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Anything to replace the fermented arms.
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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!
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- Dancing on wires!
I have just one problem @Ramble
While a dangerous plant you missed one opportunity.
It must be able to light the ethanol on fire and remain unharmed itself.
Then it will be a true Avernite plant, otherwise it is merely another traitor brew.
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- America
Of course it immune to fire. What are you talking about?
What? You think you can just go out with flamers and clear it out? Hell the fuck no.
You want to clear it out, you grab your weed wackers, push mowers (can't use combustion) and safety scissors and you go snipping away at it.
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- Australia
Yes. The raw promethium we're digging out of the planet is biomass that's been crushed by the planet's pressure over tens of millions of years, just like the raw promethium found on Earth.
I uhh... actually already posted this. Same name even.
With these, although I left the Sekhemet part up to inference.
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- America
Yeah, I saw it and it didn't pose a dangerous threat to humanity. Also the description was a bit barebones so I Avernus-ized it. Sorry.
Methanol Fires are Invisible
It goes from delicious to highly toxic when you try to harvest it, and it burns with invisible fire.
Plus, not everything need be immediately and obviously dangerous. Consider the Avalanche Shrub. Harmless when alive, catastrophic in death.
Maybe I could alter it to be vulnerable to periodic blights...
EDIT: Admittedly, it really was there to support the Hathor/Sehkmet beastie.
ANOTHER EDIT: And having it release the methanol in a cloud is also a good idea.
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- America
Well, I sort of wanted it to be like, a multiplier you know? Like, in your incarnation, it's only lethal to the people attempting to harvest it.
I wanted it to be a bit more sinister. By being extremely prolific as well as constantly releasing alcohol, it isn't lethal to the people harvesting it, no, but having too much of it around degrades the vigilance of defenders as well as the effectiveness of defenses, making them more vulnerably to wildlife.
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- USA
So what? so long as there isn't a warpstorm we can keep a large enough stockpile for many years.
A stockpile doesn't need to last millennia, it needs to last long enough for us to make adjustments to our industry.
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...I don't understand what you're arguing for.
Your argument is that we should opt for a maximum production setup?
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- USA
Then click on the up arrow buttons on the quote to reread the conversation.
No, my argument is that we do not have to be self sufficient on non essentials when we can use trade and stockpiles to make up for deficiencies while allowing us to reap the benefits of specialization. And the stockpiles will allow us to have time to adjust our industry in the case that we are cut off from trade by a warpstorm
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Why not set up all the industry and infrastructure to remain self-sufficient during times of plenty when we don't have to work on a shrinking budget? Being sustainable is more important than specialization after all.
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- Australia
On the subject of the new region, I have a few ideas on what we might find under the earth based on suggestions from the Bay12 forum.
Maybe there's an ancient Avernite monster trapped beneath as a result of some great battle with another beast. Avernus has been around for a long time and it probably has its own stories within itself rather than being nothing more than an ecosystem.
Maybe instead of a beast, some psychic artifact created by an Avernite sentient that got locked away for some reason?
Or what about that sentient or that beast, except we only find their corpse?
A Dark Age nuke-equivalent base could've been locked deep underground to prevent the Men of Iron from accessing them. When the Men of Iron got to the place they couldn't get in, so they rigged the place with rad traps and other nasties to get the wildlife riled up against any humans who tried accessing the base.
Maybe there's an ancient Avernite monster trapped beneath as a result of some great battle with another beast. Avernus has been around for a long time and it probably has its own stories within itself rather than being nothing more than an ecosystem.
Maybe instead of a beast, some psychic artifact created by an Avernite sentient that got locked away for some reason?
Or what about that sentient or that beast, except we only find their corpse?
A Dark Age nuke-equivalent base could've been locked deep underground to prevent the Men of Iron from accessing them. When the Men of Iron got to the place they couldn't get in, so they rigged the place with rad traps and other nasties to get the wildlife riled up against any humans who tried accessing the base.
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- A Place Miserably Bereft of Cats
Still gotta trade with the Sirens, I think? Then it's next turn.
There might be a luxury STC for that, maybe?
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- A Place Miserably Bereft of Cats
But do the luxury STC libraries include Coca-Cola's secret formula!?
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- Somewhere, Maybe
That was lost during the Age of Strife, if indeed it ever existed at all. ^^
I assume we're also going to get a write-up on the region we explored, with potential city sites noted.
Speaking of the Bay12 Forums, that reminds me of the Deep Nobles, which I first saw written up there.
The Deep Nobles & Other Civilizations
Something like those would be really nasty to discover.
River bug:
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- Australia
River bug:
These omnivorous creatures, roughly two hand-spans across in size, are completely blind, however are capable of sensing things through the Warp. They are excellent sprinting swimmers, runners and climbers, and were recorded by expeditionary force elements as reaching 50 m/s in the water for short periods of time with a ground sprinting speed of approximately the same, and of climbing vertical tree trunks at perhaps 30 m/s.
River bugs have a thin, but hard and tough exoskeleton that covers their entire body except for their mouth region. This exoskeleton is capable of deflecting glancing impaler rounds. Their mouth is lined with toothed tentacles which rip flesh and plant matter to small pieces at astonishing speed before shovelling it inside their mouths, aided by their pincer manipulators. River bugs have been seen to use their toothed tentacles to burrow out holes in rocks to dwell.
River bug reproduction is based on budding eggs from their exoskeleton, which are laid in the mud of the river banks just before flooding occurs. They are hermaphroditic organisms, though are not capable of self-fertilisation.
River bugs have no anus; once digested, the waste of the food is excreted out of the mouth.
River bugs are social creatures, living in groups with a median size of 100 which have been seen to merge to form swarms to attack their predator species and the expeditionary force.
Their flesh is noted as being particularly tasty, and eating them poses no special challenge once caught and killed, apart from whatever parasites or diseases they may have been carrying.
These omnivorous creatures, roughly two hand-spans across in size, are completely blind, however are capable of sensing things through the Warp. They are excellent sprinting swimmers, runners and climbers, and were recorded by expeditionary force elements as reaching 50 m/s in the water for short periods of time with a ground sprinting speed of approximately the same, and of climbing vertical tree trunks at perhaps 30 m/s.
River bugs have a thin, but hard and tough exoskeleton that covers their entire body except for their mouth region. This exoskeleton is capable of deflecting glancing impaler rounds. Their mouth is lined with toothed tentacles which rip flesh and plant matter to small pieces at astonishing speed before shovelling it inside their mouths, aided by their pincer manipulators. River bugs have been seen to use their toothed tentacles to burrow out holes in rocks to dwell.
River bug reproduction is based on budding eggs from their exoskeleton, which are laid in the mud of the river banks just before flooding occurs. They are hermaphroditic organisms, though are not capable of self-fertilisation.
River bugs have no anus; once digested, the waste of the food is excreted out of the mouth.
River bugs are social creatures, living in groups with a median size of 100 which have been seen to merge to form swarms to attack their predator species and the expeditionary force.
Their flesh is noted as being particularly tasty, and eating them poses no special challenge once caught and killed, apart from whatever parasites or diseases they may have been carrying.
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- USA
Because it slows your growth. Also, you are assuming there will be a warp storm that will trap us alone for one thousand years in the first place.
If that was true then all the planets in the imperium would have been generalist planets instead of the many specializations they have.
Quite often specializing is more profitable, so they specialize. And their overall GDP is worth more because of it. Letting them buy more stuff, and shore up their weak points later with their high amounts of money.
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You can't rely on warpstorms to be predictable. Worst case should always be the one you're able to beat in 40k.
Also the Imperium intentionally keeps no self reliant worlds in order to make it easier to put down rebellions.
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- USA
You are the one relying on the warp storm coming.
I am saying to keep a stockpile in case of warpstorm; but use the fact that it is rare event to leverage trade to increase our rate of growth.
You are arguing that it is inevitable and thus a stockpile is insufficient and we must be self sufficient in all things ASAP.
I am going to need a citation about that.
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