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[syvarris]

Yeah, M23 would be a particularly good 5; You guys went above and beyond your mission objectives, with a little help from the Lurker.

@Ozark
I'm leery of the force infuser and Assaultsuit.  The former because it's very much space magic, even if it's not origin tech.  The latter because it includes hexsand and sharkplate.  Neither should be an issue, as long as they're thoroughly tested first, but I could easily see them failing to work because most space magic is a symptom of our own universe's flaws.  Also, they're another vector that PW can use to fuck us over.

Regardless, we probably won't be using standard armory equipment.  PW said as much, from what I remember.  There's certainly better options; for instance, hex composite is not our strongest armor--it's our most cost-effective armor.  We very well may have access to mythril armor, or perhaps specialized (manip-stripped) anomaly suits, which work better than the assaultsuit.

As far as ships and soldiers, while your own forces are undefined, Heph has loads of both.  We've probably got over a hundred warships which have been system locked by the Lurker.  We have tens of thousands of sods.  And we can churn out enough drones to scout significant portions of Hephaestus in a matter of days.  You probably don't need to worry.

[Unholy_Pariah]

arent 90% of the heph ships manipulator free?

I recall us needing the space magic facility to make the manipulators to give them warp drive, but I also recall us building the ships anyway to increase production.

[AoshimaMichio]

I suppose M23 would be a 5? It went basically perfectly.

Nope. M23 was 4. You went to gather 50000 human bodies for unspeakable experiments and did that. If you had established permanent supplyline of bodies, then it would have been 5. Actually, it is better described as 5-1 because M21 caused complications for otherwise fine progress.

[Egan_BW]

It's a 5 with a teammate rolling a 1 at -2 in the same turn.

[Unholy_Pariah]

Hmmm... I wonder if mister perfect melee warrior survived Earth 2 self immolating under the weight of its automanipulators going haywire.

[syvarris]

@Unholy

Yeah, they were built complete except for empty spots where the AMs could be slotted in.  We figured we could produce more AMs than ships, so this would get us a larger fleet sooner.  Problem is, since AMs can't be used anymore, these ships will never escape the system; at best, we can build a booster rig to launch ships into a neighboring system, but I doubt that would be worth it.  The ships also won't be useful for defense, because the entire UWM navy is at the very least paralyzed by this.

[AoshimaMichio]

@Unholy

Yeah, they were built complete except for empty spots where the AMs could be slotted in.  We figured we could produce more AMs than ships, so this would get us a larger fleet sooner.  Problem is, since AMs can't be used anymore, these ships will never escape the system; at best, we can build a booster rig to launch ships into a neighboring system, but I doubt that would be worth it.  The ships also won't be useful for defense, because the entire UWM navy is at the very least paralyzed by this.

Don't we have entire forge world in posession? Shouldn't be too hard to retrofit our fleet for another propulsion methods. Hard, but not too hard.

[piecewise]

Some troubling things are happening around here. I dunno when I'll get internet back on a regular basis, but I'll be back as soon as I can.

Please hold...

[Kedly]

That isnt good news! Stay safe PW! Hopefully things go ok!

[Comrade P.]

That isnt good news! Stay safe PW! Hopefully things go ok!

You make it sound like something really bad is happening, like, life-in-danger bad. I do hope it's not the case.

[Egan_BW]

Uh, don't die. Please.

[Kedly]

That isnt good news! Stay safe PW! Hopefully things go ok!

You make it sound like something really bad is happening, like, life-in-danger bad. I do hope it's not the case.

I'm going off of the troubling part of the sentence.

[DoctorMcTaalik]

Good luck with whatever it is. See you later, and stay safe (if applicable).

[NJW2000]

Good luck. I thought PW lived in 'Murica, is this right, btw? Just checking it's probably not some sort of counter-revolutionary civil war or anything...

[Comrade P.]

Good luck. I thought PW lived in 'Murica, is this right, btw?

Pretty sure he lives in America, yes.