Ok, comparing the status, we've just doubled our Energy production rate. We are still small-time, and research crystals cost loads of energy. We are somewhat safe while the aliens try to figure out our capabilities.
[X] More energy! - Because its kinda your thing.
Why not push it if we think we can get away with it?
I support chocolote's artistic vision. They wanted an art piece, they'll get one. Hopefully, the less precise we are, the more time they will waste by honing their wishing skills in an attempt to get better results.
[X] Uh... How about a shield made out of arcs of leafed Titanium, then inscribed with a circle? Like this?
[X] The Usual.
[X] Moving our core downwards.
[X] Uh... How about a shield made out of arcs of leafed Titanium, then inscribed with a circle? Like this?
Click to expand...
[X] The Usual.
I started to think about this
we must make them think we only can build things from the material around us and i wonder how they are going to react if we start to play mucik with a lightshow?
In the end, you decide to not (yet?) be quite so obviously techno-magical and discard the 'actually electrical arcs' plan. Instead, although you aren't a fan of how variously-ruined the metals nearby are (by mage, by bomb, or both), you make it out of titanium, drawn out of the nearby rubble and bombarded until it melts, then shaped into a shield-shaped collection of leafed titanium arcs.
The circle is added later, after an interesting development: You appear to have literally burned out any residual traces of magic in the process of blast-reforging the collected titanium, though you appear to also have made any leftover irradiation worse, leading to an interesting arrangement of glowing and anti-glowing lines throughout. Perhaps its worth deeper investigation than just discarding the vast majority of nearby metals as ruined?
It certainly looks pretty for an unintentional addition, anyway. You quickly attach a metal-plated Infiltrator Minion section as the handhold and consider it done.
More importantly, it is time for science upon the new material! Some basic tests later confirm its usefulness, but not anything amazing. That completed, you slowly ramp up the tried and tested method of Crystalline Material Testing: blast it with energy until it submits to the next stage (assimilation-testing), explosively refuses, or explosively submits. And this material is very good at none of the above...until it abruptly shatters into shrapnel outwards relative to you instead of collapsing inwards into your grip.
This is a new result.
You spend the rest of the cycle either staring at the roughly meter-wide pile of suddenly suspicious shrapnel with all sorts of sensor configurations or re-examining the test data for the exact point it fractured and why, and don't notice the two alterin falling on top of you unconscious after staring too closely at the anti-glow lines for too long.
The new material reacts...unexpectedly to your usual methods of investigating new material. After we've realized its the next cycle and we have two alterin still here, which thing gets priority?
[] The material - While it could just be some old empire's anti-energy armor here with all the tech and relics and so forth, things you're trying to break down for science always break towards you, thats how this method works. Otherwise you'd lose it into space if you were still on the Prime Crystal. And thats not good.
[] The xenos - What the hell are they still here for? Your artwork can't be that good, all you did was what they asked for with a couple unintentional but pretty embellishments. They need to take their wish and go away, you have important research to continue.
Integrity: Intact
Core Armor: Unarmored
Energy Generation:
Core: 1000/cycle
As. Matter: 56 @ 20/cycle: 1,120/cycle
Base Crystal: 98 @ 50/cycle: 4,900/cycle
Research costs: 7 @ 10/cycle: -70/cycle
Total Energy production: 6,950/cycle
Max single crystal cost: 10K
Current Stored Energy: 0
Storage Status: Fine.
Research Production: 8/cycle
Current Research Project: Visual Augmentation [47/120]
Current Experimental Projects: Minions! [Infiltrator Greatsword type], New Material [SUSPICION.]
Available Research:
Core:
Warfare: Offensive Export (1000), Dampening Fields (1000)
Energy Generation: Alternate Power Sources (Experiment), Strengthened Conduits (250,repeatable), Base Crystal Upgrade? (1000), Fusion Amplification (??)
Storage: Energy Condensing (250), Enhanced Stabilization (250,repeatable).
Research: None, see tech tree
Command Network: Delegation (500)
Sensors & Exploration: Visual Augmentation (120), Wireless Theory (2000).
Minions Status:
Infiltrator Greatswords (2x): Plenty of reserve power, recording. Shape of a stone greatsword with crystalline hilt components. Tiny solar panel and thermal absorbers. Out of command range.
Arcane: Undiscovered.
High Tech Materials: Undiscovered.
The Alterin Threat:
They are bad at communication security here.
They are at least somewhat organized (managers)
They appear to lack an answer on the more arcane-bullshit sort of thing around here. Though we hardly know much either, how is that island floating...
They do take research data security seriously, and have a logging system.
Current base is not a full one.
They appear to not be concerned with nighttime security outside of basic measures.
Location: In a crater. Pretending to be a wishing well. Near some suspicious alterin.
Normal:
Assimilated matter
The quick, dirty solution to your lack of range.
Template: Matter
Energy production: 20 per cycle
Fabrication cost: 50 energy, nearby material.
Basic Crystal
Created by converting solid materials, like rock or assimilated matter.
Energy production: 50/cycle
Template: Refined
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, nearby solid material or crystal.
Storage Crystal
A stabilized hunk of additional crystal, giving you more room to store energy without side effects.
Template: Space-filling
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, empty space.
Research Crystal
Because doing everything yourself is slow and complicated.
Template: Space-filling
Traits: Data Storage (replaces Energy Storage: Basic)
Fabrication cost: 700 energy
Research Output: 1/cycle, Research cost 10 energy/cycle.
Repair Crystal
A good helper.
Energy production: 50/cycle
Template: Refined
Traits: Repair Protocols
Fabrication cost: 1,200 energy
Mine Crystal
Storage crystal stripped down and prepared to explode via overcharge.
Template: Space-filling (minimal energy storage)
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, empty space.
Available traits:
Energy Generator (Basic), Energy Storage (Basic), Data Storage, Absorption Fields, Defensive Offense, Explosive Entry, Repair Protocols.
Check the crystals threadmark for energy costs and details.
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I don't really have any excuse for this taking so long to update besides having too much stuff I want to do and forgot to update it. So instead, I've got a quick question: Would you guys like to see an alterin-perspective thing, or continue to only see them through the (probably-biased, but energy-optimized) lens of our crystalline friend here?
So instead, I've got a quick question: Would you guys like to see an alterin-perspective thing, or continue to only see them through the (probably-biased, but energy-optimized) lens of our crystalline friend here?
[X] The xenos - What the hell are they still here for? Your artwork can't be that good, all you did was what they asked for with a couple unintentional but pretty embellishments. They need to take their wish and go away, you have important research to continue.
If they don't go away soon the rest of them will start getting antsy.
Or start bursting into flames, when they're revealed to actually have been infected with vampirism.
[X] The xenos - What the hell are they still here for? Your artwork can't be that good, all you did was what they asked for with a couple unintentional but pretty embellishments. They need to take their wish and go away, you have important research to continue.
There could be trouble if they haven't told anyone that they come here. Or if they did tell anyone that they come here.
I'm for having an Alterin perspective. It could be funny.
They do know they were going here, Ro and Das are 'unofficially in charge of the wishing well bullshit' since they found it first, if you asked one of the more senior scientists.
[X] The xenos - What the hell are they still here for? Your artwork can't be that good, all you did was what they asked for with a couple unintentional but pretty embellishments. They need to take their wish and go away, you have important research to continue.
Get them out before anyone notices. How do we do that, though? Through minions?
I wonder what we just unleashed and if it can be weaponized by the time our cover is busted.
Would you guys like to see an alterin-perspective thing, or continue to only see them through the (probably-biased, but energy-optimized) lens of our crystalline friend here?
We could fling them somewhere if enough minions threw them at once. Other then that or just covering up the shield we may need more creative solutions.
Alterin Base Camp on formerly multi-inhabited planet designation 'Ruinos', month 2 report.
Summarizer: Head of Technical Research Wintarian (See section delta)
ALPHA
New POI: Floating Island.
Status: Explored, except for Fielded Door which remains unbreached. Certainly not for lack of trying. Considering the lack of access ports elsewhere on the structure after thorough examination by scoutcraft, anything of importance is likely in there. The full list of attempted opening trials is in the attachments for perusal.
New POI: 'Wishing Well'
Status: Located after unknown crystal-based meteoroid cratered on top of it, possibly integrated into it. Ongoing investigation.
Current output: Two (2) Solid stone, single-piece greatswords of significant length. Hilts are inset with either gem or crystal with no tool marks to indicate carving settings for them, as if the shining pieces was simply there when sword materialized/was carved/other possibilities.
BETA
Existing artifacts that have had investigations completed:
'Lunar Steel' (appears to simply be a form of steel that glows in moonlight, nothing more), Technological artifact.
'Mirror of Avengeance and Ruined Tea' (Yes, that name extension is necessary, despite the seeming un-relation of the two. All tea-based drinks brought in front of it have either become too hot to drink or too cold to be palatable, to the distinct and loud complaints of the new investigation team. Mirror continues to be a source of consternation and work for the medical crew.), Arcane item.
'Tank of Healing' (Movement systems had been rebuilt to use repairable tech, upon using a second such tank to test the effect of repairs movement systems were blown up on contact with the nanotech-laden shell and soon after regenerated previous unrepairable but now working movement systems. We now have two vehicles that repair others by partially destroying their intended target and regenerating it.), Technological vehicle.
'Cup of Dude' (Formerly known as the Cup of Doom. Previous scientist was, like, overreacting to the lack of, like, culture it can temporarily make, dude.), Arcane item.
'Throne of Needs' (Renamed and dismantled after causing base-wide brawl over who would go out with a particular individual who broke a quarantine seal to sit it in it. They are now in isolation until we are sure all the effects have cleared, and their pay has been docked to cover base repairs. Also, we will need a disenchanting specialist to take care of resulting still-enchanted scrap), former arcane item.
'And now a ship' (Appears to either convert any attached vehicle into a warship until removed (watercraft into naval warships, ground vehicles into airborne warships, aircraft into flying dreadnoughts specifically, and atmospheric-capable spacecraft into transforming aerospace warships) or if not attached to any form of vehicle, makes people insist on adding 'And you are now a ship' or variants to the end of every sentence within about 4 meters of it.), Enchanted cube.
'Anti-bomb' (Original experiment was correct: Item eats explosions and all side effects and converts the force into the original explosive used, but slightly weaker. Repeated uses eventually will not return a result and instead produce a firework out of nowhere, absorption halts until firework is used. Resulting firework is always exactly the same size but scales in impressiveness with the variety of elements consumed since previous firework), Technological artifact.
GAMMA
See attachments. I can't repeat Commander Wholo's long and rambling requisitions report that would take half an hour to read through with any degree of sense if I tried.
DELTA
Casualties:
Entire base (both minor and major injuries from Throne of Needs-based jealousy attack), mostly recovered. Theres a few broken bones left to keep healing.
Commander Wholo - KIA by raging, likely former-nobility physical spirit within floating island throne room. Will attempt to recover body once spirit has calmed back down, may take some time. (already been a week and it shows no sign of not attempting to breach the hastily-reinforced doorway)
A number of AI-driven heavily armored transport vehicles (disabled either due to heavy interference dissolving link to base or destroyed by hostile interference of the other kind.)
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Head of Technical Research (and acting Commander) Wintarian lets out a very long sigh at the end of the (first four sections of) report finally arriving. How did the previous commander manage to get these done on time with how much he crammed into them and how much there was to do besides write these damn things? It took long enough to collect all of the reports and results and spreadsheets to review, much less include! There was still Blann knows how many more artifacts to confirm research on, plus the exploration reports, and all sorts of things that aren't quite relevant to investigating all the old and mostly-ruined tech scattered around the planet, and it'd all be easier if you could just dump this on the other Heads.
But no, there had to be a 'vote to determine acting commander' because Wholo was too long-winded and seemingly-unbeatable in combat for anyone to bother making a proper chain of succession in case he actually died. What it actually was was picking straws in a secret meeting and passing it off as a vote so it didn't sound like they were as disorganized as the rest of the base was without him.
As it gets dark, he gets a call asking where Ro and Das currently are and why they haven't responded to calls, and sighs again. Loudly. Tomorrow is gonna be a long day, isn't it.
Hilts are inset with either gem or crystal with no tool marks to indicate carving settings for them, as if the shining pieces was simply there when sword materialized/was carved/other possibilities.
[X] The xenos - What the hell are they still here for? Your artwork can't be that good, all you did was what they asked for with a coupleunintentional but pretty embellishments. They need to take their wish and go away, you have important research to continue.
We could make some minions that are tanks they dont need to be quite and we can disguise them to mostly look like piles of big rocks or boulders maybye statues
I'd found out about Inkarnate from reading Hatchling Quest, and both are pretty neat. So have a (not to scale) overworld map that I put together in it. If I've misremembered where I said things were before (like our position relative to their base), then its now how the map is.
Most of the place that we saw on the way down was essentially desert for all the use you'd get out of it without digging up everything at this point. North/northwest of us is mountainous and cold and probably also full of ruins. SE of us is a volcano, and also lava. Lots of lava. There used to be a fortress there. SE of the alterin base is a forestful of dead trees and lingering enchantments that leads towards what was previously just denser forest but is now more of a mire of bad juju and aftereffects from archmagus battles. The island, the base, and us are all marked, and I'll add more markers as we find things worth marking.
[X] The material - While it could just be some old empire's anti-energy armor here with all the tech and relics and so forth, things you're trying to break down for science always break towards you, thats how this method works. Otherwise you'd lose it into space if you were still on the Prime Crystal. And thats not good.
After a quick check of whats nearby as the cycle starts, you find a more problematic thing than the material, and reluctantly put it aside. The problem being two sleeping/unconscious alterin in your 'wishing well'. The shield is also still here, which means they haven't left.
The shield was picked up at least. Its not where you'd left it, its next to them. Sure, the anti-glowing lines look...strange, at best, but its not like you attempted to overlay multiple holograms over each other to be intentionally confusing, or hid slightly-faulty encryption inside the artwork to scramble-bomb unauthorized access to your private files. All you did was get the side effects of blast-reforging faulty enchanted materials...which perhaps is more dangerous to them than it is to you?
It certainly could be, you're no expert in magic or the relatives of.
A few scans later and you're pretty sure of the following:
You aren't sure how to get them out of here short of assaulting them into waking up, which will leave energy burns or worse.
The shield is only slightly irradiated, its nowhere near dangerous levels. Its not even near 'This needs to be cleaned up' levels. The alterin don't appear rad-damaged after lying near it for a half-cycle either, but you'd need to actually science them to get a decent baseline for well, anything. You can't diagnose creatures you don't even know the non-surface anatomy of, and their base would probably be offended if you only returned half of the set.
Covering up the shield with thrown dirt and small dagger minions doesn't seem to have changed much, so its cleaned back up and the minions are discarded, since stabbing is no more stealthy than burns for discreetly waking them.
Eventually, you decide on giving up on being particularly unnoticed and just bash one of the two in the face with the shield minion. They shout and quickly attempt to stand up, only to collapse back onto the ground face-first. A quick comparison of the two at least answers your original question: Now you have one in-pain (but awake) alteri, and one unconscious one.
When the awake one doesn't do more than groan and move to a slightly more comfortable-looking position by the end of subcycle 3 (having been bashed awake the previous subcycle), you spend the remaining time until the next cycle watching out for incoming vehicles or other signs of aggressive negotiations, and checking the recordings on the infiltrator greatswords, but don't see or hear much besides some worried questioning.
What next?
[] Bash the other one - Better to have them awake and groaning then looking like you did something to them. And it might even be more effective the second time!
[] Don't bash - Whichever is awake will hear it. Whether they're paying attention is up for debate.
[] Ignore them - You tried, and the result is one of them can fill you in on what happened when the inevitable retrieval happens. Back to bigger issues, like getting armed crystals or the material investigation!
-[] And another thing (Writein): Energy plans, research plans, anything you want being done while we ignore the partially-completed alterin issue.
Integrity: Intact
Core Armor: Unarmored
Energy Generation:
Core: 1000/cycle
As. Matter: 56 @ 20/cycle: 1,120/cycle
Base Crystal: 98 @ 50/cycle: 4,900/cycle
Research costs: 7 @ 10/cycle: -70/cycle
Total Energy production: 6,950/cycle
Max single crystal cost: 10K
Current Stored Energy: 6,950
Storage Status: Fine.
Research Production: 8/cycle
Current Research Project: Visual Augmentation [55/120]
Current Experimental Projects: Minions! [Infiltrator Greatsword type], New Material [SUSPICION.]
Available Research:
Core:
Warfare: Offensive Export (1000), Dampening Fields (1000)
Energy Generation: Alternate Power Sources (Experiment), Strengthened Conduits (250,repeatable), Base Crystal Upgrade? (1000), Fusion Amplification (??)
Storage: Energy Condensing (250), Enhanced Stabilization (250,repeatable).
Research: None, see tech tree
Command Network: Delegation (500)
Sensors & Exploration: Visual Augmentation (120), Wireless Theory (2000).
Minions Status:
Infiltrator Greatswords (2x): Plenty of reserve power, recording. Shape of a stone greatsword with crystalline hilt components. Tiny solar panel and thermal absorbers. Out of command range.
Arcane: Undiscovered.
High Tech Materials: Undiscovered.
The Alterin Threat:
They are bad at communication security here.
They are at least somewhat organized (managers)
They appear to lack an answer on the more arcane-bullshit sort of thing around here. Though we hardly know much either, how is that island floating...
They do take research data security seriously, and have a logging system.
Current base is not a full one.
They appear to not be concerned with nighttime security outside of basic measures.
Location: In a crater. Pretending to be a wishing well. Near some suspicious alterin.
Normal:
Assimilated matter
The quick, dirty solution to your lack of range.
Template: Matter
Energy production: 20 per cycle
Fabrication cost: 50 energy, nearby material.
Basic Crystal
Created by converting solid materials, like rock or assimilated matter.
Energy production: 50/cycle
Template: Refined
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, nearby solid material or crystal.
Storage Crystal
A stabilized hunk of additional crystal, giving you more room to store energy without side effects.
Template: Space-filling
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, empty space.
Research Crystal
Because doing everything yourself is slow and complicated.
Template: Space-filling
Traits: Data Storage (replaces Energy Storage: Basic)
Fabrication cost: 700 energy
Research Output: 1/cycle, Research cost 10 energy/cycle.
Repair Crystal
A good helper.
Energy production: 50/cycle
Template: Refined
Traits: Repair Protocols
Fabrication cost: 1,200 energy
Mine Crystal
Storage crystal stripped down and prepared to explode via overcharge.
Template: Space-filling (minimal energy storage)
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, empty space.
Available traits:
Energy Generator (Basic), Energy Storage (Basic), Data Storage, Absorption Fields, Defensive Offense, Explosive Entry, Repair Protocols.
Check the crystals threadmark for energy costs and details.
[X] Bash the other one - Better to have them awake and groaning then looking like you did something to them. And it might even be more effective the second time!
-[X] Keep going for as long as it seems effective.
Yes, I'm basically voting to slap them awake. I think that this will actually work. I have high hopes.
[X] Ignore them - You tried, and the result is one of them can fill you in on what happened when the inevitable retrieval happens. Back to bigger issues, like getting armed crystals or the material investigation!
-[X] And another thing
--[X] More Energy
The one who is awake can confirm there's nothing sentient around here (safe for the well), and I'd like for them to keep thinking that.
After all, they won't think we did something to them if we don't do anything to them... while they are awake, at least.
[X] Ignore them - You tried, and the result is one of them can fill you in on what happened when the inevitable retrieval happens. Back to bigger issues, like getting armed crystals or the material investigation!
-[X] And another thing
--[X] Outfit yourself with more research crystals.
More energy is nice, but our research progress is pitiful.
[X] Ignore them - You tried, and the result is one of them can fill you in on what happened when the inevitable retrieval happens. Back to bigger issues, like getting armed crystals or the material investigation!
-[X] And another thing
--[X] Outfit yourself with more research crystals.
[X] Ignore them - You tried, and the result is one of them can fill you in on what happened when the inevitable retrieval happens. Back to bigger issues, like getting armed crystals or the material investigation!
-[X] And another thing
--[X] Outfit yourself with more research crystals.
You go for the easier approach and just leave the situation as-is, and instead start converting the As. matter into research crystals. Things are going far too slowly in that aspect for you, especially since that is what you did before. The remaining energy is invested into some more production. +27 progress - Visual Augmentation [82/120]
Cycle 14, subcycle 2
"Take that greatsword with you in case it has some sort of effect bound to it and put together a rescue squad for those two tomorrow. Hopefully they simply got lost in a cave or something nearby that crater."
Finally, something relevant gets spoken near your spy swords. The awake alteri is busy doing...something with his backpack and the shield. Either its incredibly awkward to do what they're attempting without actually holding both items, or they're nearly as drunk as the occasional space pirate sounded, because they aren't getting anywhere with it.
The latter, while a dubious one, is an achievement in itself. Those pirates still manage to fly spacecraft while shouting all manner of angry slurred babble after all, even if they get blown up by defense guns shortly after getting into actual communications range. Research expansion continues. +44 progress - Visual Augmentation [126/120] Trait unlocked: Visual Augmentation!
Predesigned crystals unlocked: Farseer Crystal, Scrying Crystal!
Cycle 15
More research is built as you quickly run out of As. matter to convert. The active alteri is asleep most of this cycle, and the rescue squad appears to have not left yet. +61 progress - Temp. storage
Cycle 16, subcycle 1
"DAS! RO!ARE YOU GUYS ALIVE OVER HERE?"
Gah! While you admittedly have not met many xenos at all, must they be so painfully loud? Hopefully this is only the result of some device's audio amplification. Whichever one is the awake alteri responds much more quietly, but no less shouty. "Yes, and maybe!"
"MAYBE IS NOT A GOOD ANSWER!" is blasted in their direction even louder, followed by the godawful amplifier cutting out abruptly with a shriek of broken components.
While you're appreciating the sudden drop in volume, they continue shouting while walking up to the lip of the crater. "Fuck, I'm gonna have to pay for that breaking. Anyway! Who is this exactly?!"
"Das!" shouts Das. "And I'm not sure whats up with the shield we asked for!"
"What was it?" is yelled back as Loudest One finally peers into the crater at you, Das, Ro, and the anti-glow shield.
"Supposed to be an Arcleaf shield with an engraved circle! Before...whatever happened, scanner said it was actually a leafed titanium shield with the requested engraving. The metal matches scraps we've found nearby, so the wishing well might be drawing from nearby similar material sources before turning to magically pulling things out of nowhere. Problem is, got two bad things about it, although one of them is easily cleaned with some intense scrubbing: Its more irradiated than average for around here, and theres these...not-lines." Das says, before glancing suspiciously at his backpack.
"Well they either are lines, or they aren't. What sort of description is 'not-lines'?"
"Well, when we looked at them originally, it was like looking at missing space. Holes in the world. A distinct lack of glow, like it was not allowed. The black hole of non-glowing materials. And very, verrrrrrry wrong. I was trying to stuff it into my backpack yesterday without looking at it directly again and I could still tell where the not-lines were by whether or not it hurt to even look too closely in that particular direction. "
There is quite the silence afterwards. As it goes on you slowly drop the nearby metals out of 'tenuously usable' and back into 'Nope, still rubbish and should not be touched'. If you forging with it turns the residual enchantments into some form of eldritch hole in reality to them, thats quite the find research-wise, and certainly could be weaponized for more practical purposes...but extremely bad from a 'Don't draw attention to yourself yet' perspective.
You build more research crystals and base crystals and let them work on whatever busywork you can find while you mentally spin in worry for a bit that you might've wrecked your disguise by not being magical enough. Or maybe too magic.
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[] Plan A: Emergency Powersplosion
- Mass assimilation spree followed by a mine crystal detonation attempting to look like some sort of magic flux to try and hurry them out of here by threat of unknown dangerous 'magic' happenings.
[] Plan B: Site Cleanup
- Lasers for everyone! No one must know about this shield anymore, its too dangerous to your cover. Worry about the effects of more missing alterin later.
[] Plan C: Writein
- Does not have to actually be plan c.
Research:
[] (Next research project) - Temp. storage goes towards this.
[] None - This will waste the temp. research storage.
Integrity: Intact
Core Armor: Unarmored
Energy Generation:
Core: 1000/cycle
As. Matter: 0 @ 20/cycle: 0/cycle
Base Crystal: 114 @ 50/cycle: 5,700/cycle
Research costs: 68 @ 10/cycle: -680/cycle
Total Energy production: 6,020/cycle
Max single crystal cost: 10K
Current Stored Energy: 30
Storage Status: Fine.
Research Production: 68/cycle
Temporary research storage (must be spent next turn or lost): 129 points
Current Research Project: None
Current Experimental Projects: Minions! [Infiltrator Greatsword type], New Material [SUSPICION.]
Available Research:
Core:
Warfare: Offensive Export (1000), Dampening Fields (1000)
Energy Generation: Alternate Power Sources (Experiment), Strengthened Conduits (250,repeatable), Base Crystal Upgrade? (1000), Fusion Amplification (??)
Storage: Energy Condensing (250), Enhanced Stabilization (250,repeatable).
Research: None, see tech tree
Command Network: Delegation (500)
Sensors & Exploration: Vis-Link (500), Improved Matter Output (750), Wireless Theory (2000).
Minions Status:
Infiltrator Greatswords (2x): Plenty of reserve power, recording. Shape of a stone greatsword with crystalline hilt components. Tiny solar panel and thermal absorbers. Out of command range.
Arcane: Undiscovered.
High Tech Materials: Undiscovered.
The Alterin Threat:
They are bad at communication security here.
They are at least somewhat organized (managers)
They appear to lack an answer on the more arcane-bullshit sort of thing around here. Though we hardly know much either, how is that island floating...
They do take research data security seriously, and have a logging system.
Current base is not a full one.
They appear to not be concerned with nighttime security outside of basic measures.
Location: In a crater. Pretending to be a wishing well. Near some suspicious alterin.
Normal:
Assimilated matter
The quick, dirty solution to your lack of range.
Template: Matter
Energy production: 20 per cycle
Fabrication cost: 50 energy, nearby material.
Basic Crystal
Created by converting solid materials, like rock or assimilated matter.
Energy production: 50/cycle
Template: Refined
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, nearby solid material or crystal.
Storage Crystal
A stabilized hunk of additional crystal, giving you more room to store energy without side effects.
Template: Space-filling
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, empty space.
Research Crystal
Because doing everything yourself is slow and complicated.
Template: Space-filling
Traits: Data Storage (replaces Energy Storage: Basic)
Fabrication cost: 700 energy
Research Output: 1/cycle, Research cost 10 energy/cycle.
Repair Crystal
A good helper.
Energy production: 50/cycle
Template: Refined
Traits: Repair Protocols
Fabrication cost: 1,200 energy
Mine Crystal
Storage crystal stripped down and prepared to explode via overcharge.
Template: Space-filling (minimal energy storage)
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, empty space.
Available traits:
Energy Generator (Basic), Energy Storage (Basic), Data Storage, Absorption Fields, Defensive Offense, Explosive Entry, Repair Protocols, Visual Augmentation.
Check the crystals threadmark for energy costs and details.
Navy Blue - Crystal core Light Blue - Base crystals Orange w/ black S - Storage Crystal Turquoise with small diamond - Farseer Crystal Black with Turquoise diamond - Scrying Crystal Purple/Orchid - Focusing Crystal Darker Purple - Overseer Crystal Blue w/ gold R - Research Crystal Purpleish - Repair Crystal Red - Diplomatic Crystalline
--- Dark Brown - Empty underground space Light Brown - Dirt or other non-solid material Grey - Rock Sky Blue - Empty aboveground space Teal w/brown diamond - Assimilated matter
(Background) w/ question mark - [Unknown tech]
(Background) w/ small diamond - Mobile Thing (Purple for Alterin) Dark gray - Unknown high-tech structural material Black - Unknown
--- Red cross-shaped overlay - Damaged Red X overlay - Heavily damaged
We haven't done anything particularly unlike wishing-well like just yet. It is a well known fact that it was smart to be very precise in formulating your wishes, otherwise you might not get what you wanted. In this case, there was not any decent formulating, hence not really what they wanted .
[X]Plan C
-[X]Continue pretending to be a wishing well.
-[X]Dampening Fields (1000)
We haven't done anything particularly unlike wishing-well like just yet. It is a well known fact that it was smart to be very precise in formulating your wishes, otherwise you might not get what you wanted. In this case, there was not any decent formulating, hence not really what they wanted .
[X]Plan C
-[X]Continue pretending to be a wishing well.
-[X]Dampening Fields (1000)
[X] Plan C
-[X] Continue pretending to be a wishing well.
-[X] Dampening Fields (1000)
Let's pretend the problem was because puny mortals weren't careful about what they asked for: If they didn't want a mind-warping 7 dimension shield, they should have said so.
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