[cutscene] 2011/11/19(Sat)21:48 No. 366588 ID: 1a1779
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Commander Ekia: "Tactica Command, you have a status update I assume?"

TacticaCommand: "indeed Commander-Ritualist, the exact location of the artifact has been confirmed, though the energy signature is widely out of our sphere of prediction. I have taken action to redetermine a safe landing position, landing parties have been briefed on the change of plan and are ready to implement the revised course of action. the landers are on standby I need only your order to commence this excavation mission."

Ekia: "Very well, make it so tactica-"

Tactica Command: "forgive me Commander-Ritualist, a new developement has occured."

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Officer Mook: Tactica Command is right! an alien vessel has just jumped in from hyperspace!

Tactica Command: "Incoming Transmition from Alien vessel, auto negotiation set to begin on your order."

Ekia: "no Tactica Command, I think I'll take this call myself."

Tactica Command: "Commander Ritualist this course of action is ill advised, take caution. opening channels on your order."

Ekia: "initiate."

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Commander Radde: "Hey! What's up, my dawgs (and assorted other mammals)? What are you doing all the way out here?"

Piyerra: "Radde..."

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Commander Ekia: *sigh* "and to think I was just starting to relax . . . "

Radde: "Not exactly neighborly of you to set up a party and not send out invitations, even if it's a landing party."

Piyerra: "Radde."

Radde: "Kind of a shame, since it looks like we've booked the same venu-"

Piyerra: "Radde! If you ARE going to talk to them it's DIPLOMACY and I'M in charge of that! Get off the screen!"

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Radde: "Damn it, P-R, this is a military operation and I'm the comman- oi!"

Piyerra: "Astranian vessel! I am Piyerra San-Onnka and in the - Radde, get OFF - in the name of the scellor government I DEMAND that - I said go! - that you return to your borders!"

Tactica Command:" my logic engines dictate the all lives creatures desire survival. Scellor agents on these grounds you have made an error you have passed into Astranian colonial territory and unless you leave the sector immediately this can only result in your complete and utter annihilation."

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Radde: "Ha, you don't know us very we-"

Piyerra: "I'm pretty sure this wasn't your territory last week, and I KNOW our government hasn't formally recognized any such change! We have five ships and three hundred troops rea- HEY!!"

Radde: "Ok, that's enough."

Ekia: "Scellor As you can see you've already lost, obviously your precious undermind in it's omnipotent glory has seen fit to excise some of its defective biology, loathe as I am to obey the will of alien entities, in this case serving as a waste incinerater serves my purposes as well.

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Radde: "That's a cute threat, plush-doll, but you seem to think we give a garg. For us, death's an inconvenience: for you, it's reason enough to get your ass-train outta here. Far as my eye sees, our forces are just about equal. And I just got a new one."

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Ekia:"you are not the only ones with true sight fool! for all your arrogance I can feel the uncertainty in your network, and will relish in its realization of your ultimate destruction!"

Radde: "Hah. Uncertainty is what makes things fun, handlebars. We'll see you on the surface - if you get that far. Radde out!"

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"Reya."

"Sir."

"Alert the squad, spool up the network, and bring us to condition white. We've got company."

"Looks like several companies, sir."

"Looks like. We'll find out soon."

Suggestion 2011/11/19(Sat)21:56 No. 366601 ID: 1a1779
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>CHOOSE YOUR ARMY

>The Astranian Alliance: A spiteful people boasting mechanization, automation, heavy weaponry, and technology far beyond their peers. But, for all their technical skill, they are physically weak, complacent, greedy, arrogant, and prone to infighting.

Suggestion 2011/11/19(Sat)21:56 No. 366604 ID: 1a1779
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>The scellor are a race of curious, hedonistic reincarnating plant/mammal hybrids, united by the will of their collective consciousness, the Undermind. Strong-willed individuals rule over the masses of mindless drones and explore the stars in search of resources to fuel their endlessly expanding population, wielding psychic power, advanced medicine and unreliable technology. Their tough bodies suffer several weaknesses, and their "immortality" makes them reckless, undisciplined and rather annoying to others.

Suggestion 2011/11/19(Sat)21:57 No. 366605 ID: 1a1779
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>A small team of tozols, super-soldiers engineered by ancient star-gods, was quietly deployed to this planet over twenty years ago. Fast, stealthy, cunning, and preternaturally puissant, the tozols are nevertheless massively outnumbered and outgunned.

Tozzles! If one can hold back several platoons of trained and equipped soldiers, then imagine what ~10-20 can do!

scellor!

Tozzles, because they're the least obnoxious.

omelette du scellorrrrrrrrrr

Tozols, duh.

Astranians.

Astranians! They're really going to need our help.

Tozolitos

Scellor if we're gonna see a lot of Piyerra. Astranians otherwise.

Scellor

if you guys don't choose tozols i will find and destroy you

tozols it is

>>366623
i didn't need that tripcode anyways

Tozzizles.

Scellzolnians.

I mean Tozols. With Scellor interludes for comedic effect.

Scellors?

[The army choice is not permanent!]

[You will have opportunity to switch between sides several times during the quest. For now, you are selecting a side to control during Planetfall!]

Vulcans.

Er wait no I mean Tozols.

Scellor, if you may.

tozols. the Astranian's are dicks, and the scellor are obnoxious.

Astranians

>>366644

Wait, Planetfall? Will Weasel make a cameo?

Tozols. I vote this not out of personal bias but out of a sense of fairness. A handful of tozols will need the most guide in dealing with two pissed-off forces dropping on their planet if they're going to have any fucking chance at all of surviving.

Scellor. The tozols can almost certainly handle themselves through the initial wave with their crazy stealth technology; we can switch over to them later when they're actually doing interesting things.

Scellor

Tozols

i choose shrimp baby.

or scellor if that won't work.

Tozols, because I'm in the mood for some curbstomping.

>During planetfall
Scellor. SURF'S UP, DUDES!

Scellor all the way, baby.

Tozols please!

TOZOL TOZOL TOZOL.

fuck yeah TOZOL!

Tozols

Astatians, they are superior after all

Schellor

>Tozzles! If one can hold back several platoons of trained and equipped soldiers, then imagine what ~10-20 can do!

And fully equipped, too!

Tozzles or bust.

ASTRANIANS!

tozols, I want to see that they are like without head voices calling them fat

I vote for whichever currently has the least votes because I'm awkward like that.

Tozols

CUDDLE BEES, or wait... they didn't barely exist.

astranians then- closest things to bugs anyway.

Tozols!

Tozols for the win!

Tozols.
Because we must play EUROPEAN EXTREME MODE.

Tozols!

tozols

Tozzles

Rynh

Astraaaaniaaaaaans because draaaamaaaa

Scellor

TOZZLES AND ALL THE NOZZLES THAT COME WITH THEM.

Tozols.

Welp, since I abhor Scellor "morality", and find the Astranian's lack of tact distasteful, I'll go with the unknown. Tozols it is.

nozzle puns would not be out of the question...

Tozols Test Pattern 2011/11/21(Mon)02:59 No. 366973 ID: b79855
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This is Lieutenant Vaejra Alhar, a starborne pathfinder, officer of Valatan, and disembarked crewman of the cruiser Sword of Lies. Vaejra, until very recently, was having an uneventful day, in an uneventful week, in a grinding but ultimately uneventful year.

Vaejra's team was deployed to secure a relic of the old masters the ship had detected. They were only supposed to secure a landing zone for a larger force. After that, he was sent a stealthed supply drop, a hibernating technician, and a message to hold until relieved. That was twenty years ago.

He is owed a great deal of back pay.

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This is Ota Karsti, his sergeant, and chief architect of the kilometers of minefields, fighting positions, and kill zones the squad has built over the years.

"This is for real, boss?" she asks. "Eight hostile ships? That's FTL warships? That's confirmed hostile?"

"Nothing's confirmed," says Vaejra. "Assume yes. Assume hostile."

"I'll help the girls get their shit together."

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This is a planet of sand and dusty rocks, baked dry from a nearby sun. However, at this spot, unnatural forces dominate the atmosphere. A gleaming, ancient spire juts skyward from a plate of solid ice, sucking vast quantities of heat from its surroundings, shifting the earth, and allowing a slender band of vegetation to survive.

From space, it looks something like this.

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Vaejra knows better. His tozols have been busy, digging kilometers of tunnels, laying mines, and seeding the terrain with a network of sensors and land-lines.

He dials Anak Utaza, one of the two tozols maintaining the perpetual vigil in the frozen tower, nineteen kilometers southeast. Anak hides his surprise at the news, and confirms readiness. Anak might have been a sniper, if he weren't already a tozol. He has the best weapon of the team, an exotic and difficult to manufacture beam rifle with incredible range, power, and accuracy. Anak wants to know if he's cleared to engage aircraft.

Vaejra thinks. There's many variables at play. He's heard of Scellor, but the others are new to him. Are the aliens really sloppy enough to announce their actual troop strength? If so, his tozols are outnumbered seventy five to one.

Please suggest an action.

both are in mid landing, shooting now would announce to whoever is shot at that there is a third force here. for the scellor that means they would get they psychics active scanning where the beam came from. and who knows what the other could do. so no, wait until they send things to do flyovers towards their enemies. would make them think the fly over failed and overestimate how many defensive measures the enemy has.

>His tozols are outnumbered seventy five to one.

Let's not announce we're here, then. Let them kill each other until the odds are better.

sounds like entrenchment is the order of the day here.

>>366976
Scellor are sloppy due to not really caring about consequences.
Astranians are sloppy due to having their master-race heads up their master-race asses.

If you want to fight then the name of the game is false-flag attacks. Keep your presence hidden from them while staging strikes on one that look like they came from the other.

You could, however, attempt diplomacy with the Scellor. They're an easygoing species, and if you make it clear that you've been here for years and won't relinquish your claim then there's a very good chance they'll back down from combat in favor of negotiation.
Attempting diplomacy would sacrifice the element of surprise, so these two options are mutually exclusive.

It is not possible to dissuade Astranians from attacking due to their deeply-rooted belief that they are the rightful owners of the universe and all it contains.

Don't engage yet. We need to lure them into fighting one another. They're obviously eager to do so, so let's try to get with that.

Hold fire till you can take shots into the battle without immediately raising the alarm of a third hostile force.

Please tell me it's the very best kind. >>/questdis/338706

"Direct application of force is a failure of tactical thinking." Don't start slappin' dicks with the enemy straight off the bat. Limit to recon for now.

>>366976
Stealth works better if you don't announce your presence right from the get go.

No he cannot fire at air targets. What a waste of a surprise attack.

>>366976
Our ideal endgame here is if one enemy force takes heavy losses but destroys the other completely, and then leaves the planet not realizing that we're here at all. That's not particularly likely given the forces arrayed against us, but until we realize that they've recognized our existence we should ensure that all our strikes can be attributed to someone else.

I would consider the Astranians a greater threat than the Scellor, overall. The Scellor are overly dependent upon psychic powers to which we are highly resistant if not immune, and their command structure is very vulnerable due to being concentrated in a highly limited number of self-aware individuals. We should therefore focus primarily on damaging the Astranians in a manner which leaves both them and the Scellor unaware of our presence. While that is ongoing, we should attempt to identify as many self-aware Scellor as possible, and when the Astranians are weakened enough we try to hit the Scellor with a decapitating strike.


As far as engaging aircraft- not for now. Hopefully the enemy will be foolish enough to land most or all of their ships; if they do we can attempt to destroy all enemy vessels before they have a chance to take off again. Failing that, let's keep our anti-aircraft capabilities sleeved until we need them.

>>367039
Fuck that shit, the astranians are so one-track minded and so piss-poor at communication that even if one of them takes notice of us, they'll never manage to alert the rest of the fleet to the Tozol presence, if the individual is even smart enough to figure out "Oh hey, it's a tozol, that's kinda bad for us."

Meanwhile, a scellor sees a tozol or gets suspicious, and you get discovered a fuckton faster due to memory-sharing and psychic communication.

Damage the scellor and sabotage their efforts in every way possible, the astranians are the ones we need in charge around here if we want to remain hidden.

>>366987
If you can actually make a deal with the astranians and never mention how tall you are you might be able to do some trade with them or even find an ally, where the scellor are just going to want to fuck you and probe your mind. Hardly useful.

So hey, now that we agree to remain sneaky for a while, just how many guys do we have here? Are they all at one base or another or spread out? Any clue yet as to where the alien ships are landing?

The best weapon in a war is information. The second best weapon is the element of surprise.

No. He may not shoot at aircraft. He may not shoot at anything unless he absolutely has to.

Do we have any inflitrator-ey types? Or some way to hack into their communications and eavesdrop on what they're doing.

>>366976
Yeah it's probably better if no one knows you guys are here yet.

what exactly is our objective? is it to keep either force from settling the planet or is it to secure the artifact? forcing both parties off the world is not going to happen, but we might be able to cut some sort of deal for them to leave the artifact alone. the Scellor seem more the type to keep there deals than the Astranian's.

Outnumbered and outgunned while fighting a foreign power on familiar soil, I think I read this story before.
-stay mobile; towers and bases can be recaptured, the war is not lost when they are captured its lost when you die trying to defend them.
-stay mobile; hit the enemy where you outnumber them or where they are wounded or lost, then retreat before they can counterattack.
-stay hidden; if the enemy can see you you're doing something wrong, if you use a weapon that gives away your position then relocate after every shot.

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The lieutenant considers his assets, beginning with himself. He's equipped with a cybernetic computer interface, a rarity these days, and specializes in information warfare. He has a broad skillset, however, and is over a century old.

Sgt Ota Karsti is not much younger, and has the stories to prove it. She knows fieldcraft, mines, traps, explosives, and every manner of entrenchment. She takes care of the squad, doing whatever she can to keep them in working order, physically and mentally.

Trooper Rinis Ayen is a tinkerer, an engineer, and an aggressive and capable warrior. Though much younger than the old hands of the squad, she's fought aliens on five worlds. This will be her sixth.

Trooper Reya Oriat is the only other member of the squad with a cybernetic uplink, and serves as backup infowar and technician. She loves to read, claiming it gives her a xenopsychological edge.

Trooper Anak Utaza is the best rifleman on the squad, and carries the best rifle. All tozols are marksmen by design, and infantry by nature, but Anak has struggled to master small unit combat, often at the expense of the technical work that's dominated the squad's life for the past two decades Despite this, he's friends with everyone in the squad.

Trooper Thaen Sinh is not native to Valatan, as the others are, and likes to tell wildly exaggerated stories of his early life on a nomad starship. He's a good mechanic, is responsible for running the base's fabricator, and the best pilot on the team.

Trooper Baj Oriat was born on this planet, the son of Reya and Anak, and is less than half as old as anyone else. To him, Valatan and tozol civilization are just one of many things he reads about, and he displays a worrying fascination with alien cultures as a result. Nevertheless, he's trusted to fight and kill.

Specialist Kaselir Vrin was deployed to this planet in a hibernation cocoon packed inside her tank destroyer, part of a rushed package to let the squad dig in for the long haul. Not being part of the original unit of pathfinders, she considers herself something of an outsider, even after all these years.

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In addition to a whole stockpile of guns, ammunition, grenades, bombs, and crates and crates of mines, the squad has access to two vehicles:

A Light Dropship. It's tough, maneuerable, and still spaceworthy, but is absolutely nothing compared to the warships and fighters duelling overhead. Still, could be vital. Rated pilots: Thaen, Vaejra.

A Tank Destroyer. Kaselir nicknamed it Syel, after some old girlfriend. It's meant to have a crew of two, but can be operated by one. With so few tozols, it's Kaselir's alone, though Thaen knows how to drive it.

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Vaejra tells Anak to hold fire, and to have Thaen activate the secondary control center set up inside the spire. The network, and its arrays of sensors and command-armed mines, can be controlled from either location.

Rinis and Baj were out on patrol. Not wanting to break radio silence, Vaejra waited until they came within range of a low-power relay to tell them the news. They're awaiting orders.

High overhead, Astranian fast movers launch from their carrier and begin strafing the Scellor landing ships. The plantfolk are moving for a landing, but are maneuvering too much to do more than guess where they're headed. Vaejra guesses somewhere to the southeast of the Spire. The Astranians may be readying to land, but they'll be using shuttles and drop pods. Impossible to estimate where they'll come.

>What exactly is our objective?
Defend the spire. Hold until relieved.
That said, tozols aren't robots. Flexibility is a cherished virtue. Abandoning the artifact and whittling the enemy down may be necessary. Be aware, though, that the spire can be controlled from inside. If the enemy secures it and uncovers its secrets, it could provide an advantage. The snow and winds around the spire could be switched off, augmenting enemy air assets, or the field could be amplified, with dangerous, unknown effects.

>You could, however, attempt diplomacy with the Scellor. They're an easygoing species
Really? Because Vaejra heard they're aggressively expansionist and have no fear of death.

How fast can your troops move in the tunnels? Can the Syel move in the tunnels? What happens if it shoots something in there?

I thought we might want to spread, so that wherever our guests land, there will be 1-2 tozols waiting for them. We've seen how good a single underarmed tozol can be; so the closest one will be able to spy, or at least not die embarrassingly, until the reinforcements come.

That is, of course, if you can move your troops with a reasonable speed. If not, we might want to split into 2 groups, one for Scellor projected landing site, the other for backup and/or handling Astranians.

Can Anak take out the Astranian fast movers? And if so, how obvious will it be that the fire didn't come from the Scellor vessels?

Begin moving people towards the Scellor field, but don't engage yet. We should wait to see what the Astrians do before we commit to anything.

hold that tower. dig in, and dig in deep.

>>367234
>Be aware, though, that the spire can be controlled from inside. If the enemy secures it and uncovers its secrets, it could provide an advantage. The snow and winds around the spire could be switched off, augmenting enemy air assets, or the field could be amplified, with dangerous, unknown effects.
Begin an immediate gradual ramp-up in the tower's output to it's maximum. For all the attacking forces know, it'd be a 'normal' automated response to their arrival. Your air assets are almost nonexistant, so denial would be entirely to your advantage. If conditions can be reduced badly enough, once the shooting starts you may even be able to take out targets of opportunity without being discovered immediately.
Of course, once someone stumbles into one of the emplaced minefields all bets are off.

On the minefields: predominantly apers, a-armour, or a mix? If it's mostly apers, then readying the tank destroyer might be good, as long as it can be kept under cover until needed.

Kaselir: drive Syen through the tunnel to join the others in the Artifact.
Artifact: observe. The artifact is both factions' goal. They may head straight to it, they may not. Don't engage until the situation's made clearer. The tank, along with its gunner, are sent here in case things get hairy, for a quick retreat.
Rinis/Baj: stay close to the tunnel entrance. The jungle canopy would provide sufficient cover.
The rest: dance party.

> Begin an immediate gradual ramp-up in the tower's output to it's maximum. For all the attacking forces know, it'd be a 'normal' automated response to their arrival. Your air assets are almost nonexistant, so denial would be entirely to your advantage. If conditions can be reduced badly enough, once the shooting starts you may even be able to take out targets of opportunity without being discovered immediately.

Im not so sure sending all our assets towards directly defending that tower would be such a good idea. More than likely one of the enemy forces will try and take the tower as an observational platform or something or another, and if we get found out they find out where most of our troops are. I would suggest that we discretely set up defensive counter measures and send a few troops to the backup base to the south of the tower if things get to hot in there and Anak needs backup, and also so that they can scout out the Scellor landing party. meanwhile move most of the troops to the main base to the north away from the Scellor landing zone. Assuming the Astranians would plan for a drawn out and long conflict, they would probably set up on the north side of the valley between the river and the high mountains, but the Scellor are the only known factor we know about so lets stay out of the hot zones and keep ourselves hidden for now.

This is gonna be great.

By the way, what're the natural abilities of a fully capable tozol? The only one we've seen in action was poisoned and crippled.

>>367234
Well for one thing you should start probing the enemy computer networks. Astranians tend to over rely on AI to do a lot of their fighting. If you're able to find some ways to get into their networks and send out the wrong orders to their bots then you could probably cripple them quite a bit. Don't hack into them yet though, just see if there are any ways in or not.

Keep hidden. Don't do stuff. Doing stuff means being detected. Being detected means the Astranians and Scellor don't soften each-other up first.

Hm. What do you know about the Astranians and Scellor anyways, Sergeant? Any past encounters? Or is all your info the result of debriefings from higher-ups?

Fuck with astranian coms/bots/ships via e-war(veer drop pods off course, crash them into landed ships, turn bots on their masters, etc.). Attack exclusively astranians when we start the fight. Astranians are dicks but scellor will at least talk to people. Tozols also have a very large advantage over scellor psychic abilities and even regular combatants. If it comes to it we can gangbang the astranians then curb stomp the leftover scellor.

>>367319
It is most important to stay utterly hidden from the Scellor. Their network communication is far superior to Astranians (who rely a lot on rather retarded, semi-autonamous bots) and they just reincarnate even if you kill them.

However, this also means that fighting them is a different matter than the Atranians, we are unable to simply make their whole force 'disappear forever into the void' and thus preventing them from taking the world involves just making it ' very unfun' for them to continue staying here.

Their corpses in particular can serve as bait as they WILL want to recover and recycle any 'psyckonium' (some kind of bullshit space magic metal, they love the fucken stuff.) Destroying the corpses utterly would also make this conflict TOO EXPENSIVE and make them more likely to abandon the area as a poor investment.

>>367277
>More than likely one of the enemy forces will try and take the tower as an observational platform or something or another
Both asides appear to be aiming for whatever the tower is, other than a mildly useful weather controller:
>>366588
>the exact location of the artifact has been confirmed, though the energy signature is widely out of our sphere of prediction
>>366592
>Kind of a shame, since it looks like we've booked the same venu-

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"Tozols," says Vaejra.
"Sir."
"Sir."
"Sir."

He addresses the girls. It doesn't take long. They're to be ready to go at a moment's notice, with whatever loadout is necessary. Anti-tank, scout, auto-mortar, etc. They get to work preparing, and double-checking the base's security. Being underground and carefully camouflaged is all well and good, but this is home. Kaselir wants to wait inside Syel. Ota tells her that sounds kind of weird.

>what're the natural abilities of a fully capable tozol?
Able to sprint 180 km/h, run all day at half that speed, jump, climb, and maneuver with great agility, lift multiple tons, carry hundreds of kilograms, survive and recover from greivous injuries from weapons that would defeat power armor, hear heartbeats, sense targets at range by detecting minute air currents or shock-wave geometry, see infrared, ultraviolet, and energy signatures, hear and analyze radio, speak the nigh-unbreakable battle language, resist utterly all psionics and similar exotic weapons and sensors, alter their fur's thermal conductivity and albedo, resist biological and chemical agents, resist radiation, survive in vacuum, produce no infrared signature for significant durations, act and react far faster than most humanoids, hit a head-sized target at five kilometers, shoot down a missile in flight.

Test Pattern 2011/11/23(Wed)03:18 No. 367517 ID: b79855
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>start probing the enemy computer networks.
Unknown encryption protocols. Vaejra and Reya are literally poring it over in their brains, thanks to their implant comms. It's too early to tell, but a snatch mission may be needed, once targets land. The tozols have prepared for several infowar scenarios, but most involve going loud. Fake radio calls from remote transmitters, decoys, that sort of thing.

>Begin an immediate gradual ramp-up in the tower's output to it's maximum.
The tozols have been reluctant to explore the limits of the Spire's performance. It is not merely weather control. It draws various forms of energy from its surroundings. Mostly thermal, but at the highest tested setting, they found their weapon power-packs being drained. Cranking it up now would only cripple Anak and Thaen. Worse, it blankets the whole area with exotic energy signatures. Tozols can normally see signs of psionics, antigravity, force fields, etc, but the Spire camouflages it.

As for fucking up the battlefield... a northern volcano has been rigged with explosives. None of the tozols are geologists, so they just packed a shitload of explosives into weak looking rock and hoped for the best.

Presently, the sensor net tracks the scellor down, narrowing the landing zone. They're probably going to touch down at an island formed by rivers and a lake, at I12/I13. The land there's wet and full of marshes.

The big Astranian carrier, surprisingly, is descending as well. Strange that it wouldn't maintain standoff distance.

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Anak calls in on the landline: "Sir! The carrier's launching something."

"I'm tracking," replies Vaejra. "Do you have eyes on them?"

"Yeah. They look like meteors. Speculate drop pods or bombs. Some are headed this way. Fast!"

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Instruments track two groups of three large objects each, big enough to hold a main battle tank, plus several dozen small ones. One group will land within a few kilometers of the spire. The other, shockingly close to the base.

Reya wonders aloud if it's luck, or if they've already been found.

"Sir, should I engage?" asks Anak.

wait for someone that looks like a squad leader or a armored vehicle. firing at a grunt would be a waste. if you could get a communications scrambler of some kind near them when you take them out it would probably take until a general sound off until they are noticed missing.

>>367523
actually, if you can wait UNTIL they sound off before killing them it would give maximum time.

They didn't land yet.

Firing at them now would signal everyone watching the skies we're here. We havn't confirmed we lost that advantage yet. Instead, prepare to crank up the tower and scram.

Baj/Rinis: venture west but don't leave the jungle. Just enough to watch the Astranian descent.

Right. Time to act.

I think the Spire squad will see action much earlier than anyone else. We should reinforce it.

Troop movements:
Thaen to the Northern Backup, closer to his bird.
Rinis to the Spire, he's one of the safer choices for initial hostilities.
Ota to the Spire, we'll need more tozols there.

Suggestions for dealing with the Astranian landing point closer to the Spire, codenamed A1:
While the Astranian pods are in the air, fluctuate the Spire's power in the non-dangerous ranges.
If possible with HIGH chances of success: when the pods are about to land (altitude 50~100m), lower the disturbances momentarily, and have Anak shoot one down, it'd be cool to get the biggest one, but if he doesn't feel confident in his ability to make it explode/crash TOTALLY and FOR SURE, target one of the smaller craft. We want to kill off as much of the hostiles as we can in the air, but make it look like automatic defences of the Spire, maybe even hide the beam in the atmospheric chaos. If possible, try to take down more than one of the pods.
As the pods come closer to the ground, resume Spire interference fluctuations, now in the 1/2 - 7/8 of the tested power range. We want it to screw with enemy communications, but not at the cost of interference with our weapons.

When the enemy lands at A1, crank up the Spire into 5-7/8 of the tested range, then, as the enemy is getting out of the pods, try to destroy their comms with precision strikes. We want this party to be mute for when we are slaughtering them.

Having wreaked such havoc, move in to clean the hostiles up at mid-range to CQ combat.

Regarding the second Astranian landing point, A2:
I think we can hold off engaging them. If we get lucky, they'll completely miss our tunnels and move to the Spire, thus enabling us to sneak up on them after they pass. Baj and Vaejra et al might even be able to execute pincer manuever. Don't count on it though, their tech is quite good.
The presence of Lieutenant Vaejra is intended to offset the somewhat less experienced units concentrated at Northern Backup.

>>367519
Ah, the dilemma of stealth. When do you break it for maximum advantage? Break it early, and you gareentee you have the element of surprise, but have to fight int he open in the long run. Hold onto it too long, and eventually your military intelligence can be summed up with 'Crap, I think they heard me coming.' But for now it feels way too early. If it's posible to try and nudge a drop pod towards disaster without fully exposing yourself, I suppose you can take the shot. But I'm still leaning no.

But I have a more important question about which is a worse case scenario:

- your team letting the artifact fall into the hands of a possible hostile species, or
- your team DESTROYING the artifact, so it doesn't fall into ANYONE'S hands?

Perhaps 'Fuck The Police' should be an endgame scenario.

engage them now. better to thin out their numbers early than dealing with them later.

>>367519
try not to attack before the other group lands and engages with them

>>367533
this, but with the addition of the tower spiking to near full power a few seconds(with some variation each time) before each shot. we might be able to make it look like the tower has some sort of defensive turret.

Do not engage unless they are an imminent threat. Allow the two forces to deplete eachothers' numbers before making yourself known and eliminating the remainders.

>>367519
Nope.

The astranians are obviously rushing. We will have to engage them before the scellor even get to attack them. No point waiting then since we just delay the engagement between us and them till they are on the ground and right on us. That plan is bust. Time for a new one.

Shoot the nice gun at one of the large meteor things that will land near the tower. Engage the one at highest altitude.

Destroy the one nearest the tower before it lands. They'll detect us sooner or later, so just blow the shit out of it.

Hit the other one with the tank destroyer, assuming it can take air targets.

I doubt that they've already detected you, but to be on the safe side keep Anak on the line and tell him to keep a bead on the closest droppod. If it's definitely going to crash in or VERY near the spire, then take it out, preferably as it hits the ground as to make it look like an accident.

>>367533
Is a good idea, but don't try it if you're not entirely sure as to its success.

Is the ice near the nearby drop pod LZ solid ice all the way down to the bottom? If not, we might be able to take out an entire group of tanks if we destroy the ice and make them drop into the freezing.

If the spire can be operated remotely, triggering it to ramp up to power-pack-draining levels if the Astranians approach could work, as long as the effective radius is limited.

Guys. We're Tozol, not Old Masters. We shouldn't be trying overcomplex messing with the tower, we should be knifing and shooting people in the face.

>>367885

any dickery is acceptable dickery if it is to our advantage.

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Rinis Ayen runs after the northwestern meteors. Baj is behind her. He's always behind her, less experienced and simply slower. Baj is frightened but excited. He's eager to show the other tozols what he can do, sad and anxious that he isn't equipped as he'd prefer. They left the base intending to perform some maintenance, not engage hostiles. Assuming they aren't just running after a falling antimatter bomb. That would be a completely ridiculous way to die.

Rinis's worry is calculated, precise. She knows what troop landings look like. She's killed before. She intends to kill again, very soon. When she and Baj stopped off at a weapons cache, she retrieved one of her robotic mortars. She can plant it, move ahead, command it by remote, and provide artillery support for herself.

Still. She, too wishes they had some heavier weaponry. Their railguns are reliable, but weaker than she'd like...
Fusion rifles, short ranged (by tozol standards), slow firing, beastly thundersticks would be nice. An autocannon, longer ranged, more versatile, ammo hog, would provide suppression and flexibility. One of their tribarrels, perfect if they have a screen of drones or infantry. Mow those fuckers down. She just hopes they don't have heavy vehicles.

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Miles away, the sun rises over Anak Utaza. He cradles his beloved weapon, a model 389 superluminal skip-rifle, a very nice gun. Its dense 25 kilograms slide smoothly down the sky in pursuit of the strangers. His finger rests on the trigger, but won't even twitch without word from its commander.

"Stand by. Just monitor."

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Anak says "Copy" and watches the meteors streak downwards until they fall into the overcast. There's no disappointment. There's still so much to learn.
>crank up the Spire
Takes at least ten minutes to do that. Anak had only seconds.
>smaller craft
Anak saw none. Must be ghosts from the ionization trail, or decoys, or electronic warfare. Anak reckons they must have some real nice kit.

"They're down. Call it sector E6-3292. Possibly in range of the ground sensors."

"Confirming."

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"So, who are these assholes?" asks Ota, crowding the monitor room.

"Scellor called them Astranians," says Reya. "Among other things..."

"Cracked their comms yet?"

"We're working on it. Making progress," says Reya. "Been thinking, maybe we can just step aside and let these guys fight it out?"

"No way they're gonna walk over our empty fighting holes, prepared zones, traps, and all those mines, even if they're switched off, and not notice," says Ota. "We hid everything, but these critters can't be that stupid."

"So what?" says Reya. "That just tells them enemies were around but ran away. They'll still go after the Spire. That means going after one another."

Lt. Vaejra must decide now. Kaselir is already powering up her tank. Are they going to engage the intruders, or pack up and abandon their defenses so the intruders (theoretically) kill each other?

If they're going to fight, he needs a plan. A team, a target (presumably these mechs near the Spire), an equipment loadout, and an approach.

>>368035
Optimally we'd wait until they engage and then join the fight. Ambush, basically.

If that's not possible without abandoning passive defenses... take them out.

If they're going to realize there's a third party in the area even if you pull out, then you should take advantage of your preparations and fight. If you leave, then you'll have lost your largest advantage (nobody knows you're there), lost your entrenched position, and gained little.

No matter how you engage, lead up to it by jamming the shit out of their comms, and try to do something not visible to their ships. This way you'll further postpone their identification of you and limit their ability to react. If you do a good enough job, they might not even realize there's a third group of hostiles just yet. Bonus points for jamming in a way that's not obvious to people other than those being jammed, and for false-flagging as the Scellor in case some information does somehow get out.

Hey, I don't suppose you have the resources to quickly slap some markings on your personal armor and/or vehicles to identify you as members of the enemy forces? Similarly, if/when you crack their comms, be sure to spoof their IFF signals. Friendly fire incidents are fun!

>>368037
Munitions lying around isn't a sign of a hostile presence, it's a sign of previous occupation.

Leave the munitions live and shut down as much of everything else as you can. If it all looks abandoned then they'll focus on the obvious threat instead of chasing ghosts; battlefield hazards are simply a fact of life.

Kill any that enter the spire, but otherwise let them fight it out with one another.

Continue to not announce your presence.

engage, wait until they hit the first mines then during the explosions shoot the one with the big gun on it's back, right in it's nice exposed cockpit. may luck out and think you got void mines or something rather then a sniper. and wont expect a second shot.

>>368071
this

Melting away to let them fight eachother sounds nice until you remember that it means giving up the potent advantage of being well equipped the tozols have. At the moment, they can come up with nearly any weapon they want, and can readily get more ammo for it on short notice. The first introduction your enemy should have to your weapons' destructive capabilities is when it penetrates their armor, not when they find it lying on the ground.

Additionally sewing confusion is always nice. Tell me, does that Nice Gun do anything silly like leave a traceable line back to its firing position or create a noticeable energy signature at its point of origin? Because maybe you could take one (and only one) out with sniper fire and let them run around in a panic for a while. It would certainly slow their advance down. Might be better to wait till you break their coms though, if that seems like something that you can get done soon.

Shoot the one in the center of that image with the nice gun. Aim for the pilot's head.

pack up and leave, let them kill each other for now.

Fuck it. Engage fast and hard. Deploy a wide range of munitions to try and get a sense what works against the enemy armor and what doesn't. Time for recon by fire.

>>368037
Turn the mines and any automated defenses on, withing a certain radius of the tower. then, while the confusion is rife, JAM THE FUCK OUT OF THEIR COMMS.


then begin the sniping. suggest Rinis and Baj go back and get their preferred equipment, hopefully a mixture of armor penetration and rate of fire weapons, and get another two man team in with their own personal loadout.

is there anyway for us to make an attack look like some form of automated response? perhaps a warning in the old masters language. something along the lines of, "attention unidentified trespasser, due to recent instability there is a (however large we want) exclusion zone around spire (random numerical designation) if you attempt to breech the exclusion zone the security system is programmed to respond with lethal force" then engage them if they enter the exclusion zone, or attempt to fire on the tower. this is of course reliant on our ability to make our fire look like its coming from some sort of automated turret. ideally they will deal with the sccelor before trying to deal with the security system. though we might want to wait until we have cracked there comms before trying this.

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Lt. Vaejra: "Rinis, Baj. Monitor the second group."
Baj: "Yessir. We have eyes on the targets. Rinis is siting her mortar. Hostiles aren't advancing."
Rinis: "Stay in shadow, kid. Speculate they're a beachhead. Main landings will be here. We can disrupt their shit when they land."
Lt. Vaejra: "Noted. The rest of us will hunt the mechs in E6. We move as quickly and quietly as practical."
Kaselir: "Shit. No tank gun, then."
Sgt. Ota: "If we haul ass, we can be in position just as they enter a minefield."

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Reya: "Then what, exactly?"
Anak: "It's first contact. You'll have to be creative."
Lt. Vaejra: "Thaen will coordinate from the spire command center. Anak will provide fire support."
Anak: "Blind fire. Fantastic."
Thaen: "What's our emissions level?"
Lt. Vaejra: "Short range tightbeam burst transmissions via landline relays only."
Thaen: "Better be careful with all these repeaters. Some of those haven't been maintained in awhile. I don't want to screw up arming the mines."
Sgt. Ota: "Handle it, pathfinders. Time to make some money."
Baj: "Yes ma'am! ... This is so fucking cool."

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"Isn't it a little dangerous to have both infowar specialists in the first contact team, sir?" asks Reya.
"A calculated risk," Lt. Vaejra replies. "Maintain loose dispersion."
"Calculated how, sir?" asks Reya.
"Easy," Sgt. Ota intrudes. "If some scouts trash a quarter of our squad, the rest of us are dust against the whole landing force anyway."
Reya seems satisfied.
"I bet you regret letting Baj and I carve all those statues, now," says Kaselir.
"Cut the chatter," says Vaejra.

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"Can they see us?" wonders Reya.
"Well, I can barely see them," says Ota. "And only with one or two parts of the spectrum at a time. Speaking of, do you see force fields, boss? I think I see force fields."
"Probable," says Vaejra.
"That's bad," says Reya. "Those don't tend to have weak spots. So how are we doing this?"

Vaejra thinks of options...

A) Pincer Attack - Split up, get closer, and engage the enemy from two directions, trying to coincide with a mine hit if possible. Most armored vehicles have weak rear armor. This would allow one group to target it. Anak provides fire support from the tower.

B) Syncronized Snipe - Follow the enemy at a distance, ready to attack. The moment one steps on a mine, have Anak engage another one, while Vaejra's team focuses fire on another. If they're lucky, they'll be able to disable all three in seconds. This can easily go wrong, however.

C) Concentrated Fire - Select a mech and have every available unit focus on destroying it first, degrading enemy firepower, before moving on to the next. Offers the lowest chance of fuckup, but a high chance of significant enemy return fire even if nothing goes wrong.

D) Delay - Follow and wait for an ambush spot further ahead. The mechs may not pass through one, however, forcing the tozols to hurriedly engage in similar or worse conditions.

B/C target the one steping on a mine and a second one. Leave the third for the next volley.

>>368382
>Most armored vehicles have weak rear armor.
...but, but...
>Those don't tend to have weak spots.

B, then.

>>368386
Good point, but then again we shouldn't count on luck either. I'll go with C. At this distance, I find it very unlikely that they'll be able to hit anything, if they can even see us.

...I wonder how much distance Scellor have on their remote viewing power. They could be watching this fight.

Let's go with B/C

>>368396
To clarify, try B, but get in position to immediately do C if it doesn't work.

A and C combined, especially if you coincide with a mine hit. You gain the advantage of the chaos that results in an explosive going off (enemy confusion, dirt thrown up in the air creating a smokescreen effect), as well as additional confusion due to attacking from two entirely different locations.

B.

>>368386
shields have no weak spots. they have weak armor though.
A/B

You should make it a priority to see what the shields are particularly strong or vulnerable against. Will they simply absorb X joules of energy before collapsing, or do certain types of weapons affect them more? Are they stronger against a single point of impact, like a beam or railgun, or against something like an explosion? This is stuff you need to know for optimal killin'.
Therefore, B.

B.

I like B. Let's go with B.

B seems to be the best tactic for our low numbers.

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The tozols silently follow the interlopers into the mine field, observing undetected. With the astranian codex cracked, they can even listen in.

Scout6: "- thought for sure I saw something"
Scout3: "We detected large amounts of indigenous life forms from orbit."
Scout6: " . . . Well, they better not get in my way!"
ScoutLeader: "Come on, squad, press on. The scellor aren't going to kill themselves!"
Scout6: "Hell, with their immortality maybe they do, ya know, for kicks."
Scout3: "Energy spike! Location-"

An antitank mine detonates, shaped plasma lancing upwards.

ScoutLeader: "Eeeah!"

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The tozols move like gray lightning, taking up to firing positions. Reya chatters into the radio in the battle tongue, aiming for Anak.

Scout3: "Mine field! Squad leader, report!"
ScoutLeader: "*cough* My walker's out. Hold position and scan the area!"
Scout3: "Order confirmed, scanning-"

Two fusion cannons and a laser rifle open fire on one of the intact mechs. Anak, unseeing, engages the other with invisible beams that crack into violent eruptions. Only the former seems have any effect, ablating the shield and achieving penetrating hits.

Scout3: "<ksshk> ... disabled- . .. bastards!"

A moment later, Kaselir's rocket sails through its breached shields. The mech detonates like a bomb.

Kaselir considers her work. She could hear that pilot's last instants. She ponders its thoughts, its motives, its aspirations of becoming something wholly dissimilar to burning debris falling on a frozen lake.

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Scout6: "Shit, they're all around us! What the hell are they!?"
ScoutLeader: "Hold position! You'll leave me open for attack!"
Scout6 "Die you alien freaks!"

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The enemy's panicking, or at least the intact mech is. It goes cyclic and retreats.

The tozols continue engaging, but the front shield is much stronger than the back. Anak provides support, but he can't reliably hit a maneuvering target he can't see. However, the vehicle's backing further into the mine field. If it keeps going, the problem will solve itself.

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Hatches on the disabled leader mech slide open. Four combat droids clamber free, followed by a small figure, presumably the pilot.

"Footmobiles. One looks squishy," says Ota. "Suggest we snatch it."

A prisoner would be valuable, but how do they approach? The pilot's surrounded by robots, and the other vehicle's still blazing away. The tozols brought two paralyzer pistols, but they're short ranged and useless against force fields.

Lt. Vaejra has two main decisions. One: Finish off the last mech, or wait for it to hit a mine? Its shield strength is unknown, but doesn't seem to protect the feet. Two: Try disabling the ejected pilot from afar, possibly killing them by accident (they look fragile) or assault into stunner range?

...Or he could forget taking a prisoner and just blow them away. There's always that.

Don't waste ammo on something the minefields will take care of. Strategic shots to herd the retreating vehicle into the nice explodey things.

Take out the drones, and shoot to wound on the fleshything. If Anak is a good enough marksman, try to take out the weapon the critter is carrying - that is, if his rifle doesn't completely de-mat anything in a three foot radius when it hits something. Still not sure how that thing works honestly.

i can't see why it would leave it's armored robot unless it felt this maneuver gave a better chance of survival. shoot out the mech guards and then throw a grenade or something that LOOKS like a grenade at it, and when they take cover, advance. it's weapon looks ridiculous, meaning it is ether weak or incredibly powerful. rather find out when it isn't pointed at us.

with the last mech if you can blow a foot off of it then do so. but shoot from a direction that a miss would make it continue into the minefield.

>>368618
You can probably learn about as much from that disabled mech as you can from the pilot inside it. Herd the other mech into killing itself on the mines and blast apart the drones; if the pilot lives long enough to be captured, great; otherwise no sweat, you still have the mostly-intact mech to draw information from.

Let the mech walk to its death.

Kill the four bots and pilot. Just lay into them.

>>368618

Waste them all.

i'd recommend either taking a few pop shots at the active mech to see if it has any other weak points, or just letting it hit a mine.

as for the one who ejected, we should take out the bots from range whatever we do. keep in mind the pilot might still have a radio, and they haven't gotten a good look at you yet. if we try to take him prisoner from short range he might be able to get off a description of us. we might try a deliberate near miss with the rocket launcher to try and knock him out, and see if he has shields. it might kill him but its low risk and it doesn't let him get a look at us. you saw how fast the pilot panicked? these aliens do not seem to deal well with fear, the less they know about us the scarier we are. so we might want to prioritize denying them intel on us over gaining intel on them.

Try to catch as many alive as you can, more chance of finding one keen on talking that way.

Shoot the guns out of their hands if possible, you tozols are good marksmans and stuff so it's probably possible. If it's too difficult a shot, destroy the drones and then hack their comms demanding surrender.

>>368637
snatch the pilot after killing everything else

kill the pilot. We cant be babysitting POW's with such a small force. Kill the drones and the Mech, and if you want to interrogate the pilot kill him afterwards.

>Strategic shots to herd the retreating vehicle into the nice explodey things.
This, and shoot the little robots. And the pilot from afar. Now is not the time for risking return fire making open-ground charges, nor for having to wrangle feisty fuzzballs.

>>368642
dont fucking kill the prisoner, once we have it disarmed it will be about as dangerous as any other tiny, powerless inteligent homicidal squirell.

just let the mech kill itself, perhaps let Anak peg it some more to keep it panicking.

In order to deal with the pilot THAT WE WILL TAKE HOSTAGE, everyone shoot at the robots in as inacurate and frightening a display as possible without actualy missing the targets. This will terrify the squirel into taking cover for its dear like, at witch point you can close distance and manhandle/stun it as much as you like.

SERIOUSLY, DONT FUCKING KILL THE INFO DUMP! IT MIGHT KNOW THINGS.

One squishy isn't much of a threat to four Tozol. Leave him or her until the last walker goes down to a mine, then move in and take the prisoner. No point in rushing this.

If you know exactly where the mines are, you could try shooting the mech's feet when they step near one, so that it topples into it.

I say destroy the droids and then wait for the very alone pilot to drop his weapon and surrender.

>>368684
This is a good plan. Waste the heavy artillery before you move in to take a squishy.

don't saddle yourself with a hostage. better to just whack them all.

Capturing him is low priority. Concentrate on not getting shot.

If, however, an opportunity arises, snatch him. We can always kill him later; moreover, that's what we'll do with him anyway after he tells us everything he knows.

Don't kill the tiny pilot D:

try to capture alive if posible

They are psychic what if this guy can send them info on us. We have their radios decoded. That’s good enough info to validate killing him. Just to be safe.

Let the mech walk off. Kill the pilot first. Then mop up the droids.

>>368826
>They are psychic
You're thinking of the green guys.

Convincing the mech to off itself on the mines sounds good. Also, go for the droids next. Don't know what the hostage would be good for yet, but I'm sure a squad leader would have at least a little information we could 'convince' out of him. If not, maybe we could trade him either back to his people or to the Scellor. ...or we could plant something inside him, then trade him, then blow up him and the ones that we traded him to. That sort of trick would only work once per faction, though, and they wouldn't trust future trades.

>>368838
I think you will find that dead people generaly dont trust easily. this is the best plan ever.

Don't kill the pilots, try to take them alive. Shouldn't be too hard, you're tozols after all.

Don't assume the pilot is completely unthreatening when you go for the snatch though, try to shoot the gun out of their hands first.

>>366597
"You are not the only ones with true sight fool!" Wouldn’t that imply they are psychic too?

What info are you expecting to get out of him? He is part of a group looking for the artifact. That’s why they landed near the tower. He will not know there future plans and we already have their radio. We also know where their other forces have landed. The pilot is not worth the trouble.

You can take some of the droid remains with you to get a better understanding of their tech. Just make sure to kill the pilot first. I want them to stay confused as hell about just what they are fighting.

>>368868
We don't have time to reverse engineer their tech. If we want to learn anything we'll have to get it from the horse's mouth and I doubt they'll start blabbing that kinda stuff over the radio.

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With some coaxing, the last enemy mech backpedals into a mine and falls on its ass, pouring smoke. This time, no pilot or drones emerge from the wreck. The tozols concentrate on picking off the surviving robots. The infantry bots are quick and accurate, but with flash grenades and unerring gunfire, the team makes short work of them.

"Recommend we shoot the squishy's gun," says Ota.
"High energy density. Might explode," says Vaejra. "We need prisoners."
"We could patch them up," suggests Kaselir.
"Unknown biology," says Vaejra. "Move in!"

Test Pattern 2011/11/30(Wed)18:04 No. 368946 ID: b79855
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In the most vulnerable phase of the tozol assault, another group of bots emerge from behind the freshly fallen mech, shooting. At almost the same instant, the lead astranian pilot opens fire with a surprisingly powerful ray pistol. The engagement's over in seconds, but not before the bots score hits on Reya.

Test Pattern 2011/11/30(Wed)18:05 No. 368948 ID: b79855
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Wounded but undeterred, Reya closes on the last unsecured scout mech, along with Ota. She pries open the canopy, while the pilot fires wildly from inside. Ota silences him with her paralyzer. And that's the end of that.

Test Pattern 2011/11/30(Wed)18:07 No. 368949 ID: b79855
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In a nearby tunnel, they confiscate the enemy's equipment. Ota partially counteracts the stun effect to avoid accidentally killing them. At once, they start babbling incoherently.

"What's wrong with them?" asks Reya. "You didn't pull off anything important, did you?"
"I think I can figure out what part of an animal's the outside," says Ota.
"What about the atmospheric mix?"
"Reya, I am one hundred and twelve. Don't you think I checked that?"
"C-cold!" says the darker-furred astranian. "Give us our suits back! We'll die!"
"Cuff and bag them," says Vaejra.
"Yes sir," says Ota. "And let's take a look at that arm..."

Test Pattern 2011/11/30(Wed)18:09 No. 368951 ID: b79855
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"Let me go!" yells a tiny voice. "We'll be hurt!"
"Seriously, how are these guys a threat?" asks Ota. "They're made out of marshmallow."
"It's not them," says Reya. "It's their damned equipment. Wish I had a bunch of robots. Well, Rinis's mortars, maybe..."
"Reya," says Vaejra. "Head to the Spire. Relieve Thaen."
"I'll be fine, Sir," says Reya. "Missed the bone, and the skin's already healed over. Just gotta rebuild some muscle and things."
"Not that. You said before: We're the squad's only infowar assets. You should get to the control center there and take over the network."
"Oh," says Reya. "Right, sir. Stay safe."
Ota laughs. "Stay safe? Be better off telling our new friends to stay calm."

Now that you've got their equipment, you should be able to vastly accelerate cracking their comms, since any pre-shared keys will be in your hands. See if you can take advantage of that!

Also, um, find somewhere warmer to interrogate these guys I guess? Remember that relying excessively on threat/use of force will just make them make things up to get you to stop.

They need surrounding environment near their own body temperature. They are very sensitive to temperature change. They are going to die before you get there if you don't do something to insulate them. Just prevent their body heat from leaving them and they will be fine. Listen if they say hot or cold and adjust the temperature accordingly. We want the astranians to leave, not kill them.

What is the ETA on your arm healing to 50%, 90%, and 100% ?

Maybe give them back their clothes after checking them for hidden tools by removing any non-fabric parts.

>>368951
A twofer! Alright, that engagement went pretty well all told.

Subjects of interrogation: Their technology, troop levels, overall battle plan, and what information do they know about us? Do they know what Tozols are?

they are small, perhaps they have a high metabolism and run hot? would make them vulnerable to the cold. you guys are used to it. if you have an insulating or heating thing then use it.

>>368951
Should be easier to crack into the droids coms now and try to hack their commands. So tell her to get working on it, if you're lucky then you might be able to subvert the Astranian droids and make them fight for you, giving you some much needed assets in the shape of expendable troops to throw at the Scellor.

>>368951
tie the two together so that they share body heat

scan them to check they don't have any cybernetics or crap that lets them call out, and see what the enemies doing. They must realize they've lost the scout team.

[animated] Jukashi!!WzMJSzZzWx 2011/11/30(Wed)19:40 No. 368972 ID: 5bf190
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>With first blood drawn and the prisoners secure, we are now faced with A SUDDEN FACTION SELECT SCREEN

>ASTRANIANS OR SCELLOR?

Scellor~

Scellor!

Tozols again!

Fuck. Uh, Scellor, then. Let's sabotage them from the inside.

>>368972
Going with scellor on this one. We can take charge of the Astranians once everything has gone horribly wrong for them and they need a bailout.

Definitely Scellor.

Astranians, damn it!

>>368972
Scellor! I'm sure they were watching that entire battle, the nosy green bastards.

tozols :D

Scellor.

Astranians

FOOL! THERE IS BUT ONE OPTION, AND THAT IS TO SUPPORT THE ASTRANIAN ALLIANCE!

Astranians!

Scellor, I NEED THEM TO GET THIS DAMN 80's MUSIC OUTTA MAH HEAD.

Astranians. They are to god damn amusing.

Scellor

Astranian Alliance for sure

Scellor

scellor

Scellor

tozols of course.

Scellor!

Fuzzy cuddlewumps need to get their rape on. Astranians.

Astranians

Scellor

stay with tozols.

Also, tozols have been here 20 years. Never got orders, pay, or more equipment, and now 2 alien species are fighting over this rocks. A fairly safe assumption would be that it has been abandoned by tozol government and probably forgotten too. What the tozols need to focus on is stealing an FTL vehicle. Let the aliens fight over this rock while they go find answers on why they were abandoned... Maybe bring reinforcements... Or do some PMC work, or whatever.

Then the other two can finish their fight

Stay with Tozols, hijack a cruiser, go find Penji.

>>368972
>Greyed out tozzles
Doesn't really work as a visual cue, that one :V

Astranians, if only so when the Scellor do something it stands a chance of being a surprise.

Scellor. Radde looks like to type to enjoy a dramatic fleet engagement.

Voting team green

scellor.

Astranians.

Scellor. War never was so much fun!

omelette du scellor~

Astro Ninnies!

I mean, Astranians.

Astarians!

scellor

radio free scellor

space hippies fuck yeah

>>369141
hell yes! This was one of Jethro Tull less well known hits. XD Under Scellor was good too,haha.

Astranians.

We can laugh at the astranians after they are desperate. I say Scellor.

Astranians.

Scellor!

Scellor Radde 2011/12/02(Fri)18:17 No. 369411 ID: efc66b
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Hey guys. You paying attention yet? I can feel you some of you watching, at least.

Gotta admit, that coulda gone better. Could have gone a lot worse, but we were still on the losing end of the fight coming down, that's for sure. Better check the full damage.

>Radde: "What'd we lose, Avarre?"

Radde 2011/12/02(Fri)18:17 No. 369412 ID: efc66b
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>Avarre: "Two of the shuttles went down, only one pilot managed to bail out: Eppe, somewhere over the northern mountains. All of the landing ships took some damage and'll need repairs before they can lift off safely, more if you want them to get into space. Couple of fried drones here and there, but they're being patched up, so no deaths. Stranners basically got off scott free, though. Not a good start."

>Piyerra: "Remind me what our full forces are? It seems Radde just grabbed whoever and never filed anything."

Yeah, then the damn plushies would already'a been dug in by the time we got here, woman.

<[ Radde, either think quieter or stop pretending I can't hear you. ]>

>Avarre: "Very well."

Radde 2011/12/02(Fri)18:18 No. 369413 ID: efc66b
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>"For a start, ships. Four landers, modified mining ships with heavy armour and shields, can fly in the atmosphere but with massive fuel drain. Armed with defense turrets and torpedo launchers. Each had a shuttle attached, but there are only two left. Each has their crew: technicians, manager, medic, navs, gunners, guards, some drones."

>"One praal Ghostship, Janu, crafted as a war command vessel. He's fine and eager to be doing whatever's helpful, currently running his sensors over the area. He's got light weapons and a thin crew, but he's also housing the command squad: you two, us, our caste support, some guards, the chief tech gang and the chief medic."

>"We've got two squads of five elite sentient niiar, one with heavy weapons and armour and one fitted for scouting and sniping. Almost everyone in both squads is cybernetically enhanced."

>"Ten further formations of 20 each, 19 drones and 1 sentient, not counting an orthan and an orthe medic attached to each."

>"Three of those are light infantry, outfitted for mobility, composed entirely of niiar. Two more formations are the same but with five praal drones swapped in, each assigned to accompany a hovertruck; another two are all niiar again but with heavier weapons and armour."

>"Another two formations are mostly praal with five niiar, engineering teams. One of them has a hovertruck for the big equipment. The last formation is split in half between niiar and praal, have a hovertruck and are in charge of moving and setting up mobile emplacements."

>"We've also got two vertical mobility armoured cars and their crew."

>"And, finally, the three ayaar, who've already teleported out into the field on your orders to scout."

Radde 2011/12/02(Fri)18:21 No. 369416 ID: efc66b
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Ugh. Blah blah blah. We need to get on the move, our enemies're already ahead of us! I've got a few particularly daring tactics in mind already. Perhaps we can use some sort of giant-

<[ Radde, we need to get the essentials done first. Your brilliant strategies can come after. We need to decide if we're going to set up a solid base where we are, try to move closer before digging in, or just start moving in force as quickly as possible towards our goal. ]>

<[ We also need to decide how much effort to put into repairs on the ships. Plus, we have a food situation. We're not provisioned for a long stay, so we need to choose whether we take a chance on getting this all done quickly or divert some of our forces to foraging. ]>

they currently have air superiority, an assault now would result in being bombed. i suggest moving to find a strategic position and setting up the base there. and what about finding some fruit bearing trees and then kel-ing them up and altering them to grow fruit faster and bigger. obviously be on the lookout for their robots, assume any moving non-psy-emmiting-thing is a enemy robot until proved otherwise. also repairs to the shuttles should only be important if they can counter the air superiority of the astrainians. otherwise just fix them up in spare time.

Food can wait. I assume you've got some rations as yet. Get a base set up first. Don't worry too much about repairs either. The top priority is setting up a position and then getting this show on the road.

If it's true they have air superiority, then try to move forward to an area of good cover and then dig in real deep.

Try to have a concentrated force on the ready. Attack the astranian drop squads as soon as they land, to whittle them while their forces are dispersed. Don't be too aggressive, just try to get as many "free kills" as possible, judging each opportunity by their proximity to the base.

Anticipate the astranians to make a fast move for the tower or other strategic positions. If they made the gamble to move as quickly as possible, their forces will be divided. Let a few reach the goal without resistance, then cut them off from the rest of the force. Either they'll make a retreat to regroup or they'll make an easy target of themselves by isolating themselves.

Maybe food wouldn't be such a problem if Piyerra didn't eat it all. The fatass.

Get a defensible position set up, then focus on getting air superiority. Repair what you can.

Food can wait. So can repairs. Full focus on killing the enemy.
Especially considering the enemy relies on robots which they might actually replenish via automatic manufacturing while you rely on soldiers which take decades to breed.

Turtling up doesn't win wars... we need to strike hard where they are weak and retreat where they are strong... But setting mines and turrets would be important in defending the transports so do some of that.

The key to victory will be intelligence, we must see what they are doing at all time. Beyond the scouts, we should get some people scanning with their latent psychic abilities to detect enemy positions and movements.

Ideally we would have a unit type that is brutally effective against all but a few of their units. (ex: Assault hovercraft gunship, weak vs AA troops... annihilates everything else). Actually ideally more then one such unit type.
If they under protect their AA we annihilate it and hit them from the air. If they under protect their cyber warfare unit we hit it and then use ours to suborn their attack bots. etc... we need a tactical assessment of what their unit types are weak/strong against. To go along with our intelligence and then strike decisively.

Divert some of the forces into foraging and send the rest out to directly engage the enemy.

Might want to land the ships on the surface entirely, get them out of the air, if the astranians are that good at air superiority.

>>369416
Charge.

>enemy has air superiority
>We're a million miles from the tower with busted ships
>low on food
>charge lol
I must admit ignorance, this brilliant stratagem of having all our soldiers be killed before they reach the front lines or starve to death when they capture a tower out in the middle of a froze wasteland goes over my head.

Food: yes.

>>366586
Really? It sounds like you understand it perfectly! :)

fffff I need to find a better way to open threads.
Make that >>369554

Reminder of Scellor abilities:

>>/questdis/338036

Wait a second. We don't have any Ulkam troopers? I'd think they would make better scouts than Ayaar! ESPECIALLY since they partially predict the future. Ayaar strike me as better infiltrators and saboteurs.

Set up the base here and start foraging. The location of the base doesn't matter- we have Gates via the Ayaar. Never count on doing things quickly- nothing ever goes perfectly to plan.

Put one of the engineering teams on repairing the ships. There's no telling when we'll need them, so it's best to get them up and running asap.
Please don't use images by the author in the quest. It's confusing. Use the /dis/ thread instead.

Radde 2011/12/03(Sat)22:24 No. 369633 ID: d0a4e1
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<[ We do need to advance if we're to catch up. Perhaps with one quick, major strike, we can succeed without having to worry about food. Then- ]>

Woah, woah, woah, Piyerra! You've gotta give the full tactical situation, now, don't cut corners! We didn't just land here by dumb luck, you know? I was in control the whole time, guys, I know what I'm doing. This region here is under the band of the heaviest winds: the fuzzbutts are gonna have a time flying through that, while our ships turn their massive weight into an advantage! The forest'll cover our troops, and the lakes and rivers are open roads for our hovertrucks. And with all this water, they won't dare mount any kind of ground assault!

I'm not saying we shouldn't assault, but moving our base can only get us to a less defensible position. If we want to trade protection for a better attack position, that's fine. Or, if we repair the ships, we can move them and use them as forts, giving us multiple weaker bases. Or we can just get everyone moving and leave this base here, though that'll leave us with a pretty stretched out supply line, whether we're moving by ground or air.

You gotta think about these things!!

Once we've made that decision, we should probably bounce the Undermind over to the ayaar and get a report from them. They should have at least reached the ice field around the tower. Speaking of:

>>369612
We have a bunch of Ulkam here, dude! We'll link them up, they can get to scanning at range. Ayaar can just move much quicker, that's why they're first out. I'm sure they'll have found something interesting by no-

Radde 2011/12/03(Sat)22:25 No. 369634 ID: d0a4e1
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<[ Wait. Before we do that, we need to make another decision. ]>

<[ We have an orthan with every squad. It might be a good idea to shut down all our technological communication and rely solely on telepathy to coordinate. That would protect us from any cyberwarfare tactics used by our enemies, and we could still set up isolated transmitters to make such attacks ourselves. ]>

<[ On the other hand, if you can spare me the orthan to help, I can make a psychic assault on the astranians and get the information we need - maybe even put that commander of theirs out of commission. This is probably the best time to make the attempt. ]>

Definitely set up the multiple weaker bases, we'll be harder to kill off completely if we have multiple bases we can retreat to, and honestly, if we attack en masse that's what we're gonna want to do, turn tail and run.

Let's not spare the orthan and shut down technological communications, our troop movements while we set up the multiple bases are going to be key, if they catch wind of our troop locations as we're setting up we're done for.

If we do end up making a psychic assault on them we should avoid directly going for their commander, as she mentioned psionic abilities of her own which likely come with heightened mental defenses.

>>369639
Not to mention a personal shield, and probably in a shielded ship, which would make a psychic attack a pretty stupid move in the first place.

Piyerra 2011/12/03(Sat)23:26 No. 369643 ID: d0a4e1
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>>369639
>>369640

<[ Her being psychic herself is part of why she's a target in the first place! Normal astranians have a natural biological resistance to psionics. But her resistance is weaker- she'd hardly be able to use her own powers, otherwise! Yes, that means she can consciously fight back, but I'm confident that I can outmaneuver her, with your help. Astranian psychics are terrible. As for shields: they don't keep those things on all the time! It'd be great if they did, because then they'd waste all their energy reserves, but they don't. ]>

<[ Give me some credit! ]>

>"I warned you about giving tactical situations, P.R.! I told you!"

I am all for psychic communications only.

Also, I'd divide up into at the most two bases.

>>369643
Still, you'd have to sneak up on them entirely quiet in every sense of the word, and rely on not being picked up by any advanced sensors or scouts of any kind before shields go up immediately and you're turned into a salad. It's doubly unlikely she'd be anywhere vulnerable to begin with, and you're basically volunteering to go fight her blind.

Too risky. Set up the string of weaker bases for now, though if you want to keep the option open, you can keep your tech communications up and have the army of psychics for an attack later.

If you can beat the commander's defenses and fast you can play puppet master with the Astranians, leading them in just the wrong directions. But if all you can do is disable the commander it'll probably just get them even more riled up. Hope one of us has had practice playing the convincing role of a Astranian bat...thing...

Otherwise coordinating with telepathy would be awesome. But also transmit false coordination instructions on a regular subspace channel the Astranians can intercept.

Go with the multiple weaker bases idea, shut down tech communications and leave the orthans where they are.

>>369648
yes, this sounds great. communicate real orders psychically but broadcast fake info on normal things.

oh and psy assault would be great for now, the chances of them hacking your coms this early is low, but once they do we need to switch up.

oh and finally, let's dig in here.

Multiple bases, we are the rebellion, they are the empire, when they take yavin we move to hoth. shut down tech communications and go with psychics only.

>>369643
All right, for the moment let's dig in here and build up defenses while getting those ships repaired. Since that won't require a great deal of communication, we should be able to pull our orthan together for a psychic assault, then once that's complete send them back to their squads to provide communications as we used the repaired ships to establish secondary bases.

psychic assault would probably be the way to go. worst case scenario we rip open the mind of some officers for good intel, best case we take out the enemy commander. though keep in mind this is obviously the best time for a psychic assault, so shes probably ready for one. good odds shes arrogant enough to not expect us to know she knows were coming though.

>>369634
Ataaaaack.

Psi attack! Do it do it do it!

>>369643
Let's fuck up her mind. Also switching to pure telephathy sounds like a good idea in the long run.

Is there any way we can hack their comms?

guys it's attack or have pyschic communications, not both, they need the orthans to be together to do the attack but then they lose the ability to have psychic communications

don't attack now and make psychic communications only, it really is best for the long run

>>369643
There are rumors that the Astranians have.. parasite problems, and not the itchy kind. Before committing to a psychic assault, try for a psychic 'headcount' of their forces. Account for every living mind that you can, and brace yourselves for insanity.

There's no reason the Orthan can't establish a network after conducting the assault and recovering for a bit if necessary.

Another vote for the psychic assault.

A good question would be: How close to the commander would the orthans have to be to pull off an assault?

Also, is there an upper limit to how many orthans can link safely? A massive, overwhelming psychic assault would be great, unless you couldn't untangle the ortans afterwards.

Oh, and will the assault leave the ortans exhausted for a significant period? If so, we should just dig in and stick on regular comms. We'll need them for telepathy when we move out.

Waste that commander with a psychic assault. Astranian command and control is terrible; it'll take them forever to recover from getting their command structure beheaded like that.

From what I have seen, Astranians are incredible morons with no tactical sense and a barely functional knowledge of how any of their equipment works. Their commanders can be smart though. WASTE EM.

Piyerra 2011/12/06(Tue)07:32 No. 370203 ID: 5bf190
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<[ We don't need to move from here to make the assault. We'll try get it done as quickly as possible, then switch to full telepathic communication. ]>

>"Ok, guys! We're gonna keep those two ships here and move the others to set up new bases closer to the target! I want minimum repairs done to get them flyin', quick as you can, just tape and spit! Maximum security on all communications, this is the only opportunity our enemies are gonna get to listen in!"

<[ Hopefully, our attack on their commander should distract them enough to slow any aerial or cyber response they make during the move. Best case scenario is that they'll start shooting each other on the first sniff of telepathic infiltration, but I doubt we'll be so lucky, even with astranians. ]>

Piyerra 2011/12/06(Tue)07:34 No. 370204 ID: 5bf190
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Telepathy is more about finesse than force. Persuasion, trickery, subtlety. Manipulation of emotions. Confidence and ego, matching weak points to strong. Make them think like you do, bring them into your territory, and the fight's practically won. The Undermind has more raw mental power than we could ever use, but it all depends on the connection. Closeness. Physical closeness, if someone is next to you, if you can touch them, it's easier. Mental closeness, how much you know them, how much you know about them, name and face and voice and history. Emotional closeness. How much do they care about you? How much do you care about them? All these things open the way. Without them, you can't get in, even with all the psionic power in the galaxy.

Astranians are aliens: our thoughts are different to theirs, run in different channels. They're psychically resistant, something in their bones. Almost all are non-psychic, the fires unlit or smouldering, hard to find in the dark. All so far away. And, of course, I know none of them. They're strangers. Untouchable.

Except...

Piyerra 2011/12/06(Tue)07:34 No. 370205 ID: 5bf190
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We talked to her. Saw her face, heard her voice. Made her get angry at us. A pale, acidic bond, but a bond nonetheless.

Now, while the iron's still hot; while she still has her eye to the future, still dreams of our destruction, before the tides of battle bring her mind to the present... now's the chance.