Stories of Lore 39

 

Yes Ilex could call Eleazor.

Operations have launched the KouKou and Kaylen has gone to speak with Sanguis. Although, Allison will have to catch up with you as she was on a Solvang station at the time of deployoment. She should be there to regroup just outside Auwana though. Good luck commander.

Project Gundam is on hiatus while Khymin accompanies you on your operation. Though he projected it would be another two months until he had a prototype ready.

MPR has proven to be a popular idea. Mostly because it is the first step to restoring a sense of aethernet entertainment but is quite easily accessible.

In regards to equipping Gheir’s unit, he was quite disappointed at the desire for less of ‘blow everything up’. Though that would be Gunhild’s unit, but admittedly they still use a lot of explosives. Just with more accuracy.

Twilight station is currently in the process of constructing its shipyards. Though next month we can shift focus to a proper garrison for training. The cruiser fleet for exploration has also finished construction. While New Age has graciously agreed to make use of them, notably Vasia doesn’t pay much attention to them. Though she has the largest ship in the federation so that was to be expected.

The war on Zenaka continues, Koda has turned a pair of cities into craters with the super battle ship. This orbital superiority has provoked a surrender.

The Winter is currently working on the opposite side of the given routes from the Nomads to slow the progress the Phantoms are making on setting up Auwana. We’ve managed to get a few shipping freighters of materials out of the mass piracy. We’ve also lost several strike craft to other pirates in the area. Not terribly large losses but it should be noted that the operation is not considered invulnerable.

They’re pulling back out before the Phantoms come up with any nefarious plan that might prove disadvantageous for us if we continued to act too predictably.

 

The initial platforms for Garden City have been constructed. We can actually build some things on top of them now. It hovers above the tree line and Eden is there as a representative of herself so at least the winds are stable. We actually just stuck sails on it since she controls the wind for us as needed if we want to float somewhere else. The one disadvantage to this project is we can’t harvest Eden for construction resources. However, we can put the main portal up here and ship things in from Moncayo.

Hydroshield research and development is ongoing.

I see you had an…interesting adventure through the elemental plane. Apparently the earth elementals of that particular archon are an adventurous lot. makes sense though given they never stay in one place so live fast die…ancient? How long do earth elementals even live? Though it turns out doing surgery on a rock animated of primordial mana manipulation isn’t any easier for Eden than living fire. But uh…congrats?

We evacuated as many of the civilians as we could before Koda attacked with the super battleship. It is kind of a giant ship in the sky that can wipe out cities before lunch so that did get them to surrender for the most part as Zenakan technology cannot compete with it. Not for lack of trying though, they launched some sort of primitive high yield missile at the ship but they didn’t make it past the shields.

In other news, Haziel’s janky steamworks ship we made her is on the way back to Eden so we expect to see her next month. Eerihild is excited.

I wouldn’t mind a show where humanoids don’t win the day for fucking once. Does no one ever sympathize with the poor alien monsters in these movies?

Vasia has built a power generator that takes advantage of the mana bursts at the new research station. It releases so much energy in those bursts that turning the generator on seems to be helping offset energy costs around the place. Though she really did it to gather data and another researcher realized there was a more practical use for that then making a bunch of spreadsheet numbers. Vasia’s working on some sort of new spell with all this information and people are concerned.

Grinhys has also been scouting around the planet and has found microscopic life on the planet. It has so much energy that I suppose something was bound to take hold there. It’s really exciting to the science nerds but I don’t…particularly get it. Grinhys did eat some of it though.

Craylin can speak with her mouth if she wants. Her voice is a bit grating though. She also has little she ever feels the need to say. Rhazin is more talkative than her.

Si Yeon is seeing about teaching people how to be a field medic.

Also Zenaka finally surrendered after the super battleship just blew their asses up. So that was a thing.

Aryn is currently deployed with Lancaster for their latest operation so she can’t really help with the ship signature thing at the moment.

Lucidity are already hanging out with the heroes guild but there isn’t much for me to report on that. They’re a support unit supporting another team. Not terribly exciting if you ask me. Though if you must know, they’re helping with the psionics department. However, most of the cult is about the meditation circle which, while we know is a big thing with the jesai, doesn’t lead to quite as much without a central point anymore.

Experiments wise, as  a quick review..
You managed to disrupt the synapse link between a drone and the rest of the synapse. It still tried to bite everything. The instant it exits the synapse, it bites everything. So the watch guard idea is not terribly effective. The whole synapse is set up to use commanders as nodes, just print more commanders. This is a biotech that has contended with the jesai, the most powerful psionics in the galaxy, so they have a lot of failsafes against typical psionic manipulation. Though it is peculiar that failsafe is ‘start attacking everything’.

They do work as memory storage though that we can retrieve if implanted on them. Though it degrades almost immediately. What’s interesting is I can tell what the information was in pretty decent detail, but it degrades in such a way that it becomes a garbled mess to most others. I think this is part of that same anti-jesai stuff we were talking about. To make sure no psionics can run a spell out of the drone’s memory and it can only transfer basic information. Garbled as it is, I can still read it even if every three letters is missing for example. Though if you chain this between drones it does get kind of messy. So its sort of transferrable, but only if there is a commander in every other step of the chain.

Also any drones that do need essentia tend to fall under Craylin’s command. Though the synapse doesn’t like to break things down after it already made them if they are still functioning. If it isn’t desperate for resources it’ll just keep the essentia drone in operation.

Also even i cannot rewrite the ‘out of synapse’ programming. Once they don’t have the synapse, bite time. I can produce more independent specialized critters like Grinhys, but drones gonna drone. They’re just a work force with a war protocol as their default. The assumption being that without a present synapse, something has gone horribly wrong and they need to rebuild immediately. Also even if nothing has gone horribly wrong, a commander will come pick them up eventually and more ichor can’t be a bad thing. Again, the motherships have synapse ranges over entire continents so getting spread out from the synapse isn’t a regular problem for silnians.

Michael has been skulking around the Phantom shipyards. He noted that it has several strange design elements that are definitely not standard. Some of it he can’t figure out what it’s even for, but he’s starting to recognize the handiwork of Sakhessa’s engineering. He also discovered the mines in front of Renjala’s Rift are also rigged up by her and are laced with mummy rot. Even if they don’t destroy a ship, they will infect it and all its occupants quickly given how virulent this particular curse can be. He recommended that if Lancaster does manage to steal a big ship, that she exit through the warren tunnels not the main rift as those mines could be a problem with longer consequences than expected. Though we still have the route to Eden mapped at one of the nearby exit points.

Security is sort of lax since it’s hard to secure a perimeter still under construction, the shipyards are being built at the same time as the ship they’re building. So there’s a lot of gaps that could be snuck through. However, Deinuu is protecting the ship mummy style. Sitting around it like lurking at the end of a dungeon. To take control of the ship Lancaster would likely need to deal with him. It’s other defenses are just whatever officers happen to be lurking around. Specifically he knows that Mikael is also there overseeing construction. Faelyn is usually on Riftgard but that is a short distance away, Elder Black is also there.

The shipyards are otherwise too far away from Aureum and have no portal network to get Sakhessa’s golden legion to the ship at the least. It is also notable that the bulk of defensive choices within the rift is centered around protecting Aureum rather than the shipyards so that is convenient.  However, if the operation suffers any delays Sakhessa’s carrier is nearby so that might be a hazard to consider even if Faelyn’s fleet leaves.

The Nomads are currently out preying on any phantom movements they can get on top of without running into the big fleets. That does turn out to be a lot of things. Then they promptly keep those slaves for their growing flotilla city they’ve been weirdly keen to work on lately.

Also Allison and Aryn are both on excursion with Lancaster at the moment. Though a note about asking Allison to contact Kaylen…Kaylen’s down the road remember? She built her new city just to the south of Moncayo. You can just walk over there if you want.