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so turian policy of 'no such thing as civilians'?
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ExNihilo
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No need to go that far. Switzerland, say, or Sweden, require all fit young men to serve for two years, and those who don't to pay a slightly higher tax. They are civilians afterwards, should they wish, but they had military training so if a draft were called they'd be half trained, they function as a militia, and it instills patriotism and unity. Downsides are expense, may not be popular at first, and theoretically large defeats could hurt population growth and industry much faster.
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One thing that we could do, is to write-in (with omakes) some hero units for the Bastion.
For example, we are thinking of bettering our fleets, which IS a good thing, but we could also write omakes about hero units FOR our fleets.
Like for example, have Honor Harrington as a hero unit? I do not know if anyone has read the books about her, but she would fit well enough in this universe, and give us a space equivalent of Ursarkar.E.Creed.
No small thing to say the least. Especially once we upgrade the tech for prolonging life.
(Speaking of Honor Harrington, I strongly suggest those who have actual competence in writing techno-babble and convert it in omakes to read on the techs of her universe, there are some VERY nice space guns/defensives techs for spaceships in there...)
For example, we are thinking of bettering our fleets, which IS a good thing, but we could also write omakes about hero units FOR our fleets.
Like for example, have Honor Harrington as a hero unit? I do not know if anyone has read the books about her, but she would fit well enough in this universe, and give us a space equivalent of Ursarkar.E.Creed.
No small thing to say the least. Especially once we upgrade the tech for prolonging life.
(Speaking of Honor Harrington, I strongly suggest those who have actual competence in writing techno-babble and convert it in omakes to read on the techs of her universe, there are some VERY nice space guns/defensives techs for spaceships in there...)
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30,000 years have passed, and you're going to tell me that there has never been enough positive emotions to create some form of benevolent entity? That's just stupid... The warp is shaped by the materium, and Grimdark wasn't always the state of the milky way.
Orks wouldn't be able to keep humans alive long enough for anything resembling a farm to work.
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ExNihilo
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Vague plans for hero/above average units for the Keter, so it'll be done eventually.
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If I think about it again, I might write the omake myself- I just want to let the Bastion grow some before introducing said character in.
Right now, it feels too soon.
Also, an other idea for omake- writing on the culture of the Bastion.
For example, have a small group of people simply talking between one another of what life in the Bastion is like, with some mention here and there of Seras thrown in.
Could be interesting to see things from the POV of the "common man", so to speak...
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
@ilbgar123, I'm thinking of making a hero unit omake, do preexisting emotional bonds help Psykers choir together and is that noted or prized during the Willpower checks?
FunkyEntropy
Occasionally insightful, possibly grumpy
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As a reminder for our plan for the upcoming turn, we got a huge :hint hint: from the QM that we should find the rest of our Primarch brothers sooner rather than later. Pessimistically, better to over-allocate actions than under-allocate in case of bad luck.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
I'mg going to go read the chapter and then I'll start working on that, but I have two questions for the people in this thread first.
First question, has anyone thought of any additional personality Crystals? I've mostly honed in on Self-Defense Crystals and maybe Mind just for the hell of it, but if anyone has thought of any additional personality Crystals to throw in I'm interested in hearing it.
Side note, I'm not doing Loyalty, that's creepy to me.
Second, and more important, question. How many Crystals is this thread willing to give me? That's really the thing that defines my plan here.
Sir LagsAlot
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Don't worry to much about it I'm personally going to assign both of my +10s to searching for our brothers this turn.
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Yep.
Awesome; I have the same -- it actually tracks the number of actions used automatically (WP has some nice variable usage).
Nice / welcome.
We should throw them into our Learning... and Control.
Indeed! / It's why I've always advocated dropping our points into Education.
LOL -- True enough.
Hm, that would be nice... I guess we should start banking them then.
We need to become the Omnissiah; that will guarantee it, plus be awesome.
Clever. (Automation has, historically, been a very good thing.)
#2 & #3 certainly / #1 only if we set up super-universities + Academies.
The benefits here vastly outweigh the downsides. We should have enough bonuses to our economy right now that the expenses should be essentially miniscule compared to the entire budget + with our cultural skills having this sort of common militia experience for all members of Bastion will be good for cohesiveness as it would provide a common culture/experience.
Well, that's part of the nature of the "Chaos Gods" -- take "hope" it's a "desire for change" and therefore part of Tzeentch's domain, just like "stability"/"security" are part of Nurgle's domain. It's also why the Order Crystals are very dangerous: in the Warhammer setting Order and Organization are NOT the opposite of "Chaos" as we're operating in a TTS-AU we know that the Imperial Truth was really planting the seeds of a "Chaos God of Unbelief" and the QM has pretty explicitly stated that organization/order likewise could be Chaos God domains:
See?
Right there: Empyreal Tyrant.
Sir LagsAlot
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Hey you guys know how we were all amazed over how much Serras gained in her combat checks from gaining Karma this update right. Well the calculation that was done for didn't have the full Karma value so it was less then it was at the end of the update so in reality Serras the crazy bastard that she is managed to up her combat check by around 11k this turn and her speech check by about 16k.
ExNihilo
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There's at least one more (horus) in range. Investing this turn in psy choirs is a must though.
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We're that powerful because we're a good person. That feels niiiice.
In agreement, we can even get Fulgrim to follow us since we're the best chance of getting Chemos up to par asap.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
@ilbgar123 Can we have Training or Growth or Improvement Crystals? Any requirements for them? Any differences between them?
Are these just the Booster Crystals that we already have? It doesn't seem like the Booster Crystals work in grades like other Crystals do, what's up with that?
Edit: Adding on to this, how about an Illusion Crystal?
An Escape Crystal?
Are these just the Booster Crystals that we already have? It doesn't seem like the Booster Crystals work in grades like other Crystals do, what's up with that?
Edit: Adding on to this, how about an Illusion Crystal?
An Escape Crystal?
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There is a plethora of things someone can relate to happiness, joy, fun etc. The Warp is shaped by emotions, and I imagine humanity and the rest of the galaxy isn't all "I HATE MY LIFE, KILL MURDER MAIM, DISEASE, SEX PLEASURE EXCESS HAHAHHAHAH!" for the entirety of that 30k years and before even that.
And stop talking about order, I said nothing related to order! I was refering to the fact that believing that not a single benevolent being was created in 30k years is absurd.
The problem is that chaos gods ate all the benevolent entities.
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After developing "Growth Crystals": Cancer rates have risen by 7827%.
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Sure whatever. I was saying that it'd be stupid if the emperor never once in his entire life encountered a benevolent warp entity.
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The crab catching industry thanks Serras the Harvest Goddess for her bounties.
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Except that order in the form of our crystals/runes is directly related to your complaint that "not a single benevolent being was created in 30k years is absurd" -- we've just accidentally created one, and bumping up Order crystals/runes to level 10 was a [perhaps the] key step -- and as others are pointing out, there's a non-trivial chance that it'll be eaten/absorbed by one of the main-four Ruinous Powers. (Tzeentch has crystals, but Slaanesh is actively pissed off at us for intruding on its Banquet of Eldar, and likely would view eating this Crystalline Entity as just deserts.)
The crabs spread a Zombie Plague.
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Well, a Crystal of crystals (lower case c refers to crystals in general, not the conceptual bullshit type specifically) could make them easier to make. Get that one to grade 10 and I'll knock a Stellar Bellows down to a single year. However, it will have a slight effect on all Crystals, not just the ones directly under the area of effect of the ones you've made, which means Chaos has a slightly easier time making their own. Not a whole lot easier, but easier.
Sir LagsAlot
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This is totally worth it and I think we can all agree on that.