Large scale monitoring of the cities established; initial discoveries are worrying to say the least. Privacy issues. vote to come
the fuck.
I expected this to find out stuff, but more than 100 demonic cultivators, more than 1000 collaborators, and a
cannibal butcher ring?!
yeah, this was necessary, and we'll have to find a way to satisfy people about the privacy concerns, because
we can't afford NOT to use this.
Something about minor crimes discovered through the cameras being only very lightly punished or even forgiven if rectified, vetting who has access to what, maybe make it so that the recordings of people in a city can only be seen by complete strangers NOT living in that same city? I don't know, but we can't afford to worry about privacy when there was
KEKU BUTCHERS going around!
Gain the extensive education trait and gain educated Populace IV. Kkeu culture swings toward curiosity and knowledge seeking.
very good!
Hopefully this curiosity will survive the Apocalypse.
+50 EEP. Medium logistics network increases to large. +150% economic growth, +10% EEP. maintenance 100 EFEP.
Good. we'll need to find out ways to protect at least the main lines during the invasion though.
-[X] military refitting.
Instead of fully replacing the factories you've just created, you have decided to just build new ones and let the old ones supply second line units.
The equipment being produced isn't too far behind and you've got many troops you need to equip.
Better an outdated gun then no gun at all.
Factories of war updated: +3 artillery army worth per turn, +7 army point converted to mechanized per turn. Some tech production, some jets production (exact amount will be determined in a vote later on). Technology for army points is set to 8. +3 army points converted to mechanized at tech 7 (used for garrison first and then civilians) starts to solve the lack of equipment of civilians units) Avert many negative events.
Yeah, that was kind of my thought.
Even outdated equipment can at least be given to garrison and militia units while the state-of-the-art is given to those that will actually go on the
offensive.
It also allows for more training, as older stuff can be used without much worry in live-fire exercises and tests.
Workers retrained (mostly) no loss of economic power.
good enough.
Cities expand. Problem solved.
good.
and yeah, if we have good and fast rail then commuting is actually viable. The fact most Keku can easily fly also helps reducing the need for public transport in the short range (not as much need for in-city buses, for example, unless you're carrying heavy stuff with you).
You do what you can but there is little more that can be done other then teach them new skills and many are too old to wish to change.
+0.5 tech multiplayer. Gain the problem "obsolete purpose" the exact details of which will be determined in a vote before the start of next turn.
it's unavoidable.
In the end We can offer them some options though
1)They can devote themselves more to prayers, or to grow spiritual herbs. Stuff that only requires faith and conviction, not actual skill.
2)We can offer them paid courses to try and move to open job slots
3)We should seriously consider some kind of Universal Basic Income, something that will allow people to at least survive without a job
4)There's also other types of "unskilled" services they could offer. Anyone can learn how to babysit, or to carry packages, and so on. Even just help their family with chores and so on, freeing their time
and so on.
Even if some people lose their job, that's because their jobs are just no longer valuable. Which means that
society at large is better off, and we CAN afford something like UBI or subsidies so they can live an acceptable life anyway, and find another path for themselves on their own.
Kuvara gains more faith, all of her actions this turn are enhanced, your share of the divine Qi lower by 0.5%, your cultivators share of the divine Qi lowers by 0.5%.
all good here.
+Lords lore (assume you know anything common and anything the imperium at large knows), increased effectiveness in rooting out plots, a banishment technique, the ability to attempt banishment rituals.
This works really well with the Hunter project.
Spirit fertilizer- by utilizing a large amount of low rank herbs the growth of higher-grade ones can be eased and boosted. -25% G1 ingredients, +10% G2 ingredients. +1% G3 ingredients.
Something we'll probably want to work on, and this makes the expansion of MORTAL production of G1 herbs that much more useful.
As a side note, low-skill cultivators (the ones we hope to get from mass army awakenings, that wouldn't really be expected to reach step 2) will be expanded significantly soon, and they can be used to produce more herbs if/when they decide to leave active army duty.
You've unlocked formations and discovered one grand formation and one choir formation (which was boosted by your interactions with Okertaku) additionally you have refined the grand formation you accidently discovered in the last demonic incursion. Grand formations are formations that at minimum require hundreds of cultivators (or more correctly 1 full unit of cultivator) to function.
Grand formations:
The emperor's generosity formation (refined)- this formation allows the sharing of Qi (and other resources at heavily reduced efficiency) between its participants and pulling it all together for one massive technique. Soft cap (going over reduces efficiency): 2 units. Efficiency: 60%. Effect: Slight combat boost for cultivator units, tactical and strategic option for Qi sharing.
The hurricane strength formation- the first steps posse very little Qi to utilize on external techniques and so they have focused on empowering the self. This formation pools their power to great, great but temporary power. Soft cap: 1 unit. Efficiency: 90%. Effect: massive combat strength increases for first step units for a battle, when the battle ends unit suffers the Qi drained modifier.
Choir formations:
Enlightenment of the breeze formation- for but a moment the wilders of this formation may share a single insight between themselves. Difficulty: hard. Soft cap (the soft cap here refers to increase difficulty: 2 champions.
nothing new, we already knew. Good starting point, we need to work on life sharing.
You have unlocked your first two meridians, the twelve meridians give the three following bonuses in order Qi capacity increase, Qi regeneration increase and a 5% cultivation discount. Each of the bonuses is given 4 times over the entire 12 meridians.
There may be other benefits to opening the meridians you don't know about yet.
If we can afford it I'd like to open one more. Seeing how there's basically 4 cycles, I suspect there might be an extra benefit from each "complete" cycle, and maybe something more on completing all 4 cycles together (12 meridians).
We probably can't afford to open more than another single meridian though, Divine Qi is a precious resource and Okertatu has more urgently needed stuff on sale.
Unlock gas and solid form of Qi, each form brings unique advantages and draw back to Qi use. Unlock the cultivation project "achieve supercritical" to transform you Qi into a supercritical form which possess enhanced advantages of the gas form with none of the draw backs.
Qi transforming pill- cost per charge: 500 EFEP. 3 charge of G1 herbs,1 charge of G2 herbs. craft per charge: 50 capacity. effect: start the transformation process to super critical Qi. Toxicity: 5.
The blurb mentioned changing the Qi "in our Core".
Does that mean this pill is only of use to a Fourth Step?
The first -and most obvious- is your healing insight. You have described the tears as wounds in the world before and you smacked yourself of not thinking to try to heal it with your insight before.
Some testing has shown you were correct and that you could heal the world -you've burnt down a forest and then healed it, restoring it- the actual cost to utilize the insight for this purpose would only be found when you stand in form of one such tear.
You doubt you'll manage to close all the tears such but even one can be more then worthwhile.
extremely valuable. Our Healing requires both lifespan and divine qi, right? Then we now have one more reason to gather stores of both.
The second way is Kuvara, her avatar allows her to channel her power in the physical realm and Okertaku has taught her how to utilize it to close the tears. This dos requires her avatar to be present at the breach and concentrate on this act but it is swifter than a qi technique and only require kuvara avatar instead of thousands of cultivators.
Very valuable, yes.
Another potential lead is a fang shui pattern which would draw the energy which the breaches release and turn it into healing them instead.
At this point the above is nothing but a lead, the pattern would need to be developed and even if it works (and it might not) it would be a slow if a wide method to deal with the breaches.
Good if we expect the Apocalypse to last for long enough to matter. If we are stuck on the defensive and can't manage to go on the offense, for example, it turns a losing proposition in a "just survive until this cuts off enemy reinforcements AND retreat option"
You have also theorized that you can craft a beacon which will close a breach instantly from one of the high-grade materials you can convert the drop of blood to.
Unfortunately, this beacon would need to remain in place to keep the breach closed and as such would both need protecting and would only be sufficient for one breach.
near certainly a waste.
You have found out that 40 points of greater demons would participate in the apocalypse, they are divided equally between the four gods and average 500 BP (I'm still working on the new combat system so for now I'm using the old one statistics to help describe things).
Further you have found that three legions would take part as well, they would be led by Perturabo and Magnus the Red (not that you have any idea who those guys are IC).
so the 40 points of greater demons are more or less equivalent to our 3 points of first step cultivators reinforced by one point of second steps?
In other words, they're stronger than our first steps, but not overwhelmingly so. We can make up the difference.
The problem are the CHAOS MARINES. Against them, sending anything weaker than second and third steps (or at least first steps heavily augmented with such AND Blanks) will be suicide.
Tech level advances to 8 (2/27 to 9) the third secret of the sword is discovered. Cheap Reusable landing gear advancement (major)- lowers cost of all space projects.
were we not going to reach tech level 9 this turn?
Cultivator reports.
This past decade six hundred and twenty cultivators have been awakened, three hundred and twenty five form pills.
The worst of the bunch have been seconded to the military to start awakening soldiers whose talent is deficient to enter the sect in truth.
This decade two hundred and sixty four first steps have braved the tribulation of them eleven have broken through.
Utilizing volunteers, 4 new third steps have arisen. To your surprise one of the volunteers has managed to survive the tribulation.
And its wounds.
And many other wounds beside when you got to tasting things.
You have no idea what you stumbled upon but you're intrigued.
A net gain of 355 new first steps.
A net gain of 11 new second steps.
+ 4 third steps.
Found ???
Good on first steps, VERY good on second and third steps...
...and something
interesting for the surviving volunteer!
We definitely need to use the core insight to examine the survivor, and potentially our healing insight to help them recover.
The army: you have seconded the worst of your new batch of cultivator into the army to start awakening those wo fight but aren't suited to push for advancement. current estimations are that assuming the army doesn't expand beyond its current scope it would take an upward of a thousand years to awaken everyone even going for worse but quicker ways, this is less a matter of ability and more a matter that you don't have enough teachers for this.
Maybe we can consider giving the "reach peak of body tempering" pills to at least those keku awakened soldiers of officer rank? Make it more likely they survive.
The problem is the cost, 500.
We can afford it, but it may be a Shitaku only thing, by comparison, it is much less than before, but before we also weren't building up extra quickly.
At least Shikatu and Kekita if we can afford it. If we can manage another few third steps, good, if not we'll live.
Sure, your second gauss is pretty much correct, it's a little different then pure canon but along the same lines.
A KEKU PERPETUAL?
That's huge!
We need to study him with our core insight, and... maybe we can try to replicate that with gene editing and our core insight for mutations?
Pretty cool, does he want to be cultivator? Kind of curious if ignoring any risks and wounds to the body can let you cultivate faster.
In theory it should make it trivial to reach the second step, at least. It means we could give him the "reach peak of body step" pill, then have him continue up to Heaven Body, and the tribulation should be trivial as it ONLY attacks the body.
Second Step also attacks your pillar/mind, so that's not as good.
Looking at list of things to scan next turn with our insight.
Tribulation (we finally heal).
The flames of desire.
Heart flames of divine consumption.
This perpetual.
The power of blood.
And the final one is probably going to be either divine meal if we get the special one, or the insights research if we get that one, if we had leftovers, probably look at formations to refine them, or look at any new actions our previous scanned unlocked, and there is of course, our second insight if we start perfecting the body.
Tribulation to second AND to third step, and maybe the process of awakening to the first step from being a mortal? They're technically three different things.
The Perpetual is DEFINITELY on that list too, yes, as is "demonic cultivation/life energy manipulation".
Maybe we want to check Kuvara-blessed half-steps after we go for that? or the "spiritual herbs fertilizer"?
The Formations while active? The now open meridians (compare to closed ones)?
the supercritical Qi once we get it (we already count as having checked gas and solid qi, right?)
I wonder how pissed would the chaos gods be if we successfully replicated the perpetual's power and became immortal, I doubt we can do it, definitely not in the short time we have (I suspect a power like that is more nascent soul at minimum), and they would probably still be able to kill us if they tried hard enough, but it's kind of funny to imagine their rage if their invasion literally couldn't kill us, and the most they could do is kill everyone around Shitaku.
It might be possible with a lucky Mutation from the Core Insight, maybe. Especially if we actually understand the process.
We'll see.
