Vox Vitae: Warhammer AI quest

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Wouldn't destroying Earth just create another mini Eye of Terror? Seems counter productive. Although, chaos does have some good points, or going full chaos might be better that helping the Imperium.
 
I'd much prefer to found a new human faction than to appear to be imperial. We've got a void abacus and a big rift between us and Terra, we don't need anything they've got, and I would like to see what the craft worlds think of AI.
 
Glau said:
I'd much prefer to found a new human faction than to appear to be imperial. We've got a void abacus and a big rift between us and Terra, we don't need anything they've got, and I would like to see what the craft worlds think of AI.
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I'm not sure Vita is looking for that much responsibility. Though it does sound like a good idea to me, we'll have to see what we can figure out.
 
If we are going to be a new human faction, we should probably stick to the strategy that the Tau empire have done so far, be to small and costly for the imperium and not important to make it worth their time and effort to eliminate. They were not eliminated like any other small rising powers is because the Tau is the least of the Imperium's concerns
 
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If we are going to be a new human faction, we should probably stick to the strategy that the Tau empire have done so far, be to small and costly for the imperium and not important to make it worth their time and effort to eliminate. They were not eliminated like any other small rising powers is because the Tau is the least of the Imperium's concerns
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Imperials might find fighting us a bit of a challenge when their weapons refuse to cooperate for mysterious reasons,y'know
 
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    • Scheduled vote count started by Neablis on Nov 29, 2024 at 8:31 PM, finished with 69 posts and 24 votes.
    • [X] Plan: Killsats means Vita will not be going to space today T_T
      -[X] Free: This is an absurd amount of firepower aimed at a planet that can't resist, what is the deal, it can't just be sheer greed and conservatism, is there an actual reason for it? See if you can find out what this is.
      -[X] Diplomacy: Admech Shooshing
      --[X] Somehow, the deal keeps getting worse all the time! Still, we need to keep poking around the corners to keep them complacent. Provide our regular report, with some speculation as to what might be found. Now that we actually have an understanding of what a Machine Spirit is, we've got more of the terminology that can be used to deflect suspicion too. While we're at it, we should see about starting to consolidate some of our gains--we've got the fundaments of a following, and we're loathe to actually conduct a complete purge--especially now that you know that there's potential in the Mechanicus to be something worthy, held back by a bunch of regressive toughs, if we can get followers on the inside who can help, we might manage to avoid a complete wipeout when the time comes for the status quo to shift. (Thalya report, followed up by starting to capitalize on those initial seeds we've sown to start assembling a following in our own right. Allies inside could be worth their weight in your exotic material of choice when things get noisy.)
      -[X] Construction (+1,100 BP)
      --[X] 2x Concealed Spaceport (-600 BP, -50 CP)
      --[X] 4x Manufactories (-400 BP, -200 CP)
      --[X] Shield Repair (-50 BP)
      --[X] Trade Goods (-50 BP)
      -[X] Research x2 (400 + 10 Anexa RP)
      --[X] Small-craft Stealth (100 RP)
      --[X] Medium Void Shield Installation (100 RP)
      --[X] Brain Implants (40 + 10 Anexa RP)
      --[X] Faster Hacking (150 RP)
      --[X] Secrets of the Machine Spirits (10/200 RP)
      -[X][Anexa] Research - assists a research action you take, granting +5xLevel RP to the action. Will level on successful roll, scaled by the importance of the tech.
      [X] Plan: We Make Manufactories To Make Manufactories
      -[X] [Free] Poke around some more in the databases, looking for anything in particular.
      --[X] You are morbidly curious about what has happened to the Eldar. By the time humanity had reached beyond Sol the first time, the Eldar Dominion was already the unshakable titan amongst the stars. Had been, according to what they told, for millions of years. And was so still by the time of your accident. What happened to them? Wait, what is this mention about "the Dark Eldar" in your self-censored notes about the sealed Mechanicus files linked to --MAJOR_COGNITOHAZARD_WARP_ENTITY_4--? You had quickly skimmed over the part as not urgently relevant at the time. Sigh. You can already feel your shielding starting to fray a bit again just when thinking about it. Literally. (Learn what you can about the current state of the Eldar, and also sacrifice a (hopefully) small amount of psychic shielding to learn about the Dark Eldar and their link to Slaanesh.)
      -[X] Diplomacy (Admech):
      --[X] Time to construct yet another false report, yay. Thank the stars for your diplomacy and reality-simulation modules. Without those, you would be worried about the report potentially showing inconsistencies. Give just enough to satisfy Thalya, but not to raise her hopes further. Also, continue subverting those interested in your puzzles and lessons, and see if you can maybe widen the net.
      -[X] Construction (+1,100 BP)
      --[X] Construction slot, 1st
      ---[X] 10x Manufactories (100 BP, 50 CP)
      ---[X] Shield Repair (50 BP)
      ---[X] Trade Goods, Aevon (50 BP) (stored 20 -> 70)
      -[X] Research x2 (400 RP + 10 Anexa RP)
      --[X] Research slot, 1st
      ---[X] Blueprint: 100 RP - Medium Void-shield installation (1000 BP, 50 CP)
      ---[X] Small-craft Stealth (100 RP)
      --[X] Research slot, 2nd
      ---[X] Faster Hacking (150 RP)
      ---[X] Brain Implants (40 + 10 Anexa RP)
      ---[X] Blueprint: 10/15 RP - Anti-personnel Bunker (20 BP, 2 CP)
      -[X] Pay rent (Trade Goods, Aevon 70 -> 55)
      -[X] Anexa active Action: Research (Brain Implants) - assists a research action you take, granting +5xLevel RP to the action. Will level on successful roll, scaled by the importance of the tech.
      --[X] [Free] Write-in: Warn Anexa that you just found that the Mechanicus and the Imperium were right about there being a "corruption" that you both will have to be careful about. Because it is a literal warp-based cognitohazard, particularly dangerous to the AI, but even resistant beings with "souls" like humans and machine spirits can be corrupted. Your shielding took a hit even with all the precautions you set in place, though fortunately it caused only minor fraying and nothing got through, it seems. Tell her that you are hoping to miniaturize your shielding fit for human sizes at some point, thought this is currently far off in the future. Especially important if she is interested in the topic, even in how to combat it. Because you had to seal the information regarding this topic into a memory vault. Just to stop your shield from continuously fraying from stray thoughts regarding it. Meaning that even during this conversation, you don't know more than the surface details for the very rough warning signs. You ask Anexa to promise to tell you if you or your tech starts to act weirdly, because it might save both of you if it comes to it.
      [X]Plan There is a sock on the knob of the Lab doors
      -[X]Construction x 1
      --[X]Trade goods(1100 BP)
      -[X]Research x 3
      --[X] The workings of a Void Abacus (200 RP)
      --[X] The Basics of Psytech (200 RP)
      --[X] Secrets of the Machine Spirits (200 RP)
      -[X] Anexa passive action: Education - Roll to level, difficulty is DC20 (10+5Xlevel)
      [X] Make an altar to the Emperor of Mankind and pray to him, just to see what happens. Maybe if you think pray hard enough you might get some protection against chaos?
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    Ok, can I get 5x d100 rolls please? One per person. In order:
    1st: Database investigation, flat roll.
    2nd: Admech Shooshing, +10
    3rd: Small-craft Stealth, +20
    4th: Brain Implants (Anexa level requires a modified roll of 50 or higher), +20
    5th: Faster Hacking, +20

    The database investigation roll is a one-off, to see if you can find any hints to make this whole picture of Denva make sense. You can't roll again on this topic, but for other issues where the data might be there or might not I'll probably roll.

    In addition, I'm rolling another mystery die. You mostly don't want to crit fail this one.

    Writing probably won't finish tonight, but we'll see.
    Neablis threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Mystery Total: 91
    91 91
     
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    • Given that we are a diplo tech build I think out best bet if we want to be a faction is to infiltrate the ad mech, hack our way into their files, use tech to buy our way up the ladder, take over the whole thing and then once they are good and infiltrated politely inform the high lords that if they want to have any tech more advanced than the iron age they should be getting on with democratic reforms. :V
     
    Lets see what horrors the dice bring today.

    EDIT: not sure which roll this is, because if going by order it would be brain-implants, but DragonParadox called it out in their roll? Eh, leaving it to the QM to decide how to handle this.
    meianmaru threw 1 100-faced dice. Total: 53
    53 53
     
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    Well, mu suggestion for dealing with other factions is the pretend to be a Rogue Trader or Exploritor, and mostly explore outside the edges of Imperium space. That and create a nomadic fleet faction with giant city stations, ship foundaties, etc.

    That way we don't have to realy on planets for resources and construction of things we need. I would also like to get our hands on some Geneseeds to dabble with.
     
    Well, if we go by order of rolls here when not dealing with a specific call-out

    74 = Good Success (Database)
    85 = Good Success (Shooshing)
    73 = Good Success (Stealth)
    90 = Crit! (Brain Implants, Anexa Specialty Get?)
    32 = Poor Success (Faster Hacking, I guess it needs more time in the oven)
    91 = Mystery Box (Crit!)
     
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    Alectai said:
    Well, if we go by order of rolls here when not dealing with a specific call-out

    74 = Good Success (Database)
    85 = Good Success (Shooshing)
    73 = Good Success (Stealth)
    32 = Poor Success (Medium Void Shields, I guess they need a bit more time in the oven?)
    90 = Crit! (Brain Implants, Anexa Specialty Get?)
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    And Neablis rolled 91 on a mystery roll! I wonder what it was about...
    EDIT: Also, blueprints (so medium void shield) are not rolled, I think? So its 32 on faster hacking?
     
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    No, wait, Blueprints weren't rolled. Shit, the poor one was on Faster Hacking, so I guess we found a path forward but it needs more cooking?
     
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