RE: Art of Domination Thread 04
05-30-2019, 03:55 AM
(03-28-2019, 01:17 PM)Arcanuse Wrote: »Can the signals be jammed?
Additionally, could the network be jammed? Disrupting their ability to communicate should lower their fighting efficiency in the approaching skirmish.
You: Can the enemy’s network be jammed?
HQ: According to our CWS, yes.
You: Then do it! Block every signal coming out of those mechs!
The Paladin mechs change their behavior. Four of them immediately land, while one remains and changes course to your planet-side HQ.
Lagantis: The one still moving, it must be the one in charge!
HQ: Yes, General. The CWS say it’s still trying to send out signals. The rest are inert. Void Sphere reports it’s making a lot more evasive maneuvers.
(04-06-2019, 01:43 AM)smuchmuch Wrote: »Also our black hole artilleries. Don't know if their name is indicative and if they'll have anything similar to the void sohere, damage wise, but it's worth a shot.
You: Ghulls, order our Abyssal Artillery to fire on those four grounded mechs!
Ghulls: Right away!
Your Abyssal Artillery vehicles plant their legs onto the ground, about 2 kilometres away from the quiet mechs.
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They launch their volley of black holes, and hit right on target!
Nothing remains except for a pair of craters. Targets neutralized.
The lone Paladin continues its journey to HQ. With the Omni-Factory in view, a hatch opens on its back and it drops a cluster of objects…
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You: Author’s Notes! HQ, keep eyes on those things and make sure none of them get through!
Rainhar: They may be immune to gunfire, but we can at least barricade our entrances.
HQ: Understood. Sensors are tracking 20 Author’s Notes scrambling towards the western gate. We’re already locking it down.
Rainhar: Vora, I got an idea.
You: Let’s hear it!
Rainhar: So the Author’s Notes are tiny transports for soldiers, yeah? What if we use those Phantomic Repeaters on them? We don’t really know yet how they work, but either they’re organic themselves in some way, or they got organic soldiers inside them shrunken down to size. Either way, the repeaters should stop the threat! I mean, they’re projectiles MOVING AT LIGHT-SPEED!
You: It’s worth a shot! HQ, send out soldiers armed with Phantomic Repeaters to engage the Author’s Notes!
Just as the Author’s Notes reach the closed HQ gates and try to climb, your soldiers aim their Phantomic Repeaters right behind the walls.
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They fire, and the Author’s Notes suddenly stop moving. Scrambled organs and what looks like minced meat erupts out of them.
Rainhar: Oh gods, that’s disgusting.
Francoise: It appears the Author’s Notes were damaged, and ejected a ‘corrupted’ version of whatever was inside them.
You: Good. We know now they have a weakness.
Lagantis: That Author’s Forge is earning its keep. Without the Abyssal Artillery, the Void Sphere and the Phantomic Repeaters, things could have gone a lot worse.
You get a sudden call from HQ.
HQ: Commander, the Paladin’s giving up. It wants to talk to you, though we’re still jamming its communications.
You: It wants me?
HQ: Yes, said it wanted to talk to you. It’s landed in a field just 1 kilometer west from the Omni-Factory. It’s deactivated all of its weapons.
This could be another trap. You’ve seen the ‘other you’ that tried to make you talk to it. For all you know, talking to the mech right now could cause you to become mind-controlled.
What do you do?
- Destroy it.
- Ask Zasha the Swiftback to temporarily impersonate you and talk with the mech. The Swiftbacks can modify their voices to be a perfect match.
- Order your CWS to hack into it and force it to obey.
- Destroy every weapon and jet booster on it, and bring it back to base.
- Let it return to Region 1, but implant a debilitating computer virus into it.
- Something else.
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