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Strange Aeons: A 40k Xeno Governor Quest

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Captain34167 said:
That, might be a problem admittedly, but that is future us problem. Is it okay, if next turn, we can go and try to buy all of the guns and most of the light to medium armour and vehicles, like tanks? I'm hoping that with our equipment granted to our boys, and the additional action used by them, we can start focusing to recovering our SDF to low, rather then pitiful.
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We all want that, its just our income is not really the best atm, so we are gonna go slow with the things we want
 
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Ah, that's true. I just keep getting reminded of the stuff we really want to get in order to get the good stuff we really want, but action economy, and several meter actions, like our actual economy and suspect/anger does tend to put a damper on those ideas and hopes.
 
Above everthing else, we should keep doing our Homeworld Mission first and at the highist DC, that is the MC main goal, ever else comes second
 
Leon12431 said:
Homeworld Mission: Data retrieval (Voidships) (Learning) - You have been given the assignment of providing your people with information on the methods of void travel and protection that the Imperium uses in its ships. Due to the size and costs inherent to spaceships in the Imperium, there is currently no expectation for a physical sample to be provided, but if one can be it would be a great boon for the Homeworld.
(Suspicion: 5/100) (Resource Cost: 0/200) (DC: 20/200)
(Result: If bonus achieved gain 20 Exatari Favor)
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What would Mechanicus Favor do for this one if we wanted the 2nd level of the action?
 
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Nicholas Brooks said:
What would Mechanicus Favor do for this one if we wanted the 2nd level of the action?
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Yeah, even Im lost on how this one would work, in comparison to trading 50 Mech favor for the Noosphere.

As for the Homeworld, How many more missions of retrieval can we do, @Leon12431? It feels like we already gave a pretty good portion up, and there really isn't anything we can do that's much higher up on the totem pool for us to try and send to the Homeworld?
 
Leon12431 said:
It's due to the fact that to Atraxas there isnt a real difference, he has to do the same work regardless. He knows what the basics are at this point and can recreate a noosphere on his own through guess work, but isnt a master of it by any means. Basically at the core it's due to how Exatari do research on other species technology. Its not enough to just be able to recreate the effect, they have to be able to recreate it via their native tech base.
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And the cost/requirement for getting blueprints for an Exatari Pattern Noosphere like we did with lasguns? Or what level it would count as for a full tech commission.
 
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Nicholas Brooks said:
What would Mechanicus Favor do for this one if we wanted the 2nd level of the action?
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It would just count as buying a small patrol ship that no one would really notice. It would just save the 200 resources if that matters.

Captain34167 said:
Yeah, even Im lost on how this one would work, in comparison to trading 50 Mech favor for the Noosphere.

As for the Homeworld, How many more missions of retrieval can we do, @Leon12431? It feels like we already gave a pretty good portion up, and there really isn't anything we can do that's much higher up on the totem pool for us to try and send to the Homeworld?
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Mostly it would reduce the suspicion and resource cost of the higher level success, and ideally you would do every Homeworld mission since after all your primary duty is to send back home interesting data on Imperial sciences. The Exatari dont really care about duplication of effort and would want extra samples of the same given items.

The Froggy Ninja said:
And the cost/requirement for getting blueprints for an Exatari Pattern Noosphere like we did with lasguns? Or what level it would count as for a full tech commission.
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Give the Noosphere to the Homeworld wait for around 15 turns.
 
Leon12431 said:
You can take multiple mission actions provided you have the actions. So if you have the Personal actions to spare you can do multiple missions on a single turn.
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Okay, good. Then current plan

Keep plan as is unchanged
Next turn use 2 Personal Actions on the Voidship Data Retrieval
That same turn, no matter what, Study Voidspace Technology will finish
Bonuses achieved, all perfectly on time.
 
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Nicholas Brooks said:
Okay, good. Then current plan

Keep plan as is unchanged
Next turn use 2 Personal Actions on the Voidship Data Retrieval
That same turn, no matter what, Study Voidspace Technology will finish
Bonuses achieved, all perfectly on time.
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Hope we don't get swamped on any more personal actions that might come in for turn 4.
 
Leon12431 said:
Give the Noosphere to the Homeworld wait for around 15 turns.
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Well we're gonna hit the next watershed well before that becomes relevant.
Hm. This whole "break under controlled circumstances" thing is going to be difficult. Our native techbase is unlikely to be helpful (on its own) considering their best options are "have a Living Mausoleum" and "kill urself". We pretty fundamentally can't trust anyone local so we won't be getting through this with the power of friendship. The main mind affecting/interfacing tech we've discovered will probably take longer than we have to develop to the point of usefulness.
I guess our best odds are hoping we're willing/able to work with Noosphere tech before fully researching it or that a sufficiently powerful Machine Spirit can somehow help.
Both seem like bad options.
Btw, @Leon12431, what were those Essence Taps and stuff we integrated into the tech adept's cybernetics?
 
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The Froggy Ninja said:
Well we're gonna hit the next watershed well before that becomes relevant.
Hm. This whole "break under controlled circumstances" thing is going to be difficult. Our native techbase is unlikely to be helpful (on its own) considering their best options are "have a Living Mausoleum" and "kill urself". We pretty fundamentally can't trust anyone local so we won't be getting through this with the power of friendship. The main mind affecting/interfacing tech we've discovered will probably take longer than we have to develop to the point of usefulness.
I guess our best odds are hoping we're willing/able to work with Noosphere tech before fully researching it or that a sufficiently powerful Machine Spirit can somehow help.
Both seem like bad options.
Btw, @Leon12431, what were those Essence Taps and stuff we integrated into the tech adept's cybernetics?
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We could try and just start the unify machines in that case, especially as it would in part, own its existence to us making it live. And we would leave traps like the 3 rules for machines to follow, so no AI uprising.
 
The Froggy Ninja said:
Btw, @Leon12431, what were those Essence Taps and stuff we integrated into the tech adept's cybernetics?
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It's how Exatari Tech works by and large, by capturing the meta particles that living souls throw off and then reinvesting them into the body or using them to power other systems. It's basically a way to get energy ex nihilo, but it can also do weirder things like reverse age in humans by reinvesting particles of Life into the body, or attuning more common particles to that form. It also can grab onto even small aspects of souls when used properly, allowing it to magnify them so to speak. Humans however, suck for this tech base due to how weak their souls are by and large.
 
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Leon12431 said:
It's how Exatari Tech works by and large, by capturing the meta particles that living souls throw off and then reinvesting them into the body or using them to power other systems. It's basically a way to get energy ex nihilo, but it can also do weirder things like reverse age in humans by reinvesting particles of Life into the body, or attuning more common particles to that form. It also can grab onto even small aspects of souls when used properly, allowing it to magnify them so to speak. Humans however, suck for this tech base due to how weak their souls are by and large.
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Does that mean, we could try and build our awakening forge, and just strap it to our ultra-powerful Blank after we have made all of the requirements to make a meta shield?
 
Captain34167 said:
Does that mean, we could try and build our awakening forge, and just strap it to our ultra-powerful Blank after we have made all of the requirements to make a meta shield?
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Not really, The Awakening Forge is a far more complex piece of tech due to it being used to Awaken/Tune souls to Psychic and Blank aspects and retune them at will. It also produces a constant amount of base resources if powered by an Exatari, the super Blank would only produce around 20 Resources compared to Atraxas' 5 Resources. The things are typically powered by The Living Mausoleums after all which can produce 100s to thousands to in the case of the Witness millions of resource units per decade. Of course the speed and rate of production depends on how important a given material is, so an Awakening Forge can produce nigh infinite amounts of iron/gold but could only produce mere nanograms of Auramite over the course of centuries even if powered by the Witness.
 
Leon12431 said:
It's how Exatari Tech works by and large, by capturing the meta particles that living souls throw off and then reinvesting them into the body or using them to power other systems. It's basically a way to get energy ex nihilo, but it can also do weirder things like reverse age in humans by reinvesting particles of Life into the body, or attuning more common particles to that form. It also can grab onto even small aspects of souls when used properly, allowing it to magnify them so to speak. Humans however, suck for this tech base due to how weak their souls are by and large.
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Yeah but I meant what are they doing? Are they just doing normal cybernetics stuff better or did we slip some secret functionality in there?
 
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