Stories of Lore 38

The price of the construction materials, which are salvage, is inflated by the general need in the wake of the invasions and wars. Desoir considers the markup due to the situation to be a sub-optimal investment. As the price will eventually normalize, not to mention they have their own production methods. So Bellar is likely the most difficult place to sell it. Also cosmic dice.

Speaking of which, we have sold an additional amount.

We have deployed one of the super battleships to Zenaka.They are in transit, meanwhile the ground forces continue the invasion of various city areas. They have been easily surrendering territory and pulling back to positions within the territory of other lords to regroup. So while progress has been good, they are amassing a much larger retaliation by the nature of pulling back into a tighter group.

Khymin is working on the prototype mech, though is still working out the power requirements for the flight systems.

Operating under the parameter that Arkaric is still alive, I would suspect he would be close to Daiheb. His presumed death occurred while Daiheb was conveniently present, and it is likely they are up to something together. I would also estimate that if it was ‘all according to plan’ then he will be near other major civilizations. Given his familiarity with exerlus technology, I would not be surprised if he took Echo Seven’s place after turning her human and is infiltrating the exerlus for some reason. Another possibility is that he is operating on another scheme entirely, we do know he is collaborating with the jesai and a ‘mysterious empire’ located near the galactic core. A jydoq businessman who lives within our population knew the rumors of this particular empire. It is a secretive isolated society who are known for being spectacularly aggressive to anyone that approaches their galactic territory. They have established a radius around their primary star and will attack anything that enters into that radius. Galactic trade routes take care to go around this location of space. He could also be working alongside the galactic pirate. The jydoq are apparently not as familiar with this name.

Without Seiyomi the only group who might be able to find the library are the Phantoms. Unless we were to come in possession of such a vast collection of valuable information that was never transferred digitally and sit on it to lure them to us.

Modern fighters already work the way you described.

Still no word from Eleazor. By my estimates he should have arrived within the last month at Zero North, though he still has to get back.

As an update, Grassy Gnoll is being postponed. With the knights pulling out of the demon kingdoms there isn’t enough cover for the operation to keep looking for an opportunity.

The hydro shield could be much more feasibly mounted onto a vehicle to create a projected shield that just had to move with the vehicle instead of an individual combatant. So that would be one way to get squads closer. This is a standard practice, especially for Alnae military tactics, though the hydroshield would be a different approach at least.

This concept would also work with your idea to give everyone a panzercycle, then they could move at higher speeds alongside the shield projection. Though the shield is still significantly weaker than contemporary arcane designs. While they’ve refined it to heavily deter small arms fire, large scale impacts tend to destroy the shield with ease.

For perpetually floating buildings, actually Robert from Robert’s rifts knows how to do that. He showcased a prototype using rubble in Moncayo. He just used a Kari rift. Operating the same way a ship’s interior gravity controls do, but holding a structure up instead.

We have begun more aggressive recruitment.

Mahuea knows where to find an earth archon, kind of. The elemental plane has extreme environments so elementals tend not to wander out of their specific territory as that would involve crossing the environment of another element. However, the legendary earth archon can survive all other elemental biomes. It is a titanic creature who carries its territory with it and the earth elementals just live on top of the archon. It’s a giant turtle with a mountain range on its back. So it can walk, it can swim, and its made of rock so it doesn’t mind fire. As a result, this particular archon is notoriously the most difficult to find since it is always roaming. Slowly, but it is roaming none the less. However…I cannot imagine it is difficult to find a walking mountain range. The only problem is we can’t fly around on the elemental plane too carelessly. The air tends to be filled with lightning and strong winds. There is also no vacuum of space so we can’t just hide outside of orbit with a telescope.

The knights have been recalled from the demon kingdom and are on the way back to Eden.

I mean the star idea kind of works it just doesn’t blow up. Little star is kind of passive and doesn’t quite blow up like that. So its more of a pitfall trap that burns your foot. Also sustaining it ‘for little energy’ isn’t happening. Little star constantly radiates energy, that’s sort of its thing. So it doesn’t really sit  and chill for awhile. Though if you want landmines, The Maker specializes in things that pop out of the ground and bite your face off still. Could just strap little star to one of those maybe.

I’d say you can control the drones quite well, as long as they don’t leave your range. Without the synapse they return to their natural behavior. Which is eat and make babies. Aggressively. Part of it seems to do with the fact that all Silnians without a synapse assume they need to spread and expand. Making an ichor puddle will eventually produce a new commander if not a whole new monarch to take control of the swarm. So if they’re lonely, build more silnians. Either it helps invade or it helps replace their losses. True silnians have synapse ranges stretching across planets. Valdir’s descendents like ourselves are operating while missing the top level of the command structure. We’re a hive with no proper queen so to speak. The metaphor breaks down because of the lack of intermediate commanders but you get my point. No mothership means that the synapse is in survival mode. So modern ichors assume that if there is no contact then something has gone terribly wrong and they must now preserve the species at all costs. This is why if the drones get out of range of a sapient commander who can, you know, analyze the situation…they go into conquer and rebuild mode automatically. At least that’s my guess so far, going off of your prophecy pointing out we needed to find Indal to stabilize our ichor. Since he can actually reprogram the ichors itself.

Setal points out she knows where her drones are, just not where the drones her drones made went. Also we could just send a team of only the commanders if you’re that worried about the drones getting out of control. Rhazin would be pretty intimidating to a zenakan. Also Craylin’s drones specifically don’t make more stuff, so they’re easier to keep track of. Though when they do go rogue they start harvesting souls.

Grinhys is doing fine, he’s just sort of trotting along. Though he doesn’t exhibit any abnormalities when exposed to to the area. He has found some interesting deposits on the planet that is being turned into a star. The planet being constantly subjected to the arcane bursts has resulted in some odd formations. Vasia has narrowed down her ability to predict the bursts even more at least.

Also Craylin can put essentia in them, the experiment resulted in rapid dissipation. They don’t have the baseline requirement to start absorbing it.

The shipyard built your stealth ship but pointed out literally all ships can be operated though psionic control. They use psi crystals to give advanced interfaces after all. This is also why psions can use their APT’s without touching them.

Michael has been deployed to Koura to assess the situation and see whats going on over there. Keeping an eye on traffic, the Phantoms appear to be importing populations from various holdings into the Rift. As well as sending reinforcements to Enohas where Valadeus and his fleet are, in his own words, ‘up to no good’. We can discern that Faelyn has been taking over Riftgard while Sakhessa is more interested in the planet below the station. The place is being swiftly turned into a bastion larger than Moncayo, they seem to be heavily investing in control over the Warrens. He is currently moving among their slave populations, which the Phantoms aren’t the best of keeping track of.

The Nomads are currently in deep space cruising around and doing various home improvement projects on the flotilla while seeing if anyone comes through their area.

It does definitely seem that when you control the crime just a bit too well the really nasty crime lords tend to appear as they’re the only ones who can survive and then others are forced to gravitate towards them. Though a little too poorly and then five gang bosses show up and start having territory wars.  Though for now we’re setting up our offices in Moncayo to see what we can keep track of.

Allison has arrived in Sol and pointed out the place is basically a wasteland. So the best opportunity she can find to start some small time smuggling around Shetou territories to feel that one out.

We attempted to have Aryn’s virus infect a ship and carry it elsewhere. Instead the ship shut off reactor controls and exploded. She has pointed out that it seems to behave erratically. Half of her methods of using it are to just exploit weaknesses that appear in a system when it starts wreaking havoc. After a few attempts she managed to stabilize it, and we’ve sent it out though results are pending since the whole ‘erratic behavior’ thing makes it hard to tell what it will do if it encounters a new system.

Though it never does anything beneficial so at worst it does nothing. At best we get some intel from solvang movements. Middle of the road, we crash their servers. Low risk at least.