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[Parisbre56]

Will Steve mine the jump point the fleet will return from or do we have to expend RUs for that?

Does this system have any facilities on other planets, moons or asteroids? Any sensor arrays?

It will cost RU. Though, it's a pretty good idea.

Nothing really. There are a few sensors on the moon and scattered around on other planets, but mostly just basic monitoring stations so Hephaestus can keep an eye on the solar system.

So, any of our tech guys wanna try making some Terror-Drone missiles to put near the jump point?
Or just spam some nukes there if you think killing and/or EMPing the ships is prefferable to trying to capture them intact.

Then again, mining the jump point means we loose the element of surprise. They'll know something is definitely wrong the moment they go through the jump point.
Then again, depending on what kind of sensors they got, they can just scan the planet and they'll know.
EDIT: Then again, it might be worth the cost of loosing the element of surprise in exchange for killing lots of things before they even have a chance to land.

I also suggest we move and camouflage the sensor arrays a bit. Knowing what's going on in space would be useful.

[kisame12794]

Make the mines, seed them in the orbit the fleet is most likely to take, and have them run silent. Just deactivate everything. Have them covered in a stone-like substance, and voila, space debris. Fleet arrives, enters orbit, activate the mines. Mines detonate, maybe kill the smaller ones, possibly damage the bigger ones, and have a chance to damage the rails the weapons sit on, possibly the weapons themselves.

[smurfingtonthethird]

I'll try making the Terror Drones after I get my Weevil tank working, but I'll make them also capable of attacking cities as decon droids.

http://www.deltaveng.com/gauss-machine-gun/: I want this too.

[Parisbre56]

I dunno. Terror Drones work best either in closed spaces, where they can make ambushes, against fleshy targets, on ships, where they can take control of them or in large numbers, when they can swarm targets (and combine into larger bots if possible). So if you're going to build enough of them to take over a city, you're better off spending those resources making Snowglobe robots. Got the idea from a combination of the Terror Drones from red alert 2 and the Vaygr capture frigates from Homeworld 2.

[smurfingtonthethird]

As I said, I'll finish the Weevil tank first, which should be pretty soon. Getting the little shits to self-replicate their different types automatically is gonna be a bitch. Also I am worried they'll become sentient and go on a planet-destroying rampage.

[Parisbre56]

Depends on what you mean by sentient. They're not going to suddenly decide they're the master race. They might misinterprete their orders or act in unpredictable ways. And teaching them how to build others is not that hard. The repair bots we have here can already do that. It's a question of them having the right parts and being strong and smart(have the right tactics) to kill their enemies.

Note to self: Price check for repair bots.

[Toaster]

So they are all war-waging bastards? Damn. We should save intelligent species if we can, because eventually some alien bigger, nastier and more angry is going to slam into the UWM. Bonus points if the UWM attacks a primitive world and they are saved by a precursor race.

Nope. Most don't even know the UWM exists, and are somewhere around the stone age, possibly bronze. The rest are neutral, with a few being actively hostile, and there are possibly a few the UWM tip toes around, hoping they ignore us.

Also, if any try to pop a telescope and look up, the first thing they see is 10 ton chunks of solid metal coming down in a grid formation.

[smurfingtonthethird]

Lets totally piss of the scary ones! Or at least try and make contact. Either way, comedy will ensue.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Awesome, a subforum!

One thing I do have to ask is if the comm systems are jammed, how the hells are the council able to dictate the terms the planet must be taken under? I mean, with the comms jammed, no-one's going to really notice an orbital bombardment until after it clears up...

They'd be
And do you really think that extensive orbital bombardment would be so easy to cover up? There would be massive evidence in the form of lots of destroyed buildings, and either witnesses or a suspicious lack of people on Hephaestus.

Spoiler: Tank Haven galore (click to show/hide)

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=279876&hilit=Modern+Military+Vehicle

Sure, there are some idiots. And some stuff that makes no sense. But there's a lot of people with potentially feasible fictional tanks and even more good artwork.

I am the very model of a modern major ve-hi-cle...

Lets totally piss of the scary ones! Or at least try and make contact. Either way, comedy will ensue.

You are an idiot if you really want to "piss off" the scary aliens. They are scary for a reason.
But yeah, alien contact could be useful. Maybe.

Hmmm, no im pretty fucking certain that explicitly states she turned off all the machines and murdered Auron, hence me/auron cracking the shits that shes getting off scott free. You may not like it, but its a fact and denying it wont change that.

Awesome, you were off life support for like five seconds, maybe your brainwaves flickered off for a second. Again: SO WHAT?
I hate when people ignore my tough questions, I just hate it...

As for the shocking, pyro asked for it more than once.

Find all the times.

And subordination. We are a bunch of convicts... respecting authority isnt exactly synonymous with prisoners, if i want to ignore an order to not use the scrap for personal use so that i can build a tank for communal use im gonna build the tank 9 times out of 10.

"I've been convicted for three felonies, you can't really expect me to follow the laws, can you officer?"

(D)emand justice once more.

Yes, because repeatedly badgering the people in charge after they've made it clear that they're already being more lenient than they feel they ought, and that they have made their final, non-negotiable decision, is always a way to get what you want.
They already know. You told them both. You'll probably come off as a whiny childish person.
STOP. You're digging yourself deeper.

[Toaster]

So now that we have a subboard, who's going to volunteer to go through the mission thread and pull the old missions into their own thread?

[TCM]

Oh snap.

[Tiruin]

Woah, we have a subboard.

And it's explicit. >_<

[Xanmyral]

Oh hey, this got its own sub-board. Good on yah.

[mastahcheese]

I didn't even know you could put a child board inside a child board.

The "babies giving birth in the womb" reference has been said enough, but I think in this case we can bear through it again.

This is awesome.

[Toaster]

And it's explicit. >_<

Oh good, we can post erotic Steve fanart now.