Q: Will the Meta Flux sequence generate Suspicion?
A: No, because its mostly just theory and some prototypes stashed away in Atraxas' home.
Q: Will Meta Flux (if finished) generate significant amounts of new Resources?
A: you would need to install it which would be sus heavy but would produce a crapton of resources
for amounts take the amounts listed in the Radiant Forge and multiply them by 10
of course it also enables the construction of Veil systems like planetary Veil Shields
Q: Could we get multiple Assistants off of a Look for trustworthy assistants Action that overflows to a sufficiently ridiculous extent?
A: you could in theory, but I will say that most of the overflow goes into getting better options
Q: Are we allowed to repeat Look for trustworthy assistants for a single category, or is it strictly "once per category"?
A: Look for trustworth assistants can be repeated for categories, but it has a soft cap of 5
Q: Just to double-check, Information's "Double Stats" effect won't give us more dice for the Simulation Arrays or the 3E Calc-Heart, will it?
A: It should, I dont recall ever saying it wouldnt
Q: Simulation Arrays explicitly don't include the Faith bonus, right? But they do include Information's doubling?
A: yes
Q: Because I have no idea: Will Information's "Double Stats" effect give us a "bonus to each die rolled" with the 3E Calc-Heart?
A: if you mean the bonus applying to each dice then if your normal skills apply then Information boost would apply, Information is just a normal boost at the end of the day as far as calculations are concerned, its only added in last so to speak
Q: Would finishing the Quintessence Harvester give the Homeworld any Research boost?
A: it would indirectly yes
Q: Would finishing the Quintessence Harvester and Veil Materials 4 (for 3E items) give the Homeworld any Research boost?
A: yes it would
Q: Would finishing the Quintessence Harvester, Veil Materials 4 (for 3E items), and integrate-Auramite-and-Blackstone give the Homeworld any Research boost?
A: a massive one yes
Q: Will we get a Homeworld Research boost when the Witness finishes Controlled-Breaking-Scholarship trials and puts the practice into general implementation?
A: I am not sure what you mean but if you mean will the Homeworld get another research boost from controlled broken scholars yes it will
Q: The last mention of Shezu's Weight/Resource production was back before you updated the resource node system. What would she add since she's in range of the Flux Grid?
For context:
Strange Aeons: A 40k Xeno Governor Quest
A: Shezu would be around 10k for the Radiant forge and thus 100k for the Grid
yes Necrons are bullshit
especially Sapient ones
it will require some
very creative accounting to actually use any of the Grid produced materials
Q: How much are Veil and Quintessence Harvesters worth to Homeworld?
A: the Veil Harvester is worth in the ballpark of 200 Favor, Quintessential Harvester is worth 2 Wishes
Q: Can Exatari digest and process ceramics
A: They can process most inorganic compounds with little effort
Q: What would happen if Atraxas ate the nechronal ceramics
A: not much would happen, their bodies would simply break it down and spit it out basically
warp shred is rather effective
against non phase forged enchantments
Q: Is it possible - at some future date - to convince/bribe the Sector Governor and local Inquisitors to downplay oddities of Shogi, for something like "-50% Suspicion reduction"? I would assume that it would be monumentally costly, and require top-notch Diplomatic and Intrigue offices - which would imply we'd want to wait a while to even consider it...
A: possible but if found it will trigger a massive investigation
Q: What happens if and when we run out of local Space Marine chapters to contact? Do we get ones from outside the Sector?
A: you can already contact chapters outside the sector they just have vastly higher DCs and costs
Q: What's required to get our Ships to low-DAoT Standard? A whole bunch of DAoT reverse-engineering, plus 100k+ progress on a Design Ship Action, I'd guess?
A: an absolute ton of Reverse Engineering, Full AIs, at least 10 Million on a Design Action (more around 100 Million to recreate an actual DAoT ship class)
the entire Imperial Fleet of the Great Crusade would fail to damage a single DAoT Battleship
it would have required Emps to take the field to bring down a fully operational DAoT battleship
the Primarch Flagships wouldnt be able to even scrach the shielding of DAoT ships if they were at full power
The DAoT existed at the relative peak of TL 12 across hundreds of technological fields
the Great Crusade Imperium had a scattershot array of TL 8 and 9 technological fields
the Current Imperium has a scattershot array of TL 4 to 8 in a bare handful of technological fields
right now its
possible for the Imperium to build things to Great Crusade standard
its just exceptionally expensive and time consuming
Q: Could we make use of 3E gear that isn't personal - something like a Quintessence Harvester or a Planetary Shield - without leveling up Atraxas first?
A: Yes
Q: How many 3E Calc Hearts could Atraxas use at a time?
A: currently? 1 at most, post level up 2, maybe 3 if you really push it to the razor edge
of course that will take some time to grow to that level
Q: So our closest option for DAoT level flagship would be getting the Quintessence Harvesters set up and then Pinnacle Forging a currently top of the line ship?
A: that would go beyond technically
the Exatari are closer to the DAoT than the Imperium is
you actually have TL 12 fields
even if you only have a handful of them
compared to the DAoT's hundreds
Pinnacle Forging would result around a TL 14 to 16 level ship generally
granted a fully operational DAoT ship would
probably win that fight
just due to having a ton of secondary options and nonsense
the DAoT was the Generalist faction
they dipped into literally everything
warp, null, veil whatnot was all under the DAoT
AIs are a
great help for research
Q: Are Witness Rituals viable before the Witness Ascends?
A: they are not
Q: What would a Witness Ritual do? +100% tech research speed, maybe?
A: they would be focused on information processing, warp shredding, stability, narrative law rejection, and so forth
Q: How does Train an Attribute work? I'm guessing:
Resources: 50 if attribute starts in the 1-5 range, 100 if attribute starts in the 6-10 range, etc.
DC: 100 if attribute starts as 1, 200 if 2, 300 if 3, 400 if 4, 500 if 5, 700 if 6 (Tier is now 1), 800 if 7, 900 if 8, 1000 if 9, 1100 if 10, 1300 if 11 (Tier is now 2), etc?
As I understand it, you're also using your relevant attribute (so for +Learning you'd use Learning, for +Diplomacy you'd use Diplomacy).
I assume Calc-Heart bonuses would apply (except on Diplomacy).
...Which, oddly enough, suggests that all future Exatari Diplomats will be Radiant Scholars who got ~100 Learning before Breaking. Since you can fast-train Learning with Calc-Hearts, but not Diplomacy.
If we overflow the DC massively on Train an Attribute, and commit enough Resources, could we get multiple Attribute increases from a single Action?
It looks like the 3E Calc-Heart would let us massively overflow the DC on Train an Attribute, at least once we get Information 1, fwiw.
Looks like roughly +4.5 Learning per Action.
A: thats correct yes
Q: Is there a hard or soft upper limit on Exatari Learning?
A: not really, but the skill training does start going exponential in time investment cost at 50
A: Oh. Ah.
Then we
really want to take a normal training action for +Learning before either Designs or Luraia.
Q: So if rationality (as expressed through computable factors) doesn't apply to diplomacy, does that mean diplomacy is an inherently Empyreal skill?
A: pretty much, in this setting there is an inherent degree of acausality with regards to diplomancy with sapient ensouled beings
Q: So Ascended would be better for Warp/Abyssal/Veil fuckery support gear. Whereas Pinnacle is mostly useful for materium technology
A: pretty much
A: Pinnacle Absolute Ascended Universal Understanding would have let the Old Ones and Necrontyr understand each other perfectly
...
Q: So, as an example, picking between Pinnacle and Ascended for Meta Shields, even though there is a physical tech component Ascended would be better, all else being equal.
Q: Which is better for a scanner for finding new meta particles, Ascended Veil or Pinnacle Veil?
A: new particles Ascended
for meta shields they are about equal
unless you do more phase forging in which case Ascended is better
...
Pinnacle Absolute Ascended Universal Understanding
would in effect be
Pinnacle (1), Ascended (1), Absolute (1), Universal (1), Understanding (1)
5^2 = 25
...
Pinnacle Ascended combined are items that
warp all of reality around them
they dont
have TL equivalents anymore
...
I will say that one of the ways to reduce the strain is to make the effect massive in scope
the more diffuse the effect the less strain it places on people
one of the ways to manage a strain of 25E would be to make it effect the entire galaxy
so everyone bears some of the strain
Q: What
would a Pinnacle Ascended Heart look like?
A: Sets all rolls to 100 for anyone using it
all rolls gain a bonus of 500
gives 100 rolls to all actions using it
able to research anything regardless of restrictions
all DCs reduced by 95%
Enables critical results of 500x
...
its an effective 16E device
2+2 = 4 ^2 = 16
Pinnacle + Ascended basically combine to form Conceptual
it makes whatever its applied to the Conceptual form of that device
above all others
its the purest possible representation possible in reality
a Pinnacle Ascended Veil Shield would need to cover most of a segmenetum to offset its inherent weight
and it would
still resist pretty much everything barring select DAoT weapons and WIH weapons
...
Summarized: Forge a few Pinnacle Ascended Isha Statues and casually rescue Isha from Shogi, while creating 0 or more extra Isha's. Sounds great! But...
...
not a single Exatari including the Witness could phase forge Pinnacle and Ascended together
the entire species including the Witness and all LMs working together linked as one mind could not achieve that
you dont have materials that can handle 3 Essences
Pinnacle Ascended is Base of 16 E
a roughly 5 fold jump
its a theoretical possibility for the species in the sense
maybe in five billion years we will figure it out
but yeah Pinnacle Ascended items are far far far from being even a vague possibility
[5bil estimate] not accounting for veil gods
