Yes. You are The Killer Aliens.

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Yes. You are The Killer Aliens.
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Welcome! To the Antagonist!Quest. You are all an Alien Intelligence and there is a tasty looking blue ball just waiting for your august and eldritch presences. Want to brutally murder some hairless monkeys as the bad guys? Then this is the quest for you.

For your first question, what form will your invasion take?
Are you:

[] A species able to phase into the human dimension from your home dimension for limited periods of time.
[] A successor race to a very long dead group of aliens, left behind in the upper mantle of this world and are now awake.
[] A space faring species of beings recently awoken from their interstellar sleep in the depths of the void, cruising past a big red ball.

These votes are one half thematic at this point. Setting the initial Human reactions to your presence and the start of your story in Humanities collective psyche.
The other half is one free Technology choice.


Why do you want this particular blueish mudball?
It's because:

[] Humans look tasty.
[] Their knowledge might be useful.
[] We need it to breed.


What do you look like?
Do you look like:

[] Towering forms like eldritch knights or angels with a million million eyes vaguely like what is described in the Hebrew Bible.
[] Squid like forms that undulate and pulse with energy and tentacles and hard shells with beaks to crush whatever Humanity throws at you.
[] Swarms of ever larger and more complex spider/crustacean like beings with either three, five or seven legs.
[] Giant scaled worms with mouths everywhere full of teeth that have mouths that have teeth, spines and scales tearing through everything.
[] Write-in. >A good description will net a small bonus; pictures will give additional bonuses.

These appearances will not be very much affected by your choice of invasion type.


What is your technical capability specialized for?
Pick three in addition to your Free tech.
Or leave blank to be a Jack of All Trades able to expand more easily into every tech tree, with a bonus to one tech based on your Invasion Option:

[] Biotechnology.
[] Nanotechnology.
[] Materials.
[] Geology & Climate. (Free if you choose the Subterranean Invasion Option)
[] High Energy Physics & Chemistry. (Free if you choose the Interstellar Invasion Option)
[] Data Informatics & Computing.
[] Trans-dimensional Physics. (Free if you choose the Phasing Invasion Option)
[] Psychology.


Do note, fields you do not choose to specialize in you will still be frighteningly competent in compared to the squishy apes. A good couple centuries at least without your presence interfering. Anything you do in your specialties will be thousands and thousands of years ahead.


Humanity is at current 2017 levels of technology. What this means in war:

They have a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons ranging from theatre size to city+ destroyers, some deployable from stealthed platforms and subs. A very decent threat.
They have many ways to make something explode spectacularly. An annoying threat.
Certain countries have prototype Railguns installed on their Naval units. This will probably hurt.
Aircraft and other large units have access to basic Laser technology. This is a very possible annoyance.
Infonet security is tough but nowhere near unbreakable for you, and you very well might just laugh at it depending on rolls or specialties. A hindrance.
Bioweapons research is being done and could be a longer-term threat. Not a concern at the moment with your radically different biologies.
Nanotech is in its infancy and would be a long-term threat. Not a concern because it is so, relatively speaking, undeveloped.
There are some tough materials out there but nothing too concerning at the start.

Depending on the specialties you pick the threat of these concerns will shift around and some may be totally invalidated.

Finally, what is the name of your Civilization?

[] Write-in​

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This quest is inspired by Foamy's "Tactics: Lets Conquer an Alien Planet" on SB and Avalanche's "Battle-Action-Harem-Highschool Side Character Quest (No SV. You are the waifu.)" and Snowfire's excellent quest "The Practice War" as well as more broadly by dozens of battles highschool/space opera/sci-fi anime like "Infinite Stratos", "Sidonia no Kishi" and "Heavy Object".
I welcome all criticism as this is my first quest of any kind. Being constructive will help but I do know that it is physically, or near enough to it, impossible to please everyone. I hope you all enjoy this anyway.

Questions are desired/requested/wanted.

Expect a challenge.​
 
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Your War Material
Civilization Name: Mentalisks

Invasion Option: You are a species able to phase into the human dimension from your home dimension for limited periods of time. And you want to use Humans as breeding stock. Secondarily their knowledge and how their brains process it is interesting to some.

General Rules Mechanics
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For my limited sanity we will be using a turn based system and d100 dice.

You will have a limited number of actions you can do each turn and certain actions can be locked in for several turns. The number of actions you can take will increase as you research ways to cross over more easily.

Number of actions per turn: 4 per turn. (Turn 1)​

Attacking on Multiple Fronts: By attacking targets inside of the same 48.28 km/30 mile radius you can force the Humans to respond to you and gain bonuses to your objectives.

Traits
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The Screaming Minds: The Human mind is a fascinating piece of information and biology and they still haven't puzzled out how it works. To you it is so painfully obvious and far behind you it's sad. And trying to show them the truth makes the silly things break.

A massive bonus to infiltration offense and defense. Memetic hazards, Manchurian agents to put Manchuria to shame, infiltrators that can't be detected. You are the embodiment of Fear to these squishy apes. You are however rather fragile beings and do not pack a continent splattering punch very easily.
Special Mechanics
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Hostile Clipping: Certain units in your Forces can force earth entities into physical objects. An easy way to score mission kills on reinforced/hard targets. The ultimate armor piercer. Can be used to breach barriers if given time.
Military Options
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Basic Units
Non Combat Bio-Drones:
-Builders: Sedan sized oblong biological devices meant to process resources to build your infrastructure. Can violently Recycle! organic beings if threatened.
-Stealth units: Very small flying creatures meant to observe targets.

Infiltrator Units
First Infiltrators: Man sized Bio-Constructs with approximately eight limbs and a very loosely cephalopod shape. Designed to infiltrate targets and preform assassinations using a cloak and various disguise methods. Human soldiers are only a threat if they use explosives and mechanized units or artillery.

Replicas: What it says on the tin. Artificial copies of Humans that you abduct. Not perfect at this current time because of limited information but still potentially useful. As durable as whoever they replace.

Military Units
War Drones: Think Sentinels from the Matrix. Armed with high power lasers and Plasma Burst bombs. Can survive most man portable explosives with light damage.

Pastors: Your standard soldiers, a conical body with four limbs for movement arranged around the base and three around a bulge in the middle. Larger than a man in mass they are armed with kinetic rail-weapons, plasma explosives and unit commanders have Hostile Clipping melee weapons. Appear as distorted squids. Can withstand man portable explosives and rockets while maintaining mission capability, requires artillery or powerful explosives to effectively handle.

Hierophants: Small scale artillery. Uses space-warping Hostile Clipping blasts to shred the target with dimensional shear. A three legged walker the size of a pickup. Can level a multi story building with one blast. Can survive artillery with ease. Mobile cover for your Pastors and War Drones. Fast as a Formula One race-car. Your Pastors can hitch an unarmored ride on the outside.

Palanquin: Your fighter/bomber air superiority organism. An orb slightly bigger around then a F-22 Raptor with conical protrusions arranged around the top, middle and bottom like a sea urchin. Tentacles emerge like a skirt from the middle below the spines. Main armament is coherent radiation blasts emitted from the spines. Extremely maneuverable and durable enough to survive very high powered explosives and artillery unscathed. Can only be brought over in limited numbers at any one time. Capable of rapid undersea travel. Limited to short 'orbital hops'.

Ark: Your fast transport organism. Four connected cylinders about the length of a semi trailer with bottoms that open up to hot drop units. Armed with a short range "Get the Hell Away From Me" dimensional shock wave that can induce mass Hostile Clipping in anything nearby that is not one of you. Currently locked. Research better means of transit in order to bring them over. Durable enough to survive extremely high powered explosives unscathed.

Archdukes: Large scale artillery. Uses your mastery of Trans-dimensional Physics to cheat in absurdly destructive exotic particle beams and a wide range dimensional shock wave that can induce mass Hostile Clipping in a huge radius. Can crack mountains ala Ramiel. Currently locked. Research better means of transit in order to bring them over.
Floating spindles with a spiraling series of seven tentacles emerging from their tops and wrapping around them. One of your greater weapons this organism/device would require dozens of railgun shots to damage, low range nukes can potentially score a mission kill if not diverted.


Commander Units

The Mind Breakers.

The Council Unspoken: The maintainers of the dimensional link. Exceedingly powerful and certain doom for nearly any Human force. However, you lose if they all die as Earth falls from your grasp. (6 members active)
 
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Their War Material
Here is what the puny Humans have.

Known Weapons Capability
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They have a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons ranging from theatre size to city+ destroyers, some deployable from stealthed platforms and subs. A very severe threat. Destruction of Commander Units highly probable.

They have many ways to make something explode spectacularly. Higher yield bombs are a threat.

Certain countries have prototype Railguns installed on their Naval units. This will probably hurt a lot.

Aircraft and other large units have access to basic Laser technology. This is a very possible annoyance.

Bioweapons research is being done and could be a longer-term threat. Not a concern at the moment with your radically different biologies. Probably won't be a threat for a long time.

Known Defensive Options
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Infonet security is tough but nowhere near unbreakable for you, and you very well might just laugh at it depending on rolls or specialties. A joke. You see all. You know all if you but care to look.

Nanotech is in its infancy and would be a long-term threat. Not a concern because it is so, relatively speaking, undeveloped.

There are some tough materials out there but nothing too concerning at the start.

Infrastructure
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Under construction.​

This will expand. And of course there is some overlap between offense and defense.
 
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Please vote in this format.
[] Invasion Option
[] We want X
[] Selfie!

[] Free Tech
[] Tech 1
[] Tech 2
[] Tech 3

Civ Name Write-in

I am inexperienced with NetTally so please have mercy on me. I also intend to try to merge actions if they are close in their number of votes.
 
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[x] A species able to phase into the human dimension from your home dimension for limited periods of time.
[x] Their knowledge might be useful.
[x] Squid like forms that undulate and pulse with energy and tentacles and hard shells with beaks to crush whatever Humanity throws at you.

[x] Trans-dimensional Physics.
[x] Biotechnology.
[x] Data Informatics & Computing.
[x] Psychology.

[x] Claimants

"This apes build stuff out of the dirt, Th'ddhulaac, and it somehow work, how crazy is that?"
 
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[X] A species able to phase into the human dimension from your home dimension for limited periods of time.
[X] Their knowledge might be useful.
[X] Squid like forms that undulate and pulse with energy and tentacles and hard shells with beaks to crush whatever Humanity throws at you.

[X] Trans-dimensional Physics.
[X] Biotechnology.
[X] Data Informatics & Computing.
[X] Psychology.

Welp, time to throw my opinion in and it is literally what the guy above me said.
 
[X] A species able to phase into the human dimension from your home dimension for limited periods of time.
[X] Their knowledge might be useful.
[X] Squid like forms that undulate and pulse with energy and tentacles and hard shells with beaks to crush whatever Humanity throws at you.

[X] Trans-dimensional Physics.
[X] Biotechnology.
[X] Data Informatics & Computing.
[X] Psychology.

Welp, time to throw my opinion in and it is literally what the guy above me said.
:lol

I'm curious, why do you want these? What's your reasoning?
 
[X] A species able to phase into the human dimension from your home dimension for limited periods of time.
[X] We need it to breed.
[X] Squid like forms that undulate and pulse with energy and tentacles and hard shells with beaks to crush whatever Humanity throws at you.
[X] Biotechnology.
[X] Data Informatics & Computing.
[X] Trans-dimensional Physics. (Free if you choose the Phasing Invasion Option)
[X] Psychology.
[X] Mentalisks

Hack all the things!
Brains, bodies, computers, space...use them to make more squids
 
[x] A species able to phase into the human dimension from your home dimension for limited periods of time.
[x] Their knowledge might be useful.
[x] Squid like forms that undulate and pulse with energy and tentacles and hard shells with beaks to crush whatever Humanity throws at you.

[x] Trans-dimensional Physics.
[x] Biotechnology.
[x] Data Informatics & Computing.
[x] High Energy Physics & Chemistry.

[X]C'tan

I like the plans so far but I don't want to pick the Physicology.Why ? Funny Reason; I want our guys to be shocked to our culture. Boring Reason; High Energy Physics and Chemistry sounds more useful.
Other's all describe themselves on why I choose them :p

All hail C'tan !
 
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I'm curious, why do you want these? What's your reasoning?
An idea of the entire race with Hermaeus Mora's outlook on Life, the Universe and Everything sound both damn hilarious and genuine terrifying. It also help that I'm a huge fan of Lovecraftian stories and find cephalopods fascinatingly scary
 
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An idea of the entire race with Hermaeus Mora's outlook on Life, the Universe and Everything sound both damn hilarious and genuine terrifying. It also help that I'm a huge fan of Lovecraftian stories and find cephalopods fascinatingly scary
*Quietly notes down the reasoning*

Edit:
Names are tied:
Mentalisks 1
C'tan 1
 
*Quietly notes down the reasoning*

Edit:
Names are tied:
Mentalisks 1
C'tan 1
If you want my reasoning, It's because Transdimensional beings are much more interesting than boring, old subterranean invasions or interstellar invasions.They are soo 80's
I also like Lovecraftian stuff but I like Xeelee and Downstream's more.
 
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If you want my reasoning, It's because Transdimensional beings are much more interesting than boring, old subterranean invasions or interstellar invasions.They are soo 80's
I also like Lovecraftian stuff but I like Xeelee and Downstream's more.

Downstream's? What are those? Are they like the Cenobites?
 
:lol

I'm curious, why do you want these? What's your reasoning?

The Trans-Dimensional Physics thingy seems like it would synergise with our species bonus, you know super dimensional physics.
Psychology to fuck around with the man-animal more than we normally would and cause them to fuck up in fear, or to make them dolice and tamable.
Bio-Tech - better healing and autopsy, why wouldn't you want it.
Data Informatics & Computing - Storing data, make good databases and good computers, maybe create some automated units to remove some of the risk from ourselves.

I'm new to villain quests so forgive me.
 
It's an eldrich race, they need one seemingly unobtrusive one word label, a plain brand that they made chilling with their inhuman actions. Something like:
[] Claimants
[] Seekers
or
[] Pryers
 
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The Trans-Dimensional Physics thingy seems like it would synergise with our species bonus, you know super dimensional physics.
Psychology to fuck around with the man-animal more than we normally would and cause them to fuck up in fear, or to make them dolice and tamable.
Bio-Tech - better healing and autopsy, why wouldn't you want it.
Data Informatics & Computing - Storing data, make good databases and good computers, maybe create some automated units to remove some of the risk from ourselves.

I'm new to villain quests so forgive me.
Nothing to forgive. Those are perfectly awesome reasons. Hope you have fun tearing Humanity a new one. Possibly several times. :drevil: Or not.
 
I prefer having a quest where we "punny humans" eat these filthy bugs for breakfast

Still, I'm in for this plan

[x] A species able to phase into the human dimension from your home dimension for limited periods of time.
[x] Their knowledge might be useful.
[x] Squid like forms that undulate and pulse with energy and tentacles and hard shells with beaks to crush whatever Humanity throws at you.

[x] Trans-dimensional Physics.
[x] Biotechnology.
[x] Data Informatics & Computing.
[x] Psychology.
 
I prefer having a quest where we "punny humans" eat these filthy bugs for breakfast

Still, I'm in for this plan

[x] A species able to phase into the human dimension from your home dimension for limited periods of time.
[x] Their knowledge might be useful.
[x] Squid like forms that undulate and pulse with energy and tentacles and hard shells with beaks to crush whatever Humanity throws at you.

[x] Trans-dimensional Physics.
[x] Biotechnology.
[x] Data Informatics & Computing.
[x] Psychology.
You should play X-Com if you didn't already :p
 
Eh, I'm chosing Claimants for possible race of 4th dimensional squids, has a pretty chuckle worthy, if apply it to this quest, Cambridge defeniton: 'a person who asks for something that they believe belongs to them or that they have a right to'
 
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Eh, I'm chosing Claimants for possible race of 4th dimensional squids, has a pretty chuckle worthy, if apply it to this quest, Cambridge defeniton: 'a person who asks for something that they believe belongs to them or that they have a right to'

[x] Claimants
Yes sir this screaming human right over here? It's mine. So is that city. And that capitol. And that country. And, oh would you look at that, so is this planet.

AnD So aRe YoU! Come here! *OMNOMNOMNOMNOM!*
 
Eh, I'm chosing Claimants for possible race of 4th dimensional squids, has a pretty chuckle worthy, if apply it to this quest, Cambridge defeniton: 'a person who asks for something that they believe belongs to them or that they have a right to'

[x] Claimants

Oh woopsie. Hey @krahe can you attach the rest of your original vote to this name? You've confused NetTally. It thinks this is all you are voting for.
 
[X] A species able to phase into the human dimension from your home dimension for limited periods of time.

Question, does it extend to our bodies and gear. Do our corpses phase back after the limited time runs out? This could be the best option to cut out potential xcom like bullshit. Can't comment more as i am on a pjone during a break now.

But i will be watching you sleep at night irl...STEVEN! this thread.
 
[X] A species able to phase into the human dimension from your home dimension for limited periods of time.
[X] We need it to breed.
[X] Squid like forms that undulate and pulse with energy and tentacles and hard shells with beaks to crush whatever Humanity throws at you.
[X] Biotechnology.

[X] Data Informatics & Computing.
[X] Trans-dimensional Physics. (Free if you choose the Phasing Invasion Option)
[X] Psychology.

[X] Mentalisks
 
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