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The Practice War [Complete]

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beowolf said:
@Snowfire

What are the chances of failure on Mender's Soul and Woven Humanity? Because it sounds like they at least exist for the latter.
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Mender's Soul is something that you've got slightly worse than even odds on. Woven Humanity will require the dice liking the idea of taking that action.

Faraway-R said:
At a guess it is not so much "failure chance" as "specific accumulated value", like with Research Actions.
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Oh no, they're success based, not cumulative. Tinker actions are pretty unique in that regard, and likely to stay that way.
 
Snowfire said:
It depends. Some of them have been picked up by those who have similar Focuses, but not all can be. That said, there aren't many examples - most of the Potentials who died in the SBOS went down with their ships, taking their Artefacts with them in the majority of cases.
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Wouldn't there be quite a few examples from the First Awoken, people who died of old age?
 
Mender's Soul. I remember suggesting Avalon-lite for the hyper-regen but it sounds like it's been bumped up to an aura, which is more useful.

I'm a bit surprised it doesn't have a physical design really. Seems like something that would work well with a basic crystal honestly, just emitting a steady golden-white light of Mending from where it sits on Amanda's chest when her Aegis is deployed or something.

I'm picturing Weave of Humanity looking like a veil Amanda wears on her head, millions of small, translucent threads woven together and resting on her hair, but at the edges it fades out of the physical realm, looking to just disappear like the lightest mist in the morning, but in reality it's crossing over, linking into the web of humanity, each thread touching on the a single line in the web. On her forehead the veil meets a thin and small tiara, golden and easily overlooked, where it anchors to Amanda. A single clear crystal, small and unobtrusive, sits in the direct center, flickering with every color of humanity occasionally.
 
I am definitely partial to menders soul.

Its really strong, its unique, but its not super mega difficult to make.

I think the web interface is going to be too hard to reliably finish until we finish more research on the web and maybe access it a second time.
 
More seriously.
The Regulars are not the last invasion fleet we will meet, or even the last to come to Sol.
If Woven Humanity isn't ready for the Regulars, it will be for the War Fleet.

I really don't like the idea of settling because we think that it's too difficult.
 
uju32 said:
More seriously.
The Regulars are not the last invasion fleet we will meet, or even the last to come to Sol.
If Woven Humanity isn't ready for the Regulars, it will be for the War Fleet.

I really don't like the idea of settling because we think that it's too difficult.
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It's not like Mender's Soul won't be useful, but we're not settling because its too difficult, we'd settle because we can't reliably get it done in time. Better to have something useful now than something amazingly useful after everything's already over.
 
ShadowAngelBeta said:
It's not like Mender's Soul won't be useful, but we're not settling because its too difficult, we'd settle because we can't reliably get it done in time. Better to have something useful now than something amazingly useful after everything's already over.
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We're only considering going for an additional artifact as a stretch goal, not because it was part of the plan for the Regulars.
IMO, if we're going to do it, be ambitious.
We don't get to just spam artifacts. So each we get needs to count.

And like I said, the Regulars are not the end of the war.
The Fifth Secret wasn't ready for Second Sol. The Third Secret won't be ready for Third Sol. Neither will the Orrery.
We're doing them anyway.
 
Plus Woven Humanity sounds like a powerful tool for far more than war. I mean, an almost accidental channeling of similar power allowed a Mender to annihilate a Shiplord vessel. Imagine what wonders could be accomplished with intentional, guided uses of that power towards actual Mending! Imagine the aid we could give our new allies in recovering from the horrors of generations under the Shiplords.

It's usefulness in the upcoming battles is almost a sideline to me, tbh. (Though it would likely be a gamechanger there, too.)
 
uju32 said:
We're only considering going for an additional artifact as a stretch goal, not because it was part of the plan for the Regulars.
IMO, if we're going to do it, be ambitious.
We don't get to just spam artifacts. So each we get needs to count.

And like I said, the Regulars are not the end of the war.
The Fifth Secret wasn't ready for Second Sol. The Third Secret won't be ready for Third Sol. Neither will the Orrery.
We're doing them anyway.
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While that is a fair point, there is no real cost to doing any one action besides time and the War fleet is still a long way off, I can't think of any reason why we would not do multiple artifacts in ascending order of complexity, in fact that might even make things easier.
 
Not really seeing the problem, but then again my plan is already pre-written with Mender's Soul as our first artifact.
 
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