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Devastation Comes In Big Packages [Planetary Annihilation/Multicross SI]

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Dude I will probably catch some flak for asking you to stop updating so quickly, but you need to get some sleep. Allright here's how we will help you do it, everybody stop checking to see if the thread has updated for the next 10 hours so that we can pretend that he is catching up on sleep. Also as a fellow insomniac, I recommend eating turkey, and taking a relaxing bubble bath.

Edit- you have also persuaded me to start writing my own commander fic where I am starting on a planet with no metal.
 
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A commander fic with no construction at all. No reclaiming. Just a big stompy heavily armed robot and a very annoyed commander yelling at people.
 
Between this, Trololo and It's About Damn Time I'm considering a one-off where ROB is a total flake and doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
 
I think most of the people on star destroyers are conscripts, the Empire tends not to wait for volunteers. Also they all have some form of indoctrination or another, after all even hitler's armies honestly believed they were on the right side. While venting the SDs may not be like bombing random towns it is far from a neutral act.
 
True.

However, as I hope I've made clear at least somewhat, Theta doesn't always think like a human would, and there is already a clear and present sign of his internal programming i.e. himself that is modified by an external presence.

Add that to the fact that he is a super robot. It's something that isn't always examined; the being so changed at such a fundamental level. He's already stated that he has spent months - years at this point - inside his own head designing weapons of war, running simulations, and basically just dealing with the fact that he literally cannot perceive the universe as he once did.

He can run multiple thought strings and looks at things down to the atomic level. He is so unlimited in what he does and can do that his nature by virtue of that fact has incredibly changed.

He's aware of that, in the abstract sense, but he chooses not to poke at that too closely.

Conscripts or not, they're the enemy.

And when you're a Commander...there's usually only one way to deal with an enemy.

I'm not saying Theta is a saint.

He's directly responsible for tens of, maybe hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths as a result of his little money stealing deal. The Outer Rim constitutes a tremendous population that were ground under the boot of raging crime lords.

The resulting financial crisis that he is barely paying any attention to at all is hurting even more people.

He's not...I dunno man, he's not perfect. Hell he's not even great a lot of the time.

But the Empire is 'bad guys'. So he lets himself that little mental luxury.

It helps stave off the whole 'I'll never see my loved ones or world again, also I'm likely to see and participate in so much death as to crumple the human mind into a pile in the future' thing.

Ya know?
 
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I'm a little fuzzy on what all the resource harvesting buildings do in game, but couldn't you just build a metal extractor the size of a continent, and then have it omnomnom a planet? You could even put giant rocket boosters underneath it to help it move towards another planet.
 
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25c – Hunting
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    • 25c – Hunting
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    I don't like the Force.

    Well, I don't actually dislike it but I will say that when it works for my enemies it can be pretty damn annoying. Ever since Jerec appeared over Tatooine with his Vengeance-class SSD's I've been trying to lock onto his tail. I had a few moral issues over whether or not letting Kyle Katarn to go on to become the almost memetic badass he could become too, which didn't help. Because I'm pretty sure that if I stop Jerec before he kills Kyle's dad that entire series of adventures and events might not even come to pass. The Valley of the Jedi wouldn't being opened and Kyle wouldn't be able to prove that the Light and Dark don't need to be completely at odds at all times.

    On the other hand, those are some SSD's and my plan is to take as many of those force multipliers out of the possession of the Empire as possible. They've already got a simply blistering number of regular and variant Star Destroyers. And I don't think that the Vengeance-class has some super trick other than the fact that they are just a bit smaller than the Executor-class…which translates to speed. Humping all of that tonnage around adds weight and therefore lowers the actual top speed of my ships. Or at least it would if I hadn't stuffed the Executor full of internal upgrades and fixed up the engines just a bit.

    Anyway, the issue with the Force is…I think Jerec knows that I'm hunting him. I still haven't gotten around to yanking gravity well tech from the Empire so basically it's just be chasing him. Only because Jerec isn't actually a regular Imperial he doesn't file constant reports in triplicate as to where he is, where he's going, and what he's doing. Sure he passes some but for some reason he's taken to giving them out to people who then take the message in person. Something to do with the Force no doubt, because that cuts out my usual way of getting information on my targets.

    It's the seemingly random jumping that is really grinding my gears. I have no doubt he's got some wacky explanation of the Force guiding him away from the Executor but the fact of the matter is that I technically have the ability to blow him out of the water but I just can't seem to catch him. I've been chasing that stupid ship of his practically minutes after Tatooine began for naught. He isn't proclaiming anything on the channels and I haven't actually run into any other force users aligned with the Empire yet so I don't know if this is going to be a onetime thing or if I'm going to have this much trouble with every one of them.

    Yoda somehow managed to mess with the Golden Boy's sensors even as he was literally seconds away from death. This guy might not be as powerful but he's certainly more alive. Man I don't even know what the Emperor might be able to do if I attack him directly – not that I'm planning on it. Though for a little while there I considered that having the Executor chasing him was like, casting a shadow in the Force a la Tyranid style but that seems unlikely. Even if that were true though I'm not likely to get confirmation on it to be sure.

    So…for now…I'm suspending my campaign. There are other ships out there for me to take, not even all of them are of the Vengeance-class.

    I've been doing some digging, and yeah the Imperial computer security still hasn't been able to stop or even detect me, and guess what?

    There's more Executor-class ships out there.

    Guardian…too close to Coruscant.

    Ravager…man I don't even know. This guy is falsifying reports up the wazoo and the crazy part is that no one is calling him on it. Dude's got a whole little cabal going on. Don't know what that's about and right now I don't care. I've always got the Cry of Gimli to fuck him up on demand.

    But there's others. Some are in the middle of construction, four in Kuat in addition to the already under construction Razor's Kiss…as well as three on Fondor. I thought Kuat wasn't going to let anyone else but them build those ships – ah, I see. A little light invasive searching and I've got a bunch of reports and diary entries about the Emperor's personal visit to the shipyards. He went straight up to the Kuat family and then I guess used Force fuckery because their entries on how dissatisfied they are with him do a good one eighty on opinion.

    Or maybe he used the lowercase force, and outright threats and intimidation.

    Speaking of Kuat…there's another ship there that I'd like to get my hands on…

    The Eclipse. She's not even close to done yet, but the superlaser is already beginning to take shape. The moment they get engines on her and I'm somewhat sure that the ship won't tear apart entirely from rapid acceleration I'm definitely taking her. Speaking of Eclipse-class vessels though….isn't there another one over Byss? I should check on that.

    Ok, done.

    Yeah, it's there. Being done in almost complete secrecy too but their little paranoid measures just aren't up to stopping a determined Commander intelligence from finding out what they need to know. It's some interesting stuff though, seeing it being built in tandem. If anything the resources being funneled to that one are even greater than the more public creation at Kuat due to the whole…well I don't know why. The Emperor just demanded they increase in speed and so they did.

    Those poor bug people.

    Anyway…I'm not going to catch Jerec…or really any other determined Force user at this rate if my suspicions are correct. Even if they're not I'm tired of just hunting and hunting.

    Before…I was the hunter with the spear.

    But now…as the Executor locates a series of Interdictor ships flying through the Mid-Rim on their way to deployment across the galaxy…I know that I am changing. The SSD changes course and in a matter of minutes will be upon them. At this point I don't even bother with letting them open communications, I brute force my way into their computers less than a single second after the Executor pops out of hyperspace. Stealing my way in, I go through standard procedures…and locate the ship diagnostics and just about everything else.

    The information on gravity well technology fills my mind briefly before being filed away.
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    ….oh yes.
     
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    • Make sure your Super Gravity Generator causes two pulses, 'knocking' on the ship hull, then change every computer screen to read 'Candygram!' While hacking 'em. :3
     
    TikiTau said:
    Make sure your Super Gravity Generator causes two pulses, 'knocking' on the ship hull, then change every computer screen to read 'Candygram!' While hacking 'em. :3
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    I don't...I don't know if gravity can do that >.>

    I can certainly do the second thing, but that would just be me hacking them after they get pulled out of hyperspace by the gravity well generators.

    ...but yeah, I can manage something like.

    But will I? Wait and see!
     
    torroar said:
    I don't...I don't know if gravity can do that >.>

    I can certainly do the second thing, but that would just be me hacking them after they get pulled out of hyperspace by the gravity well generators.

    ...but yeah, I can manage something like.

    But will I? Wait and see!
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    Meh, Star Trek it.

    Concentrate the reflector beam or something to cause a 'flex' on the hull that results in it being similar to a 'knocking' noise or the like. :p
     
    NeverDies said:
    I'm a little fuzzy on what all the resource harvesting buildings do in game, but couldn't you just build a metal extractor the size of a continent, and then have it omnomnom a planet? You could even put giant rocket boosters underneath it to help it move towards another planet.
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    In game you can only build them on special resource points, the fabbers can reverse to reclaim stuff but that is apparently too inefficient to be worth doing on random rock.
     
    25d – The Maw
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    Duh nuh. Duh nuh. Duh nuh duh nuh duh nuh

    DUNUNUNUUUUUUUUUH!

    ….no I didn't actually play the Jaws theme as I rode on into the Maw by way of the Justice.

    Certainly thought about it though, I won't lie.

    Anyway, the Justice.

    Since I'm probably going to be picking up a crew of unhappy scientists and wookie slaves I'd kept from cutting out all of the organic-necessary parts of the ship. In the places where they were allowed i.e. places that weren't now completely solid walls of bulkheads, generators, resource cores, and all of the other stuff, I didn't want them just sitting around. It'd be like a bunch of monkeys with nothing to do, soon enough I'd bed there would be poop on the walls and they'd be screaming that this robot overlord schtick I've got going is too terrifying for them…yadda yadda yadda.

    As such, I'd stocked the parts of it that were still available to organic life with tons of helpfully programming protocol droids and beverage droids and…basically all the droids that would take care of a squishy person or thing. There were plenty of provisions in there, and I'd made sure to fill the fridges and such with actual real food. Mostly because rations would probably be what they've been eating for the past few years. I wasn't going to be the gentlest being to come into the Maw but I wasn't going to be needlessly cruel.

    I could pump poison or alter atmospheric mixtures on the ships that I take from the Empire to kill everyone as painfully as possible. Instead…I just take it all away so they can die as fast as I can manage without outright obliterating the ships they are on. In that vein I'd decided to provide as much comfort as I could to the people that I'd be rescuing. It was plush as all hell, because when you've got fabricators on your side you can make some damn comfy couches and beds. As for where this was..?

    Well, I may have filled the rest of the internals of the ship to the brim with technology that I was only somewhat fairly sure would let me take down Daala's numerically bigger fleet…but the hangar bay – formerly just a hangar bay – had been modified stuff that I was just talking about. It had gone from that weirdly gray and black gloss look that the Imperials loved so much to a bunch of nice warm and comforting colors. None of that distanced look, it was homey as all hell.

    I know it was, because in the time it had taken the ship to be fabricated out of the Mega Yard I had watched one point two million distinct home improvement and home decoration videos that had been scattered around the holonet. I knew exactly how to provide for every space going single species in the galaxy at this point – even the notoriously isolationist ones like the Chiss! Humans and wookies were going to be a piece of cake even though my nanites couldn't outright create organic matter. Basically the trees and bark and stuff I'd put in the wookie part of the hangar-turned-relaxation/rescue lounge were all fake…but they were damn good fakes.

    The scientists got more regular comforts.

    Still, I had food for at least five times as long as I was expecting the journey to last - from taking the Installation to dropping everyone else off with the Rebellion – so that was covered.

    Getting inside the Maw itself?

    Not nearly as hard as I thought it would be.

    Part of me was busy talking to the Rebellion, part of me was building stuff in Hub, part of me was – ooooh artificial gravity fields...I'll deal with that later– doing that, and this last part of me was coming here. I had thought that splitting my attention four different ways simultaneously like this would impact my abilities but apparently I thought wrong. I was performing at top form in all instances because…I guess because all instances were me at the same time not copies.

    Man, being an AI is weird sometimes.

    The Maw, right.

    So, it was full of so many black holes and gravitational anomalies that travelling through it was supposed to be one of the most ludicrously dangerous things that a person could do. The course to get through it was hard enough on its own and I believe changed all the time. Even if it didn't my own sensor systems that had been installed on the Justice were enough to perfectly plot a course inward. I don't have the precise location of the Maw Installation on my computers – Tarkin was pretty good at hiding its existence – but after a while I would find it.

    There were only so many places in the Maw that could realistically hold entire stations of people as well as a guarding fleet of star destroyers. In no time at all I would – oh. That was fast. Faster than I thought. Or rather perhaps I should have thought about things more. The Installation had computers, was broadcasting orders and reports to and fro between the ships in the Maw and the station itself so before I found the station itself I found one of the patrolling ships.

    Through it's computer banks and comm signals I found the other ones. After finding those…I found the Installation.

    I found Daala. She was currently berating a wookie slave for doing something or other improperly and ordered that it beat for a solid few minutes with what I can only describe as pain sticks from Star Trek.

    God I hate her.

    But you…I…huh. She'd hard locked the computers. Isolated the servers for each of the various superweapons that the Installation had built from the greater net. That's pretty smart. I might…I might have to actually get my hands into the station itself to get at the info I want. Not too hard, I have fabricators inside of the Justice so I can make more Reddington droids – hurrah for knowing the exact composition and nature of beskar as a result of running it through the Mega Yard – but it's still pretty annoying. I'll have to prevent her from wiping anything…preferably with a blaster bolt to the head.

    First though…I'm going to take her fleet.

    All Imperial-I Star Destroyers, actually. None of the Imperial-II versions. The Gorgon, the Basilisk, the Hydra, the Manticore, and two Crusader-class corvettes. The Gorgon is hanging around the station itself while Daala keeps the others on nearly constant patrol despite protests at the fact that the natural secrecy of this location means that it's nearly impossible that someone would come by. Unfortunately for her troops…Daala's paranoia would be well founded today.

    Not that it's going to help any. The constant communication between the ships and the Installation – a precaution due to the whole potential of accidentally getting too close to a gravity irregularity – is easy for me to spoof as I space the crews of the ships. They didn't even know what was happening before I did it…just like all the rest.

    As for Daala though?

    Heh. First I'm going to –

    Is that a fucking Death Star Prototype?!
     
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    • torroar said:
    I don't...I don't know if gravity can do that >.>

    I can certainly do the second thing, but that would just be me hacking them after they get pulled out of hyperspace by the gravity well generators.

    ...but yeah, I can manage something like.

    But will I? Wait and see!
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    Maybe get some of those force blocking critters and reverse engineer them? Ysalamari or whatever they were called?
     
    Evonix said:
    In game you can only build them on special resource points, the fabbers can reverse to reclaim stuff but that is apparently too inefficient to be worth doing on random rock.
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    It might just be too slow. Games usually take less than half an hour to complete, which isn't enough time to do anything complicated.

    Since the commander has time, though...

    He should try it. Eating a planet.
     
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