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The Old-Evolution-Mind control fungus!

Counter-Evolution-No mind control fungus!

[ragnarok97071]

That is a valid reason.
I rescind my request to expand up.

[USEC_OFFICER]

A quick search reveals that any planets nearby that support life are already occupied by other empires. Dropping Jethro-based life on these planets would be highly suspicious. You make a mental note of where they are, for future reference.

You send your encyclopedia ship to the L'sk'ck'it, in an effort to learn more about them. However, when the ship teleports into one of their systems, they quickly destroy it, without warning.

Unfortunately, that's not the worst of your problems.

At first, the NOT-BLOB ship appeared in the Oort cloud. As you sent the Primpsks out to greet the NOT-BLOBS and give them the latest shipment (not they have been giving you anything good lately) another ship appeared, and another and yet one more. Soon, the Oort cloud was full of them. Any doubt of their intentions were dispelled when they blasted the incoming Primpsk ship.

You sent the 20 War crabs out in a desperate attempt to defend Caanan, despite the fact that the War crabs were out-numbered. At first, the War crab's laser weaponry gave you hope that they could succeed, until the NOT-BLOB fleet disappeared. Cursing, you realize that the NOT-BLOBS have cloaking technology as well. With the NOT-BLOB ships only appearing quickly enough to target the War crabs, the battle was incredibly one-sided.

The NOT-BLOB fleet takes its time approaching Jethro, blasting all the visible Primpsk settlements, and punching holes in your Dyson spheres. You franticly try to stop the fleet, but nothing works. There are no infected NOT-BLOBS on board of any of the ships. The spores you sent out to infect the NOT-BLOBS were blasted with intense radiation from the NOT-BLOBS, much more than any living thing could handle.

When the NOT-BLOBS reach Jethro, you send all the half-built ships you have made at them, only to see them blasted away. When the NOT-BLOB armada hovers over Jethro, an intense bombardment begins, turning the surface of the planet into molten lava, killing almost everything on the surface. Even the parts of you underneath the surface are effected, as the bombardment shakes the planet, causing earthquakes and cave-ins. It is not long before you lose all contact with your homeworld.

Several days past before you gather up the courage to approach Caanan again. A small probe, specially designed for this purpose, is sent. Surprisingly, no NOT-BLOBS are left in the system, not even scavengers. It's easy to see why. The intense radiation the NOT-BLOBS used to kill your spores caused many radioactive isotopes to be created. The system is awash with radiation. Most of the planets and moons which you settled on are gone, perhaps pushed into the sun. However, Jethro, alone, still makes its orbit. As the probe draws nearer, it spots something carved into the planet.

This is a masterwork carving of a NOT-BLOB and an unknown alien by the NOT-BLOB fleet on the planet Jethro. The NOT-BLOB is making a rude gesture. The unknown alien is shaking its fist.

[Argonnek]

That's the last straw. This is a war of annihilation. Mass produce supercarriers and swarm fighters, we're taking them down once and for all. If possible, use the collective power of all of the Dyson spheres to burn their worlds.

New ship class: Vengeance.
Movement: standard teleport/ion.
Extras: planetary napalm,
Cloaking,
self-repairing.

Laugh while the fuckers burn.

[blackmagechill]

Develop DNA resistant to the radiation, coat all of our ships with it. They can eat shit, We'll just evolve better provided we have a living speck.

[RAM]

Well, Working out cloaking countermeasures from scratch would probably take too long, modify the old Jellymind design to something cheap with lots of tentacles, they will teleport around the place and latch onto any cloaked vessels, leaving visible tentacles trailing behind them. This, of course, is a secondary priority, we know where their systems are, all we need to do is teleport a star into one of their stars and it will make an effective statement.

What is the significance of the unknown alien, does it resemble us in any way, or is it possible that we have been set up?

[blackmagechill]

Change to a completely different species for interactions. Something big and violent. Activate the spores on their planets, and set them to destroy foreign cells and grow. i.e cancer.

[Argonnek]

Actually, reprogram the spores in their empire to not just be like cancer, have them cause horrible, blinding pain. Also, have them grow as fast as physically possible, spreading themselves everywhere. I want it to be like the Halo series' flood, where a single spore can lead to the takeover of an entire planet.

[RAM]

Of course, it is almost certain that there is some deception here, at the very least it is the discovery of our spores, but it may well be that one or both of us are being set up by a third party.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Thanks to previous research, we can see the cloaked ships, provided that we knew their position before they were cloaked. We just look for changes in the light given off by the stars due to the cloak. The problem is that we have laser weaponry ie it works through light. If we can't see them, we can't hit them, not even if we know where they are.

The other alien is skinny, and probably tall, though telling from the drawing is hard. The other alien has four limbs, two near the top, used for grasping, and two near the bottom, used for locomotion. Its head is attached to a fairly long neck. Two eye-stalks are on the top of the head, and its large manibles are near the front. The other alien has a long tail, with some sort of weapon or counter-balance on the end. It doesn't resemble anything you've seen before.

The first idea that pops inside your head is to activate the spores inside their empire. However, despite your best efforts, you cannot actually find any of your spores. Obviously, the NOT-BLOBS found your spores, and either treated them or moved their infected members to another planet outside of your reach. This probably explains why they attacked Caanan.

You also attempt to improve your spore's resistance to radiation, though they're pretty strong already. You doubt that you could develop anything that could survive in the intense radiation that the NOT-BLOBS unleased. Jethro is still radiative after more than a week after all. A week!

(How big should our vengeance fleet be?)

[FuzzyZergling]

What kind of weaponry did they use?

[Blackdutchie]

The fleet shall be as big as Fungically possible!

[Demonic Spoon]

No! It shall be even larger than that!

[Argonnek]

Our fleet must be so large that their collective mass will be greater than that of Jupiter. Have this fleet be able to repair and replace absolutely any part of itself within a very short timeframe. If our quantum research has gone anywhere we need to weaponize it somehow. I don't care if they were set up, they still attacked us and tried to annihilate us. For this they must die.

[USEC_OFFICER]

What kind of weaponry did they use?

Mostly lasers and mass-drivers, though they might have some nukes.

[FuzzyZergling]

Mostly lasers and mass-drivers

So, if we could somehow replicate their stealth tech, their laser weaponry would be just as useless as ours?