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A Heretek on the Quest for Knowledge [40k] [Complete]
- Thread starter BurnNote
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Actually, it's Todan II, rather than ToRdan II. From the original vote:
[] cathedral world Todan II: The Ecclesiarchy is involved in this somehow.
EVERYONE CHANGE VOTES!
[X] "Right, Tordan II... hey... wait a minute. Navi, what fucking moron screwed this up? Wasn't it supposed to be Todan II, no R?"
Vote Tally : A Heretek on the Quest for Knowledge [40k] | Page 134 | Sufficient Velocity
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[X] Tordan II
No. of Votes: 13
[x] Numa Numa: Finally, retribution is at hand. Also, shiny archeotech. Also, lots of people very eager to kill you. And one person you are eager to to kill.
No. of Votes: 4
[X]Todan II: The other trail you found lead to the cathedral world of Todan II. Perhaps a visit there might still prove useful.
No. of Votes: 1
[x]Todan II
No. of Votes: 1
[X] "Right, Tordan II... hey... wait a minute. Navi, what fucking moron screwed this up? Wasn't it supposed to be Todan II, no R?"
No. of Votes: 1
Total No. of Voters: 20
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[X] Tordan II
No. of Votes: 13
[x] Numa Numa: Finally, retribution is at hand. Also, shiny archeotech. Also, lots of people very eager to kill you. And one person you are eager to to kill.
No. of Votes: 4
[X]Todan II: The other trail you found lead to the cathedral world of Todan II. Perhaps a visit there might still prove useful.
No. of Votes: 1
[x]Todan II
No. of Votes: 1
[X] "Right, Tordan II... hey... wait a minute. Navi, what fucking moron screwed this up? Wasn't it supposed to be Todan II, no R?"
No. of Votes: 1
Total No. of Voters: 20
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Apology in advance for the mass tag, but we have an administratum error to fix. Those of you who voted for "Tordan II" need to change it to "Todan II" lest we suffer an administratum error. (not sure if the GM is being serious about this, but why take the chance?)
EDIT - Nevermind then.
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- Location
- Germany
Well, it would be fitting for 40k to spend some useless weeks on some Agri-world at the back of the Sector because of a typo.
- Location
- USA
... I am not sure i want to actually fix this. this is the funniest shit I have seen in a while.
I can just imagine us popping over to the wrong planet and oh god the hilarity.
also, i do not think we need to change the vote. just figure it out "in time". which you did. good job there
I can just imagine us popping over to the wrong planet and oh god the hilarity.
also, i do not think we need to change the vote. just figure it out "in time". which you did. good job there
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Nah, you don't need to change it. The intent is pretty clear, and normally I wouldn't bother with a simple spelling error, but it this case it was just too funny and fitting.Well, that depends on @BurnNote, now doesn't it?
Yeah, it would be fitting. Over in Embers in the Dusk our Administratum background character got assigned to being Governor of a Warp-Touched Death World instead of the debt-ridden Agri-world he was supposed to go to, while the general who was supposed to go to the death world went to the agri-world. (the fact that both of them succeeded far beyond expectations regardless is hilarious, though) The difference in their names was one letter.
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- Location
- Asia
What happened to the general ? Did we get to know about him after he was posted in the Agri-world ?
He was an omake creation. He succeeded in turning around the debt-ridden Agri-world and made it pretty secure, and he visited our planet once to go on vacation (we actually had a successful Death World tourism initiative to solve some of our early financial problems). His world was probably destroyed by Orks after the Imperium fell, though.
Its actually worse than that, they misplaced two different generals on two different world, but as it turns out one of those worlds was targeted by an Ork Wagghhh, and the other was a Necron tomb world.
That omake doesn't appear in the omake list, nor was it marked as canon due to that, so I don't think it counts. EDIT - and the name of the Agri-world doesn't match the canonized omake either.
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There, fixed that for you.
Because innovation is more satisfying if we build on top of the apex of human technology.
That's what you get for not properly training your minions. Some proper teaching skill and we can compensate for dyslexia.
- Location
- Europe
That wouldn't be hilarious, that would just be ridiculous.
It's only hilarious if it seems you are totally fucked.
Update 71: First month to Todan II
Update 71: First month to Todan II
You amuse yourself with movement orders to the Servitor carrying Cerritos as you wait for the warp jump. You don't know why he has such long hair, but it certainly makes gripping the head easier, and a lot more fun to swing about.
Finally, Navi and Arial arrive on the bridge, shadowed as always by Limpet. You notice Navi's new choker, because it looks like a pretty decent bit of work, for being so overwrought. Arial's, you assume, he's rather found of flowing lines, and apparently rather familiar with what constitutes fashionable. You'll trust him that it does more than just look expensive.
You call up the controls on your shiny new chair, and the ships seems to hum in anticipation. You double check the destination, to make sure somebody hasn't misspelt it again, but find everything in order. Then the portal to false space opens, and the ships slips into the warp.
Warp Jump Roll:
1d100=5
And as it happens, there's a flicker, and a wordless wind whispers across the fortress of your mind. It finds no weakness, and so after a moment of asking silence, it departs. If your mind wasn't what it was, you might not have notice. In fact, you are one of a very small number. The psykers, Cerritos (though he's always complaining about shit like sensor ghosts), a very small number of techpriets. Gene reports a vague feeling, but nothing concrete. If not for the sensors monitoring the gellert field, it would be dismissed as nothing. No sign of warp activity to be found.
And that worries you a thousand times more than a materialized daemon.
Personal actions (8 AP):
[]What's with the Geller field?: This was the third awful warp jump. The first corrupted a few savages, the second had you appear next to a Chaos battleship, and Omnissiah only knows what the third did. You really, really want to make sure there isn't a fourth time. Or at least take some steps to mitigate the damage.
CR 80 Imperial Tech, basic countermeasures. Cost: 2AP
[]Twice is coincidence. So what is three?: It isn't statistically significant, but it's damn suspicious. You've consistently had bad jumps. You're on a new ship, so it can't be that. Maybe it's just bad luck. Or maybe someone is fucking with you.
CR 70, Find out if there's a traitor among your minions. Cost: 2AP
[]Direct supervision: Receiving fifty-three order clarification requests, as well as five hundred forty-four requisition forms (sixty-three for single screws), thirty-three repair tickets, and no less then two-thousand six hundred and five requests for work quota suspensions has made the old fuckers intentions quite clear: You'll have to stand behind him the entire time if you want work done. And that's exactly what you will do.
Cerritos doesn't pull Passive-Aggressive bullshit, those AP are freed up. Cost: 2AP
[]Talk to Limpet: So you don't exactly have a high opinion of him. Yet another useless noble, who couldn't tell a screwdriver from a torsion wrench, just what the Imperium ill needs. However, you've fought at his side now, and while he fucked up, it was in a somewhat excusable manner. And he dodged plasma bolts, that's not easy even with a prediction cogitator wired in, let alone on a bare brain. Perhaps you need to know a bit more about him.
Get a better grip on his talents and uses. Maybe he won't hate you quite as much? Cost: 1AP
[]Talk to Rasputin: He's a shouty bastard, and he gives you a killer headache, but you should probably talk to it at some point. Didn't get to do that last time. It's just a matter of figuring out what you want to talk about.
Figure out what it wants. Cost: 1 AP per topic
[]Cerritos' Body, Give it back: You still have his original body. Giving it back might make him happier, or at least less of a bother. Or it might do the opposite. It will make him more usefull.
Cerritos gets his body. Cost: His body
[]Cerrtios' Body, Take it apart: It has all sorts of neat stuff. Stuff you can make use off. You'll just have to take it apart. Better get started, cause it's gonna take a while to get past all his security measures.
Start digging into the archeotech in there. Cost: 2AP
[]Armor Testing: You have a big pile or armor laying about. You're going to figure that out, and in proud Heretek your going to do it without regard to the safety or sanctity of the tech in question. In less proud but smart heretek tradition, you'll do it where nobody is looking to closely. Or blame it on your master.
CR 90 Research+Archeotech, large increase in Archeotech cap, unique technology on success. Cost: 3 AP
-[]Use X extra AP for X*5 bonus to roll
[]Mysterious Headset: There was that headset you swiped. You still don't know why it's important, but you should look into that, because you know it is. You really should figure it out one of these days.
CR 90 Research+ Archeotech, figure out the headset on success. Cost: 2 AP
-[]Use X extra AP for X*10 bonus to roll
[]Sick beats: It's been a secret dream of yours to insult someone to death. Now, that dream may become reality. It will just take a little work.
Unlock the Sonics specialty (150 XP) Cost: 2AP
[]Training: You are your single most useful asset, and certainly among to most brilliant men in existence. But even you can, and should be, better. That's what the Quest for Knowledge is all about, after all.
Gain 30 XP per AP used
-[]Train [Skill] for X AP
[]Crafting: You enjoy making neat stuff as much as the next guy, and you can do it better. There's always neat stuff to be made. Or you could upgrade something you already have.
Make something. Cost: 1+ AP
-[]Make [Write in]
Arial actions (4 AP):
[]More Meatbags: You'll be going into battle soonish. It would be nice to have some more troops. With the newly expanded cloning bays, another expansion is feasible, though you'll have to keep most of them in storage until they are deployed.
Gene expands Skitarii by another tier. Cost: 2AP, locked for two turn
[]Augments, round 2: There's all sorts of cybernetic and bionic fun you can add to people to make the marginally less useless. First step would be some better basic things for your Skitarii. Probably. You never really bothered to get into that whole branch, and why start now? It's not like Gene has anything to do.
Gene looks into better Augments for Skitarii. Cost: 2AP
[]Talking-machine for the talking machine: Talking to Rasputin gives you a major headache. Maybe Arial can come up with something to make it a little easier on you? Preferably not a creepy tentacle thing, but you won't hold on hope there.
Gene makes a thing to talk to Rasputin CR 80 Biologis Cost: 2AP
-[]Use X extra AP for X*5 bonus to roll
[]Sanctity of the mind: Arial has requested time for an extensive system check to ensure no malicious infohazards have taken root. While he's at it, he's going to check over the Navigatrix and the astropaths. The fact that none of them died is really more worrying than if one or two of them melted.
Gene makes sure there's no corruption in his or the psyker's minds. Cost: 2AP
[]Crafting: Arial can also make stuff. Not as well as you, but that goes without saying. He should put his talents to use.
Gene makes stuff. Cost: 1AP
-[]He should make [write-in]
Cerritos Actions(4 AP):
[X]Passive-Aggressive bullshit: He's just a bit sore about his new position as your underling. He expresses this through being as useless as he can be. It a true tragedy that you still get more out of him than most of your techpriests, despite being a decapitated head.
Cerritos wastes time. Locked unless actions to motivate him are taken. Cost:2 AP
[]Reorganizing: You put as much of his stockpile on your ship as reasonably possible, and then you put in a bit more, because you are not bound by the reason of lesser minds. However, that has left things disorganized. And you just know half of it will mysteriously explode if you organize it yourself.
Cerritos starts reorganizing his hoard so that it can be useful. Cost: 2AP, locked for 2 turns
[]Efficient storage I: His hoard currently takes up all of your former free space. Mostly because he really has a lot of stuff. Party because loading it up was a rush job, with the resulting inefficiencies. With some work, he should be able to free up some space.
Get 1 slot of free space. Cost: 2AP
[]Safety: Since it's the old fucker, much of his junk his either trapped, volatile, or in danger of going berserk. Bad enough on a planet. In the hold of a ship? There aren't enough swear words in binary to describe it.
Less danger of unwanted explosions, implosions or Servitors on a rampage. Cost: 2AP
[]Purity: You had another bad warp jump. And no horrible daemons jumped out of somebodies skull to eat you. That means some other awful thing happened. Maybe a daemon is hiding in one of the scrap piles, slowly corrupting it into a walking tech-abomination? Better check.
CR 65, Cerritos makes sure his precious is safe from corruption. Cost: 2AP
Crew actions (3):
[]Support: They can make themselves useful, just a little.
Gain +5 to action. Cost: 1AP
[]Training: It's an ongoing fight, and not one they'll win anytime soon. Which just means they should get to it.
+11 to quality of Techpriests per AP.
[]Craft:They can make things. Simple things. That can still be useful
They make stuff. Cost: 1AP
-[write-in what to craft]
Assets:
-smallish (0/100), below average (--/100) facilities
-smallish (0/100), sub-par (63/100) team of Techpriests
-below average (0/200), sub-par (50/100) force of Skitarii
-small (0/100), sub-par (--/200) vehicle pool
-average sized (-/1500), below average(-/750) voidcraft wing
Special Assets:
-small Genetor lab
-large cloning bays
-high-quality Cogitator Banks
-1 Onager Dunecrawler
-a shouty machine spirit
0 slots of free space available
resource storage is full
a small fortune in thrones
a hold full of nobles
a huge pile of unsorted scrap of unknown value
AN: Suprise! You get the update a day early, because I won't have opportunity to do it tomorrow.
EDIT: I knew I forgot something. Ahem
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You amuse yourself with movement orders to the Servitor carrying Cerritos as you wait for the warp jump. You don't know why he has such long hair, but it certainly makes gripping the head easier, and a lot more fun to swing about.
Finally, Navi and Arial arrive on the bridge, shadowed as always by Limpet. You notice Navi's new choker, because it looks like a pretty decent bit of work, for being so overwrought. Arial's, you assume, he's rather found of flowing lines, and apparently rather familiar with what constitutes fashionable. You'll trust him that it does more than just look expensive.
You call up the controls on your shiny new chair, and the ships seems to hum in anticipation. You double check the destination, to make sure somebody hasn't misspelt it again, but find everything in order. Then the portal to false space opens, and the ships slips into the warp.
Warp Jump Roll:
1d100=5
And as it happens, there's a flicker, and a wordless wind whispers across the fortress of your mind. It finds no weakness, and so after a moment of asking silence, it departs. If your mind wasn't what it was, you might not have notice. In fact, you are one of a very small number. The psykers, Cerritos (though he's always complaining about shit like sensor ghosts), a very small number of techpriets. Gene reports a vague feeling, but nothing concrete. If not for the sensors monitoring the gellert field, it would be dismissed as nothing. No sign of warp activity to be found.
And that worries you a thousand times more than a materialized daemon.
Personal actions (8 AP):
[]What's with the Geller field?: This was the third awful warp jump. The first corrupted a few savages, the second had you appear next to a Chaos battleship, and Omnissiah only knows what the third did. You really, really want to make sure there isn't a fourth time. Or at least take some steps to mitigate the damage.
CR 80 Imperial Tech, basic countermeasures. Cost: 2AP
[]Twice is coincidence. So what is three?: It isn't statistically significant, but it's damn suspicious. You've consistently had bad jumps. You're on a new ship, so it can't be that. Maybe it's just bad luck. Or maybe someone is fucking with you.
CR 70, Find out if there's a traitor among your minions. Cost: 2AP
[]Direct supervision: Receiving fifty-three order clarification requests, as well as five hundred forty-four requisition forms (sixty-three for single screws), thirty-three repair tickets, and no less then two-thousand six hundred and five requests for work quota suspensions has made the old fuckers intentions quite clear: You'll have to stand behind him the entire time if you want work done. And that's exactly what you will do.
Cerritos doesn't pull Passive-Aggressive bullshit, those AP are freed up. Cost: 2AP
[]Talk to Limpet: So you don't exactly have a high opinion of him. Yet another useless noble, who couldn't tell a screwdriver from a torsion wrench, just what the Imperium ill needs. However, you've fought at his side now, and while he fucked up, it was in a somewhat excusable manner. And he dodged plasma bolts, that's not easy even with a prediction cogitator wired in, let alone on a bare brain. Perhaps you need to know a bit more about him.
Get a better grip on his talents and uses. Maybe he won't hate you quite as much? Cost: 1AP
[]Talk to Rasputin: He's a shouty bastard, and he gives you a killer headache, but you should probably talk to it at some point. Didn't get to do that last time. It's just a matter of figuring out what you want to talk about.
Figure out what it wants. Cost: 1 AP per topic
[]Cerritos' Body, Give it back: You still have his original body. Giving it back might make him happier, or at least less of a bother. Or it might do the opposite. It will make him more usefull.
Cerritos gets his body. Cost: His body
[]Cerrtios' Body, Take it apart: It has all sorts of neat stuff. Stuff you can make use off. You'll just have to take it apart. Better get started, cause it's gonna take a while to get past all his security measures.
Start digging into the archeotech in there. Cost: 2AP
[]Armor Testing: You have a big pile or armor laying about. You're going to figure that out, and in proud Heretek your going to do it without regard to the safety or sanctity of the tech in question. In less proud but smart heretek tradition, you'll do it where nobody is looking to closely. Or blame it on your master.
CR 90 Research+Archeotech, large increase in Archeotech cap, unique technology on success. Cost: 3 AP
-[]Use X extra AP for X*5 bonus to roll
[]Mysterious Headset: There was that headset you swiped. You still don't know why it's important, but you should look into that, because you know it is. You really should figure it out one of these days.
CR 90 Research+ Archeotech, figure out the headset on success. Cost: 2 AP
-[]Use X extra AP for X*10 bonus to roll
[]Sick beats: It's been a secret dream of yours to insult someone to death. Now, that dream may become reality. It will just take a little work.
Unlock the Sonics specialty (150 XP) Cost: 2AP
[]Training: You are your single most useful asset, and certainly among to most brilliant men in existence. But even you can, and should be, better. That's what the Quest for Knowledge is all about, after all.
Gain 30 XP per AP used
-[]Train [Skill] for X AP
[]Crafting: You enjoy making neat stuff as much as the next guy, and you can do it better. There's always neat stuff to be made. Or you could upgrade something you already have.
Make something. Cost: 1+ AP
-[]Make [Write in]
Arial actions (4 AP):
[]More Meatbags: You'll be going into battle soonish. It would be nice to have some more troops. With the newly expanded cloning bays, another expansion is feasible, though you'll have to keep most of them in storage until they are deployed.
Gene expands Skitarii by another tier. Cost: 2AP, locked for two turn
[]Augments, round 2: There's all sorts of cybernetic and bionic fun you can add to people to make the marginally less useless. First step would be some better basic things for your Skitarii. Probably. You never really bothered to get into that whole branch, and why start now? It's not like Gene has anything to do.
Gene looks into better Augments for Skitarii. Cost: 2AP
[]Talking-machine for the talking machine: Talking to Rasputin gives you a major headache. Maybe Arial can come up with something to make it a little easier on you? Preferably not a creepy tentacle thing, but you won't hold on hope there.
Gene makes a thing to talk to Rasputin CR 80 Biologis Cost: 2AP
-[]Use X extra AP for X*5 bonus to roll
[]Sanctity of the mind: Arial has requested time for an extensive system check to ensure no malicious infohazards have taken root. While he's at it, he's going to check over the Navigatrix and the astropaths. The fact that none of them died is really more worrying than if one or two of them melted.
Gene makes sure there's no corruption in his or the psyker's minds. Cost: 2AP
[]Crafting: Arial can also make stuff. Not as well as you, but that goes without saying. He should put his talents to use.
Gene makes stuff. Cost: 1AP
-[]He should make [write-in]
Cerritos Actions(4 AP):
[X]Passive-Aggressive bullshit: He's just a bit sore about his new position as your underling. He expresses this through being as useless as he can be. It a true tragedy that you still get more out of him than most of your techpriests, despite being a decapitated head.
Cerritos wastes time. Locked unless actions to motivate him are taken. Cost:2 AP
[]Reorganizing: You put as much of his stockpile on your ship as reasonably possible, and then you put in a bit more, because you are not bound by the reason of lesser minds. However, that has left things disorganized. And you just know half of it will mysteriously explode if you organize it yourself.
Cerritos starts reorganizing his hoard so that it can be useful. Cost: 2AP, locked for 2 turns
[]Efficient storage I: His hoard currently takes up all of your former free space. Mostly because he really has a lot of stuff. Party because loading it up was a rush job, with the resulting inefficiencies. With some work, he should be able to free up some space.
Get 1 slot of free space. Cost: 2AP
[]Safety: Since it's the old fucker, much of his junk his either trapped, volatile, or in danger of going berserk. Bad enough on a planet. In the hold of a ship? There aren't enough swear words in binary to describe it.
Less danger of unwanted explosions, implosions or Servitors on a rampage. Cost: 2AP
[]Purity: You had another bad warp jump. And no horrible daemons jumped out of somebodies skull to eat you. That means some other awful thing happened. Maybe a daemon is hiding in one of the scrap piles, slowly corrupting it into a walking tech-abomination? Better check.
CR 65, Cerritos makes sure his precious is safe from corruption. Cost: 2AP
Crew actions (3):
[]Support: They can make themselves useful, just a little.
Gain +5 to action. Cost: 1AP
[]Training: It's an ongoing fight, and not one they'll win anytime soon. Which just means they should get to it.
+11 to quality of Techpriests per AP.
[]Craft:They can make things. Simple things. That can still be useful
They make stuff. Cost: 1AP
-[write-in what to craft]
Assets:
-smallish (0/100), below average (--/100) facilities
-smallish (0/100), sub-par (63/100) team of Techpriests
-below average (0/200), sub-par (50/100) force of Skitarii
-small (0/100), sub-par (--/200) vehicle pool
-average sized (-/1500), below average(-/750) voidcraft wing
Special Assets:
-small Genetor lab
-large cloning bays
-high-quality Cogitator Banks
-1 Onager Dunecrawler
-a shouty machine spirit
0 slots of free space available
resource storage is full
a small fortune in thrones
a hold full of nobles
a huge pile of unsorted scrap of unknown value
AN: Suprise! You get the update a day early, because I won't have opportunity to do it tomorrow.
EDIT: I knew I forgot something. Ahem
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- USA
it would be especially hilarious if there really is nothing there and we are just paranoid.
also, maybe we are cursed
- Location
- Brazil
It's chaos. You just need to be right once, for it all to be justified.
Anyway, I think we should do a Direct Surpevision to allow Cerritos to de-trap everything and look for chaos shit.
We should totes take apart his old body, we are seriously lacking in augments. Don't want to go another round with the Inquisitor like this.
That's four free AP. Maybe put it all into Armour Testing? It's been sitting around forever.
Gene must clear the psykers and himself. I think the rest can be spent in Talking-machine, will make other Rasputin action easier.
Crew goes for triple training.
- Location
- Asia
Maybe something is cursed....
Is there someway to get bet better at warp travel, some upgrade or technique ?
Also we need to make sure all that junk doesn't explode.
Is there someway to get bet better at warp travel, some upgrade or technique ?
Also we need to make sure all that junk doesn't explode.
Sirrocco
Pedantic
I'm thinking that giving Cerritos his body back will probably go a fair ways towards ending the passive-aggressive bullshit. We lose out on the ability to go through it for archaeotech, but I really think that time slots are more useful than researchables at this point, especially with all the disarming.
Also, yeah, I agree that it's probably time to go real heavy on the chaos-checking. Maybe not quite 100%, but heavy.
Also, yeah, I agree that it's probably time to go real heavy on the chaos-checking. Maybe not quite 100%, but heavy.
- Location
- Brazil
Warpbane hull.
Better Gellar Fields.
Better warp drive.
Better navigator.
Sirrocco
Pedantic
I'm also fond of setting Gene on the Skittari upgrades. We are about to head into battle. Having our battle-dudes be more competent has to be worthwhile.
We have all sorts of things we could do to buff ourselves combat-wise, if we had the time to do them. We could take apart the armor,a nd use it to build ourselves better armor, for one. Handing Cerritos back his body is quick, easy, makes him less of a whiny asshole (more of an arrogant asshole, but you win some you lose some), and makes him another potentially useful combatant on the ground when comes time to hit the inquisitors... and that for less time and less chance of failure than just disarming the traps on his body so that we could think about the research that might eventually lead to augment upgrades.
We have all sorts of things we could do to buff ourselves combat-wise, if we had the time to do them. We could take apart the armor,a nd use it to build ourselves better armor, for one. Handing Cerritos back his body is quick, easy, makes him less of a whiny asshole (more of an arrogant asshole, but you win some you lose some), and makes him another potentially useful combatant on the ground when comes time to hit the inquisitors... and that for less time and less chance of failure than just disarming the traps on his body so that we could think about the research that might eventually lead to augment upgrades.