Sterbelicht - One Sacrifice At A Time Against The Galaxy (40K)

What should your focus for the rest of the Quest be?

  • Mercy (Diplomacy and Expansion)

    Votes: 172 75.1%

  • Ruthlessness (Kick the Duchy in the Balls)

    Votes: 55 24.0%

  • Thule (Yeeni Handholding and Piscarian Cuddling)

    Votes: 88 38.4%
  • Total voters
    229
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HeroCooky said:
Tears of the Void
-Length - 28.000m
-Width - 6.000m
-Acceleration - 1 Gravities
-Armor - Deus-Ultima Pattern Armor
-Shields - Five Refutation-Pattern Void Shields
-Weapons - 20x Boarding Torpedos/20x Light Macro-Cannon Turrets/8x Ultra Heavy Rotary Plasma-Macro Cannon Batteries/2x Heavy Prow Hangars (Boarding) (Total: 200 Boarders and 60 Fighters)
-Equipment -Armored Prow/Armored Bridges/Military Bastions/Strict Pilot Training/Harsh Crew Training/Shield Overload/Gravimetric Violation-Modulators/Twisted Knotted Vinelloy/Chapels to the Five/Sanctum of the Steam/Symphonia Arcanum Arma/Space Marine Crew/Paw and Claw/4x Large Teleportariums/Snapshot Pinpoint Targeting Solutions/Auto-Loaders/After-Burner Macro-Shells/High-Explosive+Armor-Piercing+Cluster Munition Macron-Cannon Shells/Emergency Maneuver Thrusters/4x Dedicated Ortillery/2x Heavy Ortillery
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Uh they're going to need more Space Marines to crew that thing. It's ammunition is alive and angry and we want to make sure it doesn't run out.
HeroCooky said:
-[] Lamenters Chapter Fleet (50/50)
(5x Andromeda-Secundus Pathfinder Ship, 6x Thunderous Declaration-Class Scout Destroyer, 6x Mournful Clarion-Class Boarding Ship (0/2 Companies), 5x Lantern Bearer Mk.3-Class Commandeering Ship (0/6 Companies), 10x Resurgence Mk.3-Class Torpedo Hunter (0/3 Companies), 8x Bloody Midnight-Class Light Cruiser (0/8 Companies), 10x Bloody Sunset-Class Light Cruiser (0/8 Companies), 4x Thunderous Gunnery-Class Heavy Cruiser (0/8 Companies), 1x Eternal Cry-Class Temple Ship (0/8 Companies) 1x Tears of the Void (0/20 Companies))
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If I'm reading this right they've got capability to crew 276 companies, but only actually have 30 companies. Time to 10x our Space Marines.

Can we do a write-in to give them access to recruit volunteers from across the Federation? Do they already do that?
 
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Neablis said:
Uh they're going to need more Space Marines to crew that thing. It's ammunition is alive and angry and we want to make sure it doesn't run out.

If I'm reading this right they've got capability to crew 256 companies, but only actually have 30 companies. Time to 10x our Space Marines.

Can we do a write-in to give them access to recruit volunteers from across the Federation? Do they already do that?
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I mean

HeroCooky said:
[] [Chapter] Lament's Legion (0/1)
...
(Gain: ...
Warning: Does not Auto-Complete)

[] [Chapter] Brothers For The Barge (0/?)
They must be ready for battle and barge.
(Gain: The Lamenters gain 4 Companies per Turn.)
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I think that is what "Lament's Legion" is for.
 
Starting to wonder if we're the weirdoes for having ships that Just Work and don't have giant piles of scuff because you put more shit on it than you know how to handle.
 
Alectai said:
[ ] Plan: The Star Navy Must Grow Larger
-[ ] [Free] Activate Heartbeat of Industry, drawing from Glint of Genius to afford it
-[ ] [Free] Switch ISC to Green Horizons
-[] [General] Develop The Federations'...
--[] Heavy Industry XI (0/2) (.5 Mechadendrite AP from Free Neutrality Agreement, if we can anyway)
-[] [General] Ministry of Subversion, Infiltration, and Interstellar Communication
--[] Free Neutrality Agreement
-[ ] [Military] Design New Voidship Classes - [Available: Destroyer (1 DP), Frigate (2 DP), Light Cruiser/Freighter (4 DP), Heavy Cruiser/Freighter (8 DP), Grand Cruiser (16 DP), Temple Ship (25 DP), Battleship (50 DP)] - [100 DP] (1 AP + .5 Heartbeat and .5 Star Navy Supremacy)
--[ ] Virgo-primus Fleet Carrier (-50 DP)
--[ ] Lepus-class Grand Cruiser (-16 DP)
--[ ] Phoenix-class Arc Cruiser (-16 DP)
-[] [Faith] Saint Candidate Thule-6969 HRMHVR
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Ok, now that the Design actions are in place, I think this is a valid plan. A few comments/suggestions:
1. Can we add -[] [Military] [Free] Redesign our Fleet Structure & build process to account for larger ships and make a process for new fleet design. This is how we design new fleets of all the ships we've built.
2. I don't think we can half-action off of Mechadendrite into Development. But we can half-action off of development into [] Duel Of The Fates (4/12)
3. Can we replace the Psykana free action with: -[] [Psykana][Free] Turn off Glint of Genius, Turn on Heartbeat of Industry and Devouring Mechadendrite at full strength, 100 Choirs into Hippity Hoppity, Hiss of the Steam Valves & Foretold Luminous Paths Seen. All remaining choirs into See No Evil, Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil, Do No Evil while leaving 50 free for auto-tickers. It does the same thing in general, just in somewhat more detail and spends choirs on Hiss of the Steam Valves again, which seems good?
4. Do we want to do the Phoenix-class ship? I know we want a number of Grand Cruisers, but do we really need 2 different designs? Do they fulfil different roles?
 
Whatever plans we end up going with, it ought to account for the fact that we're auto-completing six Melodies this turn.
I humbly propose the following:

Death III (upgrading Promethean Gaze), Wisdom III and Innovation III (upgrading Class Is In Session), Paths III and Prophecy III (upgrading Foretold Luminous Paths Seen), Love (getting us all Star Child melodies).
 
sun tzu said:
Whatever plans we end up going with, it ought to account for the fact that we're auto-completing six Melodies this turn.
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The auto-ticker only gets us one melody. I'd be down for Love I for the Star Child melodies or Death III for Promethan gaze.

Alectai said:
They do, the Phoenix-class is a lanceboat, while the Lepus is a brawler.
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Fair enough. I'm curious what our fleet designs are going to look like after this.

I must say, going on the expedition to the Clockmaker's Workshop sounds cool. Maybe we can squeeze it in next turn.

Should probably add this to the plan too:
-[] [Psykana] [Free] (0.8/1 - Auto Complete)
--[] Death III
 
Neablis said:
[] Plan: Ship Designs & Throwing the QM a bone
-[] [Military] Construct God-Engines (20x Grandis (0/1) (Add 50% Progress to a Design action)
-[] [Military] The Ancient's Bone-Mender Temple (Add 50% Progress to a Design action)
-[] [Military] Design New Voidship Classes (Bonus from Agenda)
-[] [Military] Design New Voidship Classes (Bonus from Heartbeat of Industry)
-[] [Faith] Saint Candidate Thule-6969 HRMHVR
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This is good. Granted we are gonna have to do a "What ships and army to send" part of the expedition but it should be fine.
 
Right, Virgo managed to get upshielded and uparmored with the freed up DP, just because I care.

The others were fine as they were, not really a big change for them.

EDIT: On the topic of the Black Cat stuff... You can very much see that they were coasting on their laurels of being the only one with an ancient battleship in the region. They had massive heat and cramming issues on their ships, and their crews are apparently infamously poorly disciplined and need luxurious crew quarters apparently to even do their jobs--which makes sense given how they've gone and made their ships into living ovens apparently. Even their Battleship is something that's more a dragon that they can occasionally coax into service rather than a reliable asset, because it's super dangerous to even exist upon, and the Machine Spirit suffers from a major god complex apparently. It's fairly tough of course, as you'd expect, but I'd honestly bet on one of our natively designed craft over it.

On the other hand, it also means they apparently invented some clever ways around the limitations, like the Heat Cyclers which I guess are required for their crews to Just Not Fucking Die, but we can likely repurpose them to increase the firing rate on our own lance weapoons since we actually have something resembling sanity in our home-grown shipbuilding.
 
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If we don't end up taking it this turn we should take the neutrality treaty plus the Lamenters legion action (we are going to need as many Lamenters as we can get) and as many shipbuilding as we can in the turn after this one.
 
So, I think this is also a valid plan. 6 actions, at the cost of 5 of them being military actions.

[] Plan: The Clockwork Design
-[] [Free] Turn off Glint of Genius, Activate Heartbeat of Industry & The Devouring Mechadendrite. Put 100 Choirs into Hiss of the Steam Valves and the rest goes into No Evil, with 50 free for auto-tickers.
-[] [Free] Switch ISC to Green Horizons
-[] [Psykana] [Free] (0.8/1 - Auto Complete)
--[] Death III
-[] [General] Ministry of Subversion, Infiltration, and Interstellar Communication
--[] Free Neutrality Agreement
---[] Mechadendrite half-action into Duel of the Fates.
-[] [Military] [Free] Redesign our Fleet Structure & build process to account for larger ships and make a process for new fleet design.
-[] [Military] The Ancient's Bone-Mender Temple (Add 50% Progress to the God-machine action)
-[] [Military] The Ancient's Clockmaker's Workshop (Add 50% Progress to the God-machine action)
-[] [Military] Construct God-Engines (20x Grandis (0/1) (Add 50% Progress to a Design action)
-[] [Military] Design New Voidship Classes (Bonus from Heartbeat of Industry) (Add 50% Progress to a Design action)
-[] [Military] Design New Voidship Classes (Bonus from Agenda)
--[] All of Alectai's designs.
Alectai said:
Anyway, we've got 18 design points left, I think I'm going to do a funni with this one.
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Didn't you say that the Libra, Leo and Scorpio would all benefit nicely? Upgrade the self-mending armor to Infused, etc.
 
[] [Heavy Cruiser] Leo-Tertium (Leo-T) Vanguard Cruiser
-[] Length - 5.200 Meters
-[] Width - 900 Meters
-[] Acceleration - 4 Gravities
-[] Armor - Light Fortress Armor (-2 DP)
-[] Shields - Three Lattices
-[] Weapons - 4x Heavy Rotary Macrocannon Turrets (-8 DP)
-[] Equipment - (Standard) Ship Shrines/Autoloaders/Armored Lifepods/Lattice Hulls/(Standard) Superior Gravimetric Engine Calculations/Improved Internal Security Systems/Expanded Snapshot Pinpoint Targetting Solutions/Yeeni Auxillary Engineer Division (-15 DP)

(25/28 DP)

Hey @HeroCooky, while I work on this, are Medium Rotary Plasma Macrocannons better than Heavy Rotaries? It does cost a bit more, but it is something that was gated behind a fair amount of tech and the bore size is a bit smaller, even if the munitions are vastly improved.
 
Alectai said:
OH HEY, the Black Cat stuff did help us more than I thought! It reduced the tax on our Heavy and Light Cruisers!

Revisits on the way!
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Here's my wishlist for the LCs:
Libra - Upgrade Veteran Crew to Elite, maybe give it some stealth equipment to make them less appealing targets. Tack on a Yeeni Auxiliary Engineer Division to boost Thule Morale fighter uptime.
Scorpio - is it possible to replace the Limited Self-Mending Armor Coating with Infused Amor-Plates
Andromeda - Can we jam an arboretum in here? I think we might be able to if we remove some of the combat capability and add more run-away-ability. That would go a long way towards the Supply situation.

And for the HC's:
Leo: Any self-repair capability. It's a brawler!
Cancer: It's a rammer. We just got mobility upgrades.
 
Decimus said:
Anyone willing to translate those binary segments? I'm on my phone.
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Here you go:
HeroCooky said:
>Hallowed Spirit, hear our plea. Hallowed Spirit, know our intent. Hallowed Spirit, stay your wrath. Commence Rite 72; Command Section Alpha-Nominus-Deus; Initiate IFF Re-Calibration.

+++...allies accounted for.+++

>Hallowed Spirit, know this truth we give. Hallowed Spirit, know this praise we offer. Hallowed Spirit, know the paths we sail. Commence Rite 204c; Command Section Garul-Garul-Gehenna-Freiheit; Initiate Command Allegiance Change Tertius

+++A new...Admiralcy?+++

>Hallowed Spirit, do you hear us? Hallowed Spirit, do you forgive us? Hallowed Spirit, do you hate us? Commence Rite 038-Julis; Command Section Freta-Iluminus-Delta-Bacchus; Initiate Purgation Module Modius; Target; Information Files Tetretian-Omega to Tetretian-Quartus.

+++Fine. Now let me slumber...+++

>We thank you, Mighty Spirit, Grand Spirit, Oh Hallowed One. Let our words disturb your slumber no more. We thank you, for we are nothing before your grace.
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