Ethereal Whims, an X-COM x Star Wars Quest

Once this turn is up and the plan implemented, I think we should produce sectoids or other research units, as much as I like to see how research goes. We have much plans that we want to do for this galaxy, and there will be research items that will take much longer without additional research units or heroes meant for research. That goes the same with construction units as well so whatever plan we do next, we should prioritize research and construction clones/hybrids for long term gains and benefits.
 
I agree with producing more sectoids, but se should also make some advent hybrids, so we should make a second cloning facility, se we need to expand our... settlement.

The reason why ADVENT hybrids is that they can make decisions on their own and are a jack of all.

Also will be able to make avatars at some point
 
Ooooh I like that idea about Avatars! I can see them as an equivalent to a Jedi Master and sith master once they are trained properly, and have experience in using their psionic abilities! They would be useful along with the hybrid sith purebloods, especially if we have to deal with some of our forces being corrupted once the corruption mechanic is enabled. Which I suspect would be about understanding the force.

@HelereTheAce is it possible for us to make Avatars and just assume that a facility similar to a black site and such would be required to make them?
 
I see that nobody wants to discuss in which order we should do our current research?

[1] Examine the Weapons(However these things were created, it was through incredible suffering. With another sample to work with, it should be easier to decipher their makeup and construction.) [1/4]

[2] Examine the Pyramid (The essence it gives off reminds you strongly of psionic energy, but something is… off. This requires intensive study) [0/5]

[3] Analyze the local Flora and Fauna (The plants and animals are… unnatural, whether through the interference of Psionics or gene editing, and you are eager to learn which) [0/3]

[4] Study the bodies of the Megafauna: Felidae Kaasias that your Mutons and Vipers failed to tear to pieces (Their strength was disproportionate for their size, and their bodies were incredibly durable. Perhaps you could create a new breed of Hybrid Subservients from the genetic code) [0/4]

[5] Reverse Engineer Intact Ship (It was fortune beyond imagining that led to the recovery of an intact vessel, and the process of reverse engineering it should go by quickly) [0/2]

[6] Extract the genetic code of the Pureblood Sith (Another psionically active Hybrid species under your control could only be a boon, though there might be… teething issues if the aggression that the presence recalled was any indication) [0/4]
 
All of them are good as of the time being, though I think we can simply swap the reverse engineer the ship with study the bodies of the megafauna. Both megafauna and sith pureblood hybrids are related to getting new units of hybrids/clones when I see the two of them. I think it would be good to keep studying the local flora and Fauna as is so that we can at least potentially have more options for hybrids.

We simply finish the study of these research options we have right now before doing any other research, as that will tie up any loose ends that would be of importance before other research from the results of these research actions were to make.
 
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..you know. If there'll be a black site analog, I can see those being filled with either Sith or Jedi bodies... Which, I think, is one way to put a target on the Elder's back from both Force-attuned groups. Miiight wanna still do it though but it's one hypocrisy that the Elder didn't want to do due to being left no choice (species survival) that we picked in CharGen for another. Though it'll probably be fine as long as we don't do mass graves and just make the perfect body/avatar for the current Elder to transfer to via hybrid genetics? Maybe. :V
 
Well we don't have to go through that route, as you said our MC doesn't want any repeat to what happened on earth from the XCOM universe. So he would most likely be inclined to be interested in many alternatives to creating an avatar, especially something that would be a much alternative to the black sites.
 
The bad thing about that path, was that they kidnaped entire populations and killed them.

There are force sect that do not belong to either, also we can clone force sensitives, and those clones can be force sensitives, and so long as we treat them with some decency there is nothing wrong with it.

Also that the Elder regrets what they did for survival, does not mean that he has human morals.

So this "black Site Analog" could be a place where we study force sensitives, clones that we make, volunteers who are compensated, spies and saboteurs (these 2 we can do anything we want MUHAHAHA, just kidding), this place can even be open to the public, and to mess with Palpatine and the jedi whathever insight we get we publish to the holonet, even some basic force teachings we can uncover get XD.

Privately we can have a more... true black site in wich we do more moral questionable research. understand that we are a faction, a small faction at the moment, we will need advantages compared to the rest of the galaxy, and this might be something that we might be forced to do to catch up.

A question, weren't Avatars suposed to be the answer to the Elder's problem? The bodies they were making to inhabit because their current ones were doomed?
 
Vote Called
[X] Plan: New weapons
-[X] Explore the Kaas City (The rotting carcass of a once-mighty city, who knows what manner of secrets might be hidden within and beneath) [7/?]
-[X] Search for the Dark Temple (The Sith might be gone, but their Psionic Secrets remain. You believe that the effort to uncover them will be well-spent) [1/?]
-[X] Examine the Weapons(However these things were created, it was through incredible suffering. With another sample to work with, it should be easier to decipher their makeup and construction.) [1/4]engineering it should go by quickly) [0/2]
-[X] Build a facility in the cleared area [3 out of 4 slots full]
--[X] Officer Training Facility (Required to unlock 'Elite' variants of units and produce Hero Units.) [1/3]
-[X] Assign her to an Action
--[X] Search for the Dark Temple
 
If you speak about owning the planet, one thing is owning it, the other that we can actually make use of it, to be able to build we need the area secured, wich means clearing it of trees, rocks and fauna and building a wall with it's respective defenses (because the fauna here is quite dangerous).

It would be different if it was a world devoid of life, where nothing threatens our workers or infrastructure
 
I will add that the Last Elder doesn't know if there are Dark Side Adepts afoot in Dromund Kaas. While the planet itself has been poking and prodding at our defenses they may not be enough against something more substantial.

I know that some time in the future two Dark Jedi will meet on this planet and create a sect that gets picked up by Palpatine, the Prophets of the Dark Side. Either we are before they have been established, or they are among us. But if I had to pick where they might be, the Sith Temple would be our best bet. I do wonder if they are content to stay in the Temple or they are ready to branch out.

Putting in my two cents regarding making Avatars, the Ethereals had the goal of creating superior life forms that can wield psionics. But on top of that was a need to preserve themselves due to suffering from some disease or cellular degeneration. Making one was an incredible labor with a cost of human lives possibly in the thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands if the Ethereals had high standards in mind for their new bodies.

I'm not sure if the Last Elder has any real need to create a new Avatar for themselves, due to not suffering from the same affliction of their kin. The QM had also stated that they cannot clone themselves and propagate the Ethereal race that way. But I have a feeling that the more psionic users under their control, the more powerful they become.
 
[X] Plan: New FTL.
-[X] Explore the Kaas City (The rotting carcass of a once-mighty city, who knows what manner of secrets might be hidden within and beneath) [7/?]
-[X] Search for the Dark Temple (The Sith might be gone, but their Psionic Secrets remain. You believe that the effort to uncover them will be well-spent) [1/?]
-[X] Reverse Engineer Intact Ship (It was fortune beyond imagining that led to the recovery of an intact vessel, and the process of reverse engineering it should go by quickly) [0/2]
-[X] Build a facility in the cleared area [3 out of 4 slots full]
--[X] Officer Training Facility (Required to unlock 'Elite' variants of units and produce Hero Units.) [1/3]
-[X] Assign her to an Action
--[X] Reverse Engineer Intact Ship
 
Year 1, Month 8
Explore Kaas City (Rolled D20, 15, no effect) [8/9]

Your subordinates pushed further into the governing center over the course of the month, the newest batch of Vipers contributing quite a bit to the overall effort. As the center was excavated, they slipped into the cracks and small spaces all around the city, mapping it out and ensuring that there was no other area of interest within the city limits. By the end of the month, you were sure that it wouldn't take much more time to excavate the rest.

(Completing the exploration of Kaas City unlocks the city as a new base location.)

Search for the Dark Temple (Rolled D20, 19 + 10 (Assassin), 29, LEGENDARY BREAKTHROUGH) [4/4]

Your child, alongside half of the newest batch of vipers, ventured deep into the jungles and cut through any native life that stood in her way, finally finding the structure that the presence had inadvertently revealed to you. It was massive, true, but hidden under thousands of years of plant growth and jungle encroachment. The exterior was covered, but a quick look at the interior revealed that not a single living thing dwelled there. Nothing living, but the dead?

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D'har snarled as she deflected another of the clumsily swung plasma swords, severing the mummified warrior's arm with her secondary blade before ducking under another's swing, the abomination consumed in a flash of plasma fire by one of the many vipers that had accompanied her here. One Viper, however, was performing far beyond what she expected of them. Reacting faster than she should be able to, scales seeming to bleach in real time as she opened her maw wide and spat a glob of liquid that froze one of the mummified abominations solid. D'har smiled wide as she shattered it. The Elder would be pleased indeed.

LEGENDARY GAIN: Potential Hero Unit: Viper Queen (Must have Officer Training School unlocked to elevate to Hero Unit)

Gained ACTION: Explore the Dark Temple

Gained RESEARCH: Psionically(?) Animated Mummies, Psionically(?) Active Plasma Blade added to (Examine the Weapons)

Examine the Weapons (Rolled D20, 14, no effect) [2/4]

The Longsword and Knife were crafted in the same fashion and style, the same kinds of symbols along the sides and the same malice emanated from the both of them, though… one seemed to be far more oriented towards hatred and rage whilst the other was filled with terror and an urge to speak. A warrior's tool and a torturer's tool. Horrific.

Build a Facility: Officer Training Facility (Rolled D20, 20, BREAKTHROUGH)

With the ground stabilized, construction of the Officer Training Facility went along at a fairly normal pace… Then one of the Vipers that accompanied D'har suddenly developed the traits that were typical of a 'Monarch' Viper, and you came to the conclusion that it needed to be finished yesterday. By the end of the month, the facility was fully operational and ready to train up units.

(Elite Units will be automatically generated at the end of the year, to create hero units, you require hero unit candidates. These are most often generated through LEGENDARY BREAKTHROUGHS (rolls of 25+).)

Psionic Relay Facility (D20 Rolled, 3, STALL)(Finally a bad dice roll without the Assassin to negate it.) [⅔]

Your secoids were exhausted by the last month's efforts, and the opening of the Dark Temple means that you were unable to focus upon attuning the Relay. It should not take all that much more work, irregardless. You begin to plan for the coming month.


ACTIONS: PICK TWO

[ ] Explore the Kaas City (The rotting carcass of a once-mighty city, who knows what manner of secrets might be hidden within and beneath) [8/9]

[ ] Explore the Dark Temple (Animated dead prowl these halls, some seem to be more fresh than others, but all are equally deceased.) [1/?]

RESEARCH: PICK ONE

[ ] Extract the genetic code of the Pureblood Sith (Another psionically active Hybrid species under your control could only be a boon, though there might be… teething issues if the aggression that the presence recalled was any indication) [0/4]

[ ] Analyze the local Flora and Fauna (The plants and animals are… unnatural, whether through the interference of Psionics or gene editing, and you are eager to learn which) [0/3]

[ ] Study the bodies of the Megafauna: Felidae Kaasias that your Mutons and Vipers failed to tear to pieces (Their strength was disproportionate for their size, and their bodies were incredibly durable. Perhaps you could create a new breed of Hybrid Subservients from the genetic code) [0/4]

[ ] Examine the Pyramid (The essence it gives off reminds you strongly of psionic energy, but something is… off. This requires intensive study) [0/5]

[ ] Examine the Weapons(However these things were created, it was through incredible suffering. With another sample to work with, it should be easier to decipher their makeup and construction. The core of this plasma blade screams suffering and anguish. It almost feels like it is... bleeding) [2/4]

[ ] Examine the Mummified Zombies (Psionic reanimation should only be possible when the brain and nervous system is still intact. That this does not seem to be the case here is… worrying.) [0/3]

[ ] Reverse Engineer Intact Ship (It was fortune beyond imagining that led to the recovery of an intact vessel, and the process of reverse engineering it should go by quickly) [0/2]

FACILITY FUNCTIONS

Officer Training Facility:

-[ ] Train the Viper Monarch to utilize her new psionic talents, and instill in her a duty to her people, and to you. [0/2]

(To outside observers, a Monarch would appear to be the ruler of their people, answering to you but still sovereign)

CONSTRUCTION: PICK TWO

[ ] Build a facility within the ship (With the beginnings of construction on the facility, you are locked in to your choice. Shipside facilities cannot be easily removed.)

=[X]= Psionic Relay Facility(Required to communicate with your subservients over galactic distances) [2/3]

[N/A] Build a facility

HERO ACTIONS: THE ASSASSIN

(Unless the Action Specifies otherwise, the Assassin will take with her a small squad of subservients.)

[ ] Assign her to an Action
-[ ]

HYBRID PRODUCTION

[ ] Viper [0/2] (Useful for squeezing into small spaces and surprisingly durable, good for ambushes and low-to-mid quality espionage. Enough brainpower to help with research, each batch takes half a turn off of research time)

[ ] Muton [0/2] (Very muscular and with good instincts for battlefield tactics, these are your shock-troopers and heavy construction workers. Each batch made reduces construction times by half a turn)

[ ] Archon [0/2] (Flight capable and with heavy onboard weapons systems, these cyborgs are ideal scouts and airborne supremacy units. No special bonuses at this time)

[ ] Sectoid [0/2] (Psionically active and constantly in contact with your own mind, Sectoids are ideal for relaying important information back to you and keeping the minds of subordinate squads connected for real-time tactical cooperation. Enough brainpower to help with research, each batch takes half a turn off of research time)

[ ] Andromedon [0/2] (Heavily modified off of the base Sectoid form, Andromedons require an acidic compound to survive but are, in exchange, the best pilots and front-line warriors available thanks to the direct neural connection they have to the machinery they pilot. Each batch made reduces construction times by half a turn)

[ ] ADVENT Hybrid [0/2] (Modified off of base-strain humans, ADVENT Hybrids are generalists that can be suited for a wide variety of roles, at the cost of the physical superiority of some of your other subordinates. Each batch made reduces construction times by half a turn. Enough brainpower to help with research, each batch takes half a turn off of research time.)

=[X]= means that the choice has been locked in.
 
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[X] Plan: Traning Heros
-[X] Explore the Kaas City (The rotting carcass of a once-mighty city, who knows what manner of secrets might be hidden within and beneath) [8/9]
-[X] Explore the Dark Temple (Animated dead prowl these halls, some seem to be more fresh than others, but all are equally deceased.) [1/?]
-[X] Examine the Weapons(However these things were created, it was through incredible suffering. With another sample to work with, it should be easier to decipher their makeup and construction. The core of this plasma blade screams suffering and anguish. It almost feels like it is... bleeding) [2/4]
-[X] Train the Viper Monarch to utilize her new psionic talents, and instill in her a duty to her people, and to you. [0/2]
-[X] Assign her to an Action
--[X] Train the Viper Monarch
-[X] ADVENT Hybrid [0/2] (Modified off of base-strain humans, ADVENT Hybrids are generalists that can be suited for a wide variety of roles, at the cost of the physical superiority of some of your other subordinates. Each batch made reduces construction times by half a turn. Enough brainpower to help with research, each batch takes half a turn off of research time.)
 
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