The Practice War [Complete]
- Thread starter Snowfire
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Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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Not...really. I'll have something up in the morning for y'all. Some of it, certainly. But not all.
Hm. A hundred members in Project Insight; 223 members of the 223 (obviously). That's about 2-3% of the entire Potential population in these two elite projects. And then we have the Harmonials, the Insight-focused working on taking apart the Tribute Fleet wreckage, the Potentials looking to internalize their Focus as part of Marcus's group, the Protection-focused members of the Fourth Awakening that we're training, the Restorers we're putting in the Tower-classes, the Destruction-Focused we're putting in the Ulfberht-s, whoever we have manning the Concordia, the Potentials we still need building, if not necessarily manning, the reactionless drives for our ships... how in the world are we managing to staff all these projects with only 10-20,000 Potentials?
Hm, it seems we managed to dodge around one of the Things in the Void who were watching our soon-to-be visitors.
Insight being back online is excellent! Between that, Concordia, and the extensive knowledge we're going to have on Shiplord infiltration technologies we're sure to baffle our new allies when they show up. Greeting each of the new people in their own language, having a docking station and quarters prepared to their exact species' needs... man I can't wait to see their faces.
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- Somewhere out there
No, the 223 isn't fully staffed yet. There are unbound Unison platforms.
Also I don't think anything prevents a Unisonbound from also being in Project Insight.
Robinton
Probably petting Schrödinger's cat
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- Scientifically proving a miracle
Interesting... it looks like a lot of things can Focus your Potential. A Potential's normal Focus, a Word, the many rituals of a Thoughtcast... and, quite possibly, in some sense or another, any of Amanda's many options on character-creation:
I mean, we were at 198/223 as of Turn 10 and we're now on Turn 14; we couldn't find 25 people in four years? The pool isn't that deep, after all; there's a max of 20,000 Potentials to test for compatibility.
I'm not sure it'd be allowed. Project Insight and the 223 are both gestalts that would be significantly impacted if even one person in them were removed, and both are fairly high-risk; I know I'd try very hard not to have any Potentials in common between the two projects.
@Snowfire, another question:
Among our population, who has Prologue, who has Second Secret immortality, and who has neither (yet is still alive)?
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- Somewhere out there
Fair enough.
I mean, we never took the time to go on an active recruitment drive. Nobody ever told us that we'd found more, so I couldn't assume.
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- Germany
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I'm really looking forward to the aliens getting rooms on a dedicated space station, preconfigured for their metabolism (and perhaps cultural preferences), made by a species that had no alien contact before except for the SL.
Edit: Some visitors may become suspicious ...
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No. My imagination is finite.Can you imagine the salt if Insight had rolled a Nat 1 on the thoughtcast?
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Malaquez
[MUFFLED EUROBEAT]
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- Singapore
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- Somewhere out there
Closer to a certain Japanese video game console.
Snowfire
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I swear this wasn't deliberate!
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- Germany
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Yes, we all have our subconsciousness to blame for such things.
Snowfire
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@justinkal @Coda @TheEyes @Baughn @The Sandman etc. the Compendium has been updated and reworked. The old WIP have been filled in, and Contact Fleet information is under the Universe tab. Please let me know if you have further questions.
Now onto current questions!
First off, Coda was right when he said that the 223 isn't fully staffed yet. Not everyone has tested, partially due to other needs for Potentials, but also because the 223 only take volunteers. They don't force Potentials to go through synchronisation trials. As to how you're managing to staff everything? Most Potential groups are in low double digits at most. Excluding Insight and the 223, the average is size of a Potential working group is less than ten.
Eyes is correct here:
But it's also suspected that a Unisonbound might have problems integrating with Insight, and vice versa. No practical evidence, though.
Not exactly. What Sidra and the other Unison Platforms allow the Unisonbound to do is arguably this, but the mechanics are a lot more complicated. Extending the manifestation of your soul into reality takes an enormous amount of work. The nature of the Unison platforms as devices that let them do things that normal Potentials just can't is one of the largest arguments for the magical girl comparison.
Between the two? Everyone. Second Secret genemods are dominantly hereditary, so almost every human has them at this point. Those that don't, Prologue provides for. Interestingly enough, since the First Awakening no Potential has not had Second Secret genemods from one of their parents.
This is going to be a very interesting question when it comes up. You have all this information, yes, but do you dare use it? Showing your hand like that could be a declaration of trust, but at the same time...
Now onto current questions!
First off, Coda was right when he said that the 223 isn't fully staffed yet. Not everyone has tested, partially due to other needs for Potentials, but also because the 223 only take volunteers. They don't force Potentials to go through synchronisation trials. As to how you're managing to staff everything? Most Potential groups are in low double digits at most. Excluding Insight and the 223, the average is size of a Potential working group is less than ten.
Eyes is correct here:
But it's also suspected that a Unisonbound might have problems integrating with Insight, and vice versa. No practical evidence, though.
Not exactly. What Sidra and the other Unison Platforms allow the Unisonbound to do is arguably this, but the mechanics are a lot more complicated. Extending the manifestation of your soul into reality takes an enormous amount of work. The nature of the Unison platforms as devices that let them do things that normal Potentials just can't is one of the largest arguments for the magical girl comparison.
Between the two? Everyone. Second Secret genemods are dominantly hereditary, so almost every human has them at this point. Those that don't, Prologue provides for. Interestingly enough, since the First Awakening no Potential has not had Second Secret genemods from one of their parents.
Greeting each of the new people in their own language, having a docking station and quarters prepared to their exact species' needs... man I can't wait to see their faces.
This is going to be a very interesting question when it comes up. You have all this information, yes, but do you dare use it? Showing your hand like that could be a declaration of trust, but at the same time...
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With how our infosphere looked like (Sl infiltration) - have we at least sound speculation how the infosphere of our visitors looks like?
Precaution of course says 'it's still infiltrated'; however, have we any idea how probable that is?
Snowfire
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No, not really. You could always ask, but that requires you to trust the answer you get. Or you could Ask, using Insight. But then you might run into the horrible problem of only being able to talk to certain races about certain things, and that could cause some problems.
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On the other hand, serving the SLs our negotiations on a silver platter (if they are somewhat competent, they will have at least tried to get agents - living, AI or something in-between onto that fleet) isn't the best thing to do. Except we do both, playing a shell game.
IC, we don't know yet. OoC, we have that Interlude with Space Jason Bourne having to slaughter a bunch of his own people who had been taken over by Shiplord Khaki goo, and they're the most Intrigue-focused polity of the bunch.
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Thx, was asking IC. Sometimes there are Insight-snippets floating around ...
for example, a closer examination of the data the Interlude brought back could show something.
Baughn
Healing-type writer
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- Dublin
Which strongly implies that everyone (except us) is infiltrated, yes, perhaps with some minor exceptions. Providing the ability to screen smaller groups from Shiplord infiltration would be an awesome offering to have... assuming they'd believe it.
Snowfire
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That really doesn't mean anything except that the Shiplords use nanotech to create agents within the Community and that the Nileans have agents trained to root out and remove those agents. Now on one side, that could mean that they have hooks in their system and the Shiplords are trolling them with casual ease. Except...the Nileans successfully hacked a Shiplord communications relay and are not extinct. So it could also mean that the Nileans are one of the most effective races at keeping the Shiplords out of their systems, to the point that the Shiplords are forced to actually play hardball in the intrigue war to stop them from forming a coalition.
And...um...they're kinda failing at doing that, too.
Something to consider.
Robinton
Probably petting Schrödinger's cat
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- Scientifically proving a miracle
In all fairness, if they had gotten a Natural 1, but then gotten anything above 10 for the saving throw, I imagine this would only set us back 2 years or so. Bad enough, of course, but better than you'd think.Can you imagine the salt if Insight had rolled a Nat 1 on the thoughtcast?
(Numbers are approximate guesswork. Robinton(TM) does not guarantee the validity of these numbers. Do not use Robinton(TM) brand numbers to summon
Also, is anyone else trying to figure out the effective difference between Willing and Unwilling Sacrifice? Because most Shiplord tech is the latter (presumably), but the really powerful effects like Practice or the Shiplord Galactic Empire are all fueled by the former...
Addendum: The Void Dragons willingly sacrificed their entire species to save us, and did so alongside no few of our own. Void Dragons. Void. Every time we see that word, it means something Important.
From Compendium / Universe / The Contact Fleet tab:
Pretty sure the apostrophe is wrong... (Or very subtle foreshadowing.)
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