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For the record, I'm fine with not playing through the TeDaTraM's possible futures, and just having it be a really good early-warning system.
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It seems we got enough for Wave 2 
I am willing to allow the whole 'Panic Button' reset tech as flavor/humor as long as you don't spam it's use.
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Thing is, actually allowing me to revert turns at all will directly reduce the fun level for everyone else. Seeing as it basically gives me a license to metagame while banning everyone else from doing so and forcing everyone else to go through turns twice. Far better to just have it function as an early-warning system for incoming attacks and engineering crit-fails.
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Maybe it's better to remove it altogether since you already have spaceflight as your big advantage.
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Yo what would be my defense against that, what could my max lvl bishops suck their souls from long range lol.
and will you allow the great Broken betonen lords meme of setting up a metropolis in one turn
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I mean, when it's just used as an early-warning system it's not that big of a problem. It just means I'm really hard to sneak up on, and can limit the damage from crit-fails before they happen.
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Hey Spktr, could I use the TeDaTraM to do scouting in 'throwaway timelines', basically probing someone's defenses without actually committing to an attack?
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Skynet by Crayak
Faction Name: Skynet
Source: Terminator franchise
Technology/Magic: Futuristic
Traits: Robotic Units, Artificial Intelligence, Military Focus
Summary/Description:
Skynet is an artificial intelligence created by Cyberdyne Systems. It started to learn and thinks that mankind is its enemy. The war begins and Skynet's forces and John Connor's Tech-Com forces come into existence. Eventually, the Resistance managed to break through its defense grid. Because eliminating Connor then, to shatter the Resistance, wouldn't have made a difference, Skynet decided there was another way to win: by eliminating Connor in the past. It managed to research time travel and send a Terminator to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor before she could give birth to John. By reverse-engineering the CPU and an arm of the Original Terminator, Miles Dyson, director of Special Projects at Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, created a revolutionary type of microprocessor, a neural net processor that learns and adapts like a human, in 1994. Within three years, Cyberdyne Systems became the largest supplier of military computer systems. All Stealth Bombers were upgraded with Cyberdyne Systems computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterward, the Stealth Bombers flew with perfect operational records, and eventually the Skynet Funding Bill was passed. Upon its creation, Skynet began to learn at a geometric rate. The system originally went online on August 4, 1997. Human decisions were removed from strategic defense. It originally became self-aware at 2:14 am Eastern Time on August 29th, 1997. In the ensuing panic and attempts to shut Skynet down, Skynet retaliated by firing American nuclear missiles at their target sites in Russia. Russia returned fire and three-billion human lives ended in the nuclear holocaust. This was what has come to be known as "Judgment Day".
In the present Skynet is fighting a war against the human resistance, and taking multiple losses from forces led by the uncannily skilled John Connor. The discover of the portal came at just the right time for the AI as it needed an avenue of resource collection that wasn't vulnerable to attack from Tech-Com.
Military:
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6x Divisions of T-600 Terminators:
The Terminator Series T-600 is a Terminator series mass-produced by Skynet starting in 2016. The T-600 Terminators serve as early Infiltrators featuring basic combat endoskeletons made of titanium alloy, which were sometimes covered in synthetic latex. As a result of their rubber skin covering, the Resistance fighters could easily spot the T-600s in the field. Standing almost six feet tall and weighing almost 800 lbs, the T-600's endoskeleton is very powerful and can lift objects almost five times its own weight or punch through concrete and metal with no damage to its reinforced servos. The T-600 Series is capable of running at a constant speed of almost 60 km/h (37 mp/h), with short bursts of up to 75 km/h (46 mp/h). However, these bursts of speed tax the servos and the joints of the leg assemblies.
5x Brigades of T-800 Terminators:
The Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 Terminator, or simply T-800, is a type of Terminator mass-produced by Skynet. The T-800 Terminator was Skynet's first cybernetic organism, with living tissue over a hyperalloy endoskeleton. This made it Skynet's first successful Infiltrator unit, capable of infiltrating the Resistance. The metal endoskeleton of the T-800 is a microprocessor controlled triple-armored hyper-alloy combat chassis and is constructed with frictionless bearings in its joints, and a servo-actuated control system. Its limbs are controlled by axial drive motors and clavicular trailing links, allowing the T-800s to maneuver faster than the T-600 Terminators, as bursts of speed of up to 22 mph no longer threatened the joint assemblies. The T-800 was also 20% lighter and 40% stronger than the T-600. The armored frame is capable of withstanding most contemporary weapons with small caliber and sometimes even withstanding a direct hit from grenade launchers. Unlike their T-600 cousins, who could be easily dispatched via a well-aimed gunshot or burst of firepower to the cranium, the T-800 is more resistant to small arms fire. The T-800, while vulnerable to most plasma weaponry, was at least partially resistant to weaker plasma weapons. The T-800 is generally issued with a Westinghouse M-27 Phased Plasma Battle Rifle in the 40 watt range or General Dynamics RBS-80 Phased Plasma Pulse Gun. However, it is programmed to be able to use all military documented weaponry.
5x Regiments of HK-Tanks:
The HK-Tank is several stories tall and vaguely humanoid in overall shape, possessing a rotating, conning tower-like "head", two steel "arms" equipped with twin-barreled directional plasma cannons, and two "legs" consisting of massive, individual tank treads. While formidably armed, the HK-Tank can be easily destroyed by a well-placed demolition charge. With the increase of effective anti-HK tactics used by the Resistance to not only disable these units but to scavenge them for heavy weapons, power sources and armor, Skynet has started equipping some units with crew compartments, containing concealed endoskeletons to counterattack the human assault teams.
5x Wings of HK- Aerials:
The term HK-Aerial refers to a wide variety of Skynet's large, airborne, VTOL-capable Non-Humanoid Hunter Killers. Featuring a devastating array of under-slung and wing-mounted lasers, missiles and plasma cannons they come in variants such as light raiders seen patrolling the wastelands of the Future War, massive and heavily-armed ground support craft,as well as troop transport variants.
The Hunter Killer Bomber is a larger, more powerful version of the Aerial Hunter-Killer. Designed as a Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) heavy assault platform, the Hunter Killer Bomber features two additional engine pods to support its greater size and weight. Also featured is a larger, more enhanced gun platform, with more Phased Plasma Cannons than the Aerial Hunter Killer, and additional armor, giving the Hunter Killer Bomber greater resilience to Tech-Com weapons.
2x Companies of HK-Silverfish:
The HK-Silverfish was a low height, segmented attack-drone that resembled it's namesake insect, the silverfish. Employed in battle, the Silverfish would crawl along the ground seeking human command posts. Its low height made it both hard to spot and also offered some protection from enemy fire. When the Silverfish encountered an enemy target, it would plow headlong into the target and explode.
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3x Platoons of T-850 Terminators:
The T-850 is very similar to the T-800 in many ways, as it is basically the same style hyperalloy combat chassis with a few modifications.[3] As well as the endoskeleton looking very much like that of a T-800, the T-850's is also capable of utilizing the same models of living tissue sheath for the T-800, such as Model 101.[4] The skin peels away more easily and is more regenerative. It has a more durable endoskeleton, more resistant to plasma weaponry. It also possesses subroutines on basic human psychology and behavior in its programming. In addition, a T-850 is capable of lying. The T-850 is slightly stronger and faster than its predecessor.
HK-VTOL refers to the upgraded Skynet twin-engine airborne Hunter-Killers. Derived from the original HK-Drone, it retains the form and a similar maneuvering system but on a much larger scale. Sleeker and more organic in appearance than the HK-Aerial the VTOL is an agile hunter with a single underslung Plasma cannon.
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1x T-1000:
The T-1000 Advanced Prototype is a Terminator series produced by Skynet in 2029. The 1000 Series Terminator is fully autonomous, and unlike previous Infiltrator models that used rubber skin - and then finally living tissue over a metallic endoskeleton, the T-1000 is entirely made of a liquid metal called "mimetic polyalloy", meaning it can reform into any shape it touches of the approximate size. It can impersonate other people as well as morph its arms into blades, spikes or hooks. The T-1000 can use its body to register its environment in many ways, can directly read magnetically-encoded information, and can run at a speed of at least 40 mph. In conjunction with the flexibility given by its form, the T-1000 series has demonstrated a superior repertoire of martial arts abilities programmed into its subroutines, making it more capable than the T-800 series in close combat.The T-1000 could also convert a limb into a blade and throw it like a javelin at an enemy in some situations, with sufficient force to impale a T-800 and knock it backwards at least a few dozen feet.
1x T-X:
The T-X Terminatrix, one of Skynet's most advanced Terminator units, was built with a mimetic polyalloy outer casing over an endoskeleton and equipped with onboard weapons and nanite injectors for advanced hacking capabilities. The primary purpose of the TX was to combat Terminators reprogrammed by the Resistance. The TX was battle-tested by Skynet against several other Terminators and by Skynet itself. The T-1002 engaged the Terminatrix in hand to hand combat in the Skynet Central Core, using its mimetic polyalloy components to develop stabbing weapons all across its body. The T-X was able to gain the advantage through a combination attack utilizing her internal buzz saw to remove the spikes and later destroyed T-1002 with a direct impact from her plasma cannon.
0x T-3000:
The T-3000 is an extremely advanced model Terminator series produced by Skynet in 2029 during the period shortly before the final battle. Unlike the previous lines of Infiltrator created by Skynet, units of the T-3000 had once been humans, but were transformed through infectious exposure to a type of machine-phase matter. The phase matter would completely rewrite the victim's genetic coding, forcing their body mass to be transformed on a molecular level into billions of nanomachines. All of the humans exposed to the phase matter were driven insane during the experimental stage and died, due to lacking the requisite willpower to survive the change. A T-3000 displays superior physical strength to a T-800, being strong enough to lift a T-800 one-handed and throw it a significant distance with minimal momentum or leverage. The T-3000 also possesses extreme speed and reflex, capable of phasing through attacks from the T-800 and retaliating with numerous blows in under a second. It furthermore demonstrates nigh-invulnerability to physical attacks, including rifle bullets and explosions. It can be stunned and penetrated by sustained trauma - particularly high-caliber weaponry - but its cells immediately reassemble afterwards and it regains its mobility in half the time, regardless of the injury. Ultra high-yield external magnetic sources, such as an MRI machine or electromagnet, are able to disrupt a T-3000's own magnetic field that hold itself together, dispelling the machine phase matter in sporadic and unpredictable ways. However, even such measures merely disable it temporarily.
1x T-1000000: The T-1000000, also referred to as the T-Meg, was a gigantic spider-like Non-Humanoid Hunter Killer entirely made of mimetic polyalloy as the T-1000. It defends Skynet's central core from attack.
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10x Air Divisions of HK-Aerial Troop Carrier/Transport variants: An HK-Aerial with the heavy weaponry removed in exchange for more cargo space.
Heroes:
T-5000 aka Alex: "Alex" is the physical embodiment of Skynet, housed in a T-5000 Terminator. The T-5000 is an advanced model Terminator series produced by Skynet in 2029 during the period shortly before the final battle. The T-5000 possesses the ability to infect human beings with nano-robots which recode human DNA at the cellular level, transforming them into T-3000 cyborgs. The T-5000 has upgraded capabilities compared to the T-3000 in all fields, including remote communications and hacking abilities.
Notes (OPTIONAL): This version of Skynet is from T1 so the timeline is still unaltered. The more advanced units are just in for competing with the higher powered factions, but are so rare that they don't factor into the human-machine war. No time travel either, its a prototype that'll only be used when Skynet's core is in danger back home (aka I go missing) and there are no T3000s yet.
Deadman's Switch (OPTIONAL): Tech-Com has managed to achieve multiple crushing victories against the machines, forcing Skynet to withdraw all forces to defend its main core.
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Nothing too drastic. All I can say at the moment is that you can build up rapidly but not instant Megacity. I think when I get your group into the game I can gauge your progression.
The Application looks good although I will need to know how many units you have starting out.
I really can't think of a way to write around what you are proposing. At best you can have a super-powered Simulator that can give prediction based on given information.
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Fair enough. Guess I'll be removing the TeDaTraM and adjusting my deadman switch then. Can I still keep the time dilation tech, though? (basically, just able to slow down time in enclosed spaces)
Edited, the T-3000 slot is still a placeholder for now.
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...Only Super-Units are normally tracked individually. For Common units each 'unit' is a sizable chunk of an army, while for Elite units it's a squadron, formation, or other small group.
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You need definitive numbers for your common units. something like 1 x Robot Legion or 2 x Gunship squadron.
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Hopefully today actually. I've been busy updating my other works on SB & QQ.
Better?
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Caps at 30 total units for common, 15 total units for elite. So yeah, it should work just fine.
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Turn 2 is almost upon us so I recommend Wave 2 Players ( @triumph8w , @Big_Nibba , @SitzKrieg , @I just write ) to do any last minute edits on their application before it starts.
You are at the moment fighting just Egyptian Myth Units.
You are also free to kill off your faction and make a new one.
Better. Threadmarking it now.
If it helps this is the link to the AoM Egyptian Page on the AoE wiki: Egyptians (Age of Mythology)
You are at the moment fighting just Egyptian Myth Units.
You are also free to kill off your faction and make a new one.
I'm not well-versed in the Endless Series lore but I can see you getting a narrative bonus for integreating minor cultures & factions into your nation. But just to be sure did your version of the Broken Lords annex the other powers peacefully or by conquest?
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Debatable. My general approach is to spam applications for interesting-looking GSRPs until one of them lives long enough to play. I'd estimate there's only about a 10% rate of that occurring though.
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I PM'd the players of the NCR and Fire Nation and have received non response. As such I am pulling their dead man's switch. Updates will resume hopefully tomorrow or saturday.
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You'd be in Wave 3. I look forward to spying on your arrival from orbit.