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[Nirur Torir]

How long until we can field drones? I might want to haunt one...

Probably a bit over two in-game weeks (I'll be building them in a batch of ~4, for better efficiency), so probably 5-7 updates at the pace I've been going. Longer if we want more than one type of suit, or if building some laser guns becomes a priority.

[RAM]

Hrmmm, could I possess one of the rookies?
I will just take Pierre, because contact with that horrible hat would cause a disturbing suicide addiction.

[Nirur Torir]

Spoiler: An exciting start to a chapter (click to show/hide)

I failed to show it off despite it being partially responsible for last update. Here's the Reticulan armor we bought. It's biological.
...No, it is not responsible for the Reticulan's missing feet.


I finished the second hospital ward, but it displeases me.

Spoiler: Battle for the Gate II (click to show/hide)

After a few days of recovery and rifle building, the second mission at the gate was still available. I sent the team in.


No getting flanked for us.


Rifle line is satisfying line.


Samantha has a 44% chance to hit with the old-Earth rifle. The rookie twins have +9%-10% hit chances over that, while Diego's at 73%. Harold, with the laser gun, is at 85%.


Continuing the theme of explaining exactly what is in the picture, Claude and Harold hit, while Diego missed. Shame on him.
Meanwhile, the Beastman knocked Pierre over with a regular shot. Either more HP or the stability skill would have helped here.


I built a medical kit. Now I will use it.


Pictured: Pierre trying to stab an unconscious enemy for the on-kill XP bonus, and only having a 58% hit chance.


One of them tried to flank us. It failed.


I'm going to enjoy posting pictures of myself making rifle lines while I can, before explosives come into play. Don't judge.


We just kinda ran at each other, since I didn't feel like re-arranging my battle line orders and they weren't firing yet.


Claude got knocked over by another normal shot. Diego killed things with snap-burst fire.


An easy victory, despite Claude's wounds.


We looted some bone shaped magazines, alien pistols, and corpses. We won't be able to use more than one of those corpses ever, and I don't think it'll store any, but that won't stop me from filling the UFO with them at every chance.

Spoiler: Back at the base (click to show/hide)

We now have slightly more possible research projects than will display at one time. Terraforming is hidden at the bottom. The beastman autopsy requires building a pathology department, but we don't know how to build one yet.
Robot Control Chips will allow us to build chips to use drone XP for level-ups .. No, we can't just copy-paste their AI data. I'll blame it on hand-made parts.
Advanced Robot Turret will let us build drone turrets that dual-wield identical guns.
Radar let us build radars everywhere, which will give us more time to respond to attacks. I don't know what the point is, since we already have plenty of time to heal up, build new ammo, and send the squad out.
Anciet Martian Civilization is for studying the new ruins that I excavated.


Do not taunt me so.


Harold is the first to learn the four soldier trainings I'm giving everyone. (Athletics so he can run, stability, toughness for HP, and minor suit wearing, so he can crouch and go prone). He's now up to 318 HP.

Martian drones are attacking our aqueduct in the north pole. Fortunately, our regular suits can go there.

Spoiler: Another battle (click to show/hide)

They're on the ledge above us, but we can't directly get there.


I can't form a proper line here! There's only enough room on the walkway for two soldiers.


Suit Wearing is a useful skill, allowing me to get five people firing. It would be six, but not everyone has the skill yet.


Shoot them until they break, then run up and stab them until they stay broken.


NOW we can form a proper line.


All praise the rifle line.


So much easier with guns.


Look, he barely needs bed rest for that.


Loot was only a single crawling drone wreck. These are only mildly more useful than beastman corpses.

Spoiler: And back to base (click to show/hide)

The drone assembly building was finally finished. This is the sort of queue we're looking at before we can field drones, if we don't wait for dual-mount turrets. (The rifles are spares for trading). We're unlikely to use ammo that fast, but everything else will be built sequentially to reduce exploiting the infinite assembly lines bug.


More explodyness for us.


Now for the first real attack against us. Drones and gates don't count.


We have finally finished studying the Reticulan database.
New research unlocked: Laser weapons, Noble Metal Mining, Crystal Mining, Faster UFO Engine, and Domes. The latter will allow us to expand our base, so it can hold more science and engineering prerequisite structures.
And now for what you've been waiting for: Our casus belli against the Reticulans who transported us here, built our base for us, and gave us a short-ranged spacecraft.



That's right. They didn't freely give us enough of their technology as their apology, and built their Mars base in a spot rich in resources we didn't even know how to use. That right there is clearly a race of space Hitlers; not even our diplomat disagrees.

We are now in a good position to strike the Reticulans. Do we do so?

I have a list of available soldier trainings in the second post. You get one point per level, and the basics cost a total of eight points. Our most experienced soldier is level 10.
I plan to only train people with the basics, leaving it up to the players to decide what they're focusing on.

Question: How am I doing on picture size? I've been leaving pictures with text full-size, and shrinking the rest, as I prefer scrolling through smaller pictures. Are the sudden size shifts more annoying than every picture being large, though?

[Taricus]

For the basics, you could remove the stability training in exchange for getting everyone with major suit training, given that the environment hostility starts to ramp up the further away from the base the territory is, makes the heavy suits more viable around those areas.

[IronyOwl]

I vote for peace and cooperation, presumably to be decried as a fool and unanimously overruled by everyone else.

Samantha looked pretty useless in the beastman mission. Glad she turned it around during crawler target practice.

Speaking of which, Minor Toughness first please. I wanna liiiiiiiiiiiiiiive.

[Taricus]

Hey, there's GOOD reticulans. But they'll only ally with us if we kill the bad ones. Which is mostly a win-win anyway, since they don't occupy any particularly valuable territory.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

-War

-Major Toughness

-I have to keep re-zoming my browser to see the large images.

[RAM]

Yay!! I'm awesome! Or, umm, I think it is awesome... what is the word for falling over at the touch of a feather and feeling that nasty-words are appropriate military ordinance?

Umm, war I guess, they need to pay for Original Flavour Homeworld...

And sign me up for athletics, when I can... And I guess I will join the will-train...

Pictures work for me as-is, but, umm, the first post is sort of large, it would have been faster to scroll from the bottom than the top to see it... But thanks for the game, I know I complain, but I am appreciating it!

[Nirur Torir]

Pictures work for me as-is, but, umm, the first post is sort of large, it would have been faster to scroll from the bottom than the top to see it... But thanks for the game, I know I complain, but I am appreciating it!

What, are you saying the time it takes everyone to scroll past it repeatedly is more valuable than the few seconds it takes me to spoiler tag it?

By the Adamantium, RAM! :v

[RAM]

Well I have spent the past week summoning demons to do my bidding, some of their good vibrations may have rubbed off on me...

[Sonlirain]

Well since i'm a tech i'd like to be on manufacturing duty (especially killbot manufacturing) and maybe some trainings... i'f Benat is legible for any.

Also i suggest we don't fight the reticulans. There's ground we can take all around us so why fight what appears to be our only ally here?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Also i suggest we don't fight the reticulans. There's ground we can take all around us so why fight what appears to be our only ally here?

Ally? Are you listening to yourself? These are the...."people" who are responsible for the Nightfall! They killed billions and twisted millions into their transgenic abominations! And for what? For some forsaken science experiment (that didn't even work) after our forefathers surrendered Earth to them?

We must fix the mistake they made. We must destroy the reticulans, to the last. Only then will the suffering of humanity be soothed with justice. Even in our darkest hour, when they had it all and we were ravaged, they could not destroy us. And do you know why? It is because we are superior to them. We are survivors, and they are fanatical weaklings.

They sent us here, to this place, for us to die. We are surrounded on all sides by hazards and hostile machines, kept alive by a thin and undefended lifeline to the pole. They knew what they were doing when they sent us here. They know they can't face us, so they're going to try to let the forgotten powers and elements of the Red Planet take care of us for them. They're still trying to kill us, every bit as much as they were before. There's only one difference between then and now....

Now they're afraid.

[IronyOwl]

twisted millions into their transgenic abominations! And for what? For some forsaken science experiment

I'm not seeing why these aren't the good guys.

[andrea]

well, the experiment didn't work, so they can't be that good.

[Nirur Torir]

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.)