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[KingofstarrySkies]

And it can strangle you.

[Urist Imiknorris]

And of course there would be a mod to make them do the bouncing springing animation whenever they move.

[Flying Dice]

That would be the best thing.

Actually, I figured it out. Viperladies are a cross between the DNA of aliens, humans, and Pogo Snakes. Pogosnakes belong to a class of snakes known as "bouncy vipers". Viperladies have boobs. Bouncy vipers.

[Chiefwaffles]

"VIPER ATTACK! GET INTO COVER!"

*_{boing boing boing boing boing boing} boing HISSSS*

[Flying Dice]

Even better, when they constrict someone and then move while their target is still constricted, they slingshot back and forth, alternating between the squaddie smacking into the ground and the two hitting each other.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

All of this Xeno-Heresy is why ADVENT is able to control the human population. If we all just precommitted to exterminating all other intelligent life in the universe now, we wouldn't be having this sort of problem.

[KingofstarrySkies]

All of this Xeno-Heresy is why ADVENT is able to control the human population. If we all just precommitted to exterminating all other intelligent life in the universe now, we wouldn't be having this sort of problem.

Looking through this thread, yeah, I can see why ADVENT won

[Cthulhu]

This same thing happened on the that which sleeps forum.  Somebody saw an insufficiently covered boob and pretty soon everybody was wearing out their airhorns.

Preemptive strikes are correct.  If we go by game theory, there's a few possibilities.  We assume an alien race is hostile and destroy it preemptively with kinetic weaponry.  The cost is intangible because we don't know if the aliens were hostile and we don't know how they would've acted if they weren't.  We assume an alien race is friendly and they are.  The cost is again, intangible because we don't know anything else about them.  Finally, we assume they're friendly and they're not.  In all likelihood they just did the kinetic weaponry thing to us.  Now we're extinct.  The cost is very tangible and infinite, namely the entire species.

Even .00001% chance of hostility is too great a risk when our entire species is on the line, and judging by our own history when it comes to cultural exchange, that's a very conservative estimate.

tl;dr Glass every fucking planet.

[NullForceOmega]

To hell with your xenophobia and genocidal tendencies, I for one, support our new mammary-blessed snake waifus.

[Urist Imiknorris]

To hell with your xenophobia and genocidal tendencies, I for one, support our new mammary-blessed snake waifus.

Only as long as they're actually ours, right?

[Rolan7]

On the sidenote of alien contact of unknown purpose, Shut Up & Sit Down did a quite entertaining video of their participation in a "megagame".  Kinda like one of those Model United Nations games.  Except in this case the players, representing various nations in teams, had to manage contact with extraterrestrials.  The aliens (also a small group of players) had randomly determined motives, and a variety of subversive options available.  Tech and hostages were traded, secret alliances were formed, it was an interesting thing to observe.

http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/blog/post/susd-play-goddamn-megagame/

[Chiefwaffles]

Sounds like something that would make a fun card board game.

[Flying Dice]

This same thing happened on the that which sleeps forum.  Somebody saw an insufficiently covered boob and pretty soon everybody was wearing out their airhorns.

Preemptive strikes are correct.  If we go by game theory, there's a few possibilities.  We assume an alien race is hostile and destroy it preemptively with kinetic weaponry.  The cost is intangible because we don't know if the aliens were hostile and we don't know how they would've acted if they weren't.  We assume an alien race is friendly and they are.  The cost is again, intangible because we don't know anything else about them.  Finally, we assume they're friendly and they're not.  In all likelihood they just did the kinetic weaponry thing to us.  Now we're extinct.  The cost is very tangible and infinite, namely the entire species.

Even .00001% chance of hostility is too great a risk when our entire species is on the line, and judging by our own history when it comes to cultural exchange, that's a very conservative estimate.

tl;dr Glass every fucking planet.

Heh, all my experience from older versions of Aurora tells me that you're inefficient. What you want to do is shatter their space forces, conduct "precision" strikes on large contingents of troops and military infrastructure (because really, calling antimatter-tipped capital missiles precise is sort of laughable), then land in overwhelming force. Free habitable planets, free shipyards and groundside infrastructure, and hundreds of millions of slaves who'll eventually become useful tax-paying citizens and soldiers through your strict but fair process of assimilation. What's not to love? 

[Rolan7]

Sounds like something that would make a fun card board game.

It did involve dice rolls for most actions and a team of GMs.  Large charts full of stats, and cards representing artifacts and such.  Though the focus was on RP, the consequences mostly followed established rules.  Though the players were free to take *any* action and the GMs would throw together a roll for it.

Rewatching now and damn, I have got to see if this is happening again in a reachable place.

Edit:  I love the American team, so stereotypical.  Appearing.

[Cthulhu]

This same thing happened on the that which sleeps forum.  Somebody saw an insufficiently covered boob and pretty soon everybody was wearing out their airhorns.

Preemptive strikes are correct.  If we go by game theory, there's a few possibilities.  We assume an alien race is hostile and destroy it preemptively with kinetic weaponry.  The cost is intangible because we don't know if the aliens were hostile and we don't know how they would've acted if they weren't.  We assume an alien race is friendly and they are.  The cost is again, intangible because we don't know anything else about them.  Finally, we assume they're friendly and they're not.  In all likelihood they just did the kinetic weaponry thing to us.  Now we're extinct.  The cost is very tangible and infinite, namely the entire species.

Even .00001% chance of hostility is too great a risk when our entire species is on the line, and judging by our own history when it comes to cultural exchange, that's a very conservative estimate.

tl;dr Glass every fucking planet.

Heh, all my experience from older versions of Aurora tells me that you're inefficient. What you want to do is shatter their space forces, conduct "precision" strikes on large contingents of troops and military infrastructure (because really, calling antimatter-tipped capital missiles precise is sort of laughable), then land in overwhelming force. Free habitable planets, free shipyards and groundside infrastructure, and hundreds of millions of slaves who'll eventually become useful tax-paying citizens and soldiers through your strict but fair process of assimilation. What's not to love? 

Aliens are just that, alien.  You're making a lot of assumptions if you think they can be enslaved or assimilated or that their infrastructure is usable by humans.  Besides, if you're powerful enough to do that you don't need slaves.  You don't need any of that.  Everything you could possibly get from not vaporizing an alien civilization could be more easily gotten in uninhabited space.