people see that these guys mean no harm given the lack of shooting or probes hitting us).
While us leaving a bad first impression would also leave a bad taste in my mouth, I'm sure things won't go too wrong where they see us as a potential enemy.
Professor Vesca
Good News Everyone!
Seeing as the Yeeni have emotional investment on demonstrating themselves to us to be our equals and to make first contact with us, IE they are seeking *us* out, I can only assume that any rough spots in our first impression will be smoothed over later. Beyond them interpreting our words wildly out of context. Like we are here to eat their babies and harvest their flesh or whatever.
But I dont see Hero being quite that hostile.
But I dont see Hero being quite that hostile.
[X] PLAN: Simple and Clear
the pictogram doesn't really need to do much more then warn them about jumping, and hopefully getting them to stop while we talk to them and can break their language, at that point we can actually describe and show records of the horribly gribbly things that an unprotected Drive can do to you, while opening a actual dialog. this is the cop pulling the seven year old over for driving, before they crash, traffic school can wait until we speak their language.
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That's not good, That's three Ships of a LOT of innocents that are under threat of warp exposure. Fingers crossed we got here before they left, but if not we may need to send ships out to go chase them down, and either cut their journey short before they poison themselves to much, or in the worst case scenario, Provide Mercy.
SHIT, we need to follow up on this before we end up with chaos Corrupted Yeena's running around causing chaos with a little C for Chaos with a Big C. hopefully we got here before they left, but I'm doubtful.
the pictogram doesn't really need to do much more then warn them about jumping, and hopefully getting them to stop while we talk to them and can break their language, at that point we can actually describe and show records of the horribly gribbly things that an unprotected Drive can do to you, while opening a actual dialog. this is the cop pulling the seven year old over for driving, before they crash, traffic school can wait until we speak their language.
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Oh no, I just noticed this. Like any respectable species under threat of extinction, they sent out colony ships The colony ships are unshielded and are intended for a long trip, their drives are slow, but that could still be a lot of warp exposure, especially if whatever manner of stasis they are using leaves them vulnerable to warp exposure mentally.
That's not good, That's three Ships of a LOT of innocents that are under threat of warp exposure. Fingers crossed we got here before they left, but if not we may need to send ships out to go chase them down, and either cut their journey short before they poison themselves to much, or in the worst case scenario, Provide Mercy.
SHIT, we need to follow up on this before we end up with chaos Corrupted Yeena's running around causing chaos with a little C for Chaos with a Big C. hopefully we got here before they left, but I'm doubtful.
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There's Lone Wave that has a Craftworld in it, then there's End of Line, a trio of stations that may be full of pirates.
Other than that and the Imperial holdout in Voxx, the sub-sector's ours.
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