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[Doomblade187]

I would add some way to explode on impact once armed, but  looks good.

[Rockeater]

Reflex aim
To enhance the pd capability of our evil eyes small brain was added for each two or three of those weapons, those brains are also directly connected to the sensors of the ship they are on and are always looking for small objects in their field of vision, when given autonomy by the fleet leader the only thing they do is reflexively aim all eyes they control as one to destroy nearby small enemy objects.

black market event
Probably need to work on it
The calling voice

A large space anomaly, looking similar to a borehole but no other end was observed or detected by our sensors, the anomaly came with instructions on finished goods to throw into it, after it was done an oddly coloured Val'den came out of it, besides the colour and the fact that no instructions or memories were found on it nothing out of the ordinary was seen on it, after it was done a couple more times a Vala came out of it in similar conditions, and later a node carrier, a few days later all Liir in the vacinity of the hole heard a scream of pain more powerful then even those talking of the virus itself, spiecal bioforms were built to work with the anomaly since then.

Energetic life
Throughout the history and science of Liir biomodding there was always one assumption, life needs organic metirals, it seems we were wrong.

This "energetic life" are non sentient quadrapeds about (2 meters) in length with two rows of teaths and a long lizeard like tail, and they are made from pure energetic metirial block. That may be an extiration, they have a few hinges and are covered in metal, but not a single more complex internal mechanism or a lighter element then iron was found in then, and still, they live, reproduce and eat those elements, and they have proven effective in a fight.

[Aigre Excalibur]

No one seems to have countermeasures to psychic weapons, HONK might be a good idea.

[frostgiant]

No one seems to have countermeasures to psychic weapons, HONK might be a good idea.

We have the mind jammer to improve on, I don't feel like we need the HONK.

[Man of Paper]

Man of Paper's Totally Not Forgotten Third and Fourth Black Market Proposal, And The One Edited In


Atomomancy

Somewhere deep within the void of space, far from any natural object, drifts the Ebon Monastery. It is here where a secret society of monks practices the art of Atomomancy. Through sheer focus and force of will (and specially grown crystal staves) they can manipulate fields of atoms and molecules. Their unique power (actually the crystals used), with ample training, can render molecules inert, "freeze" them in place, excite them to produce heat, render them highly unstable, or anything in between, though the color of crystal tends to affect it's effect.


HUNK

The Hyperspace Utility Network Konnector is, simply, an electronic means of providing a pocket-dimension of storage space that can be pulled from at any time. A HUNK Receiver can be programmed to a HUNKSpace and it's inventory freely pulled from. Multiple HUNK-Rs can be connected to the same HUNK-S, allowing an entire fleet to share cargo space without leaving valuable materials on ships headed into combat.


The Honest And Noble King of the Hill

An alien race that only ever spoke in nonsense convoluted terms was, surprisingly, very adept at mechanized warfare. The HANK/Hill for short is a relatively large quadripedal assault vehicle crewed by a single neurally linked pilot referred to as a Judge. It's 360 degree rotatable torso has two arms, one ending in a chemical thrower known as the Trusty Spackleport and the other in a rapidfire railgun referred to as the Pegger of the Hill. A small PD system mounted on the shoulders, the Ladybird System, is used to alleviate or negate incoming heavy weapons fire. The vehicle contains it's own heavy weapons system in the form of it's primary cannon, the BoomHowitzer, mounted in the chest and capable of providing it's own close-range artillery support. The HANK/Hill is designed to be a literal King of the Hill, capable fighting off opponents from all sides.

[Jerick]

I've been thinking about our corvettes and how we lost a whole bunch of them now we've several options we can do to fix things.

1)
We could abandon corvette class ships altogether and field more cruisers. This allows us to bring a lot of firepower to the battlefield but I worry that this approach would need improved PD capabilities or our cruisers will just be done in by waves upon waves of nuclear torps.

2)
We could attempt to armour up our corvettes and make them more survivable that way. I actually don't think this is such a good idea because the cube-square law means that it'll always be better to have big armoured ships with lots of guns than several smaller ships. Except there is one aspect that smaller ships will always have over larger ships, which brings me to the last option;

3)
We could attempt to make our corvettes faster and more manoeuvrable. We should be aiming for doginess not tankiness. Now I proposed something a long time ago that'd give things precognition, I'm going to bring that back and propose a slightly updated version. As for speed we've already got decent tech for that, our Sublight Drive Organs have low acceleration but they do the unusual property that having more of them increases the effectiveness of the other SDOs. In other words the more SDOs we have on a ship the more thrust each one gives. If we strip out the boredrive we can shove another three SDOs on. Add precognition to the mix and you've got something that turns the Val'den's aversion to pain into a strength.

Regular Proposals

Spoiler: Wraith Generator (click to show/hide)

Wraith Generator;
The Wraith generator is an enormous array of psychic organs that occupies a large mount. Psychic energy is potent stuff. Accidental interactions of our songs have on rare occasion produced a kind of phantom. These phantom's existence is fleeting. They are temporary confluences of psychic energy. They have been observed to move and act randomly. We have taken what we learned from these incidents and figured out ways to generate this phenoma and structure them. A correctly structured phantom can make limited decisions and it can exert telekinetic force (however doing so reduces it's lifespan, if such things could be said to be alive). The Wraith Generator uses the different psychic organs to form precisely structured psionic confluences at vast distances (near field range, if coupled with a pulse detection sensor). These wraiths that are generated by these confluences are structured to seek out nearby living organisms that aren't part of the Liir song and destroy them with telekinesis. They detect and seek the thoughts of living things and use them to track their targets down. Since they are formless clumps of psychic energy they can pass through physical barriers unimpeded and are invisible to the psychically blind.  A functioning Wraith generator can spawn thousands of instances at a time, flooding the enemy ships with relentless floating death. These Wraith generators can also be targeted at a planet enabling a unique kind of planetary bombardment. Thankfully like the more benign naturally occurring phantoms, wraiths fade away. They last considerably longer though lasting about a week or two on their own. If they are using telekinesis that time is remarkably shorter.

We lack a long-range weapon or a large weapon for that matter so I knocked this crazy thing together. I can hopefully make use of our excellent detection ranges and engage the enemy silently before we're even close enough for them to detect us.

Spoiler: Precognition Organ (click to show/hide)

The Precognition organ is a small addition attached directly into an organism's mind. Using a mix of biology and psionics the organ sends synthetic particles back in time. This stream of particles is encoded with the memories of the organism in the present. This organ also receives a stream of synthetic particles from the future which is translated back into memories. This gives the organism a constant stream of memories from several minutes in the future. Acting on this knowledge has been shown to be useful in altering the future and avoiding negative situations.

Spoiler: Distributed Anti Munition spore Field (click to show/hide)

The distributed anti munition field is a new development of psionic biology. It is a swarm of small spores, each with the tiniest of psionic potential, at least when alone. When psionically linked and networked together, however, they are able to exert considerable force if there is a large enough cloud of them. If a spore encounters something metallic, such as the hulls of enemy fighter craft, it will pull or push it into a collection point where it will be crushed together with any other debris and it will signal the rest of the spores to lend telekinetic aid to this effort. Once balled up the debris are digested by the spores as they make new spores by metabolising the metal. These spores use their telekinesis to push one another into an even dispersion and are capable of maintaining an even cloud even as it expands. Explosions are ineffective at destroying the spores and only serve to spread them further. These spore clouds can be rendered inactive with the proper Liir song. They can be deployed from boarding appendages and deployed at range by using a modified spine launcher round. The modified spine launcher has a much reduced telekinetic organ used only for propulsion and guidance and instead mounts a sack containing a vast quantity of anti munition spores that can be released where chosen.

A little interception design that should help deal with those fighters and missiles.

Black Market Event Proposals

Spoiler: Crystalline Ever-Computer (click to show/hide)

The Crystalline Ever-Computer is the most alien thing we have yet to encounter. The lost ones and the discordant have their quirks but their machines are things our scientists understand. The Crystalline Ever-Computer is a little harder to decipher. It is comprised of a large central crystal held in a secure transparent chamber. This chamber is surrounded by rotating rings comprised of synthetic materials these rings appear to have a function analogous to a particle accelerator and frequently shine beams through the central crystal out the other side and back into the ring. Our attempts at understanding this object have not been unsuccessful however as we have been able to access and manipulate this device's user functions and thus it's purpose becomes clear to us. It is a computer of unimaginable processing power, it's processing power appears to literally be infinite. We do not know for certain how this is achieved but we have some theories; we believe the central crystal is a processing unit that far exceeds anything we have theorised to be possible in terms of raw computational power but it is still finite. The beams however we theorise are originating from alternate versions of this same device in alternate timelines. There is almost an infinite number of other realities differing from ours by only the smallest margin, an atom in a slightly different place, etc. This machine uses those realities, creates an infinite distributed network and uses all 'local' timelines similar enough to ours as to make no difference and use that to produce a single perfect simulation of our reality. Effectively an infinite number of computers are sharing single simulation. Still, objects that fully simulate the universe should create some recursion problems but upon investigation, we found the simulation's only shortcut; it uses the data from the active simulation to spoof any device that tries to simulate the universe such as itself. In other words, the results the simulated entities see are from their own simulated reality rather than a reality they are simulating. Furthermore viewing the future appears restricted for some reason and we have been unable to get around those blocks. This poses some unanswerable questions that our scientists don't want to think too hard on. But they do recommend against any action that damages the machine as doing so will either end the universe or just simply break it, we have no idea which.

Spoiler: Anti-Entropy generator (click to show/hide)

This odd-looking sphere contains bizarre and intricate circuitry made from synthetics. It is small enough to be carried. While it operates on an understanding of physics that is foreign to us we may be able to successfully recreate this device and its effects. When entropy increases in the vicinity of the sphere, the sphere releases energy in an amount relative to the increase of entropy. Due to the cooling of the universe and other factors, the anti-entropy generator is always at least warm and can emit large bursts of energy when in the presence of explosions or energy discharges. When coupled with another kind of generator it can make a perpetual energy machine. However, its max output is limited by its melting point as there is a point past which the device will not survive.

[Rockeater]

About our corvettes, we only built 3 with TOMES iirc, the rest was so production points don't go to waste, which means 1 is nor relevant in the short term, but it also means that fixing them in a deep level (replacing current mounts with a mideum one for example) will cost at least 2 dice, so it would be some surface soultions for this turn probably.

[frostgiant]

Jellyfish area denial medium mount
The munition fired from the jelly fish, initially appears as a large,  sea urchin, with a radius of 2 meters.
When deployed, the urchin will travel a predesignated distance, before slowing itself with telekinesis in order to come to a halt. From their, hundreds of long "Hairs" are fired. These hairs span massive distances, all while being very very thin. When the deployment is finished, The 2-meter radius orb has become a much smaller target and a net of hundreds of very very long hairs has been created.
These hairs act as both the trigger and the circuit for the main weapon mechnaism.
When a torpedo or fighter makes contact with the hair, the advanced neurology of the brain at the center of this net will react with speed possible only through our powerful biological capabilities. From there, the Jellyfish takes advantage of the instant nature of psionic energy to direct it to the affected area of the hair and create a powerful telekinetic burst, crumpling fighters and torpedos like less then tin cans.

Maelstrom large Launcher
A large mount weapon that sacrifices range in its firing mechanism in exchange for projectile yield. The maelstrom launcher is an expansion on the same principles that created the psionic spine launcher. This massive orb of Metallic Bone and Telekinesis specialized Neural Tissue is designed to be fired from the large mount, and once traveling a safe distance away, will use the hundreds of specialized brains inside of the orb to create hundreds of conflicting telekinetic pulls and pushes. These create an area of unstable space that is more then likely to rip apart any material substance that enters, or at the very least send it so hopelessly off course it will be unable to return to its attack run.
This massive telekinetic phenomenon is designed to cover a large area of space, and is to be primarily used as a PD weapon for clearing large volleys of enemy fire in a single shot albeit it can be used to attack lesser ships with some effect do to its massive area of effect.
As the Maelstrom orb travels, eventually the brains inside will burn out and run out of energy, however, this is expected to happen outside of the projected range, with the weapon being designed for knife and engagement range use, due to a lightened firing mechanism in the name of cost and projectile ability.

Liir'faar'gor Telekintic array.
The telekinetic array is a step forward in the field of telekinetic biological manipulation. These four large brains, designed to be placed inside of the hull of a cruiser sized ship are intended to give our living ships the ability to use telekinesis in an as flexible manner as the liir are capable of. Ranging from telekinetic waves of force, crushing pressures, movement if self and manipulation of objects.
Such a capability would be quite the boon for a ship, and with uses such as moving the ship in last minute dodges of incoming projectiles through telekinetic manipulation of self, Pushing waves of force used to deflect contact weapons, a crushing grip to destroy enemy enemy ship or fighter that strays to close to the ship (or at least the barrels and launch point of mounted weapons), or even the ability to create shields of space debris to protect itself further before using said space debris as a massive kinetic slug or debris field as necessary.
Truly the benefits of liir telekinetic abilities on a cruiser scale of use would be many, albeit it is incredibly likely that the complicated system of 4 specialized brains, which provide the telekinetic power and act as sub-processors for the required manipulations as called for by the primary brain,  would be rather power hungry, but that is nothing new for liir technology.

[Draignean]

Juliett
Curiously, the Gaian troops still do not engage. They fall back, successfully avoiding any sort of combat encounter between themselves and the notes. Despite their superior vibration senses allowing them to find the Gaian encampments, the humans are always able to pack up and leave before the notes are able to amass a sufficient swarm. While slightly frustrating and bewildering, it does allow rapid progress.

4 Dominion

Hotel | Foxtrot
After the planets have been fully surveyed and their strategic zones mapped, the all clear is finally given to embark colonization tenders to once more begin the work of spreading the Liir to the stars.
11910
Design Phase of Year 4
Resources
Dice: 6
T: 19372 + 2602
O: 1974+ 10044
M: 53180 + 9125
E: 30109 + 5379
S: 3922 + 500

Sun-Eater has auto-completed

Spoiler: Active Projects (click to show/hide)

Veil Piercer: 6/15 [3] |  50T +350O + 25M + 100E + 20S | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing Invested
Ygg'Dra'Saal Devourer module: 3/12 [3] | 125T + 125O + 50M + 0E + 0S | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing invested

Liiran Technology List
Liiran Empire Planner

Spoiler: Current Deployments (click to show/hide)

Echo
Fleets
- 1st Fleet, 27/35
1 Herd leader Cruiser  (Jerol) Moderately Damaged, 15% of ship cost to repair
1 Undying (Adrax) Moderately Damaged, 15% of ship cost to repair
3 Val'Den'Bal

- 2nd Fleet, 24/35
1 Herd leader Cruiser
1 transport cruiser 3x notes

Ground
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Hotel
Fleets
- 3rd Fleet, 39/43
1 Herd leader Cruiser
1 transport cruiser
1 Undying cruiser
3x Val'den'Bal

Ground - 10/10
2x Note Regiments
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Foxtrot
Fleets
 - 5th Fleet
1 transport cruiser
Ground - 10/10
3x Note Regiments
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Juliett
Fleets
- 4th Fleet, 29/35
1 Herd leader Cruiser
1 transport cruiser
5 Val'Den'Bal

Ground - 6/10 Gaian Regime 4/10
4x Note Regiments

[frostgiant]

Design
Maelstrom launcher [3 dice] (1): Frostgiant

Progress allocation
1 dice to Void piercer (0):
2 Dice to void piercer (0):
1 dice (Rush) to void piercer (1): Frostgiant
2 Dice (1 rush) to void piercer (0):

Black market Tech:
Rune stones (1):Frostgiant

Initial Bid:
10,000 Production points (1): Frostgiant

1 dice to void piercer gives us to revision dice to play around with along with a design. At any roll above 3, the turn it takes for the void piercer to finish is reduced by 1, if it's a 6 the void piercer will finish by natural progress at the end of the turn.
Going with the maelstrom launcher to utilize the Vala's large mount and I think the ability to basically take an MSpaint erasure tool over sections of a volley/Fighter wing will be rather useful, That fight was iffy because of nuclear torpedo barrage so I feel it's important to address that.

[Doomblade187]

Design
Maelstrom launcher [3 dice] (2): Frostgiant, Doomblade

Progress allocation
1 dice to Void piercer (0):
2 Dice to void piercer (0):
1 dice (Rush) to void piercer (2): Frostgiant, Doomblade
2 Dice (1 rush) to void piercer (0):

Black market Tech:
Rune stones (1):Frostgiant
Anti-Entropy Generator (1): Doomblade

Initial Bid:
10,000 Production points (1): Frostgiant

I'll do a proper proposal in a wee bit. Per my black market vote, the anti-entropy generator shows grand promise in each field of our empire.

Edit:

HANK/Hill Bio (Honest and Noble King of the Hill)
The recent environmental atrocities, combined with our lack of major ground forces, have led us to develop the first Biomech meant to land a Liir on planet in this war
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An alien race that only ever spoke in nonsense convoluted terms was, surprisingly, very adept at mechanized warfare. The HANK/Hill for short is a relatively large quadripedal assault vehicle crewed by a single neurally linked pilot referred to as a Judge. It's 360 degree rotatable torso has two arms, one ending in a chemical thrower known as the Trusty Spackleport and the other in a rapidfire hatespine railgun referred to as the Pegger of the Hill. A small PD system mounted on the shoulders, the Ladybird System, is used to alleviate or negate incoming heavy weapons fire. The vehicle contains it's own heavy weapons system in the form of it's primary heavy weapon, the BoomHowitzer, mounted in the chest, capable of providing it's own close-range artillery support. The exterior of the mech is a several layers of regenerative, radiation-hardened carapace, and an auxilliary psionic brain is attached to help power a miniaturized node organ. The pilot can alsp shunt energy to the spine launcher to perform upper atmosphere anti-nuclear interception. The HANK/Hill is designed to be a literal King of the Hill, capable fighting off opponents from all sides.

Shameless crib, but is fun. Pls give feedback on how to improve while keeping theme.

[Man of Paper]

Man of Paper's Edited Designs (MoPED)

Atomomancy

Somewhere deep within the void of space, far from any natural object, drifts the Ebon Monastery. It is here where a secret society of monks practices the art of Atomomancy. They believe that sheer force of will and psychic energy allows them to manipulate atomic structures and hone their minds and bodies for the task.

In reality their "ability" comes from the crystals granted to each member in the form of a ring with a mildly luminescent crystal (or crystals) set into it. The Ebon Monks are able to, with the wave of a hand, freeze matter, excite it, fuse it, split it...the possibilities are endless. Or at least, the Ebon Monks think so. But they've never been of scientific minds, and have never looked twice at their gemstones. Granting Liir access to the Atomomancy crystals will allow a thorough study of these crystals. Everything from their formation to their structure, color, even taste and smell, are examined to uncover how and why they work, and what their limits actually are.


Singularity Containment Protocols

Some say a black hole is the most destructive, cruel entity in the entirety of existence. We know this to be false - it has no will, no life, and does not actively seek to kill or harm, as many organics do.

It is, however, a nearly limitless source of energy if one can tame it.

A highly advanced species managed to create step-by-step instructions on how to build a singularity containment field - and the generator to spark a singularity within it. Labeled "SCP-3200", the long, extremely detailed document gives the exact composition of the borders of the containment field, the type of energy shielding needed (both to contain the singularity and protect anyone in close proximity from various forms of radiation), the required composition of particles within the field, and the exact amount of energy input required to kickstart the process. Once could very safely contain a singularity if they followed the instructions to the letter. These fields can be constructed in a wide range of sizes and remain stable, though miniaturization past a certain point gets...tricky.

However, that document only covers containment, requiring experimentation to reveal what exactly a Singularity Containment Field could be purposed for. And as SCP-3200 is the only malleable evidence left of this long lost race, it's not like there's anyone to question about it.


Pocket Dimensions

Everything, as it turns out, is mostly empty. There is more emptiness inside every atom than there is substance, and yet we recognize this extreme minority with ease. We have, so it seems, done the same thing with our entire reality.

A race of Artificial Intelligences turned sentient needed storage space on their lone planet without sacrificing their production output (or birthing process, however one views it). As a result they created a device capable of creating artificial pockets of reality by manipulating the empty space within everything. It remains unknown what the extent of these Pocket Dimensions are, what is within them, if they experience time, or if they're even within our reality, but the AI race managed to invade multiple neighboring systems, seeding them over many, many generations with slower-than-light probes set to open to their programmed pocket dimension. Once triggered, vast armies poured forth. Unfortunately for them a rogue planet struck their homeworld and destroyed their manufacturing ability as well as any machine not contained within the pocket dimension.

But probes were recovered and the technology is now available to acquire.

[Doomblade187]

Hyper-Relativity

The Liir have a good relationship with evolution; it helped birth them, and they use it to help generate better geneweaving results.

But what it we could speed up the process? We are called back to the occasional anomalous discovery in deep space- strange husks, all technology long gone, but far older than they have any right to be. What if they were actually older? What if there was some way to accelerate the flow of time in an area, not just by a mere double, but by 100s. Thousands even? The possibilities are endless. Forming stars, planets, advancing the evolution of species millions of times over.

[Man of Paper]

Even More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Black Market Proposals

Fine-tuned Anomalous Temporal Energy Systems

Space-Time, according to popular belief, is an indivisible coupling - where there is space, time must exist, and vice-versa. But some have proven that is not quite the case.

Thanks to an array known as F.A.T.E.S., it is possible to manipulate, and even split, space and time. Possibilities are quite literally endless, but it is up to Liir engineers to uncover how to effectively manipulate the FATES.

[Rockeater]

Design
Maelstrom launcher [3 dice] (3): Frostgiant, Doomblade, Rockeater

Progress allocation
1 dice to Void piercer (0):
2 Dice to void piercer (0):
1 dice (Rush) to void piercer (3): Frostgiant, Doomblade, Rockeater
2 Dice (1 rush) to void piercer (0):

Black market Tech:
Rune stones (1):Frostgiant
Anti-Entropy Generator (1): Doomblade
Atomomancy

Initial Bid:
10,000 Production points (1): Frostgiant
Wait for now (1): Rockeater