One of the options is going towards the Civilized Worlds Collective, one of our "neighbors" so to speak. I effectively wrote them up for one of my omakes and Durin took the idea since it fit with something he already had planned. As such it would be nice to see what Durin kept from my omake and what he replaced with his ideas.
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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up
- Thread starter Durin
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Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
OO right I remember that one.
Easiest way to take them down should we need to?
Unknown, Durin could easily have something else in mind. If he kept with what I wrote they might have spent time tech-ing up the very strong and militant Ferals and Feudal worlders as troops and using the tech they got from Mars that was meant for us for their forces. But nothing we couldn't handle in the end.
Regardless, it doesn't really seem like the thread wants to go to the CWC just yet (if ever) so I won't try and push for it.
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Derek58
Rocket Punch is Best Punch
- Location
- Getter Valhalla
Far too little, far too late. Anything we try to send after Abbadon would be crushed without too much trouble. Especially once he finishes crushing Cadia.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
My question is would hitting him in the face with a ****ing Nova cannon finally kill the barstard?
Derek58
Rocket Punch is Best Punch
- Location
- Getter Valhalla
Maybe, but we don't have anywhere near the number of forces to get close enough to do it.
Abbadon's one of the major players in the galaxy right now. We're not even close.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
I know, its just I really want to finally put that limbless barstard down.
- Location
- Leeds
Sorry for the slow reply but I've been away all day and the thread moves fast. Thanks for pointing me to the info sheet, shame it says so little about the actual life cycle that I think is the missing context here.
Now in response.
First of all I think directed is too strong a word. Avernus has only directed things once in this quest too my knowledge. And that was when it freaked out because servants of the C'tan landed on it. Most of the time it nudges. Frankly I think things like the Mantle Wyrm which was considering sinking a city are fully sapient and generally act under their own initiative.
Secondly even if you are correct that only changes the question, in fact it doesn't even change it that much. Why are Blink Spiders the ones hunting humans? Why aren't we seeing phase tigers migrate randomly around to avoid the void sheilds that are attuned to them? Why do we only have to deal with dinosaurs when the Thunderbeast migrations bring them near us. Even if its because 'humans' don't rank highly on the threat index of a death world as you say, the policy of doing things in pairs is a pretty clear indicator that two humans are more than a match for a single spider, so why spiders? Or why not pairs of spiders?
There's nothing psychic about it, so no. Killing him with our sword would work though, as it'd kill his soul as well as his body.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Given that the sword is either DAoT or Old One, I think if we stick it in a Nova cannon and fire it that may just do the job.
Derek58
Rocket Punch is Best Punch
- Location
- Getter Valhalla
HanEmpire
Delicious
He wants to harpoon Abaddon with the sword by firing the sword out of a Nova Cannon.
It's a stupid idea, if amusing.
Being "nudged" is being directed. There's an over-arching intelligence guiding the behaviour of the wildlife.
As for the second point, plenty of species outside the Blink Spiders are hunting humans too. The only difference is that humans have proper, specialized defences for all forms of wildlife with the sole exception of the Blink Spiders (extraordinary things like the Deep One notwithstanding, of course).
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Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
Exactly. I'm not actually suggesting we put the sword into a nova cannon and fire it Failbadon, that would be silly
. There are certain things where the mere idea is context enough to say this is a joke.I wonder what it says that my first thought upon reading this bit was "What if we got the Deep One(s) to protect us from the Blink Spiders?"
HanEmpire
Delicious
It's probably possible too, provided we pay the small price of millions of human souls every century or so.
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- Alice Springs, Australia
the Men of Iron had around 50% including the Graviton Command Ship, the ship of the line and the Brute Command ship
HanEmpire
Delicious
...Is that why the Data Core is destroyed on the Graviton ship? Commandos destroyed it to kill the directing AI, something like that?
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
that or the fact that the gravitic array is so complex that it is useless without the data core
I personally hope to send reinforcements to Cadia before they completely fall. But we might be too late for that. OTOH they're not THAT far from us.
- Location
- USA
So next turn I think we should start the brute command ship as it has the best chance of having an intact data core. That still lets us the time we need to get the escorts ready to repair after the defense cruisers are repaired.
For next turn:
1 free void, 1 free admin, 2 diplo, 1 arbites, 1 mechanicus, 1 ministroum, and 4 personal. The personals should be focused on coping again this turn and the piety to provide a bonus to coping. Arbites we should take that border security option, mechanicus brute command ship. Diplo actions to contact more troll tribes. Admin would be either start another defense upgrade or education exchange or promethium refinery at mag mell and void would be the defense cruiser repair.
For next turn:
1 free void, 1 free admin, 2 diplo, 1 arbites, 1 mechanicus, 1 ministroum, and 4 personal. The personals should be focused on coping again this turn and the piety to provide a bonus to coping. Arbites we should take that border security option, mechanicus brute command ship. Diplo actions to contact more troll tribes. Admin would be either start another defense upgrade or education exchange or promethium refinery at mag mell and void would be the defense cruiser repair.
As I said earlier, the Brute's datacores may have been taken out in the boarding action that took it out, which would lower the 75% base chance due to it's level of intactness. I'm thinking the Hyper Carrier may be a better choice - being significantly larger than all the other ships means it being half destroyed still leaves a large amount of ship to search, and it should have had a large complement of forces on board to repel boarders.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
They think that it will be harder then the Troll but probably worthwhile
- Location
- USA
Well regardless I would like to continue and start on another since we will still have time to do that and finish the work on the escorts before our void build actions comes up again after finishing the defense cruisers. Hopefully whichever one we pick has an intact or partially intact datacore and lets us cut some time off the reverse engineering.
- Location
- Australia
That actually is a small price. We lose millions of humans every year due to Blink Spiders. Losing them only every century is a much better deal.