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[EuchreJack]

I also totally stole Conksuck to name a system in No Man's Sky.

[CaptainArchmage]

I also totally stole Conksuck to name a system in No Man's Sky.

Jokes on you, I won a stream raffle to name a planet in No Man's Sky and the planet rename was "Harambe von iPhone Jack LXIX" or something like that.

Yeah, that was real mature, I get it. In my defense, it was very low hanging fruit. Also rather ancient memes, or memes that aged like fine wine.

[King Zultan]

But ancient memes are the best memes!

[EuchreJack]

I also totally stole Conksuck to name a system in No Man's Sky.

Jokes on you, I won a stream raffle to name a planet in No Man's Sky and the planet rename was "Harambe von iPhone Jack LXIX" or something like that.

Yeah, that was real mature, I get it. In my defense, it was very low hanging fruit. Also rather ancient memes, or memes that aged like fine wine.

I swear that I have seen that, although I thought it was a system.

[CaptainArchmage]

2200.04.13

> Hamifi: Check up on Progress

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It feels like a very special time of the sweep for some reason, or is that half sweep. Or maybe that was 2200.03.23, when the RCS Barkgnome Chaser finally was launched from Gaiaeon's End Shipyard Alpha? Either way, when you get enough minerals stockpiled you'll be expanding mining within Gaiaeon's End.

2200.04.29

> Hamifi: Notification from Goezee

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You decided to push back plans to clean up the remains of Stronghold 21 a ways and instead expand space-based energy and mining infrastructure within Gaiaeon's End. You feel this is a rather unwise, and yet also a sensible decision.

Oh, look. Someone's trying to get a hold of you from that unnamed star system.

You decide to ask him to investigate the anomaly anyways. It's going to take a while to survey that system.

2200.07.15

> Mekris Goezee: Achievement Unlocked

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wow, you ACTUALLY completed this quest? And you got... a... SAPIENT TOASTER OF SORTS? Oh whatever. Anyways, your ADAPTABILITY HAS BEEN PRAISED.

Let's move on from here.

2200.10.25

> Hamifi: Big Announcement

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Today, you finally got everything together for the PRIMARY INSTRUMENT of your evacuation plans: The Colony Ship. Obviously, you'll need a very large vessel to carry the initial colony somewhere else.

You also make notes to order a THIRD Construction vessel in... maybe 16 day's time.

2201.01.01

> Hamifi: End of Half Sweep Report.

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It's the first half-sweep report of the interstellar era for the Repiton Corporation, which is to say you're proud to announce that MOST of the mining and energy stations within Gaiaeon's End have been completed, you have finally located an acceptable new homeworld, and you have a colony ship under construction to complete the endeavour.

We're not going to write it all up here though.

2201.03.12

> Hamifi: Finally clean up the slums

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You finally order work to cleanup the ruins of Stronghold 21 and re-assign the workforce to more productive tasks.

2201.03.23

> Hamifi: Adopt a Tradition Tree

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You choose... EXPANSION.

It was logical.

2201.04.13

> Hamifi: First Contact Report



Bytecon managed to complete the contact with the Tiyanki Space Whales, so you got that going for you, which is nice.

2201.04.28

> Hamifi: Read Recent Reports

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You review your daily reports to note something sent to you under a Class 7 Seal.

Looks to you like another world might have experienced something like the events ending the Renaissance on your world... it was at an atomic-age level in terms of advancement, or so the brief states.

You SITEIFY an ARCHEOLOGICAL DIG. You'll have to clinch the system before you do that, however, by which you of course mean build an OUTPOST to claim it.

2201.06.12

> Hamifi: Get Inane Request

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C'mon man, this is ridiculous. Mass Extinction? NO SHIT SHERLOCK. We're literally in a mass extinction scenario here? We have a timeline, ish.

You don't get what these clowns are after. Well, MAYBE, just maybe, you can get some explanations.

> Hamifi: Fine, put this shit in order.

Based on existing planetary physics, not every single planet has a core that's about to explode. However, you get that surface conditions also matter.

You look at the list of systems they've identified with candidates, that's doable with the subspace drives. But, you'd like a new scientist to carry out investigations, and you think you know just who to sign for the role.

Or you think you do.

> Hamifi: Order a new TROLL ARMY

You figure you're going to need some military presence in the galaxy in the form of ground pounders. You again, know just who to call for this. Recruitment will take 100 standard units of minerals and is pretty basic, though on the matter of tactics you're totally at a loss.

You take it your species' mix of individuality mixed with symbiosis and codependence will do a lot for an effective fighting force though.

You can easily order about 4 armies a year, so reaching equilibrium will take about 2 and a quarter sweeps while redlining current mineral output when balanced with expected mining capacity expansion.

[CaptainArchmage]

Update, skipping over a few things for sanity.

2201.08.08

> Hamifi Hekrix: Order new Corporate Culture Centre

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While Repiton's survival is in question, you need to maintain the culture of the Repiton Corporation. You've lately had to reprimand certain a certain scientist for selling some deep mantle mining rights from a newly surveyed moon without your permission. As such, you order the reconstruction of the corporate headquarters in Stronghold 21 as a CULTURE CENTRE, to increase the unity and social research.

> Hamifi Hekrix: Upgrayedd Living Standards

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At the moment, you're not able to distribute luxury goods to increase amenities on Repiton. You do, however, decide to increase the living standards to SOCIAL WELFARE. This means that trolls can gain access to certain benefits and there will be, such as is possible, efforts to prop up living standards on the planet.

2201.09.24

> Hamifi Hekrix: Launch Exploration Vessel

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A THIRD exploration vessel would do much to increase your exploration of the galaxy. This will NOT be called some kind of cheeky or sleazy name, not like the "R.I.S. Hugenbulginator LXIX". No, this will be called the R.C.S. BLACK MESA, which is sure to trigger some conspiracy theories. There's something missing though...

> Hamifi Hekrix: Hire a New Scientist

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What would be an exploration vessel without a scientist to crew it? Fortunately, you have just about someone on your list.

There goes your unity and internal political capital, though. Not that you didn't already with this "social welfare" stuff.

> Bay 12 Reader: BE THE NEW SCIENTIST



...

You are...

You are...

Wait, what do we call this troll?

> Troll: Introduce Yourself



You go by PALINE POEMME. No really, it was added to the crew rooster right back there. You are an expert in ANOMALOUS SITUATIONS and are METICULOUS, which is gr8 because it allows you to get the most out of EXPLORING NEW PLACES.

There's a lot of stuff you love, a lot you don't like, but we're not going to go into too much detail here.

> Paline: Check Flightplan



Hamifi has instructed you to complete scans on the Oli system, which appears to contain a "newish" star with a protoplanetary nebula. This "FUor" class star should be a clean sweep in terms of scans given the smaller number of bodies within. You have this TV around the zero-g sections of the BLACK MESA to keep track of where you're going in real space. The hyperspace network seems to have a branch down here, which may be of purpose to EXPANDIFY troll influence should the machinary to use those lanes ever be invented. But seriously, who WOULD use hyperspace technology when you can just jump wherever you want?

You give orders to charge the jump engines and abscond the system.

[CaptainArchmage]

Been recovering on antibiotics for now, so updates are a bit slow and behind based on current progress.

2201.10.22

> Paline: Luck out

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YIKES! You'd warped into the system about two Repitonian weeks ago and plotted a course to chart the entire thing.

Turns out the protoplanetary disk was denser than thought, and you ended up taking significant damage. However, Admiral You managed to escape from the disk before more damage was done.

> Paline: Level up



You are now a LEVEL 2 ADMIRASCIENTIST. You decide to disengage to the outer areas of the system until your drive recharges, and proceed to secondary objective.

You observe that the hyperlane branch Oli leads to is a dead end. Convenient.

[CaptainArchmage]

2201.10.25

> Hamifi Hekrix: Launch Colony Ship

At least, you have reached the culmination of this phase of the evacuation plan: the first colony ship. This will bring the equipment required for your species' continuity to another world, of which one has already been discovered, and allow you to establish a new colony there.

But first, a name is needed.

WHAT SHALL WE CALL THIS VESSEL?

> Hamifi Hekrix: The Genesis

You decide to call this vessel the GENESIS. For now, you'll keep the vessel close to spacedock until you are closer to claiming a system with a habitable planet in it.

That lake world does look inviting, but you have to be sure.

2201.10.28

> Clippr Xigisi: Operate Vending Machine

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Wow, this thing seems to be really responsive to using YOUR OWN CURRENCY INSIDE OF IT so you of course call up your contact Bytcon Crypto to monetize it. You're of course going over and beyond all the usual channels, and any crap that happens isn't going to be happening on your ship.

Also you're not going to report it directly to the board, because that is for LOSERS.

[CaptainArchmage]

Update with some reader direction options for Clippr Xigisi a.k.a. really Endari Vernir from the Vast Error comic (not my work, fanworkinated derivativation and disclaimers apply) available.

2201.12.11

> Hamifi Hekrix: Issue New Project

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Obviously, trolls don't REALLY know that much about other stars due to the nature of the SOLITARY UNIVERSE which you came from. At least you think that's the case. After reading Paline Poemme's reports, you decided to order a stellar survey to examine each type of star CLOSELY.

There's four projects.

The A-CLASS Star is one of the brighter stars, it's brighter than Gaiaeon's end, and a lot hotter and more white-ish. There's one next door to the Oli system.

The K-CLASS Star is cooler, but there are mixed signals about habitabiity. There is one just off the hyperspace branch near a certain triple star system.

The M-CLASS star is probably one of the coolest classes of fusing bodies in the universe, if not the coolest, but that is contested. Allegedly these should last many trillions of years or something, if that's even possible. There's one off the hyperspace branch with that lake planet in it.

Lastly, there are COMPACT STARS, such as BLACK HOLES. It's a theoretical object so might not even exist, but you have several candidates out there.

The last one is kind of theoretical, and based on ancient RENAISSANCE-GRADE SCIENCE, and in some cases PRE-RENAISSANCE SCIENCE.

Bit of a mess, right?

> Clippr Xigisi: Contemplate Future Course

Spoiler: The Map of the Nearby Galaxy - Reachable Systems in Yellow Circle (click to show/hide)

You're soon to be done with your exploration of the Ler Zumon system, which will be the first time a troll scientist has actually explored an entire star system outside of Gaiaeon's End aka Khluryar. That is to say without all the archeological sites being explored and without all the anomalies being checked off but anyways. You have been assured you have claims on all of those by corporate.

All of them.

ALL OF THEM.

You do need to figure out what course you're taking afterwards, so you get a bit of a ... what is this, a distorted map, predicted a few months for now regards your situation regarding accessible systems? OK, this was in your ship's computer. It's been corrupted a bit, it might alter when you get to that point in time, but not regards the systems you're supposed to have access to or visit.

You note all the systems where there are SPECIAL PROJECTS, which seem to have been earmarked for other persons to allow you a bit more freedom in this endeavour.

Where will you set your course when all of this is done?

Attention Bay 12 Readers, this is your opportunity to indicate a non-crossed out system without any science ships, and more than one hyperspace jump from Repiton. Pick a system.

Just mark the system of your choice with a red circle, but make sure it's within the yellow line and not in an excluded location. Subspace drives do not care for hyperlanes.

[CaptainArchmage]

So it's 4th July, and we have an INTERMISSION. Maybe this will be remastered in a bit but who knows. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

INTERMISSION 1

> Station Master: Deton8.

Spoiler: The Intermission (click to show/hide)

You blow this pornography store before the fuzz shows up.

Wait, that came off as wrong. You ARE "The Fuzz" on this station, and you have one specific mission. Find That Fucking Guy.

That's the guy whose been stealing all the fluffy oblong resting props from around here. And you suspect, a lot more.

You blow intp the "D" airlock, which hasn't been in operation for some time. There's some kind of craft too, they're using to get from this ostensibly defunct part of the station to the rest of the "civilized" station, which you've now impounded and used to BLOW THE BLOODY DOORS OFF. Kind of.

In any case, this person isn't going to be around much longer. What shall we do now to arraign this guy?

[CaptainArchmage]

> Station Master: STRIFE.



Wait, how long's it been? Feels like you've been stuck in a TEMPORAL LOOP.

Oh well. It's time to take this guy DOAUN.

> Station Master: AGGRIEVE!



God put electroblasters on this station for a reason.

> SWEEPS IN THE FUTURE but not many



Wait wut? Wahjere we GOIN' EVEN?!

Oh. Snap.

Yeah maybe where backs

[CaptainArchmage]

Another Upd8! Happy New Sweep!

Bay 12 Reader: OK, Where the F are we

2222.11.11



You have made a choice. You will reveal the FULL DOCTRINE OF THE GODS, AS YOU UNDERSTAND IT, WITH THE CAVEATS, to the public at the eleventh hour today.

............................................................................

When you make the announcement, you note that while the Repiton Corporation is no longer focused on military values, you are open to being wrong or having to re-prioritize on the matter. You raise the philosophical warnings raised prior by Dr. Eelloo, however, noting that a religious awakening can potentially make false bonds of blood with false covenants, which are avoidable, but may threaten the existence of Trollkind.

> Bay 12 Reader: OK, wait, WTF. What happened here. What's this "doctrine". I think we've missed something here



Look, I'm trying to get us up to speed OK? Seriously. How you ended up on a rinkadink planet like this, you know, a world with avians on it and a crazy spiritualist fanatic military system with the usual bunch of weird pono fetishes and whatnot, we'll have to fill you in. Like didn't YOU remember?! C'mon, man.

We'll probably recap on this but this is the most relevant memory I can dig up after you got here, on this industrial age planet.

> Bay 12 Reader: Check up status of Repiton Space



Just for a recap, here's what the Known galaxy looks like right now, based on the recon put together by Rear Admiral Aranea Serket.

... come to think of it, why is the whole thing lead by a Rear Admiral? Why not a Full Frontal Admiral at that? It's a good question. You have a feeling there should be a Full Frontal Admiral, but in my view it's a case of just because you're so confident that you could, doesn't mean that you should. Anyways, that's it. Repiton Space is coincidentally that North America shaped blueberry on the galactic stage.

Edit: I'll be back with fixed gifs a bit l8er. Done