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[Rockeater]

Laser Swarmers (3) Doomblade, Frostgiant, Rockeater

[Jerick]

I'm not sure the laser swarmers will work out well. It seems too close to making the boarding appendages into a do-everything swiss army knife of a weapon system that can fit on a small mount. If I was GMing I wouldn't let my players away with that kind of thing easily and considering the potential complexities of upscaling a laser organ and mounting it on the end of the tentacles we'll need quite a dice roll for Draig to allow that on a revision. So here's something that is also complex but in my opinion far more likely to succeed and something the enemy likely won't have any defenses against.

Our work with psychic pulse organ has opened up a new possibility. The raw output of psychic power is dangerous and could well be weaponised. If we exclude the frequencies of thought occupied by our Liir crew and our bio constructs and blast all other frequencies with messages of pain and fear at high output using the pulse organ we can disrupt or harm the minds of living things. This effect is much shorter range compared to the considerable distance the scanner can cover due to the need for a high output to make it effective. But it should work against living minds at medium range, perhaps even long range. This effect is more disruptive to the psychically sensitive. With this, we will learn how to use the pulse organ to telepathically force pain and fear into the minds of any nearby who oppose us at regular intervals. This will make it harder for the enemy to focus on the complex tasks involved in operating a void swimmer and may even cause some of the more susciptible to freeze and be paralaysed by the effect.

Laser Swarmers (3); Doomblade, Frostgiant, Rockeater
Mind Jammer (1); Jerick

[Rockeater]

I did support this as an option and I don't have strong feelings on the laser, what I do think is that going to need a design to be effective

Laser Swarmers (2); Doomblade, Frostgiant
Mind Jammer (2); Jerick, Rockeater

[frostgiant]

Laser Swarmers (1); Doomblade,
Mind Jammer (3); Jerick, Rockeater, Frostgiant

Seeing as hw I was voting for the Laser swarmers soley because i wanted to move the game along i'll switch to this so we don't have a tie.
We need an actual ranged weapon

[Blood_Librarian]

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Laser Swarmers (1); Doomblade,
Mind Jammer (3); Jerick, Rockeater, Frostgiant, Blood Librarian,

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[Draignean]

Mind Jammer
[Efficacy: 2]
Hypothetically, the Mind Jammer is possible. However, we've only been able to test it with specimens from our own world- and even then the results have been mixed. A small percent, less than a twentieth, exhibited a clear response. Another fifth showed minor signs of psychic trauma, but the remainder seemed unaffected. The trick is in isolating psionic tones that will not effect our own kind, but will still have a grave effect against our foes- and, sadly, we have not yet found a strong psionic node that will service that ambition. Against a theoretical alien threat, we're not sure what level of effectiveness (if any) our modified psionic pulser will have. The bio-engineers in charge of the modification strongly recommend that it not be put into action until it can receive more attention and refinement. 

Our scientists estimate this revision might've been more effective if we'd had more understanding of the base Psychic Pulse Organ, instead of a preliminary model.

Mind Jammer: | 0T 120O 0M 50E 0S | Capacity: -8 | Power: -40 | A direct modification of the Psionic Pulse organ, the Mind Jammer is designed with a shorter range in mind- and a much more aggressive intent. Ideally, the Mind Jammer delivers psionic pulses that create fear, doubt, aggression, and pain in non-Liir life forms. Unfortunately, the efficacy is dubious at best, with only a quarter of test subjects showing any signs of psionic trauma.


Design Phase of Year -2

Advanced Bio-Modification has Auto-Completed
Val-Den Drone Warform has Auto-Completed

Resources
Dice: 10
T: 10000 + 2500
O: 30000 + 7500
M: 30000 + 7500
E: 20000 + 5000
S: 2000 + 500

Spoiler: Active Projects (click to show/hide)

Telepathic Organ: 8/10 [2] | 175 Organics + 20 Metals +100 Energetics   | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing Invested
Regenerating Chitinous Hull Plating: 4/7 [2]  175O + 75M | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing invested
Sublight Drive Organ: 6/9 [2]  150O + 150E | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing invested
Thorium Glow Reactor: 6/12 [2] | 100T + 250O + 50M | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing invested
Sun eater Class biological fabricator: 4/15 [2] | 250O + 50M + 250E + 20S | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing invested
Node class Command Frigate: 4/8 [2] | 175O + 50M + 100E | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing invested
Psychic Pulse Detection: 3/15 [3] | 20T 130O 20M 30E | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing Invested
Boarding Appendages: 3/8 [3] | 120O 0M 120E | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing Invested
Regiment of Harmony: 3/9 [3] | 75O 25M 25E | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing Invested

[frostgiant]

is combat on turn 1? if so then many thinsg will be finished on turn 1 so that is good. if combat is turn 0 we need to invest many dice.
Tele organ will finish next turn
Regen hull plate will finish turn 0
Sublight turn 0
glow reactor is done turn 2, so we need to put a dice in next turn.
Sun eater will be finished will be finished... a while fcrom now (turn 2-3) put 2 dice in next turn.
nodes will be finished turn 0
pulse detection will need at least one dice next turn.
Regiment should not need dice by turn 1
neither should boarding appaendages.
So 4ish dice we need to put in next turn so everything is down by turn 1 (I think)

So we don't need to put dice in this turn.

EDIT: turn 1 combat. only need to put about 4-6 dice into Project next turn. not including we can rush whatever we start this turn.
I say a better boredrive (organic, and lesser capacity? only a swap to organic?
Plus a ranged weapon for the startships. I'm going to be voting for the Evil eye right now.

[Doomblade187]

Advanced Synthetic Biology

Our last bio-modifiction research was aimed at grounding our innate ability to weave life withing science, and enhancing it through science. Now it's time to use it to enhance science. This research aims to refine the ability of the cells we weave to produce volatile and complex compounds, and their ability to convert these compounds to energy and composite materials.

Bore Drive Organic Conversion

Currently, our ships our reliant on the mechanical technology known as the Bore Drive. While it's perfectly serviceable, it's not alive, like the rest of our ships. We can fix this, though. By studying and understanding the operation of the bore drive, we can convert the drive into carefully grown organic components, eschewing primitive fasteners in favor of the fine structures of organic structure, converting the inefficient power systems into one that interfaces easily with the organic structures of the ship. The drive portion will be delicately grown with the finest life weaving and most careful bioengineering.

[frostgiant]

Spoiler:  Dechal HCB (click to show/hide)

The dechal is a large creature, with most of its Strands coming from an already existing industrial beast, whos primary purpose was Hostile environment construction work.

The dechal is similar in an appearance to an earth crab with some exceptions, Such as the fact that the Dechal’s legs only number at 6, and each leg is very thick and heavily armored making it very hard to damage and incapacitate even one of them.
The rest of the Dechals body is heavily plated in a similar way, making use of hard, metal impregnated carapace to deflect enemy fire, making up for any difficulty in  the carapace is the fact that it is extremely thick,  more than an inch thick in some places (such as the sides and back). The Wedge-like oval shape of the dechal means that kinetic weaponry fired at it should deflect due to the angle.

The dechal has no discernable Eyes, having been determined that visible eyes would be a weak point that would be targeted ruthlessly on a creature as large and heavily armored as the dechal, Instead the dechal has its eyes plated behind a strong transparent plastic meant to provide minimal cover. The dechal also has a set of very strong scent organs that are capable of detecting scents that normally would be completely covered up by stronger scents.  This allows the dechal to track down enemies that may be hiding or have passed through the area.

The decahl posses two Large claws proportioned to its massive body. One claw takes an appearance similar to a large crab claw, being very large. The dechal usually holds this claw in front of itself, functioning similarly to a large shield to protect its second claw and face. This crab claw is fully functional and simulation show that it should be a more than functional melee weapon, able to crush metal in its pincers as well as just being used similarly to a very large hammer.

The secondary claw of the Dechal, takes an appearance similar to that of a lobster claw. When closed this secondary claw is fully sealed shut, with the lower pincer slotting into the top pincer perfectly. This claw is wider than a regularly proportioned lobster claw. When the claw opens up, it reveals what its sealed nature was hiding, A large vehicle sized Evil Eye and a small set of targeting Irises. While the Large shield like claw protects the Dechal, the Secondary claw provides the lance with which it strikes at its enemies.  As the evil eye is a delicate apparatus it is protected in dual measures. First is the claw that it is housed in the first place, which while much lighter then the main body is still armored in the carapace. The Sealed nature of the claw ensures that lucky small arms fire doesn’t damage it when not in operation. Additionally, when not in use the secondary claw folds in close to the face, where it can be protected by the primary shield claw.

When the Decahl is engaged in combat, it resembles a human hoplite of old, using it primary claw to protect its heavily armoured bulk, While its secondary claw pokes out from behind that great shield to lash out at the enemy. The targeting irisis contained alongside the evil eye allow the dechal to fire at the enemy even when it must use its greater claw to protect itself.

To cut costs on the Dechal, the brain is actually rather simple, running off a similar base to a common sea scavenger. When not controlled, it will typically Find the nearest concentration of food (necessitated by the smell of blood) before begging to eat, all the while protecting its newfound buffet from other non-dechal creatures that attempt to threaten or steal this food from it. When stored on a ship or a base camp, this just means a large pile of dead fish is given to the Dechal.
Instead of a brain designed for combat, the Dechal is commanded by telepathic organ, implanted in the center of its body. This means that to destroy the telepathic organ, one must first pierce through the whole of its mass and armour. A difficult task indeed.

Reposting the evil eye.

OWS - Evil eye of Ba’al
(Organic weapon system)

The evil eye was created as an industrial tool, meant for cutting heavy metal and Ultra-tough organic materials in construction and manufacturing. To do this heavy cutting work the eye of Ba’al Creates a beam in order to melt and cut the material in question.

This process is focused around a large sequence of specialized Organs, each of them the size of a Liir head. These organs all contain a set of Cells, created to have powerful fluorescent proteins; these proteins all serve as a gain medium for optical amplification. These Green Fluorescent Proteins combined with emitted light create a powerful laser that is visible to the naked Liir eye even when emitted from the individual cells. These beams look green because of the protein used as the medium.

The powerful Laser that these cells emit, is then concentrated by the organ that they are mounted inside in a dizzying array of Strand weaving skill. All of this power is then emitted from the tip of the organ as an even stronger and more coherent beam. The multitude of lasers that are being emitted from these specialized organs are then concentrated together once again through a series of lenses and reflective surfaces to ensure the resulting Final beam remains cohesive even as its released from the final lens of the weapon, ensuring the beams cutting power is fully concentrated into a single powerful beam and very little is lost before striking the target. The first design implementation of these converted industrial tools are expected to be mounted on small ship-based mountings as a weapon against enemies of the Liir Biocollective.

[Doomblade187]

Advanced Synthetic Biology: (1) Doomblade
Bore Drive Organic Conversion: (1) Doomblade
Evil Eye: (1) Doomblade

[frostgiant]

Advanced Synthetic Biology: (2) Doomblade, Frostgaint
Bore Drive Organic Conversion: (2) Doomblade, Frostgiant
Evil Eye: (2) Doomblade, Frostgiant

[Rockeater]

Advanced Synthetic Biology: (3) Doomblade, Frostgaint, Rockeater
Bore Drive Organic Conversion: (3) Doomblade, Frostgiant, Rockeater
Evil Eye: (3) Doomblade, Frostgiant, Rockeater

I hate we go Boring but practical with our ship weapon but I understand the need

[Doomblade187]

Frostgiant, could you add a note to the evil eye design that the laser is to be transferred to our infantry as well?

[Blood_Librarian]

Phasic Weaponry

Although plasma itself is so searingly hot that no known material, organic or otherwise can handle containing it, magnetic processes that are normally beyond our reach has been discovered to be replicatable by certain organic structures with a high metallic content, essentially allowing the chemical/ pseudo chemical processes that allow our ships to run to fuel an electrical/ piezo-electrical magnetic coil. This opens a huge category of weapons, from missiles, autocannons and tank esque cannons too certain types of laser and plasma weaponry.

The first weapon created using this process is "Phasic" weaponry, Where a bolt of plasma is generated, magnetically contained into an astronomically thin case of magnetically charged pseudo-organic quartz and sent towards the enemy at incredible speeds with what amounts to be a coil gun.

In effect, bolts of plasma are able to be launched at the enemy, focussed like a ballistic weapon with the lethality of plasma that is resistant to dispersion caused by kinetic impact and atmospheric air resistance.

The first generation of Phasic weaponry is expected to not be man-portable short of extremely heavy weaponry, but it could be mounted on medium or heavy vehicles with some difficulty. It is mostly intended as a weapon of the stars.

The process of generating, and magnetically containing/launching the plasma is handled by specially designed organs. Each weapon module has incorporated radiation shielding to prevent exposure to the other areas of the ship from plasma exposure..

Advanced Synthetic Biology: (3) Doomblade, Frostgaint, Rockeater
Bore Drive Organic Conversion: (3) Doomblade, Frostgiant, Rockeater
Evil Eye: (3) Doomblade, Frostgiant, Rockeater

Advanced Synthetic Biology, Bore Drive Organic Conversion, Phasic weaponry: (1): Blood_Librarian

[Doomblade187]

Hmm.

Phasic Weaponry Detail Design

The magnetic bottle generated by the cells in the plasma organ holds the plasma in place before a two-part solution is injected into the loading chamber. The two part solution is also shaped by the magnetic bottle, and when the two parts combine, they  solidify into a crystalline magnetic container. This container is then shunted forward into the firing chamber, where it is fired as a coilgun projectile.