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001, Abomination

2 (11.1%)

002, Hunter

9 (50%)

003, Runner

2 (11.1%)

004, Electro

4 (22.2%)

005, Venom

0 (0%)

006, Psion

1 (5.6%)

Total Members Voted: 18

Voting closed: October 23, 2016, 05:19:11 pm

[KiwiOui]

Buckling into your EVA suit is, as usual, an irritating process. However, soon enough, the suit of micrometeorite strike plates and space-grade fabric shrouds your form, descending in the elevator. Bracing, you grab onto a handle before the doors open and the air rushes out. For a moment, you float before the electromagnets in your boots turn on and lock you to the floor. Taking careful steps, you enter the bay to see the interceptor's mangled and scorched cockpit. Indeed, there is nothing but a burnt out uniform where the pilot was. Taking your eyes slightly right, you stare through the hole in the floor. Roughly one-third of a meter, the hole seems easy enough to repair. The hole in the corridor is probably small enough to be repaired by the ship's MetalloFoam capsules, judging from the size of a coilgun round in the cockpit.

Looking through the interceptor doesn't reveal much of interest, with most systems either destroyed or obsolete to you. However, the ship's 'prow' armor is rather fascinating. Rather than being brute-stregth metal, one layer of the armor seems to be composed of an ablative paste. under pressure, the paste temporarily hardens and some of it evaporates away. Interesting...
+5 Science points

Repairs are rather uninteresting, and involve melting down the interceptor's metal components. During the process, you get the idea of working on 'Psion', to strengthen the effects of it's powers, but after repairs, you simply don't have the energy. Plus, the bay still isn't fully pressurised, and entering containment would lower the oxygen content in the cells too much. With work done, you pilot the ship over to another orbital path, and rest in your cabin. The psychic sheep in your dreams become ever more vivid.

Spoiler: Ship (click to show/hide)

One Heavy Laser Array
Low Range Tractor Beam
Scanning/Surgery/Science Table
Long Range Scanners
Biogenerator
28/30 !!SCIENCE!! points

Spoiler: Subjects (click to show/hide)

Subject #001-A2, Abomination
Subject #002-A, Hunter, Electroclaws, Biosuit
Subject #003-A, Runner
Subject #004-A, Electro, Teslahead
Subject #005-A2, Venom, Poison Tentacles
Subject #006-A, Psion, Emotional Influencing

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Spoiler: Subsurface Facility (click to show/hide)

Scanning/Surgery/Science Table

Spoiler: Subjects (click to show/hide)

None, poor you.

Spoiler: Note (click to show/hide)

Is it just me, or do the the subject's nicknames remind you of Pokemon types? Sorry for not incuding the psychic improvements, but keep in mind that these aliens pretty much don't do manual work. Repairing a breach in an EVA suit tires a Grey out.

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

Once we've pressurized the bay, experiment further with the psion. Abduct some more humans, from a place we haven't taken any. Make another psion.

[Yottawhat]

Let's get our Abomination some modifications to help with the physical labor.

[TalonisWolf]

Once we've pressurized the bay, experiment further with the psion. Abduct some more humans, from a place we haven't taken any. Make another psion.

+1

[helmacon]

Once we've pressurized the bay, experiment further with the psion. Abduct some more humans, from a place we haven't taken any. Make another psion.

+1

+1
Use the bio-generator to make the control chips biological as well. Much harder to spot and replicate if the ohmines get ahold of anything. Also makes them harder to remove.

[~Neri]

We should look into repair drones so we don't have to repair shit ourselves again.

[FallacyofUrist]

We should look into repair drones so we don't have to repair shit ourselves again.

Good idea. But they should be biological in some way... hm. Let's abduct some myooohs for biomass, then shape them into a giant spider thing. We'll plate it so it can temporarily(as in, long enough to do repairs) survive in space. And we'll use the biofab to make it so it can stick to the hull of our ship with its "feet". And we'll throw in a better than average control chip that'll let us remote control it.

[~Neri]

That seems needlessly convoluted when we could just have a robot that's Built to survive in space. Why bother with intentionally giving something pesky organic frailty when the entire point of making the repair drones is so our pesky organic frailty doesn't apply?

[Maegil]

That seems needlessly convoluted when we could just have a robot that's Built to survive in space. Why bother with intentionally giving something pesky organic frailty when the entire point of making the repair drones is so our pesky organic frailty doesn't apply?

+1

Also, never mention magboots again, they 're last century hoummin tech. These will adhere to anything, even non-magnetic surfaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_setae

[stabbymcstabstab]

That seems needlessly convoluted when we could just have a robot that's Built to survive in space. Why bother with intentionally giving something pesky organic frailty when the entire point of making the repair drones is so our pesky organic frailty doesn't apply?

+1

Also, never mention magboots again, they 're last century hoummin tech. These will adhere to anything, even non-magnetic surfaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_setae

+1

[KiwiOui]

Once resting has ended, and you've ingested the necessary nutrients, the science is ready to begin! First project, new Psion! For this one, you go to an island in the far north, known as 'Greenland'. For a second, you stare. Green? Really? These heuimaens must be blind. Abducting people in this land of glaciers is a little difficult, though. None of them want to go outside, for probably good reasons. With enough rattling, some finally do leave, every one of them holding a chemical-kinetic accelerator. Even as the tractor beams clutch them, one fires twice into the aperture. Thank you for the scuff marks, puny creature. Now, with a group of six subjects, you begin the copying process, as well as the control chip.

This one seems to retain some speech. It mumbles an odd word, then, in front of it, a testing apparatus begins to float. It rises slowly, floating a meter off the floor. It mumbles the word again, this time loud enough to be translated. The result has no meaning to you. The subject is saying some nonsense word, 'Jedi'. With some testing, it seems the subject can lift any object under two hundred pounds, up to two meters high. Throughout tests, it says other, nonsense words. These include 'Kenobi', 'Yoda', and finally one that does have meaning to you. 'Force'. It seems odd that it would talk about an element of physics, though.
+10 science points, goal achieved!

Despite the message on your console, you decide to continue on your next project. A repair drone. Graveyard orbit will be a lot less full, soon enough. On design, you work out a spider form, with the legs embedded with electromagnets for grip. The central 'body' will contain a stock of one-third meter square armor plates, and a plasma welder. Repairs won't be perfect, but it will work. By the time design is done, you've collected enough metal and electronics for this to work. The fabricators begin production almost instantly, tiny nanobots forming the metal into shape. You now have a repair-spider roughly the size of a huemun 'Car'.
+5 Science points

At last, you turn to the beeping pilot's console, where the screen you know well appears.
Available Upgrades: (Please pick one.)
*Armory- Stocks of weaponry.
*Area Scanners- Data on subject numbers and settlements.
*Medium Range Tractor Beam- Reaches longer, lifts more.
*MetalloBot Tank- High-quality construction nanobots, with no scavenging rewuired.
*Long-Term Containment, Improved Edition- Automatic feeders, installable in regular containment cells.
*Personal Disguise- This is no fake eyebrows, trenchcoat, and glasses combo! Disguise yourself as a hoomin.

Spoiler: Ship (click to show/hide)

One Heavy Laser Array
Low Range Tractor Beam
Scanning/Surgery/Science Table
Long Range Scanners
Biogenerator
12/45 !!SCIENCE!! points

Spoiler: Subjects (click to show/hide)

Subject #001-A2, Abomination
Subject #002-A, Hunter, Electroclaws, Biosuit
Subject #003-A, Runner
Subject #004-A, Electro, Teslahead
Subject #005-A2, Venom, Poison Tentacles
Subject #006-A, Psion, Emotional Influencing
Subject #007-A, Jedi, Speech, Telekinesis

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Spoiler: Subsurface Facility (click to show/hide)

Scanning/Surgery/Science Table

Spoiler: Subjects (click to show/hide)

Empty? Madness!

Spoiler: Note (click to show/hide)

 Sorry for the gap between updates.

[~Neri]

*MetalloBot Tank- High-quality construction nanobots, with no scavenging required.

Frankly this'll be obscenely useful.

[Maegil]

^This will do well.

We may have enough basic data to make a proper soldier.
For the next experiment, we could start by assessing the good and bad points of the experiment subjects:
Subject #001-A2, Abomination - pretty useless, though it allowed us to get insights.
Subject #002-A, Hunter, Electroclaws, Biosuit - A good basis for a soldier, if we could get it to actually obey commands...
Subject #003-A, Runner - If it's faster, it may cover more ground
Subject #004-A, Electro, Teslahead - instead of installing the laser through the brain, let's try using those useless sinus cavities and the ugly cartilaginous lump that the vermin have in their faces. To prevent blocking breathing, open new nostrils higher up
Subject #005-A2, Venom, Poison Tentacles - By itself it could be a separate base for another type of soldier, or the tentacles could be implanted on the hunter
Subject #006-A, Psion, Emotional Influencing - Another hunter upgrade, or a standalone support, but only if we can get it to broadcast something useful like... hate for hyumins. That'll make our soldiers fight better, and fill the hyumins with hate for themselves and each other; if we're lucky they might even kill their disaffects or themselves.
Subject #007-A, Jedi, Speech, Telekinesis - This is great, and would be very good if we could make the soldiers have both psion and TK.

Let's try to use all this knowledge and make a soldier prototype with all the modifications.

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

*MetalloBot Tank- High-quality construction nanobots, with no scavenging required.

Frankly this'll be obscenely useful.

+1
Use it to make a portable generator. Hook the generator up to Teslahead.

[FallacyofUrist]

*MetalloBot Tank- High-quality construction nanobots, with no scavenging required.

Frankly this'll be obscenely useful.

+1
Use it to make a portable generator. Hook the generator up to Teslahead.

+1. Backpack sized.
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Also: use it to expand our subsurface facility.
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Action: develop drugs meant to generate emotion. Hopefully we'll find one for hate. Which we can use on Psion to make it broadcast hate. Another action: Modify Psion to generate a more concentrated emotion beam instead of an omnidirectional emotion field.