RE: Art of Domination Thread 04
08-17-2016, 01:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-01-2019, 01:22 PM by smuchmuch.)
Oh hey this is still alive, this is great !
Also it can't touch water and some of our spec ops managed to destoy/delay one with presurized water extinguisher bombs
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Looking at the list of unit:
Whatever happened to our Sonic mechs ? Because I remember we bought a lot of the things, something like in the tens, heck maybe even twenty or thirty, yet they appear nowhere in the vehicle list (nor does the technology appear under tech researched )?
Were they all destroyed during Colbat/Region 1 assaults and/or deployed alongside patrols ?
Didn't we bought a couple of new sonic swatters then too ? (It sucks not to have the threads to check, sigh
)
Also I distinctly remember we built and used a skyshadow when we attacked region 1, was it downed during the operation ?
edit: I'm pretty sure it wasn't since this is what we used to haul the servers we took back to base.
Also, on the other hand, wasn't Lovebird destroyed ?
I thiiink it was over Cobalt ? Or maybe while taking care of the prototype skyhive, anyway, distinctly remember we lost a reaver gunship.
edit: Oh wait, I think it was during Addlebear, yeah. near the end, Mc Beth downed it by throwing a car at it at near supersonic speed.
Are the Alflong listed under PMCs mercenaries sent by Lagan or do they include the alflong rebels we liberated from Cobalt city ?
(For those who weren't following the thread before the mspa forums kicked the bucket:
Sonic bots. A thing that was reversed engineer from 'pain mechs' one of North most stupid first try at a terror weapon. Take the brain of someone you don't like, put them in a "chicken walker" like robotic chassis with a sonic amplifier and force them to shout when they see an enemy. (*cough* bio drone ? what bio drone *cough*)
Aanyways, a bunch of them we're used to atatck region 3 way back and we reverse enginnered plans for the creation of our own 'sonic mechs'. Same chassis, same weapon but 100% tortured brain free. i thnk they're part remte controlled and part use a rudimentary AI.
They're dirt cheap at 800 Rp a pop. their sonic weapon is not as poweful or focussed as a sonic swatter so they can't be used as anti air or anti building but make for good 'crowd controll'/"Anti infantry shock troop drones"
Sonic swatters are anti air and building vehicles who can produce a focussed long distance (one assumes, if they're anti air) sonic boom
Skyshadows are quick stealthy flying troop transport who can also bring heavier stuff with tow cables
Reaver gunships are prety much our bread and butter both anti air and ant ground flying unit. Very usefull.
Mac Beth was a failed experiment and trap by Smith forces. Basicaly sealed in the sewers of the region 4 city called 'Adlebear', there was thins thing who was a crazy brainwashing computer connected to giant bio mecanical arms.
When our troops, went into the city, it started talking and for some reason it hypnotized our troop who were defensless while it started crushing. Also it had one hell of a throwing arm as one of our flying unit sadly discovered. It ended when Rheynar got the idea to disrupt his controll wth sonic of our own and flooded the sewers with 'lava' from the Volcano tanks (those things shoot supersonic accelarated superheated metal)
And shyhive is some prorotype organic flying super weapon that Sith is trying to grow. (we know from documents leaked by the hacker Linesman). It' a big tumor like blob wth lotsa eyes and arms, childlike inteligence and natural powerfull acid canons. They plan to stick some trustesr under it when it's ready and make it bombard plague carying cadavers.
.. And that tells you pretty much in a few sentence all you need to know about "Smith"/North R&D departement. The AoD turn everyone with slight scientific knowlege into someone who would make the good Dr Mengelee drool with envy.
Anyway the prototype SkyHive was a tad different. It was a big blob (but blind, if memory serves) mounted on an airliner chassis and who litteraly sprouted some weird bees like drones weapons. I rememer it was taken down, although hell if I remember the detail)
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Hmm, before we move to yet another big target, there's a few small details in I'd like to adress:
1) What happened to the rockethearts ? y'know the heavy armed motorized gang who were raiding supply of food from UNA-G ? There was even a whole honnorless mission deal to get rid of a neighbourghood that sustained them. They were build like they'd be a big deal or t least a decent sized annoyance if left rampant and yet now, we barely hear of these guys at all.
2)Whatever happened to this whole sabotage operation by a terrorist cell in region 3 ? they were going to poison some hospital water if memory serves at the start of week 7. I think a shadow ops squad was set but there never was a repport. I'm gussing they were killed quick and quiet like ?
3)What's the evolution of the situation in region 5, are the locals rebels still shooting the lighning drones witht the rocket launchers we lend them ? Any word on the triple coes ? What about the chackpoint we installed between region 3 and 5 to process refugges from region 5 while avoiding braintree contamination ?
4) Anything new from Barbarossa or Cyrano. ... Mostly Cyrano.
5)Didn't we recuperate a badly weakned Alone during our assult on region 1. What have we done with it ?
6)About Pioneer anti artillery system, it's made to stop enderfist strikes, would it stop a needlefish tactical missile or a fly swater anti building sonic wave ?
7)What happened to the ennemy tunnel that were all under region 4, emember we had entrances to them. Did we map some of those, could we use them to reach Pioneer or Lighthouse ?
Retreating from Falcobeak to concentrate on Pioneer is an ... unusualy smart move from the ennemy actualy. By making pioneer much harder to take, it'll delay us more if we try to take it and fail rather than the two bases would have.
(For those who weren't familiar with the adventure before the mspa forums pushed the daisies:
Braintress are weird trees made of flesh with brains and eyeballs sprouting all over. Tou have to burn them to get rid of them, chemicals don't work so well. They appeared in region 5, who was already a toxic hellhole full of infighting factions, comming from the bit facing region 1 (surprise, surprise) and have pretty much grown everywhere. And they caused deadly lightning storms to happen almost non stop, they killed something like a wooping 60% of region 5 population, I think ?
A lot of the survivors tried to flee in Region 3. A checkpoint was established to make sure braintrees spores wouldn't propagate with refugees (they stick to clothes) and also because region 5 is a poisonous hellhole and was pretty much filled with terrorists, so y'know, the kind of people you want to check a little before letting in.
Eventualy it was discovered the braintrees act as 'spotters" (maybe a little more) for flying cloud genrating drones. S we armed a resistance group we have good conctact with some old anti aicraft gear and told them to start cleaning the skies.
All things considered it was pretty mch a blessing in diguise for us, region 5 would have been a nightmare to take, the braintrees cleared a lot of it for us. Off course what's left is going to be .. tough to take out, including those goddamned triple cores and Max 5
Triple Cores are Smith elite troops, they have shields (of sorts, their identity is perpretualy shirleded. They carry lasers and are heavily trained and equiped.
More scarrier, as was discovered in region 4 they carry 'author notes' powerfull author tech aritfact that allow to 'ave' thelelves in case of bombardement or sudden danger? basicaly they have a 70% chance of "respawn", pretty much. yup.)
Max 5 is some experimental teen assasin with crazy regenration per, enhanced speed and strength, enhanced senses and a nighmarish face with more teeth than the osmond family that you'd have a hard time guessing he was ever human (also one hell of a voracious apetite
Barbarossa was a Smith lab that was used to devellop a weapon called 'project anubis". You know the headbrabs from half lifeor Metrids from mtroids or any other kind of corpse pupeterring zombie making parasite ?
yeah, basicaly like that expect the 'drones' looked like hearts and were controlled by some giant brains controlers.
Oh and also they were made from modified Sarmis babies. I'll spare you the details of 'production'. They sort of decided to stop Smith all on their own and sort of turned agains their masters then got blown up. Looong storry.
Cyrano is .. a pretty weird place. Once a Smith military base. They dug too greedily, too dug too deep...
...So it turns out there's an Author,, called Nadir, "corpse" (or at least deeply wounded) at the center of planet 117. Ayup. Which possibly explain why such a small planet still s the gravity to be habitable bytw. And in their natural form, not some cutesy Saramis shaped disguise.
And it's affecting Cyrano big time. Oh and the dead author mind is an entire second moon which there is a portal too in cyrano control room. And uh corpse or even live people are turned into weird Autor like .. drones ? servants ? with red obsidian (don't ask me, how that work, a coat of free paint ?) bodies, no limbs and portal for heads.
... Man were the Authors way more alien before Intruder and Courage showed up
And Alone is some extra dimensional creature. It came from a black hole. It look like a smooth shapechanging white blob. It has 'limbs' which are vaguely cioffing shaped smaller blobs. It's only affected by electromagntism and commuicate through radio.
It hates authors with a passion and want to kill everyone having been even in contact with the art of domination. It's what 'killed' Nadir).
It was emprisoned by North forces for a while. It' sdeeply weakened.
But I think it must have escaped and we recuperated it or someting like that because there was a debate on how to 'feed' it and the only solution was send it back to it's won dimension by throwing it in a blackhole.)
Sorry if that's a lot of questions but with the threads gones, it's impossible to check weither they were already answered and I just missed it or not. Also sice it's the first 'break' in storry we had in a while, i figure we could resolve thos details.
Sorry if it's a bother.
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Anyway, I would recomend treating Pioneer as the priority target. It's basicaly been established as being a 'mini region 1' and a heavy equipement production and deployement facility for the ennemy. this is where that column of hovertanks got out, that could have been a nasty surprise later if it hadn't been for the whole Barbarossa thing (Olpho did us a huge favor here), That radar stealth dark snake/spoon thingy and the Red note.
the longer we wait, the more new "surprises" they can prepare for us. More vehicles, some more faceless (the lighthouse would be a perfect place for them, tho); hell maybe even flying bodyjackers next
(For those who weren't familiar with the game before the mspa forums went down the drain:
The red note is a "radio entity" that can kill people through any radio specialy build in region 4 but only obne per day. Also it thinks it's radio show host. And it's really a small piece of paper painted red. Don't ask.
The "dark 'spoon/snake thingy" (I don't think it got a name) is a huge thing made of obsidian (most authotech seems to be) that could move and hover slightly over the ground, it didn't do much on it's own but once destroyed with an enderfist strike, the signal of multiple units moving underground became visible.)
Faceles are shock troops monsters bred in lab that look right out of a resident evil game, they look vaguely human, except they have no head. they have either three clawed fingers or scythes things over their arm. they are of moderate inteligence (augmenting each generation) and detect their targets by sound and vibration. They're worthless canon folder in open spaces but are effecive ambushers in tigh spces. I think it was told once they were trying to tech new genration to use weapons but if they manged it, we ain't seen it so far
Bodyjackers are.. well you know the chrisalids from Xcom ? Yeah it's pretty much that except looking more like giant crustean things. They kill you, put a big glowing round egg on your boddy, a new bodyjacker sprouts.
It's been implied there's something even weirder than normal Smith horrortech going with them (the reasont they grow so fast might have to do time warping ? also there's definitively 'new models' being produced
As for hover tanks, well basicaly untill now, it was though Smith forces main vehicle has a crappy hovetank (in the hovercraft kind of hover) with mortar and machine gun, an okay thing but ancient.
But it turns out they aquired some brand new chassis from the human federation of a newer models they shouldn't have (as was dicovered lter, thefe is a big corproation in human space that is under control of a dominator and his giving stuff to North.)
(Dominator : a person who readed the Aod so much it warped them both physicaly and mentaly into an abomination with psychic power)
Anyway shiny new tanks and they put some kind of all purpose missile launchers on it that can take both other vehicles and serve as anti air. Would have been bad if they hadn't been forced to deploy them early, thus spoiling the surprise and allowing us to take enderfirst pot shot on them
(You know what, i think i'll try to put a bestiary and timeline of events from memory while I still remember some of it, that could come in handy)
Quote:The Car of Destiny is a car that doesn't seem to actually exist. It drives through things and causes explosions? I may be misremembering, it's been a while since it was originally explained. From the most recent update, it seems to be a very powerful psionic projection
Also it can't touch water and some of our spec ops managed to destoy/delay one with presurized water extinguisher bombs
------------------------------------
Looking at the list of unit:
Whatever happened to our Sonic mechs ? Because I remember we bought a lot of the things, something like in the tens, heck maybe even twenty or thirty, yet they appear nowhere in the vehicle list (nor does the technology appear under tech researched )?
Were they all destroyed during Colbat/Region 1 assaults and/or deployed alongside patrols ?
Didn't we bought a couple of new sonic swatters then too ? (It sucks not to have the threads to check, sigh
)Also I distinctly remember we built and used a skyshadow when we attacked region 1, was it downed during the operation ?
edit: I'm pretty sure it wasn't since this is what we used to haul the servers we took back to base.
Also, on the other hand, wasn't Lovebird destroyed ?
I thiiink it was over Cobalt ? Or maybe while taking care of the prototype skyhive, anyway, distinctly remember we lost a reaver gunship.
edit: Oh wait, I think it was during Addlebear, yeah. near the end, Mc Beth downed it by throwing a car at it at near supersonic speed.
Are the Alflong listed under PMCs mercenaries sent by Lagan or do they include the alflong rebels we liberated from Cobalt city ?
(For those who weren't following the thread before the mspa forums kicked the bucket:
Sonic bots. A thing that was reversed engineer from 'pain mechs' one of North most stupid first try at a terror weapon. Take the brain of someone you don't like, put them in a "chicken walker" like robotic chassis with a sonic amplifier and force them to shout when they see an enemy. (*cough* bio drone ? what bio drone *cough*)
Aanyways, a bunch of them we're used to atatck region 3 way back and we reverse enginnered plans for the creation of our own 'sonic mechs'. Same chassis, same weapon but 100% tortured brain free. i thnk they're part remte controlled and part use a rudimentary AI.
They're dirt cheap at 800 Rp a pop. their sonic weapon is not as poweful or focussed as a sonic swatter so they can't be used as anti air or anti building but make for good 'crowd controll'/"Anti infantry shock troop drones"
Sonic swatters are anti air and building vehicles who can produce a focussed long distance (one assumes, if they're anti air) sonic boom
Skyshadows are quick stealthy flying troop transport who can also bring heavier stuff with tow cables
Reaver gunships are prety much our bread and butter both anti air and ant ground flying unit. Very usefull.
Mac Beth was a failed experiment and trap by Smith forces. Basicaly sealed in the sewers of the region 4 city called 'Adlebear', there was thins thing who was a crazy brainwashing computer connected to giant bio mecanical arms.
When our troops, went into the city, it started talking and for some reason it hypnotized our troop who were defensless while it started crushing. Also it had one hell of a throwing arm as one of our flying unit sadly discovered. It ended when Rheynar got the idea to disrupt his controll wth sonic of our own and flooded the sewers with 'lava' from the Volcano tanks (those things shoot supersonic accelarated superheated metal)
And shyhive is some prorotype organic flying super weapon that Sith is trying to grow. (we know from documents leaked by the hacker Linesman). It' a big tumor like blob wth lotsa eyes and arms, childlike inteligence and natural powerfull acid canons. They plan to stick some trustesr under it when it's ready and make it bombard plague carying cadavers.
.. And that tells you pretty much in a few sentence all you need to know about "Smith"/North R&D departement. The AoD turn everyone with slight scientific knowlege into someone who would make the good Dr Mengelee drool with envy.
Anyway the prototype SkyHive was a tad different. It was a big blob (but blind, if memory serves) mounted on an airliner chassis and who litteraly sprouted some weird bees like drones weapons. I rememer it was taken down, although hell if I remember the detail)
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Hmm, before we move to yet another big target, there's a few small details in I'd like to adress:
1) What happened to the rockethearts ? y'know the heavy armed motorized gang who were raiding supply of food from UNA-G ? There was even a whole honnorless mission deal to get rid of a neighbourghood that sustained them. They were build like they'd be a big deal or t least a decent sized annoyance if left rampant and yet now, we barely hear of these guys at all.
2)Whatever happened to this whole sabotage operation by a terrorist cell in region 3 ? they were going to poison some hospital water if memory serves at the start of week 7. I think a shadow ops squad was set but there never was a repport. I'm gussing they were killed quick and quiet like ?
3)What's the evolution of the situation in region 5, are the locals rebels still shooting the lighning drones witht the rocket launchers we lend them ? Any word on the triple coes ? What about the chackpoint we installed between region 3 and 5 to process refugges from region 5 while avoiding braintree contamination ?
4) Anything new from Barbarossa or Cyrano. ... Mostly Cyrano.
5)Didn't we recuperate a badly weakned Alone during our assult on region 1. What have we done with it ?
6)About Pioneer anti artillery system, it's made to stop enderfist strikes, would it stop a needlefish tactical missile or a fly swater anti building sonic wave ?
7)What happened to the ennemy tunnel that were all under region 4, emember we had entrances to them. Did we map some of those, could we use them to reach Pioneer or Lighthouse ?
Retreating from Falcobeak to concentrate on Pioneer is an ... unusualy smart move from the ennemy actualy. By making pioneer much harder to take, it'll delay us more if we try to take it and fail rather than the two bases would have.
(For those who weren't familiar with the adventure before the mspa forums pushed the daisies:
Braintress are weird trees made of flesh with brains and eyeballs sprouting all over. Tou have to burn them to get rid of them, chemicals don't work so well. They appeared in region 5, who was already a toxic hellhole full of infighting factions, comming from the bit facing region 1 (surprise, surprise) and have pretty much grown everywhere. And they caused deadly lightning storms to happen almost non stop, they killed something like a wooping 60% of region 5 population, I think ?
A lot of the survivors tried to flee in Region 3. A checkpoint was established to make sure braintrees spores wouldn't propagate with refugees (they stick to clothes) and also because region 5 is a poisonous hellhole and was pretty much filled with terrorists, so y'know, the kind of people you want to check a little before letting in.
Eventualy it was discovered the braintrees act as 'spotters" (maybe a little more) for flying cloud genrating drones. S we armed a resistance group we have good conctact with some old anti aicraft gear and told them to start cleaning the skies.
All things considered it was pretty mch a blessing in diguise for us, region 5 would have been a nightmare to take, the braintrees cleared a lot of it for us. Off course what's left is going to be .. tough to take out, including those goddamned triple cores and Max 5
Triple Cores are Smith elite troops, they have shields (of sorts, their identity is perpretualy shirleded. They carry lasers and are heavily trained and equiped.
More scarrier, as was discovered in region 4 they carry 'author notes' powerfull author tech aritfact that allow to 'ave' thelelves in case of bombardement or sudden danger? basicaly they have a 70% chance of "respawn", pretty much. yup.)
Max 5 is some experimental teen assasin with crazy regenration per, enhanced speed and strength, enhanced senses and a nighmarish face with more teeth than the osmond family that you'd have a hard time guessing he was ever human (also one hell of a voracious apetite
Barbarossa was a Smith lab that was used to devellop a weapon called 'project anubis". You know the headbrabs from half lifeor Metrids from mtroids or any other kind of corpse pupeterring zombie making parasite ?
yeah, basicaly like that expect the 'drones' looked like hearts and were controlled by some giant brains controlers.
Oh and also they were made from modified Sarmis babies. I'll spare you the details of 'production'. They sort of decided to stop Smith all on their own and sort of turned agains their masters then got blown up. Looong storry.
Cyrano is .. a pretty weird place. Once a Smith military base. They dug too greedily, too dug too deep...
...So it turns out there's an Author,, called Nadir, "corpse" (or at least deeply wounded) at the center of planet 117. Ayup. Which possibly explain why such a small planet still s the gravity to be habitable bytw. And in their natural form, not some cutesy Saramis shaped disguise.
And it's affecting Cyrano big time. Oh and the dead author mind is an entire second moon which there is a portal too in cyrano control room. And uh corpse or even live people are turned into weird Autor like .. drones ? servants ? with red obsidian (don't ask me, how that work, a coat of free paint ?) bodies, no limbs and portal for heads.
... Man were the Authors way more alien before Intruder and Courage showed up
And Alone is some extra dimensional creature. It came from a black hole. It look like a smooth shapechanging white blob. It has 'limbs' which are vaguely cioffing shaped smaller blobs. It's only affected by electromagntism and commuicate through radio.
It hates authors with a passion and want to kill everyone having been even in contact with the art of domination. It's what 'killed' Nadir).
It was emprisoned by North forces for a while. It' sdeeply weakened.
But I think it must have escaped and we recuperated it or someting like that because there was a debate on how to 'feed' it and the only solution was send it back to it's won dimension by throwing it in a blackhole.)
Sorry if that's a lot of questions but with the threads gones, it's impossible to check weither they were already answered and I just missed it or not. Also sice it's the first 'break' in storry we had in a while, i figure we could resolve thos details.
Sorry if it's a bother.
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Anyway, I would recomend treating Pioneer as the priority target. It's basicaly been established as being a 'mini region 1' and a heavy equipement production and deployement facility for the ennemy. this is where that column of hovertanks got out, that could have been a nasty surprise later if it hadn't been for the whole Barbarossa thing (Olpho did us a huge favor here), That radar stealth dark snake/spoon thingy and the Red note.
the longer we wait, the more new "surprises" they can prepare for us. More vehicles, some more faceless (the lighthouse would be a perfect place for them, tho); hell maybe even flying bodyjackers next
(For those who weren't familiar with the game before the mspa forums went down the drain:
The red note is a "radio entity" that can kill people through any radio specialy build in region 4 but only obne per day. Also it thinks it's radio show host. And it's really a small piece of paper painted red. Don't ask.
The "dark 'spoon/snake thingy" (I don't think it got a name) is a huge thing made of obsidian (most authotech seems to be) that could move and hover slightly over the ground, it didn't do much on it's own but once destroyed with an enderfist strike, the signal of multiple units moving underground became visible.)
Faceles are shock troops monsters bred in lab that look right out of a resident evil game, they look vaguely human, except they have no head. they have either three clawed fingers or scythes things over their arm. they are of moderate inteligence (augmenting each generation) and detect their targets by sound and vibration. They're worthless canon folder in open spaces but are effecive ambushers in tigh spces. I think it was told once they were trying to tech new genration to use weapons but if they manged it, we ain't seen it so far
Bodyjackers are.. well you know the chrisalids from Xcom ? Yeah it's pretty much that except looking more like giant crustean things. They kill you, put a big glowing round egg on your boddy, a new bodyjacker sprouts.
It's been implied there's something even weirder than normal Smith horrortech going with them (the reasont they grow so fast might have to do time warping ? also there's definitively 'new models' being produced
As for hover tanks, well basicaly untill now, it was though Smith forces main vehicle has a crappy hovetank (in the hovercraft kind of hover) with mortar and machine gun, an okay thing but ancient.
But it turns out they aquired some brand new chassis from the human federation of a newer models they shouldn't have (as was dicovered lter, thefe is a big corproation in human space that is under control of a dominator and his giving stuff to North.)
(Dominator : a person who readed the Aod so much it warped them both physicaly and mentaly into an abomination with psychic power)
Anyway shiny new tanks and they put some kind of all purpose missile launchers on it that can take both other vehicles and serve as anti air. Would have been bad if they hadn't been forced to deploy them early, thus spoiling the surprise and allowing us to take enderfirst pot shot on them
(You know what, i think i'll try to put a bestiary and timeline of events from memory while I still remember some of it, that could come in handy)