Hellraiser
Arcane
THE MIGHT OF LACONIA SHALL NOT STAND IDLY AS HOSTILE FORCES SEEK TO DOOM OUR RACE
This is the FEDERAL NETWORK at 0808 hours, 88 days in the 88th year of the Spartan Era with an urgent address from Federation President Colonel Santiago to the Planetary Council and all of Planet.
The Universe does not wait idly for a species to realize its own mistake. It is an uncaring thing and it treats our whole race not any different from any other pile of random atoms. Fate is entirely in our hands as we stand with the Way right in front of us, and it is up to us to follow the Way avoiding the pitfalls of detours or even worse, avoiding regressing back to where we came.
Thus when we see great crimes, unprovoked aggression, extortion attempts and threats against those who are by no means hostile forces, we must choose to act. Lady Deidre has called upon the factions of Planet to judge, and we the Federation, have judged. Therefore let our judgment be known together with the sentence, to all of Planet!
Lady Deidre Skye is a vile snake plotting against the good-natured peoples of Planet. Her disgusting worms were encroaching upon the University and started the first war on Chiron against a legitimate faction. She plots to enslave mankind using the so called planetmind, make us all puppets to this alien abomination, just like the alien maggots are currently thralls to this repulsive entity. This represents the worst form of treachery against her very own species, on top of clearly hostile actions against numerous of Chiron’s human factions.
The outcome can be just one, death. We will assist the University in cutting down the Gaian threat, thus securing the future for our species.
Our forces have begun their assault of Gaian outposts as we speak. Soon Planet shall know peace again, over the dead body of Deidre Skye.
The FEDERAL NETWORK is joining you live from what is now known as Purification Shores. Just a mere 3 kilometers in that direction fire from Culverin Plasma Cannons can be seen and heard, as brave Spartans assault the first of many maggot nests that Deidre Skye dares to call bases.
While it looks dangerous it actually isn’t, as the Gaian forces are woefully unprepared to face the onslaught of our Elite forces, falling back rapidly with every hour. Spartans on the frontline are quite optimistic, claiming that at this rate Deidre should be within University custody by the end of the coming decade.
This campaign has seen multiple new types of equipment deployed for the first time in combat by our forces. Icarus needlejet bombers, Valkyrie gunships, Jaguar hovertanks, Culverin plasma weapons, Bombard missile weapons, various types of artillery and new, more lethal warships have all been constructed and deployed in a short span of a few years.
On top of it all the service reforms shaped our great armed forces into the pinnacle of human martial prowess, with absolute discipline and skill further augmented with biological, eugenic and transgenic conditioning of the body. The Spartan war machine represents the apex of military might on Chiron deployed in the service of our species. With it the threat of extinction or enslavement at the hands of vile aliens and their human puppets shall be terminated with extreme prejudice.
***
This is the FEDERAL NETWORK at 1900 hours, 206 days in the 88th year of the Spartan Era. Wisdom is strength, just as big guns are.
With the recent breakthroughs in Fusion Power the scales shift ever so more in our favor, as the top minds of Laconia, such as Dr. Moreau, Professor Cortazar or Dr. Merkwürdigliebe have already started proposing practical applications of this rediscovered technology.
Dr. Merkwürdigliebe: Zee Sturmgewehr particle beam, named zo after a great deutsche kriegskunst innovation, ist a wunderwaffe. Zee power output of zee portable fusion reaktor ist unparalled in delivering gross, and I do mean GROSS, damage to zee untermensch. A marvel of technik fit for the momentous Jahr Acht und Achtzig of zee Spartan Era. Zey shall be like ants beneath a magnifying glass, while we shall be ein Krieg Koloss, Kampf Ubermensch! Sparta Stark! Sparta Strong!
This is the FEDERAL NETWORK at 0808 hours, 88 days in the 88th year of the Spartan Era with an urgent address from Federation President Colonel Santiago to the Planetary Council and all of Planet.
The Universe does not wait idly for a species to realize its own mistake. It is an uncaring thing and it treats our whole race not any different from any other pile of random atoms. Fate is entirely in our hands as we stand with the Way right in front of us, and it is up to us to follow the Way avoiding the pitfalls of detours or even worse, avoiding regressing back to where we came.
Thus when we see great crimes, unprovoked aggression, extortion attempts and threats against those who are by no means hostile forces, we must choose to act. Lady Deidre has called upon the factions of Planet to judge, and we the Federation, have judged. Therefore let our judgment be known together with the sentence, to all of Planet!
Lady Deidre Skye is a vile snake plotting against the good-natured peoples of Planet. Her disgusting worms were encroaching upon the University and started the first war on Chiron against a legitimate faction. She plots to enslave mankind using the so called planetmind, make us all puppets to this alien abomination, just like the alien maggots are currently thralls to this repulsive entity. This represents the worst form of treachery against her very own species, on top of clearly hostile actions against numerous of Chiron’s human factions.
The outcome can be just one, death. We will assist the University in cutting down the Gaian threat, thus securing the future for our species.
Our forces have begun their assault of Gaian outposts as we speak. Soon Planet shall know peace again, over the dead body of Deidre Skye.
The FEDERAL NETWORK is joining you live from what is now known as Purification Shores. Just a mere 3 kilometers in that direction fire from Culverin Plasma Cannons can be seen and heard, as brave Spartans assault the first of many maggot nests that Deidre Skye dares to call bases.
While it looks dangerous it actually isn’t, as the Gaian forces are woefully unprepared to face the onslaught of our Elite forces, falling back rapidly with every hour. Spartans on the frontline are quite optimistic, claiming that at this rate Deidre should be within University custody by the end of the coming decade.
This campaign has seen multiple new types of equipment deployed for the first time in combat by our forces. Icarus needlejet bombers, Valkyrie gunships, Jaguar hovertanks, Culverin plasma weapons, Bombard missile weapons, various types of artillery and new, more lethal warships have all been constructed and deployed in a short span of a few years.
On top of it all the service reforms shaped our great armed forces into the pinnacle of human martial prowess, with absolute discipline and skill further augmented with biological, eugenic and transgenic conditioning of the body. The Spartan war machine represents the apex of military might on Chiron deployed in the service of our species. With it the threat of extinction or enslavement at the hands of vile aliens and their human puppets shall be terminated with extreme prejudice.
***
This is the FEDERAL NETWORK at 1900 hours, 206 days in the 88th year of the Spartan Era. Wisdom is strength, just as big guns are.
With the recent breakthroughs in Fusion Power the scales shift ever so more in our favor, as the top minds of Laconia, such as Dr. Moreau, Professor Cortazar or Dr. Merkwürdigliebe have already started proposing practical applications of this rediscovered technology.
Dr. Merkwürdigliebe: Zee Sturmgewehr particle beam, named zo after a great deutsche kriegskunst innovation, ist a wunderwaffe. Zee power output of zee portable fusion reaktor ist unparalled in delivering gross, and I do mean GROSS, damage to zee untermensch. A marvel of technik fit for the momentous Jahr Acht und Achtzig of zee Spartan Era. Zey shall be like ants beneath a magnifying glass, while we shall be ein Krieg Koloss, Kampf Ubermensch! Sparta Stark! Sparta Strong!
The TURN was 88, an ominous number connected with certain... themes...
...If you know what I mean. A perfect TURN number to execute a (kind of/maybe) surprise attack.
As certain things, with Zakharov’s planes using my bases being the most obvious one, tipped off oldbonebrown, he broke pact on his TURN 88 (he is before me in the TURN order) sending some of mine (and probably also some of his) units back. But it was too late.
The plan was already in motion, and while I did plan to break pact myself on turn 88, the disruption caused by a possible breaking of pact by him first was accounted for in the planning and the most important units were not sent back, as I carefully checked (read: counted like an autist the distance) which sea tiles were closer to my bases while in strike range of his and out of possible scout range.
Scouts on prior turns found a suitable first target. A new sensor was just put up not long before TURN 88, meaning I had to remove it from Gaian inventory, but I had an idea.
I put a colony pod on top of it and settled a base, literally removing it from inventory (also declaring WAR) and adding it to mine. Like a thief in the night. Speaking of things in the night, shells in the night followed as the base was used to deploy the actual assault taskforce and strike the Gayans.
Forgot to screenshot combat but all the defenders of Mushroomsoup Mouthfull base were dealt with, without any losses on my side, demonstrating quite well why the first rank in military Deidre held is a bit of a paper tiger. Didn't take or raze any base yet, but that is a matter of time.
The above is one of the reasons why the Gaians have to go, look at those bonuses! Made the plane abort that. The Gaians are sitting on top of the +1 planet nexus landmark and have a psionics project further boosting their worms. Add green econ and the Gaian bonus Planet (when we used the mod of merc’s mod they no longer had it, now they do since new mod) and you get a “oh my god that’s so revolting!” stack of psi combat bonuses to quote a JA2 character. I just don’t want to imagine what hideous things could be done with all of those stacked psi combat bonuses later on, best kill it all before it goes out of control.
Furthermore, after last game, I wanted to demonstrate to oldbonebrown just how exactly it would look like if I really wanted to go after him with a plan in place. Just so that he knows for the future.
There was also another reason:
Fusion Power, which they just finished researching and I really wanted, in hindsight the research should have been delayed, as oldbonebrown rushed his Hunter-Seeker Algorithm project and on TURN 89 I wouldn’t be able to probe shit (until that thing would get neutralized, unless we left in algorithmic enhancement unit abbility in the mod?). That’s one of those little things one learns the hard way in PBEM I guess.
Got as lucky with this probe as this TURN was my only chance to steal it (for a while anyway), just as I got lucky last game when the only tech (out of 3 I could steal) I stole from oldbonebrown’s Believers was the Planetary Energy Grid one allowing me to steal the project from him. Could have gotten something way less useful in both instances, that game and in this one. Oh and it seems the fusion tech gibs fusion laser now, which I think might be overkill. Fusion reactors alone are good, not to mention fusion labs.
In other news, lost my top spot in score and also in pop a while back, now it is Lal first, Morgan second and me/Zakharov(Kalin)/Deidre(oldbonebrown) very close to each other in 3rd. Hive is lagging in last place behind everyone. BING XI LAO took over the Hive as madbringer had some hospital stay a while back nobody knew about (we thought he wuz dead and TURN didn’t flow, but he got better and told what happened), so he will now play the Hive.
Lost the top spot mostly because Lal is pop booming, and also because some people got some new tech while I am behind and just had a bunch of turns where I maximized yehzah and slowed down research in preparation for this war.
Sucks Kalin got temp banned for a month when the conflict with Gayans escalates, we might miss out on great University updates ITT because of it.
Oh and forgot to put it in the update, but globalwarmthinkery struck and sea levels started rising as usual. I wonder if we can mod the pollution trigger for it to be way higher, vs AI it is not a huge deal since AI triggers less pollution IIRC, but with 7 players in a game it is hard not to trigger it.
...If you know what I mean. A perfect TURN number to execute a (kind of/maybe) surprise attack.
As certain things, with Zakharov’s planes using my bases being the most obvious one, tipped off oldbonebrown, he broke pact on his TURN 88 (he is before me in the TURN order) sending some of mine (and probably also some of his) units back. But it was too late.
The plan was already in motion, and while I did plan to break pact myself on turn 88, the disruption caused by a possible breaking of pact by him first was accounted for in the planning and the most important units were not sent back, as I carefully checked (read: counted like an autist the distance) which sea tiles were closer to my bases while in strike range of his and out of possible scout range.
Scouts on prior turns found a suitable first target. A new sensor was just put up not long before TURN 88, meaning I had to remove it from Gaian inventory, but I had an idea.
I put a colony pod on top of it and settled a base, literally removing it from inventory (also declaring WAR) and adding it to mine. Like a thief in the night. Speaking of things in the night, shells in the night followed as the base was used to deploy the actual assault taskforce and strike the Gayans.
Forgot to screenshot combat but all the defenders of Mushroomsoup Mouthfull base were dealt with, without any losses on my side, demonstrating quite well why the first rank in military Deidre held is a bit of a paper tiger. Didn't take or raze any base yet, but that is a matter of time.
The above is one of the reasons why the Gaians have to go, look at those bonuses! Made the plane abort that. The Gaians are sitting on top of the +1 planet nexus landmark and have a psionics project further boosting their worms. Add green econ and the Gaian bonus Planet (when we used the mod of merc’s mod they no longer had it, now they do since new mod) and you get a “oh my god that’s so revolting!” stack of psi combat bonuses to quote a JA2 character. I just don’t want to imagine what hideous things could be done with all of those stacked psi combat bonuses later on, best kill it all before it goes out of control.
Furthermore, after last game, I wanted to demonstrate to oldbonebrown just how exactly it would look like if I really wanted to go after him with a plan in place. Just so that he knows for the future.
There was also another reason:
Fusion Power, which they just finished researching and I really wanted, in hindsight the research should have been delayed, as oldbonebrown rushed his Hunter-Seeker Algorithm project and on TURN 89 I wouldn’t be able to probe shit (until that thing would get neutralized, unless we left in algorithmic enhancement unit abbility in the mod?). That’s one of those little things one learns the hard way in PBEM I guess.
Got as lucky with this probe as this TURN was my only chance to steal it (for a while anyway), just as I got lucky last game when the only tech (out of 3 I could steal) I stole from oldbonebrown’s Believers was the Planetary Energy Grid one allowing me to steal the project from him. Could have gotten something way less useful in both instances, that game and in this one. Oh and it seems the fusion tech gibs fusion laser now, which I think might be overkill. Fusion reactors alone are good, not to mention fusion labs.
In other news, lost my top spot in score and also in pop a while back, now it is Lal first, Morgan second and me/Zakharov(Kalin)/Deidre(oldbonebrown) very close to each other in 3rd. Hive is lagging in last place behind everyone. BING XI LAO took over the Hive as madbringer had some hospital stay a while back nobody knew about (we thought he wuz dead and TURN didn’t flow, but he got better and told what happened), so he will now play the Hive.
Lost the top spot mostly because Lal is pop booming, and also because some people got some new tech while I am behind and just had a bunch of turns where I maximized yehzah and slowed down research in preparation for this war.
Sucks Kalin got temp banned for a month when the conflict with Gayans escalates, we might miss out on great University updates ITT because of it.
Oh and forgot to put it in the update, but globalwarmthinkery struck and sea levels started rising as usual. I wonder if we can mod the pollution trigger for it to be way higher, vs AI it is not a huge deal since AI triggers less pollution IIRC, but with 7 players in a game it is hard not to trigger it.
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