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[_DivideByZero_]

Port Anchorage, Northern Ridge, Askarian | 233d/3008AD | Von Hapsburg System

Askarian Shores
Snow (Low visibility. Actions toward distant objects incur a small penalty based on distance)
Freezing Wind (-1 to all actions when exposed)

"I don't even think that's that bad. I can't tell you where I would like to take you, 'casue if I slipped it wouldn't be top secret, would it?"

"Ugh, you really don't know what you are dealing with. If word gets out... you're goners. My masters... creators, whatever, they can't find out. They have a hidden base with some energy source in the core... nobody is capable of matching what they've done in a few centuries. They've converted a small dwarf planet's worth of mass into drones."

Spoiler: Some calcs in case Kevak is watching (click to show/hide)

So let's assume we wanted to convert, say, 1/9th the mass of Ceres into cars. Now, Ceres is pretty much at the minimum mass for a dwarf planet, although Vesta is also pretty large for an asteroid. Let's assume that the "small dwarf planet" Orion mentions is 1/9th the mass of Ceres but is much more metal-rich and thus has a higher surface gravity. Just for the sake of calculations.


Now, the energy needed to manufacture an average car is around 73 gigajoules (if my source is correct). Let's treat this as a low-end, since we are talking sophisticated drones rather than cars. The average car is 2 tons, so we put that into google to get 72 gigajoules / 2 tons so far.

Now, the mass of our planetoid would be 1e20 kg. Multiply our google entry by this, and divide by the total energy that Earth receives from the sun aaaaand...

We get 1045 years. This is if you covered the whole Earth in 100% efficient solar panels. That's a Preposterous Amount of Energy™, and would equate to about 4.25 × 10^17 watts. But assuming they do have a source of energy like this, the total amount of energy harvested would be enough to heat 10 Ceres' worth of water by about 700°C, but we've established we are talking about a much larger planetoid. I've done the calcs myself for an order-of-magnitude guess at the properties of this secret source, but I don't exactly want to explain it since, well, plot.

Don't take this as an actual indication of the capabilities Orion is talking about (if he isn't lying/wrong), just a rough thought experiment for fun.

Also, the Earth receives enough solar heat to build 2.4 million cars per second.

...

Habitat Ship Gamma, Askarian Orbit | 233d/3008AD | Von Hapsburg System

Urban Station
City Manners (-1 to first impressions)

"Your there! Stop this chaos!"

Spore attack the crazy women!

YAAAAAAAAAAAH. ATTACK THE TALKING MONSTER TREE.

Initiative
[3] Slvia
[3] Nidoma
[4] Tree

(2) vs [6]: The tree monster slams one of its great boughs along the ground

Slvia, [6] vs (5): You emit spores, which very, very slowly begin to do their work.

Nidoma, [2] vs (3): You swing at the tree's limb after it misses you, cutting a few gashes in the bark. You start to realize, though, that chopping down trees in combat is rather hard. Even a rather thin tree takes a while to chop down without a chainsaw, and your tiny hand saws won't cut it (hehe) for a quick kill. Instead, you will have to burn the tree down through attrition.

As you fight, a floating golden sphere exits through the door of the workshop. As soon as it appears, you start feeling dizzier.
-1 to next initiative roll

The saplings just generally run at Nidoma, not doing very much other than trying to trip her. And failing.

...

The Jolly Roger, Franz| 238d/3008AD | Von Hapsburg System

Zero Gravity
All items have no weight penalty.

Zero-G Flood
Laser weapons suffer a -2 penalty
All weapons have -1 accuracy

"F*** off!"

Throw the hammer at the hatch (it's still shown in my inventory).

Well, I'm kinda new with these computers, but it's worth a shot.

Try to commandeer the turrets and fire upon the Space Pirates. Try to contact Steve and see if he can help me with the hacking.

[4] The hammer flies through the hatch unobstructed. You hear a clang, indicating that the hammer has in fact hit something, and also that you are no longer in a vacuum.

[5-1] The computer's controls seem fairly intuitive. Click on target, turret attacks. This particular computer only governs a single bank of guns, but they seem to be doing some damage on the tactical displays. You also got the "COMPUTER OVERHEAT" warning to start flashing.

[1] You contact Steve and see if he is of any help.

Steve: Did you seriously think I'd be good at hacking because I'm a robot? My system is built off human brain architecture. I don't think in math and code like you seem to believe.
Charles: I know G++ and Volt, I might be able to write a program to do it... eventually.

[~Neri]

((Erm, GenTek is flat out dead lorewise. Technically this isn't the home setting or anything, buuuut lorewise, they're dead. The vast majority of employees were slaughtered, the senior staff and executives were eaten alive, and the few lower ranking members that survived were experimented on by the KX9 until they died. The KX9 are quite brutal to those they perceive as enemies.))

[_DivideByZero_]

((The keyword is majority.

It's practically impossible to fully annihilate a large entity that spans multiple star systems due to lightlag, the general slowness of spacecraft, and lack of on-demand teleportation in the setting. Plus it's relatively easy to slip into a crowd on some colony, burn your ID's and passports and the like (or sell them to the black market), and live among farmers in some place where they don't keep track of ID's and immigrants.

Basically, what I'm saying is that if the KX9 are to maintain any semblance of balance, they could not have completely wiped every single asset GenTek had, because it was spread far across multiple star systems and KX9 assets didn't grow to huge proportions until centuries later. Plenty of time to hide.

Of course the corporation is definitely gone as an entity. But there's always the possibility of some random researcher fleeing with data on a thumbchip or something else that's hard to track, then forging a different name for himself and using the data to his advantage. It would be less of a GenTek revival and more of a relatively unrelated group of researchers headed by someone with a copy of GenTek research, but Orion's crazy. Who knows.))

[~Neri]

((Weeeell, since KX9 were used extensively as guards for GenTek facilities, bodyguards for GenTek high value employees, cheap labor, the majority of the corporation's military force, and in some cases assistants, they had access to pretty much everything GenTek at the time of the revolt. They were docile for the most part due to a number of hardcoded personality traits in some strains providing a regulator and the lack of the more aggressive strains having anything to trigger them outside of isolated cases. The revolt was triggered by several heavily abused and unstable KX9 reconnecting to the Groupmind after having been in a medically induced coma for years when the computer monitoring them shorted out. It quickly turned into a fullblown cascade event, the first one actually. And since the KX9 knew the vast majority of GenTek employees and had access to effectively every facility.. It was a quick and brutal slaughter.))

[Happy Demon]

Yet he uses computer parts, and gets memory wiped by being shot out of a cannon.
I might need to get one of those G-spot hacking programs, then I wouldn't have to worry anymore.

"(Radio) Well, Robot is a step closer than Human, which is a step closer than me, because I've barely ever used these things. In fact, f*** this thing!"

Shoot the computer with the heavy rifle, shoot all the computers with the heavy rifle.
Then go to the tube, I got a cooling bank to destroy.

[_DivideByZero_]

((Weeeell, since KX9 were used extensively as guards for GenTek facilities, bodyguards for GenTek high value employees, cheap labor, the majority of the corporation's military force, and in some cases assistants, they had access to pretty much everything GenTek at the time of the revolt. They were docile for the most part due to a number of hardcoded personality traits in some strains providing a regulator and the lack of the more aggressive strains having anything to trigger them outside of isolated cases. The revolt was triggered by several heavily abused and unstable KX9 reconnecting to the Groupmind after having been in a medically induced coma for years when the computer monitoring them shorted out. It quickly turned into a fullblown cascade event, the first one actually. And since the KX9 knew the vast majority of GenTek employees and had access to effectively every facility.. It was a quick and brutal slaughter.))

((Hm, I still think with the hint before that Orion had GenTek implants it would make sense to mention GenTek somehow, but since it doesn't look like Sabre read the post yet I can just remove the comment.))

[~Neri]

((GenTek based implants aren't particularly rare, KX9 took over production and development post revolt. Likely several other species GenTek made got their hands on some blueprints as well.))

[Happy Demon]

((Hehe, let's do something fun with this fluff.))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The GenTech corporation.
Due to the isolation of the Arctic North at the time, they didn't know that a corporation called GenTek (they're pronounced the same) already existed.

In the 2nd war, the Werecats started a genetic engineering program, making their fighters more combat focused, at the cost of social skills.
They ended up making the Relentless Werecats, who communicated in much more subdued language, in order to understand a Relentless Werecat you either have to pay full attention or be really good.
They also did some other things, like accidentally making Fluff, and then modifying it to become Combat Fluff.
The Fluff and Combat Fluff were quite popular though, so they made their own corporation, so they could sell it.

The GenTech corporations deal with genetic engineering, their main exports are: Fluff, Combat Fluff, Acid Spiders, bio-augments, and various kinds of medicine.
GenTech has a main base set up in the Arctic North, in Privke, near Iceport, the main trade harbor, they also have a research base on the north pole, which is heavily guarded.
But due to the difficulty of obtaining herbs and plants in a place where there are none, they've set up several plantations in the Greater and Lesser Fernswamps and the Grand Savanna.
Previously they'd relied on imported medicine and chemicals from off world instead, or stolen from the Mutant Kings (since f*** those guys).

They also deal with mechanical and bionic parts, as dealing with genetics for years makes it easier to understand how to interface mechanics and biology, though it took some time.
Most of the competition in the augmentations came later, when GenTech had already developed really good ones, though expensive as f***.
Competition either went for specialized augments or cheaper augments, the latter which GenTech noticed was a ripe market, and decided to do it too, getting a monopoly.
GenTech hold a monopoly on many fields, it's also the biggest corporation in the Arctic North, so they have to deal with the food imports.
They cannot exploit their monopoly, as that would worsen relations with the rest of Bob's population, which would make food prices worse, which would lead to them being hated by the other Werecats.

((GenTek is a really good name actually, it easy to remember and tells what you what they're doing. The K isn't really necessary though.))

[SaberToothTiger]

"Orion, I see just two options, either you shoot yourself in the face and die or allow us to imprison you somewhere safe. I don't see anything else you could do.

[Happy Demon]

((Fluff.))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dragon families, Sorveg, Iceport, Lord Katz "Genelord" Lazarus Speer, and Privke
The first one doesn't really fit in all that well.

Dragons are more likely to adopt than any other mutants, be it sons, daughters, brothers, or sisters, as long as they're younger and vulnerable they're likely to adopt them.
Dragon families rely heavily on trust, even when dealing with other Dragon families, they trade favors not gold.
For a Dragon to raise a good family shows how good parents they are, so the ultimate goal of making a Dragon family is to get a mate for themselves.
That's not to say they don't care for their family, they're often more caring than the biological parents of those they adopt.
A Dragon family also serves as good protection, as their family is likely to return the favor and protect them (also, Dragons are quite tough).

--

Sorveg is the southern part of the Arctic North, it's where Iceport is located, where all naval trade vessels dock and unload their wares. There are other coastal cities, but none deal with trade.
It's called Sorveg as it serves as the Werecats' gateway to the south (Sorveg=Southway/road), where their food comes from, and most of their wares go.
Iceport is fully dedicated to ship manufacture and goods transport. If Iceport were to fall, the Werecats would suffer.
The primary source of exports are gold and GenTech wares, while the imports of food are handled by Genelord Katz herself.

Lord Katz "Genelord" Lazarus Speer is the boss of the GenTech corporation, she's been driving a hard bargain with the other Lords to ensure lower food prices.
Genelord Katz is the only Werecat Lord, so she has to do all the negotiation herself, she's also the founder of the GenTech corporation, and sometimes work personally on the research.
She's over 300 years old, with all of her body replaced by cloned or mechanical parts, she also indulges in self experimentation from time to time, due to being effectively immortal.

Privke is the capital of Sorveg, and it's where GenTech HQ is located, most inhabitants of Privke are Relentless Werecats, who are sometimes called to other places for manual labor.
This abundance of Relentless Werecats make Privke a silent town, and provides an unsettling feeling in most outsiders, as Werecats walk around, never talking, never smiling.
It's also made to be defensible, Privke is a city sized fortress, maintained and manned by the Relentless Werecat militia.

[Gamerlord]

Find a weak point and attack it.

[Happy Demon]

((Fluff on hard things.))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Giant Crabs

People like eating crabs, but crabs aren't native to Bob, and the small crabs aren't efficient enough, so they had GenTech do some modifications to imported crabs.
They were made bigger, stronger, tougher, and more aggressive, though the plating is weakest underneath. These are hunted for their plentiful and delicious meat.
They're 5 meters tall and 15 meters wide, with claws that can cut people in half. Their meat is given to Fluff Dragons to cook, for a non-Fluff Dragon to cook it is heresy, and punishable by death.
They travel alone, but they're still dangerous, especially if you want to hunt them properly. Many crab hunters only need one stab to kill a Giant Crab, but need some help in order to get a clear shot at their bottom plating.
Killing them in one stab leaves more clean meat, and butchering them is difficult, which is why hunting parties bring Fluff Dragon butchers with them.

((Eh, have to continue the story.))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Vax, leaving to join the Black Rose gang

Vax and the Sak twins had gotten restless lately, the life at the pub didn't suit them, they wanted more. They were about to leave through the backdoor.
They had packed their things and wanted to leave in silence. But Kain had noticed them.
Kain Blood: "What's this? What are you doing?" Kain was confused.
Vax Murdock: "We're leaving, can't you tell? We're sick of attending the bar."
Kain Blood: "What happened back then? Did the Crocs do something to you?"

Sak Blade: "The rush, ever since we were in mortal danger, it haven't been the same."
Kain Blood: "You're joining the military? But you're far too-"
Sak Spike: "We're joining a gang, they'd accept us without questio-" *SLAM* Kain hit the wall with his fist.
Kain Blood: "Are you mad?! They'll turn you into criminals, just like the ones that robbed you, Vax."
Vax Murdock: "The pay will be worth it, with the new pubs opening up, we're getting less popular, it's only a matter of time until you're back to your old jobs."

Kain lunged forwards and grabbed Vax by the shirt.
Kain Blood: "That's not the point! It's an honest living, and we can always wait and join the military, it's also an honest job."
Sak Spike: "We're leaving, it's our choice, and we're making it." Vax wrenched her shirt out of Kain's hand, and started walking away, with the Sak twins.
Kain Blood: "No, don't do this, not to me, not to us. If you do this, I cannot help you, helping criminals is criminal." They stopped and turned.
Sak Blade: "Then don't, we're not asking you to." Kain then pointed his finger at them.

Kain Blood: "If you do this, I'll never let you in again, I'll no longer be your brother. So don't leave."
They hesitated, and then continued walking, leaving Kain. Kain stood silent for a while.
Kain Blood: "FUCK!"

[Ama]

Continue to float above the crazy woman while releasing more spores!

"Police! Anyone! Help! there is a crazy person trying to chainsaw people!"

[Gamerlord]

IT'S A TALKING TREE, NOT A PERSON.

[Ama]

IT'S A TALKING TREE, NOT A PERSON.

"....Ok. HELP SHE IS MURDERING TALKING TREES!"