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[RAM]

I believe that they skimped on the clinical trials because the SCIENCE!! police were snooping around. And by all accounts, their observation of the field-trial was lacklustre at best...

[IronyOwl]

While it's the successes that make the headlines, there can be no science without failures. (If you have something that looks like it, check for reality warpers.)

I like the way Professor Farnsworth put it: "Science cannot move forward without heaps!"

In that particular case heaps of monkeys, which I suppose is conveniently relevant here as well!

[EuchreJack]

War!

Need to see who's free for body-snatching as well...

EDIT: I'll take Claude, if otherwise unclaimed.  Backwards-baseball cap, he/she must be...totally rad!

[Nirur Torir]

Now that the holidays distractions are over, let's get back to taking Mars.

Spoiler: We're not fighting yet. (click to show/hide)

How interesting. The Reticulans, our beloved and trusted allies, have a territory with a Beastman gate. Go, guys!


I feel like I'm forgetting to do something important ... Ah well, it'll come to me.

For now, I'll add some weapon research, so you'll be able to choose different guns. Lasers need crystals, nobel metals, and better energy production and so will take a bit longer.


After waiting a few hours for more ammo to be built, our brave soldiers are ready to defend our empty territory with untapped fuel deposits. (The miners are training.)

Spoiler: Here's a fight. (click to show/hide)

While shuffling inventory around, Pierre got sent with an empty gun, and a magazine in his backpack. Oops.


Benat is the only team member who doesn't have athletics training yet. Here you can see him slowly holding up three other people, while a beastman looks on and laughs at my deficiencies.


I don't appreciate the noise of my foes' laughter.


Can't spell 'slaughter' without 'laughter.'


Of course, now I'm sub-vocalizing 'laughter' like 'slaughter' without an 's.'


Nothing for it but to form a firing line. I don't think there's a height advantage in this game, but I'm claiming it anyway for the absolute supremacy of firing lines with a height advantage.

And then they shot a hole in Pierre's suit for my troubles. It slowly drained his health until the mission ended four seconds later. I was about to repair it.


Victory! Now potentially legible, even at a lower res thanks to me noticing that I had image scaling set to not use interpolation. Yay me?

Spoiler: The battle's over. (click to show/hide)

After the battle, our scientists were motivated enough to finish with the radio array blueprints. Now to build them and ... they'll probably trigger a dialog next update.


Production on our new suits continues. The Light Battle Suits feature a Kevlar vest, knee-pads, doubled inventory space, and a single add-on slot. We'll eventually be able to put a useful suit add-on there.


I remember now! I'm supposed to get on with stabbing the vile Reticulans for their resources and attack against Earth. This is the only territory we can attack until we're done with armor, but that won't take much longer.

Spoiler: A long-delayed battle. (click to show/hide)

They have a UFO and strange architecture.


There wasn't enough space for a full firing line here


They're not armored yet, at least.


Reticulan computers are strange.


We repeatedly got shot without knowing where the enemies were.


It's okay, they're right where we just were. They nearly knocked Pierre out. He's not doing so well today.


Lasers have a longer range than rifles. I had to run back to get in close enough to not waste every bullet I brought.


Every Reticulan so far has had only beams and no armor. Easy.


I should prooobably finish armoring everybody before the next mission.


Plenty of Reticulan batteries <3


Area cleared. Far to the east, you may notice a newly discovered Beastman territory, with a chemical deposit. I don't know why it's selected here. The one we just cleared had one of the newly discovered deposit types.


Oghla'k'nkmant: *Great dissatisfaction sensed. Expressing homeward desires*
Commander William: "Ah ... we're terribly busy right now. It is vital to Humanity's continued survival that we continue with our duties here, out in the rover. _{Gene, quick, double-check that the comms are password protected.}"


The alien soldier may have left us, but the soldier/scientist will stay so long as the scientific rover is out claiming lands and performing rarely available excavations of ancient ruins. I need to keep it busy at least until we win the war. Once that's done, it's safe to let it back in the base for brief periods.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I suggest we slice up and fry the xeno scientist for our victory celebration upon winning the war. Maybe they'll prove good for something after all.

[IronyOwl]

Oh hey, they are legible. Some of them. Sad to hear about our BFFs falling on a knife 49 times before hurling themselves down a flight of stairs and spitting on their own carcass, but them's the democratic breaks.

What do Samantha's stats look like now?

[RAM]

Aha! I am so awesome! I killed them all! They all died of shame when I exposed my personal fluids!!!

Perhaps you should just not give me anymore characters...
Ow.

Explosives and detection sounds like a really nifty combination...

I guess I shall just take wisdom...

[Nirur Torir]

What do Samantha's stats look like now?

Her willpower is now capped out.

Spoiler: Stat Sheets (click to show/hide)

The twins have exactly the same stats. The other twin is only hurt by 9 points, and has around a dozen less XP.

[RAM]

In aftermath, I vaguely realyl that there were stat requirements to training, is that still true? Sorry if you already said this, I am a terrible person...

[Nirur Torir]

Sorry if you already said this, I am a terrible person...

No you're not, because I didn't.
There aren't any stat requirements for training, only research requirements and needing minor <training> before getting major <training>.

[IronyOwl]

Excellent. Living all around!