Vox Vitae: Warhammer AI quest

[X] Plan: Expand your Ship, Vita!

[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.

[X] Ker Bemsk, awkard telekinetic. Delta (13)

[X] Plan: Expand your Ship, Vita!
[X] Infiltrator: Victan may go on active missions involving stealth & subterfuge to acquire data or objectives that would otherwise be completely unavailable. Unlocks powerful new narrative subterfuge options. Will be boosted by cybernetics research. He starts sneaking around to steal stuff or spy on people. This will do things like give you samples or information that otherwise would be impossible to grab.
[X] Cia Steblin, confidant pyromancer. Zeta (11)

we're gonna meet more diplomats and adjacent personnel just by the fact that we're in a giant ship if we spot someone we like we can woo them to find another spy we're gonna have to hunt the underbelly of worlds and probably send bots plus Victan to check them out before we even consider if we want to have them join.

michaell8000 said:

we're gonna meet more diplomats and adjacent personnel just by the fact that we're in a giant ship if we spot someone we like we can woo them to find another spy we're gonna have to hunt the underbelly of worlds and probably send bots plus Victan to check them out before we even consider if we want to have them join.

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Or we just use Vitcan, he doesn't get any worse as a spy if we choose to branch out, he just doesn't get better. Spying missions are going to be few and far between I do not think we would be doubling up at all.

[X] Plan: Improved Manufactories To Build The Ship

[X] Infiltrator: Victan may go on active missions involving stealth & subterfuge to acquire data or objectives that would otherwise be completely unavailable. Unlocks powerful new narrative subterfuge options. Will be boosted by cybernetics research. He starts sneaking around to steal stuff or spy on people. This will do things like give you samples or information that otherwise would be impossible to grab.

[X] Cia Steblin, confidant pyromancer. Zeta (11)

[X] Plan: Expand your Ship, Vita!

[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.
[X] Cia Steblin, confidant pyromancer. Zeta (11)

Damn, were gonna crush telekinetic guy's dreams at this rate

I'm presenting a modified version of @Alectai's plan, substituting some in-system scouting for the research. I think using our new monitors to check on the outer system stations and Denva Prime is worthwhile to reduce unknown risks. Research won't suffer much from waiting a turn, but if there's a problem in the Denva system, we should know about it ASAP so we can adjust.

[X] Plan: Low-risk shipbuilding
-[X] Construction x3
--[X] First Construction: (4,850 BP, there's enough lift to make the difference between VBP and BP irrelevant)
---[X] +43 Manufactories (4,300 BP, 2,150 CP), 2 Spaceports (200 BP, 50 CP), 15 Shuttles (300 BP, 75 CP), Trade Goods (50 BP)
--[X] Second Construction (7,000 BP, natch)
---[X] +7 Manufactories (700 BP, 350 CP), 3 Spaceports (300 BP, 75 CP), 35 Shuttles (700 BP, 175 CP). Ship!: 5,300/33,650 BP
--[X] Third Construction (7,350 BP, Natch)
---[X] Scrapcode Vault, 40/50 psychic shielding -> 50/50 psychic shielding (100 BP) repair for 10 BP/point
---[X] Ship!: 12,550/33,650 BP
-[X] Orders RP
--[X] Our two new monitors shall conduct scouting missions to Denva Prime and the outer-system stations to determine their status as best is possible. Do any of the stations show signs of activity? Are there resources or equipment that we could use? Are there things we don't know about and could research? At Denva Prime, how are the natives faring? What does the remaining imperial presence look like, if anything? Is anyone able to communicate to us in orbit? Are there any looming threats to us or Denva II?

I agree with the Diplomat-spy and Cia subvotes.

[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.
[X] Cia Steblin, confidant pyromancer. Zeta (11)

[X] Plan: Expand your Ship, Vita!

[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.
[X] Cia Steblin, confidant pyromancer. Zeta (11)

I WANT TOMBOY.

[X] Ker Bemsk, awkard telekinetic. Delta (13)

[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.

[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.
[X] Ker Bemsk, awkard telekinetic. Delta (13)

[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.
[X] Ker Bemsk, awkard telekinetic. Delta (13)

[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.

[X] Ker Bemsk, awkard telekinetic. Delta (13)

I would like it if we take action to butter up the Psyker Monasteries more so we can pick up more of the offered peoole.

[X] Plan: Expand your Ship, Vita!

[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.
[X] Ker Bemsk, awkard telekinetic. Delta (13)

Another reason for a pyromancer besides the daemons: character creation for threats nearby included Tyranids also. So if we ever run into them: first, we wrap a psychic shielding we hopefully can adapt (if necessary) against the Tyranids around our psyker bean. Then, boost her powers with psytech to ship-scale and set every Nid that tries to invade our flagship on fire.

Because there is nobody who does boardings more dangerous than the Tyranids, except maybe the daemons. And even then on that level only when traveling through the Warp in the case the Gellar Field fails.

Dmol8 said:

Edit: You know what let's check: Hey @Neablis do we need a Psyker who started out as a Pyromancer to have an option to develop Technopathy as they level up? Or is it just a level up that has Pyromancy as a prerequisite?

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I had thought telepathy was the most reasonable discipline to develop into technopathy. But with some lore saying that pyromancy can do it to - more likely it's like force weapons and every discipline can do it, even if the exact implementation looks a bit different.

If you unlock it or not probably depends on rolls as you go down the psytech tree.

meianmaru said:

Also, just noticed: @Neablis your example vote from the earlier is showing up in the vote tally:

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[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.
[X] Cia Steblin, confidant pyromancer. Zeta (11)
[X] Kezathi Zenza, troubled seer. Eta (10)

[X] [Free] Poke around some more in the databases, looking for anything in particular.
Look for mentions of Psytech technologies or analogues in the archives. Aeldari technologies are similar to Psytech. What happened to Aeldari?

To launch a chain of questions about the eye of terror and external threats. We chose Aeldari as our neighbors.

[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.
[X] Ker Bemsk, awkard telekinetic. Delta (13)

[X] Plan: Expand your Ship, Vita!
[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.
[X] Cia Steblin, confidant pyromancer. Zeta (11)

The ability to train harder isn't something I'd underestimate in our psyker. I'm more split than I thought I would be though, to be honest!

[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.
[X] Ker Bemsk, awkard telekinetic. Delta (13)

Neablis said:

I had thought telepathy was the most reasonable discipline to develop into technopathy. But with some lore saying that pyromancy can do it to - more likely it's like force weapons and every discipline can do it, even if the exact implementation looks a bit different.

If you unlock it or not probably depends on rolls as you go down the psytech tree.


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Good to know, but now I'm even less sure what to vote for. Going to need to think about this more.

Hey @Neablis, would Cia or Ker be able to lead those iota psyker staff? Just asking because I was interested in getting the iotas in a future diplo action, but only if it doesn't take up another crew slot.

...Random thought besides, but non-crew staff in general seems like fertile ground for omakes. Hm.

Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire.
Jaya Ballard Cia Steblin

You know you want to .

Just give her access to magic the gathering books and watch the sass explosion.

[x] Plan: Expand your Ship, Vita!
[x] Cia Steblin, confidant pyromancer. Zeta (11)
[x] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture. Victan's only been able to be included on these diplomacy rolls thus far becuase he's a local, and has contacts inside Aevon he can use for diplomacy. If you go somewhere new he'll be limited to just being a spy without this.

[X] Plan: Expand your Ship, Vita!
[X] Diplomat-spy: Victan's active action bonus can be applied to all diplomacy rolls, including first contact with a new culture.
[X] Kezathi Zenza, troubled seer. Eta (10)
[X] Cia Steblin, confidant pyromancer. Zeta (11)