>>35642

What... that bitc- Not that we care. No, we are not avoiding her now at all.. Nuh uh. We just don't need to see her now. Let's look at the star chart. We need to consider our next move. If we really want to be a serious movement we have to get more ships so we can spread the word. Then again building a base somewhere safe and becoming the ex-slave pirates in order to survive holds some intrest.

>>35642
Well, I figured we were gathering everyone up for either a planning meeting or a surprise pillow fight, so we might as well pick her up next.

Though I can't imagine where to carry her...

She's a catgirl. Jen can carry her in her teeth by the scruff of her neck.

>>35673
That is a fucking adorable image. Requesting canon or fan art of it.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/29(Sat)11:19 No. 35773 ID: 5921a9
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I make my way to the map tactical room, I try to pass as far as I can from the bridge… I don’t wanna face Melanie yet… because… … never mind…

As I reach the room… ffff…

… the cat girl trio is already there… :(

>>35773
Well, while you are there, and since she's plainly already seen you, go hug her.

She's been nice to you, no reason to be mean to her.

>>35773

If it's too awkward just wave and say hello. Ask what they're planning. Also, ask Melanie to talk with you later in private if you want to discuss anything with her.

>>35773
Hey, catgirls might simply have a preference to spend some of their time with other catgirls, and this may not in any way indicate she doesn't want to spend time with you.

So don't jump to conclusions that she doesn't like you anymore, just give her a hug and chat, get to know the other catgirls too.

Say hello and be polite.

>>35773

Be polite, if you don't show emotions there eventually won't be none.. not that we had any to begin with. Inform them that a plan needs to be formed or have they already come up with one while you were "unavailable". And mayby they would like to run the ship instead, why I'm sure they would do a better job, it's not like anybody voted you the captain... you- No, no. Ahem, do we have a plan ready?

Say Hello, or ask what they're doing politley. Try to get involved, and when you get a chance ask to see your friend alone. Then apologize to her, maybe arrange a meeting later on~

>>35773

Breast starmap. Cannot unsee.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/29(Sat)15:27 No. 35900 ID: 5921a9
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I guess you are right… hugs and apologies are in order…

…

They seem to be planning our next move… we should join in…

>>35900

Well let's see what they're planning then.

>>35900
You're keeping your body awfully far away there. You can touch her, you know :3

>>35900

What, what, you apologize? I bet you like being kicked around and coming back for more. Oh, well. See what the new captain has in store for us you big wuss.

>>35900
Join in, talk privately laters.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/29(Sat)18:00 No. 36001 ID: 5921a9
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Let’s see… for starters… I don’t consider myself as captain, nor does Melanie or anyone else… still… the people rescued trust us to come up with a way to free everyone…

Also, during my… absence… the ship name was voted, and they called it, “The Bullet”… I don’t know why…

Now, we are here… the ship current route is to the chaos zone, as you might recall is eternal asteroid storm…, we have a lot of systems around us, and a military CGA zone near the chaos area…

…there is also a empty space area just passing the CGA control zone… empty space is dangerous because most ships get lost without star charts reference, and since there are no stars, there is no solar sail nor solar collection… most ships just don’t get near those areas… that’s why it might be a good idea…

… if we can come up with a plan…

>>36001
Well, might as well continue along to the chaos zone.

There's not much on the way there, it looks like.

>>36001
Perhaps we could make a makeshift space station. By buying additional ships, then welding them onto this ship, we could eventually create a large enough 'super ship' to house as many escaped slaves as we want, upgrading rooms, living quarters, farming space, and other things as necessary.
The main problems in doing so that, first, we'd have to acquire the resources needed to do this (additional ships, some way to weld them together in space or on planet, the means to survive indefinitely in space), and second, eventually we'd probably need to get more cloaking devices in order to cover the whole damn thing.

... I dunno, I'm just... throwing this out there. I'm trying for a long term solution. We can't just run around without a plan forever... can we?

>>36012
I vote this. We need to establish something or someone in some government computers and agencies though, so that we can create the illusion of this being a ligitimate operation. That way we can avoid bounty hunters or anyone seeking to capture or reclaim slaves.

>>36012
I like this idea. Only change I'd make:
>then welding them onto this ship
No. Weld them onto each other. If we get a bunch of empty cargo hulls and stick them together in empty space, we'll have a good base. Throw in some Hydrofarms and cloaks, and leave our unskilled slaves there, then use the Bullet to do stuff.

>>36001
If you can, it might be a good idea to make a base on the inside of one of the asteroids.

>>36037
... or that. A hollowed out asteroid would make a very unobtrusive station. We would not need hulls at all, and we'd only need to cloak access points.

>>36070
Unfortunately, it would also be vulnerable to mining.
And it would look very tempting, with all the metal detected inside...

>>36071
Not if it's in the Chaos Zone.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/29(Sat)23:04 No. 36086 ID: 5921a9
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Yes, the chaos zone, to enter it we need a way to navigate inside and not be destroyed in seconds…

… not only we’d need a shield generator… we need weaponry to destroy most of the the incoming asteroids, we’d need to be able to destroy any asteroid of sizes a1 to a5, a1 being micro asteroids and a5 asteroids half the size of this ship…

…fortunately, we are deploying sentry robots in the hull of the ship, these robots are armed with two laser cannons each, and while this wont destroy any medium sized ship, its still enough to destroy any incoming a1 asteroid, an even small cluster of missiles, if we ever encounter them…

Now, the possibility to enter the chaos zone and remain alive enough to find a suitable asteroid is less than 2%

>>36086
> <than 2 percent

ouch.

>>36086
Lets....not go in right now. 2% chance of success is something you only mess with if you have Spiral Power or a G-Stone.

>>36086
There's another problem.
The asteroid would have to be durable enough to withstand a constant...

Wait.
Do you have something akin to a gravitic generator?
You could make a base inside an asteroid, then attract the whirling debris towards it.
Assuming you didn't breach something from the initial impacts, you would have a replaceable shell of the smaller asteroids.
You might be able to pull off something similar with a powerful magnet if the asteroids are very ferrous.

Suggestion 2009/08/29(Sat)23:28 No. 36103 ID: 43d730
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>>36097
'Do you have' as in 'Could you kitbash one between then and now', and pic related.

>>36086
Yeah, this is a long-ish term goal. To accomplish it we'll need:

>1. A Shield Generator
I recommend purchasing that as soon as possible.
>2. Bigger Sticks
Again, we'll have to purchase at least some, though reverse-engineering with our new resource module will allow us to produce our own.
I'd say that we could put bigger cannons on the 'bots, enabling them to deal with a2 debris, and put bigger guns on rotating points on the ship.

That's just to allow us to traverse the Chaos zone. To build our base, we'll also need:

>3. At least one additional farm
We should be able to reverse engineer this and build it ourselves
>4. More Cloakers
Again, we can do that without interacting with outside forces
>5. something to provide power
We may need to purchase this, I'm not sure
>6. a fuckton of resources
We'll have to do a whole lot of claim-jumping to fund this little project.

So, our most pressing goal is to trade some of the minerals and stuff that we have for bigger sticks and a shield.

btw, your robot designs are fucking awesome.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/29(Sat)23:37 No. 36111 ID: 5921a9
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That would be viable if we had a capital ship (battle cruiser or bigger) or medium space station sized gravitic generator… and a engine big enough to support it on its own…

Its possible, but I don’t see how we could get those pieces in our current situation…

>>36111
An idea for the far future, then.
I just thought of ablative armor and it popped up.

>>36111
Well then. Let's try pounding the pavement at the largest nearby slavery-neutral population center, see if we can't get an idea of where we might find those things - or even just the schematics for them. Then we steal.

On that same trip, we'll see if we can't pick up some proper weapons and a shield.

>>36111
I was TRYING to put these things on your shopping list a month ago. Buy people out of slavery. Slowly increase your fleet size, working your way up to at least one large capital ship. Become a migrant fleet, manned by slaves, and a power to be reckoned with. Then maybe you will have a shot at having the entire institution of slavery abolished in your sector of space.

>>36150
Yeah except that's not what we're talking about. Rather than making a fleet, which requires lots of engines and weapons, we want to make a station. Our current ship is pretty suitable for the sort of piracy we've been engaging in, and with the addition of shield and weapons, it will be exemplary for these purposes.

Ergo, a fleet is currently unnecessary.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/30(Sun)00:53 No. 36161 ID: 5921a9
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Suddenly, all ship alarms went on, just in front of us, a warpgate opens and a CGA missile destroyer enters the area!

Gotta think fast!

>>36161

Activate warp drives!

>>36161
Can our sentry droids reliably shoot down their missiles? If so, deploying them now would be a good idea. If not, we're pretty much fucked.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/30(Sun)01:07 No. 36170 ID: 5921a9
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We don’t have warp drives! Nor lightspeed accelerators, not wormhole generators, nothing, this ship only goes sublight, and in comparison to most other ships around, really slow!

>>36161

There's no way we could attack and win, is there?

If not, evasive maneuvers!

>>36170
That's something else we should try to get a hold of.

Reduce Speed! Cloak! Pray!

Wait, I forgot that the Cloak doesn't work on Military Sensors...

Act normal. Just keep on goin'. If they try and stop you, you're heading for some contract work. The most suspicious thing is doing anything other than what you were doing.

Alternatively, pester the hell out of them with the most chatty person on board. Let that chatterbox keep buzzing them just to see what's up.

Open trading frequencies. Ask if they would like to trade. Pretend to be a merchant vessel.

>>36189
For now, just keep going about your business, and until they hail you, don't act like anything other than a freelance mining vessel, appraising the chaos zone to see if there is any place you could reasonably get to to mine. Not illegal, and explains your presence perfectly. If they stay in the area, after a while (at least half an hour, you don't want them to think you left because of them), retreat and head off somewhere else, having concluded that you cannot risk such a venture currently.

AND DO NOT LET YOUR SHIP HAVE VISUAL TRANSMISSIONS GO TO THEIR SHIP.

You are all escaped slaves from slave races, you do not want to advertise this.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/30(Sun)15:45 No. 36240 ID: c92bdf
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Technically we could stop regular missiles with the laser-bots, but if they have any kind of energy torpedoes, we are screwed…

Ok, ok, calm down, visual transmitions are down, normal channels are open, Melanie says mika, the busty catgirl (…) is very good at talking stuff… so we put her on the comm..

The ship doesn’t seem to mind us, an after a while we clear from its range without being interrupted…

Eww…

>>36240
What ew?

>>36240
Well, continue on then.

Yay safe.

(Hug eri in celebration) <3

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/30(Sun)17:41 No. 36243 ID: c92bdf
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I guess hugs are in order :3

And so, this is as close as we can get to the chaos zone… pretty impressive…

…there is a ship wreck in this area… we could get closer in a smaller ship, but it will be dangerous…

>>36243
>Shipwreck
>smaller ship
>dangerous

Then send something unmanned, if possible.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/30(Sun)17:52 No. 36245 ID: c92bdf
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There is nothing in this ship that can be remote controlled that far, there could be something useful in there… but I don’t wanna risk anyone…

What do you think the odds are of having the robots gun down the smaller debris while we send a small ship in there?

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/30(Sun)18:18 No. 36248 ID: c92bdf
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This is the effective range of our laser defense system…. Not only we would have to be very close, if a bigger asteroid gets in the way we wont be able to evade it…

Looks like we're going to have to risk someone. Send a robotic escort to protect from a1s, and have the debris towed back out of danger before a thorough search for usable components. If we're lucky there will be salvageable weaponry and/or shielding. At the very least, that wreck can be reduced to its base components and used in the construction of something else.

>>36248
loot the shitwreck.

I personally wouldn't risk it then, on the downside, we may be missing out on loot and the loss of a few slaves probably wouldn't be too bad. On the upside, we may not lose valuable resources and come out empty handed and down a few people.

Do something to make yourselves even less suspicious. Report it to that ship back there and move on.

>>36257
If we get unlucky, we can always end a second team in to grab the ship and the first team. We want to minimize loss of life, but even if there is some loss of life, we can keep going.

>>36261
Interacting with them more than necessary is not a good thing. We got by them just fine before, no point in creating a second encounter, especially when the only gain there is getting out of that encounter.

>>36263

The scenario you presented would be potentially the second from worst and considering the pinball effect of the flying asteroids, kinda unlikely, I was more thinking 'loss' as 'small ship and crew get pulverised by high velocity asteroids'.

Plus, I'm not sure it's a good idea to make Jen even more unhappy by having to report recently freed slave deaths, but I'm repeating myself, a risk is a risk and we may gain something valuable out of it.

well is there any particular reason you cannot put some defensive screening robots on the hull of the smaller ship? possibly even modify a few to be smaller legless turrets for this exact purpose.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/30(Sun)20:31 No. 36291 ID: c92bdf
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If we are gonna do it, then, this modified cargo ship should suffice, we added a extra impulsor, and we will carry four lasermechs outside, the cargo space is another four powersuits…

Don’t worry, I wont have to report the dead of anyone, I’m piloting this ship, there is no one that knows how to do it as good as me…

Now, who shall come with me? There is space for 3 more people~

>>36291
before you leave, be sure to loot that shipwreck.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/30(Sun)20:34 No. 36295 ID: c92bdf
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>>36292
thats where we are going...

>>36291
Ask for volunteers.
Explain the mission parameters and see if anyone has skills that would help.

>>36295
Take Eri, Melanie, and Lisa.

They are your trusted friends~

Lets first communicate the finding to the military vessel in an entirely lawful and normal manner.

Then, we wait to see if they rescue them.

>>36307
No. The Military is in no way involved, and we'd like to keep it like that. Keep in mind that we are both slaves and pirates.

>>36272
I never said I want people dying. In fact, I planned to minimize that chance to the best of my ability. I just pointed out that if people do die, that doesn't mean that we should necessarily abort the mission.

>>36291
Give the original group the right of first refusal. Ask them first. If they don't want to come, ask for volunteers elsewhere. We don't really know anyone else, so we can't really help you if they don't want to come.

Also, looking at that thing, I notice that the engines are primarily pointed backwards. I don't know how maneuverability is on that thing, but if possible, get yourself turned around, approaching the wreck aft first, so if something is coming that you can't handle you can GTFO quickly.

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/30(Sun)22:18 No. 36323 ID: c92bdf
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Fortunately, the military ship was left behind a long time ago, I should have pointed that out…

Yeah, the main ship thrust is backwards, but it have full frontal and axial impulsors, its not as maneuverable as a combat fighter, but I think it will do…

Yes, this should be a mission with volunteers only:

“This is gonna be dangerous, who is with me?”

jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/30(Sun)22:18 No. 36324 ID: c92bdf
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…

Anyone… anyone else?

>>36324
Oh be nice to them, Jen.

Also <3 the space spores.

Anyway, let's go! They are good crew members and everything should be fine.

>>36324

Oh, just take Melanie with you! She's got the greatest "defensive potential" of the lot!

>>36324
Assure them that you just don't like putting them in danger. They're your oldest friends, after all!
But also the most experienced. And the only volunteers. If they want to come, we can't really stop them.
Just ask them to be careful! We worry, y'know.

>>36324
...do the spores have the capacity to operate those robots to conduct a salvage mission?

>>36324

Is this a call to put random people's chars in the campaign?

and then kill them off?

Then I am in. :3

>>36363
If thats the case I'm in.

Durandal!swQABHZA/E 2009/08/31(Mon)11:13 No. 36387 ID: e64b34
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>>36363
Leaver's in!

Would being in mean I have to craft a fursona? Because that's something I've been trying to avoid.

>>36391
one cannot live in the cradle forever

My fursona is a chainsaw.

Durandal!swQABHZA/E 2009/08/31(Mon)11:42 No. 36403 ID: e64b34
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>>36391
Oh god how did this get in here I am not good with computers

>>36403
>>36387
>>36363
no

>>36411

Shit.

Well...

/me casts anon self and then waits for updates.

>>36411
Well, in that case, just take the original group.

(Heeeey, quit hijacking the quest u guise.)

Let them aboard, they came with you to escape slavery and you saved them all, no questions asked. Friends are in it together and all that jazz.

>>36534

Only if the spores form a omni-spore.

>>36570
Then lets combine the spores into omnispore, quick!

Jen Quest - Chapter 3 END~ jen!5E5cOpffmA 2009/08/31(Mon)20:55 No. 36718 ID: a02305
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The group is ready and we go to change clothes for space survival…

I don’t think spores can be fused into anything, and it doesn’t matter, for now, we gotta concentrate in retrieving the most stuff we can…

I hope this goes well…

>>36718
Wait...what am I looking at here.

>>36737
changing for space travel! she did say...

gosh-darned censor spores

>>36718
Spoooores!

Hey Jen, where'd you get that scar on your side?

>>36875
from terrible former master who she doesn't wanna talk about.

>>36718

I suppose the spores are space spores and so don't need a space suit to survive in space.

Space Space.

>>36970
SPORE MINES AAAH

>>36875
Went out drinking in Hong Kong once.
Has artificial kidneys now.