We could have a Scutum Frigate instead of a Mine-Layer Destroyer?
Sterbelicht - One Sacrifice At A Time Against The Galaxy (40K)
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Question: wouldn't we also get whatever ground forces that the Black Cat Company had? I doubt they only had just the navy if they put in the work to have dozens of troop transports
…. Well. That's damm impressive isn't it.
Wait how the hell did I miss this!? I looked at the tech tree there? did I not scroll down? ahhhh this is filling up the tech tree again after we already cleared it... okay so we have Oh shit minor beacon for the choirs to lock onto for the planets? and it speeds up the fleets making them arrive sooner? honestly this is great for defensive plans and logistics focused on getting our forces around and rapid responses. Won't be too affective with any expeditions or crusades going far into the cult since they don't have a solid base to go back to, still worth it but its just ahhhh 6AP
and then there's the 11 AP one. So Discordant Shriek... holy shit rip enemy ships from the warp and do damage to them via that or at least delay them and give us more time.... damn this needs five choirs to operate though and that can stack up pretty fast. Still worth it but depending on the next few turns, we may not have the take to sink in that much to get.
Ahhh I was wondering when I would have to do this again. Still good song overall and one I REALLY want to try to do.
Hmmmm, the 'By Mirror'd life' part is what really grabs my interest over what it could mean. and something I want to try doing but the other song would be good as well. hoping we can squeeze in an action or two to grab ones like these instead of ones we think increases industry or the like. or just have fun with it and choose silly songs or ones that just sound interesting.
Wait what?
.....Oh. Oh that's fucked up. So it wasn't even wetware Automata or humans used to make the cores of them, it was straight up an Xenos species that DOAT forced into the Clockwork automata bodies. Very much Grevious from Star Wars or Mannequin from Worm, very thin and lanky too with their height factored in. They don't do any other ornamentations besides marking and personalizations, they have the Fabric on their lower head like a veil that shows which caste they are aligned with and those castes being Weeper, Lore Keeper, Maker, and Outcast. The names of those castes say a lot on their own and do give a unique way for them to be. Poor Dirut unable to know the glory of Chocolate and the Psychological compatibility low... not surprised all things considered.Name: Dirut
Appearance: Tall humanoids, between 2.7 and 3.2 meters in height, with short torsos containing vital organs and a bulbous head atop a long neck containing their primary nerve systems, alongside long legs and arms whose internal bones are wrapped with redundant nerve systems adding to their overall consciousness and capabilities. The Dirut prefer thin bodies, eschewing all ornamentations that aren't etchings for individual markings and personalizations, though they typically attach fabric to the underside of their heads, which falls to their torsos that proclaims their allegiance to the castes they belong to; Weeper, Lore Keeper, Maker, and Outcast. Their hands and feet are kept as simple as possible, with three fingers as the preferred number, and their feet are usually nothing more than bare frames. Their bodies are typically painted a dark, mossy green.
Age Range: Unknown for individuals. Age of the Species has been lost.
Technology Level: Low Imperial.
Psychological Compatibility: Low.
Physiological Compatibility: Extreme.
Chocolate Compatibleness: None.
Short History: The Dirut are a holy union of machinery and flesh that did not come about by conscious or willing participation in their species' past. Once they had a world to call their own, reaching for the stars with slow, methodical steps...only to be found by DAoT Humanity or a faction of it, that transformed their world in a cataclysmic event they categorically refuse to share with any non-Dirut. What few survivors from that age were rescued from the stasis pods found far underneath the crust of their homeworld shared the history with those of their people that had been turned into organic machines long after they had been turned into nothing more than materials for another project before, as one, ending their lives. Their souls were put to rest thanks to the attached Choirs of the Expedition, and their bodies were interred according to the preferred methods of their people within the soil of the world of Hineni. They have since created dozens of enclaves within Federation Space, slowly building their numbers and creating a new identity in self-imposed seclusion. As one, they have sworn an oath of pacifism, vowing to never harm any being, no matter the cost to themselves.
Oh so they were the native species to Hineni and were beginning to explore the stars with making some colonies or just the one planet. Still they wrecked the world, used them as material for some other project before turned into Organic Machines. Still a Horror but one done by Humanity to another Species and we gave the survivors peace at last. I will say that I am surprised these can still make more of themselves... like how does that work when most of their vital organs are enclosed in the casing and all? is the Dirut more of what they became and now more a culture and way they are transformed into this? this meaning Yeeni, Mothome, Humans, and Kil'drabi can become Dirut as well? Damn, I am not surprised they swore to Pacifism after going through everything they dealt with, just hope they aren't in the positions that will get them killed for it. still nice there are making Enclaves in the federation.
They are and I'm glad we could. and I will say despite the wording of it, I voted for it thinking it was more the lore or stories they left behind rather than actual people still around. I think it would be a memory core or story of what happened, might have been the lack of sleep when writing that caused it.
We were right on that and it would have been straight bonuses. Oh the Abhumans were the second choice Frozen Hearts? okay, I could see that... wait they didn't have any clockwork parts? just highly toxic skin, very slow metabolisms, and using Radiation weapons' with no issue... yah that implies post nukes or just Death world kind... oh shit so stunted emotional mentality and independent capability so more or less just followers. Not part per say but definitely a path or tech tree to help them regain their initiative. given this I think Pasts was the better choice with the Dirut.
Damn the 27th best pilot in the history of the Federation? pretty good and would be the source of many arguments and talks considering the different specs of the strikecraft used. Still surprised to see just what made 6969 a Saint Candidate..... Oh that was the miracle....Fully Awakening the Machine Spirits, which would be similar to AI (BuT Don'T WorRy its TotaLlY noT Ai GUys!), is a big deal and the fact that she managed to awaken them and have them devoted to her Second to the Machine god with love and loyalty. Like damn that is impressive and would change the abilities of her Siblings, like no words needed for the Siblings to do her commands.
That right there is the miracle and how it only comes from her and needs interaction with her, else the siblings' Machine Spirits go back to slumbering and never reach the same degree. Because of this it makes sense the Star-Mechanicum views her as a saint already for this and prepped everything for the canonization. However this is just the Star-Mechanicum.
Yup that was my main worry there. The clergy does not agree 6969 met the qualifications due to her early years and actions with not much worth speaking of for being a saint until far past the Rejuvant treatment that gave her the agelessness, though even then it was in a binge of drugs, alcohol, and moping around. So she was a problem child with a record, and for those in the Orthodoxy it is not enough for them to accept her as a Living Saint, even with the Miracle. and now we have to convince them.
.... I mean, we have been asking him about things and it could go many ways. Who knows what lies on the trip to the Grocery store and what actions we do there can effect things?You can't ask your yet-unborn-deity everything. What's next, what to put on the grocery list?
LOL the timing, well done. The Star Child speaks to you and says 'you should get jello'.
Not bad and a good title for a Thule Saint. and I like the veneration period and 'unofficial' celebration of it because of course this happens with the Thules and how 6969 was.
pfffft I could see this happening and it being a thing. You'd be surprised where some people sell.
.... that is fucking horrendous! I LOVE IT! I think its worth getting those two things if we can fit it in, the Star Lance needs us to go fast, which is why it was placed on destroyers.... will this actually work now that I think about it? it was mentioned before that high Gravity would help a lot with the damage. Regardless adding in the Fangs of Dew would help a lot since it would give us a reason to head straight for the enemy and ram them, Shatterpow would help and we'd see how it preforms. I really all lines up to have the Hercules be a absolute monster for a short time given its speed boost and the mass it would have during it, problem comes after.
Honestly think we should be more like the Black Caw with the Mixture of weapons of light ones and the medium and heavies.
She's still around, it just took so long at Voxx Primus because of all those nat 1's, other than that we don't know where she is or what she has been doing at all.
We kinda are done with the Necron tech now, though we are getting more DOAT expeditions and we are getting stuff from it. Depends on what and the effect it has. We'll see how the Dirut shake things up.
Fair enough, if they were Vulture Droid Expies it was the nautral conclusion to reach.
Yah, checks out, we went hard into Iconoclast and choose Quality including what Teeln did, which gave people a choice and an afterlife to wait for the birth of the starchild. that is very much bigger then just appearing to help battles where all seems lost. It seems the saints we make are... rather interesting ones like Theodore of the pack and what 6969 can do. I would think that because of this and her status as a living saint we give 6969 twice the siblings a thule is normally assigned.
Hahaha, damn. its that bad? I guess the extreme range does pay off since it has light lances for days with the Kil'drabi helping mange the heat sink and releases sniping the SBG, sending so many strikecraft at long range with the best Aces we have and can take a beating. or just take the hits with the shields and armor like its nothing. Still nice to hear that.
Also shows how a big deal battleships are and how it is to build them.
PFfft, you know what? keep the meme and jokes going, they could find those things in all likelhood.
I can see it, and them being towed to the rest of their ships. Maybe the Necron would employ the Yeeni to find the rest of thier ships.... and then get into a war when the Yeeni steal other Necron Dyansty's ships and give it to them.
.... Oh my god it IS a lucrehulk. all we would need to do is slap on a few Rotary Heavy Plasma Cannons and it would be one fully.
1. hey QM what was ever with the World Engine over in Macabre? No chance to study or interact with that? or was that a Write-in thing to do?
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Yeah, agree. Removed a commissary and that made room for a Leo and a Libra. That should be enough guard dog for the logistics ships.
Booo. Well, she sucks at being the big bad then.
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Result of my write-ins.
And Cooky originally forgot to add these to "Black Cats' Claw" but fixed that when I reminded her.
Its not 5 Choirs.
Its 1 Choir with the 5 Psykers sitting in different structures orbitting the sun
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HeroCooky
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...ooooookay, I looked at the wrong kind of SBG to calculate your points, because I ended up with ~480 per SBG and multiplied it by 4.
...it's too late to change it by now, so you'll get to deal with force limits instead.
1. Like a large asteroid at first glance. Anything more than "Passive Medium-Alert Level Awareness" will reveal it at least halfway to its intended target. Also, once combat starts it stays uncovered until it Warps out of the system.
2. Kinda, it still needs fuel and spare parts in case of combat.
3. They synergize, but this thing is more a Raid Leader than an Independent one, attacking those places your ordinary raiders can't touch.
4. Kopesh Pods are prime Raider weapons. Large alpha strikes, detachable dead-weight, can be loaded down with them without triggering Cramming like other weapons, etc. Spinal Lances too, as they don't require supplies and run on energy instead of munitions.
You would. Added.
*Whacks with neswpaper* Them. The Star-Child is Non-Binary.
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Ar.... are they as well armed as the rest of our troops?
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They are quintary, clearly
Yeah, I think our current SBGs are too small, especially b/c it would be unfair to have you put in the work for over a dozen SBG names per action.
HeroCooky
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They are now. :3
They do have mascot catpeople, right?
Uh. We can still change it? I've got a spreadsheet of all the fleet types and costs and can tweak it pretty easily.
I did think something about this was too good to be true but I assumed it was just Void Infrastructure 16 plus the Agenda being nice.
You could also drop the number of points we have down to 1000 or so and then we'd build 5 SBGs per action and need to spend 2 actions for one Flag Armada.
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HeroCooky
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Yeah, the latter would be better. Drop it to a thousand then, if you'd be so kind.
Also, Luftwaffles, if you catch up to here, please post the reason why you seemingly clicked your way through over one-thousand two-hundred pages of this Quest. I am afraid.
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I would still like it if we could raise the count of SBGs to 55 ships in total (counting Andromedas). It just feels right.
Cool. Done. SBG/LRAD/Invasion Fleet/ Logistics Fleet/Evacuation fleet are now all 200 points, so we can build 5 of them in any combination with one action.
The Flag Armada is 2000 points, so it costs 2 actions to build one.
I've also been getting a bunch of pings from them, including of long-lost arguments I'd completely forgotten about.
The math just doesn't work out. Maybe if I upcosted them all to 250, but I think it's too late to change the math.
HeroCooky, that quester is reading through the all pages, I am getting likes and hearts from the stuff deep between the updates. I am beyond fear, I am impressed
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Have you really never experienced the ecstasy of reading through years old quest discussion and liking every single post as you go by?
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A typo, the flag armada uses 10 choirs, 5 for pathfinders and 5 for the Fangs of Dew on the Cancer-class.