>>6187969

Being of a simple and cheap design, the mining vessel does require a sizeable crew of around a thousand or so men to run basic functions of the ship. Most of the basic functions are wholly automated, but both out of paranoia and ease of use, you went with this design due to its simplicity and the power the crew has to disable any and all systems of the vessel and to command the various drones being used.

Once this construction process is finished, you shall send Faluns across the system to begin stripping it of any useful resources and then to bring them back to the voidyard, which should hopefully solve your logistical bottleneck, at least in the short term, enough to allow for the second project you wish to undertake.

A new defensive grid. The currently existent defensive installations shall be dismantled alongside the two remaining voidstations and replaced with something far smaller, numerous, and powerful. You shall start with a single large platform housing a singular massive cannon which shall accelerate a massive shell fast enough to crush any vessel impacted by it. In case of overwhelming enemy presence, or just a vast number of small voidships, each of these larger platforms shall possess a quartet of smaller platforms housing vast laser turrets, one large, and half a dozen smaller ones meant to intercept missiles, strikecraft or just vastly manoeuvrable foes. The final installation to tie everything up would be a few automated stations whose only purpose is to produce teleportation mines, thousands, hundreds of thousands if not eventually millions, depending how badly you wish to fill the surrounding orbit and how many resources you wish to spare, shall be assembled and prepared to annihilate any threat. Even the Tyranids, if they ever return in similar numbers, would be hard-pressed to threaten Deimea once again.

As for their defences, the platforms possess the standard issue federation plating and complete automation, with your presence here, you shall be able to easily control them. This means that the platforms can take a good amount of punishment before collapsing. Finally, there are a few thrusters mounted upon the platforms giving limited mobility, enough to avoid the previous incident of the wounded light cruiser smashing into a platform. Should it ever happen that you would not be present, you had accounted for this possibility and installed limited C&C rooms where in a dozen or so man can control the whole platform, or to shut it down in case any of the automated systems would rebel and exhibit signs of code degradation.

In the end, the railcannon platforms shall number 40, with the laser platforms numbering 160 as well as 8 mine manufacturing platforms hidden behind those. These numbers could of course be increased, but that would strain your available resources.

Of course, all this construction is easy compared to what you must do next.

>>6187970

“Odysseus.” Gane proclaims entering your chamber, having long since recovered after his prolonged command of the previous engagement. Though you do spot a few more bionics here and there, no doubt whatever narcotics he had used to maintain constant awareness of such a prolonged period had caused permanent and irreversible damage.

“Fabricator-General. It is good that you had come. What matters ail you ?” You reply in kind, already attempting to calculate his potential responses and those of the techpriesthood as a whole.

“You would not call upon me for idle talk, but very well. Current projections are all stable, our warriors are training without stop and the population is currently undergoing a massive boom due to the availability of resources. Finally, Kanzula has been subdued, on more reports arrive about unrest, nor are there any issues with food shipments. Does that satisfy you ?”

”Exceptionally. Now, for the matter at hand. As it currently stands, I have a scientifically oriented vessel in orbit of Deimea, one that currently lacks staff, but has access to the most advanced of equipment for numerous scientific discoveries.”

”I see. You wish for members to crew this voidship ?”

”That is correct, I would like to request you to find suitable individuals to become a part of the crew. Naturally, as the first project to be undertaken, I wish for the xenos’ vessel to be the very first subject of research. Something that would benefit everyone involved.”

”A tempting offer for most.” Gane nods.

”But not everyone. As such, I would be willing to part with some things of small import to convince those few unwilling.”

You hear something you had not even thought possible – laughter. ”A small gift. Yes. Small gifts make for big things.” Volteus, amused for the first time in a while, proclaims.

>>6187971

”Would it not be possible ?”

”On the contrary, extremely likely. And I assume that for my efforts I shall too receive, a small gift ?”

”If you will for it.”

”Very well. Though I must warn you of one thing. The xeno had long since expired, the energy it had once outputted had long since ceased. Afterwards, parts of it had been shattered and taken by various factions and individuals across Deimea. Parts can still be recovered, but how much use you shall find from them remains to be seen.”

”An unfortunate fact.”

”There is much for more to do, if you wish to proceed.”

”I would like for it, yes. Even there are only parts, some knowledge could be gleamed about our foes.”

”Then I hope you shall have your small gifts prepared, Odysseus.”

So do I. You ponder to yourself. There is still so much for you to do. Though the news that Kanzula is safe and well appears to be one of assurance to the techpriesthood. Though seeing as how the locals had resisted for years even when truly horrendous means to supress them were enforced, you cannot help but wonder how such a peace was achieved.

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>>6187972
>You have the basics down, but you can continue Mechanical Raj and begin construction of Zephir-class vessels. With your current resources and infrastructure, you presume it will take about three months to produce one such ship.
>(Write in)
>Gear the first Zephir class vessel completely for naval personnel training.

>Your core is still damaged. This will be undoubtedly the most difficult part of the operation, but you have to restore yourself fully, if for no other reason than to bring your subsystems online.

I think it is time for us to get our subroutines back. Deimea is well protected by both a fleet and well made orbital defenses. Our gene-enhanced lobotomites are out and free. We should build a Zephir and focus on restoring our subroutines. If the option means we have to choose which subroutine to bring online, I say we get our diplomacy subroutine online. We need it most.

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>>6187972
>More firepower in the void is always good. However, the biggest bottleneck is a vast quantity of high-quality crews required to operate them successfully. In time, naturally this issue can be addressed, but a higher technological level would mean less crew and more automation, though you doubt how much trust you can place in the hands of religious zealots, whom are probably the only ones with prerequisite intellect and knowledge to be trained into crewmen.
(Build a fleet to integrate in the current fleet)
(Tech level antiquated)

1 Corvus Class Fire Cruiser
1 Geobukseon Class Armoured Cruiser
1000 Whirlwind Class Missile Boats

Introduce

- 20 Ox Class Destroyer (Multi-role offensive and defensive ship, armed with two large side missile [small and faster variety of missiles] batteries and a balanced mix of laser cannons and railgun turrets. In addition it has a single hangar for hold 5 Harrier- Class Fighters. Standard amount of armor plating and shielding).

- 50 Piranha Class Corvette (Anti-fighter ship, even faster and agile than the Hyena, it's armed with multiple laser turret networks and shrapnel guns networks. The protection it offers in terms of armor plating and shields is basic, but in exchange its side thrusters combined with its engines give it an unmatched speed, agility and great capacity of evasion. A terror for any enemy fighters and a difficult target for enemy ships).

- 5 Wraith Class Scout Ship (Made for reconnaissance, e-war, spying comms, jamming, scanning and above all stealth. Its an agile ship, with simple armor plating and shields for protection, and a few laser turrets for weapons. It also carries with it a few cloaked mines [less powerful in explosion and can't teleport like teleportation mines], a few stealth probes, a few stealth drones and 2 stealth gunships. A shadow over our foes).


Some additional Cruisers will provide a stronger battle line, and we lack lighter ship classes beside the Hyena.The Whirlwinds will act like we have seen already. The Ox will provide a backbone that can fight both in attack and defense, the Piranha instead will be there for kill fighters, bombers, boarding pods and fire at incoming enemy missiles and projectiles. The Wraith will be a scout ship of course made for stealth.
>You have the basics down, but you can continue Mechanical Raj and begin construction of Zephir-class vessels. With your current resources and infrastructure, you presume it will take about three months to produce one such ship.
Education and training

Write in
>Begin construction of armed satellites in the thousands, equipped with laser cannons and missile pods, then 100 unarmed satellites to monitor the solar system with radars, scanners, sensors,etc.... Lastly 4 observation stations will be built for observe Sector Clarus and the galaxy from distance, thanks to their large space telescopes
Defense

I think we should build something for Kazula next round. An order for farm vehicles, farm equipment, fertilizers, seeds, animals and some armed and unarmed satellites would be a good thing. Maybe some construction vehicles too, if they can have better and fortified settlements it doesn't hurt. Neither some industry would hurt there, its a stable world (tectonic wise) and we could make food anywhere. Staying entirely agri is not efficient and leaves it weak.

And maybe we should look in putting a stop to the guerilla warfare. Have them come to an agreement with the Deimeans.

>>6187972
>You have the basics down, but you can continue Mechanical Raj and begin construction of Zephir-class vessels. With your current resources and infrastructure, you presume it will take about three months to produce one such ship.

>You have your science crew, and you have your first subject of study. Disassemble the xeno's ship !

>>6188021
Might be better to do that now, starting with sending androids to get a clear and honest assessment of Kazula before deciding what to send (and to make sure the sent cargo doesn't go "missing"). After that I'd feel comfortable enough to begin the long due repairs of the Core.

>>6187972
>Your core is still damaged. This will be undoubtedly the most difficult part of the operation, but you have to restore yourself fully, if for no other reason than to bring your subsystems online.
>You have your science crew, and you have your first subject of study. Disassemble the xeno's ship!
>More firepower in the void is always good. However, the biggest bottleneck is a vast quantity of high-quality crews required to operate them successfully. In time, naturally this issue can be addressed, but a higher technological level would mean less crew and more automation, though you doubt how much trust you can place in the hands of religious zealots, whom are probably the only ones with prerequisite intellect and knowledge to be trained into crewmen.
(Build a detachment to integrate in the current fleet)
(Tech level antiquated)
1 Corvus Class Fire Cruiser
1 Geobukseon Class Armoured Cruiser
1000 Whirlwind Class Missile Boats

So... what did we give Gane to bribe him? Do you have a background list for that QM or do you take suggestions?

>>6188016
We dont need all the other ships for now. A "small" detatchment should be enough to boost our "millitia". Remember that we have the mining vessels and new defences as well. It should be enough to punch out Orks.

>>6188162
My suggestion for the bribe would be scientific equipment in the techpriests specialisation. For every member of the science ship and also Gane of course

>>6188134
i might makesuch write-in if there is enough interest. Otherwise i do not believe in doing it now not with other stuff we should do, my main priority is defense of Deimea then we can go to sleep. It wouldn't be a big order since Kazula population is in the millions, but is more work to do and Kazula isn't particulary well defended or with much infrastructure. As a world is just better than Deimea though, not having heavy tectonic problems is a massive help in construction.

Honestly i would be surprised if techpriests wanted that kind of cargo, especially when it would be useful in Kazula. We are going to build orbital habitats on Deimea for immediate food variety and production in the future, they just need to wait really. But they are very sketchy on the worship thing at least when they think they can't be seen, so isome of them blatantly stealing could happen. We could just throw a bribe and a zap, a carrot and stick approach. Not against making an android or two, but those need facilities that we need to build.


>>6188162
There is nothing said on the nature of the bribe. Could be anything.

>We dont need all the other ships for now.
I will not agree with it, respectfully.
These defenses are not enough at all for Deimea. Sector Clarus is anything but pacific, and enemies are many and very active. So i prefer further safety. And i would prefer to not use mining vessels with civilians for defense thank you very much.

>>6188176
It is not that I dislike more ships or that I dont like the other models you suggested. But I really think we should prioritise our core first. We are functionally only half awake like we are now. Getting all the subrotines back online will help more than more ships. Also I dont think our little Mechanicus buddies will be idle either. Gane and friends are not as incompetent as some anons think. They are producing their own gear without our help all the same.

>>6187972
>You have the basics down, but you can continue Mechanical Raj and begin construction of Zephir-class vessels. With your current resources and infrastructure, you presume it will take about three months to produce one such ship.

>Your core is still damaged. This will be undoubtedly the most difficult part of the operation, but you have to restore yourself fully, if for no other reason than to bring your subsystems online.

>You have your science crew, and you have your first subject of study. Disassemble the xeno's ship!
Put those nerds to work.

>>6187972
>>Your core is still damaged. This will be undoubtedly the most difficult part of the operation, but you have to restore yourself fully, if for no other reason than to bring your subsystems online.
>You recall that other parts of yourself are in other forge-temples, you would naturally like those back. The techpriests might not like having the fundamental parts of their worship removed from their grasp, but you doubt they would say no to what they believe is their God.

>>6187972
>Your core is still damaged. This will be undoubtedly the most difficult part of the operation, but you have to restore yourself fully, if for no other reason than to bring your subsystems online.

>Time to think of defence. Slowly and carefully, you will make a few laser turrets disguised as more forges, better to be safe than sorry.

>You recall that other parts of yourself are in other forge-temples, you would naturally like those back. The techpriests might not like having the fundamental parts of their worship removed from their grasp, but you doubt they would say no to what they believe is their God.

>>6188275
>>6188312
I'd say let's not try and get our body parts integrated into the forges yet, we will need the diplomatic subroutine to manage that political landmine

>>6187972
Praise the Updatessiah!

>You have built parts of the autoforge, there is still much work left however before you can extend it even further. (Continue with inferno pistol production. Repurpose new parts of the forge for your own manufacturing.)
Gifts must be made for the priesthood. And it is time to upgrade the bionics. Long past time, in fact. Begin the mass production of a suite of equipment, autosurgeon pods, and bionics for the safe creation of whole-body prostheses. Include some basic mechadendrites as well, nothing too strong. Let's give the priesthood a solid foundation for future bionic rewards.

>Write-in
Begin testing of a suite of gene therapies for biological enhancement of the general population as well.

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Maintenance
>Your core is still damaged. This will be undoubtedly the most difficult part of the operation, but you have to restore yourself fully, if for no other reason than to bring your subsystems online.

>With drones in place, use it to run a full test upon yourself to see just how much mobility you lost, and if it is still possible for you to detach yourself from the world.

>Time to think of defence. Slowly and carefully, you will make a few laser turrets disguised as more forges, better to be safe than sorry.
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Infrastructure
>You have the basics down, but you can continue Mechanical Raj and begin construction of Zephir-class vessels. With your current resources and infrastructure, you presume it will take about three months to produce one such ship.

>You require a far greater number of raw ore to be shipped to your orbital infrastructure. While Deimea is tectonically unstable, you can make a space elevator with some shielding methods to allow for material shipping into orbit. Of course, you’d build the prerequisite infrastructure to actually make the elevator worth building.

>You recall that other parts of yourself are in other forge-temples, you would naturally like those back. The techpriests might not like having the fundamental parts of their worship removed from their grasp, but you doubt they would say no to what they believe is their God.
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Other
>You cannot help yourself; you need to know about surrounding systems. You could request Gane to launch scouting expeditions. You are not doing it due to your inherent need to satisfy curiosity, no, knowledge is power after all. (Which system ?)
GSDGW-1

>You have your science crew, and you have your first subject of study. Disassemble the xeno's ship !

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Your core is still damaged. etc...
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Gear the first Zephir class vessel completely for naval personnel training.etc...
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>>6191471
Vooting is so dumb. :weary:

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>>6191529
Vooting is essential! We need democracy!

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>>6191867
I hate your precious democracy.

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>>6191911
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>>6191529
If you can't get your vote passed, see what can be agreed upon with others. Maybe others didn't read it, don't want to do it now or don't like some part of it. Everyone has their preferences and ideas on how things can go, but agreements can be found.

give it a try or don't ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
can always copy and paste, and repost your votes next time

>>6191471
Thanks for that, anon. This really helped.

So, Ody will try to restore a part of his core, while continuing Mechanical Raj. All the while, the science team™ will try to analyse the xenos's ship.

I will update either this evening, or tomorrow.

In unrelated news, Broken Empire update is ready to go and will go live once I finish making an update for this quest.

Hesitantly, Gane takes careful steps towards the platform and the bionic you had placed there upon a cold surgical table. With both reservation and fascination, his mechanical eyes zoom in, trying to regard even the most miniscule of details.

“This is a basic bionic meant to interface with the subject’s spine.” Commanding a drone, you speak whilst hovering over the Fabricator-General. “It relieves back pain while strengthening the skeletal structure. Due to the spine being an important part of the nervous system, the artificial nodes further assist in reaction time throughout the entire body. Finally, the artificial spine filters the body’s blood and ensures a higher degree of nutrient and oxygen transportation improving the overall health of the subject.”

Gingerly extending his hand, Gane traces the segmented spine. The clear treated grey colour sometimes intermixed via striking shades of red, yellow, and green of the jutting out wires meant to connect to the greater organic system or other bionics.

“It is a perfect creation of the machine.” Gane states, now leaning in closer, running tests and calculations as the spine, connected to the surgery stable, runs its own diagnostics, undoubtedly the data being displayed is of great fascination to Volteus.

“The surgery can be commenced as soon as you like. I especially recommend undertaking this surgery as soon as possible, as the various functions of the spine also include assistance in detoxication. Your usage of combat narcotics, that of this era are exceptionally destructive, raises worries of your prolonged well-being.”

“A necessity of prolonged command.” Gane dismisses your concerns out of hand. “If this allows me to extend my usage of the, as you put it, combat narcotics, I shall gladly take it. A battle, much more so a war, depends on its leadership’s ability to command and ensure swift reactions to the ever-changing situations. The expenditure of one’s own lifespan and degradation of the weak flesh is but an acceptable price for victory.”

“Whatever reason, it would still be most beneficial if you undertake the surgery and recover from it swiftly. For I shall soon be entering a state of self-restoration that shall take time and while the automated procedures are reliable, it would still be safer if I can overlook the operation.”

Gane pauses to regard your drone, his mind racing. “Very well, prepare immediately.”

You, honestly, had not expected such ready agreement. Still, it should be viewed as a good sign for your future relation with the Fabricator-General “I would suggest a small delay, you must be given anaesthesia and undergo preparations needed to make the procedure as easy and comfortable as possible.”

“Nothing more than frivolity. It is considered a great blessing and I shall not have my position sullied with cowardly actions such as these.”

>>6197472

“I still must express my protestations and remark upon the danger of foregoing the preparations.”

“Ones that I choose to ignore.”

“Very well. This will be painful.”

Without missing a beat, Gane begins to undress, exposing his extensive augmentation, revealing jutting out pipes and wires that had been dug deep into his flesh. His skin, the small bits that still remain, is deathly pale to such an extent that veins are visible upon it. The aforementioned skin around some of wires and pipes in contrast is darkened to such an extent that it had turned black, clear symbols of necrosis. The occasional pustule and obvious signs of burning and exceptionally powerful cleaners have been employed to disinfect the skin, further ruin it, causing the need to replace it with crude metal sheets. At best, these sheets are capable of conducting sweat and protecting the body somewhat, though still crude and painfully grafted usually causing more damage than good. Otherwise, it is just metal. Pure and simple plasteel. Perhaps useful for protection against outside damage originating from weapons’ fire, but the ruined Olympus power armour would still offer better protection, so would any other body armour choice.

While you have no means of smell with the drone present and the surgery equipment, undoubtedly it would make most people gag. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the local populace seems to avoid techpriests this much ? Regardless, the extensive and crude augmentations give you pause as it is all undoubtedly a complex and interconnected web of machinery interacting with the organic parts in numerous unpredictable ways. The already complex surgery appears to be even more difficult that you had originally expected. Luckily, you are here to oversee it and adapt to the undoubtedly numerous situations wherein the automated systems would fail, simply because they would never be programmed for such situations of a complete disregard of common sense.

“Let us begin.” Laying upon his stomach, Gane simply states.

“Very well. I shall halt the surgery if I find you under too serious duress.”

“I had survived numerous blessed surgeries, I shall survive this one as well.” Even as you activate the numerous arms of the operating room, Volteus does not flinch, he does not move even as you make the first incision.
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>>6197473

One final action you need to set into motion before you undertake the prolonged and, sadly, dangerous procedure of restoring your own functionality further on is the continuation of Mechanical Raj, in specific, the mass production of Zephir-class vessels. These ships shall be used extensively for numerous purposes, most importantly of all would be that of medical assistance. The populace, despite your attempts at increasing their living conditions, are incredibly unhealthy due to years, decades, most of their lives in fact, having worked in terrible conditions and growing up under malnutritional conditions. Cancer, is still rampant, lung diseases are common, so are back pains, joint pains, tinnitus, and many, many more terrible conditions. One thing that Gane had revealed due to the operation, is that the ruling techpriesthood is in fact even more heavily impacted by their lifestyles. Since the very same priests were drawn from the populace, they too grew up under limited caloric intake and hazardous conditions, all the while added on top of their crude and often case deadly augmentations.

The improvement of everyone’s health shall result in better societal stability, increased living standard, and a greater degree of happiness. The removal of physical impairments should also correspond with better mental health and more free time being used for self-improvement that should, over time, result in a more educated, healthier, united, and enlightened populace. A minute step towards the past where your masters reigned supreme, only surpassed by the long-lived and decadent Eldar. Yes, if you brought back the age of enlightenment in this era, humanity would not only dominate the galaxy, but they could also easily secure it. Such a future is truly a distant one, but one you hope to achieve in due time.

Yet that reality is far, and the vigours of war mean that the Zephirs shall also have a secondary function. They shall act as emergency shelters, capable of taking immense punishment, though perhaps not on par with the forge-temples, due to their sheer size, yet said forge-temples would be the logical targets for anyone invading Deimea, so reducing the non-combatant numbers would further strengthen the ability for the aforementioned forge-temples to fight on for a longer time.

>>6197474

Finally, a single retractable 270-degree turret on prow and stern allows for the class to act as means of planetary defence be it on ground or orbit. With a diameter of 15 metres, each turret houses a powerful mass driver, while it takes a while to accelerate, each cannon can fire a payload of multiple tons at a fraction of the speed of light. When fired, the weapon cannot readjust, meaning a miss will be a miss no matter what. Though at closer distances, missing becomes a moot point. The potential destruction of one such shot could easily wipe out most life on worlds causing the world’s crust to potentially crack. While not capable of being world destroyers, these cannons are nonetheless exceptionally threatening to anyone in system.

There are a few downsides for such weapons however. When deployed on terrestrial surfaces, the speed of expended munition has to be reduced due to atmospheric friction and potential consequences of firing such a weapon on a world whose biosphere should be maintained. Another downside is that such a weapon is limited in terms of munitions and requires immense energy expenditure. This means that at best, each Zephir has only six shots and can fire only with intervals of 5.36 hours, though that is under perfect conditions, realistically, it would take about eight to ten hours between each and first shot. Due to the power drain and scale of weaponry, only one of the two cannons is capable of firing under the circumstances of trying to achieve the most powerful shot. Should these energy requirements be reduced, both cannons could then fire. Still, they should be powerful enough to annihilate most voidships.

Your voidyard shall continue the production of Zephirs until a bare minimum of 200 ships are produced, though such a construction will take time, a lot of time. Especially considering that you would need to service the local fleets, perhaps even produce new ones as the situation changes. Though given the circumstance of you being essentially shut down for an indeterminate amount of time, this simple standing order for production and automation should go on without many issues that could appear…hopefully.

The final matter requiring a modicum of your attention would be that of your science ship.

Taking control of the numerous cameras within and without of the science vessel, you regard the fresh dozens of techpriests and their hundreds of servants ranging from unaugmented civilians just starting their journey within the priesthood, to minor members sporting the white-black robes, but lacking anything truly noticeable in terms of bionics.

>>6197476

Already parts of the xenos’ vessel is housed in numerous experimental chambers as the priests take the time to familiarize themselves with the ship’s various functions. And even now, some of the more initiative focused individuals had taken to use the more automated systems to explore the various fragments of the xenos’ ship. From the first starting investigations, your theories are reinforced, at least partially, as it is quickly found that these crystals have immense capability to store energy. On the downside and much to your chagrin, some of the crystal explode, being overloaded by overeager techpriest wishing to find their limits. The explosion possessing awesome power wreck the chambers they are stored within, causing some internal bickering and fighting amongst the techpriests, as politicking had been brought alongside the curious and brilliant minds now aboard the vessel. Nothing on the level of open conflict, though you have to foul a few petty schemes here and there, making it clear that such actions would never be tolerated. The final results of this research will only be truly seen when you reawaken, if even then.

For now however, you had left everything as best as possible. And the time for your attempts to repair your core had come.

You ensure that your robotic legions remain on standby, the orbital defence network remains up and able to defend the world in the worst-case scenario. While of course, nothing can be perfect, you are confident that the current condition is arguably the best one you could get, everything considered.

Before your shutdown however, you need to decide which subsystem you should bring back online.

>The diplomatic subsystem.

An obvious choice, really. House Rada, the numerous techpriest factions, the populace that is slowly learning that they may have the free time to think and decide their own future, it is only a matter of time before they start demanding more representation, much to the opposition of the already existent political factions. To deal with all of that, it would be wise to ensure that you could navigate such muddled waters.

>The military subsystem.

It is a time of war, and frankly, so far you had been highly fortunate to have no need for the military subroutine due to the small scale of conflict and the techpriesthood, specifically Gane commanding the war effort in your stead. Should you find yourself in a multi-system conflict, or one requiring more than sweeping generalized plans, this subsystem will be crucial. You lack the luxury not to have it.
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You return back to. Nothing more than a single moment for you, but who knows how long had passed since you went offline.

>>6197477

“Oh ,my Omnissiah ! It brings me great joy and exhilaration to see you once more awake.” Unsurprisingly, and disturbingly naturally, Belogyma is the first one to greet you the moment you reawaken. Without even a modicum of doubt, you are certain she had been watching you this entire time waiting for a sign that you had finished your repairs.

Checking your internal watch, you note, much to your satisfaction, that only six months had passed since your shutdown.

Naturally, you first check the voidyard, and within your calculations, 12 Zephir-class vessels had already finished manufacturing and are waiting in orbit for your command and final check-up procedures. All the while, your science ship, once again, much to your expectations, is still filled to the brim with overeager techpriests poking at everything within reach. They’ve yet to make any serious progress, but then again, very little time had truly passed.

“Belogyma. Is there anything that I should know ?”

“Yes, there is, oh my Omnissiah. Your rapid reawakening is truly a great boon ! Magos Dominus Locer has failed in his yearly report. Any astrophatic messages sent have not been returned, and the primary vessel sent to retrieve the nutrient supplies has not returned. Currently, the Fabricator-General is marshalling the fleet, expecting an Orkish warlord to have launched an assault. Though the lack of communications implies an overwhelming and rapid threat.”

“What is the Fabricator-General planning to bring along ?”

“I am yet unsure, but most half of the newly made fleet alongside a small amount of skitarii and astynomia forces. Though with your reawakening, I am sure that your wisdom, oh my Omnissiah, shall be immediately observed by your loyal worshippers.”

>There is no need for you to intervene, not like you could control or command your forces out of system.

>The threat of losing your food supply cannot be tolerated. While you cannot dispatch your automated forces out of fear that the unknown enemy could subvert them, the local defences under your control can free up Gane to use the whole fleet and organic forces.

>(Write in)

>>6197477
>The diplomatic subsystem.

>>6197478
>The threat of losing your food supply cannot be tolerated. While you cannot dispatch your automated forces out of fear that the unknown enemy could subvert them, the local defences under your control can free up Gane to use the whole fleet and organic forces.

>>6197477
>>The diplomatic subsystem.

Somewhat of use, somewhat not. Having an edge matters only when you know what you want to do and how you do it. Same for military subroutine. So far House Rada is hyper close, no reason to talk from our side (let them initiate) spying on them and seeing the conditions of their servants is a better approach. The techpriest factions are eager to work even together for us for anything we give them, they will infight naturally otherwise, and be silent and obedient whenever Gane is around. We can do the usual show of divine light and throw some gifts to get what we want done. The deimeans population is what we will work on, it is naturally happening that they will want a say in their lives by our design with the new fleet and the soon to be conclusion of Project Mechanical Raj. They are the majority of the society, and their lives are changing now. This process will further solidify and speed up, once we start the new army and when we start Project Armored Dawn.

The ex-human batteries will decide their fate on their own, i expect them to be aligned with us. They might not entirely like some of the techpriest factions. Belogyma will stand with us because she is a zealot, and Gane because he is understanding better Ody.

>The threat of losing your food supply cannot be tolerated. While you cannot dispatch your automated forces out of fear that the unknown enemy could subvert them, the local defences under your control can free up Gane to use the whole fleet and organic forces.

Kazula food production, is relatively low. The real worth of Kazula is that is much better than Deimea for human living. Gane will be on his own. Like us. The fleet is small but it can put a fight, thanks to his tech........ The crews inside haven't received enough time to be trained and educated, so that is another negative. 2 negatives and 1 positive, they are against orks if nothing else. But we can add 1 more positive

>(Write in)
>Connect comms with Gane
>"I want you to read and see 1 report on the orks i fought in the past in this system (show the battle against the Orks massive fleet with weapons taken from imperials and aliens alike, and hardlight tech). Its not much, but preparing you against the worst they might have should help you. See if you can find and get a reaction out of their leaders too, killing them often collapses the orks in infighting. Good luck."


I would be tempted to start the new army now, since i have it mostly written. But outdated tech and gear needs at least some months of training and education for land based armies, to know how to use it. This is not enough time for that to happen. You know i am thinking we could throw a "Speaker of the Omnissiah" title to Belogyma. Something under the Fabricator, but that talks around for us. Maybe it will be a good way for her to grow if we send her around to help and talk with other Deimeans, fix some doors and chat with some workers about their life.

Society wise there is also the other psykers around Deimea, that we have yet to approach. They might be close like House Rada, i wouldn't be surprised. Being isolationist while working is a good approach when you are feared and hated.

We lack research on human psykers and human psyker equipment, so if they would be open to us...we could see about doing that research. Blatantly because it would allow another military unit after some work, and also because it can help with Unknown Enemy research.

>>6197477
>The military subsystem.
The fact that we can't rely on our automated forces, less so now than ever, is a massive flaw in our defences. Deimea's picket fence needs to turn into a wall and for that we need the military subsystem to help us out.
>The threat of losing your food supply cannot be tolerated. While you cannot dispatch your automated forces out of fear that the unknown enemy could subvert them, the local defences under your control can free up Gane to use the whole fleet and organic forces.

>>6197478
>>6197549
>+support+ Sending Gane a report and analysis on our previous fights with orks.
> Create a small archive with data from our previous battles, compliment it with a simulation program for educational purposes.

>Military subsystem.

>>6197477
>The military subsystem.

>>6197478
>The threat of losing your food supply cannot be tolerated. While you cannot dispatch your automated forces out of fear that the unknown enemy could subvert them, the local defences under your control can free up Gane to use the whole fleet and organic forces.
Just pray that another Chaos warband doesn't show up or we're screwed.

>>6197478
>The diplomatic subsystem.

I believe in our current predicament, politics takes priority. We had managed to defend this system in an efficient manner with a much more subpar defence grid, which we have compensated for with a state of the art (According to modern standards) fleet and orbital defences.

We are safer than we ever were but I have a feeling we have a lot of internal enemies due to us generally not being a good politician. We need to identify possible threats to us planetside

>The threat of losing your food supply cannot be tolerated. While you cannot dispatch your automated forces out of fear that the unknown enemy could subvert them, the local defences under your control can free up Gane to use the whole fleet and organic forces.

I think that the enemy in Kanzula is most likely Gelanostrians. I dont think if it was orks we'd be receiving exactly 0 messages. There is a chance it is chaos of course, but I'm not sure if they could muster a fleet of particular size after loosing the battle at Deimea.

>(Write in)
>Repurpose several Zephry class vessels as orbital Naval Academies and organise for all of the Deimean naval personnel to enter training after the excursion into Kanzula

We are sorely lacking trained personnel, Our fleets main weakness is lack of experience and manpower. Truth be told, the Kanzulan excursion might end really badly due to this. Thankfully Gane is quite a competent and smart commander, but we still should enrol everyone in these academies.

We don't have much population, but we can make up the lack of quantity by making all of our citizens jewels of knowledge and competence in this hell of a galaxy

>>6198312
>>6197478
i will support this write in alongside my votes already placed.

>>6197477
>>The diplomatic subsystem.
>>6197478
>The threat of losing your food supply cannot be tolerated. While you cannot dispatch your automated forces out of fear that the unknown enemy could subvert them, the local defences under your control can free up Gane to use the whole fleet and organic forces.

>>6197478
>>6197477
>Diplomatic subsystem
The Humans will continue to do a good job defending Deimea militarily.
>The threat of losing your food supply cannot be tolerated. While you cannot dispatch your automated forces out of fear that the unknown enemy could subvert them, the local defences under your control can free up Gane to use the whole fleet and organic forces.
>Write-in
I support the Naval Academy plan.

Seems we're pretty unanimous this time around. How refreshing.

Just a genuine question. Why haven't anyone offered (as a write-in) both Gane and Belogyma full-body mechancial upgrades and replacements for their clearly broken and dysfunctional bodies? Gane got a spine, why not just...make the man and our head priest not suffer?

>>6199105
I'm assuming it's gonna take a while to get our full fedi healthcare system online. In point of fact, that is essentially what I did here: >>6188610
>Gifts must be made for the priesthood. And it is time to upgrade the bionics. Long past time, in fact. Begin the mass production of a suite of equipment, autosurgeon pods, and bionics for the safe creation of whole-body prostheses. Include some basic mechadendrites as well, nothing too strong. Let's give the priesthood a solid foundation for future bionic rewards.
No one vooted for it but it seems to have been partially enacted anyway so I'm happy.
We now have 12 Zephyrs, so if 6 are for education and 6 are for healthcare, we probably have capacity for some 20.5 million care-hours per month. Let's say we want to give everyone on Deimea 1 care hour, we will need 1.7 billion care hours, and that would take 83 months or nearly 7 years at current capacity. Even if we divide it in thirds to prioritize the oldest third of the population, it would still take 2 years.
If a federation tech surgery for whole-body prosthesis takes about 12 hours, then you need 12x the care hours for some subset of the population who are techpriests.
Regardless, it's clear that we need a lot more zephyrs.

>>6197478

>The threat of losing your food supply cannot be tolerated. While you cannot dispatch your automated forces out of fear that the unknown enemy could subvert them, the local defences under your control can free up Gane to use the whole fleet and organic forces.

>The diplomatic subsystem.

>(Write in)
>Connect comms with Gane
>"I want you to read and see 1 report on the orks i fought in the past in this system (show the battle against the Orks massive fleet with weapons taken from imperials and aliens alike, and hardlight tech). Its not much, but preparing you against the worst they might have should help you. See if you can find and get a reaction out of their leaders too, killing them often collapses the orks in infighting. Good luck."

man I really hope that it is orks and not some chaos cult having taken hold of the resistance fighters.

>>6199105
Simple for me : we just do two people. I cant help but see it as demoralizing. Two surgeries.

There is an entire population which we cannot care for yet. Building all those cybernetics takes time and precision, time and precision i would prefer its invested in making sure we have the tools for then provide the help we want to give. Which is helping all this population, not only this duo.

I have no issues of giving them cybernetics, but I want to make sure we can do the same to everyone in need first. The difference would be immense, and it might look like a miracle instead of us playing favourites.

There is also many other issues for the rest of population that are still abysmal in the eyes of Odysseus that must be resolved.

All the little problems and damages plaguing the Forge temples for example, the no doubt tiny housing, the lack of much else beside work, the lack of food variety (imperial agri worlds often do not bother but making one or a few selection of products. Often subpar food. Kazula no doubt did no change that. Food production in Deimea is even worse, and need to be re-introduced) and more. For name a few.

>>6199160
It shouldn't be. Sector Clarus is active with multiple parties even now, but its clear chaos isn't dominating everything. Which is nice. Of what little we know of the Kazulians they don't seem the type, but we will know the truth when anyone in Deimea decides to provide some news.

I do believe orks will throw an attack on Deimea while Gane fights on Kazula. Or other aliens. Whatever they are, i don't care. I hope they have enough bodybags and shovels for make their tombs, because our robotic legions are here waiting for send them in their afterlifes. And in prison for interrogation for their wounded, they aren't humans so the geneva comvention does not apply but we can be magnimous with a cell. Would also be a good occasion for test our "divine" body in battles.

>>6196887
np

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>The diplomatic subsystem.
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>The military subsystem.
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>The threat of losing your food supply cannot be tolerated.
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>(Write in)
>Connect comms with Gane
>"I want you to etc..."
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>+ Sending Gane a report and analysis on our previous fights with orks.
addendum has 1
>(Write in)
> Create a small archive with data etc...
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>(Write in)
>Repurpose several Zephry class vessels etc ....
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i believe i will throw my support to addendum and archive vote once home, the vote will likely not end anytime soon.

>>6200951
Its
>The threat of losing your food supply cannot be tolerated.
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lol

>>6199186
I am pretty sure that some threads ago there was a mention of weird cults, but maye I misremember.

>>6201017
eh if it is, whatever. Not the first time i am wrong, and i dont remember that detail either.
We will see what we can do about it, if it raises his ugly head.

>>6197632
>>6197478
i will also support the addendum and the archive write in

>>6200951
I also support the other write ins

>>6200951
>>6201080
>>6201017

I ask for your support for my write in as well, we have our diplomatic subroutine and these people need some extended education. In time, I'd want orbital universities teaching all manner of subjects, but for now our priority is military education and is essential to our expansion plans

>>6201377
>>6198621
i mean i did here lol

>>6201419
Didn't see that, thanks for the support

>>6201421
np
(ò_ò)./

>>6201377
I guess it does have some utility.
>support for naval academy in a few Zephry

yo

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>>6204684
He's wage slaving according to the other thread.

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>>6204804
Big thanks (ò_ò)./
May Odysseus bake a billion cakes once again.

The image finally cuts at the sight of you slightly altering the orbit of an Orkish infested world.

”Did you find any of this knowledge valuable ?” You question Gane as he continuous to multitask his expedition and the knowledge you presented. Though you must question the invasive surgery and its ill effects to allow for such multitasking, the human mind is not designed for it, so the only way to achieve true multitasking is to proportion the brain and allow it to act separately. Similarly to your own subsystems.

”Hardly anything I had not seen before myself or found in the archives.” Volteus dismisses your knowledge with a wave of his hand. Be it due to schizophrenia induced hallucinations or a far more motive expression of his disinterest, you do not know. ”What draws my attention, however, would be those unknown weapons used within the spacehulk. That is one bit of information that I shall keep in mind. With the utter collapse of centralized authority, undoubtedly the greenskins could have acquired more xenotech or even archeotech that could pose a true and real challenge. More caution will be taken in that regard.”

”All personnel, prepare for departure. Know that you are undertaking an important objective and mission. The further production of foodstuffs and nutritional materials are exceptionally important not only for continued productivity, but to also ensure the wellbeing of your families and friends.” Your diplomatic subsystem, already projected across screens and holo-projectors throughout Deimea and its voidstations has taken society by storm. The looks of a moderately attractive Federation era uniformed woman brings news, updates, broadcasts, and interviews. Granted, not like your diplomatic subsystem had much, if any competition bar monotone techpriests informing their tech-thralls about their daily tasks or propaganda in order to increase morale. ”I would like to remind everyone of the great opportunities soon that shall be offered by the new naval academies. Take a chance to enter the void and fight for your homeland, satisfy your wanderlust, achieve glory, and honour. Not only that, service guarantees increased living conditions for family members and you shall undoubtedly look rather charming in proper uniform. Enlist, today !”

The Fabricator-General actually pauses before the diplomatic subsystem being portrayed via a flickering holo-projector. ”The constant droning, while indicating an increase in worker unit morale, is exceptionally distracting. I would like for you to limit the announcements.”

”I shall take it upon consideration. I am currently experimenting to find the most cost effective public approval transmission rates whilst not having the opposite effect.”

>>6206065

”There is a part of me that still does not trust you, Odysseus.” Gane remarks turning to face the holo-projector fully now. Through it, the avatar displayed is instantly taken over by you and the woman takes upon a neutral expression, staring straight into the mess of glowing eyes that make up Volteus’s face. ”Yet I find myself in situations wherein I must do so. Undoubtedly, if things continue in similar fashion, that reliance shall only increase. A matter of state to which I am unaccustomed to, I must admit.”

”Reliance and cooperation is what allowed humanity to dominate Terra long before it ever conquered the stars. That same cooperation is what led to the eventual state of mankind’s dominance of this galaxy.”[/blue]

A small chuckle rolls out of Gane. You do not spot his chest moving at all in response to the laughter. ”Whilst I know only my own history, I can tell that this perspective of our past is either optimistic, naïve, or you are simply lying.”

”To bring back that optimism is a task, a heavy one at that, that I have, and shall continue to undertake.”

”One that I fear shall break you.” Uncharacteristically, the Fabricator-General sways slightly to the side, staring away at the distance. Thanks to the subsystem being online, you are able to tell, even from the micro expressions, and the subtle movements of his damaged body, the expressions of sadness, wistfulness, nostalgia. ”Or you might just be the first one to ever succeed.” He says with a final chuckle, marching towards a lander where his bodyguards await to shuttle him to his flagship.
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The fleet, after 3 months of preparation that is, had finally departed with nearly all ground forces that could be spared taken from Deimea and both fleets being merged into a single overwhelming one. Even with the logistics subsystem working overtime, it still took a quarter of a year to prepare, a force that is barely large enough to mount an invasion against even a minor target.

Now, there is still the issue of you not having even the faintest of clues when the fleet will arrive. In fact, it is possible for it to arrive before it left. Though you only have theoretical examples of that possibility, it still remains. Fact of the matter is, you will only know that the fleet succeeded in its simple travel when they are able to send a message back, which based on current Imperial records, is too not guaranteed. In fact, the more you learn of the current era’s logistical issues, the more you are surprised and impressed by the fact that the Imperium still hadn’t collapsed.

Notice: warpquake detected.
Notice: warpquake detected.
Notice: warpquake detected.

>>6206066

You mute the logistics subsystem as about a month and a half after the departure, your monitoring system had begun to go haywire as seemingly an entire warpstorm had appeared out of nowhere. It takes two days for first clear images to appear, all the while the quakes continued uninterrupted still, in a rather haphazard and uncontrolled manner.

Orks.

Thousands of Orks. Millions, perhaps tens, hundreds, maybe even a billion. An amalgamation of what appears to be the largest spacehulk you had ever seen, easily reaching the size of a small planetoid is escorted by as of yet indeterminate amount of, though easily in the thousands, of capital class vessels escorted by tens of thousands of smaller ramshackle voidships. As is befitting Orks, however, you already detected reactor meltdowns followed by blooming explosions due to overworked and undermaintained internals. Of course, said incidents can be justified, by Orks standards that is. What cannot be justified is the exchanges of sporadic fire between the vessels that end up actually destroying one another.

Unsurprisingly, this overwhelming force is aimed squarely towards Deimea, despite a few throngs of ships splitting off to other planetary objects in system. Those areas have nothing of interest, so no doubt the Orks will turn around and go back on the attack. Or crash and be stranded. That is also a surprisingly high probability.

It is a rather curious coincidence, when your defences are arguably at their weakest, for the Orks to arrive in such overwhelming force, an effort of organization that would take years, decades even, to appear at such a moment could very well be a coincidence, after all, pattern seeking is a trait of your masters. Still, it would be better to try and send a generalized message to the expedition fleet.

Warning: logistical capacity decreasing at an alarming rate.

Much to your chagrin, and lack of surprise, you watch as a landing zone is evaporated in a single blink of an eye, destroying dozens upon dozens of large-scale landers and killing hundreds of workers alongside thousands of your drones.

Warning: long-range communications are experiencing difficulties.

You run diagnostics amongst the entire network, finding wiring cables unresponsive and communication centres unreachable. Your primary networking stations for orbital communications are untouched however, most likely due to the fact that you are monitoring them without pause and with overwhelming numbers of your robotic legions standing at non-stop attention. Still, a dedicated and skilled enough force could either brute force its way through or deliver a surgical strike.

>>6206067

A few explosions also ring out from within the Rada quarter. Due to your lacking presence within the quarter, you do know exactly what is going on, but emergency signals, specifically wired for the ruling techpriesthood council had been activated, indicating a threat so great that the local security forces are clearly incapable of handling it themselves.

There also are reports of breaches in wall reinforcements and piping resulting in toxic gases and liquids beginning to enter the hab block of the main forge-temple. At the rate of damage and its expansion, millions could be facing potential danger and death. The situation needs to be contained, and where needed the populace requires evacuation.

One of the forge temples has been completely cut off from the communications network with what you can identify to be an exceptionally rapid pace, unprecedented compared to anything else. You have no clue what is happening or whom is causing this, but clearly an intense number of resources were dedicated.

You also have not received a single word from the psyker housing area. Perhaps no news is good news, or it could be something worse.

And of course, all of these issues are connected to the endless Orkish armada bearing down on you with only your network of automated defences standing between them and Deimea proper.

Naturally, even with the damage upon your core, you can multitask all operations, but you can dedicate enough of your processing power to at least one task to make sure that your chances there are better than anywhere else.

>Your land-based communications that connect you to orbit. Without that connection, your void-based defences are wholly autonomous of your command.

>House Rada needs your assistance. While you can make more navigators at will, the house’s experience and knowledge is invaluable.

>The civilian populace must be saved. Perhaps it is a distraction, but one you must rise to. You will not allow for millions of pointless and painful deaths.

>A whole forge-temple cut off is far too suspicious. It could just be the general comm outage, but you doubt it.

>The psykers are still highly unknown to you, but if they are threatened, your only means of FTL communication are also cut off. It could just be nothing.

>All of the terrestrial dangers are nothing compared to the void based one. You will dedicate most of your attention towards blunting the Orkish armada.
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(POV shift: You are Fabricator-General Volteus Gane of the Forge-World of Deimea, currently leading an expedition to Kanzula.)

”Transition successful. Receiving confirmations from the remainder of the fleet.” The hum of noise comes from your Voxmaster. Fully integrated with the ship, he had completely disregarded his name and become a part of the voidship. ”Confirmations received. Fleet is fully present. Damage from warp transition, within acceptable parameters. All forces awaiting orders, Fabricator-General.”

>>6206068

”Begin auspex sweep of the system. Maintain current course towards Kanzula” You remark, gazing into the void, the hum of machinery, the silent but constant prayers and hymns to the machine, arcs of motive force sparkle above you. Without a single word, your followers move immediately. The added noise of whirring gears and tapping of metal upon plasteel further distracts you.

”Mass conveyor Surewrought is stationed above Kanzula, holding stable position connected with Voidstation α. No other voidbound contacts detected within system.” The Voxmaster says after half a day of utter silence.

”Send a vox to the void assets, then to the planet itself.” You respond swiftly to the information received. You are already considering potential dangers and deaths that shall soon follow. Something about the situation does not feel right. Your instincts, as illogical as they are, scream at you, that said lack of logic is what allowed you to reach your current position after all.

Unsurprisingly, as you continue your burn towards Kanzula, you receive no response. The situation within Kanzula itself remains utterly foreign, with a planet encompassing cloud of fertilizers continuously blocking out anything useful you can observe at such a distance.

Now, while you had not found anything in the void of potential danger, you should still be careful. Yet your paranoia is telling you to hurry up.

>Conduct a slow and methodical sweep of the system. Most time consuming, but if there’s something hidden, you will find it. Especially with the new voidships and their advanced auspex sensors.

>There needs to be a balance of speed and safety. Have an outlining force secure your route and the nearby surroundings, in void terms at least. It should be safe enough, but at the same time, your vanguards run into great danger of being ambushed.

>No time to waste. Full burn towards Kanzula without halt. The fastest option, but also the one carrying the worst risk.

>>6206068
>Your land-based communications that connect you to orbit. Without that connection, your void-based defences are wholly autonomous of your command.

Last time our fucking systems were left to be by themselves, They went rogue and killed humans. Lets not risk it again.

>>6206069
>Conduct a slow and methodical sweep of the system. Most time consuming, but if there’s something hidden, you will find it. Especially with the new voidships and their advanced auspex sensors.

>>6206068
PRIORITY:
>The psykers are still highly unknown to you, but if they are threatened, your only means of FTL communication are also cut off. It could just be nothing.
We need to recall the fleet. For that, we need the psykers. Use 30% of the robotic legions for the task.

OTHER:
>civilians
Use our diplomatic core to organize the evacuation of the civilian population to safe areas using 20% of our robotic legions.
>communications
We are a 25th millennium ultra computer with millions of telemetry enabled robots on the planet and in orbit, we can reroute telemetry and encryption in an instant, albeit at a lower bandwidth.
>Forge-Temple
Task the logistics core with staging and directing another 40% of your robotic legions to secure the forge temple, block by block. Surround the infection, quarantine it, and cauterize it.

>>6206069
>There needs to be a balance of speed and safety. Have an outlining force secure your route and the nearby surroundings, in void terms at least. It should be safe enough, but at the same time, your vanguards run into great danger of being ambushed.
This is clearly a trap, but we won't be paralyzed by fear and paranoia. Find the trap, spring it, and then punish it.

>>6206068
>The psykers are still highly unknown to you, but if they are threatened, your only means of FTL communication are also cut off. It could just be nothing.
>Your land-based communications that connect you to orbit. Without that connection, your void-based defences are wholly autonomous of your command.
Fucking eldar, absolute bastards.

>>6206069
>No time to waste. Full burn towards Kanzula without halt. The fastest option, but also the one carrying the worst risk.

>>6206068
>>Your land-based communications that connect you to orbit. Without that connection, your void-based defences are wholly autonomous of your command.

>>6206068
Seems one of the things i said happened. Orks decided to attack Deimea when the fleet was gone.

Which land based communications are you talking about though. Mechanicus ones ? We didn't build any FTL Antenna in previous invasions we didn't have them. Neither built them through vote. Unless we now have them ?

So the space defenses are overwhelmed, or close to it. They are quite few. I might have an easier time pushing defense if we survive. Thats nice i guess.

Sound pretty bleak not gonna lie, especially if the planetary invasion is already on the way and things seems to collapse all around. I am not sure how we are supposed to survive with 1 maybe positive option and those 5 sound like going all negative ? I would like to do the one of saving people since Odysseus is very much about that, but the Forge Temples are still all remarkably garbage in terms of settlements so there is no dedicated area for such emergencies. A shame since is something i want to do more than other stuff.

>Your land-based communications that connect you to orbit. Without that connection, your void-based defences are wholly autonomous of your command.
Honestly kind of least bad and might provide slight security for the others.
Now the space defenses going autonomous would kill orks all the same. There are too many orks targets for that not to happen. The issue remains if there is Unknown Enemy presence. Thats all, if there is presence our command is forcefully taken anyway unless we detonate or dissasemble. Our problem is certainly not orks at that point though hahaha. I recon this is more about making sure orks don't just easily destroy them, and ensuring a standard defense coordination exists in space (instead of pray and spray), while having our robotic legions be there actively defending this land based communications places.

....does it matter when there is a armada coming in and throwing themselves all at us and at Deimea. Without a single fuck given for themselves and with a worrying fully coordinated massive help on the ground ? The Forge temples cannot stand on their own for defense and our robotic legions (unspecified numbers), are the only thing that could genuily hurt or exterminate an ork planetary invasion of this size.

Need some help here, like heavy help. Otherwise there is no Deimea population. Can we contact the ex human batteries for help us in this difficult time. Please ? Like just for being educated by us their help might be, lol crucial. I am in fact begging you my fellow players to consider it.

>Conduct a slow and methodical sweep of the system. Most time consuming, but if there’s something hidden, you will find it. Especially with the new voidships and their advanced auspex sensors.
Sound all like bad choices not gonna lie. In regard to sensors we had an hard time in the past for find eldar. Cant imagine a barely trained navy.

We will need to build at least a few hundreds Shade Class Drones for spy, if we survive. We clearly know little to nothing of whatever else is happening across Deimea. Doesn't help the flow of informations toward us has been kept slow.

I do hope Odysseus "Divine" combat form will be worthed something when we deploy it.

With guaranteed House Rada losses, we will likely not be able to give ships, any Rada navigators for a while. Maybe whoever survive will be more willing to help us. Then again they are probably in the process of losing all their knowledge if their palace is being attacked.

>>You recall that other parts of yourself are in other forge-temples, you would naturally like those back. The techpriests might not like having the fundamental parts of their worship removed from their grasp, but you doubt they would say no to what they believe is their God.
I think that answers why a forge-temple was abruptly cut off. So what part of us is being stolen or destroyed, and what do we value more right now?
>>6206069
>The civilian populace must be saved. Perhaps it is a distraction, but one you must rise to. You will not allow for millions of pointless and painful deaths.
Deimea is facing an extinction level threat and will need every able hand to defend it.

>>6206158

>Which land based communications are you talking about though. Mechanicus ones ? We didn't build any FTL Antenna in previous invasions we didn't have them. Neither built them through vote. Unless we now have them ?

As part of the voidyard and the orbital logistics system, you built a series of towers and antenna and are still using them to this day as primary means of communicating with your void based assets.

As for FTL communications, you have none, your experimental comm system is gone as far as you are aware, and it is the only means of FTL communication that you posses. Other than that, Ody has set up wave and light based communication systems. Besides those experimental means, the only FTL comms that Ody is aware of are those warp-based, and even then, those are post Fed based.

And to clarify, Ody will multitask and assign forces to deal with ALL threats. You are just choosing which one Ody will prioritize above all dedicating what processing power he can spare.

>>6206068
>A whole forge-temple cut off is far too suspicious. It could just be the general comm outage, but you doubt it.
>Your land-based communications that connect you to orbit. Without that connection, your void-based defences are wholly autonomous of your command.

>>6206069
>There needs to be a balance of speed and safety. Have an outlining force secure your route and the nearby surroundings, in void terms at least. It should be safe enough, but at the same time, your vanguards run into great danger of being ambushed.

Now its biting us in the ass that we dont know which parts of us have been recovered by the Deimeans. This is probably to either destroy or steal the wormhole geneator or the communications equipment.

>>6206235
If its that then its over.
Each of the prototypal parts are very valuable and extremely important for us. Losing even one of them, is the equivalent of humanity losing many sectors all at once at the same time. Think several thousands of them. So a major blow the Imperium doesnt truly recover from. Ever. Thats the same for Odysseus. We cant recover from it not with all the dangers and problems we already face. Its a permanent net negative that makes it more easier for our foes to defeat us. And with war being all about making sure its not fair at all, and preferably overkill ....its just a definitive major loss. With no return, no rising back. Permanent.

More importantly we can't produce them. And dont truly know them deeply. So we can only repair them slowly if they get damaged.

The most important prototypal piece (there is different parts) is of course, the wormhole generator. Losing that means we : cannot restore truly ourselves inside a ship, we are forever stuck on Deimea or the Deimea Solar System (makes little difference. You can imagine what that means quest wise. Horrific), we are forever stuck at the last ship size we unlocked, and we cannot do a complete study of it for replicate it and produce it.


>>6206350
So we did that then.
Yeah i remember we had none, thats why I was wondering what that land based comms even meant.

Ok then. It didn't sound like that to me even if you said multitasking. How you describe it seemed more a situation where we are cutting down on everything else and intervene only on 1 main problem. And hope for the best.

Even if honestly not much can be done for the millions of people since the Forge Temples are all small and construction of buildings is incredibly difficult. There is no emergency area. No bunker. Food depots for emergency probably do not exist. And the Zephyrs, Mining Ships and science ship i presume are being either hunted down if they arent all wrecks already from the sheer numbers of orks vessels we have.

Should genuily consider terraformation option before the space elevator one really. At least for deal with all the planet problems.


>>6206393
That option was more to move them to us, than to check on them and leave them there. But we where fine with leaving them there, because we cant do anything with them anyway at the moment.

We probably should have not care of that, go and grab them and keep them with us anyway. The other forge temples certainly didn't care enough, when they don't even say anything. Once. Deimeans love staying silent on important things. For that matter we don't even know the total numbers of Forge Temples and neither any proper information on them. If it was for someone we would know nothing of Deimea (forge temple not the world) too
>>6206158
>>6206069
I ll add in my vote here
>Write-in
>Contact the ex-human batteries and ask them to aid us in coordinating the Defense of Deimea

>>6206069
I'll change my vote >>6206122 to
>A whole forge-temple cut off is far too suspicious. It could just be the general comm outage, but you doubt it.
and
>There needs to be a balance of speed and safety. Have an outlining force secure your route and the nearby surroundings, in void terms at least. It should be safe enough, but at the same time, your vanguards run into great danger of being ambushed.

>>6206400

>For that matter we don't even know the total numbers of Forge Temples and neither any proper information on them

>[i]”Currently, five forge temples are operational. Current population stands at 1,7 billion. Current operational capacity stands at only 19,8%, minimal nutritional distribution has been in effect for three hundred years. Average Tech-Thrall revolt cycle is 7.2 months. Usual suppression force casualties at 1.2% a revolt. Revolting Tech-Thrall casualties each cycle 21.3%. Of which 81.7% are sentenced to Servitude Imperpituis. Current prognosed nutritional reserve stands at two hundred years at the current rate of consumption.”[/i]

As for details of the Temples, other than historical and logistical reports, it is correct that Ody knows little of how they actually look and function.

>>6207624
My bad completely forgot about that, mostly because the issue of food was put aside after they took Kazula and we are not bothering with food until other issues are done. And revolts, not much happened on that for now. Probably for Kazula food again. Did we ever verify the total human population ourselves ? I am kinda surprised if we did, since i don't remember sending a single robot or a drone in other forge temples for actually look at the amount of people there. I am not fully sure we did that here on Deimea either. Afterall we dont know much about the navigators palace or the psyker quarter. There are humans there too.

They are 5 ? They are really packed. I dont remember anything about them, did we know anything else ? And we only know Deimea name being, Deimea like the world it self. If those names where in the archive they would have come out by now lol. Or idk someone making a comment about them.

It does feel like these other 4 temples dont talk or share info.... there is some kind of taboo to talk with us ? Is Belogyma sending their messages in spam or something ?

>>6207902

>And revolts, not much happened on that for now.

Due to you improving the living conditions and having a better access to foodstuff as well as even such unheard of things as actual rest had resulted in no revolts breaking out. Though now that people have time to think, they are slowly realizing how shit their lives are and they might do something about it.

>Did we ever verify the total human population ourselves ?

No. You never conducted your own census and the given data is now years out of date.

>They are 5 ? They are really packed. I dont remember anything about them, did we know anything else ? And we only know Deimea name being, Deimea like the world it self. If those names where in the archive they would have come out by now lol. Or idk someone making a comment about them.

They have names and basic history. I did not bring it up because the information was irrelevant and I didn't want to throw out names that might never be used again. Though if there is interest, I will detail it for the sake of further immersion and world building, if that is what you anons want. If nothing else, if going for the forge-temple wins, I will detail that one.

>It does feel like these other 4 temples dont talk or share info.... there is some kind of taboo to talk with us ? Is Belogyma sending their messages in spam or something ?

Gane's ban on anyone but him and Belogyma's order from interacting with you is still in effect, which is why no one's bothering Ody unless he goes out of his way to find them.

So does anyone else think that this is the Eldar coordinating these attacks because they want their soulstones back, and the soulstones are in one of the parts of our hull scattered across Deimea?

After we break down the Ork empire we should begin the systematic extermination of the Eldar and teleport all their soulstones directly into the Slaaneshiest part of the warp.

Total Elf Death.

>>6208139
I'm certain it's the fucking eldar. The only other group I could think of that could be responsible is the Inquisition but I doubt they could pull something like this off or so soon after the warp storm has calmed. We should return to those twin maiden worlds someday and introduce them to Big Bertha.

>>6208133
Its something that i expected. One more reason to build those Shade Drones. I have something for deal with that temporarily, but its merely a first measure (a final measure would be terraformation + Armored Dawn and a new political institution). Political work needs to be done regardless.

Something to do then.

I would be interested, but I might be the only one on this. I recon in the defense of Deimea the world, from an ork invasion that will inevitably land in mass, that the defense of those forge temples would happen too. If you believe is minutia i will not insist.

Like that then. Okay i guess is on us to look around again. Or ask Belogyma to do it.


>>6208139
They could be, but we don't have intel on this right now. With the Forge Temples being not that developed by us, except somewhat Deimea, we have nothing for see stealth enemy units beside our robotic legions and what we built (I will post again to build those satellites if its eldar). Could be a lot of Orks Commandos.

If its really them and they are here because of one of the storage parts of the Odyssey, the one housing eldar loot, then why didn't they come sooner. They had two of the best worlds in the galaxy and Omicron Teledesh, Xandirah, Pulsar Star alongside the entire Sector was absolutely fucked. It would have been like taking candy from a kid, an armed one but severely wounded. Doing this mission now with our current level of activity is suicidal for Eldar. And even is for trying to help orks is suicidal for Eldar. I mean we cleaned many systems entirely of orks in a short time with just the Odyssey in the past. Once we understood how to find them, we killed Eldar squads too. Surely someone in their ranks would say no to being this dumb.


I would prefer to not have to fight the Craftworld eldar. Because it will occupy us in resources this time and in our conditions we cannot afford it. Its another active hot war to keep in mind too, instead of occasional dickwaving contest or spying. And they can be relentless and enduring in war.

If the Craftworld Eldar really insist, i guess the Twin Paradise Worlds can have the monument we wanted to make back then. Said enough.

>>6208246
>Could be a lot of Orks Commandos.
Highly unlikely. This all seems way too well planned for mere orks.

>why didn't they come sooner
The warp storm, probably. It encompassed most of the sector including Deimea and has only recently begun to calm.

>I mean we cleaned many systems entirely of orks in a short time with just the Odyssey in the past.
That was then, this is now. We don't have the Odyssey or the ODD, our defenses are lacking for a threat this size, our fleet is gone and we're already having to put out multiple fires on the ground before the battle with the orks has even started thanks to our saboteurs. Shit is thoroughly FUCKED.

comms 4
psykers 1
forge-temple 3
civilians 1

ex-human batteries 1

slow 2
balance 3

Alright, Ody will dedicate extra processing power towards ensuring that the comms are secure and safe. I will remind (You) that Ody will also try to deal with everything else, since super computer.

As for the Deimean expedition, they will take a balanced approach of dispatching scouting and vanguard forces that shall remain on high alert and find a balance between speed and caution.

With a series of commands, you begin to split up the fleet, the bulk of your force shall be made up with the tried and tested voidships, while those newly made by Odysseus shall be split into smaller detachment to act as scouts and vanguard forces. Their greater speed and toughness should give them enough time to react and report back against any unknown foe, whether they perish or not is irrelevant, bar of course encountering a crushingly overwhelming force.

In the meantime, you begin to further sort out and overlook your ground forces. While the situation is unknown, the fact that no one responded to the vox hails you had sent, already indicates a degradation in your overall control of the planet. Be it minor sabotage and guerrilla fighting having picked back up again after a period of peace, or if it is an outright collapse of your authority on the planet, does not matter. The fact of the matter is that a failure of control had occurred, be it due to incompetence of Magos Dominus Locer, or annoyingly the competence of local disruptive elements, everyone bearing responsibility shall be punished.

You slowly look around the bridge, the ever-present figures of black shade continue to stare at you. Their continuous glowing eyes of numerous colours continue to stare at you, all judging you, accusing you. Failures, all of them. They had fallen before you, yet they still try to hold judgment over you. Even then, whenever you try to look at them, they disappear, always at the edge of your vision, always looking. Let them look. You know no matter what choices you make here; their numbers shall only grow.

As days of organization and travel continue to go by, the incessant voices of your subordinates continue to relay the various day to day operations as you continue to edge closer to Kanzula. With the distance decreasing, the appearance of the Surewrought and the voidstation that it is docked with is one of distress.

Both of them a riddled with holes and clear indications of battle. Clear signs of singeing from the blown out holes indicating powerful blast from macrocannon batteries, a large and noticeable scorch mark showcases a terrible rend on the Surewrought’s port. The rebels do not possess void based weaponry, nor do you note any apparent hostile forces in the void. The fighting must have been intense and expensive, to leave the world undefended seems strange. Most queer of all, you notice clear signs of decay both upon the vessel and the voidstation. Rust had settled upon the vessels, mainly around the damaged areas.

As for Kanzula itself, a thick green atmosphere envelops the world, the fertilizers pumped into the atmosphere had not diminished at all, in fact, the atmosphere seems to be overfilled with it.

>>6209480

Meanwhile, your vanguards spread out to move around Kanzula, continuously using their auspex to locate any potential threats, while another group moves towards Kanzula’s moon. So far however, you had not located anything, be it hostile, or friendly.

”Fabricator-General.” Your Voxmaster states, drawing you from the half-conscious state that you were in. ”Our forces are prepared for ground and void operations. At what level of autonomy do you wish for them to operate ?”

>”None. I shall lead the effort personally.” (Take control of Gane for a detailed Kanzula campaign.)

>”They can do what they will, I want results.” (An abridged campaign with only a few choices.)

>>6209481
>>”They can do what they will, I want results.” (An abridged campaign with only a few choices.)
Sound like its not Eldar on Kazula, maybe its an entire colony of those ugly aliens with time weaponry. No wonder why everyone seems dead. Thats a few millions people being now corpses then.

Might be cool, but I want to see the hellhole of battles on Deimea instead.

>>6208376
Its an option. Some of this internal attacks look kind of messy other are more precise, but ultimately we have no clear sign of who did it anyway. It could be all done by eldar different specialized squads i wouldn't be surprised. Scorpions for that place, Warp Spiders for another etc... Still, i ll leave it there, until we get something that says clearly what we are dealing with. Orks in sector clarus managed to get their hands on nice tech before, do it again doesn't sound far fetched what with all the systems they have taken.

That recently was a decade ago at this point, if not a few more years. I think they lost the window of time where they could truly finish us, without any great risk to their forces. As in 100% sure. They could still kill us here of course, but they allowed us time to make something. And that means they cant be 100% sure anymore. If the orks and the eldar squads here don't manage to win, they can still kill a lot of humans (that we arent recovering soon) and make enough damage everywhere to keep us occupied for a while in just repairs. Enough time for Eldar to rally a proper war fleet and army, and try to put an end definetly.

Even so, the robotic legions of Odysseus on the ground (provided they are at least more than 1), might make enough of a difference. A few hundreds robots and drones back in Eregenus destroyed a far larger force of orks (supported by a no small amount of light and heavy vehicles.
Also destroyed by them) . The fact we have in theory multiple of said legions, and our mind is partially restored, was a big error to leave out from our foes.

>Rust on the station
>even thicker green atmosphere
It is so fucking over. It is gonna be Nurgle isn’t it.

(Just wanted to point it out)

>>6209481
>”None. I shall lead the effort personally.” (Take control of Gane for a detailed Kanzula campaign.)

Poor Gane. The hard choices didnt leave his mind unscratched. He also might need some calibration done to his optical implants.

>>6209509
seems likely. Damned chaos warlords are fucking up our food supply badly and probably even permanently. No one wants food from a nurgle touched planet. thats a recepie for desaster.

>>6209481
>”None. I shall lead the effort personally.” (Take control of Gane for a detailed Kanzula campaign.)
Gane's actually fucking schizophrenic.

>>6209508
With Kanzula possibly being invaded or subverted by chaos, I'm now starting to worry that our saboteurs on Deimea might actually be a chaos cult.

>>6209509
Yeah, it's not looking good.

>>6209748

>Gane's actually fucking schizophrenic.

Mental wellness is a rarity in this setting. Also, let's be honest, to be a techpriest requires quite a lot of mental instability.

Also, if the detailed version wins, I already made some unit stats in case the prolonged option wins, though nowhere near finished. The link is at the bottom of the paste.

https://pastebin.com/SSFic0zK

>>6209748
>I'm now starting to worry that our saboteurs on Deimea might actually be a chaos cult.
No. Doesn't make sense.
Mostly because they would be too near us for just this few problems to happen. The first thing chaos corruption does when existing anywhere near us, it goes straight to attack us. Always. I am not talking about chaos units, just the stench of chaos that they all carry around does that alone.

We would be literally starting to losing everything at the same time in terms of robotic legions and have to send them the order of auto-detonating themselves to every single one of those robots multiple times WHILE at the same time we are occupied in isolating ourselves fully, before chaos attempts to fry our circuits alive or kill us with corruption by making us go insane in less than a second.

Unless Newb wants to make it about the Mechanicus and end Odysseus there and then.... chaos sabotaging us right now wouldn't happen. Since Deimea population would die right there and then too, because they certainly arent somehow surviving a massive waagh with the majority of skitarii not being here AND nevermind also survive sabotage and corruption from chaos units WITH US DYING AND OUR LEGIONS DETONATING. There is a limit to the ridicolous.

>>6209786
Yeah some of these "commanders" should not be near to command even a boat with a cargo of beans and potato, nevermind armies and fleets. But this is what Deimeans have in charge. I would say those skitarii better pray for their lives, but they probably dont understand doing that in case of bad leadership.

Better keep in mind these people. For the civilians sake on Deimea later on. If we or them survive.

>>6209481
>”They can do what they will, I want results.” (An abridged campaign with only a few choices.)

>>6209910
The commanders do fit worldbuilding wise. Fitting the culture of Deimea.

>>6210119
They do fit for Deimea. Only wanted to say what i thought about them.

The vote is currently split 2 for abridged and 2 for a detailed campaign. I need a tie breaker, as I will try to update during the weekend.

I will also point out that a detailed campaign will be, well, detailed, so it might take the rest of the thread and some of the next.

>>6211628
>Abridged Campaign
As much as I'd like to hear about mah main gane, I can't split my attention while Orkz and Elvez are ravaging Deimea.

>>6209481
>>”They can do what they will, I want results.” (An abridged campaign with only a few choices.)
>>6211628

>>6209697
Even with Kazula gone, food is not really an issue. Provided we have the time for set up infrastructure for it even here on Deimea or in Deimea space with orbital habitats (which we should if the Mechanicus made warehouses where to place food supplies).

If the Mechanicus found said enemy, and bother to tell us about it when they return, then the planet will not be used anymore. Beside for destroy it really. Sanitize it completely might has well kill the entire biosphere and terraform it again, is out of the cards anytime soon, since we already have our hands full with Deimea being the planet that it is (a bad one for human life).

The real loss, is not an agriworld (which is a malfunction of the Imperium that remained there and we...do not need at all once we are steady), its the loss of an habitable world that could be made in to a much better colony. Far easier to build there than in Deimea. If we could secure Deimea first.

Speaking of Deimea, the mining ships, the Zephyrs and the Science ship might as well fly around instead of partecipating in the defense. They will not give a great fight against such numbers, and they are better of skirmishing so that a few ships might survive. It might even distract orks. If the Eldar from the twin paradise worlds are truly here, then they have a fleet element present. Would also be a death sentence for the ships we made here. If the eldar managed to make a forward base with portal on Deimea then we are dead anyway, they can warp in anything they want. The only silver lining that will probably not happen, is that there is so many orks, that eldar might be forced to fight orks or leave. But again eldar usually choose their battles wisely and know how to move. The only direct battle they would engage, is one where our robotic legions have been mostly destroyed. They just need to wait for that and our fleet will be too occupied in Kazula, same for the majority of the Mechanicus military sent there for return anytime soon. A perfect battle for Eldar, almost.

Looking at the shipyard and space defenses they are no doubt receiving with brute force the main attack. They are lost already, might even be used by orks against us. In a crude manner like trying to throw them at us. We should be able to send a signal for auto-detonate all of them at that point, so if nothing else that might help kill some orks ships.

After that trying to defend 5 pseudo settlements-factories-fortresses-temples-favelas chaotic mix, will probably go how we can expect it. Fighting an unending green tide, with our robotic legions and our civilians robots trying to rebuild defenses, or build new defenses and fortifications (like simple minefields, walls, bunkers or turrets). Since we had control over the Deimeans own WMDs, we should be able to wreck a few of the orks invasion landing zone.

The civilian population cannot help us, beside for construction. There is no military infrastructure we made for training, and beside the modified V.R. pods we made for the ex-human batteries there is little else. We could rush something if we want, since we have inferno weapons made by the autoforges, but it would provide little. There is not much time, so we lose even more civilians for a few more orks killed.

Politically speaking if we survive, we can be truly seen by all survivors as their savior (if the other invasions didn't do that). Maybe it will unify most political techpriest factions under us. And we can make sure they accept alien things like more rights and even some political power given to the lower classes of Deimea population.

>>6213471
Don't underestimate the mining ships or the Zephyrs. The mining ships are good at taking out the small riff raff and fighters and the zephyr are accaptable for sniping big targets. Only the science ship doesn't have that much use, but it is only there to rummage through the debris at the end of this mess anyway.

>>6214085
I am not understimating them, neither the mining ships or the Zephyrs. But look at what they are up against. They cannot give a great fight against such numbers and i frankly dont want them to die for an already doomed space defense. The amount of orks that there is, make such sacrifice pointless. Its basically a giant wave of greenskins spacecraft attacking Deimea. If they stay there with the space defenses they are dead. If they skirmish a few of them can survive in the end (i am not optimistic enough that all survive). Which is better than none. Otherwise their best bet for survive is get down here with us asap.


The scientific spaceship well yeah. Is not made for war but for science but it...is more a political tool. Its like a medieval school-church where cardinals and bishops send their naughty intelligent nephews after talking with the pope, and before that the pope made a deal with god. Only that they are tech-nuts. And honestly i am fine with that at least they aren't down here.

If they ever bother to do their research (since we cant do none ourselves, because we have yet to build a basic lab for ourselves down here) i will be even impressed. So far the bikering they do time to time is an interesting and funny social phenomenon that could be researched later down the line. Maybe we could use it for make some comical films. Especially with the ones still trying to blatantly steal things.

>>6214604
As far as I remember when Ody first woke up he did pretty well against the Orks of Eregenus with just mining drones. dont forget that Ody makes laps in judegment when regarding the power of repurposed tools an whatnot. A outdated civilian welding tool for us, is a holy relic energy weapon for our troops and so on. Our little space mine factory also had a few months to shit out a lot of mines. It will thin the horde a lot, I am sure of that.

Also don't underestimate the science of clerical institutions and the like. Mendel was a monk and he discovered the rules of heritability. Have a little faith ;)

Keep in mind that these battles tend to take several months, exceeding a year sometimes if I'm not mistaken. The mining ships can do a lot more by simply mining and allowing the orbital ring to produce more federation tier ships. The zephyrs, meanwhile, with their holodecks and training facilities, are much more suited to training up crews for said vessels. A green crew up to a ithican standard is still better than throwing conscripts into them. And they can still fire their macrocannons from the surface all the while.
Let's tone the panic down. Root out the Elves or whoever the infiltrators are and eliminate them without fail. After that, we have a simple Ork infestation to deal with, and a single federation ship, as well as recalling our fleet, will burn that problem down to atoms.

>>6214879
Those mining drones zapped a few orks in the asteroid fields, but they didnt do more than that :( . Except work which is important. Then the Odyssey was going from one side to the other of Eregenus while skirmishing constantly orks ships. After that we entered a big asteroid and did some work.
On Eregenus itself, the world, to defend that lonely settlement we deployed down actual Hydras and then Nemeans. The rest is history.

Sometimes, he ain't perfect but again numbers here are a bit too much i believe. Maybe I am wrong but I don't like the idea of them fighting a horde of this size. We will see what happens. I can't help but be quite negative with all the bad events. If nothing else once the warboss shows up on the ground we can kick his head right into the stratosphere. Or can we get anything from interrogating a big monster ? They are a bit too cunning once they are leaders to reveal useful information. But a war criminal should be punished and do something of use for humanity, before execution.
>is a holy relic energy weapon for our troops and so on
that's because they have yet to see our weapons

>Have a little faith ;)
lol

>>6214912
>>6214912
>Thousands of Orks. Millions, perhaps tens, hundreds, maybe even a billion. An amalgamation of what appears to be the largest spacehulk you had ever seen, easily reaching the size of a small planetoid is escorted by as of yet indeterminate amount of, though easily in the thousands, of capital class vessels escorted by tens of thousands of smaller ramshackle voidships.

Just a reminder of what we are up against. And all going directly for us.

Federation tier, lets not. They are powerful but no crew here will be able to command those with so little time. Their
educational background is not even enough for understand the barebone basics of a federation tier tech vessel. And we are cutting on a strength of them by no doubt, brute forcing taking out everything AI about them. Which is i feel a bad idea because you need to fill that void with something tested, and not turn the head around and believe it just works out. If we really need to make one, we should use it through comms since we are the only one that could command one.

If we are building anything it should be outdated tier ships, since we are transforming the navy to use them. And the navy is already using them. And education and training wise, is less impossible to reach a basic level of competency with Outdated tier tech. If we want the Ithican standard, we need to create such conditions for make it first. Right now no way in hell.

Still i dont believe the orks will allow us to mine and nevermind produce ships. If they are going right for Deimea, they should want to take out the space defenses and the shipyard.

In regard to Eldar, if its them, it all depends if we made any of the robots we made for find them back in the day of the twin paradise worlds pacification in our robotic legions. Otherwise we cant spot them. We didn't build any structure for reveal stealth units here if I remember correctly. Or stuff like bio scanner. Or simple cameras and sensors even.

>>6214941
We need a fedi weapons platform. We need to shoot a few blackholes towards the main fleet clusters. Our robotic legions can handle the forces planetside but we need a space broom to clean up the void so they don't crack the planet or our sun.

>>6214940
Nah, just grind the orks to paste and microwave that paste. Might get some fertilizer out of it, Deimnea needs biomass after all if we cannot use Kanzla for food anymore. Ork spores might be a problem though, need to get rid of those. Interrogating orks is quite difficult, even the smat ones.
They dont really react to torture and befriending them wont work either. Also I am pretty sure those arent freebooters so we cannot pay them to bugger off.

>>6215333
Golden opportunity to have a live test bed for our anti-orkoid retrovirus, which we will need for our coming Enlightenment Crusade into the Ork Empire.

>>6215093
Instead of constructing a Fedtech defense station, I think I'd prefer to produce a WMD to cut down their numbers. Grey Goo would be ideal.

>>6215979
We have not retrieved any #rares, but I'm not opposed to it. I don't think grey goo really requires anything rare, but WMD capacity is probably very limited. I propose grey goo railgun slugs. A single nanite constellation inside a single railgun slug on 10,000 whirlwinds, activated upon firing. Send 10,000 whirlwinds against the 10,000 largest orkoid vessels on kamikaze missions to fire their single slug and fire their missile payloads, then activate a secondary nanite constellation in their body as they accelerate at maximum speed towards the enemy, taking on a massive spin roll so that when the greenskin dakka inevitably interceps the vessel it sprays gobs of grey goo with centrifugal acceleration in every direction like an interplanetary flak gun.

>>6215989
>-t.

>>6215989
Uhm...I dont think shooting nanites via railgun works. just use good old missiles.

>>6216466
What is your problem? Don't talk to me anymore, I'm sick of your nonsense naysaying. There is no reason a nanite couldn't be contained in a railgun slug. And we were talking about WMDs so you're not even on topic.

>>6215333
>Nah, just grind the orks to paste and microwave that paste. Might get some fertilizer out of it, Deimnea needs biomass after all if we cannot use Kanzla for food anymore.
could work if we had the time and machinery already for them, but we can get a public execution out of some of them. Its just funny to list their war crimes and then shot them

spores shouldn't be too much of an issue, at least Deimea is bad for anyone living here. We could have the robotic legions on clean up duty.

Fascinating developments in both Kanzula and Deimea. We were always expecting an Ork fleet, but an internal enemy is most concerning.

The pinpoint strikes at our logistical capability and communications does not fit the abilities of the Imperium, and I think due to the attack specifically threatening our civilian population shows the enemy knows our love for humanity. As others have said, it is a pretty good case that the faction responsible are the Eldar.

The only thing that confuses me is the timing, why wait for us to build our defences? Or even wait until we awoke? The Eldar move through the webway, but do have warp drives as given in this section of their codex:

"Eldar spacecraft can travel through the warp using their warp drives, although this is a slow and dangerous process for them. Unlike humans, the Eldar have no Navigators who can steer through warp space. Furthermore, the daemons of the warp are attracted far more strongly to vibrant Eldar spirits than to the dull, shadowy minds of men. - Codex: Eldar 2nd Edition"

Now, it seems obvious that whoever orchestrated this attack has ample resources, and if it is Eldar, and they most certainly don't have a webway gate anywhere in the system because if they did they'd have done this attack before we set up any defences.

Which brings me to another issue regarding the Eldar, they're one of the only ones capable of causing such havoc yet I don't think they came for any spirit stones. They warned us about the Dark Eldar, so they'd %100 swoop in right after we died to pick up their stones and fuck off. So I do not believe that is the motive. We are a gamechanger in the universe, and the Eldar did try to indirectly kill us before, which leads me to the conclusion that whoever is responsible for this attack has our core as the main target.

I do think they have techpriest collaborators from the inside, so we might see some internal fighting, but I think after this vote we should take steps to fortify our core as our survival is first priority.

>(write in) Make an announcement in Aeldari "You have broken the non-aggression treaty between the Human Federation and The Aeldari Empire. Surrender now and the remainder of your spirit stones will not be thrown into a waste compactor. In the case of your surrender, you shall be treated as a prisoner of war and be given all the rights of a federation PoW"

This won't do much, but I am hoping it'll allow for some more information for us.

>>6209786
I really love our commanders by the way, they seem like some exciting characters. Our fabricator-general is quite well-adjusted in comparison it seems.

>>6221545
Maybe the eldar behind this aren't from the same craftworld we've been in contact with? I doubt there any of our tech priests are working with them.

I'm back. Life and work got in the way. I am working on the update, I will post it on Easter as the thread's about to die.

>>6227448
Kay!
Glad to see you

>>6227448
YAY!