Faith in Superior Firepower [Planetary Annihilation Multicross SI]
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Rossum
Not a Cyberman
- Location
- Earth
You know, it might be nice to test your new cloaking system out by installing it on one prototype ship, outfit said ship with a variety of exotic systems like the Zoltan shield, Projenitor Resource Cores, teleporters, etc... and then see how long it can stay cloaked before exploding. You know, just give it a test run before installing it on every ship in your fleet.
If it shows no signs of exploding from overheating, fire weapons at it until it does. If that doesn't work, try harder.
Basically, one sign of a good engineer is empirical testing of a machine's strengths and weaknesses. Also, it wouldn't hurt to find a way to bypass the defenses of this sort of stealth tech in case the Kestral manages to outfit itself with one and decides to cloak long enough to jump to warp. I mean, in-game the stealth system adds +60% dodge chance to the ship and makes it possible to get over 100%... which could effectively make their ship totally untouchable if they've properly upgraded their engines.
You could end up tracking them down, lecturing them on their inhuman behavior, and end up with them cloaking their ship and warping out with you unable to do anything about it! That is not a scenario you want happening. So, you might as well look into any way to beat the cloak, or at least check for weaknesses to ensure the thing you installed in all your ships can't accidentally throw off your FTL navigation if you go to warp while cloaked.
Rossum
Not a Cyberman
- Location
- Earth
Step 1: Get mind control system
Step 2: Got to Koprulu sector during the events of Starcraft II
Step 3: Upgrade to the Hive Mind Emulator whenever possible.
Step 4: Mind control the giant space fish who's rectum Kerrigan put her base inside of.
Step 5: "Thanks for the minions, hot pants!" Then have her space fish fart Kerrigan out onto some barren rock somewhere while ships outfitted with the Hive Mind Emulator start mentally dominating the Zerg species to be under your control.
Step 6: Start a Zerg Burger restaurant chain or otherwise domesticate the zerg to be useful pets for humans and protoss.
Step 7: ???
Step 8: Profit! (Or maybe like, deal with Amon or whoever the mysterious spooky voice is supposed to be. You know, the one they shoehorned into the plot specifically to make Kerrigan look like a good guy.)
Honestly, the zerg as a species/technology could be pretty darn useful to humans and other species if they weren't so violent or constantly being put under the control of genocidal megalomaniacs. Find a way to control the zerg, then genetially reprogram them to be less dangerous and easily domesticated. Get rid of all those razor sharp claws and acid-exploding baneling genes and modify them to be delicious with butter and have a fondness of climbing inside of cages.
Fun chicken facts: Over 50 billion chickens are raised annually for their eggs and meat. They are also among the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, particularly the raptor dinosaurs which include the velociraptor (the so-called stars of Jurassic Park), and the Deinonychus (the actual star of Jurassic Park who were called velociraptors in the movie since their actual name is really hard to remember, and actually had feathers in real life). In a way, they are an incredibly successful species since they not only survived the extinction-level event that wiped out the other dinosaurs... but they are so delicious that humans domesticated them and now ensure the species will continue to exist no matter what other disasters may happen!
Really, genetically reprogramming the zerg to become super-delicious farm animals would be a win-win for everyone. Humans and protoss no longer have giant bug monsters controlled by psycho bitches running around ruining everyone's lives, and the zerg get to assimilate the DNA and survival strategy of the second most successful animal in the universe! I mean, I'm pretty sure the Terrans have a KFC restaurant chain in the Koprulu sector. Of all the animals that humans would bring with them into space, chickens would definitely be among the top 10.
Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
I predict various expressions of "Oh shit!~" in the future. Best part of the chapter.
Faith
Some idea of what I'm doing.
- Location
- Land of Waves and Warmth
Don't understand the question, here.
Faith has set up large numbers of Generators and Metal Extractors and the like in the asteroids where her base is set up. She's not drawing from her swamp/hub world at all, as she hasn't built a dimensional gate yet.
Not forshadowing, just Faith making a nerdy reference
Unless the dice roll Starcraft as the next setting, but that's a... one in fifty chance, so meh.
There are such things already being planned. Soon.
Assume whenever Faith installs an object onto her fleet, she's using the Progenitor unit creation/blueprinty thing to test rigorously as well. The program is smart enough to account for the operation of the device and will warn her if the unit is at risk of such problems.
Battleship_Fusou
(The Itty-Bitty Pretty Battleship Kitty)
- Location
- Surigao Strait
That is also to say nothing of how the systems can likely do some form of self-repair.
I'd suggest Last Angel as a possible crossover but you'd probably need the writer's permission.
- Location
- Arizona
Well, they aren't Drich's Maelstrom, but the Wayfarer and Migrant are prime examples of what every spacefaring self-replicating machine race should have. And they are good representations of the Planetary Annihilation design scheme, which as I've understood it as "simple and effective." Versus my preference for Supreme Commander, which is "My units can DO ALL THE THINGS!".
EDIT: And I just realized my SV account doesn't have a copy of my SB account's signature. Hmm, I'ma fix that now.
EDIT 2: and done. and updated it too.
EDIT: And I just realized my SV account doesn't have a copy of my SB account's signature. Hmm, I'ma fix that now.
EDIT 2: and done. and updated it too.
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Sorry, I rewrote that and it managed to come out not as I intended.
I meant the Cloak phasing into FTL space doesn't affect the connection to the instant economy, hence no over heating problems seems kind of convenient.
It was too easy.
If you may have needed to tweak the technology necessitating you to try to understand the science to fix the problem instead of kitbashing components together and have things work perfectly things would be different.
Maybe even have the character not finish it cause it would be too boring having to spend potentially many subjective years on the problem to be able to fix it, showing that the character is still human because what human would focus that much on a single thing.
Sorry, I apologize. At this point I sound like I am telling you how to write the story, but think about it. Would you be able to do it? Even if you made a VR simulation and spent time entertaining yourself it would still be decades of isolation with only NPCs and your work to do.
Faith
Some idea of what I'm doing.
- Location
- Land of Waves and Warmth
Drich's Maelstroms are the result of far more tech-thievery and shenanigans, including a vastly superior construction method for creating Resource Cores. The Wayfarer and the Migrant are vastly smaller and less advanced.
However, Commander!Faith has plans for bigger ships, once she gets the economy to support it. After another jump or two, probably, maybe more depending on how the dice roll.
Just you wait... muwahaha...
Ah, okay, now I get it.
The cloak phase is enough of a shift that, like the FTL phase, it disables the economic transfer as long as it is active. However, since all the currently-active ships have their own Generators onboard, they effectively create their own power instead of relying on the stationary Generators - this means they basically have their own 'micro-economy', at least in terms of power.
Additionally, the Migrant at least has its own Resource Cores, giving it a metal micro-economy as well. The other ships would need to decloak to access the metal reserves generated by Cmdr!Faith's Metal Extractors, or else harvest metal with their Fabricators, but since the other ships have Fabricators mainly to engage in self upgrades and repairs (harvest damaged section, rebuild to fresh, undamaged section) and not to engage in large scale constructions, that's not a massive issue.
Regarding FTL Overheat:
There are two main ways the FTL cloaking can overheat - the cables overheat, or the systems overhead.
The cables are replaced by wireless quantum whatsis economic transfer - the micro-economy I mentioned above. There is no transfer of power from A to B, it simply stops existing at A and spontaneously starts existing again, several femtoseconds later, at B.
The systems don't overheat because Progenitor hypertech alloys would have to reach absurdly high temperatures before they began to suffer - temperatures the Cloaking system simply isn't capable of putting out when faced with the matching Progenitor hypertech cooling systems.
That the cloak works is mainly because the ships are large enough to support it and other operations at the same time. Smaller ships, as you will see next chapter, have slightly more problems with it.
Why? I doubt @Faith has been in touch with Justin Ma or Matthew Davis over using the FTL verse.
Forget building a Death Star, you should build a Very Dangerous Array out of Friendship Lasers!
Faith
Some idea of what I'm doing.
- Location
- Land of Waves and Warmth
Movies, books, and games - especially indie games, - generally don't care so much about fanfic being written. It's basically free publicity. I mean, the only reason I've watched FoZ is because of Overlord, Making Magick and Mana-Based System, I only started reading Worm because of A Cloudy Path, etc etc.
Games, especially, tend to have clauses in the terms and conditions that say 'feel free to make footage of, write stories about, etc, as long as you say what it is', and fanfic generally falls under that.
Last Angel, on the other hand, is written by a fellow member of SB, and thus a slightly different matter. I could ask for permission for a crossover, but I'm not going to - not only because I haven't finished it yet, but also because I feel it would almost be treading on someone else's property just for kicks.
That's the plan.
Soon...
johnwedd
Above Average man
- Location
- usa
So a Huge Ultra Gun? A Friendship. H.U.G if you will.
Seems absurd to me that a creator should get additional, special protections just because they happen to present their work on a forum you visit, rather than somewhere else.
EFW3
This is Walter Wireless signing off!
- Location
- Charleston
So I say this to every PA cross fic I read but I have yet to see it implemented, when you inevitably reach the Mass Effect verse do the following:
Step 1 : Jump a few light years above the galactic plane, nobody goes there so you are free to build your economy and factories uncontested
Step 2 : Design and produce lie model decoys so that the rest of the galaxy will not immediately identify you as an AI
Step 3 : Find the Quarien Migrant Fleet and offer to repair all of their ships, and construct new live ships for free
Step 4 : Once they have sworn unending loyalty to you for saving their species from extinction, reveal to them that you are actually a Von Newman AI
Step 5 : Watch the ensuing reactions
Step 6 : Profit!
Step 1 : Jump a few light years above the galactic plane, nobody goes there so you are free to build your economy and factories uncontested
Step 2 : Design and produce lie model decoys so that the rest of the galaxy will not immediately identify you as an AI
Step 3 : Find the Quarien Migrant Fleet and offer to repair all of their ships, and construct new live ships for free
Step 4 : Once they have sworn unending loyalty to you for saving their species from extinction, reveal to them that you are actually a Von Newman AI
Step 5 : Watch the ensuing reactions
Step 6 : Profit!
You realize the galactic 'plane' is about 1000 ly thick?
Faith
Some idea of what I'm doing.
- Location
- Land of Waves and Warmth
Sure, but it is how it is. This isn't a hard and fast rule, of course, and even asking for permission would be more of a courtesy than something 'necessary', but it's not a setting I care particularly much about crossing with, and I feel it would be a bit intrusive to take someone else's work and run with it like that. Maybe if the author posted a statement saying he was cool with any random shmucks writing in the universe he created, then I might, but until then (and even then), probably not.
Whilst hilarious, that's somewhat mean for Cmdr!Faith, who would very much rather be kind, polite, and not a trolling dick to everyone.
Also, I already have a plan for the Mass Effect visit, which involves trolling of targets far more deserving of it. Most of the Quarians, after all, are nice and not douchebags. Except for Han'Gerrel. Han'Gerrel was a twit.
- Location
- Attempting to cast animate object on a black hole.
Just so you know, there are many readers who don't use the default Sufficient Velocity theme, making grey lettering fairly bad at hiding spoilers. Transparent works, but many members have java scripts to catch that.
It is affected by distance, I think Faith builds a generator into every ship to get around that, among other things.
Faith
Some idea of what I'm doing.
- Location
- Land of Waves and Warmth
I'm well aware, and I'd care much more if they were actually spoilers. The stuff in dark grey is just meant to be a little extra bonus for the sharp-eyed readers (who use the default theme, b/c it shows up easy on the others) and doesn't really matter much at all.
Most of it is just random references or incredibly minor foreshadowing like evil laughter and such. I think I've used it, maybe twice in the story proper? And both times it's minor, just-for-flavour stuff, not anything relevant.
TL;DR: Yes, but no.
So now your creating a fleet in FTL, and with phase technology in your hands to boot. Well this will be interesting.
@Faith I was wondering if you ever plan on visiting Battletech? While technologically it provides ultimately no challenge it's probably one of the few universes that not only requires you to go complete galactic conquerer but also needs you to actually hold a presence there.
The people in the setting have a tendency to screw themselves over and fall into infighting all the time, expecting them to be able to govern themselves without a problem would not end well. So I figure it's probably one of the few settings where you'd actually have to set yourself up as Robotic God Emperous instead of the mysterious wandering hero who vanishes once their work is done. They need someone to collectively govern them.
Essentially ending up as a problem that you can't attack. You can't shoot the entire Battletech population in the face after all. (Well okay, you could shoot the entire population in the face but that's genecide. And I'm pretty certain you're against that.)
@Faith I was wondering if you ever plan on visiting Battletech? While technologically it provides ultimately no challenge it's probably one of the few universes that not only requires you to go complete galactic conquerer but also needs you to actually hold a presence there.
The people in the setting have a tendency to screw themselves over and fall into infighting all the time, expecting them to be able to govern themselves without a problem would not end well. So I figure it's probably one of the few settings where you'd actually have to set yourself up as Robotic God Emperous instead of the mysterious wandering hero who vanishes once their work is done. They need someone to collectively govern them.
Essentially ending up as a problem that you can't attack. You can't shoot the entire Battletech population in the face after all. (Well okay, you could shoot the entire population in the face but that's genecide. And I'm pretty certain you're against that.)