Devastation Comes In Big Packages [Planetary Annihilation/Multicross SI]
- Pronouns
- They/Them
I love how everyone is fully aware how horrifically suspicious MannCo is, but can't do anything, because they're just so Gosh Darn helpful. Like sure, what they're doing is blatantly impossible and they're barely bothering with a veneer of plausibility, but what exactly are you supposed to do in this situation?
It's like a man in a cheap Santa suit shows up on your door, claims to be Saint Nicholas and gives you a million dollars.
And then he shows up the next day with a box set of the first 4 seasons of Firefly and when you ask him how he got it he tells you that the cast and crew reunited to continue the series, but when you watch the show, none of the actors have aged a day and there isn't a single bad episode.
The day after, he shows up with your mother who has died in a car crash when you were a child. And while you stand there in stunned disbelief, he explains to you that she survived the car crash with amnesia, but he has managed to track her down, cure her amnesia (sadly at the cost of her memories of her life after the car crash) and given her a de-aging treatment, which is the reason she hasn't aged a day since you last saw her. He goes on to explain that the woman you burried was in fact your mothers long lost twin sister and before you ask, he tells you there's no need to exhume the body, because he's taken the liberty of moving it to the appropriate cemetery.
It's like a man in a cheap Santa suit shows up on your door, claims to be Saint Nicholas and gives you a million dollars.
And then he shows up the next day with a box set of the first 4 seasons of Firefly and when you ask him how he got it he tells you that the cast and crew reunited to continue the series, but when you watch the show, none of the actors have aged a day and there isn't a single bad episode.
The day after, he shows up with your mother who has died in a car crash when you were a child. And while you stand there in stunned disbelief, he explains to you that she survived the car crash with amnesia, but he has managed to track her down, cure her amnesia (sadly at the cost of her memories of her life after the car crash) and given her a de-aging treatment, which is the reason she hasn't aged a day since you last saw her. He goes on to explain that the woman you burried was in fact your mothers long lost twin sister and before you ask, he tells you there's no need to exhume the body, because he's taken the liberty of moving it to the appropriate cemetery.
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Iridium Flare
Cyborg Commando
- Location
- AC-130 Gunship circling overhead
And now I have the Ballad of Optimus Prime stuck in my head again.
Huh...I know Mann probably popped some time-manipulation satellites in orbit, and then hit 'fast-forward' before withdrawing them (well, and hacking/fixing all the Terraforming machines so they don't look like they were just sitting for years) just before the colonists arrived.
But...does anyone else know about Protoss time-tech? They have some basic stuff like Stasis and chrono-boost right? No where near powerful or varied enough to accelerate a planet (oh, and also deal with how said accelerated planet isn't rotating or experiencing seasons unless the whole damn system is being affected), but it does exist. And Mann-Co was (and continues?) to deal very heavily in advanced Protoss tech.
I'd bet that while the Umojan council isn't certain of anything (and are probably even really hoping it's some weird quirk or a mis-communication with the terraforming specialist).... they've already sorta accepted that years of unexpected development on a planetary scale may literally be years of development. And that there is only one group so weird and interested in them. Making all this a subtle way to poke MannCo, and for Jim and the boys to get even more questions.
But...does anyone else know about Protoss time-tech? They have some basic stuff like Stasis and chrono-boost right? No where near powerful or varied enough to accelerate a planet (oh, and also deal with how said accelerated planet isn't rotating or experiencing seasons unless the whole damn system is being affected), but it does exist. And Mann-Co was (and continues?) to deal very heavily in advanced Protoss tech.
I'd bet that while the Umojan council isn't certain of anything (and are probably even really hoping it's some weird quirk or a mis-communication with the terraforming specialist).... they've already sorta accepted that years of unexpected development on a planetary scale may literally be years of development. And that there is only one group so weird and interested in them. Making all this a subtle way to poke MannCo, and for Jim and the boys to get even more questions.
Syqadelic
That's not a mountain.
- Location
- Earth
Paranoid tinfoil-hat: It's them aliens, man! And the robot overmind! It's an ALIEN ROBOT OVERMIND!
Mann: You know, he's not wrong.
Actually, he would have had to do it for the entire solar system, since the plants and algae would have needed an equivalent time-share of solar energy. And since no one has mentioned that anything is missing from the solar system, they must have fast-forwarded that too.
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Hot diggity. I thought it'd be months before we saw another update.
"Truly. The ancients knew well to hide their secrets. I am sure I am using it correctly, yet I am no closer to deciphering the prophecy with this vexing material"
"Orange clearly isn't working. Try the Apricot instead. And put it on some toast."
"Truly. The ancients knew well to hide their secrets. I am sure I am using it correctly, yet I am no closer to deciphering the prophecy with this vexing material"
"Orange clearly isn't working. Try the Apricot instead. And put it on some toast."
Actually, you know what both of these things look like, rather than the UED?
The Xel'naga.
Hell, wasn't one of the Starcraft 2 post-epilogue things, something about how some planets were being rejuvenated with life or something? Maybe in some of the Starcraft books or fiction I mean, rather than the in-game epilogue stuff.
So, anyway. A great space-faring force. Powerful psychics at its command. Esoteric knowledge of the universe, including even knowing of what the prophecies were going to say before Zeratul deciphered it. Potentially the ability to seed or reseed worlds with life.
It's starting to look like a Good Universe mirror-clone of Duran, honestly? Except this one never bothered to pretend to be "just" a mere Ghost and rebel against the Dominion; instead, they out and out showed themselves to be spooky and powerful and mysterious to begin with, rather than acting like a plant that the UED picked up and used in their war against the Dominion.
So, a rival Xel'naga faction that's trying to stop Amon's plans, perhaps?
Would even Amon be taken in potentially by that theory? What if he wonders: "Wait, shit, did I somehow miss more Xel'naga? Or did Ouros start backing a faction of people in the mortal world, and more blatantly playing around with things, perhaps?"
I think it's probably more of a filing cabinet by this point.
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
reliving
Gonna be fun for anybody looking at the system from a few lightyears away when the light finally does arrive.
Allied Intelligence Directorate Profile - Guy
Allied Intelligence Directorate
Case File Subject: WIZARD
Classification level: Eyes only, Level 5 Access
Subject Name: Guy
Alias: The Guy
D.O.B: unknown
Nationality: unknown
Relatives: Guy Mendeza, brother
Languages: Subject shows full proficiency in any currently spoken language.
Home Address: Unknown.
Guy first came into official Alliance notice during the infiltration of the Strategic Information Network in June 6 1983, inserting his own channel into a secure active communication between Field Agent Tanya and Allied Supreme Commander Bingham (see breach incident I-261). He subsequently offered, and shortly thereafter enacted, a plan to decapitate the entirety of Soviet leadership. This was achieved through a combination of pinpoint teleportation with potentially global reach and previously considered impossible stealth systems. Agent Tanya was witness to the execution of this plan, and it is her that the methods utilized were corroborated. Subsequent actions of Guy later throughout the war would further demonstrate the ability to teleport kilotons worth of material organic and inorganic (see CASE EXODUS) and advanced E-war capabilities that remain unmatched to this day, capable of overriding practically any system with a data uplink, be they civilian or military.
Analysis however believes that Guy was active well before his first official action. In the months leading up to incident I-261, multiple anomalous reports across Allied territory began to surface, primarily centered around restaurants where a patron would order and subsequently consume improbable amounts of food. While inconsequential in itself given what is now known of his habits, one report of that earlier time frame stood out. A security breach of the outer perimeter in the New York FutureTech research institute. Though dismissed at the time as a case of an over-stressed researcher, the evidence overwhelmingly points towards it being Guy being present at the time, with circumstantial evidence indicating that his presence was a precursor or calling card to the theft of proprietary research, most likely documentation on the Chronosphere.
There is an 95% certainty that Guy's teleportation capabilities stems from the theft of chrono-mechanics research. However, the level of ability displayed in his casual use of space time displacement, as well as obviating the inherently fatal consequences of chrono-shifting unshielded personnel, indicates that Guy's mastery of practical chrono-mechanics is still far in advance of even the latest generation Chronosphere.
Despite the best efforts of the Dawkins group, no research institute has been found with the prerequisite backing and expertise to achieve such level of refinement that predates the live demonstrations of this refined technology. Best estimates place at least thirty to forty more years of iterative advancement before equivalent performance can be produced in the Allied arsenals.
Additionally, Theta group believes that the stealth technology as described by Agent Tanya has a strong basis from the holographic camouflage technology used in Imperial Japanese Sudden Transports, albeit again sharing a level of refinement that grossly obsoletes the Imperial counterparts.
This, combined with information Guy inadvertently leaked to Agent Tanya during OPERATION HANGMAN in regards to his augmented nature, as well as analysis from CASE MOCKINGBIRD has led to the current prevailing theory as to the origins of this individual and the answer behind his advanced technology.
Unlike CASE MOCKINGBIRD, Guy is a fully autonomous, self directing artificial intelligence. One capable of greatly accelerated learning and experimentation. Given the samples from CASE MOCKINGBIRD, Guy is most likely a product of the now defunct Imperial Japan. It is not known how or why he broke free from whatever directives that must have been programmed in him at the time period, but the presence of a Yuriko psychic commando at his side throughout the later stages of the war, the revelation of the flagrant abuses by the psychic commando program, as well as the final outcome of the Empire is damning.
RECOMMENDATION
Threat level: Extreme. Do not provoke.
Between rapid charge pinpoint chrono-shift technology, stealth fields and his E-war mastery, Guy possesses the unparalleled ability to decapitate and paralyze any modern nation at will. Work is being done towards hardening critical command and control links, but there is no way to be certain of their efficiency until and unless Guy commits to a first strike. The risks of failure in such an outcome are undesirable to the extreme.
However, the post war situation indicates that Guy and his leash holder are more interested in a hedonistic lifestyle than any power play now that their primary objectives have been achieved. Outside of the establishment of Nova Industries (see file D-456 DOPPELGANGER), analysis does not believe this behavioral trend will change absent a significant X factor. Should they be left alone, there is a high probability they will reciprocate.
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A/N: I said I'd build a dossier, and I did. AID used their brains and got some right, and some things wrong. Given what happened in that arc, I think they reasonably got close.
Case File Subject: WIZARD
Classification level: Eyes only, Level 5 Access
Subject Name: Guy
Alias: The Guy
D.O.B: unknown
Nationality: unknown
Relatives: Guy Mendeza, brother
Languages: Subject shows full proficiency in any currently spoken language.
Home Address: Unknown.
Guy first came into official Alliance notice during the infiltration of the Strategic Information Network in June 6 1983, inserting his own channel into a secure active communication between Field Agent Tanya and Allied Supreme Commander Bingham (see breach incident I-261). He subsequently offered, and shortly thereafter enacted, a plan to decapitate the entirety of Soviet leadership. This was achieved through a combination of pinpoint teleportation with potentially global reach and previously considered impossible stealth systems. Agent Tanya was witness to the execution of this plan, and it is her that the methods utilized were corroborated. Subsequent actions of Guy later throughout the war would further demonstrate the ability to teleport kilotons worth of material organic and inorganic (see CASE EXODUS) and advanced E-war capabilities that remain unmatched to this day, capable of overriding practically any system with a data uplink, be they civilian or military.
Analysis however believes that Guy was active well before his first official action. In the months leading up to incident I-261, multiple anomalous reports across Allied territory began to surface, primarily centered around restaurants where a patron would order and subsequently consume improbable amounts of food. While inconsequential in itself given what is now known of his habits, one report of that earlier time frame stood out. A security breach of the outer perimeter in the New York FutureTech research institute. Though dismissed at the time as a case of an over-stressed researcher, the evidence overwhelmingly points towards it being Guy being present at the time, with circumstantial evidence indicating that his presence was a precursor or calling card to the theft of proprietary research, most likely documentation on the Chronosphere.
There is an 95% certainty that Guy's teleportation capabilities stems from the theft of chrono-mechanics research. However, the level of ability displayed in his casual use of space time displacement, as well as obviating the inherently fatal consequences of chrono-shifting unshielded personnel, indicates that Guy's mastery of practical chrono-mechanics is still far in advance of even the latest generation Chronosphere.
Despite the best efforts of the Dawkins group, no research institute has been found with the prerequisite backing and expertise to achieve such level of refinement that predates the live demonstrations of this refined technology. Best estimates place at least thirty to forty more years of iterative advancement before equivalent performance can be produced in the Allied arsenals.
Additionally, Theta group believes that the stealth technology as described by Agent Tanya has a strong basis from the holographic camouflage technology used in Imperial Japanese Sudden Transports, albeit again sharing a level of refinement that grossly obsoletes the Imperial counterparts.
This, combined with information Guy inadvertently leaked to Agent Tanya during OPERATION HANGMAN in regards to his augmented nature, as well as analysis from CASE MOCKINGBIRD has led to the current prevailing theory as to the origins of this individual and the answer behind his advanced technology.
Unlike CASE MOCKINGBIRD, Guy is a fully autonomous, self directing artificial intelligence. One capable of greatly accelerated learning and experimentation. Given the samples from CASE MOCKINGBIRD, Guy is most likely a product of the now defunct Imperial Japan. It is not known how or why he broke free from whatever directives that must have been programmed in him at the time period, but the presence of a Yuriko psychic commando at his side throughout the later stages of the war, the revelation of the flagrant abuses by the psychic commando program, as well as the final outcome of the Empire is damning.
RECOMMENDATION
Threat level: Extreme. Do not provoke.
Between rapid charge pinpoint chrono-shift technology, stealth fields and his E-war mastery, Guy possesses the unparalleled ability to decapitate and paralyze any modern nation at will. Work is being done towards hardening critical command and control links, but there is no way to be certain of their efficiency until and unless Guy commits to a first strike. The risks of failure in such an outcome are undesirable to the extreme.
However, the post war situation indicates that Guy and his leash holder are more interested in a hedonistic lifestyle than any power play now that their primary objectives have been achieved. Outside of the establishment of Nova Industries (see file D-456 DOPPELGANGER), analysis does not believe this behavioral trend will change absent a significant X factor. Should they be left alone, there is a high probability they will reciprocate.
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A/N: I said I'd build a dossier, and I did. AID used their brains and got some right, and some things wrong. Given what happened in that arc, I think they reasonably got close.
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- Location
- Trapped in the Warp
"So you want to know how we get all of our resources? Well, lemme walk you through it. Let us take the Battlecruiser as an example. First what you gotta do is build a Command Center and a bunch of SCVs. Plop down a couple of Vespine refineries, then build a single factory so you can unlock Starports. Then-no, hold up I am not finished. Then, build yourself some starports, put a Tech Lab on each of them, then plop down a fusion core. After that, start churning out Battlecruisers, you can turn out about one 'cruiser per starport per minute! Now, any questions?"
"That is the biggest load of bull- wait, did you say one Battlecruiser per MINUTE?"
"Yep. And it only takes about 5 minutes to get to that point!"
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asdx
Superior Sword Fairy
- Location
- Texas.
Yes. Xel'Naga Kerrigan was implied to have gone around for like a year unfucking the massive damage she and the warring did to the various world's. Before riding off into the sunset with Jim.
Ridli Scott
(Verified acid sweater mutant)
- Location
- The Periphery
Yuriko shouldn't know who Hitler is, unless the Commander told about him. And even in that case his mention lose some strength compared to the strength that sentence would have in a world where Hitler was a thing.
Mann babbles about things she Yuriko doesn't precisely know about all the time, but in this case it's more of a thing of her asking questions and getting honest answers at an unspecified point, likely during their wandering around after ending the the World War. Specifically because her world is built upon not one, but two separate time machine-based acts of assassination, and it would have come up before now. The logic of the question comes from the Empire of the Rising Sun not existing in the previous timeline before the Soviets went back, who went back because Einstein went back. And why did Einstein go back, what was so important? Hitler. Who is Hitler? This [exposition]. Oh. What a bastard. Same with other Earth-based dictators and what nots.
Additionally, Yuriko Thirteen has a weirdly vested interest in tyrants/dictators (or, at minimum, bad leaders) and the undoing of them, due to the monstrously abusive relationship the supposedly divine leadership of the Empire of the Rising Sun had with the entire Yuriko line of clones. She's also developed a slight case of championing abused psychics as well. Remember, she was decanted from her clone tube as a high school aged-in-body girl, and sent on to be a killing weapon in a world war. While she spent a considerable amount of time with Guy, and now with Mann, she's still got a lot of figuring out as to who she is, why, etc. She has a highly confident display when she's around literally anyone else but Mann, and possibly Dude, but as shown in the small personal excerpts when it's just the two of them she's a lot more emotional, flighty, worried, anxious, etc.
It's why she particularly doesn't like Arcturus Mengsk, or the UED, in the case of Starcraft.
Additionally, Yuriko Thirteen has a weirdly vested interest in tyrants/dictators (or, at minimum, bad leaders) and the undoing of them, due to the monstrously abusive relationship the supposedly divine leadership of the Empire of the Rising Sun had with the entire Yuriko line of clones. She's also developed a slight case of championing abused psychics as well. Remember, she was decanted from her clone tube as a high school aged-in-body girl, and sent on to be a killing weapon in a world war. While she spent a considerable amount of time with Guy, and now with Mann, she's still got a lot of figuring out as to who she is, why, etc. She has a highly confident display when she's around literally anyone else but Mann, and possibly Dude, but as shown in the small personal excerpts when it's just the two of them she's a lot more emotional, flighty, worried, anxious, etc.
It's why she particularly doesn't like Arcturus Mengsk, or the UED, in the case of Starcraft.
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You know. I wonder if Jimmy boy will put the pieces together and come together to a horrible realization.
MannCo is willing to sacrifice entire battlefleets for its objectives. Objectives that seem to be for the benefit of the Raiders, civilians and the Protoss.
MannCo does not feel the losses at all. Or if they do, can make good on it practically instantly.
Memory Yuriko has been on at least one last stand with no apparent survivors on that Protoss shrine world.
Yuriko has a number. Thirteen. And that number is important.
Cloning is a known technology in the sector.
Memory editing technology is a known factor.
MannCo is willing to sacrifice entire battlefleets for its objectives. Objectives that seem to be for the benefit of the Raiders, civilians and the Protoss.
MannCo does not feel the losses at all. Or if they do, can make good on it practically instantly.
Memory Yuriko has been on at least one last stand with no apparent survivors on that Protoss shrine world.
Yuriko has a number. Thirteen. And that number is important.
Cloning is a known technology in the sector.
Memory editing technology is a known factor.
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Probably more than half of it are conspiracy theories.
Most likely that Stargate tech.
Why do I picture Mann sending a Unicron sized battlestation to eat Char? 🤔
Sakuya's Butler
A refined Butler to a knife wielding Mistress.
- Location
- ↓, ↘, → + Punch
Nah. Char isn't worth eating.
Getting the mighty pimphand slap from a robot the size of Saturn on the other hand....
Also, it'd be a more effective deterrent.
In time, people would stop believing in Char, or a giant robot planet eating it.
But if Char is still around thousands of years from now, with a giant, continental sized handprint slapped into its surface, where even weathering over those uhtold years still shows it had to have been done by a metallic/robotic shape...?
Yeah, that'd be a great reminder NOT to go screwing around ever again.